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Show Tr HT Salt nkt $ he hje 14 A An Echo, Not a Choice! f&tibtmr Grave Problems Built Up' During Political Pause tern and may be us rest easier administration, whether it Vote FOR a Brighter, Better Utali permissive, not Legislature Will Decide If the amendment is adppted, Too Much, Too Soon . After eight years of military rule, the -Sudan republie-has returned 'to civilian government as the result of ten days-o- f general strikes, riots and demonstrations in which scares were killed. Sig- nificantly. however, GeneraTTbrahinf" -- who seized power in 1958", continues as President and commander of the armed forces His civilian cabinet Will remain in office until a new const itu- tion is drafted and parliamentary elecrtions are held next year. The Sudan, once ruled jointly by Britain and Egypt, has had a' turbulent history ever since it became an independent republic on January 1, 19567 The trouble' has been "partly due to Egyptian inter-- ferenee, partly due to deep antagonism between the northern part of. he country, Moslem and and the southern' which is Negroid, primitive, multi- The south- -' lingual and enters have not forgotten the Arab slave ' raids of the 19th and earlier centuries. advantage. Utah must have new enterprise to keep moving ahead, to create the taxes te educate our children and to provide the jobs that will permit them to remain in Utah when they grow up. Freeport will help do both. The Tribune is convinced that Proposition Number t)ne on your ballot tomorrow should be approved. It is a progressive step which will help the state continue to grow, providing the new wealth and jobs which will far more than offset the small Joss in taxes from freeport exemption for some goods in transit. We urge you to vote FOR a brighter and more prosperous Utah. Mark This Ballot Too Just Papered Over The pact ending Sudanese civil strife was negotiated by the armed forces and "various political partiosThaf'Abboud had' dissolved, and suppressed. Chances for a permanent peace seem remote,' however; differences have been papered over, not . removed. The Sudan, like the Congo and dozen other newly independent nations, expects too much too soon with too little to build on. And all too often popular discontent, caused by the failure to solve insoluble problems, is directed against the United States. That happened in the Sudan last week when rioters tried to bum down the American embassy. in Khartoum. As usual, the national, state and local obseured th election -c- ampaigrts-have School Board elecof Utah 'Importance tions. The fact that contests for state and J local boards of education are nonpartisan deprives these candidates of the publicity and support that partisan candi- -' dates normally receive. " a leadx. Since public education has been ing issue in. Utah for several years, citizens should acquaint themselves with the .qualifications of board candidates before voting Tuesday. The State Board of Education, which sets and enforces general policies and appoints the state superintendent and staff, has been chosen at general flections since 1952. This year members will be elected in four districts, with only the District 7 candidate running unopposed. Three candidates are competing in District 2 (Davis, Morgan and Weber counties) and four In District 5 "(Beaver, Iron, .Juab, Millard and Washington). Eight are in the race in District 3 (Salt Lake, Daggett, Summit and Tooele). Citizens Interested In good schools should inform themselves so they can vote intelligently. -- Were Yours . The great gem burglary at the American Museum of Natural History may have been one of the most spectacular in history since at least two of the s tones the famed Star of India blue sapphire and the Delong star ruby are beyond price. But if the burglary was spectacular In this respect, the performance must have been easy enough,. The gems were kept in a locked hall but an unbarred windowr was left open "for ventilation. Only eight custodians -- are on duty at museum comnight to patrol the plex. And burglar alarms attached to the display casesflad been disconnected years ago. All that was lacking was a sign President Johnson says the issue is whose thumb shall be on the button. Gold water says it's whose thumb is on the country. These j boys talk like a couple of hitchhikers. , 32-ac- re Enough already: When a guy speaks of things that bug him . . 