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Show Editorial Page Feature 1 The only daily newspaper devoted to the progress of Central Utah and advancement and its people. Am Not a Spy Newsman Tells Mao By FRED SPARKS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1957 NEA Special Correspondent An open HONG KONG (NEA) letter to Mao Tse-Tunchairman of the Central Chinese People's Government, Peiping'. Dear Comrade Mao: g, Slow Down for the School Kids and boys not accustomed to the dangers that lurk on the streets. There is nothing more tragic, more pathetic than the sight of a child lying on the pavement beside a bent and twisted bicycle, victim of an automobile. So Mr. Motorist, slow down at the intersections. Don't debate in your mind who has the Give it to the child and play safe. And watch your step as you drive along any street where a child might step out from behind a parked car into the path of your car. It's a whole lot better to take a little extra time getting to your destination than to spend a lifetime regretting that you weren't more careful. y The fact that you had the or that the accident was the child's fault isn't going to salve your conscience very much. The start of school is a good time for parents, also, to give some heed to safety. Teach your children to be careful to heed the traffic lights, to look in all directions before crossing an intersection, to avoid jaywalking, to avoid playing in the streets, to keep a sharp lookout for cars at all times, to respect the rights of others, to use the intersections where traffic guards are on duty, to mind traffic officers, patrolmen, junior police and others having to do with safety on the streets. Let's have a safe year, without a single fatality or serious injury Slow down for the kids ! of This should be the slog-aevery motorist this week and in the months to come. School starts in Central Utah thi3 week. There will be boys and girls at the intersections lots of n , them. 7 Some of them may not be as careful as they should be. Many right-of-wa- y. of them will be attending school for the first time . . . little girls Better Than Nothing It is well that in its last-minu- te ru&h Congress did not neglect to approve a measure designed to protect the FBI's raw files from fishing expeditions by crooks and Communists. Those files have been in peril since the celebrated Jencks decision of the Supreme Court earlier this year. That ruling stated that a defendant had a right to examine the files where it was deemed necessary in the defense effort to discredit testimony by opposition witnesses. Under the measure passed by Congress, a defendant still can look at federal files when material relates directly to a witness's testimony. But if the government itself says the material isn't relevant, then the judge would look it over in private and decide whether or not it should be given to the defense. Such a measure would seem a minimum safeguard for vital FBI files. I am not a spy. Honest to goodness, I don't know how to write with invisible ink and haven't a thumb-nail-size- camera d to conceal in my buttonholes. I wouldn't dare spike Shanghai Sue's jasmine tea .with a potion to make her tell me how many troops you have stationed in Tibet. Your government said that I end my 23 colleagues authorized by Washington to go to your country are agents of Secretary Dulles, out to collect secret information and cause unrest among your people. Of course my job is to collect information for articles, but I promise not to poke around any secret places. (If they're secret how would I find them anyway). Also I will try not to cause unrest although it is true, being I am strangely romantic, that wherever I go, a certain percentage of the female population becomes rest-- 1 less. The only time I met Mr. Dulles was a few years ago in the lobby of a hotel when he fumbled in his pocket and turned to the man next to him(me) and asked for a match. I am six feet one, weigh 145 pounds, am bald without my toupee and haven't enough muscle to wrestle an aged beaver. I am not a member of any political party. Furthermore, I am a worker, not a capitalist, even if I own 10 shares of AT&T, and have a down payment on a color-Tset. As a fellow worker, you can help me out, comrade. V I am in trouble because of my No Matter How Hot It Gets expense account. You see, my newspapers paid over $1,700 for a round-tri- p ticket from New York to. Hong Kong, plus hotel rooms and tips and a few item I list under miscellaneous.' K I go back home now without completing my assignment to report Inside Communist China, a real wicked capitalwill ist, always associate me with a terrible, useless cost. If I can't appeal to you as a fellow worker I appeal to your humanity, highly recommended by your official biographers. Will, my colleagues and I, sitting around Hong Kong waiting the-treasure- jT'VM Manypeo-- pie wanted to see him shot, and some wrote angry letters to the papers as- the court sailing appointed law yers who defended Clark for taking the case, regardless of the W I fry NA fact that they had no .choice. C I a r k's alleged was a heinous one; that of beating to death his Mr. Robertson fivp - vear - old step of second daughter. He was convicted now serving a degree murder, and isstate prison. De4erm at the spite the inflamed public opinion the trial was probably as fair as could be held here under the circumstances. But had he been given a change of venue to a large city the result might have been considerably different. I visited Buzz Clark up at the penitentiary the other lay and listened to and polite; bis story. He is assowould certainly not the type you ciate with viciousness. After that I studied the transcript of the trial carefully, and- I am convinced that murder was not