| Show - - l IT 4 - ! is - 14 1 S ' ! - gbe ealt 1 1 I ' Monday ' ! lintablishnd April IL len loud Wig taktlfibunt V oil is essential to America's future We are sure no one who drives an auto- d train or mobile rides in a watches trucks deliver everything from coal to cantaloupes to our door would deny that Our domestic economy without oil wotild grind to a halt in a very brief time Nor is oil any less essential to our national security We simply couldn't fight a modern it That waxobvious In the last war: when some 60 per cent of the total tonnage moved overseas was petroleum products—to run ships planes tanks trucks and in other ways keep the whole complex military machine operating Without adequate supplies of oil we are simply through as a nation But bow much oil? Back 1111919 we got along fine on a million barrels a day—and exported some of that This year our production is running nearly six and a ball million barrels a day and we are importing oil from abroad But the President's Materials Poi-ic- y Commission a year ago forecast U S oil consumption in 1975 almost double to- ' - t - - - -y '- ' ' - ' ' - day's rate Where will the extra oil come front? Largely from domestic production—but not all The' commission estimated we would have to find an average of 48 billion barrels of additional oil each year in order to meet bstimated demand and keep our :reservet in proper relationship That would :' T- 4 : -t t i ' ':? 4 5 1 '' '1 1 I Aitt Euelene-L- Roberts - i :Ettgeno L Roberts led a full and useful life' He Made thousands' Of friends for he was the extraordinary type of man whose kindliness leadership and vision attract widespread 'interest His death last week at Provo will be mourned throughout the Intermountain Region "Gene" Roberts wu formerly athletic at Brigham Young University and i director although he left the school in the early 1930s for Southern California the memory of his achievements there is still green Forty-on- e years ago he originated the Mt Timpanogos hike a great community event still taking place annually and at about the same time be helped to start the B Y U relays which are still thriving The two projects helped put Provo on the map But better they have given un- told pleasure to hundreds of people year after year It took vision to conceive them and hardleaded planning to make them succeedand "Gene" Roberts had both : '''i ' -' r ' ') yt I ' 1 t ' ' t ' - : : ' I 1 -- 4 I 1 - ' He was a good man a good citizen and be wilibe missed The Tribune joins in voicing regret at his passing and extends sympathy to the family - 1 - ithose qualities - ' ' I 4 t ' In -' Air-Coole- i Courtroom? d le Life can be beautiful but one man's delight is often another's distress 1 set in motion by one person's upon comfort at others' expenses date back to Adam but modern gadgets add 'to' i the discord And contending principals In a sizzling Brooklyn court cue will have allies wherever the mercury soars above 90 - It all started when a new air conditioner started wafting cool breezes over Sam Akrow while he slept But the same mai chine wafted objectionable sound waves i' : 1 I nto the neighboring apartment of the ' Gershbert family keeping them awake And so after failing to get Mr Akrow to 1 ' I 'turn that thing off" the Gershbergs had Ihim hailed to court for causing "unreasont ably loud disturbing and unnecessary 1 iinsistence ' r 's noise" It developed that the Gershbergs bad a I -- sympathetic listener in court Magistrate Schanzer remarked regretfully that he too has' a Flatbusk neighbor with an air cooler that interferes with his slumbers Said the judge: "Air conditioners are being installed left and right The question arises how far can a person go to get his own personal comfort at the expense of his meighbor? This is a serious matter which must be legally determined by a court of last resort" He is still pondering the case - Solomon had it easy 4 I ' I 41 e $66 14 I' of the population of Nearly one-haArizona is concentrated in the Salt River Valley Without Ur water from the Salt River watershed there would be no agricultural development in the valley that last year produced $500 million 'worth of agricultural and other products There would be no cities industries or homes without this water Proof of this is shown by the fact that "alleys in the southwestern part of Arizona are equally rich in soil but are inhabited only by rattlesnakes and Gila monsters No watersheds supply moisture ' 1 e4 4 -- 1 144 áts411 I) e4 ' ' (1 1 1 1 t for them This was pointed out recently by Lee Hover of Arizona inqestbnony before the House Subcommittee onPublkIands The half billion dollars worth of products—produced in the Salt RiverValleraMounts to $80 for every acre of the 8320000-acrwatershed he said Watersheds of the West must be safeguardedritictly and without fear of favor Miflioni depend vpon them- - A 1 ' e '1 ' tr - i- '§: I" - 47 for Every Acre lf 31 : Trlirr ' morning by The gait inks Tribune Publishing Co Diesel-powere- -- - Morning July 13 1953 ' Soh Lake OW Cita - ) 7111 k aese 11t -- ' - -- ': ''' - ' t1 littibACHES 11 ' ( I 11 I t ijr Ise :IS ' ' "'"4!'