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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH Coveted Star Farmer Award Given to Four Rural Youths Need Time for Democratie Roots to Take Hold in Japan Honor Goes To By BAUKIIAGE By W. Eye Street, Washington, D. City ASHINGTON. Recently casion to its against Germany and Japan lived in a semi-feudatmosphere for centuries. Of course, the Germans belonged to western civilization but ever since 1870 they grew under what amounted to a military dictatorship in a highly disciplined society, a rigid class system with complete subservience to authority. In these respects Japan is similar. Like Germany, after World War I, Japan has suffered a crushing defeat, has deposed , an emperor, has absolutely no training in democratic organization or democratic action, no experience in parliamentary government as we know it. Political parties organized in the sense that we know them were utterly strange to both nations, and both peoples lived under an economy and a society based on the support, morally and materially, of a huge army and navy. These are some of the difficulties which the Weimar republic faced and the young Japanese democracy is facing. Strong influences represented by big business and the aristocracy of blood and uniform, common to Japan and Germany, are at least latent in the former. But perhaps the greatest parallel danger in Japan today and the thing that eventually destroyed the Weimar republic is the economic situation produced by inflation. Many students of history feel that Hitler never would have gotten even a start in Germany if it had not been for the chaotic condition caused by the terrible inflation. Inflation today is one of Japans greatest problems. N.W., al one of Japans liberal newspapers took oc- admon-is- h readers I substitut- - ing General MacArthur for the emperor as an object of reverence. The paper pointed out that MacArthur was a symbol of democracy, but not a living god. In so doing, the editor touched on a matter of deep significance WNU to the future of Japan and one which poses one of the greatest problems of the occupation. 1 doubt if most people realize it This situation was revealed to me by a very earnest and very widely experienced observer, just back from Japan. The burden of his theme was the strange unreality which seems to envelop the life of the Japanese people like a mist Let me give you, as nearly as I am able, the gist of his impressions, supple-- , mented by other current reports of observers. The remarkably successful record made by General MacArthur In one years occupation of Japan can be written down on the credit side of Americas postwar undertakings. It is, nevertheless, only a beUnless the structure is ginning. completed on the foundation we have laid, all of our work will go ' for nothing. On the negative side, we have disarmed Japan and destroyed its military machine. We have taken over its industrial power. The business monopolies have been broken up. On the positive side, according the to MacArthurs own report, average Japanese no longer cringes in the presence of the police or other public authorities; his home has become his castle; he registers his opinion on public Issues, uncontrolled except by his own conscience; he enjoys the right of assembly and petition; he worships as he chooses in accordance with his individual religious faith; he enjoys the untrammeled right individually or collectively to demand correction of unjust labor practices; electoral discrimination has been removed. Economic Chaos Breeds Controls It is quite possible that the Werepublic, even under the hest conditions and with the material and moral assistance of the democratic imar nations (which it did not get) never would have succeeded. On the other hand, it never had a fair trial, for economic chaos forced the die- - DRYDEN Farm Editor. Outstanding young farmer of the United States is William G. Carlin of Coatesville, Chester county, Pa. He has won the title of Star Farmer of America most coveted honor that can be won by an American farm Of what stuff are champion farmers made? In the case of William run-dow- run-dow- 0. Japanese were utterly stunned by the suddenness of their crushing defeat. Gradually they discovered that they were being well treated and they assumed a attitude, an almost servile loyalty, obedience, friendliness and an apparently complete sympathy with the Americans. But that does not mean they actually have absorbed our culture, socially, politically or otherwise. Nor does it mean that they have been able to build up any real or lasting structure of their own. An utterly exotic democratic culture has suddenly been superimposed upon them. It would be absurd from the standpoint of human psychology or human experience to expect that