Show 1! : HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE a Editori MstablishedApril 13 1871 jtf41frVil0'' Issued every morning by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co iSalt Lake City Utah of Rebtlildhl of Welcome to Fugitives l47' Open the Door to Foes and Spies It is beginning to dawn on the conscious ness of many Americans that the present spy agitation is not "a red herring" drawn across the record of the recent session of congress but a characteristit and cunning effort of the Soviet government to ascertain the i3 everal and secret sources of information from which - the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the military police of the United States have been securing confidential reports from behind the '' - closely guarded Kremlin can provoke American patriots In responsible positions by pitting them against each other and making an Issue out of protecting Soviet informers it would not only plug the leak but end the lives' of such informers their families and kinsmen Like the nazis under Hitler the Communists under Stalin do not care for halfway measures When they suspect from hints whispered as well as from facts ascertained that a member of the cult has revealed secrets of the organization' punishment is not only lethal but brutal and includes the aged and the infant members of the victim's circle of oath-boun- land of freedom Any American official who under existing conditions and in the glare of recent expo sures is unable to cope with this gigantic foe of many masks but persists in playing parts assigned him by against the United States and all popular governments is an unwise counselor' and an unsafe guide for a confiding public to follow The same power that is trying to drive the western occupants out of Berlin and to foment dissension among factions in the United States of America is both cunning and capable enough to chase their more trusted agents out of Russia into the open arms of Uncle Sam where they will redouble their efforts to discredit this democracy - arch-plotte- relations: The American who would seek to avoid censure or criticism by betraying 'the alien or releasing a clue to his identity should be deemed unworthy of the confidence of his own people But there are other angles to the present - 1f3 rs lic interest Outside there was Henry Wallace hopping off to start a new party only to get himself all entangled with Communists A Forlorn Group Outside also was the somee what forlorn group of new deal lieutenantsi who re-jected any third party notion one-tim- In Fiddling for Results the vision of many whose lives have been spent in one locality and promote unity and harmony at a time when Americans are trying to establish such relations with other people of the world It is the wish of their hosts for the day that the traveling guests may enjoy the rest of their tour as much as the people of Salt Lake enjoyed showing them the city and its environs and in making the acquaintance of such a congenial group of good Beats Nero St The need of unity in the United States of America was never more urgent than it is today Not only are Soviet newspapers eagerly seizing upon every item of dissension among leaders in this republic but they elaborate g on smearing and disparagement of essential subdivisions -of the federal goternment 'executive Treferi chief to the When the as a centhd worst in legislative department comment contort Communists and copy tury their version and interpretation to prove to allentobservers that a capitalistic government is anarchistic When members of congress retort in kind refuse to cooperate with the excutive accuse him of disloyal conduct in preserving the secrecy of international information and en impeachment by innuendo the communistic groups that tyrannize over Russia and satellite countries claim corroboration vindication and justification in everything they have done "to check the spread of capitalism" One eminent press correspondent commenting on a covert threat by a member of congress to ask for "impeachment" proceedings to compel the president to reveal confidential information obtained fróm1 terrified Informants living in some land ruled by hidden terrorists and firing squads comments as name-callin- Thirst May Be an Issue In the State Campaign impeachment the senator Tperformed a great service to the cause of good government" No wonder the Soviets lie to the world about this "popular government" oppose every proposal made by its diplomatic representatives discredit every sacrifice it makes to keep the starving victims of fanaticism and brutality alive and refuse to believe men who call each other liars and scorn to respect requests made by each