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Show ljc Halloween Is Early This Year Salt fa It; gfilmnc Saturday Morning, September 24, 19fi0 By Our Reader by Protestant clerEast Germany Revealed written Some articles in hi gymen. Giving Each Mind Its Full Opportunity The gatheringof'young people at" col-leges and universities throughout the country this week and next is more im- porta nt in the long run" to America than the current fulminations at the United Nations. The total college enrollment in the country is expected to be about 3,567,000, r casualmaking allowances lor This is 37.1 per cent of the entire ties. eligible age group (18 to 21 years) compared with 27.2 per cent who went on to higher education in 1949 and 4 per cent in 1910. x ' -- first-yea- And Come Again! N With the end of a generally successful summer tourist season in Utah, many organizations and individuals concerned with this Important industry are looking ahead to still more tourist promotional effort next season. A stpp in this direction was the formation a few weeks ago of the Salt Lake Tourist Development Association. This is the kind of local action tourist promotion program needed In every comer of the state. Some sections notably Vernal and southwest Utah - have been quite active In this regard. But there Is need effort for much more-sucD. James Cannon, director of the Utah State Tourist and Publicity Council, emphasized this the other day. While he favored larger state expenditures for advertising Utahs attractions, he said the more Important need is for greater involvement on the part of local people." A survey recently revealed that 62 per cent of those who visit Utah as tourists do so on the recommendation of a friend or relative. It Is also a fact that many a visitor can be persuaded to spend an extra day or several days In th$ state If a friendly Utahn tells him of some of the states many unique scenic attractions. n contact is essential to Utah tourist development. A first need Is for Utahns themselves to know their own state. Then there must be a friendly, courteous reception for every visitor. Many thousands of tourists drive through Utah headed some place else. But almost all stop In the state If for no more than gasoline and a hot dog. We have the chance to contact them. A thanks and come again, may persuade them to return, and the next time to make Utah their destination rather than a way stop. h Person-to-perso- '. Falls Bright Banners r s Autumns arrival cannot be accurately marked by either the calendar or the almanac. Summer officially ends around the 20th of September every year, but the weather plays a major part in the consciousness of most people. Autumn is really a state of mind. This year the autumn equinox was accompanied by a cooling of the temperatures, which have risen to new highs and plagued the region this season. Autumn, however, has been sending out its advance guard for some time, noted by the stilling of the catydids song, by cool evenings, a fading of grass and gradual turning of the leaves. Fortunately autumn was not accompanied by violent weather such as has done much damage in the Atlantic area. Leaves are rapidly changing from green to gold, scarlet and bronze in the canyons, furnishing an unsurpassed panorama for motorists. Incidentally Supervisor Kozlol of the Wasatch National Forest urges that all who want to see the leaves at the height of their glory in the Uinta country should postpone the trip no longer than this weekend over new highway 150 east of Kamas. The yellow aspen leaves there are already beginning to fall. , i BECAUSE REGISTRATION will not be completed in some Utah schools of Jilgher learning until next week, no totals are available. A couht . last November showed that there were 29,167 day students on the nine campuses in Utah, about 20,000 of them enrolled at the two largest universities, The bigger and better tag given the 1960-6academic higher education year by the New York Times also seems to apply in Utah. This years Incoming students are expected to be better on two counts: the quality of high school education has improved the last few years, and to some extent college requirements are being tTgTitene3rMore"'ah(I more'gfrTsafe going" to college, some of them taking scientific and technical courses. President Olpln of the University of Utah undoubtedly spoke also for other public institutions of higher learning in Utah when he said that although financial resources have not, kept pace with increased enrollment during the last decade oc.two, the faculty has been strengthened, the curriculum improved and achievements otherwise extended. Although Utah allocates a per cent of its