Show Pf Salt falif fibunr Sunday Morning Answering “Why pick on Western irrigation?” With this question Reclamation Commissioner Wilbur A Dexheimer last weekend pointed up a brilliant defense of the Upper Colorado River Project against the Dealers Leslie published attacks of and A Miller of Cheyenne Raymond A ‘Moley Newsweek columnist Mr Dexheimer Is no promoter ’of big dams llis record is one of staunch ‘conservatism Before a reclamation proj- ex-Ne- wild-eye- d New Chief for Army General Maxwell D Taylor w ho will succeed General Matthew B Ridgway as Army chief of staff is noted as both a man of faction and one of the Army’s outstanding ‘scholars Taylor earned the nickname of “Mr forces 'Attack” as commander of e was He Jn Europe during World War II !the first American general to reach France Nvhen on the night before the invasion he and members of his 101st Division parachuted into Normandy Later he made ‘another parachute landing in Holland 'where he was wounded He was in Washing-- " ton for consultations when the 101st was caught jn the Battle of the Bulge but flew ‘back to lead his men to victory after his second in command Major General Anthony c McAuliffe had delivered his famous “Nuts!”—to a German surrender demand In Korea Taylor commanded the ’8th Army in some of the bloodiest fighting of that war though under orders from Washington he was not permitted to carry out his policies of repeated attack : Strangely enough Taylor k believed to have spent more time in the classroom than in the field He speaks five languages fluently— French Spanish Italian German and Japanese — and has some facility in Korean After graduating from West Point dn 1922 he was sent to Paris to study and then returned to the Military Academy as teacher and later superintendentThe change in the Army command has ibeeir predicted for some time Ridgway a frequent critic of President Eisenhower’s fArmy manpower cuts had planned to retire in August but recently advanced the Cate to June 30 As his successor Taylor may face the same problem of fitting his 'own views of the Army into the adminis-ttation’- s over-al- l planning though the fact and Taylor were Eisenhower that President World War II could so closely associated in Hnake a great difference In his book “Crusade in Europe" the President said this of T’lor: ‘‘He carried weighty responsibilities and discharged them with unerring t air-born- ’ - Drought Wind and Man this week Agriculture BcnsoirasSoil Stewardship Weekrshould -"be ushered in after one of the worst dust -- It is grimly ironical that designated by Secretary of storms remembered in Utah The purpose of the observances this week is to call public attention to the need for wise use of the land Nothing could dramatize more the need for wise land use than the clouds of soil sand and salt swirl- ing as high as 17000 feet above the Salt Lake Valley and adjoining valleys Drought and wind are natural factors and man has been unable to do anything about them so far This is a dry and windy year and some material would be on the move anyway notably from the salt flats where vegetation is normally scanty or nonexistent There is evidence however that this year’s dust storms — comparable with those of the 1930s — also are sweeping areas iin which man has been an ally of drought and wind Some of the moving soil is coming from plowed fields a great deal is coming from the denuded foothills and mountainsides where grazing and burning iff years past ‘have removed much of the projective and litter and much is swept from bleak grazing land on the desert which has undergone many years of abuse In the ?$alt Lake City area excavations for sewer Jlines buildings and gravel pits contribute jlto the dust clouds Retarded crops due to junseasonally cold weather also may be a factor Some areas of southern Idaho and "southern Utah are marked by ‘‘black strips” vege-tatio- n "where dust is so thick xthat traveling through them is fraught with 'peril J Soil Stewardship Week is a good time to I ponder remedial action such as" proper tillage and healing of nature’s great raw ‘sores with grass There is no call for smugness In that this area has suffered less than the “Dust Bowl’l of the Western Great Plains region We have much less topsoil to blow ’ SenUJenner of Indiana calls Gov and Craig of the same state a monkey Good thing is called neurotic in return or the are language Republicans both boys might have gotten sharp Satchel Paige yeants to come back into This would make major league baseball the big time next in him the oldest rookie ' to Aiken Barkley of sleeping pills Judging by the sale Americans are the hardest people in the world to put to sleep But that doesnt keep the Russians from trying - ( Game of Choosing Judges May 15 1055 suffering ocj is submitted to Congress