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Show OREM-GENEVA TIMES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1948 ppwinKiwllinil'T """" iiiiuiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiuwiiiiiiuiimiiiiiiuiiiiiiwiinniimniiiiwiwiuiiMMimiiwiniiiniJiM Published Every Thursday at Orem, Utah M. NEFF SMART, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter November 19, 1944 at the postoffice at Orem, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. MEMBER: Utah State Press Association Subscription Rates: One year, strictly in advance $3-00 Six Months $2.60 THE WALLS OF PEACE "And it came to pass . . . that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work .... They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work and with the other hand held a weapon ... .So we labored in the work; and half of them held spears from the rising of the morning til the stars appeared." Nehemiah was seeing to the protection of Jerusalem and its citizens against the armed men of Sanballat and Tobiah. The same story is told of the Utah Pioneers, who built their cities with one hand on the plow and another on the rifle ; and is told of the Pilgrim Fathers. The United States, like Nehemiah of old and like the Pilgrims and the Pioneers, has decreed by a peace-time draft that some shall hold the spears and some shall work on the walls of peace. There are some of us who are torn between the lofty .appeal of honest pacifism the hope that peace can be achieved through agreement and compromise and on the other hand the expediency of becoming strong and war like as a deterrent to war. But perhaps the holding of the spears does not preclude pre-clude the building of the walls of peace ! It is true that the most powerful single check upoi Russian aggression has come from American firmness, and perhaps a spear in one hand i3 needed to efficiently and effectively build the wall of peace. So long as America does not look to .the spear as her ultimate protection against war; so long as the realization realiz-ation is kept and nurtured that ultimate peace must come, not by the sword nor the spear but by cherishing and developing the organization and ideals of the United Nations, then can a peace-time draft be justified. The peace-time draft, the atomic bomb, our strength in the sea and in the air these can only be the "holders of the spears." The responsibility for building the wall of peace still rests on us who can give our faith, our hopes and our efforts to the United Nations, and on our diplomats and State Department officials who can project pro-ject our (good will to every corner of the globe. NAME TROUBLE Provo, like Orem, seems to be suffering from an in-, ability to find appropriate names for its schools. A con- ' test is on in Provo to get a name for two of its elementary element-ary schools now under construction. We hope that Orem need not resort to that extreme to get an appropriate name for its new school which is now rapidly taking shape on Fourth North and Seventh West. Surely Orem is not so destitute of tradition, of builders build-ers or of legend that it must reach outside" its boundaries to name its school. ... Who are Orem's pioneers? Who are the men whose names should be remembered? What incidents in Orem's history could well be made immortal ? To whom, be he Indian, explorer, scout, Pioneer, educator, promoter or giver, does the community owe a debt of thanks? The Orem-Geneva Times will publish your suggestions or you may make them directly to the school board. "Bubble Gum gjPfel . ' . , . " ' 'THE GREAT WmixMA , AMERICAN YMA, ft 7WW Ml ' I ''ym I rstsx Ml 'AM it - J, W3i MfMn 111,, ffi ' TL'.IPAIIQGOS fcucr Poulson 0645-J1 ticipate and ical numbers led. appropriate mus-are mus-are being arrang- Senator amd Mrs- A. V Wat-Speakers Wat-Speakers at Sacrament meet- kins spent last weekend at the mg on Sunday were Angus home of their daugnter, Mrs. Wall, returned missionary- Stan- Nedra Keese. , ford Taylor, stake missionary Mrs. Lorna Watkins and dau-and dau-and President Henry D. Taylor, ghter, Andrea left by plane Mon- T t day night to return to Wasning- Next Sunday evening a spec- tnn n. r whPrP it omnlov- ial meeting will be held under oA ' a coretarv senator the direction of the MIA offic- Watkins. ers. ine program wui iouow the theme "Remember the Sab- ; bath Day and keep it Holy". Wild rabbits are known to Representatives from each de- spread liver flukes to cattle and partment of the MIA will par- sheep. Advittiienmt From where I sit ...ly Joe Marsh, Nicest Compliment I've Had One of the nicest comments I've received about this column was from an editor in the Middle West 1 culled on. And while I don't like to five myself orchids, I think it illustrates a point. "Joe," he said, "it so happens I don't agree with everything you say, but I always like to run your column. Because it gets down to earth and talks about the right to disagree. And it only asks for tolerance tol-erance towards the other person's point of view." He went on to explain, by way of illustration, that he never had happened to have a taste for ale or beer. But that when I spoke of the right to enjoy a moderate beverage bev-erage like beer, well, he was right there with me! And from where I sit, that's the Important thing: not whether you share another person's tastes or point of view but whether you recognize his right to exercise a free choice in a free land. THIS 'II THAT Ethyl Nielsen Hair WHAT ARE THE MORMON GALS' SEX STANDARDS? Hi Folks, Did you ever have questions quest-ions hurled at you like: What are the Mormon gals' sex standards? stand-ards? People from out of state wonder, and ask that frequently. frequent-ly. My answer: Our sex standards stand-ards should be the highest In the world, but better still let the gals speak for themselves. Last week I had to air my views on a very critical subject it seems that being a columnist column-ist leaves very little room for privacy of thought or action and that it's very important to have definite opinion and stick to them. That leaves a woman no margin for changing her mind- er than he who takes a .Four-Stake MIA Convention Set at Lincoln Tonight Sharon Stake will be host to MIA workers from Orem, Utah and West Utah stakes at a four-stake four-stake convention tonight at the Lincoln high school, according to Mrs. Loreen Bliss, Sharon stake YWMIA president. Mem bers of the general MIA board are scheduled , to presiae over the meetings. All stake officers will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. From 8 to 9 p. m. a joint session with all. stake and ward