| Show isn&arh-feamtn- pr (Dgfott DREW EDITORIALS FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 26 1960 OGDEN UTAH OA PEARSON Big Grain Dealers Became Rich Discordant Echo on Achievement On Subsidies Farmers Poorer The Echo balloon satellite has contributed one more first to its list of scientific achievements That fine song “America the Beautiful” was transmitted from coast to coast by bouncing signals off the balloon This represents quite an advance There does seem to be some danger however and we should be aware of it What if someone is monitoring us out there in space — listening to what is bounced back and forth with such abandon? Today we are sending worthwhile songs But what about tomorrow when we will doubtless send forth singing commercials —or the latest offering of some rock ’n’ roller? What kind of retarded souls will that listener in space then think us to be? Eet’s not delude ourselves into thinking that no one will try to reach the moon with a sponsor’s message or that no one will have a crack at transmitting some popular recorded earache If it is true that there are more advanced civilizations in A Map of the Moon A War of Words half-bake- space we may be inviting drastic retaliation Even if the space folk are green monsters do they deserve the inhuman treatment a teen-ag- e pop singer can inflict? There may of course be some advantage in the situation We can control what is sent out for a time until we learn McNaagbt Syfedicat lunar map ' Jmporfanf Issues ' As the presidential campaign rolls into high 'gear the superficial issues will disappear and the matters of real moment will emerge That has already begun to happen An Eastern manufacturer has disclosed that Senator Kennedy buys his suits abroad while Vice President Nixon gets V Ills in the United States' EVERYBODY'S Spanish-America- n s U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in the UN Security Council debate on The Congo: “The United Nations is laying the foundations foi law' and order a sound adrhinstration and economic recovery in The Congo This is no time to be looking - lack and try fo prove that his candidate shows a better understanding of foreign re: for fly specks” Sen John F Kennedy replying to Sen charges by that Hugh Scott a good deal of the Kennedy family fortune was used to buy votes: “Sen Scott as you well know is a member of the Republican truth squad but he may well have lost his membership today” Capt William B Gray director of the Miami Fla Seaquarium warning that the shark that attacked a man off the New Jersey coast Sunday might strike again: “Once in a while there is a renegade shark that gets a taste of a human being Then he will keep on looking and when he finds a human being he’ll attack him” (R-P- n - a) injury when his automobile collided with a street car at Madison and 25th 20 YEARS AGO ' - v Ogden wholesale houses in competition with Salt Lake City wer® gov- - awarded contracts by the Reclama- Republican nomination for Atholeen England of Plain City ernor had visited in Ogden and Lillian Hunter of Wilson were Leslie T Norton had been appthe latest entries in the Miss We- ointed-clerk of the Ogden Stake ber County contest He came to the post after serving The sample ballot for the Repub- as priesthood supervisor of the lican primary showed Parley E 21st Wardr Norse th and James L Platt run’Preliminary work had begun on ning for district attorney the Army’s new supply depot Lynn Foley manager of the northwest of Ogden Utah Power and Light Co soft- Checker expert Fred O’Brien won: ball team which won the Northern of 23 games in an exhibition at Utah championship said that his the Idle Rich Checker Club team would compete in the Logan ' ' SO' YEAIIS softball tournament : tion Service The lady clerks at Burt’s store had an outing at the Hermitage with a picnic as the major attraction E- - W Patrick had returned from Southern Utah and reported that there was much typhoid fever in that part of the state A w Hadley was elected assist- ant manager of the Weber Club Fifty men left Ogden as volunteer fire fighters to battle a blaze A0 m the Northwest The Ogden Reds lost their third - The Oregon Short Line began The program for Peach Days game in a row to the Pocatello 45 ’minute' service between Ogden team festivities in Brigham City was and Salt Lake City announced as Reed Stevens candidate for the Dr Ezra Rich narrowly escaped than ever beforebigger and better -- v MONEY Our Older Generation Not To Be Written Off What They're Saying Now some avid nationalist will surely make the point that Senator Kennedy is less loyal to domestic industry than his Republican rival And then some Kennedy supporter will doubtless take the opposite catering to their natural opponent Both are waiting for Labor Day to pass John Kennedy has made his peace with Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt and with Harry Truman The peace with Mrs Roosevelt is important Another week has passed during which both candidates are mending fences The