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Show $ Tli Public Forum Have Done Nothing t I I , After reading the letter in the Forum (Sept 2 from Bill Maxwell, I wonder if Mr. Maxwell knows that Iran sells us as much oil in two da s as this total sale to them If Mr Maxwell thinks he is mad now, he should wait until Iran outs off all the oil shipments to us. and the prire at the pump goes up accordingly He should start by blaming the people that were at the White House, and Congress in 1973, for not starting a synthetic fuel program then This country has had six long years to do something about our imports of ml, nothing has been done We will continue on this destructive course until the American people finally recognize who is at fault, and quit trying to blame everyone in the world except the bunch in power in Washington Every American of voting age should blame themselves equally, because we are the ones letting them stay m office CHARLES T.JAS Need Young Person be m The possibility exists that Bountiful the position of appointing a city council member to serve the remaining term of an elected council person During the past few years the city has annexed many homes and developable ground Bountiful is fast becoming the bedroom center for workers in surrounding industries We need young new comers, with fluid ideas, in order for the city to grow and expand ledlistically I am a 21 year resident of Bountiful and have watched sometimes with pain, its steady l The Wav It Was Here are the hnefs of The Salt Lake Tribune from 100. 50 and 25 years ago September 11, 1879 Mr Edison continues to astonish the country ith improvements on the telephone A few day s ago lie exhibited before the association for the Advancement of Science, at Saratoga. N Y his new electro-chemictelephone. In its to a roomful of the to voice convey capacity persons without any earpiece exists the difference between it and the ordinary telephone A singing and a talking voice can be conveyed distinctly at the same time Mr Edison surprised his audience by asserting a belief that ere long it will be possible for an audience in Saratoga to hear through the electro-chemictelephone a person making a speech in New York, and that m time a concert may be given whenever desired hv artists in another city al , al September 11, 1929 Asserting that it would be folly to spend money to develop artesian wells in Salt Lake because of the unreliability of the water supply City Engineer H C Jessen urged immediate action on other water sources to augment the city's water supply, in an address before Rotarians at the Hotel Utah Tuesday Mr. Jessens address was followed by a brief talk by Mayor John F Bowman in which he outlined his plan for bonding the city to raise $3,000,000 to be used in construction of the Argenta Dam in Big Cottonwood Canyon, three equalizing reservoirs and a 30 or 36 inch mam from the east side of the city to the west to furnish water to the industrial section . September 11, 1954 Vitro Corporation of America is moving rapidly to expand its operations into the area of atomic energy, it was announced Thursday. The firm, with over 1,000 scientists on its staff, has long held an important position in the field of reactor design and construction William B Hall, Salt Lake City, general manager of Vitro Uranium Co a division of Vitro Corp of America. Thursday announced within establishment of an "ore department , The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, September H. HALLFA THOMAS Bountiful Saving What As a taxpayer I am complete K baffled abmi' the dilemma of the tax reba'p In fact I'm appalled about how inefficient a state can be w ith the peoples money. First we have an excess of $70 million in state government So what would bo nicer than to give it back to the taxpayer Not one thought about the legality of such action, or to the cost to actually rebate the money, or even whether or not the rebates would he sufficient to be of value Now we sav it is impossible to return the money to the taxpayer - because it 's not legal or because we haven't got it anymore What are the reasons for the turn about The state Forum Huleis Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but 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 true name. AU letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune. Box 867, Salt Lake Citv, Utah, 84110 received $10 $11 million less than they anticipated I would still like to know what happened million to the other The state has cut departmental spending drastically to the extent of cnpphng some very valuable services Where has the money gone It's time to get some fiscal and legal responsibility explained I realize it's hard for our new s media to print any thing of a questionable nature about certain political partv ineffectiveness, but some ques tions must be answered The answer seems to be that often quoted by Tribune editorials maybe the state, like the city, needs a strong cathartic and start anew with some fis al. legal, administrative and, if possible honest leadership B all means, let's restoie the Devereaux House, build a new state government building, make sure our prison is not c reating a