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Show 1 iff vy v- - C'- ' w - r r rrrrrrTrrvrw t 'rrrm'r . owrrw . fibtm J<f PjcJSalt ISA ra-- e TlicreV Plenty for Everybody- - William S. White BarrysSupport Founded Off GOP Inside Grou- p- Sunday Morning, July 12, 1961 U.S.MovingtoAssis t Catlle Industry The federal government is at last taking tentative steps in two.directions to assist the nations depressed beef industry. The programs are vital to Utah bes of farm cash receipts cause in the state come from livestock and livestock products. The- - Senate Finance Committee has brushed aside a Tariff Commission report and approved a bill fixing restrictive quo-'tonmeat Imports:' Mearrwhile-- a biparNational Commission on tisan Food Marketing is preparing for an extensive investigation. The commission, comprising five U.S. senators, five representatives and five publ ic)jnembers named by the President, is charged with determining why retail food prices continue to climb while farm income goes down. as . Beef-eatin- g Big Step Forward The decision of the Utah Education Association leadership to call on member teachers to return to classrooms in September was both laudable and logical. The action, paving the way for a real long-tersolution of the public school finance dilemma, was the result of careful and expert negotiations by state and local school representatives and UEA ; leaders. m Official action oa the studies must come from the aew State Legislature l' and governor to be elected la November. i Since a large percentage of Utahs teachers had already indicated an inten- tion to return to the sduxds, this rea- sonable, responsible and intelligent course was already apparent. ASIDE FROM THE mountainous job ahead for the new Legislature and gov- ernor, another obstacle remains on the school horizonTYTe' refer to the sanc- tions applied by the National Education Association against Utah schools, the first action of its kind in history. NEA-- i UEA spokesmen now explain that the call to NEA members to refrain from accept-- j ing school jobs in Utah does not apply to Utah teachers, but it would seem that the line drawn Is exceedingly fine. . t - We are convinced that the chances would be much better for a thoughtful, - friendly solution of the problem if the club looming over the head j Sanctions were witht of the new Legislature Also ahead are negotiations to provide opportunities for school personnel desiring r to work in education longer than the ordinary school year. These likely will take place on the local leveL aw abn operate feed Unearned Increase Editor, Tribune: There was no legislation to rebuke them, and no stringent court order to hold them to their shiny desks, and two houses of Congress voted themselves a substantial raise in pay. I survey this abusive and irrational act with disgust and smoldering anger. The wounded GIs who slogged through the muck and blood at Anzio and Utah left Beach, the fly boys with armless torsos and sightless eyes, the sailors who left part of their bodies smeared to gun turrets all these fellows who stopped the despotic madmen and left part of them-selvbehind are being over' paid! Thus claims the comptroller general of the United States in his report to Congress.' These payments range from 340 per month ' to veterans with no dependents, to 3100 per month to those with three and more dependents. Members of Congress will get a 37,500 Increase next Jan. 1. - . - Sometimes during this farce of civil rights, we misinterpret the code of ethics, and very undemocraticaUy the servant rules the' master. In this case the farce is much too apparent True, you can fool some of tiie people all of the time; but those who refuse to be fooled and think for themselves, should launch a systematic campaign of illumination, and no( one of these servants who voted for their own wage raise should be returned to public office. J. N. SIMPSON ' ' Moroni, Utah es "" Forty-fou- r years ago major meat packers were required by court action to get out of the retail meat business. Current problems of livestock growers will not be solved by any single or simple nostrum. Government relief appears necessary for the industry to improve its economic foundation. Closing loopholes which encourage outside interests to go Into the cattle business for tax write-off- s may also be required. Looming over the Import limitation efforts Is the administration program of seeking to liberalize world trade. aid to the beleaguered Industry should be possible without unduly undermining the total trade Badly-need- ed Editor, Tribune: J -- . - noticed in the 'paperthe' other' day