campaign which was to have' started NOW has not started at all The course is running the same as usual Both candidates are organizing for victory both are By Merry! S Rukeyser The new fashion of downgrading the older generation in the eyes of young people is fraught with danger The dilettante vogue is a new expression of the Marxian philosophy of internal class warfare The nomination by major parties of presidential candidates still in their forties and especially Sen Kennedy’s unfurling of the banner in behalf of youth and new ideas give special timeliness to this trend A press association dispatch from Jerusalem quoted Dr Brock Chisholm a Canadian who served as former director of the World Health Organization as saying that the worst thing that could happen to children would be to present-dain the image of their parup grow ents Dr Chisholm Was 'further represented' as saying that today’s par- -' ents have proved themselves un-- ‘ able to cope with a world in which ' old values and ideas are leading toward the complete destruction of humanity Maybe the good doctor added footnotes and annotations which behind his mitigated the foolishness " ' generalization One old idea which is not yet obsolete is the law of compensation about which Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote so persuasively' demonstrating that in life you pay including your mis- v y nt order - w - i In the realm of finance crude swindlers' who indulged the wishful thinkers became known as vendors of blue sky This generation is suffering from political blue sky masquerading-as 3 new “liberalism” - so-call- ed QUESTIONS AND ANSVERS Q — What - American college is af- to as 'Old fectionately- - referred Siwash?" ' A — Knox ' College in Illinois George Fitch Knox ’97 immortalized it as “Old Siwash” in his humorous novels of college life so-call- ed : POLICY REVERSED Under Democratic Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan government grain was stored in empty government vessels lying at anchor in Puget Sound and in the James and Hudson rivers at a cost of 4 to 6 cents a bushel But under Ike this policy was reversed government grain was deliberately taken out of government ships to swell the profits of private elevator operators The new cost of storage averaged 19 cents- a bushel This is one reason American taxpayers are now shelling out $1300-00- 0 a day to store grain It isn’t the farmer who has ' profited it’s the Midwestern middleman HOW CARGILL PROFITED some big GOP Furthermore backers profited in more ways than merely storing government grain Here for instance is the inside story of the Cargill Corp which according to official records actually collected $500000 from Uncle Sam for storing 6 million bushels of wheat then when part of it spoiled purchased part of that wheat from its own warehouse at below the market price then made a nice profit not only from the low price but by collecting a government export subsidy The interesting fact is that James A Cole regional director of Commodity Stabilization in charge of grain storage protested against using Cargill’s storage facilities a huge sheep shed at Savage Minn Here is his exact telegram to the Agriculture Department in Washington Aug 18 1954 warning that wheat in Cargill’s shed could not be turned in order to avoid spoiling: “The warehouseman (Cargill) in this office yesterday agreed to physical impossibility of' turning for conditioning grain in those This situation large units would relieve the warehouseman (Cargill) of his responsibility to maintain grain in condition and - WHEAT BEGINS TO SPOIL Ga-hag- an Into Cargill’s sheep shed went the million bushels of government wheat Because the grain couldn’t be aired properly as Cole had warned it showed signs of spoiling in the summer of 1959 Hastily the Agriculture Department put it up for sale Cargill promptly purchased 4836-63- 0 bushels of the wheat in its own warehouse but paid $325000 below the market price because of the grain’s poor condition Yet Cargill’s own storage facility was responsible for the deterioration But there was still more government gravy to be squeezed out of the 4836630 bushels of wheat Cargill applied for $1500 (XX) in export subsidies for resale of the wheat abroad An Agriculture Department inspector was sent to the Cargill shed on Aug 12 1959 and blamed the grain’s deterioration upon Cargill’s inadequate shed which “resulted in lack of turning and conditioning” Yet because of the deterioration the Agriculture Department’s own report declares “Cargill acquired wheat for export from CCC at prices up to 13 cents a bushel below spot market and subsequently applied for export subsidies of approximately Pi million dollars for the resale of this wheat to foreign 6 countries” COLLECTED SUBSIDY By this time the wheat was such a bargain that Cargill sold over 2 million bushels to its own stockholders The stockholders collected an export subsidy from Uncle Sam for shipping the wheat out of the USA then turned round and the wheat