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': 11': : c ' ' Zig 5alt fakt Zribunt ' - ' ------ --- - - - - '2L yr i0Now rstateAtaita 29 - — Friday Morning -February every inorning 'by Api1 me- ' f - 1952 I East Lake Tribune Publishing Co Salt Lake City ' ' Utah ' '' ' - I ib - 11 Prime Minister Churchill's blast ripped some tense of being the - - WONDER- WHAT I'LL noE - 4 4 - I ! light I : - i 1 : : ! : ' ' ' tk ' Up the Bonfires Nineteen years ago one Adolf flitter pre-sided at historic book burnings as a token to the "awakening" of the reich Up in flames went all kinds of volumes including the works of Albert Einstein Thomas Mann Schnitzler Erich Maria Freud and Upton Sinclair liemarque and Jack London The books are being burned again i in Ger many—East Germany that is Millions of voltimes of "obsolete reactionary and fascist literature" are being converted to ashes by the Communists Gerhardt Eisler who fled the U S to become information chief of the Soviet zone reportedly prepared the new purge list We read also that the Stalingrad public library has been severely criticized for haying on its shelves books about that "despicable renegade and lackey of American imperialism" Tito of Yugoslavia Demands are made that other books not in complete conformity with Kremlin orthodoxy be removed from the These reports may be funny or tragic de-pending on how one regards censorship and book burning True such antics have gone on before in history Americans for the most part look down their noses on book buntings convinced that ideas cannot bedestroyed permanently with fire Silly fanatical state police thank God we don't have them or this kind of totalitarian philosophy But there are other laughs in the news— or tragedy—whichever way one looks at efforts to enforce conformity Congressman Velde a former high school coach and on time F B I agent from Illinois has proposed that a full and complete list of all "subversive matter" in the Library of Congress be compiled Ile also would have the list of volumes found to be "verboten" distributed to other libraries throughout the country There are something like 9000000 books in the library of Congress to be scrutinized but that problem is hardly any less mountainous than working out a proper definition of subversive Only a Gerhardt Eisler would try it "The next logical step after separating the good conforming books from the dangerous ones would be to light up the giant bonfires Why does Mr Velde stop here 7 Why not a law forbidding reading of books? There's Just a chance the censors might overlook Besides people who something dangerous read books are likely to be thinkers they might even be individual thinkers and resist having Veldes an4 Eislers telling them what Is good and bad And that would be The Years Extra Day : ' ' ' - Leap Day shouldn't hold any terrors for bachelors nowadays but it was not always thus Back in 1283 a Scottish law said that in "ilk (every) yeare known as lepe yeare" each maiden lady should "hae liberte to be—speke ye man she likes" Penalty for refusal unless already betrothed was one pound: A similar law later was enacted in France Florence and Genoa No satisfactory explanation has ever been offered for the Leap Year custom of reversing the normal wooing roles Julius Caesar's astronomers invented Leap Year In 48 B C they dqided that the solar year was 355 days six hours At the end of each four years these hours were to be combined to make an eitra day But the astronomers erred The solar year is actually 365 days five hours and about 4334 minutes and the Julian calendar was about 14 days ahead of itself by 1502 A In that year Pope Gregory XIII gave us the corrected calendar still in use Now the World Calendar Association is thumping for some more reforms The calendar is out of date the association says and suggests a rearrangement to provide for guarters cf 91 days 13 weeks and three months Each quarter would begin on a Sunday and end on a Saturday This set-uaccounts for 384 days the would be called World Day an international holiday to be celebrated between Dec 30 and Jan 1 In case of Leap Year another WDay would be inserted between June 30 and July The Calendar Association has been trying with little success to get the United Nations Interested in its project Whiuh may be just as weLL Think what the jokesmths who belabor the Leap Year theme ould'do if they had an tat day every year a : : p 36-5t- - 7 ' : future but the first will arouse much d ment ' - ' p double-barrele- big holes in Labor's pre- "peace party" During last year's election campaign Labor party speakers tried to picture the Conservatives as warmongers and Mr Church' ill as trigger happy After the prime minister addressed Congress Laborites cried that he had made secret agreements with the United States on the possible enlargement of conflict in Korea Yet when Mr Churchill spoke in the House of Commons during 'debate on a motion of censur directed against him he was able to reveal: ili that the Labor government had secretly produced both an atomic bomb and a production plant t2) that the "peace party" which' was crying out against Churchill's American