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Show n TT eii DESERET NEWS ,'e For S'cr-c- As ire Cc:- - ed C: Tr Dre' hDv.n? seen Business Going I SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH StD1 Underground Inspired SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1969 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE Why Utah Still Needs Sunday Closing Law By PAUL MANNING Non,; American Newspaper Alha.ve I'ntil mently only a few discount stores remained open for business on Sunday in Utah, and i ven they werent always 1 ti'py about it. In fact, the manager of one such store called in 1967 for a gt neral Sunday Closing law to assist all of us to return ii ,i normal wav of living and allow us to really observe Sun-tv- y as a clay of worship and red. Hut the bill that would have put such a law on the books Uu.s shot down at the last moment, and part of the price for that failure is now becoming apparent. In response to giowing competition, two major retail chain stores announced recently they will start doing business on Sunday in Utah in line with the firms national policy. The handwriting on the wall is unmistakably clear: When a few merchants start peddling goods or services on Sunday, their competitors have little choice except to extend theii days of operation, too. if they are to remain in business. More Sunday selling seems inevitable unless the j .lattice is cut bed. It would be nice, of course, i! the merchants would police themselves. But theres always at least one maverick who won't go along with the rest of the crowd. As shopping cen-t- ( rs proliferate, it becomes harder for a store not to do business on Sunday when the store next door does. Moreover, when its part of a national chain, a local store may not have the final word on whether or not it sells on Sunday. All this was recognized by the Utah Council of Retailers some time ago when it observed: There are those who say that the curtailment of Sunday business can b achieved without legislation. The most effective answer to this argument is that in those states which do not have laws curtailing Sunday business, the spread of such business in recent years has been phenomenal. The Utah Legislature has passed Sunday Closing bills previously only to have them vetoed by Governors Rampton, Clyde, and Lee, who insisted that the particular measures before them were unconstitutional. But that doesnt mean Utah should give up on trymg to get a Sunday Closing law on the The cumote of civil ur.ie-- t NEW YORK across the United State' t' driving more businee' underground the.-- e da;.' than did the panit over tie nuclear bomb. In New York City, lot example, one major store ha' been victim. zed by a serie- - r fire bombing'. A major bank in the financial c-t- rict was bombed several week.-- ago. Other have received threat' of violent e. Of primary concern to the-- e bu'ir.e es is ti e pteservation cf their financial reec:ds and vital -s and th the heart of any corporate data only means by which a company might regenerate after a cata'trophe. It is these very records that is the fir--t target cf any act of sabotage. lt-- books. other states have some law to close general merchandising one day a week, usually Sunday, and those laws have been found to be constitutional. Its hard to believe that Utah cant come up with a Sunday Closing law in keeping with the Constitution. Another sticking point ha3 been the claim that Sunday Closing legislation represents an attempt to force religious principles and practices on the citizenry. Theres no denying that Sunday ha3 traditionally been a day of worship and rest, or that a Sunday Closing law would help protect the Sabbath from the inroads being made upon it. But the U.S. Supreme Court has determined that laws regulating Sunday business are not religious laws, but are secular in their essence. If anyone doubts that Sunday Closing laws are secular, let him look at the 1962 study for the Utah Council of Retailers which concluded: From a purely economic standpoint . . . Sunday selling does not, in most cases, increase the total volume of retail business. It merely spreads that volume over one extra day. Add to this the increased costs of Sunday operation due to greater overhead . . . and there is some doubt as to the wisdom of such operations. Or consider the study by a Utah State University professor indicating a direct correlation between Sunday absence from the home of parents due to work, and the increase in juvenile delinquency and youth problems. Cleailv. another campaign should be mounted to formulate a Sunday Closing bill and get it passed by the Utah Legislature. And this time the legislators should act on the bill only enough in the session so they will have enough time left to override any veto. Until a Sunday Closing law is put on the books. Utahns ran make their influence felt at the cash register by doing their shopping any day.except Sunday. Thirty-fiv- e (Newsweek Feature Service) promises are like anniverjokes and hamburger sandwiches. They fade from memory, unless they particularly kindle the imagination