Show 1! k " ' ' " 44ftOW4a44 ' 1 t 5alt falit Zfibunt Editorials israblishod April IS 1811 every morning by Th Salt Lake Sunday Tribune Publishing Cc ) Sitt Dike City Ulah be too much to hope that the hysteria in New York can be confined to the vicinity of the two Mg hotels where protest- It may ing pickets have demonstrated an alarming lack of proportion and intellectual temperance Fuzziness of thinking and a growing psychosis over ideologies was exhibited by the opAt the Waldorf-Astori- a posing sets of pickets scene of the cultural and scientific conference for world peace pickets sang "America" and shouted "Throw the bums out" The 'bums" are the Communists believed to doma few At the inate the parley g mob chanted "Send blocks away a that bundle back to Britain" and otherwise defamed the eminent Winston Churchill warBoth time prime minister of Great Britain sets of pickets insisted that peace was their Both contributed chiefly to misunpurpose derstanding and confusion Aman ruffled by the Waldorf pickets expressed a question which plagues many minds when he demanded "How can such a demonstration be permitted in America?" The answer is that only in a free country would peo ple dare to express their opposition and much II we regret the lack of tolerance and good sense exhibited we uphold the right to picket and to speak out There's no picketing behind the iron curtain! At this time and distance it is difficult to evaluate the situation Communists have a special talent for adroitly making maximum use of American freedoms and institutions to further their own ends and ideas It is necessary to control and discourage their manipulations but we must not undermine the freedoms and institutions at the same time The problem is fraught with complexities and side issues Dr Harlow Shapley famed astronomer and chairman of the cultural and scientific conference for world peace insists that its only purpose is to bring peace and understanding between the United States and Russia Is that wrong? Have we given up entirely all hope of peacefully ironing out our differences? Is every peace effort to be labeled a "sounding board for communism"? Dr Shapley has been variously characterized as a fellow traveler I Ritz-Carlto- n 1 left-Win- - r 1 I ' 1 1 4 0 and a solid American liberal Beyond a doubt he is a patriotic and intelligent citizen Nonetheless there is real cause for diasatisfaction regarding the auspices under which the meeting is held Some prominent participants are Communists intent on propagandizing Many dupes are involved But sabotaging the conference merely What are the plays into Communiat hands picketing "patriots" afraid of ? Is America's dream R o flimsy that its citizens dare not listen to an opponent's views? Next to hunger and insecurity fear and mystery are Russia's prime weapons Our best defense outside of economic and social stability is bringing communism out in the open from behind the Marxist deceit and examining it for what it really is The world is so full of dangerous ideas It is naively stupid to believe it is either pos Bible to insulateour"peop4 from them Where is our confidence in the maturity and good sense of the people? Where is our confidence in a dynamic and free democracy? There is as much danger from the alarmists who would destroy freedom in the name of freedom as from the Communists themselves Lack of faith is an ally of communism Editor Cousins of the Saturday Review of Literature spoke effectively at the conference when he said "Americans want peace They will work and sacrifice for peace But they do not want peace at any price If the price of peace is injustice they will reject peace If the price of peace is living on an island surrounded by angry waters they will reject peace" But Dean W J Bender of Harvard speaking on another occasion also made sense when he said that one way to produce Communists is to make martyrs out of them "Forbidding them to speak is not only treason to American tradition but it is proof that we have something to hide that we have lost faith in our principles and our way of life" The struggle for men's minds and hearts will go on forever Vigilance is the keyword Yet to attempt to exercise rigid control over free exchange of ideas is to undermine our basic and most sacred tenets The aigning of an armistice agreement between Iarael and Lebanon this week Wall bailed as the beginning of an era of peace and happiness In that part of the world It followed a aimilar formalizing of the end of hostilities between Egypt and Israel hint February 24 It Is good to know that somewhere the cause of peace is advancing The accomplishment is a tribute to the patience tact and special talents of Dr Ralph J Bunche United Vations mediator who has the stimulating theory that there are no unsolvable