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Show - HT Pare 20 prrnnnr nrryywwr"rr r r r wrr y , frrrnnr '. Hnfm-ialmgslitll- e Pc Salt nfcf v m v I Devil, pibnnc Isnt He? By Our Readers Stop lhe Filth Growth Forecast a Planning Challenge But apparently we haven't seen any' thing jet. Two University of, Utah economists have just released a study on population growth prospects made as part of a Salt Lake area transportation study. They con- eluded that by 1980 population in the met- ropolitan area would be almost double what it is today. They predicted there will be 821.000 h people living in the Salt Lake County-SoutDavis area compared with the 414,000 at the I960 census count. THIS IS a prediction of tremendous import. Consider the present crowding of people, businesses, and industries in this area. Think of the great changes Which have taken place in Salt Lake City and its suhurhan cities and communities in the last 20 years. Think of the problems this has created in the way of new highways, schools, parks, shopping centers, water supplies, sewage disposal, health and fire and police protective services. Xow then, double all this crowding, and these changes, these problems cram It all Into 17 or 18 years. The impact will double, for 4y 1980, if this analysis is correct, as many new were people will move into this area as 400.000-od- d already in it In 1960. And these additional Salt Lake area citizens Good Teen Safetv Talk of 46 Utah high Representatives schools from all parts of Utah met in the' sixth a rvffiial TeC n Tfa file Sa f cty Ccm- ferenee at the Capitol Thursday. It was the best representation in the history of this day-lon- g session, jointly sponsored by The Salt Lake Tribune and the Salt Lake Safety Council. Adult observers and consultants who have worked with these young students through the years also agreed it was the best conference jet. It was stimulating to see the interest and to watch the informed participation of the delegates. came up As usual the teen-agewith some challenging tions. rs recommenda- Among them were such proposals as better standardization of driver education programs in the schools, refresher training courses for adults, more respect for and better training of law enforcement officers, better engineering of high school parking lots to eliminate traffic confusion, attacking the teen age driver s tendency to overconfidence and most interesting. that young drivers be given probationary licenses until they reach IS and establish a good driving record. Conference discussions and decisions are important, but the real value of these meetings is the stimulus to safety effort back in the high schools. Past conferences have done much to encourage such effort and the obvious qualities of leadership and the interest of the delegates to the 1962 conference promises equal, if not 'greater, action when they return to their schools. The Tribune is proud to play a part We congratulate in these conferences. the 164 high school participants and thank them for attending. More and more college football players are studying engineering, medicine or law. Where will the America of the future find men who .know anything about leatherworking or ancient Roman band instruments? The nation's football coaches cooperate In the physical fitness program by demonstrating that a star back can be an invalid in the Wednesday editions and plaV a full game on Saturday. . will.be at least twice as many additional citizens as have moved in since 1940. This population growth forecast represents job and profit opportunities for Utahns. But it also represents challenge. MUCH OF the growth which occurred in the last 20 years was haphazard. There was inadequate provision of new streets and arterials to carry traffic in . . many cases. Homes were built up mountain slopes without consideration of the extra waters runoff from the acres of blacktop, roofs and concrete which replaced grass and brush. There was not adequate provision for new parks and playgrounds and open space generally. Some commercial and industrial development failed to consider overall development of the area. Some residential subdivisions were substandard, forecasting future deterioration problems. The picture has not been all black by any means. Much progress has been madt- - in sewage disposal, provision of more a.nd safer water, schools, churches, e services. Storm better now is being, provided, as are drainage more parks and arterials. .Recently alsq an exciting plan for future downtown "Salt Lake City has been unveiled. health-fire-polic- Me are looking ahead in the metropolitan area in a nay we haven't for ntahy jears. But the growth projection proves we must do even more. Fortunately Salt Lake County is now engaged in collecting basic data which will permit a projection not only of probable general business, industry and population'" expansion, but where this will most likely and most ideally occur. This knowledge is essential to plans forf orderly growth, with the various Rinds of development properly related to each other that is a school site, where children air: highway veffpre people go" to and from work, a park where people live and so on. THIS SOUNDS like a large order, and it does require careful study, wide cooperation and wise decisions. But it is far from impossible. Indeed, we are already well on the way. The main challenge is public realization of the problem and acceptance of the need to look ahead, and plan ahead. With that acceptance we can anticipate problems and guard against a hodgepodge expansion. We can insure that the tremendous growth in store will be orderly so that this metropolitan area will be progressive and prosperous a good place in which to do