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Show ' f ht gait Come On In; I Wont Kick You $ fibtmf r Monday Morning;, April 10, 1961 'A? The Public Form w w v' Action Likely This Year on Detention Encouraging steps have been taken to Implement the new juvenile detention pro ..jxam.enact.ed.bx. the last Legislature... Spurred by a visit of Sherwood Norman of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, several groups are moving to put into effect a new law esprotablishing a cooperative state-count- y gram for constructing, operating and supervising detention facilities. MOST IMPORTANT was organization of a citizens advisory committee appointed by the State Welfare Department. This committee, broadly representative of various parts of the 'state and of interested groups, is to recommend standards for construction, operation and supervision of detention facilities. It hopes to move with dispatch so that the program can be started July 1 when the law goes into effect Fortunately it has available a great, deal of information from previous studies made in Utah and from national experience and data such as that given by Mr. Norman. It has a firm foundation on which it can build. At the same time the state advisory committee is moving toward establishment of standards, at least one county is moving rapidly to apply those standards in a new juvenile detention facility. A SPECIAL COMMITTEE named last month to investigate the Salt Lake County Detention Home has Emphasized the need for earliest possible construction of a new Just One Break Important advantages derived from employment of the handicapped were spotlighted at an award luncheon given by the .Utah Governors Committee on Employ-- ment of the Physically Handicapped. Three organizations Marquardt Aircraft, Interstate Motor Lines and the Salt Lake were honored City Veterans Hospital ; along with two individuals, Dr. Harold and Donald C. Caffall. All .; Rosenberg have been instrumental in providing or ; finding jobs for the handicapped. Principal speaker at the affair, Dr. Roy G. Fugal, manager of employment practices for General Electric Company, and Dr. Laurence B. Harman, chairman thef owrfiorVeoff rmitteer exprafnc'd'tns" benefits derived from employment of .handicapped persons. It is far more than personal advantage for the employed person. There are great social gains in helping these people to be rather than a burden on their families or government. And experi-.enc- e has proved that businesses gain as .well when a properly trained handicapped person is placed in the right job. Then the handicap often becomes an asset rather than a liability. As a result business after business Jvs found that the handicapped person Is a more productive and more loyal employe with a low accident and absenteeism rate. As Dr. Fugal stressed, what the handicapped person wants isnt favoritism, but just a chance to prove himself. A gobd slogan for the program, he noted, was devised in New York City where an organization called JOB asks that employers give Just One Break to those with impairments. Its a good slogan and a good appeal. And it is well to remember that the JOB break is not just a boon to the individual, but often to the business concerned and always to society in general. , Word from Pago Pago is that the chiefs . ' are worried about the possibility that Pres- - ident Kennedy will appoint a woman gov-- ernor. But we had thought all along that Dottie Lamour was in charge over there. Systematic Progress facility. It has the full support of the Salt Lake County Commission In this recoinmendatlon..aiulJthe. commlsslonhas. promised to make funds available to finance the countys share. The state of Utah under the new law is empowered to provide up to half the cost of such a structure. State participation, however, will have to be substantially less than half because the total appropriation to finance the program in the state for two years was only $250,000. - Salt Lake County also Is fortunate in that it can take advantage of much past study of its own problem. Plans for a juvenile detention facility were dravJn up several years ago. They must be updated, and no doubt revised in light of the expert recommendations of Mr. Norman, who is regarded as an authority on the peculiar problems of juvenile detention both from the standpoint of physical plant and operation. But much of the groundwork has been done. Prolonged study at both the county and the state level should not therefore be necessary. Some positive action ought to be possible this year. ACTION IS certainly needed after some 15 or 20 years in which inadequate detention procedures have been repeatedly called to public attention in Utah. It is well that the first steps toward correction seem likely to be taken in Salt Lake County. More than half the children detained In Utah were held at the detention home