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Show 3 mla PROVO. UTAH , COUNTY. UTAH. SUNDAY. JULY 27, 1947 Editorial... No Time for Politics A veteran reporter writes abroad that, in all his years experience there, no peacetime peace-time action has ever electrified Europeans as the Marshall plan has. "The only thing comparable," he says, "was President Wilson's Wil-son's promise of a warless world through the League of Nations." A slightly younger veteran reporter writes frort Washington that three leading Republicans in the house of representatives have warned that the administration's foreign for-eign aid program will be in for tough sledding sled-ding unless the president gives the people some assurance of tax relief. If congress stalls the Marshall plan by withholding appropriations, says the European Euro-pean reporter, "governments throughout western Europe would topple like nine-pins. ... If congress reneges, western Europe in its bitterness will turn a willing ear to Moscow Mos-cow . . . Only the communist press is playing up doubts regarding congressional action. Should Moscow prove right, however, the result re-sult would be nothing short of terrifying." The Washington reporter quotes Rep. Clarence Brown as' saying, "If the people of the United States are to be given no relief from heavy war taxes at a time when war taxes have already been reduced in Great Britain and the people of -Canada have enjoyed en-joyed two tax reductions, then I am very fearful that the administration will find it most difficult to sell congress on the idea of voting hundredsof millions or billions for foreign relief. The Washington Mrry- Co - Round By Drew, Pearson 80th Congress Listened More To Lobbyists Than the Public WASHINGTON As the first session of the 80th congress comes to an end. there will be the usual hoopla, back-slapping, cloakroom quaffing and singing of . the Star-SDangled Banner. But as far as the general public is concerned, there is ume to get up and wave the flag about. This newsman, who has covered Washington Wash-ington for a long time, regrets to say that he has never seen a congress so dominated by lobbies, and with Its ear so eagerly t the ground to catch the faintest whisoer of desire from the big contributors who ponied up the -campaign funds. Out of a dozen congresses I have seen come and go some good, some bad. some indifferent never since the Harding days has there been a congress which so flagrantly flouted its promises and its principles. Here is the scorecard of what the 80th congress con-gress did and what it did not accomplish: Housing Congress did a lot of talking but no acting on the housing shortage. Veterans who once lived in foxholes continued living with their inlaws. in-laws. Thanks largely to Jesse Wolcott. Michigan Republican, congress removed priorities or veterans vet-erans housing and gave the green light to bowling alleys, roller coasters, skating rinks, race tracks and all commercial construction. Thanks to Senator Tobey, New Hampshire Republican, Re-publican, the senate Banking committee reported favorably, April 24, on the Taft-EUender housing bill which would have been of great aid to veterans. vet-erans. But thought Taft was author of this far-sighted far-sighted bill, he did nothing to push it. And since Taft's word is close to law in the senate, he probably prob-ably could have passed it. V ..l'i. il.. t : i:c ' ivenis unaer me guise oi continuing rent 11 is noiaDie mai lur. pi own u control, congress gave Jandlords the benefit of a criticism of the Marshall plan itself. His "gunpoint" 15 per cent "voluntary" rent increase proposal is simplv a matter of political I which materially boosted the cst o' living. Lvoo trinrr That U an old Washington Real Estate Lobby Every Washington news-horse-trading. lnat is an old asmngxon man knew how flagrantlv reaiestate lobby; custom, DUl us dangers in una tasc ic swarmed over capitol hill. Yet when President readily apparent. Non-Communist Europe has grasped at the Marshall plan with an eagerness bordering bor-dering on desperation. If congress should now scuttle the whole program by failing to keep the American part of the bargain, it is easy to believe that the dire predictions of our European reporter re-porter would be fulfilled. The spread of world communism would be encouraged to the limit of Moscow's fondest hopes. Not only Europe but the United States, would be in grave danger. It is not necessary to go into the merits and demerits of the opposite views on tax reduction held by Mr. Truman and the Republican Re-publican congress. But it is urgently necessary neces-sary that both turn their eyes from the next presidential election and settle their differences differ-ences sensibly. There is certainly a connection between ! the end it passed nothing. taxes and foreign relief. A survey is now I Flood Control While the worst floods in re-being re-being made to determine this country's abil- j""1 htory ripped down the Mississippi-Missouri 7, " " j t, , .