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Show V-- V V V- X TT nrt t mnrnr V. SUN, WIND, TIDES rWnBnnnT Mnm Itgs&tgcLegnna Sait UU Oty. Harnessing New Energy Sources Vtoh, TuMday, May 30, 1W1 FUmimg, joonulist, k wuk Dr. Irrmr F. Krick, of 0 hook ohoot wtttbtr omd its tomttt, "So, 5m tmd Sky." Viiltom FUmi it h$ ditto Stand for the ' Constitution of the United States ' as having been divinely inspired. . . tom Differences Ampng Strong Friends You are coming to France; you are friends and allies; we bid you welcome. Oar two countries have every reason to be friendly and to understand each other. We have, each to the other a mutual debt of gratitude. Without the French assistance of Lafayette and Rochambeau, the United States would perhaps never have existed. Without the soldiers of Pershing, and later of Eisenhower, France would have had great difficulty In preserving her liberty.'1 THESE AKE WORDS from the preface of a booklet written by the great Andre Maurois for the guidance of American soldiers in 'France. They might well be taken as a guide to the talks that will start Wednesday between President Kennedy and President De Gaulle. novelist-philosoph- President Kennedys visit with er Khru- shchev on the second leg of his European trip has captured the headlines. But, the negotiations being history of East-Wewhat it is, it may well be that the most significant results will come from the Gaulle meeting. Kennedy-D- e There are plenty of important and sensitive matters for the two to discuss. st IN THE CATEGORY of "sensitive lies is the recent attempt to overthrow the De Gaulle government and the U.S. relationship to it. Americans have had conflicting reports about that. One view is that President Kennedys prompt pledge of support for De Gaulle solidly cemented friendly relations between the two mem.Afj!Siher is that the implication right-win- g that De Gaulle needed saving was taken and resented as an insult. Then there is a third view, openly taken by some French newspapers, that the American Central Intelligence Agency had its finger in the revolt from the first. Even such highly respected papers as Le Monde reported rumors that U.S. agents had been In touch with the rebels and offered them support. The rumors seem to have come straight from Pravda, and U.S.. officials, a disproportionately large share of traffic accidents and violations had better watch out. Starting Junel, Utah inaugurates a Point System designed to put the finger on such drivers. Though the new system is not flawless and undoubtedly will go through a period of trial and error, there is every reason to believe it will: 1. Locate in the central driver record files those drivers responsible for traffic mishaps and violations. 2. Keep the Department of Public Safety continuously and promptly posted on the status of all drivers. 3. Give all drivers a running "box score on their own records. 4. Help make court action regarding traffic violators more uniform. 5. Help detect accident-pron- e drivers. 6. Reduce the number of violations on the part of drivers who receive corrective action in connection with the Point System. 7. Lengthen the period between violations committed by drivers who have ANOTHER SENSITIVE part of the background to the talks is De Gaulles own position in France. Reports continue to Indicate that his troubles are far from over, that his harsh police repressions after the attempted coup by no means stamped out all opposition within France. These rumblings of discontent, his own advancing age, and the total lack of any apparent successor, give cause for concern to friends of France. Then there is the important matter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. ,It may not be too much to say that its very existence hangs in the balance. President De Gaulle has been anything but an enthusiastic supporter of the NATO concept. He has pulled out French troops from the NATO command to fight in Algeria. He persists in opposing military integration; he will have no foreign generals commanding French troops. He has insisted on building and testing his own nuclear weapons. He has been openly skeptical of the parts the "overseas allies presumably Canada and the U.S. play in the NATO complex. Finally, he has insisted that France join with Britain and the U.S. in a ruling triumvirate to make NATO policy. On all these points, President Kennedy has been or would be expected to be in disagreement. So the meetings in Paris can be Expected to be more than an exchange of pleasantries between two leaders. sun-energ- y sun-energ- 'Co Id War Hah!' Should U.S. Resume By ROSCOE fall-out- of this fact can be increased, then the Point System will have gone a long way toward the saving achieving Its major point of Jives by