| Show ©gitett tmtharb-Esamn- w EDITORIALS s ODEN EVENING NOVEMBER TUESDAY UTAH 6 1955 Finds Elections More Sissified Parades Turned Into Coffee Hours Sighs of Relief at End of Campaign Just as every to the local conventions occasion has its be- - great ginning it also has its end That is what is happening to the campaign of 1956 And most of the persons we know are cheering the end In words of one syllable they have had it The trouble of course is that the campaigns are far too long The wear and tear on the candidates amounts to cruel and un- usual punishment The electorate grows so weary of debate over the issues a great many of us cease to pay attention It will not be easy to shorten the cam- paign period Candidates for the presidency must get into the running in March when the first state primary is held In Utah an alert aspirant for political office w ants to be known as a candidate at the time the dele are chosen gates at mass meetings in the early spring Perhaps parties can berinduced to start their operations later in a campaign year Britain finds that candidates can say all they need to say in a few weeks and voters receive plenty of material to think about in a brief campaign The high cost of political activity may produce reform because political expenses have now grown so large as to become intolerable The task of raising funds is too great Campaign expenditures are at the scandal point The longer the campaign period the greater the expenses Shorter ones would sa e money Election reform is overdue - fir j v r - ' ri' “ rv r ? : -- V i-t '' r - f f ' ’ C F c " l “ y o fr IUNgKj1 r I t J Truck Drivers Praised A financial page article reports that while insurers of automobiles are moaning about losses the largest insurer of trucks and buses is enjoying one of its best years Thanks to truck and bus emphasis on driver training and saietv first practices the truck and bus companies are putting money into other things that once went into losses And insurance companies are saluting the truck and bus drivers as the best in the business The drivers of the behemoths of the v highway are probably getting used to compliments just as in the past they had to Crow thick skinned about the hard names hurled at them Christian Science Monitor impressed by a truck driver's ability at a “Roadeo” to back his tremendous rig into a tight fit wooden frame “like putting one's hand into a glove without touching the glove’s inside” has become a champion of the drivers The paper warns critical motorists that the driver of a truck they are complaining about probably can do things with the highway freight car that others can’t do with a modest hardtop Truck insurance rates are based on the safety record of the client so it pays to be careful about drivers their equipment and their training Truck drivers doubtless wish that all of the other drivers they encounter are as well trained and accident free 1 -- Slender Opera Singers Nan Robertson writing in New York Times says that stouts are no longer stylish at the Metropolitan Opera This is news of interest to those concert goers who commented favorably upon the trimness of Ihe celebrated singers heard last week — Rise Stecns meszzo-sopranand Irmgard Seefried soprano Of the 47 sopranos and contraltos on the Met’s roster according to the 1 imes article only a handful are left who wear more than a size 14 The average size used to range from 18 to 22 Rise Stevens and Patrice Munsel are de o mezzo-soprano- s scribed as looking as if they dined exclusively on watercress The truth of this is attested by those who heard and saw Miss Stevens The reason for the coming of the lean years to grand opera is in part Rudolph Bing Met manager who lists his qualifications for singers: Beautiful in appearance wonderful voices great actors However with all the emphasis on slenderness the Wagnerian sopranos still have their enthusiasts who insist that the big tone required for this branch of opera requires big bodies Other stars thinking about television and motion picture opportunities are willing to do the dieting required by the new- - specifications the admission ticket buyers prescribe for opera singers Another Korea Looms To read that British and French com- mando type troops have “stormed” ashore with tanks to attack Egyptian troops and to learn further that Anglo-Frenc- h para- chute troops have been shot out of the air by the Egyptians is to realize full well that a war is on a real war that should be called wThat it is and not a mere police action And to read further that the Soviet Union is about to offer Arab nations help in the form of armament and “volunteers” IS to be convinced that the Middle Eastern crisis may well become another Korea The Soviet Union's