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Show I RABLINS B. YOUffl ' - ' I, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH-FRID- AY, NOVEMBER 15, 1957 r What Us at? Editor's Note: The Salt Lake Times presents the last of a series of articles defining that catchy phrase "New Republican-ism" which members of the Eisenhower administration are so fond of using. The information contained in the series was prepared in Wash-ington from official records, news reports and other reliable sources. We will list the definition and then its author. The number of definitions mostly different are unlimited. We have selected only some of the better ones. "Modern Republicanism is Re-publicanism as it has been adapt-ed under President Eisenhower's leadership to mid-twentie- th cen-tury responsibilities." Arthur Larson, U. S. News & World Re-port, May 3, 1957. "The term Modern Republican was a catch phrase for campaign purposes and as such undoubt-edly served its purposes. The term is too vague to have any validity in describing a person's position. Vertainly a modern Re-publican is not synonomous with Literal Republican. I consider myself just a plain unhyphenat-ed Republican without modify-ing adjective." Sen. Styles F. Bridges, U. S. News & World Re-port, May 3, 1957. i "Modern Republicanism is not something brand new, dreamed up recently. Republican poli- - cies today are the expression of our party's great century old principles, dressed in the cloth-ing of this current age." Sec-retary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, Congressional Record, March 19, 1957. "I thoroughly believe that any modern political philosophy that fails to study carefully the needs of the people today, not of 1860, of today, what do they need, by the complications that have arisen in our industrial life, in our economy, how are they going to get along, how are they going to take care of themselves in their old age, what happens if they are disabled and can't work for five months or so? "I believe the Federal govern-ment cannot shut its eyes to the things, no matter how much it tries to work through states and get these responsibilities as-sumed by the states and the lo-calities, it must assume some leadership. I believe that unless a modern political group does look these problems in the face, and finds some reasonable solu-tion, sticking as nearly as pos-sible to the theory of the limited (Continued on Page 8) Largest Crowd in Years Hears Senator Kennedy Blast GOP Administration What was described as the "largest and most enthusiastic crowd in years" gathered in Salt Lake City's Rainbow Randevu this week to hear United States Senator John F. Kennedy (D., Mass.) charge the Eisenhower administration with blame for this country's lagging scientific program. A crowd estimated at more than 4,000 many standing heard the youthful senator de- - 49 SEN. JOHN F. KENNEDY clare that it is the president him-self and not his special assistants who must pull the United States ahead of Russia in outer-spac- e achievements. The rally drew Democrats from all levels of party activity and from all sections of the state. The Sentaor, who was edged out for the party's vice presiden-tial nomination by Senator Estes Kefauver, is considered a strong contender for the presidential nomination in 1960. The large attendance at the Salt Lake City gathering was taken by some observers as a sign of Senator Kennedy's wide following in the party. He was invited to Utah through efforts of Utah Young Demo-crats. Senator Kennedy said Presi-dent Eisenhower made a good move in appointing Dr. James Killian of Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology to ride herd on outer-spac- e research. But even this move was a belated one, he added. "While the president's pro-posals are good as far as they go they must still prove they are able to close the gap. No new act of Congress or no special as-sistant is enough. "Only the president of the United States has the power and (Continued on Page 8) City Revenue Up For Ten Months It appeared this week that Salt Lake City might make up a $704,064 deficit. Otto R. Maas, deputy city audi-tor, reported that revenue for the first ten months of the year is up $1,026,391 from the same period last year. "With the spending greatly curtailed it looks as though the city could end up in the black despite recent salary increases to city employees," Mr. Maas said. His report notes that expendi-tures also increased some $427,-49- 8 during the same period. This puts the city in the clear by $598,893 . Revenue increases are shown in business licenses, franchise taxes, water department collec-tions, fines and forfeitures, gen-eral departments, business tax and parking meters. Chimes to Ring From Salt Lake City-Count-y Bldg. Chimes will ring out December 7 from the tower of the City and County building if all goes ac-cording to plan. Enough of the $1,500 needed to reactivate the chimes has been collected to enable sponsors of the project to give Electric Time Co. the go-ahe- ad on the job. A committee under chairman-ship of Newell Knight, an em-ploye of the city auditor's of-fice, has been busy the past sev-eral weeks raising the funds. Mrs. Helen M. Holder, county employee, is committee vice-chairma- n. Permission was granted by Salt Lake County Commission to enable the chimes committee to conduct its public drive for funds. ; Mrs. Holder reported this week her group had collected some $100 from the sale of cakes dur-ing lunch period at the building. If plans work out the chimes will sound on December 7, Pearl Harbor Day, the committee in-dicated. oC Jackson League Charts Meeting Regular meeting of the Jack-son Democratic League will be Thursday, November 21, at 7:30 p.m. in room 409 of the City and County Building, said Jay E. Banks, president. Mr. Banks said officers of the League will be elected at the meeting and other business mat-ters will be considered. )0 TODAY'S EDITORIAL V Senatorial Sweepstakes Hold Absorbing Interest The United States senatorial sweepstakes in Utah took an-other dizzying whirl as a result of the new surge of vitality brought into the Democratic party by events of the last week. Although friends of Calvin W. Rawlings, long-tim- e national committeeman for the party from Utah, have been expecting him to be in the race sooner or later, they were agreeably surprised when this past week end ap-peared to confirm the rumors that he would seek the seat. This apparent confirmation took the form of a news "leak" to O. N. Malmquist, political editor of the Salt Lake Tribune last Sunday, and several "Calvin is willing" conferences among friends and supporters, who had assembled, in Salt Lake City for the Ken-nedy rally. Most active campaigner of all appeared to be Warwick Lamo-reau- x, Salt Lake City attorney and spokesman for a large andj unhappy group of farmers and, others who are interested in. Utah agriculture. j Neither Alonzo Hopkin nor Ira Huggins so far has publicly, denied he would seek the seat, but neither has made any very strenuous efforts to build up the necessary personal organization to take it. Salt Lake County Attorney Frank E. "Ted" Moss was seen in the thick of everything doing, but preserved such a calm face that no one was able to guess his thoughts or plans. Oscar W. Mc-Conk- ie, Jr., and his beautiful wife were busy throughout the week end meeting friends from all parts of the state. Former Democratic Governor Herbert B. Maw found himself unable to attend the Kennedy rally at the last moment because of the death of a very close friend, but it is understood that his many friends represented him in all strategy huddles af-fecting the senatorial race. So ng has been the prospect of the United States senatorial race that little atten-tion has been given, so far, to a weeding out process among pos-sible candidates for the lesser office of Congressman. Few can-didates on the Democratic side have come out into the open for either of these positions. Senator Kennedy's lesson Utah Young Democrats are to be congratulated on the most successful rally staged this week. The choice of Senator John F. Kennedy as speaker was a good one as proved by the huge turnout of party members. If there is a lesson in all this and there certainly seems to be one it must be that people are looking for young, new and energetic faces to lead them in times that require forward-lookin- g men and ideas. It is doubtful that any other national Democratic figure could have drawn such a crowd. uvu Perfect Space Tra vcler The United States is reported to have solved one facet of experimental space travel ahead of the Russians and with one of Russia's most popular personalities. The space dog sent aloft by the Red scientists had the dis-advantage of not being able to live long enough. The United States reportedly is ahead of Russia in this respect. Reports say this county is prepared to send a bear into space. Assuming the fuzzy beast is put into the sky in the fall, (Continued on Page 4) |