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Show ' s t IThe Bogeyman'.. Getcha jrYou Don't Watch Out! PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH,. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1947 Editoria American Brotherhood Week In an article discussing the UN Human Rights commission, of which she is chairman, chair-man, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt quoted this observation by her Chinese colleague on the commission, Dr. Chang: "Only a small layer separates the animal from thinking man, and perhaps the difference dif-ference may simply be that man can think of someone else as well as of himself." That difference, of bourse, is not an unmixed un-mixed blessing. When man uses his distinctive distinc-tive power of thought cruelly and vengefully, it is the source of a lot of human woe, But when he uses it, with kindliness and understanding, under-standing, there is peace between men. and sometimes between nations. This svmDathetic, unselfish thinking about someone else is what we call brother hood. As the human race grows older and a little wiser, and as civilization lias become more complex, men have come to understand under-stand better the importance of brotherhood. Religions have , emphasized it. So have political and ethical systems. They have tried to persuade and educate men to -the world's active need of it. They have slowly made headway But the demand always has exceeded the supply. The world is growing more populous. Cities fill up, , and their inhabitants are crowded more closely together. Competi tion grows keener, and the struggle for survival sur-vival -of the strongest becomes more intense. in-tense. In such circumstances it is easy to forget gur fellowman's inherent rights, and human dignity, and to adopt a philosophy of looking look-ing out for number one. It is easy to blame our frustrations and shortcomings on our neighbor's race or religion. Substituting the spirit of brotherhood for these inclinations requires some conscious effort. ' . We have need of such conscious effort today, to-day, when the end of the war has seemed to intensify our selfishness and bigotry. War, that most stupidly, brutal of all human inventions, in-ventions, has a way of bringing man's nobility no-bility to the surface. The past one was no exception. All of us surely recall many in stances where a man risked his life, or gave It, for a friend. Peace asks no greater sacrifice than a givi rig-up of some of our ielf-centered thinking. think-ing. .But that sacrifice is a real necessity. For this reason the annual observance of American Brotherhood Week Feb. 17-23), sponsored iby the National Conference of Christians and Jews, seems particularly important. im-portant. If the ethical urgency of brotherhood seems remote, there are some very practical considerations. Bigotry, suspicion and selfishness self-ishness breed discontent and invite violence. They interfere with industrial production, stifle progress and hamper the achievement of a general prosperity. In this shrinking world, disunity here is all too evident to our' neighbors abroad. It is a practice that contradicts what we preach. In doing so it discredits our democracy and weakens our government's influence as a force for world peace. The effort to live in friendship and harmony har-mony with our neighbor, whoever he may be, is an individual responsibility. Thcappeal of Brotherhood Week deserves continuing attention. It will be too late to realize its importance if the sum of individual disregard disre-gard becomes a national failure. Army Wins Again The decision of army's faboulous "touchdown "touch-down twins," Glenn Davis and Felix Blanch-ard, Blanch-ard, to stay in the army must not have been easy to make. By resigning from West Point and playing professional football, they probably could have made in two short seasons sea-sons an amount approaching the monetary total they would receive in their whole military mili-tary careers if they stayed on until the retirement re-tirement age. Public opinion might not' have been too harsh with them if they had gone after the big money. Yet we imagine that they have earned more respect by turning it down. We believe the secretary of war was right in refusing thejr original request for four-month four-month furloughs to play professionally. The Military academy is not a publicly-supported training school for professional athletes. It might have become just that if Secretary Patterson had allowed a precedent to be established. In abiding cheerfully by the secretary's decision, Davis and Blanchard have shown a mature wisdom which we think they will not cgret.' . It is not just one sport that has been contaminated con-taminated by gamblers. First it was -basketball, then, football, now boxing. It" follows fol-lows a pattern and the same evil figures lurk in the background collecting ill-gotten profits at the expense of the sports-loving public. New York State Sen. Fred A". Youngf No woman in the war ever asked me a favor except to get closer to the front. General Eisenho.Ver If the present trend continues for another 10 years, the average American worker will have no more freedom than did the worker in Nazi Germany. Sen. Joseph H. Ball (R) of Minnesota. The Washington Mrry - Co - Round By Drew Pearson A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs WASHINGTON President Truman is strict-ly