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Show i 1 II I Had No Idea He Was So Heavy" Horses In the Show Ring Three Qualified Liberals In the Democratic Race The only daily newspaper devoted tq the progress and advancement of Central Utah and its people ' ' ; Numbers Game Many years ago a veteran for-eif- rr correspondent, speaking of been he had recently ' ' ' vatching firsthand, said: "If it's documents you want, the Russian? will get 'em for you by the carload." the-Russia- ns - Help Unicef to.Ai'd The Underprivileged is heartening to note that junior high school students will participate in the Halloween It Pro vo -- canvass to raise funds for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) which performs such a fine service in aiding underprivileged children 'of the world. Mrs. Claude S. A'shworth is chairman of the Unicef program locally. Unfortunately millions of chil" world still endure the hardships of times normally associated with war or periods of pestilence because the benefits of drugs, food's and techniques taken for ., granted in more' advanced dren in-th- e "countries are so slow- - ' , . - reaching them. Blindness threatens countless youngsters every year in an age where the eyex disease they suf- let from, trachoma, can easily be cured with aureomycin. Millions of others can become cripples for life for lack of the single shot of penicillin needed to cure their tropical illness, yaws. Leprosy, tuberculothese and other sis, malaria diseases can now be controlled with modern drugs . . . when they are available. For millions of children, the best chance to obtain the aid they need is through Unicef. So far, -- , . through this organization's' participation in more than 300 projects in over 100 countries and territor- ies, more than 100 million children have been protected from TB ; the vaccine needed for 100 children costs Unicef $1. Over 13 .million children have been cured of yaws ' a shot of 'penicillin costs Unicef 5' cents. Almost four million chil dren have been treated for tra- choma; the aureomycin costs Uni- f cef 20 cents per 'child. Over 800 000 have been treated for leprosy; th sulfone tablets for three years of treatment cost Unicef $1. "The trick is to treat' for Unicef." This is the theme of the ean- vass by junior high students. Be generous when the boys or girls call. The money you give is. far more than a treat it may even give a child in some faraway coun- , try a new lease on life. ' democratic society's dependence upon evidence, especially of the written variety, in the making of its decisions;. They were only too happy to joblige by providing manufactured dociiments in vol ume. Some of this, unfortunately, goes ion within our s6ciety itself. But of much greater peril is a subtler practice, which, has become painfully common in trie public life of this nation. This is the practice! of arguing a case, whether it lie dn a political issue, on a matter jof (government poJicy, in a labor dispute or whatever, from what one sfaap observg statiser has called j - j 'i We live ir an- - age that is truly overrun with statisticians, jdata computers and a host jof other information gatherers; and analysts. They supply enough (material for everybody in thel cquntry who. wants to argue anything at all Just pick your topic J pick your side, dip into the huge reservoir of facts and statistics!, and you can make out a case, j It's been happening for years in the disputes in steel and other big industries. It goes on all trie time in political arguments o v e r the federal g budget. figures are dealt out relentlessly by all kinds of organizations andj individuals seeking - licenses &nc privileges from government agencies. Pity the poor commissioners who must choose between opposing sets of foolproof statistics, or the arbi- trators who-see- k the rutrh in the g ammunition fired by management and union. Most of all, pity the poor public, trying to decide where the j union-manageme- and start writing- about the greatest menace in our country "he hoods and gangsters who are so welj entrenched in our politics? Ca- and his ilk seem far. distant ponbut the vast empire, the Mafia, is certainly as big and its methods are just as deadly. Must we tolerate this -- K.- - - , menace?" W.. Trenton, N. J.) takes 'me much ti tnd'.eifort to studv an' . try Ao understand a' xat is happening in J " th 'eld. of Other.1' vorld af-fg- .. vrite or1 domestic the growth "V cr m. L.kc you, A am d stressed about i. and I never understood why Ihe law and order pattern in American i cities, should' resemble Sicily's rather than the Other parts of Europe Mr. Mowrer from which most of our ancestors came Bu remember, if the citizens generally, an ' the .business community in particu-'- , lai, flatly refused to pay blackmail,' hush money or tribute to gangsters, hav racketeering would stop. 