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Show UNIVERSITY of UTAH i ...:... . AUG -- 1 198 I t' PERIODICAL DIVISION ; i; U1HVERSIIY LIBRARY I SALT LAKE CITY ; univesity of ltau ; yi ! SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1958 Meet Your Democratic Candidates The Salt Lake Times this week begins a pre-prima- ry election series in which Democratic can-didates for major political of-fices will be introduced to voters. This week the party's candi-dates for the U. S. Senate nomi-nation and for the nomination for the U. S. House of Represen-tatives, are introduced. They are: Frank E. Moss and Brigham E. Roberts for the U. S. Senate, David Welling and M. Blaine Peterson for the House from the First District and David S. King for the House from the Second District. BRIGHAM E. ROBERTS Brigham E. Roberts is a for-mer Third Judicial District at-torney. He served as District Attorney from 1941 to 1952. Prior to that time he was assistant district attorney. Since leaving the gov-ernment post he has been en-gaged in private practice. "Mr. Roberts, a member of e pioneer Utah family, received his law degree from the University of Utah in 1932. He was honored by election to the order of the Coif, an honor-ary legal scholastic society. He is married to the former Virginia Dibblee of Salt Lake j City and they have three chil-- I dren. The candidate is a grandson of the late Brigham Roberts, promi-nent early figure in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. He has also been active in civic organizations in the Salt Lake area. FRANK E. MOSS Frank E. (Ted) Moss served as county attorney since 1951 and prior to that was a Salt Lake City judge. Mr. Moss is a native of Salt Lake City. He was graduated from Granite High School and the University of Utah and re-ceived his law degree from the George Washington University in 1937. He has served with the Securi-ties and Exchange Commission in Washington, was on the Salt Lake City bench for 10 years and has served almost eight years as county attorney. Mr. Moss is president of the National Association of County and Prosecuting Attorneys. Last year he served as presi-dent of the Utah State Associa-tion of County Officials and now is president of the Salt Lake City Lions Club and a director i of the Utah Association for the ; United Nations. In addition Mr. Moss served in a number of other civic activi-ties including that of state di-rector of the American Cancer Society drive. He married the former Phyllis Hart and they have four chil-dren. During World War II he served in the European theatre as judge advocate, being on active duty for four years. He holds a reserve commission of lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Air Force. (Continued on Page 8) bemq chieftain rakes republicans on civil service role In a recent speech before party workers, Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler lashed out at the Republican adminis-tration for undermining morale of the nation's civil service men and women. Mr. Butler charged: "In our federal civil service system it's harmful to the morale of seasoned, able career admin-istrators when there is needless importation into short term gov-ernment service of 'business brains.' 'We would all agree that there are great contributions to be made through careful recruit-ment programs which bring the needed skills into federal service. But all too frequently we find that the attitude of those leaving private business for a tour in government service is more like the missionary off to do good among the heathens. They de-scend upon the able career pub-lic servant with the thought that anyone who has not met a pay-roll could not possibly know how to run an organization. "Morale can be shattered if sub-- , ordinates feel that they may be subjected to political harassment for analyzing and reporting the hard facts of what they see and learn. Now, a governmental sys-tem cannot effectively operate if employees feel even the most subtle pressures to change the substance or meaning of field dispatches toward what they be lieve is wanted as against what the cold hard realities show is really happening. "At the policy making level of our government, the status and quality of the Commissioners of the Civil Service System be-come a vital key. These posts should be filled by persons who represent the very essence of the principles underlying the merit system. Good government, in' its , finest sense, is not served when the status of the Commission is threatened by erosion of the quality of Civil Service Commis-sioners. "As that great friend of the civil servant, the distinguished chairman of the Senate Post Of-fice and Civil Service Commit-tee, Olin Johnston, recently said, 'The country cannot afford to accept less than the best for membership on this commission. What a mockery it could become if the fate of the merit system should come to depend upon pol-icies made by persons whose own careers were based upon dia-metrically opposed standards and values." Senator Johnston reminded us that "we all have a great re-sponsibility in seeing that the Civil Service Commission itself does not become a mere 'dump-ing ground' for officials whose only qualification is that they have been good patronage dis-pensers for the administration then in control." JusticeMcDonough Seeks Re-electi- on Chief Justice Roger I. Mc-Donou- gh this week filed decla-ration of candidacy for re-electi- on to a 10 year term on the Utah Supreme Court. Justice McDonough was the only candi-date to file for the office. His re-electi- therefore, is