Show 1 t 4 18 - flic f Wednesday Morning September r Time to Speak Up In order to negotiate with the Russians as Harold E Stassen has’ been doing for ' several months It is probably necessary to he optimistic as - Harold -- E -- Stassen ' UH-- " doubtedly is When Stassen returned to the London disarmament talks this week he said that “we should be patient and persistent in these negotiations" But patience and per- sistence seem to have run their course All signs in London point to an early end of the conference which has been under way for six months and a transfer of activities to the United Nations General Assembly in New York That would give the Soviet Union the opportunity of using the assembly as a sounding board for propaganda by exploiting general concern over nuclear tests and weapons And that means the Western leaders had better move first instead of following their usual practice of waiting until after the Soviets launch a propaganda attack In boxing parlance the Soviets have piled up a lot of points while the West’s g hasn’t received much notice Prime Minister Macmillan of Britain told Premier Bulganin of Russia Monday that “real progress" on disarmament is up to the Soviet Union Macmillan also said that recent Soviet actions in the Middle East are not in the interests of peace Macmillan made some telling points But his statement will have to be vigorously followed up by other Western leaders A speech by President Eisenhower before the UN General Assembly could be most effective The President of the United States certainly would receive far more attention than the stooges who carry out Kremlin orders in the UN - 4 1957 By had their vacationers and motorists have last fling of the summer weekend aged to have their fun with a minimum of tragic consequences Utah saw only two traffic deaths in the period from' Friday at 6 pm until Monday midnight And there were no other accidental ‘’deaths related to the holiday The traffic toll compared very favorably with the four killed both last year and in 1955 Actually a toll of two deaths in 78 hours is a little less than the average number of fatalities recorded in such a period in the state Generally according to watchful highway patrolmen and police drivers in Utah seemed to be showing greater than usual 78-ho- ur care number of motorists out on the highways reported the same thing Perhaps that was due to what appeared an unusual amount of patrolling Other than the two fatal accidents there were no nearly-fata- l accidents reported It might be added that one of the fatal mis-ha- car - and involved an- driver and there were no reports of Utah drivers Involved in fatal accidents in other two-legge- d A ps Joseph Alsop high-scale- out-of-sta- te Today’s Highwaymen states Some pretty tough characters operated as highwaymen in the old West And early day travelers by stagecoach or train knew the risk they ran of being held up by bandits” Although some of the highway robbers of that era were vicious men few probably exceeded the ruthlessness of some of today’s highwaymen Utah has had its full share of this ruth- whole we think Utahns are to be commended on a Labor Day weekend safety national picture while not black favorable At last count there were 435 traffic deaths This is more than the National Safety Council had predicted and compares with the 435 and 438 tolls of the preceding two years but much less than the record 461 killed over the 1951 Labor Day weekend The was less lessness We still have a vicious southern Utah murder unsolved which undoubtedly was the work of highway robbers We’ve Considering the millions upon millions had other murders perpetrated by these vultures who prey on travelers plus a host of cars out on the highways over the last of kidnapings rapes robberies and assaults vacation weekend of the summer it is probThe latest piece of highway viciousness ably surprising twice as many were not killed which occurred near St George Monday Now that we’ve had this last fling is enough to scare many a traveler off the wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all highway all together A California doctor down to pne sober and extra caresettle his a for wife and stopping along the road brief rest were aroused by an armed man ful driving from now on? who demanded their car When the doctor X refused to unlock the car door the man fired several shots through the window and door wounding the woman For most youngsters across the country When the gunman ran around to the of the the doctor car side other managed today may seem like one of the longest of the year For Salt Lake City children it to get the motor- started and drove off although the highwayman fired several will be the shortest more shots at the car Among the schools