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Show DESERET NEWS 'What Do You Hear CONFIDENT LIVING -- Privately ?' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Enthusiasm Does It We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As 26 A Having Been Divinely Inspired FDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, APRIL Bv NORMAN 24, 1969 Who says crime doesnt pay? Just try telling that to law enforcement officers who see the crime rate increasing up to 10 times faster than the nations population. Try telling it to professional criminals, who are fully aware that there is a conviction and punishment for only about one of every eight crimes. Thats one big reason public opinion polls reported that crime was the most emotionally charged issue in the minds of the voters during the 1968 presidential election campaign. Thats also why Americans welcome President Nixons its imaginamessage to Congress Wednesday on crime, with laws against tive promise to consider applying his and businesses into legitimate organized crime's creeping request for more federal funds for more crime fighters. If there was any great shortcoming in the Nixon crime the Mafia message, it was that it dealt almost entirely with than coming to rather crime and other professional, organized be sweepto seems that lawlessness grips with the generalized levels. all ing society at But then organized crime is deeply involved with crime in the streets. By ope estimate, 50 per cent of the street crime in some of America's major cities is committed by drug addicts to support their habit. Of course, traffic in illegal narcotics is a major enterprise of organized crime. As one expert on the subject has observed, organized crime controls a reservoir of wealth unmatched by any financial institution in the country. When the proxies of organized crime take over and corrupt his union, the worker loses. When arson is committed under the orders of organized crime, the businessman loses through higher insurance rates. When organized crime takes often over legitimate businesses, the consumer loses through higher prices as well as through unfair competition. If a menace as big and deeply entrenched as organized crime is ever to be uprooted, it will take close cooperation among lawmen. Thats where the special strike forces, which Mr. Nixon announced were being set up in 20 cities, Some made-u- crime have gone their separate ways. Take, for example, the case of Cosa Nostra soldier" Carmine Lombardozzie, who was investigated by the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Narcotics Bureau. Each agency prepared its own case without consulting or informing the others. By contrast, the "strike forces, each headed by a Justice Department attorney, are composed of agents from IRS, FBI, the narcotics bureau, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Customs Bureau, and other agencies. One final point: President Nixon is in a good position in aeeking an additional $25 million to fight crime not only because the problem is important, but also because he is making more money available by trimming fat from federal spending. Its an object lesson that should be kept in mind by communities all over America as they strive to make sure that crime really does not pay. How To Curb Vice Once a community gets soft on curbing prostitution, the word gets around, prostitutes flock from all over, and the problem gets steadily worse. Thats what is happening unintentionally in Salt Lake City even though the last session of the Utah Legislature strengthened the state law on prostitution as well as confirmed the power of cities to police prostitution. Fortunately, the word also gets around when a community really cracks down on prostitution, and prostitutes steer clear of the area. Thats what Salt Lake City police are trying to accomplish by doubling foot patrols and increasing vice squad activi-t- v on West 2nd South. But such efforts are weakened because city courts are not courts of record. A prostitute can even plead guilty in city court, then appeal to district court and get a completely newr trial and in the interim keep on doing business. By the time her case comes up in district court, she has moved elsewhere and escapes punishment Utah is one of the few states permitting such a practice. The abuse would be corrected if the Legislature would make city courts, courts of recoid. A bill to do just that was introduced in the Legislature earlier this year but got overlooked. In calling for the coming special session to make city courts courts of record, Salt Lake City Commissioner James Barker is merely asking the Legislature to follow through on its efforts to crack down on pros- titution. The reform is long overdue. v A Medical Milestone near-blin- a mind that are insoluble grumble, when conditions in the world are so confused and difficult? But the enthusiast rises above such negative thinking. To him any time is a good time to live. In support of his upbeat attitude