The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 2

RE PEARSO OGDEN UTAH SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 17 1959 WHAT OTHERS SAY Big Business Best Supporters For Russian Envoy's Junket What About Subsidies for the Railroads? WASHINGTON Wisecracks go However for some unez- plained reason Mikoyan was es in the diplomatic corps are that corted to the main airport right into the teeth of shouting hostile crowds of refugees What European diplomats worried about was that if the No 2 man of Russia had been killed or hurt Soviet-American relations would have reached the breaking point especially in view of the loose security After all it was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary while on a visit to Sarajevo in 1914 which precipitated World War I HAL BOYLE I'll Just recently Mayor Richardson Dilworth of Philadelphia said he will propose to Congress that the government guarantee contracts under which the railroads could finance new equipment at low interest rates This has been done he says to help oil companies build tanker fleets Aid toward providing and maintaining the "roadways" on which privately owned companies may operate their vehicles has a certain logical and historical justification Governments state and federal built highways such as the National Road and numerous canals a century and a half ago They have been doing the same ever since and dredging rivers and harbors for water movement of commodities To extend similar aid to what is still the backbone of the country's land transportation the railroads certainly warrants consideration Christian Science Monitor Directors of the New York Central Railroad have said "No" to a proposed merger with the Pennsylvania that had seemed almost to have passed the study stage Thus the largest and most actively pushed trial of one remedy for the railroads' financial plight seems at least postponed But the eastern roads continue to plead the necessity of public subsidies What form should such subsidization take? Should it make up deficits in operating income? Or ought it to help in providing or maintaining capital equipment? Thirty-four major eastern roads in mid-1957 asked Congress to authorize federal funds to provide freight and passenger cars which the railroads would repay on lease-purchase terms Last month a Massachusetts legislator urged a state constitutional amendment to permit diversion of highway fund revenues to acquire or extend trackage for commuter service ml the Un-American Activities Committee should investigate the manner in which Anastas Mikoyan won over some of the big business supporters of President Eisenhower They point out the No 2 man of Soviet Russia spoke in such inner sanctums of American big business as the Union Club of Cleveland the Detroit Club the Chicago Club and Wall Street which certainly looked down the nose at and might even have banned Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman Mikoyan's hosts included Ed Ryerson chairman of Inland Steel one of the biggest businessmen in Chicago whom Eisenhower appointed to study foreign aid Walter Cisler head of Detroit Edison once a member of SHAEF under Ike and Cyrus Eaton head of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and one of the bigger investment bankers of the Midwest They together with Henry Ford and others all seemed impressed with Mikoyan's sincerity his frankness his desire for peace In Cleveland James Lincoln head of the Lincoln Electric Co greeted Mikoyan at the Union Club with this amazing speech: "The thing we need in this country is to have more and more exchanges of visitors exchange of kgoods exchange of ideas we say they are 'Communists' and yet we are going in that direction at a tremendously rapid speed There is also every indication that the Comjnunists are going toward capitaiisim at least to some exent before long agreement between the two ideas will be much closer than anything we have seen before" ViNEA Service Inc Rare Charity Shown by Dad Mother NEW YORK Curbstone comments of a Pavement Plato: "It is not a matter for the state" murmured Frank Chion-chio "It is for God to decide" The question at issue was what was to be done with Jean lava-rone accused of kidnaping the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Chionchio 2Vz hours after her birth in a Brooklyn hospital To the consternation of officials neither young lawyer Chionchio nor his wife wanted to press charges against widowed Mrs Iavarone mother of eight children herself after a tip to police led to the discovery 6f their daughter in her home not far from Brooklyn police IT'S A GIFT FROM PREMIER KHRUSHCHEV HOLMES ALEXANDER Mikoyan Visit Highlights Misconstrued History itadel ever since Nobody I think has better summarized the beginning and the substance of the stupendous enmity than George Kennan once our ambassador to Moscow and