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Show The Herald-Journ- 7 al Friday, February Herald-Journa- The Drafted 15, 19 3IDEGLANCES l published every week day afternoon by the Cache Val ley Newspaper Co., 75 West Center Street, Logan, Utah Telephone all departments 50. k delivered by carrier 75 cents a The Herald-Journmonth; three months, $2.25; six months, $4 50 one vear $9.00. By mail outside ot Cache Valley same prices as above. By mail in Cache Valley 75 cents a month three months $2.00; six months. $3 75; one year, $7 00 Entered as second-clas- s natter in the' post office at Logan, Utah, under the act of congress. March 4 i s?& "Proclaim Liberty through all the land." Uhertv Bell will not assume financial Hd-Journreomsihility for anv which may appear In advertisements published in its columns. I, those Instanees where the paper is at fault. It will reprint that of the advertisement in which the typographical mistake occurs. al MISCELLANY "It's a strange tiling to me," observes Ross Byron m Your Lite magazine, "that m all the literature I have read about pet sotiaiity and the artous sect eta of peison-ality- , I do not remember nine basing read about the real basic secret of larvumlity, pap ...,i ity aiul happiness. 1 lo you want to know vshit it is Minply kindimss. al liberty alone, not truth alone, but truth and liber Liberty with Truth, shall yet enlighten the world Not ty unprepared yEARE a congressional committee has been devoting a lot of of this countrys unproparednoss nine to an investigation Harbor. Pearl That is all well and good. Hut it jtthe time of to suggest that there is a more urgent need rftms pertinent to the matter of this countrys for Serious attention Are labor's demands in the puli- l.e intei est? Says one expert "Tins question should be answered in the emplialu ailn mative, lor at least two le.e The public Intel est soils. be mass unemployment eliminated from tun eionouu, system. One cause of unemployment is low wuges. Unless woik eis of the countiy maintain high living standards, it will be impossible to ptodute and sell the gun billions ot dollais of goods and services which must be distiibuled if we uiv rally to employ our resources. Second, public intei est requite also Unit woikets oiiluin enoign I m time to permit them und their ami lambics lo live in liealth decent y." 1 unpre-paredne- February, 1946. We are unprepared for war or peace. We are unprepared our natural part as a leader among nations. Our ;o play fully foreign policy is neither very clear nor very forceful. Our demobilization of the world's greatest army and navy of determination or serious intention to back betrays a lack it exists today. as p that policy We are unprepared for orderly progress toward the goal full jf production and full employment. The greatest industin rial country in the world is a country dotted with idle ories whose idleness is reflected in empty showrooms empty store shelves. The most prosperous country in and the world cannot house thousands of the veterans of the world's greatest army who are pouring in from the recent battle fa,y fronts. clash of economic philosophies within the Presidents circle has added turbulence to the existing turmoil nable to offer and over price control. The President himself, enforce workable solutions, has been ignored, insulted and A Washington nner self-interest- with those of our Allies, are Russia, at least, know what Jtey want and where they are going and are pursuing their course in spite of wartime disruptions. They may be going in the wrong direction, but we seem incapable at the moment of turning them toward the way of world peace and general Our sufferings, compared insignificant. Yet Britain and betterment. united and prepared for war. We must unite and prepreservation. That it require any less community of effort. We pare now for world leadership and world victory wall be no less difficult, nor will ADMISSION OF DEFEAT? An interesting and revealing item appears in a recent OPA mimeographed pamphlet called OPA Consumer News. The item, titled Facts of the Week, states: In 1919 industrial workers earned on the average 47 cents an hour. Today the average is 99 cents an hour. Average prices in the stores are about the same as they were 26 years ago. A natural first reaction might be that OPA thinks industrial workers are too demanding today. A second obviously the one OPA is hoping for might be that OPA had done a wonderful job in holding down store prices while wages were soaring and prosperity increasing. But about then it might be recalled that 1919 was a year of postwar inflation, and that the store prices of 26 years ago were inflated prices. In fact, they are the same prices which OPA used to threaten us with if OPA controls were removed. Now OPA boasts at least it reads like boasting that store prices in 1919 and 1916 are about the same. Is that holding the line? Or has the agency changed its line of argu- ment and, with an effort at subtlety, begun to admit defeat? A mwr rrevioss FmI Papal Nuncio horizontal VERTICAL Pictured papal nuncio to Yugoslavia 13 Reluctant Crowded 2 Exaggerate 3 Places 4 Before 5 Postscript (ab.) 1,7 14 Oil Allot H Bellow H Waste 15 6 7 allowance Written form of Mistress 31 Redder 33 Stray 30 3 Editor (ab.) Earth goddess Atop 3 General issue (ab.) Portals 3 31 African L mountain 33 Bom 3J Female sheep Smooth Oblivion JOJVench 37 article "Niton (ab.) 3 3 Morindin dye Half an em Indian Stable J3 Obese 3 Spar fj Throb 3 Estimate He is 1 a eEnte Natural fats Demigod Rabbit1 8 Not (prefix) 9 Decay 10 Italian coins 11 Power 12 White earth 17 Bone 18 Three-toe- d 21 22 25 27 30 32 35 36 38 Is indignant Short cloak Verdant Stair post Unit Profit