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Show IT ED Jh Dmi OR Iso News uu I L A City, UM February S Young People Should Study U. S. History 12, 1945 We stand for the constitution of the United States with its three departments of government as therein set forth, each one fully ..independent in its own' field. 4 Believed In Rule By The People jhie dl-- . they could have understood rule by little have would courts recti ve where or no jurisdiction and where the directors were not amenable to the people. that he was born in Hardin County, Lincoln clearly set forth his ideas of constitutional government in his first Kentucky. Reared in the free atmosphere of that wilderness region, Lincoln inaugural address when he said: early formed the habit of thinking for A majority held in restraint by himself," of forming his own opinions constitutional checks, and limitations, In and drawing bis own conclusions. and always changing easily with delibwhen a that era of rugged erate changes of popular opinions' and man often started out alone to traverse sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a thousand miles of forest solitude, sub-- a free people. Whoever rejects it does j acting himself to the rigors of the of necessity fly to anarchy or to des.weather and the danger of torture and potism. - Unanimity is impossible. The horrible death if he should be captured rule of a minority, as a permanent ar- -. by the Indians, the thought of governrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so mental protection never entered the that, rejecting the majority principle, heads of those, sturdy pioneers.- - In fact, anarchy or despotism. in some form is as advancing civilization brought the all that is left. government closer and closer to them, What would the great emancipator-thin- k L they steadily withdrew farther into the if he were to return to earth wilderness. They relied upon themselves and see the changes that have today and the resources at their command.. been made in the rule of this nation? and That they suffered hardships What would be his opinion regarding a in unknown practically privations government which permitted its citjzens America today no one will deny. They - to be herded into certain organizations, were frequently hungry and cold, and subject to the rules and regulations, dues death from these causes was accepted fines imposed upon them by the and casually. They never moaned or com- -' leaders of those groups, before those of life a were living ' citizens would be permitted to work in plained, for they freedom and they realized that to do defense plants in a time of national this they must expect to make some emergency? What would he think of the could knew that sacrifices. They they regimentation of the people, and of the -- remain in the more populous centers of ' theory that our system of free economy civilization in the eastern part of the has broken down? What would he think United States, but they would not have of the promulgators of foreign ideologies enjoyed the perfect freedom and liberty to overthrow the ideals and in- seeking there that they had in the wilderness. stitutions in which he believed so comSo, rather than sell their birthright for pletely? a mess of pottage, they shouldered their Those who knew Lincoln best while rifles and turned their faces westward he was alive, of ten said he was a man into the pathless forests, where danger" bowed down with many griefs. Would and sudden death lurked behind every he not have more sorrows if he were to tree. For out there they were free men return now? Then his nation was rock-- " in every sense of the word. They had . ed with a great civil war which sought no beck and call; they mans to answer to overthrow the constitutional governwere free and independent, and that fact ment for which he stood, but he had the gave many of them a greater physical advantage, at least, of knowing who the and mental stature than they ever could enemies of his country were. If he were haVe had otherwise. to return now would he not see men In those backwoods regions, comprofessing great love for this nation munities were formed by men and worn- -. steadily undermining its very foundaen having the same ideas and believing tions? Would he not see a gradual forin the same principles. They breathed saking of the principles for which he the atmosphere of liberty and freedom, stood, and a turning to totalitarian desand the will of the majority ruled. - In potism? Yes, his griefs and sorrows tothese surroundings, and among such day if he were to return probably would men and women, Abraham Lincoln grew be greater than when he was here before. to manhood. There he learned to think On this anniversary of the birth of clearly and to reason logically. There he Abraham Lincoln, let the American peocame to the conclusion that the only ple consider carefully the principles for government for a free people was one which he stood and the opinions which where the majority ruled, under certain he voiced. Let them scrutinize present .constitutional checks and limitations. conditions and then decide whether or And be never changed his mind. He did not there has been a decided turning to not believe in rule by directive, and his . despotism.. Then let then resolve that mind, clear and strong and vigorous as no act of theirs shall aid in the destruit was, could not have conceived of workction of 'constitutional government as he ing men like himself submitting to the knew it, but that they will do alljn dictators. yoke and will of their power to see that this government . Ho, Lincoln, and his associates could not of the people, by the people and for the have, understood that- - any more --than people shall not perish from the earth, of emanAbraham Lincoln, the great cipator, for it was on February 12, 1809, THIS i the birthday anniversary self-relian- -- self-impos- Ancient Fever Cure Aiding United Nations COME 30d years ago the wife of the Spanish viceroy at Lima cured her illustrious husband of malaria with the "Indian fever cure "whose brackish" powder Is helping to save millions of allied troops. The fever cure comes from the bark of the tropical Cinchona tree, once called the fever tree because of the therapeutic value of its cinnamon-colore- d bark. In one of the first authentic descriptions of the currently important - quinine-producin- g tree, an Augustlnian 1 ion. J - the war eliminated the established Far Eastern quinine sources. In 1933 seed was brought from Java to Guatemala, . prpviding a pioneer stock in the establishment of plantings in the American With the Cooperation of, the tropics. United States Department of Agriculture, local planters and a large fruit company, this experiment achieved a notable success. Another extensive Cinchona experiment station was established in Mexico, just across the border from Guatemala. Large plan- tations are now under cultivation in Costa Rica. Intensive investigation of the problems and procedures of Cinchona culture has been conducted in this hemisphere since the early 1930s. This investigation is now producing tangible and critically needed Tesults in .the form of constantly increasing quantities of quinine. The Western Hemisphere is becoming more and more independent of the Far East. initial The Mark Of Greatness By Arthur Bugs" Baer At a dinner to James Montgomery a - Flagg tendered by Messmore Kendall I eld that, Flaggs career is proof of the adage that genius is jg capacity for taking infinite pains and giving them. The sharp ..Flagg never wavered but explained that I had said the same thing about Westbrook fegler. Well, , be was right now that I r recollect On the birthday of one of our greatest of all men I think I will talk Or maybe . about Flagg. ' pnyself. Everybody knows everything there is to . - know about- - Lincoln, L--, , Washington, Grant and Wilson. But who knows about me? Mr. Baer Another little thing I said about Flagg was, Of all the men in the world he ! the most misunderstood by himself Thats true of all of us except Lin-eol- n, Washington, Grant and Wilson. I usually make this paragraph a little longer , to get across the fold in the newspaper. But I think I have made my, point. And whats the use of doing that when . Arthur "Bugs" Boer -- you have to make twenty-foget a pound of butter? , ur of them to ut I never really have written a article about Lincoln on the twelfth. Nor Washington on the twenty- - , second. I guesj the queerest switch I -made was in 1936. when I started to write about Lincoln.and finished with a biography of the twelfth man on the Dartmouth football team. I didnt know his name. But do I, know the name of the midget in Morgans lap? Or do I know the identity of the man who reads the notes my wife leaves in milk bottles? Do I know who shines the shoes you leave In the Pullman aisle? Or who walloped Billy Patterson? -- There are many men in this nation lurking back of the hazy scrlmm of anonymity. In just ten days I will write ah "essay on Washington the founder. It will be practically this one with a different date. I, have to watch myself, for in late years I find I am developing a radish tendency. I keep repeating. i I think James Montgomery Flagg is a great man if you dont separate them. I think I am a great man.' Who knows whether Washington, Jefferson, Lee and Lincoln would or would not have tilted a pin-ba- ll machine if they the jot - chance? - , -straight-out-and-o- - ii official regimentation and the By George E. Sokolsky "Four score and seven years objects of public bounty, This is a country whose ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation tory justifiably evokes pride not only lovo of eountry but . . It is hard to realize that it is, four score and two years pride In country. Dulles In the since -- Abraham Lincoln .spoke same, address. said that "for elsewhere 100 yean peoples those words- - He stands in the had fought to get, not to men- middle of our national history. ace, the kind of society w Nearly 80 years preceded his had invented. And that is presidency; 80 years have passed true, for