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Show , There's Gold in Them Thar Hills Desk Chat, Editorial Column PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1948 Intermountqin Little Symphony Leads Out dream of its talented young conductor, Allen Jensen, it has gathered support rom many of the area's leading citizens who have form ed the Intermountain Symphony society apra sponsoring unit. . . While Mr,; Jens,en was responsible tor starting the orchestra, the fact that it is able to resume activities after, closing a radio broadcasting series is due to several hard working individuals of the society. These have put the love of good music, and the A substantial Dart of the culture of many .return for their efforts, and the community f America's creat-lis indebted to them because of it. est cities, revolves around a symphony or- This area may look forward to many ocj chestra which they can call their own. This casions when its people will enjoy great! could be true locallv with the Intermountain music at first ' hand because of the Inter- Little symphony, which has proved itseii an mountain L.iuie sympnony ana tnai is gooa excellent organization. Born solely bf the 1 news for any community. The announcement of six concerts to. be presented during the next few months by; the Intermountain Little symphony wijl be welcomed by central Utah music lovers. This area may well be proud that it now has a symphony orchestra of its own. -True, it already has the excellent Brigham, Yojmg university symphony, but the latter concerts con-certs have been all too few and many music lovers will appreciate the more frequent op- nortunitv to hear irood "live' music. Self-Starting Swiss Switzerland is still a land of hot water, Third Party of 1920 ' me Wallace tnira party recalls tnat ine ra clean linen, and plenty of good food, writes first world war was followed by an attempt! Huntington Smith from Gstad. This surface to start a third party, by forces akin to those prosperity is based solidly on a very real now supporting Wallace. This was the 1920 attainment, and communism is making ho Farmer-Labor party, sponsored by Prof, headway there. iJohn Dewey of Columbia university, editor . At tfie top, the government is a democratic of the "New Republic", and others of a lib- one, modeled after our own, except that in- eral viewpoint. They disapproved of the stead of a president, the executive branch consists of a seven-man board, whose members mem-bers rotate in the chairmanship. Communists, Commun-ists, whose only stronghold is in the southwest south-west in the French corner, have seve'n seats vout of 194 in the parliament. Their numbers are not increasing in Switzerland, because Treaty of Versailles,-so could not support a Democrat : and were even more violently out of sympathy with the Republicans. For a nucleus they hoped to build on the Farmer-Labor Farmer-Labor paty which had captured North Dakota, Da-kota, and to get union support. The results were disappointing. No big ; nearly everyone in that country owns - pro-.names joined the movement, so the ticket perty, in the form of a home or a business, consisted perforce of two candidates un-and un-and all are self-reliant and indtvidualistic.jknown outside of their own communities, With representatives of three nations and Parley P. Christensen of Utah, and Max S-two S-two religions, they get along harmoniously, Hayes of Ohio. The unions and the Farmer-The Farmer-The men can take all the credit for this jLaborites of the northwest held off, and prosperous regime, for women have never .the ticket got only 265,000 votes in. 21 had anything to say in governmental matters mat-ters there. In Zurich recently, two propo- soars r m c; x. -r i x -t & Overhead on the lu: "I just can't think - of i thing to send my lister for Jier birthday The only thing I'm sure of that will fit her is handkerchiefs and even then, I know she prefers tissues." The conscientious father had just outlined some of his objec- tionr to his daughters current boyfriend: "But. Dad, can't you make a little allowance .for his shortcomings?" begged the daughter. daugh-ter. . " 1 , "I am not complaining about his shortcomings. Alice. . I'm just objecting to his long stay ings." . oOo The kind of a girl-friend with whom we have no overpowering desire to become acquainted is Ihe one who told herboy-friend: "I'm making a resolution that you won't drink, smoke or stay out late nights with other girls .... and IH see to it that it isn'UDroken either." oOo-. Juvenile Logic ' "Qxiiit a number of plants and flowers have the prefix 'dog,' " the teacher explained to her class. Minutia L) .Jk states The Wallace movement has at lpast tun sitions were put before the electorate, one 'advantages over this failure. In.ia2a.th0 advocating complete suffrage for women, demand was for conservatism, todav for lib- knd the other offering them a ballot covr-eralism. And in Wallace it has a well-known mg religion, education