Show S-W- I S5S'g?s ss’K'- - 5:- : 8 Pc ‘jlalt fake tribune EDITORIALS Ar'U 15 15" erry 1 Monday August 25 1947 morning by The faJt Lake Tribune Publishing Co fealt Lake City Utah Promotions in the Military Establishment To Rest on Merit Instead of Years m Reorganization programs and the proposal to investigate pro'rw s instigated for purely partisan purposes while they are sure to result in needed reforms will not produce the permanent benefits to the nation that he within reach of a bill which passed both assemblies and reeeixed the presidential signature in due time to become a law While it is one of the longest and prob ably the most complicated measures to have teen considered by the eightieth congress its encouragement to citizens enlisted in defense of their country its assurance to parents of men in uniform its protection to men in action during a war ought to be worth billions to Lie people of this republic Tee act provides for promotions based on merit rather than age or length of time on the pay roll Besdes bestowing favors when earned rather than placing heavy responsibili-te- s on officers who have passed the zenith of tfcer mental and phjsical powers the g measure reduces the number of officers m the army navy and air forces and abolishes in peacetime the wartime rank of a five-sta- r officer This will not affect the distinction already accorded eght officers in the military estab- lshment who are entitled to wear five stars each But it will make the designation one of service rather than show The result will eLmnate martinets and advance leaders who know how to handle men to maintain morale high-rankin- Trail Blazing Made Way For Highway Scorching WhJe comparisons between present dajs erJ pioneer times are being made a feature cf the Centennial jear in Utah the difference in modes of travel and in the time it took to cross an area are frequent topics of conversation Pioneers are lauded for their courage until a vistor from another planet might conclude that bravery had vanished with the passing of Kit Carson Davy Crockett and Jim Bndger While these men were noted trail blazers and Indan killers they merely represented a school of exploration and confiscation that y has been improved in both celerity and effi-cenc- Heroic motorists of this mechanical epoch bum up the highways in a fraction of the t me it took to blaze a trail while the ease with which they can kill descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent is conceded by all survivors of remaining tribes Indian from the Moccasin Paute reservation in Arizona was walking along highway 91 near St George Utah the ether day when a hit-ru- n driver knocked him down where he lay for several hours until found by a truckman and taken to the McGregor hospital of Washington county Had the pioneers been thus equipped they could have exterminated the red men of the h of the time p'c:rs and mountains in it took to reduce them to a landless minority They may have doubted the white man’s ar tv as a killer in former centuries but that was before the perfection of the atomic An lS-- j ear-ol- d one-tent- and make recruiting easier when an emergency arises Heretofore under the seniority system men have been advanced as others died or retired leaving vacancies to be filled — and the vacancies are often filled without reference to natural ability experience resourcefulness or understanding of men The new plan provides a method of selection from lower ranks by boards of officers determining the qualifications of applicants for advancement Failure to meet the advancement qualifications twice in succession according to authors of the bill will automatically drop an officer from the service While it may take several years to get the plan in first-clas- s working order as all requirements will not become mandatory until 1951 the most important ones are to become effective at once It is likeiy that an abundance of merit will never have the recognition to which it is entitled but there is to be an 'end of advancement without merit As Lord Chesterfield observed “real merit of any kind cannot be long concealed it will be discovered and nothing can depreciate it but its possessors' application of it while it may not always be rewarded as it deserves it will always be known” As a matter of justice as an incentive to develop one's merit there should be no chance for favoritism or bargaining to crowd it aside for the exaltation of mediocrity bomb or the development the of motorist hit-ru- n c-- ‘Rainmaker’ Role Brings Court Action Threat As almost everyone connected with the newspaper business knows it is impossible to please everybody at