| Show ) 10A Editorials Xtbnhd April rt 1871 WJjc Iued THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Sunday May 2 1948 jialt £alc fibutte Try morning by Tha Salt LU Taft Alliance Sunday Trlbuns Publishing Co Balt Laka City Utah Steel Company Gives Further Evidence Of Faith in Future of the West Further vindication — if any had been needed — for the individuals and organizations who supported the United States Steel corporation’s acquisition of the Geneva plant has been provided in the announcement ty the firm of precedent-smashin- g price schedules of in to customers the intermounits products tain and Pacific coast areas Thus it is net only the buyers of steel products in the west who g move but will benefit by this incommercial and resident practically every terest doing business between the Rockies and the Pacific ocean This price policy of the Geneva Steel company as announced by its parent firm the United States Steel corporation means that western fabricators of steel products and other users of steel plates and structural shapes are' placed on a par with the manufacturers of the east It provides another important stone in the foundation upon which the Industrial west is being built and assures the continued development of this vital portion of our economy Furthermore it reveals as Geneva Steel’s President Walther Mathesius told a group of young Salt Lake businessmen recently the faith that hia company and the entire United States Steel organization have in the future of the intermountain west and the Pacific coast It tells better than volumes of reports how this great industrial syndicate and its leaders regard the importance of the west in America’s program for progress and price-slashin- Special Programs Mark America’s Music Week This is National Music week throughout the nation and the spirit of song will rule at countless public gatherings sponsored by schools and civic organizations Here in Sait Lake City the observance will be featured principally by a music festival in which the senior and junior high schools will participate As usual the many other communities in the state where music holds a high place in the educational and recreational life will provide their own programs of excellent quality Reviewing the country’s musical progress during the past two and a half decades C M Tremaine secretary of the national Music week committee summarized it as follows: The United States has become a nation of music lovers and is now generally recognized as such What is equally gratifying is that there have been notable advances in the quality of the work of our own composers and in the appreciation of American music by our own people There has likewise been aq increasing acceptance of our music in other countries” The importance of music in the life of na- tions and peoples cannot be overemphasized The folk songs live long after political and economic factors have eradicated many other national institutions They give voice to the ideals of freedom and the longing for justice which tyrants and dictators cannot quench In the more exalted realms of culture music furnishes material for artistic achievements along with the best in painting sculpture and literature In religion music has been the traditional means of expressing the highest hopes of men and women On Wednesday of this week the junior high schools will present a special program in the tabernacle and on Friday the senior high achools will provide another in the same place In these music festivals choral and instrumental groups will be heard in a variety of compositions From the various senior high schools a cappella choirs will proride more than 400 singers and more than 700 singers from the glee clubs From the junior high schools 450 girls In glee clubs 265 boys from similar groups and more than 200 instrumen- talists will participate The growing interest In music here in The new price policy hitherto unknown to the great steel industry cannot help but add impetus to the already phenomenal advances made by Utah and the entire west since the close of the war But if thia new price structure is to exert its full force in the development of western industry it must be assisted by equitable and workable freight rates between Geneva and the rest of the territory It must not be allowed to provide an excuse for those interests seeking to impose unreasonable transportation charges on a new industry that would throttle it during this critical period The fight for fair freight rates must continue if this western price policy is to see its full fruition Industrial leaders business organizations and individuals interested in the future of the west cannot afford to relax their efforts to establish a freight rate structure which will insure the advantages thus created The United States Steel corporation haa taken the lead in placing the west on a firm industrial basis The results will ' be felt throughout the region by other industries by employes of the steel company and by the countless individuals and interests engaged in various commercial enterprises “Westward the course of empire takes its way” wrote Bishop Berkeley in the eighteenth century He was referring to America and the British empire Today the course of empire still takes Its way westward It' is the empire of industry now not the empire of kings but its march is still in the same general direction America has other implications than the love of rhythm and devotion to cultural things Music speaks a universal language It has never been confined to national boundaries or halted by the barriers of language School children who learn to like and