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Show f Hri I i jpc gait iakt Jribnnf Ttion Salt Lake City, Utah Tuesday lorning September 5, 1972 Page Smith Hempstone Time to Break 26 Recreation Vehicle Standards Fine, But, Lets Hang Only Sinners It is hard to fault Hie National Transporta- tion Safety Board's underlying motive when it advocates adoption of specific safety standards for a variety of recreation vehicles. It is ;a desire to save lives. This is highly commendable, but the proposal, or at least some aspects of it, seems to have been ill prepared and hastily presented Initially, the proposal indicates a certain '.confusion on the board's part relative to the composition of the federal executive branch. .When tlie board proposes the Department of Interior restrict entry to certain primitive and wilderness areas, it would appear the request is addressed to but a single department and also indicates a gross lack of knowledge about wilderness and primitive areas. Wilderness areas, by congressional mandate, are dosed to all motorized vehicle entry. Primitive areas, by administrative proclamation, are similarly restricted. Further, much of this nations primitive and wilderness area is administered by the Department of Agricultures Forest Service. Quota System Vice President Agnew said it WASHINGTON in his Beach acceptance speech. Presiat Miami dent Nixon repeated it a few minutes later when he addressed the Republican National Convention. Now the word has gone out from the White House to all Cabinet officers and agency heads in the federal government: Racial quotas in the hiring and promot on of blacks and other minority groups are out. And high time, too when transmitters are ited, particularly located in canyon or valley bottoms. Also their installation is expensive. An expenditure that becomes even more lacking in economic prudence considering the CB rig would he used only in the eent of some life threatening disaster Nixons order, which also apparently bans promotional quotas for women, is based on a written to a query from an response the President made another minority group: organization representing The American Jewish Committee. The AJC is opposed to quotas as a means of redressing racial disparity in employment, education and governmental appointments. report advocating the tight- In its ening of safety standards for recreation board admits that it has little the vehicles, accident data concerning these vehicles. Such an admission seems to make any proposal of more stringent safety standards, for both the vehicles and their operators, excessively pre- In his reply, circulated to heads of federal departments and agencies by Civil Sendee Commission Chairman Robert E. Hampton, Nixon told the AJC that he had sought and will continue to seek to enlarge opportunities for men and women of all religious, ethnic and racial backgrounds to serve in responsible positions, but the criteria for selection . . . will be based mature. The agency cites a very few incidents in which people have been killed or injured while operating recreation vehicles. There appears to be scant documentation as to where the fault lay even in these sharply limited examples. The National Transportation Safety Board has found a problem, but has failed to measure it. In his made a quotas in cans into tradition. Until Americans knew how big the probThe suggestion that all vehicles entering lem is. it would be unfair to slap them with the restrictions suggested. Rather, the board citisolated areas be equipped with two-waizens band radios, presumably to facilitate should gather the lacking data and determine the summoning of help in case of an emer- the extent of the problem. To act on the gency, does not recognize the very real limi- scant evidence presented so far, any further tations of citizen band radios. They are capa- regulation of recreation vehicles or their opble only of line of sight transmission and in erators would be a case of condemning the mountainous terrain their use is severelv hm- - many for the sins of a few. . y Cop ugh Overbearing and ungracious he was, but American chess virtuoso Bobby Fischer is a champion nonetheless. He set out to supplant the Russians as the games foremost player and he succeeded, brilliantly and decisively. Nothing else really matters. Bobby may have warmed few hearts with his relentless challenge of the former world's chess champion, Boris Spassky, but he proved once more that the surest passage to a pinnacle is up the slopes of singleminded determination. Bobby Fischer i' an original, unpredictable and exasperating. But once at the chess table, he played within the rules, met the best and beat them. No other champion, past or present, whatever the sport, game or pastime, won acclaim doing more. There Iqivo been success stones of more admirable dimension, written in humility and Smiling good fun. Great and celebrated , v Britains Racial Dilemma er v" v 4 ? Racial problems in the United States are the legacy of abandoned and discredited policies and institutions. But