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Show n.wrWMigii'w i DESEBET NEWS LETTERS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH MONDAY, NOVEMBER Evils Of Unemployment concerned that the government has allowed companies over the part several months to h iard In ben. This has only added to the inflationaiy i now prob.ctr.s which the Nixon Admin-trano- n m imem-pic- y in to cure increases painful attempting meat. The administration fail.- - to realize that yu,i .re both tjiemployment and inflation if you rely on monetary and fiscal policies to get there. And this is just what President Nixon and Secretarv of the Treasury David Kennedy ere doing. I was disbefore tiie appointed to hear Mr. Kennedy Economic Subcommittee that Joint House-Senat- e increased unemployment was a necessary evil in fight. any hare te-n- fy America Although President Nixon's new policy on Latin Latina the for Alliance than the Progress, less ambitious to room no or little complain. have themselves barriers to trade and In .seeking to lemove LT.S. development loans, promising more generous terms for the President is acceding to demands from South America. The Latins long hae objected that the U.S. encourages industrial diversification while erecting barriers which severely limit the import of Utin products. They also argue that c the U.S. requirement that development loans be used for pur-available to them forces liases in the U.S. buy products at lower prices. In dropping the requirement that U.S. aid go only to democratic regimes, the President tacitly acknowledged that f oreign aid hasnt worked as an incentive to political democramore than cy. After seven years of the Alliance for Progress, half of all Latin Americans live under military dictatorship. Moreover, in shying away from any new promises for funds and making it clear that Latin American large-sca- le the progress depends primarily on the Latins themselves, much conviction that the reflected President is due to the gap between promise and performance. Just how big that gap is may be seen from a few gloomy facts and figures: Since 1962, the beginning of the Alliance for Progress, Latin Americas share in world trade has dropped from 6.5 (c to 5.4 rc. The per capita growth rate in Latin America is only 1.5re a year, far below the 2.5 'c goal established by the Alliance. Interest payments and other debt servicing has doubled in the seven years of the Alliance and absorbs almost i5rk of the money coming into the area. Indeed, the rebirth of military rule in Latin America is considered to be in part a result of the failure of civilian governments to make good on Aliirnce promises. In the Alliance for Progress, the U.S. tried to impose its own ideals and objectives on others only to find that it didn't w ork. Now we propose to let Latin Americans set goals for themselves. If this new course doesnt work, the fault certainly wont lie north of the border. - non-tari- ff else-whe- Nixon s Troubles With Agnew re Ey P.OSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND THE DRUMMONDS WASHINGTON President Nixon's Agnew troubles wont go away by his jii't appearing unruffled. The vice presidents penchant for rawing his voice in overstatement will almost certainly return to plague the White if House and the Republican Party Mr. Nixon doesnt do something ahout it. It isnt that Spiro Agnew is inexpertly political trying to carry out a Richard Nixon strategy the winning friends in one way and the g vice president raking in tha two-lev- el soft-voice- d Since about 65 per cent of Utah youngsters who graduate from high school go on to college but only about 25 per cent of the jobs in the state require collegiate training, shouldnt Utah shift more of its emphasis to vocational training? Obviously yes, says Dr. Ted Bell, state superintendent of public instruction. Senate president Haven J. Barlow agrees, but accused Bells office of failure to make enough effort in this direction during a meeting last week. There is little doubt that vocational training has been the poor stepchild of Utah education. For instance, a few' years ago when the state bonded for $65 million for an educational building program, $62 million went in to academic buildings and only $3 million for vocational buildings. If an accusing finger must be pointed, the Legislature must at least take part of the blame. The 1969 Legislature ared requests for additional money for vocational education while putting from $13 to $14 million into the general fund for raising teacher salaries. Actually, the Senate passed the money bill for vocational education, but it was killed in the House. Another bill to establish a vocational high school in the Salt Lake area passed the House but died in the Senate. But little will be accomplished by mutual recriminations. Whats needed, rather, is a searching review of vocational education fund needs in the 1970 budget session of the Legis-atur- e. rest. There is no such strategy. The President never saw the Agnew Moratorium Day speech and hadn't asked to. The trouble is that the Vice President was just being his own frank, loyal. meat-a- x phrasemaker, unintentionally sharpening disunity by plowing into the Vietnam moratorium with his