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Show k ibnfiJ nnA C. L. pe gait Page 18 IJjTI 19-sto- the county before temporary zoning rules went into effect last fall. The caution exercised by Snowbird developers so far convinces us that any future work will be executed with equal concern for the beauty of Little Cottonwood Canyon. As County Commissioner Philip R. Blomquist most appropriately said, "Anyone who will redesign a $3 million building and increase the cost 20 percent to save some trees will work with the community. The debate between Snowbird officials and county planners centers on the height of the buildings. Restriction of building height is proper, but it should be remembuilding in bered that even a single-storthe wrong spot can be just as repugnant as a building. Contrariwise, that building, designed and sited by a sensitive and conscientious architect, can indeed, in this be very unobtrusive instance, dwarfed by the towering mountain environment. Any decision by cither the County Planning Commission or the County Commission must recognize that commercial y 19-sto- 19-sto- ry skiing is a vital and most desirable part of the life of Little Cottonwood Canyon. W'th an approved master plan, and in good faith, huge sums already have been spent and much more committed by Snowbird. That commitment means that the master plan must be completed or the entire project will fail. The Planning Commission and the three county commissioners should stand by the original approval of the Snowbird master plan which was restated only last October in the Planning Commissions public hearing on the proposed ordinance. Based on Snowbirds performance we believe its owners are firmly committed to keeping the canyon as beautiful as when they poured their first batch of concrete. It is hard to believe a company that has already spent upwards of $13 million (and is preparing to spend $60 million more) on a project would endanger that investment by wrecking the the very product it is trying to sell skiing and beauty of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The Tribune recognizes and supports the need for adequate zoning of our magnificent canyons. The intent and content of the proposed ordinance is highly laudable. Further exceptions to the proposed zoning plan, if any, should be granted under the same iron clad assurances demanded of Snowbird that they be compatible with the rugged beauty of the canyons. Bicycle Riders, Beware A bicycle is like so much cash rolling around on shiny, spoked wheels. Left unguarded, it is just as likely to be snapped up and never seen again. By its nature, the lightweight, mobile, difficult to identify and bicyrle is a tempting prize to thieves both amateur and professional. Once removed from the immediate neighborhood in which it was stolen, the hot bike is almost impossible to trace. Even those stolen bicycles eventually abandoned and recovered by police may never be returned to owners because in most cases police have no way of knowing who the owners are. Nothing short of an owner's constant attention to bicycle security can prevent theft. But such a degree of vigilance is not always possible and even locked much-in-deman- d bicycles continue to disappear from front porches and fenced backyards. An elaborate system of registration could result in recovery of a greater number of stolen bicycles. Such a system is now being worked out by insurance men, expeuycle salesmen and police. But the which rience of local fire departments have registered bikes for years, indicates only a small percentage of owners take the trouble to register. The new registration plan is more comprehensive and presumably would attract greater participation and better results. While any new effort to discourage theft and assist recovery is to be encouraged, theft prevention will continue to rest with the individual bike rider. When he lets down his guard the chances are hes had it. Another Viewpoint Mr. Nixon Urges Us Forward Into the Past From the Imuisville Courier Journal and Times J Eighteen years after the Supreme oqrt handed down its most crucial ruling .the history of American education, a oyement is under way to stay the hand of ej federal judiciary in implementing it nd to resurrect the discredited doctrine of separate but equal" in the guise of equalin of educational oppm 'unity" ity (neighborhood schools." The movement has been joined by many hite parents in both South and North, and by a goodly number of black parents as jell. It has been espoused by many U.S. Congressmen, by several presidential candidates. Its chief spokesman -- - until March 19 was Governor George Wallace of Alabama. Now Richard Nixon, President and candidate, has embraced it as his own. It's an invidious movement. On the one hand it absolves itself of any prejudice against the black and other mino-itie- s and publicly applauds the desires of the Supreme Court and past Congresses for the desegregation of public educaton, and the larger goal which was to result from The Parrish Cartoon that desegregation society in which races may he at peace with one another all be- cause they're equal before the law and share equally in the benefits which the society can bestow upon its members. Rut on the other hand the movement seeks to deprive the federal judiciary of the in some only means at its command to not all in undo the racially cases, but separate school systpms which thp Supreme Court, in every decision since 1954, has continued to abhor. No federal judge has been eager to order the busing of schoolchildren from one another. to This most neighborhood extreme means of enforcing Ihe Constitution has been used only when the efforts to circumvent that Constitution hap been extreme themselves. The bus routes have been no longer than the distance citizens have fled to avoid what thp Constitution and the courts demand. And if the barriers erected between black and white, between ghetto and subuib, can't bp overcome without inconvenience or, as somp claim, it's because we, the citizens, have danger built them so high. Now we're being told that the important thing isn't that black and white be educated together, but that black and white be educational given "equal opportunity which is to say, sepwhere they are now arately. And the only argument which our President gives us against a constitutional amendment to mortar that stone into the very foundation of our 'democracy is' that the amendment process is too slow. Well be separate, th President tells us, but we'll he equal. We'll halt the busing, and we'll pour money into the rural and urban schools that we've neglected for so long, and make them equal to the rich suburban schools. But, the President says, This does not reduce our commitment to desegregation. . ." It's true that no national political figures d has not even Governor Wallace d school a revival of the And this may he segregation of interpreted as a sign that the American citizenry's sen.