Show ®gbm 4 gtotbarii-ferntrin- er — Go Ahead — D IT O - SOKOLSKY RIALS It would not be absurd for one convention bureaus to get the conwho was accustomed to live in a log ventions to come to their cities cabin to find a $30 a day expense As regards political conventions cities are known to make a ' account not only sufficient but with contribution to the convention heavy fund ample to spare He might live on The idea is that the shops theaters You Tell 'Em A good many folk in the rest of the country like to take picks on New York — both city and state— whenever the oppor- tunity presents itself It presents itself now This particular matter doesn’t involve all New Yorkers but just Democratic ones A little more than a year from now they have to have themselves a couple of hot prospects one to run against Gov Nelson Rockefeller and the other to combat Sen Jacob Javits A year ordinarily is plenty of time to sift through the list of possibilities The trouble is that right now there is no list Not likely will we have any public admissions of this But in the sanctity of the important political boudoirs - heads are shaking and arms are spread out in gestures of frustration The big question asked of everyone including the detached newsman is: “What do you think?” Now whether you are a Republican or a Democrat you have to agree this is a pretty sorry state of affairs for a major party in the most populous state in the country Admitted New York Democrats are badly torn by factional fights But the 1 ! party had enough stuff to take the state for President Kennedy by nearly 400000 votes ' ’ last fall How can a political entity of more than ‘ 16 million people containing a city of eight million which ranks as one of the world’s leading communities fail to offer up a whole platoon of hot candidates for the top offices in both parties? You can get a lot of reflective people to tell you that New York City more than any urban center in America suffers from the colossal political indifference of its citi' zens If this is so then possibly over the years this apathy has slowly spread until it has become a statewide affliction Maybe New York has become the prize symbol of what some think is the Great in which all too Age of can’t see many beyond the rim of their own affairs personal Beyond any question when September 1962 rolls around the New York Democrats will have names to put opposite Rockefeller and: Javits But if they are regular party ‘fellows they probably won’t be stunners For if the leaders had any such to offer they would know it today They don’t So friend: “What do you think?” Pre-occupati- on Grim By-Prod- “blow-by- ” dedustry to install vices to reduce exhaust pollutants California awaits only the first licensing of such a device before enforcing this rule US health officials stressing the range of the pollution problem note that some 7000 new chemical products are put into use every year And say they every process has its wastes which must be disposed of somewhere — usually in the air or streams A feeling exists in government health circles therefore that despite programs in some states and cities we are on the whole losing ground to a frightening health menace Compounding the difficulty are the radiological wastes from nuclear processes All these factors affect not only the air we breathe but the food we eat Insecticides have effects we are just starting to so-call- uct We all hear a great deal about the won- ders of modern industrial civilization But those marvels have some rather grim byproducts that we have given all too little attention to up to now The one word that fits these is pollution: of the air of the fresh water streams and lakes even to some extent of the oceans we say we must now conquer in order to feed and give water to millions who will swell our population in the decades ahead The nation seems reasonably alert to the water pollution problem Moving through Congress toward President Kennedy’s desk is a measure that would stiffen controls over stream use and assist local communities in expensive efforts to reduce pollutants The air we breathe is something else Smog a product of varied chemical pollutants is becoming a commonplace even in some of the country’s cleanest cities with " by-produ- - little industry Every year doctors advise a few thousand residents of Los Angeles to leave its n atmosphere for places with clearer skies Usually these are persons suffering respiratory ailments smog-ridde- Some states blaming automobile exhausts for a good deal of the trouble already have enacted or are threatening to enact laws that will compel the motor in-HAL BOYLE by-produ- n understand The whole matter needs a attack and soon may get it Top US health officials with administration support strongly favor a national environmental health center to draw together the best research we can mount The civilization we have built represents in large measure man’s triumph over his natural environment But in ‘fashioning this victory he is creating an artificial environment that could exact a tremendous offsetting price There is not too much time to avoid this cost fAP) — American-tourist- s remarks that foreigners get tired of hearing: “Put a sweater over your bikini