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Show Give Us The Facts Now . . . The Front In Formosa .... , NGtionaiistslShouId Hold Their Own In Formosa War daily newspaper devoted to the progress and advancement of Central Utah and its people The only, By HOLMES ALEXANDER Weights TAIPEI, TAIWAN and measurements of rival vboxers are often published prior to ,the fight, and this may be done for the suspended battle between the Chinese Communists. (Chicoms) on the "Mainland and the 'Chinese .Nationalists. (ChinatsY on this island of Taiwan. The statistics will not do much toward forecasting the outcome of the fight, but they will present a picture of the enemies. And some cautious' evalu. ations may be made. Since Navies: The either! force must cross the Taiwan, Strait to g get at the, other, their . forces should be' considered first. According to top intelligence sources, the Chicoms have a large but motley number of amphibious vessels 432 in all, of which only 23 are Landing Ship, Tanks. (LST) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1959 ' Long. 'Haul Ahead to provide relatively ' high economic living levels for most of the citizens who live under it. observers seem to feel that S o vie t Premier Nikita Krtrushchcv really believes. 'that communism is the "wave of the future", and will one day supplant democratic capitalism everywhere. Most . indivi-- j d No sane, to blind dual in the free world is flaws in our system. As they affect our spirit,- our values, our resolves, some of these could be serious for. the future. Yet it is plain that this system still is unmatched in its capacity sober-minde- . . - - Material p rosperity' is not shared equally among all the free lands, nor is it among the citizens of any one country. But there is much more of it, in total and on tne average, than will be found in Russia or Red China or any, satellite thereof. This prosperity is still growing. It could go on growing fpr a long" time, if some of our internal flaws1 don't catch up with us. And if it does, Khrushchev could find that his belief in communism's ultimate triumph is an empty dream: Some of the signs are already against him. West European Socialist parties, which for many decades "have preached wide government ownership and control of industry and otljer enterprises, are turning away from this fundamental theory,. Prosperity has outmoded it. ' . 4 He said it kikes, $14,000. in capi- -. tal to create one - job. So far as we know, no one challenged the figure. Undoubtedly some men might be moved to do so, for trie calculations leading to j - , : ; . N. L. C. KNUCKLE DOWN, POP I Provo "wife to husband: "Well, have you ever thought of earning1 beyond our means?" DAFFYNITION Nothing: What: people stand for when they fall for everything. MORE WAYS THAN ONE TO 'STUFF' A TURKEY With the approach of another Thanks' giving; my husband and I were reminis- cing over the wonderful Thanksgiving Day we spent with the Midgelys. last year. A cute saying, at the dinner table, still brings us a hearty .chuckle. We were all being, served from the head .of the table to save time getting the, food put to each of their eight children. ; When ;the father came to his y ear-ol- d son he asked, "Allen, may I serve you some turkey .and dressing?" . At first Allen couldn.lt be seen for he had slipped off his pillowed' stool not too gently. But soon up bobbed his head, barely above the table top, and in the best company manners he could muster .he stammered, "No tank you, I don't like toikey, or nuffin' that it e'ats!"5 M.. E; L. ' 3-- . BAD HABIT . Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form., ' Andre Maurois. PRIVATE SWAIN'S BULLSEYE TOUCHES OFF PANDEMONIUM; Les Swain of Ogden, formerly of Roosevelt, is reputed to be a crack shot with a iTifle. We like this story of nis prowess, as told by his' brother, Wick Swain of Provo. It was during World War II and Les was a private in boot training at Camp Carson, Colo. As would .have been .the case for an expert rifleman, Pvt. Swain was terribly bored the first day at the rifle range as he watched novice after novice take a turn at the firing line. As he waited, Les gazed, wistfully at b hawk circling overhead. He thought' of the years back home in the Uintah basin when he practically grew up with a rifle in his hand. The hawk circled Jack again. Pvt. Swain answered : a "sudden urge. He aimed the Army 30.06, drew a bead, and ' squeezed the trigger! Action, on the firing line stopped. For a long moment mouths gaped is awe as the hawk fell with a thud. Then Army "discipline took over. The sergeant ton . SHADES OF FRANK BUCK Several weeks ago a hair-raisi- epi- ng sode occurred in an American Fork neighborhood. No one knows where it came from, but a huge rattlesnake appeared at one of the homes. The small boy of the family made the discovery first and came running in the house very excitedly informing Mama and Daddy of the presence of a rattlesnake