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Show rWWM MM' n - l'ifay'Jlir ' - r r jQ- " Hijiii 11111111411 qprir-q- , r, v . DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, Youth looking inward By seek "Four Florence Moockley Christian Science Monitor News Service strating less They are both cautious and cynical about politics. They want to make money and have a good time. Many now worry more about rising prices and tuition costs than about Vietnam and Cambodia, a Monitor survey finds. Young people are tired of being serious all the time and growing up so early, says a former protester and campus leader at Northwestern University. I have spent 10 years of my life reading about civil rights, Vietnam, and the environment. Now I want to get them out of my mind, I want to start reading about happier things. I think most people want to start enjoying the pleasures of life again. There is renewed interest in joining fraternities and sororities, and college dances are making a comeback. Many young people in the U.S. do not fit the following composite description, but generally this is the picture: With good jobs scarce, young people are buckling down trying to get the best grades possible to show on job applications. The trend is away from the humanities and toward such subjects as law, business, and engineering medicine, which promise high financial rewards. him. Theres a new practicality in students, a new interest in careers, Mr. Ginn observes in his role as resident tutor. He finds there is a big shift from humanities to business and engineering in one Harvard dormitory. Now at lunch people talk of the job market and labor figures. The most popular tables are science tables, not philosophy tables anymore. They said, 7 want to change the world. ' Now they ask how they can make money in the most painless or today's youth look to much happier times. Q They are weary of such cosmic issues as Vietnam, civil rights, and the draft. They are reassessing the effect of political confrontation. What's all the fuss about Watergate?" said one East Coast student, its just politics. Said another: I havent thought much about the bombing of Cambodia. And the bedraggled look is not necessarily in any more. Men are wearing their hair shorter; more women are wearing skirts instead of jeans. With the main impetus of the movement ended, and the Vietnam war over (some young people say the end of the draft was more important to them) students are looking inward. civil-righ- ts Robert Ginn, assistant director of the Harvard University office for career and graduate planning, says four years ago kids never came in and said I want to make money. They said I want to change the world. OUR READERS' ACTION LINE Dial 364 8626 or wnte to Do-I- t Man. P O. Box 1267. Salt Lake City, Utah Rules ignored but theyll still help you Across the campuses the feeling grows: I dont want to get involved. most interesting way." Gail Robinson, ebullient editor of the Spectator, Columbia Universitys student newspaper, says the nation has slipped into a conservative political period and that there is little that can be done to change the system, whether through I am enclosing a copy of a letter I WTOte to Trans American Collections Inc., Bloomington, 111., in 1970. We subscribed to their service to collect our accounts. Their salesman told us a few things that seem to be misrepresented. He said he would make good on his promises. No word. Can you help? M.J.H., Redmond, Utah. You have now received a letter from them which is better than you were able to do for yourself. They say they couldnt locate your letter. They also claim that to use their system, it had to be done according to instruc- political activism or confrontation. This spring has so far been incredibly quiet, she reports. Underlying the increasing campus conservatism, she says, are the attitudes expressed by many students now going into law and medical school. In the late 1960s, she recalls, there was an idealistic rationalization about such decisions. Now most students concede that the economic rewards of law and medicine are perhaps as important if not more important than a burning fervor to save tions. The implication is you didnt do this. Also mentioned is the use . . . of (their) service will terminate 20 months from date . . . purchased." They do say However, it is our . . . policy to honor all claim forms regardless of when purchased." They ask you to submit your remaining accounts and they will give you their most updated service. the world. can make money in the most painless way or else the most interesting way. Joe Siano, a junior in a liberal-art- s program at New York University sees the campus mood becoming increasingly conservative and says he sees nothing that will change that mood in the near future, including the Watergate affair. What will activate students again? Some say that if their aspirations are Mr. Ginn says many of the students are cynical about their new interest in profits. Whats the best I can do if I not fulfilled a good education, and satisfying jobs