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Show ' m w 'W y i y- 'ry TYTttT - r,W '49 y 22 Scorched Earth Policy fbf Salt itkf Snbtine The Public Forum 1961 Thursday Morning, May 25, ployment. Reflecting the .national picture, 15 high schools in Salt Lake County will give Why Not Talk? The unstable, uncertain nature of the situation in the Republic of Korea is nowhere more clearly demonstrated than in the sudden announcement by the military coup leader there that he would leavfe immediately for the United States to meet with President Kennedy. This apparently was news not only to President Kennedy, but to American officials and just about everyone else in Korea. Still, wire reports Wednesday said Lieutenant General Chang Do Yung had packed his bags and made plane reservations. REACTION TO the visit in Washington was negative. Lincoln White, State Department press officer, said Mr. Kennedy had such a crowded schedule prior to his forthcoming trip to Europe that a visit with General Chang would not be practical or feasible at this time. ; This was a rejection of the move toward an understanding between the new military rulers of South Korea and the United States an understanding which all reports from Seoul indicate is sadly needed. Diplomatically speaking, perhaps the rejection of (the offer of General Chang to visit President Kennedy is correct. But something more than diplomatic nicety is needed to deal with the chameleonic and chaotic changes taking place in so many parts of the world today. none-too-poli- have Would Nikita Khrushchev bluntly turned down General Changs proposal for a visit? . The United States doesnt have to commit itself to anything by agreeing at least to welcome and talk with the man who appears to exercise actual, if not wholly legal, control of the country in which we have so much at stake. Nor does President Kennedy, admittedly extremely busy, have to devote hours to personal talks with General A brief meeting, followed by Chang. lengthier exchanges with State Department representatives, should suffice. AFTER ALL, the day General Chang's proposal for a visit was so abruptly rejected, the President managed to find time for a leisurely lunch at the White House with Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco charming guests, we are sure, but involving none of the weighty considerations of state such as the future government of Korea and Americas relations therewith. Good Omen of Progress In a light blit nonetheless conclusive election, voters in the Granite District approved a $9,800,000 overwhelmingly bond issue for new school buildings. The vote was 4,653 in favor and only 633 opposed. This continues ft generally progressive pattern of voter approval of bond issues to meet expanding school building needs in Utah. Granite District voters, as well as others in the state who have taken a similar forward-lookin- g attitude, are to be commended. This could have other implications. These same Granite voters, along with others in Salt Lake County, will be asked next month to go to the polls and approve a bond issue to finance the county's Public share of a new joint Safety Building. Still later, perhaps in July, voters of Salt Lake City are expected to be asked to approve a bond issue d to finance a number of capital the for probincluding city, improvements ably the citys share of the Public Safety Building, a new library, a sewage treatment plant, Redwood Road trunk line sewer and some new storm sewers. It is to be hoped the Granite vote augurs well for these other programs to meet the needs of an expanding and increasingly prosperous Salt Lake metropolitan area. city-coun- ty three-wee- k SUMMER WORK for high school graduates is uncertain at best and those who get jobs will do so because of ingenuity, special talent or pull, or all three. Generally speaking work is more plentiful for those looking for permanent employprospects are dim ment, but the long-terindeed for youngsters with only a high school education. SJ On the other side of the coin, jobs for college graduates are about as plentiful as in recent years, though some may be a trifle harder to find. Engineers, as has been the case for some time, merely have to await the best offer. A survey of 210 firms across the nation by Northwestern University shows that starting salaries for engineers average around $520 a month. The same rates hold for chemists, physicists and other scientists. Accountants can expect about $458 a month; salesmen, $451; business Trainees, $439. Pay for teachers is less than for some professions with similar educational requirements, but the difference is considerably offset by the work year. THE BURGEONING missile industry in Utah Improves the demand not only for personnel but technicians d workers. This should enand courage those with talents and inclinations in this area to enroll in d semi-skille- al schools. May, as usual, is a month of tension among high .school seniors, seeking to enter big-nam- universities. e The 13,311 acceptances and 20,248 rejections of applicants to the eight Ivy League colleges are symbolic of hundreds of thousands bf similar triumphs and disappointments in the nation. Denver mathDon F. Odell, ematical genius who was rejected by Swarthmore College, is 1961s hero of the system of admitting top talent