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Show DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE ntii!?niii!!miii:iiitiiiiiiiiitinnmiiimiinim,,,t,n,1nti'I,,,i.,,um man says 'things are different outside 'Sire-th- is LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CITY, UTAH Let's Work Together We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE JANUARY WEDNESDAY, I have followed the cattlemens current prob-- ' ' lems with the upcoming increase in the grazing fee to not hard ; sympathize, for public lands, and it is with them. You dont believe that? Its true. We . certainly dont want to see his operating expenses increase just because he's a cattleman. The ; 1 300,000-plu- s sportsmen in this state have already when side feel their take can they shown that they , that the cause is just. The Greenbelt Amendment is, , one example of the sportsmen trying to protect the 7 -landvi.vner, since the sportsmen make up a very I large part of this states voters. They say that the Greenbelt Amendment wont do them any good? Maybe it wont, I dont know about that. But I do know that we sportsmen were ; . led to believe that it would by their Utah Agricul- tural Land Owners Association, whic sponsored this bill. Wouldnt it be nice to have 3 000 more voices speak out against this grazing fee increase? Now, maybe the cattlemen are thinking that the ' Utah sportsman wont be too eager to help because of proposed changes to the trespass laws, and fish and game regulations. They may be right. The Utah Sportsmans Association believes that its ' time to work together in the interests of both the ' landowners and the sportsmen. We believe its time the true sportsman stood up and put a stop to the property and livestock damage that the unsportsman is causing, which results in the cattle- -' 22, 1969 -- Utah Must Overhaul Juvenile Probation , When it costs $4,000 a year to send a youngster to the State Industrial School isnt it economically sound to be sure the state probation system Is strong enough to keep as many offenders out of the school as possible? . -- Yet the simple fact is that Utah is sadly neglecting its probation program, A handful of officers simply cannot cope with the demands made upon them to keep up with the flood of cases they must handle. In effect, Utah has no probation program and the officer doesnt see a child until hes in trouble again. Last year, for instance, 17 probation officers in Utahs Second District Juvenile Court system were assigned 8,271 cases. The monthly case load recommended by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency is 50 cases for each officer. It runs over 200 cases for each Utah officer. The heavy work load has resulted in almost unbelievable twists of justice. One Juvenile Court judge, for instance, angrily declared he had been put under extreme pressure to place children in the State Industrial School simply because piobation officers were so busy they had no time to help them. On the other end of the squeeze, the State Industrial School is so overcrowded judges often have no alternative but probation. District court judges have requested 15 more probation officers for the entire state for the next fiscal year and 13 more the next year. Dr. Elliott D. landau, chairman of the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Second District Juvenile Court, declares this is woefully inadequate. He says at least 37 additional officers are needed in the Second District alone if Utah is to measure up to its responsibilities. Utahs extreme case load works another hardship, also, in morale. Last year the probation department had a 100 per cent turnover in staff. Low pay and high work loads were blamed. : -- Richard Nixon: 'Secret Liberal ' - The most significant political fact to this hour is now so evident it cant be seriously disputed: WASHINGTON underprivileged Americans than any vious President. pre- g He has ordered proposals from ?2 task forces and if he adopts a good part of them the result will be, as one put it, a more effiwide-rangin- President Richard cret liberal. M. Nixon is a se- He may not welcome the description. He resists labels and sees himself as a neither pragmatist, a problem-solve- r who wants to liberal nor conservative do what needs to be done. But Mr. Nixon is already proving n if not a and this is what counts. self a liberal-in-actio- him- liberal-in-theor- y The evidence". Lyndon Johnson initiated and Congress approved the largest volume of social legislation of any President in history. And Mr. Nixon prepares to carry every major Johnson measure. During the eight Eisenhower years 45 new welfare programs were passed. During the five Johnson years some 435 welfare programs were passed and Nixon is not proposing to dismantle them. He is proposing to build on them and his goal is to make sure they achieve their purposes more effectively. He told his recruiting staff: Find me the best man to make these programs for-wa- -J cases efficiently. It has been conservatively estimated that 90 per cent of all children referred to Juvenile Court can, with reasonable time and effort, be restored to useful citizenship An adequate probational program can save many thousands of dollars, but even more important, it can save valuable human resources. work. President Nixon has stated his intention to do more for Negroes and other