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Show GIVING CUR WORLD THE Once Over Thoughts While Combining. The autumnal equinox is past, and, as was the case a year ago, it found me out on the farm, helping help-ing run the combine. Not that there was much point in my being there. The crop is turning out only about half what it did last year, and, in any event, Ralph Christensen could handle the job alone. It's supposed to be a one-man one-man Job. But I like to go along. There's a certain tranquility of soul to be found there, away from crowds of people and their troubles. trou-bles. One finds a pleasing rapport with nature, too, in several ways. So, when the sun went down behind be-hind the hills straight west, that day last week, I was standing on the drawbar of the tractor holding the handle which turns the cutter bar up and down, helping to listen for any changes in pitch or speed which would indicate something wrong with the machinery. It might be a monotonous job, except that little things which might ordinarily pass unnoticed come to life and fill the days with interest. The weather, the clouds, and the wind become important. You keep your eyes not only on the ground, to pay attention to the necessities of the job Itself, but on the sky as well. A transport plane passes overhead, glistening not silver but snowy white when the sunlight strikes it. A little wind comes up, and a bird glides motionless mo-tionless in it, making no headway until It turns and 200ms away In the other direction. A field mouse scampers out of the way of the machine. An owl played along with us a whole afternoon. We had disturbed Its repose, no doubt, for owlslike to sleep in the daytime and hunt at night. Its grayish-brown color blended perfectly with the dry stalks of alfalfa and foxtail. How well nature had protected it by this coloration! We couldn't always al-ways see it until it moved, each time we came around, and it flew over Just far enough to get out of the way, but no further. Then it would turn its head around backwards, back-wards, and watch us with its big black and yellow eyes, not too much afraid, but somewhat uncertain. un-certain. It Seemed so slow to move I thought I might catch it, so I got off the drawbar and took after it once. It would let me come only 60 close, and then it would fly away a little. It was perfectly safe from me, and I soon gave up: What aa'owfs night-seeing eyes lack In broad daylight, its ears make up for in sensitivity, warning It of danger. I didn't bother to think what I'd have done with it If I had caught it, except perhaps take it home to show the children. It sought shelter of standing growth, and each time our combine com-bine closed in on a section it would fly over to the next, and the same merry- go- round would start all over again. What did our little friend, the owl, think about all this, anyway? What would I have thought about it if I had been an owl? That was one way to approach ap-proach the question. Certainly our noisy machine was beyond its comprehension. We were upsetting Its way of life, to which it had adjusted Itself sue cessfully; though not too seriously because there remained vast areas , By Dick Morrison of plant growth for it to hide in. What we were doing must have seemed pointless to the owl. The ways of man, and his machines are beyond the instinctive understanding under-standing of the lesser creatures. For that matter, mankind alone, is the only one of the species that deliberately and purposely invents in-vents new ways of doing things; that has the intellect that can face up to new problems and situations sit-uations and master them sometimes. some-times. Man is the only tool-using animal. The owl loved life, of course, and sought to keep out of danger. But why? Did it have any purpose in living? Not consciously, of course, unless its little brain worked work-ed in a way we don't understand at all; yet it must have felt the same elemental desires all living creatures feel if they, and their species, survive. Or could mechanical mechan-ical reflex actions, not thought or even felt, serve the same purposes in some creatures? Had it asked itself the question of whether it" ate to live, or lived to eat. It would surely have found Itself as incapable incap-able or giving a logical answer as we are. Well, then, what would be the owl's purpose in life? To survive, for one thing, would be an immediate im-mediate need. And, to survive, It must be able at once to avoid or defend itself against its own natural nat-ural enemies, and 'be able to subdue sub-due the creatures on which it feeds in turn. Then, it would naturally want to meet up with another owl of the opposite sex and build a nest for some little owls, for perpetuation per-petuation of the species ranks in nature's eyes at least equally in importance with survival of the Individual, and perhaps takes precedence pre-cedence over it. And, when an owl, or any creature, has done those things, it has done about all there is in life. In nature's scale of values, the individual of any species seems to rate at the bottom of the list. No individual seems important where survival of the species is concerned. Yet no species is important, im-portant, either, if another, better adapted to the environment, comes along and displaces it. It is as if something greater than that is what counts, and that greatest of all things, highest on nature's scale of values, is life itself. In all the endless competition among individuals in-dividuals and species for a place in the sun, the very destruction