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Show 'DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITT, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 26 A EDITORIAL PAGE ' FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1972 A House Divided: Democrats' Challenge Wlion the Democratic National Committee meets Saturday, mudi mtre will be at stake than the future of Utah's Jean West-wooIn addition to determining whether or not to replace Mrs. Westwood as the partys national chairman, the Democrats have a number of other decisions to make that will exert a major influ- cnee on the direction the party takes. Among those pivotal decisions are: commission to draft national eomontion in 1974. Although this years convention broke ground in opening its ranks to more young people, women, and reprcseie tatnes of the poor, the use of quotas rankled many Democrats. That's one matter the party needs to straighten out before the next presidential campaign. committee to Whether or not to ratify a methods for selecting vice presidential nominees. With the Eagleton episode still a painfully fresh memory, there can be no doubt of the need to tighten the procedures for filling the second spot on the ticket. The election of 25 new members of the national committee, bringing its total membership to 3U3. Whatever happens to Mls. Westwood, the Democrats deserve credit for the imagination and daring it took to name a woman for the first time to sene as a national party chairman. Moreover, whether she stays or leaves, Jean Westwood has some ideas about reorganizing the party structure that deserve a serious hearing. Among other things, she would like to see departments created within the national committee to serve a diversity of interests such as education, rural Americans, senior citizens, and mayors. She wants better liaison between the national committee and local campaign organizations. She also would like to switch the party's headquarters from the Watergate office building on the edge of downtown Washington to a location nearer Capitol Ilill. perhaps in a building owned by tiie parly. a Whether or not to ratify a charter for consideration by a precedent-settin- g off-ye- study-improve- Disheartened and divided, the Democrats need to broaden their base of support, to retrieve defectors in the labor movement and elsewhere, and begin recovering from the McGovern debacle. In this connection, the national committee would do well to keep in mind what Mrs. Westwood recently said about George Wallace and his followers but apply it to a broader spectrum of the disaf- fected: Its better to have them inside talking to everybody, so that were educating them and theyre educating us." Go Slow On Pay Hikes . The other day. this page questioned the size of proposed' salary increases for top Salt Lake County officials on the basis they were well in excess of the governments 5.5 percent guidelines. The problem doesnt stop at the county official level, however. Sizable increases are being proposed for state officials that also an average overall inare clearly in excess of the guidelines crease of 10 percent! The governors salary, for example, would be increased from to $30,000 to $38,844 a year; Supreme Court justices from $23,000 All to exceed from the $22,000 and $24,840. $27,S52, attorney general the 5.5 percent guideline. One reason for opposing large increases for government heads is that they stimulate and those in private industry as well e workers become dissatisfaction in lower echelons. to militant more gel bigger salary boosts, too, even if they exceed hiflationary guidelines. There is at least one additional factor that militates against the proposed state increases, at least in present form. That is that pay increases of 18 percent are being suggested for elected officers, and only 3.2 percent for appointed officers. Rank-and-fil- ' " The argument for this outrageous disparity is that wage-pric- e not to indicontrol rulings apply to the whole body of employes vidual workers. Thus some individuals, under the law, can exceed the guidelines. The unwritten part of the law, of course, is that to make big raises possible for the few. the many have to be shorted. But doesnt the cost of living increase affect everyone the same? As we concluded the other day, fighting inflation is the job of not just the less fortunate. everyone The Empire Builders When Franklin D. Roosevelt began his third term nearly 30 years ago, the White House staff numbered 51. Today, the Civil Sen ice Commission lists 3,562 employes on the presidents staff. Its size has almost exactly doubled since President Nixon moved into the White House in January, 1969. So theres ample room for the President's latest move to slash his staff. Even the President admitted last week that the staff has .grown rather like Topsv, and has promised that the biggest cuts will be made in the White House staff itself during the current bureaucratic shakeup. ' The size of the staff isn't to be blamed on a mere desire for ostentatious living, however. Part of the growth reflects a change and an increase in candor. in bookkeeping methods Under Presidents and Johnson, many persons staff actually were carried on the Kennedy employed on the White House rosters of other agencies and paid through them. Nixon ordered all fcis White House employes to be listed as such. Another reason for the growth is new functions taken on by the executive ofiice. One prime example is the Cost of Living Council controls. It set up in the executive branch to police wage-pric- e 0 to 966 employes, at last count, in less than a year. from grew A hard look at these functions is imperative, however, if the size of government is to be kept within bounds. Once a government service cr function is established, it is exceedingly difficult if not impossible to discontinue it, even when its usefulness has long been outlived. The bigger any organization becomes, the harder it is to pinpoint responsibility. Then theres the power of