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I r TIMES THE GARLAND GARLAND UTAH Gem i of Thought FRIENDSHIP is composed of "a single soul inhabiting two bodies— Aristotle Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent— Euripides To manage men one ought to have heath — S thorp mind in m velvet t Atomic War Could Force Return to Primitive Life J i4le By EMERINE rulmi EDWARD WND The magic word was It was heard and respoken in Colorado for the peated Gold taking Nuggets as big as turkey mountains As the all over the eggs story traveled it was embellished in 1858 in retelling Overnight “Pikes Peak or Bust” became the nation's slogan occuMen of every nationality pation and station in life joined the Pikes Peak gold rush one of the in Amerigreat mass migrations ca's history TTiey swarmed into the it Colorado mountains whooping In wake foltheir as went they up lowed farmers to settle in the ferFrom Texas across tile valleys the open grasslands were driven herds of longhorn cattle Down south in Georgia W Green Russell heard about it He organized a party of 30 or 40 miners and set out for the Pikes Peak region hardly sleeping until he reached the banks of the South Platte and made camp Within a month he had been joined by 400 others and the stttlement was dignified by the name Auraria in honor of Russell’s town back in Georgia Thousands of others were on their way A year later General Larimer crossed Cherry creek of some cabins and took possession named the settlement Denver City in honor of Gen James W Denver governor of Kansas (At that time Colorado— as yet unnamed— was s Wild part of Kansas territory) on that days followed townslte Thousands of excited people thronged the dusty streets Soon Denver was the Mecca of A printing plant was the Mountains from Omaha and the brought Rocky Mountain News made its (1859) debut Soon thereafter the Herald waa founded The flies of those tell a newspapers of story of lusty life in Denver gambling Indian scares and promised riches for all men The Denver scene was SUGAR BEET FACTORY ducer of lugar made from E B RASK A welcomes a gathering which will deal with Washington subject more imto you portant ms than anyand thing I can think of The meeting is described as an “institute on the control of atomic e n a r g y" A t about the same time the United Nations Commion Atomic ssion Energy will ba OKU oradoan knows that Cowmen beet growers truck gardeners fruit growers hay ranchers and general farmers must have water They got it They dug wells deep in the ground They constructed dams in the canyons to store the melted snow they dug canals and ditches they irrigated the rich thirsty soil in the Great They homesteaded American desert and they made The beet and potato it bloom founded Greeley dustry around is a by the old Union colony monument to pioneers in irrigation All along the South Platte basin from Denver and Fort Collins to is a mighty Sterling and Julesburg agricultural empire The Arkansas river waters developed a famed valbeets melons ley that produces fruit and garden truck for the nation From Canon City through Kanto Lamar and the Ford Rocky sas line is another agricultural wonder about by irrigabrought tion In between the rivers the farms and ranches now produce wheat corn hay beans potatoes and other crops Thousands of head of sheep and cattle are grown and dairying Is statewide The Western Slope the San Luis valley and all mountainous areas below timberline are havens for farms ranches and orchards peaks often look down on blossoms in the valley below With raw materials near at hand Colorado progressed industrially too Mills were built to process the ores Steel plants grew up at Pueblo the Pittsburgh of the sheepmen JOHN C VIVIAN Governor of Colorado Gov John C Vivian was born not far from In Golden Colo Denver and state capital He la a graduate of the University of Denver His profession Is law He served as lieutenant governor from 1936 to 1942 At Brighton beets Colorado Is s a'' leading pro- sugar ed a hundred times Boom towns grew overnight at Cripple Creek Leadville Central City Creede and scores of other places Prospectors clambered over the hills Nuggets were found Rich veins of ore were uncovered There were millionaires created — Winfield Scott Stratton H A W Tabor (of “Silver Dollar” fame) and others Men blustered gambled drank fought and died during the score of years that followed But slowly the truth about Colorado emerged The facta were not all pleasant ones The territory was incredibly rich — there was no doubt of that There were great stores of silver and gold There were rich and fertile soils There — lumber were other resources coal building stone and a marvelous climate There was deep snow in the mountains but there was on the plains The little rainfall nuggets were soon picked up The “free" gold was gone and mining had come to stay Gold and silver were burled deep in the Men granite defying quick wealth had who sought a soft and easy life were confronted with stark reality Colorado was no Garden of Eden They would have to work—and work hard— for whatever they got And they couldn’t live on fresh air and mountain scenery each man Colorado weighed among them to find his worth There was work to be done and It do to weakThe took strong men it the mislings the fits were eliminated They departed with a curse on their lips and hatred in their hearts Those with courage strength hope and vision stayed First the miners set to work They did not know the extent of mineral reserves in the Colorado don’t they still Rockies — and to a know Many veins have been mere ly tapped and new ones are conIn apite stantly being discovered of all obstacles Coloradoans have dug and blasted three