Straightens Pass on Radiator -- 45 Actual being 47 Raps 48 From (prefix) 49 Exclamation 50 Remove 51 53 Wither Article 55 Rodent 57 59 Correct (ab.) Plural suffix WASHINGTON A congression- al committee has now spent most of the winter probing every scrap of evidence regarding Pearl Har-- , j j bor. Out of this confusing mass of data, two major points emerge; 1. Congress can pass no legislation which can keep adm rals and generals on the alert. That depends solely on them. But congress can pass legislation preventing the the airplane the oil industry, dealers panies, and the scrap-iro- n from building up the power of .an enemy and making it doubly bard to achieve victory. So far the Pearl Harbor committee has kept absolutely mum about certain airplane and oil companies which with the paradoxical consent of the U. S. army and navy sold Japan many of the weapons she turned against the army and navy at Pearl Harbor. Z. Noth'ng has emerged from the Pearl Harbor findings, not hit'ier-l- o puhl.shed in the Roberts report or in this column, which changes the basic responsbility of the commanders who were on the spot. Unfortunately, congressional at times was so d that - vitally important tacts well known to navy tiien were ignored or glossed over. .Thus the public, which reads' in a hurry, probably has forgotten 'such bas e and amazing instances of neglect as: the (act that warship crews hail been permitted shore leave, that water-tghatches were open, that guns were unmanned, that no ammunition was readily available; that some guns were even dismantled. FBI WARNING Largely forgotten also is the fact that J. Edgar Hoovers picked up a message between Tokyo and the Jap Honolulu consulate on Dec. 6 which the FBI considered a sure sign of war, but which both General Short and Admiral Kimmel completely ignored. d before congress, the two commanders complained that Washington didn't warn them during the last few hours before the attack; but no one of the committee bothered to ask why they were so concerned about a Washington warning when they paid no attention to one received from the FBI on the spot. Most significant fact which the Pearl Harbor probers glossed over, however, was torpedo nets. Had this very elementary precaution of lives oeen taken, hundreds would have been saved and the backbone of the Pacific fleet would not have been left lying on the muddy bottom at Pearl Harbor. Ninety-fiv- e per cent of the damage inflicted by the Japs was from underwater torpedoes. Only two U. S. vessels were seriously damaged by bombs dropped from Jap planes the West Virginia and the Tennessee. The others were all sunk or crippled by torpedoes. Even the West Virginia and the Tennessee actually were not put out of commission by aerial bombs One heavy bomb struck the West Virginia amidships, but the deck armor was only dented, and, nad ,t not been for a torpedo, the ship The Tennessee received a bomb hit on its No. 3 turret but was not put out of action and continued the attack. fighting all during Even the Arizona, supposedly sunk by a bomb which fell down the funnel, was more likely finished off by a series of torpedo hits In her forward magazine. For battleships are so built that even a bomb that explodes the boilers will not detonate the magazine. NAVIS ALIBI Some admirals have tried to alibi that torpedo nets by claiming would not have prevented the damage. They forget, however, their v slip-sho- ht ft Cross-examine- Merry-Go-Roun- d 1 Pearl Harbor probe fails to; change original blame; omission of torpedo nets was most j serious Pearl Harbor error;, war lengthened by this neg lect. own secret plans in 1943 to run a battleship of the Maryland class into Jap home waters1 during the night, hanging torpedo nets around it and then using the ship as a base to bombard a Japanese airfield. The admirals were fully convinced at that time that such a ship would not suffer severe damage if protected by torpedo nets. This was forgotten, however, during Pearl Harbor testimony. Also forgotten was the fact that the Japs were the first to use aerial torpedoes in shallow water. The navy knew this long before Pearl Harbor. They also knew how the British had crippled the Italian fleet with aerial torpedoes at Taranto. Yet, despite the Nov. 27 warning from Washington that war could be expected at any time, and despite the Dec. 6 warning given by the FBI on the spot at Honolulu, : Dec. 7 caught the United States fleet absolutely naked as far as torpedo nets were concerned. If this one elementary safety precaution had been taker., any minor damage inflicted by aerial bombs could have been repaired in a few weeks and a major part of the fleet could have sailed to help U. S. troops on Bataan and to check Japans swift southward drive which almost took Australia and India. It would be difficult to estimate how many American, Brit'sh and Dutch lives would have been saved had these simple safety precautions been taken at Pearl Harbor, or how many months would have been lopped off the total length, of the war. Despite all the confusing testimony placed before congress, and Washdespite certain ington failures to send final warnings to Honolulu, the above error remains the most important cause of the tragedy at Pearl Harbor. PENNSYLVANIA NEPOTISM First Pennsylvania congressman to announce that he would seek renomination and election was last-minu- COLLEGE-COMMUNIT- Representative Wilson D. Gillette, Republican, of Towanda, Pa. No wonder! Congressman Gillette enjoys a neat little piece of nepotism whereby he keeps his niece on the congressional pay-ro- ll despite the fact that she has been a day student at George Washington university. Marilomse Fisher, the young lady in question, receives