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Show rrwlirtii!!!!PWIRIII111!!!11113U1!T!;11!!!!IIPP!!Illirtl'illr111!!!'W4T I SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Vv'e Sr 1 - , - S. 6.6. ' --- , Consti7on Of T'n' e United Stdtes As rivirg Seen C:v:reiy !nspired - Wage PlonWould Help Solve Youth Problems - , ,...,...-,,,----- 15-1- 9 d ' N ' his first physieal examWhen Richard Nixon underr-en- t ination Monday since entering the White House, nobody gave it much thought. After all, the presidency is one of the most demanding jobs there is, the public has a right to expect the man in the White House to keep in good shape, and this requires periodic check upS. But imagine what would have happened if the checkup had been a mental rather than a physical test. The rumor mill would have started grinding out speculation that the President was having mental or emotional problems. inspiring a lack of confidence that would have made the job of running the country more difficult. This explains why, unlike a physical checkup, a psychiatric checkup isn't a regular part of holding high public office even though it should be. In a nuclear era when national may depend on swift. sure judgments at the top, the President's mental health shouldn't be left to chance. sur;-iv- al A few months ago Dr. Bryant Wedge, a Tufts University specialist in political psychology, recommended that an official presidential psychiatrist be a staff member much like the White House physician. As Wedgo obsorved: If public attitudes are to be shifted. the dust ought to be blown off the Wed 7e pioposal so it can be discussed fully and frankly. Unt il the Pcesident can undergo a psychological checkup without being deemed unstable, this country will be taking greater risks than it needs to. Voter Help Coming In the re yen, e.ect.on and in preceding elections, innumerable newcomers and long established residents who have moved to new areas were unable to cast votes. because of Utah's outdated voter residency requirements. however. people who found thems,Ives in Fortunatel:-the frustrating pred!cament reed on!y have patienee. Help is en the way for inoquities. For example. the last Legislature passed a mcdsure allowing Utahns to vote in I9TO on a referendum issue to chane thr:' residency requirements. Once this is approved. the next following Legislature Would have the orortur:ty t hanttc existing laws. Currently. to vote in Utah, a person must not only be 21 8 d a U.S. citizen, but be a state resilent one year. a resident of his county for four months. and a resident of his voting district for 60 days. The residenci requirements are too long the case of national electious- -and should be shortened a eiminated, since crossing state line doesn't affect a voter's knowledge of nati.)nal As a contributor to toclAy's letters to the editor column points out, continuing to reol:.i-- rcsder,ts to ray taxes when they are cieni:',1 the right to vete amounts to taxation without representation. cor-A-Jin- orin rt-s- ,:. I I - -- .v--.- - , -- - -: - e- -. -- ' ,... , ,-- , --- -- ,,, . :.' - '- "C. - ,,,.'' -- - p'1:;--- ....,.,.g.li.--,9.1- g. , '' leo' 4..2..- - I , - -,!- 4''.?4';''-- -' - continually rising costs Ind economic waste. The best exarnple of this is the evergrowin.gmaze of government programs and agencies. This rrIS is so fantastic that not even the government itset krows how many programs it administers. In' a recent study. it W3S fenind that there are at least. 1315 federal assistance pteerams, 225 more than 10 to .211 W eee fowld la,t td: or unfound. The overlap-- .. programs st1.1 vrppc-,1-P,-ping and duplieating that was found ameng thee assistance prognams, NRS to suen an extent that space will not permit its dicclosurae This veritable thicket of buroatherecy cost Ameeican taxpayers billion last year, and this great r ypendlture probably took even mere out of their pockets in the way of rising prices and shrinking dollars. 