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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1949 Churchill's Parallel Might be Prophetic Winston Churchill's apolitical wisdom' is not only practical but often prophetic. And the rhetoric with which he expresses that wisdom .is, though often elaborate, never empty. With these points in mind it is interesting in-teresting to examinejthe reference to the Mongol invasion of fcuVope several hundred years ago which he made in his speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He recalled that the Asiatic hordes had shattered the defenders of Europe in Poland Po-land and Austria, and that the continent seemed doomed. "But at the critical moment mo-ment the great Khan died," he-aid. "The succession was vacant and the Mongol armies arm-ies with their leaders "trooped back on their ponies across the 7000 miles which separated separat-ed them from their capital in order to choose a successor. They never returned till now." He mentioned the incident in asking the question: Vis time on our side?" and answering an-swering himself with the opinion that "war is not inevitable." We do not think he brought in this bit of ancient history simply to give his hearers the wishful comfort that something may turn up to relieve the free world of its present anxieties. The event he referred to was not the only one in which the unexpected has saved the day. It was not the only time before now that Europe has been threatened by forces from beyond the continent. But Mr. Churchill, Church-ill, with his acute perception, chose an incident in-cident in which succession to power was the deciding factor. He drew no rash parallels. Yet it is true that the "Asiatic hordes" again are firmly entrenched in Poland and Austria and beyond. be-yond. And the momentous question of succession suc-cession to . their leadership may shortly arise. The state of Premier Stalin's health is not known to the outside world, except perhaps per-haps to the leaders of Communist cells. But reports of his infirmity persist. His age and his absence from some important public pub-lic functions in the past year or two are reminders re-minders that he is mortal as well as powerful. power-ful. No doubt Mr. Stalin has chosen a successor. succes-sor. But whether all the ambitious men around him would meekly submit to his choice after his death is something that remains re-mains to be seen .The Soviet government doeSsnot derive its powers from the consent of the governed. It is responsible only to the clique which, by fair means and foul, has made itself the governors. History, ancient and modern, tells us that when succession is based neither on popular election nor established descent, it is usually decided by force. There have been international interna-tional wars and civil wars of succession. There have been intrigues in which the casualties "were confined to the higher echelons. These struggles have generally taken place in an atmosphere of chaos. Soviet Russia has endured one "war of succession." Stalin's victory over Trotsky after Lenin's death was ruthless, iloody and vindictive. This is not to say that history his-tory will repeat itself. But it is reasonable to think that, on Premier Stalin's passing, the Politiburo will be concerned for a time with something hotter and closer to home than the cold war. Conflicting theories of continued aggression versus the status quo may have a strong influence on the outcome. The length and result of such a struggle could be as fateful a chapter in history as the retreat of the Mongols centuries ago. States and Senators Bodyguard A new constitutional wrinkle has been thought up by Congressman Frederic ItS; Coudert, Jr., of New York. He urges a constitutional con-stitutional amendment allowing Congress, when it admits a new state, to specify whether it should have two senators as in ,the present arrangement, one or none. His aim is to prevent states with sparse population popula-tion from controlling the senate. He figures fig-ures that 19 per cent of the people have 50 senators, and the remaining 81 per cent only 46. This condition would, he thinks become be-come even worse with the prospective ad- . mission of Hawaii and Alaska. Congressman Coudert's idea is open to several objections. Unless statehood is a meaningless term, it should receive equal consideration