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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1944 Editorial .... Now, my God let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open and let thine ears be attest unto the prayer that to made la this place. II Chronicle 6:40. Thought I am weak, yet God, when prayer. Cannot wtthold, Hia conquering aid. Emerson. Scholars and Dollars "How you doin to keep 'era down on the farm," a World War I ditty wanted to know, "after they've seen Paree?" Today the less metrical but more serious question is: How are you goinjr to get them back to the little red school house, after they've had a taste of work at war wages? It's a Question that has American educat ors worried. High school enrollments have been dropping for three years. This spring they were off a million, or about 14 per cent, from the peak year of 1940-41. bo, m an attemDt to check the downward curve of enrollment, the UnitedStates Office of Ed ucation has announced a "Go-to-School" campaign for this fall. The Office of Education realizes, howev er, that a national drive can do little more than call attention and point the way. The real work must be done in every community, according to local needs. These needs are varied and complex. Probably they are worst in "boom towns" where educational facilities have been unable to keep up with mushroom growth of population. The prob lems are srrave in any industrial cities with labo; shortages. But they exist fn almost everv community. For the problems are emotional as well as material. The war has forced responsibility and op-nortunitv op-nortunitv on older hieh school students. It has quickly pushed them into a semblance of maturity, brought new importance tc them, new' temptations. In many places youngsters have been offered adult work at adult wages and have leit school to earn more than their fathers were making before the war. Such younirsters are going to balk at ex changing their new personal and financial independence lor tne old numorum ana ais cidine of school. For in numerous com munities their work, which has been of real value, is still going to be needed. So a lot of school boards and city fathers are sroing to have to learn, if they haven't already, that the problem is going to require practicality rather than pious preachments. It may be necessary to com bine war work and school work for the dur at ion. But in the meantime an intelligent job will have to be done in reselling the youngsters young-sters on the value of schooling. They will haye to be taught how the problems of readjustment re-adjustment and re-employment affect them. It may be hard to convince them that the time will come when jobs can't be picked like plums, when wages will be lower, and some job opportunities will carry educational re-uirements. re-uirements. But it must be done. Money talks. School teachers and other civic leaders will just have to talk a little louder. Alien Corn If "Rot Office, the entertainment publica tion, is correct, then we may have misjudged James Caesar Fetnllo and the striking mem hers of his American Federation of Music ians at station KSTP in Minneapolis. For, according to a Box Office article, the stubbornness stub-bornness of the 12 striking musicians who are still out despite a WLB back-to-work order or-der springs from deep esthetic roots. It seems that the president of the Minneapolis Minne-apolis local doesn't like hill-billy music. He wants year-round employment for his boys (which KSTP doesn't want to give) but he wants it to be "legit" no corny concerts, no rustic rondos, mountain madrigals or bucolic buco-lic boogie-woogie. If KSTP will sign up or if President Roosevelt takes over the station and personally person-ally orders the boys to get in there and shuck the corn, the local's president will comply. But short of that, nothing doing. Perhaps, from the stand joint of a serious musician with an allergy to hill-billy ballads, the Minneapolis union leader has justice on his side. As for Mr. Petrillo's re action to all this, we can t say. Alter a nerusal of the records, we can't discover whether Mr. Petrillo likes music of any sort. Hopeful Sign If Mr. Dewey should be elected president, the White House would have pre-teenage residents for the first time since the Taft administration, if we except the early visits of Sistie and Buzzie Dahl to Grandfather and Grandmother Roosevelt. It is inevitable that if Thomas Jr. and John Dewey, age 11 and 9. should take up resi dence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, their doings and bright sayings would be chronicled. chron-icled. If the first sample of young Tommy's Tom-my's style is typical, the public has nothing to fear. Mrs. Dewey relates that she was in arrears ar-rears of her payments to him for Victory Garden vegetables, for which she pays the prevailing market price. Tommy presented her with a bill in which the unpaid balance was noted thus: "Hangover, $3.25." Complimentary Abuse Evidence introduced in the Washington sedition trials reveals that Governor Dewey as well as President Roosevelt has been the target of abusive articles in bundist, anti-Semitic anti-Semitic and ultra-isolationist publications. Defense attorneys protested the "insult" to the Republican candidate. Actually, of course the abuse was a distant compliment. All patriotic citizens, regardless of party, The Washington Merry-Co-Rou nd A Daily Picture of What'a Going On in National Affairs