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Texas Runs Up Warnings For Both JFK and Barry Thursday Morning October SI 1963 Tage 14 A Politics Ineptitude Bog Down Congress Administration applause tor House diciary Committee approval of a compromise civil rights bill may be whistling in the dark The measure is a long way from enactment by a Congress more bogged down and by partisan politics party its own cumbersome machinery than any in history NEVER BEFORE says a Washington Post analysis has a Congress taken so long to act on appropriations Four months after the start of the new fiscal ’ Cure Can Be Worse deep-seate- This could be a case where it would have been better to leave bad enough alone Two Tull Backs’ No sooner had Chairman Khrushchev indicated the Soviet Union was quitting the moon race than Chen Yl foreign minister of Red China announced his country’s atomic bomb was still “several years” in the future Previously China’s bomb had been reported just around the corner The two “pull backs” were not related of course But each seems to have originated from the same cause: namely the failures of a Communist economy to produce as promised Chen was reported to have said that delay of the atomic bomb was due to the backward state of China’s industrial base He explained the Chinese economy was going through a period of adjustment due to three years of natural calamities He e calmight have added that a amity “the great leap forward" caused far more serious economic dislocations And in “August I960 Khrushchev abruptly cut down on aid to China by withdrawing hundreds of Soviet technicians While Moscow and Peking dispute over the true meaning of Marxism-Leninistheir spokesmen are forced todIsclo'se that all is far from rosy at home man-mad- m Restoring the Gootl Halloween’s roots reach back many thousands of years to a great thanksgiving festival of the ancient Celts who donned masks as protection from witches and evil spirits which were supposed to be at large that night Latpp as the eve of Allhallows or All Saints’ Day It became a solemn religious occasion In the tangled history of the holiday various acts of vandalism perhaps related to the ghosts and goblins of the Druid e$i replaced most religious aspects It was inevitable that “begging and blackmail” hoTrid”developout-of-niisehi- ef -p- 1 only “back-to-back- other Republi- can that else is in sight His perso n a 1 popularity is much greater than President Kennedy’s If nominated he will be support- ed by many no-o- ” There was reason for Congress to be in continuous session in 1941 The only reason in 1963 is politics and ineptitude The civil rights issue Is a good examIt is of course heavily involved in both Republican-Democrati- c politics and as well as Democratic Party weighed down with cumbersome obstructive congressional machinery After much maneuvering and pressure the House Judiciary Committee finally approved a watered - down civil rights bill which the administration hopes it can get through Congress articularly In an urban society short of outhouses cows and wagons to haul to unlikely places The worst aspect of modern Halloween celebrating is the danger to children turned loose in the dark often without adult protection on busy streets and serious criminal activity by robbers and attackers wearing Halloween masks A saving grace of the “deteriorating" holiday is the UNICEF drive for funds by children as a substitute or adjunct to the familiar “trick or treat” collection of sweets Despite opposition by zealous foes of the United Nations and those wlm resent turning “trick or treat” into a chabHy the cash collections for the campaign United Nations Childreh’s Fund to help bring medicine and milk to ill And hungry youngsters In other lands have grown fcach year Needless to say most charges against UNICEF are false and the unselfish motive of the young solicitors is laudable One thing Is sure Today’s youngsters aren’t going to settle for listening to ghost stories or bobbing for apples on Iuterlamli 4jrr Southern-do- minated It Is extremely doubtful the Senate will act before the end of the year This is' typical of the entirsJf'gislative logjam In this Congress Only a lew major measures have been enacted The tax bill Is bogged down In Senate Finance Committee hearings and may continue so for another month As noted most appropriations bills are still unapproved and a third “temporary” spending authorization to permit the business of government to continue was just voted Monday Foreign aid is still up in the air as Is an Increase In debt ceiling due to drop to 285 billion November 30 unless Congress acts Two major education bills are in conference Meanwhile Congress wastes time with such extraneous matters as trying to veto any cooperation with Russia on a moon shot and increasing terms