Mildred and then I’m sure it’ll be okay to go into the cathedral- - It’ll kinda look like you’re only wearing shorts” “Yeah the room’s fine and the view’s sure worth $850 a day plus breakfast— but I give up where you got the TV set hidden?” “You can call: ‘era crepe if you want to but back home ' grandma called ‘em jelly pan es su-zett- efforts n “You mean you’ve never made one before? No not half and half You put in five of this a wave of the bottle of that And where in the hell is the ice?” “I love the English don’t you? They’re so colloquial —that is when they decide they have something that really isn’t worth saying” cakes” “The great thing about the Brit“Excuse me Avez vous un uh ish Avez vous une is they don’t have much to talk uh oh what the hell: It’s like beating about If they have had a defeat your head against concrete” they’d rather not mention it if they “This is the kind of foreign have had a victory they enjoy more having you brag about it than country I like It just fits a pos' them” tcard” “Well here’s the good ol Taj “Oh no not another museum!” Mahal If they had a building like “So that’s the Venus de Milo? How do you tip her? She doesn’t this in California you not only could admire it —you could drive up and have any hands” sit in your car and enjoy a hamWhy is it the people working too” in the fields— so many women too— burger “Isn’t he quaint? Tell him to held have such a bent-ove- r look?” still After all I’m taking his pit-- cher” for the Ogden Reds of the Pioneer YEARS AGO Land was sought by HarWeber College was gaining wide League man Peery owner of the Old Mill for work “You call that money? It looks more like wall paper to me” ' “Don’t argue with him George Be firm Remember like we were told every American is an ambassador abroad” 20 recognition being done in terimanaL education said President H A Dixon He said that Merlon Stevenson and Charles Espy faculty members had been asked to speak1 before groups of educators at the University of California in Los Angeles and at Berkeley George L Jensen engineer at the federal housing project in east Burch Creek for civilian employes of Army centers in this vicinity said that 215 men were employed on the housing site Erroll Bagley school teacher of Grant had a large collection 2619 bells including one from one of the first fire engines in Ogden a Chinese bell and many unusual cowbells and strands of sleighbells- - Annual sunrise presentation on Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” was to take place in the Ogden Tabernacle said Lester G Hinchcliff director Weber County commissioners had discussed disposition of Reddy Kilowatt field baseball park at the east end of 16th Street erected three years previous as the home field WASHINGTON — President Ken- nedy last week faced a decision between a flat campaign pledge he made before election and the influence of Speaker Sam Rayburn He had to choose one or the other The revolved around the appointment of an oil and gas man to the Federal Power Commis-- j sion Speaker Rayburn wanted Laurence J O Connor of Texas a former vice president of the Goldstone Oil Corp apopinted to the current vacancy Republicans are delighted In the first place O’Connor is an ESsen-hower appointee Ike put him in ’ tug-of-w- ar ed Remarks by US Tourists Make Europeans So Tired NEW YORK resort SO YEARS AGO Fred W Chambers state fish VHAT THEY'RE SAYING J T Wilson 25 who was charged with stabbing a woman to death in Long Beach Calif: “I have this urge to kill a girl-j- ust any girl at all” French President Charles de Gaulle a few hours before violence broke out again in Algeria: “The war properly called the Mrs Charles McDermott of Ida- operations is virtually ended” ho Falls had arrived for a few days’ Police Chief S E Parkinson visit here with friends of Cisco Tex where maniac at Ogden visitors from Salt Lake large has killed a woman: “The town isn’t sleeping too well City included Della Coole Mrs R E Keyser and Mrs F W Klock because of this” Gen Curtis E Lemay the new Mrs Eva B Shaw was in Ore spending the summer Air Force chief of staff saying he with her sister Mrs William E preferred the use of missiles to bombers: Eccles “So would anyone else who has Harvey Cahill and Ed McDermott ever ridden a bomber through had returned from St Mary’s Kan heavy fire” to spend their vacations in Ogden Gov Robert Meyner after his J Elmer Banks W R Derr and wife disagreed with him on 3 teleR S McAllister of Logan and Oscar vision program: T Peterson of Murray were Ogden V “I guess that’s what you would visitors call a Meyner' disagreement” and game commissioner had received inquiries from California Wyoming and states as far away as Louisiana asking for information on trout propagation in Utah According to latest inspection Utah’s rivers and creeks were never so well stocked with catchable fish Le-Gran- de LICK ANY MAN IN TH' HOUSE" ct - anti-pollutio- CN ed anti-pollutio- hamburgers and hot dogs sleep wherever he could sponge on his acquaintances use kerosene instead of gasoline for his car wear a beatnik costume and shave on Christmas and Easter only For the businessman particularly salesmen $30 a day is almost too little to bother about particularly if it is necessary