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Show Millard County Chronicle GIVING OUR WORLD nee '1 do not agree with a word you say, but I would die to defend your right to say it" anonymous remark re-mark often attributed to Voltaire. Mikoyan And Pasternak Anastas I. Mikoyan, the Deputy Premier of Soviet Russia has come and gone. He made a swing around the U. S., from New York to Los Angeles, and back to Washington. He conferred with American officials, of-ficials, including President Eisenhower, Eisen-hower, with at least two known objectives: ob-jectives: one, to get some large capitalistic American credits with which to bolster u,p Russia's leaking leak-ing economic system, and, two, to try to influence American policy makers as much as possible toward to-ward agreeing to put all of Berlin in the Russian sphere of influence. As of Monday morning, it is not known whether he succeded. at either, though, in this country, there is always tremendous pressure pres-sure on the government from American Am-erican labor unions and manufacturers manufac-turers to grant such credits, to Russians Rus-sians or anyone else, when they see a chance thus to sell products to some foreign nation at the expense of American taxpayers. The ultimate ulti-mate effect, of course, is to transfer trans-fer purchasing power from individual indivi-dual American people to foreigners. There is somewhat less internal American pressure, these days, to transfer Berlin into the Russian orbit, or-bit, or do anything else that might serve to strengthen the Soviet regime. re-gime. Besides, the people of West Berlin themselves recently voted by the overwhelming majority of some 98 to stay free of Russia. Cut there is something else I want to say about Mikoyan's visit vis-it to America. What thinks such a Russian deputy-dictator when he sees our wonderful, won-derful, capitalistic country, as it is? Knowing of the drabness of the Soviet world, after more than forty for-ty years of Communism, what must he think when he sees New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington? Wash-ington? Of the bountiful plains, extending ex-tending endlessly toward the sunset? sun-set? Of the mighty Rockies? Too bad he flew over them in an airplane, air-plane, instead of travelling through them by train or auto. He missed so much even though he .saw a lot. What could a Russian dictator think when he saw an American automobile factory, knowing that it is a "poor year" indeed when American factories build and sell fewer than five million automobilesand automo-bilesand knowing that all of Soviet Sov-iet Russia only produces 2 of that number in a ratio of 50 to one in favor of America? I wonder what he thought of a big American super-market when he made the publicized visit to one just out of Washington? What could he think of the incomparable degree of freedom Americans have always enjoyed - freedom to go and come where they please, to woik where and for whom they please, to launch their own businesses if they prefer to try to make a living that way? What could he think of American farms, which produce vast surplusses year after year, in contrast to Russian collective farms which only turn out chronic shortages? short-ages? Could he thus 'ook at the results to the two different systems and fail to at least wonder if Russia's is the better? Could he help to have some doubts about that? I say no, he could not. He could only be moved, even against the strongest strong-est of prejudice, and contrary to the most ardent brainwashing, by a realization that there was truth in what he saw, and that it was very different from the things that -1 JAMES CROW created the first moJi-rn bourbon 1&35 Light - o KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURDON WHISK LY CLCCF-CV.'Ci'.T.LLIF.YCO .rPA.NKFGRT Thursday, Jan. 29, 1959 THE Over . . . By Dick Morrison the Marxists had been preaching. Joseph Stalin never left Russia. And when conferences were held, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill went over and met him on his own ground. Josef Stalin very effectively insulated himself from the truth the truth that life was so much better in the free world than it ever was or can be in such a world as his. History might have been different if Josef Stalin had known more about the good things of freedom. Well, Mikoyan has seen America. But as yet, the Russian rulers are afraid to let their own people know or even read, anything which might life the smoke of thought control from their minds. And that Is why the case of Boris Pasternak is signifcant. The story is in the February Reader's Digest which is still on? of the world's best magazines, even if it does lit a slip show once in a while. What publisher, big or little, doesn't? Boris Pasternak, as every newspaper news-paper reader already knows, is the Russian writer whose book, Doctor Zhivago, was last year awarded a Xobel prize of $41,000.00 Of course he accepted it enthusiastically. Who wouldn't- But what made Boris Bor-is Pasternak turn and say, only a little later, "Considering how this honor has 'been interpreted by the society to which I belong, I am o-bliged o-bliged to reject the undeserved prize ..." The' story is told, as 1 Just said, in the February Reader's Digest. And it is told by Eugene Lyons