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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH vflsfliitKaeoTiv ipnsaefe Experts Needed to Set I Impartial Budget Figure By BAUKHAGE (Editors Note: This is another in "the News Analyst and Commentator. Stories of the States series.) By EDWARD EMERINE WNU features. Old Jim Bridger, at his lonely debt fort on Green river, talked to the leader of the strange band and learned these emigrants were headed for the Great American Desert beyond the mountains. He tried to dissuade the leader, a determined sort of man, and pessimistically remarked that he would give a thousand dollars if he ever saw an ear of corn grown in Salt Lake valley. The emigrants moved on, and a hundred years ago, on July 24, 1847, Brigham Young looked out Across a seared and desolate land of sagebrush and alkali, and said: This is the place! One lone tree clung to life in the entire valley. Heat waves danced and hot breaths of air came up the canyon. If there were inward doubts among his followers, none is recorded. Obediently the band moved into the desert. t Mormon Convert. Brigham Young was a native of Vermont and of Revolutionary ancestry. He had become a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, the Mormon church. When Joseph Smith, the founder, was killed at Nauvoo, 111., Brigham Young was chosen to take his place. Rocks and hills and desert did not deter him. They were hut the materials with which he would build. In this strange land he and other Mormons would be far removed from religious and political differences. Here they would have a land of their own. A dreamer was Brigham Young, but he was a doer as well. Perhaps his eyes saw more than the mirages on the desert that day. He might have envisioned the Territory of Deseret, the beginning of an American epoch, the birth of a vast and proThe valleys and ductive region. mountains that his people were to colonize later were before him, and there was a temple to be built, pities and towns to be laid out, industries to be developed, canals and ditches to be dug, and water to be spread over the thirsty soil. Faith Saves Crops. The Mormon leader likened the group to a swarm of bees beginning a new hive. The Beehive became their symbol, and all men were workers. The hardships of crossing the plains and mountains were as nothing compared to conquering the There were discouraging desert. days when hunger stalked. Huge locusts came to eat their crops. Have faith! Have faith! Pray! And they had faith, and they prayed. Out of the skies swarmed seagulls thousands and thousands of them and they devoured the locusts! Brigham Young stated his wants and the groups needs, and builders set to work. The famed Mormon tabernacle was built without nails or steel. Monumental Effort. At the ground level of the Salt Lake Mormon temple are huge earth stones, each weighing three tons, and 50 in number. A mountain of the Opera House in Nuernberg when German musicians were first permitted to assemble there. The house had four walls intact and part of the roof, but only part of it. The rest as covered with canvas which kept out most of the falling snow but didnt keep out the cold. No pretense was made of heating the auditorium, and the place was freezing cold. Yet it was packed. The program however could not be completed. This was not due to the fact that the audience walked out they stood or sat with the snow seeping in on them. The musicians fingers simply got too cold to function. That was a year ago last November. Today with the cooperation of the American military government, orchestras have sprung up in every town in the American zone and a large part of the broadcast programs are musical. Reeducating the German in the field of music will be a less Herculean task than it is in other fields, for music has always been part of the home training of the German child not merely something for which the music teacher was alone responsible. I remember a German home I used to visit before World War I in which the short period after the evening meal and the time the youngest went to bed and the eldest went to his other studies was largely a musical hour. The most interested and active member of the group was the father. Here in America we leave too much of the childs musical training to the schools. As the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, who is visOur iting our country, remarked: ears must be trained to perceive the simpler musical phenomena before being able to follow the more complicated forms, and it is obviously the duty of public schools to give this first training to every- Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. As the wrangle jver the budget, taxes and national continues, about the only comfort I can offer Mr. Taxpayer of 1947, if he shqpld ask me for pw-it, is a hearty better luck next (VNU j year. And that is no vain hope, either. There is a very good chance that government will cost less next year. This will not be due to any widely heralded econ-m- y swing the axe,. or drives which congress often iromises and seldom delivers. If he budget is proportionally smaller lext year, it will be because figures prepared by the Bureau of the Bud-jwill have been checked by fiscal experts who get d heir jobs on merit and who are to no political party. These nen now are being selected by a so-call-ed et con-jressio- obli-jate- granite 20 miles away furnished the material. Huge granite blocks were quarried in a canyon, slung with chains from heavy carts and drawn by oxen to the site. Over 40 years from the time Brigham Young designated the temple site, the construction was complete, the angel Moroni set in place and 75,000 people took part in the dedicatory services. But Brigham Young had been dead for many years. The climate of Utah is dry, stimulating and wholesome. The sky is so clear that no cloud specks it on 300 days of a year. Lacking rain, the Mormons pio- - ' neered irrigation in America, bringing water from the mountains to irrigate crops m the desert. Today, Utahs chief crop is sugar beets, but vegetables and fruits are Other crops grown in profusion. are wheat, oats, potatoes, hay, alfalfa, corn, barley and rye. 0 More than two million sheep, dairy cattle and a half million beef cattle are grazed in Utah. Wool production amounts to 20 million pounds annually. Manufacturing in Utah began with the Mormon pioneers, who wove woolen clothing, mined coal, quarried rock, canned fruit and vegetables, made sugar from beets, installed grist mills, slaughtered cattle for meat, made butter and cheese, and utilized other raw products at hand. The great copper mines came later, with smelting and refining of ores to follow. Bingham, Magna, Tooele, Garfield and Provo became mill towns. The Geneva steel plant at Provo is the largest in the West, with a mountain of ore We cannot eat gold and silver, warned Brigham Young, but many were lured by those and other metals to explore the desert and mountains. Mineral resources of Utah are varied, including