problems in human relations Dr Bunche took the place of the slain Count Bernadotte and him bringing of peace to the Holy Land is a distinguished feather in the cap of the U N for which he has worked so nobly Dr Bunehe is an Interesting personality His prowess in basketball won him a scholarship to the University of California and he made his way from there on other abilities lie graduated with higheat honors and took his master's and PhD degrees at Harvard Soon he was teaching at Howard university Under a Rosenwald fellOwship he spent a year studying colonial systems in Africa Ile later extended the study to the Dutch East Indies finding time to work in between at the London School of Economics When the war broke out he went to the office of strategic services as chief of the African section Later he headed the division of dependent area affairs of the state department The logical next step was to the directorship of the United Nations trusteeship division It is only incidental that Dr Bunche Is a Negro the son of a poor barber and the grandson of a slave his achievements are a credit to his race and to his country and to mankind which he best represents ' t You Work Six Weeks a Year for the U S So you are working for the government The average American breadwinner labors every working day of six weeks each year to earn enough money to pay his federal income tax There are other taxes too federal as well as state county school and city But the main burden ia the federal incoMe tax which coats six week' work annually The above was worked out by an editorialist for the Christian Science Monitor who points out that the $12000000000 annually it coats to run the federal government it 10 timee what it cost 20 years ago The United States has come through the worst depreasion and the worst war in history and wars and depressions still threaten The great bulk of governmental coati' says the writer are to be found in what is done not in how it is done What the government undertakes for its citizens is the sum total of what Americans at one time or another have indicated they wanted Hardly anybody wants the government to become benevolent socialist state yet fewer perhaps would turn back the clock and have government no more than a collective soldier policeman fireman and Judge The point is that some wattleful governmental expenditures could be eliminated The nonpartisan Hoover commission on govern t mental reorganization estimates that $3000- 000000 annually could be saved by carrying Its investigation out its recommendations uncovered a chaotic jumble duplication and So complex is the antiquated inefficiency enormous machine of government that it is said that the Hoover investigators had to wear badges to avoid interviewing each other and there of investigation trttiplication made some splenAnyway tht did recommendations Most everybody says so But the authorization bill passed by the house exempts seven big and important agencies from the overall reorganization And contractors and power companies interested in river and harbor construction have sent more than 2000 telegrams to the senate urging exemption for the array engineers Everybody it seems favors reorganization except where the saving or change affects them directly or Indirectly There will be tremendous pressures to sidetrack the Some Hoover commission recommendations observers say the overall program has no chance of passage Perhaps the ordinary fellow working six weeks of each year to'pay his federal in come taxes—who pays a third of his income Into the tax till for all governmental services will join with others amt let congress know how many favor reorganization - 11S 11 Rail Position The many friends and business associates of a former Salt Laker Ambrose J Seitz re ceived newa of his recent advancement in rank among officials of the Union Pacific railroad Mr Seitz who with feelings of gratification has juet been appointed executive vice presi- of the line is well and favorably known here in Salt Lake where he apent more than 15 years as general agent in the freight de- partment and later traffic manager for this Since leaving Salt Lake Mr Seitzhas been located at the railroad company's headquar-labo- r tere in Omaha where he rose to the post of president in charge of traffic before His former position this lateet promotion was filled by William T Burns who in turn was succeeded by James R MacAnally Before coming to Salt Lake Mr Seitz had held a number of important poets with the lie began his railroad Union Pacific railroad career in St Louis with the Nliesouri Pacific lie became affiliated with the Union Pacific in 1919 selection of Mr Seitz for this impor tent poet will be of undoubted value to this intermountain region with which he is so familiar He has countless social