Show rv-- v QDghm tmthaA-feamitt- EDITOR 6A er DREW PEA RSON IALS OGDEN UTAH MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 8 1936 Probers Continue Investigation Of Justice Department Executive Soviet Union Colonialism Exposes describes the methods other last the U 5 At long United States is really capitalizing on the fact that while the Russians charge western nations still cling to colonialism the Russians themselves maintain the most extensive colonial empire in all history It is to be hoped that all agencies of our government make effective use of the U S Information Agency's study of Communist expansion reminding the world that the Soviet Union in recent years has conquered and absorbed great regions containing millions of and holds these once independent people in subjection The Soviet Union doubtless is not happy about the 50000 word survey which among by things 16 countries which the Russians took over Reds Chinese in 16 years Nor should the be pleased over the evidence compiled of Red China’s ambitions to rule all Asia and of the gains it has made in pursuit of this ambition The Information Agency can be depended upon to obtain wide circulation of the document in the countries where its reading will do the most good for truth but in circulating the survey the agency should not forget Americans at home All of us need to have our memories refreshed about Russian imperialism and about the conspiratorial aspects of communism Attacks on Blight haps world public opinion is coming into its own as a successful challenger of non-Russia- ns Salt Lake City’s health commissioner has asked the city to provide a new housing code setting higher standards to improve health sanitation and fire conditions It was explained that a new code is needed if Salt Lake City is to undertake a program of urban renewal Since Ogden is also interested in getting an urban renewal program under way it would seem that the two cities will be in a race to learn which city will first atack- its blighted area problem with a substantial program The competition could be a splendid thing for slum clearance because it will tend to throw both Salt Lake City and Ogden behind the campaign to obtain permissive legislation from' the new legislature Congress in the Housing Act of 1954 provided for federal aid to communities willing to undertake programs for (1) preventing the spread of blight into good areas and (2) rehabilitating areas that can be economically restored and (3) clearing and redeveloping areas that cannot be saved But there is much the communities must do to become eligible for federal help Ogden as well as Salt Lake City is now trying to develop the “workable program” the It is to be hoped government requires that success is attained because both cities have areas badly in need of treatment - Sentiment Against Force Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told Williams College on Saturday that Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal was followed by a “strong worldwide sentiment against using force” to bring about a settlement of the controversy It seems to us' that Mr Dulles placed his finger on a significant phenomenon in the realm of international affairs There is no doubt that the “strong worldwide sentiment” erupted and also no doubt that it was effective in forcing the nations to turn to peaceful methods of solution Per aggres-sive'actio- And in Wall Street investors query: “Is the Reserve Board at last getting the stock- market?” A drop i£ the stock market — from 52095 in the s industrial average on 2 on Oct 1 isn’t to 46870 Aug rebound erased by a few-daThe stock market is not “just another business indicator — like employment retail sales steel operations housing starts or com-- ' modity prices Locked- - up in its mutations is the sum total of men’s economic impulses — their hopes and fears their plans and inhibitions Wall Street has the wondrous power of prophecy Sometimes it foreshadows coining - 50-poi- nt Dow-Jone- at all about the horrid little beast “You get warts from them don’t you? I never touch them!” That’s how the Federal Reserve in its September Bulletin sounds about money: “W e never go near the stuff!” The Reserve from its monetary Mt Olympus observes: “Interest rates after declining during the mild recession in economic activito the summer ty from of 1954 began to firm in the fall of 1954 and have since advanced events persistently over the period of TWO PARALLELS— 1937 AND business recovery and expansion 1948 The advance gathered momen1955-5bull market has The tum during 1955 and in 1956 has carried most rates above their two parallels: 1936-31 This bull market 1953 peaks” In the spring cf 1937 tired did And what the Reserve got Board do? It adopted a policy and in September kerplop! The receswhich “limited additions to bank break signaled the 1S37-3reserves to amounts consistent sion — a recession which in speed with the needs of orderly eco- and fierceness exceeded that of 1929 (Incidentally the Federal nomic growih” Reserve Board then chairmanned HOUSING AUTOS AND Marriner Eccles had been tryby WALL STREET to prevent inflation— someing Not everybody wjll accept the what in the manner of the Board Reserve Board’s clm appraisal As if it the Reserve 'responded today) 2 194346 This market to and in no way caused econo- celebrated the end ofbull World War mic events II Instead of a reconversion