| Show t - IS 40 ght Oalt Monday Morning: June 8 1953 GENmiftmm iletabilahed April 111 ltt Ineued every Mating by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing '' Co Salt Lake City Mak year organizations are being exin seeking to thwart tremely the plan to keep the tax in force for half a year beyond its July 1 expiration date The tax which yields about $800 million semiannually is a necessary part of the Administration's goal to balance the national budget in the fiscal year starting July 1954 A short-tersubstitute tax would not be ef'short-sighte- d of balance These 'same groups have howled loud and long about the inequities of the present tax structure yet they apparently refuse to go along with the administration and permit time to study the problem and work out a more fair and effective federal tax probusiness leaders gram Many short-sighte- d would place themselves and the administration in the same position that they claim labor held with the previous administrations The Salt Lake Tribune stands for tax reductions for both corporations and individuals—when it can safely be done—but we think any meat axe approach will damage the economic strength of the country m fective Treasury Secretary Humphrey has warned that losses in federal revenue now would be an unsafe gamble with the cowl try's security He made it plain the administration does not want the "tax nobody likes" continued beyond six months but that It temporary continuation is necessary to avoid throwing the budget further out of ' Joint No group has been any more vociferous In critizing recurring government deficits— and their enormous contribution to the inflationary spiral—than business leaders They are making a grave mistake in failing to realize that the few corporations with large excess profit taxes should not be given special consideration in tax reductions over the corporations with smaller profits and the individual taxpayers Administration leaders have warned that dropping the A report that between 35 and 40 per cent of young men registering for military as service are being rejected—classified F for physical mental or moral reasons —is highly disturbing It is hard to believe that 1600000 have thus been rejected since the start of the Korean war—almost half as many as thoie who have been accepted for service If that rate of rejection is justified then we have failed miserably somehow to build Ale kind of citizens of tomorrow we should :for all our educational health and charact g efforts of the past 20 years If it isn't justified then for one reason or another far too many youths are being It could be that given F classifications the armed services have set too strict stand 7:ards Or it could be that some selective Service examiners are too lenient in grant' big deferments Many rejections are on the basis of relatively minor physical impairment or simply lack of sufficient schooling The nation's best interests in these cases might be far better served by drafting these young men and correcting the defect or minimizing it as a handicap than in sending them back to civilian life as rejects After all defective or not they still must find some place Couldn't military service help society 1hem find it? -n And what of the other cream of the crop—which goes into milShall the sacrifice of time l: tary service? education of parenthood of even life —Itself be confined to them—the bravest Lind best on whom our full growth and should depetid? Iirogreu ' One way or the other that astonishingly high rejection rate proves something is We ought to find out what it is wrong 4-- ::ter-buildin- 4-- : 4-- F Worlds to Conquer Now that Mount Everest has been scaled adventurers may now turn to other great challenges And since there isn't much left on earth unconquered by man except man himself efforts likely will be directed out in space But Buck Rogerses and Flash Gordons should-no- t expect to make a trip to Mars tomorrow or next day Achievement In this direction in the next three years likely will be limited to determining the form of life if any existing on the "neighboring" planet A controversy about conditions on Mars has persisted for 50 years When Schiaparelli reported "canali" on the red planet in 1877 Percival Lowell a wealthy amateur astronomer built his famed observatory mainly to prove that the vague lines were indeed canals built by Martians to irrigate arid regions Ironically the Lowell telescope helped convince most scientists that the canals did 'not really exist Opinion varies as to whether the thread-lik- e mark ings are cracks or periodic vegetation Scientific observations have pretty well discounted the legend that thinking creatures inhabit the red planet Delicate instruments at Lowell and Mount Wilson observatories indicated long ago that mean temperature on Mars is between 30 and 40 degrees