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Show BinmiiiiiiininiiiuiininiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiinnniiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiniiiinn'inniii LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DESERET NEWS BllllIHIIi'illHliHlllllltllltlHlHIIIINIltUlllllllltlltHllltnillir.mHlinillUIttHHIIIIHII SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Write Generic Name We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, Your support of Senator Gaylor Nelson s bill to of drugs require druggists to write a generic name on the box when a prescription is filled is praiseof drugs worthy. You emphasize the possibility JUNE 16, 1969 ntm wtnt Mie final third lower price; however, there are perhaps even . more important considerations for labelingmedica-tions- at a Bug Subversives, Yes-B- ut line In other times the numbers of drugs prescribed for a given patient was felt to be directly related to the physicians inability to diagnose, ard, of course, drugs were less specific. In these days are prelarge numbers of potent medications medications to add common even is it and scribed, to counteract undesirable effects. The importance of labeling becomes great when there are more medications about which the No patient and the physician must communicate. to phvsician can remember all medications given white little about that ad patients and an inquiry tablet often is not meaningful unless the name is known. Obviously this assumes even more importance when the patient is communicating with a is question of strange physician or when there accidental ingestion. overdosage or are more sophisticated now generally People about medical problems and about drugs. Labeling the medication can only increase cooperation and in the conappropriate participation of the patient duct of his care. It seems to me that the advantages of labeling are clear enough so that physicians and patients should insist on the druggist including the name and strength of the drug on each prescription box. R. E. MCDONALD, M.D. 1060 E. 1st South Get Court Order Up to a point, there can be no quarreling with the U.S. Department of Justice on its decision to eavesdrop electronically on those suspected of seeking to foment violent disorder within America. As the department observes, America is beset with individuals and organizations seeking to bring about the downfall of our form of government, and they have no scruples against using force or other illegal means to achieve their ends. Unless the government protects itself agdnst such attacks, it wont be able to protect the rights of its citizens. Nor is it reasonable to expect the government to forego the use of weapons which Americas enemies employ to bring about our downfall. So far, so good. But the line needs to be drawn at the point where the Justice Department insists that it should have the right to engage in electronic snooping on subversives, real and potential, without the benefit of prior court approval. Since such court approval is easily obtained and there i3 no greater danger of such confidential information being leaked by judges than by the Justice Departments own employes, the agencys reluctance to seek prior court approval is hard to understand. Without court approval, it would be easy for federal agents to use their wiretapping authority to indulge in fishing expeditions in which they could pry into the lives of ordicitizens as well as those of suspected subnary, versives on little or no pretext. Human nature being what it is, men tend to abuse the authority given them. The greater the authority, the greater the potential for abuse. To guard against this danger, our system of government provides a system of checks and balances. law-abidi- Requiring lawmen to obtain court approval in wiretap cases is an important check against the abuse of authority and should not be weakened. Lets not erode Americans freedoms while striving to defend them. Trouble In A Can The death of a Salt Lake City teenager after sniffing aerfocus public attention on a new twist g and to the hazards involved. to the habit As Dr. Lindsay R. Curtis has pointed out, the sniffing of solvents and aerosols should be considered a community problem because those who indulge in the practice encourage others to participate. The practice can damage the liver, and the harm may not manifest itself until years later when cirrhosis or other ailments show up. While the sniffing of solvents may not be physically there is evidence that it can become psychologically addictive. Many young people have become so dependent on solvent sniffing that they resort to stealing. Moreover, they become easy targets for narcotics peddlers as they seek ever greater thrills. osol medication should glue-sniffin- litre baldi Congress Must Take Initiative THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND WASHINGTON Congress has good reason to set out to recover the initiative and power it has lost to activist Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon The reason Congress is nearly impotent tu do this is that it has not given