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Show 1 BOX ELDER n,j ournai Brighdm City, Ulah A Semi-Weekl- Wednesday, July 10. 1946 Newspaper Successor to HE BOX ELDER (Established 1S9fi) Opinions expresseJ in this column are those of its author, and do not nccrdnly relied the views of the NEWS News and THE BOX El, PER JOURNAL (Established William M. Lons, Editor W. Claybaugh, Business Manager Mrs. Gladys H. Johnson, Advertising Manager Published every Wednesdev and Friday and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office In Brlttham ity. Utah, under the act of March 8. 1879. 'Subscription Knter-BoFlder County $4 00 a year, outside Box Llder County $$ 00 a year Sini-lcopies 5 cents. Deserving Our Support It seems editor had his lush aroused when this column our one-side- non-prol- it ht whole-hearte- Now They're Infighting The O. P. A., our Research Specialist In Charge of Dogs, Horses, Women and Price Control informs us, is still in the senate. Which may be a terrible death to die, but not an uncommon one. We hope. Personally (were apt to get personal in this space, you know) we weren't too sure the O. P. A. was a bad thing. We sort of fell for the very logical and scholarly dissertations, written dowm to us, the people, in condescending grade school economics and nursery diction, so wed understand what a fearful thing a free market is. We sort of got the idea, from the volumes of 0. P. A. publicity releases, that the heads of the 0. P. A. were thinking only of our the peoples good. Personally, they didnt give a hoot about whether or not 0. P. A. was retained, but were interested only in seeing to it that we made the proper decision. But now, with the 0. P. A. apparently fighting a losing battle for revival y not revitalization the public relations boys really are unlimbering the rabbit punches and short-ri- b blows. Theyre infighting, with an overtone of desperation. Fulton Lewis, Jr., the radio commentator on Mutual, apparently has won the honor of being the subject of their bitter rebuttal. tush. News-Journ- took a crack at the biased, news reporting of the U. S. press and radio. In the gibWhy strain to write a column when its so bering, glittering, sensual style of those Brahmin writers who ea.y to borrow one ? wander aimlessly through the pages of the Saturday Evening The U. S. treasury reports Fred MacMur-ra- y Post, bringing solace and coms gross earnings for lb 11 (the year he fort to the leisure class lords made Smoky") as 5F2i:;,:$3:5.3.i. Wonder and ladies of American weaun and aristocracy, Mr. Long took how he picked up that odd b3 cents! this column to the woodshed and spanked it like a firm but angerWish all the Farm Bureau league managers ed father, incensed because sonor secretaries were as good about keeping ny boy thought Pops old nineand reporting their game results and box teenth century volume of Banscon's as is Norm Watkins, pilot of the Brig- crofts American history was a little stupid. ham City team. A group of d citizens of this area, sensitive to the finer things and unwilling that living in a small town should mean exclusion of all opportunity to see and hear the best contemporary artists, are to be Jay Iden tells about a joke thats been gocommended on their enterprise and ambition ing the rounds lately. A farmer wrote the in organizing the Community Concerts asdepartment of agriculture, saying, Don't sociation. Remember the name. Youll send me any more books. I dont farm as hear a great deal more about it in the com- good as I know how now. ing months and, it is to be hoped, yourself become a member. Jay continues, I see little sense in putting I he plan is not untried. The Community in a lot of effort educating the people about Concert service, a division of Columbia Con- human behavior. They don't behave as certs, Inc., supplies the plan of organization, good as they know how now'. As we create and the artists. The famous names of concert artists under contract to this service, more literacy the greater the number of perand the other communities with which they sons on relief. And always somebody is have worked in successful cooperation for a building a bigger and better jail. Whats the use of sending anyone any more books? number of years, attest their reliability. The local organization is set up, of course, Violet Leighty tells of one candidate who as a association, 'tickets and sales and such crass commercial words are says that his parly should stand on a platnot to be used in the publicity. But theres form of sound money, thrift and hard But Vis afraid if he doesnt change no use trying to fool the public. The best work. concert artists, like poorer ones, perform for his campaigning tactics, he wont get even his wifes vole! money only more of it. Theres no way of talking around the fact A columnist points out that if the governthat the big jobs of the association after concert artists here for ment pays above O. P. A. ceiling for a combringing performances is to pay the piper. modity it is called a bonus. But if an indibpht enough ways, the traffic wont be too vidual does the same thing, he is