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Show 'What Transfer Of What DESERET NEWS ART HOPPE Power?1 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Inefficiency In Vhfnnng We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States It was in the 43rd year of our lightning campaign to wipe the dread guerrillas out of West Vhtnnng. At last we had bombed the enemy to the As Having Been Divinely Inspired 1 2 A EDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, JANUARY Viet-Nari- 1 4, 1 969 peace table. Now all we had to do was to get our loyal royal allies there. Governor, Legislature Off To A Good Start With both houses of the 1969 Legislature controlled by Republicans, Gov. Calvin L. Ramptons appeal for bipartisanship represents not just pious platitudinizing but a pragmatic necessity if Utah is to avoid governmental friction and possible deadlock during the next two months. As a set of priorities with which the lawmakers should come to grips, his State of the State message touched most of the important bases including economic development, better law enforcement, streamlining of state and local government, better schools, highways, air pollution control, and election law reform. Its no accident that when it came to outlining specifics, the first item on the list was a continued high level of support for industrial and tourist promotion and development. Thats where considerable emphasis belongs, since more jobs and more income are essential if Utah is to meet the demands of a growing population. As the Legislature comes to grips with the need to invest in industrial development while maintaining a competitive tax climate, it would also do well to look into the possibility of helping to coordinate Utahs various business promotion efforts. There have been complaints that when an executive considers locating a plant in Utah, there is no single place he can go to get all the information he needs. This puts Utah at a competitive disadvantage with many other states and ought to be corrected. Speaking of better coordination, the big emphasis that Gov. Rampton gave to a variety of methods for streamlining state and local government is encouraging. Among these were consolidation of manpower training programs; elimination of of unnecessary governing boards within the departments ReNatural and Services, and Health Welfare, Development sources; reauthorization of metropolitan area government; and a study of a proposed administrative court consolidating functions of the state. various ,In announcing that he will recommend an appropriation for higher education substantially more than double the expenditure made only six years ago, the governor observed; It is obvious that we must make certain that each dollar spent for higher education yields the maximum result in educational opportunities for our young people. We must eliminate overlapping and unnecessary duplication of programs, both within and among the institutions. We must eliminate programs and institute new programs to meet the demands of the future. That should go not only for education at all levels, but also for other state agencies and programs. If government is as possible, efficiency and to become as business-lik- e studies should be continuous in Utah. As the Legislature settles down to 60 days cf lawmaking, its encouraging to note that a recent study by Midwest Research Institute ranks Utah 17th in the nation in the quality of life its citizens enjoy. The rankings are based on the states economic growth, education, the freedoms they enjoy, general living conditions, and the like. While theres no room for complacency and theres plenty of room for improvement, its clear that Utah is based on a solid foundation. The challenge of the 38th Legislature is build on it quqasi-judici- cost-bene- fit No Pay Grab, Please If anyone wonders why Congress is moving so fast on the proposal to double the Presidents salary, there are a number of interesting reasons but altruism isnt necessarily one of them. By law, the salary of a president cannot be increased during his term of office. So if Richard Nixon is to get the proposed increase from $100,000 to $200,000 a vear. it must be approved before Lyndon Johnson leaves office January 20. But the political facts of life are that Congress also has f ound it easier to raise its own salaries if it also raises the salaries of other federal officials and diverts attention to the other raises. Is anyone surprised, then, that theres a move afoot to raise congressional salaries from the present $30,000 to $50,000 a year? While congressmen got a substantial pay raise only four years ago, there have been only three presidential pay raises since 1789, the most recent in 1949. . Since the $25,000 a year that George Washington received wa3 not subject to a feudal income lax, lus pay probably was worth more in terms of real money than the $200,000 proposed for Richard Nixon. The 1789 dollar, according to one statistician, was worth about four times the value of the present dollar. No matter how long the President has gone without a pay raise, its no excuse for another congressional salary grab. The two matters should stand or fall on their own individual merit. Foil That Burglar There's an understandable tendency on the part of most Americans to brush off the many weekly and monthly national observances that are declared each year. But with