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Show iTh'e Long Arm of Economic Law PROVQ. UTAH COUNTY, . UTAH. SUNDAY: DECEMBER 7, 1947 Horrid Prospect In Electronics Field We note, more in sorrow than in surprise, that next spring a gadget is going to be dem onstrated which wfll be able to ten a radio station how many sets within its range are tuned to any of its programs at any given time. It's all done by the radar principle, it says here. A signal will be sent out in all directions direc-tions and, helped by another special gadget on the receiving sets, win be able to distinguish distin-guish Mary Margaret McBride from Young Dr. Malone. It will then record its findings instantaneously. This simply continues and intensifies an alarmimr trend which has disturbed us for some time. We refer to the silent, secret in vasion, not only of the sanctity of the home, but of the privacy of ones' own thoughts. Already we have the public opinion poll. We have the tapped and recorded telephone conversation. We have the sidewalk interviewer inter-viewer and his insidious cousin, the radio eavesdropper who records your conversation conversa-tion without your knowing if and broadcast's broad-cast's it for all the land to hear. .Our comprehension of electronics is on a par with our knowledge of hieroglyphics. But we suspect that science has only scratch ed the surface of its possibilities. If engi neers can soon shoot a beam into space and discover what a radio is playing; who can say that other details of private life will not become public property? The probing, in visible finger of the survey may become a constant, unwanted guest in every house. One distressing aspect of the present rash of surveys is that it is removing the element of surprise from many individual and na tional activities. Time was, and not so long ago, when the outcome of a presidential election wasn t known until the votes were counted. Now the result of such a contest is about as doubtful as whether Assault could outrun a dray horse. It s still possible to argue about who is the funniest comedian on the radio, but you can't argue about who is the most popular. The polls have already told you, just as they have catalogued so much of our thinking on serious or trivial subjects. It's all very progressive pro-gressive and instructive, but it's making life a series of anticlimaxes. Now there may pe added to this mass-pro duction curiosity an element of occult science. sci-ence. For if, come the first crocus, broad casters are going to be able to tell what programs pro-grams the surrounding territory is listening to, can we rule out the possibility that, in a few more years, they may be finding out what conversations are being listened to by several thousand neighbors? The electronic sorcerers might even event ually devise an instrument for translating brain waves. The invitation, A penny for your thoughts," would disappear from the language. For somebody would surely come out with a lapel-model mind probe and, once the initial cost was amortized, we should all be scanning each other's thoughts for free. The picture of a shaken, demoralized, mentally men-tally naked people, that this possibility calls up, is too frightening to contemplate any longer. We just hope the electronics boys will think twice before they start something that they can't finish. The Chopping Block By FRANK C ROBERTSON There was a writer during the last century who developed a theory to which his name has been attached ever since. When I first encountered the name of Malthus in great amount of miscellaneous reading I did as a young man, it was nearly always as the object of ridicule. This foolish man had said that there would come a time when the population of the world would be too great for the earth to sustain. Ridiculous! Preposterous! The machine age was upon us. and man could produce many many times as much as he had been able to produce before. Science was constantly thinking up new ways and means to produce pro-duce more and more of all man's logical needs. Standards Stand-ards of living were higher than they had ever been before, be-fore, and were certain to get better. To be a Malthusian was to be little better bet-ter than an idiot Since that time we have wased a couple of world wars. Several million of people have starved to death in I Hoc.