in organization, staff itself the means to do the job. and resources total review of the interrelationship of foreign policy, security commitments and defense spending is imperative. A Johnson. But Congress has simply never equipped itself for this kind of review. More than 20 years ago Congress gave the Executive Branch the mechanism to relate continuously total foreign policy to total domestic policy. It created the National Security Council which enables the President to examine not just the pieces but the whole mosaic of foreign and domestic policy as it bears on security. Congress has no comparable instrument, and this is why Congress loses so much initiative to the President. It fails to discharge its own responsibilities adt-- ' its going about it in the wrong Congress cant recapture power by passing resolutions to try to reduce the President's pow'er. It can recapture it only by exercising more efficiently and more effectively the authority it pos- K. Drummond G. Drummond sesses. Sen. J. W. Fulbrights resolution is a vivid example of how not to do it. It comes at the very moment when Congress has so many opportunities to do ty to speak and act for the United States in foreign relations. it right. Let's look briefly at how not to do it and then at one way in which in a single stroke Congress could reclaim leadership and power where it is most needed. The Fulbright resolution is designed to dilute the Presidents constitutional powers in foreign affairs and to prevent him from using them without prior consent by Congress, even when instant initiative is needed. Wrong in purpose, wrong in method, harmful in effect. The Fulbright resolution cant amend the Constitution, but the effect would be to cast doubt, in the minds of enemy and ally alike, about the Presidents authori-- But think cf what Congress could do positively in the whole range of defense spending and domestic priorities if it would organize itself to use the vast and and decisive powers it does possess this without trying to hamstring the President. Congress is now picking at the defense budget instead of appraising it as a whole. It is now taking hold of the small end inof the stick in the ABM dispute stead of examining the whole of defense spending t9 see where or whether Safeguard fits in. Thus far, Congress has only been talking about the symptoms of the military budget, but at no point has it fully examined the causes to see what can and should be done. In Times That Cry habit-formin- g, I deliver one of my infrequent jabs at television, some readers Whenever imagine I am defending the written word as against the aural and visual media of communication. This is not at all the case. The main reason I am so disgruntled and disappointed in television is that its potentially the most superb medium yet devised to educate, tu illuminate, to inform the largest segment of the public. Printed journalism can do only a fraction of what television could do if it wanted to. For instance, as Dr. Karl Menninger has pointed out, if the public could see one prison execution, and realize how bestial and sickening it is to everyone who takes part in it then the archaic law of capital punishment would be abolished with overwhelming approval. Television should be bold enough and relevant enough to do exactly this to show real violence, committed by the If adding chicken meat to hot dogs and other processed meat could be expected to stir public sentiment, as was the case recently, the amount of fat allowed in such products should create nothing short of a wave of angry consumer pro- quately. What is needed is a Joint Congressional Security Commission to parallel the President's Security CoucniL Instead of picking at particular weapthat can come later ons expenditures Congress should be making its own inreview of (1) dependent and all foreign commitments, (2) contingencies which can develop from our commitments, (3) U.S. forces needed to meet the contingencies and (4) the kind and amount of weapons needed for these forces. When it does this, Congress will be exercising its powers to perform its duty instead of trying to trim the Presidents power to do his. Out For Light . . . - WASHINGTON The thing about flying a lot is that you have plenty of time on the ground at airports to think about it. I have been making a personal study of airport congestion, and I believe I matter. Even so, the publics dollar buying power may receive little more protection in this regard than it now gets, especially if a 30 per cent fat content limit already being discussed is adopted. Under such a limit, which apparently doesnt consider any other additives such as water, what portion of nourishing meat could the purchaser hope to end up with after the product was rendered through cooking? Its bad enough that the value of the dollar is shrinking. But when what it buys shrinks, too, the consumer has a right to complain long and loudly about this inflated form of infla- know how to solve the problem. Airport conges- tion, particularly in the spring and is summertime, not caused by people who flv, but rather by people who come to the airport to