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Show V L .. For PfoblbliWor rS .ui. . C. Aunea Create Abundant Lite Why not? and Poverty. Why not? Ul Wukll(tM tha r 21T 48. yOL 4 No. !( afcaaii DATID KEITH BLDG. DIAL 4 7641 WAH. FKlim.DEC 27 1940 htndu WORLD WDE NEWS PROGRESSIVE Serving Time of 1940 in Review ' o. g, LVUD nS& VS01 Nations Fall Before Conquering Forces as U. S. Arms. fljne By opinion CHURCHMEN ARE CHANGING VIEWS k coming; I The better day is nearing;! We can hoe 016 ?ld orlf tu750il 1? strife aU about thi m come to our notice h,h cbJjinen of Britain have come betterment and human fo,r gJL rif earth that they publicly demand hi Ah?eh!liC?v,e afud shameful inequality of wealth Sf S3?bjL! ?attiie rfaonrcea of the earth must be b! humamty; that every child must i to get all the education the PportIty schoda can give. That is the glad news sent forththat on the New the Year about to dawn. Now let every church U boldly and make the same demands stidTto it?16 and Events Pass PUBLISHED BY C. editorials V ROGER SHAW VhIwb Hmnpapar Union.) Of the many significant events in the year, gMKKd by ed the sudden and generallunexpected collapse of liby was eral France perhaps the 1940, landing disaster. Other were happenings significant of Mr. Roose-- I the velt to a third term as president of the United States, and the triumph of Churchill over Chamberlain in British imperial circles. Another phase, not to be overlooked by any manner or means, was the surprising success of the 1940 campaign against the British isles, and the comparative lack of success in the matter of German air raids, the destruction of Coventry The Germans divided Franco into ed: Newfoundland, Bermuda, Bahanotwithstanding. Still Another two porticos, occumas, Jamaica, Antigua, St Lucia, upset was the silly double col- pied by German troops, and a third Trinidad, end British Gulans in Independent" and directly under South America. Our army and navy lapse of Italian armies in ehunge has come about in some leading eclesi- . asta thinking. A few hundred years back ministers actually debated in their pulpits whether or not men had working souls. And now they come out for the abolition of the inequality of wealth. Verily, the world does move. THE WAY TO SAVE MONEY Some men are determined to have ownership of light and power even if they have to bring it about by a starting plant of their own as yem McCullough has done. He hn set up a small plant which is furnishing power and light for his own and some other business houses. He is demonatrat- ing that it can be done and that the exploited sums of profit between the actual coat of production and the high charge by the big company can be saved to the people. You bet it can be done, and people could cut their taxes by about 60 per cent if they had municipal ownership. taro-thir- t, and in with savage repercussLibya-Egyp- to I ions at home in the Italic peninsula. Anglo-Germa- Busio-Finnia- two men the of ISM before Finland finally fan up. Xha flnni were virtually disarmed, the Bueeiana tool; over the Nannertieim line; and the eecond city of Finland, Vlborg or Viipurl, uwillai certain highly strategic the Finnish gulf. The Finn, hh war president; Kallio, resigned. Fallowing the Finnish war, the other Area little Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, voted" thero-tchrinto the Soviet Uhlan. Early in April tha Germans pulled Aeir No. 1 surprise of the No. S World war. Like a streak of light-Bithey occupied Copenhagen, the capital of little Denmark, and Oslo; Ac capita of Norway. The Norwegian war was a brick points in ci nt cficir. The port of Narvik, way up north, (banged hands between tha British nd Germans, and waa the scene of bittercft fighting. It was chiefly important because It was an embarkm-t- a point for the Swedish iron, en Nutt for Germany. Tho British wcntual!y evacuated Narvik, in the Sght of the subsequent British debate la Flanders. Norway was fhecd under the local dictatorship d Major Quisling, a German symp- athizer. THE POISON SQUAD SPIKED PRES. WILSONS DREAM A certain writer says, under the pictures of Senators Marshal Petaln, who waa much un- at once set about the fortification Borah, Johnson and others, They spiked President Lodge, der the influence of a politician who of the newly acquired bases. Wilsons Dream. The dream was the League of Nations. always wore white neckties This was not all: it was decided Yes, its true. They did spike his dream, but in doing so swarthy Pierre Level that the U. 8. possess two navies waa annexed directly to Ger- Atlantic and Pacific instead of one. they also spiked, for the time being, the dream of Jesus Christ for peace and good will among men. many, who had lost It in 1918. Bits We had 19 battleships, for example, of the French navy dashed with and 97 cruisers; but ws were to And it seems now that again a Battalion of Death is preparthe British navy twice: once at Oran have no leu than 12 battleships and to spike another dream. ing in Algeria, and