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Show r'V'w'r jr I1 f, t 5 1 j r- qyr - i VI -- ' I' l" f f V x IGA gibe Sunday Moraine, Something Up His Sleeve? fEf ibtmf a gait NikitA Now. Woos Bonn NnHpber IS, 1960 ,016 IT DEEP ENOUGH Time to Reform Electoral System The closeness of the popular vote, in the presidential election has brought demands for reforming the Electoral College " legislative test. For while the Electoral College may seem an antiquated and undemocratic method of determining the voters decision, the reforms so far put forward have been open to serious objections, -- many of them political. v Outright abandonment of the Electoral College Is the most sweeping of these proposals. ap- pointments hardly can be looked upon as indicators as to how the new broom will be used in Washington. It was anticipated that the Massachusetts senators campaign stalwarts, Ted Sorenson, Kenneth ODonnell, Pierre Salinger dnd Andrew Hatcher, would be given key White House staff appointments. They are typical of the vigorous young man image the Kennedy campaign reflected. THERE IS satisfaction that Mr. Kennedy announced early the retention of J. Edgar Hoover and Allan W. Dulles as directors, respectively, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency. These important positions arp generally considered Their replacement with men of lesser stature would be causp for alarm. However, Mr. Hoovpr is 65 years old and Mr. Dulles is 67. While they are not required to retire at the traditional age, they conceivably may not continue throughout the Kennedy tenure and the real test may comewith theappointment of their successors. Clark Gifford, Washington attorney and White House counsel under Truman, seems a likely choice to James M. help draft transition plans. Landis, former Harvard Law School dean, who will undertake a study of the federal regulatory ageneies, has served on the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board with distinction. However, Mr. Landis can hardly do more than bring together the findings of thp several other studies of the agencies between now and the first of the year. A thoroughgoing study long has been indicated. . Others have been less stringent. In the early days of the Republic, the usual suggestion was to select presidential electors by districts within each state. This failed because of the fear that districts would be gerrymandered or that federal controls two-thir- e template risk war Neither eventuality appears imminent. Those who talk of an "em-of the o u r g e o i sment U.S.S R., as a middle class develops and managers replace dogmatists, talk in terms of decades. Likewise, our scientists working on what is known S.s Project Defender are far b Bv Editor, , f t t tl.tt confidence." Now, working as a team, with the county attorney directly responsible for supervision, the crime laboratory oper- -' ates with maximum efficiency. It is equipped with everything from cameras and plaster-castin- g equipment to hip boots and chalk. And it has proved so effective that other jurisdictions are willing to pay $100 a day for its services. Police This Weber County-Ogde- n an is effort example cooperative for Utah as well as national law enforce- S f like -- munity. Lt. Roberts Carver, author of the article, says that prior to 1957 when the joint crime laboratory service was established, duplication of investigations had proved inefficient and expensive. !Ve had, he wrote, reached the stage where because of differences of opinion between the departments we had lost the public matter.' Kennedy has already called for "unity. This is another word for conformity. We should look " carefully at what we are being asked to conform to before following this Tine very far. America has always thrived on differences not on conformity. RICHARD S. MORRISON, Delta, Utah., ' Helping the Aged The stock market goes up. Wall Street decided Kennedy received an overwhelming mandate to pick this country up and move it sideways. You cant beat somebody with nobody, but the victory of the unpledged slate in Mississippi proves you can beat two somebodies with nobody. - I Mandate In Close Election, but am puzzled by the statement that you h6pe a precedent is established that never again will religion be regarded as a test of a mans qualifications for the presidency. Religious belief covers a lot of ground, ranging from faith in the magic powers of African witch doctors to acceptance of the Oriental state of Nirvana as the ultimate goal. Fact is, a man's religious beliefs reeal a great deal as to his intelligence and character. Many swallow religious myths whole; others simply go along because it is customary; still others regard lt as an opportunity for personal gain. Why try to sweep such an issue un-- ' der the carpet What are you afraid of? I 'Contend that no intelli- gent adult of our time can accept the religious myths of the religions of prayer, and that any- - claim to such acceptance casts doubt on the individuals intelligence and or integrity. If I am wrong, .show me where, but dont 'just say, there is no issue in religion and we are just going to hush up the whole Potomac Fever vv Tribune: your editorial, No Kennedy ' WASHINGTON Election right was like the month of March inside but. Jack Kennedy came jn like a lion and went out like ,a lamb. ' 4z Yj Editor, Tribune: The Josephine Lowman column of Nov. 10 should be of interest to all persons over 65. Tt advised them to Join' to- gether in organizations to dispel loneliness and bore-- ' dom which we all know causes both mental and phy-sieal disturbances. The senior citizens of Utah extend a welcome to all to join with them in their activities at the Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club every Wednesday at 1 