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Show , i j. I. THE PUBLIC PULSE They Just Sound Like Busy Bees 'V. i - - i . ,. ' i V- i '!.- The Public Has Little Faith In the Public The only daily newspaper devoted to the progress and its people of Central Utah and 'advancemen -- SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1958 By ELMO ROPER land ASSOCIATES once ' a rigorous American ideal governing many areas of life, has been relegated to that part of the cellar devoted Needed : Support, Not Excuses i Com-njer- ce , -- 3. Chamber of Commerce." This can- ' not be true. If you have chosen to make Provo your home town . . . the place for your business or profession, you must have faith in the community. You expect general progress to react favorably upon your business. The Chamber of that Commerce helps bring ress about. fori several years A prog- i Space will not permit recital of the many other excuses. True, there are some legitimate reasons for rejection of membership. One -- i reputable Provo man stated simply that he believed in the Chamber of Commerce and. looked forward to joining next year, but that peculiar circumstances (which he related) simply made it financially impossible to join this year. It was obvious he was sincere. But by and large, any business or professional man who is established-in a city an afford the few dollars it takes to invest in a Chamber' of Commerce membership. It isn't too late to join for 1958. iThe Chamber of. Commerce needs you and you need the Chamber. By itself, the amount of your own membership won't accomplish "much. But combining your dollars, with those of 500 other members, you can, give the C. of C. real power power to build and boost and bring new prosperity to. you and t your community. Tijiis is a time to say, "Let's live FOR the community," and to back up the statement with action ! of their resources to make their city a bigger, better and' more prosperous place in which to live. Here are some of the "arguments" which, in the light of the over-a- ll concept of the Chamber and the community,, sound rather . hollow: "I don't agree with a lot of things the Chamber does." Natur1. ally! The only, way the C. of C. could avoid criticism .would be 'to do nothing. Remember the old .saying, if you would "avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be noth- .1 2. "I'm a professional man. The Chamber doesn't help me." ' C. of C. it? Like the brochure says, did you ever hear of a professional man having prospered in the Sahara Desert? It takes population , . t people. Do you think. Utah County would have 105,000 people today if it hadn't been for the industries, the tourist trade, and. other phases of i ; ' live OFF the commun-- 1 ity, taking all they can get while giving nothing m return in the way of civic service or investment in the city's future ; and (3) those who. live FOR the community, working energetically and giving Today's Medicine i Subacute Endocarditis Not Nesessarily Fatal By R. CANNON ELEY, M.D. Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts This disease is not common among children and, although it may be caused by more than one bacterial agent (germ), it usually is the result of an infection of the valves of the heart by a certain type of streptococcus, (not the type commonly thought of in the "strept-throatcalled "streptococcus viridans" (green). This disease used to be 100 per cent fatal but at the present this is t not true since many of these patients can be successfully treated, cured and lead a normal life. Is hand and sat down beside me. We fell into conversation and he told me he was doing six months for drunkenness. They let him out at eiglit and locked him iip again at three. It was nearing that time now, and he said that the only thing that bothered him much was that had no cigarettes and no money. So, I hustled across the street and bought him a pack of cigarettes. My daughter said he would probably chuckle all night at having found such an easy sucker. 1 didn't-denit. In fact, I would feel disappointed if he didn't. Surely, he had, little enough to praise himself for, and if it restored a measure of- - his manhood to think that he could talk a perfect stranger out of a pack of cigarettes I think I had done him good. And I had unconsciously lived up to one of the things Walt Whitman says a man should do: I had given alms, and I had stood up for the stupid and crazy. For all I know the man may have felt gratitude. I gave him a great deal more in that I talked to him as an equal about places we had been and things we had done. He kept referring to me as a younger man than he until-wcompared ages, when it developed that he was 13 years younger than I. So I was repaid in a sense by the reali-- s tion that by a shift in circumstances I could have been he, and he could have been me. I was lucky. I am proud to say that I refrained' from trying to teach him a moral lesson, even when he admitted a mistake in judgment in getting committed to jail in the summer rather than the winter monthsL That was why I knew he was a little stupid. But I don't measure up to the remainder of Whitman's requirements that go to make- a real man. I love the earth, the sun, most animals and a few people, but I'm aware that that isn't enough to redeem me. Who cares? To quote good, old Walt again: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself: (I am large I contain multitudes.)" h-- books he buys pile up faster Ahan he can builcr them.