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V r 0i tf ’ ¥f r i 4 A s k 3 1 t i I ! ’ -- t - IS A- - r I $hc JSalt £afcr $ribunr r - 1 1 i I Shall we put an end to the human race or shall mankind renounce war?" ‘ ‘ i J - That question propounded by eight world famous scientists including the late Albert Einstein is of the greatest urgency There can be but one answer And yet because of the nature of men and nations the answer can prove difficult for there are those who will continue to think that the gains of war outweigh the risks and they will talk of limiting weapons instead of re nouncing war itself Terhaps arms limitation is a step toward the goal— but it is only a step and a shaky one at that As the scientists point out in their warning peacetime agreements gov-- 4 erning the use of nuclear weapons would not be considered binding in time of war It is true that agreements banning poison gas were observed by both sides in the last war But poison gas is not a "one shot" weapon could be and the temptation to The : strike a first devastating blow might be ' overriding with destruction almost unimag- ! 1 4 I I H-bo- rT inable "If everybody in London New York and I Moscow were exterminated" the scientists " f say "the world might in a few centuries re-- t cover from the blow if many ? are used it would be universal death— sudden only for a minority but for the majority Slow torture disease and disinte- bs I t r The Zealots of Public Power Sunday Morning July 10 1955 gration" It is foolish to say that scientists should stick to science and leave world affairs i t Gains Against Pollution ! i w Complete treatment of Salt Lake City’s f sewage will make available for industrial and agricultural use some 27 million daily of additional safe water The water carrying raw sewage now flows to waste in a bay of the Great Salt Lake Treat-- I ment will be effected as funds from a 4 mill tax become available in the next t decade or so Meantime prodded by the state pollu-- ' tion control board other communities in Utah are providing for sewage treatment bettering public health conditions and re- moving sources of pollution that destroy the usefulness of water and fishand wild ! life depending upon it Provo’s j Along the Wasatch Front J is sewage nearing Brig completion plant I j ham and Davis several County com City munities have programs under way Ogden and other Weber communities will vote Tuesday on a $5800000 sewage treatment seri- project which if approved will-hal- t ous pollution of fresh water streams in ' that area Progress is being made in the i f sanitary districts in the county outside of I j corporate Salt Lake City i As the water shortage becomes more acute in many sections of the country 7 cleanup programs gain momentum and 1 more - industrial plants arc successfully 'f7 using treated effluent At Sparrows Point I Md for example Bethlehem Steel Cor poration uses jmore than 55 million gallons of water a day from the Baltimore sewage plant Other firms that use processed sew age water include the Kaiser Steel plant at Fontana Calif the Cosden oil refinery near Big Spring Texas and the Shell Oil j plant near Ventura Calif About half the states have' patterned new water pollution control legislation ' after a model act drafted in 1950 by the Public Health Service More than 40 states have laws of some kind to protect streams from industrial pollution ' but many ' are f inadequately enforced It is foolishly wasteful to continue pol- l luting and ruining a precious resource ‘ like water when the needs for it are in creasing Sanitation programs should be accelerated on all fronts alone Who brought nuclear warfare into the world if not the scientists aided of course by the political and military leaders? And if these same scientists could unravel the riddle of the atom can not their great minds help point the way out of a horrible dilemma? The eight scientists — three of them Nobel Prize winners — want an international scientific conference called to study the dangers arising from the development of nuclear weapons The coming Big Four Conference at Geneva would be an excellent time to put such a plan into effect Nothing could be more fitting for a "summit" meeting than a sane effort to solve the problem which towers above all others For if world tensions are to be eased— and that is the professed aim of the Big Four-t- hen it is necessary to go to the heart of the matter not skirt the edges Certainly the constant menace of nuclear war creates more tensions than anything else In a way the scientists’ warning is Einstein’s testament he signed it only a week before his death last April Since then Bertrand Russell British mathematician and philosopher who is spokesman for the group has talked with scientists both East and West He found that the men who know the most are the gloomiest But many in high places who know far far Jess still need convincing is not just something that The was set off ih the far Pacific as an experiment It can—and will— happen here unless the problem is faced earnestly and honestly The hands on the clock of history are moving ever nearer to midnight Now is the time to iake the choice between sanity and extinction 4 1 I f -- 1 e 1 I 1 k II I I i Embarrassing Nominee I el When a presidential nominee for one of j the most important positions in govern ment declines the appointment rather than face questioning the action is bound to be embarrassing to the administration Last week Allen Whitfield of Des Moines Iowa said that he was unable and unwilling to answer some of the questions asked by the Joint Congressional Commit-- r tee on Atomic Energy in its investiga-- t tion of whether he should be confirmed J7-- as a member of the Atomic Energy Commis-aio-n and asked that the nomination be with drawn The questions Whitfield said