by at least 350 selective colleges. Adding insult to injury, the Ivy schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Biown, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania and Cornell) put 1,125 on waiting 4,581' students lists and whose status may not be clarified until September. A 6 per cent decrease in the number of applications to the Ivy schools is attributed to a combination of better counseling, more sensible appraisal of educational institutions by students and their parents and a gradual realization that virtues of some schools have been overrated and near-chaot- ic over-admitt- oversold. The blg-nam- e private schools of East and West have no monopoly by any means tunity. on culture, status and oppor- Many high school graduates find that less glamorous colleges and universities fully challenge them intellectually and equip them just as well for business or professional life. A TOTAL OF 900,000 freshmen are expected to enter college next fall, and the Ivy League, with its total of 8,720 places, will represent slightly less than 1 per cent of the total. College expenses have more than doubled in the last two decades but so far theres a place for practically everybody who wants to continue his education beyond the high school. To keep it that way, according to the U.S. Office of Education, the American public will have to spend more than 64 billion dollars on classrooms, teachers and dormitories in the next decade. And high school graduates will have to accept the fact that a good college education can be obtained elsewhere than at a e school. blg-nam- Potomac Fever By Fletcher Knebel WASHINGTON, D.C. Westerns are in for a bad year. Every marshal from Dodge City to Deadwood has been yanked off TV by Bob Kennedy and sent to Ala- bama. They may have to extend the Vienna Summit Conference another day so Khrushchev can digest the agenda of all the things the State Department says Kennedy doesnt expect to accomplish there. Republican Leader Dirksen is accused Thats unfair. pompous verbosity. Dirksens oratory has a shimmering, adhesive quality like a ping pong match played on fly paper. of The government trains a dozen women astronauts. The ladies will orbit in pairs. When a gals finally weightless, she demands a witness. The Supreme Court orders Du Pont to sell its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors. This is like asking Dun to fire Bradstreet. Flannery in Baltimore Evening Sun . and thataway . . . They went thataway . . and thataway. . f . v ' At long last, the New Frontier has brought harmony to the Pentagon. The generals and admirals are all united against Assistant Defense Secretary Sylvester. We strongly recommend the libraries on Sundays and holidays. We also urge the expansion of the bookmobile service. LAMAR W. SORENSEN, , President, SLCTEA. opening; Unstated Reasons Editor, Tribune: Will Rogers used to say that all he knew was what he read in the papers. I read the paper (May Marquis Childs GENEVA Ar- Recently thur Dean got a telephone call from a friend in New York. The friend, head of a large along with other elements in the Pentagon, are pressing President Kennedy either to break off the talks or to announce that while they go on the United States will nevertheless testing again. DEAN ARGUES the case for going on with what he believes to be a supremely that important endeavor Russia will gain far more than the United States if both powers start testing again, that the U.S. arsenal already contains two and f times the volume to destroy the Communist half of the world, that world opinion must be convinced the United States will go all the way to get a test ban with workable guarantees. When Dean and John J. McCloy, the Presidents adviser on disarmament, went through a long briefing preliminary to taking on their respective jobs, one of the proposals for the new wave of nuclear armament, to be achieved with resumed testing, was unveiled for them. start advertising agency," began by insisting that the nuclear test ban talks, which Dean is co- nducting for the United States, be broken off at once and ended by berating Dean for squandering the taxpayers money enin such a wrong-headedeavor. Dean was disturbed and at first somewhat puzzled by his friends intense feeling on the subject of nuclear tests. BUT IT developed that along with 200 other advertising executives the friend had been brought to Washington by the Air Force for an indoctrination in the need to improve America's nuclear weaponry. The Air Force, the munitions industry, certain highly influential scientists, one-hal- In its fantastic science-fictioquality it has lived vividly in Dean's mind. n Senator From Sandpit By Ham Park Brevity is the great charm of eloquence. Cicero. A One Speech Guy In a rural community, I am told, there is a homegrown orator who enjoys on speaking any and every occasion. He always manages, however, to switch his oration into some form or other of Patrick Henrys immortal Give me lib- erty, or give me death. His friends became tired of hearing that speech so often, so they decided to assign him a topic. After giving the matter considerable thought, they selected the horse as a subject and asked him to speak on that animals service to mankind, believing that it would keep him off his favorite topic. But they were wrong, as this excerpt from his address proves: he began, My friends, "my dear friends, what is the noblest of mans friends? If you would be truthful you must answer, The horse. Yes, the horse is- - indeed mans noblest friend. But did you ever in the still watches of the night hear ft commotion down in the barn? And when you crept out into the silent night, did you not find mans noblest friend writhing in agony on the stable floor? Colic, my friends, colic. 