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Show wiy ij ri Suit Section nt holds the legislation, entitled Senate Bill 29, which can make such simplification possible. There is no clear indication on what direction the measure wili move. It should be toward en- actment. This is the second time in two years that the Legislature has been called upon to implement a constitutional amendment popularly approved by Utah voters. That change requires income subject to state taxation be determined on the same basis as earnings taxed by the U.S. Government. It would end the needless confusion and inconvenience imposed by two different systems of income tax laws. In 1971, four months after the amendment succeeded, legislators actually passed appropriate bills which aligned state and federal tax methods in a reasonably compatible manner. But, Gov. Calvin L. Rampton, spotting what he considered a substantial flaw of inconsistency, vetoed the program. That objection is supposed to be worked out. The implementation needs to ride again. Two years ago, the governor concluded that because the House did not pass Senate measures relating to retirement benefits, state employe and teacher retirees kept state New York Times Service lost by those with federal was pensions. Although this difficulty smoothed over in time for the Legislatures 1971 budget session, no action was taken. It's growing embarrassingly late for this particular taxation revision. Utahns have persistently favored the uniformity idea. .In 1970, they altered the state's constitution to make way for necessary legislation. Only or so it was sad a modest oversight prevented implementation during the 1971 session. Special permission was not granted for the item on the budget session agenda. There has been enough delay. Even before the constitutional amendment was written, the issue of comparable state and federal income tax procedures was exhaustively studied. Public opinion was confirmed Utah doesnt have to force its taxpayers to struggle with separate sets of tables, rules and regulations in figuring oblitime. Income, gations at income tax for tax purposes, can be defined the same locally as it is federally. Other states do so, surely Utah is no less competent. ress. More encouraging yet is the fact that Selma is not a solitary example of the increasing role blacks are playing in southern politics. The Voter Education Project, a nonprofit organization that conducts voter registration and education work in the South, reports blacks made a significant showing in 11 states in the South during 1972. The VEP report says 598 blacks won public office in the South last year. The jobs range from election of black members of Congress from Georgia and Texas to seats on city councils and county supervisory boards. Particularly significant and gratifying is the fact those two new congressmen from Georgia and Texas are the first blacks the South has sent to Washington in 60 years. and Taxation Com- mittee has been tied up with a lingering debate over w hat exemptions should be allowed on property tax assessments. But while that is a constant difficulty, the public mandate is not as clear on it as on SB 29. The committee d ought to move this important, piece of legislation along so It can provide the help and relief Utah taxpayers have been repeatedly denied. overly-postpone- Also cracked was the r.akeup of the Arkansas General Assembly, the last southern statehouse without black representation. But, such progressive milestones must not become delusions of final success. The situation was pretty well summed up by John Lewis, VEP executive director. He said, The number of blacks elected to public office in 1972 reflects the spiraling trend which has far to go before it reaches its peak. Discrimination has not vanished from The America. stunning progress toward that end made in last years elections is, as Lewis said, only a barometer of change. Progress has been made, but the goal is still to be reached. In 1965, cnly in Selma percent of those blacks were registered to vote. 2.3 eligible Today the figure stands at 67 percent. Remarkable progress, but still short of 100 percent. This is true of the whole equality spectrum. This nation is still running about 33 percent short. Jurors Are Not Experts for years but they are inadequate, especially in the light of today's changing beliefs. A number of suggestions hae been put forth for aiding the jury while at the same time protecting the defendant's rights. Most prominent among them is the bifurcated (two-stagtrial which permits the jury to hear the case as to guilt or innocence first then weigh the matter of insanity in a separate proceeding. As an ultimate solution it is being suggested that the insantiy defense be done away with entirely. Innocence or guilt would be determined on the evidence. The experts But it is asked all the time. would be brought in after the verdict is read In New York City the other day a suspectand the sentence is being pondered. ed hijacker's trial ended in a hung jury beLike the other plans this one has its weakcause his attorney cominced one