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Show V "Clean Up, or Else !,v PAGE 6 FXOVO, UTAH COT7NTT. UTAH WEDVESDAT, APRIL 12. 1944 DAILY HERALD PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1944 Editorial . . . . The Washington Modern Abatoir Needed One of the crying needs of the Provo area is a modern public slaughter house, or aba toir. With such sanitary facilities available, constructed principally of concrete, easy to wash and keep clean, there would be no danger dan-ger of such an embarrassing incident as took place recently when the state department of agriculture revealed that the local slaughter house had failed to come up to the required standards of sanitation and cleanliness. Old slaughter-houses, built many years ago principally of lumber, to serve a small community, are not easy 'to keep clean, compared com-pared with the more modern structures designed de-signed by the wholesale. packing houses. Many cities, far smaller than Provo, al-vready al-vready boast of modern abatoirs, owned by the municipality. An example is Logan, constructed five years ago, more than ample to handle all local slaughtering needs and always measurfng up to sanitary requirements, require-ments, as any inspection will show. Private business men cannot be expected ,to invest the capital required to erect such an abatoir. Since the city sets up the sanitary sani-tary requirements in the operation of a slaughter-house, the city should likewise build such a structure, adequate to handle all present and immediate future needs. It should then be made available at a reasonable reason-able fee to anyone who might be engaged in wholesale meat handling. Provo needs a number of improvements, but none is more urgently needed than a modern abatoir. Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs tit Drew fwrwi ci. Robert I. A 1 1 ft tit at7 Miners or Soldiers? The cheers that greeted the formation of a new inter-agency committee in Washington Washing-ton headed by War Manpower Commissioner Commission-er McNutt seem to have been a little premature. pre-mature. This is the committee, you may recall, re-call, which was formed to reconcile the armed services' manpower demands with the needs of industry and agriculture. It appears ap-pears now that the committee's early meetings meet-ings have been generating more heat than light. Reports indicate that the army and navy, the war production board, Solid fuels administration, admin-istration, maritime commission and selec tive service have been engaging in some acrimonious debate. Their one point of agreement seems to be that the armed forces now have first priority on manpower. The delicate balance of military and production requirements admittedly must be tipped in favor of the former. The trouble starts when they try to decide which production agency shall step off the scales. According to credible reports, the bitterest bitter-est committee fights have raged over the deferment of coal miners. Finally a majority major-ity agreed to defer those miners between 22 and 26 who had three years' experience. This met with army and navy disapproval, and brought a threat from other production representatives rep-resentatives that they would present an expanded ex-panded list from other industries for deferment. defer-ment. The whole country ought to cross its fingers fin-gers and hope that coal production is not Mspntiallv wcakpnpH for coal is rxrhrs the - , 1 , l,L 11 ! J . . . t basic ingredient of our industrial economy. .VtK .n.: It is necessary to our entire steel production. or face difficulty of collecting from a financial. It drives 95 per cent of our locomotives, !iy shaky prime contractor. heats 57 per cent of our houses, generates 55 J Maverick therefore proposed legislation where- per cent of our electricity. In short, coal y ov!"Lmve" Jy .6 ' ., . t i i- l reel. The Army-rsavy oppose this on in grouna provides oo per cent of the country s entire jof too much bookkeeping- and administrative mechanical energy. trouble But after listening- to Maverick's argTJ- If anvone doubts the importance of coal. ment. senator Tart of Ohio said: let him look at the consequences of the Brit- J1.' " wa 1 he,P ,n ut me ish miners' strike. Electric serv ice has been n cut 10 per cent, and artificial gas by 25 per bailey and bvrd Cent. As a result, British industry, trans-' Friends of North Carolina's Senator Joslah portation and domestic heating and lighting Bailey tell this story as th inside on how he nap-are nap-are suffering partial paralysis on the eve of ,Pncd, t0 come out for Senator Bxd for President ;,-.;,- Bailey had had a talk with Jim Thompson, the continental inasiOn. , i brother-in-law of Senator Bennett Clark and e may be past the crisis Of industrial ; former publisher of the New Orleans Item. Th mobilization in this country, as the annual Byrd boom has been main-aprlnged from New report of the Federal Reserve Bank of New i Orleans, where rope manufacturer John U. Ban--t' ' i. i t-, . , heads the Byrd-for-president movement. Thomson lork indicates. The steel supply may be paTtuJly senator Bailey a biii-of-gooda on easier, dui so long ss we neea peax