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Show , V V f flye .r $ Ijfr James Rcslon The Salt New York Times Service the presidency but had not won the confidence of the nation, not even of many of those who voted for him. WASHINGTON Jimmy Carter's Cabinet has been given what Damon Runyon used to rail sort of a medium hello" In this part of the country We are told hes going into wfcWtMfesiflk& $ v. . Ihe playoffs wita ? v his second or third team and 'Cf jA that they are a U 12'Ti? of collection He is accused of disappointing his followers and reassuring his opponents by selecting a team of aim but efficient mechanics Not Eisenhowers nine millionaires and a plumber," but nine V5&! plumbers and a millionane vr re- Experienced Types There is, of course, something m thus charge, but not much, at least, not yet. It is true that he promised more newcomers" than he picked, and picked a lot of experienced Washington types be denounced in the campaign, but if he had drafted a Cabinet that satisfied the labor and black constituencies that undoubtedly helped him win the presidency, this would not have been a very merry Christmas in America i treads who are about as inviting as an & ZwX open grave. Herewith - T D t ember 29, !S7f V.edncs.-L.y-, Tribune, Cabinet, Competent Retreads, Cels IVIcdiiiin idello C alter competent UU Mr. Reston a dissent- Carter won the election by a very narrow margin, which reflected the doubts of a nation that sensed the Gov. need of change but was vaguely anxious about changing to a comparatively unfamiliar candidate. This was Carter's first problem- He had captured The people are still wondering where we arc goirg m the last years of the Seventies We have almost eight million Carter's choices to unemployed, and when the Christmas for Christmas bills, come m. nobody l likely to tlunk head most of the major departments inflation has been licked. In short, it is compare favorably w ith their produces rather odd that Carter should be sors, and the men w ho will be with him condemned for picking a Cabinet of in the mam staff jobs around the 0 al efficiency experts and experienced Office Jody Powell, Hamilton Jorers problem-sol- v dan, Stewart Eisenstadt, Jack Watson, etc . arc not the sort you'd hand your Maybe the country needs a collection of brilliant jour.g innovators, with a hat to by mistake, and may uideed be the best assistant coaches around hero different vision of the coming Age e Roosevelt came to town sine for it a make could good argument you not come but Carters critics have up There is another point about Uus with so many new brilliant Cabined that may be important Carter and the country is obviously seems to have the ongin.il idea that looking at the moment for reassurance they should be judged, not merely as inoi c than anything else. individuals, but collectively as an executive committee or council of Compared to What? Therefore, the question u not presidential advisers that will work whether this is the ideal Cabinet, but together to get this federal bureaucracy under control. compared to what? Carter's problem of having to govern the whole country Carter has paid some attention to rather than pay off his excessive fundamentals, to the blocking and promises, he has kept faiily good tackling of this problem, which is a balance hard, dreary, and often vicious busiCompared to the Ford White House ness, not usually done by special ular staff and Cabinet forgetting Nixon printd donnas draft-choice- Cabinet is not the members look, but what he does with them after he is in a position to call the signals Voice of Arnet u a Bill Moyers of Texas, who is only one of many stars in the Aits of communication, which Cartes team seems to lack More Appointments Meanwhile, he has a lot more pointments to make, and he .still time to put a little shine and poetry this new collection of rather dim solemn efficiency computet s Talent Available The talent that is available is obvious-lgiiMtc r than the talent already chosen, but enough! So far, the mam (lung has been done More people have been satisfied by Carter's choices than have been disappointed, arid if this i w long we can alway s fire them later So maybe the test of his how new or innovative ap has uito and His people are running around here ask.ng for suggestions, so here goes lor ambassador to the Court of St James' Allstair Cooke After all I ooke has been the unpaid U S ambassador to Britain, anci vice versa, for almost 25 years, and must be one of the most informed and articulate Amen cans on the scene today For mistress of the national aits, or for that matter, almost anything else Beverlv Sills the Brooklyn thrush, one of the wisest and wittiest women tn the world today For head of the I'mted States Information Agency and the Meanwhile., the Carter team, or so it sec-m- s than chum here, deserves a better press it has received, and at least a e to pi ov e its worth The niailuneiy of the government here is a little creaky, but not all that bad As Be Lance told the editors of the Washington Post the other day , nolxniy's going to tear the machine apart 'll it s not broke, why fix it" he said 1 l opv ight i William Safin Pornography? An Individual Case New York Times Service put-em-- - A speeehwriter m WAvSHINGTON the campaign of 1968 was asked to come up with an indignation-stirring statement to appeal to the voters of Salt Lake City, and promptly drafted a blast at the smut ped- - illegally for attorney general . , . Mike Kovko Minor Bureaucrats Flaunt Power ' 'Vi Mr. Safire Unfortunately, the statement was lost tn the shuffle of papers aboard the campaign plane Just before landing, a Nixon aide rushed down the aisle asking "Whos got the obscenity statement?" That Innocent use of an obscenity to describe a diatribe against obscenity comes to nund as local prosecutors have broken out in a rash f indictments against pomographers In Memphis, a old prosecutor is angling