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Show PageTw0 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1958 THE SALT LAKE TIMES No "Hulls olIvy" at U. of V. the Democratic State Chairman. Not only enrolled students, but the entire citizenry of the state is invited to participate. The wisdom of such a policy in a time of political change like the present is self-evide- nt to all except the most narrow partisan. The people of Utah are moving into a period when it will be necessary to choose a new po-litical course, and the more ideas they can bring to the subject the better. Dr. Waldermer Read, in the philosophy department has pre-sented a remarkable series of public ethical discussions this year, a series that has set new religious and philosophical goals for many people. He and his pub-lic lectures have, truly, taught a great many people to think for themselves. Perhaps the most startling jolt to complacency of all has been delivered by Dr. Obert C. Tan-ner, who has exercised an aca-demic freedom dared by none of our politicians in insisting we try to understand Russia, and not merely hate her. Democracy will never be dead in Utah as long as such an insti-tution as the University of Uh can flourish and teach think for ourselves at all ages: By Joseph H. Weston There's none of this "halls of ivy" stuff out at the University of Utah. Its professors don't live in ivory towers. Instead, they have taken the ideal of higher learning directly to the people. And the ideas which they have disseminated among the people are acting as a yeast fermenta-tion that is lifting the entire state to new, higher levels in our social, cultural, philosophical and political life. There is not just one outstand-ing educator at the "U". There are scores of them, each of whom has become a famous man in his own particular field. They are a diverse lot, and would soon pull themselves to pieces without a strong man to hold them to-gether. And the U has its strong man, too, in Dr. A. Ray Olpin, who for a decade has steadily steered the U on an upward path through a maze of such conflicting inter-ests as political parties, religious and cultural groups, privately-owne- d corporations and labor unions. Without the physical plant at the University, including the beautiful new Union Building and Orson Spencer Hall, the pro-fessors could not reach their pub-lic. Dr. Ray Olpin is the man who steadily kept to the course that brought such expansion. He has conquered many adverse cir-cumstances and is so doing has established himself firmly as one of Utah's great men. In political freedom, Dr. J. D. Williams has become outstand-ing, with his firm conviction that the University should not avoid politics but should take a lead-ing part in presenting all sides of a question. As a result, the Republican State Chairman is invited to the campus for lectures and press conferences, and the next week, the same courtesy is extended to Of all the issues confronting the government, none is less spectacular and dramatic, yet, more important to the American people as the administration of justice. Visiting the newly-confirme- d U. S. Attorney General, William P. Rogers last week, this col-umnist got the impression that he is the only member of Presi-dent Eisenhower's Cabinet being bypassed by the sweep of foreign policy and the drama of the Rus-sian space and missiles chal-lenge. Rogers is, at 44, the youngest member of President Eisen-hower's cabinet and a close con-fidant of Vice President Nixon. .However, there is nothing to in-dicate that he is playing the same broad role as administration ad-visor on everything from politics to policy that his predecessor, Herbert Brownell, did. Brownell left the office in a sea of contro-versy. It would be surprising if Rogers should ever become con-troversial. He even looked sur-prised when I resurrected the most controversial proposal of the New Deal era, FDR's Court Packing proposal. These and other questions have come under the category of mere-ly "needling" Rogers, however. Although his department has been involved in some of the stormiest crises of the adminis-tration's earlier years and could be again, Rogers impresses most observers as prefering to avoid controversy if he can help it. Brownell, by his association with former Governor Thomas Dewey of New York could not sidestep it if he wanted to, and should Brownell, as often predicted, as-pire to the U. S. Supreme Court, his controversy during the Eisen-hower years would hang like a millstone about his neck. The Senate Judiciary Com-mittee's Southern Democratic members were also looking for ways to "needle" Brownell's suc-cessor the day Rogers walked down from the Dept. of Justice to the Capitol to seek confirma-tion for the office to which he had been given a recess appoint-ment by the President. Rogers inheried a lot of the animosity Brownell built up by his authorship of the administra-tion's use of troops in Arkansas to enforce racial integration at Little Rock Central High school. Had Brownell not retired to practice law in New York, his Little Rock role certainly would have caused harrassment of the administration for any policy even remotely connected with his name. j Banker Named To Crusader Post The of John M. Wallace, Jr., Salt Lake busi-nessman, as county chairman of the 1958 Crusade for Freedom, was announced by C. D. Michael-son- , state chairman. Mr. Wallace will organize the annual appeal for "Truth Dol-lars" to support Radio Free Eu-rope throughout the Salt Lake County area. He is vice president of National Planning and Research, Inc., and a partner of Kearns Center. Principal fund-raisin- g effort in the metropolitan Salt Lake area will be a business solicitation by a team of young businessmen or-ganized by Mr. Wallace. In other communities, the following city chairmen have been appointed to date: Rogers, as Deputy Attorney General, was suspected of at least some part in this. However, when he appeared before the Senators, they were so impressed by his non-politic- al approach and his grasp of the more legal-istic and technical problems of the Department of Justice that not a word was murmured at him and he was swiftly con-firmed. Some of the Attorney Gen-eral's more ambitious