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Show (rood Work After reading and listening to the local news media. I have come to the conclusion that our professional newsmen and newswomen are nosy, uncaring pests. Im talking about the move of our Weteye bombs. I thought there would at least be some thought for our national security by these highly educated, dedicated and trained professionals? But I was wrong. In days gone by. we had yellow journalism. Then we find that these conveyors of the news have stopped that practice only to shift into the era of telling anyone and everyone all that they dont need to know about our national security. work, guys and gals. Show them pictures, maps, and give them all the information you can. Dont worry about some nut attacking an installation or convoy, lulling a few guards, or stealing material. It will make can fly low for a better story ; and you oer the site with cameras rolling, while newspapers can take still photos. I only hope after you do your professional best, you can sleep sound at night. Good TV-typ- Oh yes. before I forget, why has our illustrious governor raised such a fuss over only 888 bombs, when he made not a sound back in the 60s when 10 times that amount was moved by rail to Tooele; or could it have something to do with the fact that the railroad was paying his salary? One last point why is nerve agent "deadly, while all of the chemicals that move over our roads and rails are "safe, even though trucks, and trains blow up and burn regularly, with people being injured and killed. I wish I had answers for my questions. Is it that our governor used the bombs for political gain, pnd our news media to get more listenerreaders? Who knows? Maybe the governor or a newsperson can tell me! RICHARD J. EDWARDS The Public F omm rfc VOt The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August in Aug. 17 Salt Lake Tribune, a LPl article detailed the Soviet reaction to the United States decision on production of the neutron bomb A key statement by Soviet analyst Anatoly Krasikov was that "The Americans, not the Russians, need to be impelled towards arms talks. One technique that they might use would be to develop a massive and overwhelming conventional military force. (Currently, we are outnumbered about 3 to 1 in terms of personnel and weapons systems). When sufficiently confident of their military superiority, they could then engage in a punishing conventional military action, knowing that the United States could not contain it without resorting to the use of nuclear weapons. At this point in the scenario, that the they could proclaim, world-widU S S R, would not use nuclear weapons unless the United States used them first. What would our negotiating position be at that point? Would the President initiate an all consuming nuclear holocaust? Would the Russians, in fact, be able to dictate the terms and conditions of a cease fire? pro ertual gunman putting the first notch in his gun The dear message is that the presidents handling of the controllers strike is only his first killing, other unions to follow. Forum Hulo 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 writer's true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune. Box 867. Salt Lake City. Utah, 84110. There is no similarity between a union of government employees and an industrial union. Employees of the Government are prohibited from striking (5 USCA 7311). Such employees are well aware of this when they sign an oath that they will not strike (5 USCA 3333). Kool-Air.- Conclusive Case was very disturbed by the cartoon on page your paper of Aug. 16 designated Union Busting. The president is portrayed as the 1 22A in v V ... yfr Worth Even Penny Here is a solution for the penny shortage, have the government issue all of the Susan B. Anthony dollars to the banks and call them pennies That is all they are worth, anyway. WILL PEARSON West Jordan Come Together When PATCO first threatened to strike President wondered why. ... I Reagan was was the wrong year to demand economizing, it more money. Why were the strikers so militant, so dedicated? Then I read a column by Carl T. Rowan in w hich he quoted Robert Poli "PATCO is more a Mr. Rowans religion than a union . . comment "It surely took some preaching to The pieces delude 13,500 air controllers . . of the puzzle began to come together. Satan comes "with limitless deceit of wickedness for those because they did not welcome the love of the truth are going to destruction. For this reason God visits them with a strong delusion that operates on them to believe the falsehood so that all who have not believed the truth . . may be judged., 2 RVB. Thessalonians 2: A controller in Palmdale. Calif., had gone back to work, however, the next day he rejoined the picket line and said "I couldnt betray these guys, they love me" . . . where was his love for his family, his job or his Lord . . how could he betray them. According to a former PATCO official. Time. ... 