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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEW. UTAH In the Navy WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Man About Town: Secretary of State Cordell Bull has recovered sufficiently from a threatened collapse. He will resume re-sume the burden of his office and the world soon , . . Mrs. FDR's new radio sponsor may be Brazil' at $2,000 a broadcast . . . Hitler's squawk that an American ship is arrivicg daily in Alexandria is a lie. It's two ships! . . . Insiders argue that Columnist .toe Alsop was sent to Bombay, India, presumably because be-cause there is no greater distance from Washington. Alsop embarrassed embar-rassed the White House and the navy by stating in print that his kin, the President, was waiting for an incident to get us into war just before he got his naval commission. Carol and Lupescu are concerned about their reception here. Why? They got a most cordial press on their arrival to this hemisphere . . . Hess is supposed to have said that he fled because the stars by which Hitler lives "deserted him after May 12th" ... Our submarine detectors de-tectors have been perfected to the point where surface craft can now signal: - uome up ror ldentincation or be sunk!" . . There are models of cargo vessels being tried out in Long Island sound, which are Mr. Hitler's newest headache. For Dractical Durnoses these shins are as far out of the water as the subs are under It. Exclusive! Jap subs, manned by uerman crews, are waiting in the narrow straits of Vladivostok to sink American suDDlies to Russia . . . A great number of German- American Bunders will have their citizenship revoked shortly thanks to me splendid wors oi the immigration immi-gration Service via Sylvester Fin-dyck'a Fin-dyck'a office. The Democratic brain trust fig ures that either Farlev or O'Dwver can lick any G.O.P. candidate for Mayor of New York. Some believe arley will race against Dewey for uovernor, Dut it may be arley vs Willkie. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: Maglo Carpet: Ralph Ingersoll, the publisher, now on his way to Russia (to Interview Stalin) was complaining to Steve Early at the White House the other day. "Steve," Ingersoll intoned, "those Russians are holding my passport." "They are?" responded Steve. "And, they want us to give them a hundred million dollars worth of machinery!" Steve then called the State Dep't and, before Ingersoll knew It, he was on his way to Moscow. Eyebrow Lifter: Mr. Ingersoll was saying before he left that he had just learned toe hardest thing to find In Russia was a Communist. "How's that?" he was asked. "Because." he explained, 'the population of Russia is 160,000,000, and there are only 5,000,000 party members." Despite the rigid censorship In Germany, the underground manages to circulate the latest news picked up via short-wave from England and America. When they want to discuss dis-cuss in public what they heard on BBC, the favorite method is to say, "Do you know what I dreamed?" and then proceed to relay the news picked up onthe foreign station . . , Another popular method is to tell about a speech heard on the Nazi station and praise it and then add how a foreign station cut In with a "lot of lies." The speaker repeats the "lies" he heard, and his listeners listen-ers get the drift , . , Since meetings are verboten in Germany, the anti-Nazis anti-Nazis have become great funeral-goers. funeral-goers. When a funeral is announced, a mob shows up at the cemetery and, as they walk behind the hearse, they trade information. Add Picturesque Reporting: The best description of the Russianazl tangle, with both sides out-bragging the other In their communiques, is the New York Times' Edwin L. James' phrase: "The war of the typewriters." By Way of Report: They are going go-ing to film the life of Lou Gehrig, which certainly was a life to admire. ad-mire. There is plenty of drama In the career of another ball player. After he had been great for two decades, dec-ades, he faded. But the baseball mighties put a bust of him in the Hall of Fame. His bust had a home, but he had none. Grover Cleveland Alexander. Cartoon Material: A Nazi spy overhears a conversation between two of Secretary Hull's aides and gleefully sends the punchline to his decoding office, to wit: "Awful news, but awful! I just drew the Washington Senators in the $10 pool!" Wve Met 'Em: It's Paul Hart-man Hart-man s tale of the three efSciency ex-pert ex-pert who were waiting impatiently m front of a hotel for , friend- ttZ h"?v ke U a toursom going go-ing through the revolving door. nRtvrpEAr&aH ., - Unit., m CHANGES IN PRESIDENT WASHINGTON. Recent months of war in Europe have made soma significant changes in the habits and the outlook of the President He is more serious, more worried. Also he is more circumscribed. The latter lat-ter is Imnnrtant because it means that he sees fewer people, loses some of his old contacts. Tliirinff hl first oiffht wars in office, probably no President in his tory was in closer touch witn tne country as a whole than Franklin Roosevelt. Nat onlv did he see a great number of congressmen, labor la-bor leaders, business