young people once again will choose confrontation. Now they come in and ask how they Leaving the worries of the 1960s behind, mnn. want to sell out?" one student asked years ego kids never make money A3 D came in and said, 7 want to BOSTON, MASS. Young people in America today they are looking sharper, working harder, and demon- MAY 3, 1973 Charge bill wiped clean Youve helped us several times in the past and have 1 ever got a problem for you this time. Just before Christmas a large store tried to deliver a telescope to us. We refused because we hadnt ordered It. Then there appeared a charge of $333.68 plus a finance charge of $87.14 on our account. I contacted the local office and they said theyd check. Ive written two letters since and the charge still appears. I cant seem to get through to them. Can you? G.L.II., Sandy. Our letter got a prompt reply. They have wiped your bill clean with a credit. And all this even though they, as of now, have no record of ever receiving the telescope high-payin- g which you refused. Watergate Dexter C. Ellis Deseret News political editor In a way, its regrettable that the Watergate case didnt break wide open some three By months ago when the newsShield Bill was buried in the Utah Senate sifting mens committee. Not that this would have guaranteed passage or even floor consideration of the legislation, for its failure to make it out of Sifting (Rules) Committee was said to be largely due to personal pique against reporters by two or three powerful GOP senators. However, the cataclysmic nature of the Watergate dis-- . closures at least might have put the issue in proper perspective, enabling legislators transfixed by seedlings to perceive the forest. The central issue, of course, is not whether newsmen sometimes misquote public figures. and Utahs shield or give some poor, abused elected official a bad time. Politics The overriding question is whether the press is to remain the final bulwark against tyranny and corruption in public office. been demonstrated thousands of times, public police, prosecutors agencies someand even the courts times fail in this respect. Then there is only one safereporters with guard left enough guts to dig out the truth and media with sufficient integrity to resist bribes and threats which will print or broadcast the truth. As has the Watergate case, it was partly the trial judge, but the Washington principally Post which performed the unpleasant and largely thankless task of digging into the dark comers until the cockroaches were flushed out. In The Pest performed the DEXTER The bill was not intended to protect newsmen from carelessness, laziness or incompetency, and it has nothing to do with the factor of cockiness or arrogance which makes som reporters insufferable. These matters are not affected one way or the other by shield laws, and can be dealt with or without shield legislation. bill fate not needed, i.e., newsmen have been doing their job for 200 years without it. Indeed, the Washington Post reporters did a fine job without shield law orotection. However, recent court decisions leading to jailing of reporters in a few isolated instances, has indicated a possible erosion of heretofore constitutional protections. taken-for-grant- ELLIS highest duty of newspaper journalism in America, which is not to dutifully publish handouts from public agencies or to accept straight-face- d lies from officials, but to let the American people know what really goes on in their government. This is what the shield bill, more formally known as the Privileges for Professional Journalists Bill (HB90), was all about. The sole purpose of the proposed Utah law and similar is to elsewhere legislation guarantee that newsmen can protect news sources. I Without this privilege which, until recent court decisions was thought to be guaranteed by the First Amendment, such sources would dry up. The Watergates will remain unexposed. There is perhaps a valid argument against shield legislation on the grounds that it is The day could come when guaranteed protection of news sources is vital to the welfare of the people of Utah and the Nation. If and when newsmens shield legislation comes up again, it is to that the debate will take place in the proper perspective. The main sponsor of HB90, Rep. Sherman D. Harmer Jr., Lake, views the Watergate case as a perfect ex- lt Get on creditor list of the need for a ample healthy, digging press. Noting that his bill was supported by the leadership of both parities in the House, he was incensed that personal pique on the part of a couple of senators helped bottle it up in the Senate. it must oe acthat another factor in failure of the bill was the logjam of legislation near the end of the sesHowever, knowledged sion. Some senators felt they had more important fish to fry, in terms of the public welfare, than Nixon nominates switch, senator says Army secretary -- WASHINGTON (UPI) Weve had our ups and downs, our ins and outs, and we've always survived, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said, a slight smile creasing his face. It