National Burglar and Fire Alarm Protection Month, which starts Wednesday, it ought to be different. The purpose of the observance is to inform people and businesses and to promote protection and security of their property. When it comes to burglary, Americans certainly need both more information and more protection. Of the seven types of crime the FBI classified as major, burglary is by far the most common. Burglary makes up 42 per cent of all crime. In Salt Lake City, the FBI reports there were 2,437 burglaries in the first nine months of 1968 compared to 1,953 for the comparable period last year. Homeowners can minimize the risk of burglary by taking a few simple precautions: Install proper locks on all outside doors and use them. Call the police if there are any suspicious solicitors or loiterers in the neighborhood. Keep the house, garage, porches and passageways well lighted. Remember, a careless homeowner can be a burglars most helpful accomplice. i No I . Proposal 545," our ambassador said wearily to the famous Premier of West Vhtnnng, General Hoo Dat Don Dar. It calls d for a peace table with a hole hi the middle, two ears, 16 legs and a stripe of lox down the center. I cant abide bagels, said General Hoo, buffing his nails. What have you got in pizza shapes today? Now look here, said our ambtssa-do- r angrily. Were beginning to suspect you dont want peace. Not want peace? asked General Hoo innocently. But why should we brave fighting generals of West Vhtnnng wtsh to continue this dreadful war? Some year one of us might get hurt." Because you know dang well that under ary peace treaty youll be booted out of office, lose all the graft youve been making and go broke, said our ambassador irritably. Why, our laiest report shows that only 25 per cent of the funds we send your refugees actually reaches them. What a terrible example of waste, corruption and inefficiency. Terrible, agreed General Hoo, visiIll start an investigation bly shocked. immediately. So he called in his Minister of Corruption Control, General Ghet Muyen Theiu, bagle-shape- Fourth tf Serin THE DRUMMONDS BY ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND Does Richard Nixon WASHINGTON have a political future? This question is not so astonishing. Nixon sometimes asks it of himself and so do his close associates. They say candidly that theirs may be a administration because, if Nixon takes the hard decisions to meet one-ter- the hard problems, the voters may not like it. Hence, out after four years. But Nixon doesnt really accept this as the final answer. He sees the prospect of such dynamic change in the Republican Party that his presidency could build a new voter coalition as durable as the New Deal-Fa- ir Deal coalition which elected Democratic Presidents for all but 8 of the last 36 years. Nixon is aware that the American electorate, although it came to rest on Nov. 5 in an almost even division between himself and Hubert Humphrey, is in a state of flux, that neither party has anything like a firm grip on a majority and that a wholly new and perhaps very solid voter coalition can be won or lost by either in the next two years. The election itself convinces Nixon that the basis for an expanding and majority Republican Party has, at least in part, been laid. He sees this in the fact that, while Humphreys support nearly equaled his own, the total vote for a change was 57 per cent (Nixon, 43.6 per cent; Wallace, 13.4 per cent). The judgment of the pollsters is that, if this had y been a election, Nixon would have won by a margin of at least 10 per cent. All through the year a substantial majority for new leadership was evident. The crucial questions: how can Nixon transform a majority vote for change into majority support for Nixon and how can he create a new voter coalition two-wa- B. Drummond G. Drummond which could keep the Republicans in power for some years to come? Thats the task he is setting for himself. He can do it only: If he can bring the country together again by restoring a climate of mutual trust. If the American people want tough answers to tough problems and will reward a president who tells it like it is. If he can persuade Negroes that racial justice cant be achieved in one bound and if he can persuade whites that the pace o! progress must be maintained or speeded up for the benefit of everybody. If he can promote continuing social change while containing social violence. These things top Nixons agenda and if he can make it visible that he is begiu-nin- g to achieve them in substantial part, then he will certainly have a political future and may well be able to forge a new voter coalition of durable strength to supa new port the kind of government entermeshing of he aims to bring into prise being. He knows that his future rests with the political center. This is where the federal-state-priva- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR voters overwhelmingly clustered on Nov. 5 and it is within this broad territory not at the political extremes, right or left where Nixon will seek to build support for himself and for the GOP if this years election isnt to be a brief Republican Interlude. It seems likely to us that old party lines are going to fade in the next few years and a new voter coalition will come into being. This is because there are two live revolutions in the United States which also cut across party lines. There is the black