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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, REAVER, UTAH Gems of Thought FRIENDSHIP is composed a single soul inhabitine tJ! bodies. Aristotle. Chance fights ever on the $u cl the prudent. Euripides. Atomic War Could Force Return to Primitive Life To manage men one ought to u im m n-ut-'i George Eliot. Men love to wonder and By EDWARD EMERINE Feature. OLD!" The magic word was VJ spoken. It was heard and repeated. Gold in Colorado for the taking. Nuggets as big as turkey eggs all over the mountains. As the story traveled, it was embellished in retelling. Overnight in 1858, "Pikes Peak or Bust" became the nation's slogan. Men of every nationality, occupation and station in life joined the Pikes Peak gold rush, one of the great mass migrations in America's history. They swarmed into the Colorado mountains, whooping it up as they went. In their wake followed farmers to settle in the fertile valleys. From Texas, across the open grasslands, were driven herds of longhorn cattle. Down south in Georgia, W. Green Russell heard about it. He organized a party of 30 or 40 miners and set out for the Pikes Peak region, hardly sleeping until he reached the banks of the South Platte and made camp. Within a month he had been Joined by 400 others and the settlement was dignified by the name Auraria, in honor of Russell's town back in Georgia. Thousands of others were on their way. A year later General Larimer crossed Cherry creek, took possession of some cabins, and named the settlement Denver City, in honor of Gen. James W. Denver, governor of Kansas. (At that time, Colorado as yet unnamed was a part of Kansas territory). Wild e days followed on that townsite. Thousands of excited people thronged the dusty streets. Soon Denver was the Mecca of the Mountains. A printing plant was brought from Omaha, and the Rocky Mountain News made its debut (1859). Soon thereafter the Herald was founded. The files of those early-da- y newspapers tell a story of lusty life in Denver, of gambling, Indian scares and promised riches for all men. The Denver scene was . WNU ,. YCX O S M C J N E.BRAfK News Analyst and Commentator. Mid-Jun- e welcomes a gathering to Washington which will deal with a subject more important to you and me than anything I can think of. !0kA lis :X r 64 fcus&gg. ". I "m'"eTX ' - fla 'A' 1 960-acr- M J , JOHN C. VIVIAN Governor of Colorado Gov. John C. Vivian was born in Golden, Colo., not far from Denver and state capital. He is a graduate of the University of Denver. His profession is law. He o" c I T'okTA. knows oradoan that. Cowmen, sheepmen, beet growers, truck gardeners, fruit growers, hay ranchers and general farmers must have water. They got it. They dug wells deep in the ground. They constructed dams in the canyons to store the melted snow; they dug canals and ditches; they irrigated the rich, thirsty soil. They homesteaded in the Great American desert and they made it bloom. The beet and potato industry around Greeley, founded by the old Union colony, is a monument to pioneers in irrigation. All along the South Platte basin, from Denver and Fort Collins to Sterling and Julesburg, is a mighty agricultural empire. The Arkansas river waters developed a famed valley that produces beets, melons, fruit and garden truck for the naCanon tion. From City through Rocky Ford to Lamar and the Kansas line is another agricultural wonder brought about by irrigation. The meeting is described as an "institute on the control of atomic e n e r g y." A t about the same time, the United Nations Commission on Atomic Energy will be meeting too. At the "institute" in Washington, authorities will explain Just what effect atomic energy can have on your life if you are one of those who aren't going to be destroyed by it. I was going to say "one of the lucky ones," but you won't be lucky, if atomic warfare starts, even if you are among those whose lives are spared. We have all heard a lot of dire prophecies about what the atom bomb can do, if it once gets on the loose. Also, what wonders atomic energy can perform in building a better world, if it is confined to peaceful and productive activity. But by far the most impressive footnote on the subject came to me in the repeated words of a scientist speaking not scientifically, or for quotation, but very intimately of his own private thoughts, and his own personal plans. He has lectured a great deal on the subject of atomic energy, and is one of those intimately concerned with its development. Suddenly, one day he realized that he had better make some personal plans to prepare for the future in this atomic age of which he had spoken so much. His work is near one of the several prime targets of any enemy bombs that would be dropped. In between the rivers, the farms and ranches now produce wheat, corn, hay, beans, potatoes and other crops. Thousands of head of sheep and cat- No Refuge tle are grown and dairying is statewide. The Western Slope, the From A'Bomb San Luis valley, and all mountainSo he began to consider. Should ous areas below timberline are he try to get transferred to some havens for farms, ranches and orsmaller institution, located in a litchards. I peaks often tle town? That, he considered, look down on blossoms in the valwould not help much. He has a ley below. but he is not a farmer. Should With raw materials near at farm, he move onto the farm immediately, indus& hand, Colorado progressed learn as much as he could about trially too. Mills were built to procand plan to live there ess the ores. Steel plants grew up farming, would be comparatively he where at Pueblo, the Pittsburgh of the safe? The farm is far from