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Show a Ik gait i'ak t Sribnnr section Sunday Morning April h, 95-9- short-sighte- is then President Carter's I approach. But at last report, the idea seems to be working as intended. Apparently establishing, among other things, that there can be new ways to run a better government. When Utah's Gov. Scott Matheson authorized buying newspaper space to announce positions on state boards and commissions, skeptical questions w ere raised. Some wondered just how many people would actually be interested in the voluntary, part-time, except for per non-payin- g diem doubted the in a scheme. control such quality This week, the governors office pronounced itself satisfied on both counts. Others jobs. The word is that literally thousands of applications are arming and many include candidates g well qualified for the positions they seek. In fact, the initial batch contained a couple of entries rum California and Idaho While thi are not eligible, their policy-makin- I non-residen- ts witn-draw- al There are many, in Utah and elsewhere, who reject the premise that orderly growth is necessary or even desirable in a time of energy and other shortages. It is apparent from Mr. Carters action that this questionable attitude has prevailed in a capital far from the realities of life in moisture deficient Utah. Fortunately, shattering of the Bonneville dream will not impose immediate hardship There is time to fashion other, perhaps less acceptable alternatives that could sustain the tuture economic well being long linked to the Bonneville Units new water supplies. Utah must adopt a vigorous twopronged response to the Carter intransigence. It must continue to push its eminently valid case in Washington while marshalling local resources, talent and imagination to provide an effective replacement for essential benefits the Bonneville Unit has been counted upon to provide. One way or another the state must have additional water supplies. And one way or another it will get them. Denial of the Bonneville Unit will make the task immensely more difficult. But it cannot be allowed to stop the vital quest. certain degree, Gov. Mathe- son has added a fresh wrinkle to a generally understood political tradition It has long been held that appointments to state boards and commissions went mostly to loyal part workers, those who helped with a successful election campaign, or those who would be able to do as much at reelection time. Mr. Matheson, by throwing the process open to public enlistment, has revised even this last vestige of the old spoils system. Although nothing bars the party faithful from applying. Or being chosen. Ultimate proot of the new method's real value will develop considerably in the future, when the kind of work done by the eventual appointees can be judged. So far, however, the Matheson administration seems to have hit on something innovative. Substantiating in any case the newspaper space seller's credo that it pays to advertise. correct every home uses only 36,000 gallons each month this coming siimnur then water consumption is going to be about 59 per cent of what it was last summer. And with water usage down that much, then it is reasonable to assume that revenues are going to drop about tl per cent lrom last year's levels But. the water district still has to maintain the same system, whether it pump-- , a single gallon or several million gallons through it. And the disti id's operational costs will remain constant, while its revenues probably lake a decided slump Wayne M Winegar, Mr. Hilbert's opposite number in the Weber Basin Mater Conservancy District, wrote in the J unlit Forum the other day ' Vi s, ilium entities who contract with us for water must pay lor the full amount whether or not we are able to pioduei We are all of us, you and 1. obligaled to pay tor construction and maintenance ol a project, and payments must In produced, which would toitamly lustily higher water tin hall Lake County t docsii j coutiact with Mr Mini ear's disti let, it nevertheless l;.cs an aiialagoU' situation Dis-tlc- What wa I d still preft 0(her road, ufsovou bill it s soinrone once said .bold Will'll li aids it pou i ' In this i a tie ii'r J r oil "ii seem s to be pom nig salt into j(. wounds d I , I s-- .s some dtsturli-n- a that the I s piesi-tkmia- the selci Uon ot the presi. said and No past president ol tile Science Assn and now a lesiilent scholar at the American Enterprise institute, has pulled together the discouraging in and who dull) t tmuies on who voted those primaries 'I lie study published last week, makes pretty bleak leading Between UWX and 1176, the number ot states holding presidential piim.tiios increased lrom E to 30. amongs them those 3(1 states had more than ot all the nation s potential voters ustni a Raimey meiiian Political . threc-quaitei- Jk'i Take Pari only 2h per cent ol tilt ntoituiiately voting age lesulents of those states took part in