| Show y ‘n—in)- j ifljj3i’'Trf “‘ijJ1'liH s 4 I i je Jjall '§ akt lEfilnme editorials April 15 1S7I IsBuedevery by Tba morning Salt Laka Tribune Just One Big Happy Family Saturday May 10 1947 Publishing Co Salt L&ka City K Country- - Today automobile highways and airlanes link the east and the west Today the territory and the Pacific coast are inter-mounta- in Predictions That Failed To Be Realized While the “office of price administration” known as the O P A was functioning it became a target for attack from three hostile sources: Consumers were told that the bureau was responsible for the high cost of living Producers were irked because it put a ceiling ?v i v- - I I f on prices when conditions were favorable to realizing immense profits Partisans played upon these two numerically and financially strong elements until both Republicans and Democrats decided to reduce the O P A to a state of apologetic inability to act while the personal unpopularity of Chester Bowles combined and increased opposition to price control Furthermore many national leaders on whose wisdom a dissatisfied public set considerable store assured consumers that prices would fall if the hands of the O P A were removed At the same time the following predictions were uttered in Washington and culated throughout the nation : Senator Wherry of Nebraska told his colleagues and constituents to pay no attention to threats of rising prices and said: “My prediction is that without price control meat will cost less than it does now" Ten months have passed and meat is still beyond the reach of many families Senator Moore of Oklahoma said that “nowhere is there any evidence to support the claim that the termination of 0 P A will result in the increase of prices” Senator O'Damel of Texas told the world that “the O P A grinds the poor people of America down and makes slaves of them” Scores of politicians in both parties could be quoted along the same lines and the power of the O P A to keep prices under control was reduced to zero The Associated Press recently verified the astounding estimate of special investigators and has told the world that the cost of living a month ago had risen 156 per cent over the prewar average “The index for food alone was 1895 per cent higher last month when calculations were made than it was before the war" When the National Association of Manu closer in time and space to the Atlantic seaboard than New York and Philadelphia were in those days of 1869 But without the pioneer link provided by a transcontinental railroad today’s nation-wid- e economy and mutual been delayed decwould have understanding ades The history of railroads in the new world began with crude trains running on wooden rails in the year 1835 Within 15 years this system of transportation had expanded up and down the Atlantic seaboard and was linking that region with the Mississippi basin But it was not until 1869 that the slender highway of iron finally brought the continent into a single unit Railroads have developed with the times Streamlined trains with every travel convenience flash across states to carry travelers and goods to all parts of the Union Modern rail travel is as different from the days of the golden spike as the automobile is from the oxcart The great rail transportation system of the United States played a vital part In the second world war The railroads of tomorrow will continue to perform an important role in the development of America It has been a long time since the day when a golden spike was driven into a railroad tie in Utah This world has come a long way since then and so have the railroads of America Sr 00 P V TENMS By J IMES J METCALFE The game of tennis is a game That calls for speed and In which the player skill must know how To lob or make a kill It is 'an exerTo either two cise confined or four And it has its exclusive way Of adding up the score And yet a game is Of those that merely one make a set And there must be two sets or three To settle any bet One player serves the ball and then Another hits it back And Exvictory depends upon Unless perience and knack a man and maid compete And they are thinking of A dffcrent subject when they play A game described as love t 1 WASHINGTON — Assuming price control in an appeal made in June 1946 it said: “If the OP A is permanently discontinued prices will become fair and reasonable to all” Last Saturday the NAM defended the high cost of living by issuing a declaration of warning against the cutting of prices as apt to “bring on a severe business setback” Is it any wonder that average citizens and consumers in thi3 republic are bewildered by the dissimilarity between predictions and New Use of an Ancient Writ Invoked in Divorce Labor leaders are opposed to injunctions The word is enough to arouse the leonine Lewis to a pitch close to internal combustion But the injunction has been a recognized prerogative of the judiciary for a long time It is the command of a court ordering a litigant ten refrain from doing a particular thing according to an exigency of the writ It is usually invoked to prevent waste or destruction by a tenant or limited owner to protect the public from private aggressiveness In the United States of America the Injunction has been invoked to induce employers to yield to demands of employes but reverse d action has been taken because of contracts in which responsibility affects one party thereto instead of both as other agreements require However writs of injunction may be asked under curious conditions In Phoenix the