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Show DESERO NEWS SAIT LAKE CITY UTAH Wg stood for the Constitution rf SATURDAY thg United States MAY .ih -- AS 4 1974 its three depe-ne- n s of government, each fully independent in its own held Health merger's success argues for consolidation ier What goes r h"ah services mould for other many go city counts activities mce they are consohdded 1 hat s because less duplication of effort means less waste, less toom fur buck passing, more loordmabon and cooperation among various agencies, and more services for the dollar By just about arw hiomLini the met tot the LJt I axe and County Oy health departments has bean an Outstanding VjCCiTS So successful, in iaet, has the heJh merger been that it ought to give impetus a Vm nti v v.livttt VW VU.IJVliuUU. Utw tVhlV nf wmch is ulycuunty government being brought to a vote next March - -l y Moreover, the proposed charter provides for the separation of leg lslative and executive powers at the local level as has long been doae at the state and national ivi K of government As it is now, county commissioners mix both functions by trying to be administrators s as well even though the two tasks dan t always clend well city-count- report inr-- wpok showed that in nearly five yars health sen ices have more than doubted Without an increase in taxes The merger eliminated competition be-- t eeo - two departments for health personnel. who are m .Hrt supply " f fiEREW&ALL 1HE "S, miExaEnvE0MirrE WAMBLE HR. PRESIDENT... YoUgE A Ml NEEPfORm real CfiApTPjZATlOM PEUETFp INQUIRY.. """ 1 ummj&m V. LATTER .- -J polity-maker- By operating out of one central admin istrative building instead of two and by getting more efficient use from the equipment of the two agencies, the merger eliminated overlapping jobs As a result, e five percent fewer workers are handling twice the services. full-tim- Since political boundaries no longer determine the quaUy oi public health pro grams in the valley, the merger facilitated the standardization, coordination, and strengthening of health services Now the transcripts "President Nixon is gambling that his massive disclosure of Watergate material will gain him Before the health departments were merged, there were plenty of misgivings about the move In fact, the citv and county dragged their feet for 12 years before the two departments gave up their seprrate operations and joined hands decisive points in impeachment's most important battleground r Cut row Citizens would w, if any leallv want to break tip the health merger So its easy to believe that if the rest of Salt Luke City and County government were also merged, hardly anyone would subsequently want to tarn back the clock t pwvMb vjk icwf tf The Wall Street Journal What now for halfway house? While its regrettable that the Salt ako County Commission has turned down a psychiatric halfway house m Taylorsville, that issue is now water under the bridge The challenge now is to End another fuuLty or another location that can do the job, and to avoid some of the mistakes which resulted in strong opposition from some Taylorsville residents That job will not be easy. For one thing, the Murray - Jordan - Tooele Mental Hygiene Centro officials examined more than 120 bouses before finding a suitable facility m Taylorsville The stricture of federal and local guidelines was one of the larger stumbling blocks m the long search for the right facility, and will hamper future seal ches as well 1 ror another, citizens must r,e actively involved and '."formed at every stage if they are to support such projects And finally, there is some question whether quiet residential areas arc the onreet place for institutional facilities of vh dever sort But the other side ot the com must be recognized That is, mental health disorders cannot be effectively treated by removing them from civilization In fact, good mental health is a mark of a persons ability to function m society. In this enlightened age, breakdowns in mental health should be treated with the same calmness as we now treat physical ailments If the mental hygiene program is to rebound from its setback m Taylorsville, the search for a new facility must proceed vviin dispaicn ai--- o Mayor Alioto's hasty judgment When seven black men were arrested earlier this week as suspects m San Franciscos Zebra killings. Mayor Joseph Alioto declared that police investigators the ringleaders who were certain of terror in Sap wave perpetrated the behird bars Francisco a- -e yet four of the seven have toon leased f"r lack of evidence That certainly fumbling the ball a lawyer, should who is Alioto, Mayor know better than to jump to such blanket re- i- -. conclusions The incident is. m fact, reminiscent of Attorney General Saxbes foot-statement the other m branding Patricia Hearst a day common criminal after a San Francisco oank holdup h Ahcto, like Saxbe, should know better it. than to prejudice a case by not be should exempt Certainly mayois from the canons of judicial ethics which rpquu e protection of the right to a fair trial g Too many chiefs in the Pentagon An editorial from dip Cleveland Press The Amencan tendency to make every one an executive is reflected in the contathe gious grade creep" now afflicting armed forces. Assistant Detense Soirotuiy William Biehm says the taxpayeis would save $000 million this year tf only Use serve es to their 1064 (pre ietnam) i nut.! return il 1QUA JU UWlUiW Another $400 million is beait, fritlerid away on overrated and overpaid civilians mdlion-rna- n in the Defense Department s work force Wbdts happened, of course, is that now there are more of liters and fewer enlisted men, more colonels and fewer heutenart more master sergeants and fewn privates than U yeais ago The hope 's that Erehm and his helpers will be able to trim off some of this fat, especially at the headquarters level, officers stumble ovei where each other in an ffort to look busy high-rankin- g An inflated command corps is intolernot only because it costs too able much, but because an army that has to fight its way through a bowl of administrative spaghetti may have trouble winning a w'ar A report: Jews income than any other minority group in the Soviet Union In the last year or two, however, Jews have been experiencing more economic and social difficulties than they had previously known. These problems are largely connected to Israel and the general emigration situation. of the Any understanding controversy over emigration from the Soviet Union to Israel must Icgm with the fact that Soviet laws hare always prohibited emigration. An exception was made for Soviet Jews several years ago on the grounds that Israel was an ethnic homeland Many Russian citizens have regarded this exception as preferential treatment for Jews and have manifested their resentment m various ways Even more significant is the fact that heads of average By Norman Cousins