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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, FRIDAY, MARH Scatter Press ITAfl STATE ffl& ASSiCUM and the N. E. A. C. 8. WILKINSON, Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY SUIJSCIUI'XION HATES Year, 2.50; 6 Mo. $1.25; 3 (PAY A ISLE IN ADVANCE) iMo. 75c. A First Class Publication Entered In the Post Office in Beaver, Utah, as Second Class Mail Matter, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Phone 24 Advertising rates quoted when requested. into the deadlock from which a "new deal" temporarily delivered us, and it looks as if they might succeed. After all, you know "people are funny" and forget very soon. So far as we know' the opposition is offering nothing Just a continuation of the old game of "free enterprise" that we played out and right up to the brink of revolution in the early nineteen hundred and thirties. We seem to fad utterly to grasp the fact that the old game is pkyed out, and that there is no way to turn the hands of time backwards. We see nothing but disaster ahead, for there is a far more sinister gang organizing under ground in this country than we have ever had to deal with in the past history of America. If you want more information pn some of the plavers who are being groomed for this new phase of the national game o! "free enterprise" take time out to read John Roy Carlson's hook "Under Cover," and you will begin to realize the mess we arc in. True delicacy, that most beautiful heartleaf of humanity, Ilowitt. exhibits itself most significantly in little things.--Ma- ry GASOLINE IS AMUNITION RED CROSS A BEACON OF HOPE Through the darkness which has fallen upon our land, the Red Cross shines out like a beacon of hope whose lit fill .shafts (f light probe the sky. In every city, town and village American homes have been touched with sorrow. Walk down any street and you will sense this by the number of stars in windows, each representing a member of the family who is off to war. He may be in s vimr camp preparing for combat; or overseas poised for civfrom miles or "greater than Waterloo or Gettysburg ;" ilization keeping the supply lines open; or actually focing the enemy under lire in the midst of all the horrors of a battle at sea or on land. He may be a casualty in an evacuation or base hospital, or he may be a prisoner of war. Or, he may be dead. For each star there are many aching hearts at home. Is there a soldier's mother who does not pray for a"n opportunity to be at her boy's side to advise him, cheer him, comfort him, and with tender hands, smooth his furrowed brow? For these anxious mothers there is a source of great comfort in the thought that though they can not go to their boys, the Red Cross can. Red Cross work overseas is mothers' work. American be-'i.v- bat-tie- "J 17, 1944 1 OVEHLMID m LNS 1 Operated hy INTERSTATE TRANSIT LINES - CONSERVE IT! Americans in all walks of life dislike meddling. They dislike sticking their nose into other people's business, and heartily resent anyone's interfering with their own. BUT in times ot war, some of our most treasured principles must be tossed out of the window. Our own personal likes and dislikes must be forgotten and a broader, more inclusive view must be taken. For example, a few years ago it didn't make a bit of diherence to us whether John Doe got ten gallons of gasoline at a time or not. Twday it is of vital importance to us. If John Doe has an "A" book, yet can drive to California, we want to know how come. What John Doe does has suddenly become our business. Like it or not, there it is. Maybe we'll report him to the proper authorities, waybe not, but the fact remains, what John Doe does in time of war IS our business. Lt. Col. A. E. R. I'eterka, chief of material production, e army air forces, remarked, "We don't have enough half In have will to a our we month enough." fly only planes. gas Does this mean that half of the aircraft now being manufactured will sit idly on the runways awaiting gasoline to give it wings.' low else can his words be interpreted. If 40 percent of ALL the gasoline produced west of the Rockies is going to war, a e attack upon Japan will certainly cut our gas supply. The picture is certainly clear. So, if John Doe is vacationing on a book af "A" stamps, he must be doing it on my gasoline or yours. How's he getting it: Perhaps by buying stolen or lost stamps, perhaps by some scheme of his own, but no matter how, he is taking it from you and me. We may not like to interfere with John Doe, but when he plays us for a sucker, our Irish is up. How are we going to stop him. Easily. We're going to see to it that all our gasoline coupons are endorsed the minute we get them. If our planes fail to fly because of lack of gasoline, it isn't going to be because WE failed to cooperate. If war workers haven't enough gas to drive to work, our hands are going to be clean. If gasoline rations are cut, it won't be because we played the black market. If John Doe is gypping us, we're going to light back! This is one time we're going to stick our nose into somebody else's business (ifadimsL Bull JaovslL fflfickna Through our connect! 