Show 1 OGDEN UTAH SATURDAY EVENING v JUNE 30 1958 P RU )j S SAY Secretary of State Dulles found a good word to say for capitalism in his San Francisco speech on Thursday He thought the peaceful changes under this "system" since 1917 could be favorably compared with those under communism during the same period Communism has worked so badly that even now under a Moscow regime that repudiates Stalin the Russian Government doesn't dare let outsiders have a clear view of all of it or permit insiders to go out at- will and take an lands unhampered look at Capitalism in this country as Mr Dulles said has tripled production in 40 years it has cut the industry work-weefrom 49 to 41 hours — or even fewer it has increased real wages nearly two and so-call- ed - non-Communi- st k half limes it has tripled home ownership it has multiplied by four or five times the number of young persons receiving higher education It has cut infant mortality by 75 per cent and reduced the general death rate by about a third By all the tangible measurements life today under American "capitalism" is safer and more comfortable than it was when Lenin went tn Moscow in 1917 The joke is thatapiTfilisin is really not a "system" but a way of doing its with roots things deep in human nature Nobody had to invent it— it just grew Obviously it has been humanized democratized and refined It needn't fear the competition of the synthetic power system Moscow has cooked up — New York a trial-and-erro- lime to Remember Harricum Truman Doctor of Civil Law (and formerly as harry S Truman President of the United States) has just rendered a double service to the cause of Western security Hefhas warned the alliance of free nations Against letting down its defenses But he hjis also in company with his British hosts who have honored him at Oxford and a Pilgrims dinner in London done what is harder to do — namely recreated the atmosphere in which it was possible to build those defenses military and moral This happier part of the Truman performance in Britain is fully as vital as 'the more somber duty he carried out For the most immediate danger to Western security is not an external threat It comes from a change of moral climate within the Western community The European feeling of futility over NATOVfuture the American Congress' to pub more trust in bombers than in foreign aid the general loss of the sense of urgency behind Western integration generally—these are some of the real danger signs ' As Mr Truman told the Pilgrims "A great serene and peaceful future can slip from us quite as irrevocably by neglect division and inaction as by spectacular : long-rang- e aster" This was the warning But infusing the Oxford ceremonies and the Pilgrims dinner were also the warmer happier memories of the part Americans and Britons had played together when disaster did threaten spectacularly The earnest and the bantering compliments the feeling of camaraderie for a day or two the atmosphere of community in which about a decade ago the impossible was begun for Western security and in a few years achieved This may help us "all to recall more vividly the climate of recent crucial successes It may help us to cut through our present confusions and supplant them with new energy and clarity— Christian Science Monitor re-creat- ed Big Word Big Idea "Independence" is an awfully big word and an even bigger idea Let's not allow its real meaning to get lost by keeping iT in fancy holiday clothes or locking it up in books Independence is not a lofty abstraction but a bunch of real specific freedoms Many of these freedoms that we have in this country are so obvious that we forget we have them You can get on a train and go visyour the-histo- ry cousin in Sacramento or Bangor and you don't need a passport or police permission Your father may have been an immigrant tailor but your son can go to Harvard if he has the stuff You can quit your job this afternoon and open a gas station and you can succeed or fall on your face You can write to your congressman and tell him to jump in the lake and sign your name You can put your money in the savings and loan or blow it on a three-tonehardtop convertible Ypur wife can select the family's food from a quarter of a mile of offerings lined up in a supermarket and you can afford to pay the bill You can use your Tuesday evenings to go bowling read a movie magazine take a course in accounting or form a lobby to hound your school S f) i ' 4 y - ' ' lilt — - "V" sr '' 1 m V iroq directly to east - - ' 1 j ! i — : f6 jLf - member is S -- in Baghdad Pact JERUSALEM " v y - t'i V r A? V King Hussein has weakened ties f with Britain upsertina one of the " stobilizing long-tim- e in 'ui Arflhln i n hin ! I the entire turmcil Ppe- - J prize lines carry vitcl fuds fcr vest- - i ern nations to coast for shipment ( i What has held up introduction of the new processes according to the Interior Department is that researchers have been unable to find a way to prevent formation DJLdepasits-n- f brine in the distillation