Salt Lake Tribune | 1947-05-15 | Page 6

vfJ & EDITORIALS gtapafa4 lr Y it- ?“V’ I fJG 1 ' ” 1 H Issued moraine by The every removed Nowhere should the color line be drawn against acknowledged talent as human ability and achievement are entitled to recognition whether appearing in a white black brown or yellow skin Moreover the federal constitution forbids such discrimination according to judicial interpretations of the 14th 1 £ 4 4 However there is a strong sentiment in every branch of government as well as among the citizens of all states of this union against the teaching or preaching of subversive doctrines which contemplate the final overthrow ” 4i V4i ' 1S71 The capital cities of two states in which one w’ould never expect color prejudice to be asserted and enforced to the exclusion of a talented black man were Springfield in Illinois and Albany in New York The governors of both commonwealths are political disciples of Abraham Lincoln “the great emancipator” who told the world that “a nation cannot live if part free and part slave” However Paul Robeson was not refused a hall and a hearing because he is a Negro but for the reason that he is believed to be a Communist whose sympathies lie with the country in which his son is being educated When a high school auditorium in Albany was refused Robeson be appealed to the supreme court of the state and the ban was ordered r f 15 JM fiAit gfibtWf Balt Lake Tribune Co Salt Lake City ? T 44 fhf ? i - Wliat’s Good Enough for Fred Allen— Thursday May 15 1947 Publtahine IT v i 4 For Building Peace Americans are impatient people One of the principal characteristics of the inhabitants of the United States is their desire— and ability — to get things done right away While most of them will admit that “Rome wasn’t built in & day” they feel that if American planners workers and machines had been available Rome would have been completed in a much shorter time than it required This impatience has been apparent in the general public disappointment over the relative slowness with which the United Nations has developed Many Americans feel that this international organization designed to establish a just and permanent peace has been too long in evolving and too slow in taking action Some blame the Russians — with some justice perhaps — while others attribute delays to all the diplomats and negotiators whom they regard as quibblers and timewasters But a calmer examination of the situation discloses the fact that a great deal of preliminary work has been done and although progress has been slow it has been sound Warren R Austin former senator and now'' United States representative on the United Nations council is no apologist for the international body hut he has faith in himself and his colleagues Recently he told a meeting of newspaper editors in Washington some of the reasons for his faith “Progress has been made” he declared "We have covered the first mile of the long journey and we are going forward not backward It is indeed remarkable and a cause for confidence that we have been able to cover the first mile at all so soon after the end of the last war and before peace Settlements have 4jj kt tV of the model democracy established by Jefferdefended by Lincoln and maintained against traitors and termites for more than a century and a half There might have been some question as to the accuracy of allegations made against the great baritone who was heard in Salt Lake City only a few weeks ago had' he not planned a speaking tour against what Communists now designate as “fascism” Every critic of the Kremlin every opponent of communism every adversary of Molotov or Gromyko in a peace conference is a “fascist” according to reds — both white and black According to the Associated Press Paul Robeson announced immediately following the decision of the New York court that he had been planning for' a nation-wid- e lecture tour “free from professional engagements” to denounce “fascism” — the ism that flourished under Hitler and Mussolini but not the equally inimical ism that is threatening the western world today Every Communist who claims the right to campaign in this country pretends to be fighting “fascism” Like the bewildered minister trying to avoid controversy or condemnation by simply stating his opposition to sin so these fellow travelers hope to fool the American public by shaking their fists at surviving foljowers of the fuehrer son ” i 4 in $ ‘jp i V f d$ r -- si i t t been made” Unlike pessimists who viewed the Truman policy to aid Greece and Turkey as a blow at the United Nations Mr Austin asserts that such actions must be taken at times not to undermine the international organization but to implement its authority while the slow process of evolution brings forth a strong organization It might be well for those impatient Americans who are ready to scrap the whole United Nations program to study the words of Mr Austin Much has been written about careless i ?Tv By LEONARD LYONS 4 7i Dean Alfarge the candidate is an official cf Greek relief organizations and receives complete reports on activities there The last report was about an investigator who climbed to the peak of Mt Athos and there — at the highest point in all Greece — he discovered a stranga man “Who are you?” he asked the stranger who said: “Sh” and then whispered: “Sh I'm a member of the 3 v £ ! 