Show J s It Zig fakt Ztibunr Monday Morning May 17 1954 MARQUIS CHILDS The 'Ordinayy AAeeiiaass Propaganda Battle Looms In Any Easing of Vnsion THE vAcT ti'AJoftrn of AtottRICAKS Artt GOOD Pribea -- SARDwoMite1 ppON- E- - E Kola SERsICE STATiON AITTADANT UKt-TH- Protecting Supreme Court's Independence The bill for a constitutional amendment to strengthen the independence of the U S Supreme Court is reported to be beaded for trouble in the lower house It needs more public underSenate-approve- d standing The proposal won strong Senate support and has been endorsed by the American Bar Association and other organizations but some critics insist it would "clutter up the constitution" and put the high tribunal in too rigid a framework if approved by the The amendment House of Representatives and 36 state legislatures would permanently fix the number Highway Hypnosis The coming of good weather and the approach of the vacation season mean greatly increased Utah highway travel particularly the long distance travel which leads to overdriving with resultant fatigue drowsiness or hypnosis While sometimes the cause of an accident is listed as "driver went to sleep at the wheel" many times that cause of a head-o- n crash or of an accident in which a car runs off the road is never known because the driver is killed or the crash blacks out his memory of what happened But those who have studied traffic accidents know it is a very serious problem Recently a survey was made of a particularly bad stretch of rather monotonous highway In New Mexico by a team from the Institute " of Transportation and Traffic Engineering at the lhaiversity of California at Los An geles They came up with some interesting findings about the problems of long distance driving through peaceful countryside particularly in high altitude areas They learned for one thing that hypoxia or altitude sickness could increase the pulse rate and impair visual acuity In some higher elevations it causes sleepiness and headaches Three kinds of highway hypnosis were noted—driver inability to appreciate how fast he is going in terms of stopping distance a state of trance brought on by driving mile after mile of repetitious monotonous highway and hallucinations which lead a driver to take emergency action to avoid hitting imaginary obstacles The analysts warned of the general performance which comes near the end of the day's trip of the tendency to try to cover too great a distance the first day of a long trip and of attempting to travel too far in the time allotted We do not doubt that many an' "inexplicable" accident is really due to some of these factors resulting from driving too far too long too fast One thing every vacationing motorilt should remember is that while automobiles have been built to drive hour after hour long distances at 'high speeds the man behind the wheel is no different physically and let-dow- n physical-psychologic- psycholog1call3r - than-h- is nodding as he made his ponderous 20 miles a day across the plains behind the ox team 'Nor Any Drop to Drink' The recent Soil Conservation Service Weather Bureau report that Utah's streams are only 65 per cent of the 1942-5average should occasion no surprise Last winter was unusually mild and precipitation was below normal The warm windy spring has added to the water shortage It is also generally recognized that drouths recur throughout the semi-ariWest and the plains section now suffering from repeated dust storms Studies of tree rings indicate that wet and dry cycles have alternated through the years Maj Stephen H Long led an exploration party through the region in 1820 gaye it the name it retained for many generations: the Great American desert Northern Utah has been exceedingly fortunate compared with the southern part of the state and the sections of Colorado New Mexico Kansas and Texas in the new dust bowl But Ogden has joined several other communities in having to announce restrictions on use of culinary water Salt Lake City and others using Deer Creek water likely will avoid an immediate crisis because of that prOject The drouth is not confined to the semi arid West however New York last week with an order revived the ghost of 1949-5to the city's hotels and restaurants to serve water with meals only when customers'ask for it Strong efforts are being made to eliminate waste because of the severe water shortage For the country as a whole though water consumption has risen enormously— partly because of industrialization—no severe crisis is foreseen unless waste and pollution goes on at its present rate Some the Intermountain West to will have develop all possible water resources Perhaps even the people of New York—if they have to restrict their baths and go without