he quotes Emerson, who wrote in 1841: Everyone is criticizing and belittling the times. Yet I think that our times, like all times, are very good times, if only we know what to do with them. With enthusiasm you have thp perspective and the initiative it takes to make any time or circumstance good hy using it to a constructive end. Enthusiasm, however, is a quality that has to be cultivated. Lose it and you must redevelop it. And how is it kept going? Affirmation and practice is the answer. Dr. Donald Curtis suggests the following positive affirmation for daily use: Is More Inflation Necessary? I move serenely forward into the adven-tur- e of life today. I am filled with inspi- ration and enthusiasm. I am guided and protected by the Infinite in everything I say and do. I project confidence and authority. I am sure of myself (with Gods in every situation. I am filled help) with the strength and energy to be what I am and to do what I have to do. Anyone who talks to himself in such manner each day will become increasingly enthusiastic and presently will find he is getting much more in life. Another means of developing is simply to begin acting enthusiastic. It is a psychological law that, by deliberately acting in a certain way, you can develop yourself into being that way. By acting optimistic you can make yourself an optimist. If you are a fearful start acting courageously, individual, keep it up, and ultimately you can make The same law yourself courageous. applies to enthusiasm. If you wish to be enthusiastic but aren't, act enthusiastic and you will in time develop enthusiasm. m Charles F. Kettering, for many years chief research scientist for Geneial Motors Corporation, inventor of the selfdevices starter and other for cars, once remarked that he had failed time and again, but always failed forward. He knew that there would necessarily be failures, but from failures know-hocould be gained. Each failure brought him nearer to ultimate success. Theres an enthusiast for you and theres creative thinking. The enthusiast fails forepoch-makin- g ward. If difficulties or disappointments have knocked enthusiasm out of you, get going on recovering it. Act enthusiastic. Affirm and practice it until you have it. When enthusiasm takes hold of you you can take hold of the world. letter: to the editor miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMUi HENRY HAZLITT Almost everybody now agrees that we have had too much inflation. But it is still difficult to find people, especially among those in charge of federal economic and monetary policies, who agree that we ought now to stop the inflation, altogether. Instead, the consenthese sus among government officials seems to be that we need only to slow down the rate of Mr. liazlitt inflation. Even those who concede that eventually the inflation ought to be halted insist that the termination must be gradual. Behind their insistence is the fear that an immediate halt in inflation would precipitate a se rious recession. How justified is this fear? We are really dealing with two theories here, which ought to be considered separately. One is the theory that inflation is necessary in order to assure prosperity and full employment. The sec- ond is that, whether or not the first theory is true, any halt in the already existing inflation must precipitate a crisis. Inflation seems to be successful in its early years, particularly if it is started in a period of depression. The increase in the supply of money increases the demand for consumer goods, and, therefore, for labor. It at first raises prices for goods faster than wage rates and other costs, and so increases profit margins and stimulates production and employment. But inflation can work this seeming magic only as long as it is unexpected or at least only as long as its rate is higher than expected. As long as any given rate of inflation, no matter how high, is generally expected to continue, compensating actions are taken by people everywhere, which cancel out its magic. Union wage demands start racing ahead of prices, so reducing or wiping out profit margins and causing layoffs. Interest rates start rising to allow for expected price increases. Thus, if prices are expected to continue rising at a rate of 5 per cent a year, say, an interest rate even of 7 per cent a year is considered a real rate of only about 2 per cent a year. Further inflation at merely the expected rate then becomes worse than futile. There remains, however, the second that any halt in an existing theory inflation may precipitate a recession and some unemployment. This is true, because a large number of prices, production schedules and speculative projects are already based on the assumption that the existing inflation will continue. But it is a delusion io suppose that such a stabilization crisis can be prevented or indefinitely postponed by still further inflation, or by a mere slowdown of the rate. Any disappointment whatever of previous inflationary expectations