- 7 3 Robertson Minutia By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE Orem Fire Department Since becoming a full-fledged city, Orem has made rapid strides in organizing and providing pro-viding municipal services within its boundaries. bound-aries. The latest facility to be set up is the fire department. The Orem Jaycees have volunteered their services as a non-paid personnel under the direction of a full-time chief. A ijew brick building is being erected to serve as headquarters. head-quarters. The city council has approved a $8,615 budget for the department operations next year. A new, modern fire truck has been ordered and delivery is expected any day now. A truck has also been converted with a booster tank for auxiliary equipment in fighting small fires. With its new fire department functioning, function-ing, it will not be necessary for Orem to call on Pfovo and other neighboring cities for fire fighting services, except, of course, in emergency cases, where the. fire is of such proportions that local equipment and .personnel .per-sonnel is unable to cope with it. F. D. R. and Hawaii If F. D. R. had had his' way, the United State would never have annexed Hawaii. Hold everything! This refers to a school debate in 1898, when he took the anti-annexation side. His SDeech. iust tublished in a collection of his early letters, edited by his son Elliott, contains the foresighted observa tion that in event of war, Hawaii would be a source of weakness to the United States. It proved so in the Pearl Harbor attack. Average Motorist Held To Be Greatest Killer On Highways In this so-called civilization of ours, about the first thine that hanDens when an inter national argument starts is to blow up bridg es. 1 The greatest killer on the nation's na-tion's highways is the average motorist mo-torist who smugly fancies himself a good driver, according to this week's Saturday Evening Post. "The sober truth about the carnage car-nage on our highways is this: it isn't bad roads, bad weather or BARBS Suirirestion for arguments in the loner wint er evenings : Do people think more in winter or summer? Newspaper carriers have a great tradition. I am proud that I was one. William O. Douglas, associate justice, Supreme Su-preme Court. A check on the autos in an Ohio city showed that one in every seven was faulty A check on the drivers would be more interesting. in-teresting. The average American home used the telephone about 301 times last year. That's about one call for the old gent. '"How are you?" is a greeting .hat too often is mistaken for a The Washington Merry-go-Round By Drew Pearson House Republicans Let Loose At Foreign Aid Bill Caucus WASHINGTON House Republicans locked the doors, turned off all telephones and really "let go" at their caucus on foreign aid to Europe. Cie reason for the caucus was to let belligerent "party members blow off steam to their own colleagues col-leagues ratheY than before the world on the floor of the hous,e. The meeting accomplished this end. One highlight of the long secret session was a lecture by Rep. George Bender of Ohio, on GOP agressiveness. "I see where President Truman thanked Arthur Ar-thur Vandenberg for his help in getting the $597,000,000 aid bill through th senate," said the Ohioan. "That's very nice, but where does it leave Republicans? What is your program? I think it's time we got one without always blindly following the White House and state department on foreign affairs." Rep. August Andresen of Red Win. Minn., was insistent that steps be taken to prevent profiteering in the distribution of relief goods. We should make sore that it goes to the right people in distressed nations and is given to them, not sold, he asserted. Pointing to the "Friendship Train," the Min- nesotan added that some such system should be used in all. future aid. "Governments had little or nothing to do with the Friendship Train," said Andresen. "It was a people-to-people proposition. It you want to be certain the food we send Europe gets to the rank- and-file, and is appreciated by them,- this direct method of aid is the best answer. mannered men In the house. However, he lost his temper when Kep. Frederick Smith from President Presi-dent Hard in it's home town Mar inn n Kaaan heckling while Eaton was explaining various . sec- 11 it. nons oi me aia Din. "Do VOU know the value nf all this mnn are going to spend on Europe?" inquired Smith, bitingly. With a withering look that brought chuckles from other Republicans, Eaton snapped back: "I've been trying to follow the reasoning of the gentleman from Ohio for years without success. I've never been able to make out what he's talking about." The closed-door caucus broke up with this parting