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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD. DUCHESNE, UTAH mtm Hme and Chance' Tale of a Credo fc: ILU Little Cost or Effort to Make Colonial Broker r:r mfJ-- ifffl DREW PEARSON Artist Writer Builds Self Philosophy 'for to Admire' Russia Is Losing 'Cold -- frank at times, and oh, so secret in a frank mood the other me by confessing that Russia day, however, and he surprised war. cold the lost about had just who was qf high rank, probably let his hair down Russians can be very THEother times. I caught one The diplomat, was tellingUie because he was talking to another ambassador. I think he truth. At any rate, he listed three basic errors made by Moscow. They were: economic The belief that the U. S. would face wide unemployment and would enable this 1. The war. expected the soon after politburo collapse You see them to point to the United States and tell European nations: what a sham American capitalism is. mistaken belief that the Frenchmen and Italians who 2 . Moscows flocked to Communist banners after V-- Day were real Communists. campaign that was staged by Molotov and 3 . The Vishinsky. This diplomat reported that Stalin and his associates still believe the United States is on the verge of collapse. The Soviet them embassy In Washington hasnt been ablo to convince otherwise. The politburo also still thinks that American collapse would prevent wholesale aid to western Europe under the Marshall plan, and that American unemployment soon will make American manufacturers plead with Russia for large orders from the Soviet union to keep U. S. factories going. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. Every once in a while, I devote this column to a book. Not a review, but just my feelings about the book and its author. I couldnt help writing about "Time ai-- d Chance by artist Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Not merely because the book interested me, or because it is a most attractive piece of autobiography, or because the drawings are a book in themselves, or because other reviewers liked it but because I happened to share some of the experiences it describes and because I lived, as he (and you) did, through the times and chances which Baldridge interprets in terms of his own. " " $ Also I want to write a review bebroken heart and a sketchbook, cause of what these experiences, the as spurs. Unbelievably, without fruits of the varied environments which the artist-authdescribes, credentials, he wormed his way did to form a career, a character, a through beleaguered Belgium to the German front, where he philosophy, which is "for to see and learned to hate war. He came to admire. back to fight out a career In In Roys own words, it is the story, New York. "how of partly done in pictures, a Im not going to write any more but provincial of Roys story for it is his story told an farm boy got better than I could hope to reinternational far count it. I can only say that when view. of point World War I came to America he He summarizes his own thoughts had his part in it, a fraction of which I again was lucky enough to share on this attractive volume with him. He was a cartoonist on in a note to me, the Stars and Stripes, after experiences on every front with the this way: "Grandfather French. I joined him in Paris after the armistice. Walking down Rue (was a) 'sharela Paix one day with Roy I was cropper and vet. de reminiscences of riding "At seven mumbling beside my battery of 155s. Suddenly (Roy) was drivhe grabbed me by the arm. Buck, ing a horse on Baukhage mothers wagon he said, that's poetry. Lets write a book. Ill illustrate it. through Arkansas, selling cooking Of course, it wasnt poetry but it pots. was verse the G.I.s of our day un"Worked way derstood and the illustrations were with Baukhage." art, If art is life and death (Roy did the working, I, subsias Roy had seen it. loafed dized, considerably.) We came back and went our sepaPeace conference (Paris, 1919) rate ways. He now had a partner, Wion sold with Baukhage, and Caroline Singer, a perfect complelson's idealism. Still sold on idealment. She was a California newsism, the term now altered with the paper woman. They built a home, times. leaving it periodically to travel the to save "Worked enough money Seven Seas China, enough to see Far East, Near East, again, India, Africa, Japan, Europe he how India. (And Africa, out their books in perfect collaboraworked!) 