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Show -- "Si P, S DFSERET NEWS, SALT OTY, UTAH Of WEEKEND JULY 19, 1975 IN t4,11 1) II tb;;; VI I 1 i MOISSNEMAMP,MMI, We 'stand for the Coostitutiot) of the United Stc;tes With Ai fully ! 11,4 :) ealliiMMOIVAW government, each el 1 0-- ' ',dependent An thtee deportn;eilts of. i V.Anl "'Own held h.W!kelt, s : tcf:Thi.7. rt4, 4; IT A.-'.0:1'.0..ill.- V pt 7.Aiec, ,g At one time the Utah Supreme court had a huge backlog of undecided cases, some of them as old as two or three years. But for many years now the Utah court has taken pride in being among the better state supreme courts in the fcounty in terms of keeping current with its work load. - So the six months it has taken Utah's justices to ponder the legality of this states new tax increment law vithout conling to a decision stand in marked contrast to their usual performance, which makes the delay all the Salt Lake City nearly $425,000 in tax increment funds and possibly halt construction of a Bicentennial Arts Center. Wisely. city officials have decided to proceed with a number of public hearings on a proposed redevelopment plan using tax increment financon the assumption the court will ing finally act in time Let's hope that assumption proves , correct. More than 50 cities in California use tax increment laws to finance neighborhood redevelopment projects. without federal assistance. At least 11 other states have tax increment laws that have been upheld in court. Among these states are Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Surely .few other cases before the Utah Supreme Court can be more pressing than this one. The longer it takes to arrive at a decisiön in the tax increment case, the more damage will be done to the court's fine record for handling its workload with dispatch. If other cases must be set aside so this one can be decided more promptly, so be it. Justice can be denied by being unduly delayed. That goes just as much for tax law cases as for any other kind. -- , more puzzling We wouldn't presume to tell the justices what kind of a verdict to render in this case. We're well aware, too, that the more complicated a case is, the longer it takes to decide. Moreover, the justices don't War k in a vacuum and must be well aware themselves of the urgency of a verdict in the tax increment case. The tax increment law, if upheld, would allow increases in property tax revenue resulting from a community's growth to be used to licitudate bonds issued for special improvements. If a:decision on the law isn't handed down by September 15, it could cost AN . , , : 0 P - 471 , me why," cried the eagle, "Please tell me why, great bear, We glory in such things up here, We dare not do down there?" "Tell tatoi2f. - my ,0 .a ... - 'As a symbol of a changed attitude betWeen the two countries, the space link-u- p is cheap at the price." ' U.S.-Sovi- ,t0 et ondon - rr ' Noolit Or 11 Daily Mirror 1.1111,1P, ,g.ofrow' , - ,:;) i , 7.11 No ; I ''tr,4412e-,- ' eft.. - 416:ardfr-.4- - , 4,4111 0 many Mega aliens Despite recession, inflation, and its marl' 'other problems, the United States is still the land of opportunity. That's clear from the way illegal between aliens keep coming here eight and twelve million of them currently, which is 10 times greater than illegal migration to the U.S. was a decade ago Among them are an estimated 5,000 aliens who live and work illegally in Utah and western Wyoming. There are sharp limits to how far the US. can go in cracking down on illegal aliens withoi.t. the effort's impinging on turtling into a witch-hufreedoms. Americans' personal Yet, it's also Clear the U.S. can and should do more to come to grips with this problem, which indirectly affects all of us. , By one estimate, illegal aliens cost the taxpayers between $21 billion and $62 billion a year by illegally obtaining such federtil benefits as food stamps, welfare checks, health care, school ing, and other services. By another estimate, illegal aliens Up U.S. . - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the world's most famous exile, is prominently in the news these days, but I confess there's much about the Russian novelist that puzzles me. There is certainly no ambiguity in his views concerning the hardships and supressions suffered by the Russian people. What is less - Consequently, any money that's spent to give the immigration service the increased manpower it needs to keep up with the influx of illegal aliens should be offset by other savings. The U.S. has always been a haven for the poor and oppressed of other lands and should remain that way. But the influx from abroad needs to be controlled lest, in solving one set of problems, we create other more serious ones. clear is his. personal philosophy. Nor am I able to comprehend exactly what kind of changes he is urging on the Soviet leaders. And I confess I deeply resent his reference to Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill - , rh-V1- -, v WAS Htth wrirt4 fple 1.4Akkme MEtatiike COULD 771 INweRiT lr1 - r 1 11-4- JOE30 - A e LEAsti Otter yOudge 14sICE-91OR- S 4421fR "AORE A 01,14540$10 A TOOK ri-l- a 'JAMS OF THE IN (11.1.0W4lifili0 c ''): Akt r0117 VC g3 01.1.16-M- 1 :: -- - '10 of o 7,? Ron)dueed tvith permis;4ion of Selby Keliy , Soviet Union. detente, to give the United States natural gas from the Soviet supplies. Solzhenitsyn condemns the Soviet leaders for permitting "foreigners to carry off our priceless treasure, Siberian natural gas." Similar non sequiturs and contradictions are apparent in his criticism of the American approach to detente. He says that we give Although parity in strategic arms has been the announced goal of the United States and Russia in their SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) negotiations, the results of SALT 1.1,may turn out to be about as equal as it stew: one horse and one rabbitwith the United States on the short end of the recipe. because, it doesn't demand esough in its dealings with the Soviet Union or the So!