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Show TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1951 The Dragerton Tribune Dragerton, Utah Page 2 HOME TOWN REPORTER Two Schools of Thought Confuse Nation's Foreign Policy Picture Walter By A. Sliead RANKING GOVERNMENT do not believe, as Mr. Herbert Hoover seems to believe, that the people of this country have degenerated into a nation of rodents. It is as foreign to the nature and character of the men and women who till the soil of Americas vast expanses of farms and fields and to the staunch independent, freedom-loving folks at the grass roots in the home towns of this country to crawl into a hole, and, as the saying goes, pull it in after them, as it Is for the American eagle to assume the qualities of the carrion buzzard or traits of the thieving, boisterous crow. And yet, during the past few loss of the battle of North Korea, there is one fact which in the' mind of this reporter will do more to impress all Asia than if we had won a signal military victory. That was, when despite the extremity of the military evacuation of Hung- nam, we did not forget our friends, and we had the moral stamina to evacuate with our own men more than 100,000 friendly Koreans. Airlift Was Victory The Berlin airlift was a moral victory oyer overwhelming odds in the cold war with Russia. We kept our word to feed those people in Berlin. We will keep our word with France, with England, with Belgium, with Greece and Turkey and weeks two schools of thought on all the other countries of the free the nations foreign policy have been world if we are to remain a nation put forth and the people seem con- worth defending. fused. Mr. Hoover would crawl into our hole and pull our two oceans In Would Lose Rhur over us and let the rest of the But on the material and military world go hang. John Foster Dulles, side, there is one thing which Mr. of Mr. Hoovers own political par- Hoover and his followers overlook. ty, would face the world, would of- Russia now has a manpower pool fer our military and moral strength of some 800,000,000 to draw from. to save western civilization from This nation alone has 150,000,000. the onslaught of Communist bar- But we even it up to some extent barians. If we should do as Mr. by a e edge on production Hoover suggests, scamper into our and armament and firepower. If holes, like rats and mice, Mr. Dulles we abandon Europe, then we are says we would not be the kind of handing over to Russia the tremena United States which could defend dous production resources of all itself. Europe and the rich steel assets of We have got to make up our the Rhur valley which would give minds quickly on this question. them the advantage in armament, Time is running" out.- Do you take and we couldnt dig our holes deep to your hole with the rats and enough here to keep them out. mice, or will you be on the side of the American eagle? Silhouettes Unfortunately, there Is a segment Washington of the The nostalgic wind-u- p of the American press which bollame-duc- k of the 81st consession sters the Hoover fallacy and gains swan-son- g . . . farewells, disciples by the simple expediency gress of criticism and division an old speeches, even a fewn tears and the of a new immediate swearing-iHitler stand-b- y and improved upon freshwith brash congress many considerably by one Mr. Joe Stalin. men on both sides of the capital Stir up confusion, criticism, tell lies often enough and 'big enough . . . Washingtons noiseless street and eventually they will be be- cars, with trolleys underground a taxi believed. These men in our national . . ; Two newsman in of the living; the life, little men of little faith, are wailing to the curb and driver pulls cracks, saying we must abandon Korea. do How much need? you boys We must pull out of Europe, we must abandon our solemn pledges, our moral commitments, our allies Remember 1946 Remember the 1948 campaign in Europe,, we should forget the United Nations and hoe our own which brought in the 80th congress had enough?, row, we must find a scapegoat for on the slogan referred which the loss of a battle in Korea. principally to price and rationing of meat? ceilings Meat likely will be the first comMoral Stamina Shown modity to go under price control If we are to conquer communism, and rationing. It is rapidly passing itwillJiot.be-bymilitary force beyond the purchasing ability of the of arms. No Gibraltar in this hemiaverage American and many are sphere will help ideas out of the clamoring for a pri-- e ceiliny on this United States. And in spite of the food commodity. five-to-on- - hi-co- st Football German Causes Uproar KanDORRANCE, Kas.-T- he assosas High School Athletic ciation protested the decision of Dorrance principle Glenn Y: Wy-co- ff to let a German high school boy play football as part of his one year education in life in the United States. Wycoff said that he wanted the boy, Rudolph Dirschler of Baden, Germany, to have the experience during his one year here that is so thoroughly typical of the fall activities of the American high school football. The association, however could not see it that way and ordered all games played by Dorrance forfeited. The youth came to the United States for a year of American life under sponsorship of the farm bureau and the grange. Wycoff wrote the other principals protesting the association We certainly did not move. send to Germany to recruit a player for our football team, he wrote. Plan Disaster-Loa- n For Farmers Grows VERIFYING ARITHMETIC . . . Dixie Chapman is a good golfer at thg ripe age of eight, but he isnt toe strong on addition, subtraction and stuff like that. So he checks his total score with bis caddy. Doc rose, in the Donald J. Ross junior golf championship at the Pine-hurs- t, Into Huge Business WASHINGTON, D. N. C., country club. The started in C. simple relief measure ranchers 1949 to aid snow-boun- d into mushroomed