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Show lJ.A -- .4 frFf-- r ' ?it ih.. i Tiala Dept. SOUTH SALT ? library Lake City, Utah 04112 ?KWS Serving The Center Of Incliisfry FOUNDER Volume II, No. 14 Thursday,- April 2, 1970 - 99 in SALT LAKE CITY tracts totaling more than Editorial have been awarded to four Salt Lake City firms for the training of disadvantaged persons, it was announced today by J. P. OKeefe, metropolitan chairman for the National Alliance of Businessmen. The JOBS 70 contracts were awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor, Manpower Ad- On Violence By Ronald Shook A short while ago, a guest speaker in Utah, addressing himself to violence, said something to the effect that the only way to obtain redress for grievances was to resort to violence, and used the American Indians as a case in point The Indians, said he, have been very quiet for the past seventy-fiv- e years, and they are the worst off of any ministration through the National Alliance of Businessmen to the LTV Electrosystems, of the minority groups. I waited in vain for any commentator to remark what a silly statement that was. And it is silly, for it presupposes two conditions which are contrary to fact. It assumes made no progress that those groups which were at all. This must be a very surprising statement to the thousands of Irish-- , Polish-- , Spanish-- , French-- , and Mexicwho have been making their an-, and way quite well, if unspectacularly, in this country. The news would come as a surprise, for instance, to the Irish Boston Saloonkeeper whose son became a millionaire and whose grandsons became senators and one President. It would come as a surprise to the Jewish Phoenix pushcart peddler whose son became a department store owner and whose grandson became a U.S. Senator. non-viole- nt Jewish-America- ns The sociologist, Daniel Moynihan, should have shot holes in the theory once and for all. In a confidential report to President Nixon he remarked that the progress by minority groups, particularly blacks, in the last decade has been astounding. Apparently no one wants to accept this statement because it doesnt agree with their presuppositions. The second presupposition is that violence will lead, after all, to something good. The American Revolution is cited as an example. This is true, providing two things. 1. You win. This means that the violence you precipitate does not swallow you up. As it will almost surely do. Now is the place to refer to the Indians. 2. After you win, you must have a program better than the one you destroyed. The colonists had Washington, Jay, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Hancock. The revolutionaries of today have Jerry Rubin. The American colonists had the Constitution. The revolutionaries of today have pot. They are becoming experts on destruction, but are apparently totally unable to construct anything at all. Will violence come to Salt Lake City? Possibly. What should we, as citizens, do? Mind our own business, exercise restraint, and remember that there are agencies equipped and authorized to handle it. Things are not yet so bad that we need to fly off the handle and act for ourselves. Pray they never will be. Mr. Don Riddle, regional chairman of the American Party has announced that on Saturday, April 11, the American Independent Party of Utah will host a seven state regional convention of the American Party. Party officials from Idaho, Montana, N evada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming will attend the meeting to be held in th Salt Lake City Chambers, City and County Building, 4th South and State Street, Room 301. Casper, Wyoming Workshop meetings will be held beginning at 2 p.m. to which all party members are invited. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO AN EVENING MEETING TO BE HELD AT 7:30 P.M. Mr. Riddle added that in addition to state and regional leadership national officers of the party will participate. Remember T Day For Rubella April 11 and 12 The Right To Pollute By Ken Rice There can be no doubt that pollution will be one of the biggest, hottest issues of the coming election year. The problem is, no one is for it. Every politician is against pollution and their ideas for combating it vary from one to the next, but its pretty hard to define the enemy. The Repubicans cant really blame the Democrats for pollution, or vice versa (though they might try). There isnt any National Committee to Preserve the Right to Pollute lobbying Congress to scuttle legislation against pollution. Robert Redford To Make Film on Utah Utah to Host Regional Convention L. Weilenmann, Executive Director of the Dept, of Development Services announced today that Redford Enterprises, -- Inc. has been awarded a contract with Utah Industrial Promotion Division and Utah Travel Council to procolor film on