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Show "Hrr'iiitinnn i TKe 10 i Herald-Journ- Vtdn sil.iv. al iM ir(h 19, The Gal He 1917 Wants to Impress Thoughts The Herald Journal -- i . every week i iy afternoon by the Cache Valiev Newspaper Co, 7r) West fVnler Strep Logan. Ctah Telephone all department 50. The HeraWJ-Jonal leh et ed by tamer $100 a month, By mail outside of Ca he Valley same pro e as above By mail in Cache Valley three months $2 50, si months, $5 00, one year Entered as se ond- - iss mutter m the post office at Logan, Itah. under the at t of (onres, March 4, 1879. Proclaim Liberfj through all the laud." Liberty Bell. and Published Things ui ScrWt The will not assume finam lal responsibility Herald-Journ- FROM DAMASCUS LETTER for any rrors which may appear in advertisements published in its columns in those instances where the paper is at fault, it will reprint that part of the advertisement in which the typographical mistake occurs Today, we are pleased to pass onto you folks another letter from Alice Bracken, daughter of Prof and Mrs. A. F. Bracken, who are currently living in Damascus, Syria. A couple weeks ago. Miss Bracken wrote about their trip across the Atlantic, through the Mditer- Anncan. to Beirut. She noted that Prof. Bracken is serving an agn- cultural assignment to Syria, and that, their experiences in the Middle East may be interestin their friends in Cache valley. Not liberty f.lone, not truth alone, but truth and liberty, Liberty with Truth, shall yet enlighten the world. . BEHIND THE GREEK CRISIS Not Pe.ul Harbor has an international crisis burst American public a1-- unexpectedly as the present Creek emergency I he explosive elements had been at hand for some time. hen nature had been made known piecemeal and off the iecoid bv government officials to correspon" dents tor what me known as done stories upon RAY NELSON BY siiicc the 1 in it. 'V : ; The njilitary subcommittees have heard testimony from representatives of the various branches of national defense. Since they have been meeting in closed session their line of thinking is a secret. But certain events have taken place since the hearings began which are bound to alter that thinking. One of the most important of these events is the drastic r of WASHINGTON. cut in Britain's armed forces. Both the army and the RAF the 51 Republican Senators attend'are being reduced more than half the army from 2,950,000 ed the very session to 1,210.000 in 1947-4.in 1956-4the RAF from 760.000 of the Republican conference, to officers and men in 1946-4to 370,000 in 1947-4hear Foreign Relations Chairman the Lebanon mountains- - famin Biblical history for supply- Solomons temple with timber. oiled road follows ridges, cuts across canyons, and after making many hairpin turns, reaches the We were amazed at the wav ( rest man, oyer the period 'of centuries, Ha'- changed the surface of this landscape. g Exery little nook that has a of soil is terraced and plant-a- d to olixes, grapes or wheat. It that such is almost inconceivable stetp slopes are cultivated, planted and harvested. Small villages do; tiie whole mountainside. o After descending over a road equally as tortuous, we came to the Bkaa valley, where Noah is reported to have settled with his lloeks and herds. Smooth and it hep between the Ledenberg and Taft emerged from velvet-likbanon and Again the White House the other day after a conference with President another climb. Fall wheat here is grown almost exclusively, exTruman. As they walked through where a precious spring or cept the corridors, Vandenberg asked stream supports a mountain vilTaft whether the Ohio Senator nad nourishes grapes and and lage transportation back to the hill. other fruit. Finally, a trickle ot Taft replied that he hadnt. water grows into a mountain "How about riding back with torrent, reminding one very me? invited Vandenberg. much of Logan river. It is the d ri.I'-Taft. "Delighted, "river of gold . . . better Note: Vandenberg v ..0 hasnt had Barada, than all the waters of Israel." never a government car beiur This stream, for over 3000 years, refers to it as his own, but has literally made Damascus and He recalls, perhaps, t.u e Ghouta. great joy which the gentleman o from Tennessee took in riding Finally, after this breath-takin- g round in the big black limousine ride, our driver came to a stop. It formerly reserved for Vice was the Orient Palace hotel, our dent Wallace and Vice President temporary home. I felt a terriNow as Vandenberg, ble emptiness which food did not president pro tern of the Senate, aUhf We were at the end of our has inherited the. limousine. and 8000 miles from home journey Navy Irks Small Business in a strange land. You can write it down that the house armed services committee Damascus, capital of Syria, is a will crack down on the Navys new city of approximately 300, 0C0 peothe procurement system, whereby