hardship on the prisoners, and that we close the state parks restrooms, all to save what for whom $55-$6- 0 CH RLES C. CALDWELL Midvale Still a Disgrace The Washingon Post G William Miller transWASHINGTON planted from the Fedora' Reserve to the I' S Treasury, has moved swiftly to take charge as President Carters chief - economic spokesman and pohi v coordinator. Whi'e House officials, including those, who were reluctant tn see President Carter fire former Treasury Secre-tar- y W. Michael Blumenthal, say they are now more comfortable about economic than at any time since the beginning of the Carter administration Miller, as he showed when he took over the Fed last year with no prior monetary is an incredibly quick learner and a smooth, efficient manager At the Treasury, not he has kept Rlumenthal s entire top team onlv foi the moment, bul probably longer Sole Exception Millers style is not to come in and sweep people out For example, he kept Catherine Millardi Arthur Burns' personal serretarv. at her old Federal Reserve desk and at the Treasur-- . he has retained Lisa Wudillo Blumenthal s personal secretary policy-m- aking The sole exception is the resignation, as of of Assistant Secretary for Economic Polirv Daniel Brill, after 33 years of government service Brill, 61, say s he's despondent 1 ' The current condition of the Salt Lake City Cemetery is a disgrace We originally wanted to plant small shrubs but were told this would not be allowed because it would interfere with watering Since then the lawn has been allowed to die and the weeds have taken over. After we were unable to reach Jacob Westbrook, who is in charge of the cemetery, we contacted Commissioner Phil lips He assured us the problem with the sprinkling system would be corrected This was several months ago and conditions have not improved Since the cemetery is operated by taxpayers money, it seems vve could expect a little better maintenance of the cemetery GEORGIA GOLEM AN THOMAS Bountiful By Theodore M. Bernstein n Miller a Leader as Economic Spokesman Oct Bernstein on Words y IS growth We can no longer afford to govern the ritv for the benefit of old timers The new resident taxpaver have certain ingrained rights If it becomes necessary to appoint a citv council member 1 strongly suggest that ihe City of Bountiful look for a young active person This person should be one who has lived in mu community long enough to be proud and w illing to help improve the area Please do not appoint an old time friend whose ideas and background will not help to continue improv ing the new Bountiful his company- Enough, knave! A reader thinks that dictionary makers "sure have made some blunders Take the word laugh, for example, he writes Why isnt it spelled laff? Or take the word knife; the k is not even pronounced One answer is to tell the reader to take a look at the cuffs of his jacket What are those two or three or four buttons doing on each cuff Thev are totally useless, but they have come down to us from past generations and no tailor would dream of omitting them Similarly, words have come down to us from Their spellings derive long gone centuries from, and shed Light on, the forerunners of present-daEnglish Laugh and knife both had their origin in Anglo-Saxowords Their spellings may not conform to todays pronunci 1979 ation. but they are not "blunders, nor are they as useless as those buttons on the cuff Minor error. Occasionally you will hear someone utter a sentence like this "He rarely ever reads a book He (or she) shouldn't The rarely establishes the time element, it means infrequently. It is sufficient unto itself. Adding ever to it introduces another time element at a is time element that time any superfluous and perhaps even confusing But ohviouslv rarely if ever is perfectly acceptable when you examine what the words mean Everything that has been said here about rarely applies also to seldom. Dont say seldom ever, but seldom if ever is quite all right And so are hardly ever ana scarcely ever. about the inabilitv of economists to ionic up w ith answers to today's problems Mi'lers direction of the government Economic Policy Group the main bureau' r i tit framework for coordinating economic is drawing kudos from his cabinet policy colleagues By all accounts - from pro and persons in the administration Miller s performance is superior to hat of Blumenthal. who allowed his personality to get in the w ay of his direction of the EPG Devoted Guy "Mike was a brilliant and devoted guy sas one of his friends in the administration, "but he didnt know how to run the EPG He could never follow an agenda Says another "Mike had a compulsion to hold nothing hack If he didn't tell someone to his face when he 'Mike) thought the other guy was wrong, Mike thought it was immoral " Miller, by contrast, is a better diplomat More important, he has been invested fiom the staid with the authontv to speak for the president and to coordinate economic policy Blumenthal had to struggle - against opposition from Hamilton Jordan and Jodv Powell for this designation and when it was gi anted grudgingly, it never was wholly accepted To a skeptical 'and possibly cynical) reporter who observed Blumenthal