400-pag- e criss-crossin- g Then he concludes: All men the same, discounting the apparent differences caused by varying backgrounds caused by 'time and chance. reach that conclusion, Roy made an Odyssey beginning with the "cooking pots into domains of which Homer never dreamed. He had an artists eye trained from the age of 12 when he was tolerated in a Chicago art school with young artists who were later to achieve national reputations. Such men as John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist; Timid Webster, creator of the and many others. Goudy, Soul, the great type designer, who died last year, was Roy's teacher, along with the schools director, Frank Holme, who became a second father to the wide-eyechild. At that school, Roy learned his most important lesson self criticism. His mother and Roy became bellhop and baggage-smashe- r in his stepfather's small-towcommercial hotel; finally he went to college on a scholarship which, when he arrived, he found wasn't there. Utterly alone, without the social prestige of a college fraternity, he achieved campus success; became what was considered a "prominent student. To d He grew to realize the emptiness of "college honors but, unlike Vincent Sheean who was to follow him, Roy learned to acquire the university which he had collegiately exploited. At our UOih reunion, he interpreted the word "university in its obsolete but new meaning: "the whole all things . . . the universe a body of persons . . . tlie body of the people. ...... shared those campus years with Roy, but I missed most of their significance and experience, for I was carefully sheltered (after a few freshman heartbreaks) behind the protective coloring of Greek letters. But I managed to know Roy and learn a little from his experiences. He is a man who inspires high loyalties. e There was a period when we lost each other. He was commercial-artinand living in the University of Chicago settlement, where he taught art to little tnughs from the stockyard district, developed a social conscience, became a national guard cavalryman (because he dreamed of "going west" end being another Frederick Remington), got his first peep into the woild of culture and fell in love with a chaming and "modern mentor out of a world until then strange to him. One day shortly after World War I broke out, I received a long distance telephone call. It was Roy, he was going overseas. Wouldnt I join him? I h8d just completed a tour of European wandering much more conventional than Roy's was to be. I also had a job. So I, the congenital bourgeoise, rejected the Idea. I tion. But Roy's book is his own story, a perfect American saga. As Ameri-ca- n as the wind that blows the Midwest corn fields; as foreign as the sounds and smells of Yoko- Peking, hama, the click of sabots in a tiny French village, varied as its diplomats, kings, Senegam-bania- n belles and Teheran beauties. But its more than that. Its the story of the making of a human philosophy old as the Mongolian mountains which are a part of its background, new as today. ribbon-breaste- d Left and right, writes Baldare not two evils, they are the same evil; and safety without the solidarity of class- ridge, conscious groups, screaming slogans, or party orders to lean upon, liberals must be staunch enough to walk a lonely road. I know that Roy would like to have me conclude this review if with the you want to call it that following quotation which gave him his title, the biblical quotation: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. I would not dare to doubt the words of the Preacher (Ecclesiastes IX: 11) but 1 know that here was a man who grasped time by the forelock, was able to hog-ti- e and saddle it, and one who took his chances if not without fear, at least without faltering. When Tovarich gets the Idea his rubles are going to be worthless, he in a beacts just like a wage-slave nighted capitalistic country. E GIFT FOR CHEESE LOVERS . . . Curious shoppers watch Tony Scu-tilWisconsin-mad- e cut in half the huge provolene cheese which went on sale as a special holiday item In a Greenwich Village market in New York. Helen Rippa is the impatient shopper seated on the cheese. lo 1,500-pou- NEWS REVIEW Wallace Enters Race; Romanian King Leaves Henry Wallace was deluding no not even himself, about his chances of being elected President of the United States in 1948 on a third party ticket when, with zealous idealism, he announced that he would be an independent candidate. His entry into the contest, as he broadannounced on a nation-wid- e cast from Chicago, was based upon his revulsion against "the reactionary war policy which is dividing the world into two armed camps. Both Republicans and Democrats, he indicated, can be filed in the because same political pigeon-hol- e poliboth stand for the cies which are leading the nation war and depression. That