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Show The Jumping-Off Place PRQVq.UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, MARCH : 28, 1948 After The Dark Hour Came the Resurrection No darker period ever shrouded the world than the forty hours following the death of Jesus of Nazareth on his cross at Golgotha. No jnore hopeful day ever dawned than the one on which two women named Mary went to the tomb of Jesus and found it empty. ; Those black forty hours seemed to blot out the vision of a new world which had been seen by a little group of people in, a captive, sun-curaed land. His most intimate inti-mate friends thought that death had (stilled forever the lips of the man who Knew the wav to that new world, which now seemed no longer to beckon. Was ever greater despair des-pair in the. hearts of men? v As radiant as the dawn itself was the new faith which swept among the disciples when they heard again the voice of Jesus. Destined to be one of the , world a great faiths, Christianity had been born. . Every Easter morning brings afresh the awakening Of faith. No matter how dark the hour has been, in the clear morning Uprht of Easter Day, the new world beckons still. ',''- Fighting Alcoholism The niimber of chronic alcoholics in the United States is placed at 750,000. and they are among 3,000,000 who drink "to excess" according to the medical definition. Any person who drinks to excess is in danger of becoming an alcoholic ; the line is crossed in that moment when the drinker loses conscious control over his urge to drink. Only four states have laws recognizing alcoholism as a, special disease requiring special treatmeit. These are Connecticut, Oregon, Utah find Wisconsin. Connecticut Connecti-cut now operates two out-patient clinics for treating .alcoholics and potential alcoholics, and plans a hospital and two more clinics for the system. The director of the Connecticut Connec-ticut Commission on Alcoholism, Dr. Dudley Dud-ley Miller suggests still another project for alcoholics! to be a "half-way house" between be-tween jail and normal life. Connecticut finds the coat of its out-patient program is less than $100 per year per patient.. This is a trifling sum by comparison compari-son with the cost to the nation of alcholism, in welfare, police, court and jail costs and loss, of work-days, which is reckoned at $1,000 per year per alcoholic. Tenant Spokesmen Out of 655 local rent boards. 334 have no tenants on them. So Congressman Frank Buchanan of Pennsylvania told the house of representatives; It could be. Landlords are much more apt to be organized than tenants, and state governors, like Providence in Napoleon's saying, are on the side of the largest battalions. Spending the Evening That man. has been asking questions again, this time about the way we tmd the rest of the world put in our time at home; The results of the latest Jnternational Gallup Poll show that in Denmark, after dinner, the folks read or listen to the radio. aThey do the same, to a large extent, in Holland, Hol-land, Norway, Canada, France, Sweden and Britain. Some of them- put in their evenings even-ings in that fashion in Italy, but not so many. The Italians prefer to visit or to entertain their friends. In Britain the movies are a close second to the radio, and in Canada card playing is popular. Over al), about seven in every hundred go to the movies or the theater in one evening. Our grandmothers embroidered samplers, which in gay-colored stitching informed the family that "HomerKeeping Hearts are Happiest." It is pleasant to think that, the world over, most people still feel that way. . H ij in m i . , i j ' i , i iu.. . r-wgaijt ' ELECTION ., a) i - ., - p - - i - .-, , ,.L.. ., - . , ., - , , - I i The Chopping Block Magic May 1 he was being general with regard to the news of the day, or being particular with regard 4 my col bored Spring Again Well, the country seems to have survived sur-vived one of the severest winters in recent years with few ill effects, and the recent discomforts will soon be forgotten. Already January's bitter blizzards and February's mild recession in the commodity market are little more than memories. Wa.ge earners of the United States may have a magic May 1 this year. . That is the date when their income tax cut will become effective, if congress can get a tax cut bill past the president, one way or another. Passage of the senate bill by the house puts the issue squarely up to Truman. The president still is expected to