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Show V i ,, i, DESERET NEWS . The Weapons Don't Work So Well, But The Costs g Are Right On Schedule ' CONFIDENT LIVING Over-Runnin- I. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH This Is The We Stand For The Constitution O The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired , 18 A EDITORIAL PAGE By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 196? I would like to talk to you about your days, this day and every day. Its a good thing to consider your days once in a child A while. thinks that time is limitless, but as he grows older, he becomes aware of the fact that time is passing. Now if you live to be 90, thats a total of 32,872 days of living. What are you going to do with the days you have left? Should Utah Adopt Teacher Talks Law? Even though the Legislature professional negotiations legislation for teachers at its regular and special sessions, Utahns havent heard the end of this controversial and complex issue. S Thats clear enough from the column on the next page by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty, new leader of the Utah Education Assn., in which he emphasizes that the UEA continues to have as a major goal a negotiations law formalizing collective bargaining between teachers and school boards. J.V Its also clear enough from the plans of the Utah Legislative Council to name a subcommittee to study teacher negotiations legislation and make recommendations for the consideration of Utahs lawmakers. That being the case, Utahns would do well to become throughly acquainted with the issue so they can discuss it Intelligently and make their sentiments felt when the time comes for another decision on teacher negotiations. Since collective bargaining is no stranger to Utah education, it is argued that a teacher negotiations law would formalize what is already going on and put it on a more orderly basis. Deadlines could be set, for example, for working out new contracts to assure that schools open on time. Penalties could be provided for exceeding the deadlines. Machinery could be in disputes established to provide for impartial that threatened to bring on a school impasse, and to provide g alone failed. for mediation or arbitration if law teacher a Then, too, might spell out what negotiation Is subject to negotiation and what is not. Against this position, it is objected : That a teacher negotiations law is contrary to Dr. McCartys desire for increased professionalization of educators and education, since professional people ordinarily dont negotiate in mass as labor unions do. That such collective bargaining makes teachers and vchooi boards adversaries instead of partners. That if teachers start down the path to unionization, the teacher runs a greater risk of being swallowed up in an organization concerned with mass tactics rather than personal desires find needs. In any event, these are among the major considerations with which the Legislative Council subcommitteee must come to grips as it studies teacher negotiation proposals. As it does so, the committee would also do well to consider: contracts for teachers in Abandoning favor of appointments for two years, the period for which school superintendents are employed. This could at least cut negotiations and impasses in half. Uniform opening and closing dates for schools throughout the state, with the provision that school districts and teachers not be paid for any part of the school year devoted to - a contract impasse. This might provide an incentive for early settlements that is now lacking. Whatever is done, Utahns have a right to expect schools to open on schedule in the fall and without being subjected to constant turmoil. fact-findin- In spite of all world, every day can be a good day. The Bible says, This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be to be glad in it. Not every day is going an easy one. Life brings to each some share of pain, struggle, tears, sorrow and heartache. But even in a day that is full of suffering and difficulty, there lies hidden a suggeson of something good. One of the surest ways of having good days for yourself is to help other people have good days for themselves. It always works! A two-foo- g The New Campus Moderates . r, 180-da- y Budgeting UnderStress Under the trying circumstances they faced, Salt Lake City Commissioners seem to have done a skillful job in formulating the $26 million budget they adopted Thursday for fiscal 1970. Not only does the new budget provide $702,000 in supplemental pay raises for city employes, but the budget does so without raiding the capital improvements fund and without, imposing major new taxes such as a garbage collection levy. There are, of course, minor new levies. A $1 fee will be charged private citizens for each ton of garbage they deposit at city dumps A quarter-mil- l increase in the property levy was imposed to create a trust fund for liability insurance claims and damages, a move authorized under the Governmental Immunity Act adopted by the Utah Legislature a few years ago. This levy is expected to add only l'r to the proper- ty owners tax bill. While the sewer and V business franchise taxes were continued, they can and should