water with their meals— will begin to realize the importance to Western communities of water development and storage such as reclamation projects Make possible Meantime the water stringency emphasizes the urgent necessity of intelligent management of mountain watershedseliminating the abuses that contribute to water shorterosion floods and 1 d 0 g regions-includin- late-seaso- n ages N of Supreme Court justices at nine The size now is fixed by statute and has been changed a number of times in the past The bill also would require all federal judges to retire at 75 years The Senate killed a provision which we think has merit that Supreme Court justices be ineligible for the offices of President and Vice President within five years after leaving the bench While the founding fathers created an Independent Supreme Court they left some weaknesses in the system the most dangerous being the power of Congress to change the number of justices and thus enable the President and Senate indirectly to influence opinions of the tribunal Efforts such as those of President Roosevelt to pack the court in 1937 after a series of decisions would be thwarted And the amendment would go beyond this by preventing interference with the court by Congress such as occurred In the Andrew Johnson administration Congress at that time reduced the number of justices from nine to seven depriving the President of the opportunity of naming justices favoring his policies Currently the constitution permits Congress to take away the court's appellate jurisdiction and In 1868 the branch exercised this power preventing the court from hearing an appeal involving a writ of habeas corpus One effect is to give Congress discretion in enforcement of the Bill of Rights This needs correcting Forcing Supreme Court and other federal judges tit retire at 75 could deprive the courts of excellent talent for some men are bright and healthy at that age notably the late Oliver Wendell Holmes but More frequently it would force out men no longer capable of carrying out their arduous and important duties Such a compulsory retirement might well apply also to members of Congress HE'S Some gentlemen of the press have been waxing facetious about Agriculture Secretary Benson's installing milk dispensing machines in his office The arrangement whereby a person may receive a half pint of milk for 10 cents is publicized as a means of helping cut down the national surplus Mr Benson is quoted as saying he will try to get the machines into every department of government including the White House One skeptical editorial writer observes quite accurately that if the 58 persons in Mr Benson's office and the 779 in administration drink the health-givinfluid the total consumption won't make much of a dent in the 600 million pounds of dried milk stored away or in the annual current surplus of 3636570000 quarts a year Maybe not but if the idea of drinking pure milk caught on and the thousands— or is it millions?—of stenographers and clerks got the habit of sipping a glass of milk at 10 am and 3:30 pm daily instead of that increasingly scarce and costly hot drink a sizable dent might result and health might be improved in offices and stores The plan unfortunately has one serious drawback A coin dispenser in an office does not give the worker the excuse of traipsing down the street and dawdling and gossiping over his drink The job as we see it is to give the "milk break" more glamorous trappings g Happy Philosopher Richard Paul Hague had a host of friends who will mourn his passing last Friday at the age of 88 years The age itself-- may surprise many who knewhim for although Dick Hague never disguised his years he seemed to be perpetually young to his philosophy of This was due no doubt life Dick Hague believed that work was the best thing that could happen to a man and that it was foolish to retire until forced to So he kept on working and at the tim of his death had been a newspaper advertising collector in Salt Lake City fork 38 years walking as much as 10 to 15 miles a day He began with the Salt Lake Telegram on - January 2 and 1 916- then The Tribune-Telegra- later the Newspaper Agency Corporation We will miss Dick Hague He was a familiar figure and an excellent man to know Just talking to him for a moment gave one a lift Dick Hague was a philosopher whose happiness was contagious We grieve at the news of his death and to his widow express deep sympathy The fellow at the next desk says all his picks have been bad lately Not only did he pick the wrong horse in the Derby but when he went to the bank to borrow money to make up his losses lie picked the wrong vice president Relations between the executive and legislative branches of our government depend