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Show THt wAit wm Bnsnnnr Mnws 14A jf&hjeCJtLfjnna W UU On. IM, TV uniat, Moy 4. cm mcr MUCH We're Losing By Unwillingness To Act HU -- United States in the percentage of its by' employed population government raises a vital question, Namely, what role should government play in our lives? The role has been steadily growing. Utah ranks high in the proportion of its people employed by state and local units of government as well as by the federal government. This makes government the biggest single employer of Utahns. The role that government plays in our lives and the states economy becomes even larger when the many Utahns employed by missile plants and other defense industries are taken into account. .Furthermore, that role seems destined to swell even more. Witness the recent increasing adreport that by ministration support of solid fuel for missiles could create 4,700 new jobs in Utah. HOW DO WE square these facts with the traditional philosophy, which has been particularly emphasized in Utah, that mans personal development is better served if he strives to become and avoids becoming dependent on government? To this question many others could be mid-196.- nt added. How big a role should missiles play in Utah? For that matter, to what extent should the state's economy become, dependent on the defense establishment as a whole? Is it wise to base our livelihood too heavily on manufacturing weapons of destruction? Could more of the imssile plants and other defense industries be dis AS A CONCRETE example. take Brigham City. Location of the missile industry in that area Hidden! y put a marked strain on the citys housing, roads, sewers, schools and other community facilities. At the same time, however, the boom- -' ing missile industry has brought money and jobs to. Utah that are more than welcome. The $63 million the missile industry brings into Utah each year has kept our economy growing at one of the fastest rates m the nation. And new jobs must be created for the rapidly expanding population if the stifling effects of unemployment are to be avoided. This poses a dilemma welcoming defense payrolls but trying to avoid becoming ov erly dependent on government or on one type of indust ry. Utah must find ways to solve it, and particularly to minimize future ill effects. adHOW? THE KEY lies in vance planning on the part of both state and industry officials to enable us to know' more accurately where we're going. A formal policy setting guidelines for development of missile plants and other such industries in Utah could do much to help us move forward in the atomic age without any unnecessary Joss f the traditional values that grow out of our past. long-rang- e Federal Aid In Water Deficiency GOVERNMENT LOANS or grants probably both may be made available to Utah conservation and irrigation districts hard-hi- t by adverse water prospects this year, it is reported from the office of John A. Baker of the Department of Agriculture Credit Service. The question of outright grants is being surveyed by the department for Utah, western Colorado, Wyoming, and eastern Nevada The need is becoming critical. Stream-flopmsperts for this summer range to less than 30rv of normal. from 50 Utah needs at least $2 million for drilling wells, setting up pumping stations, extending water pipe lines and other programs. There are sources, the Green River for example, which can supply considerable water through adequate pumping facilities. The underground supply can be tapped profitably in several areas, Water and Power water-developme- nt Board experts have assured, although the water level at this time is exceptionally low. project, to prove out on develthe investment, must be a opment geared to help meet the present enris, and provide for the future. Utah is so far behind in water supply, even Anv water aid two-fol- d with a normal or above-normprecipitation next vear, it will require some time to make up the deficiencv. FEDKRII. AID for projects states or jcommumties could handle themselves is a treacherous trend and must be held in check In some fields, however, such as water resource development, the problem often extends beyond the limits of local ability. The newly approved water aid program would seem to come under that category. To do any good for this crop season, it should get into motion without delay. Businessman With A Philosophy DR. NORMAN VINCENT T F.AI.E S recent column on this page about Judson Sayre is a reminder that the Indiana banker and president of Norge Division, Corporation Borg-Wam- er is also an im- portant figure in Utah industry Mr. Sayre was one of a group of businessmen who purchased Zions First National Bank a year ago, and serves on the bank's board of directors. The Sayre philosophy of life and of -- business as related by Dr. Peale, is I made up my worthy of emulation: mind a long time ago to do something in this world, and you can if.you think you can. . . . Each morning while shaving I look at myself in the mirror and say aloud, With Gods help, I am going to make great things happen today. well-merit- ed d record-- breaking Why Not A With this attitude, is it any wonder Judson Sayre has reached the top rung in the business world as well as in his relationships with ail who know him? With humility, ambition, and enthusiasm such as he has displayed, how can any man fail? It is fortunate for Utah industry that a businessman of Mr. Sayre's stature has become interested in the development of this area. This interest, at first casual, has developed into firm confidence in the industrial future of this city and state. Acquisition of the Sayre interests here is of extraordinary significance, not only cause of its effect upon business, but because of his profound philosophy: HELP ME TO DO my best today; give me a good day. Help me to make it a