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Show MIILARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah, Thurs. Oct. 31, 1957. GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over Interplanetary Travel Readers of science fiction have long been aware of some of the difficulties which would be encountered en-countered in space travel. The lay pu'blic has not, and the advent ad-vent of Russia's Spuinick has given rise to some pretty outlandish outlan-dish predictions. The fact is, interplanetary in-terplanetary travel is not just around the corner, and probably it never will be. So the offer of $10,000, made last week by a Mr. S. Beryl Lush, to the first person making the trip to the moon and back, is fairly safe.. Mr. Lush is quite likely like-ly to remain in possession of his money, partly because his offer expires with the end of the 1957 geophysical year. Mr. Lush is reported to have said that if we could find people living on the moon it might change the whole philosophy of our lives. Well, so it might. But the assertion indicates that Mr. Lush has not yet caught up with a number of facts already known about the moon, concerning which any number of ten year old boys could enlighten him. By Dick Morrison The moon being extremely close to the earth, our scientists have been able to examine it in considerable consi-derable detail, to map its mountains, mount-ains, and even measure their height. The 250,000 mile span from the earth to the moon just isn't distance as measured by the standard stan-dard of interplanetary and interstellar inter-stellar space. Any number of people peo-ple have driven automobiles as far as the moon. The- nearness of the moon might of course, be taken to show how easy it would be to go there and back. But the same nearness has made it possible to learn things which show that life on the moon would be rather uncomfortable for us. The moon is devoid of air and water, and the possibility of explorers ex-plorers ever being able to take enough of these things with them to last any length of time is terribly terri-bly remote. Why, even here on earth, with modern ocean liners, man could not transport enough air and water from one continent to another to cope with such a situation. The third most 'baffling difficulty would arise 'from the difference in V BOUiQOQ VOU 7-! ? x t ".V : A ! ; . V V i. J L m iifj mm m You'll prefer it on any occasion. It's as mild and light and free from bite as the most expensive imported Scotch and Canadian whiskies, yet has the delightful flavor that only fine Kentucky Bourbon can bring you ! mmm KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 PROOF 6LENM0RE DISTILLERIES CO., LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 8 1 gravitational pull of the moon. People would be very much lighter on the moon, and while this would enable them to jump perhaps hundreds of feet in the air sorry, I just forgot there is no air on the moon In which to Jump it would also have other effects which the human body probably could not survive. Our bodies have evolved to a point of fine adjustment with conditions on earth. The heart, the bloodstream, the digestive processes, proces-ses, all would be upset probably beyond endurance with any prolonged pro-longed change in weight. So, even if the moon did have air and water, the change In weight alone probably would make human survival sur-vival impossible.. As to the possibility of there being " people" on the moon-certainly moon-certainly if there were people like us, their works would be unmistakably unmistak-ably visible through our telescopes. A modern city, with its buildings and streets; cultivated land all laid out in 'forty acre tracts, and the like would stand out as on a map. No evidence of such appears on the moon. Whatever form of life there may be on the moon, it would necessarily have to be a form adapted to that orb. Therefore, There-fore, It could not be human. Perhaps Per-haps some sort of worms or lizards, living mostly underground, could exist. We have evidence on earth that life is infinitely adaptable to its environment but life takes the forms necessary for such adaptation, adap-tation, and this rules out any possibility pos-sibility of "people" on the moon. A rocket carrying TV and photographic photo-graphic equipment, which could be shot around the moon, and provide us with information as to what the other side looks like, seems a possibility. The trip by human beings, be-ings, to the surface of the moon and back, does not. So with interplanetary travel. In addition to the very much greater distances to Venus and Mars, which are two of the planets presumably pre-sumably most like the earth, the differences in temperature, gravi tational pull, density of the atmosphere, atmo-sphere, and perhaps chemical composition com-position of it, would make life very unhappy for earth people. Given a breathable atmosphere, earth- men might find the most habitable sections of Mars comparable to our Sahara Desert; or maybe compar able to the top of the Himalayas. Men might exist in either; yet it ! hard to see how they could exist for long without the sustenance from the lush parts of our earth, to draw upon. Travel to other