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Show 1.7 I ... I -- V;:. 'v .!';:. . ;- - :,- .; -k-.: ,f. o -- - Conference Table THE PUBLIC PULSE Public Supports Atom Test Ban-W- ith Inspection y The only daily newspaper devoted to the progress and advancement' of. Central Utah" and its people i . SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1958 K Russia and the United States end years of dispute to take the first small step towardt atomic arms control, a majority of the U. S. public will rejoice- - That first step is the cessation of atomic bomb! tests and the establishment of an inspection system ' Which of these statements best expresses your attitude the testing of nuclear bombs? , We should stop testing nuclear bombs .9 right away, whatever Russia does . . .;J . We should form an agreement with Russia to stop bomb testing and depend on our ability to IS detect nuclear explosions to enforce.it to an with Russia We should form agreement , , stop bomb testing only if a system of 37 international inspection is set up It is imperative that we continue testing nuclear bombs, whatever Russia does Caution Signal Shoving We in the West must greet with somewhat mixed feelings Russia's acceptance of President Eisenhower's- proposal to conduct technical studies, on ways of preventing sur--V prise attacks. On its face it is of course promising, as was the conference of ex- perts on ways to detect nuclear kind and no assurance of peace if the world landscape is hereafter to be littered with frayed copies of agreements by technicians which never were put into force by their political masters. When Russia sits down at the table to talk nuclear test ban, the Kremlin's; intentions will begin to be measured, afresh. If it accepts the rigid requirements of an adequate inspection and detection sys- -: tern, we may really find ourselves on the. road to disarmament. Certainly no harm will result if concurrently with those discussions we put Soviet and U. S. experts together on the issue of balking surprise attacks. But we may be pardoned if we reserve our cheers for this "second stride" to peace until we have seen how big - . ex-plosio- .. ns. ' . Insofar as the 'Soviet response holds promise, we can all t be glad for it. But we must also maintain ; healthy I skepticism. The successfully concluded Geneva meeting on nuclear test detection was only a preliminary - to a real ban on testing and to more general disarmament. Not until we begin talking with Russia after Oct. 31 will we know what real, and lasting gains may emerge from those Geneva talks. u . It ; - , V... . . : -- Lately, you could still feel the heat of summer on the weekend. Tired of mowing the lawn, old boy? Well,' go sit under .a tree for a while. Not many more times this season, anyway. So, there you are, catching a ' little shade, maybe sipping a cool one supplied by your sympathetic . J' I . 'the 31. ............. , People who have not gone beyond grade school have previous talks starting Oct. For unless Russia at that time East-We- st -- ! , Disconsolately, you pick one up. So Doesn't weigh much. But multiply it by a few thousand and you'll know you're lugging something. And that, of course, is exactly what you'll be doing in a fortnight or so. ESPIONAGE RESTAURANT 1 mi I d - . Somehow it wouldn't seem so bad if the seasons for these com- , pulsory outdoor sports didn't even can't lap as they do. But ' ' ' ,you a get breather.) No wonder more and more men are fudging a little to lengthen ' their "winter" hibernating time. If the burdens keep mounting, the stretch-ou- t is sure to go on. Don't - let that sun fool' you, men. It's ". much too cold to work! over-- They Say To say that the defense of" Quemoy and Matsu is necessary to the defense of the United States is nonsense. The truth. is11 that, (it) is necessary only for the defense of an untenable United States diplomatic position. Thomas' K. Finletter, former Secretary of the Air Force. ' . This factory, constructed with the. aid .of the brotherly Romanian people, will produce enough aspirin . to meet home ' f Communist North Korean announcing completion of its first aspirin factory. . a sneepneraer J. a writer so that T could meet people. I still think ue-ca- . changing occupations was the major mis take of my life. h' I learned my but in quickly, the meantime I had les-so- After married. try-ta- g city life for a time : I fled - back to the i country where Mr. Robertson we could live remote Now sit I from neighbors. here, crouching in fear, watching the advance of wha't is playfully called progress, as the increasing population moves relent- -' - . i , . ' : , i, . , . . days, they were ground into la pulp which 'was sold and made into souvenirs like the frog. ' This new museum frog, made in the 1880's, came to the Treas- ury from Harry Rowe, retiring dean of - the faculty of Bates College, Me., through Nils Len-- j nartson, a Bates alumnus and information chief at the Treasury, When Lennartson showed the frog to Secretary of