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Show PROVO (UTAH DAILY HERALD, t MONDAY, APRIL 13 1942 PAGE TWO U4W) vatey HrIT Pbllb4 Sunday Morates ' PvblUfaad. by the HmM Corporative,"' M loath rim Witt StrMt, Ftoto. Utah. Entr4 m mcm4 U Matter at tb poatatfwa la ' Pwro. Utah, aadar Um at of Mareb X Ulf. ' OOmaa, Nteol. Hatbmah, NaUoaa ATtftl ta rprMataUTM, Mw Terk, Baa Fraactaoa, Detroit. Boatoo. Lm Authit Cblcaca. Himbtr - Catta ' Prtaa, W. . A. Barrlea. tba Scrtpp 1 at Mawapapara aad A adit Saraaa at CiremUUoa. . Ubarty tbrotifb alt taa Una" Tba Liberty ;.,, BaU "wnptloa tarma by aarrtaf hi Ctab -vunty. ift easts tba noath, !. for pis month, la advanoas f7.lt tba yaar, la Maa-ay Maa-ay atUI ' anywbara M Cnltaa ftataa ar p v tnaluaa ft rail tba month J M for SU tuutha; fl.71 Ut yaar la advaaca, Th Herald will not aaanma (laanetal ta f far aay arrara whtea aaay ayaaar la .o.rUtmnta pubtlahad la Its aolamaa. In fi.w H.iaicaa vbara tba fpr la at faalt. rt ii 'a.t that part at tba advartlaaaaat t wnu-t. h typocrayblaal ntlataka aaeara' ,wv ' - A" r Humor: John L. Lewis May Bolt the C. 1. 0. Act Against Social Justice?! The "time is howl The government must act agednst "Social Justice' the wholly unChristian and unDemo-cratic unDemo-cratic child of Charles E. .Coughlin. Many newspapers have felt' restrictions re-strictions -on rSocial Justice" might open the way to limitations on the right of free press. Others have feared fear-ed denunciation of the racial and religious slime in "Social Justice" would only, spread the flow of that slime. ' But now there can be only one decision. - .Responsible leaders in the Catholic Cath-olic church, both clergy and laity, have denounced "Social Justice" so many times it is hardly necessary to point out that what is written here can in no way be considered a reflection re-flection on that great religious institution. in-stitution. A New York newspaper sent men into five large cities the other day to find out-what people who buy "Social Justice" are thinking and saying. Before the day was out they had these and many more quotes from the victims: "Roosevelt is insane, just like Hitler Hit-ler says." "I'm ready to rip the Jews' guts out." "That bunch of hoodlums in Washington ain't running this thing right." "I know fellows in the Army and they're growling too. They know this gang in Washington is up to no good." "Social Justice is the only paper that prints the truth." Many readers are workers in war plants. Many are sending "Social Justice" to men in the armed forces. "Social Justice" carried the front- i page; headline "United States Invades In-vades Ireland.'.' ; ; - "Social Justice" recommended insurrection in-surrection to men in the. Army and Navy,, saying "Some day when our soldier boys return they . will drag from their hiding places the con-nivers, con-nivers, deceivers, plotters and collaborators col-laborators to mete out to them their just rewards The longer we wait for that day, the severer will be the repercussions." "Social Justice" called Democracy a mockery with these words, "Democracy) "De-mocracy) A mockery that mouths the word and obstructs every effort of an honest people to establish a government gov-ernment for the welfare of the people." peo-ple." That gem was carried in 1938 under Coughlin's signature. "Social Justice" printed these lies: that the Nazis are the victims of a "sacred war declared against Germany Ger-many nine years ago by the Jews"; that Jap aggression "is nothing more than an expansion of our own Monroe Mon-roe doctrine"; that the idea of a United Nations offensive is "Moscow-born and will produce a defeat abroad and the liquidation of Americanism Am-ericanism at home." 9 9fc The editors of "Social Justice" spit in the face of President Roosevelt, of MacArthur and his men, Lincoln, Washington and every man and woman through our history who has bled that our country might stay free! The defeatism and racial poison of "Social Justice" today amount to sedition. Every issue is an insult to America, to the press, to religion and to you. The call is for action. That means action against the enemy. And the enemy includes "Social Justice," for that publication is doing the enemy's work. The IIIIIII Washington Merry-Co-Round & Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs. J WASHINGTON The President may Shortly strip Jesse Jones of some more of his financial power. , In a recent executive order the President deprived Jones of sole authority over small business loans and empowered the Army, Navy and War Production Board to approve such loans. Now under White House