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Show Sun Advocate Sex study p D In) D You probably think $734,000 is a lot of money. Not to the federal government even though it doesnt have, the money and will have to borrow it. But the U.S. Department of Justice wants to spend that much to continue a study it began 18 months ago on how children are portrayed in Playboy, Hustler ' V and Penthouse magazines. Arlen At a hearing the other day, two senators of of Metzenbaum Howard and Specter Pennsylvania Ohio called the research a waste of taxpayers money. Positively worthless, said Metzenbaum, a Democrat. The study is analyzing explicit pictures and cartoons portraying children, the senators were told by Alfred S. Regnery, a Justice Department offcial, and Judith Reisman, the principal investigator for the research for American University. The Justice Departments office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, headed by Regnery, is financing the research under a award to American University. Reisman was hired by the university specifically for the project and was not previously on its staff. Regnery called the project, which invovles looking at 660 issues of the magazines, highly worthwile. Reisman said there was a need for research that examines the depiction of children in sexual and al scenarios in cartoons and pictorials, broken down by age, sex, race, religious overtones and hues. But Metzenbaum and Specter said they still were puzzled about the purpose of the study. Specter said he orginally understood that the study would try to show the impact of portrayal of children on those who commit sex crimes against children. But Reisman said her research would only lay the foundaton for future studies by analyzing the content. It doesnt seem you get much for your money if you have a content analysis and you dont see whether it causes child molestation, Specter said. You are saying, Mr. Regnery, there has to be another study. Thats right, Regnery replied. So thats where your money goes study after of fires the after academe, adstudy, fueling study to then federal and the deficit, gathering dust on ding would think it Sam Uncle shelf. Only somebodys to three quarters of a million profitable spend nearly dollars looking at erotic magazines. O In) 1 Wednesday, May 99, 1900 2 ' 22-mo- non-competit- non-sexu- Justice Burger and legal reform . For some years now, Chief Justice Warren Burger chucks waggin9 Exploring is getting to be more fun all the time. Mostly, thats because many readers have called with some good tips. Fellow anarchist Doc Dorman called about the stone walls along the Price River just below die Colton bridge. He tells me that was an old stage station years ago and told me Fred Voll in Helper ha? some good ' information on it. r 64 I havent had a chance to talk to Fred yet, but will let you know what I find out when I do. - es Then I got a call from Anita Huff in Carbonville. Boy, was this an interesting one! She told me that a friend from Emery County, more than 20 years ago, told her and her husband about a cabin on Cedar Mountain known as Joe Walkers cabin. She said they were taken out to see it, hidden away below the canyon rim in Bull Hollow. She told me when they found it that first time, there was an old purple whiskey bottle laying there and they just left it as it was. A later return visit found the bottle still there, but someone had shot it! Anyway, she gave me some pretty specific directions on how to find the thing and Sandi and I went looking this weekend. We found it with little trouble. It still is shingled with ponderosa pine bark. on Inside the cabin (actually, a lean-to- ) the rock wall near the natural fireplace are the initials J.W. Mrs. Huff told us that one ' slab-wall- ts ed The Wasatch Front has most of the crime, cars, collisions, perverts, politicians and phonies. Why would anyone Want to spend time there? It sure doesnt look like Zion tome! Ive lived in many places in this country and a couple outside the country and of all the places Ive been, the Wasatch Front is the last place Id choose to make home. As a matter of fact, Ive promised God that if He wont make me live there, Ill never voluntarily go! The only reason I can see for anyone wanting to live there, is for freed they believe they can make more money than living somewhere else. Either that or just ignorance. Unfortunately, no one from the Wasatch Front reads this column so I wont get any letters about it. Speaking of letters, isnt there something that bothers you? I know many of you out there are unhappy about something. Let me tell you a little secret if you write a letter to the editor and get it off your chest, youll feel a lot better. And those of you who are happy and havent got a care in the world dont you just love reading what someone else has to say about any particular subject? Actually, though, folks, the letters to the editor column is a public forum which gives you a chance to speak your mind publicly. I know I enjoy reading what others think and that is why I have been accused, on ocassion, of trying to get people to write in (would I do that). mike royko Blessed are the gullible The guy was in a real bind. He was out of work and almost broke. His job prospects were dim because he has a long history of emotional problems. He had few friends and most of his relatives were dead or living far away. So he would sit alone in his furnished room, a tormented man, trying to think of a . way out of his mess of a life. Then, from his television set, the solution came. It was offered by Rex Humbard, one of the most successful of the TV The message I was that if he would send Bible-thumpe- meant themselves on the street and hear voices from the bed-sprin-gs. : So he sent in a few dollars and waited for his heavenly reward to come. Instead, the letters began coming. He had become a blip on Humbards computerized mailing list. That TV, ' over. But if you do send the money, oh, the good things thfit will happen to you. Reading the some money, he pitch that can appeal to the many people who talk to on offering salvation and the Lords good will for a few dollars, he would regularly receive Humbards mooching letters. . Nobody can write a mooching letter like Humbard. They look like urgent telegrams, warning of the terrible things that will happen to the world if you dont send in. some money. Humbards church will collapse. The TV set will darken. The devil and his demons will soon take rs. Humbard that besides hearing Humbard would be rewarded