of 12 jurors nesses. But such drastic remedies will neverthat his client was legally insane when he theless continue to gain support unless better hijacked a TWA plane. The suspect, by con- means are devised to help jurors reach a just vincing other juries of his insanity, has man- decision where insanity is a defense. aged to escape punishment for a crime spree extending over 15 years. His record not only questions the wisdom of jury determination S. of sanity but it also is a sorry commentary on the state of mental institutions to which he was sent and from which lie promptly escaped to strike again. determine the sanity of a defendant when even expert witnesses trained in diagnosing mental illness disagree? Hardly any plea of insanity is entered as a defense without accopanying psychologists, psychiatrists and other specialists to back it up on the witness stand. And an equally impressive display of talent is likely to be marshalled by the prosecution. It falls to the jurors, i suallv conscientious but largely ignorant of mental illness terms and standards, to say which expert is correct and which is wrong. It is asking too much. How is a jury to William .Jurors and experts alike ha.e trouble beagreeing on whether a suspect is insane cause few agree on what insanity is. Various legal standards hae been used in the courts the observers geographical stance. But adjustments on both rade and monetary matters must be made if NATO is to hold together in this newly flexible multipolar world. ' ' ' f ' 'V 7 $ Although the alliance partners are not doing enough to insure their military de- - Mr. Sulzberger fense, nobody expects any future. major war threats during the predictable has international The pattern of seemblocs has icebound of menace the changed; ingly vanished. Business and economic rivalries are replacing rivalries in armaments and ideology.-eveif that switch of emphasis canrn ! be consid. . ered necessarily permanent. If President Nixon proceeds with his intention toj between the enormous reach accommodation American economy and an increasingly consolidated European economy, it is inevitable that compromises must be negotiated on commercial and currency relationships. This is no easy taslv? tax-filin- g Still Running Short Eight years ago Selma, Ala., was the scene of some of the most violent confrontations of the civil rights movement. Today half of the city council members are black. That just has to be marked down as prog- The biggest problem facing the NEW YORK United States and Europe is a matter of dollars and and sense. There are too many of the former latthe of little too there is ter on one or another side of the Atlantic, depending on tax exemptions The Senate Finance t Western Dollars Malang Sense? Mage 12 8, 1973 Time To Finally Implement Uniform Income Tax Laws mittee. That committee 'jji C. L. Sulzberger Thursday Morning, February Are attempts at bringing Utahs state income tax laws into useful conformity with federal income taxation to be frustrated again? The answer currently resides with the State Senates Revenue and Taxation Com- sy Quietly Works on Problems Nixon has been quietly working on monetary problems since 1970. The first steps, arranged in in their effect. Likewise, 1971, were short-livetrade repercussions of the Common Market's enlargement must be ? justed to stabilize NATO's economic and political balance. Europe is acutely aware that U.S. investments there have grown enormously during recent megacorporations saw the years. American immense potential value of the Common Market concerns. With a to Will Sav e Thousands God and removing the comma from its traditionfew outstanding exceptions, the only truly EuroEditor, Tribune: I am writing in reference to al place separating the words nation and indi- pean companies are those with U.S. headquarJohn Llewellyns letter of Jan. 30. I am simply a visible. In time the new wording caught on, but ters and top management. Tooele High School student and I dont believe I poor Uncle Sam was obliged to spend millions of Today, with nine countries including Britain in dollars educating Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls the should be considered a murderess simply because market, American investments in that area of an entire generation, in a futile attempt to amount to a bock value of more than $20 billion. I believe in abortion. I dont know too much about erase the troublesome comma that remained im- Direct investment from European commumty God, nobody does, but I do know that he doesnt antunw pressed upon the protoplasm of the general public. members in the United States is but a fraction of from come the sky and save miraculously ed children from a life of misery. And that is why For a decade the two factions were at war. this figure. man has had to fend for Limself for so long. While the establishment glibly acknowledged the U.S. law does not permit foreign investment in new phrase, they still balked before the preposi- various categories of industries and there is also tion while a few hundred stalwarts across the private administrative resistance to takeovers