men and noli- ticians d urine his dailv routine, but he traveled more than any other President. Several times a year he took turns round the country. keDt his ear to the ground, met all sorts of people. Ever since the international emer gency, he has stuck close to Washington. Wash-ington. Not once has he got out into the Middle West, even during the 1940 camnafsm. Seldom has he gone farther away than New York or down the Potomac. Thus he has missed the relaxation, the rest and the obvious joy he used to get from his roving junkets. Also he has missed his old personal contacts. NoteThe President boasts that he rests on a railroad trip, and this is really true. He seems to sleep better on a Pullman, and on occasion orders have been given to the train engineer to stretch out a run between towns in order to give the President extra sleep. More Gold Braid. Roosevelt's contacts thus are limited lim-ited by remaining in Washington, and in Washington also, he is more circumscribed than ever. He does not see nearly as many members of congress and men from many walks of life as formerly. This is because he is concentrating so much time on national defense and foreign affairs. All important decisions in the state department come across his desk. The freezine of Axis funds. the closing of German-Italian consulates, consu-lates, the speeches of Secretary Knox, have to get the President's O. K. Important decisions regarding regard-ing the army and navy come to him, and a constant stream of ques tions regarding OPM and aid to Britain confronts him daily. - So the President sees far less of the men who helped to build ud the New Deal, far more of army-navy officials, One Dollar Men and dip lomats. Much of this is unavoid able,, though part of it could be eliminated by more diversification of control. However, this chance In the Pres ident's mode of operation is not as important as the change which gradually grad-ually has crept over his general outlook. out-look. On the surface, and to press conference, he is the same old wise-cracking, fun-loving Roosevelt. But underneath he is not. No longer does he have the same zest for what he is doing. In the old days when he was building PWA bridges and WPA schoolhouses. writing labor laws, crusading for so cial security, fighting the big utilities, utili-ties, he loved every minute of it He was building up, crusading for numan needs and human rights. And his enthusiasm was boundless. No War Enthusiasm. Now, however, he knows that w. ery step he takes in foreign policy, every dollar he spends for the navy, every man he Inducts into the army, may be a step toward tearing down rather than building up. He believes the steps he is taking are absolutely necessary, aui ne has no enthusiasm enthusi-asm for ttwrn. In other words, ha has no enthusiasm for war. Most of the men around velt believe that war is inevitable. and it may be that he does, too tnough he has not admitted that publicly. But iudeins hv hi h.. ing back in opposition to his more vigorous military-foreign policy ad visers, the President hat an dreads the idea of this nn firm arrtt into war. He hates the reactions and nfw. maths of war. and he hates th Mo, of having history record him as a war resident - At the same time he hHovoc this country will have to move fast. ana u u aoes not move now It may be too late. For the best Hpflnit.v, of an isolationist Roosevelt firmly believes, is one who by procrastination procrastina-tion wants to see his women and children in the thick 0f the fighting here at home. MERRY-GO-ROUND Ben Welles, son of Undersecretary Undersecre-tary of State Sumner Welles, is working as a newsman in Panama Nelson Rockefeller, government worker, gets up at five in the morn-tog, morn-tog, shuns parties, goes to bed at ten. The Rockefeller office 'hat been flooded with requests from movie stars who want to tour Latin America. Amer-ica. When senators fail to pay their bills at the senate stationery room the disbursing office, instead of dunning dun-ning them, merely docks the amount from their pay checks. "America," latest popular booklet book-let by David Cushman Coyle, has been officially endorsed by the American Legion, General Federation Federa-tion of Women's Clubs, the Council for Democracy, and the selective service board. Russian Army Plan for Slowing Blitz Follows China's Retreating Technique; Churchill Hails Soviet as 'Real All; Extension of Draftee Service Sought (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions r siprosaed In these columns, the ara ttaoM of the news analyst and not neeoasarlly of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) tiA- nBB-rtlH'HBBi sw. . .Sw.Wvfl-jfii-t aw t iw.a ff A Deeper into Russia than their ji i i vaain so.aiers are marcuea ou to uea prison camp aiier capiure "Somewhere on the eastern front." That bald-headed, shirt-clad panzer trooper, fourth from left, in the front line, looks out of place among his ..-!.. 