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Show Editorial Page Feature Feal’s Rockefeller, Chaffee May Have Buried Romney Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utoh SUNDAY,JANUARY7, 1968 Doubts,Dreams HandinHand “T have come here to give my wholehearted support to Governor Rockefeller, oops, 1 mean Romney!" Chafee, governor of Rhode Island, stam ered Thursday before 100 leading New Hampshire Republicans. Hardly had the chuckles abated than Rockefeller, gover- would be drafied Rockefeller and Chafee came party faithful to unite behind Gov. George Romney of } gan. Rockefellr said again he as nor of New York, urged the would not be an active candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, In the next breath, though Rockefeller conceded he would “face a draft” for the nomination if it came to him though he said he doubted he advance men to lay the groundwork for five-day Ro- hey campaign swing through the granite state starting next Friday, But after their efforts before the influential New Hampshire Republican leaders, nearly all the audience sai Rockefeller was the only man ‘ the party who could beat President Johnson in 1968. of fis mouth as the citer, ! listened politely lo Rockeleller’s pleas for unity, they seemed more intereste. in his remarks leaving the door “successful. *Rocketeller was very con- vineing and | think he got his point across about the moderates being unified.” A Surplus Right Arm Much has been said and written about air pollution but did you know that with compiete absence of air pollution we would have colorless sunsets? "Tis irue! Having been a witness to many beautiful sunsets — I'd be in tavor of keeping someair pollution around the elections of such mediocre men as William Henry Harrison and Warren G. Harding in times of least national stress as they were in the elections of crisis presidents like Lincoln and F. D. Roosevelt. Words like “‘malaise,’ ‘frustration,’ ‘alienation,’ ‘identity’ are now becoming part of the professional political vocabulary,” says the committee. But whatever “malaise” the nation is suffering from is more like the vague distress of a man who has reached middle age and realizes that he has not attained all the bright goals he set for himself in his youth, rather than the soulsickness of someone whofeels that life has given him a dirty deal. Of course, Americans have fears, insecurities and gnawing doubts—perhaps even to the “intense degree” that the committee reports. But only a people without vast dreams and great expectations would not, of particularly vicious assaults recently. Healso is up in arms over the threat by comedian Dick Gregory that militant Negroes will disrupt next summer’s Democratic convention in Chicago. No one, the mayorsaid, is going to take over his city. Chief Headley took the biggest lumps from civil rights groups for arming police with shotguns and dogs in high crime areas—where many Negroeslive. They charged him with racism. If that should be the case, Headley deserves the censure being heaped on him, Buttoo often,civil right spokesmenleap to the defense of genuine hoodlums and thugs whe happen to belong to minorities. It doesn’t advance their cause atall. —— | See Editorial Cartoon Below | ——— eee ‘Whetherit is approval or protest most will agree that Chief Headley should apply the samerule to white kids as to Negroes, but undoubtedly the young Negro hoodlums of his city have tormented him until he forgot the fine-spun theories that are supposed to guide the police. Heis far from alonein thinking: don’t jail these criminal kids—shoot them. It is pretty easy to understand that point of view wien we read about the crimes committed by these youthful thugs, ranging from petty thievery, beatings, to rape and murder. Dogooders and social workers have signally failed, and something will have to be done. Chief Headley’s dogs and guns is not the solution, for that can hurt the innocent as well as the guilty, and may make hardened criminals out of kids who might be reclaimed. Tough as these kids are they will be even tougher as adults if they can't be taught reSponsibility to themselves andto societ: Poverty and lack of opportuni the cause of this delinquency, and the solution will require a lot of sober thinking if these youthful criminals are to be checked in their headlong rush to destruction. Of late years revolution has become epidemic throughout the world, and we are breeding revolutionists. The French Revolution began from much the same causes, Those who seized control proclaimed it to be the beginning of a Reign of Virtue. Instead, it wound up as the Reign of Terror, Since then the same pattern has been followed in many other countries. Like it or not, Uncle Samis not fireman enough to put out every blaze. People have always refused to change