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Show "Now For A Close Examination" , DESERET NEWS Married A Real Failure When It Comes To Giving I SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 A EDITORIAL PAGE 14, 1969 When the Burtons celebrated their wedding anniversary Richard bought Liz a rare diamond and she bought him a mink full-lengt- h coat. ' When the Duke of Windsor realized it was his anniversary, he flew back from abroad and surprised the with 38 Duchess flavors of her favorite ice cream. No One Hurls Rocks At Santa Claus If the support it has generated is any irtdication, the tax revenue sharing plan that President Nixon outlined to Congress this week or something like it is an idea whose time has come. Lyndon Johnson suggested sharing federal income tax revenue with the states in 1967, and Richard Nixon endorsed the general principle during last years presidential election. In early 1967 at least 57 members of Congress sponsored bills. Since then, at or cosponsored 51 different least one of every five members more than 100 has put his name on some sort of bill involving With hardly an exception, the idea has been endorsed by governors across the nation. And a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business, Inc. shows that 62 per cent of small businessmen favor can be traced to the growThe popularity of on state and local burden governments. While the federal ing debt has increased 20 per cent since World War II, state and local debt has increased 600 per cent. State and local tax rates ' have been rising twice as fast as federal tax rates. Indeed, state and local taxation has been increasing about twice as fast as income is increasing. v But thq .ability of state and local governments to raise adequate Revenues is severely handicapped by the fact the federal government has virtually preempted the most productive tax source,1 the income tax. Uncle Sam claims more than 90 per cent of all income tax collections in this country. Returning federal revenues to the states without any strings attached, as President Nixon suggested, should enable the states to accept more responsibility in providing needed services for their citizens. It should also help to decrease the alarming trend toward more federal domination. then, is like throwing rocks at Criticizing Santa Claus. But there is room for a few reservations. It would be better, of course, if the federal government would simply reduce the crushing tax burden it imposes and let the states take up some of the resulting slack, as needed, with taxes levied and collected by the states. Unnecessary ad- -' ministrative expenses are involved when tax dollars must, figuratively speaking, make a round trip from the states to Washington, D.C. and back. may begin without Moreover, even though tax revenue doled to the income federal strings attached any out to the states, the federal government has a proclivity for insisting on restrictions and controls where none previously existed, then expanding them. its hard to see But even if this happened to how the states would be worse off than they are now, with Washington calling the tune for just about every dollar the states receive in federal grants-in-aiInstead of leading to more federal controls, could have the opposite effect, as intended. If the federal government is really willing to let the states have federal funds to spend as they see fit, sooner or later it ought to dawn on someone that it would be simpler and easier to let the states levy and collect the money in the first place. tax-sharin- Ad- Composer olph Green and his The House of Representatives put in a good days work a couple of weeks ago, when members insisted upon retaining amendments , Salute To A Pilot deal- - g last-minu- ' safety-minde- d te l By ROWLAND EVANS and INSIDE REPORT teachers to these classrooms and white teachers to those, no place remained for compassion or for common sense. The children became faceless ciphers. Integrate! That was the overriding goal, and, if the quality of education suffered, so what? Whittens amendments may not survive; but Dr. Allen would have to have a heart of stone not to be touched by last weeks appeal from Negro parents in Charlotte, N.C. Their 4,200 children are about to be bused like cattle out to the suburbs. Seven old and schools are to be closed altogether. They foresee total disruption of their lives and for what? For artificial integration, imposed by court decree pursuant to federal guidelines. It is this brutal management of peoples lives that Whitten seeks to prevent. He ought to be encouraged. well-love- d sion of the 10 percent surtax, and failure to radically reduce spending are bracketed by Rinfret as reneging on cam- ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON Rising though still alarm by the financial privately-voice- d community over the Nixon Administraeconomic policy is reflected in a e confidential critique which has caused tense anger and worried conversations at the White House during the past month. What makes this critique, written in stridently polemical language, so important to the White House is its source. It comes not from some liberal Democrat seeking partisan advantage but from a Republican and early Nixon supporter: New York economist Pierre Rinfret. Indeed, Rinfret was one of Mr. Nixons most influential economic aides during the 196S