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Show Editorial Page Feature [pe onaly daily newspaper devoted to the progress © and advancerrent of Central Utah andits people. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER17, 1957 Country Hears Call to Action The urgent tone which seemed to be lacking in America’s initial responses to recent major Soviet missile-satellite gains has now been supplied by President Eisenhower. But setting the proper mood for the hard job ahead is clearly only a beginning. Wide approval has been voiced of his appointment of Dr. James R. Killian Jr., president of Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, to coordinate and speed the country’s scientific defense program, 4-with particular stress on long- range missiles. But the proof will be in the “pudding, in the evidence yet to be had that the United States has in fact made critical advance in missiles and satellites and thus has Adlai’s Dilemma Adlai Stevenson’s closed the dangerous gap opened by the Soviet Union. In many ways Mr. Eisenhower showed his deep concern for what Russia has done and his recogni- tion that this demands ofall of us, to an opposition administration. tory. . It can limit his and his party’s freedom ofcriticism of the opposition, since thereafter the Democrats would have to share responsibility for what is done in the af- fected fields of endeavor. As a major offshoot of this, it can reduce the voter’s chance of fixing a clear line of responsibility for action and policy. He needs this tc make an intelligent choice between the parties. Only in the urgency of a shooting war do politicians see reason to override these objections altogether. , By FRANK C. ROBERTSON The election demonstrated what everyone knew long before would happen. The Eisenhower myth of infallability has been shaticred, and the Republicans took a whale of a licking, which i* only a prelude to what they will get next year. By his smasning victory in New Jersey Goverror Meyner looms as the best man the Democrats can have to run against biustering Bill Knowland, or tricky Dicky Nixen, whichever shall get the Republican call in 1960. It will probably be Knowland because the mantle of Eisenhower will be pretty well moth-eaten by the time it falls upon Nixon. Whether “he likes it or not Nixon will be tagged with the label of FEisenhower “ liberalism.” Knowland and the Old Guard will very likely dominate the Republican party. Of more interest than the recent general elections are the strange doings out in the great state of California Though has Mr. Robertson beer a popular governor, Senator Know“land decided to run against him for the rather obvious purpose of using that office as a stepping stone to the presidency. Governor Knight, after first befull of fight at being thus Many Republicans in Louisiana, an Eisenhower state in 1956, say privately that efforts to build a two-party system have been set back 25 years. Obvious Evidence The most obvious evidence of the GOP decline in the South turned up last week in Virginia where a Republican candidate ‘or “ governor who once polled 45 per cent of the vote was buried under a Democratic avalanche. Little Rock and segregation were the major issues in the campaign that gave J. Lindsay Almont a landslide victory over Republican Ted Dalton. Before Eisenhower began pulling substantial support from the Southern states in 1952, Republicans in the South were little more than names on the national committee’s mailing list. This led to the phrase ‘“‘post office Republicans.” This was changed almost over night by Eisenhower's popularity. His 1952 triumphs in four Southern states touched off spirited GOP rudely shunted asid’. has now niade his peace and will probably be the first man in history to enter the United States Senate with a gun at his back If ever there was a vhotgun political marriage this is it The interesting question is who held the gun on ‘Gaody?"’ Could it have been “apa Eisenhower, or VicePresident Nixcn? * * For the first time that I can remembe: | deliberately failed to exercise my right to vote I woke up election day mcrning with the firm intention of exercising my franchise at our Mapleton town electon I had attended a convention of the Progressive party. voted fo. the three candidates, and donated my two” buc): toward publishing the piusicrm we had adopted in a dodger th: s to be distributed to every voier in town On this election morning I went out to get my morning paper and there was our Progressive party dodger. I read there what fine fellows the men we had pied7ed ourseives to help out of office, were, and how muen they had done for the city. In effect ovr candidates, who it seems had written theic own version of the platform, gave suck a moving account of the virtues of the boys now in office tha! before | finished reading I was sobbing like a baby at the very organizing doubled activity after creased his Then came that the was re- President in- Dixie power in Little Rock. Some 1956. Reactions Dyed in the wool Republicans; like State Chairman Guy Smith in Tennessee and National Committeeman Virgi] Jackson in Louisiana, urgec a ‘wait and see’ attitude. Others like Mississippi National Committeeman E. 0. Spencer, a converted Democra® resigned. George W Lee, a Negro Republican leader at Memphis, said the use of troops at Little Rock hurt the GOP ‘as far as the while vote was concerned,’”’ but predicted it will be offset by ‘“‘the thousands of Negrees who were misled on the new and fair deals.”" Democratic leaders in the South, however. showed little concern about that. Recent surveys have shown that less than 25 per cent of qualified Southern Negroes are even registered. effort and dedication