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Show r DESERET NEWS Fightinq Pornoqraphy: Old Values Strike Back r, A f By JACQUIN iSANDERS (Newsweek Feature Service) , A suburban family is munching its wheaties in the breakfast nook as the radio plays chirpy wake-umusic. Suddenly the commercial comes or, summoning them to tiie latest nudie movie. A middle-age- d lady window shops past displays of linen, of baby clothes, of TV and abruptly comes sets e with a shop window full of pornographic magazines. A farm boy opens a colorful envelope the postman has left in the family mailbox, expecting to see some interesting advertisements. Out falls several pornographic pictures. His mother snatches them away. Obscenity is on the march. No longer is, it necessary to go looking for pornographic material. The stuff comes looking for you. The opposition is also on the march. In the past nine months, the federal government has received more than 140,000 letters of complaint about the excesses of the permissive society Decency rallies' have been organ) ized in more than a dozen cities, including Salt Like City, with varying success. Local groups have exploded in protest. Notorious pornography centers, like New Yorks 42nd Street, have been invaded and denounced on the spot by snocked dignitaries like Democratic Rep. John M. Murphy of Staten Island and accompanying clergymen. Some 15 states, as well as a number of cities, have recently passed laws that limit the sale of phornographic material. Most follow the New York State statute which forbids the sale of girlie magazines and other literature sexual excitement, sexual depicting conduct and sadomasochistic abuse to Anyone under 17 years old. Still, the glut continues, amid a general feeling of frustration and bewilder-irien- t. Civil libertarians are hard put to defend the court decisions that have ' decisions tha; brought on the deluge once sepmed to herald a healthy breakthrough to new freedom and an end to hypocrisy. . For whatever sociological and artistic teiiefits have been brought on byithe vir- - i "I p 1 , . ST ft, face-to-fac- ' pace-settin- g Rep. John Murphy leads newsmen and a group of clergymen on a tour of New York City's notorious 42nd Street pornography stores. s, mail-orde- come in the form of executive action against the major distributors (mostly based in Los Angeles) who are responsible for about 95 per cent of the mailings. Its disgusting its time to proceed, says Postmaster General Win-to- n M. Blount. As a first step, he has issued an order to his regional chiefs to 15 close postoffice boxes known to be opei-ate- d by the pornographic peddlers. But the heart of the drive must entail new legislation, and this is a difficult field. Fpw want to leturn all the way to the prn, past, even if such a move weie possible. The first problem is to protect the unwilling recipient of obscenity. Rep. William McCulloch of Ohio, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, recently gave a moder to do sc . . . The control of pornography sent through the mails, unsolicited or tc minors, is an idea whose time has long sinie come. It is, in fact, long oveidue. In late September, a House Judicial subcommittee began lieai, ngs wliuh promise to be long and diawn out. The subcommi tee must sift tlnough the 130 bills it h'is teceived on the subject from congressmen, and it must hear from 175 legislators who have asked to jstify. At present, two particular bills seem most likely to be recommended for passage. Briefly stated, the first bill would make it a crime to send obseenp matei or advertisements of such matet.als tlnough the mails to persons under 18 years of age A second and tougher bill would make it a crime to mail advertisements for pornography to any person who takes the tiouble to file with the Pomaster General a statement that he does not wish to receive such material. But even if it can be done successfully, eliminating pornography from the mails wall hardly eliminate it from a which obviously cant resist the By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor THEY'RE YOUR SCHOOLS San Juan County BRANDING, Wherever theie are public schools in Utah you have an interest in them, no matter where you live. Under Utahs school finance for- mula, all districts in the state get varying proportions of their operating funds from state revenue and even the amount of district funds available is determined by the finance formula. Thats one reason I like to get away from Salt Lake City bijce in a while to see how your schools (and mine) are getting along in other , places. 