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Show THE LEII1 SUN, LEHI. UTAH R.A.F. Raid on Paris Reverberates in U. S. New Defense Jobs Opening Each Day or in Congress '.x! ill w w .1 .unrMrkamsPn irv ! SB i Commodities Corporation From insistent' Group Fights to Prevent .n tifis Lorpurauuii riu Products Below Parity. By BAUKIIAGE Vm nafy' an Commentator, N-W, 1313H Street, ....hirton. D " Z of five long blocks Wickard's i n fte wide sweep K of the Department to toe White House. fS2r4 except for cabinet Stake that trip very Snot because he isn't .. .nr other member of '. .i any other memDerw .t'nfflcial family. It is s 7 'h,.0i knitting he President"' 1 pretty sure if he 1 . ratine he ii. .-lHlllUl " U p W ' lbeJrSaid (and is said) in jh fact tnai uo lumber of the cabinet 1 P:esidentever tod . itu at White House press 4,thi Pres. conierentc a! bemg quesuuwsv. --- rial seemed w - , " " the secretary of agriculture "Jce Control Administrator oo as to who was going to Z ferm prices. He said if it agree he could fire them , me controversy has been for- md Secretary wiwvatu, tyw $ only as OB AIiiillll, :: f ' ' bary of Agriculture, Wickard it ii being annoyed . ciiistrator Henderson and isn't i quarter as glib, didn't lose jf his price controlling power. the past weeks have seen prerogatives attacked from w source the ever-constant p 1 annoyance for the depart- agnculture the farm bloc press. m it is the' farm bloc which is annoying Mr. Wickard. highly consistent and highly test group in congress decided wasn't going to let Mr. Wick. Surplus Commodity coroora- sel farm products below parity. i My induced the senate to law agin' it Then when the pent said he'd veto the meas- m decided to tack it on to p appropriation bill as a rider. ime President said it was rep-ple rep-ple to make an amendment "Want bill when it wasn't pe to the bill Then the bloc tack it onto the appropri- T wiui wwch the depart-Magriculture depart-Magriculture cannot pay its he deDartoipnt: Ruling to face that calami! .""7 were wUlinff it t veto the bill I "ere i able to carry out their F Selling cnmmi: l-, they wanted in could eet n ' get anther appropria- CT106 "untryun-Pf"er "untryun-Pf"er what w. are irvin ome member, of con" H . ""iuon: C'toloUtoseUerain "J" o that It win make tt Corn nr. v rifciw. ""nave pien- rfcfarmerm emeprlce ithesta-rC ma et na-Pa. na-Pa. S ,1Wedon,t "ed Vtbdir'ofthe Netb, st fa "ve been cut off 681 tod corn farmer isn't going to lose anything. If we sell our grain at IS per cent below parity he knows that he can get that 15 per cent back, through bene, fit payments for soil conservation." That is the explanation of the case which sounds simple even to the layman. But that isn't the way the President explained it He said that if the department of agriculture did not have its way the cost of eating would be raised a billion dollars a year. But the fact remains that the President is satisfied that Mr. Wick, ard knows what he is doing and that he is doing what the President thinks is right Of course this doesn't make it right, or if it did, it wouldn't make it necessary that the people accept it, if they' prefer some other pro. gram. If the farm bloc has enough of a following among the voters it can write its own ticket We are still a democracy. It is a lot shorter short-er from the ballot box to the congress con-gress than it is from the department of agriculture to the oval office in the executive wing of the White House. The Basic Rule Behind War Censorship In Washington we have a censorship censor-ship for press and radio and also several propaganda organizations which are censorship in reverse. A great many letters which I receive re-ceive from listeners to my radio program say: "Of course we realize you are not allowed to say (this or that)," or "we realize you have to say (that or this)." But the surprising surpris-ing thing is how seldom the "this or that" which the listeners mention are the things the censorship forbids for-bids us to say, or the "that or this" is ever even suggested by the propaganda propa-ganda organizations. As a matter of fact I have had only one direct contact with either the so-called propaganda bureaus or the censorship. A man whom I know personally who is connected with the Office of Facts and Figures once called me up and said that he would be able to give me some interesting in-teresting information from time to time. He never has. As to the censorship, the radio chains drew up their own code before be-fore the censorship organization was founded. It is based largely on common com-mon sense and except for certain specific details this code