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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. SUNDAY, DEC 1947 Third Par ty rrospccrs Henry A. Wallace says he is "sick of having hav-ing the Communists get the credit fbr every constructive proposal made by American progressives." pro-gressives." That seems a little ungracious of him. For, just two days before he made 'this statement in a speech at Cornell university, uni-versity, a prominent Communist tossed a larget bouquet of credit to Mr. Wallace. And Mr. Wallace, by his own admission, is one of America's leading progressives. The Communist was William Z. Foster, national chairman of the party. He told a New York audience that "the top labor leadership lead-ership in this country should learn a few facts of political life from the speeches of Henry Wallace. Mr. Wallace is making a statesmanlike record by so clearly and valiantly val-iantly pointing out to labor and the Amer ican people the fatal objectives to wnicn American policy is leading. Mr. Foster paid Mr. Wallace the further compliment', of borrowing some of his ideas and words in discussing that policy. Mr. Foster Fos-ter talked of "Wall Street imperialism" and "reactionary capitalism' just as Mr. Wallace does. He spoke of "reactionary imperialists who are now dictating the American foreign policy, a policy which can lead only to economic, econ-omic, political and moral disaster." That is almost word-for-word Wallace. So the Communists aren't trying to take credit when they repeat Mr. Wallace's "progressive" "pro-gressive" views, though they sometimes may have credit forced upon them. The Foster speech was so laudatory of Mr. Wallace as to amount to an endodsement of his third-party third-party candidacy if and when. And Mr. Wallace is still for a third party. He hasn't said he would.be its presidential candidate, doubtless because there is no na tional third party at present to offer him the nomination. But he told a press conference in Syracuse that he would do all he could to help a third ticket. - We don't know what existing organizations organiza-tions Mr. Wallace is counting on for support, if he decides to give Mr. Truman and the Republican candidate a run for it. But he can easily find several that he can't count on. He hasn't got the CIO or AFL leaders. That's certain. A. F. Whitney has come out for Mr. Truman the same Mr. Truman that the railroad 'union president was going to beat, even if it cost $50,000,000. He hasn't got the Americans for Demo cratic Action, which includes Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt among its influential headliners. And the last time New York's left-wing American Labor Party was heard from, it wasn't for Mr. Wallace either. So that leaves Mr. Wallace with the Progressive Citizens of America and. apparently, the Communist party in his camp. Period. With such a lineup, the third-party hopeful might have trouble f inancing his campaign. But perhaps a way will be found. A logical source of money would be some of the heavy contributors to the Republican campaign chest. Their aid might permit Mr. Wallace to split the vote for president. And, if his Com munist supporters echoed his endorsement of "progressive" Democratic candidates for congress, the kiss of death wouicr be on tnose aspirants. It seems to us that the Republicans Republi-cans would be suckers not to help Mr. Wallace Wal-lace carry out his announced mission. r Future For Real Estate The prevaling mood of the recent meeting in San Francisco of the National Association of Real Estate Boards was one of optimism. Housing and its problems dominated the dis cussions, and the outlook from the viewpoint of the realtor is favorable. The prediction was that a million homes will be built in 1948, and their cost will remain re-main at the present high level. The slight buyers' strike which occurred last spring when wage increases forced construction prices up was only temporary, these dealers asserted. The public now realizes that prices are founded on actual conditions, and will not come down. Real estate men are all set for continuing prosperity for a long time ahead. Conditions which mean prosperity for real estate dealers can at the same time work actual hardship for many other people. Buyers Buy-ers of today's expensive nouses are not found among people who must live on fixed incomes in-comes but need shelter just the same. Many veterans cannot buy homes because loans will not be granted based on the inflated valuations val-uations arbitrarily placed on inferior housing. hous-ing. Such victims can only hope that a break in prices may come within a reasonable time. The really desirable thing is to have prices slide down gradually as production brings the supply of houses and apartments nearer in line with the demand than has been the case for some time. The realtors, many citizens believe, make a mistake in opposing public housing. There is room for plenty of private and public housing both in the country now and doubtless will be for some years. Tou Boys Looking for o Hot Campaign Issue? l&iDr v, - mr , las) w.