speech had itself been ready to join in taking action "not confined to Korea" An the event of heavy attacks on U N forces from Chinese bases The second disclosure which came as a surprise to a number of Labor party members is primarily of British interest and may have a considerable effect on Labor's - I : '' 40 ' riFt441-r--S- - ' - ' ' - e i ' Vi I and a number of questions WORRYING com- in the country That the British could keep their progress under wraps is interesting They were not so successful in the past Klaus Fuchs was able to pass much vital informalion to Russia Bruno Pontecorvo fled behind the Iron Curtain one of the two British diplomats who disappeared last May had access to some atomic data With this background one may wellI I wonder how much Russia knows of Britain's latest developments since it look the FB I to unemer the previous leaks in -r ngiand And it seems strange that Mr Churchill when leader of the opposition should have been kept in the dark about the project Britain may now try to make a deal W'ith the United States for pooling atomic ideas and secrets There will besome good arguments The British are said to believe that their bomb is better than ours because of new methods and devices And the high cost of two allies engaging io what amounts to an armament race will be pointed out The wisest course however would be for the United States to continue its independent program The British have failed us in the past and there is no reason to take any more chances than necessary The U S and Britain could agree on a general division of atomic but I'le Ids for research and experimentation as for intimate cooperation the sad fact is thatt we would be uneasy about the ability of our ally to guard the secrets I - r 1 k t Utah totaled 679000 per cent higher than the early this year number a year ago and the highest in the history of the state The value was estimated by the bureau of agriculture economics at 11 $126973000 The economic importance of the livestock industry thus needs no stressing Many Utah communities depend upon the livestock industry and in turn the industry depends upon the general health of the range About 80 per cent of Utahs land area is used to various degrees for grazing of cattle sheep and wild life With the announced purpose of improving k the production and marketing of better the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers Association was organized in 1916 and since that time it has been an influential organization- in state regional and national affairs The association and its auxiliary the Cow Belles opens its annual convention in Salt Lake City today The Salt Lake Tribune joins in bidding the members welcome live-stoo- Other Viewpoints ilemni Strike"--L- ast I arn surprised and I fail to understand why we have so many strikes or threatened strikes when everyone should try and keep on workI have no use for ing if humanly pnssible organizers or business agents if they have to have a strike every time a wage contract expires Certainly we have brains enough to realize that except as a last desperate resort strikes are not profitable to the working man and woman and not profitable to employersYes I know we are not to blame always for stoppages of work I know that employers sit back and argue till the cows come home they stall and postpone and ask for conferences I know all that I was a business agent and I I have been on this Job for was an organizer I know as much about the game of 40 years trying to represent labor as anyone but my theory is that a stoppage of work should only take place when every other itance has failed We including an offer of hones arbitration lose more money when we are out of work three or four weeks on strike than we win over three or four years and the employer's losses equal what we lose or more—Daniel J Tobin in the International Teamster Ito ''' ' ii ' kl '‘ —L ' ' ' 1 2 :'-- r - 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' I I 4 i it - -- I i oava t 4400000 ' - a- 7 - -- '''''' portant oaa " ka - i - ' - '" :l- -- 1Alab sta - : 01 'la' IL -" ' - - - RE(rM1INNINC mak rather - politically for several reasons He is one of the party's outstanding leaders in the Senate widely recognized for his ability and has won keneral acclaim as chairman of the Armed Services Committee which handles defense matters Furthermore Senator Russell hitherto has remained regular He refused for example to join the Dixiecrat movement In 1948 even though the south gave him its votes in the 1948 convention In a protest against President Truman's renomination He was influential in hold- ing his own statein the -Barkley column against the bolt that carried four other states for the Dixiecrat ticket Would Be Rallying Point Senator Russell would assume the role of rallying point for the south for whatever eventuates for realistically no one thinks that he could win his party's nomination in the regular Democratic convention If President Truman should run again the Georgia senator could become the candidate of Truman- The Public Fortin' fats were collected by your neighborhood butcher and turned over to plantsJor use In