Show - —di : - - a t— - ( - - t e e ' t ilit akt 7cht November Wednesday Morning I 4 edittibunt24 Things Will - rre 1954' rN' The question of why they act like Russians has not been satisfactorily answered In fact the more the question is pursued the more confusing it becomes for the Rus sians who live in a- vast land area which straddles Europe and Asia combine characteristics of both continents They are not quite oriental nor are they really occidental And on top of that they live in a Communist country which means dictatorship and a - Arguing in the Dark Senators Jenner of Indiana and of Idaho have added their voices growing demand for publishing the concerning the dismissal of John -- Welker to the record Paton Davies ' - 1 - 1 - f After 23 years of service with the State Department Mr Davies was recently fired deprived of his pension and subjected to the public disgrace that goes with being ruled it'seetirity 'dale' Many 'others' 'have :urged Secretary of State Dulles to publish the transcript of Mr Davies' hearing before the ninth and last loyalty board to consider his case but for different reasons Mr Welker said Mr Davies "may have been a Communist" and "might have been disloyal" and Mr Jenner said the case against Mr Davies is "much more serious" than that "an expression of his views proved to be erroneous" These statements only serve to further confuse the public since Mr Dulles previously announced that Mr Davies was not In any way found Correspondents Joseph and Stewart Alsop have called Mr Davies the only senior American official who has ever officially advocated preventive war with the Soviet Union and was subsequently ruled a "se curity risk" They allude to a paper writ ten by Davies in 1950 while he was a member of the State Department's policy planning staff In it he argued against waiting for a showdown until Russia accumulated a decisive advantage In atomic weapons The case against Mr Davies actually had to do with his advocacy—in a period of despair with the Nationalist government of China during World War II—of a kind of Chinese Titoism The Alsops insist that If Mr Davies' advice had been taken by the United States it would have been better than the policy It did adopt — "which was no policy at all" Are the Alsops or Senators Welker and Selmer right? Let's have the record of the case so the public May judge - - After 26 -- t i -- i ' - --- ' - i i i i I 1I --------- i t - - 'De 31ortuis 1 - - ' An ancient Roman proverb says "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" (Concerning the dead speak nothing but good) ' If that rule is followed comment on An::-drei Vishinskywho died Monday of a heart 7 must necessarily be brief For of the attack chief Soviet delegate to the United Nations there is little good that can be said i than any of the He was no more evil s even better 'other Russian - since he had not advanced too high in the ' Communist hierarchy But his character was not one to extoll nor could his achievements be cited as an example for youth to follow - - Re was a' willing henchman of the dictatorship and he did his work efficiently He prosecuted- traitors" In the great Russian i purge trials and in the deliberations of the United Nations he carried out orders from i home with an invective seldom if ever SUP passed at international meetings Vishinsky's death came suddenly is has ' the But unlike many of his former associates the cause of his death is known There is no i pistol wound in the back of his head As for Soviet policy Vishinsky's passing will have no effect at all The fact that he will be succeeded by Jakob Malik who also preceeded biro as chief Russian delegate makes this very clear - : - - -- - 1 - leaders--perhap- 4 -- - - - - - - i i - k- -— t 9As ‘ vtrt -- ' Ye:0 ilk1 SO Z-- ' v" - lf nt41 ") '" tN ' e 2v1 THIS POSITION 41'4 6 it sIPVAZ$TviegIttoPPJ " t ' At votIVINIK ' ) "c‘ tt filtV194) 7444A4440 4‘P)s41411 : r' rtiIS :Re --t- ANNIN ers on the highways If a person felt that he would be monetarily rewarded by having a good safety record he would more than likely strive to keep his slate clean In Same Category Editor Tribune: Lately I have investigated automobile insurance rates and I find that rates for a personunder 25 are exhorbitant - merely because 'of his age His driving ability character and the condition of his car are not Great Injustice Editor Tribune: I read with Interest your editorial on John Patton Davies Certainly the whole case of Mr Davies raises doubts concerning the security system and its administrators The purpose of the security system is to protect our free institutions from the agents of dictators' But are the methods used worthy of a free people? Mr Davies was persecuted because powerful and fanatical individuals did not like his ideas He was investigated eight times since 1949 arid he was cleared of disloyalty each time However his relentless enemies continued to demand 'his dismissal and in the