state exfor penditures higher education, the outlay per student Is below the national average. This is partly because Utah provides higher education for a greater proportion' of its population. Editor, Tribune: It is no wonder that hundreds of people in East Germany are fleeing dally to the safety of West Germany, when the following information leaked out through a letter that escaped the Rus- slan censorship. This letter came from a writer in West Germany to a friend in Salt Lake City, . whq states that the people In Saxony, now under con-- , trol of the Russians, , are In such dire circumstances for lack of food, that the women folk' stand in line from morning to night for their allotment of food stuffs, only to go home higher-than-avera- -- go Ralph De Toledano Labor Discriminates Against Negroes At the drop of a hat, organized labor makes pious declarations against segregation and berates the South for depriving Negroes of equal job SINCE THE RUSSIANS demonstrated their great scientific advances a few years ago, learning has become one of the most valuable American resources, along with fuel reserves and industrial capacity. enAs a, result of the rollments, the trend is toward more selective admission. This is" of course, a controversial problem ii a democratic society but the sheer weight of numbers gives most colleges no alternative.' Circumstances require only that the most equitable and fair selection system be In .operation. The comprehensive plan for public education beyond the high school calls for a diversity of facilities and opportunities for young people of different abilities and desires. Thus the person not destined to become a physicist or a doctor can get the kind of education and training he needs in junior college or a public vocational school. This and related problems are being closely examined by the Utah Coordinating Council of Higher Education and other groups. ; ' The shortage of competent instructors . Is a prime and growing problem In higher education. It must be met head on and solved by all available means, Including better ways to attract and hold teacher talent and making full use of that talent through new techniques and mechanical and electronic aids. vastly-increasin- g op-po- rt unities. v But the startling fact remains that historically-today- bor movement . UNDER THE democratic system every mind is entitled to its own fullest development. In the words of J. L. Morrill, president emeritus of Minnesota University', our commitment is to instruct those youth who can, and are determined to, benefit from instruction not just certain youth or wealthy youth or even the most brilliant youth alone. Potomac Fever By Fletcher Knebel Khrushchev is at last realizing the American dream: to be cooped up in New York on an unlimited WASHINGTON, D.C. expense account. If times are as good as . Question: Nixon says they are, why is he out begging for work? Nixon has proposed to rid the nation of farm surpluses by operation consume. Depending on the accent, this is either an old operation or a new soup. has Mr. perhaps contributed as De Toledano much to Jim Crow as any other organized group in the nation. Ironically, the president of a union which has segregated locals in both North and South is a member of the AFL-CIO- s Civil Rights Committee. I mention this because of a letter which the public relations director of the merged federation has written to me, Albert J. Zack charges me with political bias because of a column in which I pointed out that col- umn read, And give me thus my daily bread. Endow me, if Thou grant me wit, Likewise with sense to mellow it Don Marquis. Columnlng The columnist stopped Maggie McNamara as 6he was leaving the cafe. I write a column for The Daily Bugle, he said. .I am asking persons picked at random to answer an important question. Will you help me, Shoot, said Maggie. What do you think the should do administration about Fidel Castro? It should throw the bum out before he can louse things up anymore, said Maggie, Winston. 