resuming classwork Some six hours later a posse captured a today are those in Granite Murray and Jorsuspect' reportedly an AWOL dan districts of Salt Lake County expected sailor from San Diego He had one revolver td total 42500 in enrollment A slightly in his possession and another in a suitcase smaller number will answer the call of the school bell In Salt Lake City Thursday he had left in Santa Clara While there is an understandable relucThe Tribune has on a number of pretance of young people to end vacations vious occasions warned of the modern highmost of them should be glad to be back once way robbers who prey on motor travelers today under the guise of hitchhikers Mthey get adjusted to the routine Meantime otorists need to be warned as well against parents are relieved particularly those in the highwaymen who prey on motorists urban centers where recreational and job halted along the road for a nap or for any opportunities are strained The problem of other reason Better to nap or even to profitably occupying idle young people pardiscriminated ticularly the stop In town or far enough off the highlaw is a state or be to bf the out of by employers way sight against thugs J3clls Are lullglllg - teen-age- serious Serious Loss to Utah Governor Clyde faces a heavy responsibility In filling the vacancy on the Utah State Land Board created by the unexpected death of Arthur G Nord 65 at his J home in Ogden last week Mr Nord was one of this region’s most authoritative and respected advocates of the proper use of water timber forage and other natural resources He had served on the newly formed land board only since last April but had made an estimable contribution toward formulating a sound and forward-lookin- g state land policy He helped round out the important board which is made up principally of business and livestock leaders Beginning with his service In France In World War I Mr Nord spent all of his adult life in public service He was with the US Forest Service 41 years the last 16 as assistant regional forester in charge of the division of lands recreation and watershed management for the Intermountain Region Recently Mr Nord had been trying to stimulate official interest in securing more adequate state leasing law He pointed but that under present statutes state land can be leased for only five years an unrealistic figure considering that lessees in many cases would build expensive strucalternative The tures ort desirable ground is to sell the land outright to a developer thus failing to fully protect the integrity of state school land in some instances The next State Legislature likely will be asked to consider changing the law so the Land Board will have authority for a reasonable choice between selling and leasing land ' Mr Nord contributed greatly to the 7 v ' ’) t ftJt’ ! r t' rs one Although teacher shortages persist and classroom problems will grow worse before they Improve in Granite and Murray districts Salt Lake City has only two schools Newman in the fast—Rose Park-an- d growing Rose Park area —which will operate- on double shifts this year A new elementary school is being planned for the area The average adult has two main responsibilities as the schools resume classwork The first is to watch driving as there will be thousands more pupils on the streets at certain hours The other Is to do all prac- tical to promote better education Texas-Size- Vegetables d Chemists and plant researchers are chortling over the wonders of a new chemical called gibberellin which greatly increases the size of fruits and vegetables cabbages and tomaThey poiijt to 12-foot toes the of size footballs We suppose there are some fruits and vegetables which would be improved by such expansion but it could easily be carried to extremes Who Wants a cabbage anyway? And imagine having to eat an ear of com with a derrick or serving a spear of asparagus chemically-induce- d 12-fo- ot in loot-thic- k chunks Good things often come in small packand except in Texas it isn’t necessarily true that everything has to be the biggest in order to be the best ages These books and magazine articled the wonderful things a handy man can do around the house tell you everything except how to find a handy nian to about ' do themT I T S5 in Stalin Soviets Rattle Skeletons — How WARSAW On the achievement Moronic Rodeos Editor Tribune Rodeos are twice as brutal and cruel as Grace' Johnson and her sister ever Lucille Butler have charged" Anyone who' pretends that a steer can be thrown in lull flight without him internally rupturing bursting spleen breaking ribs dislocating organs and vertebrae and producing lingering pain is talking senseless gibberish How many of them have we seen bleeding from nose mouth and" ears with horns torn from