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-te---- c''' ii'' -k THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Friday September 1 IMO PP eg 19 T-1 I rk7m I P1411 10 Li By 3Ianning Ealtorials gljt 5alt galit Zfibunt Sept 1:1950 31ilitarvTruth av Boys 'Bober M6 i yrriti10" 7 I Time'to rteliay That Debt Doctoi -Dear On Defense a Utahlabel Ara 11 Is irti tasued every marning by Me it Lake Tribune Pubitahtng Co gall Lake City Utah 4 '1777 f7-7-- I -i'-'1 '-i': I 1 2 liSc5141 le I 1 4 4 :1 '0 -'3 i 1 I 04 Stirs Illitess7 Lack of Set Course in War Effort Confuses Public Understandinti 0 1 I ''t i 1 4 4 4 '4': -i to P'4 -47 to -Pt tt 1 I al is b4 A el rr et By Dsvid Lawrence WASHING'rON --Conceding "that -this week waa en inoppor tune Occasion for the- discussion the Strategic importance of Formosa the fact remains that an unhealthy attitude is developing in the national capital toward the revelation of truth to the American people by tary men concerning problems of defense The United States armed forces are iciday' in Korea and blood is being apilled because the defense of an outpost the far east tiA not thoroughly discussed in advance and the opinion of our highest military men solicited in the subject Korea for Instance Ry Robert Ruark EW YORli Oh doctor 'dear I bleed for thee but I do not bleed very profusely7Juat a tricklesent don't bother with the tourniquet It'll atop In minute We notice that the senate la accenting a bill to draft some of the 4000 short-order sawbones who beat the last unpleasantness by remaining in college at government expense to sop up miteria medic while grayheaded brain surgeoni were swabbing athlete's foot in odd places and obstretricians were ministering to Pacific rot One Man Sign Up of this number orie man had volunteered for aervice at last reading---and so we got to squeeze a witty through congress to get 'enottel doctors to bind a wound without calling up physicians who have already spent their time in the ru si merely a "police" action The fact of the Matter is that again we are being put through the processes of hypnosis The mobilization program does not discount the Soviet ambi- tion Russia is expected tei move in on other fronts and officialsin Washington are not shy about talking about it among themselves Even so the conclusion is one of official con- fusion'' There is no set course Officialdom is most concerned about placating the ill-concealed enemy and keeping the American people complacent until after election day The confUsion existent in Washington the lack of coordination among governmental dei partmenta direly involved the bickering jealousies over administrative responsibilities the temerity 'precipitated by demands for po- Mical are the things which confuse and befuddle the American people as to where we are going and what we may ex: peel It does not make for confidenee in the war effort and the directing destiny of our Current caaualties from the front be it police action or warfare testify to the inter7 eEt of our people in the conflict War needs cannot wait until the votes are counted There is too much precious American life at stake to acquiesce in delaying political action The first task in front of the government la to set the course and pursue it to a logical con elusion The next of kin will never be satisa lied with placid political explanations Eoma years ago the American people were 7- asked to subscribe -to-a piece of democratic doctrine which might have forestalled some of the confusion of the present day- Open Covenants openly arrivedost as espoused by President Wilson might have become some- thing more than a catch-phrase The trou- be was that it did not fit world diplomacy and so never gained a foothold in international relations in the years to follow As a matter of fact it has never been fully accepted in our national official life The ideal is practically nonexistent except as it is developed through official debate and discussion Nevertheless catch phrases of one kind or another remain as vehicles1 of political expediency With them and asso- elated preachment the people are led to be-- lieve something which later proves to be noth- trig more than a delusion The neutrality act of 1939 was to kOp us out of war And so we fought an all-out world war The lend-lease bill of 1941 was to keep us out of war Letting Russia lake Berlin was to assure our people of friendly relations with Russia Bringing Russians Into the Japanese war and dividing up Korea was to make Russians permanent allies Abandonment of China then Formosa would make for peace in the Orient Now where are we? The current delusion is that Korea is r' I 1 a I I i s'-'4 4-''' --att '4" ikiisught Syndwaut Intl- 14rs WI 0- a I' UL1 11 il: -'10 lkt r' 1 Litilipl4itit 1 1 Sik opook 46- '1- 31 14- -J tAi ktP4 PC: 4 1 eg 1 5 I fr oplihip sib 4 -4 iii 4 IP 1 0114 Ille 4 4 ss li: 4i 72tiy lik 111 El'vr-'1' 1V14o td1 rt '31'001 i Appop--' '4- 4 1 Lotto s- -gill -47- g'' li AUT 1- i it: 6 1 so :7 11 CA 6 fr 40 41A -4-- 'x '-e 1 7 3s' -7t IA 7 7 7 -t6 1 4s Pc 0 4 -1Plysttld 41 i' 4F' sig: '71-? 