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Show Millard County Chronicle Thursday. October 18. 1962 is to be hoped that the lingering , that Time, Inc., publisher of Life, nas ever iorgiven inaries ueara lor GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over . . By Dick Morrison THE MAGAZINES The nation's magazines treat us freely to their views on an ana sundry. Some of them, in fact, don't do much of anything lse.So it would seem not inappropriate that I turn the tables this once and say my say about a few of them. Take the Post, to begin with. This once great magazine has come upon evil days. Not many years ago, the Post was top dog. Its issues is-sues were heavy with advertising. It was the favorite medium among auto manufacturers, to name one group. It paid the highest rates for stories and articles, and got its pick of the crop. In addition, the Post stood for something. It was firmly dedicated to the principle of American individualism, in-dividualism, a philosophy which, make no mistake, must be revived if America is to survive. Its great editor, George Horace Lorimer, was a man of firm conviction. Garet Garrett, who wrote the Post's editorials edi-torials for eight years subsequent to the reign of Mr. Lorimer, was a worthy successor. But when Ben Hibbs moved over from The Country Gentleman, discerning dis-cerning readers noted a weakening of the old firm stand. In spite of this, however, the Post carried on for some years, until at the start of 1962, Robert Fuoss took over. His innovations all but ruined what was left of the Post. Fortunately, he didn't stay on long, and now, with Robert Sherrod at the helm, the Post is struggling to regain its balance. Two articles among the 1962 issues struck me as outstanding. outstand-ing. One was a hair-raising account of corruption in the Denver Police Department, run Feb. 10, by one of the cops who was a member of the criminal gang. The other, run June 23, gave the story of the breaking of the Billie Sol Estes case, by the small-town editor who did it. Oscar Griffin, Jr., just out of journalism school, had taken the job as editor of the semi-weekly semi-weekly Journal And Independent, of Pecos, Texas. With the true editorial edi-torial instinct for smelling out a phony, Mr. Griffin got to pondering some of the news about Estes' activities. ac-tivities. Things didn't seem to jibe, and his search for the fact9 led to his uncovering, and publishing the truth about, Mr, Estes. He had to face local opposition by people who considered Estes a benefactor; and he was confronted with cutthroat cut-throat competition by the Estes forces who had reacted to his lack of support by starting another newspaper that old dodge used, or threatened, by wrongdoers ever since the first honest editor dared to print the truth. These were genuinely great stories, worthy of the old Post. It DEER HUNTERS Wear Your Trophy! Have beautiful jackets, glovet, mocca-lint mocca-lint and other leather goods custom mode from your own deerskins. DEERSKIN TRADING POST Wrife for FREE CATALOG 1861 South State, Salt lake City, Utah HU 4-8391 Imported Fall Planting Bulbs Good Selection of Choice Colors Quality Market Hardware Dept. the Post will burst into flame a-gain, a-gain, but it will take some doing. Today, the Reader's Digest probably prob-ably deserves top rating. Started as a personal venture by a veteran of the first world war, the Reader's Digest has grown to a circulation of over ten million, with editions in several foreign languages. The idea of publishing a pocket-size monthly running thirty condensed articles "an article a day" gleaned glean-ed from the best of the field, took hold perhaps more successfully than the founder could have dream ed. If, from a business standpoint, the Reader's Digest is suffering from anything, it could only be from too much success. But if any one thinks any publication can stay on top forever, he need only look at the once seemingly invulnerable, wealthy, influential Saturday Ev ening Post. For years, the Digest even kept its independence from the influence of advertisers. No doubt it still does, though with inflation pushing up costs, the Digest decided to ac cept advertising rather than raise its rates to the extent otherwise necessary. Even so, It refuses liquor and tobacco advertising, even as the Post did while it could still afford, to, and It has led the cru sade to publicize the effects of cigarette smoking on health. With many publications starving for advertising, ad-vertising, the Digest gets more than it needs. Yes, it seems invul nerable, and yet, I think I sense the creeping in of something that may have hurt the Post a tendency tend-ency to compromise on some Is sues rather than collide with mass illusion. Not enough to mean much, yet. But some. Back In the 'twenties, the Liter