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Show PR6V6. UTAH C6UNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949 Actions Speak Louder Than Words Two months aoro a oair of American stu dents : cycling in Germany were arrested by Russian authorities. They were neia prisoner until Sept. 28. In that interval, the two youths told U. S. -officials, they were confined in what they described as "dungeons." What had thev done to offend the Rus- in? The two cvclists said Soviet authori ties thought they were spies. The basis for this suspicion was the fact that tne lacts had innocently ventured into the Russian zone nn their siffht-seeinff trip. "We did not realize how serious this was," said one. Thin wan a comnarativelv mild instance nf rrntir that croes on all the time along the border between the Soviet and the western zones of Germany. A more striking xamnle came to U. S. notice a few weeks ro when an American soldier, was re leased by the Russians after long im prisonment. What had been his offense ? He boarded Better Ballots , "Subversive" has become the word of the hour. Any public activity which steps on someone's toes may be dubbed "subversive." "sub-versive." A current ridiculous instance is found in Ohio. ' The state votes this fall on a constitutional constitu-tional amendment adopting the Massachusetts Massachu-setts form of-ballot. This ballot groups candidates by the office for which they are V running, instead of aranging them in party J A I V A A! I Columns. A straignt-party ucKe. may oe voted if desired, but not with a single mark. To do this it is necessary to go through the list of offices and pick out from them the name of the party candidate'., This makes it )fcs ' i ;i j it - i 1 mng, as a voier can asny ao u ne nas umy to mark an ."X" at the top of a party column; . It is hard to imagine a more inteligent Improvement in the ballot. . Yet a committee commit-tee ' annotated to nrenare negative arcu- f ments for a voters' manual sard that the Massachusetts ballot "would aid a coalition of minorities, which is the aid of subversive sub-versive groups." I This is not the experience of the 17 states having this type of ballot. These are r tn every section of the country, from Massa chusetts to California and from Oregon to Florida. The Massachusetts ballot is hard on party machines, but good for government govern-ment t ; lis He Awake Yet? The riew session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York got under jvay without the verbal storms that have come to be viewed as part of the act. i The reason was not hard to discover. A news photographer scanning the troupe of UN delegates lit on what should have been the obvious answer to veteran observers: Foreign Minister Vishinsky of Russia was fast asleep. the wrong streetcar in Berlin. It took him into the Soviet sector of the city, where he had no desire to go. Whereupon he was arrested as a spy suspect. The young GI told American authorities that in an effort to force a "confession" from him the Russians beat him brutally a number of times and gave him the "water treatment." This last is, a little something dreamed up by our eastern friends to induce a certain' cer-tain' humility in persons who are being grilled. The prisoner is made to stand for 24 hours in a room filled with water to a height above his knees. As we have suggested, incidents of this sort are rather commonplace. The only reason for taking note of them is to remind Americans here at home what the Russians are really doing. Now that the United Nations is melting again in New York, Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky has his handy propaganda sounding sound-ing board against which he can shout the evils of "war-mongering" Americans and British and proclaim the virtues of his native people. a You hear a lot of chatter about the Soviet Union's peaceful intentions and the won-i ders of the "people's democracy." It's old stuff, but Vishinsky is working on the well-worn well-worn but not exactly stupid theory that repetition often drives ideas home. That is why it pays to refresh our minds from time to time on the story of Russian actions as contrasted with Russian words. Any time you get to thinking that maybe Vishinsky and Co. are talking straight and it is we Americans who are the culprits, just close your eyes and visualize that young soldier standing knee-deep in cold water. For boarding the wrong streetcar. Call for Cross-Education Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson seems to have scored well in his first attempt at-tempt at "cross-educating" the top men of the three chief defense branches Army, Navy and Air Forces. He took Army and Air Force leaders aboard the big carrier Franklin D. Roose- velt for a starter. According to reports, the experience proved his point perhaps better than he imagined it would. By their detailed questions, the visiting firemen showed they had very little idea of some of the most basic facts about aircraft carriers. Men who wish to help make decisions de-cisions about the future role of the Navy in defense demonstrated that they were not soundly grounded in the information vital to such determinations. The process of broadening their education, educa-tion, and of course that of Navy men who may be