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Show 'It Says Here The Economy Needs Cooling Off' ERMA BOMBECK DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITIf, UTAH My Favorite Dolls We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely inspired 22 A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, DECEMBER So many husbands (two) have written to me asiring what I could suggest for their wives tor Christmas. Happily, I can 18, 1969 I report there is a new line of toys on Bitter Fill Needed the signed for housewives. women with a lot of little girl" in her yet, there is a wide selection of dolls for Christmas giving. New this year . is the Margaret Mead doll which, when you wind it up, puts its other foot in its mouth. There's the Betty Friedan doil which is becoming a favorite. You pull a string in its hack and it sings Peggy Lees hit, Is That All There Is?" There are two new adult dolls cestined to replace Barbie and Ken called the Pat and Dickie dolls. You turn a key in their backs and they frown. To Cure Inflation For the Federal Reserve Board tightened money a year week this by hiking its discount rate to 51 per cent, it ago looked as if the bitter medicine might work quickly in curbing 'Wlien inflation. Within 24 hours of the FRBs action, lending institutions increased their interest charges. A month later, in their last report to Congress, President Johnson and his economic advisers optimistically forecast a desired economic slowdown in the first half of the year. This slowdown, they said, would allow some easing of monetary lestraints in the latter part of 1969. When President Nixon took office, he bought this line of thinking. In his first White House press conference he expressed the hope that inflation could be controlled without too much managing of the economy. At most, he said, some Fine tuning of our fiscal and monetary affairs" was in order. With the benefit of hindsight, its clear that nearly everyone underestimated the inflationary pressures that were developed by a wartime economy in 1968, an election year when hardly anyone in government wanted to rock the voters. Although it was the first to act, even the FRB didnt lean far enough against the inflationary breeze until too late. Not 9 did the nations money managers completely until turn off the faucet on growth in the nations money supply. Even then bankers managed to scrounge up funds one way or another, and then demanded the highest interest rates in modern times for their trouble. With inflation rolling along at more than 5 per cent a year, a rate that makes savings banks and savings bonds a iosing proposition, its clear that tight money isnt nearly enough to throttle the price spiral. To do that job, the Committee for Economic Development this week called on the President and Congress to seek a high employment budget surplus of $6 to $9 billion in 1970 and fiscal 1971. This would require budgetary savings in defense, space, agriculture, and construction, plus extension of the income tax surcharge at 5 per cent for at least the next full cal- For Speedier Trials In reversing the conviction of a man imprisoned 218 days before his burglary case came to trial, the Utah Supreme d Court focused some public attention this week most serious on one of the challenges facing the judicial system. The challenge is to safeguard the constitutional right of accused persons to a speedy trial without having the courts decisions. crank out hasty, To the defendant, a speedy trial is essential if he is to preserve the means of proving his defense, to avoid a long period of pretrial imprisonment or conditional release, and to avoid a long period of anxiety and public suspicion arising out of an much-neede- accusation. To the public, a speedy trial is necessary to preserve the means of proving the charge, to maximize the deterrent effect of prosecution and conviction, and in some cases to avoid an extended period of pretrial freedom during which the defendant may flee, commit other crimes, or intimidate witnesses. To meet this challenge, several different approaches are possible and desirable. One is to reduce the crime rate by attacking poverty and other causes of crime. Another is to provide the courts with more personnel for the prompt processing of cases. Still another is to streamline court procedures without engaging in assembly-lin- e justice. With the appointment of an additional judge and of a chief assistant to the county attorney, Salt Lake City and County are moving to reduce long delays in preliminary hearings, that have denied justice by delaying it When a speedy trial is denied, a study for the American Bar Assn, recommends that there be an outright dismissal of the case as the ultimate way of enforcing the speedy trial guarantee. The Utah Supreme Courts ruling looks like a step tn that direction and a warning of what may yet be to come unless other methods of assuring a speedy trial succeed. So Long, Saucers No, Virginia, there are no little green men from outer space. At least thats what the Air Force insists in calling off its search for flying saucers Wednesday after 21 years. 