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Show The THE AMERICAN I i HELPER JOURNAL I lasuto Evhv Thursday B THE JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY HiLPcn. CENTER Utah I OF WEST'S GREATEST COAL FIELD f 11 11 NO. BUT YOU TALK AND ACT UKE ONE, WITH ALL YOUR SOMETHING- IDEAS FOR-NOTHI- C. N. Memmott and N. Joe Tulllus PUBLISHERS NATIONAL LilAU MATE f WAY TT SOMEBODY CALLED US A COMMUNIST. fc'YA. THINK I AM? V PlttWAWOlWIU t7 nin !!! a so as to avoid the direct rays of the sun. Greasewood leaves are covered with a gum to prevent evaporation. The ocatillo conserves moisture by hedding its leaves during periods of drought. To obtain, store, and conserve water is only part of the battle. Desert animals and birds are a hungry lot. To protect against these, there has to be a defense and- - the defense is thorns, thick All bark, and obnovious odors. cacti is equipped with some variety of thorn, it is pin point sharp, and some have sawtoothed armor. The greasewood bark and leaves has a disagreeable flavor, and even the sage leaf will be eaten only by jack rabbits. The mesquite is an exception as far as its beans are concerned. They are eaten by many animals and were considered a stable diet 'by Indians until a few years a?o. If you think you are having a tough time, consider the desert plants. I J DITOR!AI fcrn ATirki PERFORMANCE COUNTS In a recent address on the European aid problem. Senator Ball of Minnesota said: "I am convinced, and the record bears me out, that a of living for all the people than either a socialistic or government-planneand controlled economy. I ibeleive that when economic freedoms are liquidated, the other freedoms are In jeopardy, and the socialists have always bad too much in common with the communists for my taste." It makes very little difference to a nation what label a dictatorship wears. The results are always the sanre. The state dominates every phase of L'fe within its borders. It buries every undertaking beneath a web of red tape and restrictive controls. It destroys the Initiative and enterprise of individuals and groups alike. It stirs up discontent by And, in the long making promises that cannot possibly be fulfilled. to run, it abrogates more and more of the nation's liberties ' keep the ruling class in power. This must be kept in mind by the American government in the development of our policy toward Europe. We, with only a fraction of the world's .population, cannot indefinitely support the world without ruining ourselves. Many seem to have forgotten that an essential of the Marshall Plan in the beginning was that Europe must do all in her free economy will always out produce and provide a higher standard power to help herself. But, so far, Europe has done very little to lift herself out of the doldrums. As an example, Senator Ball cited the failure of the British socialized coal industry to produce enough to make possible resumption of exports to Western Europe. This has made it necessary to devote much of Europe's broken-dow- n railroad system to the job of moving coal from the Ruhr a fact which Is at the heart of the European economic problem. Mr. Ball suggests that, as a condition of continued aid, we insist that Britain supply a million tons of coal a month to European parts and thus alleviate the unbearable strain on the land transportation machine. Lastly, it is up to us to show Europe, by example, that the free enterprise system has neither a superior nor an equal. The people of Europe must realize, in the face of totalitarian propaganda, that our system is the only one which Is capable of bringing a nation both material abundance and spiritual power and freedom. We can best defeat ' communism iby outperforming it. d f century. This would have been utterly impossible under a system which permitted either governmental monopoly or private monopoly. In much of the rest of the world, cartels of one kind or another, which are virtually a form of government in business, have really closed the door These cartels someto opportunity and have strangled competition. times go to amazing lengths as, for instance, in limiting the number of soft drink stands that can be operated in a given area. The result is a static economy, the death of Initiative, and a low standard of liv ing. Only a competitive economy qan save a nation from that. on who ( .m :..& mm. lived by bis wits and who was happy to point out the city's highlights for five dol- lars a day, and whiskey to keep his whistle wet and his wits sharp. Mr. Boston (what his true name was is unknown) pointed out the mills on the hills, the stamps with and a flat chest. A raeged calico blouse fell loosely about her torso, and a cotton skirt clung around her long legs. She moved apart from the others. Mr. Brown noticed that when she attenpted to put wood on the fire, another squaw shoved her away violently. Braves passed and incessant chatter, the silver jnored her. When several of the laden Wells Fargo stages, Ruhl. Indians gathered for a bit of s Essay Office, Gardiner's Liv- - sip she did not join the conversa-eras tion. vSeveral Indian boys came Stable, such residences .those of Messers John Collins, storming into camp from a frolic. and other They were about to drop rocks George Maldonadas leading citizens, the saloons, the they were carrying when they gambling houses. He was through .sighted her. They peppered her in the details of gun battles and with the rocks, She neither