Show EDITORIALS tinned Ir Ann Jj IITI 18 Issuati every guilt gt name t 5-rti- morning by The bait Lake Tritium Everyone Seems to KnOW the Answer I:91T Sunday May 25 Publishing Co Salt Lake City Utah Kindergarten Expansion Given Support By Utah Federation of Women's Clubs Expansion of kindergarten service in the 'school system of the state is a proposal corning from the recent convention of the progressive Federation of Women's Clubs of Utah In a cautious approach to a most important matter the federation suggested a "petitioning of school authorities to provide this educational advantage to children since state educational funds now are available" It may not prove to be an absurd speculation if one should predict that the time is almost sure to come within a few years when the kindergarten will be recognized as the most important department of our educational system In the tempo of modern Inclinations and exactions the day cannot be far off when creation of character development of the mind formation cf habits preservation of health and appreciation of Comradeship will be regarded as essential beginnings of an education The kindergarten may become the cornerstone of a citizenship upon which a better government of a better people can be erected —a structure without blemishes of juvenile delinquency adolescent irresponsibility organized criminality and antisocial behavior There are too many demands on modern parents—too many provocations of the poor and too many temptations of the rich—for a child to receive at home the kind of care and consideration accorded in the kindergarten This is not an arraignment of those who are blessed with children nor even an attempt to remind them of the alarming increase of mental and moral depravity in this land of liberty and leniency People may read of the lawless acts of willful youngsters week after week without realizing that ten times as many cases of the kind are never reported and without believing that their own offspring could possibly descend to such depravity But malefactors begin at an early age commit crimes in their teens without provocation or eictise and help to swell' the burden of taxation by more than 33 billions a year for law enforcement It was a boty who wrecked a passenger train on the Western Pacific the other' day It was a boy barely ten years old who confessed to starting a series of disas San Mateo California Another lad of eight was caught burning homes in Owensboro Ky last week It was the 14- son of a rector in Missouri who beat year-ol- d to death an old sexton of whom he was fond The list would fill a boök No matter how discreet and an average parent of the present may be the family circle resounds with criticisms of persons treated handsomely to their faces with complaints about constituted authority with amiable banterings that seem to stretch the truth with outbursts of anger that register on childish memories To brush aside the influence of these manifestations of parental superiority as having little or no effect on the development of character in its formative period is to display an ignorance of childish impressions as contributory as any of the errors herein enumerated It may be assumed that children of today are more precocious and probably more difficult to handle than were those who received the Savior's sympathetic blessing But patriarchs and prophets of earlier chronicles were not inclined to be indulgent Solomon a wise man of exceptional experience was a firm believer in corporal punishment even going so far as to say: "'He that spareth his rod hateth his son but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" However it seems that stern parents are not always consistent To prove their unflagging affection while administering corporal punishment bow many have assured disobedient sons that "it hurts me worse than it hurts you"? That may be as true as gospel but no child ever believed it As a matter of fact parents are kept so busy with supplying food entertaining friends and finding fault with something or somebody that their minds and minutes are often filled with ideas remote from childish needs and deeds The kindergarten teacher is not so distracted She studies the tots and keeps them Interested The limited time she has charge of a group of little folks is properly and profitably employed if parents refrain from interfering The kindergarten is the cornerstone of an education on which to build a better citizenship and government Ceremonies at the Capitol In Honor of Heroic Utahns call in an emergency who risk their lives or make the supreme sacrifice for freedom for the future for the faith they have in the triumph of a righteous cause are entitled to recognition and remembrance trous fires five-year-o- ld This afternoon ill be honored at 3 o'clock five Utahns at the state capitol for heroism conspicuous displayed in action during recent the global conflict Four had been cited valorous conduct under fire but for already the fifth who had no home except the battleship 'Utah in which he perished with 58 other men when the gallant vessel