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Show to look up to AErff. ? tf ( American star of U.e hope, notnaihe dying ? u to .tar continues r &U, In uhine- (OU 52. VOL. 3 No. Na40l )217 KEITH BLDG. Was 4648 wt V AfJ.A 'a v-Vo r y , ten by a divine promise. Its government shall not perish while the world stands. Waves of sin and rebellion may hurt, but never destroy. OTAh.rMDAY,JAN. 26. 1940 oniet t Salt Like City. Utah, under the Act of March Published Weekly by C. N. Lund 1, ig7f $1.50 PER YEAR TORIES WANT THE POOR EXTINGUISHED NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE rvvKli Congress Defense EDITORIALS Tears Budget Apart: Fund May Be Raised Other Items Are Slashed But leaguered Finland. So had the President for his recommendation of a $5aO0O,OO0 loan through the Export-Impor- t Ifutilotion bank was strictly for Ma stows month of argument would purposes. However, since centre that ipocired the Finns wanted money for mat Franklin Booievelt his 11.800,-iidefenM budget for 1041, but tlons only, their cause seemed loit - drootle d Still arguing for continuation of A pries would bo (1) in all other item and (2) tho reciprocal trade act the admin- CONGRESS: wil m istration sent Undersecretary jtaat la the f45.00a000.000 national Commerce ways and means committee. Defense of the act itself completed, tho state department next turned its guns on flic senate's plan to seek ratification power over all trade nd for a of Edward Noble and Assistant Secretary of State Henry F. Grady to testify before the house aen-n4M limit In both bouao and four out of five committeemen bp( one eye on the puna strings. teIht ether wa cocked carefully gw eonatltuent back homo, econ- who tremor concerned about even In an than barrel, pork any dtettai year. 0m warning came from Budget Dimeter Harold D. Smith, who told train-te- g eD federal agenciea to atart treaties. C The senate foreign relations committee agreed to survey the ennnaller diet next year. tire field of U. relations, including proposed EUROPE: The Belligerents Britains war consisted of (1) a factory explosion; (2) reported railroad sabotage plot; (3) a fiery defense in commons of Prime Minister Chamberlain's action ousting War Minister Leslie and (4) the slaying of Britain's first German on tho western front France's war featured (1) expulsion from tho chamber of deputies WOODRING AND STARK n of all Communists; (2) Tier'll win; others will lot. news of a "plot to aid Hitler, and (2) a verbal battle with Berlin, He threatened to bo "plenty tough where France was accused of backan requei ti for deficiency appropriatinion. Another came from house app- ing down on Its promise not to committeemen who terfere with German expansion in ropriations threatened to cut a proposed eastern Europe. It was not so quiet for the Finns. $,000,000 term tenancy fund from fht igricuHure department' budget For five successive days Russian But actions spoke louder than planes defied temperatures ranging Horo-Belish- a, pro-Stali- down to SI degrees below zero, bombing'"' Helsingfors, 'Hango and other cities mercilessly. Though they might be poor soldiers, the flueiti: ' Out from the appropriations committee came a badly mutilated independent offices bill, usually the eitch-a- ll Ihr pork barrel item. It a $94,492,168 below tho President's budget ettimate. Gone were all had for the national resources board and the office of Cut drastically were item fen tho executive office end the maritime commission. Not did the house backslid on its appropriation committee; next day, having shouted down $22,000,000 In requests, it passed the biQ almost exactly as reported by gov-repo- rt. the army and navy m getting better treatment Harold D. Stark, chief of uvil operations, told tho house vl committee that he hoped to cnpleU a $2,276,000,000 building Pnpim by 1945. Acroia the street rttaiy of War Harry Woodring Wd the house military committee about deficiencies in critical ord- Fondest congressional hope, f to raise tho extra obvi-Jft- SWEDISH VOLUNTEER Nom it it your duty . . o $460,-t- or taxes. election-yea- r But stffl pro-r- suggested not by tho Pretl-B- t Georgia's Rep. Carl vinson. H this carries, no economies stop the national debt short of but by present limit. Also In congress: Mourned was the fate that befell senior statesman, Idahos Sen. William E. Borah, wale house and senate office build- kept an ear cocked for news, 5 m,n who had served the senate lay close to death in his ? par apartment, "VC cerebral hemorrhage ,f a fan. vie--r foL President Jack Garner, means car-,jproposal, barked military loan to bo- - TT opposition usually th to any f. trend Row WR-Th- the ttind it blotting partly to the ank. cur-h- n VJ11 committea probe, a most of the nation Or revision of tho Wagner labor Score (of those who had an Per cent tax revision; i"11 fur Fepeal; 29 per cent change. Meanwhile the house Gal-show- 11 5 shout to ask for money. MMERCE of and metals to tha U. S. exports in JJL"onlh