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Show 'Oh, Ho!' ART HOPPE DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Campus Conspiracy We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 8 A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, APRIL Many Americans entertain the growing suspicion that student unrest on our campuses is being fomented by a vast conspiracy. This has 17, 196? now been More Airports, Yes; But Better Utilization The While its time growing air traffic is giving aviation considerable headaches, some of those headaches are being generated needlessly by airline duplication. The problem of air congestion and crowded airports was brought into focus for Utahns this week by Lee Warren, deputy director of the Federal Aviation Administration, who was in Salt Lake City for a talk at the Utah Aerospace Symposium. Mr. Warren says the U.S. will need 900 more airports within 10 years to handle the anticipated volume. Additional needs, he says, include control towers at 235 more airports, 140 more terminal area radars, and 850 additional instrument landing systems. What Mr. Warren didnt say is that airlines might well use the existing system to better advantage. For instance, 17 airline flights are scheduled to depart from New Yorks Kenfar more than its runnedy Airport at the same moment ways or air traffic controllers can handle. In addition, primarily three airlines were scheduling 16.000 available seats per day between New York and Chicago in order to accommodate only 6,000 passengers. That means many of those seats are empty at a cost of more cluttered skies. Furthermore, the Air Transport Association reports airs lines increased available by 25.6 per cent during the first half of 1968, but the number of empty seats rose from 43.1 per cent to 46.9 per cent It is apparent that considerably more seats are being offered than the public demands, declares a study of air traffic congestion by Narco Scientific Industries of Ft Washington, Pa. This excess capacity is adding to the congestion in the air and on the ground. Admittedly, rescheduling of airline arrivals and departures to better utilize airport facilities is only a partial antidote. The need for more airports and better aircraft systems is bound to multiply as the size of the civil aviation fleet grows. And grow it will. Its estimated that by 1976 the airline fleets will increase from the present 2.000 planes to 3,000, and general aviation (private and business) will add 80,000 more to its present 100,000 craft. If America is to keep up with the growth in air travel, we had better streamline air operations to the limit as well as push new airport construction fast enough to handle the growing volume. Review Residency Rule As Public Safety Commissioner James L. Barker Jr. observed this week, the time is right to reevaluate an ordinance requiring city employes to live within the city limits. The current rule demands city residence of all newly hired employes after they have served a job probationary peii-oEmployes on the payroll before 1968 may live outside the radius of the city in a Bldg.; if they move, however, it must be into the city. Other employes, living as far away as Orem and Brigham City, have been granted a two-yemove deferment The original intent of the ordinance was that city taxpayers should benefit from jobs. But Commissioner Barker maintains the city actually gains nothing by the requirement City residence, he contends, affects neither our tax base nor our business. As the Deseret News has repeatedly pointed out, the ordinance has not only failed to bring any positive reinforcement to the community, but has caused economic hardship, apprehension and a general low morale among employes. Equally bad is the possibility that other cities, anxious to capitalize on local employe unrest, will attempt to recruit workers from among all city departments. Furthermore, there is a trend away from cities inflicting such rules on their employes. For example, data from a survey of 19 cities similar to Salt Lake City indicate that only three still require city residence of employes. Only three others encourage this practice, but at the same time allow outside residency. That being the case, there appears to be no valid reason for Salt Lake City retaining a requirement which, as Commissioner Barker notes can only cause annoyance. d. City-Coun- t zation (BOO). While the tentacles of SSS reach into every college campus in the land (and many elementary schools), its clandestine headquarters remain a small basement room at Twink University where it was founded several years ago. The leader of SSS is John F. (Jack) Armstrong, a bearded, frizzle-hairebusiness major, who constantly appears in the background of photographs depictd ing student riots. Surprisingly, Jack Armstrong welcomes the casual visitor to SSS headquarters not only openly, but respectfully. Yes, sir, and what can we do for you today, he will say, rubbing his hands, , riot? a a strike or a ty ar I inquired, as coolly as possible, which he would recommend. Well, it depends on what youre running for and how fat your campaign