he insists that its engineering and economic feasibility be proved The Bureau of Reclamation ha'k refused to go ahead on a number of projects in recent years despite terrific local pressure because of doubts as to feasibility - j Mr Dexheimer pulled the rug out from f under the team by pointing out that their attacks on economic feasi- Moley-MlIIe- bility of the Upper Colorado Project fail to give credit for reimbursable features of reclamation Joans or the corollary benefits in increased taxes and new markets And he pointed out that some enemies of reclamation projects are thumping for ' huge haibor and dredging projects which would return not a cent directly to the taxpayer Delanotably the proposed 18 million-dolla- r ware River channel deepening project Unlike many other water resources projects undertaken by the federal government reclamation is on a hard cash repayment basis Of the $2850148288 expended for reclamation in the last half contury has been repaid and 60 million dollars is flowing back into the treasury each year Other studies show that reclamation projects will repay more than construction costs over the years through increased tax yields Some areas developed through reclamation in 20 years have paid $275 into the federal treasury in taxes for every dollar spent on construction Glib opponents of reclamation — or their ghost writers— are constantly warning taxpayers as to their share of the total cost of such projects as the Upper Colorado Actually sound studies show the Upper Colorado project would be Moreover it would open up vast storehouses of raw materials and provide job opportunities for many people It would accelerate the decentralization of industry and create new wealth markets and defensive materials for all the country The attack on the economic and engineering feasibility of the Upper Colorado Program has gained momentum since the phony cries of ‘‘national park invasion" failed to block the program Facts and figures showing that both federal water and power withdrawals antedated extension of the national monument to include Echo Park have greatly weakened the “invasion” arguments Mr Dexheimer likened Echo Park’s relation to the overall project to one wheel of a wagon It might still run without the wheel but not very far The calamity howlers will continue to0 try to stir up opposition throughout the country just as they did before the building of Hoover Dam the Colorado Big Thompson and other western reclamation projects But it was one of the most violent of the critics who in a more temperate article quoted a western hydrologist as giving the “last word" on the matter of water costs: “There is no price for water and so there can be no ceiling price” $577-8226- "Three in a llow The University of Utah Theatre closed another highly successful Ballet Festival Saturday night after six performances to excellent houses in Kingsbury Hall It was a successful combination of guest artists from the San Francisco Ballet and local talent developed at the university under the direction of Professor Wiliam Christensen As a matter of fact while the fine work of the guest dancers was plain to see in the intriguing “Con Amore” ballet and in the “Mozartiana” section of the group of Tschai-kowskballets it wasn’t easy for the layman to make a sharp differentiation between thejn performance and that of members of the University of Utah Ballet in the clever “Commedia" and the classically beautiful “Concerto" Utah has reason to be proud of the university’s achievements in this difficult yet entrancing artistic medium which combines the best of music dancing and dramatic presentation All concerned with the production and the long months of preparation and training which go into it deserve the warmest congratulations three-times-in-a-ro- w y Barbershop Solo? e The president CIO Barbers and Beauty Culturists Union of America is urging mbmbefs to plug for “beneficial" labor laws while chatting with their customers At the organization’s annual convention in Atlantic City he told union members that barber and beauty shops are "miniature town halls of America" and that they could “wield great influence" in determining pubof-th- lic i thinking As staunch believers in free speech we are willing to listen to our barber’s pitch In fact we would welcome the on labor the Salt Lake Bees and the from change And after all we gave our doctor weather a respectful audience on socialized medicine some time ago and we listen attentively to our dentist’s pronouncements on fluoridation Lately we have commiserated with our grocer on the milk price problem Free listening goes with free- speech But we are warning you Mr Barber we - have an axe brtwo to grind ourselves and we also believe in reciprocity Moreover if Mr Barber wants us to hear him out on the