Treasury Robert B. Anderson, he cracked, j 'Considering the condition of our national debt, I'd like to , find out how to make this frog back into money. WHILE WAITING for a traffic J light the other day, an out-otown friend of ours asked the driver of a sports car next to him how to get to the Library of Congess. The driver explained, r that he. was going that way and told the visitor to follow him. ' But when the light changed our friend's car 'stalled and the sports car disappeared around a corner. About 20 minutes later he was waiting for a stop light r in another part of town when the same sports car pulled up beside him. to me so long "Sorry it took find, you,'.' the driver said. "It's just impossible to make any time ' in this rush hour traffic." . . : - WITH A LARGE assist from U. S. Information Agency offi- cials, we goofed but good the . e, . - tainment. "We like " Espionage,". Mary said, referring to a plush Washington restaurant. "Oh, really?" one of the Russians enthusiastically replied. "Maybe we could all get together and discussxthis matter over' cocktails tomorrow evening." The. girls quickly explained that they were booked up for the rest of the month. , ' ' ries," sounds childish!, ". unless, of course, you're following doctor's orders. It certainly doesn't endear you to your hostess, if you're dining out. CLING to relics of the. past. The artificial flowers your best friend gave you 30 years ago may have sentimental value. But they're pretty dingy by now. Why not toss them out or at least put them in a bottom drawer for a while? Give something new and fresh a chance. . woodshed? Ruth Millett Plan for the Winter Fall is the ideal time for the to take a personal . in- ventory and make plans for the months when, with vacation over, the family settles down to a more routine existence. , If you began summer tired out from too much plubwork, or bored from too few outside activities or with a feeling of frustration for the Mttle you accomplished during last winter, now is the time to sit down and figure out how o make the months ahead a different story. ".' H you headed more committees and went to more meetings last year than you could manage without running yourself ragged, you. had better decide right now how much you can do easily and well and cut this fall's activities to fit your strength and spare time. ' ; If you sat around home and got cabin fever last winter, now is the time to figure out what you . - - .28 .20 does Express no opinion- - bomb tests seems closely connected with vulnerability to actual bomb attack, for people living in our biggest cities show the greatest sense of urgency that) something be done to end bomb tests, without waiting for the perhaps remote time when Russia will permit inspection within her borders. In towns and ciies with less than a mililon population, only 19 per cent think we should stop testing even with-,oIn a system of inspection cities with less than a million almost twice! that proportion 36 per cent would not wait for such inspection before ending tests. Fallout: How Much Threat?' One big question in the test controversy has been: How dangerous is the radioactive fallout that the tests send into the earth's atmosphere? On this, experts and men in power have disagreed. Proponents of testing have argued, that only thus can a "clean" relativebomb be developed-Ui- ne have Others fallout. from free ly Interest in ending- - . would really like to do, and set the wheels in motion. If you saw last winter come and go without any sense of accomplishment, perhaps it was because- you didn't start the fall with any goals laid out for yourself. What do you want to accom- plish this year? j Put it down on ipaper, and then set to work checking off your list item by item as you; get ' things done. It's easy for anyone, but especially so for a housewife, to drift along aimlessly unless she stops now and then to set a few goals to work toward. Fall is housecleaning time for most housewives. It ought to be personal inventory time, too. There is so much a woman can do and so much she can accomplish with a little foresight and planning and thoughtful trimming of her activities to meet her in terests and needs. . . 34 31 4. 9 replied with the question: How "dean" can any device be which jean bring sudden death to millions? More often than not, in attempting to balance the threat of testing to future generationsagainst the threat of being milltarily weaker than' Russia, the balance achieved has depended on the balancer.Until a month ago,, attempts to reach governmental agreement on this issue have foundered in a sea pf talk. But last August, to the surprise of many, a technical jagreement was reached between JU. S. and Russian scientists on the ways and means of inspecting a ' ban oh bomb tests. Now the United States and Britain, following Russia's lead, have propoed jto suspend their tests, while the three, nations meet to try to make that suspension perm'aneni and get the dreaded atom In some harness. Sort of