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Show 4$. 1 ' Quit DESERET NEWS I uintimiiiiiuiiiitiiititmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiinitimiiiitiiiHiiiinpnmmiimiimftB Comphining-I'- Just Trying m To Put Out The Fire V LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH tllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllinillillllllll!!lllll!lllllllll!llllli:illlllllllllllltHlllllllllilll We Srand For The Constitution Of The United States An Economic Boost? As Having Been Divinely Inspired 22 A EDITORIAL PAGE FRIDAY, I read with interest the account in the Deseret News of the meeting held sometime ago by Sen. Wallace F. Bennett and Laurence J. Burton in Moab, relative to the expansion of Arches and Capitol Reef National Monuments. MAY 16, 196? Fortas Shows Need For Full Disclosure With his resignation Thursday Justice Abe Fortas did what was best for himself, for the U.S Supreme Court, and for the country. It should spare himself further embarrassment, the court further damage, and the rest of the nation fuither impairment of its confidence in the countrys highest legal tribunal. It should strengthen the drive to require Supreme Court justices and other members of the federal judiciary to make public their sources of income outside their regular salaries. It also gives President Nixon his first opportunity to start remolding a court that too often has substituted its members personal prejudices for the supi r. e law of the land. During the election campaign, Mr. Nixon promised to appoint only strict constructionists" of the Constitution to the Supreme Court. This means, one hopes, a court that will help unshackle the police in the realization that while the rights of the accused must be upheld, the victim of a crime has rights, too. Justice Fortas resignation came 11 days after Life Magazine disclosed he had accepted a $20,000 fee from the family foundation of Louis Wolfson, who was later imprisoned for stock manipulation. As incomplete as was Fortas initial explanation that he returned the fee when he found he could not do research and writing for the foundation, his judgment looks even worse in light of the fuller explanation that accompanied his resignae tion. It seems the $20,000 fee was not to have been a payment but a yearly stipend for life. His failure to make the nature of the arrangement with Wolfson completely clear from the outset only darkens the shadow that had already been cast over the justices reputation. Nor does his belated discovery that he lacked time to undertake the outside assignment speak well for his powers of discernment. Being a Supreme Court justice should be a fulltime job. The work load on the high court is so heavy that the legal profession is constantly exploring ways to lighten it. Even if the work load werent so great, Mr. Fortas has been around the nations capital Jong enough to know that such arrangements inevitably invite suspicion, and that such suspicions impair a public servants usefulness. The tragedy of this episode is that Abe Fortas didnt need the money he received from the Wolfson Foundation. Not only arc Supreme Court justices handsomely paid at $60,00(1 a Evidently Foryear, but Fortas himself is a tas really believed he was doing the right thing. In the absence of any evidence that the law' was violated In this case, no useful purpose would be sewed by further investigations, as some congressmen have demanded. That would amount to kicking a man while hes down. But. for the record, one. final point should be made before the Fortas affair is dropped : Of all those who fought for Fortas nomination as chief justice a few months ago. only one has had the grace to admit he was wrong and to commend those who opposed the nomination. Would anyone else care to cat a little crow? one-tim- 4 t multi-millionair- e. of 26 million new housing - Dr. strong man , of San the Francisco State College long the most is using harried campus in the nation the kind of backbone other university administrators need. The man belies his the image of one who uses image force and likes it. Thats not the Hayaka-w- a of reality; thats the Hayakawa of the headlines. , His guide to meet student violence or other violence is a quotation from British The pacifist Bertrand Russell: for the use of force is to reduce the total amount of force in the world. soft-spok- S. I. Hayaka-wa- Hayakawas backbone is lirmness against violence and responsiveness to needed change without violence. That is the kind of backbone President Nixon is pleading for and that is the kind of backbone Hayakawa is two-edge- d showing. Its working. 