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Show LAYTON, JOURNAL, LAYTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 vwaaitiBfiteffi ipltaaafol Marshall Plan Has Halted IThe Spread of Communism HARMONY: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Proposes Keeping Pledges In State of Nation Congress Talk; Mercy Killing Has Public Support NOTE: When opinions art expressed In these column, they are thoie ol Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not nccessxrty of this newspaper.) (EDITOR'S By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. When thli country was struggling Into early man hood, it waa clear to our atatesmen that if the tree of western democracy were to flourish and bring forth fruit in its season, it would hava I to be shielded from foreign interference. The Monroe doctrine waa enunciated. It was defensive, negative rather than positive; it simply said to the world: hold what you have, but take no more. It waa a large order for a young nation. It covered a lot of territory. It worked. The world gTew older and smallA new, powerful force arose. American leaders decided that if the tree we had planted, now In full fruit, were to continue to live and flourish, tt e ramparts we watcl ed would have to embrace and protect our whose liberties ,1 were threatened even more Immediately than our own. The Marshall BAUKIIAGE plan was enunciated in June of 1947. After thorough debate In congress, lit finally was given sinews on June S8 of this year. What Is the score today? er. friends Mere announcement of the Idea la credited with checking Bed revolution In Italy, with blocking the tide of Communist aggression In western Europe. i Now, Cooperation Administrator Paul bus'iiess jBofman, a 'man, that it has not only atoppel the march of Communism, but has turned the tide in the opposite direction. Only recently, Yugoslavia drew up agreements for trade .with western Europe, thus smashing one hole in the iron curtain, The ECA is Just what it was labelled enlightened To a chaotic and jittery Europe, it helped to bring: a 23 per cent in agricultural products, over the previous year; .industrial r level production above the of 1938; relaxation of inflationary pressures in all the ERP countries xcept France and Greece. hard-heade- d i self-interes- t. pre-wa- , Now what? To convince onr people that the game is worth the candle, that whatever the cost, this is the first bloodless war ever fought, that It la cheap Insurance against a shooting war. To Speak Or ns ty pre-pai- Speak speech-teache- rs The next step is to get the learner to understand the meaning of the words he nses and then to translate them into ideas which somebody else can understand theres the aye! rub! Consequently the speech Instruc- tors have not only a difficult, but a hazardous profession. Leaving a man alone wtih a lot of words is like leaving him in a laboratory with a lot of breakable atoms. We know from recent reports that some of the scientists working with atomic energy go blind. Its a wonder to me that more speech instructors dont go desf. suppose speech teachers also teach that most useful corollary the use ot words to conceal ones meaning. It is one I practice arduously. After a decade and a half cf broadcasting, most of my listeners havent the slightest idea of what my politics are. One point wnich waa itressed at the speech conference was that the competition for power which ends In strife domestic, industrial. International is due, chiefly to improper communication. I agree with that assumption. There is no excuse for this In this day and age I was different when a appeared at tha door Cro-Magn- New Star ill-wi- Before congress convened, Washington was enjoying its usual influx of national conventions, among them two groups concerned with the oral cavity the dentists and the of the nation. Although I was Invited to attend sessions of both groups, I exercised my jaws at only one the speech instructors' meeting. The Job of the speech instructor is, of course, to get the learners to use words to express Ideas a difficult task. Not hat the raw ma'.erifJi Is lacking. The dictionary is full of words, and the air is thick with ideas. More difficult is getting the words out of he dictionary and the ideas out of the air into the learners heads. rt aa Taft-Hartle- To convinco congress that the charges, among others, that ECA is not being efficiently operated, that big business is being favored and little business slighted are unjust, or if the charges are true, correct them. I Cro-Magno- n re-ena- ct i felot To D. C. higher-incom- after only seven months of functioning, I believe that objective observers will admit with Economic i Neanderthals cave In the year the mastodon on which he was riding having broken a tusk or an axle or something and all the poor man wanted was to borrow an extra tusk. But since was unable to comthe CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS PARLEY