a life-long student of our relations with the Communist world revolution Keiyian has written: TURNING POINT "There are those today who see the winter of 1917-18 as one of the great turning points of modern history the point at which there separated and and institutions that have welcomed this man? There are some admirable exceptions but GLARING TRUTH "Americans have generally misjudged the Communist meaning" said Veritas "One reason must hi JOHNSON LECTURES Of the new Democrats Sens Phil Hart of Michigan and Frank branched out clearly and for all that they cannot bring themselves t0 see- the two conflicting answers to the emerging to look steadily at the glaring truth We can perhaps live on WASHINGTON Vernon Veritas the old truth-teller was saying that Anastas Mikoyan's visit to America highlighted one much-misconstrued historical fact The World War hasn't been fought yet Not fought yet? Was Mr Veritas overlooking those unpleasant disturbances in 1914-18 and 1939-45? "They were elimination tests" said Veritas "Family squabbles among West Europeans in which the rest of us became unhappily involved But the big event is foreshadowed by this Red revolutionist who has come as it were to pinch the fruit to find out if it is ripe for plucking The The young couple who had borne themselves with a dignity beyond hysteria during their long ordeal were not interested in punishing the kidnaper They were only happy and grateful they had their-baby back alivt and well This attitude was incomprehensible to the forces of the law who had thrown from 500 to 700 men into a 10-day-and-night street-by-street search for the stolen infant To Chionchio 28 a lawyer 'for the Port of New York Authority Mrs Iavarone 43 was "a poor sick woman" unable to comprehend the enormity of the crime or the suffering it had caused Only after considerable pressure by legal officials during which it was pointed out that he himself could be held as a material witness in the case did he reluctantly sign a complaint against Mrs Iavarone Moss of Utah have been the most stubborn about taking orders from Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson This led the redoubtable Lyndon the other day to deliver a gentle but pointed warning Spying the Michigan h-man at a reception Lyndon cornered him and said sweetly: "Let me tell you a little story When Sam Rayburn first came to Congress the speaker told him: 'Young man you vote against the leadership whenever your conscience or the interests of your state require it But don't do it very often and don't do it on anything important' Hart replied that he understood the moral of Johnson's little story but added: "Don't count problems of populousness industrialism urbanism The one concept not only accepted but embraced the violent and total break with the past The other concept looked to ethical standards and preferred generally to bear with the imperfections of society as handed down from the past rather than attempt to uproot and destroy them all at once at the risk of uprooting and destroying God knows what else" Read this passage against the Mikoyan visit against the absurd attempts to pacify communism and igainst the well-nigh insane attempts to imitate what the Communists call socialism Then you will understand why Vernon Veritas who always tells his country the truth is trembling for her fate the same planet with communism if we keep as far apart as is geographically and ideologically possible But to trade goods to exchange persons except in rare cases of artists who are above the struggle to try to appease the Socialist doctrine by being a leetle bit more socialist ourselves well it's breaking down the wall to wheel the Trojan Horse inside" Mr Veritas as a changeless truth-teller will never be a popular figure in our affairs He is reconciled to being solitary and to having his preachments go unremarked But he is not above hoping that Americans will hear before too late the ominous tramp of the mobs which gathered more than 40 years ago and have been moving down upon our not for what it has printed but rather for what he has been told it is going to publish a series of articles critical of Mr Hoover These demands for a Senate investigation constitute an outrageous attempt to punish a magazine and a newspaper with which a Senator happens to disagree Washington Post Antietam's Battleground A new Congressman from Maryland Democratic Representative-elect Foley has some work cut out for him from the day he takes the oath of office This is to introduce and follow through on legislation to protect the historic ground in his district on which Civil War Battle of Antietam was fought Sept 17 1862 Real estate developers and subdividers have a hungry eye on the field where some 40000 men in gray under Robert Lee met about 50000 of McClellan's troops in Union blue When darkness at last fell after a long day