i 10 A Sunday Morn Trig bt e5alt goke ?ream g gag rgbr Issued every pivan---- Established April 15 1871 snot-nin- by Bait LI ke TribUns e ' Publishing ComPeng The Tribune is a member of the gesoclaten Press The Aseoclited Preto IS exclusively entitled to the tame flint reproduction of all news dispatches credlted to it or not otherwise cregited I tills paper and also the local news published herein 0A01NaNPINOWERO Salt Lake City Utah Sunday Morning August 31 1941 11itler's Jigsaw Picture Foreseen by Hendrik Van Loon One must be foreign-born- perhaps d !Ovid of freedom and free from racial prejudice to appreciate what we are pleased to designate as the "American way of living" Native Americans take it as a matter of course but many aliens never become reconciled to our besetting sins of Waste waste and new-foun- self-sufficien- cy - Carefree American's are inclined to attend to their own business and let other peoples do the same but thoughtful citizens of this republic now that their govrnment is a responsible member of the family of nations are beginning to real- lie that the United States has outgrown Its infantile isolation that our cherished policy of nationalism has become obsolete in the presence of the radio the submarines the flying fleets and swiftly moving ships that discount distance and mock the flickering fading lines drawn have by treaty makers of the past We erect to stand a continent overstepped in a troubled world It took Hendrik Van Loon a foreign-bo- rn citizen to tell Americans some four years ago that Hitler would sweep across Europe like a tidal wave of doom engulfing governments submerging religion wrecking homes impoverishing peoples destroying hopes and covering a continent with silt and sludge of helplessness and slavery With Austria obliterated Czecho-Slvakia murdered Norway betrayed Den- -mark trapped Belgium in bondage Ho'Poland annihilated land hamstrung France dismembered and the Balkans reduced to macinem by terrorism—with hither towering triumphant over all Hen drik Van Loon could hear "Americans saying sweetly and soothingly": Of course that is too bad but it is r fa away and can never happen here we must send the poor people some bundles of old clothes and do a bit of rearming but we are safe and it can never laappen over here" Two years ago in the columns of the New' York Herald-Tribun- e Hendrik Van Loon repeated these predictions most of which had then been verified and he interpreted the fuehrer as exhorting his followers and telling the world: "Disguised as peaceful visitors my storm troopers will filter into every land In the course of I intend to subjugate time leading personalities will be eonkvineed that I am invincible and they will be doing my will I shall advocate the overthrow of those inrpower and will discredit their policies with the people who elected them It is my purpose to that will do my bidhave governments We -- need not buy them —why ding should we? They will come to me out of their own free will driven by ambition or through sheer blindness And we shall have peace before we have had a o ' war" "What do I care about oceans island basea or Maginot lines? My purpose will be toidestroy the enemy from within and not-fro- m without And it is my duty to weaken the morale of the people I intend to attack long before I attack them and to demoralize them so thoroughly that they won't even be able to think of the possibility of defending themselves" In this way and in these words Hendrik Van Loon discerned and described a jigsaw program four years ago the pieces of which have been fitted intohisa picture by the fuehrer illustrating monumental work—"Mein Kampf" Said Hendrik Van Loon in conclusion: 'But America won't listen and won't We that America is on Hitlees list talk prettily about amiable theories fit for an imaginary world we chant harmless incantations about a common brotherhood which includes all men even nazis we await the knife of the murderer smiting all the while at that poor misguided man who will not harm us if we treat him with kindness and talk to him about his mother" As a matter of fact those who have read "Mein Kampf" who have watched its author's adherence to his program who have seen one nation after another fall before him who have heard the pleas and warnings of famished and hopeless millions in a score of lands that were sovereign entities five years ago will recognize the picture Hitler is making out of the fragments Van Loon saw with prophetic vision before the nazis Were fairly started in their campaign of con quest - be-lie- ve ' Regional Officials Explain Wage-Hou- r I - Law Administrator Wesley O Ash head of the regional organization for enforcelaw takes ment of the federal wage-hou- r a broad and liberal view of the problems to be solved when hearings begin the first of next