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Show ' ' ' . I, - f i SA , - ' ,...0'. .. f . .414)CalEir . . .... - . . , ' ' - ,,-- A' -- . 'I- - '' 00 HISTORIANSor anthropologistswho ' '' . '' - have a Chance to look back on our 'my - , . , w' viow' , no way of knowing how low it would slide; the prospect was not encouraging. A year ago tonight, America'stego had been thoroughly punctured. had been shaken'. There was no 'way of knowing whether the shaking would wake up America to greater effort and deter- minationor would destroy its confidence , -- -- - ' and its THE YEAR 1958 has provided the an swers to those questions. ,They are answers that must tremendously increase America's confidence in its institutions and its traditions. We have turned the corner in the race. Shaken into wakeful- ness, we have bounced back quickly and positively to at least a competitive tiomWe may or may not be ahead, but we are certainly in the race. will. .. 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THESE ARE QUESTIONS each individ- ual must answer for himself. Our wish for our readers is that each will find 1958 has been a "good" yearand that 1959 . " will be better. , . - I I ', . , - , , "Let's Open The Window And Let Some Fresh Hope in Here" , RESOLUTION . - , By Inez Robb -- , --- Hot Sandwiches Sans Wilted Lettuce -- , M , un-but- Call Off The Police? . -, .,- , -- - , )rie - , , ', f -- , - - r i - -- - , I E - - i interest . lettuce in sandwiches, where it was By INEZ ROBB . never intended to be anyway. It is satellite ANY splendid new crusades for of the general tanothi sign under betterment public get of our times that lettuce, way with the New Year, I have somehow, has sneaked into ham on t just decided what my major crusade rye and toasted cheese on white. , for nationwide improvement of pubNow I will not go so far as to say, lic services is going to be. .. lettuce on a hot barbecue beef' that In 1.959 I intend to exert every is a Communist plot. But sandwich effort to have let- - f si.,;:":.....,' does anyone have a better explana; , .....k.or.,,,,T7 tuce outlawed as a . 444 bop? Even in a cold sandwich letPOLICE CRIEELSKOUSEN-has-properlppedund- cr such circumstances sandwich fillet OL tuce wilts at the impact of butter. , .. come to the defense of three Salt Lake should accept the police as friends rather as a component ;' (Yes, Virginia, there are still , ,!,,41,A0 ;al City policemen who sopped and searched than enemies and consider himself fortupart of any and all -, .places where yoa elan get butter on an innocent woman while looking for the nate to have the opportunity to watch open t sandwiches, ,7 ,. ler .,,,; sandwiches. Nof many, maybe, but one- Ithe or closed-face- , pistol-packin- g mama who moments be- police at work and to , a; some.), It turns flabby and dist Arse eck' fore had held up a. downtown jewelry , etwrsG. any good citizen should. ,,, and afflicts the whole for ' ' heartened, store. , ''' To which, we suggest tne other men-Th- e sandwich with the same malaise. , the worm to turn, woman did not complain of being ' , tal reaction:. Let any citizen in that posi..' But if lettuce makes a soggy ex- . than ... more in and tion ask himself whether he wthild rather mistreated physically br of the officers a cold sandwich, its pres Miss no'bb , ercise of the lettuce! have the police act that way or simply let - justI not ence in a hot sandwich is a disaster. being particularly rude. She was simPly to besiege Conplan only "embarrassed" she saidwhich is per- - - him And all other personsincluding the gress to make it a federal offense to - First, it absorbs the heat from what should rightfully be hot in the sandbut also banditgo unmolested about their bysifectly Understandable. 41 dd lettuce to a sandwich, ' wich and turns the searing filling or Chief Skousen suggests that any Citi. ness. to make it a hanging' crime to inttoduce cold lettuce into a toasted or the toast stone cold dead on .the 4 i plate. 