143pp. f.lAO. A Logan man called at The Tribune the other day the reminder that 41 years ago this week. Wood-roWilson gave his great speech in Salt Lake City. He did indeed, and The Tribune reported on Sept 24, 1919, that 15,000 persons, tha greatest throng the Tabernacle has ever held, heard his eloquent appeal for ratification of - the Leagufe of Nations Covenant With WILSOX was desperately, HI at the time, and a few days later it was necessary to cancel his mission. Back In Washington, he suffered a stroke on Oct 1, which left him an invalid until his been In his life. Unfortunately, full-lengt- - THE doctor does not say It, but the book leaves the impression that a man of Wilsons poor physical con- dition, temperament and extreme devotion should not undertake the arduous duties of the presidency. Constitutionally, he had never been strong and illnesses and complications dogged him all his life. death in January 1924. Admiral Grayson, who The author quotes an emiwas closer to the World War nent physician as forecasting I President than any other that Wilson could not live person save Mrs. Wilson durthrough his first term in (he ing these critical years, de- White House." But Adm. scribes him as a warm and Grayson was convinced that affectionate man. ' through good exercise and family I the long strain at the Paris peace conference, coupled with an attack of influenza, and later the overtaxing of his waning strength on the arduous trip West to rally the people to the League thfse all contributed to bis final breakdown. I could not argue with his conscience, says this kindly doctor. y All X could do was to accompany him and take the best medical care of him possible. It was an impossible job . . . Duty was for him superior to his health, - The matter of a presidents health has been much before the public in recent years. This is only one of the interesting aspects ot this slim, readable tribute, E.R.L like all labor professionals, Mr. Zack believes that any criticism of the AFL-CILs a cardinal sin, that labor can do no wrong. Nevertheless, he merits a public answer. What follows is based on my own Observation and on the researches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose relations with labor have become increasingly strained. Recently NAACP labor secretary Herbert Hill said: In the four years since the merger of the AFL and the CIO, the national labor ganization has failed to eliminate even the most obvious Instances of racism within affiliated unions. Mr. Hill presented a detailed analysis to back up this accusation. Including the interesting obO servation that the AFL-CIO- s Thank mur- you, ac- costed Ole Ole-sowho had Just arrived in town. What do you think should be done about Fidel Castro of Cuba? Ay bane stranger. Ay yoost come by Sveden, explained Ole. The next morning Maggie and Ole eagerly sought the newspaper column what a thrill to read their first and only statement to the press! Gaelic and Scandinavian hearts fluttered upon seeing their names In print Gaelic and Scandinavian brows wrinkled as they read: Maggie McNamara, occupation, waitress, says: "It requires cklm and unbiased consideration. Passion and .prejudice will prove fruitless. Only patience and understanding will avail. Ole Oleson, occupation, farmer, says: I have developed several hypotheses, but to .no avail. It seems to me that a policy of laissez faire would be most prudent at a critical time like this. - Notea on Cuff Department Facts low fruit they are difficult ,to keep. Recommended: Aground, a novel of suspense by Charles Williams. Bertha Shore says you've passed the dangerous age when the first thing you ask of a pair of shoes is comfort. . All we get on our radio dust. It's busted. But we learned Tuesday morning that some of our friends turn on their radios while they are doing their housework. Two of them, Abbie AUsworth and Dorothy Chesley, phoned to tell us that Arthur Godfrey had quoted me on his radio program. I imagine someone sent him a clipping of that particular column, but it was nice of him to give me credit for the story he used. is . s to a man if he has to keep running to somebody else for advice on how to use them. Good intentions are per-lshable things, and like mel- l 1 . de- murely. n, regular habits he could survive. "The remarkable thing is not that he broke down finally but that he kept well by obedience to the simple laws of health. At the conclusion of the Anqitiee'he was stronger than he had ever AFL-CIO- By I pray Thee make my columnist He then I Could Not Argue With His Conscience President George Meany has been closing his eyes to racialist practices in the Senator From Sandpit Ham Park mured the Though shy and outwardly austere, he liked to sing and Joke and was capable of deep feeling. This slim book, ax Bernard Baruch says in a foreword, is not a full dress study of Wilson. (The author explains, I do not think that h the time ls ripe for a picture of him.) It is some informal recollections, published posthumously, about Wilson, the man, by his personal physician, who had great affection for him. ' -- 'were Doctor Portrays Wilson, the Man Woodrow Wilson, an Intimate Memoir, by Rear Adm. Cary T. Grayson, Holt, Rinehart A defense have been written by Catholic priests or other authorities of tfiii faith. Obviously neither of these " as groups two