Show 6A I at tha postoMlca at Ogden Utah aa second elaaa matter according Maim 8 iirsi aemoer 01 nn absocibuju rtrm uiuueu r WEA and A B Cl 23 per month $1500 per year ? price of The BSBm Press la exclusively entitled to the use forIn republicationand IS credited otherwise or not tnia paper to credited aB new dispatches v also the local newa By JOSEPH THURSDAY EVENING MAY 8 1952 and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON — Historians to Act of Congreae MS The Altered Japanese Situation As General Mark Clark arrives in Tokyo to succeed General Matthew B Ridgway k is in order to compare the responsibilities which Clark takes over with those assumed by Ridgway when he succeeded the deposed General MacArthur When Ridgway took over he established his offices in a building labeled Supreme Headquarters of Allied Occupation That label has vanished Clark will set up his offices in dual headquarters one labeled Headquarters United Nations Command and the other Headquarters Far East Command The changes in the signs above the entrance doors reflect of course the going into force on April 28 of Japan's San e Francisco peace treaty and of the United mutual security treaty While General Clark will not be responsible for the military government of Japan because Japan is no longer an occupied country Clark nevertheless win have manifold duties and responsibilities in connection with the Korean war and Korean truce negotiations and also in connection with the U security treaty under which American and allied forces remain in Japan to prosecute the Korean war and protect the Japanese from aggression Taking into account the nature of the general situation in the entire Far East the dismal outlook for peace talks in Korea and the relationship that now obtains between the American and allied forces in Japan and the now sovereign host country we suspect that General Clark will have to be a good diplomat as well as a courageous and skilled warrior States-Japanes- Let's Avoid More Drownings All thanks to Sergeant Otto F Henderson who persuaded adtwo lads in West Ogden from undertaking a river-ridin- g venture that probably would have ended in tragedy Two drownings in the county are more than enough and they should be held up as grim warnings against further attempts to challenge the torrents It is easy to understand why young men are tempted to challenge the floods Rivers and boats or rafts have been featured in the adventure books boys love to read Men who run the rapids have been heroes in the news reels and the newspapers Riding the rapids is supposed to be a romantic adventure Skilled river runners it should be remembered have acquired their skill as a result of longsexperience They didn't begin to learn the game by venturing the first time into furious streams Furthermore the professional river man opercraft designed to meet and overcome the ates most severe tests the plunging white water can offer The Ogden and the Weber rivers at the moment are dangerous streams Skilled river runners would think a long time before challenging them So let the inexperienced beware The risk is tremendous made-to-ord- er Idaho's Famous Canyon The controversy arising over a federal plan under study to build the world's highest dam in Hells canyon of the Snake river and private enterprise's proposal to build a series of five low dams in the canyon has inspired National Geographic Society to turn out a news bulletin about Hells canyon Westerners are generally familiar with the assertion that Hells canyon is the deepest river trench in North America but National Geographic supplies some additional details While not so well known nor so colorful as Grand canyon Hells canyon is deeper and narrower between rims Its average depth is more than a mile —almost as much as the deepest point of the Colorado river canyon At its maximum Hells is a mile and a half deep The Snake river flowing through this canyon is 1038 miles in length which makes it as long as the Hudson Delaware and Susquehanna combined The Snake assuredly is one of the most useful rivers in America because of its service in making vast dry areas blossom as the rose and it promises to be one of the best known American rivers also as the public vs private power issue becomes increasingly lively Where Peace of Mind Is Rare Our national capital is not a healthy place according to Chairman Nathan P Feinsinger of the wage stabilization board who announces he will resign on June 30 As if to express agreement Manly Fleischmann resigned as defense production administrator It was only recently that Charles Wilson resigned his position of defense mobilizer with evidence of great relief And President Truman has let it be known he intends to leave the place When Mr Feinsinger says Washington is not a healthy place he doesn't mean that physical sickness is more prevalent there He Is talking about emotional sickness about the environment that causes ulcers frustrations and general unhap-pines- s which in turn can cause physical ills Hard work and