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Show iyw ART BUCHWA1B College Exam DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Nervous Washington We Stand For The Constitution Of The United Stares As Having Been Divinely Inspired 6 A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, WASHINGTON There is no denying that Washington has been rocked by Justice Abe Fortas resignation. I noticed, as with previous scandals in the na- MAY 22, 1969 tions Congress Vs. Pollution: A New Credibility Gap When it comes to controlling water pollution, Congress is digging itself a deep and yawning credibility gap. Because of this gap, Americans have reason for wonderif the nation's lawmakers really mean it when they talk ing about coming to gi ips with other pollution problems. In 1956 Congress started extending modest federal grants to induce municipalities to construct sewage treatment plants. The program was so successful in stimulating the construction of badly needed treatment facilities that the level of authorizations for appropriations was raised in 1961, again in 1965, and again in 1966. As of last March 31, the program had led to construction of 9,251 waste treatment projects improving water in 74,000 , miles of streams and serving 73.8 million people. Cost of the projects: $5.7 billion. All this for a federal investment of only $1.3 billion, with the municipalities putting up the rest of the money. But because Congress has failed to fol'ow through on its fiscal promises, a shadow is cast over the future of the water pollution control program. For fiscal 1968, Congress authorized $450 million for water pollution control but actually appropriated only $203 million. For fiscal 1969 it promised $700 million but delivered only $214 million. For fiscal 1970 it authorized $1 billion, but the Nixon administration has joined its predecessor in asking for only $214 million. As desirable as federal economizing is ordinarily, there are any number of less important projects that could be cut. vessels to Catoosa, Okla. Like the one to bring On the assurance that the federal government would come through with its share, several states and cities launched expensive bond issues for water treatment facilities. Moreover, the strict federal standards of water quality being required of the states, are based in part on the construction of such facilities to improve water quality. s of the American people, according to a survey commissioned earlier this year by the National Wildlife Federation, are not only concerned about the contamination of the environment but are willing to pay to clean it up. In the words of the federation, Congress should either quit talking about cleaning up the nations waters, and admit that open sewers will be maintained throughout the land, or giant the amount of money that has been authorized. ocean-goin- Questions On Sports More questions are raised than are answered by thi3 week3 report to Jhe Legislative Budget Audit Committee regarding the cost of intercollegiate athletics in Utah. All along Utahns have suspected they were subsidizing Intercollegiate athletics at Utahs seven public colleges and universities, but we werent sure how much. With the report from the Legislative Councils associate director of finance, it's clear that fears the subsidy amounted to well over $1 million a year were exaggerated. His figures show expenditures on intercollegiate athletics during the past two school years exceeded revenues by more than $500,000 a though even this assessment is subject to some year adjustment, since costs at various schools wont be entirely comparable until after a uniform accounting system goes into effect. But now that it's clear intercollegiate athletics operate in the red, Utahns need to answer some crucial questions about the future of these programs. To begin with, does Utah really need major intercollegiate athletic programs at three publicly supported schools when bigger and richer Utah, Utah State, and Weber states dont conduct such intensive or extensive sports Big Job For O'Keefe By putting thousands of hard-cor- e unemployed to wrork, the National Alliance of Businessmen stands as a testimonial to the ability of private enterprise, rather than government, to turn recipients of handouts into productive citizens. Likewise, this weeks appointment of J. P. OKeefe, general manager of Utah Copper Division for Kennecott Copper Corp., as chairman of the alliances JOBS program in Salt Lake, south Davis, and Tooele counties, is a tribute to his ability to get things done. Certainly there is much to be accomplished, and management iias to make diastic changes in hiring attitudes, training and job orientation procedures in dealing with the hard-cor- e unemployed. For example, many trainees cant read or write. Often they cant afford simple working equipment. In one plant a number of trainees failed to show up for work after being told d shoes instead of gym shoes for safety. to we ar After plant officials checked, they found the absentees couldnt afford to buy the shoes, so the company loaned them money to do so with the understanding it would be repaid. Working with the disadvantaged worker takes considerable thinking and planning on the pint of business