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Show i4 a' WnsnnnT Wuus Sok Lok THl CHURCH AND STATE ON UNIONS City. Utah. .Tumday. Romney, Explains His Position Hbnwry 27, 1962 We Stand for the Constitution of the United States : as having been divinely inspired. Summitry ?-- By VICTOR For Now, Thanks Not PRESIDENT KENNEDY and Prime Min- -' answered Khrui s t e r Macmillan shchevs summit meeting challenge in the only feasible way. ' They made it clear they have not been taken in by the Kremlins current twist of sweetness and light. But they held the door open for future talks if any good from them. seems likely There is no other way to approach such problems. We cannot afford to appear opposed to peace talks; Russia must not be allowed to get away with posing as the champion of peace. to-co- On the other hand, nothing good and a great deal of harm can come from getting hopes too high only to have them dashed again as has been done so often in tiyspast The question experts are trying to answer is how genuine is the Kremlins new feel-th- e prespeace tack? Some observers sures on Khrushchev from Red China and elements within from militarist-Stalinithe Kemlin are pushing Khrushchev genuinely toward a period of peace and cooperation with the West. Others believe this is just another tactical zig in the of the Communist traditional line. st WHAT ARE the facts? We do not pre- tend to know, but suggest a couplg of signs that may be significant. One is Russias own handling of the exchange for home consumption. To this day, except for IJadio Free Europe and other Western broadcasts? citizens behind the Iron Curtain have not heard a word about Col. Abel, the Soviet master spy. All they have heard is that the Soviet government has released Francis Gary Powers in accordance with the sincere wish of the Soviet government to remove all obstacles to understanding in favor of relaxation and peace. and Abel-Powe- ... There has been no mention of any spy-for-s- exchange. . So whatever else their motives and tactics may be, the Communists have not yet seen fit to be candid with their own people. FURTHER, while talking peace and cothe Kremlin has not operation, much. The release its actions changed of Powers may have been a gesture of conciliation, but it is significant that Powers had to be slipped through a hole iiffthe Berlin wall. The wall would not be thjere at all if the Kremlin really felt co- all-o- ut ...If the Kremlin wants to show instead of just talk conciliation, it has no shortage of ways to do it President Kennedy is instructing Secretary of State Rusk to attend the disarmament talks in Geneva March 14 with full authority to speak for the United States. That is enough. There is simply no occasion for the President himself to expose the dignity of his mercies of the office to the Kremlin's saboteurs. er TIME ENOUGH for more summitry when -- 4nj,d if progress at the working talks seem hopelevel makes higher-levful. Bu( were a long way from that point today and will want to examine the Kremlins friendship credentials with a cold eye before sitting down to another sumel mit talk. FOR SHEER quixotic foolishness a recent move by a conservative youth organization called Young Americans for Freedom would be hard to match. The group has filed a suit against Secretary of State Rusk demanding that he issue a visa allowing Katanga President Tshombe to visit the U S. or explain why not. Now anyone should be able to figure that one out for himself. The United Nations recently conducted military operations against Katanga which, right or wrong, the U.S. actively supported. Obviously, it would not be politic to extend a welcome to a man we were helping to fight. As to the suit itself, anyone sophisticated enough to be this interested in foreign affairs should also be sophisticated .enough to realize that the government cant be sued without its consent. instead, one fuspects that this suit is really part of the attempts by extreme rightwing groups to pillory the State Department for all our problems abroad and to grab a few headlines in the process. AS SUCH, the State Department should accord it the treatment it deserves stony silence. We? If Britain Changes-C- an FRUSTRATED TRAVELERS in Britain and the Commonwealth have been teased a bit these past few months by indications Britain may at last be giving up its appallingly complex and confusing monetary system in favor of a decimal system. But they should not let themselves get carried away in their enthusiasm. They might consider this official statement of the British government: I cannot doubt that a decimal system of coinage would be of