international This will be only the beginning of real arms control at best, but it is a welcome beginning to a majority of Americans. - i " ) , ", Tell Me Why? TELL salespeople, They just don't make merchandise nowadays the way they used to.? Maybe so, maybe not. But it isn't the clerk's-fault- . If you feel strongly about a product, ' write a letter to the , N manufacturer. REFUSE to try a tew experience. There's nothing to keep you from playing your first game of canasta, reading your first whodunit or taking your first airplane r '. ride at age 80. DEVELOP food fussiness that has no rhyme or reason. "I never eat asparagus or rice or cher- MONOPOLIZE the conversation with your ailments. People of all ages get awfully tired about hearing how your arthritis arid blood pressure are behaving. There are hundreds of more" interesting subjects. CRITICIZE the younger generation with stories of, "Now, when I was young." Maybe time's passing has polished up those memories, a bit. Could it be that you, too, did a bit of cutting up when you were a youngster and maybe . even made a trip or two to the housewife i ut 1893. . . rs . Fair of the out - up f- TWO Reserve-A-Serv-ic- How to make enemies "" and alienate people as you grow older: INSIST on talking ..about the good old days when, as you recall, things Were infinitely better than they are now. Maybe they were better, in some ways. Maybe they were worse, in others. At any rate, yoifll be lots more popular if you can talk about Sputniks, as well as the World's , ? - . Strowger invented BUSIEST party-goein town these days are Hoffman publicity dolls Mar and Sally-Jan- e Heit.j They run, .an outfit' called Inc., which arranges all types of social weddings and publishes a Washington social calendar. Other, evening- at a cocktail party, the gals were introduced to two young Russian Embassy diplomats. The Russians explained that they had just ar--. rived in "Washington and wanted to know what to do for enter By MARIE DAERR ' 1 So Don't Have to be a fogy greenback currency. Today, old bills are burned by the Treasury. . BuJ in the old - . ; ;' Happy Times . about four inches long in Treasury museum. It's -- made of old, worn - out, chewed THE the-switc- h. deal." "There are strings attached to all my work." , THERE'S A NEW green frog , sympathy." Writers are always asked where they get "their stories. Steve McNeil says he often gets his right around the house, from something his wife or daughter says or does,, and judging from the stories they must be brilliant and fasci-nating people. Haying met Mrs. .McNeil I know , they must be. From Steve's point of view that Is- - wonderful. Once;, knowing that he was underfoot all day long he hired an office, but after two dreary weeks - of staring at the walls And celling he came creeping home so : . , ' , . . .. by reaching back into the lonely years, but I am still a mess around the house. Luke, who does most of his writing in a newspaper office," bears it with him. Coming home from the Roundup, where he presided with grace, dignity and humor, proved himself to be a perfect - host to the visiting dignitaries and local writers, and received compliments and acclaim on every hand, was greeted by his wife with these words, "Why couldn't you have stayed away until tomorrow?" So, his hour of glory turned to gall. It was a remarkably good roundup, of which better accounts will be printed in this paper by trained reporters. They don't want any news stories by me anyway; editors having a stupid, idea that writers should stick to the solemn facts, when leaving eut a few things, or, embellishing others would .make better reading.' But the three imported speakers were all far above the average. These included,- besides v Mr. McNeil, Mr. Bernard Kelly of Denver, and James Neill Northe from Oklahoma City. I found all three gentlemen were acquainted with writer friends of mine, and it's always pleasant to gossip about mutual friends. If my luck holds I will be seeing Mr. Northe next year when Western Writers of America hold their annual convention in his city. Jim Northe, poet, lecturer, musician, book reviewer, and book dealer was here for the sec- - , ond time, and if there is anything the man can't do I haven't heard of it. An added pleasure for me was that; I got to meet and hear Dr. Pardoe of Brig- -' ham Young University and his talented wife for the first time. Both of them added a great deal to, the Roundup. I was quite astounded to find out that the scholarly Dr. Pardoe also has a , terrific sense of humor. .. influence! the of Theron Luke, Through and the courtesy of Dr.