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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION . Many Spiders Recreation in California Every community in California of 30 000 or more a population now has a city recreation depart San Jose, the final one to re r"ort made arrangements for STudget to be furnished by city and school departments. Helpful Although most people kill spider, on sight, there are in reality only few species that are to be feared They even have an actual utilitarian value, their webs being employed for cross hairs on telescopic gun and bomb sights, range finders and optical instruments. In defense 0f spiders, it also may be said that for food they prey on insects, many of which are injurious to plants and man. WAR CHIEF SAYS U. S. REQUIRES 11 MILLION MEN TO WHIP AXIS; HOME FRONT MUST BE ADJUSTED Patterson Claims Nazis Have 13 Million Men at Their Command; Jap Also Strong in Pacific Area. By ROBERT P. PATTERSON, Undersecretary of War .. " ! i 'M jA - iiitJf f! i ; aji jr. 7 i ? kr:f-;- " v ,' .f' -- ! v 'J v U ? - V-- i ,.. " j r ": --- ..j.'t ..r ... rt J Questions raised in recent weeks as to whether America shall have the army of 8,200,-00- 0 men which its military leadership has determined to be the minimum with which we can expect to defeat our" enemies have not, it seems to me, given due consideration to military necessity. We are out to win this war. The nation has entrusted the responsibility for this victory to its military leaders. This leadership the joint chiefs of staff of the army and navy, after the most careful analy-sis of our enemies' strength, has decided that we must build an armed force of ap-proximately 11,000,000, which includes an army of 8,200,000 for 1943-4- 4. Our own men have been in contact only with the smallest of the Axis armies a part of its Tunisian force of less than a quarter of a million men. But the striking force of this Dowerful foe has alreadv been American troops land in North Africa. They are the vanguard of a proposed force of 8,200,000 men who will be needed to defeat the Axis, war official says. agriculture to produce the supplies needed by our forces, by our Allies and by our civilian economy. Full account has also been taken of the ability of our rapidly expanding merchant marine to deliver soldiers and supplies overseas. The conclu-sion reached was that it was a hard job, but that it could and must be done. But there are critics of the army program who ask, "Why should we fight? Why not give more supplies to the British, the Chinese and the Russians' and let them fight for us?" The British, with the smallest available manpower and subject to savage aerial attacks, have come nearer than any other of the United felt by our troops. Trie German field armies are assisted by more than one million men in semi-milita- ry organizations, such as the military police, engineers, and supply depots, which in our army are included among service troops. Reliable sources indicate that the combined number of those in the German and Italian armed forces and those directly assisting them runs well over 13 million. It is evi-dent at this point that the superiori-ty of our enemies in the European theater is of ominous proportions. A similar analysis in the Pacific area does not brighten the picture. The Japanese army exceeds by many divisions the forces that the United Nations have been able to equip and place in opposition. Yet the United Nations, and par-ticularly this country, have the po-tential power to overcome this nu-merical superiority. These potenti-alities must be converted to actuali-ty. They must be harnessed and driven toward a single goal, the de-feat of our enemies. In that drive our country, the latest of the ma-jor powers to enter the war, must play the most important part. Army Determines Size After Careful Study of Its Needs Offensive action requires superi-ority in numbers. This is the reason we need an army of 8,200,000 includ-ing officers by the end of this year. and reverses on the battle front, and for more arduous labors and sacri-fices on the home front. Realism must extend from the fox-holes and s on the firing line to the factories and homes of America. When our country is at war, none of us can escape the responsibility of viewing the rou-tine, as well as the emergency du-ties of life, in the light of their bearing upon the final result uncon-ditional surrender by our enemies. This nation has done a magnifi-cent job in production for war. But there is an even heavier task ahead. We will have serious problems be-cause of the increasing drain on our manpower. But similar prob-lems have been solved in England, Russia, Germany and Japan. Non-essential activities are out for the duration and these countries are fully mobilized to a much greater extent than we. On every one rests the equal obligation to give service either in the armed forces or on the home front. Why should we suppose that we can wage war successfully without mobilizing our human re-sources with a