shot from Majority Leader Charles Halleck of Indiana: "All of us are for feeding starving people, wherever they may be, but we want to make sure that the money we appropriate goes for that purpose pur-pose and doesn't fall into the wrong hands. And we also want to make sure that we don't cripple our own economy in helping others." j BOLSTERING EUROPEAN GOVERMENTS South Dakota's Karl Mundt agreed that the Friendship Train had done an excellent job, but added: "Feeding the people is not the whole problem. We are trying to develop increased confidence in the governments of western Europe. The big thing is to encourage and support those goven-ments. goven-ments. We can't forget that if the American people are going to get some benefit out of the money they spend." The applause favored Mundt. However, general gen-eral GOP opinion was that foreign relief should be handled through an independent agency, not the state department. Mundt seconded Bender's call for party aggressiveness in foreign affairs, charging that Roosevelt and Truman had made the "deali" that have led to Communist tronbles in Poland and other countries. "Republicans," he declared, "ought to be more diligent in pointing this out." Rep. Reid Murray of Wisconsin, repotted ru-r ru-r mors of wheat purchased by the United States from Argentina, despite the fact that Dictator Peron had taken over his country's entire crop and at a boosted price of $5.30 a-bushel. "If this is true and we continue such purchases, pur-chases, it will only add to our inflation problem," proclaimed Murray. "American farmers cannot be expected to sell their wheat for $3.00 a bushel if we' are paying $5.00 to a foreign government. Note Investigation by GOP Representative Karl Stefan of Nebraska, after the caucus revealed re-vealed that we recently bought 25,000 bushels of Argentine wheat for $2.67 a bushel F. O. B, New York. 1 PREACHER LOSES TEMPER White-thatched Rep. Charles Eaton of New Jersey, chairman of the foreign affairs commit-tee, commit-tee, is a former minister and one of the mildest- question that leads to a person telling you all his troubles. In more wavs than one vou are better off with health tran wealth. Nobody tries to borrow it. . The goal of some college boys will vanish at the close of the football season. CONGRESSMEN UNDER THE SKIN Ex-Congresswoman Clare . Boothe Luce and New York's leftish Vito Marcantonio clashed vehemently in a radio debate over the possibilities ox -war wun nussia. xvirs. i,uce said Kussia s tactics tac-tics made war certain. Marcantonio repeated the Vishinsky theme about warmongers. After their bitter debate, however, Mrs. Luce and the New York congressman, once colleagues on capitol Hill, relaxed. "You know, Marc," said Mrs! Luce, "after the lesson I taught you tonight, you should get down on your knees and pray." "Clare," replied Marcantonio, "you don't pray with your knees. You pray with your heart." DIPLOMATIC CHAFF I Diplomats suspect one reason for moving further fur-ther atomic bomb experimental headquarters to lonely Pacific islands .is that the U. S. now has A-bombs so powerful "we're afraid an accidental explosion will wipe out and area hundreds of miles square . . . The new Jewish state of Palestine will ask for a $20,000,000 loan from the United States for water-power development . . The joint chiefs of staff held a long-debate over whether or not to risk a major crisis with Russia by keeping troops in Italy past the Dec. 15, deadline. It was finally decided that violation of the treaty might be just the thing Moscow wanted. MERRY-GO-ROUND I Hollywood's edict banning the Communist screen writers was issued after movie moguls conferred con-ferred with Ex-Secretary of State Jimmie Byrnes, now counsel to the movie industry. Byrnes, a former supreme court justice, predicted that, from bis knowledge of the supreme court, the justices would reverse the famous Schneiderman decision won by Wendell Willkie and would now vote against the alleged Communist screen writers. In the Schneiderman case it was Indicated that a Communist is not necessarily inimical to the best interests of the country . . . When President Truman Tru-man heard 'that Greece was refusing to vote with the United States on Palestine he hit the ceiling . The national Grange farm group, .which has a big majority of Republican members, including Senator Bob Taft of Ohio, threw a roundhouse punch at GOP congressional leaders at the recent Grange convention by coming out flatly against uie anve ot iait and other GOP-ers to