flinch the histories of the survivor and led nor cried out. the vanished. While illiterate, and "What's wrong with her?' ask not having exactly a nose for news ed Mr. Brown. Mr. Boston did not Mr. Boston went about his job know, hut he called out to one of with industry and zest. the braves. "What's the matter One afternoon the two were at with the squaw?" he demanded. "Him no squaw," the edge of town where miner's replied the cabins and tents ended and the brave. "Him Charlie. Him show the wickiups of the Piute Indians be white feather at Pyramid Lake." When Mr. Brown and Mr. Bos- gan. The 1'iutes were a sorry lot. were walking back to the sa ton had defeat in suffered the They Battle of Pyramid Lake against loons and gambling houses, Mr. Brown asked, "What did he mean?" "No story there." answered Mr. Boston. He just meant that at Pyr amid Lake he wouldn't fight. He was afraid. He ran away. He will have be a squaw the rest of his life." 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The reservoir of the barrel cactus has saved the lives of thirst prospectors and other desert wanderers for decades. One of the toughest fights of desert plants is against evaporation. There is no large leafed vegetation. The narrow leaves of the palo verde and the mesquite hang UttUU DUTCH PKGS L a-- CLEANSER CANS 40C 3 30t QUART 54c AEROWAX II uu CASE BCEK I in 8w 31c a 23c H ' CL0R0X L3 I Brands y We Use Crane Plumbing Fixtures helpers stitute for hand labor. Repair jobs at critical times can dc aone at once, saving expense and time- to town. losing trips ir gos-ing- upon for efficiency. ?OWE off-du- Prices Effective Fri.t Sat., January 16, 17 y UTAH UNITS IN PACIFIC gram by spreading the administra. tive workload and reducing at otherwise unavoidable time lag in mail dealing with USAFI heaj. quarters at Madison, Wisconsin. Prior to assuming duties at tie branch offices. Naval officers a0 assigned are given indoctrination in testing methods, counselling techniques and general education procedures. The Lord's Prayer is not, aj some fancy, the easiest, the most natural of all devout utterance It may 'be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learned by Maurice heart. itSANDSSiCACTUS inter-Tenin- g A NAVY SETS UP 7 EDUCATIONAL, 15, 1948 i. often-anallgne- 187 So. Main JANUARY THURSDAY, TWO dy A fundamental characteristic of the competitive economic system is that there is always room for one more the door to opportunity is never closed, and the new man and the new company are perfectly It was in the Winter of 1860, the miners several months before, free to take business away from iChe established concern if they can. What this means is that, over the years, the trend is away from when ore was running three to 'which was morale racking, and concentrations of economic power and away from anything resembling four thousand dollars a ton at Vir- added to that, their pinon forest ginia! City, Nevada, that Joseph had been cut down for firewood. monopoly. oil industry provides an Interesting example Brown, a newspaper reporter from This left them without their food The ap supply of pinon nuts. They were of this trend. In 1904, a group of companies under common ownership New York, hanging around the town for cast the and management accounted for 84.2 per cent of all the crude run to peared on off scraps of food. stills In the United States, By contrast, in 1946, no single oil opera- scene, had He One of the sorriest was a tall, tion accounted for more than 11 per cent of the run. In those to come get rawbone and squaw. Her 'bony, brown of hundreds grew earned, up through companies years, face peered out of a 'bandana service to the public, their share of the ibustness, And some of the 3tory. which! was wrapped around her Mr. Brown oil companies didn't even exist at the turn of the biggest present-dahead. It was as emotionless as the t ached himself 1 nearby boulders. Her long arms a Mr. Boston, a sagged from broad, thin shoulders A Utah Helper, PAGE Navy education service units have been established in seven overseas branches of the United States Armed Forces Institute to speed up the service and better accommodate a more than doubled .personnel percentage of Naval class room participating in and self study courses during the last year. The Navy units, each under an officer in charge, have been estab lished at USAFI branches in Tok- yo. Manila, Guam, Honolulu, heand attle (for Alaska), Balboa, San Juan. Currently about 12 per cent ot all Naval personnel participate in ltne educational program througn DftAnoiiMMco organized classes aboard ships and The road runner of Chapporral ;stationSi through self-stutexts, Cock as it is sometimes.. called' through USAFI correspondence while looking like it might weigh courses, or through correspondence five times as much., as It., does courses offered by 59 cooperating ordinarily weighs no more man a colieges an(j universities. facilities of The educational pound. It is all feathers, tail, slim USAFI are the main component legs and long bill. of the Navy's Educational Services We just can't like the man who Program, which aims at enabling goes to Donnybrook Fair, starts a all personnel to further their edriot and then comes home com- ucation at all levels in vocational, plaining that he has a cracked technical and academic fields. The head. branch offices facilitate the pro- - ROOM FOR ONE MORE bathroom? 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