Show 005r1dPNr 4Pa4418i ' ' i ' 1 : - I ! i ' 12 A THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Sunday March 6 1949 or ' I :'' V 4 Editorials tstablished April 15 Mil gb t ic75 a Issued every morning 1k fakt Pibunt by The Balt Lake Tribune Publishing Sunday Co Balt Laks City Wan American Newspapers and Their Influence on the Great Host of Readers In this era of criticism when everyone seems to be engaged in offering judgments for and against this and that person or policy it is not surprising to find many of the critics riticizing themselves The criticism of newspapers although they themselves hire men and women to offer opinions on countless It probably things is not a new pastime dates back to the second or third issue of the first newspaper Newspapers and newspaper people have even been known to indulge in I A recent article in the Saturday Review of Literature by H A Overstreet author and professor emeritus of philosophy at the City College of New York approached the subject 'frankly as a layman and has some interesting things to say about the way journalism is carried on not only in the United States but throughout the world He takes the publications to task for being the purveyors of a 'daily disaster diet" and offers examples to support his case Professor Overstreet's point is that headlines and prominence of "play" in newspapers stress the more unhappy side of life Crime news he says takes precedence over good and Scandal and unrest constructive happenings are emphasized while the doings of good and peaceable people go unnoticed "Between accounts of catastrophe newspapers do carry a good many items" the writer admits "that lie outside the formula and that have their own constant appeal because of certain sustained human interests: weather reports stock market reports household suggestions real estate news educational religious and scientific news and so on But the primary appeal of a newspaper is the news it brings of happenings that bode ill for someMost political news is cast as "fight" one news Most foreign news is similarly east Most domestic news that makes the headlines Is catastrophic news: someone has been killed robbed or assaulted someone has called a 4 Atmospheric Traffic JamCiiitsed Töpsy Turyy Winier Jl I i ' The big sveather upset that followed'other upsets in recent months has had the experts busy explaining They are not explaining in the sense of apologizing but trying to figure out why the winter in the United States—and In many other parts of the world—made such surprising shifts While the western part of this country was experiencing one of the worst winters in recorded weather history the east and even parts of the middle west were basking under mild spring skies The world's entire weather map has been changed about this winter according to an article in a recent issue of the New York Herald Tribune written by John J O'Neill The storm structures acscience expert cording to Mr O'Neill born in the arctic that normally cross the United States are being trapped near the north pole and when they do move it is sluggish and far to the north of their accustomed path This polar stalemate has been brought about by "regions of high air pressure in the tropical zone which have vastly expanded their normal areas" The tropical belt has formed a pressure band clear around the globe and thus has obstructed the usual polar movements It seems that low pressure storm areas usually swing far south of Greenland taking a winter path down along the Rocky mountains eastward across the middle west northeast through the Ohio or St Lawrence valleys and across the Atlantic toward Norway Since !alit fall weather experts say these lows with few exceptions crottsed Canada and Greenland leaving the Vnited States untouched which of course does not mean untouched by winter weather The unuaually severe winter weather that has swept across the Pacific coast areas and the intermountain west is said to be the type generally allotted to Alaska and the Bering sea A "permanent" high pressure that lay in the Pacific from beyond the liawalian islands to the California coast brought Alaskan weather a thousand miles south and brought long cold spells and rather continuous snowstorms to the west The weather map this winter in other words of Ole country slipped westward with California getting mountain weather the mountain area getting the middle west storm s and the east basking am until a ahort time ago at least under the mild temperatures usually found in the Atlantic and coming up from the Caribbean These traffic jams between polar and tropical weather fronts have been building up for months and have formed a meteorological condition that will not be modified very It is likely to provide a warm moist 'rapidly summer say the weather men and spring cooler in the smith and bringing