ple, but occupies less area than brass hats are squeezing out small Salt Lake is reported to be dealers and jobbers, by buying the oldest City. It in the world, and city supplies for ship service stores is a place of unique interest and direct from manufacturers. color. But first, its history in Hearings conducted by Rep. Jack skeleton outline, as a background. Anderson of California last week When Damascus was first settled revealed that hundreds of dealers no one knows. But at the beginand jobbers who normally do busiit was likely a , Village supness with ship stores are being ex- ning, ported by crops grown on the plain, cluded from the Navy market. in time, an urban center. The hearings also revealed that becoming The first mention made of DamasNavy procurement officials have cus in the Bible was when Abra- - ' Washington Forty-fou- I ; 8; 8. Minding Molofovs Manners ' The visiting foreign ministers in Moscow lost no time in giving their host, Mr. Molotov, a lesson in etiquette. They made it forcefully clear to him that they thought it extremely impolite to talk about China behind her back. It takes three months to heat underground oil shale to a temperature sufficient to cjusc the oil to vaporize so it can be recovered. Abou' 1,000.000 pounds of linseed in fhe U. S., about hall imported. oil are used annually Delaware laxvs require that food and drink be carried by aviators flying over large bodies of water. Anvir Congressman to Prviop Puirlt JHSS! ijgjT HORIZONTAL VERTICAL 1,7 Pictured U.S. 1 Dally Congressman 2 At this i from Ohio 3 Unclosed 14 Meal 4 Demented 15 German 5 While aeroplane i. 16 Angered 17 Medley 19 Relative ti (obs.) i i! 20 Marsh t ! 21 Foundation timbers 23 Cats cry Halt Prison 8 Bacchanals cry 6 7 9 Nickel 10 11 12 13 18 (symbol) Kansas (ab.) Entry OI Nicaea 24 Musical note Long pin 25 Near Chinese town 26 Exclamation .21 Arrangements 28 Compass pointy Ppi.sian nilel, 29 Community 31 i ; spirit Overtop River island Regret 33 34 35 Outmoded 37 Flower 40 Area measure 41 Type measure 42 Presiding elde; (ab.) French reticle 44 Land rrcel ii 25 Idahos capital 45 Tilts 27 He is in the 47 One time . of Repre 48 Meadows sentatives 49 Virginia (ab.) 30 Owns 50 English school 32 Damp 51 Arabian city 35 Roof of mouth 53 Expire 55 Pronoun 36 Scents 57 Prepos.tion 38 Puffed up 59 Italian river 39 Nook Arthur Vandenberg explain the situation. So anxious were they to prevent leaks from the secret session that even the senate employees, ordinarily on hand for GOP conferences, were locked out of the room. Senator Vandenberg opened the blue ribbon session with a long, able explanation of the Near East emergency, making it plain that he feels the President must be supported in his request for 400 million dollars to block Communism in Greek and Turkey. Vandenberg was subjected to a relentless barrage of questions from GOP colleagues and handled Greek-Turkis- h ; retary Byrnes last would happen, yet we a word of it. "If that is true, denberg, "I certainly October this were not told replied Vanwas not told of it. No attempt was made to lay down a formal GOP position: the was purely informatixe GOP-Truman- all-o- e, s. , Presi-meeti- The difference between the Three-doll- dinner?, ar I two-doll- dinner and ar dont 6neer, sir, with the. Monda. In the wake of the war human need in our city is trie iter lean ever before. Prime, juvenile quartei than 1 mark New ter fr other take g SO 111 Nebuch-adnezze- r, sia, in 540 B. C. He was succeeded by Xerxes and Darius, Alexander the Great next took Damascus stripping .the city of great trea- sures. After changing hands many times, the city came under control of Rome. Part of the wall and a few huge stone columns still remain from the era of prosperity which followed. It was during this period that St. Paul, upon coming to Damascus fo persecute the Christians, were stricken. We have walked through the street called Straight, and guides will point out the house where the apostle stayed. -- 0- Following this period, a new power was rising in an obscure corner of Arabia, and it was only years after Mohammeds flight from Mecca that his armies were before the gates of Damascus. Under the Moslem Omayyads, the city prospered, but the Abbasid dynasty, influenced by Persia, moved to Bagdad, leaving Damascus to its own resources. Sala-di13 the (ontinml racial animosity and intolerance demand a united movement of all derivative times tills u p w h stuffy transient conga few drops of in each nostril. It quickly reduces conand makes breathing easier in gestion a hurry . . . gives grand relief from snifTty, sneezy, stuffy distress of head colds. Follow directions In the package. SI Wanderer VICKS VATR0'M0L estion-put ol religious force.'ui, Prote- all denominations Thoma.s M. Peteis, chairman Protestant Fund of (heater New York. stants, While a hands-of- should government f huv policy, especially