| Show a The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday August 13 1985 Our View Grizzly bear ‘problem’ sparks a bit of sadness Pity the poor grizzly bears These huge bears known for memorable spells of aggressiveness have become the black sheep of the modern world no one seems to want them around Proof of this comes in replies from other areas to an offer by Montana officials who wrote 16 states three Canadian provinces and two territories asking if the officials would like to have 25 grizzly bears a year The Montana authorities suggested according to an Associated Press article that the bears could be to former bear habitat But the offer from Montana was quickly and flatly rejected by all concerned even by officials from the vast state of Alaska who humorously more-than-genero- us suggested: "We might reconsider our stand in this matter if Montana were willing to consider a trade of Alaskan wolves for Montana bears Presumably such an basis exchange would be on a Other interesting comments came from Oregon officials who asked if Montana would be willing to accept some troublesome black bears and from Kansas officials who said they already have a bunch of grizily bears "but we call them state legislators" Given the grizzly bear's reputation we can understand why these officials are reluctant to the big bears Into their states But their responses also prompt a twinge of sadness because they illustrate a major problem facing many of our wildlife species today Animals such as grizzly bears wolves and mountain lions are surrounded by a world which has but little use for them We have relegated these animals to the remotest areas of our nation where they must live in the few spaces g of wilderness solitude' still to be found In our pound-for-pou- nd rapidly-developin- country would want a grizzly bear in their backyards certainly but that does not mean these mighty als should not have their own place a right to live and mankind the intruder here is obligated in our view to find compromises which will allow man and bear to coexist each free of the other's influence After all the bears were here first Few people Letters to the Editor Appreciation To the editor: Just a note of appreciation that there are some very good radio stations in the state of Utah There is a radio station KUTR AM 860 whose slogan is "Sounds like Utah" It is a mixture of western symphonic classical modern and pop all related to the lifestyle of the majority of Utahns The lyrics are screened and the music as well to reflect such lifestyles Another excellent program is the KBLQ AMFM station here in Cache Valley They sponsor a "Sounds of Sunday" program which any Christian would appreciate listening to on the Sabbath It's nice to know that there is still very much good in a world filled with calamity and chaos Luci Olsen Young Ward Sewer problem To the editor: discussion about this problem has obtained new significance and has also been getting louder lately It seems to me that so far some of the most important information has for some reason been withheld from the citizens who in the end are expected to pay every cent the project will cost First and probably most imApparently portant the what firm has expressed its willingness to finance the proposed project to build and also to operate a proposed central disposal plant? Letters — memories for a rainy day BOSTON — Somewhere in the boxes that I have moved from one address to another are small packages of summers past Letters from my parents Letters from school friends Love letters Private history wrapped neatly in rubber bands Most of them are by now more than 20 summers old The datelines remind me of camp college trips They also remind me of my father’s humor the rhythms of my mother's daily life the code words of adolescent friendships — SWAK sealed with a kiss —the intimacy of the young My friends my family and I rarely mail our thoughts anymore The mailman brings more catalogs than correspondence to our homes The letters that come through our mail slot are mostly addressed in robotype The stamps we buy are to go on bills We direct-dia- l now Spoiled by the From this firm and not from and the ease of the instant gratification like to know the city we would the cost of building the project phone we talk The telephone call has and to operate it This should replaced the letter in our lives nearly as come before any engineering completely as the car has replaced the cart work is undertaken When we were kids I remember long It seems that the principal was reserved for announcements distance cause of the present difficulty some people are having in The operator was almost an evil omen If we had called from camp or campus our proper drainage was caused by lack of proper supervision parents would have answered the phone before building permits were with "What’s wrong?" issued Today our own children the products of Investigation reveals that the Sesame Street numbers and telephone-compan- y have grown up state government “had technology supervision on the books and knowing area codes before they knew likewise the city of Smithfield also had it on the books” The result was that nothing or too little was dime in the way of investigating proper drainage Helping the individua people who nave drainage difficulties When President Reagan submitted his appears to be a more justified proposed budget to Congress last Februproject than a new filtration ary the Washington press corps gleefully system costing very consider- pronounced it "dead cm arrival” at Capitol able sums of money Answers to Hill these questions are expected Six months later the members of from the city authorities before Congress have at last agreed on a much further is undertaken substitute budget and departed on their summer vacations and a taste for sym-- i Jacob Krusi point out that their Smithfield substitute is "dead on departure" Mr Reagan's budget died because Congress killed it but the congressional substitute was born dead It is proof The Herald Journal welcomes positive that Congress is utterly incapable letters to the editor Letters of making serious reductions in these should be legible approximateridiculous and dangerous federal deficits It purports to cut expenditures for the ly 350 words in length and in good taste Potentially libelous coming fiscal year by $55 billion but the or defamatory letters will not Congressional Budget Office has already be published stated that much of this is eyewash the The editor reserves the right true savings are more like $39 billion And not even these are certain: The cuts to edit all letters to conform to the length and style require- approved in this budget merely declare ments of the newspaper Letters what Congress allegedly intends to do the must be signed and include the actual appropriations must still be voted writer's address and pre- on in the months to come and they may well be higher ferably telephone number The “savings" projected for the years Letters of excessive length will be edited or returned We do not ahead