1 .5 0.,).140: ' --- --- '"--- .. ,,),, ''' I'' '.11w ; ', - ,0" 1 - t' ,k I , ,,,.i -- ,:v A ::!!!3!!yi,-- ;" ,,-:- ie , J INSIDE REPORT NOVAK W)BERT PARISTke ,somic trac'edy of the Paris peace talks. once regardod as the path to negotiating a vvay out of the kar in never more starkly .etnam, than the at coed dror expmed here Thursday (Nov. 6). the 4Ist meeting sim.e the talks started on Jan. scon at 25. When it came her turn to talk, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, had of the delegation of the National Liberation Front (NIX.). r d ic u le d President Nixon's Nov. 3 he also played heavily on the speech. old and frayed theme that the NU-- knows far more about the mood of America than President Nixon. That much was predictable. The standard Communist line here all along has been the U.S. public opinion the "great silent majority" that Mr. Nixon was trylag to with his speech is on the Commurist side of the war and sooner or later will force the U.S. to pull nut altogether. The tragic-comi- e aspect of Mrs. Binh's remarks came later Who!". to her statement, sbe quoted extensively not from U.S. politicians or the U.S. press but from le Figaro, the French I Hanoi-dominate- d re;-,c- ?up-po- rt ;paper. representatives in Paris would, indeed, be willing to talk with the N1". But not long after that. the Comrnunkts inexplicably hardened their position. all along the line. nrobably as a result of Ch:nose Communist pressures. Thus. deto direct talks spite Tiieu's public lkith the NI.F. the first syllable of those corversations has yet to be uttered. C.F. delegate, winced in disbelief at Mrs. Pinhs use of a foreign newspaper to prove her contention about U.S. public op!mon. What was surprising was the fact that three members of the North Vietnamese de!egation sitting at the negotiatinE,, table also grinned openly and at the ilbsurdity of using the foreign press to support a complex point dealing with U.S. domestic politics. Even the Communist delegates themselves no longer attempt to conceal the fact that their side of the peace talks is a sham and that they can no longer take their rhetoric seriously. In short, the talks here have now entered the farcical stage. P. radical change from last spring when Lodge and his top assistant, cateer Foreign Service Officer Philip Habib, regarded the talks as a genuine path to possible settlement. In those Imre hopeful days. Lodge used to have long talks kith Soviet Ambassador Zorin, his old friend from their days together at the United Natons. It was Zorin who, early this year, appealed to Lodge to persuade the South Vietnamese to talk directly with the NFL. Lodge did precisely that, and in President March, South Vietnamese Nguyen Van 'rhieu publicly stated that ;4 snt Likewise, Lodge's proposal two weeks ago for "restricted.' talks which would not he rP10,4c0r1 to the public has ben flatly rejected. LoLige's hope was that this technique permittinz confidential exchanges night open the door to bring the Saigon government and the Communists together. Accordingly, the charade in Paris is now performing only one function. It is giving Hanoi a loudspeaker to the world out of which pours a weekly dose of invective aimed at :he That raises the question whether the talks are worth continuing at all. The feeling here is that they are. if only for he reason that breaking them off Nvould make the U.S. vulnerable to propaganda attack of a harsher sort. But it is no secret that Lodge is tiring of the farce. Should he resign, the obvious ans.ver Is not to replace him with a presidential envoy but to leave the talks in the hands of the technicians, ith Habib in charge. That symbolic downgrading. would be an appropriate rezponse to Hanoi's refusal to treat the talks with even the shadow of seriousness. 'Corruption' Of The French Language BIT Just after I wrote that piece on the new American IIefitae Dictionary a week or so aco. I saw a front-pac- e story in the New York Times about the latest edition of the "Petit Larousse." the most widely used dictionary in France. The new Larousse includes for the first time many Anelicisms and Americanisms which infuriate French purists, who have long warned against a "corruption" the French of liinzua,-- e invasion of these barbarous words and phrases. Among the Americanisms are "hap-pening." poster." "riot" and "campus." The news item didn't meotion "hippie." but this is another of our rif00::kM5 that is spreaPic fast all over the world. To my mind. it is absurdly rigid of French professors and to Wc,t to such of tvords. which lin-ui- 1,41 r'... ' 1-- t ' TNT, 1, '''', 4.' res i - ,y k ,:':''S:''. pot;t of t14, An eii- t,)ple the a:ter he rtiaE' LS t',r , Mr. 1.34141matt1 suri-o- d rio Nixon :i.o ti We-tnNCro hAs la t feA yfs'Irq rO.k lin Western grams i , n dct VL4 rinsi !,7 e nio- - ro Utt,on a ir dr: sor 2.e'.1!:.: them to ('..ii.er that Tak('s A h.t ef a p!o.!,,g to.o- L'.:. I'me to ser d a rame and tee- tw'rati Phore number?" "What do phore number fnr?" "So ke -0 'art to knois te h.rr his tele- rbes;age to "Lock. if I i.karitod to