Show 1 i A ' II ' - - f - — J The Public That Lamb Looks Ferocious fake $fibtnt Ik Balt Bjr Our Readers Tuesday Morning March 5 1937 Bomb Usage Facts r Editor Tribune: Have dethat to the people of Utah must be offered a truthful answer to the misleading statements in a recent Forum letter regarding the highly controversial efforts to promote a Jet bomber practice area on the edge of Great Salt Lake Inferences were made to "some public officials of this state resorting to several misstatements" and "national defense being Jeopardized because of the selfish and greedy motives of a few local individuals" As a slate representative and thus a public servant I have gone quite thoroughly into this problem and feel it my duty to speak out against this unfairness as well af to uncover the really serious problem omitted from the letter The "barren worthless land” or “disturbing bird life” are minor Issues The real hazard is the bomb run at tremendous speeds (up to possibly 600 miles per hour) including sudden intricate aerial acroacbatics with to the praccomplete curacy 1 cided ' has finally given Premier the Order for withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Aqaba Gulf Coast and' thrCaza Strip It was a difficult decision but It was also an Inevitable one For the Israeli government having already promised the United Nations to withdraw could not long delay formal action without weakening Its own position Internationally! However the fact that three days elapsed between the announcement In the order indicates that UN and Israel Is still extremely doubtful as to what will happen once the withdrawal has taken place v ' : m ' V A J Ben-Guri- on ’s AFTER ISRAEL RETIRE from the gulf and the strip the territorial situation In the Middle East will return to its old status— that Is the boundaries established by the 1949 armistice will be restored the Israeli Invasion of Egypt will be ended The only difference will be the presence of the UN Emergency Force scheduled to take over as the Israelis pull out But this can only be a beginning since the UN Emergency Force by Its very name is not a permanent organization The U N cannot expect to rely on stop-ga- p measures forever And unfortunately noths have been tried since the ing but war In armistice ended the stop-gap- Arab-Israe- li 1949 The situation in the Middle East mains grave re- decl- Arab leaders regard slon as a triumph for President Nasser conveniently overlooking the fact that the Egyptian army suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Israeli invaders Moreover passions 'continue to run high For both in the Arab states and Israel withIssued the after example drawal order Monday crowds of demonstrators marched upon the Parliament Building in Jerusalem demanding that his government resign The order also brought a division in the Israeli cabinet The withdrawal Is natjirally unpopular In Israel It was not a decision that was happy to make Bu he was under the strongest pressure from the United States and the United Nations and yielded both In the interests of peace and to keep Israel from being isolated Ben-Gurl- Ben-Gurl- ARAB SOURCES INSIST that the US made a "deal" with Israel The State Department reiterates that there was no private understanding Yet Israeli diplomats like Foreign Minister Melr and UN Delegate Eban talk of "assumptions” upon which the troop withdrawal was based undoubtedly meaning freedom of navigation In the Gulf of Aqaba and protection of Israel against guerrilla raids from the Gaza Strip The picture Is far from clear But it seems certain that in putting pressure on Israel the US also assumed certain responsibilities even though the responsibilities are implied rather than explicit split-secon- tice bomb drop Coming from a carrier ship off the West Coast the young pilots must guide their bombers to the target retrace their run and back to the ship out on the Pacific all nonstop some of the high speed maneuvers being done on instruments with painstaking attention to the radar screen The most crucial part is flown down through along side of and Just below a busy network of already congested airways used by military aircraft airlines large commercial super-bombe- r flying and testing areas private flights and -- Much will depend upon President ser and otheir Arab leaders Nas- Ben-Gurion- ’s X For Mrs Meir made It clear that Israel in would exercise the right of self-defen- Spotlight on Highways The 18th annual highway conference at the University of Utah this week sponsored by the university's Civil Engineering Department is of more than usual significance The reason of course is the new federal highway program which proposes expendi- - - - tureon highwav constructkm the next 13 years of 100 billion dollars conferIt is natural that this three-da- y ence is almost entirely pointed to various aspects of this huge construction program by far the greatest public works project ever undertaken in human history Talks will feature the role of the US Bureau of Public Roads the cities’ responsibilities the economic impact the program as applied to Utah questions of availability of manpower steel and paving materials the effect of freeways and what the new highway program will mean in increased safety The conference will help to clarify various aspects of the program for those who attend it Perhaps even more important will be its value In making the general public more familiar with the program There canbe no doubt as to broad public support for this plan to provide the nation with adequate highways Motorists are for it almost unitedly and they are willing to pay the bill There is some danger however that the public having accepted the program and the bill thinks it has fulfilled its responsibility and roads will automatically be built as they should be built This is not true Engineers may know where and how to build the roads But political and other pressures can force wrong decisions or wasteful expenditure The best way to insure that the nation and the state of Utah gets dollar for dollar