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Show t vjEWPoiriT CLIFF MEMMOTT. Ediior ' ALL AMERICA URGED TO OBSERVE RED CROSS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25h . . . Next Sunday, February 25, has been designated as Red Cross Sunday, when all churches are asked to cooperate with the national Red Cross drive. Never in the history of this country has it been more necessary for all citizens to think and act constructively and cooperatively for the national welfare, possibly even1 for national survival. The national organization of the Red Cross has pledged its support and assistance to the civil defense effort. In many areas the Red Cross chapter will be the focus of civil defense activity. The American National Red Cross has undertaken the responsibility for coordination of a nalion-wide blood program, pro-gram, as well as several large scale training projects under the civil defense plan. , Besides the blood program, two other phases of civil defense preparation will be undertaken by the Red Cross: (1) first aid training for as many as 20 million persons, including in-cluding all civil defense officials and volunteer workers; (2) home nursing instruction and training for nurses' aides. The tradition, the character, and tlie past record of performance of the earnest and selfless men and women of the Red Cross are priceless assets to our national security. It is well, therefore, that workers of the Red Cross, and civil defense officials throughout our states, approach to-gether to-gether the planning necessary to handle in effective fashion the gravest disaster this country could possibly know an atomic attack. Support Red Cross Sunday and the local Red Cross workers in every way possible. v . v ANNUAL PRESS CONVENTION BRINGS FORTH MAN" WORTHWHILE IDEAS ..... ! It was V ure to attend a convention of Utah's 60 small-town weeKiy newspaper editors and publishers last week-end in Salt Lake City, where many valuable hints were given that should tend to stimulate better products in the future. The officers and committees in charge of the program deserve to be complimented for assembling' the many specialists spe-cialists in the vaiious fieids of newspapering to instruct and advkv.llH-se owia attended . . . As. is true when counsel and advice is given from one capable of counseling, if the ideas expressed are absorbed by the observer, and then used, great growth is the result. The one, particular phase of the convention that impressed im-pressed me was an advertising clinic directed by two specialists spe-cialists from the Fiancom Advertising Agency. . . . Joe Francom and Ned Hogan, president and vice-president, res- . pectively, took various newspaper ads and gave a thorough analysis of them pointing out the faults and the favorable points as they occurred. After the analysis was finished, Mr. Hogan, whose job with the company is art and layout, displayed dis-played layouts that made his criticism one of a constructive nature, and as such very valuable. Climaxing our annual conventions is the awarding of citations to publishers who during the previous year had excelled in various phases of newspapering .... The Roosevelt Roos-evelt Standard came in for one citation when it was awarded award-ed first honorable mention, which is really second place, in the Utah State Agricultural College's "Community Service" contest. . . . This contest is based on service rendered the t community by the paper as told editorially by the editor . . . Times-News of Nephi was first, with the Standard coming com-ing in second. . . Each publisher entered four consecutive papers during the year to the U.S.A.C. and judging' was done on those four papers ... A certificate was awarded, a facsimile of which is found on Page I of the Standard. v E v IT'S BOUND TO HURT .... The President has warned us that the taxation which is necessary for the safety of the country is "going to hurt!" The American Business Men's Research Foundation informs in-forms us that between 1934 and 1949 the American people spent $82,470,000,000 for intoxicants. If that money had been spent to make this country strong, there would be no war m prospect today. Your taxes will make up for that waste and "it will hurt! v E v St Louis Post Dispatch, 12-19-50: A dispatch from Pen-coed, Pen-coed, Wales, is headed: "Horse Trapped in a Ditch Saved by Bottle of Scotch." When rescuers gave up, a 12-year-old bottle of Scotch was used to urge the old horse from the ditch into which he had fallen. It was a bottle saved bv an old woman, for "emergency." Usually that stuff puts one in the ditch. 1 one n ' |