| Show t i 10 A Why Does 4an Injun Always 'Have” to Show Up? al $fil)twe fljc-J- Ollier Viewpoints Reappraisal Certainly Due Sunday Morning NovemberlS 1958 St Louis A ‘Mandate’ to Remake Republican Party? was “somesaid his landslide what of a mandate" from the people to work “industriously and incessantly” for a program of modern Republicanism And in what was regarded as an obvious reference to what remains of the Republican “Old Guard" the President said even they must be convinced by the returns that “some change in the understanding that the pub- lie has of the Republican Party is necessary" Clearly there is reason for such com- ment Never Jn history has a president won by anything like such a margin and not carried Congress with him Even four years ago with a less impressive margin - for Eisenhower-th- e Republicans did nar- Shipping strikes unhappily are nothing rowly galn controi of both houses They plagued proceeded to lose that control 4n the 1954 r radically for years But the present tieup jnid-ten- n election But despite the Eisen- - - which started on the Atlantia Coast spread hower landslide with a popular vote tpargin to the Gulf and set off sympathetic walk-- ’ of more than nine million the Republicans out In Pacific Coast ports is potentially actually lost ground in Congress this eleo- far more dangerous than any which have tlon preceded it For It comes during a world This is causing concern to other Rev '' - shipping crisis precipitated by the closing publicans than Mr Elsenhower Business 7 of the Suez Canal Week Magazine says Leonard JFIall Repu"" : The strike called by the International national chairman is himself conblican “ Lohgshoremeft’S 'Assoclation' an' Independ-- - vinced the only future for the party Is to ent union involves the terms of the remold it and Vice President Nixon is contract instead of wages The New reported determined to use all his Influence ! York Shipping Association representing to remake the party more in Eisenhower’s 1 shipping and stevedoring firms offered a image nt package pay increase pVer a three- It seems obvious that if the Republicans period accepted the wage could not achieve a more' sweeping victory jyear but The ILA wants the contract limited to ail down the line figure riding the voluminous and is demanding a guarantee of coattails of an two years exceedingly popular Presi'4 eight hours Vork a day When negotiations dent they cannot hope to win in 1958 and broke down the longshoremen walked out 1960 without some radical changes Jn accordance with their “no contract no Just what those changes should be is work” policy of course bound to be the subject of much According to the Associated Press one ' well informed official in Washington said Republican It should be noted that the Republican the government had not thought “for the Party does have some solid assets to build y time being” of invoking the on It has a President with Act and stopping the strike by injunction such it should not be too difficult but that if the walkout continues very long despiteprestige Democratic control of Congress to such action will have to be considered We establish a record the next four years to hope that the ILA and the shippers can which the party can point with pride-A- nd settle their dispute without federal inter- the Republicans may be able to cash in vention However the present strike is not on the weakening of 'several traditional confined to Just one or two ports but is patterns in the nation rapidly spreading If Harry Bridges’ InterThe South of course is one The Re- national Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- - publicans ' may be able to make more in- men’s Union carries out its reported threat roads there naw that many Southerners to shut down all West Coast ports for 24 have learned that Democratic hours Monday the situation will become voting isn’t essential The cut Republicans even more serious lAto the previous strong Democratic Negro A strike by Bridges' union would be an vote into the ranks of labor and into ethnic unwarranted 'attempt to force settlement and nationalistic voting blocs The bjg of a dispute in which it has no part - Cities traditional Democratic strongholds were affected Eisenhower carried Cook County in Illinois Hudson County in New Jersey and Milwaukee Stevenson’s margin was thin In New York Philadelphia and We hear a lot about the menace of Big Boston Business in the United States But any way These are all fertile fields for' Republiyou look at It business in America big canism — or at least for Eisenhower Republithough it is is small potatoes compared canism for it should be noted that while with government Eisenhower successfully invaded these There are several waysjhe Jbigness of Democratic voting strongholds the Repubbusiness enterprise can be measured — total lican Tarty generally did not employes annual revenue total assets And There is obviously work for