largest In almost 10 years, in i,itVPoitPned for April was a, OK cotton h hips Febru-tn- i Britains b,rter fireement with '' l?1cr which American i. cxchnnged for British rub- n Brllnln needs her hv other purpolcf Phdi lag 10 L down 00 Homcatic silk mBlnnin an unvary- 'mount of raw silk for export 1940 Census Most Comprehensive Ever Made Since the First Survey feeble-minde- L (B) is correct. Shlsuoka, Japan. L (A) is correct John Cudahy. He was rushed to Brussels becciisc at thcnowMazI crisis. (5m KUtOPKJ 1 True. 4. (A) is correct. (Jones end Long ltd tho election, but no Candidato had a majority of all votes cast; therefor a run-o- a la necessary.) (A) Is correct (Tha stock market queried M00 people, learning to Its amazement that M.I per cent believed grain was handled there, 1.1 per cent said live stock, and tho other 17 per cent stocks and bonds.) It would rise to be his equals or superiors. Hia vile words are spoken for profit and not for human welfare. They were spoken for that class of people who, rather than carry relief burdens and pay the necessary taxes, would be glad to see all the poor and miserable and unfortunate herded into concentration camps and cruelly put to death. If we were given the money that ia being sent abroad, the money that ia being spent for war and the money wasted by the rich, we know that we could go among the downtrodden sharecroppers, the people described in The Grapes of Wrath, and all the poor and dispossessed, and literally rehabilitate their starve a bodies, restore their souls, change their ugliness and roughness into beauty.their ignorance into enlightenment. From their dormant minds we could draw talent, even genius, that might give the world new Lincolns and Dickens and Burns-Wcould prove that these people are worth saving economically; that they are real pay dirt, even more so chan the ricifancl smart' ones with whom he hobnobs. Let Mr. Mencken set to studying and learning what made them aa they are. ) e ask him, through Edwin Markham, Who made them into the terrible ehapesthey are? Who made them dead to rapture and despair? Who blasted their hopes? Who blew out the light within their brains? How shall it be with those who betrayed and defamed them in that day when they Bhall reply to God? I DISASTERS: Turkey Again Last December at least 30,000 died when earthquakes and floods hit north central Turkey. About tho same time 1,500 more died in tha flooded western plains. Lata January brought (till more tragedy to a nation whose international diplomatic woes are legion. A second major earthquake killed 50 and inured 160 more in the Nigde district, 200 miles southwest of the first quake "t re a.' Luckily, such Mows cushioned by French-Britis- h friendship. Available to the Ankara government was some $340,000,000 in loans and credits, Turkey's "price for keeping file strategic Dardanelles open to allied warships. (Tbit loan, to ba repaid partly through British imports of Turkish tobacco, prompted in gouawnent to ban import! of V. & tobacco. Mourning a found at tha newt, Ai thtmielvn deprived overnight of an export market running between $60flQ0f 000 end VOfiOOfiOO a yeerj e . A Re POLITICS: Call to Duty "I realise ichat it meant to ba o Russians proved themselves persist- candidate for the Republican nomino-lio- n Sails sector, ent In the for Pruidentwhot it meant in kvd work, in Mcnicc. Forty thousand of them staged a m ponMibility, Yet it it a call to duty no citizen cm new drive, only to be routed. ignore. My answer ia yes. P'11, did Frank Gannett, RochesThe Neutrals tots his hat Now tho world kiumt what it if to ter. N. Y., puMiaher, cluttered with bo a Finn. Now it It your duty to thorn into a ring already ti asewss to boa Swede. Uaka up Tafts, Bridges, and Deweys. All he mind how. Join tha SwediiA Vti had waited for was a bid. and that your nicer Army. ITitk Finland far came from waden!" the Young This advertisement In a Stockholm Republican Rusto answer Club of Innewspaper was one sias order that Scandinavia stop diana. UnJ. less he gains lending aid to Finland. Richard foreign ministremendous Sandler, ter, demanded that his nation send Aaland few observtroops to defend the Finnish islands. ers axpact GerCandidate Though both the allies and from Gannett to many tried to remain aloof spat, they make much this Scandinavian-Ruiiia- n showing ware undoubtedly being drawn into of One reason was tha continued nationally. hia cansniping at each others iron wa ship- But does Sweden. of out didacy ments coming While tension grew here, It less- presage a 02 Republican New York ened In Netherlands and Belgium, fight for aim by wanted had vote, convention which only a tew days earUer District Attorney Thom- ordered complete mobilisation In Manhattans tear id a Nazi invasion. But there a E. Dewey. another protpecUve Meanwhile was still a chance that Germany waa given his camera and Russia would try to confound candidate L. Wilkie, president Wendell their foe and hostile neutral