example. If the President cant lop off some of the fat in his own department, hell find it that much harder to get the rest of the executive bmch let alone Congress to tighten its belt. "It's been g'eat but we can use the money for other things!" small step for a man, one giant leap for the taxpayer." "-One Kissinger's Peace Labors Its WASHINGTON Henry A. Kissinger will waited-fo- r ment in hoped that reach that peace with honor long- -' settle- - Paris this (North Vietnamese, American and Thai) from Laos and Cambodia. week. There is evidence that Kissin- has been impressed on Kissinin the past few weeks as the peace ger at hand settlement became shopworn in All this ger, w ho spent 30 days negotiating in Paris and Saigon since May 2, was a bit generous to the North Vietnamese Mr. Thimmesch in announcing the of the terms peace is at hand settlement last Oct. 26. Kissinger was not running a political errand before the presidential election with the Oct. ,26 statement because it was Hanoi which forced the timing. But that statement had holes in it which could have betrayed the South Vietnamese and also given credence to an eventual cry of sellout by the right in America. The Saigon government and, indeed, the American people have the right to demand that the settlement ensure: a demilitarized zone respected by Hanoi; the understanding that the Umted States can provide further military assistance to South Vietnam to match any increases in Soviet supplies to North Vietnam; clarification on how Hanoi will withdraw its troops from the south, and how the withdrawal will be inspected; a in Laos and Cambodia as well cease-fir- e as in Vietnam; release of all American prisoners from Indochina, not just from North Vietnam; removal of all forces 2 Books On World War ii By SYDNEY NICK THIMMESCH J. HARRIS There couldnt be tw o books less alike than Hildegarde Knefs moving autobiography, The Gift Horse, and The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn. One is the life of a Berlin actress during and after World War II; the other is an intimate study of world events during that same period. Yet, despite their vast dissimilarities, both books make the same strong point. Miss Knef asserts that when the Russians took over Berlin, they were gratefully welcomed by the populace and that the whole city, indeed, the whole country would have turned Red if the Russians had behaved themselves. Lord Gladwyn, from his scat in the prompter's box of world affairs, likewise declares that Stalin could have conquered most of Europe without firing a shot, if he had not outrageously overplayed his hand. The Nazis had inspired such hate and disgust everywhere tiiev trod, that a moderate and humane Soviet administration would have won the peace as well as the war. But the fact of the matter is that it is the nature of evil to overplay its hand. In times of chaos and conflict, such as ours, we tend to feel that ev'l has all the advantages it is powerful and ruthless, it mobilizes the worst feelings of people (as goodness rarely succeeds in doing), and its relentless energy drives it from victory to victory. Yet, it is worth reflecting that the human race could not have survived the potency of so much evil over the centuries if there were not something in the very core of wickedness that inevitably forces it to crash by its own momentum. the public mind. South Vietnam got its when Nguyen Phu Due, President Thieus special emissary, met with President Nixon. Gen. Alexander Haig, Kissingers deputy, who has individual access to the President, reinforced the argument that South Vietnam needed further say-s- o military guarantees. Fears were raised here, and justifiably because of the secrecy involved in ' Kissingers dealings, that he had gone soft on Hanoi, and become too friendly with Le Due Tho, the Communist negotiator. Anxious as we are for peace, it must be remembered that Hanois word hasnt been so hot in the past, particuarrangements and larly on cease-fireon bombings and other understandings military actions. The President had a long talk with a special visitor, a man he had never seen before, who is uniquely suited to comment on Kissingers burdensome role in the final negotiating phase. Moreover, Kissinger, cool loner that he is. sought the advice of an old, oid friend on two occasions in recent weeks. Its also a matter of record that the President and Kissinger spent many hours together in this same period. One likely consequence of all this discussion and reflection is that Kissinger LETTERS TO THE EDITOR is perfectly clear on what the acceptable terms of a settlement with Hanoi now are. He serves, after all, at the pleasure of the President. Kissinger has labored hard for a peace settlement. In the past seven months, lie has made 12 trips to Paris and Saigon, spent countless hours trying to sleep in those relatively uncomfort-.abl- e Air Force jets. I!e works from 12, to 16 hours a day when hes in Washington, and takes many phone calls in the middle of the night. He is weary and needs rest. . His partner, Gen. Haig, is a workhorse whose hours even exceed Kissingers, Associates say Haig looks better when hes tired, which is most of the time these days. He, too, takes calls at home, more than Kissinger because Haig's number is still listed. Haig has been to Saigon alone four times since and makes Paris trips as well. mid-Apr- il He joined the White House staff as a colonel, soon was elevated to his deputys role and a genenfls rank. Last September, President Nixon promoted . Haig, 47, to the Armys second top job where he will be a ' vice chief of staff four-sta- r general. Haigs friends worry about his weeks, days, seven-datry to get him to play tennis, and were delighted when he took last Saturday off to see the Army-Navgame before y y flying to Paris. Kissinger and Haig, dissimilar in many w ays, have given much in the past four years, and its sometimes good for all of us to remember that men in such high positions are humans like the rest of us. art buchwald