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Show DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 12 A EDITORIAL PAGE SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1969 More Jobs For Utah: Progress vs. Problems 'Seven months ajjo the Deseret News, after consulting business leaders and surveying citizens throughout the state, helped set a number of goals for 1969 designed to make Utah a better place to live. Among the most important of those goals was the development of better coordination in ' industrial promotion. . ( This objective was selected because businessmen looking for a place to build a plant in Utah have to go to a number of different agencies from the Industrial Promotion Board to the Committee on Industrial and Employment Planning, or from the Chamber of Commerce h to to get all the information needed. As a result, Utah has been at a disadvantage in competing for new industry against other states which have one source to provide such information to potential new businesses. With Gov. Ramptons recent announcement that he will name a centralized information agency to furnish data to public and private organizations involved in industrial promotion, Utah is putting itself in a position to do a more efficient, more aggressive job of developing new businesses, new jobs, and new income. We cite this encouraging evidence of progress just now because the coming Labor Day is intended to be not just another holiday but a time for some serious Moreover, few subjects are more important to Utah workers than the future of Utahs economy. For one thing, if Utah can attract enough new industry this will not only create new jobs but may also increase the tax base so that additional revenue can be provided from economic growth rather than from additional taxes. Then, too, new industry is essential if Utah is to provide enough jobs to keep more of its young people here, instead of educating them at no little expense only to see them migrate to other states to make a living. A better coordinated industrial promotion effort should be most helpful in reaching these objectives. So should the new industry that is being developed at Great Salt Lake. But, while giving credit where its due, lets also recognize that some serious problems remain to be overcome in promoting industrial development in Utah. Only this week the chairman of the State Industrial Promotion Board observed that the board has trouble in recruiting and keeping the personnel it needs to draw new industry ' to Utah. Utah needs 15,000 to 18,000 new jobs every year just to provide employment for its own young people. But during the past year only 7,300 new wage and salary jobs were created. Since 1966, Utahs per capita income has declined from 34th in the nation to 36th. V Utahs industrial promotion efforts got into high gear less than five years ago, and no one expected quick or easy success. Some progress is being made, but considerably more is needed. Utah is on its way to coordinating its industrial promotion efforts. Now lets all roll up our sleeves and go to work on an even more fundamental objective creation of more and better jobs through developing local and attractive outside industry. Pro-Uta- stock-takin- g. , , No Rush To Mars e What goals should the U.S. aim for in outer now Americans have set foot on the moon? that space force headed by Vice President Agnew a task By Monday is supposed to submit its recommendations on this subject to President Nixon. Should the U.S. strive, for example, for a manned flight to Mars by the end of this century? Thats what Mr. Agnew has said he would like to see done, and certainly Mars is an inviting objective. On August 12. 1971 Mars will make an unusually close 34.9 million miles, which is about as near approach to earth as the two planets ever come to each other. Moreover, between 1976 and 1980 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto will be so aligned as to permit a single spacecraft to explore them on the same flight. Such an alignment occurs only once every 179 years. Human nature being what it is, attempts to explore beyond the moon seem inevitable. But that doesnt mean future space objectives have to be pursued on a crash basis, with the U.S. racing against other countries to meet a artificial deadline, as was done in the moon program. U.S. prestige is no longer at stake, as it was in the moon race, nor is national security. This doesnt necessarily mean we should stint on future space exploration, but we certainly dont need to force-fee- d the program, either. Mars will still be there if we dont happen to reach it before the end of this long-rang- , self-impose- d, lentury. Well Done, T roupers The Mormon musical Promised Valley has meant a pleasant evenings entertainment in Salt Lake City for thousands