Show Vt 'at-5- Fags 12 1dt rake James-- gt111111te - Setbacks Ii7O-D1-0- Kilpatrick Law Should Aim Tuesday Morning April 25 1967 s J At-Smut-Rackets— Editors rote: Seyaral years The death of a Soviet cosmonaut during the landing of his spacecraft may well have ruined Russian chances of making 1967 their year in space just as the Apollo fire at Cape Kennedy last January apparently wrecked American hopes of putting a man on the moon by 1970 Soviet officials blamed haste and carelessness for the Apollo tragedy This time they did not even mention Apollo It seems likely 'however that the two accidents had one cause in common — the increasing complexity of space exploration and the creation of problems scientists and technologists did not anticipate Soyuz 1 the vehicle that carried Cosmonaut Vladimir M Komarov1 to his death was launched more than two years after the USSR's last previous manned space flight indicating an immense amount of careful preparation (The Soyuz like the Apollo is a third generation spacecraft) the Russians give no Ordinarily advance notice of a launching But "unofficial" reports of a coming space spectacular circulated in Moscow and were carried in the world press As a consequence there was great speculation as to just what the Russians were going to do One theory was that an attempt would be made to link two manned spaceships a necessary first step for the construction of a space platform or laboratory Then as Soyuz 1 began its second day In orbit orders were given to bring it down for reasons as yet undisclosed The attempt failed when according to the Moscow radio parachute ropes became made to flash simultaneously Motorists and passengers should stay with the car Passing vehicles are urged not to stop Passing motorists seeing a distressed vehicle are urged to notify the nearest Highway Patrol police or automotive service station An article in the current issue of Highway User magazine reiterates this advice 41 n d reports on experiments to improve distress reporting Tests being conducted in several states show excellent motorist cooperation with a reporting system based on flashing car lights three times Signs are erected asking motorists to "Report Vehicles Needing Help 6 Miles Ahead" Then a quarter mile before the reporting point a sign says: "To Report Vehicles Needing Help Flash Lights" and finally the motorist is told to flash his lights three times to report but DO NOT SLOW DOWN! If the experiment proves a success it is hoped to develop devices which would automatically detect the flashing hold-ligsignals and report them to a central monitoring station When that day comes perhaps three women in distress will not even have to wait 20 minutes for help The plight of the stranded motorist on d Interstate is a problem the Yet the fact remains that the Farminghigh-spee- ton women did almost everything wrong and the motorists who passed them were doing exactly what highway authorities recommend A state brochure on freeway driving recommends that in case of an emergency a motorist slow down gradually (to avoid a rearend collision) and get off the road on the shoulder as far to the right as possible The motorist should then raise the car hood and display a white cloth from a radio antenna door handle or window At night he should turn on taillights and dome light Blinker lights should be turned on only if both turn signals can be ht Constitutional Right to Beard Long Hair Absurd and antisocial activity by demonstrating hippie types such as mass burning of draft cards and setting fire to the American flag has brought mass condemnation from some conforming elements of society on all who have scraggly hair or For example the statement of the New Jersey commissioner of education upholdNew ing the expulsion of a Milford high school student who refused to have his long hair cut: "It is inconceivable that a pupil be allowed to dress or appear in such bizarre grotesque or outlandish fashion" The New Jersey case is so far untested but in California where conformity is not always rampant the courts have just upheld the right of a Pasadena high school teacher to wear a beard When Paul S Finot declined to shave whiskers slovenliness preoccupation with drugs and sex and demonstrations bordering on disloyalty are cause for adult wonder and dismay but intemperance breeds intemperance and oftentimes the "cure" is more alarming than the ailment Self-conscio- us off his modest Van Dyke in 1963 school officials took him out of his 12th grade classroom and assigned him to home tutoring He sued for reinstatement and the superior court ruled against him After three years however an appeal court has ruled that the right to wear a beard still lies under the "peripheral protection" of the First Amendment and within the meaning of "liberty" as set forth in the 14th Amendment Now it is hoped the preoccupied school people ca get back to the business of eduoation'which is not necessarily synonymous with conformity The Parrish Cartoon 7r114PVIM 1 r 'hit I 1 Bill Vaughan's 4 Orbiting Para graphs The man at the next desk says all his pleasure in his new sports coat was ruined by the little slip in the pocket which indicated that it was Inspected by inspector No 9110 probably the newest guy in the shop i As a nice counterbalance to Vietnam where nobody wins comes the oil company's fconomy run where everybody does "We have never been quite sure about the Lritish use of the word "esquire" but we assume it equalS "occupant" here in America Some people knock the dandelion but not those of us who aro happy to see any signs of life on the lawn is ctaread from ts StatOrnent Gentlemen: I doubt that I can be of much assistance to the committee largely because I approach this whole subject of obscenity with so many doubts in my mind It seems do me unlikely as a matter of law that any f enduring definition can be found for what is criminally "ohscene"Certainly the courts have not contrived one And if new laws