all times and practically every attempt to benefit the community brings forth criticism from some source or another The old adage about “one man’s meat being another’s poison” is exemplified in almost every issue of a daily newspaper A case in support of this comes from Topeka Kansas where the Topeka State Journal was threatened with a law suit because of its plan to bring rain to the parched prairies by the new dry ice method The owner of a baseball club was alarmed over the newspaper's efforts and threatened court action to stop the intended “rainmaking” "As you undoubtedly know falling water and wt grounds are not conducive to the best interests of the business in which Mr Raymond Murphy owner of the Topeka Ow"l3 has a sizable investment” a letter to the newspaper from a Topeka attorney stated “Mr Murphy has a right to the free and uninterrupted use of the hot and dry atmospheric conditions which he has learned to love and enjoy here in Topeka without being molested by busybody rainmakers with high falutin’ methods” It is to be hoped that the weather turns out to please both the farmers and the baseball players even' if the newspaper’s efforts are not appreciated our living room Apparently the clock resented the change for it simply wouldn't keep time correctly Now it’s back in the kitchen and it has been right on the dot ever since This “little below the knee” thing has got me to thinking It's got me to thinking about butcher shops Do you know that I'm almost convinced that that is where the meat I have to pay such outrageous prices for is cut from? Boot in Try To Oust Krug B r HAM rrorse ne :1 PARK it out on It seems that even inanimate Hold That Hemline ! m stamp art of was a Lttle thing in i’self but k at what it caused ' It was the match that touched off the objects as well as people ke change when they get old We have an antique clock that has been In the famJy for nearly a century For generations it bas had a place of honor In the kitchen but recently we put it I tv s It 1 S Grant U to fght take all summer — “ dis-- 1 Ge-crg- 1 Its on the straw that treke the camel s back So It trps iv the dre-- s ds goers' pi jt to charge radcally the existing fvie-- cf women' wearing a p parel Wives are in revolt rallyex AMERICANS ALL By DR DANIEL A TOLING ing to the clarion call of "Hold In a book of distinction pub-lxhin 1912 “A Time for Greatness” by Herbert Agar attention is called to the fact that in a haywire world “any- That Hemlre!" Hjxhand long d ’wn rod den are aroud anJ e - e r r g the fight in support cf ed wives Ther slogan is twr "Women cio’hes may go to but not to extremities’” th freedom of The ha ’tie the knees ij on! Vive 1 revolu-to- n en fr thing can happen” ’ S Sing a Song f Fashions a song of fashicns Pockeis fall of dough and twenty -- g Frr Ihittrg Wen the on stIts a hw show was oered rt began to cry They Fcr no one ca” e to see it And no ere came to bj The huKands had tf eir net ks b t w And grimlv ail The w rv And farmed in t''bT "'LHK‘! hate the Cuff Department Orson H’t nger vice president or something in charge of rre’ers savs we should parking have a dev re that would ring a bell when a slug was dropped irto a ne'er Maybe the manufactures of pnball machines could help us out Some of their rrachnes rht up a s gn that savs Tl’ed” when a plajer use t o much “EngLsh” on a ball Why not some contraption with a xoee record that would shout: “A lug's put in a slug!” IJedda 1 op per will learn not to be facetious when she writes I did jeans at- - at s—ail towns ago With no intent to detract fmm ther importance I referred towns as 'po-tato certan Ida-'" Ard dd I hear pcr's 1 1 'o L-o-ra them? Yt ow 1 certain areas at least stead- ily the situation deteriorates and the world becomes more “haywire " Norman Vincent Beale minister of the Marble Collegiate church New York City has collaborated with a distinguished scientist Dr Edmund Blanton in writing another book "Faith Is the Answer” Well faith is the answer but not a soft faith Rather a desperately hard- s‘avei awnv g t Certainly if the world was haywire five years ago It is more than ever At this point haywire now there is no difference of opinion In this conclusion the left and the right unite All faiths and colors and all others agree But what Rre we doing about it? Even more Significant and imperative what are we now going to do about it? At the moment a great deal is being done But j i working faith: a faith that measures the situation and then evaluates all available resources to meet the situation In war and when the fighting reaches the last beachea men must believe Peace lacks that But always there compulsion — comes & time an ominous time — a time before “the next war” when the hour of compulsion is at hand May we not reasonably hope that two world wars so close together with their ruins running into each other and thur horrors mingled — thatincreasing these two world w ars ch- - maxed by the atom bomb have advanced the hour of compulsion beyond any possible Pearl Harbor incident? That right now we are willing to accept a dynamic realistic faith as the answer ? Realistically then let us begin with the defenses of freedom — let us make America strong in all the categories — spiritual moral economic and Also realistically let physical us place this strength at the disposal of the United Nations We cannot be secure if the world dies But the only strength the United Nations has today or presently is the strength received from those who are strong and who are willing to give their strength to preserve and strengthen all the freedoms and to serve their fellow humans everywhere Copyright 1947 New York Post Corp OFF TIIE RECORD By II V WADE a way to keep one’s mitts on the rich natural resources of the backward high-mind- ed brother? According to a new statistic in Dixie don't have inside running water until the Mississippi levee goes “Removing price controls will work to lower prices” it says here in a magazine in our dentist's oujer office 90c of the farmhouses Prices Below’ Independents’ (but it caKt hurt those who (COME IN HERE WITH CLEAN HANDS By LOU SCHNEIDER Apropos federal trade commission’s price fixing accusation of top flight steelmakers did you know that the Increases announced by U S Steel Corp subsidiaries are less on some products than those posted by Independent producers? Big steelmakers say Independents can get away with these differentials because of high demand but will lower prices when conditions ease and (exclusive) that'll be early next net minister are indications Undercover A (Cap) Krug la about to be Jettisoned and that Lewis will supply the propulsion force Two omens each from an opposite side of the street uphold The this prediction first premonition of a cabinet ouster came to your correspondent from persons who were very unwilling to hear such news Lobbyists for the big mining Interests last week were caught between coclfails with reports that Krug was on his way out Their intelligence agents further reported that the White House had picked Undersecretary Oscar L Chapman as the replacement Mention of Chapman’s name shook the mine owners out of their vacation plans He is a former aid to Ickes and & man whose known ideas about labor and conservation do that J year August 21 General Motors' Frigidaire division hiked prices on three refrigerator models $5 On not fit in with corporate plans for the use of natural resources As a publicist for the mine owners put it: “My bosses get along fine with Krug but this Chapman is a damned new dealer" The other source for reports of Krug’s impending departure took the form of a mysterious caption in the United Mine Workers’ Journal: “Looks Like Krug Is Out” The news story under the headlines did not clarify the cryptic message but persons who know Lewis merely remarked that his shadow often marches several weeks ahead of events It Is certain that Big Jawn has a score to settle with “Cap” Kiug the man who takes personal credit for last winter’s showdown with the U M W’s chief According to the most intimate of all possible authorities it was Krug who persuaded Mr Truman to go to the courts when Lewis tried to treat his government contract as a scrap of paper It was Krug who blocked Lewis' last-minu- face- te saving efforts as compromise Later at congressional hearings on the Centralia mine disaster Lewis publicly demanded Krug's removal Failing then Big Jawn has been riding hard on the vengeance trail ever since It takes no clairvoyant to see the political significance of hot weather intercourse between the White House and the near-b- y headquarters of theis U M W Whether Krug’s fate already decided or is merely being debated the secretary The Is living on union time mortification which Lewis suffered in his two court appearances has yet to be propitiated Mr Truman did make some amends when he vetoed and cony labor demned the bill but Lewis does not consider The this sufficient penance beefy sacrifice of Krug seems the only hope in sight of winning Big Jawn's fickle heart away 250-pou- nd Taft-Hartle- from Tom Dewey to whom it now reportedly belongs The LYONS DEN By LEONARD LYONS At the United Nations Dr Harold Urey Dr Leo Szilard and Dr Harrison Brown — three men who contributed much to the success of the atom bomb — had a private session with ten