menace can be met and overcome only by a new political alignment in America which requires a new political party, averred the former vice president. Whether or not it could be met a peace party by a third party founded on the assumption the U. S. must a softer, adopt more one, that Later I learned that he then had two incentives I lacked: A T TAKES only a few feet of c or knotty pine boards, a fuljjj Pattern, hand tools J two evenings spare time to ir this charming Montpelier K case. No, you dont have to know Tru-Edg- e about carpentry or possess any i, I skill for using tools. All you do Is ,0r the pattern on the wood the pattern i fies, saw it and assemble the parts a pattern indicates. Why not make your home your hob- - R making the things your home needs 25 cents In coin or money order for Pattern Co i tern No. 18 to Easi-Bil14, Pleasantville, N. Y. . d WALTER WINCHELL Notes From the Late Watch London Braces England is full of suspense but it isnt the kind that keeps a mans trousers up. British braces (suspenders ), made Someone better look into the local college basketball setup before another betting scandal breaks up that sport Insiders allege that a players pappy is a big bookmaker. Thassall. Uncle Sams newest weapon Is an bomb. . . . Congressman y Fred Hartley (the man) will quit congress after this term. He already is accepting lecture dates at $1,000 per lec. . . . The very funny film, "The Senator will land in the Was Indiscreet, howl of fame. Director George S. Kaufman gives an important part to a diary. He knows about diaries, you may recalL anti-atom- Taft-Hartle- under a government order limiting the elastic to three inches at the back, have been the cause of a number of London breeches falling down and finally drove Historian Arthur Bryant to reporting his plight in a letter to the London Times. In the past year, he said, he bought four pairs of braces. " After each occasion, lamented Bryant, " the braces have broken irretrievably within three months. The Times, in a helpful mood, deplored the situation in an editorial: " The Four Freedoms are a hollow mockery if our braces are going tQ be bursting all the time. No nation can be expected to bold up its head if it also is required to bold up its trousers," OY.fh'OW IT POPS' I kfg?m CRl$Pm TENDER f) ahoH3 HULLS Jim Farley (in a speech) recommends reviving German Industry because it would not become a threat in our lifetime. Speak for yourself, Jim. Some folks expect to be around more than another few years. Laugh of the week: The girl friend went flying through of a playboy-hei- r the 23rd floor window of a midtown hotel, landing on the terrace one floor below. They were doing an adagio routine "for laffs." Everybody was "in stitches, including her head. mm Ol ftf iestfe!j Oldest fan club In the U. S. is said to be Gus Vans of the once e renowned team. Van and Schenck. big-tim- DO THIS TONIGHT WALTER SHEAD archy in the Soviet sphere of influence in eastern Europe and the last throne held by the House of Hohen-zolle- Co-o- p Tax Issue Dropped BEDTIME rub ch-- st, back with VapoRub. action AT throat, Ploeser (Rep., Mo.) intends to give WHETHER or not Cong. Walter to be seen. It will be rememremains against up as bered that Congressman Ploeser sought to brand farm starts instantly . . . co-o- Michael, as some romanticists Russia and at the would have had it. might have resame time reject nounced his throne purely for the universal military love of Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parm- a and Denmark, but the Comtraining and preparedness in gen- munist establishment of a "repuberal was a question lic and immediate reorganization that probably even of the government came too swiftnot answer. ly, too efficiently to lend much creDomestic political significance of dence to that theory. As the king himself pointed out Wallaces emergence as a third party candidate may be summed up in his abdication proclamation, he briefly: Republicans like it. Demo- was resigning the throne because a crats dont. monarchy no longer coincided with If Wallace can get on the bal- the great political, economic and lots in one or more of the pivotal social changes in Romania. Nor was it logical for the ComNew York, Ohio, Califorstates he munists, grim advocates of their nia, Pennsylvania or Illinois international dictatorship of the may be able to split off enough of to be countenancing the Democratic vote to swing the proletariat, election to the Republican nominee, and cooperating with a hereditary and if he makes his inherent de- monarchy. And Michael had acted votion to Rooseveltian ideals stick, as a sort of brake on some Communist actions