understand the music of other lands must of necessity be better citizens of the world and more tolerant members of the human family This is Music week in America Let all our citizens lift their voices in songs of thankfulness and pride Let all of them listen while the youthful singers and players render their tuneful tributes to Euterpe Don’t Take Chances With Wood Ticks sagebrush Fortunately the often-fatRocky mountain spotted fever carried by the wood tick is comparatively rare and a serum has been developed which makes one immune to the disease for a season Ordinary tick fever much more prevalent and hardly ever fatal can be al and sometimes exceedingly uncomfortable leaves complications and a rundown system There is only one preventive against this ailment sometimes known as Colorado tick fever — make sure the Infected tick doesn’t bite you There is no serum and no effective medicine once you are stricken Persons going to the mountains should wear long underwear and boots if possible This delays the tick’s trek to the body A handkerchief around the neck Is often recommended One’s clothing should be closely examined before he gets into the car because the deadly insects can be left there to crawl back or to attack someone else Immediately upon arrival home a thorough inspection should take place of each piece of wearing apparel as it comes off and then of the entire body Then one should take another look It doesn’t pay to take chances with ticks WASHINGTON — It wru heroine tha of “Gentlemen Prefer Blonde” who first gave voice to the wisest rule of our time: “A kiss on the wrist feeLs very good but a diamond bracelet lasts forever" After the Pennsylvania primary Harold Sias-ae- n must be in much the same wayreflecting on the difference between flattering writer-i-n votes and the capture of good otid obedient aheep-faee- dele- d gate who have good solid permanently valuable qualities Ths avaible evidence in fact suggests that the Pennsylvania primary's appearance of being a Staasen victory waa distinctly Staasen led the misleading Pennsylvania write-i- n vote by a handsome margin but if 20 rf the rumors flying out of Pennsylvania are correct Staa-e- n haa actually suffered a serious setback behind the scenes Typical Report A rumor which will serve as a typical sample is a that and agreement haa atreport last been reached between Gov James H IXiff Sen Ed Martin and old Joe Grundy These three potentates are reliably stated to own a larger proportion of the Pennsylvania sheep herd than any of the rival ranchers including Joseph Pew According to the ‘ By Joseph Alsop rumor above mentioned Duff Grundy and Martin have agreed that their Pennsylvania sheep will baa for Governor Duff as a favorite son on the first ballot for Sen Ed M Martin on the second ballot and for Gov Thomas Dewey of New York on the third ballot Sops to Governor There are several points in favor of suspecting that there is some color of truth not In the detail but in the perhaps general In Implications of thia story the first place the Duff faction and Grundy-Marti- n faction have been engaged in a long struggle to gain control of delegates in which the Grundy-Marti- n forces are believed to have got the edge on the forces of the governor Thus Gov Duff would be Inclined to reach agreement if only to avoid showing his own inferior strength Then too the agreement reached promises two sops to Gov Duff He would get the fleeting prestige of a favorite-so- n vote And If Dewey should be unable to make the grade on the third ballot Pennsylvania’s vote for Dewey would create favorable to the nomination of Sen Arthur H whom Duff has openly favored from the first Significantly the report of the Duff- Van-denbe- rg deal Grundy-Marti- n reached Washington prior to the polling in Pennsylvania Thus ft cannot be regarded as a mere tale invented to explain Gov Duff’s statement Yet Duff a of Gov Stassen’s showing in the write-i- n vote and his kind words for Dewey and Vandenberg fit neatly Into the pattern Whether the rumor of a Duff- Martin Grundy deal Is correct Duffs statement must be repost-prima- ry pooh-poohi- ng -- garded as Indicating hostility to Staasen and & friendship toward rather which he markedly did not feel only a few days previously The position of Joseph Pew is still uncertain but there can be no doubt that Sen Martin and old Joe Grundy feel even more hostility to Stas-se- n Dewey than Gov Duff The inference must be drawn therefore that Pennsylvania should be tentatively classified as in majority a delegation Smashing Staasen victories in Ohio and Oregon may of course upset this classification But with Pennsylvania even tentatively added to the list of giant groupings — Illinois — New York and most of Ohio the Minnesota governor’s task now looks harder than it did a week ago not easier atop-Stass- stop-Stass- en en Sides Open Up And Now It’s Parapups By Reg Manning ltll DCWC Held Unlikely By JAY O HAYDEN WASHINGTON— While there Is plenty of precedent for the reported alliance of Gov Thomas fi Dewey and Sen Robert A Taft to block nomination of Harold E Staasen there is no instance within memory Where a combination formed to stop somebody has held together for the next vital step of choosing the winner A striking Instance In point waa the convention of 1920 in which Gen Leonard Wood Gov Frank O Lowden and Sen Hiram - Johnson maintained a deadlock for nine ballots A combination of any two 6f these could have dominated the convention Wood and JohnBon both were former close associates of Theodore Roosevelt and hence might have been expected to Join forces Smoke-Fille- d Boom But all three held on