challenging tasks are not so as the which satiswork under is done are the long auspices factory A few pats on the back are wonderful medicine A public servant grows weary unto death however when it appears to him that thankless work is his lot The American people like all other employers have got to improve working conditions if they want to attract and hold good men and women in the public service man-kille- rs el earth-movin- g ' r iaaaaaay'ilyyfBftMtfMTaMBaHtfaVi3wy'' VSr--- aSa Hfc- B S- By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON— One of the personal paradoxes of the steel dis- ute which only three or foyr people know is that President Truman nd CIO Chief Phil Murray for many years were not on too good are &ftRFi£wNBf&jf&r BaH mfi IKf-- i KBf At n - 0 inter-relate- m Radar-directe- d air-to-a- ir n B-1- whole weapons-system- Second there is the widest gap between probable performance in a combat emergency and performance in carefully prepared test flights like those which "Nike" has shown up so well in Even with the complete weapons-systethere will be no complete security — hardto let ly enough security in fa us sleep at night and certainly not enough to justify abandoning the balanced defense effort because of our new air defenses Third and finally creating these new air defenses will impose very great additional burdens m Questions And Answers Q — For whom was the city of Dallas Texas named? A — The first settlement on the site of Dallas was Peter's Colony established in 1841 The name was later changed to Dallas in honor of George Mifflin Dallas who was vice president in the administration of James K Polk 9 Words With Latin Orgin Outnumber Those of Greece MR MM from Latin sources but have there been none from Greek?" Oh yes but nothing like as many as from Latin During the 16th and l?th centuries in England there was such a flood of classical learning that as one writer put it "We shall within a few years be fain to learn Latin in order to understand English" But unlike Latin a considerable number of the Greek words that became English were taken bodily into the language As for example acacia acropolis aloe Amazon ambrosia analysis apocrypha apostrophe aroma asbestos asth ma atlas axis azalea to name some of the famUiar words under the first letter of the alphabet However let us look at the Greek word "grapho" meaning to write or draw from which came the noun "gramma" something drawn or written Our word "graph" something drawn as "a graph of the purchasing value of the dollar during the past 10 years" is directly from the verb So is "graphite" the material in our pencils with which we draw or write And a "graphic" description is so realistic that it seems to have been drawn or pictured The "phonograph" from Greek "phone" sound is written or recorded sound The "photograph" from Greek "phos" light is a picture (or drawing) reproduced by means of light "Telegraph" and telegram" denote writing sent some distance from Greek "tele" far An "epigraph" is an from Greek "epi" inscription upon as "an epigraph upon a (FO'-no-GRA- (EP'-i-GhA- tombstone" "Paragraph" which we borrowed from Greek "paragraphos" literally means "written besides" because originally it referred to a short line drawn in the margin of a manuscript to show the beginning of a sentence "Grammar" related originally to things written though we now use it to cover both the written and spoken language "P r o g r a m" (PRO-granot ) from Greek "pro" before was originally a public written notice of something about to take place "Mono( Greek ) gram" "monos" one is a character with two or more letters woven into PRO-grum- m MON'-o-GRA- Sketches -- act and did not use it when the steel course vetoed the strike first came to a head on April 8 Instead he seized the in— dustry to nrevent a strike Sen Robert A Taft If the steelworkers struck in vilaw took the olation of the court of the injuction the stand that the seizure was unconsued for damages be could union stitutional This was the view that There Federal Judge Pine sustained Sen- by the steel companies law his fundamental still one Taft of the ator supports you have though he has expressed willing- reasons why union leaders dont ness to have it amended on a few like the y law It has procedural matters that have been been something of a dead issue found unworkable But it would become very live if law had been invoked during the presidential If the ' applied in the steel case Presi- race dent Truman would have been re- Kefauver Views Clear' quired to ask the courts for an Sen Estes Kefauver among the injunction Democratic candidates has made The president would then have his view very clear on the steel had to name an inquiry board to He voted against the examine the case This board dispute law and voted to suswould have presumably gone over tain President Truman's veto But the same ground already covered today Senator Kefauver says he by the wage stabilization board would not vote to repeal the law But it could have made an attempt he would