capital of Arizona a man by the name of Sidney H Pearce who has been sued for divorce by a wife obviously seeking freedom without a legal excuse for judicial consent filed a petition in the superior court to enjoin his dissatisfied mate from bringing such suits Alleging that she had already sued him seven times without establishing good and sufficient cause for severing ties he was getting tired of hiring attorneys and defending himself from trivial accusations It remains to be seen what precedent is to be set for a novel use of the injunction one-side- tlon and peace Americans who lost sons In World War II and the men who fought are interested in this prospect The Federal Council’s general proposition is supported by the following specific and sound principles: 1 Security against aggression for Germany’s neighbors 2 Supervised production by Germany for European and German recovery 3 Reparations limited to surplus above requirements for a decent standard of living in Germany and for incentives to work 4 Some revision of provisional German-Polis- h frontiers to provide additional agricultural land to German people 5 Respect for the right to choose a form of government which will fit into a democratic Europe 6 Provision for the maintenance of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Germany 7 Germany’s participation in the United Nations when she fulfills the obligations of membership Here is a statement that is at once sane and practical while it speaks with a voice of Chrls-tai- n idealism Just before he died Charles Steinmetz said “The great discoveries of the future will be in the realm of the spirit" The search for world peace is at least a spiritual quest Copyright 1947 New York Post Corporation THE LYONS DEN By LEONARD LYONS During the crossing of the Queeni Elizabeth — which was made memorable by the ship’s getting stuck on a sandbar — Beatrice Lillie rang for the steward and asked him: “What time does this place get to England?" David O Selznick a trustee Of the estate of his late brother Myron Selznick sold the horse “Can’t Waif for $17000 The horse for which Myron paid $1000 won over $100000 for its owner Whenever Margaret Truman visited the music critics to receive their frank opinions about her voice she used a pseudonym — “Miss Wallace" Jack Dempsey’s two daughters who have developed into pretty and charmmg young ladies never will have any difficulties with boys who get fresh Dempsey has taught the girls how to box and punch Ely Culbertson and his bride Dorothy Baehne are writing a book — a historical novel to be called “Miraculous Accident” Henry Daniell was signed by M G M to portray Liszt in “Love Story” which stars Katharine Hepburn Daniell had to learn piano fingering to be synchronized with the actual playing which was to be done by Artur Rubinstein An M G M executive decided that the composition which should be played in the movie is one which he remembered having heard in his youth — “The Sixth Hungarian Daniell practiced Rhapsody” and mastered the fingering The executive then discovered that the 6th was not the melody he had in mind — he meant the 2nd Daniell Hungarian Rhapsody mastered the fingering Distributed by McNaught Syndicate Inc a conscientious approach to the matter of writing a provision into the new labor law that will safe guard free speech and at the sadie time prevent Intimidation or coercion members of congress honestly striving to be fair will naturally find difficulty in putting Into words the impartial course that the public would want to see pursued Thus the unions today can intimidate an employer and threaten to cause him untold financial loss They can threaten him through a union committee by declaring that unless he accepts their proposals his factory will be shut down This is called the collective right to strike and is a development of the basic right of the Individual to quit a job if he wishes But while an employer acting DUtributd by King TaHir Syndicate by arrangement with The Waihlngton Star Stassen Stalin Talk Served Only as Good Publicity facturers was advocating abandonment of By DR DANIEL A POLING How long will the western powers be willing to police Germany— and after policing what? Here are two questions that plague the world for in their answers world peace is Included A recent statement of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ m America which represents Protestant officially churches with more than members affirms that western powers will tire of policing Germany and then states "Paace will be served in the long run more by the health and sanity by the spiritual regeneration of the German people than by efforts at repression” The Federal Council Is of the opinion that world peace will be promoted by giving the German people the hope and possibility of a good life in the framework of international cdopera- - 'I!