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Show Tuesday, April 29, 1952 THE HERALD JOURNAL 2 THOTS AND THINGS A If You Ask Us, EDITORS ROUNDTABLE Hes Courting the Wrong Person Th3 President's Powers Are Discussed Lake Grows In Cache; cdi-tois What's The Condition Of Japan? THERE'S A I.AKE IN Cache Valley, and it's nearly of sailboat size. w. The wind, rolling off the Wellsville range, hiis the surface into of the side highway. the that lap ripples lection bounces from the rippling surface, The long one is standing, clear to creating a channel of brightness trom where the farther shore. Must of the shoreline is pasture grass. All except the north shoie, n road. which is the Culverts which bisect the highway are virtually strangled with such heavy pressure of water. They belch forth millions of gallons of muddy flood waters, but their capacity is far beneath the demands placed upon them. Resui. is that on the south side of the highway the water is a couple feet higher than on the north side. Result is a lake: muddy though fascinating, "'4 cruel to the land it inundates, but beautiful d range in in jls sotting with a the baekgiound, with green trees and bushes in the snow, green pastures as a shoreline. Ray Nelson HERE ARE SOME FIGURES which may bore you. The Department of Interior In this government of ours listed 43,617 millions employes in 1940, and 54,966 in 1932. Expenditures were $98 In 1940, and $645 millions in 1952 an increase of 556 percent. Taft-Hartl- Logan-Mendo- i.! Post-Gazet- te federal Tne Department of Commerce (note how the cost of bureau .racy is growing) had 25,288 employes in 1940, and 12 year and one later, listed 55,947. Expenditures for $66 millions in 1940,' ' billion 64 millions in 1952. Lets follow through to some of the other federal bureaus. 1952. ExDepartment ot State 6438 employes in 1940, 30,194 in An Increase in millions. $343 million were $22 against penditures of 1461 percent. expenditure 1952; Department of Labor 3653 employes In 1940, and 7638 in expenditures increased from $19 millions to $250 millions, or 1192 percent Executive office of the President 1098 employes in 1940, and 1252 in 1952. Expenditures were $2.7 millions against $10.4 millions, or a 285 percent increase. Sun-Tim- WHATS THE SITUATION in Japan today, one day after thia nation regained her independence? Should one say: "Poor Japan? Probably not, even though she still has quite a slivery cross to Herald Journal Editorial- bear. Japans national budget I balanced, the country haa one billion dollars stockpiled in foreign exchange, and its people are living better LOOK-ALIK- E HOMES today than at anytime since W'orld War 1L Seven years after its defeat, Japan appears to be stronger economPLANNED SLUMS OUR ERA ically than any of its Asiatic neighbors. THERE ARE STILL too many places In America where however, the normally optimistic Japanese Paradoxically, worried. They know they are riding a treacherous Korean war boom. new city growth embodies some of the worst features of the Socn they will be shackled with the burden of rebuilding armed old. forces. Enough is known today about economical home design Outwardly, the fears would seem baseless. Japan's national budget and scientific community planning to produce new residential 21 of In aa a balanced la in the aeveral years past this year spite make which areas for a maximum of good living. But, by and percent defense outlay. Foreign currency holdings have smollen to percent defense outlay. Foreign currency holdings have swollen to large, we are not getting that kind of building. U. S. dollars and 100 million pounds in sterling exchange. Official Take a look at the latest residential projects in most cities. Japanese government Indices claim the people are enjoying a living Houses too often are still being built upon narrow, uniformly 1934-3- 6 standard just about equal to the pre-wperiod. straight lots that deny privacy and cut down light and air. Houses built in advance for a market the The U. S. armed forces spent $734 millions in Japan in 1951 and specuare expected to spend $200 million annually in the future. lative construction show little if any architectural quality. The weaknesses in Japans economy show with very little digging, Following the monotonous grid street pattern of old, they however. may string up and down a citys streets in endless repetition Day Inoshita, writing for United Press, observes: The optimistic complexion of Japanese economy was due in equal of similar roof lines and other exterior features. From a distance they sometimes loom up like packing boxes line parts to U. S. aid, occupation Insistence on a rigid and the Korean war. However, United States aid which totaled stacked in a field awaiting shipment somewhere. Nothing seems $543,749,000 at is height in 1949 and $357,324,000 in 1950 was stopped so absurd as to spe them jammed together on small lots In a In June, 1951. new development set in a sea of hundreds of empty acres. The Japanese government, which followed U. S. financial czar FROM THE VIEWPOINT of the individual home buyer dictates