the Repubany way you compare government far over- - licans to do — else as the New York Herald shadows business Tribune editorializes “there is likely to be Take employe Biggest employer is more trouble in the 1958 elec' American Telephone and Telegraph Com- - tions to say nothing of congressional 1960” Meanwhile the Democrats have their pany with 745000 But Including civil serv- ’’ ants and those In the armed forces more problems— a whopping deficit a leaderless ” than 5000000 persons are on the federal national organization the aforementioned 7 government - payroll deep cleavages in traditional Democratic General Motors Corporation tops the strongholds But with proven greater grass' list of businesses with annual revenues of roots strength the Democrats have the r 12 billion dollars But government’s reve-“more advantageous position— save nue this year will be more than 80 billion that one great Republican asset only for Dwight dollars Eisenhower If he can convince the AmeriOh total assets Metropolitan Life Insur- - can people of the validity and value of the ance Companywith ome 14 billion dollars modern Republicanism he espouses “ tHen”' is a very close second to American Telthe Democrats rather than the Republicans ephone But it isn’t even in the race with could be in trouble the United States government’s estimated net worth of between 165 and 200 billion night a smiling victorious declared “Modern Eisenhower President now has proved itself and Republicanism America has approved of modem Republicanism" But a week later after perhaps more ' thorough analysis of the returns Mr Eisenhower told a press conference: “From my viewpoint the United States has not yet been convinced that modem Republicanism Is with us and is going to be the guiding philosophy of 'the Republican Party" He l seats and Nov 6 Taft-Hartle- down-the-li- The Tail and the Dog -- - -- ' V How Many Hours? dollars Of course government in a country as big as America has to be big But frequently so does business if it Is to serve the national interest And so lon as go’ — The Highway Patrol reported the other me House The Public Forum Confusion of Signs Editor Tribune: How come all the By Our Readers alliance both Western and Communist appear to be breaking up Precisely be-cause the situation is so fluid it contains not only the possibility of total collapse but also the possibility of genuine progress toward a sounder basis for world security The most significant fact is the focusing upon the United Rations as the only available means for resolving the complex issues of the crisis Whether or not the UN will be able to meet the test depends largely upon the willingness of all its member states to make full use of it ” t flow of signs favor traffic on Fourth and Fifth North Streets except at the Eleventh West and Fifth North Intersection where the signs are the reverse? Are they still trying to beat last year’s traffic casualty record? 7 I expect any day to find a “no right turn” and a “no left turn” sign at the head of Exchange Place and Main St added to the maze of directional signs in downtown Salt Lake Then the middle of Federal Building should look like a lot like a wrecked car lot Fred Drlggs east-wes- - Forum Rules Letters from the Tribune readers are welcomed They should be brief (not over 200 words) carry writer’s correct ha me and address - (pseudonym permitted if requested) and must be in good taste The Tribune assumes no responsibility for statements appearing in Forum Writers limited to one letter in 10 Think About Issues Editor Tribune: As citizens the watch the unfolding-o- f many sided world crisis they' will recognize the historic importance of what they are seeing The resort to military action in the Middle East and Hungary represents a grave threat to world peace At the same time familiar patterns of days Senator From Sandpit By Ham Park ’ “I want pathy just song Shock Treatment t had a dream the other night that shocked me I seemed to hear the doorbell ring and when I answered it an old friend stood on the I threshold was While glad him I A that there suggestion ought to be law requiring voters to register as either Democrats or Republicans seems to me to be an attempt to disenfranchise the I secret- Thoughts From an Armchair How wonderful it is to do nothing To let my hands Tie "quietlystill uselessly And think "These are my other-tim- e 1 ” 7 President League of Women "Voters of Utah" and hands nimble Capable of many feats Restless nervous hands I mpst teach them to take the time to do nothing” And my legs and feet relaxed and still Crossed there before my chair How fine to deny them movement! To say “Stay quiet! You have moved me about From place to place all day oftqn in circles I am tired You forget I am your mistress I Command you to rest!” (Who spoke to me? Will a smile do in answer?) It is so good to be silent! to long-fingere- ""' Kashmir Issue g d Mark of Cain