Show -- fi i r t 1 y '— '"r‘tTT'TnriinJ V H t ® 1 V tt throughout the country' The problem has proved of much greater magnitude than originally believed and the research program should be permitted to expand as wisdom dictates Ross Leffler assistant interior secretary said in a report to Congress IT SHOULD NOT be too much to hope that the program will be expanded even beyond the recommendations of the department and also include a thorough study of the effects of insect poisons on humans and domestic animals The Interior Department estimates Burying the Hatcliet Chancellor Adenauer and Economics Minister Erhard of West Germany have buried the hatchet again we hope this time permanently For the damage already done will be as nothing compared with the damage that can result If their quarrel continues Christian Democratic members of Parliament approved a motion of confidence in both men and announced that this closed the incident Nevertheless the unity of the Christian Democratic Party has been shaken and West German democracy has been given a black eye Next on the agenda is the election of a president by a special electoral college in West Berlin on July 1 Adenauer had originally agreed to seek the office because the party needed a strong candidate then changed his mind when it appeared that Erhard would succeed to the chancellorship The Christian Democrats have now chosen a virtual unknown Agriculture Minister Luebke as their presidential candidate Since Luebke is expected to win it is difficut to understand why Adenauer once thought it necessary to "step up- stairs” Perhaps Adenauer regrets that decision It is unfortunate however that he did not employ less dictatorial and ruptive methods in reversing himself dis- Our China ‘Reporters’ Tie State Department which long has followed an inconsistent and seemingly capricious policy on passports to American correspondents seeking to go to Red China has now created a real puzzler The department issued a passport to former Governor Averill Harriman of New York who has a contract to write about China for a news syndicate But it has denied one to Associate Justice Douglas of the Supreme Court who had been engaged to write for a magazine Neither Mr Harriman nor Justice Douglas are primarily newsmen but Mr Douglas has written many astute observations of foreign lands and peoples in books and magazine articles in the past Dean Acheson former secretary of state who represented Mr Harriman in petitioning for a passport argued that his client had no other job than that of reporting Technically that may be true at the moment for the several times contender v for- - the presidency recent chief executive of our most populous state and heir to a huge railroad fortune Presumably however between court sessions Mr Justice Douglas also has no other job And if the State Department is thinking of possible repercussions should something happen to a Supreme Court lustlce in darkest China the effect would be only a' little less disturbing if Mr Harriman were involved in an incident The refusal of a passport to China for Justice Douglas could indirectly have a potent effect on the question of correspondents going abroad The case of William Worthy whose passport was revoked because without hewenttoRed China In 1956 thi-Stat- e Department’s blessing likely will be taken to the Supreme Court Now that Mr Justice Douglas has himself been denied a passport will he feel he can sit on the case of another writer in passport trouble? If he disquali-- " rfies himself lathe Worthy case the State Department will not only have kept him from reporting on China but it will have silenced him also on the department's right to pick and choose correspondents who may go to China Visiting Cartoonist that the use of pesticides will increase so greatly that by 1975 the wholesale value of such materials used each year will approach a billion dollars That would compare with 40 millions worth used in 1940 and 290 million dollarsv worth in 1956 'C‘r 5J a oday’s Billy the Kid ? ' tv "&'- - m w ' ”4 V J 'Jr PHEASANTS QUAIL and other spe-ciexposed to amounts which do not cause death suffer delayed effects in the 'form of reduced reproductive capacity and -survival of their young t "Persistent high levels of DDT have been found in the bodies of fish months es after temporary concentrations in the POISONING THROUGH accidental or deliberate heavy use of insecticides remains largely in a land” of controversy and confusion Powerful conservation organizations are fighting vast aerial spraying programs such as that for fire ants in the southern states but what of the lowly homo sapiens whose strawberry beds happen to be in the way of his neighbor’s spray gun? It is time a thorough study was made of what conceivably could prove to be a mammoth program being carried on by the American people "no-man- Cornelia ’s Lund S Mrs Cornelia Sorenson Lund who died last weekend at 77 demonstrated during her remarkable lifetime that a talented the world and the I fret about payments and I cer- future generations tainly wouldn’t care to see the end of the world But L too live in fear A fear so very great it shakes my " ' " being I live in fear of YOU you the person behind the wheel of any automobile In just everyday living I witt ness the tremendous power of destruction you wield Going down 13th East I saw a young mother and son wrapped around a tree-bl- ood everywhere While fishing on the Provo River commitgovernor-appointeI saw a young boy hit and tee thrown several feet in the air to land in a crumpled Every