in Romania. he may be able to corral a considerable section of those on the left NEW HIGH: side. Waleminent the liberal, Always Farm Prices lace is angling for all or a portion U. S. farmers continued to set Democratic vote. of the new records in price levels, both One thing was certain. Wallace for the produce they sell and the would have the hearty, although of the goods they in turn buy. somewhat onerous, support It was reported by the department Communists, no matter how much of agriculture that the general level he might avow his own principles. He would have to of farm prices rose 5 per cent beand go through the campaign with the tween to a record high of 301 Reds and hanging per cent of the 1909-1- 4 to his coat-tailaverage. e Previous high was 289 per REPUBLIC: cent, set last October. At the same time, prices paid by Michael Quits farmers for items for living and Communist-controlleeastern Eu- farm production also reached a new rope cast off its last tie with a hap- record. On December 15 the index pier past when King Michael I of of prices paid was 245 per cent Romania made public his abdica- above the 1909-1average. tion from the throne. The farm price level in His announcement had not yet the department said, was fully registered on Romania's bewil14 per cent higher than January, dered populace when the Com- 1947, and the index of prices paid munist government promptly pro- 16 per cent higher. claimed the nation a popular Between and democratic republic. average prices for virmonThus, with the tually every group of farm comarchs abdication, ended a dynasty modities except fruit showed measestablished in 1866, the last mon- - urable increases. left-win- g st er fellow-travele- all-tim- d and to tax patronage refunds. It may be that his latest move to help members of the tax equity indicates that he league, principal backers of the battle against has given up hope and that he is starting on another tack. At any rate, he is credited with sponsoring a phase of the next GOP tax bill which would exempt the first $25,000 of corporate income from taxation. This idea, il status. adopted, would give thousands of small businesses a tax-fre-e Chairman Harold Knutson of the house ways and means committee has completed hearings on the question of taxing farm but has not considered the question in executive session. These hearings were taken over by Knutsons committee when the GOP high command took the subject matter out of the hands of Representative Ploesers smaU business committee, which had stirred angry cries from farmers from coast to coast. There is every indication that nothing will come out of the hearings this year. As a matter of fact, a regular hornets nest was stirred up e comand churches, lodges and hundreds of organizations owning mercial properties have moved into the picture protesting against any tinkering with that section of the internal revenue code at this time. to upper bronchial stimulating . action.Tryit! IICm V VAPOReg ISNT THIS ..1ST WAT? MiiP&AttVE H. I. PHILLIPS Dentists Advised at Convention to Sit at Their Work. Headline. ! Jt tax-fre- Senator Taft predicts meat rationing by spring but favors it on the British system limiting meat to so many dollars worth a week instead of specifying points. By springtime one should be able to pick up a nice little ounce of hamburger for a couple of dollars. tube , with special medicinal Ta pors. And it stimulates slf surfaces like a warming i comforting poultice. Onli VapoRub gives this specia' penetrating- - co-o- We thought it hard to keep Jimmy Durante from being funny but a way has been found by the authors of This Time for Keeps. . . . Otis Chatfield Taylor says you cant change Truman nature. . . . The Candid Mike is one of the funniest air programs, a recent dialogue with a crooked wrestler being a howl. . . . We have an idea for a skit in which Molotov, keeping the other Big Four members in a state of suspense by staying in an anteroom for three hours, is revealed to be blowing bubble gum. ease coughing n muscular soreic while you sleet Even co-op- s, The Real News Newsreel WORKS FOR to relieve dishes as you rub It on, Vid starts to we:-- 2 ways at once! It penetrate co-o- attitude toward In NR (Natures Remedy) Tat! there are no chemicals, no minerd i phenol derivatives. NR Tablet! . different act different Purely t e, table & combination of 10 vegeu ingredients formulated over 50 yC ego. Uncoated or candy coated, CKS action is dependable, thorough, us gentle, as millions of NRs tea proved. Get a 25 1 box. Use as dirc0, N3 SLW 10NIGHT CflRHV, 1 TOMO"BO' QUICK ri: FOR AS. c i They can have our chair any time. Russia devalues the