p.m. An article in the same issue stated that the State Welfare Commission is investigating the possibilities of 1 i THE MAXIMUM they seek Is some means of placing a The minimum is to establish enough anti missile missile batteries around our principal cities and strategic centers to absorb the damage of total war without national paralysis. This minimum is now technically feasible. But it would cost billions and take years. Furthermore, an immense political problem will be posed in deciding which cities to leave exposed and which to protect perate An additional cruel prob- lem faces the incoming administration. r trx Furthermore, It presents certain specific advantages to each side. From our viewpoint, It helps democratic populations to bear heavy defense costs and checks those centrifugal tendencies which always threaten democratic alliances. From a Soviet viewpoint it helps keep restless satellites quiet and makes it easier to prevent the eruptions that threaten when pressure eases, as in East Germany, Poland and Hungary. putting the senior citizens under the Blue Shield Plan. That is an improvement but Blue Shield does not pay for doctor calls, either at home or office, and a $79-month maximum does not allow for car fare, let alone a $3 a visit What is the solution to the prohlem? I dont know, but here are some suggestions for our elected legislators. 1 Memorialize Congress to pass a similar bill to thp Korand Bill of last Congress placing medical aid for the agpd under Social Security. It will be more dignified for our senior citizens. 2 Repeal the Lien Law, which takes away the fruits of a lifetime of labor, and which penalizes a person for being thrifty, and owning ones own home. 3 Old age recipients have received a magnificent $1 a month raise In the past two years while the cost of living has gone up and up. Therefore, find some way for a substantial raise. This is a serious problem, and must be met by serious thinking and action. .GEORGE GREATOREX , f rf mt Therefore, the Immediate aim of our policy should be to reduce cold war tension. But this can only be achieved where such reduction in tension Is, Indeed, possible. THAT IS THE purpose of brush-firpeace: To establish, as it were, fire dikes to put out flames in limited sectors; to diminish the chances of a ternble forest fire. We are not going to obtain a brush-firpeace in those areas where we most desire to do so like Berlin. Berlin may remain a dan? ger point for years. e e - IT IS TOO valuable a blackmail asset for Moscow to yield except against a price we cant afford to pay. But the Kremlin .is unlikely to risk total war by closing the Berlin vise. We must learn to live with this unpleasant fact while seeking to lessen, in other areas, the almost intolerable anxiety. - tt A John Chambeilaln, writing in the Wall Street Journal, -reports a surprising trend to conservatism among American college students and cites the heavy sale of Sen. Barry Goldwaters Conscience of a Conservative" in campus book stores. He says: Talking to the young right wingers at one of their., functions is an illuminating experience. Their responses to - recent history are quite uncomplicated. They dont relish looking forward to a life in which their paychecks are destined to be hacked into hy growing charges for social security which they are sure will be paid in monstrously inflated coin some 45 years later. They dont want to become veterans of future wars, and they are sure the best way of staying out of the American Legions of the future is to keep Soviet Russia In its place right now. All of which points to at least one reason for the tremendous success of the Barry Goldwater book. It, too, is uncomplicated. It, too, has a preoccupation with a morality which considers that welfarist benefits paid for in inflated values are a form of robbery of young and old alike." Like Prohibition in America Martha Gellhom in the Atlantic; Communist economics in Poland apparently works like prohibition in America. Prohibition made the United States a nation of illegal drinkers? Communist economics forces (some) Poles to be finaglers. cheats, little or big crooks. If a charwoman is paid $10 a month for full time work, she must obviously have several jobs or starve. So she checks in at two or more jobs, works a little, and badly, at each, and lives. If a janitor who shovels coal into boilers all night in the ravaging Polish climate earns $16 a month, he must obviously steal some of the coal to sell it .on the black market, or starve. If you are higher up in the scale of employment, you can rob more frofn the state, and be caught and go to jail; a visit to the law courts any day will confirm this. The most honest woman you could ever know, I heard, she is in prison for embezzling. She did it for everyone else where she worked, too; she had to help them. "Oh, well," said the driver of our hired car, they were only stealing from the state, not from real people. An Example for Other Judges Pittsburgh Post-Gazett- In sentencing two motorists to jail for driving while their licenses were suspended, Judge Samuel A. Weiss is setting a pattern which should be followed by other courts. Judge Weiss formula for dealing with traffic violators who flout the law should be a consistent one. Too often in the past we have seen judges quietly drop a crusade which got off to an auspicious start with much display of shining armor and rattling sword. Less leniency in the courts might eliminate the need for legislation making jail sentences mandatory for those who continue to drive while their licenses have been suspended. An Amiable Snowman? St. Louis It can be said for Sir Edmund Hillary, now setting out to scale Mt. Makalu, that he expresses great confidence in his chances for solving the mystery