3ns with chance to talk it out with someone when worried; a friendly smile when one is lying wounded in an evacuation when all one's personal posseshospital; a Red Cross sions have been lost on the battlefield; a hot drink and doughnuts in the cold, grey morning when one has returned from a bombing mission. Little things? Yes, but to the jighting men! The Red Cross performs these serv ices and many more in overseas clubs, on the battlefields, and in the military and naval hospitals. To those of us who watch and wait and do our bit at home, the Red Cross is indeed a beacon of hope and relief. Our evidence of faith in this work is necessary for the morale of our lighting men. The best evidence of that faith is the little Red Cross in our windows marked "1944 War Fund" as a compan ion piece to the little blue star on the field of white. Lynn McKinlay A kit-ba- g how-importa- nerve-wrackin- g d Lines, 70,496 miles of highways and 3,836 additional buses are made directly available to the traveling public. high-octan- Overland Greyhound Lines are operated by the same companies who for 14 years have carried more traffic ovei the historic Overland Route from Chicago to the west coast than any other bus line. Ask your ticket agent for details. I full-scal- In other hands, And done for her. Grey-houn- BEAVER DRUG CO. Telephone No. 1 HEAVER CITY, UTAH OVERLAND LN5 Operated by ! mMmmmSM lltilKilAlt IKANill lint Whenever education and refinement grow away from the A recent government order limper pound in approximately common people, they are growing toward selfishness, which is pound bags, 16c per pound in rotenone its root evil the of Reecher. monster the world II. W. strength ground Culture is properly described not as having its origin in to pound bags, 18c in to 2 percent for cattle grub use, and the love of perfection: it is a study of perfection. Matthew : three-poin 20c per pound said Dr. George F. Knowiton, enEVOLUTION OF PUBLIC WELFARE NOW Arnold. packages. A CHRISTIAN PRACTICE tomologist of the Utah State AgriFresh material from any re cultural College Extension Serv- table dealer should give good AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE Last week's Life Magazine carried a fine article on what ice. The strength for dust to ap- trol. In purchasing this dus! be called Evolution of Public Welfare. Wonderful promight backs to of cattle. Two to will be necessary for the ply In considering the subject of "American Free Enterprise" has been made because of the leavening influence of the three ounces per animal, per treat- chaser to file a certificate as to gress in it than the is the it perhaps best to discuss present past rather of Christianity. One of the pictures showed the male ment, should suffice. The con- use intended for this dust (as tense. It will smell better. It is an exciting and intoxicating spirit of a poor house of 1875 lined up and being marched sumers prices would be about 15c quired by F.P.O. 13). inmates pastime for those who have found the breaks and mounted the to their midday meal, under guard. It looked much like a line pinacle of success in the financial world, and have been able to of prisoners of war before a barbarous enemy. Another elude the "sharks" of high finance which are ever in the wake up showed how homeless families with no place to go, picture of smaller fish, and sooner or later nearly always overtake them. were herded into police stations to sleep together on bare Other countries besides America, or even England, believe As the year 1800 was ending it was not considered in "free enterprise" and "free hunting" by those who own and planks. that public welfare should include the sick, the poor, the uncontrol the estates. Oh, yes! Germany believes in free enterthe lame and the blind. Only the welfare of the well employed, prise, and plenty of it! So did Italy before she lost her identity. to do was worth considering. Slowly and painfullv Public And Japan! Why Japan's mania for free enterprise amounted Welfare has to be the humanitarian and Christian thing grown to an outright obcession. In fact Japan might be accredited that it is People may thank God that they have men with the invention of modern "free enterprise" even far beyond at the helmtoday. believed that Jesus meant for government to who her own borders in Manchuria, China, Burma and the entire take him into its counsels and practices. Progressive Opinion Central and South Pacific. Free Enterprise is a great game if ! don't weaken you Sometimes words followed by deeds bespeak of the simple The game of "free enterprise" is played according to the of man. grandeur Harry E. Burroughs. same formula and rules as the game of "monopoly" which you dice. and all have probably played with cards, synthetic money The dice represent the "breaks" (good or bad) in the game of THE LESSON OF THE CRATE "free enterprise" as does also the "take a chance" pile. The By Edgar A. Guest sundry phases of investments, taxes, rentals, and even "jail" It seemed an unimportant task, too trifling for a chief to ask, are all faithfully portrayed and are potent factors in determinof both games. A little thing, nor could he see, the need to do it ing the onto-niAll BONDS