patronizing heavy. In fact, it will, be only $5, plus tax, a black market. for a membership admitting an adult to all three and possibly more concerts. If Doctor Jones fell in the well, enough members join the organization in the And died without a moan. campaign beginning late in Sej Member, it He should have tended to the sick, may be possible to book four or five concerts, And let the well alone. all for tlje same membership fee. The group that met Saturday and formed Easy street usually is one of the best the organization has taken the initiative, got the ball rolling. It now remains only for roads leading to nowhere. the general public of the entire Brigham City Grecian women count their ages from the area to give them the d and entime of their marriage about the time thusiastic support they deserve. American women stop counting theirs. public-spirite- Journal. Oh Oh, tush, 1909) Charles top-flig- Lucinda Jensen was one the guests of honor July 9 atjf Nine persons representing civ- luncheon given at the Counts ic and religious organizations club by Mrs. Grover Rich of the community have been apLake City, the outgoir I Salt comcentennial the for pointed national president of the ordtX mittee of Bear River City. They are Charles Jensen, Lucind Jen- of women legislators. Th gues-- ' sen, Auston Johnson, Mary An- at the luncheon had recent derson, Adline Anderson, Har- been hostesses to the member ry Christensen, Vera Anderson, of the club from all the state' Clif Meteason, and Mrs. Cliffodd who met in a national conver tion in Salt Lake City. Barker. O Bear River News The best way to keep your kids from lying any questing. is not to ask them A cleer but uninspired fabricator, they tag him in the latest release, his plan of work is to seize ujxm a h or a part of a statement. By distorting partial facts while apparently reporting the news, he soon half-trut- has built up a swollen and deformed argument, out of all relation to the truth. His arguments sound plausible enough. They are stated with a deceiving semblance of sincerity and knowledge gained out of painstaking and impartial investigation. To those not familiar with Mr. Lewis withering and corroding bias, and crazyquilt method of logic, his statements are frequently confusing, if not convincing. It looks more and more as if the 0. P. A. boys, plainly and simply, are afraid theyre relations losing their jobs. The public branch (wonder what the payroll of the 0. P. A.s public relations staff totals?) now has two big jobs: First, finding evidence to make it appear conclusive that the majority of the American public wants price controls; and second, selling that same public the idea that they do want em. Its a tough battle. No wonder theyre infighting. Nightmare of an Auto Tourist The U. S. press, says Mr. Long, is not biased nor unfree. It merely has grown rich and powerful, and in doing so has grown conservative. It was the conMr. Editor, who servatives, abused the dream of Wilson for world peace and assassinated the League of Nations. It was the conservatives who cried for a return to normalcy after the last war with a poker playing newspaper man for president. It was the conservatives who spat at portraits of Franklin Roosevelt because he did his level best to raise humanity from the degrading poverty created by the conservative policies of his predecessors. It was the conservatives who twiddled their thumbs when Japanese troops invaded China in 1931, when Italy invaded Ethiopia, when Germany and Italy invaded the Spanish republic, and again, when, at Munich, they helped Hitler plan the invasion n of Soviet Russia. With scorn they laughed at all those who tried to warn the people of approaching economic disaster in 1929 and of the rising threat of Fascism during the thirties. These are Utopian fools, the conservatives told the public through their conservative newspapers, and thus lulled the people into a slumber from which only the approaching danger of Fascism could arouse them. Peg-leria- And the years have not changed them, for today the conservatives are following in the footsteps of their predecessors. With complete contempt for the poor and oppressed, they disregard the struggle of India, Java, and other colonial areas for their freedom. The Fascism of Spain and Argntina they minimize while they magnify our conflicts with Russia. Hush, you Utopian fools and radicals, they shout, at all those who dare suggest economic reforms that might prevent another depression. Profit is our fcoal, they say, and to hell with the people. A little poverty and unemployment they regard favorably, for only then can they be assured of servants to set their luscious tables and wash their stinking feet. That, Mr. Long, is what you choose to cal! conservatism, and is the philosophy that bellows forth from the American press. "Who gets jailed for what is only one phase of the issue involved. When news is screened, censored, buried in the seldom read back pages, written according to the philosophy of the lords of the press or left out entirely, and this is done deliberately, with a cold calculated Intention to mold