1 ‘ i I ! I- tinder-groun- - tif- d” When Asaf Alia the new ambassador from India was received here by Mayor O’Dwyer both men tried to find a subject of mutual interest about which to talk The ambassador finally hit upon sewers and he and O'EJwyer were satisfied that they had had an interesting discussion “I knew what would interest a mayor” said the ambassador “I once was mayor of Bombay” Harry F Sinclair the oil man calmly shrugs whenever he’s asked why he's not involved in the middle east oil situation But to his intimates Sinclair has an explanation: One night In Pans to his apartment came Kingsbury of Standard Oil and Beber of Texas Oil They had a proposition to offer him but Sinclair was disinterested because he didn’t believe they could obtain that which they indiscussed with him — a 50 terest in the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia “I made a billion-dollmistake” 'Sinclair now admits for in rejecting the offer he turned down a half interest in what became the largest oil reserve in the world “And what makes me mad” said Sinclair “is that I paid for the champagne at the party at which I turned them down" Jack Dempsey urged Pauline Betz not to pose in testimonial ads showing her smoking cigarets or drinking liquor Miss Betz will make this testimonial however by posing with f t i 1 ill t kfc J: h4 4 M ar Iff ! I 4-- l-cn- ey i mo- a Long Island country club to play golf watched the cop start to write a speeding ticket “If you’ll tear up that piece of paper with your name on it” the driver suggested to the cop “I’ll give yoQ Peace Under Veto Setup WASHINGTON— Has the United Nations been “oversold” to the American people as an agency that can preserve peace when as a matter of fact It is powerless to do so? If the public generally has a wrong impression this is hardly surprising In view of the fact that Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt herself a member of the U S delegation doesn’t seem to know that the U N cannot use military means lawfully against a major power Mrs Roosevelt wrote the other day that she was troubled by a decision of the United Nations military staff committee and was “waiting anxiously to read something further to clarify it” She then added: "I understand it (the decision) in the following way — that the proposed international police force would be large enough and strong enough to coerce any of the smaller nations which might become aggressive but would not be strong enough to take action against one of the great powers “One might say of course that the use of the veto in the security council would make it practi men who are shown smoking or Two ex-Is who drinking remained in Paris will produce “Boy Meets Girl” there Authors Sam and Bella Spewack also sold the Czech and Romanian G rights A motorcycle cop halted a car on a Long Island road and told the driver that he had been speeding The driver who was a piece of paper with his name on it” The driver indicated the passenger in the back seat The cop studied the passenger and then said: “Okay It’s a deal” He tore up the speeding ticket and in return accepted the autograph written for him by the passenger the Duke of Windsor AMERICANS ALL By DR DANIEL A POLING The federal security agency is one of the most efficient departments of our national government Within a few hours after the Texas City disaster representatives of the agency were headed for the stricken city Within two days after the first explosion offices had been set up in the local post office building Administrator Watson B Miller informed President Truman that to speed death claims of the survivors usual administrative processes were shortened and special attention was given to each case The agency negotiated with the Monsanto Co St Louis and with the bureau of internal revenue to speed up the processing of recent wage statements for employes of the Texas City plant of the company This assured prompt payment of full benefits Social security area offices ( were then Instructed to give priority to every Texas City claim The work of the agency’s public health service was reported as remarkably prompt and intelligent and its office of education went into action to help arrange for the allocation of surplus property In reestablishing Texas City schools I do not think that It is generally known that the Insurance system of the federal security agency grants monthly pay ments to widows alone in any circumstances and to widows at any age who have children under 18 years if the wage earner is deceased At Centralia Illinois within seven days after the first announcement of the recent mine disaster the agency was paying claims to survivors I was so Impressed with the Centralia story that I took Dr Miller to task for not letting the country know about it He replied "Perhaps we do hide our light under a bushel but these activities are regular procedure In the face of such catastrophes and we haven’t time to talk about them” And so I’m talking! Copyright 1947 New York Post Corp OFF THE RECORD By H V WADE The physicists conclude that the glancing blow is more devastating than one which smashes the target directly One recalls that when champ Joe Louis just grazes them they’re no good in a return bout There is slightly more to the dear thing’s 1947 bathing suit than there was to last year’s but you still know it’s a girL cally Impossible ever to take action against one of the great powers But I have always tak$n it for granted that if the United Nations decided that a nation had committed an aggressive act no use of the veto could protect that nation in wrongdoing whether that nation was large or small” Unfortunately Mrs Roosevelt understood wrongly and so have millions of other well intentioned American citizens who said after San Francisco that a remarkable charter had been written which would preserve peace The truth Is the use of the veto makes it impossible to employ military forces against one of the major powers The military staffs have given up the idea of a big international police force because it could never be brought into action lawfully under the United Nations charter One vote in the security council by any major power can block the use of such an international force This may come as a' surprise to Mrs Roosevelt who as a member of the U S delegation to the U N probably should have been educated on this point long ago by Senator Austin or whoever keeps the public statements of SENATOR FROM SANDPIT By HAM PARK on his way to THE LYONS DEN