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Show GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over Paying Proposition That giving blood to the Red Cross blood bank is an act which can prove of direct practical and cash value to the donor, as well as an offering In the Interest of humanity, was brought home to me last week in an unexpected manner. I have given blood when the Bloodmobile was here on several occasions; a total of about seven pints; not because I was overly enthusiastic about the idea, but because La Vonne, among other local ladies, was helping with Red Cross work, and I was usually on hand when they found it necessary to run in as many people as poss ible to try and make the quota jiad no idea mat i should ever receive any benefit from it myself. It just seemed an easy way for anyone who had an hour to spare to do something that might help persons unknown In the event of distant disaster. Then last week, it turned out to be La Vonne herself, of all people, who was In need of transfusion. During the course and recovery from the operation, which her friends already know about, several sev-eral pints were used. The funny part of it was If such things can ever be regarded as funny that less than a week before she entered enter-ed the Holy Cross Hospital, in Salt Lake, she had been In attendance at a Red Cross meeting In the Delta City Building, and had remarked re-marked that no one could ever foresee when he or she might be in need of such aid. As of this writing. writ-ing. La Vonne is recovering very well and is expected home again within a few days. After the operation, the doctor told me that it would be necessary to make a charge for the transfusions, transfus-ions, at $25 for the first pint, and a somwhat lower rate for the subsequent sub-sequent ones, but that if I or others would contribute blood to the hospital, they would prefer this to payment in cash. I said, "If the blood bank Is open, you can have a pint right now. I've given it for the Red Sross several times. It's old stuff to me". He replied that my "credits" with the Red Cross could be transferred to the hospital, and that instead of acting as donor then and there, I might better continue to give to the Red Cross as opportunities a- rose. It seems that the hospitals draw on the Red Cross, whose blood bank is kept stocked with the various types at all times. The cash value of this was considerable; con-siderable; but aside from that the Incident showed what a great humanitarian purpose the Red Cross blood bank serves, in time of need. Ours Is No Democracy Democracy is one of the most carelessly used words in political science. People who refer to the American nation as a democracy are mistaken. The government set up by the Constitution of the United Unit-ed States was never intended to be a democracy. "Communism is twentieth century cen-tury democracy" Is one of the slogans of the Communists. It bears more truth than appears at first thought. It is not based, as some hold, upon distortion of the word democracy. Democracy is a form of absolutism. absolut-ism. It Is the tyranny by the mar-Jority mar-Jority over all weaker groups. It is the dictatorship of the proletariat proletar-iat It recognizes no minority rights only majority power. The word democracy does not appear in either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. It Is not the American way. People who believe in individual freedom fear democracy. The FREEMAN magazine for February contains two Interesting definitions of democracy. Both are by the U. S. Army. The first, which appeared in the Army Training Manual in 1928 is this: "Democracy. A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of 'direct' expression. Results in mobcracy. Attitude toward property pro-perty is communistic negating orooertv riehts. Attitude toward By Dick Morrison shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice and impulse, without restraint or regard to con sequences. Results in demoEoeism. license, agitation, discontent, an archy". The Army's other definition was published twenty-four years later, as follows: "Meaning of Democracy. Because the United States is a democracy, the majority of the people decide how our government will be organ ized and run and that includes the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The people do this by electing repre sentatives, and these men and wo men then carry out the wishes of the people". This from The Sold ier's Guide, June, 1952. How weak, how immature, that second statement seems compared with the first. It is both inaccurate and inconsistent. Inaccurate, be cause unless our Constitution has been overthrown ours is a gover nment, not by men, but by law. It is a government of limited powers, in which the rights not only of majorities, but also of minorities, and even of single Individuals, are supposed to be sacrosanct. The definition de-finition Is inconsistent, because people do not elect representatives in a democracy, but take "direct action" through mass meetings, etcAnd the statement that the elected representatives carry out the wishes of the people is purely silly. Not only do the elected representatives re-presentatives frequently abandon the platforms on which a majority supposedly vote for them, but the mere idea that there is only a single set of "wishes of the people" is patently absurd. It seems beyond dispute that the author of that second definition must have been a latter-day egghead, and by egg head I mean "a person of spurious intellectual pretensions", the best definition of the breed I ever read. No, our government is no demo cracy, and may it never become one. Ours is a Constitutional Republic, Re-public, a much finer conception of government than democracy. Ours Is a government in which the law itself lays Its firm restraining hand, not only upon minority groups, tout upon majorities as well, and, most important, upon the elected representatives repre-sentatives of the people. Yes. our supreme law can be changed, tout only under orderly procedures which makes frivolous or whimsical change Impossible. The stability of our supreme law, which applies alike to Presidents and Senators as well as to ordinary ordin-ary people, has more than once saved our nation from the pitfalls to which democracies are subject Ours is a stable, orderly government govern-ment of limited powers and divid ed authority. The government of France Is weak, unstable, unde-pendable unde-pendable by comparison. Why? Because Be-cause it is closer to pure democracy. demo-cracy. "I pledge allegiance to the American Am-erican Flag, And to the Republic for which it stands ." So runs the pledge to the Flag. It will be a sad day in the annals of human freedom if that word Republic is ever changed to Democracy. Demo-cracy. Mencken's Last Life, for Feb. 20, runs some excerpts ex-cerpts from "Minority Report, H. L. Mencken's Notebooks", to be published May 21 by Alfred A. Knopf, at $4.00, from which I quote: "My guess is that well over 80 of the human race