Show EditorialsOpinion finli murker By Jark Anderson With Let Whitten In these violent WASHINGTON are apt to times the vent their frustration with explosives Since 1971 62 bombs have been found A know-nothin- in Everybody talks about the welfare system but what do people really think about it? To find out the University of California's Regional Research Institute in Social Welfare polk'd 9346 persons over 18 years of age in eight states Researchers conducted home interviews in Nebraska Ohio New Mexico Washington New York Georgia Florida and California to get of n a comprehensive American society The average interviewee was about 40 a high school graduate who may have had a year or two of college was a homeowner in an urban area and had an annual family income of $9000 cross-sectio- people on welfare are adults All of these opinions Merry-Go-Roun- d federal buildings across the country Only last month a bomb was sneaked into a ladies' room at the State Department It caved in walls shattered winduws and left a grotesque tangle of pipes The damage extended to 20 rooms on three floors We sent reporter Carl Manning into the granite and sandstone compounds of government therefore to see how many bombs he cuuld plant He carried an attache case containing four books and a portable radio Demolition experts assured us that enough C4 plastic explosives could have been concealed inside the portable radio to equal 10 sticks of Welfare ? able-bodie- are wrong say the USC researchers yet the public still retains a genuine concern for those in need of help Among their conclusions: —Attitudes about public welfare are sensitive understanding and favorable Only 5 per cent of the public could be described as totally resistant to the public welfare con- Almost everywhere the guards gave the radio no more than a cursory glance There were no visible bombdetecting devices in any of the federal buildings Manning was required to register at the State Department but the guards merely peeked inside the attache case Thereafter he was free to wander around the building and could have hidden another bomb in some -People say that welfare programs should provide a decent level of living not just the bare necessities —They also say that government not private enterprise or charities has the responsibility to provide for the poor It was found that people clearly welfare of —People believe welfare services the public place recognize should be made available to the in the scheme of things that their to image of relief recipients is not general population according of the cent 86 to pay and per negative or rejecting and that thay do ability aid to the financial supports individual hold the public not entirely working poor responsible for his poverty They —While all welfare services are services welfare that believe clearly favored to a substantial degree and programs for rehabilitation and medical care and protective services assistance are an appropriate use of for children receive the highest tax money Even so a surprising proportion of priority Abortion counseling and d suicide prevention are the people interviewed had misconservices ceptions about welfare For instance This is just one study of course but that welfare pays more to a mother it provides the kind of information with dependent children than it does that legislators in Utah Idaho and for an aged blind or disabled adult other states should seek out before that the majority of the heads of poor families are usually employed rather they make decisions on a subject that has generated more than its share of than underemployed or unemmisunderstanding ployable and that the majority of strategic corner He found the security even worse at the Justice Department building which is also the home of the FBI He walked past a door guard the attache case in full view without being stopped A guard at another check- - merely as Manwalked Service building passed an unmanned guard desk strode by a guard in the hallway and quickly found a second-floo- r restroom where he could have placed the theoretical bomb In the Capitol building which was rocked by a bomb blast in May 1971 Manning walked past a guard who was busy inspecting another attache case Our reporter stopped several guards to ask for directions Not one showed the least curiosity about the attache case In a House office building a guard quickly checked the attache case with the air of one who was more interested in taking a lunch break than in finding a bomb Security was tighter at the Treasury Department building where the guards asked for his identification and inspected the attache case He was required to sign in and wait for a visitor's pass before he could enter the building The Pentagon which had a bombing in May 1972 wouldn’t let Manning inside without an escort to his destination Manning noticed several officers including generals having their parcels thoroughly checked by the guards At the Central Intelligence Agency complex he couldn't even get past the gate He encountered his most thorough check at the Israeli embassy where a security guard conducted the search as if he hoped to find something First Manning was asked to empty his pockets Then the guard swept a metal detector over virtually every square inch of his body Manning was even asked to demonstrate that his cigarette lighter was constructed only for lighting cigarettes Finally he was ushered Into a waiting room where he was kept under surveillance by another guard seated behind a bulletproof glass enclosure In contrast Manning found no security guards at the Egyptian embassy He asked the the receptionist for directions to the restroom and was led to the staff restroom The Soviet embassy finally had an atmosphere The building is ringed by a high metal fence with a guard in front and two more in the rear Manning was admitted to an anteroom with early Cossack decor He found himself confronted