a second time at 89 cruisers, before we got done. If England is denied help and goes down the cause of in Africa. West Dakar, Also, the first peacetime conscripwill be set back a thousand years. If she is helped and peace Meanwhile, a minor French gention in American history was passed wins then there is a chance that the English speaking peoeral named Do Gaulle a tank in congress. The new conscripts and some of the democracies will unite in a League to to England, and or- were already being celled up, at ples, command and keep world peace. Every person in the United ganized e group known as Free the clue of 1940. Close to 17,000,000 Frenchmen, to carry on the war by lads, between tiie agu of 21 and 14 States who voted on November 5, voted to give all possible and to England because both candidates, were for this pestering the Germans and the at were registered. Vichy govlegedly At a national defense being just as much for aid to gram, ernment Do Gaulle had the spe- boardWashington, was called into being, includRoosevelt was. They proclaimed this time and time again cial car of Churchill De Gaulle ing military experts,, labor leaders, .and no votei could have been-- in ignorance of what he was planned the anaucceutal Dakar op- and capitalists. Tha nation's war infor. So if you voted at all, you voted for the United active were eration, end his agents dustries were speeded up to top voting to lend of her materials and spirit to the limit to States in various other French colonies. pitch, and congress voted billions that lone power which is standing on the rama in Petaln strengthen Henri Premier French for armaments. The President desurprise move ousted Pierre Level clared that the British would get a parts of the world, holding the torch of civilization and fightfrom hie cabinet and appointed in rough 80 per cent of our produo- - ing for all the righteous hopes for mankind. Alsace-Lorrain- e earth-envelopi- WAS The year 1B40 opened with the continuation of one leaaer war, In addition to tho two major n and SinoJapanese conflict. This wee the b war, which laated a little more then three full moothe. It befan at the end of November, 1920, end ran on little more than the first through ZU8SO-FINNIS- H - fall of fbance People were surprised by Norway, wrly in April. They were even h, expe- pro-rilk- ie Flandin. hie place Pierre-Etienn-e Anxious to know arhat the conquered enemy was doing, Germany immediately sent Ambassador Abets to investigate. BATTLE OF BRITAIN Following the British defeats at Narvik, Norway; Dunkirk, Flanders; and Dakar, West Africa, the British M took an increased hammering from tiie German air force, nicknamed the Goerlng flying circus, or G. F. C. The following ports took special aerial dehigings: Liverpool Bristol London, Southampton, Plymouth, for the Germans wished traffic with to disrupt ths America, which entered these har- tioa. Franklin Roosevelt defeated Wen-- 1 dell Willkie in the 1940 election. Tho total score was roughly 28,000,000' votes, to 22,000,000. The electoral vote, however, was overwhelming. ly for the third term, although an of the naestimated tion's press campaigned for ths Indiana utilities lawyer. Winkle stood for the draft, and for aid to Britain, but he received most of ths isolation vote, and carried the outstates in standingly isolation-minde- d the Midwest. I FOOR RALE time in war the entered Just Italy to look in on tho collapse of Franca, d e la JackaL The Italian troops one French city of 6,000, and another of 9,000 inhabitants. After the battle of Prince, Italy skirmished with England's Mediterranean fleet, while a few Italian fliers appured over London, and the royal sir force bombed Turin and Milan, Italian industrial centers for Fiat and In September, under General the Italian Libyan army invaded the British protectorate ol Egypt and bogged down 80 mile up the oust, in a feeble effort to take the distant Sun canaL Late In October, under Marshal Badoglio's staff work, tho Italians abruptly Invaded little Greece, from the Italian foothold of Albania. Tha inoffensive Greeks turned around, with the grub and counter-attackesuccess. The British navy, air force, and Australian unite came to their aid. The Italians wen chased out of Greece, and the Greeks occupied due to a quarter of Italy's rutlus Albanian colony. Badoglio resigned, as chaos reigned at home. On top of this, the Italian Libyan army took a bad beating in Egypt, and went Into retreat, with the Brit-' ish in pursuit. The royal navy anand Su. the A us trills ns 000 Italians were captured by three-quarte- war-supp- ly bors. up-ture- The Germans also attacked the two English Detroits" of Birmingham and Coventry. The courage of the British proletariat, particularly in the miserable east end of London, was astonishing. Something like 15 per' cent of London was hit, and British industrial production dropped (according to Britiih figure) by M per cent More dangerous than the Goerlng subflying circus were ths German In marines, still