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Show PROGRESS! VK OPINION SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT Listening Posts Set Up by U. S. U. S. Regaining or D live-wi- re "Send me your youth,the pick of your youth, Ill tear the song from their lips The dreams from their boyish minds; I'll drive them out where the cannons roar, and rend them limb from limb And whan I am througi you may have them back Or all that is left of them, Then give them a grave and a monument To hide their broken lives." - act barred them from European ports, they have found new work on other trade routes. Today the American flag has gained new ascendency on the to South America, the Orient sea-lan- es old-tim- C-- 75 East 2nd. South rine engineers to drafting the plana for merchant ships to serve the double needs of American trade and American defense. It embarked on a building program to provide a fleet of 900 new American vessels in 10 years. When Europe's war clouds loomed last summer, the commission speeded up he program. Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing 40 Years In Salt Lake We can serve you better than ever : : Right Thinking Brings Motor Mechanic Adept, SHOESHOP Good Renulta When yon think of having Jobs at Moderate Prices 414 So. State Street your Shoes Repaired OLD AGE PENSIONS. Three years Membership in the Annuity Benefit Federation qualifies you for a Federal Annuity (pension) of $25.75 per month atfage 65 or older, plus the amount for your per month for the twojof you as long as you both live. If you die first your wife will get SI9.31 a month fas she survives Jyou. Membership fee S3.00 per month.'j one-ha- lf wife-S38.- Write ANNUITY BENEFIT.FEDERATIOn! 150 No. Main, Salt Lake City, care Apt. 71, for Membership Application Blank. - 0 Though Blind 27 Yean DONORA, PA. Clellen McMullen, automobile mechanic, uses hie fingers to "see what is wrong with motors. For McMullen has been blind ever since 1913, when a lime explosion in a steel plant whore he wee working as a mechanic coat him his eye- sight Although he is now an expert ic and has a garage of his own in the rear of Ms home here, McMullen did pot learn the mechanism of a car until after he became blind. Even before the patches were removed from hie eyes he had purchased a second-han- d car and taken it apart That and Mb work on neighbors' cars enabled Mm to gain a detailed knowledge of the working! of automobiles. I see just as much as others," McMullen explains, "except that mine are all mental pictures. Instead ot my eyes, my flngera convey thoughts to my brain. When I raise a hood to look at an engine, what I hear and feel helps me de- termine the trouble and I see it as dearly as anyone. In Mi spare time McMuii-tries to lessen the burdens of other persona. He is a member of the state board of the Pennsylvania Federation of the Blind. m -- At Christmas Jime hA U. S. Monitor Stations For Alaska and Hawaii SAN FRANCISCO. The Federal Communications commission yinT to erect powerful monitoring in Alaska and Hawaii to trace illegal radio communications by foreign agents. V. Ford Greaves, chief inspector of the commissions western area, aid three at the stations would be erected In Alaska and one in Hawaii. He added that under the defense program sites were being sought for 100 monitoring stations at Intervals across the continent. cta-lto- ni SEND BURGOYNE ' CUSTOM MADE GREETING CARDS BRILLIANT AND COLORFUL STOCKS ARE COMPLETE 200-ml- la nowi This Newspaper Office ORDER National News Without Fear or favor WaMngton Digest Farmers Face New Problems As Use of Machines Increases Technological Advances Change life on U. S. Nation Completely Unified in Crisis; Government Bays More Land. Farm-Gree- k ' Pierre-Mlquelo- -- and Africa. Vessels flying Old Glory are twice as important today in the trade of South America as they were before the European war broke out On many a ship, cadets freshly trained by coast guard officers have e taken their posts beside graduate! of the chool, and many a toughened salt has taken on new learning in government schools. At the same time, the navy has signaled its faith in the usefulness of the merchantmen for national defense by calling out seven commercial vessels, same to serve the new "minute-ma- n mechanised units of the marine corps. There are even eigna at a revival at that pride in America'! merchantmen that marked the great days of American sailing ships. One eign is the story being told: Something of a Record. An old Hog islander put out of New York harbor on the run to India. Practically a month later, one of the new C--2 cargo ships left the metropolis on the came route. The two ships returned to their berths in New York within 19 minutes of each other, both loaded to capacity. But the 2 ship carried 1,000 tons more cargo. The World war gave great impetus to the merchant marine of the United States, and the nation built worth of ships. But after the war the tonnage of American hips carrying American goods in foreign trade declined again. In 1036 congress set up the maritime commission, substituting an outright subsidy for the subterfuge of mail contract! which previously had been relied on to offset the difference in costs between American wages and foreign wages. . The Maritime commission set