and social welfare. Both were turned down unequivocally. Business is done with silver, four and.ajbetter than that of i920. quarter Swiss francs to a dollar. figure with a good, deal of popular appeal. The 1948 third party will probably do far Observers may well wonder about thL The professors are asking for higher pav ' Zio'rhad little to "bS" .bSE the Chopping Block Once News Now History mobile license, when I saw Sheriff Sher-iff Theron S. Hall bearing down upon me. Expecting no" less thr.n an arrest for "loitering I Hastily For Instance, the dog-rose and the dog-violet are well , known. Can you name another? j , rwi L . A .; j - incre was a saori siience, inn then ' a happy, look illuminated ' the . face of the last boy In the there ai;e collie-bowers. oOo- . . ' v From our Scrapbook-' . V ' for Yours .' , .., THREE' FLOWERS I made a little song about the rose And sang it for the rose to hear Norever marked until the riusic"! ' . close a my mai was listening near. The red. red rose flushed redder - with delight, : And like a queen her head sha raised; The white lily blanched a paler ' : white For anger that she was not praised. Turning, I left the rose unto her pride, The Jlly to her enviousness, A nH ennn nnnn lh sraaav crnnnl espied -A daisy all companionless. Doubtless no flattered flower is this, I deemedr- By FRANK C- ROBERTSON jAr.drespect for the rights of oth- I was leaning against the walljers'is tne very essence 01 respect :prom (nf Files of intone 01 ine corriaors 01 inc faf law. city and county building the other j the citie, and frequentiy ta day, having just gotten my auto1,. . ' neighbors, therefore, they carry a chip on their shoulders and are ready to swear out a warrant if Kon t .m rYiv Hpnc rfinir ncignDor s aog nappens u!wt.-w r- was waiting for my brother who!rrs ineir an- ciation. called a meeting to plan The Provo Herald 35 Years Ago . Feb. 1, 1913 Myron Newell, president of the was at that moment negotiating for his license, and having re cently been none too popular a The truth is we enjoy more freedom in the country than peo ple do . in towns. We suffer a small pockets of prosperity in the midst of the chaos of Europe: Switzerland, Luxemburg, Luxem-burg, Belgium, and to a lesser degree, Holland. Hol-land. What is their secret? Perhaps ft lies in that very self-reliance and individualism which this reporter noted in Switzerland. again, and if the people of this nation know' myself from the premises as soon Crime is merely an exaggerated what's good for them, they'll get it. Seems as if that man Stalin is taking up I SfiJatJdT; an unnecessary amount of space in the pap- the genial sher-ers. sher-ers. but what are you going to do about it?; M for livin in one 01 ine.moM as my business was finished. i form of social rebellion which Instead of being arrested, how-1 ises. " P portion at mans na- nuiai jiwvi LJvd aic tui bauru, The Washington Merry-go-Round (Copyright, 14I, by th Bell Snydicmte, Inc.) Drew Pearson Says; Distillers Conspire to Block Whiskey-Holiday Extension law abiding districts in the county. "I nev er t r o I thr '! Sheriff Hall said. -1 That wa s 'bership vote on it. He lost 12 to ,9. All 'the Re- ' and I think : ought to pass ty. "i nev- k have any j J' f u b 1 e up - ,, -t - k and Sundstrom. DEMOCRATS DEFEND BIG BCSJNE S S puDiicans except straton of Illinois voted to smother the bill in committee. Two Democrats joined them Brent Spence of the bie whikev WASHINGTON When chairman Jesse Wol- state of Kentucky and Frank Buchanan of Mt- cott 01 Aiicnigan called his banking and currency rveespori fa. ine loudest voices for the distil committee together to vote on extension of the ' were woicott. Nicholson whiskey holiday he swore every member to sec-1 rerv. IInrir nn pirnim.tanri h coirf mn Ka i details of the debate be breathed' outside the com-! Four Democrats bolted President Truman ii mitte room. - j tne secrecy of the last closed-door ways ana However, here is the story of the whiskey mea.ns committee session on taxes. They voted debate that followed, together with another sec- aa'nt cutting lower-bracket taxes and restor-ret restor-ret meeting, this one held by the big distillers. ! ,ng Pai tl excess-profits taxes on corporations. me auiiei mceung was neia in oraer i,. ,-Thr fJ Demo.raUc b.ek.i,,,,, limit v s v i n v - iii'iv j iiviiuvj 1 uuc IV v A pire this Saturday midnight, Jan. 31; would F"EAlRSONPblNTS TO-ACCUSED-TRAITOR-; I On Nov. 1, 1947, Drew Pearson was the I first to expose the fact that Lieutenant Mar-j Mar-j tin James Monti of St. Louis, had deserted -! the army, stele an American plane, landed ! behind the German lines and enlisted in the I elite SS Corps yet was still in the V. S. I. army. Following Pearson's story, the FBI on j Jan. 26 arrested Monti on a charge of treason. and A s Q Why were the Progressives Called the BullyMoose Party in 1912? A The name is derived fronv Theodore Roosevelt's remark at the beguming of the camptigrf, "I