was his way of saying that life and government and politics will go on even though John B. Connally is now a Republican in name as well as in fact. Yet the defection of Connally is a big catch for the Republicans probably the biggest name to and switch party allegiance in recent political history. Protege of Lyndon B. Johnson, secretary of the Navy for John F. Kennedy, governor of Texas, and treasury secretary for Richard M. Nixon is an imposing list of credentials for best-know- n any man in public life. Some leading Republicans hope that Connallys decision-af-ter months in a political limbo will trigger large scale defections to the GOP, especially in the more conservative South and Southwest. For instance. Republican National Chairman George Bush said Connallys change conof political allegiance firms that the new Republican majority we have been talking about is happening. I have said all along that John Connally and millions of others like him can no longer identify with the national Democratic party. Similarly, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential candidate, and Sen. John G. Tower of Texas called on other Demo crats to follow Connallys trail blazing. And Tower said that Connawill accelerate llys decision the growing trend toward realistic political realignment along the lines of political philosophy. But the number of voters who may be swayed by Conunless he is nallys decision on the GOP ticket in 1976 appears problematical. Rather than becoming polarized into rigid party structures, voters' have become increasingly more independent. They vote candidates and issues, not parties, more than ever before. The most fertile area for more Connallys has to be the South, where Democrats still tend to be more conservative than their party peers north line. of the Mason-Dixo- - Howard H. Callaway, WASHINGTON (AP) heir to a textiles fortune and a former congressman from Georgia, has been nominated by President Nixon to succeed Robert F. Froehlke as secretary of the Army. Nixons announcement on Wednesday followed by one day the disclosure of Froehlkes resignation from the post he had held for two years. Callaway, 46, is the son of the late Cason J. Callaway, founder of the Callaway Mills industrial empire. Callaway, a member Callaway of the Republican National Committee, was a Democrat until the 1964 presidential race of Sen. Barry Goldwater, Less than two years later, Callaway was elected to the 89th Congress from Georgias Third District, the states first GOP congressman in nearly a n shield bill. The incarcerated Hoffa had been promised he would be 1970. free by Thanksgiving This was considered so certain that his wife was permitted to telephone the happy news to him in the wardens office at Lewisburg, Pa peni- tentiary. But for a year, the Justice Department balked at recommending Hoffa's release and the parole board turned him down twice. Not until House aide Murray Chotiner complained to Haldeman was action taken. sands of dollars had been contributed to the Nixon campaign and after Hoffa pledged to "deliver the Teamsters It appears that nothing has occurred, substantive wrote Chotiner. It is suggested that it should not take this long to perform if there is going to be any perform- in 1972. ance. Chotiners note to Haldeman was dated November 3, 1971. By Christmas eve, Hoffa was out of prison. His sentence was commuted' by President Nixon after hundreds of thou Union into the Republican fold President told us the amount was smaller. But all sources agreed that a huge cash collection was turned over to former Attorney General John Mitchell, in behalf of the One source close to the Teamsters, by Allen Dorfman. Teamsters claimed the union had raised more than $730,000 Mitchell flatly denied receivfor Nixon, most of it in cash, ing any Teamsters contribuduring the 1968 and 1972 cam- tion. I was in the business of paigns. Much of the money expending money, not receivcame from Las Vegas gam- ing it, he told us. bling lords whose casinos Dorfman has been linked by were financed by the Teamthe New York Times to Mafia sters' pension fund, swore our mobsters who allegedly have source. been trying to cut themselves Another source dose to the into a Teamsters' medical crime-connecte- d program on the West Coast. The Times quoted from an FBI affidavit, which claimed Dorfman put Hoffas successor as Teamsters president, Frank Fitzsimmons, together with the Mafia mobsters in California last February. After his meetings with the mobsters, Fitzsimmons flew back to Washington with President Nixon on the presidential plane. Dorfman, meanwhile, began serving a prison term for pension fund fraud and jury tampering. We have spent several LaVerkin. The bill was carefully writad hoc widely-baseof senators and committee representatives of both parties and members of the leadership of both houses. It provided for implementation of joint interim comretention of a mittees, research director, legislative auditor, legislative counsel and legislative analyst. It passed the House with only two dissenting votes. Again, the