month for the purpose of making the system effective in Utah It is reassuring to business concerns 90 per cent of which are not only willing but anxious to see strict enforcement of a law which is a detriment if not obThe few who are served and obeyed inclined to disregard the provisions of the statute have an unfair advantage in competition which can be avoided only eilually liable by making all employers — -- Mr Ash says: - "The prime purpose of this program is to explain and make clear to both employers and employes their duties and 0 4 We desire to under the system it understood that this survey Is rights have not a in on case of the' goVerhment's moving Utah business It is not a purge It is rather a service to the community during which we hope to arrive at a fair And equitable basis for long-tim- e compliance" For the purpose of making a statewide survey of conditions and acquainting all persons concerned with the intent behind the law and the necessity of general compliance with its requirements five inspectors are to be appointed for a thorough investigation of the situation in Utah They will be expected to cover the territories assigned them during the month of October Assisting Administrator Ash in his preliminary work are E M Cocking survey analyst of the nation's capital Alexander Elison regional attorney and Walter Chambers of San Francisco regional director of Information Administrator Ash gives this assurance: "No employer has anything to fear in- - the way of litigation where there Is no willful or flagrant attempt to circumvent the act Where we find a violation and the employer is willing to correct the situation he will find our department eager to cooperate" 9 - Rationing of Supplies May Add to Defense Woes Some observers believe rationing of supplies to civilian purchasers may be by the government as part of the defense program even if the United States does not enter a "shooting war" This form of regimentation while distasteful to freedom-lovin- g citizens may be found necessary to equalize the burdens of a war economy The Plan is already foreshadowed by the Ickes order closing gasoline stations or-'tier- ed on the Atlantic seaboard during certain hours and the need for some rationing program was definitely indicated during the "silk stocking crisis" Britain has found it necessary to increase the already rigid control of foodstuffs distribution to prevent profiteering and hoarding Little chance i3 seen in this country for drastic regulatiop of food but in other commodities sPeculative operations may brinz about some system of federal control The difficulties experienced in Britain with the "disappearance" of certain articles from the market es sOon as they are placed on the government list may influence leaders in this cotfittry to try some other method In any event' Americans are facing increased realization that they have not entirely escaped the war in Europe whether they start shooting- or not 1 - New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll Henry James Forman is a scholarly lookIn the course of a luncheon that lengthened out to an hour and a half I found him such an interesting conversationalist that I didn't want to go back to work So we sat in the hotel lobby for another half hour and continued the conversation He told me stories of O Henry famous story-telland of the newspaper life of yesterday in New York As always when those who write books get together we talked of publishers and especially of their alleged habit of skimping Almost every author is a on advertising because of the thorn in his publisher's-sid- e author's insistence that more money be spent In advertising Yes O Henry thought thus too Once Forman said to Henry "I hear you have a ing gentleman of 62 er new book coming out" Don't say it aloud"the author the se- replied "My publishersdon't want t cret to leak out!" Mr Forman went to work as a reporter on the New York Sun soon after his graduation from Harvard in 1903 He had-- a cub's assignment from which he expected never to graduate When he was assignedto federal courts he was elated and frightened by the responsibility Suddenly the youngster found himself assigned to the Oyster Bay headquarters or President Theodore Roosevelt The explosive Teddy took a great liking to the young man and requested that he be sent along to cover the Russo-Ja- p peace conference The reporter became editor in due time He was literary editorlof Appleton's magan editorial staffs of zine and successively Literary Digest North American Reyiew and Collier's He his traveled the world speaks many languages and has lectured all over America I mention this because this mans hobby Is one background that you might not look for in such worldly soil His hobby is religion While traveling in the Ur east Mr Forman became Interested