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Show . V ' " Page Four FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1958 THE SALT LAKE TIMES 1 I THE SALT LAKE TIMES Utah' S I Combined with The Sah Lake Mining & Legal News I fcarleSS Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah , Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second Independent class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, Newspaper 711 South West Temple Telephone EM I I GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Subscription Price $3-0- 0 per year in advance "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 37 Number 36 America's most impressive bourboii... S8 madefor (tie man ofmaaml ' ' ' 7 YEARS OLD 86 PROOF OLD CHARTER DISTILLERY COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY You Can Help Fill It III WELCOME VOUR HEART fe . pi FUND VOLUNTEER ON m HEART SUNDAY, FEB. 23JL Symphony Sets Youth Concert A free Utah Symphony concert for all school children will be held at the Salt Lake Taber-nacle February 1, starting at 10 o'clock. The concert will be the second of a series of three spon-sored by the Foodtown and A.G. Food Stores. Tickets for the con-cert may be obtained without charge at any of the stores. Maestro Maurice Abravanel will conduct the concert and a 36-pie- ce violin choir selected from the various schools will participate in the presentation of Handel's Largo from "Xerxes." An outstanding Utah Sym-phony' event for February will be the appearance of Paul White-ma- n as conductor of the sym-phony in an in con-cert to be held Wednesday, Feb. 12, Washington's birthday. Mr. Abravanel asked Paul Whiteman, a close friend and as-sociate of Gershwin to conduct the Utah orchestra after the Utah Symphony recorded the several Gershwin numbers for Westminster Recording Co. Mr. Whiteman accepted. Advance re-quests for tickets to the events indicate that the concert will be one of the most popular musical treats of the season. Say Ike, Let's Cut the Lullaby (Continued from Page 1) The fact remains that while the United States might at present be ahead of the Soviet Union in overall strength, this tenuous margin might soon disappear if something drastic is not done, and done soon. It cannot be ignored that while American strength, once undisputed, remains at a high level, that of the Russians now threatens to overtake it after a late start from scratch. While the self-satise- d hare took a nap the plodding turtle has made much headway. In the face of this ominous situation, dramatically empha-sized by the Russian Sputniks, the president seems content with saying that "America will grow ever stronger" and calling for "a prompt and effective modernization of our defense organi-zation" in which he intends to "participate personally until the job is done." Is this not today the paramount and pressing task charged to his office? Should it not have been done long ago ? . How does it happen that after five years of his administra-tion the nation and the world wonders with good reason whether America has not already become a second-rat- e power. Bland assurances do not answer these questions but give them sharper point instead. The one thing America needs least of all is to be lulled into a false sense of security. The one thing America needs most of all is to recognize a perilous situation and be led to correct it immediately. ) nA Journalism Group Rakes GOP Administration For Withholding News (Continued from Page 1) actions of our public servants. "There are three basic prob-lems underlying this widespread secrecy and they must be solved if the inherent American right to know about government is to be preserved. Thay are: "1. The Eisenhower Security Order 10-50- 1, which gives the heads of 17 federal agencies the privilege of censoring informa-tion in the sacred name of na-tional security, has been widely abused and has done nothing to stop 'over-classificati- on' of doc-uments of government that has threatened the effectiveness of the whole classification system. Therewas no effective declassifi-cation under the Eisenhower order, and one Department of Defense committee openly ad-mitted the things were in a mess. "2. Executive agencies have twisted and tortured the so-call- ed 'housekeeping statute' (5 USC 22) and the 1946 adminis-trative Procedures Act (5 USC 1002) into authority for with-holding information from the government records. They insist tha t non-securi- ty information should be withheld on grounds of "right of privacy," "public in-terest" or "administrative feasi-bility." They insist also that they have need for the three lines of defense which they are now us-ing so effectively in barring the press, the public and Congress from finding out how they are handling the people's business. "Their first line of defense is the secrecy classification on the grounds of national security. This has been stretched to hide anything that could conceivably be associated with national se-curity, and a good many things where such a classification is ludicrous. Government commis-sions have admitted the abuse of "over classification" and failure to declassify government papers. This misuse of "national secur-ity" has resulted in a democracy throttling secrecy, and expensive accumulation of paper in gov-ernment storage. "The Eisenhower administra-tion has refused to change its order or its attitude." press, the public and Congress. These agencies are actively op-posing legislation which would prevent use of these laws as au-thority for arbitrary secrecy. "3. The broadest and most of-fensive secrecy claim continues to be the policy that the execu-tive branch of government can hide anything but final decision on grounds that it is 'confidential executive business." This policy was set out in President Eisen-hower's May 17, 1954 letter to Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and the administration has refused to back down from this position. It is used for the ultimate in 'managing the news' in that the executive department can pick and choose which in-formation to make available. Executive agency heads do not even given very good lip service to the principle of free and open 4', , i ' - V" ' &y ' . . ' - , ' J''--- , w r . MASSIVE MOLARS Despite his position, little Benjamin Kassim of New York doesn't seem at all down in the mouth, as he finds himself caught in a set of massive molars.. The was one of 12 final-ists at the eighth annual Dental Health Contest at Children's Aid Society shelter in "Harlem. If It's Printing .. . Phone EM 4-84- 64 WW Battle of the Budget The administration's budget is back in the spotlight again and once again confusion reigns in the ranks of the Republicans. That this same confusion was prevalent last year is shown in the latest series of articles beginning in The Salt Lake Times this week. This series deals with the budget for the Defense Depart-ment. But the same conditions might be projected to include the entire Eisenhower burget for fiscal 1958. Now we come to the next budget. Looking back we find the GOP making lavish claims for balancing the 1958 budget. But a close look at these claims finds them exploding. Here are what some Republican leaders had to say: "A balanced budget is proposed for 1958. I believe this policy of fiscal integrity has contributed significantly to the soundness of our nation's economic growth and that it will con-tinue to do so during the coming fiscal year." Eisenhower Fiscal 1958 Budget Message, January, 1957. "Senator Bridges, chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, said he was pleased by the fact that the budget was in balance. He noted that the proposed expenditure, although greater than the present level, would amount to a smaller per-centage of the national income." Baltimore Sun, Jan. 17, 1957. "The House Republican Leader, Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts, said 'With the government to operate in the black for the third year in a row . . . the groundwork can be laid for further general tax cuts as soon as our defense needs will permit.' " New York Times, Jan. 17, 1957. "Senator Irving M. Ives also stressed the plan for a third straight year of balanced budgets, asking, "What could speak-bette-r for the soundness of the Eisenhower Administration's policies?' " New York Herald Tribune, Jan. 17, 1957. Doesn't make much sense, does it? |