1 At this writing, part way on a loop through southern Utah, Ive already visit- ed jschools in four districts Carbon, .Emery, Grand and San Juan counties. YOUR HEALTH My report to you Is that Utah children, wherever they live, axe going to good schools and are being taught by good teachers. In Price, Carbon District superintendent J. Grant Kilfoyle told me that despite the impasse which delayed opening of schools, staff rapport is good and teachers are genuinely concerned with providing the best instruction possible for students. This was confirmed by both James Jensen, principal of the new Price Elementary School, and J. Frank Wor-theprincipal of the almost new Mont Harmon Junior High School in Price. Both these schools are as aggressively involved in new approaches to instruction, such as team teaching, as any in the state. No district has more modern, technologically oriented buildings than these two. Both in plant and program they would compare with the best any- n, where. Emery County seems very distant It's Utah .'Stick Out Your Tongue, Please' C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dr. Thosteson: I notice that moist doctors in examining a patient ask to see the torgue. What is the signifi-cqrict- e of a coated tongue, black tongue A.K. Or red tongue? Answer: Looking at the tongue is one of .the doctors fishing expeditions. Im not, going to give away all of the fishing expeditions that doctors use, because that would do neither of us any good, Lets just say that a doctor, like a detective, is forever looking for anything out of the ordinary, and when he finds it, he looks for further evidence which will either let him discard the item or trace it into something significant. Its an easy command: Stick out . jour tongue. But considerable informa-tion can be gleaned from a rather swift Lips, mouth membranes, inspection. gums, teeth all may give clues to a patients health. - R is considerably more than a matter of Hie tongue being coated, black, red or brown. A modest coating on the tongue is normal. A brownish coating betrays a heavy smoker. A heavily coated tongue may indicate a fever. It results also if the patient is dehydrated. But mouthbreathing is still another possibility. Most common cause of a black tongue the antiIs excessive use of antibiotics biotics decrease the bacterial population (both good and bad) so ether flourish, particularly yeasts, which can accumulate to such a degree that the tongue looks dark. , A normal tongue, of course, is pink. A smoker, however, very often will have a red tip of the tongue. A smooth red tongue suggests a number of things; pzmiclous anemia, sprue, lack of suf-- f cient hydrochloric acid in the stomach juices, or a nutritional deficiency, especially a dearth of the B vitamins. thickened whitish, Leukoplakia arc.iS on the membranes of tongue, lips or mouth usually denotes persistent irritation, whether from a jagged tooth, smoking or other source. S.nee leukoplakia may be precancerous, it is well to keep watch of these spots and remove therti If they begin to look suspicious. fey' GEORGE DJear micro-brganis- a modern, well-ke- structure. pt Teacher-princip- al Jim Peacock, who also is a farmer and a member of the House of Representatives, pointed out classrooms, as good as youd expect to find anywhere. Like a growing proportion of Utahs educators, Jirn is vitally concerned with the economics of his area. He is convinced that the economic impact of the schools will increase and sees education playing an accelerating role in promoting a climate for business and industry. Supt. C. Robert Sundwail of Grand County schools, expounded a similar philosophy as we talked in his rather spartan office in Moab. He spoke enthusiastically of a lifelong educational opportunity for Moab residents. high school. Dr. Kenneth B. Maughan, superintendent, talked of the increase in enrollment of Indian children in San Juan schools in recent years, noting that they are Utahns also. The district is developing, with federal assistance, a bilingual program where Indian students will receive instruction in both English and Navajo languages. School and innovative progress programs designed to improve instruc-lto- n are as evident in Utahs rural schools as they are in the urban districts along the Wasatch Front. Time Symphony-Beethove- n By HAROLD LUNDSTKOM Deer Trail By Its Utah Symphony Orchestra-Mau-ric- e Abravanel Season time again, come Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. And its also , Beethoven time pei haps as it will 169-7- 0 never be in todays generation lifetime again: 1970 is being celebrated the musical world around as the 200th anniversary of Beetho-ven- s bi rth in Bonn, Germany, in December, 1770. To begin noting the (which will also include the 1970-7season), Mr. Ahravanel has appropriately selected as the opening work of Wednesdays first subscription concert in the Tabernacle, a work that is intrinsically propitious for our day: The Overture to Egmont, Opus 84. Hatred of tyranny and defiance of it were themes close to Beethovens heart. These were the themes that spoke with almost explosive Intensity in Goethes tragedy, Egmont. In addition, Beethoven.s admiration for the poet, who was some 20 years his senior, bordered on worship. So it is no surprise that when the management of the Vienna Burgtheater invited him, in 1 HARRY JONES Old Henry is dead. Cause of death was old age cieepmg up and a truck ushing up. llemy, an Aikansas deer dog, was the piopeity of Cecil W. Stevenson, national senior uce commander of the Disabled American Veteians. Cecil is ir our City of Salt to give an award to George Carey and the local DAV group. 