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Show fna m&t mm eafejaitt mfr iMgra fc ntiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiuiiimmiiiimmiiiitimiimniiiiiiuniiimiiiimimiuiiiitm 'See how DESERET NEWS I make things disappear, Mr. President1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH i!iii!itiniiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiimiiitiiimmiiiiiimiiiimuiiUimiuimiiiiiiiiiiiiKumiiii We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States Praise For S.L.C. As Having Been Divinely Inspired 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, JULY 7, 1969 I want to express my feelings about beautiful Salt Lake City. I had the pleasure of spending two 1 weeks there during May. Congress Should Get A Move On As Congress returns from its July 4 recess, lawmakers are criticizing the Nixon administration for being slow in submitting legislative requests. But Congress is in a poor position to complain. Here it is halfway through the 1969 session and Congress has enacted only three of Mr. Nixons legislative requests extension of the Presidents reorganization authority, supplemental funds for the Commodity Credit Corp., and an increase in the limit on the national debt. And these three measures were approved before Easter. Moreover, Congressional Quarterly reports that Congress spent less time in session in the first half of 1969 and enacted fewer laws than in the corresponding periods of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, when presidential terms coincided with the opening of a new Congress. As long as Congress waits to react to White House messages instead of taking the initiative, it can expect its power and prestige to keep on waning. With major policy questions concerning national defense, inflation, civil rights, and welfare coming to a head, Congress should quit stalling and start showing some legislative leadership. For example, the missile system has been debated so long and intensively that there is little, if anything, new to be said on the subject. Yet, in the Senate the issue has not yet come up for debate, and in the House the Armed Services Committee hasnt even finished drafting its version. A bill to revise congressional committee procedures, provide for minority staffing on committees, and make mandatory a July 31 adjournment date for Congress awaits floor action by the Senate. In the House, the Rules Committee has yet to take action on a bill strengthening financial disclosure requirements for House members and their staffs. On April 16 the House passed a bill to strengthen control of water pollution by oil and sewage, and to control thermal pollution from atomic power plants. The Senate bill is still in committee. Legislation to extend the Voting Rights of 1965, which expires in August 1970. is under consideration in the House Judiciary Committee. The Senate has scheduled no hearings on the extension. Nor has either house scheduled hearings on the Presidents request that Congress replace the present draft with a lottery-lik- e system. When it came to raising the pay of its own members, Congress showed it could move fast when it wanted to. Now how about expediting some of Americas more urgent unfinished business? Salt Lake City is the most friendly cityuthat I have ever visited. I found the people abovg average when it comes to hospitality. I had the pleasure of meeting many nice people, gained' a friends, and came away with such a wonderful restful feeling. The city itself is just beautiful, it is so nice and clean, the air was so fresh. This is one place that the pedestrian has a chance at still being alive when he gets to the other side of the street, this, made quite an impression on me, as, back east here, its every man for himself. I could go on and on telling you of my thoughts and feelings of your city and the people in it, but I would like to add that for one of my side trips I went to Park City. Again, I had a beautiful day, blue sky, fluffy clouds. What a very unique place. Just a beautiful place to spend a day photographing everything that I cculd see. if - r . i k i l I hope that one day I can return to Salt Lake City. FRED C. KELLEY Bethesda, Md. - Knowles Case: Simple Politics Now that the smoke of the sham battle is blowing away, the struggle over Dr. John H. Knowles may be seen in clearer perspective. What emetges is, that local lib ; first, erals are a bunch '' of bad losers, and second, that it may have been a very good Hung the doc- was dumped. anti-ballist- ic t I J tr I it V, I ought to be I said at the outset that this whole business was vastly . overblown by the Washington press. Our town is populated half by pundits and half by politicians; it is the greatest place on earth for fight. When theres nothing better to do and its been a pretty dull spring we perch on the pediments of the White House, hollering for blood and headlines. On one suspects, beyond the Potomac, most of the country couldnt care less. Anyhow, June was the month of John H. Kncwles, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was the first choice of Welfare Secretary Robert Finch for appointment as assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs. The long and short of the story is that Dr. Knowles didnt get the job; it will go instead to Dr. Roger Egeburg, dean of medicine at the University of Southern California. On the face of it, this would not appear to be the greatest story since the rejection last year of Abe Fortas, but in the lawful combats of the Press Club, JAMES J. KILPATRICK you do the best with what you have. Now they are saying that poor Bobby Finch is dead, stabbed in the back by Richard Nixon. Senator Dirksen is depicted in his trophy room, happy with the head of Dr. Knowles. Meanwhile, the victorious troops of the American Medical Association, like the hordes of Genghis Khan, are viewed w ith hateful awe. Its quite a ' scenario. its mostly hot air. Over the past or 15 years, the federal government has become increasingly involved in public health and medical care. A recent AMA study disclosed that Congress appropriated nearly $17 billion for health purposes in the past fiscal year. Two out of every three dollars spent on medical research now come from the federal treasury. Massive programs of Medicare and Medicaid have taken root iri public finance. These are trends in being; they have been put in motion by lopsided majorilies in the House and Senate. Nothing that Dr. Knowles might And practice the tradition of Under the rules of the game, in these AMA conservatives, having supported Mr. Nixon, surely had a right to press their views on the administration. This .is how the game is played, and liberals ought to know it. Over a long period of years it seemed like eons at the time major executive nominations with the routinely were AFL-CIor with the NAACP, or . with Americans for Democratic Action. Conservatives lost all those battles; we hollered too, but not so stridently, perhaps, as the liberals in defeat last week. cleared, them The outrageous pressures which have frustrated the nomination of Dr. Knowdes are a calamity for the country and an offense to the democratic process, said Senator Brooke of Massachusetts. The dumping of Dr. Knowles was capitulation to the most blatant kind of political blackmail, said Senator Harris of Oklahoma. And Dr. Knowles, for his own part, fired off a stream of angry and embittered statements statements so intemperate, indeed, as to suggest his unfitness for a job that demands the diplomatic skills of a proper bedside manner. Why, then, was Dr. Knowles abandoned? It was politics, Griselda, pure politics, and what is so novel in that? Within the medical profession, Dr. Knowles is known as a hospital man. He had made himself personally obnoxious, in the senatorial phrase, to - influential leaders of the AMA. They didn't like him ; they viewed him as a foe of private What has happened, in brief, is that liberals lost a ball game. It wasn't a calamity; it wasnt an abuse of the democratic process; and it need not result in the political immolation of Robert Finch. The venerable Thomas B. Reed, onetime Speaker of the House, once remarked If liberthat politics is mostly als will swallow this one philosophically, theyll feel better after a while. 10 have done could have affected greatly. g. How To Make Peace T 5 t i I New Postal Competitor The pretty girls in their stylish yellow and orange frocks who bicycle through Wilmington, Del., these days should be enough to make postal officials turn green. Why? Because they are the highly efficient messengers of a privately organized service for the inter-citdelivery of of and these Furthermore, organimany packages. envelopes zations, because of their fast, courteous and reasonable-rat- e service, are flourishing all over the country. By contrast, the U.S. Post Office keeps reducing its service and increasing its rates. As officials of the Wilmington company point out, there would hardly be enough work to keep their corps of cycling messengers busy if Uncle Sam did a really first class job of delivering mail. Poor and costly service provided by the postal department leaves the field wide open for even more private firms to com- y v r ; power to the private competitors. HAIjvArv Bright People In Boring Jobs ' A young man I know who was graduated from college last "month got a job on Monday and was fired on Thursday. His parents, with whom I had dinner the following night, were quite distr essed at his fiasco. From what I know of the young man, it seems to me that he was filed for being too good for the job, not for not being good enough. A bright person often has a harder time holding down an elementary job than a dull, unimaginative person. Thomas Edison was fired from two of his earliest jobs. The first was as a telegraph operator. He became so interested in the machine and its workings that he tried to figure out how to improve it. But I forgot all about the messages that were coming over the wire, he By SYDNEY J. HARRIS later said, and I left a lot of messages unsent or undelivered. Then he took a job in an office where there were a lot of rats running around, and he dreamed up a contraption that and also killed them by the score killed cockroaches. After a few days, the floor