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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE, UTAH classif U. N. Converts Modem War autos Plant Into Peace Factory By BAUKIIAGE By EDWARD EMERIXE WNU Foaturo We do not live, but only stay, And are too poor o get away. Nms Anulytt and Commentator. (VNU Service, Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. LAKE SUCCESS, N. V. At this writing, committees ol the United Nations are still neeting in the 1616 (reat modernistic actory low building, convrted nto a plant (or ihe manufacture if international food will A hun-lre- d committee neetings are be-n- g held in the rooms where mce the delicate machinery turning out insir of warfare nce hummed merrily and efficiently. Here delegates to the assembly of the United Nations, split up into groups, tackle the various subjects illotted to them just as the committees of congress discuss the bills and agree upon their form before they are submitted to the commit-le- e of the whole house for and action. The difference is that the assem-olunlike congress, cannot pass taws, it can only express the will of the majority. Its value is to register, before the world, world opinion as ixpressed by the nations which make up the United Nations. This is the first step toward a world government whose chief purpose is to police the world against war. While the committee meetings were taking place the security council, which compares roughly with the senate, held some of its meetings in the same building, for unlike the assembly, which meets only once a year, the security council is a continuing body. The Council of Foreign Ministers, which also is meeting in New York, Is a body entirely separate from the United Nations. y, Saddle U. S. With V. N. Expenses It was characteristic of the desire maintain a realistic attitude (let us hope) which resulted in the emphasis on fiscal matters, causing newspapers on the first day's committee meetings to display's head to like this: U. S. OPPOSES PAYING HAIF OF U. N.s BILLS At the meeting of the budgetary committee. Senator Vandenberg got In'a sly dig when he suggested that If the other nations felt the American economic system was so good that it could put up half the money to run the organization perhaps they might adopt a similar system. Capitalist America would pay 49.89 per cent of U.N.s bills while Communist Russia, although much greater in size and population, would provide 3 per cent in the plan submitted. Of course, any amount balanced against the price of war is smaiL Powerful Committees Are in the Making The work of the committees of the assembly covers a wide scope, since besides offering the sounding board for world opinion and controlling the pursestrings of the whole organization, the committees likewise supervise the several important subsidiary agencies, some of which will become extremely when and if they carry out the duties planned for them. For instance, the many plans for inv proving living standards and social relations throughout the world, which is the purpose of the economic and social council, and the projected trusteeship council which will oversee the relationship between the dependent countries and the nations held responsible for their control and welfare. Another important function of the assembly is initiating amendments to the charter, and this session bristled with talk among the smaller countries (Sr amending provisions governing the power of the veto in security council. pow-erfu- Russian delegates frequently oppose violently a point and then, when they see that they are beaten, yield. Sometimes this looks like pure obstructionism; sometimes it seems merely an effort to display strength and combativeness, sometimes it is only a patent move to keep Russia in the forefront of the negotiations as a force with which to be reckoned. There is also the language barrier. Probably there are no more competent performers among the various types of experts than the translators at these international gatherings. Much has been written of their remarkable ability to translate, without taking a single note, long paragraphs of some speakers who get so deep in their subjects that they forget that the translator is waiting patiently to translate one segment before the speaker goes on to the next. Prize of them all is Pavlov, the lean and scholarly looking young man who appears to wrap himself about Molotov or Vishinsky and with his lips close to the listeners ear pours in the words so rapidly that it would appear they synchronize with the movement of the speaker's drouths, grasshoppers, blizzards and dust storms, in addition to the ordinary hardships of a new country. But they stuck it out. They stuck It out and "sticking it out until the battle is won is still a characteristic of Kansas people. Perhaps it was the crucible of those early years that steeled and tempered the Kansas spirit which conquered the prairies. They stuck it out, rose above the trials of the hour and developed that rare sense of humor which enables Kansas people to laugh at themselves and the foibles of mankind. Despite Coronado and other Spanish explorers, and French traders, Kansas remained Indian and buffalo country for two centuries after English colonists settled in New England and Virginia. Slow in Settlement. a It was not until the bill was passed in 1854 that the land was opened to settlement. At that time the entire