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Show t f PERIODICAL DIVISICII - vW-- S I : i l UUIVERSITY LIBRARt v UHIVESITY OF ITAH y-V-SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1958 L!P "Y . , i iMirr c : I IT Political Experts Are Assessing Sweeping Democratic Victory With the off-yea- r election over, political observers are settling down to figure out what hap-pened and what will happen be-tween now and November, 1960. It seems pretty well agreed that general dissatisfaction with the way Republicans have been run-ning things both locally and nationally. But the pundits are not so sure what "will happen during the coming two years. Democrats who won an over-whelming victory this year, will be out to take the big prize two years from now. How will they do about it? What must they do? Columnist William McMahon, writing in Philadelphia during the week, observed that: Both the Democratic and Re-publican National Committees' strategists now are actively try-ing ways for exploiting each other's known divisions for their own advantage in the next big national election in 1960, when the Presidency will be at stake. "Vice President Nixon, in par-ticular, believes that the GOP's (and his own) best chance for winning the Presidency is to deepen the division, especially on civil rights, in the Democratic party. His closest advisors say Nixon is determined to press for elimination of the Senate fili-buster in January when the new Senate convenes. This misuse of the rule is what has enabled the Southern Senators to talk civil rights legislation to death. "The civil rights issue will also ' explode in the Democratic party next month when election of a new Democratic party chairman is scheduled in Washington. The chairman, Paul Butler, is seeking re-electi- on and is opposed by southerners who denounced his ? mid-campai- gn threat to read civil rights opponents out of the plant and market as they please. The new Congress will be equal-ly concerned with 'protecting' farmers from excessive high pro-duction and damaging low prices. "The most pressing farm prob-lem with which both Congress and Mr. Benson must deal is that of mounting surpluses. Govern-ment holdings of farm commodi-ties may reach, and possibly ex-ceed $10 billion by early next year. "The government is now spend-ing at the rate of more than $4 billion a year in an unsuccessful effort to reduce surpluses with 1) acreage allotments and direct payments to producers, and 2) subsidized disposal of as much of the excess as possible. "The billion dollar a year soil bank under which farmers have been paid to retire 25 million acres from production has failed to. stem the rising tide of sur-pluses. The costly soil bank acre-age reserve program is being dis-continued after this year. "Total crop production this year will top any previous year by more than ten per cent. This record has been set with fewer acres in cultivation than any year since the 1880's and by a third fewer farmers than there were 25 years ago. "The government is spending more than a $1 billion a year to cover losses and storage costs on surpluses. It is spending another $2 billion a year in financing surplus disposal, mostly through what amounts to a give-awa- y program abroad. "Our stockpile of wheat, corn, sorghum grain, soybeans and barley is at an all time high. Wheat supplies in October were more than two billion bushels; enough to fill two freight trains with their engines in New York and their caboose in San Fran-cisco. party. Many northern Democrats also dislike Butler, but don't want to be put in the position of seeming to replace him because of his strong civil rights state-ments. Butler, realizing this, has said he intends to make his sup-port of a strong civil rights pro-gram the basis on which he will seek re-electi- "Democrats are determined to prove a link between Republi-cans and labor racketeers. Many Democrats, and most AFL-CI- O leaders, believe that the McClel-la- n labor rackets investigation failed miserably to place blame where it belonged for racketeer-ing in organized labor. Turning to what will happen when the Democrat controlled new Congress convenes in Janu-ary another well known column-ist, Clinton Davidson, notes: "Now that the election excite-ment has died down in Washing-ton, farm issues are shaping up as one of the toughest problems which the new Congress faces when it convenes in January. "Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will insist that farm-ers be given more freedom to ' 4. ' . " . :. . , - Salt