most unwillingly, will be under Joseph Dodges of the cofnmunity itself this kind of thing is painfully and heavy internal pressure to relax the line. The armistice talks at inadequate. And it is inexcusable. Panumunjom may bring the Korean war to an end. The flaws in such an economy are obvious. Normal foreign trade, The natural impulse of many is to blame the builder for which is Japan's produced an import balance last' year of everything. But though he frequently is deserving of cen$640,746,982. However, Japan added $334,772,902 to its foreign exsure, the cities themselves are heavily responsible. They have change holdings lastyear because it did not have to pay for the bulk of American aid goods and because purchases in Japan by the U. S. it within their power to compel the development of new occupation forces and the U. N. command for the Korean war .effort areas in accord with the most modern planning ideas. Yet few insist upon it. reached a post-wa- r high. One may easily argue that in view of our economic laws Korean war purchases alone in the year and a half since hostilities is perfectly natural that home building should have folit began through December 3 totaled $541,563,000 and Japanese officials lowed the course it has taken that the builder and have estimated it will increase to.$700,000,000 this year. should try to get the maximum dollar out af any given Delivering arms, equipment and services to the U. N. forces in Korea will not support Japan's entire economy. That was made evident piece of ground. , this year, when Japan found it was producing more than it could The argument overlooks one factor, however, that is just sell. The Japanese government in February ordered a 40 per cent k in cotton spinning mill operations and a 30 per cent as compelling as any economic law. That is this: You are not selling strips of bacon when you sell lots. You are not reduction in rubber processing. manufacturing cheese boxes when you build hoists. They are Japans independence will bring with it a whole raft of additional not a product that will be used anjl thrown away. new problems. They include (1) The problem of repaying U. S. aid YOU ARE BUILDING a city, a neighborhood, a way of life. what portion will depend upon the United States (2) reparations You are putting a powerful, perhaps permanent imprint upon to countries which suflered damages under Japanese World War II the land. You are creating an environment, a scene, . a backoccupation the Philippines alone is asking $8,000,000,000 (3) of pre-wJapanese government bonds held by foreign ground that will have to be looked at for countless years. bondholders, and (4) remuneration of allied internees, and of allied No one may logically contend, therefore, that what any property holders whose assets were damaged during the war. man or group of men does with a particular piece of land IS That Japan can pay only a small portion of that huge debt is obvious. Japanese officials refuse to estimate that total debt for fear not the business of the wider community. It is. No matter of prejudicing negotiations on them. The mount which would satisfy what the rights of private property, there should be no right to deface a city. claimants would undoubtedly burden even a sound economy. It is not too harsh to say that here and there we are building planned slums. A house ought to be a mans crowning JUST BETWEEN US pride, not his particular slot in an expanding cell block. What is the use, of knowing better if we do not act upon what we know? His Decision AND ar , anti-inflati- anti-inflati- life-lin- e, lot-sell- er roll-bac- ar By NANCY MOITKAM Q) DEAR NANCY: My problem is my teen age She daughter. just doesn't seem to care about clothes or try- ing new ways f and means to j jr make herself ff " T prettier, and in I that shes so dif- - ' ferent from her friends that worries me. She is a little on the plump side, but she's never FL Wf. seemed to be concerned about it and although she's always neat, she doesnt have The Herald Journal Print. 1 Ever Aftei noon i Excepting Saturday) and Sunday Sunday Herald Journal published Sunday Morning. Published at Logan Utah, by Cache Valley Newspaper Company MEMBER United Press direct wires Audit Bureau ot Clrculatlos Pacific Coast Advertising Service McNaught Syndicate King Features Belt Features Entered In Logan Post Office ae sect no class matter. Gilman, Nlehoi National Advertising A Ruthman Representatives SUJSt'KlPTION RATES One month, carrier JS ( 151 Ul) One year, carrier One vear mall Un Cache Valley) 13 MO One vear mall , Outside i 'eqhe la ufi One year (Sunday Valley) 3.75 only) ...... A an unprecedented step in American history. It is a perilous step, quite aside from the merits or lack of them in the arguments that led to iL It is a step that means Government by decree of the executive. It is a step that must not go unchallenged in the courts, no matter what amicable settlement might be made meanwhile in the steel dispute itself. Charlotte (N.C.) News (Ind.