ninth Investigation they succeeded The charges were vague such as lacking judgement discretion and reliability There is danger in admitting such vague charges because they can be used against anyone and they are matters of opin- ion not fact Also being put In Jeopardy incessantly for the same offense is contrary to the Constitution - ' Park Isn't much fun in medicine hut there is a good deal of medicine in fun p - - lay-awa- y ' - s - ' to n would draw southern important leader has even found McCarthy useful as a bogey-mato scare Democratic members Into line "Some day" he threatened a freshman senator last session "you'll be cpming around and begging me to take McCarthy off your en- ' back" t - - - senators Conscientious regardless of party are suf tering the agonies of moral Indecision "Any fool" as one of them moaned recently behind a closed door "can tell right from wrong But what hap pens when it's a case of choosing among several rights or among several wrongs?" lie meant that the rights of free speech and full investigation had collided with the 'rights of personal privacy and senatorial dignity that the wrongs of communism were being matched with the wrongs of McCarthyism that it was sometimes difficult to tell whether McCarthy was really clarifying or confusing the Communist issue - McCARTHY himself is the defendleast ant that anybody around here is able to recall He does not onthe-delensiv- e seem willing to apologize in any way for hasty words or thoughtless action beAll this inexplicable havior bY McCarthy becomes explicable if you take the Br'er Rabbit version Thrown Into the briar patch tossed out of the Senate McCarthy would land in his natural element He would be no longer a US senator from Wisconsin He'd be a one-maparty It will be exploited by the vengeful Democrats What Republican however high his status will be safe if Joe is destroyed? Democrats looking a little tionalists growing weaker and if our policy continued Inflexible it would be doomed to failure He was therefore charged with opposing the AmeriCan government policy He cultivated relations with the Chinese Communists because he wanted to get information He urged openly that we keep friendly contacts with Communist China in order to prevent a Soviet-Chin- a bloc This led to the charge that he was friendly toward the Chinese Communists Mr Davies was charged with being "overzealous" in pressing his opinion but was 4 very REPUBLICANS can see dis- - — aster for themselves no farther away than January when their opponents will organize the Senate Any sort of GOP-backepunishment for McCarthy is an admission of wrong and weakness n ROBERT C RUARK House Built on the Sands My grandpa builded a house upon the sands some 75 years ago and he bullded it in a little :t ' " '' 29 town called Southport NC which took the full force ' of the last hurricane I have just re- - not Oppenheimer "not en- thusiastic enough" about the ' - "4 ( t ceived some i t of pictures what the gale did to some H bomb? Mt Davies has iiitfered a great injustice and his fate is certainly going to have an effect upon the independence and courage of future reports from critical areas Many& Baumbacher ' - ' 'fripot $ 4' This raisedskirt construction served several purposes It kept the house bone dry for one thing and it discouraged the bugs for another And it made a fine haven for the storage of boats tents fish nets lawn mowers old sidesaddles and delightful' junk for young males to peuse on rainy days These houses were largely constructed of ii?firoalrinera lifitset pine which tinder at first but if it survives half a it turns Into a kind ocfenirtounry -- "" L "4rat-its - ' - I' ktle14'9 Mr Rpark other houses in the town which was plenty But grandpa's house is still there solid on its stilts The old place shed a shingle or so I believe but otherwise went scatheless IIAZEL MESrED up the waterfront considerable but In the pictures of the wreckage I notice that all the old widows'-walhouses of the same vintage as my house Garbage Collection The Bridge Club Meets Don't be an "eager beaver" —beavers sometimes get I declare girls each year the holiday season seems to - skinned ' start earlier! Why just the Ed Eshleman remarked the other day a other day that what every' --- loud speaker body knows is not enough to on Main Street run k hotdog stand with let 4 wasblaring alone a government out some of Aiti 4110 the Christmas I-- ' Waide Condon Joel Priest ! carols! My 414 : and I were discussing some husband says of the trials that come with they're using years Joel said: "Philos° the old power phers have always maintained of suggestion that the curve is more beautimethod a bit than ful straight line but sooner than Ham Park— I still getthekidded about my -I usual Well all can say is embonpoint" that the only suggestion I got was to stay away!1' Honestlyi Karl1 Hardy says that in the way sthey overdo things - California it s hard to tell a a