somewhere in our national legislature. Our constitution would not have been adopted if the small states had not received equal representation in the senate. Who is wise enough to say what states will be tha.most populous 100 years from now ? California, now perhaps the fourth most populous state, had few enough people' when it was admitted to the Union in 1850. o. " With all its faults the senate usually functions much better than the house. This may be due to its being a smaller body, or to the longer terms of its members: mem-bers: but the fact remains. The house puts through legislation in a hurry, often with debate cut short and amendments limited or barred. The senate frequently licks these crude new bills into shape. The House, too, seems more easily manipulated by interests with axes to grind. Instead of tinkering with the Senate, Congressman Coudert might see what he can do to improve the House. -As3g; him i The Washington Merry-go-Round Drew Pearson Says: Congressmen's Vacation Really a -'Refresher Course WASHINGTON Despite talk about the boys "needing a rest," eal story behind the 10-day Easter recess of the house, beginning today, is that Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Major-ity Leader John McCormack are sending their charges home for a "refresher"- course. Rayburn and McCormack are chiefly concerned con-cerned over another G.O.P.-Dixie coalition against repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor law, and they think some elbow-rubbing with the folks aT home is the best preventive. The strategy applies to Republicans from industrial districts as well as Democrats. Meantime. local AFL and CIO leaders are planning to give the returning politicos a stiff workout during the 10-day "vacation." Rayburn and McCormack are keenly aware that the Taft-Hartley vote will be a crucial test they can't afford to lose, if they are to keep northern city Democrats in line on other administration ad-ministration measures. Ever since the G.O.P.-Dixie G.O.P.-Dixie coalition against rent control, there has been talk of a northern "revolt," or a coalition-in-reverse, in which northern Democrats would .gang up with Republicans to block southern farm bills. (Copyright 1949 by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) fore a gathering of about 20 Republican congressmen. con-gressmen. With characteristic bluntness, Morse tore into the ills of the Republican party. "This coalition with the southern Democrats is costly," he thundered. "We are now labled the anti-human rights party." The Oregon senator went on to denounce his party's leadership. "I speak only of the senate." he declared, 'But In the senate, we have a few who hold policy meetings: The rest of us read about it next morning In the papers and are called together at 10 o'clock to confirm it." He accused G.O.P. leaders in congress of playing turtle during the last election. "It wasn't Dewey's job to defend the 80t' congress," said Morse. "It was up to our top leaders in congress. A lot of them suffered political laryngitis." As for the G.O.P. stand on labor, Morse snorted: "We've got an anti-labor label on our party, and we'll keep it until we liberalize the Taft-Hartley Jaw. "Why," he added, "The payment of $7,500 for drafting the Taft-Hartley law is a subject of discussion in every lqcal union in America." I merygoround i Jaycees To Apply Safety Tape To Bikes On Saturday Jaycee officials and the Provo Police department were making final preparations today to apply ap-ply "Scotchlite," a material that reflects light at night, to hundreds of bicycles Saturday. The new material, which will increase the safety of persons who ride bikes at night, will be applied free of charge by the local lo-cal junior chamber of commerce tomorrow on the lawn east of the city and county building from 9 a. m. until noon. John Quinn, director of the safety . move, emphasized that only bicycles that have licenses and have passed police requirements require-ments to run at night will be equipped with the new material. Police require cyclfsts who wish to ride at night to install a front headlamp. The Scotchlite, to be applied on the handlebars, front forks and back fender of each bike, will be an added safety measure, Mr. Quinn said. Enough material to equip nearly near-ly 1000 bicycles is on hand, the director added, and 30 Jaycees will be present