By Drew fonoi (CI. Kotori a. Allea n live eaty) Peace Darlev already hindered hv Hinln. matic stress on formalities; Russia wanted top men to meet but jockeying produced jesser Jignts; mam debate likely to 'hinge on issue of international rjolice force: La f.unr. dia turns down FDR mission to Italy, wants to go in uniform. WASHINGTON The four-power conference opening at Dumbarton Oaka this week holds more promise for making this "the war to end ware" than any event since Versailles. But it starts with two strikes against it; will have very tough sieaaing. Strike No. 1 is Dewey's blast against the con ference. Cordell Hull, it is true, has not sufficiently con sulted smaller nations. But conscientiously, sin cerely, tnougn Belatedly, he is trying to carve out an international machine to keep the peace after this war. He began late, was pushed into it by men like Sumner Welles, Rep. Fulbright and the B2 H2 Senators. Sen-ators. Nevertheless, Mr. Hull is now in deadly earnest, earn-est, should be given a chance to do his best without too much political boat-rocking. Strike No. 2 is old-fashioned superficial diplomacy, dip-lomacy, which puts more emphasis on picayune formalities for-malities than on heading off the possibility that the youth of the world may go to war again. Already the old fashioned diplomats have begun jockeying. Russia had felt that a conference of this kind was so important, it should be handled by the top men of the world. Roosevelt Churchill, Stalin. Secretary Hull, however wanted it to be a conference of Foreign Ministers, somewhat like that which he attended in Moscow last fall. In the end, since Stalin Roosevelt, et al.. are not doing the job, the Russians will be represented by a virtual diplomatic messenger, Soviet Ambassador Gromy-ko, Gromy-ko, already stationed in Washington. Prior to this, the Chinese were to be represented repre-sented by one of their leading diplomats. Victor Hu, long-time Chinese delegate to the League of Nations. Na-tions. But when they heard the Russians would only be represented by Grmyko. the Chinese decided also to be represented by thel Ambassador In Washington. In other words, they didn't want to play the conference up one diplomatic notch higher than the Russians. As a result of this jockeying, the state department de-partment feels that Secretary Hull, being a foreign minister, should not deal with lesser lights across the same table, that this should be done bv Undersecretary Under-secretary of State Ed Stettlnius. Hull, therefore. will make speeches at the opening and closing of the conference but will not be active In the day-to day sessions, where the real peace plan will be a. - - porn. Note On the desk which the undersecretary of state will use at Dumbarton Oaks, home of Ambassador Am-bassador Robert Woods, young Stettinius found this card: "Trust in Allah but tie your camel. Mil dred and Robert W. Bliss." RUSSIAN PEACE PLAN Actually, the Russians are reported to have prepared a broad plan for future peace machinery, not too far out of line with British-American ideas. They are reported to believe: (1) that the four big powers must be responsible for keeping the peace (regardless of Governor Dewey); (2) that the Big Four should compromise a Council similar to the League's Council (3) that the smaller nations na-tions 'should be 'members of an assembly holding meetings for consultation; (4) that the Big Four should maintain a punitive air force which could strike at any country which tried to upset the peace of the world. Chief debate probably will hinge on an Inter national police force. Roosevelt has come out against such a force. The Democratic platform at Chicago straddled the issue. Wendell Willkie is for such a force. Instead of an international police force, Roose velt proposes that the Big Four should keep their own individual armies and navies and use them to subdue an aggressor nation. Only trouble is that, when the French and some British proposed doing this against Germany when Hitler invaded the Rhineland in 1936, the British would not use their army to support the French. Shortly thereafter. Hitler overran Europe. This all-important point probably will be merely mere-ly explored at Dumbarton Oaks. Final decision will be passed on to Roosevelt Churchill, Stalin, with the U. S. senate and the November election wielding a potent power in the background. LA GUARIA AND ITALY New York's busy little mayor. Fiorello La Guardia. isn't saying anything about it, but he has turned down President Roosevelt's request that he fly to Rome, survey the Italian political situation for the IT. S. government. La Guardia long has been extremely anxious to go to Italy. However, he flatly won't take the job unless he can return to Italy wearing a U. S. uniform. The Little Flower was a major in the last war, has been itching to get into uniform again, but Secretary of War Stimson turned him down. Baying he was doing a better Job for the City of New York. Meanwhile, La Guardia has stopped broadcasting broadcast-ing to Italy on Sunday nights. Little was heard about it on this side of the ocean, but observers returning from Italy report that LaGuardia is the greatest single American hero of the Italian people, probably was the most widely listened- to speaker on the Allied radio in any enemy country during this war. FDR'S RADIO "FLOP" One thing on which both Republicans and Roosevelt friends agree, is that his Bremerton Navy Yard radio address fell