ruble, giving But with the new one you get an embossed denunciation of capitalism and a guarantee that you are better ofl with less money. one for ten. TRUE TO FORM The I.C.C., the I.C.C. It bleeds for the railroads; But never for me. 4 r, PUSHBUTTON BILL - OF FARE post-colleg- Meatball Due To Be Electrified The pushbutton may never replace the meatball, but with the rapid ascendancy of electric vending machines it is promising to exert a profound influence on the destiny of that spherical aggregation of ground beef, as well as on many another item in the American diet. Even now plans have been drawn and preparations are being made laboratories in Newark, by N. J., to open t. retail store in Los Angeles where customers will be able to make a variety of purchases from food and beverages to dry goods simply by stepping up to an electrical vending machine, inserting the prescribed amount of money in the slot and pushing a few buttons. This unique establishment, scheduled to open its doors In April, will War' be operated in Los Angeles on an experimental basis. If customers indicate that they are pleased with this brave new twist in merchandising, similar electric vending machine stores can be expected to spring up in other parts of the coun- Still in the developmental stage are other pushbutton marvels which n will accommodate foods to to the other or, go extreme, complete, cooked meals that will erupt from the vending machine piping hot and ready to serve instantly or try. r In an hour or as you wish. a that is such trend Presupposing e The and cooked foods established, persons living in small or rural communities can look for- machines, however, are still too exward to seeing these robot sales pensive and complex for widespread clerks in their local stores around use; so housewives cant look forward to being emancipated from 1950. The experimental stole in Los Anstanding over a hot stove all day for at least some time. geles will feature machines quiverWh3t happens to the sales clerk ing with electrical impulses and ready to dispense at a touch such if electrical machines vending varied merchandise as bottled cof- sweep the country on a mass scale? fee, mouthwash, peanuts, fruit That is a question for which no one juices, bread, canned goods, eggs, has come up with an answer so far. blouses, stockings, neckties and As a matter of fact, no one has r other started worrying about it yet. goods. deep-froze- WESTBROOK PEGLER in Washington Walking Weary distance from the far comers both the and new house of old of representatives In the capitol THE is buildings to the house about a half mile. There Is no transportation except by taxi, which Is futile for several reasons. Even the nearest offices are more than a quarter of a mile away. The representatives and their office help almost always walk. Their errands are frequent. A member may have to walk three round trips a day, either overland through the park, or by tunnel. The senate office building also is connected with the capitol by tunnel. For some obscure reason, while the senators have a set e of electric trolleys like Broadway summer dinkeys, there are no vehicles in the subway to the representatives offices. It would cost little and it would save time and energy, but still there is no trolley-line- . Even factory scooters would be fine, but, nevertheless, the repiesentatlves and their help walk. Most of the representatives are distinctly younger and more active than most senators, but I have thought, while wearily plodding the monotonous route, that it would be in the public interest that they take their exercise on their own time and use their energy on their work. IK to ZdB'z' old-tim- rSft!.3r4i A MCKESSON A BOBBINS PB half-hou- deep-freez- ready-to-wea- HOT-- WRIGHT PATTERSON TVA Conceals True Costs A SOCIALISTIC acquaintance keeps persistently demanding government ownership and operation of industry. He insists it would provide a more equitable division of production, with lower prices for consumers, and points to Tennessee Valley authority as an illustration to support his statements. He refuses to consider the fact that TVA is financed with government money, on which it pays no interest charges, but the American people do pay that Interest; it pays but a small amount, if any, taxes, while privately owned utilities pay a large proportion of the local, state and federal taxes, and what TVA does not pay the people must pay. Of course, 1 have not made my friend believe tills point. FLASHES Women In your "40VI functional middle-ag- e lar to women cause you pel to Cashes, nervous, highstru tired feelings? 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