1 Be thoroughly ready. Think through in advance what as an administrator you will be willing to do and believe you must do if violence arises. Dr. Hayakawa was himself ready when he was catapulted into the president's chair. From the very beginning of the violent protest which had turned the nearby Berkeley campus of tv: University of California into a battleground, he began to ponder what he would do if he were in charge. He did make up his mind, though he never expected to be called on to do it. THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND SAN FRANCISCO Backbone Two-Edge- d Its getting results. San Francisco State is no paradise, but it is relatively peaceful despite underlying tensions. There is little overt violence, and students and faculty know Dr. Hayakawa will not tolerate it This is not yet a happy nor a comfortable campus. But it is a college which is beginning to repair the terrible turmoil which nearly took its life. Tolerance and mutual trust are slowly beginning to emerge. The distance this college has come since Dr. Hayakawa took over as acting president six months ago is tremendous, lie inherited the most turmoil-ridden It. Drummond area. --L. campus in the United States. There have been faculty strikes, student strikes, violent confrontations with police, temporary cessations of classes all of which brought the college close to total suffocation. There is little doubt it would have gone under were it not for the double-edgebackbone of Dr. Samuel Iehiye d semanticist, Hayakawa, author and student of human behavior, who was proved to be the right man in the right place at the right time. How did he do it? Thats what we need to see because his answers at San Francisco State are applicable elsewhere if other university administrators and teachers are willing to look and learn. Dr. Hayakawa does not readily put torules. gether an instant kit of 3ut how he did it and how he is doing it emerged from our conversation with him: world-renowne- d units in 10 years is to be met, as called for in the recently passed Housing and Urban Development Act. radical changes must come within the building industry. Unions, workers, contractors, city planners, zoning officials and others must come to a meeting of the minds to further experimentation with new materials, revision of land-usand rules, techniques. As HUD Secretary George Romney asserted recently in urging lumber and homebuilding industries to meet the housing challenge, "There is no other undeveloped market in America that approaches the magnitude of the housing market. Housing, he maintained, could provide the greatest stimulus" of any industry in assuring economic growth spending is cut back. But current wasteful and inefficient methods of the building industry not only threaten the missing of the housing goal by 10 million units, but also assure unnecessarily expensive housing. If automobiles were built the wav houses are, Americans w ould still be on horseback. Likewise, if housing is to get out of the era. it should adopt more of the assembly-line techniques of the automotive industry. e mass-producti- after-militar- ing us to become, and quickly, more rational, more flexible, and more human. For tliei-- is little youth can do about the world until we change. The same is largely true of the which, as every "Negro" problem persons knows, is a "white' problem. All it takes to solve it is a turn in the attitude of most white people. If that could happen, 90 per cent of racial conflict would disappear overnight. The "poverty" problem falls in the same category. It is not a problem of the poor, for most of them did not w illingly put themselves there and cannot do open-minde- much about their plight. It is a problem of the more affluent finding room in our society for the less fortunate who are virtually powerless to help themselves. Then we have the universal "war" problem, which is really a "peace problem. As Hannah Arendt said recently, large-scalwar has now become inconceivable, because it can no longer reflect political change. But nations have not found because they have not looked for any genuine substitute- for force in international affairs, and so the concept (and the threat) of war persists in the world, hanging over us like a cloud that can delvicuge the entire globe, rendering tors and "victims equally devastated. We call diseases by their symptoms. Youth rebellion is a symptom of adult apathy. Black militancy is a symptom of while bigotry. Poverty is a symptom of e I admit it is safer to have an accident with a crash helmet on than without. However, on these same grounds, it is safer for all car passengers to be forced to wear seat belts, for all cars to be equipped with a rollbar, for nil persons to pass a first-aitest when applying for a license, and for all cars to be equipped with a fire extinguisher. It is also safer to ride a motorcycle on our streets than it is to go to Vietnam. I dont see any laws passed in which the Legislature enacted anything to eliminate these hazards. Legally I cannot see how this law passed. There is no constitution in America that gives the state the right to dictate what a person shall or shall not; wear. Further, the motorcycle is a motor vehicle. It is governed by the same road laws, licenses and taxes as a car or truck, if a motorcyclist must wear a crash helmet in anticipation of an accident, why is a convertible, which can go far faster, excluded? escalating nonnegotirble demands and the force to compel them will mount. 3 Dont delay the use of force to put down violence adequate force when that is the only means which can d do it. 4 Listen to the students. Provide clearly available means so that their views can be better heard and better heeded by faculty and administration. 