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Show MILL GI ir umiuniutt Delta, Utah. Thurs. Mar y - - - 1 1 ' " . " 'JR WORLD THE Once Over By Dick Morrison Letter From Colorado "Dear Mr. Morrison: . "As a former resident of Delta (not LDS), I have been reading your column with a great deal of interest, especially your discussions discuss-ions on religion. "In last week's Chronicle there was a reference to a book by Mr, written by him. I'd like very much to have a copy of this book. Could you tell me where I might get a copy, also the price. "Am much interested in the pros and eons of the Mormon religion. I feel that I, too, am able to make up my own mind about these things. Do enjoy Once Over so Harrison OH Helper, also a letter keep up the good work. COMPLETE LIKE OF INSURANCE Hospital Health and Accident Fire Life DERRAL CHRISTENSEN Phone 382J5 - United Benefit Life Mutual of Omaha ALFALFA WEEVILS ill , '" x. -- I tilccdi St other 6 "Sincerely, Mrs. J. L. Lambert, Fort Collins, Colo." Books On Religion Publisher's credit for the book mentioned by Mrs. Lambert was given with an Item concerning it January 24. Am repeating it here, along with some others, for the benefit of any readers who want to follow-up any of them. Mormons Are Peculiar People, by G. T. Harrison, is published by Vantage Press, 120 West 31 St., New York 1, N. Y., at $3.00. People's Padre, by Emmett Mc Laughlin, reviewed here last week, is published by Beacon Press, Bos-, ton, Mass.,' at $2.95. The two above are In the nature of debunking works by writers who formerly were studious mem' bers of the respective faiths they write about. A third book, of the same nature, nat-ure, lout dealing with another sect, The Jehovah's Witnesses, was called call-ed to my attention in a letter last week from Mr. Harrison. The title is Thirty Years A Watch Tower Slave, by William J. Schnell, This is published by Baker Book House, 1019 Wealthy St. S. E Grand Rapids 6, Michigan, at $2.95. Mr. Harrison added, "I do not care much for the book, but this man Schnell was one of the top Jehovah Jeho-vah Witnesses, and shows them up for a bunch . . ." On the other side, people wanting want-ing literature of the pro-Witness kind will have no trouble buying it locally. Both Awake magazine and the Watch Tower are made available in Delta periodically by resident Witnesses, Concerning pro-Mormon 'books, I myself am now reading What Of The Mormons? by Gordon B. Hinckley. Hinc-kley. This is published by the LDS Church, and Is available at the Deseret. Book Co. in Salt Lake, among other places. I agreed to read at least one book of this sort, and this was offered by a sales person there, as one of the best. Already I have found some intriguing intrig-uing contradictions between It and Mr. Harrison's book. I hope to i ;et to the bottom of these In due time. I do not have any pro-Catholic ooks at hand, but I imagine peo-le peo-le who want them can find them for themselves. Never had any intention of turning turn-ing this column over to religious discussions, and am about through with them for the time being. As among the three denominations so far mentioned, I am quite neut ral. In order to accept any of them, one must accept the idea that ; there is a surerna ! r ' md a flock of angels so lp in the sky, and that I get off Stuart Chase Lays An Egg Among secular books to come to hand the last while Is one on Logic, by Stuart Chase. The title is Guides To Straight Thinking. One of the children brought it home from the High School library, and I read it. Probably I was looking for trouble trou-ble at the start. At any rste, I found it. Before he got through, Stuart Chase made about as gosh-awful gosh-awful a shambles of his own principles prin-ciples of logic as yeu could im agine. It is not that the principles he lays down are not right. They are, as far as I am qualified to judge. But in certain intrepretations of them, and in one certain interpretation interpre-tation in particular, Stuart Chase lets his prejudices run riot, which is one of the things he holds, quite correctly, a logician should never do. It leads up to the question, can present day "liberals" be logical, logi-cal, and leaves In my mind justification justifi-cation for a position I have long held. I don't believe they can. For one thing, today's "liberalism" is illogical of its very nature. Pretending Pre-tending to believe in the principles which promote, freedom and progress pro-gress of the individual, it proceeds in a manner which can only build up the power of the super-state the very antithesis of true liberalism. liberal-ism. Dlsarmingly, Chase acknowledges a bias in his preface. He wrote, "In selecting illustrations from current polities, I shall doubtless be charged with quoting more bad logic by conservatives than by liberals, As I am constitutionally of a liberal turn of mind, the charge probably has merit. But the reader will note also a fair number of cases where New Dealers, Dea-lers, Democrats, One Worlders, and reformers of verlous stripes have been caught out of bounds". Now it must have taken an awful effort for Stuart Chase to find examples of bad logic In any utterances from that kind! But he tried, up to a point. It was when he got to talking about Senator McCarthy that he went to piece3. Maybe no "liberal" could "logical-ly" "logical-ly" be expected to give McCarthy a fair break. Anyway, this one didn't even when his own case for logic depended upon It. In some Instances, he seemed to confuse the principles of humani-tarlanism humani-tarlanism and ethics with logic, j Maybe this was to have been expected ex-pected as an outgrowth of his "liberalism". Humanitarian treat uient of unfortunates Is not prov-ably prov-ably logical, it seems to me. It is just humanitarian, and should be defended on that ground, not on grounds of logic which he used in one illustration. In one notable instance, he got fouled up simply through lack of knowledge of the facts or so it appears. He argued that "fifth amendment communists" should not be regarded as guilty just because be-cause they invoke the fifth amendment amend-ment in refusing to answer such vile inquisitors as Senator McCarthy. McCar-thy. He modified this by saying he On? ( Mrs. Mat H. The Belief Societ" very good, Sunday fc ' held Tuesday evening at the Ward hc.il and was very eiijoj i.uie. it i was called "eyes of Love." Miss