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Show GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over "The great majority of men attend at-tend to what is necessary only when they fool the need for it--the precise time when it is too late". Napoleon. , Abuse Of Power The death of six marine trainees train-ees at Parris Island, S. C, the night of Sunday, April 8, was the result of an inexplicable abuse of authority on the part of a noncommissioned non-commissioned officer who held absolute power over them. His subsequent sub-sequent statements saying how-sorry how-sorry he was about it' all was not enough to bring them back to life, nor to cure the heartbreaks of members of their families, whose feelings of bitterness could only be Intensified by the knowledge that their boys died needlessly as a result of obedience to a stupid, capricious, unauthorized order by their own Staff Sergeant. The incident in-cident recalls an equally brutal, but less tragic order in the news some time ago, when an army officer ordered a group of men to stand at attention until some of them fainted. Of course a man who would give such an order Is not fit to be an officer. There Is no point to training train-ing men to death Just for the sake of training, nor any justification for giving such orders as a matter of discipline. Discipline may have Its place In military life, but It should be through orderly process, and not administered indiscriminately indiscrimin-ately at the whim of an officer not emotionally or intellectually qualified for his position. It is an evil thing for any man to hold absolute authority over anyone. Few, if any, men have the character charac-ter to wield power fairly; and there are altogether too many who. holding power, will use It ruthlessly because of some taint of sadism or egoism in their natures, na-tures, or through pure ignorance. In general, it seems that the men best qualified to hold power are the very ones who neither seek it or want it. It may be argued that such are only Isolated incidents In the defense de-fense effort; that as a whole the military establishment is run in an exemplary manner, with due regard re-gard for the welfare of the trainees in all branches. To a great extent this Is true. Yet in the larger sense, Is the whole effort any better, in principle, than the isolated iso-lated instances of abuse of power by unqualified officers? There is reason to think that American militarism itself rests upon abuse of power and authority, author-ity, and that the overall effort Is not effectively coordinated or Intelligently In-telligently managed. After all, If there is any necessity for the existence of a tremendous defense force to maintain our national security, the only discernible threat, Russia, is one whose power was built up in years not long gone throuch the short-sighted efforts of our own military authorities, author-ities, including commanders-in-chief who "liked Stalin", and spoke of "good old Joe". Russia is, most probably, considerably con-siderably less than the threat to our own existence externally and from the military standpoint, that is that Soviet-lovers would have us think. And If she Is, then why By Dick Morrison the tremendous military power we are asked to support? It appears as if our own military establishment has become the biggest, most wasteful, bungling and all 'round evil of all the bureaus of Big Government. It has become self-perpetuating, self-perpetuating, and it has Congress jumping through hoops. The net result is that these days, in peace time, we are spending as much money for "defense" each year as it cost us once before to fight and win the first world war. The arrogance of the military establishment and its top commanders comman-ders is shown in-the "Status of Forces" treaty, which deprives American draftees, already deprived depri-ved of their freedom, of their Constitutional Con-stitutional rights when serving in foreign countries. It is one of the things that shows up the hollow-ness hollow-ness of all the claims for freedom, and justice, and human rights, being be-ing made by those who are responsible respon-sible for sending Americans all over the world, and leaves their real attitudes and ruthlessness exposed ex-posed for what they are. The Daily Worker's Taxes The Communist Dally Worker, party newspaper, claimed to have been operating at a loss, but refused re-fused to explain how and from whom it had been making up Its claimed deficits of $200,000 a year. So the tax collectors set an arbitrary arbi-trary figure, based on such information inform-ation as they could get, and placed tax liens on the WORKER'S tangible tangi-ble property. And then a howl went up from the whole liberal press of the nation. Now one doesn't need to love Income In-come taxes and income tax collectors collec-tors any more than Governor Lee does, to find a few facts and make a few