| Show v t-- - v k Vv "yyy y V k wwy ’ww 16 § ht Saif fafcr ffibmif The Public Form Saturday Morning May 23 1959 ! Young University criticized the existing salary schedule as too low So did several members of the Salt Lake County grand Jury who sat in on the meeting Members of the board In discussing a proposed budget for the next fiscal year which did not include wage increases for personnel felt that something should be done to improve the prison officer salary structure They directed a study be made Wise Delay A The Salt Lake Board of Education has acted wisely we think in postponing the school building bond election previously set for June 2 Some mistakes have been made In the drawing up and presenting of the 5 2 bond issue plan but criticism and recriminations are not called for now What is needed is time to work out the proposed school repair program and to better educate the public on needs and plans and to determine what should be included in the program BY POSTPONING the election the board has in effect followed recommendations of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce which has followed the matter closely and has made it clear it still apthe of program proves the essentials The program as worked out by citizens committees with school leaders was mainly for the renovation and modernizThe Salt Lake ing of old school buildings City district has many such old buildings which are sound but outmoded and a splendid program has been under way for years remodeling and modernizing them A cloud was thrown over the bond Issue when legal counsel said the revenue could not be used under state law for repairs and renovations School authorities announced they could use bond money to buy new sites and make other building funds available for remodeling This proposed transfer has not been thoroughly explained to the people In a few months time it could be clarified f A separate but related problem is the demand of residents of Glendale Poplar Grove and Rose Park areas that a new senior high school be provided for the section west of the north-sout- h freeway The threat of opposition to the whole bond program by west side residents unless the new high sqhool is included is another reason for delaying the election THE PROGRAM as presented initially however entailed no new taxes but merely continued the present building program Schools should be located in accordance with needs as shown by census reports and projected development plans A thorough study of the new high school proposal is indicated The school board elected by the democratic process has the responsibility to It should not be make final decisions pressured Into action or inaction by any special group and it must fill actual requirements not demands based on sectional or emotional appeals A University Reopens Havana University was a center of opposition to the oppressive Batista regime long before there was any hope of a successful revolution Like many other colleges in like circumstances it served as an effective home base for a freedom movement Shortly after the beginning of the 1956 Castro-le- d revolt in December Batista closed the university op the pretext he wanted to stop outbreaks of violence Now Premier Fidel Castro has reopened Havana University In appearance on the campus he told the students of plans to expand the Cuban i‘educational system Friendly North Americans have been puzzled and disappointed by Castro’s slowness to restore freedoms and reopen democratic Institutions since he came to power half a year ago This action is on the credit side Editor Tribune: Either of these agreement David Lawrence they have Why Talks at Geneva Are Floundering GENEVA — Face to the secretary of state United States Christian has told the foreign minister of the Soviet Union I A imuf In Christian Mach Bigger Than a Selene Man’s Monitor' Hand ff'H impose a new Mr Lawrence military setup in West Berlin is still in effect Some fantastic Ideas for the peaceful use of atomic explosions were aired the other day at a symposium in San Francisco The session called Plowshare was sponsored by the Atomic- Energy Commission and the University of California’s Lawrence Radiation Laboratory One scientist suggested using an atomic bomb to vaporize ocean water which would then fall as' rain over desert land as far as 200 miles from the ocean Another idea was to pump'iea water underground and then distill it into fresh water with an atomic explosion Still another suggestion was to explode a bomb in the eye of a hurricane and so reduce the size of the This episode which occurred at a dinner given here by the British foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd a few nights ago means more than all the “package” r proposals of the conference of foreign ministers in Geneva - d four-powe- f argued that in the ultimatum to the western allies to get out of West Berlin the deadline of May 27 was just a date pulled out of the air aijd that he did not intend to mention it till the end of the current MR It was the So- viet foreign minister’s hint that the Moscow government might revive the threat which prompted Secretary Herter to say very calmly but firmly that a revival of the duress factor would cause President Eisenhower to absent himself from any "summit" meeting later on Actually there is no "duress” being exercised today in a formal sense for the Soviets withdrew their ultimatum before the present conference began and simply said they were considering much-desire- d For there Is really no evidence at all of an Intention by the Soviets to negotiate In good faith ' The Soviets now have taken advantage of the widely reported story that if the fails present conference there will be a "summit” meeting anyhow and that no agreement is even then necessary because there would be a succession of “summit” conferences