Show t t ’ tbrid Logan Utah Sunday October without popular information or the meuno of acquiring it in but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy ' ' 'V 4'" orperhapo both '"'4 — Janie Miulimm ' '"“A popular government '44 -- ‘ ' - The Herald Journal's opinion j What we don print When should act as censor? On two occasions during the last week we had to make decisions on whether or not to print potentially offensive material In one instance we decided in favor of printing a photograph of a room with a nude calendar hanging on the door We felt that this photograph accurately portrayed the lifestyle which was the subject of the local illustrated article We have since been accused by a few V £' T i i readers of irresponsibly licen- publishing disgusting tious smut In the Mowing day's pap we decided against public verbatim Use remark which cost former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz his job We felt that readers deserved the opportunity to read the toll quote so they could judge tor themselves whether it was as racist and as bad as Butz critics claimed but we felt even more strongly that we should not print such foul language in a - family newspaper We have not received any criticism for that act of censorship v - Frankly we are still : not entirely certain whether we made the right decision in either case There are no pat formulas I i :v he -- sm om aasffsr but even the US Supreme Court Is Still unable to say exactly what obscenity is We do maintain our own ad-vertising policy which pro- hibits portation are the obscure companies they i Most are subsidiaries of corporate giants which pack ppwwfui wallop on Capitol Hill C®rgo Carriers for example is owned by Cargill tte Transportation belongs to Peabody Coal Other barge owners indude Amoco Dow Chemical Mobil Phillips Petroleum and not last nor least UJS Steel What this means is that the taxpayers are subsidizing some of the largest corporations in America The latest gift rtiich these corporations are trying to wangle out of the taxpayers is the renovation of Locks and Dam Complex 28 on the upper Mississippi Mid-Ameri-ca explicit sexually i - r? 'f movie ads but again the line is sometimes hard to draw — especially when we move from advertising to news and the statements of public officials Perhaps it would be easier to draw that line if we were simply prudes who felt obligated to shelter our readers But we find the role of censor repugnant to us As a newspaper we feel that our first duty is to accurately reflect reality even when the truth might offend Yet we are individually and as an institution citizens of our community We feel that it is also our duty to maintain a standard of good taste that reflects the decency of our community V Our editorial judgment has never been infallible and never will be But when1 these two duties come into conflict as they occasionally will we can only pledge to exercise our best judgment in balancing them Mi To the Editor: We really r 'enjoy reading The Herald V: Journal but not when you encourage licentiousness We were very disgusted to see you pubutti such a degrading ' X s rf 1'- rV-- pornographic photo as was found in the People on Sunday section ) Oct S ' It was definitely a disgraceful act for The Herald Journal We : (p-21- - J vi s photographer into privacy of their and the so busy finding fault with the free press that our constitution affords us that they failed to catch the message intended Had their minds been in the propel would have more than a calendar I foiled to notice it and I can’t help but wonder ' bow many hundreds of other adults and children did until the brought it to our at- : River - This is the key link in the Mississippi’s barge transportation system In 1969 the Army Engiiu offered a plan to replace the old deterioratingjfac with a new dam and two larger locks The improvements would quadruple the river’s capacity to handle water traffic It would also cost the taxpayers a whopping $400 million The waterway lobby’s friends in the Senate tried to slip the $400 million undertaking into an omnibus water resources act The bill authorized 117 pork- - barrel projects at a staggering total cost of $11 - billion is and But two alert senators Gaylor Nelson docked the Locks and Dam Pete Domenid Complex 26 project The barge industry will try again next year Snow Job: A confidential congressional report has accused the giant DuPont chemical complex of misleading the public about industrially caused R-N- M cancer In blistering language the report characterizes the company’s attempts to downplay the incidence of cancer among its employes as "a deliberate attempt to mislead’’ and a “public relations snow Job" The study charges that DuPont’s use of statistics “to publicly congratulate itself on its low cancer rate is not merited is misleading to the public and is a disservice to its workers" For months the House Oversight and Investigation subcommittee has been checking Into the menance of industrial carcinogens in major U S cities As part of its investigation the subcommittee has tried to pinpoint the major sources of the deadly carcinogens It discovered that large numbers of employes at a DuPont plant in Belle W Va had contracted cancer Therefore the subcommittee asked DuPont to furnish information on the incidence of cancer at all 109 DuPont plants over an period The company responded with press releases that cancer among its employes between 1956 and 1974 was 21 percent lower than the national rate In two plants that had a higher than average cancer rate among male employes the company insisted that the cancer had not been caused by exposure to - rs realize one of your tention : In mv opinion reporters saw fit to 't fids man’s room v out was i it y for you to something so as a woman1 responsible person has the right to thoughtlessly or otherwise damage the reputation or good name of another'-- u' Donna Gossner Logan photograph : 4 t you should renaming The Herald Journal