veto the $4.8 billion reduction when the measure reaches his desk, but it is now believed there is enough support in congress to override the veto. The applecart still might be upset, by bling my toes in the dirty water. crisis in hurope, for instance. But if all goes well for the tax cutters, wage earners subject to withholding tax will get the equivalent of a wage increase May 1, for the new withholding schedule would become effective on that date. Others Oth-ers would have to wait for payment time to reap their reward. By FRANK C. ROBERTSON , years trying to find the answer to Met my editor on the street thej 'O"1"1' and stiU navcnt other day. and in a weary voice ' , , h a(ri wii t ,inrt it'll i Mr. French, of course, is only politics from now on." Whether j typical of a great majority of men Minutia who make our laws. They run into a system of politics wherein log-rolling and pork-barreling t tkki i.l for the purpose of getting re nil in.i,iiv Knt lhn nhvi. elected dominates their actions, o, mnrimion was that he was and they lose sight of their ideals. In plain English they become Were going to get a lot of poli-Xhey become part ot a machine tics between now and November, which tries to control the agen-and agen-and ninety-nine per cent of it as cies of puMjc information. They the editor very well knows is go- . become oroficient in double talk. ing to be pure bombast and tripe But who am I to keep from dab- All too many of them spend their time frying to fool the people who elected them, while the big boys, I can only promise to keep still Une lobbyists for big and selfish about it as much as possible, W interests dictate the policies when I can think of something j which are td be Dursued. The packers' strike might conceivably make some permanent converts to the vegetarian veg-etarian cause. Americans would feel easier about sending send-ing aid to China if they could feei assured that it was not going directly into the pockets pock-ets of Chinese officials, with no improvements improve-ments in the situation. The Washington Merry-go-Round more interesting to write about. After all, politics, dislike it or them, blessed if I know which- as we may, is what determines the whole course of our lives. 1 suppose it might, and probably has been thousands of times, called call-ed the science of citizenship. We are citizens of a democracy, with I ask your pardon, Mr. Editor. When I started out, this column was not going to be about politics. Barbs By HAL COCHRAN Drew Pearson Says: ' U. S. Plans to Equip French, British and Italian Armies r WASHINGTON Vitally important discus sions regarding large-scale armament have ben going on insfdc the department of national defense. de-fense. Presidentj Truman has now approved these plans, land for a time considered including the in in his recent message to congress. At the last minute, however, advisers urged that this part of the speech be cut. It was better, they suggested, sug-gested, not to get the country loo arous:d all at once. The basic plan is for the revival of military lend-lease to Europe. In other words, the United Sttates would begin be-gin arming friendly democratic nations just as we did our allies before and during the recent war. Here are the detailed plans under considera tion: . 1. Forty divisions of the French army weiild be armed with U. S. weapons and equipment. French foreign minister Bidault originally asked for enough material to arm 21 divisfons. but after the Czech coup d'etat, he raised the figure to 40. 2. The Italian army would get thousands of 'surplus rifles, machine guns and ammunition, but no hew equipment. Later 30 Italian divisions would be armed as fast as new equipment rolls off the assembly lines. j. 3. Norway would receive surplus naval craft, plus arms for Norwegian army. This would bolster the Norwegians to withstand pressure .from Moscow. 4. British RAF would be swiftly expanded with' the help of new American planes. The RAF' would be made the most powerful defense and striking forcein Europe. In addition, Truman plans to ask congress for several' billion to make the U. S. airforce the most powerful striking force in the world. Emphasis will be placed on powerful jet p'ancs and heavy bombers. "The cabinet member who chiefly sold this program to Truman is Secretary of National De- nse Forrestal, with support from Secretary of Commerce Harriman. Ever since he served as ambassador to Russia, Harriman has been coi-. vinced that the only way to deal with the Russians Rus-sians is to get tough. When he first went to Moscow, Harriman tried the policy of friendly cooperation, but finally decided the Russians misunderstand this as a sign of weakness. He has told Truman that the only thing this Stalin. Molotov et al really understand in the pres.