other Until there is a semblance of unity in these 'United" States how can the government expect to establish unity in other lands where the populations are heterogeneous the languages itre different the objectives are an I day after day? Until American politicianx awaken to the fact that they are dancing to communistic music every time they try to give a demonstration of Independence the Russians will continue to fiddle and frustrate until they perfect an atomic bomb iti India'n-aGrot- It was not so very long ago that tourists came by twos or fours in runabouts or se-- dans sending picture cards back to their respective circles of intimate friends As highways were constructed graded and surfaced travel increased but distinctive groups dominated the great American pastime of sight seeing Now the visitors are beginning to come by special trains in Which whole- states instead of towns are represented- Mississippi sent a dozen carloads of enthusiastic southerners' to Utah They were met welcomed dined and dritren to points of particular interest In and around Salt Lake City Saturday morning a1 magnificent train with more than 200 "Hoosiers" on board pulled Into the Union station where state and city officials greetid old friends and new acquaintances' piloted them over '"the scenic icenter of the west" and saw them off - for Yellowstone national park in the evenini These excursions are not only interesting to those who participate but are beneficial to the entire country They increase understanding of the nation as a whole broaden - 0tx10"a!dnMMMgWM-- - need people in congress who have the courage to rise up and speak about it or start an vestigation about it arid-Commu- congress Period of Reaction This period is in many ways like that after the first world war when a reaction set'in that brought the same special favors for big special interests front congresses that did very little for ordinary people But there was nucleus of proin congress that gressivism slowly grew: It Wan able and effective at prying behind the scenes and finding out who got the money so that when the inevitable breakup cam with the - - Always when Molotov' rehashes the familiar list of charges against the free democracies: We miss theocustomary disclaimer "Any resemblance of the matter herein to an existing situation is uniftentional" - depression it had educated the of public to some of the facts relife and the public was ceptive to the necessary mea- suresi slow process seems to beginning again which is all to' the good It is about time A children's branch of the Ku Klux Klan ts something new It ip for the rettleis type that begins ' celebrating liallowe'en in kmid- - 11411 Copyright United Feature tivadleato i Tests at the University of Maryland show the coed is as healthy on a fish diet as when she eats meattlt is wellestablished of course zt4at a looker can live for yearvon dates -- - - Personally we never tried for one of those big combination quiz giveaways as it seemed deep-freeunlikely you could get the through the de luxe trailer door 12-fo- ot ze t4 ?I tr - ?AtiA ovf 4 4 atS I tf SN0L4Z Pf $ 1 t IA4 4-- !ILY - J 11111 - 4 :t13 t I :11 and cause it to depart from whatever inclosure within which the Babe was operating and to whom he was only a legend grown brighter and more powerful of years of hearsay Unlike other sports heroes of the past there Is no one alive today even remotely capable of apk ':' proaching him ' The tendency of any declining generation ' is to maximize the performers of its own youth and glamorize them beyond all truth But somehow I have the feeling that Ituth stands up -- for 'the youngsters of today At any rate there is nobody on the scene who can match him None of the playera In the game today can hope to surpass his lifetime record of 714 major league home runs The man who may some day be his equal or poseibly Me peer very likely has not yet mid-sea- m a : :3 - t! 11 rk 16) 1 t1 l 0 i VrT c f) LI 1 E A ota ' : By PAUL GALLIco' NEW YORK—One of the most difficult things to realize la that there is a generation afoot today boys up to fourteen and fifteen years of age who never ' sew Babe Ruth tag a baseball on - - ' DEAR5 ARE 14! V UNPREDICTABLE AND DANGEROUS BE CAREFUL! 