Editor Tribune: I would like to give my opinions about the editorial of Nov J1 headed “The Mark of Cain” - I served over five years In San Quentin Prison so I am an and am trying not to be a repeater If I have to tell the world I am an “ex” it ex-co- n ex-con- s - 1 round-the-cloc- k im-iss- i e ra -- -- ’ they-jTrea- lly " he of-t- move-mcni-- -- - r - ’ -- - " Southwestern Power Administration which supplies electricity to rural electric in Missouri and five other states is reported to be considered at Washington a major cause of the Short downfall The defeats of Republican senatorial candidates in the reclamation'-consciou- states-- s vers of other reclamation-and-power-consciou- s y hydro-electri- c low-erin- g B Fjare Jn keen contrast it might be noted that President Eisenhower did not alienate Tennessee a fervently by appointing a have th agency The constant harassment of public power agencies th default of federal responsibility for leadership In developing the nation’s power potential the of the bar to exploitation of the national parks and monuments forests and public range— all these are fail- ures both of policies and of state Democrat Anderson unseated Republican Representative Orvin Le-Ro- which could only the effect of wrecking Idaho Colorado Nevada and Arizona are also occupying attention in the current reexamination In Montana an- state patently ho- s- pro-TV- Martyrs Who Died in Vain National Review: Tens of thousands of Hungarian martyrs'' have died in valru It appears for in the Western mind and In the Western stomach there is not the resolution op the will to resist over — their graves there is nothing being pledged uPholdin4he-- s but parliamentary of the oppressed people of the expressions of distaste as to deeds there are none world On my behalf and on We wish a national moratorium could be declared on behalf of millions of my counverbal and written criticism of communism and Communists trymen I offer my sincerest” We wish that every politician every orator every editorial thanks for your stand writer every preacher would one morning stop deploring any My country (Pakistan) is act of the Soviet Union or aspect of communism In the not land hungry We do not want to grab Kashmir by sudden stillness we would' realize how empty ha been our “opposition" to communism for in that stillness we would force What we want is simhear in dreadful clarity only the bustling wheels of normply this — that the Kashmiris know the absence of any meaningful act of realcy-and be given a chance to express sistance and without th solace of our rhetoric we might be their opinion freely regarding their future I hope you will ashamed continue to support the cause of the poor Kashmiris who Plight of the Refugee are being subjected to every kind of inhuman treatment Tahir Husain — Logan Utah - of Representatives from Missouri’s Seventh Congressional District Mr Short had represented his district nearly a quarter of a century and was widely believed to be but slightly less a fixture at Washington than the dome of the capitol The Eisenhower regime’s attitude toward the Editor Tribune: I have read your editorial regarding the Kashmir issue vs Nehru’s poI- icy I am really grateful to Th© pendents to call When I got h m comfortably seated he said: “I came to ask your help I am worried about a man we both know very well He’s getting into the habit of feel-insorry for himself He gets me down with his description of the inhuman drudgery of his dally work The fact is that he thoroughly enjoys hfs work But he would have us believe that vifhatever he accomplishes is done against obstacles that would sink an ordinary hufnan being He suffers from nerves insomnia old age melancholia lack of sympathy' and lack of money If he’d only get wise to himself he might go places Will you help me help Mrs Roger Bailey Inde- to sea ly -- wished he had picked some alerted and our armed forces in and around Japan are on the qui vive but the normal processes of life go on We have Just been notified that Hilde our son’s dachshund has had pups and to adopt national policies that will strengthen rather than weaken it What this requires in terms of our own country’s policies is a question thatshould be of primary concern to every citizen The League of Women Vot-r- s urges Utahns to direct their thinking to issues rather than personalities to place events in their proper perspective and to recognize the importance of longterm solutions We also urge that your thinking be based on facts and most importantly on facts as to what the United Nations is (and is not) and what it can (and cannot) do In these'tlmes'of crisis and uncertainty only a well informed citizen can serve his country constructively day that its radar units had flagged down-sowon’t help me to walk the 14500 speeders during the first 10 straight and narrow If such a vernment representing 165 million Amermonths of this year issuing 