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Show S V Page 23 Pe Balt r - But at the same time, honest differences of Interpretation are still J. For example. Senator John Stennis, head of a subcommittee studying the situation, says he still believes there has been no lessening of the Cuban military threat since offensive missiles and bombers were removed from the island. Stennis believes the presence of Soviet troops is cause fordeep concern. President Kennedy does too for he told his press conference Thursday he wants to know what Niklta Khrushchev meant by due course In promising to pull out the troops. We agree with the senator up to a point Military might in aTiostile country so close to the United States can hardly be viewed with indifference. i But we bdiee that UJS. Intelligence methods are capable of keeping the Cuban threat under control. it was the work of the sendees which was the most Indeed, sig- - Bill to Ban Competition Eight years ago a bill purporting to protect the publics health, safety and welfare in connection with the sale of eyeglasses was rejected when Governor Clyde vetoed it following passage by both houses, l The Tribune opposed that bill because we felt Its intent was not to protect th public but to protect a special Interest group in the optical business against price competition. . IN HIS VETO message Governor Clyde said he saw no reason for prohibiting honest price advertising which so long as It Is truthful, may have a very wholesome effect on the price of glasses paid by . , the public in general. Now this same bill Is In the process of " going through the Legislature again- with the same insistent and elaborate pressure lobby working for lts passage. Supporters of SB 37, now on third reading calendar in the Senate, are again contending that its aim is to upgrade the optometry profession. We do not see how elimination of competition will upgrade the optometry profession or Insure high standards. It could do just the opposite. IT SHOULD BE emphasized that ex isting law. regulating optometry provides j ample safeguards against false, misleading or deceptive advertising and requires I that offers for sale of any optical article I state quality, grade and special character-- ; Istics. ' This bill is just as wrong as it was eight "years ago. We hope the Legislature' 'rejects it, or if it doesnt that Governor Clyde 'will once again veto It in the public Interest f Death of a Warrior The old warrior is dead, but America still sings the songs he inspired. He was at once a man of the desert, and a man of anyplace in the world where warfare been built into legends of bravery, has ; bragadoccio and brilliance. A fighter to the end, and a respected one. Abd El Krim is dead in Cairo, Egypt, ! at the age of .78. It doesn't seem that , long ago to men who manned the news desks of American newspapers In the '30s, ; for in those days his forays against the j Spanish and the French made daily head 2 lines. The prisoners he took he killed. The women he gave to his troops." And the - Riffs went on into the desert sunset, like . they sing It in The Riff Song and wrote j history in the sands of the Sahara. ! The Desert Song is supposedly in- , 7 spired by Abd ET Krim and his career as the warrior of the Riffs." It is good V; music, and Nelson Eddy still belts it out. It shows up now and then on the late show, and always generates a. certain amount of respect for a man who fought ;for what he believed, and dedicated his life to a war he knew he could never win. ' ; He fought the good fight May Allah rest his soul. " 1 1 - Visiting Cartoonist f- - ic district dangerous. Honest differences of opinion are a necessary part of the democratic process. Wrangling and cries of fraud can only be devisive and paralyzing. Moreover, as President Kennedy said Govern- . meat cannot act on rumors and reports. It must have the facts which it is. now obtaining through aerial surveillance. at his press conference, the U.S. The American public now has a clear and, in our opinion, trustworthy evaluation of the military situation in Cuba. But there is more to the threat of -- sh buy asked her COM polices, tax cut Legislators receptive to the tax reduction are aware of the deficit it will create In the budget and have indicated opposition to any spending at this educatime. The Presidents tion package (spread over three years) does not square with the present temper of Congress. This Is not to say that the college student loan program and the federal tion to Impact areas 1 where a heavy in- flux of federal workers has disrupted school finances) will not be voted. But the big, basic handouts for construction and teacher salaries