7 we sort of wish someone would slug him. ; P. S. There was no insurance. Museum The Intpmal Revenue Service annqunces easier returns. Easier to fiU out, not easier to pay. officials explained the premiums would have been too high. Ollier Viewpoints Consumer Could Be Caught in Middle - Christian Science Monitor: We doubt that Mrs. Esther Peterson Is doing Irreparable damage to the reputation of American businessmen and the advertising If such damage is done it will business. . , be through a failure of 'business and advertise ning to maintain high standards However, the charge was directed at Mrs. Peterson, the President's special assistant for consumer affairs, by the large Advertising Federation of America. power is sometimes misused. ButL after the AFA charge she reiterated her opinion, and ours, that American advertising deserves a great deal of credit for helping to create our expanding economy and for underwriting the vast cofnmunieations system. Now 'an AFA member organization, the American Association of Advertising Agencies has offered Mrs. Peterson an occasion to present her position" on 'advertising t its annual conference in November. We look forward to Inference and Innuendo her statement. Certainly business and government 'should be working with each other, not against each other, in serving the consumer. . . . A memorandum to members from its pres-ldent said that observers at the initial consumer conferences organized by Mrs. Peterson report that, by inference and innuendo, those who attend are being impressed with the idea that they should distrust business and question the truthfulness of all advertising. .Such innuendo has, not come through in we published reports of the conferences that have seen. At last summers Washington, cone families get the ference on helping most for their money, Mrs. Peterson was reported as attributing unscrupulous practices to av small minority of businessmen. ; What Every body Knows As for advertising, said-r- 2 ) J hat Mrs. Peterson has everybodyknows, that its -- De Gaulle Cooperation Developing , at Sea President Charles de Gaulle, whose humility is ndt his most conspicuous asset, .has to have a special insight" into the sources of Soviet conduct. Yet even he is adrift on the dark tide of conjecture., Where De Gaulle fal- often-pretend- . But these natural advantages are offset at present by the fact. Utah is surrounded by states which have freeport laws. E. )T. Azbill of the Salt Lake City Chamber . of Commerce ..says the state has lost 63 potential new businesses to other states where freeport was the only d, adingrJ1Take-msrwe,re'yoursf . Freeport Stales Get Business But the main difficulty has been the fact the Sudanese are not prepared for democracy. Between 90 and 95 per cent of the adult population is illiterate, and as. a result, elections are meaningless, with only a handful of educated people understanding what is .going cm Military rule, established by Ahboud, offered the best hope of stability. Unfortunately, he seems to have been too autocratic. He pursued a policy of signing trade agreements with Iron Curtain countries and accepting military aid from the West, yet at the same time emphasizing the need for closer ties with our Arab sister states. -re- Moscow. from-Uta- Unprepared for Democracy Us, the Portland-Ta-coma-Seatt- air. Tfce new by Mr. London B. Johnson or Sen. Barry GoMwa-te- r, must soon come to grips with the problems that have emerged on the world scene. The world has not been standing still, merely because America has been holding an election. And the oppressive fact remains that neither here, nor anywhere else in the Western world, has any authority been able to reach anything more than an interim and limited judgment on recent events in City-Ogd- Ab-bou- d, Take WASHINGTON Legislature will determine by law just how the freeport tax exemption shall operate. The Legislature can surely be depended on to keep the tax loss at a minimum and the gain in business stimulation at a maximum. The freeport concept is designed to" encourage a distributor or manufacturer to. locate in a state by exempting goods in transit from a property tax if they are shipped to final destination outside the state within 12 months. Utah is an ideal, natural location for many national firms to manufacture, process andor distribute goods throughout the West. The Provo-Sal- t Lake ost area'is-almequidistant from' the. huge southern California market, the large San Francisco Bay area market and the increasingly important market. Goods can be readfor export in the ily shipped h Mexico. or into Canada Pacific, Excellent transportation facilities are available in ell directions by rail, road and mandatory.lt only gives Arab-oriente- -- the Legislature power to free from erty tax those goods in transit or manufactured in Utah for sale outside Utah. It does not require them to do so. rejection of the Freeport Constitutional Amendment, Proposition No. '1 on the ballot. There is almost unanimous support of Utahs business and political leadership for this amendment, but because it seems complex (it really isn't) some Utahns may be inclined to vote against it simply because they do not understand it. The most