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Show HenryJ. Tayior Day to Honor Mr. Einstein Dedicated te the Pragress And Growth of Centrei Utah October 30 is an anniversary Tuesday, October 29, 1974, THE HERALD, Provo. Utah—Page 23 on that day in 1933 modest ruly-poly genius Albert FE) stein became a professor of mathematics the Institute for About ‘Regulatory Lags’ Add to the lexicon of lament inspired by inflation and the energy crisis the term regulatory lag.” This is the delay or gap between the date thata utility files an application for a rate change and the date that the change is approved by a state’s public utility commission. The gap, according to a survey of 31 states just completed by Electrical World magazine, averages nine months to a year. In Arizona, however, one case began in 1970 and wasn’t decided until 404 dayslater, in 1972. In Ohio, one application has been pending since May, 1972. Hearings began onlyin February of this year. Hit by Tsing costs like everybody else, the nation’s utilities are increasingly citing the problem of ‘regulatorylag” as a keyelement in the troubles they are having raising investment capital. Most consumers, of course, are just as happy to see an increase in their electric or vas bills postponed as long as possi: . But according to one mein utility spokesman, Alvan W. Vogtle Jr., president of The Southern Company, the. real victims of regulatory lag are consumers, more than the utilities. Unduly long delay means deieriorating service and cutbackin construction of new generatingfacilities, he points out. Thus it is the consumer who finds his future energy needs unmet who will suffer in the end, All the while, Vogtle adds, inflation — particularly the “double-digit” inflation the country is currently experiencing — adds to operating expenses. Thus when a rate increase does become effective, utilities are already at the point where the additional revenues are hot enough. This has given rise to a phenemenon called ‘‘pancaking.”’ This occurs — andit is occurring more and more frequently — when a utility finds it necessary to apply for another general rate increase even before a previous application has been processed As a result, the regulatory commissions in some states are being swamped by pyramiding paperwork. As a result, not only is there administrative chaos but uncertainity about the utilities’ real needs in the minds of consumers, who inevitably feel that they are the ones being ‘‘pancaked.”’ Understaffing is, in fact, cited as the chief cause of regulatory lag in the first place. In Pennysivania, for example, the number of specialists on the public utility commission has remained unchanged while the number of rate cases has tripled in the past four or five years. Fortunately, the states are beginning to attack the problem, either by hiring additionalstaff, granting interim relief, imposing tire limits or all of these. In Nevada, there is a statutory 180-day period to process rate applications, after which requests are automatically in force. In Kentucky, a statutory limit of 10 monthsto process applications is in effect. In Delaware, a ulility can collect a higher rate 60 days after filing application and held the additional revenuesin bond until a decision is reached There wouldn’t be this problem if gas or electric or telephone service could be sold on the open market where competition would establish the going rate. It is because of the nature of the products or services they provide that the nation’s utilities must be monopolies, albeit legal, regulated ones. But even thoughtheutilities are regulated by the states on behalf of the public, anyone who thinks that a rate increase postponed is a rate increase that will never happen is only kidding hiniself. Richard Wilson Ford Image Dims, But Don’t Write Him Off WASHINGTON, D.C. — As might have been expected, President Ford is the greatest disappointment to these who were most eager to have him replace President Nixon. Fordis not so bad off politically, however, as some recentpoll figures would suggest. He retains the substantial majority support of Republicans and independents. With little better luck than he has been having lately he would still be a formidable candidate for election in 1976 against any foreseeable Democratic candidate. Thatis what counts, not the drop-off in Ford’s popularity m: altributable to his pardon of former President Nixon. Nordoesit necessarily followthat the widely predicted Democratic sweep in the coming congressional election will prepare the way for a Denuocratic presidential landslide in 1976. Politics t worked that way in recent years, ith both Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon surviving reversals in midterm congressional elections and then coming back to win by larger majorities