| Show J ! -- ©ghttt EDIT OR feamitwr DREW PEARSON A LS FEBRUARY 12 1961 OGDENi UTAH SUNDAY MORNING 4A J! Kennedy Can Expect Scant Help Of Demo Leaders in Congress n Kennedy Aide Promises Jobs for idle j build-feder- al work-usuaU- Lincoln at Age 52 One hundred years ago today found Abraham Lincoln at the y 52 in Cincinnati on his age of journey from Springfield Illinois to Wash- ington for his inauguration He was to visit the governors and legislatures of five states talk to crowds and be cheered by President-elec- t 11-da- throngs In Cincinnati he appeared astonished at the reception given him and he com- mented that the excitement was not over him personally but over the presence there of the United States President-elec- t Children at an orphanage sang ‘Hail Columbia” as his carriage passed A little girl in white gave a bouquetto Mr Lincoln and received a kiss in return She objects to war She did not she asked win over the Utah School for the Deaf 20 YEARS AGO tj a Brigham City physician had been awarded the Silver Beaver award for his assistance to the scouting movement in Brigham City practice of the Mount Ogden Stake singing mothers had been held under the direction of The-firs- t i 39-2- 4 Cadets at Ogden High School had bonal and Mrs W O Ridges Mrs L G Toon® bee? prfnted W'1th colors board by named president of the education sun feb 12 20 years ago ed page" Reed Smoot a veteran Mormon Jgroup church leader and former Utah Marnlf A senator had died in St Peters burghT Fla" aTthe"‘ age of 15! IdJfr0m sr WAR She angered S WAR “Why do you bring in our grandfathers? War is war In war people get killed Nothing is so terrible as to get killed” “Nothing but slavery” “Everybody talks about slavery but do you mean to say that people like the Poles are actual slaves?” “You object to British colonial- ism to FrenCh and Belgian colonial- lsm- - You objected toMusolini g0' ing into Ethiopia You boycotted Japan because it conquered Man- churia You would not wear silk stockings after that You wept with Gandhi over India But you are not at aU bothered about toe Latvians and Lithuanians the Estonians and the Poles You do not care about what happens to the Tibetans and the Nepalese Ready how do you make such a sharp distinction be- tween one kind of imperialism and another? ‘It seems to me that you raise difficult questions she said What happens m Latvia will not involve us m war- - But why should we go to war over Berlin? Twice we went to war with toe Krauts and all of a sudden toey be- come very important to us Now you want my sons to be killed about a 4’ gntal -- “ Support Heart Fund Dear Editor: “Heart surgery” somehow has a cold and terrifying sound— until you are a victim of heart disease! Then suddenly it becomes a word fraught with hope It means no more waking up at night gasping for breath while your heart races and pounds wildly No more lying awake the rest of the night in the grip of cold’ icy fear worrying about who will care for your husband and children if your heart should fail the next time It means being able to partake of the wonderful simple pleasures of life most of us take for granted and really never even think about Like doing your own housework cooking caring for your family Even doing the washing and ironing becomes a joy It means dancing with your hus- band and for the first time in your being well enough to go swim- ming with the family and really swim instead of sitting on the bank and watching the others To sum it all up I guess if any-r- v one asked me for a definition of my £eart surgy last October I would Oscar Madson Moroni Skeen and Dalebout had William Mathers had left for Blue a Jaabbit huntiigTx"- aL27r 31x1 the Southern States pedition His parents are Mr and Mrs A More than m guests had been Dalebout 252 Patterson entertained at an oyster supper flav® prepared by the youth club of the c 50 YEARS AGO Methodist Church fat itude I feel when I think of the suc- team basketball A valuable driving horse had been cess of my own surgery falls under ' 5e&er Academy with Clark Cawl Ingles Roberts stolen from the barn of Ben Critch- - a cloud when I think of the little and Watson in the lineup had post- - low 3350 Washington Jimmy who was a ?Lon v i five-year-o- ld Wr°ng 80 ‘° W8r “My personal opinion is the same as George Washington’s but the majority of our fellow citizens dis- agreed with George Washington and with me They voted for a president who was dedicated to the elimina- tion of Hitler but not of Stalin Out of that war came our present LETTERS ed ed a - es fJj'd'hdpJd FHA-insure- d nt Hal-wou- ld mMyjav5si JJrSJ Negro's High Post VA-guarante- tte day prge raise her children to be soldiers or to be slaughtered by an insane hy- droen bomb “There ought to be smart men m toe government to discover a way not to have war with Russia and not to submit to Russia” she said “That is easy enough to say Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower Robert G Weaver having obtained Sen- have all tried to find a way to but this war constantly i ate confirmation will take office this week peace more costly We send a mis- Persons attending the Utah State Uni- as administrator of the Housing and Home grows sile 4000 miles on a target and versity’s institute on alcoholism were told Finance Agency in which position