in the contemplative religious life led by many of the holy men He studied the living there of the east and went back Into the religions histories of them Comparative religion became his favorite study Becoming Interested in the of the Bible and of other religiousprophets books the scholar began looking into prophecy in general Hel discovered many Interesting prophets who apparently had foretold world changes and events He wrote a book "The Story of Prophh! - ecy" He believes that a good many havo a gift of clairvoyance in small people degree and that some few have been known who possessed it in a degree astonishing to most of us Released by McNaught Syndicates Inc WASHINGTON -- I know more TIQW about the real root causes of sloppy army morale than when I wrote recently a column suggesting itow the homefolks could helimprove It About 500 letters have since reached my desk more than I ever received concerning any other column in ten years They were largely from draftees or fathers and mothers In an effort- to clear the atmosphere (it Must be cleared if this country is going to have the American kind of an army It wants) I am herewith submitting an accounting of the grievances and the fillets I have been able to gathei-frothem Grievances are listed according to the number of Aimee they were mentiOned "The government is not play ing fair with the soldier It allows unions to strike and deny equipment It permits the lowest type of labor to receive lavish war-tim- e wages 20 and 30 times as much as the soldier" It was surprising to find this the chief cause of complaint when I expected it to be extension of the draft time limit Tate grievance ban truth in it but less than in all other wars Shipyard workers in the last World war were making as high as $35 a day while the A E man got $30 a month There is no evident the government wants unions to strike but Washington leadership has just been unable to keep down the giddy and arbitrary demands of some—not all—of the po litically powerful labor groups The responsibility Is probably half government's half labors They will have to correct it if they want a satisfied army "The pay of $21 a month to a man who left a good job back home" Listen soldiers you are in the highest paid big army in the world Youget $21 the first four months then $30 for the next eight then seo thereafter The average furnished me by the war department Is $35 now The British Tommy gets $2355 on the average the Italian 65 cents a month minimum the conscript French did get $105 a month minimum but they get nothing now since they lost Hitler's famed soldier gets an average of $e a month Russia's $1177 the Japanese $465 an average of less than half what you get Only nation which pays itis soldiers more is Canada—average about $38 (considering depredation of their currency against curs) with allowances for wives and dependents But Canada has to support an army only a fraction the size of ours "We had assurances the time limit would not be extended" Until somebody gives assurances that the current state of the world will not continue It would be treasonable for this to disband its government army No soldier able to find his way to the canteen really believes otherwise It may be tough on you as an individual -- but it's true C 4 -- i A N r ‘P:5 7-- I A g I : II 7 i ': I 4 'f ' k N ' 9 Y : '( 02!710 ) 37 liebk1411111Plailltid V44 A r)tittAl L - r$ i'A 1 ' 1 0 ( a Oa aeOlt A -- le 9- - - I see by the obtain employment they must join a union It appears to me that somebody is getting away head of themselves appears to me that so long as nonunion people contribute the same or probably more to the support of this very project than do union people they should not have to help fill the coffers of any organization In order to earn a few dollars of their money back: There might even be a father or a mother of a draftee that would like to Work there to help out while their son is being trained Is it to fight for this country fair that his dad should have to give a portion of his earnings to a union before he can even go to work The United States- didn't specify union men to fight on defense projects so why be so as to specify union men small to- - work on these projects? Just because unionism is 99 per cent graft is in my Opinion no excuse for being allowed to control defense projects or even national projects of any kind Did anybody ever hear of people having to belong to a it - t 4 :N '1' c 1 4 11 je‘4111644 1 IS f - l'AL ttA1414N 1 -1 li - fl0 : 14 WO ifs o4t' S'4141r 4- N-- 3' woe l'a' - Would Ease War Talk Editor Tribune: Let's use these columns for something else besides quarreling about the war All good Americans are In step with President Roosevelt and the splendid men in his cabinet Weather reports indicate a tough winter in Europatand that will place