must precipitate some readjustment. But this readjustment, if need merely be transitory and short-liveafter which the economy can return to a noninflationary prosperity. The Hoax Of The Grape Boycott JAMES J. KILPATRICK The grapevines DELANO, CALIF. stand in trellised ranks, precisely spaced, as disciplined as troops drill. in close-ordgreen-sleeve- s Their are angled at right cross-piece- shoulder arms; they make of the flat brown earth a crowded battlef- ield. It is for possession of this battlefield that Californias table-grap- e growers and an union are struggling. The conflict long ago stretched beyond the Delano community. AFL-CI- For the past 3'2 years, liberals across ihe country not to mention a number of politicians have been g support to the grape giving boycott urged by Cesar Chavez, and to the supposed grape strike behind it Chavez is director of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIWhen it comes to recruiting union members, Chavez is a flop: his UFWOC has recruited amazingly few. But when it comes to mounting a publicity campaign, the man is an undoubted genius. He turned up recently with a bylined piece in Look extolling his piety. His "boycott bumper stickers blossom on half a million In dozens of parochial schools, such is the gullibility of ttie nuns, little children compose insulting letters to grape growers as exercises in English. Hippies, yippies, priests, professors, political figures, and housewives with time on their hands all of them are whooping non-viole- This week's complete eye transplant represents one of medical sciences greatest triumphs, since the eye is one of the most complicated organs of the human body. The eye nerve, an extension of the brain, contains almost number'ess nerve tissues estimated at about one million. To connect them all in a manner that would permit sight is virtually impossible today, so no false hopes should be engendered among the blind and But that doesn't rule out hopes for the distant future. It was 10 years ago, for example, that the cooled heart of a dog w as first transplanted into another dog in the U.S., and 1964 before a human heart transplant was attempted. Dr. Christiaan Barnards first successful heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days afterward, was a mere 18 months ago. The eye is far more complicated than any other body organs which have been successfully transplanted to date. As Dr. Homer Smith, Utah ophthalmologist and president of the Utah State Medical Association, points out: If the operation is successful and useful vision occurs, the technical scientific breakthrough would tar surpass that of a successful heart transplant A big step in that direction Hhs just been taken. p have their personal proolems and that is that. A great many blame the times we live in. How can anyone live a happy, satisfying life, so tiiey st come in. All too often the federal agencies dealing with organized VII'JENT PE ALE If you have enough enthusiasm youll find opportunity and value in any situation. You will develop drive and get a big edge on success. Enthusiasm makes life good. Unhappily, there are always plenty of people who show no e n t h usiasm whatsoever. And usually they insist that their apathy or even cynicism is only natural. War On Crime Needs Greater Teamwork anti-tru- r Volks-wagen- s. it up for the downtrodden grape pickers of Kern County, Calif. It is a hoax, a fantasy, a charade, a tissue of and whole fabrications. Within tha past 10 days, since Chavez blundered into his first big public relations error, the unions effort has become something more a brazen, ugly, and undisguised bid for closed shop power over the lives of farm workers everywhere. To swallow the Chavez line, you must believe that grape workers in the Delano area are miserably paid, wretchedly housed, and cruelly treated. You are urged to help feed hungry children," the victims of the system that denies men a livAt present rates, says an ing wage. UFWOC handout given to me last week, a farm worker who is fortunate enough to work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, would earn $2,386. This is moonshine. The reporter who checks payrolls, goes into the fields, talks with workers, visits their homes, inspects the labor camps, and otherwise covers the story, gets an entirely different picture. The going base wage for grape workers is $1.65 an hour. At 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, this would produce annual earnings of $3,432. Yet the hypothetical example has no meaning. This is not how grape workers work. if there The typical Delano worker Is any such being is a middle-age- d with little formal education and few skills bpyond those of grape and vegetable culture. He has a wife and two or three teenaged children. half-trut- Mpxican-America- a resident alien of 10 years standing, he must register annually with the ImmiAs gration Service. Otherwise, he is free to live his proud, humble, independent life as others do. Such a