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Show - iX 'a. 4 Hsus Dnsimsr fafoe Ifcfegrtmx TjJafi ' We Stand For A-2- 0 Tio GOP National Open Th EDITORIAL Constitution j Answers Education Questions Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired. 9 1964 THURSDAY, JULY PAGE Here are my opinions and- answers concerning five questions posed recently in the Letters to die Editor by John W.. Campbell: , 1. The UEA has suggested shortening the school year to concentrate uSe of available funds. If Mr. Campbell had taught my class this year with only one set of textbooks with a copyright beyond 1956, he Would think more" funds. In my socfil studies textbooks 'Panama still loves us and oonquering space is still Buck RodgerS. Only by the foresight of a capable principal did such things as paper hold out, (Such things as pencils didnt make It) 2. 1 cant totally agree with the UEA action bi At some step had to be taken. r . 3. Lets set the governor aside. I cant cooly com ; Needed: An Amendment r blame for whatever goes right or wrong r- -with Utahs financial operations? , - Moreover, Karl N. Snow, whose study1 of the matter served as the basis of the Legislative , Councils recommendations,'' concluded that: Board of Exam- of the . the powers f irjefs . . . have evolved over the years beyond the original intent of the constitutional ' framers. THE 1965 UTAH Legislature should pas's 'T - a proposed constitutional amendment reinstating the streamlined state financial . controls that were nullified this week by . the Utah Supreme Court. ' . To anyone who has followed the issue closely, such a . recommendation should, come as no surprise. Even before the 1963 Legislature took budgetary controls away from the Board of Examiners and gave them to the governor, the Legislative IN FACT, he went so far as to say: Council In recommending the move recA review of the .. constitutional deognized1 that eventually a constitutional , bates leads One to conclude that the framr amendment may be necessary. t ers, in providing for a State Board of ExNow it is. to provide full- -' For the past year the state has been , aminers, sought mainly various elected the for time ' employment operating under the new system, which were the' case In that If 'officials. Well, has proved that it does work and work, 1896 it certainly no longer applies now well. Thats not surprising since most most state officials have more than jwhen other states have similar setups. Even if work to do. enough they didnt, it justdoesnt make sense to Whatever the intent of the constitu give the governor responsibility for fitional framdrs, the intent of present-da- y nancial controls, yet allow him tcTbe outof the Utah Legislature Isthat members of members the" voted by the other two - Board of Examiners the secretary of when it comes to fiscal affairs, the govestate and attorney general in passing on - ernor should be chief executive In fact as well as in name. and necessity of expend! the advisability ' . -- .On at least two occasions In recent tures, . ; years the Board of Examiners has made - TRUE, AS THE Supreme Court points out, deficit appropriations in the apparent-absenc- e the other two examiners, like the gov- - r of any. original appropriation. Such ernof, are elective officials having ultiaction invades not only the right of, the mate responsibility to the people. Legislature to appropriate and control exeven in a board as small as three ' -Yet, penditures but alsq the right to authorize responsibility is somewhat dJfthe program in the first' place. fuseIsnt It more logical to pin down j AGAINSTTYHIS BACKGROUND, a confinal responsibility to a single official not stitutional amendment to to direction coordinated more to omy give fiscal controls in the hands of the gover- fiscal affairs but also to eliminate any nor is not only desirable but imperative. 