of tourist families these past three summers. When it rings down its final 1969 curtain tonight, approximately 120,000 persons this year will have felt the magic of Crawford Gates lilting music, and known the impact of Arnold Sundgaard s heroic tale of the Mormon Pioneers march to and development in the Salt Lake Valley. They will have been stirred by the conviction of the volunteer performing casts, and enjoyed the artistry of the musicians, who have helped make some new friends for Utah. Equally inspiring to Utahns is the dedication of the actors and singers who have shown themselves not only competent troupers, but also performers with their time and talents. Night after night, without financial recompense, they have been on stage six nights every week since July 1st to give our tourist guests a worthwhile family entertainment. The entire cast and staff can take a d bow in the knowledge that their production of Promised Valley has meant so much to so many. well-earne- Saga Of Of Utah's OTHER VIEWS Time To Thiiik Ex-F- BI Of Few men In Salt Lake City dress better than Elroy Jones there days, but there was a time when he could have been mistaken for a hobo. That was the plan,ihe said. Now chief of security at the University of Utah, Jones masqueraded a5 a tramp when he was an FBI agent seeking the man who blinded labor columnist Victor Riesll during the 1950s. Jones is on of 35 former FBI agents living in Utah who churkle and frown about their escapades as during meetings of an exclusive organization. Its the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, and Salt Lake stockbroker Carter E. Jones is regional vice president of the national organization. ' Its members are the often unnamed men behind the headlines of the biggest stories to break in the past four decades spy stories, kidnappings, bank robberies and shoot-outJay C. Newman, another Salt Laker, was shot in the forehead by the notorious Nelson at the Little Baby Face Bohemia Lodge encounter of 1934. New- 76 Jubi lie From Christian Science Monitor will celeIn seven short years, the United States the brate its 200th birthday. It is not too early lor mark nation to be thinking about how it can best this great milestone. In these two centimes the country has Ranged from an isolated, unimportant, sparsely populated the and largely undeveloped outpost of Europe, Into lives on influence t$e Its earth. mightiest land on of men everywhere has become incalculable, It has and led the way into the modern technical wotld material developmost for today sets the pattern ment. Its skills (recently demonstrated injanding nd its men on the moon), its astronomical wealth, the of wonder wcrldj the eighth industry ire of But, far and away more important thaiCany the spiritual these are the mental ideals, which th nation strengths, the moral outlook upon was founded and without which it could never have reached its present pinnacle. And the many prob lems it faces tout y the racial tensions, violence, crime, excessive concern with physical possessions are but the exceptions which test the!Jrule of Americas basic soundness. For this reason we urge upon the American peobe of a ple that the 200th anniversary celebrations mere physical kind to stress unreservedly, not the but greater wealth deeper, alone, and power sucqualities that are the true bass of Americas cess. We ask that the bicentennial not be put into the s. man, another FBI agent and a deputy sheriff went to a Northern Wisconsin farmhouse to inquire about an abandoned car. Suddenly, a gunman opened fire. Shots killed the deputy, severely wounded Newmans partner, and hit Newman. I just forgot to duck, said the Sait Laker. were Involved Many of the cases involving in security matters espionage. They can only discuss nonsensitive aspects. Parry Sorensen, assistant to the president of the U. of U., tells about watching mirror in a a spy through a hotel room. . , - ts two-wa- y hands of showmen and ballyhooers, however clever and skilled, but into the hands of a committee drawn from the countrys greatest and most selfless citizens. It should not be a kind of worlds fair, where there are multiple distractions from, around the globe, but a statement of Americas own purinpose and being. It should, in short be a calm, of those affirmation qualities uplifting spired, which, while not uniquely American, are present here in so high degree. What are those qualities? Today, in this period some Americans seem almost of ashamed to acknowledge or repeat them. Yet this is exactly the time when they should be ..called most strongly, to everyones attention. These qualities are, among others, the conviction of mans brotherhood (however imperfectly expressed), of mans equality, of the power and necessity 'of individuality, the concern for the rights of