in Forum Rules stadium recited bravely on. The United Front to numerous firms. But, even more important, the s Public Forum letters must be submitted End the Comma, or as they were awesome size of the American economy and high sometimes called, pressed on, but they were clear- costs of admission discourage funds from abroad. exclusively to The' Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. ly outnumbered. All through the sixties the strugThis imbalance has been further complicated by Names must be printed on political letters gle raged, in basketball courts and American Le- the rise of multinational corporations of which a but may be withheld for good reasons on gion halls across the country, eventually dividing major proportion are American-based- . West Gerd our citizenry and reducing a others. Writers are limited to one letter pledge to man Prof. Karl Kaiser, who will shortly publish a an embarrassing communal mumble. Today, a book on this intricate every IB days Preference will be given to subject, forecasts that such short, typewritten (double spaced) letters majority still marches to the tune of an invisible international production is likely to rise from 22 comma what has become known among grampermitting use of the writer's true name. percent of the total production in the All letters are subject to condensation. marians as the Vietnam of punctuation. world to 50 percent by 1990. Next, Forum writer Crocker wants to rewrite Coincidentally an increasingly grave monetary the National Anthem, when in fact almost nobody crisis threatens to twist the economic system. Legalized abortion will save thousands of lives can sing it right the way its written now. Nine out The currency relationships established at Bretton by bringing abortion out of the dark, dingy rooms and into the sanitary hospitals. Abortion is a step of ten gridiron baritones sing an invisible note, Woods when World War II was ending have been : causing them to add an extra syllable to the word discarded. in the way of womens equal rights. banner. Glen Campbell, in fact, managed to add Mr. Llewellyn, youre a man. Men have been w Gold production even if it ere to be accelertwo extra syllables, and Robert Goulet, a Canadiated by increasing its price ruling what women will and will not do for a is wholly inadeonce word six an. with stretched the into syllables, damn sight too long. What right have you to tell a to finance the trade boom. This forces the quate hard to believe that anyone woman what to do with her body? Are women sheeplike effect. Its world to depend increasingly on some other stanto sing the anthem before 20 million people invited a dard than gold and so far liquidity has been mainrevolting all oer the country to a man getting would neglect to consult the score; if he did so at tained principally by an expanding deficit in the asectomy? Open your eyes. A fetus is part of a all, it must have been just a quick glance by the U.S. balance of payments. The dollar can no longliving woman and is so until it is born. Why can't dawns early light. a woman get an abortion if shebelieves it is the er carry the burden it had perforce assumed as a RICHARD MENZ1ES right thing to do? reserve currency. otherwise If a woman's religious feelings or Assuming Permanent Role Isaiah feelings pit her against abortion, fine, she doesnt Nations that depend heavily on foreign trade have to have one. But tor those who feel it is the have come to rely increasingly to finance this Editor, Tribune: It was a rich, although best way, why not? Dont come griping to her about innocent fetuses and God and how- - thunder-wil- l experience for me to witness the Equal commerce on artificial devices like special drawAmendment debate by the members of the ing rights which now are assuming a permanent out strike her dead. She has probably thought Rights role in international banking. The question is howall her feelings way before she decided to get an Utah House of Representatives. to allot respective responsibilities to gold, the dolabortion. An unwanted child is one of the saddest After hearing and then pondering the debate, I things in the world. The youth will be the leaders concluded that I have worked and associated with lar and supporting contrivances such as SDRs. of tomorrow-- . I hope I have a say in that to- -' some Moreover, once this is accomplished, it 'will be very exceptional public spirited women, morrow-- . such as my mother, my aunt, Reva Beck Bosone; necessary for Marxist countries, for example GAYLE DRINVILLE my wife, Julie; Utah's first lady, Lucy Beth Russia and China which are entering internationTooele Rampton, and the following lady members of the al markets, to find means of financing their forUtah House of Representatives: Milly 0. Bernard, eign purchases. There is not yet any real value to MarL. Johnson. Nellie Jack and Beverly White. the ruble. Quince It and Ixse It Unlike Rep. Judd and the Book of Isaiah, from Europe wondeis which path Nixon will choose. Editor. Tribune: E. W. Crocker has expressed which he quoted, the thoughts and actions of the There was grumbling in 1971 