good day for others! . . . (Trom 4- ill BarUafiDs (!) of Pleasant Grove and graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.A. degree in 1923. He received his doctorate from Columbia in 1930. Before returning to Utah he taught physics at Columbia and was research director at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He served also as director of the Research Foundation and field director of the Engineering Experiment Station at Ohio State University. THE POSITION of president of the National Association of State University Presidents is for a one-yetenure only, but during This brief term, Dt. 01p;n will have a chance to spread widely his singular devotion to the ideals . of learning and his vigorous advocacy of the principles of free inquiry, as he has dne so well at the university. Our compliments to Dr. Olpin with the wish that he may find enjoyment and satisfaction in his new position. ar league IS IT PERHAPS time the League of Women Voters dropped the word Women from its title, and became simply the League of Voters? Many groups today attempt to arouse public awareness of public issues. Probably the prototype has been established by whose techniques have the A.F.L.-C.I.O- ., been copied, in large measure by' the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We have Republican workshops and Democratic action' groups. We have political committees of farmers,- - doctors, lawyers: But all these operate on a biai They Of Voters'? are essentially concerned with selling their own political philosophies. j The League of Women Voters also had a bias at birth, the stimulation of political activity among women. Today, the woman vote is a myth, unsupported by election returns. - Today, the League's : program is of concern to both men and women. -- , THEN, CONTINUE to practice segregation of the sexes in political affairs? Why not a League oL Voters, .non partisan, objective, functioning fo examine the ISSues and -- to develop our democracy, organized without regard to .sex, party, economic status, or previous condition of servitude? W HY, But he Isn't doiag enough, He is not yet coming near to . matching his adequate words with adequate action. ' - It is well that the President is responding to the ac-- 1 cumulating peril so soberly. This is the beginning of mobilizing the spirit and the resources essential to fight the enemy who proclaims that the Communists are going to make all the world their own. It is my conviction that the time for words has passed, that the moment is at hand when it is not enough to say what needs to be done but to do what needs to he done before it is too late. It is my conviction that the time has come when the American government and the American people must act on the reality that we are not at peace, but at war, though a different and more difficult kind of war than we have ever faced; that, as the Overstreets havi put it. we are in a war called peace' and that there is nothing peaceful about it. AT THIS STAGE we are losing, not winning and we are not yet strong enough to win. It is my conviction that we will continue to Jose this war called peace" as long as we try to conduct it on a basis of business-as-usoal- , pohtics-as-usua- ! and here season, make for such effortless pickin? But the dudes O, it is a sad But if no war ever posed a greater threat. is the President proposing measures equal to this threat In New York last week President Kennedy declared that "every new piece of information, every fresh event, have deepened my conviction that the survival of our civilization is at stake and the hour is late. But is, the President yet calling on the nation to do all it would do when us very life is at stake and the hour late? IN CHICAGO last week President Kennedy declared: "I believe that the American people would say as Patrick Henry said in 1773 For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost. I am willing to know the w hole truth, to know the worst and to provide for it." box-sprin- n 'We Must Find A Now Way To Cope With The Soviets!' While President Kennedy is rightly telling the country the worst, is he adequately providing for it? I do not find that he is. For example, the new administration saw the great need to expand our limited-wa- r capability, fully apon maspreciated that sive retaliation might deter a nudear war while losing every vulnerable nation in Asia. The President spoke out lucidly for this need. Secretary McNamara agreed. But when the new defense budget is carried into effect it wont add much more than 5.nfin men to our limited war capability. ONLY POWER to defend the Free World will counter Communist power to eat up the Free World and this miniscule addition to our military strength, far from deterring the Communists, will only persuade them that we really mean to do nothing. On the Presidents declared convictions that our very civilization is "at stake, that the hour is late, that never has a greater threat confronted us than this war called peace nothing that the administration is yet doing to provide for it" is anywhere near equal to the peril. Why? ? He has given a clue in his statement that the nations greatest adversary is not the Russians but our own unwillingness to do what must be done. There Is truth in this but it is a I am convinced dangerous half-trutthat the whole truth is that the American people will respond galvanically, not to Presidential words, but only to Presidential action by adding not a puny 5,000 but 500,000 men, if necessary, to our limited-wa- r forces, by expanding radically Our capacity to meet unconventional aggression with unconventional means. THIS WOULD MEAN accepting a degree of national mobilization to provide a doctrinal change in our defense strategy and thus to enlarge our means to wage successfully this war called peace. I believe that the country is anxiously waiting for the President to act In a way equal to the urgency of his own words. YOUR lead editorial of April 25, jcu discuss the question, Can the US. Compete?" Y'ou state that substantial foreign competition does exist for some of our industries. However, vou imply that barriers to free trade are never desirable. You suggest that the only way to compete is to compete. You say, 'This does not mean tying hobbles I to the competition. L . It means locating new plants where y.' 