| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Sunday October 24 1948 10 A Editorials Established April 15 Sunday 1871 Issued every morning by The Salt Late Tribune Publishing Co Salt Lake City Utah Consistent and Convincing Campaigning Forecasts Election of Dewey and Warren That the presidential ticket will win in the coming election is a foregone conclusion All Republicans predict such a victory and many Democrats concede it The Progressive faction and the Dixiecrat bolt will contribute to the majority but were not essential to the result For obvious reasons a change of administrations was inevitable while the splendid selections made by the Republican national convention of 1948 deleted the doubts of nearly everybody except those whose partisanship clouded their better judg- Dewey-Warre- n ment The campaign conducted by Dewey and Warren was on a high plane which appealed d to citizens who were not partisans or appointees factions or members of favored As outlined at shouting for a speech decontest in the of the beginning livered in Salt Lake City Governor Earl Warren of California the Republican candidate for vice president that side of the arena kept free from partisan aspersions and personal abuse This was an innovation for which the American public had been patiently waiting for a long time ft may have raised the level of political controversies to where it is hide-boun- self-preservati- on sure to attract the attention and regain the confidence of foreign populations facing danger and looking for leadership This will accomplish taore for peace under existing circumstances than anything else the people of this republic could do at present It will reassure the world as to our unity revive belief in our national strength and consistency confuse Communists predicting the downfall of our democracy and discredit alien emissaries and fellow travelers trying to undermine the United States government To be consistent in pleading for unity among nations of the earth to be united in action as well as in words to be strong and courageous in the presence of perils are indispensable - observances if Americans hope to retain the- deference and gratitude won by our soldiers sailors fliers workers officials and industrialists during the war presumably terminated Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey although a typical American in exemplifying the possibilities of youth in linking opportune ties to achievements is not the type of a Jackson or a Lincoln he neither fought invaders nor freed slaves He is identified with a more modern school of statesmenship destined to eliminate appeals to passion and prejudice to avoid personalities and to present issues and arguments capable of standing on their merits Throughout this partisan struggle for national supremacy the two Republican governors have adhered to this policy winning for it and for themselves the solid support of their own organization that of Russians Are Listening To America’s Voice ? i big-heart- ed public-spirite- fence To the Salt Lake Tribune there seems to be little excuse for hesitation in the coming presidential election Unless the people of this republic can impress alien leaders and populations with our unity at home and our unselfishness abroad with our consistency and earnest desire for peace the United Nations will waver and weaken humanity will lose heart communism will find barriers disappearing and a decisive battle for liberty with justice may drag along indefinitely This must not be construed as a disparagement of Harry S Truman as a man as an American as a public servant for he has done his best as a soldier and a civilian He entered the high office he now occupies for retention of which he is now fighting with weapons of an obsolete pattern without executive experience without national acquaintance or popular acclaim without qualifications for world leadership which must rest on confidence and consistency rather than upon condemnation and combativeness For patriotism must soar above partis anism The responsibilities to rest upon the president of this government during the next four years are many and heavy Any executive who entertains or expresses the opinion that the nation the continent or the world is going to suffer or perish if deprived of his guiding hand has too much assurance for these troubled times Any American who is unwilling to serve in the humblest capacity under existing conditions is apt to overestimate his own importance and to underestimate the obstacles to be overcome Any official who considers himself indispensable to mankind is apt to exaggerate That Governor Thomas E Dewey and Governor Earl Warren who have clasped hands across the continent who have kept their feet in the earth and their eyes on the rainbow long regarded as a promise of peace will be elected by a large plurality of the popular vote and by a safe majority of the electoral college is a foregone conclusion for a memorable campaign old-fashion- ed Decentralization Faces Tremendous’ Obstacles Revelations by two Russian military aviators who deserted by air landing at Linz Austria will doubtless create a great deal of writing and conversation in this country Whether they are bona fide deserters and real admirers of the American way of life remains of course to be seen Many of the statements these two Soviet fliers made in their first interview ring true Few Americans who have visited Russia or have become acquainted in other ways with conditions in that land behind the iron curtain doubt that there are countless Russians who are dissatisfied with conditions in their country Furthermore they have been disillusioned as they discover the wide divergence between events within their country and promises