- nt psychological war of nerves is that America means business. Harriman and Forrestal -admit that Russian reaction will be to get tougher still and that there is undoubtedly a risk of war. But the alternative, al-ternative, they think, is "international anarc-iy " j njjjNB'ER THEOCME .After .President Truman announced .that he would run again, he gave this order to Democratic Demo-cratic party leaders; "Grab the offensive and keep it; you are too defeatist." . .-.'GOP Representative Repre-sentative George Schwabe of Oklahoma, or e of thev house leaders In the drive- to abolis i the labor department's bureau of veterans' re- ( Copyright. 1948, by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) employment rights, didn't know that, he was grooming political opposition Or himself. 32-year-old war vet William Morris of Tulsa, a veterans' re-employment officer, is planning to enter the Democratic primary in Schwabe's district dis-trict next July. . . . Gen. "Wild Bill" Donovan, former head of the wartime super-sleuths, OSS, gnashes his teeth at the amateurish way the new central intelligence agency goes about its business. . . . Cougressman Karl Mundt of South Dakota has dropped a bill in the congressional hopper reuqfcring all communist-front organizations organiza-tions to register with the justice department. His bill would deny passports to all members of communist-front groups. . . . Not all soutrer- the greatest government in his-; tory in our hands. Politics is the You'd buy more and more, if way by which we handle that you knew of the clever tricks government. In proportion that we i Easter Seals are trained to do. lack Interest control falls into the! ". . hands of a smart and often self- A 16-year-old Oklahoira girl interested few. Those few, unfor-)posed a being 18. And most girls ..I'-h h7n nair on whit thev tunately, too often have control,! don't do that until they're about i!"'1! Scroll. So. I was very very happy at this (I should have known And what happens? By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE Easter Sunday but don't expect ex-pect any sweetness and light from me h this year of Our Lord. Bought some Paas Easter egp, dye. If Paas ever stops making Easter egg dye. I shall stop buying buy-ing it all together. It's the name "Paas" that I can't resist. I once saw a ship tied up in Los An geles harbor named "DINIL-DYKE" "DINIL-DYKE" or was it "DINTEL-DYKE"? "DINTEL-DYKE"? well anyhow, if I had had the price of the passage, I wouldn't have been able to re-risVrhip re-risVrhip with a name like that. And J am still buying horse-radish made by M. Touse. Anything, anywhere, made by someone named M. Touse iust has to be worth the price. Of courses this all has nothing to do with Easter and I am not going to have anything any-thing to do with Easter either. Not this year. From the feel in the air today (Good Friday) no eelf-r$specting rabbit would be caught outside his stcam-heatel warren. One of Santa's reindeer would, feel right at home, and I for one would not be surprised to see one of the pretty creatures crea-tures strolling down the strest, making insulting remarks at the shivering robins. I am thoroughly thorough-ly disgusted. I -was asked to be on the committee com-mittee for the Freedom Train. I Was ' to stand by whilst visitors Once News Now His tory Worn the File of ' ' ' The Provo Herald 35 Years Ago MARCH 27. 1I3 Judge Alfred Saxey of Spanish Fork, Civil War vet-ran,, died st the age of 73 Appeals were being made for v contributions contribu-tions to help flood sufferers in tKc east, and plans were Mai tad o ship a carload of potatoes. Dav ton, O.. was hardest, hit ' Mrs. R. RJ Irvine. Jr ed president of the Sorosis club City Commissioner II. J. W. Goddard was taking steps to prevent pre-vent as far as possible overflow of the Provo river during the high water season by. remoying obstructions and strengthening the weak places along the river banks. 