'Zr markets for their . SiSTIlfs M products exist in- eluding outside our own borders. It means aggressively old developing new markets ones dry up. Above all. it means an unremitting effort to produce more goods and services of better quality at lower costs. It is interesting to attempt application of your three suggestions to metal mining and particularly to the lead zinc industry of Utah and ' our western sfates. the first Considering suggestion, that industry build its plants close to the markets, it is unfortunate that nature failed to locate deposits of metallic ores so that mines could be developed in the vicinity of the manufacturing centers. These' fabricating centers are the markets for metals and the mines are most often efficiency in production be made you may be assured that U5. mining companies, under the pressure of excessive imports for the past 10 years, have been streamlining, mechanizing, modernizing and inventing in an effort to produce more efficiently. However, all the innovations developed have been available to competing producers in foreign countries and the domestic mining industry finds it difficult to maintain any advantage in this respect. Thus it is true that ar.y net gams made m this direction, have not been adequate to offset ,the wage W ltetdf distantly located. It is impossible to move under-- , ground or other mines to eastern and Pacific Coast organizations for industrial concerns. What he forgot to mention was that every free tradesman in the country backs liim up in the right to work, union laws. unmolested by For years, I have personally worked in and out of unions and have been on jobs where union men were working alongside men doing the same work. No friction ever developed until one of those "stooge organizers butted in. My father had never been in a union in 55 years of skilled labor. Hes worked from 50c a week to the present price of $20 a day. Let us be grateful for such men. They have kept to the front in the community by doing good work one-side- d non-unio- n manufacturing Zoo Keepers Praised can these mines be moved to the mining district of Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas where wages are slightly lower than in Utah and its neighboring Intermountain States. It is equally impossible to move the mines to foreign countries where wages are in many cases only a very small fraction of the average American miners wage., THE SECOND suggestion is the devnew markets. With eloping-of lead and zinc and other metals this can mean only the discovery of new uses for these metals. The U.S. Bureau of Mines, the various industrial la bora tones and a concerned American Zinc Institute are combining to probe the unknown as it has never been probed before to find newt uses jfiat would expand the " markets for lead and zinc. Considering the third suggestion -that an unremitting effort toward Tri-Sta- to C. FITTS states, right JACK laws are sponsored by C, of C s. farm bureaus and phony front te THINK a letter of commendation is due to the officials and attendants of the Hogle Zoo area for the cleanliness and attractiveness they have so long maintained in serving Utah. . Upon a recent visit to Hogle Zoo, which is already open for the public to enjoC the cleanliness throughout the whole 109 was very noticeable: " , So attractively arranged in scenery, are the cages at the western end of the zoo. This scenery gives you a dear idea of the true animal surroundings. The. snail charge you pay to eptcr the zoo is- used so carefully in making improvements and additions which you see the following, year. This scehic attraction is both and enjoyed by young and . old alikel , Cheryl Rhea 118 West Crystal Ave. so much of it, and so fairly in price, that they were able to remain free of union bondage. They have remained free of the stigma of a days pay for a limited number of strokes of a brush, or so much working time and no more, while much of the work goes undone, because time was what they were paid for, and not honest effort and the creation of something new and useful. The union will give anyone a card who can pass a test and has the money, especially the money. I say to Mr. Fitts and all concerned, stay with your union, go with it all the way if you like, but don't chain us all to this socialistic cell by making it impossible to go on the same job with you and your union friends, or to ply a trade in freedom. Lloyd M. Knaphus 1174 Harrison Avenue. - ai - . 5 UPON A TIME, everyone. was wild to ride out for a sunrise breakfast on the desert. Now, maybe a few ldds will go. Their old folks want a continental breakfast in bed. Something's going to pot, all right. but it isn't my friend concluded, the West. It's the dudes. ONCE Emmies ieeh John Brown Led Attack On Harper's Ferry? iZr.m Ik Dr.rr.1 Nwi Fllri) 25 Years Age May 4, 1936 Ab Jenkins of Salt Lake and Sir Malcolm Campbell of London held a long distance radio conversation today while millions listened in. The two racing experts discussed speed and safety on the Bonneville Salt Flats. 