Show 100 - 12 I February Thursday Morning Established April 117L LS Issued every Inorrang by 5 1953 C4) Balt Lake City Utah I aspect of the new policy relative to Formosa to Korea and to other areas under Communist threat is to inspire and help the peoples of threatened lands to defend their own freedom This we will be doing more and more throughout the Far Bag Much has already been accomplished in the way of training and arming native forces in South Korea on Formosa in Indo-Chin-a - in Malaya and in the Philippines Much more can be accomplished South Korean troops at first so poorly trained and equipped that they crumbled easily under attack have recently been proving their mettle More South Korean divisions are being organized to man the battle lines there The French have trained 250000 to help fight the Communist Vietminh forces The British are steadily expanding native forces to combat the Communist guerillas in Malaya Native Formosans are being trained to help defend their island Filipino troops are apparently getting the best of the Huk Communists In almost every case the more the peoples of these Asiatic countries themselves take up arms to fight the Reds the better the fight goes And we have only scratched the surface on Asiatic man power and will to fight From a man power standpoint there are many millions of potential recruits of course man power alone isn't enough There must be training and arms which we can furnish And there must be the will to ' What the governor of South Carolina said to the governor of North Carolina will from now on take second place to the story of what the governor of Colorado did for the governor of Utah : At 8 o'clock this morning Governor Dan Thornton of our good neighbor state to the east arrives in Salt Lake City to perform promised Janitorial service for Utah's Governor Brack Lee It's all the outgrowth of an election bet made by the two state executives list fall on the percentage turnout of eligible Utah won the bet—beating tot only voters the state of Colorado but having the best voter turnout record of any state in the Union The wager agreement wu that the loser Job omthe winning govwould do a clean-u- p ernor's office Governor Thornton—a good loser as well u a good governor—is going through with the stunt in style : He already has an honorary membership card in the Denver janitors' union and is ready to receive on arrival here the tools of Formal his trade and a complete uniform inexecutive chief 'Colorado's fir welcome cludes the presentation of an appropriate gift in the form of a pipe with a miniature garbage can as a bowl a key to a broom closet from Mayor Glade a uniform from governor Lee and a salute from an ash can CinnOtt devised by Utah Air National Guard ' ' i I I members In addition to performing his Janitorial service in Governor Lee's office Governor Thornton will address a Kiwanis of Commerce luncheon and a joint session of the Utah Legislature Frankly while all this is an amusing gag It is more than Just a stunt We of Utah are proud to welcome the governor of our neigh' bucket or no And his boring state-mo- p visit with all Ithe gag trimmings will spread the fame of Utah as the "votingest" state in the Union to all corners of this country Club-Chamb- ' — nope for More:II eforms Decision of congressional leaders not to of reorganization should meet with wide approval In the first place it was wise for the Republican leadership in Congress not to take a gratuitous slap at their Republican chief executive at the very start of his administrartion Certainly a decision to water down ' presidential reorganization authority would It would have have been so interpreted weakened presidential prestige and perhaps made for inharmonius relations between the chief executive and his own Republican party curtail presidential powers - - - ' ' ' ' leadership Second and even more important is the fact that a watering down of presidential reorganization powers—to permit either house of Congress to reject a reorganization plan by a simple rather than a constitutional ma3ority—would have made it more difficult to carry through the streamlining of govern-pen- t departments and agencies which is so greatly needed A little over half of the reforms advocated by the Hoover commission have been enacted into law But there are many important reforms still to be accomplished And It is a fair assumption they represent those reforms most apt to run into strong political and pressure group opposition To have now made the reorganization task more difficult would have almost certainly meant an end to reform The Eisenhower administration has forthrightly set itself to the task of cutting fedThat means for one thing eral spending more efficient administration We are glad the Presigent will not be unduly handicapped In his efforts to achieve the economy in government which is so essential to the nation's Welfare P The persistent perennial the daylight saying bill has cropped up again in the Utah Legislature It would put official