thoroughness at least approaching that of our enemies and of our principal allies? Army Requirements Come First; Nation Must Get Into Industry The needs of the armed forces must come first. The problems of turnover and absenteeism must and can be solved. Each of us must work to the utmost of his capability. We must also tackle our farm la-bor problem with vigor. There are F 111 ! I n if i v 7 V i iL - , . i The navy, the marines and the coast guard need 2,600,000 this year. That makes a total of 10,800,000 men and women that must be in the armed forces by the end of this year. This will be less than 8 per cent of our total population. Thirteen and a half per cent of the German popula-tion is in the armed forces. Ten million, eight hundred thou-sand is not a figure pulled out of a hat. It is the requirement deter-mined by those charged with the heavy responsibility of winning this war. General Marshall says that we need so many planes and so many tanks to win the war. Is there any-one in America who would question his judgment? Admiral King says that we need so many escort ships and destroyers to beat the Axis. Is there anyone in America who would question his judgment? The expert views of our military leaders are ac- - cepted on our needs for guns and ships. Why should anyone question their judgment as to the number of men that they need to use these weapons and man these ships? The staffs of the army and the navy under General Marshall and Admiral King, in full possession of the facts, have made the military decision that a force this size is necessary to win the war. Our Comma-nder- in-Chief, the President of the United States, has approved this program. It is America's answer to the Axis. The Axis, I assure you, does not like that answer. In making this decision full ac-count has been taken of the ability of American industry and labor and ROBERT P. PATTERSON Undersecretary of war. Nations to the full-tim- e war employ-ment of every man, woman and child. The Chinese have been he-roically fighting for 5 years. The Russians, by brilliant tactics and with indomitable courage, have killed more Nazis than all the other United Nations combined. We should give tribute to their dead, for they have sacrificed countless lives. But their manpower is not inexhaustible. We're In the War, Too, frnd It Will Be Won the Hard Way This is our war just as much as it is the war of the British, the Rus-- ! sians and the Chinese. We are send-- ; ing supplies to the utmost of our ability to these and the other United Nations. We will continue to do so. But it will be our soldiers and sail-ors, and those of our Allies, that will win the final victory. Elemental truths are often the most difficult to grasp. Throughout all ages people have tried to avoid facing up to the reality that war is grim business; have longed for an easy war; and have hoped that somehow, some way, victory could be gained without risking too much or without experiencing the stark unpleasantness of the conflict. But all the wishing in the world does not change the nature of war and its impact on all peoples engaged in it, whether in the battle lines or at home. The hour for realism has arrived for every American. We must brace ourselves for mounting casualty lists white collar workers in industries who can go back to the farms from which they came. There are victory gardens to be en-couraged. More work can be done by women. Farm machinery can be pooled. Many steps can. be tak-en to increase production on the farms. We cannot solve our manpower problems by whittling down the size of our armed forces. The problem must be tackled at its source. Every one wants to do his or her share to help win the war and must serve where he or she can render the best service. The decision cannot be based upon personal desire. With vast territories and resources at their disposal, the Axis cannot be defeated by a blockade. Victory will come from decisive military ac-tion, backed by an armed force and ability so overwhelmingly superior that the enemy's further action will be futile. In World War I, it was our Ameri-can Expeditionary force of 2,000,000 added to the strength of our Allies, that made the enemy surrender. On November II, 1918, the Allies had 32 fresh divisions in reserve. The Germans only had two. The Allies had a total of 213 divisions. The Germans had 185. The Germans were aware of these figures. Their ability to reason from figures is well known. They decided that they could not win, and they quit. Now, as then, the enemy must be made to realize that they cannot win. Now, as then, we must make them see that we are going to see the job through. Cut Comics Two Madison, Wis., daily news-papers have abolished the.r Sunday comic sections in order to save paper. o Treat Tool Handles Commerically treated handles on shovels, pitchworks; and Shir tools have that blonde look bleached with because they are Numerous othei hydrogen peroxide. either wood products are bleached by spraying the chemical on the veneer to a surface