their heads eyes bulged legs and necks torbroken and otherwise tured and crippled? And how much torture is Inflicted on these helpless creatures to goad them into a "suitable" fury for rodeo performance? But quite aside from the brutality to both man and beast rodeo is a stupid moronic exhibition without variety beauty grace or inspiration It is a dash of elemental brute force with everything rigged in favor of the brute In a recent rodeo in Arizona one man was gored to death another received multiple fractures from being thrown through a fence and a third got a broken arm and a mauling from the bulL This presents a pretty sordid picture but at least there was more justice and retribution in evidence here than in the usual rodeo part of the agony fell on the perpetrators 1 would not deliberately watch one of these senseless and degrading exhibitions if I were paid wages to do so but in absentia-yo- u may be sure I am rooting for the unfortunate creatures driven to this slaughter to satisfy the blood lust of my own spedes We are far from civilized if we have to turn to such stupid and sadistic things for entert- -- season— and In Utah particularly they man- counter-punchin- Our £ Last Weekend Fling Well many skeletons are going to come rattling out of how many closets in Mos- -- cow? The dead dishonored bones of Marshal Tuk-- h a s h e Jiave now been suddenly st exposed to public view for the honors due to the relMr Alsop ics of a hero of the Soviet Union But will it there? behind-the-scene- s that this reporter has run across in a very long time It is solid information too coming from a Polish leader who talked at length with the responsible Soviet officials directly concerned — highly-reputa-bl- University Prof Kim The professor is himself a member of the second Soviet generation being the son of a Korean Communist who married a Russian woman in Moscow These questions are posed by one of the most fascinating items of Information about the Soviet Union an Soviet history from the revolution of 1917 to the end of the second World War in 1945 The truly staggering task was confided to the historian-sociologion the faculty of v-s- end was extraordinary order for a scientific and impartial review of all the political condemnations in the entire bloodstained period of Congress e ONE OF THE sequels of the Soviet’s famous 20th Party Moscow To Kim were handed over all the super-secreflies having to do with political trials in the possession of both tiie Communist Party and the Soviet secret police Incredibly enough it turned out that from the days of the terrible Cheka onwards hardly a single scrap of paper in the entire ghastly record had ever been destroyed Every note every affadavit every instruction every confession By Totes on the Cuff Department Our Incomes are like our shoes if too small they gall' A group of us alleged thinkand pinch us but if too large ers was discussing the probthey cause us to stumble and lem of the world becoming to trip — Colton A bystander over-populate- d I’ve been out of the apartment since I did my mar--k e t i n g last Saturday! It’s wonder that I suffer some from no My sister Ham Park and her hus- band drove out to Wendover Sunday and invited us to accompany them but my husband declined He told me to go if I wanted to — but personally he couldn’t see any fuh in driving across the desert in order to lose one’s money playing the slot machines And especially on a holiday weekend when the highways are crowded with speed maniacs and the odds are against your getting back in anything except an ambulance So we home with only Arky our parakeet to entertain us as our TV has gone acrobatic on us Do television mechanics have to pass an examination and take out a license like barbers do before they can practice? If they don’t they should Maybe it’s stayed what is called the "perversity beof inanimate objects" cause our TV set always goes out of whack in the middle of a good program or jrlght after it’s supposed to have been fixed and the mechanic has collected his lee and leftr My husband says it could be a conspiracy Whose deal is it? order for the widow to be eligible for a property tax exemption the veteran during his lifetime must have established a disability of 25 per cent or more through the Veterans Bureau When applying for this exemption all information such OBVIOUSLY Kim and his staff cannot have completed Holmes Alexander pseudo-confessio- n t' Senator From Sandpit Ham Park The Bridge Club Meets I declare girls I’m getting so that I dread these long weekends Today’s practically the first time Closet interrupted us by saying "I these here econupset about the don’t see why omists get so population increasing The number of people on ' the earth can’t increase and I’ll tell