mean the future of thoroughly; The game of Monopoly (played with cards) starts out very lie fancied none could ever tell whether he did it very well' America and the future of your similar to the game of Free Enterprise in a new country and unOr slighted it, yet, truth to say, on him depended much that ! These bonds are backed by the United baby der a new "democratic" government. Everybody has a little day. States is trouis little government, the best security in the plenty of public domain, and there 'Poticy, th'Tc world! They can mean a better life, a finer ble in finding free or reasonable lodgings. And so everything He was to nail a wooden crate. Xo chance in that for splendor great ; education for your child goes round and around quite merrily. and freedom Hut then some one "lights" on a piece of desirable property Xo chance to improve his gift of skill, a thankless post was his from post-wworries for you. Make' this and buy-- ; it in, chiefly because the "dice" put him there. Then to fill ; best of all investments regularly for your other advantages accrue for various players, while others meet Well nailed or not, 'twould be the same, the world would for family Victory! with never know his name; j k y of a minor nature at first, but multiply-in;- : - the game progresses. At the end of a long and ircre,'-;n- g Full information will be cheerfully furnHe did not see or understand, just what was passing 'neath and exciting evening, the game of Monopoly nearly always ends hand-Twith one or two plavers holding all the stakes, and the others his hat ished by this bank; local headquarters for mt of the game or depending upon the cith'T en iwd.'d rnpn as that wooden crate was nailed, a plan succeeded or Government Securities. it failed ; generoMt v o! 't :i? i; ives" to loan them capital to continue. The game of Er e Enterprise is a very faithful counterpart That miles away men stood in wait, depending on that sim of the parlor game of Monopoly, except that the game takes ple crate, r two years to play it out to its ultimate For not a wheel could turn or driv e, until it safelv did arrive. a much as a hundn conclusion, and practicallv alwavs ends up in revolution, .and OF MILFORD STATE DANK He drove his nails, and let it go. thinking that none would the of new version of the same old game with a MEMI5FK FEDERAL DEPOSIT IXSUKAXCK COIU'OKATIOS of plavers. or a "New Deal," which breaks the deadlock ev er know. for a few vears, and prolongs the interval between revolutions, Whose hand had held the hammer there, or, knowing it, would ever care, but does not snlvc'the inherent defects of the game or eliminate Yet in a few brief days there came the news that burned his of the Minersville the seeds of death and destruction with which the game is loadhigh school attendance records yoinctiir ed. lhcau.se of the carefully developed averice and dishonesty cheeks with shame 500 the passed mark. ' !; "Broken in transit and we stay facing another month's delav." p!.i cr.s. thiough centuries of training along these lines, he Beaver High has accommodations for as manv as' ('called the profit motive) they are never satisfied with a deal students, and the building is substantial, attractively plan Vain is the skill of workmen great; unless the boy that makes It that makes any approach to fairness and equality. The dealer presents a most pleasing appearance. the crate must have the cards marked and the dice loaded, and "fix" it so The decrease in attendance since the war, is due to t'ic Shall give his best to driving nails, the work of all the others that that the big boys get all the breaks, or they arc out with everymany families have moved away to engage in war w fails. thing they have to get his scalp. tries, or to enter the service. The h,ss of population, of c,,ur And that is where we have reached in the current "free There is no unimportant task; whatever duty life may ask, is a temporary condition which will be rectified when the On it depends the greater plan there is no unimportant man! ice men enterprise" game in America. The name, of course, is a misreturn, and we will have to make to cnipl".v nomer invented as a "come-alongfor the dupes who continue retain as many of them as possible. We willplans have need then risk to their all on the crooked game, in which the Congress all the facilities and accommodations that AT ATTENDANCE HIGH SCHOOL the schools aff'rlplays a leading- role, and stultifies and blocks the unpopular atto deal a fair hand to all. The present year at' the Beaver High School, 317 students tempt True dignity abides with him alone ' Where we go from here, is anybody's guess. Money, av- in the 7th to 12th grades, inclusive, have registered for instrucho,in the silent hour of inward thought, erice, crooked politics and a subsidized press have been coop- tion, as against 306 for the previous school year. In 1938, the ( an still suspect, and still revere himself, for six or erating eight years now to stampede the people back records show a registration of 356, and before the establishment In lowliness of six-pou- A FUTURE for Young America! (9?) . ar i, I i a- ( BEAVER CITY BRANCH - new-lineu- 1 " - heart. Wadsworth. |