made by their leaders But to conclude that the people of Russia are ripe for revolt would be a mistake The Soviet airmen make no such claims but they do express disappointment over the lack of freedom within the borders of their native land and yearnings for living in the United States Perhaps the most important aspect of the revelations made by Anatalya Barsof and Piotr Pirogov is the great influence being exerted by the radio Voice of America which they declare is being heard by thousands of their countrymen That this important form of communication or propaganda for democracy could be a valuable asset was not doubted when it was first proposed but subsequent developments have worked to discredit the efficacy of the program in the minds of Americans From the statements of the Russian fliers one might conclude that the radio program is now hitting its proper stride at least in so far as it concerns peoples living behind the iron curtain This aspect of the Voice of America job was further emphasized by the expressed desires of the Russians to live in Virginia a state about which they had heard on the radio Californians will doubtless demand a new investigation of the “Voice” program as a result of this latest development Washington authorities have hastened to add that the radio "Voice” has never urged the people of Russia to leave Russia or any other Soviet nation for America It does appear however that the people behind the iron curtain are permitted to listen to our radio program and some of them at least have “been sold” on the American way of life ' the independent voters and countless components of the opposition as well as influential newspapers that strongly and regularly fupported Democratic tickets and platforms through many previous campaigns Governor Earl Warren is one of the most popular and beloved men in public life' Broad d he minded and never hesitates to commend an opponent who deserves it or to criticize a supporter he believes wrong This has won him both friends and honors and caused party ties to be ignored in state campaigns for which he frankly acknowledged his obligations to electors on both sides of the sagging controversial Since Hiroshima there has been a great deal of discussion and preoccupation about the need for decentralizing population and dispersing key industries in the United States Recently the American Society of Planning Officials planners for federal agencies gave impetus to blueprinting a movement The society realistically to the threat of the atomic bomb to pointed concentrated metropolitan targets While urging that big cities scatter out ’over a wide territory and break themselves up into little cities the government planners admitted that “property owners concerned with possible effects on real estate values offer an obstacle” Naturally the owner of a building in New York is not sold on the dispersal idea be to easily going Decentralization has however stirred the westimaginations of many forward-lookin- g erners who have hoped to see new “atomic age” cities spring up in the wide open spaces far from the vulnerable seacoasts Many enthusiasts have ' overlooked problems which would develop such as furnishing new comwater and transmunities with already-scarc- e food and of supplies portation Now comes Professor John Q Stewart of 'Princeton university with some more general but equally knotty problems Writing in the iNew York Herald Tribune he points out that planning which prematurely interferes with complex natural situations is likely to be taken in vain Real estate values he points back-to-the-coun- 300-apartm- out are not an artificial and arbitrary creation “they are indices which show the general usefulness of property in a given location Decentralization on any important scale would critically reduce the linkages of Americans with one another would increase the average cost of all our daily business would cut net national income and so even would reduce our ability to wage successful war” Some of Professor Stewart’s thinking might be charged up to the provincial eastern attitude but he makes sense when he warns that the “ideal” (pity of 50000 would not reconstant and uniform main at the hoped-fo- r size unless severe social controls were posed While there is a current tendency to disperse certain industries for various strategic and economic reasons history shows that uniformity land strict adherence to rules is not an American tradition ’I It likely will become time before the old homestead is taken over for the coming atomic age community im- Policy Planner Says War Not Inevitable By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON— War is not necessarily the logical sequel to continued friction between the United States and Soviet Russia George Kennan director of the policy of trying to "contain" department of state and the man who is generally credited with being the author of America’s policy of trying to "contain” Russia within her own borders has just made a rather informative speech Mr Kennan originally wrote an article for the magazine Foreign Affairs which was signed “Mr X” He outlined extensively his ideas on America’s future policy toward Russia The article attracted worldwide attention Since that happened nearly two years ago he has been an influential factor ‘in I Washington’s Airborne Wizardry JJJHOSE REMARKABLE NEW airmail rates fSt You’re - OVER tryin' THE POUND YOUR LETTER T’CHARGS ME 84 an ounce! e OUNCES WE HAFTA CHARGE Ma BY “ becomes one pound of FOURTH CLASS Air parcel post HOW COME? To THE I fTHINK THE- - New P WEIGHS 10 OUNCES PER OUNCE' 8 ZONE WHICH MAKES IT COST MORE BECAUSE OF THE NEW LOW YtotfLL DIVIDE YOUR LETTER IN TN0' rates WERE DREAMED UP BY THE WIZARD WHO WE CAN SEND THE