Show ©gitett 0tatthara-feamm- ?r EDITORIALS GA OGDEN UTAH THURSDAY EVENING APRIL 6 1961 Laos Invasion Bunch of Piffle Chinese Already Have Moved In Kennedy Urges Nev Strength for NATO ' x Ten years ago the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established its supreme headquarters near Paris from Which Gen Dwight D Eisenhower su- preme commander began his successful efforts to bring about western military strength through unity Soon a strong deterrent force was erected for the Atlantic nations extending from Canada and the United States through Iceland to Norway and then around the European perimeter into Turkey’ Fears of a Russian march to the English channel vanished And then the nations began to lose interest in NATO France weakened the alliance tremendously by refusing to permit NATO nuclear weapons on French soil unless France controlled the weapons Gen De Gaulle refused to integrate French forces with NATO forces The US Air Force therefore withdrew its nuclear forces from France And now there is a new upsurge of Communist expansive forces To counteract this President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan among others urge an upbuilding of NATO strength and unity It is appropriate therefore that on the tenth anniversary of the establishment of NATO supreme headquarters President Kennedy should declare in Paris through Vice President Johnson that the US vigorously supports NATO The President said the US is resolved to do everything necessary within its power to enhance NATO’s power and influence He repeated an old truism tht the security of Europe and of the US are inseparable If the Western Allies are indeed to close ranks in the face of a new Red threat the best way to do this is by means of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization' Utah's Property Tax a highly skilled worker and be grounded in more skills than almost any other category of skilled workmen They are justified in holding their heads high It is pleasing to learn from the Utah Foundation that the property taxes we pay in Utah are not as high comparatively as some of us suspected The taxes are declared to be below the national average for the United States the mountain states and the west So we can cross another item off our list of things to grumble about Another research organization Utah Taxpayers Association offers reassurance on another front The association’s current “Utah Taxpayer” relates that Utah’s 1961-6- 3 over-al- l inclusive state spending pro- gram of $257648133 is 28 million dollars or 12 per cent higher than actual for 1958-5- 9 adding the comment: spending “That is a reasonable increase” So government in Utah is not extravagant For further enlightenment let us turn to the Utah Foundation’s statistical abstract 'of government in Utah Here we learn that despite sharp increases in spend- ing for public education in Utah expenditures per pupil both at the college anL public school level are lower in Utah than average spending levels in the nation generally V And while we are about it we will say again that it is not true as some charge that Utah’s per capita consumption' of liquor is high Instead Utah is among' states with lowest per capita consumption Iron Horse Triumphs Reading Railroad officers boast that their Iron Horse Rambles are the biggest single railroad passenger attraction in the railroad industry today so they are expanding them They have taken two immense steam locomotives out of retirement They attach 16 to 18 coaches behind the engines advertise excursions through the Pennsylvania Delaware and New Jersey countrysides collect up to $10 a ticket and sell out for every trip Those that can’t take the ride line up at the crossings to see a mon- ster snort smoke and steam The passengers who buy the excursion rides come from all over the land Most of us forget that an entire new crop of youngsters has arrived since the steamers were banished for the Diesels For them the old iron horse has all the fascination it had for their fathers and grand- fathers Adults have a good excuse for spending the day on a train They can say they merely want to take the children But most of the passengers are unashamed They are railroad fans and camera fans and they frankly concede that a steam locomotive fascinates them It would be Mechanics Interesting to learn what the engineers and There are still some persons among us firemen think about their assignments to who remember when an automobile owner' these obsolete monsters operate did most of his own repair work Grinding valves often was an job on a holiday soon Building Boom Here °rASunday The era of as passed motor cars became more complex With an estimated 59 jbillion dollars machines Today nearly every motor car worth of construction unowner will agree that a competent automo- - der or scheduled to get under way bile mechanic is one of the1 most useful soon way