Show - 0 ‘ 3 - 1 --- ' -- ISA - 1 á I Picked Clean Zht Balt takt Zilbunt 1 Monday Morning November 16 1953 Reteklided te Wood sane inerekee Aoril l& INTL Lake 'Moms Th PekMdame CS IP Lake Clie Legislature Should Revamp Nepotism Law 5-- LiI si11 t 1 imembers $ k '(' i I ' 4 : run i 1 I 1 -- 1 ' - 17 i' j i t 1 --I - Whether all teachers and other are included in the ruling and whether the nepotism law itself stands up constitutionally is not clear Three justices held that Ralph V Back man principal of Salt Lake's South High School and Mathias C Tanner Ogden teacher both employed in their districts cannot be discharged and nearly 30 lose their retirement rights because their brothers have been elected to school boards In recent years Justices McDonough and Remold dissented holding the law consti tutional in its entirety though not endors ing it Justices Crockett and Wade agreed that the retroactive effects of the law infringe upon individual rights of all public em ployes affected and Justice Crockett has said informally that other public workers could continue in office even though they had relatives on governing boards How ever Chief Justice Wolfe who concurred as to members of teachers' retirement as Iodations appended this significant state ment to his separate declarations: "Thus the constitutionality of the statute as It sipplies to persons other than the plaintiffs and those similarly situated must be de termined upon the record in each case" ': ' ' L 7 i I ?' 1 i uonChlinef 1 President Eisenhower's visit to Canada following so soon after his visit to Mexico will do much to promote continental solidarity That b something earnestly to be sought North America is a strong bastion In the defense of the free world and the promotion of friendship between the t 1 t' United States and two neighboring democritiet is of the greatest importance Mr Eisenhower In itif address to the made Canadian Parliament in Ottawa three points clear First that trade barriers can be damaging to the free world's economy and that he hopes to evolve a policy which will be In the best interests of the United States and its allies Second that joint development and use Lakes waterway of the St Lawrence-Greis a vital addition to mutual economic and national security And third that the U S and Canada must devise ways to protect North America front surprise attack by air The first two propositions may find some dissenters at home Removal of trade barriers is a highly controversial issue And a long line of Presidents have seen their indorsement of the St Lawrence project rejected by Congress But there will be no disagreement on air defense If the need for U Russian bombers attack they will come doss the Arctic frontier which lies in Canada Only a joint defense effort can be successful for as Mr Eisenhower remarked "Defensively as well u geograph'ally we are joined beyond any possibility of separation" Much good should come from the President's trip to Ottawa He went as a friend He spoke in terms of friendship He stressed the fact that Canada and the United States are equal partners in meeting the threat to their existence as free nations That is a good way to knit even closer ties with a proud and growing nation '' ‘- ''' t 1 l' 'i Li i t t V t t i i Army-NavyA- 4 i 11 li t iv t t 4 - L6411 1)4: a 4) A Headline Hunter it"e t4 1 e f i0 r j I 0 I By Our Readers rality Jean Anne Waterstradt Ogden Utah Who's k 6 Illeomm1011111111" by President Eisenhower himself committees Congressional have a right to conduct investigations only to gather material to effect legislation Citizens should insist that these comthittees stay within bounds and that they use methods in accord with American principles of fair play and justice Mr Velde apparently has an eye single to the glory of Mr Ve Ide His clumsy headline hunting makes responsible Americans shudder and undermines the prestige abroad of a country which is the world leader of the forces of liberty and mo- the Boss? similar And in both eases us Just excuses First things should be put first The rest are fill-in- s T h e final responsibility rests with the parents It is their attitude and their decisions upon which and regardless of arguments to the contrary the ultimate destiny of their children largely depends Yes end no are both excellent words that is when used with discretion Who's boss at your house parents youngsters or some organization or fellow down the street? Walt Justice for All Editor Tribune: What's this I read in the paper! That those poor boys (and they are our boys mothers of America) after they have managed somehow to survive the war and years of the hell of Communist prison camps and finally get home are to face a military court martial! A court martial because under duress and tortures we can't even imagine they signed false confessions What sort of welcome home is