4 any other- - kind of hot sandwich. The addition of lettuce to a hot THEN - THE LETTUCE really sandwich is comparable to tossing a TKE OLD ORDER changes, yielding place line to draW'dn, a prosperous intervenini wre a s s vengeance. t turn s, wet blanket on an angel food cake to new, and so it is that a colorful andcountrysidetoitupply both passengers through contact withtheheat4nto mess otthe blanket-an- d t makes a tough, stringy membrane that en-- picturesque old Utah transportation busi- - and freight, a route well laid out, aCcorn-- " ' ruins the acake. folds itself around a cheeseburger, and ness now fades into the ,, speeds pOssibility modating history. good , for instance, like an octopus around more of lettuce BEFORE the the attractive Railroad NOW After today AND ou terminals, Bamberger acquiring lok&-iythink there isn't one? , its watery victim. will be no more. Its The line itself has been a monument in career ended Ha! Little do you wot!) starts send. ', It is therethe lettuceto stay,' with a freight run to Ogden. The track- - ' steel to that great pioneer builder; Simon nor the all ',thy wit nor all thy piety Paris a me t catgreen over-through He ing most of remain will pushed-iat it 16 Bamberger. large use, age, least, earl induce it to give up its death mails, let me explain that 'I am just tail swamp, managed grades with wide- the principal stretches having been pur- grip. Sic semperand ink temper.. crazy about lettuce in its proper chased by the Union Pacific and Rio sweeping curves to get the lowest possible is bowl the salad It does no good fo Leil the opwhich ' place, . Grande RR Companies. degree of climb and overcame the handi- is a widely known fact that I erator to leave out the lettuce. Either It of fills. several The caps heavy cuts and Passing of the Bamberger Railroad am queer for salads, even preferring . sandwich men have been trained stirs nostalgic memoriesrecollections of wisdom of Simon Bamberger was further a good Caesar salad or a chef salad that no sandwich is legal without it, displayed when he declined all offers of or else they are all misanthropes. for luncheon on the coldest winter quaint passenger ears, squat steam en- free franchises along public highways and Nothing, obviously, will relieve day to filet mignon or chicken a gines,..sbaggage cars loaded with milk cans counter-eater- s insisted on buying outright all right of- of the present evil and ,otber farm products, students and l'Angevine. I favor salad to the extent of con. short of a federal bill. As the New "sailers commuting t6 and from S a 1 t ways. Later on, electric lines that , had Year dawns, I am prepared to lobby. taken up free strips, had to relocate as suming nlne times the average per Lake City and Ogden, and eager, impa- But rshall need help. Won't you, capita lettuce intake per year, which were widened . tient crowds sitting on long benches or the highways - ' In your community,- - organige the. is 10,2 heads per person. 1.ri other , . standing about the station waiting rooms,' SIMOT BAMBERGER gave up the oper- words, I pack away enough lettuce League, Sandwich Diviheading for Lagoon and elsewhere . That to form a verdant highway 40 feet of his railroad in 1917 and moved sion, and aid in this noble work? ation of course, was before the whole country wide from New York City to Mon Into the Capitol as governor of Utah. His ' BE BOLD! Sandwich eaters of took to private B' er Rbb it - cars. talented family has ca-r-- trla-AlbL- et enterprising-an- d , You have only unite! America, to look his his laures! Or, rather, ried on the operation. since that time. NOR WILL IT BE EASY to forget the your lettuce to lose! Let our fight. lettuce The "Bambergee now bows out of time those steam engines were re- - . ing motto be, "A sandwich is not a SO IT IS NOT LETTUCE to which I business, greatly respected and appreci- salad; keep America, not sandplaced by the electrics and this line, then am opposed, per ie, but simply ated for the outstanding service it has called the Salt Lake & Ogden, took on all wiches, green!" ' , . rendered In the development of the Moun- the attributes of success for any "inter- tam 87 end of the cities West either the at urban": past years. large ' . missile-- dij ;-- :::, , - non-materi- al - . ,: ' , . . , : .... non-politic- --4 . ' govp:rti)(:yrseven d - -- Sg , ... . ,. "71111it s:b. 6'610 s ... ; '6...". ' i -. ,.....,0 . . 1,z--' , , . . kk - . -- 0.--- 11 1, - -- 04. i, 'N" , ) 7F i ohm -. :. -' fila; "'4'''.