right to work law he better not get too exercised while holding a razor over us Wisconsin is through a spectacular exhibition of how the constitutional plan for selecting federal judges has been distorted and debased Alexander Hamilton having been a principal author of the plan his explanation in the “Federalist Tapers” of its intended operation is tmim peachable authority: “It will be the office of the president to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint There will of course bp no exertion of choice on the part of the senators ('!) They may defeat one ehoice of the executive and oblige him to make another but they cannot themselves choose — they can only ratify or reject” Sen Wiley to that it is insists vehemently his own sacred prerogative to “exert” the choice of a new Judge in Wisconsin he is not on constitutional grounds at all He is merely describing what the method has degenerated into — quite the opposite of Hamilton’s definition Modern presidents have let the power of choice slip almost entirely away from SO WHEN 40 g BEN From Milwaukee Journal Propaganda Blast r Molcy-Millc- OTHER VIEWPOINTS Window Shopping ' them The Public Forum Watkins’ Stature Editor Tribune: It has boon suggested that Sen Arthur V Watkins conducted a “kangaroo court" on the hearing of Joe McCarthy that he lost considerable public respect I think Son Watkins demorv strated more courage judicial poise and good sense than any man who has had anything to do with Joe McCarthy lie alone stopped the bullying tactics of McCarthy and set him in his place McCarthy doesn't bully any more as he knows be has met his match While some may have lost respect for Sen Watkins a whole nation has been assured that it has a very strong man who is on the job in the Senate He is now in my judgment respected as widely and well as any US senator The hoped for Impact on By Our Readers the public about McCarthy’s income tax refund was greatly diminished because of his rudeness questionable tactics bullying and contemptuous methods in the long TV show which he succeeded even though he got a “tax refund" But people increasingly believe and listen to Sen Watkins suggest that the comparative purposes pursuits conduct and methods in public hearings of Sens Watkins and McCarthy clearly show the comparative honesty and trustworthiness of both men Don Mack Dalton American Fork Utah May in controlling His conduct during that farce (not even a kangaroo court") created so much distrust in him that people won’t believe him Forum Rules Information Editor Tribune: For several months now I have been seeking information regarding the use of Grade “A" milk in the manufacture of milk products in Utah To date my information is still rather therefore I am wondering if maybe some reader of The Salt Lake Tribune especially one of Utah's 4000 Grade “A” dairymen might be able to help me I would like to know the answer to the following questions: “Where in U(ah can the public purchase ice cream andor other dairy products which have been manufactured out of Grade “A” milk and labeled accordingly?” days By Ham in pilgrimage mirable remedy for overfastidiousness and sickly refinement — Tuckcrman “tidies" things up don't Anyway a few minutes ago the carriage of my typewriter pushed my “old" stackon lhe Jilerthat’stbe "Shorr Marches “Through 1he“ right hand side of the maBusiness District' chine —off on the flooPr--In a picking it up I found an unspecial Monday night train packed with Chamber of opened envelope In it were two tickets to the Don Commerce' good wiHers will leave for the Variety Revue and Miss cenBeaver uranium County Talent Show In the Milford High School ters of Colorado ind Utah Gymnasium June 25 1954! It was then that the Missus And early spoke her mind Tuesday morning if the hisWhat Price Head Size? tory of preWhen young I had oft heard vious good-wil- l it quoted repilgrimages And still the remembrance peats itself remains Wes Hamilton Ham Park That a head which was masand sive denoted Hinckley will sound off with A “All liberal of call portion of brains their familiar Affd march a (hough both at school out for short through and at college the business district!” And The team I never could rate thus the corn and bunnion I was cheered by the comfortderby will begin A note from Charley Idc ing knowledge was nearThat my chairman of the tour says: ly an eight “The dress for the tour will But then there’s a limit to be sport coats sport shirts all things slacks with no tics or hats You will be furnished with a Especially heads when they swell 10 gallon hat plus a bandanna And too there is irtue in for your shirt with a sibling small things knot" As ancient philosophers tell This regalia I imagine is To be labeled a fat — or a for the purpose of identificadeadhead tion Humor has it