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Show Idea?' 'Any Other DESERET NEWS imtttiuttiramimuiqiuiflmniituiummHimumuiitmuHiiuuimitimiiiumHtt LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ; Gives Kennedy 'Facts' We Stand ForiThe Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired to A EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY, There are more facts that need to be presented, and more questions to be asked than were asked by Lavon Miller of Kearns. Consider these: Kennedy was in Edgartown for the Yacht Club Regatta. Teddy and five friends had rented rooms at the Shiretown Inn, and had made arrangements for six girls at the Katama Shores, about, 3 miles away. A party was planned that night across the chan- ,nel at Chappaquiddick, where a cottage had been rented. The party was described by neighbors as a "loud, noisy brawl, that lasted until about 1:30' ' 13, 1969 AUGUST . How To Fight Crime Without A Badge a.m, the first place. Nixon s Plan For GOP Success THE DRUMMONDS ... By ROSCOE and A Bank For Jobs . . 'A f A national computerized job bank, which President Nixon requested from Congress this week, is desirable, if not essen- -. lial, in providing effectively for more widespread employment. For too long, it has been possible for a group of jobs to be available in one area of the country and at the same time there be a pool of prospective job holders in another area, d with neither employers, nor unemployed individuals knowing of each others plight. But, as President Nixon pointed out to Congress, the job bank could help correct this situation by matching job seekers with job vacancies. Granted, the prospect of the governments starting one more program involving collection and storing of personal data on many individuals raises some fears over federal intervention in citizens private lives. But, as President Nixon indicated in attempting to allay such concern, "The computers of the job bank would be programmed with constantly changing data on available jobs. A job seeker would tell an employment counsellor his training or employment background, his skills and career plans, which could be matched with . . . available job options. And if job qualifications are kept as the only criteria, as seems to be the case in the Presidents proposal, it js conceivable that the job bank could work using only identification numbers instead of the names of individuals involved. In any case, the job bank coupled with increased manpower training programs the President also seeks can serve to expand the workers freedom of choice, make the best use of his talent and in turn improve the economy. short-hande- President Nixon's new welfare and other domestic programs are designed in part to build' a national Republican majority to keep the GOP in power for years. Here's how: 1 An immediate start on federal revenue sharing with states and cities to decentralize Big Government and put money where it can best be spent. This . . is a highly popular conservative goal which Democratic liberals toyed with before President Johnson threw it away. 2 Increasing the income of people on relief by putting a floor of federally financed welfare payments in every state, reaching to about $1,600 for a family of four. ' 3 And at the same time Mr. Nixon aims to ease the widespread resentment of the working poor who see nonworking families on relief getting more from the government than they can earn. Hes doing this by providing, for the first time, wage supplements for the working poor who could thereby achieve an annual income as high as $3,900 before the wage supplements cease. This would be a tremendous financial and psychological boon to a large segment of society which, heretofore, has had little reason to feel that President Nixon was its friend. It suggests that the President is more pragmatist than conservative. He sees decentralizing big government through federal revenue sharing as neither conservative nor liberal but as desirable to get things more efficiently done. ' While the President is conservative in fiscal policy, his developing program shows that he is, quite prepared to use the resources of the national government to deal with a wide range of social Nixon will also be winning endorsement by his emphasis on getting people off relief rolls and onto payrolls. He is doing this by requiring almost every person on relief to take or government-financejob training ' lose their payments. 4 middle-clas- Mr. s d There is more and all of it can help build a Republican voter coalition sub' stantially in the political center.The tax reform bill, already passed by the House, will take 2 million very poor off the tax rolls entirely and will benefit most all taxpayers except the rich. The President has asked Congress to extend unemployment Insurance to nearly 5 million workers now not covered. He is proposing to add a billion dollars to deal more effectively with hunger. All of these actions are modest when measured against the magnitude of the problem. They are modest for the reason Mr. Nixon believes to be controlling that much larger federal spending must wait because he doesn't have the money for spending until he ends the Vietnamese war and gets inflation under control. But the emerging Nixon domestic program goes further than many of his critics - programs. them. He doesn't intend to neglect His political direction remains centrist despite the pressure of some within the Administration