that the Democratic congressional aspirant,' David S. King, is complaining about the job cutback that Utah has suffered as result of poor repre -- Eyeing a departing. bore, the man at the next desk says, If that guy doesnt quit bothering me, one of these days I'm going to com-- i - - . mit pesticide. T I sentation on the part of Utahs Washington delegation. This is very significant news and I think that the newspapers probably underplayed the story. The headline should have said: King Attacks Moss for Lack of Washington on Missile Representation Contracts. This merely proves what the Forum Rules Letter are weleeme bat to bo published they mo it bo submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer correct name and ad dree. Name are withheld if Imperative bat preference I given signed letters and those not ever Z50 words. Letters are subject to condensation when space limitations require It. Republicans have been saying all along: We dont need Moss in Washington. Sen. Moss has been cam- paigning all along on the that Utah needs a theory Democrat in Washington to protect its interests. Yet, Mr. King in one small speech refutes that theory. A. R. DUNN Murray, Utah Japanese Goods Editor, Tribune: How many of us are aware of the economic Pearl Harbor down at the shopping center? Japanese radios, motorcycles, fishing supplies and hundreds of items too numerous to mention here. Lets not kid ourselves that these are inferior products, and that nobody wants to buy them. They are holding up well and are selling at prices far below our American-mad- e goods. King ve. Moss? the secession of Katanga was finished. Now Tshombe, the man the United Nations finally succeeded in driving out --of Katanga, is back --hi Leopoldville as prime minister of the Congo, and his transition" cabinet has just taken the oath of office. The new government immediately announced Its decision to release all political prisoners as part of Tshombes program of reconciliation. Tshombe also expressed friendliness toward the United States which was one of the most forceful backers of the.U.N. campaign against Katanga. Katanga, with Immense mineral resources, is the treasure box of the Congo. That is one explanation the UN. gave for fighting secession. But since the defeat of Tshombe by the UN. solved nothing, he could well expect his critics and former opponents to eat crow. Instead, he appears determined to save the Congo from chaos. The task will be difficult, despite his ability as a political leader. The realities of power are tribal affinities and provincial loyalties (more than 200 tribes and 21 provinces). As Smith Hempstone of the Chicago Daily News recently wrote, Any prime minister would, be unpopular, If only because there are' more people thirsty for power than there are cabinet -- AAArOuiMl The Public F orum .By Our Readers production lines. Every spring we are reminded that it does no good to drive off and leave a child or spouse at the filling station. Somebody always telephones ahead to die highway patroL ij yen know how. fiT-- CATTLEMEN GENERALLY are unconvinced, however, and demand a lid on imports plus turning the spotlight on commercial firms which are operating both productionand retail enterprises. A prime question before the new commission will be the questioh of possible price manipulations by concerns which officers. Tshombe, highly popular In Katanga, Is a stranger in the rest of the Congo which, after four years of independence, Is a nation only In theory. 7 m wj r, frf tSaVr? 7 EaccUmnlt In St. Louis Agriculture Department spokesmen say imports are a minor factor in the price decline and has opposed imposition of import quotas. They report that Australia and New Zealand, biggest shippers of foreign beef to the U.S., already have voluntarily agreed to cut back shipments by 27 per cent this year. Overproduction and overspeculation by the domestic livestock industry itself are blamed for the situation by the Agriculture Department and spokesmen for the meat packers. A total of 106,200,000 cattle were reported on U.S. ranches and feedlots, early this yeaj, a gain of 2.6 per cent over last year. And the number is still growing. American Meat Institute leaders claim that the U.S. cattle industry has abane doned supplying tough meat hot and (the hamburger trade) to dog foreign growers and has concentrated on higher grade meat. They claim that the domestic supply of better grade beef has doubled in 10 years while cheaper grades have failed to meet the demand. - Visiting Cartoonist easy There Is nojunanimous agreement on the reason why cattle prices have slipped