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Show Dial C For Chaos: It s Worse Abroad U.S. phone service may have its bugs, but you Second of Three Articles By RICHARD BOETH In New York Qty during the past few mor.'hs, thousands of heretofore stable citizens were pushed to the brink of panic and outrage by the kind of catastrophe that only Chicken Little could appreciate the phone system stopped working. These were ot the sort of gremliny bloops and foulups that all electronic networks are heir to, but a real and chronic condition of inadequacy. Sometimes it took half an hour to get a sometimes the dialed number wouldnt dial-ton- ring. The phone company was properly chagrined, and the populace of New York was properly put out Because if theres one thing that every American citizen takes for granted along with the sun in the momin and the moon at night its his telephnoe. He expects to have it or them installed when and where he asks, and at minimal cost And he expects it or them to work promptly, accurately and most of the time. And so he should. It is also true, however, that he is practically the only citi- - A French view of telephoning on the planet who expects any of these things, much less has most of them come true. In Brazil, for example, an aged and heroic woman wept with gratitude when her phone was installed this spring. She had been on the waiting list since 1943, Now that the phone is in, of course, she will have to wait that long again for a dial-ton- e. What service exists in Brazil Is so fragile that a moderately heavy dew will incapacitate thousands of lines. The city of Rio created a special emergency repair service to deal with this mess, but the special emergency repair services phones were knocked out by the first rain. In France, the phone system is so inept that it is said to have been designed and installed by a committee of French generals. There are only 3.5 million sets available for all 50 million Frenchmen (by contrast, New York City alone has 5.8 million phones) and only a modest percentage of these ever work, even after the five year wait to have one put in. At the huge new market of Les Halles outside Paris, a fire broke out recently and there was not a single phone available to call firemen. In Paris, it is routine for corporations and government agencies to do most of their business by telegrams, even in the city, because the alternative is so whimsical. In an industrial nation like France, this sort of chaos can be expensive. o is Berry, the president cf a group of outraged telephone subscribers called AFUT, says that the annual cost to France is $5 billion "and things ere getting worse. There is no way to verify the figure, but every sign indicates that the sum must be enormous. The funny thing Is that the French system makes a huge profit about $200 million last year alone, the fruits of charging about twice as much as any Jean-Franc- ' Governors Mention Utah's Senate Race By M. DeMAR TEUSCHER Deseret News Political Editor SPEAKING OF POLITICS - The 61st COLORADO SPRINGS Governors Conference generally has lived up to its advance billing as a non-politic- conference. This is Mpre significant, however, was the presence of Harry Dent, the supercharged South Carolinian who is a special issistant to President Nixon and whose special field is politics. It was interesting to note that Dent spent considerable time talking to people from states where the Republicans figure they have a chance to unseat Democratic senators usually the case, at the however, first national conference after a presidential election. Yet, any time you get the Presi-de- nt and president, 50 terminds lr 1964 and a Reagan booster in and talk1968, was here "observing ing. Apparently he was no candidate at this time. vice gov-erno- several cabinet officials, a sprinkling of federal bureaucrats and a hundred or so newsmen together in one place, there is bound to be some political talking. There was an interesting assortment of political activists here this week. F. Clifton White, one of the Goldwater mas high-echel- in 1970. . One such state is Utah, and the word here is that this is a key state in GOP plans for a variety of reasons. A factor which gives the White House political strategists cause for satisfaction over Utah is the new political "muscle" Utahns have in Washington. And the list is impressive. Two former Utahns George Rom are cabinet ney and David Kennedy members in politically-sensitiv- e areas. Mitchell Melich is the Interior Departments number three man. Sen. Wallace Bennetts years in the Senate give him a real power base. Congressman Laurence Burton Is moving up in the party power structure both in and out of Congress. Congressman Sherman Lloyd is in a key position to help Republicans draft legislation in one of their weaker labor. political fields Even more interesting, however, is the one-tw-o political strategy punch of a pair of young Utahns who are used to working together as a team and do it very well. Former GOP State Chairman Richard Richards is now head of the political division of the Republican National Committee and in a position to pick and choose campaigns over the nation on which to concentrate. . With these two in these positions, one can bet that ihe 1970 campaign to unseat Democratic Sen. Frank E. Moss will get special attention. In this regard, it now appears more likely than ever that Congressman Burton will make a bid for the GOP senatorial nomination. Burton has told several people that "if the money is available, Im interested. Hes been talking about $250,000. The word is that this much and more, if needed, is obtainable. a At conference of governors, it is a little unusual to hear talk of 1970 senatorial elections. But that is the way politics operates at a gathering. "non-politic- A Landmark