to keep books too And that is the worst thing about all these tax matters— the keeping of books Let the boss get indigestion! Let the Japanese or West Germans sell the goods! The United States pays $30000 a year for Ambassador Adlai Stevenson’s' apartment at the Waldorf Astoria It is not too much Such an ambassador has to entertain constantly and he must have a suitable place for that purpose We want votes in the United Nations and we need to do what is necessary and usual to get them What would happen to Adlai Stevenson’s representation at the United Nations if he were permitted to spend only $30 a day Offhand I would say that he would meet with complete failure Many of the delegates would be insulted because they were not invited to dinner according to protocol This is the way of the world For $30 a day Stevenson could not do much entertaining at the Waldorf or any other hotel or restaurant in New York PAD EXPENSE ACCOUNTS Of course some businessmen have abused the expense accounts for which there can be no justification They charge everything that other men normally pay for themselves out of earnings to their business expense account But' the fact that some men are dishonest does g not justify1 American business so that it cannot do its work adequately That is the fallacy of generalizing from the particular One of the most important phases of American business activity is the convention There men meet those who ate in the same line or who have similar or associated interests There they listen to speeches on important subjects often by representatives of government There new ideas are widely circulated and new products are exhibited The convention is essential to the conduct of modern business because men live so far apart Such conventions are usually held in large cities where there are suitable convention halls or in such special places as Hot Springs where the hotels are adjusted for the purposes New York City has recently built the Coliseum for convention y purposes at great expense Many large cities maintain -- HI I - OGDEN UTAH MONDAY EVENING JULY 3 1961 1 erf vf LETTERS charge of oil imports id the Interior Department Second Republicans are getting ready to focus attention on Kennedy’s close friendship with Charles Wrightsman former president of the Standard Oil Co of Kansas whom the president visits frequently over weekends in Palm Beach GOP strategists are waiting for the right time to accuse JFK of being' soft on oil because of personal friendships and despite campaign pledges The Tractors fear Freedom committee now has a certain amount of cash promised to buy 500 trac-- HE TOT E D I T O R Turn tho Tables neighbors would hold it against me becouse my skin is not white So I 'lEditor: say this to the Gillespies more powI am a person who can get along er to you with anyone colored or white but Frank Jaime when I read the “Letters to the 3143 Wall Ave Editor” section I am disgusted The majority of these people who Habits Different? have written the Standard-Examine- r show disgust for the whites Dear Editor: who want white neighbors and show The same Constitution that allows sympathy for the Gillespies If you you the privilege of having a letter will notice the address of these in a newspaper that gives writers you will find most of them printed the right to voice your dislike you a good deal away from any colored of having a colored man for a population same colored neighbor Turn the tables so to speak on man his gives tothat choose where he right these people and see what happens wants to live when a Negro tries to buy a home All life I’ve wondered WHY next door to them and see where some my white people think they are their true sympathy lies better than others! Does it say in Allan Adams the Bible “Because your skin is 4960 S 500 W white YOU are my chosen people?” Does it say in the Constitution of Human Rights OUR United States of America Editor: “Because your skin is white you Congratulations to Edwin Parker are superior to another?” Jr Mr Basil Richard and Mrs E Hitler was going to create a suR Reifsnider for understanding the perior race of fair skinned people rights which great men left us in Have you followed the horrors of our Constitution of the United the Eichmann trial? Who of you States For the better part most of would want to be likened to Hitler us should be ashamed for taking after reading of the sadistic dethem for granted I doubt if many pravity imposed on a people whose of us have read them skin didn’t suit the originator of The Declaration of Human Rights “The' Master Race?” which the US is a signator of Our Constitution allows you the states Article I All human beings privilege of stating your likes and are bom free and equal in dignity dislikes publicly of living where and rights they are endowed with you please but these privileges reason and conscience and should aren’t for just a few they are for act towards one another in a spirit everyone regardless of the color of Brotherhood Article II states of his skin or the religion he emEveryone is entitled to all the rights braces and freedom set forth in this declaIf you don’t want a colored man ration without distinction of any for a neighbor you have the right kind such as