and business contacts here in Utah and is well able to comprehend problems peculiar to the state and its surrounding territory The Salt Lake Tribune congratulates Mr Seitz on his advancement and the Union Pacific directors for their enterprise in placing him in a position of high responsibility We don't know how it is with the G 0 P but over t he years nothing builds big muscles for Democrats like family misunderstanding Ours was the kind of home-towweekly paper that would explain in the wedding item " man that My Khan was an n "out-of-town- oil (-- t I N :19 ' Pe- - 4) 4 e ' kl) itV 11411r1 -- olb —ftip 1 ctl w 1: 1 t then a discussion of any changes of importance the lobby has forced the hand of the administration supporters on the two labor committees so that the bill that comes out of these committees to the floor will in each Instance be exactly in the form desired by the labor labor-unio- --------- A '—-- ---- i I iffill i PITIPt'' Fk :: 11:t s 1111PV Ili' 1 x - ' 10 - V 0 ' r- gt 4 Taft-Hartle- y ja(tueutthcananfienretnhces committee iis expected to be a rubber statip for the labor uulons by a col-defortable majority Union Strategy what will the senate do then? If a majority of the senators refuse to accept the conference committee report It will be sent back for touritheirrevisniegnobtuistttinhge nt ti the basis of the minimum cause they feel that the senate win not dare to reject the conference report altogether The labor unions will argue that a vote for the conference report is a vote for repeal and that a vote to reject means a Hartley - act senator In those instances where senators are up for election in vember 1950 there will be a tendency to compromise and rept in the end a conference re- to the labor- portn favorable viewpoint It Could happen of counts coalition could kill the conference report altogether and then the labor unions would have the act on their hands until the deadlock wax broken be-vi- pro-Ta- ft cc-T- Taft-Hartle- y SOAPER SAYS The fellow who tried measur ing the apeed of glaciers and found the pace too swift la now happily holding the watch on our liarry's program of 72 now finds himself married to a woman lawyer bewildering experience if all he wanted was a habeas Types of Men '' Editor Tribune: I nee by the paper that a judge can keep a guilty man from going to prison simply becatine "lie in not the type of man to go to prison" What are the types of men that go to prison? A small per cent that are really vicious and should be there a few that are ictima of circumstances and the great majority that are just poor suckers with no friends or money They are pushovers who have committed a small crime and in some cases no crime at all Tricked into pleading guilty by a prosecutor with the promise of a jail Bentenee they usually go to the penitentiary with mentences all out of proportion to the crime committed The types that do not ko are men of influence and money You will find a greater percentage of lawbreakers among the lawmakers and law enforcers than you find among the average citizens But they do not go to prison and crime does pay among the type' who do not go Freethinker Social Crisis Editor Tribtin: We must oppose equally all dictatorships whether of the right or left It I! commonly thought by many people that they could nupport the idea of dictatorship provided it WAS a dictatorship of their friends without weakening the force! of democracy house There is no such half-wa- y Every support given to the inatitution of a dictatorship of whatever kind weakens the fiber of their own people and the belief in institutions to which they have subecribed The main lime today in: Democracy VA Dictatorship—and we the people must face up to that ' : ' '''' i- 41)YP-i- ' (no " issue Yen it Ix a root issue which every citizen must decide for himself or herself There ix no in iinplied by doubt about a dictatorship of the right bring a dictatorship of the capitalistic class and what in by a dictatorship of the len is a dictatorship of the worker tat RULES Tribune may or may not agree Vriters must sign true names and addresses in Ink but letters vitt be carried over assumed names if requested Poetry will not be used Letters may be rejected if they: (I) Exceed 200 words (I) discuss religious or racial matters in a sectarian way (3) 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 called producer class You m!