| Show 1 OA t Otw Tower Is Leaning More Too A alt falit Zithunt :bt Sunday ft Morning- - Jul' 271958 4f- - r f‘ 9 - - ' — 4 ö cr to Control Weather A dispatch quotes a resident of Virginia as saying the countryside there this summer is like a Central American jungle It rains every day and between downpours the humidity remains above90Ter cent Driveways and roads have been washed out repeatedly haying and harvest frig are impossible because tractors and farm machinery sink in the mud A resident of Dover Delaware writes "I've never been so tired of rain I wish we could blow some of these clouds out Salt - i as an opportunity to shout about alleged n aggression in the Middle East and to attempt to lay all the blame for the present crisis on the Western powers A summit conference which serves as a sounding board for Soviet propaganda cannot be tolerated ' 1 cloud-seedin- g It was the result The explosion in Iraq has wrought such changes that what was once a burning issue In the Middle East now seems of secondary importance American troops went to Lebanon to protect that country from "indirect aggression" resulting from a week's-olrevolt And what was the alleged cause of the uprising? The rebels said they feared President Chamoun of Lebanon would attempt to revise the Constitution so that he could have another term Now the election of Chamoun's successor scheduled for July 24 has been postponed for a week By that time it is hoped rebel and government leaders- aided by Robert Murphy trouble shooter for the US State Department will be able to agree on a new president (The election is held by the Lebanese Parliament not by the people) Admiral Holloway commander of US forces In Leban6n believes that once Chamoun's successor is selected his men will be able to leave the country But the ' very fact the election is planned while for eign troops are on Lebanese soil argues against its success Saeb Salam rebel leader says Parliament will not be permitted to vote next Thursday And even if the election does take place it is the sort of thing that can and will be exploited by Arab nationalists and Nikita Khrushchev The Middle East crisis has become much more than a matter of who heads the government of Lebanon though President Nasser of the United Arab Republic is obviously much interested In that point c - I I 1 1 1 As we recall Rodgers and Hammerstein once had three hits running on Broadway The Kremlin of course is bank-rollin- g producing and directing several more revolutions than that around the world It is widely known that our lawmakers alter their remarks before they are printed In the (Congressional Record And how can a man complain that the press doesn't quote him accurately when he Consistently — saloguotel himself ? I c' c el I - cry4 ‘ e- a) Nikita Khrushchev can sneer if he wants to but the American satellite which went into orbit Saturday is definitely not in the orange or grapefruit league It weighs nearly 3812 pounds which is considerably more than a Texas 'itefrult and IS the largest ever sent aloft by the United States But size is of minor importance The Explorer IV launched by an Army Jupiter-C rocket may play a major role in the conquest of space A deadly band of radiation has been recently detected at about 600 miles above the earth Scientific instruments packed in the satellite will it is hoped provide more knowledge about this band which could be a serious barrier to the exploration of space by man Scientists need to know more about the nature of the radiation so they can devise proper shielding for space adventurers There are now four artificial moonlets circling the globe—Russia's Sputnik III the US Navy's Vanguard and the US Army's Explorers I and IV With a few more satellites tn orbit astronomers may- have to design a new zodiac - -- k): -1 04- L '''' 6! (N - t--- 1 1937) In urging higher taxes he has only offered a partial solution of the problem Reckless and extravagant governmental expenditures must also be curtailed if a really balanced budget is to be achieved This can and must be done without injury to such of our worthy citizens as are on relief it:1) V ‘ - ---- President Zions First National Bank Governor Marriner S Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board has made a timely courageous and intelligent contribution to a correct solution of a grave governmental problem by urging a balanced budget to prevent uncontrolled inflation (This was In comment on a statement of Mr Eccles published March 22 irn - N ii --- Swi 1 -g- t o AN-z- fr 1r111' I - ----- - - --1 chT)) Ps ( )1rant - ia - - to- 71 - - 4 ' - g:)1 -- ' - --- - v ' i I I ---- - '41 dr 41 " : disgrace Forum Rules Contrary to any claims of expediency the landings of American troops in the Mid east reveal that the invasion was in the planning stage for months Personally I wouldn't swap an eyelash of a single American boy