Home builders last week piled slump business boomed into Washington saying they’re Street was exuberant until IVall the No money for spring of 1946 Then in Septembeing crushed mortgages Housing starts which ber the market spilled But busiwere 1300000 in' 1955 are like- ness didn’t People wanted too ly cry the builders to be only many automobiles refrigerators a million this year and would houses after the wartime be as low as 800000 next year drought rugs The stock market proved if this keeps up Builders think to be as false in busithe Board has influenced hous- ness in 1946 as forecasting was right in it ing sales — decisively 1937 In Detroit you hear worries Aside from two shocks— Presifrom auto manufacturer!: “Will dent Eisenhower’s heart attack there be instalment credit avail- in September 1955 and his ileitis able to move 1357 model car??’ operation on June 9 1956— the y 3 L tSf l P PM I I A W ' At 6 7 8 w one-hal- j I e ctp"raSaeueuC1o j i Roosevelt This covers not only the vast structure of the new welfare state the federal protection of the regulation of business and of banking but also of reforms that most 1 self-interest- far-reachin- g within the western capitalist or-der — the acceptance of federal responsibility for full employ- ment and for the management of the business cycle 1 VAST EXTENSION These innovations which have self-intere- meant a vast extension of the federal power have little connection with the essential beliefs and convictions of either party As a matter cf fact according EPSON Benson Campaigns Harder Than Anyone in Cabinet WASHINGTON — Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson of Utah is campaigning harder than ' i any other Eisenhower cabinet member It is no surprise therefore that the 312000 miles cf travel which Benson has logged is second only to the 331000-rmlrecord of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles So far this year Benson has covered 65000 miles But with all the politicking he has scheduled between now and election day he is expected to pass his record year which was 88850 miles traveled in 1953 That was his first year as secretary Benson didn't vait till the Republican campaign was formally opened by President Eisenhower to start his own electioneering On the Saturday after the GOP convention closed in San Francisco Benson was in Hershey Pa making the first speech of the campaign to the Pennsylvania Dutch Poultry Festival He has been on the go ever since His October schedule now calls for 23 appearances in 13 states from New Jersey to California But more meetings are being arranged for him all the time e j i I ” st i YESTmr chair-Benedict- -- i shif BEFORE FARM GROUPS Most of Benson’s speeches are before farm organizations agricultural fair crowds or food industry trade associations But in addition he gets in a lot of unAbout Tonga scheduled crossroad stops Thus on October 10 he’ll be at First laws in the South Pacific Kansas City stockyards but he'll kingdom of Tonga were com- visit in the Higginsville farms piled by missionaries The king- Mo area dom consists of some 150 islands In the next few days he’ll drive with a land area ©f 269 square around rural Iowa and into the miles Panhandle drought area of Colorado Oklahoma and Texas This will wind up with a major politi- Odd War cal in Abilene Kan Octo-- 1 The Upper Peninsula was ber speech 13 granted to Michigan by the fedThen into Nevada California eral government in 1837 after Idaho Montana and Michigan and Ohio took up arms back to Erie Fa for Washington th Grange against each other in the Toledo October 22 down to Houston the War only war in history be- 23rd for the dedk county agents tween two individual states eating a new Oklahoma A&M ' j the President proclaimed at the San Francisco convention does not challenge Indeed it accepts and proposes to extend all the big innovations which were made by Woodrow Wilson and Frank- - PETER ££ -- convictions The new Republicanism which 6 s Cleve-jt- o land and Lexington last w eek the President insisted thatJt-5rare deep and essential enees in the beliefs and convic tions of the two major parties I do not believe the facts support this theory For while there are differences between the two parties they are not very deep or essential in the field of their beliefs and their Certified public accountants tell the government the income tax laws should be changed to permit the worker seeking a job to enjoy tax deductions similiar to those enjoyed by a business man seeking business At the present time a worker may have to incur much expense in making a job connection but his expenses are not tax deductible except for a fee he may pay an employment agency In the face of extreme right wing attacks on the income tax it is important for the sake of public opinion to make the income tax fair and just in every respect We believe that the people who know most about tax injustices are the accountants with experience in preparing income tax reports for clients We think the CPA recommendation about job hunting expenses should be adopted and also another recommendation that taxpayers be permitted to average their income over a period of years so that a slim year could reduce taxes for several years This would help many a taxpayer without doing much damage to the government’s revenues Federal Reserve Board Seems Too Aloof About Tight Money mid-195- ev-too- Job Hunter Justice