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Show On The Highways Death-Ta- g Sometimes it looks hopelessly like the odds are against us: It takes hundreds and hundreds of, drivers to establish a safety record, and one driver can break it! In the individual automobile, a driver can do hundreds of things right keep on his own side of the road mile after mile, signal turns properly, pass other cars only where it is safe, maintain safe speeds for a hundred or a thousand miles and then one thing goes wrong and bang! Theres another statistic on Utahs shameful highway UNsafety record! People arent going to stop driving their cars although the states highway accident statistics this summer are bad enough to drive one to it so it seems that the alternative is for everyone to be even more careful, at all times. The tragic thing about highway accidents is that you dont have to bring them on yourself. You may be a passenger in a car someone else is driving but after the wreck you can be just as dead, or just as badly injured. You may be a safe and careful driver, doing everything you should do and nothing you shouldnt do, and still the driver of another car any other car on the same stretch of road has as great a power over you as if he had a loaded gun at your temple and his finger on the trigger. When you stop to think of it, its frightening. And we need to be frightened! Our record of fatalities and injuries this year, right here in northern Utah, clearly indicates that a lot of people didnt get frightened soon enough.-- ' Are we trying to top the tragic record of that stretch of highway along by Bountiful and Layton? Lets drop out of that competition! Maybe this would help. As we read the accident stories in the papers, day after day and week after week, lets add a sentence at the end of every paragraph. It could have been my car. could have been my family. It could have been I. Its a grim game to be playing, but not as grim as this game of death-ta- g that is becoming the rage on Utah highways. And maybe well remember. Maybe it will help! it compassed by lose, lose or lose. As victors in War Between the States we have a hard time, taking the point' of view of the vanquished. The question, What would you want to do, and what would you do, if you were in their shoes? is the terminal point of the discussion, alwavs. Right there we prefer to change the subject, if you please. The answer is, Well, thank goodness, we arent in their shoes. The Souths stock answer is, The Negro question is a delicate personal problem of the Souths. We are working it out ourselves, and great progress has been made, but it takes time. We, who are close to the problem and understand all of its ramifications, prefer to be left to work it out ourselves, in the best way possible. We believe this procedure is the duty of the individual state and the right of the individual state! The South or large parts of the South see President Trumans civil rights declaration as a brazen political play for the Negro vote, and nothing more. And after years of voting solid for the Bourbon party! They feel President Truman understood their problem, and recognized that they were doing all they could to solve it, that the shaft fired into And their Achillean heal was plainly labeled politic,?. they resent it. Whether the Democratic party and Mr. Truman can patch up this little family quarrel with the South, and have it solid again by November, is their family problem, and we offer no advice. But we would urge upon the small group of Yankees within hearing a more tolerant and understanding attitude toward this delicate, personal problem of the The South's Own Delicate Problem The South is on the hot spot in this civil rights quarrel. First, because theyre opposing a title and idealistic collection of ideas they were beaten to the punch by the phrase-makerand second, because they are the victims at the practical pressure-poin- t of theories from outside. Civil rights were guaranteed by the constitution and the bill of rights, further specifically pointed up in Lincolns emancipation proclamation. So the South is, naturally, wrong before they start arguing. Theoretically, they cant win. Theyre going to come out of the argument looking bad. Instead of win, lose or draw, their prospects are en A Dr. Rudolf Flesch and a Robert GunEpsilon Delta and Sigma Chi. Wedding Bells To Ring For Miss Norda Fife PAGE TWO plan to make their home a and They Professor Getzloe S. John and ning Yeutt-$oum20th tn On William John And Logan. of Aug. Emmett, the Chicago Daily News considLogan, Knight af bqk xLDni ered the question, and started digging out of the Box Elder high school bells for will Phone your news to No. 7. Wedding ring Brigham City, Utah Wednesday, July 21, 1948 the answer. They found that more people Miss Norda Fife, daughter of and the Utah State Agriculture can read, easily, and understand Blondie or Mr. and Mrs. William S. Fife of A Newspaper Dick Tracy than can read and understand this city, and John William Em- college at Logan. While attendSuccessor to ROWLAND HALL college, she has been affilScientific Monthly. And you know THE BOX ELDER NEWS its mett, son of Mrs. Roland Em- ing iated with- the Alpha Chi Omega true. 1896) (Established They set up seven levels of readabil- mett of Logan, on August 20. sorority, vice president of the School for Girls and from the comics, pulp fiction Wedding plans are being made Junior class, and was an R. O. Est. 1880 ity, ranging THE BOX ELDER JOURNAL and slick fiction on up through Readers Di- for the ceremony to be perform- T. C. sponsor and she graduated (Established 1909) College Preparatory and in the fields of education gest, the quality magazines like Harpers ed in the Salt Lake temple. Boarding and Day Students was The news revealed and Atlantic, the slightly tougher magazines happy child development. She has signWilliam M. Long, Editor like the Yale Review and finally on up to last week when Mrs. Fife was ed a contract to teach in the Charles Claybaugh, Business Manager, Enrollments Still Open Mrs. Gladys H. Johnson, Advertising Manager Scientific Monthly. Only one person in 20 hostess at a luncheon honoring Logan City schools beginning For a Limited Number A her at home. their bridedaughter, this fall. The prospective can read the Scientific Monthly easily. Member United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulaand blue color scheme groom is a student at the U. S. peach tions, Utah State Press Association was carried out in the table ap- A. C. and will complete his senn learned The and Salt Lake City, Utah believe gang Published every Wednesday and Friday and enpointments where luncheon was ior year next spring. He is a a successful newspaper is a readable news- served to 21 