Japan, an almost feudal nation, a land of powerful tradition and a thoroughly oriental viewpoint, could possibly about-fac- e in a period embracing even decades. Certainly not in years. In addition to the wide gulf that exists between Occident and orient, there are many obstacles which stand in the way of the achievement of a democratic Japan. Let us look at this conquered country through the eyes of a man who had the opportunity to study, first-hanthe rise and fall of democracy in Germany under the Weimar republic. It so happened that this observer also watched the attempts at the westernization of Turkey after the last war. Both BARBS states. His first farming venture began six years ago, when he was 14 years old, with four lambs and a small crop of tobacco. con- lic. Early news conferences held by Commerce Secretary Averell Harri-ma- n failed to reveal any secret and sinister bonds connecting him with Wall Street, the Kremlin, Secretary Wallace or the Florida hurricane. a simple set wt-ou- v ... Winners of Star Farmer of OUTSTANDING YOUNG FARMERS America awards, highest honors accorded to Future Farmers of America members, were announced at the Kansas City convention. Upper photo: William G. Carlin of Pennsylvania, who won the title; lower Koon photo, from left to right, are the sectional winners: Brody Lee of Texas, Paul H. Smart of Kentucky and Dennis O. Heitman of Nevada. From this small beginning, the enterprise has expanded until it now includes 20 head of beef cattle, 70 head of sheep and extensive crop acreages in tobacco, com, soybeans and lespedeza. Smart has served as a director of Kentucky Farm Bureau federation and Purebred Livestock Breeders association. First Nevada Winner. Dennis O. Heitman, 20, of Douglas county, is the first Nevada boy to win the Pacific region award of the Star Farmer, being selected from among 25,000 Future Farmers in 11 western states. He has complete responsibility for catthe management of a 1,500-acr- e tle ranch owned by his mother. .Heitman began his first farming program with four heifers and a quarter acre of com when he entered high school in 1940. From this small beginning his program has been expanded from annual profits on the projects. Today his assets include 30 head of beef cattle, 60 swine, 40 sheep and some 20 acres of growing crops. Texan Gets Award. Outstanding young farmer of the year in the South is Brody Lee Koon, 19, of Brashear, Hopkins county, Tex. The young Texan was selected from among 95,000 Future Farmers in the southern region. Koon already is established in farming as one of the outstandifig dairymen of northeast Texas. A farming program that began with one Jersey and has expanded into a herd of 55 with a genregistered Jerseys, along eral crop program ' on 255 acres which he bought last year from prof Gard-nervill- e, its on his projects, brought Koon j the Star Farmer award. In seven years he has realized a net profit of over $16,000 from his own projects, nearly all of which he has re- invested in expanding his program. Outstanding as a community leader as well as in farming, Koon has served as a director of Northeast Texas Dairy association, director of the Dairy Herd Improvement association and vice president of the Texas F.F.A association. Honor War Victims. More than 15,000 farm boys from every state in the Union, Puerto Rico and Hawaii were present at Kansas City when the awards were presented. The Victory convention honored the more than 4,000 members and past members of F.F.A who lost their lives in World War II. Future Farmers of America is the national organization of farm boys studying vocational agriculture. Main objectives of Future Fanners of America are to develop agricultural leadership, imcitixenship, proved agriculture and patriotism. In the emblem of Future Farmers of America, the owl is symbolic of wisdom and knowledge; the plow is the symbol of labor and tillage of the soil; the rising sun is emblematic of progress, and the day that will dawn when all farmers are trained and have learned to. the n of an ear of corn represents common agricultural interests, since com is native to America and grown in every state, and the eagle is indicative of the national scope of the organization. Their motto: Learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live, living to serve. cross-sectio- Sallies in Our Alley: Sbermint Billingsley was still gabbing about the night club owner on the coast who was stuck up and robbed of $400. . . . Glad it wasnt me, said the Stork Clubman. Can you imagine what El Moroccos Perona and the others would say if I ever was found with only $400 on me? Never See from a Bus: The elderly lady in the West 70s. She starts each dawning with a suitcase loaded Sights Sight-Seein- 5f J t tra, any room. or a J nave a really Jure that win