during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since he was our president His even up to the 1920s most marks . the turning point, the of the world looked upon the center, the changing era of our United States as a model for , country. all peoples. But that Is not the true today. Somehow It is curious how' men appear to fit the times. James Buworld has turned away from us and our ways. Europe chanan, who preceded Lincoln, was inadequate- - 4orthetask of degenerated into slavery as an accepted, way of life. Even In holding together a nation that Andrew our country, millions of our was failing apart; to people favor enslavement Johnson, who followed Lincoln," was obviously not of sufficient the state. The glorious era stature for the trials of reconInitiated by Lincoln has apstruction. But Lincoln took us parently reached its terminal and in Its place is being rethrough the war between the stored the brutal cynicism of states; he left us a nation conthe divine rights of the state. ceived in liberty; he might have (Th opinions expressed herein are the healed our wounds had he been writer own and are published in erder permitted to live for he had to present all tides of current questions. malice toward none. He was Thee do ofnotthisneeesiarily represent tbs paper,) suited for the hour; he was the opinion a national of expression peed. Since Lincoln, our country has grown from a small naToo Many Magicians tion, torn by strife, to the DENVER, Colo (AP) Ama- -' mightiest power on earth. teur Magician William Hyer lugThis was the accomplishment sink ged his personal of a free people unhampered to an auditorium for his perI by tyrants, by masters, by formance after some one noticed caste, by governmental domhe used everything but the under-etoo- d ination. American kitchen sink in his act. democracy to mean freeHe put it beneath a piano undom; they understood a retime to make it disappear. til to a of be govsystem public It disappeared too soon, though, ernment mastered by the and police now are helping Hyer people themselves. This counlook for It. slavof forms forsook all try ery; we rejected the enslave-- " ment of Individuals to private masters, but even more, we rejected the enslavement of the Individual to his government. We knew no rulers. We refused to bow to any living man. We had no royal family, of place. Ther - no heritage was no elite and no common man. There was equality of opportunity for the competent and the thrifty. The young people of this country would do well to study the history of their own people during that long stretch of 80 years. Too many of them have no appreciation, .as they have no knowledge of the free play of individual freedom, which built out of desert and plain and forest this wonderful land, unequalled anywhere upon this earth a a fit place for free to men to live. They need know that life did not begin in 1933 nor even when they were born; that they are possessors of a heritage rich in God-givgifts and that In the personality of Lincoln is the symbol of all of them. Perhaps the presidents of the United States since Lincoln have not been at all times dramatic, glamorous figures, startling n manner and speech, astonishing -to the multitude like , a Tom Thumb or even a Frank. Sina- -, tra; but the country grew in In territory, population, in y A. A Cronfei wealth, in productivity, in a ris- 1 THE OISE TEARS" "iether imin of standard the ing living, of the of life provement ways In this, bi greatest novel, Dai and the conditions of work. NoCronin present! a vital human where else appeared a parallel theme through the life story of Nowherrf human progress. else a simple man who will be loved sedid men make their own and remembered as long as the curities of life, while enlarging, - printed page is reed and strengthening their freedoms. And as John Foster Dulles The 20th Century-Fo- x recently said: photoplay was based on Above all, what we did this itirrlng story. was done by the people themselves. They kept control of their own destinies and enjoyed the DESERET BOOK CO. unique satisfaction which comes from the sense of creation rather than being the subjects of Flashes Of Life nd Yoo Hoe, Skinnay! PEGLER -- w V SOKOLSKY Mr. Pegler Pursues Further The Definition Of Curmudgeon By Westbrook Pegler Now children, if you little bums with your rosy, apple cheeks end the stupid expression on your silly little faces, will hold still a few minutes, we will continue f. Our English les- 1 son. We are run- ning down the word "cur-mudgeo- n, which is what Harold lekes calls himself in his autobiography and with no dissent from me, because it means an avaricious, churlish fellows Pegler niggard; miser." We will stir in some ethics and a yolk of civics along with the If you will bear in philology. mind that Mr. Ickes personifleaT the conscience and spirit of the New Deal, and has been in the cabinet longer than any other member except Mrs. Perkins, you .will grasp the idea that his character suits Mr. Roosevelt right "down to the ground. He la Mr. Roosevelts kind of fellow. No, you may not