1 7 i fs-d'- 1- '1 t0 -g 0- -0 4- Z-itettk N1NC '7 Syncheaut Inc t- last ratrace One man out of 4000: am reminded slightly of the tramp athletes who found a snug her- bor at the military academies during WW twice to bleed and 's die upon the filotball- to take off as soon as the peace was signed to play pro football for bigger dough There were considerably worse fates in the dear departed flict than a government-subsidized technical education which kept you out of the foxholes and off the destroyers and stuffed your skulls with expensive book7 larnin Quite a Feat Why was the defense of Koyea for instance considered of no interest to the people of the United Statea last January? Who made the decision to suppress the facts about Korea's strategic $ince it was not the military men how can the-American people learn- what their views really were? It does not seem plausible that American military opinio would regard the possession of Korea by a hostile power as a matter of indifference to us especially when the Japan-Okinawa'--Philippines line Is supposed to be our prime defense For if Korea -were td become a base for Soviet air power and sub-'marines the future of Japan as a possible ally of the United States would become perilous Korea geographically is a knife projected against a peaceful 1 Payson Onion Days Begin With Races and Feasts The Public Forum By Our Headers LOST SIIEEP By James Metcalfe I Onions may have originated in western Asia as Cando Ile the Swiss botanist of an earlier century surmised but this perennial and pungent vegetable after years of cultivation in Europe and America attained perfection in Payson Utah Edible and odoriferous the onion may be eaten raw or cooked in summer or winter with windows open or closed according to the habits or hunger of the consumer There is a time however when persons of discernment who enjoy life and liberty In the valleys of these mountains sniff a flavor in the ozone and head for Payson to participate in the festivities and partake of the flavored feasts that pertain particularly to that paradise of old-fashioned hospitality Among the many features of entertainment to be enjoyed today and for the next three days will be horse racing family relations and a historical pageant in which the present generation and more recent arrivals will be told the atory of the pioneers who founded the city and flourished in territorial times It has been announced that over a hundred performers are to participate in the play To all who attend at any period during the four days over which the celebration is to be extended: a cordial welcome and a memorable visit to the onion center of America are assured victim loomed on the horizon This time it lwas my friend's mother who happens to hold an important public health position She had the "audacity" to question the efficiency of the water facilities of the community Also as a trained public health person she had reported to the proper authohties the Caton of certain septic tank surface drains My friend's mother became known among the gossips as a "trouble-maker" and that "nervy newcomer" Gossips are reprehensible But the real culprits are those people who listen to goscip and then make up their minds without first hearing "the other side" of the story For the gossip we can muster only sorrow It Is for the "gos- sip listener" that we reserve our profound contempt Sometimes I leave the beaten path And go my way alone And many are the sins for which Some day I must atone I know I should riot do it but I let- my wisdom stray And then the sunlight disappears And all the skies are gray And then my thoughts become confused My soul is filed with fear And every smile that might have been Is turned into a tear wander In a wilder ness That seems to have no end And never any friend But somehow in the darkest night Wherever I may roam My Shepherd reaches out his hand And me gently home: postwar ecopomy it has kept up with tho rapid growth of the area it serves This newl est project is an example of the readiness with which the power firm assumes its additional responsibilities So while loyal and progressive Utahns continue to hail the advent of new industries transportation improvements and to note other evidence of an expanding western eeonomy they cannot consistently fail to pay occasional tribute to some of the previously established facilities that have made this progress possible Passing of Ransom Ohs Motor Car MaKer One of early day designers builders operators and advertisers of the "horseless Ransom Olds has ended a long drive that began with three-wheel steam-driven vehicle in 1886 and ended in Lansing the capital of Michigan and the site on which two great automobile plants are bearing Ilia name or initial Born June 3 1S64 at Geneva Ohio he became one of the pioneer pioducers of this nation and the world In 1875 an Austrian had built a crude machine but it was slow and cumbersome and never found a marketAn 1886 a German perfected a motor that became the forerunner of modern automobiles In that same year 1880 Ransom Olds put the first practical motor vehicle on the mud and gravel highways of MkhigtnHe established a factory in Detroit which burned down in 1902 when he moved his plant to Lansing Success attended the undertaking and with it came honors and wealth Like another story by Horatio-Alger In -which application and determination