50 Years Age long-overdu- e 1 want to get a horse, as ih the old days. They want to see who s the fastest draw in the bar or the patio, my friend continued. We have a house rule now, for the dudes own protection, that they cant carry real pistols. Wed have more slaughter than on the screen if I hadn't gotten tough and said only toy pistols differential between the U.S. and many competing nations. It would appear that if the domestic lead zinc industry is to survive. some restrictive import conallowed. trols are essential. The industry has Dudes have changed completely never asked that foreign ores and in the last five years. Today an outmetals be banned from the American door barbecue, which used to send market U.S. producers do feel, howthem right out of this world, afever, that in order to maintain the fronts them. They want the grub kind of mining industry that is esserved indoors and with napkins, sential to the security and the prosand dont call it grub, either. They should of this country, they perity have a fair share of the U.S. market, kall arrive here in Cadillacs or Lincoln Continentals, and if something Miles P. Romney, isn't on the Diners Club, they don t Manager, Utah Mining Assn. want itl Unions And The Obstruction Of Freedom areas and marketing areas. Neither d "IF THEY EVER FULL themselves out of their chairs, they dont Wages In Competing Countries Make Going Tough IN story I have to write today that shames me in the telling the dudes aint what they used to be. Once they swarmed to the luxury guest ranches that rim this community, there to at a rerun of life in the Old West. Under the watchful eye of wranglers, the dudes rode the range, tried to rope and occasionally rassled a little dogie. They hoisted themselves out of the hay at 6 a.m, to ride into the desert for a campfire cook-ou- t featuring flannel cakes and enough, bacon and eggs to lift the commodity market on both. GARitr.n IN TIGHT levis or squaw dresses, they flocked into the supcactus country for chuck-wagopers of beans, outsized sirloins and homemade pie. And if, for the first week, the dudes were a little stiff and sore from riding Old Paint and sat down gingerly, if at all, it was the honorable mark of the tenderfoot toughening himself for the Old West he longed to revive. But today- -0, mores, O, tempore! roundup time on the dude spreads is that continuous pause in the days occupation when the major horse operas ride again on the teevee screens. And who is outside the door, breathlessly watching the westerns toll? Why, the dudes; thats who! HE BROUGHT this recession or rolling readjustment on ourselves by installing teevee in every room and in the main lounge, is the gloomy diagnosis of an old friend, with a big and luxurious dude spread, who begged to be nameless. Four or five years ago the dudes began demanding teevee and we were fools to give in. None of us in this business was smart enough to realize that those horse operas completely defeat true and authentic Western atmosphere. There isnt a more depressing sight in the West than to see a bunch of cowdudes, tricked out in boy dress, glued to the teevee screen morning, noon and night. play-preten- over-relianc- e curity. - who dnder, in swarm defense-as-usual- . Referring to the Communist tactics of infiltration, subversion, intimidation, and guerrilla warfare' in Cuba. Laos, South Vietnam, Iran, and in the Congo President Kennedy declared that "no war ever posed a greater threat to our se- . Thar may be gold In ' them mountains. But w h 0 wants to struggle with a pan or pick and shovel when the can utah compete in metal mining? Broad Field For Dr. Olpin SELECTION OF DR. A. RAY OLPIN as president of the National Association of State University Presidents is recognition to one of America's foremost educators. The University of Utah president succeeds Dr. G. D. Humphrey of the University of Wvoming to the NASUP post. This is the second nationally important assignment that has come to i Utah educator in recent months. Dr. Sterling M. McMurrin, vire president of the 1 of I' , was appointed U S. commissioner of education on January 31. This is a most exceptional situation and an extraordinary distinction for the Beehive State to provide this two-folkey leadership in the realm of national education. Dr. Olpin, noted scientist and educator, is now serving his 15th year as university president. These have been vears of expansion and development. The new NASUP president is a native the worst I 1 i L By INEZ BOBB ' rrtUCSON, ARIZ. There is .trouble X In paradise meaning out hare w here the West is in being end the desert landscape roils away to the rugged grandeur of vast mountain ranges, all under an endless, shining canopy of blue and gold with cloud effects by -- persed in the states more isolated areas instead of being located, as many now are. so they attract more people to the already crowded Wasatch Front area? Answers to such questions can' have ' definite practical consequences. THE UTAH FOUNDATION report that Utah ranks first in the continental Dude, Ranchers 1 a Utah Must Plan Ahead ON TV Turning Soft By KOSCOE DRUMMOND In the wake of . WASHINGTON of the Cubes Khrushchev Jghters. talks by dewrecking of the test-bamanding a Veto over inspection, and. now the Communists near conquest , of Laos, President Kennedy is cer- tainly saying enough about averting . We Stand for the Constitution, of the United States las hating been divinely inspired - ' fAS;r Senator Caucus May 4, 1911 Contracts for the first transcontinental airplane flight were signed yesterday in New York City. The contracting parties were Glenn Curtis, airplane maniaeturer, and a group of Salt Lake businessmen. 75 Years Age May 4, 1836 The city paid Mrs. M. A. Burt $564.60 for feeding prisoners during April.., She furnished 3,764 meals at 15c each. 1 00 Years Age May 4, 1861 Eastern dispatches said the mobocracy was rampant throughout the East. The Harpers Ferry arsenal had been burned and several people killed, Lt. Jones,' leading the Federal troops, said that Good news, Mr. Penworthy! TheyVe' explosion after explosion occurred, - and he believed several citizens were agreed to drop 3 of the 78 charge ' firtt!" : against your killed. , |