many times over. How can you beat a deal like that? Maybe you wouldnt believe it; but its the kind of Israel Krytrons for doesnt have the nuclear The pretense that Israel bomb was punctured again recently but will probably survive because it is so useful both to Israel and the United States. The krytrons that were illegally exported from Los Angeles were not necessarily for the construction of, say, nuclear weapons, said Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Neither the exporter nor the Israelis knew the electronic devices could be used as atomic-bom- b triggers, they said. marks where it appeared the inhabitant was marking off days for some reason. She said that on a subsequent visit about five years ago, they were exploring the area around the old cabin and went into this cave. Inside, toward the back, they found a structure about a foot high. She said it had three walls, the fourth wall formed by the cave wall and a top which had fallen down inside it. She told me they dug it out completely and found nothing but dirt - and aSego Coffee can. That does get my juices flowing. I took a couple of black and white shots of the cabin while I was out there, but need to get back and get some of the place for a magazine. I told Magazine of Utah about it and they are interested in getting an article on the old outlaw hide-ouand cabins down here. Magazine of Utah is a new magazine which is being modeled after Arizona Highways and will publish its first issue either late this fall or in January next year. . They could help us promote this part of the state. Ill tell you, I get sick and tired of the Wasatch Front getting all the publicity and all they have up there is stinking air. Those new license plates prove that the ski resorts have the legislators in their pockets! Think about it. Whod want to live in a crummy place like Salt Lake City or ProvoOrem when you could live down here and breathe clean air and have some interesting places to see. So what do we support on our license plates? The sickest place in the state of Utah! of the timbers also has By CHUCK ZEHNDER Managing editor of the U.S. Supreme Court has been concerned with reforming the legal system. both And change is certainly needed. Litigation in our land. runs rampant legitimate and frivolous aU court in common are case systems. backlogs Huge number of attorneys also has a 'Die ever-risin- g courts. on crowded bearing We remember the story of the sole lawyer in a small town who could not make a living and decided to move, the chief justice said the other day before the American Law Institute in Washington. Then another lawyer opened an office in town and both of them prospered. The problem of crowded calendars and runaway court expenses (it costs $565 an hour to operate a federal district court) is magnified by increasingly complicated case?, such as antitrust, tax and securities fraud actions. They often are so complex they are beyond the grasp of the average juror. In his speech to the institute, Chief Justice Burger called for studies on the whole litigation process. He asks for some answers to the question: Is there a better way? Burger suggested the legal system may require: Trial by judges instead of by jury in complex financial suits, which may be beyond the grasp of laypersons. plane Deciding multiple disaster cases crashes, structure collapses, explosions and chemical leaks by special tribunals that could resolve claims without going to court. Settling personal injury and damage disputes with arbitration outside the regular court system and mediation panels and neighborhood courts. These are excellent suggestions. When it comes to legal reform, Burger is the best chief justice the nation has ever had- - While on the U.S. Court of Appeals, he spent several summers in Europe, visiting courts, prisons and mental institutions to study different approaches to justice. Unfortunately,- the legal profession is steeped in tradition. It moves slowly and shuns change. Burgers suggestions for legal reform have little chance for acceptance during his tenure as chief justice, but a start can be made. The legal profession should create a commission to examine the problems of the courts and offer alter-nativto present procedures. Otherwise the crowded court system will disintegrate into assembly-lin- e , justice. one outlaw cabin! Found , letters, the tormented man felt even worse. He wanted to send money. He wanted to be rewarded. But he had no money to spare. So his addled mind hit on a solution. He would, in effect, borrow the money. Then, when his heavenly-ordaine- d reward came, he would pay the loan back. His problem was, who in the world would lend money to a guy like him? The answer was, no one would. So he improyised. Using the little money he had, he opened a checking account. Then he kited checks. He just lawyer called Humbards offices and they put him in touch with their lawyers. And wrote bum paper, overdrawing Humbards promised to return his account by about $1,500. the $755 they had been sent by He sent half the money to the confused man, which they Humbard and put the rest in his did. That means the man wont pocket. He didnt worry, go to jail. Out of his welfare because he was sure his fortune cheek, hes paying back $45 a would quickly change, just as month to the bank. pireacher Humbard promised. But something still troubles Unfortunately, his fortune the mans lawyer. What didnt change quickly enough. amazed me was that when I And he found himself standing spoke to them, they didnt want before a judge in Toronto, where to deal with me directly. I had to he lives,' facing charges of talk to their lawyer. They hold swindling a bank. themselves out as a religious, The judge found him guilty, charitable organization. But because he clearly was. And it they had not one iota of interest was likely that hed go to jail. in this mans Tbey But he was lucky to have a good didnt care about him at all. lawyer, who Well, at least you got the explained to the judge that his money back to the bank and client wasnt really a swindler: him out of jail. he just thought he was buying ' kept We did that. But theres Yes. Gods financial counseling. a still problem. So the judge said: Have Mr. What? Humbard in court for the next I think hes still sending to tell him bring. hearing and Humbard a little bit every was Because a it $1,500. Canadian court, Humbard, who month. See? Rex does care about him lives in Ohio, didnt have to obey the judges order. But the after all. well-bein- g. court-appoint- ed |