white population of Kansas consisted of about 700 soldiers, based at Forts Leavenworth and Riley and Walnut Creek Kansas-Ne-brask- But even a perfect translation may produce a different meaning, just as the same word may mean two different things in the same language to two different pairs of ears. You may recall the famous Molotov outburst at the opening of the assembly, the speech in which the Russian delegate demanded disarmament, objected to the Baruch atomic energy plan and went right down the line walloping everything in sight As I remarked earlier, there was more smoke than fire in that tirade and American Delegate Austin, suspecting as much, made the terse comment on the speech, smart but tough. When the translations came back from the report in the Russian press Austins words became smart but sharp. Now it may be that tough is a tougher word in Russian than it is In English because the Russians ordinary conduct in such and some other matters, all the way from dancing to breakfasting on vodka, may be what we would consider tougher than the Anglo-Saxoapproach. i1 One of the problems of the United Nations is to find out whether the V3 ' It off ) U 1 n BREAD BASKET OF THE WORLD . . . Kansas is the No. wheat producing state of the nation, yielding almost s fourth of the entire 1 U. S. Whether for or against slavery, Kansas settlers lived in log huts, s shake houses, sod shanties, and other humble shelters, using grass, brush and buffalo chips for fuel. The sod crop was corn and corn they atel Corn bread, parched corn, hominy, corn-memush they boiled com, fried it, baked it, stewed it. Fortunately, they had beef, pork and milk to go with it, and a coffee substitute, made of dried sweet potatoes, dried green okra and parched wheat ground together and boiled. Would Kansas be slave or free territory? On its first election day in 1855, hundreds of Missourians "with rifles on their shoulders, in their belts and a liberal supply of whiskey in their wagons crossed the border and voted. All of the candidates except one were elected! And when the bogus legislature met in July, the Missouri slave code was the law of Kansas. to the Civil The curtain-rais4ar was fought in Kansas. Men were murdered in cold blood. Border ruffians ravaged antislavery settlements. John Brown and his sons took up the challenge and took after the slaveholders. Bleeding Kansas was no misnomer during the next few years. But gradually the forces won and Kansas became a free state. Only two slaves were listed in the census of 1860. Many notables have trod the Kansas stage. Heading the list is Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, great military leader of World War IL Frontier Personages. The history of the Old West is represented by such Kansas personages as Wild Bill Hickock, the marshal of Abilene, and Buffalo Bill, the scout. Carrie Nation and her saloon-bustin- g hatchet also brought the state into the limelight. In Statuary hall in the nations capitol is the figure of John J. Ingalls, senator, orator, essayist, poet. Ed Howe, the sage of Potato Hill, and his contemporaries, Walt Mason and William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, were Kansas folks. But the unknown soldier, the unhonored hero, of Kansas is the man who Introduced the plow. He was not a glamorous figure, and his hands were gnarled and blistered and bent to the shape of a plow handle. dug-out- er CHIEF EXECUTIVE . . . Gov. Andrew F. Schoeppel is a native' Kansan, born in Claflin in Barton county. A former lawyer and veteran of World War I, he was a member of the Kansas Corporation commission until be was elected governor in 1942. Most Americans do not realize how far this nation has one In the establishment of a foreign policy built on popular desire. In the past, the foreign policy of the United States always had been a rather vague thing to people in general, something evolved behind a screen of forma phrases in the ancient post office on the Sante Fe Trail, and an equal number of civilians at offices of the old state Indian missions, stage stations and department building, where they trading posts. still have marble fireplaces that The question of slavery imreally work in some of the rooms. mediately plunged Kansas into bloodshed. Even before the In the early days the subject was bill was signed, kept out of domestic politics simply Missourians who favored slavbecause the politicians knew that the ery slipped across the border people knew as little as they did as and founded Leavenworth and to what it was all about and didnt Atchison. care any more. Then came the famous Wilson versus Lodge fight over But Eli Thayer found 29 men in the League of Nations, which was New England who were willing to really something far deeper than emigrate to Kansas, settle on the that, a fight of two powerful personprairie, be neighbors to Indians and alities and two different concepts of fight slaveholders. Dr. Charles Robinson brought a second party of antigovernment not world government but domestic government Lodge slavery emigrants, including four and Wilson became so definitely musicians, from Boston to settle at committed to their own respective Lawrence. Congress had decreed views that they couldnt afford to that Kansas would decide the question of slavery for itself. And Kancompromise. After that, each party considered sans set out to do it in their own it fair game to rip the other up