see other people off. For every person with a ticket to another destination, there are five standing around who have no place to go. I don't remember when I became aware of this, but it must have been seveial months ago when I was taking a flight to Joplin. There must have been 200 people standiiow ing at the gate, and I had no idea vie were all going to fit in the plane, which was a DC-3- . But when our flight was called, only four of us got in the plane. The rest stood there waving handkerchiefs and holding their children on their shoulders. As anyone who travels by air knows, the lineup on the highway to the airpoit ran be bumper to bumper, and the parkof people ing lots are jammed with cats seeing other people off. It's gotten so bad that vou can be within 500 yaitls of the airpoit an hour before flight time and still miss your plane. The solution to the problem is quite tion. Plates For Safety New Jersey lias become the 33rd state to adopt reflecto-rize- d night-tim- e license plates, and for a very good reason highway safety. Reflectorized plates bounce back headlight beams of other cars so that the plates and the cars on which they are mounted are visible for more than a third of a mile. Utah has had reflectorized plates since 1968. A study by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles showed nearly a 30 per cent reduction in nonfatal night-tim- e accidents in the first full year that reflectorized plates weie in use in that state. What are the other 17 states waiting for? 4 groi Whi but off 1 tore lane iw C0U vitl I befc Jan yiF beir Iw liev I goir thin be Aid luni who beri 1 Money And Taxes sot. beii state, rather than the fake violence perpetrated by actors in a wildly melodramatic movie. Or, to take another example in the same area, if the TV camera could move freely through a typical day of a prisoner in a county jail, the public would quickly be disabused of its quaint notion that we coddle our inmates, when, in actuality, we treat them like animals. Television shows us the physical demonstrations and riots when they break out at colleges and universities but these are merely the overt symptoms of what is wrong in the college system. Pictorial journalism in depth would have disclosed, years ago, the deep resentment and frustration of students which made these outbreaks nearly inevitable. Nor am I speaking about documentaries" that are slotted into the Sunday afternoon schedule merely to meet the governments public interest qualifica ART BUCHWALD simple: A law should be passed prohibiting anyone from going to an airport who doesnt have a plane ticket. Now I know this sounds like harsh medicine, as people like to see their loved ones take off and arrive. But at the same time, if you have to make a choice between those who are trying to make a plane as agaii.st those who are only there to wave goodby, you must be on the side of the bona fide traveler. The reason why I believe my plan will work is that Ive been taking a survey among people at airports who have been seeing other people off. and it turned out that 70 per cent of them really didn t want to ie there. like n eno and IT ans cat she and oft anc sta ELIAS GIFFORE 1200 S. 9th East Fn Am Chi wa Is It Entrapment? I would like to comment on off the recent arrests old ol . of men in Salt Lake City for violation of the prostitu wh tion laws. I served in the vice division of a large Southern California police department for severe male being years and I have never heard of a I arrested on this type of charge. I believe I have learned something from these i arrests. If a strange woman smiles at me, I am 1 going the other way. She might be a policewoman t looks like whole thing this Seriously, though, cn the , entrapment Law enforcement agencies West Coast would never get away with this type o' ' enforcement. -R- ICHARD HOWARE 7461 S. 2700 Eas Ri . tio , tion for stations that want to keep their licenses. I am speaking about the many TV news shows, which offer the most trivial and banal items, or a series of staccato headlines without meaning or depth. One must be exceptionally severe with the failure of television precisely because its power is so enormous, and its potential for awakening the populace is so great, instead, it expends most of its power on nonsense, and puts the public to sleep with its laciduster programming. It is only imaginative, innovative, and impact-makinin its commercials, which are far more skillful and interesting than its program content. We have now had commercial television for some 20 years, and it is just as bad now as when it began, perhaps even worse. But the times cry out for more light, while the tube enshrouds us in dark ignorance. g was leaving and she was crying and I thought to myself how cruel it would have been if the woman wasnt permitted to come to the airport to say goodby. But then we took off and two hours later when our plane landed in Atlanta another woman ran up to the same man and kissed him passionately with tears running down her face. As I looked at the scene I decided, Oh, hang it all. Lets pass the law. Lost And Found pu the here the othei