10-1- Mr. Poli and his union members predict that if flying continues without them there will be numerous crashes. Such claim makes a conclusive case in favor of the law and its enforcement. If there are crashes, Mr. Poli and his union are the culprits and not the president. PAUL B. CANNON g.I "Polls taking his members on a trip to " Jonestown with a few gallons of There is a very important lesson for all of us in we better be sure we know this tragedy and believe "the truth." J. R ANDERLE Bountiful . DAVID L. COX A Aug. 17, Tribune Readers Opinions Impelling Foret 23, 1981 . Didnt Like Coverage Utahs Pennsylvania Connection, Orrin Hatch and Mac Haddow, should never complain about their treatment in the pages of The Tribune. Their anti labor, stand in the IPP controversy is an example.' Their blustering attacks against the bid of any contractor other than Daniel International were well covered, while replies to their irresponsible statements received much less space. Then, when the story broke that the Pennsylvania Connection also had a connection with Carolina-baseDaniel The Tribune was slothful in its coverage. The Tribune printed that side of the story only after H & Hs relationship with Daniel had already been covered by local television stations and the ' Deseret News. Haddow then threatened to take out a full page ad so he could belch more of his s about the situation, only to withdraw the ad when it occurred to him that fus s might get him sued. But no matter. The Tribune was happy to print the same tifed misinformation disguised as a story in its AUg. 18 issue. Again, differing opinions were ignored, as was the real reason why Hatch and Haddow are so gung-h- o for Daniel and their labor. One can only wish that Bob" Woody, who has written most of the IPP stories, would Tbe influenced less by bombast and more by fads. DENNIS D. McCARTY anti-Uta- h d half-truth- half-truth- out-of-sta- Michael Kilian National Pastime of America More Mindless Than Baseball Chicago Tribune - WASHINGTON U.S. News & World Report has revealed something I had long suspected; Baseball is not the national pastime. Attendance for major league baseball last year was just 43.7 million, making it only the third most popular spectator sport in America. Eggheads and other snoots who consider baseball an essentially mindless, painfully uninteresting, and woefully lower class ender-vo- r should not chortle and say, Of course! According to the magazines survey, the pastime with the largest attendance in this country is just mindless, uninteresting and lower class as baseball and insufferably noisy to boot. It is automobile racing. Fully 51 million Americans last year paid money to watch automobiles drive round and round a track, an experience that can just as easily be had for free while sitting on a bridge overlooking any freeway. Thoroughbred racing, harness racing and greyhound racing came in second, sixth and seventh in attendance, but that has less to do with their attraction as sports than with the desperation of our economic situation. As soon as Ronald Reagans prosperity program takes effect. Im sure theyll be in first, second and third place. College football and basketball ranked surfourth and fifth places prisingly high although it should be kept in mind that in states like Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin theres absolutely nothing else to do. Even sin is dull in Bloomington, Ind. NFL football was eighth on the list, with a 13.4 million attendance. But thats for just a few games a season, compared with baseballs 5,286. Hockey, with an 11.5 million attendance, was in 10th place, trailing minor league baseball and just edging out soccer. This astounded me, because I thought Americans loved the sight of blood and flying teeth. Perhaps they just appreciate it more in slower motion. Soccer is a game that deserves to be eked out, and Im surprised it did as well as 11th place. Its a game that consists mostly of 2,000 men running out onto a field and jumping up and down for several hours until a ball somehow skids into a net if it ever does. That NBA basketball came in last is also deserving. Who, wishing to remain in his right mind, can long endure watching 10 elongated mutants going thump thump, plop; thump thump, plop, back and forth, back and forth, and back and forth for even 15 minutes. If they want to make basketball even remotely interesting, they ought to raise the baskets to 50 feet and lay a bed of hot coals across the middle of the floor. The magazine also surveyed participant sports, and found that, contrary to prevailing chic, America is not mad for jogging. First place went to swimming, with 105.4 million participants. Second place went to much more interesting bicycling, with 69.8 million, and third to sedentary camping, with G0.3 million. Jogging with 35.7 million, came in seventh, trailing even plebeian fishing, bowling and boating. Tennis, which has produced the most loathsome creatures known to mankind since Flash Gordon was attacked by the Clay Men, was eighth, followed by pool, softball, ping pong and rollerskating. There are now 24.4 million rollerskaters, which I think is exactly the population of Southern California. My own favorite participatory sport tournament class croquet did not make the list. Properly played with Attila the Hun sized mallets on a regulation croquet lawn, its every bit as complicated and dangerous as NFL football, as anyone who has ever been hit by a rovers caroming foot shot will attest. Yet its the only regulation sport you can play holding a gin and tonic. Neither did my favorite spectator sport make the list: womens collegiate field hockey. (I have this thing for knees.) What with todays female football players, coed dormitory rooms, and everything, it seems to have gone the way of garterbelts. But Im hoping that with the Reagan administration, like everything else, it will come back. Until then, I keep my television set tuned to UHF channels in hope theyll be showing "1957 Womens Field Hockey Championship Highlights," and knowing they will. 105-fo- ("Copyright) The Way It Was Here are the briefs of The Salt Lake Tribune from 100, 50 and 25 years ago: the last election, were platforms of the farm bureau for the past five years. Aug. 23, 1881 the attention of our readers to the racing advertisement