in and near Ogden the area can be persons in the realm depended upon to join in the national The main trouble with mechanics" is march to reach new employment that there are not enough of them and the highs The record record are forecast by highs industry is worried Edwin R Stroh vice Department of Labor officials as they note president of Electric Autolite Company of the nation’s economy pulling out of the Toledo has called upon other industrialists recession to join him in a campaign to recruit and However there is a train men He wiU call upon governors and the rose and that thorn isthorn attached to the further forelawmakers and others for recognition of cast that the number out of work will not the shortage decline as rapidly as was expected a few Mr Stroh says that the field deserves weeks ago and the American people are recognition as a highly regarded warned that unemployment may not drop and necessary specialty- - t below four million this year How many motor car mechanics do we Since however the March figure of need? Industry sources say there are less 65516000 at work is expected to rise as than 850000 in the land today and there is the season for outdoor activity arrives we need for 140000 to 250000 more can that the spurt to the economy 40000 should be recruited yearly to Fully fromhope all this keep employment will stimulate abreast of automotive unit production still further employment Let us hope that The publication “Automotive News” the forecast of four million through says today's automobile technician must be the year will turn out to be jobless an error coal-burnin- g ’ Automobile t all-da- s y elf non-residenti- al ’ well-payin- g s fra The great cost to the United rice eating people and China has States in the Korean debacle was for centuries not hat we lost a war but that imported rice from every nation had to reassess its French Indochina and from Siam relationship to the United States (Thailand) What is happening in and an increasing number became Laos is that a Chinese population neutral Everybody likes a winner is into that country The pouring If we lose in Laos or for that report that Chinese are about to matter if we suffer any further move into Laos is piffle they have loss anywhere our international moved situation will degenerate with final- already These Chinese are part of ity A nation cannot assert leaderChina which can well af ship and not lead it cannot assume 200000000 ?s® tordi? people and superiority without military su- benefit It is cheaper to thereby And if there is military send periority people to war or as volunteers superiority it must be proved by m revolutions to live off some othmilitary might which is war er country than to attempt to These are axioms and a nation feed them that tries other methods only too SET UP INCREASES soon discovers that some other Red China sought to solve many country has taken its place Let us note the position of Presi- of its economic problems by orthodent de Gaulle of France Laos was dox Marxism by establishing com-muand failed The communes part of French Indochina French did not produce an Increase of food Indochina was a most important and economic sector bf As a matter of fact famine purFiance the city of Saigon being for sued the communes Red China is France what Hong Kong was for Pouring population into all the counGreat Britain The Annamites and tries of east Asia other peoples of French Indochina Indonesia has set up resistances rebelled supported by the Chinese to the increase of Red Chinese in Communists and won a great vic- that country but Laos is not geotory over France which resulted in graphically or militarily situated France being eliminated from south- suitably for resistance to Red China In the south of China lie four east Asia heavily populated provinces Kuan-tun- g US TIED DOWN Kweichow and YunKuangsi Had France been supported by nan which is often reKuantung its allies the United States and to ferred as Canton because of the Great Britain it might not have name of the city has produced most lost French Indochina The United of the Chinese who live outside of States was tied down to a doctrine China In Kuangsi live many races of which has frag- of who have never enaborigines mented Asia and is now fragmentin any other business than gaged ing Africa French Indochina was since the authority of Peking broken into North Vietnam South war weakened over them during the Vietnam Laos and Cambodia and Taiping rebellion (1850-136Yunbecause of this Thailand (which nan in mountainous country' used to be called Siam) is in peril close lies to Burma and French Indoof falling to the might of Red China china and has been under the The population of Red China is of the former city variously estimated up to 600000-00- 0 of Saigon for more thanFrench persons No census has ever R is out of these four a century provinces been taken When I lived there we