-:- FRANK KENT’S COLUMN AMERICANS ALL ta-8- Labor Bill Should Safeguard Employers’ Right to Speak Utah Golden Spike Anniversary Is an Important Date in History of Utah and the West Although citizens of Utah this year are honoring the advent of the pioneers and the occasion of their entrance into the valley of the Great Salt lake by oxcarts wagon3 and pushcarts there is another date which marks an important epoch in the history o'f this state and the entire west — the completion of the first transcontinental railroad Today is Golden Spike day On May 10 1869 the last rail was laid in the long iron ribbon which extended from Omaha to Sacramento Two groups of hardy builders one from the east and the other from the west converged at Promontory in Utah just west of Ogden It linked the great industrial and commercial area of the east with the growing empire extending from the Pacific coast to the Rocky mountains This ribbon of rails which was finished at Promontory meant more than a transportation link of two 'sections of the United States It was a new bond between peoples who while they were both of the same nationality were separated by miles of desert and plains as well as by wide differences of interests and inodes of life The west is still the west but it is also an integral part of the commercial industrial and cultural life of the entire DAVID LAWRENCE SAYS WASHINGTON — The truth Stassen’s reabout cently published interview with Generalissimo Stalin is that it was a fine piece of publicity for them both —but otherwise unimportant It leaves the situation between Russia and the western world exactly as it was It does not change anything either nationally or internationally This opinion is not presented to disparage the purpose or detract from the quality of Mr Stassen who In many ways is a very fine fellow indeed Nor is it meant to discourage those who believe that n conversation the “opens new doors of hope” for closer understanding and better cooperation between the Russians and ourselves It is set down here merely in the belief that it is always best to face realities no matter how unattractive and that the silliest thing either an individual or a nation can do Is to delude themselves To argue that Mr Stalin said anything new or significant ri-or Important to Mr Stassen is To argue that he was diculous not repetitious platitudinous and inconsistent is equally so To pretend that there was anything particularly notable in his granting Mr Stassen an interview of more than an hour is simply to Ignore the record Naturally it suits the purposes of various groups to insist upon all these things For example it serves those who blind themselves to the fact that the Russians whose policy Mr Stalin ’ directs have consistently and calculatingly played for delay in every Inter Stalin-Stassd- national conference and have stood steadily In the way of cooperation by rejecting every reasonable compromise and concession that has been offered It suits these people to hold that when Stalin told Stassen that there was no reason we should not cooperate and nothing to prevent agreement on atomic energy control and all other matters that what he said was significant It suits another group to pretend that Mr Stalin revealed himself to Mr Stassen in a way he did not reveal himself to Mr Byrnes Mr Bevan General Marshall or anyone else A third group enthusiastically applauds the interview as conferring unusual distinction upon Mr Stassen thereby increasing his prestige and prospects as a candidate for the Republican presidential homination Of course none of these ideas are true As to the latter all one has to recall are the interviews which Mr Stalin granted to the ebullient Senator Claude Pepper and the ineffable Elliott Roosevelt With characteristic thrift the latter capitalized his interview by selling It to a weekly magazine The former at once became one of the Soviet’s chief oratorical champions in this country —second only to Henry Wallace It Is only fair to Mr Stassen to say that Stalin’s Interview with him had no such personal effect as on the Messrs Pepper and Roosevelt For one thing he is a good many classes above these two worthies For another he has not attempted to com- - merciallze what he got nor has his interview made him either or It was entirely legitimate for him in-to reap whatever publicity the terview merited and that was managed astutely But it is Idle to suggest that he got anything from Mr Stalin that Mr Stalin had not given to other and less Important and much cheaper American citizens who succeeded In obtaining an audience Perhaps it may be contended that Stalin’s statement to Mr Stassen that there is no reason the communist and capitalistic states should not live peaceably together is new It isn’t new but it does conflict completely with his own declaration written in approval of Lenin’s assertion that “it is Inconceivable that the Soviet republic should continue for a long period side by side with imperialistic states” Actually of course the Soviet words —especially Mr Stalin’s— do not accord with the Soviet actions They Mo not accord with the Soviet’s refusal to permit the United Nations to make progress In the vital atomic bomb matter or in the business of organizing its own international police force They do not accord with the Soviet resistance to practically every proposal at the recent Moscow conference for on an agreement reaching treaties for Germany and Austria as explained in detail by General Marshall who also had an hour and a half audience with Stalin about which he has said not a public word They are not in accord with the almost complete ignoring by the Soviet authorities of the numerous proposals made by Ambassador Bedell Smith for exchange visits of students musicians journalists etc in the interests of better understanding They are not in accord with Soviet pro-Stal- in pro-Sovi- et f" I as an individual and not necessarily in concert with any other employers has the right to shut down his own factory when he thinks he can’t make ends meet he can’t tell his employes about It In advance For this according to the decisions and rulings of the ‘national labor relations board and according to the language of both