was covered with dead roaches, and they fired him for that. Sometimes it may take years after leaving school for a man to find his proper niche in the world; and if there is undue pressure from his parents, or a premature marriage, he may never succeed in finding it. Then, too, unless the bright young person has a considerable amount of tact (and the two rarely go together), he is more likely than not to alienate his supe unless he swiftly learns that one riors of the ways to get along in the world is to consent to be taught things you already know. course, many chronic are simply lazy or incompetent, like the d lad who, after long unemployment, finally found a job in a china-war- e house. The second day on the job. he smashed a large expensive vase, and was summoned to the managers office. Of job-lose- butter-fingere- He was told that the cost of the vase would be deducted from his wages each a total of week until it was paid for $600. the boy Oh, that's wonderful," exclaimed. Im so happy. At last I've got a steady job! opens his mouth, he scares me. In order to get support for the missile Laird p r ogram, has thrown more missile threats at us than all the former Soviet secretaries of defense put together. We're told that if we don't build an ABM system to protect our Minutemen, the Soviets will be able to wipe them out with their MIRVs Vehicles), which they (Multiple weapons have developed as a capability in answer to our MIRV a multiple independently guided vehicle. Our MIRV carries clusters of nuclear warheads as compared to the nuclear missiles, which could only be shot off one at a time. You would think that MIRV would be the ultimate doomsday weapon in our arsenal, but this is not the case. MIRV will nucleopen up a whole new generation of ar hardware, and we might as well be prepared for it. y first-strik- e not only has clusters of missiles, but each cluster reproduces a new generation of missiles while in flight. Wow, I said, that should certainly give us more than parity with the Soviets. except that theyre working on IVAN. What is IVAN? know vehicle Nike, which has clusters of hydrogen warheads set in nitrogren bombs, which can explode within 200 miles of an IRVING." Im sure weve got an answer to it. An independent Oh, I cried, if we can only develop MORTY in time. Even if we did, my friend said sadly, we'd still have to go on. You see, while were talking, the Soviets are doing their preliminary work on SASC1IA. Would you like to know about SASCHA? Could it wait until tomorrow? Why, in the case of the Federal Mann Act, is it always the man who receives the time, when it is the woman who performs the act? The Mann act covers the fact that a woman is transported across a state line for the purpose of prostitution. I have never heard of a woman receiving 10 years for hustling but, I have heard men handed this sentence for pandering. -A- LVIN P. SCHWARTZ Box 250, Draper, Utah Americanism Urged Since most schools have a Spanish club, a Model United Nations, and other clubs, I believe an Americanism Club would be appropriate, too. ; I am confident that most Boys State participants left with a desire to act, to show Americans everywhere that they care, and are anxious to give the students in their schools the same feeling of patriotism that they now have. - MARK RASMUSSEN Student Body President Uintah High School Var Inevitable? Some people are up tight about war and dont even want to talk about it. The great political philosophers who undersland the abnormality of war also accepted it as unavoidable. Plato and Aristotle, St, Augustine and St. Thomas, Grotius and Hobbs, Lock and Hegel all differed on many points but concurred war could not be eliminated from human affairs. to strive Being practical, war can be prevented by abolishing international anarchy or by removing all obstacles which stand in the way of abolishing anarchy, which is the only controllable cause of war. Love and war mean diplomacy and international negotiations. Diplomacy is nothing more than war masquerading under the guise of love. And since wars are interrupted by truce$, the ceasing of violent conflict we mistakenly call peace, we should be prepared to latch on to jevery moment of the truce that is possible. Perhaps historians jolt us too heavily when they report that out of the last 2,500 years ol civilization we have had only 250 years of peace. YVars were going on at all other times. Maybe within the next several hundred years we will learn to be less savage. --W. R. LIVINGSTON Boverlv Hills Calif. They know it, and we know that by their answer to it will be MISHA. As you know, MISHA stands for multiple intercontinental supersonic atomizer. It is. fired down instead ot up, and when it hits the earth's core it explodes and blows up the entire world. Then they have the doomsday - machine? ? I'm replying to Janice Derbyshires, Why not she has never heard of the Entrapment and Encroachment law. The use of a police w'oman as a prostitute is entrapment. No person or thing shall be used, to pose or decoy for the purpose of entrapping or encroaching upon the rights of others. arrest? Perhaps Peace is a goal, an ideal, something for, but something we cant reach. 