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Show t f - niri-- i - - DESERET NEWS 3- - 'He's , ART BUCIHVALD Still There.' 1 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TV We Stand For The Constitution Of T'ne United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 18 A EDTIORIAL PAGE O C MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1970 ve c ials are getting and nastier. There was a time when a candidate appeared on the screen and made a pitch for your vote. But all this has gone by the boards, and now, thanks to the creative great brains of our admedia, vertising Mr. Buchwald the new approach is to tell the audiei ce what a miserable slob the candidates opponent is. Plane Crash's Lesson: Tighten Aircraft Rules one-minu- Unhappily, it is almost an axiom of aircraft safety that not and, indeed, railroad and highway safety as well enough is done to overcome weaknesses in safety systems until some major disaster comes along to create a greater sense of urgency. That is the role the tragic Wichita State plane crash is playing now. It is focusing attention on the relatively lax rules that presently govern the air charter industry. Secretary of Transportation John Volpe just Friday ordered a complete in vestigation. While the vast majority of the air charter and leasing industry is above reproach, current regulations presently contain serious loopholes. By leasing an airplane to another firm, a company can escape many of the stringent regulations an air carrier must meet if it carries persons for hire. Another regulation Mr. Volpes probers should look at Currently a closely concerns aircraft maintenance check-ofmatter how tools no and testfew certified mechanic, single can maintenance work approve ing equipment he may have, on any aircraft, no matter how large, that is not being flown for hire. That is what happened in the Wichita State case. Yet if such certification were required to be done in a Federal Aviation Administration certificated repair station, maintenance procedures would inspire more confidence. In addition, the FAA should increase its staff of maintenance inspectors. Currently it has 230 such inspectors to check on 130,000 aircraft in the U.S. Since aircraft move rapidly from place to place, its often difficult to pin down an individual aircraft and find out v'here its based, thus complicating the inspectors job. The Department of Transportation investigation must be thorough and complete, and its recommendations followed through with dispatch. Lets get the job done right this time so it wont take another disaster to demonstrate that only part of the loopholes have been closed. a Political Ads I dont know if people noticed it, but TV political rommer-nastie- r WASHINGTON-ha- 'J t r I sat in bn a session where the top ada TV vertising men were commercial campaign for their candidate, Philbus Wurm, who was running for the U.S. Senate against the incumbent Sen. Allegro Symphony. copywriter said. We have some stock footage of a GI platoon attacking Hill 2,331. Then we hear Symphonys voice saying Vietnam was a big mistake, and the voice-ove- r says, Tell it to Company D. The campaign manager was ecstatic. Beautiful. You have anything on the economy? The art director says, We have some footage of an unemployment office, and we go m close on a guy who is holding his check, and we say, Why are you out of a job? and he says, Because Sen. Symphony closed the Naval base. Then we show a crew putting the guys furni-tui- e out in the street. biain-stormin- g This is how it went. As I M?e it, said the copy writer, we have to sell the people on Symphony's softness on education. A group of dirty, hairy students sneaks up to a building and plants a bomb. Thp bomb goes off and the voice-ove- r says, Symphony voted for the last education bill. f. That's not bad, said a vice president. I thought we might use a lot of footage from the California brush fires. You know, homes burning and stuff like that, and then a shot of Symphony playing a violin, which he does. The voice-ove- r could say, Nero wasnt the only one who fiddled. Thats great, another VIP said. How about Vietnam? Weve been working Muskie Versus Nixon In ad? Not yet, the copywriter said. We show this family at a table and the mother says to i.er children, All we have to eat tonight is turnips. Then we fade and eating spaghetti at a.i Italian saints day festival and the voiceover says Mama mia, thats a meat-bashow Symphony ll The art director said, I think youll like this one. It portrays Washington going up in a mushroom cloud and then a bunch of Soviet officers laughing. The voice-ove- r says, Sen. Symphony voted against the ABM. Its dirty, but it will sell, the paign manager laughed. But what about our candidate, '72 the cam- Phil-bu- s Wurm? someone asked. Dont you think we ought to make just one commercial with him in it? - on that, Did you tell him about the hunger a vice president asked. TV, Golly no. If anyone sees that idiot on well lose all our votes. SC LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ol 2 lllllllllllilllllllllllllUII'lllllllllllllllllIHlllllllllHIIIIIIHIIIIillllillllllllllllillilllllltll What Price Legal Aid? The