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Show L fwfrtwn1 I 1 23 Carl T. Ivnvan ht Bait Cake Sfibtmr Section A J Pajte 22 Wednesday Morning, November 3, 1376 l- Tragedy Rises - TkJF m ermanent Special Prosecutor Not Justified by Experience "D x During the presidential campaign just ended, allegations were made against President Ford which, though apparently unfounded, served to keep alive the proposal that a permanent fedeial special prosecutors office should be created. Earlier this year the Senate approved a bill which would have provided for appointment of a special prosecutor by the President and by the Senate. The have served a prosecutor three-yea- r term and could not succeed himself. The House never acted on the bill. The matter is certain to be brought up in the new Congress. The country wiii be better solved if the new proposals for a permanent special prosecutors office suffer the fate of the earlier ones. Although President Ford and Atty. Gen. Edward H. Levi, leaders of both political parties and the now defunct Senate Watergate Committee support the permanent special prosecutor concept, there is considciable disagreement over authority and how the office would operate. Significantly, three Watergate special prosecutors have gone on record opposing a permanent prosecutor. Henry M. Ruth is concerned about the potential for abuse should a single individual hold the office for a long confirmation would LiniAwii UlOVVU Jt ie omi ffniHA 5 VVV AO five-yea- 4) deaths from stress-relate- d least diseases, 1,500 suicides and 1,700 homicides were directly trace- 26,000 over-exposu- re teen-ager- s, even major culprit. The other day the State of Mas- - Tlie Grant Cartoon ) tbjt V.v k invariably reaches out to increase its authority. And all too otten Congress abets the process. A permanent special prosecutor could become a special bureaucratic agency monster. There are times when the Department of Justice cannot or will not press investigations' that cry for attention. And in such instances there is good reason to name a special able to people being out of work. Congress, and most government agencies directly concerned with joblessness, traditionally concentrate on the economic causes and effects. They know that unemployment produces much human trauma but until now evidence of how much and what kind has not been available. AJ though the study shows only a statistical correlation and not a direct cause and effect relation, the evidence that being out of work can cause thousands to die should provide a new dimension for policymakers. Those politicians and economists wining to accept a relatively high unemployment rate as a counterbalance against inflation must now consider their position in terms of life and death as well as economic theory. sachusetts released the findings of a committee charged with determining the cause of lower tests grades. It put the blame on lack of motivation by students who take the tests and on a high enrollment in elective courses. The study concluded that students simply are not trying as hard as they did because they believe test scores have less bearing on whether or not they will get into college. Further, the study found that elective courses did not prepare students for taking tests which measure ability in traditional fields such as mathematics and Im already turned on. The Public F orum Offensive Attitude Editor, Tribune: In response to the recent (Forum, Oct. 22) critique of the rage for britches research: I too find such fad research to be of little value. However, the attitude of the 15 critics is offensive. I find it hard to bleve that any thoughtful person would consider the feminist movement a failure if it were joined by overweight women in polyester pants. In fact, if our reviewers were to look around them I am sure they would discover many large, polyester-clawomen of sensitivity and intelligence. Some may even have eight or nine children. One does not have to be sleek, chic and childless to beiieve in equal rights for women. EDWARD SNYDER ... d Were of No Help Editor, Trbune: At 9 a m. on Oct. 8, my car broke down on the freeway, southbound. I sat next to my disabled vehicle and waited for a friendly police officer to help. Three Salt Lake police and two State Highway Patrol cars sped past. Not one stepped or even slowed down. I know this is no freak situation. The same thing happened to me a year ago. At that time Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names most be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writer are limited to one letter every 10 days Preference wjll be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writers true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, Box 867, Salt Lake City. Utah, 84110. five Salt Lake police, five Highway Patrol and three sheriff cars passed without offering help. How can these law enforcement agencies ask citizens to give them support or a kind word if they refuse to help a stalled motorist. Under those circumstances a lone woman motorist has no choice, but to accept help from a stranger. I strongly suggest that these law enforcetheir priorities. ment agencies LAURA SORENSON Let 'Owner Keep It reading. Sounds logical enough. But wait. At about the time the Massachusetts study was being presented to that states board of education, a panel of experts studying the problem for the College Entrance Examination Board declared that nobody knows the causes for the decline. In fact, the panel said, the causes may never be known and even if discovered they may be rooted in circumstances over which educators have little control. One point raised by the college board