any large city, tucked in the hills. Then he started planning. He would have to learn a lot more than farming. He would have to learn to card wool, for inAt Brighton. Colorado is a leading proSUGAR BEET FACTORY stance; his wife would have to ducer of sugar, made from sugar beets. learn to spin, to weave, to make soap, to fabricate all the things ed a hundred times. Boom towns know. Many veins have been mereyou buy in stores. grew overnight at Cripple Creek. ly tapped and new ones are conwould have to lay in tools, He Leadville. Central City, Creede and stantly being discovered. In spite and enough other supplies to last 4: of all obstacles Coloradoans have scores of other places. Prospectors him the rest of his lifetime. clambered over the hills. Nuggets dug and blasted three billion doWell, perhaps all that could be were found. Rich veins of ore were llars' worth of precious and indusdone. Then he realized that even There were millionuncovered. trial metals from the granite wareat that, he wouldn't be safe. He aires created Winfield Scott Strat-tohouses within its borders. More would have to build barbed wire enH. A. W. Tabor (of "Silver Dothan 2.r)0 minerals have been dis. i tanglements, and obtain machine llar" fame) and others. Men bluscovered within the state, between ex35 50 guns and other weapons with which now and of and them tered, gambled, drank, fought being to defend himself for with the died during the score of years that tracted for market. Colorado is followed. first among the states in vanadium refugees who escaped, starving, the cities, the few who had But slowly the truth about Colo- and uranium, third in gold, fourth .4 from food would be at the mercy of the rado emerged. The facts were not in tungsten, fifth in silver, sixth in hungry mobs. all pleasant ones. The territory was lead, seventh in copper and fif-If I had heard those statements there was no teenth in zinc. It leads the world in incredibly rich VTi V'fc,'w-L from a lecture platform, or read doubt of that. There were great molybdenum production. These Coloradoans probed and them In a magazine, I might have stores of silver and gold. There were rich and fertile soils. There blasted and swore, as they went passed them by as sensationalism. But the statements weren't in a were other resources lumber, deeper and deeper into the granr ite treasure chest. In 1862, A. M. coal, building stone and a marvelmagazine, or spoken from a platform. ous climate. There was deep snow Cassedy drilled in a canyon near They were said over the Snow Mass Lake and Hagger-ma- n and struck oil, after in the mountains, but there was Florence luncheon table in the quiet corner near Glenwood Teak, of a club. little rainfall on the plains. The petroleum had been found bubbling The speaker wasn't Springs. nuggets were soon picked up. The on the surface of Oil creek. They trying to "sell" his ideas to any"free" gold was gone and hard-roc- k found Colorado shales containing body. He wasn't trying to persuade mining had come to stay. Gold enough recoverable oil to equal Rockies. Colorado has foundries, anybody to do anything, or to get and silver wre buried deep in the present production for 50 years. brick kilns, canning plants, sugar publicity. He was thinking out loud granite, defying quick wealth. Men The recently opened Rangely oil factories, food processing plants, about what he considered an acute who had sought a soft and easy life field on the western slope is the creameries, cheese factories and personal problem. scores of other manufacturing were confronted with stark reality. most sensational find in years. NaIn the end it left him baffled. Colorado was no Garden of Eden. tural gas was discovered over a plants. Colorado's granite, marble, There is no defense. They would have to work and work wide area, and helium gas struck limestone, sandstone and lavas are The only hope is to make the known to builders the world hard for whatever they got. And in Las Animas county. Nations work. United of the good around. Sawmills still flourish near Beneath the surface they couldn't live on fresh air and I heard this story, and was moved its great forests. earth they found coal, too mountain scenery. it. I was already pretty well by to of for its riches it Colorado last the nation man tightclasped Colorado weighed each enough stirred up, because I had among them to find his worth. 700 years! Colorado ranks first ly to its bosom and said, "you can learned of what deep concern just this coal in if states the them them." deserve it have to be and reserves, you work among was done, There is to more than three question women of in The men of weakSan them and Colorado Juan the most to do it. The basin, took strong men who wrote me, Moffat county, all along the Utah accepted the challenge. They con- thousand people the mislings, the for a pamphlet I had menasking and under and the the mountains border "eliminated. extending plains. were quered fits They departtioned in one of my broadcasts. ed with a curse on their lips and foothills on the eastern slope from They built cities and factories and That Is an story, too, hatred in their hearts. Those with the Wyoming border to New Mex- schools. They blasted highways out that I want tointeresting pass on. made it of solid ico. vision and They easy granite. courage, strength, hope One day, I received a little pamwere for tners to "Come The Colorado plainsmen L'p to Coul stayed. among the several bushels of phlet First, the miners set to work. sifted, too, and the unfit were Colorado," where the sublimity of handout material which is the grist Lee out the and Katherine blown sent starved of Rockies xtent out, the know inspired