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Show 'It says one step further lllllllll;llll!lllllllllllllllllll!ll,l,ll,,lll,lllllll,llllllllllllllll,llllllllllllll,ll,, and you will be folded, spindled and mutilated' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DESERET NEWS !lll!lll!!lil!lllllllllllllllllllll66ll6ltl6lllll66l6lllllllllllllllll6ll661llllllllll!.!!lllll SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Ride The Bus For 15 Cents We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having 10 A Been Divinely Inspired EDITORIAL PAGE Once again, neighbors squabble with neighbors over the routes and streets opened or closed for U. of U. students reaching the campus. Sounds so sillv, this futile game played by grown ups. The Penrose and Federal Heights neighbors display narrow visions when they do not join with die total community to effect more practical allevia- tions to tralfic problems. The U. officials are to be censured for their securing bureaucratic entity when they seek to purchase with federal funding IS buses for the exclusive use of students and still charge fees that students will not pay to ride Utah Transit Authority buses. Monday, OCTOBER 23, 1972 How About A Test Run On Bus Ticket Plan? Salt Lake City and surrounding community need a first rate public transit system. The makings are in the works, and if the progress made in the two years is any indication, we can have such a The Penrose. Federal Heights and U groups should get together and demand that the City and County officials budget a very small portion (not much more than $200,000 at the maximum) of the federal revenue sharing windfall of over $10 million to guarantee the UTA no further losses in reducing all fares to 15 cents and eliminating all system. But we have to work at it. When the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) assumed operation of the city bus system two years ago, it took over a dead-brokoperation that had been underwritten for more than $2 million its last two years of operation. e Since then, UTA has acquired 30 new bases almost half of constructed a handsome new terminal complete with ofits fleet fices and garages, broadened its scheduling, enlarged its routing, and engaged in a modest promotin'' program. Long range plans have been completed, management has been improved, and the is up by as much as passenger volume proof of the pudding five to seven percent. Much of this has been done with federal grants for capital and from subsidies from the cities served, since improvements revenues are not sufficient to keep the bus company afloat. A letter on this page makes a suggestion that should be studied. It is that communities served now use some of their federal revenue sharing funds received the past few days from Washington to subsidize bus operations while fares are reduced by half. for w hat ails the bus A fare reduction is, of course, no cure-al- l to cut fares at a time difficult It would be system. particularly when UTA has lost its subsidy from Salt Lake City and cant yet be sure what, if anything, the Legislature will do to help take up the slack. Nor would there be much point in merely substituting federal revenue sharing money for money being allocated to UTA by some of the smaller communities m Salt Lake County. Even so, if more people are to be persuaded to take the bus, there is no substitute for some kind of fare reduction. Fare increases have helped drive patrons away and a fare decrease ought to bring some of them back to the buses. To this end, more imaginative efforts by UTA are certainly in order. For instance, a suggestion by retail merchants that shoppers receive bus riding validations with purchases has been before the UTA board since early last spring. UTA says the suggestion is still under study. If merchants are willing to underwrite a part of the cost of riding a bus in order to get more riders into their shops and stores, and at the same time increase the number of passengers on buses, UTA officials should get moving on the idea. , With a heavy shopping season ahead in the next few weeks, g how about a trial period for a bus validation proa how about Also, gram? major promotional campaign to educate commuters on the benefits of riding the bus? If more people can be persuaded to go by bus, it could help offset the need for large subsidies as w'ell as cut down on heavy automobile traffic. A program of validation sounds like it would be a step in that direction. riding-shoppin- On The Right T rack Anyone who has driven a car over very many railroad crossg ings knows it can be a experience. So its encouraging to see that Union Pacific is laying new track along 4th West between 2nd and 9th South. The result will be a smooth ride for motorists through some formerly bumpy intersections. tooth-rattlin- general rule, it is the railroads rather than the city or county that are responsible for maintaining crossings. And, as a matter of fact, most railroads expect the public to point it out to them when theres a really rough crossing that needs to be repaired. The railroads realize that an unfavorable public reaction isnt good for business. As a contrast, w'hat UP is doing along 4th West certainly is good for business. In addition to alleviating complaints from the driving public and opening up two lanes of traffic, the new track will reduce maintenance costs. Lets see some more of the same. - WASHINGTON Most