of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to four years ’ AND DESPITE the press(ire for action and the noticeof no adjournment prior to the next session congressional leaders have announced three recesses over Veterans Day Thanksgiving and Christmas which will cut 15 days off the legislative calendar While part of the fault for this slowpaced session of Congress must be blamed on politics more is due to the persistent refusal of both houses to reorganize their antiquated systems to keep pace with mounting legislative responsibility Archaic seniority and committee chairmanship powers plus cumbersome systems for authorizations and appropriations encourage delay and Inaction And the more Congress becomes bogged down In these old ruts the more lethargic and apathetic it seems to be toward reform msTcTear fharbnly atraroU5tdelec“ torate can ever get the nation’s stagnating legislative body off dead center Danger After Dark accident in DuThe tragic three-ca- r chesne County in which five were killed and seven hurt is a reminder to all motorists of an unusual hazard in rural western areas which every driver should keep in mind particularly at night Many miles of Utah highway are unfenced Domestic livestock and wild animals roam at will along and across the road They can at times move into the path of a speeding automobile so suddenly the driver has no warning at all But in many cases the driver by exceeding safe nighttime speed limits or failing to have properly adjusted and functioning lights docs not take adequate precautions to avoid hitting such animals No one probably will ever know whether this was the case in the Duchesne accident when one car hit a stray horse and was spun Into the path of a second was In turn struck by a third car which ' vehicle But one or more of these drivers may have bee A driving too fast ior existing conditions nr had improper lights Accident 4i)f this kind happen often although not usually with such tragic results But the danger Is so ever present all who drive on rural highways after dark should have their lights at maximum never overdrive them 1 i w Potomac Fever By Fletcher “If he’s not a candidate how come he follows those public opinion polls so closely?” i Knebel Taxes Not So Bad Editor don’t you people get off the back? of the administrators? You grab every opportunity to lament the tax increase or grab on to the opportunity to be popular You know that Americans are just beginning to appreciate their tax structures they no longer complain like the Egyp-- Tribunez-Why tians that they need a before they’ll pay You know that our tax bill for all we receive in human(e) comforts will soon equal our alcohol our boat and our tobacco bills? Why in tarnation don’t you lament a bit on this gross stupidity and get off the backs of those who have to carry out your wishes iH administration? I’ll answer this painful question for you it won’t be popular Keep up your good work on auditorium downtown rehabilitation education future needs You are doing a wonderful service whip-in- g J L NIELSON Favors Rezoning Plan Editor Tribune: After reading the comments against the rezoning of 7th East and 2nd South to B-we as some of the residents of this area would like to express our views We are very much in favor of such a project because it would be advantageous It would give us a supermarket in the area which otherwise we will not have No one has stated the problems the rezoning would solve but instead the letters have been disagreeable in tone and have given no valid objections to the step which we as the residents see as progress The rezoning would mean the demolition of old residential buildings which were converted into apartment dwellings and resulted in inadequate parking facilities and much traffic congestion”" One of the major complainants against the rezoning is a downtown group whose restrictive aims bias their judgment in this matter Wider interests than their? are at stake 3 By OurJleadcrs however and —an objective viewing of the facts indicates that those interests would be better served by the rezoning As we understand it under the building plans there is no provision for a traffic opening on to the 7th East freeway and Forum Rules letter r welcome but they 4 bear the writer’ correct name and address to bn published Names will be withheld on request but preference Is fivea letters submitted for publication over the writer’s true name Lettera are subject to condensation when space limitations require It mu hence the traffic congestion the opposition foresees is imaginary As we see it the rezoning would result in a much needed improvement rather than a detand we therefore riment strongly support the rezoning RAY D PROVOST For Several Area Residents Parking Main Issue Editor Tribune: Must Salt Lake behood winked into building a necessary civic