in England, where th root cause also goes back many years, increasingly serious racial conflict is also the product of current government policy. An enlightened policy at that. Racial problems in the United States didn't reach full flower until long after slavery. the intial cause, had ceased to exist. But ni Britain those opposing unrestricted immigration b nonwhiles holding British passports see the hope of heading off massive racial trouble, present and future, by imposing liarsh restrictions now. Uganda's expulsion of thousands ol Asians holding British passports has brought the crisis to a head but it also involves nonwhite residents of other present and former commonwealth countries. The situation is shaping up as a classic cdse of a government exhibiting more morality than its people are prepared to accept. In an effort to mollify growing opposition to its immigration policy the Conservative government has emphasized that Britain can absorb the new arrivals. Thursday it made public studies by its Community Relations Commis- sion showing the surprisingly high rates of intermarriage between mmwmtes and white people in England Addressing the nation in a rare television speech. Foreign Secretary Sir Alee Douglas- - Home appealed to the British people to show traditional calm and resource. He stressed the countrys moral and legal duty to absorb the ousted Asians and recalled that Britian authorized passports for them in 1962 when Uganda became independent. At that time, said Sir Alec, the government made it clear that if these people were ever expelled we accepted an obligation to take them in. To go back on that would bo to break the w ord solemnly given by successive British governments." For an England suffering high unemployment, the prospect of thousands of additional potential job seekers of alien race is politically explosive. There is irony in the British dilemma. after the empire crumbled the subjugated peoples are inadvertently threatening tranquility of the home islands. It is almost Long as if fate was visiting poetic punishment on the sons of sons of the empire builders. But if British citizenship is to continue to have meaning, the British people have little choice, accept the situation with traditional calm and resource" with emphasis on the latter quality. v Editor, Tribune: The Republican Convention at Miami Beach finally ended with the expected results. The TV audience was able to go to bed early. The program ran according to schedule lofty rhetroic which to the discerning watchers revealed the shallowness beneath the eloquent veneer of the speakers. Have the TV watchers asked themselves the pertinent questions: Do we want more of the same? A propping up Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 day s. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writers true name. All letters are subject to condensation. his political campaign but so little about ways of unifying the nation. Even while he was asking for the peoples trust he did not deal with them truthfully, responsibly and nobly but cleverly and e almost contemptuously. (James Reston-Tribun- Aug. 28). Do we, the voting public, want to be manipulated and treated cleverly? Walter Lippmann once asked, Why is it bad to shrug off ideals of honesty in politics, business and love? Mr. Lippmans answer to his own question was: Because it defeats and frustrates our lives." Earlier in the evening. Agnew had made an equally forthright statement on the subject: "A quota system regardless of its avowed intent, has no place in a free society" To all of which one can only murmur a hearty amen. For the truth is that the quota system, conceived as a means to partially redress the great wrong of slavery and the only partially less pernicious evil of antiblack discrimination, was beginin f ning to show signs of becoming a vast np-ofwere discriminated' which other Americans against because they were not black. The thrust of the civil rights movement in the 1940s and 1950s, culminating in the pivotal 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court in public decision striking down segregation schooling, was to ensure that every citizen should have an equal chance, that ro difference based on race, color, creed or country of origin could be recognized. No one who calls himself an American, can argue with that credo, which called for a colorblind society, and it is to our shame that so many decades passed before America saw fit .to accept that just and simple principle. late A larger segment of the United States feels this But when acceptance finally came, the burden of great frustration. A president should be concerned which whites felt and should have felt guilt with all his people and their Needs. the pendulum, as so frequently happens caused CHRISTINE W. CAPENER when a society takes a watershed decision, to' Crusade Possible swing the other direction. Require Special Assistance Men of goodwill reasoned that blacks, be.ause Editor, Tribune: The reason Billy Graham has they had endured the trauma of slavery