be reduced or rescinded if the citys financial situation improves in coming years. in estiAdmittedly, city officials may be mating the revenue expected from hiring 10 new meter maids and increasing traffic fines. If so, City Fiscal Consultant Fred Oliver reports that hiring freezes can be imposed and equipment purchases postponed to keep the budget balanced. One final point: With 90 rl of the increase in the budget going for salaries and fringe benefits, Salt Lake City Commissioners deserve high marks for trying to do better by city over-optimist- ic employees. Foreign Planes: Safe? The crash of a Dominican Republic cargo plane in a Miami street this week raises some critical questions about the airworthiness of foreign aircraft and crews. To be sure, most major foreign airlines have outstanding safety records. The problem is raised by some small foreign airlines, especially those in financial troubles. For one thing, many such airlines are more lax than they should be about crew training, aircraft maintenance, and safety procedures. Liquor in the cockpit, for instance, is solidly condemned by the Federal Aviation Administration, but is looked on more benignly by some foreign governments. Most airplanes used by foreign airliners are U.S. made to a hgh standard of specifications. But if strict maintenance schedules are not kept, or if operational procedures are not enforced, it opens the way to a possible crash. The FAA acknowledges this. We have no authority to go into a foreign plane and look it over to see whether it is safe, one spokesman said. Nor do we have control over the crew qualifications. Obviously, the FAA needs to strengthen its bilateral air agreements with other nations for more uniformity in air regulations, so that foreign aircraft flying in the U.S. are operating under the same safety standards as domestic companies. Merely requiring the crew to be familiar with U.S. air traffic rules and procedures and leaving the rest up to the home government is not enough. giv- ing a speech and I picked up a copy of the Detroit Free Press. There were two stories side by side on the front page. One was the story of a professor at a major university who was struck across t club by radical the face with a students during the seizure ol a campus building. Right next to it was the story of the return of a hero from Vietnam. His name was Tom Van Putten. Tom had finally escaped after 14 months as a prisoner of the Viet Cong. fact-findin- one-yea- . short time ago I was in Detroit On the campuses it WASHINGTON is said that a moderate is a radical with wet matches, and yet a new and progres- sive brand of mod-erac- CHARLES BARTLETT y may be so this could not be called a radicalized cross-sectio- shaped by the pres- But 72 percent expressed interest in of the generaworking for VISTA or the Peace Corps tion gap. and a majority expressed a preference The ideology of for working with the poor at home. Simithe New Left radi72 percent felt the two volunteer larly cals has evolved services should be considered as alternato slightly, only tives to military service after the war in Vietnam and 49 percent indorsed the accounts of the SDS thought that all young Americans should convention in Chito a year of military or civilbe anar- ian subject The cago. national service. chism of the early days is giving way to Such statistical evidence of a balance a Marxist reach for the hearts of the in the young is evoking moderacy in sigwo! King class but the radicals seem unof the older generation able to agree on anything beyond their nificant members like Richard Nixon. The President was calls for revolution. pressured by his attorney general Johi. and tempted by his own Meanwhile there are signs that the Mitchell, challenge of the radicals is producing a instincts to crack the student radicals hard this spring. It would have been a new type of moderate, more thoughtful and sensitive than the faintly complacent popular move. middle-road- " man of the past. The new But Mr. Nixon weighed the represmoderate is a man who senses that easy sions urged by Mitchell against the dananswers will not meet the questions ger of diverting their moderate student raised by the young. opinion into a channel of alienation. He made some tough speeches on campus One sign is a poll of 972 college strife but he stopped short of proposing students produced for VISTA. Some the use of federal initiatives to curb the the told of 74 the students percent disorders. pollsters they do not feel that their basic reason for his temperate One with odds at are views sharply political sentiment conthe was 22 strong of their parents. Only percent those approach had ever participated in a demonstration veyed by a band of 22 young Republican sures judge from Hail, Noble Everyone in his home town of Caledonia, Mich., turned out to welcome him home. They gave him a parade. Past streets with names lue Maple and Church, the parade moved slowly. At the top of that story, there was a picture of Tom Van Putten saluting the flag. This had been taken at the airport. He had snapped into the salute suddenly and without warning, catching everyone off guard. People in the crowd blinked and the photographers scrambled into action. But when