4- V -..nl- !. J- 1- BEAR: On Defense The Russian Bear, no matter what the communiques might say, was obviously putting up a hard fight before the advancing German mech anized forces, and the British, who had taken the quick defeat of Russia Rus-sia as a foregone conclusion were beginning to cheer. Churchill, who had been through three previous milder stages of hailing hail-ing Russia as a companion in arms, finally and very bluntly told the house of commons "of course Russia Rus-sia Is an ally of Britain." One of the signs that the Reds' defense de-fense of their homeland was vigorous vigor-ous and not without military merit came from an official admission on the part of Germany's high command com-mand that the Nazi armies had hurled back a considerable counterattack. counter-attack. Communique "solvers" naturally saw In this admission proof that the Russian armie3 were actually fighting, fight-ing, and battling to some purpose in their gradual withdrawal to the Stalin line and perhaps further to the interior. Washington observers cautioned against too much faith in an eventual eventu-al Russian victory, however, unless the defenders would be able to withdraw with-draw their armies with much of their equipment intact into that hinterland broadly described as "the Urals." As In the Battle of France, it was conceded that the French would have had a chance of immobilizing the war only if they were' willing to give up Paris and other cherished cher-ished cities, and move backward with the assault, harassing the advancing ad-vancing Nazis and softening their blows, "riding with the punches" as the boxing phrase has it This was the technique which enabled en-abled to make a four-year-old war of position out of the Japanese blitz of 1937 in China. It was the same technique which observers In this country were recommending for Russia. , There was nothing in dispatches to show that the Reds were not doing do-ing just that save that no city of vital importance like Leningrad, Moscow or Kiev had yet fallen, though Germans claimed they had passed tne latter. It was impossible, in view of con. flicting claims, to determine with even probable accuracy and allow ing for a wide margin of error to figure the price being paid by either side in the Russo-German war. If German claims were to be believed, be-lieved, Russia had left only a fragmentary frag-mentary part of her motorized equipment and her air force. If Russia were to be believed Germany was reaucea to using "canvas" tanks and mere boys to operate them. But even the German communiques communi-ques admitted Russia still had hundreds hun-dreds of tanks in action, and hundreds hun-dreds of planes, and the Reds' bombing activities were reported from neutral points to be hitting targets tar-gets far within Rumania and far within Finland. The actual facts of the war, however, how-ever, remained continually clouded In mystery, despite the fact that correspondents cor-respondents finally were admitted to Moscow, which also installed a short-wave radio to give out war news to the United States and other countries. HOPKINS: To London Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's "trouble shooter" and confidant, confi-dant, was being sent to London again. . , While there was little definite information in-formation readily available as to the reason for Hopkins' second trip to England, it was recalled that only the other day in the house of commons com-mons there had been some bitter statement over the handling of American plane purchases. .'ft. .. .. ... . . , - :,. companions but unarmed these In- rm n i , MARSHALL: His Plan Gen. George C. Marshall chief of staff of the U. S. army, urged two major points before congress senate sen-ate military affairs committee, and apparently the President was will ing to go along with one, but not with the other. Point No. 1 was that the selectees should be kept in uniform longer than a calendar year from the time of their induction. He wanted this restriction removed by congress from the selective service law. Point No. 2 was that he wanted the restrictions removed ordering that selectees could serve only in the Western hemisDhere. The Presi dent apparently was willing to ex ert some White House pressure on congress to get the second provision passed. However, early polls of senatorial reactions to both points were unfavorable, unfa-vorable, though a majority of those questioned reported themselves "undecided" "un-decided" and "preferring to hear the debate." The question had broadly resolved Itself into how large an army the U. S. should have, and how long it takes to train a soldier. General Marshal also made the point that the selectees had been poured into all army units, with the result that if they were sent home after a year, these units would suf fer dismemberment. JAPAN: On the Verge The sudden resignation of the Jbd- anese cabinet, together with many dispatches quoting the indefinite "diplomatic sources," seemed to in dicate that Nippon mieht be on the verge of some important step in world affairs.! What this might be remained hid den, though British statements seemed to hint that Japan might be contemplating a move into Indo- China. A secondary guess was that Japan migm De planning a "token" as sault on Russia's east coast- Siberia, perhaps to attempt to close tne port of Vladivostok name famous fa-mous in the Japanese-Russian war at the turn of the century. The quitting