treasury is, he said. For statewide ofstrike. fice, we recommend a long-terLook at Dr. Ilayakawa. Nobody ever heard of him before we made him a household word overnight. Amazing. Of course, strikes dont come cheap. Yon cant expect ns to torn out a couple Equempoppocom Harassment White liberals and black racists have been having a great time for the past few weeks, flaying the hide off Everett Dirksen. In one view, his usefulness to the Republican party is ended; it is said that the Senator further has alienated the Nixon administration the Cfrom private industry? Some of the questions, for example, deal with possession of household utilities like a washing machine, television set, clothes dryer and home food freezer. Others seek statistics on ownership of a car, a second home, amount of rent, sources all of which seem outside (dollar by dollar) of all income the scope of a public service and more in the prcvince of private business statistics. All this probing wouldnt be so bad if it were voluntary which it isnt. Census Bureau regulations provide for a maximum $100 fine or 60 days in jail for refusal to answer. Among bills seeking to restrict the Census Bureaus snooping is one introduced by Rep. Richard L. Roudebush His bill would limit census questions to name, age, relationship with head of household, sex, date of birth, and how many visitors were in a home at the time of the census. A separate census marked voluntary would contain the other questions for persons who do not object to such detailed (R-Ind- analyses. Curiously) early censuses (after the Latin word for assessment) were conducted for purposes of taxation and conscription, and as such evoked hatred and suspicion among ancient populations. The Census Bureaus new game of 120 Questions could bring the same reaction. Negro he insured may Mr. defeat in 1972. Mr. Kilpatrick These fervid denunciations are the result of the Senators remarks at a judiciary subcommittee meeting on March 27. Gifford L. Alexander, Jr., who was then chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Equempoppocom), was on the stand. The Senator that the commission has charged, flat-oof punitive harassment engaged in he this If isnt said, halted, employers. I am going to the highest authority in and get somebody this government fired. By regrettable coincidence, President Nixon fired Mr. Alexander as chairman on the Mowing day. Since then, Mr. Alexander has become a hero, and Senator Dirksen has sprouted horns. In ousting Mr. Alexander, a Democrat, the Republican President was only doing what comes naturally. Mr. Alexander should have resigned two months ago. If he had demonstrated the minimal grace and good manners expected of officials when administrations top-lev- ' , , '. j left-win- g of pottage? Sell out? cried Jack Armstrong. I . thought you knew. SSS is composed , exclusively of former Young Americans for Freedom, former Girls for Goldwater and veterans of the William F. Buckley . Brigade. You mean these campus rioters arent Good heavens, he said, what left- winger in his right mind would go through all that just to elect candi-date- right-win- g . . s? , for We were negotiating a contract 10.95 he promised to improve my imago adby hitting me with a dead cat while I e Miss dressed Pottersbys when he had to Nursery School tots excuse himself to take a phone call. Its Spiro T. Agnew, he explained. JAMES J. KILPATRICK Bide-aAVe- that. In his charge of punitive harassment, Senator Dirksen dared to violate the first rule that governs comment in the field of civil rights. That Is to say, he committed truth. Such harassment has indeed occurred, time after time. It is standard operating procedure not only for the Equal Employment Opportuvties Commission, but for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance also. Senator Paul Fannin of Arizona recently inserted in the Congressional Record a memorandum describing one such case. This happened to involve a man named Harry Rubenstein, who applied back in November for a job at a Motorola plant in Mesa, Arizona. A company interviewer, LeRoy Maready, concluded that the applicant was a with a record of spotty and excessive job changes. The plant had only a few openings for technicians anyhow. So he turned Mr. Rubenstein down. The next thing Motorola knew, Mr. Rubenstein had filed a complaint with the Equempoppocom, charging religious discrimination. Early in March, the commission sent an examiner, John J. Sanchez, to look into the matter. Mr. Sanchez began by discovering that Mr. Maready is a Mormon. He speedily concluded that Mr. Maready was therefore a er bigot. The company had sent an attorney, Robert Nystrom, from its home office. iiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiniiiiiiim-- Mr. Sanchez didnt like him either. You are a typical Minnesota Catholic bigot, he said. Rufus Coulter, Motorolas director of human relations, was an at the hearing. According to him, Mr. Sanchez then stood up and struck a combative pose. He was ready for a fist fight. I am a tough Mexican, he told Mr. Nystrom. You are fat and soft. Hours of abusive questioning Mowed. The whole affair