appointment to office and new department heap in the roadway created increases the taxes It was Father’s Day and ' and expenses of governwe decided to take the chib ment dren to Christmas Meadows There are a good many for an outing We were ap-whys to be answered by the proaching Parleys summit men we elect to run govwhen we noticed you You ernment affairs For inwere coming toward us rath 1 stance why are we suber fast We had just noticed jected to so many tax bur- the children you had riding dens? Why do hidden taxes In the back when it hapcrop up from things levied the front left tire j pened that we didn’t know aboqt? on your vehicle blew out and ' Government authority has you came tearing at break taken over in domestic afneck speed directly toward fairs to such an extent that us A hub cap twisted loose we don’t know where we and knifed through the air stand only inches in front of our ' Until we get some answers windshield We headed for to these questions inflation the pit and managed to get will climb and climb and by safely thank God The climb until it breaks the rest of the ride was calm and peaceful but then came richest country on earth CARL B CRAIG the ride back We were to encounter you We Aren’t Immune several times before we could get our family back to Editor Tribune: It seems from the tone of some of the the safety of our home We saw in two military ve letters in the Forum that hidesyou speeding recklessly communism or socialism as and passing us on a hill It a form of government is turned dusk and you appeared again in a passenger very undesirable Always car passing another car bn a however reference to the blind curve forcing it off particular "ism” is ratheff the road to save your own vague The impression seems neck when the danger of the to be that Russia or China fast approaching north or some other country has if bound car confronted yod but we over here have bees: head on 1 inoculated I’m beginning to know you Let us now be specific well and the more I know communism or socialism is a of you the my feaf disease to which we fn You struck greatef down my youngAmerica are not immune jn est son July 7 1958 and re- varying and ever increasturned unsatisfied to strike ing degrees we have It at me Aug 30 of the same A very good example of year Yes I live in fear— in communism In America is fear of you!" the governmenLAURA FIFE t-owned electric power i projects We in the InterFreedom of PreM mountain Area should now Editor Tribune: If Maribe especially aware of this lyn R Alien is a constitusince very recently the govtional American then she ernment has been vejry must know that one of our vigorously trying to expand basic freedoms is freedom of this one phase of communism right here in our the press It does not necesown back yard I am not sarily follow that the policy going to discuss the relative of The Tribune leans towards socialism because it merits of government-owneversus public-ownegives space to the Prescott power facilities I would however writer What it probably like to make clear one point means is that The Tribune government ownership is not follows its Forum rules rather carefully The rule ‘ public ownership as government propagandists would are clear enough have us believe public ownIf The Tribune suddenly burst forth with editorials ership is private ownership as is evidenced by our own Writteix in the same vein as public utilities with multiple the letters from Prescott stock ownership then Marilyn R Allen’s — The only question for us to charges would be true answer as regards governmenFar too many of us are t-owned electric utilities guilty of judging a whole is this: Is government ownpaper or magazine for someership a form of constituthat we do not agree thing tional democracy or Is govwith We throw away goocj ernment ownership a form reading material for the of communism? I quite same reason If something frankly have never found in that we read in a paper is - the Constitution authority not agreeable with us should for the government to own we discard the whole paper! and operate a business in Rather we should remember - competition with Its citizens that this world is made up and in a manner that is disof many kinds of people to the majority with different tastes in al criminatory of the citizens To me this phases of life Far too many is communism and should of us have the idea that aa - be stopped editor is playing favoritism IL BUTLER when It comes to printing a Smithfield Utah paper This simply is not Monday Morning Jeep Ride Scenery in Back Country Breath-Takin- g Here’s hoping nature doesn’t decide suddenly to use for summer flood drainage the several gullies formed for that purpose in Salt Lake City— now gradually being decked with concrete and brick t while we’re in a wishful mood let’s not permit the disputes over the belt route reach the belting stage AND A Detroit spokesman predicts that 6300000 autos will be manufactured in the next five years If every one tows a boat the highways will have to be not only wider but longer All other puzzlers In the good old summertime are overshadowed by this question: Do the gals buy them that tight in the first place or Is the touted Sanforizing process a failure? MRS ALFRED comment- ing on the Monday should lag when the travelUJS governors meet with Khrushchev a lively discussion might be started by our George Dewey with Comrade K over the relative merits of American and Russian hair restorers ing Say what you will about the new Federal Reserve Bank Building it certainly provided us with a fine