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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH . OPERATION UNITY The East-We- st Struggle Places Europeans in Political Quandary By FARNHAM F. DUDGEON Editor, WNU Second in a Series Europeans today are having an extremely difficult time trying to face in two opposite directions at the same time. There is, of course, the ever present Soviet threat of military invasion. Europe Is Concerned But, as the United States enters into a crucial election year in which the fate of European military and economic aid will be determined in congressional debate in next No-vember's election, these people are extremely concerned with political events in the United States. American taxpayers can feel fair-ly sure on one important aspect of this situation. Their representatives from both houses of Congress have poured into Europe in good num-bers to observe first-han- d the po-litical and military situation as it exists. ' When the great debates start, both In the halls of Congress and on the campaign platforms of America's home towns, there will be a store of first-han- d observations, which will enable the American voters to ask direct questions and be reasonably sure of getting d replies with regard to the stake we have in Europe. cal and moral scars of these con-flicts. Much of the physical property which was destroyed during World War II has been rebuilt. But the minds of the people who have sur-vived these wars are not rebuilt. They look with understandable sus-picion upon alliances, which con-ceivably could thrust them into an-other war. And yet, at the same time, they know that their fate is completely tied to the democratic principles of government best per-sonified today by the United States. In their attitude toward peace and war, these people are little different than Americans. They know, even better than we do, the high and horrible price of war. But, somehow, one senses that they know, too, that unity must be maintained against Russian aggression. Somehow, you feel that they in-stinctively agree with General Eisenhower, when he says: Political Federation "I believe that there will be no permanent position of serenity and confidence for the western world as long as we are confronted with the Communist menace. As a counter, there must be created a United States of or political federation of Western Europe; and.Western Eu-rope imfst include at least Western Both American officials and the officials of other countries told us that these congressmen and sena-tors, who visited them, took a good look and should be able to present a clear picture. We noticed that both political parties were well rep-resented in these congressional in-spection teams. No Backing Down If economic and military aid from the United States were to be with-drawn, or seriously curtailed, it would be difficult to speculate on the outcome of such action. These countries certainly would not im-mediately back down, or "go over to the other side". Countries like Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia have no choice but to stand as firmly as they can against the Soviet Union. In Turkey we were told, for example, that the world would not be in such a sorry state today if other countries had taken as firm a position against Russia as have the Turks. In Yugoslavia there Is great con-cern on the part of many observers, as to whether or not the people of the United States are completely convinced that the Tito defection from the Kremlin has been complete and unqualified. Our representatives in Europe voice the general opinion that Yugoslavia has, indeed, cast her lot with the West. In countries like Italy and France there are thousands of people who still vote as "Communists". How-ever, the general appraisal of these voters by American officials seems to be that only a small percentage are real "hard-core- " Communists. They ally themselves with Commu-nists and vote for Communist can-didates as a protest against the other political parties which cur-rently govern these nations. If the cold war turned to a hot one, these people would undoubtedly fight against the Russian Commu-nists. There would be some local sabotage, of course, but the majori-ty would support the west. A subject of continuing specula-tion by thinking men in Europe to-day is this problem of the "will to fight". Europe is tired. Its economy has been shattered by almost g wars through the first half of this century. Its people bear physi-- Germany." Many of the American officials with whom we spoke sincerely be-lieve that such a federation of Eu-ropean countries is the only answer to the enonomic and political prob-lems of these countries. Such a union will not come easily, but the Europeans themselves know that something other than continu-ing subsidization by the United States must be done to give them an equitable status in the world's fam-ily of peoples. And it is here, in this realm of future long-rang- e planning, that one encounters a European viewpoint, perhaps not thoroughly understood or appreciated by the American taxpayer. Two Personal Questions In the early stages of our trip, we encountered an American business-man, 'who was primarily concerned with getting us to find the answers to his two most important questions: (1.) "Do these people (the Euro-peans) really appreciate what we are doing for them?" and (2.) "When are they going to get "off the back" of the American tax-payer?" "Appreciation" is hardly the word for the feeling which most Europe-ans have for the United States, with regard to the financial and military assistance which it has rendered. They know, and say freely and open-ly, that this aid has been their sal-vation. But by and large, these peo-ple are strongly nationalistic, and they are not happy with their fate of being the recipients of American "benevolence." They don't feel that we are "giving" them anything. They feel that we are buying their partnership in an alliance against a common enemy. They feel, also, that they would like to have the aid, which we have been givinf them, terminated just as soon as it is militarily and eco-nomically safe to do so. They feel that we are buying much with the money we are spending in Europe. Many of them are frank to say that it is much better for America to have a "front" against Soviet Russia located where it is today, than it would be to have a front on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. NWiM V AjA UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS T y &h$Z ' HALFBACK, SAID BY MANY TO BE Tw f! 