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Show 7 THE PUBLIC PULSE Unions Fl Two Terms and No More CfoOGb sL(gOQ LEADER' PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1957 t - fi t in I r n runniww. .IIVUA4A By ELMO ROPER AND ASSOCIATES H LSI i Two terms is enough for any President: ?o says a majority of the American people. In the war year? Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with his third and fourth terms, broke a political tradition that has been held sacred since the days of George Washington's retirement, and the Re- Sunny Business Skies Encouraging the American Bankers Bankers are, of course, paid to keep a sharp weather eye on economic trends. When you're lending other people's money, you can't indulge in casual guesswork. So it's significant that almost busiunanimously they look for a bright ness prospect in the remainder of 1957. John E. Booth John E. Booth of Spanish Fork, a man who made a mark in several lines of endeavor during his lifetime and who achieved a state-wid- e reputation through his civic work, died Thursday night, de priving Central Utah of one of its most illustrious citizens. state official Druggist, former city and Booth was Mr. and tireless civic worker. the 'Mr. Spanish Fork" of his community for many years. When you thought of Spanish Fork you thought of John E. Booth, a towering leader who was not afraid to tackle any job if it meant procommunity and state. gress for his four-terHe was a mayor of Spanish in the Utah terms two Fork and served State Senate. He was Department Commander of the American Legion in 1925, president of the Utah Municipal League in 1931, president of the Spanish Fork Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, president of the Utah Pharmaceutical Association in 1934, president of the Spanish Fork Poultry Association, president of the Spanish Fork Chamber of Commerce, president of the Utah Junior Livestock Show, and president of the Utah State Livestock Show Association. In fact, it seemed as if he became president of about every organization with which he became affiliated. Mr. Booth was owner of the World Drug Store in Spanish Fork and had other business interests. He was director of the Bank of Spanish Fork and the Spanish Fork Building and Loan Association. John E. Booth was a man of rare foresight, ingenuity, and energy. He was a dedicated civic worker who accomplished much good in his lifetime. Certainly the people of his community and state owe him a debt of gratitude for his service arid leadership. His memory, we are sure, will live long in the minds of all those m whose lives he touched. publican anger at this was in large measure responsible for a Constitutional Amendment passed in 1947 forbidding any President more than two elected terms of office. But no sooner had the Amendment been passed than its wisdom began to be questioned. Dwight Fiisenhower is the first President in our history who is now legally forbidden to run for office again. Last winter, although he himself has no intentions of another' term, he spoke of this legal limitation as not wholly wise.'" This January a resolution was introduced in Congress to lift the third term ban. So far, nothing has come of it. Recently we asked people what they thought should be done, and it's plain that most of them find no fault with Surveyed by Assn., overwhelmingly the country's bankers said they foresee a time of high, stable economic activity, with employment and income holding at today's excellent levels. This optimistic view of the future comes at a time when the current status of business continues curiously mixed, though generally at a very high level. The seasoned onlookers find both bright and dark spots. The bright patches aren't sufficiently numerous to suggest a new boom is developing, and the dark blotches don't coalesce into a pattern presaging depression, or even recession. Obviously new elements of stability exist today which did not a couple of decades ago. It would hardly have been possible then to imagine a bustling economy with home building and automobile manufacture at considerably less than top the As you know, a law was passed a few years ago so that a President of the U. S. cannot serve more than two terms. Recently there has been some talk of changing back to the way it used to be. when there was no two-terlimit. Do you think there should be a two-terlimit, m m or should not be? Demo- - crats ed put, farm payments, government construction programs and the like but it boasts industries like chemical manufacture which measured small in the 1930's but today contribute heavily to the national V. far larger in 1957 than they did in 1937 or even 1947. Far more people are kept busy doing things for people rather than many and varied new lines of manufacture, help to soak up the shock of declining