alike test:Commonwealth ft Southern tho both at of e blow lightning-likwith At New York 400 . ale. Lowlands and Scandinavia. him. Said Dr. applauded executive Balkans Italy, watching over tho warn- Paul Nyitrom, president of the Limlike a mother hen, heard a Store auocta-tiofor war ited Price Variety ing from Romo to bo ready We could expect great imtho fence, momen-- : "at any moment" Still on renewed provement with gathering n Due countered Britain's wc had a man running for if turn Italians wooing with a warning that President like our ditingulhed should not bo too greatly impressed Mr. Wilkie. neat, interof by "recent demonstration Said Mr. Wilkie: Nothing. national sympathy. Franklin Rooevelt was meanp tor a third while gaining strength PepPEOPLE: term. Floridas Sen. Claude 14 delegate atate'i his promised per Confessions the Preiidcnt or any North Carolinas would support although they choice, hi (At Washington, man of Rep. Robert L. Doughlon regarded would go to the convention without and From Ohio his advanced age (78) official instruction. Denounced ha would retire next it Democratic that word cember $1 when hi current term alto be In the Roosevelt My private ends. Explunution: their favorite on. Sen. Vic if comp attention.' BoU bushiCk badly needs Neville Donuhey. toiled to dcvclop. nationC In London Prime Minister and Republican Democratic to Chamberlain told common that War al committees were loon tor meet, wo a their Minister Leslie and placei time naming dismissed because he wa "to nominating convention. strength, it n: Hore-Bcliah- Bruekorta Washington Digest Certainly It would be mere sensible, and maybe mere Christian te herd them Into concentration camps and there open up en them with bombs and artillery. Their average Intelligence Is little superior to that of an asylum d. for the They are completely useless, no good. Their domestic morals art but little totally superior te alley cats. This country can never ba wholly civilized and never more than half safe until they are get rid of altogether. These words were spoken by a genuine Tory and they are the moat infamous insult ever spoken against a people. They set the author apart so a falsifier and betrayer of hia fellow humans who, were it not for the system which he speaks for, dcle-wou- ld a measure crlticte-hieffi.?.ni!d,an fiovemment fur lAlvv'n hnndlinf of the war. '"eroit, 7, ckcd hy commercial Poncae government has . in. th AoeorAiaf te Fraak WUsaa, dUracter at the tha anneal Mrih rate ia cken, former editor of Mercury, The article was published in the Baltimore 8un and later in American Guardian. Read this condensed statement and then do some thinking. far-nor- th remains the $800,000,000 "" (originally $1,300,000,000) naval 5' neer-do-we- ll tacking force of 8,000 men. Meanwhile the Caribbean sea buzzed as marines, troop and some 20 war-hi- p of tha Atlantic squadron staged a mock war. national detense without "Wing - From San Francisco south to Santa Barbara, troops awaited an attempt by the navy to land an at- Ad-mi- nl a N. LUND, By , At Isst! The truth the whole truth, in til its starkneo io out in bold print as to just how the Tories feel- in regard to that part of the population which they designate as the ill, the poor, the decrepit, the needy aged, the and the idle, with special emphaaia on those in the South. A pillar of the system which has made them what they are, haa spoken and made himself the voice of all those Toriea who look at life and humanity only in terma of profit. He ie H. L Men- DEFENSE: Mock Warfare the committee. Meanwhile b embargoes against Japan, after the abrogated trade pact expires. tj FEWER BABIES ARE BEING BORN H. L. Mencken Advises Killing Em Off or higher it acceptable. which of tho following cltteo did lira kill MO people, destroy 7,999 hemes and leave M.9M homeless: (a) Taranto, Italy; (b) Bhtawka, Japan; (e) Nairobi. Tanganyika; (d) Tegucigalpa, Banduras. t. The new U. 8. ambaaaader to Belgium, formerly minister to Eire, is: (a) John Cndnhy; (b) Joseph Davies; (el Tyrone Fairer; (d) Joseph & Drew. I. Tree or Fsbe: Great Britain, la n note to the PanAmeriean neutrality committee in Rio do Janeiro, rejected the Mtsnllc "safety sons constructed around the Western hemisphere. 