---- - ' Y --- b i the the pursuit working soil Love and Care Editor Tribune: I am only 63 I have and do work and think bard to be able to pay my taxes and keep the public insured against damage incurred by my thoughtlessness or ill luck If I were to take a pension and had a little house all my own to live In maybe I would be glad to say "Here put your tag on this house to be delivered when I have been cared for and buried" One's sons and daughters of today are not entitled to anything or any remainder if they do not take tare of their family aged If they wish a remainder they should so love and care for their aged that the aged will have no cause nor desire to apply for public help F W G building ing would it be possible for your paper to help in having a Utah soil conservation day or week designated? Most if not all of our neighboring states have such events and it creates a fine opportunity to bring this Important subject to the attention of our schools churches clubs etc as well as farmers because as your editorial points out conservation of soil is important to all Free Ent erprise Editor Tribune: Our doctors and druggists are very much opposed to socialized medicine I meet up with Butch Cassidy Joe Walker and Jack Moore They all believed in free enterprise However the bankers mine owners and livestock men were very much opposed to them I have never camped overnight in a hospital in my life Nevertheless I have had doctors help S'hat I have had I have found to be gentlemen but when they gave me a prescription for the druggist to fill well that's something else I had a prescription filled several times by one droggist The tablets were costing me 50e per dozen Then I went to another druggist and got the tablets for 2c per dozen Now I am getting the same kind for about a dime a dozen I don't like that kind of free enterprise any more than the hanker mine owner and hvestock men liked Cassidy Walker and Moores free enterprise Some people are so afraid of government nopervimion and at the same time are pushing the door wide open for it to come in R M Brandon Delbert A Fithriman Tremonton Utah Time Ilan Come Editor Tribune: I was just wondering If the Technote of as blueprinted by America Inc isn't Ihat Technocracy "idea whose time has come" As I understand this plan provides for individual opportunity for development and expression far beyond anything yet known The plan provides that there be an abundance of goods and services distributed to everyone according to his needs and desires: ALL FRIENDS Ey JAMES J METCALFE friends are all the folks I Wherever they may be And they are all the let- The mailman ters that brings to me They are the And in people on the bus My know bumy 1 $ stanItaoryi!artnership t t I Closely related though separated usually by a considerable interval of time there is the ineffable wonderful hour when the city dweller affixes his John Hancock to a contract pays over a sum of money and thereby becomes the owner and sole proprietor of a farm And along with that goes the heavenly blissful inspiring and magic moment when again he attaches his legal signature to the old parchment accepts this time a portion of coin of the realm usually smaller than he handed over in the first place and gets rid of same farm Ah to own a farm! To leave behind the smog and roar of the city the stuffy cramped thoroughfare Along the And Yea even everywhere I go those whone names appear Of Upon the printed page paper magazine or book Whatever be its age They are the proud and humble and The wealthy and the poor The happy humans and the smile With sorrow's to endure My friends are right heaida nie and Beyond the If only in the leVrt Pettit I have no knowledge that I nemies 1 9 over-heate- dwellings d In some Spy Pry Defy Editor Tribune: What seems to me beyond reconciliation with sense is this: If the COMMOn Communists are so intent on if destroying our democracy they spy pry end defy as they are daily reported to be doing why do they not net fire to key imilistries all over the United States? here is a simple menns to achieve great results were the awful Communists es progreSilliio thry aro reported to be Whet are the Reds thinking about? Fi actical high tip apartment house cliff-sid- e the endless hurry and bustle of traffic the nerve wracking health shattering tempo of city life the horror of super heated pavements in the summer or graying snowbanks in the winter the noise and the turmoil Learns All Noises Never from the Tinges of memory will fade the recollection of treading for the first time one's own own soil this piece of earth forever deeded in fee simple to oneself and one's heirs How doth caress the eyes the soft greens and grays of the sweet land the tall graceful trees with their gentle waterfall of foliege the bright color splashes of flowers red barns seen against blue skies There sweet and solid stands d the pointed fieldstone or white-painte- clap- green-shuttere- d Jess Wonderin practices We farmers are slow to change our Nv a y ft but if we feel that our city cousins are interested in our problems we should be encouraged and stimulated to do a better job Along this same line of think- picture-sho- happiness" Others