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Show Joseph Kraft 19. 197.'! Sunday Morning. August Two-Stat- e, Bury Watergate-B- ut for What? Effort Multi-Count- y The President wants Watergate to go away so he can get on with "matters of far greater importance " Like, for instance, what? Improves Outlook at Bear Lake Encouraging words were pronounced over tlio future of Hear Lake Friday, as fedeial officials ei bally joined efforts In preserve the area's special qualities Ahead lies the exacting chore of actually fulfilling various development and environmental protection plans In a sense, extraordinary progress has already been made Since 1971, when problems result mg from land use pressures around , Bear Lake became pronounced, a coorformed to was commission dinate solutions. It was tins organization that met Friday with li.S. officials The Bear Lake Regional Commission is another in a new series of government combinations forced into existence by public difficulties that iransccnd city limits, county lines or stale borders It's part of a ferment stirring government which, in the American tradition, adapts familiar principles to meet new two-state- multi-count- requirements Bear Lake affords an ideal challenge to tins concept. Lying partially in Utah and partially in Idaho, it presents similar problems to both as the recreation development era keeps booming Not only that, but because necessary public faeilities sewage treatment. roads, campgrounds arent within local financial capacities, federal assistance is unavoidable. This provides another regional involvement. And an early predicament. Federal regionalization placed Utah and Idaho in two different groupings, w ith Idaho's coordinating office in Seattle, and Utah's in Denver. But more efforts brought an order from the White House that Bear Hiver assist ance would be handled through the Mountain Plains Fedc.al Regional Council headquartered in Denver. After hearing the Bear Lake Regional RosCommission story Friday, Robert enheim, the Mountain Plains Federal Regional Council chairman, said his office would do That is everything possible to cooperate a more than diplomatic response. quite likely significant development in improved industrial safety occurred this month in Salt Lake City. By inaugurating a school for excavators, the Associated General Contractors of Utah helped direct attention to a hazard too often overlooked Recurrently, rescue crews and emergency equipment are rushed to construction sites where workers have been trapped by a collapsing trench wall. These accidents have caused death as well as crippling injury Fortunate have been the men who are pulled alive from hundreds of pounds of crushing earth. And, as regularly, follow-ureports of these mishaps have cited the failure to observe standard precautions for rendering deep holes or trendies safe. Now, representatives of the const ruction industry are at p least attempting to do something about such lapses. During a five hour period, instructors explained current safe trenching methods to 12 men from various local construction firms and excavating businesses. Presumably the course will expand an alertness to the danger signs of commercial digd ging. Perilous cave-in- s that crush workers, ruin equipment and add grief as well as higher costs to a job site are generally thought to be Calls for five-yea- I lie Leant Cartoon THIS IS THE MARKET" This in is still a long way from ultimate success. Yet, it shows great promise liccause it has an appealing purpose and a set of defined goals. More than that, it was Ijow on Scale Editor, Tribune' The League of Conservation Voters has just published its chart for the U.S House of Representatives for calendar year 1972 This chart details the bills considered by environmentalists to bo the most important of the year and the votes on these issues by each member of tbe House Thirteen bills are list od Fight of these bills are measures, one is a strip mining, two on highways and two on occupational health and safely. Rep Gunn McKay voted in favor of environmental protection just once. Scoring from Hill threats encountered by underground mining ground level. Particularly where loose dirt and gravel is involved. Salt Lake Valley an old lake bed has more than its share of unstable soil Formerly, public emphasis on safe trenching or excavation was made mostly by state and local safely officials responsible for inspecting that sort of work. And it could be argued that if the federal government's new Occupational Safety and Health Administra- hadn't included strict roles on excavating, the old situation would have changed tion act very little The point is debatable. But not preeminent. More important is the fact that the AGU made a tangible efffort to assist its industry in meeting an essential obligation. The program will he offered every Wednesday and one Saturday during the month. That's a generous opportunity. It isnt that contractors long in digging and trenching work aren't experienced with or concerned about cave-idangers. But