ot) a system of checks and balances Or at the moment anyway threats and insults hats for men are The new narrow-briseen everywhere except in the campaign photographs of candidates for sheriff The way one politician accuses another of headline-huntin- g you'd think they were sort closed season of some violating PART OP THE ) 1 IflA A l'1:4Y 5 )° Ai o E'''' 1j ws 6 oV iN4 t01110b 4kt r 3E1 1 ta:r CREA4iNC CARS CHANCiNG Ti RES- IT'S COO WORK wiNTER—HoT I 37 4 II 41 4 $0111 i SummER— WhEN You Dflivi A 6t11 n) TKELTZI4N m 04'7tA0' Editor Tribune: "Jim plores leaks of secret data" states your headline May 13 along with the gratuitous comment "McCarthy Slap" It strikes me certain people are too quick to conclude that In deploring certain evils the President has been aiming his remarks at McCarthy Ike told some students not to join the and called that a slap at McCarthy But McCarthy hasn't burned any books Then Ike expressed disapproval of improper investigative methods and members of the egghead left jumped to to a similar conclusion But McCarthy has been one of the least offenders in his conduct of investigations Now Ike deplores leaks of secret data and you call it a McCarthy slap But one of McCarthy's main objectives has been to learn who was guilty of stealing secret documents and delivering them to Soviet agents The stand now being taken by our Communist sympathizers seems to be that things de- book-burne- nMibas By Our Readers be harder to get boats clowit crevice than it this 2000-foo- t was to get the Bluff party wagons down 70 years ago The Wahweap Creek site has been so thoroughly discredited that it was a surprise to see it again suggested The others are even less reasonable Crossing of the Fathers for example which can now be reached by jeep will be rendered totally inaccessible by this lake As far as Mr Corbett's assertions are concerned neither the power production the silt control nor the storage of the proposed Glen Canyon Dam are essential to the Upper Colorado Project All can be achieved in other ways Canwhich will preserve-Gleyon and Rainbow Bridge National Monument Malcolm Ellingson have come to a pretty pass when Soviet agents and their dupes in government can no longer feel sure McCarthy hasn't already got the goods on them It looks as if some few loyal Americans may have infiltrated state and defense and given McCarthy some hot stuff Richard S Morrison Delta Utah No Boat Harbors Editor Tribune Thanks to Clair Förd for his offer in a recent Forum of a trip through Glen Canyon for myself and several others who in Glen prefer a national park Canyon to a futile billion-dolla- r dam As it happens however I have already made the trip about 25 timts and consequently have some knowledge of the country and the damage which would be done by the dam Mr Ford wishes Forum readers to believe that boat harbors can be built at such places as Hole in - the Rock Crossing Wahweap Creek and five other unlikely locations Those who have seen know that it would A Salute to Mr Churchill Ever since I read his own account of his escape from the Boers in South Africa I have admired Winston the London Morning Post when he was captured a n d locked up with many ' " livou Mr Barton others in a big prison surrounded by a high stone walL From the minute of his arrest he concentrated all his faculties on escape and finally worked out a scheme by which at a certain moment when the sentries were being changed he believed he could scale the waIl and drop safely on the other side THE PLAN succeeded— only to be threatened with failure For he discovered to his dismay that there were sentinels outside the wall as well as inside and that in order to reach the road he must pass a brilliantly lighted house where noisy guests were constantly moving in and out to the garden The Jig was up but would be admit 1t7 He wrote: "Now I was in the right mood for these on dertakings — that Is to say that- thinking failure alinbst certain no odds against sue eess affected me All risks were less than the certainty The gate which led into the road was only a few yards from another sentrY I said de to myself Toujours Taulace put on my hat strode into the middle of the - garden walked past the windows of the house without any attempt at concealment and so went through the gate and turned to the left" CHURCHILL'S bodyguard Inspector W H Thompson of Scotland Yard has been in this country recently There is an old saying that no man can be a hero to his valet But to Inspee tor Thompson who has seen the prime minister In every mood the Cild Man Is not only a hero but al most a god Throughout the war he drove himself from early morning to midnight and after He simply did not know what it was to feel physical fear Thompson's