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Show ft Millard County Chronicle Thursday, Nov. 13, 1953 GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over . . . By Dick Morrison Correspondence "I'm afraid if my Dad ever heard me talking like that he'd disown me immediately and definitely," writes Richard Ashby, from Switzerland, Switz-erland, In the course of an interesting interest-ing letter discussing some points of current interest in political-economy raised in this column. Well, perhaps he would, and we may pause a moment so that Orran Ashby can disown his son before proceeding with the discussion. That done, we may go on reading Richard's letter. Richard's address is: 11, rue du College, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Switz-erland. He. is on a Mormon, mission mis-sion there, and his letftr is one of the most distant ever received from a reader. "I believe that you'd better glance at the end of this letter to figure out who it is writing, otherwise other-wise you won't be able to tell. For that matter, your knowing my identity won't make a terrible lot of difference, as we have had very little contact in our lives. Still, it's always nice to know who's saying what . . . sometimes it helps to explain ex-plain why," writes Richard in his opening paragraph. Yet, it's true that I haven t known Richard himself too well, but I know his parents much better, and I even knew all four of his grandparents better than I know him. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S. Gardner were his maternal grandparents, while Mr. and Mrs. Rodney D. Ashby Ash-by were the one's on his father's side. "Grandma" Ashby, incidentally, incident-ally, recently wrote a letter to me too, so perhaps the tendency runs in the family. Continuing, he writes: "My reason reas-on for writing this letter tonight is not too clear to me. My companion com-panion and I came home from seeing see-ing 'Compagnons de la Chanson', and I stepped into the kitchen to grab a cheese sandwich. There on the table was the last issue of the Chronicle, Oct. 2, to be exact. It was opened to your column, and I found myself re-reading about Hula Hoops, Senator Watkins, etc., etc., all over again. After finishing my sandwich and your column I decided that after all these years perhaps I should write you a small letter. That makes more than four years that I've been away from home, either at school or on my mission, and my trusty subscription to the Chronicle has followed me all over, from Cal-Tech to Belgium to France and now to Switzerland. I have not always agreed with you, in fact often we have been at completely com-pletely opposite poles. But this is necessary, and even a desired condition, con-dition, and one that I am frankly happy that we have. I guess that if I always agreed wUh you I would stop reading you. Am I, thus, writing writ-ing to pick a quarrel over some of your ideas? No, not at all. Perhaps we will discuss them a bit, but my real reason is to congratulate you on a very fine bit of journalism-I journalism-I could never explain the seeming incongruity of a column such as yours in a culture such as I imagined im-agined at Delta. Well, finally I am beginning to understand that there is no incongruity, that yours is simply a talent to express in words what is latent in practically every person, and also the desire to ferret fer-ret out these ideas and to use them ... "Let's just take the case of Senator Sen-ator Watkins, for an example. You very ably stated the case, although perhaps not all of the facts. This, naturally, is your prerogative, and one that you know how to use to your advantage. Your summation is this: the incident (he is writing of my criticism of Watkins and others for doing nothing to redress the wrong suffered by Delta alfalfa seed growers at he hands of the, U. S. Government. DM) seemed to prove that when our government gets hell-bent on some course to give aid to large, wealthy or influential influ-ential groups, the little people who get hurt in the process are not entitled en-titled to redress. For that is1 what we were asking redress of a wrong inadvertantly done us by a government govern-ment aid program." ' "Very fine," continues Richard Ashby, in his letter, "but what the heck is either Watkins or Dixon or even Benson doing mixed up in all that? It's true they couldn't do anything about it, and the harm that was done was caused not by government wanting to help large, wealthy groups, but rather by some mixed up politicians trying to appease ap-pease certain pressure groups and pacify the farmers in certain areas and get votes for a certain election, elec-tion, and to hell with the consequences. conse-quences. You said that the good old law of supply and demand was working fine with alfalfa seed, and that the sudden appearance of former cotton lands planted in alfalfa al-falfa threw things askew. Granted, Grant-ed, but go back to the basic causes of those old cotton lands appearing, appear-ing, and it won't be Watkins, Benson, Ben-son, Eisenhower or Dixon. Benson instituted the soil-bank plan, I'll agree, but that would never have been necessary had the conditions been left to adjust themselves before be-fore the country ever heard the cry, "We like Ike." Watkins, Dixon, Dix-on, et. al. were the pawns of a bigger big-ger power, of harder and stronger 1 pressure groups and mightier lob bies than Millard County could wield, and as such were powerless to offer recourse. , You're blaming the dogs because the hunter didn't shoot straight." At this point, I want to interrupt Richard Ashby just long enough to observe that what he says about Watkins, Dixon, ct. al being pawn of a bigger power seems all too true, and to offer the opinion that instead of refuting what I contended, contend-ed, this only tends to confirm It. So, now to continue with Richard's fine letter: "Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I