go a the room a well-f- i Pattern 264 , for the shelves size cutting gi designed in g cut by hand pattern may with name r- - Mrs. ruth Bedlora Hills, Enclose 15 cent, Nam- Address Yoo g with cartons of milk and sets them out all over the neighborhood for pussycats. . . . Passersby waving to the mayor who always ta-tback. No kiddin seen it wid me own eyes. . . . The little old chap who cadges drinx in the 3rd Ave. joynts with a piece of rope. Bets you, a drink you cant tie him up tight enough to keep him bound. Always wins. . . The picketing bar bers. They all need haircuts. . . . The 5 ayem brawl (between oodles) at 50th and 8th. Such slugging! No Business Like It happened recently on the coast. . . . Sid Slate and his wife had a tiff. So she packed up and left Sid phoned for Los Angeles. his best chum, Sid Gold, to meet her at the deppo and straighten things out. . . . Which pal Gold certinny did. . . . Mrs. Sid Slate will become Mrs. Sid Gold after she is Freenovated. "Theres Show Business: ... ... A felt blackbo dandy job of a kitchen Place ol r; breadei in the refrige: hours before They will hold When using tl nuts, raisins, g: little flour. Thi about in his ression. iu daun two boy far told Steel knives may lose their Use very little ing oil cloths, a: through and de 1 real roads Freni ever bad without accept to had m Choose threa than the fabric The result will to the eye than exactly the sai worse, locate, i an ig i&er and try to sot c into effc yther. De ,te braii r, RRStiona beneath V Americ Arch of Triumph went . . . Howard Koch and his bride came tc tqwn to work on best-dicke- His fa i going i Lawrer bs. sticking in the Erich Remarque, the gave Ingrid Bergman his only bottle of that fiery Calvados that he speaks book-write- ifourse enever r. t ke, he the screenplay of Earth and High Had to dwell in six difHeaven. ferent hotels in seven days. On the seventh his wife forgot which hotel, whereupon they decided to return to ITwood. . . . Natalie Schaefer, the actress, lost a big money job in Detroit Be cause the man who vyas going to hire her wouldnt wait moren 2 14 hours for Natalie to finish a phone conversation. Imagine! The beestl fashion-an- nouncer GENERAL MacARTHUR There was no time to tatorship. establish in the minds of the people or in the processes of government, a real, solidly built democratic philIt is inconceivable that osophy. without a long period of education the Japanese can evolve politically to the point which the Germans never reached. Americas greatest bulwark of democracy is conceded to be the public school. A whole new curriculum must be laid down for the Japanese. At present the shortage of books is serious. The old books are, of course, almost useless. There is likewise a shortage of trained teachers. Another factor essential to the growth of a democratic government is security, without which individual effort cannot flourish. Today in Japan no Japanese worker is sure that his wage in the rapidly deteriorating currency will provide him a livelihood. No industrialist is certain be will have purchasers and many are not sure their factories will be allowed to operate until the question of reparations is settled. In other words, the Japanese lives, thinks, acts, by the grace of a superior force, the American high command. Remove it, and the antidemocratic forces will be let loose; maintain it without a solid foundation of native grown democratic structure springing from the people themselves, and you are merely removing a substitute for a MacArthur or an Uncle Sam, or a Mikado, and another will quickly be found. by B aukhage pub- ex- he change and grange. In 1944-4- 5 was president of Pennsylvania Association of Future Farmers of America. Kentucky Boy Wins. Central region winner of the Star Farmer of America award, Paul H. Smart, 20, of Versailles, Woodford county, Ky., was chosen from among 55,000 Future Farmers in 13 central , At first the . d. Carlin the answer would be summed up in a statement of his zeal, his enthusiasm, and his attention to den tail in developing a farm into a high producing enterprise. The award was made at the recent National Victory convention of Future Farmers of America held at Kansas City. Carlin was chosen from among the 200,000 boys studying vocational agriculture in high schools of the country, who make up the membership of the F.F.A. Farming in partnership with his brother on 190 acres of land, Carlin has made an outstanding n record in bringing farm land back into production. His accomplishments in soil rehabilitation are cited as examples for farmers throughout the country. . In 1940 the Carlin brothers took over a farm owned by their father and previously operated by tenants. Through the years the land had been literally farmed out, with severe gully erosion present and