inaus-trial inaus-trial production, we shall need close to peak production of coal. The draft-age young men in the mines work, for the most part, at the face of the mine. It is hard work, and when older men replace them it will mean a drop in efficiency as well as numeral strength. So it is essen- WASHINOTON Despite the manpower short age and the daily drafting- of thousands of fathers, it remains a fact that the weekly average of those receiving unemployment benefits In the United States Is around 100,000. The latest figures available, avail-able, for late February, showed 103,954 unemployed unem-ployed and receiving benefits from Social Security. This fig-ure is about double what it was last November, when an average of 56.354 were unemployed. unem-ployed. But on the other hand, the February fig-ure fig-ure of 103,954 is about one-half what the figure was at the same time last year. In February, 1943 208,644 were receiving unemployment compensation. While only 100,000 men unemploy A Is low, nevertheless advocates of a national service act feel that is is one illustration of the need of drafting draft-ing labor. Furthermore, the figure of 100,000 un employed actually represents more unemployed than appears on the surface. Eact State requires an Initial waiting period of one to two weeks before unemployment benefits can start, and one week of waiting for 100,000 men represents four million man-hours lost. Biggest question raised by these unemployment unemploy-ment figures is why, when industry and the Government Gov-ernment both are crying for men, the figure should be rising as against last November. Only explanation explana-tion offered by the Social Security Board Is cutbacks. cut-backs. In other words, certain war plants are closing because of over-production of tanks, trucks, gunpowder. And it takes time for workers to shift from one job to another. ENEMY ALIEN Paul Scheffer, controversial editor of the Berliner Tageblatt. long out on parole in the United States, recently has been locked up by the Justice Department. Pressure to release him is being sought inside the Government, and a hearing will take place soon. Scheffer, an enemy alien, was interned with other Germans at the start of the war, then was released under parole to a vice president of the Chase National Bank, which later was Indicted on the charge of permitting Its funds to be used for trading with the enemy. Scheffer had been a newspaper man in the United States for many years and, under the Weimar Wei-mar Republic, had the reputation of being a lead ing liberal journalist. However, Ambassador William Wil-liam E. Dodd was suspicious of him and, In later years, Scheffer had the reputation of playing the Nazi same. Upon being interned when the United States entered the war, Scheffer asked that he b allowed to remain in the United States. This request was granted and he was released on parole. Later, considerable commotion was aroused when he wrote an article for the New York Times maga zine section under the name Conrad Long. Since then, there have been demands that he be re-Interned. Why the Justice Department suddenly sud-denly locked him up again is not known, and officials offi-cials declined any comment. TAMER MAVERICK A few years ago, no one would have dreamed i that Congressman Maury Maverick, as rambunc tious as the Texas steer named after his fighting Texas family, would ever get the support of conservative con-servative Republicans. While in Congress, pugnacious, pug-nacious, blunt-spoken Maverick authored the President's Supreme Court bill, championed all New Deal legislation, stepped on people's toes, never cared how he made enemies. But, appearing before a Senate committee the other day. Maverick .had both Democratic and Republican Re-publican conservatives 100 per cent for him. He was proposing an amendment whereby small businessmen busi-nessmen holding subcontracts could be paid directly by the Government rather than waiting for payment pay-ment from the prime contractor, perhaps until after the war is over. Maverick, efficient head of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, pointed out that there are a million subcontractors and only a thousand or so prime contractors, of which only 100 big firms hold "0 per cent of the prime war contracts. The little Byrd. according to BaUey's friends but not en Urely. The North Carolinian kept coming back to the fact that he had defeated Senator Furnlfold Simmons after Simmons made the mistake of bolting bolt-ing Al Smith for Herbert Hoover, so Bailey wanted to be regular. However. Thomson later conspired with radio commentator Fulton Lews to announce Bailey's support for Byrd as an accomplished fact. This tirnH the scales, and Bailev flnallv decided to tial that the inter-agency committee leave! stand by Byrd though with the reservation that enough military-age men in the mines to insure in-sure an adequate supply of our chief energy producer for war industry. Let's Start Now The traffic death rate has been climbing since last October, after a 20-month decline. January deaths were 28 per cent above the January, 1943 figure. In February they were 16 per cent higher than