Show E D ITORIALS AUGUST 28 1955 OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING GA DREW PEARSON If Ike Decides to Run Again U S Seeks to Be Peace Maker Israel-Ara- b 2 i The cause of peace and humanity as- region's poverty and unhappiness If the United States and United Nations suredly will be served if President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles suc- can bring about an agreement on borders ceed in their plans to keep the Israel and and then work out a treaty under which Arab people from each other's throats U S and U N will guarantee the seThousands of border dwellers liye in the of Jews and Arabs the welfare of hourly terror of massacres and Reprisals curity many of which have taken place Th pos- millions will be served With the United States vigorously insibility of a renewed outbreak of war between Israel and the Arab neighbors is a terested it seems certain that a solution of the problem of drawing border lines bedepressing factor jn the entire Near East Egypt's refusai to let Israel vessels jmqve tween Israel and the Arab states surroundthrough the Suez canal is a handicap to ing Israel can be had And then if an American loan helps the Israel government 0 Israel's economy The misery otthe Arab refugees who formerly lived in to provide relief for the Arab refugees territory now occupied by Israel makes a driven from their old homes grievous dismal arid continuous contribution to the sore spots should begin to heal He'll Announce Next Spring S'JS''' A - ? ---- : 900-00- J than reduced federal indebtedness and they will give the people what they want especially in an election year Billions for Allies i In reporting that the United States had shipped in the last six years more than 11 billion dollars worth o military equipment i to more than 25 friendly countries PresiSen Watkins' News said that the expenditure dent Eisenhower The best news Sen Arthur V Watkins bought more security for the U S than if it had been spent in some other way brought back from Denver was the news If the President had cared to do so he that Gov Edwin C Johnson and the Utah could" havB4 supported his statement by backers of the Upper Colorado River Bain citing some examples He could have Storage Project are "not very far apar'V pointed oiSt for example that when a tank The project has a tough enough row to hoe is added to the defenses of the U S our in Congress even if all officials of the upcountry must supply and pay the men who per basin states are united The program man the tank and also provide their hous- is hopeless if there is lack of agreement in the basin For a time it looked as if Gov ing food clothing and medical care When an identical tank is given say to Johnson's objections to the present bill bethe Netherlands the Dutch man the tank cause in his opinion Colorado doesn't get and pay! feed clothe and otherwise service a square deal would wreck the basin's ' the men in uniform attached to the tank chances Yet that tank in the Netherlands armed It was good to learn that President forces contributes to the security of the Eisenhower still supports the program to United States just as does the tank sup- harness the upper reaches of the river for plied to our own armed forces power and irrigation His continued strong Americans who scold about the use of support assuredly will be needed in the American dollars to strengthen our allies next session But unity in the basin is should realize that U S foreign id proessential and it is hoped Sen Watkins and grams are founded on enlightened selfish- others can achieve it ness V It is good business to help our friends defend themselves because that deLow Farm Income fense' is also our defense Federal Reserve Board reported last week that the current business boom has Tax Cut vs Debt Cut stimulated the United States Secretary of the Treasury George M as reflected by the fact employment in Humphrey had scarcely finished saying the July reached a total of 65 million The government should and can balance the wonder is that the business boom has not budget this fiscal year than questions were also stimulated farm income which conjv thrown at him Does that mean taxes will tinues to decline in the face of high emf be cut and how much? 7 ployment and peak purchasing power I The Humphery reply was that it is enIf the tremendous surpluses of food tirely too early to promise tax reductions and fiber are a factor in reducing farm inbut the statement was not taken 'seriously come' increased attention should be paid by news menr? because they know that Re- to disposing of the surpluses The Test news on this front is that suppublicans and Democrats alike will attempt to push a tax reduction bill through Con- port is growing for selling surplus products to the Soviet Union that Secretary of Agrigress in this coming campaign year If Secretary Humphrey does indeed culture Benson is in favor of the plan and succeed in balancing his oudget why would the State Department is ceasing to object It not be wise to reduce the national debt If the era of good feeling persists the deals instead of reducing taxes? are likely to take place I The answer of course is that while it Farm leaders business men