vats This probably sounds deceptively simnle But it does not seem to representor insurmountable obstacle for a country whose technicians often talk confidently of exploring the moon Let us speed ip this work It might bring us dividends as great as all our other rsearch projects combined — Philadelphia -- Inquirer McLeaish head of FHA for the previous eight years Farmers Home Administration-'New Deal-borcredit agencv intended to help small farmers" Hi- also administers the disaster relief program It is government Paternalism at its best or wort ciepending on how you look at it! The question arises as to why a man who thought there Mas too much paternalism in government snouid be hired for this particu- lar job The position of FHA administrator is filled by presidential appointment The White House does not release full information a to who sponsors who clears and v hat congressmen approve or disapprove an appointee Some jobs are filled through Republican National Committee But there isn't anybody around GOP headquarters now who remembers whether the McLeaish appointment went through their shop or not early in 1953 - in amusement or despair THE MIDDLE n' ' all-o- ut never on a government payroll before to coming Washington three years ago During the war he had served on Texas advisory committees of War Production Board War Food Administration War Manpower Commission and OPA As a result of the McLeaish ' resignation and investigation by the Senate Civil Service Commission farm leaders in WashMcLeaUh — now 57 — says he GOP and Mcboss patrcnace' ington are waiting to see who was born in Texas and brought Leaish Dillard Lasseter else gets swept out in a general replaced up a Democrat naturally Bufin Democrat who had been Farmers Home house cleaning : arises is not due to the lack of oil In fact oil is part of this disharmony which periodically arises to frighten the World Map capt ions are a guide to background of the Middle East a zone of ferment i ' speaker" BOOK REVIEW HYPNOSIS WAKING: Poems and Prose By Rene Char Selected and translated by Jackson i I rections A Frenchman whose poetry is little known in America and an American whose poetry is by no means so well known as his plays are newly represented in publish-in- g lists with these two notable collections Native of Provence and a Resistance leader Char writes out of times that for him have never been tranquil His poem s thoughts aphorisms reflections and notes betray the civilian and military tensions to which the poet is not usually exposed There is a signal courage in his ideas His exhortation to the poet to "develop your legitimate strangeness" and in his argument that everyone should be able to feel a poem's Tine of flight" there is a warning to France against the loss of "our rabid hunger for justice" Char tames his" rough raatpial without diminishing Its strength He has been fortunate in his translators for even though the philosopher is easier to translate than the poet translation is never abstractly easy Williams' work too dates from the post-wa- r years Williams is a romantic in "My Little One" or the touching recollection of Edna Millay or "The Interior of the Pocket" I like him best when the mood is playful as in "The Road" ?nd "Tifp Sfnrv" or how not to get burned up in a hotel fire W G Rogers AP staff ji : P Ma-- j thews with the collaboration of William Carlos Williams Rich-- i ard Wilbur William Jay Smith Barbara Howes W S Merwin and James Wright Random House IN THE WINTER OF CITIES By Tennessee Williams New Di-- ( ! QUESTIONS n McLeaish says he was : OIL CAUSES FRICTION EAST-HE- RE One of the constant trouble spots of the world centers on Israel This nation lies like a big axle on the Mediterranean and the gears of other nations' interests grind and clash about it And a paradox the friction which 'ANSWERS - - The Middle East has consider- ably greater strategic and economic significance than the Far Eat A Middle Eastern convulsion now looms ahead on Jhe scale of the Far Eastern convul- sion that began with the loss of China If this Middle Eastern convulsion is not averted or controlled the Far Eastern convulsion seems dou nright coy But in their dealing? with the Middle East the American policy makers are now imitating the tin- fortunate example- - of Dean C Acheson in the famous period when he was "letting the dust settle'' in the Far East To be sure: This administration is always very conscious of its public relations All sorts of meaningless activities and purely temporary expedients are made to look like parts of a larger policy-desigthat does not in fact exist NO VISIBLE RESULT For example the Middle Eastern mission of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had no visible result whatever except the momentary prevention of an actual outbreak of war between the Arabs and Israel Yet this was grandiosely portrayed as—a 'brilliant triumph of American policy It a like claiming every successful foray of the fire brigade as a triumph for the municipal housing program on the groundV