by dosed-circutelevision cameras a wall of mirrors and a short hallway iron-curtai- n it understaffed office" He also applied for time off for working long hours at special events such as the Folklife Festival Inaugural Ball and the opening of the Hirshhom Museum His claims added up to a startling total of more than 600 hours — that's 15 weeks — of accumulated overtime At least one official challenged h Johnson’s vacation "In view of Mr Johnson’s pleas of insufficient staff” wrote this official “I find it difficult to understand why he is requesting an extended leave of absence at the height of the special events season" As far back as Nov 22 1972 Johnson's boss Carl Larsen wrote him sternly: “I would like to request that we make an attempt to bring the allocation of compensatory time in your shop under some controls in this period of economic austerity for the Institution" Johnson still on vacatin' couldn’t be reached for comment (United Feature Syndicate) four-mont- “Move Along! This Is a Restricted Area!” Viewpoint Of Deficits And Economic Chaos Self-Defen- se By Dee Oakley Newspaper Enterprise Assn By Paul Harvey Los Angeles Thnei Syndicate The lawman from his first training is disciplined to defer to the “civil lawbreakers rights" policeman's rights So he's doing the best he can In his own he's carrying a bigger gun- -in states where they'll let him It’s not like in the movies Usually when you shout a man he keeps coming Unless you hit him in his spine or some vital nerve center he'll keep coining If he's a gunman he'll keep e shooting So some police departments are arming themselves with dumdum bullets Ttiese hollow-poibullets smash on Impact They'll knock a man down and out instantly The FBI uses hollow-poiammunition because it is the e only way in a situation that the lawman has a chance nt you-or-m- Further this Harvey News of While we have fettered our police with reams of regulations respecting the "civil rights" of everybody else there has been no effective organized nationwide defense of the hollow-poi- bullet which expands on impact is much less likely to go into through and out of the tareet-therea- fter hitting other people Whenever lawmen seek any advantage fur themselves we promptly hear an anguished outcry from certain groups In v? this Instance it is the American Civil liberties Union (ACLU) which demands that police be prohibited from using dumdum bullets Seldom are any bystanders willing to get involved in behalf of the policeman and our lawmakers hear only a lopsided debate until elected officials bowing to the organized opposition proceed to pass laws which further constrain lawmen In Richmond Nurfolk and Alexandria Virginia police departments have already surrendered to the pressure and have withdrawn this ammunition In three states bills have been filed which would ban the use of dumdum bullets by police Similar ordinances have been proposed in many cities Now this American Civil liberties Union is try ing to get Congress to make it a law nationally so that our lawmen everywhere will have available less lethal ammunition than that used by their lawless adversaries In each state meanwhile AITU chapters are busily lawsuits which preparing contend that the use of such bullets violates the victim's constitutional rights When are we going to consider the constitutional rights of our lawmen? Have they no similar right to "due process?" The lawbreaker will trim the nose of his magnum an (munition with a penknife These executioners respect discrimination What's it doing over there the other side? V‘r W m ‘‘Just what the devil do you mean This country is as sound as a dollar'?" - on OWjMEA-- High Court Endorses Pupil Power By London Economist News Service Schoolchildren won new rights WASHINGTON — (IENS) on Jan 22 when the Supreme Court ruled in a M decision that they may not be arbitrarily suspended from school Justice field that Byron White writing the majurity opinion schoolchildren have as much right as anyone eLse to due process under the Constitution once they have been guaranteed an elementary and secondary education by the states this cannot be denied them without a fair investigation into whether their conduct warrants a suspension The majority opinion detailed three rudimentary precautions which would safeguard pupils threatened with short-tersuspension They must be notified of (lie charges against them and have any adverse evidence explained to them as well as having the opportunity to present their side of the story The case before the court concerned the suspension of nine l students in Columbus Ohio during a racial demonstration In 1971 Civil rights leaders have taken up the students' cause claiming that ail too often teachers particularly in pour city schools suspend black and Puerto Rican students with insufficient reason In New York city nearly 20000 of the one million schoolchildren were suspended last year alone Teachers reply that by ruling as it did the court has tied their hands in disciplining unruly pupils They were backed by a strongly worded minority opinion written by the four Justices appointed by President Nixon The Justices held that the majority decision was an "unprecedented intrusion" into the educational process and as such would open the door to other types of cases Soon they maintained students would be taking their schools to court for giving them unfair school marks The last time the Supreme Court ruled on students' rights was in 1969 wlien pupils won the right to engage in peareful protest namely the right to wear black armbands as a sign of their protest against the Vietnam war But fur the most part schoolchildren's rights have been a neglected area of law However last year Congress started the bull rolling by requiring schools and universities to open their students' records to parents and to the pupils themselves once they are 18 years old The content of the records can