was filed withm seven weeks of getting a written certification trom the White House thal he was the chief ec onomic spokesman, an official said "That s true hut Mike didn't get the nd in this town designation from the outset it s alw av s hard to make up for the per options cur at the earl v parts of one's tenure line important result of the ease with which Miller has blended into the Carter administration is that less of a coordinating responsibility labs on overburdened White House adviser Siu. iii Fienstat During much of the tense pei loci between Blumenthal and the White House staff Finstat had to fill a void and act as a referee- That's no longer necessary. nothc-happv development for Cartpr is that Economic Council Chairman Charles L. Srhultze, who had been seriously ill for many weeks, is hark on the job and working compatibly with Miller Area of Dissent If there is any area of potential dissent on the new economic team, it is likely to come from a source at least technically outside the Federal Reserve Board, where Chairman Paul Vole ker. known to his friends as the Jolly Gieen Giant, is firmly ensconced in his Carter's White authority independent House aides privately worry about Voleker's hair! nosed money stance When ho was Fed Chairman, Miller followed an easier policy than now being pursued by olcker - hut at the moment, he's in no position to second guess the tall New Yorker. There is a tacit agreement within the EPG to watch the Fed carefully, and to avoid any appearance of acrimony or disagreement. But there's obviously some upper limit to interest tales," muses one Carter man, and I hope there would he some thought (at the Fedrial Reserve) about it tha) oc Copyright Richard Burt Allies Question U.S. Nuclear Protection New York Times Service the deployment for For the second time BRUSSELS years, the credibility of the American commitment to use nuclear weapons in the defense of Western Europe has become a volatile issue in relations between the United States and its principal allies Nearly two decades ago. the capacity of the United States to deter any Soviet military-threato Western Europe was put in doubt when President de Gaulle questioned whether an American president would actually order the use of nuclear weapons in the event of an attack against the alliance. De Gaulle s skepticism led France to develop Ps own nuclear forces and m 15 to withdraw from the military command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Nuclear Umbrella? This time, the c redibility of what is called the American ' nuclear umbrella" over Europe is being railed into question on both sides of the Atlantic The most dramatic expression of concern came earlier this week from former secretary of state Henry A Kissinger, who warned a group of alliance officials and Western defense experts that unless a maior buildup in alliance military power was under taken the 19Ws will be a period of massive c risis for all of us The immediate nuc lear issue confronting the Western Alliance is whether European govern mrnts will agiee tn an American plan calling in 20 t ' United States and to holster nuclear capabilities in Europe Among these proposals was the approval of the MX mobile intercontinental missile1, which would evade attack by continually men ing among a series of launcher of several hundred missiles in Europe Proponents of the plan assert that the missiles, which would be able to strike targets in the Soviet Union, are a necessary counter to a new Soviet rockets not generation of medium-ranglimited by the new Soviet American strategic arms treaty Protection for NATO Supporters of the Carter administration s proposal maintain that without the proposed missile force, it may become increasingly difficult tor the United States to offer nuclear protection for the alliance as a whole In an attempt to gain European support for the proposed missile force, Kissinger in an address and several statements to reporters this week called for an "immediate rttnrt" to build up American nucleai power in and around Furope For the most part American nuc Par policy has bcpn based on an assumption that the ability to destroy Soviet cities would he enough to deter a nuclear threat against NATO But Kissinger suggested that without the abibtv to carry out pinpoint nuclear attacks against the Soviet Union and its allies, the United Sta'c-nngh- t not be able to resist Soviet milit-mpressure on pstn n Europe in the neni future medium-rang- the e silos e In Europe, the administration has proposed stationing 572 new missiles in such countries as West Germany Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands Sensitive Political Questions Although the plan has the strong support of it has posed NATO military authorities, ensitive political question.