priesthood leaders will be held. The visiting gen eral board members will con duct departmental sessions from 19 until 10:30- which is, after all, a woman's privilege. And it fixes it so I wouldn't dare drink a glass of cold beer if I was dying of thirst, or, after this column, kiss a man other than my own husband, no matter what the circumstance. The Dictionary defines Chastity The dictionary defines chast-j ity as that of being sexually pure. I have given it little ser ious thought, but . among the Mormon people and decent far-thinking far-thinking people of the world there are certain standards accepted ac-cepted as decency. No one can repeal this law it was written into the code of civiliation from the beginning and moral decency de-cency is a sign of intelligence of the highest type. Our Codes are not Written in our weakest moments Our codes are not written in our weakest moments, or by the most impulsive persons, and it is not true that people have thrown morals to the four winds or that purity is not considered important today. No matter how broadminded people are the ef fects of unchastity on the ner vous system is severe. Such re lationships are clandestine, fur tive and full of fears, that lead to becoming a neurotic. You may start out rebelling against old fashioned stuffy laws and a religious moral system and end up in the psychopathic ward Many People have Failed to live up to Moral Standards And many people lie, and they steal. Are we to take such weak nesses as a standard? Or shall we teach such offenders to mend their ways, to use their ener-l gies in a more constructive manner? man-ner? Man's sense of decency declares de-clares what is normal and what is not. It's still true that "He who overcomes himself is great- city." r jri i f' 'Yaahingtaa I jLi THESE were dog days in Washington Washing-ton with all members of congress away in their respective bailiwicks except possibly a few members of the house un-American activities committee, with a lull In the spy and loyalty probes. But the air was thick with charges and counter-charges from organizations organiza-tions and individuals concerning a host of Issues, some not necessarily campaign Issues but aU relative to governmental action. The United States Chamber of Commerce which some members of congress have charged with deliber ately driving a wedge between farmers farm-ers and labor has joined the chorus of those declaring farm prices a major ma-jor factor In the present Inflationary Inflation-ary spiral. The National Council of Parmer Cooperatives continues its tiff with the Chicago Tribune which declared cooperatives are a "menace" and "a parasite In the country's economy." Says the National Co-op Council: "The Chicago Tribune Is a member of a cooperative the Associated Press." The Equitable Life Insurance Society blames the federal re serve support or government bond prices for inflating the money supply. Apparently the Equitable, like Senator Taft, would rather see bond prices drop than use controls to halt price Increases. Says the Associated Cooperatives, Inc.: "The 80th congress has demonstrated dem-onstrated that It is putty in the hands of the giant corporations and far from doing anything to hamper them, it falls over itself to do their bidding ... the federal trade commission com-mission might as well have saved its breath when it told congress that unless the steadily Increasing power of giant corporations is curbed, the country will go down the road to collectivism." And the National Economic Council of Wall street charges that President Truman's anti-inflation proposals are "unrealistic, "unrealis-tic, unsound and contradictory." All three farm groups, the National Nation-al Orange, the Farm Bureau Federa tion and the National Farmers Un ion have reached unity in condemn ing lack of action In adhering to the international wheat agreement. All three organizations supported ratuY cation of the agreement. Says the National Grange: . "The international wheat agree ment was killed and observers gen erally agree it Is quite unlikely that other nations will invest years of time and some millions of dollars in further negotiations without some assurance that agreements arrived at will be acted on by congress." All three national farm organizations organiza-tions also have joined hands in the fight against the charge that the farm price support program is cause for high food prices or the inflationary inflation-ary spiral. Says Allan Kline, president presi-dent of the American Farm Bureau Federation: "Expanding purchasing power In relation to supply of con sumable goods is causing inflation, not price supports." Says the National Farmers Union: Un-ion: "About the only constructive piece of legislation to come out of the 80th congress was the price support sup-port program for agriculture . . . (which) is all that came out of the long and carefully conducted hearings hear-ings on the Aiken and Hope bills . . . It isn't the answer, but it is a step in the right direction." THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS and Amvets in national conventions con-ventions scored congress for failure to pass low cost rental housing legislation leg-islation and the Spanish American War Veterans in 50th annual encampment en-campment here urged a strong national na-tional guard a stockpile of munitions muni-tions and weapons peacetime draft freezing of all commerce, finance, wages and prices in an emergency-curb emergency-curb of communist organizations, elimination of communists in government gov-ernment jobs and prevention of subversive sub-versive agents entering the United States. THE SUPREME COURT DECISION DECI-SION outlawing the "basing-polnt" method of sales in the cement, and other industries has brought about a storm of protest from big business from steel and other large industriesso indus-triesso a senate committee headed by Senator Homer Capehart of Indiana In-diana has already started hearings to consider effects of the court decision. de-cision. Some small business leaders charge the Capehart advisory committee com-mittee is "packed" with representatives representa-tives of big business. Says the Interstate In-terstate Merchant, house organ for the distributing industry: "Fifteen members of the committee represent the largest concerns in the country ... from this list there does not appear to be any small business representatives rep-resentatives ... in other words, monopoly is demanding a continuation continua-tion of its advantage." Copyright, 1018, United States Brewers Foundation ill ilL 0 . . 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