'confusion as to who gets, any praise or . . . . " menton 4. My -- THEGOP PLATFORM -X- -. J ' - Goldwater And Civil Rights an be entrusted with lmpl menting the new law, The platform can affirm and Goldwater can sincerely pledge that he will faithfully enforce it He can make this commitment in good conscience. But gap than.bridge. that is not the problem. The It is easy to put words on paper which problem is not to mount mas'will appear as a tidy formula to' conceal the sive enforcement but to prodeep differences between the Republican mote wide, voluntary compliparty and its probable presidential nomiance. nee. But they won't stand up. f Mr. Drummond ' HERE GOLDWATER has I Let me illustrate:. thrown away his credentials The present Intention of the. me Goldwater view that the s platform-makeris to hail the law is unconstitutional or the to appeal effectively for volunpassage of the civil rights law . dominant Republican view that tary compliance. He has done , this as an achievement for which it is constitutional? ' by assuring those who want ' To, his great credit. Sen; Gold-wat- to disobey the law that it is a bad the Republicans in Congress de- serve prime credit. True, but it' has shown anxiety lest the law, unwise and blandly skirts the fact that the - probable nominee views the hill become president; he would in . as a bad law, based on bad pol-- could get gravely out of hand. all consistency have to direct ., to been which have icy, ought Goldwater is not a white suhis solicitor general to argue defeated. , to all. His work at premacist case against the constitutionthe 140131 discrimination in FART of the pro- - duce -of the law. ality has been constructive A posed plank would wink- if the court should, Finally, P :BaJ slightly in the direction of Gold- hold major parts of the law unProtection of most water by remarking just pass-- " constitutional, should "not the ngbts must be left to the ingly that some doubts have-ci- vU Party serve advance Republican been expressed about the consti- - states to do as they wish, is pro notice that it will instantly sup r ; There are the financial shocks that IN THE EYES of just about every young- come from making sacrifices to give Junster, dad is a hero. And well he should be, considering all that dads and mothior and sis those extra advantages in life ers, too go through that dad and mother didnt enjoy when Alan Such is the case with ' they were young. Collier of Bountiful, whose father, James, shocks that emotional are There the shock severe electrical a took voluntarily ' come with those periodic crises that 'ey- through his own body to free his son from a charged wire which had rendered the ery family experiences, when the parents boy unconscious and stopped his heart.' suffer vicariously with every trial and incident is sufficiently out 'While this. difficulty that their youngsters go ' of the ordinary, to merit headline treatthrough. ment, It has a lot in common with what TALK ABOUT unsung heroes, just about parents everywhere go through day in and T shock to a anyone who does a conscientious job , terms proof in absorbing put ' ' being a parent qualifies. So thanks to of tect their offspring. James A. Collier not only, for his fine exThere are the physical shocks that come from working long and hard to make ample of courage but also for reminding .us of the debt of gratitude we all owe our is ones sure that properly profamily , parents. vided for. , - . - ' . rs . i cheat-gras- four-fift- In J Other Words In short is a favorite phrase of the Speaker who has already talked too long. . . of ers . nine-tent- i"an-amonentrto- hs rT constitutional? Would Sen. Goldwater go along with such a platform assurance? THESE ARE THE reasonswhy the Republican platform builders here are having such a with the civil rights . hard time plank. oth- - them who want to deny the vote and other rights to Negroes. Consider how impossible these circumstances make it for the' Republicans to write a straight forward civil rights plank ' and how difficult for Goldwater to make a persuasive case that he five-sixt- . CO , . 1487 i s RSettgast So. 15th East Does TV . Industry Care? iKStaJ ' 533-llt- . h Ave. ; f SfudanT r J ft d 1 . .. . I stated in fhisjcolumn that ' Senior high school student in Utah I was with the-win which the people of Utah have been handling the education problems of Utah. Several weeks ago JM4) i ay By ' Sydney J. is mad My about the ' Beatles. She has a Beafie hat and a Beatle badge and a Beade magazine, and who. knows what other Beatle material she has smuggled into her room, bought by hoarding up her pitiful weekly allowance. I read the other day that the Beatles are now a. $100 million worldwide, industry, with more than 300 commodities listed under their label, and their biggest appeal is to. the 1 age - - 7-- r: IN A DAY when our natural resources no longer appear infinite, we cannot afi j ford such senseless waste. , - books which . hairdo. Are they toys- or girls? They seem a little of both, eh? And, in appearing to be bisexual, they give the impression of being asexual