LIVINGSTON et - i 7 ’s elf-inter- n contour of the present bull market is much the same as the markAnd and 1945-4ets of 1936-3if the decline goes further it would raise questions: Is this ’37 or is it ’46? The drop itself if it goes further would generate economic consequences of its own It could make it harder for companies to finance by selling stock (It's already costlier to raise money by bonds) It could hurt Christmas sales Likewise auto sales Some investors seeing stocks drop might decide to put extra cash into the market Others might just feel poor and decide to postpone purchases But a great many “coming events” would have to be undone to cause a business setback a la 1937 Corporations and business men would have to cancel plans to construct new plants and install new machinery State and local governments would have to retrench on building schools roads through-wayhospitals Individuals would hae to contract their purchases of all types And money would have to continue tight an unlikely eventuality What the Reserve Board can tighten it also can loosen! Besides a stock market which goes up 259 points — almost in a f straight line — for two and years (since September 1933) is entitled to a drop of from 80 to 160 points Dow theorists “accept” a correction of a minimum of 33 lb To to as much as 6S23 of the advance as “normal” The decline could go that far without signifying the end of the bull and the start of a bear market In short it’s a little early to fret i i Egvpt is entitled to rejoice over the abandonment of the idea of using military force to achieve international control of the seized canal If force had been used Egypt would soon have lost its waterway Egypt however should not feel too cocky over developments The same public opinion which ruled against force insists the users of the canal have a right to be assured that it will remain open to them on terms that meet all tests of fairness and justice Egypt will have to yield in favor of some form of international direction of canal operation J At How wonderfully aloof the Federal Reserve Board is! Like the little girl at boarding school who puts a frog in the headmistress’ bed and knows nothing nothing — Despite Ed v ill be whether or not this coutl-Fcotehasty resignation as No ry supported its distinguished 2 man in the Justice Depart- - febbor an bs Pro?ram — and to what extent In 1952 Eis- ment s Anti-trus- t Division con- - enhower carried Adams Gen County gressional investigators are still by more than 5200 Should he going over his stock market tran- - carry Adams countv in 1956 by sactions with a fine-toot- h comb only that number— or by less— lies the official who bought it w ill be the only unfavorable some $65000 w orth of oil stock news story to spread itself across in the Warren Petroleum-Gul- f the countrv in he four vears Oil merger just after he was that the names Mr Eisenhower called upon to pass on the merger and Gettysburg hae been svnon- Foote okayed the merger then ymous Should he fat to carry rushed out and bought stock m the county and Gettysburg his wife's name Adams Countv stand disgraced It turns out he also bought and before the world Isold stock in many companies cn v ivrrnrcT that were under inestigation by ‘‘Call it if you the Anti-trus- t Division The trad- “That’s ing was done in his wife's name will” the letter addbut Foote personally placed most about w hat it K Gettysburg and Adams County hae profited tre- of the orders For example he bought $7293 mendouslv in dollars and even Priceless prestige-stoc- k worth of Phillips Petroluem rnnre so on July 26 1955 and sold budding publicity” The trael council urged its it for $8221 on Feb 21 1956 members To make sure that k same this During period Foote an active interest in an anti- - embody votes on No 6 and that in support of the trust case involving a Phillips- - he 'ote President” and to contribute “to owned pipeline the RpP‘ibhcan Finance Commit-GLNLRAMOTORS STOCK ee of Pennsylvania which in Foote' also bought 514049 worth turn finances the activities of of General Motors Stock but the county committee” hastily sold if the same day for This claimed the council “is Di- - an $13469 while the Anti-trus- t investment in Gettysburg’s vision was supposed to be investi- - future” "DINNER'S READY DEAR" gating GM s handling of passen- Note 1 — Gettysburg happens to be in a Democratic district and ger cars Foote invested heavily in Chrys- - Ike’s congressman is As a young man ever since ler and Ford too while their young James Quigley energetic who has Franklin Roosevelt w as in fact contracts be- - made with dealers were an quite impact during his I think I am right in this a ing investigated by his Anti-trus- t in Washington term first disciple of his great relative agents Foote purchased $7355 Note 2 — There’s so much inworth of Chrysler stock on March tercet in the Eisenhower farm W But after 1912 anyone who had’31' 1955 and sold it for 58725 that the biggest disappointment July Hf boush S2- - of women who visited there at' such ideas joined the Democratic 515 vv or h of Ford stock Jan the recent GOP rallv was that pflrfv ''d' E S’37 ' The Republican Tarty has 1 o u'i e 1956’ E feV v ’one’ AacT ho F°ote als0 Participated in re- - asked them about it later but old’ Federalist fconf7 !hat andV pressed itself in thrnojination ” of Wendell wilikie in iQ-iJ? ?tmmobTenctiPor Herhol fnn° their historic