Show a I T he ©giim Through the Years Alsops - 'A Switch Drew Pearson u s Foreign save himself a lot of headaches if Ihe knew a little bit more about domestic politics or if he had someone close to him inthe White House who did For instance Eisenhower could have saved a disagreeable Senate debate over McCarthy’s friend ACC Commissioner John Doerf er - What Eisenhower didn’t know was that Philip Willkie of Kush-- ( ville Ind 'son of the late great Wendell Willkie was being urged on the White House for appointment to the Doerfer spot when ' the latter’s term was up i Young Willkie is the down of F Ppav?y HeffeUinger execu- saf together Vhat made American tive treasurer of the' Republican Committee He repre- - mats sore Was Foreign Minister sents the wing of Anthony Eden’s speech in the the Republican Party and no Hpuse of Commons directly and - Democrat could object to his con-- bluntly criticizing the United -- ’ f t vealed at the White House briefing of congressional leaders by Undersecretary of State W Bedell Smith According to authentic report the meeting to hear Smith’s story of the Geneva conference was both languid Unhappy and the opposite of intimate tThe' group of congressional chiefs was largp The President was accompanied by a large staff He presided but did not direct the proceedings As has already been published Smith ‘gave the assembled senators and representatives nothing' more than a com Cise summary of ? “In a large number of private companies executives already have their assignments and their travel orders In the event of a surprise attack no further meetings or communications would be necessary Government is in a considerably lesser state of readiness” To meet the situation the association recommends the immediate recruitment of a civilian reserve of quali- : fied executives and specialists trained and'willing to move promptly into government service if a crisis should call for creation or expansion of emergency war agenciess This is a sound idea and it is strange that it has not beeri developed It is as important to stockpile talent to direct the affairs of emergency agencies as to stockpile the metalsand other materials demanded by war’s tremendous needs The plan calls for a reserve of probably 5000 persons who would take at least two weeks of training each year in Washington to give the personnel of the reserve at least a nodding acquaintance with the general duties they may be called upon to perform and to get accustomed to government methods of operating The career civil service it"is said is insufficient to fill all the new posts that are created in an emergency Experienced government employes will fill sortie of the emergency jobs but experience of 20 years reveals civilians must be drawn from enterprises to fill top' posts of emergency agencies having to do with industrial production commodity allocations and price controls procurement and personnel We suspect it will not lie easy to build up the proposed reserve because government service is not appealing to many first rank executives but the difficulty is all the more reason why some start on the plan should be made A at once the non-governme- Mendes-Fr- a ported CieSSitoS? W in Indochina the French French are directly responsible and are making the surrender-settlemen- t of their own free will At the time he made little eHort :same to conceal the magnitude of the disaster to the free world One of the Democrats present then asked whether this disaster would require any revision of American foreign or defense policy Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who was sitting with the President answered that no changes were contemplated— that we were still working for "united action” in Asia That end- ed the discussion The president thanked those present for their patience and in effect dismissed the meeting As jt broke up one of the wisest and Hep Charles A Halleck of Indian made a statement last week which should help to chelr up' those persons who doubt that the nation will ever be ible to keep up with its highway needs 7 The Indiana lawmaker told hisj colleagues that as finally igned into law the Federal Highway Act of 1954 authorizes expenditures of 966 million dollars in each of the fiscal years of 1956 and 1957 The 966 million a year is more than 253 million dollars more than ever before was authorized for highway construction in any one year The size of the appropriation it would seem indicates a willingness on the part of Congress to get down to cases in highway construction At long last the lawmakers are returning to the states in the form of federal aid for roads all of the taxes collected from the people on gasoline and motor oils We can well imagine that in the face of the forthcoming federal funds for roads the highway departments