if we are to preserve the free way oflife. The President hit the proper point when he said Soviet launch- ings of earth satellites were most significant because of what they implied as to Russia’s capabilities in rocket propulsion. Perhaps he would have done well “We Can't Let Anything Stand in the Way of Progress” The Mature Parent (es oO Howto EasePain of Child’s First Taste of Treachery & also to mention Soviet claims of having successfully dispatched and By MRS. MURIEL LAWRENCE put on target a long-rangeballistic missile. Whether or not we accept the validity of this claim, we need tu take open note of it. Too often we have underrated Soviet capacity to achieve advances of great import. : Nick was over at the house of a boy called Pinky, playing ball. After a while they got bored. Pinky proposed showing Nick the kite his big prother kept in the basement. But as he pulled it down from its shelf, with it came a carton of empty preserve jars. wisely sought to extend reassurance to all free peoples that despite Soviet gains we still retain for ourselves a devastating capacity to inflict nuclear ruin on any potential The crash of breaking glass brought his mother hurrying down the basement stairs. “What's going on here?’’ she demanded. ‘‘Oh, are those the jam jars I was saving? Who did toat? What broke them?” Pinky said, ‘‘Nick did, Ma. He wanted to see Bill’s kite. I told him we wasn't supposed to touch enemy. The President recited many major defense developments in his catalogue of reassurance, but put especial weight on our nuclear strength. He said scientists tell him we still are well ahead in both quality and quantity of weapons. And he added we have the planes to deliver this nuclear force against crucial centers of resistance any- it but he wouldn't listen Some mayfeel that in offering this comfort the President opened the way for a return in America to the complacency which plagued us before Sputnik I begancircling the globe. But on balance what Mr. Eisenhower told Americans and their friends abroad suggested we know changed world, deserves the fullhearted response of all who prize liberty. thought of throwing these sterling citizens out of offiee. Why, I asked myself, should we do this to them when our own candidates could only promise that they would try to carry on the fine work the present administration had done? I just couldn’t bear to have a hand in such nefarious injustice. I realized that I hadn't appreciated the magnificent efforts that were being made, and which it took our own candidates to point out. After I had dried my tears I knew that I couldn’t vote against them, but having spent two bucks to defea! them I couldn’t in good conscience vote for them, so I, and some of my neighbors as well, stayed away from the polls. Apparently few of the voters read our platform dodger for ,our apologetic candidates were all elected by a vote of more than two to one. Had they read it I am sure the result of the election would have been entirely different. * * . The reviews of my last book, DISASTER VALLEY, which is being released this month, express great amazement that a writer would dare to make a sheepherder the hero of a Western novel One review that I have seen says it is the first time it has ever been done. Well, I may be the first writer ever to do it—they don’t call me Reckless Robertson for nothing — but I have used a sheepherder as the hero of at least twenty yarns before this one. Ana I know a fewother former sheepherders who write Utah, which should be proud to claim the old West's most colorful outlaw, Butch Cassidy, as its Wyoming does. Garth has been researching own, American Fad For Dieting Offers Enigma to Reader Garth also visited Josie Bassett who at 85 lives alone, cooks by a fireplace and brands and butchers her own cattle. Josie was weil acquainted with Cassidy and the otner members of the Wiid Bunch. Speaking of another lady once known as Queen of the Rustlers, Josie toldeGarth, “If Ann hadn’t drunk so much hard liquor and smoked that Bull Durham tobacco she might have been alive today. she was only But she died when ninety-seven.’”’ So They Say FLU We fell off a star one day. Landed on a horsefly far away. When we got down, we had the flu Jumped in bed and went, ‘‘Kerchoo.” —P.W. and K.L. betray our own grownup knowledge that hurt is everybody’s experience for Nick's childlish, self-centered idea that it is unique with him. Instead of giving comfort to him, we enwourage him te think, ‘‘How unfairly I am treated! How I hate the world for abusing me so.’ Nick’s mother understood this —and comforted him by understanding Pinky’s hurts as well as her own child's. (All rights reserved, NEA Service, Inc.§ A foreign-born reader of this column is more than a little bit puzzled by the American woman's preoccupation with dieting. She says: ‘“‘One thing I can’t understand about American women is why they seem to spend their lives trying to lose a few pounds. “In a land of plenty they enjoy food less than any women I have ever known anywhere. All through a meal they are either saying ‘No, thank you,’ or they are counting calories and feeling guilty about not having the strength of character to refuse a rich sauce or a slice of pie. “I've asked some of them why they continually diet, and they claim they feel better when they do. But I doubt that. Because the thinnest ones also seem to be the most nervous. “TI often run into an acquaintance who tells me proudly, ‘I’ve lost 15 pounds,’ as though it were some wonderful accomplishment. The Worse ForIt “Why do they think it is so wonderful? They really don’t even have to tell you they’ve lost weight. You can usually tell it at a glance—from the deepened lines in their faces and