solar systems again would multiply the difficulties difficul-ties millions and billions of time over, In distance alone. Even moving mov-ing at the speed of light, it would take generations to get there. The people who started the trip would die on the way, their great grandchildren grand-children might be the ones who would arrive. And even if they proved able to carry on in the capacities needed to continue to operate their space ship, they would land on some far planet in the most favorable possible eventuality with no first hand knowledge of how to live outside their "incubator"? if we may refer to their space ship in that manner. No thanks. Space travel is not for me. 1 think we had better get back to earth, and stay there. For myself, I just want to live and die on this planet where I belong, and while living do what little I can to make it a pleasanter place for humanity. Lee In Human Events Our respected ex-governor, J. Bracken Lee, has not been Idle since he left Utah's state house. He has been named a participant in several business ventures, and he has accepted the National Chairmanship Chair-manship of "For America", a patriotic patri-otic organization dedicated to the crusade for the American ideal of limited, Constitutional government. The October 19 issue of ! the Washington News Letter, "Human Events", treats us to an article by our former governor, on the subject sub-ject of income taxes. Lee's stand on income taxes is fairly well known. He won widespread favor in his attemplt to make the Federal Fed-eral Government prove the Con-1 stitutionality of its crazy foreign aid give-away programs. Not that he won the fight. The Government didn't ever prove that it was right. It simply lifted Lee's money out of his bank account, with the connivance con-nivance of a spineless and corrupt banker, without a court order. But Lee's attempt to get a court decision deci-sion did serve to focus public attention at-tention on the issue. J The CITIZENS TICKET of DELTA, UTAH Proudly Presents to the Voters of Delta an Outstanding Ticket for the DELTA CITY ELECTION - HOY. 5th For Mayor .... . EMERALD L. MOODY EMERALD MOODY has been a resident of Delta for more than 20 years. He graduated from Utah Agricultural College with a Masters Degree A representative farmer and businessman; A large taxpayer and civic leader; was contractor contract-or and Supervisor of Delta's largest public building build-ing The Deseret Stake House erected at a cost of $180,000. He will work harmoniously with ALL Councilmen for the betterment of Delta City. For Councilman, Four Years ... FERROH LOVELL FERRON LOVELL is a graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School at Tacoma, Washington. He attended Brigham Young University for 2 yrs. A businessman and civic leader of stature. and dependability. For Councilman, Four Years . . . WILLARD M. STEPHENSON WILLARD STEPHENSON is a life lona resid ent of Delta. Always an active worker with youth rieceived the Distinguished Service Award. College Training at College of Southern Utah An active, aggressive farmer, businessman and civic and community leader- r i DELTA CITIZENS TICKET for Proved Leadership Aggressive & Unified Cooperation Look for REAL ABILITY and VOTE CITIZENS NOV. 5 -Paid Political Advertisement by Bulon A. Canister, Delta, Utah Lee's article in the October 10 Tlumnn Events deals with the topic, "The Income Tax Is Making Us A Dishonest People", and it asks, "Will We Repeat The Mistakes Mis-takes Of France?" There is no doubt about it, and Lee's item points up the problem very nicely, such exorbitant, oppressive op-pressive and exacting tax laws as our income tax imposes upon us can lead only to dishonesty. The citizen, knowing perfectly well that the government is cheating him, albeit under the cloak of legality, leg-ality, takes the attitude that he will cheat back if he can, as his only possible defense against immoral im-moral extortion. Actually, this situation is exactly exact-ly what the more corrupt of our political power-grabbers want. It gives them a law so oppressive that attempts to evade are fairly general; then by selecting only politically chosen "victims" a-gainst a-gainst whom full enforcement is demanded, they are in a position to discredit whomsoever they please. Such laws serve the most despicable political purposes. The lengthy and unfairly publicized campaigns against both Martin Dies, and Joe McCarthy, are cases in point. The "liberal establishment" establish-ment" tried its best to "get something" some-thing" on both Dies and McCarthy, That it failed is an everlasting credit to the integrity of both men. They were being punished for fighting Communism in America, by the method, among others, of "income tax persecution". Dies was never found guilty of tax evasion; while the month's long inquiry into in-to McCarthy's affairs, much pub licized by "liberals" as evidence of wrongdoing, ended up in the re fund, to McCarthy, of a $1000 overpayment over-payment of his income taxes! But to turn to Gov. Lee's comments: Comparing the growing corrup tion in America with that in France, Brack Lee writes, "From their earliest years, the French people learn that they must be dishonest dis-honest