thereafter Soaper Says Our sympathy goes out to When today’s youngsters they become parents they face the certainty that something even worse than rock ’n’ roll will come along to convince them that their own kids are going to the dogs A step beyond all the credit-carorganizations is this new club which offers members 10 per cent off if they pay cash It sounds like a desperate effort to make money popular again The world is getting smaller and — judging by the number of home runs being hit in the majors this year— so are the ball parks d By The May letter of the First National City Bank discusses at some length the question of “administered prices” and whether as has been charged at Senate hearings they interfere with competition artificially raise prices and cause inflation The bank letter emphasizes that all kinds of prices are "administered” in one fashion or another including postal charges utility rates wages the price of a haircut or the cost of this newspaper It’s an involved question and we won’t attempt to settle It here If you want to learn more about the subject the US Grieve not for what is past— Thomas Percy What Good Old Days? Vaudeville was already dying on the vine when in 1914 the Missus and I entered that field of entertain- ment We may have helped to union-contract- ed hasten its demise Anyway I just came across this article on the fu- ture of ville vaudein a theat- - rical magazine dated -- ' June Ful-brig- for- Senator From Sandpit Haiti Park The Price Is 60 Cents Having a son who is a beatnik has one compensation a father reports The boy doesn’t borrow his razor comb or neckties GROMYKO conference storm These and other ideas for beating atomic bomb swords into atomic explosion plowshares are commendable And if this potentially tremendous force for evil In the world could be diverted to the world’s benefit it might not only contribute to mankind’s well being but to his willingness to live at peace with his neighbors Considering the miracles of modem science that’s not such a very big "if” A far bigger "if” which might block this result Is Russia’s willingness to forego the Communist conquest of the world This writer asked someone close to one of the western delegations whether this concept was fayored and was told that the proposal was regarded as a big mistake originated by Senator Democrat chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee It’s an example of congressional meddling in diplomatic negotiations responsibility for the conduct of which is really vested by the Constitution in the executive branch of the United States govern- eign ministers’ conferences and "summit” meetings mit conference ‘If’ the signing of a peace treaty with East Germany The brief conversation however between Mr Herter and Mr Gromyko not only illustrates the shiftiness of the Communists but demonstrates the utter futility of these under duress — Sadly enough we can never go back to the day when the only kind of fallout that threatened our children was falling out of beds buggies or high chairs r-- if Her-te- r ko that Amer-- e ica will not go to the “sum- ‘ UNION the Andrei Gromy- Yes ‘Pravda’ X face ‘of that is while any threat to' New York Herald Tribune: The Soviet Union which seems to have almost as many special days as the United States recently celebrated Radio Day “Pravda” took the occasion to declare editorially that “not Infrequently (Soviet) radio and television present poor— ideologically and artistically— Insipid material or news which is not fully comprehensible" Reading this gives us one of our rare feelings of kinship with "Pravda” We sometimes have difficulty comprehending the “news” that Radio Moscow puts out too for a street Ham Park ’ 1911: "Some artists have been lured away from vaudeville to achieve glittering triumphs on the legitimate stage Dave Warfield for example in The Music Master “Many of them leave vaudeville but thgy usually come back One English artist Mr Charles Chaplin who delighted us a year ago in Fred Kamo’s pantomime A Night in a London Music Hall’ is as I hear permitting himself to be tempted away from the stage to act" in motion pictures I predict that if he accepts it' will be only temporarily be- cause it is obvious that an' artist of Mr Chaplin's caliber cannot long be satisfied " in a field that offers so little scope for his talents ' THEBE IS a regrettable tendency toward vulgarity t in vaudeville be increasing that seems to A conspic- uous example is the diving act of Miss Annette Keller-ma- n who appears on the stage in a bathing suit that would cause instant arrest were she to appear so clad or rather unclad at any bathing beach' Gertrude Hoffman and Ruth St Denis also perform before mixed audiences in a conspicuous lack of apparel” (I wonder what that writer’s reaction would be if he were to see one of today’s night club shows in which the ladies are considered to be overdressed if they wear more than a bra and a He’d probably have one-peic- e ment For If a series of foreign ministers’ conferences and "summit” meetings are to be promised then there is no pressure for agreement now — indeed no sense of urgency at all effect that if the conference failed to reach any agreement on the whole package” it might have to decide on the status of Berlin during any recess or adjournment For there Is one thing clear The United States is not going to proceed on the assumption that the signing of a "peace treaty” between East Germany and the Soviet Union changes one iota the legal rights of the allies to police the area known as -- West Berlin as specified in apprevious agreements proved by the wartime allies Including the Soviet Union It would be tragic of course if no progress were made at the current conference but the whole proceeding may be of great value nevertheless as an eye opener to the many credulous persons