on the 'back porch. It was no figment of the child's imagination ; . . the snake was tLere all right, and Daddy bravely killed . it. Naturally with all the excitement, the neighbors were standing around and dis cussing the event. One small .fellow stood dolefully by, disappointment writen' all over his face and asked indignantly . . . "Aw gee,; couldn't you at least have captured him ALIVE?" K. C, American Fork ASTUTE OBSERVATION She certainly must have a sixth sense. There's mo sign of the other five. READER COMES TO RESCUE OF HERALD COLUMNIST Columnist Ed Koterba's account of the hardships of life on the last frontier, the cold Antarctica, touched the heart of a Pleasant Grove reader. Koterba ended his piece with a ia- meht about "those outside toilets," notd ing that "it takes great courage to out of k,od tremendous 'urgency crawl in the middle of the night, pile on five layers of clothing, and brave the icy winds." chord The account struck h. the Pleasant Grove reader, who signed his initials at T. L. H. He addressed a note to 'the Herald editor and accompanied it with a clipping from a catalogue or magazine ad. Said the note: "After. reading "M'.Murdo is a Typical Antarctica Frontier Town" by Ed Koterba in yesterday's Hejald, I thought it was just too bad that he had not had one of these deals to take with him.", The "deal" clipped from the catalogue d or ad was a '.'genuine pbttie." ! . .. . fur-line- ,? Tr' 11 Expert Tax Panel's Aim Not Easy to Determine By ED KOTERBA The nine tax experts, attired quietly, sat before the House taiing committee, and what they were 'doing in effect was p u i n g( WASHINGTON Mason figured he was getting a bargain that way. . loopThis business of holes , got Rep. Howard Baker (R.--, Tenn.) to thinking. He asked expert Hellenbrand: "Just wiiat is . a loophole?" . tax man the replied: Deadpan, "A loophole is a deduction that I' " tt their hands the pockets. - 'Wft5f!i , 1 y are in their early 50s. It is hard to see how the invaders, cut to; pieces during the landings, could overcome the defenders. The Air Forces: Since 1954, 53 new jet bases have been construe- ted on the Mainland within striking distance of Taiwan. Planes from these bases, 'of course, can also hit Okinawa and the Philippines, where American air power ,is lodged. It is illogical to assume hat these jet bases-- , (which are com- part of a huge plex of at least three times that number) are there, for .defensive purposes. The Chicom flyers, have Mr. Koterba some way tilings went, I don't think even they knew. The subject was: "Personal in- dour-face- e things-elimina- ting: income. This then would mean that if a wealthy philanthropist donated a slug of money to a school, church or charity, he'd have more dough, . Dandruff 'Cures7 Are Cause For Several Misconceptions Like all other skin area's, the scalp is constantly shedding its outer. layers. This process is normal and continuous and usually attracts no particular attention. scalo wi1 When the some-'"t 'S sheds in I what t h a n aVerage flakes,-- the con dition has been called dandruff. When attention is drawn tn thp' Cfi. " flakes bi dan-Idruff in the hair' Dr. Hyman or on the (collar, the condition becomes a disease not of the scalp but of the) mind of the person larger X self-conscio- us Dandruff itself is NOT a scalp affliction. It is ,NOT due to in- feetion with any specific bug. . It is NOT ah indication of bad hygiene. Indeed, it is often made worse by daily hair washing with medicated soaps. Despite cunningly contrived sales lures that aim to cajole the consumer into purchase of a "dandruff cure," you can have an awful lot of dandruff without becoming bald. Here's how to make scaling: of the scalii less noticeable: Wash the hair no more than twice weekly. Use any nationally advertised sudsing detergent as a shampoo in place of soap. Each day rub in any .nationally advertised preparation of dimethicone or silicone oil morning andj night. Each of these suggested products is readily identified by its descriptive label as required by the Food and Drug administration: Your druggist can help you get them. I hate to kill false hope among the bald, but when the hair follicles are completely destroyed by disease, radioactivity or poison, hair tonics have no more effect on your scalp than they would have if you rubbed them on a billiard ball. When' the hair follicles are damaged but capable of recovery, hair will grow whether the tonic is rubbed; on the scalp or not. If there were a true "hair tonic," there would be no bald barbers or skin specialists. Television personalities . wouldn't have to wear Rupees. As matters now stand th6.se with naked sclaps might better look before they rub. non-medicat- would all come out of his pocket , New-Yor- tax attorney, who was k - well.