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Show -- r t" v- x f :r;r 'rrrr rrr' r 13 i Captive Audience file Balt fake tribune i Potomac Fever By Fletcher Knebel Monday Morning, August 21, 1961 Republicans are fretful. They say WASHINGTON too Rockefellers liberal, Goldwaters too conservative and Nixons too subject to change without notice. City Fiscal Changes Need Overall Study noted Inadequate records of land, buildings find improvements; incomplete records of investment in stock irrigation companies; lack of standardization of records of employes overtime, sick leave and vacation time; and failure of the city to establish as required by law an actuarial basis for its police pension system. In addition to these areas of possible Improvement in Salt Lake City accounting procedures there is the question of implementing the new Uniform Municipal Fis- cal Procedures Act, passed by the last Legislature and now in effect. Cubans boast that Castro has given them a brand of communism superior to Eastern Europes: Easier to escape from. Republicans, noting Kennedys high domestic spending, have a slogan for youthful New Frontiersmen: "Go waste, young man. Co waste. It The Salt Lake City Commission has' before it for consideration a law creating the office of internal auditor, whose duty it would be to keep a close and independent check on city finances for the disclosure of any defalcations or financial irregularities. Establishment of such an office was recommended by the firm of Haskins & Sells in connection with its contractual responsibility for an independent audit of city affairs, including any recommendations for better controls. AT THE SAME TIME this ordinance was presented to the commission, Haskins & Sells made its final report on its 1960 audit. A number of other weaknesses In addition to lack of a satisfactory internal audit were called to public attention. West Berlin conversation: Schmidt "What are you Just got in doing here from East Germany? Schlegel under the wire. The Public Forum ' ' Editor, Triburte: Like many other people, Richard S. Morrison (Forum, Aug. 18) likes to play with words. The United States, he declares, is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Why of course it Is a constitutional republic, but it is also a democracy, though in a few states people are still denied the ballot because of the color of their skin. Mr. Morrison is entitled to his game but he shouldnt take it too seriously. Words are only words, after all. FERD CARLQUIST well-meanin- act. Some are automatically effective, such as the change beginning next June 30 from a calendar fiscal year to a July 1 to June 30 fiscal year. Others, while legally in effect, depend for full effectiveness on some positive action by the City Commission or the city auditor. For instance the auditor under the new law is named the citys budget officer, with certain increased responsibility and authority over budget preparation, execution and control. Connecticut, which has taken the lead among the states in reducing carnage on the highways by getting tough with drivers, is using similar methods to discourage littering. I The state has a rigid point system for grading traffic violations which has served as a model for other states. Such a point ; system can lead to revocation of drivers , THERE ARE provisions for city departments to justify their budget requests with work programs and other supporting data. And certain capital improvement, surplus or utility funds can be set up for separate accounting and to permit carryover of funds from year to year for construction projects, to meet emergencies or to reduce tax anticipation borrowing.' The City Commission would be wise to consider all these changes and improvements in accounting procedures and financial controls at the same time. While they are not wholly interconnected there is some relationship. Certainly there is necessity for the city auditor and .the commission to reach agreement on any changes to be made. ' licenses. Now Connecticut j t is using. the point system against litterbugs.. Anyone of throwing trash on highway right-of-wareceives a demerit , against his license as well as being fined. This system doubtless will be watched by other states which are finding their litter laws hard to enforce. By the way, last did you hear of anyone being ; when arrested in this area for tossing litter out of an automobile? con-evict- ed ys one-poi- nt And Now, Fair Time Although it embraces eight growing communities and boasts the largest population in Utah) Salt Lake County still is the scene of considerable agricultural Furthermore a piecemeal approach does not make nearly as much sense as an overall study and decision. activity. Many products of Salt Lake County farms will be on exhibit at the annual county fair which opens today at the county fairgrounds, 5200 South State, Murray, and continues all week. Compet- The City Commission might well seek professional advice and consultation as to a package approach to fiscal procedure Improvement. ing for interest with the farm animals and products of fields, gardens and orchards Suffrage Anniversary will be ceramics, candy, baked goods, flowers and other homemaking exhibits. A parade and fireworks will mark the in the ; beginning of fair time festivities evening. Fall is just around the comer when county fairs bust out all over. City residents will find it rewarding to visit the fair. Sidewalks and Legs A sharp upsurge in moving sidewalk Installations is noted in a recent Business Week article. By the end of the year there will be nearly 70 of these sidewalks in a variety of situations. The