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Show OX yjeurt-ournZLDZK A Semi-Weekl- From Friday, June Brigham City, Utah lERRY 17, 1949 Newspaper Successor to Berry News THE BOX ELDER NEWS (Established and By 1896) (Established 1909) William M. Long, Editor Charlps Claybaugh, Business Manager Published every Wednesday and Friday and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office In Brigham City, Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription Rates: Box Elder County $1.00 a year; outside Box Elder County $5.00 a year. Single copies 5 cens. Member United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. Utah Stat- - Press Association fditoblaiU. The Vanishing American Editor Pause with me, friendly readers, and pond der a moment the sad fate of a American, the country editor. Like the Redskin Warrior and the buffalo, his is moving museum-war- d to extinction. American civilization, whatever that may be, is losing a d pungent, knight of the press whose verbal lance dared the false saints of heaven and the legions of hell in lusty and often glorious combat. Oh weep for Adonais he is dead! Oh weep for the country editor he is a businessman now, a news and advertising merchant, a publisher of newspapers who follows neat and precise little formulas, as respectable as a political platform, as conventional as a funeral sermon, as impersonal as that brainless wonder, the linotype machine. With the passing of editorial writing in the weekly newspaper an era of American life fades into a pressed-ros- e and passionless memory. Who and what killed this trojan of the ink and press ? The assassions were several and can be identified : One was the modern college journalism school; one was the deadly virus which afflicts and destroys that quality of soul known as individualism in any free society that forgets the price of freedom and fails to keep up the payments. The graven god of bigness which is worshipped by the modern American was a and the magnetic pull of profit shares in the guilt, if guilt it be. All these, working together and separately, have extracted the editorial stinger from the weekly newspaper. Our journalism schools teach editorial writing and have courses in country journalism, but they somehow fail to teach the fundamental truth that it is nobler far to own a small newspaper than to be owned by a big one. A great majority of each years graduates haughtily turn their educated backs on the country press to seek the cosmetic glamour of the d city dailies and weeklies. The sophistication of corrupts the teaching of the classroom and the men and women of talent hit for the ignorant of the philosophers secret that man can only flirt with the angels when he is able to stand above organization and institution. The country editor, who owned his own soul and often very little else, was pushed off the main highway of civilizations march when bigness began to be an American cult. With success measured by mere size few men dare the handicap of being professionally little. The small newspapers, the below 2,000 circulation publications are thus automatically ignored. At best Ye Ed of the country press may be quoted in the dailies with short and harmlessly clever little paragraphs that mostly run a stereotyped routine. This makes the clip columns innocent autocrats and polite comedy the order of e the day. Surely the editor whose words could sing the meadowlarks song or lash and crack like a bullwhip never sired such as these. Freedom of speech was well exercised when the country press was its working disciple today true freedom exists in name only. The. country press has disowned its birthright and democracy depends on the grotesque verbal striptease of the syndicated columnists for leadership and wisdom. The spirit that made America great is dying at the grassroots from lack of nourishment. The voice of the weekly fourth estate is no longer heard throughout the land. He is vanishing, the country editor, though the tradition still carries on in scattering across the nation. One dreams that, perhaps and hope is always licensed the smouldering, sleeping fire of expression may flame again flame and sear the creeping fungus of false intellectualism that blisters and festers in democracys realm. once-prou- free-soule- Greek-geare- the-campu- big-tim- e, old-tim- ed What A Newspaper Needs Is . . . To have a successful barber shop you have to have scissors, clippers, hair tonic and customers. Before you have the customers you have to have the equipment. To have a successful hotel you have to have rooms, hot water, beds and customers. Before you have the customers, you have to have the rooms and beds. In the newspaper business you have to have presses, ink, paper and the news to go on the paper and customers. But before you have the customers you have to have the news. The has started to expand their services to the people of Box Elder county. They have built up their supply of ink, bought small mountains of paper, increased their staff now all they need is news. We at the feel that we have , been putting out a good paper. News-Journ- al News-Journ- al Mr. Lyman Wight Fourten teen age girls from the Perry ward enjoyed a three-daouting at the The girls home last week-end- . girls were divided into thiee groups with Barbara Billings, Judson and Arlene Marilyn Wight as captains, each group sharing their part of the cooking and general duties. Various games were played and interesting programs were presented each evening. The girls were accompanied by Mrs. Ethel Judson, Mrs. Bertha Wight and Mrs. Nola Fallows. Mrs. Iva Lou Nebeker, Mrs. Lawana Bortaloussi and sons, Garry and Lynn and Mr. and Mrs. Amos Perry of Brigham City visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hamp Bradshaw at Tremonton last Thursday. They also visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. "Alvin Hunsaker at Honeyvillg. Enoch Danielson of Idaho Falls, Ida., visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Thorne last week. Mr. Danielson is a brother of Mrs. Thorne. Mr. and Mrs. Sim Carter" and Mrs. Wayne Carter attended the funeral service held for Blaine Kimber at Grouse Creek last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Thorne of Ogden and Mr. and Mrs. .Hyrum Thorne of Perry left last Monday for a two weeks trip to Canada, spending some time in the temple at Cardston, Elberta, Canada. Mrs. Freda Oyler and children of Ogden spent last Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Petersen. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Hansen of Elwood announce the arrival of a new daughter recently. Mrs. Hansen is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Petersen. Mrs. Thomas Stokes and son Stephen of Salt Lake City, spent the past week-enat the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Larsen. Glenda Larsen is spending a few days in Salt Lake City at the home of her brother-in-laand sister, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stokes. Glenda also spends some time visiting her brother Gary who is recovering from an operation at the St. Marks hospital. Mr. and Mrs. David Peters and sons Michael and Kenneth of Salt Lake City are visiting for two weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Peters. Gayle and Shirl Taylor, daugh- PERRY THE BOX ELDER JOURNAL free-soul- Corinne News rNostings al see Succumbing to the advertising of your dentist twice a year, we went half-wa- y and asked for an apiointment, just about a d year since weve heard one of the gentlemen order, "Wider, please. (Ha!) "I dont think theres a thing wrong with any of my teeth, I told the D.D.S. "Come on up anyway, he replied, and well admire them. white-coate- Were a little late getting around to it, but Wednesday night we took the Punk Kid to a baseball game, for the first time. We were surprised at how much he knew about the national pastime, considering our neglect in tutoring him, but aside from a few questions like Is out? he seemed to know what it was all about. Except, that is, for one question which we suspected was inspired by the movies, w'ith which he is more familiar. "When this game is over, he inquired, do they play it again for the over-the-fen- ? late-come- rs Mrs. Melvin Kay telephoned to were going to send up a couple ask if we pair of crutches for her and her husband. Seems in Wednesdays issue of the J we added, at least by implication, about 30 years to their ages. The story should have said they observed their 13th wedding anniversary, and instead it said 43rd. Mrs. Kay was just a bit puzzled as to whether we figured dancing with the Promenaders had kept them so youthful, or made them age so rapidly. N-- First off, Mrs. Kay and all other sufferers typographical errors, let us assure you of our most sincere regret and proffer our humble apologies. And second, it was all Bobs fault. All mistakes of any nature in the from now on, for avv hile, will be Bobs fault. Well draw and quarter him, scold him, burn him at the stake or take away his silver stars in fact, anything but fire him. Please dont ask us to do that. Its so convenient to have a young man around to make the mistakes. ALL the mistakes! from News-Journ- al News-Journ- al Incidentally, the boys who have howled through the years for local boys on the Peaches baseball team were in line for a little Wedand nesday night, about the time Ben Zundel batted out his second home run of the evening. Our boy, Ben. We knew him when! chest-thumpi- ng Corinne Church News At a recent Sunday evening sacrament meeting a very interesting program was given under the direction of the Girls Leadership organization of the ward. Mrs. Elma Carter conducted the following program: Opening song by the congregation, True To the Faith; prayduet, er, Beverly Fredricksen; Heart of the Hills, Joyce Stoll and An Fredricksen, accompanied by Joan Thompson; talk, Wayne Jones; solo, Prayer, Im a Pilgrim, Richard Anderson; talk, "Love Thine Enemies by Carol Jean Hubbard; saxophone duet, Raone Rader and Bill Smoot, talk, Reap and Sow," Elinor Bosley; song, PerLaraine Andersen; fect Day, talk by Paul Burt; remarks by stake chairman flizabeth MadGrace sen and her counselors Owen; closing song, Put Your and Shoulder to The Wheel, the prayer by Clifton Fillmore. Officers of this organization are: Elma Carter, chairman; Leona Cheal and Ida Johnson, assistants; Lola Campbell, secretary, with Elsie Burt, Vera Hunt and Alta Craner as additional advisors. At the evening session of the ward conference the North Box Elder stake choir furnished the music with John Owen as conductor and Amy Beecher accomThe opening song panist. Praise To The Man, was by the congregation followed by invocation by Ezra Burt. The choir sang How Great the Wisdom and the Love, with Harry Jackson as soloist. The sacrament was administered by priests Paul iBurt and Grant Thompson assisted by deacons Rodney Carter, Lynn Cheal, Richard Andersen, Fred Andersen, Richard Davis and Von Dell Andersen. Presentation of ward officers was made by Floyd Carter, ward clerk. The choir sang Oh It Is Wonderful. President John P. Lillywhite ton and Brigham cit, will try lively fowl E,ipl ture catching a nM,.actl Yoi. BASEBALL CHICKEN SCRAMBLE AND sters To Tremonton Fans Jaycees To Bo Hosts Wed. Eve At Peaches Baseball Game Next mined WkeThn day .eam-T,em- on4; City catching the m 8' ens from the leased will be aware?6 while prizes. and Brigham nThe chicken scramble gang members. a curtain-raisemi of tender, young Inary