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Show Open Letter From Header Ellyson Field, Pcr.sacola, Fla., 2 Dec. 1954 Millard County Chronicle Pear sirs: For the most part I find Dick Morrison's "Giving Our World the Once Over" interesting, not for its informative nature, but as an inner in-ner reflection of his personal reactions re-actions to a number of highly controversial con-troversial issues. It should be remembered, however, how-ever, that his deep-set political prejudices are not indicative of the thinking of the people of Millard Mil-lard county or the state as a whole.' His latest provocative at Sacks on the characters of Senators Sena-tors Watkins and Bennett are unjustified un-justified and warrant rebuttal. Utah can be proud of the people who represent the state back in Washington for the respect and moral climate they lend to 1he government. Few men of our times command the respect of the A-merican A-merican people as Secretary of MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah, Thur. Dec. 9, 1954.T Agriculture Benson, Edgar P. Eros-sard, Eros-sard, chairman of the V'. S. Tariff Commission, or Senators Watkins and Dennett. Not to mention our representatives or the hundreds of assistants and office workers who fill ninny important government jobs. Senator Watkins upon first meet lng him impressed me as. a dignified, digni-fied, unobtrusive individual who asserted himself much too modestly modest-ly to be an effective lawmaker, but I had all fears allayed by his skillful handling of a nasty Job nobody else wanted. Senator McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's attempt to intimidate him with threats and name-calling were to no avail. The strong backing given Senator Sena-tor Watkins by the Senate is proof of his sound Judgment. McCarthy's attempt to brand him "an unwitting unwit-ting handmaiden of Communism" is hardly worthy of a United States Senator, who flamboyantly cites himself as the antithesis of Communism. Com-munism. To even insinuate Sen. Mr. and Mrs. roi.dd A. Hc-nrie left Delta during the week for California, and will spend the winter win-ter months at Palm Spring, Cal., where their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Henrie, are residing. Watkins with religious bigotry is a clear demonstration of Mr. Morrison's Mor-rison's lack of tempered judgment for decency and fair play. A spokesman for Cardinal Spell-man Spell-man first made the charge and was promptly called down for it by the Cardinal himself, who said the charge was baseless and untrue. un-true. As for Mr. Morrison's conclusive assertion that Senator Bennett is a "confused and pious egghead," I suggest he learn a little more about the real man. Perhaps Dick could improve the quality of his literary style if he limited his discussions to a subject sub-ject he knows a little more about, and let the Washington correspondents corres-pondents report the news first hand. 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Dry - Sss Your Electric Dealer - TELLURIDE POWER COMPANY Giving Our World The Once Happy Hobby There are few things in life n.oie all arouna soul satisfying lhan making, fixing, or building something for oneself when the job takes both headwork and handwork hand-work in the right proportions. A home workshop can be just about the most enjoyable and constructive construc-tive hobby imaginable. The tensions ten-sions which build up in modern living dissolve like magic when one's spare time is given over to creative work, free from the distracting dis-tracting demands of others, free from any pressure against time or competition, when the only thing that counts is the job itself, and the only reward is the real sat isfaction of doing it exactly right. It's fun to be a perfectionist, or at least a reasonably close approach appro-ach thereto, and no perfectionist can ever work against a deadline. Every job is a challenge, beset with problems from start to finisJi. It is in meeting and licking the problems of such jobs that one gains the pleasure of achievement. The problems usually wouldn't bother a regular tradesman the least bit. Having been at it for years, he knows the tricks and can get things done, in his line, a lot faster, and, maybe even better than you. Eut the home workshop hobbyist doesn't limit himself to any one trade. He t ackles them all, as occasions arise. lie will be an electrician one time, a plumber another, and carpenter yet again. He need only have "tool sense" to do good work at any of them. Sure, the hobbyist may be slow, but he's on his own time, and having fun at it. What if he does have to take time out to read up on some detail in a "How To" book, or study out how it has been done on some other job? Sometimes Some-times he seems slow and awkward; awk-ward; on some tricks the knack for doing it fast can come only with years of practice. Still, the hobbyist, as a jack of all trades and maybe master of some, not infrequently comes up with a new wrinkle just because he isn't bound by the traditional way of doing things. My own home hobby project for the past while has been building a front porch, an architectural must which our house has been sadly lacking up until now, and a beautiful thing it is, too. Not that it's "modern" or anything, because we thought it best to make it match the plain old lines of the house, v hich, w hen built, was obviously ob-viously done with the idea of low-cost low-cost practicability uppermost; but the porch does add something, and the job of building it has been a joy. In fact, the project almost got out of hand. Initiated with the idea of providing a place where people could stand out of the rain to take off their overshoes, one thing led to another until it now bids fair to become the fanciest room in the house. Since it had to have a foundation founda-tion and a roof regardless, we decided de-cided we might as well wall it in, with windows, to give better protection pro-tection from the weather. Then, as it took shape, we decided we might as well finish the inside with plywood, and so on. The sky seems to have become the limit to what was started as a simple, necessary improvement. It isn't perfect, but most of the imperfections imperfec-tions are fairly well camouflaged, and some of my nuHhods, I know, would give a regular carpenter the heebie-jeebies, but still, I maintain, main-tain, it's passable. And when I get to working on it, I don't ever like to stop before eleven PM. Not the least gratifying reward for doing one's own fixing is the financial one. Money isn't