preventing traffic accidents. War: If wars are ever done away with, their cessation will not be due to sentimental arguments, but to the fact that science and invention will make war so dangerous to everyone concerned, that the sheer patriotism of educated people of all nations, plus their common sense. will be overwhelming against the stupid war idea.1 On I can see no WAR: sensible and reason the why earthly in American life constructive elements should not publish the sensible and conas structive facts of American life the Russians publish and hand out their nefarious propaganda. On Youth: A wave of accusations sweeps America, one of its details being the charge that our young people are a lawless and rebellious lot. Youth, as a whole, isnt anything of the sort. It would be a melancholy world if we judged youth by the morons we may chance to find among them. We do not call apples a bad fruit because some have blemishes. COLD ... On Work: and 99 Genius is perspiration. 1 NECESSITY (fm wan Straat Jaarnal) e inspiration Thinking: The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the Dains to tram the mind to think. On , 14-fo- I: f jr House investigators and the three services say the bridge clearance should really be feet ' The subcommittee said its investigation "clearly supports a finding that this was a problem critical in nature, belatedly recognized, grossly mishandled, improvi-dentlappraised and analyzed, and solved, if indeed it has been solved." y y WELL SO MUCH for that highway problem. Now the governments projected Department of Urban Affairs can get to work on solving, big-cittraffic congestion. HE REPORTED ANOTHER Ingenious experimental adaptation in France, half a globe away. Here a solar still, to evaporate fresh water from salt, is cleverly combined with a greenhouse to grow fresh vegetables right from the fresh water or in it as by hydroponics. The still is a huge, shallow flat the area of tray, about the greenhouse, and just under the glass roof. It Is kept brimming with salt water. The evaporated fresh water collects on the roof and sides, and runs down to nourish the plants two-thir- below. The tray does double duty. It provides enough shade to keep the hot sun from cooking the plants, even while it uses the heat to provide fresh water for their nourishment THE U.N. CONFERENCE will of course cover a much wider range than solar heat It will seek practical applications above all, and will look with spedal interest at combinations of all, that may help undeveloped countries. For example, combinations of windmills and solar- - energy installations. For another, application of the new methods of converting energy directly into electricity, such as by thermionics or solar cells. For another, pumping water back uphill during slack periods, to generate power again at peak periods. For another, using hot springs, subterranean stream. are among the very best supporters of the drive to bring back displaying the flag at the home. As one man put it, "The flag reminds us of what we as Americans should do for our country in this time of peril and strife. We need a common cause and the flag helps to bring us together. Lets all join hands and display the flag. SO YOU SEE women C. H. 1366 - - ? OF OPPOSITION i SCIENTIST, philosopher, humanitarian, Thorhas A. Edison may have contributed more to the material conveniences of modern-da- y living than any other man in all history. Now it remains for Americans to use the convenience and leisure he helped create in a manner worthy of the ethical standard he also set. hot bath. 'Let's All Display The Flag' By SIDNEY J. HARRIS wait- the I STOOD ASing for the atplane airport, to bring my family back from Florida, I thought of the frightful risk involved In loving. If the plane had crashed, most of myself would have gone down with it And, yet, there is no way to love without risk. When you commit to another, when that other becomes an integral part of J yourself, you have made yourself Infi-'li' nitely more vulner-abl- e to the cold hand of fate. 'f The problem of evil in the world , , vhich puzzles both L.A believers and non-Mbelievers can only Harris be understood, I think, by the analogy with love. Without evil there is no good, just as without risk there is no love. On Education: Education isnt play, but it can be made to look like play. Education is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work,? 