fun before a 1 Pl A number the rebut lively chickens will be going at 8.15 olock leased on the brightly-lighteand ball diamond, and picked Phone your news 10 teams of Tremon 727 - SA the Brigham City Junior Chamber of Commerce to attend next Wednesday evenings Industrial in Rees league baseball game, Pioneer park in Brigham City, as their guests. The regular Industrial league game will be. between the Peaches and Halp-er- r d j. h. McNamara The invitation was extended this week through the Tremon- ton Junior Chamber of Commerce, who were asked to publicize the fact that next Wednesday Is "Tremonton night in the Brigham City ball park. The Jaycees were advised that the small fry, the Tremonton knot-holespegang were atcially invited and urged to tend this game. the preceding Immediately game, at 8 oclock, the Brigham City Jaycees have announced there will be a chicken scram- Just East Brigham Phone e called for reports from Alice O. Norman, president of the Relief society. Bishop Julius Campbell, and Mabel Rasmussen, superintendent of the Junior Sunday school. The choir sang Lost In the Night. followed by remarks from Vernal Willie, Eber-har- t Zundel and Roland Gour-le- y of the stake presidency. After the choir rendered the sebenediclection The Prayer, tion was pronounced by Bishop Lafayette R. Nelson. 583-R- VETERINARIAN of Bear River City Postoffice Tremonton Exchatf Phone Bear River 1 1 DANCING 60V PER PERSON Stewart Grow his trumpet and his all-st- ar Orchestra' MONDAYS -- 10 by Train including admission thru the gate THURSDAYS - Ladies Midway Bathing FREE and Gate Admission Train Fare . . . Picnic Bowery "IT HAPPENS EVERY DA V VnPoiHi, IS TUB PWU EXAmiOfl irpAi$rodu au&dum ters of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Taylor of Almo, Idaho, spent a few days of last week with Mr. and Mrs. Neil Whitaker and family. reMrs. William J. Francis turned home from the Dee hospital last week where she underwent a major operation. Mrs. Francis is recovering favorably and has her neice, Yvonne Christensen of North Ogden, attending her. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Peters and daughter Gay returned to their home in Redwood City, Calif., last week after visiting at the home of Iretta Peters. Gay Peters has attended the B.Y.U. at Provo the past winter. AAV xou2 l&, me fiA8 DZAUR COM A1 1! Andersens Always And you kids who keep coming in wanting to know where theyre keeping the carp for the Carp scramble, Ray Andersen says the word is no practicing. If you want to tangle with a carp that outweighs you, youll have to wait until a week from our opinion anyway, have had good news coverage, some fairly good pictures, and an attractive paper in general. But we plan on putting out a paper with more pages, more pictures, better news coverage and more attractive in general. Like the barber with nicer smelling hair tonic or the hotel with hotter hot water, we expect to have more and more customers. To accomplish this fine goal and give Box Elder county a bigger and better county seat paper we need the cooperation of the people of Box Elder county. It is physically impossible to cover all of the news in all of Box Elder county, and there are a great many very worthy stories that nobody will hear without the cooperation of the people in telephoning them in or writing them in to the N-It is embarrassing indeed to write up the stories about a group of Box Elder county students that are graduating from one of the state universities or colleges, publish them n and then have a calls from the of sons and parents daughters graduating from the same institution that we missed. But we have no way of knowing, unless it is called in to us, whos graduating and whos flunking. We want the news, all of the news. We want more pages in the paper, to use more ink, and to have more customers. It is our desire to grow with the community and when possible to help the community grow. Modesty is the newsmans enemy. When Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Snodgrass have a very worthy morsel of news about friends or relatives but fail to phone it in to the newspaper because in her opinion, "People would think I am just trying to get my name in print, she is making a mistake. Her neighbors want to read about it and we want to print it so her neighbors can read about it. The question arises: What is news? To that the only answer is everything that happens to anybody and anything that happens to everybody in Box Elder county. It is the duty of the country paper to report the activities of all of the people in the county the clubs, the committees, the local government agencies, who gets married, who has visitors, who visits, and whose cow has a calf with two heads. So if you have the news send it in to the l. When we say the news in Box Elder county we mean the news from the Washakie Indian reservation on the north to the Utah Hot Springs on the south. If you have some news send it in to the l. We want it. We need it. We, in M 'Ude ARTIN-SENOU- R HOUSE PAINT J. half-doze- News-Journa- News-Journa- costly for it doesnt last and you must soon paint again. That's why Cheap paint is -- we say: "Be thrifty! Martin-Senou- r Use House Paint! In this It lasts for years! area where we have hot sum- mers and. ofttimes severe winters, there's nothing like r House Paint. Martin-Senou- We've watched it withstand the weather year after year. That's why we recommend it so enthusiastically. GD HD GS Q3 (D (S' & 1B rprrff Mountain States Electric BRIGHAM CITY EVERYTHING For Your Painting Needs HUM k) tha fold 323 South Mail AWARDED the 10 lt f,Ki Al" Nat work. Sunday tuanmja-N- Sa. you, ...apapario, BC Nrfwor. l.m. and Uh ANDERSENS FASHlOti ACADEMY GOLD MEDAL AS THE "FASHION phot- CAR OF THE - |