| Show - - - zravue-- 1I ' - - - - :13 ' : - - -- The Zbt bialtI fakt Ztibunt Siturday Morriirg Marth 1 libbtablishiml 11 ' 1 by TIN Salt Lase Tribune Publishing Co Oettr) Inelftazig - i ' Lt Gen Albert C Wedemeyer's forceful speech at the University of Utah Founders' Day banquet offered an excellent program for strengthening this nation to meet the interne- tional challenge The general who retired last year and is now an industrial executive put first things first lie called for a restoration of popular control "over the great decisions that lead tower or petite" and so he emphasized that foreign policy should not be kept out of the presidential campaign He is right For eign polici is not something abstract to be handled on a high plane by the striped pants set Quite the opposite foreign policy plays as vital a role in our lives as taxes or tariffs and should be subject to the same ratification g N ? z - I at the - polls - --- Wedemey' er pointed a that there be must out complete and timely flow of information from official sources with Congress having access to all informatihn of As a corollary I - Gen Another Southern Aspirant ' ' ) No group : likes than the any less President-Truma- Disietrats who tried unsucto and him four beat who ago years cessfully have sided with the Republicans in Congress on numerous occasions to hogtie his adminis- emo- tration Civd rights is the tional Issue but the administration's spend- ing program is equally important to leaders n crusade of the new They are Senators Byrd of Virginia and George of Georgia who are shouting for economy and Gov Byrnes of South Carolina former sere- tray of state whose antagonism is mostly ' ' anti-Truma- - ' personal Senator Russell's candidacy is clearly a n tactic either to convince the President he should not seek renomination or to beat him at the Democratic convention If he tries A southern bolt after the convention could split the north and south sufficiently to throw the election in the House of This is considered unlikely Representatives stop-Truma- however : ' 1 ) The Russell candidacy might persuade the stubborn President Truman to run again On the face of it the fortunes of Senator Re fauver of Tennessee could be equally damaged On the fence on most civil rights matter' he is considered too "fair dealish" for the southern Democratic "old guard" which considers him a political upstart Mr- Russell's phivf claim to fame Is the - fair and steady course he followed while chairman of the F1nate committee investigat' ing Mr Truman's discharge of Gen MacArOur as Pacific commander Aside from lead- ing the fight against civil rights however he has remained a party regular refusing te join the Dixiecrat movement of 1948 and keep ing his stale in the TrumanBarkley column —Though a rallying personality for Ithe south he has little chance of being nominated lie is highly regarded but Is a sectional candidate a pawn of the political strategists Meantime Mr Truman has spoken kindly of Gov Stevenson of Illinois All of which adds up to some kind of horse race before the convention anyway In ' a university knowledge should be impartially and forcefully as possible Thus declared a committee great institution which celebrated pur- all of distin its 230th The committee found religious life at Yale and richer than it has been in many years and stronger than in most places out side the university" No Communists are knowingly employed at Yale and no evidence of indoctrination of students or intimidation of faculty were uncovereclThe committee properly endorsed the university's policy of not knowingly employing Reds since party-lin- e Communists' not being free agents are The group also stressed not good leachers that academic freedom also calls for respon- - : defeat - : w046 Dora is certainly pleaed at all the "hizh-- level talks" in progress as low conversation bard4 befits the stripecipants brigade - I e It t '1-- 4 i- i (DAVID L4WRENCE 4': '''':4-4- -' : 46 -Ab 7e V t ' : If Mr' Willkie's one- world has not been achieved it cannot be charged against him His trip around the globe showed hint the interdependence of peoples and ideas Re made his contribution to a United Nations organization and the peaceful settlement of differences lit would stand today were he alive with those' Republicans hke Gov Warr's) and Senator Lodge who kneie that the clock of world affairs e Senator Douglas found in Mr Willkie an analogy to Stephen A Douglas— the "little giant" 'oho was senator from Illinois in the 1850s and Linceln'S opponent for the presidency in 1860 Tbe comparison is apt In time of chsis each man put 'parts politics aside and served his nation Wendell Willkie did 'not dream of denouncing the war that followed Pearl Harbor as "Roosavelt'a war" any more than Stephen A Douglas would have dared think of the Civil War as 'Lincoln's war"—St bouts 4 pr 4 - - '"' ''e- - e 11:: - A ' t it - i 4 ' - -4 44 - 074' p a 41' —ft 40 ii' ' 4' le' iv lr " - 11— - :i ''' --11 lie ''''' ' t- lits II '' tsp:f 1 4 fI? - i k 4 t with a formula to deal with the problem satisfactorily Will Set Off Round is up The administration against the simple fact