-V- m - t , , ' c.., ' .,,....,. - v '''.. IIF , t,,. i , . BUT THE REFLECTIVE man at New Year must also ask himself questions that turn more inwardly. Has 1958 brought new confidenc- eand proper humilityto the individual as ' well as the nation? Has it brought new appreciation of his neighbors and associates, and a new 'I" .1,"' , ' , :,''''- :- :"...."""'::7.:.:''''.1..........';''... A VERY few, if of the American less of their ,,, this June.- ,..,... statestifinderfann. , t role in the federal ' ,.., :! The expectation 1 ,, ...,,, system. They areS probably unaware .,;:i; is that the trip will ' most in are the the that governors 'r''''?,,,.....,.,:id..,-..,-be made possible by ' , fluential political figures in the en. .04.,,,, a grant from one or ' ' ' tire United States. 'more of the founaa- if The lions, such as Ford L of promslp:eect i.s;that motrsti, nno: , all, Rockefeller. or tive ' The invitation Mr. Drummond n. ConferenCe will mike favor: , out received - arrangements are being worked able consideration by the Executive of bS3tra ttheeGsoecrvernetmareinattsoifntchheicCaoguoncil Committee of the Governors' Cork' This will not be just a Mosedw ference at its recent meeting in oriented trip. The governors, will .. Chicago and is due to be formally most of the top leadsee but accepted, on Feb. 23. ,.. they will also This will be the first ;brie that t iravel to the capitals of several of ' ' an official body of United States the Soviet Republics in order to have look at how political and a first-hangovernors - has ever gone to the ' b economic - or doesn't workIn the Sovietwork,-Soviet Union. Union ' In order to put the selection of and to explain how the many powers,. the governors on a wholly. impern o t specifically sonal and basis, the HO delegated to the fed- - vitation. t9 make, the trip is going - eral government by , the . Constitution, to the members 'of the executive 1 committee. They ape as foklows: belong either to the American states , .Leroy Collins, D., chaifman, of , Florida; George D. Clyde, R., of - or to the people. ' 7. Utah; James Coleman, D,, of MissisI THIS T R I P, I of R. L. Steve McNichols, D., sippi; - think, also re. ,! Colorado;,Robert B. Meynef, D., of fleets the growing New Jersey; William Quinn, R., of of the Hawaii; William G. Stratton, R., of in Gov. Ciyde state governors ' of Cecil R., Illinois; Underwood, not any direct conaffairs foreign West Virginia, and Victor Anderson, cern in the conduct of foreign policy R., of Nebraska. (Gov. Anderson, but in its impact on the states. The 4 who was defeated in the November -election; will be replaced on the - high cost of defense and foreign , tax n tie the r reduces policy exectrVve committee unless a re. available to the states and it is re. dcertain countnot now even understandable that they would verses the result) view of the welcome a first-hanTILE GOVERNORS did not them. Soviet Union and Soviet lead'ers ' selves take the initiative td bring whose actions cost the United Stites about the forthcoming trip behind so much. the Iron Curtin. The original idea Governors like Collins of Florida, came from Join Ivey, executive vice Coleman of Missippi, Clyde of Utah, president of, New York University,; Quinn of Hawaii, Meyner of New who, When he was executive director Jersey, and Underwood of West Vir- - t of the Southern Regional Educaginia, constitute an impressive cross. tional Board, worked closely with a section of American political leader- number of the governots. ship and they can play a better part When the proposal reached the in informing American publice opin- Executivek Committee' of the Gover- ion after viewing the Soviet on the nors' Conference, the feeling was ,, . . that an official Nisit to the Soviet spot. . Union by a group of the states' chief plan Is that they executives would serve several pur- Will leave for the Soviet Union In June and be back in lime, to make poses. The thinking of the governors was al?ng these lines: a firsthand report to the annual , Soviet officials have a pretty Gern. ors Conference which will be into the good insight authority and held in Puerto Rico - in July or functioning of the U.S. federal gov August. anyi '' 477........::.. -- - t. dor Lodge and Sen. Hum.. -- ' ..1:..i....'"....::::.''.::.::::::::'"::1'.:. 