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Ik Merry-Go-Round: Sleuths' Efforts Ignored Opinion and Review Editorial: A Tribute to WK Ulerich Mormons Short on Crises By GEORGE WILL PROVO Utah An administrator of a private elementary school in Washington recently explained the school "We have desks" she said "and doors" Her listeners parents aware of today's educational doctrines understood perfectly The school The University community and Centre indeed all of should rise and in chorus shout a sincere "thank you" to William Ulerich for his three years of service as president of Penn State's board of trustees As he had announced several months ago he did not seek reelection for a fourth term although he will remain as a member of the board In that position his experience in helping to guide the institution through some of its most troubled years should be of immense help to his colleagues and successor Mr Ulerich's contributions to the board and to the University are many Although most of them may have had their greatest impact in the skills of handling routine matters those of which the public should be aware include in part joining with the late Michael Baker Jr and then leading the battle to open the board's and its committee meetings to the public thus enhancing the University's role as a public institution operated by and for Pennsylvania's taxpayers support of student participation in board action involvement of prestigious alumni to take leadership roles in working with trustees behind-the-scenes efforts to help solve past critical budget crises in the General Assembly support of Pennsylvania newspapermen's attempts to rescue the School of Journalism from possible extinction and to strengthen that school As a result the University has continued to produce outstanding young people who are in demand constantly by the Commonwealth's press Although he was born in Latrobe and has lived in Clearfield for the past 34 years Bill Ulerich provides a "local boy makes good" angle for older Centre Countians His contributions to this area's businesses and institutions have been impressive too For he was instrumental in transforming the weekly State College Times into a daily publication The Centre Daily Times on April 2 1934 and for the next 11 years he sparked the early growth of this newspaper He was a pioneer too in bringing radio into Centre County joining with other businessmen in founding WMAJ Prior to becoming president of the board of trustees he served on Pennsylvania's State Board of Education and that board's Council of Higher Education He has been credited with stopping the bickering between state educational officials and the University for he was able through the years to get others to understand Penn State's role as the Land Grant institution of the Commonwealth and as a result gain the essential support which had been lacking Bill Ulerich well deserves any and all honors which have gone his way improved by just a touch of it It is against the laws of nature to be as upbeat as Mormons can be over a 7 am eye opening cup of hot chocolate But then one of Utah's charms for people like me (people so straight that they would not recognize marijuana if a bale of it fell on them is that in Utah they often can feel conspicuously thrillingly improper by just drinking coffee Recently Barbara Walters interviewed Donny and Marie Osmond the Henry Fords of show business (They mass produce entertainment each product indistinguishable from all the others) Donny and Marie are Mormons who supported by their extended family live in Utah and avoid the contaminations of entertainment capitals The interview turned as Walters' interviews occasionally do to the subject of sex Would they Walters asked consider pre-marital sex? No said he No said she Not "No except "Or "No unless Just: No Walters waited for the qualifying clauses sought them then surrendered to astonishment Walters has a veteran journalist's worldliness and could cover the general resurrection with an air of having seen it before But she seemed to have never seen the likes of the Osmonds The Mormon sensibility sometimes makes Utah seem to others like an enclave surrounded on four sides by reality Certainly a different reality is just an hour flight away in Denver where a nightclub advertises: "The Newest Entertainment Rage Mud Wrestling: Beautiful Girls Fighting Topless in a Pit of Real Mud" Some people evidently think it matters that the mud is "real" And those people probably think Mormons are peculiar Copyright The Washington Post CM By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON It is a sad truism in Washington that federal officials tend to become the handmaidens of the very people they're supposed to be keeping honest The regulators wind up in bed with the regulated It is also true fortunately that there is usually someone in the agency who doesn't get the message who believes that the public interest demands that the government down on the bad guys no matter whose toes are stepped on This is the story of two such dedicated public servants and because it's not a fairy tale there is no happy ending Michael Moroney is an investigator in the Labor Department and a very good one He and his partner Stephen Smith were assigned to the interagency Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn NY Their investigations have resulted in 17 convictions of labor union racketeers one of the best records in the department Most recently they conducted a 10-month investigation of paper-workers union boss Joseph Tonelli One of the first union leaders to support Jimmy Carter for president Tonelli allegedly tried to fix his case by retaining a couple of Atlanta lawyers with White House and Justice Department connections A prominent Labor Department consultant arranged for the lawyers to be retained by Tonelli As we reported yesterday the lawyers struck out all Tonelli got for his efforts was a five-month delay in his indictment while the case was given a careful review at the Justice Department He ultimately pleaded guilty to embezzlement and obstruction of justice Although Moroney and Smith eventually triumphed in that case Moroney had meanwhile become concerned at what he viewed as an ominous weakening of the Labor Department's resolve to dig into union racketeering He took the gutsy and unusual step of writing a letter to President Carter and he minced no words Moroney 's chief target was then-Assistant Labor Secretary Francis Burkhardt Since Burkhardt's appointment Moroney bluntly told the president "there were substantive indications that he was intent on destroying disassembling and demoralizing the bona fide anti-corruption and racketeering efforts to which many of us are dedicated" Burkhardt was urging the "reprogramming" of the department's investigative team Moroney wrote and 125 racketeering investigators were to be reassigned to "mundane non-criminal enforcement areas" Experienced investigators were being removed from the strike force and either replaced with inexperienced people or not replaced at all While he was at it Moroney also accused Labor Secretary Ray Marshall of "mendacity" in testimony before the Senate Marshall said Moroney was paying lip service to anti-racketeering activities while simultaneously drafting a department budget "which will effectively destroy the role of the Labor Department in the anti-racketeering area" Moroney also expressed dismay that the labor secretary though told of Tonelli 's probable indictment permitted himself to be photographed at an AFL-CIO convention standing arm-in-arm with the paperworkers union president Noting Carter's expressed intent to restore public confidence in the criminal justice system Moroney Letters NOW Requests Support b) Guaranteed access to sex education contraception and voluntary sterilization which will reduce the need for abortion as a stopgap birth control measure Prenatal and well-baby clinics to contribute to healthy infants While there may be strong areas of disagreement on the topic of abortion these are goals which deserve the consideration of women everywhere We welcome your readers' thoughtful concern for these issues COLINA JORDAN National Organization for Women State College Roe Wade the Jan 22 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion legalized abortion in the USA Colautti Franklin the 1979 Supreme Court decision declared unconstitutional the Pennsylvania law restricting abortion rights The members of the Centre County Chapter of the National Organization for Women respect these Supreme Court decisions We urge the readers of The Centre Daily Times to join us in our attempts to achieve a) Equality of access to medical facilities for all women regardless of income Open House: favors "structure" rather than "open classrooms" I am agnostic about the desks-and-doors doctrine but I admire schools that know their own minds One such is Brigham Young University Like its namesake and like the state it adorns BYU is pleased to be a bit different BYU is broadly speaking a desks-and-doors school The honor code mandates "graciousness" and the dress and grooming "standards" say that beards and "bushy" sideburns are "not acceptable" moustaches are "not encouraged" women's hemlines are to be of "modest length" and jeans are not acceptable women's wear for classes Who you indignantly ask do BYU's administrators think they are? The point is that they know exactly who they are and what they are about Mormons are short on identity crises and long on certitude Where but among Utah's Mormons can you hear President James Buchanan denounced? That may seem like denouncing rye bread an inherently disproportionate investment of passion but Buchanan sent the army to break the Mormons to the saddle of federal authority The government was slow to believe that Mormons could be a community within the national community without being a community against the national community Utah writes Daniel Boorstin "remains even now a living monument to the scope that the West offered to the genius of the organizer" Utah's organizer was Brigham Young who led the Mormons west "Rejected in one place after another" Boorstin writes "their westward movement was a staccato series of enforced group transplantations each more remarkable than the last as a feat of organization For the long march across Iowa the Mormons built roads and bridges and even planted crops to be harvested by those who came after them the next season" Mormons comprise the most singular great church to come into existence in the United States and it is quin-tessentially American It is