duce a Utah. The movie will be filmed throughout the State and will be image building in nature. The film will be used by the State of Utah to promote and tourism. Chuck East, director and writer and Joe J. Jalbert, producer, represented Robert Redford, star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, at the signing of the contract. Jack II. AlProston, Director-Industrimotion Division and Lee JorCoungensen, Director-Travbeon contract cil, signed the half of the State. Mr. Redford has bought and Milton 30-minu- te, im-dustr- al el y Con$16,-00- 0 several of Mr. Easts manuscripts; and especially those dealing in ecology, educational, and legislative areas. Mr. East has a background in anthropology, drama, writing, and recently attended the art center, College of Design in design and photography. According to Mr. East, the Utah film will seek to describe the soul of Utah and will rely on the obvious visual factors of the land, cities and people. The words to be said or the thoughts to be expressed will be those of the people of Utah: the is considering artist, the student, the father, the pioneer, but always the Utahn, for it is his home, his rhythm, his life and he knows it best. Mr. Jalbert added, the film will go into production immediately so we may take advantage of the fantastic skiing and winter scenes. Everyones against pollution, or so it seems. As weve pointed out in this column from time to time, the emotional excesses of some zealous enthusiasts, are liable to single out scapegoats such as farmers, in an effort to control pollution, and poisoning of the biosphere. Therein lies the real danger. Were all opposed to pollution without question, but we want someone else to make the sacrifices that will result in less contamination of the air and anti-polluti- on water. Case in point: Writing in McCalls (in what was obviously an emotional froth) , the editors said, Every human being has certain inalienable rights. The right to pure air. The right to clean water. The right to unpoisoned food. The right to the natural unspoiled land. Without these rights there can be no good life on this earth; indeed, there can be no life at all. Read that through a couple of times and see if it doesnt induce an emotional reaction. A statement such as that, changed with emotional zeal can hardly be considered rationally. This is precisely the kind of half-wittappeal that spurs mobs to action; the kind of ed thinking that resulted in the slaughter of six million Jews. On what premise do they assume that those rights are inalienable? An inalienable right is one that cannot be taken away. Since no one has all of these rights in full prac-- Memcor Division, Montek Operation ; Deseret Detective Agency, Inc. ; Weyher Construction Company and Theatre Candy Distributing Company all of Salt Lake City. Officials of all four Salt Lake firms signed contracts developed by NAB and Department of Labor to reimburse employers for the extra costs involved in hiring and training disadvantaged workers. Representing the firms were Robert Weyher and Fred Pike, Weyher Construction Company; Joseph I. Krebes and D. C. Jensen, LTV Elelctrosystems, Memcor Division, Montek Operation; James C. Wines, Fred'King and Gary Beck, Deseret Detective Agency, Inc.; and Harold Chesler, Theatre Candy Distributing Company. JOBS 70 contracts are designed to allow American businessmen to aid government in training the disadvantaged person and at the same time obtain the skilled workers needed to business. run a Workers hired under the JOBS profitable 70 contract agreements are trained by private industry to use the skills necessary to get and hold good jobs. The Department of Labor offers JOBS contracts to individual employers, both large and small, and to groups of employers, that provide funds for orientation, remedial education, health care, counseling and the other special services that add to the normal cost of training. The contracts awarded today represent the first to be developed by National Alliance of Businessmen at a local level in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. tice now, the statement is non- sense. Furthermore, Id be willing to bet that the writer of those words drove to work in a polluter and probleast an hour durat ably spent the day puffing on king-sizing e, filter-ti- p polluters. Obviously, life does go on with pollution. While we need to take steps to reverse the trend of ever-increasi-ng water and air pollution, we need to ceed on a rational, basis. pro- level-head- ed Apology From time to time, the South Salt Lake News has printed the news of the activities of the LDS Sociables. A phone call the other night advised us that we were not to do this. They have their own paper. We respect their wishes, and apologize for any inconvenience we might have put them to through printing their doings. |