-- Inta e - PAZ! 1011))j (4- kSk ' Alh - e:e" trt kiit s ' i Ls ao ri ?!: Jr it r t -- ls:' e4se : Cau144' fti '''clr ' 14i4stief RAd-- uteso- A' IteroMAkieliel - d '4 4FNimill 4 t -: tg4 it 'is The Public Forum Editor Tribune: Thanks for editorial "One Little Black Dog" It shows that in a world governed by bate and fear ' in a state overflowing with hunters there are still people who try to alleviate pain and suffering in either man or beast But there Is a larger field for the expression of sympathy and the exercise of humanitarian actions than the misfortunes of one lonely dog viz the needless pain and discomfort inflicted upon rodeo stock used to entertain some of our best people While the average rodeo as seen from the grandstand is debassing and comparable to Spanish bull fights or the gladiatorial contests of pagan Rome the full scope of its inherent cruelty is not seen from that viewpoint Instead the fact seeker should at moving time or between shows visit the training corrals the loading chutes the stockyards cattle cars and transport trucks where the electric prod the bull whip the pitchfork club end lasso are used to load and unload and otherwise control these n animals pitiful whose burns bruises and broken bones are not put on Editor Tribune: A survey conducted by the research di Educetion issues found that school superintendents considered religious education sex education communism socialized medicine local politics race relations Unesco and the United Nations to be the most controversial Criticism of teachers and of schools has become universal or unlimited Criticism involved would seem to indicate that religion as a science of sin has done more than anything else to increase sin Medicine as a science of disease has done more to increase disease than tiny other means Knowledge and learning involved in public instructions as being grossly stupid and that economics as a science Of want and poverty has done more to increase these evils than any other cause exemption In that case - Xs -- hue-ban- 4 'dm' sophomore Mr Barton year to marry It wasn't long before I yeal- ized my mistake but too late I was 'expecting' For a time I secretly blamed my husband for 'ruining my life' One day I realized that it wasn't his fault and since we don't believe in divorce started planning for the future—but with the present as it is not as it might have been" Drifted Apart Only one of my many correspondents contemplates She was possible divorce married at 17 her husband 'rhivoissorwudtahrofwKas So Hag 21 "Now four and a half years life is not happy" she writes "With no trade or business training he must supplement his small salary by odd jobs Saturday and eve- pings For quite a while he had to put up with bad cooking and housekeeping while I was learning and so very restless and began to hate the idea of marriage We could not visit other peopie because the children annoyed them and him So I was tied down at home and we drifted farther and farther apart Now I may have to earn a living for Myself and three if the children marriage breaks up (As seems likely)" Our second correspondent was married at 22 her husband at 21 She writes: "He says now he was too young but Ilike a lot of others he been too young at any age because he finds the responsibilities of family overwhelming He was forced to quit school early to work on his father's farm so he has not even a high school training He was happiest In the 'Army the Service took care of him ' he had no responsibilities 1 "Iti these days of specialization boysand OHS who do not i wait to get enough education glag mhaand Rhehee attacked by North Koreans It was his testimony that we were supposed to take yithi out question But today Rhwoerdsestaonfd ex-- Winsposed In the ton Churchill as an incor- rible to continue a wghich 'the already virtually destroyed ' his country The war could be ended to morrow if the U S would stop bolstering and coddling Rhee Our officials claim to be against aggression Let them now stop any further aggression against the peace by Rhee The U S cannot impose its will upon the rest of humanity but must learn to live in peace with the Socialist nations Olive Carroll Parowan Utah - 1 Way L 0: A IN B I ss 1 A 1 T ! I I i' sri 0 MI WI a g ' to so' MI Bc rot - yo a tI W y( lion Agricaltstres The erucial parity provisions of the farm statutes run out in 1954 and will have to be replaced With a rural recession in progress rigot th of nothing could be more controversial Foreign Boonomie Folicyt The reciprocal trade act must also be replaced Foreign