seem to face tough sledding. This outlook should put state lawmakers at Sacramento on notice that solutions to our problems of financing state schools must be found within the state, which is as it should be. California' will be better off to continue building "its superior 'school system from local communities and Sacramento. rather than to abdicate to Washing- ton directives. e Potomac Fever V By Fletcher Knebei WASHINGTON JFK is plagued with transportation probletfls. We almost went to war to get the missiles out of Cuba and now were about to go to war again to get them into Canada. , Things are so bad In New York City, people are paying premium prices for fish just to read the old newspaper its wrapped in. Budget Director Gordon says a balanced budget would produce hard times. These New Frontiersmen are a cautious lot. Yotill never find them venturing to the brink of solvency. g THE CAUSES of their difficulty are complex. First and foremost is the absence of any strong grass roots surge in favor of tax cutting. Next comes the surge of opposition to the Kennedy tax reforms. Among the 40 million plus taxpayers, there is a tiny minority of about 500,000 who will lose more by the reforms than they gam by the reductions. Most of these will lose very little, yet these ' are generally individuals with much leverage. . THE BASIC obstacle to the Kennedy program is ideological, however. Among the wiser business leaders, among conservative as well as economists, among labor leaders and the UJS. Treasury experts and all other serious students of the problem, there is an ideological consensus. These, people believe tax cuts are needed, even at the expense of an unbalanced budget, in order to stimulate stronger economic growth. Most experts even believe lower tax rates will pay for themselves rather soon, by large tax returns from a larger national K I Mr. AIsop sum was disappointing, although this is about the kind of tax relief President Kennedys tax reduction and reform program will give to lower middle income families. At any rate, among the thousand or so people who answered Rep. Griffiths, over 600 said they did not want a tax cut The Griffiths poll, though a mere straw In the wind like all polls, has considerable significance for two reasons. left-win- g First, it has been circulated in the crucial Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, of which Rep. Griffiths is the only woman member. And it is likely to influence the committee quite as much as Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillons carefully prepared opening statement at the tax hearings. Second, the Griffiths poll Is another characteristic item in a considerable body of evidence that the old American political rules about the powers of tax cuts art no longer reliable guides. After tiie Eisenhower-Georg- e Humphrey tax cut of more than seven billion dollars In 1954, the Republicans lost 19 seats in the House and one in the Senate. -- xx&Ba MT v - The Public Forum shocked at a letter by Fern Lyon in the column about Sunday closing. There are many sides to this issue, not just one of freedom to operate a business as a person wants to on Sunday or any other day. No man should need to bonder what his day of rest is. The Lord did this when ile said man should rest on the seventh day and, has been followed by mankind from the beginning of time. d a very few want to change it now just my family. Miss Lyon points out that a workjng man would be satisfied with working Sunday as long as he had another day off. Who has she been talking to? Last year, 200 men were ready to gb out on strike because a company proposed Sunday work with alternating days off. Let us carry this proposal a little further. What about holidays su,ch as Thanksgiving and Christmas? She says that a man should be able to operate any day he wishes as long as he gives another day off. The employer could say, Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, you report for work and take off Tues-"- " or day for Thanksgiving, Friday for Christmas. EMIL K. MONS Little Confidence Editor, Tribune: It was with satisfaction that I noted the outcome of the vote on Jan. 9 on the enlarged House Rules Committee. Since that time I have been waiting to see in the papers in Utah how our congressmen voted. ByTribune Readers House retention of the enlarged committee was not so much a victory for the Democrats as a victory for our democratic form of gov. emment Hie question .was simply whether the representatives of the people should be allowed to freely debate - and dispose of the great current issues or The Lord's Day Editor, Tribune: I was hetier,thleir sh,ould bY taklwjan Los Angeles Times: There was nothing unexpected in the federal package President Kennedy handed Congress. Jt contained most of the provisions of the administration school aid bill that was decisively defeated In 1961. There is little reason to suppose that Mr. Kennedys measure will fare much better than it did before. The same factors which made it unacceptable to Congress are operative today. No one has refuted the basic argument that federal money for local schools means eventual federal influence in local school affairs. Such money is rarely granted without strings, however pious the protestations of political grantors. Moreover, the prognosis for the aid to education measure is not hopeful because it runs counter to the realities spotlighted by Mr. Kennedys proposals for a federal "with a cut of $100 in your federal Income tax?" Maybe the than military might. Castro and his Soviet friends are de termined to expand their influencejJ1 throughout Latin-- America, using ever? agency and tell him weapon, actual or. Ideological, in their that he cant enjoy a com- mon day off with his family arsenal. The same skill and persistence or go to church if he so dewhich the United States employs In keepsires because he would be rebe must Cuba under surveillance aping to work? As a father quired plied elsewhere in this area of the cold of six children, I look forwar. ward to Sunday to be with Same Old Prescription - I would yo K Why-shoul- Other Viewpoints in Detroit What te utes peace. -- ButUn in Sen Frfcnctoeo Chronicle onder if I can use any of the pieces?? f tank-equipp- . U.N. boss U Thant says that ijathf--duchinders women in public life. No apathy among the male statesmen. Theyre so enthusiastic, they seldom giveyou a min- . i questionnaires to her prosperous Democrat- IN EFFECT, the administration said to its critics: Here are our facts where are yours? SOME PREFER to accept rumors and reports. Some continue to say the administration Is not telling the whole truth. We believe such talk is unwise and I IT B ALL but certain that they will fail to secure some items in the proposed list of tax reforms. And it Is not even really certain that they will get the kind of large. Incentive-restorinnet tax cut the President wants. WASHINGTON Not long, ago. Rep. Martha Griffiths sent out several thousand nificant part of the Defense Departments McNamara declared that 5,006 Soviet troops have left Cuba in recent weeks, though 17,000 remain in four motorized, task forces. He does not. believe, however, that any of this heavy military hardware can be used against other Latin American countries Bince the Russians and Cubans do not have the shipping. As for the more than 100 MIGs how In Cuba, McNamara said they are not now adapted for a nuclear bombing strike against the United States. He alsoTcnocked down persistent reports that the Russians have hidden missiles in caves out of sight of aerial cameras. The secretarys factual statements were followed by an briefing narrated by an expert from the Defense Departments intelligence agency. , All In all, it was an impressive performance. Yet there are those who are still not satisfied. n r r iTf r r r rr1 Tax Reduction No Longer. Works in Catching Votes Friday Morning, February 8, 1963 television U.S. program Wednesday. planes, McNamara said, have covered the entire Island of Cuba with fine resolution photography" and every foot of thousands of feet of film has been analyzed. (Fine resolution means the capability of recording small detail) The administration obviously was disturbed by growing criticism of its Cuban policy in the weeks since the missile crisis ended. Hence its decision to reveal so much about Intelligence collecting methods in use. r Joseph AIsop Wailing Roomx afcf JEfibunf With unprecedented frankness, includ-in- g the release of hitherto secret intelligence data, the Kennedy Administration has told the nation that all Soviet offensive. weapons have now been removed from Cuba. And when men as Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and John A. McCone, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, lay the facts on the table In such a manner, their veracity is not open to question. ? VTf T7T7V7T7T77777,7T777T v Frank and Impressive Report on Cuba ; ! " , vote against the raises and also think twice before raising pay for anyone except the teachers. After all we voted against giving the legislators a raise, so they should know how we feel about upping pay for government employes. MRS. S.C.H. Discriminatory ' Editor, Tribune: Much has mittee. been said in the Forum Wishing to determine how a Sunday closing Congressman Lloyd voted, I against law. Most arguments bring called his office