race color sex lan- to say so but an act of cowardice guage religion political or other and subterfuge committed by anyopinion national or social origin one can hardly be condoned by any white people And I’m sure you property birth or other status I truly believe that we should all don’t approve of such an act for examine our conscience and clean if you did it wouldn’t seem possible our own yards before we look down that you would choose to live in on others because of differences in this wonderful country of ours the color of skin We are supposed whose foundation was laid on the to be a well organized people great principles of freedom equalthroughout our respective commu- ity and justice These exceptional nities and our children are seeing promises were not made to us with how we should give or impose on the notation on them “For white these citizens of tomorrow We men only” but with the undershould however be showing them standing that all men are created a way to a more peaceful and well equal regardless of color race or creed organized citizenry We are told in the Bible “Do Unfair discrimination in housing naunto others as you would have because of race color creed tional origin or ancestry creates them do unto you” and the one I aggravates and intensifies neigh- like to remember is ’’Even as you borhood deterioration crime and do unto the least of these my brothdelinquency problems b eca use er you do it also unto Me” It is these people discriminated against my own belief that “the least of are compelled to live in substand- these” are the persecuted the ard housing and in overcrowded downtrodden' the underprivileged conditions also discrimination in the neglected and the innocent I share the ideas of Mrs Reifthe rental and the purchase of housAmerisnider that we have our good and from withholds ing many cans their constitutional right to bad in any race Why don’t we all hold and occupy housing facilities try living together in peace allowof their choice because of race ing each man the same privilege color or creed These things are we ask for ourselves Perhaps we both undemocratic and can yet show the world we believe am living in a district where in being truly Christian and truly colored people are my neighbors American Mrs Delma Hartman Rukavina and I do not think that I would 3410 Gramercy trade my residence where the : Un-Americ-an J tors to fulfill a pledge Fidel Castro has reneged on Why not use that money to show up Castro for what he is? Specifically why not buy the 500 tractors and deliver them freshly painted and draped in the stars and stripes to other needy countries in Latin America as a reminder that the grandstanding dictator of Cuba like Hitler puts machinery ahead of human lives Tractors are even more needed in other Latin countries than in Cuba— and far more deserved The gifts could be based on an essay n contest in schools on the subject: “How to improve the good neighbor relations” or “how to make democracy work in Latin America” The schools are open in South America right now In most of its countries this is the winter season If every high school student got interested in such a contest with the first prize a tractor for his or her family it could really focus attention first on Fidel’s infidelity second on North American friendship During the first election held by the new republic of Italy in 1948 I suggested by shortwave radio an essay contest on “How to Make Democracy Live” It was conducted throughout Italy and the First prize was a tractor presented by Allis Chalmers Although a Naples schoolteacher not a farmer finally won the tractor he was able to auction it off with a profit and with even more attention focused on the USA The Communists took quite a beating in the election There are all sorts of ways to make the 500 tractors which Castro spurned plough friendship fields for the United States below the Rio Grande Latin-America- restaurants hotels benefit from conventions ‘which bring considerable money into the town and they are worthwhile COSTLY AFFAIR I No one could attend a convention today on a top limit! of $30 a day It would hardly pay for food drinks and cigars If it were one of those affairs to which the wife was brought to prove that- the male animal really was a very busy 'man $30 doing honest and useful-wora day would barely pay for the extra clothes mamma had to buy so that she might look as presentable as the rest of the folks No man wants to hear: “Business must ! be bad for Jack Look at his wife! She wears clothes that a steno would i not be seen in” That can start sentitive business rumors that could do considerable damage- Business has many facets not the least of which is establishing sound credit' not only in the sense of current balances but confidence in the future In this respect an expense account becomes as important as advertising or public relations When an expense account is used as untaxed salary the twister should be punished for fraud But when the expense account is used to stimulate business to improve a product to exchange ideas to bring in customers to be productive in the national welfare then it is more than justified by the results it at- k - tains Certainly $30 a day at present enough