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Show Murv ViGron The Sail Lake Tribune. Sunday, This Talk Sounded Political to Me Non-Politic- president's " "non-political- speech live on the grounds that it was not only not "non political" but that it was not news, They turned out to be absolutely right. Any claims of medical i espouse " Few Americans have campaign slogan, "stay the course." As for news, there was none. It was hardly the first time that the president, having deplored those who "play the blame game, waded right in and divvied up the discredits for the mess we are in. The Demos did it. Says ABC News executive David Burke, "We didn't see a copy of the speech in advance. We knew there was an election coming up. We knew that the White House had tried to buy time for a presidential speech this week. We kept asking what was in it and we didnt hear about anything that was or news. The address may have done something for Judith McMurtrey, of Selma, Ala., whose letter the president read with feeling to show how full is the pool of patience m which he hopes he still splashes. She should get a bid to do GOP speechwriting. For the candidates, the president may have done less. The only "action" section in the text was a iuminder that, win or lose, thev have to come back to Washington on Nov. 29 for a lame-ducsession. It so happened that another broadcast was available later that night. "Nuclear War: The Incurable Disease was turned down by all three commercial networks, and was carried in only hy PBS It was truly that none of the participants said whose fault it is that the planet is hurtling toward nuclear confrontation. But it was much more of a political event than the president's speech. The unprecedented program brought together three Soviet doctors and three American doctors united in a diagnosis about the terminal r ature ol a nuclear exchange. Thats not news. Amtiitans have betn hearing it ever since doctors became alarmed about this new i'li.ess lor which even the Ana i an Medical Association lias sa:d, "chrre is nu k you yvMf The Public Forum Tribune Readers Opinions Needed Regularly The L'tah Council of Volunteers would like to publicly acknowledge the many hours of unsell ish time the citizens of the Salt Lake-Cit- area donated to help others during the recent flooding. We, of the Council, are appreciative ol the quick response citizens made to the pleas for assistance. Most all persons are very good about responding to crisis situations. The Council of Volunteers would also like to encourage citizens to consider volunteering their time to assist others on a regular basis. Even though Utahns volunteer about twice as much as citizens of other states, there are always needs which must be met. JOYCE Mil IAS Chairman Utah Council of Volunteers Path to Decline ace." a good v when Muller speak." si.iJ one ui ibe It ciTlu iJy wa-- . And more ti lightening than what we h?nrd (pun the O al VHi'.e this week 'C.o" ' 'hi i Politicians Use Court to Elude Responsibility New York Times Service WASHINGTON Lists mg lo :he Supreme Court argument on ; - w for discriminatory pri.ac schoil', I thought to myscU that the court nowadays performs a funcmention tioned by scholars of the judicial process: it provides a convenient way lor politi- dans to escape responsibility for awk-- 1 ward decisions. "The United States government has no Mr-U''tolerance for racial discrimination in educat'.n." sa.e v . am Bradford Reynolds, the tcAsUm v.irnev i general lor civil righ's. ." committed Whv, then, was the Reagan administration there to argue that two racist schools were entitled to tax exemptions? Because, Reynolds said, its lawyers looked at the statutes and found that Congress had not banned the exemptions. So the executive branch was powerless to do anything. Alas. Was that a furtive tear in Reynolds' eye? As Oscar Wilde said of the death ot Little Nell, only a person with a heart of stone lould view that solemn s;ene without laughing. For of course it was not some lawjti's perusal of a dusty statute book that led the Reagan ad moislraticn last January to reverse 11 years of government polity and say Bob Jones University and Goldsboro Christian Schools were entitled to tax exemptions. It vv publics. The 1980 Republican platform demanded a change in Internal Revenue Service rules denying exemptions to racist schools. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a trustee of Bob Jones University, pressed hard for reversal of the policy. When Rep. Trent Dott of Mississippi wrote the president urging him io at t. Reagan wrote on ihe margin: "( think we should." Then he did. But the switch turned out to i use than anticipated. H set oif a political uproar. Some Justice Department lawyers protested. Republicans in Congress were embarrassed The expedient exit from this mess was to let the Supreme Court decide the issue. T hat way Ihe president can pass the buck whatever happens. If the couit says discriminatory schools get no exemptions, he can tell his right-winSouthern supporters that he tried itis best but lost. II the court rules the other way. he can tell supporters of civ il rights that Congress is lo blame for not explicitly forbidding illag-gingl- . . :. single-questio- u ! judic ial activ ism righ't busi-nc.