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Show 'Remember when it yas the students who dreaded the start of school ?' DESERET NEWS ERMA BOMBECK SALT LAKE CITT, UTAH , He's Lost In Space k We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE FRIDAY, AUGUST even Plan Ahead To Cope where! I can Everglades Vs. Jetport If size alone assui'ed the protection of a national park, the future of the Everglades in Florida would be secure. Covering more than 2,000 square miles of watery landscape, Everglades National Park on Floridas southern tip is as big as the state of Delaware. Unhappily, however, Everglades, is rated by Undersecretary of Interior Russell E. Train as the most gravely endangered national park in the nation. Despite a national outcry, poachers illegally take several thousand alligator hides a year out of the Everglades. A park which once contained 1 million of these relics from prehistoric times, now has only about 20,000 of them. Another threat is network of canals adjacent to the park posed by a 1,400-mil- e that has been allowed to divert 1.6 billion gallons of water a day from the Everglades, endangering the balance of nature there. And now construction is going ahead on a jetport at the edge of the Everglades, with the approval of the Department of Transportation, even though the project is opposed by the Interior Department and major conservationist groups. Because of the split between the two federal agencies, the decision on whether work on the jetport continues or stops is in the hands of President Nixon. The jetport is expected to bring 1 million new residents to the area -- along with air and noise pollution, sewage, fertilizer, and insecticide runoffs into the waters of the Everglades. with the jetport if Maybe the Everglades could no other harmful influences were being exerted on the park. But the park was already facing serious dangers before the jetport came along. Other airport sites are available, but there is only one Everglades. If the jetport cant be halted, stringent safeguards should be provided to keep it from ruining a unique national park. r co-exi- st Slow Cars, Keep Right Last month this page noted that too many Utah motorists were hogging the left lane of traffic while driving at unnecessarily low speeds. So its gratifying to see that Superintendent Ray II. Evans of the Utah Highway Patrol this week oixlered stepped up efforts to crack down on this practice. For the benefit of those who didnt get the message the first time around, we repeat: The left lane of multi-lan- e highways is for motorists who want to travel at or near the maximum posted speed, While the right lane is for drivers who want to travel slower. The law provides that those who impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic and with the promised crackdown on the can be ticketed part of the Highway Patrol, the chances of being ticketed are now greater. e drivers who hog the left lane are a Moreover,' to and themselves others. They tempt other drivei3 danger car. to take risks in order to get around the Freeways especially are intended to move traffic at fairly' rapid speeds with maximum safety. Now some Utah motorists need to be educated, by the law if necessary, that freeway driving is different from motoring along a back country road. slow-pok- g . . something can't happen here have yet to learn that anything that has happened to mankind anywhere can also happen here, for our similarities to the rest of thfr human race are far greaterlthan our differences. Weve been driving for hours. Why dont we stop and ask' directions at a service station? Why are you so stubborn? What' would happen if you stopped and asked directions? Would your beard stop grow and mumble, Heads right; tails left its still , yourself. take out a coin few weeks? too soon to answer that question precisely, this much is certain: " First, since campus chaos has spread widely across the country, there can be no excuse for universities not being prepared in advance with definite plans for dealing with violence, including provisional understandings on cooperating with local police. Second, if the colleges cant keep their own houses in order, they will weaken public confidence and invite the nations lawmakers to take stem measures. Moreover, college teachers and administrators certainly shotild have learned some fundamental lessons from previous campus confrontations. Instead of being granted amnesty, students who use violence or destroy property should be suspended or expelled. Otherwise, the seeds will be sown for future disorder.! that can grow out of disrespect for the law. Thats one lesson that should have been learned. Another is the folly of negotiating with student rebels under duress namely, when rioters detain college personnel or occupy campus buildings. Moral cowardice should have no place in institutions dedicated to reason, not force. Faculty members who agitate students to engage in violence should be dismissed. Academic freedom is no license for academic irresponsibility. Security forces should be strengthened where more trouble can be expected. Some colleges also are adding to their legal staffs. Others, according to U.S. News & World Report, have drawn up