led to achievement the young man had risen from poverty and obscurity to a permanent place in the financial world as well as in the history of transportation 7 ert "He's not mentally reiponsible" another sa3d And 1r) It went until a new SENATOR FROM SANDPIT Invade Foreign Policy The argument will be made that to discuss anything of this sort is to invade "foreign policy" There was a the days of isolationism when American frontiers were omour own Pacific and Atlantic coasts Today however America's from! tiers are on the Elbe river in Europe and in Korea as well as Formosa To insist that everything going on abroad can be commented on officially only by one department is to carry the too far The outline of American defense strategy which Gen Douglas MacArthur has given is exactly the outline which the U'S joint chiefs of staff would express if they were premitted to speak their minds as to defense problems outside the continental United States There were one or two sentences in the MacArthur statement which might better have been omitted by the general as they referred to the views of opponents of the policy he was advocating Outside of these brief phrases the declaration can stand as an expression of American military theory at its best Danger Growing The danger to America in suppressing expert discussion of defense problems is growing Back in 1940 -when-Admiral -Taussig--- was testifying before a senate committee he advocated that the United States' enter into naval arrangements immediately with other nations including the Netherlands government for the protection of our far east ern interests" He was reprimanded by the late Pres Franklin Roosevelt but the advice he gave if accepted would have saved many thousands of American lives and might have thwarted japans naval sortie to the south in 1941 and 1942 Only last October Admiral Louis Denfeld chief of naval operations in answer to the questions of the house armed services committee expressed himself frankly and on what defense weap ona and strategy should be used Had his advice been taken America would today be better able to cope with the Korean war But he was publicly rep: rimanded and removed from ilam Park It cost3 a sight to build a doctor even in peacetime To beat a draft and knock off a free medical education is quite a Like the man said once there Is no such thing as a free lunch What you take out you got to put back The man says put it back now and one guy out Lf 4000 volunteers even though the volunteers get an extra4100 a month Why the bonus I couldn't say any more than Igel understand the area bonuses and the penal-- ty-cargo bonuses the merchant marine got in the laat one A man is a man when he goes to war and is no more worthy of special benefit than any other man in his same military grade I rankle slightly here remembering that as a commissioned officer in the navy I made 40'4 less dough than a Chinese ritess- boyon a merchant ship on which I served Debt to Repay The doctors who got educated In time of actual war have a debt to repay comparable to no other classification I can think of offhand The tradegy of war to others was to them a decisive safety the pleasures of the home front and a gratis education that runs Into thousands of dollars They received a bonus for being civilian students while their contempo- Tories suffered from amalt to large degree up to and including death These men literally owe their profession their immediate live- lihood to other men's blood They sweated over anatomy and carved -up the-corpses of name- less stiffs when their established seniors wereliving dangerously and unpleisiintly and God knows frugally on what the services paid in the last war Top Bone Man Possibly the best bone man in the country once fashioned roe new arm on a mess table in the Solomon jungle out of a few old nails and nuts and bolts using a portable X-ray He was a lieutenant-commander- at about $100 a month when hs Chicago practice would have brought him thrice that each week Be was I recall 3-A all the time and indispensable- to boot but he came along for the ride The same applies to most -of the grizzled Medicos I met Twenty thousand students got enrolled in the specialized training program Twelve thousand went on active reserve duty With the exception of our present 3999 zombies the rest flunked nut for physical or in-- tellectual reasons I am generally reticent about waving a flag over other folks heads but this is one group I wouldn't weep for if they all got drafted on private's pay They had it awful easy when a lot of other guys had it awful tough They owe us some Interest on the loan Mks the Interesting i Editor When 'a person is accustomed to seeing outatanding things and people of 'unusual interest then returns and does not see these interesting sights and people I believe we miss them more than the people who remain within the locality I always looked forward to checking my hat and coat at the Hotel Utah coffee shop For it was always a pleasant and most interesting experience to know the care and wonderful attainment that Mr Morris the check room master gave them and how a person could develop such a marvelous practice or scienci as he had of his own creation I was sorry to learn