making glycerine We should be utilizing these waste fats today Tin cans rubber tires cardboard cartons all should be gathered regularly We have a and reclaimed source of these materials today but what of tomorrow? Perhaps the next generation will be using synthetic products because our generation wasted dwindling natural Wasted Resource I Editor Trihupe: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country How? By insisting that our government begin a system of reclaiming many of the materials now being used and discarded We are aware of the shortage of steel scrap Almost half of the materials used in the production of steel must come from steel scrap But what of other salvageable materialst Eighty per cent of the pulp Used to make newsprint in this country comes from Canada The government should make a determined effort to salvage old papers instead of letting then go in the incinerator Grease is another item that should be on the salvage list During World War It waste By Our Readers A ' Armed Services Committee had any idea of the kind of military training the would be given other than the manual of arms In the wordy speech was one reference as to the type of training—the Senator decried the dire circumstances that "required the employment in battle of men who scarcely knew how to handle a May I ask the senator from Georgia his distinguished colleagues and the American Legion was it not true that Ilirohito's soldiers were well trained in the use of the rifle and may I further ask what good that military training did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The Armed Services Committee may know of some secret way the rifle may be used against the H C Holdridge Brig Gen U S A an able and experienced military man stated that the methods of military training now being used have been anti-- ' quated since Aug 5 1945 when we dropped the first and this great statesman-geeral concluded with "The only line of national security is the diplomatic line leading - to world understanding" General Holdridge's statements bring up the question of why Seklator Russell did not propose the conscription of for compulsory politicians training in the diplomatic field for our diplomats are not chosen because of special diplomatic training but merely because of party loyalty!- Is it not as important to have trained diplomats as it is to have trained soldiers? Let's have a United States Academy of Diplomacy! Lew Holston Patriot Academy of Diplomacy Editor Tribune: It takes 15 pages of fine print to carry Senator Russell's Speech advocating U M T as the only essential way of saving our country but I found nothing to convey the impression that the The Senator From Sandpit Ilam Park By Home is where affection filled with shrines the heart bath builded—Charles Swain from the Very sincerely Queen City's (Buffalo N Y) — yes sirees folks waiting to get back to Gods country'—May B Eakin Kenmore N Y (Dear May: Sam Kiefer's radio program hasn't been on the air for some time Thanks for your kind letter—it gave me a big lift) Nostalgia Dear Ham: Here's a bit of fan mail from an of How often my heart Ogden aches for a wee glimpse of a sunrise over ML Og- - or the pink splendor of Salt Lake Citys s n o w- peaked back- ground as the den !uncrosses on its the lake way borne for d"' i k e r f : :01 ' ' i:i LL Ham Park A the night! Coining in on a wing and tail of the last storm was a newspaper dipping from a very dear friend Fava Parker out of a bewailing the violet! And oh the sweet nostalgia as I read and reread 'The Senator from Sandpit" and his efforts to retrieve and replace Fivifs"U"''' Does the radio program out there still carry loe Bush of Sheepfold!'" I used to fide to work with his brother-inlaa Mr Stephenson who lives here in Kenmore That was several years ago s What memories you the instruplaying ments of your creative genius have wrought with my stray-- i ing emotions After draining every drop of inspiration from a letter Firva wrote a couple of years ago I:caught a fragment of her bappy vision of life It came in through the kitchen window early one Spring morning when a robins trilling made me realize that the green was peeping through Here it is: 4 Can you till me who teaches the birds to sing' The friendly flowers to nod' Who puts bits of theskies in a wee babe's eyes!' I can tell you—I know' "rwas God!" word-artist- 1' - Notes on the Cuff Department My compliments and congratulations to my oldest teenager friend Knox Patterson who celebrates the 17th anniversary of his birth today Feb 29 Ile really should be celebrating his 19th anniversary but quite a spell back he missed a couple of anniversaries on account of no Leap Year for 8 years Daylight sav--log maybe Anyway I wish him many more happy anniversaries and hope that President Truman get the voting age limit loviered so that Knox can vote Eugenics of 'Crime Editor Tribune: Most parrots are fruit eaters The kea radiated u n d er population pressure in New Zealand into changing its habits To eat fatly grubs it evolved centunes ago a haviklike beak This to enable it to tear out '' "vegetable sheep" larvae Came one day the English