consideration is a plan to take away from Jones the control of three key war finance agencies and transfer trans-fer them to the Board of Economic Warfare, headed by Vice President Wallace and hardhitting hard-hitting Milo Perkins. In addition to the Export-Import Bank which the- Merry-Go-Round previously reported might be transferred, trans-ferred, the agencies are the Defense Supplies Corporation and the Metals Reserve Company. In urging this shift, war chiefs have pointed out to the President that while BEW is entrusted with the job of waging, aggressive economic warfare against the Axis, the chief instrumentalities for conducting this fight are not under BEW control. This situation, it Is held, is comparable to the General Staff undertaking un-dertaking a campaign with the army run by the State Department. : Another argument being stressed for the plan is Jones' banker-mindedness. It is contended that as Federal Loan Administrator, Ad-ministrator, Jones1 primary concern is ensuring . the repayment of government loans. But with the country at war this consideration, it is held, is ' eX secondary importance. If it is necessary to take financial risks to ensure victory-then they must be taken. Inner circlers claim that the BEW is hampered ham-pered in Its crucial economic operations against the Axis because of lack of direct access to the'- financial resources of the three agencies controlled by' Jones. It is asserted that with these - agencies directly under BEW authority, their, effectiveness would be enormously Increased. In-creased. , - ' :Note: Friends of Jones indignantly deny that fce had anything to do with Representative Representa-tive 'Martin Dies' surprise attack on BEW, - accusing- S3 of its employes, 25 of them unnamed, un-named, ot- being leftwingers. Dies issued his blast without either the knowledge or approval of the other-members of his committee. Because1 Be-cause1 he is a fellow Texan and on close' terms with " Dies, some Administrationites have charged Jones with having an undercover hand in the attack in order to block the three agencies agen-cies from being shifted to BEW, ''f ' MERRY-GO-ROUND To information-seeking reporters, publicity moguls of the War Production Board admit that .the public" has a right to know the salaries- of WPB officials and then turn around " and under cover do everything In their power to keep the newsmen from getting the figures they are after. . . . . Fog-horn voiced Representative Repre-sentative John Rankin of Miss., a noisy foe of Wall Street," has a secretary named Bonds Stocks. V ... William J. Elliott, head of the WPB shipping priorities section, is a former, Harvard professor who acts in his office as, if - he were " instructing a reform school class Bjr Drew Foaraon ud Kohort g. All Arthur E. ("Gus") Cook, hardworking engineer of the Capitol, is one man who takes blackout tests seriously. At a recent one he stayed up all night to make sure that it was a success on Capitol Hill. TIN IN BRAZIL The State Department received a cable from the U. S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro recently, re-cently, reporting the discovery of important new tin deposits in Brazil. Ordinarily a subject sub-ject of thir. sort would be reported by a routine rou-tine mai? dispatch, but this discovery was urgent enough to be cabled, marked for the special attention of Will Clayton, head of Defense De-fense Supplies. The new tin resources are found in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and have been inspected, at the request of the U. S. Embassy, Em-bassy, by a XT. 9. mining engineer, Mr. Samuel Weis, of South Milwaukee, Wis. Since the conquest of Malaya, Bolivia has been sending us some ore, but it is of low grade, and cannot begin to meet our requirements. require-ments. POLISHED SOLDIERS Major General Joseph T. McNary, able young Deputy Chief of Staff in the Army's new "streamlined" high command, gave the House Military Affairs Committee a detailed report on how the new set-up will function. In return, McNary, who testified behind closed doors, got some pointed tips from the committee on "streamlining' the personal appearance ap-pearance of Army officers in the Capital. Republican Representative J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey and others commented sharply on the "unsoldierly dress" of many officer who appear in public places. "The privates look all right, but there's not enough, uniformity In the officers' attire," complained Thomas. "They wear long coats, short coats, rajn coats arid trench coats. Also their shoes are not always polished. I notice such