- -. zhenitsyn who flays the Soviet leaders for acceding to America's request for the natural gas the Soviet Union has in such great abundance and that the American people need so urgently? horse-and-rabb- ' Indications are that the negotiators are under pressure to come up with an agreement in time for President Ford and Soviet party boss Leonid Brezhnev to sign when the latter visits the United States in early fall. Placing a premium on By speed suggests that a poor I aareement is believed to be Ronald better than no agreement. , This could prove disas- Reagin k trolls for U.S. security in the long run. And it isn't necessary. The speed with which Congess passed the defense bill after its recent recess suggests, instead, that plenty of congressmen found the folks at home won't sit still for a weakened U.S. defense system. Against this background, the U.S. negotiating posture should be a tough one. The worry is that it won't be. , , In 1972, the United States already was at a 4 to I disadvantage on this score. The Soviets have since engaged in an aggressive research and development program involving five new ICBMs and a new submarine missile. If they replace their missiles with the new models and we existhig land-base- d don't deploy a new ICBM to replace our Minuteman, the payload gap will widen to 10 to 1 in the 1980s. The grim signance of this disparity is underscored by former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze in a recent article in "Foreign Policy." He postulates that if the Soviets wish to destroy 1,200 fixed targets (such as our ' missile silos), "blanket 400 squares miles of aircraft escape area, and barrage 100 aim points at sea," they would have enough throw weight available to still keep half in reserve. In other words, first-strik- e capability with plenty left over. Another threat to our military forces and our cities is posed by the Soviets' new supersonic bomber. They don't want this counted In the USSR weapons total. The 1.141.1 negotiators seem willing to go along with this klea,e despite the dangers. There may be a quid pro quo in the works, but virtually nothing is being said publicly. Though the Vladivostok proposal calls for hunting the number of strategic weapons, it doesn't prevent them from being fitted with multiple warheads (MIRVs). This makes it all the more essential that we negotiate an agreement which provides for accurate MIRV verifica- tion and, at the same time, calls for equality of throw weight. Were it not for the American and British pounding The major drawback of the proposed SALT agreegiven the Nazis in France, ment announced by Messrs. Ford and Brezhnev at Italy and North Africa, and Vladivostok last fall is its failure to provide for parity in the unremitting air attacks missile payloads ("throw weight"). on Germany's industrial capability, the Nazi assault on Russia would doubtless not have ground to a halt on the outskirts of Moscow but would have swept throu gh the Urals, with a loss of life unknown in the history of warfare. BY SYDNEY HARRIS perfield," which is not one of treatment. Possibily this is I dragged these weary Dickens's superior novels, because profundity consists Solzhenitsyn used the term made an absolutely stwming in disclosing the inner life of cowardly" in connection bones' to a highly-toute- d with what he regards as "Film Festival" not long ago, movie; "Oliver Twist," a far ' characters, in placing a micone-waconcession by hoping to improve my ap- deeper and true work. had to roscope to the secret springs be musicaliz,ed and trivial- of their motivations whereRoosevelt and Churchill at preciation of the cinematogYalta. He says nothing about raphic art - but leaving, as ized out of recognition ia as film, on the other hand, is the fact, however, that before, with the conviction order to be made palatable as an enormous magnifying-glass- , Roosevelt's main purpose at that film as an art medium a film offering. fit for showing us the Yalta was to get Stalin to does much better with the The great Shakespearean creaters On the moon, so to than with the plays, such as "Hamlet." speak. agree to open a second front second-rat- e against the Axis powers in first-rat"Macbeth,", and "Lear," the Far East. in which purGreatoess in a novel or in a have never been done well on The "scope" that gives film pose Roosevelt was suedoes not transcribe itself the screen. Laurence its exciting panoramic effect play cessfid. Olivier's film version of well onto the screen; perhaps may be the very thing that Next, I was apalled by a great