- - The books cover a multitude of subjects, and most of them are farbeyond my, depth, but I like to see them there, and wonder if I could ever come to understand them, . I know that i came too .'late'; most of thewisdom in them will never bp mine. et now and then 1 . I i at r follow. ng . 4- at m .oe; passage. think, contains great and much wisdom, and sound advice. ' This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your 'ncome and labor td others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and ,ttidulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these lines in the open air every season of every year of your life, reexamine ' everything you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults 'your vsoul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem ' Walt could, and did, say a great deal more. If you could follow that advice you would have love and tolerance, and you would be, above all, free; free in mind and in body. If old Walt's admonitions could be put In the form of a modern quiz, with each single phrase beginning, 'Do you " the averag? person would certainly come up with a poor score. An honest man who took such a quiz would have to answer no to almost every question, and yet every single answer in the affirmative would be an expression of nobility. A couple of days ago I affirmed my faith in at least one of these principles I which, n-'d- 1 ed - -- ' " Regarding the Colorado says: e one-ten- fabrication and use. Presley. "On Grand Coulee, Boulder Dam, and other giant structures, double hydraulic lift locks will be built to facilitate marine transport to the upper reaches of the rivers. With these locks the hydrology will establish water transportation from the Gulf of C all-etions performed; 4 emer-transportation via the Green River to Green River, Wyoming." If .the nations of the world ra . Q's and A's Q Which is the only U.S. state bounded by a single "state? A Maine. Into how many times zines, the earth divided? is Q A Twenty-fou- r. Q Which is the oldest Euro1 in the United pean settlement ' States? A St. Augustine, Fla., founded in 1565. , -- th inaccessable to future areas of Fateful battles of the, cold war will, in the foreseeable future, be fought in the economic and subversive arenas. Allen W.- Dulles, director of Central Intelligence Agency, warning that Russia is advancing its political aims, by penetrating the. world market. Presley is leading a life as normal as the life of any Army recurit can be. But".". . at night he goes tor the telephone center and makes calls and calls. Then on weekends,, the' place is flooded with girls. Pvt. B. J. Sams, fellow recruit of Pvt. - "The lakes and rivers of the North American Continent are so situated that : . . they will provide more miles of water transportation than the rest of the river highways of the world. "These lakes and rivers could produce hydro - electric power considerably in excess of known engineering estimates and "would introduce climatic changes, increase local precipitation, and r.aise the water table over large areas, rendering possible the reclamation of waste lands and the prevention of desert growth." A Continental H y d r o 1 o g y "would render possible the transportation of bulk material at an energy cost of per ton.' mile of that of railroad freight haulage from areas at present - . River tion, "A Continental Hydrology" published by Technocracy Inc. 1 ... - Herald--: waterway and inland transporta- So They Say ' I Waterway Development, Would - ..." and earned my daughter's ;amusedscorn. Taking a walk I wound. up on a shabby wooden bench in the courthouse yard for few minutes of rest. An old man shuffled up to m with a rak in hii Says Exchange of Goods Sans Tariffs, Plus y ra,u dom and to my grea surprise find somt thing I can undei Stand. Just, now, fo instance, I picked ui an edition of th works of Walt Whi man, a great por whom I have neve bc?en able to read. o:' :ned the book an my eyes fell on th The Herald invites yon to nse this column as a tornm to express your opinions on timely subjects of public interest. Keep your letter within the 300 word limit. Sign your name and address. are not permitted. Editor -- " . '.. j is the Book of Revelation called the Apocalypse? A The word revelation is de- -. rived from revelatio, the Iatin equivalent for the Greek