himself a former Russian sympathizer sympath-izer and enthusiastic socialist. It is worth reading very much so, because of the lesson it holds. The lesson is just this: such a regime of thought-control and slavery sla-very as that of; Soviet Russia simply sim-ply cannot survive the truth, and its leaders know it. As the respected Chinese histo rian, Lin Yutang, quoted here last week, predicted, the Russian regime will topple because its intellectuals, its educated, thinking classes, will , seek and find the truth. The hopeless hope-less dilema of Sovietism is that It cannot survive without education and it cannot survive if It educates its people. Mikoyan has seen for himself America Is an incomparably happier, hap-pier, freer, more prosperous land than Soviet Russia. And sooner or later that obvious fact, and the underlying un-derlying reasons why it is so, will penetrate to Russian intellectual circles in spite of even the most ! murderous effects to suppress it. The Magic Fire So far, only two TV shows have kept me awake until after eleven P. M. One was the Mae West show mentioned in the column a while back, and the other was one on channel 5 last Saturday night called call-ed Magic Fire. It was a story of the life of Wagner. My daughter Dorothy and I watched it through, and found ourselves well repaid. In a way, it was an old, old story. It was the story of great creative genius beset with trials and tribulations which, who knows, may have been the very stimuli needed to produce great works of art. Wagner's life certainly was not an easy one. Little people, incapable incap-able of appreciating his works, would have stopped them if they could. . The story seemed to hold the answer to a question long in my mind. Why did Wagner turn from the great Teutonic myths to the Christian story of the Holy Grail as a medium for his music-dramas? Fredrick Nietzsche let" Wagner know the disgust he felt on the THE of historic CHOW America's r i preierrea bourbon -i ! MiLl -SG Proof KY CiSTR PYfST!fV.il r.icr Purm rn presentation of Parsifal. Others tried to induce Wagner to withdraw with-draw it for a very different reason: they considered it a sacrelige to present the Christian story In the medium of "theatre". Franz Liszt, whose youthful indiscretions in-discretions had led him to do a term of penance in the Cloth, went to intervene with Wagner on behalf be-half of the Christians. Strangely, the atheist, Nietszche, and the Abbe Liszt both would have dispensed dis-pensed with Parsifal, for diamet-riacally diamet-riacally opposite reasons! How fortunate for-tunate that both failed! The TV story didn't mention Nietszche, however. What it did was show how the Abbe Liszt approached Wagner to urge him to withdraw Parsifal, and how the pianist Liszt became enraptured with the music and changed his mind, and how Cosima, the illegitimate daughter of Liszt, and adoring second wife of Wagner, was so pleased with this outcome. A great story, Dorothy and I were moved, as peo-ople peo-ople must always be, by music of the Immolation Scene" from Twilight Twi-light Of The Gods that terribly appealing, powerful, music which depicts the fall of the Hall of Valhalla Val-halla in flames, as a repentant Brunhilde, having returned the stolen magic ring to its owners, the people of Nebelhelm, the place of mists of the River Rhine, rides rides her horse Into the cleansing fire, with the words, "Siegfried, greets thee thy wife!" her aton-ment aton-ment made in those words which bring the end of the four-opera cycle the end but for the powerful closing strains by the orchestra which recall theme after theme of the drama with a power that holds audiences enchanted for minutes after the final curtain. Well, the story seemed to indicate indi-cate that to Wagner the stories were all of a kind the Teutonic myths and the story of the Holy Grail each dealing in its own way with the theme of sin, repentance, and redemption. He seemed above and beyond the petty quarrels of the adherents of one or the other belief. He saw the larger lesson In all of them, and interpreted them in the most beautiful music of all. Copper fakes n H n n pi n m. I ! 7 t A- Indians, Giants To Play Ball At Derks Field Cleveland Indians SanFrancisco Giants exhibition game Derks Field Saturday, April 41:30 p.m. Tickets for this game will go on sale, Saturday, February 7, 1959 at the following: Derks Field 65 West 13 South Telephone DA 2-1211 Mint Cafe 25 East 2 South Telephone Tel-ephone EL 9-8723 Stevens-Brown 1121 East 21 So. Telephone HU 7-7726 Tickets break down as follows: Box Seats, $3.35 each 1,625 seats available Loge Seats $2.25 each 600 seats available (Last 5 boxes each side) Reserved Grandstand $1.25 each 5,000 seats available General Admission $1.50 each Adult $.90 each Child 3,000 available This will be the second pre-sea-Giants and Indians in Derks Field. Two years ago ,they sold out their schedule April game and then, picking up an extra day, when the game In Denver was snowed out, they almost packed the park again. This time, with the expanded grandstand and its 10,000 seat capacity, cap-acity, there will be seats for considerably con-siderably more fans. However, Business Bus-iness Manager, Bill Evans said the seats would be sold on a first-come first-sold basis, starting