and been never before held a crusade in Sail Lake City is subjected to a century of inferior education and simple. There was lack of spiritual support, con- job discrimination, required special assistance to cern. a stadium, accommodations for visitors, and enable them to compete on an equal basis. And access to and from our city. Today Salt there was something in that. Clearly it was not proper Vietof the corrupt Thieu regime? Bombing of Lake City is a metropolitan city possessing all the much to ask that when two people of equal qualifinamese towns and villages and maiming of hunmaterialistic elements required to sustain a Billy cations were in competition for a post, preference dreds of thousands of women, children, and old Graham crusade. This and is spiritual achievement is should be given to the black. There was men? A runaway inflation at home with ever soargoing to materialize because of the established at- a strong case to be made for providing special eduing food prices? An ever widening breach between tributes being enlisted by Christians througnout cation courses and training not only for the rich and the poor, the old and the young? Milthe entire Rocky Mountain region. The perception blacks but for all those from disadvantaged to unable lions of unemployed and underemployed of this possibility is permanent and is resulting in backgrounds. furA A rate? crime with high prices? nsing cope tremendous progress. But the situation has gone farbeyondthat. It has ther slippage of our popularity abroad due to VietEveryone experiences daily the heinous pulsa- reached the point in many instances where a nam War? Continued decline of morality, especialtion of malignant sin and the perpetual atrocity black of inferior qualifications is preferred to a, ly at government level (ITT affair, bugging of disease. white with which this devastating accompanies Democratic Headquarters)? The decay of the superior ones. A black with a modest cities and continued impoverishment of the rural Emphasizing too much on sin? Go see how quick academic record can frequently take his choice of it is to be murdered, robbed, raf ed, assaulted, or half a dozen prestigious colleges, a white with poor? If all these problems are of little concern, even blown up. Nixon-Spiror better graded often will have to settle for If team. than vote again for the you God loves the people of the Rockies and is a state university. Business firms vie with one anhave had enough and want a better deal for our country and humanity, then George McGovern is grieved at the viciousness that engulfs our region. other for black graduates; the "no vacancy sign-mawell be out for white graduates of the same your man. George McGovern is my man because He is going to send the Gospel of Jesus Christ on he. if elected, will right the Nixon wrongs and a massive scale to the inhabitants of the Rockies. institutions with better records. First to Articulate Fact make a better United States and a more peaceful Billy Graham will be sent only through sincere world prayer and involvement by all. Past efforts matter In short, blacks of moderate accomplishment LEONID S. POLEVOY very little, its the present efforts that count. We have been on to a very good thing, and those of need not hold our breath but prepare for the realsuperior ability can virtually write their own tickity of a crusade. In a recent letter it was con- ets. In the end, however, giving preference to one Great firmed that Billy Graham would definitely considgroup necessarily meant discriminating against er a crusade being held in Salt Lake City a privi- others, and it is ironic that Jews, who played a Mr. Nixon made it perfectly Editor, Tribune: lege. The future manifestation of holy love by the major role in the civil rights struggle, were one of dear with which small segment of the people in living, glorious, and loving God is greatly feared the first groups to articulate this basic and the United States he is concerned. While he was by Satan. obvious fact. DENNIS SMITH holding a gaudy reception for Hollywood's movie So perhaps were about to get back to the sound stars the victim of Hurricane Agnes were still principle of a color-blinsociety. Nor will blacks Challenge for 76 awaiting help for housing and food relief. The be the losers. while For there so washed that floods dearly is a short-ru- n many vesta ting away benefit to them in a quota system, such a syshomes in pastern ppnnsylvania has left many famEditor, Tribune: I am somewhat distressed tem in essence is a negation of their individual ilies with an urgent need for relief. Mr. McGovern that Republican recommendations for a 1976 canworth and a denial of their humanity. For an open to these the administration's accused response didate do not include Richard Nixon. There should and ours is that is one based on indiinefsociety and insensitive needs as inadequate, no be doubt that in 1976 President McGovern will great vidual not rights, group rights. Playing the numficient.' relish the possibility of challenging a former Presis just