you why It’s because the birth rate is exactly equal to the death rate Everybody is bom once and everybody dies once Therefore the number of births equals the total number of deaths so how the Sam Hill is the population going to increase?" total Whenever I read a statement made by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles It’s hard for me to tell whether the acute crisis has passed or has Just become chronic Jennings Phillips aald 'the other day that he didn’t have much faith in the fellow who less In the knocks everything and none at all in the one who is indifferent to everything Clarence Palmer is said to have gone on record last week as approving in part the ad- praises everything one who ministration coln They say is Russia’s of Abraham Lin— that Khrushchev one-ma- n my recollection —- top is but that the top was a flop here because it was so hard to put down one-ma- n or even of their huge and some grue- task Obviously too the publication of Kim’s results is likely to be selective to say the very least Meanwhile the preparation for the rehabilitation of Marshal Tukhashevsky is presumably a first fruit of the professor’s labors as well as a significant indication of the Red Army’s enormously increased influence on Soviet politics Tukhashevsky almost beyond doubt has always been secretly revered by Marshal Zhukov who is his heir Even more than Leon Trotsky Tukhashevsky deserves the credit for organizing the Red army that Zhukov now leads— a victim Tukhashevsky-wa- of Adolf Hitler service intelligence Hitler’s prepared the documents exaggerating the long and close relationship between the Soviet and German x general staffs in a way that seemed to Indicate a plot against Stalin and his state These documents were then allowed to fall into the hands of President Benes of J 0 CHRISTENSEN Utah Moroni Hitting at Widows Editor Triijune: I resent a letter from the State Tax Commission stating that In -- death certificate discharge papers and marriage certifias cate were furnished But not one word about disability was mentioned when the exemption-was granted-- - Now they 'come out with a letter saying the Tax Commission will be forced to deny the exemption and that tax the full value of the property must be paid Where I wonder does the Tax Commission think these widows many too old to get work are going to raise the money two months before the on taxes are due? I would say they are certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel to make up for wild spending of tax money when they hit at widows of veter- ans A VETERAN’S WIDOW Socialistic Alliances Editor Tribune Socialistic Republicans and Democrats voted like a machine to censure Sen McCarthy This socialistic alliance rules the nation since Sen Taft died and it has built up the biggest Karl Marx racket ever seen A second socialistic alliance is in the Supreme Court shake-dow- n third Infests the United A Nations Socialistic decisions emascu- the Supreme Court Our religion defense apparatus free elections and free press are in grave Jeopardy MIKE BEERS Kamiah Idaho late Allergy Protection Editor Tribune: A Forum writer suggests banning emoking in public places As long as he is protecting why not add a law to protect asthmatics? It would be easy to draft a law making it a misdemeanor for my neighbor to use face powder unless it is approved by my doctor as being allergy-fre- e And if the tobacco smell is nauseating how about sitting next to someone reeking of loud perfume? In my opinion tpbacco Is not any worse than some of the things we contact every day I think the causes of hay fever and asthma should be controlled as well as the use of tobacco Countless persons suffer year after year but is there any law to protect us even though our health is endangered? FONCET FARLEY Orem Utah ' Czechoslo- vakia Benes forwarded them with a covering personal note to Stalin himself In the ensuing hecatomb not only Tukhashevsky but virtually all the rest of the Red army high command went to their deaths So much is known BUT THERE IS also reliable indication that the atmosphere for the hecatomb of the high command was prepared in another way Being a wholly peasant army in those days the Red army was gravely demoralized by Stalin’s wholesale massacre of the Russian peasantry Tukhashevsky and the other marshals are be lieved to have warned Stalin very bluntly therefore that he must call a halt to the blood baths of collectivization Will Truth Is Usually Unpopular WASHINGTON— In s bad-new- s s mostly Democrats didn’t try to kill Paarlberg who has been Sec- retary Benson’s right-han- man since 1953 All they did was try to kill his nomination to be assistant secretary of agriculture THE MOTIVES were clearly stated in the Senate debate Dr Paarlberg