Cannon! nowadays-1Republican from a Democrat Have I what my dear'? Have They'll all promise anything I started on my Christmas Censure shopping? Well after a manner of speaking I have— I've man will a not have censure If had some things put in the Would he have reproof re- ' But speaking of proach or blame Christmas gifts I had the fun- Or any word that Webster says niest dream last night! I Means just about the same? dreamed that it was ChristHow's reprehend hit conmas Morning and my husband demn scarify or per- and I were opening our pack- '''' stringe ages And what do you sup Criticize backbite attack or I got from him? Some other corrective thing? uranium stock! He'd had one Or will he on the nation's of his certificates transferred time to me! Imagine! Continue to flout and scoff welt I t Till folks wish in plain modTtlere's one store Iush a veans't been in ern slang Someone yet See you next weekwould knock his - - block off? Notes on the Cuff Department ' Jean B Fonnesbeck ' - 2 Dr J J Galligan says there - Logan Utah - Mr Davies has been in the State Department for 23 years working in the Foreign Service primarily in the Far East and Russia on which he was an expert It was Mr Davies' report from China during the struggle between the Communists and the Nationalists that first got him into trouble with the "China Lobby" Ile reported things as he saw them that the power relations between the Communists and the Nationalists were changing rapidly the Communists growing stronger and the Na- ha Anderson --- given any recognition Actuaries have proven that more traffic accidents occur among this younger age group However these stati tics are not conclusive in themselves They represent only facts Insurance premiums put a young professional man or a young tradesman in the same category as a slapSomehow it happy doesn't seem quite fair The fact that a person is steady cautious and a capable driver seems otbu ear little weight against the date of his ' birth This isn't logical be-cause a person's chronologi- I cal age does not reveal much of importance in judging a driver's ability Also most Insurance don't companies even consider of the cars they insure I believe that the only fair way to Judge the insurance rates would be a test designed to show the capabilities of the driver and the condition tit his cat This system might also help to put better driv- - o: By Our Readers The Public Forum BUT EVERY Democrat would sleep more soundly to know that the GOP still exerts some control over Joe One servative support from both It would set up McCarthy as undisputed leader of a Nationalist party Senators now becoming acquainted with this scheme of things are aghast as they contemplate it Some are aghast with pleasure some with pain some with sheer awe at the responsibility which rides on their votes This third group—composed of senators who are beginning to comprehend what a Pandora's box they're sitting on —appears to hold the balance of power Nothing is going to happen on the McCarthy censure move until this senatorial clique explores and reMcsolves the myriad-side- d Carthy affair - It - f states make Agin independent of t li'4141'14t-40- c "11444 44 r - leL1' yet both major parties ultra-co' 1111 ' Out able him - - hopes to t-hater p414 or - 3 kr 1 - t - i' de4OP'6veire6 : Expelled he would according to unimpeachable sources go back to Wisconsin and as a radistand for cal rightwinger and Communis- 1 Christmas comes but once a year beginning in Septeinber—Isaiah Jr - While we're on the subject how about your Christmas mailing? The post office people will greatly apimleciate a bit of prematurity here for it helps to spread the - Christmas mail load You'll get better and faster serVice with earlier mailing too—and be sure your packages or greetings reach ' their destination In ample time c e"41 : him elb414S) Senator From Sandpit Ham - - I - 4 i w ' be expelled Mr Alexandsr and is dead set on forcing the Senate to throw 1 4445-v- By -- NA - ° t tl2x14 czirs of expul- - There is tually p 3 t good reason to believe that McCarthy ac- - i'- !!::7''41' 07610Da y February come the Lincoln Day addresses which since 1950 have been the occasion of McCarthy's most devastating assaults upon Demo crats Members of that-part- y don't publicly acknowledge how much they dread a per sonal attack by McCarthy in their home especially - sion y - pleading to be flung out of the Senate and Into the briar patch 4 farther ahead can also see trouble for themselves in this McCarthy business In WASHINGTON—Like Br'er Rabbit before him Senator Joe McCarthy is seemingly '4101r 10004c pose - - ?q115 - - - i 4' The news out of Russia is confusing When Stalin lived the will of Russia was the will of one man But that is true no longer Who rules Russia today? Malenkov's name is the most prominent but there are others who as far as any outsider can determine must also be reckoned with If Russia as many think is now being