and was dis-- , shocked to learn that, as Mr. in the topic of religious but as a leading crimination, Mr. Kings successor, Lloyd, took the polition that the politician was fond of saywelfare of the nation cannot ing: Lets look at the other side of the coin. be entrusted to the entire The present situation, membership of the House which allows Sunday open- of Representatives. I am aping, discriminates against a palled that he apparently shows so little confidence in number of businessmen in the body to which he has the state. If a retail merchant has strong Christian been duly elected. L. BITHELL principles against business on the Sabbath, this same merchant cannot compete Too High Already against the increasing comEditor, Tribune: So they want to raise the governors petition of large corporations because of those resalary and other high offiHe' is cials! What has happened to ligious principles. not any inhandicapped by Utah that they can even of his operation, efficiency think of such a thing right now when our teachers are but by his religion. If the law allows his comso poorly paid? I think our petitor to open Sundays, then teachers are the most useful this law discriminltes citizens we have. Where against the religious-mindewould we be without them? businessman. should think dont anyone I This merchant will have get a raise until teachers get entered business under laws something that is worth that gave him an opportunity their worth. compete without sacrificI am ashamed to belong to ing religious conviction. Is to a state that pays teachers to change the rules such low pay and pays the it right -against him? Either he is governor more than he lorced Into a disadvantaneeds. whereby he position geous My husband doesnt work own for the government but I curtails his to the expansion benefit of wish he did. It is the only and growth are who others unhampered place where anyone makes or money today. If they would by religious aconviction, to he becomes hypocrite cut down on some of the his own way of thinking by high government salaries I not only working on Sunthink they could cut our taxes instead of wanting to days himself, but also by employing others. raise our property tax which KARL SWAN, is far too high now. Tooele, Utah. I hope the Legislature will , d David Lawrence GOP Might Try FDRs Slogans in 64 times to by two or three bring them up- to data A change of wording Is also necessary to remind readers that it is the Democratic Party which obtained majority control for the years from 1954 through 1964. . of The, pronouncement 1932 started with this headline: "The Public Pays crats. Your Taxes and Republican then "Turn the Extravagance." , It went on to you spendthrifts out was the burden of the under groan Mr. battle cry in taxes: remember that the Lawrence Demo- 1932. deficit at the end of the last CTat two years of Hooverism la at,east - around four billion dollars cent m3uctlon 1,1 expenses the greatest In peace time Sng! history. slogans were repro- Remember that this advertisln pace pd huge deficit was not born in the newspapers throughovernight,. out the land. Someone has sent this to correspondjust Remember' that though ent a faded but , readable preached econRepublicans copy of that particular ad, omy in 1920 and 1924, and which was sponsored by highest efficiency National Cam- "promised at lowest cost in 1928, govpaign Committee and which ernment bills have mounted helped to win the presidensteadily. . . tial election for Franklin D. Remember that although Roosevelt against President It was jflear that our chief Hoover. source 4f revenue, income ALL ONE HAS to do is to taxes, would drop seriously substitute the name of- - the and retrenchment was the incumbent and multiply the watchword . in every home deficit figures of those days and business, government WASHINGTON If the Republican Party really wishes to defeat President Kennedy in 1964, maybe all that needs to be done is to take a page out of the campaign history of the Demo- sayt-Whe- " n spending kept merrily on at five million dollars a day more than Income."Democrats pledge at least 25 per cent reduction in expenses. Turn the spendthrifts out. Put responsible government In elect Roosevelt and Garner. Issued by Democratic National Campaign Committee." But thia wasnt just a piece .of Madison Avenue advertising literature. For the Democratic platform, which was adopted at its national convention in Chicago in June 1932, said: We favor maintenance of the National Credit by a federal budget annually balanced on the basis of accurate executive estimates within revenues, raised by a system of taxation, levied on the principle of ability to pay." - THE RECORD