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Show PROGRKSSIVK OPINION Listening Posts U. S. Set Up by of Sailing Spirit SOMETHING TO THINK' Big Cargo Fleet Now Riding the Waves. dieeel-drlve- new-bor- 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 lav 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 her, yet shall England stand." Pierre-Miquelo- sea-lan- es schools. At the same time, the navy has signaled its faith in foe usefulness of the merchantmen for national defense by calling out seven commercial vessels, some to serve foe new minute-man- " mechanized units of There ere even signs of a revival of that pride in America's merchantmen that marked foe greet days of American sailing ships. One sign to foe 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 foe metropolis on the same route. The two ships returned to their berths in New York within 15 minutes of each other, both loaded to caBut the C-- ship carried pacity1,000 tons more cargo. The World war gave greet impetus to the merchant marina of the United State, and foe nation built worth of ships. But after the war the tonnage of Americen hips carrying American goods in foreign trade declined again. In 1838 congress set up foe mart time commission, substituting an outright subsidy for foe subterfuge of mail contracts which previously had been relied on to offset the difference in coats between American wages and foreign wages. The Maritime commission set marine engineers to drafting the plans for merchant ships to serve the double needs, of American trade and American defense. It embarked on building program to provide fleet of 500 new Americen vessels in 10 years. When Europe! war clouds loomed last summer, foe commission speeded up We can serve you better than ever THINK SHOE REPAIRING its : O.K. m Right Thinking Brings Good Results SHOESHOP When yon think of having Jobs at Moderate Prices 414 Sou State Street your Shoes Repaired Motor Mechanic Adept, Though Blind 27 Yean ! OLD AGE PENSIONS. Three years Membership in the Annuity Benefit Federation qualifies you for a Federal Annuity (pension) of S25.75 per the amount for your month atiage 65 or older, plus one-haper month for the two)of you as long as you both live. If you die first your wife will get $19.31 a month Pas lf wife-$38.- 62 she survives you. Membership fee $3.00 per month. Write ANNUITY BENEFIT, 150 No. Main, program. 'j FEDERATION! Salt Lake City, care Apt. 71, for Membership Application Blank. DONORA, PA. dellen McMulieu, automobile mechanic, uses his Angers to see what is wrong with motors. For McMullen has been blind ever since 1813, when a lime explosion in steel plant where he wee working as a mechanic cost him his eye- sight Although he is now an expert ic and has a garage of bis own in the rear of hie home here, McMullen did not learn the mechanism of a car until after he became blind. Even before the patches were removed from hie eye he bad purchased a second-han- d car and taken it apart That and hie work on neighbors cars enabled him to gain eyeball. Denmark. Late in April, this government established a consulate in Iceland, which has since taken unto its own 2 Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing 40 Years In Salt Lake n Pierre-Miquel- the marine corps. 1 poesee-slo- Pierre-Miquelo- ment Progressive JEWELER a French n, Pierre-Miquelo- n, old-tim- Alfred Sorensen, live-wi- re off the coast of Canada. This wee disclosed in a state department announcement of changes, ordered recently in foe foreign service. The announcement said that foe consulate et Dakar, which wee closed in 1831 as part iff an economy drive, would be reopened soon as Thomas C. Wasson of Newark could arrive from Vigo, Spain, to take charge. Likewise, it was said, the consuwhich late at St was closed only last January for lack of business, would be reopened quickly as Maurice Pecquet of New York reached there from Dairen, Manchuria, where he has been vice consul. Link to Hemisphere Defense. Dakar if the nearest point on foe African coast to South America. J. R. Williams of 1872 Lake Planes of foe French transatlantic air service, now inoperative, nor- 3t. isjfood enough to send us mally hop off there. copies of Signs of the Times, n is a possible St by which we profit. Thanks. subject for action by foe American One issue save: "Of one thing foe agreements under republics reached recently at Havant. These we may be absolutely sure, and provided for establishment of pro- that is Romes passionate devisional administrations in any forProeign possessions in this hemisphere sire for the extinction of which were threatened with a testantism. change of sovereignty. MECHANIC LOSES EYE Sumner Welles, undersecretary of ' state, has said that if Francs 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 cost him loss of the would create an emergency in this week which under and action sent him to the right eye hemisphere requiring the Havana agreements. a for couple of weeks. hospital Effects of German Conquest. He was working as a mechanic The reopening of consulates at SL Motor Co. A tool theBlair fits at into and Dakar a pattern which has been develop- he was using broke and puncting