gold, silver, lead, iron, manganese, gypsum, oil, coal, copper, salt, zinc and many oth- ers. In southern Utah the climate is l, but in the northern and semi-tropica- IF body. Germany of course has another great advantage that America lacks. Goebbels has been removed. Ame- s? con-pressm-an Log-rolli- 100,-00- close beside it. jrofessional expert personnel oaned from the business world. At this writing the house and sen-it- e are struggling to find a compro-nis- e cut in the budget. Until they letermine the size of the budget, hey cant be sure of what they iught to do about taxes or reduc-n- g the national debt. U it werent that the budget were compiled by one party and authorized by another, we wouldnt have as much wranNow there is nothing gling. wrong with having plenty of debate on a subject like this, provided one or both sides are voting on the basis of actual facts which are set forth by a disinterested authority whom the public will accept. Such an authority will be provided, we hope, by the staff of fiscal experts next year. Without such experts what hap-enThe house goes on record as 0 the budget cut it thinks it wants make. The appropriations com- nittee cuts down the various items. bill is submitted again to the louse and the fight begins, each attempting to restore as nuch of the appropriation for his let projects as possible. jets under way and the total is taised. The same thing happens in the lenate where an individual senators lemands are accorded even more veight. Eventually the ante is raised little more. And if it doesnt get lack up to the Presidents original 137,500,000,000 estimate (which may lave been too high itself) there will le a supplemental bill passed later vhich will absorb any extra dollars hat are lying around. When Senator Taft was asked by Democratic Senator McMahon (who vas attacking the Republican cut) f Taft wanted the senate to pass without having in the question nuch information as to what we Taft frankly replied: ire doing, We can only make an intelligent guess. We have no information before us as to the particular items of the $37,500,000,-00- 0 budget, in justification of the figure fixed by the budget (buwe only know what is reau) 1 CHIEF EXECUTIVE . . . Herbert B. Maw, native of Ogden, is serving term as Utahs his second four-year A lawyer, teacher, and legislator, he has been prominent in Latter Day Saints church affairs. governor. eastern parts there are skiing and winter sports at high altitudes. Utah scenery will compare with any in the world. Here are mountains as grand as the requested. Alps, sunsets that rival those of That is the keynote: We only Italy and Greece. Marvelous mow what is requested. canyons, mammoth stone Why should the opposition party bridges, weird rock formations on faith the administrations ake and other master works of naWe have two parties to check igure? ture are found throughout the in each other. Taft admits the state. havent the facts now but in ordinary years adds that le The mountain lakes and streams will have a staff working dur 'we and fine forests the fishing provide d supposedly abound in game bear, elk, antelope, ng the recess of these neutral experts who and chickens grouse, deer, prairie which can low are being hired others. ;ive us more intelligent information Utah, once a formidable desert, han we now have. now teems with populous cities and Theres the hope. thriving villages. Once parched and burned ground has been changed to green fields, gardens and orchards. If usic Basis for Paved highways, airlines and sev- Vorld Understanding eral transcontinental railroads proFew Russians heard the early vide transportation. What wonders itate department broadcasts, inauga hundred years have wrought! urated last month, and those who This year every city and hamlet lid were critical of the musical in Utah is preparing a celebration. hillbilly objecting to They will celebrate the centennial of unes like Turkey in the Straw. the arrival of Mormon pioneers. Less They complained too about Bing than 75 per cent of, the people are Drosbys singing of Stephen Foster now Mormons, but all will join in litties. that celebration regardless of creed. This is only one instance where The building of Utah was the open- nusic has segued into world news ing of the West. It was an epoch in tince the war. I remember visiting American history. ... ns com-lose- MORMON SHRINE . . . Notable among Salt Lake Citys attractions is the Mormon temple. Last of the Latter Day Saints temples in Utah to be completed, the Salt Lake City edifice was begun in 1853 and not completed until 1893. The temple is built of granite, many of theinlarger 1873. before a railroad was built blocks being carted by Seen in silhouette to the left is the famous Mormon tabernacle, noted for its acoustics and organ. ox-tea- ricas musical dictator has not. Hi3 organization has a standing resolution which reads: The federation urges its locals to use their political and economic strength to combat the encroachment of high school bands and orchestras. Th dictator I refer to is, of course, one Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians; the resolution is from their constitution which in conferring authority on him uses phrases like this: It shall be his duty and prerogative to make decisions in cases, where in his opinion an ecutive orders which shall be executive orders which shall be conclusive and binding upon all members etc. Such a resolution and such absolute authority runs directly counter to the advice of Kodaly and to the thinking of anyone interested in the cultural development of America or in democracy itself for that matter. This is one of the many facets of our musical life which touch politics as music touches many of the nations other activities, past and present For example, during the war cynicism was expressed in songs like Lillie Belle with its Aint You Glad Jingle, Jangle-OYoure Single. There were songs created out of a higher emotional level, too, like God Bless America; Therell Always Be an England; The White Cliffs of Dover, and what was perhaps an escape-son- g from all the sordidness of war, Oh, What a Beautiful Morning.'" No, the Russians didnt like the And I hillbilly American music. doubt if the average American could absorb much of the somber and mournful Russian folk dirges although they contain beauty enough to the ear accustomed to hearing them and the mind trained to interpret them. That must be remembered in considering all cultural relationships to world peace. We must be informed not only about the world as a whole, but specifically about each other. Mature interpersonal understanding implies a knowledge of each others environment and also the habits, tastes and thinking produced by that environment. Music is a partof everyones life; an expression as well as an impression. We cannot live peacefully with each other in our homes or on the globe without the establishment of understanding intercommunication. Music, understood, will be part of that necessary intercommunication. h, |