threat that it is prepared to use force to end the British French invasion of Egypt has added an ominous note to the world situation which has its sardonic aspects One of these is the United States appealing to the Russians to get their troops out of agonized Hungary and the Russians appealing to the United States to help in ousting the British and French troops from Egypt In the midst of the menacing situation it is hoped the leaders of the big powers accept the Swiss invitation to meet “at the summit” to talk things over with a view to ending a crisis that may lead to the blowing up of the world of its operation WALT E R Second Thoughts in Washington On Our Policy Prove Different h WASHINGTON— The American line he laid down is now followed portion a President Eisenhower that we shall regard the U N declared it in his telev ision ad- - not as a tribunal to judge con- dies? last Wednesdav evening is demn and punish but a? an organ now markodiv different from to mediate and promote a ?pttle- what until then it had been sup- - ment posed to be The President's position which The terms of our U N resolu- - reflects the second thoughts of tion— the resolution which Brit- - the administration is wiser than am and Fiance vetoed — meant the first angry and imbalanced that Israel had committed an d- - icaction in Washington on Mon-legact one whiCh it had no ' day moral right to commit if the original line of The inspired comment from of- - which was embodied in the poliev Lode t al final quarters in Washington rused Britain France and Israel of aggression Ev erv thing pointed towards a pohev m which the United States would lead the accusers perhaps by applying economic sanctions and probably by action in the General Assembly But what the President said defined a quite different Atper- man attitude: “As it is the mani- fest right of anv of these nations to take such decisions and actions Jt is likewise our right if our judgment so dictates to dissent If it is the manifest right of these nations to do what thev are doing then of course the Presi-jin- g dent cannot and will not attempt to have them judged aggressors hat he will do is to “dissent” to point out that “the action taken can scarcely be reconciled with principles and purposes cf the United Nations ‘MANIFEST RIGHT” of dissenting The j frontier The true friend? of the United Nations will recognize that Nas-th- e hs raids into Israel his intervention in North Africa hy hls intrigues in Jordan and Syria mn:t destructive fins”’!!as !! Cfv! merican j'ddhfe seciirit’ S? pf rabbits foxes ard have opossums mz KkSmiidiid hV h‘AYl'bcLhe LnYd to birds solve are patyO speeding auto- a “manifest right"- is a very difmobile drivers esti- a MORTAL Kentucky from of leadferent thing BLOW policy mates that 13267 gamebirds and ing a movement to have them It would he a mortal Iriow animals killed hy speeding judged guilty of aggression The the United Nations if it’trans- - drivers onwere th highways m nne president’s policy meansif the pired that jhe practical effect months - over the countrj from Portland to Pittsburgh to tain to the voters these reporters rather nervously prepared te record their impressions of the voters are likely to do and v h The first nervous impression is that the voters will probably rclect Dwight D Eisenhower by a fairly handsome majority The second is that contrary to general opinion the 1 resident was not unbeatable from the start The third is that Adlai Stevenson despite his many virtues was simply not the man to beat him Six weeks or so ago when the campaign was just beginning to roll we would never have dared to record the first impression above (which may of course make us look foolish on Nov 7) For in mid September it suddenly began to seem that Mr Eisenhower was in real danger MANY SWITCH VOTES On a trip to the Northwest one of us found a surprising number of people in the workers’ districts who had voted for the President in 1952 and now said they would vote for Stev em-oOn two trips to the Iowa corn hog corn- try another found an even more Clod SOven-- j vv k AMP C t - OS VI n Mafd m Whatever - on thup ' r tL merits rf star cn the draft a cn v as t al bomb fp'-tty jsvres £tc n o : servrl to c cure t: much ef v per tig i rf the Fw r larger s Lea' il C admiriMratmn's da: i com1rr5 in the r c:gn policy I ertart they have a to c tire the tread which a Dcmoc: da:-rrir-- t f:rrr fully order to win Per ss cne trav rU t 2n talks to t h e vein i ecomes vni :!y r v-r: that this u 3 far ' n v f met scions socic th i z) e surpo-- jrrme l 1 FTt-si-no- n s : '( He N 1 f-- - i- f n ! -urs ’ 1 : 1 ! e ed ghra e — "Th s u1 ri b p ? ir t f ! :: c Vit MANY DISCONTENTED I)cspte “Eisenhower d s t r-- f crtrfcrtahdy irto the if