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Show DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, We S'crd re 7' e Cc UTAH I- - Asri,'';"cen3.'c 12 A EDITORIAL POE J r -- v c O.EvEER Sat,j?DA 1 . E? I9;9 I Consumer Protection Is Too Fragmented i.e For the past decade one proposal after another to creatr a single department of consumer protection has been int. in Confess only to be given the cold shoulder. 7 President Nixon has a lot of inertia to overcome, then, if he is to get anvwht e with his recent plea for the creation of a division of ronsumer piotection in the Justice Dfpartmcrt. This inertia would be understandable and even commendable if it involved resistance to adding another layer of government to a federal bureaucracy that already is much too bloated and But that objection misses the mark when it comes to a piiigle de aitment for consumer protection, which could eliminate considerable duplication of effort and poor coot dination if the department were created and handled properly. This observation is borne out by a Congressional Quarterly survey this month which found various tasks in the consumer protection field being performed by 39 different federal agencies. Indeed, on many major consumer matters, mo. than one agency is involved. For example, responsibility tor enforcing the legislation that took effect July 1 is divided among the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer nine agencies Marketing Service, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Aeronautics Board, and five agencies regulating banks and savings institutions. Three agencies the FTC, the Food and Drug Adminisare responBureau of Standards National and the tration, sible for enforcing the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of top-heav- y. truth-in-iendi- 1966. field with six other agenThe FTC shares the cies. Advertising is regulated in various ways by seven agencies. Four agencies plus the Pentagon are involved in testing consumer products. Eight agencies have programs affecting the safety ard quality of food. With responsibility so widely divided, its easy to pass the buck, inconsistencies are almost inevitable, and efficiency suffers. Moreover, without an agency to take charge, consumer protection work is carried out by agencies not closely in touch v.Iiich is the case with the Interior with the marketplace and Defense departments. If a number of these different consumer progiams and agencies were pulled together in a single department, it should be possible to do a better job with essentially the same resources. Lets give it a try. anti-frau- d Next Monday is a big day in the life of anyone who lives any difference, at least not immediately, because the new' regulations dont apply to airplanes in current use. In fact, the regulations dont applv to the Boeing 747. the behemoth being readied for use next year. While the new regulations will have no immediate impact, they do put the aircraft companies on notice to design devices into the jets of the future. Moreover, the new regulations show that if enough citizens living near airports protest over jet noise, as they have been lately, the government will act sooner or later. Eventually, all jetlmeis will cany devices designed to reduce the noise the planes produce to a level of 10S effective about the same level that a man operatperceived decibels ing a power mower hears. When that day 'ill arrive, however, is anybodys guess. noise-muffli- ng Break The Hate Habit You seldom hate a fellow when yuu know him very well. So spoke Edgar A. Guest as he pleaded one day for better Understanding among men. The Exchange Clubs of the world do everyone a great service as they promote their projects to break the hate habit and love your neighbor. All the conflicts we now have between individuals and nations would disappear if we were to follow the advice of the Exchange Club. It is true that understanding is f Me to peace, whether among individuals or nations. But understanding alone is not enough. This has been cleiuonstiated rmply at the peace table ... Taris where hate still abounds lespile the fact that both sides understand each other vert- well. The greatest enemy of pe.ee is not a mere lack of understanding. It is selfishness. No matter how much we may know about others, no matter how completely we may understand their point of anew, harmony never will prevail as long as selfishness dictates the terms of settlement Eveiy crime is bom of selfishness. and so is every war dialong with immorality, drunkenness, drug addiction, and vorce. The answer to the evil of hate must first be found in abolition of greed. Hate will leave only as we replace it with unselfishness a"d love. No one can love a neighbor and hate him at the same time. But how do we learn to love him? By subjugating oun cwn lelfish desires and convincing ourselves that other people have rights as well as we. and that we should recognize those fights and do to others as we would be done by. This personal adjustment within