was torpedoed December 7 1941 will be formally adopted as a ferlow citizen without known blood relatives His name was Peter Tomich and he was listed as an orphan when President Franklin D 1 Roosevelt cited him for the congressional medal on the ith of March 1942 That he was a native of Austria born June 3 1893 and had enlisted in the American navy as soon as he was old enough constitute the only definite facts about him But he will be remembered henceforth as a defender of this democracy a victim of alien treachery and an adopted son of Utah The others to be honored with the nation's highest award for valor are as follows: Captain Mervyn S Bennion a 'native of Vernon Tooele county who was killed in t14 surprise assault on Pearl Harbor Pharmacist George Edward Whalen of Ogden who distinguished himself on Iwo Jima while serving with the marines Commander William E Hall of Hiawatha who received presidential consideration for conspicuous courage in the Coral sea engagement Psrivate First Class Jose F Valdez of Pleasant Grove who lost his life in southern Alsace as one of the brave men of the Third infantry Six representatives chosen for special consideration by six veterans' organizations of Utah will be awarded victory medals during the same solemn ceremonies this afternoon Gov Herbert B Maw will represent the state while Rear Admiral Mahlon S Teasdale will officAte for the national government Men or women who respond to the nation's The Greek aid bill with incidental encouragement to the Turkish government to retain control of the Dardanelles has become a law since the president affixed his signature at his temporary executive office This is sure to be a most gratifying conclusion of a congressional struggle against communistic pressure and myopic economists who seem willing to sacrifice the west the whole nation and the future of civilization itself in order to make a personal or partisan record for frugality It must be apparent to all students of history especially of recent developments in eastern Europe that a dollar saved in the present effort to check a spreading menace may mean a hundred dollars expended later to resist its oppression No matter whether the proposal is to be known as the "Truman Doctrine" or a bipartisan stand against aggression statesmen of the future will regard it as a timely expression of a foreign policy developed hastily lout Indorsed heartily by patriotic leaders of all factions capable of discerning an approaching crisis Whatever the Soviet leaders or their converts in this country may think of the proposed outlay of $400000000 for reinforcing the only remaining barriers to a social and economic threat it will come to be recognized as a step toward peace and a guaranty of support to the United Nations In answer to the clairfi of Delegate Gromyko that the proffer of aid circumvents the prerogative of the international organization the president explained that in extending aid to the nations mentioned the United States is not only promoting the power of the United Nations but is acting to support that power The only important thing circumvented has been the overworked veto with which the Communists hoped to defeat the policy fir 40 --- MADE NALL: --- FOR ME— LIP TO pRECrONS rt--4 - 74(2 '' : k!'r12111' 1: - t : ax -- --- !io - It"I :: ::' 77:: N'Z''''"! i A '''''''':!:"1 - aI '6 If f OH !' 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Mr Stassen says he would lend it to any nation but lace or the sharpster lending of not especially to those who call the conservatives but a sensible "communist" the loudest All sound program to feed world needs and help our own producright for what? Mr Stassen says we should tion not be expected to be paid in Unfortunately he did not prodollars or manufactured goods pose what he said or even menbecause the nations have neither tion the size of it to see if it He says we should be paid in would work You would think raw materials All right what his first consideration would raw materials? Name somehave been the size of the projecq because he would first have thing Mr Stassen did not do this He could not possibly to measure how big it is before name raw materials of which be Icould possibly know if he we need $10 billion more a year could obtain the laudable purfor 10 years If he had named pose Well our gross national prodany farm products he would need a visa to get back into uct for 1947 is estimated by the Iowa for another speech He commerce department at $208 manufactured barred billion based on first quarter goods Raw materials he says Minearnings But this includes goods erals maybe? His campaign and services which cannot be would not go over big in Monexported such things as barbertana Nevada and the western shops and bellboys You could states if he named some of not export a bellboy soundly those The truth is we do now any more than you could export about $225 billion a national But import "gross product" the commerce department has year of raw materials about half of which are crude foodanother figure on exportable stuffs We havea little stockgross