ever since foe Germans invaded ured hie - "Send me your youth, the pick of your youth. Ill tear the song from their lips The dreams from their boyish minds; Ill 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." Mra. Sadye Herron, WASHINGTON. Diplomatic lookouts for foe United States government will be established et Dakar, French West Africa, a Jumping-of- f Euplace for planes flying fromat St end South America, to rope the high teas again. Officials of the maritime commit n slog cite these eigne of a American merchant fleet to match the old traditions when New world ailing vessels ruled the trade routea: Forty-thre- e spanking new Americen cargo ships, designed for economical speed end safety, are riding the wave today. Before years end, another 29 will join them. New Americen cargo shlpe are eliding down the ways at the rate of one a week. Shipbuilders ere hammering end riveting today at mors then twice a many new bulla si they had under way last year. The latest luxury liner to bid for the glamorous trade of the Maure-tania- s and Queen Marys is the newly launched S. S. America, flying the American- flag. Shlpe Find New Routes. Although 110 American vessels were benched when the neutrality 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, foe Orient and Africa. Vessels flying Old Glory ere 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 of the graduates school, and many a toughened salt has taken on new learning in govern- American Way Beat government, for foe duration of foe Wa have found by experience of Denmark, German occupation hat American institutions serve our the prerogatives concerning Iceland better than those of any which ordinarily are exercised by nirpose rfoer country. Wo not only want foe Danish king. o safeguard our freedom, but wo In May, foe state department cent Iso went security and abundance colDanish a consul to Greenland, a if the good foinge of life. We ere ony in the North Atlantic and a posold. however, by defeatists that wo sible stepping stone to the Amer;ennot 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 give Another consulate has been reone in order to gain foe other. ip opened recently at Martinique, a Let us not surrender to any such French island in foe Caribbean, iounsel of te. despa where trouble has been threatening as wm aevr tea. American-made iff over a cargo planes aboard the French aircraft carrier Bearn. British warships have been reported maintaining a watch to see that foa carrier did not leave Martinique. Still another consulate was estabBy Lottie M. Milliou lished on July 23 at Georgetown, British Guiana, in South America. Somew here the men are calling! A consular agent was already stationed in neighboring Dutch Guiana. Calling the boys to fight! Somewhere their hearts are aching wstima . NIGHT Fort Douglas, Historic Fort, Lose Infantry SALT LAKE CITY. When foe Thirty-eight- h infantry leaves Salt Lake Citys historic Fort Douglas for a new assignment in the South, a military occupation begun in bitterness and bloodshed will have ended. Although the fort la to be utilized as an air base, with an expected 1,500 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 pioneers. SEND BURGOYNE . CUSTOM MADE GREETING CARDS BRILLIANT AND COLORFUL STOCKS ARE COMPLETE & ORDER NOW! This Newspaper Office Somewhere they say its morning. But somewhere.-- I think its night! "lomewhere the skies are laden With steel birds flying by night Somewhere the cannous are roaring, Spreading destruction with might Somewhere they say its morning But somewhere 1 think its night depths way out of sight LONDON. To the list of a detailed knowledge of the workseeming- offer you poems by CHRISTIE ly queer reserved occupants ings of automobiles. LUND COLES iu her Book, male ballet dancers and window-cleane"I sea just as much as others,' have for 75c. postpaid LEGACY, been McMullen explains, listed already except that mine are all mental pictures. In- now ia added two Order it for Christmas for your stead of my eyes, my fingers con- and film make-u- p artists. Rat catch-l- l is a profession handed down sweetheart, sistermother, daugh vey thoughts to my brain. When I raise hood to Took at an engine, from father to eon and ratcatchers ter or friend. Poems as sweet re necessary, particularly in the and what I hear and foci helps me deinspiring as a mother's termine the trouble and I see it as city of London. rs hers For Alaska and Hawaii SAN FRANCISCO. The Federal Communications commission pi-- n to erect powerful monitoring stations in Alaska and Hawaii to tract Illegal radio communications by foreign agents. V. Ford Greaves, chief inspector of the commission's western area aid three of the stations would be erected in Alaska end one In Hawaii. He added that under foe program sites were being sought for 100 monitoring stations at Intervals across foe continent. ann-wi- qt of Stephen's father wedding, performed Charles Hood. at by Navajo Indiani Request Films of European War GALLUP, N. M. The progressive-nes- t end ambition of the modern Indian was exemplified when members of the Navajo reservation hero pieced surprising request with reservation officials. A band of the