that a Communist Chinese populaused to speak of the population of tion 450000000 Whether it has increased Laos heavily armed is pouring into Every day that is lost in so much in 30 years nobody can them from stopping truthfully say because no one has southward gives themmarching more terricounted the people when the time comes tory Perhaps However whatever the figure' for a 14 nation conference Laos will may be it is too large for the food be populated by Chinese supply which is traditionally inade- the world will encounterReds and another quate During the past two years Soviet fait accompli at least Red China has suffered This has several famines which is not too tics-- talk always been Soviet tao soft and fight continuunusual particularly for the southWhile all this is going on the ously ern part of that country where the Warsaw conference has sought to density of population is perhaps the divert attention to This Germany greatest and worst in the world too is a Soviet tactic: Hit two spots Density of population is best solved time and let the West take ft tone by the population moving where its choice as to when it will accept food is more plentiful This is a defeat ' I 4 Com-muni- st es po-litic- "Hop Two Hup Two Hop Two Billion" words al the British regard concern about Laos as a kind of American maggot or mania to which concessions must be made for the priL mary 'purpose of maintaining the n partnership This attitude explains the Franco-Britis- h enthusiasm for a government of Laos headed by Prince Souvanna phouma and including The French officials on the scene like the idea putting it rather crudely because Marshal Sarit Thanarat is the in 193l Prince Souvanna Phouma is polite f shrewd and powerful leader-m-ore to them The British consider that The assumption is ward boss than dictator — of pro- - sound French officials on the spot the installation of such a govem-Wester- n Thailand The fears which in Laos particularly may seek to ment will be the easiest way of he rather openly avowed both be-- play a local political role But this avoiding a dangerous Southeast fore and during the SEATO con- - can have no purpose except to sat-- Asian confrontation between the here tell a very great deal isfy the egos of the officials con- - viet and the US about the situation! cemed since the role they have meT ctcd ' ! Marshal Sant’s view of the Laos! played runs counter to the real t crisis is founded to begin with on long range interests of France ? contrast Marshal Sarit like the assumption that the US is the As for the British their basic at- - y?11? all the American officials only Western power retaining an titude was revealed by the remark- - X lhli paFt ?fthe world believes the mstalIat!on of this kind active interest in the fate of South- - able formula of a leading member east Asia Both the British and of their delegation to SEATO that ? E°yernment in Laos will only he first 8teP a broad advance French he believes lost interest in “the Laos crisis was less an Asian Communist influence and power this region after the Geneva set- - problem than a problem of Anglo-U1 Southeast Asia The tlement ending the Indochina war American relations’ In marshal was other shocked again like most American ’ 'officials out here by US ac- -' ceptance of the British scheme for ALEXANDER ’ opening negotiations about Laos with the Soviets And he frankly fears that “British influence” will lead the US to make fatally weak compromises when and if negotiaTo most people in show business tions begin Copacabana which I started the the symbol of ultimate achievement Zombie La Vie These fears of the Thai leaders en Rose the Beachan Oscar an Emmy a Tony or WASHINGTON D C-- This a long is town ment In Laos we have lost the S£e !last Feduced comber and others whose names' even a Joey But b where many luminous candles battle there ' Monte Proser is elude me Also hit shows such as get hidden under the bushel basket Rusk had a good talking point in ' different The sign BITTER TRUTH ‘High Button Shoes Not to men- -' he’s a VIP that of bureuacracy and where unsung This ls a the form of tion Resident Kennedy’s the time I rented Madison demonstrated scv-- ‘ services of thought and duty are erai times in East Eurane Cluna re?P°nse 1° Prime Minister Mac- - once more is a Garden and converted it into Square millan’s seeming hint that the US Bowl‘ of the world's turning the wheel of history like and Korea-- butT Tf a truth so bitter had largest Beer Hall and Let’s sink into a better go it alone in Laos with Dance We only ran twenty-tw- o Palace that we continue to reject it We mere British moral support At the d o w ny banquette o Senator Stuart Svminston nights My big mistake was and permit the Is the unseen as it a Beer Hall It the Presi- - 0511 never defer4 or recover a resulting Key West meeting al- advertising showman to beCn Communistte-ove- r the dent’s detaw pteSiiSg drew beer drinkers” !ywlrom just PrelL? J?8a commitment from explain the symbolism The site of dphiwilling to fight That Unlike other Democrats our choice “What’s 'this got to do with a whoP in Cuba the Congo Pnme minister to contribute the our conversation piece is New challenged Mr Kennedy for Is ts— York’s newest Commonwealth Bowl and of Fruit?” I interrupted as surrender on the installment Broadway’s Brigade in Malay the nomination — Johnson Steven- most m event or Monte beautiful restaurant crooked his little finger and the intervention in Laos ar onIy the op- son Humphrey— Symington has not p a?’ Lanai a Polynesian palace built up popped two more Navy Grogs I138 put this straight prJ taken a post either in the admin-with imagination money confi-vden- “Fbr more than thirty istration or the majority leader- - Upih® years” my V lIarshal ?ant is and courage by Mr Proser host continued “I've been wor MansfieId’ Ianostaying at graveIy ship But as a member of the three outcome in Xnos — - and his guardian angel Joe Kip- - the Algonquin It’s like a home to floor lesder is one of the jK 9 committees which me I even slept there and drank pre? real Fp ?ont soldiers of this con- - and Wlth good reason Anyone must ness in the Winter- Garden Theater guarding national safely and ?ekwho worried Building there when I was press agenting sion 8 realizes At that Laos Mansheart - frsi?nal forces fore crib”-Mont“This n 311 to for the starts palatial and Pierre and theSouth conservativesu- tions and space-- he is ' off as we conJ2JC Ifc 18 the aast Asia on future took who and unof “took sip also in suites I Grogs Navy of the part guess my pay nowof perior position being both on whicfl we us more than a year to get off the patronized the joint when Jean Paul that universally-ad- Pfes8 erful and independent to negotiate ground It all began when Kipness Getty was paying me through' the Montanan does not care for As soon as Mr Kennedy won the calls me on the ’phone in Holly- - nose to make his wife famous as 311 of the Isew Frontier Pr°Posed arena of domestic negot- wood he asked Symington to tlons and invites me to share his a singer I commuted between the a Li nation conferBesides !s that the floor iate Programs dream with him Having been his Algonquin and Leon & Eddie’s back holds th? defenseproblems! VhSeverPasi ChSSJ6 partner in previous enterprises I in the early "Os when Toots Shor between them must have impressed JK® H0US hasi?ellTc?e duPIi namese rnmmn n i cfPdTH °r of responsibility Elected by situation know Joe’s money is where his’ was the bouncer Billy Reed the the oresident-elee- t fnr he named n Eaos to be is feIIow a Democrats Mansfield is policed by Polish- - - dreams are And though I was real emcee Mike Romanoff a permaSymington to head' the study group i?is busy at the time dosing a few nent freeloader' and cocktail host f places I thought I owned I decided at matinee dancettcs To me class bfitIndian Pr®fdent-spokesman member1 “SrhiS? a tion The President was in personal J8 !??? this maybe might be my chance to meant snobbery I liked the Algonoften the touch with the senator during the Sm be a man to Con°°’ big collide Mansagain instead of a quin putting formative period of defense policy 1cJs!crn &wfjL bum ’ I'm not complaining about an f“e test vo‘ of Much that recently evolved in the excruciating “So naturally when I migrate making and losing a million dollars way of decisions and budget re- - cfedcr’ in East Laos twice in is lifetime— again I walk up to the desk Hus was sure I was what happened the other ®f°uuu my already desper the ‘svmimrton stamn q at the to unfavorable blow The Algonquin and get the Vietbooze North it on stupid broads White House Tent sleciflcally welcome It’s ‘Mr Proser I was (before to married state DcPart-- onlyCcontrol the°two Jane) of the ence is there in the step-u- p fhS°USr MrtSnnpnS this Mr Proser that’ Suddenly and bad deals and the horses craps nanc® committee apmissile program in the moderniza- phoncsalv nd could 'almost hear the clerk’s What you me how is depresses to public the sugar tion of Army equipment in the de- ffcndment face fall when I ask for the cheapfinancial status is in the cision for more mobility through air- - Sd fd It put Mans- - Stion Th?v akn In est room hoteir At firi-- he the In the position of choosing fiuuu v i control entertainment business lift Other Symington Ideas have thinks I’m making jokes but when “Anyway Kip wires me" a first-das- s a couple of pals mosey by and give directives to unify the space prd-- at® iSSitl5v Ton??ke th® choic® eluding tho pi?I 9ii jet ticket and 1 fly back to me only lukewarm hellos the guy was taunted town I once had In the palm realizes this Is my flat the gram by concentrating it into one ‘ year again b“e of Tho Sotlh cervicc and in the wntrallzatlon my hands Nightclubs like the and does m I ask” in danthordy in the defense sccre- - JOSEPH