reduce income in-come taxes. In a strongly worded resolution, adopted without a dissenting vote, the Grange declared it would be folly for congress to pass a tax-reduction bill until we have first overcome price inflation and pared down the national debt. Copyright, 1847, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. COSMIC RAYS SCRUTINIZED CHICAGO (U.R) University of Chicago scientists are, using a B-29 superfortress to help solve the mysteries of cosmic rays. Di. Marcel Schein of the Institute for Nuclear Studies, one of three in stitutes on the university's new $12,000,000 atomic research pro gram, is conducting the experiments experi-ments in cooperation with the navy and army air forces. The B-29, equipped with a laboratory, can reach an altitude of 40,000 feet. bad cars that cause accidents; it's bad drivers," says The Post arti cle, "Should You Be Allowed to Drive?" by David G. Wittels. Only about one in a thousand of the 44,000,000 licensed drivers in this country is a thoroughly competent operator, according to Mr. Wittels who says "the record is bloody with case histories of otherwise intelligent people who caused sudden sud-den death through sheer ignorance ignor-ance of the right way to drive.' Drunks aside, the most danger ous drivers are the accident-prone people, Mr. Wittels says. They kill 13,000 people a year. "Most such drivers can easily be detected by psychiatrists, but not a single state has psychiatrists on its licensing staff, he writes. "There are tests which can point out 92 per cent of such drivers, and which can be given and inter preted by trained laymen, but not one state uses such tests as a pre lude to issuing licenses. . . ." The next most dangerous class of driver consists of the teen agers, especially the 16-year-olds, according to The Post article. "On the basis of their number, as com pared with the average for drivers of all ages, the 16-year-olds kill three times their share," it re ports. Drivers between 40 and 45 years old are the safest, it con tinues. "The only real solution of the tragic problem is an intensive program pro-gram of training drivers, backed up by licensing tests so strict that drivers will be forced to take the training in order to pass," Mr. Wittels declares. "Experts estimate esti-mate that an increase of one dol lar in the price of learners' permits per-mits would cover most of the cost of driver training in high school. An increase of one dollar a year for drivers' licenses would raise $44,000,000 a year for much additional training and better license li-cense examinations . . .' He further suggests that ade- quate eye tests be given applicants for drivers licenses, and that periodical pe-riodical re-examinations be required re-quired "to keep drivers on their toes and aware of the responsibilities responsibil-ities of driving." 'Big Boy' Walks Off With Big Honors i r XT" h z a , - - I hi mi i gif&MMfey li-txm ,fjL n Once News Now History From the Files of "e Provo Herald 30 Years Ago Dee. 6, 1917 Berry Maycock resigned as manager of the Utah Wholesale Grocery to enter the merchandise brokerage business for himself fire in the Logan LDS temple caused $100,000 damage. threatening the destruction of the edificevfor a time military promotions of Provo men included Marcus Johnson, first lieutenant; Eay Cunningham, second lieuten ant, and Don G. Williams, first lieutenant John W. Farrer was reelected school board member mem-ber from the first ward without one dissenting vote the possibility pos-sibility for striking oil in the Uintah Basin were being explored by A. H. Gustaveson for the Pin-gree Pin-gree interests. 20 Years Ago Dec. 7, 1Z7 President Calvin Coolidge delivered de-livered his annual message to congress, con-gress, stressing a farm relief plan the senate stood almost two to one against admitting Senators- elect Vare, Rep., Pa., and Smith, Rep., 111., because they spent large sums in their primary election campaigns, more than any senator is known to have spent before G. Ray Hales was nominated president of the Spanish Fork Kiwanis club The Utah Aggie Ag-gie football squad, led by Coach Dick Romney. left for Hawaii to play a football game with Hawaii university on Dec. 17. 