w ould violate confidential relations with some of m bis clients (He is a lawyer and principal ” stockholder of an Iowa bank) Whitfield is quite within his rights in t avoiding the answers Ittnay be also that J - some of the questions were politically in j spired since Democrats have opposed the nomination Nevertheless Whitfield’s ac tion leaves a bad taste despite the merits or demerits of the inquiry for a man who 1 aspires to public office cannot expect his 4 private life to be a closed book Those persons who screen nominations for the White House were not on the job for it is their duty to anticipate just the I kind of questions which arose in the Whit ! field case President Eisenhower was the victim of bad staff work and quite possibly j t poor advice and the fact that poor appoint- ments have been made in the past by no means excuses the present lapse i 1 ! £ i V v ‘ M £ i 1 I t ’ t i 1 i have been invested with the dignity of an official government report bearing the name of the (Hoover) Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Govern- ment” The fcAow at the next desk thinks he ought to be allowed an income tax deduction for his dog Though he speaks without the benefit of bookkeeping experience he probably is right Challenge magazine reports that after the initial outlay for a puppy (no small item) it costs more than $180 a year for food For a life expectancy of 10 years plus for the average canine that means a total of nearly $2000 Then add $250 dollars more for lifetime veterinary expenses the cost of boarding out the dog during vacations wear and tear on rugs and furniture and perhaps insurance just in case the mailman gets bitten The figure is appalling that is not anti our 3Ye’re not own family dog— but we can’t help wondering what happened to man’s best friend of yesteryear As we remember the puppy was a gift from a neighbor lived on scraps from the table and never had a sick day in his life barring of course periodic encounters with porcupines And in that event no expensive veterinarian was needed dad pulled out the quills himself with a pair of pliers Man’s best friend is still with us but nowadays he sure puts a crimp in the anti-dog- Understandable Anxiety Concern of residents in the Liberty Park area expressed in the meeting of some 75 persons last weekend is understandable Two murders plus many ‘Tncidents’ in the park and vicinity involving cases of perversion molesting or suspicious activity are cause for real anxiety on the part of parents particularly and of citizens generally It is certainly the primary responsibility of the police to suppress this kind of activity and as long as two murders remain unsolved police authorities will be subject to some criticism However it is a fact as Police Chief Record said this kind of sexually motivated crime is one of the most difficult to solve ‘ Of course the difficulty must be a challenge to the police to work harder and dig deeper rather than to shrug off the whole business And it should be a challenge also to citizens to give the police every possible assistance There is much the public can do in this direction All cases' of improper conduct should be reported Any sexual perversion even minor should be promptly relayed to the police Parents can warn children and tell them to report any approach In all cases the fullest descriptions are important This isn’t to say that every unsupported suspicion and idle rumor should be relayed to police but rather that all concerned should be alert watchful and responsible Police should be told of actual misconduct not unverified gossip As we have stressed previously the aim is to bring the criminal to justice not to produce a "fall guy” With coordinated responsible public-polic- e effort there is reason to believe the incidents in the Liberty Park area can be halted— and it is possible the killer or kill' ers will be exposed i j The American Home Economics Association is told that many women are bored with housework How can this be when the ads show them thrilled nearly to death with a new brand of soap chip and swooning In ecstacy over frozen fish sticks? t Thus Rep Holifield a member of this same Hoover Commission dismisses its generally moderate report on water resources and power— a report based on the findings of a select task force which undertook what the commission believes to be the most exhaustive study yet made of the problems including investigations of more than 200 power navigation irrigation and flood control installations Just propaganda IN THIS attitude lies much of the dificulty with trying to fashion a sensible power policy for the nation The typical public power advocates are not searching for a sensible power policy They are cealots determined that the public power empire shall grow at any cost as it has mightily in these 20 years Conversely they despise private power as the Crusader the infidel it is not something with which is posJumping at Conclusions sible In their view it is someEditor Tribune: In a Forum innately evil and thereletter boosting the phonics thing fore to be extirpated system of teaching reading This is the attitude which Jean Glen points out the adhas inflamed the Dixon-Yate- s vantages of “ear appeal" over contract for one current ex“eye appeal" ample into an absurdly I would like-tpoint out' heated issue that we read with our eyes The public power attitude not our ears and that it is is especially strange in view therefore more logical to of the indisputable accomteach by means of word recogplishments of the public nition than by phonics alpower people in extending though both systems can and domain The Hoover retheir should be combined Moreport notes that the federal over the English language is government’s share of the nanot phonetic as anyone who total electric generattion’s tries