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Show GIVING OUR WORLD Once BOOKS GALORE Good books have been piling up on my desk, but I haven't had time to read all of them, let alone review them, for some weeks, for the reason that I have been busy writing one. Now that's done see Paradox, further on maybe I can catch up. Books are contagious, and very often, .friends will hand me the ones, thoy like, and a congenial con-genial custom it is. I like, first, to review them, and, second, to return re-turn them. I detest book keepers. (No, not bookkeepers.) Don't ever be a book keeper. Always take them back, promptly. "Race And Reason", by Carleton Putnam, (Public Affairs Press, $3.25), is refreshing in that it presents pre-sents a case against racial integration inte-gration rather than for it something some-thing at least different in these days when politicians are falling over themselves to (1), get the negro vote, and (2), send their own children to private, segregated schools. It is presented as: a Yankee view, though it reads more like a Southern South-ern conservative view. Anyway, it makes sense, and presents its argument ar-gument in a scholarly, well documented docu-mented way. The argument may be summed up by a quotation of "a distinguished scientist", that "About 25 years ago it seemed beyond be-yond doubt that man is a cultural fiimal, solely a creature of environment, en-vironment, and that there was no inheritance of instinct, intelligence or any other capacity. The tide is turning. Heredity is coming back ... .It is the zoologists, the animal ani-mal behavior men, who are doing it, and the anthropologists are beginning be-ginning to learn from them". How loud does the obvious have to shout before a sensible man will listen? asks Mr. Putnam. In other words, the stock of an species may be bred up or down, and he considers con-siders it down-grading to mix whites and negroes. Well worth reading and highly controversial in view of the extent of political hand-wringing on behalf of the negros in America, who have advanced ad-vanced faster and further, with, limited segregation in the U. S. than negros ever advanced anywhere any-where else. Thanks to Inez Riding for Race and Reason. "We Seven", which is published by Simon and Schuster, and was written by the seven astronauts of Project Mercury, edited by John Dille, of LIFE, and illustrated mostly most-ly by photographs from LIFE, in a first-person account, with seven first-persons, of our man-in-space program. John H. Glenn, Jr. contributes several chapters, including that covering his own flight in space. Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton all contribute their own stories, telling of the part each played in the project, pro-ject, and giving their own feelings and reactions. An interesting true-life true-life adventure dealing with the newest and most exciting field of exploration, by the men who participated. par-ticipated. Thanks to Wayne Sor-enson Sor-enson for We Seven. PARADOXICAL AS IT MAY SEEM As if there weren't enough books around already, I've just written one myself. Bob Riding has printed it up on the Chronicle press. Joe Stewart did a beautiful job of type ' setting. Athena Cook, Marvel Clay-i ton, Inez R.ding, and Dorothy Han-' sen each read part or all of the manuscript and made suggestions and corrections. The work of each in his or her special field is much appreciated. We expect the book to be all done and stapled up this weekend. Then, anyone interested may buy one for 97 cents plus the sales tax, or one dollar for easy, figuring. It isn't a very long book, being of approximately nineteen "thousand "thous-and words, or f.f ty-two pages as it's set up. But what it lacks in length, it makes up, I like to think, in profundity. Length isn't, everything, every-thing, I always said. My book is not a romance, nor yet a murder mystery. It certainly isn't poetry, and it isn't just another an-other Lady Chatterly's Lover. Matter Mat-ter of fact, it is on a more interesting interest-ing subject than mere sex. It contains con-tains things that liberals wont like, things that conservatives wont like, and things that middle-of-the-1 roaders wont like. It expresses ideas that federal spenders wont like, and other ideas that budget balancers wont like. W.th all that stacked against it, maybe I j shouldn't have written it. But in' spite of it all, I am conf.dent that a lot of people will find many things in it they do like, and that some, at least, will like all of it. My book does not, of course, purport pur-port to hold the solution to all the world's problems. Only to about half a dozen of the more vexing ones. The idea it puts forth holds the potential of gluing the federal fed-eral government out of debt, turning turn-ing the tide aga.nst communism, making possible a vast reduction of taxes, opening the way to new( heights of general prosperity, end-j ing depressions, and making Republicans Re-publicans out of Democrats. I But