-Thi- Ruth Mille'tt s J When I give $1,000 to a chiacL O's and As Q Did the British government own any part of the Suez Canal when it Was first opened? A It had no part in building the canalj, and bought none of the original shares of stock.; In 1875, by purchasing the shares owned by the . Khedive of Egypt Eng- land, gained part control, j Q Anatole France was the pen name used by what author A Jacques Anatole Thibault. Russian-sponsore- d be- entry.-Eve- fore our side .began shooting the heat-seekin- g, Side-- " nevcr-mis- s winder rockets, the Reds had had? enough. Assuming that we continued to replace with strike-fighter- s and the F-8- 6's F-1- 00 F-1- 01 photo-reconnaissan- ce there fighters, seems. little chance for the enemy to of th air. And without it, it's hard to see how Taiwan ouhibe taken without prohibitive gain-contro- l .. ne . losses, Defensively, by possession of the offshore, islands, by integrallon into the American master plan for the Western Pacific, the Chinese Nationalists should be able to hold their own for as long as we need this bastion. - Why Does Ice Crack Pipes? BY A. LE6KUM FUN TIME The Riddle Box , l 'What does the potter say to his clay, forms? " 2. What is a put up job? 3. What kind of a bush does a rabbit sit under when it's raining? ' the Britannica Junior encyclopedia for school and home. Send your questions, name, age. address to "Tell Me Why!" care of this paper. Today's winner is: Terrie Ellison, 13, Sherman, Win Oaks, Calif. Answcrsf Be ware. 2. Wallpaper. 1. Many a student who goes to col- lege complains: "Why do I have to study physics and science, I'll never use these tilings." Of course such people are quite wrong about "not using" physics and science. The fact is that whether we know it or not, we all use ' the laws of physics in everyday life many, 1 . , wet one. . , 3. A ' ' THE TRICK BOX many times. Any person who lives in a climate Where it gets cold in winter, knows in the ' that he must put anti-freeradiator of his car, and close off and empty any pipes that, might have water in them. He 4 knows ' that if he doesn't, the radiator will When a few friends get together, crack and the pipes might burst. v 'try this on, them. Give them each The laws of physics explain why a piece of paper and a pencil and such things happen. challenge; them to draw a straight For example, when most subline exactly 5Vt inches long. It'll be stances change "from a liquid to a fun to see how few come even exactBut shrink. solid state; they, ! close ; with, ly the opposite happens water! Instead of shrinking, it exWin the Britannica World Atlas or pands. And it doesn't expand by Yearbook .of Events. Send your just any amount, i expands by riddles, jokes, tricks to "Tell Me of its volume. about one-nint-h Why!", Today's winner is: This means that if you, start with Katherine Worden, 11, Salt Lake 9 quarts of water and this water City, Utah. freezes, you'll ..have, 10 quarts of' now Well ice! solid just picture' the water in an automobile radiator or a pipe freezing up. Ten jjUclrts of ice need more room than By HAL COCHRAN nine, quarts of water. But radiator pipes and water pipes can't stretch. When a cop stops y6u for . There just isn't any more room. speeding and asks, "Where do So when the water freezes "it makes you think you're going?" he 'more room for itself by cracking usually winds up tcllingyou. the pipe! -- 1 One of the amazing things about A judge says the avcragcman this process of nature, is the owes a lot to his wife. He must tremendous power it has. Pipes mean her pin money. are made of pretty, strong .metals as you know. In places like FinThe expression "Can you come land, this power is actually, put to back next week?" nust continuwork! ally run through the mind of the This is how they do it. In the door-to-dobill collector. qua ries they fill the' cracks in the . . rock with water and allow it to It's bkay to play dumb, but freeze. The freezing water acts as too aren't playing." many people a wedge and loosens the rock- so " "' are rocks of blocks that .great Why is it so doggone easy to broken loose by the "freezing , and do the wrong thing at say V power!" i : ' Even though ice takes up more the wrong time? to Girl babies are said talk space than water, It Is lighter than more babies. How come than water and floats upon it. This is boy the reason why large bodies of they never get over it? water never freeze solid. The sheet A lot of people take a gossip of ice on top protects the water, " ze - in- terested, in the interests of higher learning, bristled. He said colleges which depend on contributions from the wealthy wouldn't like- that too would reduce their cash gifts if such contributions deductible. weren't income-ta- x Congressman Mills' voice rolled from the cellar and he retorted: "I thought ' philanthropists " made . contributions from their hearts." Rep.. Noah Mason (R., 111.) jiggled in his chair, cleared his throat and took Mills' expression of idealism to task. ' "I'm a decent sort of chap" said Mason, a church man and Sunday. School teacher for more than 50 t. years. "And. I have a