to spell a word by was 07 per cent capacity ing "sounding it out” will quickly 1933 in 1953 it was 124 per in discover cent and when projects alI also want to point out ready authorized are com- that I think this controversy over the teaching of reading WHILE RUSSIA BIAKES is a case of jumping at conclusions that is if “Johnny can’t read" then the trouble must be with the teaching not with Johnny or his parents who in most instances From San Francisco Chronicle I’ll bet have not bothered to check on what the schools Now that Congress seems are doing but have taken to have made up its mind to their opinions second hand haul off and take a fresh look Delray Jones ( at the loyalty and security Stop These Crimes procedures governing federal Editor Tribune: I have a employment we wish it would very pertinent question to do the same to the McCarran-Waltc- r ask namely why are known sex offenders at large? Immigration Act of It is way past time when 1952 such criminals and potential This measure as many killers should either be on warned when it was passed conviction incarcerated for is costing th® United States life or surgically rendered indaily setbacks in the internacapable of such crimes tional "competition to make Perhaps someday we can friends elect lawmakers who will put EVEN ONCE unapproachteeth in the laws to prevent able Russia Is making hay by these heinous cowardly unnecessary crimes receiving summer visitors from the outer world in tides Many such offenses are never reported due to the of tourism while the United natural reluctance of parents States is forced by law to act to embarrass their offspring as though we were frightened But once a conviction is obto death of foreign travelers tained there svlrely is no rea“The type of questioning son why the offender should and the grilling which acbe given a short jail term or our present visa companies in some instances a suspendhas been comprocedures ed sentence by many foreign pared It’s high time all of us scientists to similar methworked the clock around to ods used under the Nazi oc give sex offenders some adequate treatment Burned Up BLUNDER BY BRASS Heart Not Blind Editor Tribune: Omar Khayyam wrote: "Myself when young did eaFromDenver Post gerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard It was poor judgment for great argument Gen Harlan C Parks Maj About it and about but senior United Nations repreevermore sentative on the Korean miliCame out the same tdoor tary armistice commission to "where in I went" "pull his rank” on free world It seems odd that anyone newspaper correspondents in should be bewildered "about Panmunjom the other day it and about" when it appears The general deciding to logical to understand that play the role of news censor there is the power of conrefused to allow the correstructive creative good which spondents to attend a press controls the universe through conference with Gen Lee the laws of nature pervades Sang Cho of the North Koall nature and Is in men’s rean army who heads the hearts to be used if they Communist group on the archoose mistice commission Complete comprehension COMMUNISTS on the ar of that power may be impossible for the human mind bemijtice commission have not been talking with yond the knowledge that it newspapermen But exists after Gen Parks had charged Albert Einstein said "The in a commission meeting that mind can proceed only so far theJteds were violating armiThere comes a point where stice terms by making illegal the mind takes a leap and reinforcements In North Kocomes out upon a higher rea Including aircraft reincan plane of knowledge but forcements Gen Lee agreed never prove how it got there" to meet correspondents from (Perhaps because the power UN countries Is in the heart rather than However Gen Parks said the mind ) W II Hendrickson "no dice 26-ma- n H-bo- Man's Expensive Friend From Wall Street Journal “Twenty years of private power company propaganda ' c " ’ OnlyQucJClmiec:Sanity or Extinction - 4 OTHER VIEWPOINTS By Our Readers wee bit weary Wfc Bit Weary of contribut- ing toward the board room and 100 per cent security for admitted killers So I reiterate Mr Beck’s motives are no doubt of the highest order but he must realize that in order to have steak there’a "got to be a butcher” Editor Tribune: Horace C Beck writes "I am against capital punishment" His altruistic idealism is to be admired unfortunately these human beasts living us whocommit amongst brutal murder senseless submit to no recognized moral code and are completely devoid of honor We have not yet arrived at that perfect state of human brotherhood wherein each man performs the duties he owes to others before claiming any rights Mr Beck should thank his God for policemen deputies federal enforcement agents and soldiers who unceasingly are risking and laying down their lives so that the vast majority of our citizens can go to bed at night with reasonable assurance of being whole and alive at the break R1L Cracked Record Editor Tribune: Being a student of logic I would like to ask you and your readers a question: If public servants must stand on their records how come Gov Lee is being suggested for various national offices? Isn’t his record a little cracked? Just Asking Forum Rules Letters from Tribune readers are welcomed They should be brief (not over 200 words) carry writer’s correct name and address (pseudonym will be permitted if requested) and must be in good taste The Tribune assumes no responsibility for statements in the Forum Writers limited to one letter in 10 days of day We have no place In our beloved communities for mur- derer hoodlums and other barbarians who would leave their vlctipns penniless and lifeless As a taxpayer I’m just a Senator From Sandpitr Park By Ham I hold this to be ' the nde of life: "Too much of anything is