U N officials After the discussion was over Dr Szilard said he’d like to ask tw’O questions “The first question” he began “Is there anyone among you who believes that the United Na tions will have a controlling influence in the wrorId within the “The secnext two years?” ond question” Dr Szilard continued “If there is such a person among you what odds would vou want on a small bet about it?” The story Is being told of the day w'hen the royal family during their visit to South Africa met a Boer farmer who wasn’t reluctant about expressing his sentiments When he was presented to Queen Elizabeth he said: “Glad to meet you Ma’am Personally I’m a Republican” Queen Elizabeth replied: “We all are in Scotland — bud the English won’t have it tha wav” R W Thompson the British war correspondent and travel writer — whose “Voice From the Wilderness” was published this week — visited the Argentine where Alberto Dodero who is one of the wealthiest men in the country invited him for a seven-da- y cruise on his yacht Dodero and the other guests started a FRANK KENT’S COLUMN GOP Must Take Challenge Of Labor Nominate Taft WASHINGTON — There are many men in politics both honBut that est and courageous does not alter the fact that there is vast crookedness and cowardice among those who constitute our two major parties and run our counties cities states and nation Certainly there 13 a widely held conviction that the American people do not appreciate character and have no stomach for the undiluted truth Upon this assumption most campaigns in this country have been conducted since we came to that unrestricted universal suffrage which nearly 150 year ago the wrote ingreat de Toqueville our demowould plunge evitably cratic system into the chaotic control of the most ignorant and the least fit In the last campaigns four presidential thoughtful men have felt that this downward trend had accelerated and the descent to the lowest level was not far off es On cents” Taft-Hartle- peated this insolent threat enlarged 'upon it expanded it to include any man who voted for y or is for the act But especially are the Republicans dared to nominate Senator Taft Taft-Hartle- m This is a' challenge their party hardly can ignore — certainly not without complete loss of To shrink from that challenge would publicly stamp it as hopelessly craven scared self-respe- ct into ignoble flight by the mendacity and vituperation of a few angry men who resent the effort to restrict the use of a dangerous power accumulated through fourteen years of political bluff and bullying To flinch in face of the Green threat would also be an exhibition of almost unparalleled stupidity For whether or not it nominates Mr Taft the party platform is sure to indorse the y act and already the labor bosses the radicals of all degrees and the communists are solidly lined up against the Refusal to Republican party accept the challenge will gam the Republicans no labor support: it will gain them general contempt A fine opportunity reems presented the Republicans — and without risk — definitely to determine whether the voters respond to truth character and courage or whether indifferent to these qualities they’ are the easy and willing victims of the crude misrepresentations of the Taft-Hartle- breast-beateof professional the organized groups The logical way to do so is to nominate Senator Taft He is the first on the labor bosses’ black list — the man most responsible for Republican record of which this law is the feature But there rs It’s an open secret in professional trading commodities circles that last week’s wild Jump In wheat prices was the work of those boys who missed the boat in the corn price skyrocket Purchasing agents report deliveries of nails have improved extensively that while mill back orders are large shipments are Wholesalers have fuU nail bins for first time In years Wartime developed waterproof paper used for floating supplies ashore now widely used for packaging export goods That’s so for cements gTama chemicals etc because highly resistant to wear and tear Pittsburgh’s First Baseman Hank Greenberg has no intention of retiring as active player with close of 1947 season Weathy sportsmen say that with department store father-in-laBernard Gimbel he hopes to buy either Connie Mack’s club or the Pirates In anticipation of early marketings because of higher feed costs agriculture department starts turkey price support program September 1 rather than 'larger w October 1 — on birds bought and dressed after August 30 Consolidated News Features are other reasons for naming Mr Taft chief of which is his own recognized courage character Distributed by McNaught