ary Digest was high-rated, too. " 'Tis a mark of distinction to be a reader of the Literary Digest", was the slogan, flattering its read ers even as Time today flatters its readers. But the Literary Digest met its Waterloo in a straw poll wh'.ch predicted that Alf Landon would beat F. D. Roosevelt in 1936. Having established a reputation for accuracy by polling millions of telephone subscribers and auto owners, the Literary Digest failed to discern that by 1936 the "proletariat" "pro-letariat" had become a dominant voting influence, and its poll went wrong. The Literary Digest expired not too long afterward. Me, I liked the Literary Digest better than I like some of Its successors, suc-cessors, such as Time and Newsweek. News-week. Time, in my opinion, though smart, is shallow and leftish. As one competent journalist once re marked to me, it "manhandles" that remark. As for Newsweeek, I had a head on collision with that mag early this year. In this day of communist v.ctories all over the world, Newsweek News-week had the temerity to run an article presenting an assumed "extreme "ex-treme right" as a threat! It was called "Thunder On The Right", and Newsweek claimed to have employed 40 researchers to pore over more than 300,000 words of mater'.al in preparing it. I wrote and told them the result was hardly hard-ly worth the effort. But In particular, particu-lar, I called their attention to three specific errors of significance. One was the assertion that "rightists" are opposed to fluoridation. Now, this isn't true at all, and it looked like a typical left-wing misrepresentation. misrepre-sentation. What genuine rightists are opposed to is the sort of compulsion com-pulsion inherent in the medicating of a whole city's water supply. They favor the right of anyone to imbibe fluorides of his own free will. And that little distinction, so often overlooked when not wholly misunderstand by lefties, is at the crux of many issues. Newsweek then affirmed an assertion by lefty professor Henry Steele Commager that people of substance and property pro-perty never understood why we "lost" China. I held that these people peo-ple did know why we lost China, and exactly how the friendly government gov-ernment was undermined in China, by influential Americans. Third, Newsweek ran a picture of the late Senator McCarthy stating that "his irresponsible slandering of Innocent Inno-cent men disenchanted all but the fanatics. Now, I am one of the fanatics, of course, but I claim that Mc- DESERET mhs-ednachbistewsen Twenty-two degrees this morning certainly makes us feel that winter is just around the corner. At least the wind has calmed down. High Councilman Lathel Callister had the program in charge for Sacrament Sac-rament meeting. He also visited our priesthood meeting and Sunday School. He brot Elder LaVoy Tol-bert Tol-bert with him to Sacrament meeting. meet-ing. These men have visited our wards at other times but we always enjoy their talks. They are always interesting and give us something to talk about. Jackie Black played a beautiful organ solo. Joe Mace was ordained a deacon, and I'm sure he will be a good one. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Webb spent last Sunday in Cedar City visiting their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor and "boys. Mrs. Lorraine Conk and children spent Wednesday in Kanosh visiting visit-ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mac Shields. Recent visitors at the Verd Davis Mr. and Mrs. Verle Black and children were down from Tooele to spend the weekend with relatives. Josie Moody and Edna Christen-sen Christen-sen attended the wedding in Ely Friday night of Bonnie Jean Hardy and Jay Thiessens. Bonnie is the daughter of their niece Helen Hardy Har-dy and grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Talbot and little daughter Eva Marie were in Salt Lake Saturday where Eva Marie had a medical check-up. The doctor reports her as doing just fine, which is good news. Carolyn Christensen spent Saturday Satur-day and Sunday visiting with her mother and other relatives. Carrie Jensen returned to her home in Riverside, Calif., Friday night after an extended visit here with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Moody and Kathy, Mr. and Mrs. Garold Moody and Mrs. Josie Moody attended fast meeting in Sutherland Ward Sun- home were Mr. and Mrs Morgan day where tne bab daughter 0f Jensen and daughter of Monticello. Ken and Veniee Moody Bishop was They went gathering pine-nuts while here. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bennett went to Magna on Thursday-to visit the Justesen family, ihey also visited in Salt Lake with Mr. and Mrs. Burton Cahoon. They returned home Tuesday night. Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Crafts are Fern's folks, Mr. and Mis. Walter Leban from Amherst, Colo. They arrived Tues day. Carthy never slandered any Uino-Xa cent people. It is one of the left- anf Amy were nere Ior a vlsit bat wing mis-statements repeated so often that the unthinking have come to accept it. After an ex change, back and forth, I settled urday. peaceful evening, I like to put on a good record and then sit down EL L?" Sjtlne. I find myself reading the ads because I enjoy them. Even as the tend that the principles of ethical journalism require this,. But Newsweek News-week would neither name names in support of its statement, nor run a retraction. I finally gave them the choice, either back up the statement, state-ment, retract it, or terminate my subscription. They did the later. Well, I felt that was good riddance. I had not asked Newsweek to do anything but what ethical principles princi-ples called for back up its statement state-ment or retract it. Newsweek was purchased from the Harriman interests in-terests last year by the Washington Washing-ton Post, so, of course, that sort of the news. I was fed urt even before thing could be expected. Time gave Stalin its flattering co- A magazine I thoroughly enjoy ver treatment for the third time. these days is the Geographic. All BafAMnn( i , . , r un;ause i tnjuy mem. oiaicmcni vy naming SUUie Ul UIC ti1o .ua -He hrirxr rr, tho nlH '"a .u ; ,C.T 7 , wanderlust. Take, for instance, an Time, you know, has two kinds of cover treatment. One, often used for lefties, including Stalin, is flattering. The other, sometimes used for anti-communists, is Insulting. Insult-ing. I'm sick of It. Life? Again, I liked the old Life of the 'twenties better than the new picture book .The old Life, with its excellent editorials by E. S. Martin, was a magazine of charm and wit. Primarily dealing with humor, it still ran pages of serious comment of music, theatre, and art, as well as political affairs. . It took the noted historian, Charles Beard, to put the finger on the weakness of the picture maga-z maga-z nes such as Life and Look. With their advent, wrote Mr. Beard, it was no longer necessary for the readers of the big mass magazines to be wholly literate. In other words, if they couldn't read, they could look at the pictures. I doubt my life, off and on, I have been a subscriber, intermittently. Here is a magazine that doesn't smear people by claiming they smear people. peo-ple. It just goes Its serene way, poking into out-of-the-way places like Tibet, and some not so out-of-the-way places like Los Angeles, and publishes interesting articles about them. One thing I like about the Geographic Geo-graphic is that it doesn't try to fool you into reading its ads by running them in the same format as us articles, us advertising sections sec-tions are separate from the text. W detest the habit of Life and some of the women's magazines, which I seldom look at anyway, of making mak-ing ads appear as articles. And, would you know, maybe for this A lot more car-a lot more caret rod Just try beating the bold, beautiful beauti-ful Buick LeSabre '63 tor value! You get full-size room, the 401-cu. 401-cu. In. Wildcat V-8. Jolt-tree Turbine Drive opt. at extra coat). Finned aluminum front brakes. Top trade-In. Buick quality. Yet, LeSabre prices start down near many "low-price" cars! See Ittodayl S your tuihotltad quality Buick dalf...H.dquartwt for Buick LSabnSptcialSkylarkWlltcatlactr225liiYhra nun mnmi kWXs ad by the German Federal. Railroad. Rail-road. Tells of a new train, the Rheingold, which runs through Holland, Hol-land, Germany, and Switzerland, to Italy. All electric, and one of the world's fastest, with speed up to 100 miles an hour. What a trip to take! Or, as I leaf through the ad section: sec-tion: TWA offering vacation flights to Europe. The California Zephyr, one of the world's greatest trains. The memorable way is Santa San-ta Fe, runs another ad. South Africa Tourist Corporation suggests, "See it yourself". Pan American advertises adver-tises flights to South America. Mat-son Mat-son Line, cruises to the South Pacific. Pa-cific. Yes, there's good reading and good advertising in the Geographic. The music plays, and I read and dream. Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID QUICK RELIEF OR NO COST Ovrr five million package of the WILLAFD TffMTHfiTWrhavebeensold for relief ot symptom oJ distress arising from Stomach and Dtradenel Ulcer due to Ei cess Acid Peer Difsst'on, Sour or Upset Stomach, Gassiness, Heartburn, Sleep Usenet, etc., due to Eicass Acid. Ask for 'Wlllard's Message" which fully explains thai home treatment fra at reason, I enjoy reading the ads in Ittalxpi I'llfl rlllXii V the Geographic! When I want a 1 The occasion was to celebrate Bert-rice Bert-rice Erickson's and Millie Dew-snup's Dew-snup's birthdays, but Millie didn't feel well enough to go. We certainly cert-ainly hope she feels better soon. Ralph Erickson sent his mother a birthday card from Kansas City, Mo., where he wenCon a trip. Spencer Webb is feeling better and is able to be out again. He recently had a birthday too, as did Cuman Cropper. Happy Birthday, all you folks. Descendants of the Samuel R. Western family met st the Deseret Ward House Saturday, Oct. 13 at 10 a.m., where a family organization organiza-tion was formed. Charter members present were Evan Western, Dug-way, Dug-way, president; Victor Slade, 1st vice president and his wJe, from Salt Lake; Belva W. Morris, 2nd vice president, of H nckley; Laura S. Dunn, secretary and treasurer, of Provo; Luella S. Western, genealogist, gene-alogist, of Deseret; and other charter char-ter members, Alma Western, Hinckley; Hinck-ley; John Henry Western, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Western, Myrle W. Bennett, Ben-nett, and Louise Cropper, all from Deseret; Ruth Talbot, of Hinckley, and Clarence Slade, of St. George. Dinner was served at the home of John Henry Western for out of town guests. Committee members will meet in the near future to make further plans and by-laws for the organization. organiza-tion. Plans are now for a Western reunion in Deseret June 1. blessed and given the name Karen Beth. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Warner left Friday for Salt Lake and Ogden where they will visit until Tuesday before returning home. 1 Mrs. Diane Jacobson spent the Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Erickson and weekend in Delta with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maylon Erickson and Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Smith and also children spent Sunday in Ephraim attended her brother Doug's fare-with fare-with Mr. and Mrs. LaVoy Erickson. well. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. 1 A JOINT RESOLUTION PRO- al property, not to exceed POSING TO AMEND ARTI- $2,000 in value for homes and CLE XIII, SECTION 2 OF THE homesteads, and all household CONSTITUTION OF THE furnishings, furniture, and STATE OF UTAH, RELATING equipment used exclusively by TO TANGIBLE PROPERTIES the owner thereof at his place EXEMPT FROM TAXATION, of abode in maintaining a home for himself and family. Froper- Be it resolved by the Legisla- a i A J mo tl, 1- a lif, ' owned by disabled persons who X Tle f fv, served In any war in the mili- voting in favor thereof: , gttes or of the State of Utah Section 1. It fs proposed to and by the unmarried widows amend Article XIII, Section 2 and minor orphans of euch dis-of dis-of the Constitution of the State abled persons or of persons who of Utah to read as follows: while serving in the military Section 2. All tangible prop- service of the United States or rty in the state, not exempt the State of Utah were killed under the laws of the United in action or died as a result of States, or under this constitu- such service may be exempted tion shall be taxed in propor- as the legislature may provide, tion to its value to be ascer- The legislature shall provide tained as provided by law. The by law for an annual tax suffi- property of the state, counties, cient, with other sources of rev-cities, rev-cities, towns, school districts, enue, to defray the estimated municipal corporations and pub- ordinary expenses of the state lie libraries, lots with the build- f0r each fiscal year. For the ings thereon used exclusively purpose of paying the state for either religious worship or debt, if any there be, the lefris-charitable lefris-charitable purposes, and places lature shall provide for levying of burial not held or used for a tax annually, sufficient to pay private or corporate benefit, the annual interest and to pay shall be exempt from taxation, the principal of such debt, with-Water with-Water rights, ditches, canals, in twenty years from the final reservoirs, power plants, pump- padsage of the law creating the ing plants, transmission lines, debt. pipes and .flumes owned and Section 2. The secretary of used by individuals or corpora- state ls directed to submit this tions for irrigating lands i within proposed amendment to the the state owned by such individ- electorl of the sute cf jtah uals or corporations, or the in- in the next reneral election in dividual members thereof, shall th manMT provided by law. not be separately taxed as long Section 8 jf adopted by the as the shall be owned and used electors ot this state, this exclusive y for such purposes. Bmendmerlt s,au take effect the Power plants, power transmis- first ot January 19 63. sion lines and other property .mVT v TnpnvTO used for generating and dehv- I. LAONJ. F. TORONTO, ering electrical power, a portion Secretarr of State of the SUte of which is used for furnishing f ttah, DO HEREBY CER-power CER-power pumping water for irri- TIFY