flat. lacked the old FDR zingo. Inside fact is that the president prepared pre-pared the speech cold, without any outside help. No "ghosts" were along. It was reported that Judge Samuel I. Rosen-man Rosen-man was along on the entire trip and helped draft the Bremerton talk. Real fact, however, is that Rosenman and Elmer Davis. OWI chief, left the president at Pearl Harbor. Davis flew on to Saipan and Guam, Rosenman back to the. White House. Note One friend listening to the President's broadcast, remarked: "It's so bad that 'Pa' Watson must have written it." DOUGHBOY JEWELRY Secret weakness of the Army-Navy post exchanges ex-changes has turned out to be Jewelry. Perhaps because be-cause it glitters, perhaps because high-pressure salesman have been too persuasive, the post exchanges ex-changes are stocked up with costume jewelery until they groan. One small North Carolina air base. Pope Field, with only 400 men. has a total of $16,000 in cos tume jewelry awaiting sale in its post exchange. At Fort Bragg. N. C. a larger camp, $91,000 in jewelry is awaiting lethargic buyers. The situation is so bad that the navy has issued a stop order for the whole eastern area on any more post-exchange purchase of jewelry. (Copyright. 1944. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Savagery at Its Worst From Now On J ft A MS&Zsm jjuwwjan WMsa First Biography of America's Groat Gonoral Oayriafct. 1S44, Am WMlmrt Mllleti Diari-.e. NBA Serrtec, teeJ should rejoice that both candidates for our highest office have experienced the cleansing cleans-ing process of being denounced by these un- American elements. COMMANDING CENTRAL: EUROPEAN THEATER XIII yTIETHER the event makes the man, or the man makes the event, is the conjecture of historians. his-torians. With Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur fighting to hold off the Japs swarming into the Philippines Philip-pines and the islands of the Pacific, Pa-cific, the question arose, Who will lead the forces against the Axis hordes who have conquered Europe Eu-rope and now threaten to invade both North and South America? There were many able generals in Washington, many of them having hav-ing won renown in World War I. The nation faced the emergency of building a great army in the quickest possible time. How the miracle was performed under Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, the farm boy from Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania who had come out of the Virginia Military Institute is a book for future historians. The Army's revitalization program pro-gram needed a man. Five days after Pearl Harbor, General Marshall, Mar-shall, a keen analyzer of potentialities poten-tialities in soldiers, sent for Eisenhower. Eisen-hower. He was informed that he was to take over the War Plans Division, as its chief, and was to formulate the grand strategy for all theaters of operation. His only comment as he left General Marshall's office was, "Yes, they've given me a new job. I guess somebody must have told General Marshall I was a hot shot." With a shrug of his shoulders he went away to go to work. Sitting at his new post in Washington, Wash-ington, the world became a -huge chessboard before him. Watching every move, he sent strategic orders or-ders to American commanders in both hemispheres. His penetrat ing vision gained immediate respect. re-spect. They knew a master hand was playing the game. President Roosevelt, recognizing Eisenhower's skill, nominated him for the rank of major-general. The Senate immediately confirmed 't. Six days later the War Plans Division Divi-sion was renamed the Operations Division, and General Eisenhower was now at the head of what the War Department described as "the controlling nerve center of the Army." 'T'HE War Department, the Gen-A Gen-A eral Staff, and the White House were in conference day and night. Finally the momentous decision was reached this was the man. He measured up to all the qualifications qualifi-cations of modern warfare, had a genius in organization, was an ex-ptfl-t with tanks, a firm believer in air power, and the co-ordination of land, sea and air forces. He was a natural-born leader of men. General Marshall called Major-General Major-General Eisenhower to his office and said, "You're going over to command the European divisions. When can you start?" Eisenhower, taken by surprise, swallowed quickly and replied, "Tomorrow morning!" It is said that he received this appointment because of two reasons: rea-sons: First, his amazing record in getting things done; second; his strong advocacy of a Second Front. Convinced of this necessity, he had worked out "practical plans" which were so plausible and brilliant bril-liant that they commanded the attention of the War Department. Ike "talked it out" with Mamie, his wife, at their home in Washington. Wash-ington. The responsibilities of the new job were discussed. He was willing to undertake anything in the service of his country. His wife had full confidence in his ability to carry out his plans; she had lived with him twenty-six years; she knew the Eisenhower character and determination. QENERAL STAFF officers in Washington gave this word picture of Ike's last meeting with them. Snappily laying his plans before them, he said: "This is what it is. . . . This is what we're going to do. . . . This is what we need. . . . We're counting on you to see that we get it. Goodby!" We find him a few days later in England in secret conferences