study supports a suspicion we Editor, Tribune Who looks best and feels in a fur coat? Why, the nghtful the best owner, of course: a mink, a seal, a beaver. For a woman to wear the coats of these animals, some alterations must be made. The "alterations include steel jaw traps, mangled bodies, pain, fear and death. It is obvious that the life and suffering of only one little animal wouldn't be enough to clothe the "style conscious woman. She would need the death of untold numbers of them to complete her wai drobe. Real fur belongs to its original owner. Please leave it on them Better to be loyal to your own kind and wear e synthetics. Youll be a happier person. JEANNE JONES to Editor, Tribune: We have hunted near Salma fur many years and had good luck and bad, but this year we had a very upsetting experience on our hunting trip there My husband and 1 take our two teen-ag- e daughters on the opening as it is a relief io get away and a chance to enjoy each other and enjoy nature We left Friday, after a lot ol expense and all exeited We hunted Saturday preparation and Sunday On Monday morning one of the gnis spotted a spike bulk and my husband shot it We cleaned it as best we could ali so thrilled we got our deer We loaded it on the truck and headed for camp which was within seeing distant e, expecting to hang it up. finish cleaning it and wash up and tag it. We had no sooner headed for camp (on a canyon road) and the game warden from Salma haded us down, i la. eked our gum and saw we didnt have our detr tagged Mind you, the deer was still warm nursed for some time: determine projects conducted the reading and mathematical abilities of adults have found widespread deficiencies. These raise a serious challenge to the presumption that students of past generations were better prepared Handwriting On The Wall "Try me doc, prosecutor. But such occasions dont arise often. In the years, sometimes decades, in between there is no need to maintain another investigative agency. Research H Tl tar.eously the other day One was an item of feeble hope. It said ' growth of the worlds population has slowed oecause of falling birth 'S7 rates and millions of unexpected deaths thus the number of people on earth may not ,5Ssr double by the year 2000 The second item repotted that 50 to 150 Moslems in India had been shot to death by police trying to quell protests against the forced sterilization of men with more than two children The headlines and articles about the slowdown m population growth, based on a report by Woi Id watch Research Institute, could mislead some readers into baseless optimism. We are told, for example, that whereas C9 million more people were added to the worlds population in 1970, only 64 million new people were added in 1975. Even it you accept the accuracy of those figures, they say at best that the population bomb will explode, with grim consequences, a lew y ears later than we thought. Lester Brown, the agricultural economist who heads Worldwatch, says the slowdown in population growth is due mainly to the wider availability of family planning information and devices, and abortion, to most of the world's people. Yet, Brown pointed out that a substantial factor in the slowdown was the unforeseen deaths of millions of people in India and Bangladesh, both hit by food shortages. Speak More Accurately The Worldwatch report notwithstanding, there is plenty of evidence suggesting that the sterilization riot and killings in In&a speak more accurately of what the population problem is. and of the desperate steps some societies will take to try to solve it. Faced with a possible jump in her population from 650 million to a billion persons just 14 v ears from now, the Indian government has drift pH from 3 ho hum sttituds toward birth control to a point where it now is resorting to laws and tactics that are so Draconian as to offend the consciences of the most devout family planners. Only a few years ago some Indian officials spoke resentfully of Westerners pressing them to invoke population controls Some states wouldnt permit introduction of birth control pills. But soon there were vast sterilization campaigns in which men were given a shiny bucket full of corn seed if they submitted to vasectomies. would only be the beginning Once created a government have fl " Recheck Those Early Tests Few problems have given rise to more theories, explanations, projections and excuses than the belief that todays students are not performing as well as their parents did on standard education tests An education downtrend is particularly disturbing to a nation which depends so heavily on technology7. It is taken for granted that a cause must be identified before a cure can begin. It is therefore doubly discouraging that the cause or causes remain elusive. Numerous reasons ranging from to sexual television have freedom among been suggested. But it is virtually impossible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that television or anything else can be nailed down as the sole or 1 Field Newspaper Syndicate Unemployment Can Kill Unemployment contributes significantly to increased crime. Thats understood. But the effects of joblessness are more pervasive than most people realize. A congressional study found that unemployment not only leads to more murders but that suicides and deaths diseases (heart from stress-relate- d and kidney failure) also increase as more workers are idled. The same study failed to establish a similar relationship between crime, suicide, disease and inflation. The Joint Economic Committee investigation of the side effects of increased unemployment; found mat r (1970-7period at during a - T, WASHINGTON The ongoing tragedy of India was starkly tilusn men by Iwn new iter..', that appeared simul- - time. Leon Jaworski argues that a special prosecutor simply would not have enough to do. Archibald Cox has warned against going too far in substituting laws for character. Mr. Cox, a victim of the Nixon Saturday night massacre of three years ago, has stated that no president was so untrustworthy that we have to have a constant investigator looking into his activities. Actually, most of the special prosecutor proposals would give the office a scope much broader than the office of president. Members of the cabinet and other hifh executive officials would come under its purview. J nUiU, U -- XXlllll VjUI V XII than those of today. Sure, there are plenty of kids coming out the schools today who cant read or write or add up figures any where near as well as they should. But we suspect, it was ever thus. Somehow the achievement tests of earlier years, which are the bench-maik- s for rating todays students, must have been faulty. : and the blood on my husband's hands was still wet from cleaning the deer. We explained we hadnt finished cleaning our deer and snowed him camp and told him where we had shot the deer. He told us he would have to take the deer, which he did, for transporting it without a tag. He issued a ticket to my husband and took his big game license and checked my license. W'e (old him we didnt feel it was transporting to get our deer to camp. I asked him not to take the deer as the girls were so thrilled to get one. It seems that the laws are made to protect people. We have never broken the law m any way and hadnt any intention of doing so then. Needless to say our hunt was ruined and we feel we were treated might shabbily. DARLENE A. PUZEY Murray came assorted economic Then for producing children. Cer"disincentives tain housing and other allowances just wouldnt be available to couples who failed to hold down child production. Then some areas drafted laws calling for a jail term for one member of any couple producing more than two children. Now we have the dreadful reports of policemen shooting those who object to forced steriliza- Evidence Lacking Editor, Tribune: I felt a definite need existed to say one last thing on the issue of fluoridation in response to Mr. Birdsley (Forum, Oct. 23). I have read the evidence, presented by the opponents of fluoridation all the way to the Dutch High Court (the eminent authority Im sure they are). Unfortunately, none of those opposing nuoridation have been able to cite any study, any example or set of staristics demonstrating a distinct, or even ephemeral danger from fluoridation. Sidney Birdsleys letter insinuates kidneys may U.-- affected or cancer produced by fluoridation. Once again, in reality, both the National Cancer Institute and the National Kidney Foundation have endorsed fluoridation Finally, Mr. Birdsley laments the "fact that lay people writing in to this Forum do not make a study of the subject themselves. First, I may assure the gentleman that I have done so Secondly, Id like to encourage anyone who has doubts to obtain a copy of the booklet entitled Fluoridation Facts from the Public Health Service or any similar organization which may handle that information. tion. Bomb's Already Exploded? population problem in India is so bad as to require laws that wipe out all pretenses of laws personal ireeaoin and human dignity that must be enforced at the point of a gun then the population bomb already has exploded. Doing far more grievous damage than most of us imagined. If India is having so much difficulty in curbing population growth even when employing the grimmest of police state measures, what prospect is there for controlling this monstrous threat in Latip America, Africa and other parts of Asia? If the That Worldwatch report about the slowdown in population growth is interesting, but I fear that those stories out of India are more worthy of our thoughts 'Copyright) and fears Bill YaujihanV ROBERT NORTHNESS Orbiting Paragraph Onenos Needed Editor, Tribune: One is abhorrently appalled at the incredible situation between the county thinking the city should buy acres of land. Why living in a valley along a great range of mountains the taxpayers having paid, paid and paid must cope with two sets of government? One is totally incredulous at the audacity and ineptitude of two governments wasting time and money over selling land by the county to the city m the interest of the people living m this great valley. One becomes sincerely distraught over the squabbling about services, double taxation, financial straits and commissioners' mismanagement of garbage trucks. What this great valley needs is some common sense, a common cause and one common, cooperating local government. ROGER K. EDWARDS Granger Slav-La- Dedication is nice but it's not everything Many a cook is dedicated to the job but turns out tei nble meals Military experts say the Warsaw Pact nations are ahtad of NATO in armaments. Thats the kind of argument neither side can win without everybody losing. it begins to look like theres nobody home on Mars They should at least have left a light on to confuse potential burglars. The name of the Watergate prosecutor is Ruff, not exactly a household word, although een a nontalking dog can pronounce it. The harvesting of other crops may lie below expectations, but bureaucrats are picking a bumper crop of nits. Today ! man-mad- tf AVVVfclrk i - A,--- i k.j $ Jl'" ' -- ' i fV .s- - Took Their I)ecr f qSI htWM .vi , fe f7 - N izv m - "V I hope -- hes :' - a right-to-hfer- i Jaw , Y -- Zr . j- - . ' vftfjrSuifT - 9 g Mi ', 1 - !" J ' '3 |