'L. patriot Give me liberty, or give me death. Notes on Cuff Department A joint checking account is seldom overdrawn by the wife. It's just by her husband. under-deposite- Polly Harman says a smart girl is one who can hold a man at arms length without losing her grip on him. It's Dave Coursey's philosHard work never ophy: killed anybody. But after all resting is responsible for very few casualties. After we get tired of blaming all the crime, immorality and general cussedness in the world on liquor, TV and the movies, feminine fashions and politics, says O. P. Hesser, we are apt to discover that human nature has a few kinks in it. It is said that sudden riches have a bad habit of creating new wants instead of satisfying the old ones. Just the same, Id like to try them for a change. Young Fisherman He whistled gaily as he walked barefooted down the road Toward the meadow where a stream was rainbow trtfdts abode. He threaded line upon his pole, then fastened on the hook On which he put a wiggling worm with a "come and get me look. . "And what is colic, my friends? Is It not air confined in that noble animals stomach? And is not that air saying, yes, saying the words of that immortal American He cast into a likely spot where riffles separate . . . He whistled gaily as he took the fish that took the bait Remelda Nelson Gibson, Tooele, Utah. - In oversimplified form the concept is as follows: By testing a megaton (equivalent to one million tons of TNT) nuclear warhead can be reduced from 200 pounds to 35 pounds. Consequently, the missile to carry it can be greatly reduced in firepower and in size. These small warheads and smaller missiles, capable of reaching targets in the Soviet Union, can be mounted on specially built trucks. They can be manned by a lieutenant and a sergeant. Up to 50,000 of these missile-equippetrucks would be kept crisscrossing the United States night and day on a rotating basis. THIS WOULD insure that at all times a sufficient retaliatory striking power would escape destruction from a first strike by the Soviets. The principal author, as he is also the principal protagonist of starting new tests, is Edward Teller, the distinguished physicist who is credited with much of the original work on the hydrogen bomb. What if the Hungarian freedom fighters had had this warhead, Teller argues. To some of his listeners it appeared that the result would have been to blow up the freedom fighters along with most of Hungary and also to have perhaps t launched an nuclear war. Yet the Teller concept is said to have won over a considerable segment of the Air Force along with other military protagonists of renewed testing. IN GENEVA, where diand plomacy, watchmaking are the principal industries, many conferences are always in progress. The conference on Laos has begun to wind a lethargic way through the complexities of that tragic musical-comedkingdom. But in the marathon conference on nuclear testing the stakes are highest of alL It is not alone the threat of a new wave of nuclear armaments in, the United States and almost certainly in the Soviet Union as well. Within a relatively short time other nations France, China, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany will become members of the nuclear club unless an enforceable control system is agreed to. At times, as the weary exchange covers the same ground at the conference table in the Palais des Nations, It seems hopelessly out of reach. YET BECAUSE the stakes are so fearfully high. Dean and the others who think like him will persist as long as they are allowed to. As Bernard Baruch said a long time ago, when there seemed a hope of stopping the nuclear arms race before it had begun, the choice is between the quick and the dead. Editor, Tribune: In assessing the labor situation at Cape Canaveral there are a few things we should keep in mind. Probably the first and foremost 4s the fact that the national fight and effort to destroy organized labor is sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Barry Gold-wate- Editor, Tribune: A hundred years ago a man who sought to ridicule Abraham Lincolns long legs asked Mr. Lincoln how long a persons legs should be. Mr. Lincoln replied: Long enough to reach the ground. Today thousands of visionary, socialistic crackpots float in the air above Washington, D.C., without any visible connection with the ground. Soon it will be necessary for the people of the United States to measure President Kennedys legs to see if they reach the ground. FRANK E. ROSS, Cheyenne, Wyo. Foolish Fuss d all-ou- hotel-keepin- ( Editor, Tribune: I don't know why all the fuss about background music at the post office. If the postal employes who work there and who listen to it for eight hours every day are happy, we patrons should be able to listen to it for the few minutes we're there. Anyway, you can barely hear it in