until the last ditch No one of them figured in the conference chiefly among Republican members of the United States sen- - By PAUL OALUCQ ’ NEW YORK— I trust I am exposing no military secrets in commenting upen the fact that the U S air forces practicing the polar regions ar ths of teams of trained parapups Inasmuch as X came upon the story and picture layout In a British newspaper sent on by a friend showpooch floating happily to ing earth at the end of a parachute have released the the army-muinformation It opens up fascinating possibilities After the paradogs will no doubt com parapuppie aramice paramules chasing and parapigs paramonka float-tin- g to earth munching on dear me para shouldn’t I have started rriaybe this Wounded Fliers Apparently the air transport command has worked out a disaster rig for accidents in the frozen north where only dog-slecan operate to take out crashed and wounded filers to safety and have tested it at Goose Bay Labrador in something called operation p&radog They drop a paraaled a para-driva pa rad oc tor and a whole team of parahuakies Landing in the snow in the vtcinlty of the accident sled driver doctor dogs ahed their paras The doctor tends the injured man or men The driver collects the dogs and hitches them up to the sled The patient is loaded aboard and away they go In proud possessors st para-banan- as all-nig- ht ate that set the stage for nomination of Warren G Harding on the 10th ballot Thia same unwillingness of leading candidates to compromise has been displayed In every convention presidential battle in ds recent years In 1912 with all hands conceding that the nomination of either Pre William H Taft or Theodore Roosevelt would split the Republican party irretrievably some Taft managers hinted that they might give way in favor of Gov Herbert Hadley of Missouri Hadley was one of the seven governors who had urged Roosevelt to enter the race for president but even so Roosevelt refused to accept him Wisconsin W’ins Out And in the Democratic con- - vention of 1912 Woodrow Wilson finally won out because" his three principal conservative opponents Speaker Champ Clark Gov Judson Harmon and Sen Oscar W Underwood persisted in clawing each other for 46 ballots In 1940 Herbert Hoover among others tried to get Dewey and Taft to unite for the purpose of blocking nomination of Wendell L Willkie Had either Dewey or Taft given way to the other or if they had joined in accepting a third compromise candidate — Sen Arthur H Vandenberg for example — there is little doubt that they could have -- This is the time of year when fishermen hikers and others who tramp through mountain and hill country should take special precautions against wood ticks Long-tim- e residents of the intermountain country hardly need be cautioned about the dangers from the insects but newcomers should be duly warned and everyone reminded Ticks are found in grass as well as Matter of Fact I Same Old May Day Record stopped Willkie As it happened Dewey and Taft still were pummeling each other when Willkie passed the winning wire Anticipates Block Mr Stassen seemed to anticipate a ganging up against him when on the day following his victory in Nebraska he sent the same telegram to representatives of Taft Dewey Vandenberg Speaker Joseph W Martin Gov Earl Warren of California and a whole flock of Republican state leaders to each of whom he said: “I would like to have a talk with you some time In the next few weeks at a mutually acceptable time and place Best regards Harold Stassen” This message produced considerable excitement in the camps of a number of dark-hors- e hopefuls until it leaked out that the same had been sent to a hundred or so other people Herbert Brownell campaign manager for Gov Dewey let it be known that he had declined to meet Stassen Dewey Declines him” said wrote “I Mr Brownell “that I thought It would be misinterpreted from his standpoint as well as our own If we should meet now I told him we are not Interested in any deals — that we are conduct- ing an aggressive campaign for Gov Dewey’s nomination and election” The strangest development of the campaign so far was the selection without a fight of Gov Dwight Green of Illinois as Republican convention vkeynoter Green is known chiefly as a close associate of Col Robert R McCormick the arch isolationist publisher of the Chicago Tribune who has said he will bolt the party if either Dewey Stassen or Vandenberg is its nominee But after rejecting Sen Eugene D Millikin of Colorado on the ground that he was a Taft supporter the Dewey group powerful In the Republican arrangement committee accepted Green previously regarded as Just as much a Taft supporter Stassen raised no objection to Green This result suggested that neither Dewey nor Stassen la averse to dealing with Green and McCormick if they see a chance of winning thereby Illinois’ potent bag of 56 convention delegates WHAT AM I SAYING By FRANK S1QBGAN With Virus X running rampant watch that cold to see whether it’s the affirmative or negative type If affirmative the eyes have it If negative the nose When it comes to girls however I prefer the negative type You never know what will develop Copyrljnt Nw York FoaC er The Public Forum Misleading Editorial Editor Tribune: Your editorial of April 18 entitled “Neither Storms nor Drouths Molest Nor Make Afraid” was not a truthful portrayal of the situations which actually exist here in Utah I was profoundly shocked to read this misleading informa- tion which is not supported by physical or biological facts and will serve only to give gullible and unthinking citizens an unfounded sense of pride and security The