groups would be able to look at a from problem of this sort viewa completely detached them point; and between they have so obscured the Issue that the case in point has ceased to be whether Or not Mr. Kennedy would be . a suitable president for our nation; but rather whether . or not a Catholic, or for that matter, a Protestant would be a suitable candidate for this office. I am no authority on Mr. -- .Kennedy.; lJtiQld,..DO firte. mptyKahdecr"afhlght;' either for or against the genThere are no fruit nor vegetleman. However I do think tables and even the potatoes that it is high time people that saved Germany after began looking at Mr. Kenunavailare World War I nedy as well as his opponent able. not particularly as representIt is reported that in the atives of some political or from not far town of Zittau, group, but rather religious the city of Dresden, that as men whq have or do not over 500 persons have the personal qualificameat-tha- t poisoned from eating tions needed to fake high had been imported by office. . the Russian leaders who had The Constitution of the China. imported it from Red United States provides fot There were many deaths complete s e p a r a tion of but the authorities have hidchurch and state. Any perden the number and it son taking office as presiwill never be known how dent of the United States many perished through parswears a sacred oath to uptaking of this poisoned meat hold and defend the ConstiThe Russian leaders have tution; and to defend the . plenty of food. to keep them-nation against all enemies selves and families in perwhether foreign or domes-tlnational headquarters in fect health, while ignoring . the starving of their subWashington was constructed Rather than wormng parjects. And so Cuba and ticularly about wharetwrdL by Jim Crow building trades other satellites of Russia locals. if any Mr. Kennedy or are heading for just such any other candidate happens The only difference between Mr. Meany and his treatment Let's hope they to say his prayers In; wake up before they get into wouldnt we the voters of predecessors is that he talks bea better civil rights game the condition- of those Cur- the nation be much better Iron Russian hind the advised to Inquire as to in public. . tain in East Germany. whether Mr. Kennedy has As of this writing, the ROBERT D. SMITH the type of mind, the typo President's Committee on of courage, the singleness Government Contracts has A New Parly of purpose needed to guide on file complaints against Editor, Tribune: The this nation through the 12 AFL-CIunions. people of Utah are going to years that are facing us? It Is the committees job have a new political party in DAVID A. KING, to see that government conthe field this year. They will Layton, Utah. have the opportunity to vote tractors do not practice discrimination Jn hiring. But next November for candiBogies Into Birdies Mr. Meany is a member of dates for president and vice Tribune: A cynical Editor, the committee and so is president and a platform of once said: "History speaker United Auto Workers Presprinciples different from is a set of falsehoods agreed ident Walter Reuther. those nominated and adopted upon." by the Democratic and ReSo far, all attempts to If the systematic distortion of events during the past take action in these cases publican Parties. The Socialist Workers and seven and a half years by have been blocked by Mr. Farmers Party has nomiMadison Ave. partisans sucwho has fulminated Meany, Dobbs for ceeds In Farrell nated Instead against employers electing Mr. Nixon, bound bjf union contracts . president and Myra Tanner that cynic may be right and threatened with picket Weiss loT vlce President and Suppose we look at some lines if they bring in Negro adopted a platform that is events of that period, beginbased upon three main ning with a statement by the workers. The most sensaissues, namely: 1. How can late John Foster Dulles in tional of these cases involved construction work on the the world be freed from the 1952. He branded as imthreat of nuclear destrucnew Capitol front and sevmoral, passive, even subvertion? 