neither is it a had idea to revitalize a determined interest in preventing these avoidable accidents. The AGU program is a worthwhile beginning. No contractor, as a matter of or for the good of the industry as a whole, should pass it up. i orum Rules lublic Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribuhe and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every Ifl days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Ills former colleague in to (i, McKay's score is the House in 1972. Rep. Slterm Lloyd, also scored :j, giving Flab an average score of ;i This is by far tbe lowest score in the entire United Stales Tbe states closest to this are Louisiana. Mississipwith a score of 9. pi and South Carolina; each 2 Using the scores of each state's representatives and averaging them for a state score, the Western slates rated as follows: Washington, 99, California. .42, Montana, New Mexico, 50. Arizona, 42; Colorado, 41, gon, 41: Idaho. 27; Nevada. 28; Texas, Wyoming, 14. and Utah, 2. No I New. Mack Bean Jr. missed the point (Forum, July being made by John W Fitzgerald in his letters on the subject of discrimination against black people good" Mormons accept Mr, Bean says that blindly and imquestinmngly the doctrines espoused by their leaders, even when conscience arid reason say they are wrong It is mil a new concept ''Good" Puritans were those who clung to church taught superstitions and stood silently by while innoc ents were burned as witches Tribune: Editor, Joseph 29) completely , July the emphasis was moved to the Foothill Drive area, where 12 fatalities occurred during five years. Officers issued 2.5:i() off-dut- y What is needed now, after a respite of some months during which only routine traffic law enforcement occurs, is for police to again saturate the two areas. findings can be anticipated in the program. First, there will be fewer citations issued because drivers have learned to drive more carefully, at least in the areas subject to intense enforcement. Two follow-u- p Or. and this would be a distressing finding. the number of citations would remain the same or even be greater. Whatever (he findings resulting from a repeat of intensive ticket writing in the two areas, they would have to be related to an analysis of whether or not traffic accidents declined. Vi HOOD like to comment on find, as Aug. 12 a Latter-daSaint, this tendency to blame the LDS Church for problems that exist in people, not only here bul worldwide. I challenge the statement that interracially married couples are excommunicated from the church. If such a thing has happened it is for other than the marriage itself. As the hierarchy of the church is composed or priesthood holders, this would exclude blacks from these positions They are not excluded from such positions as Sunday school teachers and presidents. I would Senior ( itlzens as Kilmer remarked, may no! be as lovely as trees, but at least you don't have to spray, prune and sweep up around a sonnet. Foems, Sino-Sovi- job ;i their respective offices. Their good work have earned each of them a third term m offices. Neil her of them has been touched by scandal in their long public careers Sino-Sovi- Internal Dynamics But that is Narcissistic nonsense. The rift was born and nurtured by the interna! dynamics of the regimes in Peking and Moscow. Nothing proves it better than the postponement of the mission to Peking which Henry Kissinger had scheduled for early this monih The visit was not canceled, as some claim, because the Chinese lost interest after the end of the American bombing in Cambodia. It was canceled because the Chinese are in the midst of a a plenum of the cenmajor leadership huddle tral committee now and a people's congress in the next few weeks What counts, in other words, is not what Washington does in Cambodia but what the Chinese leaders do in Peking. One strike against these gentlemen might be their age Each of Ihem would be over til) in 1976 Tins would place them above the usual starting age for beginning presidents in 1977 Sino-Sovi- Aside from the modest age problem it would be well for Utahns to promote the candidacy of either or both of these men for the presidency T m" PR1SBREY GR Too Broad M inch'd Editor. Tribune: Much of what I know has been learned through Hie news media II is appreciated when tne information is not slanted It is aggravating when the information is face. Re: the Myra M. Foster Common Carrier article in the Aug. 12 Tribune. Unlike Mrs Foster I too was once a newcomer to this area but unlike she was not slapped m the face by seeing a white city." 1 liked it. I like white people. I like being white. On the domestic side, to be sure, there is one very serious problem. Runaway inflation could topple the present boom into a recession. But the problem there is a President so cocky that he impose his personal ideology on the fight to hold down prices. The fight will go belter if a weaker Nixon with the opposition and compromises begins to adopt some of the Democrats ideas for an incomes policy. Moreover, the economic picture is not that bad The dollar is coming back fast. The latest balance of payments figures show that devaluation has promoted American exports in a big way. it qould well be that, far from heading to recession. the American economy is on the verge of an extended something quite new in our history boom fueled by exports. 