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Show 1" . , - . , , - - - A-'- , , ' . . , . , . THE DESERET NEWS EDITORIAL PAGE,. 2-8- --- . , , . Our Lack Of Accurate ' Metropolitan Water Outlook - Rea c hes 100 Years Ahead - , 4 -- - e- - d- of ahead, of the times. The sewage system in our metropolitan area is antiquated, inadequate and incomplete. Discharge of sewage Into Great Salt Lake was once adequate the : sewage was lost In and absorbed by the lake, without a trace. Now, though, with the , creased population and consequently Increased sewage discharge, parts of the lake " - are utterly befouled, to a degree that threatens the unitary safety of the bathing beaches .. Why Did Safety Commissioner Lingenfelter Say. the Liquor Laws Can't Be Enforced? Salt Lake aty's Public Safety Commissioner, 13, E. Lingenfelter, the big bon of the citts police force, told a Deseret News reporter that the pollee under his direction can't enforce the city's present liquor laws. He gave that as a reason for his sympathetic association with a scheme which hopes to return to Utah, and public glivOing of intoxicating liquqra and wines. We would like to know why the laws can't be eardieed. There is a good deal of flouting of the liquor laws in Salt Lake Ots these days no doubt of it When beer saloons and other places of public resort openly sell to bottle toters the htgredients which drinking people call "set ups, it means that these places are encouraging customers to bit their own bartenders in places where mixed drinks" are not supposed to be served. And the police know Laws similar to our present liquor laws cannot be openly flouted without the connivance of the police, whether the connivance Is tacit or something worse. If gambling, or what is politely called 'vice," or illegal drinking, or anything of the sort is commonly practiced, the police know about If it continues to go on it is because the police shut their eyes or look the other way. That may be only because they do not want to perform a constant chore. In some communities it is because venal police and their responsible heads are, in the argot of the underworld of which such police are a the take." Baldly, they graft they solicit and accept bribes. Kansas City has recently had a couple of murders which underscore some facts of political corruption. Fortunately Salt Lake City is sot that ldnd of town. But in any city, whether the laws are enforced or not depends on the directions the members of the police force get from the force's resporudble head. In Salt Lake City, that is the commissioner of public safety. Policemen are just men with jobs. Like other men with jobs which they would like to continue to hold, and who like to enjoy as pleasant working conditions as possible, they do what the big boss wants them to do. Sometimes their orders are direct sometimes they are just an atmosphere But the members of any police force are keenly sensitive to what the big boss wants, and what he wants done and how, and what he prefers to leave undone. So we repeat our question. What did Mr. Lingenfeller mean when he told a Deseret News reporter that open sale of booze by the slug should be legalized because the present laws cannot be enforced by the police force which works under his direction? Whether Commissioner Lingenfelter knows It or not the present flouting of the liquor laws in Salt Lake City is in violation of the public conscience. He should know it He is a politician who should be aware of prevailing sentiment. One nk it it paron -- Hart vice president of by the writings of Communism's own founders, the Soviet Union is the biggest 3rwind1e in history. Deaa Acheson, Secretary of The first problem which every Chinese government has to face is that of feeling its population. 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Fickle Mistress Fate-play14-N I i --1 ' i';' 1,.:t .. us false, like the 41",. rgl, ,di 'IiY.-- : ' II( faeulootwotht 1 the hospital. Each Nv. li ' --0: .i,'4. ' ' , 4::41 N, ? had eolse .tro has ,c 5 It - ;171 13thf3n . ..., s 14 ; 0, -- 44imeci1 l', . A..) ;:1 ::'.-anybody I If . 74TZ.z-fs :,, i , own plight admits you to ,, . Ai tr ... d ,...,::: :4, '44' ,..;.:.,,,. - "-- ......1 3,- Lit JA. about as choice companion...1. fik lot., .t:,-' flA: ,1 .,,,I,,. 1 1 ,, ship as time can supply. , ::k ,,i1 :f; f, ?1,: ........,...... Maybe your eyes are being ,1, , A ,,,......f-'- :.;!,11,''. ,'" taken away from you so your I -A... , a L 11. st 4 z soul might see, as the blind ' plowman said. Milton, you . know wrote 'Paradise Re- 41"...41.4 Y 1! ' 11 i ' t gained after he had gone ,,4 i e 0 - ' blind. Chopin's finest comI 't , ( , came offt his pen , positions lb i 9 I he was slowly dying while 6-.SAter,,, of tuberculosis. Beethoven , is I,- , , 4 ... I was too deal at 30 to hear his 0 l: ,ii, 4, A. .. t , 7;4', fil latest symphony in its pre,,.7 9 I ,z I mien ' I I-'4', ' .7;1 't '' . 1 ',. 't '. CHRISTOPHER )LUMBUS l', '. 1 was a flat failure at 45 f ; I Vil at 46 he had earned a . ,, but ' --f.,-'N I I,È 1 I ringside seat among the hn- ... I ,N.1..1, i mortals. He was a man with ,,:,;,. A tEtgaMENT -one purpose --- -- which he accomplished ..--K ' 40ftvE' spite every kind of , , to M MISSI C, , 0111t ; agement "" ! 