time ahead one hour between the first Sunday in June and the last Sunday In September (To be consistent with other DST areas the change ahoidd take place in late April) Changing the clock is not one of the vital issues before our state lawmakers and the biennial controversy mostly between rural and urban spokesmen is hardly worth the time and energy consumed Two years ago a daylight saving bill was rushed through the Legislature but was killed on reconsideration We commented at the time and repeat it that it would be a good thing generally if wide regions adopted the schedule By arbitrarily fixing its own time however a community or a state can cause consicklable confusion and inconvenience Utah ivould not be quite such a DST Island this time as In the past California and Nevada have daylight time (but Oregon voters repealed a 1949 law allowing the governor to put the state on the schedule though Portland and other communities set their clocks ! II - - 10 '- e Best Writing of 1952 Although he has long been gone from these-part- s and is a man of violent opinion Utahns can take a great deal of pride in the fact that Bernard De Veto is a native of theft state Mr De Voto is best known as a historian His "Across the Wide Missouri" won the Pulit zer prize in 1948 His "The Year of Decision" was widely praised Now his "The Course of Empire" has received the National Book n Award for the best writing of 1952 The prize is roughly equivalent to Hollywood's "Oscars" although of course it is presented with much less fanfare Mr De Voto has been variously described non-fictio- as "Chief "a Thunder-on-the-Mountai- lit- erary volcano" and "a man who makes his points with both fists and both feet" He is a doughty fighter whose zeal sometimes takes him too far but he has struck many a re sounding blow for the cause of conservation His many honors do not weigh him down and he is apt to erupt at any moment For that reason we admire him tremendously even if we can't always agree with him One make of typewriter offers a key for any special symbol you want and our choice would be one in which the I and E are sort of superimposed for use when we can't remember which comes first 1 SV -: 5 Igo Preside nt Eisenhower's 44 i' 'ir: ' '' ::4 f ' - t c1V rd- ei V 4 4 N K '1'1'' ae 0 ter"' - 0 '6' ' '' '- -- I '-- - ' - '' ': ' C i t 4 3A i e1 Irti I '"4 0 - - ' 1 4?'tir's74 46A4tt t 1 ' Ill'iif ' '' : r '''A Si :: A 4 i 41 Cbtet VVA $ 4 !4riti:01-- 4 t I ' X 2011 gliQatfi- ''1) '1' - yii ' ao:i''''''' 4 w f Pk 1' ''' 46 L ' 1 i ipk " r' t2i l' 't ' "111 f'y: 41p111) 4p-A- : - k :A - '' 4 4 t ''- ' i1 't o "0 4 :41 11- 7- 1 41 4 k‘'' ' v io t41 r r6 ' 1 ' AL 'g :'y 'y i At- 1 ' Ito--- y ' It t f 'ee114 i ' 000ve ' - 4:?1 - s: c-- C) cCals-- lie lehl? (07:- i1: 4r7-?k:'- -- - r00 ' 11't-m- ?' - - MeNaugitt Erndiest me The Public Forum Not Class Legislation Editor Tribune: An article the Jan 24 Tribune said the Utah Highway Advisory Council branded the proposed tax refund as "selfish unfair and I feel it is about time the true facts are placed before the people instead of distortions We farmers deny that this bill is class legislation Farmers and users of gasoline realize the dire need for -- mom funds by build and maintain our roads They are just as willing as any other group to increase the tax and pay their fair share of this expense We don't see any justice for paying for something we don't receive We see no reason we should pay road taxes for gasoline we use in our tractors If the governor wants to make a tax reduction why not cut out unfair taxes first? Two reasons given for opposing the refund bill are: 1 That farm produce is hauled over the roads 2 That the cost of administering the law would be too high True farm produce is hauled over the roads But so are the products of factories and In Tighten lip Licensing C In the Mail Dear Mr Ham Park: May I correct your statement in last Thursday's Tribune that Mr Notes on the Cuff Department "It's a wonder you wouldn't congratulate me" said Dave Coursey when we met on Main Street the other day "Congratulate you for what?" I asked "For getting Wanda Knight to marry me of course It happened on Jan 23rd " ''Consider yourself and Wase tell your bneit that she has my deepest sym- T S (Ted) Pe- terson is vice of president the Standard Oil Company of California Ile is the pres 40 ' '011A 10' Nola idea Yours truly very G Hand Standard Oil U Bldg 110114' Salt 11 Ham Park Lake City (Dear Mr Hand: I hope Mr Peterson will pardon my error I fear that it was much like calling a Lieutenant Colonei a Major) Dear Ilam: The smog and the traffic got so bad that we couldn't take it in Los Angeles anymore so Mabel and I sold everythingand came down here to Vista Most of the people in Vista are retired Many Army and Navy officers and a lot of mid west industrialists One of my neighbors commutes to Chicago He is one of the editors of the Chicago Tribune and leaves here Sunday night and comes back Friday morning Leo Carrillo has a big cattle I ranch just