on this side of the Iron Curtain who have thought the Soviet regime was abandoning Its trickery and was ready to qualify as a respectable and honest in world society ' considera- ‘ ’ round-the-worl- Gus Backman of the Cham- ber of Commerce go along It might be a good idea for the trip to take all summer RICHARD ROBERTS Almighty Dollar Editor Tribune: We’ve the height of absurdity and the downfall of good government when we let a small minority group such as the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce dictate policy on all levels of reached government ’ A federal building is proposed at Fort Douglas but the chamber says no so we get our federal building in an already hopelessly crammed and crowded section of downtown Salt Lake City There’? talk of a civic auditorium but the chamber puts its stamp of disapprov-a- l on it because it isn’t to be built in their crammed and crowded part of the city The Salt Lake City Board of Education badly needs new school buildings but it dares not make a move without getting chamber approval lor a program which covers little better than half its needs The chamber has long demonstrated its thinking is affected mainly by the almighty dollar that a thing is generally judged to 1e good or bad by 'the criteria of whether or not it will put a dollar in members’ pockets If it does It is good if it does not it is bad’’ MILTON S NIELSEN Mytort Utah Hie Has Budget Trouble WASHINGTON — I hope President Eisenhower has more success with the national budget than - he’s hav- - ’38— our president needed only 60 police and secret service agents to guard him and his house We paid ’em $150650 Now although there is still one White House and one 'president to protect there are 160 agents around for a total outlay of " ing with his own household budget have He’ll tough treacling to make ends meet at 1600 I mean this high cost of living Is going to do things to Ike’s budgetr-- — Pen nsylvania Avenue coming If the this year esti- - Mr Koterba The total 1960 estimate comes to $5401000 This is for 615 people who Work there rot including the President who gets $150000 This cost doesn’t take Into account Camp David the expenses for which have never been Revealed mates I have are correct ’v And they are Take the cost of maids for instance Back in 1938 before inflation when Eleanor Roosevelt supervised the household chores they 'Were hired at $19 a week In Ike’s household budget for ’60 Mamie’s going to have to pay her maids out of our pockets $5080 a week plus board Mrs Roosevelt required only five maids Mamie has eight i -- i i a THEN THERE’S the President’s two cabin cruisers Barbara Ann and the Susie E whichf cost the government about $60000 a year to keep shipshape Ike’s $3 million Super Constellation Columbine III with its ground and flight crew of 28 costs $711 an hour to operate And two planes cost about $35 an hour to run ! In addition Ike has at his disposal several $350-ahour helicopters r v n peep-sho- K - Ed Koterba - - I d Editor Tribune: I by the papers where Superintendent Bennion of the Salt Lake City schools is going' to Europe this summer I suggest that it would be a good idea to make up a party for a trip and that Quentin Cannon president of the school board another board member or two and “Doctor” n beer-ca- one- World Trip Proposed see Editor Tribune: Perhaps it is time for our fast growing smaller cities like Provo to consider again the allowable heights for the buildings ih their downtown business districts if they are to escape the enthusiasms of the tall building advocates In a city still small construction of a tall Imposing office building means emptying too many of the offices of the lower buildings in the town The bleak dark windows of the empty upper floors around the business section are then no visual assurance of the town's a stroke) Here are some observations regarding motion pictures that amused me: “THERE IS some controversy still continuing at this A writer of outdoor tips time about the propriety of Domestic help around the that in an emergency a ladies entering a darkened says White House in 1938 was beer-cacan be made opener sittheater and projection paid $85000 This year it’s into a fish spear In another ting next to a total stranger costing Mamie and us taxtoo a fish spear emergency in order to veiw a motion $278440 used payers a be as can picture show Take a look at the garden opener "And many timid patrons expenses In '38 the chief not liking the public hall As the average income executive required only five see their motion pictures rises so do hospital costs gardeners who drew total through eyeholes of the peepso the fellow who had been -l- -- wages of $7560 ' " show in a picture parlor for forward to the time ooking ALTHOUGH the White the sake of privacy It is when he could afford to be House grounds haven’t quite probable that these sick will have to stay healthy a square Inch since halls will continue a while longer then Jke now needs 12 garto be the place for gentility deners — st a cost of $45110-T- he to witness a picture without ' Father’s Day fortunately rubbing elbows with strange comes at the height of the only major change in the grounds as I see it is people” backyard barbecue season the President’s golfing (Those were the "good old and it might be nice to go days” Aren’t you glad they out to dinner and give dad a green are gone? Iam) In the old days— back In day off from cooking nt already-crowde- comer in Cleveland Ohio a large but not the largest city at the and E 9th comer of Euclid four large - office buildings dump 14000 people in one hour most of them in half an hour' between 5 and 6 pm Like all large cities Cleveland has a traffic problem Perhaps about eight stories Is all an urban community can stand New York City had to build “up” because it is on aq island— and even at