-b LWBHSHM i A m if m m' m sai 1 c Tzt gfjM MowHisfbr, the Files of It s hard to get an international problem straight, but there's general agreement that Secretary Marshall is doing a good job of telling the Russians. The WashingtonMerry-go-Round By Drew Pearson Friendship Train Just an Idea On International Friendship spired by the American government. However I can tell you that about the only city that did almost al-most nothing to help was Washington, D. C. and . (.itors Nr Drew Pearson is now in Paris of Brightwood, Md., a little town on the edge Of he j?JSe,,U$.,orm report Washington, g.ve ' carload of flour-thus living Fr Vl . resWent Vincent Auriol of the nation s capital from the ignominy of not France, on the food collected by the Friendship participating. 01 win. f Dear ly acting .. Sp.k. ,r other, who JSJT ta like to be here but can't. This is a difficult report to make, difficult because It Is almost Impossible to translate Into In-to words the feeling In men's -hearts. To begin at the beginning, the idea of the Friendship Train took root about two months ago when many Americans were perturbed that our congress was too slow and niggardly about helping our friends in Europe. So it was proposed that a train be started in California with perhaps one boxcar and, letting the plain people of the country contribute food, pick up other boxcars of food as the train moved across the continent to the Atlantic. At-lantic. A committee was formed, headed by Harry Warner and including representatives of farmers, labor unions, businessmen and service clubs. The railroads said they would be glad to haul the train tree and that was how the Friendship Train start sail from Phila- per-s per-s bv and from the American people. It is from the people of America to their needy friends in Europe. Eu-rope. It is also important to note that President Truman's home town, Kansas City, did contribute in a big way with 14 cars of food and one of the first telegrams I received was from Mr. Truman's home county saying that they refused to be left out. In the end, we had to send a special train through Kansas City where President Truman's neighbors had especially stamped their bags of flour with this message: BLESSINGS OF DEMOCRACY "From Jackson County, Missouri, in the heart of America, this bag of flour comes to you with greetings and best wishes, whatever your race or nationality. May this flour be received in the same spirit in which it is sent the brotherhood of all mankind. As that great teacher of world brother- 30 Years Ago 10, 1917 N to a , the Provo public schools,; Home and scnooi ivitie?, also a trib ute to the record of Mayor James E Daniels articles we to good roads an 1 Trial lake reservoir in Provo can and reviews of the princip I less establishments in t e community the Provo Commercial Com-mercial club review was spon- bv Walter P. Whitehead president, and Arch M. Thurman, mere was aiso a from Governor Simon rs 1 I lAfi I CRY "The fact that petting does a "South side girt hold-up victims . . .' sobbing as a preliminary hold-up isn't anything Scientist says human mce is 450.000 years old." many more thousands of will it take us to become ant? "The future of cotton- to tains . ."stock exchange mentator. Yeah ... it : knows whether it will turn out to ho "silk" vvhachamacallemi or a By FRANK C. ROBERTSON We are. now fighting a cold war with Russia. Few of us have any real idea what it means, but we sense that it isn't so far from The Chopping Block a shooting war. And a shooting lof goods here that will mean a work without having other free countries to trade with, and tnere is the gist of our anxiety to stop Russia. We have got to have trade concessions or build up a surplus Minutia war means death, desolation, misery and the end of our system sys-tem of unrestrained free enter prise. Still fewer people realize that by and large Europe is now split Into two camps Socialists ana Communists and that in fighting the spread of Communism we are co m polled, willy - nilly, to back the Socialists. So-cialists. That is not to say that it is a choice of the lesser of two evils necessarily. nec-essarily. The Socialists be-live be-live in democracy democ-racy as much as we do, and would like to retain individual indivi-dual freedom with the exception ex-ception of the risht to exoloit others for financial gain. The Communists have no use for any kind of individual freedom, and would make the state supreme in all activities of human life. No less an authority than the great novelist Thomas Mann has said recently that caoitaUsm as we know it simply could not be made to work in Europe. It was the. owning class which brought the countries into moral decay and financial bankruptcy. Through the vicissitudes of war most of the great private for tunes were lost. No matter how hard President Truman and his advisers try they can't set up an other bunch of great private for tunes over there. We have got to combine with the Socialists over there or see the remainder of Europe taken over by the Communists, Com-munists, which means by Russia. We cannot make our system hood, Jesus of Nazareth, commanded. 