20 Years A go MARCH 28. M2I Opening of the seventh annual art exhibit as Sorlngvnie was announced an-nounced with 100, paintings already al-ready received Merrill Christophers, Second ward, was named Utah stake 'M' Men's organization org-anization president with HaroM Holdaway, Vineyard, vice president presi-dent and Ralph Strong Fitst ward, secretary and treasurer Better Homes Week plans were announced, the remodeled home located at 483 North Fourth East and the new demonstration home at 630 North Third East Henry Jones defended his world's Junior middleweight title, defeating Charley Mason of Oie-gon Oie-gon taking the second and third falls. 10 Years A go MARCH 27. 1938 Th Roosevelt administration won, a stiff battle in the senate when the New Deal reorganization reorganiza-tion bill was passed over a coali tion opposition, 49 to 42 i the Electric- Bond & Share fight to declare the holding company act unconstitutional was lost when the supreme, court upheld tne act, c to 1 Isaac E. Carlson, city marshal, died at Pleasant Grove Amelia Buckley spoke to the Fourth ward MIA on her travel" exper iences in Mexico Harry Reynolds, Rey-nolds, Springville, was recovering recover-ing from an appendicitis operation opera-tion Provo baseball players began work-outs under the direction direc-tion of Skipper Lob Collins Reed Oldroyd won a spot on the all-Church MIA honor team. and the more they muddy the . 30, water the fewer people are going; K,KU . 1 1 1 ueinri. .:" , ",:Bn lown uw,u,e Comcn the snow, and the Free truth. I went at my politics all wrong. I started my interest too young.! I began with the proposition that ' politicians were statesmen, and in j spite of years of disillusionment ; 1 still keep trying to find one that! always eager to listen, at least. to!he landlord's baby cried at nightJfer he blue stockings yet. What dom Scroll signing has to b? abandoned because of the weather. wea-ther. Well, I have a pretty red and gold ribbon, anyhow. I havs some thoughts about, the Freedom Free-dom Train, but they will hve to wait. After all, this is Easter, and I;havent entlrelly given up hope the Galahads of politics like Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor. I know in advance that nine-tenths nine-tenths of the stuff I read against them will be falsehoods and half- truths, so I like-to hear what they ncrs disagree with President Truman. The annual j have to say, and try to judge thern jg$non of the Methodist church southeastern jurisdiction meeting at Orlando, Fla., recently passed strongly worded resolutions supporting Truman on civil rights. . . . Randolph Churchill, visiting in New York, was told that many Americans Ameri-cans hoped his father, the ex-prime minister, would come to the United States to advise on the current crisis. "Father wouldn't think of coming ever here until after the elections," replied re-plied Randolph. f Ajrai-TRUa'lAN REVOLT SEETHES 1 Democratic. Chairman J. Howard McGath hightailed it jup U New York this week in a vain attempt to stem the angry outbreak of New York state Democrats against Truman's renomination bid. Inside fact is that McGrath walked into a burning holocaust. New York CHjcV nowerful Democratic organization organ-ization has been viraUy riddled by the Wallace forces, and when McOrath walked into State Chairman Paul Ftzpatrick hotel room, you from that When I was eight years old there came to our mountain cabin in' the wilds of the Idaho panhandle pan-handle a party of candidates for county offices. The candidate for sheriff was an old friend of my parents, but the star attraction was a young twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher named Burton L. French, who was running for the legislature. After supper we all went to our little one room schoqlhouse for a rally. My mother, a staunch Republican, and a pretty fair public speaker herself, acted as chairman of the meeting, and at the insistence of the office seekers delivered a ten minute campaign speech, after which glamorous young Mr. French held forth for an hour in what to me was the most thrilling Atta baby! . Politicians soon will be cloud: ing the isssues mainly because thev're in the dark themselvej. .. -Better to wink than to stare, says a scientist. Dangerous advice ad-vice for the gals during Leap Year. could have cut the gloom with a knift. Howeve ne entreated tre ooys not a aesen xe snip, ne oration I had ever heard. Aft?r 1so scolded Congressman Arthur Klein for hav- the meeting I recall that he in- ing denounced Khe presidents switch cn Pales- . slsted upon driving Mother horni, and made a vain attempt to have tine. . - "You're lucky," replied Klein, "that the papers pa-pers didn't print everything I said about Truman." Tru-man." I "What else did you say?" asked McGrath. Klein's