shows that, no matter if the candidate of the opposition party happens to be relatively unknown or unqualified, he can defeat the incumbent administration if it has made a mess of taxes and budgets and hurt the credit of the country in the eyes of the world. income. vote-catchin- g These are only a few bits and pieces in a mass of data, all pointing in the same direction. For this very reason, the Presidents tax reduction and reform plan would not now command a majority in the relatively sympathetic House Ways and Means Committee, despite the immense supposed bait of a net tax cut of dose to 10 billion dollars. To get what the President wants through both House and Senate, in fact, the administrations supporters are going to have to work desperately hard. BUT THERE is little acceptance of these Ideas in Congress. The balanced budget orthodoxy has a strong hold, and this is the ideological obstacle. Hence the real motive of the tax reduction, which is to'stimu-lat- e the economy,, is not regarded as justifiable. . Honest avowals of the , real motive; by presidential economic adviser Walter Heller, for instance, actually lose votes.' The highly practical members of the White liaison group are pushing the tax program, not on the ground that it will stimulate economic growth, but on the aimpler ground that the program Is needed to avoid a severe depression. . It will be ironical if this great new departure is made on the basis of arguments having little to do with its real motive. But that Is now the outlook. House-congression- -- Senator From Sandpit Ham Park By It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is Wealthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction. H. W. Beecher Can You Stop Worrying? Last Monday my doctor He took gave me a check-up- . my blood pressure, my pulse, listened to my heart, weighed me, etc. Then he said: "Your blood pressure is 130 over 70; your pulse is normal; there is no congestion in your lungs, and hasnt varied more than a pound or two in the five years youve been my patient Your, physical condition is that of a man 20 years younger han you are. I Then why, doctor, asked, do I feel older than Methuselah: and. Ill bet, a - lot wearier? he is replied, That, caused by worry, anxiety and nervous tension, and you can do more about that than I can. So, I said to myself on my way home, my trouble la -- more mental than physical. Then the words of a song the comedian In a musical comedy I was in used to ing came to me: Oh, Gee, its great to be crazy, crazy, crazy as a loon! Everybodys , . unhappy but the lucky devil whos off his nut! But, I aid, continuing my mental "conversation, I am not unhappy, so Im not off my nut, and my doctor says I am healthy, so what have I got to worry about? Exceptthe Missus health, of course. Well, I was so busy trying .to think of what was worrying me, that I didnt get off the bus at South Temple - and State and ended up at First South. Then I had to cross the street and climb Angina Hill to the Belvedere, and that made me so mad that I had no. room for worry! ( Notes on Cuff Department TVe come to the conclu--- . sion that there are two kinds of people in the world the ' good "and the bad and the good decide which is which. "Conscience is that thing that hurts when everything else feels so good. During my recent illness I received several letters of sympathy. I acknowledged some in the column, and a few I wrote my appreciation. Here are three I just found under a pile of bills: My dear Senator: By daily breakfasting on your wholesome philosophy, I maintain my prescribed weight -without medical expense. yours, Gratefully Margaret Burton, Salt Lake City. Dear Senator: The editorial page isnt quite the same without you. Your Elko readers are legion, and all miss you. Sincerely, Mrs. Jack Errecart, Elko, Nev. ' Do not let the change postage gripe you. Just send along a A letter C.O.D .. Ill gladly pay a nickel when I get it, A letters always worth that . much to me, Agnes Just Reid, Firth, Ida. The Galaxies A galaxy of dancing lights .17 Across the valley lies. Bright replica of distant stars That throng the arching ikies. Below the lights a dreams, -Oblivious of a day Soon dawning to the rhythm Of the stars that march w-- y. , Mans little lights go off and on To signal day andnlght; The luminous high firma'' ment Forever blazes light Mademoiselle X. Soaper Says A Columbia University astronomer says that about a billion years ago the earth became warm enough to support life. Yeah, well whoa been messing with the ther- mostat? . reo . Many an If ipe sounds wonderful you could find an cook who would cook docit and an tor who would let you eat It i A in AA |