apoca-lypsi- s, both words meaning or unveiling. Q--W- hy un-oovtr- ing Be Great Boon could exchange goods without tariffs and develop inland .water transport, there wiuld be a great boom in world trade. Goods be could produced where it would be the most; practical and then move without barriers or change of carrier to their destination. This would be servicing mankind in the most efficient way. Jerald Henrie. BARBS be if there were no wives to boss the job. Mom's purse, Dad's desk and the world are all full of a number of things. ' " ' You can be sure that the birds will know almost as soon as you do that you've bought grass seed. tackled and grabbed her husband's wallet. He was stealing her stuff. Ohio wife captured a thief An who low-inco- comparison of these results with those reported in lasi week's column show one more thing: that the idea of sacrificing the yearly model shift to make more mas-- a sive this country's defense fort had no real meaning for most people interviewed on the issue. While 51 per cent said they thought this measure should be adopted for the sake of increased defense, a later question showed A - ...37 ... 12 that 50 , per cent thought the year- ly change at least as practiced was pointless and nowadays wasteful anyway. Thus a question designed to measure patriotism turned out to be an index of irritation with Detroit and a key to American thinking on some bade issues of power and economics. a solution to any such problem, which placed considerably further down on the list than the more coercive proach by legislation. me , j ap- Tell Me Why? I Who Made First Books? For sending in today's question, The Britannic a Junior, encyclopedia for school and home, goes to Mike Matteson, 11, Madison, Wis. 't lived several thousand years ago used these tablets to inscribe rec- - I ords and writings which they wished to preserve. tool, they Using a sharp-pointcut characters into the clay while it was still wet. Then the clay was, baked. A series of these tablets might roughly be called a book, and in the royal library at Nineveh in 650 B.C., thou sands of these clay tablets were stored and arranged conveniently foi reading! The ancient Egyptians came a step closer to the modern idea of a book. They made a kind of crude paper from a reed called papyrus. Sheets of papyrus, with at kinds of picture writing were (called hieroglyphics), sometimes laced together with cords to make a book. . Other ancient peoples including the Greeks and the Romans, made books which were wound around pollers. Sheets, or pages, were pasted together and wound around yinders of bone or wood. In fact, the word "volume" goes back to: he early days for it comes from a Latin word meaning "to roll." Alexander the ''".'.. 1 - V Before the art ofpapermaking spread) to Europe from China, where it was invented, parchment was used in making books. During the Middle' Ages, beautiful books were made by the monks. The pages were lettered by hand, often with elaborate pictures and designs in colors and gold. It was necessary to bind the sheets of a book together to keep them in order and in good condition. At first the sheets were merely tied together between pieces of board. Later, a cover made of leather or boards coveted wfth leather was fastened on to become a part of the book itself. The art of binding sheets Into books was so i highly develmodoped by these monks, that em bookmakers still follow many l of their methods! The two most. Important steps in advancing the development of modern books were the Invention of printing andthe creation of machinery to make paper. Without these two advances, it would have been impossible for 'S3AB3 jo suaa lM 'I 'Z THE TRICK BOX on your friend. If he this Try doesn't think quickly, it may fool him. Challenge him - to drop a lump of sugar into coffee without getting it wet. Here's the trick: Get a can of coffee and drop the : sugar into it! Herald Correspondents Here are Herald itaff correspondents in the various communities of Utah Contact them if you have County. news. District circulation agents are listed also. They stand ready to help you with problems concerning delivery of the paper Phone Name Community Alpine, 0173-R- 1 Lorna Devey American Fork, 100-Dena Grant American Fork (Circ.) PI. Gr 264 Jennie Gilbert . Benjamin, R 0119-R- S Mrs. J. Peay Edsremont. Laura N. Bendixsen FR . Goshen. Elberta Marguerite Waterbury Lake Shore. 0410-J- 1 Karel Ann Anderson Lake View. Vineyard AC Mrs. Kent A Prue W Great established a library of such books in Alexandria, Egypt, which at one time contained more than 500,000 volumes! of friends than does a big talker. vJoin a few groups you think you will find stimulating. And if you are asked to do a job, take on the responsibility. How much you do for your community will have a big effect on how much of a place you make for yourself in j. Be agreeable and friendly but don't push. More will come to you if you aren't in too big a hurry to' be "one of the crowd." jTryto be ready for the unex pected guest and ready to accept invitations. fTry thinking of your new home as your permanent home even ' though it may not prove to be so. Otherwise, you will act more like a visitor than a new resident of your community, j Just remembering these few pointers will help you to mike friends and make a place for yourself, and shorten the period of , time when yon leel like a ataanssr in a atranst place. ' A 4. ed , Spiders. 