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Show !l!!!linil!ll!lllll!!ini!!I!!!lllll!III!ll!lll 9 Sbututa, But 9 Jteasid. . . By SECOND-GUESSER v IIIIHII!l!lllli!llll!IIIIIIEl!!llil!!!!ill!ll MRS. GRONNING STILL IN TANGLE TOWN CONTEST Mrs. Lottie Gronning of Milford Mil-ford was notified this week that she is among contestants tied for prizes in the Salt Lake Tribune's Tangle Town contest. Tie-breaker puzzles will be mailed early in January, with Mrs. Gronning still "in the run-ning" run-ning" for the top prize. XMAS CARDS WANTED Mrs. Frank Stewart wants to receive a few more Christmas cards. That seems an unusual request, at this time of year when about every family has them stacked in drawers, covering cover-ing the mantel, hiding the face -of the clock, and generally cluttering clut-tering up about every convenient conven-ient space about the house. But Mrs. Stewart still wants more Xmas Cards. Of course, she doesn't want them for herself. She's agreed to be "collection center" for the cards, and after they're all in the ladies of the V F W Auxiliary Aux-iliary box them up and send them to the Veterans Hospitals so the boys can . use them in making Christmas wrappings, boxes, etc., for next year. "And this year," Mrs. Stewart Stew-art said, "the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake, where we send the cards will divide with the Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital, Hos-pital, so we'll need all the cards we can get." who writes "Looking Ahead" might be interesting. In May, 1941, the president of a little known college in Arkansas traveled to Washington. Washing-ton. Alone, and without invU tation, he was going before the House Ways and Means Committee Com-mittee and give his views on a proposed $3,500,000,000 national nation-al defense bill. In substance, this is what he said: The threat of war was serious. seri-ous. Three and a half billion was not too large a price to pay for preparedness. Then he showed this committee how to save two billion dollars by eliminating elim-inating certain relief agencies that were hang-overs from depression de-pression days. His testimony made frontpage front-page headlines across the country, coun-try, and a considerable impression impres-sion on public thinking. The doctrine he preached was not new. It was" really a familiar story, but many people hadn't heard it in a long time he spoke of freedom to work, to profit, the right to own property, prop-erty, freedom to think, and freedom of individual opportunity oppor-tunity things that are basic in the American way of life. The students in his small college had learned it, and he told it from the lecture platform plat-form whenever he had opportunity. oppor-tunity. A group of Arkansas editors thought it was worth a greater audience. So they asked for a weekly column on these subjects. Their request brought forth Looking Ahead. Written in clear, interesting language, Looking Ahead has these objectives: To Restate and reemphasize to the American public the value of constitutional govern- NOW IS THE TIME "Now is the time for all good voters to come to the aid of Beaver County." When Senator Watkins was, on his grass-roots junket a few months ago, he mentioned that he had supported a bill in congress con-gress which would permit the federal government to give direct di-rect aid to counties in road building. At present, all federal fed-eral money is expended by the various state highway departments, depart-ments, and the departments of course want to keep it that way. But under the proposed bill, the counties would receive the moneys direct from the federal . government, to be spent as they A wish, with the funds of course being matched at the regular ratio (in Utah about 28 by the county). It is true that the Utah highway high-way department spends the Beaver county money as the county commissioners request it to be spent. But the state highway high-way department does the proportioning pro-portioning of the federal money received. We're in favor of direct aid to counties, and believe the Sen-y Sen-y ator should have a few. letters from the various organizations of the county, expressing their opinion. Frankly, we'd be in favor of a bond issue of one or two hundred thousand, to match federal money, and complete ALL our county road projects. This week The Milford News begins publishing an article titled "Looking Ahead." We believe a description of the man ment and freedom of individual opportunity. To provide sound, reliable information in-formation and interpretation of present political and economic trends. To foster understanding and (Continued on Page Four) Here's More Aboul I DUNNO Continued from Page One cooperation between capital, labor, and agriculture. , Dr. George S. Benson, president presi-dent of Arkansas' Harding College Col-lege and author of Looking Ahead, was born on a farm in Oklahoma. He graduated from Oklahoma A & M and completed complet-ed an arts degree at Harding College. He was a missionary to China for 11 years, and returned re-turned to become president of Harding College. He brought vigor, business acumen and executive ex-ecutive skill to the college, and it began to prosper. He believed in the American system and the American people, but he saw that many of his countrymen were confused and filled with doubts, no longer self-reliant, ambitious and hopeful. So he began to speak out and remind Americans of their freedom heritage, urging them to work for understanding of the American Amer-ican system. This week, we publish Dr. Benson's "Resolution for 1950" and will carry his articles each week. The News may not always al-ways agree with Dr. Benson, but we do admire his courage and forceful presentation of a down-to-earth approach to America's problems. |