Show I i b?tt tattJiarit-feamw- fr EDITORIALS OGDEN UTAH WEDNESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 7 I960 CA Press Freedom Doesn't Dismiss Responsibility of Taste Decency Cordiality Marks White House Meeting President Dwight D Eisenhower and President-elec- t John F Kennedy had a three-hou- r conference yesterday The meeting was described as cordial an accurate word for the event judging by the reports from the newsmen Meetings between the outgoing and the incoming President assuredly should be pleasant events Men big enough to be elected to the highest office in the land are expected to be big enough to carry off in an agreeable manner a conference calculated to assist in a governmental transi- tion of immense importance But agreeable transition conferences have not always taken place as our columnists have been eager to point’ out in their current articles statement isThe conference said sued after the three-hou- r what was to be expected after such a meeting The reminder that the President Kennedy-Eisenhow- r i er -- of the United States maintains sole jurisdiction for the conduct of the government until his successor is inaugurated was hardly necessary There has been no suggestion that any person had other views The further statement that the new administration will vigorously pursue national objectives such as protecting freedom and helping people better themselves tells nothing the people didn’t already know Some statement of course had to be issued and the one that was given out served the purpose One of the bits of information that tend to reveal that the meeting was indeed cordial was Mr Kennedy’s statement that Mr Eisenhower told him he would be glad to be of service to his country in the future at any time he felt he was needed Let us hope that the climate continues to be cordial through the inauguration ceremonies and thereafter Received a circular asking me whether I wanted the truth about Cuba If so I am instructed on leaflet the first page of a four-pag- e to subscribe to a magazine called “The Independent” If I read this publication I shall know all about Cuba from a person who goes by the name of Lyle Stuart I turn to page two of the pamphlet and Cuba is apparently lost I am now in the realm of love— not the love the poets wrote of nor the love of mother for child This is a special kind of love such as phallic worship or sex variant women in literature or I am ofe photo-graph- s fered handsome of the nude female There is more of this: For instance there is an advertisement of the secret life of Walter Winchell I have known Walter lo! these many years and if he has a secret it must be most unusual because Walter Winchell lives way out in the open with a ringside seat in the Cub room of the Stork Club If a fellow can make a buck discovering some secrets about him he must be a marvel But why in this circular put Walter secrets uf the same class as a book about Messalina a very BRIDGE ANY TIME naughty gal indeed? Enough of this stuff! Why are such circulars sent to decent folk result could be a real crisis of who must see them before they can throw them away because confidence what is on the outside is an Although such a crisis is still uncome-on- ! This is a disserious is the risk enough likely cussion on Cuba to demand prompt preventive acNO TASTE tion The simplest action is for And it is the Cuban come-o-n that Kennedy to confer effective re- leads to the inside pages which sponsibility “on someone who does deal with various books that to not seem to have lost all confi- use a phrase related to one of dence both in his currency and in them “tells you the things that don't usually appear in books” himself” In that event according Now why do these things not usuto the same high French authority ally appear in books which these already quoted “The dollar prob- days are turned out by the ton lem will soon cease to be drama- without too much taste or originality? tic” It would seem to me that we First of all there are all sorts are becoming too broad-minde- d of technical measures that can be about some things There are and have writers been through the taken with important short term who about erotic ages enjoy writing effects These range all the way some of which ultimately subjects from firmer handling of the Lon- are accepted in literature as Bocdon gold market to closer coopera- caccio De Maupassant and others tive arrangements between the central banks concerned And there DREW PEARSON are also longer term technical measures which can be very useful indeed like the reform of the American currency statutes recently advocated by the senior partner of the Morgan Bank Henry Alexfull-pag- Win-chell- ’s Adhesive Progress If a university expert on adhesives told you that it will not be long before we have clothing without stitches houses without nails and airplanes without rivets would you put much faith in his prediction? We suspect that young people would say that almost anything is possible these days but persons over 50 would say they will believe it after they have seen it Well let us hear what Alan A