woik of art has to be "Hamlet" was an unmitidefeats the purpose of high Alexander Solzhenitsyn's refwritten for the screen itself, gated disaster; and Orson art. When a luovi,,,) does not erence to the "West's fantasas its primary medium, and Welles's "Macbeth" was try to - do very much, it tic greed for profit and gain, not adapted from book or even worse. (In fact, Welles's succeeds admirably, in best effort was his "Citizen broad, commanding strokes. which goes beyond all reason, 'stage. Kane," an original script, When, however, it triea to or limitations, or consciThe best movies I have which bears mit my point.) ence." capture tho inner feelings of seen have been second-rat- e The more novel a protagonilts, then it falters Was it "fantastic greed for profound as literary works, such or less and fails, tripped by its own the play, successfully profits and gam" that caused "Rebecca" of "Gone With it seems to lend itself te film cumbersome size kind sweep. American people to send the Wind." And "David Cop y tes. Which Soilhenitsyn are we to believethe Solzhenitsyn who t2iintlt the United Statpq . 4:00.4..b.06 - too much and don't get enough. Yet his open letter denounces the Soviet la.AArs for having agreed, in the first big trade hegotiations under tion that the United States waG shown no gratitude has any relevance to, or is a substantiation of, his contention that we are fantastically greedy and lacking in ':$:.'.00..es:-:tb.ro.,-,..wo:ig.4t.,:po.- e, ( 4' as "cowardly." It is doubtful whether the past century has produced two political leaders who demoastrated greater courage, resourcefulness, and persistence in the face of brutal and overwhelming danger than Roosevelt and Churchill. Indeed, were it not for these- - two men there would probably be no Free World today from which Solzhenitsyn could make his pronouncements about the social injustices inside the - MY Norman., ottsins , OP - B They are, in fact, holding down an estithated seven to eight:million time and part-tim- e jobs. That figure is just about equal to the number of unemployed in the U.S. - to a food-reli, expedition Russia at the end of World War 1an expedition that may have saved 5 million or more lives? Later, in the same statement, Solzhenitsyn himself acknowledges the fact of the U.S. relief expedition to Russia but then says that the United States received no gratitude for its generosity. It is difficult to see how Solzhenitsyn's asser ef , ' a lot more spirited and entertaining than the doings in many a real-lif- e , Farewell, Howland, Owl. Goodbye, We'll Albert. and community. Church y La Femme More enlightening. too. Pogo as and you, too, Pogo. miss you all of the first cartoon strips to mix one , This weekend Pogo possum and all entertainment with pointed his pals are going out of the pages of simple social comment. Some newspapers daily newspapers across the country ran Pogo on their editorial pages. , and into the pages of history. Selby Kelly is the widow of Walt : Long a favorite of Deieret News Kelly, who created Pogo in 1943 and readers, Pogo is being retired by the lived to see his creation appear in up artist who draws the strip because of to nearly 500 newspapers. After Kelly the way newspapering has changed died in 1973, his widow and son Steve :recently. , continued to produce the strip. And now Pogo, like his creator, is ; crunch economic of the Because gone. But he will be remembered. and newsprint shortage, many newPogo will be remembered particularly s: papers have compressed the size of for reacting to a littered, polluted their comic pages. And, as artist Selby with this line: "We have met the forest to :Kelly tells it "When you have of the drawings, enemy and they is us." He will be reduce the size his gentle :remove the detail, and compress the 'remembered, too, for and befuddlement. naive charm a have !lettering, you can't possibly ' 4 Yet, with Pogo gone, who will Pogo cartoon." us that next month Friday the remind What a shame. The daily duidgs in ; on a Wednesday? 13th falls ;;Pogo's Okefenokee Swamp were sure owe believe low-payi- Phineas T. Bridgeport. ,,.moommeninnonemie 4.ftiqrdM,,WM'5,MIMNIMP.P1Pvf,.kT', b0:..h,501..::h0h.lt,,i0:):,;:.:....:to' There goes Pogo 1 ' ' are sending PO billion in earnings to other countries each year and dodging at least $100 million in income taxes. Moreover, it's no longer true that illegal aliens take only jobs that no American citizen or legal immigrant will accept. The Immigra-- , tion and Naturalization Service reports that illegal aliens hold a great many highly paid jobs throughout the nt So long, goCT V1100"'"1112wymmvr. a - bad m 1 J Each art form has its owli peculiar limitations , which 1 may be organic; nor are they easily interchangeable. The novels of Henry James donut make good plays, for what is lost is the "interior movemcnt" within the author's mind. When James himself wrote for the - theater, bis productions down after tr,ances as "unreal," were hootech a few perine4 ' stilted and: - I t Perhaps, indeed, one of the measures at the greatness nil a nova! or a play is its n refractory. resistance to being changed into another medium it may be like r turning poetry into stxose: if t could have been said pro44,t, cally, it would not have written as poetry to vith. tLi |