12,618 investigations, and the expenditure of more than $539,000 on the project. While the cancellation of flying saucer investigations won't distuade those who believe in little green men just as children believe in Santa Claus, it is hard to quarrel with the decision. After all, if this planet ever was visited by flying saucers, their occupants no doubt took one look at the great and growing pollution here and concluded that earth was uninhabited by intelligent life. Afterthoughts . . . One of the newest glories of modern technology is an optical device that enables armies to fight just aa viciously at night as by day, even though the contenders cannot see what and we have the enormous gall to speak they are fighting of earlier cultures as primitive societies." Most of what passes for thinking" is calculation and not meditation; we spend hours calculating the consequences of ji ac, but scarcely a moment meditating on its value. the From Riches To Rags is a new Monopoly game for the entire family, featur-in- s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. There is suspense wife every roll of the dice. Try to own the Thames, all the utilities, and Buckingham Palace. (Pass Go and collect Prince Charles drum set) For the woman who has everything, dont overlook the Liz Taylor Walk-IJewelry Box It can also be used for an n For the Little Mothers there's the Phyllis Diller housekeeping kit which features a chisel and a suicide ring. And who could resist the Jacqueline Onassis language records. They come in a gaily decorated package of six and feature how to say Charge it and send" in 15 languages. The thinking woman on your list will appreciate the Pauline Frederick joke book with 1,000 funnies for all occasions. (Including what Greece said to Turkey in fee U.N. cafeteria.) mid-196- endar year. But even a big budget surplus may not be enough if excessive labor contract settlements come along. Yet the administration invited exorbitant demands of perhaps as much as 10 per cent more a year with the proposed rail settlement which union members yesterday rejected. With productivity increasing only 3 per cent at the most, wages and prices cant exceed that figure without becoming inflationary. Bo far President Nixon has opposed voluntary wage-pric- e guidelines, jawboning, credit rationing, and more direct controls to curb inflation. But if fine tuning doesnt produce he may have to change his mind. and fast better results market, deespecially some illustrations) showing bow 12 chief justices followed a star leading to the Supreme Court. Or perhaps the Madlyn O'Hare Christmas Story (wife i a mi m Hi Murray 17 hand indoor recreation cabin. center or a summer And dont forget those important little stocking stuffers. Theres Doris Day candy (Pure Sugar. Absolutely no cycla-mat- e added!) or a Jacqueline Susaui foot warmer. (Her book done up as cozy.) a Happy shopping. aiiniiiniRhmiiKiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiniiiiniiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmi Lord Lromwell And Fluoridation letters to the editor iiiiiiiuimiiniiiiniimiiniiimiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiinimiiinininiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiini You would think I would know enough, after 20 years of combat, not to write another piece on the fluoridation of water supplies. Yet the controversy e so many iportant questions of political philosophy that it ought to be kept alive. The questions go to fee function cf government in a free society. As such, they merit constant reexamination. In fee field of public health, no one questions the duty of government to use its compulsory powers in order to prevent ill for example, to chlorinate public water supplies so as to prevent contagious disease. But some profoundly different questions are raised when one considers the use of compulsoin this ry powers in order to do good case, to fluoridate public water supplies so as to improve childrens teeth. Last weeks White House Conference on Food and Nutrition saw a demand from the do good side that every community be required to fluoridate its water supply as a condition for receiving Federal grants. Correspondents tell me the issue is not just now in Maine and New Jersey. Across the country public health officials, using public funds, continue ardently to promote fluoridation. They have the support of many newspa- - public es - pers, PTAs, civic groups and medical-dentsocieties. They are wholly sincere devoutly in their conviction that fluosincere ridation is absolutely safe. They point to hundreds of scientific papers to feat effect But one is reminded of Cromwells impassioned plea to the Scotch clergy of 300 years ago: I beseech you, cried the Great Protector, I think it possible that you may Ire wrong. Possible. Not In a probable. program such as this, which affects every resident in a community, it is the possibility that counts. This was the rationalization behind the governments recent ban on cyclamate soft drinks: One experiment, involving twelve laboratory rats, had indicated feat cydamates in massive doses tended to cause cancer of fee bladder. The experiment raised fee possibility that cydamates might somehow cause cancer in humans. So the ban al was imposed. But it will sot escape notice that no man is compelled to buy soda pop containing