are to be drafted for suppressing obscene mag- azine obscene movies Pitr Kilpatrick it Would be useful to know what is now meant by the word The underlying assumption of all legislation in this field is that obscenity whatever it is lies beyond the protected walls of the First Amendment The theory is that man's freedom of speech gives him no freedom to speak obseenely the writer editor publisher and photographer are free to market their ideas and their works but they are not free to traffic in filth t 1 -Now 49Ai71 e:At so-call- phone Ili " COlUrnri t011Otiing - Three Farmington women recently wrote the Public Forum protesting be cause drivers failed to stop and lend them assistance when their car broke down on the Interstate near the Beck Street exit They said they had the hood up and one blinker light going also that after waiting 20 minutes with no one stopping to help two of the three started walking to a tele- I' a book - Help for Stranded Car a Freeway Problem I a 90 James J Kilpatrick wrote "The Smut PeitkVers" ett the law ot obscenity censorRtlk Dominick V Daniels CONJ) chairman et a Motes wed committee studying pornogeCh! bills car "Craig book bed asked Kilpetnkk to testify before the committee The twisted and the spaceship plunged to earth from a height of four miles Tass news agency announced that Komarov had successfully completed a test flight before being told to descend But earlier in the day Tass had reported Soyuz 1 was functioning normally and Komarov was feeling well This could mean that a longer flight had been planned until something went amiss At any rate after saying all was well Tass and Mci'scovi radio made no further mention of the flight until the tragedy was revealed Until this year manned space flights were carried out with'scarcely a hitch by 'both the United States and the Soviet Union Now two disastrous setbacks occurring within a matter of months emphasize the need for cooperation instead of rivalry James W Webb head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made exactly this point- in calling for truly cooperative efforts in manned exploration of the moon and beyond "We at NASA want to make every realistic effort" he declared "Could the lives already lost have been saved if we had known of each other's hopes aspirations and plans?" The plea is not new It has been made before — and ignored because of the overriding desire of each nation to win a race We believe it should be heeded Scientific progress thrives on cooperation And space exploration is one of history's greatest scientific ventures k )sc 'rt 10 4-- 4 4eg s' Runaway The Public Forum Mayor Lee Childish Editor Tribune: Salt Lake City can consider itself fortunate to have a man of such quality as Police Chief Dewey J Fills Such childish and critical comments by J Bracken Lee are of course right in line with his record of tactlessness Such statements as "he should do more and talk less" and "if the chief can't do the job with the money he has then maybe we should advertise for a new chief" are most profound The real corker is "I don't think personnel should go around saying what they please" Hit14r according to encyclopedic information maintained that authority not democracy could save the world Democracy is government by discussion and Hitler refused to discuss Ile had to command He quarreled with workers because he would not listen to their arguments When they objected he shouted at them and became hysterical To prevent too much hysteria perhaps Chief Fills would do well to have an overthe-fence Skousen It's chat with kind of funny but dictators just can't stand to see anyone become too popular KENNETH HARMS Bountiful Utah - ex-chi- ef A Farm-Pric- e By Our Readers We blame the Negroes for rioting and other lawlessness but they are among the underprivileged These college marchers are among the most privileged of the nation They are excused from military duty so they can go to school then cause all the trouble they can while being educated at the taxpayers' expense As Mr Mader so aptly says and they are AGNES JUST REID "over-educate- under-informe- d Firth Idaho Bad Medical Legislation Editor Tribune: I wish to bring to city-count- y Squeeze Editor Tribune: Several weeks ago you printed a "viewpoint" from California I believe which stated something about subsidizing dairy farms It is true that small farms are probably suffering the most but the big farms aren't getting their share either You might note the fact that Kervyn Link of Dane County Wis dumped $700 worth of milk one day's production from 450 cows how large do you think a farm should be before it is entitled to continue operation? Most of the dairy farmers in Utah were in smpathy with the NFO because this seemed to be the only way to get attention to the farm problem If they hadn't used this drastic method I am sure that nothing would have ever been said in the news media concerning e the squeeze The press seems more concerned with such as Martin Luther King Adam Clayton Powell and other crackpots and demonstrators than it does with the problems of people who make up the backbone of this country The people who would fight to defend this great nation and keep it free rarely make news it seems IIRS RODNEY J PETERSON Fairview Utah farm-pric- Let's Be Realistic Editor Tribune: It is becoming more and more apparent that the people of Utah cannot see the forest for the trees They it complacent happy with the "status quo" They are proud to read where Utah gives the highest percentage of money toward education — no they never stop to think that this money is spread so thin because Utah also rates at the top in the number of children to educate No wonder we have classrooms of 35-4- 0 pupils creating a sad teaching environment No wonder there are so manyproblems with youth with crime ever on the rise I say we have more to worry about the delinquency of the parents Parents are delinquent in their family duties by bringing more children