economic policy is an even hotter subject than farm policy Social Security: The President has repeatedly promised to broaden social security coverage and is reported determined to keep his promise before the 1954 election This problem like the tax and foreign trade problems will come before the House Ways and Means Committee There Rep Daniel Reed presides and thirsting for revenge aft- ed his recent defeat Defense and Budget: This Issue has also been ducked this year by taking one-shdefense saving and blaming the remaining gap on the Truman administration Next year the President will then have to choose publicly and frankly between three truly repellent alternatives—steeply increasing taxes or stripping the national defenses g or forgetting his promises who knows the Anyone ways of Congress can imagine the consequences of a legislative program raising all these vital issues in an election year In addition every one of these issues is sure to arouse the wing of the Republican party Back I do M yr ' WI wl fr lir 01 Q D L P: ir al at at' IT a I Y ot rl Ii 11 a E J I r s s budget-balancin- 1:1 ti v II 1 c - STOKES Revising 1872 Mining Law WASHINGTON—As when man bites dog so it is a story around here these days when somebody tries to do some- -- ' to I to serve our nate ural resources 'f thing strengthen our i laws con-- '-' ' :-- -- - ''-- t'''-1- - 'i - W '715 i'l'- I bring many many thousands of dollars of land in the "patented" category there is a total of 915688 acres in our western national forests that has thus passed into private ownership on less than 15 per cent of this have mines been operated I That is unique 4':''''': successfully as commercial indeed for the -- enterprises trend has been N the other way l'44'Fs of nut is to try to weaken otu -- Kr" Blokes tin- conservation laws and policy So it's in order to report a couple of legislators Rep etimaseblinipedlnaneldgemlosoonsee TveuprlillgleeT:sazirm Clifford R Hope (R Ran) and Sen Clinton P Anderson ere (D N M) who are trying to of protect our national forests from a racket that has been ett oi going on a very long time Dates Back to 1372 U S Forest Service Since 1872 in fact and the Though the' remedial bills lErTz mining act Under the by Rep Hope and Sen Anderson differ in some respects loose terms of that law it is their objective is to separate possible for anybody to get hold of 20 acres in our westsurface rights from mineral ern national forests—or even rights so that the government much more—by filing a undnretains control over surface rights necessary for conserva- ing" claim at the county courttion house and paying a recorder's fee of 2125 Mining interests have sucIt is so possible that right cessfully prevented any revinow there are some 84000 sion of the 1872 mining act and they are now fighting the such claims staked out embracincabout 2 million acres Hope and AndersOn bills of which less than 3 per cent ' Salt Lakei Testifies actually are producing minHowaenvoeirlheiruasiphorkooesmh erals Some folks have put up R of fishing and hunting lodges on Salt late City appearing on their "claims" some summer homes while some have used did not seem' Congress tog' for as them grazing lands to impress Rep Hope and ' cattle other''members of the House Indefinite Holding Committee Agriculture of which Hope is chairman when The "settler" can just hold on to his claim indefinitely by he testified against the Hope an affidavit every year that he measure in current public has done MO of "assessment hearings Hope assured him work" It he wants to sell the that the committee would proa tect the Interest of legitimate timber then he must "patent" for his claim to give mining interests and prospechim clear title That costs tors but felt that the time had come to bring the 1872 around 21000 :Then he can N sell the timber which could i law up to date 1 Warmonger Rhea ahead" at THOMAS newspaper in the country Nephi L McKenzie d Alm just-electe- edlintormiayl socroaltinconbeTbheeatTribybuanyne end of the month I am not a happy and contented wife and I believe it was because we were both adolescents and married too young My having no training can get only manual labor We know three couples all of whom married just out of high' school All are working at manual labor and can see no independence or happiness '1 I Long for Stokes Editor Tribune: For three years the Korean war has taken its bloody tolL During this time Americans have been ostracized for questioning that the war was a glorious United Nations crusade and for saying that it should be ended by negotiation instead of stalemate Today the majority of the American people join with the world's people in calling this a futile war launched on Mr Second the President should never have been forced to fight for such requests as these much less make compromises to win In fact you have