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Show irtriO 'y' y'j'y Lir t g irnjtfgfntlii'irii y y yj' 9yQii'i IF1 iyi',pJjaiy;' Mike Royko Chicago Policemen tend to stick together more than do people in most lines of work. That probably comes from sharing risks, indignities, pay levels and image. They work together, play together, and when one of their own gets In a scrape with the law, they understandably try to go easy on him. Sun-Tim- mothers home CHICAGO in suburban Glenview. Joe had followed her. He cut off her car, jumped out with his .38 service revolver in his hand, tried to smash her windshield and threatened her. She reported it to the Glenview police, but nothing came of it. e Warns and warned Jan. 16: Joe called his her that if she told the judge, wbo had granted their divorce, about the incident with the gun, he would kill her family. Jan. 18: The judge issued an order prohibiting Joe from making threats or attacks, displaying guns or other harassment. Feb. 8: All the phones began ringing at once in the law office where the worked. The lawyers also had handled her divorce. Someone obviously was trying to tie up all the lines. It kept up all morning. The lawyers called the police and two officers came out and listened to the calls. They heard Joe making threats. They even talked to him and he identified himself. They turned in a report. Ex-Wif- ex-wi- Theres no great harm done if one cop gives another cop a pass on a minor traffic violation or common barroom ex-wi- squabble. But sometimes their professional courtesy for each other stretches beyond reason. An example is a Chicago policeman who has n been a wave of terror for the last year or so. If he wasnt a policeman, hed probably be locked up by now. Mental Problems Im not going to use his name, beyond Joe, because his problems are more mental than criminal. As his says: Hes really a nice guy. When hes not drunk, homicidal and Besides, the Police Department paranoid. knows, or ought to know, who he is. Joes basic problem is that his wife divorced him about 19 months ago. Both are in their early 30s. Heres a sample of what hes been doing since the divorce. Jan. 7, 1977: His e was driung to her one-ma- Like Catch-2- 2 April 20: One of the partners in the law firm died and Joe showed up at the wake, pushed his ife around in the parking lot and spit in her face. For two days, she tried to file a complaint against him. She says it was like Catch-22- . "Every office told us we had to go to another office and that we needed other forms. There was no right office or right forms. I gave up. April 24 A bullet was fired into the suburban Evanston home of one of the lawyers, who said Joe had threatened him on the phone a few weeks earlier. The Evanston police said it was fired by someone lying in the back yard. It passed through a door and lodged in the ceiling. The Evanston police sent it to the Chicago police crime lab so it could be compared with bullets from Joes gun. The comparisons were never made because the Chicago crime lab somehow lost the bullet. e-- ex-wi- fe : Family Ijawvrr Cases Different On Detecting Contempt of Court judge listened to testimony about Joe's harassing phone calls to the law office and found him guilty of contempt of court. He was sentenced to four months in jail and told to see a psychiatrist. The jail sentence was later felt dropped, however, because the sorry for Joe. Joe went to see two psychiatrists. Both said he was dangerous. One, who was Jewish, said Joe showed up with swastikas painted on his shoes. July 4: Joe went to the home of an aunt of his because he thought his daughter, 7, was visiting there. The aunt said Joe knocked her down and broke her glasses, slashed the water bed and splashed Scotch throughout the room. Chicago police were called, coaxed him out of the house and took him to a state mental hospital. Joe checked himself out the next day. Tire Slashed , Dec. 23: A tire was slashed on the car. During the next several months her tires were repeatedly slashed. She says she has bought four complete sets of new tires and has had to have those repaired several times. April 29: A ex-wi- By Will Bernard American Bar Association Strange things began to happen after Marvin, hurt in a bus accident, put in a claim for damages. A detective began eavesdropping at his windows, spying through his hedges, tailgating his car, and following him into stores. One day, when Marvin found the detective waiting as he emerged from a restroom, he decided it was the last straw. He filed suit for invasion of privacy. In court, the detective argued that he could go wherever he pleased in public places. But. the court disagreed and ordered him to pay damages. The court pointed out that such intensive shadowing, done so openly, could subject (Marvin) to public disrepute. It is not unusual, when an injured person claims damages, for the defense to hire a detective to do some checking. But as this case illustrates, excessive zeal may be held un- ex-wi- fe was on her way Feb. 22, 1978: The home from work and was giving a lift to one of the lawyers. She had just pulled off Lake Shore Drive and had stopped for a light when a car rammed her from behind. She looked and saw it was Joe. The lawyer got out, but Joe shoved him aside and grabbed his by the hair and tric'd to get her ignition keys. But she drove ex-wi- lawful. On the other hand, detective work performed reasonable manner is perfectly all right. In another case, a detective did his work so in a ex-wi- off. discreetly