The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1961-11-09
From The SideIines
BY Tiff Mckay

for some positive liiilhils diio
positive action on the part OF
somebody. have given som e
thought to this subject in recent
months, and have come up with
an idea which ! would like to toss
out in the hope that someone will
improve upon it or pass II along
to those in a position to do some
thing about it.
Have you ever paid close at
tention to the commercials on
TV and radio advertising the new
cars? Don't you come away with
a feeling that it is grand and
glorious to 60 skimming along
the road in your car with the
throttle wide open, showing OIL
the power and the ability of your
car to corner, even at hig n
speeds?" Isn't that just what the
TV and radio commercials tell
US, although not in so many
words?
In my opinion, even the adver,
tisements for automobile seat
belts are slanted in the wrong
direction. Too much time is de
voted to how seat belt can save
YOUR life IL you have an acct
dent, rather than TO the basic
cause of accidents. These COM
mercials seem to tell you, Its
all right to have an accident If
you have a seat belt, because you
won't get killed"
IL seems to me that automobile
manufacturers would be well adj
vised to launch Keep our Gus
toners alive campaign" As a
suggestion, each commercial adj
vertising new cars might men,
ton that properly operated, car
can be a convenience and plea
sure; but improperly operated, a
car can be just as deadly as a
gun. And after all, you can't sell
cars to a dead man.
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By the time this appears in
print, the open house at Brown
ing Public Schools will be over.
I hope / can write next week of
the success of this program.
Last week in the Glacier Re-
porter, School Superintendent
Ward pointed out that the Brown
ing school system will soon be
overcrowded. Now is the time to
start making plans to prevent
this, if we can. Every community
owes its children an education,
and Browning is no different.
We can't expect to wait until
the last minute and then take
the problem to the Government
for solution Any solution should
be based upon the planning of
the community, and the time for
this planning is now.
A Greek named Diogenes, who
lived a couple thousand years
ago, is supposed to have said,
Bury me on my face, because
the world is going to be turned
upside down before too long any
how" Too bad he never lived t.
find out just how prophetic he
was; what with Nikita making
good his threat to explode the
Big Bomb" and the U. S. an
swering that because Russia has
started testing bombs again, the
U. S. will test anytime we think
IL is in our national interest to
do so.
The u. S. can't seem to under
stand why the smaller countries
are more alarmed about the test
ing of bombs by this country
than by the testing of bombs by
Russia. In my opinion, 1t may
be because the whole world knows
that the U. S. is the only country
in the world who has thus far
exploded a bomb during war.
A natural reaction to this situa-
ton on the part of the smaller
countries, ! suppose, is TO wait
with baited breath every time
they hear of another atomic ex-
plosion in the U. S. for fear the
next explosion is going TO be in
some other country. OF course
this is ridiculous, what with the
present world situation. But the
fact remains that the u. S. has,
without warning. exploded a
bomb over another country in
the past.
In my opinion, those respons-
ible for reflecting the image OF
the U. S. to the world should take
this into consideration. Surely
method can be devised to con
vince the entire world that nei-
Their the u. S. or Russia is going
TO explode an atomic bomb any
where as an act of war. This is
not to say that the danger is not
always there, because II is and
we must learn to live with 1t
Those who aspire to positions of
fame may find some comfort ir
the fact that great men are born
in time of danger. Not every mar
is great. but every man can be