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Show I BOX ELDER JOURNAL Friday, March Brigham City. Utah Austerity 17, 1950 weekly newspaper, published at Brigham City, Utah, successor to Smithfield Sentinel, established fn 1908. Member United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. Utah State Press Association. National Editorial Association. Advertising Representative: National Advertising Service. 'William M. Long, Editor 1 Charles Claybaugh, Business Manager By CEO ROE - t; f ' Our deep scientific research in the 1945 World Almanac shows that Venus is the closest planet, is just about the, size and speed and has about the same gravity pull and temperature as the Earth. We think our first visitor will be from Venus. And hell be enough like us that alhell be recognizable as a human though, after looking ps and our record over, he may be reluctant to admit it. intra-planeta- ry ... FOR SATURDAY ONLY MARCH 18th color-starve- i j h d GLOSS-TON- E I WHITE ENAMEL COMBINATION VALUE! Reg. Price , 1 1 3 1 1 1 Galvanized Bucket Heavy Dicdoo Paint Cleaner Pkg. Enamel Screen Quart Pkgs. Paper Cleaner Pkg. Marigold Paper Cleaner Yard Stick Paint Paddle $ 10-q- t. 1 Kleen-VVa- nt Stock limited, regular $1.85 DOLLAR DAY only, quar- t- 69 59 40 ll 29 OUTSIDE TOTAL VALUE HOUSE $2.37 Good quality, DOLLAR onlv DAY . 7 s3.49 PAINT $3.79 regular gallons to go at, gallon gallon, Impervo ENAMEL First quality, in pale ivory regular $1.05 pint . only, 2pinls5j FREE GIFT Anyone having a copy of this paper, the last numbers of which are 128, will receive as a FREE GIFT from MerreHs, if presented on DOLLAR DAY: SNACK SET, consisting of 2 large 5 Quart Bowls 4 Small 34 Qt. Bowls LOOK AT THE NUMBER ON THE FRONT PAGE! IF IT ENDS IN 128 Bring it to and claim your gift. ! y; 7 WHIT- E- $1 - good-naturedl- quart, 40 : Theres a thrill in buying something for a ONLY fraction of its real and usual value that reaches far beyond the actual All for only . . . Old Doc I)ngs theory is that there actualsaving. Its fun to compete, in a perbeen discs. have are and ly flying Theyre fectly ladylike and gentlemanly manner, of other people for one the Venutians aircraft. Theyve been dipcourse, with ninety-nin- e of the 50 hot items' on the bargain .table, ping into our stratosphere from outer space, us over, gathering the scientific data its delightful to find something you. debated looking the for first actual landing on Earth. Sort and just about paid $05 for last week, OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE PAINT there before you op the Dollar Day bargain of buzzing the airport, at it were. First Quality, regular $4.98, only table for one dollar today. 8 gallons to sell at, per gallon " And for thd merchants, its fun to do a The Little Guy in Mexico was supposed to dream-day- 's business, even if they dont have been 30 inches tall, maybe only 24, with a great big head, measuring perhaps liament ijiake a cent out of it, even if they lose a litThe members of Canberras tle, have to pay for their fun. A hundred 18 inches from the point of his chin to the growing diplomatic corps rallied people eagerly stampeding through a little peak of his bald spot. magnificiently in formal dress at garden parties and other sostore where three or four stalked through events during the week. To cial bea frowns two or critical with, jlist day The Little Guy, you see, already is a hero them, the end of austerity brings fore its like another new social opportunities and Yes, tomorrow will be a great day in on Venus but a dead hero, so it doesnt do brilliant diplomatic uniforms Brigham City. There will be lots of people him much good. Hes the first resident of are being refurbished. downtown, lots of money will change hands, Venus to lamj on the earth. His death was Lodge not in vain. He showed them that it could Tots of merchandise will move off shelves The election was barely deand into home? in Box Elder county and be done, and how to do it. The nfxt hero cided when Menzies announced would move into the prime surrounding areas. . Maybe, everybody will will be the first man from Venus to land on he ministers lodge here, which out; Earth alive! make will it an ideally successprofit that Prime Minister Joseph B. going ful event. Then again, 7 maybe' some will Chifley rarely used. Chiefly prelose quite a bit, but lose it willingly and ferred to live in one room in a and some, under the spell If our World space-flyewere getting modest Canberra hotel. Under Labor, the personality of the day, may buy things they dont need ready to land on one of the other planets, and are useless at any price; but everybody Old Doc might worry about what kind of and tastes of Chifley