the presidential primaries. Worse. Raniiey s.ivs m 12 of those states that offered contests in both p i rties in both 1972 and 197G, the turnout was per cent lower last year That was true d spite the fact that the Republican contest was hard fought m pi7( and only nominal four v eat s eat her I 1 The Public Forum SlierilTs ( .laril icalion Hdltoi Tribune The JUi pose ol this letter is to clarify some remarks attributed to me in an article whieh appeared in The Tribune on April To Expand Study Panel 13, entitled Toward the end of this article, it is stated, "Sheriff Larson charged that Mayor Wilson, Commissioner Dunn, Deseret News Editor and General Manager William B Smart and Salt Lake Tribune Publisher John W Galhvan met secretly when they decided to employ lormer Governor Calvin L Hampton to draw up the consolidation plan Further ' It was kind ol a secret discussion Sheriff Larson said ol the " meeting met on the evening ol Apnl 12. with members of the Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriffs Mutual Aid Assn and the Sheriff's Union At that time, the proposal which I understand was drawn up by former Governor Hampton was thoroughly discussed Immediately thereafter I was besieged by members of the press including one TV station and later I was interviewed by telephone bv a reporter from the Tribune gave some During these interviews, information regarding how the proposal was drawn up and I speeifu allv recall one reporter . i Rules ni in Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's lull 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 II) days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten 'double spaced letters permitting use of the writer's true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail fo the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, Box Kt7, Salt Lake City, I tah. Ml 1(1 i 1 Then it was a secret meeting stating. recall stating, Perhaps you tan refer to it that way. at least none of the other city or county officials were consulted m this regard" I don't remember specifically stating it was a secret meeting, however, in the confusion may have done so and in that event, i apologte to Messrs Galhvan. Smart. Dunn and Wilson I have specifically been informed as to Mr Smart s participation that he was invited to lake pait m some discussions regarding consolidation and that in some of the meetings, various people were consulted Ik denied that any of the discussions were of a secret nature 1 1. LVK.suX intermixture, the ACLU suit defends the liberties of all The suit questions the use of public school peisonnel to collect and record grades, to evaluate instructor qualifications, and to tell students about religious classes. The role of the defenders of liberty is not to q ieshon the good that individual churches and them members may do for, by, or to themselves The ACLU does not. It is their role to ensure freedom from entanglements between any particular religion and the state which we create for ourselves The question of what is virtuous is not for the ACLU, religious morality is not ensconced in the Constitution Finally , it should be made clear, the ACLU is privately financed by contributions from private persons i W. PAUL WHARTON ACLU of Utah President, Acting) Hill New Cu'dumcr Editor. Tribune I tah Power and My most recent bill fuim Light Co was accompanied by a brochure entitled Electricity rates keep " going up' Who is really responsible The highlighted clue states If I tah Powei didnt have to build any additional generating i opacity to supply future demand, we would be asking for only a li to 7 per cent increase, about the current national rate of inflation, instead ol Nor was tills an isolated trend Ranney says Looking back to tlu competitive primaries m the penod. Ranney found the average tut nout dropped from it) per cent in the ear 1km a fallofi of almost pet lod to is pel cent m 1970 oik thud lqJx-PM- Fht decline in voting in America is not a new ol course. It's occurred m the general elec lions tor President, even though the decline then has been less steep than in the story, presidential primaries Ppsident Cartel has ottered his own solution to tiie problem by proposing instant registry oting on election day. But Ranney savs that ' registration laws do not explain as much about turnout in primary elections as tiiev do about turnout in general elections And the Carter instant-votinplan would be used only on general election day, so it offers no answer to the problem of participation m the primaries ill any ease tion-and-- g Other rules changes might have a marginal feet But Ranney s evidence shows there doesn't seem to be any close relationship between the form of the ballot, the tnclusive-nos- s of the candidate field, the date of the primal y. till closeness oi the conies' or the binding character ol the results and the turnout el ot volet s Turnout Better outran to his expectations. Ranney found that turnout was better