of his -illness and I hope he recovers fully and will again be there or that he is taking as good care of his health as he did the apparel of so many: It certainly seemed wonderful to me to know Mr Morris so many prospector Lee Draws Praise Editor Tribune: I have been reading about our governor one piece in the Saturday Evening Post and one in Time magazine They seem to think his time is limited Well I feel different feel we must have more men- just as near like the governor as can be If we can get enough men or women in office that will think of the taxpayers first it will do a great deal to peva our democracy At the present rate we are bound for disaster I feel that pur governor is one of the great eat men this country has ever produced I wish him all the luck in the world Jepson Santaquin Utah Gossiping Lashed Editor Tribune: Recently a friend of mine moved with 'his fantily to a small community Because at the tin he Was-convalescing from virus influenza end because he did his work at home he immediately became the target of the beady eyed vacuum heads that are known as "small town gossips" "Ile's a sick nisn Why he can't hold a job" one of them said and affording plenty of ventilation Close to the road in one Ppot was a hogan withthe door broken and the entrance sealed signifying the presence of a dead body within The Indians avoided the neighborhrwx1 as though it were inhabited bY demons He led the procession of pkoneers in what has become "the second largest Manufacturing enterprise in Retiring from active participation in the business he became Involved in a legal controversy for control with his general manager Richard Scott When he won the fight in 1933 Mr Olds resumed direction of the plant Ransom Olds was not a financier nor a philanthropist But be amassed a great fortune gave employment to hundreds of men and women changed the character of his home town once known as a -political center to At city renowned as a manufacturing center In the rise from poverty to affluence he had many rivals but in realizing his boyhood aspirations without developing a desire- to run the government or to use a political organization for the furtherance of his personal interests Mr Olds is sure to be remembered as a master mechanic who attended strictly to his own business If this were played upon a stage now I could condemn it as an improbable fiction-- "Twel tit -Night The Unforgettable kind (Conclusion) don't know the exact distance between Mexican Hat and Monument Valley but judging by the road I'd say that we traveled as far vertically as we did horizontally After the savage splendor of Hells Carpet where color seemed to'fight color the decor-of -Monument Valley is easy bn the Viat expanse of terra cotta colored sand dotted sparsely by green junipers and pines and grayish green sagebrush is a welcome after the tortured terrain of the hinterland All colors seemed to blend artistically and amicably-and as we neared the mighty monoliths a feeling of peace and security came over me as though I had just entered a sanctuary A reverent hush seemed to pervade the air so impelling that the rattles and squeaks of the car became pianissimo Trading rood Lodge Ifarry Goulding's trading post and lodge is on a high bench with towering red cliffs at the back The view of the valley below is breath-taking In its beauty We were assigned to modern cabins complete with -electric lights and shower baths and then served a 'lunch that would- have done credit to the Waldorf-Astoria As time was the essence with us we took off to explore the valley One doesn't talk much when viewing the amazing marvels of erosion once just gasps Hid there been a yakatiyaking tour-1st in Pur group one'who would describe say the "Rabbit" as being "cute" rd've prbably murdered him or her Power Company Contnmes Expansion Policies their enthuaiasm of welcoming new dustries into this state and the eagerness avith which they point out advantages thus accruing to the various communitiea many Utahns are prone to lose eight of the essential nature of some of our already established enterprises: Without Many of these basic industries the installation of the new ones would have been impossible One of these the electric power system that serves Salt Lake Utah and large areas of the intermountain west has played a s'Ital Dart in the development of the state and promises to perform a tremendously useful role in the future of this growing region Just recently the Utah Power and Light company announced plans to build another addition to Its increasing plant facilities here in Salt Lake The new plant ivhich is being built at the cost of $10500000 will have a capacity of 75000 kilowatts and will be constructed as an extension to the 66000-kilowatt steam plant now under construction on Navajo at west of the Jordan river near 1st South at The 66000-kilowatt plant will be comVeted for service in August of 1951 and the new 75000-kilowatt plant will be ready for use In the fall of 1952 This unit represents the third major power station in the company's five-year $61000000 postwar expansion program The first unit a 44000-kilowatt steam-electric plant at the mouth of Provo canyon hu just been completed The Utah Power and Light company