Sunday punch about stuJpnt leaders who comprise an effete corps of impudent snobs. Agnew is not all wrong, but his over- statement became misstatement, and the etfect was to align the administration with an attack on the many who took part in the demonstrations with no other purpose than to show how much they want to see an end to the Vietnamese war. Mr. Nixon's giving Agnew almost unlimited latitude as a freewheeling speechmaker grows out of his own If Utahns go to the polls ui large numbers in Tuesday's municipal elections in 314 communities, they will show they care about keeping local government responsive to the will of the governed. But if citizens laigelv ignore the final election, as they did the primary election, their indifference will tell local bureaucrats that they can ignore the wishes of the people they ne supposed to serve and get av. e.y with it. A final reminder regarding the two propositions appearing on the ballot m Salt Lake City: We recommend that voters approve the public transit district and defeat the initiative to repeal the sewer tax. See you at the polls. j I I i November is an unexpected bakery beside the road where one where a pretty girl stands munching a hot roll to than more one needs. and iust buvs longer linger , everything v to talk with her . . . o November is ward chapels in small communities well placed for display that the surrounding houses appear to stand like crowds awaiting a ceremony . . . And November : various chapel steeples standing out boldly because the trees have now given up their leaves for small boys to roil in . . . November is some chaped stetiles that seem to be merely lids, and otheis that seem to look outward over the community as watchful things speaking a need for spiritual igilar.ee .y ... A r experience as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower. He had free rein; Ike never asked him to submit a single speech, and our recollection is that Mr. Nixon got into trouble only once. eight-yea- The times and the needs are different today. The American people are impatient. btui.-edistrustful and disunited ov'r Vietnam, anc: Agnew has a record of oratorical imprecision that the President cannot safely let loose any longer without guidance or restraint. d, antimoratoi ium Agnew s epithets have hurt the President, hurt the nation and for the present at least impaired the ability of the Vice President to help the Administration. He unintentionally disserved Mr. Nixon by bringing the presidency into quarrelsome confrontation with the students. He disserved the nation by making the kind of attack on the moratorium which tended to drive moderate young who are the great majority people erates. He hint himself at the very time when he was just beginning to exert significant influence in winning friends and votes for the administration in the Senate, was being praised by mayors, Democratic and Republican, across the country, when he had done so much to persuade tne nation's governors to share federal bloc grants with the cities. We have said that Agnew is not wholly wrong in what he said. There certainly are some intellectual snobs among the sponsors of the moratorium. They show this when they claim a monopoly on morality by saying that opponents of the war are moral, implying that defending South Vietnam is immoral. Thats real intellectual snobbery. Was Adlai Stevenson immoral when he wrote shortly before his death in support of the Presidents course in Vietnam that if aggression is not checked at its inception I believ e you set us off on the old. old route whereby expansive powers at more and more doors, b lieving pu-ti.ry will open ur'i!. at the ultimate door, resistance ic unavoidable and majot war breaks out"? In Vietnam, the United States acted to shut the door on aggression at its start. or poorly It may have been executed, but for the critics of this action to affirm that they alone are moral and idealistic is intellectual arrogance. But the intellectual snobs were the few, not the many, and this is why Secretary of State William Rogeis could rightly and wisely describe the many us wishing principally to register dramatic but dignified expression of their deep concern for peace in Vietnam. it Dictionary Making's A Delicate Art Bv SYDNEY J. HARRIS One of the most frequent requests I preget from readers over the years sumably because they know my deep interest in words and usage is to recommend a good dictionary. Few persons, apparently, are satisfied with the dictionaries they have at home or work. Until now, I had not been able to an unqualified reccmniCndaT.cn, because although there are dozens of dictionaries on the market, not one of them incorporated everything I tlvought was needed by the aveiage leader. inane- - What most people want is not merely a book that will tell them the meanings of words, but one that will also suggest It should not be necessary proper to consult Fowler or Partridge or Coppered or any such other auxiliary works m order to learn the most appropriate, etfeeme, and unambiguous usage of words and phrases. The new American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, consisting of 1600 pages, with 155,000 entries (including 10,000 biographical and geographical