Saturday, February 7. The announcement of the ticket sale is made a month early so fans can plan ahead and avoid the disappointment dis-appointment of shutout again. And so the story ran, with its background of themes from Tristan Tri-stan and Isolde, The Ring Operas, Parsifal, and the others. The Magic Fire music was there, too, but the theme of the story seemed to be that the Magic Fire was the creative cre-ative ability of a genius able to overcome all the obstacles life could put in his way to create music dramas without equal. another stepgsy foroori' s 1 If I II 'lyuitr-' county tmws Winter Irrigation & Fertilaation Farmers who live in areas of our state where the winter remains open are urged to take advantage of any opportunity to irrigate their land which is lying fallow through the winter, advises Paul D. Christ-ensen, Christ-ensen, Extension soil conservationist conservation-ist with Utah State University. Nearly all of the water you put into the soil this winter will be there at planting time next spring. Therefore, if you have water available avail-able ' and fallow land that needs irrigation, don't let the water go to waste. Now is a good time to apply phosphate to any crop land needing need-ing it, Mr. Christensen points out. STRICTLY BUSINESS "I thought this was a pregrt'y? ccmpar.y I've been here two months and i'm still on the same job!" ' iSif in 4k fj - I OS For the first time in Utah's history, the production of copper in the state by a single company is a completely integrated operation. This milestone was reached on the first of the year when Kennecott purchased American Smelting and Refining Company's smelter. The integration of smelting with mining, milling and refining is a big step forward for copper production in Utah. By lowering costs and increasing efficiency it will help Kennecott continue to operate successfully. And that in turn wilL mean a big step forward for our entire state. When Kennecott operates successfully, it results in good jobs for the men who produce the red metal. They benefit directly. Even more thousands of Utahns benefit indirectly. They work for the companies that sell to Kennecott and its employees. To some extent their jobs, too, result from copper production. Kennecott's Utah Smelter is an important symbol for the people of Utah. It rtpreteau the continuing program of improvements that has helped Kennecott achieve success ta the past. It means another step has been taken to assure the future of copper payrollj, tupplj purchases and tax payments. ISennecott A Good Neighbor Helping to Build a Better Utah The winter moisture will carry the phosphate into the soil so it will be available to the crops in the early spring. Cattle Grub Control Trolene boluses for cattle grub control are listed as available through 86 retail outlets in Utah. Co-Ral spray material, to control cattle grubs, lice and other external exter-nal parasites apparently is equally equal-ly available. The earlier these are used after fall frosts kill the heel fly adults, the better for the beef and dry stock treated. DO NOT treat cows being milked or those soon to freshen. Pest Control The past 20 years have seen out- by McFeatters j kii Li Li L a u f, run Copper Corporation standing developments in pest controls, observe Dr. George F. Kiiowlton, Utah State University Extension entomologist, following the annual meeting of the Entomological Entomo-logical Society of America just concluded con-cluded in Salt Lake City. Farming today is an expensive business. Farmers can no longer sit back and permit insects, rodents, ro-dents, weeds, and plant diseases to cancel their labors. In spite of the advances made to control them, insects and mites still take a total to-tal of about 4 billion dollars' worth of crops each year. Thus, the task of keeping an upper hand on our insect enemies is never-ending. never-ending. Property Tax In spite of the fact that almost everyone pays property taxes, few people really understand them. The property tax Is the backbone of county services and programs, according to Leon Michaelsen, Extension Ex-tension farm management specialist special-ist at USU. For the state as a whole, and for most counties, industrial and commercial properties pay the largest lar-gest portion of the total property tax bill, followed by residential property pro-perty tax bill, followed by residential residen-tial property, agricultural property, and motor vehicles. Pruning Trees With the exceptionally o'pen weather wea-ther that we have had most of this year, many people have had the desire to get their pruning done early. Pruning early may be risky. If zero weather strikes later on, serious damage result warns Anson B. Call, Jr., Extension Horticulturist Horticultur-ist with Utah State University. At the recent Horticultural Convention, Con-vention, Dr. A. N. Roberts, Horticulturist Horti-culturist from Oregon State College, showed pictures of trees which had been pruned early in the year. When zero weather came, there was severe frost damage. Very often, dying back occurs on the limbs that have been pruned for 2-3 inches to a foot or more. Wherever possible, pruning should be deferred until after the coldest weather is past, generally in March and April, Mr. Call advises. j jL ij iLi mI y? m;ii ifrm'MTiv.v I |