that is, they pose no threat to the and absoThey are exciting lutely safe. Is this what the Children are looking for? I asked. i Certainly, he replied. Sex attracts them and- - frightens them at the same time. A phenomenon like the Beatles enables them to gratify two contrary group. needs' togetherr And' consider How can we account for this? I asked a psychiatrist recently, something else. because I was puzzled.' His an-Consider, he went on, that swer at first startled me, but t th Beatles are not only abso- upon reflection I am not so sure lutely safe . . . they are abso- was far from wrong. lutely clean. There is nothing Their great appeal, he said,., - really offensive, in their songs." is that they are frankly bisex- - ( Indeed, the leitmotif is Let Me ual irf appearance. Look at the Hold. Ychjr TIand.v This is re- - - I was looking at several of the text my fourth and fifth grade brother and sister are using Eight years ago, when I was in the fourth grade, I used the same texts. Since then they have not been revised, .they have not been brought up to date. Checking .still further, I found that in our area students are still using the same equipment which I used when in eletnentary school .If this is the case throughout the state, even to a lesser degree, then how can Governor Clyde, or anyone, maintain that our education system is adequate? Why dont the citizens of this state wake up and look around? When will the citizens realize that teachers want more than larger pay checks? ' The statement has been made that the education association is trying to take over the govern.; ment l have onshore question. JQiere m)5d our... nation be if it werent for education? America has been built on education. The founders of our nation were educated men. The leader? of our nation art educated men. If the people of Utah care at all they will do something now L Parents should ask their children, What did you learn in school today? 1 Laura Kay Ashley ; , ' Kearns Recently, Harris assuring, to the child. He gets something that sounds stimulating and rhythmic and yet goes no further, than holding J your hand. A lot of older adolescents seem to like them, too, I said. What does it mean when a 17 to succumbs or-- ' Beatlemania?" Ah, that, he nodded. Now we are in another country. Beyond the age of puberty, an immoderate attraction to what the Beatles represent is . not so ' so normaL bealthy-- or number of things mean ' , things- - best discussed in, Ihe fa the column. cliniC( his beard' fondly, gged signifying that one more ques-h- e, tion would be one too many with-- a fee. I held his band briefly amj . ul w , 10 GUEST EDITORIAL SEPTr4 ELECTIONS . right to the hubris,, or oyerwhelming pride, of party, which forms part of the Democratic , Front,' persists in allegiance to its own can- the Christian 'Democrats; There Is a ago" the Christian Democratic party f dictate, Julio Duran. 'And many .of the Chris-di- d the left has been exposed in Europe has A year lag in myths. tian Democrats still harbor, the, illusion that Just begun to reach Latin America. extremely well In the Chilean municipal In the Europe of the1 their Jhan can .win on hjs own. elections. This, encouraged (he party, to. de-.- rf ; -IN BRAZIL, shrewd 1930s and 40s, the such as Car- - cide o candidate, its Ailende becomes own, separate tq put up u .. los Lacerda helped spark the overthrow" parties FreC in the bext elections. Accord- - , nist president of Chile, it will mark the first of the. no enemies to the left, government subscribed almost, to Senor Alba, '.they! figured that a fear w time in world history that a country has voted tag of Jaoa Goulart But the potential for dis-- " universally to the of a victory, of the combined force, of the itself into Communist slavery. Ailende has aster that the myth still holds is now menao.