revolution which isnt going to recede until racial justice and equality of opportunity become reality. And there is the revolution of economic affluence whose beneficiaries seem quite sympathetic to the politics of change. Educated young people earning $10,000 a year or more are greatly increasing in number, particularly since 55 per cent of all high school graduates are now going on to college. Pollster Louis Harris points out that for the first time they have become a major voting group and this year accounted for 28 per cent of the electorate. In 1972 it will be 35 per jeent and in 1976 over 40 per cent of all voters. These dominantly white people are not disaffected from society; they are a part of the economic Establishment, but the evidence is that they are sympathetic to the black civil rights - economic rights revolution, favor open housing and are tolerant of unconventional youth. This means that a new voting coalition may be made up of the expanding black voting community at the bottom of the economic scale and the expanding white affluents near the top. They made up roughly 45 per cent of the .vote last November. If Nixon earns the support of a fair number of these voters, added to his own, he will have the ingredients of a long-tervoter coalition. aiuiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiinmHiiiniiiiiiitiiiitimiiiiiiiitiimuiuuiinuuiiiRniiniiihJ Value Of Human Soul The recent trip around the moon seems to have stimulated an active interest in world cooperation, possibly through the United Nations. However, some of the social tactics being used as near as Cuba tend to cause one to wonder upon whose terms world cooperation is being contemplated. If the people of America decide that scientific cooperation with the rest of the world is worth more than freedom to the human soul, then sooner or later there Is not apt to be anywhere on earth left for thooe searching for the priviledge of failing or succeeding according to choice rather than governmental design. There are ways of establishing a form of order that many call peace. However, lasting peace depends upon the principles and personalities that are to reign as the governing force in the world. An example cf priorities in making decisions of forming plans for the future can be a guide to determination of what the end result is apt to be. There are those coming from highly industrial communities to Utah to live while we seem' Intent upon creating the very conditions these folks left behind. Money and industry will not solve any real problems unless a just and fair system of government Is maintained or established first. Supposing that a sick society can buy itself well is like an al- -' coholic thinking he can drink himself sober. ' --MERRILL 264 No. When the then U.S. Sen. Harry S Truman, some years back, was chided by a colleague for having voted for a measure which supported the Zionist side of cne of the early Israel-Araconfrontations, I have very few Arab he responded: b constituents. For similar reasons it will be difficult for Washington to take an objective view of the current situation in the Middle East. Already a delegation of American Jewish leaders has urged Secretary of State Dean Rusk to protest the U.S. condemnation of Israel for its reprisal raid in Beirut. The Jewish group railed ti.e U.S. move overreaction." Perhaps a more objective appraisal would indicate that it was the Israelis who overreacted. The Lebanese ambassador to the United States, M. Nagati KabbanI, has said that the recent Athens attack against an Israeli airliner was the work of Palestinian commandos who have no branch in Lebanon . . . there are neither headquarters, branches, nor training camps for Palestinian commandoes on Lebanese soil. Trying to assess the blame for the current flareup Is an idle exercise. The hard fact is that there is no easy solution in sight fer the Middle East problem since it stems principally from the continuing crisis within the Arab world itself. Although temporarily eclipsed by the Arab conflict wi'h Israel, these continuing internal problems have produced a prevailing bitterness among the Arab nations and a growing frustration which bodes no good for the governments now iu power. Arab nationalism has proved Incapable of working miracles. Arab unity f is as unattainable as ever. Arab economic progress over-al- l is less than spectacular. . Radio Cairo has for years dinned into the ears of the Arab masses that all their troubles stem from the state of Israel. Thus, it is not surprising that pressure Is mounting on the present Arab governments for decisive military action against Israel. Arab pressure also is increasing on Russia for additional military assistance. Hence, unless the present explosive situation is defused by objective efforts which are devoid of emotional influences, it quickly could produce a confrontation between the United States and Israel on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and the Arabs on the oilier. Such a development would do nobody any good, particularly the Arabs. But, until they can be made to see that even a victory over Israel would not solve their basic problems, the pressures for resumwar against Israel will coning all-o- Wtiat Nixon will be like es Tomorrow: Port V president. How he molds himself after one of hie heroes, Wlnslon Churchill. pre-196- 7 n Our elected representatives often tell us the