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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH GOOD CITIZEN Free Schools Can Safeguard Democracy by Teaching Truth t in In nr rillli.lrMJ w n 1 c n ton give to our boys and girls the knowledge and ability to separate the true from the half true to look "isms" straight in the eye? The coming This Is the eighth of a series of 10 articles from the booklet "Good " published by the American Heri-tage Foundation concerning the rights and duties of an American. The seventh promise of a good citizen: I will support our system of free public education by doing everything I can to improve the schools in my own community. Many "isms" and ideologies are being peddled and sold around the world today. Most of them dismiss, ignore and brush lightly aside the inalien-able rights of life, liberty and pur-suit of happiness. Isn't it fortunate that we have at hand a system of education generation, witn minas ana neano reinforced with such knowledge, is more powerful than an army. Our public school, our private schools and our schools conducted under religious auspices all must provide the climate and the soil for the roots and the fruits of free-dom. So, good citizen, keep our system of education strong. v THE SCHOOLS are yours. You pay for them. There is much that you can do to improve them, and the need is urgent. Teachers enjoy or ought to en-joy freedom from social and po-litical pressures; freedom to seek the eternal truths and to present these truths in a way that will stim-ulate young minds to look for truth and be able to recognize it when they find it. Teachers should be proud of their profession. They deserve the friend-liness, sociability and respect ac-corded to doctors, lawyers and members of other professions. Teachers should be able to live their private lives as any other citizen lives his neither playing "Mrs. Grundy" to the community nor being dictated to by the social arbiters of the community, whoever they may be. Help to make your schools a force for national unity by protecting our children from bigotry and preju-dice. It has been said, "America fears no enemy but ignorance." The generation which did not fight the war is trying to understand what happened, why it happened, and what can be done to straight-en out the world. Help it to find out through even better, stronger, freer schools which bring to it the distilled truth wrested from the experience of all recorded time; which encourage the search for truth; and which foster the undeveloped talents which are America's greatest source of wealth. MARK TWAIN, referring to a for-eign dispatch, once said . . . "the vast expense of maintaining the army has made it necessary to re-trench, and so the government had decided that to support the army it would be necessary to withdraw the appropriation from the public schools . . . "It is curious to reflect how his-tory repeats itself the world over. Why, I remember the same thing was done when I was a boy on the Mississippi river. There was a prop-osition in a township there to dis-continue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. "It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I be-lieve it is better to support schools than jails . . ." This article Is Chapter 7 of the booklet "Good Citizen" produced by The American Heritage Foundation, sponsors of the freedom train. A complete book may be obtained by sending 25 cents to The American Heritage Foundation, 45th New Street, York, N. T. ; WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . I U. S. Rejects Soviet Union ftlove To Seat China in United Nations; Marines Start Offensive in Korea (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions arc expressed In these columns, they arc those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ot this newspaper.) Rebuke ; Wv- ,- V' - I f r A UK' ' 1 v " ' I ' I. lZ ma STATES y " FORMOSA: The Big Question In the minds of many interna-tional observers. Formosa had be-come the big question in the battle against communism. And it pre-sented the first split in policy among the western powers. With the President's order to the U. S. seventh fleet to defend the island from Communist invasion, the split in policy first appeared. The split, or Russian trap as some are inclined to believe, became serious with the visit of General MacArthur to the island and the arrival of jet planes immediately after he returned to Japan. Many observers point out that U. S. policy is now clear: defend Formosa and the Nationalist gov-ernment. This, they believe, may involve the United States in a con-flict with Red China, a fight which would almost be impossible for America to win. At the same time, the British government has already recognized the Communist government of China. Several other western pow-ers have been reported on the verge of recognition. This leaves the U. S. out on a limb and could involve the nation in a full fledged Asiatic war. That, students of the present world situation say, is exactly what the Soviet Union desires. If such a thing should happen Russia would, of course, materially aid the Chinese. It has been pointed out that the American decision to defend For-- , mosa is a direct act of aggression against Red China. It is a perfect' excuse for the Reds to rush sev-eral divisions to the aid of the Koreans. Some observers believe such a move is already underway. Within hours after MacArthur returned to Japan, American jets landed on Formosa vanguard of, air units assigned to defend the island. A comment heard frequently aft-er they landed was: "MacArthur certainly works fast." That may be, observers pointed out, but it could also mean that MacArthur has fallen into the Rus'sian trap. It was a serious sit-uation that the United States now had to face. ECONOMY: Control Bill Likely The senate banking committee ap-proved a home-fro- mobilization bill which would give full discretion to invoke con-trols to President Truman. Last month President Truman asked for limited economic controls. The bill approved by the commit-tee, however, goes much further than Mr. Truman asked. Those curbs in-cluded authority to: 1. Allocate scarce industrial ma-terials. 