struck Motorolas top management as so outrageous that on March 28, a company vice president formally advised the EEOC that Motorola would not meet with, communicate with, or cooperate with Mr. Sanchez in the future. The harassment decried by Senator Dirksen is a familiar pattern in Federal contract investigations. Employers are regularly compelled to produce voluminous records on short notice, to defend, to explain, to apologize, to stultify themselves. Is there a Mexican How many blacks are on a companys board of directors? The skills and qualifications of minority emlpoyees are irrelevant; vacancies are to be filled, and promotions made, solely on grounds of race or religion. If millions of dollars in Federal contracts are delayed, so what? The Equempoppocom is embarked on a racist jihad, and will not pause for reasons. Senator Dirksen will survive the abuse he is catching. He is a tough old rooster, not easily throttled. And it may turn out that his candor will prevail in the end. When the punitive harassment stops, real gains In minority employment will move ahead. Profit Is Spur To The Economy Every year the First National City Bank of New York compiles the profits of the nations major corporations in the year. p r e ceding The results are invariably instructive. The 3,928 corpo- rations (plus com-merci- al banks) covered in 1968 reported total net income after taxes of 41.6 billion, an increase of 9 per cent over their net Mr. Hazlitt income In 1967. This result was brought about, however, by a strong rise in sales volume rather than by an improvement in profit margins. The percentage earned on net woith was 30.6. which was no greater than that of 1967. In fact, for every three firms that reported an improvement in profit margins in 1968 over the reduced 1367 level, there were more than four that did not. After-taprofits in 1968 averaged only 5.8 cents per sales dollar compared with 5.9 cents in 1967. x Inflation affects corporate profits In various ways. Because it means an increase in prices, it usually means an increase in nominal profits as well. But in additio;. it leads to an increase in costs. As a result of numerous strikes and sizable wage settlements, wage and benefit increases in 1968 were substantially in excess of any productivity gains. Major collective bargaining settlements increases resulted in average first-yea- r of 7.5 per cent compared with estimated improvement of about 33 per cent in outNet income was also put per man-houcut into by tqe 10 per cent surtax, which for corporations was made retroactive to the beginning of 1968. HENRY HAZLITT During an inflationary period the percentage earned on net worth overstates real corporate profits. This is because corporations are only allowed to deduct depreciation against original cost of plant and equipment, instead of against cost of replacement As prices go up year by year the return on net worth methods shown by orthodox accounting becomes more and more unrealistic. are always complaining Demagogs that corporation profits are excessive. They always treat them, also, as if they were a common pool shared by all the corporations. But profits are different for each industry and, of course, for each firm. Everything depends on where wre look. In 1968, for example the profits of office and computing equipment firms increased 24 per cent over 1967, but the profits of the airlines dropped 36 per cent. (The reasons for the latter: rising operating costs, lower load factors and airport congestion.) Again, manufacturers of soft drinks earned 23.2 per cent on net worth in 1968, railroads whereas the countrys class-on- e earned only 3.3 per cent on net worth much the lowest rate of any of the 65 different industries reported. Yet nearly every other industry is dependent on the railroads. How government regulators expect the railroads to continue to provide their essential services and compete with other industries for new capital is a mystery. There are similar striking differences in earnings per sales dollar. The average for all corporations in 196S was 5.3 cents, but the meat packers continued to show a return cf only 1 cent, the same as in and the food chain stores of only 1.1 cent, also the same as in 1967. Rememhouseber the government-encourage- d wives boycott" in 1967 against the food chain stores for overcharging? Profits perform a vital function in the economy. They are the necessary spur to production. And the differences between profits serve as a guide to producers concerning what branches of business to go into or to get out of. Profits are not, as the socialists would have it, at the expense of the consumer. On the contrary, in every line, under competition, the highest profits go to the producers who are most successful in reducing their costs and in supplying the consumer with the product he most pre1967, fers. GUEST CARTOON This Isn't Cheap I have read with a great deal of interest about : the efforts to make possible a plan for senior cit-izens to obtain much cheaper housing, particular- - ; ly those living on Social Security. However, I am more than puzzled to find that one particular type