that if it yields ground in the steel controversy it will set (fa round of wage and price in-creases in coal and other industries It 'I strangethat the is - I 1 ')1I gov- t ernment does not seem to be 4' --concerned about the big decept by some 41 crease in tag revenues which breakdown of i will result if the expected the present 41 I ormula on recommendations of the Ware Mr' Lawrence Stabilization BoardI are forced price ceilings The latest news conveyed to through without an increase itt official Washington is that the prices to compensate for the steel added costs companies have deWhenever the railroads eeek termined to reject any recommendation made by the Wage rate increases from the Board's pane Stabilization state Commerce which increases theft Costs by various government agencie- samounts that cannot be offset express their objections The by increased prices Department of Commeret and the Agricultural Department Word Passed Out as well as the Office of Price These developments b a v at arisen because the word has Stabilization have appeared block to an effort in hearings adbeen passed out that the increases in freight costa ministration is u nwillin g Treasury Silent draft its of regulathrough Yet the Treasury Departtions under the Cape hart amendment formula to ment whirl' stands to lose allow an increase in the price many hundreds of millions of of steel amounting to more dollars in tax receipts if the than two or three dollars a wage increases demanded by ton as a maximum In the case the C I 0 are granted has of most of the steel companies never expressed itself on the steel-wagthe increase in cost to be percontroversy even mitted would be much less than though in the bearings there three dollars a ton Yet the has been discussion of the wage increase of 16 cents an huge amounts thatt would be hour is calculated to mean an lost to the treasury Increase in cost to the steel It would appear that Uncle ' beSam of has a very material insomewhere companies tween seven and eight dollars terest in what happens to tax a ton In view of the drop revenues and any plan to In profits last year due to inthat the receipts creased taxes the steel corn- - new taxes have to be collected from other citizens To ignore panics are represented as feelthis trend is to encourage ining that they cannot go along with any recommendation for flation by disbursing more and a wage increase which isn't more money at a time when the cry of the admin Substantially offset by an increase in prices htration has been against any deliberate increases in purchasWill Grow Acute ing power for citizens generThe situation will grow acute ally about March 15 when the C I Olt Argument recommendations f rom the There- Is no argument of acpanel of the Wage Stabilization tual need or privation involved Board are expected to be reIn the wage controversy The vealed It bas been assumed in C I 0 has based much of He Some quarters here that the steel companies would go along argument merely en the or that public opinion would ground that the steel' compacompel their acceptance The nies can afford to pay the increased wages out of gross steel companies are understood to have resolved to carry their profits There has been a defiease to the publie and to renite indication that the unions ject the recommendations if believe the companies should grant the increases because they are as now reported The administration will be the added costs are deductible for tax purposes This is plainly under pressure to Intervene a matter in which the Treasury and use its influence to avoid a strike But the end result Department might well be con- - it cerned because in many inmight well be governmental stances in business and indusseizure of the plants under Act and no the try today the government Is a 70 per cent partner in gross increase in wages or in prices unless someone in the office of profits as compared to 30 per cent to the private owners Price Stabilization comes up ex- - Ii r - 0e - 14b'1'7 ' 1 0 4 iJ t ' 4 ) I I ti 11 ' - A ' Pt i ‘ s-- J1- -' ) i ) 1 is-- 1 kb —4 - ) - 1 4 Ailks f' it it tl'ar that cising by ever- - 4 if - imok evi IttA' I I 1 ' t - ma"' rigid economy in other things they c oat Id 1 splurget bit in 4 Hans Park food So the wife went to market and bought a beef roast for their Sunday dinner Soon after the precious item had been put away their small son approached his father and confided happily "I gave doggie a bone Puzzled as to where the little fellow might have secured a bone the father went to the kitchen to check When be opened the refrigerator be stood aghast-- Tower must have thought be bad accidentally stumbled into dog heaven for the bone his young master had given him was the ' familyes $350 roast! j i i ' Ben Clark Louis toser's old hunting and fishing companion reports that the ducks are now returning from wherever they've been and appear to be in fine fettle Ben It etches carefully lest stime of the feathered folk get sick and sv hen they do he treats them I feel that he's entitled to degree and should sign his name 'Ben Clark D D" Duck Doctors naturally 1 t i My Allergies The pills I take at each