in farming would be economically "wise to reduce the areas and political office holders are all debt if a treasury surplus develops it crying out that something must be done to would not be politically wise It would not improve the farmer's position in relation be popular to the general good times Taking into acRepublicans and Democrats believe that count the strength represented by the outtaxpayers would rather have reduced taxes cry something surely will be done EL labor-marke- 'Information Exchange' Brings Mixed Reaction PRINCETON N J— President Elsenhower's dramatic proposal at the Geneva Conference to information about defense plants and military bases with Russia meets with a mixed reception from the American public While 36 per cent of adults who were questioned in an Institute ex-Chan- ge survey think that the President should have made the proposal 47 per cent think he should not have About one adult in six (17 per cent) expressed no opinion One of the underlying factors in the public's thinking is that the U S and Russia exchange in- formation about defense plants and military bases Do you think Eisenhower should have :made The vole: Yes should have No should not have Don't know —The WASHINGTON prac- tical value' of the Geneva Conference is now to be tested for the first time at the meeting of the United Nations Disarmament Commission tomorrow The best guide to the test is an incident that took place here in Washington shortly before the President left for the Summit In those weeks no divided the highest echesubject s more violon of than the subject of dislently armament Having been named as the President's disarmament specialist the always ambitious Harold Stassen was now in effect running for high office on a disarmament platform Stassen therefore favored bold action on disarmament at Geneva For obvious reasons he was also supported by the President's psychological warefare adviser Nelson Rockefeller In all three armed services in contrast 4the mere idea of a serious discussion of disarmament caused he liveliest alarm The Pentagon was unanimous in not wanting to offer the rather hastily considered disarmament plan then being pressed by Stassen and unanimous too in not to offer any plan at all wanting ' At the State Department meanwhile Secretary John Foster Dulles maintained the highly skeptical attitude that marked his whole approach to the summit conference As the summit meeting grew nearer and nearer the President's hopeful enthusiasm grew warmer and warmer But Dulles never wavered especially on the question of dist armament from that tangible results were not to be expected CALLED MEETING Such then were the approaches to the problem at the crucial meeting pre - summit which the President called to work out an American disarmament policy In its first stages pre-Genev- a policy-maker- view-poin- 17 The survey finds opinion divid- rank-and-fi- le - cross-sectio- coast Don't know t 6 16 24 In making his proposal— one of Rep Dem Ind the most dramatic moments of Yes 45 38 30 45 the "Big (Four" meetings—Eisen- No 39 53 17 hower offered it as something Don't know 16 17 could convince of "that everyone Interviewers next asked: the great sincerity of the United "Do you think the Russians will States in approaching this probagree to go along with Eisenhowlem of disarmament" " er's proposal— that is will they PUBLIC QUIZZED give us all of the information inter-Institute their bases or not?" Experienced' about viewers first asked the public The vote 67 "Eisenhower has proposed that Yes will T L Lesson - V (instruction) SYNONYMS Romantic fanciful visionary dreamy sentimental WORD STUDY "Use a word three times and it is yours" Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day Today's word: PORTENTOUS of the nature of an omen especially foreshadowing ill "These are portentous " w— — — England's Anthem Sidney W Badcon of Ogden was' elected vice president of the Utah State Pharmaceutical Assn at a convention held here F C Schramm of Salt Lake City was elected president George W Luft of Mercur- secretary and George W Read of Salt Lake City treasurer W J de Bry was elected president of the newly organized Netherlands Educational Society Everett Neuteboom H B Denk-er- s I Sanders J Den Hartog A J Neuteboom and W B Bouwhuis members of "the advisory board ' Teachers of the Ogden City schools w ho had been away on vacations and others' who had been appointed to teach during the next school year were arriving in Ogden and reporting to William Allison school super - The use of 'fire" in the sense of "discharge from employment' is still considered slang and should therefore be avoided in formal usage OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Discount (noun and verb) Accent noun on first syllable the verb on the second OFTEN MISSPELLED Lessen (to make less) Lesson signs" a pre-Genev- a name-callin- Stassen-Rockefell- g er -- ' Infra-government- intendent 20 YEARS AGO Elder Joseph Fielding Smith of the LDS Council of the Twelve and head of the church genealogical society discussed genealogi' cal work and its needs at a meeting of the Ogden Stake in the LDS Seventh Ward chapel Author of the English national Despite appearance