the pending senate and house bills is construed to be an "unfair labor practice” punishable by law The employer must keep silent and in many cases he actually does discontinue operations and the workers consequently are thrown out of jobs If the employer however had been able to talk freely to his employes and give them the facts without running the risk of a charge of “refusal to bargain” or an "unfair labor practice” and all the costs of litigation before the jabor board maybe these employes would have kept their jobs The real difficulty of course is that union groups and certain persons in the new deal decided that workers were better off with unions than without them In instances the workers many themselves will admit they would have been better off without a union but the labor board has construed the Wagner act to mean that individual bargaining must be discouraged and union absence from the present Geneva on international conference And they certainly are trade not in accord with the ignoring by the Soviet government of five official requests from Washington to discuss a settlement of e the situation between us Until the Sovief government takes some action to give force to Mr Stalin's reassuring words to Mr Stassen — and others — becertainly we are justified in it does —and ing skeptical When — there is always hope it will find this country cordially and quickly responding In the meantime Mr Stassen’s friends will be foolish to believe as has been 'proclaimed that the Stalin interview has greatly Improved his prospects in the Republican national convention It was exceedingly good publicity — but that is all it was Distributed by McNaught Syndicate lend-leas- one-side- The suppression of free speech carried on under the senate bill by giving the labor relations board the power' to interpret “under all circumstances’ what is or is not a speech of Intimidation or an offer of benefit If an employer points out frankly how much better off the employes would be without a union than with he could be accused of an unfair labor practice and under both senate and house bills he would be subject to an injunction never to say anything like that again This Is where the suppression of free speech comes In One w onders w hy union leaders are afraid of such discussion and why they must have a law to protect workers against hearing anything but one side of the argument There is a danger of course of certain kinds of discrimination such as discharges by employers for union activity or the penalizing of particular workers who are leaders or officers of unions but this is amply coveied under the existing Wagner law and the rulings of the labor board Where any punitive action is taken against individuals the law is adequate and there Is no need to tie up such intimidating processes with limitations on free speech An employer ought to have a to close down right to threaten his plant just as a union has a right to threaten to close down the employer’s factory Both are lawful uses of economic power either before or after a union has been organized In a plant The cure for friction hi a democracy is not to give a governmental agency the right to interpret the meaning of words but to let everybody speak as many words as he pleases Words unless slanderous or libelous are the greatest force for good in a world of free men Reproduction Rights Reserved B FAST SERVICE on PEN REPAIRS Your pen mty only require some small adjustment to put it in A-- lt w W shape We are equipped wi?H genuina and factory-traine- d ervto&c part for Parker and all other make EMBROKE'S 24 East Iroadway 311-31- - trip Ileber Brimley has invited me a Jaycee confab or convention to be held Saturday in the Hotel Newhouse Several years ago in Logan I was made an honorary life member of the club If I Jaycee can arrange my housework to fit the time schedule I’ll be on hand Mrs Marie Merrill gave us a loaf of home-mad- e bread along with the recipe for making it It’s a health bread but I’ll bet I lose my health if I try to make any I could make a watch as easily to attend 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on which opinions do differ but it Is a subject in which one party to the dispute is " SENATOR FROM SANDPIT It Is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good times that now are no more but that in good days we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad — Schopenhauer The Good Old Days I have before me a relic of the past — a menu of the Clipper 3 restaurant Pacific street San Francisco which was in its heyday in the 1870s Frank W Melick came across the ancient bill of fare recently and brought it to me Pacific street now is a part of what is called the “International Settlemeut” It isn’t a swanky thoroughfare — never was as far as I know If my memory serves me right I believe It ran through what used to be called the “Barbary Coast” Anyway the prices charged for food and lodging in the district are something to marvel over The highest priced items on the menu were porterhouse and tenderloin steaks roast chicken and ojster stew They were 20 cents Plain steak pork mutton or veal chops were 10 cents Roast meats with the single exception of chicken were a dime Ham or bacon and eggs were 15 cents and hot cakes were a nickel Fish baked or fried was 10 cents and bread butter and potatoes were served free Wine was 20 cents a bottle beer 5 cents a glass and tea coffee and milk also 5 cents At the bottom of the menu it said: “Rooms to let Single rooms per week $1” ei C tiel & f f |