things because' I was an officer in the last war,' but' it must 'be conspicuous to anyone." any-one." McNary remarked that- the Army was interested in-terested chiefly in getting men "who can fight," whether their shoes are always polished or not. But Thomas stuck to his point. "As a former Army captain who fought In the front line trenches in France," said the New Jersey Congressman, VI contend that the way an officer dresses is important. Little things like that reflect - the discipline he is getting from higher up and we can't win this war without discipline." J McNary promised to' take the matter up with the Inspector General's office. - MAIL BAG C. A- Charleston, W. Va. If a member Of the House of Representatives- enlists in the service he must" sacrifice his salary and receive re-ceive only the - pay bf a soldier . . . . . H.W.O, Dlles, Texas- It la true that the United States is paying the expenses of Axis v diplomats diplo-mats maintained at resort hotels in Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. But our diplomats in Germany," Italy and Japan" are being maintained In comparable living quarters quar-ters at the expense of those governments. It Is a reciprocal arrangement ; s.:.. j. .- V n. . U m Fi ?-. ;pfc-H who t &:$y;W " : . fl hesitates! ! lilr I fin -'ft ? mmwW' mlmmm yllL mm g- Uijfeaf I j f ?nMi4iiiMiij'iuuiiiMjiMiuii' V, . T.-SJ'?JA ' kmkm rt --zxlz . y vv.v u All Metal-Working Plants To Be On Waf Production By June 30 Isolationists Proven Wrong By War Events By DR WILLIAM l. 8NOW The treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor December 7 sent the ivory tower of isolationism tumbling to earth. It soon became apparent that for 20 years the isolation ists had been wrong at practically every turn. Their predictions were about as true as the one made by Senator B6rah and heralded with blalse' assurance by some of our own Utah know-alls that there would be no war in Europe. This' was three weeks before Hitler's frenzied militarists invaded Poland. Po-land. The basic legend which gave rise to numerous mistakes of fact and policy was the tone that grew up during the 1920's to the effect that the United State was a sucker suck-er for entering World War 1, that the purpose was to promote and preserve the profits of munition makers and international bankers. The truth of the matter is we entered the struggle to preserve our Integrity and honor as a nation na-tion against the ruthless power that even In that period declared through her statesmen that the democracies were to become hewers of wood and drawers of water to the more progressive powers (meaning Germany) which believed in action and discipline rather than parliamentary debating debat-ing societies. Yes, our entrance into the war was precipitated by a recrudescence in Feb. 1917, of ruthless submarine warfare which President Wilson had solemnly declared de-clared to Germany would mean the disruption of friendly relations. Seeing the danger ahead. President Presi-dent Wilson wrote to Senator Stone of Missouri this before the election of 1916 that as president he had two great duties to perform: per-form: (1) to keep the United States out of the war. (2) to preserve pre-serve the integrity and honor of our great nation; and he added: "the time irjy come when I can not do both." That time came when Germany officially declared she would sink all ships at sight with utter disregard of international interna-tional law. Sober history will record re-cord that the United States officially offic-ially entered! the war (I) very reluctantly, re-luctantly, (2) with a unity never before achieved in any war in which we had been engaged. (3) unselfishly "with no thought of any territorial annexations of material gain. This is not to deny that there were various speculators and ex-Tioiters ex-Tioiters who made the blood . and tears and our national necessities their opportunity for extravagant and dishonest profiteering greatly to our humiliation and disgrace. nis rrenaed speculative fever continued to unabated fury during the. decade following the peace. The conviction is growing in thei minds of far Seeing statsemen that our mistake was not in" entering World War 1, but in deserting the ipeace. On this score Gerald W. Johnson under the caption, "News papers on Guard," in February Atlantic says, I quote, "Americans spent'1 more than .twenty years talking . themselves - into the con viction that it was high and holy patriotism Instead of blind and etupld selfishness that made us run out on civilization in ' 1919. The American press led the gabble and in the end the