to cut out the guff: Like many another, I've been troubled these many years by the seemingly hopeless dilemma posed by the twin threats of debt and statism as the only alternatives to depres-j sion. I LIKE the idea of free enter-j prise, yet I have had to admit that the system behaves at times in a. most contrary manner. Years ago, I I decided to search out the best available books on the subject. I , found good ones scarce and inadequate; inade-quate; bad ones plentiful. I read such beautifully written works as Garet Garrett's "Ex-America", in which that noted onetime Post edi-' tor first presented all the logical THE Over By Dick Morrison arguments he could think of a-gainst a-gainst encroaching statism, only, on page 35, to give up and surrender! sur-render! "The national debt began to rise in an alarming manner, and conservative con-servative economists filled the land with cries of impending doom. Yet nothing disastrous happened", wrote Mr. Garrett, going on to observe ob-serve that "here one may throw a-way a-way the economic almanacs. The answer is not in them. They all alike foretold disaster, but where was it?" About that time, it became apparent ap-parent to me that, with such as Garet Garrett throwing up their hands in despair; with conservative conserva-tive economists holding staunchly to the line that there was nothing wrong in the first place, and with "liberals" maintaining that everything every-thing was wrong, I'd have to set the world straight on the matter if the job were to get done. I've always been quite a do-it-yourself guy, and that trait came in handy. Moral: when you can't f.nd a book anywhere that says what you think needs to be said, write one of your own. Even by 1952 the idea was cry- The big event of the week in our town was the marriage Saturday evening - of Frances Black and Douglas Mecham. Many relatives and friends witnessed the wedding ceremony in the chapel which was beautifully decorated for the occas-sion. occas-sion. The bride was very lovely and the groom very handsome and we all hope they will be very happy. An enormous crowd turned out for the reception after the wedding ceremony to express best wishes to the newly weds. They received many beautiful and useful gifts to start out the.r married life. At present pre-sent they are living in Delta where Frances will continue her schooling and Douglas has employment. Elder Gary Dutson brot the program pro-gram for Sacrament services Sunday Sun-day evening. The man speaker was Gary's fiancee, Miss Jewell Cook from Moroni. She took us on a trip to the Hi HCumorah Pageant, in which she participated last summer. sum-mer. That must be an awe inspiring inspir-ing and testimony building spectacle, spec-tacle, one wh.ch I wish we could all see. She made it sound so impressive im-pressive and wonderful and I'm sure it must be just that. We all enjoyed her talk so much she is a delightful speaker. A special organ or-gan selection was played by W.n-ona W.n-ona Dutson and Gary was the concluding con-cluding speaker. His talk was short but good with a little humor mixed in which always makes a talk more interesting. All in all it was an evening well spent. Mr. and Mrs. Ormus Dutson received re-ceived word Saturday night that their son June had slipped and fallen and was hospitalized. He had lain unconscious for 45 minutes before he was found and the weather wea-ther was real cold. He received a bad blow on the head and one elbow, el-bow, but was able to leave the hospital hos-pital Sunday noon. If nothing un-forseen un-forseen happens he should soon feel alright and we certainly hope he is. Mr. and Mrs. LaMar Dewsnup spent Monday in Provo. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jensen were in Fillmore Monday. Mrs. Jackie Black and daughter Audrey were in Provo on Tuesday. On Saturday of last week Mr. and Mrs. LaMar Dewsnup and Mrs. Rose Dewsnup visited Mrs. Ada Cheynoweth in the Utah Valley Hosp.tal in Provo. Mrs. Denise Palmer went to Denver, Den-ver, Colo., on Wednesday to rece ve more schooling on her job. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Warner returned re-turned home Tuesday night after visiting for two weeks in Ogden with the Melv n Warner family. Ormus Dutson spent Wednesday in Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Torrens spent Tuesday in Salt Lake. Mrs. Eva Robison returned home with them after visit.ng about a week with hen daughter Eva Alice. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Black returned return-ed home from Salt Lake Wednesday Wednes-day night, Inga received medical care while they were gone. Douglas Torrens spent the week end visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Torrens. He brot his girl friend Miss Wilson with him. Bertrice Erickson has been laid up for several days with a badly sprained ankle. Josephine Cahoon and familv, Evelyn and husband and Norman and wife and baby son spent Friday Fri-day night in their home in Deseret. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hales attended the wedding reception in Salt Lake Friday evening for one .of their n.eces. I h e y got caught in a bad snow storm. Mr. and Mrs. Verle Black and family of Tooele spent the weekend week-end here, having come down for the wedding. Alma Western was a visitor at Sunday School Sunday. Russell Biack was home from Cedar to spend the weekend with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dee Black. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Brower were weekend visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cuman Cropper. Mrs. M Hie Dewsnup of Deseret and her brother. Frank Wood, of Delta attended funeral services in Holden Thursday for an old friend, Mrs. Josie B. Stephenson. After the funeral they spent the rest of th day visiting at the home of their s.ster, Hazel Harmon and with their two brothers, Clark and Clyde DESERET ms-EpNAcHaisTEN3Ew- stalizing in my mind. I wrote Mr. Carrett, and our exchange, which was one of many, ran to three long j letters apiece, with neither con-j vinclng the other, though he said he enjoyed the exchange, and I. know I did. In the 1950's the Wall Street' Journal found space for a stack of my letters on the subject; I tried to handle it in the Forum, and I . touched upon it in articles in the Chronicle. These items always touched off an interested response. But in order to do juctice to it j to present the idea in complete,' coherent, convincing form I had to set it down .as a book. So herej it is. The reason my book is nine-1 teen thousand words in length is that it took that many, no more and "ho less, to say what I had to , say. j I think it holds the answer to the aforementioned dilemma. As Mr. Garrett wrote, the answer surely is not in the economic almanacs. al-manacs. But, if I am right, the 1 answer becomes so beautifully clear that one may be tempted to, say, on reading it, what Aldoux Huxley is reported to have said when he read Darwin's theory of natural selection: "How stupid, not to have thought of that". Perhaps I flatter myself. My I readers, and I know there will be some, though I can't guess how many, will make the final judg ment. And with that I toss my Paradox Of Capitalism into the arena, come what may. Wood and families. Mr. and Mrs. Maylon Erickson spent the weekend in Ephraim with Mr. and Mrs. LaVoy Erickson. La-Voy La-Voy and Myrle came back with them Sunday and spent a few hours with their folks, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Erickson. They returned to Ephraim in the evening where La Voy attends school at Snow College. Col-lege. Nancy Black and Marilyn Warn-ick Warn-ick were down from Salt Lake to attend the wedding. They were both bridesmaids. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wonkier, former form-er Delta residents, now living in Vernal, are the proud parents of a new baby girl Kristine Wankier. She was born a few days before Christmas so I am a little slow in getting the news in the Chronicle. Congratulations to the Wankiers on their new addition. 75 Million Heart Fund Dollars For Heart Research Since 1949 SYMBOLIC CHECK is displayed to 3-year-old Ronda Weed, a beneficiary of heart surgery, and her mother, by Herbert and Melvin Greensfelder of Logansport, Indiana, identical 67-year-old twins who suffered "identical" heart attacks 10 months apart and have since fully recovered. The $75,000,000 shown on the check represents the total channeled into medical medi-cal research by all Heart Associations in the nation since the first Heart Fund campaign was conducted in 1949. The 1963 Heart Fund campaign extends through February. - .eamiuGicn Mr. and Mrs. Norman Jack Niel-son Niel-son left their two little ones with grandmother Moody in Delta last Thursday and drove into Salt Lake City to spend the day. Mrs. Bevan Nielson had three teeth removed Tuesday. They were impacted and been giving her a lot of trouble. The operation made her quite ill but she is feeling better bet-ter now. Mrs. Fred Nielson tended the children for her. Mrs. Fred Nielson went to Nephi Wednesday to take care of her great-grandson, and look after grand-daughter Jeannie Jackson, while Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Jackson Jack-son with daughter Joan and husband hus-band went a trip for .a couple of days. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Nielson and At Kennecott, each success in developing better equipment or methods inspires renewed re-newed efforts to improve the improvement. Here's an example. At the Bingham Canyon Mine, after two or three years of experiments, Utah-produced ammonium nitrate replaced dynamite in most blasting operations. Ammonium nitrate proved more economical and safer. But the problem still wasn't licked. The Senaecotl Copper Gorpomtion tot !w-v-y. w.ww lUsii OF HlMttfTV MaiT HWm . . . KLEE FINLINSON Lori drove into Spanish Fork Thursday Thurs-day for a medical appointment and to shop. Mrs. Wanda. Nielson and Clara Johnson drove into Salt Lake Friday. Fri-day. Wanda had a medical appointment ap-pointment and then they both visited vis-ited their children, who live in that area. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Anderson and little John visited Friday and Saturday Sat-urday with Mrs. Hattie Anderson. Mr. Floyd Bradfield spent Friday and Saturday in Ogden for medical care. Mr. and Mrs. Bud McCann and Deaun drove to Payson to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCann. Mr. Gordon Lovell was home from school for the weekend. Raymond Ray-mond couldn't come home he was in Greely, Colo., with the school Sure It's J5j Cll BUB Mow let's make it use of ammonium nitrate was limited it couldn't be used in wet ground. So a new round of experiments was started. Right now, experts are testing heavy plastic tubing to see if it will keep ammoniunf nitrate dry. If it does, that's the answer to the problem. Testing new ideas is just one way Ken-necott's Ken-necott's management meets current operating oper-ating problems. All of which helps build a sound foundation to keep copper production a vital part of Utah's growing economy. Millard County Chronicle ABRAHAM Once more its the day to write my news. No storm yet, however, clouds are gather. ng'again. All over ov-er the nation they are having very bad weather except the central Rockies. We sure need a storm j badly. Mrs. Gladys Tolbert and daughter daugh-ter Wanda Lee went to Provo Saturday Sat-urday to the orthidentist and to visit Gladys' mother, Mrs. Sarah Taylor and also her sister Lois and family. Mrs. Taylor isn't at all well these days. The Abraham School bus went to Fillmore to the game Friday night. We were glad to hear the Delta team beat Fillmore. Leuena Fullmer, Hildred Tolbert and Phyll.s Johnson went to the schools vocational class Monday night. They are going again this team. Kenneth Lovell spent most of the week in Salt Lake. He plans to find work. Mrs. Rex Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. R chard Thatcher and family of Scipio visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Burton Hanson. Mr. L. S. Peterson, Louise Lov-ell's Lov-ell's father is out of the hospital and on his way home to Safford, Ariz. He and Mrs. Peterson spent the night Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. LaForge Lovell and family. Last week the Leamington Scouts played two basketball games, one with Lynndyl and one with Oak City, and they won both of them. Master Jon Nielson, 7-year old of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Nielson, had a birthday party and invited all his school friends Thursday after school. Miss Synthia Lovell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grayson Roper, had her school friends out to Fool Creek to a skating party to celebrate cele-brate her birthday Friday night after af-ter school. Sunday night Sacrament meeting meet-ing in Leamington Ward had as a program, a returned missionary from England. Elder Wm. Dutson, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Dutson, from Oak City. He gave an excellent account of his mission and he and his father, accompanied by his mother sang "The Garden". Mrs. Wilma Lovell played a piano solo. Prayers were offered by L. Jay Nelson and Norman Jack Nielson. Thursday, January 31, 1963 Mrs. AFTON FULLMER Monday night. Mrs. Reva Bliss has loaned out some of her books and forgotten who borrowed them. She asks if you w.ll kindly return them to her. Ray and Carmellia Hoelzle took their son Joe to keep an appointment appoint-ment with the doctor in Salt Lake Friday. They said it was snowing up there, but was very nice here in the valley. Bishop and Mrs. Frelen Shurtz of Sugarville vis.ted with the Clifford Clif-ford Petersens Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Lish are the proud parents of a sweet little baby ba-by girl born one day this week in Phoen'.x, Arizona. The Jolly Stitchers were special guests at an historical program Friday afternoon. Mrs. Reva Bliss was present from here. The Jolly St tchers are celebrating their 50th anniversary year. The Monroe Corbetts and Chester Corbetts have got their furnaces installed and working. (Very enjoyable en-joyable this cold weather.) Mr. and Mrs. Evan Riding and three children of Granger came down to Mr. Overson's (at Lynndyl) b rthday party Sunday. They visited visit-ed Eulalla Riding in Delta Saturday. Satur-day. Evan runs a service station there. Miss Linda Corbett had her 17th birthday one day this week. Her grandmother, Mrs. Riding ate birthday dinner with her. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Sherrill and two children, Gary and Wendy, of Fallon, Nev., and Mrs. Bob Taylor, of Reno, Nev., were at the Ed Taylor Tay-lor home for Margaret's birthday Sunday. I'm sure she doesn't care if I tell she is 67 years young. I'll catch up with her next November. We wish her many happy returns of the day. 7.500 Read It In The CHRONICLE i dvBtilsIna works for uou I Utah Copper Division 1 |