during the same month last year. Travel is increasing, too, in spite of continued con-tinued gasoline and tire rationing. This year's January travel figure shows a 17 per cent increase over that of 1943. But the January death rate was still 9 per cent higher high-er than the travel rate. The obvious assumption as-sumption is that speed and carelessness are also on the increase. So it is not too soon for drivers to make some safety resolutions now, and keep them after the war. The traffic toll, despite its recent increase, is still far below that of prewar pre-war 1941. Alertness, sobriety and moderate ..speed can help to stop the present rise. he will support Roosevelt If nominated. The Idea that Germany can exercise her former form-er place in Europe and can do so without danger to all free men after the Nazi hoodlums are eliminated elimin-ated Is not true. Henry J. Taylor, war correspondent. The simple fact Is that the Germans stopped us (at Cassino). Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. The veteran's homecoming is not always the grand and glorious reunion the men dream -f, but women can help make it so by studying the man's mental attitude while he is still In the hospital, then working to give him the sense of security and stability he needs. Mrs. Carter Collins, president Association of Army and Navy Wives. Foreign policy should be a national policy, and not the judgment of one individual or small group of individuals. Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts. A balanced budget at the earliest possible time after the war is won will create more jobs than all the projects that government can devise. Gov. John w. Ericker of Ohio. . c Rush Holt Pops Up Again By Robert D. Lush NBA iervlc, lac. "BLACK BLIZZARD" XVII J NEVER realized that the Daily Messenger had such readership. No one in the county missed that headline or the story beneath it. All the old feeling against Jan Mesrik was revived. George Flain was charged with conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition act. He narrowly escaped es-caped a prison sentence. After the trial mother and I returned to the farm to live with my grandfather. My mother was completely baffled baf-fled by the incomprehensible turn of events. But my father confirmed con-firmed much of that which was revealed by the Kansas City woman, wom-an, and other evidence piled up against him. It was about this time thst we first heard that it had been George, himself, who had made the suggestion that the Ku Klux Klan pay its call on grandfather. ! Mother cried a lot Her childlike child-like faith In my father was weakened weak-ened but never completely destroyed. de-stroyed. "He never really meant anyone any harm," she would say. "He never aimed to do wrong." To this my grandfather would reply: "Leaving him is for the best, Anna. You must remember that." "He never meant any harm," he added once. "No, and he never meant any good. He thought it was aU free and it was all coming to him. It never occurred to him that there was a price on anything. any-thing. It was a cheap world to George, and that's what he made it." TT7E never returned to my father. The separaUon became permanent; per-manent; eventually there was a divorce. I heard that he was living liv-ing with the woman from Kansas City. Naturally, I did not tell my mother. It was hard enough on me. I can remember not Infrequent sessions of blubbering behind the barn, of leaning against the barn wall, kicking the dirt with the toes of my shoes, sniffling. Eventually Even-tually we learned of my father's remarriage. Once when Old Jan and I were out In the fields alone he ppoke to me briefly about my parents' trouble. "This Is a strange world, Little Jan. Right and wrong used to be so clear. Now we're all confused. I don't know whether it's a growing grow-ing tolerance and tolerance is a good thing, or whether we have lost something important from our scale of moral values. If that's it, it's bad." But there was plenty else to think about those days. Our prime interest, of necessity, was the heart-breaking task of trying to keep the farm together literally. The drought which had heralded itself mildly in the late 20's, had set in in all seriousness in the early '30's. Had we had a feed and cash reserve, we would have been able to do our job of sfarming much more sanely, even though farm prices were disastrously low. There was no world market for America's surplus crops. Federal attempts to boost prices without controlling production resulted in market quotations so low that they did not justify transportation. But we had no reserve of any kind. When George lost his trucking truck-ing business, the entire debt fell squarely on grandfather's farm. In a hopeless attempt to meet this obligation every last foot of land had to be used intensively in an area and during a period when Buch Intensive agriculture was highly hazardous. It was a long gamble, but gambling was our only on-ly chance. "Remember," Old Jan asked me one afternoon whea we were stripping strip-ping every last bit of vegetation from a field to add to our inadequate inade-quate feed supplies, "Remember BT PETER EDSON