below zero maybe dropping to 150 below at night Moreover there is little or no oxygen and hardly any moisture Even so some observers insist that some low forms of life maybe mosses or lichens exist there accounting for the changes in People in the Dark tfl: color In 1956 says Scientific American Mars will make its nearest approachto the earth and giant telescopic cameras are being prepared for training on the globe which will still be 35 million miles away Whath ever the reflector of the Mount Wilson observatory shows the Mars legend will live on and amateurs and professionals alike will continue dreaming of trips to Mars And maybe it's just as well Didn't the skeptics say Everest couldn't be 100-inc- conquered? The queen has dubbed a professional cricket player a knight which is small potatoes compared to the way the sports writers made Babe Ruth a sultan years ago An expert says the heat of an atomic 1 bomb might set your house on fire but then the force of the blast would blow it out Still things would be sort of exciting for a few seconds k f' ii" Or T 0 '' - ''' fLse -- 10Jit kr3 - ) - iit ' Ti CRI iri ef1 j VI a I : i f i N1441 And what do you think the ' t0'i Ns ttVI''s -- ki- - TO the cheers HUNLTING '9°mAIN l' th: 1w OP '4 1AITE5 Atgb muNt IrALITIES 6 VI i'f PY344::ctletS64 Se tel'4& IP- ''' ' lial dr ' VA00' ' - "'7 194 411 ' 46 0 (4 "orhaii 1 i ki i1 Juips fl J ' f lite-MAN- N 1 t I qi I )4 f Nalt- - ROBERT S ALLEN Gala Homecoming Arranged for Truman WASHINGTON — Demo-vati- c leaders are quietly 'organizing a spirited "homecoming week” : for former poilz-tool 1 ' f 1 I President ''' Harry S Trilman's visit to t h e Capital late month ow 111 His yek o 110 this first trip here since the leaving White House will last three He will be ' A Mr Allen days June accompanied by Mrs Truman and daughter Margaret The program for their stay Is still incomplete but it already calls for a round of conferences dinners luncheons receptions and other affairs — all Democratic and heavily overlaid with politics Mr Truman will do no public talking while in Washington But he will do a lot of it privately at a series of meetings with congressional and 22-2- national committee leaders among them National Chairman Stephen Mitchell who will report on recent tours of the West and South former Secretary of State Dean Acheson former Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman former Secretary Agricultural Brannan House Charles Leader Sam Rayburn Tex and Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson Tex The Trumans will stay in a hotel while in the Capital From there they will go to Philadelphia for one day and then to Ne York for several days after which the former President and his wife will return directly to Independence California's large Republican delegation in the House Is buzzing with a spectacular rumor It has Senator William Know land leaving Congress to boost his prospects for the White House Following is the way this Intriguing cloakroom story goes: BRUCE BARTON Statistics Are a Handifap When I sold aluminum cooking utensils from door to door to help pay my way co I- ithrough p a cowry erally dis- Gen- speak- - ing small- - the er the house the bigger would be my sale It was the mansions 41 of t h e rich Mr Barton that licked me There instead of a thrifty housewife anxious for the best equipment I would find a "lady"—often one who had never used a kettle in her life and just didn't care If an "economist" or an "expert" had tried to help me plan my selling campaign he would have given me a map of the territory and colored each area according to the per capita income of its residents The map would have been accurate but the 100 conclusions per cent wrong I would have been loaded with facts" but probably would have starved to death fil "socio-economi- Threatens To Be c Master It goes without saying that both business and government must have as a tool But today it seems to me the tool is threatening to becbme our master It is time to remind ourselves that statistics can never take the and place of imagination courage And that no man ever made a notable success without at some point flying in the face of the 'facts' When Henry Ford was dig- ging the foundation for his first tiny factory his father fact-findin- martyrdom well-tailor- -: ': '4 - No! They gave Parks a parade They made him grand marshal of the Labor Day march And he walked in 9411 -- warned him: "You are making a great mistake You should go back to your ufe job as night engineer at the electric light plant Before you have your factory built eVery family in the country that can afford an automo- bile will have one" Statistically Correct the old man Statistically was right An automobile then cost $8000 it was easy to take the census figures and prove that only a few thousand families would ever be buyers