legislation, it should 11 restrictive not adopt a don't-car- e attitude. Nathan P. Feinsinget. former WLB member We cannot afford to have 6v a depressed area in Germany It may dra down the standards of other 000,000 people forming British Foreign Secretary Ernest quartet All r broken gures erds s iumula additio taking It is comers House ginnin the c clcarai dents, registr Tuesdi Fort attend wiring obtain 131, a pared, registi advan report Rep books Bevin. n, whose tomb we have visited, took Damascus in 1169 A.D. o Timurlane, the Mongul, captured Damascus in the 15th century and made a pyramid of 10,000 heads outside the city wall, leaxing the city in waste. Turkish hoards from the east next took Damascus in 1512 A.D. and the city remained in their possession until the end of World War I, when the country was mandated to France. It wa'3 a great day when Syria was granted independence in 1945. As a republic, this country now has the opportunity of becoming one of the strong states of the Arab world. The remarkable thing about threatened certain manufacturers Damascus is that it has suffered, that they must sell direct to the and his committee colleagues will jet existed and flourished, under Navy at factory prices, or their demand that the brass hats cease many changes of Thus, products won't be carried in ship this system which excludes small it may well be calleddynasty. the perennial stores. Congressman Anderson businessmen. city. Res FOR SALE - Income Property excellent confectionery. reel property, the business, equipment, a 3 bedroom apartment. Choice lAn The Logan Center for investment return. Priced for quick ocation, Si. Good big Herschel sale. Bullen Realtor 12 West Center, With Soda and Aikalizera If your nose some-- fiare-- in And Stop Dosing Your Stomach wi"J nesday, camPus brief hi THEY DIGESTIVE TRACT Dont ezpeot to get rea I relief from headache, aour stomach, gas and bad breath by taking soda and other aikalizera if the true cauee of your trouble is constipation. In this ease, your real trouble is not in the stomach at all. Hut in the intestinal tract of your food is digested. And when where the lower part (eta blocked food may fad to digest properly. What you jrant for real relief is something to unblock your lower intestinal tract. Something to clean it out effectively help Nature back oh her feet. artera Fills right now. Take as di(et rected. They gently and effectively unblock veur digestive tract. Tnm permits all 6 of Nature own digestive juices to mi better with your food. V ou get genuine relief from indigestion ao you can feel reu" g good again. our Huy Carters Fill today. I nbloik Intestinal tract for real relief from mdigesUoa. the three-"doll- ham pursued the kings who had taken Lot captive tj Ho hah which SAY was on the left of Damascus." Tigleh Pileser of Assyria overThe contrihut ar which ran all Syria, taking Damascus, mother great can make to hild 1, 1, and the city remained a depend- have faith that to. ,,n rjr ency of this empire for upwards of he will develop as sin i mts him 1000 years. Then followed to. who was in turn over- - Dr. Mary F. Langmuir of Vassar thrown by Cyrus the Great, of PerCollege. UfJBlOGKV Breathe I profess whose bulletin The dinner!" ox-a- ir m-MlC-an at lege. Kai-She- Pouch 58 Thinks 60 Hebrew ,' ascetics By Drew Pearson Senator Vandenberg made statesmanlike presentation of Greek situation at secret GOP meeting: Czar Knutson gets under congressional skins; Republicans enjoy Senator Mckellars car. X 6 Deciphers 52 Among 54 Tidy 55 Despise 56 Cassava Merry-Go-Roun- d . One thing a large bloc of Senators still wants to know is where will the money come from himself well. Sometimes, however, to aid Greece and Turkey later he fell back on this stock answer: Korea, Palestine, India, and perThat's an important question haps other countries in the battle to be considered. If you will let to stop Communism. There'll be will see no end of it, they fear, and they me have it in writing, to it that it is answered during see their hopes or budget balancing our hearings. It is information gone glimmering. which the Senate should have. Tax Czar Knutson Prussian-lik- e Chairman Harold During the entire conference, only two Senators Wayne Morse Knutson has long riled the Dem5-crat- s of Oregon and Ray Baldwin of by his dictatorial control of supConnecticut pledged he House Ways and Means comport for the Presidential recom- mittee, but now he is getting on The majority of Republican nerves. However, it mendations. others indicated by their questions took a Democrat to make Knutson that they have some doubt about yield a minor point the other day. the advisability of U. S. intervenJere Cooper of Tennessee, one tion in Near East politics. In fact, of the sharpest members of the there was a rumbling from the committee made a reference to the GOP Senators when Vandenberg the previous days' testimony by