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Show DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, A MAY 7, 1976 5 We stand for tfie Constitution of the United States with its three departments of government each fuily independent in its own field. Utah should get tough with 'problem7 drivers Of ,h X4(),0d0 licensed drivers in problem poor driving records I tah, 209f can be considered drivers because of or other difficulties. Many of these problem drivers can and do learn how to operate their vechichs more safely by being required to take defensive driving courses. But some traffic offenses are so serious and some drivers are so repeatedly reckless that their licenses simply must be revoked or suspended tor their own safety as well as that of other motorists. Vet siimc motorists manage to keep licenses they ought to lose because the courts have watered down the law requiring sobriety tests for Utahns suspected of drunken driving, and because of misapplication of provisions for leniency for first offenders. Moreover, even when orders are issued requiring drivers to surrender their revoked or suspended licenses, those directives often are never carried out. The dimensions of this problem were outlined this week by Dr. Lennis M. Knighton, auditor general, in a report to be submitted to the Utah Legislature. Of a sample of 200 drivers placed on suspension in late 1973 and 1974, the auditor general found that 73. .Vi of them never actually surrendered their license as required by law. This despite the fact that when such problem drivers do surrender their licenses, the highways become demonlegislative strably safer. Among the many reasons for the present dangerous state of affairs, three stand out First, there is some disagreement among judges whether or not the Pew requires them to notify drivers of license revocations at the time of conviction. Second, the State Driver License Division is required to begin the revocation period before the driver can be notified of his license revocation. In fact, susof the over lawbefore can expire pension period men are told to pick up a suspended license. Third, even after such a pickup order is given, the directive often is not carried out promptly because lawmen have a backlog of other important work. To correct these problems, the auditor general makes some sensible suggestions: Specify the date of conviction to be the date of revocation. Require judges to notify the driver of his license revocation while at the same time requiring the surrender of the license. Allow the Driver License Division to extend the suspension period by the amount of time it takes the driver to surrender his license after revocation. Undertake study to find greater incentive for drivers to surrender their licenses upon suspension. Fveryone who uses Utah's highways has a right to expect strong licensing and traffic laws backed by conscientious courts and energetic law enforcement. What we have now is confusion, laxity, and disrespect. : one-thir- d three-mont- h Don't speak too softly at U.N. William W. Scranton, in his second month as U.S. ambassador to the United .Nations, is trying to change what he calls the "bad guy image of the United States. He emphasized the other day that be is "not interested in establishing turmoil or jiersonul antagonisms. He said that while there will be no "lessening in our firmness alxnit our positions" and we intend to be very candid and straightforward in making those known, he wants to avoid rhetoric that will create unnecessary altercations. Scrantons predecessor, Daniel 1. Moynihan. was noted lor strong rhetoric perhaps too strong on occasion. And he did stir antagonisms. But when be talked, the U.N. listened. llis flamboyant style and acid tongue may have irritated some, but when he had finished talking there never was any doubt where the U.S. stood. Being shrill isn't Scranton's nature, and that's to his credit. As governor of Pennsylvania, he demonstrated an impressive ability to get things done by dealing calmly with facts and avoiding emotional overstatement. But toning down U.S. rhetoric at the U.N. should not mean tuning it out to the point of blandness. The U.S. should not go along just to get along. For too many years this country has been the favorite whipping boy of U.N. delegates. Moynihan refused to take it lying down, lie invariably gave as good and he kept as ho got usually better America's ad ersaries oil their toes. That is the way it ought to be. Killed in line of duty Should survivors of a public safety officer killed by a criminal act be eligible for a federal payment to help cushion the financial