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Show ' o Page Four ' FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1958 THE SALT LAKE TIMES What Did I Do? missiles to give her the advantage. A quick recovery from our lag in missiles will require sub-stantial increases in defense spending. To meet that increase, Congress must either increase taxes or raise the ceiling on the national debt. There will be considerably less opposition this year than last to a substantial increase in foreign aid, both military and economic. The price of maintaining friends and allies in many parts of the world is going up, Mr. Davidson sums up. It's a big order but we are sure a Democrat-le- d Congress will not let us, and the rest of the free world, down. 0O0 I THE SALT LAKE TIMES Utah' S I Combined with The Sat Lake Mining & Legal News II f 63 rl6SS 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 ?11 South West Temple Telephone EM L I GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Subscription Price $3.00 per year in advance "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction i or corporation." Volume 37 Number 33 A Fine Fear For Democrats (Continued from Page 1) Then there is the reorganization within the political parties as provided by Utah law. The reorganization process starts with the mass meetings each party is to hold soon in election districts throughout the city and county. One of the principal purposes of the mass meet-ings is to elect delegates to the political conventions. Republican leaders, at least on the national level, have issued statements claiming that recent Russian feats in science will have no effect on election returns. They want people to forget that these Russian advances and our corresponding lack of advances were made during some six years of Republican government. Democrats, of course, will not let the people forget where the blame lies. They will remind voters that we no longer are living in the days of the B-2- 9 and the blockbuster bomb, no matter how fond the memories of our Republican president. And voters, who often are several steps ahead of the poli-ticians anyway, will know who got us into the current mess. Yes, it looks like a wonderful year for Democrats all down the line. 0O0 the LEASED GRAPEVINE V..l,rlm-,Hd'ljii- y Barton K. Kirkham, sentenced to hang for the murder of David Avon Frame Aug. 11, 1956, lost his appeal to the Utah Supreme Court this week. By unanimous decision the state's high court denied defense counsel's conten-tion of two errors one turning on precise legal meaning of the term "or", the other on an al-leged failure of the trial court judge. Plans for a day care treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents were discussed this week by members of a local group, including doctors, and representatives of various fed-eral agencies. A. Earl Cox has been reelected president of the Cottonwood Heights Community Council. Da-vid J. Long was elected vice-preside- nt. Q) Appraisal engineers of the Utah Tax Commission have started work in Salt Lake County to determine tax values on new buildings completed or started in 1957, H. C. Shoemaker, chair-man of the State Tax Commis-sion announcedt his week. The state is undertaking the work because of a manpower shortage in the County assessor's office. Elmo H. Lund, former assist-ant administrator of the Latter-da- y Saints Hospital, has become administrator of the Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital at Colum-bia, Mo. f Possibility of a four miVJn dollar bond electoin in March is being explored by the Granite School District. The money would be used for new school facilities. J. Perry Egan, director of the Utah State Fish and Game De-partment, died this week after a long illness. J. Golden Wilcox, 453 West Capitol, has been approved by the Salt Lake City Commission as a collector and adjustment clerk in the Water Department at a salary of $290 a month. Courses in survival training will again be offered this winter at the state's colleges and uni-versities. Dates and meeting places for the course of instruction are Mondays, beginning January 13, Utah State University, Logan; Tuesdays, beginning January 7, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Wednesdays, beginning on January 8, Brigham Young Uni-versity, Provo; Thursdays, be-ginning January 9, Weber Col-lege, Ogden. The class in survival training is designed to prepare sportsmen for safe outdoor living under all conditions. Those desiring to be-come instructors in the subject may take the qualifying exami-nation and apply for certifica-tion as an NRA instructor as part of the course. Doing good is the only certain-ly happy action of a man's life. Philip Sidney. All Eyes Are On Congress All eyes are on the Congress that this week is returning to the Capital. It faces problems greater than any Congress in recent years. How will it meet them? With Democrats in control there is reason to believe that the situation will be met with reason and with dispatch. Democratic leaders have promised in advance that if the President doesn't come up with a forceful program right off the bat they will launch their own program and put it through. If past Republican action is any yardstick Democrats likely will be called upon to fulfill their promise. This session is to be no place for "week-knee- d or faint-hearted Congressmen," says Washington columnist Clinton Davidson. The decisions to be made will take courage of the highest order. Mr. Davidson points out that some of the important ques-tions Congress will be called upon to answer include the followi-ng1 Shall we attempt to appease and bargain with Russia? How large should the budget for defense be? Should the ceiling on the national debt be raised? Will a tax increase be necessary to finance defense spending? How much, and what kind of foreign aid? What about the business slump and growing unemploy-ment? Should a new farm program be adopted? Congress already has been given positive evidence that Russia has made tremendous military gains, even that she has in some respects surpassed the United States and our allies. The majority opinion in Washington seems to be that Russia will attempt to bargain for an easing of the cold war only on her own terms, and that those terms will be unacceptable to the western nations. Our answer to Russian threats more probably will be a quick effort to build western defenses. There is, of course, no assur-ance that Russia will not provoke a war if she is convinced she could win quickly. That is the chance we have to take. Time is more important to the United States than it was only a year or two ago. We 'were ahead in military strength. Then, it was Russia that wanted time to build long range Let's Recheck Our Values With all the talk these days about the need of increasing our scientific power and souping up our educational processes it is interesting to note all the publicity attendant upon the pos-sible move of the University of Utah's football coach. Coach Jack Curtice, who at $14,000 a year makes more money than most of the chemistry and physics professors in the nation, is expected to leave the University of Utah and go to Stanford University. From all the attention given his plans one would think his decision to go or to stay is one of the most important events in Utah this year. When science professors at the University of Utah move on to larger schools as they often do they rate almost no notice at all. It all goes to point up one of the basic weaknesses in our educational setup. We put more stress on a winning football team than winning the moon. We want young men and women to embark on careers in science but we do nothing to lend glamour to that profession. A group of young rocketeers in Boise, Idaho this week complained that they were having trouble making adults take their experiments seriously. The youngsters have been conduct-ing rocket experiments for two years but were unable to get support from adults. Had they organized as a neighborhood football team there is little doubt they would have received support. We pick no Ail-Americ- an team of science majors each year. A numbskull who can crash through the line gets more acclaim than a genius who may some day come up with a device to save our necks. It's time we take stock of these things. If we really want to encourage people to go into scientific careers we have to make those careers inviting. We have to give them more prestige. All we have given them so far is a bad time. oO-o- Behind every advance of the human race is a germ of cre-ation growing in the mind of some lone individual. An individual whose dreams waken him in the night while others lie con-tentedly asleep. Greenwalt. |