mentioned that in case the loan Secretary of the Treasury Snyder. was not approved by Congress by Knutson doubted the accuracy of March 31, an advance to Greece Cooper's memory, and called upon of 100 million might be made by the committee clerk to give him a the RFC. copy of the transcript of Snyder's China vs. Greece testimony at the previous day's was Much of the questioning hearing. aimed at finding out from VandenAs Knutson started to turn the berg how he could reconcile our pages. Democrat Walter Lynch of proposed interx'ention in the Near New York asked: "May the rest East with administration policy of us have copies of the record. elsewhere in the world Why, ask- Mr Chairman?" ed several Senators, should we be "I have just this one copy,'" re. trying to block Communism in the plied Knutson, obviously annoyed efwe have, in Near East when "Can't the rest of us get copies' k he Lynch persisted. fect, notified Cluang uncannot count upon our support "All I have is just this one less he broadens his government printers copy," Knutson repeated. to include Chinese Communists? "But I suppose the' speaker has Senator Bourke Hickcnlooper of one, too -- or does he share youis?" Iowa, chairman of the vital conTestily. Knutson snarled at the gressional comrmttbe on atomic clerk, oh give him a copy- - if wo energy, voiced the thoughts of don t give him one hes going to some colleagues when he remarkpass out ed: "I'm sure of one thing. counterus of I feel, and I think many ed Lynch, who is about 40 years here feel, a great fear for the younger than the aging Knutson, future. If we agree to provide "Im not likely to pass out before these moneys, it seems to me well the chairman of this committee! have to decide to go all the way. Note -- One thing both RepubliThe only further step is war. cans and Democratic members cf Senators William Jenner or In- the Ways and Means committee is diana and Bob Taft of Ohio were that Knutson will not permit any highly critical of the administrn tax bill to be considered except ins lions handling of the matter. own. Rpublican members know This is a momentous step we that his 20 per cent straight reare asked to take, said Jenner. duction has no chame of passing force officer "Inform 1 and would like to introduce a modian tion that has come to me indicates fied bill that has. that the administration has known Senator McKellars Car since last October that the British Republican Senate Leaders Van- would have to pull out of these areas yet we are not told about 11 it until early March." I understand," Taft added, "that Foreign Minister Bevin told Sec 43 51 ter is tov-erin- The mam reason for this seems to be the continuing manpower shortage. The Attlee government apparently had the choice of releasing gien from tha armed forces or resuming the unpopular wartime practice of drafting labor. Choice of the former meant bringing many men home from abroad. Thus, there will shortly be an end to British military as well as financial support in Greece. At the same time estimates of Russias military budget and strength are available. Considering fluctuations of the ruble's value and other factors, military expenditures are figured at about SI 5,000,000.000 as against perhaps $10,000,000,000 by the. United States. And it is understood that indirect military expenditures are not customarily included in the Russian military budget, as they aie in ours. Furthermore. Russias standing army, though sharply reduced. is still expected to number about 3,000.000 this year, or more than ' the combined American and British armies, according to present plans for fiscal 1948. It must be clear to our congressional spenders that,' as things stand today, a cut in British military strength approximates a cut in our own. We think it would be well if Congress would make known its understanding of the situation, consistent with security, to who have shown themselves willing to spend money for national defense as well as eager for an economical operation of the government. More di m 60 ing ous ing 1 he The plight of Greece and of Britain affects this country in a numbei of wavs. Not the least importance is its bearing on the national budget and on the military appropriations included 7 j her second letter: A.fter a night's rest, we left Beirut and immediately began climbHcre It was known that Mr. Truman and congressional leaders were conferring secretly. But not until the President canceled his Caribbean cruise did the public realise fully what was up. Between this time and Mr Truman's message to Congress some quick adjustments in thinking had to be made by the legislators and by the public. Pci haps, it might have been better to stait the public explanations cm her and make haste moie slowdy. But sinc it wasn t done, it is necessary to face up to the situation in a hurry. 7 ' ystal Coca - Cola Bolfling Co., Logan, Utah Phone 980 Logan, Utah Sal |