here. Furthermore a well designed and fully staffed facility in Salt Lake County could help solve statewide problems by handling, on a contract basis with other counties, the more difficult cases requiring longer detention and more expert study. C. L. Sulzberger De Gaulle Poses Two Issues for JFK A decision on the kind of facility in Salt Lake County will help determine the kind of facilities needed elsewhere. to be built C Nw York Timet Servk PARIS When he talks with' President De Gaulle pext month President Ken' nedy will find it necessary to raise two ques- tions himself , Utahs whole juvenile detention problem, as Mr. Norman said, cannot be solved overnight. Nor will it be solved in a year, perhaps not in several years. But we have a workable plan now which makes possible corrective action. It is to be hoped that program can be speedily' put into operation. f policy reconcilktfemiAtTpfeS ent, although merging State Another most toward self rule in Dutch New Guinea has been taken with a meeting of the new legislative council in Hollandia. Powers of the council, comprising 12 elected and 12 appointed members, are largely advisory but it has the right to initiate legislation and a majority of the members are Papuans. The Dutch half of New Guinea, in the Pacific off Australia, is the only part of the prewar Pacific empire of the Netherlands still in Dutch hands. The Dutch are resisting Indonesias claims to the island and are encouraging the concept of a Melanesian nation to embrace also Australian New Guinea and Papua and Southwest Pacific islands as far east as Fiji. The Australians, who have looked with alarm on efforts to drive out the Dutch, probably Another' step -- 111. ' $6. Had this book been pub-- ' lished a year ago and had It received sufficient atten-- ' tion, then much of the public surprise and shock which followed Julys bloody ; events In the Congo might have been avoided. ; However, the second part of the assumption is the more important; and it is highly unlikely that more ! than a handful of readers would have been interested I In the Congo before violence made it newsworthy. Alan P. Merrlam writes of the Congo with authority. Ten years ago he and his . wife spent 13 months there 'engaged in ethnological research. In 1959 the Merriams . and their two daughters returned to the Congo to live . for a year in a tiny village Jn Kasai Province. Dr. Merriam utilizes his anthropology, specialty, - sparingly in writing this book. Much of his atten-- . - tion is given to the politics f colonial rule and the ef-!fect upon the people when , Mr. Sulzberger friendly terms with our oldest ally, our attitudes are basically divided in NATO and the U.N. France is conducting a polite strike In both n organizations. The two questions referred to are De Gaulles desire for a Western political directorate and the possibilities, if any, of sharing nuclear secrets with France. These must be dealt with separately because they have been handled accordingly by De Gaulle. Big-Thre- e Nevertheless, together they relate directly to the French Presidents quest for national grandeur. The first matter was broached by De Gaulle in letters to Eisenhower and Mao mijlian in 1958. Washington and London thought they could resolve it by naming a relatively high level committee of undersecretaries of foreign affairs to consult with intermittent frequency. But this doesnt satisfy De Gaulle. He wants some kind of commitment to discuss all Western problems regularly and on a global, not merely North Atlantic, scale. would accept the plan. The Indonesian government claims New Guinea as the legal successor to the Netherlands East Indies government. Actually, New Guinea is not part of the East Indies and handing it over to Indonesias Sukarno would be merely a change from Dutch to Indonesian colonialism. Soviet Premier Khrushchev a year ago endorsed Indonesias efforts to seize Dutch New Guinea. For strategic and other reasons the region should be kept Indonesian free of Communist-tainte- d rule. they achieve Independence. Colonial policies, he says, have varied markedly from country to country with the Dutch stressing the United States the Westernization of colonial peoples, the British indirect rule, the French assimilation, the Portuguese and Spanish no clear-cu- t policy, and the Belgians paternalism. AFRICANS were treated as children virtually incapable of guiding their own destinies and every effort was made to isolate the Congo economically, politically and socially. In consequence, when independence came the Congolese were utterly unprepared. This has all been said before. But Dr. Merriam goes deeper in his study of the Congos troubles. In the little village of Lupupa, he writes, the people know practically nothing of the outside world and very little more of the Congo. "Independence was conceived as something with which the young men were