of us Americans have a punk sense of history. Busy with opening and building our nation, we left history to the classic Europeans. Today, were forged tightly to Europe, yet as a (scholars people included) we generally avoid history. We want qui' k instant answers; solutions. with so Not President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger, an odd couple who share a deep sense of the past. Kissinger, especially, understands civilizations foundations and believes that peace results when big nations play the role of big nations. To partly appreciate Kissingers mind is to know something about Dr. Fritz Kraemer, the remarkable Prussian who discovered and stimulated Kissingers intellect one generation ago. In 1913, when Kissinger was a private in the infantry and in the United States only five years as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, he heard a powerful lecture delivered by another private, Dr. Kraemer, on why we warred with Germany. He wrote Kraemer, 16 years his senior, a fan letter. The two men be- came friends. Kraemer successfully urged Kissinger, then 19, from his ambition to become an accountant, interested him in Hegel and Dostoevski, political philosophy and intellectualism. Between times, the two transplanted Germans were in the Battle of the Bulge and the invasion of Germany. Kraemer worked to advance Kissin- - Business Takes A Buw businessman who might have wandered into the U.S. Senates hearing room of the Commerce Committee the other day certainly felt he had made a wrong turn and was lost. The senators were tossing accolades to American businesses. Sen. Frank E. Moss of Utah, chairman of the committees subcommittee, provided business an opportunity to toot its own horn by asking 181 firms what they were doing for consumer protection. There were many answers from businesses. They told of public relations practices which are the rule rather than the exception. The businessman related how he was opposed to the unscrupulous merchant as much as the consumer was because of the taint on all business. NICK THIMMESCH ger who became translator for his com- manding general and eventually administrator of an occupied Germany district. The world was now opened for the protege. Kraemer was proud, and still is. Who is Kraemer, now a military-politicstrategist in the Pentagon? and educated GerWell, hes a man (two doctorates) who became a leader in the youth wing of the German National Party in the Twenties, a party Nazi which opposed the burgeoning movement and Communists as well. When Hitler took power, Kraemer fled to Italy where, under the protection of the League of Nations, he wrote books on international law. When the Swedish girl he married became pregnant, he sent her to England so the firstborn, in 1938, would have British citizenship. A year later, knowing he Nazi Germany, could never Kraemer thought it would be safe for his Swedish wife to visit Germany to collect family money and jewels and then return to Italy. But Mrs. Kraemer and her infant son had scarcely arrived at the family manor near Wiesbaden when the war broke out and they were interned as aliens. Dr. Kraemers family ran a childrens home at the manor, but because it took in Jewish children, the Nazis closed it in 1940. Kraemers son, Sven, 34, remembers the grim wartime existence, living off a vegetable garden, collecting wood to burn, sleeping on apple crates in the wine cellar when German military took over the manor. He also remembers well-bor- n . England, scraped together just enough money to get to the United States before Pearl Harbor and worked as a farm laborer and woodcutter in Maine and New' Hampshire. But Dr. Kraemers strong personality and ability to lecture got him to Washington and a proctors job at American University. He joined the Army in 1943. When the American Army broke across the Rhine into Germany, Kraemer wrote a letter to Gen. George S. Patton, whose forces were in the Wiesbaden area, asking him if his wife and son could be located and protected. Protection was provided, and one day soon alter, young Sven answered a loud knock on the door. An American Army officer in German, Where is Frau Kraemer? Sven, a bit wary, replied, Who are you? and the American officer said, your father. 4of pages. Senator Moss explained business is the whipping boy for many organizations and politicians, and is not given credit for its service to the community. Many more constraints and restraints are placed on business than on the persons who seek to giean publicity and, perhaps notoriety, by attacking it. Certainly, business has its faults but what individual or what organization doesnt? However, it also supplies jobs and taxes if it fails to do any other thing. In all honesty, the free enterprise system has been good to most of us. And the merchant and manufacturer will remember the day in the U.S. Senate when business deservedly wore a white hat, and was given the opportunity to wave it. Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio. SAMUEL S. TAYLOR 15 Legislative District Father Can't Be Trusted first-han- J. Life went on for the Kraemers and Henry Kissinger. They had been intimately involved in this centurys greatest epic, and cant forget it. Kissinger went on to Harvard, excellence in scholarship and accomplishment as a national security specialist. Kraemer played an proimportant role in the gram, became an Army colonel, served in a variety of advisory positions at the Pentagon. The rest of us who have not lived through Europes horrible hours are strained to pander the currents of history as the Kissingers and Kraemers do. Can't Afford Him I am a believer in that, along with Hamlet, I am convinced that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt Horatios (or anyones) of in philosophy. am at the same time a skeptic, because 1 am equally convinced that astrology, as understood and practiced today, is as far from the essential truth of the matter as ancient astrology was from Renaissance astronomy, or medieval alchemy was from modern suppose. As I grow older, and learn more, I increasingly agree with this remark; such matters as precognition and ESP laughed out of scientific court a generanow seem not only plausible tion ago but probable. I am sure that, in some way, the life of the electron is related to the life of the person, and that each of us is the result of a confluence of factors, from the genetic to the cosmological, that we have scarcely begun to come prehend. At the same time, I find it vulgar and repellent that so many quacks and opportunists have taken advantage of this uncharted realm, and, instead of approaching it with scientific delicacy or spiritual reverence, have perverted it for gain or or notoriety or cheap sensationalism. If astrology, in its ultimate form, should turn out to have any merit, surely it is not for the vain and petty purpose of advising us of the most propitious day to bet on the horses, or warning us of that conjunction of planets when we should beware of meeting a dark stranger. This is igno.ant and melodramatic pandering to our hopes, fears, and general credulity. If a science, it should not pretend to know more than it does, an attitude which is fatal to the scientific enter- prise; if a spiritual discipline (whatever that may mean), it should not tralfic in such mundane matters as investments and carnal encounters. As commonly practiced today, astrology offers the w'orst of both worlds bogus science and shallow philosophy and we can thank our lucky stars if it is not taken too seriously before it becomes worthy of seriousness. So Who Is John Schmitz? There is a third party in this presidential race end presidential candidate John G. Schmitz protests that the news media has beeh ignoring him. A draft, opposes trade with countries. He wants to end the Vietnamese war by winning it militarily. ComimiMisl whose name youd recognize said, to got Recently, in a brave try at capturing some spotlight, he insisted that the Wallace shooting was a "conspiracy involving others." dethrone Nixon." I said. "Why?" He said, "Be- cause lie's sold out to the Commies.' Mr. Harvey i How are you going to defeat said, him? He said. With John Schmitz." had almost lorgot; there is a party of the third part in this presidential race, on the ballot in at least 30 I confess How many times can it be repeated his platform opposes busing, favors that a military My plume rang. man ot means "We've PAUL HARVEY I But the allegation died of malnutri- tion. Of all the recent generations who have rallied to the political extremes, left and right, today's appears less dangerous than did yesterday's. John Schmitz, nominee of whats left Yesterday's sunerpatriot on the right that we "kill all Commies." Yesterdays radical on the left wanted to smash the Establishmeiit. Wallace's American in his convictions. If this is to his credit as a Cahforma congressman. it is to his disadvantage when comes to capturing headlines. Today thr ' is so much less political paranoia tha . rganizations and publicathemselves tions which have on dissent, left and right, are floundering for issues. states. of Gov. George Party, is consistent demanded President Nixon, soliciting broad-bassupport in Congress and in the hustings, has, as his party slogan says, brought us together. When John Schmitz challenges the White House to cut welfare, reduce taxes, restrict the prerogatives of the he is reiterating the things courts. President Nixon tried to do and could not do while the opposition was in control of the Congress. An observer has to see John Schmitz for George Wallace and as a stand-ican only imagine how different the campaign might nave been otherwise. now. Would Wallace, campaigning arouse a significantly greater response? Doubtless. e n But the inescapable plight of the far fight is even more hopeless than the utopian quest of the far left. For where the latter wants heaven on earth, the former wants the status to remain quo. If either is desirable, neither is attainable. So the practicalities of modern politics lead us right back to the prescription of the Delphic oracle: "Nothing too d He has spent the last 20 years in and out of jail for one act after another after 24 years of being a wonderful father and a good husband. Now he is a sick man. We have tried every thing to help him, but now dont even dare have him around our families. NAME WITHHELD . Some 50 years ago, J.B.S. Haldane, the distinguished British scientist, remarked that My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can dont know when I have ever been so shook up and sick. To think that our society has decayed to such a degree that we let hard core pornography happen, let alone to think this kind of garbage is being sold to make thousands of dollars to decay the minds of those that read such trash. Anyone thinking they can read such