Nixon-watch- cient Great Society." Finally, Mr. Nixon has committed his ind Administration to a big crease in Social Security benefits by advocating that they be boosted regularly to match higher living costs. Richard Nixon is no Lyndon Johnson by another name. There are significant differences. He will want to refine much of the Great Society legislation. He will want to reduce the role of the federal government in running some programs and bloc grants to by revenue-sharinthe states. He wants to put more problem-solvin- g power where the probin the states and cities. lems are open-ende- g But the fact remains that Mr. Nixon is not going to disrupt, de mease or dismantle the vast, programs he inherited from the Great Society any more than Dwight Eisenhower did those he inherited from the New Deal. Ike accepted the reform of the New Deal as part of the fabric of modem society and cites as his proudest presidential achievement the extension of Social help-peopl- e, mens Security to cover more than 12 million more people. The President views himself as a GEOFFREY DRUMMOND Nor can the courts work load be reduced. At present, referrals to the Second District Juvenile Court come from 16 police departments in three counties, plus schools, agencies and private citizens. The court cannot refuse referrals. In addition, it must also supervise the overcrowded Salt Lake County Detention Center a facility built to house 40 children, yet with a daily population of 56 children. The reason is simply not enough time can be devoted to move the help-the-stat- modern Republican" in the Eisenhower tradition and he intends to use conservative principles to deal with the nations problems, not to employ conservative words as an excuse for neglecting them. Mr. Nixon is aware that It would not be easy for him to end many of the Great Society programs even if he wanted to. They are not just Johnson programs. They have been enacted by Congress and embody congressional commitments, as L.B.J. rightly noted in his farewell address. Many of them were passed since the big Republican gains in the 1966 congressional election. And the voters told Nixon that they want the substance of the Great Society retained. Almost as many voted for Hubert Humphrey as for Richard Nixon and the President knows his present- and future strength is at the political center. It is clear that the sharp ideological differences are being steadily muted between the two parties. Many Democrats are coming to see that some programs can be better handled by state and local governments. Many Republicans are coming to see that many tilings will have to continue to be done by Washington and that even when initiative and responsibility can be delegated, federal financing will be needed. If all this makes President Nixon a liberal, hell have to live with it Its a fact On Sorting Out A Myriad Of Ideas By SYDNEY J. HARRIS In this mobile age, a years residency in Utah before a voter can cast a ballot even for a presidential candidate is absurd. But lowering the residency requirement to 30 days to local as well as national vote on all candidates and issues too be far. going may A bill being drafted for the 38th Legislature would reduce the residency requirement from one year to only 30 days. Considerable sentiment has already been expressed in the formulating committee, however, for a somewhat higher residency requirement 30-da- . Even though I have been asked it for more than 20 years, it never fails to surprise me that people should want to know how do you come up with a different idea to write about every day?" This is almost invariably the first question strangers ask when they meet me, and I have never found an adequate reply that would not seem like a rebuke or a preening of The plain fact of the matter is that the world is teeming with ideas, and never more so than today. There are on my desk dozens of clippings and notations, all of the,.: positively screaming to be written about. The real problem is how to deal with them adequately, and how to encompass them intelligently within a few hundred words. Almost everything we have grown used to in the world requires reexamination and revaluation today. Theology is changing almost daily; psychology is lifting itself by its own bootstraps; political economy would confound both Marx and the classical economists; education is experiencing a revolution; there is not a single area or discipline of human endeavor that is not being questioned, changed, expanded, reshaped, analyzed and being extrapolated upon. No one has to think of ideas; they bombard us constantly, at such a rate and volume that the real task is to sort out the significant ones from the transient ones. Modem life is full of fads and fancies, all the weird and exotic ephemera of a rich, insecure, bored, hysterical and anxious society. To separate these passing sensations from the new concepts that are relevant for the present and prophetic fen: the future is a far harder job than to grind out a column every day on a different subject. For it is distressingly easy to become captivated by the colorful, the novel, the trivial, the vulgarly assertive, the epiphenomena of our modem malaise. defined Intelligence as mainly the art of separating and combining. He meant It consists in separating different elements that seem similar, and in combining similar elements that seem