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Show i.aViW iwiiwmi in mlianU. IBK7 . ilmiii inwia)TCj:ii urn if "Ll-- i W.U.U- w..1.. ' MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE. DELTA. UTAH class! I: 'Lincoln His Spirit Is vith the" Ages ' A Martyr, Emancipator, Myth, Abe Is 'Builded Forever' -- p ' I By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. Like everything else in this political year, preparations for Lincoln's birthday in 1948 are chiefly a matter of scram- - bling through the Great Emancipator's writings to find a text for a highly-partisa- n outburst. But February 12 is the oc- - casion for more than a barrage of political speeches, To me Lincoln is real because he and my childhood conception of my j grandfather are strangely blended. Both, like Merlin's Camelot, are build ed forever because, to me. they never were builded at all they were myth rather than fact a myth not of my own making, but handed down through two generations. My mother, as a little child, "saw Lincoln" (like a man "sleeping," . I' she thought) as 3 V?f ed ' !. mJL. ea i nr im. he lay in state in Chicago. My grandmother stood beside her swathed in the heavy mourning veil of the day which she felt perhaps was as much for Lincoln then as it was for her soldier - hus-band who had given his life in the same cause. fh To my mother Baukhage staring at that coffin in Chicago, there always re-- j c mained a confused impression of ih mourning for the man she thought was not dead, but sleeping, and the father she never had leen. Perhaps K( 0 that feeling was imparted to me. 's My mother described the scene to ' 5a me. It was clearly etched in her ' ' -c memory like the rest of the strange ' Jt hegira which she took westward ; with her widowed mother from a little town in New York state (as a ; l!lll( bride, my grandmother had pio neered the West with her young New York state farm-bor- husband). Of course, the memories were blurred and blended, undoubtedly, with later repetition of the event, but the picture was clear, and I only wish I could repeat it in my moth-er's own words. The train trip west, the arrival in the great city, the crowd about her as she advanced t slowly with her mother into the a great hall. Then the coffin which she c did not know was a coffin for there was no such word in her tiny vocab- - I ulary. Her mother let go the little girl's 'lillj hand to move back her own heavy veil. Then the little girl remembered fl being lifted in the strong hands of jj the guard. About him she could re- - y call only a blue tunic, shiny brass H ' buttons and the smell of tobacco. Then the face of the "sleeping" man, and her mother's quiet tears. ! (The body of the martyred President, as you know, was taken from the East Room of the White House to the capitol where it lay in state. Then it i was carried across the country, pausing for homage in several cities until it reached Spring-- ' field, Lincoln's home.) I ' I repeated my mother's story j j after her death, as best I could on j j the air and there were sequels. j Letters one from a lady in New j England for whom the broadcast had awakened memories . . . her father had been one of the Union soldiers chosen to stand guard at i the catafalque in Chicago. It might well have been he who lifted my , mother. The soldiers who had been chosen for that honored duty were permit-ted to divide the d drape that covered the coffin, she wrote i me, and she consigned to me a frag-- Y merit which I cherish. j k There were many other let-- j I ters. One from the niece of one I of Lincoln's cabinet members, I William Pitt Fessenden; an- - I other enclosing the announce- - I ment shown in the cut. Those were two sequels to the story of the little girl and her weep- - Jy ing mother. I think the everlasting sequel can be read again and again I in the story of America, as the story 8 of Lincoln is projected far on into j history. I think I have seen it pro- - S jected in the crowds who come to Washington, avid with guidebook ' and camera to collect "souvenirs." Only this week, the garrulous cab r il driver who carried me from Union station was full of a story of "South Americans" who spent endless hours (according to his timing) at f " the Lincoln Memorial. The memo-- rial remains a shrine for all visitors, 0 I native and foreign, a place where L flippant chatter is stilled before that tory of America, that gives Ameri-cans the assurance that his spirit, especially in these times when evil gods make their black magic to be-muse the minds of men, is not dead, but sleeps, waiting only the clarion call of the people whom he loved to wake it into action. Free Speech, Russian Style The Russians celebrated Christ-mas with a public criticism of Rus-- ' sian factories by the commercial director of Mostorg, the Soviets' largest department store. The direc-tor complained that the factories were producing inferior products. He wanted more and better goods, more washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators and decent furniture. Are you surprised that such criticism is permitted? If you are, you don't understand the Soviet system. Criticism is al-lowed as a sound method of cor-recting faults although it doesn't necessarily displace the "cure," which means banish-ment temporarily or perma-nently to Siberia, just as in the good old days. I am reminded of columnist Lowell Mellett's story about the scqpe of Russian criticism. On his trip to Russia, he was shown around by a very clever female guide. Mel-le- tt asked her about freedom of the press, and she said, "Oh, yes, they had a free press, the press contin-ually criticized things, including government enterprises." Well, would they be allowed to criticize Stalin, Mellett wanted to know. "Why!" the girl was sur-prised, "What has that got to do with it? You couldn't criticize him because there is nothing about him to criticize I" Secretary Marshal wants the Eu-ropean recovery plan to be run by a single administrator, not an eight-ma- n board as has been suggested. If the old saw that the g committee is a committee of three with two members out of town is correct, perhaps Marshal is right. January saw three presidential messages presented to congress. Each document had many a pas-sage born only to waste its fra-grance on the desert air of an un-sympathetic majority. Too bad the Republicans don't care for Mr. Truman's budget. The budget message was printed up so pcely, bound so neatly, and it IS unique unique in that it is the big-gest peacetime budget ever present-ed to any congress. IS almost uving replica warmed to life out of cold marble by the inspired C hand of Daniel Chester French, el It lives as the spirit of Abra-ham Lincoln lives. t h To the little child beside the cata- - io- falque, except for her mother's ! tears there was no mourning in that moment. Only something something important, some--s I thing that touched old and young alike because it had in it the cosmic I rhythm of the epic, and, as well, the I S simple, g melody of the R folk song. L And 1 wonder if there was not some intangible, some eternal qual- - fi ity of what Lincoln did. or what his character has etched into the his-- 1 depark1i BUSINESSjtDjvj, 1 FOR SALeIJ-- 4 cation m Salem, of. h"!- ' with a tew ' car, 300 p.tfflgy, FATTEN HOuTTli their appetites with - i scription. 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Robert Rizzone for his three-ye- ar hitch, and will study aviation radio after his basic training. DREW PEARSON Europe Needs New Hope don t realize is that the WHAT most of us here at home da. Russians have put over an natoon the world, have While we, the greatest advertising been both asleep at the smusSihas been ham-nursi- ng policy of certain congressmen, people abroad against Uie u. o. mering away constantly this prop even the Unite(J states has Many have been led to believe, tor ""pioyment insurance, is no social security, no old-ag- e pens on. n enslavement. completely controlled by Wall Street, Keep Communist. Europe only as a bribe to keep i and is helping in order to win back our 'st "ple's throats. States has to do more than merely cram food and PP It also has to engage in friendly m- -y It has 10 give Equally, if not more important, new ideals, new goals to work for. rtn we. hav been so much That is where the Communists Phony as their propaganda is, it holdu have fallen for it, as a drowning many of the people of Europe innocently man grasps at the last straw. ' j, tr ir yc WALTER WINCHELL Flashes Off the Express opinion mag, due In the spring. It is "Quest," also the tag for a famed body deodorantl A wealthy Texas oil man bought a in Paris and h,d it tn string of pearls a secret drawer of hts trunk. . . . Ar-riving in New York he was amazed when customs inspectors immediately Dulled the necklace from its hideout. . . What he doesn't know ts that the 17. S. officials were tipped'- by the Frenchman who built the secret com-partment for him He now collects a reward which comes from the heavy fine imposed on the amateur smug-gler. Many restaurants which serve steaks today do so merely as a cour-tesy. Claim they ackchelly lose money on them. . . . One night club owner really is working for the "real owners" of the Joint his chef and three of the wait-ers. General Eisenhower's book of memoirs got $700,000 from Double-day- , confirming a flash which said it would bring 500 Gs. . . . Virginia Leigh (the newly publicized glam-me- r gal) conducts a gossipy col-umn which is ghosted by her so-cially registered mater, Mrs. Frank Delaney. France is biefing about the conditions attached to Uncle Sam's aid gift of 320 million dollars. Would they like to try for the 640 million dollar ques-tion? Tee-He- e Dep't: The piece on Ben Grauer in a national mag says he "wears bow ties exclusively" and then a photo shows him wearing a . . . The Luce brain trust has selected the name for its WESTBROOK PEGLER Unionism at Its Worst t SHALL ever thank' Dan Tobin for a perfect, example of the 1 stupidity of the unionism that was imposed upon the Americans by the ate Roosevelt who, to do him justice, probably did not know the whole meaning of his acts. - Tobin's union, the Teamsters of the AFL, bars not only Communists but partial Communists who believe selectively in parts of Communism and all members of all "other subversive organizations." Tobin yields to none In his reverence for The Memory, and few of his brethren would deny that he is qualified to go' forth and bumble the master's