references), ought to satisfy anyone except the most scholarly and recondite. And at the extraordinary price of S7.95, its a far better buy than some dictionaries costing more tnan twice as rr.urh. The type and format are a pleasure to livk at. the 4.000 drawings and photographs are truly illustrative of the topics, and the introductory essays are themselves a short course in grammar, spelling and pronunciation. But the uniquely useful part cf the book is the hundreds of usage notes that help the reader steer a sensible middle course between wild permissiveness and constricted purism. To obtain these notes, American Heritage enlisted some 100 writers, editors and scholars io serve as a Usage Panel for difficult or disputed words and phrases. I happen to have been one of the members of this panel, but I hasten to add that this was wholly a labor of love, and the panel received nothing for its work but a sense of satisfaction in helping put together a dictionary that meets a real need. Dictionary making i a delicate art. The biggest are not always the best (although the smallest are alwavs inadequate), and all of them are subject to the v ieissitudes of time, since English is a living, growing, and thus changing language. But the American Heritage, in my prejudiced view, will withstand the strain of the years more sturdily than any of its current rivals in the popular field. ployment. and slow business growth gradually will in on Vietnam as the i lr-- e subject most potent in toe political campaign of 1970. R LAMUNTTATE 3635 S. 2215 East Approve Bus Service The proposition for the creation of a Public Transit District, which will appear on the ballot Nov. 4 in several Salt Lake valley areas, is far more important than many people realize. The result of this vote means simply that either we have bus service in Salt Lake City or we don't. Can you imagine a city this size without any public bus seivice? It's inconceivable. Our area would become a back woods town. I m sure I speak for most of the people like n,e who dont u--e the buses regularly. I haven't been on a bus for years, but I know there are thousands who are completely dependent on bus sendee, they would be stranded if bus service ceased. Surely the people of our area, bus riders or not, realize, as I do, that a yes vote is vital to he continuing progress of our community. The funds to finance the buses are available from the Department of Transportation. All w e have to do is express our desire to receive them. It's almost that simple. I hope every eligible voter will realize the importance of going to the polls Tuesday, and of voting yes to bus sendee. --DON LEAVITT Fairer Tax Needed me present income tax structure is unjust and reform, but I am afraid that many cf tne reforms in the current tax reform program may be even more harmful to our country's economic welfare. Old reforms are being reformed, " nen what is needed is a new and more comprehensive way of figuring income tax. Under the bill the House passed in August most ad the tax relief goes to individuals with low or moderate incomes, while the increases fall on wealthy people and businesses. This will give people more money to spend, putting consumer demand up, while business will be cut in productivity and unable to meet the demand. Ike result will be more inflation. If taxes on capital gains are increased, cun erf income investments will be put into more demand, and stockholders will want earnings distributed in- 4 . Vr. ctoqI rf u ue lOiticuiV IV liIVt'M tli 8 ture growth. This will slow the country's economic grow tli, making it hard for young people to join the - The days when a WASHINGTON husband came home to a henpecking v ife are a thing of the past In these per-r- e ilous times, it isn't a man's wife who gives him trouble, but his children. 1 diJn t realize it common until I ran friend my in a rresiau-tan- t late the other evening. how was into Nolan Don't you think it's about went home? I asked. What for? Nolan said. I'll just h it ftoni the kids. Have they been hard on you lately ? t. me you tan Theyie imptssib e. The minute I waik in the door they start in on me. Why do they have to wait for dinner while I watch the news? Why can't they each hav e a telephone in their own room? I tell ycu. they're driving me crazy. Wbv don't vuu tell them lo shut up? I oo but it doe,f.'t do anv g xxl. Tiey're si deaf from listening to ti eir teMinis that ttey r.it.'t hear am thing I sri). If they Nr hud a light v. i:h their d I sjttk up inr her, ti ey ai! mullet are ue me of tal.i-- g i.er side. I car, t seem to do anyi'mig right. ' si n. a;.J he's t! e re a 17 c bomb trro'.rer ri tl e f, mbv. 1;p so vs evsinks. Hes erything n tie lde we lead ashamed cf beurgeo ard the fco'irgems friends ve have and I h m ART BUCHWALD fie bourgeois job I have. But he's not above borrowing my bourgeois car to drive i.l. gui friend lo a student meeting to overthrow ment." the houigeois establish- - It m ist be tough. I said to Nolan. When ni 10-- ear-oldaughter goes out on a drite and I say she has to be in at a certain hour, she sas 1'rn destroying her social lile. and it will erve me right when she winds up cr. a psychiatrist's couch. They really put yi u