American press talked itself almost entirely out of contact with the realities of international politics." In the present terrible struggle in which all that we. hold sacred Is at stake, we must not only win the war, but win the peace. Such is the solemn declaration of President Presi-dent Roosevelt. I feel sure the majority of our people concur. Parenthetically let me hasten to say we do not hold that the peace must restore the status quo ante. LAtasez faire capitalism, unrestrained unre-strained individualism and cutthroat cut-throat competition are not sacred. The balmy days of Imperial Im-perial dominion have no doubt gone forever. The temper of the people generally is such that I believe sincerely the worst evils of all these practices will be measurably liquidated. In fact, the sacred value without which we would not wish to live is liberty, lib-erty, the liberty to correct recurrent recur-rent evils through democratic processes. pro-cesses. The immoal and unholy mistakes democracies have made in the past constitute the insurance insur-ance premiums paid for that eternal eter-nal principle of liberty that has been emerging throughout the ages. The winning of the war and the conclusion of peace must find the United Statec united with the free peoples of the world in a perpetual union peace and for that eternal thing we call freedom. o WAR QUIZ u- 1. This silver star hanging from a striped red, white and blue ribbon rib-bon is given to American Army What for? 2. British are putting the big island of Ceylon Cey-lon In readiness for possible attack at-tack by Japs. What prized crop does Cey lon send to Britain tea, tringer, tobacco, cotton ? 3. While our government was pursuing an appeasement polity toward Japan, what did that treacherous treacher-ous land get from the United States for Its war machinery? Aifswers on Page Eight men. m m 11) fg mm m m ma Wi hi iiy AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILL EN "I'm loo kin forward to our silver wed din' anniversary. anniver-sary. It's my last chance 1 to get even for all the wed-din' wed-din' presents I've given the last twenty years." 5H BY PETER EDSON Dail Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 13 All right, you want to know what your, life is going to be like six months or a year from now. So this Is telling yon: Mr. Donald M. Nelson, the big War Production Board man, has Just passed out the tip that by June 30 practically all , metai-working metai-working plants of this country will be converted to war production. produc-tion. The making of new: metal gadgets for civilian consumption will then be out. That means that the United States is going back to about 1900, which was just about the time the steel age got going good. This hits you right where you live, and in ways that may surprise sur-prise you. True, you may be riding rid-ing around In autos, listening to radios, snitching midnight snacks out of mechanical refrigerators, and keeping the little woman happy hap-py and occupied at home with electric washing machines and vacuum cleaners. But they won't be new gadgets, chum. They'll be old ones mere ' memories of the good times that were B. H. Before Be-fore Hitler. He, la the guy to, be blamed for aU this not Mr. Nelson. Nel-son. In the next one, two, three months, stockpiles can be built up on all these metal gadgets, within limitations. When those stockpiles are used up that's all there is, there isn't any more till the war's over. And Walt Till Christmas You will begin, to feel this through the summer and fall, but by the time you're ready to do your Christmas shopping, you'll be limited to toothpicks, chopsticks, wooden nutbowls and kindred byproducts by-products of the forest monarchy. Who knows maybe .burnt wood wall plaques will come back. . As for the brides of 1943 and the young couples courageous s&- r enough to get married and set up housekeeping try to set up housekeeping it will be a wooden wedding. ;' The wails from civilian consumers con-sumers are likely to be long, loud and lachrymose, for just picture things when there are no more of these new gadgets to brighten your life, i v: - When your 'car or tires wear out you'll . be walkng home, unless un-less you can get a street car or bus close to your door. The house you walk to will be an old one-no one-no new construction will be " permitted per-mitted except on war housing, projects, and possibly new chicken chick-en coops anl woodsheds and porch steps.. ' . - . ',' , The doormat you " wipe your feet on won't be metal or rubber. rub-ber. The rack you hang your hat on, the hanger you put your coat