arguments against your premise are inumerable My best suggestion if you are interested in knowing what the hazards are and have been here in Utah would be a reading of Dr Walter P Cottam’s “Is Utah Sahara Bound” Supported by indisputable facts this treatise cannot fail to open your eyes The newspapers have long contended that they should be free to tell the truth all the truth and the truth-- just as it nothing but should be — but whether deliberately or In ignorance your actions have not complied with this oft exploited contention Your children and my children will suffer for the mistakes that are being made today We cannot longer hoodwink ourselves into believing that civili- zation Is getting progressively d better when the very of our being soil and water is being sadly abused The carpet of life is being pulled from beneath us and one of these days when the Hogle zoo and its animal inmates come floating down the unimpeded Emigration channel on the crest of just such a flood which once carried caskets in similar fashion then and only the situation make an Impression on our minds Ray E Gilbert Call Me Spud Cellar Editor Tribune: We’re from Sanpete too and everybody in our family had nicknames and life-bloo- we didn’t mind them'at all Our father was the governor general of Washboard my brothers and sisters were Fighting Cock Spindle Legs Garden Gate Baby etc Since the recent publicity over nicknames I’ve heard of Soren Potato Cellar from San Juan Billy Snore from Castle Valley and Niels Lickety Split from Juab Nicknames make life happier and a lot of folks survive them Spider Legs Off With the Lien Editor Tribune: Life begins at 40? Not in Utah as it’s almost impossible to get a Job past that age and at 60 you are done Railroad men police and firemen schoolteachers and many others draw a pension at a certain age yet no lien is placed on their homes Why discriminate against those old age and welfare home owners ? They paid for their homes paid' many taxes and are still paying But now they must give a lien on them to the state for $18 monthly grant the lien law Why not on all homeapply owner pensions? Who pays the salaries and pensions of above mentioned groups outside of what some pay in on their own retirement fund In the Utah pension Ihe government puts up about' $30 of the $48 and the sales tux pays the rest not the state ' Reinstate the sales tax for the purpose it was voted for and many things will improve Whose taxes pay the salaries of those n a r r o real ed i By Our Readers FORUM RULES Letters express opinions ot contributors with which Tin Tribune may or may not agree Writers must sign true names and addresses in Ink but letters will be carried over assumed names If requested Poetry will not be used Letters may be rejected if they: (1) Exceed 200 words (2) discuss religious or racial matters In a sectarian way (S) carry partisan political comment or advertising (4) make personal aspersions or (5) contain libelous matter obvious misstatements of fact or statements not In accord with fair play and good taste estate legislators ? Whose grabbing taxes built the roads so they can drive their Cadillacs on vacations on unearned ? Answer these money ques- tions this coming election and vote out these legialatora Vote In those who will treat all the people of Utah as human beings not as chattels Vote off the lien and increase the grants as God knows at present prices $48 Is only an existence to be a safe means of protection for the poor walking man — an electric red and green traffic signal Well considering that we now have an adequate means for safety whose cost is very small then it seems only right that each and every street corner that has any traffic at all should have a traffic light But do we get one ? I’ll say we don’t Perhaps our 'traffic commission thinks that the cost is too high to install traffic lights on all of the important comers But all of the traffic lights in the whole city are not worth one broken bone or one life lost just because the “price was too high” One of the most dangerous comers in the whole city — 17th South and 13th East — has no form of traffic light or even a I have friends full stop sign who wait for buses on this corner and who have complained of the traffic hazards which are so dangerous and who are afraid to cross on such a street Another is 1st West and South Temple and there are many many more which are as bad or worse Why not get a little action on this? Keith Cortnors B B What Is Fascism? Editor Tribune: Thia is the way capitalism works to have its surplus value And so fascism is capitalism in dictatorial control It is backed and supported by the international bankers and the exploiters of labor everywhere to gain economic power and the complete military control They attempt to scare you into supporting them by loudly declaring that they are fighting communism Do not let us be fooled by their multitude of stooges and the political front of our country Fascism is not only slavery for the working people but wholesale murder Hitler’s and Mussolini’s airplanes dropped bombs on defenseless women and children in Spain The Japanese fascists murder Chinese women and children And at home these fascists once in power have suppressed every civil and human right of the workers of their own countries Thousands who did not like slavery have been murdered and many thousand more rot away in jail and concentration camps All of these things are done in the name of fighting communism Is this done to protect the farmer and exploited worker? Not by a jug full Can the American people allow the fascists of U S another slaughter like we