business, a good place to work, a good place to live. End of a Historic Run Tonight's scheduled closing of Broadway's oldest, richest and. many feel, all-tibest musical comedy is of interest throughout the country. It is hard to imagine that anybody has escaped hearing some of the lilting tunes, or seeing the stage version of Alan Jay Lerner' s and Frederick Locwes My Fair Lady." The adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion has played six years and six months on the main stem and is sail "on the road in the U.S. and abroad. A total of 3,750,000 persons paid $20,508,267 during that time to see the Broadway show, 60,000 for standing room. The record gross was more than Oklahoma and South Pacific combined. Seventy-si- x other musicals, some of them with long runs, have opened and closed on Broadway since My Fair Lady first opened at the Mark Hellinger, March 15. 1956. The record album made by the original cast has sold more than 3,500,-00- 0 copies, another new mark. For those discouraged with dirty words and moral decadence featured in so many plays and pieces of fiction, it should be said that My Fair Lady achieved its record with straight Hold That, Spray Gun Book Debate Stresses Caution Warning would substitute biological ntrols where possible. FEW CRITICS challenge M iss Carson's facts. Several claim many reforms she urges are already under way. Many take issue with Certain conclusions and projections into the future. Of special interest in the Intermountain Wot is her charge that "one of the most tragic examples of our unthinking bludgeoning of the landscape is in the spraying of sagebrush. This shrub, she says, evolved over a long period of natural trial and error,, surviving the harsh extremes of climate. And animal life such as sage grouse, antelope and . deer evolved In sagebrush Silent Spring. by R rhei Carson; Houghton Mifflin; S68 pp. $5. Miss Carson's reputation as a marine biologist and writer ('The Sea Around Usi adds thunder to this blockbuster in the debate over poison sprays. Documenting her with 55 pages of references, the author drives home repeatedly her main point that in his eagerness to destroy-pests- , man is upsetting natures balance and imperiling himself. Sprays and dust may kill not only Intended, ' victims but also other forms of life, eradicating natural enemies of other pests. Or they may enter the bodies of animals .and humans, achabitat. cumulate and alter natural processes, causing cancer or By destroying sage and reweakening the body's, reguplacing it with grass to satlar protection against disisfy the insatiable demands ease. of the cattleman for more grazing land, we may kill Miss Carsoo doesn't off the wildlife and In some that chemical sprays instances domestic livestock be abandoned entirely. depending on it for winter But she would limit their feed, she warns. use by persons Ignorant of Miss Carson seems to over- their potential harm and look the fact that sagebrush CL 4 In-sl- st . 4. has multiplied enormously w here excessive grazing has eliminated native grass or lessened its vigor and quali-- b tv. Sage has invaded areas where nature originally did not put it. The success of efforts to restore native grass de- pends on soil and climate conditions and future land management. Grazing pressure . can be reliev ed on dangerously eroding slopes. Even a short-tim- e benefit from reseeding bottomlands could be worth the effort. IF SAGEBRUSH kill Is never 100 per cent and since It remains in adjoining areas, the wildlife count Is unaffected so far. If Miss Carson overstated her case on sagebrush she may also have done so other- She has rendered a. service, however, bv alerting and needling land managers and chemical firms and by arousing the public to take a long look at the problem and its many ramifications, Ernest H. IJnford. wise.1 f The Public Forum Saturday Montins. September 29, 1962 Salt Lake City has become accustomed in recent years to a steady expansion of business and industry in the metropolitan area, and a corresponding spread of population in all directions. m Wr ! mmm w Max Lerner Editor Tribune: William Buckley has plenty supporters in his condemnation of pornography, notwithstanding the criticism offered by two writers in The Forum of Sept. 17. This country needs Mr. Buckleys to arouse public indignation over the existing traffic in this stuff. We all believe in freedom but the indiscriminate use of it is beyond our constitutional rights. To exercise it beyond this degree will prove detrimental and degrading to our society. It already has, in my opinion. One writer says, Access from any where at any time is the fundamental right of any human being. In my opinion this is rash logic. Again I quote her: Does Mr. Buckley assume that adult people are dolts and cant tell the difference? Countless numbers of adults, including many among the learned, lack the ahilitv to separate the wheat from the chaff and they are chok- ing' morally on chaff. The teenagers,, mothers and fathers of unborn generations are the ones who are reading this filth. It is warping their thinking and stunting wholesome moral growth. T know of no accurate way to measure the difference between today and 40 years ago relative to our attitude toward sexual behavior, but if it can be measured by the -V. . ardstick of immodesty, .ty fVVSUU0KJ which we see everywhere, then we have reached the low rung on the moral ladder. Sexy periodicals, which could be bought, 40 years ago, only on the black market and only by adults, can bought of destiny has struck. And by any one regardless of he must stand as a stone age. The cover pages suggests the lewd material in.wall against the rising tide side. Censorship seems to of Negro civil rights