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Show tiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiHiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuMiiiii!iirnni!iiimnmiit;iiiiiiiii DESERET NEWS Pillars Of Our Society LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiimii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiii:iiiii We Stand For The Constitution Cf The United States Thanks To Samaritans As Having Been Divinely Inspired 20 A EDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, OCTOBER We would like to express publicly our appreciation to a couple of young men who were kind enough to lend a helping hand. 27, 1970 We were homeward bound on Highway 89 just south of Mapleton, Utah. Traffic was terrific, both lanes loaded with deer hunters about 5 p.m., when we felt that sickening swerve of a flat tire. Fortunately, there was a side road near by that I could pull onto. Why County Contests Merit Closer Attention I had no more than opened the trunk nd taken out the car jack when two young men pulled up immediately behind us with their pickup truck. Can we be of any help to you? they greeted. We willingly let them take over the changing of the tire, whrh they did with dispatch and efficiency. When I offered to pay them for their time and help they waved a happy hand, turned their car around and sped off. You see, they had been coming oward us when they noticed two old folks with car trouble, and had turned around to offer help, and then hurried away without mentioning their names. In all the furor over the Senate and Congressional contests, it's easy for the voters to slight races for local offices. Thats precisely what seems to be happening in Salt Lake County, where polls indicate that the voters arent as familiar as they should be with the names of candidates for important county offices, let alone with the candidates qualifications and records. Clearly, the voters will have to do a fast job of educating themselves if they are to cast informed, thoughtful ballots m just another week. The voters owe it to themselves to go to the trouble involved in learning more about the candidates and issues, fer several important reasons. First, seldom do the citizens have such a direct hand in influencing decisions that affect their daily lives as they do in determining the composition of the County Commission. Second, since this contest involves two of the three seats on the County Commission compaied to just one seat out of the voters will also in 100 involved in the U.S. Senate race of the countys main man chaii be will effect help decide who next year. governing body Third, with government in the county becoming bigger and more complex, the job of running it has become more and so the electorate should be more demanding demanding in assessing its public servants. These points should be kept firmly in mind by the voters as they weigh the merits of the candidates for the various county positions such as the four men seeking commission posts: William E. Dunn Mayor of Murray for two four-yeterms during which the tax levy is said to have been lowered each year since he first took office. Mr. Dunn is president of the Salt Lake County Council of Governments, has been president of the Utah State Jaycees, by whom he was honored as outstanding young man of the state, and president of the Murray Chamber of Commerce. The Utah League of Cities and Towns last month named him Utahs most outstanding city official, reflecting experience that bears directly on the task ahead of consolidating municipal and county government. Unsuccessful candidate for the Fred Demman Jr. county commission in 1968, he is a motel and restaurant manager and has been chairman of the County Democratic Central Committee, president of the State Fair Board and a member of the Utah Safety Council and Utah Coordinating Council for Development Services. Chief deputy county clerk and a Parker P. Robison Jr. businessman, he formerly served as staff aide at the State Aeronautics Commission. A county planner for 17 years, he Ralph McClure heads the subdivision department of the County Planning Commission and formerly was county zoning administrator. Mr. Dunn and Mr. Demman are seeking the four-yepost, while Mr. Robison and Mr. McClure are vying for the seat on the county commission. The Deseret News has exposed scandals and favoritism in county government, which, go back for many years and involved both political parties at one time or another. We believe the voters should vote for the man rather than on the basis of partisan politics. Salt Lake County, as does government at all levels, needs men of. proven integrity and pertinent competence. Theres no substitute for electing good men to public office. , , ar Civil Rights: It's A Slow Train Last weeks massive report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is both profoundly depressing and sadly reveal-- i The report speaks, if anyone is listening, of failings, and imperfections sorrows as old as Hammurabi. In the Court of Last Judgment, where mans weaknesses must