1987 Ulttvoo WILLIAMS Fargo St. It Is Entrapment Wrong. It stands for megaton oscilthick yield. You fire this w eapon through a hidden garbage disposal unit and in 20 seconds it produces a mushroom cloud, not only around the earth, but over the entire universe. BERNIE stands for ballistic enginuclear evaporator. It neered has 10,000 rockets which, when ignited by a cluster of IRVINGS, can hit every major capital in the world. Good for BERNIE, I said. I'm sure the Russians wouldnt start anything once they knew we had BERNIE. will iiatc . 23GS lating BERNIE? lllt OGER mock-election- We have it in BERNIE. y I have a friend at the Pentagon who said : MIRV is nothing compared to what weve got on the drawing boards. You should see IRVING. What is IRVING? TPVTVG th intercontinental revehicle injector nuclear group. It entry we -R- ly start work on MORTY. I know it stands for multiple something, I said. ART BUCHWALD It would, Someone writes that the present leadership of the Department of Health (I thought this was Carlyle Thompson) was not qualified, or health oriented. This I suppose means, if anything at all. the writer of the letter believes this man is not interested or trained in health or both. These could be quite different things! A man could have much interest and no knowledge or much knowledge ami less interest. He could be well trained by some standards and poorly trained by others. To say lie is not health oriented and is only a politician actually means little more than slander at best. Since the basic health needs are well known and if he were an able politician, he might accomplish more than someone who may have less skill at dealing with people. If he is a good administrator, it may make up for much lack of knowledge. People with knowledge are everywhere. The point is that health is a matter that needs doing something about. There is enough enlightenment available to make any progressive program beneficial, and politicians are perhaps as informed as anyone else, including doctors, in the basic needs of health. I know some schools already have clubs which touch on Americanism, but I would encourage all schools to try to start one. The activities could include: having sponsoring special speakers, having Boy, Waif'll We Get MORTY! I know he doesn't WASHINGTON mean to do it intentionally, but every time Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird Politicians Vs. Doctors 1 Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world, j and it will survive so long as there are women to keep it alive. Perhaps she has never heard of Ma Clipinger or Polly Adler, this countrys leadin': madams of recent years. Perhaps she does not know that the majority of all venereal disease does not come from the professional but from the . legitimate women. v Uncontained conflict now threatens to rip the fabric binding our society. The lesson of this past year is clear: We must improve our capacity to accommodate competing claims if we are to resolve community disputes. And we must find a way to resolve such disputes if we are to survive. When labor mediator Theodore W. Kheel made that observation recently, he was referring strictly to America. But, as was emphasized by the assassination of African political leader Tom Mboya the past weekend, other nations need to learn how to resolve conflicts peacefully, too. How, specifically, can and should serious disputes be settled without resorting to force or violence? Some of the countrys best minds have been exploring that question recently. Here are some of their answers : 1. Try to prevent conflicts by watching for developing frustrations and doing everything possible to cope with them before they fester. 2. When a conflict erupts, establish immediate communication with the disputants and keep the channels open. 3. Keep calm and seek agreement on a cooling-of- f period. 4. Conduct the most delicate negotiations in secret, and insist that neither party disclose publicly its own or the opponents tentative concessions until a measure of agreement has been reached. 5. Whenever possible, provide an alternative outlet for the disputant who is losing a major objective, especially if he is a leader of a group or nation, because leaders find it difficult to obtain approval of compromises without some semblance of victory. 6. If a conflict looks intractable, it sometimes helps for the parties involved to recognize that state of affairs candidly. 7. Identify interests common to the disputants and direct attention to those interests to the greatest possible extent. 8. If a conflict is complex, try to fragment it. When smaller components are settled, it becomes easier to deal with the big ones. 9. Restate the other fellow's viewpoint until he agrees that you understand him correctly. 10. When only two alternatives seem to exist, persist in t rying to find others. As President Nixon observed, the title of peacemaker is among the greatest that history can bestow. If America and other societies are not to founder on violence, more men must aspire to that title. . iiuiiixutWLv f frifK ii iiUMHW |