Lake County Democratic Committee will sponsor a huge Democratic Victory Rally to celebrate the party's landslide victory in last Tuesday's elec-tion. The rally, free to all Demo-crats and friends of the party will be held in the three large ballrooms on the main floor of the Newhouse Hotel Saturday, beginning at 8 p.m. Laurel J. Brown, Chairman of the County Committee, said the party is a "statewide affair." He said Democrats elected to County offices would form a re-ception line. There- - will be a program. Light refreshments are to be served, he added. "This will be a good, back-slappin- g time for all Democrats who worked so hard to bring the victory about," he said. LAUREL J. BROWN Jackson Demo League Sets Stag Party Jackson Democratic League fall stag party will be held Mon-day, Nov. 17 at the Murray City Shops, formerly the Salt Lake County Shops, 4725 South State. The event begins at 8 p.m., said Peter F. Leary, secretary, and William Plott, president. "We are going to have a fabu-lous show and good eats, the of-fica- ls said. A 1958 membership card and 50 cents will entitle the bearer to admission. Membership cards will be sold at the door. The league has scheduled an election meeting for Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in room 305 of the City and County Building. Demo Women Chart Honor For Bosom f ' " ' ' ' . ? i; ; ,': .v if f ' ) V ; i REVA BECK BOSONE Guest speaker at the meeting Saturday of the Utah State Fede-ration of Women's Democratic Clubs will be Reva Beck Bosone. She will arrive from Washington Wednesday for a visit in the Bee hive state. Mrs. Delia Loveridge, state president, will preside" at the meeting which will be held at 1 p. m. in the Newhouse Hotel. Mrs. I. R. Morrison, Mrs. An-thony C. Lund, and Mrs. Ruth Olsen, Ogden, also will take part on the program. A tea will honor Mrs. Bosone after the meeting. There will be a Victory Rally at the Newhouse Hotel at 8:00 p.m. that evening fo all Demo-crats of the state. Hosts will be the Salt Lake County committee. There will be an instructive, stimulating feast of idsas for a continuing program and for ways and means of organizing clubs and many more construc-tive ideas, Mrs. Loveridge said. TODAY'S EDITORIAL Demos Must Keep on Working Democrats this week were enjoying the flush of victory. It was the first time in a number of years they have been able to do so in Utah. Now that the Republican grip has been broken party mem-bers must make sure it does not take hold again. This will demand several things. First it will demand top performance by newly-electe- d Democrats. Secondly, it will demand continued work on the part of patfy officials and their workers. Above all Democrats must not become over-confiden- t. They must not feel that the "trend" which swept them to victory last week will keep up steam without effort on the part of all. So the next two yearsw ill be important ones. If the Demo-cratic party is going to capture the presidency in I960 it must start working right nowand never let up. Democrats Return To Senate Posts Democrats will have a big say in affairs of the Utah Senate this term. Republicans hold a one-memb- er majority in the Senate, but Democrats control the House. Among Democrats elected to the Senate last week were a number of veteran lawmakers who will wield considerable in-fluence in that body next year. These include Sen. Alonzo F. Hopkin of Woodruff, Rich coun-ty, a former speaker and veteran lawmaker. Other well-know- n senators inr elude J. Francis Fowles of Weber County and Clyde L. Miller of Salt Lake County. Senator-elec- t Miller is returning to the Legis-lature after several years ab-sence. Other Democrats taking Senate seats are Harvard R. Hinton, R. LaVaun Cox, Frank Browning, Thorpe Waddingham and Ernest G. Mantes. It's a Woman's World For Sure Remember the popular song about this being a "woman's world, when she's in love?" Well, according to the Utah Safety Council, it's not only when she's in love that woman has things in her favor. "It's a woman's world as far as safety is concerned, too," the Council says. "We concentrate on telling women how to keep alive around the house. We virtually ignore the man of the family. "Yet, working-ag- e males are dying almost twice as fast in home accidents as women, a 16-sta- te survey shows, despite the fact that men spend a lot less time around the house than the women." Why are men dying so fast? "If there's a hazardous job to be done the man does it. His exposure to danger is greater than i (Continued on Page Four) |