in shrewd Joke only the states are busily planning their cooperative programs serves J?6 tosharp underline the uphappy Large appropriations for roads will not only give us fact that the crucial meeting be- more and better highways but the construction program tween President Eenhower and Sir Winston Churchill opened will stimulate the economy with American policy m a con--- i 1 dition of near bankruptcy Thw’e is of course the Army Now Guatemala Boss? Department an tee to Stateplan to offer a guar- Thai ad-tnire- i1 land-Polan- d i Latln-America- n pie-dictio- der ‘ Neyy Wall Avenue Bridge Ogden is entitled to give a few cheers over the news that a contract has been signed with Gibbons &Reed for construction of a $97000 bridge over Ogden River on Wall Avenue Thq presept bridge long has been a bottle neck and a safety hazard on one of our busiest north-sout- h routes - Only 30 years ag'o the old iron- - bridge on Wall served Washington Blvd traffic including the street cars whoso rails crossed the bridge' Of course it had been outdated years before it was replaced with the present concrete bridge Nevertheless the case of the old bridge is eloquent evidence of tremendous traffic changes in one generation - How Welcome tKe' Rain Rain in a western summer is always a blessing Rain in a summer of a scant water supply is a benediction No wonder taking into account the downpour of Saturday and Sunday ev§ry one lad z good word to say about the weather which provided welcome relief from the heat reduced for the time being the heavy drain on reservoirs and gave all nature a beauty treatment Our countryside never looked more beautiful thahi this morning and we are happy that so 'many tourists are passing through to enjoy this beauty with us ' II Is true that Europe cannot be defended without Ger-many but is also is true that Europe cannot be defended without France— Gen Alfred Gruenther - ‘ f ' ' I) d it ( viet air-atom- I ' pressure McCarthy- - Drew f I A L'lV I HClSt OH ' Business Will Improve 52 Economists Say atTsarffwire SK2 SS-S- JS isnt derfuLIt isnt Sriftg to be won- - rise perceptibly nor will it fall bad- - it will be steady This is in strange well tiirn out t0 be al?e We do oin to H going to get fetter drSathwo5fd not seem to have worked out That sums up the response of Change ‘things Amarentlvthe cnou®h maladjustments to be lay- tbe groundwork for a firm 52 highly-place- d American econo- - economists are willing to ’take mists to my semi-annuquestion- the administration at its word re£?very y®t — a- -naire on the economic ou'tlookr ihiit we'have To‘“have‘ a“defens: T in reductl°n reserve require-senatoAs far as they’re concerned we can live with for a the Federal Reserve by the recent recession is ancient lonf long time entj slow A history upturn is under a Logical anetim Why would the administration way It will con- tinue through the wa?t t0 mak? £asy money still vestment to slide off 3 per cent easier except to reassure business rest of this year over the next 18 months and tht it the government is deter- and through 1955 - No records will S?ined to kr?busirs g00d? lhen’ d0 ‘h!y ’ be broken No Another bank economist took I predict a rise of 1 per cent in boom will bloom t industrial production by the end the Indochina We’ll have a nice approach: “I be- 4 Cent by comfortable level tte endTlMS? rUgriml’oTmUitaJ of prosperity — answer is an inference: expenditures is clearly inevitable not as boomy as and local government out- - And some of my estimates are ’53 but on roads lays than the early and parks par ’54 part of Ever since the end of l952 S°h" arrnw hnvtm rai Business rs T ’ theon auaiuwcu u upline then rises 2 per Perfect! Then in’juue 1953 they cent t said the decline would gain 'mc Unemployment also hardly mentum Rght again though the It will rise from 3300- drop was swifter than anticipated Ganges 000 3500000 ta Finaljy in December 1953Itthey to 3400000 The and thenis drop that guess beean feei:ne for the’ end recession so far that’s good con- - business will absorb most of the comers from high' school and sidering current indications of a who join the labor force college v leveling off aU not bui one government economist ex-AIuletmostv Wa11 “trect The striking feature of pressed doubts: r this forecast is its lack “if the economy is indeed in of a feature Changes during the such close balance some develop next 18 monts won’t raise blood ment or combination of develop- pressure: Unemployment up 7 ments might well tip the scale in per cent or only 225000 busi- - one direction or another Main- ness spending down 3 per cent tenance of something like the ciion up ’ per cent Evfen present level of output Wall Street is expected tQ be for the next year physical more would or e imply an increasing amount of Stock prices