Dally Herald Washington Correspondent Rush D. Holt remember? the boy senator of 1935 et seq., is trying to do a political comeback in his native West Virginia. He seeks the Democratic nomination for governor In the state primary way v People who can't forget young rtous violent pre-pearl Harbor isolationism are trying to make out that this is the first test of how much Isolationist strength ana Benument there may be remaining re-maining in this country after two and a half years of war. To think that West Virginians would vote for or against a gubernatorial guber-natorial candidate just because of his America First leanings and utterances that long ago seems at first glance to be a bit farfetched. far-fetched. There are lots better tests of isolationism coming up later. Most important is Senator Gerald P. Nye's fight for renomi-natlon renomi-natlon In North Dakota. To a lesser degree, a contest for the seat of D. Worth Clark of Idaho, ana to a still lesser degree, the races of Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri and Robert A. Taft of Ohio. When you get this far down In the scale it isn't so much a case of having been isolationist as of having been opposed to many of me aaministration policies. Robert Rob-ert R. Reynolds of North Carolina has thus far stuck to his determination determin-ation not to seek re-election to the Senate, though he did smile coyly when arch-isolationist Gerald L. K. Smith picked him as likelv Dresi- one time when I told you that dential timber a few months ago. story about Tolstoy and the peas- . Senator BurtonK. Wheeler of ant, and how the peasant would Montana doesn'jthave to seek re-plough? re-plough? Remember, that I added electlonfcill 196. That will be the that you couldn't go wrong in real testS- ploughing? Well, you can go Afraid He's Eying Senate Again wrong; you can even plough m the case of Rush Holt, some wrong, Little Jan. That's some- of the effort to pin the isolationist thing. We're not doing a very skunk cabbage on him at this good job of 'ploughing' right now." time stems from the fear of he might go from there, If he TT7E certainly weren't "plough- snould be elected to the governor-W governor-W ing" right, if what followed lilB year- Under West Vlr- was the consequence of our nia 'Jfw- a eTovernor docs not "ploughing." In no .mall measure td w ln rt while it was, ours and that of a lot of 'eC',onv?e)deiral ,of lce' others who were similarly ,apnfl " Hnu T? V lrgln,J l,ectl v, ; tv,- ,ji .'senator. Holt, it is feared, has his ploughing. For suddenly, as coming back to Washlng- though we had had no warning tn a8 BUCfe8aor to Harl whatsoever, the "black blizzards Kllgore burst over us. Slnce- he ,ast gracpd the c We did not call them "black tal scene, Holt has (a) been mar-blizzards" mar-blizzards" at first. We did not call rled, (b) registered for the drft, them anything. We did not know (C) been elected to the West Vir-what Vir-what they were, not t first one ; ginia state legislature. Otherwise. when it struck. It was a strange, ! blackout. He has kept his trap shut new, terrifying phenomenon. Dust on all the things about which he blown from the fields, whipped upNused to rant the New Deal, the by gusts of wind, we had 6een in- ,lwar mongers, John L. Lewis and creasingly of late, but never had the C.I.O. who helped him to elc we seen the whole world turn in- tlon in 1934 and whom he repudiat to sn opaque, suffocating, black . ed in ivio. Maybe people have for hurricane. I was doing the chores the eve- gotten. At any rate, it will be an interesting test of. the old theory ning the first "black blizzard" that. thet memory of the American Ktrnrir T nntwrf a HarV oivnH i-ic i electorate is short. ing in the north, but, thinking that , I wpuuon-- it would blow over as usual with out any rain, I paid no particular attention to it and wont about my work. As the cloud grew closer, As to Holt's chances next month, and as to the effect which Holt's pre-Pearl Harbor Isolationism may have on the primary, opinions ;7 V "'t, - " " Xr" Z LJ: of three West Virginia newspaper .w . v.u editors queried on these points unlike any I had ever seen before. ' ,iJt WiVtr As it came still nearer. I could see ! "L,?.. ni"i tt.-w ,... i ,,,,i 4u j.i m . - Holts pre-Pearl Harbor actions t sweeping up toe dirt m front of haven.t .en been mentlonedi ac. it like a huge broom. The chick- 'cordlng to s. q Damron of' the ens and cattle were frightened, vj!. rn xn t,i. Then it was on us. Choking spit-. tor observers think Holt llW I "V "''J"0"1"; i.will get a big anti-administration !. j v v. protest vote coum see noining .11 was career HoJt an enigma tO Malcolm man msm. me air oecame , T Brlce edltor of tne Wheelling more sxining. 1 ,100, oecame ingm- News-Register. Holt's traditional enea. 1 sxanea lor xne nouse. 