new sidewalk WONDERLAND One of the mysteries of the Wilderness Crusade is the seeming lack of interest by the professionals in any areas in Utah south of Uintah County The Inverted Mountain country of south and southeastern Utah features intricately eroded brightly colored rocks and awesome canyons — many of them hardly explored This section is so vast and so spectacular that it defies description full length Some of the least publiand most exciting grandeur In our experience Is found In the Wayne Wonderland including the Capitol Reef National Monument mirrors in front of the super markets says it would be good for male shorts wearers also to take a revealing look Can you remember a time when both parties were so loaded with vice presidential material and so short on presidential? cized — Combined here are" the fantasy of Bryce and the grandeur of Zion jlus a unique array of pinnacles bridges trees petrified tanks and animal like objects carved out of sand-- stone IN ADDITION to magnificent scenery the wonderland offers solitude in abundance Drive off any of the few and often primitive roads a mile or two and you would swear that man has never set foot in the area before From an airplane or the top of Thousand Lake Mountain the topography resembles that of the moon through a powerful telescope except that the whites here are blended with all shades of pink blues and greens Exploring the back country offers a variety of physical exercises as well as visual and emotional experiences You cling to a bucking jeep over spectacularly rough country until the machine becomes immobile then you get out and climb up and down rocks and over pinion and clearings until your legs and feet ache You rest in the shade of a giant ponderosa pine or a cliff and then you climb some more By the time you get back to the jeep it is no longer a devilish machine but a welcome sight the epitome of comfort brush-covere- d woman can be a good mother and an effecand capitol-likdomes temtive civic worker and public servant WE inspected a goliath If the conversation ples archaeological remains The wife of Dr Anthony C Lund bridge from the vantage point of a ledge across a director for 17 years of the Salt Lake Tabravine deep ernacle Choir and chairman of Brigham an experienced eye Only Young University music department until could spot the arch from the his death in 1935 was the mother of four distance because it blends sons and three daughters with the sandstone of - Mrs Lund’s services as a public offifrom which cial church leader and civic worker were nature carved it As you get closer it looms large and many and varied She served in both houses of the Utah Legislature in the high A giant shrub grows inside the arch seemingly in 1930s and was Salt Lake County recorder solid rock and a shaft of from headed the Salt— light comes through a natLake City Women's Chamber of Commerce ural skylight or from the for about 20 years was state chairman of back of the bridge It is a Red the Cross during World War I held sight one doesn’t forget soon various offices in the Daughters of Utah The wilderness exponents 4f Pioneers in church organizations and the should see this grand wilderParent-Teache- r ness Monolithic arch in side of mountain about 15 miles south Association She served —ERNE LINFORD of FrultaT sighted several years ago by Dean B Brimhall on the board of the Utah State Historical several Society years was regional director of theSoroptpmists Club and was ort Ed Koterba the executive committee of the "This Is the Place” Monument Commission for 20vyears Mrs Lund remained unusually active and was in demand as a speaker up to her sudden fatal illness She was a remarkable of suggestions And we got suggestions — propping the WASHINGTON — Watchbills for "adjustments" hood open and turning on woman dnd many friends and admirers cumbering that complex "Take out the thermostat the heater to remove some will join The Tribune in expressing consome government of ours flush it out put in of tlj engine heat f dolences to her family day In and day ppermanent BUT THAT high priced out I get to take out your anti freeze" new fangled product of inwondering: In Tucson Ariz the Whatever hapventive genius kept growing theory was that pened to our the four blades in the fan more attached to that boijing simple life? point weren’t enough He installed "There is no use in making a half It wasn't until last weekr Things have a audit There is only one way — a complete end that we came across an become so audit of every department" t The car kept doing an acute in the near the ' small We applaud County Auditor David P imitation of Old FalthfuL town of Waynesboro Pa a environment of today that radiator man who still folJones for the above statement made in anAnd in Las Vegas a radialowed the old Model-- philosthere rarely is nouncing plans for an internal audit of man quietly suggested tor ophy-simplicity a apsimple county departments we let him rebuild the radiato proach problemsany tor— for $155 Half measures particularly when the HE TOOK one look at that more We made it across the desradiator removed the preshandling of public funds is Involved are insure cap grabbed a pair of worse than useless For they give rise to a I THINK the radiator of ert with the help of an device invented by pliers and wrenched loose a false sense of security by making it appear our car illustrates this Last genious — a two-quame carmilk small washer from inside the 30000 a on set out that all is well when the opposite may be year we — ton strung on a wire in