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Show to take up where we left off '-Now .. . DESERET NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH nnimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiini!iiinii!iiiiiini!iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiuiiii!i:ii:i Unfair To Teenagers We Stond For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 18 A EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, Regarding the article Citizens Protest Teen Loitering, which appeared in the Deseret News, Sept 9, I would like to say that the statement, This is supposed to be an experiment at East High School, but it is just absolutely the ruination of the students, is justly unfair. Today it seems that all teenagers are placed in the same category whenever there is any trouble. The majority of students at East High School abide by the rules and regulations of the school Those wanting to achieve in school are getting an education, but those who are not interested are making a bad name for the rest of the students. Students attending East High School have never had a bette-- opportunity of preparing themselves for college than they have today. The change from high school to college will not be so drastic, as the students have already accepted the challenge of being on their own. I am in agreement with the residents resenting the abuse of the streets and their property and I hope this will be rectified; bowever, I greatly resent the implication of the above statement and also the statement of accusing the students of just wandering around all the time. Before people judge the whole school, they should take time out to see the accomplishments being made by this new experiment SEPTEMBER 15, 196? Oil Shale Should Get Fair Depletion Rate This page does not particularly champion the high depletion. allowance the petroleum industry has enjoyed over the years as an incentive to discovering and developing new sources of oil. But we certainly do support the development of Utahs oil shale deposits, with their great potential for bringing this state new prosperity and new tax revenue. To this end, the developers of oil shale ought to get a depletion allowance more like that granted other oil developers as a stimulus to the shale industry, which has a multibillion dollar potential. Bills to do just that have been introduced in Congress on several occasions but made little or no headway until the omnibus tax reform till of 1969 came along. The tax reform measure carries an amendment passed by the House of Representatives which would provide the same base for computing percentage depletion extracted from oil shale as already applies to oil produced from a well. At present there is a depletion allowance for oil shale, but it applies only to the value of rock itself, which has little value, rather than to the oil it contains. Under the new House measure, the oil shale depletion would be computed at 15 per cent compared to 20 per cent for oil from wells. But the point at which depletion is computed on shale would be extended to after extraction from the ground, through crusning, loading into a retort, and retorting though not to refining or any other process subsequent to retorting. Thi? represents progress toward the more equitable depletion allowance that is needed to encourage the petroleum industry to develop oil shale and not just oil from a well. Nixons Tax Reform Backdown - The astonishing and on tax reform by the unexpected retreat dictated by the Nixon Administration, White House to reluctant Treasury technicians, has almost surely doomed prospects fer passage of the bill this year and filled a reservoir of political poison WASHINGTON for the President. All elements of the political-ta- com- x Administration, Congress, and munity lobbyists agree with this bleak appraisal. The impact of the Administrations remarkable Sept. 4 tax recommendations to the Senate Finance Committee will be profound. Indeed, the Administration may well have lost in every possible w'ay on the hot issue of tax retorm. President Nixon, far from gaining credit for tax relief to the overburdened middle class, can now be blamed for trying to limit that relief. Congressional tax reformers, Republicans and Democrats alike, are outraged by the sudden Administration retreat. Still worse, the business community continues to feel that a Republican administration has misled and betrayed it. to make the the House in tax helping to correct the inequity in the depletion treatment of oil Since the tax reform measure is supposed laws fairer, the Senate should go along with shale. I How Not To Economize At the core of the problem has been the Administration. s essentially passive role. Although tax reform was near the bottom of Mr. Nixons priority list when he was elected and although his top at the Treasury .were appointments scarcely noted as reformers, public and congressional demand forced the Administration into a tax reform mood. That set the tone: all year, the President has followed lather than led the trend. If President Nixon expects the states o fight inflation by cutting back on construction as he has urged, he should do closer to home. Already, President Nixon has a staff that is 25 per cent bigger than the one employed by the Johnson Administration. Moreover, President Nixons most recent month-lonstay at the summer White House in San Clemente, Calif., is estimated to have cost American taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Government per diem alone