more than S3 per cent in 18 months, however. self-impos- ed THIS. CALJ.S ATTENTIONS, an added comptedtyof the Utah school di- -. .lemma: Although administration and control rest largely with the 40 local school .district boards, more than half the financing comes from the state and must be appropriated by the Legislature. Every Utah citizen has a responsibility to go all the way to help heal the breach, to assure responsible and conscientious teachers they are appreciated and that the highest priority is still placed on good education. ' Kl pounds. When Moise Tshombe was still In exile In Spain, he said he wanted to return to the Congo through the front door, not the back, adding that r ch st Tsliombe vs. Chaos drawn. S' ALTHOUGH THE CATTLE industry has a traditional aversion to direct federal aid, its leaders blame imported beef in a large measure for current economic problems. Hence, they demand mandatory quotas. Specifically, organized cattlemen want future Imports held to per cent of average domestic slaughter over the last five years. This wquld mean Import limitations of around 800 million pounds annually, a 26 per cent cutback from 1963s record 1,100,000,000 low-grad- ALTHOUGH THE DECISION to return to school is yet to be ratified by the UEA House of Delegates and membership, It is hoped this will be a mere formality, Now it behooves all good Utah citi--' j. zens to help carry out the commitments , of the negotiators and do all possible to ' Improve the school system along the lines recommended In several studies. presidential WHY IS IT, then, that the leading congressional Repubf licans have so totally engaged f IF - 1 1 themselvesand to Goldwater knowing privately admit? li ting as they do that though -he is surely top dog at the GOP convention all present indications make him an underdog; indeed, against Presi- dent Johnson m November: It is certainly not that all (Scranton). these leading congressional becomIt is mate Republicans can agree with and ing also Goldwater on evgrything. perhaps most important of all a violent and fundamenMost of them, for illustratal power showdown between tion, disagree with him oa the inside and outside fac' civil rights. tions of the Republican Party. It Is certainly not that all THE INSIDE, of them dislike or distrust wing Is made up of the Scranton. powerful Republicans The real reasons are these: only now bolding national office . The congressional fellows that is, the entire top echelon whose bleak realim is usualof the Republican congressionly higher than that of the al leadership. The outside Republic ans, wing is made up of such whatever their shortcomings ScranWilliam as governors may be do not believe that ton of Pennsylvania and NelScranton could do any better son Rockefeller of New York against Johnson than Goldwaand George Romney of ter. Actually, their estimate Is Michigan to a less committhat Scranton could not do as ted degree plus many Repubwell. licans holding no office but WELL AWARE that favoring modern Republithey are the only Republicans ever canism as against the basically Old Guard Republicanism able to speak at length for a that still dominates the party national forum,, they are bone-tire- d of being told off by the in Congress. predominantly Eastern and Never has a candidate for unelected Republicans at nathe presidential nomination tional convention time. They had suck monolithic support have been outvoted by the from the party hierarchs of East at every GOP convenCongress as Goldwater. tion for two decades significantly in 1952 in the choice of The great marshaling began when the Republican leader of Dwight Eisenhower over Robthe Senate, Everett Dirksen of ert Taft and they simply dont propose to be outvoted Illinois, announced that he this time by more or less the would put Goldwater in same Eastern forces. nomination at the convention. The fundamental' fact is It moved forward when the this: The congressional felRepublican leader of the lows in the seats of real House, diaries Halleck of Inin are withpower Washington diana, elected to second the out exception from the Midnomination. west or West. But the unexampled rallyof The Eastern Republicans chieftains ing congressional for one of their own went on are insignificant in the coninexorably. gressional power structure. THE CHAIRMAN of the forWhat now exists within the midable Senate Republican Republican Party, in short, is Policy Committee, B o u r k e the most determined counterHkkenlooper of Iowa, and the revolution against the outsidassistant Republican leader of ers ever mounted by the inthe House, Leslie Arends of side, congressional