- seizThe Government's Dem.): ure of the steel industry is not, as critics already are shouting, the end of stabilization, the end of collective bargaining, the end of free enterprise. The seizure, after reluctantly accomplished months and months of fruitless negotiation. . . . Clearly the Government has no intent to stay in the steel business and even if it wanted to Congress would se'e to it that the Governmental control was short-liveChicago (Ind.): We do not in any way underestimate the seriousness of a stoppage in steel production at this time. It is indeed a crisis of major dimen. '. sions. But it would have been preferable if the administration had availed itself of the injunctive process of the Taft- - Hartley Act. Failing that, even a strike would be preferable to such a drastic projection of the government into the American economy. . , . We believe this usurpation of power to be an extreftiely dangerous precedent. It Is our hope that the courts will deciare this seizure an unconstitutional exercise of federal power. ): (Ohio) News Dayton Legality aside . . . which the courts have to decide. . . the President, we think, took the only action he conscientiously could have taken in the circumstances law Under the an injunction can be sued out only on the basis of a report by . a special presidential board of InAs the President says, quiry. for. such a board to be appointed, to assemble, to take testimony, to deliberate and to render a at judgment . . . would take least a week or two. Meanwhile the plants would be shut down and it would take another week to get them back into full production . . . . Christian Science Monitor (Ind.) Priorities and requisitions could have kept essential weapon production going well beyond the week or two of delay Mr. Truman said would have been involved if y he had invoked the Act. . . . President Truman has precipitated a constitutional and political crisis that reaches well beyond the immediate strife and As we dangers of inflation. see it, Mr. Truman is on weak and dangerous constitutional ground. This is the first seizure of industry without authorization of spec d. The Plump Girl Needs A Change of Attitude the natural interests that other girls her age do. She rarely dates and professes to be bored tty boys, but I think thrre's more to it than that. Have you any suggestions or advice that might help me to understand and help her? (A) She might sincerely not care about any of those things, but since they are an important part of growing up, there could be something holding her back. Many times, if a girl Is over weight, and feels that clothes dont look well on her,, she doesnt care about them particularly and the same might apply to wearing attractive makeup. And its obvious that she's pretending not to be Interested In boys because they dont pay marked attention to her. Those two things do tie in together, for if she makes an effort to become more attractive, male notice will soon follow. Why don't you help her by tactfully suggesting doctor s diet and making a bit of e, bargain with her by promising a few new, smart summer things when shes svelte enough to wear them? It's In the nature of a bribe, maybe. but if she has a definite incentive she may really work at It. Treat her to an afternoon at the beauty parlor, a new hairstyle and manicure as a present, perhaps. And once she sees what can be done and the pleasant compli-- 1 ments following, she may change ... Pittsburgh (Pa.) (Ind.): In seizing the steel industry under no legal authority inherent powexcept his ers, President Truman has taken snowy-locke- TEEN-AGER- S RESCUED FROM WATERY CAVE four miles under the river and the city of Knoxville. Neither was injured. The Finger youths family said the two had been lost in the cave once before, but found their way out after spending several hours wandering aimlessly in the dark. Bobs dog, Spot, may have saved the boys lives, police said. A passerby, Roy French, saw Spot standing guard over the cave mouth and found the two youths bicycles when he came her whole attitude overnight. to investigate. Ronalds mother, Mrs. Carrie -DEAR NANCY: Ive been Finger, collapsed when told of (Q dating a boy for two months and the incident. The family said the his birthday is coming up soon. boy had not beep home since There hasnt been any occasion Saturday. for gifts until now, and I wonder Muddy and tired, the boys were if its proper for me tq give the questioned by police and released first one? Ive thought about to go to their homes. The Finger giving him a lecture of myself, and youth had not returned home at If a present would be correct, is 5 a.m. and police could not find my idea a good one? the Marshall home, wnere they (A) Theres no saying that assumed both coys were spending a girl cant give the first present the night. Paul Mountcastle Jr., of radio and in this case, theres no reason why you shouldn't mark his birth- station WROL and first of the day with a small remembrance. searchers to reach the boys, said If he's hinted for a picture or has they told him they had heard asked you before, by all means about the cave and just wanted have a pretty one taken, but it's to