known as the closing months of 1940, these IsotU-Fraschln- L Gra-zia- ys b, d ut top-figu- re r? somehow, German went ahead and cap-- u Pari. Premier Reynaud, who I,ken tiie place of Premier made defiant speeches, then France surrendered, and government of General Wrygand, and ONIral Darien, took nc unaided the Vichycontrol These government. ay. Mar-retai- Sence May Soon End Menace at Airporti Controlled the artificial dissipation of greateit enemy of foreshadowed by recent discoveries in the United . according tn Dr. Sverra Pet-- j Norwegian meteorologist. entirely possible,' Dr, Potters- - i ft-- air-JtJ- celling zero conditions of fog may see the pro-Bec,- ng rt-escaped on surprised by Flanders, in fa1940. Suddenly the hammer of Thor came down on the western anviL Manfred von Brauch-fecthe German field command-an- d William Keitel, who ran the Palin war office, sent the field-Paunder-se- a monsters hunted In pecks over the Dutch, Belgian, and against the British merchant conThe British Luxembourg lines. Ilka a sudden voys from America, t, and Whirlwind. Luxembourg, like Den-Nu- ship losses began to did not reiist The famed Churchill said openly that he feared Pdpan forte collapsed (as they had the subs mors than the planes. Ger1114) quite promptly, and the man surface raiders and seaplanes PuAb held out for less than a week. and sinkings beaided the of Holland, German parachute gan to approach the oops, dropped from the ubiquitous hectic April 1917. In the midst of fakers transport, showed a this crisis in December, Lord LoBritish ambassador thian died-t- he military example, British and French troops poured to the United States. 4 into Flanders, to help the Dutch U. S. DEFENSE nd Belgians. The Germans took Following the French collapse of n in four of them, Xing Leopold June, a veritable fever swept over n Belgians suddenly made an the United States. It was called, nniitlce, and thereby saved hie by some, a necdftil awakening. It end retained his tottering was called, by others, a contagious ike British made an epic hysteria. It effected high and low. Njone, Nnt via the Flemish channel port and reached to every comer of the Dunkirk, an operation in which country. God Bless America" Hyal navy and royal air force everywhere, and the local oaod themielvea with glory. They interventionist were (specially loud fa. moot of their motorised and in their link ng of the Britiih. Wiloohanized equipment, but a good liam Allen White, of Kansia. a vet, Mrt of the B. E. F. got back to Eng- - eran liberal jourimliHl. headed an an ntk s extremely influential iwp.iw to Ihe al: It lucecertril. be' iiid the lin seems, in help'1 C " ci'g nerr tiie Ameri" exchange of SO "nver-ug'can deiiroyer. for a rm- - ol Anur lean naval nn.l a- - vvn Nis. s on BritThe ish New world p s. r.siun. 1 by th U S. bin'- - were to lie h drfrnd America by aid i.v haw, on nnd they niclud to revc-- l the runways. He expiamed t: ut one mrthod de- fnj dissolve veloped at the Mursai-huaetl- i Insti-ti.t- e waa shown to be e entirely practical in a large-scalof spraying It cunalsta experiment. liquid solution of sulthe eir with phur chluridi It was found that by spraying 89 a gallons of the solution a minute, slice could be cut out of the fog 90 feet high, 190 feet wide end 1,900 'feet long in the direction of tha prevailing wind. Dr. Petterssen said. of Tichnoii.fc.v PARTITIONED Rumania wu another major victim of the year 1940. It was subdivided between Russia (Bessarabia and the Bukovina); Hungary inurthcm Transylvania); end Bui garie (the couthern Dubrudja). What was left, underwent en Iron Guard revolution, which ousted King Carol and hi friend, MichMagda Lupescu. Carols son, The Gerael, became monarch. man army moved In. to police the Balkan, utablich air bacea, and cuntrol the Rumanian oil well. The new Rumanian puppet government, under dictator John Joined the So did HungaAxia, ry, and the little Slovak puppet itatc which is the rump of whet used to be Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile, Russia was still on the make, end held the balance of power in Eu hed rope something that England held tor centuries. Within a year, PoStalin had acquired a third of three the Finland, of land. parti ol little Baltic states, and a piece hed Rumania, aU of which Russia lost after the first World war. RUMANIA ! j PLAGIARISM The book Seven Years That Changed the World. which is briefly advertised in the personal column on thi page opens with a poem, Die New Day, which was com posed, written and published by C. N. Lund in the early thirties. It was published in his own paper and also in the Deseret News. And now it comes forth as though it were from another. Either the author of the book or the transcriber has plagiarized the production, and we demand an ex lee ation. TOTAR WAR Guest Editorial Hungary, Slovakia and Rumania, the latest nations to joint the Axis powers, did so because they were already defeated by Germanys ideological, politicid and economical penetration