A more appropriate name would be The Smut Journal if you are going to let such things be printed: then your readers would know what to expect when they 1 s "'- -i : f 't 7JM 'f “ - - 'I i ? : i ' 'I'-- ' i s Vi Work of art: the Editor: The Herald Journal baa finally done it ' Always a leftist radical newspaper with an obviously pinko Barnes editorial ataff your Penny commie paper has taken Logan a giant step toward destroying our morals Nit-picke- rs and bringing our great country to ruin through To the Editor internal decay I am sorry but the v In the bottom left hand letters from those who comer of page 31 of the found fault with the edition for Sunday 03 calendar in last Sunday’s October you blatently Herald' Journal struck published a aickeningly me so funny that I obscene picture of — I went through shudder to think about tt all my past issues to find — a man’s naked ear! I out what all the ob hurriedly stuffed my jections were about Had tender diildren into these people v looked ' gunny sacks and ram:ckuer at the calendar med them under the bed have so they wouldn’t be they would discovered perhaps a corrupted " by such ' picture of the “Venus de pornography Mflo" A statue conCome on people! What sidered by critics to be a kind of ' bat morality ' thing of exquisite beauty does it take to look at the and workmanship I first page of the same impose l paper and view with ' Indeed in the eye equanimity the picture of beholder a Palestinian guerilla : Ido not mean to make pouring bullets Into the ' flesh of those with whom light of nudity in public as it ia against my he disagrees but become beliefs but! feel that r outraged at the these folks are using photograph of a nude valuable energy to woman? Ia sensitivity when they could be so’dead? Nobody To Well &SS5RF'":: - 4 9 ' 4 vj ' no i Push-Butt- on button pushing conmuter terminal will be installed in each Senate office The system provides a variety of form letters At the touch of a button the most appropriate form letter will be spewed out by the computer Each letter will look as if it had been painstakingly typed from the senator’s own dictation A ' (c) United Feature Syndicate Harvey news v rated arifX! By "V Pul Harvey By now you’ve heard that a Danbh movie producer 3 is planning to make a dirty movie-- — about the life of "T5 iiv Christ He plans to film lt'in Britain “ ft ia not proper protocol to quote the Queen bot-- p Buckingham Palace is letting tt be known that 'the finite idea “obnoxious’’ The Britt! government is trying to decide If tt has legal grounds for preventing this ultimate obscenity I understand the ratings system when a movie is rated “PG” that means that “parental guidance’’ $ is recommended In Harvey House what that means is that our son is likely to see it first and advise if it’s aU right for his - ' photographer - ’ parents myself I exteAd my congratulations to Paid '‘4 Most are not'1 - And this does not reflect prudery in the classic definition I was in the Air Force I don’t think there v are any words or expressions I have not heard V G And though it is die notion of some that aexwss invented in I960 it wasn't really Yet if Angel and I go ' to a movie — which ia very rarely — it Is for escape from the ugliness of reality ' '4 w But I do resist and resent the double-standar-d y employed by a rating system which implies thitv? whether filth is filth depends upon how young or bow ? old you are The other day the ladies of the East Dallas Toss Garden and Tut Society were nearing the end of the gardening season and running out of something to movie talk about so they decided to go to an Now die ladies of the East Dallas Garden and Talk Each of them is at least 70 years of age So legally they were quite eligible to go unescorted ' But a young newswoman heard they were going and decided to go along and report their reactions She subsequently reported that all die grandmothers walked out before the movie was over : some because they were “ashamed” some because they were “embarrassed” and two of them because they were for having Carter provided us with a photographic statement and to The Herald Journal and its editorial staff for having the good sense to use it 1 cannot resist making a final point One writer alluded to the necessity of mounting a defense of this photograph before a "higher Authority" I wish to point out to that writer something that has evidently eluded his sensibility: assuming the writer was referring to the Authority to whom I think he was referring that same Authority was and is the author of the feminine form the writer finds so objectionable In light of the fact that He keeps turning out the same model day after day with no changes or modifications 1 can only assume that He finds them at least satisfactory If not downright pleasant Certainly not objectionable and if He doesn't find them objectionable why should anybody else? TJ Gordon Hyrum V1 movie “bored” But what will whites do now? But— and hear this— on the sidewalk outside after they had exited one of the elderly ladies cornered the ! woman reporter and told her that die “should ashamed” of herself The elderly lady said “Think of your reputation young lady If people learn that you went to that movie they are going to think you are trash!” Of all foe filthy words which our young have hurled at foe establishment foe most obscene word of sQ Is Economist News Service By - - Hu- ' ' White SALISBURY Rhosesia (LENS) loiKimhi Rhodesia has crossed the Rubicon but it is still the on other bemused about what lies : Many whites reacted with relief to Ian Smith’s ’hypocrisy" transition to majority profound announcement of a two-ye- ar - And contemporary hypocrisy is nowhere more rule "We didn’t expect to get that king" has been a i familiar and no doubt comforting figure of Smith ia apparent tha in a movie : rating system wh'ch says comma reaction But bewilderment is growing as f unlikely to be in charge it is difficult to how that a movie is unfit for huma