business in some of the more established fields like home building and car By FRANK C. ROBERTSON The Best Way to Referee Child's Quarrel in Quotes Today's News By UNITED PRESS Kitty Butler, 10, speaking for the first time when her father asked her where she would like to vacation with silence: the pony she had won by her CONCORD. N. C 30-d- ay "Windy Hill." Ky. Mrs. Irene Nickerson. mother of Col. John C. Nickerson Jr., on the court martial conviction of her son: "I don't think the court martial decision was entirely fair but could have been worse." it LOUISVILLE, WASHINGTON Former Alaska Gov. Ernest Gruening agreeing to take Speaker Sam Rayburn's advice and forego until next year a drive for a House vote on statehood for Alaska legislation: "We feel thetre will be a much better atmosphere for the bill's consideration then, and I'm sure chances of its passage will be much improved." LONDON Prime Minister Harold MacmiHan endorsing a U.S. proposal for a solid system of international law to rule all nations: "That no doubt is the great te&t before us all." TIZZY By KATE OSANN . A families an i eunutn. me aa- - ministration will psychologists Norma E. Cutts and Nicholas Moseiey, our most effective treatby A ' j i j I Daily Herald Here are Herald start correspondent ranou communities ot Utan Contact them if rou have County new Dutrict circulation agent are listed also They stand readv to help you with Droblems concerning delivery of the Daoer Name Phone Community A Fork Mac Buekwalter fspt.U56J American Fork Dene Orant 100W A Fk. Jennie Gilbert fcir.) P.G 2694 0119R3 Benjamin Mrs J R Peiy Tana Richards FR rdgemont 297 Eureka. Marajrret Lucas Goshen Elberta Marguerite Water bur? Highland Cressif Greenland 089J1 Lake Shore 0410-J- 1 Karei Ann Anderson d Lake 'Mrs Kent A Prue AC Lehi- J" 2pl.int Zimmerman 71W Willis Lehi. Paul 101W (cir Lindon. Patricia Alton 3138 Mapleton. Doris Rowberrv HU 9.4974 471-Nephi Mrs Grace H Jwdd ai Nephi Lee Baiiev Orem Margaret Whitwood AC ft -- 3460 Orem. Irene Keith (cir.) AC 0311R3 almyr Shirlene Ottesen 223J Payson Madolin. Dixon Payson. Amber Jackman (dr.) 327J PI. Grove Beulah G Bradley 2551 Pi Grove. Gu HilAman (sports) 4382 PI Grove Jennir Gilbert (cir.) 2894 PI. View. Yvonrw Perry FR4-03Salem. Marerette Taylor 0107R1 Santaauin Estella Peteixi 9902 Sd Fork Frank G Kinf 326 J Sp Fork Virginia Evans (society) 297 Sp Fork. B Davis Evans (cir ) 297 Soring Lake. Hortensc Butler Sprlngville Evelyn Boyr HU Springville. Marie Whiting HU Wesrt Mto In tn Matter of Fact 333 View-Vinevar- - e iw -- I think w would hava mad out much t bttr ' trt . st Though the word centipede some species means have more legs than that and some only 30. On the section g next to the head are two claws. The poison of most centipedes is harmless to man, though in the tropics there are species 8 to 10 inches long whose bite may be serious. Some centipedes shed light like a glowCvera Blafeee 581J3 worm. They are usually blind. tte 50 lac ' a couple of . magazines I in fairmust backgrounds, ness mention another quarterly called INLAND, published in Salt Lake City by a group of local writers, many of whom are my It's a neat personal friends. looking job, and very, very inIt must be very telligentsia. I for couldn't understand good, what most of the writers were driving at. The best thing in the magazine I thought was a poem called, No Ritual, by Claire Stewart Boyar. for many years one of Utah's outstanding poets. The purpose of INLAND, it says, is to promote a higher type of writing a worthy ambition indeed! However, a squirrel can climb higher up a tree than a man. but is not necessarily stronger, or even smarter. with intermoun-tain- The Dylan Thomas influence in the magazine is quite visible, as illustrated by the title of one poem: Sketch of a boy who'll puff on a big cigar when he I happened to be grows up. autobi Thomas' reading Dylan ography, "Picture of the artist re- as a young aog, ceived the magazine from a friend. The man was certainly a genius, and the fact that he drank himself to death at the cannot detract age of thirty-nin- e from his fame. But to believe that every young wouldbe poet is an embryo Dylan Thomas w-n- 100-foote- d, poison-bearin- 1 is foolish. I do not wish to be derogatory, but I found most of the poems and stories pretentious and dull. Undoubtedly as a "little" maga zine ijnlainu will compare fa- vorably with others of its kind in the country, and perhaps the trouble is that I don't understand poetry. Nevertheless, I think sometimes that even I might write a modern poem. Were I to attempt it, I would first search the dictionary for a dozen or so big words that I had never heard of; then I would try to recall some dreadful thing I did as a kid. and I would write it out in prose style, making room somewhere for those big words I had unearthed. Then