return on this mammoth highway program is to have an Informed and alert public which will support efforts of highway planners and administrators to build the roads where they should be built and how they should be built to carry the more than 100 million vehicles which will be using them by 1977 By putting the publicity spotlight on the highway program and its problems this week the 18th annual highway conference Is performing a very valuable service alt-kin- -- of- i Safety Sells Cars I buyers are not allergic to features safety Safety promotion by manufacturers helps not hampers auto sales This is the conclusion of R S McNamara official of the Ford Motor Company who issued a detailed statement last week with the apparent aim of scotching rumors the firm was discouraged with the results of its safety program The statement is corroborated by results of an independent survey at the New York automobile show where strong customer interest in safety was registered Safety equipment was the first consideration of 60 per cent of the buyers polled Not only have Ford sales increased since the introduction of special safety features on the 1956 model the optional safety equipment is in high demand according to Mr McNamara Last year 43 per cent of the cars were ordered with crash pads and 1957 orders are running at 49 per cent More than 400000 seat belts have been sold by Ford since they were offered optionally Ford is not the only manufacturer offering safety features but it has done some notable pioneering in the field with the Cornell University Medical School in crash research program Manufacturers have a responsibility to make their cars as safe as possible and to stress safety in sales promotion Potential buyers also have a responsibility to Register —their interest in built-i- n safety Automobile built-i- i i- - t ' i 1 ' i j I i t I n the event of armed interference with Its shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba or "deterioration” of conditions in Gaza At the moment Colonel Nasser has seemed more reasonable but there Is no sign that any e Arab leader has relinquished the into of Israel the sea" goal "driving To President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles goes the credit for bringing - - &bout JheJsraellwithdrawal If this first step toward stabilizing the Middle East is successfully followed up then they will rank among the great peacemakers But they still have a long long way to go and there are even more formidable obstacles in the way long-rang- t For any western PARIS visitor with a reasonable freight of intellectual curiosity the iron Soviet society has the same sort of intense that the harsh drilled policed The 37th annual convention of the American Association of Junior Colleges convening today in Salt Lake City gets under way at a critical and challenging time National surveys indicate that even r colleges and universities extend to the limit of their resources by 1970 they will be able to admit no more than half the number of young people who will be seeking higher education by that time The Committee for Education Beyond High School appointed by President Eisenhower about a year ago has indicated it is looking more and more to the junior colleges to help alleviate the pressure on four-yeschools It is urging consideration by various states of the advisability of exinstitutions panding the role of These smaller schools can help fill the demand at less expense because they do not need such things as expensive laboratories or large campuses There are about 500 junior colleges in the country with an enrollment of about 623000 students About half the schools are public institutions supported by local taxes They tend to be more closely allied to the secondary school system than is traditional for higher education Already the needs for beyond-higschool education are being met in some restates by establishment of and universities of branches state gional arrangements development of among educational institutions The challenge to the junior college likely will be thoroughly aired in Salt Lake this week The Tribune joins in welcoming the ciety Sparta used to have itj ar ar two-ye- ar h two-ye- school ar administrators planned of - IN SEEKING to sum up the experience I can at best give The Soviet leaders began with a backward nation largely populated by an Il- literate peasantry In less than 30 years— for the first five year plan only began In 1928— they have ere-- 1 fed 'out of almost nothing a atrong technically progressive managerial class They have matched their new managers with a second new class of millions of skilled workers And they have continuously multiplied their country’s national product Too many westerners have tended to forget the reality of the achievement in their horror at the method of the achievement It's goin’ t’ be fun t’ watch an’ see how long th’ meek kin keep th' earth after they inherit it— Abe Martin Facts Are Stubborn Things I read somewhere that the average age of men in certain professions is: Merchants 60 doctors and lawyers 65 farmers 68 clergymen 70 great geniuses 75 You will note from the above that the profi tends long- ''During a (Ip-hat-e the Ham Park Continental Congress on the establishment of the Federal Army a member offered a resolution providing that it should never exceed 3000 men George Washington then moved an amendment that no enemy should ever invade the country with a force exceeding 2000 men The resolution was laughed to death in Oliver Wendell Holmes once said bad air bad whisky and irregular habits kept the doctors alive That may have been true In the good old days but today’s crop isn’t as hardy Such things kill them off as quickly as they do anyone else Many years ago while on the old Salt Lake Herald I was assigned to write a concluding paragraph to a story about an outdoor affair that had boon postponed because of inclement weather It was my first assignment and I wanted to show the city editor what I could do so I 'i wrote: "After many days of arid the vapory