ample rain in the middle and far western regions ' The recent outbreak of cold and snow In the cast may prove to be the first signs that th e world west her map is getting back tto normal Just what was the underlying cause of the weather upset the experts will not venture to guess It was probably not :the recent election here in the United States 93tit many people will doubtless blame the atom bomb tests at Bikini Russia's Foreign Shill Needs Close Watch nal has escaped someone is denouncing someone" The criticisms thus offered by Professor Overstreet are not new and are certainly not groundless Many newspapers overplay crime and perhaps tend to overemphasize belligerency between nations groups and individuals But it must be remembered by the professor and other critics of the journals that news is history and history is written in terms of conflict not in soothing phrases There is a saying that "a happy country isone without a the real significance other evelitsbehind the iron curtain like prob- 'Some ob- 'ably remain cloitinlri mystery servers see a close connection with progress recently made by the western powers in broadening the North Atlantic pact and it is quite possible that Mr Molotov is being puniahed by the Kremlin for his failure to halt the Scandinaian moVement toward the west While Andrei Y Vishinsky the new foreign minister is a fiery orator a relentless prosecutor in Russian courts and a vitriolic critic of the United States and other democracies at sessions of the United Nations he is not a predictable influence Whether his accession to the ministry means a tougher policy toward the outside world or a more modifled approach toward International issues remains to be seen Mr Vishinsky has only recently been released from a sanatorium where he was reported to have been treated for a "nervous breakdown" The punishment—if it is punishment—for the retiring Mr Molotov is nothing to the punishment to be expected by the new foreign minister Perhaps that is what the Russians need right now as a representative to internationfil meetings—a man conPer-ha- p valescing from a nervous breakdown the lords of the Kremlin hope that nervous breakdowns are contagious But Vishinsky in his normal state is an expert in keeping clear of trouble even though he adopts spectacular tactics in his duties before the Russian courts or the United Nations sessions Ile appears to be an opportunist of talent lie was a revolutionist in Russia in the early days of uprising against the czarist government and became a member of the Menshevik party after the overthrow But despite the final victory of the Bolshevik party at a later date Vishinsky retained his prestige and continued his rise to fame and power Russia's new foreign minister is a clever man a skillful debater and a master of invective lie will be a man to be 1kAtched closely by his colleagues in future foreign ministers' meetings The best talent in diplomacy and parliamentary procedure will be needed to cope with this new representative of the Soviet Union Science now a big operator seems never to get around to developing the small'atuff— like a passport picture that looks like you but not that much "Among the byproducts of the corncob are varnish insecticide explosives paint remover and embalming fluid" A pipe cleaner hell though The full and solemn import of the Bikini atomic bomb teats now unfolde Other than not being there there neems to be no defense againet thin awesome missile Our thoughts that go out to any loser are especially with the eamtern tot found to It's have a Dewey button in the stomach bad enough taking these things to heart Worst of all would be depreasion on top of a howling ahortage as wolves are entitled to a door apiece to be at turned over to the lawyers look for radical changes in the box score with If baneball is stolen blows listed under misdemeanors and the double play as conspiracy While we're getting back the 5c cigar this new amenity of life in Britain—the con-ski- Alt hough there is much PpeCUIRI it)n about the tneening of Russia's sudden change in free paychiatriat : : ' 14:--- ' :— 4 "- - ' ' - Taft-Hartle- y ''' t' i 'Al i r- ' '' '''''':74 I : :0!