he will they hurl a new Sputnuik in orbit 'that is larger than any In time that the alcoholism of 14000 Utahns costs- countries will go broke” guide the federal government’s activities both - “Still and society seven million dollars a year The jn housing The statement that Mr Weaver all” she said “It is not so bad to show off as long as it is cost in unhappiness of course is many now occupies the highest post ever held by nothing more than showing off No- times that The number of alcoholics in a Negro in the federal executive branch is body gets killed by showing off It the nation is estimated at five million confirmed by examining the scope of his only costs money” “But where is the money to come which probably enrs on the low side duties He is the administrator over the from? We are already complaining Agencies seeking to do something about following activities! about taxes and about toe debt and toe drain on gold There are about this problem deserve support In Utah Facilities Administration Community of defeating a nation they include Alcoholics Anonymous the ’ which is responsible for programs pertain- - many ways our Erandfalh- Utah State Board on Alcoholism and the ing to loans to finance student and fac- renewal Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit Program an office established to help obtain private mortgage credit for and loans Federal Housing Administration the operations of which are familiar to millions Public Housing Administration whose statutory responsibility is to administer the low-republic housing program Federal National Mortgage Association which operates under policies set by the Jjoard of directors of which Mr Weaver will be chairman Predictions are freely made that Mr Weaver will face serious problems in this key post No one will deny this Every housing administrator has been beset by problems Mr Weaver thanks to his ex-perience in housing seems far from terri- fied and he has an expression of dence from the nation’s Tnortg&ge ge tthe I ulty housing to hospitals and to state and local governments for public works Urban Renewal Administration which directs programs of slum clearance and The speaker and Democratic lead-purer John McCormack of Boston be- gan compiling the list the next day °S?SSSd'sn I Utah Alcoholism Foundation All operate on the principles that alcoholism is a disease that alcoholics can be helped and deserve helping and that alco- holism is a public health problem and a public responsibility A big task remains to convince more of the public of the ! truth of those principles ties if rf From the moment of his election Mr Lincoln was showered with advice about how he sh0uld deal with the seceding but he k t his counsel Southern stat wlule he P°“dered what he would say in his inaugural message That message now one of our famous state papers was viewed by many at the Cost of Alcoholism par-unco- rk scheduled vote They defore tected a dangerous shift to the leck-Smit- h side concluded that the KeCan°U5 Rayburn had thought The only way to avoid an em- barrassing defeat they agreed wasto postpone the vote and give Kenoedy time to softethe congress- men with heavy Cabinet artillery didn’t know until he the floor that Thursday on walked d£ Ms nllhahW6 throw Urn out of that the vote had been delayed pew frontier bS having trou- he took Mills We wM Us first roundup” °" Werim the President per-rulI" entire House battle to a few be t £ut the cabinet of Representatives where he faced ngressmen the tough problem of winning R most 0f the pressuring Luther North pubhean votes mrfident Hodges former governor of At first Mr of com- now Carolin secretary and He was serene His to every North Caro- m the lina congressman couldn’t shift a were vote Even Kennedy himself t m??uratf Sin talked to North Carolina congressJ°P le®tefLShTn friends that he man Harold to thought he had pair against the persuaded the last minute But at tShnihreal hope of Republicans a fight deserted winning Secretary of the Interior Stewart WHIP CRACKS Udall former member of the House to But suddenly Halleck galvanized- made strategic calls chiefly into action At first it was not ap- westerners including Republicans that He spoke cordially of reclama-th- e parent why Then it leaked outManu- tion projects and other matters dear National Association of to western hearts remmded Con-th- e and word facturers had passed the NAM is an outfit Halleck doesn’t gressman William Henry Harrison Wyoming Republican how Colo readilv ignore While Halleck pressured in Wash- - rado’s GOP Congressman J Edaf Re- - Chenoweth had voted against Ei- ington the NAM got hold of and had been unable to publican contributors across the senhower “The world is so grown up We country told tben to dfstrictfor twf years6 know so much about everything Several” bankers To freshman Congressman Ben Why can’t the Russians mmd their Dakota Republic KeifeIi 3 whMe own business and we should mind Udall observed Indian who is i part bed Every Republican our own business Then there will would have been gweetl that no war- com- stance heard from at least his personal choice for Indian for ALL THE ANSWERS one bank president or money raiser missioner In the end both stuck with Ha But excellent “Your attitude is Rep John Saylor of Johnstown for leek history is