consumption until foe dispute over the precise terms of Henry : many will stay after you become “X” age After “X” age dirt ' ' The current rate of emigration — a net loss of 4000 becomes deu? Kissinger's settlement proposals rumbles on V'— 'V': in for the first eight months of the year with a record ' Oh come now — if it’s “dirt” it’s “dirt” however According to nationalists here the whites we a shock neither Smith nor any other white Rhodoian 1520 leaving in August is unlikely to be staunched old or young you may be — To the Editor: if we daft know that :vTb me one of the will be allowed to control the mechanics of transition About three quarters of the white electorate have our children do ' nicest things about But judging by a comment from his office last week voted in the past three general elections for a v (c) Los Angeles Times will not accept that he is not government that assured them that ma: minister the Just is prime Logan Logan Canyon welcome in foe new administration Smith said his meat duos — a message relentlessly There aren’t many towns had indicated his intention “to continue home Rhodesia radio and television with a dear river like Will the 6400 white fanners stay on the lad? Will wild ours or reasonably part in helping to guide foe destiny of white artisans work alongside Mack apprentices? mountains v'I think it would be a f WiU the civil service (about 30000) whose middle IO “This ? country has and upper echelons are almost exclusively white not and public disgrace if Cache for only remain but take part in foe training of Macks? under-deliverCounty woe to allow L We want ' v: Answers will to a great extent rest foe economic ' : years development in either the Right Fork or Stump guarantee scheme included in the settlement (leaders) who love Hollow One thing would details of which are not yet resolved understand human follow another as soon Fran leaders of business industry agriculture and beings”:' as the money people got mining there has been a cautious welcome for the 1 —Vice President Ndsa — their foot in the door and with as Rockefeller at misgivings propools tinged speaking sooner or later we would a political rally await economic policy statements from have lost some things leaders 80 far there is no nationalist blueprint for “The : patriotic' nit-piwhich are beyond price economic change oMigation of all Chileans is to contribute to the end In broad terms it is expected that Joshua Nkomo Maybe money is sacred to some' or foe vetera nationalist who returned to Rhodesia two of the dictatorship We wring U in being do it as members of a weeks ago would lead a capitalist towards their tte'liemrtess “progress" but I’d be government whereas his rivals would bring in more nation and as inheritors neighbor of villaaen in Angofaby j® Netaca Rockefeller Cache Valley of a tradition of freedom Do you know what I Z Cuban-le- d radical measures such as state control of mining troops — fir it The saw in those pictures to smctkms would be a relief to business to which the Pinochets do pan same paper — but would prefer to see the lonelv people that have at least three people as canyon and the mounChOeas foreign minister but not perhaps adequate compensation for foe not belong” ceased to exist in the of today have written to tains left natural general uncertainty that will exist even after foe next —From a New York before he was killed for Tom Lyon minds of many Times article written by an exploding bomb government is formed express shocked dismay ’ men allowed Orlando Letelier former recently ia Washington Logan at seeing a portia of a (c) The Economist of Londa - Commentary v No ‘progress’ L ad "''£ a Era quotes over-promis- ed a ad ad - - v’ :Sffi rn ad winjpm ed ! ck com-paasion- ' - ' a '£ i 9 : s d D-- i If that is morality I don’t want vv any The photograph in last Sunday's paper is a marvelous ana poignant work of art As a free- striking j carcinogens But these claims are sharply challenged by Rep wt&r' Andrew Maguire in a confidential the subcommittee Citing the findings of government'' and private experts Maguire declares: “None of the- -: analysts who examined the DuPont data found they -could draw any useful conclusions whatsoever about cancer within the company" In the words of one analyst the DuPont report “isv too well done to attribute its errors to incompetent' ' statistics Therefore it is reasonable to surmise that there was a deliberate attempt to mislead" He adds: “I would classify it as a public delations mow Job” Asserts another scientist: “The report is carefully developed but its methodology is faulty and Its conclusions are not Justified” Footnote: A DuPont spokesman conceded Out there were “methodological shortcomings” in the' data but insisted that the company had acknowledged this “We’ve done eventhing we know to to protect the health and safety of our employes” he declared H Letters: The Senate la about to pw-- J ' ' chase a sophisticated computerized system to an its mail For an estimated $4 million a year Senate aides will be able to answer their mail by Taking the pledge — again female body lance merry-go-roun- ’ - Smut Journal 1 -- 3' righls-of-wa- that can be applied in matters of taste In fact bad taste is sometimes difficult to define I Washington Letters to the editor 'V'l HeraM Journo) t' WASHINGTON —For decades the taxpayers have been giving the barge industry a dree rue down the nation's waterways Unlike other transportation system the inland barge lines don't pay taxes or maintenance on the y they use The entire final system is built maintained and operated by the Army Engineers st a cost to the taxpayers of more than $300 million s year Over the years at least 13 federal studies and position papers have urged the adoption of waterway user charges Yet year after year Congress his quietly obstructed the move A closer look at the interests behind the waterway 9t i Iko By Jack Aoderoon with Lea Whitten - ' - oil continues gettin '' - j ' 10 1071 & :4 if - |