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Show t Jjt"i f Blit Carter, Ford Persist The Sail Lake Tribune, Abortion Should Not Be Big; Presidential Campaign Issue I. , By James R. Dickenson i Washington Star Writer MANKATO, Minn. Jimmy Carter defines abortion as evidence of a failure to prevent an unwanted preg- nancy. It certainly is. Its pretty tough to , ' argue with that. ,J This stunning exercise in belaboring the obvious is worthy of the abortion ; issue as a serious topic in a presidential I campaign. It is not a presidential issue, : and it certainly is not a constitutional i matter despite the demands of the for a constitutional ' amendment that would prohibit abor- tions. If the two presidential candidates 1 spend much time debating this issue ' rather than the ones they should 1h . concerned with, they will be defrauding the electorate. The waffling both have done in their attempts to salvage situation something from a raises a question as to whether either ' deserves to he president. ; Queinoy, Matsu' Abortion is the Quemoy and Matsu of f 1 the 1976 election, only worse. The offshore islands were totally worthless ' strategically, but at least they came under the purview of foreign policy, which is the Presidents responsibility. i Abortion is not. It is a matter of . private religious and moral beliefs. - Law and order was not. It is the ' responsibility of local government, not of the President J Cut, like Q&M and LiO, abortion is a symbolic issue. To many, Southern Baptists as well as Catholics, abortion j is a symbol of the change in sexual mores, the increased permissiveness of the past decade. To many it is a symbol of the cultural i evolution of that decade, the feeling that the traditional morality and institutions such as families, church and community which are the glue that holds society together are weakened and failing. In this sense, its obviously proper for a presidential candidate to have a view on abortion just as he does on drinking, drugs, premarital sex and other moral questions. I no-wi- n Senator Soaper Live in a house close to a school and, by picking up the discarded test papers, you can judge how well the youngsters are doing in spelling and mathematics and how deeply they are concerned alxnit the environment. To debate abortion as a constitutional issue is disgraceful, however. It is no more a constitutional issue than was Prohibition, and it is clear now what a disaster that was. A law that cant be enforced is worse than worthless. It fosters a disrespect for law, and Prohibition gave an enormous impetus to organized crime. No one can seriously believe that a constitutional amendment against abortion would be much more successful. Abortions would still be performed but they would be done illegally and dangerously just as bootleg whisky was consumed by the ocean in the 1920s and killed, blinded or paralyzed many of its devotees. To drink or not to drink or whether to get an aboition is not an issue of government such as separation of powers, presidential succession or the right of free speech. There is no issue of freedom involved when people are free to have an abortion or not. To the central y wi iting abuitiun into the Constitution would probably be unconstitutional. It comes dose to breaching the separation of church and state that is an unquestioned cornerstone of the American system of government. It would come dangerously close to allowing one religious group to impose its views on the rest of society. Carter Volunteers View To his credit, Carter has acknowledged that the Constitution is not the place to resolve such emotional and transitory issues. He has been volunteering his view on the matter, however, whenever there is a sizable number of antiabortion signs in the audience. He seems to consider it a matter of honor to take this difficult issue head on. He ought to quit wasting his time. He by opposing abortion and by also opposing a constitutional amendment, which is a reasonable position. He didnt help himself after his unsuccessful meeting with the Catholic bishops by indicating once that he might possibly accept some sort of amendment if the wording was right. He hasnt repeated this, however. Ford has caved in by supporting an amendment that would leave the states free to pass their own laws, which he can rationalize in terms of states rights, but in effect is meaningless. It is paradoxical to see conservatives who profess to revere the Constitution Jut an Uly Dream - Cl. ; nSi j ; , V ' V- N v 1 - .V w i ' ' i t V - t I trigger. You dream about it, he had told me earlier. You know it is going to happen sooner or later. You know that somebody, someday is going to pull a gun on you. And you wonder. Will I be able to lire in time? Can I get to my gun? Can I get him before he gets me.? He had put the gun in my hand. It was a r I . i A S I I steel-fram- e Colt Com- mander It was heavy and