vote in support to haVe the steel employers and though of a few amendments union settle their differences with He is against the closed shop ban the help of board mediation and he thinks many of the injuncIf no settlement were reached tion are unfair to the within 60 days — roughly by July unionsprovisions 1 — the national labor relations On President Truman's seizure board would be authorized to con- of the steel industry to prevent a elections strike Senator Kefauver was also duct on each employer's best offer critical He said he thought further arbitration negotiations and Might Vote Against Offers TJiis election would break up ind- conciliation could have been reustry-wide bargaining But it is sorted to Seizure Power entirely possible that the highly disciplined C I O Steelworkers' But in a San Francisco press union would vote against these best conference statement after the y offers as a protest against the seizure Senator Kefauver said that law if nothing more "in the emergency were in as a If a strike came after the 80 last resort Mr Truman has the days cooling-of- f period the inquiry power to do what he did" board would refer the dispute to Sen Richard Russell is shown That would make the to have voted for the congress gravy a lot thicker to say the least law voted to override the presireCongress might be in adjournment dent's veto and voted If called back in special session — peal and amendment of against the law in just before the Democratic con- 1949 He is also senate leader in vention — the picture of 500 con- opposition to President Truman's gressmen trying to settle a steel civil rights program strike would look like the ultimate Democrat Robert S Kerr of Oklain confusion homa came to the senate in 1948 law was after the he but its repeal for voted passed Orioles in New Mexico in 1949 Kerr is rated Bright colored orioles 10 varie- on most issues in spite of his sponties of wrens and four kinds of soring the natural gas bill his opn humming birds — among them the position to excess profits tax and other big business views calliope the smallest in North American — are found in New Republican Gov Earl Warren of Mexico California and Democratic Gov Adlai Stevenson of Illinois are the candidates tlqat the union labor Million Beer Tax in $25 crowds like best Both have built Through federal state and local up state records for sponsoring taxes and license fees the beer in- social and welfare legisdustry contributes $25 million in lation security public revenue reports the 1952 Encyclopedia Americana Annual Taft-Hartle- y co-auth-or Taft-Hartle- Life" Over the hill and far away in a strange enchanted land there lives a fairy princess who holds magic in her hand aU she must do to grant a wish is wave her wondrous wand and you will find that you'll T skE'"1 S'sLV' bIb1 JaVajtrV the things of which possess the passage to you're fond this land of dreams cannot be out it is bought for gold and livgained by doing good I guarantee ing in God's fold to one and all that if great good you do you'll be admittm Haw ted to this land where all (Mm hi Nm your dreams come true for you will find by doing good wart your heart is light and gay mho m how aly on Hona to tie ofl fypaa lea of fcanaa aaad tor and happiness will follow you M6y anovgn- to more closely day by day y Taft-Hartle- Taft-Hartle- y Taft-Hartle- company-by-compan- y y i Last-Reso- rt Taft-Hartle- Taft-Hartle- pro-lab- legis-latib- L Tunnel Is 2011 Feet Long On Long Raton tunnel is 2011 feet long It penetrates Raton mountain in the extreme northeast corner of Distance New Mexico JOSEPHINE I i ' rear-platfor- Sjec-reta- i 1 MtMft$E R n n 2 Kow-Towin- g n Aunt Hel tax-fra- Males Outnumbered Ben's tellin' the truth when! he says he don't believe in makin' a show of his religion I've been knowin' him for twenty years and I didn't know he had any Statistics compiled by the cen 1951 show 15 million more females than males in the United States sus bureau in SCREEN DOORS at the Associated r- Standard Size Back- Door Front Door 2' 8"x6' 8" TxS9 8" 9 9 i2S 80 Expertly made Best quality fir Gfalvanized rust-pro- of screen wire panel HANDSOME COMBINATION STORM DOORS 2 8xs S" 3'x6' 8" IS IS 22 Get yovr personal number booklet ot the Telephone Office Co!! write or come ' li I'm late and my dinner is cold The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph 6 ry Merry-Go-Roun- d CAU IV aaT' - live-wir- y Taft-Hartle- y By BEN BURROUGHS "Storybook ' Most Candidates Leaning To The Side of Labor By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON— What the various presidential candidates would do with the steel situation if this unwanted baby was in their laps makes a good subject for political speculation It provides an opporBy CHARLES EARL FUNK A reader has remarked "You tunity for comparison or records and policies on labor issues There are pretty fuzzy statements or no statements at all from have been telling us about the some of the candidates Others are very definite President Truman of number of words which