days ' Do little good for what ails me I take one everyhour apart For allergy some allergy lunips from "shots" that pain then itch (Was whit Job had mwt worse than these) count my blessings and find Imrich i i In allergies just allergies! —The Missus - '' -- ROBERT C RUARK Sermon on Ancient Cliche NEW YORK—The case of Willie (The Actor) Sutton who has been portrayed as a kind of superbrain among crim- - trials and quoted almost reverently a master and flew as ref- - a n le f') tt t ''''"''' modern Robin Hood h a s 11 : made for me the best argMr Roark ument yet against crime All crime Consider Poor Willie who owes the states something over 100 years of back time and who says ruefully that a man on the lam from a Jailbreak cant plead not guilty Here is Willie the superbancht finl and gered by a nabbed by a couple of cops who were almost dumb enough to let ifim go! What kind of mastermind gets lagged by 'a youth and two who have to go hunt up a detective to decide whether to make a pinch on criminal No 1? Worked on Peer Farm - Then consider Willies life as a fugitive One time he served as a porter at a Poor farm for two years' while hiding out Pardon me I( I fail to die- tinguish between life in the clink and life at a Staten bland poor farm And consider his life on the lam for the past five years cowering in a tiny cell of a furnished room— seeking small companionship on the sly afraid to go back twice to the same bean joint for fear of identification Consider that in his history of heisting banks and swiping jewels the only real peace of mind and temporary security that SuttOn has known was enjoyed while he was iLerving lime in Jsil for one of bis stns pants-presser- fun-checke- d s Oh ' I Ibrosperity I Editor Tribune: Burt Ball turringly soeaks of our pros perity as "New Deal pills" There never was as much emsplornent as now The nation has richly prospered under Democratic administration In spite of Republican criticism The Republions have grown fat in this prosperity which they could not create and now they want to take Charge of it The G 0 P had a big meeting In San Francisco last winter The Taft boys told all they knew on "Ike" "Ike's" boys made a complete exposure on Taft The country got the lowdown on both crowds without the Democrats firing a shot During the 1929-3panic the U S Chamber of Commerce cried "Save us or we perish- Who saved us7 Franklin Delano Roosevelt - ' Robert Y Crookston - Taft-Hartle- Zditor Tribune: This is the story of Amy: We met her at the club at the beginning of the police action in Korea We were a little hazy ourselves but not Amy She knew Truman was wrong: lie was a tyrant who led us into this thing Couldn't he be impeached or something? Some of us had sons and had lost one or two in various wars If not exactly agreeing with her we faintly nodded our heads Amy's boy was drafted but rejected because of some defect Overnight Amy became a violent patriot "Of course we must protect our interests In Korea Nona Tatum Zeigler A wife Iva :learned should be humored even when she isn't sick Bail hen the Missus who has been quite ill began to fuss about some curtain ma Aerial- she'd bad lai 'away tried to ignore it The curtains she felt were needed in the bedroom Id just finished payiri'g for the Venetian blinds already there- and was satislied However I brought the stuff home feeling certain that it would be months before she could do any sewing But I didn't count on her friends One afternoon Rene Melvin Grace Kelly and Peg Thornton picked up the material and tbs next day the drapes were made and hung! And right nice they look! They've done away with the cell-liklook the room had start - The Story of Amy Glade Labrum driver for a continental bus line had an Interesting chat the other day Glade hails front Meadow Utah and remembers as a small boy when two ZCMI "drum mers" my father and "Monty" Taylor made the territory 'Spin the Glass Web" by Mat Ehrlich is- - a honey of a "suspense" story Even though it dealswith the production of televisioa shows to which I am allergic t didn't put it down until I'd finished it I - The Abolitionists e l - Editor Tribune: The prime movers for the disruption of the Union were the professional- abolitionists of Boston It was in Boston that William Lloyd Garrison printed at the masthead of his paper the words The constitution--- a covenant with death and a league with bell" It was at Boston that Gov Banks declared 'Let the Union slide but abolish slavery" And then there was Johnr Brown who seized the United States arsenal at Harp er's Ferry and Jowled Virginia with a supply of pikes to Arm the blacks to kill Brown was captured and hanged for treason at Charlestown which was named for tharles a younger brother of George Washington The abolitionists who wanted to make civil war in the states south of the Ohio were in fact far more disloyal to the constitution and the union than were the secessionists of the gulf states who wanted only a peaceful separation of their states from the Union and who did not have the slightest purpose to interfere with the functioning of the other states under the constitution of the United States