close friends of the member tered as Second Class Matter at the post office of the Blue Key, Alpha And the possibility that they may honored guest. Dainty in Brigham City, Utah, under the act of March paper. Box 8,- 1879. Rates: Elder County be right is no end disturbing. announcements in tiny Subscription $4.00 a year; outside Box Elder County, $5.00 a envelopes tied with peach and year. Single copies 5 cents. They dont leave me entirely without hope. blue ribbons marked the places. played with Theyre constructive. They tell me what 1 Table games towere Janice Eskelson can do, to blow out my literary sins of years prizes going and Jean Rich. past and begin life anew, pure and readable. The invited guests were Mary Use shorter words never more than 150 Jean Sorenson, Berniece Christo 100 senUse words. shorter syllables Joan Emmett, Elaine tences an average of not more than 19 tensen, Lundstrom, Mardyene Jorgenson, words. Use more personal references. Marva Lou Hillyard, Julia Welch and Marilyn Carter of Logan; Personal references, they explain, are Arlene Merrell, Janice Eskelson, personal pronouns. Names of persons or Jean Rich, Lucille Knudson, animals. Words that describfe human be- Mary Lou Call, Barbara Nelson, BarMelva ings and their relationships, like mother, bara Baron, Jean Watson, Reese and Earl, Marilyn child, love and the like. A story should have Wilma Wilde of Brigham City; at least six of these every 100 words. Joyce Cook of Ogden; and nice-soundi- s; th line, in place of the states south of the Mason-Dixo- n the of easy phrase. gulping Our towns and our states, here in the Intermunu gion, are relatively free of Negro population. If We , to make a positive step toward solving the Negro ques. some southern city say Charlotte, North Carolina-- tainly could do so. Send 100,000 of your Negro population, from t! slum areas, to Utah, we could est, Our state is not thickly populated, there is laa them. There are home vau and there are job opportunities. in many of our cities, and more could be provided, sincerely interested in the solution of the Negro problem to express our sincerity we would like to open our of'your Negro people, and guarantee them rights tinder the Constitution. Hand in hand with South, we will endeavor to work out the various problem after we have assumed our share of it.1 Broooo-thurrrWhat would happen to a gov and a legislature that would pen such an invitation! But at least he and they would have achieved one They would have put us in a position to think straight speak with understanding and authority, on the quest.! worst-congest- ed i aspe-th- ! rr Civil Rights. The South has done much to advance the status t Negro, since the Civil War. Sitting well outside the perhaps we are inclined to think that we, or they, co., more. Right is right, and rights are rights. But it i once again, to remember that often a wide spread maj between the ideological and the grim realities, betweer ory and practice. j FIRE SALE Semi-Weekl- DISCOUNT plain-spoke- hand-painte- d - Smoke Sale n Ok DISCOUNT Mau-rin- e L. Umbreit of Spokane, had a terrific and, I fear, unaccusNext, there must be more sentences with Washington. The is a graduate tomed attack of humility last week, and so human interest, sentences with requests, far this week I havent succeeded in shaking commands,, questions, sentences addressed if off. Mrti beginning'to wonder if its 'go to people, quotations from people! At least .r be chronic. to 12 out of every 100 sentences should be huing LAURA'S man interest sentences. BEAUTY SHOP I suddenly started to doubt my ability to ivrite a plain, simple, ordinary news story. After keeping an eye on all that, if I want SPECIAL! Its a most disturbing thing. Its been my stories to be readable, I must knock out nearly 20 years now since I first decided it the excess, needless, meaningless words, the Regular $10.00 would be fun writing news stories the rest gush, the gobbled vgook, the jargon and of my life, and started practicing. A year the strut. Strut means, simply, using a MACHINELESS or two later I began to suspect that I could two-b-it word when a five-ceword will do learn, some day, to write news stories. just as well. PERMANENT Three or four years after that I began Okay, men. (Two words, personal referthinking that those things I was writing ence, human interest.) for lots of werent bad news stories. A couple Ill do it, I resolve. (Five words, peryears later they gave me a fancy piece of sonal reference, human interest, only one paper, implying that, through no merit of word.) But , . . (Ahhhh, suspense!) my,own but simply because they were such excellent teachers, I was a proficient though Regular $15.00 of course not brilliant writer of news It is going to mean that I completely abCOLD WAVE rogate all that, over a period of nearly twenI have learned and assimilated for The paper was too big for a billfold (al- ty years, and from experience, and that academically in room been lots of has there always though I condone and endeavor to practice gram'my billfold) so I put it in my trunk. Its matical and rhetorical principles $10.00 upon which there now. I wish I had it here. It might I have lavished I professional scorn; that reassure me. cowardly cringe from all words which I now NOTICE and use, in their stead, Someone you accept as competent author- misspell BONNIE NELSON familiar even to the synonyms entirely is now back at ity tosses out a few ideas. You accept them fourth-grad- e period moves as facts, gulp them down and assimilate in and the intellect; that the the shop. and semicolon comma, dash, them. . They arent in your stomach I wras colon move out, and rewith that, nostalgic speaking figuratively, of course. And they morse as at the parting with an old and bePhone 39 for Appointments arent in your mind, not in their original loved friend I turn my the upon posterior form. But the substance of those ideas beloved constructions of my happy past and goes all through you, like the vitamins and resolutely face the and worthier brighter minerals and protein of the steaks some shores of where short senready readability, eat. becomes of to a used It people part tences plav like waves lapping at a tropical WELL you. beach, and the sunshine of success beams :"I bride-to-b- e FOR DURATION OF SALE ONLY hasnt been worked into the fabric through wear, the cleaning chore becomes less. Theres Where the dirt nt $850 le t t! . two-syllab- In cooperation with Forsgrens, we are making tl special offer for cleaning smoked clothing during Fire Sale only. Just smoke, without having dirt tl has worked into the fabrics makes the job of cleam the clothes easier. For this reason we can make special offer to save you money. 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