auditorium in a location where it will be a fantastic white elephant and a drain on the citizen just to protect the interests of the small clique of downtown businessmen? It should be apparent that the present parking situation alone - would be enough reason to build this edifice in another location Buyingprop-ert- y for parking of cars is so unrealistic in itself it borders Do you on sheer foolishness realize that the high price paid for this land in the downtown location just for parking one car would not be paid for in several generations on a net return of car per square foot of land per times used basis? Hasn’t this city learned its lesson on the Derks Field parking situation not to mention the University of Utah football stadium parking and many others? Some 30 years ago Second South and Main was the center of town and everyone who wanted to shop or felt the alrea- dy-over-taxed need for entertainment went downtown but- - this was 30 years ago and since that time we’ve grown and through necessity spread out in the valley And because of this" shop-- " ping areas have sprung up to a point of raising doubt in a person’s mind as to where the center ’of town is any more Shouldn’t we plan for the future and place this building in a locationthat can be a benefit to all rather than the select few? Why have more than 50 per cent of the doctors chosen to move out of the downtown offices away from downtown Salt Lake City? Why have such buildings as the proposed in surrounding states been built away from the center of the cities rather than downtown? Why are our theaters restaurants and lounges having such a hard time making a go of it in downtown locations? If you can answer these questions honestly you’ll come up with just one answer: parking problems Isn’t it just about time the citizens stopped financing the follies of a few individuals? arena-auditoriu- M B HARDY Holladay Utah The Irresponsible Editor Tribune: District Judge Jeppson has invoked regulations against women wearing slacks hair curlers and toreador pants in his court during divorce proceedings The irresponsible attire of women in court indicates their irresponsible attitude toward Women family obligations who are most often the initiators of divorce actions are sure that they will be given custody of the children How many mothers would initiate divorce actions if the courts gave the children to the fathers? After all if the mothers want to break up a family let them suffer the consequences Several letters recently have advocated taking children away "from both parents if they won’t work out their own p r o b le m s This plan has See Page 15 Column 1 William S White ' ? ts In fact it is being said that the senator really has no policy He merely has a talent for creating phrases and slogans that express a public mood These words could never be turned into policies without wrecking the principles that Jiave been supported by strong for majorities in many years Sen Goldwater has nevergivetf any proof that he can replace these policies with reasoned alternatives His concept of today’s troubled world disturbs Republicans and disenchanted Demo orats who like his views on domestic policy and want to vbte for him lif only he would talk less rubbish on world Barnett Case Involves Basic Justice - WASHINGTON While the Court is pondering most fundamental tests of the civil rights Supreme one of-t- of everybody ever before brought it the professional lib- erals and shotit-er- s for civil rights for Negroes alone are strangely silent The specific questions are these: 'Shall Gov Ross Barnett of Mississippi be granted a jury trial on charges of criminal coptempt brought against him by the federal government for obstructing admission to the University of Mississippi of James Meredith a Negro student now graduated WASHINGTON — Khrushchev says Russia isn't going to race us to the moon Old Russian saying: “You can’t squeeze corn out of a piece of green cheese” Commerce Secretary Hodges says we should relax those old rules against trading with the Communists Things are different now— those people have money What of is a tion of not the peals? Barnett stands accused high crime — obstrucjustice though this is legal charge — and the power of the appeals court to punish him has no precise legal limit set upon It In theory at least $ he could be sent to prison for years by the very judges who feel aggrieved by him The issue here Is not the wrongnejp of Gov Barnett’s official conduct — which in this columnist’s opinion was indeed unarguably wrong The issue is nothing less than the maintenance of justice in this country It is the maintenance of the most intimate and irreplaceable of all civil rights the right to a jury trial on any criminal charge Nevertheless those politicians who cry themselves into teary hoarseness for civil