worker may have a dozen different employers during the year. He goes where the work is, from one vineyard to another. Thus, there is no such thing as an .rdiiicfy bargaining unit, for the workers move around freely. George A. Lucas, a middle-size- d grower, sent out 3,500 W-- forms on workers last 2 year. In summer, the work is hard and hot ; at othei times, it is Families take their lunches to the fields. Last week, I talked at length with one such family of four. With the base wage, plus incentive supplements, they expected to earn about $325 for the week. At harvest time, this doubles. They drive a 1968 station wagon. A son is in college. Out in the fields, the workers speak of the Chavez union with fear and contempt. They tell of threatening telephone calls at night, of repeated acts of vandalism and intimidation. They are fearful that beleaguered growers, anxious to end the nationwide boycott, may yet sell them like so many heads of lettuce to the UFWOC, which thereafter would control when and where they worked. picnic-pleasan- It is this press-ganpower that Cesar Chavez is seeking. He wants his union to become the sole source of agricultural workers, under contracts that would forbid the growers to hire any man. This is what the fight is all about and it is incredible that liberals, professing a love for the little fellow, should be helping him toward his goal g n by Brickman teen-ager- Tell The Czechs In Roscoe and Geoffrey Drummonds column, Thursday April 17, 1969 "Its Fact: Communism On Decline they said the Communist World is far different today than it was even a decade ago. Many difterent kinds of Communism are now emerging and they are not very alluring. The two power centers of Communism, Moscow and Peking, are more hostile to each other and more at odds with each other than either is at odds with the United States. Whether he be from Moscow or Peking, his ideology is the same and his goal is the overthrow of the U.S. Try and tell Czechoslovakia Communism is mellowing. That is what the liberals would have had you believe before the invasion of Czechoslovakia. -J- OSEPH MACK BEAN JR. Springdale Asks Grand Jury No Decision By Default," of Your editorial, April 18 should be commended and certainly be binding on the District Court judges for an entire review and probing by an impartial investigator who can bring all the facts to the surface, so that a Grand Jury session might be called, in order that justice can be done to those that deserve it and all Salt Lake. County taxpayers can know their tax monies are being well spent and not misspent by Salt Lake County officials and employes. The controversial issue being discussed by Ihe Third District Judge and several of the Salt Lake County officials has produced nothing of significance. For that reason in itself, it should be sufficient that the calling of a Grand Jury is in order. Besides the controversial issue at stake, there are other and more serioas cases and a lawsuit pending that could create havoc with the entire Salt Lake County structure. There has been too much skulduggery going on, among Sait Lake County politicians, and too much money belonging to taxpayers has been diverted to the wrong people by wrong transactions My -J-OE FISHER 164 N. 7th West answer to Congressman Burton of Utah retaliation statement on the unfortunate Korean air incident is: Any fourth-rat- e congressman can incite, excite the emotions to war. It takes a first-ratcongressman to reason EIGHTY PERCENT PPA PeT 16 war-lik- e e THAT WE VoW'T PBMoM6TATe 4-2- t'f We get so much in the news these days of high school drop-outdope users, rioters, etc., it is s who are doing refreshing to hear of with cant we get talents. their Why something more news of youths who are out doing something worthwhile in scholarships, FFA, FHA, Nursing Boy Scouts, community or school service clubs? It would give us all a brighter outlook on the future. These surely ought to be the youngsters who will someday be our leaders in the church, communiand not the ones who are ties and the nation rebelling, refusing, rioting, and disgracing .our great country. Lets give these youth that are do'g outstanding things all the encouragement, boost, and compliments we can. Theyre going to need lots of it. -- MRS. LORRAINE WRAY Moreland. Idaho regarding his UPE WK.ft their interest. Examine Pacifism TpE TOUSLE WITH PEOPLE TAX What a pleasure it was to see the publicity and coverage you gave those talented, outstanding Sterling Scholar winners from the Utah high schools! It was a thrill to read of their accomplishments, the support given to most of them from their parents, interested teachers, and friends, and to read of their determination to excel in something that stirs t. d. the smell society Boosting Teenagers 4 the mind to peace. Its time we looked into worldwide pacifism as a patriotic way of life. What other course is there? When my son was 5 years of age, he said War is stupid. How true. SAMu'IL 3. TAYLOR 3682 S. Mr Bait ; |