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Friday Morning July 22 1955 to stop amo JAY G HAYDEN - President Emphasizes Role As Chief of Armed Forces rest— And Now for Fair Consideration in House The news from Washington conlinues to be thrillingly encouraging as to prospects for authorization of the Upper Colorado development program The 760 million dollar reclamation program on which the future development of the Intermountain West depends cleared another impressive obstacle Thursday After hearings the House Rules Committee approved the measure for action on the House floor Floor debate is scheduled early next week If finally passed the measure will go to a joint conference committee to iron out differences with j the Senate bill and ihon the final version would be subject to approval of boih houses The Rules Committee cleared the way for a House vote after Speaker Sam had personally intervened on behalf ©f the program and after eloquent pleas had been sounded by Interior Committee - Chairman Engle of northern California a Democrat and Congressman Miller of Nebraska ranking Republican on the committee as well as such fighting champions Of the program from the Upper Basin as Senators Watkins Bennett Anderson and O’Mahoney and Representatives Dawson Dixon and Aspinall The bipartisan support has been notable indeed The House hill authorizes construction of three major water storage and power dams on the Colorado River and its tribu- - ' Jtaries — Glen Canyon in northern Arizona (actually to serve the Lower Basin) the Flaming Gorge in northern Utah and the Navajo in northern New Mexico Another - Rav-bur- n Better Than lie Asked Congress has refused to authorize President Eisenhower’s proposed atomic “peace” thip but this country is moving steadily ahead with a program to ptit nuclear power to nautical use The second atomic 'submarine was launched this week funds have been provided for three more and Navy Secretary Charles S Thomas announces that construction will begin soon on a model atomic engine suitable for aircraft carriers and other large surface ships Moreover though the President and Congress failed to see eye to eye on the "peace” ship this docs not mean that the Idea of an atomic merchant vessel has been ’shelved The House has just approved a substitute plan Mr Eisenhowor proposed ‘Using an atomic power plant (reactor) similar to the one which runs the submarine Nautilus W Kenneth Davis a member of the Atomic Energy Commission objected that this would not be truly experimental ’and suggested instead development of a larger and more economical power plant producing fissionable material while in operation since this could serve as a prototype of atomic merchant ships This latter vessel accepted by the House and almost certain to be approved by the Senate will take several years to build Mr Eisenhower wanted to get the atomic merchant ship on the high seas as soon as possible so that the world could see how the atom can be used for peace We think however that the delay will be worthwhile since it means a real atomic vessel can be put on display instead of what congressional critics have called a "‘showboat" And as a matter of fact the President will get something much better than he asked for -- ‘ I ‘ ’Wooing flic Prodigals Three American turncoats are on their way hopie from Red China The decision ! is their own The United States didn’t coax ! them' or apparently make any promises The Communists on the other hand are waging quite a campaign to get their prodigals to return According to US News & World Report the theme is “come on home all is forgiven" Big inducements are being offered including free trips from of world the the £any part promise of good even and amnesty "jobs The field eyed for Communist harvest is a big one One million two hundred thousand East Germans and 250000 East & Europeans from other satellite countries have fled to the West In Asia Red China hopes to win over the leaders among the 12 million “overseas Chinese" and the 74 million Nationalist Chinese However in j neither of these cases are many turncoats involved The Reds arc seeking converts But the aim is the same as in Europe — ' that is to wreck organizations and to spread the idea that life can be wonderful in the Communist world This could be wonderful propaganda for the Commies if the United States and other western countries are not alert Moscow and Peiping can make a few- thousand converts and returnees look very important But the answer which should be emphasized is that while millions who chose freedom have escaped to the West only a handful have made the trip through the Iron in the opposite direction f Curtain one-wa- y - ’ f' office with the Given an boss on vacation all the customers he should he calling on out of town and a ’ good ball game on the radio’ it makes it Ctougb for a man to go home and face his wife and ‘‘complain about the hard day hs’i had dam the Curccanti in western Colorado would be conditionally approved With these would be authorized the initial phases of 11 irrigation units in the Upper Basin States Including Central Utah and Emery County projects in this state t Earlier Budget Director Hughes advanced the Upper Colorado’s cause by formally asking for five million dollars to begin immediate construction on the program if it gets flfi51 congressional approval And earlier this week a special master for the Supreme Court refused to make the Upper Basin a party to the Lower Basin court fight of California and Arizona over Colorado River water Asthe bill goes to the House floor it does not include Echo Park Dam in Colorado a key unit in the giant water storage and regulation and power program Since this dam was the primary target of wilderness preservation spokesmen it was jettisoned in hopes of salvaging the rest of