Marra professor of wood technology at the University of Michigan has to say: “The fastening together of materials by the use of adhesives is rapidly becoming the preferred means of assembling many constructions because of the great strength and rigidity that can be obtained and also because the new adhesives perd mechanform adequately in ized factory operations” Advances in the field of adhesives are among those developments that can leave most of us far behind unless we spend far about more time than we do technological progress including how the paper hanger’s paste and the carpenter’s glue have been left far behind J ‘ high-spee- ductive first three months was followed by a decline in production The institute reminds us that in only five years has production exceeded 100 million tons One of the years was 1955 when a record of 117 million tons was recorded The institute doesn’t make a forecast for the near future but it reports that more steel can be made now at a given percentage of capacity because steel making capacity has been increased year by year It is reasonable to believe that in our dynamic country the demands for steel which brought about increases in steel production capacity once more will rise and validate the judgment of the steel makers who enlarged their facilities Foreigners as Tourists William J Mitchell head of the Air Traffic Conference of America is plugging for federal legislation that will tempt millions of foreign travelers to make long visits in the United States His organization calls for an easing of visa requirments negotiation with foreign governments to let their citizens come to the US with more dollars and passage of the international travel office bill to promote more travel to our country Mr Mitchell should have an easy time A conference of city and county directors of health and physical education has enlisting support for his program because been told that American boys and girls a tourist industry of huge size has been are softies in comparison with the physical built up in our country The hotels mofitness of boys and girls in other nations tels resorts and transportation industries This is not a new charge We have heard it want more customers Western Europe once more is the home many times but it was hard to believe The American people looked at their school of many wealthy people as American tourgymnasiums their parks and playgrounds ists know who have watched the rich at and the children around them and said the their pleasures It is surely time we induced more of them to luxuriate in the claims about softness and physical unfitUnited States The government should ness were not true However the American Association for make it easy and pleasant for them to Health Physical Education and Recreation come presents a strong case in the comparison of US youth and those of England Scotland Wales and Cyprus American lads John A Blatnik chairmust be humiliated to learn that British manRep of a House investigating committee 1 age bracket exceed the charging corruption graft and incompegirls in the average scores made by American boys tence in the nations highway construction President Eisenhower has a commission program: working to improve the physical fitness of “It seems that almost every time we our young people Most of us have paid punch through the crust we find the pudlittle attention to its efforts The newest ding of either corruption or mismanagcomparisons indicate that the American ement” people should abandon their complacency Dr Eugene Carson Blake of the Unitand promote programs to improve our gen- ed Presbyterian Church commenting in eral physical fitness San Francisco on his own proposal to unite four of the nation’s largest Protestant bodies: “We can no longer afford the luxury We learn from the American Iron and Steel Institute that steel production in the of our divisions” United States for 1960 will be nearly 100 Elizabeth Taylor who with Eddie Fishmillion net tons and our country will re- er filed suits totaling $7250000 against a main the No 1 producer by a wide margin group of movie magazines charging that So the steel situation is not so bad as apthe articles reflected on her as a mother: “Of course it hurts” peared to be the case after the highly pro in-readi- ng ‘ 4 ‘ r' t Our Children Softies? (I What They're Saying D-Mi- nn 10-1- fl - i I t World Steel Leader J t ! f IF ' i 1 I j C i i I h- - 4 20 county jail: Those submitted were not desirable for the proposed J S " Glazebrook' noted horse- structure reported A 0 Stoker man and businessman of Ogden commissioner " ' :had died Don Barney principal of the Pin-gre- e School was a speaker at the of Club The Better Speech Mary of the LDS Woolley’s class at Ogden High special interest class ‘on family probNineteenth Ward ' ' " School had elected officers as follems ’ lows: President Roger Critchlow Tax payments tabulated to date Margaret Wilson vice president had exceeded $1274900 reported secretary-treasurand Marion Wilson County Treasurer Arias G Belnap David O Peterson had been apProposal to operate a ski lift in pointed dean of