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Show Thursday. December THE LEADER. Tremontoa. Utah 16. 1954 toonirjG IDEID ML IS A ID IB IR SERVING THE BEAR RIVER Published by the LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. on Thursday afternoon, for Friday Distribution SUBSCRIPTION RATES CorV fcy Or VALLEY 43.00 (In advance) The Tragedy per year Of Socialism Entered at the post office at Trenonton, Utah aa Second Cla matter October 15, 1925 under aa of March 3, 1879. A. N. RATTING. Millions of the world's people have accepted the proposition: "You can get something for nothing." Logic science, theology and even the simplest human intuitions and biological reflexes reject the proposition as false. Yet in the span of 35 years the promise of something for nothing The nation's highways have become more a symbol of has brought about the enslavedeath and tragedy than have the battlefields of war, accord- ment of nearly half the people ing to research brief issued by Utah Foundation, the private on earth. ' tax research organization. And it has made serious inMore Americans have been killed in traffic accidents roads upon the moral and intelthan have lost their lives in all the wars, battles, skirmishes, lectual strength of every natand police actions from the time of the American Revolution ion outside the Iron Curtain, down to the recent Korean Conflict, the item continues. including our own. Editor-Publish- er " Nations Hightvays Noiv A Symbol of Death - non-profi- t, Utah Foundation points out that if present trends in Utah, one out of every 53 children born in the State can expect to meet his or her death in a traffic accident Moreover, one out of every two children born this year will probably be injured in a traffic accident sometime during his life. Utah Foundation issues the grim prediction that 445 of the 24,147 children born in Utah last year will become traffic fatalities. The Foundation reports that recent experiences in Pennsylvania and New Jersey indicate that modern engineering and technology in themselves are no subsitute for safe driving and the rigid enforcement of the traffic laws in solving the growing highway accident problem. The 1953 expericince in Pennsylvania shows that the death rate on the famed Pennsylvania Turnpike was nearly' 50 greater than the fatality rate on the other Pennsylvania roads, the report notes. New Jersey had almost the same experience with respect to its New Jersey Turnpike prior to the adoption of rid-ihighway enforcement program. With the more determined enforcement of traffic laws last year, the death rate on the New Jersey Turnpike dropped 6.1 fatalities per hundrer million vehicle miles in 1952 to 4.1 in 1953 the same rate as for other state highways during the year. Foundation analysts conclude by stating: "There is a growing recognition that the human factor is the chief cause of nearly all traffic accidents. While high way engineering can contribute greatly to the improvement of driving conditions, the man behind the wheel still remains the primary factor in reducing the death and injury toll from motor vehicle accidents. In the final analysis safe drivers make safe highways." By Dr. Carlton Culmsee Just two centuries ago Printer Ben Franklin wanted some jealous colonies to team up to save their scalps and and chop a future out of the forests. Since then the cooperation idea has blossomed until it is world-wide- . , and tools of is one instruments the only Cooperation that make the human race stronger than it used to be. Atomic energy is another, which will make cooperation a thousand times as effective as before. Ezra Taft Bensen said recently that it may touch off agriculture's "most revolutionary development of all time," through mutations and other livestock breeding advances, increase and speedup of ' crop yields, improved marketing and preservation. the Land-gran- t Americas greatest cooperative . . can make such . in the farmer with Colleges partnership dreams realities through research and extension. New Year's Challenge So, with the New Year throwing a challenge at us, we can't help but ask ourslves, "Are we making the most out of our advantages? Are we making as much of them as the pioneers would have done?" Not so long ago the noted architect and planner Neut tra praised the creative vigor, the spiritual force of our forefathers. But he thinks we seem inclined to recline on their laurels. He may be about 51 percent right. There's a definite feeling that those pioneers were some sort of supermen, or that they had virgin opportunities that handed them a long headstart. In either case we often find a comforting excuse for not doing as much as they did although we have a thousand times as much "muscle" to do it with, in a mechanical sense at least. Tired Old Folks? Have we got soft or sluggish, or is there the "spiritual vacuum" that Toynbee said was our modern disiese? To hear some people talk, you'd think we are all tired old folks in a tired old land. Actually we are still in the pioneer period. In many ways we have just scratched the surface. The swift rise of the steel and manufacturing industries and the uranium boon are portents oX things to come. Many folks gaze fondly back at the 47'ers and envy their lustrous names. But if w can bestir ourselves rouse our creative energies we ought to outdo them a dozen ways, because we have far better tools in our hands. There's not a doubt in the world of this: The Westerner of 2000 A.D.will look back on us as pioneers. That is, he will if we handle ourselves right. In the year 2000, some tall proud peaks will loom out of the mellow haze that will lie on this epoch. They will be the men who had the vision and the to do themselves for and with their the something neighbors ... An Afterthought "I felt so good this morning." an wrote in his journal, "I felt like I could kick the mountains around like footballs." He felt just that way. But we are getting ourselves into a position so that we actually can move mountains if we can 'have the spirit that he had. Pres. Eisenhower has urged a spiritual rebirth. Why don't we start right now to make sure that ours are the names inscribed in letters of gold on the roll of the real builders? Utah and humanity will be all the better for our old-time- efforts. . r standards. The socialist age, if it cornea about, will not free the energies of man from physical work, but will compel him to work harder for a lower standard of living; and instead of being liberated for the pursuits of the arts and sciences he will find his life planned, ordered, regulated and controlled to an extent which will kill any flowering of the spirit. What was thought to be a vision turns out to be a nightmare." Slow Dawning The slow dawning of these true and vitally important facts, in the mind of Ivor Thomas, Laborite, as he worked to install Socialism in Great Britain, will be detailed in subsequent columns. His awakening may