concerned, and the older people were not vitally interested. When they spoke of It, it was with a certain diffidence and boredom; the problem lim - we are on We have more or less shoved this matter under the rug but De Gaulle hasn't forgotten it Congo Wliys Call for Understanding y Editor, Tribune: I was very interested in Dwayne Steven-- . sons letter (Forum, March 25, which needled me about my bill to create a Needles "''NatJonar' Recreation - A rea west of Monticello. According to Mr. Stevenson, I "popped a bill into the hopper arbitrarily setting aside some 75,000 acres . . . Purportedlyof the Democratic members the delegation were more systematic in rm asking the secretary of interior to make a study of national park or national recreation area status for Needles. Unfortunately, Mr. Stevenson doesnt have his facts straight First of all, ' I began working systematically on the Needles question in 1959 with the Department of Interior to devise a plan that would best develop the area. Moreover, if Mf. Stevenson had bothered to read the Congressional Record for March 7, 1961, he would have discovered copies of letters to me dating back to April 13, 1960, from Gov. Clyde, from affected state agencies, from the Grand and San Juan County Commissioners, and from public land users in the Needles area. All of these officials and land users are opposed to creation of a national park, since this would bar multiple use. They and The Tribune wisely favor a national recreation area where multiple use can be continued, as provided in my bill. I was AV VOl&ih surprised, therefore, when Oiiu St. the rest of the delegation asked for a study of possible national park designation for Needles. Evidently Mr. Stevenson was not aware that not one but two studies have been made by the National Park Service concerning the best development for the Needles to refuses Integrate area. The first was made in forces under Gen. Norstad or September of 1959 and the to store American atomic second in August, 1960. The warheads. He has eased out which I introduced was bill fighter-bbmbeour units, has drafted, at my request, by withdrawn his Mediterrathe Department of Interior, nean fleet from allied comand implemented the Park and is now mand, vetoing apService reports. In light of pointment of a secretary-genera- l. these extensive studies and negotiations over an period, It is difficult FINALLY, De Gaulle vig- - When Independence Goes Wrong Congo; Background of Conflict. By Alan P. Mer-rlarNorthwestern Press, Evanston, However, being exceedingly proud, he wont renew the proposal himself. He feels that if our administration is interested in harmony it should bring the subject up. He is still convinced that only through such a formula can a valid Western policy be devised. For him NATO and the U.N. have no real meaning. The second fundamental problem, sharing nuclear secrets, has never been put forth openly by De(Gaulle. BUT IT IS a serious diplomatic obstacle. De Gaulle is determined to make France a military nuclear power. He is convinced no nation can be in the first rank without its own atomic arsenaL Therefore, uninvited to join in the Geneva test ban parleys, he builds and tests his own weapons. He will continue to do so until he is formally ad- ply was not theirs to solve. At the same time they could speak eloquently of freedom although, as Merriam remarks, eloquence is no substitute for information." THE ADVENT of was marked by calm. Then, within hours, came the first tribal con-- . flicts, followed in a few days by the mutiny of the Force Publique. The Congo crisis was in full bloom. It is easy enough to blame the Belgians for failing to prepare the Congolese for independence. It is ' even easier to shrug off everything as being "too complicated to understand." It is unrealistic to talk of finding a "solution. For the Congo is not unique. inde-penden- "numitted to the clear dub or is given access to the same kind of help we it may be a horrible example of how independence can go wrong, but it is by no means the only one or the last. provide the English. We may scoff at Frances atomic arms and claim they are primitive and too costly. Dr. Merriams book offers a penetrating insight into the situation as it developed, contributing to that better understanding of the Congo he regards as so necessary to Westerners in the continuing battle for Africa. Theodore Long, BUT SUCH arguments dont interest De Gaulle. He doubts the value of any direct approach to Washington. He is convinced we wont ask Congress to revise the Macmahon act to qualify Fram for aid. Yet the prob- - lem Is vital. And, since De Gaulle wont raise it, Kennedy should. Feeling excluded from the diplomatic intimacy prevailing between Washington and London and feeling excluded nufrom the clear partnership, De Gaulle sits on his hands In NATO. This makes for grave difficulties. The