this? All glory to those who were able to take the torture and remain steadfast We should give them every recognition but we are not all made of hero stuff Besides how dare anyone decide the amount of torture a man can take or how much he did take before he broke? And to think that it is us the country they fought for who would thus reward them for their sufferings! In the same paper I read that it was wrong for the Activities House trig (formulated reasoning Committee to call former thought) are identical You can have feelings or emotions President Truman to an acwithout words But not abcounting for hiring a known stract concepts not reasonCommunist spy to a high ing A meager vocabulary government position If he means an unfurnished mind" actually did this thing he not Businessmen by and large only put a spy where he could are inarticulate and hence do the most harm to our often at a disadvantage in country but paid him the taxtheir dealings with labor leadpayers' money for doing it ers all of whom are trained And if this charge is not true to talk well then those men who would In politics of course the make such an accusation ability to speak agreeably and should certainly be exposed convincingly is the biggest and punished possible asset F D R was Let us keep America a not a profound thinker but land of justice for all there never was a human Alice Willardson voice with greater power to Gunnison Utah move minds Who Would Benefit? Had Gift of Gab Editor Tribune: This A distinguished old gentleman who was on the faculty farmer would again like to of West Point when Presibreak into print This time I dent Eisenhower was a cadet have some questions which I was asked: Was there anyknow thing in the youngster that hope some one in the made you remember him— will answer that gaye you any inkling of If money for schools is apthe big things that might lie on the basis of a propriated ahead?" "Yes" was the reply "two classroom unit what all is included in a classroom unit? things Whenever the class Someone writing in the was assigned a knotty prob a while ago asked why Forum km he always came in with art is taught to youngsters an answer—even if it had who have no talent for it meant sitting up all night Why then do we ask teachers And he bad a wonderful gift to teach reading and arithmeof gab" tic to children who are not Sometimes the gift of gab can be tiresome sometimes gifted along those lines? In the present controversy even dangerous But the colof Gov Lee vs public schools leges would do a much better I get the idea that only the job if they would cut out school teachers will be benesocial enough of the sciences to reinstate the most fitted if more school funds are available Is this true? Important of all social assets —the power to communicate Just how will ordinary people or their children be helped? thought in language precise i A Farmer pleasing and persuasive Editor Tribune: Just from casual observations made outside of Salt Lake City I'm of the candid opinion that 'Perturbed" has something Nevertheless I'm also of the that "Perturbed" opinion should have carried the point under discussion still further Is it not possible that many parents have so many outside activities church work lodges bridge clubs and poker parties to mention just a few that they are sluffing their home responsibilities even to a greater degree than their youngsters are sluffing their school work? The excuses in both cases to me seem very BRUCE BARTON 4 tIO i?41 Editor Tribune: For the third time since he assumed the chairmanship of the ActiviHouse ties Committee last January Harold Ve Ide of Illinois has committed a major blunder His first blunder was the wild accusation that Mrs Agnes Meyer the respected wife of the publisher of the respected Washington Post was a Communist Mrs Meyer's only offense was a criticism of Mr Velde's methods His second blunder was a proposal to investigate Protestant clergy for subversives a move which was thoroughly denounced by his more responsible associates in government His third blunder was his issuance without consulting other committee members of a subpena to former President Harry S Truman an action criticized I T1 0 Aoo"‘ors vremmalll Editor Tribune: I ean't understand all the furor by the Democrats just because Truman and Justice Clark have been asked to testify by a congressional committee It seems to me that any American who has nothing to hide would be more than willing to speak before a group whose main interest and function is to o u r wonderful safeguard country Maxine Rothman i '4' 4AI between f o rmer President Harry S TruMr Childs man and the man he made his secretary of state James F Byrnes When Truman first came to Washington aa a senator green and completely unknowing Byrnes w a a his Mend and mentor Jimmy as Truman quickly came to call him was knowing in the ways