that even although houses are) not getting built at least they--annot being burned down Meanwhile the vacuum of American Middle Eastern policy approaches the point cf being ludi-crous We have able diplomatic ' representatives in the area but when you ask them what our policy is they throw up their hands 1 Fjesh Wafer Prom Sea 1000 gallons portant single fact revealed by a long Middle Eastern journey is the simple fact that the United States of America has not the shadow or even the beginning of a shadow of a Middle Eastern pol-- : n I i y? Hr - Influences' the oreo im- - ? m Almost lost in the news is the report of the Interior Department that only one small bug remains to be worked out before sea water can be desalted cheaply in large quantities Yet research in this field is probably as important to the future of the world as space satellites or any other scientific effort currently in the news The truth seems to be that if t network had been pressed with the same vigor that has been given to many defense measures there would be no bugs left to solve As far back as 1952 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was able to take fresh water from the sea in some regions at a cost of 6 cents per 1000 gallons Water for industrial users now costs up to 10 cents per in iddffEt East icy of Arcb league but still pivot of pro western sentiment doe to in V- 'ter - ' ' skV b PcliCy of rcutrc! ty crock 03 un- der pressure being exerted by the cter Arcb states Oil from board Everybody else has the same kind of individual' freedoms to plan and choose and tinker and squawk and take chances Plenty of fluidity and opportunity and elbow-rooThat's why the thing we call the American system is sure to grow There will be frictions and troubles but there will also be something that we need not be afraid to call progress That's wh the 4th of July means and that's whatindependence means I thank you— Kiplinger Magazine NEA)— The tne 1930s he turned against 'em political pitch- now is to sav that He wasn't enthused he says by Robert B McLeaish the high-livithe New Deal reforms He of Department of Agriculture's Farmers thought they put too much paHome Administration was a ternalism in government Democrat ALL-OUREPUBLICAN By this neat device it is'hop'ed In the 1940s he became an to explain why an embarrassed Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Republican and has voted tor TaftBenson had to ask McLeaish every GOP presidential candidate for his resignation to preserve ever since the Eisenhower administration's McLeaish says he gave mbnev "clean as a hounds tooth" repu- to the Eisenhower campaign fund tation and worked in southeast Texas The only trouble with this po- for his election He is a close litical clause is that Mr: McLeaish friend Tie of Gov Allan says isn7t admitting it lie savs he's a Shivers leader of the Texas Republican and he's been one Shivercrats who split off from ever since the 1030s the Democrats and helped carry Every administration — Demo-- - the state for Eisenhower in 1952 cratic and Republican "alike— has McLeaish says he did not ask its personnel problems of this for a government job But short:xind Always there are a few po- - ly after inauguration he got a btical appointees uho get causht letter from Secretary Benson off base a little him to come to Washasking The interesting thing about ington He was interviewed bv ' the McLeaish case is how ho got Benson offered the FHA job to Washington in the first place and took it Who recommended him' and whv His recommendation it now dehe was hired for the job he was velops was made by Jack Porto fill" ter Texas state chairman for the : " " - inclusion GAZA-- tP- I Sraj I opposition to Israeli vo'Cf pojects on Jordan Foer j TEL AVIV — s s rV d mists lie's Wo Democrat WAMtJLMiTOV :: j- III is - ' "s ' 1 I le ill —— — — DAMASCUS L i r S fZJ HAIFA Times EDSON lead ))I A)' - r -- IT -'i ' ''" " ocy i i f AO A f t ' ' ' Bolstered vith Russ'nn orms Nasser Egypt's ch ef vould to veld Arab ring about Isroe? Has No WASHINGTON— The most ffi Ssroel proclaimed free state in 1943 when British evocuared Pal estine Has well organized cmy I of 250000 U 5 f v British ccicny hes been wracked by strife' Important military bases keep route open for oil shipments to the West Capitalism's Accomplishments Not So Bad JOSEPH ALSOP at1 I I OTHERS ''" ' Q — What is the meaning of the newly coined word "exurban-ite"- ? A — A city worker who lives on a spacious place beyond the suburbs and in real country Q — What is the present cat 'population of the United States? A — A census taken bv a business firm in- 1955 counted more than 21000000 Q — Who are the onIvdivin ° quintuplets? A — The Diligenti children of Argentina Q — Which is the oldest monument to our first president? A — The George Washington monument in Baltimore Md - Q — How frequently do peo- p!e attempt to escape from a Communist country? j A — The International Rescue Committee has reported that someone flees from sj Communist country every minute of every