governed by committee then in the natural course of dictatorship one individual should eventually become supreme Until that occurs however we must deal with Russia as she is This is the most difficult of tasks The administration living in a world of neither peace nor war must work to preserve the former without yielding on principles or committing mistakes which would make the latter inevitable In trying feaceful coexistence it must avoid the sort of stalemate which would cause us to relax our guard is fraught wit t Peaceful dangers It could cause peoples living in those countries under the Red yoke to be lieve that they had been abandoned by their supposed friends It could cause President Tito of Yugoslavia to think again of changing sides—anaccusation which Tito has just 'denounced with ronsiderable heat: The future will bring forth what it will For the present there are two i homely maxims for all of us to bear in mibd The first is "Keep your powder dry" The second "Don't rock the boat" There are a lot of statesmen and others in Washington who should follow that advice - - A 4144 41: A PA tgr tvwAl 1 1 54411i "40‘ loss Salt-Lak- - ' 1 I it '41:'' r''' legippolP stA L Efria )iit ad- - b - ' ' V(01010000 ‘0 L - Anyone who despite store displays vertising warnings and premature dusting off of traditional songs on the radio still doubted that Christmas is Imminent must know better today The traditional Christmas tree has arrived in front of The Tribune Building Cut down In the yard of a Heber rest-dence Monday the tree was hauled some- e what precariously over the highways to City and workmen were busy putting it in place Tuesday Trimming with lights' and decorations will be completed in time for the Friday night oftiFial launching of the Christmas season ' Incidentally we'd suggest you plan to evedowntown that bring the yOungsters make will his Claus appearance ning §anta in the annual parade at 7 o'clock with floats bands a military drill team and a lot of l clowns Lights on the Christmas tree and on all the decorations which have ' been erected underthe direction of the Salt Lake Junior Chamber of Commerce will be turned on—and after the ohs and ahs and the parade- you- can take the children to visit some of the store toy displays Stores will be open until 9 o'clock Friday evening And remember come Friday there will be only 25 shopping days left until Christmas' Maybe some of the Christmas ' talk and Pilule so far has been a hit pre- vious but now the holiday is really getting ' Aoper ali jk I CAN oortPtiti)L7 11" til f 4 10 di "1141:4111r411 41 Now It's Official i ctt ' McCarthy May Be Playipg Role of Old Bier Rabbit NA - 'km t I -- - ' I 4" 1 x oogt 4 I'‘ co-operation -- 4: : ' if d - -- 1 its a past they have regarded of war in Even midst the affair for their very lives they did- not trust theirallies—a trust which we extended to our Years 40t a"--: 4vit ' world-destroyin- one-side- ' '''''' W" t'' - - AO I Americans who are puzzled Russians must the remember Russian his- by tory Suspician of foreigners is as much a mania in Russia today as it was in the days of Peter the Great—with one difference: Where Peter looked to the West for his example the Russian Communists look to the West and indeed the rest of the world as a place to expand either by force of arms or Ideological infiltration At the moment Moscow or at least a part of the politburo Appears beliçve in But can a nation "peaceful believe in anything which is not peace-lovin- g Some American leaders includpeaceful? ing the President may consider possible' but such hope must be tempered with caution though the alternative to cog war existence could be a The trouble is that the Communist masters may have a definition of quite different from our own In the I : 0 I Present-da- y - years ago 'Dr James M O'Neill came to Salt Lake City to give the commencement address at the University of thah He was then a professor at the University of Michigan br O'Neill's subject was "The Uses of Truth" and he emphasized the scholar's responSibility to seek out and make public the truth although stressing that the discovered truth should have practical value! It might have been termed an argument for academic freedontwith a full sense of responsibility that the freedom serve a useful purpose Dr O'Neill returned to Salt Lake City for the first time since 1928 this week Since his last visit he has made a name for himself as a lecturer author and defender of civil and religious liberty He is still very much interested in the subject of academic freedom In view of the great concern expressed by some over a present threat to academic freedom it was Interesting to have him say he saw no such menace today and that in his opinion men kif courage and responsibility in the educa- tonal field still can and do speak their minds without hesitation This from a man who was for many years a member and for four years chairman