| Show 4 IJt Saturday Morniniz IstAbliehed Super Side Show $alt fakt Vibunt September 5 1953 $ele Lake City Vtsk assignment from the last Legislature and by the State Tax Commission which was in the asked by Governor Lee to to work two The agencies agreed study Dr F tax and John Sly analyst together and consultant of Princeton University has been retained by the tax commission to help The study will be divided into two SN' Freedom for a Hero When the Communists released Major General William F Dean at Panmunjom they gave up their highest ranking captive of the Korean war and one of the outstanding heroes of that war Thus Dean 's release has special news interest although in the general schemeof things it means no more nor no less than the release of any other captive General Dean is a Utahn by adoption He married a Salt Lake girl he served two tours of duty with the 38th Infantry at Ft Douglas and he has been a frequent visitor since then For that reason the story of his bravery at Taejon in July 1950 the long months when he was listed as missing and the eventual confirmation that he was a prisoner has been closely followed here The Communists apparently treated General Dean fairly well—by their standards—although they subjected him to harrowing stretches of questioning once for 68 hours without sleep But prison life is always unpleasant and life in a prisoner of war steckade worst of all The general's once red hair is now almost silver gray We are happy that General Dean has at last been freed We are proud of his record as the first man to win the Medal of Honor in Korea And we rejoice with his family that the gallant warrior is now coming home: The wife and family who went through long months of uncertain waiting will soon see their hopes fulfilled And we will hazard the guess that General Dean doesn't think of the war as a police action We Wish It Were True Senator Lister Hill of Alabama took issue with a recent statement by Attorney General Herbert Brownell that there may be more Communists in labor unions than anywhere else He said he didn't believe the danger was as bad as Brownell Implied and that he is convinced the labor unions themselves can be trusted to root Communists out of their ranks as fast as they can be identified Well we wish that were true but we do not believe experience supports Senator Hill's optimism Labor unions have indeed done some commendable work in cleaning out Communists and we are confident the great majority of labor unions and the overwhelming majority of labor union members are not communistic But there are some unions which are Communist-controlleand more which are Communist-infiltrateAnd on the record members have not the loyal rankand-fil- e always been able to ferret out and drive out the Communists Nor in view of the way many labor unions are controlled from the top with a minimum of democratic action can we expect all unions to be able to drive out the Reds The difficulty we have experienced in rooting Communists out of our government offices our scientific laboratories and our educational institutions proves it is no easy trick to expose and get rid of a Comd d munist Actually the labor unions and their loyal rank and file members need and welcome assistance in cleaning out Communists We should not discourage such aid on the part of government by minimizing the threat of Communist infiltration of labor unions or by exaggerating labors capacity to deal with the problem unaided Beefsteaks in easolt All the folks who have been screaming about high meat prices now have a chance to stop their screaming and fill their mouths with juicy beefsteaks hamburger routs etc—without mortgaging the old homestead to do it So "says Beatrice S Tanielian 'agricultural extension agent for consumer education who reported in The Tribubt that bouSewives are currently finding beef prices at their lowest level in some 'years And the ads bear out Miss Tanielian's statement We took a quick glance through them Friday morning and saw ground beef advertised at anywhere from 25 to 39 cents a pound steaks for anywhere from 45 to 69 cents and various kinds of roasts from 33 to 69 cents a pound That's cheap enough so that almost everybody can afford to eat meat and plenty of it And the "beefsteak" season's good even for vegetarians yltex can l?u these big téakkh tOrnatioes 'for just' à iew tents ' I 15 Tax Structure se Cc IV Al ' lk World Wanderer (I 41P or - 4 ' pt::":4' es r" 1 6 HEArb EA -- w 41)1 TN - ) 'lcD - eAko Stot6 rt s cello t - do''-- think that a man with the name of Michael Patrick O'Brien would never have any trouble establishing nationality—but a man with that name not only has no claim to citizenship in Ireland he hasn't been able to