they had finished snapping, he still stood there, staring at the flag, his body rigid with the salute. His face was scre wed tight and fierce and the wind whipped his green uniform close to his body. His gauntness was unmistakable and the people of Caledonia suddenly found it very hard to look at Spec. 5 Thomas H. Van Putten standing alone in the bright spring sunshine saluting. Theres evil in the world, but theres faith in the world. Theres pa,. iotism in the world. Theres goodness in th. world. If we handle problems with corn age, recognizing the right to dissent, of course, but honoring such men as Tom Van Putten, this world will produce better days for all of us. The world Ins its badness, but it Iris its goodness too. Robert Browning expressed it well: Meanwhile as the da trouble grew, congressmen, many of them early Nixon supporters. They had spent a lot of time visiting campuses and talking to students and they had concluded that the misgivings of the young were too basic to be met with repressions. Most of the group were not Republican liberals but they represent a new and more flexible breed. Their readiness to conduct the inquiry marked a break with the Republican past. Their sympathy for the dilemmas which the young confront was almost revolutionary. Most of the issues they discovered on the campuses were challenges to traditional conservative racism, thinking: oppression by big business and the military industrial complex, poverty and hunger, materialistic values, the powerdistorted lessness of the individual, priorities, and American dominance in the world. They brought back to Washington their objective conclusion that the overwhelming majority of students with whom we visited hold little regard for either political party. With this finding they may have set the stage for a more imaginative and sensitive phase of political life. The moderate and radical students have asked a lot of questions and raised the issue of relevance. If the moderates keep their balance and keep asking questions as they emerge from the campuses, they are certain to become a healthy and freshening force. of me these days, Dr. Kilpatrick, is the black-eye- d pea truly soul food? And if so, how does this affect its social standing? These are important questions, and in these turbulent times it is well that they be answered fully. Permit me to address to the tonic, not as a pundit, or fount of all wisdom, but rather fiom my loftier office as Number One Pea, Pro Tempore, of the Black-EyePea Society of America. It is an office I bestowed upon myself some years ago in Richmond, and because I also control the myself nominating committee, I have held it without successful challenge from that day to this. Yes, the black-eyepea is soul food. Of course it is soul food. Our noble legume has ranked as soul food for millennia, in the highest and finest sense of that phrase; it is good not only for the soul, but for the heatt. the mind, and the gizzard as well. Recent news accounts, identifying the blai k eyed pea as soul food on the tables of the poor, contain nothing of novelty. The rich, no less than the poor, have been feasting upon the black-eyepea for years. societys JAMES J. KILPATRICK identified almost entirely with the South. It was a mark of the gentility of the region. It also was an inheritance from the earliest explorers. The black-eyepea first was observed on the third day of Creation in a garden 12 miles south of what is now the city of Baghdad. In its d dried form, it traveled with Moses in the Winderness. Caesars legions regularly dined upon the pea before their battles. It was the Spanish and the Portuguese who hit upon the delectable combination of black-eyepeas and stewed tomatoes. Columbus, Da Gama, De Soto and Cortez introduced their discovery into the New World. And in 1607, Jo; n Smith planted the black-eye- d pea in Virginia. other such high class places. Verily the pea has become the tie that binds. Oh, we connoisseurs are aware of the scoffing that goes on. Long before the soul food stories, pseudo - sophisticates were knocking our indefatigable little friend. But thece are the same scoffers who sneer at turnip greens, gravy, and grits. Their slurs cannot touch our verdant vines. These are blooming now. In August the pearly peas may be unzipped from their velvet pods. Then lovers of the black-eyepea will sit in bliss at groaning boards around the wwld. Black and white together, we shall overcome! red-ey- e d d GUEST CARTOON This authentic history, abbreviated as it is, doubtless was in the mind of Dr. George Bagby, a 19th Century Virginia editor, when he wrote his modest tribute to the black-eyepea. As an edible, Dr. Bagby declared, the vegetable has not its equal. It is good for man or beast. It is the concentrated quintessence of the delightful. It is harmless. It may be eaten in any quantity, It is hard to quit eating it It does you good all over. It fattens you up; makes you strong and sassy. Its taste is indescribably delicious. In brief, it is meat, taxes and a drink, lodging, house-renfree ticket to the fair and back again. Thus, the answer to inquiries on social Blessed pea; Sublime pellet! Celestial status is simply this: The black-eyepea molecule! Divine