Samuel Russell i I IsAk' hi 140 By Our Readers Mother's Prisilegn '‘ sv i i k: Editor Tribune: In regards to Technocrat lwanick's letter entitled "Curious Patriots": I believe any mother has a right to wish her son did not have to go Into the service whether she has mink or tattered rags for a coat What bearing has that on a mother's privilege? I have heard lwanick screech to high heaven about his income tax still he complains about a mother who wishes her son could stay with her Carl E Mandet t t it it at Tragedy I am indebted to Leona Bammes Gardaer of Logan for this UV story After weeks of s living on meat g e r - ' ' from the political pork barrel deserves more notice than that given in a casual news item This of real Americans shines as a ray of hope promising a bettet day Tbe names of McKinley Morrill and his associates should be placed upon a roll of honor Government paternalism should note the handwriting on the wall Howard Cox Manti Utah Soldiers' Packages Editor Tribune: Is it true that a mother or wife cannot send parcels to their on or -- husband in training tamp for (he military service? One woman of our town said she mailed a package to her husband and when it arrived his superior officer ordered him to open it in the officer's The officer then presence commanded the soldier to dump the contents in the garbage can declaring that "you are in the Army now just for get about packages and your folks at home" This alleged occurrence took place in San Diego Cal Would some authority on the subject please answer if this is fair treatment for a young American man serving his country? Mrs Dora Ii Clove Enterprise Utah '''-- i ‘ 1 - 141 r4 'it - i N 1 r I dal The Public Forum of venison still left in their food locker a family Leona knows decided )a — ':i' '11 substitutes and the remnants ta71 ) 2 it --- i ' fir'7 a-- l ( ' - ! 1' ' '' ' p:3 - A Minor I ' 'ad' 00'"Ns1 f & nor l ont the steens panies can be t- - f ation from extricated r4-ooz 0 shaping toward a situ- up which neither a - : - 1 While persons do not always need a dog (here has never been a dog that didn't heed a person—Robert Runk i r' -r - A lk 140U - -' tr : ‘'' Yt '-- e' v )tr r - 01- ‘t- - t - ) el g' :1" 1p J 0 fr 'A 40- - -- ' : - 1x-- ri-"1 t aim - 1 : - ' ' ' DILl'-'- " f' p 1 : :- - 17' 41 are Events '' rr p r - lir 1—41LAi)1111k"- WASIIINGTON-- -It begins to look as if there is going to be I steel strike in a few 'weeks -I 0011: 4p - - 3 - - : : - Under Present Formula le! -- Alp - L- ' !' i e :1: rr r- - I Steel Strike Appears Sure 7 4" Y '44: )40'' ov 11000 or- ' - t1' I i - - ' - ''' ' 3 ' fr: ei 0' re 1:4wo :4141 - I - 1 - ii-- :: 4 Department i --e - — By - I i - '— - ' :: - The SenatörTrom Sandpit Ham Park - Nazism ! ' 4 T- - ' I - - - -' - - "ir A Ray of Hope Ettrror Tribune: The fact that a group of farmers at Circleville Utah refused to partake of the pap pouring d r them- New York traffic which proceededat lit's mfh in 1900 has slowed to a mere six miles Nevertheless we feel that the automobile will aUPersede the horse if it can catch up - It Unavortlable? tribute Senator Douglas paid a to the memory of the late Wendell Wi Ilkte on what would have been the fiOh birthday of the Republican party's presidential nominee In 1940 For as the Illinois ISemocrat said Mr WI Ilkie was riot embittered by defeat for the- highest Instead he made himself a valuable office helper to the administration Whose respoe4 bility it was to prosecute World War IL He went overseas at the height of the Battle of Britain and his presence there as well as his oubsequent report at home were factors in weldpeoples in their emir Ing the English-speakinmon effort against littler and his mad wrath of Too many critics of higher education Insist thats university's job is to indoctrinate students with a particular set of ideas of teaching them to think The Yea committee beaded by Henry Sloane Coffin president emeritus of Union Theological Semand including such Men 'Ss Irving S inay chairman of U S Sleet and George L Olds Ilarrison of New York Life Insurance Corn-pall- y has done education and freedom a service by not fear evil idgas we can meet them and - - ' r er etos''' c 'Pvu - - ' - 77 i' 1: - i State-Departme- In Memory of Wendell Wi 1114! aibility tx Him i 1 'c - ' f 4 DECiDE IF I' M RiGRI OR YOU'RE t ' Other Viewpoints deeper - le 11-c- anniversary last year The details of the quarrel are not essential here but the comments of the committee apply to other institutions of higher learning and to the general problem of academic freedom ' ""' nab crash-explosio- guishecl Yale alumni after an investigation of the university The four months' survey dimaxed a long controversy over charges of Irreligion and subversive teaching against the ' City - aides not just those that may be eurrently popular with the trustees and the alumni ' teas n accidents Gasoline truck like- the one which prattically destroyed a mail train near Morgan Thursday Point up some serious questions The trailer of a 7000-gallon gasoline truck disconnected from the cab xection and smashed through a highway guardrail coming to rest on the westbound Then