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Show GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over By Dick Morrison JOHNSON Lynndon Johnson had not been president a month before the evil-uations evil-uations started showing up in print. National Review found itself unable un-able to wait longer than three weeks before proclaiming, editorially, editori-ally, that it had lost all patience with President Johnson. N-R, of course, finds him too much a Roosevelt Roo-sevelt new-dealer. From another direction, we are informed by the U.S. News & World Report, snipers were, by Dec. 9, complaining that he was "too American" with too much of the American west about him. He was said to be not' enough "world oriented", and some British officials were reported worried, too. Now, I'd say that if he is "too American", and western American at that, it is a fault I can stand a lot of. That same criticism has been levelled at Barry Goldwater, and by the same eastern eggheads. And, maybe, even for the same reasons. And if officials in Britain or anywhere else are worried over the possibility that we may have an American president, let 'em worry. Few things are stupider than the British government. . Johnson's political philosophy, as set forth In a book he published in 1958, doesn't look half bad to me. One could ask little more than that he live up to it. Take a few quotes: "First", he wrote, "I believe every American has something to say and, under our system, a right to an audience". He made this remark, too: "Our basic law, the Constitution, is distinctive dis-tinctive among the basic laws of all nations, even the free nations of the West, in that it prescribes no national dogma: economic, social so-cial or religious". I couldn't have said it better, myself. And this one: "Our reasoning is that since there are two sides, either side would have been acceptable, ac-ceptable, "and hence the answer decided de-cided by political strength does not need closer scrutiny. I think otherwise. other-wise. This popular view is, I feel, very much counter to our American philosophy based on the thinking of men like Jefferson, and Madison". Madi-son". I feel that, too. And, lastly for the moment: "An international stalemate with communism com-munism would, I believe, be the greatest waste of American resources, re-sources, even though the stalemate produce no war." - - , Now, as far as those ideas go, I find myself right with Johnson. It's a question of how he'll implement imple-ment them. Once, asked what I thought of Johnson, I replied that I considered him just another ordinary American Ameri-can politician. And I do. My evaluation eval-uation doesn't show hero-worship, for sure. I can write about him without being carried aay. I think he's somewhat sharper than Eisenhower, Eisen-hower, more scrupulous than Truman, Tru-man, and less an egghead's egghead egg-head than Kennedy. Whether he's got what it takes to cope with com munist subversion hasn't been revealed, re-vealed, yet. See my "Disturbing Report", further along. PLAYBOY AND THE LADY It's strange, the reading matter one may pick up when browsing around. I didn't subscribe for Playboy Play-boy magazine, but somebody did, and I got to reading it. And I was struck by the intellectual quality of its content. It's rare stuff, intellectual in-tellectual quality, in a magazine today. Ed Harris had put me onto it earlier, anyway. Ed said that if I wanted substance, to try Esquire and Playboy. Said never mind the pictures of nudes and the ribald cartoons. Ignore them, and I'd find something good. Now, these are not family magazines, mag-azines, but are aimed at men, and if their editorial content, as well as their ads, are any criterion, they indicate what men go for, and we may sum it up thusly: men like sports, clothes, cars, politics, hi-fi stereo, hunting, intellectual stimulation, stimu-lation, and sex, not necessarily in that order. Business, too. It was the December issue of Playboy that caught me by surprise. sur-prise. Idly thumbing its pages, and ignoring the pictures, I found such items as one called The Morals Of Money, by J. Paul Getty a pretty good warmer-upper. Mortimer Ad-ler Ad-ler came next, with some advice on How To Read A Book Superficially, Super-ficially, taking the stand that when the average man takes up one of the Great Books, he reads it altogether alto-gether too hard, tracing down every ev-ery elusive allusion to the point where he gets himself lost. Take it easier, counsels Adler, and you'll find them enjoyable stuff. A lot of those elusive points never did mean much, even to the author. William Sinnser contributed a bit of satire entitled Saltpeter And The Wolf, an item debunking what wonldbean "Old five's tale but 1 eg Let us lighten ' your burden with an... AUTOMATIC BALE 7AG0tl CALL US. GET IN THE LINE UP ! !