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Small I I I I I v2A I I I branch J SPORTLIGH- T- 1 College Football Full of Varit ' By GRANTLAND RICE COLLEGE football in the badly U.S.A., will be one of the most scrambled sports on any map for 1952. It was known In advance that the Ivy League had no connection what-soever with the Southeastern and Southwestern Conferences. The wide split concerned athletic scholar-ships, student work, bowl games and almost everything else. Now it seems that the Southern Conference, the Big Seven, the Big Ten, the Missouri Valley and the Pa-cific Coast Confer-ence are heading for Ivy League standards. At least a good part of the way. Each conference is entitled to make its own choice. It is app arently the The Southeastern wing ; ' Southwestern delegation t along minus any outside s ,, help. They have enough rivals at home to fill any g But the Southern, going fc scholarship reforms, will ji duck such old rivals as Te til Georgia, Georgia Tech, Til r. such. Or be outclassed. If this split develops ther; c time enough to see which the sounder. Only the ec; side certainly won't be help 1; football is given too big a j i much football and a sour,: i tion don't walk the sa: , which is something everjc: It will take some time to : , the many moves that k planned. But as things look today : p be a wide gap in some of c. conferences where teams iNt to be ranked in different Ii: the athletic scholarship ; ; set against the rest of tie This will give everybt '! confusion than the averagi t handle. But that's the w; & have to be if any fair rank ' pected. ci The Big Show These are big days si pleasant village of Area:1 The famous Santa Anita ' open for its 15th seaso: ; Charles Strub starts his 5 : as one of sport's fabuloit 3 ers. It was the San : who sold DiMaggio to the '. and gave racing Santa Ar- - This will be Santa Anita: '7 year. The total stakes ' more cash than we can ad: busy day and was enoug: out owners with big stat q have a chance to win. s:. If you walk around th; j you'll run across such 1 a horses as Counterpoint, 19:. t:j ion, Hill Prince, Count TV.-- cj .Winner), Windy City (E; Irish champion two-yea- n a: o'Roses, Palestinian, !' tr Wistful, Special Touch, t: Tumble, Bryan G., Guillc-- Capitol, Hill Gail, A Glean j horses from the stables j s Whitney, Greentree, V: Calumet, C. T. Chenery, i F; never-endin- g list. :y This shot at big cash P: lured out the top jockeyi k Arcaro, Shoemaker, many of the track's bigge who can scent the odor of: money. Among the features an 000 Maturity, with Cc featured, the $100,000 February 23, and the $100 cap. Grantl.nl Rlc. choice ol the j30"" eastern Southwestern Conferences to go out for even bigger and better football athletic scholarships, plus bowl games, freshmen playing and what else do you want? There are certain to be wide, sweeping changes over most of the football map. But there will still be football every bit as interesting in other sections as the Southeastern's and Southwestern's untrammeled conferences can put on. The main point is that the South-eastern and Southwestern leagues can supply enough teams for most of the Bowls, since the Big Ten and West Coast take care of the Rose Bowl's destiny. For how long no one can say. Certainly ' the two Conferences from Georgia through Texas can see that the Sugar, Cotton, Orange and Gator Bowls are all supplied with Bowl teams. They may need some help, however, from stray wanderers such as Holy Cross, Fordham, Miami, Virginia and one or two others who are not in a Con-ference. The various college presidents have gone farther, in the main, than anyone suspected they would. This doesn't mean the Southeast or the Southwest where coaches and athletic directors still have control, which is the way those two sections want it. Different Football Teams that play with almost un-limited athletic scholarships at-tached have terrific advantages over those with limited or with no scholarships at all to dole out. The wonder of 1950 and 1951 was that Princeton, with no athletic scholarships, had teams that matched Tennessee, Maryland and Michigan State. S5 OVER THE COUNTER CORNER By Richard Hill Wilkinson r sr A TxALA WAS thinking of Bill when ' the young man with the mus-tache leaned over her counter. Kate Holland had said that she had seen Bill and Reba Ellsworth danc-ing at Sutton's. Kate was a gossip, . but Bill had cer- - 3 ""if6 InTstrg-e-l J late. ' "You're Miss Scott, aren't you?" the young man said. Dala glanced up at him and then gave her attention to her switch-board. "Empire Hotel," she said into the receiver. "Mr. Ricker? Just a moment, please." She plugged in. "You must be psychic," she said to the young man. "Or did you inquire of one of the bellboys?" The young man looked surprised. "Neither. The clerk told me." "And now you're going to tell me, I suppose, that you just bought this hotel and unless I go out to dinner with you tonight, I'm fired." "You're quick," said the young man. "It's a good