for all the oil in Letters from the Tribune readers are welcomed They should be brief (not over 200 words) carry writer's correct name and address (pseudo nym permitted if requested) and must be in good taste The Tribune assumes no responsibility for statements appearing in Forum Writers limited to one letter in 10 Araby It proves all too plainly the prognostications of our early leaders who said that "If the members (of the legislature) days Senator From Sandpit Park By Ham she and the man and NP 1 41 turned ran from the store into be neve it or not Ham Park the arms of a passing policeman When searched the man was found to be armed "Mrs Jones if you hadn't screamed I would have been robbed" said the proprietor gratefully "But how did you know he was a holdup?" "I didn't know" replied Mrs Jones dazedly "I screamed when you told me what that roast was going to cost me" Notes on the Cuff Department Roy Holmes says we should always put off until tomorrow what we should not do at all Al frustrated wife is one who finds a letter she gave her husband three months ago to mail in the coat that has been home ever since waiting for a button to be sewed on A The only kind of summit conference that would be suecessful is a conference with the Summit In other words a prayer Isn't It too bad that we to waste college educations on high school graduates who al- ready know everything?" Bob Hatfield says that in his opinion the three chief menaces on highways are drunken driving uncontrolled thumbing and indiscriminate neck-iBriefly: Mc hike hug A real pioneer home used to n outhave the powder-rooside and the dining room inside Today it's vice versa Sam Weller thinks the reason some people are more quiet than others is that they have more to be quiet about Grover Giles says In times of trial there's no greater comfort than a good lawyer A Plea let me bring a little grace Lord every dark and gloomy place A little joy ''where I abide A touch of friendship now and then To mark my comradeship To L - - '' half-wa- '' ::: I 7 p: zeA7 1-:'''''-- A well-to-d- D with men let me bring a little mirth To those who share my days on earth Let something I have said or done Remain when I have traveled on Let these into my life be shine mark- this earthly course - mine Al - —Anon — DELRAY JONES Name the Parents Editor Tribune: The prevalence of Juvenile delinquency makes me think that some strong 'punishment will have to be found or we will be afraid to go out of our homes Last month someone broke Into my car while I was at church and stole a flashlight etc from the glove compart ment Last week stole our car from in front of our home between 2 and 6 am (Where were their parents?) The sheriff's office told us one of the boys (they were caught later) had stolen a car two weeks previously and that the judge told him "naughty naughty" and sent him home Why can't the names of both parents and children be published along with the crime? That would stop this sort of thing -- teen-ager- s VVUZ ROBBED What a Travesty! What has happened to the real spirit and tradition of the Utah pioneers And what kind of celebration of the time sacred in Utah history is It that features girls and caterwauling drug bare-legge- d store cowboys? don't know a town half the size of Salt Lake that would tolerate blocking off its Main street for phony wild west shows and raucus noise Why should Salt Lake? Utah is not a cowboy state The cow wrangler played little part in this state's early his tory Utah's early settlers were for the most part farmers and a singing cowboy with a banjo would have been run out of the state Why doesn't the committee commemorate the week of the 24th with something closer to the pioneer spirit? I feel sorry for the elderly people who dance in the hot sun on the platform Theirs is the only performance that has anything to do with the meaning of Pioneer Day and they are sandwiched in between baton twirlers and amateur per formers who would get the hook at the crummiest local talent show in town SON OF PIONEERS All Mixed Up Editor Tribune I note that in the Forum of July 16 Mr Ed H Watson used your free column to promote another of his "isms" Though assuming his figures may be right as to what the TVA returned to the US Treasury he did just what most of those do who promote "isms" ie he picked out only the part that fits his argument and left out the part that is vital to the people who pay For example he failed to tell us what the TVA cost to produce the returns he speaks of nor did he tell us how much red ink is spread on the TVA's books each year to bring any returns for the treasury He also didn't say how much you people who read The Tribune are- having to pay for the electric power being used by the people in the TVA area When he calls this type of "ism" democracy he seems all mixed up as to the mean — - ing of democracy - wrought— A little faith