phore him.. I'd h:m mse".fi I wart to sonri a i te:ezr ,ur party kft (d) t.ct: r, t' : tO riri s isratipy WI: boy of yesteryear, dressed in his uniform, is a thing of the past; and Ivy rirohably makes more money selling cridygrams than telegrams I'm doing is raising the question of how President Nixoz: managed to get IVestern Union to deliver the telegrams on the same day wiihout making the seialer pay the extra 73 cents. All r anl plobably happered was i:at rents a:ter the speech, he t here thic Presider! NIxor.?" rEgi t none which of have they any single words? (Incidentally, it's hard to believe that "weekend" is only about 100 years old in English: before then, it was cumbersomely called I am all for maintaining standards in a language. and not permitting sloppiness and illiteracy to pass under the but since rame of "popular usage" of English is made up of about from other languages, and this hybridization is ore of the main causes of the strength, variety ard Friday-to-Monday- s loan-word- s we should suppleness of Eliglish, come, not resent any fills a genuine lack. that cross-breedin- rt cti, Cr for :nor. a7d 1.4:e eil eted Triria Nn A : M not ata nr Co. f.nr try.rz to of a te:.ei,-,ra- 73 ! t:-- a prcLtati.;,e busines ia-- day k:theut payIng 73 cents. f:rst break the Great Silent :t's 7:,Ia;ority has had in years. e t.ie My Pl'al":'TR " GUEST CARTOON ,.::-,..,- , ( r kr,pt r.t. Yits. tl.e I 0:"-e,,:- I' 1,. eprIts " rn fry s, '4, It'1,11 r, ,,,,,,,, 4 t .., ' .1 1 '.; ,,.. I IL, i I J io ,,it - , ral S laras , However, it cannot be n erloeked Thar Congress has recent': made some ruts in its military spenV;4l1 Street dirg Jijfl not. 'I. 111t:;9. quotes Pentagon officials as saing the decreased spend- - and it is cer-- , ing will cool things off In.Reductions of this na., tainly hoped that it ture are detinitely a step in the right direction. but , only a step. Further cuts in spending and a general trimming down will have to be made. not only bk.:. the government, but ideally by each citizen as well. Lets hope that Congress will F2'ne as a good ex. k 1 - I: ', ., .1 1: . ; ,.. .. k t ! ) 520-1s- L. 1 - --- - !, -. .,'- a 71Pr!rlz: n Spcqr:ty Courc:1 and that ,k,is attorrey li,estein I...mon if they genera', t I N..,,. '1 . 01: 1..,,' ' Our family moved here last December. and I have fcund out that we will not be eligible to vote until this December cy law. becaue of a one-yea- residen- r I noted that thp last Legislature possnd a law to three reducing this residency requirement months. but it must be voted on by the people before it can go into effect. During this residency waiting period, however. the state continually collects roy taxes. It is against the law for me rot to pay taxes. even though I cannot vote for my representatives to the government. "This may hurt a lictle!" OIL) il Vie ' t..er sni ji lar tivh. crow( I Ho 1 rt pt . 40 c Insi ...watc It ns 1 li6 . 'OWE A it Th ;1 Itall lai)ok.: Cardinal Way 35esel 7 1 the or I no: i Legis an, ant news fills a d scree work Sur 11 A Was!: byist th and be ( Hits Tax Bill I am sure most of the people of our state. like. myself, were disappointed in the income tax Nil recently approved by the Senate Finance Committee. For many years we have been hoping and praying that something 1; ould be done to give' some tax relief to the person on an: average income tying to raise a family. This proposed bill, however. gives us on relief whatever. We were hoping there 1vould be an increase in dependent allokance from the present SA:00. It is an accepted fact that it costs three titres as much to rear a child now as it did when the allo'Aance was instituted. True. they increased the standard deduction from SIN() to S2,Iff. But as far as I can see this merely helps the single person and married couples with no dependents. most Of Ny'nom never donated or paid out in jutifiable deductions the .$1,000 they were already receiving. As near as I can determine, most married families with whom I am acquainted were already entitled to an amount in excess of the 15 per cent, which this S2o00 is supposed to represent. made up, of course. in donations, taxes, etc. Wast sdtul earl of ti gang( 'tu much-neede- I fed that every concerned CiliZPTI should direct an appeal to Senator Wallace F. Bennett, who is a member of this committee. in an attempt to get this bill changed so as to provide the tax relief we so desperately need. 