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Show t THE BEAVER i PP1. BT,AVFR. UTAH i Labor Disputants Must Heed Public's Interests y v By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. ' ... SOARING IN THE SKY Ski enthusiasts flock to the nation's snow fields this winter, with resorts primed for their first big season since the war. Upper left photo shows one of the open slopes of Yosemite National park, a skijoring haven. At the upper right Is a fast action shot made at Alta, Utah. Center, an instructor demonstrates for a class at Sun Valley, Idaho. Lower left photo shows a skier doing a "galende-sprung- " off a cornice on the side of Mt. Hood, Oregon. At the lower right, Crater Lake National park, also in Oregon, affords the double thrill of excellent skiing and novel scenic effects. FULL FLIGHT Winter Sports Areas Primed For Influx of Ski Enthusiasts Features Casper mountain, nine miles from will dominate the American outdoor sports scene Skiing Casper, and Tepee lodge In the rethis winter as most of the famous ski areas of the West and mote Middlewest resume operation for the first time since Pearl are Big Horns near Sheridan also being recognized by sport fans Harbor. because of their great natural adThis winter ski fans will find old favorite lodges and cha- vantages. lets improved and in full operation again after the war, while Montana boasts of Red Lodge, elenew VVNU and interesting spots are?kmany primed for a mass recreational in- level and finishes at 7,000 vasion. feet near the head of a mile-lonAlthough most of the ski resorts ski lift. open their season In December, At the snow Is snow will be in Its best dry, pow8 20 to from feet averagdeep, dery state during January, Febru-r- y ing about 12 feet, with a temand March. perature around 24 degrees. This year the "regular run" Generous sunshine often permits of sports enthusiasts who head skiing In shorts. for the snow fields will be supFew places in America offer such plemented by a new group formarvelous skiing opportunities as mer G.I.s who learned the art Alta. famous resort in Little Cottonof skiing during the war as a wood canyon of the Wasatch mounmatter of military necessity and tains near Salt Lake City. Runs now are converting that knowlvary from a half mile to two miles edge into personal enjoyment. for all classes of slaMajor jumping and slalom tourna- lom courses and skiers, plus practice slopes. ments have been scheduled at every Brighton in nearby Big Cottonski basin from Michigan to famed mounSun Valley, Idaho, and the slopes wood canyon is a tain resort. Near here is Ecker hill, erf the Pacific Northwest. where world record leaps have been Olympics Scheduled. made by skiing stars of internationwill season of the Major attraction al fame. be the Olympic tryouts in March on Many Sports Areas. Sun Valley's Bald mountain. The Colorado's mountain majestic nationals are booked at Ishpeming, abound with winter sports ranges Mich., February sites. Among the leading skiing reSki enthusiasts will And the new sorts is Aspen, where the ski runs air age in full flight over the range in elevation from 7.900 to great frozen spaces, most of the ski feet. Roch run, the outstanding now areas being linked together for run for experts, is 9.750 feet with a the first time by fast airline serv- 2,700-foo- t drop. ice. The slalom slopes of Banff and Berthoud pass, where local interthe Canadian Rockies with almost ests are expending considerable startling suddenness have become money in development of sport fa14 ski fans cilities. Grand Mesa and Glenwood only flying hours from ia Southern California, seven hours are other Colorado spots lurfrom Salt Lake City, nine hours from Springs ing an increasing number of winter Denver. sport enthusiasts. The luxurious chalet and Long known as a dude ranch counSun at course championship try, Wyoming now is coming into hop Valley are only a seven-hou- r the forefront as a skiers' paradise in from Los Angeles. Colorado's winter. Jackson Hole in the scenic 30 winter sportlands have been Teton country just south of Yellowbrought within a mere four and stone park is among the most popuhalf hours of the Pacific coast. lar spots. InWestern Air Lines even is Skiers may drive by automoaugurating a "ski special" from bile up the Teton Iass road and Los Angeles to popular resorts. ski down numerous runs six to After serving as a naval rehabiliseven miles long with drops tation center during the war, Sun ranging from 1,000 to 3,209 feet. Valley was reopened as a resort December 21. All types of winter sports are available, including skijoring, ice skating, sleighing, dog. sledding and swimming in natural hot springs water. WASHINGTON -- Home accidents Install Ski Lifts. Four electric ski lifts serve four took a new turn here when an oyster exploded. The housewife, who was skiing areas on Dollar, Ruud, Proctor and Baldy mountains. The lift cooking the oyster in deep fat, sufon Baldy is 11.500 feet long and is fered second degree burns on the divided into three sections to carry hands and fjee in the freak accident, summit in 20 a Red Cross survey reveals skiers to the 9,200-foo- t In another unusual mishap, a man minutes. In Oregon 15 areas will be in opsuffered throat injuries when he fell with a pipe in his mouth. Doctors eration in national forests. At 63 miles from Portland, is removed a small hatpin from the found one of the nation's longest ski lung of a boy. another seasons, offering ski slopes until child swallowed a pencil clip and a The race starts at a 10.