Ruling On Education,, Profit By DR. BENJAMIN FINE North American Newspaper Alliance A historic decision, with implications, has been rendered by a federal district judge in Washington. In his decision, Judge John Lewis Smith Jr., held a college or university can be restrained under the Sherman Anti-tru- st Act He declared "Higher education in Amer ica today possesses f many of the attri-but- jrr American colleges and universities are accredited by six regional agencies; New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools; Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and Western Association of Schools and Colleges. f of business. Dr. Fine To hold otherwise would ignore the obvious and challenge reality." Although not widely publicized, this ruling, if upheld in the higher courts, would drastically change the nature of higher education in our country. Long considered to be "educational and above mundane "industrial policies, colleges have consistently maintained they were not subject to ordinary court proce- dures. The precedent-shatterin- g decision came as the result of a suit brought by the Marjorie Webster Junior College against the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The college, founded in 1920, is located on a campus in Washington, D.C., and enrolls some 500 women. Unlike other colleges, Marjorie Webster is a proprietary institution, and openly announced it operates for a profit. It showed a $200,000 gross profit last year. Because of this fact, the Middle States Association refused to examine the college for accreditation. It pointed out a criterion for examination was that an "should be a organization with a governing board representing the public Interest." Members of the Webster family, who own the college, auld the lawsuit was Initiated because of the increasing difficulty encountered by Institustudents transferring to four-yea- r non-prof- it tions. Some. 8,000 pages of testimony were collected in the 10 weeks of hearings concluded recently. The college held that, in not evaluating it for accreditation, the association violated the restraint of trade provision under the Sherman Act and denied the college a constitutional right to a hearing. Opposing this . Anti-Tru- view, the association maintained there is a conflict of interest in educational institutions operated for a profit. st The accrediting procedure consists of four steps: Establishment of criteria; evaluation of institutions by competent authorities to determine whether they meet established criteria; publication of a list of institutions that meet the criteria; and periodic reviews to ascertain whether accredited institutions continue to meet the criteria. unless a college is accredited, it has difficulty in placing its students in graduate or professional schools and is generally considered to be of inferior educational quality. One of the major concerns of the accrediting bodies has been the profit motive." Proprietary Institutions are not considered to be truly educational If they make money for their owners or trustees. Now this position has been challenged. Judge Smith declared the exclusion of a college from the accrediting process, solely because of its proprietary character, "is unreasonable and contrary to the public interest. The court enjoined the Middle States Association from denying eligibility for accreditation to Marjorie Webster Junior College because of its proprietary character. It ordered the association to accept and evaluate the colleges application and to grant accreditation to it if it qualified on educatioral grounds. In his opinion, Judge Smith said the assumption that the profit motive is inconsistent with quality is not supported by the evidence and is unwarranted. He then added, significantly: "There is nothing inherently evil in making a profit and nothing commendable in operating at a loss. case raised the This question of whether higher education is trade and commerce. Judge Smith said it 8 non-prof- it g What Difference Bach Or Beatles? MUSICAL WHIRL BY HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor Are symphony orchestras in trouble because of rising costs or because their programs have become dustyT Is it true, as Leonard Bernstein says, that conventional symphony concerts will inexorably become "museum pieces for the young generation? These questions were discussed in San Juan, P.K., recently as part of the annu- -' al Pablo Casals Festival. The conductors who participated in the discussions were Yehudi Menuhin, Sir John Barbirolli, Daniel Barenboim, William Steinberg, and Alexander Schneider. They are questions that are also being asked here. The Salt Lake Civic Mu Association and the University Artists Series joined several seasons ago to guarantee one large audience. But the aside from just a few concerts Swingle Singers, and Montoya, for exthe University of Utah students ample do not go, except for those whose music classes require their attendance. One of the Music Departments' most prominent faculty members believes that the number of University students who buy Utah Symphony concert Tabernacle season tickets decreases every year, except, again, for those who are required to attend. No one will argue that the Utah Symphony Contemporary Music Festival con- sic certs, sponsored by the University, ever attract very many students. If it werent for the adult subscription ticketholders, Kingsbury Hall would be virtually empty at tiiese concerts. the critic, "At first impression, Nathaniel Freedland, recently wrote, "the idea seems so absurdly contrived that you can almost see the hotshot executives sitting around the old conference table brainstorming it with, Look, ail these nut kids today are right? So why cant we sell them on real long-hai- r music? Beatles, Beethoven, whats the difference? "But Columbia Masterworks had a serious purpose in mind with its campaign the younger generation into to hip-talaccepting classical music as part of the New Sound via layouts of a Bach bust sporting love beads and kaleidoscope eyes and giveaway buttons sloganeerlong-hair- k ing. the smell society It could be, of course, that everyone assumes his phone is tapped and it could be that everyone is nght. But that still doesnt explain why ihere has been no updated Moscow phone book since 1962. Next: Moihor Bill It In troublo. Drew Pearson: For A Week:, 3 By HARRY JONES Well, Im back . . . brown from the-.