'tu 'tu J( rake gitin artly state .11re Pitz S i brin lietv W. S. COLEMAN yotr Kensington Ave. sote 11 730 tule Maintain Honor n Oct. 13, 41-- 1t9. Senator Moss reertmtrended before Congress that NE. v,ithdraw all our combat ftarces from South Vietnam as quirkly as we could, vilthout endangering Arnerican lle further stated that if the govertrreht of South Vietlara didn't Nve enough military strength to goex-rithen it must give xi ay. Pre,tricht Nixon it ,clelless to the nation on Nov. 3. 1569, said that ke ill continue to bring troops home, as they can be replaced by South Vi1 V Int vi? Iet,Iirte,e roops. ir trc would be able to sucite,sfu'lit deferd it;ef frorn t agg Crn! nsion tiio,a.rr tis, our oilje,t.itve of keeping South V,ctram free ill meet vith sucoess and over American men will not have lost their lives in vain, Which plan is right7 ti, 'PlaY cial List( :reZo rr1111 s Jitt i i Lai AU, Ccdu COL z E ci ' fq QV: T ri2lit, as sehaio- - Nlias ,tairc, that if it 111,. esn't have tlte tral!t iry stength to wyiern, it it e 1.ktiy? 14Ispocialy 1.! is r'f! ,i.d. t at '4y.": lo.0 t!:, Lit it Worra tear tslin gnt Si:, 14 I$I tit,,t) anil lot hnor. ether narenc around the Fresident and hts plan Vietnam. t'-- RIcw.f.e.,-1- ritra : One of the reasons fr: voter apathy trust be the confused laws here in Utah. I, 1 Ti tici's stud Ave. t Confused Vote Laws ti 'N f tit iltr tat :Mess. is. -- o PAt letgtt J. ROSEVEAR CRAIG t A I - k ;- 93.ue i ample. , - I A .i-,;- t c12 a e. :KEIJ---4-- r: ac 1Thi c sir. eti It Is inoonceivable to rne. that an Atrertean, yet a:one a US senator, 'Alto Pt a kuov :edge cif our AMP1',( an herit-igInvP r,f freedom and liberty (''',111 p rn ,!.ier the d!s honoitable and (1efeati-i- t p:an suggested by Senator fro :,17,-":- 17::,:f.;,-",,--i-- ti-- The 9' Eta .te! La ili.; sll 1.r v! 4111 ot c,ir , 10,4:1ZPft 7H.r, , , it t ,. .A.14,- piri1.1 t iLl'' z'iV.- :i i): t . (A), 'I. Li ck, or f... C-2:), s' 4, , V;tr,:ii - iii;:i - the niessa:es. 17;.(1 t,1;,,,,,,... ,,., p p.:111P a !'!' Pr extra deliver the telegrams to the White House instead of phoninz them in, despite the fact that most senders had not paid the extra 75 cents. Western Union, in a wave of patriotism, agreed to the request. on the condition that the President vouldn't tell anyone that he was gettirz his teczrams on the same day withogt payment of an extra fee. The President agreed. but he was so overwhe:rned by the number of wires he received that he forgot his promise and ca:led in the pres. Now Western Union is :n a the Great Scent Mdisc,overed it can anry srd a trie:rpm T,nd lye it delivered on te ,iL c, re-- a tWliat is you: first name. please?" the middle initial is NT." fIlichatd tWo have a telegram for you. May I read it?" "yes, go ahead." -Whslo.ioarteWy suiTert yaiur v.onla..1 it ("1 the lire derful Maar:d gae couiage to ;7r ''', joriTy. Keep sooki7:: It to I :is7: 'That s vonderful. Who signed it?" lts s:,red Jul:e arid 1),ivitl." Ite riesident hiiitti-i- t up and :he phone rang -Presidiit:t Nixon? We have a telegrani fc,r t'Rimd it." took care of the aie d tat 'ves. effete '' a fP, . :t ART BUCHWALD I is 1. gram of Western Union telezran-ien hiS desk in Thi. .. 1 .., I,E, 'louse. The President ca:led in Inn 'press, or d TV pho'o:7a- to prove priers, Iie n( tre vast ,. I ,'tsi t,s1,, stacks Jutle. . itself. Civilian employes cl received Wa,21' increases anti the la'.vmakers themraise. The cost to the taxbe over $2.5 billion a 2406 see the 4.1 crElo year. SYDNEY J. HARRIS Pres. Nixon's Speedy Telegrams ..,4- strii "e, nicket Patrick Henry and other founding fathers called this "taxation without representation." WThat does the state of Utah call it? adopt our "weekend." which Ls so much briefer and more accurate than "fin de semaine." or our "kitchenette," for their clumsy "un pietite cuisine." or "snack-bar- " for or "parking" or "look-out,- ?, ! 7 ro ' S. LAWRENCE MUNGER in the long run strengthen a language. not weaken it. The real criterion is not where a word comes from. but whether it fills a linguistic need better than some native word. After all, words are "inventions," and no nation refuses a new and handy device simply because it was invented in sóme other country. English is dotted with Gallicisms for which there is no convenient domestic "savoir faire" egitiv;i!ent phrases and "bon mot" and "rendezvous" and arage" and "chauffeur" and "bnutique" and "a propcs" and "bon voyage" and "haute cuisine" and "avante garde" and hundreds of others that have been unconsciously absorbed into the blood-reaof the English language, .qnd fortifying its expressiveness. Wily shouldn't the French hkeAise WASHINGTON The rnnst interestirz thinz to tre as fir as Presitie- -t NiXOrt'S speech on Vietnam went. as to by voting more money to the federal government averaging rifle per cent. selves received a $12.700 payers of these boosts t VIAII of Congress adding. fuel to the inflation problem, is the recent Inke in federal salaries. Its very easy to question the sincerity of a Congress trying to cut spending and stop inflation SaiZOCS , IC C,:016 Arother example The Farcical Paris Peace Talks By EnWEAND EVANS and e - ,,,,,,,..,-00t--..........