differs very little from the rules which the censor cen-sor expects us to follow. Before I go on the air a member of the news staff of the Blue network reads over my script So far nothing has been changed so far as I can recall Until we have official confirmation confirma-tion from the army or navy we are not allowed to reveal any troop movements, or any ship movements. move-ments. Ship movements include vertical movements downwards (sinkings). When we repeat information infor-mation contained in enemy state ments we have to say they are ene my statements and if possible we balance them with some statement from a friendly source. Behind all censorship, behind all government regulation of speech and action in wartime is one rule: do not give aid and comfort to the enemy. Specific information of a military nature gives aid and com-fort com-fort to the enemy. We may feel positive that the enemy can get or has already obtained mat information informa-tion from some other source but that does not excuse us for repeating repeat-ing it publicly. Certain things are printed in the newspapers which the radio cannot broadcast because radio ra-dio waves travel everywhere and the reception is instantaneous. A weather report can be picked up by a submarine a few miles off the coast That submarine could not get a copy of a newspaper until it made physical contact with the shore or with someone who was there. Beyond the field of factual information infor-mation which might give aid and comfort to the enemy lies another field: the field of speculation, rumor, ru-mor, comment of a nature which might be Interpreted as giving aid and comfort to the enemy Here we simply have to use our own judgments. judg-ments. Criticism of our government or of the government of one of the United Nations may give comfort if not aid, to the enemy. But I have never been called cn the carpet for reporting such criticism when it occurs. :4nf -f( If f ' . r t I 1 f " ' -1 was the anPtari f p !eevaUlv antomobUe P'ant ta th 'arbs of Pari. Is shown at left This plant hi. Wn tare of E,A-r' bombers that blasted the Paris area, killing and wounding hundreds. Renault . V kIns, Ge an contracts for over a year. Eight: French Ambassador Gaston Henrl-Haye (right) ISSIJSSSSi Br,t,sh bombIns t0 a reporter ta w8h,Dgton' after ta,kine WUh Sumner As Java Land of Bridges Prepared for Japs In the United States an ordinary railroad line would count lis bridges and trestles by the scores or by the hundreds. In Java they are numbered in the thousands. Bridges are seen everywhere spanning rivers and ravines. ra-vines. And so, before Java fell to the invading Japs, the Netherlands East Indies mountain army became experts ex-perts in demolition. At left they are seen as they mined a bridge. Eight: A small pontoon bridge for infantry crossing is shown as it was destroyed by a well-placed shell. , Reds' Manager Does a Bit of Explaining ' brief fey Baukhage Even baseball comes In for a streamlining these modern days. Here Manager Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Beds (left) explains the operation opera-tion of a new automatic pitching machine to pitcher Paul Derringer. The device is in use at the Eeds training camp at Tampa, saving much wear and tear on valuable pitching arms. Royal Rough Rider Crown Prince Olaf of Norway (left) and Brig. Gen. B. W. Case, commander of the army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md Just before be-fore the prince donned coveralls and took a ride in one of the army's new tanks over a test course. Reunion After Escape From Hong Kong a&j,. the to I5 PlaiW. OOUIB torn- U EnZ "OW the Kt.- 'PI?.at there wru ith interna. eojtCLge, nolle. ..4 P toe ance of the L General Hershey. head of the selective se-lective service administration, is of Pennsylvania German descent a collateral branch cf the chocolate family. But his able assistant is Major Culligan, in turn assisted by Messrs Flynn and Shea. The next draft drawing will take place on St Patrick's day and the capsules containing con-taining the numbers will be green. Buy Defense Bonds m.Mnsrlrlnv fnHAarltisT China's most famous family were reunnea m Madame Sun Tat-Sen's dramatic escape by air from Hong tar .the rtoe capiUI. This photo. Uk before hi, WjjJJSj Chiang Katshek with the three Soong Madame Chiang (len,, Madame H. H. Rung, and Madame Sun Tat-Sen. 