goes through life without ever having a single original thought". "A strong government always wars on the superior man. Its regimenting reg-imenting of the inferior goes on, too, hut is harmless; they can't be made worse". "Only a country that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive expen-sive and nefarious kind of government govern-ment ever heard of on earth". "The average soldier found in the army a vastly more spacious life, with many of the privileges of a chartered libertine". "In every community in America, however small, there are local notables whose notability rests law is that the will of the majority wholly on the fact that they were Sparkling Momente 4fS! P Vrl if -1 1 -J -II 1 1 I Happy memories . . . and happy refreshment .ofheWUiiud once drafted into some war or othar". "There are Englishmen, of course, who pretend friendliness for the United States, but it always turns out on brief Investigation that they are trying to sell some thing". Laughing Matter That he who laughs last, laughs best, is a long-accepted old saying, but It may not hold water any more, If we can believe the latest findings by authorities on Respon ses to Humor, as presented in the February Scientific American. It isn't so much a matter of when you laugh that reveals the quality of your mirth, but what at. and also how. Most revealing of all, to those who use your respon ses for the purpose of probing your emotional make-up and social adjustments, may be the things you don't laugh at because, to you, thev are not even funny. According to Freud, people laugh when they momentarily gratify a forbidden impulse. This not only offers us a pretty scientific hint of a definition of laughter, but it also makes us look like pretty raw characters. In view of the things we generally laugh at. Yet it seems true, come to think of it It always makes us feel superior to see someone else in a difficult situation, as when some dear friend takes a pratfall on the Ice these cold days, and our first impulse may be to laugh, before our conscious social sense of re sponsibility takes over and we decide de-cide we should sympathize and offer help. Of what other ingredients ingred-ients are movie and TV comedies made, anyway? None other, of course. So we laugh right out loud, in gratification of our forbidden impulse to enjoy seeing someone else in an embarrassing, awkward, frightning, or dangerous predica ment There are extant a lot of jokes about "forbidden" subjects such as sex, to name what is probably the most common subject, and your responses to these may tie more revealing to those who have stud ied the subject than you'd like to think. For instance, failure to see anything funny in them may show Sunday Night In Kolia Wards Eider Reed Jeffery, recently returned re-turned from the Western Canadian LDS mission, gave his report Sunday Sun-day night in Delta First Ward, in an interesting talk on his experiences. experi-ences. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Jeffery, spoke, and also a missionary companion of Reed's, Elder George, from Montana. Both young missionaries spent the past week in Los Angeles, where they served as guides to visitors to the Los Angeles Temple. Bishop Ned Church presided at the meeting, and music was by the youth choir, Dr. M. E. Bird, director, and Miss Margaret Gardner, accompanist. In Delta Second Ward Elder Gill Hilton, now home from missionary labors, reported on his work in the Western States Mission, wherein he had served from Montana south to Albuquerque, N. M. His mother, Mrs. Vera Hilton, also spoke. Bishop Bish-op Norman Gardner was in charge, and music was by the youth choir, directed by Mrs. Cherie Shields. Julia Bogh and Eloise Bassett were accompanists on the piano and organ. Speakers In Delta Third Ward Sunday night were the newly sustained sus-tained officers of YMMIA, Supt. Hints To Help Prevent Hardware Disease that you lack "forbidden Impulses" along those lines, either because you manage to gratify all of your impulses, or else you just don't have the impulses in the first place. Most people find such off-color off-color jokes funny.indicating that they do have the impulses but regard re-gard them as more or less forbid den. At all events, the studies would seem to take a lot of the fun out of life. A joke could never seem funny if you suspected the person telling it only wanted to probe your emotional mal-adjustments by noting your type of response. You might even try to throw him off the track by laughing hilariously at something you didn't think funny; but even that course could hold exceedingly embarrassing possibilities unless you were darn sure what you were doing. Minerals are important and necessary ne-cessary in livestock rations. But, they are useful only when properly proper-ly used and fed, according to Mar-ven Mar-ven Ogden, county agent. Too much iron in cattle rations is causing heavy losses, he says. Cases of trouble from Iron wire, nails, scrap iron, cans, saw blades, staples and what have you are numerous and costly. Much of the work of veterinarians is the treating treat-ing of "hardware disease." Field choppers and balers of feed pick up pieces of metal that have become scattered in fields and mix them with the feed. This means trouble. Accidental losses are plentiful. Farmers can cut losses greatly if they: 1. Place all scraps of metal In a suitable container instead of throwing it In the corral or field. 2. Control all baling wire. Sometimes, Some-times, pieces of wire are clipped in the field by the mower. Small pieces when swallowed by cattle, puncture the digestive tract and may cause death. 3. Each spring and fall have a clean-up of the fields, lots, corrals, breeding and grazing areas. 4. Make certain that ground or chopped feed has passed over a magnet to remove pieces of craps of metal. It's surprising what a magnet can find in ground feed. Ditches, corners and posts' are poor places and at best only temporary tem-porary storage places for injurious injur-ious materials. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smoot, former Deltans, visited in Delta during the past week with Mrs. Smoot's sister, Mrs. Laura King, and family. They had been in Antimony before coming com-ing here, and went on to Salt Lake MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta. Utah. Thurs. Feb. 23. 1958 Mrs. Emma Hunsaker and daugh tor Ranae. whn hava Vionn in c-iit City, where they visited Mr. and Lake City through the winter, re- Mrs. J. C. Pace, before returning to their home in Weiser, Idaho. turned to their home in Delta last week. Harold Richards, manual counselor Arjaan Dekker, and activity counselor, coun-selor, Lloyd Warner. The ward choir, directed by Cloe Whicker, sang several numbers. Mrs. Erma Roper was accompanist. Mrs. Norma Hannifin visited in Salt Lake City over the weekend. attractive Brand New Home ready for Immetll ate occupancy This brand new home has just been completed and is ready for immediate sale. 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