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Show us'ivsssAi bicrofilkikg ccrp. BOX CITY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Examine Faith in Democracy Or It Will be Shattered Americans have a naive faith in democracy, and they must examine their faith or it will be shattered, a former University of Utah administrator warned a campus audience at the first presentation of a new Winter Quarter Lecture Series. Neal A. Maxwell, commissioner of education for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints and former U executive vice president, discussed The Status of Democracy and the Interface of Youth and Institutions with KSLs Wes Bowen. It is hard to maintain faith in democracy, because it is constantly being tried by the infirmities inherent in the sysetm. Two of the congentital deficiencies of U.S. government are the unwillingness of the people to listen and their concern with doing their own thing. History'has shown that a democracy doesnt necessarily get wiser or better with age. Representative government is just that, and the majority of the people are ill informed most of the time. We leave terribly important pioblems up to terribly ordinary people, he said. The former U administrator named political apathy and mass bureaucracy as two of the most serious consequences of democracy. Our form of government does avoid this, weve dispersed the power so carefully that we cant act swiftly or effectively. Mr. Maxwell also told his audience that only if individuals are given a solid foundation can their genius or potential personal contributions to society have a chance. He named the family as the only institution able to provide all the elements essential to a vital democracy. The family can compensate for deficiencies as no other social institution can. Total Abstinence Will Lead Way To Recovery for Problem Drinker Alcoholism continues to rank first in major U.S. Health problems. Upwadrs of nine million Americans are chronic alcoholics and the disease of alcoholism increases yearly by an estimated 500,000. City Auditor Lawrence A. Jones Claims Must Cut Back amount of authoritarianism. To ten percent of the population is dedicated to changing and improving society, democracy can function. Commissioner Maxwell termed this the critical mass, and said that only the family can give the proper nutritive environment necessary to provide the critical mass for democracy. Lawrence A. Jones Heads of Salt Lake Citys Public Safety Department were told this week by Budget Director Phil Dern that he will not allow any expenditures to be made that are not absolutely necessary. The department stands to be in the red at least $50,000 at the end of the fiscal year June 30, Mr. Dern told a staff meeting in Public Safety Commissioner James L. Barkers office. City Auditor Lawrence A. Jones verified the fact that unless expenditures were curtailed there woudl be some areas in the red. This also applies to the Street Department and the Parks Department must be cut back, he said. One of the contributing causes is patterns which can be used as hiring additional people under guidelines. Some cases develop the Emergency Employment Act slowly and methodically. The as well as buying new cars. Mr. Dern said that by the end average time required to proof December the budget was over gress from the first signs of loss of control to final stages is 15 spent by $41,000. years for men and 7 for women. To begin at earliest stages, we look at periods when individuals may show first symptoms of the disease. Length of time varies considerably from a few months to many years. Only some of this type of drinker develop alcoholism. It is that person with whom we must be concerned, not all who drink. The person who eventually uses alcohol invariably is unaware that he is finding although not deliberately an increasing number of occasions for drink- Alcoholism is a disease which need not lead either to death or confinement in a mental institution. It can be arrested through total abstinence if the sufferer reaches the most important and difficult point on the raod to reidentification of his covery sickness as alcoholism and the acceptance of the fact that he is an alcoholic and no longer can practice controlled drinking. A man or woman who concludes from matching typical symptoms with his or her own behavior, that his drinking prob- ing. This person derives an exceplem is out of control is not a tional reward from drinking. rarity, an isolated individual. He feels liquor does more for Surveys show there are more than it does for most people. him than 9,000,000 alcoholics among brings a relief the 80,000,000 who today use For him alcoholThis from tension. feeling of alcohol regularly. is he a positive, comes Alcoholism nearly always is pressure, and surely circumstances progressive disease. While pro- from not from the liquor. When much gression differs in many cases, (Continued on page 8) the majority of alcoholics follow pre-alcoholi- sm 8110 3 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1972 not have anticipatory skills. We have attached a stigma to planning because it takes a certain Mr. Maxwell said individual values, which are necessary to halt the negative trends in the American society, can be instilled by the family. They include: A sense, of worth to the others, self discipline, outer directed goals and legitimate reasons for sharing and giving. He noted that historians have conjectured that if only five to 2603 This was brought about because we hired 65 additional officers and purchased more cars for the Police Department. He said that maintaining the vehicles has put the department in the red each month more than $30,000. The Public Safety Department has received a $103,000 check from the Salt Lake Board of Health for money expended for the Board of Health by the Public Safety Department from July 1, 1970 to Jan. 1, 1971. Mr. Dern said the police budget will get $30,000 of the sum and more than $60,000 will be spent for a new pumper unit for the Fire Department. City-Coun- ty Seemingly harmless drugs like aspirit, diet pills, transquilizers, nose drops and even vitamins are under scrutiny as possible causes of birth defects, reports the March of Dimes. Service Mix Up to Cost Taxpayers $7.7 Million IRS-Post- al Senator Frank E. Moss, a member of the Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, said that the multi million dollar Internal Revenue Service -Post Office mix-u- p might reto quire Congress appropriate an extra $7.7 million for IRS operating expenses this year. Senator Moss, who last week uncovered the fact that the IRS had been charged First Class mail rates, instead of the usual Third Class, said that unless there i sa significant change in the present situation, the IRS will have to come to Congress for a supplemental appropriation to make up the difference. The Internal Revenue Service has announced that it did indeed mark the 1972 Tax Forms First Class but had expected the usual charge for the Postal Service. (The bill for the 78 million forms is now at $11.2 billion instead of the expected Third Class postage of $3.5 million. The Postal Service is now an independent government corporation. The $7.7 million overcharge u Senator Frank E. Moss will do little to inspire the taxpayer with confidence in the efficiency of government. I wonder if next year these Tax Forms will go out special delivery, he said. TODAYS EDITORIAL Psychologists Dispute Differences of Group Intelligence Two psychologists working independently have concluded that any differences in intelligence and achievement test scores between whites and minority groups art caused by social and economic factors. The students were made by Dr. Jane R. Mercer of the University of California and Dr. George Mayeske of the U.S. Office of Education. Neither psychologist knew of the others research. Dr. Mercer studied intelligence tests while Dr. Mayeske looked at achievements tests. But in the end, both reached the same conclusions: race and ethnic background have nothing to do with intelligence or scholastic achievement. Working in Riverside for over seven years with more than 1500 Mexican American and black students classified as mentally retarded, Dr. Mercer concluded that the difference between the average test scores of black and Mexican American students and the scores of white middle class students can be accounted for environment factors. Dr. Mercer found that many of the students, though scoring low on TQ tests and listed as mentally retarded, were very intelligent in their behavior in the commu- ( Continued on page fourl |