-n . . valleys, destroying crops and carrying countless ity to aid Europe and still maintain , its own ton of ,opsoil into the sea. congress refused to ap- economy at a safe level. This ought to form propriate funds for flood control. Furthermore, the basis of any tax reduction plan. It is a ' the house appropriations committee, led by John matter of statesmanship, not politics. jTaer o New .yrk and Rober Jones of Ohio even t u ;' j '' ,;n !cut he agriculture department's soil-erosion pro- 111 L11C pi CfllUClJI 1I1U SKJll&L Will I gram What a Queer Shadow It Casts 0 ' Minutia Truman urged its investigation, several senators, notable Bricker of Ohio and Revercomb of "West Virginia, denounced him and claimed the lobby didn't exist. Monopoly and Small Business When the White .House urged legislation to curb monopoly and to aid small business, congress proceded instead in-stead to introduce and pass through one house: 1. the Bulwinkle bill giving the railroads exempt tion from the anti-trust laws; 2. the Rizley bills, exempting the big gas companies from certain types of regulation by the federal power commission. com-mission. Congressman Miller, Connecticut Republican, Re-publican, also came near securing passage of two bills exempting the power companies from federal power commission regulation, while Congressman Jones of Ohio, now appointed to the FCC, inserted in-serted a rider preventing the government from distributing the electric power generated at Bonneville Bon-neville dam, "Grand Coulee and other federal projects. Education While school teachers were quitting quit-ting by the thousands in almost every state in the union, congress stalled for six long months on a bill to help the states increase teachers' pay. In By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE Weil, the 24th is over, the Centennial Cen-tennial 24th. The moppets went to Salt Lake on the bus, and had the ' sort of time that could be expected. My Lady mother and I went too, very unexpectedly, with the Drt Carl Eyrings in the afternoon. after-noon. We parked two blocks from the city and county building, sat gown in the shade on the west side of the street on some berry crates, and saw the parade in all the comfort in the world, which, I have heard, other people were not fortunate enough to do. Of The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON Came a gent to our humble domicile the other day with a grouch heavy enough to break the back of a camel without the proverbial straw. How he stood up under it I shall never know. The first sledge-hammer blow of his assault was because of my evident lack of prosperity. He looked me over with a bleak expression of pity and in a voice which I knew instantly could nave only come from New Yawk, or New Joisv said. "Frienri vnn'rp all the parade we (as usual) en-(wording yourself to death for a joyed the horses most and speak ing of horses. No, I do not think they should be allowed to make nuisances of themselves. Horses are lovely people, but they are of no practical use standing in the middle of a flower bed or tramping tramp-ing through landscaped grounds. And no, I do not think our streets should be used for impromptu wild west shows. I don't think young children should be allowed to race through the streets, or even ride in ffrouns without an adult with them, within the city-It h o u g h t the I DO think horses who have m0ney simply riaers wno Know now xo oenave rolled in. Back themselves should be allowed to bare living, and get out of it?" Before I could wet my lips he answered his own question in a tone which admitted of no denial. "Nothing. "Noth-ing. I," he went on, "always thought that farmers had an easy life. I what do you nil of AtAomnnaliin Vi rw. so.n milofai 1 n f 4 z Tv ; . . 1 i s a ..... 1 h xflllCrSOn uccu on nic omicaiiioii.nnij iiici v.ci 1 1 muiii ivccmihuiiiuii uizsjiic uie iieeu ui mure uri- use OUT Streets for mere IS no in the coming year. If both Should shorten I gated farmland and more western water power, ; other way for a horse to get their sights to November, 1948, and aim wesler" STiJTST tV.iH?iwhere he is going unless ne can nrwirrh'mrlv in thpir rnnHnrt nf in tprnntinnnl 1 , - , T ' use lne streets. o iar as i Know accordingly in their conduct OI international and Jones. A worried senate, however, led byig is no helicopter service for anaira, me icsuit i nut jjiea&aiib tu cuuiem- tarsignieo senator atyies Bridges, jncw mp-;norses in provo, but horses should plate. The personal, political White House-Capitol quarrel which kept the United States out of the League of Nations did not help the cause of world peace. If a similar quarrel quar-rel were now to erase the Marshall plan, that cause not only would be injured but perhaps destroyed. shire Republican, restored a good part of the not h alInw.d to make a nuisance