campaign, declined an offer to come to Washington as a member of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisors, and still maintains easy access to the White House. Therefore, it was of considerable concern to the Nixon inner circle that on July 3 Rinfred published and distributed to clients of his consulting firm (Rinfret tions two-pag- broad-:d- e Boston Associates, Inc.) a titled "We Accuse. Beginning by accusing the administration and the Fedthe eral Reserve Board of fostering current mood of economic and financial Rinfret concludes with this terror, indictment: We acruse the administration of incompetence. Unlike Lyndon B. Johnson, who reacted to all criticism w ith rage, Mr. Nixons immediate response when shown the Rinfret attack was a desire to talk things over. Rinfret was invited to a meeting of the Quadraid, the governments economic board of strategy, but was unable to s attend. Economic here still want him to come down to chat. But this interest in the Rinfret critique scarcely means the administration is about to accept his ideas or change its own. Rather. Nixon economic policymakers are sticking to the course embarked on in January and severplv attacked by Rinfret: relying on the Federal Reserves tight money policy to slow down inflation. here beThus, any confrontation tween the Nixon men and Rinfret proba ... policy-maker- bly will consist of efforts to get him to subdue his criticism. The circulation of his attack (described to us by one e White-Hous- aide as sheer hysteria) through the panelled offices of American business is intolerable to the administration. And even though Rinfrets views are still respected by the President himself, Nixon s economic largely with academic or banking backgrounds frown upon Rinfrets flamboyant brand of policy-maker- economics. . little else. In its unpreparedness, Rinfret charges, the administration underestimated the inflationary bias of the economy and assumed that inflation could easily be turned off. Specifically, he accuses the Nixon team of failing to understand tiie nature of inflation stemming from the rising cost in services. The additional paign promises. Rinfret most vociferously attacks the stern warning from administration officials and the Federal Reserve Beard which are intended to convince the business community that screws will be tightened until inflation is defeated. The administration, he charges, has been fostering a sense of confusion, of unhappiness, and of apprehension about the future. As for the administratons refusal to business or labor in jawbone Kennedy-Johnsostyle, he contends the abandonment of price-wag- e guidelines created open sesame on prices and wages and thereby enhanced inflation. Because such views are spreading among businessmen, the Rinfret attack should not be read in the White House as the faithless disaffection of a friend. Rather, it is a symptom that the business h worlds confidence in the Nixon Administration has been dissipated in just six months. n However, they are mistaken in viewing Rinfret as merely one noisy troublemaker. His vote of in the Nixon economic policy is mirrored less exuberantly by many on Wall Street. The Rinfret memorandum contends Mr. Nixon got off on the wrong foot: We accuse the administration of totally miscalculating the need for advance economic planning before it got into office and for being totally unprepared once it did. It went into office with slogans and money needed for expansion sky-hig- GUEST CARTOON of services to bring down their costs, he adds, is choked off by the present tight money policy. Moreover, he charges the administration is risking a financial panic by. transferring all the power and responsibility to the Federal Reserve to run monetary policy. you lick inflation by increasing capacity and not by holding it hack. Rinfret says President Nixon's proposed repeal of the 7 percent investment credit eliminating a tax break for increasing capacity "has destroyed the only real hope for resolving inflation. Investment credit repeal, exjen- - . Okay, just say the word and Ill cancel the order for the septic tank and get you some bright colored beads for your anniversary . . . Well? "So whats the word? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 'Atheistic U.N May I commend Taylor Turner of Provo on his letter about the United Nations. How many people have read the Charter of the United Nations which is atheist and parallels the Communist Manifesto? The entire program of the U.N. is symbolized by the pagan sex god Zeus that stands in all lewdness at the entrance of the U.N. in New York. The U.N. is a materialistic organization which starts off its first article declaring faith in human beings and brotherhood. Nowhere in its entire structure does it refer to a supernatural creator or assert that God endows mankind with specific rights. Do you know that the U.N. Charter was framed and ratified in only two months and two days with-- , out the American people having any knowledge or understanding of it? We were launched into a world organization which seriously impairs our sovereignty by depriving us of the right to manage our foreign affairs. The Security Council, not the President of the United States, makes the call and sends our troops to the place it determines. Did you know that congressional laws are invalid if they do not conform to the Constitution, whereas