4 i , Cer- . lrars,. When Miguel dt, I .4 vantes lost his right hand Atli, 411,-,-75- ,, e at 57, he took up his pen N i in the left and wrote "Don I Quixote." Thomas Carlyle . had stomach ulcers for 15 ' years but that didn't keep PRIMEVAL THIS IS THE FOREST him from writing r "Sartor Resartus" and "The History of the French Revolution." When this classic historical to the more masterpiece was finished Deseret invites News The expand money Liquor by the Drink? he loaned the manuscript to fire department, sewage, disreaders to express their opinia friend, whose maid mistook It Must Not Be! 0713 or contribute informaposal plants, jails, public safeit for a heap of old papers, tion on topics of current inty buildings, etc. Shame upon It is reported that $33,000.- - terest Utters must be signed, such an idea. Selling the souls threw it into the fireplace of men to raise money. .. . It and burned it to ashes. He 000 was spent in the State of should be brief (not over 200 must not be! never said a word, but sat words preferred), and most Utah during 194g, for hard C. V. Hansen, down and did the whole work not violate accepted canons liquor, beers and cigarets. Provo. over again. of good taste. That Is a colossal sum to JOHN BUNYAN, an English Address: The Editor, LetObserver Impressed spend for things that the hutinker, was thrown into ters to the P. Box News, man body would be better the klink because of his re1257. Salt Lake City 10. Utah. off without That sum gives By Senator Hopkin ligious beliefs. During his 12 the amount of money wasted; years in jail he wrote one of but who can tell us the money Sen. Alonzo F. Hopkin, in dicker or barter? Drink dethe driest but most important value of the damage that has my opinion, is one of the books found in any library. I moralizes and weakens everybeen done to homes and most popular men ever to dare you to read It all the thing it touches. Think of the family life? serve in the Utah Senate. way through. It is called wrecks inside jails and asyThe liquor business cannot While he is a Democrat,- he "Pilgrims Progress." be defended. It is an agent of lums. Think of the widows Is respected by the RepubliSir Isaac Newton spent destruction. If there is any and orphans left by drink. cans because of his fairness, and years figuring years way to eliminate this great We have arrived at a sad on all and out some intricate matheevil, it ought to be done. Why stage if we must sell liquor subjects. matical calculations and compromise? Why by the drink, in order to raise He Is a farmer and liveone day Ms pet pup stock manmostly livestock climbed upon the table DORIS FLEESON who lives in Woodruff, and tore his works to Rich County. I would label shreds. Newton spanked the him one of the most condog soundly and spent servative Democrats in the seven more years rewritShort, ruddy-faceLegislature. ing them. he looks like a real So you're having a tough outdoorsman. He has a most time too, are you? pleasing personality, and THE MERRY MONTH President Truman's ap- was always that he's having have never heard of his takproach to the people during May is the month to be 1"111rT. a fine' time, he'd never had ing part in any of the lower-sca- le According to honored tradition. his western such a warm welcome, he was Most men will agree that it is political negotiations tour was simple and unsubtle. It they can find time to go fishin. which most legislators behappy he came to Nampa. B. PetrOS He is only their hired man, Broken Bow, Shoshone or come involved in. he told them over and over and he whatever, hopes to Did you know that: To be In virtually every legislaagain in colloquial Missouricome back. tive act I have known him to eligible for the Bald Head an. He said that he makes a That is either reasonably Club of America, a man must perform, I have felt that he report to Congress every year true or he can show a Bara bald spot at least three had have the best interests of the and he's got a right to come rymore how to act Hamlet. state as a whole in mind, inches in diameter. back and report to the peoHe had good crowds. They rather than the good of the ple, too. He always got a were uniformly responsive, A 'wife seldom pays any atDemocratic party or the livelaugh by adding that he wantso. sometimes ardently to what her husband tention stock or interests, ed them to see for themselves any other is saying, unless he is saying Mrs. Truman and Margaret special group. I believe one whether he is wearing a bigIt to another woman. took the curtain calls, smiling would find no other person in ger hat than in 1948. mute. Occasionally a venbut the Utah as tmiLegislature He intimated that the only turesome listener suggested MAN WITH THE LADDER versally admired by both Reway they can get the real Mcfor them that The hoipital elevator door Margaret sing and Democrats as publicans is him when he Coy about which she turned aside with a swung open and in squeezed Senator tells them personally. This Hopkin. a trim little man in a white quip that it's too early. too L. T. Heron glancing blow at the press is late. or too near lunchtime. jacket, carrying on one hand standard operating procedure tool kit with screw driver. a No man would union keep Thinks Need among presidents Negroes the president's hours, even at hammer, saw, pliers and TRYIXG TO KEEP PEACE and in the other FEPC time and a half for overtime. of Help The president explained a small step ladder. Evidently He kept saying he has turned that all in the world he is I read your editorial about he was the building custodian, 66 but he sure doesn't feel the F. E. P. C. I, like many trying to do is to keep peace It. He doesn't act it either. carpenter, maintenance man in the world and go forward or something. other 100 per cent Americans, He was joking with a Pocawith his programs to make know the F. E. P. C. is for all tello audience at 6 a.m. After "floors, please?" I n people happier and more LI stops, at all of which he Americans that are not treatwired the pretty-gi- rl operprosperous.