in states with closed C where primaries per cent The thought that a large corporation would even consider asking its customers to expand its plant without acquiring a portion of the ownership is unthinkable. Having that corporation actually utilize this justification and boldly feature it on material distributed to its customers is unbelievable. The Utah Power request for a rail increase to cover capital expansion suggests that d does not have the credit rating to borrow lands, or lacks interest in its stock certificates and cannot raise its expansion money in the normal manner If this is the ease, and the rate increase is authorized, the Public Service Commission should take positive steps to assure that the cost of expansion funded by this rate increase excluded from any luture rate is totally calculations If this is not done, consumers will be pay mg for Ihe expansion Iwu e This would add insult to injury, as the tost ol expansion should clearly be paid for by new i ustomei s for whom the plant was expanded li V MOM) E BOW DEN JO only registered Democrats could vote in the Democratic primary and only than Republicans in the Republican primary where in those with crossover primaries, anyone can vote on either parly's ballot His guess, he said m an interview, is that m y those states, parties have a more isiblc existence and the stress on party may make voting in the primaries more important closed-primar- What does seem to afiect turnout is the amount ol money the candidates spend cam paigmtig m the state. That's not surprising since much of the spending is designed simply to let voters know an election is about to happen Ills inference is that if gre-atparticipation is desired, it s going to cost more But nu change that can be made m the rules Ranney suggests, is likely to change the fact that ' turnouts m presidential primaries will always be substantially smaller than those in piesidcntial general elections" Overall, in 1970. the primary vote in a state was about halt the sie ot tin general election vote Copv right SI ci it Salt Lake Countv I it lui I'liere k dential candidates I n toltunately most people looked at the olino! tUIlllv thanks gallons Kites . i l more primaries than evir were held, offering tnoie people the chance tor a personal volet ill summer ot 1970. Splitting the ditierencc, the assumed average consumption rate then was about 61,000 mg the idling Uurlooiii'l - ter those who I'ellev we lit mot ,u tins tommy is v, lsTti. In Dl.LM Ml seems inconsistent that a drought might hae an inflationary el feet, but the possibility does exist Well, it exists ll our arithmetic is Robert B. Hilbert, manager ol the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District, has announced that most Salt Lake County homes will be restricted to about 36,000 gallons of water per month this summer be cause ol the drought Tins, he says is down from the 5o uoo to 72,000 gallons consumed monthly by county homeowners dur- - k adel 1 response indicates the reach of such an unusual talent hunt. Now. ashmglul) Post W Uegl et o v iii til pl'upol tKHUilt U) UK I ft t pal III ipatloll ot citizens m choosing their (ii Salting the Wound It , of of support for the crucial Bonneville Unit is wrong on its face. To a lie WWUNgI'oN (. i i State Going Public It was an unorthodox I Discouraging Rejection of Bonneville Unit Mustnt Stop Water Quest This arid state has sutlered a serious but not irreversible setback if, as reported, President Jimmy Carters final decision is to virtually junk the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. Satur-d- a Rep Gunn McKay, eonlirmed that the White House would approve finishing the 8 per cent complete Currant Creek Dam and certain associated diversion iueilUies which were not spelled out. Remainder of the $773 million water project was denied presidential approval. 'Phis does not mean that the Bonneville Unit, years in planning and many times cleared by Congress and environmental reviews, is dead. But the protracted fight to keep the critical water diversion project moving toward an ever more distant completion date is made many times more difficult. Rep. McKay expressed confidence that Congress will effectively neutralid acze the Presidents tion That is a plausible hope. However, the fact that Mr. Carter gave the go ahead to endangered projects in states represented by key members of Congress suggests that united support for disapproved projects may now become less than robust. If the state's longstanding reliance on steady, planned growth is still a ahd concept and we say that it HohI' . Stale Primaries Rage 20 17, 1977 -- ill ).IV 1 Lditoi ,cl Ioliliriaii' tibune Jll.lll Fax his latest idea ot Enthusiasm Low for Day Care Cheek Buck" winch Sen Jake Gam is advertising on ladiots really something II they cant beg they tax tis, either way. they get it They just barely got into office, and they are already a aftet us to finance their campaigns had enough jiohticiuns