But Henry was thinking of a different kind of automobile—one that could be made by the millions and sold to everybody Years later when Henry had to shut down his huge factories for months-to-makthe change from his Model T to the Model A reporters asked him: "How much did it cost?" "Haven't the slightest idea" answered he impatiently And added: "There's too much useless bookkeeping in the world" Researcher Wrong I remember thinking about that remark one day when a noted "research authority" was showing me proudly through his new offices It happened to be Washington's birthday At the end of the tour I asked him: "Suppose you had been in business when George Washington was at Valley Forge And after making your surveys and taking your polls what would you have told him!" Answered the authority a little sheepishly: "I guess I would have said 'General according to my statistics your situation is hopeless Take my advice sir—just go home'" I The Auto Union stumbled on the racket when it moved Into the area in search of a $5000 bribe taker in a nearby plant While ousting the corrupt one they found that the national crime syndicate was taking some $750000 a year out of the Wright plant mob The Adonis-Morett- i had its runners in special hideaways picking up bets on an enormous scale The local Auto Union led by young Bob Ormsby called all He the stewards together asked for the resignations of anyone fronting for the mobs He warned that the union would not process any grievances for those fired for gambling Word came that the mobs' "enforcers" were set to move knock off some union official as a warning But right here is where the rank and file of some 19000 aircraft irbrk- era (members of the C 1 0 Auto Union) stood by their local leaders Backed Up Policies The rank and file turned out They were good and loud in their rebel yells They backed up the policies of their union president The company then fired a runner whom the police had picked up with gambling memos on him The union said he was only small fry The company investigated and told all supervisors that anyone caught working with the booki s would be fired The local unloh then ran a front page editorial declaring that anyone gambling in the plant would not be defended by the union Two men were picked up shortly They were fired The union applauded The men admitted their guilt That cracked the gambling system and the crime syndicate in the plant The mobs haven't been back to Wright since This can happen only when turns out at the No mob can take meetings on several thousand husky men The mob is yellow It picks men off one at a time It never challenges a show of Yet there has been strength no show of strength! rank and file did? Throw him SALES cp plant AIr ytti Ake ' the North Jersey gambling circuit which was taking some $3000 out of the pockets of C I 0 auto workers each noon through bookies and runners at the Wright Aeronautical a golden racket—muscling In on labor Just 50 years ago this month the — law caught up with the first Union tough a hood by t h e name of Sam Parka and sent him up to the big house Sing imam Sing for two years and three Mr Riese' months at hard labor for extortion This was the first exercise he had had in years for Parks earned his cakes and ale by ruling "with brute force" the Housesmiths Union and Bridgemen's out? oc Is I : 1 - ! 1 4"'ii A1 4114 A Utd 0 wtiO 1 ! 114 t ''' I° '' 'l P - ill le k i - 1 t ' )i v () Ik t 0 g°41: 44'411' t VI j 14 1 ! WASHINGTON — This is r- 1 111 1 -- I 6:5 admission to places producing processing or storing foods drugs and cosmetics This was a body blow to enforcement As Mrs Hobby stated the vast majority of manufacturing plants welcome the federal food and drug inspectors and with them Ironically it is usually those who refuse to admit the inspectors who have something to hide Certainly no obstacle should be left in the way of assuring the public that the food and drug products they buy are not only safe but reason- ably in keeping with the manufacturer's claims It is far too easy to produce and dispense adulterated goods and the place to prevent such despicable practices is at the source Congress should act promptly to keep factory doors open to inspectors charged with safeguarding the public from "poisons" labeled "medicine" or "food" i t 6tei1431:00 Open the Factory Doors 4-- Fs American scientists and technicians have now learned how to "breed" atomic fuels This means that it may be possible someday to convert all the worlds uranium into fissionable material At present only uranium-235 can be used which means less than 1 per cent of the total uranium supply Gordon Dean chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in making the announcement said that the "breeding" discovery "holds the promise of making a civilian atomic power industry even more feasible and