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Show Page November SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD 2 FIRST.. individual, under GXi awe, with certain unalienable rights. Time Running Out On Solving MFS Lists $2.8 Million Income For First 9 Months This Year Rail Problems The Mountain Fuel Supply Co. this week reported to . t Entered as 2nd Class Matter at the Post Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly on Friday. Subscription Rates Anywhere in Utah, 1 By Mail Payable in Advance in U.S.A., $3.50 Elsewhere year, $3 Single Copy, 10 cents Published Weekly at 2185 South 9th East IN 33 No. 45 Vol. 24 Editorial Youth And Reading On two occasions we have written about the lack of patriotism being taught in our schools, and how it is going to take more than military strength to preserve our national security what with Communism rampant in the world. Much of it can be summed up on not enough on teaching our youth the fundamentals of why we have become a great power, not only economcon-entrati- on ically and materially, but also spiritually and socially. From all reports oiie can gather only a small percentage of our young people know what really makes the United States tick. Also, as was pointed out in a television program the other night, while we spend so much of our time watching westerns and Who Dun Its, Russian youth, from kindergarten on, are learning the languages of other nations. Do we need ask why this is so important? We also are a part of the world, we go out into all parts of the world, .hundreds and thousands of us, and by not knowing the languages of the countries in which we may be working, we're pretty impotent. The Soviet the Communists , on the other hand, teach their children other languages, all of them. Then when they are grown, out they go into other lands, living and mixing with the people, and it certainly is not difficult to understand why they can push Communism with greater effectiveness than can we push Americanism, when we cant talk with the people because they cant understand us nor we them. After the war we rushed machinery, gadgets and all sorts of things to Russia, who was an ally. What did Russia do? They copied everything and then sent it out, especially through the underdeveloped areas as what we have been able to accomplish under Communism so why take years what we have done overnight. And the Russians told this to other peoples in thei rown language. Thats one reason why we run second so many times. Then take simple reading, which is learning. A report was recently issued by Dr. Arthur S. Trace, Jr., a university professor of English and member of the Institute for Soviet and East European Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. The report is made in a book What Ivan Knows that Johnny Doesnt. For example, he points out that Russian children in the fourth grade successfully use books with a vocabulary of about 10,000 words while American elementary school pupils are limited to basal readers with a vocabulary of well below 1,800 words. Among other points, Dr. Trace warns that while American educators have been shrugging off Soviet superiority as being slanted excessively toward science and mathematics, American schools lag at least as seriously in such basic teaching as reading, history, literature, and geography. He writes that the humanities, long the pride of American education, is in fact, shameful and dangerously neglected in our elementary and junior . , With one major rialroad already in the hands of receivers and others precariously balanced on the brink, the time for finding solutions to critical transportation problems in the public interest is fast running out. The words are those of President Daniel P. Loomis of the Association of American Railroads. And he permits himself no exaggeration. The railroads financial situation is the worst it has been since the great depression, and the downhill trend continues. That is occurring at a time when we are forced to vastly beef up our of which national defense the railroads are an essential element. The railroads have, one might say, been studied almost to death. Since World War II, they have been the subject of seven major studies by Congress and other agencies of government. Every one of the Magna Carta for Transportation proposals urgently proposed by the railroad industry has been recommended in one or more of those studies. Yet almost nothing tangible has been accomplished. That Magna Carta is based on four broad and basic principles freedom from stifling regulation, freedom from destructive taxation, freedom from subsidized competition, and freedom to provide a diversified transpor t a t i o n service. And this, as Mr. Loomis emphasizes, is not just a railroad program. Instead, it is a distillation of the best thinking of some of our most distinguished transportation authorities over the years. The last session of Congress, like its predecessors, did a lot of talking about the railroad crisis, but that was all. No one likes to say it in plain English, but the fact i3 that our present railroad problem is largely the final result of playing politics with the railroads. Such political operations have drained the life blood from the rails. If they kill the patient the guilty parties will be state and federal lawmakers who are incompetent to correct their for- which own mistakes the public will pay.