national product estimatpile going which could certainly ing how much we produce which be enlarged But the question is is physically exportable This where can he find need for $10 figure is $100 billion for 1947 billion more a year than we are If Mr Stassen wants to export Or any field for $10 10 of this he has a $10 billion getting?more a year of imports -billion annual program which singulions? larly enough is just exactly the This proposition sounds like same size as Wallace's—indeed the good old days of not long it is 10 times bigger because Mr Stassen proposes to do it ago when proposals sounded each year for 10 years The good and laudable but no one even added them up in advance whole Stassen cost then would to see if they would work or be $100 billions or approaching had a chance to work half the national debt For this Stassen had a go6d sounding year alone it would mean we Idea Some government econowould give the world nearly a mists say they could not figure third as much as the governout what he meant and they ment expects to collect fior its are inclined to think he was budget in taxes from all the lust indorsing the current Demopeople The size of this project cratic program of 1050 exportIs 25 times the $400 million aid able production to Greece and Turkey for one exportation They must be kidding because year only' Without mentioning the a Republican candidate does not amount Stassen wants to lend ' go to Iowa to sell a currentDemocratic trade idea A better it sensibly to foreign nations for purchase of our goods which explanation might be that Mr Stassen had just returned from incidentally are so scarce they Russia where the public is have run prices up sky high never permitted to see the addiThis similarly unmentioned intion cidental of the plan is the most The only possible workable our important part of it from hurnan standpoint Until we get suggestion along this line which has come to my attention is competition in goods prices will not come down the senate surthat foreign trade expansion start with a survey of the vey says But we are already United States to determine how today exporting to the world at much we could possibly use or the same rate Stassen proposes store Start at the other end Our exports are running $95 to $10 billion which is 10 See how much more world raw of our national exportable product material is usable here To add another 10 on top of it Copyright 1947 by King before competition is restored Features Syndicate Inc tit t1 - : f4e I 111610 OBSERVES Stassen World Loan Policy unsound—Without Limits - MIJto IS BEING liii Loan Bill Becomes Law In Defiance of Russia 4 API Afim - - -- E 2i5 well-meani- ever-increasi- -- 'Oa ILLON PAUL an unworthy or Inferior man would be pretty bad Asked at his press conference last week when he Intended to name the man Mr Truman said: "Just as soon as I can get the one I want to accept" Asked If the man were reluctant Mr Truman said yes he was Then he proceeded to say that while he knew it was easier to make sacrifices to serve-- the government during a "shooting war" he wished more men would feel it is just as patriotic in a period of peace such as this—and that the need of the country Is just as great In other words he is trying to get the best available man and having some trouble To get the right man he finds takes time and work Under these conditions his critic's might wait at least until he announces his selection before insisting that he has bungled the job and that the Roosevelt method was superior Their Idea seems to be that It Is bungling the job if Mr Truman does not name at once one or the other of the advanced new dealers whom the critics favor They seem to ignore two trenchant facts—(1) that whomever he names muit be confirmed by the senate (2) that the president s possibly might get a man without confining himself to the small list of !liberals" being pushed at him There is reason to believe that In the end Mr Truman will make an adequate selection without taking either Franklin Roosevelt Jr or Mr Donald M Nelson neither of whom would appear by record or experience to be equipped for the job In any event the criticism should wait until the crime Is committed Perhaps none will be 1 Never Know What You Have Missed Until You Have Tried Y 0111 Will ' first-clas- COOK'S ANKOLA COFFEE COOK'S CUP QUALITY COFFEE ROASTED COOK TEA 35 makes the speech so important He expects there will be 'a world economic crisis In the second half of 1948 and Interprets the speech as the first forthright disclosure to the American people that foreign commitments are going to force this country to spend on a scale few citizens now realize a If we don't begin now to plan e world-wid- e peacetime program and to prepare public opinion for it the approaching world economic crisis cannot be It Is avoided says Lippmann only fair to add that Lippmann has been advocating such a program for many weeks His estimate of its importance is his place therefore both triumphant and The gist of the address rsays understandable Childs was that the United Foreign Policy and Domestic