cydamates. It is a voluntary act As a practical matter, there is no way in a fluoridated community for a citizen to avoid this additive. If proponents are that Ouoride is absolutely safe right no harm is done. But for everyone what of Cromwells admonition? The mail brings a reprint of an article Adolecence By SYDNEY J. HARRIS We cannot understand the revolt of fee adolescent tdoay unless and until we understand that teenhood is a period of mourning as well as of rebellion. Adolescence has always been a time of rebellion this is a natural and normal pattern of growth, rven in primitive societies, where tradition and authority have remained strong. In order to grow up, the youth has to learn how to grow away a little. But teenhood is also a time of stress because it signifies a change in the child's view of his parents and this change may be regarded as a kind of mourning process. To a small child, toe parents are omnipotent They can fix things, make things well again, relieve misery', and perform seemingly magical acts that are beyond the child's comprehension. In adolescence, the child begins to perceive feat this is not at all the case. His omnipotent parents turn into quite limited persons; they are seen as more or less ordinary people, who can do some tilings and not others, who themselves are often baffled and frustrated by external circumstances. Tnis change in viewpoint also is quite norma and natural, and in past times adolescents were able to adjust to it because, until the recent technological era, parents were people who decided things and had a large voice in their own fate and fee fate of their families. Today, however, the individual has been reduced to a state of relative powerlessness. Change is swift and inexorable. New knowledge overwhelms old expectations and confounds old attitudes. The massive weight of societal interacwhich is unpredictable as never tion has compressed fee importance before of fee parents not merely from demigods to human size, but nearly down to pygmy size. Adolescents have always mourned this loss of "divinity in the parents. Now the mourning is greater than ever, for their parents stand revealed as pawns, not as kirgs or queens, as people wife little control over their own destinies, much less fee guardians of their children's fates. in Canadian Doctor, by Dr. K. A. Baird, a contributing editor. He cites a statement by 200 scientists, biochemists, doctors and others in London three years ago: It is our opinion that published research has shown dearly feat the toxic effects of fluorides, even in trace quantities, are such that fluoridat- ed drinking water may be harmful, or even dangerous, to many people. Dr. Baird rites half a dozen scholarly papers to fee same effect He quotes a warning from a Professor H. A. Schweigart, president of fee International Society for Research on Civilization Diseases and Vital Substances. The mail brings citations from fee A.M.A. Archives of International Medicine, February 1965; from fee Journal of November-DecembeFood Science, 1966; from fee British Medical Journal, Oct 16, 1963; from Dental Digest of April, 1951 Footnotes refer to dozens of other professional papers, all to the same effect: The possibility exists that fluoridation may not be absolutdy safe after all. r, Now, I know nothing of fee professional respectability of these various investigators and journals. I surely am not qualified to judge the validity of their experiments. An that is beside the point that The papers support the possibility that proponents is ad, fee possibility of fluoridation may be wrong. When it comes to questioning a compulsory act of government feat possibility ought to suf- NEW YORK (NANA) Christmas attitude. its an In our culture, the Christmas holiday season is supposedly a time of pleasure and happiness shared with family and friends. Of course, some disappointment is inevitable considering the buildup that Christmas receives in our society. But sometimes the fault is our own. Maybe you will recognize parts of yourself in these four types of Christmas spirits who unwittingly undermine the happy holiday mood they seek. This is the person approaches Christmas in a businesslike manner, as if serial relationships could be weighed and measured. Greeting cards, for example, are sent only to those persons who can be expected to reciprocate. People who are remiss in their sending are cut from the list Gifts are purchased according to what is expected in return, instead of on the basis of friendship. The casual acquaintance who gave an expensive gift the previous year is given one in return while fee less affluent relative gets a bargain basement item. Being preoccupied with getting reassurance of his desirability, he misses out on the sponaneous mood of holiday sharThe accountant: who ner grocers. He could look you in the eyes and you would feed that he was seeing past the facade of flesh into your heart Wnile we may never know exactly what went on in fee store that afternoon, I dont believe feat Bishop Wesemann offered resistance; it was no his way. It could have been that he tried to talk themen out of the robbery and they had such a feeling of guilt that they shot him to cover it The world lost some of its goodness, as