important thing for voters to remember is that the amendment is agree with Roger M. Blough, chairman of United States Steel, when he notes a singular absence of attacks on business in the curOn balance, he adds, it rent campaign. seems to me that there is a new and developing attitude of cooperation between government and business a new understanding of each other's problems and a new willingness on both sides to work out" realistic solutions that are Jruly in the public interest. It would be a disserv ice to the consumer to upset this cooperation by unjust attacks on either side. W'e long-rang- e f Max Freedman Monday Morning, November 2, 1964 One of the most important decisions Utah voters face tomorrow is approval or N Editor, Tribune: In Forum, Oct. 12, R. W. Habel said Tom Judds campaign for Congress is backed by some mighty big interests. As or one those mighty big interests, Id like to disclose how weve obtained contributions to support Judds campaign. Beginning last February, a group of us organized a series of breakfasts. We held two breakfa'sfs a week f or three approximately months and we asked each person attending to make a contribution (Two Tens for Tom) if he agreed' with us that Toni Judd is the man to do a first rate job in the U.S. Congress. Most of the men who have contributed - have since given a great deal of time to the Judd campaign organization. We secured additional finances through a very suc-ffund raising dinner in September Tickets were $10 per plate. Consistent with his personal fund-raisin- g ul and" political philosophy, Toms campaign expenditures have been tailored to income. For this reason we recently canceled some TV time , we had hoped to use. L. R. URE JR. Federal Aid Issue Editor, Tribune: The debates between Frank Wilkins and Ray M. Child, state chairman of the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively, focused attention on the differences between the paries. The most divergent views seem to be on education. A main issue is the desirability of federal aid to education and the. side issue of threatened federal control of schools. The Democrats favor federal aid to education, 'the Republicans oppose it. The fact is that we already have federal aid to education in Utah. Lets examine how its workirig in Davis County School District. In a report by Superintendent Holt to a 1963 leadership program at the U. of U., receipts from the feder- al govemmentr under P.L. 874 as of Jan. 30, 1963, totaled for. maintenance and operation purposes. In addition receipts for federal projects, under P.L. 815 as ot Jan. 30. 1963, totaled $3,952,821 for building construction with an additional approval of $980,-00- 0 for the construction dt North Bountiful High School or a total of $4,932,821, Howev- er, it should be quickly noted that Davis School District only and Congressman Ralph Harding (D) of Idaho. These two young men cooperated wholeheartedly, w i t regard to political affiliation, to cut red tape ofJederaL bureaucracy and open many qualified to represent District 18 by education, interest and experience. doors in Washington, D.C.,' thps allowing us to present our case and get a hearing ANDREW McR. BARNES On Credit Side- - Forum Rules To be published In The Forum, letters jnust he submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writers correct name and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for compelling reasons on others. Preference Is given letters printed with signatures and those not over 250 words. Letters are subject to condenta -tiofl when space it. limits-requi- By' Our Rea tiers est and experience to serve his constituents. To paraphrase Mr. Rapp how can he expect Mr. Scott to walk intolhe real, practical problems of government and serve his constituents without any experience or- - qualifications? No mention is made of Candidate what bridges Scott has built or Intends to build. Dr. Schick does not claim to be a bridge builder, but he, does claim to be supposedly representing. some" of us in Washington. Our pleas for help were met in most cases, by a word of sympathy and a polite brush-off- . . There were two notable exceptions. Congressman Laurence Burton (R) of Utah re "'with .high government officials. The efforts of these two congressmen resulted in a fair and just solution to our problem. MARTIN J. HARRIS Barrys Projects Editor, Tribune: I read recently of a bill sponsored by Sen. Goldwater and approved by the Senate Interior Committee. It provides 1 billion dollars of . U.S. taxpayers money for the Central Arizona Project. It is popular in his state, particularly with big land owners. He is generally opposed to projects of this kind. He wants to get rid of TVA sponsored by a great Republican of years ago. But federal money for state is okeh. I wonder ho many Utah projects he