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Show : MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH GOOD CITIZEN " I American's Right to Vote Often I Abused, CorrupteNeglected This ia the second of a 10 articles series of from the booklet "Good Clttien" published by th Ameri- can Heritage Foundation concern-ing the rights and duties of an Ameri- can. Of the nine promises of a good citizen the first is: I will vote at all elections. I will inform myself on candidates and issues and will use my greatest Influence to see that honest and capable officials are elected. I will accept public office when I can serve my community or my country thereby. The right to vote to vote In secret and to have your votes count is a great right. It is grounded in the faith that the average judgment of all of us to-gether In the long run will be right that "you can't fool all the people all the time." It has many flaws. It has been corrupted, abused and neg-lected, but by means of it the Ameri-can people over more than a cen-tury and a half have done pretty well for themselves. Through agents chosen by you and others like you all laws are made. No man, regardless of his station in life, wields more power than you in the voting booth. You can also vote by not voting, for by staying away from the polls you can help a g minority make the wrong decision. Don't be afraid to' "lose your vote." The vote that doesn't elect a man still influences what he does. A candidate who just squeaks through knows that you and others you can repudiate him next tune. In this atom-splittin- g age you are voting on the gravest issues in the history of mankind. . WHEN Y6u REACH voting age you become a member of the "ruling class" the one and only ruling class of this country. Use this power to vote. Vote during the big year elections, of course and at state elections. I 3 vote at your Party pri- - 1 Jtf mary- - i I Vote also ( 'r your city's y mayor or vil-- f 1 a g e presi- - - Vote, for members of jr the school "mmmtumJ board. Vote on policies and officers of your union. Vote as a stockholder of any com-pany you have invested in. Vote on civic improvements and bond issues. Vote on officers of your club, your lodge, your grange. In general, all citizens over 21 years of age have the right to vote, but the various states have different laws as to how long you must live in the same place, when to register, etc. In certain states literacy tests or poll taxes are required. In no state is property ownership a re-quirement. But don't consider you have done your duty merely by voting in na-tional elections every four years. There are also congressional elec-tions, state elections, city elections, and local elections of various kinds. THERE ARE three ways to vote. You can vote for (1) party, (2) issues, (3) people. If the total party program, as ex-pressed in its platform, appeals to you as being best for the country, it is sound to vote a straight ticket for the people pledged to put that program into effect. If a single issue seems to you more important than anything else, it is sound to vote for persons who support your view of that issue, re-gardless of party. If the ability of an individual to judge each issue fairly and to keep the interests of the people upper-most appeals to you, it is sound to vote for that individual, regardless of party or any particular issue. But even if you spent your life at it, you couldn't be fully informed on all the candidates and issues. The answer is to do the best you can. It is better to vote on the basis of party allegiance and your own "sense of things" than not to vote at all Your own knowledge and con-victions, whatever they are, will be combined with the knowledge and convictions of a lot of other people. As a group we are usually wiser than we think we are. This article is Chapter 1 of the booklet "Good Citizen", produced by the American Heritage Founda-tion, sponsors of the Freedom Train. A complete book may be obtained by sending 25 cents to the American Heritage Foundation, 17 East 45th Street, New York, N. Y. 200 ADOPTS SEAL BOYS CAN'T FEED BEACH, CALIF - The Sezoo adopted a baby sea Nu f that three boys brought jefl from Alamitos Bay and could not support. discovered the seal The boys i their sailboat one day T, ached out and petted him. S procated with a contented IS and they took hlm aboard. tried to return him to his Lr by putting out to sea with "ft the little animal refused I stay on his own, and each time e fpllowed the boys ashore. Slowing Down THEY TELL YOU and they prove that every record in sport that can be timed or measured has been broken. The moderns keep set-ting new marks. There is also another record the moderns are setting. This is adopt-ing the habits of the sloth, the creep-ing pestilence, the crawler and the time-waste- r. A few days ago on his television hour Dizzy Dean asked Bill Grieve, LXsJ the umpire, why modern games last-ed so long. "I pitched against Carl Hubbell," Diz said, "and I beat him 1 to 0. The game only lasted an hour and 29 min-utes." Scoring in the Grantland Southern league Ricesome years before in Atlanta, I timed one game at 45 minutes. Grover Cleveland Alexander rarely took an hour and 40 min-utes. "You ought to handle a game in an hour and 30 min-utes," old Alex once said. Christy Mathewson was a quick worker. Maybe an hour and 50 min-utes. But, today, practically no pitcher can work a game under three hours or three and one half hours. The real answer is that it usually takes three or four pitch-ers to work a game. Few pitchers ever last five innings. Ball games have practically doubled in the last 20 years, so far as time is concerned. What about golf? Gene Sarazen and Jim Barnes once opened a big