for anything prices is not - ENGLISH LESSON hog-tyin- By W L Gordon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED When AYE is pronpunced to rhyme with “hay” it means always or ever When pronounced to rhyme with “my” it means yes OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED ’l Ensemble Pronounce accent on second syllable OFTEN MISSPELLED Martin Marten ’ (the animal) (the bird) awn-sawm-b- 1 SYNONYMS loosen loose Relax ease unbend divert slacken WORD STUDY “Use a word three times and It Is yours” Let us increase our vo-i- s yours” Let us increase our day Today’s word: INSOLENCE overbearing demeanor bruinsolence tal impudence “Ill-bre- d was his only weapon” vo-ea- ch HY GARDNER CALLING Mel Allen Alan King and Dick e activity up her clubs for RCA Victor’s fattest again is a group of Brooklyn teenagers who took their name from the subway fare call themselves “the Beldon Katleman’s Tokens” triple-win- g El Rancho new Vegas hotel will introduce gambling under plexiglass-- d o m e d casinos The next Jump proof we hope Amerto frustrate Japanese Import ican manufacturers will be an autounit supmobile at to $25 retail posedly priced Maritimely item: Merchant seamen in the Soviet Union are paid $55 a month In Red Poland the comparable job pays about $810 a month USA the wage In the strike-ridde- n scale for the same chores is $28672 Our source is the “Seafarer Log” official organ of t h e Seafarer’s International Union End of eyebrow raiser Enzo Stuarti the Mario Lanza sound-alik- e who waited 13 years for fame then found it overnight when he filled in for the ailing star of the Persian Room speaks of fame: “Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself” Columnist Richard Nixon upon being asked if he closet! the door on running for governor of California: “Yes— but many have said ‘Open One-tim- e the door Richard’ ” Dodger great Don Newcombe now pitching in Spokane Wash makes this tranquil observation: “Peace of mind is hard to find in baseball I think I’ve found it in Spokane” tee-tim- Rubin were talking about baseball “characters” when the commentator nominated the fopi Brooklyn Dodger hurler Preacher Roe for the Hall of Fun He recalled the time Pee Wee Reese came over from his shortstop position to inquire how come Roe was pitching so many home run balls "Aren’t the outfielders playing deep enough?” he asked “Oh they're playing deep enough” Preacher answered “The trouble is they ain’t playing high enough!” The popular impression that stars especially youngsters who made it DIPLOMATIC DISPATCHES overnight are envious of even Prime Minister Macmillan pri- younger entertainers who suddenly vately has suggested any East-Weconference on Berlin be delayed click seems to be until after the German elections in a misconception— October Any meeting before then at least in the case will get tangled in the of Bobby Darin German campaign thereby restrict- “A year ago 'this ing Chancellor Adenauer’s ability month” he writes to make concessions The Joint “I made my New Chiefs of Staff have recommended York debut at the strengthening the American garri- Copacabana and was fortunate in son in Berlin as one in a series of that the press was well represented military moves to get set for a A good friend of mine but more showdown with Russia One pro- importantly a great performer posal is to move an American air- made his debut In case you haveborne division into Germany at the n’t already done so I hope you will critical moment Secretary McNa- give Bobby Rydell the same kind mara has not yet approved these of reception He’s a great little perrecommendations But with Gen former and I know it’s real enterTaylor now in the White House the tainment to see his act” Though Joint Chiefs can go over McNa- we haven’t caught Rydell’s act yet Chancellor Ade- it is apparent that he’s a great mara’s head nauer is delighted at the appoint- success— any one able to afford a ment of Gen Maxwell Taylor as press agent like Bobby Darin must Bandleader Sammy Kaye sizes military adviser to President Ken- be in the chips up a career girl: “She’s a gal who nedy Adenauer knows that Taylor con- goes out and earns a man’s salary-insteaMamie Eisenhower who was is as tough regarding Berlin and sidered a fine of staying home and taking golfer before she enwill recommend no important concWhite House the tered has it polished away from him” essions-to the Soviet Secretary of State Rusk has told top officials they can take their wives on overLAFF-A- DAY attend to or seas good-iwl- l trips international conferences Too often diplomats wives stick closely to the American community but the secretary believes it’s time for the women to get out and help their husbands with their work CIA Director Allen Dulles knows his days are numbered But he is desperately hoping JFK will let him stay on the job until late this year when the CIA is scheduled to move into its palatial $60 million headquarters in nearby Virginia dis-cove- 17-sto- ry st QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q — How did Plato cfefin a man? “a out feathers” A— As two-legge- d animal with- was the first International message sent over' an Atlantic cable? 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