the way. back when it came to a discussion on foreign affairs and the fine old tradition (which was really a negative thing) foreign affairs ends at the shore line," was split wide open. And then the bloody conflict of World War II made people realize ids4 that Democratic and Republican blood when it flowed on the battlefield was the same color and caused the same gaping wounds at high-ceiling- anti-slave- ry Kansas is ideally situated for agriculture, but it took a plow to break the sod. Where William F. Cody used to hunt buffalo are the greatest wheat lands in the world. Kansas produces more wheat than any other state in the union almost of the entire United States crop. It is first in milling and wheat storage. Corn, alfalfa, hay, sorghum, broom com, Sudan grass, potatoes, sugar beets, barley, flax, rye, soybeans, vegetables, fruits, truck crops Kansas produces almost everything that is grown on a farm. Rich in Resources. Kansas finds riches below as well as above the surface of her rolling, fertile acres. Kansas is one of the leaders in oil production, with its companion, natural gas. Lead and zinc are mined extensively. Coal is produced in most parts of the state. Under Kansas is enough salt to last 500,000 years! Volcanic ash, gypsum, limestone, clays and other resources are mined in Kansas. It is an important source of helium gas. As the geological center of the United States, Kansas was and is the land of trails. Those who sought land in Oregon, gold in California or Colorado, trade with the Mexicans in Santa Fe, or cattle from Texas, used Kansas as a highway. The Santa Fe Trail, the California and Oregon Trails, the Butterfield Trail, the Smoky Hill' Route, Overland Trails, Pony Express Route, Jim Lane Trail and the cattle trails from Texas, including the Chisholm, Old Shawnee, Ellsworth and Western Trails, all used Kansas for' a one-four- th right-of-wa- ! y. Kansas today bears some of the of long ago ruts made by thousands of covered wagons and hooves of cattle among them. Lonely graves still may be found, and bridle bits, parts of wagons and other mute reminders of the past are picked up occasionally by grandchildren of the pioneers. Kansas is great, not only as one of the states of the nation, but as a great family of people who retain much of the pioneer spirit. They stuck it out a few generations ego. And Kansans are still "sticking it out for freedom of thought and of action, and for the right to progress by their own efforts. A- - 'Kv'l i- -; - ft Russians prefer to export caviar or Communism. VICHITA I :feV Did you ever think when your mother made you use an atomizer to clear your head of a cold that atomizers might lay a million people cold? Is this progress? Paul Scott Mowrer says that Rjs-sihas solved the problems of the economic cycles (the booms and busts of capitalism) by achieving a permanent depression. a Sh - , -c - ' - Jsr lH , . . ;', r V v,; I j One of the mosi romantic roles in interested in Texas cattle, at least Kansas history was played by the most of them werent. But Abilene Texas-Kansa- s cattle trails and the was, although it was only a small wild frontier towns which became dead place consisting of about a dozen log huts. shipping points for the herds. As soon as McCoy started building It was Joseph G. McCoy who first decided to do something about a his depot at Abilene, the village market for Texas cattle. There were awakened and teemed with activity. millions of the cattle, and they were By 1870 there were 4 hotels, 10 more valuable than the buffalo boarding houses, 9 or 10 saloons which roamed the Kansas prairies. and other business places. One of At first, Kansas towns werent the flst buildings, of course, was the jail. Sidewalks were of wood and soon trembled and clattered as boot heels clomped on them. Kansas cow towns held the spotlight of the frontier. There were Ellsworth, Newton, Wichita (larger and noisier than most) and finally Dodge City (toughest of them all). For 10 years Dodge City was the wickedest town in the coumry. But it fought hard to gain that Fro Model ( Mini U J14Smni lake Cky,Ute rurSfurCti Office Ing Machines, LAKE DESjT1 SB m?LZBroadway, giitj pusne Make Novel Gifts i .Kl1 fr beginner, uni iel IUl k fiss&ftssfs ... WANTED TO i WANTED ; Brand new cs, sedan. Will pay lull ceil B3S two-timi- E. A. A. BBOOIi Monroe St. To Have and The Best ... to Inves U. S. Savings B A newsmags boom for Conant of Harvard (as the ideal Republican-didate- ) has brought many favorIn China Patrick able replies. Hurley is supposed to have told Stilwell: You have four stars and I have only two, but when I get back to Washington it will be either Stilwell returned a you or me! broken man and so was his heart . . . Insiders hear that rent controls will be scuttled by the new congress, whether it is Repub or Dem. . . . Whisky interests on December 1 will up the price on straight Bourbon $22 to $25 more per case. Raises on others have not been decided yet ... We know Bway Wiseguy; YOUR stomach; TROUBLES AWAY Why toss and turn i precious sleepows gestion, gassiness i: stomach? Dots thou men and women 4 such simple stomict swif away! Just lake befa Tablets Stuart retire and wake p relaxed and rarin to mi to take no messy ibo bottle. Praised by a thinks he'll become president, but his father hopes hell amount to something. kid whose mother scandal bigger than the Gars-so- n case is brewing. Somebody took was a powder