applications for court injunctions to restrain campus violence, with only the date and names of defendants to be filled in. At the same time, student demonstrations and protests should be permitted as long as they are peaceful. Freedom of speech and redress of grievances are fundamental principles in America. ' Violence might be avoided simply by meeting those student demands which are reasonable, and many are. Students should have a voice in campus affairs but having a voice doesnt mean always having the last word. ' Finally, colleges shouldnt let themselves be provoked into excesses that can prod the moderate majority into embracing violence. Most students want reform, not revolution. always tell when my husband is host. At a crossroad he will Just how well prepared are Americas colleges to handle further student strife after the schools reopen during the next . Afterthought Those who insist that at birth, men are reluctant to ask directions any- With Student Strife slow-movin- That had: have While Look, dont you worry about driving the car. You just keep the baby quiet and dry, see to it little Charlie doesnt, bleed all over the slipcovers, that Eloise doesnt get sick again, that the two boys dont fall out of the car fighting over who sits next to the window and entertain them with some kind of a fun game. In other words, sit back and enjoy An obstetrician once made the observation that male babies take longer to deliver. This bears out an old theory I 29, 1969 Or he will snap on the car radio and yell, Hold it down until I see where this station is originating from. Are we lost? I ask him. Certainly not, he says. Why do ycu ask? Because we are in a field of timothy and a cow is nibbling away on the radio antenna. ( Give me the road map. Are you going to accuse me of moving the Mississippi River again? .Of course not . . . hah! Those fools obviously just let 143 dangle out here in a cornfield. If you cant trust AAA, I always say, who can you trust? Here comes a farmer, why dont you ask direction? Because I am not lost. All I. do is go back to where that hound dog is sleeping in the road, pick up 17 and that will take us right back to the interstate. Weve passed that hound dog so often now he thinks were family. ' Food Stamps: A Temporary Evil?' INSIDE REPORT By ROWLAND EVANS add ROBERT NOVAK After two weeks of transcontinental bickering among White House staffers over welfare payments versus food distribution, the Nixon Administrations tentative position has emerged: reluctant approval of food stamps but only as a temporary evil. Indeed, food stamps might have disappeared from the Nixon program entirely had it not been for frantic lobbying inside the administration by Dr. Jean Mayer, the brilliant and combative Harvard nutritionist who signed on in June as the President's food consultant. New to Washington and to politics, Mayer worked behind the scenes to prevent Mr. Nixons welfare program from wiping out food stamps. But even though Mayer has managed to save food stamps for now, the program is doomed in the long run. The administration wants to get rid of food stamps, one top White House aide told us. The program separates the poor from the rest of the people by giving them their own currency. Besides, it doesnt woik. This sets the framework for a battle, both partisan and ideological, likely to last throughout Mr. Nixons first term. Liberal Democrats, loathe to give the President credit for his revolutionary welfare reform, will attack him for slighting the hungry poor. The adminis- WASHINGTON confused tration, for its part, will accuse the Democrats of paternalism that does not trust the poor to wisely handle cold cash. This debate, in considerably more muted terms, has been fought out inside the administration all summer since the arrival of Dr. Mayer. Following President Nixons May 6 statement on hunger, Mayer was talked into coming to Washington to set up the Presidents White House conference on hunger at the urgDr. Daniel Patrick ing of an old friend Moynihan, the Presidents assistant for urban affairs. Mayer found some allies here in Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch and Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin. But he encountered even more skeptics. Dr. Arthur Bums, the chief fiscal conservative in the White House, was less than happy over still another spending scheme. John Ehrlich-matop presidential aide for domestic affairs, was skeptical. More surprising and more significant was the coolness from Moynihan. Devoted to his project of transforming the outlandish welfare system into a guaranteed minimum income for the poor, Moynihan was uninterested in draining off scarce federal money into food distribution schemes. The order of precedence inside the administration was made clear on Aug. 8 n, By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The police force Is a relaonly about tively modern institution 130 years old. During all of antiquity and the Middle Ages, up to the Industrial Revolution, there was no general police power. The wealthy used to have their own and protective services, bodyguards while the poor were victimized by bandits, cutpurses and hoodlums throughout history. It was Henry Fielding, the British