a little thought A little mirth a little grace To glorify the commonplace Lord let some little splendor To long noted for its wide streets should now be engaged in making them even wider -- Lord of haVe - 1 '-- By Our Readers one-wa- y Suddenly screamed A TRIBUNE READER - Jackson Wyo Perilous Adventure for Oil By John S Knight In the Detroit Free Press There is a good deal of pre mature rejoicing in Washing ton over President Eisen hower's decisiveness in send- ing the Marines and airborne troops to Turkey One syndicated columnist William S White writes: "A time of danger but of grandeur has replaced a time of yammering and muttering of division and recrimination and of a progressive weakening before international com- munism "Washington has now put It plainly that we will not per mit the Middle East to fall Into the wide sink of commu- Made clear too that we will not allow western Eu- nism rope to be shut off from the Middle Eastern oil have l' y I ' : ' V - - " IP 1PMOWON‘AW6011100111400W9000girkk4Mtel00 she must "IT IS NOT only the Marines who stand at the shores of Tripoli a reinvigorated West stands there too" But millions of Americans recalling the tragic consequences of another President's "police action" in Korea do not share Mr White's lyrical enthusiasm The presence of British troops in Jordan reinforces the view that while we may profess the noblest of intentions about preserving the independence and integrity of nations in the Middle East we really mean to save the oil fields for the n West But history may show our sudden intervention to have been another in a long series of miscalculations in foreign policy President Eisenhower has said that US 4 forces will be withdrawn when the United Nations demonstrates that it Is able to guarantee Lebanon's Independence At present this is a state ment without meaning since It is unlikely that the UN will take on the responsibilities we have already assumed The great tragedy is that we are risking war for an tainable objective unat- Nothing will be changed in the Middle East by our intervention The same problems will continue to exist for as Sen John Sherman Cooper (11-Ky- i says:---"The- re— forces and movements operating in the Middle East which cannot be bottled up or settled by force" Even in the event that we are able to avoid war will anything have been settled permanently by our intervention? Will the presence of Ameri- can and British troops in the Stiddle East the diminish growing nationalism or retard the ambitions of the Arab world?' - TILE ANSWERS seem fair- ly obvious to me although they are not the conclusions being reached by the President Mr Dulles and the leaders of our two major political parties We have tried to buy friends in the Middle East with our dollars This policy as in many other parts of the world has been a failure Now as we pect of losing concessions and ern Europe's see the prosvaluable oil placing Westeconomy in jeopardy US and British forces are attempting to fill the power vacuum in the Middle East Stripped of all pretense we are out to save the oil Such a policy may succeed for so long as we and the British maintain sizable forces in the Middle East or until Nasser and the Russians are ready for a showdown Nevertheless even the short-rangodds are against us as indicated by the violent revolution in Iraq a country helped substantially by the United States and Great Britain and long considered a friend of the West Having embarked upon another perilous adventure Mr Eisenhower will need all of his fabulous luck to pull us through with a whole skin ) e i Fair Competition 4 '1 Senate Meat Bill Preferred Washington Post: Congress has manifested a good deal of interest in bring ing unfair and monopolistic practices in the wholesaling of meat and °meat products once more under effective control The Senate passed the (Mahonebill for this y-Watkins purpose with heavy bipartisan support in May The House will soon consider a similar measure and the outlook for its enactment appears to be good The Federal Trade Commission was relieved of responsibility for policing the meatpacking industry when Con gress passed the Packers and Stockyards Act in 1921 At that time the reasoning seems to have been that the entire task of regulating the meat packers should be assigned to the Department of Agriculture BUT RECENT studies have showed that the Department of Agriculture has given lit tie attention to the enforcement of fair trade practices in this sphere 6 1 ex- Othe'Viewpoints -- 4' combines decreased governmental 4 -- c-- - N '''t -- that increased taxes and the tax base broadened penditures will save the country from uncontrolled inflation The most vital need in America today is a taxconscious public It is not too late to save the day provided the govern- ment takes heroic and courageous action and does not stop measures thereby jeopardizing