reclamation funds slashed in the house of repre-iof themseiVes, as I have said, nor S1I1.C11.1VC3. The New Policy for Germany The new American occupation policy for western Germany is clearly an attempt to fit an important missing piece into the pattern pat-tern of the Marshall plan. It is not a policy to be achieved quickly, and its success is not a foregone conclusion. But it is unlikely that the long-range recovery program of which the Marshall plan is a start, could work at all without it. The old policy injured victors and victims, in an economic sense, as well as vanquished. An industrially productive Germany, hedged by safeguards which the new policy provides, pro-vides, should certainly help to rebuild Europe without letting Germany forget her past sins or prepare for future ones. Farm Program While the private power lobby lob-by was introducing nonregulation bills in the house of representatives. Republican leaders in the house slashed appropriations for rural electrification, elec-trification, also for soil conservation, crop insurance insur-ance and other vital parts of the farm program. This caused a split inside Republican ranks with many midwestern Republicans differing from their leaders. Finally the senate, harassed by Democratic Demo-cratic Senator Russell of Georgia, restored a large part of the farm cuts become a menace to children either on or off their backs. Children should become acquainted acquaint-ed with horses and all animals. It is good for them. Riding is a fine recreation, but with all the mountains and room generally we have, there is no reason for people to have to put up with a nuisance. And speaking of nuisances, I Public Health Last January, the president think people are very patient in- urged passage of an adequate medical-care pro gram, not as a charity but on a pay-as-you-go basis. Testimony which followed showed 18th century medical standards in some parts of the nation. However, the Murray-Dingell-Wagner health insurance program was put on the shelf In favor of a "charity basis" health program by Senator Sen-ator Taft, available only to those taking a pau per's oath. Department of Public Welfare Though the president asked permission to establish a new de partment of public welfare, badly needed for some years, and though this was supported by many national leaders, no legislation was passed. Military Injustice Despite shocking abuses of military courts-martial under which enlisted men have languished in prison for petty offenses, neither branch of congress undertook any probe of military justice. Mine Safety When the Centralia. 111., mine disaster cost 111 lives, congress started an immediate imme-diate investigation and there were many sympathetic sympa-thetic speeches. However, congress adjourned without taking any permanent step toward mine safety. ' Financial Records Labor unions are now re quired under the Taft-Hartley act to reveal their firfancial records to the public. However, wnen Senators Morse of Oregon and Taylor of Idaho in troduced a bil requiring members of congress to reeister their own "outside fees" with the securi ties and exchange commission, the bill was I promptly bottled up in the rules commijee. Sen- ator Curley Brooks of Illinois did the bottling. Minimum Wage After passing the Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley act against labor. Republican leaders decided de-cided to even the score by raising the hourly minimum wage from 40 to 65 cents. However, their GOP colleagues refused to go along. On the other hand, there were some bright spots in the 80th congress namely, Senator Van-denberg's Van-denberg's broad-gauged handling of foreign-affairs legislation, Senator Bridges' generally fair Competition is the only price control that KWnSTS works. I losing fight to help housing, and the stimulating Howard few, former president, Sun independence ot benator Wayne Morse of Oregon . ' I -11 fk U11 m Mum's the Successful Word Gov. Thomas E. Dewey carefully avoided committing himself on any major issue during dur-ing his fence-building vacation trip. Maybe that's the reason why he was offered a bouquet bou-quet of 1948 convention delegates almost everywhere' he went. The West, we recall, has always taken quite a fancy to the strong, silent type. And Governor Dewey, on this junket, would have made the late William S. Hart seem almost garrulous by comparison. So They Say deed too patient for their own good. The other night I had occasion to be up all night with a sick person at a certain spot which is more than five blocks west of the Rainbow Gardens. In spite of the distance, I could hear every word spoken by the vocalist and I could hear it distinctly. dis-tinctly. Now, it Just isn't necessary neces-sary for the human voice and the accompanying boogy-woogy to be magnified until it can be heard five block away, unless of course the dance is being given for deaf people. And now, not mentioning