1 anti-labor stand while he was In ran, holding my handkerchief over ' my face, trying to breathe through it. I bumped Into something, felt of it. It was the back of the house. I walked along, keeping my hands on the clapboards. I came to the door and stumbled in. It was dark inside. (To Be Continued) the Senate would argue against his getting any labor support in una election, says Brice, but II John L. Lewis told the state's 120,000 miners to support an anti-administration candidata. his chances for nomination would be favorable! This editor points out, however, that all straw ballots indicate in-dicate the state Is going Republican Repub-lican In the fall anyhow, with or without Roosevelt, so Holt doesn't matter. From Clyde A. Wellman. editor of the Hunting-ton Advertiser. comes the guess that Holt will bo a sure winner in Ihe primary, the uasis or nis strength being the fact that his opponent. Clarence Meadows, has been tagged rightly or wrongly, the crown prince of Governor Neelv and all antl- Neelyites are rallying to Holt Holt's isolationism is not consid ered a big factor. Republicans are hoping Holt gets the nomination nomina-tion so they can beat him with, the Isolationist label. Three More Job Classifications On Critical List Because of an increaslne short age of available workers In the electrical and welding fields, three Job classifications have been added to the War Manpower commis sion's national list of critical job ciassmcauons, w. u Mildenhall, manager of the WMC's local of fice of the United States employ ment service announed today. The three classifications added to the critical list, which already contains approximately 150 Jobs, are: 1. All around repairman, elec tric motor equipment. 2. Repairman and installation man for gas and oil burner equip ment. 3. Electric arc welder, high pressure vessel and piping. Included under the last classifi cation, Mr. Mildenhall said, are only those individuals who weld metal parts using an electric weld ing apparatus in connection with the fabrication, erecting and repairing re-pairing of pressure vessels of carbon car-bon or alloy steel. Persons last employed in or those who are hired in critical occupations oc-cupations are subject to referral only by the United State employment employ-ment service. vn no Do yoa hm poor dlgtstiooT D Da yoa fool headachy after eitinf? Do yoa it soar or upset tasiljT Do yon fool tlred-HstlessT Now everyone knows that to ft the food out of the food you eat you must digest it properly. But what most people don't know is that Nature must produce about two pints of the dipestive Juice liver bile each day to help digest your food. I f Nature fails, your f ood may remain undigested, un-digested, lie bout and heavy within you. Thus, it U simple to ae that one way to aid digestion Is to Increase tha flow of liver bile. Now, Carter's Little Liver Puis start to increase this flow quickly for thousands often in as little aa thirty minutes. When bile flow increases, your digestion may improve. And, soon you're on the road to feeling better which is what you're after. Don't depend on artificial aids to counteract coun-teract indigestion when Carter's, takes as directed, aid digestion after Nature's own order. Get Carter's Little Liver Pflla today only 254. You'll be glad you did. Desk Chat, Editorial Column The Voice 1 Experience Those who have had experience with a certain type of "'Good Samaritan" will appreciate this colored preacher's version of the well-known parable: "Dere was a traveler on a lonely road, robbed an" left wounded an' helpless by de roadside. As he laid dere. various puaaona passed him, but none ob dem offered him any 'alatance. "By an" by howsomever. a pore Samaritan come along an" takln' pity on de wounded man, helped him on his mule an' took him to a tavern, where he ordered food an" raiment fo de man. an' tells de tavern keeper to send de bill to him. "Now, breddern an' sistahs, dls am a strue story for de tavern sm standin' to dls day, an' in de doorway is standin' de skeleton ob de tavern keeper, waitin' fo' de good Samaritan to come back an' pay de bill. Pert and Pertinent "Many women shed tears for the kiss they gave and should have withheld. . ." but the deeper grief is for the kiss they withheld and which might have been given. "America Is a land where everybody every-body feels equal to anybody. . ." and does not like anybody to feel equal to him. "The only people who don't worry wor-ry are those who have too much sense..." and those who haven't enough. "The giant illuminated clock in Jersey City has a minute hand that weighs 2.200 pounds. . ."news item. time must hang heavy in Boss Haa-ue'a bailiwick. I The Fiherer and Goebbels. touring tour-ing Naziland In an automobile, ;ran over a pig In front of a beer hall. I Learning the dead porker belonged be-longed to the tavernkeeper, Goeb-ibels Goeb-ibels stepped inside to break the news. An hour paaaed before Goebbels staggered out drunk. "What happened?" asked his Fuehrer. 1 And Goebbels replied: "I walked walk-ed into the hall and said: 'Hell Hitler! The pig is dead!' and the bartender yelled: "Gott sel dank! the drinks are on me!'" If the heroine of a current popu- lar book of fiction Is In her late twenties or early thirties, it is a sure sign the author is a male and fast approaching middle age. The trouble la that too many politlclana -use speech to conceal rather than to reveal their real j put j'VDV . To people who are really in love. 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