1 WeTurnamEshyeingnt:toAnyaEll'ivthe tt.,,,,,, r :: : ::: ..... it:: ' ' time.ellaroismImSene! , , . . W 1:::!::: :.,..:.:., ' GQV Ciyde May.GO.To Russia ASHINGTON Arrangements are nearly complete to enable .' a group of as many as nine Amer'. " can state governors, from Hawaii to New Jersey, to visit the Soviet .Union - .1 44,...1,1, and-real- -- .. i .1 Roscoo:Druirtmond, , E.LBy , 41, ... 10t- ' ;'''',.;' -- . , - :: . fi, :: ... . INSIDE WASHINGTON ... t.' ;::: . 1 ......... , i " f - ' :::::::;..4.:sti, '''''''' , '. , -, -- ; I , - - pre-spntn- ik he-InEttion - I -F.,, ' Year .' - ' ".'. ', - ...,,,,..,,..,..-01- .. , ,- , , T :. I -- - - i,4t,'47 .11?) s reason And perhaps that this has been accomplished withoutpa r -' I smugreturn to America's 46, ' 1 t If 1958's accomplishments have nes& re,, ,' ,.., restored America's confidence but " fr --tained also-- a national humility- 100, , R ization that world leadership demands ' constant vigilance and effort, it has Iin ' ' , ' deed been a "good'year. - "better" than 1957. ago tonight, Russia had 2 sate. none. lites circling the globe and Americans had no just how far behind we had fallen in the race -superfull we reason had weapon. It seemed . to fear the worst.4 ( A year ago 'tonight, the American was shaky and sliding We had r - economy .A-ye- ar ,.... ,,, . ,.,......,:,. --- ------ 1 " rit . ' ' , 11 the march of years as gooee or "bad" or p of human "hopeful." The great history has a Way of ignoring altogether the sharp ups and downs that seem s9 vitally important to each generation. Nevertheless, on this last night of the year, the reflective man can hardly help telling himself that 1958 was a good deal . - ... - year-in--- : -- .: The con- economy, , ity of the American , .. fidence of ,investors. who kept investing f despite the Y' skid, stopped the recession in its tricks. ,,, 1959 should be close to if not the great- i elst of, all years. . to date, economically '0 - editatiatwriterrtategorized each ' , we - have seen the strength and .- - : day a hundredor ten thousandyears from now may smile a bit at the way . , Salt take City, Utah,. Wednesday, December 31, 1958 , .,. - ,.:'. , , - - 4 ' . . Constitution of the. United States as having'- been dwinely, inspired. ., ,, '' Ir.. - , . ' the-- We stand for '' ' Eus . Pitit gz,k, . ' - - , AA: - ti - i T . - I - End Of The Line Meaningless Occasion Why Start New Year Januaryl? 1-- , By SYDNEY T HARRIS - r PART from the forced gaiety.. A 1-- 1 the drunkenness and the drivel.. sentlinentality, there is something quite artificial about the New Xear falling on January L It is a pointless time of year, for It marks neither the planting of the , crops, nor 'their harvest; neither the beginning of nlature's cycle, nor its ending. For mot people, psychologically and socially, the ,pv,rvAt, "n e w season" properly begins In the fall. Sep- my' . terither and Oc, ' 44, tober are the , 411f" reof months c:r. Ac newed activity, s''' :'?:jo',-6tof plans and pro- ) ; I posals, hopes Mr. Harris and ambitions. ACTUALLY, it would surprise maiiY to learn that4anuary 1 has been considered the start of the New Year only for a few hundred years. Before that time,. most civilizations be. gan their ye4r,'. at tie autumnal. . ' ' " 87-ye- ar . ( Anti-Lettuc- e -- , ! ' - O urloquacious Senators WE DON'T KNOW how many noses have been bloodied over the past in response to the challenge, "My dad that can lick your dad!" But we many a neighborhood would have been more peaceful if fewer boys had felt it necessary to brag about their own prowess or that of their dads. And we doitnm that while the world can survive side street listlights between pugnacious boys, it cannot afford brawling between pugnacious men. So, was it 'really necessary for Senator Francis Case of South Dakota to brag publicly the other. day that we now have - a rocket, the , Thor, capable of deliver- ing a nuclear bomb from Britain to the Kremlin? That is, does this sort of thing ' accomplish anyttling? The Kremlin's reaction was predict able. Radio 'Moscow replied strictly in - ' , - - hall-Centu- S. L (St ., THE 2STH OF MARCH was the usual date among most Christian peoples in medieval times. In point of fact, it was not until 1582 that the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar' made January 1 the start of the .1 A J By' Les ,. s , - Antiquity Of The New Year s Observance A, ' - The Druids bequeathed the northern