when, behind the a beautiful sentiment that we change the wording women I have mentioned excel in fragrant bou- hard symbol of treasury Secretary John Connally, of the National Anthem; unfortunately, I doubt quet the most exotic of flowers and the most ex- the President played a tough game with his partwhether the average American is prepared to pensive of perfumes in their efforts to express ners. But now that the Common Market has been cope with any such radical departure from habit. freedoms ring equality. It is a shame such a enlarged, the next round of negotiations may reqstink must be raised by those w ho oppose them. uire greater delicacy and a more Some years ago it was decided to change the generous spirit CHRISTIAN P. BECK of give and take. Pledge of Allegiance, inserting the phrase under 4If you think peace is hell, you should have seen war! d The Public Forum .lard-drivin- d non-com- once-prou- liilike disap-pointin- - White Shooting of Stennis Also Wounds Senate He Serves Ably, Honorably The plain, flat truth is that WASHINGTON the Senate of the United States is itself wounded, in its moral tone and even more in its capacity really to function. by the holdup shooting of a single member called John Stennis. Not in decades, and at no time through an incident of violence, has the institution suffered such trauma as in the pnning down of this archetype of senatorial tra dition and responsibility and effectiveness and public and pm ate honor yjr white For Stennis has long bestrode the Senate by demanding nothing but performing much, by ignoring the headlines m favor of doing the work, by speaking softly with a quiet, compulsive force that rarely comes to more than one member in a generation. In a place celebrated for its prima donnas, and of late years for its large number of he has stood out by making no effort to stand out at all. Improbably, he has embodied s of the and lived one of the oldest cliche-homilie- Anglo-America-n er you heritage it win or lose but how you matters not whethplay the game. Massive Dignity And nobody, however improbably, has ever laughed. For Judge Stennis, as sometimes he is called by friends in reference to his judicial background in Mississippi, has maintained a massive dipity by never thinking of his dignity at all The Stennis of two decades ago persisted in the belief that a Senate long terrorized by Joseph. McCarthy and long submissive to his destruction of the Bill of Rights in his search for had the strength and decency to vindicate its integrity if it would. So he accepted the hard role of a special prosecutor (none of the famous liberals having applied) and at last brought about McCarthy's censure by one of the most moving displays of impersonal justice ever seen McCarthy's every nght w as protected to its last comma by Stennis himself with a cold, scrupulous passion. McCarthy's every transgression was brought out by Stennis with an icy objectivity that pitied the offender but seared the offense with the whips of an unconsciously aristocratic scorn. Couect beyond ready description, fair beyond easy belief, prosecutor Stennis spread out the indictment before his colleagues and brushed directly with Joseph McCarthy. and once only once Rising to challenge Stennis, McCarthy began to slip into the personal vilification that was unhappily his habit, Stennis, the faint sunlight glittenng across his eyeglasses, lifted his head toward McCarthy and tonelessly uttered two sentences: The senator from Mississippi will accept any amount of criticism. The senator from Mississippi will tolerate no ounce of abuse. That was the end of the influence of Joseph McCarthy. The Stennis of those days, and the Stennis of only yesterday, believed that fairness and civility and order could exist alongside iron determination and the pitiless prosecution of any cause that Ins uncluttered mind found upon deliberation to be just and nght. The Pentagon's Judge It was this quality that caused John Stennis, the most powerful man on- military affairs in all Congress, to give the most indispensable support in all Congress to three presidents to liquidate in honor a commitment m Vietnam. He has been "the Pentagon's man only to the foolishly emotive. Far more truly he has been the Pentagon's judge, generous with defense money where need- -' ed but aloofly- implacable in denial w hen generals and admirals go to far. - And much more than chairman' of the Armed Services Committee he had been. He presides over the committee that oversees the Central Intelligence Agency, with an everlasting watchfulness over the think line between an adequately financed agency and an agency that might become too strong altogether. A Writ of Confidence Finally, what most of all tells of John Stennis is yet another, chairmanship that of the committee monitoring senatorial ethics. When a hundred proud and ambitious men grant to a single-othe-r man warrants of life and death over their public lives they issue to him a writ of' matchless trust and confidence. This, then, is senator-judg- e John Stennis. His absence now from the Senat- is for it literally a catastrophe. i |