da v Tree Planting Increases Tree planting in the United States has increased 133 per cent in the past six years DREW E ARSON Mognuson digested the news- for a moment then turned to Johnson and" said firmly "Let's see that list" Increasing drought in the Middle West and Southwest has the 'A Interesting Scandal Develops In Government's Nickel Plant WASHINGTON — An interest-- ' ing scandal has developed in the government-ownenickel plant ui Nicaro Cuba where the man- ager of the plant bought a Cadil- with government funds and wright who defended Corrcgidor until the Japs overwhelmed it at the outbreak of World War II and it was because of this close association that many New York-laers voted to send him to Con gress But appointment of a superintendent of Kings Toint was different Kings Point the Annap- 0lls 01 Merchant Marine is located on Long Island in Con pressman Vvaimvnghts district It is currently headed by Adm Gordon Macklin-tocwho has antagonized the shipping interests Recently Maritime Administrator Morse bluntly notified Adm Macklintock: "It's time for you to go You've been at Kings Point too long" Young Jonathan Waimvngbt a World War II sea captain who rose from the ranks of seaman ?nd Was decorated by President Roosevelt lor heroism in the Saicrno invasion was groomed to succeed Macklintock Jonathan h"d both congressional and White House support for the job But politics being what it is the appointment had to be ap- Proved by the local Republican congressman and he happened to be cousin Stuyvesant But the congressman though his chief claim to fame is his kinship with Gcn- Wainwright appear jealous o£ lhe general's son He decided one prominent Wainwright was enough in his thstnet and actively opposed Jonathan's appointment as Kings 'Point superintendent Cousin Stuyvesant even instructed his of- lice staff he was 4not in" to Jon athan in case the captain should drop by the office Result: Jonathan's appointment was dropped The Maritime Administration is looking for someone else to succeed Adm d c where the paymaster helped him- c f to S10075 with the help of his familv The plant built by the govern ment to supplv nickel during the war is now being operated for ine government by the Nickel Processing Corp a subsidiary of National Lead The general manager who used government money to buy the Cadillac is O D Niedermey-e- r The paymaster who got the 510075 is Ojcar Montane AVhen this column queried National Lead in New York about the operations of its two em ployes there was no comment National Lead asked that we call back This was done— four time's — still no comment Franklin Floete new administrator of General Services who has charge of operating government property was refreshingly lrank tic said that his agencv nad detected the shortages in Mav and nromnllv shot off a let- icr to Nickel Processing Corp May 29 asking that the matter be cleaned up There have been subsequent discussions with the company about Niedermeyer and Montane and the general services admini- tration has forwarded the entire file to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution Montane has now returned S8000 w hile Niedermeyer is paying the government on the instalment plan He still has about S 1500 to pay LANGER FOR PRESIDENT Big affable Seraf ( Wild Bill) Langer North Dakota Republi- - Macklintock can strode into the Senate res-- : W ASHINGTON WHIRL taurant the other day toured the Idaho s moody Sen Herman tables shaking hands with fel- low senators and announced hsVvelker has been buttonholing senators begging them candidacy for president of the southern vote t0 i against the controversial United States on the Republican at liens tanyon He icaeraraam ticket reminds them that he has usually to run for "I'm going presi voted with them I against civil want and dent your support' rights bills whereas senators favhe told each senator gravely Then with a twinkle in his eye oring Hells Canyon are for civil rights "I need your vote in order he added: havp an unbeatable nlat- to Set reelected" Welker pleads Senate Majority Leader form I am older than Mr Eisen-- ' Jon Johnson working behind Eis-I am sicker than Mr ' to push the Hells scenes lhe enhower And I need the rest yon project called a private than he does" lrtQSy meeting in his office He ' the bill's sponsors about !h'd lHlc WAIN WRIGHTS W'etker's lobbying and urged that It's strictly a family feud but they get busy counteracting it Jonathan Wainwright V son of He handed a long list of senators the Corregidor hero was blocked to Washington's busy Sen War-froheading the Kings Point rer Magnuson Ma gnu son Marine Academy by his tated He had some hectic TV cousin blucblood GOP Congress- - hearings to preside over Sudden-maStuyvesant Wainwright ty Montana's Sen Mike Mansfield was is that Stuyvesant Irony barged in and announced to to Congress largely by nuson: "I just read on the news the famous name of Jonathan's ticker that the Republicans have father Stuyvesant bad named a picked your opponent (Gov Arson after Gen