-,- of justice has sharpened during the past 18 years. It may also mean that white Americans have discovered that the reality of segregation may be preserved without the embarrassment of blatantly discriminatory laws. Thats certainly been the rase in many Northern states and cities, wnich have never endorsed the crass honesty of the white South. pm-pose- state-impose- pre-195- 4. Melodrama Rehearsal 4 . 4 Sulzberger New Yor k Timps Service Canyon Zoning Plan Most Laudable, And Snowbird Okay Should Stand The obligation might not be legally binding, but it is morally. Salt Lake County cannot now, having once given Snowrecant on the deal by bird the firm the permission to build a denying complex. Construction of the building, along with many other structures. was included in the master plan submitted by Snowbird and approved by s Today s StuilcMts Dig ToleraiJiiQI la.kt' Saturday Morning, April t, t CAMBRIDGE. MASS. - stma! wiA ww cAipefti??azoeiL versity students stem more ant today than two or three treats rad, tegsq tense, less hysterical and less given to violent pro- test against tal policies governmenwith which they disagree or against intellectuals associated such policies. Both the amount of protestation and the novelty of its expression on campuses have lessened and this Mr. produces an atmosphere of relate Such, at any rate, is the imyWWiWrdfam-veye- d by a 'ong talk with DerekSTiliSofc Harvard University's personable h? dent, a tall lank man whose youtTOdjujgl is not in the least hampered by a plaster cast encompassing one 4$$ mishap playing basketball. Overdraw Conclusions Try il-Y- like il oifli . . .! The Public Forum East Stars, West Stars Editor, Tribune: I wish Salt Lake City would come to its senses about naming streets One may have guessed that something so influential as the Utah Stars basketball team would lead to a street-nam- e change. But why couldn't they have just called the one block west of Main "Stars Avenue? Now were going to use that name instead of First South. There's nothing stupider than a street changing its name when it continues in a straight line. Nobody, for example, really ends and "Third knows where "Broadway South begins, and I suggest that "Broadway be chucked altogether. Now were going to have the same ambiguity with "First South vs. Stars Avenue. Articles in the Tribune on March 9 Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must lie printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every ten days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name. All letters are subject to condensation. suggest that Sunnyside Avenue may change to "Pioneer Way, and that South Temple may revert to "Brigham Street. I say "Sunnyside Avenue is just fine and ought to be lelt alone. I'm not much for changing "South Temple" back to "Brigham Street, though that would be in keeping with the original plan. If that is done, I think what really needs changing is "Main Street back to East. Temple, the original name. I doubt if theres another "East Temple Strppt around, whereas "Main Street is an obvious bore. KEITH MOORE Oh, Those Ss vs. Anent "busing Editor, Tribune: of "busses" vs. or buses" (Letter "bussing, Robert M. Gordon, March 8) : A brief survey buses" and of current usage showed "bus, "busing used at least 96 times in an artielp in Newsweek (March 13) and at least 58 times on the editorial pages of the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune (March 5). In no case was the alternative spelling, "busses or used. "bussing, Webster's International Unabridged Dir- -' tionary (and others) give the singular as "bus, plural, "buses," ("buses, listed first, is preferred). The word buss," meaning "to kiss," has only one plural, "busses. busing" are Admittedly, "buses and exceptions to the rules for both suffixing and pronunciation; however, dropping the nugatory "s from bussing (carrying by bus") clearly differentiates it from "bussing ("kissing"). I intuitively feel that this is at least one reason for the preferred use of "buses and busing. EUGENE C. GLUESING Slop the Waste Editor, Tribune: Engineering for widening 39th South eastward from State Street is now progressing. This is one phase of a series of projects expected to amount to more than $100 million in this decade being planned lor Salt Lake County in order to move 1.2 passengers per car. A more enlightened public doubts the wisdom of continued road construction at the expense of public transit systems. The overuse of the auto is forced upon people because there is no other convenient mode to commute. We will face the day when auto usage will be sharply curtailed But first, another means of adequate and convenient mobility must be provided. When will our state, county and local officials plan and spend for public transit systems including the integration of idle sehool buses? The Granite, Jordan and Murray School districts have some 160 buses which can tie better u'ihzed. stop this waste. Despite a slight increase in bus pationage, b It's .4 rosy verbiage emanating front the the Utah Transit Authority, the being hoodwinked if it expects and increased bus service countywide. Close to $2 million of federal and local tax monies will be spent by June, 1972 by the UTAs mostly empty buses. Why should the taxpayers subsidize the UTA (or the Wasatch Front for that matter) without the benefit of even one free ride? This is nonsense. The UTA has no plans for expansion only plans for replacements of an already inadequate 72 buses. Of these, 51 are 16 years of agp and despite the offices of public is expanded over. The