on will not be metal. The rack for your tie will not be metal. me-tal. The soap dish; toothbrush holder, toilet paper holder, bathroom bath-room scales, clothes hamper, will not be metal. .' . L The windows you look out of will not have metal frames, the Venetian blinds will not be metal, the curtain rod will not be metal. The kiddies' toys you stumble over will not be metal. The ornamental radiator cover you fall against will not be metal. me-tal. Moderne But Not Metal ' Out in the kitchen, the pride and joy will not be reaching for tin cans of food on the shelves of metal kitchen cabinets. The kitchen kitch-en table and chair may still be moderne, but they won't be metal. There simply won't be any new electric Iron, lroner, roaster, toaster, toas-ter, boiler, broiler, waffle iron percolator or mixer, all of which would take metal. No metal vegetable vege-table bin or vacuum cleaner, either. There won't even be any new metal wastbaskets ts receve the I bills you cant pay for the metal things you can't buy. Once News, Now History Twenty-Five Years Ago Taken From The Files of THE PROVO HERALD Of April IS, 1917 An appeal was issued in connection con-nection with an increase in the marriage rate of Provo to young people of ; Utah, urging them to guard against making any foolish fool-ish moves during the crisis of World War No. 1. The article stated. "We would hate to see any young men of this city, or any other city in ptah, hurry into a serious question such as tak ing a partner for life, In order to escape doing his duty for his country.' The United Commercial Travelers, Travel-ers, Provo council, passed a resolution reso-lution to be sent to President Wilson and congress supporting them in their recent move against Germany. "Uncle Jesse' Knight was commended com-mended for his offer of the Knight Woolen Mills to the gov-ersment gov-ersment as an aid in the war crisis. Universal woman suffrage was recommendel by Mary Oriady of the Pennsylvania Woman's Suf-ferage Suf-ferage association as a means of uniting the nation politically. She pointedly asked if the failure of men in some sections to grant this right indicated that they heW their women more cheaply. - O SERIAL STORY MEXICAN MASQUERADE BY CECIL CARNES ' copntieMr., it. MEA SCRVICC, INC. EXPLOSION! CHAPTER XVII "TT'S German!" Allan gasped, A staring at the swastika on the fuselage of the plane that had machine-gunned Escobar's rurales on shore. He, the officer and Kay had come to their feet to watch events from the doorway of the house. Escobar's Esco-bar's face was set and grim. "Yes," he said. "Now I comprehend compre-hend certain hints I have had from Asia. It is Germany working with , this Japanese front! And Asia is the Nazi agent, which accounts for her authority over Watanabe!" He added after a moment: I fear, senor, we have lost the last trick." "Colonel! Allan! See!" Kay was pointing excitedly to the Island pier. "Isn't that Pierre getting in to a launch?" "Yes," confirmed Escobar sourly. -The the VIchy-livered French man is going out to greet his Ger man pals!" Apparently uq jrontaneue was doing exactly that His launch was putt-putting toward the plane, he seated In the stern. A panel slid back in the side of the bomber and several heads stuck out, their own ers staring at the approaching vis itor. When the launch was 20 paces from its goal, a harsh chal lenge rang out. De Fontanelle stopped his engine promptly and curved away till his craft was floating parallel with the bomber. He stood up, but his back was turned to the plane and he seemed to be looking at the three persons grouped in the doorway of the prison bungalow. He threw Up his head to shout, and the words came to them clarion-clear across the water. ' "Vive la France!" He turned like lightning to face the . plane. His right arm went back, then snapped forward. Some object he had been holding it looked like a small stick went hurtling through the air to 'strike the bomber square amidship. There was a great sheet of red flame, a cloud of greasy black smoke, before the crash of the explosion ex-plosion reached the bungalow. When the smoke rolled away, there was no plane, no launch no Pierre! . "That was the stolen brick!" thought Allan. - From beside him, he heard the swish of metal upon metal. He turned his head. Escobar had drawn his long machete from its scabbard. ' Facing the spot where Pierre had vanished, he was standing very still, very erect, the hilt of his bright sword raised to the visor of his cap. A moment he held the pose, a statue in khaki; then he relaxed and sent the ma-1 chete ringing into its sheath. He