strict-ly a conservative when it comes to modern art "Ham and Eggs" . art he calls the paintings of the Surrealists, the Futurists, and the Cubists, The chief executive wants his art down-to-earth and easy to understand. He likes it to be beauti ful, not shocking, and to represent something. Reporters saw an example of the art Mr. Truman loves recently, when he gave them a private showing of "The Peacemakers" a painting paint-ing by Gtorgft Healy which the president had purchasedior the White House " for $10,000. He confided to newsmen that a New York art dealer originally had asked $18,000 for it, but he argued him down to $10,000. Mr. Truman had called in art experts from the national gallery, who estimated esti-mated the painting to be worth about $30,000 a good buy, the president thought, and bought it. While in his office, newsmen were shown some of the art the chief executive despies most. He produced a spread of modern paintings paint-ings from a magazine, which apparently he had been saving for just such an occasion. "This is what I mean by ham-and-eggs art," he told the reporters, pointing to a painting of a fat semi-nude circus performer. "I've been to a million circuses, and I've never seen a performer who looked like her," he said "The artist must have -stood erff from the canvas and thrown paint at it. If that's art, then I'm a Hottentot." Jk3 rRinwlV JlxW UigWJy vs. . K IIP SAM RAYBURN HAS FUN Ex-Speaker Sam Rayburn had a whale of a good time at the White House recently, poking fun at the legislative program of the Republicans, He was nearly worked to death, he confided to friends, because the Republicans were passing so many bills. "Let me see," counted up the rotund .gentle man from Texas, "they passed one bill extending excise taxe3 and another joint resolution for sen ator Butler's alcohol plant in Omaha. It keeps us very busy very busy." . When asked if he were going to be the new ambassador to Great Britain, Sam replied: "Well, it will have to be one of us rich boys." BRASS HATS FIGHT ATOM One thing to be said for the political generals in the Pentagon building is that they never do surrender easily especially when it comes to a siege of Capitol HUi. ... - . Actually, about one-half the undercover opposition to David Lilienthal as atomie commissioner com-missioner comes from the brass hats. The ' rest comes from Senator Taft's determination not to let a New: Dealer get appointed to any high office, with some quiet sideline help ; from the never-dormant public utilities lobby. Real fact is that the Pentagon politicians have never forgiven congress for passing the McMahon bill which puts control of atomic en ergy in civilian rather than military hands. And having lost that battle; they are determined to dominate selection of the civilians who sit on the civilian commission. So far Lilienthal and his carefully selected co-commissioners have, shown that they cannot be dominated. Most persuasive argument used by the brass hats in undercutting Lilienthal is that the civilian commission would leak the atom's secret. Paradoxical fact, however, is that 90 per cent of the so-called atom's secret was contained in the now jfamous Smythe report which the army itself released to the public just after Hiroshima. And the man responsible for the release was none other than Ma). Gen. Leslie Groves, the gentleman who so vigorously opposed civilian control of the atom. After the Smythe report was out and horrified horri-fied scientists called attention to the secrets it contained, Groves hurriedly depended that it be recalled. "That." replied a member of his staff, "would be like trying to put an egg back into a chicken.' WHO DISCOVERED A-BOMB Regardless of whether General Groves made a mistake in releasing the Smythe report, the fact remains that the A-bomb was not entirely an American invention. It was discovered by scientists sci-entists working in America, but among the top men were Hungarians, ' Germans, Norwegians. Danes, Italians. Poles and Frenchmen. The United States was wise enough and humane enough to be the freest country in the world where they could take refuge and continue their scientific work. Actually, the army pooh-poohed the idea of the A-bomb when it was first put up to them. And it was1' the traditional American policy of freedom and humanity, not the military, which caused us to get the bomb ahead of anyone else. It is this same policy rather than mUitary control con-trol which will also keep us ahead of other nations. . What scientists point out Is that we can't shut our eyes and pretend that science can be stopped. Most European countries already had 70 per cent of the atom secret before the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Today, -at least four countries Canada. England, France and Sweden have atomie energy plies producing uranium 235 the material from which the bomb la made. They lack only the mechanism for setting It off. About' Russia we know little, but suspect lot. Our defense against foreign A-bombs, there, fore, is to keep working in the laboratories build ing larger weapons, taking advantage of our own headstart. We have already lost our bomb "monopoly," "mon-opoly," but we do not need to lose our scientific headstart. Today, we already have a bomb 600 times more powerful than that dropped on Hiroshima. Hiro-shima. However, because the brass hats still control con-trol a large section of