effect of his death .' Senate Judiciary Committee thinks so. This week the committee approved a bill providing for a $50,000 ledoral payment to such survivors. Thi- - The impulse behind such generosity is easily understood. It rests on the basis that a person who gives his life in the line of duty is entitled to some financial protection for his family. But the1 Judiciary Committee's ap proach is faulty on at least two counts: First, the federal government should take over what should be municipal and state obligations toward policemen and firemen. Second, why limit the compensation just to deaths due to criminal actions? Should the family of an officer killed in a car wreck be any less eligible for survivor benelits? What about a fireman killed by a collapsing wall? Their families are just as much in need. The possibilities lor extending the list and draining the taxpayers are by no means insubstantial. Fortunately. a wiser House ol Representatives has seen through such pitfalls before and turned down this proposal. It should do so again. not Try this little quiz horse nonsense r Dr. Herbert Stein This is !hc season when college students all over the country are taking their final examinations. The examir.a tion questions, of course, are made up by the prolessors, not by the students. Presidential candidates, on tiie other hand, are going around the country answer ing questions that they made u p themselves. For example, one asks himself. "Assuming you have a choice between percent unemployment with (i percent inflation and percent unemployment with 3 percent inflation, which do you choose?" Then he forthrightly answers. "I choose the lower unemploy mem Hi: the lower inflation. " However, president', a' distinguished Irom candidates. do not have the luxury of making up their own questions. It might lie interesting to see how some candidates would respond to the real questions they might face. So submit the follow ing presidential examination in eco nomics: I. Suppose that, by spend ing more money or cutting taxes, you could get the unemployment rate down Irom 7.5 percent today to 5 percent in 197X. but with a ubstantiul risk that by IPs? the result would he S5 percent unemployment with 7.5 percent intlation Would you choose to do that? !ln you think di.tl h.A jug a stand by authority to in Iose price and vv,:ge control' vv 1 would reduce the likelihood of having to put those controls into eltect. by frightening businesses and unions into moderate behavior' Or do you think it would make the imposition of controls more likely, by pii'hing businesses and unions to ra'sc prii is and wages hefon the eoiurois go into effect and by increasing political pressure to e eon Irois whenever an unpopular price oi wage increase oc- bad vv av hei aU'c it burden' the poor1 'i o you think prelercntiul lax treatment ol oil and gas curs' the Hartford Couranl The horse desenes a better fate than is in store for it. We refer not to the glue factory, the pel food, hide or gelatin industries but to the Great American Horse Race planned for Memorial Day. It is an event whose idiocy is surpassed only by its inhumanity. The sponsors will disagree and the horse will have no say. But the idea of forcing some 500 such animals to cover as many as they can of the 3,500 miles between Saratoga Springs, New York, and Sacramento, California, is revolting. This is an endurance test and it':--; expected that only 75 or so of the animals will reach their West Coast destination about. 100 days after the race starts. The first prize is $25,000 which seems to be good enough for riders if not for the horses and two mules so far entered. The race has certain rules. Veterinarians will provide services as well they might. Humane societies reportedt 4 have condoned the event, although none has been identified, and all that remains now is for some 250 businessmen, cowboys, secretaries, clerks, teachers, housewives, nurse's and stuwhose physical ages range from dents IS to (i!t to mount up on Memorial Day and start the first leg of the ordeal. Our protest might help save some 250 riders a $500 entry fee, a backside as calloused as their sensitivities, and let 5M or so horses and two mules end their days in some sunny pasture and not in Lima, Ohio; St. Joseph, Missouri. Cheyenne, Wyoming or however farther west they manage to get. The promoters, both great sports, are Bert Sugar of Chappaqua, New York, and Charles R. Waggoner of Kankakee. Illinois. Mr. Sugar is an advertising executive and Mr. Waggoner a former electronics salesman. ly cross-countr- y Perhaps they'd switch to putting saddles on the businessmen, cowboy