prove to to be valuable to America but futile for England. For despite a government change in 1951, Socialism had by then so crippled private initative, incentive Core of Socialism and enterprise it hasn't yet been When we get down to brass and the overturned, tacks the promise of something are expected to politicans for nothing is both the core and to power in the next return the substance of Socialism election. all hues and forms and degrees of Socialism. It led a majority of British ATTEND BEET citizens to choose a Socialist GROWERS MEET government in 1945, and it kept Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Waldron Russia's millions docile and exhome Friday from returned pectant while Lenin and his Denver where little band of cutthroat revolu- convention of they attended the the National Beet tionaries took over and estab Growers. lished the Soviet dictatorship in Labor-Sociali- 1917. It d Our Names Can be There Too And Furthermore "The socialist age if it comes about, will not be an age of superior morality, but will lead to a general lowering of ethical is a tool which political demagogues have used through out history to become tyrants and gain control of people. st OA Humn J, BY ,3s CLINT Born, JBUBBtll Lead, Kindly Light A to write a melody composer dodges London traffic wmpsiek. stricken with fever and depressed, The Rev. John Bacchus Dykes could compose a melody in a thunder storm. Of the 300 hymn-tunto his credit many were written in crowded railway stations and on trains. It is saidin that the he wrote some of his best compositions sermons. his to deliver while waiting pulpit So neither the rumbling carriages nor clattering hordes of shoppers interrupted his thoughts as he hurried along the streets of London. Composer Dykes was running through his mind a poem he had read in an old March, 1834, issue of "The British Magazine." The lines were and under the title "Faith Heavenly Leadings" had been written in June, 1831, by a disturbed Protestant minister named John Henry Newman. Newman had vigorously criticized the Roman church. Then he pondered leaving the Protestant faith for the church he had denounced. had shatBy the time he was 30 the indecisionto Italy for tered his health and he took a. trip rest. Newman waited three weeks for a return boat to his native England.' When he finally got Mediterranean. passage his ship stopped in the and not a masts The sails hung limp on the the With prospect week. breeze stirred for a conand illness to his added of starving at sea, poem. fused mind, Newman wrote his prayer used as a He had no thought of its ever being Twelve docked. hymn. Two weeks later the ship his mind. He made up Newman years later went to the Roman Church. reached his By the time John Bacchus Dykes tune to an the 1865, in study that August day And Cardinal immortal hymn had been born.insisted John Henry Newman always while that it walking was the tune Dykes composed of London that made section busiest the through popular his words. es I tead, kindly light amid th' encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and Lead Thou me on! I am far from home; still So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it Will lead me on O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone. 1 I day, And, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will, Remember not past years. Keep Thou my feet; do not ask to see The distant scene; One step enough for me. I "loved the garish And with the morn Those angel faces smile, Which I have loved long since, And lost a while. was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on; loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead Thou me on! SIP 1 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woodward spent Sunday in Logan with the Kenneth Scoopmires. British "Experiment" A good example of the lure of "something for nothing" and its results are given using the British "experiment". Prior to 1945 the British Socialists who controlled the Labor Party called themselves humanitarians, not Socialists. They didn't speak of Socialism; they spoke of a"Welfare State." Taking from the successful people, through various governmental manipulations, and giving to the less successful that was the core of the social philosophy and operational t program of the politicians who labeled themselves variously as reformers, liberals, progressives, humaniso-call- Labor-Socialis- tarians. Sold to People One of the most idealistic and hopeful of the Labor Party leaders when the proposition of "something for nothing" was sold to a majority of England's voters in 1945 was Ivor Thomas, Labor Party member of Parliament. After the government took over he began to see the true aspects of Socialism in practice. Deeply alarmed, he wrote a book. The Socialist Tragedy, (McMillan Company, New York). It is one of the truly important books of our times. Gift Horse On the Oklahoma farm where I learned some basic truths, as a bov., mv riaH nsprl inv tav t "Always look a gift horse in the mouth," thus reversing the old saw. lie meant that a close examination of "something for nothing" always is in order. By looking a horse ' in the mouth" you determine his age and old horses eat more than they are worth; they become "nothing for something." In the more elegant language of statecraft, but quite clearly nevertheless, Ivor Thomas writes about the realities of Socialunfs promise of ."something for nothing." Labor-Sociali- A& j WAV Si I st Picture on Illusion "We have now seen enough of socialism in practice," he writes, "to know that t.1 picture is rn illusion." Then he warns: "TW socialist age, if it comes about. will not bring an end to oppress sion of man by man, of ;lass by class, and of nation by nation, but will substitute new, oppressors for old. man for man, class for class, nation for nation. "The socialist age, if it comes about, will not place greater economic resources in the hands of man, but will reduce the wealth of nations well below its present level, and perhaps take us back to the material poverty of the middle ages." 1 lilt "w .sx iW.W.AS:n,.,j' wdf'fflW-'-- II .. L TiiTaff LOVING CARE IS NEEQED WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING, TOO There are so many ways to express your love for a child amuse him, caress him, understand him, protect him . . . and drive well, with care. Why? Because more children 1 to 14 y ears old are killed as a result of motor vehicle accidents than by polio, heart disease, cancer, tuberculosis, or any of the most dreaded childhood diseases! Driving well isn't easy. But it is so terribly im- yourself behind the wheel. It's so important to be-- not just a good driver but an expert. portant. An official public tcrvic muogt prepared by Tht Advtrtiting Council in cooperation with tht National Softly Council So, if only for this reason, take a fresh look at A GOOD PARENT IS A GOOD DRIVFP Contributed as a public service by THE LEADER |