alliance is built around" a '"French' ' keystone" and has its principal headquarters here. But De Gaulle Anglo-America- n Soaper Says The various reducing juices, powders and diets are now said to be delicious. But wheres the merit in losing weight unless you ' suffer? Any chance of the United Nations sending in a task force to liberate Ingemar Johansson from the grip of the Internal Revenue Service? This is the time of year when student groups, taking educational tours of industrial and commercial establishments, are fascinated by the batteries of candy-bamachines. and r soft-drin- We dont think that basketball fans are worse than any others. Its just that bad sportsmanship, like muddy shoes. Is more noticeable indoors. r th pounded by Norstad and the Eisenhower Administration of giving NATO its own nuclear stockpile. For him this means simply that the U.S. under an apparently novel formula, would in fact continue to control these weapons. Likewise, In the U.N. De Is a negative policy. Gaulles He considers the U.N. "nothing but anarchy. But we cant indefinitely count on French support in blocking Chinas admission. De Gaulle feels simply that if China comes in, it wont bother us. It will just add one more orator to insult the West. may find Washing these Gaullist attitudes difficult to understand. But these are the attitudes that govern De Gaulle and he alone makes French policy. Unless our President frankly faces the Issues of Big Three cooperation and atomic sharing, his talks will prove essentially meaningless. tn WASHINGTON Behind the gay badinage of the "Ev and Charlie weekly vision show, there is research and rehearsal worthy of an Ed Sullivan product- tele- ion. When the two stars, Sen-- a t e Minority leader Everett Dirksen and House Mino- rity Leader REPUBLICANS wish to emulate the Democrats In their years in the desert, when National Chairman Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Council spoke with one voice, and the congressional leadership spoke with another. The joint leadership meeting was therefore formed. It consists of the following senators: Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, chairman of the policy committee; Thomas H. Kuchel of Calis fornia, whip; Leverett tall of Massachusetts, chairman of the conference, and their counterparts in the House: John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin, Leslie C. Arends of Illinois, Charles B. Hoeven of Iowa. Rep. Clarence J. Brown of Ohio, ranking member of the rales committee, is also included. Republican National Chairman Thraston Morton of Kentucky is the presiding officer. Sal-ton- Charles Halleck go before the cameras every Thursday morning in the old Supreme Court chamber to deplore the Kennedy legislative program and to implore the President to act more like his Republican predecessor, their act has already been reviewed by the top congressional leadership of their party. THEIR CHOICE of subject has been previously approved by the eight other members of the joint Senate-House Republican leadership meeting; scripts have been cleared by the assembled group. The leadership meetings, if not the subsequent televised press conferences, were sparked by President Eisenhower, who at the last legislative meeting of the old order at the White House, suggested the Republicans out of office should speak with one voice. d i d .not THE AGENDA for the weekly meetings, which take place in alternate months in the offices of Sen. Dirksen and Rep. Halleck, is prepared by Robert Humphrey, former campaign director of the Republican National Committee, who was lured away from the Cliltural Cen- - Editors Note ' The Monday Mominger Is out of town. His column will appear in Its regular place on this pegs next week. I v uft dtfc iff 1 ninA- iA A All by Himself Editor, Tribune: Two weeks ago the Senate adopted by a vote of 90 to one a resolution to ratify a treaty between the United States and Canada which will allow development of the water resources of the Columbia Just Cant Pan Stars With Patronage 4 asfci my action could be called "arbitrary. Mr. Stevenson accuses me of trying to grab a headline by introducing a bill which is the product of fully 18 months work. Perhaps he could explain how long I should wait before it is no longer headline grabbing. If I were not convinced of the sincerity of the other members of the delegation in asking for yet another study, I could well argue that they were headline grabbing. However, I am sure this is not the case, and I shall be pleased to continue working with them for the betterment of Utah. WALLACE F. BENNETT, Senator from Utah. Mary McGrory 0 s Our Reader By i A ter to act as staff consultant to the minority leadership at a reported salary of $25,000 a year. The show, still In Its Infancy, hopes In time to present guest stars. The leadership meeting may call in other Republican leaders, like