are even phonier being based on publish poetry on the Opinion revenue estimates that are precarious in Page any case (since they are mere guesses) g There are no luxury in obvious silences to anxiously fill There are no interruptions to brook There are no nuances and times of voice to distract At Large A letter doesn't take us by sunrise in the middle of dinner or intrude when we are with other people or ambush us in the addition They bounce intercontinental midst of other thoughts It waits There is a private space between the give and the calls off satellites just to say "Hello" I am not railing against this progress A take for thinking I have known lovers parents and Frequent Dialer with the bills to prove it I often choose the give and take the children husbands and wives who send immediacy of the phone I accept charges each other letters from one room to from children with an uneconomical glee another simply for the chance to complete A friend and I separated by hundreds of a story of events thoughts feelings I nave miles have declared our plume bills known people who could not "hear" what “cheaper than therapy" It's good to hear they could read There is this advantage to slowing down a voice But it isn’t the same Sometimes I think that the telephone call the pace of communications The phone is as earthbound as daily dialogue while a demands a kind of simultaneous satisfacletter is an exchange of gifts On the tion that is as elusive in words as in sex It's letters that let us take turns let us sit telephone you talk in a letter you tell There is a pace to letter writing and and mull and say exactly what we mean Today we are supposed to travel light to reading that doesn't come from the telephone company but from our own inner live in the moment The past is we are told excess baggage There is no question rhythm We live mostly in the that the phone is the tool of these times As modern fine and as ephemeral as a good meal But you cannot hold a call In your hands world Communication is an industry It makes demands of us We are expected to You cannot put it in a bundle You cannot respond as quickly as computers A voice show it to your family Indeed there is asks a question across the ocean in a split nothing to show for it It doesn't leave a second and we are supposed to formulate trace Tell me how can you wrap a lifetime an answer at this rate of of phone calls in a rubber band for a summer’s night when you want to reexchange But we can not blessedly “interface" member? o 1915 Washington Pott Writers Group by mail There is leisure and emotional letter-writin- Ellen Goodman hi-te- ch high-spe- ed Congress performed dismally on budget Letter policy cut next year in the money he has to play William A Rusher The Conservative Advocate and probably wildly optimistic The real intention of Congress is revealed by what this budget does about domestic spending programs of all sorts — the "benefits" that Congress insisted on conferring on the voters year after year reposed simply closing down many of these The Re- d Senate managed to a would at least have that budget pass ended 11 of them But the Democrat-controlle- d House forced a compromise that with the sole (which was exception of revenue-sharin- g scheduled to end in a couple of years anyway) lovingly preserves every single giveaway program ever enacted into law by Congress Most to be sure will have their appropriations reduced from recent levels but the cuts are often largely cosmetic And anyway which do you think a bureaucrat in charge of one of these boondoggles would prefer — the shutdown of his operation altogether or a 15 percent publican-dominate- with? Sen Daniel Moynihan charged that Mr Reagan's former budget director David Stockman told him that the president had deliberately allowed the deficits to swell simply as a means of scaring the House Democrats into serious budget cuts but that this strategy "got out of hand" and resulted in deficits far bigger than Mr Reagan ever anticipated (Stockman incidentally denies saying any such thing) But it seems at least as likely that Up O’Neill md the other Democratic leaders having piously registered their dismay over tfc : deficit are themselves deliberately " laying chicken” — refusing to make serious cuts on the bet that Mr Reagan's sense of fiscal responsibility will sooner or later force him to agree to a tax hike If they are wrong they can still — they hope — blame him for the deficits Cynicism that reckless is so breathtaking that a certain grandeur creeps into it What all this demonstrates is how right President Reagan has been all along to insist that only a constitutional amendment flatly requiring a balanced budget will ever produce one Newspaper Enterprise Association The governors had a political shootout in Boise last week By Arnold Sawislak U PI senior editor - WASHINGTON (UPI) Last week in Boise Idaho the nation's governors in all their majesty were holding one of their typical national conferences when as the in mixed company the peanut goes saying butter hit the fan Suddenly the National Governors' Association which prides itself on its membership's record of bipartisan cooperation became a cockpit of snarling politicians At one point the majority Democrats boycotted the climatic windup session of the high-minde- d conference and even muttered threats to sabotage the organization's tradition of alternating the NGA leadership between the parties by refusing to vote for Republican Lamar Alexander of Tennessee the designated 1985-8- 6 chairman What caused all this angst? The Democrats claimed it was a letter over the of President Reagan soliciting 1986 signature campaign funds for the Republican Governors' Association six-pa- The Democrats objected violently to claims in the letter that Democratic governors raise taxes while Republican governors cut them and that the Democrats who hold 34 governorships to the represent "the last unchallenged stronghold of the liberal 'tax and spend' philosophy that nearly brought America to her GOP's 16 knees" It is true that such a representation of Democratic governors is generally off the mark Even in the North and especially in the West Democratic governors tend to be more conservative than many of the party's members of Congress Democriiu governors who move on to the Senate also seem to be relatively conservative as witness James Exon of Nebraska David Boren of Oklahoma Wendell Ford of Kentucky and others In any case the Democratic governors in Boise were furious about the Reagan letter pointing out that all but one of their number had a balanced state budget in 1985 in sharp contrast to the president and that while some of them had raised taxes so did a number of GOP governors including Alexander The Republican governors at Boise defused the flap over the Regan letter by promising to stop sending it out (120000 copies had been mailed) and declaring that they did not mean to be unfair to anyone That was some distance from the apology the Democrats originally demanded but it saved enough face to accept |