rights either are looking the other way now or are actively supporting the government’s effort to destroy jury trial in one kind of criminal case and one alone thousand pages of argument never hide this effort A logic-choppin- g will Nor is the great principle in the smallest Way made less by the fact that Barnett is a “bad" man Involved in a “bad” case The law was not made only for “good” men Indeed absolutely “good” men are rarely brought to trial in any event since there are so very few of them There Is another curious point too When the basic civil rights act of 1957 Was at length approved by the Senate that after grave debate body wrote Into it a positive guarantee that persons accused under It should have — what? The right of trial by jury AMONG THOSE so voting and so rightly was a senator named John F Kennedy The government’s argument here comes down to this: if you grant jury trial to Barnett — and perhaps to other Barnetts to come as the civil rights controversy boils on — a jury of his peers may veryt likely find him not guilty Perhaps so But the first reply to this is that the government is really demanding an automatic verdict of guilty THE SECOND and greater reply is this: the whole jury system carries within it the clear possibility that a guilty man may go free But for a thousand years men have thought this risk infinitely preferable to another They have thought it better for a thousand guilty men to be set loose than for one innocent man to be punished For if a Barnett can be hustled out of his rights today a far better man In a far better cause can be hustled ouUof his rights tomorrow Democratic prospects without thinking of Vice President Lyndon B Johnson At every stage of his career he has been a controversial figure in Texas having his critics and opponents as well as his supporters But it is generally conceded that Sen John Kennedy woyld never have carried ‘Texa without Sen Johnson’s help in 1960 and that President Kennedy would have a forlorn cause in Texas in 1964 without Vice President Johnson’s active support One of the most surprising discoveries of this visit to Texas is the depth of feeling Kennedy against the dynasty In Washington this complaint has dwindled to a pleas- ant little joke Out here men swear angrily and women edge their speech with hardness as they denounce “the Kennedys” Always it is the whole family that is attacked not simply the President or Atty Gen Never in— Robert Kennedy the history of politics have so many jpeople had so many opinions about so many members of a large family The comments are not yet as ugly and spiteful “as the vindictive gossip about President Roosevelt and Eleanor But we are still Roosevelt months away from the cam- affairs His wisest friends in Texas hope he will respect these criticisms They want him to form a group of advisers drawn from the universities and from officials of the Eisenhower Administration to teach him the uses and the limits of American power in a divided and dangerous world They think he will lose less votes by revising his doctrines in the light of new knowledge and frankly admitting these changes than he will dinging to principles that reveal his pitiable inadequacies as a guide on foreign policy Inconsistency may be preferable to stark error and a lighter burden in an -- election campaign Sen Goldwater’s refusal to use a Republican brain trust— and despite mockery by the Kennedy Administration there really are Republican brains that can be trusted— would be a clear indication that he is willing to continue his practice of making statements on foreign policy tragically deficient in their intellectual content IN THIS STATE it is impossible of course to think of Senalor-Fro- A fiwl can no more see his own folly than he can see his own ears— Thackeray When Is Ignorance Bliss? It is said that we are all influenced by our environment and our associations I often wonder if I happier I was s' when young and naive and be-- I lieved without question every- - thing my elders told me or what I read in the so - called t NO DOUBT these experts' in malice will use this period to improve their aim and their venom One wonders at the type of mind that can invent these cruel libels and the kind of person that can be amused by them This disreputable trash belongs to the underworld of politics But if Texas is a fair example there Is an immense difference between this vindictive gossip and the rea- soned criticisms advanced by citizens whose views are entitled to the greatest respect In essence their charge is that President Kennedy has limited the range of advice open to him by giving so many positions to the members of his family and equally important by calling to Washington so many people with the same background and interests One hears the same talk the Midwest and the Mountain States but there