-1':- Right to Strike The majority opinion further declares that the right to strike plainly contemplates a lawful method and doom not operate to strike legalize the which state law made illegal and state authorities punished Justice Jackson adds: "If we were to make the strike an absolute right and the definition to extend the right to all other variations of the strike the effect would be to legalize beyond the power of any state or federal authorities to control not only the intermittent stoppages such as we have here but &Imo the slowdown and perhaps the strike as well n n Jackson's Opinion ''We think that this recurrent or intermittent unannounced stoppage of work to win unstated ends was neither forbidden by federal statute nor was it legalized and approved thereby Such being the case the state pollee power was not muperseded by congressional act over a subject normally within its exclusive power and reachable by federal regulation only because its 'effects on that interstate commerce which congress may regu- late" Here is the first explicit limit declered in many years with respect to the powers of congrema over acts growing out of labor disput es 'Effects on Commerce' Here is hint that "effects on coninierce" will yet have to be proved to establish unlimited power by the federal interstate government Over relations and that ax regards conduct approaching roercion or violence or damage to property the power of the states to police their own affairs hue by Flo means been deetroyed eVf'n by the new deal court One minority opinion wee written by Justice Douglas and concurred In by Justices Black and Rutledge Justice Douglas surprised the country by making a speech recently before the annual C I 0 net most convention Another niinority opinion was written Justice by Murphy under whom as governor of Michigan sit- dovi n etrikes were permitted quasi-politic- Justice Murphy says: Equivalent to Mutiny But the court by its reasoning and its quotation from a congressional report now makes Intermittent work stoppages the equivalent of mutiny contract-breakin- g and the strike It stretches the 'objectives and means' test to include a form of pressure which is peaceful and direct To impute this rationale to the congrema which enacted the Wagner act is in my opinion judicial legislation of an extreme form" Thus do four justices turn the clock back to the days of n n at rikee and wildcat strikes and encourage unions to believe these are all lawful parts of the "right to strike" ' t 't' - :' !'-"- - ' i i!1 '''::::':' ' ''1' ' ' 'f' :: re c 7' it41"0:0 t:er(7 : t 51 1-- - ' - ':' '''' :1 : 4'' ''!''': 11 ' i : 4 "' : ' ' c ' 44 Aa I ! r 4 i ' i 4 r ? : f '''4rk r '(' : '' :' r e' (' :' 777 4' - ''''' l''''li r !:: rv 1 :' ' ''' 'F ' - i ''':''': ' : ' ''' 1 ' 'f' E:'':? i' :'- '' ' ' i't I t' if' '1 '" i ''''' ' ' 'f :' 4' 4'''' f' P ' -- I' : '' '' '' ? ' ' ' ' ' c' :::Yi!'--- ! ' ' '' it c '': ''' '''' : : '' ' 1' ' : :'''' ::" i ''' ' 4 " v ''' ' - ' : - 1 4-- 77:: I ' ' - ! ! : '' "' 4 :4 it 4 '' ?''' 1 't '''' ' ''''!' ' ‘' ' '4r'N''''''Vht '4 ' ': '?''' ''' '':' :' ''' 2is:: ' i 'y r '': - - -- l' i ut Spanish "Editor Loan' Tribune: million dollars Isn't much money as loans to governments go these days but when Chase National bank lent that sum to Franco the other day It gave him what he needed most It gave him the chance to present himself at home and abroad as a dictator who is no longer a pariah It gave him the right to claim (1) that he is back in the good graces of the state department and (2) that he is considered If not a first-clas- s risk a suitable recipient of American dollars" So said Freda Kirchwey Feb 19 1949 In the Nation If American banks are free to aid dictators abroad what's to stop them from aiding dictators at home? If American banks are going to aid all the struggling dictators in the world what chance has democracy? If free enterprise means that banks Should be free to aid dictators I am against free en- terprise Helen Gastambide Socialize Everything! Editor Tribune: Thank you r6r your editorial In thil Sunday Tribune under date of Feb 27 on Socialized Medicine Your article not only mentions aocialized medicine but says in part —"It is an aspect of the entire plan of socializing everything" That has been my expression of thought with you John G discussions since started and then In a recent statement in this paper you said "It matters not whether It be communism or socialism or Americanism if it will benefit the nation" Min T F Jackson Beals RULES of with which The Tribune may or may not agree Writers must sign true names contributors' le hk rn41 kat- - letters will be carried over assumed names if requested Poetry will not be used Letters may be rejected if they: (I) Exceed 200 words (2) discuss religious or racial mattes 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 spired In Utah during the past few weeks In my humble opinion a two-yeterm for governor is just what we need Although the end of the present legislative 'session is in eight there is still time to term for change the four-yea- r term governor to a two-yeIn the Immortal words of Lincoln we must have a government of the people by the people and for the people in Utah Citizens of Utah I appeal to you to write to your state reprementatives and senators and ask them to change the present four-yeterm for governor to a r term Don't delay R Z Smith two-yea- Starve to Death Editor Tribune: You preachers of starvation are doing