| Show " 0£2£&&£SZ&&£ " cv5”:":'M:: :: ''’--- 'cr HA £1jc Friday Morning August - SL Pupils They Heard jialt £ale £ribiwc WcM The Public Forum Changed ir-- ¥ Good hut Not Good World ’Does Move £ Enough JAPAN! f-S- O fit10 Fditor Tiibune In Japan in 1922 Margaiet Sanger was loi bidden to mention birth control on penalty of imprisonment foi violation of t lie in dnngeious thoughts law 1953 as the guest of the Planned Parenthood Fedeia- ny'si'tlV'd f° p((fs vbg the empeior as one of ttie gieat benefactors of humanity! In the intervening yeais Japan has become so trag ieally overpopulated that it is estimated that in sheer over a million abortions per year aie performed — almost as many as the live WHEN VJE EXPECTED RUSSIA There Is reason for gratification that the right track” said Dr Marlon Merkley tenth grade students in Salt Lake City’s assistant superintendent Parents will be three high schools averaged considerably gratified to know that they will be inhigher than the national mean In the eduea- formed of students’ scores and their fjonpj development Jevt given last spring cooperation will be Invited After moie This is a fine compliment to 'the yoking" testing students wift ‘be ’r6group d ihac-- ' people involved their teachers and the coi dance with their indicated abilities and willingness to study This experimental school administration is manifestly touchy in nature and program the results on test detailed The report also presents a tremendous challenge to requires understanding and by the public It calls for expert individual all concerned We ndte with satisfaction that the school administration plans to guidance by school counselors The test results showed that thp follow through making best use of the inIowa to the formation biought brighter students in Salt Lako were not light by Tests of Educational Development The above the national average to the extent that poorer students were above the natests were scored and Interpreted by Science Research Associates of Chicago and tional average for poorer students This a consultant of the firm came to Salt Lake poses many questions and may indicate City to advise on courses of action Some that teaching — as is so often the case— is 2200 local students In effect competed with directed to the average or poor student about 500000 students in the same grade the lowest common denominator Are teach- (sophomore) in 900 schools throughout the ers generally content with a ‘‘middle way” program for the mass of average pupils country no special consideration for the gifted? with over-alIs l The picture encouraging Results showed local students were well Size of classes and counseling services are above average in science reading English a tremendous factor in this problem and vocabulary but they placed only about And some teachers may not be qualified to deal with the especially biilliant student average in the category calk'd ‘‘quantParental pressure has to be reckoned with which is a itative thinking” essentially test of mathematical ability or the power in a program of advancing gifted j'oung people and holding back the “under achieof reasoning by using mathematical prinvers” School officials consider this imciples The differences in the scores of the portant and strong efforts will be made to determine where deficiencies exist and to three high schools should be carefully examined by skilled evaluators and some cocorrect them llective action taken The part plajed by be to the will made tests Further verify home environment teaching staffs admininof and weaknesses students strengths istrative attitudes and general academic dividually as Indicated by the Iowa tests “We want to be absolutely sure we are on climate needs examination In arranging for regrouping of students according to potential abilities school people are worried over the possibility of encouraging “snobbishness” a problem not new to Salt Lake high schools We wonder We have a strong feeling that the elechow much snobbery is related to however Is tronics age going to force a streamIs it not moie closely achievement academic — conventions national parlining of party amount of money and the to tied the of The the the platform ticularly reading alternative is likely to be loss of a large numlier and size of the cars the young people flaunt? In some groups serious part of the touted “nationwide” audience studying is derided by some boys And Teople accustomed to watching a show at the longest wdth lots of variety many are persuaded it is “not the thing” to and change soon tire of the "greatest show be seen cairying books home for study The general problem is not confined on earth” when it features a nondescript Lake City More attention is being to Salt face and an endlessly droning voice focused upon superior students and moie After sitting several hours awaiting to are realizing they ate not doing