frequently and repeatedly in public office and out told the truth about our agricultural economy In these terms: 1 There’s an industrial rev olution on and that in the simplest terms is why the family farmer is doomed to extinction 2 Attempts by both political parties to pretend otherwise and to capitalize on the farmer’s plight by subsidizing him in return for his vote are stupid and venal “Let us" said Paarlberg In a 1950 speech which quoted against him in waa the Senate debate "recognize price Supports for what they e— a political solution to an economic problem” 3 Ever since the wide use pf farm machinery and syntfarmers have been overproducing Only dur- hetic fertilizers can ing wars and the farmer sell all the crops he can raise There is not the war-crise- - ancient days it was common practice to cut off the head of a messenger who brought bad news Well as as recently mid August 1957 AD 32 senators acted in much the same way toward a bringer in the person of Dr Don Mr Alexander Paarlberg the honest agronomist from Purdue University These-senator- " xIn one sense ainment Readers h it now be shown that the were foremarshals Glamor doomed even before Hitler His hair was wavy thick and laid his trap by challenging dark Stalin’s omnipotence? This When first they met She was one of the crucial puzenthralled zles bf the Soviet past that Love MUST be blind— she sees will perhaps be solved- by no change Kim’s assignment which is Now that he’s completely butfcL- - --in any case an assignment — Sudie Stuart Hager without previous parallel in recorded history Kimberly Idaho i d and and verdict had been filed away And the files were completely intact! In addition to the files there were ghostly but still articulate survivors Frightful though the purges were not everyone was sent to the firing squad In each group of victims of this Soviet society that eats its children there were always minor personalities who were condemned perhaps not mercifully to the living death of the prison camps A good many of these are still alive Kim and his staff have been tracking down the poor and interrogating ghosts them one-tent- h Foruin The Public protection fcnd proper administration of the national forests during his long service with the Forest Service in Utah Idaho and Wisconsin He helped spark several flood’ and watershed rehabilitation ' prevention “ projects In the Wasatch " Mountains" And helped originate the plan for establishing the Utah Museum of Natural History at Vernal The State Land Board needs a man of Mr Nord’s background integrity and understanding of recreational and watershed uses of public land We hope Governor Clyde is able to find one Meantime The Tribune extends sympathy to Mr Nord’s family — ‘ Political Charge Account gait £kf filmne s slightest validity in the old chestnut that we can prevent a national depression by preventing a farm depression The one solution is for the farm economy to return the free market to These are plain economic facts Dr Paarjbcrg perceived them at a time when the Tru -k administration was man advo- frank socialization of cating fanning under the Brannan Dr Paarlberg brought with him to Washington Rian them Unhappily ward omy the steps to- freeing the farm econhave been halting and unsteady Secretary Benson did manto score a nominal victory by getting rid of rigid price supports In favor of flexible ones He has also built up a mammoth program for dumping surplus crops into every charitable project at home and abroad He even - tried paying fanners for not planting crops under the soil bank Despite all efforts to shut off surpluses the heaps of unused food grow bigger and the mechanized farmer soaking his earth with chemicals has brought forth more and more of what nobody wants The reason for failure seems to lie in that Paarlberg definition of the price support theory — “a political solution to an economic problem" Did Paarlberg expect grati-tud-e for telling an unwelcome truth? History is all against him if he did age SEN cessfully HOLLAND who sucsupported - Paarl-berg'- s nomination summarized opposition as follows: ‘Two things in particular were held against him One was that Dr Paarlberg had made some reference to the fact that the (wartime) farmers had been liv tag in a dream world The other matter a was the speech Against entitled The Case Price Supports’" For speaking his mind on such important subjects and for telling the truth about them Dr Paarlberg took 32 whacks on the neck from the United States Senate It’s lucky for him and for the rest of us that his head J stayed on Ike continues to pile up an impressive list oi firsts Shortly after becoming the first President to pilot an airplane he edds the distinction of being the first to have an Aalan flu Shot x |