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Show Joseph Alsop First Section Tuesday Morning, July On Watergate 12 3, 1073 What Purpose? 'Part of Problem Non-Travele- rs Los Angeles Times Service H hat on earth is it for"1 This WASHINGTON of the former is the question that every member at White House staff ought to ha' e asked himself, road everv step along the At Salt Lake International There thrives in Utah an old tradition of the traveling American that has long since withered and fack-- auay almost everywhere eke It is the bon vojagp and the 'welcome home ' those happy gathering? of " mtrav e!ers at the bu stations the railroad dt- pot and the airport tcrmin.a! He don t see iher.i much anmore at thc bn? rfatiim arwj ihe railroad rjepr.t pc. come alas a virtual relic But we are big apparently the bigger the better with i.or-- e at Salt Lalc rallies of overworked Intern atonal City s crowded Airport . He seem to relish in as mjm ile out as possible to gmet a verr. returning the a" salute a departing mbtionary m-a birtin-see on off i did M'ding grandfolks, trip or the rela'i' es on. a vacation 'rv a pr-n- et Its been memorable fun that we. nut can t afford an; more ' The time has come to discourage or somehow prohibit these tratfic jams of at the airport gates, at undid we get more room out there Our airport facility can simply no longer accommodate, even occasionally, the added burden of throngs of visitors with no el her business than the evercise of felicitations berf performed somc-- here else The six airhn's sening Salt Lake Cdy operate 122 flights everv 24 hours with as. many as 8,0(10 arriving and departing passengers each day The stretch DCSs disgorge up to 250 people at a tune, the DC 10s another 225, the big 707s 100, the 727s 98 and starting m July for charters, the jumbo 747 more than lc-a- 350 The airport estimates that for every arriving and departing passenger, there are an average of five well wishers. Sometimes it s scores, filling the parting lots, clogging the lobby, the corridors, the security aieas and the terminal gates For the thousands of passengers each day the two short-terparking lots can handle less than 900 cars, the long-terlot scarcely 200 If he finds a space and his plane hasn t left, the hamed trav eler has to cope w ith a pedestrian crunch in the terminal! through security check and out to his flight gate He has already paid an extra 64 cents on his, ticket to help meet the costs of the security stabons The visitor of course pays nothing and can often jam these facilities thus rk laving and in'nn' enmncmg people with planes to catch Next to the flight za'e itself the favorite cralheripa plre for the airport uell-- u K.herS is the baggage carouse! Arming passengers must open claw their way through crow ds of greeters all seeking the same bag Arncl all the while the place is crammed with dashing Little Leagues innocent toddlers coveys of teenagers buddies girl friends and assorted relates who are going nowhere except back home where ihev should have stavtd m the first place Outside, the double and een Inple parking, cars with idling engines awaiting visitors adds more than somewhat to the frag ed nerv es of passengers for whom trav e!mg is no great pleasure these days Ead as it is sometimes it is going to get worse as we move through the two busiest months of the airport year The terminal handled 236 79 passengers last July 264 282 in August and traffic is up 7 percent in 1973 It. w as up 15 percent in 1972 a record year The airport is adding another 200 spaces to its long-terparting lot There are plans to expand the terminal area add four new baggage areas and introduce second le'e! loading gates The sooner the better. But until then, the 'bon voyage' and welcome home should be conducted away from the congestion more happily and relaxed m the backyard or the neighborhood park The airport delivery and pickup must be an matter reduced to the passenger and whoever is driving the car Ir tins era of gasoline shortages, air pollution busy highways and crowded terminals, the five-mil- e dme to the airport by the non-traof elir g well v ishers has to throngs be curtailed A positiv e way is a thoroughly negative response to an old question. Is thS trip really necessarv n" v Unfreezing The Controls President Nixon is dealing personally and resolutely with the nations economic difficulties. His Sunday address, and the mere fact that he made it clearly reflect this Although other ev ents W atergate hearings and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's Summit visit o' ershadowed them, the eftects from Mr Nixon's price freeze hav e been emerging And as the President noted Sunday these