are forecast down slack in the economy Industrial only 2 per cent by the end of capacity is increasing as are this year Then a slight Increase productivity and the labor force is predicted for the end of 1955 Thus with stable output there Such stability would be the mil- - would be a noticeable rise in un- lenmum! Obviously the econo- - employment Competition would mists are extending the present exert downward pressure on into the future prices” This shows up in their attitude In a like mood the economist towga defense spending It won’t for a large bank writes: "The '2“lhs - non-votil- -- UUujUlz&mj— Lesson English W L GORDON Bj WORDS OFTEN MISUSED as lS j gUrladn°fnomta5?anaOP el C°"‘ r4allv at the verv last min- - ’ The word glove comes to us from the Anglo-Saxo- n "glof" meaning the palm of the hand When gloves were first invented they were worn by clergy o indicate that their - SYNONYMS - 1 38-emp- i Wholesale “quotes” will ty abjure renounce disavow forswear forgo" Abnegate ‘ -- - Bill-say- It Happened In Ogde- n- you were separate ed you re out oi 1 u ck ror if you ex-amp- were f J le separated Nov 17 'of this year to start There’s a bill n Congress now i d QUQSflOfllS "Use a word three times and it is yours ” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one A each day Today’s word: 'word AnSwQlS FATALISTIC pertaining to that Are lemons picked before rhich is fatal or prophetic "She and -- Q-- or after ripening? A— Before and then stored until ripe Q — Which breed of cattle is said to be almost immune to -- disease? A—The wild cattle of Para- 8 y‘ Q— WORD STUDY Has the House of Repre- sentatives ever lost In member-mean-s slliP due reapportionment? A — Yes The number of mem- bers was reduced from 242 to v census the decenmal of 2?Ln£tC his Maj Nial eration Essentially the Korean GI Bill provides you with financial aid 1° attend school or college or to tram op the job or on the farm The amount of training is lim- ited to 1 days for each day you spent in service after June 26 fa- - 1950 The maximum is 36 months Stratford of training Within certain limits Other commissioners were W R you may choose any program of McEntire and Charles A Halver- - education or training course you son want and any school or training JJf w an Establishment t you s that will accept blcbrepr£n Bartendin iay of more than $60000 was to be dedicated by Heber J Grant 'The only exception in choosing a course is that you may not take president of the church courses commonly considered avocational and recreational in nature Courses m bartending dancing and personality develop ment are specifically prohibited The Ogden baseball team had walloped Park City Miners 9 to you shouM do Is deride ip& I 8 One of the players had a enecific coal reach Take heed unto thyself and hSeld ban6 HC W3S Wt by aD H may be educational! profesl unto the doctrine continue in sional or vocational Next you them for in doing this thou Services had been held for should choose the type of train- shalt both save thyself and J M Ferrin in’ the Og- - inS that would best help you theuTthat hear thee — I Tim- Bishop reach yur goal LDS Tabernacle den othy 4:16 An educational goal would be Meditation is the tongue of Junior Day exercises had been a diploma degree or certificate tb? oul and the language of our held at the Sacred Heart Acad- - showing scholastic achievement spirit —Jeremy Taylor emy A professional goal would be ?hapAI’ 0U'-Kf- t 50 Years Ago und'er"? li?lTrri Reflections S unceyou get into your program of education or training you will receive an allowance from the government — generally monthly part of your training costs and living expenses Tui- tiori ees’ hooks supplies and equipment expenses will all have to come out of the monthly allowances The government doesn’t pay them' separately trainIf you’re taking full-tim- e ing in a school or college you’ll receive $110 a month if you have no dependents $135 a month if you have one dependent and $160 training less than fill time you’ll of Representatives for consid- rates W TnQ ot“®r profession A vocational goal would be the job the train- ing leads to such as a carpenter brJct iaver f to coyer Nov 18 1952 you only have until Frank A Jugler of Ogden had been appointed state director in charge of processing meat to be canned in Utah by the govern- ment f°r relief purposes George E Stratford had been appointed to the Weber County ther the late F te 8r‘8 0‘ rise a bit— 2 per cent by the end of 1955 Farm prices will drop 2 per cent in the coming six months then firm The cost of living will drop 3 per cent in the next six months After that V lCfl breather for consumers prices aj 11 077 OS NlCfl will go up in 1955 Wage earners will fare well— in a down and up sort of way Weekly income - will slip from $7113 to $7067 by the