of the Senate Never Misses Opportunity In later years Byrnes has never missed an oppOrtunity to trip up his old friend It was Byrnes' statement that he had discussed the FB I report on Harry Dexter Whits with Truman at the time of White's appointment which more than anything else tended to substantiate the story originally told by Atty- Gen Herbert Brownell Jr It also was an embarrassing refutation of Truman's initial comment to the effect that he had not seen the Ir B I report at the time the White appointment was up icor confirmation But the score between the two enemies who were once such good Mends is not yet settled Put Stress on Dates Those who have been helping Truman work up his rebuttal put great stress on the dates given by Byrnes in his original statement Byrnes said he discussed with the President in the White House on Feb 6 1946 the F B I report dealing with White's activities This was just as the Senate was confirming White's nomination to the new post with the International Monetary Fund Byrnes was then secretary of state According to the Truman FBI associates the report contained only a few references to White and his Communist connections as reported by Elizabeth Bentley the confessed courier for a Soviet spy ring The report dealt largely with the activities of Alger Hiss and his relationships with the Soviet spy ring both in and out of e -- for every no ex- boy ceptions There were also liter societies ' :': s!-'''- ):'- cr4 'I - ary "whose meet- deings were voted principally to join debates No Mr Bertha boy was considered fit to graduate unless he could stand up on his feet and express himself in clear forcible English Today I would say that public speaking is the most neglected phase of adult education The good talker is more often sttspected than admired lie is presumed to be less profound or trustworthy than the "Strong Silent Man" (who often is silent not because he is strong but just because he doesn't have anything to say) 'Unfurnished Mind' Dean Paul S Andrews of Syracuse University L a w School said recently: "Law schools find a very large proportion of college graduates Insufficiently grounded in English Most are g r a mmatisal to be sure but few can use English accurately forcibly happily With any pretense to style with any sense of the importance of searching for the right word which carves the biggest chunk out of the raw material of thought "But English and think- tr-- 1 1 studied the FBI report in question he apparently took i 0 1 no action to remove Hiss from the 'department Here again the dates are interesting Byrnes resigned as secretary of state on Jan 20 1947 Hiss resigned as of Feb L 1947 This as the Truman associates putting the record together have duly noted was just a year after Byrnes as secretary of state says he diacussed the Harry Dexter White case with Truman and urged that the President sidetrack the White appointment Went to Foundation On Feb 1 1947 Hiss became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Hs was selected for that position largely on the determination of John Foster Dulles who is now President Eisenhosver's secretary of state This last can be taken as a measure of the extraordinary confidence Hiss Inspired in those who came in close contact with him Under the Democrats leg was moving in and out of the State Department as a Republican adviser in an effort to achieve a bipartisan While he foreign policy access to had not have might the confidential F B I report Itself Dulles could certainly have had a complete fill-i- n on what it contained Who first called attention to which alleged spy in the first instance is an unpleasOne ant form of name-callin- g can hardly blame the President for wanting to reply in kind to Byrnes' accusation But to the public it is likely to seem an exchange between pot and kettle that is hardly edifying No Cause for Cheers Now WASHINGTON—What had Republican machine in the district Another was that he been widely heralded all over was far better financed Anthe country as a "national other was he had better pubtrend" against t h e Republi-- ' "0- licity and more newspaper le cans came to support f t7 an abrupt stop I g''':' ::''- -: No More Justification i 0 1?:::)4 F last Tuesday In brief there is no more w when in the justification for reading great special e I e e- national significance into this ' tion in the Republican victory than in Twenty-fourt- h 4 those Democratic victories a California disweek ago Though important trict Glenard ? :: Eisenhower administration ofP Lipscomb ficials appealed to the Twenty-fourt-h Mr Kent Republican to District voters rewas candidate for Congress "stand the President" by turned by a 7000 plurality there is no reason to believe over three other candidates— that they influenced a vote two Democrats and another If Mr Eisenhower himself Republican had gone out