-.In- Socialists and , the Communists would be ! myth that there accepted the; Communist program. He has Social-1st should be no eneChile, where Salvador Ailende, the foreign-owne- d to carry theta man through! x 1 1 the to enough prqmised expropriate candidate for president in' the Sept -- 4 mies to -t- he left" Kennecott and Anaconda copper mines. These IN March, however, has That tills was an elections, has not seen fit to repudiate the . A minds now pay up to 87 per ; cent of their to disaster, exposed the .'fragility: of the, Christian., , cooperation of the Chilean Communists. Mrprofits ; to the Chilean government, which Cnamberlata Democrats was proved in cases, r The danger is that AHendes Frente , reasoning. . In the means thejt are actually being worked by Curico the combined Socialist- - j which permitted, the Cqjimunists to penetrate de AUanza Popular, or FRAP, will Province of Kennecott and Anaconda for a small fee. .Communist candidate, won .a parliamentary government control agencies such as internal ' votes. the services o( Kenftecott and AnaChilean , of Without a million two get plurality seat The Christian! Democratic candidate' security.1 The Czechs, in particular, discovconda technicians, they would, assuredly earn In which case, with the almost certain lni- - came in second,- and the candidate of ered they had an implacable enemy to the Chile under an expropriated status. will of a left dictatorship, democracy . position Front limped in third. The vie- - less for left in the shape of the local Stalinist party. be dead in Chile unless an aroused army inihe of of combined the forces ALLENDE HAS also promised to follow a tory in. Curico tervenes as it did just in the niek.of time in , left over the split forces of the right has IN ITALY, ,THE" Jdea" of an opening to tiie, Castroite foreign policy, based on cultidlis--.. Brazil caused Salvador Ailende to announce that he vated hostility to the U.S. since Chile is a left! has been tried recently, With no The rightist and moderate parties in Chile cernibie benefits to anybody save the Comalready considers himself the President of mainland power in Latin America, a Castro not matched the" left parties id theta; the first revolutionary government of Chile. have in forces munists. , But the ite- - government' . under Ailende, Could be far ' ability to form a common front against an more damaging to hemisphere peace than is v Theres still a chance tor the, parties' of Italy have yet to surrender the state orgaqs thesChilean right and moderate center to use of security to Moscow. Maybe this will fol- enemy. Victor Alba, the Mexican journalist, the easily isolated island of Chiba itself. attributes the mistaken strategy of the Chilean Allendes tactics against him. But the radical low, if economic chaos follows upon a pos--. (Of 1M4 cul-tur- al - On Litter Disgrace W. '' Benina The Beatles' Success i in the Wasatch National Forest, fire-figh- tfng operations alone cost $80,000. The year before the cost" was $115,000. Far more ' costly, but beyond calculating, is the of precious watershed. There is no way to estimate the damage caused by floods on such areas this summer, the next spring, and following springs and summers. .. This is to say nothing of the potential cost in human lives of forest fires. .What is so upsetting about the damage caused by forest fires is that most of it could be prevented. National Forest Service officials estimate that more than 80 are caused by humans.' More than 25 are caused by humans with cigarettes. Sible collapse of the The fact that the ' I would likrio voice myconcurrenreiwithjh ! editorial," Ouf Utter Disgraces Us, "that appeared in the July 1, 1964, edition of your paper:l do not condemn "Travel Magazine for emphasizing the littered conditions, but rather applaud It-itime to awaken and face these facts. ' The high Uinta wilderness area is a fabulous gift to those bf us who enjoy the outdoors a gift that most of. our states cannot bestow upon their ' 'citizens.. There are many 'examples of littering throughout the high Uintas despite the unrewarded efforts. gLthfi,.Fish-an- d Game and the Forest Service.to it beautiful for us.. On one oceasionr I was keep part of a group that hiked, to Packard Lake (about eight miles in), and as we entered the little valley, whose floor was Packard Lake, we encountered an picturesque .lake surrounded by luxurious" green grass. Two deer grazed nearby and later were constant visitors to our camp for. hand-out- s ot cookies. etc. All of this beauty was marred by a heap orbeer cans, soda pop cans, decaying refuse and dead fish at the lower end of the lake. The accompanying odw'dig. not add much to the camp-ground, nor was the quality of the water draining out of the lake improved. X By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN: -- Camp- - as a ,,' 3 ; the . Republican of the congressmen, Republican senators, and of 'the Republican governors consider the civil rights law constitutional. . x , Whose view is going to prevail on (his aspect of the plank . Watch That Match! THE TWO FIRES that flared this past weekend in central