don't know all the facts, or perhaps per-haps I'm misinterpreting what I do have, or maybe it's loecause I read TIME and the Herald Tribune too much. That's about all we can get over here; but I still feel I can see certain holes in your complaint," com-plaint," continues Richard Ashby. Well, say L I do feel that if the two papers mentioned are about the only ones he can get in Europe, from America, there is a sad lack. Both are outright leftish at worst, and "modern" Republican at best. It's too bad if he can't get copies of the Chicago Tribune, or National Nation-al Review, or some other right-wing publican. However, I don't think Richard Ashby is so far wrong In his stand. On reading it carefully, it strikes me he and I are in substantial sub-stantial agreement that Watkins, Dixon and the others were in a very difficult situation in the face of the "bigger powers" and influ ence of larger pressure groups. But that doesn't alter the fact of which I was complaining that thjey did fail to give us redress of that very unfair wrong. Continuing with Richard's letter: "There was another point I should have written you long ago ... I felt you were overly rough with the Church for banning or supress-mg supress-mg 'certain books ... I felt that you were avoiding certain 'facts that might have changed things. Whatever was the outcome of the whole thing?" Now, as to that, I never did think I was "overly rough" with the Church. On the contrary, I still think some Church people were overly rough with me simply be cause I called their attention to the fact that there was a book which took issue with Joseph Smith's claim of divine revelation. I never did praise the book In the Chronicle; never expressed my own feeling as to whether it was true or not. What I did was read It and report to Chronicle readers what the nature of its contents was. I suggest that Richard may have misread my attitude toward the book. At this point, I'd like to say, once more, that I believe absolutely in freedom of thought. This includes the right of each and every individual indi-vidual to do his own thinking on all matters religious, political, and economic, as guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States. I am opposed to any and all forms of thought control, whether relig ious, political, or other. Richard Ashby holds a religious belief for which he Is willing to serve Ofl a missionary, I respect his right to do that. I do not share his religious belief, and I am sure he concedes my right to be a free thinker. I imagine im-agine we all like to regard ourselves our-selves as seekers of the truth. The search leads some In one direction, and some In another. But somewhere, some-where, hidden away in the mysteries myster-ies of life and the universe, there lies the absolute the final answer ans-wer we are all seeking. Richard concludes with: "My companion Is trying to go to sleep with another old Chronicle over his face like Dad used to use on Sunday Sun-day afternoons. Tell Athena hello for me, and ask her if she feels any older now that she is a grandma. She ain't no Marlene, ya know." signed by Richard Ashby Having interspersed a running commentary in the text of Richard's Rich-ard's enjoyable and stimulating letter, I will only add now that It Is remarkable how many uses people peo-ple find for the Chronicle apart from reading it; and that if Richard Rich-ard had been at the Chronicle dinner din-ner party two weeks ago he would have had to retract that statement about Athena not being a Marlene. Athena got up and said she was Greer Garson, which is certainly just as bad, and in so doing made it clear that she feels pretty chipper chip-per even though she is a grandma. Thanks to Richard Ashby for this week's entertainment. , Hoops Fall It is a good thing Richard Ashby mentioned Hula Hoops. The rise of the hoop craze has been a subject of dismay to this column, and I am only too happy to be able to report now, that It is on the wane. ' The Wall Street Journal, that re doubtable and interesting national daily newspaper which devotes it self chiefly to news of business and the business world, recently ran an item stating that business in Hula Hoops is slowing down. It was good news, indeed, to all except those merchants who took it for granted that the trend toward hoops would never change, and who are now stuck with a frozen Inventory of them. According to the Wall Street Journal, two companies were prom ineRt In the hoop business. One of these was a manufacturer named the Wham-0 manufacturing Co., of California, and the other was Phil Hps Petroleum, the big oil company comp-any which runs a "petrochemical" division making plastics, etc., from crude oil. Phillips is probably big enough to survive the demise of the plastic hula-hoop without get ting hurt much, If at all. And, for that matter, so Is the Wham-0 company. In fact, it is doubtful if anybody will get hurt much by the fall of the hoop. 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I hope you can help us in finding where we cuii get tab iiifu.'iulijn. Also, I would like to get some history of Delta and Sutherland so I can tell my children, who have become very interested in our family's fam-ily's hobby. Thank you, Helen (Woods) Walston 20010 Bernest Ave. Torrance, California Weekend guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Gardner were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Manning and children, Logan; Mr. and Mrs. Clair M. Gardner and family, Salt Lake; Royal Gardner, Salt Lake. Royal is attending Henager's Business College. Max and Melba Bennett and three children of Inglewood, Calif., visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Dutson of Oak City last week. While here the Bennetts hunted for deer and visited relatives. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. 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