'Whatso- ed. It was just an idea but an idea founded on'ever ve would that men should do to you do ye international friendship. unto them.' " jaexson county, Missouri, is a typical Amen AMERICAN WILL TO GIVE But, Mr. President, although I pride myself on being an accurate newspaperman, I confess that I underestimated the American will to give. In- , j- . livuu 1 3 aiiiuuc 111c uicajiiie ui uu tici 11111:1 m.r. ELSEfJTJTS up., , seven dirThis free-wiU offering to .help relieve your need can county. It is the home of our president, Harry S. Trumrn. There, as in nearly all American counties, coun-ties, are descendants of all races of Europe living liv-ing together in peace and freedom. This brother hood is among the blessings of our democracy. ferent sections. Instead of five railroads cooperat ing, a total of 12 demanded .the right to help and the railroad unions were equally anxious to aid their friends in Europe. Not only did most of the railroad trainmen haul the trains without salary but many railroad workers not on the line of the train mailed me checks saying they wanted to contribute, too. Both labor and business filled up these Friendship Trains. The Teamsters' union helped help-ed to load the cars; the Steel Workers union contributed money to buy carloads' of canned milk; the Farmers' union contributed flour. Most of this food came from very humble people. In Hawaii, the people contributed a total of eight cents apiece but their contribution totaled two carloads of sugar which is six European boxcars. box-cars. In Wichita, Kan., the school children ran errands and saved their lunch money until they were able to purchase one carload of wheat, in Wyoming, a dentist toured most of that very mountainous and sparsely settled state until, with the help of many others, Wyoming had collected almost as much as some of. the richer farm sta e. The state of Nebraska is supposed to be against cooperation with Europe. At least, that's how most of its representatives vote in congress. But we never had more enthusiastic, more gen erous crowds out to meet the train than those in Nebraska. In Iowa another farm state a group of farmers who had been to Europe traveled with the train, Refuting Congressman John Taber, who said that foqd was not needed in Europe. is due to our comparative plenty and our feeling of friendship .for you. There were, of course, a few communities where we encountered opposition but in the end this usually helped the Friendship Train. In Grai.d Rapids, Mich., for instance, when the newspapers criticized the tram, Mayor George Welsh, who had recently been to France, urged his people to con tribute with the result that they sent three large boxcars to the train. That was the spirit of American generosiy, Mr. President. Hundreds of towns not on the line of the train telegraphed in, wanting to load up boxcars: Ventura, Burbank, Long Beach, California; Mon roe, Michigan; Louisville and Hazard, Kentuck ; Atlantic City New Jersey: Pottsvllle, Allentown and Bellefonte In Pennsylvania, a dozen cities in distant Texas and so on it is impossible to call the roll. I Letters to The Editor MEANING OF CHRISTMAS SHOULD BR REMEMBERED Editor Herald: ' Why do we celebrate Chirst- mas? What to there about this day that should appeal to us as a day of feasting and merriment, or -a day for which we should have our mind on gift buying? Or do depression which most thinking men agree our system cannot stand up under. The Russians understand clearly clear-ly that we are between the devil and the deep blue sea. So they press their demands in Europe with ever increasing arrogance while doing their utmost to upset our economy here at home in so far as their agents here can bring it about. They know that war to no good for them, and they also know that it is no aood for us. So they engage in a name calling orgy which is called a com war While the Russian bear to growl ing at us we are prodding at his belly with a sharp stick. It's a dangerous game any way you f inure it. We need a world organization with authority enough to compel obedience from any nation, even our own. The one we are sup posed to have, the United Na tions inspires