- , sun . . . nope, Jones from the News.1;, ' Ive missed all of you . . . including ' those pretty metermaids. And theyve missed me at least they missed my' ! SitO. ; ., We had taken a couple of trips earlier in the summer, so Donna decided we should have what she called "controlled ... escapism." We stayed 5? the crowded highway and moved out into the backyard. We unplugged the radio and the television.'.,. We let the papers pile up. We also shuf off the "Princess the gadget the Bell people hung on our wall ., . . the one that usually has a teenager glued to it by f the ear. We didnt even check the mailbox. It wasnt what off ding-a-lin- g V v 4 you would call the escape from any jungle. 1. Donna decided that one of the Mr. Jones chores for me to while away my time was to build a patitf. By JACK ANDERSON Drew Pearson was a muckraker. "Its the best thing we could possibly all the names he was called during four do . . . get away from it all, she said," ? 1 decades as Washingtons top investigawriting out a schedule for me to follow She put a wheelbarrow filled with tive reporter, muckraker was the one he into my hands and worried about liked best ( ( J Drew never ducked a battle, no mat- me getting away from it all! ter how imposing the odds. When he felt She even quoted from Thoreau: "I he was right, he would take on Senators, went to the woods because I wished to Cabinet members, generals to front only the v live deliberately often, even Presidents. He was a man of conessential facts of life, Ind not, when I ti- viction who followed his conscience with came to die, discover that I had not, a courage that is uncommon even among lived. ' the bright, bold men who are America "This isnt the woods, I said. "I just top reporters. havent got the grass mowed yet . . . and Drew was Sifferer.t in other ways, too. this cement work will kill me off before Even while pursuing scoundrels in high get a chance to discover the bit abolit ! places, he remained a gentle, compassioliving. nate man, never callous, never jaded. He Rome wasnt built in a day . . . and was raised a Quaker, and his Quaker the patio is going along about the same. . p the sympathy for the undertraining ... speed. But it does have a few firsts dog, the alert conscience, the pacifism it wasnt invited tc the Hopnei j though remained with him. He was never as Show. It has the cement in the world1 ! ! hardbitten as he must have seemed to that cracks beforeonly lo it dries. the millions who read his columns. could be conthat the Its only patio Above all else, however, he was a crunot by ri verted into a swimming pool sader. He passionately believed that pubbut . -- V w poor planning, drainage. lic office was a public trust, and with his tel10 For days, I didnt miss radio or own brand of personal journalism, he evision and didnt have to answer the went after the corrupt and the Incompetent and the pompous. Yet even in the phone. There was no real tight schedule, fco V middle of his assaults on those he had the patio shows it There found doing wrong, he felt enormous hurrying to worry about except the no was traffic for them as human beings. sympathy The world knows that he helped to birds that flew over. And wandering cats send more than a dozen corrupt Conusing the pile of sand for a rest stop...-- . fixtax chiselers and We didnt hear of any student unrest, gressmen, political ers to jail. What the world doesnt know no word about the crime in the street.,. is that he quietly helped many of them to There was no pollution . . . riots . . . war. 1 ' start a new life after they had paid their We even forgot about the rising cost of debt to society. living. Drew never became too big to correct Then the other night we opened the'I" a wrong. If he were convinced that he paper. Things hadnt changed in the had unjustly accused someone, he would schools or in the streets. The phone start-- . - .r apologize In the column. And he made it ed ringing. Television matched the rest, V, a custom on his birthday just 12 days of the world. . before Christmas to telephone those he The mail wasnt much. There were' had wronged and to make amends, manseven letters from magazines cutting fully. and giving me a chance to wiftJp-He did not, however, apologize easily. prices !; $100 per month for life . . . might It is customary for writers of his stature have won, they said. There were ' v.' ready court actions themselves from to protect 10 letters from people selling through the with libel insurance. Drew scorned this, and an invitation to a wedding because insurance companies reserve the mails, for someone neither of us could reception right to require apologies. He said he remember. The rest were utility bills and'' was sorry only when he meant it. a letter from the kids . . . having a great The list of those exposed by Drew s'C1?; at Disneyland. time read almost like a compilation from And I cant wait to get back to haul- -' "Who Was Who in America. His col7 ing cement again! sentences for Congressumns led to Eulogy Of A Friend cement CJ u2 nt ... t' -- ... it, ,ai- I r jail men J. Parnell Thomas, Walter Brehm and Ernest Bramblett, to the expulsion Wit's End of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, to