s, secretaries, et al., and letting them sally forth tyr themselves to Sacramento. produition, like percentage depletion, is a better wav than higher prices to encour age oi! and gas production, because It puts the burden oil ot ii r tnxp; y el's ratli. r than oi: eoiisumei s' )o Tiie import of cheap clothing from Bong Kong. Singapore, etc. helps the Vmeriean consumer but hurts the American elo-- i It ins; industry. Should such imports be curtailed? There a'e no rigid and s w rung answers to these The answers depend in part on economic facts and relationships that are uncer tain, ('veil to experts They also depend mt values, on what is considered more important and what is eoiisi derod less important, and that is something about which people ddler. We cannot give such all examination to presidential candidates and choose tile one who gets the best score But we might get two tilings out of hearing our candidates (ilseu-'- s suill questions serie think the presently employed people should pay taxes to hire all the presently unemployed people in public jobs at prevailing w age rate ;? I In order to avoid exceed mg an appropriate federal budget deficit (whatever that may bo. which would you choose: mi to freeze defense 'Pending in real terms, (b to freeze nondeiense spending per capita in real terms, or (c) io raise taxes. 5. Woo'd you favor federal piovi'ion oi a minimum below which no individual or lamily should be allowed to tali, regardless of the reasons for its poverty o. Would you favor abolishing food stamps, housing subsidies. health subsidies and education subsidies, and providing cash assistance to the poor, strictly based on their income, instead? 7. Should the rise of Social Security buiefits be slowed down, to keep the total cost' within the limits ot the revenue collected Irom the Social Security payroll, or should money from general taxation lie dive) ted to pa' lllg lor Social 'security s Do you think allowing the prices ol oi! and gas io n-- e reel v I' a good wav to i iicogruee more production and ( ol.'crv alien, or Is it a Do you 5 I qw-lion- ously First, we would learn hetlier they are aw are ol the dill it'll it y o the policy quo-lions a president laces. See end. we would learn wind Ihoir standards of values are. not that they vv an! the best of vv ' every tiling but what they ( boose and vv bat tin e, e up w lien tin y can't have tic bes( ol e cry tiling y llo. .ever, we ol'e lie! Ida Iv to see candidates taking, ,u: i xaimii.i! ion like ilils. ''h re ' a say mg that to gov el'll - to t house. It eon!. aDo be said that lo c .impale! 1' In try io avoid m.ikun. aUv t lion e. le ,v oil'll l new ruiei's iial has Rhodesia done ill ihese past yar- - to earn i: l. our "unrelenting opposi It lias kept the boil pc.u.e ll lias exported iio terrorists ' 1 vv We must assume that ll'es uleut Ford approved the speech in adv alice. ny other assumption would leave him a mere dummy on Kissing er's lap. This was a mnor policy statement For good oi ill. die responsibility lor it lest' squarely on Gerald Ford. Ford do it To put the best possible hue oil this ugly business, let us suppose that his purpose was to deter iurtlier Soviet adventurism m Alrica. Bv denouncing the Smith, regime in Rhodesia, and hv dcelanng our "unrelenting opposition to it . the administration nia have hoped to curry lav or vv it h some ol Rhodesia's neighbors Very well. The Ford ad ministration will have purcli -l , ; no idea " be "Does the editor know you work for the CIA uit'c tilt 'ide'.'" "I'm not sure. The other day he called me in and! . ..v e me ,t lountain pen that squirted LSD. He said ln y n .midi nit' to inu-rlew the man in the street vv it Ii it." W hat did lie vv ant the man in the street to say V" Ik' 'aid ll didn't matter. He was more interested ' tiow the pell worked." . ; on did it. ol "i 'ei'tainly course." It was either that or take i oiiitie pi !!s? my cyanide Adicuiry y ,,j 'Doesn't every reporter? Suppose you were! et eniig a tire ami you were 'topped by a fircy, mu'sha! and lie asked you what you were doing there, x 5 in, 4 either tel! him or lake the pill." "Doe-n- 't it get embusing to work lor two I position Iran they would ob-cn- e a aetag, bobtail assemblage military dictators, pet tv tie spots and one party ridel's Kissinger w as tenderly sni irltolls towaid Mozambique. l "I '! Irom i; taxpayers Mozambique are Marxist hi foils! meneai! id's G lx. gang oi a led - ot hel M s million on , The new hey by h.tv t aled pnv ale properly llpchili ti el ll law made children the wards of llieir proto Communist 'tale, and hlitei ated every vestige ol oil b s( t dt t i' h e id Oi'iitlit s f c ret a . 