1:3 I5 v o 49 or1 I MQ 6V1J 4 ''4loolo " been born i' - - - ' - - t0 Time Marches On There just is no catching time 0N— by the train to slow him up a-- f—bLti ": ' 0 little Somehow-wheI wasn't lookirtg 14 'years have slipped iltpAe 4 Babe Ruth last applied by since ash - to horsehide and streets : : 'T-ti ' 1::Ow and homes and sandlots are full ' 7---' t ' 1: of --youngsters who never enjoyed rzst-:-- -4 9 4 '— 7YI the thrill of seeing this super wormbp00:444 :I ' lative hitter competing against :4' tr-V''' to ) t the greatest ' pitchers in the ' t world and at'the crisis of a con- - II flit:kr ‘'' test wrecking' the hopes of those t 10 a : i ' 0644::p' 491P1'""'' mound stars beyond repair by I‘ ReCroMkt4P4INtaPs poling the ball not only beyond -- P 'a:e1--q-4--the reach of the scurrying ott 1 4'e (0AWN ALON4 ME teolitrMott 0 fielders running backwards for HATt PARK) YeLLOWITONE AT 02c McNau gilt Syndicate Inc NYC dear- life within the park but over the fence and a good taxi ride down the alley as well One forget& In 1935 he was AderEr already gone' from the 'scene as an active player- I remember my indignation over the cavalier Endanger Rights toward his own old age pension treatment he had at FORUM RULES Granteci Mr Legislator you Editor Tribune: Utah boasts of the the game for which hands a will of find the few aged he did so much and that for a of her leadership in woman sufwho will fail to inform your Letters express opinions of few days 1 brought him back to and equal rights generfrage contributors with which The Investigator that they have ' the youngsters who adored him 4 Tribune may or may not agree $10000 hidden in a can underally Who would change all this? so neath the- floor of the barn but Writers must sign true names Nat I! But some things get so Babe Hit tErta aren't they in the minority and and addresses in ink but letters sweet they turn sour would you Mr Legislator deny will be carried over assumed ' was I promoting a water ele e' Is it not invariably abuse that a crust of bread to a starving names if requested cus beach for 'my paper at Jonet undermines all freedom? person for fear that someone not Poetry will not be used Letand persuaded Ruth' to appear so would in ters Is it not invariably abuse that hungry quite gather may berelected if they: briefly as the featured act He ' a few crumbs ? on the ' shore of Zach's (I) Exceed 200 words i (2) male sex that threatens your stood So now what happens to the drseyss religious or racial matwe had built our where bay security! In fact even as I most tirerin a sectarian way (S) $2500 that I and the other Mr men would have you enjoy all a Water arena ' and fungo-batte- d lifeour contribute during carry partisan political comdozen baseballs tar out into the ' you can use of it Your achievetime Let's put our attention ment or advertising (4) make blue waters ments II speak for those who i on the applicanta fPr relief and u horse-shopersonal aspersions or (5) Around know how to use it) justify it of the the libelous matter obvious 'forget about their heirs' to be thousands wers J:youngoverwhelmingly bay If they need relief let them have misstatements of fact or state sters competitors --epectators-It is the It if they don't let's weed them ments not in accord with fair etc abuses that endanger these Hardly had the first base Mr his A if out: won't taste and help play good ball to which Is the degree hit by the mighty champion rights aged parents may the Lord men have been raised to your splashed like a distant bomb on Mr B have if him mercy when the surface of the water level in right proportion to that after Ma and Pa have made does help the old folks may was churned to froth by one of wherein women have sunk to their final exit for great be his reward: and as out the the lower lever? weirdest swimming races of Also Mr Legislatorj there is my S2500 please hand that all times as hundreds of boys And aside from the fact that someone to needs who it—with another actor in this little play and girls dove In and set out to "divorce is no solution" are the no strings attached"' 4 those baseball& retrieve that you have overlooked 4 tet'a pecuniary gains that often acMr C call him—for the sake of con- company divorce in forms of The Magic of Ruth Makes Sense property settlements alimony sistency—Mr C Mr C is much Hardly For there was a magic on etc to be comr like myself His parents are dead have Editor Tribune: as therm there was about every People afterawful so the with he does followof neither the pared?