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Show ! . THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1957 Page Three Sen. Kennedy Rally Attracts New , Voters' Attention Sen. John F. Kennedy Senator John F. Kennedy has a wide popular appeal to many voters who are outside the nor-mal Democratic ranks, it was re-vealed in a telephone survey male by a public relations firm in Salt Lake City this week. Two hundred names were cho-sen at random from the phone book. More than 90 per cent of them knew who Senator Ken-nedy was, although fewer than 40 per cent of them said they regularly voted the Democratic ticket. Nearly all who said they knew who the senator was were en-thusiastic in praise of him. Senator Kennedy will speak at a giant rally climaxing the Dol-lars for Democrats drive in Utah, at the Rainbow Randevu ball-room in Salt Lake City on the J night of November 11. A group of prominent Demo-crats banded together Thursday to sponsor display advertise-ments in Salt Lake City news-papers to bring out a crowd to hear Senator Kennedy's speech. It is expected that a husky sale of boxoffice tickets, in addition to those which are sold by the party organizations, will result from this activity. Almost complete coverage has been obtained throughout the state with books of tickets to the Kennedy event that are being sold through party organizations in legislative districts, voting districts and precincts, Kather-in- e Lancaster said. Tickets have been delivered to all county chairmen, with the smallest county quota set at 50 tickets and the biggest at 3,000. Any party officials anywhere in the state who might not have re-ceived tickets should immediate-ly contact their county chairman. Katherine said. Cache county reports that party organizations in every one of its 45 precincts actually have the tickets in hand and are out sell-ing them. Russians Plan Occupation Of English Language Lands By Joseph H. Weston Astronautics is not the only field of scholarship in which the Russians are far ahead of us. Sputnik has become their sym-bol of such scientific leadership. They have another field of learning in which they have thoroughly outstripped us. It is the knowledge of foreign lan-guages. If that might sound egg-head-is- h, let us take a closer look. The principal foreign language which they study is English. Nearly every high school student in the heartland of Russia is required to study English and to attain a high degree of proficiency in its use. And why would they decree that all their people in the com-ing generatoin should know Eng-lish? Naturally, because they ex-pect to have this generation come face to face, in great num-bers, on a world scale, with English-- speaking people. Maybe for world trade, and Qis matches, and pink tea and polite drawing-roo- m conversation. Maybe, even more, that they are planning a world-dominatio- n of business that largely today is handled by English-speakin- g people. But the numbers of young peo-ple of Russia who are learning English is far greater than would ever be necessary for such an effort. A whole generation would not normally pick up from their homes in Russia and travel to America, to England, or to Aus-tralia. All human beings are home-lovin- g creatures, and as a rule never get too far away from home plate unless circumstances being drafted into an Olikepick them up bodily and transport them in great armadas to far coasts, such as our young men in World Wars I and jl and the Korean policing effort. Yes, Russia undoubtedly leads us in the mass-stud- y of foreign languages particularly ONE foreign language that happens to be ours. We, on the other hand, have only a few people in the United States, probably countable in hundreds, who have a proficient knowledge of the Russian lan-guage. If Russia should hit us, we could not hit back in this field. If it were necessary for us to occupy a part of Russia in an armed conflict, we do not have the young men and women to even act as interpreters for our military leaders. When we come into competi-tion with the growing Russian domination of business in many sections of the world, we are not equipped, linguistically, to compete with them. When coun-tries like Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and now Sy-ria and possibly Turkey, slip be-hind the Iron Curtain, one by one, we do not even have the means of communication of a common language to help hold them in our direction. They are gone, into the Russian language world that is as unknown to us as that of the ancient Assyrians. And last, but certainly not least, the symbol of the Russian superiority in this field of simple scholarship that we have neg-lected might well be the occupa-tion of the United States, and thus the Russians would at last come face to face with the peo-ple whose language they have learned for that very purpose. This is the strongest argument I know for Federal aid, and even partial federal direction of schools. The very security of our people and the continued life of our nation demands that we not only match the Russians who speak English, one for one, with an American who speaks Rus-sian, but that we go even far-ther. It is the only way we can avert being conquered. It is the only way we can avoid the ob-literation of our culture and our ideals. It is a matter of immedi-ate national defense in the face of imminent invasion. Foundation Blasts COP Dominated Purchasing Agency Utah has not achieved the savings and benefits possible by a centralized purchasing system. This was the charge leveled by Utah Foundation, the private, nonprofit governmental research organization, in its latest study of Uath's purchasing procedures. Among the specific criticisms of the present Utah purchasing system noted in the report are the following: 1. There is a lack of standardi-zation in the supplies, ma-terials and equipment used by the several state agencies. 2. Utah has not consolidated purchases in order to take ad-vantage of the more favorable prices that would be possible by quantity buying. 3. Little attempt has been made in th past to anticipate needs for commodities and services used by the state. 4. Except in isolated cases, the state has not used price agree-ment contracts which would pro-vide a number of advantages in the purchase of many types of goods and services. 5. Lack of central inspection and testing facilities has handi-capped effective purchasing pro-cedures. 6. Market conditions are not analyzed in order to determine the most opportune time to pur chase the various items used by the state. 