universal advan- tage in monetary transactions. The weight of authority on that head is irresistible. All I can say is I cannot take any decisive steps until we are satisfied that the subject has been thoroughly sifted and is well understood by the public. . . . That statement was made by a fellow named Gladstone, then Chancellor of the ... Exchequer, in note this 1849. Even given the traditional British 113 years would seem to be long enough to thoroughly sift the matter. Of course, certain pressures exist now that make hopes for a change seem a bit brighter. For one thing, Britains increasing closeness to Europe, with prospects of even closer relations through the Common Market, makes her coinage system seem cumbersome and outdated by comparison. The growth of world trade is considerably handicapped by the necessity of converting to the present British system. New Boon statistics To not-- . withstanding, the era of the oceanic luxury liner may not be over after all. The new $80 million luxury ocean liner the France provides evidence of that, and impressive evidence it is, indeed. The France arrived in New York Harbor recently, carrying 1,500 tourist-clas- s and 500 first-clas- s passengers a complete sellout. The memorable Normandie, predecessor to the France, when loaded carried 458 passengers tourist clais, 665 second class, and 848 first e class. This giant, it Will be recalled, burned at her pier in New York in 1942. - w The new luxury liner sold minimum, all-tim- s fares for $228 and fares for $428. These rates were advertised as competitive with airline travel. France is taking a gamble against the statistics in launching her new queen of the ocean. The figures show air travel is Steadily outstripping travel by sea. In first-clas- one-wa- y v For another, Britain now stands on the threshold of mechanization of its accounting and other business practices. Now before mechanization becomes gen- eral is the time to change. Once great numbers of computers and other business machines are in operation on the pound system assuming that a machine can be built to deal with the maze of pence, shillings, pounds, florins, guineas, etc. it will be far more difficult and costly to change. Finally, the swing to decimal coinage is almost universal throughout the world. To date, 145 countries have adopted decimal coinage systems, 70 of them having changed since 1900. Australia, New Zealand, and Rhodesia seem likely to change soon, which would leave Britain virtually alone. Experts have estimated it would cost about 100 million pounds nearly $300 million for Britain to change over. But spread over a period of years, and taking into consideration only the time to be saved on teaching British school children about money that cost is not prohibitive. The biggest obstacle is not so much money as traditional British pride and inertia. But, speaking of pride and inertia, d what else keeps us from making a reform of our own, from our outmuch-neede- worn, inefficient, and confusing system of weights and measures to a metric system? BRITAIN AT LEAST has the courage to talk about a changeover. Every argument that applies to Britain also applies to us. How about America? Ocean Travel 1958 airflights exceeded ocean trips for the first time, 1,193,000 to 937,000. By jthe first three months of 1961 (last available figures) the proportion had climbed to 257,575 by air compared to 91,325 by sea. The France is a formidable challenge to the trend. At 1,035 feet she is long enough to ride three waves a (once, thus reducing the pitch. A new type of stabilizer also cuts the roll to two degrees, even in rqugh going. The ships popular and spectacular maiden voyage supports confidence that we shall always have modem, luxurious ocean liners for those who have the time and preference for ocean travel. LET US HOPE THE FRANCE has a long and successful career, makes money for Its builders, and persuades other countries to produce similar beautiful ships. larking as man travels, he will travel by water as well as by land and in the air. ' They're Not Reacting The Way They Used To' THE GREAT GCfP FREEZE-OU- T Demos Dominate Experts Corps By ROSCOE DRUMMOND Bear in the nexf few months the Congress of the United States will: 1 Make a series of crucial decisions affecting the fate and future of the nation, including a trade policy which will shape our economy for many years. 