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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH t - GOOD CIT&EN Principles of Good Citizenship Must Be Practiced in Own Home This is the last of a series of " articles from the booklet "Good " published by The America n Heritage Foundation concerning th rights and duties of an American. The ninth promise of a good citi'"-ze- n: I will practice and teach the principles of good citizenship right, in my own home. Our country, when you come right down to it, is just a lot of families. In the family are cradled the cardinal virtues that enable good families to p add up to a 9 great nation jv. standards of ST conduct, spect for the rights and ChffiSfS property of ffJUpS' others, loyal-t-health, tol--. X. erance. coop- - ' ' eration, self- - reliance, good breeding and a sense of the fitrrfwss of things. . s" ' In principle, the family must be the keystone, the microcosm, the of our re-public. Democracy must be based on homes where the interests of man, woman and child receive equal con-sideration. Whether in a crowded rooming house or on the farm, the answer J. must come from men and women of intelligence and good will who ,','ook on the successful maintenance o f a family as one of the greatest of good citizenship. - Just as democracy starts in the h?ome as an obligation, it ends there a)1! a reward. To the degree that all X'p other duties of citizenship have bel''en fulfilled, your home will be yo-- ur castle, secure from the threat 0f j. confiscation, and those in it safe fro 'm detention camps and firing squMads- - 'o'rrSr WIfiSE, editor of McCall's Magazine, said in an article, "The home, we all agree, is the founda-tion of the social structure. And women are the bed rock under that foundation. Any woman who achieves success as a mother has a more pervasive influence over the next generation than any cell of Communists. And her mother's mite certainly outweighs in social significance the manufacture of mil-lions of can openers. "The home, in effect, is the trans-mission belt of our culture, for it is there that the child learns its first lessons. It is the place where our social health is either insured or undermined insidiously . . ." IN CONCLUDING this series of articles, one way to measure the results of our system is to add up our physical and cultural gains in everything from bathtubs to sym-phony orchestras. Although it has only 6 per cent of the world's popu-lation and less than 6 per cent of the world's land area, the United States has: Seventy-tw- o per cent of the world's motor vehicles, one for every four people. 286,000 miles of paved roads. 231,481 places of worship, repre-senting 55 religions or denomina-tions. More than 61 per cent of the world's telephones, one for every iVz people. 208,235 public schools, 1,720 col-leges and universities schools for nearly everybody. Forty-eig- per cent of the world's radios, one for every 2Vi people. Ninety-tw- o per cent of the world's bathtubs, one for every six people. 6,511 public hospitals. Eighty-fiv- e per cent of the world's commercial air traffic. 258,465 miles of railroad trackage, more than all Europe, including Russia in Asia. Sixty - four major museums of art, science and history. Twenty-thre- e symphony orchestras. 650 music societies. 31,015,000 homes wired for elec-tricity. 12,578 newspapers and magazines. Nearly 2,000 radio stations. Fifty million savings accounts; 200 million life insurance policies. This article Is Chapter 9 and the last of a series of ten from booklet the "Good Citizen" produced by The American Heritage Founda-tion, sponsors of the freedom train. A complete book may be obtained by sending 2fi- cents to The American Heritage Foundation, 25 West 43th Street, New York, N Y. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS : Korea Military Picture Improved; Senate Passes Mobilization Bill; fJation's Farmers in Tine Shape' PEACE: There Is Still Hope The belief that there is still hope for peace, perhaps for only a short time, but still respite from world-wide war, is growing in many quar-ters. The hope is not one for per-manent peace, but one of time, based on the belief in high diplo-matic circles that the Russians are not ready for all-o- war at the moment. Diplomatic circles call it the "calculated risk" of war or peace. It is based on three major as-sumptions: (1) Russia fears the effects of American atom bomb attacks. (2) Russia does not possess an adequate