line, mister, but I don't like traveling salesmen. Be-sides, I'm busy Empire Hotel?" When she looked up again the young man had gone. She was a little surprised. Usually they didn't give up so easily. The telephone was ringing when she turned the Key in her apart-ment door at 6:10 that evening. It was Bill, of course. "Hello," she said, trying to force casualness into her tone. "Remember me?" said a voice. "I'm the man who bought the hotel." "Like a bad penny," Dala said. "Or didn't you understand me?" "Thanks a heap," said Dala. "I'll remember you in my prayers." "Just called to assure you thatl your job is safe," the voice told heri cheerfully. "Thanks a heap," said Dala. "I'll remember you in my prayers." She hung up. Bill didn't call that night. No one did. Dala spent a lonesome evening. She was almost glad the, next day when the young man with the moustache appeared. "By the way," he grinned. "You're supposed to give out infor-mation, aren't you?" She admitted it by nodding, at the same time' droning her usual "Empire Hotel" into the mouthpiece. "Then what's your name?" he asked. She swung around to face him, but somehow decided against the retort that rose to her lips. "It's Dala," she said. "But calling me Dala won't help." "Thanks. Mine's Johnny." DALA was returning from lunch she ran into Bill. He was in a hurry. Or said he was. He only stopped for a minute. The realization made her kind of sick at heart. No matter whether you loved a man or not, it was something of a blow to find out he was g you. She jumped vhen the young man with, the moustache spoke into her ear. "I die hard," he grinned. "There's still tonight. And I prom-ise to be good." Dala looked at him and thought of Bill. "All right," she sighed re-signedly. They had dinner at a restaurant where Dala hadn't eaten before. She liked the place and wondered what Johnny did for a living. Two nights later Johnny took her to a show and later to a night club. It was then she began to wonder about him. He regarded her In surprise when she put the qnestlon. "Bat, I've already told you. I'm the man who bought the Empire. I thought you knew." She said nothing until they were in the lighted hallway of her apart-ment house. "Now tell me," she said, looking at him. "Tell me again." He told her and suddenly the floor seemed to give away beneath her. She turned, but he caught her hand. "What difference does it make?" he pleaded. "I knew you didn't know." She put her hand over his mouth. "Don't say it. The answer is yes. It's a terrible shock. You see, I've just recovered from being made a fool of by one man. And now this" "This, he told her gravely, "is different. We'll make it different. Shall we?" She nodded. IBy JIM RHODYp MZSk Choosing Rod To judge the quality of cane in a rod, examine carefully each of the six strips in each section. Make sure the cane is split not sawed across the grain. Make sure that the nod-ules of the cane are staggered from one strip to another so that no two of them come exactly together. Look for defects in the surface but do not be alarmed at slight Even the best cane may have slight harmless discolorations or spots. Only the very finest rods are culled to eliminate these minor discolorations entirely. Examine closely the guides, fer-rules and other fitments. They should be of good materials, snugly fitted, highly polished and absolute-ly free from rough places which can slow up your cast and cut your line. Silk winds should come up over the shoulder of the ferrules, which should be shaped to fit the d form of the rod. All fitments and ferrules should be fully water-proofed and precisely matched. Do not be deceived by the number or color of silk winds or wraps on a fly rod. A good fly rod needs no winds to hold it together, or increase its strength. Modern waterproof glues produce joints stronger than the cane itself, so winds are used only to hold the guides in place and for decoration. Only worthless cheap rods use winds for extra strength or stiffness. Do not confuse stiffness with pow-er, or backbone with stiffness. Tour-nament rods are too stiff for prac-tical fishing. They are made for tournament use for either distance or accuracy, and the makers sacri-fice some fishing qualities to gain advantages under tournament rules. For instance, the action in a tour-nament accuracy rod is in the tip to produce aj flat trajectory and theoretically to make possible pin point accuracy in casting. The action in a tournament distance rod is stiffened all along its length, and fitments are cut to a bare skeleton, to enable the rod to handle an extremely heavy dis-tance line and to propel it for dis-tances far beyond those practical for a fisherman. There is no actual difference be-tween "dry fly action" and "wet fly action." A good dry fly rod is a good wet fly rod and vice versa. A fly rod is built to put your fly exactly where you want it, to handle the fly during the cast, and to play out the fish after he is hooked. A good rod does all these things perfectly whether you are fishing dry or wet flies. AAA Whales can dive to enormous depths. There is a record instance of a sperm whale becoming entangled in a submarine cable 3,200 feet down. AAA Try 'Fish Eye' If more fishermen tried looking at fishing through the eyes of a fish, they would more than double their catch, says Homer Circle of Heddon's Research Department. For instance, let's imagine your-self a big bass hiding underneath a patch of weeds. We're hiding be-cause it takes only a short rush to grab a little fish that swims by. In open water, this little fish would keep too far away to catch without an exhausting chase. We're watching for an easy meal when along comes a guy in a boat, splashing the oars as he rows near our weed patch. He throws over the anchor with a big splash, scrapes