| Show --- - 1--- It i i 0 al - 8 1 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Monday December 29 1947 EDITORIALS I Li ISM LormasiishodApril Ismsumd Grain Charges Monday Dec 29 1947 Fj emery morning by The &sit Leas Tribune Publishing CO bait Lake City CIUMM 1 i4 fi 'Inflationary Trends Plague Russians While They Await Capital's Collapse E 1 11 ' kr the chances for American survival in the following words: "To the degree that Americans are clear about their tals they will remain productively strong at home and able to discharge their immense responsibilities abroad The stakes are large and the outcome by no means guaranteed The United States began as a unique experiment The experiment never ends But it is safe to fta that there never has been A time when SUCTMI Of the American idea meant more to free men everywhere" The outside world has very little statistical data on production and progress within the Soviet Union but from hints and indirect news sources there seems to be little doubt that there are a number of defects appearing in the Ttussian economic system An observer who writes for the New York Times gives a part of the picture in a recent report from Europe "One must remember" writes C L Sulzberger" that the Soviet citizens are getting hardly anything in the line of consumer goods and have been on exceedingly strict ra- con- Eict Thus it is obvioul that the United States it:ready stronger economically than Russia before it a task of keeping an even keel ls uth if the philosophers of communism are to be confounded in the future Increased productitn and measures to prevent further rises in money volume without severe deflationitry measures can do a great deal to win 7 7nestic-aIl- y an eernocracy and a totalitarian state in which the strictest economical controls are main- tained k American history and observer of American events of today are satisfied that within the framework of our government and with the patriotic cooperation of the varied interests that make up our economy the necessary adjustments can be made i demonstrated during the war that America her people can join in a voluntary movement to combat a common enemy Today in Britain where a labor government found socialistic a lagging economy the will of the people to work and produce is steadily pulling the nation out of a dangerous situation An editorial in the current issue of the Ti ne Fortune which suggests that American democratic capitalism is the great experiment rather than socialism sums up l t)l c fi J 1 - 4 i - ' - t -- i I w a I J ' The holiday season when new merchandise in the form of Christmas gifts can be found in almost any home along with cash' and jewelry provides a fertile field for prowlers Sometimes they make an entrance despite precautionary locking s of windows and doors but too frequently carelessness on the part of the occupants of houses and apartments leaves the way open for any venturesome person who may walk in It must also be remembered that during the holiday period house prowlers take particular notice of premises where the owners are preparing to take a trip or plan to spend the evening at a party or some other form of entertainment A word of caution to householders may prevent serioui loss and the inconvenience of cleaning house after a visit from ransacking thieves The Public Forum Spare That Card! Bibles Used grandchil-- 7 dren and other little ones Also each year I make a colorful scrapbook for the children in some horpitaL They have always been well received The bright paper that adorns some cards as well as bits of ribbon little doors that open and such like I give to the little girl of tender years who lives next door Several times I have cut strips from the pretty cards which she weaves into mats Now the flap of the unsealed envelopes makes a good marker for my file cards Already has the glue on it for sticking! Have you heard of using the cards for place cards—a nice little jingle on the back? Our club members cut the cards in half for score cards and you find your partner by matching your half with the it Editor Tribune: Your Christmas Biblical editorial suggests the constructive value of regular space which will give your good intentions the quality of works with faith You would be most pleasantly surprised through physical experience in upwards of 25000 homes it has been my privilege to visit within the past three years which embrace more than 100000 of your good readers Not only do most of them evidence use of their Bibles but they all receive as "missionary service" demonstration of simplified reference helps which make it possible to readily apply Biblical values to every day 'living Enlightened selfishness will constructively reach a great number of those you had in mind but the enlightenment will not be derived from a single general broadside which partakes of the "Sunday parade for other Mrs FORUM n LT ES