2 Conduct at WASHINGTON, D.C. IN THE HOUSE the Democratic majority. The Party has a professional staffs of the House committees are Democratic. It wasnt this way during the first two years of the Eisenhower administration when the Republicans had control of the House and 14-to- --o. jr j-- m i. - d I REPORTED THIS conversation to George Romney the other day. He had, I said, criticized the right to work laws which his own spiritual leader had held inviolate. Was this inconsistent? The Republican candidate for the Michigan governorship obviously had given this much thought. His answer came swiftly. As he spoke, I recalled he had been a sugar harvester at 11, a lather, a plasterer, a typist, as well as a successful Washington lobbyist and auto SHOULD HE WIN and carry Detroit, the auto city, the city of Walter Reuther, the community of the ancient, almost forgotten bailiwicks of the sitdowns, Mr. Romney will give substance to the shadow hes casting across the Democrats horizon. He will be a Republican who can win in a labor state. B policy-makin- two-part- 'Other Compensations' y In Life I This (r what g c hill 4 , .IV. - m Romney continued, I wholeheartedly beljevq in collective bargaining on a sound basis. But we have not modernized our laws to fit present circumstances. Obviously it has been necessary to encourage collective bargaining. But we place no limit on the collective power employers and unions can build up. In the steel industry now in crisis, as you have put it a group of unions or employers can shut down the nations mills. Romney asserted he was to the right to work laws because they tend to divert public attention from the key problem which is the excessive concentration of employer and union collective bargaining power. The right to work law approach misleads people into thinking that they are doing something about dealing with the problem in a fundamental way when they really are not. These words and viewpoint of Mr. Romneys are more than footnotes to local political history. They can win or lose for him the tens of votes. thousands of balance-of-powe- r Should he lose, the strategists will deal him out of the big game. Would Restrict Them To Right Lane 1 ' AS FOR MYSELF, rank-and-fil- e - r There was no sensitivity in his reply. He, as had John Kennedy in the days before we Mr. Romney called him Mr. President, spoke frankly of the separation of church and state. , I recalled to Mr. Romney that a few months ago, while I was in Salt Lake City, President David O. McKay, world spiritual leader of the Mormons, had graciously received me in his headquarters at the Church Office Building off Temple Square. For an hour we talked first of the new stake the Mormons were building in West Berlin to help battle the evil of the East. From this discussions we turned to the travail of working people everywhere. Then the talk turned to unions. President McKay said he was for voluntary unionism. Therefore, the Church supported the ght to work state laws. These in effect ban the union shop by stating that no man need join a union to keep his job. Thus, in 19 states employers and unions cannot sign a contract requiring union membership. Mr. Romney 1 would not, Hid, consider their expression on - rids m a church attitude. There can only be personal view. points. We do not believe that church leadership undertakes to. develop church position on public Issues 'of this character. Church leaders are just as free as anyone else to express their viewpoint 'There are, he said, two counselors to the First Presidency of the Church.' Both are active Democrats. There have been Mormons who have run for high office oil both the Democratic and Republican tickets. There is a Mormon in President Kennedys cabinet Senate. The present imbalance in committee staffing began in 1955 and has been, getting more lopsided ever since. least 35 congres-- s Why has it happened? i o n a 1 investigaBecause the leadership of the Retions into such mat- publican Party in Congress has not Lrt1ri and lyndlciTM column! in MnM In tht Diert Ntwj to rwderj mr tvalulu ters as. tax reform stood ttp and fought for its rights. OiHorini viewpoints, which ora not nocowarihr and evidence of Because the memthoM of ttiii nowioopor. graft in the federal bers of the Republican Party in Conhighway program. gress have not stood up and insisted And still the Rethat the party leadership fight for BUS DRIVERS AND TRAFFIC RULES publican members their rights. of Congress are being denied BECAUSE. SOME HIGHLY placed partly by their own default and conRepublican members of the comnivance and partly by the bald mittees have preferred accepting a of the Democratic mapower-plafew personal prequisites from the jority the one instrument needed the next lane of traffic making it majority chairmen to making a deto do their job. from one lane to another and impossible for a car to drive next termined, even