stock pile of atomic bombs. (3) Russia's industrial potential is still too weak in comparison with that of the western allies to risk a major conflict. The first two of the assumptions are, of course, mere guess work. But there are statistics to back up the third. For instance, America's steel production for 1950 is expected to exceed 71 million tons. Great Brit-ain will produce around 16 million tons and the rest of western Europe approximately 24 million tons. Thus, the allies will produce a total of 111 million tons, compared with Russia's 22 million. Russia also lags in the production of oil, another of the top essentials for war. On these assumptions western Europe is planning a three-yea- r rearming program. If the program is successful peace may be pro-longed, but the world will be di-vided into two great armed camps. RAILROADS: Strikes Close Steel s- - KOREA: Victories Picture Changes As the Korean war went into the third month military observers were inclined to comment "the picture has changed." And from available information it seemed the Commu-nists had lost the power to mount great offensives involving thousands of men. North Koreans launched one at-tack in force, its objective the city of Taegu, temporary capital of the South Korean republic and supply terminal for U. N. forces. It failed. In some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, U. S. and South Korean troops smashed the offensive, held Taegu, and then proceeded to smash bulges all along their lines. One of the most spectacular oper-ations of the Korean battle was the concentrated air attack on an as- - sembly area at Waegwan, involving U.S. troops won victories on nearly all fronts in Korea dur-ing the eighth week of the con-flict. The big Communist push (1) on Taegu from the north was driven back; South Korean troops recaptured Pohang and Kigy (2); another bridgehead (3) across the Naktong was beaten back; American forces flattened the bridgehead (4) in the Yongsah area. 98 each loaded with 40 all purpo bombs. The load was dropped in a rectangle 7 miles long and 3'4 miles wide. General MacArthur, commander of United Nationr. forces, in a re-port to the security council said: "The ground figMing continues to be of a most saage character." Our outnumbered forces face an enemy with "almost fanatical de-termination. Thf whole operation has assumed th character of a major campaign. He went on to ask for troops from other members of the United Nations. To date the number accepted for action in Korea included Thailand 4,000, the Philippine! 5,000, Turkey 4,500, and the Unite! Kingdom It will be several weeks before they can be brought to battle. Military observers agreed that the picture had changed, but added that it win be "a long find hard- - HOME-FRON- T: Mobilization Bill The senate, by a vote of 85 to 3, passed a home-fron- t mobilization bill which would give President Truman power to invoke controls and other curbs at any time. The bill then went to a senate- - house conference for the ironing out of differences between the sen- - J ate measure and the bill passej enrlier by the house ' .- .- The brotherhood of railroad tran.n-me- n and order of railway conduc-tors went on strike three terminal railroads disrupting sev-eral of the cour ljtry.s steei arteries in the midst r cf the Korean war. However, . with the steel industry pressed l0 capacity to meet the oeeds Jf the stepped-u-p munitions Pro'ram and the booming civilian Economy, many sources predicted that President Truman would seize the lines. The unions singled out key termi-nals in Louisville, St. Paul and Chi-cago and Republic Steel's switching terminal at Cleveland for the first display of pressure. About 1,000 men walked out for five days. Approxi-mately 30,000 workers, including steelworkers, were made idle. Negotiations between manage-ment and union representatives, with presidential assistant John R. Steelman taking part, produced no progress in the first 24 hours. Observers believed the govern-ment would take drastic action be-fore the situation deteriorated and crippled the nation's vital steel pro-duction. INTELLIGENCE: Headed by Smith Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, former ambassador to Moscow, was named by President Truman as director of central intelligence. He will succeed Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter around the end of September. The agency's job is to gather and analyze reports from diplomatic, military and all other sources. Some members of congress were not surprised by Smith's appoint-ment. There had been demands in con-gress for a shake-u- p of the agency since the Korean war. Some legis-lators contended the United States was caught d by the in-vasion of South Korea by Commu-nist troops. I " efeat t di- - II wage g ard- - SI ' j ""I for S '' " ' ' v VST""" Othe Jt zZ IppSil "se 4-UP- - B auv- - JMMlltlDliiimWIIWll I the wiftaMfeMWe!8ii,i!'