go on trial, the document may be admitted in evidence Exhibit A for the Why has the law as to contractors not anbeen enforced? The commission's swer, laying the blame on an inert bureaucracy, applied across the of the civil rights enforcement whole-spectru- effort. Mr. Kilpatrick Contrary to first impressions, the report is not a political indictment. If the commissions findings reflect poorly upon the Nixon administration, they reflect with equal severity upon all the administrations that have gone before. This is the main point: Civil rights laws, in themselves, do not a millennium malm. There is a law, for example, which says to federal contractors: If you discriminate against Negroes, your contract will be canceled and you will be prohibited from receiving contracts in the future. But the law accomplishes nothing if no contracts are canceled and no bidders are debarred. ar Compete At Sea While Uncle Sam's merchant fleet has been dwindling, the Soviet Unions has been growing. This is a situation the United States cannot afford to ignore as it observes Navy Day today. This growth may not reflect an intentional challenge to the U.S. Merchant Marine so much as it reflects an expansion of Soviet trade with the Third World and western nations. Nevertheless, the USSRs commercial fleet has been cutting shipping rates drastically on some routes. The volume of Russian shipping is a bit below that of the United States at present, but the Russians estimate that they will have surpassed U.S. tonnage by 1975. Shortly after World War II, American ships carried well over half of this countrys foreign trade; today, they carry about six per cent of it. Foreign ships carry the major poition of America's sea trade, and this needlessly costs the U.S. money in the form of shipping fees that go overseas, not into the American economy. In time of crisis, the United States could be forced to depend on foreign ships to transport vital equipment or supplies. The Vietnam War, for instance, forced the U.S. to reactivate older ships and charter private vessels to do this job. A strong merchant fleet is not just a means of showing the flag in the world's ports. It is vital to the economic and defense interests of the United States. We cannot afford to let ours die. But the fault is not alone with the inertia of bureaucracy or with the diffusion of authority in government. Agencies must operate under laws passed by the Congress, and the laws admit an inand finity of delays, negotiations, not These unreasonable are appeals. laws. The contractors (or whoever) cannot put an end to racial discrimination by the wave of a wand. They have to live with their unions, and with the labor supply, and with the industrial world as it is. At a given moment in time and space, where are 28 senior black pipefitters to he found? They do not exist. The way spaceships of Russia and America are built now, neither could rescue the other in space orbit because a linkup is impossible. But in Moscow this week senior engineers of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. are holding discussions aimed at design- ing common hatches and docking systems, so astronauts and cosmonauts could pass from one craft to another. Such talks were proposed by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency last July. Space belongs to all men. and in it America ami Russia may cooperate better than they do on the ground. Afterthoucht Gradualness is the only h , means that truiv conquers all sudden changes and revolutions, when the excitement dies down are forced to retreat and retrace their path again through gradualness in order to consolidate their gains, or they perish. Spanish-America- ... One wonders, And yet, and yet putting the bulky volume aside, whether the facts and figures necessarily prove what they appear to prove. The commission complains, for example, of a bus terminal in Greenville, Miss. White passengers still are waiting in one room, 787-3r- d ' Little ' Sermonefte On Slumber regularly as the autumnal equinox around, Harris returns every year his campaign. someday the nation will take my sermonettes 6n slumber to heart. As comes with " Maybe The chief reason that the aspirin pill has become the badge for our civilization is that Americans dont get enough sleep. Most adults dont retire until about midnight, and are forced to get up by 7 or so. This is a barbarous hour to begin facing a stern world. Nothing but the force of historical inertia keeps us arriving at work at 9 a.m. This is the traditional hour, and we are stuck with it. Actually, because ol lack of sleep and accompanying malaise, not much real work is done before 11 a.m. anyway. I have been advocating for years that the starting time for most jobs be 10 or 10:30 in the morning. That extra hour ' makes all the difference between snarling fatigue and at least spurious enthusiasm. Employers would find that a 10 a.m. starting time would increase their staff's efficiency to an amazing degree. The average office around 10 a.m. is vacant the women are in the washanyway room holding