2. Bears. 2. Birds. Tigers. 5. Whales. Answers ueaoo "S '9ixmp 'f 'Sstf 1. books we know about were not really books as we know them. They were tablets of clay. The Babylonians and Assyrians who r spur-of-the-mom- ent THE QUIZ BOX Can you tell the natural home of each of the following? t It has taken man hundreds and hundreds of years to develop the skill that goes into making a book today. In fact the earliest remember that each patient must be considered on his own merits' baked upon the type of "germ" that is causing his trouble because different drugs are required for different types of bacteria. How long should treatment, continue? The answer is simple. Treatment is required as long as the germ can be grown in a laboratory from the patient's blood. This may mean weeks or months. During this period of treatment, serious complications may develop so that caution, care, and close attendance by the physician in charge are essential if recovery is to be expected. Treatment is a tedious and trying ordeal for all concerned. But the happy results today's medicine offers makes it , worth the effort. (Copyright by Columbia Features, Inc.) 1 us to have the inexpensive, handsome books of today. 15-volu-me Following this comes the use of the newer "agents" such as penicillin, streptomycin and others. But Fitting Into Community 1 prevent automobile companies from putting out new models for several 12 years Leaving it up to people to refuse to buy new models 6 Taxes on new models should be so high as to discourage people from " buying 3 them . Express no opinion ....a... 5 J . .... 25 ' Ruth Millett Any woman wanting to make friends in a new community should keep the following rules n mind: Forget about where you came from and start thinking in terms of where you are. The people you meet won't want to hear Jiow much you had to give up when you moved from your old home. They would rather hear praise of the place that is THEIR old home and your new one. a Be faithful about returning all hospitality shown you Putting off entertaining those who entertain you until some day in the future when you have everything about your home fixed up to suit you is a mistake, if you; wain to turn acquaintances into friends. Make a real effort to remember names and faces and to straighten out relationships as you meet people. The better you are at this, the quicker you will feel at home. Be as willing to listen as you are to talk. An interested listener Cits ia better with a new group 51 The public's choices on this question reyeal the public's thinking onj more than automobiles. They show: (1) The public's trust in big busi ness. Twice as many people wanted to let "Detroit do? it" as chose the next most, popular alternative. (2) Peoplej's aversion to taxes as growths bacterial continue to multiply, increase in number and fur-- , ther damage the valve. After a time, the germs break off from these abnormal areas and circulate in the blood. What happens to them? They have the whole body to find a place to settle down and so may locate in any area. Often they clog up the small blood vessels in the skin producing pink or purple spots, or in the brain, kidney, eye, lung or other organs. And of course, this sets up just another source of infection, and damage to the site involved. Fever, general feeling of discomfort, loss of appetite, listlessness, anemia and just plain poor health are often the only symptoms. Usually, the only way that the diagnosis can be made is by growing the germs from the blood and this is not always easy as it may be necessary to take many samples of blood before the germcan be 'K, grown and identified. Then comes the process of treatment. This will naturally depend upon the germ that is causing the trouble plus the underlying disturbance which allowed it to happen. In some patients it may first require the surgical correction of the abnormality of the heart (congenital heart disease); in others, adequate treatment and when possible, cure of rheumatic heart dis., ease. , , ' income levels the vote for letting the companies do it is overwhelming. Those with low . family incomes are much more inclined to select government to carry out the proposal through a law. The middle income groups fake a middle position on whether the change itself is a good idea, but tend to think like those above them ecoon nomically Implementation. Politics counts for less here than