in dealing with govern ment The government is dishonest; dishon-est; in self-protection the citizens must be dishonest. As a result, cynicism and acceptance of government gov-ernment paralysis have become important elements in the French way of life." Lee goes on, "It is an accepted practice for an agent to phone a taxpayer and say that, for a specified speci-fied commission, he will get him a tax refund. In some cases the taxpayer is entitled to a refund, but even in those cases he will, if he knows what's good 'for him, pay the commission. In other cases, the collector earns his fee by giving an. easy lesson on how to defraud the government". Governor Lee's warning of what the exorbitant and oppressive in come tax laws are leading to in this country is timely and approp riate. Additional copies of Lee's article may be had by writing to Khe publisher, Human Events, 1835 X St. NW, Washington 6, D. C. The price is 20 cents a copy, 10 copies lor $1., or 100 for $5.00. I might add that I have found Human Events to be one of the very best puMications of its kind, and that I recommend it. A five weeks trial subscription can be had for $1.00, sent to the above address. ad-dress. Records At Random Not being a professional critic, I don't hear all the records. I wouldn't want to, anyway. So the ones 1 do hear and comment on are just some of the few which happen to catch my attention. The quality of the good records has reached a very high point. It almost al-most seems as if it would be impossible im-possible for records to be made much better. There isn't much of any gap left between high fidelty as it is being produced now, and perfection. One outfit which is turning out some very good music these days is the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra. The recordings are being be-ing made by Capitol Records, in the striking round glass thirteen story Capitol Tower building, just off Hollywood and Vine. "Starling Chorale" is one of these. It is Capitol record No. P 9390. This record consist of eight favorite operatic numbers, sung by the Roger Wagner Chorale, with the Bowl Symphony, and Wagner conducting. Numbers are from Carmen, Car-men, Tannhauser, Aida, Madam Butterfly, and others. "Overture", on which the Bowl orchestra conducted by Felix Slat-kin Slat-kin engrooves 1812, Light Cavalry, William Tell and Poet and Peasant is very good listening. This is Capitol Capi-tol No. P8380. "Nocturne", Capitol No. P 8363, brings us the same orchestra, with Carmen Dragon conducting, in ten restful numbers starting with Grieg's Nocturne and ending with Brahms' Cradle Song. Organ music seems to be making a big upsurge these days. After all, the pipe organ is the king of instruments; in-struments; while the electronic has opened new possibilities in home and smaller church instruments. George Wright's "Encores" is one which has become a favorite. This is produced by High Fidelity Recordings, Re-cordings, Inc., at 6087 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. Several other recordings record-ings by this artist have become very popular. Columbia has turned out a very nice organ record played on the Radio City Music Hall grand organ, by Ashley Miller, head organist at the Music Hall. This record, Columbia Colum-bia No. CL 945, brings us five light classical numbers and seven pops. The Music Hall organ, built by Wurlitzer, has a quality all its own, and Miller knows how to play it. He turns out Fantasie Impromptu and Flight of the Bumble Bee with a dexterity you'd expect only on a piano. In the Fantasie, which is the Chopin number from which I'm Always Chasing Rainbows was adapted, he pulls a neat turn by working in a full chorus of the latter number, instead of playing straight Chopin. Well, one good turn deserves another; and the popular chorus which consists of Chopin plus, actually adds some thing to the original. If It Is fair for pop composers to borrow from the masters, maybe it is fair for such an organist as Ashley Miller to give something back. Last, and heaviest, is RCA Victor's Vic-tor's No. LM 1854, a recording of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 by Sto-kowski Sto-kowski and "members of the NBC Symphony Orchestra". This is a very well done long-play long-play which I bought to replace an old album acquired some fifteen years ago, of the same composition played by the Boston Sympony on 78's. I am not sufficiently well acquainted ac-quainted with all of Sibelius' symphonies to say this is his best one, but it seems to me that, In the same sense that Beethoven's Fifth can be said to be the essence of all that was Beethoven, so Sibelius' Second could hold the the same distinction for its author. Best or not, it is very, very good. Somber, Serious, Sublime, are words that apply. Certainly Beethoven's Beeth-oven's Fifth and Sibelius' Second are both expressions of their respective re-spective creators in which they said what they had to say in a most convincing and competent manner. For both had something to say that was well worth saying, and neither ever had time or inclination in-clination for any expression in music that was banal or trivial. CRAMPED FOR ROOM? 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