Beatrice McSweyn Airport Praised Editor Litrer express opinions of eontributzra with which - The rrib4 y or may not agree Writers must era true names arid addresses In ink but lett-s win be carried over nAint-11tf requested not be used Letwill Poetry ters !nay be rejected tf they: Tribune: show—followed Returning to my native state to spend the holidays I received my first sign of welcome in the lobby of the Salt Lake municipal airport in the form of a beautifully decorated Christznas tree I believe m-a- as-ta-m- (1) Exceed ZOO words (2) Camas religious or racial matter In a sectarian way (3) carry partisan political corn-reor advertising: (4) make personal asperslorut or (5) contain ratter obvious scasstatements ef fact or stateStientS nct in accord with fax IL:ay and good taste nt holiday season Mrs Donald L Fue Chicago EL by week-da- y hyprocrisy of cutting each other's throats" Frank Mitchell WHAT AM I SAYING the airport management deserves congratulations for the wonderful Christmas spirit it displays which was not shown In any other airport at which I stopped I am extremely proud of my home city for its friendly welcome to thousands of traveling air passengers who will view the tree during the 1 bwutswa2AmxgvracqzwmrrqfnztmrA By Our Readers that I make for my red:tor Tribune: Having looked over and enjoyed your ristmas cards a tit-o-e or two actat hare you done with them!' Eirrely you did not stuff them Into the waste paper basket of course you have heard of decorating atne tree the mantle boor mark and ea usmg for on with them But let me tell you what I do nth r--e First I check my address book to see if my friends have moved 'Then I cut the face of the envelopes from the backs 'These clipped together make a rice pad for your market list or for a score pad if you and the family Indulge in pinochle or bearts or any game for that scatter The pretty bens scenes lambs deer and whet have you I then out to rut In my scrapbooks 1 I door's of Japan" Tojo now seeks to blame America and Britain for "forcing Japan into war" by which be means that unless the United States did exactly what Tajo ordered Japan would be obliged to compel such action by arms What Tojo fails to tell even today is that the "forcing" of Japan into war came from Hitler not from America and Britain The nazis saw danger to themselves if America entered the war in arope and used Japan and her belligerent little premier the present defendant as a cat's-paTo In the present trial of Tajo there can be little doubt that the chief instigator of war against the United States and the man re-spoils:Ile for the brutal treatment of AmeHcan prisoners is in the dock He is still according to reports a cocky little war monger 7 By FRANK MORGAN Whenever you get an gTy count to 100 If the other guy is bigger make it 1000 Always remember that a man is only as the things that annoy Except when the other guy is seven feet tall Copyright 1947 New York Post Corporation big &A him I - I t - By LEONAILD LYONS NEW YORK—Judge Sam Leibowitz received two lessons in penology this year The most recent One was Tough Tony Tisch-o- n who vowing to go straight sat paralyzed with a bullet in his spine when Leibowitz freed him The convict somehow regained the uie of his limbs and is under arrest for a hold-u- p The earlier case involved William Samet "The Lone Wolf of Queens" who served 19 years for robbery When he entered Sing Sing prison he was illiterate He enrolled at the prison school studied hard and became a teacher there When he applied to Judge Leibowitz for release he brought his oil paintings and his essays He quoted from --the classics in his discourse on prisons and stated that only five per cent of the inmates really plan to go straight "This Is a rehabilitated man who should be awarden" said the judge in freeing him "He's no theorist He really knows the - Samet went free problems" and recently was caught in a Tulsa bank robbery escaped and now is being hunted Pascal will Friends—Gabriel start filming "Androcles and the d Rome Lion" at his Valli the studio next month star who makes her —American debut in "The Parradine Case" will attend the N Y premiere and be given a New York reception by the first American friends she ever had staff writers for the Stars and Lincoln Barnett has Stripes newly-rente- expanded his profile on Albert book Einstein into a status George Jessel's unique as movie producer - nightclub comedian will take him to the Sun Valley snows for conferences with Zanuck and the next day to Miami for a cafe full-leng- th Distributed by licNaught Syndicate Inc - - 71- 1NalitrWr-::11 - 11A rIE CF — i - 01t C-71'4- - '" te0t- - 11A -- Dt‘''t tu s ‘cc 1 040P FLOODS p " 4A4 w v 111" "" - - "7 (pfl-W1 pokeIE h ar 1 JOW411-- 4 -- I 't— &I'll i OP ' HA - ot - -- tcyd4 - ( C' 04ir I:1 4 ) - ii5 1 o (57' -- 1 7 --- I ‘ iSk :- ' ) I I (- led to political and social deterioration in every