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Show W1 DESERET NEWS Jr SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We $tcnd For The Constitution Of The United States By JOHN BARNES As Having Been Divinely Inspired Newsweek Feature Service 8 A EDITORIAL PAGE SATURDAY, OCTOBER With only three days to go before the voters have the last word, Utah is about to close the books on one of the most political campaigns in recent years. The importance and vigor of the campaign are reflected in the current visit to Utah by President Nixon, his second of the and campaign, and in earlier visits by Vice President Agnew administration. national in the other outstanding figures The Deseret News does not endorse specific candidates or columns parties. It has dilligently tried to present in its news This issues. and of account the campaigns a fair and balanced much remains to be said about the individual races: The statewide poll reported in the Deseret News today indicates Utahns have been strongly influenced by some of the campaigning in the Senate race. Whether that is true or not, voters should hold candidates responsible for their own camcandidate does. To vote r paigns, not for what to the county races, down a straight party ticket all the way for example, because of agreement or disagreement with the man at the top of the ticket is hardly the way to insure good government. The Deseret News most strongly urges citizens to vote for his proven qualifications and experience. for the man As for the other issues on the ballot, heres how we have assessed their merits: This is the Gateway Amendment, which Proposition 1 would allow the State Constitution to be revised an entire artivia the usual amendment cle at a time instead of convention. via constitutional once all or at process As the opponents see it, this plan might mislead the voters into making charges in the Constitution more sweeping and drastic than they really intended. The proposition has been endorsed, however, by a number of civic leaders and orgarizations, including the Deseret News, on the grounds that the Gateway plan would minimize confusion and allow for orderly changes of the Constitution and still not risk wholesale revision. Present safeguards would be mains vote of the legislature and final tained, including approval by the voters for any amendment. This would reduce Utahs long residency Proposition 2 requirements for voters, a change which should be adopted not only as a reflection of Americans increasing mobility but also to encourage voting on the part of citizens who are now unfairly disenfranchised when they happen to take up a new residence. Under this proposal, Utah would be perProposition 3 mitted to define the rates, amounts or procedures in its tax laws by reference to federal tax laws. Lets make one thing clear: This proposal does NOT automatically meaii higher taxes. But it would enable the legislature to simplify Utahs tax laws, make them easier and cheaper to administer, simpb-- , fy the taxpayers job in making out his tax return and reduce the expense of preparing it. The plan should be adopted. For the first time, a judges The new judicial ballot name will appear on the ballot even when he is not opposed Voters should realize that when no one runs fer a against judge it may be an indication he is doing a fine job. The new law merely requires an unopposed judge to run on his record, and if the voters arent happy with his specific record they can remove him from office and the governor will appoint a replacement. In unincorporated areas of Utah Transit Authority Salt Lake County the voters will be asked if they want to join the Transit Authority. They certainly should join if bus service is to continue in the unincorporated areas now receiving it, if there is to be as little delay as possible in providing bus service to unincorporated areas not yet getting it, and if the valley is to be knit together with a progressive mass transit ht world's irst freely elected Marxist-LeninPresident. Allendes victory was a narrow, even an inconclusive one; with three major candidates running, he got 36 per cent of the vote, winning by only 39,000. Nevertheless, it can be considered the most significant political development in Latin America since Fidel Castro came to power. For Allende, though a member of the Socialist, not the Communist Party, is, from g the standpoint, the real goods. The Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leniparty and I, too, am a Marxist-Leninis- t, and dont yea forget it, he said recently. But in the interim between the national balloting and the obligatory affirmation of his presidency by Congress, Allende sought to pacify the majority. He promised that he would make no effort to y political system. He impose a guaranteed freedom of speech, education and the' press. Still, he reaffirmed his commitment to nationalize the copper industry (which produces most of the countys export earnings), to redistribute huge sections of individually owned land, to nationalize insurance companies and all major foreign-owne- d