to persuade him to move further to the right in order to appeal to the Wallace conservatives. Thus far he isnt doing much in this direction. Mr. Nixon is not counting primarily on his domestic programs to insure his He knows it will take several years before they yield sufficient results to have major political impact. He is aiming to build for the further, future both . for himself and for his party. This doesnt mean he expects to be a President. He believes that cool in foreign and creative leadership affairs, including an end to the Vietnamese war, will enable him to retain political ascendency. - one-ter- , - In this difficult period of transition we are living through, our society has not yet arrived at the proper equation between men and machines. Machines should be used for tasks that are subhuman or superhuman, but they cannot replace the human factor without doing more harm than good. One dramatic example of our lopsided equation today is provided by Dr. Robert H. Moser, Chief of the Department of Medicine at Walter Reed HospitaL In a recent issue of Medical Opinion and Review. he discussed the new Coronary Care Units in the treatment of heart attacks. Stressing the importance of the first 24 hours in the detection and correction of these acute infractions, he points out that Glistening hardware that bleeps and flashes ominous signals is worthless without a human receptor capable of swift, disciplined response. Many hospitals, he suggests, have not grasped the concept of acute coronary care: It seems I am always stumbling over pudgy hospital administrators who display their recently acquired electronic gadgetry with an emotion reminiscent of an octogenarian presenting a recently sired son. The sophisticated hardware is trumpeted with the same eagerness as the pump oxygenator and the hemodi-alyze- r, other symbols of hospital influence. , he goes on, "is The only problem, that in the email hours of the night the dials and lights are patrolled by a frightn technician perched on ened, the edge of panic, whose only function is to press an appropriate button to summon a physician from a distant comer of the hospital. The presence of the equipment provides some ridiculous kind of or, worse, a feeling proprietary pride of security. "It would be highly preferable, Dr. Moser suggests, "to have a half-gree- well-traine- d Yuur recent editorial entitled "Is This Tiff Necessary? causes me to write this letter explaining ' the situation. A year ago when the University of Utah in Salt Lake City wished to rehabilitate the U and place lights around It, I was asked to lend a hand. The Department of the Interior said that this could not be done under, the terms of the deed which transferred the land to Salt Lake City. I made every effort right to the secretary level to get a favorable response from the department. The ruling was adverse. So A doctor's life in Paris can be a very inteiesting one, particularly when he is called upon to treat visiting tourists. PARIS Recently a doctor friend of mine was called in the late afternoon to a hotel by a woman years of service this month, the Hospital who said she d thought her husband was having a heart attack. When he -- strived the wife was hysterical and while the doctor was examining the patient, the wife kept berating her husband. "I told ou you shouldn't work so hard. How many times have I told you to slow down? You think you're a young man, but youie not any more and this should be a lesson to you. Business, business. business. That's all you ever think of. But you've nev er thought of me. What good is all your business if things like this are going to happen? Doctor, is he going to be all right. "Well." the doctor said, all this talking isn't helping him much, nor is all this shouting and hysteria. We're going to have to take a cardiogram. A caidiogram!" the wife scieamed at her husband. How many times have I told you to take it easy? How many times have I said you'd wind up like all your friends who worked all the time? But you wouldn't listen. No, you were too smart. Now you have to have a cardiogram." the doctor said patiently, Madam, there is nothing wrong with taking a cardiogtam. I don't think there is anything wrong with your husband but I just want to make sure. Now please try to be quiet and let your husband rest until I can get a specialist to come over with the equipment. "Thats easy for you to say, the wife cried, but you've never seen him work. Day and night, that's all he ever thinks his business. How many times I about have said: 'Keep it up. just keep it up. make a widow out of me. Then see w hat good your sales charts e to you. Did he listen to me? He did not. Now look at him stretched out there on the bed. Doctor, money is no object; just get him better, thats all I ask. The doctor said: "Madam, I told you I don't think there is anything wrong with your husband. He just looks to me as if lies very tired and needs some rest. Apparently he's been going at a terrible pace. You can say that again, the wife said. I told him to slow down. I . , The doctor went into the other room to call a cardiogram specialist. Two hours latei the specialist arrived with his nurse, and the doctor returned to see the results: The eardiogiam showed that there was nothing wrong with the husband. my bill. flip-flo- RANK E. MOSS Senator U.S. Support The Symphony i Will the culture of Salt Lake City ever be prominent enough to justify a Utah Symphony