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Show Uncle Sugar DESERET NEWS onnis? etiriso SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Campus Purse Strings We Stand For the Constitution Of The Unied Stages As Having Been Divinely Inspired 1 18 A EDITORIAL PAGE LEGISLATIVE THURSDAY, ISSUES-1- JANUARY WASHINGTON The fiery campus radicals have sparked the country into a blazing rage. Educational appropriations are being cu by the voters even before the legislatures meet by simply refusing to ratify educationally based issues. In Washington state, expansion budgets for the teuly great state university were held up. In California, an expansion of the medical school in the face of a shortage of doctors was defeated. In Maine, even sustaining the vocational schools was questioned. Searching inquiries into the whole educational system, from methods to goals, have been started from sources ranging from foundations to business magazines. Unquestionably, the time is long overdue for a review, reexamination and a reorganization or higher education particularly; but a blind public rage is scarce y conduct the atmosphere In which f major operations. Part of the tury appears due to the disillusionment of the American people. Higher education for all was part of the American dream, and the dream was of the exalted kind. For the past 50 years, America has had a deep love affair with its colleges. But now, it feels that the students are faithless. The poignancy of the disappointment of the people of California was ret forth by Chancellor Ivan Hindraker of the University of California, Riverside, to his faculty. Chancellor Hinderaker said: I do not believe that the people of California have abandoned their commitment to higher education. But I think many voters and many members of the Legislature feel that we have. Why,' asks the public, do students howl down speakers, disrupt clasres and try tc use the institution for their own po 7, 1971 0 Bring Utah Vote Lav into The Electronic Era The new Salt Lake County Commission did the right thing Wednesday by rescinding a decision to seek bids on voting machines before the Legislature can make a much needed change in the law. If the decision by the old commission had been stand, the county would have had no choice except to obtain mechanical voting machines when speedier and less lame-duc- k . allowed to cumbersome electronic voting equipment is available. Now the Legislature can do the right thing by changing the law to permit counties to obtain either mechanical or electronic voting machines, not just the mechanical type as state statute now requires. '' Granted that either type of machine would be better than d and the paper ballot now used. The machines permit faster and more accurate vote counts, provide surer guarantee against fraud, result in fewer spoiled ballots and fewer election recounts, require fewer election personnel, and permit reduced ballot printing costs. hand-counte- But the mechanical voting machines are large,, than the electronic machines, take more storage space, are too heavy and bulky to be used in most homes where balloting now often takes place, and are more expensive to transport to polling places when not left at permanent locations, such as schools. .,iThe electronic units, by contrast, are smaler, could be purchased for not too much more than it would cost just to lease the mechanical voting machines for only a year, and could be linked to a central computer which would speed the vote counting even more. No wonder that the Utah Election Law Revision Commission, the Salt Lake County Voting Machine Advisory Committee, and the Utah Association of County Clerks have agreed that the law restricting Utah counties to just the mechanical voting machines should be changed. The present, law was put on the books long before electronic voting units were developed. It should be changed to give the counties greater flexibility in adopting the voting machine system that best suits their individual needs. ' t, Drugs In The Military Hunting for marijuana 'in search and destroy missions in Vietnam, as ordered by the U.S. Command this week, is only one indication of how serious the pernicious drug habit has become in the military, even among troops in the field. The U.S. command estimates that more than 65,000 GIs were guilty of drug abuse in Vietnam last year. The problem has become so acute, in fact, that one witness, Dr. Robert Baird, told Congress last summer: Unless we take decisive 6teps, we are going to have a problem in five years from now we are not going to be able to contend with. In Vietnam alone, the Army says there were 25 confirmed drug deaths among Americans in the first 10V2 months of 1970. Drugs were suspected in another 64 fatalities, and more than 700 hospital cases were attributed to drug usage. .. .The Navy, which has taken the hardest line on drug usage among servicemen, discharged 3,808 men in 1969 alone for drug abuse. The final figure for 1970 is expected to reach as high as 4,500. The discharges, while understandable, wont cure the problem but only pass it along to civilian society. Such widespread use of drugs is prompting the services to new efforts on drug treatment. The Army only this week opened a drug treatment center at Fort Ord, California. Servicemen who turned themselves