HALVES AT rH’ LOWER FIGURES INCOME TAXE- S- HE IT THOUGHT first class air WAS A NEW Rate ofonlv 5t PER OUNCE the shaping of American policy What he says therefore today is particularly significant of the department of state’s In addressing the forum in New York Mr Kennan declares: Delicate Phase thinking Herald-Tribune- ’s “We have now reached one of the most complicated and delicate phases of this long and difficult effort We have been compelled to place before the United Nations a matter of great seriousness which it had proven impossible to compose by peaceful means outside of the United Nations We were aware that this would constitute a severe test of the organization and one which we would have preferred to spare it But we had no alternatives other than to meet the threat of force with action in order to break the blockade of Berlin or to do nothing at all and thus permit this theatening situation Final Paragraph But it is in the final paragraph of Mr Kennan’s speech that he discloses his answer to the question — what is America going to do about it? He says: “Either we must find means to bring wisdom to those whose thoughts ate today oriented solely to the pursuit of political greatness in the form of world dominion or if we cannot do this and if these people remain stubbornly unwise then we must persuade them in their own interest to stand aside and to permit the other peoples of the world to proceed at last With this business of the development of international association for which the conditions of life in our time cry out so urgently and which have been so long delayed” This is a return to the original concept which Mr' Kennan has had in mind from the beginning — namely that if America could confine Russia to her borders and checkmate not only her territorial expansion but her efforts to infiltrate the governments outside her own domain the two systems could get along together on a sort of “live and let live” basis The fly in the ointment of course is that Russia must see the importance of staying within her own orbit Up to now there are no signs of a curtailment of Russian aggression political or otherwise At times in their history the Soviets have relaxed their propaganda in other countries and have been content to let their "fifth column” work die down Unless however the Russians can gain concessions by granting concessions they are not likely to cease their instru-sio-n in the internal politics of oft-hea- rd other countries France Britain Belgium particularly Italy and that is pinching economic activities of the eastern German area now controlled by the Rus- sians Chances of exploiting that section are not as good as the Russians had hoped they would be All the forecasts about “standing aside” depend in the last analysis on whether any group of Influence in the politburo decides to authorize some overt act that would throw the fat in the fire Then all thoughts of preventing war by "standing aside” would necessarily have to be revised The important thing is that American policy visualizes a world in which Russia can pursue her own way provided she does not deliberately tread on the territory or rights of the western powers including the United States combed They do exercise more The Public Forum i Fetish of Words Editor Tribune: We are dis- posed to smile and feel superior when we think of the ancient worship of idols It is hard to realize that we ourselves have many idols For some it is wealth or temporal power There are also idols of the mind — very troublesome ones Traditional ideas inherited from the past are hard to uproot Ideas taught in religious dogma or peculiar systems of philosophy also preconceived ideas may be a serious detriment to society — they block progress Some of us make a fetish of words Some words being classed as "good” others “bad” These words are sometimes so elastic diverse they are applied to many our For instance Repubthings lic is called a democracy though not referred to as such in either constitution bill of rights or our pledge of allegiance It is rule by direct vote of people but all the good nations who accept our aid are called democratic including Monarchist Greece Fascist Portugal Socialistic Sweden and Denmark and dictatorship China Communism for distribuoriginally a concept now become tion of goods has a "bad” word a devil word In the realm of economics we need to dispense with our idol “price” as the only measurement of value and substitute “energy” This should enable us to distribute our vast wealth of goods and services more ficiently and fairly “The greatest good to the ef- number” greatest Henriette Phillips Santaquin Utah Good Investment Editor Tribune: In the opinion of the writer one blanket national social security act would be an excellent institution providing it were elevated to the railroad retirement instance 5 pay roll deduction from the pay checks of the employes matched by an equal amount by the employer The entire sum would be divided as needed between three departments national old age national unemploypensions ment insurance and national child welfare program which of course would cover their widowed mothers or otherwise physically handicapped parents The above thought is not original with the writer It was Jennings suggested by' William1907 The Bryan as early as establishment of the above mentioned plan would remove the stigma of indigency from the present status For ' Last Analysis The price of forbearance which Russia has hinted at from time to time is something in the neighborhood of 10 billion dollars of German and 'Austrian reparations Since this is considered fantastic by the western powers the chances are that as Russian intransigeance is continued the opportunities for collecting even