observations in connection with this, not entirely to the favor of the WORKER, and its apologists. First of all, the apologists seem inconsistent. Writing about the case, Ralph de Toledano, in NATIONAL NATI-ONAL Review, claims that in their reports and comments, every single sin-gle New York daily paper omitted vital information. He then quotes facts given in EDITOR & PUBLISHER PUBLISH-ER as follows: "Neither the Daily Worker, nor the American Civil Liberties Union, nor anyone else raised a hand or a voice of protest when a daily in Ketchikan, Alaska, a daily in Marmi, Illinois, a weekly in Mississippi, a daily in Oregon, and a weekly in California, were closed down by T-Men in recent years. But when it happens to the Daily Worker, we are suddenly overrun with bleeding hearts for our disappearing freedom of the press. Treasury agents do deserve credit, however, for not preventing the paper from going to press although al-though this has been upheld in other tax-lien cases against newspapers". news-papers". So there! Bet you'd never guessed, guess-ed, when you read some of the comments from the New York Times, and others, that the Daily Worker was not the only paper to have its property "seized" for taxes. You certainly wouldn't, if you had depended on those one sided defenders of freedom of the press, and of civil rights, America's "liberal" newspapers, to so inform you! But that is what has happened. And about the only thing it illustrates illust-rates is that our leftists can get themselves aroused over the fundamental fund-amental freedoms of the people only when Communists or left-wingers left-wingers in general are involved. Writing in the FACTS FORUM NEWS a while back, William F. Buckley, Jr., accused our "liberals" of displaying an attitude of inconsistency in-consistency based on lack of objectivity. ob-jectivity. That characteristic has nowhere 1oen better indicated. Well, I can't get too excited about the troubles of the Daily Worker, myself, on high moral grounds or any other, because I consider our American Communists a lot of hypocrites at best. But let's look at it this way: The Communists Com-munists believe in collectivism. That is, in involuntary, or forced collectivism. State collectivism. And the U. S. income tax is an instrument for collectivizing a large fraction of the wealth of America. The Daily Worker has, reportedly, refused to cooperate in this effort toward collectivisation even to the extent of offering records re-cords to prove it didn't owe any income tax. So it might appear that the Com-! munist newspaper, while propagan' dizing the idea of forced collectivization collectivi-zation for everybody, is quite willing will-ing to resist the collectivization of even a portion of its own property via the Income tax. To reiterate, I just can't get worked up over the tax troubles of the Daily Worker. In this, I am at the opposite pole from those "liberals" who never get worked! up over such matters unless such organizations as the Communist party are involved. Buckley's Magazine I have quoted bits from NATIONAL NATIO-NAL REVIEW here on several occasions oc-casions of late. In case you haven't seen a copy, it Is a new national weekly of opinion, quite frankly devoted to the "libertarian" as contrasted with the "liberal iewpoint. It was launched less than six months ago by Wm. F. Buckley, Jr., the controversial student who created quite a fuss in collegiate circles when he wrote a book.j is Ilosivss at Ilridge Party Athena Cook was hostess to Bridgadiers Thursday night, at dinner at the Delta Cafe, and bridge later at the home of Mrs. Liz Pace. Present were Nona Chesley, Liz Pace, Norma Pearson, Lucile Osgu-thorpe, Osgu-thorpe, Neile Callister, Pearl Nelson, Nel-son, Athena Cook, members, and Kathryn Pace, guest for the evening. eve-ning. At cards, high score awards went 10 Mrs. Pace and Mrs. Pearson, and low to Mrs. Chesley. Oak City Life at lit Best! I TTlisn you'vs pitclieJ your camp after i iooi Jayon tLt stream, aotLinj lest I n OUFUOIl at its fey ft : - I s i t ! Je$t ' KENTUCKY STRJUCKT i ISv'RBON WHISKEY ut it It '.LartO.t JW'MT ) i Itlll ltl. it'tttl I "God And Man At Yale", in which he tore into the prevailing orthodoxy ortho-doxy of atheistic and Marxist teachings tea-chings in our colleges. America needs magazines like National Review, but more than that, it needs an attitude of open-mindedness open-mindedness on the part of the new-dealing generation of leftists to read them occasionally. There is probably no group of people in the world more set in their blind acceptance of politico-economic fallacy than our academic leftists, and one doesn't have to be in agreement with every editorial tenet of the papers like National Review ' to see that they could exert a stimulating effect upon the minds of our confirmed leftists. It is always rough on a believer to realize that he is commencing to doubt his faith; it