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Show What do you think of the new Park Meadows Golf Course? II iSu's11" fantasUc course. It doesn't have any trees but m it doesn't need any because the bunkemg on the holes m requires pinpoint driving. I think it's one of the best in the g; 1 4 J state. Thegreens aren't so huge, so they're tough to hit. HI:: v, V PatDigeronimoi: && -A :.;- It's awesome, gijij:: ' ' 00mmmmmi I (; r 1 II J J.K. Foster Utah's answer to Oakmont. X :: -X ft: I Shawn Glieden j:::;:;:;: It's really long, a bigger challenge, H jw, .. . ' p IA ijixS . rx M- f TonyCate gv It's super. I yJJ . II ( Steve Wickliffeggi s It will be real nice once the bunkers are filled and it gets a little more maturity. It's rough around the edges, but con- ijijigi ' . sidering the length of time the seeds have been in, it's in good j ; j - shape. mmmmmmmm IHIasirgiiett V aim fflqpiPiiiKe Don't run for President, John "DearJohn don'tdoit!" That is the message a concerned citizen would like to slip under John Anderson's front door. For emphasis, I'd also scrawl it on his shaving mirror and repeat it 10,000 times on an audio tape hidden in every room. "Don't run for president, John!" If you do, you're sure to mess up the '84 election, skewing the returns even more disastrously than last time. One wonders: Did candidate Anderson Ander-son learn nothing from the sweat and toil of the last election? As a student of history he is surely aware that no third-party candidate has ever made it to the White House. The best record was made by Theodore Roosevelt, trying for a comeback in 1912 with his noisy Bull Moose Party. He carried six states, taking just enough votes to split the GOP down the center and elect Woodrow Wilson. Anderson fired up a lot of hearts and minds in 1980. People liked his Harry Truman jauntiness. Folksy and plain-spoken, plain-spoken, he was quick as a whip in debate and he had a vision of America that honored the old virtues of justice and honor. With the prize steadfastly beyond his reach, this white-haired maverick put on a brave show. After it was all over, though, he admitted to loathing the long, wearying ordeal of the primaries. In a moment of unprecedented candor for a politician, that is Anderson told TV commentator Bill Moyers precisely how he felt about primaries: "It is a dehumanizing, degrading, debilitating, almost disgraceful way of picking the chief magistrate of this country," he said. What he disliked most, Anderson said, was the "many superficialities, all this pressing of the flesh, as if that somehow is going to communicate to the people some message." Adlai Stevenson once said that the chief function of the primaries was to destroy good men. A candidate who slogs the full course from the killing frosts of New Hampshire to the battle smoke of the convention floor is ready for a rest home. Reputations die and millions of dollars are wasted. And do you know the saddest irony of all? Only 20 percent of the electorate cares enough to vote in the primary elections. Those who do vote are not the true cross section that would make the primary meaningful. Every survey has shown them to be older, better educated, more prosperous and mostly white. In their votes they reflect our strongest political extremes, being both more conservative and more liberal than the country in general. The men who've begun to hear "Hail to the Chief" in their sleep had expected to enter 36 primaries this year. But now another state would like to be heard from. Louisiana is hoping to enter the lists, holding its primary before New Hampshire, a decision comparable to that first shot on Fort Sumter. If Louisiana persists, look for another war between the states. (Well, between two states, anyway.) Defenders of the primary process see it as a showcase, a preview of the November election. Primaries allow voters to see the candidates in a clear, cold light, they say. Even so, there is serious talk of condensing our 36 primaries into six regional ones. There, let us agree, is an idea whose time has come. 1983 Harriet Van Home Distributed by Special Features Syndication Sales |