- Russell Morten-sen- ,the McNeils and I got to see the historic old Kearns mansion, later the Governor's Mansion, which now houses the Utah State Historical Society. We, were all goggle-eye- d at viewing the splendor in which the mining kings of a bygone generation lived. The jplace was closed on Sunday, but Dr. Morten- sen kindly gave us a personally conducted tour. My face was a little red when I remembered that I had promised some years ago 'to do an article for Utah Historical Quarterly, of which Dr. Mortensen is editor. He said, "There's a scot and a 1 coffee-po- t, so come up ajrid stay as long as you like." So I don't, have much excuse and what a relief it will be for my wife. - - , ( ' lessly in on us. It's now only a ques- -. tion of living with theni, or again fun for the high croppings,' of which there are mighty few left. It's not that we don't' love our neighbors we just don't want any more. When I left California recently my kids wrote- - that their little white Sa- moyed dog grieved for me piteously for several days. When I got home Ginger went into wild paroxysms of joy. I am convinced that my best friends are . dogs. I would not for a moment contend , that writers are. any more agreeable . than people. When- - we were saying the after goodby Roundup Mrs. McNeil said to me, "I am sorry that I didn't get to meet your wife but give her my that he could get something done. I get my stories, such as they are, It seems that to their wives there is something that clings, to male writers like aroma to a skunk. Even Theron toring USIA's Voice of America broadcasts around the world-h- ad just been installed in Ike's office. ' And this is true. But, quoting USIA officials, we . said the s "strowger" was a senseless nickname for the device. And this, we find out from W. L. Everitt, Dean of the College of Engineering at the . University of Illinois; Mrs. Ralph W. Borgers of Detroit; Bruce Quisenberry, p u b 1 i c relations man for the Automatic Electric Company and heavens knows how many others, is wrong, wrong, wrong. Mrs. Borgers explains that the device was named after Almond B. Strowger, whr in 1889 in vented a special switch that?, .made possible the dial telephone system. Dean Everitt says, "Undoubtedly from your description, the monitoring device uses a Strowger step - by - step switch controlled by a dial which is a common method of controlling the monitoring of a variety of . voice channels.". And Quisenberry xreveals that Strowger was an undertaker at the time he invented It seems that he suspected the central phone office operator of throwing business to his com- - x - , of the women on the to Pat and chatted nodded flight with .her. She explained that she was going to New York to shop. She wore a blue suit and hat which Doris arid several of the other women passengers decided were very smart. They were met at LaGuardia by a fat politician - type and whisked, off in a limousine. Passengers waiting to ; board the flight going on to Providence waved as the Nixohs got off. The Nixons naturally waved back. JACtf VIRNSTEIN, a genial clerk in the Senate document! wrapping room, is known as "Jack the Wrapper." This is proclaimed by a big sign above his desk. He has written below his nickname: "Let me "feive you a packaged J Why Writers7 Wives Go Mad . ss. Some petitors., the phone switch to let customers call him directly. . , reasons. The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON At the Writers' Roundup in Salt Lake last' week, Steve McNeil, one of SATURDAY EVENING POST'S top writers,, told us that as a young man he worked for his father at a resort out in Oregon, but became so fed up with both people and tourists that he quit in disgust and . bee ame a writer so that he could be. away from them and still make a living. I went at it from the other extreme. Weary of the lonesome life of . flyin folk. Most ; of the' passen gers asked Doria why the vice president of the United States didn't have his own plane to fly him around. She' checked with the V.P. and came up with the answer that he used government transportation when on official business and flew commercial when making a trip for personal ; requirements. other day. We reported that a "strowger" a device for moni--: By DOUGLAS LARSEN AND JERRF BENNETT NE A Staff Correspondents Pas.WASHINGTON (NE A) sengers on American Airlines Flight 308 to New York the other morning were startled to see Vice Presideht Dick Nixon and his" wife Pat climb aboard. Host ess Doris Carroll had saved a seat for them. And a Secret Service man carried their luggage and put it aboard. Other than that, they made the flight just like the common -- l " Washington News and Views Notebook - don't believe it. Quietly, a leaf wafts down from above. In a moment, another, as a breeze stirs. strong belief in a ban enforced by inspection. . Grade school High ..) school or less '. . ;, .; College We should stop testing nuclear bombs ' 7 7 right away, whatever Russia does ..15 We should form an agreement with IRussia to stop bomb testing and depend on our ability to detect nuclear explosions 9 13 J...11 to enforce it4 We should form an agreement with Russia , to stop bomb testing only if a system 46 40 of international inspection is set up 26 It is imperative that we continue testing nuclear bombs, whatever Russia : down-to-ear- th It's restful, looking at all that rich greenery around you. Then it happens. At