west has in the In a tremendous business. fact, the disaster-loa- n program has grown business and into a $33,000,000 covers parts of 37 states and Puerto Rico. Tt is still growing by leaps and bounds. The program was born In April, 1949, to help ranchers in western Dakotas and Wyoming who suffered severe livestock losses in the great blizzard. Since then it has expanded to include any type of production hazard, from bollweevil damage in the cotton states to wind damage in New England.8 Congress put the farmers home administration in charge of the program. The organization reports more than 28,000 loans have been made to farmers in 1,156 counties in 37 states as well as to 37 municipalities in Puerto Rico. The loans are secured by real estate and chattel mortgages bearing three per cent interest and, with few exceptions, are payable at the end of the next harvest. They average about $1,192 each, although there is no limit on the amount a farmer may borrow if he qualifies as a disaster victim and can put up sufficient collateral. The largest loan approved to date was $460,000 to a Mississippi farm- KATHLEEN NORRIS Marriage Rules Annoy Wife SEATTLE A vorce the di- attentive she is to his account of the practical jokes he played when a boy in grammar school. Few wives could stand that. These laws included the following Dorothy Horowitz couldnt, and promises; that she should never she got her divorce. It must have embarrass her husband; that she been a great shock to her husband, pay attention when addressed pre- because a man must feel himself sumably by him; that she neither perfect to demand such perfection. smoke nor play the radio too loud- The clause that especially imly, nor keep him waiting, nor make pressed me was- that she must comparisons again presumably promise to continue to do the between him and other rrten; that things she has done well. No letshe shorten her telephone calls and up for Dorothy under the new make fewer; that she not harp on rules. But in a happy marriage the topics of conversation, that she cook three meals a day when recan include most of quested, at specified hours, and these marital suggestions without A tired man, relaxed that she continue to do well the friction. with the big chair and the newsthings she has done well. Now these rules of Mr. Horowitz paper can permissably call out to are not radical nor cruel in any his telephoning wife, honey, could way, and they embrace only such Clarissa get it through her head concessions as most good wives that exactly at six oclock is not make to loving and generous hus- a good hour to go over the whole bands. But the audacity and com- week in review, including referplacency of a man who can attempt ences to your happy childhood? to rise to a state of such superiority. He may say in perfect safety, Mollie, weve thrashed this affair of Carolines marriage dry. Lets wait until we know more. He may even yell, Turn it lower! Keep it on, keep it on, if the kids are so crazy about the program, but turn it down! Yes, and which one of our loving husbands hasnt said to his loving Would you mind looking up wife, other day because her husband drew up a list of the ten commandments of marriage, and requested that she sign it. - give-and-ta- er. The number of regions designated as disaster areas are mounting, with one of the most recent being the entire state of Mississippi where the cotton crop was damaged by bad weather and weevils. Loans in the state are expected to swell the total of outstanding loans by several million dollars. one The end isnt in sight, It looks like the official said. program is here to stay-unle- ss the government starts taking losses like it did in the program of the depression era. WOMAN got a feed-and-seed-lo- an Bees Sweetening National Income for Yugoslavia several charges in connection with the Nationalist uprising of October 30 in which 28 persons lost their lives and hundreds were wounded. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Yugoslavia is capitalizing on its export trade of honey. High up in mountainous Slovenia, near the towering peaks of Triglav, Yugoslavia developed even before World War II a bee famed for its production. Before the war, most of the output was kept at home. Now the bees themselves are being sold abroad to sweeten up Yugoslavias belttightening budget. The bee-boy-s those who tend the hives and collect the honey with scarcely a sting-h- ave formed a cooperative with some 7,500 mefhbers. I of is in a such medieval male supremacy, something at which to marvel these days. I would visualize such man as small in every sense, building up an innate, and perhaps unconscious, sense of inferiority by puffing his little self up into something of a domestic dictator. Too Busy Sniffing Somehow one doesnt imagine this man as whistling as he cleans the car Sunday mornings, picking up a cookie as he goes through the kitchen, admiring his wifes new permanent, and lending a helping hand to Junior with his arithmetic. No, he is too busy timing his wifes telephone conversations, sniffing to see if theres been any smoking, watching her sharply to see how ke from that pattern and listening to Judys doll house problems long enough to give me your attention for three minutes? One husband I knew, with such constancy, used to shout I want that your undivided attention! the very babes of the household used the phrase among themselves. Yet that marriage held happily for more than 40 years. As for embarrassing your mate, adolescent little only immature, wives of the junior prom school think that is coquettish and funny. Nothing makes a real wife more sorrowful than accidentally to expose to others some weakness or mistake of the little man. That is an easy game to play, but too expensive to be a part of the bigger One wife I game of marriage. knew spoke perfect English because of a European education. 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