everything, every-thing, true enough, but it is something, some-thing, and worth saving too. And, .egardlvss of what some critics av, the fact remains that in the Over By Dick Mcrriscn long run such savings are beneficial. benefi-cial. Money saved from one thing Is available for something else, the net result contributing to a higher, not a lower standard of living. Thrift is a virtue, and an economic blessing. Eut regardless of that, the chief value of doing things the home-workshop home-workshop way, to me, and no doubt a lot of others, is in the physical and mental relaxation it brings, rather than in cash savings. The Innocents People whose wits have been sharpened in the rough and tumble tum-ble of the competitive world often find it hard to understand the mental processes of some of our higher scientists, whose acts and utterances have seemed illogical, to say the least. Discussing the case of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer in the December issue is-sue of the FREEMAN magazine, Robert B. Lent quoted from a letter the scientist wrote to the AEC, in reply to charges against him by the Security board, as follows: "My friends, both in Pasadena and in Berkeley, were mostly faculty fac-ulty people, scientists, classicists and artists, I studied and read Sanskrit. I read something of ether parts of science., I was not inter ested in and did not read about economics and politics. I never read a newspaper or current magazine;! mag-azine;! had no radio, no telephone; I learned of the stock market crash in 1929 only long after the event; the first time I ever voted was in the Presidential election of 1936. To many of my friends, my Indifference to contemporary affairs seemed bizarre, and they often chided me for being too much of a highbrow. . . I was deeply interested in my science, but I had no understanding of the relations of man to his society". Mr. Lent devoted the rest of his article to his own comments on the implications of that, but to me the most glaring fact is that it reflected nothing except the over balanced mind, of a man so indiff erent to the world and affairs of his contemporaries that he was not qualified to participate in them. An extreme case, yes, but not a rare one among scientists. Such as these know nothing of the prac tical necessities of earning a liv ing. Here was a sane man, a geni us, whose thoughts were so far out of our world that he preferred Sanskrit to current news. But in psychiatric circles, it is known that a certain type of insanity-manifests insanity-manifests itself in comparable escape es-cape from reality, wherein the sufferer suf-ferer conjures up a crazy dream world all his own. Genius and insanity in-sanity are not so far apart. What Fare I The Senate censure session is ended, and what a farce it turned out to be. In effect, the whole censure move collapsed on the last day. The t S. Senate may not have destroyed itself by thus acting act-ing silly, but it certainly did not gain stature. What happened is that McCarthy came out on top, and at the time of adjournment, his chief accusers were on the run. I mean Flanders and the Hennings committee. Watkins still holds an air of thinking he has done something some-thing creditable, and Bennett got his bit of publicity and praise from the left-wing, which, probably, pro-bably, is all he wanted anyway. The noblest gesture of the whole session was that by McCarthy himself, in asking an early vote. The vilest was that by Ful bright, in reading some nasty letters, which were irrelevant, on the Senate Sen-ate floor. The most ridiculous was that by Bennett, playing an ineffectual inef-fectual Tweedledum to Watkins' Tw eedlede, trying to aid more censure char-es to those already made. Perhaps as good a reflection of . the quabty of Watkins' judgment las any can be found in his state-! ment that the move did not, or w ill not split the Republican party. Since the Senate Republicans split exactly in half, 22 to 22. on the j Usue, and the Democrats voted as a solid bloc, it is clear that Watkins Wat-kins got his parties mixed. It's my , judgment, after talking to some Republican leaders of Millard Co unty, that the party here, is nearly near-ly If not absolutely unanimous in having had enough of Watkins. Also of Tweedledum. And what about that poor, dear, offended, insulted General Zwicker who answered evasively, and whom McCarthy told off? That incident in-cident is what brought the whole censure move to a head and the United States Senate ignored it when the chips were down. In short, there was no case against McCarthy. He was "condemned" for failing to accept an invitation to appear before the Hennings committee and when last heard from the Hennings committee was busy denying de-nying that it had ordered a "mail cover" on McCarthy through the post office. He was then "condemned" for making remarks concerning the Watkins committee , particularly for calling them the "handmaidens of communism", or something like that, in an inept but not misleading mislead-ing figure of speech. But that remark re-mark was such as might be made even by you or me; a mere ex pression of opinion, and besides they acted as exactly that! Ralph Flanders, the "Seeing Eye Senator", finally got up and spoke a vague apology to McCarthy himself; him-self; thenasked that certain of his own remarks made June 1 be stric ken from the record. Welker quite properly objected, so the remarks will stay, to plague Flanders, not McCarthy, as long as he lives. When Watkins and Bennett come U their senses, if they do, growing awareness of the mon-strousness mon-strousness of what they did, or tried to do, should make them feel ashamed, but it probably wont matter. Something tells me neither of them will be returned to the Is Hostess At Club Meeting Mrs. Norma Pearson was hostess to Eridgadiers at their meeting Thursday night, for dinner and cards. Present were Cora Day, Nona Chesley, Lucile Osguthorpe, Nell Callister, Athena Cook, Liz Pace, Callie Morrison, Pearl Nelson, Mae Hohr.an, club members, and Verna Walch, Betty Baker and Helen Warner, guests. At cards high score awards were won by Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. Holman, and low by Mrs. Day. Senate after his present term expires. ex-pires. Tcia BETTER RESULTS ADVERTISE IN THE CHRONICLE BIG BENEFITS for Ywr Protection tS oil-important tifi insurance benefits on the ONE low cost polity. Here is real security et real saving available only in en Idaho Mutual Benefit Association policy. 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