I would hack it all up fashion in short sentences, trying If possible to keep any sentence except the last one from ending a line, and I think I would have me a poem. and people would search for my dfep and hidden meaning. I have only one thing more to say on the subject: I love poets. jig-sa- w HAPPY TIMES If You Earn $600 a Year, You're One of the People his own home, hves in a warm By BEULAH STOWE "I get an annual income of climate where heating and clothless than $600." says Mr. Stanley ing bills are low, and had a bank S. Pavlik, "but I don't consider account which he could tap to myself a poor man. I'm just one out. of the people. I've got more peo- help At the same time, the bank ple in the same income bracket with me today than there were account won't last forever, and when I was earning $125 a Mr. Pavlik is looking for a way to augment his income. It's not wt?ek." those' 3,939.-81- 7 According to a report from the that he doesn't like people, you understand. Internal Revenue Service, 3.939,-81- 7 good company. They're or $600 earned Americans a 1954. $50 month in less That's Q "My mother is 74, has no or under. In the same year 3.353,077 people earned between pension, and she lives with me $6,000 and $7,000. (Mr. Pavlik's and my family. I have a brother annual income before he retired and a sister, both married, who refuse to help. Is there any way fell within these brackets.) The retired person who earns I can make them share the exless than $600 a year may not be pense of Mother's care or have rich, but he has plenty of com- her live with them part of the time?" P. T. pany. If your retirement income adds A You could check the finanup to between $600 and $1,000 cial positions of your brother and a year, you are a bit wealthier sister, and urge them to share but your category is a little your mother's care. You might smaller: 3,180,541 people earned also remind them that a mother this income. is a duty, legally and morally. If your income is less than If your brother and sister have $5,000 a year you are one out of lost all memory of the days when almost 42.000,000 people. If your Mother took care of them, it's income is more than $5,000 a their loss. You are one of those year, you have only about vanishing Americans who "seen people sitting with you on your duty and you done it." the wealthy side of the street. Mr. Pavlik. who was philosophical enough to discover that he "ain't alone" with his $50 a month, admits that he would be dinOne of those willing to swap some of his misery'likes-compan- y attitude for ners we read about would open a larger income. He has been our mouth so wide we wouldn't retired for less than two years, be able to chew. and says his income, which is a A Michigan judge fined a man monthly Social Security payment, would not have stretched fifty dollars for striking his wife. to take care of him if it had not He didn't know that you can't been for the fact that he owns j beat a good wife. 14,-500,0- 00 W 12 Havinr mentioned new say it got the i.n uiii passcu,i anui nobody will be ment of quarreling children is to hurt except the who remove them both from our Negroes will get nothing presence. except a verbal It '8 effective because the equal statement that penalty denies our moral en- they have a right to vote dorsement to either child. It's giving our moral endorse- which, in thement to one of our two quarreling ory, they have The V. ...jii... .. IIU--" -children that is always our mis- anyway. will Southerners take. see to it that Mr. Robertson We simply cannot know the they don't. The cause of Negro rights or wrongs of quarrels be- justice will be set back 10 years tween Sharon and Billy. Their by this legislation which was inmutual jealousy expresses itself in tended to benefit them. a thousand ways we never register. A strong bill could have been For example, you may imagine passed had Eisenhower really that their quarrel today was caused backed his program. But. as always, Ike backed down when he was provoked by Sharon who ex- should have been firm. aggerated the fun she was having Every hundred years or so this as the insider on the dolls' party country goes on a great religious to stress Billy's lack of fun as an revival, when everybody tries to outsider on the party. get God on their side. We are This kind of unnoticed attack and in the midst of one now. Not counterattack goes on much of the since the beginning of the last time between Sharon and Billy. century have people been so deWhen we condemn either one of vout. With nearly everybody prothese children as the cause of a fessing some kind of religion, pubile and private, single explosion of jealous feeling, morality, we can be sure of only one thing ought to shine like the noon-da- y sun. we are misjudging. When I see how dishonesty and Our inevitable misjudgment cheating