feel asf it as a bull moose," Representatives Bob Doughton of North Caro lina, wiibnr Mills of Arkansas. Noble Gregory Greg-ory of Kentucky and Sidney Camp of Georgia. Doughton was the most vigorous in demanding demand-ing relief for the high-bracket taxpayers. "They've got to be considered the same the lower brackets," argued the 84-year-old North ! aroiinan. a man with four dependants Under I mis pian wouia get a total exemptionOf $200 : man no reuet lor a big taxpayer not be extended for another month. With the senate favorable to an extension of the holiday. the distillers figured their only hope was to' block the bill in the house banking and currency committee of which Congressman Woicott is 1 chairman. -TOUGH BUDGET TQCUT- Enthusiastically the Hiram Walker representative rep-resentative volunteered the information that he could control Woicott. The senate whisky-holiday whisky-holiday extension would be blocked in Wol-cott's Wol-cott's committee, he said. When Wolcott's committee met, here is what Senate Republicans discussed the world's largest bankroll behind dosed doors the other day and finally admitted that two billions is the most that can be trimmed off the president's aomesuc Duagei The . senators gathered in the statelv. marble caucus room, swung the ponderous doors shut behind them and sweated for two hours over theirgireat problem in subtraction. The big voices, Policy-Chairman Bob Taft. Conference-Chairman I Eugene Millikin of Colorado, and Appropriations- happened. GOP Congressman Donald Nicholson, , Ch;irman styl BrTdg 1 H.hire did obstreperous Massachusetts freshman, sat down 111 most of th? tajking i "Ps,uir leal ileal iia licau ui ,tjcr lauic and offered a resolution to table the whiskey holiday. He did this even before the resolution extending the holiday was read. His motion end ed in a tie vote. Taft urged that the Republicans set a certain cer-tain figure and then trim the budget to try to meet it. At best." he admitted, Ht would be an intei rniomer rtepuDiican. r ranK sunasirom or ixew -- - , v "- mo-t . much as flower lovers Jersey, tried to break the deadlock with a com- recognizing, of course, that some emergency might TO?" decire .n ooen season on promise extending the whiskey holiday for thirty 1 that compliment compli-ment on to the DeoDle of MaD- leton. where I Kofceruon live, for I think it is wel served. In 10 years of residency there I have heard of very few misdemeanors misde-meanors among our citizenry; and not a single felonyand there are upwards of a thousand of us. It's c pretty goorK record. . it's true that I havetJeen shot at a time or two, bur it was in good clean fun, a sportsman mistaking the top of-my, head for a pheasant one morrnng as I sat in my living room quietly reading the paper. nd sprinkling the room with class and birdshot. But on the whole peace and quiet reign supreme. su-preme. About the only time we've had to ak protection of the law, or from ftie law if you prefer, has been when we've had to ask the town' marshal to come and get his trespassing horses out of our dooryard. Despite the sheriff's kind words I doubt if we are more law abiding abid-ing than other people. We are just plain country folks and don't find so many things to get het up about. Take the matter of dogs, for instance,, s which' I see by the papers pa-pers is again agitating some of the good people of Provo. Dogs and e.nd posies, it seems, just don't grow, well together in crowded quarters. Up here we let our dogs run wild and free as nature in tended. If they get into trouble"! it their own lookout. We have sheepmen, a strange race of people, who hate dogs al Why are carnations of any lor called pinks? A The name Js derived from the verb "to pihg." meaning to de-! siao or pierce, ana applied to car a state organization " the Springville Opera House comRanyj filed articles of incorporation with a. $25,000 capital stockand A. C. Bird, president f W. H. Boyle of Santaqiiin diejr at the age of 62 the BYtf defeated the Buflington team. 49 to 17, pleasing Coach Roberts with the team passing City Attorney Jacob Coleman filed suits against 31 persons delinquent in their 1912 Doll tax J. W. Gess- ford, Salt Lake, City, arrived ., to old tabernacle bell whi tunc 1 1 iiiaiiaKcriiicrii v ui uic tiuint- son Paint and Glass company. 20 Year 8 Ago Feb. 1. mg Otto Olsen, 55. Provo Bench farmer, died from apoplexy, was reported to nave beerr re sponsible forb r i n g iirg Jack Dempsey into i the Joxing game Turkish newspapers reported re-ported a revolution breaking out ii At n : f : i edges of , tleir petals. val 8ndK1mniia:l , ing mobilized the BPW club What hrm ot .TrfArnn enjeriainea me senior nrgn scnooi his release from Davis after prison? . A A fi.a ki. Mnl j i on a Li I returned to his Mississippi estate where he lived in retirement. During this time he wrote "The i Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government." Q What is a difference in ' heraldry? A A small mark put by younger sons on the family shield to indicate departure from the main line of descent. It may take various forms such as a bird, an animal, etc. ' girls at a. party the BYU high was defeated by Provo high 31 to 27 in basketball the Montana Bobcats suffered their first defeat, Utah "Aggies, led by Glen Worthington, winning 47 to 44. . 