Immigrant with his sheep Then another shift of kea food habits The parrot now relished young lamb kidneys' fat A beak once tearing vegetable sheep's woody fiber also could be useful on a lamb's back The kea could rip through skin which Indeed was 'not as tough as vegetable sheep fiber The parrot trus enjoyed lamb fat as an American kiddie might his ice cream cone In New Zealand today one must search for keas They now are restricted to mountain fastnesses The birds now are practically extinct on Canterbury Plains From these pastures England obtains her prized frozen mutton Why not consider the sheep-killinkea in studying the eugenic aspects of crime! Once a respectable member of the bird society the kea a!so drifted into murder to secure luxuries J F Woodard "Friend Ham: Do you know vi here I can get a copy of a poem called 'Yellowstone National Park:" And have you ever noticed that in the small western cities where there are more men women and children than there are inhabitants that the population Is always greater than in the smaller eastern cities of the same size where there aren't half so many people—Bob Lee Salt Lake" (Dear Bob: My answer is in the negative to both questions) When I read Holmes column about Senator Arthur V Watkins in Thursday's Tribune I startled the Missus by giving the senator Ile's three rousing cheers rated as an isolationist Well I'm rapidly becoming one myself Paul Harvey the news commentator is conducting a contest among artists for a Sam Unnew picture of less things change radically I suggebt the title—Uncle Sap Alex-ende- k rifle" g ROBERT C an independent southern movemnt breaking the Democrat's party into north and south segWar days ments as in Carries More Weight Such a southern movement would carry far more weight than the Dixiecrat campaign of 1948 This is so not only because of the character and standing of the senator him— self but because direction of the movement this year is otherwise in the hands of recognized southern leaders of distinction including Senator Harry F Byrd of Virginia and Governor James F Byrnes of South Carolina Neither of them affiliated himself with the 1948 Dixiecrat crusade If President Truman does not run then the south behind Senator Russell who is a skillful political operator could use Its bargaining power in the July convention in a way that it has not been able to do during the Roosevelt Truman regimes If it won concessions there probably would be no southern revolt Withheld Decision Though importuned for sore time Senator Russell withheld his decision about being a candidate awaiting President Truman's decision as to his own intentions lie now feels forced to make his own decision because of the official appeal from his own state Senator Russellt is assured the support of most regular party leaders in the south which Senator Kefauver does not have Senator Russell's chief difficulty of course is beyond the Mason and Dixon line including the great urban Democratic strongholds where he is known chiefly as the di rector of filibusters in the Senate against the President's Civil Rights program He is in short in the category of a sectional candidate Were it not for his attitude on Civil Rights he would command the serious attention of the Democratic convention for he is highly regarded among his colleagues of both parties for his ability and energy I 414- ' 4 " - pre-Civ- ' fashion nA much earlier than might r — have been ex- pected This is mani- s fest in the de- Mr Stokes vision or Senator Richard B Russell (D Ga ) after appeals from all over the south to seek Democratic nomination Officially and specifically he has pleas from his own states Democratic executive committee and from friends in Florida that-- he enter the Democratic preferential primary in Florida Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee already is entered Important Politically This Russell maneuver is Im- I a - 1 — 1 - portentous a f - threat- Truman should choose to run again is taking form in a ft - calls All kinds of cattle In tf —7 0 " s 1'' Lainoir d' ' a ph I I I 7: Cattlemen Assemble p- Maws 1 11 ROLLS 'ROUND! ti A4 : WASHINGTON—The ened split-of- f of the south in the event President harry S ss 'N: i:' 0 9 5- 2 1 THIS DATE Tile Price of Price Control Senator Watkins' report that 70 federal Office of Price Stabilization attaches in Utah draw a total annullialary of $357187 emphasizes the high cost of government The report poses a number of questions For instance are the people getting price control commensurate with the total expenditure? A complete picture of the operations of 0 P S would be needed for a complete fair evaluation The report applies only to the 0 P S staff in Utah and no doubt costs are much greater in more populous states Merely multiplying the salary total for Utah by 48 gives a figure in excess of 17 million dollars This Is not the entire picture by any means but It may give the taxpayer a hint as to what government costs as to why the federal expenditures run in excess of 85 billion annually The importance of the report is in the gross amount not the individual salaries paid Evaluation of the latter would call