of the inferior types by the superior super-ior is what would seem to ensure the continuance of life, in some form. I an, as is no secret, not at all a religious person in the ordinary sense. I have even remarked that when I felt the need of a religion I would invent one to suit myself. my-self. To me old line religion simply sim-ply doesn't hold the answers that are in harmony with observable phenomena of nature; on the con trary, it seems to stultify the in tellect. I haven't the slightest idea what the force of life is, al though it seems to pervade all the universe much as gravitation and electricity do. It is a mysterious myster-ious thing, this force which can cause inert elements to be taken up and made a part of living bo dies, for a while, and then be dis carded even as the skin scales off, 1 Wemsore People of Inherent Good Taste ,H MORE fr- GLENMORE MORE Me... MORE quality... MORE enjoyment... trw-wtr TlAICf ItllT en klllilf Lrrry drop distilUd and bottled byy GLENMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY Lmdtrill, Kentucky while the host still lives. But 111 get along without any answers at all rather than accept easy answers ans-wers which, to me, just don't indicate in-dicate anything except wishful thinking. Well, such thoughts have to end somewhere. Saturday morning it rained. First a few big drops, then a steady drizzel which soon had the fields and all the plants moist, and maybe even the owl, if it didn't find a dry spot under some sheltering foliage. So we had to shut down and go home, and snap out of that rapport with nature and all the unfathomable thoughts that go with it. May He Promptly Recover The heart attact suffered by President Eisenhower was unfortunate, unfort-unate, not only for the President himself, but, unless he can make a full recovery, for the nation as a whole. The Eisenhower administration" have given our country something it has been in need of for years. It has proven, so far, that peace, freedom, and prosperity are mutually mu-tually compatible. Not for over twenty years had this condition existed. A whole generation has grown to maturity imbued with the new-deal idea that such a thing was impossible. This indoctrination indoc-trination has been so effective that people were willingly surrendering surrender-ing their sacred Constitutional rights to the proponents of the Super State Idea, in the mistaken belief that a return to political and economic freedom would mean depression. And people generally, fear depression above all things. You can't eat freedom" was the cynical cry of new-dealers and col-lectivists col-lectivists during the depression. But they forgot that people had eaten well and been free before; and they neglected to observe that you can't eat "controls", either. Truly, people generally have never had it so gooa as unaer Elsenhower. The best times before, all thines considered, were the years of the twenties. The thirties were years of depression, unemployment, unem-ployment, relief rolls, and rising socialism; while the forties were years of war. The task of leading people away from the false philosophy of new-dealism new-dealism is not completed. People have had a taste of good times, but they are not quite sure, yet. Two more years of this presidential presiden-tial term, and four more after that, will be needed. And it will be essential es-sential that there be no economic recession if confidence in the Idea of "Peace, Freedom and Prosperity" Prosper-ity" is to be built up into a firm conviction on the part of the people. Eisenhower is the man who most surely holds the faith of the peo ple, and who, therefore, is In a position to assure a continuation of present economic policies lor the period needed to rebuild public confidence in them, and to prove that encroaching socialism is not necessary to the prosperity of people peo-ple generally. It is to be hoped that this work will not be inter rupted, or brought to an unseemly end, by his illness. Monry Question The high degree of prosperity which we have enjoyed, in peace time, under the Eisenhower admin istration, has been, in a large part, due to the stability of the dollar, and the general air of confidence which has resulted therefrom. An honest dollar is essential if free enterprisers are to make commit ments with confidence, ana tins sort of confidence is essential to high economic activity and pro sperity. And the criterion ol just what constitutes an honest dollar is the measure of what a dollar will buy. The old gold-standard concept has been proven in error. I have Just received, in reply to requests to both the U. S. Dept. of Labor, and the Dept. of Commerce, the latest data on the purchasing power of the dollar. And the fig ures show that we have had a very high degree of stability In the value of the dollar since 1952. That farm prices are out of line with Industrial prices, therefore, indicates mal-adjustment of another an-other sort than the purely mone tary. The data furnished by both de partments Is largely the same. Both show that, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, the decline de-cline in the value of the dollar was arrested, and that the Index has remained remarkably steady. That the dollar has been steady. while economic activity has been increasing and the volume of money mon-ey In circulation has been expan ding, simply proves that, u a dollar dol-lar of stable value Is to be maintained, main-tained, the volume of money In circulation must be adjusted, up or down. In proportion to business activity. If this kind of monetary stabil ity can be maintained, our econo mic system wiU function at optimum opti-mum effectiveness. Changes in the value (not the volume) of money are what cause overall swings of the business cycle, and these should be avoided. A great In crease in the value of money, for example, will cause a depression, because it means greatly declining prices. A depression brings on business bus-iness stagnation because this con dition plays hob with the normal profit Incentive which make capi talism work. In fact, a serious general decline in the price level can have as serious a deadening effect upon the incentive as collectivism col-lectivism can! And business. Inevitably, In-evitably, slows down as a result Instability la th value of money is no longer titrable. Attends Temple Ilites at Hern 1 it:- ,,.! !' 