the program It seems most unlikely that sponsors will endeavor to have Echo Park restored to the bill either on the House floor or in conference committee In case is passed Echo Park is included in the bill but Chairman Engle has made it clear that he would strongly oppose any move to retain it in the final version A primary danger now is that Congressman Saylor and his allies from southern California who have fought the Upper Colorado Basin program so vociferously from the first will endeavor to restore Echo Tark with the aim of getting the whole plan killed by the House This and efforts to remove from the bill the Flaming Gorge substituted by the House for Echo Park Dam must be guarded against Another important battle has been won but the war continues With the splendid alertness and forthrightness leadership that has marked the leadership up to this point we are confident that the scaled-dow- n program will receive final approval And what a boon that would be for the Intermountain West and indirectly for the whole country Senate-approve- WASHINGTON — Three events within the week have emphasized President Eisen- hower’s deter- mination to hold fast to his constitutional designa- tion as "co- mmander in chief” of the nation’s armed forces In its annual report to the attorney general the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted that 96 per cent of the cases which it investigates and which are taken to the federal courts result in convictions And 924 per cent of the convictions are the result of guilty pleas rather than trials This outstanding record is fundamentally due to the careful Investigative work carried on by the FBI Crime detection to this top flight law enforcement agency is not a matter of guesswork Every kind of scientific aid is used by the highly-traine- d personnel in the employ of the bureau When they bring a case to court the evi- donee is usually overwhelming — so much so that th? accused with relatively few exceptions plead guilty rather than stand trial It is good to note in the annual report that the FBI is continuing its policy of close with local law enforcement officials and agencies in tracking down criminals in providing laboratory and other crime detection assistance and in general promoting better law enforcement work Through the years the FBI has established itself as one of the most efficient and effective agencies of the federal government It has done outstanding work in combatting crime in this country and in raising the standards of police work generally The FBI well deserves the fine reputation it enjoys with the American public -- KAy ENt UP LVIN6 OH THE HARO We applaud the Ford Motor Company's decision to offer safety belts as optional equipment for all models of Ford cars dating back to 1952 Chrysler has made safety equipment available to buyers since last April No doubt the time is not far distant when some form of safety belt will come as standard equipment Adoption of the preventive medicine approach to the car by two of the “big three" auto manufacturers should go far to increase use of belts and in saving lives and preventing serious injuries Accidents are bound to occur as long as human beings make mistakes The safety belt has been compared with sanitation measures which so drastically reduced typhoid fever in the days of outside privies and open wells “Properly installed and conscientiously worn these simple and relatively inexpensive straps could drastically reduce the toll of death and injury on the highway — some authorities say — by as much as 50 per cent” Thus reports Steven M Spencer an editor of the Saturday Evening Post in a thoughtful article in that magazine “Such an effective check would be a greater contribution to public health than the very best polio vaccine No medical miracle short of a cure for heart disease or cancer the men in uniform First while billion dollar defense appropriation bill the President announced that he will disregard as unconstitutional a provision of the measure forbidding termination of business enterprises maintained PAVEMENrgVl the military services without advance congressional consent by J SECOND Secretary of De- fense W'ilson announced’that he had “impounded’' a 46 million dollar appropriation voted by Congress to implement a demand for 22000 more'Marinc Corps rank and file than the 193000 Presi- dent Eisenhower had ordered Third a "leaked out’’ swan- extra-cos- t could ‘in one swift years of life” flecognition stroke save so many that the car can be a$ wcU’as the driver is a broad step in the right direction letter by Gen Matthew to Secretary Ridgwav Wilson bitterly criticizing reduction of the Army as ordered by President Eisenhower clearly disclosed why Ridgway recently was displaced as Army chief of staff Business enterprises within the armed services which congressmen from affected song B ' ‘ i lit i i The Public Forum Headache as Cure Editor Tribune: drought By now It should be appar- ent to everyone that unless adequate corrective measures are taken soon our western range will become a desert and our high mountain watersheds will lose much of their Value Eventually it will be realized that conditions causing drought are cumulative and progressive instead of cyclical as some experts like to proclaim Also that no relief can be expected until the causitive abuses are discontinued At this time a piece of good fortune presents itself in that a most perplexing and long standing headache can be applied ns a partial cure to these grievous conditions The headache Is the government-ownesurplus wheat for which no full-fledge- By Our Readers one seems to be able to find a profitable use A plan could work something like this: Use of public lands for grazing by stockmen would be denied and the government stockpile of wheat substituted in its place (at no cost to the stockmen) to whatever extent it could be used The range would then lie idle for a period of time while nature worked to restore the vegetative cover and heal the wounds of past abuse It is a good plan It will succeed Ereval Ladsuanav j Perhaps Utah’s sorriest problem Is the rondition of the range lands as witness the dust storms spring floods flash floods and long extended periods of d d Benefits and Problems Editor Tribune: "'Everybody— that is everybody who counts like the Chamber of Commerce real estate men and city and state officials— is tremendously excited about the possibility of a new plant here The idea is that we’ve just got to do every- thing to attract the company Why may 1 ask’ Tfue the plant would bring benefits but it also would bring problems What burns me up Is the Senator From Sandpit Ham Park By The wife is essential to great longevity she is the receptacle of half of a man’s care and of his Charles Reade Good Will Toward Wives It has been said main times before (hat behind every successful man there is a woman inspiring him and h i m on to two-third- s urging greater Gtvaler Than Vaccine? as against either Congress or d A Fine Balling Average wm—mmm—m en- The Salt Lake deavor Cham her of Commerce is composed of successful business men and s o m e o n e in the higher echelon recognized the strategic position wives holdToV last Monday evening they were the guests of honor at a dinner party at the Country Club given 'by the 1955 Good Will Tour Committee It was a swell party The dinner was excellent as was the service speeches were few short and to the point Mayor Earl J Glade who has been the star performer on many good will trips led off lie assured the ladies that their husbands conducted themselves with dignity and circumspection at all times And they did—at all times when his honor was present Fred Hinckley the genial sergeant at arms gave a short resume of the last trip others who spoke briefly and interestingly were: Bill Nightingale Charley Ide and Art Knudsen But the star of the evening was Mrs Wes Ham ilton who gave in rhyme a clever account of the thoughts and actions of a w if who was left behind while her husband went gallivant' ing Notes on the Cuff Department Joseph R Jensen my Ogden druggist friend recently was presented with a gold emblem marking his 35th year with his company It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy I neglected to mention that at the good will tour party Erv Peterson led the community singing Err has a fine voice Compared with the Adam’s apple tenors heard on TV radio and juke boxes he sounds like a Mctrojtblitan Opera star Speaking of singers Louis Roser who is no slouch himself says that his friend Nick Ruga rates high A rematch between Layne and Baker is Contemplated Personally I’m not interested But if someone were to arrange a rematch between David and Goliath 1 would be Have you ever noticed that some minds are like concrete —fill mixed up and firmly set? Winds Across the sounding dome of night hear the thunder of their flight: They lean far out— and rush I ’’ again About the sky in gusty rain They never haunt the quiet eaves Or bend to toss the friendly leaves But round and round some hollow height They moan in endless tor- tured flight I should not mind their bitter rain If I could see the moon pgain Their restless thunder I could bear If stars wcre shining any- where —Lola Mallatt proposal for the state to spend a million bucks on access roads With the terrible condition of the highway through Parleys Canyon that is really the height of something If the state’s got a million dollars handy let’s spend it where it’s needed most And if access roads are necessary let the company or the fed-- e ra government pay for them This is a defense project— in other words it may be here today and gone tomorrow Anyone who remembers World War II’s arms plant will know what I mean 1 W R C Let’s Keep the Park Editor Tribune: In 1916 another girl from the Art Student’s League and I went sketching in Mulberry Bend in lower New York Corinne and I had heard things about Mulberry Bend but its teeming streets were so colorful so interesting that we could not pass it up But wo were very careful to stay well out on the sidewalks where no one could snatch us fftuna doonvay'or a narrow alley while we made what we thought were pretty good sketches We never did learn what our teachers thought about them When we showed them our sketches their faces went white and horribly sober They forgot all about art criticisms But did they roast us for two irresponsible fools in search of trouble! Mulberry Bend indeed! I never was so chastised in all my hair-raisin- g life Briefly the story of that place was simply that real estate and money interests like the Real Estate Board with their kind of progress in mind had built up that area till there were only the streets left But people continued to live there anyway and it became the nflost terrible slum in New York Such wffs the dead-enof the materialistic kind of progress But there was fortunately another kind Desperate New York authorities let a philanthropist have a try He spent millions buying a group of buildings in the heart of the district These he had torn down to make a tiny'park for the people That was all he did Juvenile crime and adult crime diminished Transpose the picture from Mulberry Bend fb Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City For $400000 the price the Real Estate Board sets on that piece of ground we can exchange that historic little park make an utter slum of that locality deprive the kids of that locality of any place to play but the streets where juvenile delinquency is the only thing that can or will d - grow What kind of public officials would sell any part of playground? Let’s the kind of