over the hill think Vista is California at its very best We had a rough time of it last year but now are enjoying better health than wee N Ipottiohht Dotty Ditty caught that bus by the skin of my teeth Or the dust on my flying feet It is iisually late but if I'm not there That's the time that it ain't and it just ain't fair' I —Lucy Woolley Brown I have half patronage pol Icy has driven the rest of the 1 r) ose'''' 4 ::: -' ' c ' '‘ Mr Alexander "For years and years'' one such unfortunate moaned to me "I have been telling that I could do nothing while the G 0 P was a minority party Well now all those people are coming back to haunt me" No One Knows Where There are needless to say not nearly so many openings as there are applicants but that's not the worst of it Nobody in Congress seems to know where to "clear" a potential appoint-te- e or what the "lowdown" is on who's entitled to what For a while the patronage dispenser was Herbert Brownell but not since he took over as attorney general Now it's supposed to be Wesley Roberts the new national chairman but he's- been- in his bffice -- very little of late Also its been stated that the place to clear a job is with the head of the but appropriate department several of the new cabinet chiefs (Benson Durkin McKay Wilson) are total strangers to the congressmen "There just isn't any as one senator put it Set Up Owin Mart Republican senators as if to show the administration how l politics is played have set up a thriving patronage mart of their own There are close to 500 Capitol Hill jobs which the Senate exclusively controls such as elevator operators pages and the way - high-leve- All sources of income such as wages and profits should be taxed on a percentage and on a ratio scale the minimum margin on small amounts This tax would be extracted before the receiver gets possession of the total amount This method would be the equivalent of giving the anesthetic before the operation This plan could be much less painful than the present method 'Faxes could and should be a patriotic duty not a national grudge M P Gudmundson Logan Utah riven 0111:1 daffy and whom the President's dollar" Al Jenkinson says that a radical is a man without a sense of humor and a conservative is one without a sense of the ridiculous ltih: seekers d ss Painful chum That soup has nothing in it but beans!" 14"4's almost sure to be some Re- - Editor Tribune: Athalene Dadley's letter in the Forum of Jan 26 on "Fair Tax Program" was a good beginning The letter said "There should be only one tax to be fair and equitable Repeal all property taxes hidden and excise taxes both federal and state wiping the slate clean A law would be passed levying a gross income tax so much from each Customer at lunch counter: r' WASHINGTON—If you see a man on Capitol Hill poised to jump from a window ledge it's the draft proved necessary to support the regular forces and provided a steady flow of replacements after the peak in manpower had been reached To thin out our ranks now would only encourage those depraved minds in the Kremlin Our reluctance to mobilize and arm has placed the youth of the world in bondage President Eisenhower recently said "A soldier's pack is lighter than the chains of a slave" Thousands in Stalin's labor camps can attest to that Ike's crusade is well under way His goal is peace and freedom for all Let us all fall in line and support whatever measures are necessary rather than be an obstacle in his path A bulwark of unity and willingness to sacrifice can help to deter communism at home and abroad Von W Curtis Magna Utah Has this soup many calories in it?" Bob Town waiter: "No I (41) ' est we shall give help to other nations in the measure that they strive earnestly to do their full share of the common task" the President said This is a fateful prediction Some Europeans will not like It especially those who think American aid is a one-wastreet—ell in the direction of Europe The most important pronouncements in the speech were veiled in guarded language Mr Eisenhower used what Woodrow Wilson used to call the "implicit" rather than the "explicit" approach But there can be no doubt what the President meant when he said he would ask Congress soon to adopt a resolution 4pudiating any "secret understandings of the past with foreign governments" which permit the enslavement of peoples anywhere Rolm to Yalta Pact This refers to the Yalta agreement and the understandings whereby Soviet Russia acquired certain rights in the Pacific islands close to Japan and also to rights Russia has claimed in Manchuria America is on the move Resoluteness was in the President's voice as he said: "There is no longer any logic or sense in a condition that required the United States Navy to assume defensive responsibilities on behalf of the Chinese Communists This permitted those Communists with greater impunity to kill our soldiers and those of our United Nations allies in Korea" Obsessed With Idea Murmurs of protest have come already from France and Britain but