into their countries. Knowing their fate would be certain, and knowing, also, that if they did not do as they were told military penetration would take plax forthwith, is war today ; they hurried to sign when Hitler spoke. Such war on four fronts, ideological, political, economical and military. That is total war. into our Germanys ideological and political penetration fairis a now being are we war, which over waying country, of Justice, the checkmated Department by successfully ly no immethe F. B. I. and an aroused populace: So there istwo fronts. diate worry over the outcome of our war on these to successthe necessary preparations are we And making ever carried to fully win a war on the military front if it is toward we are what winning the doing shores. But, our The war being waged against us on our economic front? of our foreign trade hsa had no adverse loss of three-fourtrearmament effect on us at the present time, because our thus created, of slack employment the is up taking 4V.a Mil program ii tf thia nrmrram when the seven hs world on the What about the Hark night that is upon the will? Is there and good eve of the great day of love and peace lest days. the be to these no hope? A thousand signs prove read it declare Astrologers it The Old and New Testaments tel ls it The Pyramid it. great h the stars. Science proclaims commotion of nadistress and E onomic stress, wars, famines, also that a New World tions tell it. But all of these proclaim and happier than the lovelier and is in the making far brighter the earth, out of covers that of the night present order. Out there will come a new the wilderness in which men wander, world has ever seen. Dawn, the most brilliant the MUCH HYPOCRACY IN IT edHearst papers, and some others, min their bragging itorial are using numberless words and the Bill Constitution the for oW their stand the daily mouthings of Rights. It is so overdone that truth is that they are The are becoming disgusting. as they Charters the about so much concerned Nowhere in the aSe profits. their we have Columns of these papers aScSv SSEhowatf. nf (rood will towarcLthe govern-- . Is this true loyalty? ment of the past eight years. M. I1A0 PER YEAR Some Items IN OUR U. S. A. of Personal NATIONAL AFFAIRS Interest Rvitftd by CARTER FIELD Neighbor Carl Fors, living way out at Murray, keeps up the good work of supporting the paper, both in one way and another. His check is always as good as the bank on which it is written. If there were more in the world who pay pay their debts and do their work like he does it would be a much better place to live in. British bombers damage to German tear production greater than reported . . . Irish refuse toaidBntain, emphasize necessity of strict neutrality, (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) WASHINGTON. The two most encouraging phases of the war, from the standpoint of hoping that Britain holds out, are that Germany is suffering a great deal mors' in damage to her .own war production then any dispatches have indicated, end that the Italian fleseo In Greece has postponed a successful attack on Egypt end Sues until next winter. because we know that he British production of airplanes has would do his utmost to drive been badly hurt by the German air the trouble away. He is fair raids, but imports from the United and square and expects others States now amount to slightly above to be the same. He is always 200 fighters and bombers a month. is behind schedule, incidentalfor. the best interests of the This United States production of all ly. people. classes of planes is about 200 a month behind schedule. But the number of combat planes alAttorney Fisher Harris Is now actually above 200 each ways come in about the right month, and this number la being time and he always does the slowly increased each month. right thing. He has been a Sometime in early summer, assumfriend indeed more than once. ing Brltali holds out, there will be sharp Increase in production. A We have had a high regard for him for many years and have little later, depending entirely on rapidly the Detroit group of found him as honest and hon- bow automobile get into actual orable as they make em. We production, people there will be another did not personally know his sharp rice. distinguished father, but we OUTLOOK IS ENCOURAGING knew of all his good work and It is ell a question of whether have always believed that a Britain can take it until quantity great part of his mantle fell begin. Information In diploupon his worthy son. As city matic circles here now is more enon that than at any time attorney Mr. Harris made a couraging good record and is doing the In tiie last six months, end this the bed news about the damp same Bs attorney for the Metto plant in Britain. ge ropolitan Water District. While President Roosevelt talks about our own national defense needing imehalf of our production of practically an tha Attorney Gaylon S. Young planes, actually are being lent to is always saying and doing