.aie I ' s o 1 General Smith, now 54, has had a long military career, which in-cludes service as chief of staff to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in World War II. Later he became ambas-sador at Moscow. Johnson I IJ i ' " ZIK- lixea price supports for 1951 wheat at the same level as the 1950 crop 90 per cent of parity. The department said 72.800,000 acres of wheat may be planted. If yields are average, this acreage would produce 1,150,000,000 bushels. This year's crop is estimated at - 996.000,000 bushels. In fixing the wheat support at the highest possible level, Secretary of Agriculture Brannan said: "In view of the world situation, it is imperative that our supply of bread grains be maintained in strong position. Ample supplies will be a major factor in assuring rea-sonable food prices to consumers and our ability to meet our interna-tional food obligations. "We believe the n and price-suppo- rt programs have been developed to protect the in-terests of both producers and con-sumers." The price support announcement had been expected, since Brannan is required by law to announce sup-ports in advance of planting; winter wheat planting starts this month. Only farmers who keep within acreage-allotme- limits can get price supports. CASUALTIES Toll Is Heavy The shattering realities of the Korean conflict reached into many American homes as the conflict went into its third month. More than 2,600 families in the cities and small towns and on the farms of the nation have been notified of servicemen killed, wounded or missing in action. t the same time, a military spokesman said that Korean Com-munists had lost, 50,000 killed. ren Austin, U.S. chief delegate to the United Nations, made the fol-lowing statement: "Our objective is peace. We do not find peace by throwing out the person with whom we must make peace. "We must be firm in our princi-ples. We must be strong. But we must also be patient. "In the United Nations, we must keep trying to convince Mr. Malik and his government of their errors and of our peaceful intentions. Through the United Nations we can reach the peoples of the Soviet Union and of other countries. "It is not the people, it is the 'ruling circles' that we encounter here. That creates a force of pub-lic opinion, backed by moral au-thority that ' opposes aggression and even the Soviet dictatorship cannot ignore such a force. "It is a strain for us to listen to the deceit that the Russian spokesman has poured out. But truth will prevail. Meanwhile, it is better for diplomats to get nervous indigestion than for young men to get shot." That, Americans agreed, was straight talk and to their liking. Suspect No. 8 A stocky American electrical engineer, who fled to Mexico when the F.B.I, began nab-bing suspects in the Klaus Fuchs spy ring, had been arrested and charged with passing defense se-crets to Russia. Identified as Morton Sobell, he was the eighth American rounded up and charged with passing de-fense secrets to Russia. F.B.I, of-ficials said he is a radar expert. Defense Secretary Louis John-son (right), confers with Sen. Tom Connally, chairman of the foreign relations committee. Johnson has been under in-creased attack by foes of the administration and some Dem-ocrats for the way he handled his office during the year be-fore the outbreak of fighting in Korea. POLITICS: Election Crossfire The American political picture cleared somewhat with one definite trend in the spotlight: the voter faces a furious election year parti-san crossfire. The issue will be U.S. foreign policy. The bipartisanship in foreign poli-cy as existed before the Korean war is a thing of the past. From now on voters will hear charges and counter-cha-rges on U. S. foreign policy by congressional candidates. I CROSSWORD PUZZLE i I ACROSS 2. Macaw' 23. Naval Pil l.Pant 3. Japanese officers of EsrU&ifc 5. Begone! wine highest rank ge o ViStrfft 9. Verbal 4. Excuses 28. Still Fj TfiiR 10. Glass part 5. Mineral 28. Steal of a window spring 29. Mourned itri 11. Reptile 6. Thermal 30. Valuable iSUwgpisi f 12. Solitary units fur --f- tTTf- - 14. Public 7Positive . 