'Canyou tell me just why Labor 'thinks it has a right to an advance in pay each year .or thereabouts? Many of the rest of us get no such increase. Is labor privileged?" (J. Johnson, South Chicago, 111.) This again is not my field but here are a ouple of guesses. Labor reasons itvhas a right to higher pay every time" profits increase. But for labor this has y been a street, and I have heard no labor leader offer to accept lower wages when profits dimmish. Hence, the claim offends simple justice. .Yes, labor is privileged over many other kinds of Americans by Jaw and by. eustom. This came about as a result iof mixed sympathy for the victims of the depression) and the political power (votes) of large labor organizations. g in any form I Ultimately, will have to become a y street. -- one-wa- profit-sharin- . two-wa- Mrs. F. van der Kley of Jacksonville, Fla.f sends me the weekly market' letter i 'Self-servin- high-flyin- j truth lies so it can; weigh issues, policies and, men wisely. What we need, obviously, is" a Bureau of Selfless Statistics, independent of government, business and labor,' drawing; upon the resources of all but dnsivering only to the public's crying necessity for balanced, thoroughly rionest inforM mation. l So Thev Say Navy Plane Takes) Off for Trip to Antarctica By ED KOTERBA OVER THE PACIFI- C- In two hours the laden Antarctic-boun- d R6D will touch Navy four-engidiwn in Hawaii for a lay? over. The sailors talk about Swim-- , m:ing off Waikiki Beach.; It) will b4 their last swim for a year. I asked John Hartzell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Hartzell of Albion, Iowa, what in heaven'? name possessed him to Volunteer for one year on the ice. He's 30 and in the Navy, seven years, ne 20-ho- ur "I said philosophically: bene- ficial effects on those Inordinately' zealous Western brass hats who1, much ahead of their practical possibilities, openly dream of keeping whole countries under a threat of "bombing from;,: the moon." -Evgeny Fedorov, ojf the Soviet Ac-- c ademy of Science, pledging peaceful Russian space, aim) j like John, a meteorologist first class will be set up in camp on Cape Hallett, 1,000 miles from the pole For one thing, he'll be sending balloons up to heights of 100,000 conditions. fet to. check weather ' In '.i lazarc: niarctic. is Bipges the unpredictable weather. jrhe men on board are some of the 128 who will be wintering over next year. They underwent a four-hopsychiatric exam afte: ?y volunteered for the tour of duty. Twenty vere rejected. I asked Walter Backer, of 14 Butte. Mont ;. sk 'ac j" who left his wife and three children at Danielson, Conn., how 'he felt about having to leave his farnily behind. Walter, a construction mechanic first "class, said it brobably would be no different thn being isolated in like Kwajalein. He was thre 22 months' in a place stjationed '55-'5- 6j 29 of Shields apti Company, New York brokerage jfirrh, signed, by Walter K. Gutman, and lasks what I think of it. Here Mr, j. Gutman states, among other things that- Khrushchev 'has the potentiality a great leader, not just a Communist . because he has the pnnppnt leader that the practical thihg is the ideal thine . . . Mv exrprieri?P is that these hi? leaderss snenV Tin.ieilstli . . Hitler vjr never Had in a .big vvayi I think Khrush chev is telling the truth jandj if we believe, him there won't be a ragedy." I find this shocking as a symptom of what ails some businessmen. Hitler I knew him better than Mr. Gutman"1 could hav consistently lied tp American businessmen and convinced them that he 'wanted only qualitjr of status for Germany and would never make war. Meanwhile he plotted War until the day he felt ready. In my opinion' K. is a jmasterly double-dealwith whom it was wrong to negotiate anything stronger &an a postal convention until the United States had unified the West, atached it firmly to Africa and spent whatever was necessary to military preponderance over the Comjnunist world. .Then as Ac he son said re we could have negotiated cently about liberation, not about K.'s insolent threat to change the situa ion of West Berlin. If my diagnosis is' correct, K. would have plenty . of. opportunities to , !i. J . . . not in iworas. snow n in aeeas, - ... . . -. .:'..! j er j ex-Se- c. i .1 Send your question on world affairs signed with either your full name or your initials', to Edgar Ansl Mowrer in care of this newspaper. f j r; This plane will head 'directly south from Hawaii, stopping only in the Phoenix and Fiji Islands before its destination. Christ-churcon the south island of New Zealand: Then we transfer to a cargo plane for the nohstop flight to the naval outpost at McMurdo Sound, 740 miles from the pole. The crew of this plane, the was Navy version of the taken from its North Atlantic- run an(J is making its first flight over thisroaite; Lt. A. L. Bird, air. craftxcommander, of Saugatuck, Mich., and "Lt. Lawrence Adams, pilot, of Beverly, N. J., and Jack h, for Sept. 12-ho- ur C-11- 8, - Pittman, 6 Cocoa Fla-.