that the claimant did not realize until the trial that he had been w'atched. Here, when the man complained about invasion of his privacy, the court turned him down. Owing to the social utility of exposing fraudulent claims and fictitious injuries, said the court, an unobtrusive investigation does not constitute an invasion of privacy. Another detective, trailing a woman by car, did his best to remain unnoticed. Nevertheless, the woman finally discovered that she w'as being followed. Did this mean her privacy had been invaded? A court said no, because of the detective's good intentions. He had followed her, said the court, not for any purpose of intimidation but as a reasonable means of securing evidence. SurfR-cte- d Editor, Tribune: What is going on in our state government? I see increasing notices of forced resignations, firings and general turmoil. Have we really had that many poor administrators? Also, what is the definition of disloyalty? When I was supervising in the military, if one of my NCOs was having that much trouble with his subordinates, we looked at the rater. What is the answer? Is there a purge going on? Do we have to believe there were all those incompetents that were only recently found out with superb management skills? It would be interesting to know. JACK E. BINKERD Bountiful Repulsive Billboard Editor, Tribune: There are many ways of eliminating the weak, the young and aged persons. When the circulation of blood is at its lowest level, our resistance to good health conditions are also at a low level, particularly inviting to hyperthermia. Our human thermostats are much more sensitive and a return to a normal heat condition much slower than controlling the thermostats for our home furnace. Time and law have determined when most of us must retire, (we believed in a life of comfort and ease). Now Mt. Fuel has advised us to retire from life as quickly as possible by keeping our thermostats at 65 degrees or less. Have we earned this lack of consideration? Do we quietly and slowly slip out of existence with hyperthermia or do we exit quickly when we receive the monthly statement from Mt. Fuel? Remember, the President of Mt. Fuel will be aged and I hope no one erects a reminder of this said condition, such as his billboard at the 5th South p ; March 31, 1953 Condemned atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg asked the Supreme Court Monday to aave them from the the and possibly final electric chair in a third appeal to the highest tribunal. The husband and wife spy team, vigorously on protesting their innocence, filed the appeal the last day allowed them by the New York Court of Appeals. The Rosenbergs were sentenced to death in 1950 for passing atomic secrets to Russit. for six years beginning in 1944. The Supreme Court has twice refused to upset the conviction and President Dwight D. Elsenhower has refused to grant executive clemency. Not Sinister Plot WASHINGTON T Editor, Tribune: When I first read Raymond Forum Swenson's Unalloyed Bigotry mad letter on March 19, 1 was so I could have melted my typewriter keys writing a letter. However, the more I thought about it, the sorrier I felt for him or anyone else who can so distort facts. Neither the ACLU nor Rev. Jeff Silliman are out to "officially anathematize all interpretations (of the Bible) except their own." had some questions about what the ACLU is trying to accomplish, so I calk'd them. The suit at Logan primarily involves two purts. One, that the public school admlnlstra- T. fire-breath- F 1 1 jpc- ii" A IB ON THE energy bill! (Copyright William F. Buckley Loyal Conservatives Rip T raitor s Washington Star Syndicate If I thought as an alarming number of U.S. conservatives think, I would slit my throat. Not out of these gentry, for all that you can gather, are on the whole very pleased with self-hatre- themselves. Indeed it may be decades since they last sought to question their own virtue or intelligence. I would slit my throat because of my lapsed confidence In my fellow conservatives. If I could have no confidence at all in any conservative who is in favor of the Panama Canal treaties, believing that they had all been corrupted, I would say that we are living in Sodom and Gomorrah and and wed be better off praying to the Lord for nuclear holocaust, that we might start again from scratch. Consider Jack Dickason of 535 West 37th Street, San Pedro. Calif., 90731. What do I know about Dickason ? Absolutely nothing except separate itself from all seminary involvement and two, that LDS semininary students not receive public school credit for courses taken at the LDS seminary. Jeff Silliamn came into the picture as an expert witness (he is, after all, a theologian and just one of several who will be called to testify). In his opinion, the courses taught in Old and Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writers full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters bat may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every. 