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Show Page Two Sugar House. Utah-Thursd- ay .May 7 1959 . INDEPENDENT "e"s'' A NATION IS SPANNED The old depot at Honeyville has been moved to the Museum and restored as an office for the Museum director, Jesse H. Jameson. A coach and baggage car have also been added to the collection. Horace A. Sorensen, Managing Director of the S.U.P. Museums.announces the principal speaker at the ceremonies will be Harold P. Fabian, Chairman of the Utah Parks Commission. Dr. Leland H. Creer, President of the State Historical Society, j will give a short history of the site. Harold B. Lee, the member of the Twelve Apostles, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, will dedicate the Museum. The purpose of any public spir-ited columnist is to create greater factual awareness. This helps build a strong bulwark of alert and in-telligent public opinion. This, too, is the best defense against radical schemes and doctrines that threa-ten us here in our city, state, and nation and internationally. The highway ahead is so heavily mined that it threatens an ex-plosion with almost every footfall. Perhaps that is why so much Ninety years ago next Saturday, May 10, 1869, a great event in American history took place at Promontory, Utah. The last spike was driven to fasten the connecting rails of two railroads, thus com-pleting the first trans --continental spanning of the nation by rail. The old Central Pacific, now the Southern Pacific, working East-ward, and the Union Pacific, laying track toward the West, saw the culmination of a dream of through rail service from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Millions of dollars and hundreds of lives of work-ers went into this great pioneering epoch in American Railroading. Through the efforts of the National Society of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers and the Southern and Union Pacific Railroads, a permanent Museum has been established at Corinne, Utah. Two locomotives, gifts of the Roads, now face each other as they did that memorable pussyfooting is being done at home day ninety years ago. and abroad. Here at home are coming grand jury investigations, an empty city treasury and a contemplated change of city government. Capitol Hill is plagued with its money problems. Nationally certain liberal coal-ition blocs seek to undermine out security program, the Supreme Court decisions are tearing down states rights, the coming presi-dential elections are getting an unprecedented early start, infla-tion and depression have reached the "either-o- r" stage. Internationally the "hellfire-and-brimston- e" versus the "love-and-kiss- es" techniques applied to Soviet relationships are keeping things tumultuous. The sum total of all this to easy- - going poorly --informed Am-ericans is dangerous confusion. It would be impossible to go into all the issues here mentioned in a single column even if it were to run daily. However, keep them in mind as general background while attention is focused on spec-ific events as they arise. America's finest opportunities are yet to come. Our past great-ness was the result of courage and faith. No less than the high-est aim befits the most powerful nation on earth. Through we are dedicated to a course of peace we must not shrink from defend-ing ourselves if the alternative is moral degradation. Our trad-th- e forces of evil whenever they are rocketed against us. The blood of our sons testifies to this role. So let us maintain it, while pre-serving our own free institutions and free Republic. Let us remember as we nego-tiate in the coming summit con-ferences that while we pat ourselves on the back for our virtues, one of which is the keep-ing of agreements into which we were tricked, the Soviets go de-ceitfully on their way with another end in view: "The strictest loyalty to the ideas of Communism must be combined with the ability to make all the necessary com-promises, to "tack," to make agreements, zigzags, retreats, and so on, in order to accel-erate the coming into power of the communists." LENIN, Selected Works, Vol. X, p.138. We must also keep in mind that Kruschev recently said that those who wait for them to give up Marxism-Leninis- m must wait for "a shrimp to learn to whistle." The Communist goal to destroy us has not changed. The opinions expressed by the guest columnists in this paper are not necessarily those of The Southeast Independent. We citizens have a responsi-bility to understand the forces and processes that affect us in every area of human endeavor. To this end this column is published. MERLE RICHE New columnist for the South East Independent is Mr. Merle Riche. He has a solid background in news work. His education in-cludes, a degree in public speak-ing and journalism from the Uni-versity of Utah and is now work-ing on his doctorate in journalism. After graduating from the school of business administration at Bur-de- tte College in Boston, he worked for. the Chase National. Bank, then the Loew's Theater chain as manager, private secretary to a musical comedy star, and fin-ally as a free lance writer. Our columnist in World War II was confidential secretary to Gen-eral Woodward on the staff of General Terry Allen and the fa-mous "Timberwolf" 104th Divis-ion which stayed on the front lines longer without relief than any other. We arc happy to have Mr. Riche and his ideas as a regular feature of our paper and welcome any controversy with his opinions that you might express. I The National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, and the National Golden Spike Association, in cooperation with Union Pacific Railroad, take pleasure in inviting you to DEDICATION OF THE RAILROAD VILLAGE MUSEUM CORINNE, UTAH-- 2 p.m. SATURDAY. MAY 9 Dedication of plaque marking Promontory Summit as historic site by National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior 10:30 a.m. iiMinM P&ninn ta, V If the party who wrote the letter to the editor on April 3, and signed it"an interested read-er." will write us again and sign their name we will consider print-ing the letter. We will not pub-lish the name of the writer if requested not to do so but we must have a name signed to a letter before we will put it in the paper. THE RIGHTS OF GOV'T. The Declaration of Independ-ence, speaking of the inalienable God --given rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness says, "That to secure these rights go-vernments are instituted among men, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED." This means that a government of integrity will use only those powers which the people have given it. Any rights we as individuals have we may voluntarily give to government for the equal benefit of all. It na-turally follows that if we do not have a particular right, we can-not give it to government. The same Creator who endowed us with "life, liberty, and the pur-suit of happiness" said, "Thou continued on Page 5 |