different. Anybody, for instance, can harangue indignantly about law and order ; but it is merely sound and fury unless the writer knows how these two words differ, and how they must be comwith the glue of justice. bined St. Thomas local-stat- G. Washington In The Hot six-mon- th one-ye- ar For Snob Appeal . . . For the ultimate in snob appeal, England now has an ana prestige tour of the British Isles and Europe in a swer chauffeur-drive- Rolls-Royc- n e. British salesmen are busily selling the idea to average Americans who would relish the experience. t As can be guessed, the package doesnt come cheap. The cost for a limousine and man runs from $S0 to S100 a day, depending on length of the tour and whether its for town or country use. Stops at prestigious hotels and, of course, the occasional castle cost extra. p But for sheer prestige, theres almost nothing that will beat drawing up to Buckingham Palace, for instance, in a e chauffeured limousine at least until long, black it. everybody's doing Rolls-Royc- I cant help think-in- g WASHINGTON how lucky it was for George Washington that he became our first President rather than our first secretary of the interior. As secretary of the interior he might never have made it. Imagine, if you will, the first meeting of the Senate Interior Committee of the first Congress. Mr. Washington, the President has nominated you as the nations first secretary c' the interior. Wed like to ask you for your views on certain matters concerning conservation." Yes, sir." It has been reported in the press that when you were a boy you chopped down a cherry tree. "I never lied about that. I did chop down a cherry tree with a new ax my father bought me." "Why did you chop down the cherry tree?" Afterthoughts man that . . It is a fitting retribution who lives for himself dies without ever getting to the know himself ; for it is only in the free of social commitment that we can ever realize our personalities. give-and-ta- Against all sense and reason, it's nearly impossible to refrain from shouting at a foreigner with a weak understanding of English as if it were a defect of hearing rather than of language. The irony of insecure people who have to frequent only fashionable and expensive restaurants is that they generally meet nobody there but other insecure parvenus who are suffering from the same compulsion. atticude. We believe that the Utah sportsman can improve this situation if given a chance. We believe that the rights of the landowner must be respected and upheld. But we also believe that we have rights and privileges that should be considered. We think we can help. Cant we work together? . , ; ! GLENN THOMAS Sunset, Utah -- V . Congress' Pay Hike According to the news reports, it must have been a most touching scene in Washington last Fri-- , day as Congress bade President Johnson a tearful ; goodby. The atmosphere was filled with sentiment iV as nary a one failed to speak a kind word, or even shed a tear or two. There must have been some su- - . perb acting in this great drama, but then wouldnt all of us show our gratitude toward a person who had just increased our salary $12,500 a year? t ' t I couldnt possibly complain about Congress get-ting a raise, because the government also gave my young soldier a pay increase of $720 a year. (His will be put into U.S. savings lxnds.) However, there was a stipulation attached to his raise he must spend 12 months of combat duty in Vietnam. Can anyone tell me what Congressmen were asked to do to earn their small increase? , - MRS. FERN H. HUNT Salt Lake City Dissecting Poverty . ; - m If one has the courage to set his feeling aside . and observe American poverty without tears, some ; interesting facts can be noted. The first is that; America simply does not have poverty on anytHing like the rate or level of the underdeveloped countries, and as such, poverty here is more of' a relative than an absolute. That is, it refers more to a relative variance in economic distribution than'. actual survival level existence. " The reason is that American laissez-fair- e capital-- , was which in the degree to which it ism, unique was instituted, raised the average standard of liv- -, -ing in this nation so high that even our "lower. I economic classes are as well off as the middle, ; classes in many other countries. This is not to say .. there are not those living on a bare survival level '. in the U.S., but they constitute a small percentage of the 23 million currently clased by government . 7 7 statisticians as in poverty. How did capitalism accomplish this? In reduc-ing the competence erf government to a few specified functions, chiefly as a police-macapitalism guaranteed the result of a mans effort, his property, to himself, thereby insuring that he obtained reward on the basis and to the ! . 