- Ruth did The mere that been about thing math complaining lately ing: (a) lives in dread of the day fact that thls man had touched Freedom and 'personal liberty when he will be asked to help the slogan on Utah's litense them with his war club and sent Is one thing but to trample mother and dad stock their Utah as "The them 'arching through the air underfoot without regard to pantry or (b) gleefully twists: plates proclaiming them all talisman& To Friendly State" Somehow it the ends of his handlebar musprineJple the freedom and sehold a teems baseball to this is that had been while many of is tache he people others old for waits the curity something not wholly the truth Maybe thumped by Ruth was something else? No one has the right to do folks to make their demise so dear and wonderful to youlte I'm wrong but if we aren't as he can fall heir to the old homewrong—they cannot long retain America of that era stead No sir Mr Legislator the privilege! friendly as the plates proclaim Would not attempt to tell a Mr C just hovers there in the And finally do you respect Maybe we should change t the child of today how it was in our the man who meekly allows a background and contributes hispeople instead of the slogan----IIs not as easy but It makes times and the meaning of Ruth 4' 2 woman tO lead him around by sales tax into the kitty— over and beyond the records be more sense this in addition to the 514 the ear? set He was much apart of tax on his pay roll be is paying Sam j Black life As a sports writer I reU S Tailspin ported and philosophized over his achievementad I traveled r President Tribune: Edit° with him And 'often in the ' 4 Truman trays we are on the winter in New Tork when he By RAM PARK verge of a business Collapse would begin his annual struggle Marriner S Eccles says It can't wasn't working since 114 Ls one Youth when thought !le ePeech against encroaching fat we be stopped With 500 or 600 well-pai- d would came Then of he het in favorites play handball together at nothseems and speeth is truth—Sir Walter congressmen it Artie McGovern's gym at Broadus a next to and at at table So avoid can done be it to Scott ing Jones asked him if he'd like to way and 50th 'street Btinshine we will have to stand- by tand make four 'Utah girls hapey !Or or rain there was always a cola In Coeds Utah watch the old ship go into Hollywood umn to be written about Babe lives and he the rest of k I Dear tailspin for the crash Senator: We t Dorothy s' said he sure their Ruth would smiled' and Will there be any parts left Wilkinson Ar- Diana ' us Mr 'Blodgett him to introduced Jones Who His Qualities Endure worth building again I 'no McComb and I Spent the Individually and—well it was a be the builders? Would vi è And yet I- see and am glad sitDot was good thing d y at Warner Bros studios and already owner of a factory keep his help from the pictures and stories of ' it was wonderful WONderful ting down We had our picture and keep on paying them the reaction of the new generacan we him taken c and with NDERFUL! Even if our:trip' wages if they stood idle golil en ed tion to his passing that much of now we would be hardly wait to see it! the building burn up? right his fabulous quality has come We simply can't get over sat l fied because we've had ouch People who have saved a little to those youngsters who through like those Almost sttkdio streets! to a arvelous day for a rainy day are using it never saw him in action moment tour a world One 'M Carlisle Jones was out survive the boom John Public There was no minimizing of Id around the lot He's evenl you're walking along a New has all his chips in and has him as something that belonged western or York one street a in ncer plan you said he'd be The cowtown about as much chance to win as past and the dreams of and the next you're to the men fi st Mt we visited was that of those outside the ark in the The magic of his aging' somewhere in Europe or Asia! ' 'Ttite i mmtainhead71 which and personal qualities great flood ability brownWe some walked are past stake 'nary Cooper Patricia was too potent to be dissipated Probably the Communists stone fronts turned a corner and Nea Kent Smith and Ray Col-not as bad David Lawrence and his retirement His was by was there the big castle used in line çary wasn't working at the Frank R Kent would have us stature of the even really legend "Robin Hood" facing us! It was - lifetime— believe They have a mess very momeut but we saw the others his during Many often in South America about : do a otnglotise scene and were: uncanny epitaphs will be written for him The last set we visited was the we fascinated! We thought they Henry now that he is gone but none selecting their leaders Ifvotes was most informal of all It to part did it pArf ctly hut thedirector-A Wallace pulls enough more fitting and tender than of a newspaper picture called do it again and made the throw the election results into that he was loved by children The House Across the Street" the halls of congress anything again ' Ate 't directors fussy Morris and Janis Wayne Paige could happen here though? Pelit perfectionists I Bruce Bennett and Alan Hale R A Brandon SUMMER COLD guess are featured'Wayne Morris was ' 'We 71walked to the' set of Next ' By JABIES J RIETCALFIC "Somewhere in the City" inl very friendly and also posed for Help the Aged "Are us He