until forced to it by inexorable events, and then comes excesses which could have been prevented as in nearly al revolutions since the French one, if the class in control had been wise enough to yiekl a little while there was yet ‘iter, just for sunsets! Besides, ton many things in this old world are getting colorless. Our nation, our people, and even our jobs, About the only thing that has color anymore is a box of crayons, a colortv set, and those wild, wild, hippie clothes, I use to think myfriend Dick Wiseman was “‘colorful”—butsince he's stopped smoking cigars he’s lost his “color” and gained his health. A colorless sunset? Heaven forbid! —these were just as operative in Scribe Glad He’s On Coast course shot them. We've had unseemly weather here, too, to the great damage of the citrus crop. The Highway Patrol claimed the fog has been the worst in years. When a car has to stop for any reason usually from three to forty cars will pile up. It’s the way they drive down here—but ne place is perfect. ing off one’s mouth without taking thought is a sure way of getting into trouble. Chief of Police Headley, of Miami, seems to be one of those. In i his men to use any force to prevent youthful Negro hoodlums from committing crime he brings cheers or Jeers, according to their preconceived ideas from a public as ready to shoot Though those attending the meeting his appearance of credibility, than » Cold Spell In Utah Makes a children’s zoo near Lagoon, and of Nixon. Rockefeller have to face it,” said William Johnson New Hampshire chairman of the Romney campaign, said the meeting was String, Dishrag And bysuch things as pork chops, property taxes and farm subsidies.” But when has this not been true? The psychological mood, the intangible things that touch the emotions, a candidate's image _ The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON VISALIA, Calif.—Like anybody eise away from home occasionally long to be back, but before it becomes irresistible something happens to make me satisfied with where I am. Like I called home on Christmasday, or had my son do it. Hefirst got seven-year-old Frankie on the phone and worked his way up to the lady of the house when he handed me the receiver. Janet came on in breathless haste, wished me a merry Christmas, and turned me over to my sister-in-law Myrtle, because she had to go and fish her husband out of the bathtub, From what I'd heard about the weather there I rather assumed Kelly wasfrozen in the tub, but Janet got him out in time for me to talk to him. He said the water pipes had been frozen, and that had never happened in the 30 years T had lived in the house. A clipping from a Salt Lake paper was another indication of a hard winter in Utah. One of Utah’s special brand of sportsman just happened to havea rifle when he came upon two tame fawns in New hampshire primary March 12, first in the nation, but polls show him trailing badly former Vice President Richard M. open for a convention draft “| don’t believe it's going to happen. but if it does hen T'll e by Jensen Here's something else I'll bet you didn’t know. In the last five years, tornatoes have struck at least once in everystate except Alaska and Rhode Island. As a matter of fact, in a five year total the state of Utah has been struck by 8 tornadoes The only tornadoes J can remember during the last five years are the “white tornadoes” our house has been bombarded with via the boob tube (tv) j i Some time back | wrote about my right arm and how it became surplus when I went to bed. still have the problem of deciding what to do with it—hangit over the side . . . cram it under my pillow . . . stick it straight in the air, what? Since I first mentioned it I bave had several tell me they read it and cuddenly found themselves a problem. What to do with their right (or left) arm when they were in bed. Rather than lay awake worrying about my arm, I’ve taken a new approach to my sheep problem. It goes back to the days when Double N and I were first married, I mentioned to her one night that 1 was having trouble getting to sleep, She said that she had read somewhere that a doctor recommended that people who have trouble getting to sleep, of themselves as a piece of string lying there. Or if they didn’t like to think of themselves as a piece themselves a wet disnrag lying there. Cities to Start War on Criminals Somepublic officilals are giving welcome signs ofstiffening their spines in the matter of dealing with crime, riots and generai lawlessness. Indications of same have come from President Johnson, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and Miami Police Chief Walter Headley. President Juhasun signed a tough crime control bill for the District of Columbia, braving the wrath of anxious liberals and incensed civil rights leaders. The D.C. bili will