supported? Gold-wate- G. H. KANDT "What Bridges? Editor, Tribune: John M. Rapp's letter of Oct. 30 concerning the respective candidacies of Dr. Franz B. Schick and D. Brent Scott of Legisla-tiv- e District 18 asks the voter the two- anen you were hiring a man to work for you to build a - " " bridge. Is this the test upon which the informed citizen should judge the respective candidacies of these two men? I submit the appropriate test is which candidate is best qualified by education, inter "' Editor, Tribune: Possibly the phoniest issue in the campaign is the charge that Moss has sold out Utah on missile work. The loss of jobs at Thiokol is tragic, but the fact remains that the cutback was due to the completion of a procurement program. This would have happened had Wilkinson been in the Senate, or anyone else. The missile cutback was au thorized by the Armed Serv- ices' Committeeof the ate, on which sits Barry r. Mr. G. did nothing to help his Utah buddies they asked. Moss has been cited by Harpers magazine as a leading fighter for a fair share of defense work for Utah, and this state has had more per capita than almost any other, M. E. STONE The Bare Facia Editor, Tribune: In last dig at President Johnson, he says, I dont believe in campaigning on I swear the advertising I watched on TV Sunday night wasn't all " about Mickey Gold-wate- Sun-da- Mouse. The Republicans, .by hiring a stripteaser to do their advertising are at least proving one thing. She at least has nothing to hide, and believes in presenting the bare facts! WILLIAM ESTES Price, Utah , Paramount Question Ever Editorr-Tribun- er si listening to the broadcast of the- - Presidents talk from the Salt Lake Tabernacle Oct. 29, I have had .one paramount question in mind, namely, Wont this nation ever learn that we simply can not trust the Russians? How can we really believe that they want peace and must be "trust- - interpolations By Although all of the views of Sen. Goldwater,.! am ...convinced that he is right when he states that we must stand up to the Russians and let them know what our position is, that we can not continue to accommo-dat- e them; as LBJ would have us do. G. MANGUM No Investment Editor, Tribune; In an eleccampaign some things are absurd; others are down. , right ridiculous. The assertion by Frederick P. Champ of Logan that he js a Democrat falls into the latter category: it is downright ridiculous ! - tion convenient (i.e. the Roosevelt landwent Mr. Champ ough the motions of being ft Democrat. Since the political assassination of Thomas, however, Mr. Champ during slides) Senator has been overtly active ery - Is - Running Com- that comes along. He Jias actively supported Dewey, Eisenhower, Nixon, Goldwater, Miller, Lodge, Bennett, Watkins, Lee, Clyde, Melich, Burton and now Wilkinson. Mr; Champ is a banker. In business he deals with rate of return. Mr. Champ may be a political banker but the Democratic Party has no investment in him nor he in it " OLLIE McCULLOCH Education Issues Editor, Tribune: One of the important issues facing Utah voters is that of improving the quality of education. For this reason the public should know theeducational views of lhose seeking public office. Fortunately, on the state level, we have two men. running for governor whose views represent a great improvement over the past governor. On the national level, Senator Goldwater has consistehtly voted against measures de--si gnedto improve education. TOM CHANDLER Provo, Utah. Many Questions Tribune:- - As, the Editor, campaigncloses, many ques-tion- s remain in the minds of the voters. Why did the Republican Party nominate "for the Senate a man who has reached the age when most employes of government, business, and industry are forced to retire? Most of us think there are already too many elderly gentlemen in that body Brush-of- f Editor, Tribune: In the past my business associates and I had a serious' problem arise in which we believed we were being treated unfairly by an agency of the .federal government. We attempted to enlist the aid of the congressmen and senators from four Western states, all of whom were in ev- mittee Interlandi received per cent of the maintenance and operation funds because the state withholds 26 per cent for use in other districts. Davis has received federal aid for 14 years. The state has been deducting 26 per cent for 10 years. In all this time, and at the present time, the federal government has not attempted to control the use of the funds. It appears safe to say that should additional federal funds come to Utah for educational purposes they would be free of control. ROBERT STEFFENSEN year it "was When SenGold-wate- when from hindsight we have learned that the only peace they want is a "piece of everything and anything they can get a" hold of; and that their word is only good. so long as it