progress that A R Mortcn-sethe Utah StateHistorical Society and the Sons of the 'Utah Tioneers stand for Mabel Frazer’ have n districts are striving manfully to keep going range from shipyards and gun factories to such mundane pursuits as rope-makin- ice-maki- g coffee-r- baking and laun- oasting dering Mr Eisenhower knows from personal experience that the nation’s military is engaged in a lot of activi- ties that outside concerns could do better and cheaper Power of Congress in the armed services field is tremendous but mostly on the Again and negative side again particularly right after wars Congress has so whittled appropriations as virtually to wipe out the Army and greatly reduce the Navy A STRIKING instance was the persistent refusal of the overwhelming Dem 0 c r a t i c ! Congress of the 1930s to graqt President Roosevelt’s request for funds (0 provide fortifications of the islands of Guam and the Philippines which if built might have prevented Japan’s easy conquest of southeast Asia’ It Is only since the beginning of the Korean War and under the fear of communism that Congress has been outdoing the presidents in demand for more and more military development Especially it K a strange anomah that President Eisenhower a professional soldier should have found himself most of the time fighting to stem more warlike tendencies of the Congress Thp blast by Gen Ridgway may prove the last episode in a conflict among the military branches over defense unification 10-ye- FIRST IT WAS the Navy which provided the main opposition exemplified by the fracas in 1949 that brought about the removal of Adm Louis Denfeld from direction of naval operation and temporarily clouded the future of Adm Arthur Radford present chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Both the Navy and Air Force suspected President Truman of being too much on the side of the Army growing out of his service as a major of artillery in World War I In contrast the Navy remembered President Roosevelt’s marked preference for all seagoing arms It is surprising again that President Eisenhower should be mostly at odds with the Army in which he served for 35 years and to which his only son belongs The Army peeve arises from the “new look” that Mr Eisenhower first projected in his 1954 message on the state of the union He said then that the growth in atomic weapons permits “economies in the use of men” compensated for by “heavy emphasis” on air power of the Navy and Air Force Adm Radford at the same time said the “new look” was designed for “the long-terpull” — its basic elements air supremacy fewer men in uniform more use of atomic weapons by all the services MARQUIS CHILDS Common Ground at Geneva GENEVA— If a demonstration had been needed of how long and difficult is the road to any real settlement be- tween East and West it has been provided early at this confer- ence Stretching far beyond this week-lonmeeting g that road may ult- imately prove to be impassable But given the resolute optimism of President Eisenhower on the one hand and the Rusians on the other it seems certain to be explored at much greater length That is why reports which have the “Eden path” rejected by Soviet Premier Bulganin and the conference "deadlocked” while true are in a sense irrelevant THE SAME OLD roadblocks loom up as in the past but they are seen today from a different perspective It is the perspective of men who are saying not as they have said before that this is hopeless but that somehow these obstacles must be removed The two principal roadblocks are first and most obviotisly reunification of Germany and second the frozen military pattern of alliances The latter of course are NATO in the West and its synthetic counterpart the pact of Warsaw NATO as everyone knows was an outgrowth of the Marshall Plan formed to enable western Europe with of Great the Britain and America to build a military counterweight to the Soviet’s vast armament NATO’s success is one reason this conference could take NATO forces with place American equipment have at lfast in pjrt filled the vacuum pf power’uhat was so appallingly evident at the end of World War II SO NOW RUSSIA proposes in effect joining the NATO and Warsaw alliances And in his opening speech French Premier Faure said he saw no reason why a "fusion” of these forces could not take place This suggestion caused considerable irritation in the American delegation since such a fusion would constitute at least tacit acceptance of the status of the satellites But there is another reason why the reaction to this Suggestion should he hos- tile and that is the fact that NATO is in the midst of something like an inter- nal crisis As learned by this reporter the facts in broad outline are as follows: In late April Gen Gruenther supreme commander presented a report on capabilities that was sharply critical of the failure of most of the NATO powers to live up to their commitments After considerable controversy Gruenther agreed that this report should be temporarily set aside and not circulated among governments of the melhber countries for fear that it would cause serious political repercussions BUT WITH DIRECT bearing on the discussions at this conference and the prolonged negotiations presumably to follow the issue of western strength is sharply raised As Dulles has so often said the reality of western strenh made discussion on more or less equal terms possible Western ambassadors In Moscow have never suggested that it was internal weakness which compelled the Soviets to come to Geneva It was not weakness which persuaded the leaders of the West to make this trial of a possible peace But also it isirue that both sides are suffering un- der the r fearful continuing burden of armaments That common ground on which they 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