assured. Under the non-partis- an judicial selection law he will be issued a certificate of election if no other candidate files. Justice McDonough is serving his 20th year as a Supreme Court Justice. Prior to his election to the state bench he served 10 years as a judge in the Third Judicial Dis-trict and as county attorney of Summit County. He was a member of the Na-tional Railway Labor Panel dur-ing World War II. He also served by presidential appointment on various emergency boards which dealt with railway labor dis-putes. He was appointed in 1946 to a three-memb- er fact finding panel appointed to adjudicate a steel strike. In 1947 he declined a proffered appointment to the International Military Tribunal (War Crimes Court) which sat in Nuremberg, Germany. Judge McDonough was born in Park City and educated in that city's schools. He attended Notre Dame University and the Uni-versity of Utah. During World War I he served in the Field Ar-tillery. He and Mrs. McDonough have four sons and a daughter. They reside at 1516 Harvard Ave. Utah Bond Sales Show Increase Purchase of U. S. savings bonds in Utah continue to run ahead of last year, according to Frederick P. Champ, State bonds chairman. Total purchases for the state amounted to $1,550,213 during June, or 13 per cent more than June of 1957. For the six month period ending in June, total pur-chases in Utah were $9,862,283, as against last year's $8,830,347 an increase of 11.7 or a gain of more than $1 million. Salt Lake county residents pur-chased $597,847 in savings bonds during June, according to word received by Frtank A. Wardlaw, Jr., County Chairman, bringing the total for the year to date to $4,156,954. "Salt Lake county has reached 54.7 per cent of its 1958 sales goal," he said. "Our banks who issue the bonds as a free public service to our citizens and our government are doing an out-standing service, which bears out Secretary Anderson's statement that every buyer of a savings bond helps provide strengthened resources for himself and for his country, which are needed now more than ever before. Power for peace costs money." Juab County became the third county in Utah to achieve over 100 per cent of its sales quota. Other counties already over the 100 mark for the year are Wash-ington and Wasatch. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR It is quite evident we are in grave difficulty in Lebanon. In trying to rationalize how we got out on that limb it profits noth-ing to think in terms of immedi-acies. It has been the long term policy that has been misunder-stood by the American people. As has been said before, our governmet makes the tragic mis-take of making deals with kings, Shahs and rajahs rather than the people. We put a lot of money back of unpopular governments, as in Iran and Lebanon, then when the people turn on their own government it leaves us out on the limb. When will we learn that at this time in history it is people that count? The peoples of the middle East are going through their revolu-tion just as we did in 1776. They are sick of governments that de-prive the people of schools, hos-pitals, roads, housing. Historical-ly the rulers there have grasped ricfy oil lands, then given grants to oil companies over long terms enriched themselves with royalty and the people have gone with-out the revenue to build their own country. In our own country we have learned to conserve our resources to some extent, subjecting the industry that extracts such re-sources to public taxation that has resulted in public revenue to build institutions that make us loyal to capitalism. Not so in the Middle East. Our government has been dom-inated in its foreign affairs by oil companies that cared nothing for development but oft them-selves. The people have learned the meaning of expropriation and nationalism. Nasser's taking of the Suez ought to teach us the painful lesson of what is ahead. But we do not learn; we con-tinue to give support as a gov-ernment to the reactionary ele-ments in backward countries. The people have no place to go but to the Soviet Union for sup-port of their legitimate aspira-tions. That is what puts us out on the limb, and there we are. It is strange that so few of our politicians understand these fun-damentals. Why are they so pain-fully silent on the crucial issue of our time? The people of our country are alive to this prob-lem. The candidates for public offices are timid, or worse, un-informed. Let them speak up now. Our way of life will go if our leaders do not quickly learn this simple lesson of history. WARWICK C. LAMOREAUX TODAY'S EDITORIAL v : s I 'I iff i i ii i Democrats Mo ve to Present NationalFront For the sake of national unity and to present a united front to the Communist world, the Democratic Party in Congress and elsewhere has gone along with President Dwight D. Eisenhower on sending troops to Lebanon. This, the Christian Science Monitor noted recently, is in sharp contrast to England where the Laborites sharply attacked similar policies of the Conservative government. Among statements sounding the unity theme were these: Adlai Stevenson, twice Democratic candidate for president, warned the Russians whom he currently is visiting not to make a mistake, that the United States would close ranks behind the president in an emergency. Former President Harry S. Truman said the president has "announced a policy which every citizen of the United States could support." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson has backed the president on the Mid-Eas- t moves but is using his extensive on Page Four) |