captains marshaled their thundering hosts and poured out upon scorching humanity and the thoroughly incinerated a few inches greatest imaginable sacrifices in order to secure the vast funds needed for investment in military defense and capital Improvement But although the methods should never be forgotten the Soviet achievement should not be overlooked either And in the present phase this Soviet achievement is visibly producing certain changes in Soviet society THE POLICE persist everywhere but the blood purges and the terror belong to the past The level of life is still very low by our standards but it is also improving In a way you can compare the present state of the Soviet industrial revolution when for example the worst horrors of Britain’s "Black Country” began to be mitigated and the workers’ share in the total product began to be somewhat Increased But In another and a very Important way this comparison does not hold good at alL darkest period at least the workers In the mills were let alone when the long working dessication vegetation The method has been to force the people to make the Even when the mills of the Black Country were In their By Ham Park evity ip no one in his sense can feel any doubt at all The mere statistics of the Soviet Union's huge military forces and massive industrial production do not tell the full story either The real story is one of growth and even of a kind of Senator From Sandpit toward The dictatorial government of President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba has learned a hard lesson the hard way the Likq many'qther governments Batista regime has seen how government censorship boomerangs against those who would keep the people in ignorance Censorship was clamped down last January 15 during an uprising Deprived of the tiuth people naturally come to believe the worst and rumors ran rampant In the case of Cuba the rumors hurt the Batista reg'me already shaky with a large segment of the population Worse since censorship applied also to economic reports It hurt business The economic condition of the island state was good but it suffered from the wild rumors during the news blackout Apparently however Batista has only learned part of a lesson In lifting censorship he warned newspapers to watch their step and print nothing to cause trouble that Hitler That is a form of made popular for a time Sometimes news that causes trouble is the news that people should be receiving Maybe Batista and his kind eventually will learn that the dangers of news blackouts are greater than those from letting people know what is going on a mixed answer As to the brute power of Soviet society creativeness so- for the free Athenians The secrecy Mr AIsop of Sparta was one part of this fascination Another part was Another Sparta's stability was the long record of Sparta’s military successes This historical comparison was much in this reporter's mind in the concluding weeks of his long visit to the Soviet Union for a simple reason In brief had one not been too much struck by the successes and too little observant of the failures? ession Batista Learns Partly government-restricte- Russian Gains Bring Little Relaxation Junior Colleges to Fore four-yea- — Joseph AIsop Interest two-ye- F’orum of aqua pluvialis" The editor glanced at my journalistic effort scratched it out and wroted in its place “It rained" Notes on the Cuff Department LewLIdyd says that next to putting a glass egg in a hen’s nest he doesn't think there is anything quite as deceitful as a traffic cop putting a chalk mark on the Inside of your tire under a rear fender A Gunnison reader writes that a Salt Lak£r visiting down there put his fingers Into a horse's mouth to see how many teeth it had and the horse closed its mouth to see how many fingers the man had The curiosity of each was fully satisfied he day was done But in the Soviet Union they are not let alone Management municipality and state all combine and contrive together to limit the ordinary man’s freedom of choice Above all they try to insure that anyone who wants a of pleasure recrea- tion or relaxation must also swallow two teaspoonsful of propaganda and Communist uplift THIS EFFORT is all pervasive Its depressing effects can be seen everywhere in the arts and in Soviet intellectual life even more dramatically than in the existence of the average man The students the intellectuals and the average people of the Soviet Union are more and more visibly bored by all the And uplift and govornessing this extremely simple fact In and of itself raises most im- portant questions’ about the next stages of Soviet said Labor disgraces no man unfortunately there are times when men disgrace labor The Reformer The things that I don't want to do Are scarcely worth the doing The sights that make my neighbors cheer Are hardly worth the viewing The pleasures that I cannot bear Shopld henceforth be abolished The treasures that I cannot share Should straightway be demolished For me there's neither peace nor mirlh In time of rest pr labor Unless I supervise the earth And regulate my neighbor Soapcr Says Nothing ruins a 1 am discussion of the Gaza Strip like somebody who knows a' lot of highly technical stuff about it— such as for example where it is Perhaps the TV set can replace the teacher- but It will place an additional financial burden on the family of the child who must bring a tube instead of an apple - d defense areas— some of these as close as 30 to 43 seconds flying time away! Space here will not permit telling the serious and very real possibilities of a super speed fiery crash into one of the thickly populated areas actually only minutes from the maneuver area Having personally studied and compiled these and other documentary facts I Invite anypjtff to personally contact md'for verification or further information We “local individuals or public officials of this state” who have been intimated to be “selfish and greedy" instead of making misstatements are perhaps making only understatements That is because our minds are too full