treaty laws can override the Constitution? Treaties, for example, can take powers away from Congress and give them to the President; they can take powers from the states and give them to the federal government or to some international body and they can cut across the rights given the people Bill of Rights. by the constitutional When the United States sits down in the U.N. its like asking J. E. Hoover to sit down with the Mafia to discuss crime in America. -V- ENEDEE TURNBULL Dragerton Hits Medical Costs One of the major problems of our times is the with inaderapid rise in medical costs together of our popquate medical care for a large segment ulation. It is important to consider all aspects of this vital problem. We feel the Deseret News is not presenting all doing the public a disservice by sides of the debate concerning medical costs and services in the U.S. For the most part your reof porting favors the point of view the major perpetrators of our present medical crisis, the American Medical Association and its affiliates. The number of students admitted to our medical schools has increased by only a small percentage since the early 1990s. Our population has nearly forced to tripled during the same period. One is ask why the supply of doctors has not responded to the increased demand for their services. Is there an artificial restraint on supply? In our society we have given the doctors virtually complete control over entry into the medical profession, which puts them in the enviable position of being able to raise their own incomes by holding down the number of entrants into their profession. The allegations that the medical profession is deliberately restricting the supply of doctors seems to be supported by observing the large number of qualified applicants turned away from our local medical school every year in the face of an increasing demand for doctors here in Utah as well as nationally. The problem of exorbitant medical costs is an economic one as well as a social one. We suggest that your reporters become acquainted with the views of members of the economics profession and experts in related fields that are more concerned about the public welfare than the AMA is. It is interesting to note that one of the most outstanding and capable advocates of the private free enterprise system, Milton Friedman (tormer economic advisor to Barry Gold water), is one of the most outspoken critics of the AMA and its activities. -J- OHN SOUTH 310 University Village -- GARY CLAYTON 524 University Village Land War Mistake , Contending that There you go. You always see me as a domestic drudge, a kitchen slave, a garage mechanic, an outdoorsman or practical Sarah. Why cant you see me as I really am? A sexy, lonely, desirable, , materialistic woman! federal aid to Financial Critic Worries Nixon two-pag- e The men who pilot helicopters on rescue missions are a special breed. They have to be. It isnt that they're daredevils or take needless risks. Its just that when a helicopter is called in to do a rescue job, its often only after all other methods have been tried and failed. Rex Ferguson of Sandy, who piloted a helicopter for Key Aviation, was talking- about this only the other day. He recalled in particular one air rescue mission he was called on to do after fixed-winaircraft had been at it two or three in short order, but by the time he the done Rex got job days. got there it was too late. A life was lost, and Rex regretted that his helicopter hadnt been called upon earlier. This week Rex himself lost his life when his helicopter crashed and burned while trying to land a fire fighting crew in Dry Creek Canyon five miles northeast of Alpine. Unlike the situation Rex had been talking about, the episode in which he lost his life wasnt a rush job. In fact, fellow pdots desciibe it as a routine job, and Rex as a flier. conscientious, thorough, Bi t the point Rex Ferguson made about its being better to call in rescuers too soon instead of too late certainly bears repeating. And Rex himself certainly rates a salute for having saved many lives in rescue flying missions throughout Utah. end-al- Dr. Allen ought to understand this growing resentment and concern. In the days before he came on the scene, agents of the commisisoners office were roaming the South in the fashion of Reconstruction proconsuls. Many of them were quite young and utterly inexperienced. They often were arrogant beyond belief. They had packed their carpetbags with guidelines, theories, and threats to cut off the federal money. Do as we say! they demanded; and flew grandly back to Washington. In their furious orders to shift pupils here, combine schools there, assign black . policy-makin- policy-makin- and be-a- ll I bought you last Christmas set me back over a hundred bucks. mHmimiiiiimiiKiiiiimmmiiimiiiiiiiimiiimHmimniiiiiiiimmiiiiiHmmimii education. hope that the effort fails. It would be a salutary thing to see the language preserved intact. After all, whats so wrong with the Whitten restrictions? Opponents charged in floor debate that Whittens provisions were dangerous, disastrous, obnoxious, calculated to crush civil and iniquitous rights, rape the Constitution, violate the Bill of Rights, and trample upon the conscience and dignity of man. It was freely Mr. Kilpatrick by Mi ssissippis predicted that if the language were acJamie Whitten are not phrased with pure cepted, the South would return to segrefelicity, but their meaning is tolerably gation, degradation and slavery through clear: No part of the funds contained in the device of freedom of choice, and this act may be used to force busing of opponents appealed to heaven to forfend students, the abolishment of any school, so cruel a betrayal or to force any student attending any eleThis was mostly hot air. Nothing in mentary or secondary school to attend a the Whitten amendment would prevent particular school against the choice of federal courts from interpreting the his or her parents or parent. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of When this identical language was 1964 as they please. Nothing would preinserted in the approvent school boards from voluntarily priation bill of 1968, the Senate watered adopting desegregation plans that might it down by adding in order to overcome include the of children, the abanracial imbalance. The Commissioner of donment of busing schools, or the transfer of Education said his office could live with students with parental consent. their object heh, heh that, since What the Whitten amendment might wasnt to overcome racial Imbalance, but accomplish, however, is this: It might to achieve desegregation, and these were the Office of Education on notice, put two different things. through its new commissioner, James E. Doubtless an effort will be made in Allen, Jr., that the Congress and the the Senate to repeat the process this country are fed to the teeth with the doctime. Some of us who have followed the trinaire methods that have been Office of Education over the years will employed to achieve racial integration as would two-thir- the ing with federal aid to education. The Senate may nullify the gesture, as it did a year ago, but the gesture is worth making anyhow. The two sections inserted in the bill d. - JAMES J. KILPATRICK Whitten the tax-sharin- g, The bill, sponsored by Sen. Joseph Tydings of Maryland, set up a commission of five federal judges appointed by the chief justice to investigate complaints about a judges behavior. Upon finding misconduct, the U.S. Judicial Conferg arm of the federal judiciary, could reence, the move the judge from his duties. The ousted judge, however, could appeal the conference decision to the Supreme Court. Its no secret that political considerations can and often do outweigh professional competence in making appointments to the federal judiciary. Once judges are in office, though they may become senile, chronically ill, alcoholic, or otherwise unfit, there is no way but through impeachment to remove them from the bench. But the difficulty of doing this is demonstrated by the fact that while 55 judges have been subjected to a congressional inquiry looking toward impeachment, only four have ever been removed (eight were censured but not impeached, J7 resigned, and the rest were found innocent). Impeachment, furthermore, requires the House of Representatives to bring charges, and then the Senate to sit as a court to try the accused. Even then, a majority is to oust an unfit necessary judge. With impeachment being the only recourse, and a cumbersome and too often ineffective process at that, the ABAs g House of Delegates should certainly reassess the Tydings proposal when it meets again in February. e Whitten Amendment Has Value n With the need so great for other means of removing unfit federal judges than by impeachment, its a shame that the American Bar Associations House of Delegates this week rejected endorsement of a bill designed to cure the problem. Mrs. Bombeeb . g To Oust A Judge things? "Expensive! That hitch for the trailer . house. tax-sharin- g. tax-shari- baubles I have never regarded myself as a sentimental woman but on our first anniversary when he told me the symbol was paper and handed me a fishing license with his name on it I began to suspect what I was in for. "I hope youre not getting me a hot I water heater for our anniversary, snapped. If you do Ill take it back. "Dont be ridiculous, he said. "We just got one for your birthday a couple of years ago. "No, thats when I got the snow tires. Remember you said wed all use them, but deep inside Id know they were my tires. tax-shari- well-know- "You just put your finger on the problem. Why cant you be like other husbands who buy their wives sentimental or outrageously expensive This week I have been married 20 years to a man who shops for Mothers Day in a hardware store, birthdays in a gas station, and Christmas in a plumbing-sUppl- y tax-sharin- g. tax-sharin- g, "This year your anniversary is very personal. "Lef me guess. A cemetery lot? A new partial plate? A gift certificate for $10 at Floyds Bait Shop? I think youll agree its something you need. Phyllis Newman have an arthat wonderful love song of rangement Just In Time to celebrate their anniver' sary; a gift of Leonard Bernstein. actress-wif- g tax-sharin- ERMA BOMBECK "There ought to be a better way to grow lettuce!" Christian Sciencf Monitor Gen. Douglas MacArthur said, getting into a ground war in Asia is one of the biggest mistakes we could possibly make. Out of our 540,000 Americans in South Vietnam, we have fewer than 160,000 combat troops. The rest are for logistic support and communications, etc. Lets hope we turn it all over to the South Vietnamese soon. COL. W, R. LIVINGSTON Beverly Ijills, Calif. 1 ! I |