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Show County Democrats Elect Laurel Brown Chairman if .m.- w?.rr major speaker, told the party members that the "crusade" which brought the Republicans to power had become a pathetic misnomer; that it was lead by tired old men and soft soap salesmen; sales-men; that the administration's conduct of foreign affairs had lost much of the world to communism com-munism or neutralism and its domestic do-mestic policies had produced five million unemployed. In his foreign policy talk Dr. Tanner said that any party, to desire a victory, must present a program not only to make the country militarily strong but to prevent a missile war. He declared that if foreign policy problems are not solved domestic problems will not matter mat-ter because there will be none to solve. Prof. Tanner, who said he spoke as an independent, recently recent-ly returned from a tour of Soviet Russia. He declared that both the U.S. and Russia have perfected mis- sile programs capable of destroy- ' ing each other; that in view of this there can be no permanent security in military power or a stalemate, that security can be found only in a program to prevent pre-vent missile war. He said he was aware that weakness would surely invited communist aggression, that communist com-munist destruction of our system sys-tem by non-military means will mean total enslavment; that we therefore have no alternative but to build up armed strength as a means of buying time. But this alone, he emphasized, can only lead to national destruction. destruc-tion. To find security against this, he said, we must develop a program pro-gram to make such a war impossible. im-possible. Spelling out such a program, he said we should greatly expand ex-pand communications between the peoples of both the United States and Russia; eliminate from our thinking the theory that war is inevitable; develop moral strength and cooperate with the world's hungry people. I LAUREL J. BROWN Salt Lake County Democrats this week had a new chairman. He is Laurel J. Brown, West Jordan fur rancher and athletic promoter. He was elected at the County organization convention in the Rainbow Randevu. Mr. Brown was elected without contest. con-test. He succeeds A. Wally San-dack, San-dack, who resigned. Mrs. William H. (Dorothy) Henderson was elected vice chairman in a three-way contest. Her opponents were Mrs. Sunday C. Anderson and Mrs. Alice M. Hewitt. Mrs. Henderson received 152 votes, Mrs. Anderson 138, and Mrs. Hewitt 57. Mrs. Henderson Hen-derson will replace Mrs. M. Phyl (Fawn) Poulson, who resigned. Other officers elected were Stephen P. Smoot, secretary, and Otto R. Maas, treasurer. Mr. Smoot with 183 votes defeated Billie Clay with 145 votes for the position. Standing ovations were given the convention's two speakers. In an unusual move the convention conven-tion formally concurred in the foreign oplicy views included in the address of Dr. Obert Tanner, University of Utah professor of philosophy and a Salt Lake businessman. busi-nessman. Albert J. Colton, the other |