for the Presidents official entourage, for example, apparently exceeds the $100,000 mark. Air Force One, the Presidents jet, and other craft when needed, shuttled cabinet members and others to and from Washington and elsewhere at some $400 an hour. And driving a fleet of black limousines from Washington to San Clemente and back cost $9,000. Then there was the setting up of special offices, housing and feeding of guests, staff salaries, heliport improvements and myriad other items. If President Nixon wants Americans to economize, he should realize that example works better than admonition. some g --MRS. Making matters worse, the Administration neglected to consult either Mills or Rep. John Byrnes of Wisconsin, chief Republican tax writer, before its radical But Cohen was clearly die junior partshift an omission Byrnes sharply ner. The bill was really designed by pointed out to the Treasury. Mills. Moreover, while Treasury officials in In short, the Treasury never had conlate August complained that the tax trol of the bill and it soon contained relief passed by the House ,would impose reforms considerably more sweeping priorities far into the future, spending than the Administration wanted. Yet the talked & different tune on officially they Treasury went along (and Mr. Nixon Sept, 4. To the horror of politically astute confided he would sign any reform bill Republican senators, they proposed shiftMills could get passed). When the bill taxthe relief from middle-incom- e ing passed the House, the Treasury objected payers to corporations, not eliminating it not to the reforms but to the fact that its altogether. relief provisions would produce a net anBut even this concession to big busibillion. nual revenue loss of at least $2.4 ness has not taken the curse off the bill -.Even before House passage, business in the view of Washington lobbyists. Im oriented legislators and lobbyists began to change my registration to ready to rage at the Nixon Administration. Democratic, one veteran lobbyist told However, a group of conservative Repubburden us, adding that the lican Senators got nowhere in a griping of the bill could not be lightened by a session with Charls Walker, the corporate tax cut unlikely to be approved Treasury Under Secretary. by Congress. In addition, by easing the Walker nodded, but he didnt give us bite on oil, Wall Street, and other the time of day, fumed one. industries, the new Treasury recommenFoes of tax reform did not get the dations end up directed mainly against old friends of time of day until Congress left town for the real estate industry the Republican party. the August recess and the White House the Senate will do Unquestionably, moved to San Clemente. It was then that the but thats just the realtors, Wall from right by intense pressure, particularly Street (on capital gains) and state and point. The Treasurys retreat from the House bill now makes its every article local .' governments (on . bonds), was put on the President These vulnerable. lobbies were strongly backed by Rep. Business lobbyists who returned to Rogers Morton of Maryland, Republican Washington after the August recess fornational chairman and a member of the lornly are now jubilantly optimistic no Ways and Means Committee. bill will be passed until next year at the earliest. The While House agrees but The result was an abject Treasury surrender under White House orders. plans to try pinning the blame on the Some of the reforms that Cohen himself Democratic - controlled Congress. Consessions of gressional tax reformers of both parties had insisted on in closed-doo- r that the cloud now the House committee a month earlier know the truth (such as capital gains taxation) were menacing tax reform formed last month repudiated before the Senate committee. at sunny San Clemente. INSIDE REPORT By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK The House bill was written in partnership by Congress (Rep. Wilbur Mills, chairman-othe Ways and Means Committee and the Treasury (Assistant Secretary Edwin Cohen, a top tax lawyer). f Defend East High As students of East High School we have been unfairly attacked by persons who apparently resent change for the better. Two city commissioners were very critical of flexible scheduling at East in an article of Sept. 9. Have Conmissioners Catmull and Barker been on our campus to make a thorough and unbiased study of the entire situation? Had they made such an investigation tney would certainly have found that this program is not the ruination of students, nor are students wandering around all the time, nor are students permitted to attend classes on a voluntary basis. To any discerning individual these remarks represent gross generalizations on the part of the commis- sioners. The vast majority of students are enriching their educations through modular scheduling by taking eight or nine classes rather than the conventional six or seven. Although most judgments of the school are made on superficial glances at the outside of the building, any look inside would reveal packed study areas with students busily engaged in individual thinking and research. Those who do not take advantage of the system constitute a minutp minority of the student body. Inasmuch as there is a loitering probleirf at all high schools to some degree, then modular sched-uliand loitering can definitely not be equated. The solution to the problem is not to attack flexible scheduling, but to restrict the small group of offenders. hard-drivi- tax-exem- pt -R- -D- Ships And Security