cabinet is the one which put Soviet Russia into th Rome-Berlin axis, and also, strange ly enougn, into a neutrality accord with Russia. The government was almost exactly ex-actly a year In office, so it could not be charged with the stalemate in China, in fact it was not organized to do anything about the Chinese war. There was little'that could be said surely about the situation, some holding that the cabinet resignation resigna-tion meant that Japan's whole foreign for-eign policy would be reoriented in View of the German-Russian war. Whether this would mean that the next government would be more pro-German, or whether Japan was getting ready to withdraw from all European commitments could hardly hard-ly be told. Certain it was that In Tokyo was a little group of Nazis who were said to have dominated the last cabinet, cab-inet, and to have been urging the strongest possible intimidation of America in the Pacific, in order to occupy the United States so strong-ly strong-ly with the West coast that aid to Britain might be minimized. ROOSEVELT: Nazi Names The German nress in it. . references to this eounfr k.j . relatively mold. On the contrary, the papers were now vieing with each otter to use strong language about President Roosevelt Ihe President said one paper circling like is the Azores and the Cape Verde islands. nnouier said: "Roosevelt has raised ... ism to be a symbol in politics." Fx V ft i w 1 I S viviryv 1 mm :::::;;::::::7iS vv-:-:":::::::-:oxo:-::::;':::::':-::-:' Joseph P. Kennedy Jrn son of the former ambassador to Great Britain and Harvard graduate, has joined Uncle Sam's navy, enlisting for the duration in the air force. He made his entry along with many other college men and was quickly inducted He is shown in a training plane, ready for Lesson Number One. SYRIA: Noiv British The victory of the British and Free French in Syria, being some what dwarfed by the news from Russia and the war developments in this country seemed to receive only minor mention in the American press, though the British were getting get-ting more solid satisfaction out of it than had appeared on the eve of the armistice. Some of the terms began to come overseas, and it was significant that they called for the turning over to the British of all arms except those belonging to individuals, including ships and planes. Paris was quick to report that all planes and ships had escaped capture, cap-ture, though this dispatch, coming from German-controlled territory, was somewhat discounted. Churchill summed up the advan tages of the Syrian victory briefly as removing to a greater distance the threat to Suez, also the fact that some of the disaster of Crete had been overcome, in that the air base on the island of Cyprus now could be protected. The Germans, heav ily engaged with Russia, however, seemed in no hurry to try another air conquest from Crete to Cyprus, That the Germans' air position in the eastern Mediterranean was suf ficiently strong was indicated in the sinking of a British small naval vessel of 1,200 tons by air fire, the survivors reporting that they were attacked by 80 dive bombers at one time. Their convoy escaped with supplies destined for Tobruk's be leaguered garrison. Most important of the Syrian ar mistice terms was the choice to be offered to French residents, civilian and military, as to whether they would be deported to French terri tory, or whether they would join the Free French government under British mandate. R.A.F.: Business as Usual The Royal Air force. steDDine ud its bombing scale steadily, renorted as one day of "business as usual" the dropping of 1.500 tons of bombs on cities in Germany and occupied countries. The British were claimine that these attacks were at least as severe as any Britain had had to withstand during the hey-day of the' German onslaught from the air and that they would get stronger as time wore on. one contrast between the Nazis' blitz of London and other British objectives and the British attack on Germany and occupied countries was in the photographic evidence. uutside of one or two nictures sent out from Germany showing fire fighters atop buildings in Berlin, the country might as well be entirely unscathed, as far as nicture evi. dence would go. Whereas the American papers had carried literally thousands thou-sands of photographs of air-raid effects ef-fects in England, from the digging out of the dead and wounded tn th damage that was done to West minster Abbey and the tower from which Big Ben chimes out the hours. ihe reason was that the Rritic vviuu took the pictures of their own dam-age, dam-age, and the censors permitted them to be sent out So the United States got a view of what modern war was like. The Germans Dermittpri fm . three such pictures to get to this country, but for more than a year nothing of the kind as the air attacker can't get low enough to photograph his own dam-age dam-age it didn't look as though would get out Among the tareeta wp Cologne and other bie centers and steamship traffic. And the British assumed that i tons of their bombs would about the same havoc on Bremen as the same weight of German bombs had on London. Churchill summed it ud vhn k- said