for the governors job by convictions, getting a dozen hard-cor- e the male star of "Deep including Throat 'r In Wichita, prosecutors are trying to drive New York-basesmutmeer A Goldstein out of business by applying local Kansas standards. In y Cincinnati next month, a statute is being stretched to snare Larry Flynt, publisher of the raunchy Hustler magazine The first reaction of most conservatives is to share the indignant reaction against the wave of newsstand porn and sexploitation silms. Conservatives respect tradition, and want to uphold moral values and standards of good taste The anything-goe- s set is not our crowd But certain principles are at stake in the w ay smut is suppressed. Doesn't Belong in Business F irst. government does not belong in panic-stricke- iand , vb, using the mails to send unsolicited obs- cene material to children t c I who were cllers Yes. but The Supicme Court has is as wrong as thp absolute, rigidly been directing obscenity deci- the slammer philosophy, the freedom sions down to the local lew el, to that needs protection is not so much the "community standards " But its pur pomographers freedom or the blue- pose has been to allow' local areas to nose's freedom as the freedom of the curtail local distribution, and not to av ei age person to make hss own choice stop national publication by jailing It's a free country Let actor Harry editors or actors Neither New York nor Rooms do what some people want to Wichita should impose its standard on pay to see, let editors Al Goldstein and the other Lariy M.vnt hustle what many others to purchase, and let all the feel the T he problem - in any community - is other urge who find such products people to defend the rights of those who do not and have the right degrading repellent want to be exposed to pornography not to have smut thrust at them against while defending (he rights of those who their will do Such a balance of rights is not That seems to this libertarian eonser-vativ- e impossible more sensible than to let legis- The solution is to allow localities to lalors decide that anything ill the stop pomographers fiom grabbing all interest is not in the public prurient the by citizens, including minors, to let judges taste the power or interest, hard-selnot the lapels Curtail the hard-cor- e Actors should be allowed to and pleasme of being editors, or to let prance about naked onstage, wheie pomographers take over the streets admission is by ticket only, bt not down and airwaves the public streets' Similarly, a publiea After eight years, I have an answer to the aide- who lost my obscenity statetion should be able to exhibit its taxtelessness on the inside, but not on ment somewhere over Salt Lake City the cover or where people who don't let individual Americans make- then w ant to see it are forced to see It own decision about obscenity The absolute, anything-goe- s demand (Copyright) n Chicago Daily News drivers states i office r Not City Hall This isn't City Hall, the supervisor said This is a state office don't have all day. I said Cant we get this over with9" I knew there w as no point m arguing These government people always band together against us My hair could have been purple and he would have agreed with her ) Ail right," the lady said, "I'll put down gi av " "liook, "1 much hair sides " what's the big deal9 don t have you on the Iwiok," I said, lus is just a form " know, sir, but we're supposed to to get it right. For identification purjjose.s So I'll pul down. How about grayish brown9 ' Im sorry, we can use only one I i olor." That's a ridiculous rule There are many colors (hat can't be described in one word don't make tne rules, sir " Well, this is silly." Always Brown Whic h it w'as, of eoui se All my life, on every piece of identification I have ever had, the color of my hair has been listed as brown And suddenly this woman, who had weak eyes, the way she squiiiled, was being arbitrary I showed her my company identification card "See, right theie it says In own " I oovi-otisl- 'That's y not offn tal. sir " at my company ID photic Dots that hair look gray9 It's Almost jet black, as a matter of Look gi iph. hi own fact 'Is that you ' Of course its me Mv. vou used to bo a nice looking ill !!, Oh. for Pete s sake " I said whu h is oil a ran say when they are that negative someone with dealing pen-so- Sunervisor Checks Upervisor walked over and said. Some nil'll of problem here9 'ic-- duvet 'nPi-i- I s s it said license ion " ! to t wont 9 Oh, go ahead Intent Study She squinted her eyes, studied my head more intensely, and said 'No, it's mostly grey " ' On the sides, yes I'm probably-gettina little gray along the sideburns " "Sir, I You couldn't make it pale brown I'm soriy, sir, but it's really is. uh, gray Well, in this light. I suppose theres little giay mixed in with the brown " anywhere but get on with it. "This gentleman says his hair is brown, the woman said The supervisor gawked at my hair, shook his head, and said It is gray. What there is of it Ha1" I said "Mv fahe-- always told me that you can't fight City Hall " get it renewed A little lady behind the counter was filling out the application form Height Color of eyes9" she asked ' Brown " Color of hair9' ' Brown " She glanced al my head Brown9" llh huh Brown Ive always had blown hair She looked dubious and said "I'd say U Just Lets For example, my license expired, so the other day I went to the Illinois secretary of to woman looked indignant and a moment, st! The supervisor said What kind of inaccurate information?" "Oh, it's not that important, I said The said: my contain inaccurate And down license she did She actually wrote it Gray. GRAY! On my drivers crime-conspirac- Who's to See? Not that I care. Who is ever going to see it, really9 Nobody. Except maybe a traffic policeman What is the policeman going to think, seeing gray on a drivers license that belongs to a guy with all that thick, busliv biown