give police more leeway in questioning suspected criminals. It also sets tough minimum sentences for convicted criminals. Out in the Windy City, Daley is appalled by the growing number and violence of crimes, and gays he'll hire 5,000 more corps, if necessary, to keep order. Two city officials have been victims Romneyis the only announced major Republican candidate for presient. He is running in the laid myself a piece of string. I loosened every —which happens io be three—and 8 piece of string, I'm a piece of string, I’m and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news Science MagazineCites paper. ‘Damaging’ Pollution Source Editor Herald: Your readers may be inierested in the following editorial by Philip H. Abelson, editor of Science, a magazine subscribed to by about 100,000 U.S. scientists. “Public concern about air pollution has grown rapidly during the past few years, In a recent poll, 80 percent of respondents felt that additional measures should be taken to minimize this problem. Most people, when they consider air pollution, think of the auto mobile, the smokestack, or the trash burner. Few point to a most damaging source of air pollution—the cigarette. “One of the toxic products of the automobile is carbon monoxide, Exposure for 1 hour to a concentration of this gas of 120 parts per million causes inactivation of about 5 per cent of the body’s hemoglobin and commonly leads io dizziness, headache, and lassitude. Concentrations of carbon monoxide as high as 100 ppm often occur in garages, in tunnels, and behind automobiles. Such concentrations are tiny in comparison with those (42,000 ppm) found in cigarette smoke, The smoker survives because most of the time he breathes air not so heavily polluted. However, in a poorly ventilated, smokefliled room, concentrations of carbon monoxide can easily reach several hundred parts per million, thus exposing smokers and nonsmokers present to @ toxic hazard. “Another air pollutant issuing from automobiles is nitrogen dioxide, Nitrogen dioxide is an acutely irritating gas; also, it gives rise to nitrate, a potential mutagenic agent. Concentrations of NO2 as high as 3 ppm have been noted in Los Angeles, and levels of 5 ppm are considered dangerous. Cigarette smoke contains 250 parts of NO2 per million. : “Many of the toxic agents in cigarette smoke do not have counterparts in ordinary air pollution, One of these, hydrogen cyanide, is particularly noteworthy. It is highly active against respiratory enzymes. Long-term exposure to levels above 10 ppm is dangerous. The concentration in cigarette smoke is 1600 ppm. “These inorganic pollutants are three of many noxious substances that have been éuund in tobaeco smoke, Among others are acrolein, aldehydes, phenols, and carcinogens, an important one of which is benzo(a) pyrene. Evidence points to synergistic effects among the toxic agents. The phenols, though not themselves notably carcinogenic, increase marked- ly the carcinogenic potency of benzo(a)pyrene. “The toxic effects of cigarette smoke are also enhai other environmental factors. A recent study of asbestos workers showed a very high incidence of lung cancer among smokers, in contrast to a low incic among nonsmokers. In a group of 263 asbestos workers who had a history of cigarette smoking, 24 of 78 deaths were due to bronchogenic carcinoma. Of 87 asbestos workers who were nonsmokers, none died of lung cancer during a comparable period. A study of % * the uranium miners stricken with lung cancer has also revealed an effect related to smoking, The rate of fatalities was much higher among smokers than among nonsmokers. “Another exampie o a synergistic effect is seen in the smoker who breathes polluted urban air, The incidence of lung cancer among smokersis higher in the city than in rural areas. “The principal effects of smoking are borne by the smokers themselves. They pay for their habit with chronic disease and shortened life. Involved are the individual's decision and his life. However, when the individual smokes in a poorly ventilated space in the presence of others, he infringes the rights of others and becomes a serious contributor to air pollution.” Sincerely, H, Tracy Hall 1711 N, Lambert Lane Provo COLLISION COURSE Sure enough, it wasn’t too long befor string—that someone had found knots. It took Double N a half hour to untat of a “granny knot.’ se 8 After getting the string-bit out of my mind, I dishrag approach. “I'm a dishrag, I'm a WET dishrag,” repeating to mysclf. But I ran into trouble because all I really think of was, “I’m a greasy dishrag, I’m a very greasy dishrag.” Before I could dispell the thought, I had to get up and take a shower. I think from now on I'll just go to bed and worry about my right arm. se If any of you have “home-grown” remedies for getting sleep, why don’t