the right charge, and that if it were there is a reasonable doubt that Buzz Clark was the guilty parry. The transcript shows little or no evidence that anyone deliberately sought the death of the little girl that day. The child was sick, yet the mother admitted doing nothing about it at any time, and admitted further that she had beaten the child that day with a stick three feet long and an inch thick. Surely, the blame could not have all belonged to Buzz". Indeed, the transcript seems to r, made show that Buzz, the the greater effort to keep the child clean, , though his methods may have been rough. The child could not, or would not, control her bodily functions, and both parents because of the hard way they were living at the time, appear to have been irritable and without the patience to understand the small victim's condi--, tion. Here you had one of these itinerant families, moving from place to place, making a bare living, and living in an old school bus with little food and few clothes, though it appears that Buzz crime 17-ye- ar soft-spok- en - step-fathe- murder. In spite of the inflamed public opinion at the time of the trial there was no trouble at all in securing a jury of people who declared that they could be fair and unbiased. I have no doubt that every one of them was sincere at the moment, and I do not believe it was possible for them to be as fair and unbiased as would a jury selected in a city where they were more used to such happenings, and where an atmosphere of hate had not been created as it had been in this county. I talked to many people before Clark's trial, and failed to find any besides a reporter or two who didn't express a vehement, opinion that Buzz Clark should be shot. "I wish I could be on that jury," was a common expression." Had a change of venue been granted I am sure, after going over the transcript of the trial, that the worst Buzz Clark would have got would have been voluntary manslaughter, which I believe under the circumstances might have been justified. Clark has been in jail nearly four years now. He won't be a better man 14 years hence than he is now. If 'he had intended to kill he should have ' been executed under the laws of this state. If he didn't intend to kill the child, and he made an effort to get her to a doctor, it wasn't murder. Either way you look at it there was a miscarriage of justice. Buzz Clark should have a new trial, and in a different county. So They Say ' ,GREAT opposing sects of communism ana democracy can President Sukarno of Indonesia. co-exi- st. SLOWLY they (young people) absorb the poison of materialistic teaching, of attitudes warped by class warfare and hatreds (when they go out into the world). Pope Pius XII. THERE are strong circumstances here that indicate he (Teamsters Union vice president James R. Hoffa) may not have been telling the truth when he said he couldn't recall, couldn't remember. Sen. Johji McCleilan on Hoffa 's testimony before Senate Rackets Committee. (D-Ark- .), Barbs THE smart man is known by the money he keeps 'putting, into the bank or in government bonds. "Heavy Fines for Speeders" headwill Maybe more crack-dowmean fewer crackups. line. ns Every time we read about Miss America, it reminds us that you shouldn't when taking a vacation tour. gal steps into society by stepping n on high out, which is a funny life. A low-dow- I FEEL that no matter what I write, as long as it Is truthful it is not obscene. Author William Bradford Huie, hv testimony at trial of Confidential" magazine. WE regret very much' that peneral Motors has again demonstrated shortsightedness by its arbitrary rejection of our practical and positive proposal (to cut $100 off price of 1958 cars). President Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers Union. r, way. 4 Very truly yours, Fred Sparks That is what the shark A new mosquito repellent is on the market. The U. S. Depart- ' In my helpful way, I reprinted this information. I did not print "the name because it is. one of those fearfully long things chemists dreamr up. Full of thinks like "dia- - I something-or-otha-- m ay-- c alLit-mid- e.' Personally I would not try this out with a shark for anything. It is not enough for me to make a shark lose his appetite. Suppose this shark has no appetite due to the repelleSnt) but he stays in er ' ulfa around anyway. "So I have no appetite," he says. "I will just stick around and look at the magazines on the stand until my appetite returns." Meanwhile your repeHent is getting thinner and thinner. There is a repellent for cats and dogs. It makes them stay off the couch. That is what it says in the ads. It does not make my cat and dog stay off the couch. They are not repelled. But it makes me stay off the couch. My cat and dog are very grateful to the repellent people. Since I used the repellent I cannot bear to get on the couch. And it makes a lot more room for them. what-o- h I wonder how chemists jshink of such long names. A chemist must be a great trial to his wife. He probably wmm. t.