western European nation and especially in the three most important— France Italy and GerMany It is intensely misleading to become optimistic because the Germans now are or because the French and Italians have just repelled the first C2mmimist assaults upon the integrity of their states Even in the present case the French and Italian governments would hardly have had the to meet the Communist challenge if the European Interim aid bill had not assured them of bread and fuel for their anti-Commun- ist will be doubly "genuine settlement" The power I balance always determines all The purpolitical settlements pose of negotiation is to put on paper both sides' understanding of the nature of the power balanceBut the nature of the power balance must first be clear This then is the underlying reasoning and plan of the western leaders This is the explanation of the present concentration on Europe One more point Is vital however The border between the Soviet and western worlds is not in Europe only It runs from the Baltic to the China sea And whereas the west has the best chance of turning the Soviet flank in Europe tneboviets have the best chance of turning the western flank in the eastern Mediterranean the middle east or the far east Thus while the main effort is made in the European theater it is also absolutely necessary to hold firm in Greece and Turkey Iran alda Iraq China and Korea and LLIC other points where Soviet attacks may be pressed home ‘ I v and into your Office "looks" at you out of beautiful brown eyes you cannot escape the conviction that she sees And of ' course she does—only her vision is more searching than physical sight which she no longer possesses She sees you in the light of what you may do for her cause She sees you too with a warmth of appreciation for even the little you may have done to help I write these lines just before Christmas You will read them after Christmas—after you just have opened your packages watched your children delight in the have given them Perhaps thyou sight and yours will prompt you to help Mildred Weisenfeld and her youthful associates who invested all their money and who are giving now their lives to establish The National Council to CombatBlindness Inc 545 5th ave New York City - Inadequate though the finanweisenleia project has already resulted in the establishment of two New York hospital clinics : 11 which work on "preventing from blind instead people going of waiting until it is too late" cial support has been Mildred 1 T and then as Mildred says "giv- ing them a dog and a stick" She is concerned first to keep them from going blind Copyright 1947 NewYork Post Corporation people On Being Old I've been reading a book called "Forget Your Age" by Dr Peter J Steincrohn He's forninst birthdays because they really don't count Your actual age at a given moment he says depends as much on your philosophy as on your arteries He doesn't believe in violent exercise after 40 I don't believe in it before 40 I'm allergic to exercise Why after watching my infant grandson do his setting-up exercises for about 15 minutes I have to lie down and take a nap Flailing of arms and legs by babies is natural and sort of automatic or instinctive The same thing in an adult Is plain nutty The four ages of man may be likened to the seasons The first three — spring summer and autumn — are the seasons of production The last—winter— is the period for contemplation on the past present and future I have a birthday coming up this week It's the beginning of what probably is the last lap in my journey through life s: High school LOWER THAN dying" - The hot inspiration of today often the cold perspiration of tomorrow From a modern novel: "She looked up at him out of sloe blue eyes smiled a dazzling I smile and lisped: I'm going to be 21 After that her lisper was wrecked" I A the-janit- ) : ii a‘z I 4 - 1 ne - 1 : Shake Hands It's Safe - 1 i By DR T R VAN DETTTN E K writes: Will you please explain migrating phlebitis? Reply—In this disturbance periodic attacks of swelling pain and redness occur in various parts of the body One leg may be Involved the first time an arm next then the other leg etc Each bout represents inflamation of a small segment of a vein Penicillin and the sulfa drugs are helpful frequently Convulsion in Child T J writes: What is the treatment to give an 11- proper month-ol- d baby when he goes Into a convulsion? Reply—Convulsions are common in children and the attacks usually subside spontaneously if the child Is kept quiet and warm This is the main duty of the parents while awaiting the physician If the seizure should continue medication will be required It is important to know the cause and it is this phaso that the doctor is most concerned about g i'4f-- - - 1 1 e I - ri 0PMr: ''L' : 1 THE Trying to be original is like going after- - the last drink in the bottle it seems someone has always beaten you to