themselves bought a' through Tradex International Panamanian corporation owned by Cargill stockholders To sum it all up Uncle Sam first paid Cargill about 60 cents a bushel to store he wheat then because it wasn’t properly aerated turned around and sold most of it to Cargill at bargain prices seven to 15 cents below the market rate Finally Cargill managed to collect between 54 and 60 cents a bushel in export subsidies This means Cargill got from the government between $121 and $135 a bushel for wheat that was worth $215 a bushel on the Minneapolis market No wonder the stockholders decided to buy most of it themselves n through their Corp Latin-America- HY GARDNER CALLING It’s no joke: Right before the Long Island Rail Road went on strike commuter Pat Carroll missed her train by a few seconds and asked the stationmaster “If I run will I catch it?” “If you run lady” the man said “you’ll pass it!” The International Pipeline: Look for Yugoslavia's president Tito and UAR President Nasser to announce a headline-makintrade and treaty Convention in Los Angeles there were two other conventions— Alcoholics Anonymous and Jehovah’s Witnesses? An enterprising London barber is offering his customers a new hairdo His sign reads: “The Kennedy Cut — the Successful Short Cutl“ ENGLISH LESSON g anti-Semit- anti-Semi- te Seductive words are used uncrit-ticall- y to cause masses to respond to- emotions rather than to submit to what the sociologist Graham Wallas referred to as “the terrific pain of thinking” Much of the competition of word mongers about “conservatism” and “liberalism” is mere eyewash The “conservative” corporate executive is not worth his salt unless he is aware of impending change and is alive to the continr uing processes of obsolescence But a philosophy of freedom does not become obsolete merely because it has stood the test of time takes AT OWN PERIL new the If generation is to write off the wisdom of the ages it will do so at its own peril Instead of letting politicos and pseudo-scientist- s muddy the intellectual waters common-sens- e young folks should be less concerned with newness or oldness per se than with obsolescence Obsolescene is the outmoding of old concepts and devices with the results of new breakthroughs on the frontier of knowledge Thus the determination that the earth was round necessitated junking the earlier and erroneous view that the earth was flat But many basic concepts of science and mathematics persist in the face of new and original thinking While young people inherit a bundle of critically challenging problems they also on the other side of the ledger get a heritage of accumulted wisdom knowledge and technical know-hoBernard M Baruch at 90 is still a font of sage counsel and wise thinking Other outstanding octogenarians include former President Herbert C Hoover Chancellor Adenauer Winston Churchill and a variety of others What is to be rejected by the new generation is the set of illu sions- prejudices and intellectual errors of their predecessors balanced approach calls But for objectivity with a partisanship only to what is scientific truth morally sound and spiritually satisfying In investment there is obviously a hazard of paying too much of a premium in the stock market for seasoning past history and going concern value - Dynamic analysts also want to know how a company is assuring its place in the sun in the future through creative initiative in applied research and new product exploration But this is far different than tell- ing new investors to turn their backs automatically on securities of topflight companies with a history of past successes One reason why the contemporary world is so fraught with risks has asbeen the tendency ininstead of scientific sumptions formation tested by experience REALITIES IGNORED This rash following of the phrase-maker- s who represented the new nationalism as an unmixed blessing is dramatized in the Congo where realities were ignored in turning over the reins of to primitive and untrained tribesmen: The emotional driving out of the - country of experienced technicians and civil servants became a blueprint for chaos and dis- - because it could affect what once was 400000 votes of the liberal (Socialist) party in New York which follows Mrs Roosevelt politically In 1958 it polled 283926 votes This party which consists of the Jewish labor unions has already endorsed John Kennedy When the unions are referred to as Jewish what is meant is that the leaders David Dubinsky Alex Rose and Jacob Potofsky are Jevs but the members today are mostly Italians Negroes and Puerto Ricans The leaders walk a tight-rop- e and Mrs Roosevelt who is not only a canny politician but ruthless knows her power TRUMAN PREFERRED v The peace with Harry Truman is of a different nature What might be called the respectable elements in the Democratic party admire Harry Truman They prefer his leadership to that of Adlai Stevenson Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt or for that matter John Kennedy They