-- t k-- hat was an "oflcnse t nii-AoBail ha i t 'islied hi., about to sil down, without gethg a from the court, when Justice Sandra U'Connor asked one that was devastating. "Do you concede." she asked, "that Congress could deny a tax exemption?" Eall said yes, it could. So he was nol really pressing constitutional objections to an ir.lringement on Ireedom cf religion. The question was whether Congress had acted. William T. Coleman Jr., appointed by the Supreme Court to defend the IRS policy reversed by the Reagan administration, argued that Congress had effectively-ratifiewhat Ihe 1R3 did. Members had repeatedly ch bated the ruling, he said, but never (har.g.-- it. Cm cresss failure to change an admi.nsit-' r ruling would nut traditionally have tt.i icgstced as conclusive evidence that Cantrcss agreed with the ruling. There are many reasons for congressional inaction, including inertia. But last year, in the passport case of the CIA renegade Philip Agee, the Supreme Court followed exactly that logic in finding congressional ratification of administrative practice. The Agee decision, unless it was a ticket good for that day and train only, could be a decisive precedent. It is true that Congress has shied away lrum dear-cu- t responsibiLly for deciding the si'ooo! tax exemption issue. When President Reagan proposed an explicit staiute last winter, members said the issue had been settled long ago by the IRS and the courts why should they got into it? I that attitude bad lor our system? Not realiv, if one is candid about it. Some issues are better explored in the more subtle and morally spacious terms open to judges, and Congress a! wavs can step in if its intent is badly misread. But it would be nice if politicians who cltaily love the Supreme Court to take awkward issues otf their hands would stop (li noum ing the court fer iC-.- I j supporters argue l he sector i: not paying its share of taxes in Utah and continue to pixpcr-a Tax Commission report to support cpi.te tin ir claims. They fail, however, to disclose the Tax Cuin mission figures which show' that 35 percent of Utah corporations experienced a net loss in 1980, another 23 percent had no net income while 25 percent had net earnings of less than $20,000. In other words. 83 percent of Utah corporations had earnings of less than $20,000 or w'ere losing money. This clearly indicates why the total value of business properties in the state have not . al value of residential pt pai e with Ibe properties. rtv fur taxation , :"! Classify a: by the purposes ha; a!", a vs been busintss community in an unfavuia.le edit. Those r.v.cs which have classified prepert" have suf lured a decline in their business c, ir": index as a result of c la alion. Wo primt the same thing would happen in Utah il Preposition passes ROBERT E. HALLADAY President Utah Manufacturers Assn. I'upjsitiui ccrcl.i-le- Anlhonv Lewis Wishy-Wash- y AiviT-tk- :xr ... oo.i'.-t- s ' finger-pointin- e "That r v ions. The case comes down in the end to a question of congressional intent. Or so it seemed ut the argument, despite a good deal of philosophical talk about freedom of religion. William B. Ball, representing Bob Jones University, said it had imposed racial rules because it thought they were dictated by scripture." The government, he said, had in effect required a religiously based university to give up a religious pravtue in and order to qualify for tax exemptions more something for nothing of their neighbors." and Most," by Clark S. Judge. On page 267 he shows voter turnout, as a percentage of voting age population (1976 figures). The first four states are ranked as follows: 1st, Minnesota 71 percent, 2nd Utah 69 percent. 3rd, North Dakota 68 percent, and 4th. Wisconsin 65 percent. On page 52 of the same book he shows that 34 percent of the state of North Dakota. 26 percent of Minnesota and 17 percent of Wisconsin are listed as people with a "German-Scandinavia(largely socialist) heritage Sure lie Down ihe Drain can't help but smile when heard Salt Lake City olficiuls beseeching citizens to curtail their water usage in order to relieve the sanitation system. It is, of course, in our best interests to do that, but I am certainly nut inspired to do so because of the city's good example. Last July 1 heard that the water bill for Bonneville Golf Course was increasing from $27,000 last year to $59,000 this year. Because I am not interested in paying higher green fees and because I view water as our most important resource, 1 wrote to my councilwoman on August 12 detailing numerous water fountains on the city golf courses that run constantly. She forwarded my letter to John Gust, Director of the Parks Department, on August 20. The fountains are still running. At least two weeks prior' to my writing to my councilwoman two fountains on the front nine at Rose Park were gushing at better than a gallon a minute. That amounts to about 250 000 gallons of wasted water in 100 days