tournament and got around in two hours. Years ago golfers stepped around in two hours and a half. Few rounds absorbed three hours. Two hours and a half could be considered a standard time measurement. As a matter of record, two hours and a half was considered slow time when a Bob Jones or a Gene Sarazen was involved. "Two hours is plenty for a two-ba- ll match," Sarazen says. "Two hours and a half is enough for a The average ball game should last around an hour and 50 minutes. The faster ones should be completed in less time. Ball games today that run over two hours and a half are disgraceful episodes. Naturally you can't have fast ball games with pitchers handing out 10 or 12 passes and also showing a deep reluctance to let the ball go.. As Lefty Gomez once said: "You're all right as long as you hold the ball. It's after you pitch the trouble starts." In the same way these creeping pestilences who turn surveyor on every putting green are not going to finish any round of golf in three hours. Or even four hours. The Tougher Mold There has been an argument late-ly as to whether e fighters belonged to a rougher, tougher mold than the present crop. They were talking about such tough men as Rocky Graziano, Jake a, Ray Robinson, the two French fighters and a few others with no heavy-weigh- mentioned. Are there any heavyweights left? Who are they? This debate recalled a turn in the life of Tom Sharkey, the old sailor. At the time Sharkey was training for his fight with Jim Jeffries at Coney Island. It happened a little over 50 years ago. Sharkey was doing his road work along the beach. There was a restaurant in the neighbor-hood where the sailor would stop for lunch. Sharkey's lunch con-sisted of a glass of beer and a frontal assault on the free lunch. Day after day old Tom would do his galloping, pay for his beer and mop up the free lunch. Finally the restaurant owner said to an assist-ant: "This guy is eating up all the profits. Change our free lunch. Go out and get the toughest dog bis-cuits ever made." The assistant reported with dog biscuits you couldn't break up with an axe. No one it seemed could even make a dent in one. They were harder to bite than a hydrant. But this didn't check Tom Shar-key's daily assault on the free lunch counter. He seemed to charge in with a keener attack each day. He cleaned up. After a week, ihe restaurant own-er surrendered. "My clients can't eat this junk," he said. "This big guy seems to like it even better. Junk the dog biscuits and put in the old stuff." Feller and the War After watching Bob Feller pitch so brilliantly against the Yankees recently your correspondent began to wonder what might have hap-pened to the Van Meter entry if it hadn't been for the war. 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He decided to forego his tapering off, letting well enough alone. Three months passed and the situation had taken on quite a new aspect. Ser-ena, unconsciously, was doing a lot of walking from one room to an-other switching off lights that Mike had left burning. ffiHINGS REACHED a point at the end of a year that called for some sort of undertaking. Oddly, it was Serena who brought matters to a head. "I realize," she told Mike crossly, "that everyone has their faults. But it does seem to me that you could attach a lit-tle more importance to things around the house. I've done my best to make you change your ways. I've even resorted to arti-fice." "Artifice?" "I mean, like telling you we have to be at a party 15 minutes before hand in the hopes that you'll get ready on time. I've deliberately gone into the bedroom to switch off the lights after you come out, hop-ing that you would notice. I've got out of bed and padded way to the kitchen to shut off a dripping faucet MIKE DIDN'T INTEND to be about it. He had a reputation for fairness, and he meant to live up to it. There wasn't a person alive who didn't have faults. And knowing this to be a fact, Mike could understand why -- Minute such a gorgeous , 3 :ruwood sf:rn short of being a paragon. Not that Serena's faults were any-thing to worry about. If they had been Mike would never have asked her to marry him. Serena's greatest fault, he thought, was her inability to get ready to go any place on time. Mike adopted a unique method in order to cure this deficiency. For a time he decided to fall in with Serena's habits. Thus, he would dispel any possible doubt in her mind regarding his purpose. Presently he would begin to get himself ready on time and sit around waiting. Serena couldn't help noticing and take heed. During the next half year Mike noted with some satisfac-tion that Serena had already begun to feel his stronger per-sonality. She was allowing her-self a bit more time to get dressed for parties, and once or twice suggested to Mike that he hurry up. By the time the six months was "I didn't mean that you were weakminded or anything like that. We all have our faults." that you've left running. I declare, Mike, you can't have a very strong personality." "Now wait a minute, Serena. Something's wrong here. We've got to have an understanding." "We certainly have. From now on if you leave the lights burning they stay burning and you can pay the bill. If you're late for parties I'll go on ahead and you can make your own excuses." "But about this personality busi-ness. Now " "I didn't mean that you were weakminded or anything like that. We all have our faults. Why, even I have some, I suppose. I've tried to help you overcome yours. But from now on you'll have to shift for yourself, unless you can give me some ' Why, hang it, . I did those things deliberately to break you of them, and now I find myself doing them auto-matically and and liking it. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Graham stared at each other. "It's my fault that you have faults and I have faults because of your faults. Oh, darling, Mike, don't you see what's hap-pened? We made the mistake of of thinking ourselves perfect. Let's start all over again now that we have an understanding, and work the other way." "O. K.," said Mike. "O. K." He grinned, remembering he had a reputation for fairness and now was the time to live up to it. By INEZ GERHARD BETTY HUTTON, bright star of Get Your Gun" and "Let's Dance," has worked hard for every bit of her success, but the career closest to her heart is being the mother of her two little girls and she could give lessons to a lot of mothers! "They're going to grow up knowing everybody doesn't have a house and back yard like theirs," she told me. "They're going to know that some people don't have enough to eat, as I didn't when I was little." As for her future "I'm really an en-tertainer, not an actress; if the time comes when I can't make pic-tures, I'll sing in night clubs. Show business is wonderful!" Crooner Alan Dale has given up leaving his weekly radio show, by the stage door, now departs by crossing the rooftops to the third building away. Mobbing bobby sox-er- s have stained his new suits with lipstick smears, inkspots, streaks of eyebrow pencil (which they use for autographs). But popularity pays; he was king of four New York college proms in June. Margaret O'Brien's scheduled starring vehicle, "City Girl," for Columbia, was abandoned by mu-tual consent of the actress and the company. She still has a commitment with them, and a new story is being prepared. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Let's Show Vorld There's Life in Ihe Old Liberties Yet By BILLY ROSE Hon. Harry S. Truman The White House Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: T that the Freedom Fair which was scheduled spp to open in Washington in 1951 has been called off. I respectfully that you press a few buttons and call it back on again, and witffour patience and permission I'd like to tell you why. As this lopsided eight-bal- l of a planet currently shapes up, about the about is freedom, or the lack of it, and as you only thing worth talking yourself- have repeatedly pointed out in your speeches, our people ought to T, what thev're talking about when the subject comes up. Well what's the best way to demonstrate that there's still plenty of life in the old liberties? rHHin,i. facts and figures? cliche' - studded press releases? Rah - rah - rah edi-torials? No, Mr. President, not in this day and ague. As I see it, the best way to stand off the sugar-coate- d strychnine be-lr-handed out by exercise his taste and tonsils as he sees fit. Let's even show them up on the midway. Instead of the usual Chamber of Horrors, let's restage the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, and instead of the old-h- Ubangi sideshow, let the populace take a peek at a Siberian slave labor camp. WITH NO POMP but plenty of documented circumstance, one big lesson is a cinch to emerge from the fair I envision: That "degener-ate democracy" still provides the bestest for the mostest; that our way of life has got what it takes, and it would be downright silly to let the Commies take what we've got. Of course, Mr. President, there isn't a chance of 'getting such a fair on by next year, but If the right words were dropped Into the right ears pronto, there's no reas-- 1 on why the grand opening couldn't be set for '52. And, according to my astrologist, that would be an auspicious year for a fair, seeing as how around that time a certain party will be doing its darnedest to convince the voters that it has a special talent for making democra-cy work. If you think well enough of this notion to get behind it. Sir, I'll be glad to pitch in and help whether it's making policy or pink lemon-ade. Of course, I wouldn't do it for free. My fee would have to be the same as I'm getting as ad-visory director to the California World Progress Exposition which will be held In San Diego in '53 a d can of good smoking to-bacco. Respectfully, Billy Rose cretize in terms of daily living and loving how well our Joe Doakses are doing compared with the Josef Dokczes in the Iron Curtain coun-tries. For example, in the exhibit area let our big auto outfits trot out their cars alongside a few Russian cars, and then let them dramatize how many man-hour- s of work it takes to make one and, even more important, own one. And along-side the big General Motors build-ing, let's have an even bigger U. A. W. building in which Walter Reuther can dramatically docu-ment how much better off his men are in terms of union contracts, working conditions and pension plans than the auto workers in the various Commielands. Once and lor all, left pull out all the stops and compare our homes, schools and churches with theirs. Left exhibit an Ameri-can voting booth with a curiam on the door, and next to it a Rus-sian voting booth with an N.K.V.D. man where the curtain ought to be. In short, let's give the Pinkos the lumps they've been asking for and make it clear as the nose on Jimmy Durante's face that there's no freedom unless everybody can the kids in the Kremlin is to hand Billy Rose out a few lollypops can't think of a of our own, and 1 better place to do it than a 200- - acre fairground within eyeshot of the Lincoln Memorial. Impact-wis- what would such a accomplish? Not shindig actually much. Sir. if it were just a type of fair But it would do a potent plenty f it were a mammoth, whooptydo m which to side-show everything from spectacle were built around one simple theme: The Freer the Enterprise the Free the More Enterprising men. ALL, let s con- - ONCE AND FOR |