last year to last me Our favorite ptograms a lit et inn were continually lining preempted because of mhik loud mouth's desne to shout out Ins 1 apahllltles I leel that if they t an t hnunce their own i umpoign. then tiiev shouldn't run We taxpayer an continually shelling out tor just cvilvdav livuifi ami we certainly uon t have any left over to help these overpaid and under wot ked eh.ifaCtel s The fabulous salalies they icieive for the small amount of wotk they do should be mote than enough to pay ior minutes of air time (Hiding to the news media, some of the politic ions in Washington have businesses ulnih net tin m almost thiee limes wh.it we axpav s a e pay mg hi rii loi doing not lung I i t LOKK I NE SILNCLIi CLl Lxjilains Kulc Editor, Tribune The American Civil Libel ties I moil takes as its sjienul inspiration the h irst Amendment to the C S Constitution further liberties whuli the ACLU seeks to defend are rooted in other amendments The mi imputation of those liberties under the Fourteenth Amendment, making them effective throughout all the states, is well established our liberties an protected from cm roai hnient by any government loial. state, or federal 'J he question of Lie establishment of ti hgmt. mtlodmed U)to these olunitis following the C 1. 1 suit against the Logan City Board ol Education, revolves here around (he intermix mg of government and denominational telig ton In the name of, and for the benefit of, private persons who an injured bv thal ( Bilk I Im ago N day 1 ibunc i.ue lor young children an idea whose tunc has giine' in the euphoria about women's iglit - and equality ot the i si Xc- - that In t ui n of doweled at tile 70s, day Cde was widely hailed as the solution lor not la is ol young i hil diiii who wanted as mu h Ii cedom to huh! a oli as iatliel s III Ihe tiny expei ta tarn s of 1.0 e y eat s, day i ai e w as to he upgl ailed into a liositlio ( xpetl i in e no ( hddi in as well as a seiv ne to niotheis it was to mcorpoi ate all the new ideas about child development (.mil do a better job of parenting than parents, in the mw ol m.my boosters' It waste furnish o0. loi willaic mothers and i u cer ladders foi teaiheis nd so it wouldti t become stigma tied as .1 program lot the disadv antugi d, dal late was to become as universal as public l -- i booling So liulli-- 'hit vi ie the piOspiits lot ilav tali' eii u altiai ted hal'd headed (ran tin v bis. i s ami fin. ineii i s who bog.ui Mi Donald) mg i lunl i.iie (eiilers. selling prepai kaged li ,i ,oiis along va it Ii building dans pint sized plasi h fiim'mc and i oen Juiu lies i i the gnat expect at toils of the eai Iv 70s lalized Juiciest III dav i..rc i i is w Oil some ( xi pilous, lias peaked and .i v ( al e is tile least used of all pah d 'I ml. iv ai ao.'emeiit s working molliuis make loi oi.n j ( hlldl en But have not mati-- l I v ensus Repiut )1 million 3 to J year olds tin n.ilion s i'1'lj .'b"ii! Jg, uoo .ne n,,w m day iari, ai tin ding to am enl j . port ft on the Bureau ol tiie iii, u , 'I Ins includes only 2 per cent of all t lo o w or olds )ci i cut ol the jo esehooiers isei enl . ( who have winking mothers. Day cure is used in less for babies and tixldlers One ii. ison is financial, of course. Good day I are costs three to lour times as much per child as elementary school To help a mother employed full time day care must he available 0 to lo hum s a day the year around The ratio ol si. ill to i hilili en should lunge from one in four loi babies shading up to one in ten for ini'M tiddlers Centers that offer tittle more 'mm itisiodi.i! care can easily cost $2,000 or mine yeir thus.. " it h educational program-- . I'OII ullge as high as ., IKK) to $5 IKK) imost all ol the foi profit franchisers have uit their losses on day cart and closed They aie oni lined even a Kentucky fried children apjn lui Ii ( an t i ut enough corners lo make day i.ne financially feasible and that no major ev ( 111. II ku exists Hot money (Iiitets ioi isi, it t the only haunt taught of oil 'as icason dav can e)eetcd' Even wliei. part or all tiie iosts are picked ujj bv (immunity welfuic agencies, federally funded piugiunis oi the niuthci s employer, enroll nil ut has ini n low - esH'( tally if oilier options 1 ,.i e av allabh I.ai k id Enthusiasm Many eoi jxn aliens opened day eaie centers loi million's ullspiing III Ihi late 00s and eai'Iv ,0s Most ne now I losed hei uiise ol U k of oileK st In panels low emollment. ami oh me Unit the i I'litei s genet allv do not , 'i utiiuit vmkeis oi ii'iline itiK atiooi li Ikki to 2oo t'oiplinei absenteeism and voongsteis now a"' ml l,o li,ilinu.( liters " 'bem mu bv hospitals and othi mm n III it Ol gall it lulls ai cording to Wot Id ol i, Vv k ID t luinovei ( I 11 JO! I)' I'lli' li (it Ixtj l.H k ui willin' J, II) l cjtl ('O' 'luv i.oe many Well im i ciitel s do exi't iloiliv muse me tin s funded In mil, el mill t pi O, a Ills and ai l n oim s III linn el s ms j 111 loi-lo- I i v Jit ( I |