with Prime Minister Churchill and the great military leaders on the British staff. His mission ostensibly osten-sibly was to help prepare a merger of United States and British Air Forces to carry out bombing raids on the European continent. He was reported in London with Gen. Mark W. Clark, on May 25, but was back in the United States on June 3 at a discussion of military mili-tary and supply problems which was also attended by Lord Louis Mountbatten. Out of these and succeeding conferences came the first news that our nation was soon to throw its power against Hitler's mighty forces for the liberation of the conquered countries of Europe the armies of freedom were soon to meet in decisive combats the armies of despotism. The official proclamation on June 25, 1942, read: "The War Department today announced an-nounced the formal establishment of a European Theater of Operations Opera-tions for United States forces. Maj.-Gen. Dwight David Eisen hower, formerly assistant chief of staff' of the Operations Division of the General Staff, has been des ignated Commanding General. European Eu-ropean Theater of Operations, with headquarters in London," England." As Ike was leaving to return to England on the most challenging mission ever intrusted to an American soldier, he turned to General Marshall and said simply. "General Marshall, I haven't tried to thank you yet." "Don't try to thank me," Gen eral Marshall replied. "You go over and do the job and we'll have cause to thank you." NEXT: The Man Behind the Soldier. Questions About Manpower Rules ..(tutor's note: Government manpower rules and policies affect af-fect Job changing, manpower priorities pri-orities and employment ceilings have been set up Ho win the war faster. How do they affect YOU ? Send your questions to the editor. They'll be answered in this column.) col-umn.) EMPLOYERS ASK: Q I know that 10 counties in Utah are currently exempt from the requirements that all male workers must be referred through, or hired by arrangements with, the United States Employment Service. Are employers at these counties also exempt from the employment celling? A No. All employers except agricultural, domestic, and state, county and municipal governments are subject to tne employment ceiling limitations. Q If I find a worker who I wish to employ, may I send him to the United States Employment Service and get clearance to hire him? A Unless you have been authorized au-thorized as a hiring channel which permits you to hire "at the gate you must clear all workers through the USES. However, workers sent to the USES by you will be exposed to priority jobs which meet their skills in the same manner as a worker going to the orrice independently. Q Who are approved as hiring channels ? A In the Provo office labor market area the following firms have been approved. These firms are: North Lily Mining company, Emsco Refractories enraoanv mi- noise Powder company, California Packiner corporation. Tintic Stan. dard Mining company; Chief Consolidated Con-solidated Mining company. Columbia Colum-bia Steel company Ironton, Building and Construction Trades Council, Culinary Workers and Bartenders. ' Q's and A's Q What are the main castes of India? A Brahmins, priests and teachers; teach-ers; Kshatriyas, warriors; Vais-vad Vais-vad herdsmen, merchants, land owners, etc;. Sudras. descendants of orginal conquerors of ancient Indiana: Pariahs, those outside of castes. There are many subdivi-sios. Q Where do we get the word gas? Dutch Chemist, about lozo. Q How does the diesease death rate of our tropics-fighting Army compare with the peacetime Army disease death rate? A Lower than in any of the last 10 years. Q What is the Spatari Radio Code? A A universal language with out grammar or vocabulary; based on the musical note. Q What are the Land Forces of the Adriatic? A The Allies, new commando force for harassing the enemy in the Balkans. Utah Schools Lack 300-350 Teachers SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 21 UP Charles H. Skidmore. state pub lic instruction superintendent, to day was attempting to find a solution so-lution to Utah's teacher shortage problems. The Utah public school system. he said, now faces the most acute teacher shortage in the state's history. He added that the situa-ion situa-ion was especially bad In rural districts. N- Blaire Winters, chairman of the state teachers' certification committee, estimated the short age at from 300 to 350 teachers. Water is absorbed more rapidly by linen than by any other fabric. George Bill Is Hot Issue BY PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent Any lack of a new. red hnt domestic issue to fight over In the presidential elecUon campaign has now ceen laKen care of by Senate passage of the George bill on reconversion re-conversion policy. Major public interest in this bill was centered on the amounts of unemployment compensation to be paid dlschare ed war plant workers, but that's only a smidgin of the stuff that's in mis war jvioDimion and Reconversion Re-conversion Act of 1944," to give it full title. Senator Walter F. George's brain child represents a terrific beating for organized labor, which through the A. F. of L., C. I. O. and railway brotherhoods backed me mucn more liberal Murray-Kilgore Murray-Kilgore bill. Going now to the more reactionary House, the George bill, if revised at all, stands a good chance of being made even more conservative in committee and the only chance for