leaders, but oblcss and putting them its w'rth it. T'aming the lnrd-cor- c to work not only eas.s soc.al problems, but also creates new purchasing power and new sources of tax revenue. Mr. OKeefe is to be congratulated on undertaking a challenging assignment from wThich Utahns in all walks of life may ultimately benefit. hard-sole- Didnt Ab Fortas dissent in several Supreme Court cases? I believe he did, but sive when a story like this breaks. I dropped in to see a senator the other day, and ho asked me to while he went over a speech he was preparing with his aide to be giver, to the American Legion. I dont like tins line heie, he said where I refer to the very foundations of sit-do- this nation." Why not? the aide asked. The word foundations, you clod. I dont want people to think that I support foundations in any way. Thats a good point, sir. I'U strike it." Now down here in the fourth paragraph you have me saying with liberty and justice for all. Yes, sir. Thats a direct steal from the Pledge of Allegiance. You'd better knock out justice. I don't want the legion to think Im defending anyone on the Supreme Court. Thats a pretty interprethe aide tation of the word justice, said. Dont argue, the senator replied. Politicians may soon be hanged for d less. OK, Senator. I think youll like this paragraph I Inserted about stamping out revolts on college campuses, Let me see it. Wait a minute. Youve ... Cut it. You dont seem to realize how uptight this country is right now. I also don't approve this phrase about the great decisions that face mankind. What's wrong with mankind? It isnt mankind, Im against. Who ! . its decisions that hands down de- cisions? The Supreme Court: Exactly. And while youre at it, take out all references to law and order. I know its a popular phrase, but for the n. ament Id just prefer to talk only about order until the Fortas thing blows over. I believe the speech is going to be short, Senator. Well, beef it up with some thought on the Soviet missile threat. You could lecture them on the ABM, the aide said. The senator flushed. Why did you have to use the word lecture? I just used it. I didnt mean anything by it. You know what connotation lecture ha3 in tins town now. You havent been going through my files, have you? No, sir. Believe me, it was just a slip of the tongue, Senator. All right, but watch yourself. Weve got to be very careful for a while. Im resigned to it, sir. Resigned? Hang it, said the aide. I did it again. : iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Militancy s Losing Its Charm LETTERS TO THE EDITOR t!!ll!l!!!!l!l!!!!l!!l!!!ll!!!!!l!!!!n!!l!HI!!!!!l!!!!!l!l!l!9!UU!!!HU!imi!!!!l!ll!!!!!U!!!!l!l George Washington University, here In Washington, rared back the first of the week and expelled seven students expelled actually them for their part in seizing and occupying a camon pus building April 23. It was marvelously re- freshing news. Taken with other items here and there, the event suggests that a turning point may JAMES J. KILPATRICK administration coldly set in motion its procedures for student discipline. Then an interesting thing happened : Instead of accepting punishment as martyrs, motivated by high principle, the SDS demonstrators began howling like stuck pigs. Tlieie wasnt an ounce of maityidum in them. The university conducted a full witnesses, evidence, hearing n, $4,000. objections, the whole works. Then the expulsions were announced. The public reaction, you may be certain, will be overwhelmingly in the administration's favor. My guess is that student reaction will follow the same course. Even among the most liberal students among young men who sincerely d research an oppose awareness is growing that a right to dissent can never be equated, short of armed revolution itself, with a right to seize and occupy buildings. How, then, is dissent to be effectively voiced? One answer lies in the constructive program of a new organization that is emerging as a counterforce to the leftist National Student Association. The new outfit, known as ASG, is the Associated Student Governments. Founded in the Midw est in 1964, ASG opened national headquarters here in January; the address is the Woodward Building, Fifteenth and II Streets. Instead of knuckling under to demands for amnesty, the university You will be hearing more of ASG in coming months. Already it embraces stu Mr. Kilpatrick now be close at hand. If militancy has not yet lost all its charm, it is swiftly losing most of it. I may be quite wrong, but my guess is that a 'kind of high water mark of permissiveness was reached at Cornell six weeks ago. The spineless performance of Cornells jellyfish president was a er. Since then, a galvanic reaction has set in. The next school year will be better. At George Washington, the superficial issue had to do with the universitys Instishock- tute for Sir.o-Sovi- Studies. The young fascists of the Students for a Democratic Society, professing their hatred for anything remotely related to wrar research, staged a violent occupation of the Institutes building. Before they departed, under a court injunction, they caused property damage estimated at $3,000 to war-relate- SYDNEY J. HARR IS 'An Einstein And A Hitler' How can the same world, in the