boys at Ogden Snow Basin was made to the city School commission by O L Smith of Og- High den and James R Lightfoot David Glen White had accepted Huntsville a teaching position at the Ogden Paint on a peanut machine ig- High School nited from scorched hulls and firemen rushed to the John Scowcroft 50 YEARS AGO r and Son’s Co warehouse at 101 rates’ New on electric had ?3rcL lights been announced The lights were Davis County Commission had selling for three for $1 and resia new dents could- - burn them all they rejected some plans-for YEARS AGO er -- 1 c ' V old-fashion- ed Kennedy Needs Treasury Chief With Confidence in US Dollar KenPARIS — If President-elec- t to the not devalue intend does nedy dollar as one may be certain he hardly needs to name his secretary of the treasury without much further delay He also needs to name the right kind of secretary of the treasury The appointment of the most frequently mentioned candidate Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon “would half solve the problem there and then’’ according to one of the highest French authorities In any case it is essential to find a man like Dillon whose viewpoint and abilities will command the confidence of the international banking community There are two reasons for this First of all the European central banks and especially the German French and Italian central banks now hold large parts of their reserves in dollars They are of course in duty bound to exchange these dollar reserves for gold if they think devaluation is possible If they do this in turn devalua- tion will become inevitable under the present antiquated American currency laws Normally these would be no danger of this kind of action by the European central banks But a man is now needed to restore confidence alas because the man we have has done so much to undermine confidence That is the second reason for quick action The impression produced by Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson in Bonn was bad enough the impression he produced in Paris was even worse As Anderson made his presentations here before very large groups word of his apparent panic has spread far and wide REAL CRISIS Add to this such symptoms as the recent article in “Le Figaro’’ by the brilliant yet sober Raymond Aron discussing dollar devaluation as a definite possibility The end HY GARDNER CALLING Marylou said “A Miss Margaret S Biggerstaff is on the She’s assistant to the ‘phone director of the U n i v ersity of Miami’s Marine Laboratory and has some ideas about a city laid out on the bed of the ocean Do you want to talk with her?” I picked up the receiver “Mister Gahdnah “ the Southsaid “you-al- l are ern a man of imagination and I am knee-dee- p in oceanographic research You heah? My idea of an underocean city may sound but if you like science-fictio- n listen still I think you'll agree it's the only hope for survival of the human race if atomic war bell-ring- er flares up“ We “listened still” as the com- bination Lloyd Bridge Zeckendorf doll with the drawl ill her underverbally water housing project Miss Biggerstaff believes it is altogether possible to build a city blue-print- ed on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean some 30 miles off the shore of Miami Beach and that life could be sustained there as long as would be necessary following an atomic attack She points to the new atomic submarines which have proven that you can remain submerged for so long the men aboard need come up for air only often enough to She also notes that the Soviet Union has experimented with oceanographic exploration and is far ahead of us in that important field She considers the floor of the ocean more vital than the ceiling up in space Since magnesium is one of the sturdiest most rustproof metals known to man Miss Biggerstaff s housing units would be sunk individually anchored at the bottom of the sea and linked as additional units are launched by tunnels large enough to accommodate the tallest of men and the bulkiest of furniture or equipre-enli- st ment Stores of food and medicines would be kept in refrigerators powered by atomic energy the same source which supplies elec- tricity for light power and other normal living requirements Inhabitants would even be able to get sun-tan- s from the ultraviolet rays In case of electric failure our informant claims that research gives evidence that 80 per cent of the fish swimming beneath the fourth belt of undersea channels are phosphorescent consequently a school of fish could be kept alive in tanks or jars and would supply almost as much natural light as a battery of bulbs LAFF -A- DAY liked with no meter an advertisement said : VI "YOU CAN USE ME FOR A Lee Shurtliff employe of the money order department of the post office and Miss Alice Taylor of Harrisville were to be married in the Salt Lake City Temple A variety slower honored Miss Lizzie Jackson at the home of Miss Iretta Fife 2122 Adams Mrs Winifred Poulton was the guest of her mother Mrs A T Woodmansee for the month ander Then too it is obviously possible to make rapid confidence inducing cuts in the