see it for ourselves. a- - smoother present without writThey said they became lost ten sentimentality. when a supply of flares ran out If you have a problem at school and weie afra:d to go on because or at home, write Miss Mottram of pitfalls in the cave some 75 for her help. feet deep. Term. tlMli KNOXVILLE, Searchers rescued two boys early Tuesday from waterlogged Cherokee cave beneath the Tennessee River after the youths had spent nearly 12 hours lost in the tortuous tunnel. Police and volunteers found the youths. Bob Marshall and Ronald Flinger, more than 400 feet back in the narrow, twisting passageway that winds for some Concerning The Derby BY HENRY McLEMORE CARPET SLIPPERS or mint juleps? Thats a question, son, and its one I have to answer to myself today. I must either take off for Louisville and the Kentucky Derby, or paddle down to the library and lose myself in delightful old Persian manuscripts, the study of falconry, and the influence of Plato on the Racing Form. In short, shall I do what I want to do in my heart, or shall I listen to the creaking of my ancient bones? DERBY WEEK IN Louisville is a very tough week. If you reach Louisville on, say, Monday or Tuesday before the Derby, and return to your home, ready to go to work the following Monday, let no man call you a sissy. You have proved yourself. You are a mixture of whipcord, whalebone, and plywood. ... (Ind.-Dem.- .... Taft-Hartl- ... Taft-Hartle- DERBY WEEK IN Louisville is Valley Forge with horses. The Derby is such a strenuous thing that Churchill Downs will not permit a horse past the age of three to run for the Corum roses. Colts are in their prime then. and d are They muscled like weight-lifter- s. barrel-cheste- I haven't the true figures at hand, but I feel safe in saying that the average colt is stronger than the average man. The colt has only to work a minute or two at the Derby. The man has to carry on for almost a week in Louisville, without benefit of trainer, good, exercise boys, or regular meals. ALL HE HAS in common with a Derby colt is the morning gallop. And the gallop isn't quite the same. The colt breezes around a track built to his liking, with the cool, fresh air of Kentucky making him feel frisky and good. The man meaning the Derby visitor does his morning workout in hotel suites where the smoke is so thick that it matches his head, or at some Kentucky home where hospitality includes everything but a streteb'r. THERE WAS A time when I ci'Uld take the Derby in stride. A good nights sleep of fifteen minutes, a shave, and a breakfast of two poached aspirins, and I was ready to roll. I was a colt Now I am no then, through. the and longer a youngster, thought of being served aspirins exasperates me. WOULD IT BE cricket for me to go to the Derby? Would I be playing fair with my insurance company and my heirs? Would it not be mere sporting of me to stay here in New York and take cold showers, eat vitamins under beLl, and breathe deeply before open windows? Yes, I suppose so. but I cant make up my mind. There are some who say the Derby is just another horse race; that it comes too early in the year to be a real yardstick of horse flesh. Let them say it. It worries me not one bit, for they are people without true appieciation of what memories mpan. A SIAN Y.TIO has seen a Derby will never forget it. He may forget bis anniversary, or his birthday, but the My sound of the band playing Old Kentucky Home" will ring softly in his ears forever, and in his inward eye he will never of the silken lose the picture thoroughbreds mincing onto the track, their silks a confetti of color. three-year-o- ... a vague and geneialized giant of power in the Constitution." Youngstown (Ohio) I indicator (Ind.-De): This seizuie is based on the authority which Mr. Truman says is vested in me by the Constitution and laws of th United States, and as President of the United States, and commander in chief of the armed forces of These are the United States. vague powers . . . Yet It is true as the President said that th. country faces a grave emergency. A judge might well hesitate to interfere with the Piesident when he acts in behalf of the naThese and tions safety questions will other be debated in the court actions. . ific laws. It is based on Only a small minority of leels that President Trumans m izure of the steel industry may be justified as a temporary, emergency exercise of the Presidents inherent powers.' A much larger minority leaves to the courts the question of the legality of the Piesident's action. But majority opinion is that Mr. Truman has usurped powers reserved to ConMost gress by the Constitution. editors feel that the Act should have been in the steel wage dispute. Some note that Mr. Truman could have gone to Congress for emergency legislation if lie considered it imperative. In (D.C.) Post (Ind ' i the Constitution can be reasonably interpreted as giving to the Commander in Chief all the power that may be necessary for building up our defenses or even for carrying on a war. Un the contrary, the founding fathei positively and specifically assigned