to the conanthem was Dr Henry Carey trary nearly of ' jthe born in London about 1696 and $3400000 set aside by the US died 1743 The music was com- Bureau of Reclamation for jthe construction of the Pine View posed by Dr John Bull one-thir- d timetable President Eisenhower will announce his intention to run again some time next spring If he decides not : to run however he will announce his de cision sooner — perhaps as early as January — so as to give the Republicans time to groom an other candidate GOP chiefs meantime are taking a broad ' practical view of the biggest enigma facing their party' since Calvin Coolidge did not chose to run 28 years ago They realize that Ike is as "iffy" a candidate as was Coolidge when he made the? famous Black Hills statement but they think that factors favoring Ike's running for reelection outweigh those against it i Here's how Republican leaders ' scan the situation: On the negative side Ike doesn't want to run again Mamie doesn't either and Ike really means it when he says he will governed by world conditions and his health He will not be in fluenced by partisan politics He will not run again either to save the Republican Party from defeat or to keep the Democrats out of the White House He will not permit himself to be drafted if he decides not to run On the affirmative side is the President's strong discipline of "duty to country" ingrained at West Point and paramount in a military man Barring serious health complications GOP leaders feel that Ike will have no alternative but to seek reelection if he feels his job is not done or world peace will be retarded by his retirement GOP leaders also are c o that Mamie will not stand in the way of her husband's Even before the President said so it was no secret that the First Lady preferred their Gettysburg farm to WashHowever Mamie is as ington imbued with the soldierdeeply of traditions West Point and ly the Army as her husband She will go along with what Ike decides to do Another thing that cheers campaign strategists of the Grand Old Party is that Ike has been only mildly unaffirmative about not running in recent months A year ago he was telling intimates flatly that he would not be "a candidate for reelection adding with occasional emphasis that he owed no obligations to the Republican Party It didn't make him any happier when GOP insurgents in Congress began tossing harpoons into his legislative program At that time House GOP Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts predicted in a speech back home that Ike would run again Shortly after Ike cornered Martin in - ) council-manage- Ma-la- ? Colo-wher- e j Le-Ro- -- Pearson lj on a brief vacation his usual column will be written by members of hit staff Washington and demurred joking- : l 1 reaa in ine papers iv jvc would run that you predicted — bet?" Wanta again "Mr President that was only 1 T - 1 tUJa uusfriiiun Martin a part" on "I replied my re- alize that you don't want to be but at a candidate for reelection the time II made that statement I thought perhaps that world conditions in 1956 might cause you to change your mind" "Wanta bet?" repeated I k e again with slang inflection In recent meetings with GOP congressional leaders the President has been more encouraging when the touchy subject w a s mentioned He hasn't at" least been denying that he will run Atone preadjournment session Ike ' pointed to a chart of unpassed and chided GOP- legislation leaders for not enacting more of his "must" bills "Don't feel too badly about that Mr President" puckishly commented Senate GOP Leader Bill Knowland of California "We'll pass the rest of your program during your second term -in the White House" "What was that you said?" countered Ike raising his eye-j T at ivnowiand Drows then break- - ing into the patented Eisenhower smile Republicans figure they have nothing to fear in 1956 as long as the Presdent keeps smil-- : ing If Ike does run agaiiHn 1956 the ruby may play a romantic role in the campaign Ike and Mamie will celebrate their 40th (ruby) anniversary on July 1 1956 Democrats who consider! Ike unbeatable now will not be"r made any happier by the prospect of? the President hitting the whistle stops with his arm around Mamie on their 40th anniversary f The FBI and Secret Service probably will deny it or make no comment but the real reason President Eisenhower didn't accept Premier Bulganin's invitation to visit the Soviet Union was because of a possible attempt on his life Th$ FBI and Secret Service warned the White House that they rould not be responsible for the President's life outside the U S They also' warned that MVD guards could not guarantee the President the same safety high Soviet officials would receive in this country from our own security police Nonetheless Ike may make another trip to Europe next year though not behind the Iron Curtain Advisers say his itch to do some good while traveling outside our shores has increased since Congress sank his atomic peace ship bill :- t CITY HALL al m 10 YEARS AGO By W L GORDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED - education and party ing along lines r Nearly six out of every 10 adults who attended college think Eisenhower should