2. Assign priorities to put defense production work at the head of any factory job sheet. 3. Let the government take over privately owned plants, if neces-sary. 4. Curb consumer credit and real-esta-construction credit. 5. Grant $2,000,000,000 in govern-ment loans and loan guarantees to spur defense production. The measure gives the President the right to invoke general price control and rationing anytime he decided such a step was warranted. He could invoke general wage con-trols at the same time. The only apparent restriction is a provision saying the President would be compelled to put wage curbs in effect if price ceilings pre-viously had been established "on materials, services, and property comprising a substantial part of all sales at retail and materially af-fecting the cost of living." The house was expected to agree on some bill patterned principally after the senate committee's meas-ure. The Draft SECURITY COUNCIL: No Communist Deals "So long as men are dying on the battlefield in defense of the United Nations this council will not wish to cheapen their suffer-ing or sully their heroism by seeming to engage in the consider-ation of deals." With thise words, Warren Aus-tin, the American chief delegate to the United Nations, rejected the Russian move to link the question of Red China's entrance in the U. N. with the Korean ,war. It was a bitter exchange of words between Austin and Soviet dele-gate Jakob A. Malik, who became president of the security council Aug. 1. Malik wanted the question of admitting Red China to the U. N. the first order of business on the agenda, with the Korean situation second. The Russians were defeat-ed by a vote of eight to one. No one believed the Russians had any formula for peace that was acceptable to the western powers when they ended their boycott of the security council. It soon be-came evident the Russians were interested in seating Red China and nothing else. Some believed Malik's maneu-vers were only delaying tactics in the belief the North Koreans would quickly shove United Nation's troops off Korea and thus open the way for any demands the Soviet Union desired to make. That belief became wide-sprea- d when the Russians demanded American troops be withdrawn from Korea, under threat of use of the veto, and seat the North Ko-reans in security council delibera-tions. On the other hand, it was just as evident that the United States would not agree to such a situa-tion. The only outcome could be a deadlock, with the Russians resort-ing to the vote to kill anv action the majority might sanction. TRANSPORTATION: Truck Fleets Increase A for hire fleet of 1,000,000 trucks part of the 8,000.000 which roll America's highways is available for transport of military supplies in case of a grave national emergency, the American Trucking association has estimated. The figure was the chief finding of an industry-wid- e survey con-ducted by the transportation organ-ization as the first step in prepar-ing for a possible all-o- mobiliza-tion. The for hire vehicles would be the first to be mobilized and would, the association said, carry the brunt of the military ton-mil- e load. But an additional 4,500,000 pri-vately operated trucks, 2,200,000 farm trucks and 335,000 trucks un-der public ownership, could ulti-mately be made available. Taken as a whole, the associa-tion's survey revealed the trucking industry could provide 171,369.000 inter-cit- y ton-mil- of transport facilities during the next 12 months. In 1941 the year before Pearl Ha-rborthe industry clocked up ton miles. That difference 114,246,000 ton-mil-per year represents the in-creased load of guns, food, ammu-nition or other military supplies which American civilian trucking firms are able and ready to handle without relying on any other form of transportation and with the full advantage of point-to-poi- ship-ment without rehandling. EUROPE: r . p. r The pent-u-p indignation felt by all who had heard Jac-ob Malik's scathing attack on the United States in the V. N. security council Is registered and voiced by chief U. S. Dele-gate Warren Austin. Austin's usual cool, collected tempera-ment has been put by the boards as he replied to Malik's statements. This closeup shows Austin fiercely rebuking the Russian delegate. KOREA: A Limited Offensive The Korean military picture ap-peared a little brighter for United Nations forces. A powerful Ameri-can attack, the largest launched by the U.S. since the Korean war be-gan, rolled slowly forward on the southern front. The North Korean troops, evident-ly completely aware that an attack was coming, took advantage of every spot of cover and battled U.S. marines for every foot of ground. In the central sector the Com-munists established one bridge-head across the Naktong river be-hind which United Nations forces had established new defense posi-tions. Military authorities reported immediate danger points were in the south and center sectors. In the center the Reds had three divi-sions and four of their finest in the south. While U.N. forces attacked in the south, U.S. pounded military targets in North Korea, dropping as many as 540 tons of bombs in one day. One mass flight dropped 460 tons on