unpleasant, demand I refer to the woefully inade- for reform. to the bus in its proper lane. This often as much as two lanes m quate, enfeebled, and puny minority characteristic makes a car owner Because the Democrats have order to dash right back into the party representation on the profestheir unfair advantage to lane they were originally in, withand driver wonder if he should travpressed sional staffs of the el next to a bus for fear he will be the full. out seeing if there are possibly and investigative committees of the Republican National Committee do If their oars in swideswiped. way. they any House and the Senate. Chairman, Rep. William Miller of look they pay no attention to the I believe bus drivers think that New York, knows what needs to be TRUE, IT IS THE members of Concars. This has hapbecause of the' size of their vehicle gress who appear to make the done and wants to do it. But he has they can get away with anything. I pened to me on sevdecisions. But it is the professional thrown up his hands hopelessly in dont know why they would want eral occasions committee staffs the experts, the the futile effort to inject enough to do this, for they are running the when I have been technicians, the research scholars, gumption into his party to do somerisk of accidents and gaining a bad the under going and the investigators who constthing. limit and reputation for the bus lines. It is speed itute a power of initiative behind the A few Republicans, like Rep. have not fair for them to take advantage practically cdmrnittees. They shape the reports Thomas B. Curtis of St Louis, Mo., of their size because all of us have had to stop in order which shape the decisions and, when have led a the legal right and responsibility to lonely fight among coto keep from having my front fenproperly balanced between the two in the House and so far have drive according to the laws set up der tom off. lleagues parties, help produce alternative been and have equal right to the roads. getting either limp indiffercourses of policy. Dashing through a red light ence or the back of the wrist. It is my suggestion that we think either before it has turned green What has happened? about making a law as they have in IS A SCANDAL of national is another THIS turned has red or after it An official Republican policy bad habit of our buses. On one of Washington, D.C., which is a little proportions. It goes tq the very committee document shows there js vitals of our larger city and have for the most system of many occasions, I was waiting for a not a single staff expert responsible If the Republicans part narrower streets. There they government. light to turn green at the corner of to the minority , party on 10 critical dont do whatever is necessary to Main and South Temple. When the have a law that buses travel only in House committees. the right-hanlane next to the win this battle (by rallying to the light just barely turned caution for Of many of the others the minoreast-wes- t cars or curb whatever the bus beside rethe the parked for initiative traffic, and Curtis fighting ity representation Is either so sparse case may be. If a driver wants to me immediately started going or so incompetent that they are form in their own committees) they drive in that lane he may only if he through the red light and was at overwhelmed by the sheer numbers deserve to continue to lose elections wants to turn right or park. This least half way through the Intersecand will. of the Democratic appointees. has seemed to help the problems we tion by the time it turned green. I had in Washington, D.C., and buses sure would hate to see the accident PSYCHOLOGICAL ' WIND CHILL' that would occur if some driver seem to be able to make thir runs in the same amount of time as be were trying to make a light at a fore. high rate of speed and goes through V. M. Wright his caution light! 290 E. 300 South Another characteristic of our tion in another area of life. The Provo By SYDNEY i. HARRIS bus lines is their traveling down man with the miserable job is the street one to two feet over into a of bad weather DURING spell nourished by a good family life; I noticed again that the man with the unfortunate mar'Personal Attack' Charges the grim days were not the cold riage is doing a job he enjoys; the IS Interesting to me that alones, but the raw and windy ones. sickly man is sustained by work or IT Untied Teems On S.L. Streets Rep. David S. King anthough It is not low temperature, but a love, or both. run intention to nounced his for the wind-chil- l The psychological combination of dampness and velocPrompted Polite Action? Senate seat of