- Herald Petersen & Sons PHONE 7935 IrBorli I! with a if ProblGfiio Private Outdoor Light There is no substitute for plenty of good light for safety, convenience and protection ... for homes, churches, farms, businesses. Completely Automatic Private outdoor light installation contains a built-in photo-electric cell which automatically turns light on at dusk, off at dawn. Nothing to Buy Complete installation including maintenance mainte-nance and lamp replacement is provided by the power company. You pay only a moderate mod-erate monthly service fee. Thousands in Use Although private outdoor lighting is comparatively compar-atively new, there arc already thousands of installations in use in the area we serve. If it's electric, it's better! for the fact that it is an old husband's hus-band's tale. Lennie Bruce had his say, too but, as I said, it Isn't a family magazine. I sampled the editorial policy, naturally, and here Is some of it: "It is our view that man is a rational being and while his heredity here-dity and environment play a role in setting the pattern of his life, he possesses the ability to reason and the capacity for choice, not granted to the lower animals. The use, or lack of use, of his rational ra-tional m'nd is, itself, a choice, and we favor a society in which the emphasis is placed upon the use of reason We believe in a moral and law-abiding society, but one in which the morality and the laws are based upon logic and reason. rea-son. . . . ." Now, that looked familiar,- and it was. I got out Ayn Rand's (bless her) novel, Atlas Shrugged, and turned to: "Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice he has to hold his life as a value by choice he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. There is a morality of reason " Well, I thought, is Playboy's editorial edi-torial policy dictated by its editor, Hugh M. Hefner, or by Ayn Rand? So cometh now the March issue of Playboy and it carries a whole interview with guess who! Ayn Rand, presented as the fountain-head fountain-head of "objectivism", holds forth ,on her philosophy, and it's good. "Objectivist ethics hold that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, oth-ers, nor others to Himself, she states. (Note the "it works both ways" slant in her thinking.) She says further that "Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, in-dividualism, and their political expression, ex-pression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered". And, finally, she gives us this: "A sexual relationship relation-ship is proper only on the' ground of the highest values in a human being. That is why I consider promiscuity pro-miscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, DUt because sex is too good". And in that, I say; there is food for thought. Ayn Rand is not accepted in A- merican literature's inner circles. Millions of copies of her novels have been sold, for many more millions of dollars, but, and it's not so strange, neither "liberals nor "conservatives" like her. As Playboy puts it, "She detests the drift of American society: She doesn't like its politics, its economics, econo-mics, its attitudes toward sex, women, wo-men, business, art, or religion". She was born,- raised, and educated in Russia. Came to the U.S. in 1926, and worked at various odd jobs. Wanted to be a writer, but her command of-English was not adequate. ade-quate. About 1943 she completed The Fountainhead, and saw it rejected re-jected by twelve publishers before it gained its success with sales of more than 2,000,000 copies. It took her another ten years to write Atlas At-las Shrugged, a philosophical novel of 1168 pages, which has passed the million mark. And still, American people of letters don't accept her. That, I say, just proves how good she is. DISTURBING REPORT Unsolicited came a pamphlet entitled en-titled Stiff le! The Legend, by Lyle M. Munson. It is sold by The Book-mailer Book-mailer at 25 cents: As for the ; legend Mr. Munson suggests we stifle, I'll do my part by not repeating, it here. But beyond be-yond that, he " goes on to some shocking revelations of the behavior beha-vior of American representatives a-broad. a-broad. Mr. Munson used to be an officer in the CIA, and that organization organ-ization gets raked over the coals, but good. It seems to have stopped to acts and policies which are sordid, sor-did, indeed. Quote: "When I was an officer in the CIA, a query came to us in the field from Washington. It asked if we could ' mount- a character assassination as-sassination campaign against the head of a friendly government of sufficient violence to effect his overthrow". Now that, is pretty dirty stuff. And yet, in thinking back on the smearing campaigns which have been launched against heads of several friendly governments, t becomes something other than unbelievable. un-believable. Remember how Chiang, TrujiLo Batisla, Syngmann Rhee, and others were.discredited in the minds of American people those of them who are influenced by smearing campaigns anyway before be-fore they were deposed? For that matter, remember the ' smearing campaigns which "-have, been launched against anti-communist Americans? -v- "More recently, as mentioned in the quoted editorial, there is the totahy amoral assassination of President Diem, in Viet Nam. This case is so fresh in the public mind, surely, that it requires no comment. com-ment. The massive,- orchestrated campaign against that' brave anti-communist anti-communist leader, followed by his physical assassination, is ciear and revolting The terrible truth is that Washington d ctated Diem's fall and by act and deed directed it. The Democratic adminis'.ration was an accessory to the crime of his assassination, concurred in by a Republican Ambassador- who should have res'gned and come home to speak his protest and a-pology a-pology to the American people he represented". The war against communism hasn't been going so good in Viet Nam since Diem was murdered. I am one who wonders whether it wasn't planned that way. The persistence per-sistence with which some men have not only worked things so commun ism wouldn't get hurt but have actually done all they could to put its strongest enemies out of the way has been much in evidence. The news pictures of misguided Buddhist monks burning themselves them-selves alive were used widely in the U.S. to show what a "vile" 1 rmt yr says. . . TUB TtiOOKSST LUCK A BALLPLAYER EVER MO MS WfEAf PRATE PITCHER HARVEY HADOX, MAY 2$, 959. PITCHED THE LOWEST PERFECT GAME M MSTORY- RETRNQ 36 STRAIGHT BRAVE BATTERS FOR 2 MNMGS. VET HE LOST THE GAME iN THE lyxNHltiG, J-O. HOW YOU SEE WHY BASEBALL PLAYERS ARE SUPERSTITIOUS. I'LL JINX HIM IN THE IV" INNING I'LL KNOCK THEM DOWN LIKF FLIES. 