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Show PACE THE TWO. The Herald-Journa- HERALD-JOURNA- LOGAN, L, l HOLD EVERYTHING Published every week day afternoon by the Cache Valley Newspaper Co 75 West Center Street, Logan, Utah. Telephone all departments 50. The Herald Journal delivered by carrier 45 cents per month. By mall, in Cache Valley, $4 00 per year, $2 25 for sixth months. $1 25 for three months, 50 cents one month; elsewhere $5 00 per year. matter in the post office at LoEntered as second-clas- s gan, Utah, under the act of congress, March 4, 1879. Proclaim Liberty through all the land Liberty Bell. , flrrald-Joiirn.- BY BRUCE CATTON Correa tax is the power to destroy. These who are governed least are governed best. TIIOMAS JEFFERSON. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing hapjicnod to you. I leter 4:12. We are always in the forge, or on God is shaping us for higher things. the anvil; lii.iK ley II. W. Beecher. THUGS CANT SAVE DEMOCRACY The American Bar Associations House of Delegates nearly adopted a resolution which would have condemned the usq of illegal methods to preserve Americanism. The only , eason the indictment of false Americanism was not engrossed was that at was incomplete. It was ordered sent back for enlargement and will very likely be presented to the full convention next September. Violence to suppress alleged movements something. The column was pleased to receive a letter from Valmar Miller, senior student at V eston, Idaho, high school Valmar discussed some of the contentions in 'he column, and writes his views in a forceful and intelligent manner. We thank Valmar for the correspondence, and choose to print it here. The foregoing exerpts from the column concerned serve as explanations to what it is about. The letter follows: Dear Mr. Nelson-AI read the column entitled "From Magpie Eggs to Guidance, I was impressed with the fact that maybe you don't realize that youth thinks about life. Maybe we are faced with vol-uof scientific material relating to life, but that doesn't stop us from having a good time. Tha doesn t mean that we wont get anywhere. I think that we have greater opportunities now than were ever offered to the youth of America. There are more industries and businesses than there ever were The only trouble Is we have more vocations to choose from. That's why we must have vocational guidance. When the time comes we will pre- - i Illegal violence directed at activities deemed subversive, cannot be justified under any circumstances upon the grounds of supposed necessity, the bar associations statement declared. Legal methods exist under our Constitution which are fully adequate to protect our institutions. People who dont sympathize with groups sponsoring meetings dont need to attend. The police will. Police officers have a pretty fair knowledge of what constitutes violation of the law. If any local laws are violated, the responsible persons will be held to account for them. If federal law's are threatened, government agents will be notified. We cant use strong-arm- , gangster methods to destroy opposition. Wc are contributing nothing to the cause of democracy w hen we employ the tactics of Fascist terrorism to protect Americanism. s t U.S. Paralysis Fund WASHINGTON, aati V The nation-wid- e cclilu. which r.obody President Roosevelt's hu been a cushion expected today to prowdi thought of at the time. That eushion is the $425,000 000 for the fund to fight mt alysis paid out during the year in unemHundreds of thousand ployment insurance under the So- last night "so that othcial Security act. WPA officials know of many cases where jobless walk" at thousands were kept off relief b..lls i.l honor of the workers rolls by their unemployment in- 5Kth birthday. The surance checks, and of many more climaxed shortly befoiiwhere WPA workers could be re- when Mr Rooseiclt, moved from the rolls for the same minute thank you, ami you radio message to tli, reason. and to the nation, for the conti lhut balls and to the "Man h i John L Aw, isnt that cute? lies teething, MjJ know. pare for the future That preparation doesn't take all of our tune, especially those in grade school By your article I Like it that you1 thnk we are worried about i.fe too. I agree tlmt li.e is a serious business but we don't we wont let it worry us. The older generation is Hying to worry us to death, with one from the columnBut why insist on shut kling youth with a r.u k of burdening responsibilities mid worries before he has learned the rtal beauties of life?" abine, Tlmnk you, Valmar, and we'd enjoy hearing from you and Weston You said the good old days are h.gh again. gone, but if they wire, this would be a dismal old woild indeed No mutter what you or others like you say, a child docs not think about the future So far as he knows or cares, his parents will care for him. There is time enough to think Lamour armed in Dorothy of the future when we get into York bundled up in furs. high school. I should know, as 1 New am a modern youth, a senior in She said it's sarong season of the high school. year for that other costume. I agree with some tilings you to make the are but say, you trying After his Columbus, O., apyoung people grow up too fast We pearance, John L. Lewis will grow up fast enough as it is. have to visit the White House From what I have been able to with the same cold formality find out. the older generations as a Republican senator or a have worried, groundlessly, about r. former its youth. Civilization still exists will as it as and does, youth long It was feared that snow would be able to get along If we fail, dome of the nation the older generation will be it cave in the as long as congress capitol. Not fault The older generation is trying is in session to raise the roof. to worry us to death. H w are we untold horrors Russia going to prepare ourselves with all to which reports Red prisoners are beof this talk of no opportunities" ing subjected by the Finns. and gone are the good old days The soviet captives are being ringing in our ears? bathed. Sincerely, Valmar Miller. reA Massachusetts musician stolen. Maybe It seems that the column and ported his b&gpipes know something Valmar agree perfectly on most the neighbors Compare . his statement about It. points BARBS brain-truste- o- 1 