1 We got to season being ent world of into the conv sufi. It also can t admit its liKing. A lecent Gallup Report showed 76 per cent of the public in favor of stiicter laws on news-anliterature. Yet the nudies dominate the news on an ever-inc- i easing number of newsstand sales reports. Perhaps the solution rests with the Danes. Under the theory that if you cant beat it, join it, Denmark in the past couple of years lias abolished every leg.il sanction against pornography for adults. The first result was a rise in sales. Subsequently, the market has fallen, and Danish pomographers these days complain that they have never had it so bad But Danes aie Danes, and so weie talking deer hunting the close at hand in the differUtah. Thats how Heny got ei sation. They hunt deer a lot diffeiently back Arkansas. The hunt is on a county basis with the season being about a week In their parents and grandparents. Americans have a different background, and whether they would react similarly is conjectural. Their track record lately has not been inspiring. sometime in November. And something the Utah game people might take note of a special season of three or four days for school kids during the Christmas vacation. Keeps em in school during tiie regular hunt. ... They also nunt with the aid of deer dogs in some counties. A doer dog is usually a Beagle, Blue Tick, Black and Tan, 01 a Red Bone all linwl-ciThey aie bred for voice, ncse and pace. They cant be fas hunters dont w'ant the deer chased into ... the next county. A good deer dog will trail a Nixon Planning To Keep Viet Options Open buck without runhave a tendning him too fast. And deer ency to circle. Henry must have had a bit of Beagle, Tick, Red and the rest hte best charac-terictiof each. He w'as all dog. And when he got on the scent of a deer, Cecil knew t was a buck. Henry didnt bother with do.e. He trailed the stag at a pace that wouldnt snook him. Some of the dogs would get on the the cheaper dogs. In trail of a boar Arkansas, boars roam the hills like the white face cattle roam the range here in Utah . . . marked by ear tags instead of ... By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON Chewing over the Vietnam war with aides, President Nixon has indicated that his period of conciliation may run out in December. If he doesnt hear an encouraging word from Hanoi before Christmas, he may halt the troop withdrawals and, perhaps, even step up the war. The President wont accept mute signs, such as the dramatic drop in enemy infiltration. The movement of North Vietnamese troops down the infiltration routes has virtually ceased during the past few weeks. While he concedes this may be a signal that Hanoi is willing to end the war, he wont engage in guessing games over the enemys intentions. The Communists will have to lay out their concessions on the Paris truce table if they expect him to continue the American pull-out. revival of 1969 Died On This sets apart the few illustrative incidental music for a Egmont, Beethoven wrote features of the work the bird calls in one of his most eloquent scores. the Scene of the brook," the apparently The President emphasized, in his priGoethes Egmont depicts the subjuwTong entry of the oboe in the Merry vate remarks, that he intends to keep his gation of The Netherlands in the 16th assembly of country folk, and the thunopen. options Century by the Spanish Duke of Alva; it derstorm which leads into the Finale shows their agony, their growing defias isolated features in the overall musiMeanwhile, he is beginning to loe pacal picture. ance, and it ends with a call to revolt. with his war critics, particularly tience Beethoven worked on the incidental Beethovens Symphony No. 7 was t music from October, 1809, to June, 1810. composed during 1811 and 1812. This those who favor what he calls them Without The Overture was the last number to companion work to his Symphony No. resolutions. mentioning be completed, just before flie middle of 8 in many ways continues the stylistic by name, he referred, clearly, to Sen. June. This was not in time for the first line of the earlier Fifth and Sixth and Rep. Don Charles Goodell, performance of the Egmont revival on symphonies. who want the U.S. unilaRiegle, But Symphony No. 7 also bears witMay 24, 1810. Beethovens score was not war effort by Vietnam to the halt completed until the fourth repetition of ness to additional progress. This is clear terally if we consider only the most characteristhe revival June 15. the end of 1970. No. 6 Beethovens tic feature of the work its immense Symphony Dont they realize they may be ("Pastoral) is marked with formal rhythmic drive. This enables us to underthe war? demanded the prolonging and of as stand it the economy qualiexpressive power Wagners description Whats wrong with ending President. ties also round in the dissimilar sister apotheosis of the dance. w ar before December, 1970? the Above all, how much finer and more work, Symphony Ni. 5. Together they form the towering centerpiece of Beetho- flexible the metre of this symphony than He would very much like to settle vens creative achievement in the realm that, for example, of the Fifth Sympho- the war sooner, he said, but the Commuof the symphony. ny, yet there is not the slightest less nists would never negotiate if they knew The inner relationship between these ening of power. This is true of all four the Americans were going to lay down two so apparently contrasting works goes movements of the Seventh Symphony." their guns and leave Vietnam at the The unusually broad, slow Introducfar beyond the fact that they were comclose of next year. tion, the Allegretto, and the Trio of the posed at the same time (they were comWe may as well bring our negotia pleted in 1807 and 1808). In both v'orks Scherzo (the Trio