as did Pochard Nixons pledge last year to work for black capitalism. Campaign saries, one-lin- e tiny ktep files on almost eveiy adult American. The average file used to include only ones place of employment and debt payment history on a few major loans. But now the record includes one's present salary, medical recoin. average bank balance, character references based on confidential interviews with and neighbors, as well as any arrests, lawsuits, judgments, and divorces. Moreover, access to these suposediy confidential credit l.lts ran be obtained by almost advene, including many who r n't Dona tide credit gianters. That is. almost anyone m3y but nut you. In fact, one company get access to your file won't even admit that it has your file. This despite the fact that some consumers have been refused loans ar.d even lost out on jobs because of credit files tainirg damaging inaccuracies caused by bookkeeping in'.--, un.tnirud extenuating (.re umstar.ee s. misinforma-t.o:rv n m, Ui d.t bur ..U- - rvy g. t bi.i.--i d im when Ur : vi a lUsik-xu: merchandise that r.inha:: Again and again during the 19C8 campaign, candidate NLxon promisea Nea piece of the action by helping groes them to become black capitalists. It would be accomplished, he vowed, by greatly increased government assistance and loans aimed at launching black-owne- d businesses in ghetto areas. the extent that programs of black capitalism are successful, said Nixon, ghettos will gradually disappear. But now, more than a year after the end of the campaign, the only gradual disappearance is the hope that blacks, like other ethnic groups in bygone years, will be able to better themselves through To ! :. ii- i:..-tai- .u i i mu t mt .i'U: v c ail adds up to a m ease ter Sen. William s b.ii to to P:cn... in.: in .v;uual invct his cred.t rec ord to verify or d.si ute its accuracy. Pa.'scd this week by the Senate, the measure would also nabie an individual to insert explanatory statements in his f -i 1 pvi.-uasiv- record . . . get inaccurate ir.f.'rmaticn deleted . . . require s rl.sclosuie .f cf cred.t. employment or fir M- r and have mv'.Htd . in.-i-- sub-tanti- al In hr. u.m tie rurien' vogue fur Marmr.g tie v.r.iia American for all tnat i wrong with America. I Lave been read- a ing new i.J. . . bonk. Delona Jr. The bluib tip jacket scribes or. de- 1 j.r:.f have r. . . r. the t. : n j. v, .rtgngcs u.-,-c a i c rigi.t t r i r.cy c o. a. I lu; sheu.d isumer : i: ..... .re r.:'..'..'r;stc.:.t.5trd White A::.!-- and tie a . - U S. have cheated, murdered, led to. rr.aacred. persecuted. and ravaged tr.e American Indian taking h:s lard and tryirg to destroy b: .vihzation . . . here - a proud and an tell- - it angry pe,p w - -- ncke-r it is. government cor.s:.'tentiy c c- Ur..tr teihng .; n ?' it ain't. a- a - v- i.1' 1 re t nyt: ti.it An abhorred aggression a;.u tersive baules has been play since eyew nesses have all been taxer, to war Unfortunately, eric an Indiars fought only degetting a heavy Indian raids the graveyards. to was r:r,.ed k irs" u. :?.e credit information. S . Ml' -- chief the cf r.orr.aJ: ' Indians. Scalp ;l. i'igfs, Count rz I , cf c.,nvrr lot of teihrg ! The ir k j.i s a ' o- -, ha-eh- I :V' ' ' ' 7-- ike ,. ; r;,s T. F- -. (f names black-owne- d black-owne- d I' a- - ' ,r.u i I - , prert-tre- ,. re. 1 f ft ul L.: : ey . r i : ? J e;er t r JENKIN LLOYD JONES behind t .e Kentucky rifle and the Colt Much has been written about the perfidy of whites and the U.S. government in breaking Indian treaties. They certainly broke them. If they had kept all their promises there would be no w of tile Appalachians. But the theory that only whites would be low enough to steal territory is a little shaky. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Navajos and Apr ches are really Canadian Athabaskans who moved down on the pastoral Pueblos sometime in the 13th or 14th century. The Comancfces loped south from Wyoming about 1770 to terrorize and sometimes enslave th earlier Texa s a ; a. to eff'cier.I. rr.i i.iry reurr.-- in be- -. The CLippevvas having obtained firearms from the French, drove the Sioux out o the northern Great Lakes region. The Snux, in turn, pushed the Cheyenne and Arapahoe out of the Dakotas. Nobody, it is true, violated any treaties. There were none. No victorious tribe promised to let a beaten tribe er.joy & choice hunting ground as long as the water flowed and grass grew. Nor did any tribe offer reparations, however inadequate, to those dispossessed by force. T1- white man-- : bistorv i similarly or cf endless aggression and 7tike Er.gienn: hrcis moved across me Ctidr-re- l to dominate the Britons ju-- t More e Romans came. After the Romans-i-, vaves of Germanic people- -, v.no ad been squeezed cut of t1 North take-ove- - . tr and even this fignations badnesses ure is deceptive. For that 3 per cent brings in less than 1 per cent of U.S. business receipts. Even in New York's Harlem generally acknowledged to be the most advanced black community in the counfewer than two dozen black busitry nesses have more than 25 employes. What's more, the picture is getting worse, not better. There are actually businesses now than fewer there were 40 years ago. In 1929, for example, there were 49 banks owned by Negroes in 38 cities. banks in Today, there are 20 19 cities. Between 1950 and 1960, the number of Negroes dropped by about 20 per cent, and the trend continues into the present. In fact, the main areas of black entrepreneurship are still the segregated ones, and. ironically, the desegregation battle has lessened the chances of the black man to become a millionnaire. As blacks et thesi-- . bis pretty well: id I Brocks ca-- e Is. of course, a rarity. Most blacks have a very small part of the action, indeed. The countrys 22 million Negroes own only 3 per cent of the revolver. Custer Pied for Your Sir.'