10 Years Ago Dec. 7, 1937 A car driven by W. M. B rum-field, rum-field, Marsing, Ida., crashed into the Orem Feed & Grocery market on the state highway in North Orem, causing damages of $1,800, four occupants of the store escaping escap-ing death and injury miraculously Larry Rudd, Eureka, died of a skull fracture following an accident near Payson. Lincoln Hansen, Mammoth was critically injured the board of educa tion, sitting as a board of canvass, declined to rule as to the winner in the school board election in which Dr. Milton Marshall had been given one vote majority over Oscar A. Spear announce ment was made of the engagement engage-ment of Ruby 'Bone and Willard B. Bandley. (NEA Tttephato) Hero of the International Livestock Show. Chicago, 18-year-old Claude Mllhvee. of Fort Cobb, Olda.. clasps Grand Champion Steer "Big Boy" in victory salute as results in top exposition events are announced. Miiwee, a Future Fanner of America, bought the 1100-pound 1100-pound shorthorn for . $75 and stands to net $15,000 on its sale in auction this week. - SHOEBILLS GRACE ZOO PHILADELPHIA (U.R) Two rare storks from the Nile river have arrived at the Philadelphia zoo. Known as shoe-billed or whale-headed storks, the pair is valued at $2,800. Their bills are shaped like wooden shoes, and are just as large. - Am half expecting company, a brave vouna man from -New York. He used to climb four fllehts of dirty stairs to see roe when I was there, and any one who would enter that rabbit warren war-ren where I lived of his own free will and choice, deserves to be called brave at the least. My room, so called, was so small my guests had to remove their hats in the hall, as there wasn't space to do it inside. Well, I told them one and all, that if they ever came west, to come and see me in more sDacious surroundings. VI course rieht now is a very bad time. The dining room table is piled with Christmas willy-waw, the Mor mon couch in the front room is covered with things I have dug out of trunks to send to England and the whole nlace smells to heaven with moth balls. Also, I can offer absolutely nothing in the way of entertainment. Too late for the Stem concert, too earlv for our BYU Symphony concert which comes next Wednesday, Wed-nesday, unless I have my dates mixed. Too bad. It will be a lovely love-ly concert. I am even going to dust my base-viol. This fall, I swore I would not clutter up the house with punts Every year I say it. "This year," I say, -"I will not clutter up the house with plants. This year will only have a few." Well, what with my lady mother digging up geraniums when I was not. loosing, loos-ing, and what with' my own in ability to pass by a bargain of six black tulip bulbs, and what with the hyacinth my rich friend Gertrude brought me from Cali fornia, all complete with glass jar and charcoal, the place looks just as always at this time of year. An abandoned farm. Besides the above flora, I have an "every day-bloomer," two, no three, co- leus, two begonias, three ivy, two philadendron, and I don't know how many odds and ends such as "wandering-Jew'' and strawberry something or other. In a matter of weeks we will have to move out, and leave the domicile to the creeping jungle. Everyone who knows the Walt Folgers, will be glad to learn that the new baby is a girl. The per verse old bird named stork, delivered de-livered three boys in a row, in spite of ail they could do, but at last, comes a baby sister, and the jinx is broken. Congratulations all. I see by the funny paper, or rather a cartoon, that Major Hoople has a friend named Mc-Partridge." Mc-Partridge." A distant relative of mine no doubt. One way and an other, we make our mark in the world. There is an old English song with the refrain, quote, "And a partridge in a pear tree, Unquote. I would like to do a book and title it. "PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE." That is darn good title. You have heard of people being up a tree. See what I mean? Figuratively speak ins. I live up a tree. I have a trunk full of good titles, and nothing to go with them. I want to do a book or story or some thing with this title, quote, "SO LARGE A FAN." Unquote. It is from my favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, and goes like this, quote, "But I was thinking of a plan, to dye ones whiskers green. and always wear so large a zan, That they could- not be seen. Unquote. Now I ask you, isn't that just like people? So long, folks. the last few years. Millions of others are on the verge of star vatlon throughout the world, and we are being asked to give of our abundance to feed them. In on country there are supposed to be from ten to twenty million slaves, who are being slowly worked to death, and never know what it 1 to have enough to eat They will soon . die from starvation and iaugue, ana ice power mat enslaves