about doing things triumphing in this world turning faith into works There are no Mormon monasteries it is hard to imagine Mormons given over to the purely contemplative life Today these "American Zionists" are conservative in distrusting dependence on a welfare state but they practice the ethics of common provision through a remarkable church welfare program They were and to an extent astonishing in this homogenizing nation still are as distinctive as the first Americans the Puritans They like the Mormons considered themselves "visible saints" with a divinely ordained "errand into the wilderness" Mormons do utterly lack the Puritans' gloominess and could perhaps be Food's Effects Put Into Proper Niche What's So Admirable About Fanatic? It is in those countries where either there is complete toleration of all faiths or where people are generally not religious (such as the Scandinavian countries! that there is freedom and progress Whatever can be said against the Shah he did not persecute people of minority religions As between an oppressive monarch and a religious fanatic I'd feel worse off under the latter FRANCES DAVIDS State College I fail to see what John Withall finds so admirable about a religious fanatic like the Ayatullah Khomeini If the Ayatullah gets power there will undoubtedly be persecution of the Ba'hai the Jews and perhaps the Christians He would turn Iran back to the dark ages of "Allah or the sword" Religious fanaticism has oppressed and demeaned women over -populated the world burned and tortured those of a different faith and carried on shattering wars for hundreds of years which made him so nervous that he lost weight and nearly got another ulcer As soon as he began to relax about his diet and his way of living he ate everything he felt like eating including pickled herring and he sure loves life In the middle of the afternoon I ate a bowl of chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup and peanuts on top of it and I felt awfully good while I was eating it but terribly concerned about my health afterwards I wondered how many pounds I had gained and what synthetic ingredients were coursing through my system to the detriment of my future and the futures of my children and grandchildren and then because I was sick ol thinking about nutrition about which I have learned a lot I stuffed myself late that night with some chips and a bean dip My it was good Fur our guest however I bought some broccoli and other fresh vegetables most of which he can eat raw if he cares to If he doesn't want the cholesterol in the fresh eggs he can separate the whites from the yokes all by himself I can't cater to his dietary needs to that extent especially since he's only 25 and doesn't have any incurable diseases katey Guest Editorial: with KATEY and ROSS LEHMAN Because we have a food faddist coming to visit I've been trying to work my meals around him I know that there's much to be said for nutrition but I can't even for the life of me get involved with food to such an extent that 1 almost breathe what I'm eating I told one of my friends that broccoli is currently considered the best all-around food in the world because of its vitamin and mineral content plus other things that I haven't yet fathomed and she said "What no asparagus'?" Nevertheless I've been buying broccoli whenever it's available and it's a good buy It's full of iron like spinach which is another item I've been using in salads because lettuce is too expensive I've known since I was in junior high school what foods are good for you and which loocls aren't The trouble is that certain foods are good for some people and other foods are not I know an Wi-year-old man who eats eggs sausage sauerkraut beef bread and butter at every meal pork and practically everything that is supposed to be "bad" lor the health He's perfectly healthy The only time he wasn't was when he had an ulcer and had to gel himself on one of those bland diets Proposed Senate Rule 'Senseless' The state Senate's Ethics Committee has come up with a proposal for handling the problem of what to do with senators who are indicted and-or convicted of crimes The unit proposes that a senator indicted for a crime connected with his official duties would have to relinquish any leadership role that he may have in the chamber However he would continue to function with the normal powers of a senator Then if the person is convicted the person is to be expelled from the Senate It is essential that the state Senate and the state House have rules of procedure to govern situations in which members have been accused and-or convicted of felonies Adoption of the proposal presented to the Senate Ethics Committee when the General Assembly gets moving would avoid the sometimes emotional debates over individual cases that have occurred in the past Scranton Times 35? They Don't Want You pleaded for the president's intercession He then somewhat undiplomatically offered this moral lecture to the chief executive: "Jimmy Carter can be remembered as the president who fought organized crime 'big shot crooks' and racketeers or his administration can be cynically recalled in terms of the 'Lance Affair' and the 'Marston Affair' and its failure to restore confidence in the criminal justice system" Having thus antagonized his bosses in