have made the proposal compared to only 27 per cent of those who attended Russia would not go along with grade school who feel that Way Eisenhower's proposal and would As! might be expected not give all of the information GOP voters are consideabout their military installations rablymore inclined to back up For every person who believes the President's proposal than are the Soviets would cooperate Democrats there are 13 who believe they The vote by education levels would not and by party affiliations: Those are the highlights of a Col- - High Grade survey conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion Sch'l lege Sch'l n Yes 27 58 35 among a' representative of adults from coast to No 49 36 49 5 78 By W L GORDON 47 s Has No Solid Disarmament Proposals Ready for Conference U S ENGLISH this proposal or not?" ' post-Genev- ALSOP 16 Don't know Even among those who think the President should have made the proposal only one person out of nine (11 per cent) believes the Russians will agree to go along with the "exchange" plan 1 — as there were be fore Geneva So far as can be discovered therefore American policy is only a refined and elaborated version of American policy A detailed program of inspection and safeguards has been prepared for presentation on Aug 29 It will combine the two features: the mutual aerial inspecthis historic discussion of dis- tion proposed by the President armament threatened to deteri- plus fixed ground inspection orate into 'a match teams stations at key rail juncThe approach tions and other points where and the Pentagon approach were preparations for aggression may diametrically opposed and the be observed to reduce the posstrongest emotions were felt on sibility of surprise attack both sides Other ideas are also in the Secretary of State Dulles acted as the great reconciler He used air Stassen has been tafking of the rather simple expedient of an arms freeze at existing levshoving the real issue under the rug or at least off the confer- els This the Pentagon hates even although an arms freeze ence table He said in effect: "We know we are not going might be better than Secretary to attempt any disarmament with- of Defense Charles E Wilson's out adequate safeguards Therefore it is not worth arguing about system of gradual but continuous what kind of disarmament we are defense cuts Stassen has also concluded going to accept and support until we are sure that the other quite rightly that there is litside will accept the right kind of tle use any longer trying to conLet's concentrate trol nuclear inspection weapons Partly this then on inspection and safebecause are now too easy js they guards and let's forget about dis- to make it is because Partly armament until we have passed no amount of could ininspection the inspection and safeguard sure the destruction of the other hurdles" side's existing stocks And part This shrewd intervention by it is because nuclear weapons Dulles brought agreement out ofj ly control would hamper civilian the wrangle atomic development which might otherwise have conCONTROL IMPOSSIBLE Thus tinued indefinitely the " to the But with nuclear weabons con- way was opened moral Victory achieved by t h e frol held to be impossible Stas President's famous proposal of sen naturally inclines toward limmutual aerial inspection itation of the means of deliver But one vital point must now ing nuclear weapons That will be grasped above all others What mean sacrificing the Strategic the President talked about at Air Command the only real reGeneva was not disarmament at maining element of American of all What fensive power And before any- It was inspection the newspapers have excitedly tmng of that sort is attempted described in their advance no- both the Pentagon and the Ameritices of Gov Stassen's program can public will have a eood deal for the UN disarmament meet- to say about it In short although Stassen mav ing stomorrow is not disarmament either It is still inspec- be ready to offer his own prition Disarmament is the end vate disarmament Droeram a Inspection and safeguards are well as his inspection and safe the means by which the end is guards program this country is first made possible and then in- not any nearer tp having an sured agreed hationallv suDnorted an Yet we proach to disarmament WIDE DIFFERENCES are now plunging into a disarm Moreover there are still the ament conference same wide differences of view if This is kind nf 1U about disarmament among the uation thatthe always arises when tne attempt is made to decide by iiat the highest questions of national policy And in the nres- case it is an enormously ent 3 uaugerous iaise suuauon lor me Soviets most particularly do not want the inspection and safeguards 4that Stassen is ready to irrigation project on the Ogden talk about And if th Soviets River had been expended and want anything at all they real the disarmament that from now on the work will pro- ly ' cannot Stassen gress rapidly said J R lakisch about with the possibly talk authority of a resident engineer : I national spokesman — A petition sponsored by the Ogden Jaycees which would place REFLECTIONS on the ballot at the fall election a question to determine whether