that the foregoing is a ration purposes on lands in the full, true and correct copy of State cf Utah, may be exempted the constitutional amendment from taxation to the extent that proposed by the regular session such propertv is used for such cf the Thirty-Fourth Leguls-purposes. Leguls-purposes. These exemptions ture, 1961, as appoart of record shall accrue to the benefit of in my office. the users of water so pumped IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I under such regulations as e have hereunto set my hand and legislature may prescribe. The affixed the Great Seal of the taxes of the indigent poor may state of Utah, at Salt Lake be remitted or abated at such Ci'v, this 29th day of August, times and in such manner as 12. Sarrnfylrovii'TorU;: "M22t32 exemption from taxation of Secretary of StU homes, homesteads, and person- (SEAL) See your Buick des'er for qurty service ... he knows your Bukk besif PACE MOTOR COMPANY - 324 Main -Delta. Utah Have Your Old SOFA or CHAIR RESTYLED and RECOVERED SAVE 50 OVER NEW FURNITURE PRICES Finest Selection of Nylon, Mohair and Naugahyde COVERINGS QUALITY BRAND NAME FLOOR CARPETING at SALT LAKE PRICES Installed by expert with years of experience -CONTACT- & CARPET COMPANY 750 North Main In Cedar City . Free Pickup and Delivery and Terms if Desired FREE estimates on furniture or carpt. No obligation. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. 2 A JOINT RESOLUTION TO or damaged by rights of way, AAIEND ARTICLE XIII OF and for administrative costs THE CONSTITUTION OF necessarily incurred for said THE STATE OF UTAH BY purposes TSJIxSiCTrS? 2) Th administration of 13, PROHIBITING EXPENDI- driVer education program. TURE OF REVENUE DE- :f .f.t. RIVED FROM GASOLINE, nXlI tu OTHER MOTOR FUEL AND mo lehic Rnd traffic laws. HIGHWAY USER TAXES, (4) Tourists and publicity FOR PURPOSES UN RE- expense in any single biennium LATED TO HIGHWAY USE. not in excess of the lesser of n .. . , . ., T . , the following: (a) .6 percent Be it resolved by the Jgisla- 0f the total biennial revenues ture of the State of Utah, from motor fuel taxes, or (b) two -thirds of all members an amount' equal to the 1969- elected to each of the Houses biennium. voting in favor thereof: Section 2 The of Section 1. It is proposed to state is directed to submit this amend Article XIII of the Con- proposed amendment to the stitution of the State of Utah electors of the state of Utah at by the addition of Section 13 the next general election in the to read: manner provided by law. Section 13. The proceeds Section 3. This amendment from the imposition of any shall take effect upon approval license tax, registration fee, by the electors of the state, driver education tax, or other T T AVnT TnrcrwTn ofar 2?hS uLTanv ??SUtofth?SS .wf XZiLl thT RtM of ah. DO HEREBY CER- .dblChehlpsVrS1Sthe8t!me: JJfrJE&Z ,-n .,, full, true ana correct copy of Kffi" or o hVere ldmotor WhS fuels used for propelling such FwS0 vehicle, except for statutory re- L fj. hl JZlA funds and adjustments allowed i961;V aPPear of "ord thereunder and for costs of m TTTTTT,T,T,rt . collection and administration, , IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I shall be used exclusively for have hereunto set my hand and highway purposes as follows: affixed the Great Seal of the i t ,., ,.: State of Utah, at Salt Lake proUmt, repafrndainte- gfe 29th 'day of August, nance of city streets, county roads, and state highways, in- LAMONT F. TORONTO eluding but not restricted to Secretary of State payment for property taken for (SEAL) CONSTITUTIONAL' AMENDMENT No. 3 A JOINT RESOLUTION FFO- proposed amendment to the POSING TO AMEND ARTI- electors of the state of Utah at CLE VI, SECTION 9 OF THE the next general election in the CONSTITUTION O F THE manner provided by law. STATE OF UTAH, RF.LAT- Section 3. Jf adopted by the ING TO COMPENSATION OF -electors of this state, this MEMBERS OF THE LEGIS- amendment shall take effect the LATURE. first day of January, 1963. Be it resolved by the Lctrisla- I, LAMONT F. TORONTO, ture of the State of Utah, Secretary of State of the SUte two -thirds of all members of Utah, DO HEREBY CER- elected to each of the Houses TIFY that the foregoing is a voting in favor thereof: full, true and correct copy of Section 1. It is proposed to coJi8tKituttional ,meni?ft amend Article VI. Section 9 of Tl'Ji V5w"t the Constitution of the State of Jh Jhlrt7-Fourth j11; Utah to read as follows: m off BPPeT" f m0rd tunJrZe WITNESS WHEREOF, I such compensation, not exceed- T?l.unt mJ Td ing $1,200.00 a year for the leg- lJFu .u0. Ulative term and $10 00 a day !tste f JSV,at expenses while actually in ses- thl 29tl daT ct Aontt, sion, and mileage as provided 1 by law. LAMONT F. TORONTO Section 2. The secretary of Secretary of State SUte is dire-ted to submit this (SEAL) - |