are applauded and glorsimply increases their Jealousy. ified I tend to become somewhat For their quarrels are just necentiy, tne papers skirmishes in their basic battle for skeptical, and the TV sets have given our preference. Each believes hima to attention young worn- self less favored than the other. great When we give either quarreler our The opinions expressed by j moral endorsement, we add to this Herald columnists and fornm envious belief. writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the j views of this newspaper. Correspondents pendents Among the Young Looked at in one way, it would seem that putting thii limit on ourselves shows a lack of trust in our own political judgment. Instead of relying on our national ability to decide in each individual case whether a President should od at the end of one or two terms, be retired or we are saying that we are afraid we may keep on a President we shouldn't really have, a man who wih't be good for the country. This lack of confidence in our own futura judgment, too. seems curious in a people noted for their confidence in themselves and their future. One clue her is that what opposition there is to fixing a set limit for the Presidency centers in the younger generation, who may be more bold and venturesome than we have lately been told. Vet even among people under 25, the majority vote is in favor of the limit, although by a smaller margin. President Eisenhower is already having a "hard tim trying to keep Congress and his party in line while having no nolitir.nl future to dande in front of f.hpm n a lurp. His wrangles with Congress this past spring have shown how ineffectual a second-terPresident can become with Twenty-Second Amendment ill effect. Yet the public the is all for that amendment. This may be one of those cases when the public's thinking on the subject just hasn't gone deep enough or enough to see all the implications of th. situation. After all, the people will never be forced to keep a President in office for more than two terms. Only they can decide that- - Perhaps our legislators were affected too strongly by resentment against a dead President, when they passed the Amendment in the first place. Per haps the public is affected too strongly by solicitude for a recently ill one now. Perhaps this should not be the last re-ele- who entered a beauty con-- 1 test, posing as a virgin, and tell- wise somebody said the how she hoped to marry some ing other day that there are three "When the right man comes great powers in the world today: day, when all the time she the United States, the Soviet along," a had husband and two children. Union, and the Oil Industry. I When she broke into exposed think that is right, though the Oil Industry, it simply has to be tears and apparently did some capitalized, to a considerable more fancy lying by trying to the United blame the thing on her sponsors. degree dominates States. Most of our Washington As her reward she appears on biggest show in the country, politicians from the president the down surely bow down to Texas and gets dozens of offers for It used oil men whose money flows as lucrative appearances. to to all be be if crooked right to influence legislation smoothly could it. with you away get as their product. They are not so crude as to resort to bribery, Now it pays off even if you get but there are a thousand other caught.. This revival business might ways to get what they want, and work better if people tried to get they get it. on the side of God rather than From all appearances the Civil God on their side. Rights Bill is going to emerge get THE MATURE PARENT 6.000 HEA Service rf.;-- A deed welcome. Sharon caught him and was ting on top of htm the better to beat him when her, mother came running from the house. She tapped. Sharon, told her friend to go home. Then, bearing the roaring Billy into the house, she cried. "I don't care what he did! You had no right to hit him." This kind of treatment can only table. foment quarreling between Sharon "Stupid stupid stupid!" yelled and Billy. her little brother from where he'd thrown it and ran. According to a study made of . v';-- " Picture of the Columnist as a Literary Bum making. Thus it is that, with notable dark spots, the United States in 1957 nevertheless is breaking all previous records for total output of goods and services, for personal income and for consumer spending three vital measures of economic health. It's a phenomenon that is baffling some of our own economists, and it certainly must be disconcerting to the Russians, who have been forecasting the collapse of capitalism with foolish regularity for some decades. But no matter whom it baffles, today's high level stability is in- By MRS, MURIEL LAWRENCE Under a maple tree in the back yard. Sharon and a friend were having a dolls' party. The table