getting a bill more to labor's liking will be through White House intervention. From the war workers' point of view, what the George bill says in effect to labor, which has been averaging a week, is: "When your war jobs fold, you will have to look to state unemployment insurance payments for relief, and there you will get from a minimum of $7 a week in some states to a minimum of S16 in others.'1 .The national average is about $12. nere Are some Un publicized Angles But as mentioned above, this is only one phase of controversy in the reconversion act. War agencies agen-cies will be studying this legislation legis-lation for days to find what it means for their future. Here are some of the high lights not given much detailed attention: The bill would kill off the Of fice of War Mobilization created by presidential executive order in May. 1943, now headed by James F. Byrnes. In its place is substituted substi-tuted an Office of War Mobilisa tion and Reconversion OWMR ror OWM. OWMR is given a lot of assignments to make studies, issue is-sue directives, recommend legislation, legis-lation, report auarterlv to con gress, abolish war agencies no longer needed. Just how all this would work out isn't any too ciear. Another cute trick in the bill is creation of a three-member Board of Appeals which would probably be swamped as soon as it rot trn. ing. The act provides that when ever a manufacturer cannot get an allocation or materials for non war production because of the ord ers of any government agency, he may present his grievances to the Board of Appeals, which miv then report to the director of OWMR ana cause mm to issue an allocation alloca-tion order to relieve hardship In the section of the act creat ing a Retaininr and Re-emnlnv ment Administration, there is a provision for Da vine travel ex penses up to $200 per family to move cmnan war workers from their present jobs to their original homes. Jobless Payments For Government Employes The three million or more civilian civil-ian employes would be given unemployment un-employment Insurance and all other benefits going to employes of private industry. The National Housing Administration Admin-istration is directed to prepare plans to aid private housing, but no mention is made of nublic housing. The Federal Works Administration Administra-tion is authorized to aid state and local governments in planning postwar works, but there is no mention of federal public works, the intent apparently beinr to keep the federal government out oi postwar rwA ana wrA as wen as public housing and direct federal fed-eral unemolovment insurance. In other words, this is strictly a Desk Chat A colored spellbinder at a recent re-cent political rally in the South wound up his patriotic outburst with this gem: "An' dar stood Christopher Columbus on de shore ob de new lan' wid de Magner Charter in one han'. an' de Decl ration In de other han', reclaimln de im-mahtal im-mahtal words ob de gran' ol Republican Re-publican pahty, 'Peace on earth. good wil to men'!' Ironical Antithesis: Hava you stopped to consider that moat men who spout so profusely about capital and labor never had any capital and never did much labor? We do not believe either party Democrat or Republican has any corner on political virtue. However, we wonder why It is we hear so much about the Democratic Demo-cratic Boss Machines Flynn In New York. Kelly in Chicago, Crump in Memphis and the old Pendergast machine in Kansas City. Haven t the Republicans any Party Machines such as we used to hear about when Mark Hanna was political boss in Northern Ohio back in Wm. McKinley'a day? There's nothing like real ma chine politics with rumors of poll-. ucai conniving, ballot stuffing and 'repeaters' to lend color and interest to national elections. Curious Cynic Cants . . . . . . There is a vast difference between be-tween resting and Indolence resting presupposes profitable activity. ...of what does It profit a girl if she has enough glamor to be considered a ''pin up" possibility, pos-sibility, if she is a lousy cook and a slovenly housekeeper? . . . some Irls prefer to remain single, but most of them would rather knot. ...when an old maid gets to be coquettish, she is tackling a man sighs Job. Overheard on the Geneva Bus:' "This is my favorite month... I wish it would last forever." "Yeah... so do L I gotta note due the first of September too!" REMEMBER IT Remember those Who lend you aid For gratitude Is "a virtue rare But those who seek it Find disappointment And despair. Remember every Promise made And you can face s The future unafraid. , Remember "every kindness life Done to you . And you'll win fame And fortune too. Remember every favor You receive It is always a debt That is still unpaid. Remember the spoken Praise by others won Until you tell them Remains unsung. Caution lilr Ai.H better part of valor but the cautious cau-tious man seldom achieves great ness. states' ris-hts hm (nf..ti of government havinv hu. " ' 016 Pnduluni swings. - "c xumi accuon or tne act would direct the bor to make a six months investigation investi-gation of guaranteed annual wage payment plans, first broached seri- uusiy Dy me united Steelworkers' Union as nart nf l a.- break the Little Steel formula. This DUta an the doorstep of the next admin- uuauon. aaore tnan mat, it shoves a foot in the door to make the next administration take this precious bundle and do something about it. 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