that about Is never the aim of the wise every other person in Moab Great wits are but seldom imand thereabout is a uranium bedded stock salesman and — well In heads of abnormal size after all we will be on a goodNow just take the case of will trip Personally in addiI Napoleon tion to the prescribed garb (And no one could say he am going to add shoes And was dulli my chiropodist is going to didn’t It cost him a simoleon a me with supply Because of his undersized foot repair kit to sustain skull me through those short So I've ceased to do any loud marches through the business districts bragging Of the outsize cady I wear Notes on the Cuff Department But confess though I'm in Our housecleaning I hope for a ragging I covet Max Epperson’s hair will be over when I return from this trip But the Missus Oh if brows could with safe-thas ordered me to clean the be lifted As cheeks have been treattop of my desk before I leave Last year 1 raised Cain beed of late cause she did it while 1 was And brains be transplanted — and shifted up in Idaho on the good-wil- l - From an Einstein into my tour You see it’s my practice to pate — toss my mail unopened on the But alas! grinrold fate shuts top of my desk Then l’glance the door on' Such hopes with a definite through it the next morning unless something presents slam And I’m destined to look like Quite a lot of it accumulates but I know what is there or a moron I think I do when some And continue just as I am Byt is ad- Please partisan patronage the fed- eral judiciary worries about this in an ABA Journal article Actually the qualitative results of the perverted system are the least of his worries Many fine Judges have been appointed anyway and the high office frequently brings out unexpected ability and worth But such results are better than we deserve Miller is more concerned that the judicial patronage idea is another example of legislative encroachment on the executive branch corrupting the constitutional design of separate and balanced powers He also warn about the growing role of the attorney general in screening the very Judges before whom he k the chief litigant But the biggest danger he ees is that “if the lay public begins to realize these political facts of life their confidence in our courts may well wane— and it is this solid faith of our citizens in the integrity of our federal courts which alone enables them to fulfill their historic purpose” This is the shoe that fits Wisconsin for the but cannot itself Judiciary PUBLIC ESTEEM suffer from the 15 months so far of political finagling over the new judgeship here We may yet get a good judicious judge out of this unseemly process But whoever it is he will take the bench with the added burden of having to show many new skeptics that the federal judiciary does still merit their confidence and respect despite the indignity of the game by w hich judges are picked THAT $11 HILL v Letters from Tribune readers are welcomed They should be brief (not over 200 words) carry writer’s correct name and address (pseudonym will be permitted if requested) and must be in good taste The Tribune assumes no responsibility for statements in the Forum Writers limited to one letter in 10 Senator From Sandpit Park A I To be sure President Eisenhower’s Justice department has been anything hut a doormat for Wiley in hiefforts to ram a name through to the But the President’s desk point is that the legislator is allowed to have the whole inthe White House itiative merely directs traffic between senators and the Senate This is because both parties for nearly a century now have frankly regarded the judiciary as being in the realm of MILLER an American Bar Assn expert on I body Mar-low- -- R S R Not Good Debate Editor Tribune: Re: “Mystic Opposition" in Forum on ’e May 10 Generalities are sometimes useful in debate but where they are used for the purpose of implying something that is not so in a specific case they should be corrected Furthermore to imply that any person who testifies in a congressional hearing is a “dern fool" is not representative of good debate nor good court procedure Delray Jones says that he is acquainted with the hearings before the House Select Committee to Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Foods 82nd Congress If he is truly familiar with the report then he knows that Robert Harris professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the nutritional biochemistry laboratories at that institutionJtestified against fluoridation He knows also that Alfred Taylor of the biochemical institute of the University of Texas testified If his against fluoridation I mind needs refreshing should like to remind him that Dr Taylor testified that “the evidence indicated that this condition (cancer) developed earlier in those (mice) receiving