- He exuded coned fair. There are some peoator. talked and shook hands, he fidence that his listeners beple in this U. S. A. who will "Surgery," responded the got into a car at 9 p.m. at lieved him and the fact is, little man with the ladder. fight and die before they will Walluga, Ore., drove 18 miles A young intern, with a they seemed to treat the Negro like other to Pasco, Wash., spoke from There are only two colors Americans. a platform erected in front of mischievous glintt in his on the Truman word-palett- e the Elks Building, and reThe F. E. P. C. is morally eye turned to the fellow His own intentions are pure turned to his train at 10:30 with the tool kit and said: and socially and humanly white and those who oppose "Of course you are going p.m. This was his preparation right. him arc very black indeed to operate this morning, for !he next days arduous Are you a Dixie-cror a reactionaries. greedy and doctor but why the ladder?" jaunt to the Grand Coulee Republican! They do not privileged. robber barons and Dam. Without even bothering to like the F. E. P. C. Do you self interests, prophets of look around the little guy believe in the Constitution? LACKS 'WHITE HORSE' gloom. If you do you will believe replied: W hen Mr. Truman adds nothing goes something "Tall patient." that all Americans should be in was as he to and subtracts nothing from wrong, compelled treated equal. Idaho to admit something had the New Deal. The details The Negro soldiers fought Many public speakers rise with the potato program, it's vary but centrally it's the to the occasion but few can and died for America, and the because of interference by more abundant life. He'll get Americans. I do not think remember when to sit down. such characters. Luckily there us there yet, he insists. should have died in vain. they Conis always the Eightieth One press-ca- r fi "HITCH-HIKEI do not think they should be cynic stared PROVES gress to fall back on it wearily at his typewriter and TO BE denied for what they died for. said: "Remember that lawyer bill passed a potato-suppoSamuel Mofitgomery. Since you can't tell 'em without provisions for proper who told his client. 'Don't Tooele. apart at a distance, don't pick worry, kid, I'll get you out of marketing quotas. up either HOPES TO COME BACK this jail if it takes all your the always impression of a Such people are still abroad life" TEXT FOR TODAY: "I white horse and brilliant ban in the land, the president The folksy Truman perknow that whatsoever God ners in the lurking wings. formance is a far cry from warned, including the isoladoeth, it shall be forever: With Truman. there seems tionists who brought on the the Great White Father act to be exactly what meets the nothing can be put to it, not last war. Well, this time, he with which the handsome and anything taken from It: and But no one can complain eye. Roosevelt said, they aren't gonna get magnetic Franklin God doeth it that men about his fidelity to the text away with it" spread the New Deal gospel. should tear hem' blm."- -of the role. The president's conclusion With Roosevelt there was tiloleamod be tbs 1.1 arsdiss lac) Ecclesiastes 3:14. 4( - ita force!' , 111. zt-,- . ,, ) When I first broke, to use a newspaper expression, the "Amerasia" case, I found a certain incredulity not only among readers but even among editors and politicians. Some felt that I was exaggerating a story; one even believed that having gone lazy, I stuck to a single idea. Today, after four months, everybody is writing about "Amerasia" and it is admitted in Washington that this was the one sure and complete espionage case during the sizar available to the government As one senator expressed leading Democratit was handled like- a .cow kicking over a full pail of milk. , TWO EXPLANATIONS rbere are two ways of looking at this: one is to assume that everybody concerned case was treacherous and malicious and subversive. This I cannot and do not assume to be possible or true. Therefore, we must turn to the second explanation. which is: Human beings live by their form These assumptions. their mental habits and control their actions. A new set of assumptions, altogether different, are subconsciously resisted as being beyond probability. For instance, an American naturally assumes that no American would be a traitor to his country in time of war. When one is discovered. he is so horrible that shooting seems too good for him. When we think of spies, we usually assume that they are aliensperhaps with long hair and whiskers, or the Mate Hari type. Therefore, it is difficult to believe that Americans of good families. educated in our best universities, even rich, would engage in treachery and espionage for a foreign power. PROBLEM OF TREACHERY However, our problems of treachery and espionage did not end with the war. They have been continuous since 1945; they are continuing today. J. Edgar Hoover has written magazine articles and has delivered speeches, clearly warning that they are continuing today. I am sure that Senator Tydings realizes better now than when he accepted the chairmanship of his committee that they are continuing today and that his committee faces something beyond Senator McCarthy's charges. The need then is for definitions that will respond to the challenge of the forces that Marxism has let loose. For instance, what is a Communist? Legally. a Communist is a member of the Communist Party who admits such membership and carries a card. No Mc in the United States fully fits that definition. In first place. there are no cards Secondly, only a small number of party members are permitted by party discipline to admit that they are parts, members. The party in the United Statees is largely underground. 