it Since the beginning man has pondered on why death is so distasteful I think Sir Thomas Browne hit the nail on the head when he wrote: The long habit of living indisposeth us for is - 1 Enterprise Utah Notes on the Cuff Department Signs of the times: "For Rent: Apartment Everything Furnished $250 per day" "DRESSMAKING — WE ARE pose I - s There's knobbles and jellies and deep-eye- s Any style size or shape one could choose' and growth There's green-end- s cracks and knob-eyeThere's blight there's black rot and there's mud But although they taught me for hours A potato to mdl is a spud! —Noriene Bauer but I'm not particularly alarmed about it It may be short or it may be long So what? So— starting next week I'll do some contemplating on the past and present but to heck with the future Sufficient unto thip day is the evil thereof Pass the vitamin pills please Potatoes A potato is just a potato Or that is what one would supBut they said when I started at sorting grade-Two- - 1 There's russets and gems and white rose There's culls and there's bakers and egg size There's number Ones and - 1 By HAM PARK I ' 1 One-two-o- SENATOR FROM SANDPIT A ripe old age is nothing to brag about Consider the tomato—Penn Punch Bowl - 1 - ce At the same tirne the recent crises have actually' worsened the underlying economic situation in France and Italy If atrong measures are not taken to reverse the trend economic misery must eventually drive the French and Italian peoples to the desperate remedies of deaperate men—to acceptance of the totalitarianism of the right or the left If either France or Italy goes the whole European structure will collapse But strong measures to rehabilitate France Italy Germany and the rest of western Europe now are proposed in the form of the European recovery program or Marshall plan This is the key to the future By rehabilitating western Europe we shall hold our own line and greatly lessen the temptation to the Soviets to strike across it By the same token as the situation stands we shall also launch a flank attack on the Soviet position The Kremlin now has undertaken total incorporation into the Soviet sphere of all of eastern Europe Some of the peoples in this area like the unhappy Czechs have known full freedom All except the Germans under Hitler have known more freedom than prevails in Russia What is more important still all in varying degrees have been accustomed to a far higher level of life than the Russians The flank attack planned by the west will of course consist of the comparison between political and economic conditions in western and eastern Europe If the comparison is strongly fa- - walks - 1 When Mildred Weisenfeld vice president of the National Council to Combat Blindness altered by a' great accession of strength in the west and by the creation of serious difficulties for the Soviets in the east Such an alteration of the power balance is what is implied in Secretary Marshall's reference to a I 1 By Dr DANIEL A POLING eastern Europe countries within the Soviet sphere Thus the - 1 AMERICANS ALL vorable western Europe then will magnetically attract the ng mas tree in the kindergarten t room of the school in which in various classrooms there was a 1 total of 790 youngsters I cannot see Miss Holt I do middle-age- d or graying or wears spectacles She is a name Miss Holt the kindergarten teacher But how the magnificence °flier as a person a wom- 1 an and a teacher comes through the tale of what happened! For as the youngster sang I the song that was the overture I to the play there came a sudden ' burst of smoke and a flash and the next moment the Christmas tree WWI enveloped in flames Then the account says "Miss Holt clapped her hands sharply and told her young pupils to line up for fire drill Lining up I the 20 parents as well who formed the audience she started them all marching out of the building As they marched she sent a boy to the office where Mrs Anna M Minisi a clerk telephoned the fire alarm Miss i Holt also sent a boy to the office I of the principal William B Hargrove who sounded a fire alarm through the school Within 30 seconds the 790 children were all on the move and in a minute and a half the school was emptied of its pupils" Miss Holt you are a dear and a darling and I am sending you myU love Miss Holt clapped her hands sharply" And this I see her doing hear the sharp smack of her palms and feel the ' strong calm gallant wonder of the human woman who was superhuman in the hour when I she was needed t You may say it was a small thing she did what she was trained to do and what she ought to have done but in that moment when the tree blazed It was only Elizabeth Holt who stood between the trivial incident it turned out to be with or putting out the blaze t with a fire extinguisher and no t work for the firemen to do and t the terrible tragedy of panic flame smoke and death the awful horror OfthCWPifl