types. Illinois, moved in as well They are not so much in these two to protect Goldwa-ter- s favor of Goldwater now as position in the convenagainst what the insiders betions platform committee. lieve to be two old conditions Thus the ring was made now no longer sufferable: an d complete; thus the circle was unfair denial to them of closed tight Scranton was places of influence in confronted by the most masnational party affairs, and an sive array of national officeunfair and patronizing rejecholding Republicans ever to tion by the East of the areas be drawn up against a chal from which they come. a -j 7i outgrowth of a Senate subcommittee hearing on skidding cattle prices last March, the complex meat problem is certain to be one of its most important items of concern. Senator McGee of Wyoming, who conducted the hearing, sponsored the bill setting up the commission. Americans enjoy comparatively low priced steaks and roasts. The subcommittee hearing brought out, however, that since the 1947 base year the price of beef to the consumer has climbed 125 per cent while prices paid growers dropped 80 per cent of normal. The reve lation brought demands for a study of marketing practices of the food chains. lenger In any political convention in American history! ter)-andEa- stj low-co- SINCE THE STUDY commission is an t the Republican nomination is not merely a decisiv- e- strug gle between election. 13-m- . er -- 1 -- four-fifth- 1 WASHINGTON -- The Gold-watScran ton contest for The national commission is expected to take at least two years to complete the study, If it is able to ejnploy a professional In 6taff and - get the study- - under-wa- ytime, it could issue an interim repqrt this year. The issue is already involved in partisan politics and several congressional members of the commission are. up for reelection, so the most Important part of the study may be delayed until after the I like to earn good union wages and so does everyone else. How long will it when we keep buying goods made by people who earn 30 to 40 cents an hour? DARRELL J., DONOHUE Spring Glen, Utah last A Riot Is a Riot Editor, Tribune: The front page of The Tribune of July 5 headlined, Racial Outbursts Erupt as U.S. Celebrates 4th. Three Negroes test rally, meet fury in Atlanta. Inside the paper on Page 6 an obscure column entitled America at a Glance, the following appeared: Michigan Police Battle 125 Negroes. Three Negroes causing trouble in Georgia Is front-pag- e news, and 125 Negroes fighting police in Michigan rated Page A-- A-- When are the newspaper people going to treat this matter fairly? Why dont yon acknowledge that this race situation is as bad or even worse in the North as it is in the South? ELBERT E. GREEN Layton, Utah One Little Word Editor, Tribune: There was a most flagrant example in The Tribune of July 8 of the way columnists (or calum-nist- s) misrepresent Goldwa-ter- s views- James Reston, on Page 8, says, (Gold water) added that one method that would not be used would be to defoliate (the d atomic trees) with a device. The Associated Press eliminated the key word not so that the sentence said the atomic device would be used. It is true that the AP later corrected the report, but the damage had been done. Joseph Alsop on Page 7 says: The Republicans have nothing to say . . . unless they want to renew Senator suggestion of nuclear low-yiel- Gold-wate- rs defoliation. Has a paper such as The Tribune,' no way of prevent- ing columnists from prostituting its columns ? I think you should ask Aisop for an explanation. CARL A. FISHER Theodore Long Fancy and Fact, Intoxicating Mixture The nice thing about U.S. foreign policy is that almost everyone can be an expert and usually is. The strange thing is that, for many Americans who argue the , sub-.- .. same proportion as gin and vermouth in an ultra-ultr- a dry martini. This is not at all surprising. Attractive misinformation is far more common than valid information. Moreover, when experienced , journalists and trained diplomats make error after error, the ordinary citizen can surely be permitted a few mistakes. ject, most of the heroes are not Americans. TRUE WISDOM consists of Chiang that it is possible to realizing Syngman know several thousand things Rhee, Moise . Mr. Long Tshombe and Mme. Nhu have, that just arent so. at one time or another, been It is also ,wise to remember statespictured as motl v a t that men whose laudable goals heroes even more than comwere being thwarted by villains in Washington. ' mon people. The foreign paAmeriThis could bd so, though triot, while relishing can applause, Is much more In