U.S. Senate finally got around the other day to passa ing measure providing more federal aid for state and local police. On the surface, it makes sense to help fight crime at the grass roots level where its impact is felt most keenly. And it can be argued that the federal government has a legitimate like air and water pollution role to play, since crime state lines. doesnt heed In actual operation, however, such federal aid programs can leave something to be desired. Just recently the Salt Lake City Commission turned down , e federal aid for a attorney to advise policemen directly on legal matters. The idea was to reduce the chances of a lawmans impairing a suspects rights even inadvertently and on a technicality. When that happens, the taxpayers lose the money and effort that went into preparing the prosecution, and a lawbreaker may go free. But the city rejected the offer because the new assistant attorneys salary, $15,000, would have been greater than that of City Attorney Jack Crellin, who is paid $14,880 a year. City commissioners object that the federal government doesnt take sufficient account of local wage scales in making and they have a point. If such a worker was such grants paid somewhat more than his boss and perhaps substantially more than others doing similar work, it could create not only morale problems but also generate inflationary pressures. Salt Lake City already has enough problems with an extremely tight budget. Even so, the idea of having an attorney work with the posounds lice to help them from stumbling into legal booby-trap- s like a good one. The city is trying to get the federal government to lower its salary sights in offering such legal aid. Failing that, how about the citys simply retaining a police attorney on its own at a salary in line with present municipal pay scales . full-tim- I Help For The Doctor California is taking a bold step toward relieving the doctor shortage, a step that should be watched closely by the rest of the nation and emulated if it works as expected. Under a new law recently signed by Governor Reagan, any California doctor may hire up to two medical assistants to relieve him of routine duties. Recruited from among registered nurses and medical corpsmen in the. armed services, the new medical assistants will undergo special training in medical school to enable them to perform minor surgery, make initial diagnoses, take medical histories, and act as midwives. Since their training wont be as costly as' that which physicians must undergo, the medical assistants should help curb the rising cost of health care as well as make care more readily and widely available. There are still obstacles to be overcome, from professional obstinance to patients insistence on seeing the doctor and no one else. California should demonstrate whether or not such prejudices can be surmounted More Urban Parks Utah is fortunate that its forests, parks, and other outdoor recreation areas are located fairly close to the state's Ms major population centers. That isnt often the case elsewhere across the country, so Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickels new plan to develop 14 federal park? around major cities makes sense. In the next 18 months the Department of Interior will study such projects as a Huck Finn riverfront play area for Potomac Park for Washington, Memphis, and a 15,000-acr- e D.C. 1 With the demand for outdoor recreation facilities growing faster than the population, and with prices soaring as land becomes scarcer, the sooner park sites are reserved for urban areas the better and less expensive it will be. n THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE AND GEOFFREY DRUMMOND Muskie already has a lock on the Democratic presidential nomination and there is no one in sight who has a good chance of prying it loose. There are iive solid factors propelling Edmund S. Muskie, who will be returned to the Senate from Maine with a huge majority, so far ahead so early in the double-ar- opposition. The competition for the nomination is thin and weak and will probably get weaker. major 2 Muskie is getting stronger. His political support in the party and in the country is visibly growing 3 Leading Democrats, who might under different circumstances be going after the nomination themselves, are helping him. Sen. Edward Kennedy is encouraging his own supporters to help with money and organization. Hubert Humphrey is for Muskie and will say so at the propitious moment. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who knows party sentiment better than most, fully expects Muskie to be nominated and sees him as the most formidable candidate the Democrats could pick. Nearly every Democratic running for office this fall, except in the Deep South, wants Muskie to come into his state to campaign for him. He is doing so traveling to 45 states in the past 15 months. He isnt asking for any promises of future support but there is political friendship going into the Muskie bank to be drawn on when it will count most. 4 R. Drummond J. G. Drummond 5 Muskie fits the times. He is cool, deeply earnest, doesnt rant. He is a political liberal who doesnt frighten conservatives. He is at the political center of his own party and is viewed by many of his colleagues as the man who can best heal its divisions and rivalries. Muskie is clearly going all-ofor 72. His early reluctance to seek the nomination actively and vigorously has vanished. He sees event? shaping themselves to help him and he is shaping events to help himself. His two most formidable potential opponents Teddy Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey have removed themselves, and the remaining contestants like Sen George McGovern or Eugene McCarthy, or conceivably Mayor if he Lindsay or Arthur Goldberg, defeats Nelson Rockefeller, are not very formidable. Thus Muskie has a remarkably clear field and he isnt wasting any time preempting it. He has set up a national M'lskie- - DR. JOYCE Our Yearning For Childhood By SYDNEY and responsibilities of maturity. What w? really mean is that we wish we could be children again, with the adult capacity to appreciate childhood. This is a very different thing from simply b'hng a child again. I have never been able to sympathize with the people who express such yearnings. My childhood was as happy as any, I suppose, and yet I find more substantial joy in growing older than I d d in being young. We forget, in the mists of nostalgia, that childhood is also full of its own terrors and tragedies that the unimportant things we can laugh at today seemed real and menacing m youth. And this for- getfulness Ls the reason parents continually misunderstand their children. A lost dog or a broken prom date can be as cataclysmic to a growing child as bankruptcy to a father. The petty humiliations to which a youngster is thoughtlessly subjected can be as stabbing as the most profound of mature emotions and even more lasting. As a protective device, mans mind tends to foi get pain and remember pleasure; otherwise we cculd not live with our memories. What we recollect from childhood are the gay moments, but seen only through the prism of adulthood. e: re 81 P S) b Cc g' si th le lo ai ot or or pl de vote-geite- r. or e tt fr in w, fn n m Sen. Muskie already is near to being assured of the nomination and he appears to have political strength to spare. ty th qi Hopes Ban th Contagious I noticed from a wire service report that as of 15 you are ceasing to accept advertiseOctober BROTHERS movies. ments for X- - and We shall never shut off the flood of pornography until we care enough to act personally and responsibly to solve this social menace. These movie advertisements are usually deliberately worse than the movies themselves. In a time when newspaper labor costs and newsprint costs are steadily rising, targets, outlets for the powerful resent- your decision not to advertise these classes of ment and hostility the murderer feels. movies is particularly praiseworthy. CongratulaIn some cases, the sex of the victims tions! I hope your fine example proves coniagious. is important in the murderer's mind. The --WALTER J. MISKA sexual and aggressive impulses are so Rhode Island state senator intimately intertwined that shooting someone may be even a symbolic form of sexual assault. va ha as Wf pr ou The 'Senseless Murderer HARRIS When Bernard Shaw exclaimed, Youth is such a wonderful thing, its a crime to waste.it on children, he was doing more than making a bright epigram. He was expressing a truth that few of us realize. When we sigh for the carefree days of childhood, and look back upon the fun we had, we forget that we are looking back from a grownup viewpoint. To the child, his days are not so much fun because he doesnt know anything about the cares th Ul due-bill- rat?: He has no U! Visitor Praises Utahns LOS ANGELES It looks like Muskie versus Nixon in 1972. 1 it headquarters in Washington well manned and adequately financed. He has a brain trust including such distinguished volunteers People I've talked with in this part of the counas Clark Clifford, economist Walter HelVance and Averell Harriman, try have much respect for the friendliness they ler, Cyrus who have served Democratic presidents consistently have encountered in Utah, but two in high posts for many years. examples which my wife and I experienced in September surpass even the usual cordiality and But Muskie is not going to rely pri- friendliness which we have come to expect in your marily on others to get him the nomina- fine sfate. tion. He is not going to sit back and hope Our car had severe mechanical problems at s to cash from convention deleCity while we were under pressure to Brigham gates. He is going to the voters the way attend a in Southern California. Mr. Leon wedding John F. Kennedy did in I960 and Richard Motors there performed the Packer Packer and Nixon did in 1968. He intends to demonof locating and installing a task impossible nearly strate that his nomination will come axle rear assembly at nominal cost replacement from popular demand, not just from the and getting us on our way in less than 24 hours. I will of the party professionals. could give no truer compliment than my belief that This means that he will enter every his and his firms demonstrated character nears available primary in the winter and the epitome of Christian