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Show page Two FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1 958 THE SALT LAKE TIMES mmmm mmmmm mmmmmmmsmmm mmm deLlnd lite JdeadlineS "Peace and Prosperity" and whether we can have either, still are the biggest issues in Wash-ington as they are throughout the rest of the country today. Russia's unrelenting efforts to get the U. S. to agree to a sum-mit conference are second only to the "recession issue" as the chief topic of conversation. And the act Communis China and her puppet, North Korea, have been putting on during the talks at SEATO in Manila has drawn more attention to that area of the world than at any time since the Formosan crisis or the end of the war in Korea. This has been especially true since it coincid-ed with the Indonesian civil war. Washington saw red for a few anxious days more than a week ago when Communist North Ko-hea- n aircraft, made in Russia, shot down an American fighter plane that admittedly strayed over the truce line between North and South Korea. We then breathed a little more easily and thought we could see what the Communists were up to when they offered to free the Ameri-can pilot who parachuted behind the Red lines. This followed North Korea's pirating of a South Korean airliner and their sur-prise release of the unharmed American Air Force crewmen on board. Clearly, this was a little more than coincidence. For at the same moment, Com-munist China and North Korea were also announcing the with-drawal of the Chinese troops who have occupied North Korea since their ill fated intervention prolonged the Korean war. They proclaimed their willing-ness to discuss the long-delaye- d reunification of Korea and the drafting of a final peace treaty replacing the uneasy armistice. They reconvened the U N truce supervisory commission to make more propaganda. They even in-dicated a willingness to talk about a compromise on our de-mands for United Nations super-vised free elections to be held throughout Korea. To the south, Red Chinese bat-teries continued to lob shells on Chiang Kai Shek's Formosan stronghold. However, these have slackened off. The propaganda barrage against Chiang fell off. There were even frequent re-ports deliberatley leaked from Communist China, it is apparent that Peiping might compromise her claim to Formosa. There were reports that the Chinese Reds would accept Kia-she- k into a coalition regime, gov-erning all China, in which, how-ever, he knows he would be gob-bled up. There have been pro-posals that Chiang could be ap-paint- ed Formosa's governor, rec ognizing his rule over the key off shore island under Peiping. The specific olive branch offers are not as important as that Peiping is waving an olive branch at all. Peiping is following the same line in Indo-Chin- a, where, as in Korea, she is also offering to discuss the of Viet-Na- m, but as in Korea, the war still is too recent and well re-membered and no one is taken in. Undaunted, Peiping is busily concluding, or trying to wrap up trade and cultural deals in Asia and the Pacific. She has launched a program of economic foreign aid for Asia, similar to Russia's has enlarged her mission in In-dia, has offered a generous aid scheme for Ceylon, is inching her way into her pro-Weste- rn Pakistan through Communist front organizations and "fellow travelers," and says she wants to ally herself with the British Commonwealth's Colombo Plan, for raising Asian living stand-ards. Red China's Mao Tse-tun- g and Premier Chou En-l- ai are stress-ing the demlitarization of the Chinese economy in contrast to Chiang's war-tim- e footing and threatened mainland invasion. They talk about homing for the same cultural exchanges with even the United States that Mos-cow has concluded, about ap-pearances by charmer Chou on American TV one day as Nikita Kruschchev has appeared, "if only the war lords in Washing-ton would relent." Peiping accused the SEATO talks of fomenting war and also stressed her own availability as a mediator in Pakistan's dispute with India over Kashmir, even in the Arab-Israe- li dispute and during the Indonesian civil war. Peiping is also campaigning against U. S. atomic tests again, but ignoring Rusisan A tests now actually being conducted. Obviously, Red China sought to make the West appear war-like in comparison during the anti-commun- ist South East Asia Treaty organization conference. But Peiping seems up to more than that. Russia is seeking, almost fran-tically, to arrange a summit par-ley at which Moscow wants more "Communist participants" to sit in to balance the west's numeri-cal superiority in past summit and UN disarmament negotia-tions. Krushchev has said that he wants Red China "in" and Red China wants "in." So, no doubt, both have been "breaking their necks" to persuade all that Communist China has become a more respectable member of the world community. Spotlight Falls on Nation's Growing Demand for Water The ton of steel in the average automobile uses 285 tons of water to convert from iron ore. Each gallon of gasoline whose waste fumes intensify Los An-geles' smog problem takes 25 times that amount of water to make. No one is urging Americans to jettison the funny papers from their culture, but to soil conser-vationists they constitute one of the problems that plague a na-tion that consumes 1,250 pounds of water for a five-poun- d Sunday newspaper, says the Christian Science Monitor. These statistics were cited at the 12th annual conference of the Soil Conservation Society of America to impress the experts that water is not just something you down in a crystal glass. They are cited to show that water is the most used material moving through our factories. The nation's water problem means that the U. S. uses 1500 tons of fresh water per person per year in agriculture and in-dustry. Former President Truman's Materials Policy Commission has figured the nation's water needs will practically double in the 25 year span ending in 1975. How are we fixed for water? Dr. Omar S. Kelley of Saltsville, Md., says the answer depends on where we are living. "In some areas we have too much water at times and in other areas not enough. But it's safe to say that there are few places in the world without some kind of serious water problem." If it's not drought, its floods. "Arizona, California and New Mexico and the High Plains of Texas are presently using water in much greater amounts than the rate of recharge. Many of these farm areas developed at extremely large costs are facing imminent abandonment due to falling water tables." What can research do to fore-cast more accurately the safe rate of withdrawal and get sur-plus waters back into the under-ground aquifiers? Dr. Kelley says taking salt out of the ocean water is "one of the most striking developments with respect to total water supply." j But there's a long way to go be--1 fore an economic level is made. Research here and in Australia is said to have shown that certain chemical compounds greatly re-duce evaporation from the surf- ace of lakes and reservoirs. But the problem of keeping a chemi-cal iflm over the entire surface of the water is not yet licked. The wind and the waves break the film and there is the prob-lem of how to keep it from spoil-ing the wild ducks' fun or nulli-fying other possible uses of the water. So far, says Dr. Kelley, our big hope is in the sky, and the big research quest in the last decade has to do with hauling more water out of it. The rain-makers still have big hurdles. One-thir- d of the nation's irri-gation water is lost by seepage in the canals and laterals, and until they can be economically lined, research has to keep dig-ging. While water is only one of the many items that farmers have to deal with, the chief of the Research Branch says it is only through efficient use and conservation of soil and water resources that the nation can continue to supply the food and fiber to meet the needs of a pop-ulation that is growing at a rate of two million persons a year. "What Secrets Do We Guard?" i PHOTOGRAPHED AT GLENMORE DISTILLERIES "For 3 generations we've closely guarded our old-tim- e method of making premium Bourbon. Our Old Kentucky Tatsm is still made and aged IJ special ways, and it's JL timed to perfection 7 full years!" 'Pw IS 100 PROOF BOTTLED-I- N BOND V 86 PROOF LIGHTER, LOWER PRICED ISf KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY GLENMORE DISTILLERIES CO., LOUISVILLE, KY. 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