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Show 2 BOX ELDER Wednesday. Feb. 9, Brigham City. .A i -- Double Bad Luck His Honor Offers Tip SAVANNAH, Ga. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (UP) UP)c. district Briggs, a captain of the ImL James Smith told court he couldnt pay the voj) boat Stardust, came in of! bit a are Both mother and teacher grumbii in fines due on his 10th through trawling expedition about the poor pickings. He d Teacher wants to make a good im- 19th parking offenses this year. know how bad nt it was. a d suggested that pression on Mama. Mama, wants to make a Judge S. Spooner automobile to t later he was in court on cha,. over- Smith sell his Mama on Teacher. I good impression of illegal trawling. looks the fact that Teacher can quickly de- raise the money, mean only her children. Its seldom a tence gets finished uninterrupted. More About Navajos Semi-Weekl- 1949 Newspaper Successor to y THE BOX ELDER NEWS (Established and 1896) (Established 1909) In a recent conversation with Mr. and Mrs. Will Rogers, Jr., Senator Arthur V. Watkins of Utah discussed the Navajo Indian situation with the former congressman from California, and his wife. Do you have some definite ideas of what congress and the country may do to help the Navajos in their present condition," the senator asked the son of the famous humorist, who has made a first-han- d investigation of the situation. THE BOX ELDER JOURNAL William M. Long, Editor Charles Claybaugh, Business Manager Published every Wednesday and Friday and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879.; Subscription Rates: Box Elder County $4.00 a year; outside Box Elder County $5.00 a i year. Single copies 5 cents. , Member United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. Utah State Press Association One of the greatest steps for their feat edu- We think the Parent-Teachconferences are a fine and kind and wonderful thing, and a distinct improvement in living for that important segment of the population, the children. When a teacher talks to a parent about his or her child, its a cinch the parent The Rogers adopted two Indian children is going to hear only what he wants to hear anyway, regardless of what the teacher CheroRogers father was a quarter-bloo- d kee. Mrs. Rogers spoke of their personal says. On the other hand, it used to be awfully difficult for a parent to put a favorable experience with Indian education. interpretation on a cold, unfeeling F or We have two boys in our home, she 74 on a written report card. said. A Cherokee boy and a Navajo boy, ten years old. He is an enWe were thrilled with our first experience chanting child, gracious and charming, and so glad for the food and the wash tubs we at a parent-teachconference, and amazed have in our house. His beginning was typi- to learn yesterday that we were one of a mere cal of Navajo reservation hardship. He 96 fathers out of a possible 575 to go up was born in a December blizzard where his to Lincoln to find out if the teachers of our mother was sheepherding down on the salt wonderful offspring had the discernment rocks. She took care of his birth unatten- and wisdom to see what marvelous little ded, then killed a sheep, skinned it, wrap- people they are. Its quite a bout. The ped the baby in the fleece and walked teacher is accustomed to taking the floor through a snow storm to the hogan and then whenever she wants it ,The mother is acdied of tuberculosis. This is a typical customed to taking the floor whenever the occurence out on the Navajo reservation. subject is children, which, of course, can er Rogers replied, has been taken by a measure which I understand you introduced, for Bushnell, the large army hospital in Utah, which I hope will be able to be taken over by the Indian administration. cation, full-blood- ed sen- i&9 ;A.C rhur termine, and with alarming accuracy, just what kind of a home Junior comes from. It hasnt occurred to Teacher that Mama has a pretty definite fix on just what kind of a person JunoV has for a teacher this year: whether or not shes whether she mispronounces words and is a little sloppy in her grammar, if shes nervous and jittery, if school teaching is just a but secondary interest and a short-houjob, as far as shes concerned. short-tempere- d, rs low-payi- ng So they smile, nervously, too brightly, and tell each other what wonderful things they know about each other, through Junior. And the little guy who gets the best of the entire situation is youve guessed it Junior! And just who was supposed to get the best of it? er Very Favorable Publicity As a state and as a people, we peculiar' Utahns have done quite a bit of howling, in the past, about the way weve been represented to the rest of the world in magazine nonarticles,, novels and fiction. And rightly so. If all the malarky written about Utah and Utahns were compiled between covers, there would be literary scholars who could make a good case The Rogers agreed with Senator Watkins' that the ghost-writwas Baron Munchaupet project of making a separate Indian adsen. ministration for the