-- - W&frMzzm ? mm?: mm mm Ruth Millett The Herald invites you to use this column as a forum to express opinions on timely subjects of public interest. Keep your letter jour within the 300 word limit. Sign your name and address. are not permitted. Nome-deplum- es Woman Thinks Missing Statue of Indian Editor Herald: Give Utah back its Indian For many years and since the beginning of our Utah a bronze statue of an Indian chief named Maesasoit has graced the halls of our Utah State Capitol building. It was admired 'and beloved by all and an idol of the children. Tourists paused to admire the art and the beauty of its bronze image and now it is gone. With no explanation to the public,, it has been removed and the public feels it has suffered a loss. Utah has always been a state to value, cherish and protect our old historic relics. Then why did this statue which was so valuable have to go? This Indian stood in memory of the friendly Indians who played such an important roll in helping the pioneers defeat the desert out here. v Brigham Young soon came to discover there was much the pioneers could learn from the Indians about this country and how to conquest it and defeat it. Thus he worked to make friends as he called them brother and also said "it is better to feed them than to fight them." With this in mind some of the early pioneers placed the statue in the building. Utah was once an Indian territory and the home of the redskin, and we carmot erase this fact from our Utah history: We found both friends and foes in them. This ought to have been one of the last items to have ,to be removed from the state capitol building. It added to the beauty and the art of the building and also was a historic relic. Those who removed k should at least give an explanation to our state people who admired and respected it. And if it lias not been destroyed many of us feel it ought to be replaced and given its rightful place back in the building. Alice Hatton Knudson. Qs and As Which bird has the longest migratory flight? A The Arctic tern, with an annual round-tri- p migratory flight of Q some 22,000 miles? 4 Q Why are clergymen some- times referred to as "the. cloth" or "gentlemen of the cloth?" A While the word cloth has come to mean a fabric, at one time it meant clothing. The old meaning- - is retained in reference to the distinctive dothing worn, by priests and ministers. Women Often Term Hubbies As 'Big Babies' American men would be startled if they knew how often the word "baby"' is used by American worn' en to describe their husbands. Over and over in letters to this column wives describe irresponsible, selfish, bullying, and lazy husbands as "big babies." A letter before me, describing a husband who throws a tantrum every time things don't go to suit him, says with final resignation "Well, at least there will always be a baby at our house father." And it might be well for a man to know that when his wife brands him in her mind as just a "big baby," every bit of respect she ever felt for him is gone. If there actually are, as my mail indicates, an increasing number of husbands who act like babies, who is to blame? Could it be that women, by helping 1,0 earn a living, insisting they know best, wanting to manage family finances, etc., have encouraged men to act like babies? If women have anything to do with keeping their husbands from maturing, they had better start examining their own attitudes and actions. Women, may want equality and all its benefits. But even more, they want a man they can look up to. There is no contempt greater than a woman feels for a man she regards as just a great big baby. cannot, ask for the salt at the table in an ordinary way. "Kindly pass the sodium chloride," he says. "Had a good day at the lab today. Invented e." "Whaffor?" says the lady. "To keep off mosquitoes," says the brain. "I put in a little pinch of old pop skull and a jigger of citronella. Then we sat down and thought up a chemical name. BoyV am I worn out." This is a repellent age. If yoa are bothered with sharks, you can run down to the drugstore and buy a shark repellent. The repellent kills the shark's appetite. The shark is coming at you with his big teeth shining and his mouth watering. You think you look like a Jantzen ad in four colors. But to the shark you just look like Chicken Maryland. He opens his mouth. He closes his mouth. "Odd," he says, "I seem to have lost my appetite." v He swims away to consult his shark doctor. The shark doctor advises him to spend less time at the office and take up a hobby. Maybe golf. to find out several things: Is your condition really asthma or something else making you short winded? Is your asthma allergic? Are there' complications such as emphysema, bronchitis or others? Do you have any other illness as kidney trouble, heart disease, or high blood pressure? And finally, he wants to determine the allergic tor aims causes of your asthma. To accomplish these ends he may ask you many questions, thump and poke you, and may make many other tests. - He'll probably want to do skin This is done by scratch or (tests. . with solutions of substances which are suspected as causes. The tests produce very little pain and in competent hands are perfectly safe. Whether positive or negative the skin tests are not infallible. It takes an expert to interpret the tests and to give the proper advice to , the asthmatic. Supposing you have an allergy to dog hair, feathers or a food. You will1 he asked to find a new home for Fido, get a plastic casing Wr your pillow oi substitute for it sponge rubber and eliminate the particular food. The most effective treatment is elimination of the cause. This might also require air filtration, a change of occupation, or even a change of climate. The majority of sufferers do not benefit by climate change. This can only , be recommended H after thor-- ough study the particular suf-ferer"s case indicates it. Certain substances, such as pollens, molds, house dust, and insect dust, are difficult to avoid. Patients with this type. of allergy usually require "shots." Injections of small but increasing amounts of the very substance causing the allergy will grduaily produce an immunity to it. This treatment is not a short, quick process, and the sufferer may have to bej under the doctor's care for years. But it is at present the ? best way of keeping allergic asthma in check. For temporary relief sprays injections or drugs taken by mouth or suppository are available. In acute severe cases, and also in presistent chronic