Theae are the men who will municate his perfectly peaceful dethe Democratic party could present chart and develop legislation to Implement sire, and before he opening conference are, his drivers license or his memberplatform pledget. Shown in a John W. McCormack (D., Mass.) ship card in the loyal order of left to right, President Truman; Rep. W. Lucas D., III.), senate majority Scott Sen. bouse leader; majority Neander the for moose, Identity, thaler, after shoving his wife in the leader and Speaker Sam Rayburn (D., Texas.) corner and calling his dogs, would step out and welcome the unfortun- CONGRESS: ate visitor with a hearty wallop on Big Order the cranium. manner, In calm, unhurried President Truman outlined to the The result waa probably a Blst congress his legislative prowar between the Neanderthalers posals. To the surprise of no one in which and the he asked legislators to enact virthe Neanderthaier had a fifty-fiftually every recommendation he chance of eating Cro. mada during hia election campaign. Even if the innocent visitor had He called for more taxes, authority to restore economic controls, a been able to grunt without broad program of social legislation. his consonants and laceraWITH corporations, indiALONG inhis if even his labials, and ting e hospitable ho.it had listened to him, viduals In the middle and the in would share brackets that host probably could not bave digested bis idea as easi'y, at least task of providing the four billion dollars more annual revenue which as he later digested him. We have words to work with, and Mr. Truman aays the government thua are able to fashion the tools of must have. These are the major recommencommunication. But unless the made by the President In dations speech teachers (and all teacher) of the union message: state his furnish the skills for the use of Widen government INFLATION those words, the effort is in vain. control over bank and consumer Unless the idea behind what credit, exports and transportation we believe in can be t ommunic-te- d allocations; extend and strengthen rent control. Grant authority to reg, (and it cant be, unless we ulate commodity apeculatlon, alloagree on the meaning of words) cate scarce key materials, control it withers on the vine. In typical Malone, Dorothy certain wages and prices, if necesis for that Hollywood garb Thus, the speech teacher must sary. such this as releases teach his pupils not only the medium picture TAXES Raise four billion dollars was the first film plsyer to be acof communication, but the means of additional revenue for the governcorded stardom In 1949. Warner using it and convince them it baa ment, mainly by taxing corporaher bosses, elevated concrete value. tions, but also by boosting estate Brothers, In the field of labor relations at and gift taxes; consider increasing her to filmlands top pinnacle for in the film One home, or Internationa' understandincome taxes for the middle and her performance Afternoon. Sunday we never can hope to upper pay brackets. ing abroad, y achieve a real bulwark for demoLABOR Repeal the sored by the Euthanasia Society of old Wagner act cracy unless a mental contact can law and declared that the ending America, be made, communications establishbut with bans against jurisdictional of the physical existence of an Ined-words and ideas joined so strikes and secondary boycotts and dividual at his request, when afflicthat they have a universal meaning some provision for avoiding strikes ted with an incurable disease which and the message they convey can in general industry. Boost minimum causes extreme suffering is under be digested. wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour. proper safeguards not only medicalantiBUSINESS Strengthen As Eric Peterson, general secretary-tly indicated but also in accord with that the most civilized reasurer laws trust loopholes by closing of the International and humane Association of Machinists, put it: permit monopolistic mergers and ethics and the highest concepts and The need for better lines of com- consolidations. practices of religion. FARM Use price supports to munication between labor and manThe safeguards: The sufferer agement, and between the concilia- keep farmers at a fair economic must submit a petition, duly attor and disputing parties is a dis- level. tested by himself and his physician, OTHERS Extend social security; asking for euthanasia. This must bo tinct challenge. For basically, the medical failure of these two groups to iron set up system of presented to a court of records state Aid educational insurance. out their disputes without or which will appoint an investigative violence is part and parcel of the systems. Pass same civil rights pro- committee of physicians. If this broader problem of discord which posals made to 80th congress. Push committee agrees, the court may plagues the world today in its quest power, flood control and navigation permit euthanasia. for peace." projects on the