huge, overflowing the palm I cradled it m. Its blue-stebarrel glowed dully in the light lie told me it was the 1finest had combat weapon m the world. never held a gun before. il I held it out, elbow locked, with oup hand and I steadied its base with the other. When I closed one eye, the target leapt into place. Puding the trigger was like drawing a Mine mrougn soil cheese. Orange Flash I was not ready for the huge, flat thud, the orange flash and the cioua of gas. The gun kicked a few inches in my hand like something alive and the hammer came back automatically. I pulled the trigger and the target jumped this time. I fired again and took the gun Kenny reached ' Now he said "You know. you away. wanted to know and now you no blue-whi- - i M ;j te I knew. There was no feeling like it. The boft. smooth easy pull of the trigger follow id by the .violent release of the bullet It was power in its rawest form. The form that a policeman carries strapped to his hip. Kenny held the gun on the kid. It takes only a few pounds of pressure to pull the trigger of his gun. Less pressure than it takes to open the door of a refrigerator. He Hesitated By law, by Police Department rules and by training, Kenny should have sent a lead ball crashing into the kid's chest at about 800 feet a second. But he hesitated. "Drop it Kenny screamed instead. "Drop it! the kid dropped it. And then in an scene so senseless and unbelievable, a scene that seemed to happen in slow motion, the kid began to reach down for the pRject in slow motion, the kid began to reach down fi r the object he dropped. He would have it in a second. Sept. 18, 1926 Final figures on the enrollment for Salt Lake City schools were received by Superintendent of Schools G. N. Child from principals last night, and reflect M. Bernstein The expression dog in the manager" furs to someone who has something that he cannot or does not use himself but will not permit others to use. But dog m the manger"? The why a iron-- , a fable about a dog comes ase phi of the hay in a manger but none ate that would not let an ox come near it Ending feminine endings. Tiie suttix or has even less masculinity attached a lu it than has man in such words Dictionaries chairman. or craft small define tne or suffix has meaning one -- -- s-Vs-- , w .& - ..Vx s r Yt-- 7 , o '- t : ysx , , : t A. V O 1 i A mr v. , 1 r! V' x . uj 7 A - A A'. Not only is it a .spurious issue in a presidential campaign, ti.i re isn't any profit in it. H (t J MKv V- A As Anthony Lewis Schorr Case a Press Freedom Issue New York Times Sen ice BOSTON Even in a country that rightly celebrates its freedom, there is a deep strain of deference to authority When the words ' national securi- - I- , murare ty ; - gence Committee despite a House vote to suppress it. A Serious Matter? It's a very serious situation, Quil len said, "that publishers in this country should take it upon themselves to publish secret and classified information against the will of Congress and the people. Rep Donald J. Mitcnell, said that "in an extreme situa-Lothe mabhty to destroy this country" But how many of the great tests of government secrecy in recent years have turned out to involve any genuine risk to the national security? Richard Nixons efforts to keep the facts of damage they would do. One was by Butts Macomber, then deputy undersecretary of state. His affidavit has only recently been declassified cannot overemphasize," Macomber said under oath, the 1 breadth, intensity and severity of the harm which would be caused to the nation a i security. I conclude, as an experienced professional diplomat and al to bow aua senior diplomatic officer of the I'nited tomatically to States government, ihat fuilliei publithe state. After cation of such materials would irrepar200 years, princiably harm the United States." ples of our constitutional liberMacomber's pompusit'es notwithty still escape unstanding, the courts refused to prohibit and the derstanding. publication in that case still stands. Today, hardly Republic Those unhappy Watergate concealed? President any one can remember a single item of thoughts were aroused by the hearings Ford's attempt to suppress the Senate tiie Papers that cause all the fuss. of the House Ethics Committee oil the report on CIA assassination plots? More Extreme Example matter of Daniel Schorr. It was an Again and again the concern was really extraordinarily instructive occasion, in about official embarrassment. The House Intelligence Committee ways that the committee surely did not report is an even more extreme Worthwhile Example intend. For anyone who listened with an example of hysteria over a mole hill. Once the claims of secrecy have been open mind ought to have learned a good The CIA had effectively pressured the deal about that prickly idea, the exploded, we tend to forget how committee into deleting any remotely that officials publiand the hysterically argued