created Soil Conservation Editor Tribune: Your editor Int of March 23 regarding erosion and some of the results of the same is most interesting As a farmer I am delighted to see that The Tribune is concerned about soil erosion and your interest will no doubt help me to try to use better soil and of would say "it couldn't happen in our time" but it seems to me that the day is not far distant when to preserve our Civilization from social chaos we shall have to install a very different form of human society from any known today Increasing automaticity of the machine can mean only increased unemployment and thus the need for the installation of a new design of social operation We must apply the principles of science to the building of a social order to fit the industrial order we have readers must decide whether or not you think it would be fair on the rest of the population for the reactionaries to start another world war in such circumstances Please remember that both fascism and communism are products of the social crisis caused by the disintegration of capitalism Jack A McQueen conserving a 113y yA171 GALLIC() are am NEW doubt no agree a numyou will ber of memorable high points in the life of an average citizen of our fair land delectable momenta never to be forgotten much as graduation from an institute of learning the first solo flight in an aircraft the day when the girl of his dreams bats her eyes and promises to wed t he solemn hour when the Dominie pronounces them m and w the safe arrival of the first offspring and its first tooth or the or intelligible word superb instant when the boss claps you on the shoulder and or traalivs I Thrill in Ownership economic security for everyone from birth until death maxinium care for the health of effective protection everyone from injury and abuse complete freedom of thought opinreion belief and discussion lease from long hours of toil ample leisure time for everyone to do with as he pleases while the machines do the work Some would say Utopian but It seems to me that the plan would fulfill the American ideal of the "right to life liberty and Letters express opinions of contributors with which The the - By Our Readers FORUM ' These are all experiencea known and cherished by most and I would not minimize them but there are two more periods of ineffable bliss and delight to be added to this category and of these I would with your permission ming this Sunday 4 i -- - Joys of Farm Reach Peak At Departure soul-stirri- """"406404 M L McKenna -- -- ' is - — C5 't vj 14' : -- --777-: 4 V ft L — N:'Il' ::?----- 0 t I t isttl ' conaumer Taft-Hartle- y ::---- --- -- v1 :' --- - --- simple: the 'consumer would not buy it that way Pink or green margarine would be no more satisfactory to the consumer than pink or green but ter Would you like green butter? It has been established by scientific evidence that eye appeal is an important factor in And if the consumers digestion of margarine a nutritiolut inexpensive pure food product want their margarine yellow there is no reason why they should not have it Untaxed margarine untaxed should be yellow margarine made available to the public The food and drug law should continue to be properly enforced to prevent any possibility of fraudulent sales but other than that there should be no restrictions It is not a war it is a war between the butter interests and the Hope for Acoord The expectation is that the measure will closely resemble the house bill as it is coming out of committee this week and that pressure will be exerted on the senate probably in May to pass the conference report or else the labor-uniolobby will accuse the senators of refusing act to repeal the Inasmuch as many union contracts expire in the summer months there will be much talk about the importance of haste in getting new legimiation The deact fenders of the are more numerous in the Ben- house but the :: try 1) ' 1 Tribune: In your editorial of March 15 "What color will you have y ir oleo?" you correctly poin rtr out that Louis Bromfield had gone off the deep end in his tirade against margarine Upon reading further I wan disappointed to Rea that you too had gone off the deep end You ask why margarine manufacturern don't color their product pink or green The an- the bill corpus It I Butter and Oleo n Nebraskan 1 Editor swer 1--- b : The Public Forum Expect Conference All this however the labor-unio- n lobby has foreseen and has discounted It is when the measure gets into the conference committee of both houses that the lobbyists expect to play their trump cards Inasmuch as the personnel of the conference committee usually follows the line of senority it is already known on Capitol Hill just who will be on that assignment The unions expect to control the conference committee hands down and