educators learn what the Democratic Party stood for for those future scientists and leadenough this year particularly as to civil rights A recent ers study by the University of we found ourselves in agreement with Wyocalls attention tot harm beirg Nebraska ming Senator (and delegate) Joseph C done neglecting thcir abilities youth by O’Mahoney member of the platform comarc not There enough superior pupils in mittee who commented wearily: “Thei and to waste nation their talents is the mind cannot absorb what the behind canThe indefensible Nebraska study found it not endure” was advantageous to admit blight chilIt may be that party conventions need dren to the first grade rven though they had a Robert Montgomery We await his posnot reached the legal entering age and sible Influence at San Francisco next week to push them ahead according to their abilThe long Introductory speeches amountities and achievement rather than age ing to campaign pitches for the ‘‘critical” The solution of this problem eills for a candidates chosen to read the various plat- great deal of testing and study followed by form planks then the long campaign proper action This requires courage on speeches by the candidates themselves tend the part of school administrations and supto divert attention from the platform and port by the general public to send the home viewer to bed And in most cases the platform is worded so that It can be Interpreted to mean most any- ARE CHANGING THAT MUCH CM BACK - 7 -g L that will Dpuiz tuCiro w-t- ’ 4 i ’ dcs-peiatio- n births Aboition is a repulsive and dangeious method of comthe bating over J population more so because it is so unIf conti areption necessary could be placed outside the of icligion it could soon be developed into a safe tabus sane and certain means of population control Says Dr Vogt probably thP worlds x greatest authority AN N I M in 1840 comprised nine brief resolutions The Democratic platform of 1952 contained 15 times as many words We haven’t a count on the wordage of the 1936 platform but the incomplete text from the teletype coming to our desk fiom the news room totaled 15 feet After perusing it we have concluded that the Democrats ate dissatisfied with the present administration and would like to replace it Natural Gas Blameless news stones indicating natuial gas caused the explosion at the Lariat Cafe in Montioello this week weie in erior While this was an understandable assumption since a natuial gas line had been connected to the building the day of the blast natural Chairgas was not the cause of the blast man Otto A Wieslcy of the Utah lndustnal Commission and other officials who investigated the accident repoit it was duo to an accumulation of propane gis in the basement of the cafe They say that when seivicc at the cafe was changed the day of the explosion to natural gas from a now pipeline serving the town an old line connecting with a 1000-gallo- n propane tank outside the cafe was not Removed The valve on the tank was propei ly turned off however Rut the same propane tank which soived the cafe also served an apartment house to the west — and someone as jet unidentified turned the valve on the tank back on This continued to provide propane gas service to the apartment but it also sent piopane gas pounrg through the disconnected line into the basement of the cafe Finally the accumulation of propane gas exploded Just how this perilous situation developed or whether any blame can be fixed is undetermined And of couise blame can never bring the victims of this bhst link to life or wipe out the suffuing of those injured or bereaved But the s is a rim warning to all who have amihing to do with any Kind of gas sotvnc t the need for the utmost care in d ding with an extremely useful but also extremely dangerous commodity First iiariT p zx ? 4® a a-- n g ment for m reflec-tio- n r 1 he might have thought of the wryly Mi iking h s I t ti a t law requires tint doors must open easily from the inside And what s to stop the stionr epe sp c love so well from getting our and the kite hen’ new federal walk-ingtoun- d e ( onfr di i ates at c tee nl sur lv u iendirm Raj iffuc of ihe Civil rebel to exclaim: ‘If you cant bek 'em Tbt outlast ’em" Ii evident m nhewer ly merely ni ii g ts piter his put hud foi mi lot g made plain tin ir play ei ful depend to eon him the I’HMduit is assuinl of a nomination for a second teim While it was hauler four eats ago for Gen Eisenhower evep then he said his “yes" and his ardent bukeis led the fight that lesulled in STFALNsON has fought for his se( ond nomination every step of the way His adventures in recent months have had some resemblance to that eailv movie seiial “The Penis of Paulino” After his defeat in the Minnesota pumaiy he was hanging by a nairovv rope over the cliff with his enemies prepared to chop him off The Florida primal y was a close