is a menacing edge to the t 3 J In Texas complaint that is sent in other places ab- This spreading suspicion administration is dominated by Eastern people and Eastern interests deserves the attention of the President before it gets out of hand that m By Ham were paign the jr j f ’A good hooks Ct t tritaiiMq ? ' both-parti- The Public Foriun OR SHALL he be tried only by those whose orders he disobeyed the judges of the Fifth Federal Circuit CourJ of Ap- Memo to all senators as the Bobby Baker hearings begin: If you can't stand the heat stay out of the Bakery 8 £g ne Dem-cra- BUT THAT BILL still has a long way to go The --Judiciary Committee must write its voluminous report The Rules Committee will then have a whack at It which could bring further delay Once it gets to the floor of the House which might not be until December passage Is deemed sure But then the bill faces-th- e formidable obstacle of the Senate where Southern diehards are certain to filibustering battle to fight a bitter-on- d block amend or at least delay action - and will give the Kennedy - Johnson ticket great trouble Even among Sen Goldwa-ter’- s own Republican supporters hqwever there is uneasiness over his foreign policy ple Dr Harold Rosen Johns Hopkins psychiatrist told the American Medical Association committee on hypnosis there is danger In using hypnosis in attempts to cure alcoholism or excessive smoking These he said are usually symptoms d of a compulsive personality must be first resolved bewhich problem fore there can be successful treatment of the smoking or drinking jie cited a case where a woman was hypnotized to cure her of chain smoking and she became instead a compulsive eater gaining 40 pounds Treated for that problem she turned into an alcoholic - n HOUSTON -ITexas Sen Goldwater throws a long shadow He is so far ahead of any four of 13 appropriation bills have been sent to the White House Congressional leaders have just announced there will be no adjournment prior to start' of the second half of the 88th Congress next January 3 This will session since be the first 1941— and that as all remember was a year of grave crisis culminating in Pearl Harbor and this country’s involvement In global warfare year July HamPark-1- 0 “When I was a book I old read years that had been banned It said that we were what someone else told us to be unless we thought things out for ourselves And that some day statues would be erected in honor of the world’s Doubting Thomases And for me all was changed Many times I had heard It said that a silk purse couldn’t be made out of a sow’s ear Then I read a news item stating that a Boston chemist had done it The project cost him $4000 but he proved his point And he also proved that being a Doubting Thomas can be I began to doubt expensive that I could afford to be even one of the cheaper Doubting Thomases Another statement I’d heard quite often was that most of the things we fear never happen I had never questioned its truth until I read a book by a famous psychologist He said that the thing you fear usually happens to you It was then I began to be a rather confused Doubting Thomas In his poem “On a Distant' Prospect of JSton College” Thomas Gray wrote: “Where ignorance is bliss ’tls folly to be wise” Well I am not sure that Ignorance Is ever bliss but I do know that lots o! times what you don’t know doesn’t tforry you Notes on Cuff Department “Officer” said the judge Park Sandpit “what Is the charge against this man?” “Drunk your honor but not disorderly He just wanted to go home but he was in no condition to do so" “You did quite right to arrest him No man should be allowed to go home unless he’s capable of defending himself” Some doctors tell their patients the bad news man-toma- n Others prefer to send the bill by maiL — Arnold Glasow “Dear Senator: Don’t tell me that women run this world! Why when union workmen ask for more money it’s called bargaining but when I ask my husband for more money he calls it nagging— Housewife” Overheard on the bust “Cocktail parties do me more good than going to a psychiatrist for I have the kind of troubles I can talk about standing up” Without Ado When some strange man prepares me for my grave And talks of foolish things to his young knave Who stands close by to hand him this or that And sighs because the woman has grown fat May he complete his duties swift enough And let me rest without the ! frilly stuff That he might think all women love to wear— And may he die if he should ' crimp my hair I hope that I may slip beneath the sod And not be so bedecked when I meet God —Louise E Harris Soaper Says-"- " One who knows says ins a rather shaking experience? going back to the old home town to discover that a centennial Is In progress and all the pals and sweethearts of your youth are wearing either beards or bustles )? t |