author and judge, who devised the idea of the modern police force. While Fieldings idea worked well for a time and better in England than in the U.S. it was meant for a different era and a different culture than ours. Our present police administration is obsolete, and cannot possibly work in the contemporary urban setting, no matter how much money we spend or how many more police we employ. We require a whole new concept of police power: one that is especially populations made geared for up oi many minority groups, where the sense of community" has been almost totally replaced by a subculture which looks upon itself as the victims, not the beneficiaries, of police power. For the old kind of police administration can work only when as in Engmost people consider themselves land as an integral part of the fabric of society, and when the police are seen as the impartial protectors of this fabric. Such a feeling no longer exists, if it ever did, among the alienated masses in the large American cities. This means a and a restructuring of the whole policing concept. It means that the police cannot be used as an occupying army to impose the larger cultures will upon the subcultures for that way lies insurrection and, ev ntually. a permanent garrison state. We need new ideas more than we need new men. new equipment, new weapons, new security tactics. None of these will help they will only aggraunless and until we vate the situation devise a police force that is a natural part of the neighborhood, that understands and reflects the needs, the fears, the hopes, the rights and the responsibilities of the people who live there. high-densit- y schemes. That brought Mayer, a fighter from his days In World War II French Resistance, into action. Contacting White House aides both in Washington and San Clemente, Mayer argued that any retreat from the Presidents May 6 statement would constitute a betrayal of the poor. His request: a statement from California in the Presidents own name reaffirming his intention to push both the welfare reform and food stamps. Although presidential spokesman Ron Ziegler did make a mild endorsement for food stamps as a stopgap, the presidential statement never came. It was decided that presidential aides, dead tired from the last weeks of pounding the welfare program into shape, should not be summoned to draft a new message on an emergency basis. But when that statement is finally prepared, it will reiterate the administrations decision to spend one billion dollars (about half as much as Mayer wants) for the interim period until the Nixon welfare plan is enacted. After that, food stamps will be distributed to unmarried and childless poor people married ineligible for. welfare. But even that limited program might be further truncated if some White House aides have their way. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Police Force Needs New Ideas when Richard Nathan, assistant director of the budget, suggested during a briefing on the Nixon welfare message that it would eclipse all food distribution Use Your Mind Power ing? Would your voice become high pitched? You dont need a wife and family with you. You need Lowell Thomas and a Boy Scout patrol." Will you stop acting like a fishwife and quiet those kids down? One has his wet nose on the hack of my neck. That isn't a kid. Its a lost cow. nilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllll'll LETTERS TO THE EDITOR iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Teacher Bargaining One basic difference in the position of our present school teacher negotiations and union bargaining is that union leaders are dealing directly with those who control their purse strings while school teachers are not. Apparently, the majority of the teachers at Granite, Carbon, and Uintah have forgotten that their ultimate responsibility is the children of Utah and their ultimate paymaster is Mr. Utah Taxpayer. When a person becomes a school teacher in our system, he becomes a public servant by choice. work year and wage If he dislikes his plan, he is free to seek other employment. It appears that in seeking his immediate monetary gains with school board controllers by threatening to strike, the school teacher is damaging his position with his ultimate paymaster. As a powerful voting bloc, the teacher should democratically pursue his recompense like any other responsible group. If the mandate is to his disliking he should abide this decision until the democratic process offers another opportunity for change. If the teachers at the pinnacle of public service do not set this ex-- , ample, the result will be chaos. nine-mon- th - Like other Utah taxpayers. I can honestly say that I have known many dedicated, and inspired teachers. However, even the best of these teachers will admit that every school district is a harbinger of inept, inadequate and lax teachers. This, of course, is true in any profession, but the sad thing is that the school system has been unwilling to develop any type of merit system which will allow the better teachers to receive higher compensation. As long as school teacher bargaining maintains Its present level, the average taxpayer will identify any raise received by a teacher with the