4. Which gubernatorial candidate in Louisiana's atomy primary election wan taken to Jail: (a) James A. Noe; (b) Earl K. Long; (e) James H. Morrison; (d) Sam Hobston Jones. f. The New York stock market dealt b: (a) stocks and (b) grain; (e) live stock. L ore expressed fa these colemaa. they ffnrms'g NOTE When oftnl ihM f the news analyst and not xeoeuarily of this newspaper.) -- itol.md hr Waatain Nawwtipar Union . . , Know your nruuT Ono hundrad perect won, deducting 20 point! T as ouestiM you miss. Seen of WORTH READING Christian Spirit In contrast with Mr. Menkens harsh views and those expressed by others of similar opinions. Pres. Roosevelt shows a real Christian spirit toward the class of people mentioned above. In speaking of the biz Columbia Valley reclamation project where there is room for half a million people, he says it should not be thrown open with the first come first served idea, which would secure it for the rich and strong. He would rather open it to 500,000 homeless and penniless and wandering men, women and children known as the Grapes of Wrath people. His sympathies are with them and their kind. In this and in many other respects he is the outstanding Christian statesman of the age. A third term? Yes, if he wants it. Can't Fool Farmers. It has been said in a local editorial that the Utah Farmers do not want government aid. Thin is somewhat unfair to the farmers because of the fact that about the only profit they will make out of their sugar beeta for laat year will come from government payments All of the other part of their pay goes to make profit for others. Better Mind Own Business This from R. M. Brandon: A few million dollars now and millions in Europe does not seem to worthen for Ernest Lindley says six million dollars statesmen. our ry would keep 85, 000 men employed for one year on WPA. On an average of four to a family that would be a great help to down on 340,00 men, women and children. Are we cutting can stand, in orour budget, making moru misery than people for war, loans der to prolong the war in Europe by granting we have Wheeler eaya plenty murder and detraction? Senator to do at home without getting tangled up in foreign wars war-strick- en Is Cooperation the Answer? men claim that Cooperation is the ansMany well informed of today. They eay that the wer to the economic problems is aa essential and most needed form movement Cooperative It is a form of human of organisation in our democracy today. than that of an of rather all, the good relationship, stressing in Cooperation Bhould e.lucate people school individual The Denmark. in as they have Should Read 8t. Paul Before Speaking these wonderfully eloquent Some speakers ehould read before up to speak. Here they are: get they times words several of men and of angels and Though I epedc with the tongues means sympathy.kindness, brothhave not CIIARI I Y (which lam become as sounding brass or a erly love and mercy) tinkling cymbal. Left Us a Good Book. while we were out and left a book on our Some one came in We find U very .resting desk Lincoln and columns from time to time. these in of it and shal. use some (Continued on paw fourl ey. of Uncle Sam by Is a Complete Uncle Sam; It Deals in Facts and We Cannot Have Too Many Facts About Ourselves. Self-Examinati- on By WILUAM BRCCKART WNU Service, National Press Bids-- , Washington, D. CL WASHINGTON. What were you doing flva years aoT And where did you live at that time? What caused you to move, if you did change your reeidcnce? While congress la working itself into a dither of flying arms and legs and heads and heels and while New n Dealera are straining at every in an effort to chow Preei-deBooievelt le the greatest peace advocate in 19 centuries, I want to talk about something that happen only once in 10 yean. I refer to tha decennial census, the counting of noses of Americana and tha gathering of information about them, their Uvea and living upon which the federal government ha launched. A good many folks have been Inclined to regard the census as something about which to joke. There waa, and is, a certain number of ahlrt-butto- nt people who think tha whole thing te illy. It te not Billy: Taking it on a long term basil, considering it from the standpoint of its permanent value, it Is ao much more important than the passing show of political shadow-boxin- g that we can well afford to forget about much of that bunk. The census deals in facts, and surely we cannot have too many facta about ourselves. So, borrowing from the expression of Frank Wilson of the census bureau, let me Insist again that there la new of lasting value in this census and the job of census taking. It Is, accurately stated, a "complete elf examination of Unde Sam by Uncle Sam, end when it te done, we aU wiU know much more about ourselvei, individually and collectively, than we have ever known before. Tha current census te the moat comprehensive of all of tha 16 decennial canvasses that have been made since the first survey in 179a -- of Noeet to Not Ju if Human Noeet Cowifingr ture can be Influenced by man-mad- e rules. It can be said, therefore, that a new set of guide books are on tha way to completion, on the way to being filled in by the records of the people who constitute the United States. There te a thought in Frank Wilson's mind and I believa Mr. Wilson haa a better concept of tha census program end Its ultimate value than any other person I ever have met that our nation ia facing a much more serious problem in the matter of old age than te apparent to moat of us. It comes about tola way: Mr. Wilson pointed out that there are fewer babies being born annually among each one thousand of our population than waa tha case 10 or 