of tragedies over Grand Legislature Had those now seeking to tax the people for’ an' effigy memorial made the same effort to preserve the historic monument and shrine before it was ruthlessly destroyed it could with less money than is now sought to be squeezed from the taxpayers have been preserved to honor the pioneers and inspire and enlighten future generations Could It be that those who neglected their duty to preserve the peered theater when It still stood are now seeking with the taxpayers money to salve their conscience behind the effigy of the historic monument as a camouflage? Lawrence E Nelson Murray Utah The States Failed- Editor Tribune: In refer to M Borg’s letter (Forum Feb 25) I thiak it’s quite obvious as to why the states are not left alone to solve this racial problem as they have had three score years and more to adequately find the right solution but instead have adhered to tradition and tradition is your greatest obstacle to progress Actually it’s not a great problem for we Americans to solve as we have solved far greater problems Is It so hard so difficult or so wrong to recognize that all men are created equal and should be treated accordence ingly? If upholding the rights of the minorty groups suppresses the freedom of the majority then Immediately should the UN be disbanded It’s the minority that makes up the majority There will be no civil war That majority that Mr Borg speaks of is fast dwindling realizing to maintain our leadership and respect as one of the greatest nations on earth all our peoples Irrespective of race color creed or religion all are as one Bonniford Boudreau - Utah County Route Editor Tribune: The meet- ing of the Utah County Highway Committee on Feb 18 may have momentous consequences for central and southern Utah The announced purpose of the meeting was to determine the route and to plan for the purchase of a for the national right-of-wa- defense highway Utahjymty through Numerous articles have ap- peared in the press all advo- cating routing the proposed highway along Redwood Road and thence along the west side of Utah Lake to the vicinity of Elberta or Goshen Let us considpr briefly State Representative what will be the general effect Pres Salt Lake Safety of this plan It will certainly Council bring no benefits to Utah County or to central or southReplica or Effigy ern Utah In fact It can hardly do otherwise than to reroute Editor Tribune: The Legisthe bulk of interstate traffic lature has approved the approIncluding most of the tourist priation of taxpayers' money trade directly from Salt Lake to build a replica of the old Salt Lake Theater A replica City to Ely Nev is defined as a "reproduction The Idea oU building the or copy” And what would highway along the Denver have to be done to “reproandRlo Grande tracks to the duce" the old theater? It was neighborhood of either 12th or 16th West Streets in a noble structure It was built Provo and thence to endure through the ages— around Utah Lake by way heroic monument to the faith of Ironton would appear to the idealsand the energy of be equally fallacious the pioneers It challenged This would not only result In the the power of the wreckers to appropriation and depreciadestroy it powerful explotion of hundreds of acres of sives were required to shatter much needed farm land but its walls The ancient monuwould very likely amount to ments of Athens and Rome were not more venerable only a temporary expedient What then is the alternaBut the legislators were not tive? I suggest Mr Editor asked to appropriate money to construct a replica that that you or any of your readers who may be sufficiently could cost not $500000 but interested in this matter drive In million dollars several down to the roadway which comparison with the old thehas been built west of the ater the proposed building is Provo Boat Harbor From this a mere shell an effigy—" a crude image" It will last posvantage point look north to sibly a few life times— a Genpva and then south to the Provo Airport dike This will shameful example of our apgive you your answer The preciation of the faith and Ideals of those who turned a proposed highway should I believe proceed from the desert into a garden with a of Geneva Steel Mill monumental playhouse by way of the aforementioned But why all the haste and dike In almost a direct line pressure to have the approprito a point somewhat west of ation made at this session of Lake Shore and from thence the Legislature? The issue on to Santaquin By so doing never was mentioned before we should be taking the first election the people have had step In reclaiming thousands no opportunity to pass upon of acres of waste land borderthe merits of the appropriathe lake for purposes of ing tion or In convention assemcultivation Furthermore by bled to Instruct their repremeans of suitable access sentatives how to vote Why the towns of Utah the attempt to deprive the roads allwould have quick and County people of "both their constitueasy means of travel to Getional and their inherent and neva and to the other manunatural rights as citizens to facturing plants built or likely say for What they wished to to be built In this part of Are those be taxed? sponsorthe state ing the effigy afraid of the W E Johnson considered Judgment of the ° Orem Utah o citifellow their majority zens? One hundred atfd thirty-seveFew heard of the theater miles of telephone wire memorial till after election are stolen In Missouri a fact when the Board of Examiners which Is very disturbing to were induced to make an unofficials constitutional deficit appro- - company officers and birds priation for an institution that left with no place to sit had never been set up by the the recent school and such things crash yard as i un) guided missiles over Utah Dr Robert B Gordon Canyon cross-countr- y ' n astronomer says our planet should sustain life for another 6 billion years which may give basketball's rule- makers time enough to finish inventing the game An c K t jt 'I i ' i irfiiiiTTiiiirfc ir- - A jKU4PiI— i |