fluoridated water” Mr Jones must have read the testimony of Hans H Newman MD who testified and of fluoridation against the Smiths Dr Smith and her husband at the University of Arizona In view of the fact that these named people did testify to something in which Delray Jones apparently does not agree is he still going to be specific in applying to v them the name that he did apply to those who may testify before a congressional hearing C S Green DC Rexburg Idaho Fred sky-piec- - e - y The Las Vegas test Indicate that some houses would come ' i through an atomic blast better than' others Perhaps those with a strong clause in the lease? anti-bom- b Maybe It Was No Mistake From Wall Street Journal Damon Runyon’s Nicely-Nicel- y once calls a guy “a $7 bill” and everybody in Min- knows dy’s Nicely-Nicel- y means the character is a counterfeit because even the dolls around and about know there is no such thing as a $7 bill It is lucky for Nicely-Nicelthough that he does not refer to the character as “an y bill" or the character’s $11 stock on Broadway high as a cat’s back goes as THE CHARACTER’S stock goes up because a lady gets an $11 bill in her pay enve- lope the other day if you add up the front and the back of the bill and the lady can cash this bill in for $100 with a guy who likes $11 bills The bill has $10 on one side of it and $1 on the other side and whether the guy wants it for matching nobody in Mindy’s knows though Nicely-Nicel- y holds out for a nickel with two tails on it as a safer investment because as everybody knows if you give the other guy the call he always calls heads that there is an bill disturbs Nicely-Nicela great deal lie figures that if there is an $11 bill there is a chance of a $7 bill and he is afraid The news $11 y he gets a guy’s stock up if he ever uses the expression again and if there is one thing does not like to do it is to get a guy's stock up when he wants to get it down But - what makes Nicely- Nicely-Nicel- madder Is the nice in the Bureau of odds Engraving quotes on the chances of catching such a bill Nicely y a guy THIS GUT SAYS the odds are 150 million to 1 and that is better odds than Nicely-Nicel- y ever hears but he is mad because of course the guy only quotes the odds and does not offer to lay them The Professor though claims these odds are short anyway because he says the chances of anybody around Mindy’s getting hold of even a $10 bill in the first - ups the odds more than place ome-- ’ what - But Nathan Detroit says he does not know about that He says since guys invent machines that think like other guys — though nobody yet invents a machine that thinks like a doll Nathan Detroit says — it Is no surprise to him that the machine that prints this bill makes a mistake just like guys do ONLY NATHAN Detroit says’ he does not think the machine makes a mistake at all when It prints $10 on the front of the bill and $1 on the back and he says that maybe the odds are short that there are lots of bills like this floating around Nathan Detroit says he once runs across an honest man and maybe this is an honest machine and all it does is to tell on the back of a $10 bill what it is really worth these days POLIO AND PUBLICITY Fine Opportunity Missed From Chicago Tribune Much of the confusion in the polio vaccination program would have been avoided if the results of last year’s experiment had been announced county by county state by state as they became available Instead the statistics were all held back for one great surge of publicity on April 12 The persistent 'and we believe largely successful effort of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to find a polio preventive was made possible by publicity The foundation was nourished on publicity It was only natural that it should wish to wring the maximum in dramatic values from its announcement of of the 1954 the results inoculations To have released the figures piecemeal before April 12 would no doubt have rendered the final announce ment anticlimactic but it would have had the Immense value of giving public health officials and statisticians to say nothing of the nation’s practicing physicians t h time needeUQ studythe lig-urfrom various regions analyze them and check them for possible error long before there was any need for haste in starting a general program of Inoculation The nation-wid- e results made public on April 12 must have been foreshadowed in regional results tabulated earlier It was easy to withhold the regional returns because everyone has been taught to respect the medical tradition of not reporting results prematurely The tradition in this case however was misapplied If it is wrong to publish iresults prematurely it is just as wrong to withhold significant results when they are as ripe fop publication as they ever will be r es |