to go all the way back to the unhappy administration of Ulysses S Grant in order to find and other triumphantly popular American President running into this kind of trouble with Congress This 11 a warning in and of itself Third and finally such a warning bodes ill for the next session of Congress when the really big Issues have got to be tackled This is one of the really peculiar much too little noticed features of the administration's performance to date The major issues have been put off They have been referred to commissions They have been taken under advise-- Editor Tribune: Raheoguatrdifna! this controversy vorite columnists of Tribune readers I think it is a good idea to get the viewpoint of your readers on this subject Richard L Poll somewhat irked me when he referred to Thomas L Stokes as "even Stokes" in a rather patronizing manner In my opinion Stokes leads all your other columnists in real liberalism and broadmindedness His main article of faith is the greatest good to the greatest number exactly what the Savior taught 2000 years ago Frankly I like all The Tribune columnista although I think David Lawrence is a little too conservative I enjoy Ruark for his humor and many interesting anecdotes but I agree with Mr Poll that the space in your columns should be more evenly divided among all the columnists are going to be at a lifetime disadvantage" See No Independence "I am about to become the mother of a third child and yet I will not be 21 until the - a ly g A Vote They Wish They'd Waited Last week I quoted letters from couples who married young and would do it again Today's quota46 tions are from those — all '4:: wives — who t say "No" '1 "I had always -wanted a 'ca- 1' '1's0 i'r reer' says Number One "'"rwo ' ' "but I left col-in my lege A faculty and it can be developed only by finding fault by seeing where fallacy lies by analyzing and differentiating between the false and the true Men take things for facts which are not facts and until we have found a means of verifying our facts until we have found a means of knowing fact from fancy we can never have an exact science Edward Barnett Farmington Utah fault-findin- BRUCE BARTON part-tim- - Criticism is Fact From Fancy fear-smitte- gesCr it By Our Readers parade but are endured in silence for the useless and inhuman entertainment of a sadistic few' Stop going to rodeos and stop much suffering Howard Cox Manti Utah Rodeo Cruelty 4 0 hair-raisin- v if - - c ' it 4' V ( ''Yiity Cli te I w :'- i : 3 the extension of the reciprocal trade act and the confirmation of Charles E Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow Meanwhile a good many of the more experienced eongressional leaders Republisan as well as Democratic are Baying that this was the khtii of victory that ought to make a prudent sommander think twice Not CAmiplate Victory Itsirstb the President was not completely victorious any of these three major strut glee of his first congressional session In the tax tight he asked for extension of the special corporate income tax and excise taxes as well as the excess profits tax He had to forget about his supplementary request so the excise and corporate income tax expiration will stare him in the face next year In the same marner in the reciprocal trade fight he had to agree to the House project to pack the tariff commission And after the Bohlen fight he had to promise—or thought he had to promise— to avoid such conflicts in fuure None of these concessions was trivial -- ---- i - Cat to4 ALL they did after the fights over tht7 have not been Story The administration is krtell composed of men who are Inexperienced in government or politics or both They can- not be blamed for wanting time to make up their minds But about the big issues the practical effect of this delaying tactic will be to prog legduct a really islative program for the next congressional session when all the members will want to go home and mend their fences for the 1954 election& The list tells the downright story Taxation: In the spring of next year expiration of the special excise and eorporate ineome taxes will cost the 'government another $3 billion of revenue—a loss which the treasury cannot afford In addition the gigantic task of a general tax revision is now contemplated for the next nen-- s just as cess c Ce "C)"" strategists ars even defining' a major suc- - - Awe-Impiri- 7 President's legislative Ni'1 e d 1 r es rA0 (6 (Y" - is--- te ' ? ARAB rs Here we fret and stew about elections every four years when all the time France has the answer—you don't really need any government at all 10 A—- -- TREY ALL TURRi NG on' parents of summer jobs for the first time They are finding it harder than usual to plan family vacation jaunts because of the inability of dad and junior to synchronize their time- off This seems to presage quite a number