- , aire going lo ave to finr? h?t dot of Fiji in the South Pacific' at 2 a.m. Near the reardoor of the cabin, nayal officers and scientists are plaiying bridge on va Navy! blanket on the floor. This is not a phish plane. And Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Edward Baon gets the same acebmmoda-tioii- s as the seamen. j Mr. Bacon is making his second tour of the Antarctic. BesjjdesKiMs inspections on the ice, he writes poems about it. Next year he plans to publish a book of his works, "Songs of the South Pole " ' Another WilVIP is on board liam McChesney Martin. I asked him why he was going to Antarc-tic- i. "You're not going south with U. S. Treasury, are you?" I ouij him and he laughed asked Mr. Martin is chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The No. 1 expert on running barjks said he's going to look over Antarctica "strategic, sci- j good-natured- ly. j i Several readers still ask jthe cost of Khrushchev's visit to the American tax-- ; payer. It was hard to know since the expense was shared by the government j the cities and Individuals. But however large it was, I fear it wa:s peanuts to the cost to American prestige and influence; throughout the world. We have seen only the beginning of the weakening of faith m America in. the captive and Uncom mitted countries, air of whom's safety depends upon American strength of will, as well as strength of weapons. (Copyright 1959 General Features Corp.) Less Cure-- Of Cancer Still lsn7t Known Cause-Mu- ch Q's and A's What were the world's first magnets? A Stones discovered in an an cent country of Asia Minor, called Magnesia. The term magnet and magnetism came from Magnesia. The stones were ;a type of iron ore called magnetite. the name The Gobelin tap- . . ..... .. . sxries are wurici lamous. Af-Tapest- . ry. shOok his and head shrug' ged lift; shoul- ' v4 ders, Maybe you thought it was curious he did- 3 , 4 j n't seem 4l to as much Dr. Hyman about cancer cures as the enthusiastic writers who give out "for some of the popular magaknow 1 . infectious disease. the are like relatively measles, Some, mild while others, like lockjaw are highly and hydrophobia like I '' s? . m business hum. The present stee strike will furnish an example Were, Hum- phrey or Kennedy n the White House, they would presumably come out for morel welfare and -- liberalism for throwing the presidential weight to the side of Labor.) But Symington, despite his ADA ecord, would not see it from tha view"ir point He would be concerned with the loss of nillIons of tons of steel and millions of dollars in buying power. Symington's formula for, the steel strike settlement, if I finder-stan- d him, would begin wifh the certain knowledge that ohe of the disputant? (Labor) dib not want this long strike. Thus j Symington in the White House, ll am sure, would throw all the weight . -- ' . cing t i f an eariiy asreemeni. nc wouia not babble too. muph aboui the cliches of "free" collective but he would stress- the creater puHic! interest of far Ibar-gainln- nd he kee e . oroductlon. The country does not lack! for "fredom," of which we have! an ample amount. But f we lack for steel. If the Government combn fails inl In dustrial production, then the tSA is poor indeed. And jthe Qualified Liberal who thinks in these prac ties' terms Is the one for mv blue ribbon. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) f Labor-Manageme- ":"' Mas-sai'sp"- " t What we say are the "causes I that Do Snakes Lay Eggs? By A. LEOKUM Junior 15- volume encyclopedia for school and home. Send your questions, name, agre, address to "Telr Me Why!" care of this paper. Today's winner is: Gerl Moody, 15, Beaver Falls, Pa. , j Ruth Miliett Family Mourns Pet's Death j was he of being left behind. He loved to swim. And every summer for years he went with the family to a ranch where the swimming hole was in a swift j, river. rattlesnakt a doesn't really have a voice. The )o snakes have jears? answer is no. because snakes have no external ear or ear- drum. But the bone which sup- ports the lower jaw "of the s hake can pick up vibrations and sq this is probabaly a kind: of hearing. The How do snakes move? snake actually uses its ribs to walk! It has a great many of these ribs, and each rib is! fastened to a section of the Backbone. The tips of each pair oi ribs are attached with muscles on the scales of the stomach. Since! the snake can move each of Lhese "scales independently, it can thus jnove each of its ribs or "f?etT" When they are drawn back,! the snake's body moves forward. How does the snake's pdison act? It- - contains two substahces which are harmful to- a 6ody wherj they enter it. One substance breaks up the blood corpuicles and attacks the lining of bjlood vessels, and the other attacks! the nerve centers and thus causes Win the Britannica . even However, , Snakes have fascinated man from the first day he set eyes on them. They are such strange and unusual creatures, that all kinds of legends and beliefs have grown up about them. They have been worshipped as gods and they have been considered man's worst enemy. In this column let's talk very snakes, and all sea snakes give things