tradition which Dewey Tn 19 44 and 1948 and ol w£nt ° k 1 p g descends from Alexander Hamil-- ! Eisenhower in 1952 But the Re- - this time to dabble in ABC-Para-- 1 carpets Ion and Lincoln the Republicans Publican Party as an organiza- - mount stock He bought 52767 ABC'Paramount stockl V1LSGT0N PIPEIINE should be the Federalist Party it°vzT whenYtVlit "°r!f kncle Sam is covering the roof on May 3 1955 and another 2 They were that in the nineteenth m 1912 — a rump of those who 754 worth on May 6 1955 He sold tRe famous Smithsonian Natur- century and down through the oppose what Theodore Roosevelt this stock for 52592 on Jan 24 al History Building with a roof administration of Theodore stood lor namely the moderniza- and $3555 on Apnl 4 1956 of strategic nickel alloy This Roosevelt It has not been tion of onr economm institutions i956j House investigators are also precious metal used in jet enideology but history the turn emergence of trte Ignited checkin' gines is so scarce that private ' o£ events m this century sthch states as a ssorld power of inter" t in Footed stock market companies have to get governhas made the Democrats ment permission to buy it Yet ABREAST WITH TIMES trading into the Federalist Party the GSA has allotted almost 40 In consequence the Democrats IKE’S GETTYBURG FARM tons of scarce nickel to build the GREAT REVERSAL hae in this century become the President Eisenhower’s farm Smithsonian roof GSA could The great reversal of roles has attracted so many tourists to have built the same roof with took place in 1912 There had policy and 1 blSgng ou5 PUphc of Gettysburg Pa that the local j stainless steel for $25000 less been building up for some 29 the changing times travel council is cam- Sol Schlesinger whose Army a strong pop years before that There have been as it were paign contributionssoliciting to contract was investigated by Ike cap keep of tvvo political cycles each with a uar demand for public control office in the Senate n cor-hexcesses new Investigation Commit- of the yie period of innovation followed by a letter to businessmen-mem-In a tee made to See-personal individualism President a period of correction and con- bers p0rate the Gettysburg Travel retary of the Army plea Brucker to Theodore Roosevelt that is to solidation Council donations renew "his contract Schlesinger say the Republican Roosevelt In the innovating phases the not for pleads for GOP reasons but claimed that the Senate hearing political e Republi-agriculturundertook to make the country has turned to the Demo- strictly for “our own put him out of business Brucker can Party the agent of the re- crats as with Wilson and with listened politely then advised forms which the times called Franklin Roosevelt In the corto go into some oth“Although political philosophfor recting and consolidating phase ies are involved” says the letter Schlesinger er business the Senate ElecUntil 1908 while he was still the country has turned to the Re- which went to Democrats and Re- tion Subcommittee headed by in the White House he succeeded publicans as with Coolidge and publicans alike “it is not intend- Sen Gore of Tennessee is resumvery well indeed But under his Eisenhower ed that this letter be considered ing his probe of campaign contrisuccessor the party did not fol- a political solicitation It is writ- butions Gore has scared off SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE low him In 1912 the Republimany There is substantial evidence ten after careful consideration of the large contributors to both cans split over the question cf in the firm conviction that parties They have explained to reform and Woodrow Wilson not I believe for thinking that for and our own in the pres- both the Democrats and Republionly wen the election of 1912 but the third time in this century ervation of the cf Gettys- cans that they are afraid they may the prestige is made the Democrats into the country coming into an and Adams is of pri- wind up in a congressional investiburg County twenis of This modernism suband I innovating phase party The Air Force is so mit the reason for the extra or- mary importance to us and that gation tieth century reform the efforts each one of us short cf funds and personnel that puts dinary upsurge of the DemoDISCIPLE OF THEODORE forth are not crats in the grass roots only mandatory it has been forced to cut its The but are plain common sense” The Democrats have been that new phase is caused once goal from 137 wings to 132 wings again The letter points out that “the The smaller goal has been by the country's need to bring its policies and measures abreast eyes of the country will be on pushed on the Air Force but Adams County on Nov 6 and one won’t be announced until after of the times In the period of Theodore of the big stories of the election the election Roosevelt and of Wilson there was need to impose social and public standards on corporation capitalism In the period of Franklin Roosevelt there was the need to overcome the miseries wheh the great depression rebuilding the 24th to Tallahassee vealed whistled in alarm when five of10 YEARS AGO and provoked for the North Florida fair the It led to the welfare state Harcld E Stassen former gov- fers for constructing three han26th and the Dairy Industrial Exand to the gars at the Municipal Airport position in Atlantic City the 29th the business public regulation cf ernor of Minnesota