rivers. Maintain armed forces sufficient to deter CASTE SYSTEM: Peterson went on to say that Pass universal train- Officers Adamant aggression. a starting point for speech teaThe superiority which many army ing legislation. chers might be to pay less atofficers feel and affect over the G. MERCY KILLING; tention to Demosthenes who beI. came graphically to light In Bercame a great orator by practiclias Advocates lin. There, in the biggest American a euphemism for club in the ing shouting until he could be Euthanasia, city, U. S. enlisted men heard above the roaring of the mercy killing, gained important were barred but German frauleins waves, snd a little more to desupport in New York state where were admitted. hundreds of Protestant and Jewish veloping men whose voices may G. I.s'and civilians got hot as the not be loud, but whose skUfull religious leaders petitioned for proverbial pistol. Enpersuasion can be heard above legislation legalizing the practice. listed men won a temporary victory the misunderstanding in mens THE QUESTION has agitated hu- when the board of governors of the hearts. manitarians and sociologists for club suspended the month-olban centuries and there are many cases pending a special meeting to thresh for management at the on record where mercy killings out Speaking the matter. conference, Robert Chester Smith, have been committed. Despite legal lieutenant-colone- l One epitomized director of industrial and person- barriers and the record the officer viewpoint. penalties, Ninety per nel relations for the Pullman Stanin such cases, for the most part, cent of enlisted men were all right, dard Car Manufacturing company shows that juries are Inclined- to he conceded, but it was the other of Chicago, expressed his belief that look with some leniency on the per- 10 per cent which caused the ban. each of the three members of the son who kills another to put him THERE ARE 10 per cent of the Industrial triumvirate the inves- or her out of his misery. enlisted who do he said, men, tor, the manager and the laboring On an appeal to the emotions not know how to behave. Then he man has been and continues to be alone, much convincing argument added the clincher: We don't want too short sighted. Each has been for euthanasia may be presented. these enlisted barbarians with offilooking at the problem through its But, considered from all other cers and ladies Evidently posown glasses, angles with individual rights, possi- sessed of the of his convicpower and has been unable to see either bility of criminal intent and other tions. he asserted he would resign or downward and sidewise, upward, such factors involved, the practice from the club if enlisted guests were unfortunately not very far ahead. could become highly dangerous. permitted. John Q. Jennings, head of IndusThe New York group advocating Significant was the reaction of trial Relations for the Singer Manu- the measure included 379 Protestant the German civilians. In effect, facturing company, told an inter- and Jewish ministers of the Empire they asked if such tactics had any esting story about how New Yorks state, the largest group ever pub- place in the of democracy. teaching great tugboat dispute last winter licly to advocate euthanasia. The As one employe put it: The ban had been settled. The negotiations practice is now punishable as mursimply means that everybody in had dragged on for hours until well der in all the 43 states. The petition Berlin can come into the club exafter midnight. Management and was sent to every member of the cept an American enlisted man. union men had basically agreed on New York legislature. That is not our idea of being Amerthe point at issue, but whenever THE MINISTERS petition, spon- - ican." the agreement they tried on paper, tluv got entangled in a NEED SHERLOCK HOLMES maze of complicated terminology. Shortly after 1 a. m., one of the to say in negotiators happened British authorities would be very been going around smashing stained simple language what everyone else had the renowned Sherlock glass windows in the Wolverhamphappy was trying to say in technical lanHolmes been real and available, ton area of the Midlands. Circuma had brilliant guage. Somebody since the country was facing two spect, well behaved Britons couldnt idea: aggravating and puzzling problems. understand how anyone could do Why nut pnt it Just that way Someone had stolen seven sneets either of these reprehensible liings. in the contract?" They did a of An idea of how sterling notes, amountmay orIn paragraph ing to approximately $560, from be the pound-notthief is provided dinary rank and file English was the extraordinarily guarded bank of in the fact that the money, stolen Inserted a departure Jennings last summer, had only begun to England printing works. described as something brand-neAs an added poser, someone had circulate recently. in onion contracts. of a 23,000 Vice-Preside- CHINA REDS: No Comment The winners tell the