is rough on an atheist to commence to doubt his atheism; and it is rough on a new-dealing academic leftist to come right face to face with the thought that maybe "sordid" self interest is a prime-mover in human endeavor after all. But without such doubt, and the stimulation provided by the "other side", the intellect tends to atrophy. So, whether you would like the National Review because you are a conservative, or need it because you are a "liberal", it- is one of the new ones that might hold something for you. Mrs. Mae II. Shipley Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Lyman, ! their daughter, Ellen and husband" and their daughter, were in Oak . City Sun-day. They were the speak-j ers at Sacrament services Sunday j evening. They all gave very en-j en-j yao!e talks to a large audience. They are from Elanding, Utah, and Cedar City. Oak City people are happy to have their bishop, Don Anderson, with them again after being in Idaho the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Carlson and his mother, Serina Murray, of Salt Lake City, visited Sunday in Oak City. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harris and son, Don, attended the wedding of Earl's niece at Beaver last Friday night. Mrs. John Alldredge is in Salt Lake City at the Holy Cross hospital hos-pital for surgery. Mr. Alldredge, his daughter, Faye, and husband went to Salt Lake with her. She is reported as doing nicely. We'll be happy to hav her home again. Mr. Rich Lyman and daughter, Patricia, from California, have been Oak City visitors the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Anderson and son were Oak City visitors last Sunday. Word came to Oak City of the death of Mrs. A. C. Moulton, of Heber City. She will be remember- j ed to many friends in Delta and. Oak City by her many visits to her mother, Mrs. Florence Jones and sister, Mrs. George H. Anderson Ander-son of Oak City. Mrs. Jones passed away March 15, just one month ago after a long illness. Mrs. Moulton Moul-ton was very ill for the past two months and her passing Is a shock to her many friends. She was the wife of A. C. Moulton of Heber City. Oak City offers love and sympathy to the sorrowing relatives. rela-tives. Mrs. Alice Anderson has been ill for the past week, but is improving im-proving some now. Her sisters, Martha and also Isobella of Beaver have been with her during the week. Her daughter, Genevieve, came from Nevada to assist caring car-ing for her mother. We all hope for a speedy recovery for Mrs. An derson. Richard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Talbot, met with an accident acci-dent while cutting posts with his father last week, badly cutting his toe. We are happy he has recovered recover-ed enough to be around again. Mrs. Ann Finlinson. and daughters, daught-ers, Sandra, are Janet, were Salt Lake visitors for a couple of days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Nielson and family visited at Overton, Nevada, also Hoover Dam and Las Vegas last week. They brought their mother, mo-ther, Mrs. Mary E. Anderson, home with them. She has been visiting her s:n, James and family, the past two weeks. Mrs. Mary Finlinson spent Conference Con-ference week in Salt Lake at the home of her daughter, Amy. All her daughters were there and she reports a very nice visit. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pratt spent the conference weekend in Salt Lake City and Ogden. Mr. and Mrs. P.eed Talbot had his sister, Mrs. Nelda Jenkins, and her son Emerson, from California visit. The Talbot family was at Benjamin for a family reunion to welcome especially Emerson home from two years in the service. Nelda and her son attended Conference Con-ference Sunday in Salt Lake. Emerson Em-erson Is preparing to leave soon for a mission. Mr. and Mrs. Reed MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah. Thurs. April 13, 1956. 4-11 Club IZcports First 32eeisi(j The Eight Cookettes 4-11 club met on April 12, 1056 and held their first meeting. They organized as follows: President, Pre-sident, Susan Lyman; Vice president, presi-dent, Patricia Taylar; Secretary, Margo Rose and Reporter, Colleen Fovvles. The members of our 4-H club are Michele Shurch, Ema Lee May. Nancy Munster, Margo Rose, Karla Johnson, Calleen Fowles, Susan Lyman Ly-man and Patricia Taylor. Our leaders lead-ers are JuVene Porter and Annalee Johnson. Everyone was present except ex-cept Patricia. by Colleen Fowles, reporter. Talbot and son, George, attended ;he reunion at Benjamin. Mr. Roland Dutson visited' a few clays with his parents. He is working work-ing in Nevada. He returned to his work Monday. A Fireside Chat was held at the home and Janet and Sandra Finlinson Finlin-son Sunday following the Sacrament Sacra-ment meeting. Reed Jeffery showed show-ed pictures and talked. Refreshments Refresh-ments were served. 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