bad" —Terence The Little Things A grain of sand leads' to the fall of a mountain when the moment comes for the mountain to fall The mind of an Einstein is not so inde of pendent circumstances as not to be annoyed by the buzzing of an insect it does not need the backfire nam Park of a motor to disturb its thoughts The steady drip drip from a leaky tap is enough It’s the little things that count A man may be able to meet a great personal crisis or catastrophe with courage and fortitude only to crack up under the pressure of an accumulation of little problems It was the last straw you remember that broke the camel’s back Notes on the Cuff Department An item from Hollywood states that Carletom Young will appear in the W’arner Bros picture "The of Billy Mitchell” He will play the part of a military aide to Gen Pershing Back in 1923 when Gordon Owen and 1 both were on JSL there was a young announcer" by the name of Carleton Young He left for Hollywood that year I wonder if he’s the same guj? Court-Marti- al v Nita (Mrs E George) Fraw-le- y and I met the other afternoon in a downtown pet shop while purchssing para t And like all parakeet owners we compared notes Mrs Frawley’s keet supplies bird talks turns somersaults and plays a music box I reported that Arky’s newest trick is when he takes a bath in a saucer of water to wash under his arms so to speak While on the-subje- of ct parakeets I can report that Fred Rose has bought another to replace the one that died recently And that Bill Pace chairman of the Utah State Liquor Commission says that he believes his parakeet has begun to talk— that is if he has translated the racket the bird makes correctly While I was chatting with Bert Manley the other day he informed me that he too would not wear Bermuda shorts At least not down town ’ Distance It is not parting from the friend I love That gives me grief For friendship swift as light Stronger t than death by its ow n mystic might Can span the miles and rocky barriers move We are not prisoners of time and space Bound to some little acre of green earth Vassals of Here and Now With radiant mirth Our hearts might leap the seas to close embrace But when I sit beside you hand in hand Searching your eyes for some assuring sign To tell me that you trust and understand And feel no touch or glance that answers mine— Better with love a thousand leagues between Than face to face yet hidden by that screen — Anon I pleted it will be 17 per cent That is quite a tribute to public power propaganda THIS VAST growth has been founded moreover orU some dubious bases TV A was never supposed to build steam plants but it did and get preference over private utilities in the allocation of federally generated power When f present federal programs are finished according to the Hoover report less than 10 per cent of the nation’s population will directly benefit from the tax outlay of all the people The public power advocates rarely mention these points ' In sudr an atmosphere where everything concerning public power is right and everything concerning private power is wrong the comparatively modest proposals of the Hoover report will be bitterly attacked The report does not suggest as the task force had suggested that the government’s h y d r oelectric power projects should be sold to private industry but it does say the government shouldn’t build any fmore steam plants or transmission lines IT RECOMMENDS that private utilities should be allowed to build the electric power facilities for federal dams and be to market the permitted power through their own systems And it criticizes some of the present practices which make the competitive position of public power both uneconomic and inequitable as well as the “multitude of inconsistences and conflicts" in national power policy We do not necessarily agree with every single one of the Hoover recommendations we do not maintain that any of them is sacrosanct But they do point in the direction of moderation and common sense They deserve more careful study than moderate proposals are likely to get in a climate of zealotry multi-purpos- e HAY M’Carran Act Shackles US cupation or used by the Soviet bureaucracy" con-me- n ted the Federation of American Scientists two years ago Access to the United States is so difficult for foreign scientists so bestrewn with needless indignities that when it came to planning a United Nations conference on the peaceful uses of the atom Switzerland was chosen' not the United States - WE ARE not raising the question of permanent immigration to which national quotas are applied That quee-tion is different from the issue raised by our mean and illiberal treatment of the temporary visitor here on scientific professional cultural commercial or plain sight-seein- g business The defects of our proce- dures for dealing with temporary visitors distinguished or not should and could be remedied soon revision of the national-origin- s quota principle would not need to get in the way of that A General Gags the Press He does not allow Communist correspondents at hia news conferences he said so he would not permit the UN correspondents to talk with Gen Lee Of course-G- en Parks is entitled to run his own press conferences as he wishes but he has no business telling correspondents with whom they may talk unless military security is involved We have no doubt that If the press conference had been held Gen Lee would have denied any military buildup in the north and would have ao cused the UN of armistice violations That woftld be In conformity with Communist practice deny everything blame the other side NO POSSIBLE harm could have been done No one inj the free world would have put credence in what the Red gen" eral had to say Unwittingly Gen Parks has given the Communists more effective propaganda than Gen Lee could jhave made f |