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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHHONICLl! Delta, Utah, Thurs.. Jan. 31, 1952 Wingovcrs All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison TAKE OFF3 AND LANDINGS . . . Tex and Don Searle and 15 year mal education in the days wheri Mencken was rampaging over the land, and the name Mercury con-noted a magazine rather than a V-- It was due to him perhaps more than any other writer that we had imparted to us a sufficient skepticism to enable us to climb by ourselves out of the morass of politico-economi- c heresies of the era now ending. We may be duly thankful. In the Chrestomathy, the great H. L. rides rough-sho- d over a list of subjects ranging from theology politics, literature and music which were his specialties, to science, his-tory, sex and prize fighting - -- just about, everything under the sun. His observations combine the incredibly logical naivette of a found year old child with the blase' worldliness of a New York taxi driver. He can attack any subject you ever heard, of, and with a single phrase or sentence to live, to come and go as he pleases, so long as he don't in-terfere with nobody else. That any government that don't give a man them rights ain't worth a damn - - .. "But when .things get so bad a man ain't hardly got no rights at all ny more, but you might almost call him a slave, then everybody ought to get together and throw the grafters out, ,and put in new ones who won't carry on so high and steal so much, and then watch them - - ." MUSIC Mencken loved, and un-derstood, and was qualified to criticize. .Possibly the only time in his life when he was at a loss for fitting description was when he confessed inability to do justice to a Richard Strauss orchestration with the observation that "Roget must be rewritten before Feursnot is described." If Mencken couldn't do it with the help of Roget, no-- forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder. 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is a theory that the wheel was designed and set spin-ning to give him the ride. One horse-laug- h is worth ten thousand syllogisms. The cave-ma- n is all muscles and mush - - a baby with whiskers. The whole mental baggage of the average businessman or even the average professional man, is inordinately childish. In the demi-mond- e one will find enough acumen and daring, and enough resilience in the face of special difficulties to put the equip ment of any exclusively male pro-fession to shame. There is absolutely no reason to believe that the normal woman Is frigid. No moral man has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or writ-ten a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that it has ever been done by a virtuous woman. Diligence. Women confined for the ninth or tenth time, wondering helplessly what it is all about. The kind of man who demands that the government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose id-eas are idiotic. Mencken's own Epitaph: If, after I depart this vale, you ever re-member me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sin-ner and wink your eye at some homely girl. With thanks to June Hinckley for lending me one of the most de-lightful book I've have ever read. old Don Jr. flew out over the fluor-spar mines to survey road condi-tions. George Eddie Dutson made his fledgling flight, with Ron Morley piloting. Fred Baker and son, Carl, flew their to Ely, Glen Swalberg, Merrill Floyd, Leo Burraston and I flew up over snow - buried Eureka. Highway 6 and some city streets looked pass-able, but other streets and some railways were snowbound. We flew around Ray Steele's 850 foot high beacon on Packard's Peak, then back home, detouilng on the way through a light cloud at Glen's re-quest. A Wavy F6F fighter found refuge from the storm here Friday. Its pil-ots, H. E. Holstrom, of El Toro, Calii., and T. A. Claridge of Evan-sto- Wyo. took off again Sunday. AMERICAN EGGHEAVEH . . . "Heave an egg out of a Pull- - make "learned" wordy volumes on it look like drivel by comparison. When Mencken started to write, all the other writers should have quit. . John Chamberalin, writing in The Freeman has called him the in-tellectual Toscanini of the twen-ties. "One can no more stuff a few columns of type than one could stuff Bushman, the great ape of Chicago, into a match box", he wrote. .Certainly no words of mine could impart the pun-gen-of Mencken's prose, so I'll just turn the rest of this little dis-sertation over to a few excerpts and quotations. From his AMERICAN LANGUAGE he treats us to a hilarious of the Declaration of Independence in the American vulgate, as per this excerpt: "When things get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permis-sion from nobody , excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that every-body