of home is priced within their range but the financing of this type of home makes it impossible for them to purchase one. I speak of the mobile home. I am informed that they are classed along with automobiles but I cannot imagine any senior citizen, after having obtained one of these homes and having it settled in a nice trailer park, suddenly deciding to haul it away in the night Some dealers call for 20 per cent down payment some for 25 per cent down, and in the price range of between this is not conducive to cheap home living." In Nevada there are banks that will go along with financing mobile homes on a basis, , . but Utahns get only three years and dealers, five years. Allowing for the down payment being ; made, the balance over five years, plus the pay- - I ment on the trailer court for space to park, brings the monthly payment to between $90 and $100, which, in my opinion, is way above many senior , citizens ability to pay. .. I would suggest to those people responsible for making the effort to provide cheaper housing for the oldsters, that here is a field they would do well to investigate as to the possibilities of bring- - . ing these kind of house payments down to 40 or even 50 monthly. ,1 A mobile home is also ' much easier to keep up with for an elderly woman ' than is an ordinary house. Believe me, I know. 4,000-6,00- 0 . -C- LIFFORD HARTLEY St. George quotes HUDs secretary George Romney: Management and its policies are the result of the majority votes by stockholders and minority stockholders must accept the will of the majority or sell out There is one flagrant flaw in this comparison: Stockholders in a company are not compelled to be there. They join the company and buy stock of their own volition. By choice not by compulsion. Mr. Stockseth completely ignores what 14-does in states that adopt laws, i.e., makes it a free choice of the workers to join, or not to join, a labor union. Once they do join of their own free wifi, certainly then the majority votes in the labor union should prevail and the minority would have to abide by the results just as stockholders do when they buy stock in a company. But even here the comparison is not a fair one. The stockholder can get out and buy into another company if he so wishes. The laboring man, when forced to join a labor union when he in disagrees and is the minority, cannot leave the union. He is compelled to stay and pay dues whether he agrees with the management cf the union or not Lets keep 14-Protect the rights or the to join or not to join a labor laboring man union, as he himself may freely decide. 14-- Right-to-Wor- k IRA CARLEY 922 E. 5750 So. Lauds KSL Decision How come you never bring any salt home from the mines?" Will - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . ss change, this particular unpleasantness could have been avoided. So much for . . Sees Argument Flaws 120-plu- or .. iiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiimiiiiiniiinimiimiimmimiiiiiiiiiiiiniuiiimmtiiiiiiiiimiin Curb Census Nosiness So far, 109 Congressmen have their names on some type of legislation aimed at curbing the nosiness of the Census Bus reaus 1970 list of questions. And so far, the bureau is still plunging ahead with its plans. The nature of the proposed questionnaire j a isos the query; Just who i3 the beneficiary of the census, government full-scal- e sit-in- seat-mile- 15-mi- le plotters have now been positively identified as members of the Students for a Simpler Society (SSS) and their counterparts in the Black Organizers Organi- of hundred bearded demonstrators yelling, Kgs off campus day after day for peanuts. But we can bill half the ex- penses to the Reagan forces under our General Turmoil contract Theyre very pleased with our work. With the general turmoil? Certainly. Six months ago Governor Reagan was in trouble. A record budget, record taxes and record unsolved prob-lem- s. Today, thanks to general turmoil on the campuses, hes shot up in the polls. And waitll we kidnap him he week before election day and paint him red, white and blue. Hell win in a landslide. Did he have anything cheaper? A punch in the nose would do you a world of good. Look at Mayor Alioto of San Francisco. He was slipping badly until we gave him one at Georgetown University the other night. Now hes a hero. Now, just a minute. I said angrily. How can you radical revolutionaries ideals for a mess sell out your Strut Journal A statement carried In your paper Monday may have a more effect on the health and welfare of our youth than any other item of news carried in your paper this year. I am referring to the announced decision International by Bonneville Corp., parent company of KoL Television and Radio, to eliminate ail tobacco advertising, beginning June 1 of this year. The PTA. on a national basis, has had an active campaign to accomplish this purpose. As Protection Committee Chairman for the State Congress df Parents and Teachers, I want to officially thank the broadcasting blation on its statesmanship in voluntarily making this tremendous contribution to ihe welfare cf our vouth. -J- OHN A. PENNOCll 2023 Council Way , |