from just those two fountains. At Bonneville some fountains have been running full till since March. When 1 noticed them back then, the thought occurred to me lint thev had been left on from the previous year. 1. J dim Cust had acted on my letter when lie irceived it. the city to date would have saved thousands ol gallons of water and thou sands cf dollars. He ignored it. tlie lily aks us to conserve water. Win' 1 HI How ironic. Forum Rules 84110. philosophies . ." were of the left (socialist). In Minnestoa the Farmer Labor with the Democratic Party in 1940 under Hubert Humphrey, and North Dakotas League merged with the Democratic Party in the 1960s. Wisconsin produced the Progressive Party in 1924 when Robert La Follette ran for president . Party-merge- n Utah, where in 1971 71 percent of the tote. I population was Mainion. inaugurated Order w hi' h some have interpreted us a sc rt u sot id ;mtr 'equality cl ini am . Bernard ST. aw del :;rj by law." as Cetr if appears lhat the highest vulng the stales that arc most social! .tic. : "la gt1 opinion, that is why people N-- s in mv 1 the mails ariiv e daily and that they are not yet cut otf lrom the outside wm Id. but the snow isxihoul three teel deep , Oct. 17. 1812 the dug and cal From tunc- ur.memc-ri.ihave been known as Hit-- bitterest of mimics, but Tommy and Ginger have upset Hu- tradition by her Fur tin- dug, Tomm.v. II car-olmistress. Miss Yuxsiku okamutu. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sen-nti-- i 11th South W '.'Tv okamoto - - - v l 1 1 w JOAN M. LALLY 1 Michael Kalian Wheat Germ , String Bikinis: Ford Kissinger Sneak Out More Condescending y After another round of demonstrations against the LD3 Church intended to gain support for yet another ouh to promote the ERA issue, I finally am voicing a oucslion lhat such demonstrations continually provoke in my mind. Why do supporters ot the ERA automatically assume that if a person does not support their cause, that person is not thinking for beattn-into-thc-- g herself?" never seems to occur to the NOW people or other ERA supporters that someone might have researched the ERA issue and artived at the conclusion that its passage was not in the best interests of women or the country as a whole. I find such an altitude much more condescending to mo as a woman than Ihe attitude of the LDS Church leaders, which ERA supporters find so offensive. MARLENE C MATHESON It Alpine Vote lo Gel wondered why people-voteWell, here is an idea you may not Have yuu ? have considered. Recentlv. I wa; thumbing through a useful little book. ' The Best. Worst. Lea.-- l The Wav It Wa Ot t. 17. 1882 right. Jerusalem is Hanoi. 1 7 2 Chicago Tribune r Former President lord and Henry flew to Japan to tape a television talk show this week, only to discover the subject was not to be global politics but health tood and women's fashions. ANNOUNCER: (IN JAPANESE) Honorable hello. Welcome to Japanese No. TV talk show. "Health Food and Women's Fashions." bringing you important persons from all over world to talk about health food a. id womens fashions. Now. your host, honorable Sony Yakamora. 1 btreet. and the cat. Ginger, have become the greatest of friends. Four months ago Tommy's puppies died and she was lonesome. Then Ginger came into her life . The cat, then a mere kitten, w as found erv ing on the front doorstep. Oct. 17. 1957 sludv of the effects on Utah residents of fallout lrom the atomic bomb tests in Nevada has been started by the State Department of Health. The study is expected to be carried out in its initial phases by the state, with expert assistance later lrom the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. Joseph P. Keslt-r- , acting director of the state department, reported Wednesday that he had asked the federal agency for "a complete review and evaluation of the entire problem of possible hazards to the safelv publicresulting from test site ml iv ies A 11 YAKA.'l J"A' cue. Vi ; ! . d KISSINGER: know vot you are used to eat at Sans Souii talking abuiit. Now. gutting back to dir grimness. dir zituation in Alriiu H zo overwhelming grave FORD: Uh. Henry, be wants us to look ai this photograph of a modi I. KISSINGER: Who is da', dt r ile ol ;ur.. vorld loader? I don't deal ire - ivc-- I da' m-world leaders. lii.-.- 's FORD: He wan'; to know whal : el her iljthes I 's laKst Bridtshta 1 1 . . v s c Y AKA MORA (IN ENGLISH) Hi : Tudav lb.-- vc have two very important persons from all over world, but no so important as Used to be. Ha ha ha. STUDIO AUDIENCE: Ha ha ha. KISSINGER: Vot did he say. Jerry? I can't understand people mit accents. FORD: Well, uh, Henry, I'm not sure I sort of dozed off there KISSINGER: Stay avake. Ye must maintain our dignity. YAKAMORA: So welcome, no longer President Ford and no longer Secretary it So turning now to Slate subject KISSINGER: Yes. Der outlook is grim Dc-vorld zituation has perhaps never been so precarious. Der Middle East must be viewed in der gravest possible terms In Europe, rlcr great alliance Purged is coming apart in der gravest possible terms The Latin American zituation is so grave I cannot think of terms . . r Ur. F.H. Simmons of Alta, writes us that trains on the tramway arc-- running regular-- l is THUS. WINGATE. 