Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-12 | Page 6 | Prevailing Opinions

Prevailing Opinions Ctit'- or the American Preis accident toll would be cut In a great measure if drivers observed the rules of common courtesy. Haste and rude crowding by au-tomobilists au-tomobilists sometimes seem to be accepted custom it is certainly not the exception. Portland Ore-gonian. Raclet Played Out ' If the Republican party takes the advice of Charles Michelson, writing in the American Maga-sine, Maga-sine, It will look around for a boss of the Hanna or Quay type, forget 140, amputate its "progressive" wing, and plan on an ultra-conservative basis. The advice, coming com-ing from Charley, is not to be taken without Its grain of salt, but la interesting, nevertheless, from a viewpoint perhaps Charley did not think of. For if Michelson thinks an ultra-conservative party might stand a chance in 1944, it means that Charley concedes the new deal racket is about played out! It may be nearer played out, at that, than Michelson realizes; Charley haa been in the forest so long be can't see the trees any more. Loa Angeles Times. . Rudeness Causes Crashes That bad manners is the eaiue of motor mishaps more than any , other factor. Is the belief of Dr. Frededric P. Woellner, associate professor of education at the University Uni-versity of California at Los Angeles An-geles and member of ths California Califor-nia -state accident prevention board. It may be putting It too strongly when he says It is far more important im-portant to teach .manners than morals, but he undoubtedly is correct in his assertion that the , Remote Siberia It Is customary for Americana, on the whole, to think of the aoviet realm aa one on the other aide of the world from us and all our affairs. That Is not absolutely true. Land under the red flag with Its hammer and sickle Is actually only 20 miles from soil which is entitled to protection of the Stan and Stripes. The bleak Diomedes Islands lie In the Bering strait at about its narrowest yoint: one is Russian, and the other, but a score of miles eastward, is territory of the United States. In fact. Point Anadyr, one of the key posts in U. S. S. R. development of extreme ex-treme north western Siberia, is but a scant hundred miles from the "golden sands" of Noma, in Alaska. Tbe natural resources of Siberia are said to be tremendous. It is bard for the average person over here to understand why anyone should choose to live in such a aevere climate. There are millions over there who know no other, are hardened to Its rigors, and are Just aa happy in their way ef life aa are tbe softies among us who flit ta California or Florida at the firet hint ef snow. Aa haa beea variously remarked before, it takes aH kinds ef persons per-sons to people a word and It is a lucky thing, at that Cold urges man te activity. Who caa aay ta what extent be may develop the "Siberian wastes" with the tools science and industry-axe putting in his hands? Tbe Oregoaiaa,