to carry out the program. Once News From the Files of The Provo Herald 35 Year 8 Ago April 15, 1914 Lefty Louie, Gib the Blood, Whitey Lewis and Dago Frank were executed for the murder of Herman Rosenthal! which "was the news of July 16," 1912, in New York City Norton J. Adams, formerly of Provo, was accident-ly accident-ly shot at Hiawatha, Utah Mossiah Pratt, 28, son of Mrs. Sarah A. Pratt of Provo, was suffocated suf-focated with gas in a mine near Eureka Commissioner God-dard God-dard was authorized to purchase the horse and wagon belonging to the Nuttall Plumbing Co. ior $300 to be used for the waterworks water-works department Prof. John Bown presented his music pupils in a recital at the Princess theater D. Ward King, road expert, came from Salt Lake City to address Utah county men at the Opera House and to inspect roads W. C. Orem, president of the S. L. & U. railrdad company com-pany said that his company would make every effort to bring their interurban road into Provo , by June 1st. 20 Years Ago April 15, 1929 "Little Women" was ready for presentation at BY high school. Cast members were Sarah Dixon, Vivian. Merrill, Anna Beardall, Gertrude Sauer, Louise Candland, Argene Vance, Dayton Nuttall, Webster Decker, Howard Drap er, Reed Thornton and William Courtney. Directors were Ruth Clark, Mary Lee, Lucille Mark-ham Mark-ham and Alonzo Morley President Hoover prepared his message for the "1st congress, meeting in special session to take up the new farm bill Cougars Cou-gars were set to meet the Aggies in the annual track meet with Tony Bentley, Charles Merkeley, "Lillyfoot" Reeves, George Cor-bett, Cor-bett, Katl Bunnell and Paul Thorn set for important contests Bv W1LFLEY SCORBEY million in taxes on its last state-T DaCosta Clark, son of Dr. This is why your gas costs you ment. Chalk up more notches on and Mrs. J. C. Clark, returned 23 cents a gallon. I your cost sheet. from the Tongan LDS mission. iGuy in Texas owns five acres! of land. He pays a tax to keep BUT NOW WE ARE getting Why Gasoline Costs You 28 Cents a Gallon These Days istory , 10 Years Ago April 15. 1939 Dixon junior high school correspondents cor-respondents for the Daily Herald were: Atheen Knudsen, Gloria Singleton, Barbara Bailey, Bessie Bes-sie Gray, Iris Taylor and Arlene Knudsen Bishop Tan Styl-ian Styl-ian Noli, former premier of Albania, Al-bania, predicted that Adolf Hitler Hit-ler would be crowned "emperor of a new Holy .Roman Empire" Seven persons were killed during a tornado in Oklahoma a baby boy was born to Virgil Vir-gil and Aline Coleman Smith, April 13 Rotarian candidates were listed: J. Hamilton Calder, S. Dwight Packard, George Eller-beck, Eller-beck, Wyman Berg, W. R. Green, George W. Fitzroy. LaMar May-cock, May-cock, Preston A. Ashton, J. Elmer El-mer Jacobsen, J. C. Moffitt, Bpyce Rawlings and Sidney W. Russell. Boy Scouts Set Swimming Lessons HEBER Classes in life-saving and swimming for Boy Scouts of this area are being conducted at Luke's Hot Pot resort in Midway on Mondays and Tuesdays. Gene- Payne, water - safety chairman, and Myron Gale, First aid chairman, are conducting the classes which at -present number from 29 to 42 boys. The local Red Cross chapter is paying nearly one-third of the cost of the program, pro-gram, and the resort reduced rates for the activity. Scout leaders, of various Heber, troops have especially urged Scouts who lack only this training train-ing to become an Eagle to take the courses. that land. He pays it every year, I That is the first tax. I Whatever purpose he puts the land to, he has to get just that near home. Surely the taxes must; be running out. That is what YOU ; think! ' Your distributor pays taxes, too .much more out of it to offset 'Every tank, truck, hose, pipe and those taxes. That is a law of arith metic. building is waterlogged with 4avAe D 1 1 strtmoc Vile ttMinlr now (fresh license plates last BIRD COMES ALONG and dis-'month). It is a new truck.'Your covers oil. Makes a deal with the ! distributor just bought it. And Barbs By HAL COCHRAN The money you pay back always al-ways looks twice as large as the amount you borrowed. Watches for milady's knee are advertised again. To take the place of clockwork at the ankle? In the line of phrenology, a large bump above a man's ear in- Texas bloke to rent the land from him. Deal is closed.; Both now start to pay taxes on any