7 degree of his ability and incentive. It is interesting to note that almost invariably, 7 every plan proposed by modern interventionists to cure poverty (real and imaginary), involves not ' the creation of new wealth, but the redistribution of existing wealth through progressive taxation and welfare. And what is the result? The progressive tax rate used to finance welfare inhibits the accumulation of capital, which inhibits the expansion of production, which inhibits the creation of new jobs and products. The net result is that while the direct recipients of welfare gain at the expense of others, the average economic level is kept from becoming what it could have, and thus everyone loses. ! Revise Voting Law The Deseret News has previously called for lowering the residency requirement, especially for voting on presidential candidates. A y residency term would, for such elections, seem reasonable. But acquainting oneself with local candidates and issues may take somewhat more than this short period. Hence, unless legislators are willing to differentiate between the resie and national offices, a dency period for voting on three- - or term might be more advisable. Currently 34 states require a residency, 15 six months and one (Mississippi) two years. County and district requirements are correspondingly shorter, actually only 10 da3s for Iowa districts. Certainly the aim of the Legislature should be to extend the voting franchise to all new citizens, allowing only for a reasonable time to form judgments on local issues. THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and . "Well, as I said to my father at the time, If you've seen one cherry tree, you've seen them all. "Thats all well and good, Mr. Washington, but as secretary of the interior youre going to be in charge of conservation. It seems to me that chopping down a cherry tree doesnt exactly inspire confidence that you would be a strong protector of our woodlands." "Id like to say, gentlemen, that I'm not for conservation just for conservation's sake. I mean, you cant expect to keep every cherry tree in this country. If you did, youd have a nation of cheiry trees. When I chopped down the cherry i ART BUCHWALD tree, I was clearing the land in hopes that somebody might use it for a turpen-tim- e factory. Youre never going to have any private industry unless you take advantage of our natural resources. "Mr. Washington, lets skip the cherry tree incident for a moment. You own quite a number of slaves. Would you be willing to sell your slaves so there would be no hint of conflict of interest?" "1 can't see how my owning slaves would be in conflict with the Interior Department." Well, it's possible that the Interior Department might want to buy slaves tor its parks program. If you owned slaves the press might say that you were holding on to them to make a profit." I could put my slaves in a trust, if you want me to, gentlemen, and let the Seat "Yes, sir. Im for shooting animal in the United States. going to get people to settle urbs until you get rid of the every wild Youre not in the subbuffaloes. Im afraid, Mr. Washington, the secretary of interior is responsible for protecting wildlife, particularly animals. Boy, this Isnt much of a Cabinet job, is it? I'm willing to do anything asked of me, but Im telling you right now, gentlemen, I'm not going to buck the gun lobby in this country. The President is going to have to get himself another boy." , . consti-tutional- ly n, . And yet day after day we hear proposals for ' more and higher welfare and more and higher taxes from more and more local, state, and federal politicians. It has been obvious for years that the 1 greatest poverty problem our governmental lead- - . 7 ers have had has not been economic, but intellectu- -- al. ' JAMES ROLPH EDWARDS P.O. Box 2493 ' Foiling Hijackers GUEST CARTOON It had to happen. At last someone locked the cockpit of a pane and foiled a hijacker. The over- whelming consensus is that this couldn't possibly, work; that it would endanger human lives. , It did work and, perhaps, saved hurr.on lives.. We have been fortunate so far, but a catastrophe js even now looking for a time and place to happen. A ' tense, half crazed fanatic is laying plans. There. will be a slight miscalculation and a giant jet with '. all its passengers will die. Fate is an old hand at ; such scripts. t Such a calamity would pay for a great many risks and plucky stewardesses, even an armed sharpshooter riding as a passenger. Contempt, for. , the U.S., which never retaliates, is something to, reckon with. The more we cooperate with . hijackers and Pueblo outrages, the greater grow the outrages and contempt. There are no hijackings in Communist countries where retaliation is automatic. Nature, which is somewhat experienced in such, matters, has an answer to the policy. She ' 7 impels even her weakest creatures to snarl at an attacker. It doesnt work perfectly, but far better than submission, which leads directly to the attack- - ' Bank of Northern Virginia run my plantation while secrete rv." "That's not goed enough, Mr. Washington. As secretary of the interior you're going to have to be against the large In plantation interes.s. "How do you feel about Indians, Mr. Washington?" "I say shoot them and be done with it." Wait a minute. Dont you realize as secretary of the interior you will be responsible for protecting Indians and their no-ris- k lands?" Are you gentlemen out of your minds? Whoever hoard of protecting Indians? If you ever hope to make more than 13 states out of this country, youre going to have to knock off the redskins, taka their lands and then protect them. Do you feel strongly about wildlife, - . ers belly. The e policy did not build this wilderness into earths leading nation, but it could wreck it. ; no-ris- k "We'll have on down in no GOMER CASEMAN. East Mill Creek time." too? ClYlttlin I Scltnn one-tim- Monitor 1 i -- 7- ; - |