4452 arrest law is enacted in Utah I will icans and controlled ultimately by them is and 10026 not register and many other warning tickets October the actually greater and more powerful than last month tabulated showed a better will not either all almost of what we regard as Big Bus- than average monthly total of 547 arrest after I went to San Shortly iness combined there isn’t much reason to and 1159 ' 'v Quentin the warden— Clinton warning tickets ' fear that the Big Business tail will start Tills is we'll agree a pretty goocj showDuffy at that time— gave a talk to the “fish” and I will' wagging the Big Government dog ing But we wonder if the patrol couldn’t never forget his opening redo still better Anyone who travels the’ marks when he said “Prisoryi highways of the state knows there is still are no good TTTejf are no good too far much speeding which can be better for you and they are np good curbed by radar patrol than any other for society" The traditional last word in gullibility method There are a number of “do - Is the who With 10 radar units in use by the pacountry bumpkin good” organizationsdrying to ’comes to New York City and buys the trol one in each district it is theoretically improve the world The SPCA Brooklyn Bridge possible to have 240 hours a day of radar tries to prevent cruelty to aniWe do not know if the story is based patrolling with units moving from time to spurn mals and I am sure if they him?” AH Sounds — words laughter on fact as far as some rural sucker is con- - time to different stretches of knew of someone keeping a so highway “Sure" I said “Who is this song cerned but it certainly is at last fact as that in the space of a' week ail the major ' dog in a cage they would try ' To listen Instead to those soft ' guy” to stop it I don’t know of New are concerned Yorkers far as They - inner voices highways of Utah wqujd be under surveil“Come with me” said my any organisation that does lance — — avebougtinhe Brooklyn Bridget One so rarely heeds The mind friend “and I’ll show him to much to improve the lot of Of course limited man power It seems whejftjie famous bridge was is a wonderful probably you” men in prison Most lawbreak--er-s bond 1883 financed in was built with a it makes such Companion too seldom enterAnd he led me to a mirror are "sick” mer and they —possible But the more of it patrolling our all With no special arrangements-f- or iained in busyness we have the need help not a kick in the Notes on the Cuff Department Tt makes its own musky-worrepayment ol the principal over a specific- - better job we will do face speed more beautiful be a rried-yebut f the a ter —in Utah-- We hope the patrol wtti bondswereca paradox -period jlt may Doyou like to pay for some- sometimes knowledge consists Melancholy or exhilarating in year with New Yorkers paying regular increase its use of radar and that steadily" If man you don’t get? It cost thing than richness rif h of of lot being ignorant Interest Just the other day after" more power is a lijniting factor the next Legisla- -' $45000 to put me in The ever outer Do ear hears society are worthnot things that than 7p years the city controller made the ture will provide enough additional meji not speak to me prison for a little more than knowing final payment retiring those bonds of 1883 to permit at leastelght hours a day operafive years I ask you did so-- ( Let me listen — a moment v War seems to be Russia’s i '“So New Yorkers can at last claim tion of each radar unit In the state longer defy gain anything? favorite game but she preI must take a moment longer— 7TlJt is my belief that until ownJhe bridge lock stock and" u' fers NOT lo'plfly it on her I must take thiA'morrient to be mad can erase his desire for — barrel Middle age is on you whop the last ‘ ' home grounds bodiless revenge there win be naThey should They’ve not only now paid yoy went to school with hue To bp free of sound and nopop or 4ust'ce in the world the original cost in full they have m°an- - disn'ppeople iSs a man oun£ If wastes Reared from the Cliristmas-ear- d list snvs men are not sent z Society while paid nearly twice the original cost yp inheritance in Jiotous living To bP dull deaf and sightless to for revenge hut far prison -- he’s a profligate If a politui in interest The old farmer's almanfr predicts a ter- and learn new To rest I never knew of rehabilitation a billion of cian wastes And that oyght to make New Yorkers riblp winter This is smat-f- predicting If public - songs to sing mart a rehabilitated in being t money he’s an economist th prizs txampl of Brooklyn Bridge you’re-righpeople will admire you if -1 —Dorothy Bone" the gas chamber tuilaarel ' you’re wrong they'll be ‘grateful —- Lehi Utah The Seventh Fleet hat been Former Convict Who’s the Sucker? governorships DEEP SECOND thought at Washington have also been provoked by Dewey Short’s de- to- - the feat 'for- - 38-ce- soul-searchi- and