first moving sidewalk was installed at the B. F. Goodrich display at Chicagos Museum of Science and Industry in 1952. The first commercial application was at the Erie Railroad Station in New Jersey in 1954. Since then they have been installed at airports, shopping centers, department stores, industries, and even at a car wash and a motel. AH of which we suppose is in the interest of progress although one cant .help wondering what human beings will be doing with their legs a few thousand years from now. , . Whats the proper etiquette do you hold the ear of com still and move your head or keep your head still and move the corn? " Catch up with the Russians? snorts an "We havent ; angler on the Snake River. even learned to outsmart fish! Senator Hayden of Arizona, 83, the only member still in Congress who voted 42 years ao to submit the woman suffrage amendment to the states, was honored in Washington the other day by the League of Women Voters. The league succeeded the National American Woman Suffrage Association which worked zealously for years to win the vote for distaff citizen?. Senator Hayden was a member of the House when the amendment was approved in 1919. The anniversary of woman suffrage is officially observed August 26, the date on which, in 1920, the amendment was proclaimed Suffragettes, as crusaders for the vote were called, suffered humiliation and scorn, some of them even going to jail. Not all prejudice against women in politics has subsided, although there are 18 of the fair sex in Congress, two in the Senate. A book, Women Confidential, designed to be a shocker, proclaims that the hand that rocks the cradle is now wrecking the nation. Despite the promises that woman suffrage would mean an end to war, crime and corruption, the country has gone through the bloodiest wars of history, more crime on a larger scale than ever before, more corruption In politics, juvenile delinquency, and so forth. The book fails to pin the blame on women, however. Actually if more women banded together to study problems and promote better government, as does the League of Women Voters, conditions might be greatly improved. Fettered Teachers Monday Morning Travel Talk Trip Is Finished; So Is Bank Account Vacations over; glad were back. But, wow, It cost a lot of ' jack. - records this year. And from the number of sheep wagpn campers, trailer ' houses' and loaded cartop earners one sees on the roads, more and more tourists are taking along their own beds and pantries. POISON ivy is an obliging little vegetable. If you forget how to identify it, it reminds Hartford CouranL you. One reason may be the price of beds at commercial places. You go to a hotel In a convention city where reservations have been made for you and gulp when you note that the charge for a double" room Is $17.50 a day. But I dont want television, radio and ice water, you explain. WE DONT HAVE any rooms without them, the clerk smiles. In fact, you have one of our cheapest rooms. A check of the less swanky hostelries in the neighborhood reveals that the price differential is only two or three dollars. You take your family to a lake resort. The large room with two double beds for $12 seems tolerable under the conditions. But on your arrival the double beds turn out to be bunks, the upper one supported by native timbers. You are fearful of sleeping beneath two heavyweight youths and realize, The shade trees are showing the effects of the long, dry summer. likewise the lawn. Not so the crab grass. This Is a great year for in weeds, incidentally front yards, back yards, and In the garden of International amity. The best that you can say for August is that the nights begin getting cooler. THE STARTING of school is less than two weeks away. And they are counting the days the mothers, that is. The real trees are taking a beating but not so the ones which have made their dazzling appearance on Main Street reminding us to make this months payment on the bill from last Christmas. uminum -- of nuclear Resumption tests underground is predicted. What, and blow up the homes, factories, warehouses and bomb shelters being built down there? Every now- - and then our military allows it to leak through that we have developed a new sort of hu-ma- We didnt realize the degree to which the country had gone to pot until Sunday when we had to try three drug stores before y we could buy some nails. gas. This ones does not kill the victim; It simply paralyzes his nerve cen- , What manner of man is Nikita Khrushchev? That question has bothered the West ever since Khrushchev came out of obscurity to become the leader of the Soviet Union. The obscurity, however, was more apparent than real. Khru- missible to kill any number of bystanders because both sides did it and because it was necessary for victory. AS KELLEN remarks in a footnote, Khrushchev's purposes today might be comprehended better by the West if more attention were paid to the civil war of the shchev, in fact was close to the throne and, after Stalins death, he moved rapidly from being one among a select number to a position of 1 Only then did the West realize the woeful Inade-- s quacy of its knowledge of Soviet politics. The story of Khrushchevs as told by Konrad Kellen, Is most revealing. Khrushchev began his political education in the Russian civil war. "A gruesome school," says Kellen, but an effective one. It . . . t , career, ... mattered ... that it was per- 1920s. . , i The account of Staling death and what followed also helps explain Khrushchev. Early In 1953 the aging dictator began preparing for a great super-purge- . Per- haps Stalin was really insane and was bent