income that comes from the land. Four big trucks, roll up with drilling equipment. Each truck is individually indi-vidually taxed. So is the fuel used in it. The drivers pay taxes. The drilling equipment is unloaded. un-loaded. The cost of that drilling equipment is way higher than it should be. A piece of machinery that once cost $2000, may now cost $4000. Mostly because of taxes. Tubes, cables, vforges, coal and riders are hauled in. Every item is carefully taxed. The future cost of your oil is already soaring be cause of the vicious chain of taxes. tax-es. And yet not a foot of rock has not only dfd he pay a federal tax for the mere privilege of buying it, but a state sales tax for the! same priceless privilege. All this on top of the truck manufacturer who, if he is like one manufacturer manufac-turer I know, paid as high as 200 million in taxes for the priceless privilege of making trucks. Your retailer gets the gas. Must we list his taxes? The taxes on his land, his station, even his blasted telephone calls! But now YOU drive up to buy five gallons of gasoline . . . for the pay-off! TONIGHT'S -TOP LISTENING 6:00 Jack Carson 6:30 My Favorite Husband 7:00 Ford TheaJer TIES 9sa- O O O O Two Solid Hours Of COMEDY! O. O 6:30 Jimmy Durante O7:00 Eddie Cantor 7:30 Red Skelton 8:00 Life of Riley Tonight! All On KE, i t xiSMaAass SO HELP ME, on top of that ghastly procession of taxes, those professional wind bags you insist on re-electing to office year after been drilled as yet. Not a drop of year, have the machiavellian oil has come out. ! crust to demand a 5'2 cents a gal Drilling starts. HlP B f AO he's argumentative at RUMBLES OF REVOLT Illinois Congressman Harold Velde, whoffe- placed Everett Dlrksen in Washington, is quifetly maKing gooa. une ot tne first things he did after election was to sit down with labor groups who opposed him and offer cooperation . . Credit Representatives Jackson of Washington, Mansfield Mans-field of Montana and Kirwan of Ohio all Democratswith Demo-cratswith doing p great job in defeating the private power lobby during debate on the reclamation . program1. Bill Rogers, dynamic ;counsel for the senate expenditures committee, is a Republican. But he chalked up such a good record with both Republicans Re-publicans and Democrats that derrtocratic senators sen-ators insisted he remain as mainspring of the committee . . . Toledo, O., may be a typically American city, but it turned out more art admirers ad-mirers percapita than any other city in the U.S.A. to' see the German masterpieces captured by the U.S. army. Toledo also did a great job in sending democracy letters p Italy largely inspired by live-wire Mayor Mike Di Salle. At a dinner meeting with north and south freshmen Democrats last week, Rayburn and McCormacTt heard increasing rumbles of "retaliation" "re-taliation" against southern coalitionists. This wasn't all cloakroom whispers. Quite a number of big-city Democrats, who believe in carrying out Truman campaign promises, have spoken out openly. Among them are Freshmen Democrats Anthony An-thony Tauriello of Buffalo, N.Y., and Earl Wagner Wag-ner of Cincinnati, who angrily told McCormack the time had come to "stop appeasing and start hitting back" at southern opponents sf the Fair Deal program. "I've had enough," bluntly asserted Tauriello. Tau-riello. "I was elected on the Truman program, and I believe in the whole program. I'm tired of seeing the program delayed and undermined by members of my own party. A lot of us think it's time to start retaliating." At the dinner, Rayburn and McCormack made strong pleas, for harmony. Since then the grumbling has somewhat subsided. I g.o.pThiope" i VICE-PRESIDENTIAL HUMOR I Oregon's bushy - browed Senator Wayne Morse, considered a black sheep by old guard Republicans, nevertheless has a strong though secret following in congress. This group not only takes its political cues from Morse, but is quietly boosting him for the vice presidency in 1952. He is the only Republican, Repub-lican, they feel, who can take votes away from the Democrats in thir greatest stronghold labor. Leaders of the Morse movement include such congressmen as John Phillips of California, H. R. Gross of Iowa and James Golden of Kentucky Ken-tucky all progressive Republicans. Morse, himself, him-self, didn't learn of their support until he was invited to talk off-the-record