the thinking of readers into a con- - I servative pattern, that, Mr. Editor, is not a free press, and the results of this type of censorship can be just as rotten as the results of any goverenment censorship. Hearst William Randolph was the first to clearly re veal the pattern of what tyou choose to call conservative jour- When the Spanish-America- n nalism. War was yet unforeseen, Mr. Hearst told a friend, You furnish the pictures and Ill furnish the war. And with brazen cruelty, Mr. Hearst did just (hat. He hipped the American people into a state of war hysteria by blazing headlines and horrible pictures, fabricated from his imagination, but purporting to reveal cruelties inflicted upon the Cubans by the Spaniards. Even though Spain conceded to virtually all U. S. demands, President McKinley declared war on Spain because the people, fired by the jingoism and yellow journalism of Hearst, would not have peace. Today, the Hearst, Patterson, McCormick newspaper chain (lie machine), stretches across the American continent, breathing the same yellow journalism that it began in 1898. Take for example, the eagerness with which the newspapers seized upon that war-tim- e faked story of merchant seamen refusing to unload a munitions ship during the South Pacific campaign. Very few of the papers that told of this strike in blazing headlines, published the official government statement that the story was false. Strikes are deliberately played up, whether trivial or otherwise, while the deliberate and planned acts of employers often conceived in malevolent hatred with intent to provoke strikes, are never told aout in the average conservative newspaper, which the average American reads. The employer controls the press and the unions havent a chance. That, Mr. Editor, is your sacred cow, the U. S. free press, from my point of view. Make of this what you may. frlii Traffic Court Marriage ought to be an easy proposition nowadays. The girls just love a wolf at the door. Some people will do anything for money; others wont do any- thing for it. We would like to find the golden mean We never saw a movie community sing that was a howling Death is the great leveler, but old age makes it a gradual process. The toper may die a sodden death. Many complain it is all pull in this word 'but some do not have enough push to get a pull. Chronic gamesters make a business of their sport. They all dwell in the higher realme of finesse whether it be cards or chess or bowling or any other sport. 6:00 A. M. OPEN CLOSED 7:30 P. M. When a brother Mason meets another in an Elk club room, there is no telling jhen or where or how they will come out. This happened at a recent Grotto convention here. They never showed up for the rest of the convention. Of Home Staple Groceries All Kinds Sandwiches The foundation of London wharves was built by the Romans and they were never damaged by all the bombing they received. Such knowledge might be of some use in this atomic age. Coffee Wolves had better throw away their sheeps clothing. Sheepish wolves don't get anywhere any more and are likely to havet heir own hides taken from them as well as the clothes. Frank Power, St. Petersburg, Fla. Ice Cream Beer Soft Drinks J. R. Seely Receives Honorable Discharge 3-- Brigham City vs. Raymond Harrop for passing on a white line, a misdeemanor. Complaint filed by Harry Smith on July 5. State of Utah vs. Lydia Peyrpe for operating a motor vehicle wihout a driver's license, a misdemeanor. Complaint filed by n William C. Sackett, July 6. paid fine of $5.00. Ihone 100 Relax and rest from CHEWY By YOUR VACATION Speaking for the strain of tedious work with an interest- GLENN r. motor 567 North Main FOR State of Utah vs. G. C. Atkins for faiure to stop at scene of accident after becoming Howdy Folks: One difference in said accident, a between a June bride and an Complaint filed by old maid is the bride has a W. F. Petersen on July 8. wedding march while the old State of Utah vs. Birnati Weis-ma- n maid hasnt even had an a Dredge s Market READING PLEASURE 5. operating DREDGES MARKET Man propoess but woman disposes; woman reforms and man conforms. Brigham City vs. Lois Buist, for improper parking. Complaint filed by Harry Smith on for- - at success. J. R. Seely, ETM son of Complaints filed in Brigham Mr. and Mrs.. E. Elwyn Seely, City court for traffic viola- of 118 East Forest, received his tions, charge, and officer fil- honorable disharge from the ing complaint. navy on July 2, at Shoemaker separation center, California. vs. Brigham City Raymond Seely entered the service a W. Crasen, for running a red ago and is entitled to wear year Comlight, a misdemeanor. the victory ribbon. filed plaint by Theron Jensen on July 3. Ptione your news to No. 7. July NEW HOURS ing book. Select Best Sellers Light Novels Classics. Whatever your taste is we have them. ve- hicle without a drivers license, a misdmeanor. Complaint filed by Wm C. Sackett on July 8. The tragedy of a June brides life, though, is when she realizes how few new dresses she can buy on what the poor dimwit can make. 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