it railroad bed of the Union Pacific exploded and burst Into flame Immediately an westbound mail train camek out of a tunnel and ' automatic brakes apparently Nine of stopped it in the flaming inferno the cars loaded with mail were badly burned with an estimated damage of a million dollars Investigators will want to know what caused the huge motor vehicle to break in two and citizens generally will want assure ince that regular inspectionsare being made of giant trucks using the public highways particularly those carrying inflammables We shudder to think what might have happened if the train had been a regular passenger carrier Fortunately accidents of this type do not occur often- - but a few months Jackknifed in an ago a heavy truck-traile- r ' underpass a few miles from Thursday'saccident The result was the burning of a rail- road bridge necessitating detouring of train traffic far some time We are pleased to know that none of the 12 persons'on the train was badly burned and that the truck driver escaped with minor In Juries Commendation is due F W Pritchett Ogden the first brakeman who courageously helped two passengers to safety The tragedy could have been worse It is probably impossible to keep vehicles carrying inflammables and explosives off the public highways but every possible safety measure should be rigidly enforced sued with all channels of information freely open to all the students In the Ideal university all sidea of any Issue are presented as ' bale whatever nature If this had been done in the past the blunders of Yalta and Tehran and Potsdam might never have occurred Both the Truman and Roosevelt administrations have failed of frankness when it tame to foreign affairs The result has been a confused public and the breakdown of bipartisan cooperation Nor has the been noted for its effectiveness abroad There have been successes such as the Japanese peace treaty and the recent Ijsbon conferences but there have also been a Whole series of frustrations and defeats—the kidnaped Milts the Vogeler and Oatis cues the Korean war—which grew out of a lack of strength or decisiveness Gen Wedemeyer proposed a vigorous campaign to counter Russian propaganda eneouragement of guerillas in China and the Ukraine reassessment of ourpiilitary respon: sibilities and a recasting of our diplomacy These are suggestions which have much °merit The Communists certainly have bad the advantage in the propaganda war and our foreign aid could well be placed on a "help But those who help themselves" basis whether the guerilla plan is sound is open to doubts It has all the disadvantages of any foreign aid program without the advantage of control and while it would undoubtedly harass the Soviets it could not be ex- pected to do much more without great ex- ' penditures and risks The people of the United States are for-- : tunate in that the government is subject to periodic review at the polls Mistakes can be corrected policies changed new leaders chosen Gen Wedemeyer emphasized the fact when he urged the election of men of integrity who would curb the power of bureaucracy and restore the respect and confidence of the U S both at home and abroad If 1952 is a year of decision the outcome of the November elections may determine to a great extent whether- the decision is for or against us Gen- Wedemeyees speech made an excellent inwression and the enthusiasm of his audience showed wide acceptance for his proposals Was Educate Not Indoctrinate 71'777 -' Wedemever's Program to Strenorthen U S an s - - hatld 1171 1932 - 4 A Apal 15 1 : - Witness 'IN-eutr- '': ' ':- A criminal's pervading fear Is a frightful thingr Whereas all men know momentary fear the professional criminal lives with it like a perpetually shrewish nagging wife It never lets him up He cannot really trust' a partner in crime He cannot make new friends He cannot indulge himself in love or normal relaxation He Cannot sleep even without wonl wondering if some-Joh- n come crashing in to drop the arm on him Literally Beg Pardon Willie the mastermind who so carefully cased his jobs who walked in and out of prisons with equal ease was reading a library shaped to help him find peace of mindAnd then the end of the chase No gory gun battle like that which cut down Dillinger and did in Ma Barker but a meek and apologetic approach from two harness coppers who literally begged his pardon when they interrupted him fixing his car—two laws who were tipped by a youngster who recognized Willie on the sunway Willie didn't g° for his gun—be didu't go for the one they frisked him for or the One they left Willie just went quietly He was sick and tired of the horrible life of the - lam-mist- Wrote Unwillingly Sutton did not know that the sheepish finish to his gaudy career would write a powerful sermon on the ancient cliche that crime doesn't pay He wrote it Ineor glY and he Wrote it all to see Willie's decline and faU was Willie bad always been billed as a kingpin crinimal Actually we did net chronicle the downfall of a super crook We wrote an anticlimactic finish to a man who In the end was Just another punk Mr N - I I ' inttd 1 ' I ' i '14' ' ' 4 — ' |