deputies sighed for a little more of the controversy that might have em-phasized the importance of his office. Yet, there is every indi-cation that this is what Rogers intends to avoid. There is every indication that another Little Rock crisis when schools reopen this year after their summer re-cess, would not be handled the way Brownell chose to last Sep-tember. Under Rogers, there is less likelihood that the office of U. S. Attorney General will de-cline than that it would just be-come less controversial. The most pressing problem confronting law enforcement authorities is the growing back-log of unscheduled, untried, un-decided cases in the nation's courts. The U. S. Supreme Court has been the latest to discover that its case backlog has also be-come the biggest in history. One proposal I have head for easing the Supreme Court case load is the enlargement of the court. Southerners who opposed the late FDR's "court packing" proposals ot circumvent its anti New Deal rulings are favorably disposed to the idea now. They believe that an enlargement of the court from its present nine to eleven Justices might give Congress, through the confirma-tion process, an opportunity to press for Justices a trifle to the righ of center and more favor-ably disposed to their point of view. "This is one of the last things we are considering seriously," Rogers said, adding that it was "too controversial." He did admit that it had been proposed but stressed that there is where it stopped. The case backlog be-fore the U. S. Supreme Court is such that it cannot be solved by the enlargement of two more working Justices. However, he did say that enlargement of the country's lower courts might help solve the problem. Judges and lawyers have got to speed up court procedures, he said. The administration is also pre-pared to propose an increase in the number of federal district judges to hedp trial time. Murray: Edward Vetter, Mur-ray Finance Co. Holladay: John T. Clark, Tracy-Colli- ns Trust Co. Kearns: Mrs. Lloyd Yowell, 2990 West 5540 South, Kearns. American Legion Auxiliary units in the county area have adopted the Crusade as an Amer-icanism project, and they will assist the campaign by staffing public booths and in some com-munities, by house to house so-licitation. Mr. Wallace said that February is a traditional campaign month, with the peak of activity between Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays, Feb. 12-2- 2. He said contributions may be mailed to Crusade for Freedom, co Harold J. Steele, state treas-urer, First Security Bank, 79 So. Main, Salt Lake City. One dollar will buy one minute of truth over Radio Free Europe. U. Regents Assured Of Financial Accord University of Utah Board of Regents this week was assured that the University and state of-ficials will reach an agreement over handling of money received by the University for research. W. J. O'Connor, chairman of the board of regents, said that the agreement would be reached by the April 1 deadline set by the board of examiners. Mr. O'Connor said a meeting between officials of the Univer-sity and the state is expected to be held not later than March 10. The matter came up when Dr. A. Ray Olpin, university presi-dent, said he felt Salt Lake area newspapers had clarified the issue of non appropriated funds. He said it was the intention of university officials to work out an agreement with the state treasurer and auditor "that will be feasible, meet conditions of the law and terms of the con-tracts under which the money is received." The board was informed by Secretary of State Lamont F. Toronto, an ex-offic- io member of the board, that the board of ex-aminers expects the university to make an honest effort to com-ply with the state auditor that such funds be deposited with the state treasurer. The state auditor recently in-formed the university that un-less the funds were deposited with the treasurer within 60 days all funds for the university were to be cut off including money to pay Dr. Olpin's salary. Dr. Olpin pointed out that the money in question is not appro-priated by the Legislature, but is given by outside agencies under contract to support various re-search projects. He said any plan worked out for handling the money must meet terms of the various con-tracts. "We must consider this so we won't run the risk of drying up these sources of revenue," said Dr. Olpin. Famed Dancer to Present Utah Concerts Jose Greco, who has built the reputation as the world's finest Spanish dancer, will appear with his company of Spanish dancers Feb. 20 as the next number on the Brigham Young University-Communit- y Concert Series. There will be no reserved seats for the event which will be held at 8:15 p.m. in the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse. Greco is the featured dancer in the movie "Around the World in 80 Days," and also starred with Cyd Charrisse in "SombrQ' The largesJselling 8 year 1j Champion, Straight Your bourbon 1 "fei best Aged 1 J51lj straight 8 II SSfw&M bourbon STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. 86 PROOF. SCHENIEY DIST. CO., N.Y. C o County Commission Approves Deficit For Fire Department Salt Lake County Commission this week approved a deficit ap-propriation of $275,000 for op-eration of the Salt Lake1 County Fire department for the year. At the same time the county auditor warned all departments "not to overspend your 1958 bud-gets." Not a single taxpayer attended the hearing on the deficiency ap-propriation. The appropriation was asked as a result of the commission adopting a resolution dissolving fire service areas Nos. 1 and 2 after mining and farming inter-ests protested against area No. 1. A public hearing on dissolution of the areas will be held March 12 at 10:30 a.m. Auditor Glen T. James told the Commission it would probably be necessary to levy the maxi-mum three mills for the general fund. He said, "It also will be necessary to use some available surplus funds to cover the de-ficiency appropriations." It is expected that x other de-partments will need deficiency appropriations before the year is out because of the unrealistic attitude taken by the Republican dominated county commission when the 1958 budget was adopt-ed for the year. |