mostly from those leaders who have become obsessed with the idea that the Truman-Achesopolicies would be continued for the next quarter of a century or more while billions of dollars were poured into Europe without getting the necessary manpower built up for either Europe or Asia Times have changed—and Europe as well as apologists for a "standstill" policy as contrasted with a policy will learn that the Eisenhower administration is determined not to stand still but to take calculated risks and go ahead n Finer Points of Patronage Woods Editor Tribune: Gayle Sorenson in a Forum letter requests readers to petition their congressmen to abolish the draft law World conditions being what they are do not warrant such action In both world wars Personal note to Mary Jane Phillips: Your son George informed me that you have been a regular reader of mine for many years Please accept my thanks and my best wishes 1 rr S HOLMES ALEXANDER His Goal Is Peace "Thanks—HUH?" :7' Indo-Chin- Ogden Utah pathy" '- - h wouldn't have rolled? Licenses should be withheld till it is found that these and many other essentials of safety have been well learned Park had in several years Give our regards to the folks back there and give us a call when you come to L A and we'll run up and get you—Howard g If by the examining officer that were attempted in a lesson or two it would fail to make a safe driver Learning to drive In school is indicated as necessity for most people Recently in Ogden a car parked quartering with a curb along a hill rolled into the street and struck a car being driven up hill The driver of the runaway car said brake apparently failed llow many drivers don't know car should have been left in gear with front wheels so turned car Editor Tribune: For every traffic death a number are on the average injured During last September and October there were 53 traffic deaths in Utah and 887 were injured The worst injured are more to be pitied then those killed outright Our traffic record in January should provoke much serious thought and justifies scathing rebuke It will be difficult to get many licensed drivers off the road though many of us constitute too much of a hazard In any event there should be a decided tightening in issuance of licenses to new applicants These applicants should not hope to be taught to drive A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday— Pope Ati:4111)SICv--ftil- 0 The Sengtor From Sandpit By Ilam TkC— By Our Readers mines So why not tax the coal and electricity used there to pay for the'mines? Both would be equally unfair The second reason is equallyunsound The bpl the governor vetoed last session that users paid the cost of administration of 48 states not over three still tax gasoline for the roads Could 45 states be wrong and three right? De Lloyd Christensen Redmond Utah – ' state of the 06(- 4 union message is a turning point in modMr Lawrence ern history The words the American people have been waiting to hear—the policies the American people by a landslide of electoral votes demanded in the last election are now in outline New Foreign Policy "We have learned" said the President "that the free world cannot indefinitely remain in a posture of paralyzed tension" —and the loudest applause heard in the House chambers in many years broke forth Then Mr Eisenhower continued: "To do so leaves forever to the aggressor the choice of time and place and means to cause greatest hurt to us at least cost to himself" Then the President outlined five basic priciples of what he announced as a "new positive foreign policy" Mean Aerial Attacks The actual plans in process —which ought to be kept as secret as if World War II security regulations were still in force—will shift the initiative from Moscow to Washington They mean the beginning of Nationalist raids by air that can break up the north-soutrail line in China and weaken the Communist supply line to a and force a diversion of air units as well as troops of the Communist armies from the Korean theater to defend the long Chinese coast Many successful raids have already taken place The President's address to Congress had in it some pointed warnings to Europe too It was a plea for upity and and integrated alliance "For the United-State- s this means that as a matter of common sense and national inter ‘ v Nk a of the United States to as- sert has come at last )i4 i ahead) Popularity of daylight time rises and wanes so it is difficult to determine how Estimates of persons widely it Is accepted on daylight time in the summer range up to 65 million Most large cities have it though Detroit will have none of Wand Michigan bans it It is used in Washington D C and in 22 states mostly in the East and Mid west Rather than a state law we suggest a memorial to Congress for nation-widday light time or a request that the governors' conference tries to work out an interstate pact expecting president ss short-sighted- " Daylight Time Again ship in world affairs which the American people have been 4jA141 kk