you drop me a note so I can pass them along? Share io knowledge with the other fifteen people that read this column. Paul Harvey Women Workers Are Still Shortchanged By PAUL HARVEY There remains much discriminatio: in employment against women. Generally, women do not receive equal pay for equal work. Federal law now says employers must not discliminate against anybody on account of sex, but they still do. When Rep. Howard Smith (D-Va.) wrote that provision into the Civil Rights Act of 1964 he meant it as a joke. He thought it would be laughable to expect employers to replace half of the Rockettes with boys or half of the Green Bay Packers with girls. He was seeking to point up the absurdity of a law which presumes that we are “all equal” when, in fact, no two of us are. But his colleagues were unwilling to go on record with “a vote against women,” so Tisha 3 IN ee STREETS af The United States may be on the verge of another depression —a depression of the spirit. So contends the National Committee for an Effective Congress in a recently released, 3,600-word analysis of the national political situation. The committee is a nonpartisan organization which supports those candidates for the Congress whoit thinks will raise the legislative sights of that body “Atall levels of Americanlife,” the committee finds, “people share similar fears, insecurities and gnawing doubts to such an intense degree that the country may in fact be suffering from a kind of national nervous breakdown.” America has suffered two great internal crises in her histo.y, says the committee: the Civil War and the economic Depression of the 1930s. “The country may now be on the brink of a third trauma, a depression of the national spirit.” If memoryserves, 107 years ago the nation was actually breaking up. The exodus of the Southern states from the Union had begun, with the blessing of not a few Northerners. It was becoming more and more apparent that war was inevitable—actual, full-scale war, the killing of Americans by Americans, Thirty-seven years ago the nation again seemed headed for the trash heap of history, not by pulling apart but by collapsing inwardly upon itself. The entire economy was moribund, 11 million men were unemployed, widespread poverty stalked the land. To rank the current “depression of the spirit” alongside these national traumas seems to be, at the very least, somewhat of an overstatement. The 1968 elections, the eommittee believes, “will be more deeply affected by the psychological mood, by intangible things that touch the emotions, such as a candidate’s inner calm and confidence, By CLAY RICHARDS BEDFORD, N.H. (UPI)— Nelson Rockefeller and John Chafee came to praise Romney. They may have buried him. the Jaw was passed and signed specifiying that there must be no discrimination in employment based on race, religion— or sex. Now it is the responsibility of the Department of Justice to see that the law is enforced. If it cannot be, then let the Supreme Court so decree. Then, perhaps, the whole politically motivated Civil Rights Acts will be declared unworkable and reevaluated. However, if there were no federal law prescribing equal opportunity in employment, such a policy should be dictated anyway by a doctrine of fairness. Presently, by the Labor Department’s own figures, men performing the same work recaive 5% to 44% more than women. 4 lady elevator operator ay- erages $1.34 an hour against $1.98 for a man, If an order clerk is a girl she's likely to get $80 a week. A man doing the same work will average $108.50 a week. rapeaecone $1.74 ur. Men comparable work get $2.04. Incidentally, the pay differential is less in Western states where “women doing men’s work”is less a novelty, _ The situation is not improving. Mrs. Mary Keyserling, director of the women’s bureau of the Labor Department, says the gap between women’s pay and men’s pay has widened in the past 25 years, Though more women are moving into top-level administrative Jobs, and though labor union contracts tend to standardize wages in factory jobs, discrimination — particularly in white-collar jobs—increases, It is axiomatic in most professions that a woman must be at least four times more capable thana manto win the same recognition. This fact no law can change. Evolution, at its most accelerated pace, is agonizingly gradual. But there can be no doubt that they should receive equal pay for equai work. Employers are presently restrained by federal snoopervisors from advertising a pref- erence for “man wanted.” This is silly, and the courts must eventually decree such a law unworkable, Where are the militant civil rights tub thumpers? The professional crusaders would merit much more respect if they did not themselves discriminate so conspicuously in the selection of the issues they choose to erusade about. |