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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah. Thur. April 4. 1957. GIVING OUR WORLD THE I Once Over By Dick Morrison i ignor-Charles "There are times whei anee is bliss, indeed." Dickens. "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." Thomas Gray. Creed Of An Idealist As a persistent advocate of lost causes, I found some comfort the other day reading the Arts And Manners page by William S. Sch-lamm, Sch-lamm, in that crusading little magazine, mag-azine, National Review. Willie Schlamm, as his friends call him, put it this way: "I find myself confronted with the question unfailingly shot at any critic who takes his vocation seriously and calls decay decay: What is the point In fighting what you consider an irresistible trend? Why even bother with eloquence if you are shouting at a tide? "My answer, if not convincing, is at least simple. The true Is true, and the beautiful, beautiful, not because they will prevail, but because be-cause they are true and beautiful. It Is a conservative's function to defy degeneracy, not so much when it blights the surface as when it attacks the roots, the social forces that make decay triumph tri-umph over values may be lnvlnci- OTHERS $10.95 UP 1 $16.50 SMtnd4 lothtf conforms tflstntly . comfortably NO 0TH1R HAT HAS V RBSISTOL "SELF-CONFORMING WESTERNS Right out of the western plains comes this latest shape ir. western hats The Mesa an original design by RESISTOL, makers of the world's finest hats. Resistol quality gives many months longer wear new Mesa shape keeps hair in place famous "Self-Conforming" leather keeps hat securely on the head and comfortable. . . FW"Jl" . .1,,!. . .,IM. (ft :-r ble, but they cn "ertnlnly not impressive. im-pressive. (Or, as the Viennese ustsl to say, the situation Is hopeless I but not serious.) The conservative I always fights on the losing side; ' and it does not disturb him a bit. For nowhere is It so true as In the realm of values that the created, in order to live, must die". Now that, I submit, is a very beautiful way of expressing the creed, not of a conservative, but of an idealist. It suits me perfectly, as It applies to some of the more serious utterances in this column, not because I consider myself a conservative, but to the extent that I may be called a truth seeker without regard for whether the truth may be found in old Ideas or new ones, in entrenched tradition tradi-tion or startling Innovation. I don't think Willie Schlamm Is as much the conservative as he thinks he la, either. Matter of fact, the "new conservative" of these days neces sarily is the defender of new-deal-ism and new-Republicanism, which are the prevailing orthodoxy, and Mr, Schlamm certainly doesn't defend de-fend them. But for myself, I don't want to be put down as a defender even of what people generally mean by conservatism. Much of our old-line conservatism was good; some of it was lousy. And that goes, too for our present-day non-conservatism. (If anybody else used the word non-conservatism, I'd prooably be the first to write a letter to the editor deriding it.) But by just substituting the word idealist, or truth-seeker, for conservative, con-servative, as Mr. Schlamm used It, you have there a perfectly beautiful beauti-ful declaration of principle for the writer who is determined to defend what he thinks Is right, to the bitter bit-ter end, even though he feels sure his Ideals are being swept away by the tide. All things true andor beautiful are not necessarily on the conservative side, by any means, but they are worth defending defend-ing because they are worth while, and that is what Willie Schlamm really meant ' Dave And The Fifth It was a less prominent labor union boss than Dave Beck who refused to answer questions by the special Senate Rackets Committee on the ground that the answers might tend to Intimidate him, but It was Dave Beck's invoking of the Fifth amendment that has attracted attract-ed the most attention, and has thrown a lot of our liberal leftists into a state of confusion even worse than that In which they found themselves when denouncing denoun-cing Joe McCarthy. This Is because said liberal leftists left-ists aren't so much In favor of the mis-appropriation of union pension funds as they were in favor of the "civil rights" of subversives to undermine un-dermine the government of the United States for the benefit of a foreign power. 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Tnat oelng the case, there was justification for McCarthy's calling such people fifth-amendment communists; com-munists; and this is something our liberal-leftists hate like poison to admit. They hate to admit it because be-cause it, ' means McCarthy was right, and If he was right, then they were wrong, and had been The Oscars It is always interesting to learn who gets the little statues called Oscars when the Motion Picture Academy makes its awards for the best work in' movies in several categories each year. The awards for 1956, made last week, held some surprises. Certainly the choice of best film wrong for more than twenty five of the year surprised most people, years, ever since it first became i partly because few have yet seen fashionable for American "intellectuals" "intel-lectuals" to start praising Soviet ideas to the skies, and explain away their defects. And such people peo-ple just can't bring themselves to it, and fewer would have guessed that an old story by Jules Verne, Around The World In Eighty Days, would be made into the best movie of 1956. Yet that was the choice. admit they have been wrong all Credit would seem due primarily to this time. Mike Todd, producer, although a Wm. F. Buckley, Jr., fhe publis- good word is due Jules Verne, too, her of National Review, once char-for thinking up a story of such Interesting possibilities. Quite A writer, he. His books written almost al-most a century ago still rank among the best science-fiction, Including In-cluding as they did a rocket ship to the moon, and a submarine, in a day when neither had yet been Invented. Ingrid Bergman got the award as best actress, for her lead role in Anastasia. No doubt she earned it. I wouldn't know, but I surely hope to see that movie. Have always al-ways been intrigued by the story of this princess of the ruling house of old Russia, whom rumor has kept alive ever since the liquidation liquida-tion of the Romanovs. . Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King And I, certainly did well, with awards for best actor, Yul Brynner, best sound, best costumes, best art and set direction, and best musical score. Well, The King And I really was an outstanding movie, distinctive, different, and memorable. memor-able. The Ten Commandments came off with only one award, and this Continued on next page jj, "It's the boys... better bring outthecheer- Sunny Brook bourbon, 4 ' : ; . ?vrrJ that at" qr i r : rTs? I J J t i" etW wimrawrtMfir ti .i 4- 1 t:nrH Sunny Brook ABourbon : Cheerful as its Name! AUOAVAIkABLEtilS Z"". 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