into the world than they can support A PERSON CONCERNED Hurray for Mr Mader Editor Tribune: Hurrah for Kenneth Marler of Lima Montana In his letter of April 19 he has told the marchers just what they needed to be told and there is no one as qualified to tell them as a man that has worn his country's uniform The letter was given the best publicity as a listener of a very popular radio station at Idaho Falls called in and read it I wish everybody in the world could have heard it public attention two Items of medical legislation passed by the 1967 Legislature Senate Bill 89 dealing with a health merger I find unconstitutional because it provides for an appointed health council with the power to levy a two mill tax This constitutes taxation without representation That Is what the Boston Tea Party was all about Another provision is for perpetual succession — but nothing in American government can have perpetual succession If the people decide otherwise Also the provision for limited advertising prior to elections smells like Iron Curtain procedures Senate Bill 235 consolidates health wel I o'sV- lippiA s:: -- — p: --- -- fare correction mental health and Indian affairs The mental health section altered present law to lower the penalty for administering shock treatment lobotomy or surgery without written consent of the next of kin from a felony to a misdemeanor and removed all penalty for giving psychiatric treatment counseling testing and drugs without consent This undoes what many had worked hard to have included in the law by previous legislatures to afford more protection for individual rights I am horrified at the quality of medical legislation passed by the Legislature JEANNE E BRADLEY - Pull Out Then Crawl Editor Tribune: I say pull out of Vietnam now! Give all of our people over there an awol bag help them pack then turn their hacks— and make them come home And then all of us—close our shutters lock our doors crawl Into the deepest darkest corners of our basements — and let the whole world be overrun—or destroyed For as long as we keep to ourselves no one will touch us But—while you cower one or two of us will stand—and raise our voices to God—and pray that he forgive us—for we know not what we do! pOLAND Not a Recreation Ha 11 Editor Tribune: I would like to answer Mr Roy lance's complaint about the conditions and operation' of the metropolitan jail Let him remember this is not a recreation hall a library' or a reading room Most of the inmates are there for stepping outside of the law in one way or another The lighting facilities could be improved on as this could have an effect on the eyes The food which is served is not weakened to cause injury to anyone and it is inspected regularly Remember when you are put in jail you are not on vacation W M a proposition I Obscenity Doea Exist These are sobering problems but I am equally sobered by the conviction that obscenity exists whether or not it can be precisely defined Under its power to establish a postal system and its power to regulate interstate corn- merce the Congress certainly has power to pass laws in this field And in my own view the First Amendment presents no obstacle so long as the thrust of federal power goes tightly and narrowly to the real social evil which is the commercial traffic in hard-cor- e pornography This Is the act of polluting assuredly as discharging raw sewage and it ought to be equally subject to federal attack Admittedly I cannot prove this commerce is harmful even to young people in the sense that one can prove the harm in bacteria but I doubt that the contrary can be proved either — that It is not harmful On this basic question you will hear sharply conflictin specu- lations The psychologists are sincere In believing that pornography is healthy in that it provides an essentially private release for certain antisocial sexual tensions - Side With Pollee The police are sincere In believing that the e material sets thoughts in motion that lead to unlawful overt acts I tend to side with them The point ought not to be overlabored There are times when reasonable men have to rely upon their instincts and upon their common sense The principal object of any revision in fed- eral law as I see it should be to punish bad conduct and not to inhibit bad Ideas or to regulate dirty pictures In the criminal sense I have trouble seeing a bad Idea or a dirty picture the First Amendment gets In my way But I think a jury can see a smut dealer free and clear There is no constitutional impediment in my view to a law that punishes the COMMCN cial panderer especially when he Is using public facilities to engage in a public traffic Such an approach leaves abundant room for the sincere writer and the respectable publisher It does not inhibit essentially private communications It demands of juries only that they distinguish between the artist and the racketeer Such a goal lies within the scope of workable law hard-cor- kr""AP-1- Tr- f- Uneasy am prepared to accept But I am a working newspaperman' I have made my living as a writer for nearly 30 years And whenever I see you gentlemen beginning to fiddle around WPIf statutes that undertake to define classes of speech which are prohibited speech become acutely uneasy Taking one thing with another and put on my choice between dirt and censorship I would opt for the dirt The dirt at least can be seen and I can avoid it or sweep it up or paint over it or accept it as one of the smelly irritants of a free society But you cannot al' ways see censorship in action you may not know of Its silent exercise If we believe in a free society we must believe in a society that Is free for ideas that are offensive to us and we ought to deliberate most prayerfully before we attempt by law to impose any system of federal values in morals or taste c7 - Acutely that is HARDEN-BROO-K e Every statewants more industries and more open space You'd think it would occur to them that they have to make a choice - |