0 VERSDIPLIFICATION Thirdly, while all Comma-- nists are by their own rules and disciplines agents of a foreign power, most Communists are not actively engaged In esOonage. In fact, those who are,so engaged are separated from the American Commtinist Party and can truthfully say they do not belong to it. Fourthly. we emphasize the of the phrase "overthrow American Government by force" This is an inaccurate t i t to oversimplification American assumptions and legal phraseology. A more correct statement would be to take over the American by government means may be whatever available. infiltration. partior cipation, office-holdin- - orel-- 1-- t NO.,' ...-- ..111'11P 641 . - ,,'!".; ! ii.. Armstrong, Clyde C. Edmonds, manager, Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative (quoted in Vatblindee)---Vi- e are living In a day when most decisions are concerning our t. based upon political oncy first, and the well-bein- g Cl the country and its citizens 041 I f? :, -- ': ::; 4.: r.'e,r-i-- -, .1.,-- : :, ,.,..;... mil-lim- o( 4v," A Dr. Edwin television enginerThe public is still pouring tens of of dollars into television sets Operating in a radio area where national service is impossible. :VI t,,,, t. : - .. 7..;:s7z,-- 1 , $ r : Fred Wolters By , ,,,,.,!rprg.or.o.r.1,T,,,4:''tk.rr-t,e-',APrwetvvkr,vkl.rA;.,- . i4 , State .k', ict OUT OF THIS WORLD They Say !'' would hate to believe that his personal associations are such that he is not in touch with the prevailing conscience of the city's citizenry. One would hate to believe that the Deseret News refuses to think it even though it is true that it was an and "club" keeper whom Mr. Lingenfelter took at the taxpayers' expense in a city car to the Capitol, to file in the secretary of state's office the petition which purposes to repeal the laws which Mr. Lingenfelter says the police under his direction can't enforce. , ...... ,.-- 6 . - . . - In another direction, we are behind instead ,, ms,r . Definitions spread freely. Outside the area served by sewers, dangers are piling up -- underground, where we cannot see them. Cesspools and septic tanks are quite adequate sewage disposal facilities for farms; but when the farms are cut up Into building lots, and new homes by the dozens and hundreds are built, such sanitary' conveniences become woefully inadequate, as the soil simply cannot absorb wastes in the quantities that must be disposed of in thickly settled regions - Pollution is inevitable. with consequent dangers to health and life. We should heed Mr. Arnold's warnings, with regard to water supply and even more urgently on the sewage disposal problem. He sounded a further warning based on experience: Keep water problems free from political manipulation. We think we already have accepted that Both the city water department principle. and the Metropolitan Water District have, in the main. been officered by men who were not enmeshed in the toils of partisan politics to a degree that hampered or misdirected their activities with regard to the administration of the water facilities placed under their charge. These men have done very well for us in general, from year to year and from decode to decade. But Mr. Arnold's warning is that, as we grow, we must plan our water administration not enly for the immediate future, but for a century to come. Mr. Amold's warning, given at the uni. versity of Utah In a talk to some fifty water supervisors and others from throughout the state, was to the effect that Utah has outgrown its rural outlook toward its water supply, and must face the problems that pertain to metropolitan water service and sewage disposal. To some extent, we have already heeded this warning. In Salt Lake City in particular, foresighted water planning and procurment have been the rule rather than the exception over the past half century or more. The great Deer Creek project, now nearing completion, will provide for the city's water supply needs for some time to come. - a if the contaminated waters are allowed to We should extend a word of thanks to Gerald Arnold, director of the water department for the city of San Diego, California, for focusing our attention on a pressing problem with regard to water development and sewage disposal in Utah. - . WEDNESDAY, MAY ,17,9.,50 . , - GEORGE E. SOKOLSKI' Ws stand for the Constitution of tha United States with its three departments of government as therein set forth. each one fully independent in its own field. - SALT LAKE CITY,LITAH NEWS READERS a ss falter Truman Holding to Simple Talks on Western Tour "non-politic- d, ar brace-and-b- it at R rt . I - |