looked gravely at Allan and Kay Sargent. "My friends," he said cjuietly, "we have just seen the death of a very brave man!" "But but why?" cried Kay, almost al-most tearfully. "Why did he do it?" "You don't understand, senorita? De Fontanelle was no traitor to his country after all, no faint hearted defeatist He was an out-and-out Free Frenchman! Free in spirit that is, but chained in body, The Nazis controlled his actions, because they could threaten injury to his mother, in Paris. The old uerman game! And now, young lady, we know why a man, hear ing ox his mother's death, may show elation! I " "Escobar!" broke In Allan fran tically; while listening, he had been watching the rurales return ing to action on the Peninsula "They've got a battery of field pieces! Stop them, man for God's sake, stop them! That whole island is a magazine of high explosive !" TTE spoke too late. So did the x colonel of rurales, who had promptly bellowed a mighty "Hola!" at his distant men. So much Allan glimpsed before the world came temporarily to an end. It was like all the earth-quakes earth-quakes he had ever felt rolled into one. A terrific concussion flung him to the ground, where his body broke Kay's fall as she was thrown on top of him. The earth, the water ancLthe skies were all gyrat ing in a mad circle. The center of the big island seemed to split open, throw itself up in the air, then crash slowly, down upon its own ruins. A pillar of fire rose from the debris like flames from, the crater of a volcano. ... Oh, God! Allan! Allan! My father my father ! "Steady, dear! He may be un hurt in that deep cell where they kept him. Ill go right over " He scrambled to his feet and ran across to where their guards, who had gone over In a body to the defense of the island, had left one launch. He was getting in when Escobar landed beside him. I'm with you, senor! Youll take care of the old gentleman while I go after the lady! Asia, too; had underground quarters." "Mmph. I'd damn near forgot ten Asia. Hold fast!" "Forgotten Asia?. Tut. tut she wouldn't like that , --. e-, -- . 'THE launch was speedy but Allan. thought they'd never get to the main island. Looking ahead, he could see nothing but a reeking scene, of ruin. A pall of smoke hung over everything. No sign of life met his eye. It would be different dif-ferent soon; to the right" h glimpsed a horde of disguised rurales ru-rales tumbling into boats and barges; they must have been surprised sur-prised by the cataclysm, but were moving to profit by it The rocky beach at last, and the two men sprang ashore. Escobar headed inland as if he knew ex actly where to go, while Allan sped to the iron. door in the rock. It was unlocked, as was the inner cell. And there on the bed was Dr. Sargent stunned and confused but quite uninjured and able to pull his wits together when Allan spoke. "Kay told me they put your car in a garage on the rnatniAM, Right? I'll take you over there, then. After, IH fetch Kay He waited impatiently as the old man got together some papers and put them carefully in an inner Docket of his coat "You're luckv to b unhurt sir. I expect it was shells from a field gun that touched it off." Perhaps. Or erhaos it was Poona Gun gas. I saw the beginning begin-ning of the fight Came down here when it got too hot Watanabe and Dr. Ishizuka were both killed bv machine gun bullets end Gungas had orders to blow up the maga- -tine if the island seemed likelv tor fall..: A look of deeo satisf actum came to the scientist's face. At least those yellow devils got none of the stuff and there's plenty of raw material left for us!" ' Allan ferried him across to the Peninsula and escorted him to a corrugated tin shed where the Sar gent car had been placed when ita owner was taken. He left the old man tinkering happily with it and promising to bring Kay in a hurry, he stepped from the building. ne paused abruptly as he snied Escobar and Asia some hundred yards to his left He slipped behind be-hind a clump of cactus and watched as the colonel bowed the lady into a small tool-shed. slammed the door on her, snapped a padlock shut and put, the key la his pocket; then he turned away and strode to a launch, which he boarded and headed for the nrison island..;; '-'J. ' .. SO Asia's a .prisoner herself now! muttered Allan, and contemplated con-templated the tool-shed pensively. "B'gosh m chance it!" .-. - 1 He walked to the shed, plckin up a. short iron bar as. he. went Most of the rurales were over on the captured Island. Nobody saw him as he thrust the bar into the padlock, snapped it and kicked open the door. : .(To Be Cojsdaded). |