17 day-to-da- y Love Involves Some Risk Low Bridges TOU WILL BE unhappy" to know there ' are 2,200 inadequate bridges on the intergovernments $41 billion, 41,000-milstate "highway system. A House subcommittee claims the Penta- gon in 1956 prescribed bridges with 'V clearance over the highway, believt. this height would give bulky that ing military weapons such as missiles enough room to pass under. After three years of further thought, however, the defense experts concluded 14 feet wasnt high enough 16 feet would be more like it But now THE QUESTION, I think, is this: Why should the Soviets accept a test-bawhen, agreement by dragging out the negotiations, they have a voluntary ban without inspection? Isnt the local answer to this PART OF EVERY HOUSEHOLD question that the best way to persuade the Soviets to accept inspection is to resume testing until they are willing to accept inspection. Then what of the possibility that a mutual resumption of testing TWO SIX foot by twelve foot star flags will hang over the might work to Russias advantage? huge balcony of the Mack S. Kesler I doubt .if there can be an asresidence at 1797 South 14th East on sured answer to this question, but Memorial Day and Flag Day. These it does not seem to me to go to the heart of the matter. The question flags commemorate statehood for Utah as the 45th state in the Uniop before Mr. Kennedy is: in 1896. CAN THE US. SAFELY refrain They are being displayed with from testing when we have no other American flags throughmany means of knowing that the Soviets out the city on Memorial Day to are not testing? . pay homage and That is the decision which the to Ameri- - Qiii Vg White House will soon have to respect cans who gave their L, make. It would be my expectation In lives that in the end the President will of their the service country. resume underground testing. An entire neighHis reason will, I think, be borhood comprising clear from the answer to this quesalmost nine square tion: If the United States will not blocks (between 13th East and 16th test-baina without accept treaty East and 17th South and 19th South) spection, how can we continue indefinitely to accept a voluntary test have turned out as a unit to display ban without inspection? flags on Memorial Day, Flag Day, June 14 and other legal holidays Surely, if we go on indefinitely thereafter. accepting a voluntary ban on underThe excellent support and push ground testing without inspection, we are saying that Inspection doesnt that the Deseret News gave the idea matter. on May 20 Is paying off. People are It does matter and I believe that definitely in the mood to display the resumption of testing may be the flag. As one lady remarked to us in our canvass, The flag should be only means to demonstrate to the Soviets that they cant have it both a part of every household from the ways no inspection, no U.S. testtime a young couple is married. ing. Another lady spoke up: We are glad to be asked to join with I SEE NO REASON why the Soviets others In displaying the stars and should accept a formal test ban stripes. We love the flag and with inspection as long as they can what it stands for. Another elderly continue to get an informal test ban lady, now a widow 78 years of age, without inspection. This is why I besaid, My husband and I have allieve that a decision to resume testways displayed the flag for the last ing could be a step toward agreeYou can count me on 50 years. ment, not a step away from it your team," she said. The home is the cradle of democracy and THERE IS NO DOUBT, I think, that the President will be subjected to conflicting advice. Some will say: How can we possibly offend the opinion of the neutralist world by resuming nuclear testing if the Soviets are willing to negotiate? Others will say: Are we sure that in any resumption of nuclear tests by both sides, the United States would be better off? Might not the Soviets gain more by further testing? These are fair questions. But in my judgment they are the wrong questions and lead to the wrong answer. Of course the Soviets are willing to negotiate indefinitely as long as they do not have to agree to anything. It seems to me that the question is not whether it is dangerous to break off negotiations but whether it is not more dangerous to continue the kind of negotiation IF PUBLIC AWARENESS s? agreement d action taken against them under the system. At least this has been the experience in states where various forms of the Point System already have been in operation. This list should make it apparent that the effectiveness of the Point System will depend in good measure on the effectiveness of the record-keepin- g system. If the record-keepin- g is and improved system it should be this, in turn, could make more feasible a system whereby insurance companies could lower the rates of drivers with good driving records in addition to the present assigned risk plan whereby poor drivers are penalized with higher insurance rates. Even this, however, is less important than the basic philosophy involved in the Point System. That is, to make the public realize that driving is