such consistency villainy Is concerned with what happens certainly remarkable. in his homeland. . is a much ; Strangely enough, the sharpbetter explanation for the glar- est divisions in American pubing mistakes that have been lic opinion arise over policies made. toward the developing rather than the established nations. But some of the most voThe rule may well be: The ciferous opponents of U.S. less that is knowrf, the more foreign policy can also be called wrong-headepositive the views. TRAVEL is supposed to be They substitute emotionalism for argument, combining broadening. Yet tourists, unfancy with fact In about the less they understand the lan Kai-she- k, d self-intere- st ssorted ' Wrong-headadne- ' , guage and live among the people, usually return tome with a smattering of ignorance, then inflict it on others. As one Peace Corps volunteer, now in Iran put it, our problem Is that we are and use no other reference on tow to handle situations than the good old US. If Viet Nam is like Iran, they have quite a problem indeed. U.S.-orient- ed You can bet the poor villagers are not going to give much support to anybodys political causes. - 'To them, government any is something government they have to contend with, regardless of Its moral value. They certainly do not have any identity with the government that Is in power. . . . The government is something that has to be pacified so it wont bother them too much. It is run by an unknown faction that victimizes all who come in contact with it One young man's opinion? Yes! But to paraphrase Hamlet, there are more things in heaven and earth than are ever dreamed of by some experts in foreign affairs. - ... long-earne- Senator From Sandpit Park By Ham There never were in the world two opinions exactly alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity. Montaigne. On Haling Opinions I can no more stop having opinions than I can stop breathing. But, of course, I dont have to publish them. There are times when I wonder if I would have been happier if I had. tom like people have who you, the chances are hes a candidate. A Sunday driver is one who has no destination, but resents being passed by someone who has. Ad in Nevada newspaper: Herder wanted for a band of sheep Basque. that can Speak A reader wants to know who wrote the poem, Our CouI ntrys Lyres Are Mute. dont know. But one thing I do know is that if our countrys political liars also were mute , It' would be a good thing: - Another - paradox - is - that minds and dont jnany climb- - ta considerable even have them heights by remaining on the leveL in the right dl- Park rection. I Wonder Why I Diet Several years ago I wrote a bit of satire headed "De- Please give me strength to pass up peanuts, candy bars grees of Dumbness. Ph.D., and ham. I said, meant phenomenally To shake my head from side dumb, and applied to pacito side at rich whipped fists, appeasers and those who cream and jam; believe that peaceful To count the calories honestwith Communists is posly; eat foods that I abhor; sible. In rebuttal, one critic wrote: Though I may live one cenWe are now living in peacetury, it will seem that Ive lived four! ful coexistence and have May Napier Burkhart, been ever since communism Buhl, Idaho. came into power in Russia in 1917.. How anyone can believe that we can live In peaceful coexistence with a government Our own luncheon club has that plots our destruction, a one active subsidiary to only has that regularly government which everything is referred dishonored its official agreethe Procrastination Commlt-tements, is beyond my compreone-trac- k -- Soaper Says e. hension. Is a tot 'war the alternative? Not necessarily. Khrushchev has said he wouldnt have to go to war to defeat us. He probably figures that well let Inflation do it for - ' him. More than 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin said: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain- a fit-ti-e temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety," and thats as true today as it was then. , Notes m Cuff Department ' This is an election year? so If somebody on the other side of the street waves at - , The old tome town has decided that, rather than fill la the chuckholes in the street, It Would to cheaper to put up a sign saying Yield. The moon would seem summer resort and it has its attractions. It Is ?e of mosquitoes and hay fever,- - and the terrain should make a sporty 'golf course, s A study of moonlighting shows that most men hold down two jobs because they need two paychecks. Our Idea had been that they wanted two, gold watches when they re' L tired. , t - |