end of the year then increase to above $72 by the end of 1955 Department store sales which reflect what workers and farmers do with their money will follow a similar arated from service after Ans pattern— down slightly in the sec- - 20 I?52 shouW keep close tabs ond half of 1954 followed by re- deadline for- using your the mi covery in 1955 Korean GL Bill education and And that’s it: A pretty un- ’ traimng rights clouded crystal ball s The GI that if you don’t start using yovr rights with- in two years after IVT I 4 commission to succeed sec-Sta- state was castigating Sh Years Ago OFTEN MISSPELLED Wont (custom no habit) apostrophe Won’t (contraction 01 observe 'the 4W1“ not”V ' apostrophe Church-Th-e wora came irora Harness xnai me BritIsh policies toward the colo"ies be toM his associates now as liberal as American Just arf too late POhCieS In fact England has ft! rnetr rami ec tato pia“c new Wyomtag irith tadS5I2f to colonial peoples seats stormed the Prime Minister So Sore Ponts if John Foster dares mention this It is not often that a talk be any time betw§en now and tween the heads of the most im- - Churchill’s departure the old portant democratic nations in the gentleman Is set to blow him out world gets started in an atmos- - of his chair In such an atmosphere began phere of mutual recrimination But that was the way diplomats the most important diplomatic felt about the ChurchilliEisen- - talks Since Eisenhower assumed hower talks as the two statesmen office Do not say “I’m sure it was 20 him all right” Say "I’m sure it was he” and omit “all right” With a 68 over 18 holes in which is superfluous the qualifying round of the sec- OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED ond annual Idaho Open Golf cent first syllable Ier?e1Mlni!leL Manatosnd whitwt slly credited Internationsl fae-tors might influence business If so I think the influence would be up father than down” As you might assume from the consensus on production and the stock market the economists don’t expect drastic changes in prices JSunaSUff- - - “7 - a wasse -- S better Wouldn’t Risk Destruction They were not prepared to risk the destruction of Britain for the sake of Indochina Having faced the facts as they saw them at the start the British then acted on the same premise from start to ’ policies of England?' He said among other things ithat the United States was hampered by 'British colonialism that we were pulling British chestnuts out df the fire and Dulles ticked off a long list of differences between tfee UK and the US He also the Dulles has had Harness barred ample opportun-whereof n“ to ground sta?rcnnfLnSl h fact that tiL plane 5hnrt Hunt’s body from Washlneton to For the same thing with 40 Wyoming departed when he had an off-happened emnty seats eeMngrdofP”he What happened was that four Gewva contar-were appointed as of- - ence and said ficialr mourners to escort Hunt’s st0nDing the in to Ms home But the bodylback leaked immediately funeral" plane 'had 40 seats leav- seats and Hunt’s entire 39 ing bargaining power Co”j"umsts’ Dulles’ staff asked to go Sergeant-at- talk at the Am Hsraess said no Then Hunt’s two toVassistants leateftataSeAm?'! Ira Whitlock and Mike Manatos Sresfind was cabled to London madm snrrial rennet for with the source also al g finish Furthermore the British are now perfectly ready to do the painful and disagreeable things that are required by this policy ' of theirs ' The contrast between the Americans-anBritish is sharp and curious The American ad- ministration wished to avoid a surrender talked for a while as though it would not stand for a surrender and at the ’last moment lacked the will to prevent a surrender at all costs The British bleakly decided that a surrender was on the whole desirable worked for a surrender and are now getting what they wanted " In these circumstances neither side can lay £laim to superior vir- tue although each is of course blaming the other Both will fail however and the Eisenhower- Churchill meeting will be a flat bust unless the President and Prime Minister can now agree on to prevent any! more sur- renders and to redress the world balance of power rapidly and de- cisivelv if' two 0t be aoM’ aU else lj mirf m?re Ult y oper-Carth- -- attack ic background-Infor- - dinner with a few choice newspapermen last week during which he had some rough things to say about the colonial mation-onl- - Indochina would lead to world vtar They believed as Sir Winston Churchill has repeatedly said that the British Isles would then become the "bull’s eye” for So- c What had happened was that Dulles had a ‘ ‘ r Eden the- - inspired 4 Pearson ites to push through the Doerfer appointment as soon as possible ' Hastily the White House acted- As a result Doerfer is also already facing Senate de bate on his