factor of congestion entered the picture. The bill was late in getting to the Senate and had to compete with several other major bills. It was one of several measures designed to implement changes in the Legislative Article of the state Constitution approved by voters in 1972. The favorable vote came S "2 --- I ; Editor's Note: Were sorry the volume of colls end moll moke It lm- possible to onswer every question. Pleose, no medico! or legol auesfions. Answers can only be given in this column. Give your name, address and help you. telephone number (not for publication) to help U "4 : tools with some skepticism until full advantage is taken of presently authorized tools. piecing together the story of Hoffas release. Fitweeks zsimmons made several approaches to Mitchell, beginto secure a ning in parole for Hoffa. A promise of parole by Thanksgiving 1970, mid-196- however, fell through. confidential file :i TREMONTON It could happen to anyone. It just so happens that the poor guy is a leader in Troop 137, Golden Spike District, Boy Scouts of America. You know . . .the Be Prepared guys. The other weekend, the boys of and their leaders left in trucks for the Wayne shows 4t i Troop 137 Sandall ranch in Promontory. Something went wrong from the beginning, because the boys report they didnt sleep well. It might have been cold, or hard sleeping bags. A Boy Scout is loyal, helpful, friendly, and a few other things, but he doesnt have to sleep well to keep within the rules. it It n Things picked up in the morning when the boys and their leaders headed for the lake. Im not sure whether the boys built their own canoes, but regardless, it wasnt a flaw in the boat that caused the mishap. his fishline and stretched like a first baseman attempting to unhook it. He not only didnt get his line, but tipped over the canoe. The next thing the Scouts noticed was their leader There was one difference. thrashing like a He was going up and down instead of forward. He was also yelling at the top of his lungs, before they got damp. A Scout is kind, trustworthy, clean, things like that. But he doesnt have to know how to swim unless hes after a merit badge. And, the leader wasnt swimming! It might have been the cold water. It was about 40 degrees which is a few degrees below comfortable. The Scouts did a fine job of rescuing their leader. They didn't even take the time to build a fire by rubbing a couple Cub Scouts together, or whatever they rub to start a fire. They used matches. Soon they had a roaring flame going. Then began the long process of drying out their leader and his clothes. Drying the leader was easy. When he got too hot, he moved back away from the fire. It was the clothes that proved to be a little more difficult. There is nothing in the Scout laws that says a Boy Scout has to know how to cook. A Scout can win or earn a merit badge if he can pass certain cooking tests. No Scout of Troop 137 passed a cooking test for a merit badge that day. Apparently they either built the fire too big, or hung One Scout leader snagged . 4 stern-wheele- r. the wet clothes too close. that Hoffas son, James, made a new approach in early 1971 to Chotiner who was identified Mr. by the code name, Pajamas. Contrary to published reports, Chotiner received no contributions or fees but assisted Hoffa for political reasons. t By Harry Jones Deseret News staff writer d after a heavy campaign to convince the electorate that the Legislature couldnt do its work properly without new tools, including a legislative auditor and a new interim committee setup. The voters may view future appeals for new legislative A j According to the postal inspector in Brooklyn they are out of business. But, they have made a general assignment for benefit of creditors. The law firm of Goldman, Frier and Altesman, attorneys and counselors at law, Seven Dey St., New York City, N.Y., will accept proofs of your claims requesting reimbursement for financial loss. We have sent you the necessary form to send. Indeed, an equally important if not more important fish which failed to get fried in the Senate was House Bill 319 which would have set up an interim operations committee to govern legislative work between sessions. Haldeman pulled the strings that sprung Hoffa - R.W., OUR MAN Jack Anderson H. R. WASHINGTON Haldeman, the ousted White House major domo, personally pulled the strings that opened the prison doors for boss Jimmy Hoffa. Club watch it and a ten by a Demos will survive nt We paid membership in Wholesale Merchandise America in Hicksville, N.Y. 1 ordered a bracelet last July and sent a money order. 1 never received no answer to letters either. Can you assist me? of Thats the reason their leader came walking down the trail to home with a slight limp from a burnt boot, one sleeve missing from his shirt and wearing brown pants brown like in scorched! u A .v 'k v t ' 4 4 If After a session with the Scout manuals, the troop will try again, and so will the leader. Scout is brave! WITS END: A friend of ours in the insurance business is pushing earthquake insurance. ; A lt i T |