of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the American Civil Liberties Union — and who has certainly never hesitated to speak his own mind—is Indeed heartening - ' ''v 1?) based upon an army of informers and a Twenty-si- x - r'i under the commissars Itwas despotism ruthless - 4 philosophy of life and government which is in some respects a religion and like many religions is determined to make converts Russia's history provides some dues to Russian actions Russia as a nation was late in coming on the world stage The land was isolated from the West—until very recent times it was terra incognita—and its people looked more to Asia than to Europe Moreover Russia has been subject to a series of foreign conquerors In 1931 Stalin summed up things this way: "The history of Russia She was beaten is the history of defeats because to beat her was profitable and could be done with impunity" Perhaps the most important of the beatings in view of its effect upon the Russians was administered by the Tartars who came in 1223 and remained in control until 1480 a longer period of time 'than the United States has been independent The Tartars were despots and the Russians adopted despotism—first under the czars and later - 1- t '4 1' t: '? Russian Enigma Makcs Our Task Difficult HOLMES ALEXA1NDER - or14- -4 v t in '55 Look-U- p i - Editor Tribune: As a taxpayer and voter I strongly oppose the stand of the Chamber I bought the house back some and the electricity to behold Why it old man's years ago was a sight didn't burn up nobody'll know because the wiring hung in festoon' ae no sign of t naked wood with insulation But that wood itself was so so nearly petrified that the remodelers had a time setwhich I remember from my ting a modern nail into it Nor childhood still sit square and was there a sprung beam or firm amidst a sea of jetsam sagged joist The kitchen where old GaSouthport being on the hurricane course as the lena used to coax miracles out of a glowing wood stove high winds sweep along the Carolina coast has seen its— —hasn't budged or sprung and share of big gales what we used to call the I can remember a few as a pantry is now the breakfast room boy when the river walked a block into town and where The house was racked by some roofs skittered gaily when tletchedJt abback like scrip paper But alting into the family but all n tbe bi gg e st blows the vandals bad ' in knocking loose the able to harm its prim stern old tough houses lines or solid walls ' I notice in this hurricane must have built them They that one huge beach develop differently in those daystwith —- 1-merit lost all its houses—new a - measure of honest labor I houses constructed since the wily the best of seasoned mawar save a few and houses terials and some pride of l' which figured to hold But craftsmanship which eludes In the pictures I've got the the modern builder You - - old Stewart hoUse and the old expect the floor to sag and hotel and the old—was it the plaster to crack in the -- Bussells or Dosher-h- ou se new ones before you get the ain't turned a hair 1 to working if it - fireplace THESE OLD houses were' draws at all- don't need the Chamber of all built on legs Maybe THE SHODDINESS of mod-there is such a thing as a cel Commerce to— run tha city ern workmanship as I've ob- - - - lar - and a -- solid k of Commerce in recommending that a private company collect and dispose of garbage at a claimed saving to the city How many cities have a private system? In San Francisco for ex ampleprivate companies do the collecting The rate for each apartment or houie is 85 cents a month for one collection a week - Only one can of mixed garbage- a week is allowed The rate goes up according to the number of roorns in the dwelling unit and the floor it occupies In fact ' from what garbage I have seen put out here on regular garbage days It wlletcost the owner $2 per tion not counting shrubbery tree limbs leaves and other refuse that is put out to be-- hauled away We voters elect a mayor and commissioners to run the city and I think they are competent to do just that We hard - - ' never-succeede- not-j:see- d -- - k " - - ' 'for ui - And another thing what will happen to the good men who have been doing the gar-bage collecting if a private Are company takes over? they going to be put out of work? If a private company gets the contract it will do its own hiring foundation in South port nOwt but before the war I doubt if there was any such new tangled foolishness : Houses were pilings of brick steel' or es: tarred wood and lookea like the same stern old ladles rals lag their skirts against a - mouse Arthur D Harris - - - I when you consider that an old fat-pi- ne house on stilts can sneer at a hurricane while the con- temporary dwellings c a r t wheel off into the sea Grandpa may have builded his house upon the sands but grandpa's sands seem to be a sight better man's rock than ' modern - - 0 i - -- 4 4 -- - -0- -- - vosselk4eNte'" I |