effects include serious gaps and inequities v The job new is to get on with Phase 4 of the governments economic stabilization program as soon as possible Mr Nixon assured that the wheels and gears are in motion His sense of urgency should be reassuring The freeze was unscheduled an impromptu reaction to the disappointing collapse of voluntary restraints m Fhase 3 guidelines As a new hold on prices it ? primary purpose was to buy time, forestalling the economy's inflationary pressures until a more workable, logrange police could be mobilized y . - Mr Nixon described Sunday the discussions currently under way with elements influencing living cost gyrations business, labor. Congressional leaders and consumers He specifically called for further controls on agricultural exports, an authority Congress can give him Without such restrictions, a continuing out- flow of commodities will aggrav ate the food ; shortages which play a major role m dnvmg pnces up Mr. Nixon sees that problem eas-- . mg as an expected bumper harvest develops ; by fall out a Pnce increase of their own, made oper- aflons unprofitable Again turning to agriculture, Mr Nixon described the chicken rai-er-s who had to cull their flocks because w ere unable to absorb they higher feed bills It is such inequities that Phase 4 drafters are attempting to men out. the President said And so they should For all its awkwardness, Phase 3'-vvas inescapable It acknowledged that Phase 2 had been prematurely dropped; it answered nationwide pleas for action and it demonstrated the administrations capacity to resume the mitiatn e Vet, a freeze, though dramatic, is overly harsh when it lasts too long. II can distort and harm rather that restore and strengthen national prosperity Mr Nixon realizes that He said as much Sundav His message rates full cooperation from Americans Congress business and labor m ev ery endea' or W ith that help the freeze will melt around a cooled, not waterlogged economv that led to the H atergate horror If they had done this and also been sensible politicaliv experienced tren w bach thev w ere no! there would h3'e bee" no horror , In an odd vav this is the f I 1 horror's most horrible as- ' pect Crimes were commit-y ted w hich cannot be forgiv-- ' en. 5ut what for To burglarize Daniel EUsbergs O Br.en ? psychiatrist and to listen to Lawrence of the ansum telechone' That is the approximate sw allow to hard is swer Damfool criminality Others will perhaps sav that there was a dark design to chanze the political system. But if there v as such a design m the first place the people in charze were such bungling fools that their design threatened no one but them.ss!' es In the second claoe, one must add, only innocents pretend there w as no seamv side of other, more admired H hie Houses of the past These are the first reflections that suggest thsmsel' es, after John W Dean III has said his say If you mads the least effort to look beyond the smooth manner and the sincere ' exterior. Dean seemed a nastier, sleazier figure with each day on the stand It is alreadv evident, too. that he has at least bent the truh pretty sadly for his ot. purposes There are two other witnesses, for example, to the crucial conversion Dean had shortly after Richwith the H atergate break-iard Klemdienst and his Henry E Fetersen Both are honorable men y career-assistan- The Public Forum Let's Get It Settled Coyotes Play Game Editor Tribune In reference to Ann Pfaffen- fcerger s letter (Forum. June 25) about coyote poifalse generalities soning her v absurd It ss c'ldsnt shs launched hsr attack from, a base of mere hearsay and not firsthand exDenence as I ha' e had. I have obser ed things that are in dmect opposition to her heartless attack s Editor Tribune And so the ' and go on and on citing satis-tic- s and counter statistics proving 'the other and the Salt Lake guys are a bunch of allev in general ts doomed unless the Belt Rou'e is or is not completed depending on v hose point of view is used mro-free- ay-ie- I ha' e seen the results of coyote poisoning and about it s effects and effectiveness I know that while it was being used we (on rn.y fathers ranch in Manila Utah) didn't ose any sheep from covo'es .After vt was banned, coyotes began appearing m great numbers The latest conflict as to vi.hether fhe State Bead Commission s figure of 99 percent of the right of wav purchased or Rep Georgia Peter son s figure of 3 out of 236 parcels purchased (61 percent) is correct seems a good example of using figures to pro e the point in vour o n av kno' "e had 490 ewes (a ery small herd) so cur misfortune must be multiplied many times to understand the impact on the larger herds After having gone through