to Congress the power to raise and support armies. This is the power the President invoked. . , The statement of a serious national problem does not suddenly transfer power from the legislative to the executive branch. If the r resident felt that it was ve, he should have gone to Congress for emergency legislation. Edited by James Galloway at CLARKSTON NEWS BY GLADYS LOOSLE Mr. and Mrs. Edward Buttars and family of Ogden were weekend visitors at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brigham Griffin and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Buttars Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Jardine and Mr. and Mrs. Parley Burbank and son of Ogden were visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Purl Jardine recently. Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Griffin and family of Rupert, Idaho, were week-en- d guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Griffin. Bishop and Mrs. Andrew L. Heggie were dinner guests on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zundell of Ogden. Mr. and Mrs.' Rex Thompson and family of Logan were visiting on Sunday at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Thompsdn and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. David Thompson acompanied Mr. and Mrs. Emery Hess of Fielding to Salt Lake City ing cleared, planted, fenced, and a modern home and barn built. The Scouts and Bee Hive girls enjoyed a swim in the Logan Senior High school on Monday evening, under the direction of the e teachers, Ann Jardine ,and Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Jardine and daughter Beveily spent Sunday visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clark at Robbin, Idaho. Mrs. Lillie Frew of Roberts, Idaho, also visited with them. On their return home they called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Fellows at Arimo. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Atkinson of Garland are moving here to make their home during the sumCol-lin- mer. Visitors on Thursday evening home of Mr. and Mrs. Colline Hansen were Mr. and Mrs. Will Godfrey of Preston. at the On Furlough Pvt. Ned J. Christensen and Mrs. Christensen is spending 10 last Saturday. days with their mother, Mrs. Party Held Annie Christensen. Ned has been and Girls Gleaner The Junior at Camp Roberts, California, for the Mia Maids enjoyed Monday the past six mpnths, and at the evening swimming in the Logan end of his furlough will go to Junior high school and roller Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he skating. They were accompanied will study languages. Mrs. Elma Petersen of Fieldby their leaders, Maybell Griffiths, Eva Lou Thompson, Sadie ing, Mrs. Ann Sorenson and Loosle. Hansen and Gladys daughter Cathy of Garland and Among those attending the Mrs. Trena Larsen of Mantua welcome home testimonial on sjjent Friday visiting with their Sunday evening in the Garland mother, Mrs. Annie Christensen. Second ward for Elder LaRell Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Clark of Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. St. Anthony, Idaho, spent the Lee Thompson, who recently re- week-en- d recently with Mr. and turned from the New Zealand Mrs. Veldon Clark. mission were Mr. and Mrs. George Mr. and Mrs. Eli Clark spent Myler, Mr. and Mrs. Alph God- four days in Cedar City on busifrey and family, Annie T. God- ness last week. frey and daughter Beth, Mrs. Delwyn Apgood, Mr. and Mrs. Denzel Clark, Venna Thompson and Patricia Buttars. Mrs. Apgood of Ogden spent SULLIVAN, Ind. (UP the week-en- d Pupils visiting at the home were an hour late for classes of her son and daughter-in-laMr. and Mrs. Tuesday as a Delwyn Apgood. ' Mr. and Mrs. John Shumway feud raged between the man who runs the school and the man who and Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson of Garland spent Wednesday runs the school buses. Phil Eskew, city school superinmorning visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Thompson. tendent, said the council adopted Mr. and Mrs. Louis Thompson, daylight time and the school board Mrs. Betty Thompson and daugh- "went along" with the change. ter Joyce accompanied Mr. and But Jesse Smith, Hamilton Twp. Mrs. Bonnie Hodges of Trenton trustee, whose duties include supto Ogden on Sunday afternoon, ervision of school buses, cited a where they visited with Mr. and 1949 state law making central Mrs. Laurin Thompson. standard the only legal time for To Jerome Indiana. A. H. Jardine and son Edwin, H. L. Buttars and Raymond Grifot fin went to Jerome, Idaho, to Belgians are descendants witness the G. I. Farm being German and Celtic tribes, with an of Latin. built, in one day, consisting of be Their Feud ld Grow Canning Crops , Additional Acreage Needed PEAS AND STRING BEANS These Contract Cash Crops Bring Growers Additional Income And Provide Employment and Payroll Dollars For Cache Valley Youth and Grown Ups Planting Time Is Here Phone Us Our Field Man Will Call on You California Packing Corp. mother-in-l- aw's Washington Nothing Smithfield, Utah Phone Number 7 I |