ma- Alfred Sorensen, Progressive JEWELER d Diplomatic lookouts fur tha United States government will be established at Dakar, French West Africa, a "jumping-of- f Euplace tor planes flying from St. rope to South America, and at possesFrench a PierreMiqueton, sion off tha coast of Canada. This was disclosed in a state department announcement of changes, ordered recently in tha foreign service. The announcement said that the consulate at Dakar, which was closed in 1931 as part of an economy drive, would be reopened aa soon as Thomas C. Wasson of Newark could arrive from Vigo, Spain, to taka charge. Likewise, it was said, the consuwhich late at SL Neighbor Frank Penrose has was dosed only last January for lack of business, would be reopened just completed a trip to the as quickly as Maurice Pasquet of Eeetern cities of America. He New York reached there from Dairen, Manchuria, where he haa been wae accompanied by hi daughvice consul. ter. They visited some distingLink to Hemisphere Defense. relatives there. uished Dakar is the nearest point on the African coast to South America. J. R. Williams of 1872 Lake Planes of the French transatlantic air service, now inoperative, nor- St. tsjgood enough to send us mally hop off there. copies of Signs of the Times, "SL Pierr is a possible bywhieh we profit. Thanks. subject for action by the American Of one thing One issue says: the agreements under republics reached recently at Havana. Theae we may be absolutely sure, and provided for establishment of pro- that is Rome's passionate devisional administrations in any forProeign possession! in this hemisphere sire for the extinction of which were threatened with a testantism. change of sovereignty. Sumner Welle, undersecretary of MECHANIC LOSES EYE state, ha said that if France beClair Olsen, son-i- n law of the came a Fascist dependency of Germany in any foreign possessions editor, had aud accident last which were in this hemisphere, it which coat him loss of the would create an emergency in this week under action hemisphere requiring right eye and aent him to the the Havana agreements. hospital for a couple of weeks. Effects at German Conquest. He wae working as a mechanic The reopening of consulate at SL into at theBlair Motor Co. A tool fits Dakar and a pattern which has been develop- he wae using broke and puncting ever since the German! invaded ured hie eyeball. Denmark. Late in April, this government established a consulate in Iceland, which haa since taken unto its own Amerleaa Way Reel government, for the duration of the "We have found by experience German occupation of Denmark, Jut American Institutions serve our the prerogatives concerning Iceland better than those of any which ordinarily are exercised by jurpose ther country. We not only want the Danish king. o safeguard our freedom, but we In May, the state department sent .Iso want security and abundance colDanish to a a consul Greenland, f the good things of life. We are ony in tha North Atlantic and a posold, however, by defeatists that we sible stepping stone to the Amer:annot have both. We must, they icas for any power seeking to. atay, choose between freedom and tack this country by air. lecurity. They insist we must givs reAnother consulate haa been jp one in order to gain the other. opened recently at Martinique, a Let us not surrender to any such French island in the Caribbean, sotmsel of despair"where trouble haa been threatening over a cargo of American-mad- e planes aboard the French aircraft WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON. The ipirlt of the American clipper ships e streamlined, diesel-driveipirlt U riding the high aeai again. Officials of the marl time commie-aio- s n cite theae eigne of a American merchant fleet to match the old tradition! when New world sailing vessels ruled, the trade routes: " Forty-thre- e spanking new American cargo ships, designed for economical speed end safety,' are riding the wavea today. Before years end, another 29 wlU join them. New American cargo ships are eliding down the ways at tha rata of one a week. Shipbuilder! are hammering and riveting today at more than twice as many new hulls as they had under way last year. Tha latest luxury liner to bid for the glamorous trade of the Mauretania! and Queen Marys is the newly launched S. S. America, flying tha American flag. Ships Find New Routes. Although 110 American vessels were benched when the neutrality n England has more of the blood of Israel in'the veins of her people than any other nation. Her throne traces back to the throne of King David. She is a covenant nation and divine promises have been made to her. She has established law and order based on what justice she understood, over the widest area in all history. She has spread parliamentary government over the earth. She halted Napoleons mad march.with help, of course. With her industrial revolution she became the mechanising infuence in world civilisation and added a great deal of good to the lot of every person on the globe. Her literary pages are so glorious they outshine all other nations except Greeee. We know her faults, but come the world against he(, yet shall England stand." O.K. Mrs. Sadye Herron, one of officera of Town-enthe elub No.l.and a right good Neighbor to this paper, has renewed with