1 The Mormons were a minority in other parts of U S. in times past and received a very specialized treatment at the hands of the maturity. Thai is why they came to the Iniermountam country ami settled it. getting along pretty well with the local inhabitants, and their sole purpose was to make conditions favorable for Mormons. Ollier seels, classes and laces were secondary the I personally believe the Mormons are already too broadminded for them own good 1 refer to the availability of alcohol, tobacco, pornography. Sun- day merchants, rabble rousers educators and transient anti-Chri- Building Trust S'et against that background. Watergate is by far the most portentous event now going. It has to do with the nature of the modern presidency andjthe relations between the executive and the other branches of government. It involves build-- ' ing trust between the President and the people. It concerns honest government which is the basis of legitimacy in his country. So to talk of moving from Watergate to more important problems is to stand the world on its head. The true danger is that the problem of honest government will not receive the careful attention it deserves from a country obsessed by the myth of w oi Id leadership and nured in the illusion of presidential power. Before Mrs Foster breaks forth in print another time. I suggest she do a better job of "homework. liiterraeially married couples are not excommunicated because one of them is Negro. The fad is there are Negroes holding active membercannot ship in the church. The complaint is they hold the priesthood, hence no Negro members in tlie church hierarchy. I bleeds for such My heart minorities Whether religious, economic, or racial, they should channel their abilities toward building a hotter mouse trap and let people come to their dmw. Cl, IFF DAVIS Theodore Long 1 People Enjoy Fooling Themselves y We do claim that God has made the discnmma tion. not us For those who take issue with this statement, God did designate the tribe of Imvi to bo the priesthood holders and ministers to Israel Man or God, who discriminated' If you will allow us. we believe direction comes by revelation, not by personal whim or trends of the time The reason should be obvious why there are so Itah. they would be foolish moving into this area, there are loo few jobs Our best and greatest export is young people few blacks in J(K E. r.lVKFRD Bountiful trol thought and thus meet the ideological needs of a power elite. Most slogans and even when well intentioned, tend to serve a similar purpose. In the early days of the New Deal when the national debt first began to soar, Americans were told not to worry because "we owe the money to ourselves." It was an unsatisfactory explanation and. as was quickly pointed out, if we did indeed owe the money to ourselves we could easily pay off the debt by running the printing presses full speed. enlighten, as anyone who has read a stock pr sped us or listened to a political speech we knows Sometimes the obfu- s station is deliberate; it is due to ignorance or more incompetence, often than not. it is caused by kuk of agreement on the definition of key terms in a statement "When I use a word." Dumpty llumply catch-phrase- f?y?fli some-time- '' p told Alice in l.ooking-Glasslan- bortv years later, with the debt enormously indollars are so plentiful in Europe that Ihey are accepted only at a discount while in the I mted States it self a dollar won't buy as much as it did just a week earlier. But no one ever says. Soviet leaders call their country "the workers-paradis"Don t worry; we owe the money to ourselves." " American leaders like to talk about 1972 Isn't 1984' "the free world" amt "free enterprise " Dictators Other slogans have undergone similar deteriom Greece and the Philippines say they are doing ration The "war to end ali wars" (1917-18- ) didn't "it means jusl what choose it to mean neither more nor less " That is tude, also a verv common one. creased, e exactly what the people want Mao promoted the Great Cultural Revolution which was neither cultural nor a revolution if that means he overthrow of an existing order Further examples could be cited ad infinitum. As the March Hare informed Alice, there is a vast difference between "I mean what say" and "I say what I mean " Tse-tun- I Two for tin ProMileiiev Editor, Tribune: I have run into a certain amount of disbelief on the part of many people concerning the suggestion of Democratic John Klas that Governor Rampton should become a candidate for President It is apparently difficult for many people to believe that our local, horn" grown people are good enough to do that kind of job I applaud the Klas think the same suggestion would he suggestion equally