Utah, forests are an ominous reminder that the most dangerous season for forest fires lies Just ' ahead. .. The danger of fires In the Wasatch Front area is far greater this summer than usual because the areas exceptionally wet spring stimulated the growth of dense foliage. The hot, dry weather Is, now making tinder of the springs dense and other foliage The potential losses from forest fires this summer are incalculable.. Last year tte fact atvftUniyenC0Uragin supremacists and to anything about 1 1 11-t- on available. On hand to help out this year Js one of the worlds most noted Shakespearean T authorities. A-- J- - R. Master of Kenya, Africa. Mr. Masters credentials are in- -, vdeed impressive. Roles are taken by two score outstand-- 5 ng drama students from universities and playhouses around the nation. Many of them appear in all three performances. UjS.ipGHWAy 91 lead directly to some - of the best of the immortal Bard of Avon. Need we say more? dfeous - Shakespeare Under The Stars r fr. Our community .should be congratulated for the attempts its leaders made to observe Independence Day. Beginning the day at the Capitol and ending it at Derks Field, proper celebrations showed that someone cared enough about the da to want to make it different from all the other days of the year., But what about the television and movie offerings? There was not a single program or movie to watch that was concerned with the founding of our nation. Indeed, most of what was offered couldnt have been farther from that subject With the excep-tio- n oLa good rerun- - or two and a fairy tale, the movies had their usual mixture of sex, violence, and mishmash. .1 am convinced that in addition to not caring about the founding of thig .nation the men who make the decisions in the entertainment world, do not care in theleast. "ouoYtte'nation. It is certainly a on this period of our history that at a time when our methods of communication are so great there is so little worthy of communication. Moyone H. Hess er - TIIEUTAIfShakespeareaQ Festival, con-tinulng until July 25, is a truly remarkable undertaking for a community as small as Cedar City and & college as small as the College of Southern Utah. now In its third year, is . j The festival, a production that would rival the efforts of much larger communities and lnstitu. tlons. l f Fifteen performances of three separate Elizabethan plays are offered on an setting stage in an unequaled amid the southern Utah pinel The cos- - v unbe-Jievab- ly By ROSCOE DRUMMOND SAN FRANCISCO The GOP civil rights plank is being fashioned here to bridge the gap between the Republican partys strong support of the civil rights bill and Barry Goldwateris stem opposition. It Is more Why! Dad And Mom Are Heroes : ' $4,300. (What's yours, it . ' - e. salary is Agree ; -- r this-on- bell?) Im.not complaining because I love teaching. 5. I totally agree that the degree doesnt make the teacher, but the UEA hasnt killed merit rating, the prohibitive cost has. This would never work on available funds. Lets hope that in the weeks ahead the UEA and the governor or school board do something; to help Utah's most important crop: her children. . Paul M. Draper - - j I Italian lira. v rtyth fit no enemies to FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL . J So the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that the Legis-latur- e of the State of New York is at present illegally con- the'Sociallst-Commu-Edouard- . A Revo-ludonar- io -- - , X X A-- ' r g tion stituted, and that tiie proposed method of ejecting the next . V , Legislature Is likewise unconstitu- ;v ' ' . ; tional. , SSUS 'Neither house of the New York Bald the opin- Interesting , ; fori, is presently or majority will be appor- And Difficult tioned sufficiently on' a population basis to be constitutionally sustain. ' . aHe. If the Well, . Legislature itself is an illegal body, can U perform legal acts? Can the laws of an invalid authority be validly binding on the citizens? By what right have the miscellaneous collection of persons, assembled in Albany, levied taxes upon the people, appropriated public moneys and enacted criminal statutes? How-caanything an unconstitutional Legislature does be anything but null and void? We have posed these questions to a number of lawyers, several of them specialist! in constitutional law, AH we have drawn by way of answer is a long pause, and then the remark that they were interesting. r , j 1 j ... '1 X d A -- yV i |