1 N . i'.Xpinivr blow would any lie know "l oin ol die live editors on the ury worked hw the Cl and they le. iired they ml hi .m well give Iln prize to one ol llit'li' "" ii ' V chose !' v h well, eeduigiv i asked. "No. aetuallv it works to your advantage. I go a b ie last year lor this tory 'uiiti-He showed it to me and I started reading. ".,w m !', tune lor al! got id men to come to the aid ol Ihcir in tv, is liu- tune :or all good men ei Mini "5 mi . oi a l'uuier Prize ior this'.'" s.ud I: it's ,i lover 'lory mi the GX'Iiut lii nnhia lor the deliv erance ol his pietie-- . oil moral principle .ml human dignity Iresideiit Kenneth K.tunda was at his 'ide, alld there was a splendid n tmy in Hits. memory erves and memory sines w DOUG SflEYD as Mr hsiiiida w no lour veal s ago evidenced lie- dedication to liiese principles by tailing bis ipptts U ion Zambia l' a !o c!y mode!. nut- are cry sciccm c. it m ev iiient. in our "unrelenting " opposition Would the lre-- i dent and his secretary ex amine a map ol li:ca" Would they name those i,a boils t huruclcncd b ma oi itv rule, (ivil liberties and universal siibrage' They vv ill mil very lew (hi the eon e 'ousters'' Mozambique t l li.ki nit .s, allot a has preserved Western traditions o law. It has proy hied lor tls ov.ll people, both black and while, the highest standards til etiiiea bolt, health care and genera: will being in liu- whole ot Ml lea. nd it h..s dene tin despite the terrible halitia .q ot he f lilt eti Nations' economic sanctions But w hat else has Rhodesia done' It has tailed to prov ide "M VJOIUTY RT1.K. " !: has denied its six million hl.it k' "sell determination " ll has not prov ided such eiv ll liber lies as universal .ultra: e For these eilellses. wc a.e urged o believe. Rhodes a met it s our "unrelenting op W Why did . I used that tavor ,u .al awesome price b-- . W ASHINGTON The i. hui'ch Report on thejt'IA revealed that many newspapermen were on the CIA payrolls and some of them still are. The report j rotusod to name names so one has only his own to go on as to who is still a journalist as welt as a part-timagent. The other day I was in the city room of a large ' metropolitan newspaper. 1 glanced over Hie shoulder ol a Iriend who was typing. "The quick brown fox junipid oxer the lazy dog. the quick brown lox lumped over the loz.y dog. the quick brown fox , lumped over the lazy dog." "Thais a pretty good lead tor a stoiy." commented "Where do you go Irom there?" He immediately covered it up with Ills arm. "You weren't supposed to see that." lie said angrily I blink it s a "Why nol great story. I havtuH,' heard o a quick brown lox jumping over a lazy dog iny v .', cal's " IPs nut really a story about a quick brown fox. le. Uigot a fp Irom Vice President Rockefeller's ofticel? that there are loo Communists working in Sen !;! F.vcrett Dirkseii s olfiee." p V "Dirk'cn's dead " i. "its. that's what makes the story interesting a W hv would tiie Commies have fiMj agents working luri a dead senator?" "But how would tiie reader know the story about the quick brown fox has to do with the Rockefeller,-leaabout the Commies? " I'he copy boy decodes it." "5 on mean he works for 'the company ' too?" "Sure, it lie didn't and 1 handed in this lead he'd' t!i row me out the window. But for heaven's sakes. don't let on that you know because tiie news editor' would get in terrible trouble with the managing'' editor, who in turn would catch it irom the editor.- -' t ' "Don't tell me they all work tor the CIA?" It's hard to say. My only contact is with the copy ; boy w Iio picks up a pace Irom the lloor as I crumple it! up and throw it away Where it goes Irom there I have'1! v W Henry Kissinger deliv cred Ins Pi point statement on Rhode'in ill usaka on Vpnl v lexi became available the follow liig day. am net a man ho y lelds easily lo the angel that passes into rage, bill that contemptible stale ment did it. Shame' I wouid cry shame. Press and CIA j Selling out Rhodesia i An editorial from Q on your candidate ll This is ART BUCHUUALD - s it la ! file 'res ide! it thus coin tiie Vmeriean people to overthrow ol .i small, nab pro W t 'lern go ei n nielli w hose only real oltense that it I' not black, hut w lllln iln w Mild prcler In see the b it power tr.m-lcrrci- I" an un ! (letted libtlon let roi i st s w ot gueirilla ho have imposed unspeakable atrocities on ill Uot'rbl blacks Vtilo want i'll lo their primitive n es t peace The ill le.ir and I' oil" on imilli t akabie p Rhodesia ll men's our in ire lellluig st ' i "You give me the inside dirt on Nixon and I'll blow your mind with talcs about Idi Amin!" Ol ll 't |