to bring out a measure of the conference that discards much of what the senate will have written into A ‘ 1112i ‘te' I 0 act on ' ' ) n labor-unio- i Al ------ --- - 1)1 2::' pro-uni- Taft-Hartle- y oft lihk6 "ttf-4 minimum The idea of course was that if either the house or senate committee had amended the measure to make it a piece of legislation the amendments tacked on to it in floor debate would have been farther away from the Wagner act whereas by keeping the measure from having any amendments added be fore it emerges from the committees the fight will be centered on the floor chiefs can The labor-unio- n easily control the vote in the committees because they can turn their wrath on a specific group in congress and build enough fires to threaten any who do not do the bidding of the labor-uniolobby Fear Poll Reprisal When the measure gets to the floor of the house an attempt will be made to get record votes on every amendment and again the threats of reprisals at the polls will be applied So far as the the house is concerned chances are that the labor unions will get the bill through With a minimum of amendments unfavorable to their side It is in the senate where the bill will undergo considerable amendment because a coalition of southern Democrats and an almost solid group of Republicans wiU Insist on retention of certain provisions now in the - — 0 yri — -- Then the effort will be made to keep amendments down to a — —-- 11 A ia4t i mend men te Down w'r -- 14141 - unions Kaop - (---- 'N blii I 4' ---- -: n -- 1 i -- - — INdt A Taft-Hartle- C14 ------ - —-'------------ 11- t k7 oy y act the Unable to obtain assent from the party leaders for a program calling for repeal of the Taft Hartley act and a restoration of the original Wagner act and s ' 1 I 6 t le r1) 1 A ghtlNsi I LLA chyr iio 7 N‘ N:' By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON — The stratchiefs egy of the labor-uniowho control the administration and its supporters in congress has become clear now that the labor committee of each house has decided to report the original Wagner act with minor amendments as a substitute for n Former Salt Lake 31an By Ifolland Spring Geography n I Holy Land Armistice Credit to Great Man Unions Unveil Labor Bill Repeal Plans Picketing and Booing Disputed 'Peace' Meet No Way to Bolster Americanism 1 fti THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Sunday March 27 1949 8 A: board farmhouse shaded by ehn or maple trees The yellowing wheat reflects the sunshine red teasels adorn the green corn the pheasant calls from the covert and bunny cottontail skips lightDown-ily across the road the dell is visible the rooftop of the friendly neighbor's hotoie the orchard is heavy with fruit Sect Sales Song Yes sirs and mesdames it is wonderful and every city dwelling man and woman ought to experience it just once in their hves so that they too may know the topper the sweetest joy of all the truly enchanting instant When having sold the joint the last load of furniture in the van disappears around the bend when the keys are handed over to the new suck pardon proprietor last quick look around to make sure that nothing is going to get tip and follow one climbs into the old jalopy shoots her Into high and departs for town never to return Farewell to the country and its confounded noisemakers the burping frogs the shrilling cicadas the screaming birds the ehatteringly vocal barnyard livestock the dogs that bark inter minably by night the creaking and crackings and thumpings and bumpings that go on in an old house from sundown to sunrise the hummings and nummurings of wires in the wind the howling of that same wind around and in and out of corners the crash of pears dropping onto the roof All the Inconveniences Good-bto snowed-iroads cars in ditches water in the cellar furnaces that won't furn when you need them most Japanese beetles potato bugs wheat rust wormy apples poison ivy lightning storms that put the vhole works out of wheck party telephone lineil power failures y leaks in the roof mud on the carpet wet feet sneezes and sniffles neighbors Hello city: dear big warm kindly practical friendly city you wonderful reaaonable understandable big city noises the musical clangor of fire engines the dulcet honkings of expensive automobile horns the soothing sound or garbage cans being emptied the invigorating rumble of the elevated the trolley car or the crottatown bum Ah there you wonderful atone igloos raised tier on tier where every thing is practical and everything works or when Pile busts somebody he fix and quick Greetings elevator men janitors policemen street cleaners repair chips Steam from the city lights that don't go out gas from the gas company hot water forever Oh boy oh boy oh boy! You've sold the busy-bod- farm! y n |