equally ill-informed about land and "air operations, should continue on an earnest level until-the United States has a group of defense leaders who are thoroughly thorough-ly equipped for the joint decisions that our increasingly unified service establishment requires. irhe Washington Merry-go-Round V J-" VU M CUIOlfl Ul40 . Bennett Gave Poker Parties As Well As Deep Freezes WASHINGTON When good old Clyde Hoey, the swallow-tailed senator from North Carolina, announced there would be no .more hearings on General Vaughan, John Maragon .and the five-percenters, five-percenters, it didn't surprise anybody on the Inside. For insiders have known how much pressure has been exerted by the White House to shut 1 the investigation up. One month ago it was announced that public hearings would be suspended in order to give the committee staff a chance to do more investigating, investi-gating, also to give Committee . Counsel Rogers two-week vacation. Since then, however, White House pressure has been terrific with even staff investigators threatened with loss of government pensions. Since then also some sensational leads have been glossed over by committee investigators or carefully stowed away in pigeonholes. One of the most interesting figures which Senator Hoey and his staff have turned their back on is David A. Bennett, the perfume manufacturer, manu-facturer, who sent seven deep freezes to General Vaughan, Mrs. Truman and other bigwigs at about the time Vaughan'syfriend, John Maragon, was trying to Smuggle Bennett's perfume into the United States disguised as champagne for the White House. (Copyright 1840 by the Bel) Syndicate Ine.) ' you herewith reprint of an advertisement on 'yachting' and 'motor boating.' Mr. Bennett would like you to contact Commodore Moran, of the small boats division, maritime commission Miss Barrett, sec'y. and find out what condition this is in, and what price they are asking for same. "Mr. Bennett is feeling fine after hig little rest in the country, and is planning on leaving , here again tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving there. "Hope you are in the best of health, and with kindest regards . . ." 1 POKER PARTIES ON YACHT8 I YACHTS AND DEEP FREEZES 1 , There are some other interesting things about Mr. Bennett which the public doesn't know, and most of the record is in government files where any senate investigator could easily dig it out. This column doesn't have' the same power to subpoena records as does Senator Hoey of North Carolina, but since the senate committee has decided to backslide on the job, this writer has done his best to take up. where the senator from North Csrolin left off. Tor instance, here are two interesting things which the public has a right to know about. Mr. Bennett, at the time he was giving away deep freezes, acquired four government airplanes without competitive bidding, and four luxury yachts, three of them from the U. S. government. 4 Four yachts are a lot for any one man to have. For that matter, so are four airplanes. However, deep - freeze - giver Bennett wasn't satisfied with four yachts and wanted to buy another. To thisiend, a fetter was written to John Maragon, care of General- Vaughan at the White House, by one of Bennett's subordinates. The letter, dated. Nov. 19, 194S, is in the files of Senator Hoey's committee, but since he doesn't seem interested in doing anything about it, this column is glad to publish the letter as follows: 'MR. JOHN MARAGON, co Brig Gen. Harry Vaughan's Office, White House, Washington, D.C. "Der John: "At the request of Mr. Bennett, am sending At the time this letter was written to Maragon, Mara-gon, Bennett already had the following luxury yachts: "Carnan," 600 horsepower, 121-foot, 221 tons; "Valerie V," 84-foot. 124 tons; "Caroline," 45-foot, 24 tons; "Nedra B," 111-foot, 101 tons. All these, except the "Valerie V," were purchased pur-chased direct from the maritime commission. And when the maritime commission was asked to disclose who else bid on the vessels, and how much was bid, the information was refused. When asked whether the bids had been advertised, ad-vertised, Miss Mary Barrett, referred to in the above letter to Maragon, flew into a rage. One reason why Senator Hoey may wish to deal lightly with the man who had so many deep freezes and yachts at his disposal was because be-cause Harry Truman, when vice president, was a guest aboard the Bennett yachts. In fact, the yachts were, used for some of the famed Truman-Vaughan poker parties, and this long-time intimacy between the President of the United States and the president of the Verley Perfume company may be why Maragon felt that he could with impunity label his perfume per-fume as consigned to the White House and try to smuggle it through U. S. customs. At that time around 1945 one Bennett Yacht was moored on the Potomac, another at Saugatuck, Mich., and another in Florida. Since then perhaps because he has been less active in lobbying Bennett has disposed of three yachts, but still keeps the Nedra B. j DEEP FREEZES AND AIRPLANES j Bennett's government-purchased airplanes also open an interesting chapter which Senator Hoey's committee has strangely neglected. Ben-, nett purchased, without competitive bidding, three navy Grumman jRF-8-B's, together with an army C-54 transport plane. The C-54 was purchased by Bennett on June -24, 1946 for $75,000. Its original cost to the government was $375,568. The three navy Grum-mans Grum-mans were purchased for $25,000 each on Oct. 9. 