big h few Mig 19's, in addition to Yaks and Badgers .. As everybody must know by now, the Chinats shot and chased the Chicoms out of the air during The Flap. Plane for plane, flyer for. flyer, the American - sponsored team was far better than the er ed . , Tell Me Why ; " an vith advanced the. times in Russian aircraft from Mig, 15V to Mig.H's, and are now getting a ed United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) By HAROLD THOMAS HYMAN, M.D. Written for NEA Service Sino-Russi- ied at hand, but the contributions Frank Sparks, 44-da- . air-bor- come tax deductions." One tax man shortened that to just plain t "loopholes." The nine gentlemen were panel-ize- d before Rep. Wilbur Mills (D., Ark.) and his Ways and Means Committee, a group that, loosely defined, means: a commit-,t- e to find ways to tax a taxpayer and the means to eollect it from him. d The experts and the Congressmen all agreed they were-herfor one,, purpose: to find methods of reducing income taxes. Samuel Hellembrand, tax counselor for the New York Central Railroad, said maybe that could be accomplished by of all personal deductions! How would that save anybody any money? Well, explained the tax man, if nobody gets deductions,'. then it would ' mean $30 million more in a year's time for Uncle Sam. And if Uncle S. had that much more owed him in a year, he could cut everybody's taxes to total that amount. Follow? This way, a taxpayer's only choice would be the "short form," with greatjer exemptions built in for everybody. If a "new look" would come to income taxles, Representative Mills figures the! highest bracket would be reduced from the present 91 percent tc' about 65 percent of directly. Panelist Ships, Medium (LSM),, 10 Landing Craft, Infantry, (LSC), 6 PT's and one troop transport. Based on the y war of August-Novemb1953 (known here as 'The Flap"), Chinats are the U.S. Navy-trainfar better seamen. They the Kinman, (Quemoy) islands under heavy Communist fire, and pleasantly surprised their American tutors in! ship handling. The Armies: The Chicoms are .said to have 25 divisions of infan- try and 4,000 troops to throw against Taiwan in the first wave. Eleven of the divisions ari fully equipped with the weapons used in the Korean War, while 14 but it suffers from a large disadvantage. The Chicom Army could (Copyright, 1959,. by ', es - The Doctor Says Sj, take out? The i - j pock- - taxpayers' ets or , in 5- - big-mone- ed -- defense or counterattack. There are 5 destroyers, 1Z Outmoded but useful frigates, 10 mine sweepers and mine layers, with no submarines. The counterattack force includes 24 LST's, 13 Landing gold-draperi- ed so-call- ed of about 90 million U.S. taxpayers. What I couldn't quite figure out was: Were, they trying to put money in the can't make useof." talkWhen I left the commiters in their tee room, I concluded that w,hat we needed to make lis all happy, was more loopholes, including an equal number for Uncle Sam. That way, like Congressman Mason, we'd all think we were get ting away with something. I have it in the back of my mind that Uncle Sam is giving $4oO of it and I am giving only $600j" sub-rrfarin- nt , n the invasion Cpme, it will a be spectacle fore technicolor. Something close to over 500,000 Chinese will attempt the grossing, in everything floatablf. In addition to regular . vessels there is expected to be a nondescript flotilla Of rafts, barges and junks. intelligence officers exto ?t be a typical Oriental pect assault-in-mawith troops advancown dead.- - To support over their ing this grotesque spectacular, the ' .Chicoms have 24 (not much good anyhow v in the shallow Strait) and 180 patrol-torped- o (PT) boats'. It is a rag-ta- g naval force by modern standards. Navy people do not give it much chance to succeed unless the Communists, gain control of " the air. The Chinats Navy, is built for Assignment Washington -- Pvt. Swain, sent him to the lieutenant. The lieutenant had something to say about errant soldiers but remanded the case to higher authority and sent the rifleman to see the major! As Swain listened to the major's tirade he stood dejected, pondering prospects of life in the brig. "Now :you may go," the officer finally said. The relieved Gl hejaded quickly for the door. "Oh, Swain!". The major's voice brought Pvt. Swainj to a quick about- face. "Yes sir." Eyes sparkling now and with, a definite trace of pride and admiration in his voice the major said: "Swain, they tell me that was a helluva good shot!" "'jL "" NEA Service, Inc. j d -- ss " gue-lashe- . Sino-Americ- an . Off the Beat - By the Herald Staff up-dat- Should) Government ownership of production was, of .course, a f eature 'socialism had in common with communism. So was the concept of class warfare, which European Socialists also are" giving up. They seek now to become not class - ' fof bringing ,iii heavy equipment. , such an estimate are certainly complex and there is clearly room for argument. parties