against such sanity as pa at first’ declared himself botcommittee a rules In the TOUGH TACTICS every period breaking you propose ruler or a group arises which has tleneck He knew Pennsylvania inten- four days pnall all the answers to all toe prob- - needed the distressed areas bill anci bac’kstage lobbying the full lems that face mankind Soviet the rules committee was likely o resources 0f the White House and Pussia bejieves haJ1n Marxlsm lt block it But Saylor has his eyecabinet managed to give Sam has found a SCientlflc answer to on the governorship of Pennsylvan- “ y w fivevote mar boys ia so when the everything “A Communist is dedicated to toe back home got on the telephone & hats how toUgh it’s going to be ideal of bringing all the world to he switched w pass the Kennedy program Marxism to the destruction of all On the other hand freshman Bill why the backstage other sociological ethical economic Scranton of Scranton Pa son of rfi hti m cantinue In fact and political systems which exist the famed aristocratic GOP nation- One day after d started f upon the face of toe earth They ai committeewoman Mrs WorthMassachusetts make war by unorthodox methods- -‘ ington Scranton refused to kowtow th& voted had infiltra- - to big money back home He voted subversion ts’ propaganda on the rules fight he D tion into other governments and so'with Rayburn Scranton also wants note from Halleck to run for governor and it will be on whether Conti “Thus far we have established interesting to see whether kow- toe NATO to appointed that we cannot be defeated by such towing to NAM pressure or resist- meeting in Eur- methods But both we and they are ing NAM pressure will help most J Conti a battler t in a race to prove that the weapons in winning the governorship of Penn- this redeserves richly are available not only to annihilate sylvania wants to see how Halleck but ward Another Pennsylvanian Note each other but to destroy the world the next three vote ® Thus far both sides have talked for who resisted pressure was Bob "f time proving that neither side is Corbett' of Pittsburgh and what d fter Sen yet ready to fight But when the most people don’t know is that from New H1 Hugh Scott Republican also not gtv preparations are so massive how would Republican can one be sure that there will be Pennsylvania helped to persuade no fighting? both Corbett and Scranton to vote tinfon the foreign af- with He SLWilbShU CorViS reduc-privat- Public and private tourist agencies all over the country will cheer President Kennedy’s order giving to the first U S travel director the prestige and salary of an Assistant Secretary of Commerce The President’s order to increase the rank and the salary from original intentions means that the work of encouraging more for- - time as weak and vacillating The South out failed to eigners to visit the United States will have as historians have pointed see the determination behind Lincoln s the White House blessing Travel for recreation has developed words particularly his assertion that the into a great industry The biennial report union could not be broken without con- of the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council sent of all states Editor Bennett of the New York Herestimates that Utah’s income from tourists was 113 million dollars in 1959 This is on ald started his persistent criticism of Mr the low side compared to many states and Lincoln by ridiculing the inaugural mesUtah is struggling to increase the number sage saying the President could as well of visitors and the length of their stay have addressed the throng with a funny Yet recreational travel is among Utah’s story Editor Greeley of the New York five most important industries surpassed Tribune on the other hand praised the na' only by manufacturing defense mining message saying it revealed that the and agriculture Utah will be among the tional government continued to exist and states to from an increase in the that there was a man at the head of it ' number ofprofit foreign visitors “The situation is precarious’ ad-demitted the speaker He 'gave the President a quick briefing and coneluded that “the absentees could -decide it “I would appreciate it he added “if you could lend a hand” Up to that moment the Presi-battl- e' dent had taken no direct part in the rules fight But he asked Ray- - ' bum to send him the names of the doubtlful congressmen in both nt Kennedy rams his legislative program through Congress is go- ing to’ depend almost entirely on himself and his Cabinet This is the inescapable conclusion drawn from what happened behind the scenes in the rules committee Here is the inside story The shadow of Gov Orval Faubus of Arkansas first fell across the early backstage maneuvering to the rules committee bottle- neck Indirectly he prevented the of Rep Bill Colmer of Mis- T Demo- sissippi for deserting the cratic party This was a purge Ray- burn could have won easily for it have been voted on by Dem- ocrats only inside their own caucus' However the initial motion to mmmittpp kick Colmer off which is cha£ mon And if hhad voted against The late Harry L Hopkins New Deal Secretary of Labor Arthur J Goldberg is promising the unemployed men and relief administrator in 1935 wanted to women of the country that the Kennedy put thousands of idle shoe workers