were imfactors in will have fun. And if that is the case, Dolpeople theyd meet. But with them getting portant austerity. maintaining Experienced lar Day being the grand old American insti- here first, it shows theyre further advanobservers say Chifley political tution that Dollar Day is, we dont know ced. Theyve already met and solved and and the Labor Party also kept but what wed call such a day even more passed on from the problems that now the lid on to help their brother trouble the inhabitants of the Earth how to socialists in Britains Attlee successful, , government. . Theres more to life than just making a get along together, for example. Now, gasoline is veech brother profit, you know, my poor There is growing talk of lifting the ration on butter and cream. "WALK A BLOCK In fact, we wouldnt be a bit surprised if Although Australia is a big prothe arrival of the Venutians might not speed ducer of butter and cream, the Living Democracy along the arrival of that Happy Day Around the Corner, (whatever you choose to calj it) The system of government we call demoflGCKET PRODUCTION COES UP ! .."ROCKET" PRICES BO when we all will really have learned how to DOWN! cracy and proudy claim as our heritage was live. They may know the answer, and how not handed to us on a silver platter. to get it through these thick heads of ours Our forefathers fought for the democratic without damaging the heads. Ideal and their freedoms with guns and courage.. They won their fight. speak a language, of course, which i Since that time citizens, both the sons of weTheyll can all understand, a language that is the original Americans, and emigrants who natural and perfectly clear to all learned the meaning of democracy, have perfectly people of all races, colors, creeds, degrees of fought for that government of the people. learning and planetary abodes. Youve Yet, we occasionally witness the pollution heard of that, too, but it has been mislaid of our way of life by public servants, either somewhere. also have a formula, Theyll maliciously or through ignorance one is as as simple once its as two plus explained bad as two or ham and eggs, that will solve all of ' For the benefits of democracy we often our financial and material Weve sacrifice other things. Instead of one man all known, for a long time,problems. that its just a with omniscient power, we have a large body matter of distribution. Well, the advanced Of representatives who have to argue and populace of Venus will have solved the compromise before passing a law; instead of problem, and will show us how. Oh, theres secrecy we have the business of the people no doubt about it. The Little Guy will be open for their inspection. smart. He didnt get that big head playing Though action could probably be taken Canasta! And, being smart, he wont be with more expediency if one man were the looking for a fight. and it it werent necessary to open the books to the people, not a good citizen in the United States would have it Our theory is that Venus is probably a that way. For if it were, the government much older planet than Earth, although the would soon operate for the benefit of a few World Almanac didnt say. Anyway, if its instead of for all. older, its easily understandable that its peoOur government operates on a check and ple have traveled farther than we along the balance system the irrational actions of evolutionary road to perfection. public servants are checked and balanced by the citizens, who know what is going on. Our training and instincts find the hiding Theres one little bitty thing that of information repulsive, for if we are not bothers Oldjust Doc, in his formulation and concognizant ofour own business we can not templation of his neat little theory about the check the power of those hiding the inforvisitors from Venus. mation wherever there is power we need a the fact that, so far as our poor, puny, Its fm Drumt rtW.nrf WkirLttr OUtmaAilt msMi. upomnml M to. Check prtf, keep that power from going ramd scientists have been able to ... pant. determine, there is no oxygen in the atmosFor democracy to function, whether the phere surrounding Venus. Jow you can buv the action star of the highsmoothness, the extra driving eae of new good-othe citizens is in the heart of the way eu a new low price! Thanks to the enthusiastic-receptioDrive-- xu a loner Now and overwhelming popularity of the all the flowing beauty of Futuramic price!public servant or not, we must have the recstviinthe new Oldsmohile now Fuluraraic cushioned comfort of Oldsmohile' flashing ords of the activities of our government 88, But Old Doc doesnt pay much attention to oflera this . Rochet rule car rto the Engine almcer youpublic, open