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The 6th Fleet prowling the Mediterranean is a bluff of sorts, but also a mighty stabilizing force for peace. If Russia knew that ive wouldnt fight, shed rip up the Far East detente like Hurricane Dolly. In poker, bluffs special game, there is an old adage, Never change a winning game. In the 20, 1970 p Why Voters Should Cut Residency Rule Utahs long residency requirements for voters ought to be reduced to encourage citizens to go to the polls and exercise their franchise. Evidently most Utahns agree with this position, judging from the great support for Proposition No. 2 that was voiced in a recent public opinion poll conducted for the Deseret News missile crisis, President Kennedys parade of power worked. It would work with less muscle if they are convinced wed fight. We can thank the for the shameless bluffs the Communists have already gotten away with. and KSL. Proposition No. 2 is the one that would allow otherwise qualified citizens to vote on the basis of six months residence in the state and 69 days in the county. In Presidential elections, one could vote for the President and Vice President on the basis of 30 but not for other candidates for office state. in residence the days This would replace the present residency requirements of one year in the state, 90 days in the county, and 60 days in the a change that is favored by 64 per cent of voting precinct the public and opposed by only 23.6 per cent, with some 11 per cent undecided. As the opponents see it, Proposition No. 2 might open the way to fraud on the grounds there wouldnt be enough time to check voter qualifications before elections. But the case for reducing residency requirements is more persuasive. The proposal reflects Americans increasing mobility. Each year, according to the American Heritage Foundation, about 33 million Americans move, with the result that an estimated 8 million of them cant meet various state, county or precinct residence requirements. Just because an American takes up residence in a new state, however, it doesnt make him any lesp knowledgeable about the candidates or issues involved in a presidential election. While it takes longer to become familiar with whats at stake in state or local election contests if one is new to a community, the communications media arent dehig their job if they cant educate reasonably conscientious newcomers within the time periods for residency set forth in Proposition No. 2. At least 15 other states let citizens vote if they have been residents for half a year. Utahns can and should join them by voting yes on Proposition No. 2. The Contagion Spreads the kidnapping of government officials by terrorists in Canada tempt American extremists to try similar tactics here? Since extremists arent noted for their rationality, AmeriWill ca probably cant expect to be immune from the contagion of kidnapping and terrorism that has spread from Latin America to the Middle East and now Canada. But by all thats sane and sensible, there really ought to be no more unhappy episodes like the kidnapping and murder of Provincial Labor Minister Pierre Laporte in Canada. Not if those thinking of doing likewise will observe how these tactics have utterly failed to achieve any of the demands they were' intended to win for the Quebec Liberation Front. Not if they will note how, by reducing the cause of separatists to gangsterism, these tactics turned support among the general population into revulsion. Not if those responsible for the death of an innocent man are relentlessly tracked down and brought to certain justice. Meanwhile, the killing of Laporte focuses international attention on Canadas failure to blend its two cultures, English and French, into one cohesive pattern. The French, as a political, minority, have never felt they enjoyed equality cultural, or economic. Unhappily, the terrorist campaign on behalf of Quebec separatism is seriously damaging efforts to work out a lasting g accord on the issues involving full integration of Quebec into the Canadian union. With the murder of Laporte, a band of what seemed to some to be romantic daredevils are now clearly shown to be cowardly cutthroats with as little popularity as any other a lesson that Americas own young revolutionists bandit should bear in mind. French-Canadia- n GOMER CASEMAN 3610 S. 27th East Protect Water Right Arguing Law Of Desegregation May it please the Court: Your Honors have just heard eight hours of oral agrument in the school d e s e gregation cases, and your ears probably are numb: but in terms of their impact upon American communities, these are the most important cases you will hear for months to come. A little more argument will do no harm. JAMES J. KILPATRICK thing then and something else entirely since your verdict in Brown. At any given time, the Constitution means just what you gentlemen say it means. What does it mean now? Sixteen years ago. in overturning all the prior decisions that had sanctioned separate out equal, the court appeared to be saying one thing that school segregation violated the equal protection clause, and must be stopped. But the court appeared to be saying more. The prodigious thrust of the Brown opinion, raising it to landmark status, was that race could no longer be a factor in any state action: There could not be, at law, black persons and white persons, but simply persons. So Brown was understood. state-impos- Mr. Kilpatrick The question at bottom is simply, What does the Constitution require? That is the only question you gentlemen have the power to examine; and you alone have the power and the duty to answer it. We are talking of the whole Constitution, but mainly we are talking of the Fourteenth Amendment. There is the provision, for example, that no person shall be deprived of his liberty without due process of law. There is the famous clause which says that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Those provisions have been part of the Constitution (no matter how invalidly they were adopted) since 1868; and it is futile to complain that they meant one In subsequent decisions, you gentlemen seemed to be making the same point. There were not to be black schools, or white schools, but just schools. You laid down the requirement for unitary school systems, and