Navajos and Hopis, But the trend has reversed itself. After apart from the administration for other Inso much tripe, it would appear, the most dians due to the size of the Navajo tribe, salable (and its the salable stuff that gets and the extremity of their condition. Senapublished!) literature about our state now tor Watkins introduced such a bill last seems to be good, honest reporting. When year. It passed the senate, but failed to pass in the house in the final, days of conit is slanted, it is slanted favorably. gress, not because of any opposition, but The latest example of because of the amount of money involved and information about Utah is an article in this the lack of time to consider it weeks Saturday Evening Post, on the newsThe Rogers underscored Senator Watkins stands or in your mail today, entitled The contention that the Navajos lack Nobodies U. from Utah It's the Amazing center of only opportunity. story of Utah as the new red-hi basketball, with a larger percentage of its Will you tell me something about their population playing in organized basketball (the Navajos) aptitude and ability to and seeing basketball games than in any learn? the Senator asked Mrs. Rogers, other state In the union. foster-mothof the Navajo boy The story hangs on Utah U.s amazing born on the desert and wrapped in the feat of winning the N. C. A. A., the Nation- fleece of the newly-kille- d sheep. al Invitation and the National A. A. U. Our Navajo boy, whose name is Clem championships, in recent years a feat du- Rogers, named after Will Rogers father plicated by no other college quintet. But it who was a Cherokee, is an average, bright goes on to Show why giving full credit to boy. When he first came to us in the clean living of Utah young people, the Navajo the latter part of his eigth year, he was less way our youth always are in training. than first grade, according to white standBasketball in the M. I. A., and the Mu- ards. , In the two years we have had .him, tual Jeague, the worlds largest organized he has covered four grades. That is a conbaske&all league,'' is explained. All in all, siderable record for any child. We work its 8 very, interesting article, and if there is him very hard and he responds beautifully. anytjjjng; condescending or sneering in the He works morning, afternoon and night on manner in .which it is written, we failed to his school work and seems to respond beaudetect , it. "Its good publicity among the tifully to our kind of California educational system. very best for Utah. This article isnt the first time in recent years,that Utah has had good treatment at the hands of Curtis publications. The Leave The Deer Alone the Posts series, Cities of America,1 dealing with Salt Lake City, was well The state fish and game department and and honestly written, admitting but not the game warden in Box Elder county are our honest faults, giving overemphasizing about 2,000 head of deer on the feeding recognition to our assets and virtues. A west slope of the mountains above town more recent article on, Utah in Holiday magazine had an even more favorable tone. here. Sportsmens funds are buying the feed, in recent years? Wiy the switch-ove- r and paying the labor bill. And unquestionbecomIs journalism, on the national level, sportsmen approve the project. Theyre ably is Or Utah tnore winning responsible? ing to see their hunting license money pleased its dpurs in quiet but effective publicity spent for the preservation of the herds direction? that provide so much splendid sport each Pijior to and during the Utah Centennial, fall, and meat for the locker if theyre lucky. our state received much excellent But unwittingly some people are doing the nation. And year in licit) considerable damage to the herd, the game and ear out, here and there, the picture we know its the true picture of Utah as warden reports. People generally are fasa piifetty interesting and wonderful state, cinated by deer. Its a favorite winter is ing painted for the eyes and ears of sport, in these parts, to go out and look for deer. Wrhen the heavy snow drives them the vorld. down out of the mountains, and its easier Perhaps the Department of Publicity and to see them, large herds of them, devotees deserves major of the Indu strial Development sport are multiplied. credit. This is part of the job they were And thats bad for the deer. organized to do. There is no question they are partly responsible the only question People, sometimes with cameras, trying is, What part of the good work is theirs? d to get close to the herds drive them out into the deep bethem, frighten have authorities church the Perhaps come a bit more publicity-wis- e in their snow. Fawns, and older deer in weakened outsiders. However, we condition from starvation, sometimes are dealings with would guess that the big factor in our im- incapable of battling their way out of the snow into which, in panic, they have proved publicity is the average attitude of deep run. Sunday the game warden brought more Were becoming the general public. the down carcasses of four young fawns loyalj and patriotic