Syndicate AND INTERESTED IN YOU AND YOUR FUTURE Ak your grocer your merchant your garage man where they do their bankfng They're almost certain to toy: "At First Security right down the street" That' because this is known as a community bank — friendly neighborly and interested — helping your town to grow thru 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BUILDERS SUPPLY C2 EMBROKE’S School “you’ve lost 24 35 West 9th So Supply Headquarters Dial East Third So OPPOSITE POST OFFICE— SALT LAKE CITY ‘YOUR DOLLAR Salt Lake City BUYS MORE HERE' i - fl Hs car-loa- t 5-- yr bearish one of the hundreds of folks who had to get along these past few years without a Ga rage for your car — you remember sweeping off the snow that often hid the car many a winter morning — left-win- Binders from Colored Pencil Sets 12 for Commander Pen and Pencil xet guarantee let from Pencil Boxes Theme Pencils Erasers to $15 each on same day Philco Cjrp raised retail prices on a lines 8 per cent few low-en- d Will federal trade commission issue a price fixing accusation? Heavyweight underwear man ufacturers are sold up through balance of this year Jobbers’ inventories are short for next winter’s requirements because they missed the opportunity to place orders last March General Mills Prexy Harry Bullis says: “Even if we have a short corn crop there will be plentiful supplies for both domestic use and foreign relief” In other words this vast Indus- trial consumer is gram-pric- e You May Bo Since then all the labor bosses have joined In a howl against the law They are supported by the imgiense publicity departments of the CIO and the A F L Also by the communist g publications and every demagogue and commentator in the country As a campaign of misrepresentation it has not had its equal in American polities the sixth Distributed by Mt Naught Syndicate Inc The climax came a few days ago when Mr William Green blatant head of the American Federation of Labor “defied” the Republican party to nominate for president Senator Robert Taft the man most respony sible for the law “We will” boasted Mr Green “beat him worse than any man who ever ran for public office” In the last two weeks every labor press agency and the entire left wing and communist propaganda outfits have re- veto whether this represented $800 or $8000 Dodero and his fnends made the tabulations and “At the prepared the settlement rate at which we play” Dodero 80 facts Taft-Hartle- day of the cruise however Thompson was trapped Into playing He played nervously fearful of each point lost At the end of the game he was 800 points behind He didn’t know notified Thompson No more outrageous lies have ever been printed or mouthed about any congressional act Those directing this publicity have made new records in their unscrupulous disregard of the Never has demagoguery been so shameful the truckling to organized groups more craven promises and pledges violated with such complete impunity waste and inefficiency developed to such staggering proportions and the ethical standards of our chosen rulers been so low The best illustration of the latter was the Elliott Roosevelt episode Here was a son of the president who with the proved connivance of his father borrowed hundreds of thousands of dollars from a selected group of sappish big businessmen Following this these businessmeninthrough the White House fluence were swindled not only out of their capital but out of their collateral That after this degrading performance this sonof by reason of the ineptitude senators certain Republican could garner some favorable publicity and thus have his disby graceful conduct ignored exthose one naturally would pect to be everlastingly disgusted is a striking indication that our capacity for righteous indignation is not what it was A test as to whether this is true looms for next year Afflicted by the great wave of 1945-4- 6 strikes and thoroughly fed up with union arrogance in 1946 the voters elected a Republican congress This was interpreted as a mandate for labor legislation designed to lessen the excesses to which the labor bosses could go As a result the y bill became a law despite a violent presidential bridge game Thompson avoided the game because his limited trax’el budget did not allow for card games with Argentine multi-millionair- Breaking up empires only raises a new problem: what's Some US Steel r1 (T5 A MESSf BUSINESS By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON — The big hoofpnnt of John L Lewis may soon be discernible again in national politics — this time on the pants’ seat of a departing cabi- in SENATOR FROM SAiNDPIT — But Necessary Lewis Swings T — 3s |