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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958 : Barney Continues HerReport For '58 Campaign Conference Dear Boss-Ma- n: Doesn't it seem to you that we learned an impressive amount of things in our short stay in Washington? And one of the most impor-tant things of all was the insist-ence on the only real way to make points in a campaign is by personal contact. You meet people and meet people and meet people. Letters, cards, radio and television all help but you must meet people. From the most am-bitious candidate to the smallest precinct worker meet people. Well, I have covered briefly most of the speeches we heard " and the personalities we met and I've tried to make you see how exciting it was, how informative, how revealing. Never again will this gal go to the polls and vote by the old "Eeny, meeny, miney, moe system." Incidentally, my conscience has been hurting so I've been doing a little checking and among the people I've been meeting and talking to the old "Eeny, meeny system" has served them for year and years. Guess I wasn't alone. I also guess the folks I've been talking to will give a little thought to candidates and who they are and what they believe before they vote. At least I'm trying to spread the word. Well, wonderful as our stay in Washington was, came the day we were scheduled to start for home via New York City. Ella Edwards had decided to spend some time with her son and his familv nnH rpinin lie nlnntf Vip were scheduled to spend the rest of that day and the next there. I didn't think it was possible to do very much in a day and a half, especially when no arrange-ments had been made for tickets to shows or broadcasts, etc. But you see, I had a room-mate . She not only went to work on the ticket problem, she managed to see to it that several of us saw shows. How, I don't know. The only person I knew to contact was a lady I had met in Washington, who turned out to be the secretary to the Secre-tary of State and she assured me that tickets to "Sunrise at Campobello" just weren't avail-able within six months. Same story from all the brokers. Nevertheless, the group of us who saw "Sunrise" had good seats and loved every minute of the performance. Ralph Ballamy as F.D.R. is fantastic. The re-vealing bits of personal history the public never knew serve to endear him to us as a man, rather than as a great historical figure. And if there were room in any heart for more love for Eleanor Roosevelt, this is where you would find it. The picture of a young wife and mother, green in politics, offering herself as his eyes, his legs, his voice, while he was unable to get about is so truly human it leaves the audi-ence with a sentimental knot in the throat as big as a baseball. And for sheer emotional impact, you haven't seen anything until vou see the scene in which Roosevelt admits his fear of be- - ing trapped in fire and dem-onstrate his ability to crawl, shohld he have to seek safety. This was such-- a moving ex-oerien- ce I could write for two weeks about it, but it will reach us before long in the form of a movie and I earnestly hope that everybody will see it. Just to add a little spice to an already perfect evening, guess who sat just in front of me. Eve Anten "Our Miss Brooks." Dressed in a simple black frock, no hat, casual hair style, fresh complexion, fantastically, bril-liantly printed slippers. She cer-tainly didn't act the part of a nationally famous star. She fitted into the crowd like a salesclerk or stenographer. Naturally, peo-ple all about her were watching her but she was so completely unassuming, so pleasantly re-laxed that when the curtain rose all our attention went to the stage. And guess what? Nobody absolutely nobody, sat beside me or behind me or in front of me discussing family problems, or neighborhood rows or new romances. Did I appreciate that. It seems to me that somebody ought to start a move here in route home. She didn't though. Played hookey and didn't get home until we were all well back into the routine of cooking and keeping house. We had a sort of farewell din-ner for ourselves at a fantastic place called Bonet's. I, for one, was completely overwhelmed by the hundreds and hundreds of marvelous paintings this place displays. I've never seen any-thing like it in any art gallery. What I wouldn't give for a month in that place! The food was good too, and the service, and the atmosphere. You've all undoubt-edly heard about it. So, back into the bus we scrambled. Weren't sure how the vacation had affected our Grey-hound driver, but he seemed not to have picked up any undue in-dependence during his stay in Washington and didn't give us any trouble at all. As a matter of fact, he got a rousing cheer when he had finally negotiated the streets of New York City with the Qreyhound and de-livered us at the door of our hotel. I still don't see how a stranger could have taken it in his stride as Molly did. We have heard of New York traffic and Utah educating folks to respect the actors, singers, speakers etc. who offer us their time and talent. I can't recall a time when I have coaxed my husband out to a performance br lecture