reply made it easy to understand wry the newspapers censored his remarks. At that point ex-Senator James Mead of New York walked into the room. "When are you roinr to get that guy off the ticket?" he asked McGrath point blank. "We haven't a prayer of carrying this state with him on it." Mead had just refused to accept a Truman appointment as federal power commissioner. McGrath and Democratic Publicity Expert Jack Redding tried to ease the pressure by pointing out that Truman's St. Patrick's day speech had increased his prestige. But the, conclave con-clave of Democrats only laughed.. Net result of the meeting was general agreement agree-ment that nothing Truman can do will possibly save New York for the national ticket. New York Democrats have decided that if Truman is the candidate, they won't even mention his name unless forced to. To lie themselves to Truman Tru-man politically Would be likejumpihg off Brooklyn Brook-lyn bridge with a ton of MTcktied to their leet. Note Next week Congressman Klein will call on all Democrats to begin a drive for a new Democratic candidate. her campaign for the party throughout the county. Needless to say I followed the career of young Mr. French with breathless interest. He was elected elect-ed that fall.. Two years later he became speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, and two years after that was elected to Congress, the youngest man to serve in that august body, where he became known as "Uncle Joe Cannon's baby." By that time I knew that Burton L. French was certain to become president of the United States, or at the very least a glamorous leader of a lost cause, like Mr. Clay, or Mr. Bryan. Bry-an. , Mr. French had a completely uneventful twenty year or more career in Congress, in which, if he gained any distinction at all If was In becoming known As one of the more1 conservative. and reactionary reac-tionary members of that body. ; Mr. French as 'a young man definitely had, as we say, something some-thing on the tall. Why, then did he sa rapidly sink into the obscurity ob-scurity of a boss-dominated member mem-ber of Congress? I've spent forty PAPER HAS PROUD RECORD HILLSBORO, 6 . (U.R The Hillsboro Press Gazette, issued twice weekly, has begun its 131st year of publication. Edited by H. E. Barnes, the newspaper was founded in 1818. is the Use in wearing blue block ings on Easter in Provo? There is nowhere to go to show them off, when you get them on. I know a good many people" will say, ."Easter, is not primarily a time for showing off blue stockings, stock-ings, you barbarian you " and they" have a point there. But, dearie you celebrate your Easter in your way, and I'll celebrate mine in my way, and if you want to feel, superior, that . is your privilege. Personally, I can't see that the religious, implications have' been of much benefit to us. A quick glance over the so-called so-called civilized world, makes me turn in relief to the pretty idea Living Beauty for Easter ltt - - .-,. w. V, : . . ;- - '-I-- h' l -SV? . - , ; -.'. v'i " - '7"-" t'1 t 1 - in------ 1 T'l 1 ir'ti 1- -"Wilt if In Bermuda, workers plucked blossoms tiom p field ot white lilies so as to leave this cross for the delight of visitors on Easter Sunday. Q s and A s Q Where is the largest Indian In-dian mound in the U. S.? A-The largest of all the Indian earth works Is the Cahokia Mound in Illinois, a quadrilateral pyramid pyra-mid 99 feet high whose base covers 18 acres. Q What do sailors mean when they refer to Mother Carey's Chicken? A This is a name given by sailors to the stormy petrel, a small web-footed seabird with remarkable re-markable powers of flight, common com-mon in the Atlantic ocean. Q Who said that Sunday was made for man and not man for Sunday? A The quotation is from the New Testament, Mark II: 27. Q What Is the meaning of the word calory? A A calory is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature tem-perature of one gram of water one degree centigrade. Q How many army generals have lived to become presidents of the United States? A Washington, Jackson. William Wil-liam Henry Harrison, Taylor, Grant, and Garfield all were generals gen-erals and later were presidents. Tornado Strikes At St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Marcn 27 CU.R) The Missouri highway patrol said today a tornado struck near St. Charles, Mo., at about 2 p. m. Friday, Fri-day, sweeping through an airfield. air-field. The patrol said the twister hit several farm houses and then swept