about snakes that seem to interest many people. For example, how. do snakes have their young? The answer to that is that most snakes lay eggs. They are long in shape and have a parchment-like shell. The mother shake usually deposits them in some place where there will be moist heat so they can hatch. But certain snakes, such as the vipers, our common garter snakes, and al sea snakes give birth to, living young, which are able to take care of themselves at once. What simply happens is that the mother retains the eggs inside her body until the young are fujly developed. Do shakes have a voice? No snakes have a larynx or vocal chords, so no snakes have a true voice as other animals do. But all snakes can make a hissing sound, and rattlesnakes have a organ. special . J - paralysis. - FUN TIME The Riddle Box 1. How many peas go into a , pot 2. How long is a string? 3. Which is the oldest tree? ; ; years,: is dead. Our Ihouse isn't the same without hirn. No house is the same when a dog who has ma'de himself a member of the household is suddenly gone. But jas several of our friends have reminded us, "Sam certainly lived a full life. No dog ever had it quite so good." Sam! loved to hunt. And he was lucky enough to live in a place where bird hunting is as much a part o autumn as 'falling leaves, and in a family where there were two men who, like Sam, would rather hunt than eat. He began to quiver with joy nvhen the men got out their guns arid put on their hunting boots. And he dogged their footsteps as they went from place to place collecting their gear, so afraid nt- Tell Me Why "anti-carcinogen- s." of Sam, the big, old Labrador retriever I've written about from time to time during! the past 10 g, step , . malignant. are cancer (carcinosens) probably not causes but factors that tend to make the cancer grow. Irrigation and fertilization help the seed to grow but nothing happens unless the' seed is planted in the first place. Moat doctors agree, for exsmoking favors ample, in the mouth, of cancer growth gullet bronchi and lungs. But not al chain smakers get cancer. Presuhiably they had not the seed in the first place. Similarly, not alf workers who are exposed to industrial carcinogens (such as radium) develop cancer. Presumably they, too, were lucky enough not to have deep thinker) than Humphrey or Kennedy. It may be this qualitjj of experience, for whichj there is no substitute that makes it (possible to say for Symington' what can't be said for Humphrey br Ken-- : nedy. Symington knows what's wrong with the country. Tie country doesn't lack for: we1 rare (as Humphrey likes to bewail 1, and it doesn't lack for abstract jllberal-is(which is what Kennedy's ap peal adds up to), but it dqes lack for the canny knack of making a y. zines.; Here are some of the reasons he apjpeared so dumb: No one yet knows the cause of canceir. The word cancer simply means "crab," and that about sums up how little we know of the disease. Cancer is probably not one but a variety of diseases, just - ".!' rjpular ) sistants at his elbow eve on the Senate floor), I hold this to be ai :;njust beiittlemeni. rhe "Ti-tn- " the Sen,rwJ head-to-hea- d ate last spring in a - i 4 bo- ,?in. al -- - It just had the seed in their tissues before they were exposed. Now while it's possible to find a cure for a disease whose cause is unknown, it's not very likely. You might strike oil digging in your back yard but your chances would be better if you knew just what you were about. What are called "cancer cures" today are really not cures at all. The best treatment for cance is surgery. But what the surgeon 'does is to cut out the' cancerous tissue and a wide area around the cancer where malignant cells may have infiltrated. . The next best treatment for cancer is exposure to radioctiv-itBut radioactivity makes its contribution by destroying the malignant tissue and neighborthat might ing healthy tissue cancer with have been seeded ' cells. After surgery and. radiation, we have what are called Some of these, like .radiation, destroy the tissue in which the cancer originates. like the glands of' interOthers, nal secretion, tend to neutralize for a time the carcinogenic! influences of other internal secretions. Thus, female sex hormones usually tend to favor growth of a breast , cancer while male sex hormones tend to neutralize this carcinogenic effect, at least temporarily. Male se hormones usually tend to favor growth of a prostatic cancer but castration or administration of female sex hormones tend to neutralize this carcinogenic effect, at least temporarily. I don't mean to minimize these all They're accomplishments. steps in the right direction. But the true cancer cure is not yet in sight and, in my opinion, it's neither sensible nor kind to delude patients into the belief that a cure exis'ts. -- Mai'be you've asked your doctor about a' cure for cancer. Most everybody has. Probably your doctor had i. nothing much to say. jMaybe he ! Q Q With what i s Gobelin connected? By Harold Thomas