when we were able to hear. I could tell you all about how the gal behind me had her third child but I couldn't remember what song was being sung when we went to see "All Faces West." I heard this discussed on the bus too, and there seem to be a lot of us who would like to hear what we have paid to hear. Isn't there someone who could start a movement? Sort of a "Zip Your Lip" for the audience club? Or perhaps separate the audience into those who are there to enter-tain and those who came to be entertained. I'd even vote for a little extra admission if we could be sure of being able to concen- - had expected to find ourselves involved in quite an experience. Instead we simply drove to our hotel, being able to note the countless "Going Out of Busi-ness" signs on all the small shops, and the vacant stores with their staring windows. This, not the traffic, left me concerned and half frightened. I had not realized that things were like this in the East. How long before we in Utah saw this result of our "tight money" policy? Were we in time? Could we do anything about it before we were back in the same shape we saw in the early thirties? I think seeing these things gave us all the urge to get home as quickly as we could. There are so many things to do in New York that I hadn't thought much about it. We ar-rived early in the afternoon and trate. This is a habit that is notorious" ly rude and certainly doesn't en-dear us to folks with better man-ners. So I've taken time to give a lecture and now I'm out of space again. Didn't even get to tell you about Judy Holliday in "The Bells Are Ringing," an impudent play if ever I saw one, and Judy as the star didn't lose a trick. This is another "must" if you get the chance to see it. I understand that others of our group saw "The Music Man" and loved every minute of it. I missed it, but how much better could I do, two New York shows in two evenings? Not even New Yorkers do better than that. Rainey. Utah Research Fund Set Up by TB Units The establishment of a Utah Research Fund for Pulmonary Diseases was announced this week by Franklin K. Brough, executive secretary of the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Associ-ation. "The fund is designed to chan-nel monies from the 20 county tuberculosis and health associa-tions and from the state associa-tions so that they may be used by Utah people in Utah's fine research institutions," he said. The fund will be directed to small medical or social research projects in any of the pulmonary diseases. It is not intended to compete with long-ter- m major research grants from the federal government or national organi-zations. "Even though we can point with pride to the way the deaths from tuberculosis have been re-- 1 duced through newly discovered j drugs, we need more knowl-edge about the disease before we will be able to conquer it. Other little known lung diseases that ' seem to be increasingly common j among Utah people should also j be probed by the research fund; One of these diseases is emphy-sema." A committee headed by Dr. Preston R. Cutler, a Salt Lake City physician, has been ap-pointed to manage the research fund and direct the research ef-forts of the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Association. Other committee members include W. Whitney Smith, Logan; Dr. J. E. Cohn, Salt Lake City; and Dr. William A. Carnes, Salt Lake City. Another committee mem-ber is yet to be chosen. Announcements about applica-tions will be made at a later date. COL FRANK THOMPSON TALKS ABOUT 7 Year Mellowness "PERFECT 7 YEAR MELLOWNESS is one of the reasons our Old Kentucky Tavern is recognized as the world's finest Bourbon. You'll find its flavor and bouquet at their very peak-tha- nks to fresh-ai- r aging in our open-ric- k warehouses !" COL. FRANK THOMPSON. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. CLENMORE DISTILLERIES MiMli 86 PROOF & 100 PHOOF BOTTLED-IN-BON- D Wjff KENTUCKY STRAIGHT t jAVl BOURBON WHISKEY Jj Ji IVSplfe&- - tmr CLWM0R DISTILLERIES M. W "nm per,ec,ion of Prodl,ct fa Tw5" LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY Utah Student Nurses Are Offered Grants The Ruth Eleanor Bamberger and John Ernest Bamberger Me-morial Foundation will award 40 scholarships this year to student nurses to help them gain their education in schools of nursing in Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, it was announced by Wil-liam II. Olwell, foundation of-ficer. The amount of money involved will be in excess of $10,000. This will be the twelfth year scholarships have been given by the foundation, which was estab-lished in 1947 by Mr. and Mrs. Bamberger in memory of their son and daughter. The total value has now exceeded $70,000. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bamberger passed away this year, but both made substantial bequests to in-sure the continuance of aid to the needy by the foundation. With the need still great for more nurses, Mr. Olwell said that the young women are invited to apply to hospitals which have a nurse training program. Since 1947 the foundation each year has awarded these scholar-ships on the basis of need and the applicant's ability and quali-fications. |