bleach produce or by immersing the veneer to give a bleach that will permit deeper sanding operations. ON THE XSrf? HOME& wyeth spears ATANY an old-tim- e art is being x revived today and the art ol making crazy patch quilts is one that fits into our times. All you need is scraps of silk and odds and ends of embroid-ery thread. The pieces are sewn to a foundation of light weight cot-ton material with a variety of em-broidery stitches. This colorful patchwork may then be used for a new cover for a comforter. Another idea is to cover a worn blanket with it. NOTE Book 7 of the series available to readers shows another crazy patch de-sign and gives directions for more than 20 stitches and combinations of stitches to be used for this work. Book 2 of the series gives directions for 42 other stitches that you will want to use for your quilt. Books are 15 cents each, and requests should be sent direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for each book desired. Name Address .,. OFFICE EQUIPMENT WE BUY AND SELL Office TrmHn, Files. Typewriters. Adding Machines. Saf..' SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE 35 West Broadway. Salt Lake City, Utah GARDEN TRACTOR WANTED Cash for Garden Tractor, write Boyd c Bott. 2496 Olympus Dr., Hoi. 395-- ; s. L. LENSES DUPLICATED THE OPTICAL SHOP 914 Boston Bldg, Salt Lake City Lenses duplicated. Wholesale prices. service. Mail in broken pieces. WANTED BARBERS ARE IN DEMAND. 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VAPORUB'S poultice-and-vap-action loosens phlegm, relieves irri-tation, helps clear upper air pas-sages, thus tends to stop mouth breathing and f invite restful sleep. Try itl V VapoRub U. S. Steel Reports 1942 Prciucticn 28 Per Cent Greater Than World War I Peak United States Steel Corporation's Report for 1942. reporting attam-Se-of a steel ingot tonnage production S per cent greater than in the peak year of World War I, has just been released as "a production story-a- nd a financial a great war effort. Production Vo. S Steel m 1942 ot more than 30,000,000 net tons ot ingot, as well as the manufacture of a steady flow of products entering into thou-sands of items used in prosecuting the war were described by Irving S. Olds, Chairman of the Board of Directors, In his review of the year contained In the Corporation's forty-fir- st annual report. The victory parade of steel ingots was listed as only one of several principal contributions of U. S. Steel to the war effort. These contributions were enu-merated as follows: "First, a record vol- - ume of steel and other materials needed not only for the fabrication of essential war products but also for the creation of new facilities to make such war products has been produced. Second, the technical ability representing many decades of accumulated research and experience has been made available for the requirements of the Government. Third, the construction and operation of vast new facilities for the Govern-ment in connection with the war effort have been undertaken. Fourth, millions of dollars of U. S. Steel's funds have been expended for various faculties contributory to the war effort." A one-pa- condensation of the financial record of the Corporation for the year describes in simple language what disposition was made of the Sl.865.951.692 received by the Corpora-tion from sales of its products and ser-vices during 1942. Employment costs of S783 million in 1942 were 25 greater than for the previous year; 1942 taxes of 5204 million were 21 more than in the preceding year; while dividends to stockholders remained unchanged, " he amount carried forward for future needs of the Corporation was 78 less than in 1941. Among achievements cited is the de-velopment of the airplane landing mat. The serious problem of handling plane landings on nastily built air fields was solved with the war-tim- e invention by Carnegie-Illinoi- s Steel Corporation, a U. S. Steel subsidiary, of a landing mat. consisting of portable interlocking steel sections. It was pronounced the out-standing development of the year in the field of aviation by the Chief of the Army Air Force. As mass production methods were evolved, other companies were licensed to use the process, and thirty smaller manufacturers are now producing these landing mat sections in quantity. The report reveals that in 1942 one subsidiary. Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, completed more destroyers for the Navy Department In shorter building time than any other shipyard in the country. A new ship-yard built by this subsidiary for the Kavy Department began operations five months after ground was broken. A fully equipped shipyard for the produc-tion of the latest type of tank landing craft was constructed and is being operated for the Navy Department by American Bridge Company, another subsidiary. An interesting comparison of the use of U. S. Steel's own resources and of Government funds for the expansion ot emergency facilities undertaken by U. S. Steel from June, 1940. to the end of 1942, shows that the ratio of U. S. Steel's investment to the use of Gov- ernment funds was 65c of its own money to every dollar of Government funds used. This compares with a ratio for all Industry of 27c of private funds to one dollar of Government funds. In this expansion program, U. S. Steel's private investment was $282,000,000, as compared with $436,000,000 of Govern-IE?!?!m-expended, making a total of $718,000,000 expended in the program. Ado. Your Livestock is Starving FOR MINERALS! Feed VITELITE , for Clean, Healthy Animals Means more profit, better productivity, faster reproduction VITELITE ib a mineralized salt in crystals with sufficient quantities of iodine for glandular balance (goitre, etc.) ; phosphorus and bone meal for muscu- - lar development and increased breed- - ing ; calcium for better bone structure sulphur, charcoal and syrup fir clean stomachs (no worms or fluk) ; iron as a blood stimulant and nerve tonic, and salt as a food di?estant. Minerals are held together with molasses. Fed as salt on range or in feed bins. VITELITE contains enough minerals In quantity to increase production as much as 20. And remember minerals are to stock what vitamins are to humans. 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You can help lo provide th depth charge that will sink a Nazi sub and insure more supplies for our fighting forces) Just buy U. S. War Bonds-'-b- them with every single penny you can save. They're a powerful way in which you con make Victory ours And remember, 0. S. War Bonds are the soundest, most productive investment you con make one that pays you back $4 for every $3 at the end of 10 years. BUY WAR BONDS TODAY! Published in cooperation with the Drug, Cosmetic and Allied Industries by Resinol Ointment & Soap For itchinjt ind burninjc of many skin irri-tations, a ik for gentle skin cleansing. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. NEW YORK. When Maj. Gen. W. Crawford talks In earnest, his thin, small mouth twists and the words come out of one cor-ner after the K.eeps(jans,fjas, manner of Crab Rolling to t h e 1 a t e, Men in N. Africa ereat Cohan" The gener-al is in North Africa now, talking in earnest to keep guns and grub and gasoline rolling to the American army there. He commands the Middle East Service of Supply. He reached Africa around the middle of January and had a whole month of ease before work caught up with him. Before that he commanded an armored division at Fort Knox. The chances are that in Africa he has lost weight. For him it would be an easy matter, because he has al-ways been one of our plumper s. In the last war the guys in the trenches used to rib the SCS with pointed mention of soldiers. They talked that way even when the supply trucks ran Boche barrages like ducks diving into a shower of No. 9 shot. Very likely the talk in African fox-hol- is the same and with even less reason, for in these days of fluid fronts the Crawford cargo crews are as likely to find themselves along-side a Mark VI tank as a purely American supply point. In such a dilemma the general instructs the crews to say "Vot iss!" in a loudly deceptive voice if they feel it will help, but above all to get General Crawford is of the army's elite on two counts. He was gradu-ated from West Point. He took the best courses, War Col-lege, Command and General Staff school. He is a New Yorker, 52 years old and was three years out of West Point when we went to war the last time. A captain then, he finished a lieutenant-colone- l. This was fairly close to par for the year and a half course. AMBASSADOR CLARENCE E. toward bond-wear- y Washington from bomb-wear- y Chungking for consultations, should On Way Here Wit h 1?. First-Han- d Tale of need about War-Wear- y China china on the tip of his tongue. Except for a couple of turns in Paris and Australia, he has served all his diplomatic career there, and his career runs back to 1907. Shanghai was his first post. He was deputy consul, after a while spent at stenography in the house of representatives. Then he was consul at Amoy, Tsinan, Mukden, and finally counselor to the legation at Peiping. Washington was his birthplace and he got back now and then, marry-ing a Los Angeles girl on one visit. Maybe her preference turned him to the Paris consulate. The Austra-lian assignment came later. He was our first minister there. But when an ambassador to China was need-ed two years ago he packed up and went back to his old stamping ground. He has been a quiet ambassador. He has a lean, quiet look and a shrewd one too, behind neat spec-tacles. When he smiles a dimple that is practically a sinkhole appears in his right cheek. This is because he smiles so much more with the right side of his sharp mouth. The effect, though this description may make it seem otherwise, isn't bad at all. T N RUSSIA a Bolshevist by any other name is just as Red. Thus Trotsky was really somebody else. So is Stalin. And Vycheslav Mikai- - lovich Molo-Lik- e Trotsky and tof(, whose Stalin, Molotoff department