freedom of the press sensitive disclosures, and the substance cation would jeopardize the future of of the pressures it has to resist. report had already been the country. So it may be worthwhile when Schorr obtained the text Most depressing were the comments It comes from an example. and gave it to the Village oice. The from committee members deploring exhunung the case of the Pentagon Pamirs. House vote to suppress the tame final the publication of government In the course of trying to stop document was a result of internal secrets. For example, Rep James said he was publication of the Pentagon Papers in politics and of public reaction against H. Quillen, of the whole intelligence investigation. appalled" that the Village Voice had 1971, the government filed a number in court on the affidavits Secret Top Intelli of House the the report printed Still, the House was entitled to decide against publishing the report itself. The question that plainly troubled some members of the ethics committee was why the House should not be able to enforce that judgment on others. Floy d D. Spence, C, said the press was say mg that "one person can determine mured, some ex- pect the individu- a A' n for himself what should be secret and what should not. But the whole theory of the Constitution is that the government and the press must each be free, separately, to perform its own function. The government will always try to control its information, tiie presss duty is to seek the facts and publish It r-- an untidy accommodation, as the lute Alexander Biekel said, but our system prefers it io tiie ailei native of lmmoiitiiic pult-linhe- Kenny swore and covered the distance in two long steps. Ills gun was in his hand sideways and he brought it up against the kids head in a short, hard arc. The kid went tumbling backward Kenny held the gun on him while he groped on the ground for what the kd had. He came up with a pair of sunglasses. One of the 14 pairs the kid had just stolen. Jesus, Kenny said. lie took the kid to the hospital to get four stitches put in his head Kenny sat in a chair, it was about an hour before he felt good enough to go back on the street. Had Every' Right That would have been great, he said. "I would have killed a kid For unlawful use of sunglasses. 1 had every right to draw m gun I probubiy had every right to shoot him. "But I would have been up before the R-- S Sept. 18, 1931 State Fair was turned I'tah's over to Salt Lake City school children Monday, and they swarmed around the exhibits of the states annual big show with typical youthful enthusiasm No corner oi the fairgrounds escaped the attention of curious youngsters who were excused from city schools fur the afternoon They began forming lung lines at the fail ground entrance during the noon hour, to bring Mondays attendance to an estimated 18. (KH) Sundavs attendance. officially collided at 20.175. was the largest single iluv's aiteudance m fair history 1951 state s attorney. Maybe court. And (hey would hav e had days to decide whether I was right or wrong. Maybe weeks. What did 1 have? One second? A tenth of a socnrd M control Of course the preks does not always, or even mostly, perform its function in the grand style. The Ethics Committee hearing made television of rare drama and importance, but the commercial networks left it to the public stations to carry. The media are a disorderly, but that is the unpredictable lot point. The press is meant to be outside the established order. Schorr Explains A good many editors and broadcasters have been unsympathetic to Daniel Schorr. But 1 think they would understand and respect him if they heard him explain to the Ethics Committee why he could not disclose his sources without risking the American public's rights. He and other reporters like him do not endanger national security; they serve their country by doing their job, even when it annoys. Committee members seemed to understand when Schorr slidThere is a necessary tension between what you do and what I do." i jnrtfnrtfTinrrr? O lESEJUMI-fltliMI- We were standing m the Slammer Inn at Western and Belmont, a police bar crowded with off duty-of- f cops. On the Copy right i rxrvur3"!, "df m Sl , g.-.