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writers true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mall to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, Box 867, Salt Lake City, I'tah. 84110. Testament history are laced with material that is uniquely Mormon and therefore do not qualify as history but as religious dogma. The suit does not attempt to do away with LDS seminiaries; it does not attempt to do away with release time for LDS students to attend them; and, Rev. Silliman is not a boogyman who is attempting to impose his Bible interpretations on anyone. When I called him, he said I could quote him: "The Mormons can teach anything they would like, but I dont feel they should receive public school credit for New it. appears to boll down to separation of church and state and whether or not the it is not a present situation is constitutional sinister plot of Protestantism to reign as the officially endorsed religion of Utahs school : system. It NANCY F. BURROWS to The connotation of the above mentioned billlMiard is insensitive and very repulsive. G1ADYS I. HAMILTON jjf life-deat- tion Purge 31, 1978 'f11 CALL THE ROLL that he has sent me a copy of a telegram he just shot off to Sen. S. I. Hayakaw a, so presumably he wants maximum publicity for his message. Supports Career wires Jack. As you know, I have followed and supported your career from the San Francisco days. I appeal to your good judgment in voting against the American Canal in Panama treaties. 1 cannot understand why you should knuckle under to the international bankers in approving the treaties in order that they might recoup their investment in the current Panamanian dictatorship. It was my understanding that you were beholden to no one in your run for the Senate. The fact that the chief negotiator for the treaties was associated with the Midland Bank, a member of the bankers group, should weigh on our conscience forever. Should the treaties be ratified I shall change my registration to Independent and vote against every incumbent and proposition, and encourage my friends to do Likewise. Your faithful friend Jack Dickason. On the whole, I should think Hayakawa would be better off with unfaithful friends. But it is all Dear Sam: Tribune Readers Opinions Here are briefs of news in The Salt Lake Tribune 25, 50 and 100 years ago today : March 31, 1878 Lake Point, it will be remembered, is now in the hands of Mr. J.K. Morrell, who contemplates making it the most attractive resort in this region during the coming summer. He proposes to prepare a splendid baseball ground and offer such inducements to base ball clubs of the city as will make it an advantage to them to play their match games at Lake Point instead of on the Eighth Ward Square. A race course is also talked of, while the bathing facilities and hotel accommodations are to be improved and made first-clas- s. Everything that can be done to make the Point a pleasing resort is now under way and In the course of a few weeks the citizens will begin to flock hither. March 31, 1928 Editor Tribune: If there is a law in Salt Lake City against employing married women as teachers, can anybody tell me why there are a number of teachers using the handle Mrs. to their names, on the payroll of the board of education? Personally I know several women with big, husky husbands, who ought to be capable of supporting them, who are teaching in city schools. 1 know one young woman with two children, who leaves them in the care of hired help while she teaches; her husband earns $200 a month. I know quite a few others in the same position. Jordan and Murray chool districts, and the Tintic district, are employing no married women teachers after the present school year. Whats the matter with Salt Lake? GOOD AND ' He chased her and both went faster than 60 milt's an hour, until she headed for a police station and he gave up the chase. She reported the Incident to the police, and they gave her an escort home. That night, the lawyer received a phone call from Joe, who accused him of having an affair with his exwife and threatened him. Called Police Feb. 25: Joe showed up at his apartment and tried. to kick in the door. Then he shoved lighted matches through a crack in the door. She called the police. A squad arrived, but drove off without doing anything So she called the Fire Department. When the firemen arrived, Joe left. The next day, three more tires were found slashed. She reported the incidents to the police, who made out a report. She said they acted reluctant to do so. Between these incidents, she says, there was an almost endless barrage of obscene and threatening phone calls to her and her lawyers She recently has quit her job and gone into hiding with her daughter. Im being forced to leave Chicago to hide In another state w here ho cant find me. But why should I have to go? Youd think that by now, Joes superiors would be having some doubts as to whether he is a stable enough person to be sent out each day with a gun on his hip and the kind of h powers that come with being a policeman. Apparently not. The only change in Joes status in the Police Department occurred w ithin the last few weeks. He was promoted from patrolman to detective 'fi' THE CLERK WILL NOW The Public Forum The Way It Was MAD. 