the purchasing at power of the savings our great middle class represented In life insurance policies and sfiving accounts THESE PEOPLE REPRESENT the backbone of Amer Ica To destroy the fruits of their thrift and industry would be a national calamity Uncontrolled inflation will Injure all of our people beyond repair the poor and middle classes will feel the blow even more than the Now that the danger is fully recognized I have confidence the administration will discharge-Itresponsibilities s are to know nothing but what Couldn't Fool Hitler Editor Tribune: You've got Is important enough to be put into a public message and into hand it to Hitler for know different enough to be made Ing Communists They didn't known to all the world if the fool him very long before Sta Executive is to keep all other Information to himself and lin received the answer which the House to plunge on in the would have wiped communism dark it becomes a government — off the face of the earth If we of chance and uot of design" 7 had not come to its rescue - JANE DOE The pleasure is all ours It Seems Strange now With Ike's United NaTribune: Mrs KunEditor tions we'll lose World War kel made an excellent point III before it starts in her Forum letter when J F KENNEDY she said that it would be much less expensive and far Government by Chance more logical to designate Editor Tribune: If Mr Elstreets instead of embark senhower were as concerned ing on an epidemic of street with maintaining the integrity widening and independence of the legisBut who expects highway lative branch of the governto be logical or ecoplanners ment as he is in preserving nomical? Not when there are the integrity of the governliterally billions to be spent 1lent of an Arabian king who all coming out of the pockethad less than 30 Vo of the sup books of already overburport of his people (figures re dened motorists We will see vealed by the New York more and more fantastic projTimes) I would have more ects I am sorely afraid As confidence in what he is do Douglass Welch said in a recent column "cloverleafs will ing But Mr Eisenhower and the vote of less than a dozen have cloverleafs" men have plunged this nation All the same It seems of 180000000 people into a that Salt Lake City strange quagmire of confusion and ("1 i ‘ -- ( - : with 1 I 2- S:" Only a policy 0 The Public Forum e - A A V 7 V - 4--- 5 Peal: s kt- - 17 ier'gr"' -t abs10 -- Business is on the That accounts for the steep Paso Times prices--- E1 I Laughed At This One A woman entered a neighborhood grocery one day to get some meat A strange man '' followed her Into the store and stood near her while she was at the meat counter '' - - -- - VT4 -- A - ds0409 tfc-- r--- ) p 15--- L‘ 1- -- - - r 7) 3 ' - crok VA AM (‘ t'(t 1"-- -- ---- ‘ ::' tITCrtO " ----- - ZN 111L - zl - 1 : : OF THE TWO METHODS of achieving a balanced budget that of decreased expenditures will be the more difficult to achieve It will demand political courage that approaches statesmanship to cut down governmental expenditures now de manded by numerous strongly organized and entrenched groups : 1- a friend was published at the time was execuand first vice president 1t to head By Orval Adams o‘2-- (A--- Neither the United States nor Britain wants to see that happen again Intervention in Lebanon and Jordan obviously entails risks But both the US A- N American troops were sent to Lebanon and British troops to Jordan at the request of the heads of those states who feared they were in gravedanger of being overthrown by forces directed from outside their borders In 1939 as the President pointed out in his letter to Khrushchev Joseph Stalin said that failure of nations among them Britain and France to check aggression gave "free rein to war" Our New Moon let - r v 0 war (D-P- - I c Editor's Note: The following article submitted by in United States News of March 29 1937 Mr Adams tive vice president of the Utah State National Bank of the American Bankers Assn which he was later se10A 06001 04 - - YE- (7 cf indirect aggression against other nations undertaken by President Nasser's 'United Arab Republic with the complete support of Comrade Khrushchev's Kremlin gang And indirect aggression like any kind of aggression If permitted to continue unchecked could lead to a disastrous world (R-In- d i of Representative James Roosevelt (DCalif) testified before the Senate Banking tCommittee in opposition to a bill dealing with savings and loan company advertising acSenator Homer Capehart cused Roosevelt of being paid for his opposition testimony This the California congressman heatedly denied But under questioning the former President's son did say that a few weeks ago he was named board chairman of the Family Savings Association of Silver Springs and Baltimore Maryland at a salary of $6000 a year When Capeheart started to ask Roosevelt whether he thought it proper