was a barrel lid; the cloth an old pillow case; the tea was water. But the cookies and the china were real. Suddenly a big lump of dirt landed right in the middle of the , THE CHOPPING BLOCK making things. These activities, like the , Inde- - A Clue balance. On top of this, the service trades bulk sit-- Repub- Means fifi 61 69 63 Should Be A Limit SO 32 26 Should Not Be A Limit 30 4 5 7 7 Don't Know Not only is the eight-yea- r limit ajxproved it isn't even a bone of political contention. A t more Republicans are for it than Democrat?, but the vast weight of opinion among both is that the limit is a wise one. level. Yet that's the circumstance in 1957. The truth is the economy not only has a lot of props defense outwell-advertis- restrictions: two-ter- m Barbs $100-a-pla- te ct m long-rang- e word on the subject, after all. (Copyright, 1957, John F. Dille Co.) DR. BRADY'S COLUMN Can We Afford Playgrounds? By WILLIAM BRADY, mt dVxedrin. barbiturate to switch will herein, tranquilizer bocaine or morphine sooner or laier. Not every one who takes am occasional cocktail or highball becomes a confirmed alcoholic. What I mean to say Is that M Is always better for riValth and happtneM and better for soul and character to face the situation with yoor faculties unimpaired. No less than 18 pages of a woefc- ly medical journal, some is eoW, are devoted to i.ntirvg the "peace of mind," "fr dom from apprehension," "little or no hangover, "relaxation of mind and muscle, "dramatic reiief of pediatric emotional problemis" (the poor kids!) and "relief of tension." M. D. tin, Probably most real doctors receive as much vva6tebasket mail as I do. I mean the stuff on can recognize at a glance as propaganda. Here's a typical paragraph from a mailing piece about tranquihting drugs, quoting the head of the Psychiatry Department of a medical school: "Most patients with physical diseases have significant emotional reactions to tha disease and could be benefited by being more at ease about their iHness." That ought to sell tons of the even the "dastinctioo" t more car a than expensive driving the neghbors have offered suck 13 illusive delights. As I flip the t r a n q u ilizers Dr. Brady I can't help thinking how that are encroaching on the quasi-ethric- pages. much good all that money maght dope business the popular do if it were spent to provide playdemand for aspiring, acetanilkie, grounds for children everywhere. phenacetin and the barbiturates. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS In the same but of Mother's Cataracts a professor of psychiatry in a Eye doctors found mother haa medical school asserts that ia a cataracts. She is afrtaad to con-. . please give study of the effects of tranquii- - sider operation iers on normal persons even me the name- and address of the twice the usual dose of one such correspondent who toM about tha drug had "no effect on the skills painlessness of her operation and reradred for safe driving." the fine result . . . (Mrs. B.H.) That's what many a motorist Ans. The identity of my corre-he says about the few cocktails pondents is confidential. Tbe cattook shortly before he drove into aract operation is painless in any an accident. case, because it is done under a Still another eminent medical local anesthetic. It seems thai authority, that is to say a doc most persons with cataract must or who gets quoted by a publicity go through this 18th century per-agent, branded as "unfairly criti- formance of dreading pain, that cal" the attitude of "those' (un- doesn't occur, for weeks or months identified, of course) who contend before they stop carrying on and that tranquilizers are merely submit to propert treatment. "chemical straight jackets" which (Copyright 1957 make the patient more amenable John F. Dille Co.) and submissive. I have learned the hard way that anything that sirned letters not mora taaa one page or 1M wards may possibly make anybody hesitate to resort to dope is "unfair, long, pertaining to perssnal an hygiene, net ta health critical." ly 3kease. diagnosis or treatI believe that anyone who uses ment will be answered by tranquihzing drugs without conDr. Brady If a stamped stant supervision of a physcian is envelope Is ea heading for a breakdown. It is closed. Addresi sack corre--i fundamentally, wrong, no matter to Dr. William spondeacs bow eminent the psychiatrist who Herald. Ibe ca DaOj Brady details the drugs, to resort to even i Ptoto. Utan. t the "safest" tranquilizer under Not different al bric-a-bra- c, - ; j j self-address- everyday annoyances, tensions, anxieties' or worries. From this childish make-belie-ve way of Me, it is but a step to narcotic addiction. This is not to imply that every one who takes an occasional dose af aspirin, acetanilide, phenace ed As part of the U. . 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