- baby suffered a frac 000-fo- g mid-wint- er ' year-aroun- d 22-2- 11,-5- WASHINGTON. Regardless of the bitterness engendered by the coal strike many real friends of labor in Washington watched the preliminaries to the opening of conless with far apprehension gress than might have been supposed. But that wasn't true of some of the labor leaders. There were several reasons for the fears of the latter. In the first place, it was no secret that a great many union members were getting decidedly fed up with the autocratic methods of some of the top dogs. Part of this may have been the general feeling that it was time for a change, which the voters registered so emphatically. Many of these voters were, of course, union men. Without labor's support the Republicans would not have made such great gains in many of the cities. I talked to one union man who expressed this skeptical attitude toward the top leadership. He said there was discontent because of "too many strikes." He didn't mean strikes in his own group, necessarily. He was referring to the fact that when other unions walked out It affected him too. He didn't like the idleness that he had experienced. He resented the raising of his dues. He felt the pressure from the higher cost of living, which he did not blame entirely on big profits. He was not immune to the argument that lack of production due to strikes for which he was not responsible was also partly to blame. His inability to control the strikes in other unions was not the only cause of his resentment. He felt that his vote In itself had very little effect; that "policy was hammered out by the big fellows." Then, too, the stories of the fine homes and the big cars of some of the high officers didn't help. I found his attitude reflected in similar reports from other sources. Most of these conditions to which my informant objected, of course, stood out at the very beginning of the coal strike with its powerful and its crippling effect on other industries. Another feeling registered by many workers was fear of a depression. They know that that would weaken the unions because many men would do as my friend said he would have to do forget the union and take any job he could get if work grew scarce. expected to initiate labor legislation, are considered too wise politically to overstep the bounds of what really amounts to common sense on this question. Neither of them would be likely to do anything they could avoid to prevent the workers or anyone else from voting Republican. Another thing which the optifeel mistic sure will happen is that there will be a careful study by congress of any measure which Is proposed unless, of course, some crisis develops which demands speed. In emergencies emotions run high and it is necessary to shift the ballast so rapidly merely to avoid capsizing, that legislators may swamp the boat trying to reach an even keeL Labor suffers most in an unstable economy. Therefore, it must have a "multiple objective," as Thur-ma- n Arnold and Walter Hamilton, contributing their "Thoughts on Labor Day" to the New Republic, last September, pointed out in these words: "It must work for a stable economy with permanent high prosperity; it must hold and advance wage rates for the sake of that permanent prosperity; it must stand firm and even take the offensive against limitation of production and the degradation of the dollar." Therefore, to succeed, "the labor movement must be a consumer's movement as well." The consumer's vested interest in labor legislation will not be overlooked by thoughtful members of congress. It was very plain that the will of the voter in the last election was expressed in the voice of the consumer. "smash-the-union- sue-cee- Must Consider Consumer In Any Negotiations One of the most searching surveys of the whole question of collective bargaining which undoubtedly has impressed our more studious legislators is a report, made two years ago by a special committee of the 20th Century fund. This report stressed the need of recognition by both labor and management of this "third party, the consumer." In that connection the committee recommended strongly "the use of economists, engineers, img partial techniques." They also suggested that "managements and unions together explore the possibilities of market-wid- e collective bargaining." This is a subject of which you will hear more before long, I imagine. The 20th Century fund study also sounded a warning which might well have shown a foreknowledge of some of the big strikes which followed, including the coal strike. It concluded with the admonition: "Unless spokesmen for Big Ownership, Big Unionism and Big Government acquire a sharper awareness of their separate and joint obligations to society all three will become like the dinosaurs which grew too big and stupid to survive. The representatives of each, sitting around the collective bargaining table, must become more consciously than ever before trustees of other people's money, skills and aspirations. It is the committee's earnest belief that this change in moral and psychological climate of collective bargaining is vital, necessary and long overdue." lhat admonition, which went unheeded, was responsible in part for the temper of the people last November. No labor legislation offered by the present congress will stand long if it "includes the lid-Jul- con-sum- COLUMNIST-COMMENTATO- Harvard Observatory Sets Centennial Long known as the western hemisphere's "Patrolman of the Harvard college ob servatory will note the 100th anni-- J at a four-daversary of In conoelebration December nection with the event, two science conventions are scheduled here. First planetarium in the world to photograph the stellar activities of the sky, the observatory was completed In IMfl. Since then it has be BOSTON. y 27-3- come the central clearing house for all astronomical information on this continent Beginning in 18M. the observatory has photographed huge sections of the sky each night. As a result it has a collection of photograph plates numbering more than 500,000, which enables astronomers to check the stellar activities which have occurred during any clear evening of the past 66 years Aged Woman Relies On Old Fire Recipe VIROQUA. WIS. -- When a chlm-ne- y Are broke out at the home of Viroqua's oldest