- '''--- . ,6,y.... ,,--"- ,--- - , , ,, - N , idotil."., ,It .. ho!1-- he a to t rcside hl a givr, arta for may ret have had the a specific tlfre. IlesIdencv roqu:rcr-t-Tt,zafter al!, do rct guarar,tre that have farn:1:ari7ed thr'rn. those meeting thr tO a7v greater deg:ee than ci;le "elves with election the sta,e. raiaded individuals who have just moved I - 3)7 , ,,, elf--7,- ' ''. , - ,...r-,-- I. ii, ega kr. The present size and scope ef the government with, wh.ch we find today. and the uses to which i: puts our tax dears, should be cause for citizen. A'. a time when alarm to every ci:rhirg ieflation i Ori i? of the na;iin goals of a:he administration. Corr' ss seems to do little in the way of setting an example. in fact, it has probably done much to bring about our current situation of ,- ,w,---7-L----- - , ..,'-- 7:. I., or 'Presidents of universities and corporations often tell me how much hardt'r their job is sinc,s, they have no neutral person to talk to. The same thing is probably true for the President of the United States." unrea.,-- , FrA! 'I, , --- - -' -- ---- Set The Example - ,,,0 itt:po- Ad L.,;A.. , ,:,. s ''''el1;,.,: . -, - , - .,. , DC' to.a De -7 -7 t.N.,,,,k, 1 Nok ; deo'. azz , -- , : ti.11 &rv Ivo r ,, Vc----- ) :....2c, "4, -.:- ' - , It Ix as not at all surprising that Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, chief A Mental Test, Too I '.---- ,., , ,- -- . new is -- -- year. Furthermore, the minimum wage structure has the effect of discriminating to some extent against this age group because employers obviously prefer hiring more mature workers for the same wage. As a result, youths who might be working are roaming the nation's streets with nothing to do or, worse, turning to crime to supply their money needs. Jobs are particularly important in this rapidly expanding age group. The 1960 census, for instance. listed 6 C15,000 males between years. That is expected to rise to 9,694,000 in 1970 and 10,555.000 by 1975. the Sectary of Commerce :klau rice Stans, in endorsing for an hour S1.25 or S1.20 rate of about a Idea. favors wage the would 21, "After get reach, regular say, they they youth. minimum wage," he commented. It could be true, as Mlle labor officials point out, that a youth wage would encourage employers to replace family breadwinners with youths at the lower wage rate. But this should be no deterring argument. The same sneare was raised about automation and its effect on the labor market several years ago. yet the employment rate today is at least as good or better since automation has revolutionized American business methods. Certainly laborsome provision is needed for retraining such ers for better jobs as they are displaced by youth. Any plan that would help young Americans gain an appreciation for their own abilities and efforts should be endorsed net only for their own good, but for the nation's future as well. sz ,' -- -- - - The White Ileuse proposal to set a Freda' "youth wage" below the federal minimum wage cl S1.60 per hour has consid-L. erable merit. For one th,ng, it would help alleviate unemployment for 16 to 19 years of age that suffers one of an age group the highest jobless rates of aey employable group in the U.S. Last month, goverment reports showed the unemplo2ernent rate wa fl 04 r cent for this age group, compared to 3.9 per cent for all workers. The ma mploymcnt rate among Negro and other minority group yout ns has la un runeing at 20 pee cent or mole the past .:1 , - Vet I. a 0 -- L......, 1 tod-- - 1!!!!!Elffifillmwpultrinullifrnjr!illf;!!1:!!!!!!Iiii!!;!!!!Ilill!11;11111111111111iiillit i --- N.-- --. - I! ., --,,, i -7.- low-skille- - --- -1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - ---- , , z - -, .. 12, 1967 NOVEmBER WEDNESDAY, . ,... ! d For The S A EDITORIAL PAGE ;., - '.-- - 'Dear John' Letters" 411 "They're DESERET NEWS our settJr,. I,ets supritt ar Inr,nrahlo rwa. e Aor:,1 ; aI cur KENT F. RUB', ,I1ISUN Richfield 17t |