serves their purpose and no longer? What have they ever done to merit such devotion and blind faith from our leaders? ed, 74 No Twjstfifi n'ktlefore election, at? j cil tnru the Nfitisn... PUnsviere being made fcra Happy hig strong But" on the ' presidential'" agenda, as the first item, should always stand a provision headed the Unknown, the unforeseen, the unpredictable. The. dogmatic temper is a great danger in, world affairs. A wise president will never forget to pay his respects to the goddess of chance; and an honest president will never claim to understand the enig-- . mas of the Communist world. Theories Run Into Facts Even now we can see one 'of our own mistakes. We thought of Russian power In terms of personalities.' We looked pri marily at Nikita Khrushchev Instead of at the framework of policy within which every Soviet leader must-worWe accepted Khrushchev's sion of the Moscow-Pekinquarrel, a version put out for propaganda - purposed in tho Communist countries, 'still worse, we believed the ruinous breach could never be closed. Our hopeful theories have now collided with new facts, and we must revise both our prejudices and our assumptions. No doubt the process will be very disagreeable but it can keep us from many confusions and errors. Almost without notice, as the loud sophistries of the pIpc-tio- n campaign held our attention, we have driftedintoa minor economic crisis with the Common Market. Trade Talks Falter ur trade negotiations for the largest tariff reductions in., history cannot succeed without wide agreement .with Western Europe. At the moment those negotiations are in very bad shape. It is a waste of time to think of greater political unity in NATO when its foundation, an economic partnership, has yet to be built. Nuclear policy is more dramatic and exciting, but closer attention in Washington to the humdrum matters of economic cooperation may be more important and more rewarding,. Even on questions of nuclear policy, there seems to be some confusion. The recent visit of Patrick Gordon Walker, foreign secretary in the British Labor government, brought no important revision in American policy. .Need to Buy Time g The Public F or um Two Tens for Tom blunders, It to of for the admit our ignorance. We simply do not know enough about the struggle for power in. the Kremlin to predict the future of Russian policy. We shall have to be educated by events. Hie process should not be too painful if we remain united and celebration Noember 3rd to one and all! now. To grow old is no crime, but to read eager Ernies comments and ads, one has to think, he has also reached the forgetful age. While he talks morals and honesty in govern-- " ment.he uses photos taken years ago. Did he forget to have a recent picture taken or is he trying to fool the people? When he t6ok Miller and later Senator Goldwater to see President and Mrs. McKay he stooped to a new low In his efforts tp trick them into stating" - zr See Page Column 1 1- The Labor Party- - has often criticized and opposed the multilateral nuclear force to which this country is committed as a contribution to NATOs greater security. But neither Prime Minister Wilson' nor any other Labor leader has ever said in so many' words that Britain would refuse to touch this project. The State Department has always expected a period of hard bargaining with the Labor government. It is as much in the American interest as in the British interest to buy time, to postpone the decision, to allow elec(jon prejudices to cool, and to permit the full weight of the American case to be slowly felt in London. ) ' In no sense, however, does "this mean thaf the inuItTIatrrar force has been downgraded or discounted or discarded by the United States. Remains Essential , It remains an essential ele- ment in Americas policy for Western Europe. The new administration will still have to work hard for its general a ceptance because no better alternative has yet been offered. A year ago on Nov. 5, while ,in Paris, Gordon Walker endorsed the French proposal for a directorate in the Western Alliance. He said this directorate Britain, France, West Germany, United States should have the power to shape the strategy of the entire alliance, including nuclear arms. No European government would have a veto. The final decision would be made by the American president But he emphasised that the formulation of nuclear strategy should be so closely, intimately and continuously shared that the president could make decisions only on the basis of common agreefour-pow- ment -- 7 - r" Return to Theme that Gordon Walker speaks for Britain in world affairs, he will "doubtless, at a convenient season,, return to this theme.-Th- e United States has always rejected the ideaof Vdfrectorate. To accepfit now would compel a major change In American policy. ! Now 4 |