no one and is feared by none. But building an organization that is as powerful as it should be to no easy task. Within that organization would be Communistic nations, social istic nations, and Democratic na tiona like our own. it s luce throwing a doc. a wolf, and a wildcat in the same barrel and hoping that they will be peace able. But the alternative is a series of wars which would elim inate the weaker systems, and leave the strongest far weaker than it was in the beginning assuming that anybody would survive. I wonder if any "system" is worth that price? A world government that was well intentioned. and had the authority to back up its demands could make the Communists and the Socialists give up the wont features of their systems. Even . . . . - a . . we, with our wen mgni peneci system, might be made to give up a few things dear to us. Our determination to keep the negroes "in their place," for instance. We might operate' on a more orderly economy than boom and bust. We might curb our na tional inclination to gamble with other people's lives, we are now suffering from an abnormal cost of living. We raised one and a half billion bushels of wheat this vear. but the gamblers who man the exchanges have bought and sold nearly nine billion bushels of wheat, more than five times what was raised, and as a result have forced the price of all grains higher and higher. Would it be too much to ass tnat tnese we dwell upon the fact that it is adVhaT meant teftTworSt JfJLJflS iu. MMhinn h nrinoini. ' Prtt of free enterprise and go GOOD-WILL TOKEN I NOT GOVERNMENT INSPIRED I people in France, I understand, have thought that this Friendship Train was really in- It is impossible, too, to describe to you the faces of the people who met the train at the stations sta-tions along the way and, while this food Is only a token and will not last France long, it to a token which has behind it the good win of millions who feel very deeply and who want to make their own small contribution toward friendship, especially at una season. They feel that Christmas to not Just a day on which to exchange gifts between families fam-ilies and neighbors but between nations and all mankind. So in this spirit of friendship, the American people have collected from their fields this token of food and brought It to your firesides in the hope that it may tide you over until your own fields are again rich and abundant with crops. copyright, 1847, by the Ben Syndicate, Ine. which He advocated if lived up to today, would bring peace into the home and joy and gratitude to the heart of man. In order to have the spirit of Christmas, it is not necessary to have costly gifts nor sumptuous repasts. A simple gift, frugal meals, and a heart full Of love, gratitude and sympathy, and the indwelling thought of what He has done for mankind will fill the heart with gladness. Then Christmas day being Christ's day. the thoughts should this day of all times be toward Him who to the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind. We should never weary of telling the story of his birth. His life should form the theme of our conversation. He was sent as a Christmas gift to all mankind. He gave His life, that men might live. The story of bis life is the most sublime end wonderful story of all literature. The mistake is often made, p3r- haps unconsciously, that we di rect our thoughts to Santa Claus rather than to Him whore birth day it is. To give gifts to in ac- ; with His example and the greatest joy in observing the day is in giving rather than re ceiving. It should then be fore most sa our minds: wnat can 1 no for others, rather than, what will Santa C la us to work? One thine can be set down as an unimpeachable fact. Either the United Nations organization we better and stronger By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE The morning mall brings a nice remembrance, a pamphlet of writings by W. M. Wilson. He has called it STAR OF HOPE AND FLIGHTS OF FANCY. The note that came with it says, and quote, "To Ruth Louise Part ridge as an acknowledgement of the great pleasures I get from your column, and the reading of your book some years ago, I am sending you this little portfolio of mv modest attempts at versifica tion. Hoping tnat you may una something of 'Interest or amuse ment therein believe me. very Sincerely." etc. If everyone felt as kindly disposed toward me, my life would be a good deal differ ent. I want to take this oppor tunity of expressing thanks for all such remembrances tnat come my way. Not long ago S. W. Wil liams sent, me a like remembrance, remem-brance, a song. I do thank you for it, all you people who take tne eCge off the bitter criticism any and all columnists must take, most1 especially to a sm all city where she to well known, well known and not always