the work of caring for them and having lambed them out it was most dishear temng to see over 49 lambs killed and left to rot by co' oes They w ere just lulled not eaten. Some nights the coyotes killed six or sever, lambs almost as if they v ere making a game of it (V e don t have any chffs'and the 'dumb1 sheep don't eat the poisonous plants incidentally ) Im not too much on. math or cn. logic but it seems fairly evident that Rep Peterson, s figure of 3 out of 136 "parcels purchased and the High-ay Department s 99 percent of the 'right c? way' purchased could both be accurate I am ouU6 certain ths nht of xl av it not mads ud of l.S equal portions cf land The rea1 tra -- ed' of this w hole situation centers around the resident in Rep Peterson s ov n neighborhood In contacting manv of them perso) nal' (fa.m.ilv and it is evident manv of them could care less which way the decision goes if a decision ill lust be made ic and professions! hunt-er- s what would you do if you saw your meager profits dwindle into the ground as the blood of the lambs did0 It w as and is a question of either doing something about it or going cut of business as several sheep ranchers ha' e already had to do fnc-nds- M hon the. i ViqIc thmrr ctart&H IQ i ear fQr Linns' helicopters beneficiaries of Mr. Nixon s prominence, in the case of one of them dating back to the tarh lq50s to Her references to the low mentality of the sheeDmen and their hand m disrupting nature only showed her mentality and pro' ed she is still living and believing in mo'ies and charges made O' er 29 ' ears ago I invite Ann Pfaffenberger and others who applaud her letter to join the rest of us now' m the year 1973 and stop living and believing in the prototype of the 1953 sheepman Unless they do they may soon, eat their last lamb chop or roast The sheepmen need to be appreciated and not condemned bv those who know' nothing abou heir LEAN NEB PETERSON (No relation to Georgia Peterson) Center1 die pligh ROBERT? NEFF So is it is true both too easy as argument and too unsatisfying as morality However, if we are in the process of evohmg a fresh code for American presidents or for American, public officials, it is worthwhile reflecting cn what the old code was or, put differently, how lackadaisically it w as observ ed this connection that Mis Fosalie Gordon who did the research for a spinted polemic by John P Flynn published two do.en years ago, reminisces about the family of the President w ho above all men in this century with the exception of the brief sunburst from Massachusetts bedazzled America s lords spiritual and intellectual It is and Engraving to deliver to him alone a number After his death, these die proofs sold for 59 009 which went into FDR s of original die proofs estae Making Coo! S199.999 FDR was governor his son James got a lob at 15 000 per year He said laer I wasnt btmg kidded I knew perfectly well they 'ere needed the pa; mg me for my name I When the family entered the White money House James became a partner in. the insurance firm of Roosevelt and Sargent, which solicited and wrote insurance for some of the biggest corporations in America that had business with the government By 19j9 James was making S109OOO per year $25 009 more than his old man was mak-mas President While He have been ernemed abjure in. FDR was for instance a stamp collector ana asked his postmaster genera! to give him. imperforate first sheets of new stamp issues for him-el- f and a few fnend? Cre such sheet turned up m irrima the o ner asked S29 9M for it In panic the Post Office ran off a large number of imperforate sheets to dilute the smgu.an'; of the the Bureau of Printing first set But p dh cau-e- d Elliot Rooi-evel- e, - s t of Albc-Barkley Happy Chandler m Kentucky Republicans on the rolls were told simply to change them registration o'er The conscription of the regulatory agencies in the uses of presidential power was routine. A congressional committee im estigating the corruption of the FCC by the Office of H ar Information concluded "OH I had the men and the maenal It had the proper d; e to color the new s It also had the desire to select and censor the news. Hhat it lacked was the power, or perhaps more accurately stated even the color of power, to carry' their designs into effect Hence the need to enlist the Federal Communications Commission in its pur-Dos- e lour Registration Change Shows Unlawful Power experiences were similar a; Eleanor was something else She went on radio, for fees, to sponsor toilet preparations She got SI POO per week from a group of Latin AmeriWhen can coffee producers to talk: up coffc--e candy manufacturers during the v ar became concerned that their product