squeak Then came the Calif oi ma victoiy and he was again on top the obo(t of the mail leg and jealousies that lend aifarty out of power Oij the eve of the convention former President Harry 8 Truman undertook to bring the frontrunner (low n Through these ciowded Senator From Sandpit Ham Fark By We wore created a little low They were in office When a paity’s out of offue it is apt to be bioke and being bioke Is a powerful detenent to certain kinds of sin Take it from me I know er than the angels but sin has made us little bcttri than devils— The Ram’s Horn Convention Bound Tnmonow I’ll be on mv way to San Pranusco for the National Convention I m filled with fear and foie boding and I Notes on the Cuff Department In case you are interested 111 be staving in the Hotel Olympic in San Francis o Mis Alex Jex national made a reservation for me Many of the Utah h legation also will be N haven well t slej t since I li e a r d (I o v I d apt about a week be mingl 1 f XI I night For I vy Park shoulders ing and nibbing with a powerful lot of sinneis and me a suit of innocent abioad Of com so I'd lie ml it s u that the Republican Party was the one th t footed monopolies but I d'dnt know until I hr ml that kevnote Mice h that sin was one of I 11 n 1 v Clem nt s kov note spec h j ovei TV fiom t I Chicago Mon registeied theie When a man holds a public offue he has waived any tlaim to pi lvacv them You see the vst time I attended one of those shindigs was m 1911 wlvcn bolh con-- v cntions vvote he Id in Chicago pblithTins are Teat that yestcidays fame has Manv 111111 1 no g memory Theie are a number of former Salt Lakeis living in or near Ban Ftamisco Among them are George and Rosa Glaus Mel Snville and Allan Ilaymond I hope I am fortunate enough to see them while I am there 1 The Rtpubluan Convention was hold fust ami Cleoige T Hansen n Poml committee-idi ul me m tde in foi t an honoiaiy assistant ant at aims so I could c t in the convention hill The 1 t 1 mm-g- Demo tats did the same thing at then convention that foi used The only di ffeien I'mnitie that t!' A $ 7 position of and I ‘t I con-tla- txtuun 1 Stassen’s Heitor statement is widely disuibed as a boomerang but is this quite at cut a to? A booimiang k turns by its If while In this case L( n Hill puked it up biought it back and beat llaiold over the head with it 1 TJO C late his selection over the Sen Roboi t A Taft the fran- - ’s Mison-Dixo- If in CHICAGO— tic fienctic rush of this convention week Adlai Stevenson had had a mo- e - Carl Tiu-man- j Adlai Wins After ‘Perils of Pauline’ Drama te The civil rights plank which the Democratic National Convention adopted has been labeled “moderate” The description probably fits Certainly the language is mild in tone though foimcr President Truman called the plank “the best one a ((invention ever had put bcfoie it" Mr stand came as a great sui prise since it was directly contrary to the one taken by' Governor Aveiell lhrrimnn whom he has been vigorously backing for the pi evidential nomination Almost as surpiising was the fact that expected firewoiks didn't develop Southerners didn’t like the pUnk but they didn’t walk out either which is an indication that “moderation” extends below the line And after a noithein liberal group failed in its attempt to toughen up the language Sam Rayburn the convention chairman wielded his gavel effectively to stave off any possibility of a huniony-jarunfloor fight The Demon ats thus avoided the kind (d public family row which plagued them in 1918 and 1932 Win ther the south) in voter ns distinguished from the southern Ratty leader will swallow' the patty s official civil rights declaration may be something else For the school segiogihon issue — no matter what the plitfotm m iv say no m itter how its langu igo mav he inti ifueted -(in still cause the Dt mounts tumble tins fill Much will ilepi nd upon how well and how long the attitude of moderation (an he maintained when Mr Ray bum isn t theic to wield his big gavel " Marquis Cliiltl IIow Long? IIow Long? thing The first Democratic platform adopted v aims tiled to e vv is seigent-a- t me put August August with days diy and hot and long Is sud to bo not for the peels song to me slip disuses his generous pi ruse Foi in her the munificent haivest lavs Advamed in pregnamv na tine in beautv wans But To give hot grain her at winters gates Mviud insects rinoon sun ae fiuit the aft in oik’ me m the bahoin and ii'fiis-hci Imagine1 When took aw iv mv badge I anpeuhd to Stunt Pobbs the Demoiiatie national committeeman and ho sml ’sen-- a t or 1 lei h M iw c a n t g t hoi e so tm can wt ir his budge ’ And so I went ai oim we mg a while arid gn Hi buzz and ti ill as thi' day is i un larTib'e h e beetle c i n ket chum on stem and vine And weirdly hum while hang mg in a pc uc line Without August no crimson in Otiobci will be No fields of yellow or