have come English law forbid the king to visit commons? For questions write Charles E A — English law forbids the king Funk in care of Bell Syndicate to visit commons for It was here Inc 229 West 43rd St New York in 1642 that King Charles I ap- 18 N Y (Released by The Bell peared to arrest his political enemies Syndicate Inc) Why Uk Say— ' 7 one Q—Does personal terms The public has the impression that they were intimate friends and that it was partly because of this intimacy that the White House went to bat for the steel workers — —However though the C I O has thrown powerful political support of heckling newsmen regarding to Truman Truman's and Murray's news sources their indicates the a time for relations long personal were cool clear back to the 1944 extent to which Gillette has been Democratic convention in Chicago under the thumb of Senator Mcwhen Murray was a strong sup- Carthy the man he is supposed to porter os Henry Wallace for the probe What Milne and Mollenhoff vice presidency As such he opposed Truman and was not in sym- wrote about the Gillette committee pathy with the way Sen Sara Jack- was that its own staff had recomson of Indiana abruptly gaveled mended hearings on five of the the convention to a close in order to stop a bandwagon rush for Wal- charges Senator Benton preferred against McCarthy McCarthy who lace That flight Murray received a didn't like this publicity and who call fronj some of the big Dem- is close to Gillette is credited ocratic bosses including Ed Flynn with persuading him to crack down-o- n the press of the Brpnx and the late Ed Kelly This crackdown came as a comof Chicago They reported that surprise to Senator Hayden they had been trying to stop Sen plete df Arizona chairman of the rules Harry S Truman in his determina- committee and he cautioned Giltion to be vice president but weren't 'successful They asked lette about it Other members of committee were sore Murray if he would talk to Tru- Gillette'sThey are also peeved over the fact man the senate voted unaniMurray who had a room in the that after 60-on April 10 to con- -' mously Blackstone hotel where Senator the McCarthy investiTruman also lived picked up the tinue with a month has now passed phone and asked if he could come gation and Gillette has done nothing down and see him His only move has been to cater "Ill Come Up and See You" to McCarthy's close friend Sen"I'll come ud and see you" re- ator Welker of Idaho by postponplied Truman And he did ing further McCarthy investigaAlmost bursting into the room tions until May 12 when Welker a minute or two later the senator returns from the west from Missouri didn't wait for Mur- Washington Pipeline ray to open the conversation Few people even in Kentucky "I know what you want" he said "and I'm not going to do it" know how much it pays to have He went on to say that he knew Alben Barkley pulling wires for the C I O chieftain wanted him the "Bluegrass" state The other to withdraw that he wasn't going day Truman himself telephoned Secretary for Air Finletter and to do so and left half apologetically explained that That ended that During the was concerned about the the veep was followed that years Murray not invited to the White House transfer of an air force training Boone county Kenpersonally as he was by F D R center tofrom Clinton county Ohio The He wept there only with other tucky labor leaders And it was not until transfer had already been partialabout a year ago that he was ealted ly made but now is being made in for a personal confidential talk back to Kentucky Meanwhile the senate armed services committee with the president is investigating why the air force Jittery Gillette spent the extra money to shift an Sen Guy Gillette of Iowa jit air base from Kentucky to Ohio tery chairman of the senate elec- and back again The committee tions subcommittee has made out doesn't know that the veep is Ina subpoena for several other news- volved Tennessee friends jof papermen to be grilled on news Senator McKellar are discussing leaks but apparently hasn't the the possibility of hiring a private nerve to serve them railroad car for the senator's reEspecially he hasn't the nerve to election campaign McKellar is too e serve Clark Mollenhoff feeble to travel by automobile and of tne Des Moines Kegister-Trin-un- e climb up on platforms so they who wrote exactly the same plan a series of R R story on Gillette's committee as Senate speeches did Eddie Milne of the Providence Les Biffle has been quietly Journal In fact the editor's note boosting the elderly veep for preswith the dynamic appearing at the top of the Prov- ident idence Journal and the Register-Tribun- e young together secretary of the interior stated that the stories Oscar Chapman for vice president were the same However Gillette has threatened When President Truman greeted Milne with jail unless he reveals his source yet he hasn't served big steel executives the other day a subpoena on Mollenhoff though he made a special point of shaking hands with Clarence Randall presone