there in behalf This makes the political and of Mr Lipscomb he might journalistic spokesmen on the have done him harm instead Democratic side look very of good For there are numersilly because they had gone ous incidents in to ridiculous extremes in their political history where presiinterpretation of the Republidential intervention in local can defeats in the Wisconsin elections was devastating to and New Jersey districts the presidential choice However it is to be hoped Can't Be Transferred that in their turn the RepubWhat it all comes down to conto not licans will attempt Is this: Political experience strue their California triumph and statistics extending many as a great victory for Presiyears back conclusively prove dent Eisenhower and his polithat the personal following cies possessed by an otitstanding Local Issues Count party personality cannot be of course it is a temptation transferred to a lesser perbut they would be wise not to sonality in a local election For the cheer too loudly merely for party purposes truth is as every experienced Contidering all this it seems practical politician knows in to say that the reasonable these special elections in the California like those result off years it is the "local situain New Jersey and Wisconsin tion" that counts and national is not deeply Issues rarely play a major significant Two things it does appear to part In California while on the show: I that the propaganda of the last two weeks about surface there seems good reasons for regarding the result the crumbling of the Eisenas highly 'favorable to the Eihower administration and a tidal wave in the Democratic senhower administration inasmuch as several high adminisdirection was sheer rot 2 t h a t notwithstanding the tration officials Including Cabinet officers entered the lurid threats of the labor state to plead for the Lips-- bosses all of whom violently comb election there were opposed his election last year other local reasons much more there is no reason to believe basic One was that Mr Lipsthat any considerable number comb had the support of an of persons who voted for Mr efficient and well equipped Eisenhower yet regret it L ' L:f d I Activities Committee in the late summer of 1948 was represented as the moving force in the conspiracy to convey secret documents to Russia Held Important Pest At the time that Byrnes says he talked to :Truman about White Hiss held an linportant position in the State Department In 1944 Hiss had been deputy director of the Office of Special Political Affairs In that office he took an active part in the conferences preliminary to the founding of the United Nations In 1945 Him was made director of the Office of Special Political Affairs Alp though Byrnes says he FRANK R KENr The Value of Good Talkers In my father's day one of the most important courses in college was public speaking It was 1:43466:' friendship that existed '' t politics is seen in the once beautiful 14 i!:'104 "c5 : rary 1:11 t' 1 A 0' l r '" pt! Can't Understand s ' 4 :" e The Public Forum It was a radio announcer's child who prayed "Now I lay me down to sleep Yes! now hay me down to sleep" Aunt Emmy the rich one changes her mind so often that her relatives contend the January issue of her will is already out 14 J” 1- 14ctita 11 li Co-operati-on The fellow at the next desk got a traffic ticket but lost it and wants to know what to do For some reason though he rejects our suggestion—go through the red light again and get a new one I i ' T IllriVio oldrstr everybody is shoving at once? ir else again ilhe 1 Our basic philosophy in foreign affairs always has been that we were against people who pushed other people around but how do you apply it in a world where land-sea-a- ir t V! Still when one makes even a casual social call be or she doesn't really expect to be taken at his word when he modestly tells his prospective host not to stay home on his account Who knows but what the 'post office failure meant the end of a beautiful Brooklyn-to-New York friendship? less-degre- I i I 1- Neither the sender nor the person to whom the card was addressed are known The card was simply signed "Louise" and the addressee a Mrs R L Bartlett was not known at the address No doubt both are long since dead On the card "Louise" wrote: "WM be down Monday about 5 pm" The visit could hardly have been of great importance for she added "Do not stay home on my a- :lion 1 04 eoloilip splPi" New York &via 4:$ I :J The United States post office lived up to the slogan that the mail always goes through the other day in spectacular however belated fashion It delivered a penny postcard mailed 42 years ago by a woman in Brooklyn and addressed to a woman in in a rather big way operating today aircraft from small observation planes transport helicopters It represents one of the great difficulties involved in seeking to