leave the ' room, Let us see what avaricious means. Avail, avalanche." Ah Avaricious; yes, here it is. by avarice; greedy of rapacious, gain;, synonyms: covetous. grasping, sordid. Sea And here is avarice. It means- ,excessive or inordinate desire for gain; covetousness, cupidity. Goodness, w have our work cut out for us, havent we? But it will be worth while because it will teach us so much about the wonderfully generous and humane spirt of the New Deal. covetous , Shall we look up next? That sounds kind of bad, doesnt it? Didnt we hear ' somewhere that Thou Shalt not" covet thy neighbors wife or his goods? But we must resist the temptation to digress, although our .miser did strike it rich when . he married the millionaire ex- -. wife of a neighbor and seems to a have coveted the small estate left by Frank Allen, a taxi-ma- n, in very modest circumstances, who died of injuries suffered in a smashup in which the first Mrs. Ickes was killed. Anyway, he sued the taxi mans estate for $7500 and chased the unfortunate widow of Mr. Allen clear Up to the supreme court of the state of New Mexico where he was tufned back with a decision that his claim died when Mr, Allen died. There were five children in the Allen family and all that was left of his small estate after the litigation with the living spirit of the New Deal was $696. Mr. Allen was one of those - Americans who- - Mr. - Ickes, r Henry Wsllaee and the rest of them would have called "the common man. Hi widow and the children would be regarded as little people. This esse gives hs s real, practical dera- onstration of that great love of theirs for the common man and the little people. Incidentally, on of the Allen beys turned out to be a very fine American. He joined up with the , British before our country got into the war, flew with the RAF, then joined the American air -forces,! completed his missions in - Europe and is now a flying in- repeal of prohibition, and othstructor in California. ers tore into insurance, airplane But covetous, covetous. Yes, contracts, slot machines, radio here it is. "Very desirous. Inorand literature for broadcasting to obtain (espedinately eager the papers and magazines. Re- cially money). Covetous Implies minds you of that great, public for excessive desire especially spirited gift of the old, outmodWhat .belongs to another; avariat ancestral heap Hyde Park cious: greed for wealth with a ed to the beloved little people of view to hoarding it U. S A., whereby it came Now "cupidity. Ita from the the out of the taxable inheritance Latin cupidus, meaning longwith the right of occupanIt says here: To long for. but ing. as any of the cy reserved as Eager desire, especially for children shall long live. wealth; avarice. Well, shall we see what a That avarice certainly gives us a lot of mileage, doesnt it? miser is? Of course, we know No, I told you, you may not Ickes is one because he said so, Websters collegiate leave, the room. What? Youre according towhen he called himsick? Well, I cant blame you. I dictionary, am pretty queasy myself, if you self the curmudgeon. We arent want to know. Go ahead then, going to doubt hie word, are we? if you cant take any more of Except, perhaps, to think he may this beautiful character person- - & hve been guiltyof under-statifying the great, humane, altru- Miser. Trom the Xatin mf-istic, mothering, New Deal. ser meaning wretched." A Now to continue. ... Lust and covetous person, especially one money - lust, meaning greed are synonyms. Then It having wealth who lives miser-say- s in the dictionary cupidi- - ably to increase his hoard. ty, greed, avidity agree in the That doesnt quite fit Ickes, idea of inordinate desire. Cudoes It? A little tight across the shoulders.- - He certainly pidity applies to covetousness Of does have wealth and doea inwealth; greed to insatiate add selfish craving; avidity to eager crease hla board bat nobody or ardent relish or appetite- .can aay he lives miserably, This become a refrain, does- -. what with hla suburban place nt it. It reminds you of how outside Chicago, on a street called Private Road1 and his they were all standing there eg g plantation outside Washwaiting for the gravy train back Roosin March, 1933, and Mrs. ington which would be an esevelts uncle, Forbes tate in the hands of anyone Morgan, anagged a sinecure as lobbyist opposed to the New Deal, but, in hla ownership, is called a for the liquor industry at 000 a year as the payoff for the farm. i . e- 1 $100,-actuat- ed en THE KEYS of the KINGDOM ... RIO GRANDE TRAILVAYS SERVICE FOR SALT LAKE VALLEY - Replacing all former bus operations of the SL&U Railway. Rio Grande Trodlways now offers nine daily round trips between Salt Lake City and round trips between Salt Lake City and Payson. ?ovo', i?vn Also daily senrice between Salt Lake City and Riverton. READ DOWN READ UP Lv Bait Lake City Ar Murray Lovendale Jet Midvale Sandy Draper Jet State Prison Lehl Factory American Fork Manila Pleasant Grovs Ltadon Harris Orem Snow Lincoln ..... .. 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