a salary of $2,100 paid by the taxpayer in return for receiving a very fine education. CAPITAL CHAFF If General F. senhower wants to know why veterans are leaving the army with hatred in their hearts aawMrhy.more pre not he might try a surprise Visit to Co. 2? in Fort Dix, N. J. . . . UNRRA has selected two top men to head its difficult new missions to the Ukraine and White Russia. They are Marshall MacDuffie of the state department and Richard Scandrett, New York lawyer who crossed swords with Ed Pauley when he was a member of the Pauley reparations mission to Moscow. . . Senator Hugh Mitchell of Washington has introduced a bill whereby the nations huge shipyards would be used to prepare sections for new homes for veterans. Mitchell also light proposes - using aluminum, metals, and plastics to speed up housing. (Copyright, 1946, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) BARBS j suits NfA SfHVICF 1 INC m RIG U 6 PAT OFF farms! A or you play; iiiotl, liu h.tromutiu sirvts tin pl.U 0 Another expert says that about labors demands: "At present, the normal Lie of the customer is seriously affected by stiikes, and the public interest is spet concerned because these strikes halt production oi essential goods and services; they infringe on the civil libert.es of who the unorganized workers must work to live; they penalize the organized worker who is himself a consumer; and they inflation whenever encourage called to force payment of higher wages without a compensating inciease in productivity. ."For pH these reasons, it seems pbvious that the present demands of labor are definitely against the pub.ic interest." Take which viewpoint BY "Don'l worry, were not tgoinjj to move (lie first nice weallier we yet, your father always likes to price a few e fact- harangued by various groups. We do not look very convincing today in the role of of the worlds greatest nation. Fortunately, there is no immediate likelihood of war. But what would happen if there should be sudden international crisis which demanded swift and trong action ? Could we meet it, or should we suffer a sort of spiritual Pearl Harbor? We are unprepared because we lack national unity. It may not te unusual or even unhealthy that Americans disagree cn every vital issue today the United Nations Organization, atomic energy control, Russia, loans to Britain, administration policies, congressional action, industrial disputes, and more. But it is discouraging to contemplate the indifference toward these issues that seems to possess so many of us. 1-i- CO' Hok.cvrr on li 'So They Say it will show ill Leadership can only be assumed if and when we cease to spend our time and effort on the mechan- ics of organization. Club women must have the courage to stand up and be counted on the vital problems facing us, rather than worrying about the minor issues lace 'involved. What you wear in your heart, you Mra. VVard B. Gorman, president .ea. in your lace, New York Staee Federation of If your me is unselfish, if for Women's Clubs. others you live, For not wnat you get, but how A man is a man for all his Inmuch you can give; juries, and he wants to be included If you live close to God in His In completely normal activities. infinite grace Florence Stanton, Red Cross You uiiii t ituve lo teil it - it shows worker. hospital recreation . in your face! Author Unknown to Me. The great role of political and moral leadership which was almost play is as useless v.'ithin our grasp seems to be as woiK, Ueciuies Olio slipping from us, unless wiser and Vve should obseiver. enter into braver political pilots rise from Snmes w.th everything we have, among us to point the way. n- veil such iniid tonus oi recreation Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean of as reading or going to a movie Barnard College. ur play may be an important psy- chological help. War marriages are more likely to be failures than others beUtah contributed 44,000 men and cause both man and wife during 305 women to the armed services their separation have developed halween - .November. .1, IgiQ,. and exaggerated, expectations- June 30, 19455, according to stati- other that are unrealistic and too stics released by the war depart- often end in disappointment and ment. disillusionment By June 30, a total of 9000 Utahns Dr. Walter K Stokes of Wash- -, had been released from service. lngton, marriage counselot. join lau The nose, the deceit that you bear in your heait ill not stay inside where it first got a start; Foi o..iew and blood are a thin veil ... Half-hearte- d you. d Incidentally, government should decide what is a fair profit for business, according to a survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. n per cent of the public believe the govecmivent should de- citle what is a fair profit for big business. Only 27 per cent think each- businessman ghould decide for himself. j Fi.ty-seve- - You don't have to Jell how you live You each day; don't have to say if you work , oL-aa- nh young or Old, fts 8asy to Cook Slecttically That good time that Is coming, now that the war is over, looks as if it will be a good time coming. A tip to girls who want to keep their youth: dont introduce him to anybody. Tests have shown the heart to be one of the toughest of human muscles which does not, d however, account for people. hard-hearte- Nice to. think about, anyway e one of tho.e for rent epidemics that made landlords love children. old-tim- THEATRE Y Presents ROSE FRANKEN'S uftn Jissintnrm Directed by FLOYD MORGAN Thiirs. Fri. Sat. Mon. Tues. 14 15 16 18 19 Wed. Feb. 20 1946 8:20 p. m. COLLEGE LITTLE THEATRE New Electric Ranges simplify the art of good cooking. 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