his tackle box around on the bot-tom of the boat, and stands up where he makes a sharp contrast against the sky. We've heard this sequence of sounds so many times that we know what to expect next. He'll throw a plug in our direction, thinking we're silly enough to grab it. We didn't grow big being thoughtless, and we want to keep on growing, so we let the plug alone. However, some day one of those guys who thinks like a fish is go-ing to slip up on us with no noise. He will drift within casting distance with no oars splashing. To hold his boat in the wind, he'll have the anchor already down, just over the bottom so that he can lower it without commotion. He'll have a river runt plug at the tip of his pal spook rod ready to cast, and not have to fumble around looking for it; and he'll not stand up to cast. That guy stands a good chance of adding us to his stringer, for 11 we know is that a good looking meal splashed in the water over our heads and is trying to get away. Being unsuspicious and either mad, curious or hungry, we'll more than likely take a bust at it. AAA Bug Lures If a fish doesn't strike after first quiver you've imparted to your floating bug, let it lie still awhile longer and then twitch it six or eight inches. Wait again, even though this is ofttimes hard on the angler's nerves. One naturally is disposed to "hurry" the bug in so another cast can be made right away but that won't work. We say again here that one cannot catch fish with his lure in the air it must be in the waterl GRASSROOTS Immm and Cohorts Leading America info Morass By Wright A. Patterson AS WAS THE CASE in the last English elections, when the so-cialist Atlee was voted out and the Conservative Churchill was voted in, the one issue, the only issue, was socialism. The English people were asked to pass judgement on the results of the socialistic ex-periment. So in our presidential election of next November the one issue will be socialism for America. The American people will have the opportunity of saying whe-ther or not they want to contin-ue the socialistically inclined Truman and bis fair deal co-horts In office, or whether they want a decided turn to the right. The proponents of socialism may not express the issue as definitely as that, but the voters should not be fooled by any such phrase as "welfare state," that is but social-ism of the brand. England has re-pudiated. And we will follow the same road that has broken England, darkened its factory chimneys, blighted its fields, and left England a fourth rate nation, despite the 35 billions of American money Wash-ington poured into that socialistic rathole. Socialists are the park-sitter- s of the nation, those who are asking something for nothing, who wish to eat, without doing their share in production. The fair dealers would have Amer-ica bogged down in that same morass in which England is now trapped. They will not admit that fact; they will hide behind lying promises. But the fact remains that socialism for America will be the issue in the November elections. An effort may be made to cover up that fact. But no voter should permit the weasel words of politicians to convince him to the contrary. His vote will be cast for or against socialism. It took socialism, as operated by the Atlee government, six short years to destroy England, to change it from a reasonably prosperous people. She did not recover from the ravages of World War II as did the other nations of Europe. Pro-duction went continuously down, rather than up as in other Europe-an nations. It will take many more than six years for England to re-cover from the blighting effect of six years of socialism, and through those years will be many, very many, heart aches and back aches, all because of six years of socialism. Social-ism changed England from, a nation upon which the sun never set, to a nation upon which the sun no, longer rose. President Truman has made every possible effort to drive through congress such legislation as would have made of us a so-cialistic nation. To some extent he was successful, but the major moves will come after the conven-ing of the 83rd congress in Jan-uary of 1053. The verdict of the voters will have been registered before that date. For the protec tion of America, for all of us other than the "dole" collectors, those who would eat, but not work, that verdict must be against socialism. Do not permit any weasel words of politicians to fool you. Socialism will be the issue of the next politi-cal campaign. For close to 200 years Benjamin Franklin has been reverenced as the patron saint of printing and publishing interests in America, but there is another line of vast importance for which he was the pioneer leader. That line is mu-tual fire insurance. On March 25, 1752, there was started in Phila-delphia a concern called "Contri-butionship- It was the first mu-tual insurance company in the na-tion. Its organizers were Benja-min Franklin and a group of asso-ciates, mostly Pennsylvania farm-ers. The idea spread, and now there are 2,616 mutual fire and casualty insurance companies op-erating in this country, into which were paid last year as premiums more than one billion 400 million. That business was conceived in the mind of Franklin. It stands as monument to his genius in a radic-ally different line from that of printing and publishing. These mu-tual companies are operated by and for their policy holders. At this time of each year I am pleased that I live in southern California, even though the weather man fails to produce rain. ' jD r . ytiii' S5SEelTiEvM1TRoOF ANNoyiNG static imterrupti;:; nu-nfI- r K1T,BrrSWlTCHING on a rsctable RADIO ahoJ v ALONG ATpIav1? LOUDEST: SOURCE OF STATIC 16 AGAIN TL E toVE ABOUT 500 f,. Ij WHIi 1,?; TO OBTAINJ LOUDEST STATIC! CROSS IS THE SOURCE Of TH V |