greatest worry was that he stubbornly refused to seek shelter during the bombings The British people were standing it he insisted that he must share their lot NEXT TO HIS courage I admire him most because he has always been frankly and for his own unashamedly country first This long forgotten quotation from Theodore Roosevelt would please him: "The professed internatiOnalfst usually sneers at nationalism at patriotism at what we call 'Americanism' He bids us forswear our love of country in the rime of love for the world at large We nationalists answer that he has begun at the wrong end: we say that as the world now is it is only the man who ardently loves his country first who in actual prectiee can help any other country at all" -- I - Editor Tribune: After reading Dr J M–Alexander's letter "Stop Subsidies" in the Forum May 12 I feel that he should be answered From all one reads about subsidies you government would think that the farmers are the only ones receiving subsidies This is far from true In fact the farmers get only a small part of the government money that is put out as subsidies Others receiving such subsidies to name only a few railroads newspaper business oil company—in 'fact nearly any industry you can name Yes even the medical field Uncle Sam puts out a lot of money toward medical research After the public has financed this research it is then turned over to private MD's and they in turn are the ones who receive the fat of the land out of the deal and the public can get cured providing they can get the money for it I realize that the medical field is one of vital importance to our way of living and whatever benefits they have received either directly or indirectly I do not begrudge them I also feel that agriculture is just as important and is entitled to the same benefits as any other group and that the people in agriculture are entitled to 'Its good a living standard as any other group If we here in America were to go short of food for a year or two we would appreciate the fat the farmer produces plenty rather than not enough even if that insurance cost us abour50 cents per capita per year J D Perkins Spry Utah Soaper Says The little girl next door having reported that Johnny threw her books over the fence and pushed her into a puddle love seems to have come to the fourth grade Archeologists in Mexico have found corn more than 4000 years old This is be- lieved to be the oldest corn in existence outside TV frustration p and irritation at a government that has seemed unable to move in any direction on any question may express itself in an angry determination to get out of the war at any price On the other hand the intransigence of the Communists plus their dickering over the removal of the Dienbienphu wounded could arouse French opinion behind a new effort to obtain at the very least a reasonable armistice underwritten not cold-bloode- d at this conference but also by Asian nations whose British Foreign Secretary Eden has been steadfastly trying to enlist AS FOR ME British the-Lab- Party threatent dire reprisals against the Conservative government if Eden at Geneva makes any military commitment for Indochina In fact the Increasingly influential Bevan wing of the party is conducting open warfare against the foreign policy of the Churchill government with wide trade union support for opposition of Gerto the many under Eden This resembles the situation in Washington Dulles must not only undertake to restore bipartisan support at home but he must also press for action on the defense pact that American policy rates as essential Here at Geneva there is a keen realization of the divrsions and differences plaguing the western powers both from within and in their relationships one with another That is one reason for the continuing emphasis on the United Nations as the framework within which a settlement must be effected WHAT ABOUT the Communist side during this lull? The American view inclines toward that of the British that Moscow is fearful the war will be enlarged and that the relations between Russia and China are much more difficult than for example the relations of Moscow with the Eastern European satellitas Molotov is confronted with a c o m paratively independent force which could precipitate the kind ot war that might mean atomic eventually bombs falling on Russia's industrial centers It is still the American view that Soviet Russia does not at this time want such a war In the interpretation of Ambassador Bohlen in Moscow the recent tough statements by Soviet generals on the anniversary of V-- day reflected this fear The tough talk was in effect a warning to the West not to enlarge the Indochinese conflict E ONE THING is fairly cer thin during what may be a long