all, the recognition of social, political and economic obligations, and the unshakable certainty that freedom under the law is the highest human mode of government And, finally, there is the deep, persistent, innate American conviction that divine Providence y to help a nation or an irdividual sfcnds turning to It for guidance end protection, , 7 It makes little difference where such a celebra, in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, tion is held or elsewhere. What is important is that 1976 be a year in which all Americans rededicate themselves more profoundly to those highest qualitief which alone can produce greatness and success. Sure gives you ei eerje feeling when the guy walks up, looks you in the eye and starts combing his hair, Sorensen said. y mirror He demonstrated the technique in a movie about the FBI The House on 92nd Street. r Carter Jones worked the case described in that movie, but that wasnt his most exciting assignment. He had served a mission in Holland for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, so he was assigned to work g double agent durwith a ing World War n. They radioed information to Germany, and the operation was credited with helping to convince the Nazis that Allied landings would hit beaches far from the actual landing zones. two-wa- Dutch-speakin- D-D- Some of the more 'sensational cases happened here in Utah. Salt.Lake County Sheriff Delmar L. (Swede) Larson was an FBI agent in Salt Lake City one May morning in 1961 when explosions disabled microwave stations at Dell, Knolls and Wendover. He and other agents found a finger print on a cement sack, identified it, traced explosives and checked crank letters to the telephone company. They tracked down the men who bought the explosives, and solved the ever-read- case. A lot of men worked on that one, Larson said. Thats one big asset of the FBI manpower. Elroy Jones said 800 agents worked on a kidnap case in New York. They had a ransom note and orders to look over tens of thousands of checks written to utility companies. Sure enough, an agent spotted the handwriting on an electric company check, and that led to the kidnapers arrest. Agents capitalize on long, tedious jay C. Newman ... shot in forehead Delmar Larson .. . in microwave'case ' .v ; 1 Elroy Jopes . . masqueraded : GUEST CARTOON 1 of Salt Lake City, worked several years Many of Utahs agents are n with Hoover in Washington. people. Among them are Another Utahn, FBI Agent Sam Cow- - Richard Y. Bennion, Charles H. Olson. W. Beless ley, led th agents who brought an end to Howard Summerhays, James Jr., Edward R. Callister, Anthon S. Canthe career of John Dillinger in the fanon,' Hyde. T. Clayton, David B. Dee, mous Biograph Theater duel at Chicago. Phillip B. Flemming, Ralph H. Jones; Cowley died later in the gun battle that Kenner Kartchner, Richard U. Perkins, resulted in the death of Baby Face Enos Sandberg, John H. Snow, Earl P. Nelson. s, Staten, Richard H. Taylor, Allen H. The FBI strives to avoid A. Van H. Richard Winkle, so arrest Wayne each carefully planning Wadsworth, James E. Brown, Russell C. that the persons to be pabbed are ' Hart, Steven Kennedy i George D. OConoutgunned and surprised. . , , I never had a gun in my hand in ' nor, Phillip V. Christensen, Charles T. Fletcher and David E. Wright. eight years, except for target practice, Bennion said many cases that agents said Third District Court Judge Bryant wore H. Croft, telling of his eight years as a were assigned during World War described as the single most important ' Croft was assigned to the Chicago . tljing going now. , to area when gunmen Roger Tuohy and be a standard smile line. It got Basil Banghart broke out of Joliet State Once when Bennion and other agents Prison. were handed a particular assignment, Local police wanted the FBI to help, they were told it was the single most but no federal laws appeared to have important thing. been fractured. Then somebody found one. Oh yeah? 'say a grinning agent. The FBI entered the hunt on the. Later Bennion learned that the case ground that the escapees changed their may well have been all that it was address without notifying their draft labeled. It concerned the theft of atomic ex-F- , well-know- work. Rulon Paxman of Murray, a retired FBI agertonce arrested a bank robber after other agents spotted him in a pic- ture made by a night club photographer. The late Leroy B. Skousen, whose widow now lives at Provo, once faced a man who robbed a bank and came out firing a submachine gun. Skousen, one of the best pistol marksmen in the nation, put a bullet through the gunmans arm and he surrendered. FBI men dont get medals. Skousen received a commendation from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. The organization of agents is fiercely loyal to Hoover. has a reputation of If an being critical of the bureau or Hoover, we wont let him in the organisation, Carter Jones said. Skousens brother, W. Cleon Skousen ..... ..... .... iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNiniiiiiiiii . Tib-bal- shoot-,'m-up- s, n . 