attractive in the long range than it has hitherto appeared to be" The snore fuel the more power and unfortunately the more 'potential bombs Atomic weapons could became as relatively plentiful as hand grenades The procesa of atomic "breeding" was not disclosed but what is done is to produce fissionable material simultaneously with the consumption of fissionable material To the layman that seems the next closest thing to perpetual motion—a fuel reproducing itself almost as fast as it's burned up—something to marvel about and believe only because everything fantastically scientific is believable nowadays The stIccessful experiments were per- formed at the National Nuclear Reactor Station near Arco Idaho Natu rally the work went on behind the high 'Oval of secrecy that surrounds all of the A E C's doings And that perhaps is the most frightening aspect of the whole affair —the fact that decisions involving such tremendous sources of power are made be hind closed doors The people are in the dark No other course could have been possible considering the nature of the atomic secret and the delicate international situation But we hope that proposals which the A E C is considering for letting private industry into the nuclear power field are not long delayed That will be one step toward a saner world I'' e the golden anniversary of 11 A)" Secretary of the new Department of Health Education and Welfare speaking on the Eisenhower TV panel last week took occasion to appeal for support for the bill which would give food and drug inspectors unquestioned power to make factory inspections Until recently inspectors visited food drug and cosmetic plants as a matter of routine in ascertaining that products are not harmful A Supreme Court decision however branded the federal law covering such inspections as vague and contradictory As a stilt inspectors may be refused I 0As Can Drive Rackets Out of Unions 0 O71 MY PROPIrI "It does not seem fair to let the first tax reduction benefit only a relatively small group of corporations at least alit months ahead of any relief for other taxpayers" Mr Humphrey told a congressional committee last week Unfortunately some of the same interests seeking an end to the excess profits tax now also demand other tax reductions even though the budget is still out Business Too Many 16 RIES EL Rank-andFil- ' fr THIS excess profits tax threatens a planned 10 per cent reduction In individual taxes next fshIt rukva ' ' i'' YOU STAY OUT OF HERE! Bushiess Should Support Ike's Tax Policy ' !tit I --- -- The Eisenhower administration's arguments for extending the excess prOfits tax for another six"months are sound and reasonable The proposition should have the active support of individuals and business firms interested in the fiscal and economic health Of the United States vicroa Looks Like Good Hunting in There takt-gtibun- t Governor Earl Warren who will be eligible for a $16000- a year state pension at the end of his present term will' not run for in 1954 Instead he will throw his powerful support behind Senator Know land who first came to the Capitol in 1945 by appointment by Warren to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Hiram Johnson Would Be Little Risk Know land who is 45 would be taking little risk in running for governor Last year he was for a full term that does not expire until 1958 Thus he is sure of remaining on the national stage either as senator or governor If Know land should become governor he could then be able to do for Warren what the latter did for him—appoint him to the Senate if that appeals to Warren There Is nothing definite that it does Know land would be strategically placed to push his ambitions for the presidency As governor he would have top hand in controlling Cali- fornia's'delegation tothe 1956 convention or if that is not open the next one after it Political Notes Mrs India Edwards dynamic vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee is looking for a new job She is telling friends "I think it's a great mistake for one person to hang on too long to a position of political Virginia Releadership" leaders are hot publican under the collar over what they claim is White House neglect on patronage Former State Chairman Robert Woods angrily told party colleagues "I am in favor of sitting right on the front steps of the White House until we get something accomplished" Maryland's Governor McKeldin who nominated President Eisenhower at last year's Chicago convention will defIf initely run for he wins he will be the first Republican in the history of the state to serve two consecutive terms After Big Game According to one report in Senate cloakrooms the real "game" that Senator Joe McCarthy is allegedly "hunting" during his mysterious visit to Mexico is former Ambassador William O'Dwyer Justice Department insiders are predicting