establish real armed forces unification Each branch— Navy Army and Air Force—has interests take it into which in greater or sea and air land of all three elements buts in some in the Navy Particularly measure- - also- - in - the Army and the Air Force we get a good deal of unified operations But getting Force unified operations is something 'ill) i 101015111r ccount' Now the Army is getting back into f e ' - End of a Friendship? An announcement the other day that the Army was inviting officers to make application for flight training because the Army was expanding its aviation program was rather startling It was only a few years ago that the Army Air Corps was taken out of the Army and made into a separate Air Force It was assumed that the Army would take over the land fighting job and the Air Force would handle the aviation end of 7 4 : g Unified Operations things Ow 0 te at 00 government Hiss who was first publicly challenged before the House WASHINGTON — Political friendships have a way of souring into bitter personal enmity The most fascinatn g example in contempo- t 1) I — I inquisition Justice Clark contended that the Judicial branch of government is independent of the legislative and that he could not therefore submit to a subpena Governor Byrnes argued that he could not admit the right of a congressional committee "to command a governor to leave his state and remain in the city of Washington until granted leave by your committee to return" To admit such power would he noted place in the hands of Congress the power to paralyze the administration of all the sovereign states by summoning to Washington the governors of all the states While we approve the refusal of all three to submit to enforced congressional questioning we do believe it is the duty of all three individuals as good citizens to voluntarily in the effort to establish the facts in the White case In this respect we note with gratification that both Justice Clark and Governor We Byrnes have offered such befor do likewise will Mr Truman hope and error the the neath all the confusion headline-buntinpolitical motivations and the a serious accusation of at least blind carelessness in a matter of national security has been made It needs clarification in the public interest and in the interest of all concerned An Equal Partnership 't a 4 1 We think the subpena angle of the Harry Dexter Whits case is now well settled It was an error on the part of the Activities Committee House In the first place and we believe former President Truman Supreme Court Justice Clark and Governor Byrnes of South Carolina were on solid ground in refusing to answer the subpenas Mr Truman contended that there 4 a long line of precedent against a president if he is (or by extension an he while acts official about being queried was in office) submitting to congressional imdleh"posia ' f lbI yei : - ' 1 111114 4Cgal 111‘4 u 1 i t makes 4 As the situation stands now there is no certainty Utah has any enforceable nepotisn" regulation' The state should havia law clearly forbidding public officials from hiring relatives to the exclusion of others But the retroactive problem must be resolved In addition to the many school board members and teachers involved 300 municipal employes and undoubtedly many other public workers are affected Their situation and morale is important to the general welfare of the state e whole key figure opinion would doubtless be the oiveereseyttull:g ther clarification u to nepotism Justice further litigation Wolfe has announced tentative plans for retirement at the end of this year In case I 1 I JthuseticedecWisoltione's 'Ly rit ment Now for - ''' is: of a rehearing it is unlikely a second decision could be secured before that time and a new justice would not be permitted to sit in the case Justice Wolfe's retirement plans however are conditioned upon naming a successor and other matters satisfactory to him It is increasingly clear that the State Legislature should review thoroughly the nepotism problem with the aim of eliminating unfair retroactive features As we have stated previouslyt the nepotism principle is good up to a point When it cause' a faithful public employe of long standing to lose his position because a relative gets himself elected to a governing board it is unfair and antagonistic to good govern- an- - AnotmcTdmheeywiletleunekralfor aCallistreheareringh11 4 N MIIDS More Light and Less Heat Needed in White Probe ' 1 11411 riot The State Supreme Court's 3 decision on Utah's new nepotism law provides a disappointingly limited answer to several vexing questions and uncertainties posed by the drastic and controvelsial statute The majority of the tribunal seems in agreement that the law effective last July cannot be invoked retroactively against of local teachers' retirement as f '' - ' Sele MARQUIS I 6 I I ti r 1 4 - - - - - 4 |