Nevejoe asked that foa Indian agency supply them with news reels of tho war. love, and as pure and terrier as a trusting maidens prayer, Some have called (he autho Utahs Sarah Teasdale. One writer has named her "The Mormon Sappho. Order today Progressive OpiAion Keith Bldg. Organizatn News TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS Townsend Club No. 1 meets every Tues. eve at 168 So.W T. OLD AGYPENSION Utah State Old Age Pension Group meets weekly Tuesday 2.30 p. m. Chapman Library Branch corner 6th South and 8h west. Wednesday 7.30 City Hall Branch City and Co .Bldg Room 106. Thursday 2pm Salt Lake City Branch Post Office Place. at Crisis-Governme- chanco to elected to office have look two ways from Christmas. The industrial tail is about to wag tho agricultural dog again tho experts tell us, surplus labor is about to bo syphoned off the farm which is fine for tho men who hse too many mouths to feed and too few acres to divide up, but not so good few for foe farmer who needs extra hands. However, if you do turn around end look beck 35 years just to take your mind off present troubles you can see some interesting eights which have Just been set up in sharp perspective by foe interbureau committee of the department of agriculture. In that short span for a man or a mule, 35 years, 10,000,000 mules and horses and thousand! of men have been pushed off the farm by the And, according to tho machine. prognosticators in Washington, a million and a helf more mules and horses will be replaced by tractors in the next 10 years, end more than 5,000.000 acres of land now used to raise feed for work stock will be put to other usee. Farmer Hat Long Utilized Machine! Weve been hearing a lot about man versus the machine, especially since the smash of 1828 that made unemployment foe big issue, end again since the smash of 1840 when the Nazis with their tanka end motorized equipment went through France like a plow through loam. ;ut the farmer bad been getting lachlne conscious long before that 1 Ispecially since foe little trades tractor appeared on the eld, replacing the cumbersome ack-of-1- irller models. Along with the tractor came a lot tore technological developments" eluding not only farm machinery ke the combine and the but other scientific advances such testing end breeding end feeding f animals and plants, soil cooperation, disease prevention and oth-- r things. This technology has hurt wen a helped. Beeidea the thou-end- s of men who have lost their in facto-icwell she on farms and affected been have prices lie whole social life on the form as changed. It ia not that these scientific are to be blamed" for the ifflcultiei which have arisen, the foe Washington experts say, but roubles, if any, arise from the of adjustments and in agriculture end industry 0 such advances. Just what the advantages and ere that lie ahead is book, old in detail in a irlnted by the government end ailed Technology on the Farm. One thing that interested me in this interesting book, iside from its excellent end detailed formation, was an editorial opin-o- n it expressed on the way the use f machines haa changed farming or a living to farming for cash, there's difference. Of course when you have to buy lot iff machinery you need herd noney but there ere disadvantages n simply raising products with foa aw purpose of turning them into corn-pick- -r s. ly Rat Catchers Stay Home Why not buyjt Book of BeauWhile Britain Is at War tiful Poems forChristmaaVWe clearly as anyone." In hie spare time McMullen tries Bride Made Stepsister to lessen foe burdens of other MH Of Groom at Wedding persons. He is a member of the state board of the Pennsylvania FedINDEPENDENCE, KAN. Nettie eration of foe Blind. Lorene Clark and Stephen E. Kens-wortJr. were married in a y that also mads them stepsisU. S. Monitor Stationg ter and stepbrother. As Use of Machines Inert 224-pa- Somewhere the clouds are rolling O'er the oceans wild with fright Somewhere the dead are lying In the Farmers Face New Problems es Buy Poetry for Xmas cere-mon- At Christmas lime Because of the world's sad plight troops on the then state of Deseret Somewhere a mother is praying was interpreted as an act of virtual And wondering through the m warfare. For several years the city existed If iomewhee her bov ia dv. in what amounted to a state of siege, 7 and it was not until the end of the In thn awful, bloody fight Civil war that the pioneer colony-act-ing Somewhere they say its moron on the orders of President its mads Brigham Young peace Bui somewhere its jblackest nig with the soldiery. more-ratcatc- National Without Feai or favor one of Town-- , of officers the and a rend elub No. 1, right good Neighbor to this paper, haa renewed with right good will and we are glad to have her on the Washington Digett list. May she livelong to enjoy a good paper. E. II. Williams has found his way to the office through a messenger who brought in some native silver and got hie name on the beet subscription list in Technological Advances Change Life on U. S. Fa the world. We hardly know Greek Nation Completely Unified in him but hie act proves him to Buys More Land. be a very good man. turner tends to become . Neighbor Frank Penrose has By BAUKHAGE ' IBiliiHd by Western Newspaper Union.1 and If times sre bad , the to a trip completed just can t pay hie rent he Ion Whats next? With the frost on thing. Eastern cities of America. He in the shock, fodder the pumpkin, This is Just one of the farm was accompanied by hi daugh- tho world settling down to a hard tome ter. They visited some disting- winter end o long war, those of us duringthatthethe farmer can thlift , long winter evert who arent in the flrit draft or just Uke uished relatives there. many other By Germany. The ipirit of the Americen clipper shlpe a streamn lined, spirit is riding ABOUT of Interest French Holdings In Atlantic for Moves To Watch Great Days Predicted for WASHINGTON. 