SOP A anti-coloniali- Anglo-America- 5) Reds Certain to Get Giant Piece In Any Division Plan for Laos certainly So-fere- post-conferenc- e r “ — uaiiipi f 4 HY GARDNER CALLING Fruit D-M- col-orf- ul ce IS??! Ued aJ ithe Ritz-Carlto- e haau"den Sftff SsS’dS Sd!J° red-carp- et rSnS Ki Kt 'hWnnT - "-‘nta- CND N C0NTR01 After several years of study abroad Miss Liza Jost daughter A"y tellJcmcnl in LaM which LOOKINO BACK of John A Jost of Ogden ' had Symington long ago came out for flcId’Msh temper mount as ft did' returned She sang in Berlin and erim e was a pupil of Alexander Heine minimizing the number of second for a moment His face echelon civilian members-a- nd Me son wUh co"troJf he warehouse center near West 2nd mann noted German baritone h on which - Anderson’s loathing remarks done has this not Namara apby was to made But Enoch Chytraus Co Three Brigham City youths who of Salt Lake City on a low bid John L Herrick formerly of Oghad enlisted in the Air Corns were of said LtCol Elmer G den and now president of the Inter$74937 Ronald W Ridd Gus A Musulas mountain mission at Denver was Thomas constructing and Mj Whitaker Two youths — year it’s biSen visiting his mother Mrs Lester J “ikbig back over-thJaren Tolman and Conroy Eastman terrible to think how far in arrears start Hubert Humphrey "come oad Afferent1 Herrick thf of Clearfield— had enlisted in the Delbert J Harris son re our T1 J quite power might have gallantly to his aid of Mr !st Mrs H V Army for service in the Hoffman constant been without and daughand Mrs Ezra Harris was to leave Mansfield is proving himself a Symington’s be predictcd’ ter of Rexburg Idaho were visiting goading Looking ahead it’s reas- - fine forceful leader— on an LDS mission to Argentina just by 1)61110 J®1? tk® Souvanna relatives and friends in Ogden suring to find his ideas materializ- - MmUlf with the Leftists when he was Bemiece McEntire president of Founding of the Order oFsisters ing last m power the Weber College Women’s Athletic of the Holy Cross by the Rev Basil Mr and Mrs John M Hanson Senators Dirksen and tho Bridges All these factors and Association was in charge of a ban- Moreau of Le Mans France was had returned from Fillmore Mrs GOP floor leader and policy chairespecially the position on the ground will quet to be held at Dick’s Cafe to be observed with Sister M S J Spencer and granddaughter man have made more sense than make any negotiation about Laos a Guest list included Dr and Mrs Madeleva former Utah educator Ilia Layton of Provo were visiting the Democrats in the Laos crisis task of almost superhuman diffiwith A in friends Dixon H Dean and Mrs Mer- directing a large building project Ogden Speaking for the party leadership culty It can be taken for granted lon L Stevenson Mr and Mrs both men point out that the Ken F Fouts that and 70 Marshal Sarit is quite right L°San city ill passenger YEARS 50 incurably Hall E J Miss Maude Welling AGO nedv administration hx marrhpd m freight agent of the Denver & Rio refusad on the that British influence foreseeing Miss Helen Blood Miss Ruth Jacobs passaSe down Grande Western Railroad was in up the wiH favor almost The first game of the h Elizabeth to Queen stron? and Dr and Mrs Russell Petty Clfard any compromise President made School second league had been Salt Lake City on business 1 tdie: wSay statement incas? difficulty whidi 52£“ A new-- - retail firm Schubach played with 19A team defeating 15A theu!sXw£iId to mean stood C that Manson E general superinJewelry store was holding open boys 14 to 12 The line-u- p included was resist any further Com- - EngUsh’ fir£j house with William Schubach (19A): G Rounds Murray and tendent of the Oregon Short Line militarily had on an Ogden passed through Fabian Singer thislimeanfr owner and founder on hand It was Wiggins W Guinn W Craze W commenting on here that an “Austrian”° style Lao?j ElUf£ his nomination as the least prom- - settlement was JJjJL thaf we to be managed by J K Bennett Hastings J Malon E Maguire inspection trip needed in Laos But ?vert aggression ismg actor by the Harvard humor it is hard to see how G Beck (15A): E Blasdel E W Alex Swan of Kansas City or it c°lfi nothing Dirksen and magazine Lampoon: Award of a contract for con- Jarman P Stevens P settlement can Tver be VccnnS Mo and formerly of Ogden was we we’ve struction of garages and shops at B Hibbs M Kingsford II Wright heard from Har" the less omcSte 5° President os- Kay E guest of his sister Mrs Frank eitber (a) partitwm of Laos Utah General Depot large Army Shields J Evans now let’s wait for tentatiousiy shows confute wiliprecinct yard Pender 137 James Court er (b) a govern-- the V&ssar returns” ingness te keep powder &r bS t LAFF-ArDA- V s?ch8wHi2Ld 7 t f4 FJfS e X ‘ air-spa- ce rp£Tda sub-Hig- Jv vanna-Commu- n: Pce I LT sMS”1 toMvvSrtt -- ml Red-represent- ed 4 if 1 b u (tiWis F Sah3res Syndicate Inc World rights reserved |