companies (which menaces the nearly $1 billion invested in Chile by U.S. . firms). Most Chileans, however, seem relatively unperturbed by the prospects ahead. In part, that is because there has been only a brief period during the 20th century in which the country has veered away from democracy , and the people do not seem to think it will happen now. In part, too, it's, because of Allende himself. At 62, he is not a frightening figure. As a politician who has beer defeated in three previous elections for the presidency, he e has an familiarity for Chileans. some-othe- left-win- st 1 . bit-by-b- 1 In the early afternoon of SANTIAGO Nov. 3, President Eduardo Frei Montalva of Chile will emerge from an ornate horse-draw- n carriage, pass through an honor guard in plumed helmets and enter Congressional H.U. Quietly he will listen to a proclamation announcing the verdict of his countrys recent presidential election. Then, still without uttering a word, he will take off the banda de O'Higgins (the red, white and blue sash with rosetta which symbolizes supreme power in Chile) and place it over the shoulders of the short, stocky man standing next to him. Immediately afterwards, former President Frei will slip oi of the building by a side entrance and, following Chilean custom,- make his own unceremonious way home. As he does so, his successor, Salvador Allende Gossens, will take power as the 31, 1970 Here Are The Issues-No-w Go Out And Vote hard-foug- resident 3 st one-part- . it two-third- old-sho- Predictably, Allende is not of the bootstrap brigade. His grandtather was surgeon general of Chile; his father was a prominent lawyer. Both were considered left wing for their times. Allende himself has a medical degree and roots in the radical student movement of his youth. Twice during the dictatorship he was of Ge.i. Carlos Ibanez (1927-31- ) jailed for leading campus rebellions. Because of this record, the only job he could get, after qualifying as a doctor, was :n a a source of political mental hospital joi?es which follow him even today. While still in his 20s, he helped found the Socialist Party and was elected to Congress. At 30, he was in the presidential cabinet as minister of health. He made his first run for the presidency in 1952, ran again in 58 and 64. Throughout, he never wavered and never failed to in his radicalism And he is a compromiser from way back the only Chilean who has ever been able to lead and unify the countrys vastly diverse g political groups and parties. , Further, he is neither the picture of the left-win- fiery Latin American revolutionary, nor the gray, humorless type that seems to surface so readily In European Communist countries. Allende is a man who enjoys his food, who likes pretty women. He lives with his wife and one of his three grown daughters in one of Santiagos most comfortable residential areas. Among his dearest possession is a collection of ancient pottery. He is even capable of laughing at himself. If. I lose this' time. he said during the recent campaign, Ill just keep trying until ine day Ill die. My epitaph should read: Here lies Salvador Allende, a future President of Chile. emerge at the top of the g political heap. In all probability, he could not have achieved his lifelong goal at a mote difficult time. Inflation is running at about 30 per cent per year. The annual 3 per Cent left-win- increase has created mow than ever before. ,To make matters worse, Allende has a new problem, based on the fears aroused by his own election. About $16 million left the country during September, and the rate increased in October. Business plummeted 33 per cent and it was clear that the Chilean economy had gone almost overnight into a recession. But Allende is confident, and so are his ifollowers. Before the election, his wall posters read Venceremos (We shall overcome). The posters now read: Vencimos . (We have overcome). . population slum-dwelle- "V THE MISSING CAMPAIGNERS . , v ''A Where re Student Activists? . , By PETER BENCHLEY Only a few months ago, the nations lege campuses were in an uproar of Spurred by the U.S. expedition into Cambodia and the killing of undergraduates at Kent State and Jackson State universities, students marched, picketed, struck and formed organizations to defeat politicians whose views they felt betrayed them. So intense was the fever on campus that it was widely predicted that hordes of students would jam the political arena this fall to do their thing for favored candidates. Yet throughout the 1970 campaign, this youthful crusade has never materialized. The student political movement has been the great fizzle of the election. At the University of Washington, for instance, hundreds of students crowded into the third floor of the student union building last summer, drawing precinct maps and formulating campaign strategy for peace candidates. Now, the third floor is empty. Down the West Coast at Stanford, more than half of the 12,000 students demonstrated to protest the Kent State incident. Now, fewer than 100 are working for any candidates. It's gone down