but national parties. Nevertheless, it is fair to asIn otherwords, the veteran So- besume that the proper ratio cialists of Europe, appraising care-an- d tween capital expended and the economic creation ; of a new job is not too fully the social recent of develonments decades, far from Magill's figure. He is an of free to v are concepts shifting careful and analyst, experienced demto basic and initiative choice If the figure is even $10,000, it . onstrate capitalism. is astonishing., It stands as testiThis does not mean, by any of the mony to the; dependence stretch, jthat totalitarianism has working force of the nation upon lost the battle. Unquestionably the large capital outlays to provide excompetition will be sharp arid bitr panded job opportunities. It 13 a strong answer, too, to ter for tens of years. But the decline of orthodox So- those who cling to the fantasy cialist doctrine in Western Europe that profits are just so much comto suggests strongly that democratic gravy to be ladlecUout capitalism has the vigor and the pany managers- and stockholders. substance to win. The bigger quesThe truth is they are a vital, an tion may be how much the people indispensable source of the caoital live under it really want to who in to business keep any required good health and growing. not be assembled for invasion without being discovered. ' Chinat pilots in the latest American-mad- e planes fly" over the Mainland every day.. If the. Communists ever landed on Taiwan they would meet 23 in- fantry. divisions and 2 armored divisions, as well as swarms of guerillas., The Chinats have a conAmerican tinuing flow of guns and armor in which they are daily trained. The Army of is" Generalissimo Chiang Kai-she- k not, as his enemies enjoy saying, an old, man's club. Most of the soldiers who staggered across the Strait, with Chiang . a decade ago are now chauffeuring pedicabs in the. city streets, while their officers, are in politics or government-rubusinesses. Thanks to replacements from conscription Chiang's army is now 30' per cent Taiwan Islanders, all young men. The oldest general officers in the field photo-reconnaissan- sea-goin- ... Roswell Magill, onetime Treasury department official, offered the House Wavs and Means Com mittee an interesting figure the other day whil e arguing for down-o- f U. S. income tax ward, revision ; - " This. Figures SPEAK UP, MEN DEFEND YOURSELVES ' Recently I read in one of my favorite columns some views berating the manners of a lady behind the wheel as about ' the world's worst. I read proof after proof and was about convinced when I came to the charge that the lady driver might even meet a friend going in the opposite direction and pull to an abrupt stop, holding up traffic until she'd 'had her say. That just reminded me of the last three times someone has come to an abrupt stop in. front of.me: (1) Two duck hunters (men); (2) two fruit growers (men); and (3) guess who the city marshal and the mayor. E. W. P. ' 15 1 Fine Study !n Opposites Have you ever though about the one big difference betweea the happy women you are always glad to see and the unhappy women you'll cross a street to avoid? The big- - differeence, of course, is that the happy women conceen-trat- e on what gives them pleasure is that the happyT women concen- trate on what makes them miserable. Whenever you chance to meet Mrs. M. (the "M" is for miserable), she has a tale of woe td tell you. If she's redomg her house or building a new one, you are sure to hear about all the things that have gone wrong, how disappointed she is about this and that, what a time she has had with the workmen on the job, and so oft. Run into Mrs. II. ("HI is for happy) under the s .me circum stances, and you'll hear an ex- cited, happy account of what. fun. she is having working out ideas and solving problems, how cooperative everyone on the job has been, how anxious she is for you to see what she has done, and so on. . '- - Both women are going through the same kind of experience, but there is one big difference: Mrs. M is making the most of ttle thing that goes every 'wrong, every setback, every hu--, man failing. She gets her enjoyment out of groaning and grumbling. But Mrs. H. is happily concentrating on the fun of accomplishment, the excitement of seeing a dream materialize1 and is getting her fun out of sharing the happy of her experience. j side . It's that way with anything that happens to the Mrs.jM's and the Mrs., H's among your friends and acquaintances. Ths Mrs. H's concentrate . on the happy side of life and the Mrs. M's concentrate oil the unhappy. That is why your face lights up with pleasure when you run into a Mrs. H. It's why it begins to droop after three min-uat.conversation with a Mrs M who, if she has no personal tale of, woe to tjll you, is sure to regale you wiL. all the terrible things that have been happening to everyone you both know. 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