former Vice President Nixon and Gov. Rockefeller, to address them and possibly to make a television appearance. Ev and Charlie does not seem to have caught the public fancy to a marked degree. Mail has been light. Republican legislators, who think the show is good for laughs If not necessarily for the party, are reluctant to express any opinion about the two voices of their party who speak as one. The liberals are frankly uncomfortable." Some younger members have expressed reservations about the style of the stars florid in Evs case; ferocious In Charlies. They are not sure the image" compares favorably with that of a vigorous old president. The general silence at the box office was explained glumly by one Republican congressman, who said: The Republicans don't want to complain Ev and Charlie have what little patronage the party still has. And I 43-ye- -- wouldnt think the crats would object should they?" Demo-- ' why River and Its tributaries. Guess who cast the negative vote? Youre right Utahs senior senator, Wallace F. Bennett This treaiy, been under negotiation for years, was signed by the Eisenhower administration. It allocates the waters of the Columbia and its tributaries so dams which have been planned for years can now be built These dams would put now wasted rushlng wa-ter- s to work irrigating new lands and supplementing those now qoer irrigation, and producing more power. The treaty was unanimously voted out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and supported by such conservative Republicans as Sen. Barry Gold-watand Sen. Styles Bridges. Sen. Bennetts opposition was based on the spectous assertion that the treaty would hurt Utah. What can the senators from our sister states particularly our sister states in the West who are as dependent upon water resource development for their ecoas we are nomic in Utah think of a western senator who turns his back on them? And how can we in Utah hope for the support of .these senators! for our water development for central Utah projects and Emery and Dixie? DEL MILLER er well-bein- g Negative Advice Editor, Tribune: Sad indeed Is the only advice possible to give an heir, a young man in particular, upon coming into wealth: Above all, dont do anything with your money. Do not try to create new jobs through new industry. It isnt worth the chance, and your money through conservative investment will grow and grow anyway. Instead, if it is not already in a trust account with a bank, see that it is put there; let the bank do all the work. As for putting only part of youf income into new ventures, that is how you will get Involved till you get to It works that way. Harry Maxwell, one of this nations most famous yachtsmen, gave me this advice when I was young. When he was young, he said, and had Inherited his money, he got ambitious and bought Into some small railroad lines, expecting to make them better. On the contrary, they got worse. He really got scared, he confessed. However, by Influence he was able to saw them off on some of the big systems. After that he never tried to do a thing with his money, left it all to the banks. It was surprising, he assured me, how in the couple of decades since, his estate had grown! Contrary to such sage this letter writer, then young, upon inheriting a comfortable fortune, got ambitious and with a friend, a really true friend, tried to create jobs through new Industry in Utah. The depression saw the last glimmer of possible success and good-b- y money! Most of my inherited estate, which came to me in 1920, became du Pont stock, split up and split up time and time again afterwards! Did anybody respect me for having tried? Certainly the men who lost their jobs through our failure did not! Rather, had I done nothing with my inherited money, had left my money In du Pont and other seasoned securities, respect for me would now be unbounded, for I would be a very rich man, my society much sought! MIGHT HAVE BEEN welL ad-vic- e, Outstanding Granite Editor Tribune: I read with great interest the letter by "Granite Taxpayer (Forum, April 12). Educators have long recognized the fact that no one method of teaching is suitable or adaptable to every child. There must be a happy blending of all methods to communicate with the Individual child, his limitations and capabilities. Also, the consensus among educators is that phonics only readers are slow, ponderous readers, often losing the gist of what they are reading while laboriously sounding out the words. The finest part of the art of teaching is to know the child and to which method of teaching he will respond best I feel that teachers, ad- ministrators, s u p e r v isors and all in Granite School District are doing an outstanding Job with the redding and academic program. We have able and efficient personnel In the district and a fine system of teaching and study. ANOTHER GRANmAH |