when all have gone down the drain. else has crumbled before it. If this traffic continues withThe' second is Attorney out abatement for another General Kennedy, who is generation or two. I predict that the ancient cities of Sohaving to meet buidens and dom and Gomorrah will look at make derisions- in a crisis-thwould daunt less deciSupports sive men. Editor, Tribune: As an ad A cynic might say that a mirer of Admiral Kickover success by the younger Kenand his views on education. nedy brother in the Meredith Mr. Harmers letter. Sept. 13, case will make the political thoroughly disturbed me. It position of the older brother is unfortunate that leading a tough one to beat. educators cannot be shown the true state of our elemenBut by the same fact, a failure In the Meredith tary schools without the red carpet approach when case could break the administration with the Nethey visit a public school bv being shown an ideal situagro and liberal voters. tion where model lessons are There is, I am convinced, prepared well in advance. a good deal more to the atJust because the laws of torney generals support of states, the records of the Merediths university bid State Department of Educathan domestic ethnic politics. tion, and the school curricuThere is the memory of the lum state that certain basic taunts about American insubjects must be taught equality hurled at him on doesnt mean that they are his visit to the universities being taught. I taught in a in Japan, and his conviction Salt Lake City elementary that the whole free world school for several months, was new in the system, and cause in the world political war is at stake. And there is was once visited by the elehis own intensity of commitmentary school supervisor to see whether I was teachment to this particular cause ing communism or the basic of civil rights. subjects that this system exFinally there is Jim Merepected to be taught. What a dith himself a slight, seristudent learns in a certain ous, anxious young Negro grade varies from teacher with a nervous stomach but considerable guts, who was to teacher. One can't expect children not content to remain in a Jim Crow college, and knew to receive a good background in the basic subjects lone of what he was taking on when Rickovers criticisms) when he mounted an assault upon teachers do not have an adethe citadel of white supremquate background themsState acy, the Mississippi elves. If half the methods University itself. and psychology courses were THE CAUSE of American dropped from the education civil rights for Negroes has majors curriculum there might be time for them to moved, case by case, exactly through such young people. take more basic courses that They are fulfilled in being in turn would make them part of the campaign of his- better qualified teachers. Why is it that the educatory. The rival strategists in the tion department is always the easiest school to get Meredith story will doubtless be studied a long time to through in a university and often attracts (but not alcome. Gov. Barnetts stratways) the student of lesser egy was to thrust the uniIntellectual ability? One versity officials aside, interpose the state power and authority between them and Interpolations the federal government, and offer himself as the sole tarOFFICE get for federal punitive acCFTHE tion. Through his control of PRINCIPAL the Mississippi Legislature and his own executive power he had a considerable armory of legal weapons. Mighty Forces Involved at 401 Miss I had a peculiar elation in meeting my first class at Brandeis this fall because It Mississippi governor who presides over one of the most backward states in the Union. His political fortunes were reported to be waning, and he may be playing the martyr role partly to retrieve them. came on the day when Jim Meredith learned that he had won the first round of his epic struggle, and that -- BUT MAINLY I think it is because he wants to make a derit in history, and his self-imag- e the trustees is and officials of that of the. cham- of white supremacy against all the forces of egalitarian darkness. I suspect he feels that his hour pion Mississippi University had agreed to reg- - Mr. Lerner ister him as a student My students are also elated. Just when you have come to take a college education for granted it is good to know that there are young men like Meredith, willing to take perilous risks to test the equal right of all students to meet university standards. An edge of heroism is added to the educational enterprise when brave men commit themselves to fight for it. The.re are mighty forces involved in the present con- stitutional and political crisis l of relations in the Meredith case, but they are symbolized by the three men who form the cast of major characters. One is Ross Barnett, the state-federa- Soaper Says Some adjectives are devalued over the years, while others are inflated. Thus, in judging a political candidate, we give as much weight to affable as we once did to honest and "courageous. Important men send us memos From the desk of,; and how are we to reply? Dear Desk:? Some politicians employ polling agencies to discover whats going on and leak the opposite. We were 40 years ahead of time, having folded an Dyna-Soaspace glider out of a books paper back in the fourth grade. X-2- r Senator From Sandpit By Ham Park A jests prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. Shakespeare. Feminine Arithmetic A married man, fascinated by the way his wifes mind works, gives this example of what he has to be on guard against. They have a 1961 car. dealer has d them $2,000 for it toward the purchase of a new 1962 model priced at $3,000, leaving only $1,000 to be paid for the new car. That also happens to be the