a modicum of reparations will diminish also Already the blockade of Berlin is resulting in a counter-blockad- e 9 By PAUL GALLICO NEW YORK— There is a great misrepresentation being perpetrated upon the young and innocent American male by jthe producers of moving pictures and albeit there is no sinister purpose behind it for the sake of the preservation of the sanctity of the home and the confounding of the divorce mills I feel it my duty to expose it It has to do with woman’s crowning glory Had you or hadn’t you noticed that the heroine of whatever picture you were looking at had realism now When the script calls for a sousing or a muss-u- p the lady gets it but you can bet that when the final clinch is screened her hair is all shined up again and as pretty as can be But you never see it happen 1 mean the prettying up And the point I am trying to zitake is that if you ate a young man and given to attending tile flick- to develop in an ominous silence and uncertainty conducive to every sort of alarmist speculation and hysteria” Mr Kennan goes on to say that this is a situation on the successful handling of which “hangs more than the removal of restrictions on the supply of a single city — there hangs the removal of one more great obstacle on the road to a world in which international organization can really function” Writer Blasts Film Star Hairdo Deceil the most beautiful hair? In technicolor or black and white her locks are burnished Until they shine There is a fine thickness and swing to her tresses a ripple and a wave and whether they hang loose to her shoulder or are piled atop her handsome head for evening wear each strand is in place Hair Always Neat f In the old days no matter what her exertions how fearful the cataclysms that beset her how wild the chase that wound up the celluloid adventure her hair was always neat and set and and beautifully water-wave- d minds of old people receiving pensions and those receiving unemployment compensation when unemployed through no faulj of their own It would be the greatest dividend paying investment this nation could make J B Stone Thinker Types Editor Tribune: Objective thinkers who see the larger ramifications of a problem are often at odds with subjective thinkers who see only their personal situations ’ For instance Fan objective thinker observing the world population problem sees that the acres of arable land are insufficient to feed all the people and concludes that means of limiting the population should be adopted A subjective thinker who loves babies and wants several of them tells-hito jump in the lake and let her have her ‘ babies - I " kyOOR LETTER TH SIGH By Maiming By Our Readers FORUM RULES Letters express opinions of contributors with which Tbo Tribune may or may not agree Writers must sign true names and addresses in ink but letters will be carried over assumed names if requested Poetry will not be used Letters may be rejected if they: (1) Exceed 200 words (2) discuss religious or racial matters in a sectarian way (S) carry partisan political comment or advertising (4) make personal aspersions or (5) contain libelous matter obvious misstatements of fact or statements not in accord with fair play! and good taste sees that labor saving machinery is essential to a high standard of living but he has a hard time convincing a subjective thinker whose job may be ended by some technological improvement In government objective observers feel that continued deficit spending will be disastrous while the subjective consider only that an end of deficit spending may stop their pet subsidies A third type of thinker is the abstract thinker to whom the discussion of some purely theoretical proposition is an amusing intellectual pastime Subjective thinkers usually want no truck with theoretical abstractions They think they're silly Richard S Morrison Delta Utah Babble On and On Editor Tribune: The letters appearing in The Tribune Forum the past few weeks favoring the limiting of the number of children to the family portrays a type !of thinking of which the country has too much There is nothing wrong with the large families in Salt Lake City or in any city for that matter There are just too many fakers in Utah — reformers who take it upon themselves to govern the thinking and actions of the people who usually are pretty good at minding their own business self-appoint- ed The public should be warned against taking seriously the talk and writings of such reformers who usually babble on and on without first making good serious study of the situation about which they self-appoint- ed babble We can easily go wrong by listening to people who just run off at the mouth “Spike Gossip” Fallon Nevada MY REAL FRIENDS By JAMES J METCALFE The friends who mean the most to me Are not the rich Who offer me their and great Who help me money and And not the ones celebrate Because they who tag along A part of any want to be wealth1 or fame That may but they are belong to me those who cheer me up And Whenever I am blue In who are really interested The ones everything I do who are concerned about My children and my wife And whether we need anything The To live a better life friends who mean the most to me Are those who do their To show me how to part serve the world With all my grateful heart Wiser Than 12 Editor Tribune: I think that Mrs Masters of Seattle should tell us just haw she managed to get behind th£ iron curtain and back again without landing up in Siberia If there is anyone who could be called an authority on Russia I am sure it would be Arthur Gaeth On his last visit to Salt Lake he said that it was the United States not Russia that held up mediation on the Berlin crisis - and that if the U S pulled out of Germany the German people