American govern- ment’s swollen expenditures overseas without doing any political or strategic damage at all A vast enormously costly military aid group in Bonn is not really needed to teach the Germans how to fight Nor is it really needful to fly the children of American dependents a couple of hundred miles a day in a special airplane to teach them their ABCs in extra comfort Other examples might be cited FAR REACHING The more permanent and far that reaching remedial measures may be required are too complex for discussion here But it should certainly be noted that the real cause of the dollar crisis is a in American business change habits American exports are currently “adequate” to pay for all American imports plus all government expenditures abroad even on the present scale But American businessmen have now begun to invest abroad on a very big scale and this capital outflow plus the outflow of hot money and money seeking higher interest rates are the real causes of the present trouble For President-elec- t Kennedy this trouble can be very grave indeed —if it is unwisely neglected One of his most urgent political tasks is to revive the spirit and the hopes of the Western Allies now at an all-tilow And besides all its other embarrassments a neglected dollar crisis will sadly limit Kennedy's power to lead the West for the crudely practical reason that America's wealth is the fount of America's power As Raymond Aron suggested in the article already cited the devaluation of the dollar is by no means unavoidable “but the American authorities are working hard to render it unavoidable” Aron went on: “Will the President-elec- t resign himself in advance to this result for which his predecessor will really be responsible? I cannot believe it But in that case it is an urgent task to dissipate all doubts” The first step that must be taken for this purpose had already been in- dicated i By W L foundation for the new Ward school had been poured and the contract for the building proper was to be awarded in the spring The “dark-complect- L j ’’ ed ac- and not - Italo-America-ns ys good senator Note— Kennedy is not likely to get together with Gov Furcolo before the Electoral College meets Dec 19 He doesn’t want to be out of a Senate job before he’s firm in his presidential job BARE FILES When the Kennedy administration takes over the files of the Eisenhower administration very few incriminating documents will be found The files will be thread- Perverse forward untoward1 fractious wayward unmanageable intractable croehety stubborn WORD STUDY C I960 Kb? Feature Syatteat lae World rfebt “How long would - tmmL fGK£L 12-- 7 it take me to be strong eHQU& — to ©j?a wy wtfo’o E&lsJb r “Use a word three times and it is yours” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day Today’s word: ILLIMITABLENESS that which cannot be limited or measured “We cannot estimate the illunitabUmess of EUr- - t candidness and freedom of discussion” said a presidential directive signed by Robert Gray secretary of the cabinet “The Presient has requested that there be no verbatim transcripts made of meetor public ings of committees Summary advisory minutes of actions taken as distinguished from verbatim transscripts Continue to be approapriate “Please confirm to me your receipt of this memorandum and indicate the implementing steps which your agency is taking” HAGERTY OFFER Jim Hagerty has an offer of more than $1 million to write his memoirs Since he’s one of the few men who’ve been on the with It ter tt astir intra-governme- SYNONYMS For the fifth or sixth time in a week a gang of hoodlums had set off fire alarm boxes around town structures: was expected to support Furcolo also a Democrat But he didn't Kennedy- neatly sidestepped any endorsement for Furcolo and‘ the Kennedy family deftly cut his throat Unofficially but effectively they supported the Republican blue blood running against the son of an Italian immigrant This caused great resentment from in Massachusetts also from some Irish who claimed the Ken-nedhad become lace curtain Irish And Joseph Kennedy had to contribute to an awful lot of Italian charities and hospitals in Massachusetts to make up for it This will still be in Furcolo’s mind when he sits down as governor of Massachusetts with the power to name Kennedy’s successor to the Senate Though he doesn’t particularly love the Presidentelect Furcolo probably will appoint the man Kennedy wants and that man is Jack’s old roommate at Harvard Cong Tobert H MacDonald MacDonald was the first Irish Catholic football captain at Harvard is now on the House Commerce Committee and has been stumping for the last four years to make Kennedy president He is a fine congressman would make a tive' against verbatim transscripts of secret government meetings “In order carefully to preserve OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Fraulein Pronounce froy-Un- e cent on first syllable OFTEN MISPELLED Fourth A barn and outbuildings on the farm of Bishop James Ward of North Ogden had been destroyed by fire In appreciation for his long and devoted service residents of