My daughter left her two children 10 minutes after she left them within and morning off her little boy, not three until September, took We had searched fo mother. his find to evidently with the help of many childrei an him. up and down streets trying to locate We had unfortunately proceeded in the wron; direction to find him but our last resort was to g west towards Redwood Road, a very dangerou street about three blocks west of our home. W hen looked at the Jordan Canal there on Redwooi terrib i Road, I shuddered and shed a tear at the there. could be he that thought jy, pr( Co hour-and-a-h- nn( ri th cy, tiv ct - gn Be Meadow Finally, I turned to walk north toward brook (our subdivision) and I looked up and saw was my grand police car pass me and stop. There son in his car. I tearfully hugged him (my granc took us bot son, of course) and the policeman wh nil ei home. The policeman told me he was called by th Zions Bank on Redwood Road so I called ther who fount just now and they told me that the lady Stree on lives who Harris Ebony Grace was him Zior. She was driving south to go to work at the Bank when she saw my grandson looking at th water and the busy Redwood Road, and she too the time to holler at him from her car to not cros the street. She went into the bank where she worked an told those she worked with she had to go back an find that little boy who looked lost to her. Sli could not find him at first but with more effoi found a frightened, lost 2 year-ol- d really shoo an up she said. She led him to her place of work i called the police . . . please thank Grace Harris the Zions Bank for me publicly for her seein the look of fright on his face . . . Thank you i much. I am Tracy Neslens grandmother. And mighty grateful grandmother, I might add. --MRS. , ( lip ' the Wll res MERLE V. BUD Femwood Drii 4377 GUEST CARTOON Money No Cure-A- ll of ills We seem to be developing a nation of researt itn committees and investigators who can find i kinds of trouble, corruption, problems and oth major items of disorder without developing mui in the way of solutions and remedies other tin those which cost heaps of money, time, and perpf ieqi ual attention by some committee or bureau tor guide and direct the same. pla If we had all the money various groups claim am needed to solve the problems of the nation ai Rpe world, the money would be worthless. Eliminatii me people through birth control will not solve pro lems of hate, envy, dishonesty, cowardice a m; irresponsibility either. poi The only sure method of improving world com for 1 tions is by increasing the number of folks who :in lieve the world or more particularly the people 'rai it are worth saving. It is not so nurh just a phy 'da cal salvage job of keeping people medically ali so much as it is a task of keeping interest, agenc individuality, and hope rlive and healthy. gi At Kennedy Airpoit, where most of the flights go to Europe, one man said, and sister insiMed we My brother-in-lasee them off so we could eat our hearts out. A woman at Washington National I hang around the airport besaid, cause its the only time my husband sees the children. A man at Los Angeles International Airport said bitteiiy, My mother-in-lainsisted we see her off so she wouldnt have to tip a porter. Of com sc, there are going to tie some hardship cases if my plan is adopted. For example, the other day I was on my way to Atlanta and a I saw a man and woman at my gate in a tearful embrace. My heart went out to both of them. He strii most troubleMoney and taxes seem to be the wit-tesome problems of the age. Whatever has been or said against the present form of taxation, and where they are now trying to put it, all points to the inequity of it. Thats what people abhor, and the poor especially when it places a burden upon and at the same time works to the aggrandizement of the wealthy. It would be well to remember these words ol twice as much Benjamin Franklin: We are taxed much as times by our pride three our idleness, by and four times as much by our folly, and from dethese taxes the commissioners cannot ease or abatement. an liver us by allowing , Solving The Airport Problem test. As was pointed out recently by the U.S. Department of cooked Agriculture, processors of meats classified as frankfurters and weiners, sausage, including bologna, have no limit on the amount of fat they can put into such items. The condition, moreover, is of such importance to unsuspecting buyers that the department will soon start hearings on the t whe By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Too Much Fat to but But way. A few years ago a Salt Lake area youth stabbed a friend to death after sniffing glue. Other youths, under the influence of inhaled solvents, have jumped off buildings in the belief they could fly, and stood on a railroad track prepared to fight an oncoming train with bare fists. With the evidence of last weeks tragedy before them, young Utahns should see the folly of seeking thrills from a tube of glue or an aerosol can and act accordingly. 1 lane "Forwar-r-r- d -- MERRILL Marx!" Rockford Mornino f Stir t H. GLENN J 264 No. Std lor |