hair? And what if it is a policewoman9 Later that evening I was having dinner with some friends and told them about the incredibly color blind license clerk. "Don't bad," one of my friends said "Paul Newman is almost entirely gray." I felt better And Marlon Brando is getting fat, another friend said And Steve McQueen is getting all w nnklod," someone else said ft really felt good So," one of my friends concluded, you've got it all gray, fat and wi inkled You're a superstar I (Copy right) Dr. Neil Solomon Emphysema Is Serious Dear Dr Solomon My husband has had a chrome cough and a wheeze for over a year now Four months ago, the doctor told him it was emphysema and that he must stop smoking lie keeps on toiling me that his condition isnt really . anything to worry about and. although he has cut down on his cigarette's somewhat, he still Dr, Solomon goes through at least a pack a day. When I ask him to check with the doctor, he says he cant be bothered Isnt emphysema quite serious9 Shouldnt my husband get back to the doctor? Eleanor V. Dear EleanorBefore I go anv turther, let me say tnat your husband should give up that pack and he ought to do it right away. Smoking is the mam cause of emphysema. Slow Deterioration Your husband should also check back with the doctor as soon as possible and have lung function tests to see bow far the emphysema has progressed. The damage already done to the lungs cannot, unfortunately, be mended, but one can stop or at least slow down further deterioration The lungs are like two big bellow sponges, containing several hunct-emillion tiny air sacs surrounded bv minute blood vessels. It is there that the blood Likes m ox v gen trom the air that you breathe and gets rid of carbon dioxide When a peison has emphyse- ivifl chiii fmhcjU" pnr) effieis.nl rtnif lure is gradually broken down and replaced bv big, Inctiect.ve a;r spaces Phlegm accumulate'' in the lungs and coughing increases in the absence of treatment oicathmg rets more ami more difficult and can become a terrible struggle in the latter stages of the disease. Death through heart failure or suffocation may be the end. Chrome bronchitis often goes with and the sooner treatemphysema ment starts, the better for both. Drugs called broncliodilators open up air passages, expectorants help clear dogging mucus, and exercises improve breathing - - The Way It Was Here are briefs of the - belt winch surrounds the girth ot Clarence Ecklund, eastern grappler Dern will try his skill with the popular easterner in Columbus, Ohio, on New Y'ear's day m The new-- Sail Lake Tribune- 25, 50 and 100 years ago today Dee. 29, 1876 splendid assortment of homemade candy toys, al pure sugar, suitable for Now Year's presents to the children Five pound boxes of pure homemade candy, mixed, and guaranteed the best in the city . at $1 50 per box A Dec. 29, 1951 method ol Utah's "painless extracting state income tax will get its fn st tryout during the next few months bofuie the March 15 deadline On an optional short foi m no larger than an elongated postal card, many Utahns will be able to file their state returns w it h a minimum of effort and a minimum of moie important new Dec. 29. 1926 Ira Dein. Utah claimant for the light championship heavyweight of the world, will leave Wednesday noon in quest of the recognized emblematic wic-stlin- money . the We should teach morality. we should preach moiality, but we should not legislate morality Next, the conspiracy statutes that are being used so often to harass pomog-rapher- s are an abomination. Whether the targets arc nofers. White House aides, or even less popular souls, w hones er the gov eminent cannot prov e a person guilty of a crime, it ought not then be able to jail that person for ' conspiracy to commit" that crime. Finally, government ought not to intrude on the right of adults to see or read whatever they choose, provided that performance or publication does not include the commission of. or incitement to, a crime Surely, a chorus will reply, there are legal limits to free expression yelling "fire m a crowded theater, and ail that. Doesn't society have the right to protect itself from moral degeneracy9 Bernstein On Words New Techniques By Theodore M Bernstein There are some interesting new exerfor these retraining techniques We all use left and leftists along with cises Dr. Archie Wilson, chief of all know right and rightists and pulmonary diseases at the University of what on the left mean: Those the terms biofeedback been has California, using are radicals and those on the right are to teach patients to relax their abdomiI nal muscles breathing m and contract conservatives. But a point had never thought of before bothered me (I didn't them breathing out lose any sleep over it though). Where is Magnetometers are placed on the rib left and where is right and in relationor.v! abdomen of each patient, and Cage ship to what or whom9 1 discovered the they produce two wavy lines on a small answer before it tore my nerves to TV set. The patients watch the lines and shreds In a legislative assembly the so that the them learn to officer faces the members. In presiding abdomen works with the chest instead many countries, though notin America of against it, as often happens. thcce on his left are the leftists, those on The) e is a great deal that can be done his right are the rightists and those in to control emphysema. So read your lielween are the centrists, or moderhusband the riot act about smoking and ates. Now I know and so do you get him to see the doctor Hi. Jack A colloquial term that for a long, long time was widely used but has Restore Hearing Loss? almost laded away in recent years Dear Dr Solomon. Does acupunetui e is which is also spelled loss9 to restore hearing really help y and sometimes appears -- J V as jud Jack Dandy. Martin E Judge of i of Dear J U. Because many type-Chcriy Hill. 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