the drain, says an aid to one antiwar congressman who was counting on student support in his bid for reelection. Last spring, delegation after delegation of students came to our office. They were all steamed up and we talked about their working in the fall. Now were discovering that they have an extremely short attention span as a group. Universities are really a microcosm col- system. One final point: In deciding among the many candidates and issues on the ballot, how well Utahns choose will greatly determine the quality of life to be enjoyed in this state for years to come. See you at the polls. Giving To Charity As the current United Fund and other Charity drives remind us, Americans are among the most generous in the world in contributing to worthwhile causes. The Utah United Fund crusade has reached 85 per cent of its $1,480,000 goal and is now in the mop-u- p stage. Needless to say, it expects to go over the top. i Nationally, Americans are expected to contribute a record $18.5 billion to various charities before 1970 ends nearly $1 billion more than last year and double the contributions made a decade ago. . But while the sums are growing, some majo shifts are occurring among charitable organizag tions. The American Association of Counsel more is money being spent to help the urban poor says that and to fight drug addiction, while less is going into building funds and agencies sending food and clothing overseas. The changes are at least in part due to growing criticism that some fund agencies simply are not delivering help to pie who need it most. One Ford Foundation shidy into the ways volunteer welfare agencies use their donations found that in some cases the influence of an agency is measured by the amount its supporters are able to bring in. This is why a Boy Scout troop operating in one of the wealthiest cities in the U.S. can receive substantial support from the (Community) Chest while a case wrk agency located in a nearby poverty-stricke- n neighborhood must often beg for its every sustenance, the report said. It is that type of inequity that charitable organizations need to correct. After all, public provisions for relief of the poor was one of the foremost reasons for organizing charity drives in the first place. Is There Fund-Raisin- In recent months, President Nixon has appeared to change his posture on the Indochina war becoming, in many students t eyes, more reasonable and dove-likhas been to deflate the war as a hot issue. The issues remaining dont light many students fires. The main campaign Issues of the economy and law and order are simply less exciting to students, says Henry Beinen, a Princeton professor and codirector of the MNC. Finally, many students have succumbed to purely natural phenomena. They are, after all, young. They bore easily, and pounding on doors isnt the most fun in the world. On a crisp fall weekend, there is certainly more entertainment to be found at a football field than in a dingy downtown office stuffing envelopes. Apathy, however, should not be confused with contentment. Some students have copped out of campaigning 'because they dont like any of the candidates. Others are still positive that the system cannot respond to traditional political pressure. Come spring, which is the season for causes, there is certain to be a rebirth of activity. And unless the Supreme Court overturns a new law lowering the voting age to 18, by the 1972 elections politicians will shun students only at their peril. At the moment, 17 million Americans (or 1 in every 7 of voting age) are under 26. can vote, the ratio By 1972, if will be 1 in 5. Then youth power if it ever puts its nearly 30 million constituents together will be a powerful force, indeed. society, and society today ia basically apathetic. Ironically, two of the few candidates who are receiving highly visible student support are neither Democrats nor liberal Republicans. Supporters of the GOP Senate candidate in Texas, Rep. George Bush, claim that 27,000 students many of whom are members of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom are enrolled in his campaign. And in New York, at least as many students are passing out leaflets for Conservative Party senatorial candidate James Buckley as for GOP maverick Charles Goodeli, who is thought to be the youngsters darling for his opposition to the Nixon Administration. What happened to the armies that were supposed to gather under the banner of youth power? To some extent, they fell victim to a lack of encouragement from the university establishment. Under a plan formulated by the Movement for a New Congress, a student lobby created last spring, colleges would give vacations so that students could work actively for political candidates. And for a few weeks, MNC headquarters at Princeton University was besieged by volunteers eager to work for the 71 Movement-supporte- d candidates. But when the final tally was in, only 40 of the U.S.s more than 2,000 colleges were willing to go along with the Princeton plan for a recess. Loss of momentum was another key reason for the