races, many strange beliefs about the New Year. Some old Druid tommyrot: If the first to visit your home after the New Year is a dark man, good luck will come to that household; if he brings food, the luck will be even better ; but if a blond man comes first the per- J It was not, however, until 1700 Out this was accepted by Germany penmarit and Sweden; and not until 1752 by England. So there is rth special sanctity, or even any real religious "tradition" In the present starting date of the year. At the reform of the calendar in the 16th Century, January 1 was arbitrarily set, on the reasoning that it was the eighth day after the Nativity, When Jesus was , , '' , circumcised. (But this was meaningless, also since nobody knows on. what date Jesus was born; some early! church authorities said March, others Au-- , gust, and for the first 100 years, of Christianity there was no general agreement on the birthdate) couraged over their lack of will power, causing anxiety and a deep lack of self respect. ening mans oldest holiday, though celeResoluti6rTS made in a holi- brated at different times of the day mood often times are set too AT ANY RATE, because-Janua- rY 1 year by different peoples and high, shooting for goals quite un- possesses no genuine meaning t -, races with highly diversified cusattainable. A, real tough yesolu- for us, either psychologically or so- tion should be tackled a piece at daily, It has become a tithe o f : tomi, beliefs andsuperstitions strained jollity and a celebration a time, breaking down the habit- Not all historians agree with this without dignity , force or charm ; an problem into small, consistent assertion. 1 1, occasion merely for Wearing a paper ,0,..: '' also This will sons the is the steps. has menage of: painless way hat and getting dead drunk . !' 04' 414,,igw, ,' '' beenHarvest and more promising of success have a lot of luck but it will all a time of . comes: MOST OF be bad. If a redhead US, this New Years , celebrations from i.,,,', 1 1 make will more look trouble. out terrible resolutions for Eve, fi Ittll ' the renlotest ages, Illimo ag" although we have a so the World Book . MANY WHO MAKE New J ,f' ' '""'' -, t rom the Deseret News files) Yiears from last year, hardly used and '; The gataffirms. resolutions do so under -25 Years Ago ' h'''''1"1 ering in of the as ,new. This is another reaof tradition, not because they .good spell Dec. 31, son be should ' less ambi1933Highlights of 1933 why we crops, with wild -have appraised their weaknesses. reviewed in story and picture. were -- resolutions. tious 1 We about are ,",," game and other Too 'often they have a low opinion "The year will go down in history more likely to' keep a little resolui, supplies, in reguone of quiet revolution, when the of themselves to begin with. Betion thada is it large one, just is lar seasons" of Plentitude, would who fabric of American life was cause everyone else is making seem to offer, the most natural , easier to keep a small slog or canchan4ect." are constrained resolutions, H they 'cow is to keep a or occasion for primitive rejoicings. ary than it to give it a try. When .their resolu 50 Years Ago , elephant; New Year's however, approxi- - . , tion, 1 broken they 'becôme dis-- , Dec. 31, 1908The city was pre Anyway, Happy New Year,-anmating the winter solstice, or the , to welcome the New Year with pared kind customers all and may ' yau beginning point of the tour of the noise aid fun. Whistles, sirens and faithful readers durifig 1959, 365- ; earth around the sun on-belli would be sounded promptly takes stumble onto what it day )aunt, no doubt predated the at midnight. - I ' to make- right this your happiest and I many calendars that have con(1 F;Taiirci. 75 Years Ago . most firmed prosperous year ever! , ' Chinese, Hebrew, A11'171.111 Dec. 31, 1883The Tenth Ward 1 OE L'Lll Mohammedan, Egyptian, Persian i Sunday School children rejoiced yesTHE MAIDEN'S LAMENT and Gregorian, among others not i Gus me 'a man with a million or Iwo, terday when the year's prizes were SO well known.. 