to our home state. Every one tf us, throughout Utah, is a better pub- - that had perished in snow drifts possibly driven trying to get licitj representative for our state. A close-u- p there by photographers or overenthusiastic outside pictures, Utah into from come writer can and talk to anyone, today, and hell get a clearer, more favorable impression of the Leave the deer alone, the game warden stat than he would have got ten years ago. advises. If you must watch them, watch A lid what is it that has made our people them from a distance. Theyre still wild, bettd publicity representatives of our still afraid of man. Theyre having a hard being enough time surviving, without The war, with its broadening stab frightened and harried into needless energyThe P. I. D.? The church? fluer draining battles with deep snow drifts. Whatever it is, were getting good publike deer, like the idea of deer in licity in the mass circulation magazines, theIf you mountains, like to have deer there waitwhere ten or 15 million or so people are huntlikely to see it. We can afford to forget any ing for you (waiting!) when you go books that would be ing in the fall . . . leave them alone now ! unfavorable books tremendous successes if they were to sell 300 or 500 thousand copies. Well feel a lot better when Senator WatTheres no doubt about it. Utah is doing kins and his Washington colleagues get the all right in its publicity, these days! Indian school thing steered past all interi vening committees. Were all too familiar with the definition of a committee as a situation treat want to a We dont grave about group who as individuals can do nothing but has but thought anyone flippantly, the who, together, can determine that nothing and solving combining major problems can be done. with igloos? housing shortage V pseudo-historic- al er widely-circulat- ed oft-stat- ed ot full-blood- er ed 4 in Box HI-LIGH- Elder TS "life With Father" Life With Father, was preIn a matinee performance, Wednesday, Feb. 2, for both divisions of the schooL 'Under the direction of Evelyn Morgan, the approbation of the three-ac- t play was inexplicable. The evening performance was a similar ebullition. Max Murphy played the part of father and Renae Glover, the part of Vinie. Along with excellent response of the cast, the scenery and costumes added much to the play. Life With Father will be presented to Bear River high school Friday, Feb. 4. RouJean Ward sented Term Examinations Students of Box Elder breath ed sighs of relief when they re turned to school Monday wlf the realization that term! ta were over for another quarter.. The first term exams, which contain work from both the first We're more than a little resentful of the fact that they didnt have parent-teachconferences, instead of report cards, when we were in school. And while were resenting, we resent and take pride in the fact that teachers are so very much better now than they were then. If we had had schools and teachers 20 and 30 and 4Q years ago like they have now, maybe all of us would have amounted to something! er Trains Still Run Baird Licensed As Through Brigham A Union Pacific trains from Salt Lake City to Butte, Mont were running, and pretty clp?e to on time, Heber J. Sessions, local station agent, reported last night But unless its an emergency trip, wed advise people not to attempt train travel' until weather conditions are more favorable, he asserted. Other connecting schedules werent doing 60 well. Last nights report by the local sta tion was as follows: Trains from the east and out of Ogden to Omaha and Chicago 'blocked. Not running. Southern Pacific and Western Pacific trains, going to and coming from the west, running far behind schedule but getting through. Union Pacific trains operating between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, running stub trains apd off schedule. 4, Between Pocatello and Portland, stub trains far behind schedule. Broker In Idaho J. Edwin Baird has recently passed his Idaho state examination fts a real estate broker and is now licensed in both Utah and Idaho. Bajrd went to Idaho Falls where he took the examination under the supervision of John Homer, Idaho Falls, state real estate board commissioner. Idaho regulations for real estate broker are very strict, Baird reports. Utah and Idaho do not have a reciprocity agreement and it is necessary to pass examinations in both states in order to operate in both. This will permit Baird to practice In both states as well as the states which have reciprocity with Idaho, Including Nevada, Washington and Oregon. The society editors phone number is 192. Report your news, please! Cape Alva, Wash., is the most westerly point In continental United States. after the North Cache game was considered a big success Merrill Boothe and Marva Rae Burt were chosen sweater king and queen. They will have their pictures in the Boomerang. A group of old timers and a got togethcouple of young-un- s er and furnished the music. It was some of the best we have Sweater Dance Success had this year. 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