the city charter should be For I will punish them that r changed to permit dwell In the land of Egypt as system of government was I have punished Jerusalem by 261 names short of the required the sword by the famine and number according to Weber by tho pestilence — Jeremiah n 44:13 County Clerk Lawrence M ' The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can 50 YEARS AGO Glenn L Hanson had returned be made impulsive to good — Horfrom Dennison he ace Mann attended a summer music clinic Paul an aposlle of JesUs of the Western State colleges Christ by the commandment of Mr Hanson was chosen as the God our Saviour and Lord bass soloist for a concert which Jesus Christ which is our hope was given- during the clinic —I Timothy 1:1 t i So when dark thoughts my body Leon Cowles' a son of Dr E Cowles president of the ing spirit shroud Sweet Hope! round me shed University of Utah had been ap- celestial influence silver pinions o'er my pointed- second secretary of the Waving thy Keats head— U S embassy and vice consul at Oslo Norway He taught at OgBlessed is the man whom den High School from 1929 to thou chastenest O Lord and v 1937 teachest him out of thy law— -The number of farms in We- Psalms 94:12 Now let us thank th eternal ber County as listed in the of the 1945 farm power convine'd that Heaven census showed a gain of 257 but tries our virtue by affliction: over the 1940 census although That oft the cloud which wraps farms were reduced in size The the present hour Serves but to 1945 total was 1950 as compared brighten all our future days!— John Brown with 1693 in 1940 JOSEPH i GALLUP POLL —— policy-maker- t No will not PRESIDENTE CANUTE — j J (Editor's note — While Drew By TOM McNAMARA WASHINGTON — Unless some thing unforeseen upsets the GOP NOTEBOOK Ogden Ought to Sell Itself By LOU GLADWELL City Hall Reporter Most "cities are finding out men knew all along— that you have to get out and eh on t about" vour products Just having them on the shelves isn't enough Cities have products iney also have programs AH the towns along the main route irom pere to the coast are out on the high way telling you about them I was impressed witn tnis iaci during a recent vacation trip to California The siens pop out at you trom behind barns sage brush or glare at you in the open deserts They flaunt laconic messages tnai you can read at 70 miles an what-advertisin- g hour "Ridgeville Home 01 unions" "Grassvillei Famous For Grapes" "MudflataApple Center of Amer: ica" And so forth NONE FOR HOME eye of But the a break the tourist experiences in the pattern upon nearing Ogden There are pleinty of signs But none of them carry hometown bragging Not one of then! says "Ogden —Railroad Center of Utah" or "Ogden — Home of All Faees West" or "Ogden— Most Beautiful Mountain City in America" And not a single one as much as claims "Ogden — Tastiest Drinking Water in the West Fountain- On Every Corner" You think that's dipping a lit tle shallow for a slogan? Just take a drink of water in any town in California then Local program and product boosting is not a municipal job But we have other kinds of organization in Ozden The Cham ber of Commerce is one The Ro tary Club is one The other night I was relating all the other the effective job : j towns were uuiug "Thv arm all out there smack ing you in the eye with signs sipns siens - 1 aia: Ana wnai have we stuck out for them to read in Ogden?' ! asked build ing to my climax But with a wild sweep or arm a fnend broke in — "Ogden— Radar Contro led'" he sign-conscio- - - " — blurted l floor is Donna Bertagnolll secre tary to the city personnel director It took more than looks to land the job in this day of civil service and the merit system She topped a tough field of applicants to land the position Nobody at Ogden High School would doubt this Donna got straight "As" while a student there In fact she has been an A student ever since the 7th grade She fills the spot left by Marge Peterson who moved to Cald- v well Idaho Questions and Answers Q— Is' it correct to call a male goat a billy goat and the female a nanny goat? : j A— These 'names are colloquial The proper name for the grown male is buck the female is a doe ? -- £ nu j A give money or bonds to the pio-" A — No' It made loans of in bonds to hasten the construction of six railroads terest-bearin- g Q — What are the salt flats at Bonneville Utah? A — Geologists believe that this vast expanse of salty clay is the bed of a large body of fresh water whose waters evaporated long ago It is used as a speed course for automobiles Q — Which one of Abraham Lincoln's sons died in the White J House? A— William Wallace Lincoln 1 AL A r s T t np nyo nr 1 Q— When did we begin the" custom of making up the names of organizations irom me initials ox the successive words or syllables p which compqsethem? : : A"-l-The tendency was already kiuicuv msnuuu war i wucu names like ANZAC were in common use in" Britain' 0—Do the feathers of the ptarmigan' change 7 their color with the season? I A — Yes in winter they are white like the snow In summer the" 'plumage is f eddish-- r o w n and black like the trees and You can't win herei : t SECRETARY IS TOPS That pretty girl on the 6th shrubs " b |