that as a member of Congress he should represent a company in this fashion for pay several senators at the hearing—Monroney (Dand Sparkman (DOkla) Clark to the Ala) objected question This concerted effort on the part of a number of influential senators to draw the cloak of secrecy over the extracurricular activities of a member of Congress is astonishing It is sharply 'opposed to the attitude shown when a member of the executive branch of government or a mere citizen is in the witness chair Can it be that there are so many skeletons in congressional closets that to open one to public inspection might invite a wholesale expose which would shock the American people? More Than Lebanon - For the Middle East crisis did not suddenly blossom in Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq Are There Skeletons? experiments had in- creased snow and rainfall in mountainous regions of Washington Oregon and California 15 per cent The job of placing any sort of controls on the weather is formidable says Fortune "But man being man won't give up without a splendid fight" Much more research in the field Is needed For now however East and Intermountain West can only console each other Iodide r Anglo-America- and Britain believe that it is'far better to take certain risks now than to court eventLake City way" ual disaster by failing to act Businessmen in the Rockaways Queens New York recently isiued a scathing critiPresident Eisenhower has neither accism of the Weather Bureau for forecasting cepted nor rejected' it summit meeting He Is known to be reluctant But there is great rain which discourages people from going to the beaches The bureau replied that pressure for a conference from some Amer- rainy weather not the forecasts was— lean allies and friendsJromneutralista and from the Soviet bloc keeping people away from the resorts— Meanwhile Salt Lake area residents THUS IT SEEMS likely that a conferwatched occasional "teaser" clouds after will be held next month in New York ence the driest period on record within the framework of the United Na"The searing drought of nearly three tions months has sharply cut yield prospects for It must be emphasized however that spring wheat oats and barley" said the a summit meeting can accomplish only so weather-crop for week Utah last report as much in attendance permit it to those And Utah Forestry and Fire Control offiaccomplish cials reported that fire loss on state and A conference dominated by Ithrushchev private lands during the last 47 days has would be worse than folly There must be been three times greater than ever recorded be agreed to in adand must rules they during a full year in the state vance Meantime speculation increased on the President Eisenhower has laid down possibilities of weather control Meteoroloreasonable conditions which in our opindecmore idea a for the than gists rejected ade but now concede that man has a good ion afford such a conference its best hope cif success chance of actually modifying the weather Fortune magazine reported recently It cited statistical evidence to show that silver --- - it i 54f- )" dr Reasonable Rules for a Summit Meeting President Eisenhower has made it plain that if this country takes part in a summit conference it will do so only under certain definite conditions The meeting must be held under rules laid down by the United Nations Security Council itself not by Premier Khrushchev of the Soviet Union And the United States intends to deal with the whole problem of the Middle East not just with the particular Incidents which Khrushchev would prefer to discuss We think the President's letter to the Soviet premier is an excellent one It is very much to the point and there is no mistaking its meaning Comrade Khrushchev of course has his own ideas about the conduct of a sununit r meeting FROM TIIE TONE of his proposal of a week ago he envisions such a conference II 1937 Needed: Tax Consciousness -7 ' ti As True as in r In recent years many companies not primarily engaged in meat packing have qualified as "packers" under the act Some retail food stores have established ' 4 r meat-packin- branches and thus escaped jurisdiction of the FTC while their competitors must continue to abide by the FTC's rules of fair competition This inequality before the law has lent much support to the corrective legislation Unfortunately however the bill that the House is to de- bate would continue to leave remedial measures solely in the hands of the Department of Agriculture The Senate bill would give the FTC and Agriculture concurrent jurisdiction This is by all odds the most efficacious arrangement : IF TIIE IIOUSE is really desirous of subjecting the meat packers to the same restraints that apply to other Industries It will vote for Rep Henry Aldous Dixon's amendment which would bring the bill into line with the one already passed by the Senate ! |