resident, the coolest person on the scene mas the occupant, Mrs. Lucy Grubb, who will be 101 next February 15. "All you need to do is put a little salt on the Are," she told the bustling Bremen. But the firemen, who were of an. otner generation, insisted en resorting to chemicals. BARKS g . . . by Baukhage " Political note: There are a lot of u know new prospective presidents in a" abo" yw thi, the turL. ' emmtry-m- ore babies per thousand wild turke'v," co,onI"t 'hipped population than our first V 7" before 15r- Thev domcated record month of March, 1918 and later JT", S'lr 0lT,sprin w" "hipped back to All the peopie exposed to school- With our ln Piuct.CMcias. senores. ren't educated. ou can lead man to college, but you can't Chian u u b make him drink of the Pierian tator I . die war-bab- sleeves t i--: 1HNI1UII1 ! a M n CI, this . . with ,..i. the vor hnut Muuuuiat ib tat ij f'.' sweater Just single and double a-Pattern 946 has directfon m. out and 12-1- 4 est ...... j w Due to an unusually large current conditions, required in filling orders for? most popular pattern numbers Arm m ew 3? "1 & By Send .your order to: T01 s Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dew Randolph St. ChicaS0 Enclose 20 cents for pattern. 564 W. wh thi who d ha has su who Name- - Address. - 12- like She'll v CLASSIFIED if DE PARTMENT am ou like not jactivf fill non w Stop BUSINESS & INVEST. 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More than 60 winter sports areas are found in the High Sierras of a state where winter sports fans abound. Among the state's best known resorts are Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear and Big Pines, all in Southern California; Yosemite National park, and the Donner Pass region. Predict Curbs on Winter sports, however, are Autocratic Leaders not confined to the Far West. Since many of the men who folNature has endowed Minnesota, lowed this line of reasoning helped Wisconsin and upper Michigan make the Republican victory poswith the topography and weathsible, astute political leaders, with er necessary to make them their eyes on 1948. are preparing to among the best winter sports " stop the talk and areas in the nation. substitute for it the slogan "smash The "regular run" of sports enthuthe autocratic leaders and keep siasts from the Midwest will head them from smashing the union." for Wisconsin and Michigan's upper The "friends of labor" that I menpeninsula, which offers all winter tioned realize this. They are sports, including long ski runs, to- predicting that this congressfreely will boggan slides, towering ski Jumps, not produce "destructive labor ice skating and ice boating. legislation." Plan Annual Carnival. They feel that such radical moves For spectator pleasure, one of the as compulsory arbitration or rigid best winter sports programs is pregovernment control will not sented every February at the WinThey do admit they expect ter Carnival in St. Paul, Minn., many of the advantages labor has when the entire city takes on the air enjoyed under the Wagner act will of a northern Mardi Gras. be pared down. In the New England states, too, When the President said at a there Is a revival of Interest in win- White House press and radio conter sports. Special ski trains to ference that he intended to write as White mountain resorts are being strong a message as possible to the resumed this winter. congress, it was not interpreted as With expanded airline schedules r that any meaning out" and increasing use of air transportashackles would rise. Harry TruAnd if the consumer is protecttion to winter sports areas, many man's whole record in congress is ed both management and labor are fans will invade the Canadian Rockdistinctly conservative but not re- safe. ies area this winter. Most popular actionary. On the other hand, he sites there are in the Banff area and doesn't intend to approach the sub- NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS OF A Jasper National park. ject from the New Deal point of view. As I pointed out previously I will try to write and talk as in this column, he considers himmuch like a human being as self a "free man," bound by no possible. previous obligations, acting under I won't use any words on pano restraint. He could not escape per or on the air I don't use on the tenor of vote the in November the street car and I will be sure tured skull when its carriage rolled nor could he ignore the I know what the words I off a porch. gauntlet do use which John Lewis threw down. mean. The superstitiously inclined in around Looking the senate, the I will not talk or claimed new impetus for their bewrite down to my audience or un to mv liefs after a hammer, hanging on friends of labor feel they see evidence of wisdom disand enough news sources. j the rung of a ladder, fell and struck cretion to prevent any I will swallow a man on the head. snorts my and orgy even if some of the memIn another home accident, a womcoughs and wheezes until I can an was burned when she poured bers of the house may lean to exsignal the engineer to cut oir tremes. After all, most legislation melted fat into a furnace. the mike. I will read all Statistics compiled by the Red is written in conference. my mail and Although there was considerable Cross home accident survey show n answer it in person if a stamp increase in accidents and deaths this concern expressed by their respecis enclosed, or on the air or tive opponents, both Senators Taft year over 1945. no nine is other way, in and Ball, who naturally would be spirit. Cali-forni- a, If JW , noticed Reader Service cr den't ' Sod. Ma when yi l;o or ters ab V isn't w i Stop ItVT T7 an less f(jGDD questioi aside r d t about yo jets HINTS do? C Why di Phil Let Yourselves WHETHER Go can't Nancy, your party turns a grand success or a boring failure depends on your ability to keep things going. 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