told 1 Re- were opened and read The cycle And so on publican luncheon audience in amounts they held were “away HISTORIC DEVELOPMENTS Ogden that a government of free above” what they considered FEW GO YITII HIM The into which we have period Benson doesn't travel with a now people is the most difficult gov-- 1 good prices is entered dominated by to administer but it is retinue Usually only Robert D two new 20 YEARS AGO historic developments eminent McMillen one of his staff assist- The worth all the effort one is the inCandidates nominated by Wephenomenal ants goes along Sometimes Mrs crease of the American populaA drive to add between 100 ber County Republicans at a parBenson goes too convention included: Phillip The secretary seldom makes a tion and 150 members including in- ty Dix The is ether the and of Ogden for state senator J challenge straight political pitch He be- the pVGreenwood‘ of Roy fo7 tw dangerous competition of the dividuals and firms to the rolls lieves farm policy should be biCommunist orbit These develop- of the Ogden Chamber of Com- - year term county commissioner partisan But he makes a sincere ments will require great innovaand Lester J Perry of Pleasant sales talk for his farm program tion and a View for state representative unavoidably and his earnestness usually imgreat of action all expansion at public presses his opponents Porter T Robbins president of The sharpest thing he has said the levels of government forethe Ogden chapter of the Reso far is that the Democrats in most among them at the federal serve Officers’ Assn received nolevel the last Congress deliberately tice from the war department of Once again regardless of how proposed an unworkable farm from first lieuhis advancement the Presidential election comes program and then delayed the to tenant out the Democrats seem destined captain in the Reserve Eisenhower program solely for Medical to become Corps the agents of these political advantage For while PresiBenson ad libs a great deal In innovations Weber County Democrats ap- most of his peeches He carries dent Eisenhower would like to pointed George F Simmons a lot of farm facts and figures at give the Republicans that role j man with Ira A Huggins and who a sister had each the tip of his tongue He likes to there is little evidence that the as members of the Bundy to a cover the whole farm field —and Republicans who will succeed ran a nunnery according committee and speakers rally him are much concerned with it modification of her brothers sometimes he talks too much E L©wder chairCopyright 1856 man of the finance committee HIS PRINCIPAL PLEA New York Herald Tribune Inc and J F (Francis) Fowles chairBoiling all his arguments down of the advertising commitman his is "WASHINGTON j i I that the principal plea United States must find more markets for its overabundant farm produce He talks sales promotion and research as much as anything else He thinks the government should be gotten out of the farm business in a peacetime economy He thinks the soil bank acre- age reserve is a temporary thing to last only until war surpluses are reduced The conservation reserve he sees as more permanent He does not think that there are too many farms and he resents more than anything else the charges that hi is trying to get farmers off the land H® believes farm life is the best way of life and that the most valuable “farm subsidy” returned to the cities is the farm people who give the urban areas a con slant supply of new blood tee DRUMMERS i AND DREAMS by Click Relander with a foreword by Dr Frederick Webb Hodges the Caxton Printers Ltd Caldwell Idaho Here in entertaining style is a serious and sympathic endeavor to preserve whatever knowledge concerning the almost unknown Wanapum Indians of eastern Washington The work has picture sections to supplement the text The work centers around Smow-hal- a the Dreamer of Washington territory who lived along the Columbia River Five surviving Wanapums faithful to Dreamer’s teachings cling to their old village of P’na and Puck Hyah Toot a descendant of Smowhala has broken Ms long silence to tell of the mysteries of the Wana- - pums for generations to come Several personalities come to life the astounding Indian agent the Rev James H Wilbur the unsung northern chief Moses and others of the river people The author city editor ol the Yakima Daily Republic Is one of the prominent newspapermen of the Northwest He has drawn extensive historical and ethnological research and Ms writings extend to the Palouses and others He camped with the Indians and listened to their stories and knows his subject well In fact his historical writings have gained national recognition and won him an award from the Washington State Historical Society and also from the Washington State Press Club 50 YEARS AGO Hcstmark Ogden City poundkeeper announced that a bay mare with spots on the head white hind feet blind in the left eye will be sold to the highest bidder on Oct 16 if not claimed and taken away C W Military training will be given in the Ogden City schools the board of education decided Lt A L Louder was appointed military instructor and the training will be held in the drill hall of the 'National Guard Indications point to a coal famine in Weber County this winter which may prove to be greater than the one experienced last winter All of the local coal yards have only a limited supply on hand i AAA J |