through the wringer, don't they? I said. Nolan was practically in tears. You don't kmw what it's like. The other night said that Paul McCartney my of the Beatles was dead. I said l.e wasn't . dead and that that it was all a he was alive and veil in London. She said I didnt know what I was talking about, because all the kids knew he was dead. I showed her a picture in the newspaper of McCartney proving he wasn't dead, and she said the grownups were jU't hiding the lacts from the kids, because we wanted them to think he was ahve. She said if I bed to hc--t aliout McCartney. I probably lied to her about v d The main problems in tax legislation have to do with the allowable deductions fiom adjusted gross income. It seems the more sophisticated taxpayer takes advantage of the loopholes in the tax laws, putting more of the burden on those who do not know about the loopholes or lack the capital to make them work. ' growth. Ail individual putting up a front with the kids, just so I can be near my wife. But it isn't easy. It's so hard for a wife to live in a house where there is bickering going on all the rime, and I think she senses tnat the only reason I come home at night is because of her. But Nolan you cant stay married just because you love your wife. I said. But I can't It's tough. he sa.d. make her suffer just because I have three kids that drive me up the wall. GUEST CARTOON put-on- i work force. economic -- everything. What's tr.e answer. Ireilan?" I asked. If it Wasnt for my wife. I'd probably call tie whole thirg off I love t wfe, and I wouldn't do arythirg ;o i urt ' or. Then you're keeping tl. marturge goirg because of your wife? That's all tha s left of the imnre. I m I u- Since the problems arise from these deductions, why not eliminate them all together and broaden the tax base to adjusted growth income? Reporting of capital gains could be left as it is now to help Case Of The Henpecked Father I asked. It's November G. Drummond into sympathy with the militant iir mod- It seems a tragedy that in the Treasury Department we find elation over th rising rate of unemployment. For it should be e'ear that any unemployment in cur country, however small, is an unhappy condition and one that we will constantly seek to correct. It seems to me that Nixon's economic policies are putting Americans out of vvoik without .significantly slowing do An iniia'iun. Ye find tnat unemployment made the bigge-- t cr.e month jump in nine years in September, and Mr. Kennedy says that the fight against inflation will put still more people out of work. The BLS report showed a total of 2.950.000 workers unemployed at the end of September or about 365 060 more than in August. This represents 4 per cent of the labor force as compared with 3'2 per cent unemployed in August. And this can be expected to edge even higher. I ara sure that the threat of recession, unem- in need of See You At The Polls What Utahns do on Tuesday will have no little influence on whether grassroots government in this state is a good servant or a bad master. E. Drummond name-callin- The President's great goal is to bring us together. This is hard enough without the vice president driving us prvart t Utah's Step Child 1 an I 3, 1969 Would Latins Rather Do It Themselves? 1 TO THE EDITOR rir'iiiiiiiiii'ii::i:!riiiM!nii,iiM"iiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiii!iiii.iiiii.iii,iiiiiimi:iLinifmi We Stand Per The Constitution Of The United Stares As Having Been Divirely inspired 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE m B:!!iHiiRi!i!iiiliih::niiiiiiiiiiHi!iiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiminiiimiii:ii;imi 1 incomes would thus be subject to some tax. This would be very democratic. Not only would everyone be able to vote, but evervone would be taxed and at an even rate. -D- ENNIS J. C. ROBBINS 4585 Highland Dr. Gimmicks In Business A few months ago my wife end I were approached by a sewing machine salesman stating we had won a contest giving u a free machine. Eeing skeptical, we inquired further only to find out we had to pay a fee for regular maintenance of rmr machine tor the next 10 yea is. The fee was almost equal to the cost of an equivalent machine and much above what is usually needed to keep a machine in good condition for that length of time. Even more annoying was a magazine firm that called my wife on the phone this summer. Pretending to represent a book club, the collator asked my wife to answer questions to a survey. Sh complied, muen to eur later discomfort, Ixh a use this led to more phone and a visit t otir home to pressure us into magazme subscriptions. On this gimnucK you had to commit yourself to a suIimii-tm- n for the next fnre yeirs We fclkd the Be'-iBusiness Bureau, only n Ire tokl thev n.uMn't do rmsh ie h- anything about the mque.. it seems Bu-me- ss bj.ine--- c arxiiit to entm ii,e biggest s. ie- - gn,-:- i. CMn any ti. mg be doi t,re ycui. Christina to ptoletf tne a. uner from tm ripe of business qudtken ? JOHN SCKAFF 825 5th Are. We 'I assure choice Clemen you i'm stuck with . . mean, sticking with." H.r.t j the err, i is . SAr HI ti at to be ready effective, tire Bureau sl.ou.d lake ti.e lead in slopping m Su! Lake liorn si p aie k of -- |