behavior. spring of 1972 and he hopes that there Mr. and Mrs. Mark Brighteriburg of Mark and will be enough competition to make the Motel in Brigham City insisted during our Frans results somewhat meaningful. visit that we use their car to view their fine city, Muskies steady rise in voter endorse- its residential and business developments and ment is impressive evidence of his Peach Festival displays, of which they are rightly staying pow'er and his potental as a proud. Eighteen months ago the My working and traveling history includes asHarris Survey showed Nixon running signments and much travel over most of Europe, farther ahead of Muskie than e did North Africa, the Middle East, and nearly every against Humphrey. Then it was Nixon one of our United States. From this frame of refer51 per cent, Muskie 33 per cent and Walence, I can tell you that my experience with Packer lace 11 per cent. Motors, Mark and Frans Motel and all the pople There have been seven such Harris involved in both organizations certainly have been more than outstanding. You are indeed fortunate to Surveys and the latest shows Muskie runwith Nixon at 44 per cent have people such as these in your state, and after ning dead-eveeach, with Wallace getting 10 per cent. meeting them, it is little wonder that their enthusi-asHis support has never waned and Harris for your state is so contagious. finds no other Democrat who runs any-J- AMES A. STEWART where nearly as well. Glasgow, Mont. NEW YORK A quiet, unremarkable young man walks into an office and shoots four young women, only slightly known to him. A skull her girls is crushed, cast body away. Its not a new story, the supposedly unassuming, a v erage person who s u d denly into a explodes murderous rage, killing with no ap- parent motive, but it is always a disturbing story. Unexplained violence is always lightening, for we feel ourselves threatened, realizing that it is not possible to piediet w'ho will kill or who is a dangerous person. The individual who has had a history of impulsive, aggressive behavior, with a low tolerance for frustration, with a con-- f taut chip on his shoulder doesnt really surprise us when one day his anger goes too far and he kills. It is the person who is typically described as a nice guy who shucks us when he becomes a killer. Yet, as authorities in criminal behavior point out, no murder is ever motiveless. While motives of jealousy, revenge or passion may seem absent in the case of the murderer who kill? relative strangere, there is a motive, nontheless. The motivation, however, is primarily internal, determined by intense and disabling inner conflicts. The victims need do nothing out of the ordinary to provoke their death because they are symbols, not individuals, in the killer's disturbed mind.. The victims of the mass murderer ate d Ban Helps Fight Smut The young male who has a poor Congratulations to the News for its fecent deciadjustment may be torn by sion not to carry advertisement of X hnd R movies. conflicted painfully feelings towards Unlike some of your readers, I do not look upon women. Feelings of rage, rejections, frusthis as an infringement upon my freedom in any tration, inadequacy and impotence in way. with women into are translated dealing By witholding the advertisements of such violent attack. the Deseiet News will be helping to reduce movies, The roots of such problems go back to the profitability of smut. I consider this a means to childhood of and the nature the early preserve the kind of environment I would like my relationship between parents and child. children to grow up in. Too few are willing to sacAn overly close identification with the rifice an immediate profit for the sake of principle, mother may have left the young male which is our only means of residing a worsening with nagging doubts about his own mascondition. culinity. -- DR. DARWIN K. WOLFORD Even though it is common that those Ricks College Faculty who knew the mass murderer find it difRexburg, Idaho ficult to remember anything unusual or out of the ordinary, other than he was a nice guy, a closer examination usually reveals that his life was far from nice. Lonely, isolated, very often plagued with Congratulations on your decision not to publish feelings of inferiority and inadequacy, it advertisements for X- - or motion pictures is hard to say that the murderer was after Oct. 15. How wonderful to see morality on the happy. way up. In fact, the superficial understanding -- MRS. JAMES McGARITY that friends and sometimes even close DePere, Wis. relatives have of the killer only seem to emphasize his isolation from other peoR ple. Characteristically, the killer has struggled with feelings of being a I hail your decision, as do nobody, a cipher, the person that no many other Utahns, to cease permitting adverfi .ements of X- - and one notices or remembers. In his disturbed mind, the act of muider becomes movies. Congratulations on vour courage and contribution to decency ! a way of becoming somebody, of prov-- DAVID E. YOUNG ing that he is someone to be reckoned with after all. . Ogden Boost For Morality Hails X , Ad Ban to pr sei ' the in wl Ide of ftre !thc ie .! fdi ie n Hr y lo fire |