right good will and we are glad to have her on the list. May alie live long to enjoy a good paper. E. II. Williama has found hia way to the office through a messenger who brought in some native silver and got hia name on the beet eubieription list in the world. We hardiy know him but hia act proven him to be a very good man . new-bor- SHOE REPAIRING of Interest Great Days Predicted for To Watch French Holdings In Atlantic for Moves Big Cargo Fleet Now By Germany. Riding the Waves. ; THINK Some Items Pierre-Miquel- By BAUKHAGE (fUleasad be Western Nmrapaper Dnka.1 Whirs nextT With tha frost on the pumpkin, fodder in the shock, the world settling down to a hard winter and a long war, thoae at ua who aren't in the flret draft or Juat elected to office have a chance to look two waya from Christmas. The industrial tall la about to wag the agricultural dog again the exabout pert tell ue, surplus labor la wMch to be syphoned off the farm la fine for the man who has too many mouths to feed and too few acres to divide up, but not so good for the farmer who needs a few extra hands. However,, if you do turn around and look back 39 years Just to take your mind off present trouMee you can see some lntereat-in- g eights which have Just been set up in sharp perspective by the committee at the department of agriculture. In that short span for e man or a mule, 39 yean, 10.000,000 mule and hones and thousands of men have been pushed off the farm by tha machine. And, according to tha prognosticators in Washington, a mnui and a half more mule and horses will be replaced by tractor in the next 10 years, and more than B, 000, 000 acres of land now used to raise feed for work stock will be put to other usee. intgr-burea- Thii 1 Juat one of the tem. that the former can tab! 4urtaf tha long winter even! Uk many other good things chlnery can be too much ofTi thing. Alexander Pope's atiU stands: Be not the first by whom the is tried Nor yet the last to lay the aside. J Creek People Wholly United The war came close to me a la the other day when 1 stepped on(athe soil of another belligerent. It wss shortly after the Italians had crosied the border from Albania, end the Greeks .had met this sew invasion from the west as they met the Persian invasion from the tut 490 years before. I sy I stepped on foreign son because toe embassies and lep. tiona of a foreign power are cow sldered a part of the territory of that power are located. no matter where they The house which Is i peaceful piece of Greece looks over Sheridan circle on Massachusetts avenue in the capital It is really Juat a Mg private residence made Farmer Has Long into a legation where the minister, a cheerful little man with a long Utilized Maehinee Cimoo Diamantopoulos, fivst We've been bearing a lot about name, and carries on the business of Ms tha especialmachine, versus man country. ly since the smash of 1920 that made As I sat in the attractive cubbunemployment the big issue, and yhole that is Ms study, pouring over 1940 when smash of the since again a map of the country he knows so the Nazis with their tanks and mo- well I had a strange feeling Ac went through torized equipment with their artistic etchings of walla loam. France like a plow through classic beauty seemed to fade away But the farmer had been getting and I could see those tortuous passes machine conscious long before that of tha ancient Find us mountains. little tha sines Especially n artillery were strutrades tractor appeared on the the t, the ggling through field, replacing the cumbersome fierce Greek mountaineers wifi earlier models. their kilts and tufted shoes oo so Along with the tractor came lot plumed BersagUeri equally more "technological developments" side, the Evzonea mountain fighters aa fierce including not only farm machinery toe other. I could see the attack ta like the combine end the to blinding Mixzard, the clash cs but other scientific advances such roadway hardly aids as testing end breeding and feeding toe narrow email motor lorries Is for enough consersoil of animals and plants, By Lottie M. Milliou men and nudes then and pass, othvation, disease prevention and into the bottomless Some here the men are csHiogt er thinga. TMi technology has hurt plunging down aa well ae helped. Besides the thou- abyss. Calling the boyi to fight! The minister looked up. Greet sands of men who have lost their Somewhere their hearts are aching never been ai united as it fe haa factoIn jobs on farms as well as ho said. Because of die world's sad p&ghL today, ries, prices have been affected and When the Penian hordes esmsto whole social life on the farm tha Somewhere they say its morning. Marathon it was because their rukr baa changed. adhated toe democratic spirit which b But somewhere.-.