might be classed as they got Mrs FDR to make three appearances on their radio program a $1 500 for the first tw o and $2,500 for the third he ad thnghtly. for instance m favor g u 3s his income Ise the FCC (had) the power to license and hence the power to compel obedience to its directions The record now shows their unlawful use of this power The FCCs subsidiary division was not formed to instruct or supem.se. or to correct It was formed with the avowed purpose of unlaw fully liquidating all of the radio personnel in the foreign language field that did not meet with its favor A real Gestapo was created and a lawless enterprise v as launched personal greed aside v hat about the sane-ti- ' And so on democratic process'1 Harry Hopkins had more money even than CREP at its disThe sooner that kind of thing ceases the bemonev tter and if it is going to stop with the Nixon posal over three billion dollars m wp knvicu; :0 purge ho:e 'ho had eppmed FDRs why tha will be one of us singular court packing plan he Used this mone quite for- - achiei emcnts But of the 9 - Both remember that the critical moment in th? conversation with Dean came when Klein dier.st suggested that he ought to be called to the White House, so that the government's chief law officer could warn the President of the true seriousness of H atergate Klemdienst wanted to ad' ise the President to make a deep cut to get nd of the cancer Dean smoothly replied, no. that he would do it To begin viith, this is not at all the picture of that com ersation conveyed by Dean on the stand To go on with, it is clear that Dean s promise to the general w as a he To complete the cbious implications. Dean made no effort to do it because he did not want to do it If he had wished to convey a warning to the President, and had feared doing so himself, he could have left, the job for Klemdienst. to do. instead of cutting him off That leaves the other, considerably more important fact of the matter- That the President of the United States stands charged by John Dean with complicity in crimes that are felonies under our law in this reporter s 'new. ses if such Dean of rious substantiation charges will therefore substantiation is require the Presidents resignation or impeach-Ynen- i - forthi-omm- g But this it appears is as yet another minority view Everything major about the President's involvement m the H'atergate homer was said by Dean m his first day s testimony After that, it was repetition, or elaboration of dam.foolery like the business of the poisor.ously silly list of enemies some of the damfocls m the Hhite House kept apparent!;; as a kind of Halter Mitty-Lkexercise of them notions of politics, since no real results ensued Some of the testimony also made one think of candidate in a western state in he the old days He won with a single speech, which always had the same peroration' ' Fcflis, if you den t elect me theyll be practicing celibacy on the public streets For these reasons, judgments after Dean s first day of testimony ought, to b final judgments e ago a lot of people in their middle ; ears tried to plan ahead for fhe future by making plans for relocation while still financially able and young enough, to do iO Now we find peode on Social and m failing health tied to land the-- , cannot sell ("ho wans to buy directly in. the path of a proiected freeway) and whom the Highway Department will not buy out For hea' en s sake let s 'rv to get the hole thing settled once and for ad so these poor people can make some plans for w hat future thee ha' e lef White House Needs Cool, Fresh, Workable Code In the general enthusiasm to derogate Mr Nixon and all his works and all his family, we are seeing more frequent references to his two brothers, who are the alleged n t. Remember Critical Moment William F. Bucklev Jr. L Evidently several producers were caught by the freeze paying supplier costs that, with- - built-i- n - I ? Raises Impeachment Question Vet Rep Paul McCloskey of California not only entered the New Hampshire primary against President Nixon he was also the first to raise the question of impeachment on the floor of the House of Representatives And Rep McCloskeys comment on Deans crucial first day of testimony was that there were "no grounds for impeachment based on John Deans statements " No weightier member of Congress mentioned impeachment, either So here again, u e ha e the question, w hat on earth is it for This time the question applies to the Senate investigation Unless the hearings are to lead to impeachment, they are merely destructive, at least so far as the President's personal role is concerned This aspect should end just as soon as the ether key witnesses can be heard |