evaporation of political fervor. e. C The-resul- . s 4 s ' 4 ' i jy A St. John's University student dis- tributes campaign , literature for Senate candidate James Buckley.' Really A Communist Conspiracy? . wConsplr'cv A combination of parsons for an tvll or unlawful purpose." New Certury Difctionary. One of the sad hangups among many otherwise intelligent liberals" is that there simply cannot be a Communist - inspired conspiracy against the security of the United States. To hold otherwise . . Afterthoughts with boredom is as essential Teaching a child how to a part of his education as teaching him subjects; for the greatest surge of adolescent discontent in our time comes from a lack of from the inability to master boredom and transform it into cope creativity. It :s not so much what we ARE as how jye USE ourselves that determines the course of our lives; as Goethe observed, By nature we have no defect that could not become a Itrength, no strength that could not become a defect , is to be guilty of McCarthyisn, Joe, not Gene. It is to be a little old lady in tennis shoes. It is to be an overheated patriotic paranoiac. The advantage of this conviction that Red conspiracies are unthinkable is that it gives you the opportunity to explain that all and riot is bombing, burning, caused by the desperation of the young and the deprived. And the young and deprived are desperate because reactionary forces have bucked liberal philosophies and inadequately funded liberal programs. The trouble with this conviction, however, is that it assumes an idiocy on the part of Americas enemies. If the Communists have not taken advantage of dissent in an effort to blow it up into chaos they need their heads examined. JENKIN LLOYD JONES About seven years ago In a publication called New Left Notes, the budding Students for a Democratic Society began laying down the strategy for taking over American universities. The technique was spelled out in detail. Violent confrontations following demands would win either way. If the police or Guardsmen were called, and particularly if there were shooting, this would help radicalize the students. Where .there was no resistance, the Left would win by default. The ultimate aim was to gain for the activists the right to structure courses and pick professors. About the time the first experiments in this direction were taking place at Berkeley there was a meeting of the Press Association in Puerto Rico. Dr. Jaime Benitez, president of the University of Puerto Rico, said he had been reading the news and he expressed amazement that most North American editors regarded the Berkeley affair as an isolated phenomenon. Dr. Benitez asserted that the Communist technique for college takeover gof started at the University of Cordoba in Argentina Inter-America- n . in 1919, that it has been generally successful in South America and often tried in Europe. Revolutionaries at Berkeley, he said, were following the book and he predicted that within six months an effort would be made to seize a major eastern university. Six weeks later Columbia blew up and we have gone on from there. Russia, unable to exceed the military potential of America, can skin the cat another way. It can get Americans to weaken their own armed forces. Thus, while Russia builds its super-nav- y at forced draft and speeds its antiballistic missile system, American student activists shout for (1) the end of the draft, (2) unilateral disarmament, (3) end of college-base- d military research, (4) no ROTC, and (5) no American antimissile system. Thousands of oit idealistic young geese applaud madly. Internal chaos will render a great nation incapable of action in case of an international crisis. Chaos can be most easily produced by hitting the police and paralyzing the court sysiem. So we have the campaign of the Black Panthers, which is no longer merely rhetorical, and the attempted disruption of the courts by acknowledged Marxists. Black militants have no reason to .i Jewish organizations were a the forefront of the civil rights battles. Bi Russian foreign policy, aimed at Arab oi is So the mlitant Negro oi ganizations are cursing Jews. People who still ding to the rii conspiracy theory might ponder the marve ous escape record of radical fugitives. E dridge Cleaver, Rap Brown, survivors of th New York bomb factory, Bemardir Dohrn, the Wisconsin University blasters r all are safely underground or in Commi unist countries. Is this just good luck? Wha fleeing hank robber wouldnt love to hav luck like this? Or is this cool and polishe c. organization? There is no reason for panic. Nor 1 there any reason to brand as traitors a! those persons who, out of idealism, inexpc rience or ignorance, have bought most the radical program. What is necessary to understand, howej er, is that if international communis) eventually hopes to deliver a whammy t the most powerful counterforce in the wort America it will, in good commo sense, use all its conspiratorial technique to further the New Left. To cling to the bi lief that this cannot be so is to iake leav of your breins. |