c tor" ar J fr cf re-:o- n d‘-u:v- n r r - I Itt 1 f e - to Mr W ' T - em idi m nrorM) him r ? n "" I a p e - y : t: t "i ENGLISH LESSON : ’ t f r nic Lr i f ' a - - r- J- ' ' - h- 4 i ! a t I 1 rd t s 15 - perhaps the great ntary p f - guv 5 w wan dms c a rr rca-nancontented fer ore s or si c’Bier (it ftt farmers worried about to a MM losing their f r::u o’d people 19'j New- York Herald Trib cr working people out of a NY crocs in bt tit i other of badly number fanners surprising who were ready eager and anxi- minority grimps who f el themselves unfarlv treated aid tie ous to switch Moreover there was evidence nied their share of the national that Stevenson was really begin- economic pie These discontented pmpY w - re ning to register as a candidate By W J GORDON There w as for example his the key elenient in the pakh- Intouyhly partisan highly effective work majorities pul toeefh'-I i: r bonus It t b Erauktin ' ?r Harry speech at the Nat icral plowing D rc s These are the pemIp contest m Iowa to which the Truman ‘C ijp a pie in this country who are ’ v - Stevenson up " 1 F r a - l! wore for the l:t g rs up the centra! LUrrocratic asset It e - 0 5 a ts v ' v K r was rot urn ratal President beatable there are w t of the campaign has m filial wav quite MTfh tf it Errs-ailJ(IU m0 the campaign N with both feet Whin the dent jumped moreover tie carned in with h:m a next cr of ermr-wha- t mos rv (v H? h th a vast tige of his office eivau ' an to “''antcre ircvnwrt Frrs- He had the friend' ?t idert arv President has had in press this century He had seme txcelle nt speeches for which hw chief and for all practical purports only rpe echwritrr Emmet Hughes deserves a bow He a!?a had "the Eisenhower aura" phmxmfcrs first c: scrihcd in tin- space ar sirre much coirrnrrtcd cn — the plowing personal ty which somehow cheers people up makes them fed happy and rorfid'rd Arid yet Eisenhower aura ari all the - th rf the rrdure - 1 - i lr: r c r LX - r -- Misnamed on v - yrc t d f? r r r r General' Candidates Bv RAY WIGHT rather have the polls close a? large ones' have no statue What does the tyj:ril candidate do to whibv away thr-- e than whv I have one" Marcus Cato fidgety hurs until the returns start coming in? The enev eloped a says that Bv the time you sit down to election is a legal hoLJay m r!triir vniir day all state?dayand territories ‘ t will be well along toward a close Alaska Connecticut the in these United States and in of Column a Hawaii Illinois N ew ork 0 nio a few hours the returns will start Massachusetts and Vermont t0 come in In Ohio it is a hr-I- r LLn In It’s a wonderfully eomplcated m:nAs a jCC3l Le!Jiv' frr an'J adaptable machine that will Chicago Srrmcfr Id Er-'-St p0 to wc'rtC to take the returns Louis Galesburg Danville Cairo" as lheb come in from the vol- - and Pockfoi ri Ev iuentlv the farm n ? way t place? tabulate them and sections haven't dew-m- l forward them on to the various get the cows and chokers’ to centers from which they will lay off eating and ruodocmg Be reporied over the radio and while the pioce-e- s of democracy TV to watchers and listeners take the ' spotlight the night throughout Here’s s chance of pace from A century ago it might he da vs all this politics A P ch’af rwt at a or ''cc’1'5 bebne man knew whether or not he had hepn elect- - a midwpstprn unvmsjy drays ed Tonight v o'l'Il be able to set- - that if a child isn’t spanked’ hy hix parents whrie he sere Y cf 01r vnrrje?- anri to a friends get an occas final tannng considerable number of candi- subconsciously hp 1 i pt thp dates admit defeat cr claim vic- - fact The good doctor Cia rr that the child will fori tht hp’s missing out cn a common i vnc-IDLE SPECULATIONS: ence! If the pulls were suddenly Political sin mn up B: icham closed at 2 pm and a count taken would it revi't in the same wav “Dig f(r Felt” Haro y B 1 a Brigham CYv mfTL nan people being elected as it would for o' rr if it went the lull da? running women more Are there than Mima'l "frlk!!? - T p r rj min?‘ rrn "h° into the thp h r g high they get voting booths chool teacher who VVfiS 'trd- Do more men than women vote cd last week for sm king cu areu a straight ticket? in utted How many husband and wife her the building has’ resignation rather than b e combinations cancel one another reloved hy the school boaid"' out by voting opposite tirkeD'’ Why do so many small Ilmmm I uondcr if th0ve polls take as long to report in after ( will be right this time? o:: cr FOKMUUTE en ??? f'n di-tnc- ts to i -- a Hs- - Pare kn r Ur : : - Can K - C t e form to an i c (parly “TTctp s a p will formulate the foreign only iri w- - ‘ rr — pol- - ICV' 14 rl i 10 YEARS AGO l:-- I :s r: mmm s h-- IV W 4 J- c e V SKETCHES r tf f By BEN BURROUGHS " c : cf L L ME TO SLEEP" :nn rr army dpa’ Cl' a: rgnt dar nf f p I n k ever Pmo my rare son " ’ Y C d v at i ’ ! 