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Show FIRST. Friday, June 30, SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD Page 2 tKe Individual, under GoJ. I 19G1 awe, with certain unalienable rights. Books "Handcarts to Zion Success and Tragedies South Salt Lake FOR ADULTS Entered as 2nd Class Matter at the Post Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly on Friday. By Mail Payable in Advance Subscription Rates 1 Anywhere in Utah, year, $3 Elsewhere in U.S.A., $3.50 Single Copy, 10 cents Published Weekly at 2185 South 9th East Publisher-Edit- or ---- IN Vol. 24 Editorial Planned Famines About the time that this continent was being inhabited by people fleeing the old World, men and women stood at busy crossroads waiting for some rich nobleman to pass and throw them a small coin. This coin, should it fall their way, might be the only wealth they would obtain in their lifetime. This was the picture in Europe . . . where a man would live out his life wearing the same single garment. That garment was his only private property. For six thousand years man has labored from daylight until dusk to provide himself with enough food in order that he might be strong enough tomorrow to do the same thing over again. Famines have been the rule rather than the exception in the life of man. Last year saw frightening famines in China and India. Men have been chained to oars to pull the ships at sea. Men have pulled giant stone blocks to build pyramids. For six thousand years man has been faced with slavery, starvation and disease. Yet all lands contained the same natural resources that they do today. Men are no smarter today than they were at the time of the crusades. Some might point out that what Saracens contributed to mankind before the Crusades has not since been equaled. They point to the use of the zero in mathematics as on example. Man has turned to all kinds of governments. This has not stopped his starvation. If government is responsible for man then we need only look back at the record to quickly assure ourselves that such a view has brought nothing. Yet, in all of this bleakness of 6,000 years there is one spot where man succeeded in beating the odds. It came when men started to realize that they were responsible for them- selves. That they control them selves. And, if they control themselves and it is not the master or the government who does the controlling, then they better start doing something about improving themselves. This concept Moses tried to bring to the people. Gideon warned again and again that the people of his time must take care of themselves. There came a time in a new land where man was either responsible for himself or he perished. This was the colonizing of America. In the 150 years from the initial colonizing to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, man prospered in America. He didnt wait for his government to tell him when to swing his ax or what to raise or plow under. It was The Queens Grace, by Jan Westcott. This is a love story around Kathryn Parr, the last of Henry VIIIs wives. root-hog-or-d- ie. Lantern Bearers, by An exciting Sutcliff. Rosemary chronicle of the time when the last of the Romans in Britain were struggling to carry forward what light they could into the Dark Ages. The 6-2- J. Dohn Lewis ' No. 20 --- Handcarts to Zion, by LeRoy and Ann Hafen. The story of a unique migration; its successes and tragedies. in a cemetery, and the characters inclue an eccentric gentleman who lives there. It Takes Heart, by Mel Allen. Inspiring stories of heoric lives and heoric moments in sports. A Primer For Profit In the Stock Market, by Harry Kahn, Jr. Here is a sensible, highly readable primer for the person who would like to put his spare cash to work. Room At the Top, by John Braine. This novel crackles the with life. It whole smell of a new town to a young man just arrived. re-crea- tes Mission Nurse, by Adelaide Humphries. This story of an American nurse in Africa is full of suspense an dis revealing as well. Shots Heard Round the World by Ellis O. Briggs. An Ambassadors hunting adventures on The Small Boat Guide, by Sam Crowther, a comprehensive guide for al Ismail power boats; buying, maintenance, piloting, etc. Yonder One World, by Frank Moraes. Eminently readable, this informative and timely book will be welcomed by the vast American public interested in Asian and worl daffairs. White House Fever, by Robert Bendiner. An innocent's guide to principles and practices behind the election of our presidents. The Cheerful Day, by Nan Fairbrother. The richly rewarding account of an English country family transplanted to London and how they learned to love the London life. of Cowards, by Jack Schaefer. This novel is about eight cowards, courtmar-tiale- d and convicted, despised the world as they despise by Company themselves. A Fine and