performance in the Salt Palace? Questions of this nature surely occurred to nearly every member of the audience at last Wednesday nights performance. The Utah Symphony, of which most Utahns claim to be proud, played an appealing selection of symphonic favorites to an audience lost in a sea of empty, cushioned seats. Had the noisy air conditioner been turned off, it is doubtful that such a small audience would even start to have heated up that magnificent hockey arena. As Ardean .Watts faced the. silent orchestra to begin the first piece, the' few people who came to discover how, delightful concert-goin- g can be jn Salt Lakes most curious and controversial ney building appeared unwilling to believe tire performance was to begin before tire audience arrived. But that audience never arrived. x That audience which never arrived is made up of those who have often in the past attended of the Utah Symphony, of those who would only consider going if a guest performer had come to boost admission prices, and of those who havent appreciated serious music enough in the past to endure the old hard seats and warm temperatures. All of these people missed a delightful evening. , The audience applauded their hardest but it was not loud in that large room. Surely, many who saw that performance will for the first time in their lives buy season tickets to the Utah Symphony. Hopefully, Salt Lake will soon awaken to the fine things available in the heart of its own community 2nd not let them pass by with such embarrasingly ! slight response. , , The wife was tremendously relieved. gift from heaven, she said. "We can even go to the Lido tonight. Im a little tired, the husband said weakly. "What about me after what Iva been through today? You're always thinking of yourself. The doctor tried to help the husband. I do think your husband should take it easy for a week or so. Why dont you go to Switzerland and rest for 10 days? "I didnt come to Europe to rest in the wife replied. "I came Switzerland, here to have a good time and tired or not, were going to have it. Its R.e having a favorites) e I introduced Then, with no formal opinion or action of any p sort, there was a sudden announcement of a in the department. By this time, my bill was already set for hearing. Under the circumstances, I thought that the proper thing to do was to make the record and to show what had occurred. The members of the subcommittee feel that bill should be approved so that Utah would not be faced with a legal objection at some time in the future. -F- See Europe And Rest (NOTE: Art Buchwild has son mt quarantine for a few weeks so that he ooesn't give the astronauts any eerms We are reprinting some of hi I , attendant or nurse who is able to look at a patient, make a rapid assessment . . . and take immediate corrective action while pushing the button. Coronary Care Units have significantly decreased mortality in (heart attacks), but there is an urgent need for personnel to man the machines.. An estimate in the Annals of Internal Medicine last year showed that an output of some 60,000 coronary care nurses would be needed to give full coverage in the U.S. whereas the coronary care program was turning out or v about 1,000 nurses each year. If the iresent units cant be adequately staffed, how can we possibly expand the program? Reliance on technology can become a terrible trap, if this technology is looked upon as a substitute for people rather than as an added tool for human skill, judgment and concern. Those bleeps and flashes can only warn; they cannot cure, and they do not care. . Explains Lighting Action The Technology Trap , The Value Of HOPE Peace Corps has Ship HOPE a type of privately-operatemore than proven its value in making friends for America and alleviating much suffering throughout the world. This month the' HOPE will be visiting Tunisia, where aff members will work for 0 months with medical students, interns, and residents. In the last decade. Project HOPE, which sponsors the shii through contributions from Americans, has trained more than 5.100 doctors, nurses and paramedical personnel and touched the lives of more than two million persons on four continents. The ship has visited Indonesia. Vietnam, Peru, Ecuador, Guinea, Nicaragua. Colombia and Ceylon. On many occasions, the HOPE has been a phenomenon in international relations, in both counteracting the Ugly Ameri-Tra- n image and thwarting Communist activities. For example, when this floating export of American goodwill stopped in Peru. Communists plastered the port city of Trujillo with i signs reading Cuba, Si! Yankee, No!' But when, the ship Z departed, the signs weie long gone and, instead, some 20,000 I grateful Peruvians held a gigantic farewell ceremony and then tossed flowers onto the water as the ship lifted anchor. More requests for the HOPES mercy services are now received than can be met. In view of the outstanding record, why cant the HOPE be supplemented with a new sister ship to help bind up some more of the worlds wounds? , hard-surface- By SYDNEY J. HARRIS . In completing 10 expected. It significantly foreshadows the shape of things to come. GEOFFREY DRUMMOND , For example, when San Francisco posted No All Night rarking signs, both its robbery and burglary rates dropped by 81 per cent. With cars no longer allowed to park on the streets at night, it was easier for police to spot prowlers. When you go out at night, do you leave a light burning at