| Show ' zatt '(')I)t Th-4- gakt Ztibuur Opiniorril Sunday May 22 1988 Section A Page 1 Tribune Editorials 8 Common Carrier Letters Liquor Laws Invite Criticism As Rezulations Inch Forward Utahns cannot expect all accolades for their latest tentative step toward normal liquor laws As that step is streamlined and others are added to it however the critics will level their lampoons at something else Local liquor officials are offended by a Wall Street Journal analysis of their new table service law The story which might have passed as reporter Ken Wells personal opinion piece painted Utah regulations as provincial at best incomprehensible at worst "In a state politically dominated by Mormon teetotalers" he wrote "liquor laws have long been as murky as the where once drinkGreat Salt Lake were ing regulations merely baffling they are now virtually impossible to understand" As noted by some of the Utahns behind the month-ollaw Mr Wells didn1 get all his facts straight For one the law doesn't require alcohol servers to treat red and white wines differently Neither does it forbid customers from le having a drink in the restaurant waiting for dinner On the other hand much of what he had to say would have to be construed as correct Utah liquor laws are often confusing and inconsistent How can anyone logically explain why a visitor can have a minibottle delivered to her table in a restaurant but not in a tavern why she must pay extra for the privilege of a mixed drink in a private club? Even the new table service regulation raises questions: Who can justify the prohibition against servers asking restaurant patrons if they want to order d "bar-whi- dinner? And do complex requirements for menus including the edict that food items be listed along with alcoholic beverages on a separate menu from the dinner menu make much a drink before sense? Those flaws undoubtedly will be addressed by state regulators or Utah legislators The 1988 Legislature already agreed to conduct a comprehensive review of the entire system There are those who want to move in reverse however One serves on the Citizens Council on Alcoholic Beverage Control Gayle Judd a former State PTA president doesn't want alcohol consumed in restaurant waiting areas for example She believes customers should be forced to drink any alcohol with their meals not before Of course that approach conflicts with the customs of many diners who prefer to finish cocktails before the main course arrives Fortunately the majority of the citizens council sees the issue differently As long as the restaurateur keeps track of the drinks each customer orders so that intoxication doesn't become a problem drinking in waiting areas is acceptable The new table service law is far from perfect but at least it eliminates one of the most obvious thorns in the side of drinkers — the trip to the restaurant counter to pick up minibottles Because such side effects as the menu and table questions have yet to be cured the laws still vulnerable to attack Such criticism is one of the state's inevitable growing pains - '''''3' : :i 4 L L'''''''41 '3 - - "-- 73333 '' Irk ii 3 - - 7: Z4 4 '- 34 - '': Gov Norm Bangerter is being blamed for just about everything that happens in Utah these days especially if its perceived as a mistake Now his opponents are implying that he's the one behind the 'Utah Pride" campaign Although the incumbent probably wouldn't mind taking some of the credit for the idea and its implementation pinning the project solely on him is another political cheap shot First the governor's independent challenger Merrill Cook said the $300000 advertising campaign is aimed more at the incumbent than improving the state's economy Then the Democratic competitor Ted Wilson made wisecracks about both the economic development drive and the Great Salt Lake pumping project -We don't want to be a 'pretty great state " Mr Wilson told the Utah County Democratic Convention the other day "We can be the greatest state in this country" One thing getting in the way he claimed is the diversion of dollars from public education to the "greatest flow on earth" (the pumps) What critics continue to conveniently ignore about the pumps is that Gov Bangerter recommended them only after his Democratic predecessor Scott Matheson paved the way for the project And while it's true that the incum- bent enthusiastically supports the Utah Pride" promotion as a way of bringing more business to Utah — to I attract attention to the campaign's slogan he even proclaimed 1988 the "year of the pretty great state" — the state is only one of several players in that project The Utah Economic Development coalition of 12 cities Corp a in Salt Lake Valley Salt Lake County the state and private enterprise is responsible for "Utah Pride" Only a portion of the $300000 budget going to print television and billboard advertising was supplied by the state through its contribution to the county's economic development budget That participation is justified Gov Bangerter believes because local attitudes influence economic development Utahns tend to be their own worst enemies if they dwell on local problems instead of positives when talking to potential investors and visitors he explained It also could