. by a young S:oux. Vine ir-w- rea.-on- u-- business ownership. Black capitalism is a shambles, declares Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League. Mr. Nixons campaign rhetoric has never been followed up by any concrete plans or proposals. Attacks on the faltering Administration program of loans to would-b- e black businessmen have been especially bitter on Capitol Hill. They have come not only from expected liberal sources, but from conservatives like Democratic Sen. Alan Bible of Nevada, chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans ts that Mr. Nixon remains totally committed to black capitalism. But the program has been stymied in part because of the general government campaign for economy. In the past fiscal year, the Small Business Administrations 593.6 million wortn oi loans to minority group-- , went to only 4 120 individual-, and a number of these v.ere earmarked by the previous Administration. Much additional criticism has developed because the SBA and the Office of 1 1 :u' What grants have been made, moreover, have frequently been denounced. Last summer, the Houe Select Committee on Small Business heard complaints that new black businesses had been granted loans so small that they were undercapitalized from the beginning and never had a chance of survival. Some of the big loans have backfired. were aghast when they Congressmen its funds to learned that SBA has guarantee a $135,000 bank loan so that St. Louis Cardinal star Lou Brock could set up an auto agency in East St. Louis. Brock, whose salary at the time was $85,000 a year, seemed less than a hardship case. rre -- ! Or Perhaps the most noticeable field that has opened to the would-b- e black capital-i-- t owes nothing at all to government planning. Dozens of ath- high-salari- letes and entertainers have opened franchises or even businesses of their own Former heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay (Mohammad Ali) has started a chain of Champ Burger restaurants. Dodger baseball star Maury Wills runs six Stolon Base Cleaners establishments in Los Angeles. Former Pittsburgh Steelers back Brady Keys is president of "AH-Pr- o Chicken with 130 franchises all ever the country. The ordinary black is more likely to be affected by local projects, a few of which show signs of promise. The Rev. Leon Sullivan, who established a successful black shopping center in Philadelphia, has been allotted $650,000 in seed money to establish 13 more shopping centers. Chrysler has made a commitment to establish 25 black dealerships. The Bedford-Stuyvesa- Restoration Corp., by Sen. Robert Kennedy, has helped launch 32 black businesses. Ghetto riots and unrest in general have helped the cause of black capitalism. Some small white businessmen have been driven out, more would like to get out, and occasionally black enteipre-neur- s have replaced them. More noticeahave been bly, white businessmen increasingly willing to put blacks in charge of ghetto enterprises. are Still, the new black enterprie generally undercapitalized and often The black community has little business tradition behind it and it has been shut out for too many years from developing the techniques to survive in business. man forests by rampaging Slavs, seized England where they, in turn, suffered endless depredations from the Piet'. Scots, Norse and finally Normans. No lo'ers were paid anything. Therefore, the currently popular idea among a new breed of militant Indians d that they are the people in the world's history is based on a high degree cf innocence of world history. Indians, as a matter of fact, are remarkable in that they got a little conscience worst-treate- money. We have also heard much about how the white man destroyed the Indian huntway of life. This way of life ing, spear fishing and gathering berries and seeds precariously supported not Jrr-se- Standard Oil of New Jersey can accommodate employes; Shell considerably less. There is nothing spartan about the facilities of either company. Once you descend underground vy elevator, you enter areas where the office., are as modern as in any skyscraper and the dormitories as ctmrorta-bl- e as a moteL 200 James Price, president of the Iron Mountain Security Storage Corporation, states that in view of civil strife and past campus riots universities and major department stores in eastern