a said with picture which Vivect lAndfors and EdEditor Tribune: A 'legislator A cold is bad 'enough to have ' starred you going to make a Mormon are O'Brien mond It' some concerning In winter spring or fall quotes zne? figures out Whoever the of says scene and a penthouse we went Mr A and Mr B and where i was also when it comes in summer-But know Mormons what didn't they very lavish From there time were doing is crazy"' We liked they wind up when a father and It is the wbrst of all We lunch Room to Green for the mother pass out of the picture we loved! Because it 410ente- to take a a We him dif-- 1 lot thought so the excited watching got But come now Mr Legislator hold And never go away the movies before but after this fteent stars who were there that aren't you putting the spotlight Are us And all it does we've decided we're nuts trip when And could 'eat hardlY in this on the wrong characters And interrupt our play them sick about wear walked in Ronald Reagan ' little melodrama? Mr Bill Rice and Mr Jones It ruins our vacation and ing a - white polo shirt faded ' send their Let me have the spotlight and You to Our you ' disposition too we regards -shoes old railroad levis and 111 focus it on that aged couple as fatal to nice of Alid have is it He certainly slot just goggle-eyebecame simply backstage—a bit gray a little to do and we Warner Bros' The have at work friends and wrinkled a trifle stooped and not - was so natural and sociable about summer cold think is that something you're became just they he all that immediately too beautiful to look at but own to too! do not We We like do Fartops' Then one our favorites of magnificent troopers right down Because our neighbors are inSincerely yours to their laat curtain call Mr ley 'Granger a- newcomer ' To let us be alone clined Bryant —Betty are for: - A Warners up have B building whom you and Mr we are isolated from And come back to invited S We're a P He's in walked stardom stage placed in the center of thetwo-band the trees The flowers when one week next it they're again are just a couple of swoonboy if there ever was we remain at home While other several was quite-Dot pictures &sapstarting minor characters who shouldn't Blodgett All soz:ts of remedies: and try Isn't that wonderful ? —B enter the scene until the last act pointed because Dennis Morgan I ) - - 14ft:44 Igr's -- n 174 - aOlhol - 41' - 1 1 j - t - -- - -i- 0 ! - i A -- A- - - - - 0 -- - - The Public Forum - 4--- - By Our Re r - ! - - - WIIAT AM I SAYING! 'By FRANK MORGAN Every dog has his day but to be reserved the nights seem for the cats ' A psychologist declares that gamblers have an affinity for cats: those who own cats always feed them well No doubt it's because they like to see plenty In the kitty Pool CoPYriten 1943 14 -- Corp ' - ' 1 - e eon-tab- ever-increasi- child-custo- ng dy - - - - SENATOR FROM SANDPIT - In their pamphlets they all 34000000 point out that only persons voted in 1948 when we got the 80th congress though 91000000 were eligible to vote They are working on the theory which is sound that there is plenty of progressivistn in this country if it will only get and express itself This year they believe there's plenty of reason for it to express itself and that Is sound too This is the way the progressive movement can be built up again—the slow way the hard way but the only waY lence September ist progressive organization getting down tn brass tacks and organizing people to get out and vote next November on past rather than the present In any event whichever it Was one may hope it wak not an illusqry indication of opu- - in- The Slow Only Way So today we find the C I 0 and P A C its political action committee and the A F L and A D A Americans for Democatic Action the In a rather roundabout Way information has come from a historical miring section of Utah indicating a rich strike Unless a slight mistake was made in the yelling of one word in the dispatch the announcement is a signal for general rejoicing: The Lions of Park City have reported a recent celebration with "a steak fry" which ' under existing circumstances evokes serious Inquiries Some modern householder might want to iknow where the Lions got that "steak" and what they had to pay for it An old timer might wonder whether it was regarded as a s'grrib steak" or a "grubstake" or merely a "club steak" They all seem to belong to the : on if the special interests want something that you don't want then you've got to have enough people in congress to stop that The 80th congress was lesson enough in all that Or if you want to stir up the public about something either for it or against it then you Upon What Meat Do Lions Feed m Modern Times? some degree