the atomic laboratories, many top scientists like Leo Szilard refuse to work on government projects. It was Szilard who wrote - the first' paper on atomic energy which Einstein forwarded to Roosevelt and which really started Gen. Groves' much publicized Manhattan Project. That is why the fog which the brass hats and certain badly informed McKellari and Wherrys are spraying around CaDitol Hill mav Drove the worst blow scientific developmentot the atom! has yet seen. X ' Capital News Notebook By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. Feb. 18 (NEA) The - Veterans Emergency Housing prog rani is dead, though not yet buried.' AH the recent premium payment and guaran teed market plans which Housing Expediter Frank R. Creedon has directed the Reconstruction Finance Fin-ance corporation to execute are deals which were initiated by Wilson Wyatt before he left of fice. No new projects are in the works. WfafK mario nn tt nrinurri anrl -, " r ' - privately supported schools not financed by state funds is wor ried about congressional plans to give federal aid to education. What these schools fear is that federally financed scholarships will give preference to state' supported institutions. During the war, however, all these private institutions were largely kept going by federal scholarships for army and navy trainees. Courses were rigidly prescribed and in spected. Private colleges didn't mind it then. Popularity of former RFC, is This Trjp Necessary? Chairman Jesse Jones must be deserved. At least three congressional con-gressional committees want to investigate him, They are Sen. Owen Brewster s war investi gating committee, Congressman Jesse Wolcott's banking and cur rency committee, and Congress man Clare Hoffman s committee on executive expenditures. Senator Sen-ator Tobcy's banking and currency cur-rency committee and Senator Aiken's expenditures committee may also get in on the picture. First hearing may get going laic in February. e State department will soon issue a new directory of international inter-national organizations. Idea for the book came from Sol Bloom of New York, former chairman of the house foreign affairs com mittee. Bloom complained state department people were always coming up on the Hill asking for authority tb carry on some inter national program he had forgot ten all about. Got to be so many of them congressmen couldn t keep track. Directory is answer. Progressive New Englanders One of the strangest aspects of the Republican senate is that a majority of its delegation from rockribbed, rockbound and re actionary New England is now one of the most progressive blocs from any section. There are only four , real conservatives Brew ster and White of Maine, Bridges of New Hampshire and Democrat Green of Rhode Island. Opposed to tnem are eight progressives and liberals. They are Republicans Republic-ans Tobey of New Hampshire, Aiken and Flanders of Vermont, Saltonstall and Lodge of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, Baldwin of Connecticut and Democrats McMahon of Con-! necticut and McGrath of Rhode Island. Political scouts returned to Washington from Hew England report a surprising interest in Gov. Harold E- Stassen of Min nesota. Explanation given is that New England was always great Willkie country. New Englanders hope Stassen will pick up where Willkie left off. American Association of Col- Army air forces proposed around-the-world flight of B-29 bombers is still grounded by lack of enthusiasm. Air Forces plan ners say nobody has yet figured on the route, how many planes might go, or what it would cost, Under average conditions. figuring a flight of 20 thousand miles with stops in U.S.-servlced bases in Germany, Saudi Arabia, India, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, San Francisco and back to Washington or New York, gas consumption alone would be 33 thousand gallons per plane. At the government's tax-free cost of 16 cents a gallon, original gas cost would be over $5000. For 10 planes, $50,000. That doesn't include pay of the 10-man crews, servicing, depreciation, extras. Minimum cost might be quarter of a million dollars, but a lot of those expenses would be incurred incur-red anyway, even if planes merely mere-ly sat on the ground at home. Congressman Joseph R. Bryson the i of South Carolina who says he is opposed to intoxicating beverages, bever-ages, "externally, internally and eternally," calls Washington "the wettest political subdivision in the world." ' BURLEV BAKERY BURNED DOWN Once News Now History 20 Years Ago From the Files , Of Feb. 18, 1927 The Montana Bobcats, led by the phenomenal 'Cat' Thompson and Frank Ward, both Utah boys, defeated the BYU in basketball. 