confirmation and has hinted that the United States aroused criticism that Eisen- - might have to junk part of the y ‘hower talks critically of Me- - alliance with England and one day and appoints - a ate entirely on her own Diplomats say that the secre-i- n McCarthy friend to a kep post the administration the next tary of state should have known better than to unloose such criti- day Hunt’s Funeral juat ffew das£ before the The office staff of the late from unchal-lengelFb- ly plied? speech publican like Willkie challenging his power in Also Indiana Halleck was un- -- policy-makin- actually J a (want Reyoung bright mid-yea- President Jacobo- Arbenz Guzman of Guatemala i$w of communism and the recipient of Communist coun- that Indochina is to be abandoned sel has been forced to resign The Guatemala army now But there are no seems to be in charge of the Guatemala government and' plans as yet to the world of the war against the forces trying to take over the country redress balance of power Whether the change means the end of the Red flavor either by a greatto Guatemalan government policies is not clear Neither is er effort or by other measures it determined as yet how the retirement of Guzman will And the significance of the dis- affect the outcome of the civil war r Will the Guatemala army welcome the "liberators” taking us lies precisely in the fict that it will gravely upset the moving toward the capital or fight them? At any event prediction made by those who know World balance of power We have no cure in short for n affairs seems to be worjdng out — a the real evil that demands to be that the outcome of the turmoil depends upon cured We are letting the power balance tufn against us But on j what the army wants such jsubjeets as recognition of The army with the help Qf the arms the ousted presi- Communist China we go on talkdent obtained from his Cpmmunist friends should be able ing as though we were powerful That cannot to dominate the situation be called coherent By contrast British policy with Wouldn’t it be ironic if the army should turn against all its Obvious defects has at any the Communist influences in Guatemala and' drive them rate been coherent The British out of the country with the weapons the Communists sup- - thought that an attempt to save ' - didn’t 4 Road Program i pointed Apparently Halleck Moral Difference Smith argued that there was a - S ’ nee- ourtCnCthiAVHfShCh’a?S ' States However Congressman Char-But what the public doen’s lie Halleck who also comes from know is that Eden and Churchill Indiana' rushed to the White were equally sore at some private House and’ de-r- r ) remarks made by Secretary of State Dulles one week ago In manded that fact it was Dulles remarks that Doerfer be but "another Munich” moral tv firmation must be expected to make a settle-Stewa- rt nt al anti-McCart- -- Pierre- Alsop ment with the Communists He forecast that the settlement would almost certainly lead to the loss of Viet Nam and would probably lead to ' the loss of all of Indochina The first to comment was the Senate majority leader William Knowland of California Sen Knowland said bitterly and quite accurately) that this was nothing 'i w diplo-Nation- melancholy emier 1 Largest U son-in-la- news dispatches from Geneva Paris and Saigon At the close he observed that the new French Pr- ‘ a WASHINGTON— White House friends point out that Ike could h National Planning Association an organization where — One the eve leaders of agriculture business labor and the professions of WASHINGTON the Eisenhower Churchill join in programs to maintain and strengthen private enter- meeting the disarray of Ameriprise sends us a pamphlet in which the following statement can foreign policy was sadly reis "made: ' Lato Wendell Willltio's Son Jockeyed Out of FCC Post Policy All But Bankrupt A Civilian Rcsorvd Needed ' - S nni!h Trlll7 i alt?w“SL for trainees $70 without de Pendents $85 with one dependent and 3105 with more than one de- on-the-jo- b Pendet H you’re taking training the monthly allowance Wl11 be $95 a month without de-- 1 Pendents $110 with ope de- Pend and $130 with more than on® dependent train- : For onJob and allowance wiU re-be your duced four month intervals as your) training progresses! and your own earnings' increase if y6u take correspondence courses only the allowance will be the school’s established charge s ' taking the same for courserff yOT tak7fl!ght training! the allowance trill be 75 per cent m on-far- H m non-vet- estabUshed (chargc Mai' write' teonSCvb?f 8 (Yo“ ' may abo Nial service-corvnecte- y-°“r Pr°blem Please d enclose a stamped envelope and 20 cents in coin) Write Maj Thomas-- M Nial The Associated self-address- rress i iiU &iar isunaing Pennsylvania D C ! 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