cities are also taking steps to store their records and computer data in our underground area. He describes his unique storage sendee as very much a growth industry, with the age of computerization helping it along. He adds, major firm are keenly aware that records and vital research data on which the rational economy must depend for its future growth must be systematically protected. Nationally, four other underground facilities ate meeting the present needs of industry for record storage and emergency headquarters. New York Undrground Company in Rosendale, N.Y., handles storage problems for such clients as Allied Chemical, Mobil Oil and IBM. In Boyers, Pa., there is National Storage Co., in Hutchinson. Kansas, the Cary Salt Company supplies facilities, while Inland Storage Co. of Indiana takes care oi that state's demands. But the most impressive new undergound faciliis ty now under way on the Pacific Coast. The Bek-in- s the country's largCompany of Los Angeles est moving and storage company has optioned a e site on Bull Pine Ranch, which is about half-wa- y between Los Angeles and San Francisco in the Diablo Mountains. Unlike Eastern and Midwest mine facilities, the Bekins project will represent the first time a company has constructed a total complex designed originally and specifically for vital record protection. It will contain emergency office and housing accommodations for 1.000 and an airstrip and heliport. The wisdom of recoid preservation for the oi a country following a national catas-toph- e was never better Illustrated than in Germany during 1544. Following the Allied invasioh of that year, Germanys leading industrialists (who by then were betting on Hitler's defeat) met in the Hotel MaLson Rouge in Strasbourg and agreed on plans for transferring their records, patents, blueprints and money from the safety of mines to other countries. A report issued by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 mentioned that 750 companies had been set up throughout the world with those German records. 200-acr- cy As George Iron Mountain remarks today: McLaughlin, Security vice president of th Storage Corporation, Its not money that is vital to the survival of a corporation but its records, data and blueprints. GUEST CARTOON more than 850,000 Indians in all continental America at the time of the Pilgrims. Moreover, the white man's way of life didn't seem to be all bad. The first Iroquois who saw an outboard motor burnt his paddles. Not many Indians prefer to round maize with a stick, jerk beef or go to town with a pony and a pel drag. Tne angry young Sioux. Mr. Deloria. on page 27 approvingly quotes Alex Chasing Hawk as telling a congressman that law ! Indians need a But on the previous page be rays: Tribes are becoming very skilled at grant smarm hip . . . Some are taking upward of $10 million a year in government programs and private grants. A- I understand it, the anpry-vou- r program for the w hi res is to off the huntirg grounds, ;s'r,re gt trie buffalo, expand Medicare and federal assistance in at the teepee leave-us-alo- fltip. e--t That .should moke Indian- - the w,nnrig in bumao history. Summit io-e- is t A panies that ha;- 'tored their vital financial data in this cavernous rere us warehouse are such industrial giants as Standard Oil Company of New Shell, Texaco. Socony Mobile, RCA. General F.iectric, Metropolitan Life Insurance Compan; . the United States Trust Company of New Y'ork. 119 banks and savings and loan associations in seven states. Iron Mountain, 115 miles north of Manhattan, is a complex of storage vaults and emergency corporate headquarters. Trie mountainside entrance is "eel door guarded by a larger than the one at Fort Knox. Standard Oil of New Jersey, bheli Oil and Manufacturers Hanot ei Trust Co. of New York are among tho-- e who maintain emergency headquarters there, in addition to storing their records. n have become freer to move out of tl.er cun uuuiuLvs, Lire wrav.iv vucuicasmaa van no longer depend on his own race for survivaL There are still more black miilion-naire- s in the South than anywhere else in banking, insurance, cleaning establishments and similar businesses in neigh borhoods where the white man has not chosen to operate. America's Angry Young Braves the country and i:i created Minority Business Enterpri.-e- , last March by the President, hav seempd to stumble over one another. The former is short of funds and the latwhich is supposed to coordinate all ter has government programs in the field none at all. By JACQl'lN SANDERS Check Credit Checkers ate 2.200 cedit rating bureaus bu-ine- 's. lack Capitalism: Why Its Faltering In The Ghettos non-essent- non-essenti- al To protect against the willful or accidental of the lifeblood of more than TOO firms have reduced their records to microfilm or computer tapes and stored them in space leased from the Iron Mountain Security Storage CorporaNew York. Among the comtion r.ear Kre.-c- n. One of Cassius Clay's chain of Champ Burger restaurants opens in Coonut Grove, Flo. Inset the owner. non-essenti- al Thi re Data To Siore C i y 'Of r |