the other day be- Vice President Alben Barkley brought down the house with this story at President Truman's "Harmony" dinner with freshmen congressional Democrats. Here is the Barkley story: A minister sermonizing to his flock on the virtues, of friendship inquired if there were any members of the congregation who could honestly say they had no enemies. An aged man with a long beard arose in the rear af the church. "Ah, I am glad to see that there is at least one among us who can' answer my question," beamed the minister. "How old are you, sir?" "One hundred and four years." .,- "That, truy remarkable," said the reverend. Do you mind telling us how you have managed to be without enemies in such a long life span?" "Because,", said the old man, "1 Outlived tham all." The opportunity the average speaker doesn't take advantage of is the chance to stop talking before he does. Maybe people with money make other people sick because sour grapes have that effect. Q's and A's Q Who wrote the song "Kingdom "King-dom Coming?" A The song "Kingdom Coming" Com-ing" or "The Year of Jubelo" was written by Henry Clay Work during dur-ing the Civil War. It was copyrighted copy-righted in 1861 and published in 1862. The song was sung by Ne gro troops as they marched into Richmond, and later became quite popular among southern whites. Q How long will tobacco keep fresh in a sealed tobacco tin? A If there is the proper amount of moisture in the sealed tin the tobacco will keep fresh almost indefinitely. Experiments have shown that tobacco kept sealed for five years was in perfect per-fect smoking condition when the tin was opened. Q What wa&the name of General Gen-eral Sheridan's horse on his famous fa-mous ride to Winchester? A The horse was called Rienzi. I O Is Alaska larger than Texas? A If is. Alaska contains 586,- 40n crt 1 1 a re m it Vi 41 Tavdc rnn tains 267,339 square miles. Q Which chief, justice administered admin-istered the oath of office to United Unit-ed States presidents the greatest number of times? A Chief Justice John Marshall administered the inaugural oath LABOR DEMANDS must now be met. Labor dues must be paid. The drillers, already taxed for everything ev-erything they use or do, must demand de-mand more money to make a living. liv-ing. Up goes the future cost of your oil. Oil starts to flow. Tanks, barrels bar-rels and pipes are brought to the site. Each item is taxed. The workmen who install them are taxed. The companies who manufacture manu-facture them are taxed. Add more notches to the cost of your oil. The oil now flows to a refinery. The refinery does certain things to that oil. And your government does things to the refinery. Without boring youi with detail, will merely mere-ly say one! oil company paid on the last statement I saw, over 57 million dollars in federal and oth er taxes! Add that pocket changer i . i . . . : , i io ine cosi oi yuur on ana gasoline. gaso-line. But we are only getting started. The refined oil is now pumped into a tank car. It will be shipped to your distributor. That car may roll over three roads before it arrives ar-rives in your neighborhood. Each road pays a heavy tax. I know one railroad that paid over 69 Ion tax and then pretend they love the, common man and are socking the rich. Brother, they are not socking the rich. They are just socking you! Didn't anybody take arithmetic in grammar school! GETS NEW JOB AT 73 DALLAS, Tex. (U.R) Former Congressman Hatton W. Summers, Sum-mers, who served 34 years in Washington, has taken on a new job at the age of 73. Summers accepted ac-cepted an offer to become research re-search director of the Southwest Legal Foundation at Southern Methodist university in Dallas. Disastrous Fire Hits Philippines MANILA, April 15 (U.R) Another An-other fire destroyed four square blocks in Cebu, second largest city in the Philippines Thursday, causing the deaths of two persons and an estimated $300,000 damage. dam-age. The fire broke out about 4:30 n.m. and destroyed 1,000 houses before it was put out. A 63-ear eld paralytic and a five-year-old child werurned to death. A $1,500,000 blaze yesterday destroyed 1,500 houses. Some 13,-000 13,-000 persons were homeless. to Thomas Jefferson. This was the first of nine oaths Marshall was to administer over 32 years. Don't Miss IDA LUPINO DENNIS O'KEEFE . 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