things as this without causing some kind of damage to their mind has really got to be sick. I can tell you about living in a home where I saw what happens to a wonderful father who went to church once in a while wiin his family. He was good in every way. a very good worker. and at one time was offered a job to go East, to train men. This is how really good he was in his field. He owned his own business. He had worked on a car for a man w ho owned a movie house in town. This man started to supply him with obscene movies. Mom had never seen this so had no idea what he was up to. After the first one she said there will be no more of this ever in our house. Well it didn't stop there. He started having these films at the shop. As time went on he began doing very strange things, first to mother and then none of his children were safe around him. I By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The enormous revival (or recrudescence, if you will) of interest in astrology the last few years has prompted many readers to write to me asking why I have not commented on the subject and whether I am a skeptic or a true believer. The reason 1 have not commented is that I have nothing of value to contribute to the discussion, for I am a skeptical believer, hanging loose on both sides of the question. 5 further delay, h going to iunerals of his playmates, killed when American bombers, having hit their targets at Frankfort, dumped what was left on civilian villages. Meanwhile, his father had fled to A Some businesses, the senators found, were attempting to improve the environment by various research projects. There were others financing attorneys for public service work and sponsoring consumer education programs. The report covered cent fare can be achieved today, with by pressuring commissioners to reduced fare experiment. approve a Now is the time, with the Christmas shopping season, to get people onto buses. And the merchants can cooperate by validating bus receipts. The no Astrology: Worst Of Two Worlds I GUEST EDITORIAL Coupled with beneficial rerouting of buses and other restrictive measures, there just might be less auto use, not only by the students, but also by the general commuter population. The senior citizens, the poor, the handicapped and even the rich would benefit. This is the total community effort without catering to selfish, myopic interests. Kissinger's Friend Dr. Kraemer bone-jarrin- Keep up the good work, UP. There are other crossings which could use some smoothing out. By transfer charges. Can Utah afford Wayne Owens? No! We cannot afford: 1. To trade intelligent maturity, experience, influence and seniority for inexperience, lack of knowledge, and immaturity in concept, attitude and thought. 2. To lose Sherm Lloyds understanding of his State, District and people by rewarding Owens of walking for Congress. political gimmick How is the latter able to spend more money than has ever been spent by a Congressional candidate in Utah? To whom will he be indebted if elected? Does anyone really think that pressure groups who pour tens of thousands into his campaign wont demand repayment? - 3. To allow publicity and political ads, conceded to impress on the unsuspecting a false image of for Congress, to determine how we walking vote. 4. To elect someone with no experience in the private sector and who, by his own ad, is a profes- sional public servant (politician to me) with an undistinguished Law School record, a brief and undistinguished record as a lawyer, and a history of tax money support nearly all of his adult life. 5. To lose our only Republican Representative to work with and not against President Nixon. We have a fine Representative in Mr. Lloyd. Lets keep him in Congress. CARVEL MATTSSON 952 Eastgate Road Prison Not a Haven j I've always been taught and firmly believe that those . who commit crimes should be punished according to the law. Laws should be made and enforced to protect the full measure of the law. I belive that prisons should have elements for those who live within its walls that would motivate and instill attitudes that will create the desirp to live within the laws. Punishment should, however, be meted but for the abuse of someone elses freedom or the price of taking someone eises life. But, when we give in to the demands of someone who has obviously broken the law and who have their legal rights deprived of them, we are only lowering the desire to keep the law. I'm not talking about demands like cleaner or more sanitary pnsons or for more educational conditions therein but Im talking about demands the prisoners say the public owes them. Demands like union wages for work performed in the prison, steak and wine for dinner, allowances for sexual relations in prisons with wives and girlfriends. Prisoners say they have the rights for these opportunities and that the public should pay for them but they have forgotten and apparently we have too about te price the public has already-paifor the crime they have committed or the immeasurable cost of life that was taken from another. When we allow the guilty to make our laws, to thwart justice in the courts and otherwise provide a haven for the criminals, ve will awaken sjme-daand find ourselves in a position where there are no iaws left worthy to protect. Let us stand up now and make ourselves known on th issues of the day. Leit s not make a haven out of prison. JOHN R. TERRY Fill;,More y |