that a special U S attorney will be named to try the government's case against California's millionaire lobRep byist "Artie" Samish New James Donovan (D York City) may bolt to the Republicans in next year's election Donovan who was elected to the originally House as a coalition candidate against leftist Vito Marcantonio has gotten in had with local Democratic leaders I t i of to the crowd with only his shaved head to show he was out of Sing Sing on Later he went back appeal to Jail Fifty years Is a long time to It's tolerate this nonsense about time the rank and file stood up at meetings and fought back It's time because in a very few months— and this is a safe prediction — special grand Juries will indict some of the toughest goons in some of the roughest labor rackets That this will hurt all labor goes without further sermon The grand Jury revelations will startle the nation unless they're squashed by the government for fear that naming such high placed officials may to be appear How anti-labo- It Can r Be Done Only the rank and file can save the government and labor such embarrassment For one night a month the membership can tear itself away from its television sets And the Wives can encourage the men to participate in the union which bargains for the pay envelopes which keep groceries in the kitchens It can be done It has been done There is a union which stood up against the "enforcers" of Frankie Costello Joe (Doto) Adonis Al (the Executioner) Anastasia and the late Willie Mor) (He These men controlled etti rank-and-fil- e Talked-Too-Much- FRANK R KENT M'Carthy Thrives on Abuse WASHINGTON—It has Carthi denunciations got- ten so that in this country to say a word about Senator McCarthy not de- tl:::1 't5e:!7' °4 nunciatory or 'ev 11 even mildly 1 favorable is to subject one's ' self to a more '' f4 denunviolent from ciation six-da- L e anti-Mc- 4 eleCarthy ments than comes f to m Mr Kent the Carthy elements wnen their pro-M- man is denounced or slurred This is not written to defend Senator McCarthy On the contrary it is written by one who thoroughly dislikes his methods his manners his admitted deviations from the facts and furthermore dislikes him as a man Actually Helps Him is written solely for the purpose of pointing out that the violence and virulence of has the reached a lioint where it no longer is doing Mr McCarthy harm but is actually building him up into being a considerably more potent public figure than he actually is This of course is not to say that Senator McCarthy's misstatements of facts should be allowed to go uncontradieted It is to say that the passion with which he is being daily assailed defeats its purpose and gives to Mr McCarthy an Importance to which he is not entitled The best example of this was the recent convention in Washington of the Americans for Democratic Action an organization dedicated to the principles of the late Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman and Adlai whom it supStevenson ported As the Washington editorially Eveningout Star none of these pointed heroes dominated the convention Practically every session was dominated by McCarthy Actually the proceedings were so saturated with Mo It P gathering The A D A of course is not the only agency which is keeping Mr McCarthy in the news For weeks now the : th that everything else the convention did got scant notice McCarthy was in nearly every headline resulting from the New ' Deal-Fai- r Deal colum- nists and commentators have been almost frantically calling upon President Eisenhower to "break with McCarthy" and express his abhorrence of "McCarthyism" Hardly a day goes by that they do not prod him "to act" As David Lawrence wrote the other day a sort of phobia has grown op here and even spread to Britain where not long ago some public men inquired who is running our foreign policy Eisenhower or McCarthy? You cannot get much sillier than that Would Be Stupid Nor could Mr Eisenhower easily commit any greater stupidity than to become involved in a brawl with Senator McCarthy which would obscure and confuse every other issue about which he is concerned and lead only to more McCarthy headlines McCarthy already has been called all the names póssible and chargedwith all kinds of misdemeanors and wrongdoing He seems to thrive on abuse and it is unintelligent for his opponents to keep up a ceaseless barrage without more effective ammunition— particularly as there usually Is more than a trace of truth in his grossest exaggerations It merely plays his game It also plays the game of the Kremlin whose Daily Worker shouts "McCarthyism"'in almost every issue The truth is that irresponsible and exaggerated as may have been the McCarthy charges of communistic infiltration in our government they are not as much so as the stand of those who contend that there has been and is none - |