- . I think its night! scientific "It is not that these to his on vance! ere to be blamed for the feared would spread Somewhere the ikies are laden lave states. difficulties which have arisen, the With steel bads flying by night History repeats. Washington experts say, but "the I I arise from the inSomewhere thecannous are roaring. troubles, if any, equality at adjustments and reSpreading destruction with might, sponses in agriculture and industry to such advances. Somewhere they say its morning Just what the advantages and disBut somewhere I think its night advantages are that lie ahead la " book, told in detan in a Somewhere die clouds are rolling by the government and printed O'er the oceans wild with fright called "Technology on the Farm. One thing that interested me parSomewhere the dead are lying in this interesting book, ticularly In the depthi way out of .sight aside from its excellent and detailed information, was an editorial opinSomewhere mother is praying ion it expressed on the way the us And wondering through the night of machines has changed forming If somewhefe her boy is dying for a living to forming for cash. Theres a difference.. In this awful, bloody fight Of course when you have to buy a lot uf machinery you need hard Somewhere they say its morning money but there are disadvantages But somewhere itsblackest night! in limply raising products with the one purpose of turning then into Jack-of-a- ll Mule-draw- t. carrier Bearn. British warships have been reported maintaining a watch to see that the carrier did not leave Martinique. Still another consulate wee established on July 23 at Georgetown. British Guiana, in South America. A consular agent was already stationed in neighboring Dutch Guiana. Fort Douglas, Historic Fort, Loses Infantry CITY. When the infantry leaves Salt Lake City's Mstoric Fort Douglas for a new assignment in the South, a military occvpation begun in bitterness and bloodshed will have SALT LAKE Thirty-eight- h ! ended. Although the fort is to be utilized as an air base, with an expected 1,900 men to be quartered there, no more Infantry troops will be quartered there. The fort was founded in the early days of Salt Lake City, and against the wishes of the Mormon pioneer a. The encroachment of United States troops on the then etate of Deseret was interpreted as an act of virtual warfare. Far several years the city existed in what amounted to a state of siege, and it was not until tha end iff the Civil war that the pioneer colony-act- ing on tha orders of President Brigham Young made its peace with the soldiery. NIGHT corn-pick- for Xmas Rat Catchers Stay Home Why not buya Book ofBeau-tifWe While Britain la at War Poeffta forChristmasT-- ul LONDON. To tha list of seemingly queer "reserved occupants male ballet dancers and window-cleanehave already been listed now la added two more ratcatchers and film make-u- p artists. Bat catching is a profession handed down from father to son and ratcatchers offer you poems by CHRISTIE LUND COLES in her Booki LEGACY, for 75c. postpaid Order it for Christmas for your sweetheart, sister.motherlaugh ter or friend. Poems as sweet are necessary, particularly in the and inspiring as a mothers city ot London. love, and as pure and tender as a trusting maidens prayer, Bride Made Stepsister Some have Of Groom at Wedding Utah's Sarahcalled the autho Teasdale. One INDEPENDENCE, KAN. Nettle writer has named her "The Loren Clark and Stephen E. Jr. were married in a cere- Mormon Sappho." Order today mony that also made them stepsisProgressive Opinion Keith Bldg. ter and stepbrother. rs y Mrs. Agnes Bertha Clark, mother of Nettie Lorene, became the bride of Stephens father at the wedding, performed by the Rev. Charles Hood. Navajo Indians Request Films of European War Organizatn News TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS Townsend Club No. 1 meets every Tues. eve at 168 So.W T. OLD AGlfPENSION Utah State Old Age Pension GALLUP, N. M. The progretslvo-nea- s and ambition of the modern Group meets weekly Tuesday Indian was exemplified when members of the Navajo reservation hero 2.30 p. m. Chapman Library Branch corner 6th South and 8h placed a surprising request with reservation officials. west. Wednesday 7.30 City A band of the Navajoa asked that the Indian agency supply them with Hall Branch City and Co .Bldg news reels of the war. er 224-pa- ge Boy Poetry Kens-worth- snow-drif- Room 106. Thursday 2pm Salt Lake City Branch Post Office Place. at 41 Increased Investment Reduce Security First, It reduces security. If you own food you need never starve in a panic. Then there is health: A family with a low income and plenty of food growing right on tha place la more likely to get a continuously healthful diet than one which haa to buy what it eats. Raising oni's own food helps divide up responsibility for the family welfare because young children and old folke can tend a garden or feed the chickens. If the eggs and vegetables and milk are purchased, tha children! interests are removed from tha Interests of their parents and older brothers and lister. Furthermore, a child who helps rail its own food also gets what a city child doesn't get a chance to learn through doing. Another disadvantage at forming for money only, with the greeter use of machines, is that it make It harder to own a form. The money goes into perishable things instead of into tha aoHd title to lend. Tha raise your FARM MACHINERY Life on American forma Is being changed by technological advances, Baukhage reports. He finds that the trend toward grow' lag products primarily for sale Instead at home consumption relies many new problems. The Greek ambassador in Washington told Baukhage that Me people are now more united than ever. As a part of the defense program, tha war department is purchasing great tracts of land, ho a |