lines of parents stretching through the rhorgue to identify d the charred bodies of their-deaWhoever and whatever she may be there she stood a mind that did not yield to panic a ' woman a woman's love of ' children with I and the urge to protect them a heroine The appalling i margin between winning and ' losing control over this situation must have swept through her as swiftly as the fire leaped needles and through the not even this pine glimpse of terror could shake her I see afigure The hand have asserted her authority claps Her eyes are roving over her charges automatically counting denying the mounting disaster's existence exercising it with the calmness of her count— i "Ready! March! two Left right left right! t destroying the destroyer Gee but she looks beautiful to me! In a world filled with the blind the ignorant the stupid the frustrated the incapable how brightly shine the Elizabeth Holts and how few they are In that moment when she s her hands sharply and clapped started the machinery that emptied that school in a matter of minutes she was a great a good a wont derful woman And this as I say is my love letter to her Distributed by McNaught Syndicate Inc 1 - — West Europe Vacuum Still Reds' Biggest Temptation balance It - - ie JOSEPH ALSOP NOTES power t 1 ea ( - of 1 Ii AG- --f- WASHINGTON—Secretary 1 4 ZA 'jiii -- o State George C Marshall has told us that there is only one way out of the zone of war into which Soviet policy has brought the whole world There first must be a "genuine settlement" which will then be "reflected" In a paper "agreement" And the essential requirement for this "genuine settlement" is to fill the political and economic vacuum that now is western Europe In previous reports the objectives and methodi of Soviet polWhat icy have bean examined are the requirements of the answering western policy thus announced by Secretary Marshall ? In tactical terms the policy is first to hold our own line and then to launch a flank attack On this plan the major western powers—Britain France and the United States—now have united under American leadership And what makes the plan possible at all is the promise of American resources to finance and support it More specifically the war has left a condition in western Eu- rope which constitutes a standing temptation to the Soviets—a vacuum wrach the Soviets wish to Economic dislocation has 1"" fill Atr if' - its-I o ei Bloat) AFL k MS CovE UP ONOGRAPS RECORDS itcr PEotice yEARr gmit PEccR2) A 12-fo- ot b avEvER rZTA7RICHAR i'vt 0 PENEto THAT THE BAD YEAR )" ( 4 I AND EGGS A E3LICK 4 CAE5Ak PETRILLO 'OCCREEts AI E some 72 children mostly kindergarten pupils were giving their traditional Christmas play Christ-ha- s In front of the r' ' wAs L 31311rL7::z17::00 --- k -- r- P'111:-1-- I Ii 1717rept:3y t' I z4 oN LA:1 04 1111 I I A 0 - 14V0 - ikt 8° Lot of what mhappened and what she a warm rich did gave feeling in my heart that it felt like love and I thought that maybe I ought to tell her about it Her name is Miss Elizabeth Holt and she ith e kindergarten teacher at the Eliott Street school in Newark N J And not long ago she was in charge when olf) mow T - C Do I '0 I: Aa-44: ilea tieseb13 r-- 2- PRevARicsree4 IL v4 ft 1114E LA-M- 1 C411tACt So tI 0 N Aikth PROVED ScwAE04Ne st"Or4441 - 1 No WAS wiTH it44fern-drri0- MOGI-4E- YOU4 e N SOCIAL15— Ave "S '11 rg-v-- NO INIJNA-re-b 1 tes fy D Elst- "? 1451!(--No Nes tio a t CO - By PAUL GALLIC° NEW YORK CITY — This piece is by way of lzeing a love letter to a lady I do riot know but who made the news shortly before Christmas The account tAALLEbTHE fl'iin4ø- NO 6LN—N-- - Heroine Rates Love Letter For Bravery ‘ S-77- a fav 1 Oktt0t4 NI - CV A' 1' itLN-41- 1 If '''ai'L 4 1 e ' th gtc oP Et4 wc"c WtD- - ' ' 1 : t C3LIATzt:SIA iytt i : -- - 7 t fp s m I W c I110!2-1--4-0- - i k't:41-"--"'1:- 1 A lArnicAt —— I - N I -- - N"-- I5 4 I151 - k I n' 1:- ' la t -- prompts the question whether in the present instance involving grain-markspeculation the Republicans will just drop the matter with- their revelations that undoubtedly will provide political ammunition Or will they go on through as Democrats did after the stockmarket inquiry and enact legislation to give the government additional needed powers for regulation of the commodity markets That takes us back to the beginning of the current furore over grain speculation It arose as may be recalled when President Truman accused "gamblers" of driving up the price of grain which in turn was affecting our ability to send grain to Europe to help feed hungry people there The president's use of the short and uglyword "gamblers" finally brought action from the grain exchanges by arousing public opinion The exchanges acceded soon thereafter to hiS request that margins be raised' But the president could only re- LYONS DEN - - : th '' Ank -- lair- of - -- - 4- ( Nt' - The "- '7- 1 He had no law upon which