billion dollars' worth of precious and industrial metals from the granite warehouses within its borders More than 250 minerals have been dis- covered within the state between 35 and 50 of them now being extraded for market Colorado is first among the states in vanadium and uranium third in gold fourth in tungsten fifth in silver sixth in lead in copper seventh and flf-teenth in zinc It leads the world in molybdenum production These Coloradoans and probed blasted and' swore as they went deeper and deeper Into the granite treasure chest In 1862 A M Cassedy drilled in a canyon near Florence and struck oil after petroleum had been found bubbling on the surface of Oil creek They found Colorado shales containing enough recoverable oil to equal for 50 years present production The recently opened Rangely oil field on the western slope Is the most sensational find In years Natural gas was discovered over a wide area and helium gaa struck in Las Animas county Beneath the surface of the good earth found too — coal they enough of it to last the nation for 700 years! Colorado ranks first among the states in coal reserves most of them in the San Juan basin Moffat county all along the Utah border and extending under the foothills on the eastern slope from the Wyoming border to New Mexico The Colorado were plainsmen and the unfit were too sifted blown out starved out and sent back home Where there is life there must be water — every Col- - vv £ & I'd KV Snow Mass Peak Lake near and Glenwood Springs Rockies Colorado has foundries brick kilns canning plants sugar factories food processing plants creameries cheese factories and scores of other manufacturing plants Colorado's granite marble limestone sandstone and lavas are known to builders the world around Sawmills still flourish near its great forests Colorado clasped its riches tightly to its bosom and said “you can have them — if you deserve them" The men and women of Colorado accepted the challenge They conquered the mountains and plains They built cities and factories and schools They blasted highways out of solid granite They made it easy for others to ’Come Up to Cool Colorado" where the sublimity of the Rockies inspired Katherine Lee Bates to write “America the Beautiful" George Eliot Men love to wonder and that the seed of our science— Emerson Work Is the price of living and work and worry are the — Herbert price of leadership is By BAUKHAGE Ne tot Analyet and Commentator Thl pamphlet caught my eye and held It It was a reprint from Look magazine entitled “Year Last Chance” Yon may have seen It It moved me so much that I Just couldn’t help talking about It on the air and offering to pay for tfao first 500 pamphlets requested providing a A tamp waa enclosed I limited the requests to people in the following categories: insur ance men salesmen real estate men teachers clergymen mechanics utilities workers scientists and Hoover One is never so unhappy as ono who believes not so happy as one had hoped to be— La Rochefoucauld CLASSIFIED DEPARTM ENT meeting too At the "institute” in Washington authorities will explain just what efifect atomic energy can have on your life if you are one of those who aren’t going to be destroyed by it I was going to say “one of the lucky ones” but you won’t be lucky if atomic warfare starts even if you are among those whose lives are spared Public Intereeted We have all heard a lot of dire prophecies about what the atom In Prevention bomb can do if it once gets on the so I Requests began to arrive Also what wonders atomic loose on called up the National Committee energy can perform in building a Atomic Information which is near better world if it is confined to the Washington office of the Westpeaceful and productive activity ern Newspaper Union ordered the But by far the most impressive and had the nerve to pamphlets footnote on the subject came to me ask the committee to mail them out in the repeated words of a scientist I didn’t know it then but it costs speaking not scientifically or for the committee which is of course quotation but very intimately of a organization and skimps his own private thoughts and his along on a handful of small cash own personal plans donations four cents for the pamHe has lectured a great deal on phlet a cent and a half for the the subject of atomic energy and stamp two cents to address the envelope another cent to insert seal is one of those intimately concerned with its development Suddenly one and maill Eight and a half cents My generous altogether gesture day he realized that he had tobetter toward prepreserving civilization had make some personal plans pare for the future in this atomic turned out to be rather lame so of which he had spoken But that was only the beginning age much His work Is near one of the An avalanche began to descend on several prime targets of any enemy me At last count the requests bombs that would be dropped reached over three thousand The committee didn’t know what to do No Refuge The letters came from such an intelligent and earnest set of people From who Were so anxious to do someSo he began to consider Should thing that the committee hated to be try to get transferred to some disappoint them smaller institution located in a litTwice I begged the public to hold tle town? That he considered off but the committee is still filling He has a would not help much while its funds hold the farm but he is not a farmer Should out requests in come or more donations he move onto the farm immediately when you Which is what learn as much as he could about get an atom by happens the tail live and to there farming plan where he would be comparatively SfifeT” Tile’ farm Is far from any Questions Popularity large city