the lobby. WILLIAM S. BROWN Open on Sundays Editor, Tribune: The Salt Lake City Teachers Assn, wishes to commend the Library Board for recommending that the library be open on Sundays and certain holidays. Many people of the community would appreciate the opportunity to visit the library on a day when they werent pressed for time and could spend leisure hours in this way. The teachers of Salt Lake City are naturally very corcerned about the city library. We are as a group recommending that funds for the new library be provided in the coming bond election. The teachers of Salt Lake City would also like to see more use made of the bookmobiles, especially during the summer months. Students who have been instilled with a desire to read and study soon miss their school library during the summer months. This thirst for knowledge should not be dulled by a lack of facilities. This is also a good way to keep these sharp young B. S. Tango Takes Two Way Up in Air Stakes Horribly High in Nuclear Tallis 12) about Gov. Clyde not reappointing Dr. Soffe. Im sure Will Rogers would be wrong this time as no one could read the real reasons this time when a majority of the board not only was for Dr. Soffe but had cause to be very angry. The real reasons were not given. This is not to the credit of a free press. $5,-85- 0. h long-neede- Visitin"O Cartoonist v;. m technical-vocation- to profit most pro-fesslo- ' college-traine- ' Editor, Tribune: The dental profession repairs teeth, which takes special training, and thus make a lividg to support their families. The medical profession heals the body which takes special training and thus can support their families. But the educational which handles the " minds of the nations youth and which takes special fails to make training, enough to support their loved ones. In all truth the Utah teacher makes less than, the fellow that drives the local beer truck or who c handles the local garbage. Wake up Utah. The cream of the teaching crop is being taken by California , and other states. Why? Lets contrast a typical California salary with the Granite School District With the M.A. degree Granite starts at $4,224, California at After 16 long years the teacher in Granite School District can reach $6,552. After Jour short years the sa,me scale in California would be $6,540 and at the end of 12 years $8,380. 1 contrast the M.A. degree salary because I would not want to embarrass Utah by putting down the salary offered the teacher with the B.A. Now Zion is beautiful and money is the root of evil but a man has to eat and wishes to give his full time to his profession and not split it with a night job.- Utah, wake up, and face the issues. At least give your teachers the pay scale of the local ditch digger. CALIFORNIA BOUND graduation diplomas to 4,958 seniors period which began during a with exercises at Bingham Tuesday and which closes with Rowland Halls commencement program June 11. nine-mont- minds occupied and out ol ' mischief. The ' moneys which ara available to the libraries should be used to expand its facilities to the limit The library offers a service to. the public. Those reiponsi-ble should be sure this service is made available when and where the public is able Skimmed Cream Graduation, a Time of Triumph, Despair These are memorable weeks for hundreds of thousands of youthful Americans who are completing high school work and laying plans for higher education and em- Our Readers By . I see by the paper that a union president freely admitted that his union had ceased work by legal strike, temporary work stoppage, etc., 25 times in five years. Many of those, were of minute duration, some a few hours, brought about by contract violation by the employer. We must keep in mind here, that against scores of weapons in the hands of unscrupulous, employers the laboring man has only one (only one) weapon, his constitutional and moral right to withhold his labor to enforce contract provisions. We must keep in mind, too, that it is a matter of record that a union lost a grievance before the NLRB because the year before it failed to file a grievance against exactly the same abuse. Regarding the $730 a week income for some skilled workers at Cape Canaveral we must keep in mind that a situation like this has to be collusion, and must, also, include the cooperation and news censorship by the press. You know, it takes two to tango. That the labor situation at Cape Canaveral has delayed our man in space program is just simply a lie out of whole doth. It is the scientific and technical development being and anxiously feverishly worked upon in a hundred laboratories and experiment stations over the United States that is holding up (or if you please) advancing our man in space program and not the launching pad and facilities at Cape Canaveral. DEVERS C. OWENS, Garland, Utah. Soaper Says The public speaker phrase, in conclusion, bears about as much relation to his conclusion as a parent's Im telling you kids for the last time does to telling the kids for the last time. Since none of the worlds prominent politicians ever turn up as winners, we assume that ihe annual liars club contest is for amateurs only. We cant afford to make any more wiU we lose the next election. Itll boo-boo- s ... not only " start a wave of throughout the country. ft j f m |