32. Evening Uiilfefe notice terminal sun god JsT--ir- M f 15. Organ of 8. Doctrine (Egypt.) --UNlEJ(isJjjfJ hearing 11. Wise men 34. Exclama- - N0 f 17. River (Ger.) 13. Before tion 37. The th,, oi 18. Sailor 16. Twilled 35. River (slang) fabric (Eur.) 41.& . 20. Conceal 19. Storage 36. Passageway andfortk 22. Pen-nam- e, place between 44.Cushm Charles 21. Black gull seats it-V- ! Lamb 24. Hawaiian. ' U I I Vk l I' lT ! food , 4V, 25. Covered Tfflr 'Ul & with sand g M 27. Great masses e'fu m t ofice st 31. Encountered ? - e 33ir-bille- d I , 34. Expected XZ top l Apron ,e 39. One who 7 W Mil 1t , " 42. :1 WfflM!rW' I ful deity 43. Province, Js 34 " a F' NE India 45. Artless ' 1 47. Girl's name ' 48. Measure 4i yZ t ai of land , 49. Pause 77, 77 i BO. Peruse 'ft ', s down 77Z W f, 1. Kind of boat yA I I I YA I o. (Venice) jr By INEZ GERHARD ABBY LEWIS appears regularly four NBC shows "Road of Life," "Eternal Light," "The Big Story" and "Storyteller's Play-house," portrays cooks, crooks, young girls and old women with equal ease. She sometimes does two very different characters on ABBY LEWIS the same air show. Abby gives the credit for this ability to her father, who was a preacher and missionary in New Mexico when she was a child. She often tagged along on his missionary trips, and afterward im-personated the people she'd met that day. "The Goldbergs," which has al-ready been on radio, television and the stage, and is now being made into a picture by Paramount, will crop up next as a novel. Gertrude Berg, its author and star, will write the book. "Information Please," granddad-d- y of the quiz shows, might better have remained in retirement, if the programs heard since its return to the air are an indication of what we may expect. That painful, futile effort to be funny gets pretty tire-some. In comparison with shows like NBC's "Who Said That?" and American Broadcasting's "Cliche Club" it comes out badly. nCTioH STRANGE SPECTACLES ! CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson I hi f V & THE MORNING of Aug 4th, ON Hunter glanced through her bedroom window and saw a strange spectacle. Between the great white house and the street was a wide expanse of lawn, and this lawn was at present occupied by a young man pushing a lawn- - ' mower. I Sandra didn't -- Minute know what to 3 Flctl" make remembered of it. She , that her mother and father were away for the week-end and that the servants were in the rear of the house. By the time she had dressed and ventured outdoors, the young man had finished his mowing and was resting in the shade of the veranda. "Will you kindly explain what this is all about?" said Sandra. "I just mowed your lawn as It should be mowed." "Should be mowed?" Sandra puckered up her brow. "What do you mean, 'should be mowed'? Who are you? And where is Rufus, our gardener?" "I'm Jerry Leonard. I bribed your gardener this morning to let me mow your lawn. You see, I have to drive by your house every morning on my way to work, and every morn-ing I've noticed that Rufus cuts the lawn unevenly." "Well of all things!" "Besides, I've been wanting to meet you since last June." "Meet me?" - "Yes. My mother and I moved into the old Saunders place last June and, the day after, I saw you and decided I had to meet you. K "I've been hoping you'd t, to me for ever so long," Sir v said, "but yon gave the tap slon of being rather bigb bit I noticed your lawn and tor c the idea of bribing Rufu!.t like killing two birds wili stone." He grinned. "I tow father and mother were going: t 1 away." "Why, the very idea! -I- 0 believe you're serious." Jerry Leonard scratched fe "I was never more serious life. Shucks! I'm sorry if ! " the way you look." J "The way I look!" Sandra to wonder how she did loot A dozen retorts came to mir: they all seemed flat and inafc almost silly. She hesitated t instant longer and then t' abruptly and strode back house. Jerry Leonard watched into his face there caiffli of disappointment the day W; THROUGHOUT a i'im All his carefully formed proved fruitless. At 5 ocli-- j drove home via a route tla, i-ntake him past the Hoi! '. , Leaving his coupe outsi t drive he entered the cottaS found a no rear door and .kitchen table, left 0 mother, which advised gone to a .f' that if he didn't want he'd find some warmed-o-in the oven. f - Jerry moodily ate the over things and afterwar ; outside to smoke a c ' ... to ease him ell was about ably onto the doorste p chanced to glance tow He blinked, rubbed W f-- , lowed. "What the devil- Ashe PP"ac7' who had been wa r mobile's wheels straw , and stood off work. It M a-!