of the legendary Abominable Snowman. In a nutshell, something made those huge footprints in the snow and Hillary would not be at all surprised if it was an Abominable Snowman. Now it may be that the creature which makes these big footprints is a Snowman but why should be be an Abominable one? What if he should turn out to be a friendly toe in the chap who would invite Mr. Hillary to play snow? Or pull out some pictures of his family and ask his fnends to let him see the photographs in their wallets? If such suppositions are challenged, the answer is that they are at least as well founded as the allegation that the Snowman is Abominable. Until the Hillary expedition reports otherwise, the mysterious stranger is entitled to b referred to as amiable, unobtrusive or at least Inoffensive. Post-Dispatc- tic-ta- c new-foun- end. Saucer Fhotos Editor, .Tribune: Cheer up, men; you" cant "win all the time. So console yourselves by thinking of the beautiful and charming young lady we are going to have In the White House as first lady of the U.S.A. Of course some mossbacks are too old and fat to notice a charming young lady like But Kennedy. Jacqueline most of us younger (?) men will love her. F. J. BLUMENSTINE, Ogden, Utah. But coUUwar presents overpowering dangers, including its strains and hideous expense. It might, In accumulating nervousness, permit the outbreak of hot war by miscalculation. And once the first nuclear weapon is used by either side, nobody can foresee where the terror will Editor, Tribune: An American patriot once said, I am willing to know the worst and to provide for it. , Nowadays people dont even want to know thebest or hear about lt From reliable sources Air Force officers and others I have learned that the U.S. government and Air Force has at least 150,000 good photographs of flying saucers from other planets taken by jet automatic eras. .This fact should.. be released. NATHAN BALDWIN Charming Prospect choice. FOR EVEN a rountiv so rich as ours cannot afford to invest fully in both maximum and minimum programs. Meanwhile we have the cold war, whether dominated by Khrushchevs Camp David spirit or Khrushchev U.N. spirit. This Is a form of peace because lt excludes major fighting. Our Readers Beware Conformity By Fletcher Knebel Should more funds be allotted to "roof defense; or should they be concentrated on .point" defense? Should we gamble on. heavy Investment in "point defense when it is possible Russia may consequently beat us to roof defense? Or should we put all our chips on the latter and risk the chance that Moscow may first achieve the former? Ultimately, the new pres-- , idpnt must make this des- The Public Forum city-count- ment units. the total or the dream of total peace. y mobile Operation of a joint crime laboratory in Ogden, as explained in the current issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, is a fine example of the kind of cooperation which makes for improved police functioning In a com- -- of from their goal of finding a guaranteed defense against nuclear missiles. ng. the United States to Ogden Sets an Example Tattooing as a sign of status is a tricky thing. The king of Denmark is tattooed, but the new man on the FBI's 10 most wanted list isn't. im- possible for WOULD A PRESIDENT have sufficient standing in these days of international tension if he won in the Electoral College but fell short in the popular vote? That happened in 1888 when Harrison beat Cleveland. It could happen again. Also, there is grave danger in the unpledged elector plan, adopted this year in some Southern states for possible bargaining purposes which has not materialized. Any real effort to influence an election by such meihods could well split the nation. The Electoral College system has been criticized off and on for a century and a half. We believe that now is the time for bipartisan effort to bring the system up to date. doomsday. Now comes one Heinz von Foerster, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, with a prediction that doomsday will occur Friday, November 13, 2026 66 years from today. On this day, says Professor von Foer-ste- r and a few devoted students, the human population will have increased to such an extent that it will squeeze itself to death almost automatically. The population growth in the world is of genuine concern but no students of demography set any definite deadlines. Professor von Foerster and his students give' themselves five and a half years leeway, plus or minus, in their prediction, but most gloomy prophets are convinced that doom will come over a long period of time, if it comes at all, and be the result of complications of hunger rather than overcrowding. Others warn that insects or animal pests may annihilate our descendants. Meantime, however, there is the everpresent danger that the world may be blown up, deliberately or accidentally. We are convinced that this danger is greater than that of being squeezed to death, but we're proceeding on the assumption that humanity will somehow survive many years beyond November 13, 2026. Soviet policy, it is y "roof over the country by magical rays to prevent enemy rockets from penetrati- mism vanishes from will not be easy. however, Service breakthrough or until dyna- Politicians will not want to relinquish the partisan advantages afforded by the big. - .ates. And reform might mean greater iederal control of voting procedures, something that now' is left almost entirely to the states. But reform should be undertaken. And Congress, after years of study and discussion, certainly ought to have the information upon which to base an acceptable constitutional amendment. As Columnist Arthur Krock remarked, the present system is not only archaic but misrepresentative of public opinion. Prophets