for a thorough study of the office duties taking into consideration the competition for good personnel on the labor market The question of the number of persons needed to enforce price regulations is a legitimate one The 0 PS complains it is being submitted to a partisan attack This is an election year and politics doubtless enters into the comment Nevertheless it is proper for the people to know what a governmental agency is costing them and what the agency actually accomplishes They need more information as to where the tax money goes Reporting on specific cases and agencies is more effective than merely crying about waste and unnecessary government spending ABOUT' NEXT TIME 1 I I STOKES 1 Boost Southern Power - - I— I Russell's Candidacy Could ' - 1 I - : Churchill Deflates Labor Party Pretenses - f 4ailL'at-41044- - THOMAS I -- 4 ' t That's a Good Question - IN - ' : I -- PP z T eb ' - 7 41 ' le -- '' :: 4s116grow r q - :T :'f:i::" - ? ':!'--: 2:'-- ' k -- X RUARK AntiNivs Sell Old Baloney NEW YORK—There seems to be a considerable dogfight in progress here in New York state over the ''''''' '''' '4 Metcalf-Hatc- h 4 r -- bill which Is simply a meas ure to allow the state to drain th?' ani- mal pounds of their strayed ! 40"r14 sv ii I) or unlicensed animals f o r use in medical research Dogs 'Mr Ruark that would be destroyed unless claimed would go to qualified laboratories for experimentation Right here is as far as you go for the howl to arise and not from the animals I can think offhand of no more potent small lobby than the antivivisectionists who have made a large hue and cry ever since I can remember about '''': '' torture chambers and poor little Fido and the unfeeling brutes who sadistically tied him down and chopped him up —for fun I guess Personal Record Clear Right here I must say that the personal- - record is clear on dogs I am dog pooh Nobody is taking any pooch of mine off to any pound or to any laboratory except over the the cold carcass of the master of the hounds But my beasts are licensed and eat better than I do and are not public charges But a dog needs a great deal and understanding to be a worthy member of society Unfortunately as soon as you turn him loose without proper care he fares ill I can think of no more miserable living animal than a displaced dog4 because while persons do not always need a dog there has never been a dog that didn't need a person Can't Find Any Holes The mangy starved bedraggled mutt that winds up in the dogcatchers' wagon has one fate—death unless claimed That's the best deal he can make—useless death and valueless disposal So I can't find any boles in the new bill which is meeting the usual violent opposition to legalize the use of impounded animals as experimental fodder There is no threat to pets The dogs aren't tortured in the labs They are excellently fed and tended and are invariably anesthetized u hen they are operated On Those that die in the process are no deadPr than they would be if they were destroyed in a pound There's no point in dwelling lengthily on the advance in medical science that might have been impossible without the experimental Use of aniAnesthesia itself the iron lung ACTH and insulin are just a tiny few boons to mankind that were developed through animal experience I believe only 30 dogs died to make insulin possible and diamaybe some million-plubetics are alive this moment as a result Need Only 25000 The awful economics of this bill to provide animals for research is that they kill about 400000 strays a year in New York alone and medical science needs only from 25000 to 30000 a year Yet Dr Charles Kensler of Cornell writes that vital research projects on cancer heart disease hypertenradiation injury and healing are seriously delayed and in some cases abandoned for lack of animals It seems to me that the long a and bitter fight of the against progress is merely an impassioned work of the crank—not a kindness to the animal so much as a cruelty to the human But it persist and has killed this and similar bills before A very potent minority always has played on a susceptible American fond- ness for dumb animals to make a ma) kisitpoint of the boy and his dog at the expense of the boys–-another boys'—eventual welfare Circulate Untruths I notice that one group is circulating a yellow dodger of complete untruths and half truths intimating that if dogs are taken from pounds (where their presence stamps them as waifs) the kidnaping of children is next on the agenda by the state The handbill also alleges that the dogs will be seizrd by the state from private property a vicious untruth The cheapest hogwash sure but part of a contrived setback to general welfare merely out of misguided fanaticism— the kind of wildeyed wackiness that caused one youthful to attempt to murder a California scientist with a rifle because he beard the doctor was using dogs in his work! - s shock-and-woun- anti-viv- -- - - ' 1 d Tradition doesn't say but It may be assumed there were those in Sodom and Gomorrah whiii said a little of that sort of thing does a town no harm 4' H I 1 ale q4140r0movinpowoo000-4?- gfat —TatA—kkaa 4 kLv"o-- k |