not an inherent right, but a privilege that can be revoked when it is abused. A-test- which the Soviets are using to avoid DRUMMOND rASHINGTON When we get right down to the wire and find that the Soviets are not going to agree to nuclear test-bainspection, what are we going to do about it? The answer to that question is one of President Kennedys next crucial decisions. It cannot be long delayed. Should the Presi-to Mr. Drummond ent agree talks, which merging the test-bahave been fruitlessly going on for more than years, into the general disarmament negotiations due to begin at Geneva in August? Should we continue indefinitely to have a voluntary ban on testing and no inspection? Or, if Mr. Kennedy finds that the Kremlin will not accept any inspection it cant veto, will he then authorize the resumption of U.S. unfrom which derground testing there is no radioactive FOR ALL THAT, however, President De Gaulle seems by far France's strongest and most able leader, and his policies to represent Frances best course. That is certainly the spirit in which President Kennedy should approach the Paris meeting. THE A PIONEER whose own home in Denver is serving as a laboratory in the art. He circled the world for the U.N. to scout out progress in using solar energy, from simto huge ple household water-heater- s solar furnaces thtft pinpoint the ' suns gentle rays into small areas blazing so fiercely as to vaporize the earths most stubborn metals. Lof reports that, as always, mans progress in utilizing nature advance in depends on a wide-fromany technical fields. Also that uses some very simple sun-heate- d A CRUCIAL DECISION and possibilities of tolar energy hold Immediate value, along with those of the langer-rang- e larger ones. ' Few . example, the ingenious Japa-nes-e have seized upon the new durat water ble plastics to make heaters. The latter are simply large plastic bags holding about as much as an, American household water heater. The bottom is black, the sides and top dear. ' Such a bag is kept on the flat root ahd at morning is filled with water. By night the Water it hot enough for the traditional Japanese low-cos- , and cheapest simplest ' NATURES of energy, although known from time Immemorial, have been relatively neglected of late In mankinds rush to burn up the planets fossil fuels, and to harness the atom. Among these sources are, the gentle heat of the sun, and of the ceaseless winds as driven by the sua. Yet concentrated direct or indirect might be enormously useful, especially for cheaply meeting the needs of undeveloped countries and those with scanty fuel resources, of which there are many. The United Nations plan a world new sources of conference on energy, next August in Italy, at which every new and possible development will be reported. Potential uses of sun and wind, of the tides and of those sources derived directly from the earths heat (geothermal) will be included. An enormous stimulus of practical use, of the best and cheapest schemes Js expected. In some places, solar research developments have gone far beyond y general public knowledge, and machines have entered into commerce and industry, says Dr. George O. G. Lof. including CIA Director Allen W. Dulles, have flatly denied them. But too denial has come from the French government And no one seems to know Just how De Gaulle does feel about all this. Basis Of A Great Man's Fame ONE OF THE FINEST traits in human nature is that shown in the generous spirit with which men almost universally admire honor, and defer to the fortunate few who attain eminence by their superior endowments of mind. Installation of Thomas Alva Edison in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, this weekend is a fine example of that spirit in action. The strictest analysis we can make of the character and power in man the ethical, or moral; the rational, or intellectual; the dynamic, or energetic rates Thomas A. Edison among the greatest of Americans. Mr. Edison is generally recognized as the foremost inventor In all history because his creations have had such great effect on the lives of the world population everywhere. His electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture machine have become known in virtually every inhabited quarter of the globe. Aside from his amazing inventive genius, Edison was a world leader in political, economic and ethical thinking. A few memorable quotes provide a deeper insight into the character of this man: . portmt-tolUkorSo- By ROSCOE FLEMING What The Point System Can Do PROBLEM DRIVERS the small minority of drivers who are responsible for oni or . Lihcwite.it isthe presence of evil In the world that gives good its only value. Try to Imagine a universe without accident, without mortality, without sin; a