funny Jokes the losers holler deal! But the apparent winners in Chinas civil war werent saying a word, and the nationalist governments peace offensive appeared stalled against a wall of Communist silence. From the government side came a rising tide of clamor for a truce and a negotiated settlement. The Communists, who have been winning, continued to say nothing. Nanking reported growing anxiety among Chinese who had predicted quick Communist response to Chiang New Year offer to mediate. It was predicted that the Red answer, if and when it came, would be a demand for the government armies to lay down Kai-she- their arms. In Peiping, a group of delegates to the national assembly sent the Communist leader a message urging an immediate cease fire order because, they said, the people cannot endure any further suffering Meanwhile, American position, as indicated by two statements, seemed uncertain, or divided. Oscar C. Badger, commander of U. S. naval forces in the western Pacific, denied rumors of a withdrawal of American forces from China. He declared the rumor was based on reports the marines had terminated their lease on Shantung university campus where they mainVice-Admir- al tain their barracks. "Wishbone" Magic ll d - d Thief Makes oil With Pound Notes one-poun- d hard-to-catc- two-senten- e w n This Clown Wheeltoy Will Please Children Typewriter Doodling Na wonder everyone was looking forward to a happier New Year. Look at tome of the things that happened during 1948. Ilse Koch of lampshade infamy had her life sentence commuted; Serge Lifar staged a rectial at NYs City Kirsten Flagstad Center; played Carnazl Hall five days after Pearl Harbor'a anny; Dictator Franco was embraced by Dealer Jim Farley; Hjalmar Schacht, who financed the Nazis; was exonerated by a denazification court as not being a Nazi; and to top it all, our allegedly most upright magazine Time, was being edited by an Pro-fasci- st pro-ditt- o ex-Ne- express prepaid. any Other fruits. gheUed nuts, olives available. II - Calimesa, Californio CALLFUL' - thou goona The holler-tha- n who feign horror at reporters who publish gossip give us an opportunity to revive a state- ment that once appeared in a If yon get country weekly: born, marry, have a baby, die, or some other accident happens to yon, please let ns know not that we give a darn, but most of our readers have a lot of curlo-aitThat explains our position expertly. Classes Now Starting Wanna make a fortune in Movie-ville- ? Sell specs. One producer insists that the depresh there "is largely psychologicaL Oh, sure. . . Radio critics are wasting their brick-batNine of the top 10 Hooper daytime programs are soap operas. . .The plot of the film christened Whiplash concerns an artist who becomes a pugilist and has his managers wife fall in love with him. Thats practically a replica of Odets Golden Boy. The difference is that in Odets play the fighter was a violinist . .Several days ago John Foster Dulles told reporters he recommended Alger Hiss for his job with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Our listeners heard that a month ago. Salt Lake Barber Barbers Are In Demand y. rose-colore- G. I. d never thought about it, but there must be a particular reason you like chicken every Sunday. Now, if youll only think about that reason, tell it to a judge, and it happens to be declared the best submitted, you will find your fondest wish coming true THERE IS a big Wishbone Contest going on in these United States and the national prize is the granting of the winning contestants wish. The conown test is sponsored by the Poultry and Egg National Board of Chicago, and the only requirement is that a chicken wishbone a real one most accompany each entry. Anyone in the United States is eligible for the contest. Contestants must write, in fewer than 100 words, their reasons Why I like chicken every Sunday. They can send entries in the form of an essay, limerick or slogan but each entry must be accompanied by a real chicken wishbone and the contestants most desired wish. THREE REGIONAL winners will receive a trip to Hollywood to witness the final judging, which will take place at a gala chicken-dinnecelebration. During the Hollywood stay, the regional winners will be honored at the wishbone premiere of Chicken Every Sunday. most-desire- d r Approved College s. misleading 170 Regent Street Salt Lake City, Utah Too Many Mistakes Pencil industry uses about two million pounda of and rubber per year for erasers. one-quart- er IWiLl Qnr.!t. are- j - A little In each nostril quickly opens up nasal passages to relieve stuffy transient congestion. Invites restful sleep. Relieves sniffly. sneezy distress of head colds. Follow directions in the package. Try It! wcas Ho-hu- WISHBONE: d Classified Department ' Send It In Perhaps youve why you will get as much fun making this clown wheeltoy as some youngster will have playing with it. The legs are fastened to the wheel. As the wheel turns, tha