of bloody fighting Confederate losses ran to 9000 and those on the Northern side to as many as 12000 The next day Lee's forces stood fast and Mc-Clellan failed to renew his attack and so Antietam went down in the history of the war of the rebellion as a hard and inconclusive struggle Antietam's battlefield ought to be protected by an appreciative nation When the centennial occurs in 1962 may an adequately safeguarded historic site be celebrated in national ceremonies St Louis Post-Dispatch Belief in Charms Belief in magic charms still exists in this age of miracle drugs Copper-colored metal charms offered for the relief of rheumatism and arthritis were seized by the Food and Drug Administration The Lincoln Neb mail order promoter of the "Magic Copper Band" said it came from India and should be worn around the wrist knee ankle or elbow He bought them for 8 cents each from a legitimate' New England novelty manufacturer and promoted them via big city newspaper advertising for $2 AMA News Medal for Bobby Fischer They gave Bobby Fischer a gold medal yesterday at Erasmus Hall High School ir Brooklyn It was the first time in that school's long and honorable history that the Student Council has ever done such a thing but then 15-year-olds like Bobby Fischer Son't come along every day or even every decade At that age youngsters are likely to be playing junior varsity football or basketball while Bobby has just won the United States chess championship for the second year in a row Last year he won the right to compete with the world's chess greats in a competition to decide w7ho will challenge the present world champion next year We find Bobby Fischer a comforting phenomenon after all the recent talk about the faults of our young people He has grown up in the television age but he prefers playing chess to watching Westerns He may listen to rock 'n' roll occasionally but his marks in geometry and Spanish are nothing to be ashamed of This country must have many many thousands of talented youngsters It is the job of us adults to make sure that all of them get the opportunity and incentive to develop their talents New York Times Thought Control? Has the FBI become so sacrosanct that no one can even think critical thoughts about it? Senator Butler has announced that he will ask the Senate Internal Security subcommittee to investigate "a deliberate smear campaign against Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation" The American Legion has made similar demands for such an investigation The Senator would include the Nation magazine and the New York Post in the inquiry The Nation devoted an entire issue recently to a critical examination of the FBI This newspaper does not agree with everything in the article but regardless of what one thinks of the magazine's assessment of the FBI the publication of the article is no reason for a Senate investigation And the case for an investigation of the New York Post is worse yet Senator Butler wants the newspaper investigated World War Jn the offing is East vs West the Bolsheviks' big effort to make the world safe for Bolshevism" But most Americans seem to believe that Mikoyan had come to take a tour to find a solution to the Berlin deadlock to whip up some trade between his country and ours Was the United States on me POOR PRECAUTIONS European newspapers especially the British were horrified at the slipshod security provided for Mikoyan in Chicago and San Francisco There was much more comment in the West European press regarding hostile pickets and what could happen in case one of them got out of hand than in the American press as badly deceived as all that? iniiiMiiiM Were we stupified by gluttonizing on our prosperity and befuddled by nipping at the sentimental jug WALTER LIPPMANN labeled Uid Liberalism? BOTH ARE SOUND "Both diagnoses are sound' nodded Veritas who cannot tel a lie "The American people are doing themselves in with the knife spoon and bottle-opener Hard on Outside Soft Inside-Quick Invitation to Trouble Bui the misconceptions abou Even then as he left the conference the young father murmured stubbornly: "It is not a matter for the state It is for God to decide" SEEMS NAIVE To many the attitude of Mr and Mrs Chionchio must seem incredibly naive The instinct for revenge and retribution is overwhelmingly strong in most of us and when someone hurts us we want to hurt them back just as soon as we are able to We pay lip service to the ideals of forgiveness turning the other cheek and doing unto one -another as we would have them do" unto us But in our daily life we often don't live up to these ideals We turn to the older law of fang and claw It is inconceivable certainly for most of us to think that Mrs Iavarone if proved both sane and guilty should go unpunished by the laws of man But it is unimportant whether Mr and Mrs Chionchio are right or wrong In an