applicable In Sin Moss Either of these men would do a good job as Ircsidnel party-chairma- Medical science debates the question of the exact moment when death occurs The law, however, i clear: It doesn't occur until all the taxes are paid The President and some of his advisers believe tna( American military action in Southeast Asia is split, which necessary to enforce the Unopei ales so much to this country's advantage. less the U.S. shows a willingness to stay the course in areas of tension, they say, the Chinese will knuckle under. orlclwide Tendency Editor, Tribune of following up on the FARE to be found. In doing so. Salt project ought Lake City police would be making a major non-fata- JENNIE the Common Carrier article of Some means contribution toward finding the best means of cutting down on the constantly rising rate of l as well as fatal traffic accidents, 26: Not Rijilil In citations during the month The work was done by police officers working in a federally funded program called Fatal Accident Reduction Enforcement (FARE). d2. Ore- Comment hardlv seems necessary. MILL1F F.HRMAN n self-intere- The best thing this couidry can do is to keep hands off. not to plunge in as Mr. Nixon would like! It is far better, in other words, to be stuck in Watergate than in Southeast Asia. The Public Forum experiment But the problem can be every tut as acute in the process of moving earth in the open, at 80UGHf the grain that pick Sold. g genera ter with local understanding and support. If that combination can be strengthened and maintained, Bear Lake will always be an asset Idaho and Utah can share with pride and, particularly, with an added feeling of rare accomplishment. THAT bombs there and sent billions in treasure. Thousands of people have been killed and a beautiful countryside destroyed. Still there is neither victory nor peace. Now the Congress has imposed upon the President a stop to all American military activity in Indochina The local parties to the conflict are kind of arrangement going to negotiate some Whatever that upshot, it cannot hurt the United States, for even if the Communists take over they will be divided among adherents of Hanoi, Peking and Moscow FROM THE RANCHER WHO RAISED THE CATTLE THAT USED TO SAT and anticipated growth, the Bear Lake commission can move to uniform, lake-widstandards for land use as well as applications for more federal funding of facilities essential to public health and convenience. Follow-U- p Logie says that if police intensely enforce traffic regulations in a specific area traffic violations will decrease. Salt Lake City police have an excellent opportunity to prove or disprove this postulate. For two months. June and July. Salt Lake City policemen have issued more than 5,000 traffic citations in two areas. During June they wrote 2,74(1 citations on Main, Slate and South Temple streets These areas were selected for intense traffic law enforcement because of the high incidence of traffic accir dents, including 14 fatalities during a period. Consider, for example, the President's favorite crisis area, Southeast Asia. The initial requirement is a comprehenWilh an analysis of present sive overview Removing Trenching Danger A These are the zwtie that used to EAT The OQW that DICK SOLD. The Nixon administration is anxious to prove that federal regionalization of federal services can work. The White House has already facilitated contact between the Bear Lake commission and a single, rather than two, federal regional office The indication is that desperately needed planning help will also be quickly forthcoming. problem-solvin- The fact is that the world and the country are enjoying a period of relative calm. the before No business anyis. American people where near as important as honest governachieving which is what Wament tergate is all about 1 Both of these men have dom an exceptional Carefully Distorted The word games in Lewis Carroll s Alice books are amusing, not frightening. George Orwell, now revered as a modern prophet for his novel "19H4," Inscribed a totalitarian stae in winch the meaning of wolds was carefully distorted m slogans h' e "War Is Peace." "Freedom Is Slaverv," "Ignorance Is Strength " Oruell labeled thi New speak. But it wasn't a gaiof It wa an official language designed bp-o- f' do anything of the kind, nor was the world made sate for democracy. The 1945 dream of one world was 'never fulfilled. The domino theory has been abandoned for Southeast Asia, The Cold War is no longer being waged fiercely and implacably. Even national security" has lost states as the unanswerable explanation of every action or decision by government Maybe the slogans were worn out by overuse. Maybe the public became less gullible. Or maybe fashions change with the times. At any rate, 1972 1981." nor is the Orwell is not prophecy an exact blm'phm for the future, mencans are idealists in th spirit and skeptics in the flesh Miraluim Lincoln once said. "You can't fool all Ihe people all (he time." Unfortunately, the people have a proclivity for (noting themselves |