5 Have the backbone to remake the college curriculum and restructure the faculty to make education more meaningful to todays social needs. On this the students are often right except those who want violence without change rather than change without violence. That's what Dr. Hayakawa wants needed change without violence and lie's beginning to get it. KEN DILLON Midvale - Others can, too. ' Nothing y maldistribution of income and opportunities. War is a symptom of power-drive- n anarchy among nations. And many people merely want to suppress the symptoms, falsely imagining that thereby they are getting rid of the disease, when they are only making it worse. Confucius said that the good state must begin with the right use of words because if we call things by the wrong word, then we are blinded by our verbal delusions and cannot take realistic steps to correct the evils in society. Justice must end in deeds, but it must start with the proper use of words. And even the word problem is not thf right one to describe the troubles in each of these areas they are "deficiencies, like the deficiency diseases, and must be nourished by our loving concern, or any systematic solution is bound to Costly Mosquito War saint from Wasteful and ineffective government projects, such as a mosquito killing program which was ended this week by the Nixon Administration, should make taxpayers hopping mad. In cancelling the project which, since 1(164, has cost taxpayers $53 million, government officials reported the Aedes Aegynti. a mosquito and program w as not only not all that dangcious but probably couldnt be eradicated ainway. Since not one case of yellow fcor has beer, reKrtcd in Ihe U.S. for 10 years, taxpayers have a nght to ask why the lostly war on the Aedes Aegypti was stalled m the first place. yellow-fever-carryin- g tai-gc- t. Study The Studies Did you know that jming people arc happier than old people? Or that healthy people are happier than sick people? Or that people with money arc happier than people without t money? Evidently the U.S. Public Health Service didn't, since it recently spent $372,600 to find out. A team of sociologists from the University of Missouri spent $122,600 of that amount studying 1,716 persons 6.') years or oldc r in 63 Missouri communities. Another $250,000 was spent on a similar study in Puerto Rieo. Now how about investigating the investigators who squander millions investigating the obvious? A of its travelers, official calendar. About 40 saints were sent into oblivion, bit' to decision the demote St. Christopher couldn't have come at a worse time. With all forms ot travel escalating to a point unheard ot in tire past, with air buses corning olf the production lines, with rail travel coming back into its own, and automobile sales going up and up, ii seems to me that not only should the Vatican have kept SI. Christopher, but it should have assigned ANOTHER saint to help him. am not a superstitious poison, but 1 always carry a small St. Christopher medal in my wallet, blessed by a priest who once told me, "Unfortunately, there are oilier planes flying in the friendly To me this St. Christoskies ot United. pher's medal not only protected mo when 1 was aloft, but I used it when I prayed that my plane would be cm time, that my luggage would not ! lost am that dip pate I was assigned to tor my plane would not be Ihe last one in the ahport. ( As the airports gol moie crowded, the re tie delays hecame more intense and foulups in ticketing beeame standard t opera Ung procedure, my only comfort v ART BUCHWALD was St. Christopher was watching over me. I discovered I wasnt the sole person w ho depended on him. .Mv friend Wentworth said that with die supertrains now running between New York and Washington on roadbeds built 50 years ago, he suspected the only one holding die trains on the track was St. Christopher. Millions of people have depended on St. Christopher to protect them on freeways, highways and city streets. Proof of St. Christopher's power is that long fcefoie Ralph Nader discovered that automobiles were unsafe at any speed, the only safety factor in most cars was a St. Christopher medal. As a matter of fact, most automobile manufacturers maintained St. Christopher's powers were strong enough to solve any mechanical problem in their product and, therefore, hesitated at the beginning to recall any of their cars. But Nader, with St. Christophers urging, persisted, and m trie end safety laws were passed that took some of the burden off the saint's shoulders. I am not concerned with the million of dollars which have been ImestPil in St. Christopher medals, statues and jew dry and don't believe money should hr a factor in asking the Vatican to reasjess its derision 9 , 1 . . , . DAVID WHITE . Douglas, Ariz. No Title Li a disclosure of what has actually been hap- - . pening in Cuba under the Castro regime, excerpts from the January edition of Latin America Report, which is published by U.S. Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba, Inc., of Washington, D.C., ' and Miami, Florida, stated, Since Fidel Castro came to power on Jan. 1, 1959, Cuba has suffered one uf the most wrenching changes ever to con- vulse a nation in the Western Hemisphere. "Terror in the form of neighborhood vigilance ' committees stalks the land. The Human Rights Commission of American States places the num-- . her of political prisoners at between 30,000 and 60,000 located in medieval fortresses and outdoor . . concentration camps. Shortages are everywhere. Clothing is hard to buy (a pair of used shoes brings $70 on the black market). There is little food. A dc- dine in the output of all types of food crops has resulted from the nationalization of farm properties. ' ' Hospitals are lacking in elementary medicines, equipment, and trained personnel. On Jan. 9, Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Vlad- Irnir Novikov presented Cuba with a nuclear rear- tor. By their actions, the Russians have placed , collision with the Treaty themselves on a head-oof the of Latin America. Among , the nations of Latin America, only Cuba now qualifies as a nuclear power, and must somehow be dealt with by the Organization of American States. , -- ALICE HANCUETT Syracuse, N.Y. faiL They Can't Do This To St. Chris WASHINGTON Though a I was as shaken as most people when the Vatican announced it was dropping Si. Christopher, tiie patron Is Free Listening to KSL recently I was surprised to hear a local OEO officer state that we are stealing from ourselves by not adopting the Model Cities Program. How ridiculous! He also stated that since many other large cities are now under the "program, why not us? Two wrongs don't make a light. Because other litie with little or no conscience are sponging from Uncle Sam is no excuse for Salt Lake City to lower its own standards. Salt Lake is not stealing trom itself; the other cities on the program are. Nothing is free; slum clearance or welfare, the bill is paid whether it is stolen from the taxpayer or not. I am concerned because I, as an Arizonan, dont want to pay for Salt Lake's blunders. 10-yc- horse-and-bugg- ' , This letter is being written as a protest of the new mandatory law requiring motorcycle crash helmets in streets posted over 35 mph. Also, I wonder how the law justifies it. Using The Wrong 'Problem' Terms It tan hardly be a verbal accident that most of our major problems are called by exactly their opposite names. We have the youth problem which is not a problem of youth at all. but a problem of older age: they are ask- ROBERT ANDERSON Monticello Helmet? Why A 2 Dont let a little violence succeed when it is first tried. That is when action can stop it in its tracks. That is the warning of worse to come. If a little violence is rewarded, then the process of G. Drummond s Hie actions of the Park Service since that time indicate that this was an empty promise and that it has little, if any, concern for the economic welfare of Southeastern Utah. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Hoy Not To Build if the national goal Hayakawa's Residents of San Juan County were not at all surprised to hear Bates Wilson, Superintendent of Canyonlands National Park, say that he had been secretly working on this expansion for over two years. We were also inclined to take with a large grain of salt his prediction that Canyonlands Park will become the greatest tourist center in Utah." Mr. Wilson ought to give the public the answer . to these questions; How will the expansion of these national rnon-umenis bring additional tourists dollars into Utah, particularly in view of the fact that the present monuments are not developed or accessible so as to make them the tourist attractions that they could be? What plans does the National Park Service have for the development of these national monuments, as expanded, which will make them easily accessible to the ordinary tourist in his passenger car? We recall very well that some years ago Mr. Wilson and the Park Service sold many of the residents of San Juan County on the desirability of establishing Canyonlands National Park on the grounds that it would become a great tourist attraction which would bring much revenue into'-thi- even hiking, airline, rail, automobiles is getting more dangerous and uncomfortable, and the world needs St. Christopher more than it ever did before. As a matter of fact, Im inclined to think that SL Christopher really doesn't care if he made the Vatican calendar or not. If I know him he's probably watching over the very people who decided he wasnt a saint at all, and hes seeing that no harm comes to them while theyre traveling around, spreading the word that he doesnt exist. St. Christopher is that kind of guy. , . n GUEST CARTOON ' . I f Form Truth Teams ;j Many persons ask what they can do to help turn the tide against communism and crime. The an- swer is simple. Form learns to tell the other side of the issue. Each member could pledge to devote even 20 minutes each week to freedom causes. This may seem little, blit a team of six would, of course, de- vote two hours a week in that case, and a thousand such teams 2,000 hours to informing others about problems caused by communism and crime. With each team in turn recruiting other teams, you would soon have an organized crusade for the 1 Surely fortunes will be lost, but that is not what were talking about. What we re saying is that every form of travel truth-side. -Dallas, H. L. HUNT "First to the Moon? Newstfv ( ( f Texas ) f 1 , i f ! : J J I 1 y '? 'v |