or a short pause and that is that the propaganda battle will continue The Communists brought forwara phantom governments of Laos and Cambodia as the champions of freedom Shortly representatives of exile governments speaking for freedom in the various states making up the Soviet Union will come to Geneva to insist that they alone represent democracy These exiles will governsay that the ments of the Ukraine Uzbekistan and so forth are merely Moscow puppets to be moved on and off at the whim of the central dictatorship THE ALSOP BROTHERS Good Business BRUCE BARTON Churchill He was coy-ering the war as a correspondent for IJf EGAAA0414t Loyal Infiltration -- Longpent-u- if KEEP The Public Forum - 0 Iffi t - ----10 S it r4 HIJMCCOMCS 1‘ Po t) IN TO e itc0 -- -- db and create a defensive pact — in Southeast Asia rests not f li so much with men who sit around the Mr Childs conference table as it does with those who exercise n power in a cap itals The coming days and even weeks are likely to see a lull a pause before a new phase of the Asian crisis makes big headlines again HOWEVER LONG the interval of pause in the actual struggle in Indochina a great deal depends on what happens in the immediate future in Paris half-doze- lamb Wt1 101 117'1' peace bring to Indochina 60A° 11 itcpfeett ei: GENEVA — Never great at the outset the powers capacities centered in the Asian conference bere have :osumo 44111 begun rapidly ! A00 to evaporate bW hatd eovnere mat yo rand pripptig I I weM11dV °'r I AMERiCAN scENeme TAKI HIM WONDER HOW FOR GRANTED MANY FOREIGNERS EVER HEARD OF MIS KIND OF COURTEOUS HARDWORKING AMERICA N? law-maki- Over a Glass of Milk co MUCH A 1 Phone Talks Provide Key WASHINGTON — Sen Joseph R McCarthy's own behavior is the best proof that he greatly fears the out come of the M c Carthy- -- Army ' hear- ings The reason Is obvious Mc- - rJ oft"A" aro - - - is Carthy of the t telephone conversations that Joseph Alsop show exactly how he and his staff beat the U S Army over the head to get special favors for Pvt Schine And sooner or later these conversations are likely to be put in evidence NOTHING is so telling nothing is so bleakly convincof human ing as a page-ful- l talk set down as the words came from the mouths of the speakers without comment or If advance reelaboration ports do not mislead' the introduction of these conversations should dispel the last lingering doubts about the need for the that is now going on The senators of the Invest' gating Committee the Army strategists and those who have observed the hearings from the start all agree that these monitored telephone conversations are the real clue to the mystery of Sen McCarthy's tactics to date To understand the position tbe different classes of documents must be understood First there are the documents prepared by the Army —the original report on the Schine matter to Sen Potter and the final statement of charges filed With the Investigating Committee Both these are public property Second there are the memoranda of McCarthy's and his staff's dealings with the Army THESE WERE prepared by Army counselor John Adams as he has now testified by direction of the President's ckI e1 of staff The existence of the two first sets of documents were well afraid monitored These memoranda Adams have not been published as yet They paint a far uglier picture than the Army's pubBut they do lic documents not give the story verbatim Sherman known to McCarthy and his staff before the bearings began Even the Adams memoranda probably caused no great qualms After all if these memoranda were introduced in the record the issue would be no more than the memory of Adams against the memory of McCarthy and Roy Cohn Then at the very beginning of the bearing Army lawyer Joseph Welch suddenly revealed the existence of the third class of documents the monitored telephone conver-sations MCCARTHY immediately objected to the admission of the conversations as evidence and he began the filibuster that kept Secretary of the Army Stevens on the stand for 14 days The monitored conversations are still not in the record No doubt McCarthy and Cohn will exploit every device at their command to keep these bombs from exploding Perhaps the Army stride-gist-s have divided feelings about these conversations since the Army cause may also be damaged if all the have to be in- troduced with no Innissions The real test of tIle 'honesty of the present investigation is what finally happens to these conversations It's hard to understand the'' news unless you know the background whether its the latest from Indochina or the high school weekly's item "What boy from out of town seemed to get quite a kick out of driving past what house' blonde sophomore's Sunday afternoon?" : I |