Sjs U N Powerless to Preserve pedestrian usually gets the worst of the accident in so far as physical hurts are concerned but that fact does not absolve him Anyone who has driven a car or ridden in one at night — and this includes just about everyone— knows how difficult it is to see persons walking along the highway Bright lights and clean windshields seldom solve this problem from the motorist’s standpoint A figure in dark clothing with face overed or averted is almost invisible from an automobile on the highway and frequently on city streets The pedestrian can see approaching cars and the driver can see other cars but the man or woman walking along the roadside is hard to locat§ Especially is this true when cars are passing each other with blinding lights flashing in both drivers’ eyes Warnings to pedestrians are not by any means an excuse for carelessness on the part of the drivers of cars Their obligation remains to take every precaution for safeguarding the pedestrians who should as a matter of personal preservation cooperate in this safety program If you are a pedestrian walk on the proper side of the highway if you must walk on such thoroughfares It also is a good idea to remember that you are almost “the invisible man” to the motorist at night i i DAVID LAWRENCE SAYS torists while countless warnings have been issued to speeders and other violators of the traffic laws But there are some accidents in which the pedestrian is more to blame than the man behind the wheel It is true that the There is such a thing as liter- ary fashion and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats — Disraeli Writers and Writing Everyone it seems at some time in his life feels the urge to write Writing is a peculiar business and naturally folks who make their living at it have to be peculiar too Right now at least in this region the predominating style seems to be the pioneer In writing about the Centennial I’d say that every literary form with the exception of the whodunit has been used I’m thinking of writing one and calling it “Murder Rides a Wagon” Just thinking about writing it mind you Covered Horace a Roman poet who was bom in 65 B C once said that you should let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at You’d be out of least Heh-he- h style in half that time Want to know what I think? Well I’ll bet you that when Horace said that he’d sort of graduated or deteriorated into an editor Editors are the bane of a writer’s existence Their function seems to be to destroy rather than to create Like radio vice presidents or the earwig for exBut speaking of the ample earwig I just read where we were going to import 2000 flies that will play “Hail Columbia” with him Now I wonder There’s a Limit Because you have teeth that are even and white — Your own or the kind that you take out at night You don’t have to look like a darned crocodile By showing them all every time that you smile -- — A Tom Bomb Notes on the Cuff Department Considerable verse of high quality has been written about the Centennial and sent in to me Unfortunately I can’t publish all of it In the first place most of the poems are too long for my space and in the second place the subject already has been covered many times Because your poem doesn’t appear Is not necessarily a reflection on its quality So straw hat day Is about here! Doggone it I hate the idea of going through the agony of getting fitted to a new straw lid They make your winter suit look so shabby Besides I’ve got people used to my Horn-bur- g Heck Bob Hunter says you can judge the quality of the tobacco used in a cigar by the way the tobacco worms treat it They only like the best grade I had a cigar the other day that must have been a topnotcher To smoke it I had to finger it like you do a flute when you play it Jim Ivers and I were discussing the political outlook and he remarked that political troubles are always multiplied It was about an by division hour later when I got the point No wonder he looked disappointed Oh- well P i & trusts it Is final — this new decree of congress Joined in by the president that Boulder One Dam (nee Hoover Dam) may resume the maiden name J By JAMES METCALFE the world For other folks Some people think was made run And they are not concerned about The way the job Is done They do not let it bother them Or ever interfere With anyA thing that promises peaceful atmosphere They do not realize what a mess We would be In today every other creature were Inclined to feel that way f never dawns on them at That they are needed too To figure out the future and To see the struggle through That we must work together as An undivided team If we would be successful and Fulfill our every dream to JEWELRY on credit W flrtf jeweler le City to luggatf the buying of diamond and jewelry on ipaead payment W have never caatad to offer th moit liberal credit arrangement to our cuitomart and have mad it pottibl for thoutandt of our cuttomar to own really fina which and diamond watch would have bean difficult for them to pottai etharwit racalva Our credit curtomar the tame value and tha ama coueou attention a thoj with eiM Wa will walcome you Saif war Lake fh EXTENDED PAYMENTS HuMa’id-Dea- n JeuieleM 211 MAIN STREET Official Watch Inspectors Union Pacific Railroad Some thought the Trumans might have displayed a livelier e interest in week seeing that they now live over a bowling alley c For real price slashing consider tlft underwater pen now also unier a dollar a Lately added to our repertory of daydreams is one in which we strike oil become fabulously rich dress up like an Arab and tell off the United Nations Anti-Nois- YOU Are Cordially Invited JAMES M WALKER MONUMENTS 220 East 4th South Phone ujeni WttMont r The Finest and a Beautiful Select ion of Monuments and Markers In Salt I Lake City nun Bonded-Guarante- ed ELECTRIC COOKING DEMONSTRATION By MRS VILATE WHITE Of Our Home Service Department MEMORIALS