1946. Their original cost to the government was $83,819 each. The planes were purchased in the name of the Albert Verley Co. The war assets administration, which sold the planes, almost had kittens when a representative representa-tive of this column asked for the facts on these sales. However, fair-minded Admiral Paul Mather and his deputy, Capt. H. R. Greenlee, when consulted, decided that since the public had paid for the planes in the first place, they had a right to know who bought them and for how much. i Playing Hard to Get Once News Now History Frqm the Files of The Provo Herald 10 Years Ago OCT. 7, 1939 "Germany never will be able to care for the dependents created by the war Adolf Hitler has now caused in Europe," Reed Smoot, for 30 years a U. S. senator from Utah, and second in line for the presidency of the LDS church, told throngs at conference ; Raymond Green was being honored hon-ored on his return from the German Ger-man mission f Louise Culbert-spn Culbert-spn was honored by a group of i friends before going to Los An geles to live Herman Schaf-fer Schaf-fer enlisted in U. S. navy The first fire of fire prevention week was at the home of Marion Powelson, damaged to the extent of $200 Pearl Snow and Alva Joha risen planned a trek for MIA adult classes to historical points in the city Six girls of Provo high were accepted in Qui Viva: Mae Wagstaff , Barbara Carter, Geniel Kirriber", Marjorie Booth, Lucy Mae Gardner and Jean Bennett. Washington Column Pity Poor Architect Who's Trying to Remodel Capitol By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) It has been a tough summer at the Capitol Cap-itol in more ways than lawmaking. lawmak-ing. Putting new roofs on the senate and house chambers and remodeling remod-eling the insides has turned into a construction job the likes of which no contractor has ever faced before. First off, nobody thought that the congressmen would be around alLsummer to get in the hair , of the laborers, carpenters and cement finishers. As it is the lawmakers have become the most obnoxious collectionof sidewalk superintendents ever to oogle a building projecLAs one laborer puts it, "You'd think every one of them was born with a claw hammer in his mouth, the way they throw advice around." During the really hot weeks it was impossible to tell just who were congressmen and who were construction workers. They all looked equally hot, sweaty, dirty and bored with their jobs, as they rubbed shoulders among the scaffolding and lumber piles. One of the construction superintendents super-intendents blames the debate on the minimum wage law as the cause of all the labor trouble on the job so far. He claims the workers overheard some of their rights being" espoused so eloquently, elo-quently, they believed what they hard and struck. The carpenters were out more than three weeks demanding more money. Quite A Differential When the job started the carpenters car-penters were getting $2.25 an hour. They negotiated for a boost to $2.40 and then quite work to win their present rate of $2.50 an hour. Laborers started at $1.25 an hour, rose to $1.35 and now get $1.45 an hour. 'When the Capitol was rebuilt back in 1859, the records show that carpenters on that job received re-ceived $2.00 a day and laborers $1.16 a day. Fortunately for Uncle Sajn most of these wage increases will come out of . the ; contractor s pocket. More than 75 per cent of the $5,000,000 worth of ' worki being handled by a straight contract con-tract istead of the usual government govern-ment cost-plus arrangement. , . Labor difficulties have only been part of the trouble. Capitol architect David Lynn spent years trying to get a compromise be tween the liberals and conserva tives who had a say on the ques tion of how the chambers should be finished inside. This spring when the work started . he figured fig-ured he had everybody satisfied and the details all set. Then when the congressmen saw the work actually begun they suddenly started offering advice on how they thought the job should be done. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., (R. Mass.), for instance, took one look at the sketches of the proposed pro-posed new interior and blew up. He made a speech on the floor charging that when the job was finished it would be like legis lating in a cocktail lounge. He was against all the chromium, polished steel and brightly colored col-ored walls called for in the plans. Arainst Radical Changes - Lodge suggested that the remodeling re-modeling be handled like the White House make everything stronger, but exactly the same in appearance. Lynn patiently explained that the interior decoration had been decided upon only after studying "motives from the same source of architecture used by Dr. Wil liam Thornton, the man who de signed the Capitol in the first place." He said that George Washington and Thomas Jeffer son approved of Thornton s de sign because it was "simple, noble and beautiful," and that Thorn ton's basic ideas were behind the new decorative scheme. Some concessions