43 to 20. Plans were started to erect a monument in Provo honoring Father Escalante, Spanish priest and first white man to traverse Utah valley in modern times. P V Prof, and Mrs. Gerrit de Jong departed on a trip to Europe. The Orem chamber of com merce launched a campaign to "spray every fruit tree in Orem." w m m 10 Years Ago From the Files Of Feb. 18, 1937 Petitions signed by 135 Provo business men asked the city com mission to repeal the merchant license ordinance. The levy was one-tenth of one pcr-.cent of gross sales. V Judge George P. Barker died in Long Beach, California. The vote ' on the Roosevelt supreme court plan stood 36 for to 75 against among Provo Herald readers. S. W. Russell of Provo was named director of the Utah. Furniture Fur-niture association. TAXICAB WAR IN TWIN FALLS TWIN FALLS, Feb. 18 (U.R) Twin Falls taxi fares today had been salshed in half as four rival cab companies staged a rate war. It al started when the Radio cab lowered its price from the standard 50 cents to 35 cents. In retaliation the other three cab Desk Chat, Editorial Column Descriptive Definition IDEAL PARENT One who eagerly and willingly ' makes .personal sacrifice to give the children cultural advantages, and then regretfully tries to measure up to their, higher idealism. WIFE The better half who begins be-gins at the middle to squeeze the tube of your favorite tooth paste. ' WAR The inevitable result of mental Inferiority and an eager desire to make money. HONEST MAN One who does not know the legal tricks that will keep him out of jail. oQo Specloasnes The breeze is fragrant Soft-scented; The blossoms sweet With dew, My days are always golden, The sky a cloudless blue. The birds seem to sing Unceasingly, my dear. Ever since I first met you. aider that sufficient cause for di vorce." "I know that, your honor, and neither do L What X object to is that he spends the other six nights of the week out with women." A GAG you'll soon hear on your favorite radio program: Judge, examining applicant for divorce: "Now, Mrs. Smith, if your husband only- spends one night out each week with the boys, the court would not con- Q's and A s Q What African possessions does the Italian treaty take from Italy? A Somaliland, Eritria, Libya. Q Who is President of France? A Vincent Auriol,-a Socialist. i Q Where did the nation's first electric train run? A On a three-mile track at Menlo Park, N.J. It was built by Edison in 1880. Q What famous mythological hero visited Malta, British Medi terranean fortress which has been promised increased self rule? r A Ulysses. He resisted the wiles of the nymph Calypso on Gozo, one of the Malta group. o o Q What is a State Department "safe-hand" message? A One that a courier must always keep with him, most of the time chained to his wrist. . . . and then there is the prizefighter prize-fighter of Scotch descent who never hires sparring partners... he just goes out and calls truck driven nasty names. - Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile: As nonchalant and " deliberate as an adult opening a telegram. tele-gram. . Curious Cynie Cants ... . . .married women and spinsters envy each other but only the married ones will admit it. . . .most of those, 'runs' 'in milady's mila-dy's hose were not caused from kneeling in prayer.' ...perhaps the present crop of teen-agers do more petting as many pins as formerly. most oeoDle seem to want di vorce legislation that will permit a 'show down without being 'shown up.' Aunty Pasco's Paraphrase Horses and cows live thirty years; They never touch light wines or beers Sheep and goats are dead at twenty: They drink no liquor but water a-plenty.,. The cats at ten "have lost nine lives; Few beasts on water long survive: And birds at five are mostly dead: They look not on the wine that's red. Bugs, a few days only stay on earth. For they don't know the cock tail's worth; But awful, wicked, rum-soaked men. Live on and on for four score years ana ten: BARBS By HAL COCHRAN This is the season when the jack of all trades goes into the same thing the income tax. It's unfortunate that the short' age of soap' doesn't cut down the V A writer calls untrue the old superstition that bats get in Trading With The Enemy Act To Be Repealed TOKYO. Feb: 18 (U.R) Auth oritative sources said today that the "trading with the enemy" act, which has regulated commerce between Japan and the United States since the surrender, will be repealed within 30 days. These sources cautioned, however, how-ever, that repeal of the act would not mean "wide ooen" nrivate trading with; Japan. Present al lied neaqquaners controls wouiu till K maintained, and imnorts and evnorts would be conducted for the time being through the same channels as previously. The decrease in atmospheric pressure causes the major effects on the human body at high altitudes alti-tudes rather than lack of oxygen. women's hair. Maybe it's just golf clubs. It's strange how a fit person is always glad to pay a penny to be shocked. An employer says that enjoying your work is the way to get fun ah nt it Vah o Inafer can't see the joke. WE NEED four' steady women. 18 to 40, hours 8 to 4:30. Free Trans portation from Springville, Spanish Fork and Payson. Good wages. Com ready to work. Troy Laundry Company, 375 West Center, Provo, Utah. What's On The Air Today TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 18 KOVO 1240 BURLEY, Feb. 18 (U.R) The Quality Bakery in Burley was destroyed de-stroyed by fire Sunday. Assistant Fire Chief Da r wood Green said companies operating in the city me oiaze DroKe out in tne rear pared their prices to 25 cents end of the shop and that all with the threat of "runnine th equipment was ruinea. KacUO Cab OUt Of town." Glove-Fjtting Slip Covers AT BARGAIN PRICES if ordered during Jan. or Feb. Ask us f or full details. D. T. R. Co. YEA OF ERVflC Seventy-seven .years of conscientious attention to the needs of the bereaved families of Utah County enable us to offer a service that has behind it the, experience acquired in serving people of every faith and circumstance. :00 S. 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