of confidence and cooperation how can we expect to gain the confidence and cooperation of alien peoples who hear the advantages of communism and tile inconsistencies of democracies echoed and Iterated - anti-inflati- bill Or and flavor for the trade tagonistic? Until our national leaders show each other Welcomed ' By Utah Officials -- No particular significance should be attached to the simultaneous appearance on local pages of this newspaper on the 19th instant of two articles pertaining to moisture In one article which was as apprehensive residents of this intermountain area were Warned that citizens Might be foited to litnit their consumption- - of drinking water unless precipitation shows an early increase in frequency or volume While this information was being supplied by City Water Commissioner D A Affleck to a Tribune reporter in Salt Lake City the Utah Federation of Labor 'during a session of the convention being held in Ogden adopted a resolution requesting legislative action to peimit the sale of liquors by the drink Of course thirst cannot be quenched by legal restrictions any more than by continuous drouth Experience has convinced many inhabitants of the "great basin” that hunger strikes against the price of food cans be alleviated by a change of diet A thirst strike is something else Before the next legislature meets to reconcile discrepancies between the liquor law and the weather reports it might be well to taste and test the numerous soft drinks on the market with a view to ascertaining where the manufacturers get the fluid they color "By assailing the president and hinting ' particularly with Henry Wallace thus showing some pout!-caastuteness but then joining up at the Democratic convention with big city bosses and their southern Democratic enemies in a futile and foolish attempt to replace Harry Truman All this running around at loose ends was due of course to just one thing the loss of the leader who had held 'them together thought for them organized them and told them what to do He was their great btrength when he was here and his absence constituted their weakness They had let great him- - do their thinking and their work for them They had relied solely on him and meanwhile had neglected to build up an organization back to the grass roots which would not depend upon one man but could function on its own Progressives Wake Up Now at last the progressive forces seem to have waked up to the fact that Franklin' D Roosevelt is dead They have waked up to something else too which is if you want Something changed in this country which means a law then you've got to get a bill through congress and to do that you've got to have people in congress who will vote for it Such as a housing bill or an education bill or a health bill or an Americans follows D 'fI t - - Those t DeedsLand Up Well - appears most dramatically in the disintegration of the party which was once a dynamic organization the Democratic party There you have a presto dent and party leader who is by instinct in the progressive tradition but almost completely helpless because he does not have a party that can function unitedly on any progressive issue in congress where it counts Pew Say Nay That was clear to anyone who watched the 80th congress There time after time on major issues involving favors' for big business and monopoly you watched conservative soUthern Democrats standing sidi by side with Republicans to make an overwhelming majority Only a corporal's guara largely Democrats but with a few stray Republicans woula stand up to say nay The role of the latter was entirely negative didn't have enough votes They crr influences to start anything of their oVell in the general puir vertent revelitions d 2: To assign Communists spectacular roles in kidnaping performances 3 To take advantage of the general and generous welcome extended to disillusioned 'Russians fleeing to America A To assign their most fanatical and deceptive spies and saboteurs to roles of fives from tyranny seeking asylum in this " If the puzzled and furious officials of the - It Hero By Reg Manning - - By THOMAS 14 STOKES WASHINGTON—The sad and divided state of political 'proin the 17 S A gressivism no exhibit or prooftoday needs ' It is in plain view 'visible to the naked eye Investigation which should not be overlooked It is not only possible but in close conformity to Soviet methods and morality for the totalitarian directors to plan and promote the following schemer 1 To circulate slanders create suspicions develop anintositjes that could lead to 'inad- Mon-diy- 1948 ' Approach With Extreme Caution! - a1ségftL Arduous Job Monday 23:s - - - - - - io '-- -- - - ' s - - : e d! - : - - - - ' |