people of the U.S. have no respect for them. Maybe they are right, for respect is something you have to earn, not by making laws for the people and living by another rule themselves. We read of corruption in all levels of government. Senators can steal, cheat and lie to their people and have no fear of being punished. They dont even have any fear of losing their job. Are we supposed to feel this is right? Utah Needs Industry GUEST CARTOON I have never written a letter like this in my life. But after reading suggestions for a better Utah I cant resist. My family and I moved from California to Beaver, Utah, a year and a half ago, mainly because California was becoming too crowded. Into the Middle East and her evolving into a Middle East power have come about not by the usual Communist tactics of subversion, infiltration, guerrilla warfare and military takeover of the governments but by direct invitations from Egypt, Syria, Algeria and thp Yemen. Each of these countries offered Moscow whatever facilities it wanted to buttress its new position as a Middle East power. enmity contributed to this development, but it was not the controlling factor. The general Western withdrawal from the area combined with Arab impotence created a political vacuum into which Russia moved. The only present bar to complete Soviet dominance is the U.S. Sixth fleet. It semes unlikely that the Kremlin Arab-Israe- 9 Industry does not pay taxes. People pay taxes. -- RAY R. PALMER Riverton noteworthy that Russia's entry Is No, Our County Commission, for the past several years, instead of working for the people of the county, have constantly fought among themselves. The only consistant practice is to raise taxes every two years. It looks like now they will be able to raise them every year now. A wage earner pays 50 per cent of all his wages in taxes. About 25 per cent goes before he gets his check, he pays another 25 per cent in hidden taxes on everything he buys. Why dont we, in Utah, 'just deed our homes and land to the state, quit our jobs, join a group of protestors? When are our leaders going to wake up to the fact that the common people pay the taxes, fight the wars, and produce all the things in life that we enjoy? wants to see a resumption of the 1957 war at this juncture. Despite traditional Bolshevik hatred of Zionism, the Soviets do not appear to desire destruction of Israel. They do hope to force Israel to give up its occupied territories, withdraw to its boundaries and accept increasing political isolation. The Soviet leaders probably know that the Arabs (despite massive Soviet help) are not yet militarily equal to Israel An attack on Israel now world result in another Arab military catastrophe a la 1967, unless the Soviets were to come promptly to their assistance. The men in the Kremlin would then face the choice between accepting the humiliation of another Arab rout or risking an almost certain head-odash with the United States. tinue. It H. GLENN State Apt. TaxesAnd More No Easy Middle East Solutions By RUTHVEN E. L1RBY Copley News Service ... aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiunmiiiiiiiiiiiintm What Nixon Will Do As President al non-producti- ve old-tim- Well, heres Design and lead him the riot act Twenty-fiv- e per cent! he cried. Its a national disgrace. I know, said General Ghet, wringhands. The whole government's his ing riddled with inefficiency and waste. It's e the rapid turnover. I fear our experienced officials have passed on to where all such men must go some day. Im sorry to hear that, said our ambassador sympathetically. Well, hey like It on the French But it Riviera, said General Ghet. leaves us in a mess with these untrained young bureaucrats. Train them faster," snapped General Hoo, They must realize that our entire national economy depends on their cut-- ! ting wasit and inefficiency. Twenty-fiv- e per cent, indeed! They must do better. Would you setd? for 20? asked General Ghet hopefully. If any more than 13 per rent gets through, were in trouble, said General Hoo. Do you realize peace might break out ar.y decade now? That does it! thundered our ambassador. It may hat e taken us four ycars to bomb the enemy to the peace-- tabie, but ycur loyal rcyal palace is a handier larger. I'll give you four minutes to pick out a peace table." oi. have appealed to ir,y fine.-- 1 instincts, said Gene's! Hoo, paling, WeT. take the cucumber - shaped table with a marshmallow topping." I you were a true patriot at heart, raid our ambassador, shaking his lrnd. ' Let .7.? say how much 1 admire your willingness to sacrifice power, weal h and personal ambition by agreeing to take this giant stride toward peace in Vhtnnr.g. "Thank you, said General Hoo, his composure. Now about the color of the chairs. We bought our present home and my husband and son are in business together. , . Utah needs more industry. Cant it be spread around to smaller towns to keep the young children growing up in Utah? Cant there be something done with wages? Surely ones time should be worth more than a dollar an hour, no matter what the job. Wouldnt It lie nice if Utah accepted new families and ideas with an open mind? li Utah has many things to be proud of. It should be advertised. Don't worry about Utah being overrun with people. You can't afford to live too long being underpaid and overcharged. --MRS. J. H. 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