MOSCOW Exactly what is the situation of Jews today in the soviet Unon9 Begin with history has a history of a thousand years in this part of the world Even though the Soviet constitution outlaws div crimination against minority groups prejudice against Jews, most of it on the level of everyday relationships, has not been eradicated This prejudice, howeer, has not prevented Jews from making the most of the educational opportunities available to them As a result, many of them have earned important positions in science, education, In industry and government proportion to their total numbers, Jews have been able to achieve better jobs and higher in ty departments or science laboratories or bureaus have government ceased hiring Jews for impor in the Soviet Union tant positions, giving as their excuse the fact that they think it wise to fill the openings with qualified personnel who are not apt to create costly turnover problems This situation has produced something of a chain reaction Some Jews who had had no intention of leaving the coun- try are now applying for exit visas because of the present difficulty in lindmg new jobs.. But the greater the exodus, the economic the greater pressure on those who stay bemnd. At the time the Soviet laws were changed in order to permit Jews to emigrate to Isratl, government officials thought it only fair that Jews should be required to pay a departure tax covering the free education given them since Soviet society would no longer receive any benefit from its investment m that education. The fact of the tax produced widespread protests in the outside world, especially in the United States, with which the USSR was seeking improved relations. reConsequently, the tax was scinded The removal of the departure tax has not solved all emigration problems, however The process of applying for a visa is still cumbersome and ifi many vases unpleasant clerk-- , Soviet and Many functionaries who interview the applicants regard emigration as proof that a citizen is lacking m patriotism, and they tend to be officious and uncoEven so, some operative. 60,0u0 Jews have left for Israel in the past year. How many more Jews would like to leave the Soviet Union9 There has a been a considerable reduction m the number of applicants in recent months, largely the lesult of the unseuied conditions in Israel produced by the war. Another factor is that letters are being received from Jews in Israel emphasizing the difficulties of making the adjustment to a new country. Jewish leaders m iuv Soviet Union now tsUniate that not more than 75,099 to 100,000 instead of the hundreds of thousands involved in earlier estimates would still like to emigrate to Israel One of the interesting side aspects to the situation is that there has been something of a black market in permits to s emigrate. Hundreds of have falsified records of them or have ancestry, claimed marriage to Jewish partners, or have tried to pay money under th table for exit permits According to available accounts, only a comparative few have been able to get through the net non-Jew- In general, the problem of Jews m the Soviet Union u enormously complicated and will be severely affected, for beitr or worse, by the kind of settlement that is reached in the Middle Ea- -t Hearst agony result of confusion over prisoner handling By K. Stanton Evans North Amencan Newspaper A hance The more we learn about the patnetic sugd of Patricia Hearst, the more we are confronted with a morality pL aoout Amencan decadence Consider the elements in vnived First we have the cote-nof youthful Americans, mostly female, and make up the Symbionese Liberation Army e (SLA), d kidnappers of Miss Hearst Mr. Evans On what has been published to date, most of toeae young people are mired up radicals who have span cut into tr.e further reaches of prticai extrea rartag of n r'OU mism Marxists. gay hberatiorusts and middle-clas- s Exammmg the statements attributed to the SLA we encounincluding statements by Miss Hearst herself ter the familiar litany of half baked revolutionary Marxism dbeut the e'ils of capitalist exploders nvone who has been within shouting distance of a major college campus m recent years has heard it all before much of it iearned at tne feet of instructors whose salaries aie paid by the exploiters in question. I well recall the occasions in the later 1960s when I stood m college assembly halls and heard leftward professors intone their charges of Amencan impenabsm and colonialism, to the thundenng approval of their student listeners In many particulars, things are better on campus nowadays, but we delude ourselves if we suppose the effects of ail this revolutionary doctnne are over and done with The jargon of tne SLA informs us otherwise have the alleged leader of the group, one Denali Dp Freeze He is also a product of our peculiar Then w times and cultural attitudes, though of a background sharply different from his followers. According to the published data, De Freeze has been m and out of trouble with the law for the past 14 years and on repeated occasions has been the recipient of leniency from our criminal justice system His record is full of probations, dropped charges and paroles Among other things, the De Freeze dossier includes chaiges of desertion, auto theft, burglary, attempting to cash a stolen check, finng at a bank pard and carrying a concealed weapon Various of these charges were annulled, others issued in suspended sentences, still others in an early parole. He escaped his last brush with the authorities by siminstallation in ply walking away frem a minimum-securit- y tne California prison system a story which cold easily be duplicated elsewhere from the bulging flies oi liberal penology As if aU this werent bad enough, it appears the prison authorities actually provid-- d the forum in whnh the cam-pr- e rascal type., ami criminal could get together to create the SLA According to Time Magazine, inmates at the California medical facility at Yacaville formed a culwhich was permitted to meet with tural association middle-clas- s activists interested m penal reform. At these gatherings, says Time, several members of the band that kidnapped Patty Hearst get together fur the first tone " Finally, we have the response to all tins of the establishment, embodied m this case by Patricia's father, publisher Randolph Hearst It is easy to sympathize with the terrible dilemnid confronted by Mr. Hearst, but also easy to see, as he himself has since observed, the futility of trying to deal with revolutionaries by giving to them. The establishment tried it for years on campus and it hardly ever w orked The SLA Lkes to present Us felonious activity as a form of judgment on our society In a sense, it is exactly that For almost ail the factors involved m the agony at the Hearsts are products of our terrible confusion about toe proper handling of er.mgiaK and revolutionaries a |