lArtyce Nlelson was director with I the help of YLM president Miss (Meredith Anderson. Those playing i i a i T: .. : T..t was ! Pm mil j growth of the Relief Society from the beginning until the present time were shown. Much credit is to be given Presideftt Silvia Harris and her co-workers and members, also chorus leader Emma Talbot and accompanist Beth Nlelson, for the fine singing for this program, . Sacrament meeting was held at personally felt those people should , U:30 a. m. Sunday, it being fast Singing Mothers furnished the sing! in the wwe Dixie Dutsoni ing, ana looKea nice, an aressea in white. Slide pictures of the All Undisputed Grand National Champ Over Stock Cars Regardless of Size -Power-Price! lt,6 OF'C,AU r v i - IT S OFFICIAL! Pontine wins tii NASCAR trophy, plut th Harler I. Earl end Sports Illushoted Awardt at Eavtonal Lett to right: Ray NichoU, Pontiac nglnwtag tail; 6. E. Knudwn, Pontlac Gnral Manager end General Motori Vice-President; Harley J. Earl, G. M. 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See your Pontiac dealer and learn how you can drive a Pontiac America's Number One Road Car-at prices starting start-ing below 30 models of the low-price three! ' sjj' mmmt ...... Jc; . y YOUR ' ..1."' AUTHORIZED PONTIAO DKALIfl not invoke the fifth amendment. The FACT he overlooked Is that no person may legally invoke the fifth amendment unless the answer an-swer would, actually, tend to incriminate in-criminate him. The fifth amendment amend-ment cannot be invoked just because be-cause a witness does not desire to answer. It can only be used when for some reason answering would tend to show him guilty or indicate some reason for suspicion. sus-picion. So. in view of that FACT, it is quite LOGICAL for people to suspect fifth amendment communists commun-ists of at least some degree of wrongdoing. To examine this logicians' "logical" "logi-cal" case against McCarthy: In listing a number of fallacies against logical thought, Chase came to his fallacy number thir teen, Guilt By Association, The fallacy here, he wrote, is to equate "unlike entities on the basis of a single common trait". Now with that, as far as it goes one cannot quarrel. But just look at the next sentence; "Without this brand of crippled thinking, the phenomenon known as Mc Carthyism would hardly have gain ed a foothold". And, Stuart Chase followed that wild swing in the dark with something some-thing he himself had decried earlier In his 'book: an arbitrary definition, backed by an "authority", "author-ity", purporting to show the thing defined wrong "by definition". He quoted something named "The American College Dictionary of 1955" with this definition of Mc-Carthyism: Mc-Carthyism: "public accusation of disloyalty, especially of pro-communist activity, in many Instances unsupported by proof, or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence". evi-dence". Now, whoever wrote that illogical, illogi-cal, contrary-to-the-facts definition definit-ion of McCarthyism was guilty of fantastic distortion. The indicated lack of understanding of the truth gives an Inkling of why our present-day leftist's are what they are. Actually, McCarthy's senatori-a senatori-a 1 investigations of traitorism were not "accusations". They were not "public". Suspected people were given every opportunity to clear themselves before open hearings hear-ings were held. The methods of investigation were among the most commenda'ble in Senate history, his-tory, the rights of suspects the most carefully guarded. In his case against "McCarthy-ism", "McCarthy-ism", Staurt Chase also leaned heavily upon "the self evident truth", his own fallacy number eleven, and also on "what everybody every-body knows", another of his own fallacies. But now hear this. He wrote, further: "In 1954, Senator Ralph Flanders severely criticized Senator Sena-tor McCarthy on the Senate floor, rousing the latter's followers to a blistering counterattack". (Get that semantic trick, pitting words like "severely criticized" against "blistering counterattack", you readers, you). "Flanders". Chase continued, "ex pected that a certain charge would be brought against him, ana ne anticipated it by a statement to the press: it is true, he said, that 'a brother of the wife of Alger Hiss is my brother's wife's sister's divorced husband' Stuart Chase went on, "Senator Flanders would orobably have been 'proved' a darling of the Kremlin, if he had not forestalled the charge with his statement Logical, do you say? Ethical Decent? I say no. The "logic" there seems to be that if Flanders had not made a sarcastic remark, loaded by impli cation with slurs at a decent col league, then McCarthy might have made an unfair accusation! So there we find a "liberal" at tempting to rationalize his own prejudices, by building "logical" cases on unsound premises, mak ing something appear evil by def inition and then attacking it with the helD of an "authority", of using the techniques of propagan da and the big lie, of stooping to semantic tricks in short, of "proving" that a man was bad because he might have made an unfair accusation if another man had not indulged in a bit of vici ous sarcasm! Well, it's too bad Stuart Chase uined his own book, but if the ")HS teachers really want to en tourage logical thinking in the tudents, they might ask them to ount up how many of his own -ules Staurt Chase broke in trying to make a typical "liberal" case ngalnst Joe McCarthy! Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Blackburn, rom Great Falls, Montana, and heir daughter, Kay Blackburn, of "alt Lake City, and son Loye llackburn, who just returned from i two-year LDS mission, viisited in Delta over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Crafts. Mr. and Mrs. LeGrande Law, Mrs. Nora Knight, R. L. Turner and other relatives. Sunday. Many gave interesting testimonies during the services. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anderson was blessed and named Doreen. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Junius Anderson wa3 confirmed a member of the church. Her name is Ellen Kay, she was baptised Sunday morning. .High Councilman Marvin Lovell presented present-ed the honor banner of attendance to Bishop Anderson and ward again, for highest attendance in the 'stake during the month, of February. 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