from their crepy throats and flabby arms. “For the life of me I can’t understand why a middle-aged woman thinks she will make herlife over if she can just manage to lose a few pounds. “She’s the same person, the Same age, with the same problems. What great change is it going to make in her life if by starving herself she can get into What a Firm Can Do By BEULAH STOWE “What is the answer, from the standpoint of a business firm, to the problem of retirement?” asked the personnel manager of a company with about 375 employes. He had a voice in the management of the company. He wanted to help the people whom he helped push out the door at age 65 to find a good life. ‘ He knew about all the books on howto ratire at the public library. He knew about the research going en at the University of Michigan and Duke University. But ke didn’t have the answer he wanted. The human angle. I asked personnel men with large corporations, and college professors. This is the substance of their thinking: . 1—If a companyinsists on retiring its people at age 65, the policy should be firm and WITH- OUT EXCEPTION. It should impress the fact on each employe at age 60 that age 65 is the limit. No false hopes, and no 15-minutebefore-retirement reprieves. — a size 14 instead of a size 16? “I’m not just quibbling. I really can't understand what's behind all this reducing. Can you explain it to me?” Nope. And I’m sorry I read your letter. It made me hungry. And if I can just stick with this new diet —I think I'll be able to lose 10 pounds. 2—The company should 60-year-old employe tell ex- every actly what pension and Social Security prospects are. Not in interviews but in writing. Preferably, this mailed home. this report should be The spouse needs information, and needs to know what sort of option the emp oye might claim on a pension. 3—The company should investigate every channel to see if it can continue surance after hospitalization the employe inre- tires. 4—The which were along cracks deposited in veins and fissures in the care ground ago. of this paper. The Bri- tannica Junior, 15-volume encyclopedia for school and home, will be awarded for the letter selected. To Ease Retirement company should start a geography session, on company time, for every employe at age 63 Most people knowlittle about this country. They should be told the facts about retirement areas —the costs, the taxes, the climate, the chances for happiness. The company should also start sessions on types of jobs an employe of XYZ company can get after retirement. Executives at XYZ know what kindred firms might use the services and experiences of its people. 5—The company should move every employe into a new job at least one year before retirement —to condition him for walking out the door. Conditioning is badly needed. Warren, Ohjo, was the first city in the country to install Mazda tungsten lights on its stfeets—in 1910. There are still other minerals Win a valuable prize. Send your question, name, address and age to TELL ME WHY! There known being are about minerals 1,700 different and discovered more ‘every year. are So you can see the study of minerals is a rather complicated science. A mineral is any substance which has a definite chemical composition, which is found in the earth's crust, and which had an inorganic origin. That means that its immediate origin was not in plant or animal life. Home minerals, however, such as graphite or lime stone, were plant and animal hun- dreds of millions of years ago. trickled ages over Hot various streams materials and dissolved the minerals which they carried along with them. How does the mineralogist identify a specific mineral? The most important step is to study its etystal form. When a mineral is made into a solid, the molecules and atoms attract each other along certain definite lines. It results in a regular form of crystal. The same mineral always shows the same crystal form, and different minerals show different crystal forms. Other ways of identifying a mineral include studying its color, hardness, the way it behaves with beat, and finally a chemical analysis. ‘ ese A mineral can be in many forms. For instance, liquids such a@s mercury and petroleum are minerals, and natural gas and the gases of the atmosphere are also minerals! There is a difference between a mineral and a rock. A mineral is FUN TIME The Quiz Box . . . Presidents 1. What President signed the Emancipation Proclamation? 2. What President helped found the League of Nations? 3. What President ordered: the uniform in its chemical composi- first atom bomb to be dropped in wartime? tion, while a rock is not. Rocks are usually formed of mixtures of_ several minerals. Granite, for in- Father of His Country?" 5. What President was once a stance, is made up of the minerals quartz, feldspar, and mica. A min- Police Commissioner? Answers ‘4. What President is called ‘The eral will always have the same quantity of the same elements in it. “yeaosony ss0poegL ‘g ‘“wo|SuyyseM 8.1001) How did minerals originate? If we go back far enough, most minerais were formed by the crystalizing or hardening of a melted FROOM. SE BTOOUrT, CISTESTV, T mass of rock. were changed rock materials Other from the through tion of great heat and over millions of years. ‘~ ‘UeumIL Alvey “¢ "WOSTTM MOI THE TRICK BOX Here's a mathematical trick mirterals that will amaze your friends. Show original them a calendar and ask them to the draw a square in such a way that it includes nine dates. Now ask them to tell you the smallest of ac- pressure NOVEMBER Today's Medicine 1/2 Butch, informs me tbat one of Butch’s brothers died only last week, and in his will decreed that his three nephews should cut the cards for his property. That’s