1 i t standing place I have yet seen in( MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Europe. There seems to be a fee- Delta. Utah. Thurs. Sept. 29, 1955, ling in the country that you can- not find any where else in the A 2C Garry R. Hardy, in Holland Hol-land with the Air Force, sends this picture of himself and his Swiss host, right, during his recent re-cent visit io Bern Switzerland. "Dear Folks", Garry wrote Sept 16, from Soesterberg, Holland, "Ar rived back here late last night, in Garry, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hardy, Hinckley, has been in Europe eighteen months now, and has visited England, Holland, Holl-and, Francs, Germany and now Switzerland. , world. There seems to be a peaceful peace-ful feeling everywhere you go. j The people as a whole seemed very friendly toward the Mormons. "1 arrived in Bern at four o'clock I in the morning with no hotel room I in sight. After trying about six I was about to give up and sleep I in the street when I met a young Swiss fellow, while talking to a taxi driver, who invited me to come and stay at his home. We ' 1 arrived at their home (which ws about four or five blocks from the temple site) and I stayed there for four nights and during the days, when I wasn't at the temple 1 taking pictures. I "They took me all over Berne and the outlying districts, showing me around. They showed me the old castles and the points of interest in-terest as a whole. "All in all they were really wonderful won-derful people. They gave me a standing invitation to come and stay with them any time I was in Switzerland, and practically insis ted I come back and see them next summer. And if it is possible good shape and in a way glad to get back here. "Switzerland is the most out- about four or five miles out, at Zollikoffen. And the temple is set oh a hill (he enclosed some fine snapshots of the view) that overlooks over-looks a peaceful valley, which seems as if it would oe really beautiful in either summer or winter. In the summer it is covered cover-ed by green dotted with peaceful looking little farms. And in the winter it would probably be the same, except covered with snow. The temple grounds are not yet completed but when they are it should be a striking picture to see. "I failed to see Ron (Nielson) or Dart (Stewart), but I did get to see Earlene Steele along with several sev-eral people that went to B.A.C. when I did. "We are starting basketball here tonight. Practice, because we are going to play in a tourney in two weeks or so. That also is a welcome wel-come change, because it takes up almost all of my spare time." Some personal messages followed, follow-ed, for his parents, and Garry closed with best wishes to friends here. His address is A2C Garry R. Hardy, AF 19417548. 32nd Figh ter Day Squadron, A.P.O. 292, cjo in any way, I plan on doing it. "The temple Is not in Berne pro- Postmaster, New York, N. Y. per, but in one of the small towns "N's's ( if 0 J( . s ffEaeyVe scifier &uauiGi)g go 0uua3GfeoGu Hum yoo core Eu.viE.gj 3 dnm Employees at the Bingham Mine are safer moving a mountain to produce copper than the average person is doing household chores. Actually they're five times safer! . . National Safety Council figures show one in 36 persons suffers a home accident each year. At the mine, men in 265 different jobs, which include drilling, blasting and hauling, have an accident rate of only one in 154. The mills and refinery also have outstanding safety records. .... ..... The 38-year-old safety program at Utah Copper is the result of sincere concern for the welfare of employees. Every year it calls for careful planning plan-ning and the expenditure of more than $100,000. One equipment change now being made to insure greater safety will cost $500,000 when completed. Fourteen specialists are assigned to full-time safety work, while 450 supervisors are responsible for safety as part of their duties. But all of Utah Copper's 6300 employees have assigned themselves to making the safety program work. Their enthusiastic cooperation helps make it a success. Employees and their families benefit from the carefully engineered safety program at Utah Copper because the family of a safe worker is more secure. Also they are relieved of the worry and suffering caused by accidents. The company benefits because a safe worker is a steady producer and a good safety record helps attract competent workmen. Employee-management teamwork at Utah Copper has produced a safety record which benefits all Utahns, because, in the long run, it helps maintain copper production. i JTeiwecoti Copper Corporation "A Good Neighbor Helping to Build a Better Utah" UofyuxxxfM Kmnt-TVi Best. . . -Kcnnecett Cekbrity PtyUuse". KUT Channel 2, every Wtdneyby. 8p.m. |