asthma, cortisone or the newer cortisone-lik- e products! may be used. These drugs are well tolerated and they i Be-.cau-se pride. A truly repellent era. Re- pulsive. Distributed by The McNaught Syndicate, Inc. Who Invented Ice Cream? We are so fond of ice cream in the United States, and eat so much of k, that we might imagine ice cream k an Ameri- can invention. Ice cream has been known in Europe for hundreds of years, and it wasn't invented there either! The great Venetian explorer, Marco Polo, brought the idea of ice cream back to Italy from the Orient, where it had been known for centuries. From Italy the idea was carried to France and to all parts of the world, including the United States. The first factory for the manufacture of ice cream in this country was started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1851. The basis of all ice cream is cream, milk or milk solids, sugar, and sometimes eggs. Asthma Not Trivial Ailment; Deserves Medical Care injection v There is a deer repellent. You sprinkle the repellent on the petunias and the deer will stay away. "However," says the magazine that reported this, "if it comes to a question of starving, the deer will swallow his pride, the flowers and the repellent." I gather this repellent has little social standing. Like corned beef and cabbage. Deer are against it because everybody on the block would be snooty to them. My deer have no social pride. This is fortunate for them. they only have to swallow the flowers and repellent. They do not have to swallow their pride, too. This seems to put us in pretty good shape this year. We can repel sharks, eats, dogs, deer and mosquitoes by interfering with their appetite's and their social Tell Me Why Today's Medicine By Samuel M. Feinbergr, M.D. President, International Association of Allergology, Chicago Asthma is far from a trivial ailment. It deserves a thorough check-u- p by the doctor. The doc- repel- lent people say. ment of Agriculture' reported thi goop, saying it was the best ever. of a school child. This is a goal that is within our grasp but everyone will have to cooperate. And that means you! worked when he could get, a job. People living an abnormal life don't always have normal thoughts. Incredible as it may sound I believe that whatever Buzz Clark and his wife did to the child that day and it had been going on before that they believed that they were correcting the child for its own good, and the thing fartherest from their minds was to kill it. Deplorable and shocking as it was I can't believe that it was fast. If you give me a visa quickly I'll forget you called me a spy. Call me collect at the Hong Kong correspondents club and I'll come right over. In case you don't want to be bothered with rriy colleagues, that's all right. I'll come alone. In fact, it will be bettor that Pass the Sodium Chloride whatcha-may-call-it-mid- If you were asked, "Do you remember Buzz Clark?" you would probably have to think pretty hard to do it, if you remembered him at all. Yet only three years ago this man's name was on every tongue, and he was subject to as much verbal abuse as anyone who ever lived in this I should get back to hard work Postcard Column -- Frank Robertson's Chopping Block " Stan Deldpiane's right-of-wa- Today's Featured Column for you to let us In, have nothing to do but take on calories and last night I went after sharkfin soup and seaweed salad and Cantonese broiled river snake and I was up all night with the bicarb. need not be feared if the doctor knows the condition of the patient and keeps him under dose supervision. But these drugs are neither substitutes for more sim--' pie remedies nor short cuts for examination and tests. If all the asthma sufferers would avail themselves of present day medical knowledge the majority could be helped. "Although we know much about Allergy, there Is still .more to be diiscovered. Allergy specialists and full time scientists are many searching for. answers to make-u- p chemical the questions: of the anergic person; a more simple, shorter and more lasting immunizing treatment; new al--; lergic causes; more effective drugs, internal causes of allergy; and many other problems, by Columbia Fea--; (CfcpyrHht ; nref. Inc.) Vanilla, chocolate, berries, fruit ingredients, ?and nuts are added as flavors. About 80 to 85 of the ice cream is cream and milk products, 15 per cent sugar, one-ha- lf to 5 per cent flavoring, and a small per cent "stabilizer." The stabilizer is usually gelatin, and it's used to keep the ice cream smooth and prevent the formation of coarse ice crystals. Here are the steps used in making ice cream in an ice cream plant. First the basic "mix" is made by assembling the cream, milk, milk product, sugar and stabilizer. This mix is pasteurized to inr 're its being safe to eat. To keep the cream from churning into butter during freezing and to produce a smoother texture, the globules of mtiJc fat are broken up by ,a process called homorenization. The mix is then cooled and in the next step it's frozen. The automatic freezing process also whips the mix at the same time to give it uniform consistency. As the soft ice cream flows from the freezer, all the flavors Are added. Now the soft ice cream is put into the hardening room, where there are temperatures ranging from zero to 20 degrees below zero. The cream is left in the hardening rooms at least four hours before it Is delivered to the ice cream parlor or drug store where you enjoy it. Today, more than 2,500,000,000 quarts of ice cream are sold in the United States each year! FUN TIME The Quiz Box Holiday Dates 1. Washington's birthday is . 2. Thanksgiving Day is . . 3 Labor Day is 4. Qjlumbus Day is . . 5. Hallowe'en is 'Jequiejctes f nj tap. js.nj 'Zl Jaqojoo -- uoj ., I E uaquraAOjK sjajunorfV, P |