75 East 2nd. South Some Items U. S. Regaining 41 Inereated Invettment Redacet Security First it reduces security. If you rales your own food you need never starve la a panic. Than there ia health: A family with low income end plenty of food growing right oa the place ia more likely to get a continuously healthful diet than ona which haa to buy what it eats. Raising one's own food helps up responsibility tor the family welfare because young children end old folks can tend a garden or feed foe chickens. If the eggs end vegetables end milk are purchased, foe children's interests are removed from the interests of their parent! end older brothers and slaters. Furthermore, a child who helps raise its own food also gets what a city child doesnt get chance to learn through doing. Another disadvantage of forming for money only, with foe greeter use of machines, is that it mekea it harder to own a form. The money goes into perishable things Instead of into the solid title to land. Tha d-vi- FARM MACHINERY Lila on Americen forma ia being changed by technological advances, Baukhage reports. He finds that the trend toward growing products primarily for eels Instead of home consumption raises many new problems. The Greek ambassador in Washington told Baukhage that hie people are now more united than ever. As n part of tha defense program, the war department is purchasing great tracts of land, he good thinn chlnery can be too much of , tiling. Alexander Pone1. standi: tiU "Be not foe first by whom the i is tried Nor yet foe last aside." to lay ft Creek People Wholly United The war came close to me the other day when 1 stepped oti of another belligerent. It , after the Italics shortly crossed the border from Aik. end the Greeks had met this i invasion from the west they i the Persian invasion from tin i 450 years before. I say I stepped on foreign because the embassies ind k tions of n foreign power art sldered a part of the territory that power no matter where ( are located. The house which I l peaceful piece of Greece looks i Sheridan circle on Manic venue in foe capital. It i, just a big private residence , into n legation where the mb e cheerful little men with name, Cimon Ditmantopoulo,! and carries on the business of country. As I sat in the attractive hole I i that la his study, pouring i a map of the country he knows j well, 1 had a strange feeling. walls with their artistic etching classic beauty seemed to fade av end I could see those tortuous of foe ancient Pindus mounting n artillery were gling through the snowdrifts, fierce Greek mountaineers their kilts end tufted shoes on i side, the plumed Bersaglierl i fierce Evzonei mountain lighten I the other. I could see the attack foe blinding blizzard, the clash i the narrow roadway hardly enough for small motor lorrita pass, and then men and plunging down into the Mule-draw- I abyss. The minister looked up. has never been as united as 8 today, be said. When foe Persian hordes cams I Marathon It was because their in hated the democratic spirit which h feared would spread to his sieve states. History repeats. Winter Comet To Wathington Washington in the autumn i to si from a bright wster-coltw pastel, and then the fbUefe a dark oil painting of rich brsew or At the steel engrsringc last comes winter. ofl We ere now between the I tag and the steel engraving burning yellow of the Glngkoes' n maiden-ha-ir tree, some csDKl i on laid their last golden carpet west side of Lafayette squaw. historic quadrangle of gr site foe White House. to A few sturdy oaks cling brown. saddle-leathrich, TW Glngkoes ere now bare. many of these .tractive Washington. They love tag foe fumes of gasflour iihlfll the rest of us and I have a leaf from tha city of Weim.r bl GoethcJ Hiseity of ' , rtuj1, flection the city that German Repuw foe foe last war. d That tree I does unless the Neris hes its beauty bec.u1 Nature knows no polM at our fickle change- after our koes will bloom long forfotten. is ( iifw but History repeat, verses Itoelf. Once settlers were fjven government lend. seres ban buys 500.000 the As part of foe war department i H ! w ,bhli conservation acrvi hrtF tor great tract, ccnr'n toe M training army aircraft firing viUe, Ga.: anii of Fort Ethan cencrJpS; j"f, sSWrsTX tagton there Woo ot la moving can events tb' gf PjJJ !,.. (" history relating to Colonone 1834. Tha Inter and among them in existence Mellon of tt rend Islands AP " H doa 1 yon rM1 lngdi rf"" VMi |