legs go up and down. The pattern offered below provides quick and easy method of building this colorful toy. No special tools, skill or materials are needed. Tha pattern specifies exactly what to use and where to use each piece. A few pieces of wood, a dowel, wire clothes banger and a few dabs of paint Is about all you need. In order to insure painting the clown properly, the decorating guides on the pattern are traced directly on the wood. These are then painted the colors tha pattern suggests. Easi-BU- headline Puzzling over the amazing power of a chicken wishbone that's going to make someones are fondest wish come true movie stars Dan Dailey and Celeste Holm. The trio call attenWishtion to the nationwide bone Contest being sponsored by by the Poultry and Egg National Board. walk hava always TOYS that sure winners. That is Another reason Lend an Ear is showkay is the amusing galivanting of Yvonne Adair. Very tomboyst rous. . .The understatement of the week was Rita and Alys confession to reporters that they are fond of each other. I suppose Romeo was merely fond of Juliet. .. Nothing as disgraceful as the committeea attempt to smear the good name of Laurence Duggan. That committee defames innocent Send 23c for Clown Wheeltoy Pattern and patriotic Americans. . .but hast No. 47 to Pattern Company, done anything about the KKK, Dept. W, PleasantvUle, N. Y. Shameful. .Because of the Whittaker Chambers affair, Henry Luce's March of Time had to recall its Christmas cards. The cards featured a globe of the world (with film MISCELLANEOUS strips protruding), and it looked Calif. Dates, figs, mammoth prunes, lb, like a pumpkin. carton any one $2.10 poatpald, 3 cartona one or assorted $3.50, Imaginative camera work and hep direction can be found in the film. The Dark Past. It grips the attention despite the fact almost all of the action takes place in a single room . . . The NY Times editorialist apologized for a and a t o r y on its front page which was based on a statement by, Cong. Mundt. Bnt when a columnists sources give him a bum steer beiittlers holler like he had committed a crime. d two-doll- specially-conditione- Bomt Question Congress was off to t rough start The hope of general harmony," expressed by President Truman and some congressional leaders, grew dim st the start Republican Senator Vandenberg Democratic colleagues charged with violating the spirit of bipartisanship in foreign affairs. Committee assignments provided the spark which set off the blast of discord. When the Demociats decided to take eight of the 13 seats on the foreign relations committee, the Republicans cried foul and uttered their protests. SENATOR VANDENBERG, who will be replaced as committee chairman by Senator Connaily (D., Tex.) called it a political decision. Senator Morse (D., Ore.) was less restrained. He charged that the implications are that the Democratic party proposes to play politics with war and peace. Democrats denied any partisanship, claimed they were entitled to more seats because they have a bigger majority than the Republicans had. Barkley regretted the controversy. He told reporters that the bigger Democratic majority will in no way affect the bipartisan course of the committee. Heres another Heil - Hitlerism: Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kassel-rinis a convicted war criminal. He was given a death sentence by a British court, but it was later commuted to life imprisonment, of course. A fortnight ago the British allowed Kesselring to leave his cell and spend a holiday at a sumptous Bavarian resort with his wife. . . Apparently, being convicted as a war criminal is almost as good as joining a country club. Va-tro-- vo-mo-rio- i g L'JMLQ. y Churchill knows how to take a In his mem-war- s I hope you will give full consideration to my words. I have not always been wrong. . .So you want to be a writer, eh? Last year almost 2000 novels were published. Only about a hundred were money makers. So stick to your bookkeeping job. Elmer. . . A touch of irony: Televish is a red-inpreposition. But networks can take the loss because of the huge profits they garner from the arch enemy oi televish radio. . . The President rates having his salary hoisted. The Presidency is one job that hasnt had a raise in 40 years. . . The new charmer In the film, Every Girl Should be Married Betsy Drake has the stardust touch. She has a silky speaking voice that fits the ear like a kiss fits the lips. B DV bow gracefully. Winston states: k Before Prentice-Ha-ll agreed ti publish Kay Summersbya book (oz Gen. Ike) they wrote him asking il he objected. He replied he did not But Gen. Elsenhower didnt reat the book In galley form or betweei covers and told the publisher hi did not wish to. TIS, in just 7 dsys... in one short week.., from their old dentifrice to Calox Tooth Powder aveiv aged 38 brighter teeth by scientific test. Why not ehtnge to Calox yourself! 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