too much of a gamble for a debers game One thing is perfectly clear Mr. Nixon has ident. mocracy to take. BYRON MARCHANT learned a great deal about scripting and staging WASHINGTON Four years ago. George Meany was rallying the political forces of organ-nizelabor in a desperate effort to elect Hubert II the'-sam- Frustration d wage price controls and vowing that labor would never accept the President's Robin Hood in reverse economics. Now George Meany is smiling on the occupant the White House from a lofty stance of beneficent neutrality m the presidential campaign, while losing no opportunity to throw a barb into Democratic challenger George McGovern. In four years, Meany has established clear title to the swivel championship of American politics. in the country who There is no other can match his pirouette. Causes Severe Strains of Two years ago, he allowed himself t be wooed at a White House Salute To Labor dinner, exchanged effusively complimentary toasts with his old antagonist, then Along the way he's been accused by such diz verse sources as McGovern manager Frank and Secre'ary of Labor James Hodgson of being out of touch with the rank-and-fil- put hit" money and manpower to work to frustrate the House drive to elect a Republican Senate campaign. A year ago, Meany s picture was on the of Time and Newsweek, attacking the new White in the mid-ter- cover Nixon , o Geoxge Meanys Flip Could Flop After Election in November Humphrey and deny Richard M. Nixon the presidency. Three years ago. he was denouncing Mr. Nixon's economic "Game Plan" and fighting the President on the issue of tax reform. i 'die David S. Broiler The Washington Post The Holland Cartoon Sy The Public Forum Found His Man . Arceles Tire Tempest in a Teapot? American Chess Champ achievers have inspired enduring respect precisely because they avoided temperamental antics employed regularly by Bobby Fischer. Yet, no title worth claiming was ever won without the drive of unyielding resolve propelling uncommon ski) and towering confidence to a distant goal. Bobby was no sweetheart at Reykjavik, he played chess with undisguised vengeance, and now he's the world champion. One might prefer a more personable, less abrasive character on which i.o confer national honors. Its pleasant to see a hero waving and smiling at the crowd, or even being shy and overwhelmed by it all. But thats not Bobby Fischer's style. He knows his ability and wont deny its superiority. In chess hes the greatest, the hrst American to prove as much in modern times. Not overnight, either, but after many years of hard study and preparation. The country, the world, can congratulate him for that. 197? Totally A.lien to Tradition renomination acceptance speech, Nixon statement attack strong which he asserted that dividing Ameriquotas is totally alien to the American That may or may not be the case, but there's little doubt that the neutrality policy Meany has u. the presidential race imposed on the AFL-CIis causing Paul severe strains the Seafarers, Hall of a vice president oi has been out explaining the policy to the state and local COPE officials, justifying the neutrality stance not as a matter of loyalty to Meany, but as a practical recognition of the differences in labor's leadership over the McGovern candidacy. the federation, Hall has a hide of iron, and he's needed it on this assignment, because the local labor political operatives, who've spent the last 15 years trying to hammer home to tneir members the importance of election-dacnoices, are finding it harder tnan Meany does to shrug indifferently at a presidential campaign. y Just Cant Go Along number of Meanys colleagues in labor leadership just cant go along with his latest turn and have formed their own Labor for McGovern committee. Interestingly, one of its sparkplugs is Joseph Beirne of the Communications Workers, who has been regarded as one of the candidates to succeed Meany as federation president. A That Beirne would brea with his chief on a of this importance is taken as a sign that, matter I I m years to come, it is not going to be thought advantageous inside labor to have been neutral ,in the 1972 presidential campaign. There are many in Meanys own high command who have that same suspicion about the Democratic party where they havp long had a privileged place of 'nfluence. They doubt that those who decided to sit out the fight will automatically find their old places waiting for them in November. The state AFL-CIexecutives, who see the volunteer workers who used to man their phone banks in presidential campaigns now' working from separate "Labor for McGovern headquarters across the street, are not happy with the Meany policy. Neither are the Washington AFL-CIbigshots who see the United Auto Workers Bill Dodds moving in as executive secretary of the Democratic National Committee happy at being made outcasts from the Democratic party. Not all of them are confident that will find a they new home in the Nixon White House. The latest Meany could be more n flip-flo- p than flop flip. V - S ( . |