you defined such a system as one in which no child is excluded from any school by reason of his race. Time after time, you demanded the non-raci- assignment of pupils. What has gone wrong? The six cases that were argued last week made it clear that lower court judges, in trying to implement your decisions; have not been at all. They have acting been acting racially. The whole business of compulsory busing to distant schools is a manifestation of racism. Once again, the sole critericn in pupil assignments is tie criterion you said could not be used: The color of a childs skin. This traves'y was clearly exposed in the Charlotte case. Here the North Carolina legislature had adopted a school law saying precisely what you gentlemen have seemed to be saying for 16 years: No person shall be refused admission into or be excluded from any public school in this state on account of race, creed, color, or national origin. And that statute was held to be unconstitutional! What kind of judicial lunacy have we here? In many Northern cities, all-bla- schools exist naturally in neighborhoods that are all black. The same has been true in the South. Are such schools unconstitutional? If so, why? Are they lawful in the North, unlawful in the South? If compulsory segregation must be prohibited, how can compulsory integration be required? How is a state ra- cially to act These are questions of great magnitude; they demand great clarity in the answering thereof. The landmark of Brown has become a pale beacon in a deep fog. You keepers of the constitutional lighthouse have a high obligation to put the law back on its course. When a large steel company, say, pollutes a lake and is as challenged in the courts, its legal fees are business expenses. ' But when an ordinary citizen seeks to bring a lawsuit to the prevent pollution, his legal fees are not deductible. The unfairness of the situation is apparent to just about everyone except the Internal Revenue Service, which helped create the disparity with its recent ruling that groups which go to court to protect some chosen area of national interest, such as preservation of the environment, protection of consumer interests and the like" are no longer entitled to tax exemptions. When Congress returns from its recess, the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower and Poverty plans to hold hearings on the ruling, and certainly an explanation from the IRS is in order. Although the IRS insists that its ruling wont jeopardize educational organizations or the familiar legal aid group that helps those traditionally recognized as objects of charity, seme Congressmen fear these distinctions are too vague and tenuous. If there is indeed much doubt, the effect will likely be to discourage contributions to legal aid groups seeking to protect consumers and the environment. Thats incompatible with the Nixon administrations expressed concern for furthering these very interests. As members of the Senate subcommittee put le ' Discouraging contributions to public interest organizand discouraging such organizations from filing lawsuits to protect the public interest clearly denies large groups of our citizens access to justice. We cannot believe that the Internal Revenue Service desires such an end result. ' ations ' L citys indeed encouraging. Certain aspects of Provo Citys participation in this project are matters of concern to many citizens inasmuch as transfer of property for rights of way could result1 In illegal disposition of water rights or sources of water supply. Section 6, Article XI, of the Constitution of Utah, reads as follows Sec. 6. (Municipalities forbidden to sell waterworks or rights.) No municipal corporation, shall directly or indirectly, lease, sell, alien or dispose of any waterworks, water rights, or sources of water supply now, or hereafter to be owned or controlled by it; but all such waterworks, water rights and sources of wrater supply now owned or hereafter to be acquired by any municipal corporation, shall be preserved, maintained and operated by it for supplying its inhabitants with water at reasonable charges: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any such municipal or corporation from exchanging water-rightor sources of water supply, for other water-right- s sources of water supply of equal value, and to be devoted in like manner to the public supply of its . s, inhabitants. It is presumed that the city attorney is aware this statute and that this statute will be observed any matters pertaining to Provo City's land Provo Canyon. -S- TEVE of in in PENROD President, Save the Provo River Association Moss Image Wrong many people Consciously or subconsciously, have gained the wrong impression that Sen. Moss senator, a sensible spendis a er, and a senator who votes the way the people think. Sen. Moss classifies himself as middle of the road, while he votes similar to such liberals as McGovern and McCarthy. Rep. Burton is the real candidate. Sen. Moss accuses the administration of trying to gain an easy Senate seat, but it is a fact that almost half his campaign was financed in 1964 by the labor bosses. Rep. Burton gets his contributions from the people, .not from the labor bosses. Sen. Moss says he is not an excessive sppnder, but voted to override President Nixons veto of the costly Hospital Assistance Act and other bills. Rep. Burton supports the President in balancing the middle-of-the-roa- We Need More Men Like This middle-of-the-roa- By SYDNEY J. HARRIS I was sorry to read this summer about the premature death of Clinton Rossiter. Rossiter, a writer and a professor at Cornell for many years, was one of the few good expositors of the conservative position in America. v We need more good expositors of any position, since the field is full of shrill e voices. As a liberal and semi-literat- (whatever that word means today), I am by the unthinking spokesmen for liberalism as I am repelled by the unthinking spokesmen for conservatism. often as embarrassed Rossiter was one of those r?re men who not merely criticized his opponents (which is too easy to do), but who subjected his own allies to careful scrutiny. He didnt urge liberals to change their ways as much as he implored conservatives to become more informed and intelligent purveyors of their own beliefs. And every cause