same country and the same century, produce both a Hiltler and an Einstein? asked my friend at lunch. How can the human race produce such disparate types almost at the same time? There is no answer to this question. And when there is no answer to a question, it is usually because it is a wrong question. Until we begin to ask tiie right questions, w e cannot get any satisfactory answers. The right question would be: how can the same human being contain within itself an Einstein and a Hitler, in varying degrees? This is the central problem we have to face, and somehow to overcome, before it overcomes us. A genuinely good and peace-lovin- g mcr, Einstem nevertheless wrote the affirmative letter to the White House, which eventually resulted in the making of the first atom bomb and its devastating use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not the evil Hitler who started tiie chain, but the benevolent Einstein. And likewise, it is not the problem of evil men that so hinders our development, as it is the problem of the evil in good men, in men of good intentions and good will, lika even an Einstein. The perplexity is not that a Hitler and but that they an Einstein both both, in some measure, exist in all of us. It was, after all, not the Storm Troopers, but the good people of Germany who made Hitler possible. Tins is not to deny that there arc :.c giees of guilt, or moral differences men. But it is to suggest that we cannot wholly blame a Hitler or a Stalin for the tiJgedies they biing in their wake. For along every inch of the road, they were helped by men who thought they were doing good, for their country and their people. dent governments in 150 junior and senior colleges across the country. ASGs purpose is simply to open channels for communication and cooperation among student governments. In the past, student councils often have been weak and ineffectual bodies, timid, powerless, existing chiefly to sponsor the senior prom. Yet the structure for something better exists. ASGs straightforward proposal is to strengthen student government, to keep them informed on what other universities are doing, and to take timely advantage of the opportunities now opening up for needed changes in university policies. David Hinshaw, a senior student on leave from the University of Cincinnati, is president of ASG. He is convinced that university administrations are ready to listen to responsible eager to listen opinion, responsibly put forward. Strong student governments, he beheves, can advance persuasive views on such issues as black studies, ROTC, physical education, dormitory regulations, and student discipline; and they can do this without burning buildings or looting files. Other forces also are moving toward a restoration of order. We are beginning to hear from fed-u- p faculty members and alumni associations. Such black leaders as Bayard Rustin are speaking out. The anarchists are losing sympathy and support everywhere. Campus disorders havent ended, of course; we can expect further outrages and the fruits of permissiveness are gathered. But the tide of nihilism is running out; a tide of welcome firmness is starting to run in. Russ Popularity Wanes programs? Wouldn't Utah derive as much benefit from sports progiams at less cost if intercollegiate athletics were replaced to some extent by more intramural athletics? Would school spirit really suffer at institutions which decided to stop importing collegiate athletes from outside the state and let local talent see more action? Would alumni really intercollestop contributing to schools that giate athletics? Or, if intercollegiate athletic programs are to be maintained at present levels, shouldnt ticket prices be upped so that more of the cost is borne by the fans and not the ordinary taxpayers who may seldom see a game? that everyone gets very nervous and defen g Three-fourth- Capital, that I believe in lawful dissent, but not illegal and revolutionary tactics. Yes, sir. Whats wrong with that? got me saying By T. A. MISHLAWI Copley News Service - The Soviet BEIRUT, LEBANON Union's cautious attitude toward current Middle East turmoil and the Palestine question as a whole appears to have resulted in another setback to Russian popularity in the Arab world. The first setback occurred during tiie conflict when the 1967, Soviet Union, according to Arab public opinion, failed to come to the aid of the Arabs in their losing battle with Israel. In spite of that considerable drop in prestige, the Kremlin since has managed to regain stature on the official level mainly because: June, Arab-Israe- li 1. Socialist Aab leaders have let no go by without showering opportunity praise and commendation on the Soviet Union for helping in rebuilding Arab armies (with the exception of the Jordanian army) that had been shattered during the June war. 2. Socialist Arab countries, mainly Egypt and Syria, have been considerably dependent on Soviet aid for their economic development. Therefore, any hostile attitude they may decide to take toward Moscow would tend to plunge them into an ocean of economic difficulties. However, there have been extensive arguments and acrimonious exchanges between the various Arab political groups over Soviet policy in the Middle