it does when good men leave it. If he could speak, he wouldnt exact an eye for an eye in punishment, but would rather feel compassion for those who chase to end his life. He was loved by many as'testified by the count- less throngs at the viewing and funeral, and will be missed by all who associated or had contact wife him. ' - --DON THAYNE Stardust Dr. Keep Handguns Paradise Lost, by Milton, was a fascinating story that many of us studied and learned in our combination struck my youth. The funny-bon- e recently for Milton, all be it Eisenhowv er, now tells American citizens that to have peace in our time all our handguns should be confiseat-- , ed that is, all except those of the police, big business, or the military. Of course he doesnt know much about guns, that the sportsmen members of just one national -organization account for at least 20 pier cent of the v handgun census be takes. But worse, he cant see what any reader of the Deseret News knows:' crime in New York under the Sullivan Law where a woman cannot even use her penknife against a rapist is much worse than in those areas where criminals know there is a good chance of ther intended victim being able to defend himself by drawing blood. Milton doesnt understand that crime is an enterprise entered into for easy profit; take fee profit out and put in some pain, and the business goes broke. Ask some criminals, and then figure oiit that our homes are safe from organized crime, from political crime, from juvenile crime mainly because of possible resistance within, especially of the hurtful kind. title-auth- d pensibility to her family. She feels and neglected and finds the holiday an excellent time to draw attention to herself. Christmas begins The reveller: aily fvt oils type. This normally restrained and somewhat inhibited Individual takes advantage of fee holiday season to relax and behave in ways be would not normally. Commonly, tiie reveller hastens fee breaking down of his inhibitions wife alcohol Hes fee one who stumps for an office party and makes himself notorious for his party performance. Ideally, a holiday is a time in which we can relax and enjoy ourselves, forgetting about some of the anxieties and responsibilities that are with ns so much of the time. Paying attention to people, the people we care about, rather than all the trappings of the season, is one way to prevent that holiday unap-preciate- BENDER HASH 35 . Federated Security Bldg. n. GUEST CARTOON ing. me tycoon: He gues iu the opposite extreme of the accountant Christmas gives him the chance to exhibit bis affluence and his gifts are likely to be fee largest and most expensive. The tycoon finds it hard to express his feelings except in material terms. Like the accountant there are often strong feelings of inadequacy underlying the tycoons relationships with other people. The worrier: Typically, the worrier is a woman who begins worrying about Christmas in September. She complains about the problems of shopping, cooking and decorating fee house, but at fee same time makes it difficult for her family to help her. She likes to remind them that only she can be relied on to do things right. Despite her complaining, the worrier secretly welcomes fee holidays for they give her a chance to prove her indis- - Recently we learned of the saddening news that Alfred Wesemann, a Salt Lake grocer, was killed in an attempted robbery. To some this was just another crime and a noth-er old man. It happens quite frenijenJy now days. Another crime? Maybe, but another old man? Never. Bishop Wesemann, as be was affectionately called by those who knew and loved him. was a patriarch in the Cannon Stake and lived closer to Diety than most men. He was a kindly, cheerful man who loved people and liked to visit with them, a good reason for being one of fee vanishing cor- 5077 Chrisimas Is For Giving isnt just a day anymore, Salt Of The Earth fice. DR. JOYCE BROTHERS 'Growing Away' In last July JAMES J. KILPATRICK Upgrade Rural Health The concern of our most Honorable Governor Rampton and fee Deseret News editorial staff for providing physicians for rural counties and communities is a refreshing and encouraging interest by influential people of our state on a subject on which pret feel too unprepared to express themselves. The studies and facts are not easily obtained by those who are not professionally inter ested. Those who are willing to search for these facts should perhaps go on to the discovery that much (at least half) of the need for medical service in both urban and rural areas would not be needed if adequate preventive health measures were taken. The efforts here would involve an effort to ' incorporate important research findings on health into the curricula of our schools and some critical changes of emphasis and powers for our public ' health sendees. This is not an empty promise. If 'Die interest is eery w niay out ue status quo in health matters is great and influential Few public figures may be strong enough to win support for this much change. Those who are doing anything in that direction are deserving cf . the greatest praise. . , " Twos just before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring . . " cihcm Tuy 4 ROGER WILLIAMS, 2568 Fargo A ft. |