word. His finest hour came the night when he stood host to Franklin in the Statler hotel in the fall of '44 while moosejaw cackled about his dog, and venerable tosspots at the board busted glasses for emjfliasis. The Teamsters' Union is an ideal reservation for the loose confinement jf a million head of Little People, according to Mr. Big's ideas. Ht indicated his approval of old Dan's work many times, usually in mis chievous compliments, purposely made extravagant for ludicrous effect. H amused him to provoke Tobin's vanity, and he was always tossing the olo walrus a herring or a mullet to make him flap his flippers on his tub. H. I. PHILLIPS A Letter of Sympathy Dear Joe DiMaggio: Well, a few days ago I saw in the papers that the Yanks have decided to pay you $65,000 to $70,000 this year, and it is too bad that a thing like that has to happen to a nice guy like you. For the last couple of years you bad a tough time with chipped elbows and heels, and just when you got a right to hope you are out of pain and worry they ram you up into them upper income tax brack-ets. From now on you will know' what real suffering is like, Joe, and if I were you I would not let them Yanks do this to me. I would see a lawyer and make an appeal. For years you were one of the most underpaid boys in baseball bul it was nice and cozy down there. Now you go up where the state and government really start running the vacuum over you and you will find that none of them Johns Hopkins or Mayo clinic fellers can do a thing about it, no matter how good they may be with heels and elbows. WALTER SHE AD Congress Evades Own Law pONGRESS acts something like a policeman. It's OK for a cop to stop in traffic, park in front of a fireplug or run through a red light-- but not for a mere civilian. It's OK for congress to pass laws and the folks are sup- posed to obey them but congress can disregard the law, as witness the legislative reorganization act which congress passed to eliminate obsolete methods and to streamline its working for benefit of everybody includine congress itself. The reorganization act has been in effect more than a year and a survey shows that only about a third of its provisions are being observed. Even those provisions which are being made ineffective by use of makeshift or evasive maneuvers! being :ommitter Lorn' 4 t 7inSouse T did r. but immediately ffll! mlgConagr:sessZp0seUdnt:etteuPraCC,e f naming sPe'a. commHtee" W, Feb- -y 15. Last way to postpone it as late . , i LAprT ? wa'" l "' experts to act as executive assistants X oIt very few except ons, riil with to $10,000 or split it up toZTZ XTot0t !' WRIGHT PATTERSON Science Aids Those Over 40 CJINCE Revolutionary war days science has lowered the dr cth rate of infants and people under 40 But science has not accomplished as much for those who have passed the 40th milestone. At the time of the Revolutionary war those who had reached the age of 40 still had as an average, 26 more years to "ve. One hundred years ago that average had been increased to 28 years An analysis of old and new mortality tables, made h.v North- - W"t"n Nuti0naI Life Insurance company, shows that those of 40 now can expect to live another 30 years. Science is promising new and far "reater wonders in that line NEWS REVIEW Nazi-Sovi- et Pact Told; Too Much Aid: Hoover FOREIGN AID: Hoover Plan Herbert Hoover, former O. S. president, has urged congress not to commit this nation even "morally" to a four-yea- r European recovery program, and advised a reduction of the outlay pro-posed to carry the Marshall plan through its first 15 months. In the 4,000-wor- d statement which he filed with the senate foreign re-lations committee I' 1 Hoover expressed his opposition views to the administra-tion's foreign aid plans. Of greater signif-icance, however, was the fact that Hoover's own opin-ions amounted to a The celebrated "cold war" has been enriched by another U. S. propaganda strike, probably the heaviest yet, against Russia. It took the form of official state department publication of captured German foreign office records re-vealing the extent and nature of Nazi-Sovi- relations from 1939 to 1941, the period covered by the pact between the two nations which ended when Hitler attacked the Russians on June 22, 1941. In the light of the U. wartime alliance, the Nazi docu-ments, published in book form, tell a sordid story of secret agreements, global gambling with nations for stakes and the feverish fetish of po-litical expediency which gripped the minds of German and Russian lead-ers before and during the war. High point of the hitherto secret dossier was the revelation that in 1940 Adolf Hitler and V. M. Molotov of Russia agreed that Britain and the U. S. must be excluded from Europe, Asia and Africa. The book told also how, In 1940, Stalin had offered to. join the axis if Hitler would give Russia a free hand in Finland, a military base near the Dardanelles and a dominant voice in the h Middle East. Then the documents show how Hitler, disdain-ing even to answer Stalin's proposi-tion, ordered his armies to prepare "to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign." , One of the major factors which precipitated the German attack on Russia was the Soviet demand for dominant