The End Of An Era - As the Apollo NEW YORK, N.Y. 17 ends an era of manned exploration of the moon, another era of exploration on eanh also comes to a close. The Long Island RailCommuter road program is being phased out and there is talk that people who live on Long Island may never see New Mr. Buchwald York City again. I talked to three commuters in Huntington, Long Island, who had expected to make the last trip, but had to postpone it because of a strike. One of the commuters told me', space travel by railroad as we know it is over. It just got too expensive for Americans to foot the bill. There is some talk about launching a manned shuttle train in the late '70s, and we even may send one train to New York made up of an American and Russian crew, but for the most part our trip could be the last one anybody will take. Why the disenchantment with the Island Railroad Commuter Long program? I asked another of the men. When the Russians launched a highspeed train from Moscow to Leningrad, President Grover Cleveland decided we could not be second, and so he asked Congress for a crash program to beat the Russians in Railroad Space Travel. There was tremendous excitement when the program was announced. Nobody believed you could send a man from Long Island to New York City and have him survive. But thanks to American knowhow the third commuter and hardware, said, we not only got a man to New York but we proved he could live there for a short period of time. The commuter program w'as the darling of Congress and for a long w hile they couldnt give enough money to the railroads. But then, said one of the other the American people startcommuters, ed losing interest in Railroad Space Travel. Congress started cutting back in funds. Newspaper editorials began asking, Why are we spending so much money to send men to New York City when the funds could be spent on highways in suburbia? "What scientific contribution do you think the Railroad Space program has made to our Country? I asked. We proved, said one of the commuters, that man can live in a hostile environment for hours on end. We also showed that although n cannot sustain life, New York City was probably once part of Long Island. This is terribly important if we are seeking the origins of our planet. Furthermore, said the second commuter, we proved we could get to New York before the Russians did. This has had a beneficial effect on the American morale. course. said the third commuter staring out at the empty tracks. its all over now. But I dont think you can stop mans curiosity. I predict that someday not only will man go to New York again, but he'll live there. V.ho knows, someday he might even make it by train to Of if Too Much Pollution I would like to express my concern on the pol- lution problem. In Utah there is more pollution than there should be. One day I was going to Bountiful from Salt Lake and in the stretch between the outskirts of Salt Lake and the outskirts of Bountiful, there was so much pollution that we could not stand to have our windows down. Kennecott has said that they would put in pollution controls on their smoke stacks. I have not seen any change in the pollution by the mountains on the way to Wendover. The Utah Transit Authority bases have got pollution control valves on them, and it is a good idea. The new cars have them, but some of the new ones do rot, I have seen many older model cars that should be off the road. I also think that Geneva Steel Company should do something about the air and the water pollution. Geneva and some other people have really messed up Utah Lake, although Geneva is doing something about it now. SUZANNE COLEMERE 675 Milton Ave. Put Housing First Having read in an article in the Deseret News concerning the Advisory Conimittee on Housing, we were astounded that Salt Lake City needs an additional advisory council, as we were led to believe that there is already a Housing Authority Advisory Committee in existence. Because these committees are all concerned with housing, we do not leel this new committee is needed. e feel the members on any housing committee should be the people who will be living in the housing. e citizens and also as memWe, as bers of UOTP, feel that housing needs are so desperate at this time, that Model Cities should increase their slippage funds and put housing bn the top of their priority list. MARGUARITA JUAREZ and e V e 6 347 S. others 4th East Bicycle Roads I am thinking about the bicycle for the future. I think planning of a good road for bicycles only would be a good idea because so many people like to ride their bicycles everywhere they go. I mean build roads from subdivisions of homes to. schools, churches, and wherever most people like to go. When I am riding on my bicycle on the road, automobiles always scare me when they pass me, because they are so loud and sometimes they drive by too dose. If many cyclists ride on the bicycle road, there will be no problems because they are quiet, and pass by without having any problems. Riding the bicycles is good for your health. ALLEN WILDE Sandy Stars And The Flag Some time ago we had our first opportunity to watch our beautiful Stars . in our lovely Salt Palace. Well. The Salt Palace is still beautiful in our eyes, but I was so shocked and disappointed and yes, even ashamed at the terrible spectacle these so called sports made of themselves and' our American Flag. This was the second time in my life Ive seen anyone so itlbrc-- and disrespectful, stand before people who were suppose to show them (and want to) respect. Respect? I don't think any one man on either team knows the meaning of that word or pride! Back when the Olympics were on, I was shocked to see that only one American winner had back-uuoand pride enough to stand and salute our flag. And you could see it came right from his heart. If there were others. Im sorry .1 missed them, ii saw so many who didnt. They just stood slovenly by like those men did at the Stars game. jIRS ROBERT WELLINGTON c 3856 S. 2730 Wst |