establish citizenship rights anywhere You have undoubtedly read about O'Brien's strange case He fled Shanghai without a passport and reached Hong Kong But the British denied him citizenship rights He got on a ferry Communist-dominate- d which runs from Hong Kong across a wide bay to the Portuguese colony of Macao But th Portuguese wouldn't accept O'Brien either so for more than 10 months he rode back rorth on the ferry Finally a Brazilian consul Issued O'Brien an immigration permit The 20th century' "man without a country" wanted to go to Brazil because his White Russian wife was there So O'Brien made his way to Brazil —only to have the Brazilian immigration service refuse to honor his entry permit The last we heard O'Brien was en route back to Italy in the brig of the French liner Bretagne perhaps about to begin a new odyssey of weary journeys back and forth across the sea O'Brien's plight is specturular but it isn't unique Many othir refugees from wartorn countries have had similar difficulties in finding new homes If there is any lesson for us in the sad tale of Michael Patrick O'Brien it might be Its evidence that other countries as well as America erect their arbitrary and sometimes heartless barriers to the worlds wanderers 41 Ta lel t ' '1111 oho 4 Deflationary Threat The last long helltay week end of the summer begins today Thousands will be holiday taking advantage of the three-da- y period to make motor trips out of town— to resorts lakes and scenic spots or to other towns to visit friends or relatives Fine! It looks as if the weather will be excellent over the week end You should have very enjoyable trip Make very sure it IS enjoyable won't you by remembering the extra hazard that always exists when the roads are full of holiday travelers fa a2P Ake a hurry Don't drive too far or ton Make it a fu5not a fatal week end 4 Editor Tribune: Item in your Sept Indicates that Orval Adams Is still making public utterances of his confused ideas on the money question and warning us about the "danThis on gers" of inflation the same day your paper reported a drop of $452 in the D-- J industrial average which on high volume was a storm signal of impending deflation of course both inflation and deflation are bad The one destroys our dollar values and the other destroys our equities But at this time the latter presents the greater threat Most of the economic forces operating today have deflationary potentialities and unless the Republican administration 'reverses its "sound money" policies it will in effect sign its own death warrant by bringing on a wholly unnecessary depression Too many people today believe that statism offers the only alternative to depression and the Republicans could hardly do more than they are to confirm this false Judgment They seem as far wrong In their way as the New Dealers were In theirs Under Federal Reserve we are forced to use debt for money and to pay our debts Is to destroy our money Since return to solid gold is out I I ' 1n 1141 ilj i ' "-- RerP-Mkk- A Misnomer d Greece The Brave Editor Tribune: In World ll Greece defeated the Invasion of Mussolini checked that of the Germans and thus delayed the Nazi invasion of Russia towards winter Also this delay helped keep the Nazis from cutting the Mediterranean line of the Allies from oil of the Near East Grecian bravery Is nothing new: Five centuries before Christ Greece beat back the Persians to give young Europe time to develop its own civilization instead of having an oriental one thrust upon it The mainland and isles of Greece mountainous a n d stony yielded scanty livings but they gave birth to genius and love of liberty which qualities have persisted in spite of conquests of more numerous peoples In any list of the dozen men who gave most to civilization in the West there must appear the names of at least two to four ancient Greeks yet small was the area of Greece scanty its population Horace W She ley world-conquerin- By t - )ft ernment Prohibition of anything seldom prohibits it usually just provokes Liberty There is no law in this country against going to church on Sundays criticizing the adminr istration maining poor mystery the Missus tells me I must solve soon or else Ws the identity of the party who sent me a box of candy and marked it "From - N tions pro-Se1 tor McCarthy not taking a drink prefer- Maggie ring McNamara to Marilyn Mon- roe or a good Ham Park whodunit to a bum biography And yet they tell us "we are losing our liberties!" 