They did not the of the publicity mills dumped on mineral reserves in the Colorado back home. Where there is life Bates to write "America press and radio desks all over the and they still don't there must be water every Col- - Beautiful." Rockies country every day. t- served as lieutenant from 1936 to 1942. governor Snow-cappe- d "4 .Oct, ... n EST b Si ... Sir- - '.v m&4 -- ne'er-do-well- ( BARBS v 4 : which I'eak, the monarch watches over the plains. Requests began to arrive, so I called up the National Committee on Atomic Information which is near the Washington office of the Western Newspaper Union; ordered the pamphlets; and had the nerve to ask the committee to mail them out. I didn't know it then, but it costs the committee, which is, of course, a organization and skimps along on a handful of small cash donations, four cents for the pamphlet, a cent and a half for the stamp, two cents to address the envelope, another cent to insert, seal and mail! Eight and a half cents, My generous gesture altogether. toward preserving civilization had turned out to be rather lame. But that was only the beginning. An avalanche began to descend on me. At last count the requests reached over three thousand. The committee didn't know what to do. The letters came from such an intelligent and earnest set of people who were so anxious to do something that the committee hated to disappoint them. Twice, I begged the public to hold off, but the committee is still filling the requests while its funds hold out, or more donations come in. Which is what happens when you get an atom by the tail. non-prof- it Questions Popularity Of Rail Nationalization just after the bulletin came in over the news ticker in my office announcing that the government intended to take over the railroads, a railroad man happened to call me up about another matter. I congratulated him on his new job with Uncle Sam. He wasn't He speculated very enthusiastic. on whether or not the men would go back to work if the government ordered them to do so. The miners, you recall, refused to obey government orders when the government took over the soft coal mines during the war. "Everybody ought to go on strike in the country," he said. "If it gets bad enough, it may get better." We mentioned the possibility of permanent government ownership of the railroads. My friend reminisced a little on the days when he was an employee of Uncle Sam once before, in World War I, when the government did (to its sorrow) take He said what happened then was that a man would come up to the ticket window and demand a drawing room. Sorry, there were no more drawing rooms. Well, do you know who you're working for, and who I am? I'm Senator Claghorn, and you'll (something-something- ) well, get the passenger out of that drawing room, and put me in it! My friend said he didn't think the people would like it if the government took over. Of course, we don't like the now, either. Time and again, every Pullman seat or berth will be reserved by the blackmarketeers. They hold them up to the last minute, and if they can't sell at a premium, they cancel, just before the train leaves, half empty. The Chesapeake and Ohio ran an advertisement recently, begging the public to refuse to pay the premium, and help get a regulation through which will e for cancellation of reservations within a reasonable time. pro-vid- Rochefoucauld. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. SINCE 1917 AEEPIMON am MISCELLANEOUS WE BUY AND SELL Office Furniture. Files, Typewriter Adj. JViacnuies, mg ojiea, u&n xtegisieri. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE IS West Broadway, Salt Lake City, I'm. POULTRY, CmCKS & EQUIP, U. S. APPROVED blood tmi cmcks, 14 Dreed. Writ for talt priea to CtttnUt largest hatchery. Colorado Hatcbwy Get O'Sutfivan SOLES as Dwnr.Cdi, well ts Heels next time you have your shoes repaired. 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Herbert MORE MILEAGE The Twentieth Ccntnrv f.m j. that 80 per cent of the fur goods industry is located in New York ls the rest of the country good-fur- tees myself. But a radio commentator iias an advantage his can't tell whether he can spull that science'- -. Public Interested In Prevention by a.fli-enc- L This pamphlet caught my eye and held It. It was a reprint from Look magazine entitled "Your Last Chance." You may have seen it. It moved me so much that I just couldn't help talking about it on the air, and offering to pay for the first 500 pamphlets requested, providing a stamp was enclosed. I limited the requests to people insurin the following categories: ance men, salesmen, real estate men, teachers, clergymen, mechanics, utilities workers, scientists and merchants. I did this, first, because I wanted to limit the number of applicants, and second, because the article contained specific instructions as to what the people in the groups named could do to help prevent a cataclysmic war. I blandly overlooked the fact that somebody had to address envelopes, insert the pamphlets, mail them out. As long as America has the heart to attend spelling bees and county "sings," we can't be quite as badly oft as some cf our neighbors stem to think. I I'ikes is the seed of our By BAUKIIAGE A ha sheath n-- - nothing? mar. Imp.rit.ea that, II and opn Ktano the ejrateoi maehinary. hieka :,,, Symptom nay be of aiSH, paralateot headache, attarke F e.ttiDi up nlghte, ewellint. ?' JLf feelml ndar to ay- eaaalety and Ion of PP or "Lid Other eine ot kidney burninc order are ometlm loo frequent urination. .t.,DroB'' no There abould be doubt tfieip t treatment ia wiaer than bee" mcit Voan t Pill. 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