of trips just before school starts in September There is something else to watch espedaily if Junior is doing pretty well on his summer job Should he (or she) earn $600 e he becomes a or more working loses a $800 dependent taxpayer and dad The types of folding beds now on the market are splendid but even better for accommodating unexpected visitors is a list of motels i n the vicinity 1 3 - Watch Junior's Earnings British explorers report that one ily of gorillas is beginning to eat meat and walk upright and it's only a step from that to prunewhip canasta and installment him ing Stay where you are boys 4 and the Whits House mood is aot to look the gift horse in the teeth The ) i 41 -- to import some foreign oil in the years ahead to close the gap between American demand and supply and to protect ourselves against exhaustion of our domestic reserves at some future date no matter how distant that may be It is this need to consider our oil situation on a global basis that also makes unrealistic the government's charge that a number of American oil companies are participating illegally in the control and marketing of foreign oil For it is of the utmost importance that the American oil industry do interest itself in foreign oil— finding it producing it and making it available to this country and its Western allies If the private oil industry wasn't doing that then the government would be compelled for strategic reasons to do it One oil industry spokesman recently recommended a thorough and constructive study of the whole complicated oil situation under government sponsorship and It sounds like with industry an excellent idea We had better do it and then establish a sound legal long range oil policy for America which will as far as possible insure ample oil supplies for the years ahead and continue the present favorable 11 to 1 ratio on oil production between the Free World and the Communist World fam- w Jp t i'5' ' We will have A famed allergist says that mothers tend to keep their children too clean But we don't need a specialist to remind us of the old family doctor's prescription for raising kids—plenty of dirt and love e : : ' FrO6 A inouduustrJeatsbouuct able-bodie- OtP" s r maeillion the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out even if the old man per pays the lowest federal tax rate-- 222 cent—it means that the teen-ag- e offspring's summer job costs father more in taxes unless he takes away from Junior what he hu earned And the chances of that are not very good "In such cases" says the Journal "any way father flips the coin it doesn't much matter for either Johnny loafs and catches It or Johnny works and Uncle Sam catchea It Wise fathers will of course watch Johnny's earnings carefully and make him knock off work before that $600 exemption is lost" But It's not a very good tax system worker d which encourages an to loaf so his father will not be penalized by the tax collector th :sh 1P'''f4 ment AM decided ad- ministration has won Haight over the excess milts ta ) ' Es WASHINGTON olo The a "' () t - ) MOP Real Heaklachesiluild UpFor Eisenhower in 1954 1 'a sess - AD ) The United States bas today aboUt on quarter of the world's proved reserves— but our potential of future discovery is far less We have drilled 1342000 wells producers and nonproducers and have today proved reserves of some 29 billion barrels Fewer than 2000 wells have been drilled In the Middle East yet there are proved reserves there of some 41 billion barrels The potential Middle East reserves are se barrels twice the esti-mated ultimate production in the United States Plainly if America depends solely on Its oWn oil reserves it is in danger of exhausting them while the rest of the world still has ample supplies What would we do then? Go back to the horse and buggy! Ask Russia (or successor in aggression) if we can't please have some oil? This is of course not an immediate threat But it is a potential danger we cannot iignore We must give serious consideration to our oil needs—and we must do it on a global not on a narrow nationalistic basis It is this fact which makes recent dis-- teen-age- r si 1 64A0- Aou'lk doirl' il:"4 woree We know some cr----'- k lion - JOSEPH vi 3r: 3 require a 50 per cent greater rate discovery than the industry we able to achieve in 1952 Furthermore our American oil supply is not unlimited This is not to be alarmist about our oil reserves—there has been too much "wolf wolf' talk in the past But It is a fact we are consuming oil at a very high rate relative to our domestic reserve times as fast as the test of the thpueteiminnothrtaeuoAmn eolficfaonreiogiln 'N 4 ' Turban Time We Need Long Range Glo'bal oil Policy ' - - -- I - f i - - - ' an- 1 me- - ' gt - ' A - 'I ""(Z 7 442-- V Ti-- - 441 i91::‘4t4:c-- ! 4 ':: " "' ''' C '4 : ft :: - X t' -- ': - - - 2 - g - ' t IL |