20 years ago. The birth rata la declining. At the same time, through the development of medical science, through improved living conditions, through elimination iff hazards, reduction of accident and o forth, the "life span of each of us ie getting longer and longer. People actually are living longer; toe express ion of "living on borrowed time after one 1a 70 years old te meaningless because so many people now live beyond that allotted time. Seemingly Silly Questions Are Really Important At the outset, I asked the questions about what you were doing five years ago and where you lived then. That wee not facetious. Those questions are a part of the regular will forma which toe carry and which you, as a citizen, must answer. There te n good reanose-counte- rs son. I have Just written about birth and life and death. If your Unde Sam knowa something about how firmly you are rooted to a particular farm or town or county or state, he can arrive at conclusions rather remote from the questions. For example, if you are the sen of a farmer and are continuing to farm, it te reasonable to assume that you are n normally happy and reasonably successful farmer. Uncle Sam will not have to worry about that kind. He does have to worry, aa a matter of national policy, however, when the census taker reports ao many from one place who have moved to the city, especially if those who moved have no training in any field of industry. Thera arises, quickly, toe question of unemployment Or, this business of moving about may have come from drouth or floods or pestilence. Matters of health are reflected as well. Continued drouth or continued floods may ruin an area for agricultural purposes. With facte concerning toe condition, somebody tnay be able to suggest other means of utilization of to tend. Actual work in this counting of noses has already started. And when I say counting noses, the term te rather broader than just human noses. For, aa an example, tha first nose counting te directed at enumerating businesses and manufacturing establishments and mines and quarries. Census representatives will visit something like 3,000, 000 business concerns, including about 170.000 manufacturing plants and establishments. These figures, of course, are an approximation. The census will show exactly how many there are, what they did in the way of retailing, dtetributing, shipping, servicing, manufacturing all through the list to tha single gasoline station and the dry cleaning (hop on tha comer. Then, along about April 1, there Information Will Help will be a large army of real nose counters start to work. They will Ao Guide to tho Future visit your house end mine and every I suspect that the current census other one and It te expected they will produce a lot of information that will find at the end of tha month will ba classifiable merely aa Inforthat there are more than 23,00a000 mation. That te, there te bound to dwelling unite where people live end, be a chunk of toe facts and statistics further, it te believed they will hive which will serve no immediate use. counted upwards of 132,000,000 folks That te the way of things done by in tha United States. To do this the government But individuate, job and the other phaaea of count- business and government each will find things of value. Information ing, roughly 128,000 men end women are required. to help ai guide to toe future. We can look beck to the census Retulte Will Show What of 1790 end see where our papulation Progrooo Hag Boon Mado averaged 4J persona per square It seems to me, then, that we can mile iff the then United States end look forward to the reeulte of the we can then see how, in 193a it wee current census as showing what 41.3 persona per square mile. That progress has been made, what hu- la tha average for the nation; one man nature hea done in the way of area will ba very much leu, anIt will other will be very much more, and Simultaneously, changes. how that many theories of what it te vita) for a manufacturer or a government can do or haa done bava wholesaler or a retailer to know failed or have succeeded by re- how many prospective customers vealing Juat how much human na- - there are in a given area. And this Information extends on down the line to baby buggies. The THE DECENNIAL CENSUS stork had been flying into homes at the rate of about 3.000 a day in of A complete the ten years prior to 193a Death, with his scythe, had been taking hia Uncle Sam by Uncle Sam. It toll at the rate of shout 4,000 a day deals in facta, of which we cannot hava too many. from 1920 to 103a What haa hapCarries now of lasting value. pened linceT The census will tell Director Wilson suye the birth us sometime n.-- t toll and it will rate la declining. tell, in addition, whether a great Results may serve as a guide to many factors that influence our Uvea the future. are subjects to he dealt with by poliMay help In salving problems ticians or must remain in tha hands of government. of mother nature . |