needs this. Some years ago, he wrote a piece for the Yale Review, which won the Charles A. Beard Memorial Prize for the year. Called Toward an American Conservatism, it was part of a book published later, that should be on every conserva- tives shelf. These are some of the wise and perceptive reflections he offered: The American conservative has made too much of the dangers to liberty that lie in government, and too little of those injuries or deprivations of free choice that men visit upon one another in their private capacities. Compulsion can take social and economic as well as political forms. The conservative should give us a definition of liberty that is positive and not negative and narrow. Above all, he went on to say, It must acknowledge that many forms of property bring power over the lives and liberties of men to owners and managers. When property is power, it should be subject to the controls that society places on power ... partisan voices are so busy attacking their enemies that they ignore or condone the errors and extravagances of their own idealogues. Rossiter was one of the rare exceptions to this rule of intellectual myopia, and he will be sorely missed in the years ahead. Most French-speakin- Say It isn't So, IRS An article appearing in the Provo Herald. Oct. the effect of the construction of the proposed new highway upon sources of spring water for Provo City was noted with interest. The fact that Provo Ciy officials are concerned about valuable springs in Provo Canyon is the 11, concerning Its Her Breakfast ...My Pounds I am sick and tired of people saying to me, Boy, do you have it made. A sober husband, three healthy kids, a house in the suburbs, and a little part-tim- e job to keep you in panty hose. Well, let me tell you, my life is not all a barrel of cheers. How would you like to gat up every morning of your life and confront a daughter ".ho is 5'6", weigh 110 pounds, refuses to cat breakfast and insists, Im not hungry. livery time she says it, it burns me up. I set two alarm clocks to make sure I don't miss a meal and she says, I'm not hungry. My husband says I am suffering from repressed antagonistic rivalry that manifests itself in many strained mother- - the small society ERMA BOMBECK daughter relationships and simply means resentment, jealousy and competition between us. I told him, it's just Nonsense, heartburn from the coldvcabbage rolls I ate before I went to bed last night. The other morning as I forced down three pieces of bacon she left untouched, I had it out with her. Look, I said, its not normal to wake up in the morning and not be hungry. From the time you eat your dinner the night before to the time you eat your lunch at school, it is 16 hours. Thats too long between meals. But why do I have to eat when you're hungry? she asked. For the 'ame reason you put a sweater on when Im cold, I said. But some people don't need food. Dont need food! I gasped. May ' Totie Fields stuff calories up your nose for such a remark. What do you mean, people dont need food? I dont want to frighten you, but a buzzard followed you to school the other morning. I cant help it. It upsets my stomach when I eat. Do you know what you are doing to your mother? I sighed. Killing her. Thats right. I dont know how much longer I can go on carrying you. When you were a baby I didnt mind eating ... the strained peas, the your leftovers mashed squash and the pureed lamb, but as you got older, the burden became greater. Having two breakfasts for the last seventeen years is beginning to show on me. I put on weight easily. Remember when I got a flue shot and gained three pounds from it? But, if you dont care what happens to your mother . . . Tne dog doesnt eat his breakfast she said, and you dont yell at him, stomping out the door. You know something? With a little catsup, it didnt taste bad. bv Brielcman d budget. I hope that on Wov. 3 the voters of Utah will be able to see through the impression Sen. Moss has made on many people that he is a middle-of-the-ro- senator, and elect a senator who doesnt change his rhetoric to win elections, Rep. Laurence J. Burton. -- MICHAEL NASH 2247 Logan Ave. Divorce Law Favors Mom I read with interest your article on divorce laws in Utah. My husband and I can vouch for the fact that they are heavily in favor of the woman. Some time ago, we had occasion to go into family court to try to gain custody of his children by a previous marriage. After a thorough investigation by the court social worker, he recommended that custody be changed to the father. We went into court, had 17 witnesses including 2 social workers, 4 or 5 school teachers, 2 bishops, some of the mothers own family. The children have been in juvenilr court, the State Industrial School, and two have had to have guidance counseling. Our attorney feeLs that we definitely were able is an unfit to prove that my husbands mother. The judge took the case under advisement, after listening to these witnesses for 22 days, and a month iter let the mother retain custody. In Utah, children are not placed in some cases according to their best interests. --NAME WITHHELD ex-wi- Don't Blame Demos The political rhetoric currently being indulged in by Vice President Agnew has led him up one contradictory alley which should be brought to the attention of the voters lest their credulity be improperly affected. About a month ago I listened to a televised confrontation between Mr. Agnew and five U.S. university student body presidents. After much haranguing on both sides, during which the students attempted to lay at the feet of the Vice President much of the biame for the current student unrest and violence, Mr. Agnew made the culminating statement to this effect: With students in Russia, France, Great Britain, Japan and elsewhere rising up in protest against existent conditions in their countries, to blame me for trie campus disturbances in the United States is the most unmitigated nonsense I have ever heard." Forgive me, Mr. Agnew, if I have not quoted you exactly; in essence this is what you said. But if it is true that campus disturbances and violence are worldwide and anyone who reads the newspapers cnn vouch that it is why are you and other Republicans placing all the blame upon the Democrats? -L- OUISE 2140 A. B. PEARCE Ave. E. Crystal f - |