might become communistic He alsd said that more machinery and less cokes and cigarets might put Europeans rt back to I believe that he knows what he is talking about We should know the truth about the Russian situation and if pur foreign policy is the pause of Russia’s lack of faith ik us then we should not close our eyes to the truth but demand a change Tolstoy in ibis “Redemption” says that Russian music is the “soul of a nation awakening’’ That was a long time ago when she was known as “the sleeping bear” Today we see her wide awake She knows that she is surrounded by enemies While I was researching through some old Virginia records I found this bit of philosophy — "the bear is wiser than 12tmen” If Russia is wise and Crafty and keeps her own council we cannot blame her in the least What would we do if we knew that Mexico was keeping her munition plants going night and and arming our enemies to day destroy us? I am sure we would not trust her : Bears always put up a good fight and I am sure that Russia wfll fight to the last ditch to defend herself as she did in the streets of just Stalinself-suppo- grad R F ' Room to Spare Editor Tribune: In answer to J O M I would like £o say that I do not claim to be as intelligent and well learned as the scientists he thinks I should study up on On the other hand they and you and I cannot be compared to the God of! us all who commanded His people to multiply and replenish the earth The greatest men' on earth are nothing in comparison My contention is and always will be that no one has the right to dictate or even suggest how many children! another person may or may not have That is our own individual right I am confident our children will not be forced to die the "slow death of starvation” as some people seem to think might happen This is a land of plenty If we can send hundreds of tons of food to other countries we can certainly take care of our people not to mention the tons of food wasted every year Why not try to do something about that instead of trying to prevent new life? There is for all and more if we plenty will only make the most of this fruitful and blessed land And to those who think it so crowded don’t overlook the hundreds of miles in most every state where you hardly see more than a house or two The whole of Japan could be set down in the State of Utah with room to spare Why make a problem where one does5 not really exist? Don’t you think we could all do with a little inore intelligent' ' study J O M? Mrs £L W B ers you could well cometo be-lieve that all girls come equipped with gleaming manes falling in natural cascades or shimmering curls which when you have persuaded her to say “I do” will be yours to play with caress run your fingers through place your cheek next to spread out upon the pillow et cetera and so on Unfair to Males Well this is where the misbecause representationsocomes incan You look it just ain’t but no touch This is what I maintain Is so completely unfair on the part of the movie makers They present woman as the ideal creature she actually is but they do not tip a fellow off to some of the startling mechanical contrivances to which every married male must learn to acustom himself sooner or later bride--' The his the of takes groom object adoration into his home and his life and rudely suddenly shockingly without preparation encounters the bobby pin ’the the chilled hairpin the wave-se- t steel curler the snood and the movie-educat- ed crimper Some fine night he will In the dark for the noggii I of his loved one to enjoy the ex- - reh perience of nuzzling in he back hair only to find himself horribly entangled in what appears to be a spider web of heretofore unknown tensile strength To his anguished shout of What’s thit?” "Ugh! Phoo! matter-of-factshe replies “For heaven’s sakes don’t niake such a fuss That’s only a hair net I’ve got to wear one if I’m to keep my hair neat for toi ly morrow” Where Pictures Failed This then Is the great disillusionment for which the pictures do not prepare you and somehow I feel they should Then it is that you learn that she is always in the process of preparing her hair for something in the immediate future or has prepared it or is preparing to prepare it and doesn’t want you messing around In it She doesn’t even want you to come near it which is why she tucks it away in a little sack or binds it with that horrid net or conceals It under a turban If you have a 'dinner date on the “Temporarily Thursday Closed for Repairs” sign goesJup on Monday True her coiffure is a dream during the party rousing the beast in one and all and particularly in you her lawful spbuse but when you attempt to lay impious hands on her thatch you are informed that she has not worked three days or sat under a on that haid-d-o hot dryer for two hours just to have you bust it up Now that jt’a nice it’s got to last a while Movies Had Chance Between times it is loaded with metal curlers something like the old basketweave masts on our World War I battleships or is so chock full of hairpins that she bristles like a porcupine or laced up in a snood or ruined by one of those thorough- ly revolting nets Naturally all this was going on during the days of courtship only you didn’t know it and the darned old movies which are supposed to mirror life never wised you up about 1L She could wrestle with her tresses in the privacy of her home All you got when you came to call were the results which were Indeed something and inspired you with ardor and affection And if in the course of demonstrating the feeling with which she inspired you you mussed her up a bit she had all of next day to get it straight again and she wasn't going to yip before she had you propped up - to take those vows certainly |