first you ' " displays far more earnestness than Jt has ever before shown in disarmament matters, the world's newly stirred hopes will vanish in smoke. And thereafter, meetings of technical experts, whatever their credentials, will be as discredited as most everything else the Soviet Union touches. spouse. v 11 Exoress no opinion ..........i...... ly shown the greatest apprehenAnything short of an effective sion that the atom will be more not would be inspection system than man can handle. The same acceptable to the American pub12 cent trend is evident today, if eagerlic, however.! Only per . ness to end testing is a measure would be willing to rely on the of fear of The Bomb. The desire ability to. detect Russian nuclear to call an unconditional halt to detonations from points in this 9 cent tests is twice as prevalent bomb 7 and only per country would stop testing" whether Rusamong people with grade school not. or continued sia backgrounds as among those with of on the desirability Opinion high school or college education. unHowever, both college and high ending atomic tests is spread school, educated people have r a evenly through the population. eral Assembly to declare a full nuclear test ban immediately, without waiting for a proper system of enforcement. This is an old Soviet tactic, and it will no longer make much propaganda hay. The maneuver, in the U. N. does not presage hopeful ' results from Message of the Leaves . "' the first one is. Already the Russians are calling on the newly, convened U. N. Gen-- .. will be no advance for man- - V . . J to enforce tt, a recommendation pounded out jointly by Russian and American scientists and now up for consideration by their governments. Nationwide survey results show that such an agreement would be hailed by 58 per cent of the public in this, country, against 31 per cent who insist that nuclear weapons testing By ELMO ROPER and A SSI MI ATES Power From a Battery ' Win the Britannica Junior encyclopedia for school and home.. Send your questions, name, age, address . to "Tell Me Why!" care of this paper. Today's 1 winner is: Judy Sokol, Cohoes, N. Y. many kinds of useful work. They tnake doorbells ring, operate flashlights, and are used in portable radio sets. The battery we call "storage' batteries don't really store electricity. They obtain their power from chemical changes just as all other kinds do. But when they are used up, it is possible to pass an electric current through them and recharge them. What happens is that the electrical current causes a chemical change, to take place that restores the original condition of the elements, so they are ready to provide power again. i Probably xthe two kinds of batteries with which we aremost familiar are the ones used in flashlights and automobiles. How do they produce electric current? The basic thing that takes place in a battery cell is that chemical energy is changed into electrical energy1. There are two kinds of battery cells. One is called a pri- mary cell and the other a secondary cell. The difference between them is that when a primary cell is used up,' it cannot be renewed. A secondary cell can be recharged. A single cell is often mistakenly called a battery.' But .a battery is a group of two or ' more primary of secondary cells. Now how. does a primary cell produce power? In every primary cell there are two different metals and a liquid. Or if might be "one metal and carbon. These are called the cell elements or electrodes. The liquid is called the electrolyte. Of the two elements, ope is called the cathode and the other the anode. The cathode is usually zinc and the anode is usually carbon. When the cathode is in the electrolyte or liuiqd, a chemical action takes place that makes k dissolve slowly. This- sets free a certain amount of electrons. , If these electrons are. allowed to move through a path or circuit, they provide an 'dectric current, because, an electric current is simply the movement of electrons. So to make the current flow, the elements are connected by a wire or other electrical conductor. We thus have power being produced ' ' ' by a primary cell? The "ordinary ; cell of this type doesn't produce very much power. Xf a (higher voltage is "required, a battery of two or more such cells is used,, connected in a series. These ceik or batteries do a great ' 1 FUN TIME THE PUZZLE BOX Try this one on your friend. Put a penny on the table and ask him to guess how many pennies 5 it takes to form a ring around-iThe outside pennies must touch each other and the penny in th center. The answer will surprise t him: six pennies can go around one! . - . So They Say .The battle for the minds of men, and thus the battle between freedom and tyranry may be won in outer space the 'greatest challenge of all time. I do not mean that space armies will battle to the end on the moon. Rather 1 suggest that the equipment of peace may be found in the exploration of space. Maj.. Gen. John B. Medaris, head of U. S. Army Ordnance Missile Command. . -- m |