our own minds always must come first. We can. harbor ro Next is the element of forgive of GWr. for hold our out we non can grudges, :. th.it " an ", Recognizing that all m. t: wc must h.::, makes mistake, ftg w fo: ow n Ji hoire u our even as we giu. r" 1 ' p t r fit ' q t yWi' ,'yj (" tV. ; r t : u .V v Co tau?; t V t;'. ' Chris 1a:1 s) halt love thy neighbor es try seif, - 1 u- r - fw - miles Lou. tre t: . f,..;-t- I.'e ard me lire orer to an air ti 2f--r '. of n. onrnTt-r- . i nun A manual the p.lo. roiair, rur-t- i ror 'roller dereaes ' runway 6 e plane util land on. vvireie it idM m tie pquerre of pUre- - sc:, ed- 're o ii plrti t-- ti.p -- -- land and how he warns the pilot to it ed fo p: fx rod. At a major airport, a controller v .11 i.andle ready 100 planes taking off or a riding daring the busiest hour of the da, between 5 and 6 , m. In that hour for about 5 00 Ip may have live- -. Ray Beiar.ger, who came up thiough ti e ranks from controller to chief of the evaluation staff of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), described the responsibility this way: There's nothing like it. He's in the posihe's rnak.ng literally hundreds per hour, anyone of which, if rouid kill a muple hanmade a tion w here of dep Lions i e e, dled people of ton: r. is the ortre'-- r tre to lorget a- - be make judgments involved m getting ?s nnnv as a dozen plane saieiv into the a.r or on the ground with their precious cargoes of human lite. That, wants p!r-sero- In fact, F. Iree Bailey, general courmel for the professional air traftic controllers, has pictured controllers as being so with the fear of killing someone that they dope themselves with tranquilizers while others suffer from depression, ulcers and tension which makes them prime candidates for heart attacks. The FAA disputes t.us. It says that while controllers work under pressure, so do a lot of other professionals. It also says they are well paid for undergoing this pressure a tnp base pay of $20,555 a year, plus about 10 per cent for Sunday worn, overtime and holiday double time. The average controller, out of a combination of pnne and dedication, would not describe the pressure on him in quite the dramatic terms ured by Bailey. But he doesn't hesitate to score the FAA for using outdated equipment and for asking controllers to handle more and more air traffic. Photo montage shows air traffic controllers handling incoming and outgoing aircraft in a complex operation that has raised serious questions about its continuing safety. its own radio frequency and purpose. In front of him is what looks I'ke the wooden letter holders ued by scrabble players. They contain information on planes ready to take off and thore ready to land, in the order they art lined up. At 5 p.m. on a weekday at Washington National Airport, the control tower conversation goes like this, all in rapid-fir- e style without a moments pause between the controller's orders and pilot's respone: Northwest 367 (on the ground) can you Cessna 115 get to the runway? Right. e land e Okay, understand now. Northwest 367, ta.o into position two-on- and tv.o-or.- hold. 367. Yeh. Ame.jcan 483 ready for takeoff. American 488 roger expect release not before 46. Okay. Wasmngton tower. King-Ai- r number inbound from King-Ai- r beltway on the river. tower Washington As in most complicated situations, the truth obviouly lies somewhere between the two extremes. But the airline passenger has a right to know where this point is because it is his safety which is involved. Sen. James B. Money is one said recently that a Pearson. , giaph of federal funding for airways facili-- t es and equipment over the past two decades looks like a jagged mountain range. s Each peak in this range is in most tne resuit of a tragic and dramatic air accident. What he meant was that congressional interest in air safety nses whenever there Cessna 115. cleared to L id. Roger. is a disaster. Roger. Part of tne present squeeze also It suitnds like gibberi-- h to the untrained stemmed trom iniscdicuiaiiun. ear but the controller understands it and Gen. William F. McKee. FAA administra.en replies: Boundary American 633. tor from 1965 ur.ti! this year, explained: cotr.es a gush of garble from a At one time it appeared we had enough No copy Delta, that's pilot. funds to provide for our projected nppds. through. American 633 contact departure But the growth of aviation far exceeded our control. Getcha. Eatprn Airlines expectations. marker. reporting outer E tem 197 Washington tower cleared to From 1967 to 1968 alone, there was an 11 Eastern 197 cleared to land. air tiailic. The land. per cent increase in over-al- l number of takeofts and landings in the E S. And o it goes. is expected to increase kora 35.6 ntiil on m The controller uses no commas and no 195 to 184.6 million in 1980 The number of aaiine passengers is expected to quadruple. per axis. All unnecessary speech is avoided. incom-ui- g new equipment t ow is Somehow the controller sifts out the Sophisticated traffic and the pilots