10 Years Ago Feb. 11938 A British steamship was sunk near the Spanish coast by a submarine, sub-marine, killing" three British sub jects and a.Swedish officer of the Spanish non-intervention com mittee the Utah Power and Light company filed a petition for a rehearing of the Provo mu NEW HEARING AID SOUGHT Ricpal power plant case in the CHICAGO U.R) ' A total of supreme court, after a decision BY RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE People have been calling me and saying that something, must be done about the shenanigans now going on at the county infirmary. in-firmary. About all I can tell them is write to the paper (and I see people are doing just that). Of codrse, I am always glad to air opinions in this column if no other way can be found, and 1 have done so frequently, even when I am not always in agreement, agree-ment, but I think people should know that they too can protest in the public prints, and do not have'to rely on others to do it. All you have to do is write a readable and printable letter, and sign your name to it. A good corner full of squawk letters is an indication of a healthy civic) condition. Take advantage c I haven't had the radio on this morning (Friday) so I missed it but my Lady Mother yhrought word from the store that Mo-handis Mo-handis Gandhi has been: shot. Well, il it is true, the murderer has done an inestimable amount of harm to every human being on the globe, whether they ever heard of Gandhi or not. Now I must waitfor the next newscast, Ms with what patience I can. If theK news 4 true, AND WE HAD A beul., now would indeed bearH appropriate time to toll it, ahdI, jersonally would volunteer. We snouid nave a Den, it is- perfectly ridiculous for Provo not to have a bell mean a bejl'tbat is ring- able. Idon t car who sets up our too-long silent bell (and I might say here that almost never do the people who should get credit for such things as restor ing bells, get it). I don't care who sets it up, just so it rings once more. By the" way, Mrs brought me a lovely photo of the s now in the lower campus tower. That ought to ring toox-'Some lovely things , we could have, with a minimum ofjpffort, but we are too lary Latef: The Tadio reports that dhi is indeed dead, and trange as it may seem, a shiver of relief goes over me that the assassin was One of Gandhi's own kind, and not a man from the ODposite camp. The remarkable old fighter was killed by bigotry, the failure of one mind to underJ stand the great tolerance of another. an-other. All . great men are murdered mur-dered bv bigotry. Gandhi's conditions con-ditions for breaking his last fast could be used by every civilized human being or nation to make a better world, but it presupposes that all men are brothers, . and that sort of thing the bigoted mind cannot comprehend. Of course there is partisan politics, but partisan 'politics is also a form of bigotry. What a lovely spectacle spec-tacle dothr human-kind present in this so-called year of our Lord, who also died of bigotry, an insidious in-sidious and ugly disease. Wellr nothing to do but wait, now, and see what explodes next, and where. One thing is sure, the bid world will not die of ennui and boredom, but is that any consolation?. So long, folks. And not so graciously it grew As rose or lily; but methought it seemed More thankful for the sun and dew. , - Dear love, my sweet small flower that grew'st among The grass, from all the flowers apart, . Forgive me, that I gave the. rose my song Ere Thou, thedaisy, hadst my 1 heart! William Watson Ironical Antithesis: some peopla don t pave to turn out the lights to bo- in the dark. . .. strange, lsn t it, that pres- enti day congressmen forget Jthat the USA enjoyed its greatest wasn't doing fool things to make them better? X . . . isn't it funny bow quickly a person 'givesup' when he is protected by a sick benent pol icy? did'jaever hear of a mil- lion-doflar crook who wasn't highly indignant when he dis covers tne oisnonesty oi one oi eap hirelings? , why is it that the artists who portray horns of plenjty nev er depict one with a big platter of good old ham and eggs? Secretary's Lame'nt The big boss sits in an easy chair And . blovs gentle smoka rings Into the-'hazy air. While I rush about from hither to yon And da the work of a Maybelle Larry nd John. My schedule's at least a month- behind f -I Rut 'narv a nur fta .r Pierces my jellied mind. ' tell the boss I must have more . help: . If he is to continue Raking in the Help But he advises me to keep calm x And fate will reward My calloused palm. Ano a oeviusn scneme dotm in my brain y Prosperious reign ... The