046-- The Trusty Joke There's one awful nuisance in Poker It's the famous second-hanJoker He says "They're all blue" And "Three typewrites" If too"— his wife pulled that stuff he would choke her —Anon Notes on the Cuff Dept 'Pi- of the ing the rise meddle class t A patron asked Sam Latino the bartender just what a stadium was And Sam said he 'figured It was a big ball park with a university attached Stan Delaplane postcards trom San Francisco in re the cantaloupe in the refrigerator episode: "That'll learn you Speaking great colloquially of Course Merle Hinds whose skull foliage is practically nonexistent bought a gadget one of those electric when the barbershop prices made haircuts a luxury He figures that the gadget ha i paid for itself three or four times hand-mowe- rs Al Jenkinson and Johnny Dorick both coalmen were seen lunching together re- was a case of misery loving company J Vt ez 1 acquired I a set of saddle boils a LI d From The St Louis 14-1- 5 A Views Right to ividual feels that he has 4 right to vote as he presidential elecpleasek tion even if he attends a party convention as a delegate He would not be Natifled of course in using the party machinery locally in an election to oppose the choice of the national convention of his party but he has a right to the expression of his own views at any time To say to a member of the Democratic party — the party which prides itself on individual freedom and tolerance — that he must even before knowing the platform or the identity of the candidate pledge himself blindly as an individual to support the unknown is to violate the tradition of independence which Democrats have always cherished It is precisely the threat that a minority of delegates may bolt the party as individuals in a single election which makes it necessary for the majority to keep faith with party tradition in whatever it does split Will Disappear When the Northern Democrats cease to toady to pressure groups which are hostile to the South and begin to perceive that reforms can be more quickly achieved by voluntary methods the civil rights issue will no longer split the Democratic party If the Northerners really want peace they might better start studying the basic issues that have caused the cleavage and come up with some proposals on that score rather than expect the Southern Democrats to come crawling back into the party For the South holds the balance of political power in America and its support cannot be won by assuming it is impotent or merely recalcitrant ild matter and knowledge of it he implied were because "we don't teach subject matter we teach Post-Dispat- out-date- d This may come as a shock but it appears to be a fact that some school administrators who are responsible for selecting teachers believe that a teacher can be too bright for his own good A person with high grades in college and a deep knowledge of the subject matter he pro poses to teach is thereby considered disqualified for teaching For this lesson in the of the children" Understandably enough the found the Idea that a teacher could know too much 'about her subject "little short of insane" Not all good scholars are good teachers obviously but it is certainly a weird sort of logic which holds that all good scholars are bad teachers The expressed itself to this effect and then complacently remarked "We haven't heard of any such idiocies in the public school system of Virginia It is fervently to be hoped that none will put in Times-Dispatc- Times-Dispatc- age h 411047-yAtvIP- AtkPl Chris Woddruff so2"e 4 -- h their appearance" PM students seldom have the ability to understand peopie Emphasis on subject 1 h Times-Dispatc- with special application to 'hat is called education" we are indebted to the Richmond which had a recent traumatic experience along this line that will probably leave permanent scars on its editorial conscience Noted With Horror The Times- - Dispatch had noted with horror an address by Prof Arthur E Bestor Jr of the University of IMnois in which he offered evidence to show that young people who do too well in college find their scholastic may achievements a mark against them when they seek employment as teachers One such college graduate who had met all requirements foi teacher certification told Prof Bator of her interview with a professor of education in charge of teacher placement Her grade average in English she was informed whs too high Said the prospective teacher: Apt to Be Scholars He told me that pro spective teachers of English who had straight-avermies were very apt to become scholars rather than good teachers He strecFed overenthusiasm for subject I 3:111SMNAAP 11:! e OF d Can They Know Too Much? gained power thinkrissrider 4'71' relitiy - by Northern Democrats at the party's national convention in Chicago last year The argument over the loyalty pledge need not be a barrier to party harmony Loyalty to the ticket is taken for granted in party politics but the young liberals who made