fighting planes Britain. This is not as something for the paper. He as it sounds. Our army end navy There is no greater want training planes for student says: sendee than that of proclaimfor more then they went fighting the truth. May you live ing planes. This situation la Ukely as lony as you desire to carry to continue for some time to coma. on this noble service. We But while Germanys production have three or four attorneys of plane has been cut down as a on our list and we always result of British bombing, according know where to send our to confidential reports received friends when they need the bare, the Nazi losses have not been heavy in tha lest couple of months. service of an honest lawyer. Had they continued the mass raids they began in early September, to at tout one observer, would have won tho war in a Hans B'.erhold has his name they month. But there la another aide of !ilaced on the list by turning that picture. Had their losses congood book, Seven tinued at the rate of 200 a day, they Years the might have lost their air superiority World. is a compilation before they won the. war. custodian at the City and County building, has not failed us as a Friend and Neighbor for a number of years. Always here on the dot and always boosting. He is the kind of a friend one would like to meet when in trouble, Wm. King, te one-side- ta of all that Change It the prophecies made re-tn- e nations and the SUBMARINE BASE UNLIKELY time in which we live. It anaThe government of Eire is very lyzes these prophesies and Inquisitive about the source of tho shows all the writings on the information of one of the military wall of the world. The book experts who write a newspaper is written by Wing Anderson column, end who recently asserted that he knew" tha Germans were g&rding of Los Angeles. using Galway aa a baas for submarine operations. Ths Dublin government contends Rad Coral Always Prizes that tho Germans eould not possibly It is red coral that if and always use any Irish base without everybee been prized, not aolely for Jewknowing about it In particubody to aa a but charm end buttons, elry lar. officials of ths Irish government accrete not and health bring lafety, around Galrevealed to the ordinary peraon. Aa insist the topography canoe could not is such a that way ancient Gauls rushed headland inwithout to battle, they trusted their safety to enter and leave the harbor a lot of people seeing It end wondertheir swords, itrength and tha whose canoe It was. malic coral imbedded hi their ing Incidentally, It Is represented that ahlehta or helmets. Many Italians and Indians regard coral ai protec- the Irish living In Ireland, or Eire The as they 'insist upon celling It ere tion against tho evil eye. world! red coral comae from the much more friendly to tho British reefs off the Mediterranean eoast of today thin the third and fourth In tha Africa, eaya the Washington Pool generations of Irish living United States. and Is obtained ehlefly by Italians Thera has been no such mellowing of feeling on the part of the AmerWatches esidfauily were smaB ican Irish as has transformed the Mocks end wore worn hung from Irish back In tha home country sines the girdle because they were too Eire has been e eepereta nation. Britain Is Eires best customer, par large for the pocket ticutarly for tho huge supplies of TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS foodstuffs that the Irish produce. BASES TO BRITAIN Townsend Club No. 1 meets DENY In foot the only thorn among tha every Tues. eve at 168 8o.W T. roses, until quite recently, was the foot that the South Irish still wanted to take over Ulster. Lately there OLD AGE PENSION been concern about Winston Utah State Old Age Pension has Churchill's statement Indicating that Group meets weekly Tuesday Britain needed Irish porta for bases. On this, the position of tha Dub2.30 p- m. Chapman Library Is as the ancient law lin Branch corner 6th South and 8b of government ths Medes and Persians. Nothwest. Wednesday 7.30 City ing doing The Irish would fight Hall Branch. City and Co .Bldg anybody," it Is asserted, who attempted to occupy any of their soil Room 200. Thursday 2.p.m. As they see It, the moment Britain Salt Lake City Branch at 41 occupied any of their porta or bases their entire country would be subPost Office Place. They ject to German bombing. point out that they do not have adePERSONALS quate defenses against bombing. Even Britain, which has lota of destoc-kwho saw elderly Anyone fenses. Is not able to prevent the woman fall and injure her- bombers doing a great deal of damself near lunch counter in'S. II. age, they insist, whereas Eire has Kress and Co. Salt Lake store virtually no defenses. There is very keen realization February 15, 1940, please com- to Eire, of their defenselesg condimunicate with Mrs. 8. A Hut- tion against en attack to force by of the belligerent. . All they chinson,. 1375 10th East St., either to could hoptuto 'Salt Ukd resort to guerilla warfare. - '. do.tpey;ihla |