only on destruction. Kellen, however, believes there was another reason: Stalin was not far from the truth when he suspected that all who surrounded him were eagerly looking forward to his death. If not actively plotting it." . THEN, JUST as the superpurge was taking form, Stalin did die. And Beria, the secret police chief who may have been first on Stalins list, was the first to be executed under the new regime. Beria advocated a turn to leniency. The East German uprisings of July, 1953, proved him wrong. So he was sentenced to death because, as Khrushchev has reportedly explained, the only correct measure was to shoot him immediately, then look for evidence. The West just doesnt understand this sort of thing. But neither does Khrushchev understand the West, though he thinks he does. And this, Kellen believes, constitutes Khrushchevs Achilles heel. He is a prisoner of "comfortable myths and slogans." So, too, unfortunately, are Western statesmen. Theodore Long. , ters and his will Mr. Ryskind to resist, leaving the immediate terrain and valuable real estate properties intact, so that the conqueror can take Instant possession without having to endure the tire- that could be, though, Amer- ican civilization will some day be traced to the reclining lawn furniture which captures and softens us instead of making us uncomfortable enough to get up and weed the garden and mow the lawn. - some process of rebuilding. Which, with prices what they are, no sane nation wants to go through. Pity the poor bachelor. He Is obliged to view shots of other peoples children without any Immediate prospects of retaliation. Female Viewpoint Vacationing neath open skies, What a sportmans paradise! Bivouacked beside a brook. Catching a dinner with a hook. Mom can think of greater joys Than roughing it With Dad and boys. Secretly shes simply ltchin To get back to her modern kitchen. Lola W. Waters in Wall Street Journal. THE RUSSIANS, alas, are known to be in possession of the same weapon, so the whole matter would be a Mexican standoff except for the fact that we, being a moral nation, will not use the gas except in retaliation. But, once we have been paralyzed and our will to resist demolished, the rules of the game permit those of us not totally immobilized to do our damnedest That means that Barry . Goldwater, John Tower and Gen. Walker who seem to be immune to any gas, Russian or New will have to fire Frontier our last shot, and I can only e hope the Department of has Instructed them In the technique. De-fens- Tourist Notes Camping la breaking truck-and-ca- clogged . U.S. the Orem through r 91-8- 9 Provo-Springvil- business district bottleneck. Memorable sight that never grows old: the turquoise of Bear Lake bordered by tall cottonwoods and green fields. Suggestion for more safety and less tension on the road: That drivers of trucks, cars pulling trailers and other slow moving vehicles - pull to the side of the high-a y periodically to let -- backed-u- p traffic go by. OUR TEENAGER swears hes unaffected by violence on television. Hes too intrigued with those crazy old cars that Eliot Ness and A1 Capone ride in. ERNE LINFORD all - , It Criminal Please Editor, Tribune: assure Joel Mayhall (Forum, Aug. 6) that The Tribune reaches Helper regularly and that Harrison has read about Dictator Rhee in Korea, Dictator Franco in Spain, Dictator Salazar in Portugal, Dictator Batista in all either once or Cuba still are friends. We did not oppose these dictators since they are not communistic. We never concern ourselves about the people in these countries. But now we will go to war, if necessary, for the of our recent enemies, the Ber- liners, because they might end up under a Communist dictator. Does that make sense? It is criminal. Tell Marion S. Russon that Harrison is not kidding. Has Mr. Russon heard of the Russian space ships that orbited the earth with men on board and which could drop a hydrogen bomb on any spot in the earth? Also, what would be his reaction if Berlin were in the heart of West Germany and the Russians wouldnt get out? And to Richard S. Morrison I would say that to release Berlin to East Germany would In no way be It is just appeasement. mature, good sense. Mr. Morrison sounds as if he would be willing to engage in a galaxy war should Russia reach the moon first. G. T. HARRISON, Helper, Utah. Cancel This Race Editor, Tribune: Any de- parture from the high standards established by our pioneer forebears reflects upon all of us. In the minds our- - fellow-American- happens in Heber, Provo, or St George good is typical of all of or bad Utah., Break-Throug- h Because of this, every community owes a strict obligaour attitude on Berlin, on tion to the others. Now I realize fully this It Is, therefore, most Is a touchy subject, and I which the Western allies to hear that' the shocking issue daily announcements' have no wish to be an race from that they are preparing Duchesne horse alarmist to Heber, in which caution but tough protests, seven horses have allegedly But It is my reluctant against reprisals? been ridden to death in preconclusion, after reviewing acvious races, is to be repeated THE MOST vigorous the recent bewildering rection so far has been taken in September . . . this In the ord of America and its allies face of statewide protest by Englands Prime Minister free world, of the A Tribune news item Macmillan, who, on learning that the Russians have been of the closing Of the border 30) announces that (July conducting some extracurEast German forces and the Utah branch of the Hu- - . ricular experiments with the by entrance of the Soviet mane Society of the United the new gas