be argued that the ad campaign might help more members of the electorate realize what valuable assets they have in their public schools colleges and universities environment and culture If such an understanding cools the current t and limitation non-prof- it tax-cu- fever all the better Gov Bangerter's reasons for supporting "Utah Pride" are logical targets for his opponents' criticism Perhaps a convincing case could be made for the contention that the $300000 should have been spent to attract more tourists or businesses to the state or to address the actual problems that undermine local pride Candidates miss their mark however when they accuse the incumbent of unilaterally carrying out another entity's project for his own political gain '-' 430 1114 jam-packe- concrete" The new airport with its 12 new runways will certainly contribute to the Nothing S en oti-- 0 What did kids do after school before ate !mprilion of I he telephorw and shopninkl roa!!" If thc life ex pectanc)- of women is sq imich him come so few are oldcr than 39' The child who could be seen but not tward has liven replaced by one uho ran hp hpard eu when he-- out Of sight A real Republican is one who is still Tom atiout FI)H ao-alc- l concrete Stapleton has a dubious distinction rating among legions of frequent flyers as one of America's most despised airports Because so many airlines use it as an operational hub passengers endure just about every inconvenience known to the air traveler from missed and canceled flights and lost baggage to jammed concourses and acerbic airline personnel This congestion frustration and irritation spreads far beyond Stapleton because delays there are passed along the highly integrated airline and airway system to airports that "feed flights to Denver Thus relief at Stapleton means relief at many other airports Simply by increasing the size and number of its facilities inside the terminals as well as on the runways the "new" Stapleton will do much to make a landing at Denver whether as a destination or for a plane change a far more pleasant experience than it's been for the past decade or so In that event from the perspective of the passenger bound for or departing Denver the $3 billion will be money well spent It could also prove catchinghelping convince people all around the country along with a goodly part of the world that good modern airports are an absolutely essential ingredient for maintaining an efficient air transport system -- tu? ''- - - "7 i ' 1 - i :'I- : P7:57"e4' : t — — -- -00 - - 40414 4404 4 jvAl 44 14 1 IL ti rdi I x mm rlk )1 - 8 e br y-' i 7- -A 1 E :45: alot 11-Lff? - t'k - - a I1) it 430'''''1 '' - 444444 g4 4433444e-tdr- — 011 '''ll'A3' POlhqr Jillitir - 0'sj Teens Seek the American Pipe Dream By Claude Brown Special to the Los Angeles Times One of America's most egregious societal tragedies is that murder does not sell newspapers the way it did 20 or 30 years ago In the 1950s if a teen-age- r killed an old woman it would make the front page of every paper in town Today it gets a few paragraphs inside the papers if at all Has the act of murder become so commonplace in the major urban centers of this nation that it is no longer newsworthy perhaps even boring? The answer is an emphatic no! The violent miasma that has slowly and banefully crept across America during the epoch has left most ratiopreceding nal Americans in a state of catatonic depression Their eyes their brains their senses all appear to be functioning normally but the inner recesses of their minds have e shutdown to long been in a state of avoid being irreparably traumatized by humankinds collective determination to annihilate what passes for civilization without use of a nuclear bomb Blaring headlines announcing mans most recent and most depraved inhumanity to man tend to aggravate this very 20-ye- ar low-grad- e delicate neurological condition Reading about brutal murders daily should be Now America's inner cities have become the spawning grounds for adolescents who bear increasingly appalling resemblances to rabid homicidal maniacs They are acting out slaughterous action scenes from the most barbarous gangster movies on the streets of major American cities in real life in living color No make that dying color — blood red The nation's social scientists futilely ponder the questions: When did the break with reality transpire? What produced it? When and why did little girls stop playing with doll babies and start having real babies? When and why did little boys on America's Main Streets relinquish the game of pointing their fingers at each other and yelling "bang bang you're dead- - and resort to enacting these deadly Bmovie scenarios with real bullets from real guns? It appears that a homicidal mania erupted in New York City and Chicago in the early 1970s and proliferated throughout all of urban America for the next 15 years Now wars resulting from the crack epidemic have caused an increase in the number frequency and randomness of killings by the gang members and America is outraged More than a generation ago New York teen-ag- e City's population arrived was at the consensus that gauche too juvenile too unhip Thus for the sake of sophisticating their violence endowing it with