railroad yards at Pyong-yang, North Korea capital, with "excellent results." Air groups from two 27,000-to- n U.S. carriers bombed scattered tar-gets over southwestern Korea and gave close support to attacking troops in the southern sector. Military authorities warned that the southern action was a "limited offensive" and not a "general of-fensive." It evidently was designed to block the Communist strategy of: (1) Drive down the southern coastal plain, capture Pusan, seal off the U.N. port of entry and the only escape hatch; (2) smash through to Taegu in the Naktong valley, encircle the defenders and cut them up. Whether or not the Communists can execute this strategy hinges on the question: Have we the men and the materials to stop them? Until recently the outlook was grim. BRIDGES: Jailed at Last Harry Bridges, turbulent long-shore labor leader, had gone to jail at last. Federal Judge George B. Harris revoked the $25,000 bail under M,V,ir.h RriH(Tfn! Viari hppn at. lihertv - 7 V At, J oreps up Lerense The democratic nations of Europe with Communist .aggression in Asia uppermost in mind formed plans for increased defense measures against invasion by Russia. The United States and its North Atlantic allies mapped a three-yea- r $20 billion campaign of defense. Britain offered to adopt a three-yea- r $9 billion defense budget, a heavy load for the already hard pressed British government, if the U.S. foots part of the bill. Other members of the group agreed to recommend that all mem-- ; ber governments take immediate steps to increase effective military forces for common defense, France meanwhile asked that more American and British troops be sent to Europe and pledged to start a $5.7 billion three-yea- r re- - armament program. The new pro- - gram would be in addition to the 1950 military budget of $1.2 billion. B: Work Continues The United States has stepped up its work toward production of the hydrogen bomb. The govern- - ment has assigned a major seg- - i ment of the job to the du Pont company, already experts in mak-- ! ing the plutonium which goes into the present atomic weapons. The A. E. C. appointed the du Pont company to design, construct, and operate some new plants of advanced design. since his conviction last April on charges of perjury and conspiracy in connection with his 1945 naturali-zation, and ordered him jailed. In delivering his opinion, Judge Harris assailed the C. I. O. labor leader as "an agent dedicated to the execution of the Communist program nationally and interna-tionally," and a menace to United States security. "This is not the time for divided loyalty," Judge Harris said. "This is not the time for Communist double talk." The move to revoke Bridges' bail was started by F. Joseph Donohue, special assistant to the U. S. attorney general. Donohue argued that remarks by the labor leader at union meetings, to the effect that he opposed resolutions supporting American intervention in the Korean war, were against the best interest of the country. Plane Crash Nineteen persons were killed and 60 injured when a bomb laden crashed, burned and exploded near the Fairfield-Suisu- n air base in California. The plane crashed near a trailer camp where 200 service families slept. The flaming explosion of the 10 or 12 demolition bombs the plane carried shattered more than half of 50 automobiles and trailers parked in the area. 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Projecting 77 end of a 22 pigmentation By INEZ GERHARD ROSEMARY CLOONEY, now Cinderella treatment from CBS, starring on their "Songs for Sale" and "Stepping Out," comes from Maysville, Ky., and still has the small-tow- outlook. Asked what style she uses in her singing, she doesn't know; she just ROSEMARY CLOONEY sings. In the year since she was just a singer with Tony Pastor's band she has reached celebrity stat-us, but is still celebrity-shy- , when she meets the big ones. Leaving the broadcasting studio one day, she saw Clark Gable getting into a taxi; jumping into another cab, she cried, "Follow that car!" and pursued Gable's cab for seven blocks, gazing at the back of his head! Adolphe Menjou did right well re-cently with a hobby. His collection of United States coins was sold by the Numismatic Gallery of Beverly Hills for $134,000. A $2.50 gold piece dated 1841 brought the top price, $5,100. Bill Pine picked Lalo Rios, a Mexican born youth without pre-vious acting experience, for an im-portant role in "The Lawless," but said afterward that till the picture was released nobody could tell whether Rios would continue as an actor or not. His performance was so impressive that Pine and Thomas have cast him in their forth-coming "Passage West." Joan Fontaine and 75 other mem-bers of the cast of "Mr. and Mrs. Anonymous" donned heavy coats, galoshes and mufflers and battled man-mad- e snow and sleet one day last month; Producer - Director George Stevens was shooting Christ-mas scenes! fc DETECTIVE PETERS CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson DIDN'T look like a ORION He realized this for a fact when the girl with the chestnut brown hair came up and spoke to him. "You're Orion Peters, aren't you? Mrs. Keith told me. I'm June It's going to be a gorgeous wedding, don' t I you think? Have -- Minute you seen the 3 Fiction swimming pool yet?" Orion knew at once because of her easy infor-mality she had mistaken him for one of the guests. And suddenly he decided to go on with the game. "Hello," he said cheerfully. "It's nice to see you again. No, I haven't seen the pool. Is it new? Shall we go look at it together?" They went and looked at it. In fact they swam in it. They stayed near the pool for almost two hours. At the end