appears twice, so that the bounds of absolute music appear to the movement consists of five sections) tors back home, he snorted. be reached, if not crossed, and in both are clear examples of the new tendency. The President is also annoyed with the most powerful artistic effects are These rhythmic and lyrical aspects of critics who keep asking about bis achieved especially if one keeps in the Seventh Symphony give it a wealth secret plan to end the war. mind the words that Beethoven wrote of color and an abundance of musical The plan is what jou see in action about the Pastoral Symphony: The ideas that fully explain why this sympholie said impatiently. He referred to his expression of feelings rather than tone ny, brimming over with power and exuband Vietnamize efforts to erance, has long been so popular. painting. the war. This has already resulted, he said, in lower casualties, troop withdrawals and reduced draft calls. Brickman 1809, to compose Deseret News Music Editor the small society or any other from Salt Lake City place. To use an overworked phrase, its off the beaten track. Yet the Cottonwood Elementary School in Orangeville, although it houses only 160 students, is Weie hopeful, he said, that we tan be very instrumental in bringing about a situation where education will be available to everyone who wants it, at any time in their lives. The school district is working very closely with the new Southeast Utah Center for Continuing Education just getting under way under direction of Utah State University. The school district hopes to open bids in February or early spring for a $200,000 to $250,000 Area Vocational Center to be constructed adjacent to the 6, Old 'Henry' MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Education: A Heartening Look Around Utah October OUR MAU JONES ate but firm summation of the quandary of his fellow legislators: We must respect the private light of a citizen to expose himself to pornography if he so desires. But we must also the right and desne of a citizen net d buys lists of addiesses and then bombards unwilling recipients with graphic advertisements of its wares. The battleground now is Washington, D.C. Scarcely a day passes without some Congressional cry for action. President Nixon set the tone in a special message to Congress: American homes are being bombarded with the largest volume of mail in history. Most of it is unsolicited, unwanted and deeply offensive to those who receive it. Mothers and fathers by the tens of thousands have written to the White House and the Congress. They resent these intrusions into their homes and they are asking for federal assistance to protect their children. Some of this federal assistance will tual abolition of censorship have been paltry indeed when stacked up against the dollar profits of the burgeoning pornographic industry. The stuff Is everywhere in respectable bookstores, in family movie-houseon the racks of practically everybodys friendly neighborhood drugstore. But where it hurts most is in the mailbox. People, after all, must make a decision to buy the books and magazines; they must pay their way into movies which, to give them their due, do not mask themselves as anything but what they are. The family mailbox, however, is an open city. Not, hopefully, for long. The focal point of the obscenity backlash has ber come the sex house which A15 Monday, bug-ou- binding. boar will rip a dog. 15 years Henry was the for Anyway, top dog. Always trailed the big one. In Arkansas the meat is divided among all the hunters of a camp. A good size They . . . meaning the other hunters . . started to laugh when Cecil had to load Henry into the car because he was with age. But he still so nv'scle-boun- d trailed the old buck. . It got so tl at Henry had to be helped up over ra vires and the bigger rocks. But he kept on the trail. Cecil would have to help Henry into the truck for the trip back home, but the other Hunters never laughed . . . Cecil usually had the trophy head. Then a couple of years ago Henry w as trailing a deer. It was a big one and Henry was trailing it from the upwind side He trailed it across the highway. And intent was Henry in the hunt, he didnt see the tiuck. Even if he had, it is doubtful he could have made it across the highway. so ... But like Cecil says Henry died doing wha he liked to do best! Wit's End Its time to start thinking about winput on the snow tires and put the snow shovel where mom can find it! ter .. . BIG TALK by He is trying to convince Hanoi, he added, that he has no intention of presiding over dn American defeat and, at the HO&) THE IT py LlVts IN aiY ANYMoe- Too cfoyJVeP- same time, that he is not striving for a victory over North Vietnam. If the critics know any way to get I would Hanoi to listen, said Nixon, appreciate their suggestions. He complained that the critics were hurting meaningful negct'ations. "Eveiy time we have hopes that Hanoi w ill make a reciprocal proposal, the Hanoi negotiator he grumped, quotes some senator as evidence that the President doesnt have the U.S. behind him.- "A brave kid is one who's about to get a polio shot, and says to the doctor; 'Salk it to me!' " From photos takoi lor th daily Birthday toaturo. Dsstiot Nows popular - iiiiiihiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniitisiiiiiimmiim&uHsnimiiiiiiii 'Hu. MHAJWI |