dislike the ADA Most such Democrats wanted Lyndon Johnson or Stuart Symington to be nominated They resent the methods by' which John Kennedy sought and received the nomination They were outraged by the rudeness of Mrs Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson at the eonven- tion It is an elemeht that could vote Republican or not vote at all Therefore peace with Truman was important Harry Truman is strictly a party man He could no more vote Republican than he could join the Moslem faith It does not take much for him to be regular On the other hand can he deliver the Democrats who do not want Kennedy? Mrs Roosevelt’s influence in New York City is very important Her following is large and fanatical Her lukewarmness caused many New York liberals to say that they would vote for Norman Thomas this year As Norman Thomas is not a' candidate this means that it is their intention not to vote at all Eleanor Roosevelt’s attitude may change their viewpoint A whispering campaign is being paid for in large cities with Jewish populations that Richard Nixon e is an Those who spread this story are liars No Quaker is an Furthermore Nixon’s entire career is evidence of his breadth of view on questions of race and religion EXPOSED RED PLOT This story goes back to' the days when Nixon was a member of Congress fighting the Communists When he discovered the “pumpkin papers” and had Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers confront each other the Communists attempted to smear the young representative from California They could find no record because except that he went to college and had been in the Navy Nixon had made no record up to then that was particularly notable When he ran against Helen Douglas for United States senator and trounced her he brought down on his head the maledictions of the liberals Helen Ga- hagan Douglas was one of their queens and she was believed to be a shoo-i- n when Nixon destroyed her political career She has disap' peared politically Thus he had against him the combined strength of the Communists and the liberals who have never forgiven him When he ran for vice president they joined to smear him He faced their charges forthrightly and won the respect of most Americans It was the Commso-call- ed Kennedy's Truce With Mrs FDR And Truman May Bring Extra Votes Though it has seldom affected Americans in recent years one of the greatest wars of the 20th century is still going on This is the battle against malaria which had its beginning as an outcome of the war The World Health Organization reports' that it has freed 53 million people in alone from the threat of the dis ease But in about a third of the nations malaria still exists Russian health officials hope to completely eradicate the disease ' in their country this year The campaign appears to be moving into its final stages Everyone concerned can be justly proud of this kind of battle the-America- ? YOU MUST LICK MY BOOTS' GEORGE SOKOLSKY Unconditional Surrender t la FIRST partisan jousting - government was desperately short of storage space But Cole knocked down this alibi in his reply dated Sept 1 1954 which declared: “For your information the general storage situation is not nearly so tight in this area as formerly” - Whatever else the Senate does it is piling up a lot of partisan wordage Most of the wordy blows are lost on the public but the senators enjoy the exchanges Consider as a fairly typical instance the remarks of Senators Humphrey and Dirksen anent proposals for strategic food stockpiling Humphrey said Vice President Nixon had borrowed the idea “from the law of 1956 to which his own administration has said ‘No no that cannot and will not be done” Whereupon Dirksen never at loss for a retort rose to aver that Humphrey ought to say of Nixon “Here is a man of open heart because he saw a good idea that maybe somebody advanced some time ago on this side and suddenly we find he adopts it That shows the breadth of his understanding” It also said Dirksen showed the extent of Nixon’s “political forbearance” and made it 'clear that he was “emito be a great president nently qualified of the United States” That’s the way things went Not much of the Senate debate was enlightening But as we say the solons do relish this sort of d lations Actually the announcement was superficial The matter of the candidates’ stands on clothing could be explored much more thoroughly Let’s find out how they feel about button-dowshirts and pleatless pants How do they stand on the need to wear a jacket to the dinner table? What about narrow versus wide lapels? Voters know that two men with such positive opinions as Nixon and Kennedy must have some ideas on these vital issues Let’s hear them and let them be stated candidly If there is one thing voters should not tolerate it is for White House candidates to carry water on both (padded or unpadded) shoulders What the public generally doesn't realize is that some of the biggest backers of the GOP have benefited handsomely from the