1 n. . ' -- ex-F- boards. secrqts. The Supreme, Court As Bender . The rhubarbs arising over President Nixons effort to name Judge Clement Haynsivorth Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court illustrate whats wrong with the court. We have come to look upon its members not as interpreters of the law, but as And law benders. whether we think a nominee will bend the law toward our prejudices or away from them governs our reaction toward the nomination. The court, of course, has always been made up of human beings, and human beings are composites of experience, temperament and points of view. No man is totally judicious. In the 166 years since Marbury vs. Madison, the case in which John Marshall made the court the official interpreter of the Constitution, lawyers have always tried to guess the proclivities of the august justices. But no Supreme Court in American history ever departed so far from the narrow business of interpretation and ventured so boldly into the deeper waters of manufacturing law as did the Warren Court. . i ' w "Guilty? But, your honor, been tried yet!" Of The welfare? Whether the Warren Court advanced the general welfare naturally depended on ones beliefs. The court, for example, struck down practically all legislation imposing restrictions on Communists. This attitude toward Communists, treating them as though they were no more dangerous than members of an odd-bareligious sect, gave conservatives apoplexy, but many liberals hailed it as a magna carta for freedom of conscience and a final interment of McCarthyism. Law enforcement became manifestly more difficult after the Mallory, Miranda and Escobedo decisions. Conservatives k insert haven't Law' I JENKIN lLOYD JONES The Warren Court became the darling of the liberals because, regardless of what law or precedent might say, it generally imposed a liberal solution by quoting the First, Fifth or Fourteenth amendments. It appeared to be the attitude of a majority of the court that social justice was its function and that where law or old interpretations of the law fell short of social justice the court should find a remedy. After all, didnt the preamble of the Constitution say that government should promote the general I joined with police and prosecutors in pointing to the rocketing crime rates and the diminishing percentage of crimes solved by conviction as evidence that the court had hamstrung justice. Many liberals, on the other hand, defended the courts novel conclusions on the grounds that it was trying to correct sloppy or brutal police methods in the interest of justice for all. But the essential fact was that the Warren Court gradually paid less and less attention to what the law said and more and more to what it believed the law really meant, or what the true intent of Congress must have been. If we are going to have this kind of a court, it is quite natural that the background attitudes and biases of justices should assume more importance than ever before. There is a lot of difference between law interpreting and law bending. PresiThus, on Aug. 20, when AFL-CIdent George Meany announced that he would vigorously oppose Judge Hayns-worth- s confirmation, he was probably not discounting the judges legal ability or his honesty. He was merely expressing a fear that Judge Haynsworths biases might not t conform to the interests of the AFL-CIJJsing the same logic, Mr. Meaiiy had vigorously applauded the 1962 appointment to the court of Arthur Goldberg who had served as general counsel of Meanys outfit. Judges who are less judges than ictiv-istwho are concerned less with th$ Jaw than with means of bringing abou$hat they consider desirable end results, are naturally a threat to the system of checks and balances. By novel interpretations of the FederaV Constitution they amend, in effect, tfie Con stitution itself, and thus invade this ancient right of the state legislatures. By interpreting the intent of lawmakers far beyond the laws wording, they really write new- law, and thus move into the field of legislation. It is, therefore, high time that America move away from a court of whose members quarreling Americans can sayi This man is my man but this other man is your s, - man. . , Such a court, however, is out of the law business. And by reason of life tenure it is in danger of exhibiting increasing arrogance since it is beyond the reach of angry public opinion. ; There is a cynical lawyers aphorism that the law is what the Supreme Court says it is.- - Instead, the law should be What the law says. |