2. How can hunger sive anyone who thought eral government office buildand poverty be wiped out? the United States could not ings. 3. How can equality and liberate nations under the MR. MEANY has always Communist yoke. democracy be won and mainwhen ignorance pleaded tained? The new party has Compare that statement gross instances of labor diswith the law of our with our passive, leaderless crimination against Negroes complied state and its candidates will foreign policy down through are called to his attention. be on the ballot . the phony peace in Korea, But both the Urban League World peace is made the the rape of Hungary, the and the NAACP have reissue in this campartition of Viet Nam, the him paramount the new peatedly bombarded party. by paign shabby treatment of our with detailed reports outt Other Issues, such as inflaallies in the Suez fiasco, and lining the facts. That he has tion, the high cost of living, our belated efforts to check is common what ignored burdensome taxes, civil libthe spread of communism In knowledge in the labor erties and constitutional Latin America and Cuba, all movement and that he has rights, agriculture and the administration y "victories directed his anger against extinction of the family according to the speech-writer- s. those who raise their voices James Reston, noted farm, bureaucracy and the in protest can legitimately loss of contact by the govNew York Times writer, and charitably be described ernment from the people, recently summarized this as closing his eyes." etc., are spelled out under white-wasjob as good When I am berated by the the but bad history. general head. politics AFL-CIpublicity director Local citizens who favor It is true, of course, that for being politically mindinnovation and I am the President with tha this told ed and that he yearns one of them welcome this best intentions has wanfor factual reporting," I can new movement because we dered afar Peaca preaching only stand on the record. regard the two old parties with justice and prosperity as war parties which have for all. But I submit that It is a record made by the labor movement, not adopted a war economy and platitudes for foreign conhave waged a contest over its critics. sumption should be matched which can best promote the by a solid foundation of perPerhaps there was good cold war. formance at home. Surely, and sufficient reason for the E. A. MITCHELL our "justice to 14 million acts discussed here, and for Utah. colored citizens is not a good Provo, a host of others. If so, then nor is "prosperity example; ls reit the job of a public More to Point well demonstrated by our 3.2 lations department to offer Editor, Tribune, A great million citizens living on a an explanation. Im always income of $40 for a willing to be educated. But many articles have been weekly of candifamily four, to say noththe written . opposing from all the evidence avail-able to date, it seems clear dacy of Mr. Kennedy for the ing of 4.6 million jobless that on civil rights, the AFL-CI- presidency of the United with no income at alL Personally, I believe Mr. says: Dont do as I do. States because Mr. Kennedy Nixon has many political happens to be a member of Do as I say. the Roman Catholic Church. possibilities, the least of This is hardly a basis for which is the possibility of Most of the articles opposMr. Meany's righteousness Mr. Kennedys candidacy making Ikes bogies look ing when he talks about the have been written like birdies. Protesby South. tant clergymen. Some artiW. W. CHRISTENSEN, cles In his defense have been Bountiful, Utah. 1 5 Tlie Public 'Forum' -- c. h Geraniums Geraniums' leaves are dusty, Their faces and hair are red. They live In jars and old tin cans Or any garden bed. They are not to very pre- cious And not so very rare But" I love them because they are honest. They are common and they dont care. L. Young Correthers. (Sent in by Mrs. Walter N. Pugh.) What Do You Say? By Dr. Bergen Evans QUESTION: Why is a portable case for arrows called a quiver? R. E. S. ANSWER: Nobody knows, and probably nobody ever will know. We can only kfiow the -- meaning of a word by hear- j j An d usually we have r f , '1 to hear or see it in many di- fferent 1 N ing it or seeing It in use. pre-histor- y conbe ab- texts to solutely c e r-- Dr. Evans tain what is its basic meaning, what are its extended meanings, what its metaphorical meanings, and so on. When we speak of a words original meaning and attempt to explain f why it means what It now means, all we have to go on are Its present and past meanings. And the only way we can know past meanings ls to find them in a piece of writing used In such a way that they are abso-- i lutely clear. But some things are older than writing. Man had them before he learned to And among write. the things our unlettered antes-tor- s had when they emerged out of the mists of were arrows In a quiver. A copy of Dr. Bergen "A Dictionary of Evans Contemporary American Usage will be awarded to readers whose letters are answered in the column. Address your letters to What Do You Say?", care of this newspaper. heswtTMii ... issioti Tell your friends if he get eifeted, no businessmen Intellectuals in the cabinet Just working men . , .J ... or I v i rtii ifTn fc rt 0k ii mm n ii fffi |