which appears in this issue. We are pleased to see the manifest racing interest taken by the managers of the Driving Park. The races advertised were gotten up in order to induce a stable of racers We call now en route from Denver to Montana, to stay here a few days and compete with our local horses. The purses' are given with the full intention to give our home horses a chance to test their speed and the skill of their drivers. Aug. 23, 1931 The tax committee of the Utah OGDEN State Farm bureau is taking steps with the state tax commission to permit the farmers to pay their taxes in installments this fall, Tracy R. Welling, state senator from Box Elder County and chairman of the farm bureau tax committee, said. Sen. Welling was addressing a large gathering attending the 12th Annual Weber County Farm bureau outing at Lorin Farr park. He traced the efforts of the farm bureau during the past 10 years and told how the three major items in the tax amendments, passed at Aug. 23, 1956 Orders issued Wednesday by Police Chief W. Cleon Skousen specifically outlined procedures used by officers in reporting for duty and "taxi-servic- e eliminated the prevalent in the department for years. The order stated effective Monday, all personnnel will provide their own transportation to and from work except in emergency cases. In years past, certain units of the department had made it policy to pick up relief officers at home and continue patrol without reporting at the station first. Orbiting Paragraphs There are so many payroll deductions that a fool and his money are parted before they even meet. Nowadays we punish a kid by sending him to his room to watch black and white television. Solutions Prove Elusive Income Inequities Still Plaguing U. S. By Lester C. Thurow New York Times Service The distribution of income lies at the heart of the difference between liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans. Liberals believe that there is a social obligation to narrow market income differentials. In theory, conservatives are agnostics with respect to the distribution of income. Whatever the market produces is all right with them so long as the government keeps out of the way. In practice, conservatives adopt government policies that make the market distribution of Income more unequal. The contrast was clear in the recent tax and spending battles. The Democrats wanted to give most of the tax reduction to those with incomes under $50,000 a year; the Republicans wanted to give most to those with incomes over $50,000 a year. The Democrats wanted to preserve social welfare programs; the Republicans wanted to eliminate social welfare programs. The Republicans won fighting under the banner that high taxes sapped the work and savings efforts of the rich and that social welfare programs sapped the work effort of the poor. The rich wouldnt work because taxes were too high and the poor wouldn't work because the social welfare benefits were too high. One needed to be bribed to go to work; the other needed to be forced to go to work. Ultimately, of course, everyone was supposed to be better off with all of the new wealth that would be generated from these supply side tax and spending cuts. While liberals went down to defeat defending social welfare programs and the taxes necessary to pay for them, it should be remembered that the connection between liberalism and income transfer payments is of relatively recent vintage. Liberals have always been interested in narrowing income differentials, but the preferred technique was to narrow the market distribution of earnings. Social welfare payments were merely second best folutions that were to be put in place until the best solution a more equal distribution of market income could be accomplished. Historically, liberals had a technique for achieving that first best result. It was called education. If a more equal distribution of education could be pumped into the economy, Lester C. Thurow is Professor of Economics end Management at Institute of Technology and author of "The Zero-SuSociety." tie Massachusetts the economy would pump out a more equal distribution of income. With that more equal distribution of market income the need for income transfer payments would disappear and social welfare programs could wither away. Having worked on the staff of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers under President Johnson in 1964 and 1965, I find it slightly amusing to read that President Reagans budget victories represent the end of the Great Society. i 1 remember being given the unwelcome task the "Economic Report of the President to make sure that the words "Great Society never appeared in the same sentence with the words welfare or income transfer payment. President Johnson insisted that the Great Society had nothing to do woth welfare programs. It was an education and training program designed to equip everyone to earn a decent living on their own in the private economy. of combing The liberal shift from education to a dependence on income transfer payments came about for a simple reason. The education strategy did not work. A much more equal distribution of education was pumped into the economy but a much more equal distribution of earnings was not pumped out of the economy. If you look at prime age (25 to 54) white males a group that does not suffer from discrimination using any measure, educational inequalities have been dramatically reduced in the last 20 years. At the same time the earnings distribution for the group has become slightly more unequal. While education is an important background characteristic necessary for success, it does not ultimately