'if ittfipir1' The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, March Theres a Limit to Protecting Police a y ffi'yrii Cl oninirn Danger I would like to offer a reply by W. Smith (Forum, March 22) concerning the cloning of a human being. As Smith points out, the recent reports of cloning may well be fictional; however, within a few years scientists will certainly be capable of cloning any form of life, Including a human life. And this, Smith believes, may well bring the wrath of God down upon mankind. Let me point out that not everyone holds the same beliefs toward God and Jesus Christ. I, for one, find It difficult to believe that God would give us thinking, rational minds, and expect us to let them stagnate through Inactivity; rather, He would expect us to use our ntoxis to better ourselves and our world. Editor, Tribune: to tiie letter So here is the problem: genetic engineering (which Includes cloning) holds the potential for being one of the greatest assets to the human race man has ever developed ; but it also has potential for being the ultimate weapon of the destruction of the human race. It comes down to the question of whether mankind is mature enough to handle something so potent. Considering all the petty religious, racial, and political fights that the world is wrapped up to at this time, I think that the use of genetic engineering may well be like giving razor blades to squabbling five year old boys. J WES K. ELWELL Logan Bright Event Editor, Tribune: I see someone complained about the police motorcycle escort of the University of Utah basketball team to the Salt Lake City airport (Forum, March 24). I say hooray for the police department. Its about time a few heroes got escorted through town. These are the bright events of our times. We need more heroes and more celebrations. I bet the person who complained was one who a few years ago said, lets quit saying whats wrong with America and speak for what is right. Well, say this is it. Maybe someday well realize that people live in Utah. JAMES R. ECCLES KaysviJle very clear to Dickason: Hayakawas vote is motivated not by his confidence in the judgment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not by the hours and days and weeks he has given to probing the subtleties of a position to which five presidents including two living former Republican presidents were won over: but because of an occult hold a few banks that have lent money to Panama have got on Hayakawa. Not Alone The senator is hardly alone in being accused of knuckling under to the bankers. I have a letter from one Robert L. Monaghan of Midland, Texas, who grandly announced himself as a member of toe Republican State Executive Committee of Texas and a delegate to the 1976 and 1972 Republican National Conventions and a past county chairman for Midland County. Monaghan writes: Dear Mr. Buckley : Your vague and symbolic defense of the Panama Canal treaties in your syndicated column has been a matter of concern to me. Your vague and weak excuses for ratifying the Canal treaties makes one wonder: do you or any member of your family or family trusts own any stock or equity in any of the banks or multinational companies that have financial loans or investments in Panama? Perhaps your love for individual freedom, free enterprise, and America has been blurred by financial considerations. How does one reply to a letter like that? Dear Mr. Monaghan: I am just a simple member of the Republican Party, registered in the city of Stamford, Connecticut. Unlike you, I have never held high office in the party. But I can perhaps rival you in suspiciousness. You are from Midland County, Texas. Now: you and I both know that the Marine Midland Bank with which our negotiator Mr. Sol Linowitz has been associated has loaned money to the government of Panama. Is it a coincidence that the Midland Bank, which also owns Midland, Texas, wants to discredit Ihe opposition to the treaties? How? By appointing you their spokesman! Think about that, Monaghan: and kindly cable me an affidavit to toe effect that you are not acting on instructions from the real center of Midland power, the Midland Bank. In so doing,, you will be acting in the best Texas tradition. You may not remember it, but in 1935 the city couneilmen of Rome, Texas, sent a telegram to the League of Nations advising them that lest there be any question on the point, it was Rome, Italy not Rome, Texas, that had invaded Ethiopia. Kindly reassure me by acting as responsibly as your fellow Texans did in 1935. Yours faithfully, William F. Buckley Jr. Dunagins People Too Much Press Editor, Tribune: The pow'er of the press" is an accepted axiom. This is now extended to radio and television. Such power was dearly demonstrated during the coal strike. Since the announcement by the president that he might invoke a temporary Act, I saw injunction under the nothing in the newspaper or on television but that the miners would defy any Injunction. With such publicity what else can be expected? The public is led to feel that the law should not be enforced. Individual miners are led to feel that going to work is not loyal to the union, that they are counted as scabs," their lives and the lives of their families may not lie safe This is evident from the violence (well publicized) of the union's attempt to close the mines and prevent the transportation of coal to industry and the public utilities. Strikes and lockouts by management are prohibited durinG toe period of the injunction (29 USCA 178). Why didnt the press and television publicize the position of management and the public? Nothing Is said about the fact that unions have the special privilege of exemption from monopolies (15 USCA 17). As the matter has been handled bj the press and television 1 think we would nave been better off to have freedom from the press rather than of the press Taft-Hartle- y ' Zlmt. non-unio- i PAUL B. CANNON Orbiting Paragraphs Historians have shattered still another myth. New evidence reveals that Thomas Edison was actually trying to invent the candle. Gerald Ford calls Jimmy Carters handling of the miners strike "inept." He says he would have sent In troops to oerate the coal wells. You can get into big trouble for passing the book. Look at Tongsun Park. 1 ji' ni j |