their heads, and the men are in the snack shop around the corner, sipping coffee in a kind of bleary eyed desperation. If you argue that people should simply go to bed earlier in order to get enough sleep, this is virtually impossible within the pattern of modern life, except for a few rustic outposts. Our whole social life is so geared that nobody wants to retire much before midnight. The trouble is that our society has been changing from a rural to an urban pattern, but we are still observing the rural hours of arising, which are suitable . fqr feeding the chickens, but not for cop-ifiwith the masses of humanity on the freeway or the morning train. Most city folks are fagged out before they even hit the office or the shop. g. South America has a much more civilized pattern. There the stores and offices dont open until 10 or so, and close an hour later. Nobody has dinner until 9 p.m. or later, and it occupies the whole evening. In the U.S., people rush home to eat dinner abysmally early, and then sit far later around watching the boob-tub- e than they should. "No civilized person, said Wilson ever gets up and goes to bed Mizer.er, the same day. But if we are forced to trudge to work at a primitive hour, who can afford the luxury of being civilized and sleep-starve- Aspirin-taker- d s have nothing headaches. In talking recently with a friend whom I esteem, I deplored the socialism I see all around dollars going to finance me. I see my riots, to pay people for not working, to pay farmers of other nafor not farming; to buy friendship tions, etc. My friend said that he didnt think a little socialism was bad. I might agree, except that I do not see any way we can have a little socialism. at the same time? of the world, unite! You to lose but your morning Another friend who spent some time in England noticed that about half the people work and support the other half, who seem to feel that they owe it to their families not to work because they can receive more from the dole than they can earn on the job. It would seem that the experiences of other nations would cry out that you cannot have a little socialism. A little socialism will grow and devour a nation. It might be worth remembering that a governmenf that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got. I am extremely disenchanted with the way my in Washington have spent my representatives money for me. I propose that we give them a raise in direct proportion to the amount of spending they can eliminate except to provide for the common defense, and other necessary items. If these men were to work toward the concept that that government governs best which governs least I would be willing that we double, even triple their salaries. -J-OHN M. JARVIS 2918 E. 2965 South Super Nurse' Fills In For Doc The demands being made on doctors these days have produced a phenomenon faster than a speeding bullet, more pow erful than a speed-- i 1 o n g comotive, more steadfast the Berlin Wall. Is it a bird? A plane? No, its Super Nurse. I have a host of friends who tell me been they have than doctoring with a nurse for the past Mrs. Bombcck five years. Actually, they have never seen their doctor (only in a situation sc ies on TV or a golf tournament.) My friend. Murial Bayne, had an interesting experience last week. She called her doctor's office to report, I have broken my foot. The receptionist said. Ill let you speak with our appointThe appointment nurse ment nurse. said, Could you come in a week from Thursday? Murial said, You dont un- - the small society ERMA BOMBECK derstand. My foot is blue and swollen. Ill let you talk with a nurse, said the appointment nurse. The nurse said, If youre concerned I'll make an appointment in the emergency ward for an Murial hobbled to the hospital for an where another nurse said, I'll have the radiologist phone the report to your doctor. Several days later the doctors nurse called again and said, Your foot is only blue and swollen. Stay off of it for a few days until the swelling goes y down. Now I suspect several thousand nurses in the country are going to write and say. See. It all turned out fine. You would just have wasted the doctor's time when he could have been treating someone who was really sick. Its that kind of logic that lost the war for Germany. I dont mean to put nurses down. Socialism Impossible hard-earne- d By SYDNEY J. HARRIS ed Cooperate In Space Hits Burton Work Stand right-to-vvor- k n g. prosecution. Sigurd black passengers in another. No law ' U.S. Senate candidate Laurence Burton seems no this separation; signs compels to think that for Utah to be a state demand it; no minion of the bus compacould is some he distinction. doubts. There of sort We that enforces it. ny may speculate the causes of voluntary separation lie The intent of the law is presumed to guarantee deep in the fragile eggshell soul of man. the right of the woiker to join a labor union or reDo not break the membrane. fuse to join. Actually, it can only assure him the It is the same at a giant public housright as an individual to pit his wits