has 16 attack carriers and Russia has none, should the Navy pursue its plans to build even more? That, plus the $519 million price tag are the primary Since the U.S. arguments of Senators Clifford Case and Walter Mondale in seeking to block construction of the proposed nuclear attack carrier CVAN-69- . In fact, the senators say, the total procurement costs for the earner and its accompanying destroyers and aircraft could lut $1.8 billion, and a yearly operational cost for this task force of $154.2 million. They arc formidable arguments. But unless the U.S. wish-e- s to be a second-clas- s naval power, further comparisons with-thRussian fleet 20 years ago almost are His automobile, he pointed out, fixes itself after a period of time. It will develop rumbles and grunts and ominous creakings but if he blithely neglects these sinister symptoms for a few weeks, they usually disappear. I hae noticed this same phenomenon many times not only with my automobile and other gadgets, but with the human body as well. Very often the best thing you can do with physical complaints is to do nothing at all. Truth, said Aristotle, is like a barn door: nobody who throws at it can avoid hitting a part of it, but nobody can hit all of it at once. No theory invented by man has been wholly false, just as no theory can embrace the entire truth at the same make them seem worse. time. The mistake most of us make, I think, lies in taking a piece of the truth and stretching it to cover the universe. The sink man believes health makes for happiness; the poor man, money; the humble man, honor; the ugly man, charm. This intellectual frailty is most obvious in the field of medicine. Admit it publicly or not, medical men are generally convinced that their own specialty is the core of health. Everything is in the mind, or in the bones, or in the nerves, or in the blood stream, or in the glands, or even sometimes in the feet Man as a total organism is rarely considered which is why the process is so often sneered at by specialists. But Nature is greater than any of its creatures, and the whole art of living, I am convinced, consists in learning how to interfere as little as possible with the life force. self-heali- e - Russia already has 1,200 ships manned by 510,000 sailors. The Soviet superiority in submarines is more than 21, j to 1 F.75 subs to our 143. At least 65 Russ subs are nuclear - pow-tteand that country is building one Polaris-typ- e submarine d, a month. the Senate acted wisely in rejecting a proposal to eliminate iunds for the nuclear aircraft carrier, but to study the lolc of such ships in the future. The Navy should be strong enough to cope with any potential enemy in wartime. But the U.S. is in danger of and that can be risky. sea power becoming a second-clas- s How Czechs 'Vote' After today theie is no more amnesty for Czechoslovakians who fled their country after the Russian invasion a year ago From now on any Czechs who wish to return to their ho"- i. u'bf t nn r.ronment. But those living in exile are not likely to wish to return. The British Broadcasting Corporation estimates some 40.000 Czechs have fled the country and predicts another Austrian leiugec camp alone, at Trais-kirchu- i. mostly touiists expects the number of Czechs refusing to go home may rise to 500 a day in The Czechs are voting with their feet" as did East Germans before the Communists threw up the hated Wall of Shame" in Berlin. When freedom leaves, so do those who 2ne it tranquility of the traveler. The ta- citurn S t ewart-typ- So 20.000 wnl do so. One 'Hi Folks, This Is Your Captain WASHINGTON Theres a new breed of 'lot now flying our commercial airways, and hes becoming a menace to A Jamesof e pilot is being by the extroverted David e who not never only stops talking, but lells you a lot more about flying iluin you want to know. In the old days of air transportation Susskind-typ- panel and if that red light goes on would, of course, abort the flight. ART BUCHWALD Im married and have three fine children Hildy, Freddy and Lisa and we live in Roslyn, L.I. We have a swell house and we belong to the First Congregational Church. There are some clouds over Kansas City, so weil just avoid Kansas City today, which is not a great problem because we can get to L.A. anyway. Its were not going up to Montreal because theyre really socked in there and there's a hurricane off Puerto Rico. But that shouldnt bother us today. We had some trouble with the turbo-frawhich delayed us a few minutes, but ou hardly heard from the captain up its been fixed now. We really dont need forward. He might have told you when the turbofram, but government regulayou vere taking off and when you could tions require that it be in working order expect to land, but outside of that lie just in case the gyrowhizzit goes out, spent his time flying the plane, which is which is hardly likely. the. mo't anyone expects of his pilot Now when we get in the air you're anyway. going to hear a change in pitch in the But now , either because hes lonely or motors, but dont let that bother you. If you DIDNT hear a change, then you bored, or because the public relations deshould be bothered. Ha, ha, ha. partments of the airlines are in charge of the crews, the captain does a complete Ill be putting up my wheels as soon monolog liom the time you get on the as I take off and you may hear a slight plane to the time you knd. This is how it thump, but dont be disturbed by it. You goes. have to get those wheels up fast when otherwise you dont youre taking off Hi