leader- WASHLNGTON—The wik1111i '''":7(‘ tt fight Welcome Dan Thornton! Foreign Policy for U 704 de49 of ZithfOlis DIRECTION IP ri4:14- Indo-Chine- That last depends partly on inspiration and hope from America and other Western nations It depends perhaps even more on a guarantee of real freedom for these peoples of Asia They must be able to fight as free Men—as equals—proud of their own traditions and heritage secure in the knoyledge or the promise of their own national independence confident of a future which offers opportunity for social and economic progress America can and should give inspiration and help to the embattled peoples of Asia But in the final analysis communism will never be defeated in Asia unless the people there want to defeat it The real fight against communism is not waged in the hills or valleys or jungles of Asia The real fight Is waged in the hearts and minds of men 4 SAME t t 16Iir-ie rtaxt THE TO 0 Eisenhower Sets Positive "2704 is 'TIL You LEARN 4 N vtbi- An important one-side- d 1 tAkA NANNrAN -- The Larger Aspect of Forrn'osa Decision DAVID LAWRENCE rbr-"1- -'‘ "mmwgrr7 Tbe Salt Lake Tribune Publiahing There is as expected much discussion pm and con on President Eisenhower's decision to end Ithe U4 S Seventh Fleet's protective patrol of the coast of Communist China—an action which will enable Nationalist Chinese on Formosa to launch or if they can sustain them more extended mainland assaults on the Red-hel- d Some in Congress fear this may lead to Involvement of the United States in warfare on the mainland of China The British seem to share this view although of course their attitude is affected by their concern over investments in China Hong Kong and their degenerally more friendly (though it is the for friendship) feeling cidedly a Chinese Communists On the other hand there is wide support for taking the initiatixe against the Chinese to the Communists—and givaig a Chinese Nationalists seems to offer such a chance While it is admittedly a calculated risk it could put the Chinese Reds on the defensive and compel them to pull men back from Korea It might be so harassing to the Communists as to make them anxious to reach some kind of settlement in Korea The immediate effect of Chinese Nationalist harassment of the Communists on the mainland of China ishowever only one phase of this decision relative to Formosa The other aspect of the decision is the larger design to encourage the threatened peoples of Asia themselves to oppose the Communists ' In his State of the Union message President Eisenhower emphasized that the United States lannot defend the whole Free World Nor he said Icould any "wealth of aid compensate for poverty of spirit" Can't Say 'Forward March' I bv$all fakt Ztibunt like The G ' I 0 P senators met recently and solemnly divided this melon Each of the melon-cutter- s got his Then it was decided to give the Democrats exactly what the minority party got in the 82nd Congress which wasn't much in the way assistants and of research clerks for the committees This part seems altogether routine but wait—I A senator who shall be nameless got to his feet and saidln effect: "Hold everything! If we simply pour jobs into the laps of the Democratic leadership what will happen to our southern friends? The Democratic leadership will punish those southerners and we shouldn't allow it" Up got another senator and offered a more positive approach to the matter He said that It was more than a question of "protecting" the MendHe said thit ly southerners they should be "rewarded" for their help Furthermore they should be rewarded according to their deserts Senator Daniel of Texas had come out openly for the G 0 P ticket Senator Byrd of Virginia had come out against Harry Truman The two Florida senators Holland and Smothers had taken a walk Each then should be rewarded in that scale of service Crosses Party Lines It was so decided Senator Martin was made chairman of the patronage subcommittee and delegated to confer with Senator Hayden who holds the equivalent position among the Democrats Thus for what must be the first time in American historyone party exerts a patronage control inside the privy councils of the other Could Mr Ike learn something from a study of these arrangements? Republican congressmen say that he could and wish thA he would Some of the White House appointments appear to have been made on the reward theory Mrs Hobby of Texas for instance was made administrator of Federal Security But the difference is that the Republican senators have laid down a strong policy line on patronage and the Republicans in and near the White House have not t I Getting so you can't' trust Even the first robin turns out to be a publicity-seeke- r who has really been hiding arolmd the neighborhood all winter anybody The atomic energy commis: sion's plant in Illinois will turn out "more or less conventional explosives" and we don't suppose anybody they may eventually be dropped on will really care whether it's more or less I 1 1 I RP I ' ' J |