9 fr " H n (yujaioille Tiews VENICE DAVIS Mr. and Mrs. Donald Davis returned re-turned Sunday from a week's vacation va-cation to Ely, China Lake, Ridge Crest, Las Vegas, Salt Lake and other places. They report seven in. of snow fell in Ely while they were there. Virginia Jensen of Salt Lake visited vis-ited over the weekend with her government Diem was running. But since he was murdered, the Buddhists Bud-dhists have kept right on burning themselves, yet the American press seems to have, clamped a blackout black-out on the fact! And something with the appearance of a timetable of surrender to communism in Viet Nam' seems to have been set up. And I can't forget it while the assassination of Diem was going on, the late President Kennedy was shaking hands with Tito. And two American army officers "happened" to move in front of the cameras while he was doing it. To me, the most shocking thing is that American people seem to turn with all their wrath, not upon the . men who ' implement anti-anti-communist policies, but upon the Americans who try to tell them what has been going on. Will President Pre-sident Johnson get to the root of such things? We shall see. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jensen Jen-sen and family. In the evening they all visited the First Ward for Zelma Jensen's testimonial.. Mr. and Mrs. Harlon Stone also attended it. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Meinhardt have returned from California after a few weeks visit there. Lynn and Lane Losee of Salt Lake visited last weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Losee. Then this weekend Dean Losee Lo-see of Logan visited over the week end with them. Karen Davis and small baby son returned to Las Vegas with her father, Bob Jenson, then took the plane from there to Phoenix, Ariz, for a week's visit with her husband Dwight Davis. She will then return with her father next week. Eugene 'Losee took the scouts, Chuck Greene, Art Hill, Roger Shurtz, Larry Oliver and Keith Shurtz during spring vacation to Ephraim to swim, then came back to Nephi for dinner and did some bowling. Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Oliver have gone to California for a visit with Lorin's brothher and wife for a week. Mr. and Mrs. Art Hill entertained Saturday night for the following people: Mr. and Mrs. Winn Walk- Millard County Chronicle Thursday, March 12, 1964 er, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foote, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Meinhardt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Heise, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ciark, Etta Underhill, Helen Hers-leff, Hers-leff, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Ivo Ogden. Ivo and Zelda won first prize and Venice Davis and Frank Foote the lows. Clunlnv wicrlit Vo trrom time wmiiuuj infill nig lugmni naj Kivcn oy wign councilman urvii feffery and his wife Donna. They were real good inspirational talks and were enjoyed by a large crowd. He also attended our Sunday School in the morning. Mr. and Mrs. Bill dark and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Clark made a trip to Provo Sunday for the testimonial of their nephew, Tom Stutz, son of Bishop and Mrs. Howard Stutz. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Alidredge visited visit-ed over the weekend with their sister, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Clark and family. Friday night our quartette, Chor al Clark, Sharon Ciark, Shirlee Shields and Verla Jenson sang in Fillmore for the M.E.A. Banquet. Their husbands accompanied them. We are right proud of our girls. Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Theodore dark made a trip to Salt Lake to catch a plane for Mr. and Mrs. Ru-fus Ru-fus Clark for a trip to San Francisco Francis-co for a few weeks visit. Sandra Terry of Salt Lake visited last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mel Terry and family. Mrs. Brog Hopkins and threa daughters spent the weekend in Salt Lake visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Garry Winkle and Shannon and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ashton. They also visited with Enid's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Keele and other members of the Keele family. They returned home Sunday night bringing bring-ing Shannon with them. 7.500 Read It In The CHRONICLE ANNOUNCING... OUR ANNUAL SPRING Feeder & Stocto TUESDAY, MARCH 31,1964 Plan now to consign your calves and yearlings to this special reputation sale. 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