favorably, I'm sorry to learn. I do not expect ex-pect to be agreed with entirely, of course, but my motives are harmless. I can assure you. I'm not a dangerous person. Now. about the gifts for the state hospital patients who will not be remembered. I have had several inquiries. One good lady has in mind to make up some in te resting pictures into jig-saw puzzles, and that seems to me a capital Idea. However, as I am to no way connected with the hos pital. It might be well to can there. I was expecting to be tdld the exact number of gifts needed, and the proportion of men and l but the report hasn t forthcoming, and I can t wait any longer. I will say, though, that a variety of gifts to the thing, all sorts and kinds, because there are all sorts of kinds and competence at the hos- Eital, just as mere to outside the ospital. I realize that it to very late in the season, but the thing wasn't brought to my attention, so I couldn't bring it to yours and I do mean YOU. I shall wrap up some little things and get them up there in time, somehow. Have been washing windows. A fruitless endeavor. Reminds me that in early colonial days, there was a tax on windows. The pow ers then reasoning that anyone who could afford windows, could afford to pay a tax. Very very funny- Oh I don't know. We ha vent changed so much. Now we have a tax on light-bulbs. 1 don't think there's such a difference. differ-ence. According to the Bible, God said, 'Let there be light!" Man said, let there be a tax on It We are. it seems, determined to re main to darkness, by one means or another. Humanity presents a strange picture indeed, to this so- called Year of Our Lord, 1947 4S 4 a - - berger County Attorney Martin M. Larson enlisted at Fort Douglas to the flying action of the aviation corps. o o 20 Years Ago Dee. tl. 1927 The slayer Of 1 2-year-old Marl on Parker, was identified by Los Angeles police as Edward Hick man. 17, former Kansas uity nign school boy, who had been dto-chaned dto-chaned the summer before from employment with the bank with which the girl's father was associated. asso-ciated. A report was received from Portland that a youth an swering his description had oeen seen there Harold a. 1-fount, 1-fount, a Salt Lake City man, was appointed federal radio commissioner commis-sioner of the western zone a crew of 40 men were trapped in a sunken submarine S-4 off Pro vince town, Mass. " Clayton Jenkins, W. R. Butler, F. S. Harris, Har-ris, J. Will Knight and H. A. Dixon Dix-on were the newly-elected directors direc-tors of the Provo chamber of commerce. Holdover members W. O. Creer, G. Merle Taylor, w. R. Phibbs and George Qullllam. 10 Years Ago DEC. tl. 1937 The Young Democrats named COMPUNCTION The erudite chappie meditates. And foregoes every craze Hoarding his filthy lucre For possible rainy days. When he to old And scarce of hair He sits alone In a comfortable chair. Thinking of the dough He could have spent Instead of socking it away For three per cent. Sadly her gazes Around his lonesome den And fervently wishes He were young once again. Then . . there was a shortage of meat, butter, nylons and cigarettes, cigar-ettes, and now . . . there to a shortage of the long green. ucan c icn y pernjuwui wmuy chairman with Beth Hutchings, American Fork, county chairwo man Bessie J. Klrkham transferred from a Uintah resettlement administration pervisor post to Provo. as county, succeeding Dorothy Ste- wart marriage license is sued to Glen Burr and The da Jones, Orem the BYU basketball bas-ketball team turned the tables oa the invading University of Idaho cagers from Moscow, Ida., to capture cap-ture a thrilling 47 to 40 victory in the second encounter. can reconcile ourselves as best we may to a world of suffering and chaos. Borbs By HAL COCHRAN The average wife is not as in terested in what hubby stands for as what helps with. The best pictures of health are A. it. l J 1 A - HUI ine nanu-yain teu v arie ,y . SlfsSjiy. The greatest lob to entertaining to carrying the dishes back to where you borrowed them. m m It s mighty hard to drill it into folks that there is a time to stop boring. - The latest Child long until Christmas? have, or a one, must be made to work or we 0u aceg lmed wtth bewilder ment, worry, apprehension, fear, weariness and even indifference, we frantically search the stores for knick knacks at fabulous prices, anything to stuff into a stock tog, because it to the fashion to stuff things into stockings on this particular day of the year, in remembrance of a '"Feed My Sheep." In brance of a Man who said-. "As ye do it unto the least of My children, ye do it unto Me.". Well, just the contemplation of the brings on one of my headachs. So long, folks. Send a little something up to the state hospital, will you? 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