of that time Orion came to two de-cisions. First, he decided that the girl was the loveliest, most beautiful creatnre he'd ever known. Second, he decided be was a fool. At first this business of pretending to be a guest smacked of a lark. Now it was different. He was falling in love. He went back to his room and changed into his tux. He'd have to go down and keep his eyes on things and avoid June Ingalls, if he could. He took up a station within ob-servation distance of the table where the gifts were placed and acted as much like a guest as he knew how. June was not among the crowd that milled around the living room. He was convincing himself that he was glad of this, when a Orion decided that the P was the loveliest, most btini ful creature he'd em knom feminine voice behind him :i "Why, Mr. Peters, you're t:c ing here like a itatue. I shouldn't we dance, or sometiai' "I'm dreadfully sorry," he : "I hurt my ankle to the pool -: afternoon. I'm afraid dancing-fo-me." "Oh, how wretchedl Is there f thing I can do? I mean, oup you to see a doctor, or somettii THEN Orion's 1 JUST fell on the table & lay the gifts. There ups-tanding at one end talking woman. The woman had i which she maneuvered Behind its ruffled folds the ; whom she was talking darted out a hand, scooped on the table, and thrust neath the tails of his coat Orion came back to earth He started toward W; who was moving througu He -- up toward the terrace door. with the fellow just as " outside and fell Into "All right," said Orion J ', reached the end of tieJ "Take it easy and you hurt You're under arrest. The man looked .thW;;1, ly. Orion didn't have lift his arms to thing struck him ' on the head. He swayed. himself, glimpsed " racing down the step Orion anticipated tto V ,(..; chasM the man he was the fish pond wtvjlwt tackle at the fellow' went down in. heap. j. When he opened n ,; was a crowd of of con heard snatches guessed that the captured and that he, Orion, Then he knew that pillowed on "new a face bending "a7f'- Well. thatsetUe'My; grinned. "Now yw- , g0 1 not reaUy a detect.' dlfl, and dei school nights week-ends.- " , part1;.. mane "It doesn't difference," Ju"er.ta y. $ f Mrs. Keith's me for. CnlndP"" that y .u V,, was a guest? Ana Jt know the truth, If, like me any more' "Suppose," saio me ask a Question- She agreed and she blushed as she it BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Beggar Has flew Angle - Can You Spare a Teddy Bear? by BILLY ROSE There's a beggar in New York with a new sales approach: "Can you please, Mister, spare the price of a teddy bear for my sick little daughter?" It so happens that this panhandler hasn't got a sick little daughter, but that doesn't mean you have to turn him down if you meet up with him. His story is stuff, and I'll tell it to you as it was told to me the other night by Charlie Washbura, the Broadway press agent .... "A few days before Easter," said Charlie, "I was standing in front of a toy shop on Fifth Avenue when a seedy-lookin- g guy tapped me on the arm and asked if I could spare the price of a teddy bear. When I told him to quit his kid-ding, he explained he wanted it for his sick little girl, and that if I didn't think he was on the he'd write his name and i ! ' ii it would do her more good than all the medicine, but what with the room rent and food, they just couldn't afford to buy one. A month ago he walked out of the house, and ever since teddy bears had been arriving at the rate of two or three a day. " 'With all those toys,' I said to the woman, "your daughter must be a happy little girl.' '"They're too late to do any good! she said. 'Peggy died two days before her father left. And the teddy bears probably would-n't have helped anyhow she had leukemia.' "When I told her I cpuldn't un-derstand why a man was mooching teddy bears for a dead child, the woman said she was afraid Tim had cracked up. He was never one to accept reality anyhow, and in his fuzzy condition he probably still thought the kid was alive. 'Well, then,' I said, 'what have you been doing with all the teddy bears?' "The woman told me she had gotten to know the doctors at the clinic pretty well, and when her husband disappeared they had found her a job at the hospital as cleaning woman. " 'There are a lot of kids In the charity ward where I work,' she said, 'and they get a big kick out of those teddy bears.' " liver it myself. It was a flat In a walk-u- p tenement In the 50's near Tenth Avenue, and the door was opened by a woman who looked as if she could use a little sleep. "'What you got there,' she said, 'another teddy bear?' "'Houd you knou? asked. "'I've been getting two or three every afternoon for the last month,' she said. 'Where'd you run into Tim!" "Tim, it turned out, was her hus-band and he had been missing for several weeks. Things hadn't been going well with them for quite some time, and when his unemploy- ment insurance ran out last March the going got real tough. Then, to make things still worse, their three-year-ol- d daughter, Peggy, had taken sick and the doctors at the clinic couldn't seem to do much for her. "THE TEDDY BEAR angle had come about this way: Shortly after Peggy became ill, she asked for a teddy bear and kept talking about it all the time. Tim said he thought address on a piece Rose-o-f paper and I could have it delivered. "Well, filled with the old Easter spirit I walked into the shop and picked out a five-doll- bear, but when I handed the slip to the girl who waited on me she gave me a funny look and said I was the third person that afternoon who'd order-ed one sent to that address. "IT SMELLED LIKE a good hu-man interest yarn, and so I had her wrap up the toy and set out to de- - |