have just passed through We must think and act or surrender to this foreign that will end up as stated policy above Yours to keep America as our forefathers started and keep out of Europe Thomas Markham 1081 W 3rd S Traffic Lights Editor Tribune:’ I would like to remind some of our dear “city fathers" about the terrible traffic improvement need in our city In Rome people were in danger of being hit with chariots a few years ago pedestrians were In danger from the racing horse and buggy In those days a long time ago they did not have the means to help the pedestrian But then aome brilliant man invented electricity And from there we got what was supposed World Federation In its Tribune: Editor statement dated April 11 1948 the emergency committee of atomic scientists of which Albert Einstein is chairman repeated its warning given in 1946 that “if war breaks out atomic bombs will be used and they will surely destroy our civilization” As the best solution to the control of atomic energy it advocates world federation rather than a preventive war now or armed peace which would lead to a war later with terrific loss of life health and property World federation is the only course of action which gives a hope for peace as well as prosperity All nations must give up their power to wage war A strong central government with a police force capable of enforcing peace in an atomic age is the only solution to the world’s All other measures problems fall short of the goal of "peace on earth and good will toward men” The U government will lead in thia movement only If citizens demand It enough through their representatives John H Young ‘Whom Gods Destroy — Editor Tribune: Technocracy has persistently and patiently presented to the citizens of the North American continent the results of an survey of our energy potential The conversion of energy from coaloil and water power Into use forms furnishes the means whereby we live The advancement of technology has made energy conversion efficient to such a degree that the needs of all the residents of the North American continent can readily be supplied with a minimum of man-houof labor Thia survey answers for all time the question of our ability to produce up to the ability of our people to consume Since we can produce to so great a degree why are there hunger and want and suffering in our own continent? The answer must lie in our stupidity "Whom the gofis would destroy they first make mad” Any people who starve and in starving advocate world destruction not only must be stupid they must be mad Gladys Higgins rs Dogs Love It According to the story the dogs love it They come sailing down out of the aky with their heads up and their tails wagging There can hardly wait to leap out of the fortress and become airborne There is a photograph of one of them looking proud as punch Naturally the parapooch has become a complete snob and won’t have anything to do with dogs that don’t fly The only species they will talk to are bird dogs Darn! I just knew I shouldn’t have started this Because you find yourself becoming involved iq such horrors as the theme song of airborne dogs which might well be "The Last Time I Saw Paras” and "Parachute If You Must This Old Grey Malamute But Spare Your Country's Wags She ” All complaints should Said be addressed to the editor care of this newspaper Do not forget to inclose a twelve-dollbill to cover the cost of handling It is an uneasy age when animats come drifting down out of the sky In my youth I used to hear people say “It’s raining cats and dogs out” I never thought I’d live to see the day Goes to Prove It Now I havq always maintained that people had more sense than dogs and this just goes to prove it Since the airplane has obviously come to stay and we have at last found a creature that seems to enjoy riding in them I say It Is the perfect solution Give the darned things to the dogs and let’s forget about the whole business However lest the A T C thinks It has discovered something new your commentator was flying a dog as far back a a 1932 when I was an active pilot and used to d take my dachshund aloft with me tied up in the front cockpit The first time we took off he stood up with his front paws on the side of the cockpit As the little ship took to the air and the ground fell away he looked back at me as though to say “Well if it’s okeh with you it’s all right by mf” Then he curled up on the seat and went to sleep He waa not impressed with hia master the fearless birdman Pretty soon be learned that a a long as that electric fan up in the nose of the ship kept spinning everything was okeh As soon as I’d throttle down to come in for a ar wire-haire- landing he’d wake up stand up in the seat look over the side and take a mild interest la ths proceedings From World War I Also the idea of the para-pdates believe it or not from World War L when so help me a patent was granted for the cat bomb and it waa seriously considered putting it into operaet tion The Idea was to sink a battleship from an airplane But thia was before the days of the Norden bomb sight and the problem was how to land a bomb on the deck of a dreadnaught Up came a genius with an idea Attach a bomb to a cat Attach the bomb and cat to a parachute Fly over a battleship Toss package overboard Cats reasoned the genius hate water As the cat descends he sees a large body of water which causes him anguish He also sees a nice dry battleship So he starts schabbling with all four feet in the air to land on the ship Movement of paws works the shroud lines of chute Cat and bomb land on the deck BLOOOOOOOIE! “A little rough on the cat live ini What times |