through Smart field, a former for-mer naval air base. At least one man was injured. He was taken to the hospital at the naval air station at Lambert St. Louis airfield. air-field. Deputy sheriffs at St. Charles said they, had received report that four men were injured when the administration building at the airport was demolished. Desk Ghat Answering Curious Cynic . v . . .It Is impossible to tell tht wise man from the fool when 1 they' each make a hole in one. I . . . when a man ' marries a poor . girl, he is ready to settle down; when he marries a rich girl, ; he is expectedo settle up. .:' , ...if a man needs money ' bad enough, he'll do a lot of things to get it some of 'em even do sortie work. ' . . it'j a rare man who Is not only proud of his community but so lives that his community : is proud of him. 0O0 From our Scrapbook for YOUrtS THE HYMN OF HATE And this I hate not men, nor flag nor race, : '. But only War'with its wild, grinning grin-ning face, God strike It till Its eyes ba blind as night , , . ; And all its members trembla with affright! -Ohlet it hear , in Its death X agony . : - The wail of mothers lor theu best-loved ones, And on its -head Descend" the venomed curses of its sons -- v Who followed her, deluded, where its guns Had dyed the daisies red. All these I hate war and Its panoply, The lie that hides Its ghastly ' mockery; That mAes , its glories out of ' Women's tears, The toil of peasants thru the Jsurdened years. The legacy of long disease that j preys On bone and body in the after-days. after-days. God's curses pour, Until it shrivel with its votaries And die away in its own fiery seas, , ' That nevermora ' ; Its dreadful call of murder may be heard; ' From blood-drenched shore to shore. Joseph Dana Miller . 0O0 IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT the rest of your days depends upon the rest of your nights. 0O0 Just As If You Didn't Already Know that the titles of the regiments regi-ments comprising the famous Light Brigade of 'Tennyson's immortal im-mortal poem "The Charge of h Light Brigade" were the 4th,. 8th, llth and 13th Hussars and the 17th Lancers. ' oOo 'No, Elmer, Rand-McNally do not make maps of. the road to success . . V you'll have to find your own Way. ' , . 0O0 Medical science has made rapid strides in all fields of research but they have yet to discover 1 better cure for Insomnia than to place one foot in front of the others and repeat behind a plow from sun-up to sun-down. Some people are so progressive that they do not wait for April 1st to make fools of themselves.'. The kind of a wife with whom we have no overpowering desire to become better acquainted is the one who, when reporters asked, ask-ed, 'Did your husband help you fight the burglars?', frankly replied: re-plied: "Xes, he went into the clothes closet and prayed for my victory." ROOSTER HAS HORNS ISTANBUL" (U.R) Mahmet Tu-zey, Tu-zey, an Anatolian farmer, has a rooster named Moskof which he has refused to sell for 500 Turkish lira ($200). Tuzey thinks Moskof should earn a living for him as a sideshow attraction. Nlturc equipped the gray roster's head with three-inch horns growing in curling fashion which makes V it look like a ram's head. . Stones from the pyramids, of Egypt would be sufficient vto build a new "Maginot Line" wall around France, four feat high and one foot thick, it has been estimated. , ' ,f-: of an Easter bunny, a basket of gay eggs, rather than to the reality real-ity of an airoplane carrying a basket of atom bombs. Like everything else in the world it is all a matter of opinion. If we had waited for the religious concepts con-cepts . of our holidays to keep them alive they would have disappeared dis-appeared loq,g ago; It is the prehistoric pre-historic implications of Easter and' Christmas that have preserved pre-served them to us and we" may as well face it. It does seem to me that coming out in new clothes is , as much a symbol of resurrection resur-rection as anything in th-aster celebration. If there Is anything in symbolism, -new attire is good symbolism. Of course the idea is to clean out and refurbish our hearts, but that is expecting too otuch. A leopard finds it no easier to change his spots at Easter, than he does 'any other time of the year. If the sight of other people's new clothes makes you envious, the fault is with you, dearie, and no one else. Sa here's to a - bright new Easter Sunday, blueistocklngs and all. So long, folks. 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