- walls were blown-upictures of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. They showed lines of cops with riot helmets and clubs standing on the Michigan Avenue bridge We were playing a game called Gun Fight Two electronic cowboy s duck out from behind harriers on a street and shoot at each other. When one gets hit, ho falls to the ground dead p You know it's funny." Kenny said, moving Ins man quickly down the street. I went hunting once Birds. I couldn't pull the tngg. ." He fired onee high over my head. ducked behind a barrier. wholesome increases m all three branches of school elementary, junior and senior high schools The total itiiicuac ov t r last year is 828 pupils The enrollment for the year 1920-- 7 is, at date, 29,952. I "1 cant understand how anyone could kill an animal, he said. I was supposed to shoot a dog once. It had been crippled But I couldnt do it. I poked my head around the bdi rier and Kenny fired again. He missed Saved a Life 'Youll come in here sometimes and they ll be up because a cop shot a guy and saved a life. I dont know what Id feel exa. tly. I wouldnt feel happy, but I wouldnt feel sad. Its my duty. I m prepared to do my fluty. He looked up at me, making sure I understood I niov ed quickly from behind the barrier and drilled linn. He flopped to the ground, dead "You win, lie said. You can tell everyone you shot a cop." We went to a booth in the back and I tried to remember what he was like in high school, the last t.me 1 had seen him Back when everyone dreamed about becoming doctors and lawyers am, nobody dreamed about becoming a cop 'T the departspend my life ment." he said "Fve found what I want in do. Tlic uid.i !i..rd part will be leaving the street . When you get promotions, i optn-dlvon have to move to a desk oh That will be hard. It will be hard to leave this" And if a man did stay who. not a man who. 5 et J. A .Melaim out sine oil the street, I asked, how long of Villanova, Pa, is bothoiul about Until could he last Kenny shrugged which feminine forms should end in you burn out, 1 guess. We played with trix and which in tress. He asks wind our beers a while. the current practice is concerning thn-- e "Sometimes I ask people if I h.ve sin fixes or is women's lib lighting to he said. If 1 have hardened. changed." eliminate them altogetner' There aie I asked mother once. She said that i my no rules copci rung the K niunnc endwalked differently, that I come into a ings ami indeed many of tliem vveie room differently But that deep down, discarded long before the lennn.st whfi 1 1 was still movement appeared What women's lib the same.dropped my guard, favors is dilhcult to discern it hasn't "What the hell," he grinned. "Maybe even decided yet whether to adopt the " college degrees oi spinster oi ait and theres hope of Is ni mistress Copy right Bernstein on Theodore - v il By A half-doze- The Way It Was Here are briefs of news in The Salt Lake Tribune 23, 50 and 1(M) years ago today : Sept. 18, 1876 A special to the Tribune CHICAGO from Sioux City, says that next Tuesday, the 19th inst., has been fixed for taking the arms and ponies from the Indians, at the various agencies on the upper Missouri, and the military express the belief that the Indians will quietly submit. Others who understand the character of the Indians and their love for their gun anil pony, believe that when the general disarming begins, there will be trouble, and if a massacre at some point or other 8long the Missouri, is averted, it will be a wonder. , e Hard to Shoot a Kid , and Hard Not To By Roger Simon Chicago Sun Times Writer CHICAGO The kid came out of Walgreens much too fast. He kept looking over his shoulder as he half ran, half stumbled out into the bright sunlight. He wore a thin, light shirt and a dark pair of pants. His shirt seemed to bulge around his middle. Kenny Wallace w atched him from the car. Oh, is he wrong, Kenny said. "This kid is definitely dirty. What do you suppose hes got under there, huh? The kid ran into a cul de sue and disappeared for a second Kenn. was already out of the cor. Freeze! he shouted, coming up on the kid quickly. This is the police Kennys gen was in his hand "Police! Kenny yelled again. Put your hands up! The kid looked at him, his eyes wide with fear. His right hand darted to his licit Out carne something bright and metallic Combat Stance was already in his combat Kenney stance Two hands on his gun. legs crouched, he centered the front sight of the pistol on the middle button of the kids start. And tnon tie aid wnai he always did before he shot, He closed one eye. And started to tighten on the I 5 , U - IS, 1970 Saturday, Sepfemlier A ; v ' 7 v ' V asw,5afl iwWKajjws'4fwMsw' 'JWTLTOSTiMEAHSBSa EfO proposing that it be trifled with in such a way and opened up to equally spurious proposals In Phoenix Carter tried to explain his earnest ladies position to a who told him he would win a lot of votes if he was right" on the issue. He failed Your writings, Mr Carter, show that you are for abortion on demand. said one, in nailing him with an implacable glare. Y ,U are There is no arguing w ith the antiabor-tionists- . You're either with them 100 percent or you're a murderer," says one Democratic professional. The woman is wrong about the votes, too. Not many voters will vote on abortion alone and those who oppose it will probably be offset by , tries to please everyone m xji,viiw4 wutfariiwtw LEISURE SUITS INCLUDES UTIFULLY BEACON STRUCT ED MODELS CI7ES IN REGULAR, SHORT, LONG S22-S2- 7 REGULAR TO r in orl $65 -- SHOP WGHDAV FRIDAY m a AMO 9 P.M. 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