everybody a diefavor by preaching fear The new deal preached it to perpetuate themselves in office and at the same time turned me down for something to eat at the city and county building in Salt Lake City I think I have sitarved more or am much as anyone in this Mate due to poor health and blackball from work the last number of years I haven't given up for I know there is less death from starvation than any other way Put the world population to one and if the Creator aees fit that one will starve to death Missed Draper Fairview Utah Briton Speaks Editor Tribune: Ai a newcomer to this city I am naturally Interested in any mention that I may see regarding my homeland namely Britain It wiyi with dismay that I read the account: "British Agree to Purge Texas Drawl" I have son age 10 and if he had written much unintelligent rub I ny SERVE MY GOD VitiN J M1TCAZFP these Term Editor Tribune: I have often thought that Utah was way Two-Ye- ar behind the time In many fundamental things one in particular the four-yea- r term for gover- nor If the illative of New York and California believe that a term is better for their states than a four-yeterm who are we to set up our Judgment against teicre? J42 the light of what tits tran two-yea- FORUM Letters express opinions ar "Twenty-fiv- e r ''' '''' ' ' ' ''''' ' I mean there is a trio of Sundays that can hold up their heads They're important People notice them and talk about them But poor old March 6th Who cares about him? Or maybe it's her? If it was only a week later the 13th it could be the famous Ides of March that Julius Caesar was told to beware of except that in the month of March the Ides fall on the 15th it says somewhere in a book But you get what I mean—it's close enough for Sunday the 13th to hold up its head and throw its weight around a little Good Month for Days : ' March is a thumping good month for days but none of them fall on Sunday Last : t 2 r ' Wedneday was Ash Wednesday 'iA!4'!4''4r' “ 'Reir next Wednesday is the anniverbesary of the historic dust-u- p tween the Monitor and the Merrimac back in 1862 Tuesday the 15th is Andrew Jackson's birthday and two days later we have St Patrick's day and bish as your columnist has writa thumping big parade in our ten I am afraid he would be town And Monday March 2Ist unable to sit down for a week is the first day of spring': But But in reading further I was today? Just plain nuthinl in find to horrified the just I've got one of those wonder- Forum your contributor Mrs ful new calendars that has all T F Jackson's account of the funetione-o- f oscialirtod mcdicta2—i the holjdaylt and birthdays of statesmen in Britain marked on it with pictures and Pwill defy this person to prove there just isn't a darned thing her statements berause hallving on or even near Sunday March left this with country along just 6th I can here others definitely say that the entire account is inFirst Sunday In Lent correct I have another calendar a I love this country and all its sort of a diary and date book people and the way they have which says "Sunday March 6th is fine But 1949-6- 5th accepted my family day-- 300 days to I am very careful whilst here to follow in Lent" First Sunday all beautiful admire that is and but I don't know whether that be constructive in my remarks is anything to get puffed up of anything I feel could perhaps about be improved I took it up with the day G A Stubbs early this morning I said "Come on kid Get your spirits 1Vonderfu1 Wizards' up Don't take it so hard After all you are the first SunEditor Tribune: Seems to me day In our wonderful wizards of the It looked up at me with sad state and nation will never agree and haunted eyes and mumbled on a system that could keep 'Aw shucks who carea? So progress straight on a road that rm the first Sunday in Lent would be a benefit for all When There are five more Sundays in the almighty dollar is held more Lent nix in all and I'm just one precious than the welfare of Doea anybody ever of them crippled children old and needy stand out in a sextet? Why slumbers About every progress couldn't I be May 8th which is four years we elect a new set Mother' Day or even May lst About the only of lawmakers which has a picture of Dewey in unanimous are thing they at Manila Why even Christdison one's is the agreeing they mas falls on a Sunday this year too were to the far going placed But do I get it? No What's the right So they trample down I'm just no good I don't use? and stop what pfogress that has mean nuthin' to nobody I with been made in their rush to the it were Monday and I was all left It all reminds me of a horse over" I owned one time He was an onery cuss It took a lot of prodSomething Must Happen ding to get him to go When he said "Aw now look here did make up his mind to go he old man surely something must would start off in the wrong : f- '"' ' : '' ' 1: 4 God made my heart and body Ho gave a soul to me That I might honor Itim on And eery Him faithearth Ito did not tell me what fully to do And yet I know today Mat Ito Is hoping I shall live According to His way Because my conscience cauTo cull the right tions me from wrong And only In the Can life become guice of Cod a song I have the freedom of my will And life is mine to choose But if I do not I know that I follow Ilan Imult And so with all A nil every my heart end soul I try too honor heath in ins God on earth And serve Him and faithfully Lent" direction go like hell and generally break something R M Brandon More Logic Editor Tribune: Why is it and engineers scientists who are responaible for the technological advances of our day are not in positions of leadership in this country? Why are technological processee Co far In advance of nociological and political processes? It la the solumn duty of every college and university to Include courses of study in the engineering curriculum that will instill Into the minds of their bright young atudenta their obligations to their government and their society no that in the future graduates of engineering and science schools will not be the inarticulate nonetities in the 'fields of social engineering that they are now There are two groups of and engineers— the ncientists technocrats and the atomic scientlets—vvho are articulate but seemingly without any effect on our andel order We need them in public offices to overcome the deep rooted antisocial traditiona of the lawyers pollticiane and businessmen now In the meddle We need more mathematical logic instead of "ape-ch- it intereats" logic in the gov- that ernment Julio IL Young Room for Progress Fditor Tribune: Confused and Confused Jr can find the answrr to their "whys" and many niore in the answer to this: "Why does the little savsge have cause to mite frequently chuckle up the sleeve he hasn't got ?" Answer: Itesuse "0111- rstion" has plenty of room left al yet for atiValleenient lien Thinkin have happened sometime on Sunday March 6th Maybe the guys who got up the calendar were a little careless or got a little lazy and akipped something Wait a minti(e Wasn't the bat " tie of New Orleans Sunday March 6th gave me a look "Boy" it said "do you know your battles! That was last January 8th Anyway who wants to be a battle? They're a dime a gross I could be a half a dozen battles if I wanted but I don't I want to be something nice that will make people smile and bow in the street and say 'Happy Something-or-othe- r' to one another and "lend flowers to their sweethearts and Troub let Enough The poor t : unloved unnung unimportant day wax breaking my heart I maid "Come now old chap you mustn't give lip like that !low would it be if we made you a kind of day? You know—Sunday March 8th Something ray! I know a lot of people in Wamhington I'Ve would Junt get together a little lobby and work tn have a title beatowed on you How do you think Mother's Day and Father a Day got to be?" For the first time the old Sunday perked up a little "Gee" It said wird? fully "do you really think Hut what day ? Oh I'd give anything to be aomebody like the remt of the days" I made my &damn The day wait breaking' my heart "You shall be Uncle's Day Sunday downin-the-m- outh March tith Uncle's Day when everyone calla tip or vinita their rich uncle and send him a box of cigar& We'll get the tobacco It'll Wane lobby to back it uncles and everybody — the eventually the relative who canh in when the uncle kit km Kid cheer up! Smile! You're In" ' A : other important By Our Readers Applies to Utah Editor Tribune: From "Congress on Medical Education p 111 Journal A M S" May 1 194g comes this: "The evident original purpose cflvivillng basic sc ienc a prerequisite for licensure in the healing arts was to exclude from being chiropractors admitted to lic'ensure The number of chiropractors appearing before basic science boards is decreasing each year" And from the El Paso Times May 9 1947 this: ''This newspaper contends that the Texas senate and Governor Jester should examine the bill very carefully It is an effort by the medical profession to prescribe a course of study for another group There is nothing fair about it "Chiropractors should be licensed anti regulated but it is not fair to put them under the thumb of the medical doctors who have not yet reached a state of perfection that they should be permitted to dictate to others If a citizen of this state wishes to be treated by a chiropractor and believes that he is benefiting therefrom it Is his privilege or should be to go to a chiropractor" This also applies to Utah L W Christensen '''' ' '' : ' SVridicate'll'1LI r‘'1u1i:iAwai The Public Forum - ' ' r 1'''''''- : 0igii'l'irt':'''''N'''''4:' f - Or The 10th is Palm Sunday the 17th is Easter and the 