the facts of economics; 'poorly off Republicans think more like Democrats than, prosper ous 'members of their own party, law should be passed to A BAD IDEA EXPRESS NO OPINION - il.i.i.i.MMj,;.;,;.;.;.;.;.;. Something In Poetry As I sit here in my son's study I can reach out in any direction ,and touch books. I can find them in any room in the house, whole rows and stacks of them. Glen builds" bookcases, but the - Subacute bacterial endocarditis rarely occurs in a child who has a normal heart. However, children who are born with a heart that has some structural defect such as an abnormal opening between the chambers of the heart, or abnormal valves (commonly called or children "congenital heart"), who have had rheumatic fever and have damage to their heart valves, are usually the unfortunate victims of this disease. What actually happens? In the case of the heart that is' abnormal from birth, as in the heart that has been made abnormal as a result of disease, small growths develop and in these Nom-dtr-plnm- es By FRANK. C. ROBERTSON . Visalia, Calif. open- a book ") so-call- ed The Chopping Block Maybe There i 4 STOPPING YEARLY CAR MODELS IS: 1. A GOOD IDEA: The automobile companies should voluntarily agree to hold off on new models - - those-wh-o Oh doesnM; "I am not interested in the 5. ,' - j who are giving both in full meas- ure to boost your community. , ing! do any- thing." Better get up to date on this one. Currently there are 25 active committees, whose membership is made up of two or three hundred of the city's top men. Many projects are under way. 4. "I have no time for it." If you can't support the Chamber) with time and money both, give at least fyour financial support to the men merce and its program have declined to join. It is quite appalling and a little bit disgusting to hear some of the weak arguments given by men who seek to sidestep their responsibility in the community effort for growth and advancement. The failure to recognize this responsibility reminds us of the statement of a prominent Midwest physician who classified citizens in three groups : (1) Those wjio live IN a community, filling their normal responsibilities, but unwilling to put forth extra effort in the cause of community progress; (2) . 'The Chamber doesn't change. People, in effect, are saying "Don't tempt me I might buy ' J it!" - or Collusion? CooperationIt should be noted here that if the yearly model suspension was carried out by a voluntary agreement of the automobile companies, as people tend to want, the auto manufacturers could find themselves the defendants in government lawsuit, which might see the decision more as an IU legal trade agreement ' than commendable patriotism. The first suggestion of many ' traditional economists would probably be the prohibitive taxes which send such a shudder through the public. : Where one stands on the economic ladder - determines, more than anything else, one's thinking on this issue. Among the higher to the activities of Or so the American husband. some recent survey figures would ; indicate. .The subject (as was that of last week's column) was automobiles. Asked whether car manufacturers, in order to release technical manpower for arms and missiles programs, should stop bringing out new car models every year and continue making the present models 'for several years, 51 per cent of the public were all for the .idea. These people were then asked: j"In your opinion, which of these is the best way to prevent new yearly models of automobiles from being produced?" They were offered four alterna' tives: ley, Inc., and similar groups? , - Self-relianc- e, resulting healthy business growth? from the efforts of the Chambers of Commerce, Greater Utah Val- The Provo Chamber of membership drive is Hearing its conclusion. Results have been good. But there have been disappointments too. Many business and professional men men who need the community and who benefit by the Chamber of Com- noticeable lack e faith in their own power to bring about the desired (3) People's 99 ' 33 Edna Loveridge Lehl. (Circ.) , Paul Willis Lindon. Lorraine Ruff ell Mapleton. Mrs Preon Hooper j NeDlMrs. I9i ,101-- W HU Grace Judd 471-- W Mr. and Mrs Lea Bailey 0rIMargaret Wbitwood AC. Orem. (Circ.r AC Irene Keith AC Orem Office 21 03 5-1- ...... 0311 R3 ........ ......... 327J 2551 ....... .... 4382 Palmyra Shirlene Ottesen, Payson. Madoline Dixon Amber Jackman Pleasant Grove, Beulah Bradley . Guy Hillman, sport Pleasant Grove (Circ.) Jennie Gilbert .... Pleasant View. -- - 223-- . 2694 , ..... fit Taylor .... Yvonne Perry Salem. 12 i 0107-R- 1 Marsrette Santaquin. 0901 Estella Peterson Spanish Fork. S26-J Frank G King 297 Virginia Evans, society Fork (Circ.) Spanish H B. Davis Evans 297 V Spring Lake. Tessa Lyman ... . . . . 0303-J- 1 Spzingville; ... Josephine Zimmermaa HU Evelyn Boyar. society HU West Mountain. ........ -- . ...... M 9-4-161 X1 tzi--n M ' |