folks this is your Well, captain. we'ie going to have a great flight today get the lift and a plane this size needs all the lift it can get, believe you me, to L.A. Your hostesses are Kitty, Patti and rfjilly; your is George and I cant see if the wheels are up or oui Engineer is Harry and Im Jack. not, but I do have a red light on my lucky m When Governor Rampton recently announced he would not follow the advice of the President of the United States in his method of combating inflation, the governor suggested that the President did not know where he was gonig so why follow him? This brings up the question of whether the governor knows where he is gonig. The President started out his fight against inflation by doubling his own salary and the governor followed suit by approving a substantial increase in his own salary, so apparently they were both working on inflation in harmony at that time. It sort of looks like following the example of either the President or the governor will tend to help inflation move along its merry way toward the day when everyone will be rich in money but the money will not be worth anything as no one will have to work and produce to make a living. The advantage of being rich is where there is a set and limited supply of something everyone else wants and will serve the rich to get it. With easy credit and credit cards being widely used, there is the appearance of being an unlimited supply of money so it is not of particular advantage to have a lot of money now. If, however, the day of accounting comes due for all debts at the same time, there is apt to be a lot of sorry faces as many folks have bills way into the future through buying on credit and depend upon a steady income to meet the payments. The will come when their employer is forced y problem to meet his obligations and cannot continue to pay the help. -- MERRILL H. GLENN, JR. Brigham City Growing Tax Load I Were second in line to take off. There are planes landing and taking off every minute and while the traffic may appear heavy to you, they seem to have it under control. Once we get away from the airport, well be out of danger. we Well, here we go . . . there made it. No red light. Im getting a slight reading on my oil pressure gauge, but it doesnt seem serious. As we fly across the United States, Ill point out every town and city to you, and even if you cant see it because of the cloud cover, its real beautiful country. You people on the right, if you look down now youll see Interstate 5344 over by the river. Sorry you people on the left cant see it. I hope to be driving on it soon. Im taking the wife and children out to visit her mother on my vacation in a WOODBURY High School Fighting Inflation non-existe- nt in order. The U.S. Navy's size has been estimated at 863 ships and 770.000 men, with several bases strung around the world. However, more than 100 ships and 72,000 men will be cut from the force in the next 10 months. YNN East Hy SYDNEY J. HARRIS The man who is preoccupied with his symptoms often intensifies them. Whether or not they are created by the mind, the mind certainly has the power to -P- AUL HATCH OBERT HANSEN -- DAVID LARSEN OUGLAS BENNETT -L- Considering The Total Organism Apropos of my recent piece on the Law of Diminished Proximity for instance, the automobile that gets well the minute you roU it into the mechanics shop a friend of mine mentioned another axiom not known to science. LeROY M. SMITH Emerson Ave, 1146 couple of weeks. Were going to turn the seat belt sign off, bdt Id advise you not to unbuckle your seat belt and not walk around. You can get a great deal of turbulence up here, and without any warning the plane could hit an air pocket and take a dive, though of course it's unlikely. The temperature outside is now 80 degrees below zero, so I guess youre all glad to be inside. Ha, ha, ha. Say, I heard one I'll bet you folks haven't he"rd. There was this little kid and the teacher asked him. . . . The events at the National Governors Conference point out once again how the Liberty Amendment cotJld solve many of our federal and state problems. All governors present, except one, voiced tlieir support for more money from the federal government. Governor Rockefeller talked about $50 billion that states would need for their welfare and health programs. The lone dissenter for the federal takeover of welfare programs was Governor Maddox of Georgia. When tlie $50 billion isnt enough, the fedeial government will then have the support of state governments to make the 10 per cent surtax a 50 per cent surtax, and on and on until it reaches 100 per cent, pointing out with each tax increase that governors are demanding it This was the way Governor Rampton increased state budgets, by pointing out that the people were demanding it. I've yet to meet a taxpayer of Utah who is demanding more government services. Sending the tax money to Washington and then getting it back to the stales again is like giving yourself a blood transfusion from one arm to the other through a leaky hose. The Liberty Amendment would limit the size and scope of the federal government to those activities and agencies specified in the Constitution. Taxes, other than income tox, would be more than adequate to finance the federal government. Individual income tax could then be used to finance state government programs, and the government would return again to the people. The Liberty Amendment proposal should be passed by state legislatures at the earliest possible date. I WTAYLOR TURNER Provo |