is all "signed and ready Reason: Rhode Island is a long ident of Inland Steel who had atair way from the voters of Iowa while tacked him bitterly on the Democratic bosses in Youngs-towMollenhoff writes for the biggest Ohio were really out to get circulating paper in Iowa Kefauver They had bitter memMollenhoff isn't Incidentally of his Cleveland crime hearducking the subpoena He's around ories when he subpoenaed various the' Capitol every day ready to ac- ings who had enjoyed politcept service Gillette just doesn't mobsters ical protection and praised Yonngs-towhave the guts Republican reform Mayor to McCarthy Charles B Henderson and Youngs-towMeanwhile the entire incident Police Chief Edward J Allen for cleaning up the city L Congressman Walter Brehm Jof Ohio Republican convicted of taking kickbacks after an expose in this column finally decided not to run for Senator Williams of Delaware has made ud such a name for himself as a exposer that people outside his state now appeal to him for help When the Tennessee Gas and Transmission Co abused farmers in putting a gas line across western New York people of that area appealed to Delaware's Williams in addition to their own New York senators " B-1- drone-operate- d OK : ' quite likely to hold that this year's most significant military advance surpassing even the scheduled explosion of the first hydrogen bomb was the obscure testing of an obscurely named guided missile The missile called "Nike" for the Greek Goddess of Victory is a fully guided supersonic rocket developed by the army In an impressive number of tests it had achieved 100 per cent destruction of flying at maximum speed at 35000 feet Because of thus triumphant showing "Nike" has already been ordered into quantity production When available in quantity "Nike" will give our great cities and critical industrial installations their first effective "point defense" which is technician's language for close-iair defense But even this long forward step is only a fragment so to speak of the truly rev olutionary meaning of the "Nike tests v Solves Difficult Problem In brief the guided missile art d consists in solving an difficult of probgroup hideously lems involved in building propelling stabilizing and guiding any missile in flight Each "family of birds" as the initiates call the types of guided missiles of course presents its own family problems In missiles of great range for instance it is necessary to overcome gyroscopic precession — the ten dency of gyroscopes to get out of whack because of prolonged friction between their parts "If the gyros precess the birds lose stability and can't fly" is the way the practitioners of the art pat it For all the families of birds however the really basic problems are similar or closely comparable "The "Nike" success therefore suggests that birds of other families either have flown or will shortly fly It can in fact be stated on highest authority that this is the case And from the standpoint of America's air defense this general progress of our guided missile development is inexpressibly more important than the single success of "Nike" This is true in turn because a fully effective air defense now requires an elaborate weapons-systeincluding at least two guided missiles besides "Nike" as well as many other essential parts Early warning radar must instantly reveal the enemy's first approach fighters must intercept the enemy while he is still in the outer approaches For accuracy of destruction the fighter interceptors must fire guided missiles able to seek the enemy in flight Three Stern Warnings In theory then the job of air defense against atomic attack can now be done although it will take a long time to do it To this however three stern warnings must be added First no single wonder-weapowill do the air defense job "Nike" for instance with its short range cannot knock down bombers firing ground-to-ai- r guided missiles against their targets which is the offensive technique of the future And it is also questionable whether "Nike" can hit these much smaller far speedier ground-to-ai- r missiles as well as it has hit the lumbering Everything depends therefore on having the Huntsville to Mountain Green This is a good time to think about improving the road running from Huntsville in Ogden canyon over the divide to Mountain Green in Weber canyon Many residents of Morgan county doubtless wish that the road were in shape right now in view of the fact the water-levroute through Weber canyon is washed out by the Weber river flood Persons who have traveled the Huntsville-Mountai- n Green road in automobiles know it is not to be recommended in its present state but that it can be made passable in an emergency if seme heavy equipment were put to work on the route But the road deserves to receive more than mere emergency treatment It should be improved to tempt motorists to us it for a loop tour Truman and Phil Murray fiK Are No Intimate Friends If Unfair He Says New Guided Missile Aids Air Defense 23 Screen in Summer Glass in Winter! |