Wallace F. Benfactor assails us when no single U.S. on ity of wind that we most detest,. (From tin Dotorot Nowi Flkt) nett Sunday morning, it took unelement is very bad and no single is Relocal the til for Tuesday evening 25 Years Ago the element is very good. We can with- publicans to issue their charge of Feb. 27, 1937 Mrs. Eva Jenson stand catastrophe better than genArmy mete-oroloKing opening his campaign, on a Olson of Salt Lake i s t s' eral bleakness, just as we can put City was aplow note of personal attack on Sen. with if cold pointed to the national board of there now call the up extraordinary Bennett Tivoli Park, an organization devoted is sun and no wind, but are pulverwind-Could it be that it took that long to on ized a wetter more and warmer, promoting goodwill between the factor. Rfor Sen. Bennett to get word from United States and Denmark. esearch in depressing day. local to GOP Chairman, Washington Mrs. Roma Rogers Stephens of Arctic weathVernon Romney, that this is what OUR CAPACITYto survive a crushDinuba, California, a former stuer has shown Mr. Romney should say? ing blow in almost any departdent at USAC, would return to Utah And it could also be both Mr. that that men ment of our lives is phenomenal so to sing the mezzo soprano role in most suffer long as some compensation Romney and fellow Republicans have exists Verdis opera Aida. The musical both physi-- c elsewhere, so forgotten the type of personal event was to be presented by the long as the sun can a 1 1 y and were tacks leveled Sen. that against be glimpsed somewhere along our Capitol Theater in Logan. Elbert D. Thomas during Bennetts emotiona 1 1 y horizon. psychic 1950 campaign? 50 Years Ago not when the mercury is 30 below Dale Zabriskie but when temperature, wind and Feb. 27, 1912 Police were to en456 J Street wetness combine in a cruelly cutforce the hitching ordinance and SENATOR CAUCUS manner. would fine owners who left their ting Bocks Moss On Parks teams untied on the city streets. This new (and more realistic) Four arrests were made evaluation of the wind-chil- l factor, BY THE paper where Sen. Saturday 1SEE for violations of this ordinance. it seems to me, can be just as frtu Bennett and Gov. Geqrge fully applied to our life situation as Clyde have again expressed their 75 Years Ago to our weather conditions. opposition to the Canyon. Lands NaFeb. 27, 1887 G. R. Emery, S. H. tional Park. It seems to me that Love and Joseph Bull formed MOST OF US can withstand "low a have thought up several meanthey for the purpose of sellone area of partnership temperature in any to their ingless objections Justify ing illuminating nd lubricating, our personal lives. One man may opposition rather than giving their be wretched in his job, but someto Moss will the which support Bill, Willard F. Conley of Thomas how he manages to get along. Anmean so much to Utah. , near Montpelier, was frozen Fork, other may be unhappy in a marTourist income from a greajsa-tiona- l to dgath while oil a deer hunt near riage, but he is able to lunction in in southeastern park Uth, his home. a more or less productive way. Still can bring great economic benefits another may have poor health, but 100 Years Ago to the whole state but, particularly, he copes for years without collapsto the counties in the southern part Feb. 27, 1862 Looking out of his of Utah. I hope that Senator Moss window at any time ing. during the Ive told, you a thousand time, will continue his push for his bin. Those who keep afloat despite two weeks the editor could see past long Mrs. B. these handicaps are invariably those Mildred, never to call me here at C. trains Hackett of , wagons bringing in tithing 784-6 'work!" i to the General Storehouse. who achieve some major gratifica th Avenue - F ' (area). nciliatory., Neither would there be Communist planes buzzing our transports in their use of the Berlin air corridors. Or Red arms pguring into the Western Hemisphere. Or attacks against threats to launch American technicians in Viet Nam. Or continued nuclear tests along with stubborn refusal to accept any kind of control or inspection to enforce a nuclear test ban. Young Meddlers TRANSPORTATION RIESEL YORK Back in l912, NEW Villa drove George Romneys family from Chihuahua, Mexico. He was five. The man who la the presidential hopeful of many a beleaguered Republican strategist has not run from anything since. When he declared for governor of Michigan, I asked a sensitive question of Romney, political candidate and devout leader of the Churth of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, head of all the Mormons in the Detroit Stake arm erm t AAA |