Ball-Beari- 3P®$58S3 $2395 ng LAWN MOWERS Garden Hose Garden Tools Electric Irons i A a police ’Oi'iri£!S' £ 2 small-size- d force to keep smaller nations from making international nuisances of themselves That is about all the military teeth the U N charter really permits In fairness to those who wrote the document It may be said that they reasoned this way: If a force had to be set up to discipline Russia or the United Slates neither nation would agree to give up the veto that prevents the use of such an army navy or air establishment Also if any nation used its veto against such a force war would ensue anyhow and the peaceful objectives of the U N would be nullified Reproduction Rights Reserved THE UNCONCERNED 224 SOUTH MAIN fir V nature of a left-winger- sJ headed for a fall between the and the left right Mr Litschert makes a possibly sound observation that the principal Issues of the last campaign were not foreign affairs budget balancing or even tax reduction but “scarcity” He did not even mention labor In that diagnoisis too he is in disagreement with many other Republicans He attributes part of Mr Truman’s enhanced public favor to abolition of O P A and the release of goods which he concedes come at higher prices though not “black market” prices But the question now rises whether some of the shift of sentiment away from Republicans to the president may not be due to this increase in prices At least administration spokesmen are capitalizing upon it recalling that Republicans promoted abolition of O P A while the president resisted it for a long time This goes to that always popocket-boo- k tent political issue— the — and perhaps Republicans are looking too far afield and are spinning too many fins theories when the simple issue before everybody’s eyes is the explanation Copyright 1947 United Feature Syndicate 2:30 P M May 22nd V i the members of the delegation from deviating from actualities But the sad truth is that the U N can’t coerce any of the large powers —either the United States or Russia or any other nation which can defend itself with substantial military forces Maybe the U S senate would never have consented to ratification of the U N charter if it had In It a provision permitting the international forces of ihe U N to coerce the United States Maybe Russia wouldn’t have joined Anyway the military staff committee accepted realistically the fact that a veto is a veto and decided to study something in the WASHINGTON— Republicans find themselves of late in an uncomfortable defensive position requiring much explanation They are acutely sensitive to the rise in President Truman’s popularity as indicated by the Gallup poll and by recent local elections In trying to diagnose the trouble they have come up It with conflicting analyses depends on who is doing the diagnosing They seem to be agreed on one point which is their contention now widely publicized that what they call new deal commentators and columnists are responsible for creating the impression that they are nota doing so well This appears bit labored for it overlooks the fact that some of the most pungent criticism has come from usually sympathetic sourses It would arouse a chuckle too in the ghost of Franklin D the Roosevelt who used to beat press about taking In the whole newspaper community broadly for most of it wa3 against him As to President Truman’s rise In popularity some Republicans have a most intriguing explanation which pays a tribute to themselves They say his popubecause he larity has increased has stolen their thunder has taken the Republican "line” The Republican theory is found in an article "What’s the Matter With the G O P? (If Anything!” in the current National Republic a most conservative P party organ in which Frankthat Litschert the author says the “real reason” for the president’s rise in public esteem “is not Republican muddling in congress but the president's own official acts” It cites his removal of price controls his hand-dlin- g of John L Lewis and “his firm stand against communism" Mr Litschert then goes on to who say that “the are sneering at the Republican ‘slowness’ should remember that in his postelection course in handling prices and the communist menace President Truman has been following Republican ideology not new deal Democratic ideology which has been repudiated at the polls “So the Republicans are not to blame politically for the rise in President Truman’s fortunes unless you blame them for pointing the way to him” With some Justification Mr Litschert points out in reply to criticism of Republican “slowness” that the party had quite a Job to do In organizing congress and Its program That is behind them now the bills are beginning to shape up and both he and Carroll Reece Republican national chairman find some comfort in the fact that in the near future Mr Truman will face decisions on important Republican legislation to give him his first real test with the public since Republicans assumed management of congress In the current Republican News organ of the national committee Mr Reece says in a signed editorial that “the administration’s days of pointing to the right while moving to the left are ended" Thus he and Mr Litschert do not exactly agree about the course the president has followed Underlying the comments of each however is the hope that Mr Truman is - Hi s i GOP Tries to Analyze Rise Of Truman’s Popularity Dtaix Pedestrians Must Assist jin Safety Programs y By THOMAS L STOKES !1 More Patience Needed &- -’ i-- Talent Free From Racial Discrimination But Color Cannot Cover Subversion - ' s April fSIje £l f Electric Fans Baseball and Softball Sports Equipment In Our Basement Auditorium Salt Lake City 138 So Main St Mrs White's demonstration includes actual cooking with helpful suggestions and answers to your questions Thisjs of particular interest to new users of Electric Ranges UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO r"