against the ing project in Chicago. The law demands corporation in a bid for better wages and working conditions. Naturally, he gains little or nothing, integration; public policy and the Christian ethic urge it; but all 28,000 units even when, with current inflation, he needs to run stay black. You cannot, in a tolerably very fast (financially speaking) even to stay where free society, compel whites to live there. he Ls. Is this bureaucracys failure? Or God's? The law' also operates to weaken and destroy Or mans? unions in Utah. The states best artisans have alAt one oint, the commission appears ready in great degree escaped to other states, to he to be demanding a quota system of procrafts-me- n from other regions by second-rat- e at replaced portionate minority representation that have brought with them conditions, proball grade levels in all agencies and in all lems, behaviors and situations that the state does regions of the country. But this is futile. not know how to handle. There are not enough black Jewish As the unions falter, so does the fate of the comwomen to go around. The supply of mon man as he sinks deeper into poverty or debt. n meteorologists is finite Oftentimes, low wage scales bring new industries in Sioux Falls. to Utah, but government rules and the operation of It is a slow train that travels to New economic laws mean the importing of other workers in whatever Jerusalem; all crusaders, than more jobs for Utahns, who do not rather field, fret and chafe at the pace. The have the frustrations of the imported ones. is for Civil Rights Commission crying So, come election day, I must vote for the other justice, brotherhood and equal opportuniSen. Frank Moss. man ty in a world that hasnt seen much of -- WESLEY R. JOHNSON if ever at all. But w can, I this lately Ave. on count few some milestones the think, way; and strive to do better. JAMES J. KILPATRICK ar two-ye- Our respect and admiration far this much maligned young generation was given a hearty boost upward by this generous act of two young deer hunters. Whoever you are, our kindest thanks again. -- MR. AND MRS. IRVIN L. WARNOCK They are doing what they are told to do, but occasionally we need to discuss our medical problems with a doctor. The conference and the reassurance are as vital to good health as the treatment. Thats what were paying for. Personally, I retain doctors who will return my phone calls (recordings are cold) and who will occasionally see me when I am sick. I appreciate the job nurses do in screening patients, but I refuse to put myself in the hands of someone who reads Readers Digest on her lunch hour. My grandmother had a doctor who went one step farther. For years, she couldnt even get through to see a nurse. I He handled her sickness by mail. shouldnt worry, she said, but the secretary wrote me to continue on my medication and call if I had a problem. I "Why should that worry you? asked. Did she misspell your name? "No, but I think she has me mixed up with another patient. She said they were keeping an eye on my prostate gland. Whats a sickie to do? bv Briekman Dirty Utah Air Alarming I arrived in your beautiful city on Thursday, Oct. 8, and through Friday your skies were washed clean by wind and rain. I spent the weekend learning of the sacrifice and hardship which brought Salt Lake into existence, and was moved by the spirit and inspiration of those early pioneers. I drove up into your foothills and canyons, and the happiness I found there turned to alarm as I watched your copper industry dumping garbage as far as the eye could see. As time progressed, the wind currents carried it in dtfferent directions, and finally, on Monday and Tuesday, it had settled in over your city. nose and My California smog - conditioned throat suffered from what was in the air. As I have finished my sales tour to the south, I have seen the pollution all the way down to St. George. You citizens. of Utah are letting this industry get away with murder. I am on way back to California and home. I was going to be quiet about it. but its 4 a.m. at a lonely mold, and I'm worried abcut your state. I cant sleep. Can you? -J- AMES P. COLIJER Garden Grove, Calif. Demos Hiding Tracks? Now come the Democrats scurrying around for their shovels and hoes g and covering their tracks and setting up smoke screens to hide the facts, for they are the architects and engineers of policies th;d have created the worst mess, hotli foreign and domestic, this country has had to face. Their irresponsible and unsound fiscal policies, like tax, tax, tax. spend, spend, spend, borrow, borrow. borrow, have spawned inflation and higli interest rates, regardless of how they try to camouback-fillin- flage the fact. Their irresponsibility in the conduct of the Vietnam war, the double talk and the contradictory statements of many of their august leaders at this moment r,t truth are anything but heart warming. And dont forget, our very own Sen. Moss is right in there singing tenor, harmonizing With the rest of the squeaking wheels. -B- YRON DARLEY 3695 Lois Lane I f i |