has acquired an enviable record for service in this state and its surrounding areas In peace and war during peak industrial demands and through periods of retrenchment the power company has kept pace with the needs of the section covered by its "grid" of energy carrying wires In effect this company and the s'stem it controls provides a top example of the efficiency of private enterprise The power company has maintained virtually uninterrupted service to homes factories mills and mines throughout the many years of its existence as an intermountain utility Through its connections with other systems the Utah company has been able to meet the tremendous demands of wartime industry and in this uneasy but expanding 'The Navahos are strange people They are proud independent and have a natural dignity that is impressive They do nottamp by streams springs or water holes lest the "wild ones- be frightened-by their presence and die of thirst They Dave a chant dealing with the anbjecf At one camp where we stopped the white mans civilization had squaw Walt away somewhere' playing canasta Maybe and her husband was tending the baby Several Movie Sets In the valley are several movie sets One just below the Gouldin lodge was built in 1933 for 'Stage Coach" It has been used many time since for other pic- tures Lack of space prevents my describing the great sandstone strictures but you've probably seen most of them on the screen anyway But a New Yorker's remark may give you an idea of their immense height He was looking at a big one from the porch of the lodge when he'eaid: "I'd like to take that one back with me and scarel hell out of the Empire State building!" We retraced our steps to Bluff and Blanding en route to Moab detouring slightly to visit Charley Redd in La Sal I had him 'tying in Monticello but that was a 'slip of the typewnter FromMoah one of the states most beautiful towns we drove to the Fisher Towers the Arches national monument and Dead Horse Point all along the Colo-redo river They were the last but far from the least of natures marvels we saw Ripley once said! "Relieve it or not the ornost magnificent of the Colo-Pilo river's gorges is "not in 'Ariznna hut At Dead Horse roiLt in 1Z r1 Death of a Former Official Of the Resenue Office f-' 47 4 Opinion Intimidated Immediately all expert opinion was intimidated and today it's an open secret that congressional committees cannot get completely independent views from high military chief One wonders howfar toward 'the totalitarianism of communism and fasciint Americans have drifted in their zeal for suppression of truth espocially when it is sought from experts in their particular fields If the department of state alone can discusiodefense areas in differ-rear parts of the world where our forces are stationed then the value of a department of defense as an instrument of (cry advice may be questioned If there are as reported major differencea of opinion today between the department of state and the department of defense it Must he because each it not permitted freedom of 'expression FORUM RULES Letters express opinions of contributors with whieh The Tribune may or may not agree Poetry Will not be lased Letters may be rejected If they: (I) Are not signed with tries names and addresses In ink (letters nill be carried over assumed names if requested (2) 200 words or are written on both sides of the paper (3) discuss religious or racial matters in a sectarian nay (4) carry partisan political comment or advertising: (5) make persOnal aspersions (8) contain libelous or actionable matter or '(I) contain obvious misstatements of fact or statements not In accord tsith fair play anti good taste: (8) where more than one letter Is received from the sante contributor nithin a 10-day period selection of the one for poblication iII rest nith the editor Another native son of Salt Lake city one who took an active part in civic reforms and responsibilities has passed away in a California hospital David Edward Evans was born July 20 1876 in Utah's capital to receive his education in local schools and business institutions He followed the art of printing for a while and later became an expert accountant in the Department of Internal Revenue Ile served the federal government in the internal revenue office for 42 years before failing health impelled retirement four years ago He WWI regarded as accurate attentive to his official duties and an exemplary citizen The Salt Lake Tribime extends condolence to the surviving widow and family of the deceased No man saw the buildingof the New Jerusalem the workmen crowded- together the unfinished walls and unpaved streets no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe it 'descended out of ljavn from And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and shewed me that great city the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from ef-1444--Ilev 21:10 A man should never be osharnedto oWn he hat been in the -Wrong which ikbut saying in other words that he is wiser today than bewas yesterday A 1 1 I 1 0 Navaho flogans Here and there in the shadolA of the tnwenng um tiny Navaho hogan made of logs twigs glass and mud Near by would he tho ''sonyrr" hon a leanto made of tree branthea.