firm will suffer a terrifil loss When I vamoose some after. noon And leaye my job to tha boss! . INSPIRATION Dearest One Whene'er you scan A verse of mine Penned in a . . Passionate hue You feel that Every line is written , Just for YOU. Take this then As a thing to rue ' ' Though we shall' Never marrv. - My poems are really. ' Inspired by you. - And Tess. . .and Jack: , And Mary! $24,000 will be spent at the Uni versity of Northwestern'? speech and hearing clinic in an effort to pioneer research on new and improved im-proved devices for deaf persona. The equipment will include five sound-propf rooms, wire recording apparatus! phonographs, high fidelity fi-delity amplifying, loud speakers, headphones arjd microphones. favoring the city had been handed hand-ed down Lydia Allred, junior at the BYU, was scheduled for special honors after donating rare type of blood to a patient stricken with infantile paralysis city , residents were offered a five per cent discount, either on flat rate or meter, by paying water charges a year in advance. days but giving the distillers 4,000,000 bushels of grain per month instead of their. 2,500,000 bushels. This was flatly rejected. Republicans-demanded that the whiskey holiday be completely abandoned.- while Democrats refused to budge above the present monthly grain quota. r UNCOROLLEbWOLCb'TT Chairman Woicott, the man Hiram Walker said they could control, then launched" into a fiery tirade against controls. ' "If you are going to put controls on liquor,'1 "he exploded, "you will have to put controls on steel next. People are tired of controls!" -Democratic members fought back, led by Monroney of Oklahoma, Brooks Hays of Arkansas, Arkan-sas, Albert Rains of Alabama and Wright Pat-mark Pat-mark of Texas. With the world starving, they said, congress could not afford to put liquor ahead of bread. They also reminded GOP colleagues that the whiskey holiday was all that was left of the Republican anti-inflation bill. The senate sen-ate bill had been heartily endorsed by Taft and not one Republican senator voted against It, Did the house Republicans Intend to Junk even this? 'Alabama's Rains tried to push through a motion continuing the whiskey' holiday tor one . month with hearings to decide on a further six-, six-, month extension. But he got nowhere. Finally Arkansas' Hays moved to vote the resolution1 res-olution1 out of committee and let the full mem- Millikin suggested slicing off a total of two bil lion dollars from the president's estimate, shaving off a little from each government agency. Bridges warned that two billions was the most the government's gov-ernment's housekeeping expenses could be reduced. re-duced. He read a list of appropriations that might have to be cut. When his ax fell sharply on reclamation-projects. Senator Milt Young of North Dakota, interrupted. "What are you trying to do," he said, "give' away the election?" j . "1 was just trying to illustrate." explained ex-plained the New Hampshire senator, "what it means when you talk about making cuts. If we start cuting this budget, we are not going to get all the projects we would like to hare." Idaho's Henry Dwprshak delivered an impassioned im-passioned harangue, urging that federal employes be weeded jut. ; ine departments are aim siuired with wartime personnel, he shouted. The conference finally ended just where It started with no definite figure set. Note Oregon's rebel. Wayne Morse, finally stretched out on a leather davenport. Near-by senators sen-ators asked if he was feeling ill. , v . "No," whispered Morse, "these Republican conferences always lay me low." 1 Everybody atys the government should cut expenses, and then everybody joes righ aneaa demanding new expeditures. who declare an open season on Our pets for twelve months in the year. As long as they refrain from the use of traps and poison, and give the dogs a sporting chance for their lives we don't make any fuss about it. Not so long ago our own dog came home with a hide full of birdshot, but he got little sympathy from us. He wasn't minding his own business. The other night I was awaken ed at three-thirty in the morning by a bombardment of shots some little distance away. Ten minutes later a car dashed past and I heard another shot in the road in front of the house. Forgetting that our dog was peacefully asleep in in easy chair in the living room I got mad. Shooting at our dog when he strays away ' from home is one thing,- chasing him. all the way home to get him on his own door-step is another. In this occasion the . dog was innocent, in-nocent, a,nd so was the fchooting. Somebody probably had seen a band of deer down In the settle ment and was merely ,iryingiY frighten them back irv trra hills where they belong.'" , Being farmers we have learned that Wecan't get along- without ual help. And, since we have to have help ourselves, we learn to respect the riahts of others. v HO MA'AM! 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