angry world surely sicker andjust as confused in many ways as the weman who stole their baby their Christian charity under stress stands as a bright beacon of true faith It is an example of humanity at its best as rare as it is communism began as long ago as the Red revolution of 1917 when Russia pulled out of that family Suspicion persisted among some of those who entertained Mikoyan that the State Department may have wanted him to come into close contact with Hungarian refugees in order to realize that one segment of the American public was very much against him In Cleveland Cyrus Eaton urged State Department security officers to take the Russian deputy premier through a side door of the Union Club also take him out any one of several exits from Eaton's offices Previously scheduled exits and entrances even squabble and set up in the busi ness of changing the world Very tew Americans and almost none of our leaders understood that this was a vast cleavage between two halves of the earth and two irreconcilable philosophies Since then we've had leaders and fol low-the-leaders in a state of de trouble For this is a changing world in which the power and the influence of the challenger are growing We cannot long hope to succeed in meeting this challenge by a policy of standing pat in all things on all of our positions abroad and on our efforts at home The rightposition is that of Churchill when he said "We arm to parley" We should arm more strongly and we should negotiate more readily We should be not inflexible but we should be tough remembering that what js inflexible ist usually brittle Granted that the President's first message to Congress is bound to be rather general in character what the President had to say throws very little light indeed on the state of the union He said in effect that we are "ceaselessly challenged" and that in meeting this challenge all that we can afford to do without raising taxes is all that we need to do This is a remarkable coincidence that we are able to meet so great a challenge without any additional effort and sacrifice during the coming fiscal year and that in the following year we may lirium seeing "One World" and pink elephants which of course aont exist except in the mixed though hostile crowds were waiting for him In San Francisco and Chicago it's customary to take a distinguished visitor to the National Guard hangars where the crowds are easily controlled rather than to the main airport where thousands of passengers come and up minds of the victims" Was Mr Veritas saying that the "One Worlders" are off their rockers? "All of us are a little hipped on matters that we can't get out of our heads" said Veritas be able to relax and to reduce woodrow Wilson got the de taxes We are confronted said lusion that he was the world's Rev Leo Steck auxiliary bish peace-bringer This comes prettv Mr Eisenhower with a question which is "as old as history" whether a government based up close to claiming divinity Frank lin Roosevelt was obsessed with on liberty can endure when it is the Achillean myth of invincibil ceaselessly challenged by jl dictatorship with growing eco ity Napoleon used to say that the nomic and military power And bullet was not molded that could kill him FDR seemed to think that he could charm the savagery 10 YEARS AGO Gerald Keogh 23 had an extensive gun collection as a hobby Keogh a polio victim was interested in the current March of Dimes campaign Art Mortensen veteran pilot and manager of the Ogden Municipal Airport was doing a bit of aerial sheepherding a friend in need for the snowbound sheep on the famous and historic Fremont Island in the center of Great Salt Lake The animals what is the answer to this question which is as old as history? It is that we can indeed our oi communism These two op of Salt Lake City 20 YEARS AGO Frederic Dixon concert pianist of Ogden was to appear at Town Hall New York City under the concert management of Arthur Judson Inc Approximately 150 Weber County Four-H Club members were to receive awards at their annual Achievement Day in the Utah Power Light Co auditorium said Leonard Manwaring assistant county agent and Miss Hazel Bingham home demonstration agent endure by doing no more than concepts of the pink elephant called "One Worldism" have be we are doing now the industrial division Roger Edens was general chairman Other leaders included: Dunbar George A Ward Norton Burton 50 YEARS AGO With a clean cut record of more' than half a million dollars expended during the past year in building new houses in the residential districts of Ogden and contracts already entered into for the erection of new business blocks in the commercial thoroughfares of Ogden aggregating in excess of $100000 the year 1909 was regarded as a banner year of progress and prosperity for the city When Edward mused us out of our wits" RIDE TWO HORSES But just what