back Administration will get jobs for them ' to work His plan was for the WPA to “but we don’t intend to create another take over the idle factories hire the idle workers and put them to work making WPA” The WPA program under President shoes for the millions on relief who needed F D Roosevelt put the unemployed heads shoes The loud outcry that this was social-o- f families to work building things or ism forced abandonment of the plan The performing services for local state and idle shoe workers were put to work government units the U S govern--' ing roads and similar projects with the other millions of unemployed Slowly but ment paying their wages The best places however in which to surely purchasing power arose Demand y employ the idle are the places where they for shoes increased until many shoe are employed in good times But ers were able to leave projects and return how may the government proceed to place to making shoes The Kennedy Administration doubtless the steel workers back in the steel mills the lumber workers back in the forests will seek a method calculated to restore and mills the auto workers back' at their employment rapidly If the recession is tasks and the textile workers or coal min-- worse when the President takes his profilised new look at conditions in April he ers back where they want to be? The government as we all know can may decide to use the tax reduction plan increase jobs by letting contracts to buy to spur purchasing power It will cost a quantities of products from lagging in- - few billions but so will any other plan toe dustries Or it can stimulate increased put millions back at work The tax tion plan would tend to put the workers buying by use of tax incentives If people spend less for taxes they have (back on the jobs they know best and this more to spend for other things The quick- - is better than placing them on public works est way to increase buying power may be projects at tasks with which they are' not familiar the best method JFK Backs Tourism WASHINGTON — Whether Presi- - TOT E HE big-mon- ey £ - pS dependellf'upon exploration upon all kinds of new weapons and new vehicles each of which is eating us into poverty You want us to be sane but you do not ask the enemy to be sane You saw Khrushchev on television act like a wild boor at the United Nations” My lady was upset by what I said She could only answer “I don’t want my sons killed in war” Th NAM by cpertad so quiet- ly and effectively that Sam Rayburn didn’t really know what had hit him He began to know it at a White House meeting just before the scheduled showdown vote At the White House meeting Pres- ident Kennedy brought up the sub- ject in his typically terse manner “How are we doing on the rules fight?” he asked Rayburn ’ if the ly bets - had-TOte- d tough And rfvS and military establishments harbors highways et ai jt can pass the Kennedy program uonst wnce gressmen are watchm raw m toe as tirst appointments the wind as be as tough as TOR who also had problems with Congress D I T O ft (Editor's Note: Lotftrs to tho Editor should not exetod 300 words Contributors shoul dobsorvo tho dictates of toed tasto and must in avery cast fully idait-tif- y thamselves Anonymous lattars and lettars of questionable tasto aro not acceptable) patient in the hospital at the same time as I It was Halloween and he had been in the hospital the previous Halloween too His mother determined he shouldn't miss out on the festivities again dressed him in a costume and pushed him from room to room in his wheel chair while he passed out his sack of goodies and received treats in return What a good time he had I don’t believe there was a dry eye on the whole floor that night You see medical science didn’t have enough knowledge yet to save him I have often sat thinking how for- tunate I am to have been blessed by God to have been one of the lucky ones for whom medical research was on time We have such a long way to go in spite of the great strides that have been made in heart research in the last 10 years I can’t help wondering— “W® were too late for Jimmy— will we be in time for others like him?” This heart research is paid for almost entirely by contributions made to the Heart Association during the Heart Month— that is this month I hope we won’t be too late for all the other Jimmys Margaret Nelson 1675 Cahoon Street rvV' A' &A V't I v " v J''’ v' '' vavjs vn i - f 'JV ' ' 'V" -- 'tv' n! ' w sV-y tv BLOSSOMING OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES FESTIVITIES greeted the announcement in Montgomery Ala on Feb 8 1861 that for the prodelegates of six Southern states had reported a temporary constitution the 1 e a d of America of Following visional Government of the Confederate States South Carolina which seceded Dec 20 1860 Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia and Louisiana in January had approved ordinances and1 legislation declaring themRepresentatives from the selves separate from the Union Texas seceded Feb government At first six states convened in Montgomery on Feb 4 to form a separate of said:' above the which Montgomery drawing published the time Harper’s Weekly Februof for-thon 8th the to have Union) fairly begun “We may consider this (War was Southern formally inaugurated” Confederacy ary 1861 when the -- e if |