the true gambling spirit. we What Is a Mineral? Happy Times doesn’t. Seegmiller, who for a book on Then, after a pause, she said, ‘I know how awful you feel, Nick. We all feel awful when a friend betrays us. But the friends who do it don't enjoy themselves either. Just think about Pinky for a moment. Do you think it's fun to bim to be so scared of his mother he has to lie about you to save himself?" Nick stopped crying. Then he took a swallow of chocolate milk. It was clear that he'd found some comfort in the idea that he wasn’t the only child in the world with troubles. A youngster’s first experience with a friend's treachery is quite painful But it is noc helpful to share his horror at it. When we do, Tell Me Why now, if we did not before, that any further dalliance on our part could be fatal to freedom everywhere. His call for action onall fronts, for tern new effort to meet the a Interrupting his mother turned furiously on Nick. ‘‘Get out of here!"’ she said. “We don't want any rowdy kids like you around. Just go home to your own place —and see that you don't come back here again!” Nick couldn't speak. He was sv horrified by Pinky's treachery that he coulon't find the. words to protest it. Indeed, when he got home he was crying with such angry ‘elplessness that it tcok his mother 10 minutes to get the story from him. where on earth. WhoHeld the Gun On ‘Goody’ Knight? ing ATLANTA (UP)— The days of the ‘“‘post office Republican’’ appeared to be returning to the South today in the wake of President Eisenhower's use of federal troops to enforce integration at Little Rock. In the Southern states where the Eisenhower era once promised to lift the GOP from decades ™ doldrums, Republican organizaticnal activity has slowed decidedly or ground to a halt. from the top down, a new spirit of The Chopping Block Knight By JAMES RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent In his speech Mr. Eisenhower decision consult with the Eisenhower administration but not to become an actual staff participant in the shaping of the U.S. program for the December NATO meeting reflects the dilemma of the politician called upon to aid a rival regime. Stevenson as a patriotic citizen wants to help his country, and he does not wish to be labeled as uncooperative at this time in its hisOn the other hand, he knows well the drawbacks ‘that go with accepting full identification with Geodwin Republicans Face Trouble in The South slalislet7|si9 opi [i213 14] 15] 16 Premature Baldness of Scalp Considered Common Condition 7418 By JOSEPH J. ELLER, M.D. President of Section Dermatology Pan-American Medical Association, New York City Premature baldness of the imbalance. For example, baldness is said to be non-existent in eunuchs provided there has been complete castration before the onset of puberty. The not un- scalp is a common condition oc- common association of the bald curing almost exclusively in men. Most dermatologists agree that common baldness is primarily due to heredity, also hor- pate with superfluous hair on the arms, legs and shoulders suggests an endocrine relationship monal and aging factors. Local and systematic diseases sometimes play a role. While ordinary baldness is associated with heredity and familial tendencies, it seems to occur more frequently in persons prone to certain -eczematous conditions (seborrhea) of the skin and scalp. This hereditary tendency may be associated with certain types of internal glandular make-up or to baldness. Premature baldness has been erroneously attributed to wearing of hats or too frequent washing of the scalp but this is just another old wives’ tale. It has been observed that persons whose scalps have been unduly exposed to the sun for many hours and during long periods of time, such as life-guards, Lave a high inci- dence of baldness. For some unexplainable reason, baldness is being seen more frequently in women. A diffuse thinning of the hair and scalp is not uncommonly associated with pregnancy and the menopause. In men, advanced age is normally accompanied by increase in the incidence and extent of baldness. The theories advanced about the shape of the skull and tension of the scalp have not been proven. In some families, thinning of the vertex is the usual form. In others, bilateral temporal or frontal recession of the hair is characteristic. It is usual to find scaly dandruff and later an oily scalp in such Dersons. Many persons with However, severe dan- druff and oily scalp never become bald. A disease in which baldness oc- 19 |20 421 23 30 eurs in localized areas, sometimes in small circular patches, these numbers. In a few minutes is nine numbers! Here's the trick: when they give you the smallest number in the square, add eight called ‘‘alopecia areata’. Here the hair usually returns by local stimulation with applica- tions rays of phenol or ultra violet and_ stimulating lotions. you can give them the sum of the to it and multiply the result by nine. Complete baldness called “alopecia totalis’ in which the hair hereditary type of baldness. completely disappears from the scalp, eyebrows andoften all over the body, and in which a cause is unknown, does not respond to any the hair roots are dead or are destroyed it is not possible to get new hair by any form of treatment knovn. While gentie If Alopecia to- massage of the scalp does no talis or alopecia areata have never been proven to be caused by any infection or ill health in harm,it will not cause a regrowth of hair. Local applications of various drugs, glandular therapy by mouth or injection have not form of treatment. the patient. There is no effective preventative or remedy for the ordinary been proven to be helpful in the ordinary case of baldness. |