than whenfirst elected. Aside from the pardon, which may cometobe viewed in a differentlight in 1 couple of years or less, the «main disappointment in Ford arise from his not pursuing libera Democratic Party policies, And it is among Democrats that Ford has suffered his greatest decline in popularity Amnesty for Vietnam defectors has played a partin Ford's decline, but one suspects thai this is not a major factor; in any ease, Ford has the confidence of a majority of the younger voters. The deeper cause of disappointment among those whe at first were so enthusiastic about Ford is his refusalto regardhis accession to office as a repeal of the 1972 presidential election. There are those who not only wished to dispose of Nixon because of his Watergate involvementbut to be rid of his policies On such issuesas enforced busing welfare, government expenditures, government reorganization, economics and general philosophy of Soverninent, All this, it was ho by Nixon's permanentcritics, would be discredited in the ex-President's disgrace, but Ford is proceeding, with some exceptions, the general lines of the Nixon administration so far as large policies are concerned, Hehas not suddenly become the kind of president that the 1972 supporters of George McGovern would haveliked and quite obviously hoped for in the early days when Ford was trying to solve the abrasionsleft by the Nixon administration. But now, as the new President campaigns to hold congressional losses to a minimum,it is perceived that he is still a Republican and proud of it. Neither does he have any apology for pardoning Nixon, but has gone before the severest forum possible, the House Judiciary Committee, to defend his action All this adds up to quite a different president than the Nixonphobes thought they weregetting, a good-natured fellow willing to set aside convictions and political habits of a lifetime and erase any trace of Nixon’s 1972 victory from the national government. To the disappointment in Ford must now be added the frustrating developmentthat the candidate mostlikely t to be able to defeat him has withdrawn himself from any consideration in 1976. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s withdrawal has reduced the list of Democratic possibilities to uninspiring levels without, even, the simple and common qualities which retain majority support for Ford among nonaligned voters, Democratic leaders can peer into the future in vain for some as yet unfigure with broad popular appeal. ‘Yhe element which produces the most political uncertainty is economic uncertainty. Advanced Study. Princeton, NJ Dr. Einstein's simple two-story frame house at 122 Mercer Street in Princetonstill stands, occupied by his distinguished daughter. Walking the mile to the Institute or padding around the villageinhis sandals, his basket sized hair seeming justi out of an ironmongery. Dr. Einstein was a beloved figure. His real world however, was the worldof ideas. 7 israeli patriarch ion discussed the hereafter with this great sava Ben-Gurion asked: “Is the life after death?” Dr. Einstein answered: “1 wish I knew,” But whenhe died (April 18. 1955_ in his sleep, at Princeton Hospital) he left orders to cremate his body Dr. Einstein was modesty personified. Like most really established men, he had nopr:ide of opinion whatever. Hew: of pointing out how we ze what know and underemphasize what we do not know In fact. | once heard him remarkto 2 somewhat arrogant intellectua! every Paul Harvey WhyNot Try Punishment? My computer computes it cent of all ci commutied in the United State gounpunished Only1.5 per centof the guilty ever suffer forit How do we know punishment won't step crime? We haven't tried it lately! Crime nationwide increased 6 per cent last year and is increasing 15 percentthis vear Atty. Gen, William Saxbe says Americans are running out of places to hide. He urges courts and police to concentrate on putting career criminals behind bars. Most crimes are committed byrepeaters; so lock theiup where theycan’t repeat! Atty. Gen. Saxbysays, “It's time to go backto the old concept thal society does not cause crime, criminals cause crime. And the best thing we can do for the criminal andfor ourselvesis to catch him, prosecute him and lock him away.”’ ‘The crimerateinthe cities is eight times what it is in the country and in the city it is highest, by threé to one, in the ghetto. The worst groupof criminally prone is between 15 and 20 years of age; but hearthis: the second worst group of criminals is between 10 and 14! Dr. Milton Eisenhower blames. TV for much youthful crime. He says, “These youngsters spend more time in front of TV than in school. What they watch is almost exclusively crime They reach the point where theyfail to distinguish between fact and fiction.” Alty. Gen. Saxbe fears Vigilante groups may stari taking the lawinto their own hands. ‘There is a movie going around called “Death Wish” in which a NewYork architect sets out to TodayIn History By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Oct. 29, the Wand cay of 1974 with 63 to follow. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Mercury Venus, Mars and Saturn. The eveningstaris Jupiter Those born on this date are underthe sign of Scorpio. American statesman Thomas Bayard was born Oct. 29, 1828 Onthisdayin history In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was executed in London, charged with participating in a treasonable plot to oust King James I fromthe British throne In 1901, Leon Czolgosz was electrocuted for the assassination of American President William McKinley. In 1993, Turkey became a republic. Tn 1929, pandemonium reigned on the New York Stock Exchange as collapsing prices set the stage for the great Depression of the 1930s. A thought for the day American novelist Willa Cather id, “‘I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” avenge a family tragedy by longer for a givenoffense than ah OVIE are cheerin| time acior Charles Bronson clobbers another criminal The crime continues to : worst in thecities, in 59 cities of more than100,000 population the erime rate is actually decreasing Significantly, they are the cities in which tougherpolice and more prompt trials are getting results In recent years, it’s been sociologically fashionable to protest that punishment does not You will hear thatin the United States prison sentences are Princeton one of e else in the et this has not turned au at single fundamental powers by hich bodies operate — celestial animal and hur al remains unknown, “We can describe the powers,” he said, “but we do not know why theyare astheyare.” He told me one evening Itis : + th But whatthis statistic ignores is the fact that, of six million crimes cataloged by the FBI in 1971, only5.7 per cent were ever punished in any way. Myfiles include a wide-based assortment of analytical studies confirming that increasing the frequency and severity of punishmentdoes in fact reduce the likelihood of a given crime being committed. Political scientist Gordon Tullock says, “We have a pleasant method of preventing crime —rehabilitation — which doesn't work. We have an unpleasant method that works: prompt punishment.’” is certain. Sir Isaac Newton’s physics were true, as far as they went, for 16) years. Then in 1887the experiments of American scientists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Moriey seemed to demonstrate that lights’ speed is contant in spite of its source's motion. This apparently defied Newtonian physics. The whole scientific world was deeply led, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity had its beginnings in an essay he wrote when only 16. Then the great Einstein took a series of intuitive leaps in 1905. He was barely 26. Earning a doctorate at the Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, ‘Letter to Editor Concerned About the Cemetery Editor Herald We would like to bring to the attention of the people of Provo some conditions nowexisting at the Provo City Cemetery. On several occasions when we havebeenoutvisiting loved ones’ graves we havenoticed dogs and young kids running rampantall over the southeast corner of the grounds. The last couple of times we have been there these young kids have made obscene gestures and used foul language directed at us. We have spoken to othei people with graves in this area and they said they have even observed horses being ridden in the cemetery Quirks in The News EAST DETROIT,Mich. (UPI) ~ Teachers here who were on strike lastfall don’t like Macomb County Circuit Judge Hunter D Stair because he jailed six of A little over a week ago an article appeared in the paper stating they were going to open a new section of land in this very spot for plots. We wonder how many people would purchase plots in this area if they knew horses would be riding over the plots, dogs would be messing on the graves, and the kids might be tearing up any floral offerings put on the graves and taking the containersleft there. It is constantly happening to us, so don’t think it won't happen to you. We have been to the sexton the dog catcher. and the police We didn't receive any good answers or help from any of them. As far as we are concerned the cemetery is a private area and a place one shouldbeable to go to and meditate and showrespect for our loved ones that have passed on. We believe some kind of ordinance should be enforced and carried out to keep out anyone who doesn't have any business there (that means kids, dogs,and horses) or signs should be posted and the cemetery patrolled aiall times ofthe day. Wepayfor care and upkeep of the grounds when