by dropping minitroops, promptly left for a States will monitor the mal quantities of it upon us, vacation on event grouse-shootin- g just enough to leave us withj the Yorkshire moors. The fact that a Utah our literary talents unwill sponsor an community touched but unable to impleI am open to argument, event with such Implications ment our words. but I see no possible exof cruelty to animals that it How else account for our planation for the above requires the presence of a and many similar actions strong words and subsehumane society is quite unexcept on the hypothesis quent Inaction In Laos? believable. How else account for our I have advanced. For everybodys good, the Issuing six or seven ultirace should be Immediately I am not a. warmonger, matums to the bearded and I do not doubt for a cancelled. chicken plucker from Cuba? CLARA A SIMMONS, moment that the Russian AMELLIA GRANT. HOW ELSE account for experiments have been made - the fact that we, a nation purely in the interest of Entitled to Know science ahd the findings will, perilously close to bankIn due time, be given to the ruptcy, are about to pledge Editor, Tribune: Rep. whole world with the imclose to nine billion dollars Thomas M. Felly has re Sen. Byrd, one of the few pulsive generosity for which quested from Secretary of the USSR is Justly renowned. active Democrats who can Commerce Is cost Hodges the names a this of the Nevertheless, add, says funding of American firms seeking will bring the sum to four touchy world that Includes to a group of such suspicious Individuals times that export licenses to trade with as Goldwater, Tower and Soviet Russia and other nations, some of which, like Walker, and it mightnt be European Red nations. Brazil, are already playing footsie with the enemy? And a bad thing to appoint a Arent the American people entitled to know the names that, though, we make noble committee of scientists protestations, It is as certain lets leave Linus Pauling off" of American firms who are and nothing in this one, for hes on too as taxes doing business with counto tries Interested In overAmerica Is surer these days many committees now that the Free Soviet Restudy the subject throwing our government If my hypothesis Is wrong, especially If the American public of Cuba will eventherell be no harm done, If taxpayer Is subsidizing this tually share In that bounty I am right well be able to trade? in no small measure? HARLON W. BEMENT And how else account lor write a strong note about It Another Great Russian the truth It irritating place to caught in the midafternoon heat is on A most be y . "ex-tremi- st what Morrie Ryskind Granddaughter Kimmys cut a tooth! the decline and fall of two-part- t one who teaches them never seems to make choices? I would be the first one to recommend dismissal of a teacher who taught only about the political party he belonged to or who tried to influence students political, ly, but if he Is a good teacher he never presents just one side of any controversial problem. - I think the groups mentioned in your editorial of Aug. 17 and The Salt Lake Tribune need to be aware and recognize that there are other ideas, even ideas fostered and promoted by these groups' that are having as much deleterious effect on positive Americanism as groups. LOUISE P. HESS of The Brighter Side Berlins a worry, Khrushchevs mad; The market's crazy; drought stays bad. Somethings cheerful, that's New Biography Probes His Character unhappily, that mom and dad are hardly any less weighty. So the younger and heavier son curls up in a sleeping bag on the floor, grumbling that he would be happier camping out. The prettiest Main Street in all Utah is at Torrey, lined with tall poplars which accent bright red cliffs. , ten-penn- taught that the weak did not survive, that there was no bridge between enemies. . . . It taught that only ends Editor, Tribune: Your of Aug. 17 is my reason for writing this letter. I should like to know how teachers In Utah. can teach when they Americanism, arent even allowed to live as free Americans? In 1955 a bill was intro- duced (House Bill 120) that would have provided dismissal for any teacher participating In political activity. It didnt get out of the House Education Committee, but another such bill is being worked on for the 1963 Legislature. How can students be taught dynamic, workable politics by teachers who have had legislated away from them the right to be active politically? A study has been made of a thousand of the 7,000 Americans who were prisonOne ers of war in Korea. of the many points brought out in this study was that teachers are required to teach 60 objectively that they never commit themselves. They are good social science, teachers if their students never find out if they are Democrats or Republicans! Teachers themselves often, feel that they Should not belong to either party. But if we have too many people who do not belong to either party, but just Ill say, Im broad-mindevote for the best man, we are going to have something other than American democracy. If for 12 school years, a student is subjected to teachers who present all facets of political parties and yet never commit themselves to one party or the other, arent we then going to have a lot of citizens who will not commit themselves? How can they learn to critically look at problems and make judgments and decisions, if the edi-tori- What Sort of Man Is Khrushchev? Khrushchev: A Political Portrait By Konrad Kellen. Frederick A. Prae-- . ger, Inc, New York. $5. Our Readers The Word Game A number of important changes in financial controls are provided in this Demerits for Litterbugs By e , |