control of the Balkans. Hitler, who was as aware as any man of the political, economic and strategic value of the pivotal Balkan area, turned thumbs down on that Russian desire also. Sum and substance of the state department's spectacular publica-tion of the Nazi documents was little more than an emphatic indication of an already n fact: That Russia, with aggressive consistency, has been hungering for years for leadership in the Balkans, for new in the Dardanelles, for expansion in Central Asia and for a free hand in Finland and Poland. Value of the publication of these documents at this time is question-able, despite the flagrantly apparent n propaganda they can and will inspire. State department's action obviously was aimed at rally-ing public support behind the Mar-shall plan, soon to come up for con-gressional action, but it also would serve to aggravate and inflame the already dangerously touchy "cold war." documentary of the Hoover entire right-win-conservative element of thinking which rejects an "internationalist" foreign policy on the grounds that U. S. resources should be concen-trated at home. Decrying even a "moral commit-ment" for the four-yea- r period con-templated in the state department's proposals, he asserted the U. S. should keep itself entirely free "to end our efforts without recrimina-tion." He expressed, too, the fear that a lavish outpouring of aid would weaken the American economy to the extent that all world recovery would be defeated. The volume of exports and funds proposed in the Marshal plan, he opined, might aggravate the al-ready serious inflation, draining our national resources and continuing high tax rates, "all of which might bring depression and thus destroy the strength of the one remaining source of aid to a world of chaos." Hoover recommended further that the Marshall plan, if it is adopted, be run by a bipartisan commission, and suggested that up to three bil-lion dollars in food, coal, fertilizers and cotton- be labeled frankly as "gifts" because unsecured loans "wiD not and cannot be repaid." REFUSAL: Prediction About all the average U. S. citizen knows about Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-hower is that he either will or will not get into the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this year. But Roy A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star and leading promoter of senti-ment, now says he definitely will not. Roberts' prediction was that the general soon would remove himself from all consideration along those lines. Said Roberts: "I'll venture a guess that before June the genera may take himself completely out of the political pic-ture. I am sure the message will come when he lays aside his mili-tary uniform February 15." He emphasized, though, that he was not speaking for Eisenhower. With AIf Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nominee, Roberts had been doing most of the political drum-beatin- g for Eisenhower. Rubber Bill Legislation to establish a perma-nent, government-regulate- d Ameri-can rubber industry with a 675,000-to- n annual capacity and a required annua production of at least 225,000 tons a year has been introduced by Rep. Paul Shafer (Rep., Mich.). The bill refers throughout to the product in question as "American-mad- e rubber." The word "syn-thetic," as the term for factory made rubber, is not mentioned. HAPPY HOLIDAYS This Won't Happen Again Until 1 976 You like to have holidays fall on weekends? Then 1948 should be a year of great promise. Most of the major holidays .this year will fall on Saturdays and Sun-days, which is either good or bad. depending on how you feel about getting time off down at the old mill. Sundays, whereon fall Washing-ton's birthday. Memorial Day and Independence Day, aren't too bad because the government and most other employers observe the Mon-days following as legal holidays and so extend holiday benefits to their employees. But for the working man it's a rough shake when a hnlirtiy fnlls on a Saturday, for it ri" bring an alternate day off - vear both Christmas and New Year's Day (1949) fall on Saturdays. Of the three remaining holidays, two come on weekdays without the aid of any idiosyneracies on the part of the calendar. Labor Day, September 6 this year, arrives on Monday simply be-cause it always falls on the first Monday of September instead of on any one numerical day in the month Same goes for Thanksgiv-ing on Thursday. Armistice Day just happens to come on Thursday this year Study of the calendar and holi-days for 1948 also developed an-other .irld angle. The year's three Siinrim h..'dnys can happen only onre pvcrv or vears. So, the last time February 22 May 30 and July 4 all fell on Sun-days in the same year was in 1920. The next time after this year will be in 1976. The deciding factor is the extra day (February 29) every seven leap years. Now this is the place for someone who knows calendar law to argue that since the coming year 2000 (a century year divisible by 400) is not a leap year, it will be 32 more years, or 2008, after 1976 before the three holidays again appear on Sun-days. However, this is not a subject to spend much time worrying about Besides, who'll be alive to take a holiday in the year 2008? |