have been made, however. Instead of brightly bright-ly painted wood panels on the walls, there will be a natural walnut finish. The change will be more expensive but more subdued. sub-dued. The general color scheme for the drapery and trim in the senate will be dull gold. It will be quiet blue for the house side. Completion date for both projects proj-ects is Dec. 20. Architect Lynn still thinks he can make it by working some crews double time. He predicts that when the job is done it should last for more than 100 years. OVER-ALL CVA BILL REJECTED WASHINGTON (U.R) The senate sen-ate public works committee today to-day refused to approve the comprehensive com-prehensive Columbia River development de-velopment program. But it authorized auth-orized funds for many of the individual projects within the program. Members voted against the long-range program authorization in any form, but proposed to add $342,000,000 to its omnibus pub-' lie works bill for Columbia River Riv-er projects in addition to the $108,000,000 already voted by the house. 20 Years Ago OCT. 7, 1929 A birthday party was given for Mrs. Eugene Hardy. The following follow-ing were present: Mrs. J. W. Bates, Mrs. Phebe Jones, Mrs. A. A. Loveless, Mrs. Mellie Hardy, Mr. and Mrs. Vern , Hardy, Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Peay, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Losee The cast of BYU Alumni play, "The Thur-stOns" Thur-stOns" returned from southern Utah where four performance's were given. Cast members were: Glen Guymon, Eunice Bird, BARBS By HAL COCHRAN some of our teen-age dancers look as if thev had 1ut itrnntd into a wad of chewing gum. www V yon don't "love thy neighbor" Just hitch ap yetur home and leave. ' These are the days when your life in the country agrees heartily with you relatives from the city, www A Virginia man picked a." chicken in 40 seconds. Some men do better at a bathing beach. It is said that more people get hurt in golf than in any other sport. Yet caddies keep right on whistling. Lowell Johnson, Ferrill Pierpont, Boyd Rasmussen, Jean Paulson, and A. Rex Johnson Directors Direc-tors of New York Central railroad authorized the sale of $35,669,900 additional common stock to present pre-sent holders at $100 per share in the ratio of one new share for every 13 shares held The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the Chicago Cubs in the second game of the world series. Snakes are resistant to the poison poi-son of their own species. CICBLB "The average automobile battery contains about 34 lb, of lead." Utah's 1948 lead production would make batteries for more than 3,000,000 care -enough automobile, if placed .bumper to bumper, bump-er, to make three unbroken un-broken lines between New York and 'Frisco'." OTT ilICiKI2 Mr. Farmer You use ready mixed feed, do you not? Examine the tag and you will find just three mineral elements: Calcium, bone meal, and salt. The United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture in the 1942 year book states this: "The minerals essential in the diet of farm animals are calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, chlorine, chlor-ine, potassium. Iodine, manganese. Iron. t copper, cobalt, sulphur, and line." How then, can we assume that ready-mixed feeds are mineralized? Watkins Mineral contains all the above mentioned men-tioned mineral elements, all of which are indispensable to animal nutrition. Take no chances, farmers! Healthy animals mean healthy people. Watkins Is Best and Cheapest! JOS. H. TAYLOR 711 WEST FIRST SOUTH Provo, Utah PHONE 559-R Q'sandA's Q How are teak trees propagated? propa-gated? A To get teak trees, you plant stumps, not seeds. And you plant the stumps only just before or after the flowering of a species of bamboo known as kyathung. This bamboo flowers only once each 80 years. It is no use to broadcast seeds in the forest; they will not grow. Q Where is the Statue of Hermes by Praxiteles? A Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, the only existing origi-j nal work of Praxiteles, the ancient an-cient Greek sculptor, was found in ruins at Olympia in 1877. It is preserved in the museum there. a Q Is the American bison a true buffalo? A The American bison has long been popularly, though wrongly, known as the buffalo. A true buffalo has no hump over its shoulders. The American buffalo has a considerable hump, and Is a bison. Q What branch of the federal government checks upon patent infringements? A. The federal government makes no effort to determine whether a patent has been infringed in-fringed or not. This is handled through private attorneys and through the courts. Q Was there ever a window tax in Great Britain? A In Great Britain and other parts of Europe, a tax was once imposed on all windows above a limited number, on the theory that if a man's house had windows win-dows he must be a rich man. It was abolished in England in 1851. THI 1 .000 WATT VOiCI OF CENTRAL UTAH LISTEN Tomorrow Night 8:00 P.M. For This Football Classic Brigham Young University Vs University of Utah Directly from the University of Utah Stadium to you. f h ' .;Li$tr TOKiSHt at 7:30 wrjen Meet th'or;8yieX Friday, October 7 ALLEN KLINE . American JSi Bureau FederaUo. 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