gold in Novi mix’! ro see h it Maw ll'i to go tie an m He told w 1 t Con s ml (' e i jo I !h nm n i H of I'm of i 1c the R punh - v ho bull ihaloo about sin tin n The Demounts ignored it n- i And (hone As days and nights incredible piessures have been put on him from eveiy direction To anoint this or that candidate fot vice pi evident To agiee to one set of words or another set of words In the civil-ligh- ts plank To agree to take a new chan man for the Democratic National Committee To approve the financing of one political ventuie or another certified to bring in a haivest of delegates ALL THIS HAS been going on in atmospheie something like a football suimmage a bu gain basement one cent sale and Maid! Gias right in New Oilcans Y'et for all the ups and downs Stevenson remains very much the man he was in ’52 lie has the same qualities — detachment introspection deep intellectual concerns AS HIS PVRTY’S candidate for a second time Stevenson will be stronger than he was in ’52 One reason is piecisely because he has had to fight for the nomination in sharp contrast to Hour yeuis ago when he played the reluctant diagon The nomination is far more to be prized than It was when it came in a sense against his wishes And having won it over the persistent opposition of Harry S Tinman not just here at the convention but in inti igue and plot among the Truman cronies for weeks and months puor to Chi ago he is his own man Conspicuous at this convention have been the Pcile Mestas the Trumans the museum pieces out of the highly oloi ed Truman ei a But behind the noisy facade out of the past is a paity that has been lenm'ed and ievivified in state after state It is this that gives Stevenson his second opportunity Soaper Says Fiofessional politmans doubt that a "fionf porch” campaign could succeed these days even if you could find anv voters under 40 who le number fiont pinches until nmv w e line on! hii one atom pow ci ed sub hut soon there will be two lints a ton powered subs will shue with older forms of ttanspoi tation the ability to N it nr e w PI n autumn s h mds the bountv ar d fn tdt' of sum ns's J ii e j tu'n h Trotn I lah run into ore another Utah Lone Wolf Type Editoi Tribune I surely must make a reply to that unfriendly person who ap6 Forum peared in the Aug I suppose it was a man that wrote the article saying how unfriendly the Utahns are I would after reading the article say that he was a sour-pus- s His aititle reminded me of a story that my fathei used to tell He met a man who was moving out of town and he asked “Why are you moving away?” The man replied “I am so d glad to move worst neighI have the away bors in the woild and I just want to get them” from away “Well" father said “you will find the same kind wher- ever you go” He -- met another man moving to Bingham to work and he asked why he was moving He said "I am so sorry to I leave this neighboihood have the best neighbors in the world but I have to leave them to go somewheie where there is employment" My father consoled him by saying "Don’t feel badly you will find the sama kind wher ever you go ” I make it a point to stop and talk to the occupants of out of state cars and I have conservatively some 300 raids and letter s from people all over the United States people who have visited Utah They extol the beauties of Utah and the fnendhness of its people I dale say that this contributor who rails the people of Utah unfriendly is himself and I feel soriy for him He supposedly doesn’t have friends no matter where he goes sort of a lone wolf type So my sym- pathy goes out to him with the suggestion that if he wants friends he must be a friend lumsc If ( )i c I p u gi a stubborn deteimmation to be himself in the midst of all the hoopla— that have attracted many and alienated others He lias the right to speak today with a certain awe of the road he has traveled since November 1952 Carrying only eight states without any public office or chance of public office to serve as forum in the future bearing the doubtful honor of titular leader of a paity divided by bitter factionalism and dccjdy in debt he might well have discounted his po litical future at about five cents on the dollar plied by a hundred1 The change in sentiment in Japan indicates that the “world do move” but it likewise indicates how tragically slow is that movement My concein is naturally for my own country first: will we be sensible enough to establish control while there is yet time or will wre wait until this tragedy has overwhelmed us and we are faced with the gruesome task of retrenchment as is Japan" Overpopulation is actually the root of every woild distuibanie of the day Will it ever be birth Instead of by by rhoice chance? J O Christensen Moroni son ff A Cal Logan I lah The Foes of Labor Editor Tribune: The gallant men and women who pio neered organized labor probably worked as