- Such negligence is inexcusable. - - counterparts in America concentrate on simple stories by relatively unknown authors. It is a sad commentary to read that a Russian primer contains 130 selections and a vocabulary of 2,000 words which is at least 200 words in excess of typical fourth-grad-e fare in America. Naturally, Soviet readers are crammed with Communist propaganda but, according to Dr. Trace, they also contain much solid material of high literary quality. And this is the kind of argument were hearing from many sides. It is important high schools. and the question would seem e The book argues that while in Russia students to be are we going to do anyread Pushkin, Tolstoy and Chekov in quantity, their thing about it. fifth-grad- first-grad- e stockholders earnings of 82,836,783 or the first nine months of 1961 equal to $1.29 This compares with earnings of $2,694,672 for the same period last year, equal to $1.23 a share. Earnings for the period ended September 30, 1961, were $4,227,745 or $1.93 a share compared with $4,037,095 or $1.84 a share for the same period ended in 1960, Company President W. T. Nightingale said in his report to the stockholders. Gas sales were reported at 85.2 billion cubic feet for the year ended September 30, 1961 compard with 76.9 billion cubic feet for the corresponding period a year ago. Members of the companjr board of directors voted a quarterly dividend of 35 cents a share. 12-mon- th Major Boat Harbor Set a Bear Lake and include docks for more than 120 boats of all sizes. Funds to build the facilities will not exceed $50,000 and will come from the boaters licensing and registering fees and from boat fuel revenue. Work on the harbor will begin as soon as weather will permit, according to Aldin Hayward, Park Commission director. Mr. Hayward said work on the park to date ininstallation cludes of a launching ramp and parking and picnicking facilities. The additional 14 acres were transferred to the Park Commission through the cooperation of Max Gardner, director, and members of the State Land Board, without cost to the Park Commission, Mr. Fabian said. When completed the marina will include three separate launching ramps, a parking area for 135 cars and trailers and offer limited overnight camping facilities and unlimited good beaches for swimming, Mr. Hayward explained. Cost of Britains National a system Health Service of socialized medicine climbed to more than two billion in 1959-6according to Reut0, ice. The Ministry of Health v when tion in the current one 1935, consecutive being the payment. During the past year ten northern Utah counties have been connected to the companys distribution system. This accounts for an increase in 8,300 customers and a total 68th og 180,600 reported by the president as of September 30. On the same date last year the total was 172,300. An Argument for Optimism It is a gloomy moment in history. Not in the lifetime of any man who reads this paper has there been prehension; never has the future seemed so dark and incalculable. In France the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. England and the British Empire is being sorely tried and exhausted in a social and economic struggle, with turmoil at home and uprising of her teeming millions in her empire. The United States is beset with racial, industrial and commercial chaos, drifting we know not where. Russia hangs like a storm cloud in the horizon of Eurfar-flun- g ope dark, and menacing and foreboding. It is a solemn moment, and no man can feel indifference, which happily, no man pretends to feel in the issue of events. Of our own trouble, no man can see the end. . . ." (This editorial appeared World War 2, before the Depression of 1929, before World War I, before the Panic of 1891, before the Civil War. It was an editorial in Harper's be1-for- e Magazine, October 10, 1847 and it offers a powerful argu- ment in favor of optimism and positive thinking.) S.S.L. Police Clear 23 of 27 Cases Twenty seven cases involving armed robbery, auto thefts, assault and battery, burglaries, grand and petit larceny, missing persons, runaways and escapes were handled by the South Salt Lake Police Department during October. Twenty-thre- e of the cases were cleared up. -- Marshal Henry Dipos monthly report also showed there were 319 citations for various types of traffic violations. serv- has expressed official concern over the continuously rising costs. Even a share, payable December 11 to stockholders of record on November 17. The company has paid a regular dividend every year since its organiza- so much grave and deep ap- The Utah Park and Recreation Commission has been given 14 acres of shore and underwater land at Bear Lake to build a major boat harbor and marina. 'Die 14 acres will be added to eight acres the Park Commission has already purchased from the Bureau of Land Management According to Park Commission Chairman Harold Fawill bian, the harbor-marin700 600 to into feet out extend ers, the British press 10, 1961 opportunity knocks, a man has to get up out of his seat and open the door. LEARN TO FLY A few memberships open in the CHAMPION CLUB For Details Call Davis or 61 EMpire 4-54- 40 |