little gob! All that Viris above social status. It sustains both ginia is, or has been or can be, is owed commoner and king. It is equally at to thee! home in the humblest shacks by the It is this form of understatement that Yazoo River, and in the greatest houses for years has distinguished Southern of Fifth Avenue. Every president of the journalism. Other editors below the United States since Grover Cleveland, Potomac also wrote of the black-eyewith the sole exception of Warren Harpea, especially on August afternoons ding. is known to have relished the when they saw nothing else to write black-eyepea. It is a favorite food of about. The fame of our vegetable spread second basemen. At every level of societo the North and West in the wake of the ty, wherever gourmets gather, there you War. Now some of the nations finest will find the noble legume. black-eyepeas are grown in PennsylvaAt one time, the black-eyepea was nia, Illinois, southern California, and I d d d i ( t fe i Wherefrom I guessed there would be bom a star. That is the insight of a very wise man. When It grows dark is the time to looking for stars. When a day or a succession of days is difficult, just remember that difficulty brings you nearer to some great thing. start I F i I Protests Moss Votes In a letter of June 23 by John H. Has, chair-man, Utah State Democratic Committee, an accu- sation was made of an organized plot to em- - f barrass Sen. Frank E. Moss by using planted letters to various newspapers in the state. This reminds me, as a concerned citizen, that now is the . time to begin working for the senators defeat in 1970. I assure Mr. Klas that this letter is not j backed by any machinery and it comes from no J central source other than my private desk. I do, however, keep track of the voting record of my ' congressmen and hold them responsible for the , quality of government they, in Mr. Moss case, 1m- pose on honest, industrious Americans. In the 89lh Congress, Mr. Moss voted 100 per cent for aid to education, socialized medicine, rent supplements, poverty bill, and elimination of right- His record in the 90th Congress favored such spending increases as national debt limit foreign aid, rent supplements, and contin- uation of the Job Corps. Mr. Moss is one of 35 U.S. senators whose voting record favored the Commu- He nists 100 per cent during the years voted for every one of a series of 18 bills giving aid to Communist nations and decreasing our own defense position. I am glad, Mr. Klas, to read that the campaign against Mr. Moss has already begun, because as the dictates from Washington become more and more intolerable, we in Utah will find greater need to realize our responsibility in helping to create this condition. If you have any plans of returning Mr. Moss to the Senate in 1970 you are up against something stronger than an organized plot or even a working force within the Republican Party. The consciences of the Utah voters will be your problem. 1961-196- -N- The question is often asked wore on the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Pea! Black-Eye- d Day.. .' ORRIS W r , i j I j ' j j I , r, W. GOOLD Ave. 805-18t- h Upgrade TV, Films - During recent weeks we have been treated (?) to several shows on TV, and I particularly refer to the Emmy Awards show. One facet of filmdom and television has struck me very forcibly and that is that we pay no atten- tion to the moral character of those who are sup- by posed to entertain us. The dirtier the write-up- s big magazines, onp can almost guarantee the success of even the most revolting creature. Without mentioning names, your readers will know that some of the stars actually flaunt their immorality before the public, and even include their illegitimate offspring, who are in innocence of what their true position is. Why doesnt someone with the courage to rebuke these people publicly come forward and set a standard that al1 peop'0 who appear before the public, whether in entertainment or talk shows, should be at least what we can call respectable? The type of thing that we get the most of could not be called talent even by the wildest stretch of ones imagination, and yet we suffer through it all. Good shows are canceled smutty shows get top ratings and awards are given to people who have no talent but their immoral character to recom- mend them. I believe that if more people would write and object to the trash that is foisted upon us these days that those TV moguls would rearrange their programs and give us clean and wholesome shows once again. We had them once, why not again? St. George J i j ' l f r i f j d Mission Fails Loulivill Courier Journal i Recent missions by Commerce Secretary Stans to Europe and the Far East do not seem to have J achieved the desired results in obtaining voluntary agreements to curtail certain imports In my opinion, Congress now has no alternative but to impose quotas to restrict these imports. Not f only are our products threatened in some industries, but the balance of payments deficit suf- - , fers as long as the present situation exists. -E- ity symbol!" ' f CLIFFORD HARTLEY But, I'd feel positively naked without it why, it's my secur- t ( t, d ' ' C. SHARP JR. t Lake Jiinaluska, N.C. j DWARD |