Private Place, by S. Beagle. A fantasy set Peter four continents by the United State Ambassador to Brazil. YOUNG ADULTS Chendru, by Astrid B. Sucks-dorf- f. This true story of Chendru and his tiger is taken by the author from the film that her husband created during a two-ye- ar stay in India. Harry and the Lady Next Door, by Gene Zion. Harry loved all his neighbors except one the lady next door. Lucy & Toms Day, by Shirley Hughes. A picture book story of the daily activities of Lucy and Tom who help their mother in the house. The Sycamore Tree, by Marion Boyd Harvighurst. A novel The monarchs in Europe were too busy to pay much attention to him, anyway. not seek something for man but directly and clearly defined what the government, they AND THOSE MONARCHS were creating, could NOT do. WHO SENT OVER COLONIES For, most of all, they knew, THAT WERE PLANNED TO from bitter experience, that government, by nature, seeks THE LAST DETAIL, WHO control and power. And, the can get way only government CAME EQUIPPED WITH control and power is to take it THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT, away from the people. From the signing of the most FAILED. . . COMPLETELY. revolutionary document in the Surely, the Egyptian pulling history of mankind up until the the stone did not want to do Civil War, Americans had rethis until he died. The man tained most of that freedom. The Civil War saw the first standing at the crossroads in his single garment didnt want conscription and the first to stand there. The man bathincome tax. Thus mans freein the was on the ebb. dom ing Ganges certainly wants more food. If a slave master gives his slaves one hour or two days a Everything has always been the same for all men. There week to themselves the slaves was nothing different in the are still slaves. Should some land or the people who came beneficient slave master have to America. They were not the so many slaves that he gives them their freedom six days a super educated. Yet they had one thing. They kept that one week but retains their efforts and time for himself on the thing: FREEDOM. They, when seventh day, then those men years after the Declaration of are still slaves. Independence was signed, Neither FREEDOM nor slavsought a government, looked to a system of checks and balery is a matter of degree. They are both total concepts. ances. They tried to find repYour only way to keep and resentation by population. But HOLD! What if the majority maintain your freedom, or to should try to control the minget it back, is to realize that conceived of the ority? They you are responsible for your were own actions, totally. That you senate. Even then they not satisfied, so their designed are bom free and what you some amendments,1 which did produce is yours. that dramatizes the conflicting loyalties that made the Civil War one of the most painful episodes in our history. Woman Doctor of the West, by Helen Markley Miller. Beth-en- ia Owens-Ada- ir was the first graduate woman doctor in the American West. Yankee Doodle Painter, by Anne Colver. The author is the daughter of Will Colver, and has gathered most or her material directly from members of her own family. FOR CHILDREN Animal Babies. Photographs byYlla and words by A. Gregor. One of the worlds foremost photographers, before her death, took these entrancing photographs of baby animals and their mothers. The True Book of Jungles. Ilia Podendolf explains what jungles are, where they are and why. The World of Capt. John Smith, by Genevieve Foster This book is a slice of history measured by the lifetime of this man. Who Will Be My Friends. Story and pictures by Syd Hoff. An Early I Can Read Book. The Sooner Hound, by Harvey Weiss. As his master is fond of saying, Hed sooner run than eat and hes the A Trip to Paris, by Terry Shannon. A gay book of easy beginning French. Summer Library Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Closed on Sundays and holidays. Did YoWKnow,,, v The Ill-Fat- Gold Rush ed fast- est thing on four legs. - population one: exile, Cass Hite, who had built a rock cabin on the Colorado where he eked out a living washing flour gold from sandbars. Hite, Utah, in 1893 self-appoint-ed When greedy prospeuurs questioned him, he said that the heavier gold had probably washed down to the foot of Navaho Mountain. Whether Hite was sincere or merely wanted to be left alone, he triggered a gold rush. Ferries were built, dredges hauled in - but the gold was too fine to be recovered. Dredges were left to rust and Hite went into hiding to avoid vengeful prospectors. Cass Hite was an isolationist, but most Utahns enjoy companionship. Many like to pause for a friendly glass of beer or ale and the United States Brewers Association is constantly working for clean, wholesome conditions wherever these light beverages of moderation are sold. nnis0is2n$ eBHiinmu imi |