is the use of ask So that a great number of bemused Americans have- received If I 2500-MILE MISSILE "CONE" 3 WOULD COVER MAJOR SOYIET 7n3T3U Si 1 FAR EAST BASES iiM I USSH EM illlk yflisSSSB fflffiB 5 thorHrbm bases I ancUhoIage0area 1 ing tnis tremendous question about whether we can endure if the answer is that we are already doing all that is necessary? The explanation I am afraid is that the President is trying to ride two horses at -to be hard were owned by George Stoddard of West Point Using Ogden Municipal airport as the base of operations a junior air lift was established on the island and several thousand pounds of grain coal other supplies and personnel were transported over the lake and thanks to aviation the situation of the snowbound sheep on Fremont Island was well in hand said Mr Stoddard when he talks to Moscow and soft when he talks to our own people We are to defy the challenge abroad and are to reduce taxes at home the Mikoyan visit as if it were a rainbow instead of the rocket's red glare Mikoyan the picturesque peddler from the Steppes will trade us furs and caviar for surplus automobiles and chemicals-for-peace Mikoyan the sightseer will become so enamored of the supermarket and so impressed with the Grand Canyon that he'll renounce communism and defect to our side Mikoyan the hoss trader knows that Russia has a bad bargain in Berlin and wants to buy his country a settlement on our terms Would these be the images dancing in the heads of Stevenson Stassen Eaton Ford Motors General Motors and all the other persons Charm begins in the boudoir according to Weber College coeds who were responsible for arranging a program of lectures for Charm Week to be conducted by the Associated Women Students next week Norma Barrows was secretary of the association with Phyllis Cardon president and Na-dine Madsen chairman Mrs Lu-cile Owen Petty was dean of women Harnman took the Union Pacific a few years ago there were 5325 miles of road and the first year thereafter the entire income from the system was only $33291125 Last year it had increased to $87-473776 the most remarkable This does not sound as if the President expected the nation to take the ceaseless challenge very seriously For if it is true as in fact it is that the Soviet Union' is challenging' us with' "an eco Specifications for supplying the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at nomic and military power of great andjgrowing strength" how 7th and Harrison with furnishings and equipment were being supplied by Architect Eber Piers and the state board of supplies and purchase office Ordnance supply section at the Utah General Depot on West 12th had completed its activities at the depot Activated on June 12 1942 as the motor transport section and later becoming the ordnance supply section it was responsible for the storage and issue of thousands of cars and trucks and parts for them during World War II Capt Jack Crable supply officer of the section was deactivating the group A special service was to be held in St Joseph's Church with a masi celebrated by the Most record in the history of American railroads He did the same with the Southern Pacific When he assumed control the gross receipts of the system with which Ogden's future is so closely identified the gross receipts of the system were $57650000 while for the fiscal year ending June 30 last the income had increased to something in excess of $130200000 There was an influx into Ogden the connecting link between the two great railroad systems of the West is it conceivable that we can look forward to a tax reduction just before the coming national Presidential election? This is the kind of softness and self-indulgence which is "as old as history" and again and again in history has SIBERIA IS being turned into a "platform" for ballistic missiles aimed at America This warning comes from Lt Gen Frank Armstrong commander of most US military forces in Alaska He said the Russians are testing missiles and other nuclear weapons only a few hundred miles from Alaska Armstrong calls Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula the largest Russian military installation in the Arctic Tiksi on the northern shoe of Siberia is liked to Elmendorf Air Force Base headquarters of the Alaskan command Armstrong claims that 2500-mile intermediate range Thor missiles based in southern Alaska could neutralize these Siberian bases as well as the port of Vladivostok QUESTIONS ANSWERED Has South Carolina "any natural lakes? A No But power dams which have formed artificial lakes have been built on several rivers meant the ruin of great states Progress was being made in obtaining leadership for Ogden's sixth Community Chest campaign with Anderson general manager of the Anderson Lumber Co accepting chairmanship of INVITE TROUBLE To be hard on the outside and soft on tha insida it to invite i.