representatives (and governors) cannot safely expect to Accordingly "a long hard look” is being taken at th vice presidential and cabinet levels to determine whether changes in principles and policies are necessary or whether there should be changes In administration So the Associated Press reports on the authority of “an official in posi-tie- s to know” A more work--able atarting point would be the assumption that a change is called lor in both poiiotee and people Douglas McKay was no bet ter secretary of Interior than the policy he followed wae a good policy: “Our basic mission is to dispose of and to integrate the public domain with the private economy” The baslo mission of the secretary of Interior is exactly the opposite ol that conception of it Some other examples of wrong policies and wrong people have been Clarence Davis as under secretary of Interior and the A1 Sarena timber grab Wesley A D’Ewart as assistant secretary of interior purporting to protect the public lands he had attempted to plunder: Adolphe H Wenzell "advising" the Bureau of the Budget along lines likely to be profitable to the financial house of which he was an officer Maj Gen Herbert D Vogel as chair- man of TVA executing maneu- ington ed pro-pos- by TVA’ deal He carried Tennessee by a slight margin THIS CONTRAST fnay suggest1 that while the President can get away with it senator unmistakable of that of the Pacific Northwest In the Senate There president Eisenhower1 “partnership” policy for dam construction was roundly repudiated Hi handpicked candidates to oust Democratic Sen Mors and Magnueon went down to defeat: Douglas McKay in Oregon and Gov Arthur B Langlie In Wash- ‘ or throat Moat ve TVA Dixon-Yate- s these losses was Dangerous Dock Strike chairman of distasteful trying to force thedown The reappraisal of administration policies on natural resources which is reported in the making could be a genuinely reassuring development It would be more reassuring ip advance if it were coming “about because the policies in question have proved sterile and contrary to public interest Instead it is inspired by the loss to the Republican Party of Senate and House Election new-They-ha- til Post-Dispatc- Law Bars Door to Asylum LouisviHe Courier-Journal- : The -- sorrowing nations of the free world have opened wide their gates to admit escaping - Hungarian rebels What has America dqne and what can we do for them? The answer has to be: Very little We are caught in a legal trap set by our own Congress President Elsenhower has generously urged that “up to” 5000 refugees be admitted between now and Dec 31 and has asked that “extraordinary measures” be taken to speed -- theiradmittance Bn( if the law had been— written expressly to keep out the Hungarian victims It could not work more effectively against them It requires the most rigid checks on security and health with evidence tt five years of acproved tivity with documentary proof of residence for th past two years —all from people who have fle$ in the night with' only the clothes on - their backs And the plight of the Huh “garians underlines that of other and earlier victims of Thousands of oppression these Jiave complied with all the requirements of the law have waited anxiously' for years to have their visas apto find proved but have yt sponsors Congress expressly refused the President’s request to jmend the law earlier this year The State Department closed its files on new applications on Aug 15 Of the '2091)00 uho should have beerT admitted only 115000 were processed The 5000 Hungarians whom the President hope to help are only a frac tion of th disappointed thotv aands still seeking a new life WHAT CONGRESS has not yet done it still might do not before expiration of th present act but in atonement for it The next Congress can give priority to emergency legislation which would authorize not only the Hungarians but the 89000 other refugee! to whom we have already held out the hope of asylum There are at present 14 categories of refugees There are no applicants in some of these catein gories and thousands others There should be no arbitrary distinction between these people in need particularly whhre that distinction is based on places of origin or present refuge We hope Mr Eisenhower will move as forcefully as possible to direct the wave of sympathy and indignation In this country into practical channels for the relief of as many victims of Russian repression as possible But his hands are tied by the law and we feel he can best help these and other victims who look in vain for our help by asking Congress to direct its every effort toward finding a humane substitute as soon as 1 possible h Soaper Says It’s still a close race to see"' whether wr get the electron “ analyses or last season's baseball statistics out of the way first ' ' As a Missouri editor puts the water shortage on th farms there is now Just about it hip-dee- p ‘ 1 L - A 1 r |