tucked In the hills Of Rail Nationalization He Then he started planning would have to learn a lot more just after the bulletin came in over the news ticker in my office than farming He would have into learn to curd wool for inannouncing that the government tended to take over the railroads stance his wife would have to a railroad man happened to call learn to spin to weave to make me up about another matter soap to fabricate all the things " I congratulated him on his new yon buy In stores He would have to lay In tools Job with Uncle Sam He wasn’t to He speculated and enough other supplies last very enthusiastic on whether or not the men would him the rest of his lifetime Well perhaps all that could be go back to work if the government to do so The miners them ordered even that Then he realized done refused to obey governat that he wouldn’t be safe He you recall ment orders when the government would have to build barbed wire entook over the soft coal mines durtanglements and obtain machine guns and other weapons with which ing the war for with the "Everybody ought to go on strike to defend himself In the country” he said “If it gets refugees who escaped starving from the cities the few who had bad enough it may get better” food would be at the mercy of the the possibility We mentioned mobs hungry ownof permanent government If 1 had heard those statements ership of the railroads My from a lecture platform qr read friend reminisced a little on the them In a magazine I might have day when he wae an employee sensationalism them as by In of Uncle Sam once before passed statements weren’t in a But the World War I when the governmagazine or spoken from a plament did (to Its sorrow) take tform They were said over the over the railways luncheon table in the quiet comer He said what happened then was of a club The speaker wasn’t “sell” his ideas to anythat a man would come up to the trying to wasn’t ticket window and demand a drawtrying to persuade body He anybody to do anything or to get ing room Sorry there were no publicity He was thinking out loud more drawing rooms Well do you about what he considered an acute know who you’re working for and who I am? I’m Senator Claghorn personal problem — ) In the end it left him baffled and you’ll the well get passenger out of that There is no defense room and put me in itl The only hope is to make the drawing My friend said he didn’t think the United Nations work I heard this story and was moved people would like It If the government took over Of course we don’t well by It I was already I pretty the now eilike ham stirred up because just learned of what deep concern this ther Time and again every Pullquestion is to more than three man seat or berth will be reserved thousand people who wrote me by the blackmarketeers They hold asking for a pamphlet I had men- them up to the last minute and if tioned in one of my broadcasts ' they can’t sell at a premium they That Is an interesting story too cancel just before the train leaves half empty The Chesapeake and that I want to pass on One day I received a little pam- Ohio ran an advertisement recentthe several bushels of ly begging the public to refuse to phlet among and the la the material which help premium handout get a grist pay of the publicity mills dumped on regulation through which will profor cancellation of reservations press and radio desks all over the vide within a reasonable time country every day as America has the heart spelling bees and county “sings” we can’t be quite as badly of! as some of our neighbors seem As long to attend MISCELLANEOUS WE BUT AND SELL Typewriter Furniture File Register Machines Safes Cash BALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE Salt Lki City Dish Wert Bremdwey IS POULTRY - u CHICKS f Century fund finds goods inYork Is to think I never attended enough bees myself But a radio spelling commehas an advantage— his audcan’t tell whether he can spell words he uses or not ntator ience t The Twentieth the There is no one so poor in self reno one so truly inferior as he who feels he must try to prove someone else is inferior to him KKK please note spect EQUIP blood taatad S APPROVED chicks 14 bread Clltndf’e Write ereafo trim iarveol Aeatorp Hatehee CetnaB ij SOUS text time you O'Sullivan Heels as at par well have shoes repaired MILEAGE MORE WITH GREATER comfort: AMERICA’: mO’HHEEL1 TOSNIGHTt TOMORROW AII10MI Tmedabk LAXATIVE DtllTI CHAU Block 40 Just o Drop or Twe is Feathers & oi OUR ’Leaf iFm&ronoosu Buck most BUCK porah 40 siHsd MUCH FARTHER Lewi tpreui an Urn tiros luam at olutkeaa Lte sad ara full duKtuos oror full etrength 40 WNU —W 23—4 BHmouMB Than Uestmaaa ths Blood f Harmful Body Waste " Yaw kUnors are eeaataatly Utorhn latter trewthw bleed otioaw Bab tag ta lhafr work— de hbmIh aa ael aa Notara Imteeded— fill Help kMmya by Baukha ge that 80 per cent of the fur dustry is located in New the rest of the country ACCESS Office haporttiaw BARBS b TRUCKS AUTOS merchants I did this first because I wanted to limit the number of applicants and second because the article contained specific Instructions as to what the people in the groups named could do to help prevent a war I blandly overlcataclysmic ooked the fact that somebody had to address envelopes insert the mail them out pamphlets Aha “4 a U rotaiaad A whole loeetai ap olfhta rwelUag pwaaw “doe tha eye— a feeltn t oarroia “4 kaa el pep aad Mrongth Otbof atgaa of kidney or bladder aro oooMtima buraiaf scant ee tee fraeeeat erlaatioo There ohoaid be aa denbt that premp Loo roflott fillo Doee'e hare bore wiaaiaa fetoadg foe more tkaa forty yoanu jew a aatioowido J Per roputatioa Aroreoeaimdad b grateful people tbe aror Aik tier eeeatry peter ' £?? t""' |