haid and suf fered as much as anv pionec r group in any field of endeav- or Some men died in their stiuggle to gam human lights and preset e human dignity for the laboring forces of America The story of organized labor is as gallant and lnspinng a storv as pnhips anv Mm will read in the Ins Ld bn ks Inn a ti so iel unii'i integral put aie - o of j n i lejii'i th i n g Pat son ai M i lights and dignity of Amer-a s woi King forces The matonty aie pioud to belong and to shoulder their share That is why in most senet ballot elections conducted either bv the NLRB or state la hoi boaids the vote is in favor of unions Under the Amenean system "of 'w hull we au agree"1 to be the bet and most wink- able svstem in the woild the will of the matonty must and in most cases Is accepted Mr Paulson and the authors of Utah's “light to work" bill however seem to ojijxise this will of Ihe malm ity in the case of union membeiship It is quite obvious that the labor haters and free udeis who so disi espeetfully iefer to labor leaders as union bosses s in J i K 1 k P 1 dcs cn ki Is of Todjt noble label pioneers ate suit striving to protect the human irM' are using one of his-toi- oldest methods to and destroy —"Destroy the strong man and the weak cannot rise to his feet ” eon-que- r Eugene Sondi up on conser- vation: "If the United States had spent two billion dollars developing such a contraceptive Instead of the atom bomb it would have conti ibuted far more to our national secui lty while at the same time it promoted a rising living standard for the entire woild If such an amount is required to develop a satisfactory contraceptive it will be a sound Investment" I endorse that statement If the cost is multi- -- Mr Rayburn's Our Headers By 17 195S Justice for Public Editor Tribune: I think it high time to change a few of our laws and enac t legislation as follow s: 1 When there is absolutely no doubt as to the guilt of a murderer or kidnaper they should not be allowed the luxury of a tnal by juiy at the taxpayeis’ expense but should be immediately executed In a piominent place and buried in an unmaiked grave 2 Insanity should not be allowed as an "excuse” for avoiding punishment by mur-de- i ers kidnapers or any cum-Ina- l 3 Attorneys secure the who release of known or admitted criminals should be held as an accessory in anv futuie act of dime committed by the released person We need legislation to guai-antejustice to the public as well as to the ctiminal A Citizen e Spnngville Utah Value of US G-- 50 Editor Tnbune: Am to note the opposition in Salt Lake City and Froto to the decision of the Utah Commission to Highway name U S 6 50 as their choice as a pait of the interstate and thus highway' system join with the derision made by Colorado officials In noting the opposition it all seems to be based on tounst business losses I had never inteipieted the law establishing the consti uction of this intei state highway as being a tounst ioute but instead one that would connect state capitals and pro’’ ule the most impoi tant ioute in case of war or disaster across Ihe countiy In the decision of Utah and Colorado in naming US 6 50 I feel certain that time will tell that this link will be considered the most stiagetic in the entire United States I do not know of any other section of highway that will tap as many natuial and needl'd resources than does this route While US 40 may be sur-pnse- d y strategic a few miles shoiter theie have been many times in the past that travel during the vvipter had to be touted over US 6 50 because of blocked roads Considering US 6 30 fiom its eastern jumtion of US 40 west of Idaho Springs Colo it might be well to list its importance At present the continental divide is ciossed at Loveland Eass but this route wall be changed for a tunnel under the divide West of the continental divide first comes the new reservoir and dam to be consti uotod at Dillon by city of Denver Then on west to Climax Junction and the site of the greatest ptodurer of molvbdenum ore a vital strategic war mfneial in the woild Next comes Camp II lie the training center for ski tioops and winter activities m the US a uny Hus is followed by the lead and zinc mines at Reck lift and Gilman both of which are lit the defense needs Gland Jumtion on this mute is the heart center of uranium activity which as we all know is the basis of our atomic age At Rifle still in Coloi ado we find the err ter of the oil shale production which will mean muh m event of oui oil pio-dtion of the Tar Fast being cut off u Coming into Utah we come heut of the greatest uiamum fields in the country reaching out from near Green A few miles further is the cent r of the gieatest coal and ok' HVilv in Ihe west j in (’ n h n t'niiit along t e so and iron “ t' '11' and th n si (1 pla ' ts m to the N't I A PI can 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