that going up and up to outdo each other became a craze Try to drive your auto In New York! But cities with plenty of roqm emulate New York with no reason at all! DONALD E JENKINS Ogden Utah Don’t Go Too High That’s why the current conference Is floundering One of the chief difficulties here is the propaganda buildup in advance of the conference The word from America was that the President couldn’t possibly turn down a bid to go to a "summit” meeting because of political Also the news opposition reports implied that the allies had a “package” plan but already were prepared for "fall back" proposals This was given a wrong twist this week in some newspaper articles which said that American officials were ready to talk about the status of Berlin alone and had abandoned their advocacy of the “package” plan THE TRUTH is that in a discussion the other general day ' some officials said in the-othe- r recall that would exact adequate justification of any and all expenditures in terms of economic ability and of sound educational practice before I would support a change in an old policy or the initiation of a new one Yet I should make it just as clear that when he had produced on those levels in spite of any seeming opposition want to make the' motion for positive action Another value of free discussion lies in the fact that any board member should feel that one of his primary functions is to explain and defend policies previously and tentatively arrived at before the public That any board extraneous to the board of education should sit in on the— preliminary hearings of the board of education is-- an admission of control by forces which have no responsibility for the success or failure the wisdom or fallacy of the policy involved Each board member is a free agent as a policy maker If he can be told finally what his vote should be he should resign in favor of a man or woman who is free to think in terms of community and child welfare and vote accordingly CHARLES A SMITH 1 Government Printing Office has a report on the evils of administered prices The bank letter says you can buy the report from the government — at an ’'administered" price of 60 cents! Visiting Cartoonist con- the superintendent that I served their sentences or given evidence through the prison rehabilitation program that they are good parole risks MAKING CUSTODY subordinate in a prison would remove one of the major incentives for a man to rehabilitate himself Furthermore if a prison were so loosely operated that there were repeated escapes of dangerous convicts it wouldn't be long before public outcry would foic prison policy so far in the opposite direction as to impair the sound program of custody first but rehabilitation a close second The Greater - tion by the people all the ' people? Were I a member I should make it abundantly clear to tody come first and rehabilitation second should be reversed Even at the cost of many escapes from the institution rehabilitation should have top emphasis he declared Few If any prison officials will agree with Dr Smith on this Nor will the general public Protection of the public from dangerous criminals is a first requisite of prison operation Men are not sent to prison for petty infractions of the law Most are serious repeat offenders who have failed previous rehabilitation efforts The first responsibility of prison authorities must be to keep these men in custody until could- ceivably be unfair criticism of the Board of Education '' I address' myself to the se ' crecy Item On - problem? of public policy a responsible 'board should have and use the right of privacy in its early ' discussions of problems The j board members are dealing with reports lor presenting and clarifying Issues If a member questions validity accuracy or objectivity of any part of a report he should - be able tq express such questions and argu- ments without fear ofjaeing forced to defend his ‘questions because of premature -reporting - of his seeming opposition Otherwise how can a board arrive at a point of presentation of a group cus- making incomes for buildings and their tax adowners the over-al- l vantages are problematical There is too the traffic problem A huge building dumps a lot of people on one corner at quitting time into reduced Your edi- torial of May 19 emphasizes two points: secret sessions and shortsighted policy The possibility of a future deficit appropriation was envisioned CERTAINLY an Improved salary structure for prison personnel Is essential So are several other progressive programs brought to board attention by Dr Smith who served as a custodial officer at the prison about seven months last year to gain experience in his field of sociology He emphasized the need for an Improved educational and training program for proper segregation of inmates for sufficient funds for employment of skilled professional help and for halting smuggling of drugs and liquor into the institution These improvements need constant emphasis In all fairness to the board it should be added that much progress has been made in all these areas since Dr Smith left the prison staff 4 One of Dr Smith’s suggestions merits sharp challenge however He said prison policy of prosperity Moreover with Secrecy Justified Custody Is First Prison Responsibility There were several Interesting developments at the meeting of the State Board of Corrections Thursday One related to salary schedules for prison guards Dr Wilford E Smith associate professor of sociology at Brigham Our Readers By t i 3 4 n - - ’ Also a $1000 motorized golf car which Is driven by a secret service man I’d say Ike's household budget will get its biggest shock' when the Air Force delivers that Jet - airliner which is costing $4700000 -One thing sure If the President’s budget won’t balance this coming year he can’t blame Congress - V I V v r 4 |