hard-workin- nine-mon- th incompetent. REGINALD (R.C.) HIBBS 738 S. 12 I seriously doubt that theres anything new in this thing they call the generation gap. Maybe its because Ive got a fairly good memory. Believe it or not, I was a young sprout once upon a time. And I had a fairly dim opinion of the way the older generation was running the show. I was impatient, too. I used to think how wonderiul it would be if you didnt automatically have to work your way up the ladder of success. If they just gave you what you knew you deserved. Because after all, we young people were so bright and talented and worthwhile. Of course, there are differences between my generation and this young generation thats steaming up the windows these days. I think theyre a hardier lot. And it could be theyre a mite brighter than we were, though the way they act sometimes makes me doubt their mental superiority. But they take themselves far more seriously than we did. Makes you wonder if they havent lost some of their sense of humor. Every generation has its own set of magic words that they think is going to change the whole world. Its almost as all-fire- d though they invented them. Now theres one word I hear bandied about by young people and I seriously question whether they understand what that word means. It's the magic word today: power. Power will solve all the problems. Young people want power to take over the universities, run business and the government. And they want power so that they can break all the old tiresome rules with impunity. Theres. an idea that power is something far off, almost unreachable, that other people possess it and they dont Well, nothing could be further from the truth. We alh possess a frightening degree of power. Only thing is that few of us are aware of this treasure we have. For lack of a better term, let's call it mind power. Mind power is a thousand times more powerful than atomic power. Sure, atomic power could blow this planet of ours to smithereens, but what produced atomic rower? Why, mind power, of course. And u humanity would get hold of this other power, this mind power, it could make atomic power look pale. Directed mind power could solve all of our problems of war and poverty and race. And when I say solve these problems, 1 mean solve them correctly. Not in a superficial way, like allocating a billion dollars here and another billion there. But solve them permanently, so that there would be no room left for humbug and hypocrisy. We all have mind power. But how many of us choose to exercise it? Real power is not in the rod, the gun, the mob. It is in the power of one good mind thinking wisely and logically about the best way to get something done. Seizing a library will not basically change whats wrong with a university or a college. Burning draft board records will not end a war. But mind power, fully and wholeheartedly applied to a problem, will do it every time and constructively, too. Some of our young people have already proved what mind power can do. You just have to look at the record of VISTA and the Peace Corps. Thats what power is, and what power can do. Mind power! GUEST CARTOON ' East No Land Grant 'Gifts' This is in answer to Kent Shearers letter of Aug. 25 to make railroads pay and referring to vast acreages" of land grants for which the railroads should now pay fair cash value. It is interesting to note that many times those who know least about a subject like to be vociferous in talking about it. With Shearers demagogic attitude he would say of a suspected criminal: Shoot him first and give him a trial afterward." The land grants referred to were not gifts. The railroads who received them bad to pay by hauling government freight and passengers at one-harate, and did so for nearly 100 years. The lands were granted to help pay for building the railroads but the lands were not readily saleable and money had to be raised elsewhere. The railroads that received the lands, almost without exception, were forced into receivership or bankruptcy before the turn of the century. Nevertheless, their successors were forced to continue to haul government traffic rate until aer the end of World War II. at one-haBy that time, according to not only railroad and ICC accountants but also independent Harvard accountants and economists, the railroads had paid over ten times the value of all lands they had relf lf ceived. The railroads construct and maintain their and terminals and pay high taxes on highways them, too. Motor carriers and airlines neither con-stru- ct nor maintain their highways or terminals and pay no direct ad valorem taxes on them. Shearer and others like him would have the railroads continue to pay for uieir cake ten times over before they could eat it. --A. U. MINER, General Solicitor, Union Pacific Railroad Co. Slow Phone Transfer It is a marvelous world we live in. We fly faster than sound, we put three men in space with two cn the moon but it takes five days to have a e transferred five blocks to a new residence in a small town like this. From Friday to Tuesday, no less, even though sickness called for teephone communication at all times. Ah, well, Robin Hood had his problems, too. tele-phon- Jugglers" St. Louis G , -- C. HARTIEt St. George |