the community had rebuilt the Kennedy faces the eight years' his book could be a task shortly of sitting sensation unpleasant Upton’s Tea though down with outgoing Gov Foster a British company has already Furcolo of Massachusetts and in a bid to sponsor the Demochoosing a successor to Kennedy’s put cratic and Republican conventions seat in the Senate The meeting will not be pleasant for president in 1964 Secret because Gov Furcolo son of an Service agents are complaining — Italian immigrant and Sen Kenabout guarding the nedy grandson of an Irish immi- good naturedly— President-elect Kennedy almost exgrant don’t particularly like each other The dislike stems back to hausted them in Florida with the 1954 when Furcolo ran for the Sen- most vigorous vacation of any ate against GOP Sen Leverett Saltonstall Kennedy a Democrat president in years He swam President-elec- t Eisenhower himself took care of this more than a year ago when on July 24 1959 he issued a direc- Gordon - self-contr- ol Kennedy to Help Select His Successor in Senate bare of embarrassment ENGLISH LESSON Other writers who enjoy erotica and pornography are not accepted None of this has anything to do with freedom of the press It has to do with taste And the good taste of one period may not be the good taste of another On the other hand sheer vulgarity inane bestiality are never in good taste When a book is advertised as “has been banned in many places” the attraction is not that this is a work of literary merit but rather that it is the sort of thing the young boy read in bed under a blanket with a flashlight The free publication of everything and anything has been defended as a sign of maturity Tha assumption is that a people are so mature that they can permit little boys to write dirty words on sidewalks with joy in their hearts that the kids know the dirty words so early in life The idea is that this is an expansion of freedom also that it is cute CRIME INCREASE The truth is that precisely this type of literature has become associated with the increase of juvenile criminals in the United States and the increase of children born out of wedlock The battlers for abstract freedoms do not assume any responsibility for the broken lives which result from lack of resexual straint lack of precocity in boys and girls It is easy for them to say “anything goes!” But in truth anything does not go in this life and the young woman who bears a child out of wedlock which she has to rid herself of one way or another goes 4hrough her years with a miserable memory and a bruised Neither the authors conscience nor publishers of these books are willing to assume any responsibility for that But why cover it all up with a tale about Cuba which has enough troubles without being used as a cover story for an advertisement for books of this type? Or are we to infer that it is all' part of the same mental and emotional sickness — the defense of Cuba and the publishing of books that have been banned in many places? have been nt fished played football and tennis Every time he plunged into the ocean the Secret Service had to go swimming with him (Maybe they were protecting him from sharks— or females) Washington shops have been' offering Mrs John Walsh wife of Mis Kennedy’s doctor all sorts of gowns for the inaugural ball Mrs Walsh happens to be a Republican She is going to the ball but she has turned down the free gowns Dr Walsh is the son of the physician to that pillar of Republicanism-President McKinley Fidel Castro is so burned up over the latest Parisian song hit “Don’t Go To Hatana” that he’s actually protested fto the French govern- ment President I i Eisenhower has received invitations from 23 countries to visit them after he leaves the White House He'll take a world cruise by slow boat which may include most of these countries He figures the trip will last at least six months It should atone when he for the frosty turn-dow- n wanted to go to Japan last spring THREE MINUTES WITH THE GREAT BOOKS MIU often ttm fa chanya whan thay yet a powerful positienY comments an John Stuart Mill (1806-73- ) tha affacta af power Why du me The moment a man or a class of men find themselves with power in their hands the man’s individual interest or the class’s separate interest acquires an entirely new degree of importance in their eyes Finding themselves worshipped by others they become worship- - ' pers of themselves and think themselves entitled to be counted at a hundred times the value of other people while the facility’ they acquire of doing as they like without regard to consequences insensibly weakens the habits which make men look forward even to such consequences as affect themselves This is the mean- ing of the universal tradition grounded on universal experience of men’s being corrupted by power Everyone knows how absurd it would be to infer from what a man is or does when in a private station that he will be and do exactly the like when a despot on a throne — where the bad parts of his human nature in- stead of being restrained are -- courted by all and min persons titered to by all eireissutas? $ |