minutes of a meeting held in Rome, show that Rome officials were generally pleased with the positive results from their fare-fre- e bus experiment. recent nine-da- y They hope to continue the experiment but with numerous modifications. They did learn that even wi'h the fare-fre- e service, the working commuter wants to get to work on time and conveniently. The Romans are to be congratulated for their boldness of concept. SAMUEL S. TAYLOR Some Differences Editor, Tribune: Life in China and life in America represent perhaps the two greatest extremes in the concept of the purpose of the individual, indeed in the basic values of life. Travelers and observers in China have recently discovered an enormous cultural gap between the youth of China and the youth of America. Some of the basic differences observed are: What I owe to my country, and what can I do for it, versus my rights, and what my country owes me. Service to the masses and the general good, versus service to self. Devotion to work, versus devotion to fun. Respect for society and its standards, versus individual freedom. l, versus and fulfullment. The high ideals of the opera and cinema, versus frivolity and pornography in motion pictures, television and literature. Will China and America ever be able to come to understand and appreciate each other? Will these two fundamentally different ways of life ever be able to live at peace in the same world? Or will one have to give way to the other? Whatever the outcome, time will tell. Can either nation sunive without fundamental changes in its waj of life? Will a new moral code evolve in onp or noth of these great countries? Both countries are in a state of re' olution and travail. Perhaps each can learn something of value from thp other. C. D. McBRIDE Logan self-denia- No Place to Danee cild and my Editor, Tribune: I am husband is 21. We like to go dancinbut because I'm not 21 and cannot get into a lounge or bar there seems to be nowhere for us to go. Could someone please tell me what can bp done about lowering the drinking age or if there might possibly be something done so that people who are married may be legally admitted to taverns. I have talked to quite a few people on this subject and most of them agree with me. If a person is able take on the responsibilities of marriage why shouldn't they be responsible enough to go into a bar with or without their spouse? DENECE WRIGHT Sandy Bok is modest about trying to overdra conclusions from his own necessartW limiteji laboratory of observation. Yet ihJrpstif$ and size of Harvard and its position Jff the educational establishment give its $kgwnce special importance. And Harvard's pfsjderjt finds a decline in the student activisnfcaf the late 1960's, primarily concerned mm world affairs, a decline in the student Culr of Personality and more willingness to listen ip opposing ideas. If coming months confirm this broad impression it could have an effect upon the United States image abroad. After all, it was the vigor of student and intellectual Itadetj-shi- p that crystallized a new national rnnol and was reflected by eventual shifts in Washingtons foreign policy. "Change has taken place because of i combination of factors, says Bok. At tn ; height of the Vietnam war there was anxiety about that subjpet and this came to impose a kind of orthodoxy in opir-ioNow', to some extent, people hav; learned from experience that it is dangerous to permit any particular group to establish an orthodoxy of its own. No single group ran decide what is orthodox. pre-fou- Similar Protests "Even Vietnam, he continues, "doesn't explain why student protests took place. After all, they coincided with similar protests by student groups in other countries not involved with Vietnam at all. In Harvard certainly and probably in other American universities there appears to be a less uptight view of people and everts. Bok says: Student opinions seem to be changing. You can now see editorials in their publications drawing a line between disagreement and harassment. There is greater recognition that you should oppose ideas with other ideas, not with personal attacks. "It is essential that this distinction he understood because universities should stand for the free exchange of ideas and information. This is central to universities and to their role in the advancement of knowledge. I think an upsurge of protest and activism by students in the late 1960's expressed new ideas but these ideas are now more familiar. Some of them have been tested and discarded. Many students perceive that the face are more complex and that problems sweeping solutions are less workable than once imagined. Perhaps this has produced more apathy and skepticism today, less of a tendency to divide the world into heroes and blackguards, good and bad solutions. - w-- Look to 10 Years "The idea of overcoming the status quo and reorganizing society is very congenial to students. But I dont think one can what the effect of all this will be until say see you what the present generation of undergraduates will he doing in 10 years time." Harvard s president is convinced that , good ideas, after all, will drive nut bad ideas and that the present crop of uates accepts this thesis. If provenundergradtrue by time, this would be a welcome and refreshing change. A version of Gresham's Law (bad money drives out the good) recently prevailed in U.S. campuses where some groups seemed etermined that had ideas should drive out good ideas. Big companies have shredding machines to get rid of important documents. Big families have small children to the accomplish same thing. Visiting Cartoonist 1 dr Go 'in; ed 5nd tut sic Ell , V re- - He Gels III Editor, Tribune: People wno want to go out and kill coyotes and other so caned predators, make me ill. Just stop and look back, if the natural food for the coyotes had not been dost roved by our fearless hunters who got their kicks by shooting rabbits, and other small animals, those coyotes wouldn't he picking on sheep. After all, it's a lot easier to get the smaller animal for food than the sheep. I firmly believe that man upsets the balance of nature. TIM CROWELL Orem the sti tic tio fir tr rei pti m tie do -- Morris m th. Rock Hand An,,,, You Win Romp, i,o- - Some na he i ''SrX-- . At 1 |