the fact of people lying awake listening in spite of themselves to music they are not interested in, leave us find out what else the inhabitants put up with in connection with this spot. The merry-makers, not content with racing their cars, yelling and singing (?) go down the avenue THROWING BOTTLES AT FRONT DOORS, WINDOWS, TELEPHONE POLES and what have you. The whole business is a public disgrace of the first water (whatever that means) and something should be done about it, immediately if not sooner. So long, folks. Oil Co. The United Nations is an organization which cannot stand still, it will either go forward for-ward or backward. Clement Attlee British prime minister. You can never find a lender, if you are not ready to state what you yourself can do. -George Bidault, French foreign minister. HE DID IT AGAIN! DETROIT, July 26 (U.R) Frank Kabar, 65, appeared in court on a charge of setting his hotel room afire by falling asleep with a lighted cigarette in his mouth. Presently Judge George Mur phy glanced toward the prisoner's bench and cried: "Extinguish that man. He's on (he was from New Jersey all r in i - '.-.I. J i Kobertson right) when I had to pay twelve cents for a can of peas I howled at the greedy farmer. I never worked more than eight hours a day, and I never made less than whom the gentleman is now em ployed " and as for you farmers there isn t a farm in Utah county, if not the whole state, that clears five thousand dollars in a year: His companion interrupted to remark meekly, "But the farmer owns his own job. My New Jersey friend waved that aside airily, merely by point ing at me as though that were enough to end all argument. I'll admit that I was on my last legs. I'd been working eighteen hours a day more or less for the past week. My clothes were ragged, salty from dried sweat and stain ed with cherry juice, my hat a shapeless mess from constantly bumping into ladders and cherry , trees, my eyes bleery from lack 1 T I , iL . 1 oi sieep i, wno oniy ine weeK before had been called "a gentleman gentle-man farmer," by the Senator from Sand-pit and I admitted that the ! argument was irrefutable. A farm is a place where you work just a little harder than you are able to, and make just enough, if you are lucky, to pay the interest on the mortgage. A place where if you have anything to sell everybody every-body calls you a robber if you try to make any profit at all, and where the equipment you have to buy is always priced at more than you can afford to pay, I wish more of these high wage people from the cities could get out and see how we poor farmers live if we do. It's good for everybody. I myself was once asked to speak to a group of Once News Now History 30 Years Ago was a From the Files Of. July 26, 1917 G. G. Hoag. founder Penney store in Provo, visitor. Jesse Knight and J. William Knight contributed $1000 to the athletic fund to the boys of the Utah battery, national guard. Resolutions were prepared by the county commissioners propos ing the organization . of the Springville Irrigation district 'and calling for an election. " 20 Years Ago From the Files Of July 27, 127 The Al G. Barnes circus played in Provo. Royal Groneman was honored in the Sixth ward on his return from the Swiss-German mission. Sanky Dixon of Provo defeated the Denver tennis champion Phil Mllstein, 6-2, 15-13 in the inter mountain tennis tourney In Salt Lake City. 10 Years Ago 100 Years Ago From the Files Of July 26, 1937 Five hundred Japanese troops blasted their way into Peiping, the Chinese capital after having! been denied permission to enter; the Changyimen gate peacefully. Jack McNulty, 39-year-old Silver Sil-ver City miner, was killed by a stray shot from a .22 caliber rifle. The Nazis clamped repressive measures on the Protestant churches, citing Rev. Martin Niemoler, leader of the opposition opposi-tion t trial. Q's and A's Q What is considered by most art critics to be the most perfect hand ever painted? A The right hand of Mona Lisa painted by- Leonardo da Vinci. Q Is it possible for an owl to move Its eyes? A The eyes of an owl are fixed in its head so that they cannot be moved and in order to change its line of vision, Ihe bird must change its position. Q What city in the United States had a population of 10,000 on the day it was settled? A Oklahoma City was opened for settlement April 22, 1889, and by nightfall had a population-of 10,000 camping under tents. Q In what battle was the American flag first used? A The U. S. flag was first July 25, 1847 Was Sunday, and so there was meeting. Not a man woman or child had died on the journey in the pioneer company J nor an ox, cow, horse, mule or even a chicken and we can hardly of thej blame the Saints for thinking! that they have been watched over by a Divine Providence. Heber Kimball during a speech that day said, "We shall go tomorrow, if Brignara is well enough, in search of a better location if indeed such can be found if not, we shall remain here." Kimball had some peach-stones to plant and apple-seeds too. He asked! brothers Byard and Hans to start making buckskin clothes. Brother Cloward to make shoes, and Brother Johnson to make hats. He told them not to go sightseeing, sight-seeing, hunting nor fishing on the Lord's Day. The exploration was given up because of Brigham Young's health and the pioneer company settled down .where they were to make the best of it. July 26. 