universe In which nothing bad or unexpected could happen. It would also be a universe in which nothing was good, for an attribute cannot exist without its opposite. WITHOUT THIS opposition, without the constant struggle against fate, accident and our own flawed personalities, we would be beasts or angels, but not human beings. It is the bitterness of life that gives sweetness its savor, for each exists only in terms of the other like love and risk. r. THOSE WHO CANNOT love are those who are afraid, or unable, to run the risks Involved. They want to keep themselves safe and protected. They fear that their love may be rejected, betrayed or weakly returned. And some, indeed, fear being loved they cannot stand the pressure of another personality bearing upon them. Yet, unless we are willing to take such chances, to accept ; the fact that in loving we ledve ourselves wide open to disappointment 'or disaster, we cannot escape frqra the web of our own selfish egos. Love casts out fear, as Paul said but fear also casts out love. Senator Caucus Personally, I think most of the space the Russians have conquered has been Just newspaper space!" Freedom From Security FREEDOM from economic thing that a money economy gives to its people. Consider the case of the federal government It Is so much In debt that if it had to pay the many billions it owes, it would have to tax the people an amount considerably more than the entire savings of the peoplp. Under a money economy, the economic security of the people is not dependent upon the productivity of the people; instead it is dependent upon mdney. This is why it is possible to have the economic masterpiece known as a major depression when raw materials and an abundant supply of labor are on hand. This is why It is tone that 97 out of every 100 people of age 65 or over are either charity cases, or are living supported by relatives, another economic masterpiece. With millions believing in the myth of economic security, we find (Business Week, Dec. 10, I960) The most prominent groups that shun listing are banks and insurance (Listing means having companies the prices of their stocks posted on the financial pages of newspapers so the public can see how well they are doing.) Bank officers say that in the, minds of the public such wide fluctuations or even narrower price movements appear to reflect on their financial stability, and bankers think it is wiser to avoid the spotlight that listing provides. Indeed they should! It would be a sad day if the people were permitted to know about what money is doing to them. Richard Fifield , 140 Clinton Ave. Curtis Blaine Ave. Adm. Yarnell's Warning rIE FRENCH say, Isnt it As soon as we get out of a colony, the Americans go in! According to the Geneva Agree- ment which set up the country of Laos, It was to he neutral. However, from the first, we tried to tie it up with the West. In 1959 a witness for our government accounting office testified at a congressional hearing that our aid was all going to support the Laotian Army which we trained and equipped and into the pockets of officials ; and that the consequent discontent of the people played into the hands of the Communists and promoted instability. successCambodia, (Neighboring fully neutral, has a stable government.) Our interference in Laos led to counter measures from Communist countries. We have a military assistance advisory group there and an unknown number of agents of the Central Intelligence Agency. In South Vietnam also we are supporting a government which is toppling because of its own rottenness and disregard of its people. Because of all this we are now threatened with a second Korea which could explode into global nuclear holocaust Admiral Yamell, former commander of our Pacific Fleet, warned in October, 1955, that other parts of Southeast Asia might become Communist, but, The important thing to realize is that our intervention cant stop these things. It only makes the' situation worse. Alice Franklin Bryant 2813 N. Broadway Seattle, Wash. 685-ma- If Minimum Wage Law Ruled Unconstitutional? (From (he Deuret Newi Ftlei) 25 Years Ago May 30, 1936 The Supreme Court, which had ruled against Federal efforts to guarantee a minimum wage, declared a New York State law setting a minimum wage was unconstitutional and invalid. It was thought that this would eliminate the Utah law, which was almost exactly the same as the New York statute. 50 Years Ago Enthusiastic May 30, 1911 crowds at Belfast, Ireland, watched the launching of the White Star Companys giant liner, The Titanic. 75 Years Ago May 30, 1886 While sinking an artesian well at the home of Evans of Colorado, oil was struck. The gusber, In the very heart of Denver, was said by Pennsylvania oil men to toe good tar a big flow. - |