21th is the anniversary of the first newspaper published in the United States which took place on that date in 1704 Trio of Important Sundays - 4': ' r ' 0 ir ' ' 3 ''' ' ' l' I something ' i i - t ' i ' '' 4''' i ' t ''''''''' ''' 4 ) '' ie ' — t s ' '' N) - - 41 i'Ls! f' !:: ' '1:::::')'''' I' ' '''' ' - ' ' '4' ' ' ' f'! :'- ''1' ! !':YI::14 '' '1 ' ':''" ' ' - - - '' ''' :s' ' ''''' : - !' '1:"( :'- ' 61 act" - - - : 11:'7''' ' '' i' ' " ) '' f : l ''' ' - 1'!'1'et'' ' 4r ' ' t ' ': ' " t'' ! i :!r: ': 7'-- '" ''11: jr - r14- The majority apparently believe with Justice Brandeis the famous liberal jurist that "neither the common law northe Fourteenth amendment confers the absolute right to strike" The majority opinion written by Justice Jackson says "The right to strike because of its more serioue impact upon the public interest is more vulnerable to regulation than the right to organize and select representatives for lawful purposes 131simtng whictt this court has characterized as a 'fundamental right' and which as the court has pointed out was recognized as such in its decisions long before it was given protection by the Wagner - : j1—- ' - By PAUL GALLIC° NEW YORK—May I bespeak your sympathy and understanding for this day of Stuiday March 8th For it's just plain li'l o1 ordinary nothing Sunday No holiday of any kind actual or artificial no anniversary of anynothing no commemoration body born nobody croaked apparently of any importance no big battle or anything just Sunday March 6th and that's that Here it is and so what! For Instance next month In April almost every Sunday is ' : ' -- !': e - 4 ) I COMPLAIN ' Uncle's Day For March 6 4:1 CAN'T :' -- !'::-- - ' ''' - ''' i lNs5ivi-141 A '' ' 1)' - olle'A --rA 1 ' :'' : rf'! '':'1'7' ' ': - So It's Happy ' ' 'r'V' i'i'f'14A''1-'r:i''- : ' !':'"'!:1:'--SA:'It'4 (f ': !': : Ite: 7711tng -- --: '"- - "s''x ' ' ''' ' :!'''-''':-'- '''- - '' ''' arose in Wisconsin in 1918— while the Wagner act was in force and before the act was passed I ": E:'-:i:- ' '''' c' ' 'i - ' sffi F ' 1k:-'-' : : ':)'''''''0''''' : c07-N- :ty '1'' i r—'44- ''''' ''' ''s : nt history" foreign ministers — '''''' disputes notwithstanding the exercise of federal power in the Wagner act and the the decisiqn can be described as a milestone in constitutional law The case under consideration Intermittent Stoppages An auto workers union engaged in intermittent work stoppages by caMng repeated special meetings of the union during working hours without warning to the employer or notice as to when or whether the employes would return to work Such meetings were called on 26 separate occasions in a period of four successive months This procedure was publicly described by the union leaders as "a new technique for bringing pressure upon the employer" Chief Justice Vinson Justices Reed Burton Frankfurter aintl Jackson denounced this as coercive and within the power of any state to forbid by law Justices Black Murphy Rutledge and Douglas upheld the method as coming within the right to strike as protected by federal law and not subject to state interference Concur With Brandeis By et'ir ' ' By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON — When the supreme court of the United States inahes a ruling on how far the right to strike can be used by unions and to- what extent the several states have retained their rights to police strike someone has been ptiting over a raw deal someone has been arrested some crimi- The newspapers of the United States offer no apologies for their policy or of their handling of the daily grist of reports from all over theearth They are like many other phases of our national life susceptible to improvement and certainly do not resent criticism Many of them set aside space for "letters to the editor" in which they are taken to task for their conduct That is also part of American journalism and an aspect of the freedom of the press It might be pointed out to Professor Over- street and others who have similar complaints that every reader has a right to accept or reject the stories and opinions published daily Some of them like the late and beloved Will Rogers "know only what they see in the papers" Will Rogers incidentally was the last person to accept everything he read as "gospel truth" But most readers have their own opinions and read their papers with intelligence and an open mind They are not as the professor fears being led around by their noses It is also apparent that the newspapers print what thetpublic wishes to read or they would not stay in business very long Reliable and responsible policies of handling news usually "pay off" and the reading public shows its appreciation for such treatment by supporting fair and independent newspapers llo:st Neglected Patient Strike Rulings By Justices 'Legal Stride' irozAmmattlmtle& |