in for treatment were promised amnesty. Emphasis is being placed on rehabilitation and not punishment. education of course, follows a trend visible in civilian life. That, Both the federal and many state governments have reduced penalties for first offenders and are emphasizing rehabilitation. As Admiral Mack has noted, "Military drug problems stem from societys drug problems. And obviously the program that works best in civilian life should also help the military to cure its drug ills. . , For Safe Snowmobiling Recent rescues of Utah snowmobilers in close brushes with disaster emphasize once again the need for adequate precautions and some type of supervision of the sport. One man was rescued from the high Uintas through the efiorts of Wasatch County law officers. A Kearns mother and five children also were rescued from a remote cabin by Summit County officers. Sir.cc snowmobiles often operate in remote areas, the hazards of breakdown and being forced to walk out are correspondingly increased. Some precautions for safer snovvmobil-ir- g are these: Carry an extra drive belt, spark plugs and other spare parts subject to frequent breakdown, along with adequate tools to install them. Its a good idea, too, to have headlights in working order. Carry emergency rations, several flares, matches, and an extra container of fuel. Never operate snowmobiles in remote areas singly, but always at least in pairs. Dress warmly, even if the sun is shining and the weather relatively warm. You never know when you might be stuck outdoors overnight. Make adequate provision for doubling up on machines should one break down. In other words, dont travel with every machine loaded to capacity. Know your terrain and snow conditions. Loose, deep ' snow can bog down a machine, but after it settles and crusts over its much easier going. Many of these suggestions could be enforced if the proposed Recreation Vehicle Act is passed by the 1971 Legislature. But it shouldnt take a law to point out tha need for , such , precautions. litical purposes? Dont students care about academic freedom? Dont they care about the university? Chancellor Hinderaker said it would do little good to dismiss such questions as stupid or irrelevant. Instead, we must squarely face the very real problem of how we, inside the university, can regain the confidence of those Gn the outside upon whom we are dependent for our support, even for the very survival of our campus, the chancellor said. Almost unanimously, Californians took greatest pride in their state universities, and never was pride more justiied. It affords a measure of the public disillusionment, therefore, that from begrudging the state university nothing Californians now refuse to vote the money for even a badly needed expansion of the excellent medical school. As has been obvious for some time, to everyone but the junior faculty leaders of the student disorders, the fundamental question will not be decided by the courts on the civil rights of a student, but by the appropriations committees of the various legislatures and the Congress. The ridiculous claims of campus immunity from the laws governing everyone else, even to entrance of police to quell disorder, the drugs in the dorms and the outrigl arson committed against libraries, theatres and ROTC buildings need rot be solved by sending in the National Guard. All of these can be solved by simply not sending the enormous suras of money to keep the university open, or a cutting of its activities to the professional and technical schools. The whole American educational system, from top to bottom, is under reexamination. Not by the educators; by the legislators who must vote the billions necessary to keep it going. niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiinuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiniiiv Dr. Moynihan s Effusive Tribute LETTERS TO THE EDITOR wiiiiiiiinimniiiiiiinHiimiinimniiuiiiinniiimiiuiifnmiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiHti These are times of hail and farewell In our town. Up on the Hill, the Senate has fallen into such extravagant tributes to departing members that it makes a man wonder how any of these statesmen got defeated. On the House side, the lame ducks have wobbled away on the same hot air. But the most remarkable valedictory of the season came from the other end of the Avenue, in the tribute of Pat Moynihan, of all people, to, of all people, Richard Nixon. Not since Jack Valenti rolled his eyes to heaven and declared that he slept better at night because Lyndon Johnson was sleeping upstairs have we heard such hosannahs at the White House. Moyni-han- 's ever farewell was tutti-frutt- i, hot fudge, and caramel supreme; it was a whole banana split of a speech; and for Mr. never sees who practically Nixon whipped cream, it must have been pure delight. The departing adviser began by praising Mr. Nixons inaugural address as the most commanding call to governance that the nation has heard in the long travail that is not yet ended. After that, sad to say, the speaker cast restraint to the winds. By the time he reached his peroration, Dr. Moynihan had Mr. Nixon down as the hope of America. JAMES J. KILPATRICK Try to understand what he has given of himself, said this improbable eulogist. This is something those of us who have worked in this