know which orders controllers more unto and service coming are being hired. But both require at least a are for them. During the hour this controllead time. Meanwhile the ler handled 95 takeoffs and landings with 15 controllers sav the FAA is not moving fast minutes relief. That's average for National prougo To which the FAA replies: Wo're Airport cluing the be- -t we can with the funds we're During the same hour over New York there probaby were more than 35 airliners g.ven The airport traffic controller stands in a .'tacked in a landing pattern for John F. Kennedy International, more than 25 over tower, usually above the airline terminal, LaGuardia and anotner 25 over Newark. Aiound overlooking the runway system There were 80 craft on the ground at those him ate Va.ious radio speakers, each with 'at-talkin- g zero-seve- n f the space involved. All the information the controller is relaying is in his head and all his judgments are based on his mental picture of the traffic situation. There's no time to write anything dovv n, no time to argue. air Thats what prompted F. Lee Bailey to tell the aviation subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee of what he called exhausted controllers who-- e every moment is laden with the ominous knowledge that a slip of the tongue, of memory, or of judgment could bnng hundred of citizens to midair colh-io- n and death. Air Lonti filers interviewed by UP! generally agreed that Bailey was being However, they also agreed the preure is there and that they feel the c. efter's. Below the connol tower CAB ' with its Dunng the last Presidential campaign one of tie gags nmh beloved by Nixons opjtonent was Spiro who0" jwswwac re'X Tr.e gag has gone r sour. Everyone knows 4 hi last name now. The had Haidlv furor cnuled after tne Yu e President s blunt atai k on ti e Oct. 15 moratorium than it boiled up again ). . 13 Mow a: Dp h vi Nov. I". g sixPi enre h i.p Jnes ed TV. tli" ct e nvitv of I bead of CBS, F. n Stanton intimidate a ac fii.n of seeking to re- - mereum mat ! pc u for its existence " Arid NBC's Ju-- i uixre, government It is regrettable that n Goimdn said. re vne pres.dett woud deny to television Iieedom of the press " S- the knives v ill be out, lorg and . rp and they rr.ay be vv lelded a bit fran-- t cel . too. for the irna' publ.c traction to o fx - No. 'p 'red to Ire ovrr- r : . y tHored.e i"'.'g.v t ev rp 're.1 g i . - . v: ' a . w .re a" c2 t t . n v z ' An.eriifii.s A iot of i . p p .p ;t p - :r o' ! - a o p mr :a- - r - p on our e i" a if, jwiormanu. re1 ; v o tell it-lignt In the 1979 wil Transport (SSTi. come the Supersonic The controllers are taught to think of planes as objects to be maneuvered, not as of person. The ships carrying hundred controller will tell you, however, that try as he might, he can never completely ignore tire human factor. Jack Maher, national coordinator for the controller, sums up their complaints againt the FAA: Last year we said the equipment wai that tire facilities were dangerously or critically under staffed, that the initial ti anting and the proficiency training were completely inadequate, that the controller were generally unable to control the traffic, that corners have been cut. The establishment hasn't admitted to all of those, but they have testified this year that the equipment is obsolete, that there is a critical shortage of personnel. Now the other things they haven't admitted to yet, but I think if we can keep it up they'll admit to that, too. Some FAA officials have charged that these activities are geared to win union rr,emKerbin in a power Dlav with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) and the Natic .al Association of Government Employes. PATCO is new the largest. organized e, bread windows is the darkened IFE room (instrument flight rules) where controllers never even glimpse the planes they are gniHino Appending entirely on radar and radio. The IFR room handles the plane on the final leg of its flight until the tower takes over for the actual landing. One midaTtemoon, and not a particularly busy one, a controller raised up from his po'ition over the scope, leaned back in his chair and took a deep breath of exhaustion. I just want to sit back and cry, he said to a fellow controller. The other controller was philosophical. You just have to do the best you can, he said. Thats what it boils down to. This was at Washington National Airport. considered the showcase of he nations air traffic system. National has 77 air traffic controllers. OHare International An port at Chicago, often described as the world's buiet airport, ha only 44. Adding to current problems are schedr uled departures of airliners on the or the hoar and the desire of too many travelers to travel at the peak hours. In a recent survey at New York's JFK, 39 airlin half-hou- Belanger says PATCO misrepresents hat is being done about the problem. The point they don't make is that we are doing something about it, too. The FAA is in the process of hiring 2,800 controllers and i