an issue Of it at the last conveption insulted thc Southerners and unless that loyalty resolution is wiped out of the records at the Democratic National Committee's meeting the In Chicago on Sept chances of healing the breach on other issues is lessened OTHER VIEWPOINTS o Ham!" "N ' ing of the Democratic National Committee in Chicago PProaches there is much talk directed at the Southerners telling them to "come in and bury the hatchet" or "to unite for vietore—just as if nothing had happened Must Show Tolerance The friction between the two wings of the Democratic to be party is too The cured by exhortation first step toward harmony is to begin to understand that the Southern Democrats are conscientious in their adherence to certain principles and that if the Northern Democrats want to make peace they will have to exhibit a tolerance which they have not manifested in party councils for many years The Southern Democrats look askance for instance at the way the Northern faction has become the tool and instrument of radicalism This term Is often rejected by the Northern Democrats who say their creed is really liberalism To this the Southerners reply that any program which Is based on compulsion and coercion instead of voluntarism is not true liberalism Clash Rises frong E C The clash arises 07 course out of the effort of the Northern liberals to ram down the throats of the Southerners a compulsory 7 E P C—a piece of legislation that would empower a federal government commission to tell an employer whom he shall hire Nor have the Southern Democrats ever swallowed the coercive features of collective bargaining which were originally introduced in the Wagner Labor Relations Act The feeling against Trumanism and the new deal and fair deal philosophy of government is so ingrained that it cannot be eradicated by a continuance of the attitude exhibited free-wheeli- Gertie" Help! anti- - 10 A party- pti Ass As the meet- - Mr Lawrence Editor Tribune: It is a experience to ask a critic to rate one of tbe "poor teachers" he so glibly attacks He finds that the rating card contains a dozen or more technical items deemed important In the teaching process For the first time he learns that to give an intelligent rating of the teacher's work requires at least as much skill as that required to judge a steer at the county fair Fortunately the majority of parents know that the teacher's work cannot be judged her reluctance by her hair-dto give straight "A's" nor even the failure of Joe Doakes' son to make the basketball team As a mere layman I am inclined to believe that much of the present outcry against "poor teachers" is an attempt to rationalize a condition of which we are ashamed It is upsetting to our state ego to know that—despite the high of Utah sehoola—we pay our teachers less than the average salaries in neighboring states Blanket - criticism seems mucklike-bflaborina skinny g ricitnkhorealAuriley's cnct A 1 )4' 1 the - Rating Teachers Trouble is usually made by people who don't produce anything else—Anon g es- f r o m t ‘1 e have tranged them through the labor unions Now there are thousands of union men who have become aware of the plot against our nation I myself was a good union man long before the Socialists began making mechanics out of anybody who had the price regardless of ability I rebelled while my book was in good standing I sent it and divorced myself from the union thus losing all my benefits in the interest of freedom and democracy I advise all who are loyal to democratic America to wake up because this same gang is laying its plans in the hope of regaining lost power in the next national election Itherrel Draper Ham Pad i a Editor Tribune: The Democratic government of the past 20 years was a misnomer The leaders of government were none other than a gang of Socialist-mindepersons who tried to sabotage our Constitution That is why the real Democrats are voting with the Republicans today They discovered this trick of Socialism just in time to elect a party who will improve our Constitution through C o ngress instead of backdoor tricks Socialist-These inded hoped to sabotage our Constitution through two mediums —the Civil Service and the unions The Civil Service was to make secure the political stooges of Socialism and their votes The unions organized any who had the price of admission This gang knew that all Sócialistic forms of gov- rency management but until we do it will be exceedingly unwise to try to bring about a reduction in the total national debt Richard S Morrison Delta Utah War INCil hl By Our Readers The Senator From Sandpit Ttip-ao6Y- 14 long It:telctloft4t1) - of the question we should adopt a sound system of cur- news I Issue A n 4 COO'S 1041 ''' r!4' 1 Keep It Enjoyable ((1kc The Public Forum being United I W POLIII te funda- mentals which deep-seate- t mis-name- You would 1 - sto LI 0 'n Z' 1 '(' mt 410 A ‘11tv( 7 1 DffeasiatiaN f ' 44 - the or Democratic ft t3100ocfe k 41b euWareN ftPAA e'" 0 1 1 Oir '7t4r6 li et4-- 4- 10111 ) - -- i fr 4 d' i 4440 Jr ''' P--- '27 -- SL' rt' Erir forget S141 oa':- 6- i k i —Noithern WASHINGTON Democrats apparently have learned very little since No vember 1952 or they would not be asking the Southern fPri t Democrats to : It --4-4::-Y tx2La mtbi' rl ' ‘ rz MLA ( SPIN 111 1 -- refits Yellit4 tir "ft i ki'400) 44 101 mAKE - ptA-LYIpth 'Lei IAMEk CoNetztlys 141 lox' 11 1 1 z 1::3 frAPklelt4E5 i ngti -- :' Poztr d g 3) b srox0Appiduss 1 ' V t - tart ING (7 9i roAt"EMAI r ' c t tipe1 0311031 1rZi on It Ge ikkN1114-11Z1It- 84 a A )- t pERfte An analysis will first be made of tions school finances seeking to reach some conclusions as to the proper balance between school taxes levied at state and local levels and as between the raising of money at the state level through individual income taxes corporation franchise taxes or perhaps from some other source At the moment careful analysis of this situation is obviously of unusual importance But a still broader and more important study of the tax structure is contemplated The intent is to determine how equitably the tax burden as a whole is distributed in Utah and to determine if any groups are escaping paying their fair share of the taxes because of loopholes or because they are simply overlooked This is k much-needeRecent study accusations by the State Tax Commission relative to faulty valuation of real property for tax purposes as among different counties and as between different classes of property pointed to one possible Inequitable situation We have heard reports that household furnishings and other personal property are not equitably assessed throughout the state—in fact in many cases not assessed at all Recently the Utah Labor Joint Legislative Committee urged that the state income tax be increased in the higher income brackets While this may be a case of "somebody else not me" when it comes to paying taxes there is certainly need for studying the state's income tax structure to see if it Is in fact equitable Some attention surely ought to be given tothe adequacy of income tax collections from individual operators such as farmers professional men salesmen and small businessmen The whole tax load today—federal slate and local—is so heavy every effort must be made to insure that the burden is fairly distributed At a time when taxes took perhaps 5 per cent of income it didn't make too much difference if one's neighbor or competitor got by somehow with a considerably smaller burden It was unjust but the man who paid excessive taxes was not But today when taxes gravely injured may easily take as much as 50 per cent of income inequity as between one man and another one business and another one class of society and another can be ruinous The federal government is planning a thoroughgoing study of the national tax structure It is appropriate that the State of Utah at the same time analyze carefully the distribution of the tax burden here We do not expect in either case such a study will directly result in reduction in the total tax burden but it should help insure that the heavy load of taxation is spread as fairly as possible with no loopholes permitting favored individuals or classes to escape the responsibility of citizenship 41 ri - ! r A comprehensive study of Utah's entire tax structure is being launched by the Utah Legislative Council which received such an Northern Democrats Fail To Learn Lesson of '52 447 April IS 1871 house every merming by The Balt Lake Tribune Publishine Co A Needed Study of Utah DAVID LAWRENCE Honor Is Handicap The bad news came in by return mail Several Virginia teachers wrote the TimesDispatch to say that Virginia alas was as mush a prey to these "idiocies" as other states One told of having been lectured by her principal about the grave handicap ahe carried of a cum laude degree: He insinuated I was doomed to be a failure as a He maintained teacher that a thorough knowledge of the subject matter which I was to teach was not neeeuary On the contrary the best teachers according to him are those who have only a slight knowledge of subject matter We'd° not doubt that Missouri and Illinois as well as Virginia can produce examples of this curious philosophy of education The teachers colleges have put so much exaggerated emphasis on educational methods at the of content that it was inevitable that some etiCAtaSkIt'Sid "r-nInto the open with a 'claim that teachers can know too much Well there it is ! 1 |