after a big An is to hit made. the market soon. It should make fight arenas and night spots breathable. . . . The Tass agency (the Russians) and a Chicago gazettes offices at Lake Success are the only press staffs with locks on their doors. . . . Pat OBrien, the. star, tells chums no more producing. Learned his lesson with Crackup. . . . When the chaplain at Lake-hurnaval station (hes a red-ho- t southpaw hurler) Joined the officers bowling team there, they promptly changed the name of the team from Barflies to . . . Since the N. Y. recreation committee closed, they report that it is impossible to get theater seats for vets. Vets well enough to leave hospital beds for relaxation. Showmen oughta be ashamed! A ... used for pay-offo- la Ai years. for geouin druggist Tablets. In sizes 25c, three cot 60c or I mot makers positive them guarantee. Get use them tonight tomorrow! st Beware from G. Sinclair Lewis: A smile like an airy pat on the arm. . . . J. K. Jerome: Idleness and kisses, to be sweet, must be stolen. . . . O. Wilde: Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. . . . L, Montgomery: Man doesnt see all the facts, but Just the portion that comes through the filter of his II. Youngman: prejudice. She was an old maid, waiting for someone to happen. . . . James Whitcomb Riley: Good ideas are great warriors. Liquor distillers hear that all federal restrictions (concerning grain allotments, etc.) may be lifted within 45 days. . , . One of the biggest stale department execs wants to quit because he really thinks Great Britain will eventually run out on us and team up with Russia. . . . Against whom Nicaragua? , . , Tampa will have racing this winter for the first time in ages Instead of thorobreds they will race Texas quarter steeds. (These are small horses that run quarter mile sprints). Cc cca That Ik' s. CreomuJsionreU cause It goes right to trouble to help germ laden phles?! to soothe and bronchid branes. Tell your wg, I I abotUeofCreomddfflJj derstandmgyoumtrtBfl theW quickly allays money to C REOMULS for Coughs, Chest CoM I ... t A' j MORGAN New York Novelette: She had been his woman for years. . . . too. She had him . . . Frlxample: If she felt he 'was neglecting her (not phoning or seeing her often enough), she got immediate action with her system. . . . Shed dial his number wait for the phone to ring onoe, then hang up. Thus saving her pride by not . . . actually calling him. He knew what the One Bing meant, and he would call right back. . . . This system, however, was her undoing. . . . When she started him, some of his pals heard about it but didnt want to wound him by informing him directly. . . . Soooooo one 2 a. m., one of them dialed his number let it ring once and hung up. . . . Our Hero immeA mans diately pboned her. verce answered. . . . And That (as Confucius used to say) Was f That. Quotation Marksmanship: Wild Cow Towns Hold Spotlight of Frontier The difference between a Communist and a fellow-travelis that one knows where he wants to go and the other is being taken for a ride 25 late De Maupassant: She wept like a gutter on a rainy day. . . . 4 Choose MISCEL1.vf Holy-Roller- - by li aukhage to ' scars Y 20 Factory Baatj well-traine- d, crop. ON New and UisdHaJl copy. pro-slave- Americans Conscious Of Foreign Policy HOMES ... rs n home. if P J5 al The campaign which we have just witnessed, while it was characterized with the same old fuss and fury of the past, omitted the question of Russians Vie to foreign policy except when it was Last Minute raised by persons already discredited in the of by both major parties. the genmeetings Early eral committee (the steering comThat is the hope, as 1 see it. for mittee) and in the assembly itself. it American dominance, for the domibecame evident that the Russians nance of the American idea of huwere following a general plan of pro- man freedom. We have learned that cedure which was not unlike that when it comes to facing the world, which had appeared and still is ap- we meet it shoulder to shoulder as pearing in all the controversies. The Americans and nothing else. BARBS ... Life on the frontier is always hard. It was doubly hard in Kansas where the pioneers had to endure border wars over slavery, bad men, I lips. Man About Town: Russian delegates are privately stating that if the veto power of the Big 4 is cancelled, Russia will take It will it on the lam for home. be denied, but the British foreign is using heavy pressure office (politically) on American delegates to play ball with British policy or else. . . . Those who have suffered from Bilbos cussedness will be overjoyed to learn that he Is in agony. Cant, we hear, ever again filibuster. Might kill him if he tries. Can hardly whisper, too, without something like a stiletto cutting his A guy on the coast who throat does a column called Pikes Peek is threatening to sue Earl Wilson for titling his comical book that way. Thats what comes from writing books. . . . And why write books? They invariably show up in Broadway drug store windows (on sale for 19c) a few months later. A certain syndicate is letting column-raide- rs take all they want for their alleged books. . . . Then, next year, demand an accounting and royalties from their publishers at $1 per u WM'- - For You To hour -- .I atlftODtof' fa YV. mttw If mor poy1 plna fluid. without b bo tni ioJ.JMliaf ; Burmns,nwV Don wrthyiySo ta wronc- ko paina, ( Why bo Mini QttUt |