a previously absent plausibility they inaugurated an urban reign of terror commonly noted as a national mugging epidemic In the early 1970s it became fashionable among young criminals to kill mugging victims Life and sudden death on our nation's manmean streets bad an date Women senior citizens and disabled persons were no longer the chief prey Although then as now the majority of casualties were other adolescents a brutal audacious army of urban youths mugged people of all ages sexes colors and socioeconomic strata And the mugzing was mostly an excuse a warped rationale for killing them A partial chronology of these bloody absurdities clearly illustrates the maniacal ethos of this accelerating homicidal culture: In 1979 they killed one another for mopeds in 1980 for bicycles in 1981 for gold chains in 1982 for leather coats in 1983 for boom boxes and upscale jogging shoes in 1984 for designer eyeglass frames and bomber jackets and from 1985 to the present for crack money and all of the previously mentioned items of meager monetary value Since 1950 every succeeding decade has ushered in what I choose to label a monster drug an illegal narcotic that has an unprecedented amount of violence attendant with its rapidly increasing usage Heroin was the monster drug of the 1950s and 1960s The monster drug of the 1970s was angel dust or PCP And the current monster drug which can more accurately be termed a anti-soci- gang-bangin- g Claude Brown is the author of "Manch' ld in the Promised Land" a 1965 autobiography that eAantined life for blacks in Harlem after World iiat IL he now writes and lives in Newark NJ In the New York City of the 1950s murders committed during the course of a robbery or climaxing an argument or during a gang fight were not rare occurrences but in the last year of that decade things turned scary A Puerto Rican teen-age- r knifed two white teen-ager- s to death on a playground in midtown Manhattan and for a week the crime held the front pages of most of the city's eight major daily newspapers "West Side Story" was playing on Broadway then but suddenly tensions be tween white kids and Puerto Ricans didn't look so romantic And death by knifing that was maniacal In the New York City teen-ag- e gang fights of the 1940s and '50s we used homemade guns zip guns and knives On the exceptional occasions when a zip gun actually fired and accidentally wounded someone who happened to be in the unintended hne of fire the shooter was usually equally as surprised as the victim More often than not the shooter became the victim of the zip gun or "homemade" a crudely constructed simulation of a Smith & Wesson that would explode in his hand s in the gangs were exThe perts at cutting and stabbing the enemy only superficially There were invariably one or two psychopaths in every gang who really didn't mind killing people but everybody knew how to handle them knife-wielder- 'Catehable' Vote The foresight demonstrated by the voters of Colorado's Adams County ought to become contagious starting a nationwide trend that will work to relieve the increasingly characteristics of the nation's airports and airways By a nearly 56 percent margin Adams County voters have approved plans to construct what most people say will be the world's largest airport in land area They voted to annex 45 square miles to Denver for construction of a S3 billion airport located about 18 miles from downtown Denver Considering that Denver's present airport Stapleton handles 35 million passengers annually the new airport will go a long way toward moderating this country's airport congestion characterized in the air transport industry as -too much aluminum and not enough 4041 t 7-- -- -- - ' 'S ' I A(I 404410333433 1)0010 L) )114P 1 ' C fail-saf- Miss Target Again - 34 - ' 4444 I 0 S lib equal-opportunit- y super monster drug is definitely crack caine None of the earlier monster drugs co- - haii had as devastating an effect on the using segment of society as crack has Evert heroin the uses of which have been at an epi4 communities for demic level in inner-cit- y more than 25 years has had its destructive and corruptive force at least equaled by crack in only five years block boys (neighborhood The street-corne- r loiterers beyond the age of 40) contend that the signal of the arrival of a new monster drug in the neighborhood is when "the kids in the projects start throwing theirwindows againmommas out the 15th-stor- y Such bestial behavior from former human be ings is certainly an indication of a monstrous influence abounding in ungentrified Amen-- can urbania What sets crack apart as a super monster drug is that kids in the projects who are now motherless are throwing their friends mothers out the windows Crack is irrefutably the most devastating of all the monster drugs to afflict any American adolescent generation thus far in this nation's history But just as heroin and angel-duabuse were merely symptoms of a fundamentally socioeconomic problem crack is nothing more than a prodigious horrifying symptom of the most recent manifestation of a deeply' rooted social disease Just as drastically limiting the accessibility of mopeds designer sunglasses and bomber jackets did not end the killing eliminating crack