States must aid all needy foreign Politics Greeks the not merely peoples and the Turks by importing Current Republican and Demotheir goods on an unprecedented cratic bipartisan agreement on scale in order to give them foreign policy several columnists believe may dissolve In the face dollars to buy food from us of the new development of the Childs believes this is at once an extension and modification of the Truman doctrine! Truman doctrine to aid Greece Joseph Alsop says that bipartisan support of a vast program and Turkey as against Russia Thomas L Stokes points up the ' of expenditures across the world is difficult to Imagine The talk change which may be taking In congress about economy and place in foreign policy To him the Acheson speech seems to disgetting back to normal would have to be given up as sheer card the emotional nonsense But Samuel Grafton policy which he finds characbelieves that bipartisan support terized the Truman doctrine of the country's foreign policy is Instead It adopts the sound a myth anyway If not he asks realistic principle that the United how can you explain the way States cannot enjoy economic congress handled Secretary of stability at home so long as there Is an economic crisis abroad State Marshall's requests for funds? Marshall asked and was This is a much sounder base for refused financial support for the Truman doctrine says such valuable tools of American Stokes though he confesses that label helped the diplomacy as the foreign broadcasts a full fledged foreign secure congressional support relief program and Assistant Lend-Lease New Program? Secretary Benton's cultural proWalter Lippmann equally imgram to tell the American story abroad through press radio and pressed with the significance of the arts The only real bipartisan the speech seizes upon one element In the situation says Acheson remark which might Grafton is our common distrust indicate a positive program for of Russia and that is not enough world economic revival Acheson Paul Mallon quotes President remarked in the course of the Truman as rebuking a Vanden-bur- g speech that the United States will have to reestablish within critic with the remark that e "I don't know how you feel but the year a program of not less than $5000000000 anlet's don't get any more politics Into foreign relations It is in nually for several years and this says LippmEuan is what enough of a mess as it is" for Noodquorfors I lUll Eli anti-Russi- an - S 17"11 it lend-leas- FRESH AYS Coffee-Blendin- & Art" g COFFEE CO ' 1ST SOUTH WEST THE COLUMNISTS SAY An important shift in United States foreign policy from mere activity toward an effort to revive a wartorn world many columnists believe was indicated recently in Dean AcheoSOn'S farewell address as undersecretary of state He spoke in ClevelandMhs to a group of prosperous planters and businessmen and the speech was important enough according to Marquis Childs that President Truman had intended to deliver It himself but finally in the press of affairs had to send Acheson in DAILY-ALW- "Masters of the FINE HOTEL and RESTitilltANT - Iii I I1 ! LAKE SALT CITY COFFEES Olin t ak qa'P a" k shSim AT UTAH'S OLDEST JEWELER I I IiibqIIIIIIVILlillt E - THE LYONS DEN By LEONARD LYONS The Yugoslav government sent a request to the allied control authority for the return of some designated Yugoslav nationals who are in DP camps in Germany The Russian representative on the allied control authority Col Karashov recommended that this request be granted The American representative suggested that before this extr- would be allowed evidence should be submitted showing at least a prima facia case "But against the wanted men they obviously are guilty or else the Yugoslav wouldn't be asking for them" insisted Col Karashov "After all adi-ion government you don't try a man unless he's guilty do you' Rooert FL Young the railroad --- --- industrialist soon will announce a plan which will add to the headaches of his rallioad rivals Anita Loos Is writing a movie for Maurice Chevalier and is working on a musical with Howard Dietz Chevalier is about to sign a contract for a radio program scheduled to start in October The anonymous geologist referred to by Time magazine as one of the backers of the new magazine "Project X“ is E De Collyer of Texas who is one of the world's leading petroleum geologists Russel Crouse is leaving for rest and recuperation at Hot Springs The New Republic defined a liberal as a radical with a wife and two children Supreme public-participati- on Court Justice Douglas is recuperating at home after his hospital siege The doctors discovered that the source of his ailment was bad tonsils and he will have them out Arthur Rank told the movie producers he met here that during the war his Pinewood studios in England made more money than any other studio in the world—in fact more than all the Hollywood studios put together "But it had nothing to do with films" Rank explained "My studio was taken over by the British mint and all our money was minted there?' 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