Hyman, M.D. Written for NEA Service -- . de-claiT- -.e; ; The Doctor Says o'S him fairly. Veithcf 'a hyperbolist) nor Syington (a touch Kennedy in a , floor debate. That leaves Symington, le is not a party organizer, or i leader oi causes, or a debitor, or even much! of p public weaker. But he is older1 than the other two, richerjn extra-politicexperience), much more thoughtful ( without being a pussy-footin- days or so before we reach the area of the pole. Just a generation or two ago, it took three months. (Copyriht, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) and economic possibilities.' And besides that, he said, he's !going there for a rest. Toj be sure, this long trip is leisurely. It will have taken six entific to see what's over the next hill ur It "may be this will have some 1 - i. ii I Assignment: Washington j CD It u nti Hoods, Gangsters Greatest M enace Mr. mm WW" hi?- - national figure. But Kennedy didn't. He beat McClellan, and" beat Hubert Humphrey comes ficst in political leadership and executive experience. While not "boss" of Minnesota, the Senator heads up a political organization there. It caught the attention and admiration of another Democratic contender, Lyndon Johnson, who went campaigning in Minnesota five years ago, thinking that Hum phrey needed some help. Humphrey didn't. He won big. Humphrey burst into national vfiew, and into mine, at the 1948 Democratic Convention when he electrified . the delegates with a Civil Rights speech. It completely reversed the majority of press section predictions. It drove a large band, of Southerners into a third party movement. As things turned out, lit contributed to Candidate Truman's eventual victory g over the Republican candidate. Even if this is overstating Humphrey's leadership, he is still miles ahead of Kennedy and Sym- ington in this quality. Neither of them has any State "machine" and neither has ever come near to leading any moral cnisade. In addition, Humphrey is the only .one. of these three ever to ho1'' h political executive office, which is what the presidency is. Humphrey was mayor of .Minneapo'U and evidently a good one, for he t was reelected to the post. But in another important phae de of politics parliamentary h- Kennedv bate ntsf points. Although his detractors speak of Kennedy as being staff "self-servin- What's. Your Question? By EDGAR ANSEL MOVVPER "Why don't you stop harping on po-litico- ,c. ic. designated as Qualified Liberals and the leading contenders would be Senators Humphrey, Kennedy and Symington, to give them alphabetic sequence. All three of these men qualified 100 per cent on the ADA: (Americans for Democratic Action) voting records. But this does not mean that Humphrey, Kennedy and Symington, having the same voting records, are identical political animals. Horses in the show ring all haveN the same number of eet, ears and eyes. How do the judges score the equine contestants? There1 are criteria known as "style, way of going, conformation and suitability." How to score these prancing His point was thM he Russians had come to understand a free tics." debate .with John McClellan of Arkansas. There was talk that would pull his aunches Kennedy ' By HOLMES ALEXANDER If WASHINGTON, p. C. Democratic candidates were show horses, there would be a class WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1959 . Answers None. You have to put them in the pot. ,2. Twice (as long as 1. half its length. 3. The elder. MYSTERY MESSAGE J ( T sound-produci- ng THE f Sam used to take his turn on, the diving board with all the kids and when his turn came he would spring so hard on the board that it would hurl"him far out into the river. .Then he'd swim back to shore, shake the water from his coat, and patiently stand in line until he again worked his way up to the front of the board. Sam 'loved an kpen fire,- too. Seeing him stretched out lazily in front of a crackling fire on a rainy winter night gave a peace and restfulness to our living room that tiothlng else could possibly bring to lt. As Sam grew old and arthritic he didn't give up hit dally trot j - j dowft the hill on which we live. Going down was easy but coming back up especially on a hot to be quite a summer day-g- ot chore. So Sam began stopping 6ff at the, house of friends who would kindly give him a lift back up the hill to home. i we had In the year him, . to a few things taught Sam hold to in the gently paper; bring the birds he fetched, to understand dozens of phrases that we used over and over in talking to ' PA What did, the, policeman say to the woman? , . Answer to yesterday's "How Sioux, Apache, Crbw, Many": VI r . 1T... wasno, isauk, iimon, xviowa, lir Iowa, Navaho, Ilopi, Hupa. . . . . - But Sam taught us much more than we taught him. And while we gave him a homehe did more than his share to make ita happy one. fx ' ; him. oo . Win the Britannica World Atlas or Yearbook of Events. Send your riddles, jokes, tricks to "Tell Me Why!" Today'g win- ner is: Sybil Cook, 12, Syra j - ; cuse, N.Y. |