the invading Germans in: the same predicament that befetli Napoleon mink years ago But let's get close to home Frequently we read that the rottnicipal witter supply for human consumption has been analyzed at its source and found to be free from germs Because It its pure Where it comes bubbling out from under a rock in our canyons does not mean it will be the same at the kitchen sink Don't overlook the fact that faulty plumbing will cause backing up of sewer water into the clean water supply and carrying all water-lade- n diseases with it It's not a pleasant subject no l'14 41L and neither Is it when you have to call the morgue to come and haul some laved One away that has died from typhoid dysendistery or other water-born- e ease Some of onr Utah water is full of lime when it comes from its sourcesind bubbling from under a rockand that lime is about as deadly to inen as germs Visit the laboratories in hospitals and $ea the countless bottles with the rocks taken from mettle bodies Utah toWns not already doing so should get federal government id and Ireat the water to extract the time This would not only save suffering and 'torturous death but would Ølsob better for laundry and water healers Robert J Crookston:- - Cites Britjolt Propaganda Editor Trunt: After reading many of yor editorials I will take My hat off to the loyalty of the British to the mother country Although born on soil foreign' to flritain for Neveral generations they always remain loyal BritistOsubjects They care not for America's national defirst and last for fenseBritain - them" They ara the greatest propagandists of all times anybody In the that is not pro-Briti- present crisia is branded a or a subversive by some gnglisti individual or their propaganda Machine Your editdrial of some time ago was really woriderfuL concerning thelaolationists In YeahYou should have ington's tin made it piin so the readers would understand that those Lao lationists were British the Interventionists Of today with the same thougcbt in mind "world domination by the British" In the 'War of 1812 we defeated those lads with the gun and avord- but they entrenched behind our gates wrote American history 4o suit themselves thereby depicted the British as a heroic Class of people In time those wziters turned the t trend of public opinimi in favor of England Who wat4the much mentioned Benedict Arriold? Benedict Arnold was oVEnglish extraction Al were thr major offenders against out government in the days of Washington We don't another Paul Revere to till us that the British are coming We know that they are already here and nearly all of them are busy oiling the mother country's propaganda machine i Appeaser Raps S enator Editor Tribune: Seems to me Senator Hiram Johnson has served his uefuIness as a senator A lot Of our senators and representatives can't take the rich food bild life for long until they are loaded down with a siclqbellyache Senator HiramJohnaon is now trying to pass his sicbellyache onto the nation Thank the Lord we have a majority of statesmen who are immune from bellyache contagion Misery likes company and no dotibt Johnson Wheeler and Lindbergh get a little comfort when :they hear some lone wolf howl with a bellyache : EL M Brandon I fifth-column- "Some of the officers are incompetent They give foolish orders offer no explanations" If you think some of your boles and captitins are incompetent you should see some of the generals around Washington A few can hardly rise from their chairs But that's not the whole army We had a navy at the start of this emergency The army had to be built nearly from scratch officered as well as manned The incompetents will be weeded out as situations disclose their incompetence to the men higher up not all of them perhaps but there will be enough good ofcers around to make this the usual superior American army It just takes time Social Standing Senator From Sandpit Many hope the tree may be felled that they may gather chips by the fall—Fuller I don't recall which of the isolationists or American fascists it was who challenged Wendell Willkie to a debate Willkie's refusal reminded me of the following fable: The Lion and the Skunk' A loud noisy and particularly objectionable skunk obsessed by its own prominence and the attention paid to it challehged aAion to single combat The effallenge was promptly declined by the lion "Huh!" sneered the skunk 'you're afraid to fight mel" "No" answered the lion calmly "but why should I fight you? You would gain fame from fighting me even though I gave you the worst licking of y9ur life as I would Ido How about me though? couldn't possibly gain anything by defeating you while on the other hand everyone who met me for a month would know I bad been In the company of a skunk" Moral: It's an art to know when to fight To Zoe B Only you little