is not the answer The humane solution to the problem of ex' eluding young minorities from a stake in the American dream is simply to include them which of course might not be so simple The nation's young crack dealers are merely pur- suing the American dream along what theyr g see is the only channel open to them — entrepreneurial ventures True it's a high-ris- k endeavor but so is life in America for minority youth As they see it what alter- natives do they have? Perhaps the black and Latino adolescents in the United States have subconsciously adopted the death wish expressed for them in the historical national attitude of America which between the programs them to ages of 15 and 25 years Considering how they are not now nor have they ever been included in the American dream plan they appeai to be zealously accommodating the system Before three years ago the Crips and the Bloods in Los Angeles had nothing more substantial than their colors (which represented a traditional animus) to kill each other over Now they have dubiously promising careers in the crack industry Welcome to the inner city's 1980s version of the American dream If they would only do it more discreetly more quietly then we could all go back to watching the Bill Cosby and Jesse Jackson shows and reminding ourselves how truly wonderful life is in this glorious land of deadly opportunity But of course we can still attempt to apply: the solution: Assimilate them into the Ameri-- : can dream Its not too late for the next generation non-dru- g old-tim- st drug-dealin- self-destru- Gangs? How About Inept Parenting? By Thomas J Gibbs Jr Special to the Los Angeles Times The solution to the nations gang warfare and the proliferation of drugs does not lie in stricter or stronger law enforcement The Los Angeles Police Department's recent gang roundup can be likened to putting a Band-Ai- d on a broken leg rtzizf much-publicize- d t 1 i -Z- r-- l'A14eleIRTia AND t4:)V ' -- 7 0 T 1 The father spent the night before Easter at his girlfriend's house He promiSed his sons that he would be home to take them out for Easter dinner As the boys later told me We waited all day for Dad Finally about 9 p we fixed something to eat and went to bed- We teach our children mathematics read- ing biology the facts of procreation and al— most anything else — except how to raise discipline guide train teach values to and serve as a role model for their children President Wilson while head of Princeton University was once asked by irate parents "Why aren't you making more of our children? "Because' he said they are pour children — I choose to believe by virtue of experience that we will never forcefully deal with gangs or drugs until we get better parenting As a minimum I would suggest that every couple of childbearing age filing for a mar" riage license be required to undergo a rigor- ous program of indoctrination in marriage" and family life The same program should be required for new stepparents of under-agyouths Such courses should include parent-effetiveness training teachings in values sex education and communication ttIore legislative attention also must he giv l en to programming for todav s latch-kechildren through age 12 What I propose would be costly and its re sults necessarily long term Nevfrtheless I believe that effective educated parenting is the only sure way to combat gangs and other youth-relatecrises that are out of control it-Fla' I ‘ itr I Gibbs Jr is a marriage family and child connseMr in lox A neeles Thomas Unfortunately solving the problem is much more complicated than putting the gang leaders and the pushers away for a few hours or days Not even prison sentences will do much to alleviate the hold On many of today's alienated youth So where does the answer lie' After working in two juvenile diversion projects as well as co6nseling youths as a marriage family and child counselor for the past 12 years some answers seem apparent In all 1 have counseled about 500 juveniles and their parents Large numbers of those clients have had gang or drug problems Others shoplifted ditched school ran away from home or abused aleohol have discovered again and again that 90 percent of these problems can be attributed to inept parenting or in some easy littie or no parental supervision only in rare ea" in our culture do we re quire any training or counsehng in the area of marriage and family life The one exception that I know of is mandatory counseling for under-agyouth about to be married Under the laws that govern the required counwling tr11-1- 4N1 g ? Cisi:5 f'1'''(1)':-j1-7 Par:Z4 -IS INEALThy totkEitZIN 14 - t1'1Ar)tilIt: 7 '''' ")4 co) wm" there is no mention of the number of sessions or time spent in each session Fortunately however many ministers and counselors have stricter requirements and insist on four to six sessions of an hour each In the most important venture of life — marriage and family living — our society does not require any preparation Let me cite an vxampli of ftwpi parenting repted far too c after-schoo- of Several years ago I was asked to counsel a boy for robbing a soda pop ma chin his parents were divorced and the boy brother lived with their and his father t ' S4MOMt4MR IPf4Jat walyotwoj ORA10 |