lie at the heart of the earnings distribution. Earnings are determined within companies and are heavily conditioned by who The Massive Migration to the Sunbelt Continued From Page 2 those who bolted are from the Sunbelt. And it vote late last was confirmed by the tax-cmonth, when 48 House Democrats defected to the president. The tip of the pyramid in the Reagan administration is not tilted that drastically. Of the top 21 jobs Reagan filled, including Cabinet members and key White House aides, there are four from California, Reagans adopted state, and one each from Colorado, South Carolina, Utah, Tennessee and Teas, for a total of 10 Sunbelt representatives. There are 11 from Snowbelt states, including three each from New York and Pennsylvania. But it is in the appointees below the very top that unprecedented numbers of Westerners A-2- ut and Southerners begin to show. These are the people who make thousands of decisions annually on who gets what from Washington. Should the government spend less on mass transit for the cities of the Northeast, and more to benefit the highway drivers of the South and West? Should less be spent on fuel aid for the poor of the North, and more for the bills of the poor in the Sunbelt? Should energy pricing be geared to protect the consumers of New England or the of Louisiana and Texas? These are the questions on which Washington bureaucrats thrive, and here is where the influence of the Snowbelt has already begun to wune. Nowhere is this illustrated more severely than in the comparison of energy costs. The t Congressional Coalition says energy costs last year were highest for New England, and lowest in the West. Where the typical family out West paid just $676 for energy, New Hampshire families paid $1,450 and those in Vermont paid $1,346. The states are reaping a bonanza in severance taxes levies placed on oil or other fuel. And these taxes are borne eventually by consumers, mainly in other states. 'Two years ago, the Treasury Department concluded the eight big states of the Sunbelt would gain $127 billion in severance taxes over the decade of the 80s. That is money that largely comes out of the pockets of the Snowbelt into the coffers of the Northeast-Midwes- energy-producin- g 4a is (and who is not) given the opportunity to learn those valuable skills that lead to higher wages. j This means any effort to create a more etjual distribution of earnings must focus on the company and its allocation of training opportunities rather than upon the school system. But this creates major institutional problems if something is to be done about the distribution of earnings. The school system is a normal government responsibility, but training opportunities are not a normal government responsibility. The importance of training opportunities can be seen in the strong objections to affirmative action. No one was going( to complain about increasing educational opportunities that in the end did not make any difference. But many were going to complain about increasing training opportunities to those that did not normally get them because they did make a difference. It is possible to generate a more equal distribution of market earnings without sacrificing our standard of living. Our industrial neighbors prove it. Before taxes and transfers take place, there 1 gap between the income of the richest 20 percent and the poorest 20 percent of the population in the United States. Before the recent cuts in taxes and expenditures there was a 9V4 to 1 gap after taxes and transfers. is a 12 to But the pretax and transfer gap was only 8 to 1 in Japan. These countries start with a more equal distribution of market earnings than we end up with. A more equal distribution of earnings is compatible with rapid growth and a high standard of living. 1 in West Germany and 5.6 to In the end President Johnson was right. Liberals made a mistake when they associated themselves with income transfer payments as their first, best or only solution. To be politically viable, liberals have to have a strategy for achieving a fair distribution of market earnings. Basically this means finding a set of programs that can replace the educational programs of a more naive age. (Copyright) Shift in History Sunbelt states. "The eyes of Texas are upon us," said a Texas congressman, who defended the hube benefits written in for oilmen in the tax bill passed by the Congress. As Rep. said in the debate Barney Frank leading up to passage: I dont mind the eyes of I object to the hands of Texas being upon us Texas being in my pockets. The political highwater mark of the North and the East may have been reached 21 years ago with the presidency of John F. Kennedy, the last Northerner to win the White House on his own. The North may not elect another president in our lifetime. Jimmy Carters election in 1976 marked the firsttime a Southerner gained the White House by popular election in more than a century; Ronald Reagan, born in Snowbelt Illinoi, is now without question a man of the Sunbelt West. The deck of electoral votes will be shuffled when the reapportioned Congress is seated in January 1983 a presidential candidate could sweep every Snowbelt state in 1984 and still lose the election by an electoral vote of 288 to 250. We can mesure the rate at which the pendulum of population and political clout swings relentlessly away from the Northeast, and not just in the way the Sunbelt keeps whining the big battles in Congress. The geographic center of the American population is now a point slightly east of Kansas City but that center of population gravity moves west at the rate of three feet per hour, five miles a years. |