price! This is ,niv th, a little mental hurdle like that. What the at an even lower price! Now you can thrill to the value headline of the Often a public official' will not have faith heck! Just as the year! But dont taU has "Rocket Republican party Engine's response in the people and will attempt to fulfill his learned to live without tit a loner price! Now- you can enjoy the snper- pork, patronage or office with that attitude. spoils, the Venus man has learned to live FLASH! JUST ANNOUNCED . . . PRICE REDUCTION ON He. will fail. Our democratic government without oxygen. All MIW ment has survived for 174 years, and - will survive many more years than that in the Look us up when future, through the combined intelligence youre down this way. of all the people and not a few. Little Guy! dollar-and-ce- 2 That story about the space ship, the Flying Disc landing in Mexico, or crashing, and the little man whose body was found in the wreckage that was strictly our meat. The more dignified dailies played it very carefully, on page 3 or farther back. Our better judgment tells us theres nothing to it, that its a hoax or phony, but doggoned if we dont wish it were true. We can see Dollar Day lar, Day.? ' Somewhere along the line of preparation for the ,big day, Dollar JQay lost the grimness of a trade promotion and took on some aspect of a game. Whether thpyil admit it dr not, the merchants are having fun playing the game. And the customers, who are more likely to admit it, enjoy playing the game too. :S Australia (UP) and morning pants coats, with an occasional top hat. are back In Australia's national capital after nine years of somber socialist austerity. The opening of a new parliament demonstrated Australia's revolt against a lack lustre austerity as well as the socialism of a Labflr regime that was defeated in Decembers election. The victorious conservatives restored much of the color, pomp and ritual of traditional British parliamentary ceremony. Canberra was jammed with sightseers. ' Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies and his coalition partner, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur W. Fadden, took their morning suits out of moth balls and signalized the end of an era in Australian politics and national life. Speaker Dresses Up The speaker of the house, Archie G. Cameron, announced before taking the chair that hiSj office should be equal to that of the speakership in the British House of Commons. Cameron donned a wig which long once adorned the pate of the famed Dr. H. V. Evatt when the former United Nations president was a member of Australia's high court. Cameron also put on a black robe with lace cuffs and lace cravat. William The governor-general- , J. McKell, took the salute of a guard of honor from Duntroon Australia's Military college, West Point, in a cutaway coat, striped pants and top hat. The chief justice of the high court, Kir John Latham, contributed to the pageantiy by wearing a wig. knee britches and silver-buckleshoes. He did so under Labor, however, one of the few touches of color the ola government preserved in its parCANBERRA, nothing but good in the first arrival of the first humans from, as the " popular phrase goes, Mars. Todays issue of the Iiox Elder Journal, even as Main street itself, seems to be somewhat preoccupied with tomorrows local reOld Doc Long, however, is expecting the vival of that great American custom, Dolfirst visitors to come from Venus instead. 4 MrCADDEN Striped idjii&JtijaiM ed has been continued United Press Stall Correspondent Published every Friday and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription rate in Box Elder County: $3.00 per year payable in advance; In combination with the Box Elder News, (published Wednesdays) $4.00 per year; $2.00 for 6 months; single copy 5 cents; Outside Box Elder County, $.3.50 per year, combination rate $5.00. Old-Fashion- Is Vanishing In Australia A Good honor lists. opposed the gi anting Now, under the titles to Ira, except occasional diplomatic ditionally other and u r. nf knighthoods there is much talk com, the rec wor.diy where could affairs it food of m,.1 the British which help position. and awards knighthoods and other Under Labor, there were , few Evatt dressed formally. for the Kings ommend The federal Labor party official sooia! events in Canber ration Mer-rell- s rs war-tim- e Ebq , ! AND SAVE' , 4l! 'll t7 j i'l the-othe- i r. 1 1! . . n ? 'k ed & : mil small-heade- , - ... f ' Xir-Wn- fe a. tr y f vf iff :i lowest-price- A GENERAL Whirl-awa- y llvdra-Mati- c VAIUC e d OIL 1 smooth-surgin- g - Phone 21 MOTORS Central Chevrolet Company MODUS! orvisit S.. Y., iI Dfllr uiuimooiii 18 No. Main Stx |