with the soil in poor condition. Purchase New Farm. Through their classes in vocational agriculture in high school, these boys learned what had to be done to bring such land back into good production. Land that had produced only 25 bushels of com to the acre in 1939 brought a yield of 55 bushels in 1942. By 1944 they had accumulated enough profits to buy 90 acres of land with a house and farm buildings. Today the farm is a going business, with assets of nearly $15,-00Its resources include 145 head of beef cattle, 15,000 chickens, 50 market hogs, 50 acres of corn, 65 acres of hay and 25 acres of ots farmers exchange, Recover From Stunning Lost ft & nd with very expense too. at Work! You can positively get delivery on a Dodge or Plymouth, within four weeks, at about $2,200. In Sweden! All show windows there display U. S. 1946 cars. . . . Espionage (and eounter-espy- ) is terrific there, more so than during the war. . . . Russia allegedly has 125 intelligence agents working out of the Stockholm embassy almost twice the number the British have dittoing. We got none, hub? . . . Howard Hughes, the says he wishes his biographers would get things right for once. One mag piece said he inherited 17 million from his pop. I Inherited $300,000! he exclamation-marke. , . They tell you that the biggest spender in the world today is Robert Arida, a Syrian. He alapt at legedly maintains an the Ambass; Hitlers bought yacht from the Bwiddish Govt for only 400 Gs. It has a crew of over 100. He has three pleasure planes and spends $250,000 monthly. What British Govt gave it to him? boy. Billy Carlin has been active in the affairs of his community. He is a member of the farm bureau, the political, economic and social life of the country, are only forms and it will take a long time many years before those forms can be hardened into enduring substance. The reason for this is that the life of the individual Japanese and acts of their government, actually are - dominated by a supreme power which, while it is not constantly visi-bleis no less potent that is the power of the U. S. occupation forces. Columnist STAR ARMER and barley. That is probably literally true. But it does not tell the whole story for, according to my informant, there are indications that the progress made, the reforms achieved in In Salt Lake City, 50,000 deer tributed their fat to the fatless J. & . High School Boy News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1618 Pennsylvania Washington is full of dead leaves, and live politics, and its hard to avoid slipping when you tread on either. Three new elephants arriving at the New York zoo made no comment on the elections except to say that if the donkey led an ace, they would trumpet. States Unique Probes Realize Results One-ma- n LANSING, MICH. Michigans grand Jury system unique one-ma- n is developing into a sizable government activity, with seven inquiries now in progress in six counties and more than $600,000 in state and local funds earmarked to pay the bills. Targets of the jurors range from gambling, bribery and liquor control to labor and local courts. An estimated 2,800 witnesses have testified before the inquisitors. As an aftermath of the investigations, nearly 200 citizens have been Indicted, the list including legislators, state and local police officials, labor leaders, bankers, industrialists and gamblers. n The Michigan system of Deto the back dates grand juries troit police court procedure of the 1880s. The statute providing for the system, which was not written until 1917, enables a justice of the peace, police judge or judge of a court of record to act as a grand juror whenever, upon filing of a complaint by a citizen or official, he has cause to suspect that a crime has been committed within his jurisdiction. Provision is made for subpoening witnesses, who may be punished for contempt of court probe has Legality of the one-ma- n been upheld several times by the Michigan Supreme court, most recently in 1945. Experts Culling Will Be Plentiful Mass of Secret Data on Germany Holiday Turkeys CHICAGO. Despite heavy drains on the nations poultry supplies during the critical meat shortage, Americans will sit down to turkey and cranberries for their Thanks- giving and Christmas meals as usual this year. Reports compiled from all turkey areas indicate that more than 41 million turkeys will be marketed, the second largest crop on record and only nine per cent under last high. years e Although a larger percentage of turkeys will be marketed early because of the meat shortage, there will be plenty of birds left for the holidays, according to Cliff B. Carpenter of the poultry institute. all-tim- one-ma- More Women Listed As Heads of Families WASHINGTON. Another aftermath of war years was disclosed in a census bureau report that