Eisenhower farm program while the average Midwest farmer hitherto the backbone of the Republican Party has got it in the neckChairman of the Republican finance committee under Eisenhower was F Peavey Heffelfinger of Minneapolis the big Northwest grain broker Other staunch GOP supporters have included the Cargill Corp one of the biggest grain dealers in the world which was thoroughly investigated by the Democrats but treated with kid gloves under Ike w : may-soun- farm program whether there are intelligent creatures out there If they turn out to be friendly good But if they want to get tough with their ray guns and disintegrators we can always retaliate with the ultimate weapon — a resmash hit cording of the latest rowdy-dotune at peak volume d Because lunar photography is easier 'than earthly exploration more is known about certain areas of the moon than about remote parts of our own planet Some regions of the moon are more accurately mapped thanks to a project sponsored by the U S Air Force than some parts of the earth There was a time not long since when such a state of affairs would have 'been regarded merely as a curiosity brought about by the restless probings of science This is no longer the case mapping the moon is now seen as a practical undertaking The fact is that a moon map will soon be needed Man expects to visit the moon within a decade and he wants to know his way around when he gets there ' The imminence of such a journey has been underscored by recent achievements of both American and Russian space technology The United States has twice recovered instrumented capsules after they have orbited the earth Russian scientists have just sent animals into orbit and have recovered the space menagerie alive These facts are preludes to the orbiting not very far in the future of a capsule with a man aboard Then a moon venture will be only a few years off “A few years” like a long time but in terms of racial history' space advances are coming at an astonishing pace Before- we are really prepared for it a man will stand on the surface of the moon and consult that WASHINGTON — Vice President for which he is paid” Nixon has been extremely adept in But Cargill seemed to have keeping the support of the conserva- friends in Washington Back came tive Goldwater wing of the Repub- this teletype order from A F lican Party and the Liberal Rocke- Troyer acting director of the grain feller wing He’ll have to walk a division: “Re approval Cargill tightrope however to please the warehouse Savage you are inright and left wings of the party structed to approve the warehouse” when it comes to any Republican The official excuse was that the ‘ arms Brigitte Bardot’s By W L Gordon n g e d and emotionally upset husband Jacques WORDS OFTEN MISUSED Do not say “That’s all the faster Charrier is receiving the same his car can go” Say “That’s as given recently to fast as his car can go” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED treatmen in a French hospital as that given rePerquisite Accent first syllable not to the second Piaf— Edith the cently sleeping OFTEN MISSPELLED cure W’ay (road manner) Whey (of Soviet propaganda students be milk) Weigh (to balance) lieve that if Khrushchev does deWORD STUDY cide to visit Castro Cuba he will “Use a word three times and it time his “social” call when it will is yours” Let us increase our vohave the greatest impact on Amer- cabulary by mastering one word icans — right before the elections each day Today’s word: DISCOMGary Crosby seriously dating MODE to inconvenience to disSheila McCarthy a cub reporter turb the composure of “We should not a showgirl Has anyone never discommode others by our noted that during the Democratic lack of punctuality” : estr a LAFF-ADA- Y ‘ attack on Nixon in unist-liberal What Is the official name of the statue atop the dome of the national capitol? A The statue is that of a woman clad in flowing draperies The figure is now officially known as Freedom although the Statue tof its sculptor ' christened it “Armed Q — the 1952 campaign that made him an unusual figure in American politics Now - these same forces are at work particularly in New York Chicago and Los Angeles Their lies are not so easily handled because they deal not with facts but with emotions It is like similar charges Liberty” John Kennedy because his against Q — What cabinet post was father was a friend of the charmence held by Jefferson Davis? Lady- Astor Those who spread A — Davis was secretary of war ing tales that Richard Nixon for that Frankof the during presidency matter John Kennedy is an lin Pierce are not friends of Jews Q — What state has a lake They are bars Some are bigots Some are the sort of people who saltier than the ocean? A — Utah Great Salt Lake is like to shout “fire!” in a crowded about six times as salty as the movie house They are hateful ocean 'SStii P7 - anti-Sem- ite (D King Fethire Smvlkt! Inc tTorll right rwenri 826 “This machine does the work of six men However it takes eight men to operate iL” |