7. Commodily price records which could be a valuable aid in such market analysts work are not kept in Utah. 8. Lack of a special revolving fund for timely purchases has limited the ability of the state purchasing agent in taking ad-vantage of savings from distress sales, seasonal clearances, style and model clear-out- s. 9. Statutory provisions requir-ing formal bid advertising nn purchases above $1,000 have been circumvented by dividing large purchases into several small ones of less than $1,000 each. 10. Effective control over the state owned property has been made difficult if not impossible, by the absence of central in-ventory records which are re-quired by law. Despite these general criti-cisms, the report observes that several improvements have been initiated during recent months in the control of miscellaneous expenditure vouchers and con-firmation purchases. n addition motor vehicles currently are purchased on an advertised bid basis despite a section of Utah law which permits an exception of automobiles, trucks, and in-surance from the advertised bid requirement. Foundation analysts point out that 27,647 separate purchase or-ders totaling $6,313,000 were issued by the central purchasing department during the 1957 fiscal year. Approximately 70 per cent of all purchase orders issued by the state last year were for amounts below $100 and 17 per cent were for amounts of less than $10. The report suggests that "the state of Utah can achieve im- - portant savings in the expendi-ture of public funds by estab-lishing modern purchasing pro-cedures in an agency staffed by competent personnel trained in this technical function." He said that "purchasing is a scientific function affording the opportu-nity for substantial economies if sound procedures are followed. Such procedures have been well developed and formulated into widely accepted principles and practices. Business concerns with large purchasing volume usually employ purchasing agents who are skilled in these techniques." Demo Chairmen Report on National Tour Paul M. Butler, chairman of the Democratic National Com-mittee, reported this week that in a nationwide tour of regional Democratic political meetings, he found growing dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower administrat-ion. Mr. Butler told a Democratic rally at Clearfield, Pa., that he found a "growing concern among the people of our nation over many things, but especially the condition of our national econ-omy with sky rocketing infla-tion, exhorbitant interest rates, a farm depression and declining small business and the lack of presidential leadership shown by the budget fiasco, dangerous cutbacks in national defense and scientfic research, the worsening international situation and the vacillation of the President on the vital issue of school aid and civil rights." Mr. Butler placed particular emphasis upon economic issues and asserted that the Eisenhower administration was aggravating inflation rather than curbing it. Mr. Butler pointed out that we now "have a selective, adminis-tered price inflation which is brought on primarily by an in-crease in the cost of personal and medical care, by the tight money policy itself and exces-sive profits of large corporations who are setting all time records for profits, and who can admin-ister prices without fear of price competition from other large competitors. "Records set for corporate profits, personal interest income dividend income and income of commercial banks indicate ex-cessive profiteering. How else can you explain the great in-crease in retail food prices and the decrease in prices received by farmers? What else is there to iustifv the oil and steel in- - creases? "The tight money policy only aggravates this situation by mak-ing the strong stronger and the weak weaker. It discriminates in j the best Republican tradition, in j favor of banks, corporations, and J dividend receivers to the tre-mendous detriment of the white collar worker, the laborer, the small business man, the farmer, and the consumer. It is a policy based on scarcity and as such, it sells short our productive poten-tial, and costs os billions of dol-lars in the process. Our policy must be ot seek both full employment and price sta-bility as the proper objectives of good governmental policy. This can only be done by recog-nizing that the economy must grow each year, and that in or-der to grow, there must be ade-quate credit available to meet the needs of an expanding econ-omy. We must place the em-phasis on increased production and consumption. If we do not recognize this fact, then we will not be able to keep the pros-perity we have, expand it or dis-tribute it properly among our people. This is a basic issue be-tween our parties, and it is the reason that the Democrats are going to make this disastrous , tight money policy a No. 1 issue in the '58 campaign." o Chairman Butler Hails Success Of Dollars Drive The two day national Dollars for Democrats Drive was hailed this week by. National Chairman Paul M. Butler as "indicative of the popularity of our party and of the desire or rank and file supporters to contribute when a personal appeal is made by the party workers." In the drive in which 34 states participated, hundreds of regular party workers and volunteers rang doorbells in this first grass roots campaign for funds. In uring all Democrats to re-spond to the appeal, Mr. Butler pointed out "the Dollars for Democrats Drive was designed to enable every American to contribute to our party in an ef- - fort to broaden the base of fi-nancial support and establish a pattern for truly democratic sup-port of political parties.", This was the biggest fund rais-ing effort ever made by a po- - litical party in a non-electi- on year, "in an effort to collect small amounts of money from many people and set an example for future campaigns. Proceeds from the national Dollars for Democrats Drive will bedivided between county, state and national committee with one third going to each level of the party organization based on the individual state's contributions. Navy Nurse Officer To Visit S. L. Area Lt. Zoe Gilmore, Navy Nurse Corps, will be in Salt Lake City on Monday and Wednesday, Oct. 21 and 23, to discuss opportuni-ties in the Navy Nurse Corps and invites professional nurses to contact her at the office of Naval Officer Procurement, Ft. Doug-las, or call EL Lt., Gilmore says the modern atomic Navy of today offers pro-fessional nurses unlimited op-portunities on land in navy hos-pitals, dispensaries and infirm-aries in the U. S. and abroad, at sea aboard hospital ships and the ships of the Military Sea Transport Service; and in the air in flight nursing. Professional growth is possi-ble in educational programs at naval hospitals, and as full time students in civilian colleges and universities in clinical special-ties, courses in supervision, ad-ministration and degree pro-grams. The Navy Nurse receives her full pay and allowances in addition to the cost of her edu-cation while studying. Beginning pay and allowances for Navy Corps Officers range from $338 to $459 per month, with periodic increases. Thirty days paid vacation each year and free medical care with no loss of pay are some of the other benefits available to officers. "Will you really marry me?" the trembling youth exclaimed, as if unable to realize his good fortune. Then "When we're married, darling, the dark clouds will roll away, and the blue sky will ..." "Just put the ring on my fin-ger," suggested the practical-minde- d girl, "and you can for-get the weather report!" |