home to ward off prowlers? If so, what light? The best light to leave on, according to the experts, is not the one in the room that outsiders can see is empty but the one in the bathroom. Zoning cfficials can help by making sure that every alley is wide enough for police to drive through quickly and see into thoroughly. Moreover, city planners could group high-ris- k buildings in one part of the city for easy surveillance, just as items for their own prodepartment stores cluster high-ris- k tection. If America is to come to grips with a crime rate that doubles in less than a decade, fighting crime must become the job of every conscientious citizen, not just those who happen to wear a badge. , Sometime around 11 cr 12 that night Teddy took" his fateful ride with Miss Kopechne. His statement of what occurred was made after consultation with his attorney. A local resident believes he saw Kennedy's car around 12:40 a.m. The ferry closes at 12:30. He also thinks he saw two women in Teddys car. A womans purse found in the submerged car belonged to the senators secretary, not Miss . , Kopechne. Kennedy claims he was unfamiliar with thjs road. Residents of the island say he has frequenter visited the island and believe he has been at thq cottage where the party was held several time?. Reporters who drove the same route Kennedy maintains he took are skeptical. The road that ' leads d the only o the ferry is paved road on the island. It is marked in advance with a directional warning arrow pointing to the left that shows up clearly at night. The narrow beach road runs off sharply to the right from the main road. Its entrance is almost hidden from public view; it Is necessary to slow to 10 mph to make r the abrupt 90 degree turn. j Why did Kennedy summon aid from the four qr five lighted cottages near the bridge? Who took him .across the channel, since the ferry was closed? Sources from the party say his first words upon coming beck were ."Get me Markham (his attor- ney). Is a man who immediately remembers to ' call his attorney in a state of shock? Will any of these questions ever be answered? CHARMAYNE KASPARIAN 2798 W. Lou Jean SJt. , - The chances of becoming the victim of a crime re nearly twice as great today as they were in 1960. Serious crimes in the U.S. are being committed at the rate of eight a minute. That includes a murder every 39 minutes, a forcible rape every 17 minutes, an aggravated assault every two minutes, a burglary every 17 seconds, a larceny every 25 seconds, and an auto theft every 41 seconds. Since 1960, arrests of persons under 18 years of age dou- bled while the population of this age group increased only 25 peb rent. In property losses alone, crime cost Americans , $1,059,000,000 last year. That includes $100 million in auto thefts, $344 million in other thefts, $70 million in robberies, and $545 million in burglaries. In Utah, there were 2,172 more crimes last year than in ! 1967, an increase that is in line with the 17 per cent rise in crime all over the U.S. in 1968. These are the main dimensions of the crime problem as outlined by the FBI in its annual Uniform Crime Report that it released today. Whats to be done about that problem ? More police are part of the answer, of course. Last year the number of police employees in America per 1,000 population increased from 2 to only 2.1 while the number of serious crimes soared 17 per cent. This despite the fact that, as Norman E. Cash observes in the National Industrial Conference Board Record: A simple Walk Dont Walk sign costs as much to install and operate as two new policemen are paid in New York City. Would we rather obey the simple law against jaywalking and add two new policemen, or must we have more machines for even the simplest of crimes? Beyond getting more men in blue, we all can take a number of steps to help prevent crimes from being committed in GUEST CARTOON a-- Lou Gut Issue hyni, LouiWill ' " STEVE GLENDE 2309 Yermo Ave. Protests Tax Plan Our progressive income tax system is not only unfair to those who have to shoulder a disproportionate share of the expense of running our government; but there are at least two other evils assoei-- . : ated with it. The first is the way it effectively quells individual initiative. Consider the person who works eight hours a day. In many instances, working nine hours would put this individual in a higher incorhe bracket. The ninth hour would then not be worth as much to him monetarily as the eighth hour. Hence, our income tax systenS tends to discourage Increased productivity. Perhaps the greatest evil of our tax system',is that it causes the average person to put up with higher taxes than he normally would simply because he thinks the rich are paying for most of tfie benefits the majority get from the government, In reality, 70 per cent of the income tax is paid by people with adjusted gross incomes under $20,1)00 because these people constitute 97.5 per cent of all income tax payers and they have more than 80 per cent of the countrys taxable income. Some congressmen have suggested that tax reform should include a higher tax rate on the income of the more successful members of our society single individuals making more than $50,000 and fami-- . lies with incomes of more than $100,000. Lets fet our congressmen know that we dont want the evils of our tax system multiplied by having this proposal made into law. -- DENNIS ROBINS&N Courior Jourotl - 1907 S. 26th East |