1 i t p - irr (i v 0 ir nme” ne of velvet r r ii r v f rg scon ha - v in am em I g d ream Wdl he'p fa- h nr ed mhrace da r! j p pra u a keep a k 1 our o ri cGsrrH sib OVf s ft " at-irp- Cerp i First Tamers The H mv t -? r n r r p - ’ I a dJ :i - c e A t J y 50 f ( - m — r U - 1 r f ' AGO YEARS - a f JW f r i r K ( - if 1 ' C' V 'r c- a r p fr- S a - d pr‘ ri nrrr fr - gdf Hrn 7 r 's dvi lnp 2r 1 n rr ia i i i Cchr‘-- r' WondPrf n r f pf' i ' hi i fr f f A g (- ff IY - ’ Mr: tv P A rr rcuri r O y® s T in York jpp Vi’s me p rr-r-r- si I s t - fr r t?' at if ’ rr I ( If TY CY S IT J' rr ’ YEARS rep (Cop : M” r f r e grntlp w‘I dr ( r s rg r sh 'ar’rl h endrg r n hf tir peaceful two heart sharing a close tnge1 her treasured ga‘ bu t ’ ‘ -- I If f a- syravmg or !d v c r thw are prreYn 5 ami most y n e w a ! moor heams r fm i'-- ' Ml I 1 the y ref no i r - BeIna about time to be wh spir the U: lien- w orris n P rr mp T--' t of V f tf sn tenrieriv lock with’rre cn of the t La p "e (' Ft tr Y- v Ian unendng here over w ’ Vi i ' ’ L a n KISS J t Covers Ground i to express a? a t B-t- " r r ' w 2 ? c ma-tfrr- d D-tri- - voraUdary by u I C J rr lost t tri f I a DOIIII S I LT)Y Ue 2 wcrJ three it " yrurs " Ert us ’ " ii ‘ VIEWS and NEWS f 1 1 M r : v T ! 1 1 f " ' wnom expres--r a he 3 j v huge crowd of assembled farm- t " f r I crt ' in discontent r r S for ors responded with genuine and '2 by votirg IN'piV Eisenhower whom Stevenson bad TEN I) EX ELY (adeem) of the obvious enthusiasm to allract to h is candidacy by a C tiers SOMETHING IIATTEMD bi? majority ip order to wip DITEN MB PRO0 p'M ri) Here it seemed was the much- He has attracted some V h : heralded “rpw Stevenson” a per- ever we have hern in these frvl 'wr' (turned tp re e re ro ar- Frjrn ivn r sorahty and a candidate Eo be weeks of the campacn we ht recokored with Eut then toward found some small leakage of pre- - ccrt la-- s i : 3 the beginning of October some- - vious Eisenhower 0 e r s tv S: OFTFN MIssn Fn thing seemed to happen to this enson on! Partially com per i:c" r :t "10’ new Stevenson cd by a leakage the o her w ay One thing that happened to him But the leakage has rwt becc T syminems or: - spry r p r f If resolution had prevailed we then their action is successful the standard by which it would ha' e had to go on to seek will he judged is how" statesman- to condemn not only Israel but like is the settlement which they Britain and France as well ralh- 2'Mlnie' °r at least I Fropo'se' the in world irg partnership with the Soviet Union against them hope we have a right to” assume This would have made our that London and Paris have no that thev can restore present differences which are not now radical into an irreparabY 5 °T Suez Company or some- thing like it under another name conflict What’ taking the situation as The moial credit of Britain and we now find it is thp Xmencan France which i? now shaken can ppaireri if thev useYwith interest? In the first place to refrain from moral iudvmenf If preat lma£iination and magra vve do net we shall find ourselves 9inlityJhe pnw’er in the Middle 1 t!lat the-- v ar? now fighting arguing that Nasser i? not an f aggressor when he cro??e hi frontier which he has been do" several times a week provided onlv that he use? ’small forces cverv time he crones th sPr by - nrc or 1 Theicforc in the interests of the United Nations which is aBo a 'dal imprest of the United States let u insist that it be an organ for the solution of the problems of Suez and Palestine and not a tribunal of judgment The Eranoo-Britisaction will he judged by the outcome — in the first instance whether the military objective? are achieved in a reasonable time and at rot ten great a cost If they are not achieved the decision will have been a gigantic blunder which may well have catastrophic consequences "he American interest though "p hae dissented from the de- clMnn lUelE is that France and reat Britain should now suc- coed However much we may wish they had not started we cannot now wish that they should LIPPMANN ac- - was to invest like Nasser with aggressor ini rnunity WASHINGTON — Hav mg t rav i IV rt ly ut !o hr it n s f ::r N ATI TIE rn Roving Reporters Predict Ike to Get Good Majority - fl th n AGO c V'” rz'r e E g Di t r — p rt v t - ' ri ito i- E TTa" V- r:t V Attv J CYmm rrrrit cs were the w cr liirrd p r pit? to d j rr c I itv Jud Crf'r animal to invert the f! heritor hi m m their fid di ‘V ard under the leadership cf fangs iW Jensen Wi’merr J ?Y v p 1 1 r S a J Zr i yi '’i r i ’I cf Ctv® t rn u i i f re 1 ix ss irt rr-ru'-Lit wcurdi net U s n r i r wg-E- - ci trcrmt:r ” c r r-- -- fu ' tre |