building with him know in a way that perhaps only that experience can teach. To have seen him late into the night and through the night and into the morning, struggling with the most awful complexities, the most and irresolvable conflicts, demanding doing so because he cared, trying to make other men see it, above all, caring, working, hoping for this country that he had made greater already and which he will make greater still. . . . That was the way the oration ended, at least as the text was reprinted last week in the Washington Post, with the sentence not yet finished and the professor lost in an and which construction. In an accompanying comment, the Post editorially frowed up, and even those of us who admire Mr. Nixon are bound to say that the speech was, well, a little much. And yet there was a good deal of solid meat beneath all the parsley. Much of the speech was devoted to, a catalogue of Nixons efforts at home and abroad, and to Nixons understanding of the limits and uses of federal power. Moynihans own areas of expertise are urban affairs, the poor and the blacks. Here he found a record of much genuine achievement. And yet, how seems to be Moynihan remarked, little the administration credited with what it has achieved . . . One thinks of President Kennedys Life is not fair. But there is something more at work than the mere perversity of things. Moynihans perceptive analysis went beyond Nixons painful problems of press and public relations. To the Harvard philosopher, the trouble lies in a genera! d i s e nchantment with government, brought on by the tendency of our people to oversimplify complex problems and thus to expect too much of the political process. But at the risk of oversimplifying a few problems myself, I venture an obserNixon has not vation not so had the credit he deserves partly because he is Nixon. A Presidents image is fixed not only by his record, but chiefly by the interpretation of that record; and to a significant degree, such interpretation is the work of journalists who actively dislike the man. These are the journalists who forgave Jack Kennedy the Bay of Pigs; they will go to their graves denouncing Nixon for Cambodia, The President, I believe, is temperamentally incapahle of doing much about this problem. He is as he is. But without buying all of Pat Moynihans fine Irish blarney, I venture my own positive appraisal: Mr. Nixon has been a good President; he will be a better one in the second half of his term Stripped of the whipped cream, Moynihans tribute was a tribute well deserved. sum-matio- n: high-flow- ERMA BOMBECK Violence Only Solidifies Enemy By SYDNEY J. HARRIS It is one of the great ironies of human not yet recognized by the history impractical practical men who exerthat violence, cise political control persecution and oppression only strengthen and solidify the very enemy they seek to subdue. A European friend of mine the other night, stopping here for a few days on a tour of the U.S., asked me to comment on the new black miiitancy. He wanted to know when the American Negroes began calling each other soul brothers unified and acting as a group. He saw nothing like that when he was last here, a dozen years ago. But, since the widespread white reaction against the Civil Rignts movement and the failure to implement court decisions in many areas, the blacks have been brought together as never before in our history. The rise of black racism is the mirror image of white racism. It was the virulent thrust of official in Germany that suddenly solidified the ranks of world Jewry and gave the tremendous impetus to the formation of the Israel state. Without his dreadful exacerbation, it is doubtful that Judaism in the 20th Century would have remained much more than a cultural and religious vestige for millions. And now, in a giotesque inversion of roles, the Arab people have become in their own eyes, at least the persecuted and dispossessed, at the hands of the Israeli. The astonishing revival of the Liberation Movement, after languishing for 3) years, now threatens to capture the imagination and at least tacit support of all Arab nations. The blacks could have been absorbed into the mainstream of American life long ago; die Jews would undoubtedly have rclrainod from transforming Zion firm a dream into a political reality; and tin Arabs would have gone their sepwithout the tremendous arate ways external pressures forcing them to band together fiercely. It is their enemies who have strengthened the very forces tlie sought to extinguish. Pal-estin'- Housewives Are Smarter The scientists at the Institute of Human Development at Berkley just came out with what they termed a surprising statement. After studies they have concluded that housewives have higher I.Q.s long-rang- e than women. W h o's working su Radio and tele- vision advertising who have operated Mrs. Bombecb under the theory that housewives are ding dongs and will believe anything you tell them? (Anything from a live-i- n coffee expert with a sloppy Swedisli accent to a dizzy blonde who runs around in her track suit to prove her deodorant is effective.) Who's surprised? The gag institute who for years has been hustling those tired old jokes on. My wife is not makturn, Officer. She's drying ing a her nails. our chests and mumbled, The Temptations In the interest of accuracy