1 Or One that tt handsonie would' readily distributed. Some 337 prizes were ' ' , ' do; ' awarded: Highlight of the happy oc-- . A:',--- ) NOISE MAKING at midnight is an IA 4 A deshing loung fellow is swell any day, casion, was the presentation of a intended-Or one that is famous would suit me ancient Pagan device I handsomely-boufid- , 991;,,Lm,s beautifully-illus- okay. to drive out the devils of the old 7, trated large family Bible to Nephl--- tf the man shortage thould get any But : year The Romans, to attain this o Pratt, teacher of the young men. same end, courted the god Janus, J , jun go bail to the t 641 first phrase 01 100 Years Ago , this t erse! of the two faces, with sacrifices. i - -. ' et '1 ' had reached , Sunch,ine M0g4ze1 The New Year's Eve drinking spree Salt Lake of a lcompany - of cm'. has been cliarged up ,to the ancient J Lt, nk Ar.....f0RTODAyL41,qus grants who had stopped at Harmorly, AnglosSaxens-who-draWassail, 74 4,-k '4"? hear the conclusion of the ihole sold their horses'and bought lumber. be to made well, therebY, meaning With this they had built a skiff, with rnqtter: Fear God and keep hli com'starting sömethIng nobody has 0'Martha,11 want you to meet the .1. mandments; for this Is the whole the "ridiculous notion" of navigating ben able to finish. new,,..junior senator!" the Rio Virgin to Califprnia. duty of man.'Ecclesiastes 12:13. 'z CAN'T THE SENATE, the tgon'and other bodies whose members have access to military knowledge do something, about urging them to pay less attention to headlines -and more to national secu- ( . 1 i- -- 0 ra ) few-leftD- 4IIII ver I - - ...? Il 0 I Louts GlobeDemeetat) Thomas Stanley protested to Maryland's GEORGE WASHLNGTON believed he set- Gov. Theodore McKeldin. Gov. MeKeldin tied the oyster war way back in 1775, replied by asking the State Legislature, 114 when persuaded spokesmen for Vir- for $100,000 to buy more patrol boats. to (and Maryland ginia sign a treaty for hub orthequarrel is over how oysThe peace at his Mount Vernon home. The document stated that Maryland - ters should be taken. Marylatid, fishermen, tong for them. .The Virginians dredge., would allow Virginia fishermen to take tears opf the oyster beds and 'ruins oysters from the rich beds in the Potomac them, the Marylanders angrily proRiver which King Charles I had given test. Maryland in colonial days. In return, to LAST WEEK, the two states got together Virginia agreed permit Maryland ships to pass through the Virginia capes at the and agreed to settle Itheir entrance to Chesapeake Bay. "oyster' war." They agreed to set up a t But the father of his country was de- and to sign a new ceived in thinking that he had patched up - agreement on Dec. 20, at Mount Vernon. ' this bitter quarrel between neighbors Now that these two great states have Maryland fishermen and Virginia fisher, 'settled the matter of which is the better s, men have continued to battle over thee With tong or way to fish for oyite-royster beds until the present day.' dredge,,, maybe the rest of us can settle' Two Years ago, Maryland patrol boats -- that other burning oysfer controversy. opened up with pistols, rifles and shot. Namely, whieh is the best way to eat guns ;to chase away IL Virginia oyster , 'gm, fried, on 'the half shell or ih a sueet boat, fthe Miss Ann., -culent stew. Virginia's. Gov. . , , - rity? - , HAS BEEN emphasized from year to year that New Year's is 1- ' t : - d - ' Senator Caucus as I itthe 7 i , -- -- -- Q;' -- , , - - , , IT , , -- - End Of TongAVar? , - -: , kind, pointing out that Russia would destroy Britain or any other European country from which such a rocket might be launched. - We have 4he uncomfortable feeling that this sort of talk does not bring the world any closer to peace. Boys who have quiet confidence in the strength of theiror their dads'muscles and keep it to themselves seldom get trouble. It's the boy who feels called upon to brag publicly, forcing the next kioy to call a bluff or prove his'own itengthc who gets his nose bloodied. The same is ' true of nations. - ! , , . GO LES 1. , - ' , equinox, around September 21, as the modern Jews still do. The ancient Egyptians, Phoent clans and Persians followed this sensible procedure. Other cultures began their new year in the spring; such as the Winans before Caesar, to whom March was the firlt month. Since the introdu'ction of the Christian era, at least five different dates ave:been considered as New Year's DayChristmas Day, Lady Day (March 25), Easter Day and 'March '' . 1 , 1 - Lit ;;,-6- - . '1 ) - |