1847 The brethren! started plowing early and others have been planting. Some of the sick went to bathe in some hot springs nearby and they "pro nounce the effects wonderfully beneficial." A company has gone to make a road to timber. On this day a party including Young, Kimball, Woodruff, G. A. Smith, Benson, Richards, Carrington and Clayton went on a short exploring explor-ing expedition and about three- quarters of a mile north of camp. they found the spot where Salt Lake City was actually begun. Also they climbed a mountain which some of the brethren "wanted to call Ensign peak." Some of that party went to the banks of the river that would be called Jordan," and came across the road made by thej emigrants the year before. They discovered remarkably hot sal and sulphur springs also, and returned to camp to find that three acres of potatoes have been planted, also some peas and beans, Four or five acres of corn are being planted. A GAG you'll soon hear on your favorite radio program: "When skies are blue, who is always ready to comfort you?" "I don't know." "Your mocher. Now, who Is it when skies are gray will chase Joe s blues away?" "I don't know." "Why, it's Joe's mother. What is it that has a long neck and long legs and sticks its head in the sand when its frightened?" "You can't catch me on that one. It's your mother." used in the battle of CoochV Bridge, Del., Sept. 3, 1777. Q What causes a hibernating animal to awaken? A The true hibernating anl-I mai usually awaxes wnen tnei surrounding temperature rises to about 60 degrees. At first, the animal trembles violently t! warm its body and bring it ta normal temperature. six of seven thousand dollars a year, and if I worked overtime society and university women at I got time and a half. Here I an afternoon tea. After the affair work from daylight to dark for " amount deleted so as not to embarrass the local cannery by BARBS BY HAL COCHRAN It's a brainy day on which you buy government bonds for a rainy day. Home-grown radishes are those little red things you didn't know were going to bite your tong-ue. The nights are here when gals are moonstruck and then son-struck. Fire fishters in Oreron also had to battle a pack of wolves. How did they get so far away from the big cities. Just traveling in circles some times comes from running around too much. One leaky faucet may waste more than 400 gallons of water a day. was over one of the ladies quite condescendingly asked me what I though of the group. I told her it was a revelation, and that I always enjoyed coming' across the railroad tracks to see how the other half lives. Any rule ought to work both ways. I weakly tried to defend Utah by contending that at least there were more mosquitoes in New Jersey than here. This the gentle man denied. Those in New Jersey, he said, might be bigger and more numerous, but ours were the more blood-thirsty The only agreement we were able to reach was that New Jer sey has better burlesque shows than has Utah, because Utah has no burlesque shows. A lot of people are coming into Utah this season with unctuous words of flattery on their lips for everything, with the exception of Utah's drear and costly restaurants restaur-ants which even the most synco-phantic synco-phantic would hardly have the nerve to praise, so it was rather good to find one with the honesty to state his scorn openly no matter mat-ter how mistaken he might be. Personally, I II take Utah over New Jersey, and farm life over that of the city in spite of the hard work here, and the high wages there. But I now know one man who lives only for the day when he will have accumu lated enough money to shake the dust of our fair state from his heels forever. all Republicans. In general, however, the record whsicb in us initial rouna is as sorry ,. as any since the days of Warren G. Harding. I Kabar had lighted a cigarette (Copyright, 1947, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) !and laUen leep. Propaganda from very high places against' ; nigh prices has introduced a disturbing note into first ghot tov the nation's economy. nui mokv Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (U.R) The ' ' a"" Greeks can take credit If we weaken our system of collective bar- for another "first." The "Iliad" of gaining, we weaken the position of every working Homer Was the first ghost story 1 man in the country. in poetry, according to Prof; I. 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