en-slaves them will not turn a hand to help them, because their numbers num-bers will be constantly replaced by new political slaves. It is a pretty hideous picture we face in the world today. Writers are treating old Malthus and his theory with a new respect. re-spect. Of course it is said in rebuttal that this is the result of man's own folly in turning his efforts from peace to war. Largely true. ibut insuring against mankind's l folly is something no insurance hs j company has ever been willing 4 tto risk. I Man's living has come out of line earth, most of it from that thin covering of skin known at uue.iop son. in me past nunarea years millions of acres have been denuded. The productivity of Europe's soil is said to be lest than half what it was before the war. Sudden stoppage of commercial com-mercial fertilizers, and the virtual vir-tual destruction of its livestock has left the soil impoverished, and there is certainly little relief in sight. It may be many years before Europe will be able to sustain the population it now has. One wonders if they will sink to the subsistence level of Asia's millions, where famines have long been of common occurrence. ' Many people speak glibly of our responsibility to feed the world. With what? There have been few times in our history when all our people have had enough of the right kind of food to eat. Maybe our too well-to-do have wasted a lot, but our surplus sur-plus has never been enough to take up the world's shortages. And a lot of our own soil is wearing out. Recently I travelled through the hill country of a southern state. I saw farm after farm that had been abandoned because of erosion. Laid out on hillsides the farms were so cut up with deep gullies that it would "have been impossible to farm them. But the people were still there, for the most part living in unpainted shacks. A half acre of corn or tobacco seemed to be quite a farm. I thought of the play, Tabocca Road, which I saw some years ago. People said it was a gross exaggeration of the poverty and ignorance- in the South. Now I'm not so sure. I'm told that this particular par-ticular state is one of the most prosperous in the South, and if so conditions in some places must be pretty awfuL It seems to be the nature of the average Southerner to cling. He clings to his worn-out acres the same at he clings to his old prejudices, pre-judices, such .as his ' belief in white supremacy, even though it results in him having the poorest poor-est schools, and the poorest of practically everything else. About all he seems to have left is his pride in his unchangeably. I am told that the TVA has enabled a lot of ' worn out land to be reclaimed. It may be that it can be reclaimed everywhere. But if something isn't done and quickly, erosion may soon become man's number two enemy, second only to war, for it is a world-wide problem, and Professor Malthus may prove himself right after alL Desk Chat, Editorial Column QUERY QUADRUPLICATE ...if inanimate things are incapable in-capable of thought, why is it that the door key knows which trousers you are leaving at home? ...now that the ban has been lifted on installment buying, how's a fellow going to make the folks in the old home town think he's made good in the city? . ..did'ja ever stop to think that old HCL' didn't bother people peo-ple so much when the got along with seven movies a week? ...statistics show that every eighth person has a feeble mind and that every f'fth has car now does that explain why there are so many traffic accidents? From our Scrapbooi. for yours. . . Fame Is A Food That Dead Men Eat Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat In little light and narrow room. They eat it in the silent tomb. With no kind voice of comrade near To bid the banquet be of cheer. But Friendship is a nobler thins, Of Friendship it is good to ting. For truly, when a man shall end He lives in memory of his friend. Who doth his better part recall. And of his faults make funeral. Austin Dobson. Dusting ef the old ones. . . . . .a wagon maker who had been dumb for years picked up a hub and spoke. . . .a blind carpenter on the same day reached out for a plane and saw. . . .a deaf sheep ranchman went out with his dog and herd. ...a noseless fisherman caught a barrel of herring and smelt. ...a forty ton elephant inserted his trunk into a grate and flue. NO DIGGING A . WOBC GUARANTEED' FREE ESTIMATES Urn i it " rr- WndJ r mi Wi b -f , mmt m 4mm m d m I Ik Phone S) 872J r DAY or NIGHT Don L. Wissmiller 1034 East 3rd North |