- ,' -- What the dickens, "are you up to?' J tured toward ft JJj(.: wheels. Been getting for weeks." sa'u JerrJ, "Wha-wh- at7 r Tve noticed you dnv. dayfrommybe rwrn of toe car looks toe, f,r e seem to forget the noying." nobis1"1': Is Jerry puckered peered at the .rlvy He .B. face was grave. all?" "rf.. No," said Sa"atoIeS: hoping you'd "tue- y so long, but you of being we", ratt seemed like 'tii! Prme Ul' , Vou gruined. mother was away. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Uncle Charlie's Luck Is Bad, Bandit Crosses Him Up By BILLY ROSE Last Friday night on the way home from his weekly pinochle session, my Uncle Charlie was held up a few blocks from his home on Allen Street and a wallet containing $13 was taken from him. This misadventure, strangely enough, has made my Aunt Frieda very happy, and with your leave and license, I'd like to tell you why ... To begin with, to hear my uncle tell it, Frieda is crazy like a fox about most things, but when it comes to fortune telling and allied super-stitions she's crazy like a crazy. This, of course, in Charlie's own words "drives him to destruction," particularly when my aunt shells out good money for such charms and amulets as lucky horse-tai- l hairs and pieces of string with seven magic knots. I can't understand," I once heard him tell her, "how a distinct twenty - century type like you could potsky around with such superstitions." "Century, schmen-tury,- " Frieda an-swered. "What was good enough by my grandmother is good enough by me." "So why didn't V ? i t v y , WELL, AS IT turned out, my uncle won ten dollars which, added to the three he started out with, gave him a take-hom- e total of thir-teen. Reluctant to face gloating Frieda, he took a roundabout way home. A few doors from a drugstore on Rivington Street, a hoodlum step-ped out of an alley and stuck him up. "Could you return, please, the pocketbook?" said Charlie "Is gen-uine alligator leather." "Scram," said the hold-u- p man, "or I'll bust in your head." "A pleasure," said my uncle po-litely. "Cherry-ho.- " When Charlie got home, Frieda was considerably shaken by the story of the stick-up- , and was forced to admit that the brass gee-ga-was a flop. But the next morn-ing she gave my uncle the horse laugh when the mailman dropped off a small parcel with the wallet in it, its contents intact. There was also an unsigned note. "Dear Mister When I set you got the Fish of Zoroaster, I decide to send everything hack because I have dealings with such fishes before and don't want no part of them. Besides, when 1 count up the money I find 13 dollars exactly. 1 know when I'm licked." "See?" said my aunt. "On ac-count of the brass fish, everything is turning out hunky-totsy.- " "Maybe," said my uncle, "but to me it still smells from herring." anteed to make a party healthy, wealthy and wise, and also rich." Charlie examined the brass ob-ject. "To me it looks like a tin herring," he said. "Where is living this Gypsy?" "In the back of a store on Suf-folk street, and her 1 am trust-ing complete," said Frieda. "F'rinstance, when Mrs. FeiteU son was expecting, the Gypsy told her to sew up the stuffed derma with black thread for a boy and white thread for a girl, and when she used the black, you saw what happened a boy." "It occasional takes place," said my uncle patiently, "that a boy comes in the world without black thread in the stuffed derma." The upshot of the argument was a decision to put the magical fish to a practical test, and when Char-lie went out that night for his week-ly pinochle session, the good-luc- k charm was in his wallet. If he lost, it was agreed Frieda would stop patronizing Gypsy establishments; if he made a killing, however, he was to have more faith in her theories. you marry your Bl"y Kose grandfather?" "So when I look at you, that's who I'm thinking I married.'' THE MATTER CAME to a crisis last Friday when Charlie arrived home from the shop and Frieda asked him for 10 dollars. "Only last week I am giving you 10 dollars," he exploded. "What you making, a down payment on a Cadillac?" "A catalogue I am not needing." Frieda sassed back. "Today I am purchasing from a certain Gypsy a brass fish with the sign from Zoroaster which is absolute guar- - |