'Bundles for Japs' II l ' i Hirohito's Mall Pouch" might be the name for this tincanful of destruction de-struction being loaded by a gunnery student at Harlingen, Texas. Each "message" is a JO caliber machine gun bullet Washington, D. C 40-IIOUB FIGUT The furious battle over the bill U suspend the 40-hour week in wat plants caused a personal rift be tween two house leaders that ma) take a long time to heal When Rep. John McCormack, Massachusetts liberal, was elected Democratic floor leader, one of his strongest supporters was a colleague col-league who had nothing in common with McCormack except friendship anti-New Deal, anti-labor Rep. Gene Cox of Georgia. It was with hushed astonishment therefore, that the house listened tc Cox's bitter attack against McCormack McCor-mack during the stormy debate over the anti-40 hour proposal. His voice strident in anger, Cox denounced McCormack on the ground that his opposition to abolishing the 40-hour week was "not good sportsmanship, and I wonder if it is good leader-ship." leader-ship." "I have hoped," the Georgian thundered, "that at some time the gentleman from Massachusetts would come to a realization that he is supposed to speak for the major ity of this houae rather than for somebody else." Friends rushed to McCormack's defense, but he made no reply. Next day, however, under McCormack's leadership, the bill was defeated 226 to 62 a tally which left no doubts about who spoke for the "majority." Note: Two undercover factors were responsible for this vote, which probably did not reflect the general sentiment of the country. One was a tremendous pressure drive by the A. F. of L. and C.I.O. in the district of each congressman. This was particularly par-ticularly effective with Republicans, who, with their eyes on next fall's congressional elections, are very political-minded. Second, was the failure fail-ure of the farm bloc to support the bill because it feared labor reprisals against the parity and other boodle grabs which the farm bloc is after. The bloc has been counted on to kill the 40-hour week, but the laborites served blunt notice that if the bill was passed, labor would ax the farmers. Result the farm bloc ran for cover and the bill went into the ashcan. WHAT THE DOCTOE ORDERED The other day Harry Hopkins had a visitor in, the person of Aubrey Williams, hiiad of the National Y.outh administration, who has been one of. his closest friends for many years. ' t "Harry," said Williams, looking around the room in the naval hos-pital, hos-pital, "how many bottles of medicine medi-cine have you got there?" "About 18," replied the lend-lease administrator. "About 18 too many," commented the National Youth administrator. "And how many doctors have you got?" Hopkins told him, "Well, Harry, what's the use of your fooling around with all these doctors and all this medicine," said his friend. "You know that the more doctors you have the more this whole thing gets on your nerves. Now there's only one doctor who really knew what ailed you, and that's Andy Rivers out at Mayo's in Rochester. Why don't you have Dr. Rivers come East and get you fixed up?" . , Harry Hopkins acted on his old friend's advice, sent for Dr. Rivers, and now is out of the hospital. He says be has forgotten about medicine and doctors, and feels better bet-ter than be has in months. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, Dr. Rivers has told him that without any question he can recover entirely. NEW G.O.P. CIMIRMAN? It's very shush-shush, but in certain cer-tain Inner Republican circles there have been secret pow-wows on replacing re-placing Rep. Joe Martin a national chairman. The hard-working little Bay Stater wanted to quit last year, but party chiefs decided that the wisest course would be to persuade Martin to stay for the sake of harmony. Now some of the strongest advocates advo-cates of his retention are after his scalp. The hostile fire is from two sources. One is from Mid-West leaders, sour on Martin, (1) for his failure to give them recognition in national headquarters; (2) for his secret financial wooing of Pennsylvania oil millionaire Joseph Pew and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania steel millionaire Ernest Weir. In the farm belt the two big-money contributors are political dynamite and the Mid-West G.O.P. chiefs can't Understand why Martin is palling around with them. So they feel the time has come for one of their group to be named either national chair man or executive director. FRENCH PROBLEM When you get them out of official earshot exiled members of the old French cabinet now in Washington, are very suspicious of what the Vichy government is doing in Mar- unique and Guadeloupe. Guadeloupe is a less publicized French island near Martinique, and certain coded messages have been Intercepted indicating pro-German activities on both Islands. 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