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p.,, ? P! 4INPCALER HER ALP. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, IMS Opinion/Politics Heaven only k nows what they'll fix next WASHINGTON-It is only natural that somebody should start tampering with the typewriter keyboard. If hiffh technology can't im­ prove the arrangement devised by Christopher Snoles more than a century ago, then mv faith in modern automation has been badly misplaced. What I particularly object to are the "nome" keys- asdf' for the left hand, ";lki" for the right. That semicolon has got to go, even if it turns millions of touch typists back to the hunt- and-peck school. : Far from deserving a finger of its own, the semicolon belongs on the top row with the asterisk. Jn these days of hijgh deficit financing, the dollar sign is used much more frequently. ; The same is true of the alphabet at large. It has 26 letters, of which only five are blatantly vowels. Yet every language me of the word in the English has a vowel sound. Some consonants that are easily reached obviously are being Underworked. i. Although certain reforms are heeded, I fear the modernists >vho already have persuaded Some government agencies to experiment with a new keyboard, won't stop at the fr,,, -|| ,1 „ typewriter. ;• For one thing, the calender that you and I know and love, especially on Friday, is vulnerable. ;; I'm not week is perfect. An eight-da^ a six-day w week might work better. But weeks at least are symmetrical. Months, on the )6ther hand, are downright ridiculous. . Some have 30 days; some 31 (ah. there, punctuation mailt). And one has 28, except In Leap Year. We have to learn an im- bedlk poem to keep it all straight, . Timekeeping also may be in for another type of overhauling. A clock, you know, has only h hours, although a day, thMast time I looked; lad 2? nigttui Hmppio^i correct the discrepancy to some degree by designating PM periods. While this may be a boon to those who have difficulty distinguishing 2 o'clock in the morning from 2 o'clock in the afternoon, it does nothing to clear up the ancient mystery of whether noon and midnight are AM or PM. Hie only solution I can see is the Army way of designating noon as 12-hundred hours ana midnights as 24-hundred hours. The Navy system of marking time with beds only " confusion. only adds to the Can we expect a revision of saying a seven-day- rfect. An eight-day or go down the drain along with their faguai, sonatas, concertos and, oh, I don't know what all. I fear the worse. Thus far, a determined rearguard action has prevented replacing the old with the new in non-scientific endeavors in this .country. Bift if the typewriter keyboard falls, can the Rkhter scale be for behind? Dick West (Dick West is a columnist for UPI) Your Legislators Crystal Lake, IL60014 Phone:(815)455-0309 STATE SENATOR Jack Schaffer (R), 32nd 56 N. Williams Street Springfield phone: (217)782-6525 U.S. SENATORS Alan J. Dixon (D) ' 230 S. Dearborn Room 3960 Chicago, IL 60604 Phone:(312)353-5420 600 E. Monroe Room 108 Springfield. IL 62706 Phone:(217)492-4126 United States Senate Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 Paul Simon (D) 230 S. Dearborn Chicago, IL 60604 3 W. Old State Capitol Plaza Springfield, IL 62701 210 Harts Building Washington, D.C. 20510 United States Senate Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 .STATE REPRESENTATIVES Dick Klemm (R), 63rd 3 W. Crystal Lake Ave. Crystal Lake. IL600I4 Phone: (815) 455-6330 0-2 Stratton Bldg. Springfield, IL 62706 Phorie: (217)782-8000 Ronald Wait (R), 64th HOE. Second St. Belvidere. IL6I008 U.S. REPRESENTATIVE Philip M. Crane (R), 12th 1450 New WilkeRd. Mount Prospect, IL 60005 Phone:(312)394-0790 House of Representatives House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515 McHenry County Office 56 N. 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For the 200-plus years this nation has existed, executions for certain crimes has been a part of our legal justice system, whatever moral code, ethics or was period. A great part of that time, justice was much swifter and thus more merciful. To equate torture in Chile with the use of the electric chair in this country is just ridiculous. Have the amnesty people show me the courtroom where a person is sentenced to death without being represented by an attorney. Snow me when an execution has been carried out where court appeals have not been allowed. Snow me all these rich, white influential people that commit murder and get away with it. If there are 1,400 people on death row, they are there because our system allows so many appeals to drag on for and years. KWAVWBED , IWITHKT SPEECH BUSTING REAGAN *I FORTHE DEFICIT? this country has, developed during this peri W , ; v '?/.• v/ >/ ' -- ' -1 • Columnist misses point of death years. Our system of government, justice and leadership has stood the test of time. While it is not perfect, it is head and shoulders above any other system I know of. Me thinkest the amnesty people speak with forked tongue and little facts. Let's hear opinions from people who respect our laws and are 1 interestedin living by them in this country. Not opinions by those who broke and ran. Bill Fitzgerald Wonder Lake Dear Editor: Don Graff's editorial opposing capital punishment (3-22-85) misses the point entirely. The difference between Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Viet Nam and the Soviet Union on the one hand, and Britain, Canada, France, the Netherlands and Norway on the other is not whether they have a death penalty or not (indeed, the editorial notes that Britain and Canada do retain capital punish­ ment for exceptional crimes). What distinguishes these two groups of countries is that the legal systems of the former are directed against political dissent while those of the latter concern themselves primarily with crimes against persons or property. For many years, I opposed the death penalty, believing it was sufficient to permanently in­ carcerate a killer to protect society. As time went on, however, it became apparent that-with the exceptions of notorious mass murderers such as Richard Speck and John Wayne Gacy-our legal system in incapable of permanently removing a criminal from societv. Whether given multiple life sentences of 99, 1&9, 299 or 399 years, the perpetrator will automatically be eligible for parole after a comparatively short time. And, unless there is organized opposition to parole, he or she is frequently released. This is the real justification for capital punishment. It puts the individual who has com­ mitted a heinous crime forever beyond the power of a pardon or parole board. 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