front cap mile trip and to solve our the case ) of the radiator Tiny holes factory-installeTJie we transportation problems Mr Jones will audit the accounts of the were punched in the bottom washer is what held that new cm a a bought Salt Lake General Hospital the courts— and the carton filled with pressure in the radiator job And that's water The sucked into "That’s your trouble' he including justices of the peace— and all spray when the problems began the radiator and the idea said other county departments Persons who worked until the water gave The car’s worked perfect- have paid for licenses and other services That car would overheat out ever since -— out — If backed ly of will be contacted for verification — you just - We negotiated the Alaska That’s what I mean What the garage We hope that Salt Lake County’- - exceHighway in careful easy this country needs Is more of llent example is widely followed We got advice— all sorts stages with two additional that old Model-- philosophy e he- What Happened to Our Simple Life? d - ‘I Live Editor Tribune: The people of the world today are restless confused and frus-- trated They live each day-in fear Perhaps it’s fear of Russia or fear of the atomic bomb or fear they cannot meet the next installment payment Some fear invasion from outer space and others the end of the world I am just an average housewife and mother of three boys I do my share of worrying about the prob old-tlme- d - T An editor sets up rules and adheres to them as closely as is possible And a closer look at the letters from — Prescott will I’m sure prove — that said letters fill all requirements of the Forum rules i I do not agree with the theme of the letters at alk but I defend her right to write them and I certainly do defend The Tribune for publishing them INEZ RIDING n Delta Utah The Last Word anti-freez- e A Complete Audit true in Fear’ - By Bergen Evans QUESTION: What did you do when you "cut the mustard”? B B W ANSWER: You put on a great show You showed them You wowed them! Mustard (hot stuff) peared in ap- number a of slang phrases 60 years ago To be the mustard or to be the p r o p e r mustard was to be tjie genuine article thfe main attrac- - don't ’"you in- vite him If he’s so much to the mustard?” O Henry 1907) acting-friskil- Df uTf Biriai Ivifli in if Home Servlet Daparimvnier ffelt Lak Tribn P O Bax M7 1 Ball Lk Chr 10 HUH ! A ey af Dr A J0! 0 A dAaA j J® jANs idk J0 ad® ii Braa "THeil® Cantamoarr Amajiaf §7 taava” will 15 fca (pablkhaB al 8) vlaaa I® I ho® wbasa aaatt®ai iaa la IB® Laal Wa r4 i j 90 y -- tion To be all to the mustard was to be very Impor-tan- t (‘‘Why I i Of the many meanings ol cut one was frolicsomelj 'showing off (cutting up cutting capers cutting a dash) So that ta cut the mustard was to show that you were the genuine article to show you were 1m portint by a frolicsome ex cess Of energy Jjomethin like the guest of honor belnf also tlio life of the party The very vagueness of thi expression left a consider able margin for interprets tion pixper or improper ‘ ja 1 d one-quart- er pre-testi- - lems of Editor Tribunes I wish to voice a vehement protest to the trip of the governors to Russia even though the trip will be paid for by private capital Also Gov Clyde has appointed a committee to study the aged Why? Aren’t they restricted enough as it is? Old folks like myself who put in a good many years helping construct the facilities for easy living we now enjoy should not be subjected to the foibles of any "Most of these areas ar6 important wildlife and fish habitats Some chemicals persist in the soil for periods of three to ‘ five years or longer "Certain food chain organisms such as earthworms living in treated soil or waters tend to concentrate the poison In their body tissue Hence birds fish and other aquatic creatures are affected when they feejl upon the contaminated organisms the report said h "Studies made to date have shown that DDT may kill fish and other aquatic life when applied at dosage rates in excess of pound per acre Two pounds per acre will kill birds and cau$e heavy mortality among mammals” After a great deal of soul searching and debate Congress last year tightened regulations empowering the Food and Drug Administration to control flavorings sweeteners and a host of other chemical agents known as "food additives” The law applies chiefly to chemicals deliberately placed in food going Into commercial channels The "teeth” In the law require by manufacturers before an additive is placed on the market f A Few Why and marshlands are treated annually with these chemicals” Leffler said It would also seem reasonable that DDT and other chemicals ranging from mildly toxic to dangerously poisonoud might be passed on to human consumers through vegetables or fruit which have been sprayed or through concentrations in milk and meat "J By Our Readers h stream had dissipated” Leffler reported “Bird numbers in several of the areas treated with Heptachlor for imported fire ant control have been found to be reduced 75 to 85 per cent Populations of quail wild turkey and rabbits also were decimated in some of the areas T The Public Forum- v jtflw KfW’M of all the croplands and millions of acres of forests rangelands "One-sixt- m ) i &rnrTFyz June 29 1959 Study of Poison Spray Effects Overdue The Interior Departinent’s recent appeal lor a greatly expanded research program into the effects of pesticides on fish and wildlife surely will be echoed by concerned organizations and individuals W m 1 flu Balt fain pibaitc - Monday Morning nj ¥ j a |