we purchase plots at the cemetery andbelieve thatprotectionof the area should be included in this also. We hope this letter will bring some response from the public and from the people in the city government whose concern this should be. One more complaint: Can't something be done aboutall the gravesthat have sunkfrom age? We would appreciate other people's response to this matter. Richard and Jolene Van Ausda! Don and Jerry Thompson Marcia McAffee Bud and Marian Barney ~ Merlin and Gail Barney Alma Barney Berry's World their membersbriefly during the strike for defying a back-teworkorder. So a group of them wroteStair this week that they plan to campaign against his reelection Nov. 5. Trouble ‘is, Stair is five research papers. In four, each contained a Seat discovery in physics. One pertained to relativity Then Dr. Einstein proved his Special Theoryof Relativity in 1915 by an astounding formula. It revealed the relation between energy, matter. time and the Speed of light, withits applicaton fe gravity. It answered the Michelson - Morley mystery International fame came in November, 1919. The Reya! Society of London's scientific expedition to Principe Island (Gulf of Guinea! had photographed the May 25 solar eclipse. It announced that its completed caiculations verified the predictions made in Einstein's genera] theory of relativity Two years later Dr. Einstein was awarded (Dec. 10, 1921) the Nobel Prize in Physics. The awardcited his photoelectric jaw and his work in theoretical ysies. Relativity, still under Tsy, was not mentioned in, however, was in nd could not be in im te receive the Nobel New Princeton physicist, Dr Robert H. Dickie's observations of the planet Mercury's orbital behavior seem to challenge some Einstein theories Modest Einstein was prepared for such amount a of possibility. findings “No or observations car: prove that [am right,”he once remarked to me, “but it takes only one to prove that lam wrong."” Would Put Signal at Intersection Editor Herald: 1 can’t help but wonder what good traffic surveys-are if we don't learn from them. 1 manage a business on the cornerof 200 West and 300 South, Provo. We see about two wrecks a week althis intersection.Not to mention countless close calls Cars are dodging and tires are squealing all day long. A few years ago we had a traffic light there, but they took it out. I wonder if we have to wait until someone gets killed before a light will be considered again. May I suggest that a light placed there would only have to be in full operation from about 7 am. to7p.m. to be effective. The Test of thetimea flashing amber light would do. I see traffic survey vehicles there occasionally taking notes. I wonder what their conclusions are. Apparently they don't feel it’s necessary. Let's hope all these fender benders don't take life before they decide a light might be beneficial to the heavy traffic flow which occurs daily at this ion, S.D. Ligman, Manager MidwayAuto Parts 195 W. 300S., Provo Wonders About Goings-On at ‘Foggy Bottom’ Editor Herald: I note Secretary of State Kissinger is awayfrom his desk again, in Foggy Bottom. I wonder what he hadin his brief case this time; more tanks and fighter bombers,for each side ‘The Secretary of the Treasury “in order to get some moneyinto the treasury, sells bonds at 9 per centinterest, even lets in the smail saver for $1000. Theresults were shocking. He had taken in around three billion before he could get it stopped. The result was the Horie Savings and some banks“wereworried and said so, as home nade fueds| have gone to Foggy Bottom.” The minimum boi was raised quickly from $1000 to $10,000, closing out small investors At the request of the 2 stration, the Congress hurriedly appropriated around three billion dollars for housing which in turn was sent to the banks and building and loan unopposed. BARBS By PHIL PASTORET The only thing more rapid than a calculatoris the rubber stamp that raises prices on canned goods. If you find mereury in a fish you buy, you can always use it for a thermometer. All al spirits advise their kids: TSpook when you're spoken to, and not before,” The wooly caterpillars have large, dark bands this ear. This means they have irge, dark bands. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISEASSN) he published associations. — | © 1974 dy NEA. Inc. a “My dear. | did NOT compromise my principles Jn getting this coat. Mink is NOTan endangered species!” So whose money wasused for home loans and who will again borrow and payinterest on it? Who wili siand theloss from 9 per centto 5 per cent Confidence in leaders such as these? Some politicians try to make the public believe that the Congress is responsible, when this crisis arose because of the actions of the officials in Foggy Bottoms. CLL. Spaugy 54 E..000.No. Orem, Utah { |