I would like to comment on a few remarks made in the Jan. 4 issue of the Deseret News regarding the Temptations. The article stated: Another highlight of viewing will be The Temptations (Ch. 4, 9 p.m.). This group is made up of Utah musicians who have a new mod sound with softness. They appeared on several programs at Christmastime and have been on many local stages. I sincerely hope that the author of this particular quote was suffering from a severe case of mistaken identity, and not taking a blind guess at the truth. Only one part of this quote could be loosely considered the truth; The Temptations, one of the very fjiest entertaining organizations in the world today as they have been for many years, did make a guest appearance on the Smokey Robinson Show on Dec. 18. As for being Utah musicians and having been on many local stages, I believe that anyone who has followed, even loosely, the careers of these five talented soul artists would have a good chuckle over that one. I am pleased that you didnt say that they were all former members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. ROBERT L. ESCHENBACHER 599 Darwin St., Apt. 9 Movie Review Misleading On Dec. 29, 1 happened to read m your paper an uplifting, glowing review of one of the currently playing movies, Love Story." I had given up completely in recent months trying to find a movie which contained quality on an adult level, an insight into human motivations, and a superior script which seeks not only to point out and define human weaknesses, but at the same time show some nobility of the human race. Thus, upon reading your review I felt truly such a movie had, at last, arrived on the scene. We rushed to buy our tickets and partake of a breath of dramatic fresh air. As the opening scenes unfolded I was shocked and dismayed as immorality, profanity and various subtle attacks against organized society and religion were melodramatically portrayed. In conclusion, I would only add that I know it is ultimately my choice as to what I will or will not see by way of movie entertainment, but what concerns me is that your reviewer has so incorrectly reviewed a movie which Im sure will be completely offensive to millions of people. WANDA GOTTFREDSON Spanish Fork Im just a housewife." We apologized to our children for going back to school. Or worse, we filled our lives with busy work (Hebrew Dressmaking and Making Your Own Confetti for Fun and Profit) instead of doing what we were really capable of doing. We resigned ourselves to the fact that anyone can raise children and keep house instead of asserting some are good at it and some women are lousy. We never organized so that no one really knew what we felt, what we wanted or what we really are. In another way, it has been interesting playing the role of the dumb housewife. Many mornings I have watched the professionals gulp down breakfast, stomp through virgin snow, clean off the car, call the garage to jump the battery, fight traffic for 30 miles, put in a day and fight their way home again while I sit at home and muse, What a shame I'm not smarter. Mr. Motorist , Please Care There once was a little girl who went with her uncle to pick out a Christmas tree. Oh! She was so happy and filled with joy, because Christmas does this for little boys and gills. Her uncle helped put the tree they had bought in the car. Then, as they Were turning around, they heard from behind them a terrible loud noise and a car, racing fast, struck them down. So when you drive, please slow down and make sure you can see all about. KAY NIESER 5128 W. 54th South left-han- d Or maybe it's the women's lib groups who have based their movement on the stupidity of the housewife who is being exploited, made subservient and is an Pay Jurors Living Wage GUEST CARTOON The coming session of the Utah State Legislature should make it their business to check on the statute covering jurors pay and make an effort to revise it so that the taxpayers assuming their civil duties will not be shamed by accepting jury duty at such a low rate of pay. It is this writers opinion that if some action is not taken by the lawmakers a change should be made whereby this system could be converted into a voluntary one. If the Volunteer system cannot be inaugurated, the Legislature should pass a law establishing a professional panel of jurors and paying them a substantial rate of pay. With the cost of living at an high, the rate of pay for jury duly will not even support a husband and wife. Many hardships are suffered by large families when the breadwinner is called for jury duty, and for that reason we should endeavor to change this law and pay living wages. JOSEPH J. FlSHER underpaid baby machine." Or perhaps it is the industries, law making bodies, colleges, hospitals, law enlorcemnt groups, housing boards and communications media who never trusted a houswife to know where to put the key in her car, let alone have a voice in their affairs. You're a little Idle, friends. The housewife has been a superior animal foi years now. She may be bored, depressed, neurotic and unfulfilled, but she was never dumb. Our image is our own fault. We let ourselves be segregated at parties so no one would know we read a book or a newspaper. When census takers asked us what we did, we snuggled our heads on e , 164 N. 7th West t |