that he believed if the British people were permitted to vnt whether bombings of cities would continue or be stopped by both sides they would vote NO! And hit hs! ence cheered to the echa. 2 , X (Released by Wern Newspaper Union. WE THINK TOO LOCALLY, NOT ENOUGH NATIONALLY THERE IS In America too much local and not enough national polit ical thinking. We fail to realize that the foundation on which the Repub lic Is builded is national In scope, that the national government can. and does, dominate our entire sys tem. National legislation can take from the states, and through them, from the counties and municipalities, many of the rights and privileges we have felt belonged to us locally. In our two-party system, those of each party are interested In con trolling the state, county and mu nicipal patronage and the election machinery of these political sub divisions. We pick candidates for represen tatives and senators on the basis of local service to the party, rather than on their ability as statesmen. We continue them la office so long as they produce national funds for local use, or support such minority legislation In which we have a self ish interest The result of it all Is a wild orgy of spending and government by and for minorities. If we do not learn to think nationally along political lines, we will some day awaken to the fact that Washington controls us locally. , A MIGHTY FACTOR IN COMMUNITY SERVICE ' THERE IS no Institution or busi ness enterprise that does so much for the community In which it operates op-erates as the newspaper. Directly and Indirectly, It promotes the in terests of the community. It pro duces acquaintanceship, friendship and good will between people of the town and the surrounding farm homes. It works week by week, year after year, for the Interests of &IL It keeps each individual In formed of the joys and sorrows, the comings and goings, the activities of his neighbors. That Is a service which promotes the welfare of the community as a whole. It makes of the community, the people of the town and surrounding farms, homogenous whole. PARITY PRICES FOR THE FARMER IN 1941 THE GOVERNMENT Is to see that the farmer gets the 1904 to 1914 parity price for what he raises. That means, they tell me, that jwhat he may raise this year Is to pay proportionately for as much and as many things bought per year during the years from 1904 to 1914. Just how they figure It out I do not know, and it is a safe bet that the average farmer will take the government's word as to the an swer. It is estimated that it will take close to half a billion of gov ernment dollars to make the differ. ence between what the public will pay for the 1941 crop and what the farmer Is to receive. It certainly will take mathemat- ical experts to arrive at the right answer for each farmer. bMt I An not know how much these experts are xo get lor the iob. Einsteins probably come high. BOTH PARTIES NOW SUBSCRIBE TO DEMOCRACY OUR FOUNDING FATWTOS ganized and wrote a Constiti a republic, not a democracy. The term "democracv" does Tint nnnoov m v- any place in the Constitution. Wash- ington and Hamilton hflievi in . republic, with a ruling class. Jeffer son insistea upon a democracv. with the power of covernmmt n , hands of all the people. Today both major political parties subscribe to a democracy. Despite all the complexities com-plexities of government, America can survive as a democracy if the people all the Toms. niit , Harrys, as well as the Oswalds, Per-civals Per-civals and Warrens, are eivm p. curately all the facts about the op era uon oi government The Ameri can ceonle can he .ti-cta4 k - - Mufc American leadership refnsP tn tair- the people into its confidence, and inai iacK ot Information will In tim do for us just what it has done for Europe. PROSPERITY . REGARDLESS OP may end, or how long it may last, William A. Irwin, educational director direc-tor of the American Institute of Banking, says America is in for a long period of prosperity. He sees this country as the one ercat rroHi. tor nation that will be in a oosition to rehabilitate the - .UU11UJ plausible and may it prove true for us ana ior tne rest of the world. EXECUTIVE 'CRIMES' THERE ARE several thn,,ca wu0auu federal laws not enacted hv gress. the violation of any one of which can send you to jail or subject you to a fine. These are executive orders issued by more than 150 different dif-ferent departments, bureaus or commissions. Many American citizens citi-zens have served jail terms or paid 3nes, or both, because of a violation of these executive order laws. Lawrence Law-rence Sullivan, in "The Dead Hand of Bureaucracy," tells us new ones are being issued one each day. Dipping fish inborn, aid scaling. Heating thjn, m. jwut easier w- r Small ni- 1 placed in a bag and ! . Because the iuv. th -i,.: ""'fcl.uei aAl Ul II II t9 i should be provided w. -.fet Oil , It makes a hr j: ' serve hot foods on hotT cold foods oa chilled dj ' kitchen and dining roc! venient housphnin ;j be installed in old as', pnerica'i oove pb( corps i INVENTS SEWW6-U 1 IN I830..OOK KKENn BETTER NS2 fir me eemzmti coMsrumion puet&o rWEKWfC'W!) 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