w asking authorization to hire 2.200 more. FAA Administrator John H. Shaffer ay the agency already has plans in the works that will see a fully automated system in the next decade. The pilot may not even have to land the plane and the controller will just have to monitor the machine doing then- work William M. Flener, director of the FAA's air traffic service, said the agency is trying to take the pressure off the controllers. But to do it. he said, takes money and it takes people and it takes equipment and that's what were asking fore Second. TV is essentially a dramatic medium. You can add drama to a newscast by all the pew. Even motion. If a man spent all his waking hours gobbling tli printed word or absorbing unin-terupt- newcasts he could get only a tiny fraction of what is called newsworthy. One man's poison is another man's meat. The Wall Street Journal and fee Daily Racing Form are both newspapers, but the comparison ends abruptly. So nws to be manageable mu--t be edited. and editing requires the inclusion of this and rhe discarding of that. You could have written the lead on Lincoln's Gettvsbuig Address as follows: President Gettsburgh. Pa , Nov. 19 Lincoln today said he could not dedicate the war eemevry. He added that his power was poor and hi speech would undoubtedly be ignored. Tbas right That's what he said: We cannot dedicate, we cannot Our txyir power . . and ." Tie vioial will littie noe rr.r long remember. Hat mat s ret urea t t' sj.Piii wo- - uooui. p :,re tor of en rr,i-- . Muieover. : t re T'e Re; uk1( rtn e.i tor of a p,ul O: .0 tre-- r o i .' ! e .' t'P brief ; v" n n pp 7' "(,-- . 2?. tr'i r p : t as a.i : tut tee I gp 6 ha was con-ecra- te . 1 flying the Yieing 747 with about 365 persons Eastern Airlines will carry its 747 flights between New York and San Juan, P.R. a bo red. Later, 495 persons on JENK1N LLOYD JONES v "I'-'i- 4 p It is impossible ers were scheduled to depart between 8:45 and 9:30 a.m. Thirteen were scheduled to leave at 9 a.m. and 12 at 9.30. Then, too, planes are getting bigger. Boeing 707s carry about 165 persons. In December, Pan American Airways will begin Freedom Of The Press T wisfing America's -- ! thiee airports waiting for takeoff and 2(Y' to 300 private planes were moving about in ca-e- ooe t- - A rvs one-thre- near Salt Lake Citys International Airport or any other major air terminal around the country. Thats when the Federal Aviation Administration puts Into effect new standards designed to cut the noise around airports in half. But don't strain your ears trying to detect a difference in the noise levels between Sunday and Monday. There wont be m t kr.OA r. io Quiet At The Airport i ore-- A,.po. t me pitit for your Lie fe a,.v pa-; i, em-pc&- I don't know any hone! newspaperman who would tell St. Peter that he never puffed or played down a story or that' e had never in a long career let hb bias snow through his copy. We have all been guilty. 1 But loaded written journalism is detecta-bl- a by a i airly sophisticated reader. And becau-- e the party press is pretty dead and mo- -t newspaper circulations now cover a wide speettum of reader opinion, the techhowever much nique of straight it may lack in color, is better developed than at any time m journalistic hitrry. Frank opinion is usually relegated to the euitonai pages. TV. on the other hand, is by its nature uniquely qualified to get away with fraud. fact-tellin- In the first place, it is photo journalism. You can take 30 candid pictures of a man, and by selecting the three best and the three worst you can give utterly conflicting impressions of him. 1. by snipping out all tire footigp slowing demonstrator hurling rock aid ex. ren.ent at the police, and picking up ot.'v vuere a cop lor ard and b- !' vou an apparent'" cV'cr-iv- p p.iiili'ii tire ti utii. the half it utli and same-tanbut the truth. Simula! fiu-i.- - rushing camera crews to any handy comand many riots are now bemg staged by organizers looking for TV cover- age. There is greater audience impact in the fuimuiations of the revolutionary than iri the calm words of the statesman. But when the net impression is that American society is on the point of dissolution, TV iru-- c answer for it. al Finally, some of the ablest practmoner in the have become subliminal editorialists while purporting to tell tha news. The job David Brinkley did on Barry dunng the latter's Presidential campaign was polished. Brinkleys copy was straight. But the faint amirk, the barely lifted eyebrow, the momentary hesitation bu-me- ss Gold-wat- were devastating. So Spiro Agnew was within his rights in blowing his whistle at the organized effort to torpedo Nixon's Vietnam speech as soon a he nad made it. In spue of ar.gaishpd cries that the Vue President ha taped reiredom ol tne pie-- '. there are some who tlni.k that oor iiee-ciohas alieadv been pretty well vvoiked o'Ti by tli.it tight inteiie of new caster -- the niain-treaAiie-.- i ami which may, ci dicing" possibly, be duiiuig out ot it. vv t if h dreamed of up ju-- t |