You are old when people looking for the censure of Sen. Thomas Dodd. There were three Senate investigations of the you never think to look where the action, n late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, all three is. sparked by Drews disclosures. His investigation of industrialist Bermin nard Goldfines gifts to the mighty led to the firing of Sherman Adams, then President Eisenhowers top assistant. He believed that the public had a right to know what was going on in the back rooms of government. He knew that his column was often the only recourse for conscientious public servants who were confronted with evidence of wrongdoing. In a very real sense, he was Washingtons ombudsman. Drew Pearson wrote the truth as he saw it, no matter how unpopular. In the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev had his back to the Kremlin wall when Drew went to in the Kreminterview him. Hard-liner- s lin were pushing Khrushchev to intensify n nuclear the cold war, with tests and snarled threats, and the tough little Soviet boss seemed to be at his meanest. Drew concluded, nevertheless, that Khrushchev had an eye for history and wanted to be known as a peacemaker. Further, Drew came away from Russia convinced that the troubles between Russia and China werent just a family squabble. He foresaw a serious split that j jiter72cAtn WAUsP 04- - s, BIG TALK multi-megato- "Bach-to-Roc- ... 4 s Escaped Almost k campaign is a attempt to reach the college and older teen record buying market that is responsible for most record sales but not coming to the classical field, says John McClure, director of Columbia would intensify. Masterworks since 1964 I suggested that his observations were Classical music stories tend to leave Interesting but that the timing was their readers with the feeling that things wrong. I warned that the public would are bigger and better than ever at the react angrily and that some newspapers concert hall. But McClure, who is in a would not print the column. Drew agreed with me about the public position to know if anybody is, says: Market studies show that the sale of reaction, but it was contrary to his chemistry to pull his punches. There classical records is on a slow but constant decline at the same time that were angry letters, and some refusals to to be pop music sales are zooming off the print. But events have proved Drew concert the And classical largely right. impregraphs. That is the way he was. Only the venal sarios are getting nervous because of the can find consolation in his death. erosion of attendance. The g iapy? oun r.w joriEs , by Brickman WHAT'S own. 4, 196? ... tory rooms and operate dining halls, book stores and other service facilities. In 1967-6institutions of higher education expended more than $17 billion. The projection for 1976-7- 7 Is $41 billion. "Educational excellence, Judge Smith held, "is determined not by the method of financing but by the quality of the program. Middle States position, moreover, ignores the alternative possibility that the profit motive might result in a more efficient use of resources, producing a better product at a lower price. In a statement that will make many traditional educators wince, Judge Smith observed that aft efficiently operated proprietary institution could furnish an excellent educational curriculum whereas a badly managed corporation might faiL He added a crisis exists In higher education today. There is tension, turmoil and unrest on the American campus. Students dissatisfied with established routines and unquestioned goals are demanding reform. With the unprecedented demands upon educational resources In this country, the He pointed to the myriad financial aspects of college life today, involving the court maintained, every institution should be given the opportunity to dembuilding programs, teachers salaries, tuitions and miscellaneous operating onstrate its worth. If Judge Smith is expenses that exist in the field of higher upheld, higher education will never be education. Many institutions rent dormi- - the same again. ground-breakin- very fast. The Russian system may be the worst of all not technically, but spiritually. Something there is in the Slavic soul that hates a telephone, and no Russian will ever return a call, answer anyone elses phone or say anything useful into his MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Alan Peterson, the youthful strategist who headed 'the national Neighbors for Nixon movement in 1968s campaign, has since moved onto the White House staff as a political consultant, answerable directly to Harry Dent. In this post, he cannot only pinpoint particular races for special attention, but he and Richards can work together in bringing to bear the big guns of both the White House and the ' national committee. Na-tion- al system in the Western world. But the money all goes to help make up the deficit in the postal system, which is also government-owned- , and the telephonic network remains its usual disastrous self. The whole cf the Dark Continent is a telephonic madhouse and this includes the otherwise nation of South Africa. From Johannesburg, it takes only three minutes to put through a call to London, but 45 minutes to reach any nearby suburb. India, a land of 531 million souls, has one telephone for every 531 of them. This may be the smallest ratio of equipment to population in all the world, and the situaUon Is not improving A 19 Thursday, September other phone wouldn't believe what it's like elsewhere around the world . . . (Newsweek Feature Service) DESERET NEWS r "Knowledge is increasing sos" fast, last year's novels are being " moved from the science fictioft'shelf into the technical informa' ,1"' tion department! - From thetM takao tor th daily Birthday taatord. Dwtrtl Ntwi popular y - ,' |