of various dooms and salvations Jhave been numerous throughout hisrevival preachers used to tory. stir their audiences with dark forecasts about the end of the world. Some even went so far as to set a definite date for &y off New York Time NEW YORK Until mill-tartechnicians achieve the next revolutionary weapons ME HOPE THAT this situation will generate sufficient force for a serious effort at electoral reform. Reform, L. Sulzberger Cold War Advantages Cut Both Ways The greatest pressure for electoral reform always develops after a close election. And last Tuesdays election was one of the closest in years, both in Senator Kennedys hairline margin over Vice President Nixon in the popular vote and his edge in the Electoral College which resulted chiefly from narrow victories in two big states, California and Illinois. Doomsday in 66 Years? J, G It is also why the Electoral College Is called a system unfair and His ability to do so will depend upon a number of factors, not the least of which will be the stature of the men he chooses for prime positions. Visiting Cartoonist Goldwaters Impact on the Campus would be imposed. In T950 the Senate gave the necessary approval to a proposed constitutional amendment allotting electoral -- votes on the basis of the popular vote for candidates in each state. But the House refused to go along. At present A candidate need win only a majority in a state in order to receive all the electoral votes of that state. In other words, a 1,000-vot- e margin in Utah would give the victor only four electoral votes, whereas a 1,000-vot- e margin in New York would produce 45 electoral votes. That is why the major parties concentrate on carrying the big states. Mr. Kennedy has announced plans to attract the best possible personnel Into the federal service. .A The Economist (London): A world Inured to Mr. Khrushchevs sudden shifts of mood ought not to be surprised to learn that in the last fortof all night he has suddenly dropped his hostile attitude to Adenauer. The change first became apparent people-D- r. when the German ambassador in Moscow, Herr Krill, called on Mr. Khrushchev to discuss the repatriation of German citizens in Russia. The Germans ought to talk to the Russians, said Mr. Khrushchev; Dr. Adenauer was a good fellow, and ought to come to Moscow again. Mr. Khrushchevs unwonted gestures to Bonn can be interpreted in more than one way. Perhaps Mr. Khrushchev, disappointed in his efforts to split the West by wooing Mr. Macmillan, is pursuing the same tactical end by wooing the ! ' 'Germans instead. o But perhaps, on the other hand, his recent suggestion that the- German problem would be solved in 1961 was a serious one, and he wants to open the way to discussions on it. Whatever the interpretation the offer of an olive branch talks to Bonn ought to be welcomed in London. If East-Wes- t are to make real progress, the German question, in its largest sense will have to be gone Into. A decent relationship between Moscow and Bonn would obviously be a help then. - Kennedys initial lt ! THIS IS POTENT backing, though electoral reforms have been strongly supported in the past only to falter in the The Appointments Old-tim- TVvIO dency being decided on the basis of the popular vote. system. Two Democrats Senator Mansfield of Montana,' expected to succeed Vice President-elect Johnson as majority leader, and Senator Smathers of Florida propose the abolition of the college, with the presi- - President-elec- t Other Viewpoints ' THERE IS little sense in continuing at this time to concentrate on seeking where there is no chance for agreement But there is much sense in concentrating on the search for settlements where there is a chance for agreement Apart from the fact that thjs would remove tension from certain sectors, it would produce the habit of fruitful negotiation. And If there is to be no war, there must be negotiation. We must distinguish where this can be fruitful., H a'" if W Senator From Sandpit . By Ham Park Things a woman says ara often puzzling to a man, but still more puzzling are tha things she doesnt say. Inflation often is just as dangerous and costly when it occurs in heads as when its in currency. There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. Richter. Poor But Proud A family living in an outlying community had applied for relief. A represent- ative of the Welfare Commission was interviewing a Faul Chesley says that one customer who isnt always right Js the one whosa bill is long past due. large, ' woman of middle age. .Do you rent? he folks owe any back house asked. Mister, w e Ham Park may be needing relief, the woman flared, but Ill have you understand that we have got modem plumbing! A (C feels Dale Hamilton says a. perwith wide tastes usually Is someone who likes almost everything that isnt popular---- '' son- Prayer God, give me sympathy and can be said for both sides. And unfortunately, it always is- - Jli always hus-ban- In political matters, much fft. woman better after a "good cry it either gets a lot of pent-uemotion out of her system, or whatever it js she wants out of her Notes on Cuff Department Definition of a youngster: Someone who, when he watches a movie on TV, is seeing it for the first time,- Before our marriage, a- woman complained, "he used to shower me with gifts.' But recently theres been a dry spell." Its a fast age.- - An impossibility of yesterday becomes a luxury today and a necessity tomorrow. Grit Note to C Clyde Squires, Great Neck, N.Y.: Thanks for your kind wishes. Im glad to report ,that tha Missus is home and is gradually regaining her health Apparently, my cooking is doing her no harm. -- , , sense, And help to keep my cour age high; God, give me calm and confidence, Ahd, please, a twlnkls In my eye. Anon |