both the Labor Department and the White House Moroney could hardly have been surprised at what happened next NoU long after the Tonelli case was completed the Labor Department was reorganized and an Office of Special Investigations was created under Rocco DeMarco To remain with the inter-agency strike force Moroney and Smith would have to be assigned to DeMarco's office Yet despite their excellent record and the backing of strike force chief Thomas Puccio and US Attorney Robert Fiske neither Moroney nor Smith were selected by DeMarco for the new investigative unit DeMarco told us the reason he didn't put the two investigators on his team was that he had more qualified candidates But one DeMarco aide acknowledged that Moroney letter to Carter played a part in the decision Another DeMarco aide characterized the two dedicated investigators derisively as "obstreperous little people" Copyright United Feature PAGE FOUR Tuesday January 23 IWf- Cenue County Own Daily Newspaper The Centre Daily TlMKS CLAUDE 0 AIKENS Publisher 11919 19661 Charles Aikens II Publisher Eiiqene Reilly Associate Publisher and Business Manager Jerome Wamstain Editor Published every evenmq exc ept Sunday Second lass postage paid at StateColleqe Pa leROI MAILING ADDRESS PO Bo89 StateColleqe Pa 16801 Send address changes to above address MAIN OFFICE 3400 East College Avenue State Collage Pa 16801 Phone 237 4964 STATE COLLEGE OFFICE 119 South Frer Street Phone 234 0339 BELLEFONTE OFFICE 136 West High Street Phone 365 4766 PMILIPSBURG OFFICE 220E Prauquelile St Phone 342 6621 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled to the use lor reproduction of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches SUBSCRIPTION PRICES By carrier 90 cents per week 142 15 per year By mail in County (delivered day lollowinq publication) 142 51 By mail out ol county depending an Postal Zone consumers to the advertising world It 's our money that is making them the hot prospects of the business community and forcing magazines movies and television shows to cater to their idiotic tastes" "That's quite true" my publishing friend agreed "but let's be sensible about this On a cold snowy evening would you prefer to stay home or go to a Pizza Hut?" "Stay home" "And your son and daughters?" "Go to a Pizza Hut" "So there you are You might read an ad for a Pizza Hut in my magazine or see one on television But it's your kids who will go out on a snowy night and buy one So why the hell should we talk toyou?" "Why are you talking to me?" "Because you're a friend and I wanted to tell you personally that because of your age I can no longer carry you on our subscription list" waste his money on someone who is worried about tomorrow" "So just because we're discriminating people over 35 are bad advertising risks?" 1 asked "I would say those over 30 When you cross the 35 age barrier the advertiser wants you off our subscription list 10 feet from the newsstand and doesn't care if you're sitting in the room when he's seliing beer on television "As far as he's concerned you're just taking up needless room on the planet When you get into your 40s and 50s the advertiser insists that our computer spit you out "Wan a minute" I said "let's backtrack a bit li true that (hose of us over 35 are not the big spenders we once were Hut where do you think the money comes from that your advertisers are fighting for? If we didn't supply the dough to our kids they wouldn't have a dime for all that junk that makes them such important come in eggs and jeans and leather jackets They make the American way of life what it is today That's why the advertisers want to please them so much People over 35 are drags on society as far as buying power goes Advertisers don't like that" "It isn't our fault" I said defensively "At one time we used to spend money like water too 1 think advertisers owe us some loyalty We supported them for a long time" "You can't let sentiment get involved when you're selling You have to aim your copy at the person who has the money burning a hole in his or her pocket "If you publish a magazine or put on a television program that appeals to people who are mature you could drive this country into a recession You must target your ads for that vast ignorant segment of the population which will buy ANYTHING ANYWHERE ANY TIME The advertiser does not want to By ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON I was at a magazine office the other day and one of the publishers said to me "I have to reduce my average-age readership by another live years" "What is the average age of your reader now''" I asked "Thirty-five As far as my advertisers are concerned 35 is much too old an age to appeal to It's the under 30) who are spending most of the money in this country When you hit 35 you start pinching pennies" "That's because the people who are over 35 have children who are spending money and we senior citizens don't have as much to spend ourselves" "Don't think the advertisers aren't aware of that The money power in this country belongs to the kids They spend more on records in one year than their parents do on grass seed They also go to the movies and the quick-snack bars and buy make-up and pantyhose that THE CENTRE DAILV TIMES 14 a dlvlllon ot Nlttany Printing Publlihlng Co State ttullege Pa 16801.