-- for most allied gov ernments , West German-- , for instance, has said that it not he the only nation to accept the American missiles on its soil, a position that has forced the United States to discuss deploy men! plans with the Belgians, Dutch and ltd, in- - The Dutch meanwhile, have sup will that ihe alliance defer any missile nts until after an attempt has been made to ge' Moscow to agree to l limits on nuc leai fore es in and around Europe The Career administration, NATO officials report has teeeleei the1 idea of delaying the deploy merit of new missiles hut it has accepted the idea oi sei kuig an arms t ontml accord malm smut ami An ei ic an nuclear sy stems n Fipopi pe-ie- cleulov me arms-contro- Responding t these cone erns the- Carter administration has m the last sevcia' months seveial nuhtaiv piogi ,r.i- - 1. igi to reduc e the v ulnerabihtv of nu !e.,i lore es m - I ight opv Mike Rokn Please , No Funeral Chicago The high prire of having our bones disposed of is once again the suh)ect of controversy The Federal Trade Commission wants to make a rule requiring Ihe funeral industry to provide customers with specific information on what they are getting for their money That 's probably a good idea If we have truth in labeling for detergents and Twinkles, we ought to hg.e a ( ruthful label on old I'nc-lStanley's remains Bul some congressmen, friends of the embalming fluid lobby are said to he planning to bloc k the FTC plan Elaborate Funeral truthful Actually, pricing wouldn't significantly hull the funeral industry's profits Even if they know they an being clipped most will order a more elaborate funeral than people they need An old funeral director once told me Sun-Tune- s why 4 Make My Disposition Veiy Inexpensive Guilt That's what sells for me Half the wives think they drove their husbands into the gray e Half the husbands think they didn t treat their wives good enough So to make themselves feel better, thev pick out a fancier box than they need and all the other trimmings If the funeral is ordered hv sunning children they don't want to look like inprates Maybe they didn't see their parents nmiethan once a year when thev were alive hut thev don't w ant the other relntiv es to think thev arc ehenpos Sell Bigger F unerals So as long as people go on treating each other lousy, and feehng guilty about it, I'm going to sell bigeer funerals than people need ' This is my livelihood, hut. honestly, don't see any sense in spending all that money pist to plant somebody I don't either That is why I long ago look steps to assuie that no money would be waded in getting nd of mv remains In niv will I unite this clause Immediately ujmn mv depailuie rum this ale of tears, my w ife is to dispose of me in the following manner 1 Mv remains are to be deposited in a Heft' bag of the kind advertised by Jonathan Winters on TV My wite is to then drag the bag out to the ru-and phone the ward sanitation office and ask them to send out a citv truck to pick me up Kept Simple Demonstrations of grief are to be kep simple I suggest that relatives gather on t ho front porch to wave at the city Iruck as it carries me away At hat appeals to me about this kind ot funeral a Hefty bag and a phone c all is that the cost would be less than 50 cents That seems fair especially with inflation Howevei. I'm now thinking of changing the instructions I lecentlv came across another approach that costs a little more hut has a bit more sentiment than my Hefty hag funeral he spent most of his time in Panga.Iti -- Hev guess Who" w ho h,n k" s File lies was described by columnist Tony Lang of the Cincinnati Enquirer Lang told the poignant story ot a middle aged man named Charlie who used to hang out m 1'aveiti mi Halil'im Avenue 1'angadc, (. me inna! 111 i Charlie worked ac a mover But the iruth is drinkm ; So it was fitt-nthai when Charlie - 'in.c came hequif'lv placed his Prow oi Pargala' bar anl breathed his last ( harlie s wife had him iml pme d the box containing his r.sht - nn the man' I, a, then apartment Bul it o curred lev he r thai t hai In' pr ,1mi felt out of place spend. ng all of hi' vn, home So she asked ,ocv Pangallo 11 he keeper ll he d mind hav u,g ( h.u lie t.,e ght tav ern The next day when the legulat elision eis came in Pangallo s,nd plan It - bodf rmaxer1 ( ( hai lie1 bo next lo "a- tin1 w tin I h we i lie lie t de bul inoti i nh eel n, e a v i a- oe-- AA w e i appeal ins iivoriie- ha,e ,e .Uill-i- said lion from Charl.e would bailie hanged my will It now the1 hti Hu-- III ll it in1 v I i - ml the i in a e a W TV Ain i re, nling about was foi mo So 1; i' e ( 1 decided that av rim box root mini : mv ashes is to be taken (mat s Livei n and entrusted o the keeping ot Sam Sinnis the owner He is to plan1 the Ihix m a suitably requesteel iligniiu'il loiutioii senli as under the sign that No Chet ks Cashed." which ,us NoUiedit an adequote1 epitaph llowev ei Sam sums is known to tie a shrewd for a profit So customers MeiK with m , elo Hot le t llllll sell 0,1 om oil an., m e looklli . soul Billv - He s in here Keienllv thou eh lilting loi c'liai Ills relutn s But w anted spin e,i l,m lee leneis at Pangallo's found the In, i'ii s, lln-n to Hie n moterv and when oiipioi - a'okil : thev wevoped out a little menu), took ( hai 'm s little box out ot a hrietca ,e. h" it into the heih1 end patted il down It mo) no moi e Hurt than eplacing a golf divot to andle Pangallo picked up Ihe registei shook ll ami ,,inl Th a seemed pki1 a sleep price to tu- -t dig a Mile hole pi.' mueh bigger than a golf divot A, in the widow w of rash e1 I ( opv 11 Mil |