quest fo call It would seem now that the I - - :-- ' blue-ribbo- n next step is to give the government power to fix margins on grain trading as well as to provide other regulatory safeguards to prevent excessive speculation beyond those the agricultural department has now That is up to congress and the Republican leadership -- f4' planning By Reg A - "'"- - o - Unlocked Doors Windows i House Prowlers Invite I s - )4:09 et Americans A wave of residential burglaries and store looting during Christmas festivities in Salt Lake City and Ogden has brought warnings for householders from the police departments in both cities While owners of business places have for the most part taken precautions against marauders by alarm installations and special police protection there are many householders who leave their homes for brief periods without locking windows and 1: g' lj 1 ':: ' --' -" 7 et This same world will not miss Tojo if the court finds him guilty and sentences him to death a fate to which he consigned so many "Ile '' we proud of his belligerency and still convinced 'a-'- sir during the senate banking committee's investigation of stock market speculation That "preferred Ilat" containing the names of some of the most prominent persons in the counassorttry a really ment including an court justice and a senator who had been given an opportunity to invest in "a good thing" at bargain rates before the stock was put on the market This was a part of the story of stock-markspeculation unfolded before that committee in an exhaustive investigation That inquiry resulted in legislation regulating the sale of securities and the stock exchanges and creating the securities and exchange commission to police the markets and enforce the regulations This ‘ - nomination performed a public service by provoking an inquiry into him charger thlt government were sperula4Ing in the grain market and in pressing his demand for a thorough investigation Whatever political capital may be made of'the revelations is beside the point For government officials can not mix private business interest with public service It is a healthy thing to take a look whenever there Ls intimation or suspicion that such is being done :rhla off course is not the first 1 "Iist" this kind published around there involving government officials with speculations One of the most notable was that published several years ago that he and his country should rule the world t 2 i ts 41 1-- Harold Stassen a candidate for the Republican gqme The defense of Hideki Tojo now on trial in Tokyo as a war cf the days in early December of 1941 when a trusting America was listening to Japanese 'peace negotiators" in Washiniton Just a few days before Pearl Harbor Walter Lippr-ar in commenting on Tojo's indignation over the failure of the United States to conform to Japanese demands wrote as follows: 'Our refusal to fall into this trap is what General Tajo is referring to when be accuses 'us cf 'throwing the Asiatic peoples against earh otter' What he means is that we have refused to throw China into the arms of Japan What he means is that we have refused to make China which is now our de facto ally become by betraying her our enemiy a sort of Asiatic Vichy and the ally 1 STOKES WASHINGTON—The compilIng and publication of lists of traders in the feverish grain market by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P Anderson on request of congTess represents another of the constantly recurring uses of publicity by which democracy so often checks it- effls '''--- -" t By THOMAS L self tions The recent measures were designed to give a sudden psychological boost by removing ration limitations—above all on bread which is to an unbelievable degree a basic food— and at the same time to culminate the processses for eliminating wartime speculation and to remove inflationary trends in the Soviet fiscal system" It is thus apparent that in any "waiting game" the people living under democratic capitalism have a rather good chanCe of surviving the dire results envisaged by the communists if they keep their affairs in order Especially will this be true in view of the fact that they are not afraid of the success of the communistic system to the extent that they must predict its collapse in the near future War Criminal Tojo Defends His Acts - 1 sse Whre the Russians are waiting for the collapse of the capitalistic system particu- Lally here in the United States where they expect innation will play an important part the economic ailment which has been loosely called "inflation" is making inroads into the Soviet economy This is one of the chief reasons for the sudden revaluation of the ruble recently In Russia as in other countries the effects of the recent uar are being felt through recon‘ersirn strnins and the lare flow of money made necesary during the - Serve U S Best Interests Was the Year at 1947-Th- tAT251' 2 - |