can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody. "All we got to say on this pro-position is this: first, me and you is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better; "second, nobody ain't got on right to take away any of our rights; third, every man has got a right body could. . But before you conclude that Mencken couldn't describe music, read on, and consider how he eva-luated the works of these masters: Wagner - - The rape of the Sab-ine- s ... a kommers in Olympus. Beethoven - - The glory that was Greece . .. . the grandeur that was was Rome . . a laugh. Haydn - - A seidel on the table ... a girl on your knee . . . an-other a.nd different girl in your heart Chopin - - Two embalmers at work upon a minor poet . . . the scent of tuberoses . . . Autumn rain. Richard Strauss - - Old home week in Gomorrah. Johann Strauss - - Forty couples dancing . . . one by one they 'slip from the hall . . . sound of kisses . . . the lights go out Puccini - - Silver macaroni, ex-quisitely tangled Debussy - - A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one. Bach - - Genesis 1, 1. Since the editor refuses to de-vote this whoe issue to Mencken-ism- s, we'll have to just wind this up with a few brief ones picked at random: We live in a land of abounding quackeries, and if we do not learn how to laugh we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of viewerswith-alarm- . If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we re man window and you will hit a Fundamentalist almost anywhere in the United States today", wrote H. L. Mecken, in his American Mer-cury for October, 1925, in an article on William Jennings Bryan. The admonition to heave an egg at somebody or something must have come from deep in Mencken's subconscius, because his whole wri ting career has been devoted to the heaving of literary eggs in all directions not only at Fundamental ists, but at politicians, business men, teachers, clergymen, poets, ac tors - - to list a few of the groups that have felt the sting of his acidulous wit and been the ob-jects of his incomparable satire. His "eggs" have splattered over innumerable stuffed shirts and in-dented many a false front. If you are one who has aban-doned the priceless right of intell-ectual free choice to the extent of allowing critics or censors of any sort to tell you what not to read, or, worse yet, of permitting church or political authorities to select your reading matter for you, you probably haven't read much Mencken. He was anathema to such people; and more's the pity because the loss is yours, not his, or theirs. . It was June Hinckley who brou-ght the book, A Mencken Chresto-mathy, to my attention. The word Chrestomathy means a collection of choice passages by an author or authors, and this work is edit-ed by H. L. himself. June found it vastly amusing and stimulating, and so did I. Both June and I, in common with a whole generation now crow ding middle age had the great good fortune to complete our for- - Miss Violet Jones, who has been in Delta several weeks visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Jones, left Sunday to return to her home in Santa Monica. Her sister, La-R-Jones, arrived here during the week from Santa Monica, and is staying for several weeks. Mrs. s who has been seriously ill, is reported as much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Max Hannifin re-turned to Delta Monday after a stay in Salt Lake City while Mr. Hannifin had medical treatment. Pie is feeling much better. -- Iti&U i it? Mae H. Shipley At Sunday evening services the Delta Seminary New Testament class gave the program . About 11 students of the class gave a very good program. Tuesday evening the special interest group held a party for all present which was enjoyed by all. Dee Jacobson is home from a two month stay at a Salt Lake hospital. He is much improved in health. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Anderson and little daughter spent a few days visiting her parents at Eph-ria- Mrs. Bert Roper is home after visiting her children at Clearfield, Utah. Brent Lovell spent the week end home from Dixie College. 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STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA plans ahead to serve you better Mrs. Stella Brush left Delta Thurs day to return to her home at Goth-enburg, Neb.i after a visit of a month here with Mr and Mrs. E. A. Brush. Mr. and Mrs. George Corry at-tended funeral services Wednesday in Salt Lake City for Mrs. Corry's brother, Carl F. Norby. Dorothy Corry and a girl friend, both students at the BYU, spent the week end in Delta with Dor-othy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Corry. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Huff, from Spanish Fork, and Gevene Adams, from the BYU at Provo, made a week end visit in Delta with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alec Adams. |