increasing numbers of women have moved into positions of heads of families that is. the major bread-winn- er for the family. In 1940 only 15 per cent of American families looked to a woman as the family head, the report rethe perveals, while by centage had climbed to nearly 22. This means, the bureau says, that three million more families have a woman as the main support. WASHINGTON. Worlds biggest editing job is under way in Germany as experts of the Office of Technical Service screen an estimated 3t4 billion' pages of once-secrtechnical and scientific data on German factories. Industrial and scientific processes. From this mass of data, experts probably will select about 314 million pages to be returned to this country for study by industry, schools, government agencies and other interested organizations. Less than one million pages have been returned to this country. Approximately 100 OTS editors, supervisors and microfilm operators, 600 Germans and an undisclosed number of military personnel are engaged in the task. The data now being culled is in addition to first-han- d reports which 650 technical experts have made on German secret data. OTS, which is the outgrowth of five former war and postwar government agencies, publishes a weekly Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports. Work is now in progress on the second volume of reports, the first containing 26,000 abstracts of industrial and scientific data, both foreign and American. The latter also were secret during the war. Best sellers on the agencys current list are reports on German soap, electronics, leather, adhesives, paints, varnishes, lacquers and synthetic waxes. et Dad Solves 'Pal Problem Enters School at Age of school as a freshman this year. Although they at first were becoming a pal to his children has amused by the Idea of their dad been provided in the experiences of going to school, the children soon Gabriel Sabau all he has to do is looked forward eagerly to his com57 pany. go to school! At 31, Sabau, the father of three Daddy, were glad youre going to Youre such a good comnever school. worried had youngsters, of a these the days, Insisted his oldmuch about problem being panion on Dale Marlene, 10, after est a stumbled He tots. to his daughter, pal anweek. first the of the solution good companion Besides attending classes daily at gle accidentally when he started to CROWN POINT, IND. A new solution to the old problem of a father Crown 31 Point high school, Sabau works at night for a steel mill. His wife, who also is employed, rushes home at noon to prepare lunch for him and their three children, two of whom are in elementary school. Sabau, army veteran, entered high school 10 years after quitting the eighth grade. Under the speedup course, he hopes to complete four years work in 18 months. Then hell continue his studies at Purdue. laved m Fannie Hurst may give Norma Shearer her first screen story, She Walks in Beauty, for Normas return to the films. Shed play a woman her own age. A Hollywood novelty! lector, 1 Older p family dii your Vitann Baton! pood-t- s helps b resists Don Ameche wonders if anybody ever called the President Harried Truman. . . . Eddie Jaffee is convinced theres something very fishy about the meat shortage. . . . Bill Schiller rates a patty-cak- e for the campaign hes waging as candidate for the state senate. Hes fighting for education and housing of vets. . . . At the Glass Hat two Repubs were indulging in their pet pastime The whole na panning Truman. said the first, is laughing tion, up their sleeves at him. . . . You kiddin? asked the other. Whos got sleeves? woode Scott'i festaarai ' faMe crvin, Brittai here; h tarde Lew Parker found out why the series games at St. Louis didnt break attendance records. Most of the Missourians are t on. in Washington! Plenty ( The boss of a New York union announced that its long strike was ove., and he ordered everyone back to work at a midtown hotel. But one lad continued to picket after all the otners resumed working. Heyl asked the labor boss. Why dont you go back to work? I dunno, shrugged the picket Youve had me on strike so long forget what I used to do! Frances E. Kaye observes that pitcher Howie Pollet of the St Louis Cards was one strike away from winning the series opener and that Truman is just about one more strike away from being washed up. . . . Kaye also thinks that in Georgia Fatzo Goering wouldnt be hanged hed be Georgias hangman. . . . And Saxie Dowell res ports that the race was the closest thing in the Dodgers-Cardinal- National league since Branch Rick. The Red Sox first baseman ey. rates Yorkids. .. bi stanu they urhard sa -- fcfeakir fcrstoc Modem M. irmuUr J! drinktnr-jJ- tlon tt tbs kidnT. and otbarinX"1 blood-Yo- o baadacha, di ' lef P10 Urrd.o or "I a1 ms. bnuBi .46 |