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 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 writers true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Sait Lake Tribune, Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah, . Here are the briefs of The Salt Lake Tribune from 100, 50 and 25 years ago. Here arc-- the briefs of The Salt Lake Tribune from 100. 50 and 25 years ago- Isnt Israel's defense minister, recently staled: "Jerusalem is not Saigon " Ariel Sharon. "Both Minnesota and North Dakota gave birth to political parties whose Il the Provo n are al CLOYD BIRD I more-troubl- e g Shut if! -J- UST SHUT UP' 7 rf as final and irrefutable as an Dr. Bernard Lown ol Harvard Medical School brought up civil defense. Reagan asked for an additional $4 billion lor evacuation plans because supposedly we had to catch up with the Soviet effort. He spoke of Hie folly of the scheme, and there was no dissent from the Soviets. In fact. Dr. Yevgeny Chazov. President Leonid Brezhnev's personal physician, ended the discussion by saying: "There can be no winner in a nuclear war. A nuclear war means death to all human beings." Now, maybe certain minds will conclude he was programmed to say it for propaganda purposes. But he said it, and millions of Soviets heard it. And it goes directly counter to w'hat our leaders tell us. The United States, according to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, does not think nuclear war is winnable, or survivable. But he knows, we do not know how, that the Soviets believe it is both. The meeting at one point turned into a little nuclear-freezrally. Lown said, "When you are at the edge of an abyss, progress is not going forward. It's stopping." The summary for the U.S. side akhough there really were no sides in the was given, movingly, by Dr. discussion James Muller of Harvard. He spoke in Russian, which he learned when he studied medicine in Moscow. "Forty years ago, Americans and Soviets worked together against Hitler. But we must now join together against the far gi eater threat of nuclear war. The struggle We just is much more difficult. remember lhat human beings can live with kindness and love, in triendship and pi 010' Norf,1 tics and scenarios What was new is the lad that this unprecedented joint meeting, which was arranged by the International Physicians for the Prevention ol Nuclear War Ine., occurred in Moscow', and was aired twice, on prime time, on Soviet government The doctors hud agreed that there would and no recrimina lions. They only wauled to convince audiences in both East and West that they are working from the same data, that it is slid I .4 It !e vision. right off the screen when the president quoted his partys 2 17, 19x2 Taxation- not seen by now the ghastly (outage from Hiroshima or heard llie horrendous statis- Ire no tober vUvOM' al Universal Press Syndicate WASHINGTON No, Virginia. AUG News Is not clairvoyant. You remember that ABC alone declined to carry the Oc . . FORD: Er, Henry. KISSINGER: I du der talking about global affairs, Jerry. Just because you are no longer president doesn't change anything. FORD: Fine, Henry. But he wants us to taste this wheat germ. KISSINGER: Vot? Vlu-a-t germ? YAKAMORA: You like health food? FORD: Well, I uh usually have English muffins for breakfast. Toast em mjstil And cottage cheese for lunch. And then alter my swim. have one or two martinis When I used to work with Henry tv erv dav I'd have two or three martinis iCHUCKLE 1 , CHUCKLE.) STUDIO CHUCKLE Rev i sited lo"k KISSINGER: She's veanng high heel.-Mvife. Nancy, doesn't vear high heel; Now , turning to Australia's grave- problem in grim Papua New Guinea FORD: Uh. Henry, lie wants us to look a! this other picture. Its of you and J ill S' John, Henry, back in the old days. KIJSINOER: Shes veanng a miniskirt Ct-ait- out of fashion. Now, tan. ing t j an 1 van crater zituation. 'e vv not to Iv the thaw in Am J.V.oil ' un-You He". bung baik mini xkii'. iluw about h pants? Von like string bikini? v ,1 KISSINGER: RISING toleru'j more ol dis' Der greatest mind suitv Metteruieh is not going to be insulted mi1 iiucs' unis about string bikinis! Yait here. Jerry, in going to call our agent in New York and get to the bottom of dis travesty! KURD: Well, uh, .Mr Yokahoma. guess , I like the string bikini. I can't, uh, figure out w hat holds it up. though. Did you know that my wife. Betty, and I used to be fashion models? In those days, they didn't have string bikinis. And lilt- - suits all had big padded shunldeis like Reagan wears Womens suits, too Joan Uruwlurd used to look like Reagan KI. INCUR: iRF IT'RNTNGi Re!.. wr. Yak,.r, mu, let nu sue i' I .lure ui der sir heat gi nn KURD Whal did our agent sav. Henri That some tu nble mistake has been made KlShlNCKP. Y he told nit how man Cionin Is ei e being paid fur dis, Zav . are ' hi Ine next tu appear m-- me n IH I).1 'lie ul Der N el w oi k Slai s?" 'I ight' - - (1 . . 1 1 )..r, v v w-c- AUDIENCE 'CHUCKLE, . . t ." , |