girl In this world of fakes Can answer your words "Have I got what it takes?" g For it takes to succeed In this much maligned field What the grasshopper proved When he hit the windshield —Jolly Molly Ogden 'Notes on the Cuff Department Dear Ham: I thought this one out while in Jackson Wyo- and could hardly wait to get ohome U- tell you why it isn't possible to get the correct: weight of a fish There isn't any way to weigh a fish How can you get the darned thing - "The soldier feels mistreated socially looked down upon denied his higher free place in life" Maybe you cannot see it now but later on you will find that your army experience has de- livered the leadership of your the country into community your hands for the future Look at the American Legion Some bluenoses looked down at them 20 years ago You are making friends who will be valuable to you in business as well as so cial life afterward When this Is over you will be the ones who will be able to get the Jobe- and the unskilled worker who is cleaning up today will be looking for one "The British are not worth fighting for agairf" Some say yes some say no but nobody seems to like Hitler There is a provision in the draft law which says no troops will be sent out of this hemisphere and they will not be sent until that amendment is repealed by congress after open debate In which your folks can join too Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc Reproduction In whale or in part strictly prohibited - - By Ham Park the scales on the scales when are on the li5h?-- 1E W W Awe nuts E W W! 'Dave Coursey's gout is so much improved that he's continually forgetting his cane when he makes his business calls e Ed H Snyder told-mFriday that I could consider myself Invited to a big celebration to be held Monday in Pioche Nev If I were to attempt to go to all the places I'd like to I'd need an airplane like Hebe Scowcroft's Anyway it was nice of Ed to invite me and I know I'll miss a grand time but no can do Maybe later in the month The bigger the summer vacaa tion the harder the fall Lee Hoist and Ross Bowen were in town the other day boosting for Brigham City which takes peach festival place next Friday and Saturday Ross says he'll have a seat reserved for me on the reviewing stand for the parade rm going to make an effort to be there as I'm very fond of those Brigham City peaches Another parade I want to see is the one we're going to have here on Labor day Ham Jr is going to be in it He and Bob Clawsbn and Chick Cannon work out at the small arms plant and are members of the Ifodcarriers' union A F L and they've been told to show up for thi parade or else Visitor: "What a sweet and innocent-lookin- g face your little boy has Mrs Chesley" Mrs Chesley: "I hadn't noticed it Jack what have you been doing" It's an III wind etc Pierre Laval is reported as much worse I - - sit-do- '7 More Cooperation By Our: Readers union in oecier to pay taxes? Why then should they have to belong to a union to earn taxes Now if the state and army officials don't see fit to put a stop to this kind of graft then I think it's time for the taxpayer to do so Not in a few days or a week but right now B H Hays A taxpayer ) I ‘ v I ! aRsc-1‘k64t4i4o4a The Public Forum paper that the contracting 'firm at the arms plant site has 'notified the public that in order to i :i 4 ' V- 4V11 ealo :: 1— Rape Union Rule AP i re r 4"--:- 46-61- ' At' t 74ir ?0r fii 'in ri ' cri ) -: - an-Itali- an 'tbAty 4 liit n '1 tt do — 1 ' i:ii - a ) ' t1Z 7 :' c r 4 - 42 x - sl em t 5 op 1 0 s aspect of the meeting there ii widespread agreement that the results have been good for the cause to which both nations are corn mitted—to wit the defeat of Hitler an& the crushing of the nazi power The continued bitterness of the Gen comment and the few discordant mites sounded in Washington by isolatinpist statesmen only accentuate the fact thatthot weight and force of the two nations will be more effectively used in the common Interest and that through personal conversations a better understanding is established between the two loaders The advantages of this meeting have been too profoundly stressed by eminent international commentators to require repetition here What has not been stressodi however is that with the return of Mr Roosevelt to Washington no additional congressional support for any prograrw for greater cooperation in the British war effort has been gained ' l'''7''''4:tt:) w4ia:vti 1 ' 1::::::‘""1n-7-- 1 — 1 ANI SAlITtI STillICAte Editor Tribune: 4 u 0 -- :f:(I t - '" : A0 - IMINE IAKVOktiA 0 ''tt"spoP411) 1"!1: a )k octie4 Jw f :?i4 — : AJAIKI''' uol ' Arilinti ' " N'014te""""r''''IT 4ore ' 'I' l i pd )Vi'irF I 0 1 ' :101 I '40" t T' ' 1s ! t1 t-f 4- tatit :i 44 1 A? 4 i 4 iv V f 41 ii 7 44A 4 1 :'4:L '"'77:111-T04 : i:'''ttl'::' il"!1 f'1144:11'(SJ:i ''''l t - oi i' 6 Oft : N 1r I WASHINGTONr—In the days Immedt- stely following the "eight points" statement issued by the WIWI Roosevelt and Churchill as a result of their deliberations at sea there was both in London and here general and emphatic commendation It is not too much to say that it was overwhelmingly praised No one of course thinks the full facts of the conference were in that statement— nor that they have been divulged since Obviously that would have been inexpedient as well as unwise Despite the theatrieal t ::::1Ar::itlir:::i:14!t::7111:1:6 A i ll ''i ) l 4 ' By Frank R Kent 'i 11:i en el 1 - I m a measley pittance On Draft Bill Held Danger Sign z 0- 1 -- Pay of Soldiers 4-- t By Paul Mallon 1941: ijy Manning Close House Vote Oh Marshal! What's Happened to Your Accent? Behind the Scenes of Current News 1 August 31 ist This la deplorable hut It Is true That the president has a program for more &impiety cooperation is mistimed Otherwise the conference benefits would be wholly moral and not practical The disturbing thing is that the opposition in congress seems to have stiffened rather than relaxed and some are urtof Mr Rooseveit's smarter ing him not to force action on new proposals for extending help to the British until be has further solidified public sentiment be hind the proposals and behind himself 'The truth is tbat administration legislative leaders aree still shaken over that house vote by which-thdraft extension so vital to-- the army and so strongly urged by the president so narrowly escaped defeat Another vote like that would have really devastating effect It would painfully demonstrate the lack of unity behind the presidentts foreign policy It would eneour-age the Isolationist elements both in and out of congress It would enfeeble our defense operation l and dismay a good many people The serloWiness of that vote' has not been While 133 Republicansvotet exaggerattd In the negative as a Matter of party policy It must not he forgotten that it was Demo erotic detection that made the Republican vOtt important and the result so close ad-vise- -- - Advice to Presiaent To cope with the condition thus revealed the president is advised to do two things— first to appeal to the people in a radio address second to ImProve his relations with The hitter could he don in varicongress ous ways For one thing he could confer more frequently—and he a little franker— with the responsible Republican leaders Instead of treating them as if they did not exist-I- n the second place he could suppress—or at least tone down—some of the more blatant and offensive of his Democratic sena torial Ppok esmen One of the worst examples of these la the discredited Senator Claude Pepper of Florida who has just been publicly criticised by a special Investigating committee of the house for his unethical activities in the mate ter of governmental contracts and the outrageous exercise of his position as senator to land them for his friends For still another: thing the president could Improve his relations with congress by such a reorganization of his defense organization as to create both congressional and popular confidence neither of which Is strong today It Is said that he La planning to do exactly that but the names 4 those reported to be preparing theRosen-maplann for him—Ben Cohen Judge Samuel and Sydney Hillman—are not likely to reassure either congress or the country Copyright 1941 by the Baltimore Sun Off the Record Watching littler la like old times to the vaudeville lover who used to sit through the juggler's number to see him muff an Indian club In the rarefied air above 30000 feet bomber crews are unable to do the simplest calculations in arithmetic This is also true of a congressman lost on top of Mt Debt I To read book a Chicago woman holds It upside down It is a possible solution of Gert Stein that had simply not occurred to us An explorer points out that African tribes solve food surpluses by eating them It dispels a fond belief that they ate a third of the farmers - Following a war 4000 miles away is like trying to tell from a seat high up in the stadium whether the kick alter touchdown was good When this vegetable plastic proceu of Mr Fords is fully developed it is expected the manhole cover will be baked on a waffle Iron We are no closer to war the Vithl:e House assures us—and it ottght to know Nevertheless hamburger has !turned up in Yakima Wash as defense steak After listening for a time to the interventionists and the isolationists we have the confused sensation of one awakened to take his sleeping medicine One of the unnatural characteristics of cotton stockings Dora is that people will know you have them on A constant reader of the congreiunonal record explains his singular habit Every few sessions he says he comes upon an unaaiiiirr rrmmrr - - -