amount they still owe the finance company on their present car. The wife is convinced they can get the new car, clear of debt, without paying an extra cent Its avyfully simple," she explained to her husband patiently. We tell the man we accept the deaL He gives us $2,000 and we give him our car. We go to the finance company and pay our $1,000 balance. Then we take the other $1,000 to the dealer. He has our $2,000 car and the $1,000 and we leave with a new car. "Honestly, Harry, I dont understand why you keep looking at me like that! Notes on Cuff Department Whei you hear a man say that poverty is a great thing for the character, the chances are that youre listening to a millionaire. A speaker addressing .a group said: See your dentist and keep your teeth. Well, it was different with me. I saw my dentist and lost my teeth. Have you noticed that while the dollar doesnt go as far today as is used to, it makes up what it lacks in distance by going faster? The automobile has increased the ratio of ity, created appalling traffic problems, contributed to juvenile delinquency, shown at least half our population how to live beyond its income, and relieved us of the horsefly. People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, he votes against something. Mankind Is born to trouble. There is a cty at the beginning of life, and a groan at the end of it. Have you noticed that Christmas holidays seldom live up to your expectations, except in expense? I.Q. Test Who was it that debased the Ex-Teach- er When the coming of the new . day Clapped like thunder, Who championed the underdog And pushed him further under? : Carsloben Speech ln Editor.' Tribune: deeply disappointed in your newspaper's cover ge of Dr. Blue Carsteirsen's' appear-mor- e nce at the recent Salt Lake City senior citizens meeting. The article contained exact! v three sentences on Dr. speech. Next to three or four tiny items on petty auto thefts! the Cars-tense-a article was the steadiest and most isspllazt on the page. As director of the National Council for Senior Cozens, Dr. Carstecsea is probably the nation's leading expert on medical care for tha aged. His excellent presentation deserved far more than the paltry treatment it was given in Tuesdavs paper. SIMON P. SAMOT Caro-tensen'- s Reciprocal Interest? The Editor. Tribune: Huckster's proposal that Mavor Lee . be ir.v .ted ta guest conduct the Utah Symphony is marvelous. Wouldn't it be if politicians took as much interest in things cultural a Music Professor Lowed Durham dees in peLtxs, ad-- v ertising agencies, et cetera ? MRS. BOYD LARSEN Cedar Breaks at Peak. Editor. Tribune: Your readers may be interested to know that Hlghwav 14 by Cedar Breaks National Mw umer.t is at its peak for color right now. The leaves' are most beautiful and I wish everyone could see them. FERN CRAlVFORD Parguiich. Utah Wafer Young Trees Editor! Tribune: Down town merchants and please water the vourg treeb. It is rot too late in rie vear. The drought eon mac unabated ar.d the trees will not msk? it through the winter if veu do-- 't take care cf them r.wv. res.-dent- s. TREE LOVER. Kickover Oitici-- m doesn't have to use a scN approach to prove tfu if he has ever ater-i-x- : a -v where are there ersty u.-..- medial and education oepartmers. etc. Rate the reqmrerner for teacher training. prw adequate supervtsaori for a ! teachers regardless of veaix in service, and make teaching a profitable profe-xv- . and students might ceveic their minds through competent teaching as Admiral R.tkover implies. Where ar? the special teachers for subjects h as art. mus.c. and physical erica nor. -. all cf Salt La? Citvs elementary snocN An older teacher is not able to carry out the pfry-jj-. program properly demonstrating the rigorous exercises that c people may r.ot he able t res. Are teachers teaching subjects fhat they are qualified to teach? I know of ore case where a teacher x teaching mathematics but majored in home Is the system textbooks for its schools oi the basis ef the copyrsrttt date or the contest? Marv new books for the eVme--ta- ry school contain nxe pictures than words and ar written for the bekw-average student. One speller used i i- al --- te s. prv-vxii- -. in a &LC fifth grade contains many three ard four letter words that a fifth grader should have mastered in the second grad I firmly believe Admiral Rickover is justified in hat criticism cf many aspects cf American education. Let's stop critknzir.g hss views and get behind him ard do something about the situation. MARCIA E PUMPELLT (Mrs. Charles R Pen pelly I Bt IntrrlaDtU He even went so far as to get himself made university registrar so that he could turn away Merediths application. pride Of royal homo sapiens -By bringing to the premises A crowd of new relations? like a Sunday School in comparison with our civiSzatkm., RAUL A. S PENCE. Carden Cty, Utah -- His hope and prayer were that the federal - marshals would arrest him. But this was a trap that the Justice Department sidestepped. l constituThe tional crisis Is not yet over, state-federa- however, since Barnett seems a more reckless figure than Faubus ever was, and more bent on making a martyr of himself. Nor is Jim Merediths own personal over, since he must meet the hostility and, potential violence of the segregationist true believers on the campus and in the back areas of the state who may or-de- While still we Strove and got along With a simple, single mind, ' Who discovered yet another Dark, subterranean kind? come flooding hr Mademoiselle X. ..campus. T onto th Generally speaking, the board Is loppy with (V stress of your program to teach rommnusaa ta luxfe mtlsmd students, In spite of the two defectors NiIwiSt, expected to rejigs . . T ... pas |