Altered Moniker of 'oreign af-fairs consid-ers Admiral Standley's brusque speech, was born Scriabin. Molotoff means hammer, plainly a better way to call a man who set out at 15 years of age to break the old Imperial government. Molotoff's official biography says he was born the son of a shop assistant. That was 53 years ago. By 1905 he was a professed Marxist, and a year later joined a bolshevik group. Ten years later he was on the Bolshevik Central Committee. Meanwhile he and Stalin had met, and started their newspa-per, Pravda, and Molotoff had been arrested or exiled thrice. Both Lenin and Stalin schooled Molotoff, and he likes to tell of this. He likes, too, to boast that hs is an old Bolshevist, an early bird among the revolutionists. In Russia he is called Stalin's chief aide. He is, actually, vice premier as well as commissar of foreign affairs but when the Russians say chief aide, they mean to point to his loyalty to his superior. He is Stalin's Har-ry Hopkins. Molotoff is heavy, but not fat. His hair has grown gray, but his thick mustache is still black. His mouth is strong, confident. His wide fore-head tops off a face more than ordi-narily good looking. His wife is handsome, too, and notable as the one-tim- e commissar who gave rouge, fingernail polish, cosmetics and all the associated doodads back to the women of Russia. Concealed Blood In the 18th century, Lord Nelson is credited with having the sides of and some-times decks, gun carriages the guns on a warship paint-ed red The theory was that blood stains from men killed or wounded in action would blend in color with the paint and the morale of gun-ners who replaced the dead or in-jured would be less likely to be af-fected. Kangaroo Has Kin Here The kangaroo of Australia is a near relative of our native opossum. Suffering and Achievement Men regard suffering as an evil thing, which the world might well be rid of. This idea is typical of a good deal of modern sentimental-ism- , which ignores the history of Buffering and its part in human achievement. Dr. A. P. Shepherd. Hacking Too High There are a thousand hacking at the branches of Evil to one who is lacking at the root. Thoreau. Started Express Service by Carrying Packages Some expressmen in Boston have ; rying packages in A. & observed the 105th anniversary of express service by paying a visit to Mount Auburn cemetery, Cam-bridge, Mass., where the impressive William F. Harnden memorial still stands on Central avenue. This monument was erected by the express companies of the coun-try in 1866 as a tribute to the en-terprise of Harnden, the "original expressman," who started the ex-press service in March, 1839, by car- - a carpetbag and traveling by rail and steamer be-tween New York and Boston. Frail of body but determined, Harnden, only 26 years old, organ-ized the first express company and saw its traffic, scope of operations and competitors grow to formidable proportions, by the time of his death in his 36th year. History indicates that Harnden succeeded in extending his service abroad and eventually brought in over 100,000 immigrants to this coun-try, to provide labor so greatly need- ed during the era of railroad in the 'fifties and 'sixties ?7nnna S6rVice maintains offices and employs 57,000 peo- ple. In 1941. over 172 million ship- ments were handled. Some 15,000 motor trucks are used for the collection and delivery of shipments. All told, the express serv 2C82,4056?rateS D 8 t0tal mUeage 01 NYLON NOW USED FOR SURGICArSTn:cl:ilNGS Millions of feet of nylon mono- depots throughout the world. filament that formerly went into ten-nis racquet strings and fishing lead-ers will replace silk this year in surgical sutures for the army, navy, civilians, and lend-leas- e shipments. Stronger and less irritating to the body's tissues, nylon has proved a superior replacement for silk in su-tures. It will not dry out and rot like the natural fiber, and, there-fore, quantities are being made for storage at United Nations' medical Surgeons use as small a suture as is consistent with the strength required, for the smaller the ma-terial the less the chance of irrita-tion. Nylon has greater tensile strength than silk and can be pro-duced in controlled, uniform diame-ters. Nylon monofilaments are solid strands, in contrast to silk sutures which are made by twisting togeth- er a number of threads. Skin can grow into the interstices of the braid causing irritation and other comp when the sutures are re moved Smooth, solid nylon pre- cludes this possibility. It is particu- larly good for heavy wounds, where a stay suture" is required. The ny- lon sutures are from infected Germs tissue are not ab- sorbed and cannot travel through the suture as they sometimes Hn Minerals in Body The human body contains calcium, 1.6 per cent; phosphorus, 0.9 per cent; potassium, 0.4 per cent; sodi-um, 0.3 per cent; chlorine, 0.3 per cent; sulphur, 0.2 per cent; magne-sium, 0.05 per cent; and iron, 0.004 per cent; plus traces of iodine, flu-orine, silica, manganese, and others. |