East since the June war. In fact, many Arab Communists have formed their own Communist groups because of their differences with Arab Communist leader- by the Iraqi Baath authorities last Feb- ruary. A similar split occurred In the Lebanese Communist Party. Many of the partys central committee members have accused Communist leaders of being subservient to Moscow. criticisms But the most violent against the Soviet Union and Aab Communist parties (which are officially banned in all Arab countries) has come from the Palestinians. Almost all Palestinian political and military groups have, at one time or another, issued statements rejecting the idea of a peaceful settlement to the present Middle East impasse on the grounds that such a settlement would liquidate the Palestine case. Mthough appreciating the Soviet Unions military and ecoto certain Arab nomic assistance countries, the Palestinian organizations have criticized Moscow for its insistence on implementation cf the United Nations Security Councils resolution of Nov. 22, 1967, providing for peace in the region. GUEST CARTOON Knairy, Amer Abdullah and Bahaeddiu Nouri and the Central Leadership, whose leader, Aiz A1 Haj, was arrested 4 Last Thursday I waited with a large crowd of citizens and students until 9:45 p.m. to be admitted to a meeting of the State Board of Education regarding the unrest on the Dixie campus. I was situation, with the surprised at the emotion-pecketwo opposing sides at 'different ends of the court I was interested in the speech of President Carl Mellor of the UEA, in which he demanded a public apology for the news reports, and also in his ultimatum that the Dixie Administration comply with their recommendations. Behind me stood two young men, members of the Dixie College Advisory Council, and through their conversation I learned that neitner knew Melvin T. Smith by sight, yet both had voted not to permit him to appear before their group and state his case This sounded more like Russia than the U.S., where it is considered a mans inalienable right to face his accusers in his own defense. Neither the State Board of Education nor the Dixie College Advisory Eoaid would grant tills privilege. Dixie College is sick. The maiady began with the rodeo a few years ago and has worsened each year since. Best evidence is the loss each year of outstanding teachers. This year it will not be just two or three; unless conditions are drastically changed, it will be nine or more. The only solution is for the administration to carry out the mandate of the UEA; to the teachers in question and to try for better com-munication on all levels. Even then it will be difficult to revive the Dixie spirit. Alumni and citizens of Dixie cannot stand by and see our school torn assunder by NEA investigations and pending law suits. Let each of the con-- , tending sides tak the advice to agree with thine adversary quickly . . . Otherwise both will be killed professionally and Dixie College will be irreparably damaged. This is now a public matter, not just a private one. -J- UANITA BROOKS St. George d ' ' . a Asks Freeway Airing In the Deseret News of last Friday, there was a rather inconspicuous little item that ought to be noted by the people of Salt Lake City. The item concerned a decision by the State Road Commis-sio- n to begin the purchase of land for the proposed East Valley Freeway. To my knowledge there has never been a public hearing about this freeway project. Indeed, it has been virtually impossible to obtain a commitment-frothe state as to the freeways exact routing. But now the Road Commission is apparently going ahead with it. I wonder how many Salt Lakers are familiar with the exact routing of this freeway as outlined in Vol. 3 of the SLATS report. Are the people of the East side willing to accept the dirt, dust, fumes and noise of a freeway that will carve a path through some of their neighborhoods and pass close to Temple Square? Will any conservationists stand up for the beauty, the heritage, and the historical dimensions of their city? Let us have a public hearing on the East Valley Freeway and settle this question in the democratic . tradition. -J- AMES 1780 Yale KING Ave. Gas Move Questioned I have noted with great interest the news articles, regarding the storing, shiping and final disposition of unwanted nerve gas. It would appear that we have created a monster too ugly to handle. I admit that I know nothing of the science that has created weapons to destroy the life upon the good earth, but it would seem practical to me, if we must create these monsters, we should, also, create the proper means of storing and, eventually, disposing of them if they become obsolete. t Our enemies take great satisfaction in what they read that goes on in our country There is little wender that they were able to set up a time- - ' table for our eventual Has our wisdom made us foolish? Will we eventually become victims of our own imagination? -- N. W. TAYLOR -- ships. A case ir. point is the Iraqi Communist Party winch, after the June war, broke up into two rival tactions idennued as Central Commitiee the prominent among its leaders are Zaki Troubles At Dixie ! "Sure keeps the sun out, doesn't he?" San Francisco Chronic! Farmington ; |