fe--t- i i i expo---elatio- Lewis Gets Soft Answer x re-pl- sclf-as-sum- i In last Friday's column entitled From Magpie Eggs to Guidance," tile following assertions appeared: " Si bools give several tests today that serve to impress upon the ilnld just what a serious business life is And how wary he must approaih the duly of finding a vocation And how difficult jobs are to find And how assiduously he must sit ut the door of opportunity, for when she opens that door, he must plunge in. I eant possibly MSi how children can enjoy childhood any more. A world and its pedagogues onqili-insist on enlihing them into the acudcime ranks of proHirwtion and i sjM.nsihility een they have Icarni-i- l how much fun it is to piek wild flowers and throw nuigpin eggs. ' But then the world has changed. With the complications of society today, pel haps it is better to tell the first gradi r to quit playing in the brook and begin digesting a set of books on how to " ihoose a vocation c anti-Americ- ' Writes Although some of the statements were a bit exaggerated purposi ly so to emphasize the contention the column meant to onvey the fact that Little Red Si hoolhojse" days are gone, ed by "fditory schools whose sabred duly is to pattern each httle soul so he will have a place in society, a job in the workaday world, and some day amount to can never reasonably be condoned. Vigilante groups armed with clubs and brickbats are just as dangerous to democracy as the people against whom they are organizing. Breaking up meetings of Fascists, Nazis, Communists by organizing bodies of decent citizens to invade public halls is in itself an undemocratic action. Yet, such assaults frequently are not only excused but openly admired. Enraged citizens who have clubbed participants in a subversive" meeting bask in their virtue. Even though the law may catch up with a few of the assailants, they never regard themselves as offenders. i Washington pondi-n- Celebrations Swell The WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 cruelest blow yet launched at the famous brain trust is about to be swung by Congressman Dudley White, Ohio Republican, who aims to do half of the Corcoran-Cohe- n team out of its job. Ben Cohens official position is general counsel to the National Power Policy Committee, which was organized under authority of letters from the President to the secretary of the interior White's point is that since the job wasn't set up by Congress, Con- A gress can't legally vote money for it; so he is going to raise a point of order against the $68,000 which BAYONNE. N J. Jan. 31 0 l is allotted it in the pending InSecretary of Labor prances Perkins terior Department appropriation returned a soft answer last night to John L. Lewis remark that she bill The same point of order killed was "wooy in the head These are political times, Miss appropnations for the National and people arc apt Resources Planning Board and the Perkins said Office of Government Reports a few days ago. If its upheld again, Cohens job is gone. Tommy Corcoran is safer. He works for RFC, which was set up by Congress. A Weston Student il The power to 4 0. Roosevelts Cohen Faces Congress Ax Herald-Journ- will not assume financial responsibility for any errors which may appear In advertisements published In Its columns. In those Instances where the paper Is at fault, It will reprint that part of the advertisement in winch the ty pographlcul mistake occurs. The 31, 19 JANUARY UTAH,, WEDNESDAY, i campaign. Mr. Rooseielt said Ingoal of the annual' n eventually would be tin i crippled children, no me-thcause of their cripjni No nation in the woil - i put a larger volunteir the field than the ami o cans which tonight is tilu m the defense of Amin, , hood, he said FRENCH 1IAI) TO SNEAK TO PEACE MEETING This war has put a terrible crimp In the doings of world peace societies Dorothy Detzer, head of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, returned recently from a meeting of the committee in league's executive Geneva with the remark that only members from England. France, and America were Switzerland and even the able to attend French members had to sneak out of their country to get there. The skeletonized committee couldn't do much. Chiefly, it considered the idea of transferring international headquarters to the United States It finally agreed to hold off a while and see whether the war spreads. KOOsEF,LT MENTIONS "MY MOtKSNOR E-- en if you could listen to Presmost intimate ident Roosevelt's conversations, you still might not know if he plans to run for a third term. The other day he was talking over some government problem He said with a close associate. hed postpone action for one year, and added, I'll leave that one for my successor. But because of the impish way the "'resident cocked his head and grinned, the associate hasn't the faintest idea whether the remark really meant something or was just tagged on for the fun of it UN EMPLOYMENT COAL FACTS Diamonds are created from the same basic element that mains coal . . . We call diamonds precious stones and yet coal is one of the earth's most precious deposits. It gives economical heat, unequalled for low cost by any other fuel. And it gies safe nutural heat without disturbing quick changes to injuie health ROYAL KNIGHT COAL CO. INsl RANGE Cl S1HONS MA Cl T The WPA appropriation for the present fiscal year was cut down more than half a billion dollars by the last Congress but there hasn't been the trouble that was predicted. One big reason is that there has. 147 SOUTH MAIN PHONE 37 AMBROSE CALL, Mgr. I i The bar association saw another danger in promoting such tactics. When vigilantes attempt to break up meetings by violence, inordinate attention is called to the group holding the meeting. Such movements thrive on publicity. They invite persecution. They like nothing better than to have a meetirg raided so that everyone in the community will know about it. There is very httle danger in letting tiny groups of Fascists or Communists meet unmolested. If nothing happens, there will be no publicity. Their meeting will be ignored as it properly should be. For them, the project will be a failure. The bar association will do well to pass their resolution if it is presented in September. 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