Jonathan Wain-- ' tuur Langlie) as their keynote i silk-stockin- g k - - T Lyn-how- ' T?5w er Can-mor- e Agriculture Department worried It could rival the terrible drought of the 1930's Late-- f area to be nit is the corn belt of Missouri Iowa and Nebraska Many farmers already are preparing to sell their livestock meanwhile claims Benson that his Secretary present drought program of supplying feed grains to disaster areas is sufficient Congressman Graham Barden of North Carolina has tucked the bill extending minimum wages to retail clerks in pocket and there it remains the of House Labor Committee which Barden is chairman voted weeks ago to hold hearings on the minimum wage but Barden has flatly refused to pay any attention to the committee vote when Congressw oman Edith Green of Oregon tried to get action last week Barden ran roughshod over her indicated he would move when he felt like it no sooner his-ves- -- t SKETCHES Bv BEN BURROUGHS GIVE TO GET If you seek a sweet fulfillment of the loe for which you you will find it I am yearn certain 4if you give love in if return you wish for glowit will come ing tenderness I am sure but you must first to those you supply the bait if you want to hope to lure as a person folks be regarded will trust you've got to be a alism with its threat to all Western positions in the area including the oil interests that provide the lifeblood of most of the West- ern allies Second the unceasing and intension creasing with its constant threat of renewed fighting Third the Soviet intrusion in the area which has greatly encouraged the Arab nationalists both in their and in their determination to wreak vengeance upon Israel These three forces are immensely powerful They have combined to produce a rancid rising ferment of a really frightening kind The British the people most directly threatened by this ferment no longer have either the prestige or the power to control it effectively They can talk of moving troops to the head of the Persian Gulf if this is needful to safeguard their most important oil sources But this is really about the best they can do and it is a very poor best Therefore the utter vacuum of American policy in the Middle East means that the only power the only influence that might be used to pacify and control the situation is not being used for any purpose whatever We do not wish to take the risk or accept the commitments or even make the distasteful choices that are essential for a serious Middle Eastern policy So we are just letting things rip They have ripped pretty far already Action on many fronts from "London to Baghdad and from Moscow to Ryadh is urgently demanded Much of this action must initially take the form of the most secret kind of secret diploArab-Israe- li anti-Westernis- policy-maker- s Arab-Israel- cess" V m nt n Mag-electe- coordinating board that mysteri-- j ous adjunct of the National Secur-- I ity Council has even sent an able young staff member to the Middle East to rush about from embassy to embassy in order to synthesize viewpoints but this has little visi-- : ble effect This utter vacuum of American policy cannot be too strongly stressed because it is the least understood of the four cardinal factors in the ugly and dangerous Middle Eastern crisis The other three factors are: RISE OF NATIONALISM First the rise of Arab nation- who is most sincere person to have friends you and just must be friendly for this is to cultivate the only way with things the field of life to make you gay those who selthink this life is dreary to macy dom ever do their part None but the administration or help another soul to rise with their access so reease an aching heart all to the complex nuances of the member what I've written it can tell just which intelligence will save you much regret are most likely to choices policy to gam some happiness you have i tension lessen the to give before you get and prevent the Arab nationalists from attempting a final onslaught JOSEPHINL up on really vital Western interests But in Cairo and in Baghdad in Damascus and Jerusalem one always heard the same weary desperate pleading refrain— "Any American policy even a bad poi - r icy is better than none at all You must at least try to prevent catastrophe even I although you A t 4 M cannot be absolutely sure of suc- ' hesi-Mereha- ' Almost every American embas- sy in the Middle East sees the problem utterly differently from all the other embassies so that you wonder if they all belong to the same country The operations -- 3 The true criticism of the Truman administration's handling of the rise of Chinese communism was not that they did not prevent Communist success No one could guarantee the defeat of' the Chinese Communists The true criticism was that the Truman administration did not even try The same can be said of the Eisen- hower administration's d "K'ebody took your roller skate! way downstatrsl' It took ME ell tha dealings with the Middle Eastern crisis to date ' (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune 'Inc) |