then be challenged and if shown to be unfair removed If the schools fail to comply with the new law they stand to lose their federal money For some time parents have been up in arms against Hie schools' policy of refusing to allow parents to - "When a conservative Republican president proposes a budget deficit of 77 billion over two years he's got to make a speech about the threat of federal spending" comments economist Arthur Okun who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under the Johnson administration "The trouble with the Ford budget" says Sen Walter F Mon) "is that he listened to those Republicans who still dale i pray to the god of balanced budgets" Put a microphone or a reporter in front of almost any Democrat or liberal and much the same kind of observation the President's concern would be made Gerald Ford is guilty of innate conservative miserliness or insensitivity to the plight of the poor and unemployed or want of faith in the unbounded strength of the American economy by attempting to hold down the federal deficit for the roming fiscal year to something less than the greatest deficit racked up in the midst of World War II Just what the actual deficit for FY1976 will be nobody knows The President forecasts one of $52 billion in his proposed budget but that includes trimming spending on various federal domestic cuts that the Democratic Congress programs by $17 billion adamantly opposes Arthur Okun to the contrary the prospect is not for a budget deficit of $77 billion over two years but that much or more in one year Well all right If any god is dead it is "the god of balanced budgets" Who remembers the last lime there was a federal surplus and was the country any better off for having it? Yet somewhere along the line we are going to have to ask ourselves what really is the limit to how deeply the government ran go into hock at any one time? Is there no threat at all that massive government borrowing could distort the economy more than it is already distorted and ultimately defeat the very ends we desire to achieve especially when there are signs that inflation is at long last beginning to abate? Common sense tells us there is some kind of limit Otherwise the government could simply crank up the printing presses and award every Ameriran a million dollars This would bo fine except that we know that shortly afterwards we would be paying $10000 for a pound of hamburger pooh-poohi- no regulations no restraints nobody etse's rights In years past the ACUJ has positioned itself alongside the victims of deprivation and high-erhoo- V Tin Herald Journal — 32 Watch on Waste: Meredith Johnson a senior Smithsonian Institution official is away on a taxpayer paid vacation His payroll file which we have obtained is loaded with claims for compensatory time A typical memo dated April 15 1973 claims 46 extra hours “worked at home as a necessity to keep up with the demands of my least-favore- Armed For 1975 four-mon- th point inside the building looked up from a magazine ning passed the desk With equal ease Manning into the Internal Revenue dynamite cept It leading to a small deadend room where an embassy official sat Meanwhile the experts expect more bombing incidents as the violent radicals celebrate the Bicentennial in their own revolutionary way - The Herald Journal's Opinion What About Utah Sunday February Anderson Assistant Plants Some ‘Bombs wrnw fih in paper We wrap new in paper The emitenl is what rountM not the wrapiver” —Ilernartl Kilgore “Thr Logan ExSicitffi Commentary see their own children's files while willingly handing them over to government authorities notably the police as The new rule introduced by Sen James Buckley an amendment to the school aid bill was intended only to stop unjustified remarks and errors of fact getting into a student’s Tile where they could Jeopardize his career Hut the wording of the Buckley amendment was so vague that at first it seemed that students would be allowed to scrutinize their entire school records Only after clarification did the amendment place parents' financial statements and psychiatrists' reports out of bounds to the students as well as confidential letters from referees already tn the files when the amendment became law on Jan 1 However in the future they will have a right to see these letters leading many school officials to predict that recommendations will become almost meaningless because referres will be discouraged from writing bad reports But teachers agree that this obstacle can be easily removed by telephoning an of the students honest assessment out of ear-sh(c) The Fconomist of (R-N- Action Addresses United Slatri Senators Utah State Representatives Frank E Moss United States Senate Washington DC 20510 Charles Bullen— District 58 ( liOgan everything east of 3rd East and city voting district Jake Garn United States Senate Washington DC 20510 Utah State Capitol Salt I ike aty Utah 84115 16) A United Stales Represrslalivrs Gunn McKay (represents Cache County) House of Representatives Washington DC 20515 Allan Howe House of Representatives Washington DC 20515 Utah Slate Senators Miles "Cap" Ferry -- District 24 (All of Cache County south of the liOgan south city limit and Box Elder Dainty) Utah State Capitol Salt LakeCRy Utah $4115 Reed Bullen— District 25 (Logan all of Cache County and Rich north of County) Utah State Capitol Sett like City Utah 54115 Alton Hoffmen-Dist- rict 59 6 and 17 plus Cache County north of ( liOgan voting districts 4 Ixgan) Utah State Capitol Salt Lake City Utah 84115 Todd G Weston— District 60 (all of Cache County south of liOgan and liOgan voting districts 1 2 3 5 and 8) Utah State Capitol Sait lake Qty Utah Ml 15 Cache County Commissioners Marion Olsen Ted Karrrn Robert Chambers 160 Forth Main Street lAgan Utah M321 City Commiuiooen Desmond Anderson mayor Ned I Russell F FJeklsted Gines West 1st North lAgan Utah M321 61 t rJ |