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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1944 Editorial Help Children to Walk' With an eye on the recent past there is the remembrance of parents nervously watching their children last summer and fall, wondering if the dread infantile paralysis paral-ysis might strike. And there comes a vision of a little boy walking out of a hospital a few weeks after he was stricken walking because of a March of Dimes and Dollars last January. There probably was not a parent last summer who did not cest at least a little easier because they knew that the national foundation for infantile paralysis existed, ready to provide swiftly the best known treatment and care against the onslaught of the mysterious crippler. There was gratitude in their hearts that their own national foundation owned and maintained entirely by their contributions had trained more than 400 physicians and more than 400 technicians in the Kenny method of treatment; that supplies of war-scarce war-scarce wool were on hand; that respirators and other epidemic supplies were available. And that care was available because of funds raised the previous January. Chances are that the response would have been greater great-er if it had been made last August and September Sep-tember when the worst epidemic in twelve years was at its peak. If every parent who was grateful last fall because such service was available would contribute generously in the current March of Dimes drive, the Utah county chapter, with more than 165 polio victims to take care of, would have more funds to fight the crippler. The handsome contribution for 1944. by the Elks Lodge of Provo, of $1200 to help pay for the services of a physio-therapist to care for the worst victims vic-tims of the crippler in Utah county is one of the most generous moves made by any organization in Provo. It is hoped that other organizations will follow suit so that the salary of the physio-therapist can be guaranteed as soon as possible. The funds donated by the Elks will help some child, maybe your own, to walk again. The Washington YOU Are Important There is no such thing as a "little" investment invest-ment in the Fourth War Loan. Your $25 or $50 or $100 extra war bond may not have great importance in your mind making up a 5V billion dollar total for individuals. But multiply yourself by 130,000,000 and then you see in real perspective how truly great each citizen becomes in massing national na-tional strength against the Nazis and the Japs. Capt. Maurice Witherspoon, Navy chaplain chap-lain aboard the Carrier Wasp when she ' sank, tells of a rescued wounded sailor, w ho, as he regained consciousness, asked: "Did I do my best?" That's the only question you, too, have to ask yourself when you decide the extent of your personal participation in the Fourth War Loan. , There undoubtedly will be large single purchases pur-chases of war bonds in Utah county, but yours if it is "your best" will deserve equally the red, white and blue shield you are privileged to display in the window of your home. "Let's all Back the Attack." Smashed Bottleneck When this nation first attempted to convert con-vert from civilian to war production there was pressing need for machine tools, and that relatively small but very vital industry was pressed to the limit. Today the machine tool bottleneck has been smashed so completely that this year only a fourth of the industry's capacity will be needed. The rest can be devoted to direct production through subcontracts. It is to be hoped that, as soon as possible, machine, tool plants will be permitted to begin be-gin preparing for reconversion to postwar use. The dangerous lag between war and peace production depends in considerable part upon availability of machine tolls. The more this industry can do in advance, the less unemployment there will be after the armistice. ; Axis Aviation ; The trade magazine American Aviation - predicts that after the war no Axis nation ' will be permitted to operate any interna- ; there will be a ban on the building of air-: air-: craft and on civilian flying within Axis :countries. If the magazine Is correctly informer1 pi tfSUIllctUl.V llicsc ic (luiuui nvj :o ry in be only temporary, so far as present decisions decis-ions are concerned. Whether eventually they will be made permanent must depend upon the ultimate decision how to preserve word peace. Have we decided that Germany and Ja- yiqti nart lfiilnrTv sVinll fnrpvpr Ko Tmlrl in economic, industrial and political serfdom, to restrain them from future war? That may prove necessary. But who has decided? de-cided? Where? When? Are the people of. the democracies to be informed officially? When Russians asked a captured German where his division was he said, "I'm the division." The rest of it had something to 4 urJfh cnlif rartinn. " ". K w Merry-Co-Round By Drew Peanm (Col. Robert 8. A 1 1 e d e etlv doty) Resurrected Cyrikt, IMS, Blmclalr Ltilto . DlvtrlfcvteA T NBA Senrlee, Ie- A Daily Picture of What's Going on in National Affairs WASHINGTON Seldom has the Democratic national committee, meeting this week in Washington, Wash-ington, summoned its heterogeneous members under such politically gruesome circumstances. If you talk to Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, or Virginians Senator Harry Byrd, or labor leaders, farm leaders and others who once helped elect Roosevelt, the Democratic party appears to have gone to pieces. It no longer exists as a party. Pieces of it can- be seen scattered about the landscape, but they are not coordinating with each other. Farm elements which once Regarded FDR as their savior have forgotten the past. Now, not con tent with merelv votine Republican, they want to work actively against him. Labor, which has received greater benefits from Roosevelt than in 150 years of American history, now is beginning to turn sour. Meanwhile, some farm and business crtices ac tually believe that the quarrel between Roosevelt and John L. Lewis is a front, that the two men really are in cahoots. Some even claim, in all seriousness, that the administration plans to prolong pro-long the war in order to keep itself in power. There is no basic criticism of the conduct of the war. In fact, general agreement is that it is going well. But there is a fervid, vitriolic undercurrent under-current of determination to defeat Roosevelt or any Democrat if the war, at least in Europe, is over by November. Fully realizing hat the tide is running out, the Democratic national committee meets to elect, as successor to placid Frank Walker, a new chairman chair-man who must have the courage to start a new and perhaps hopeless battle, plus the ability to pick up all the broken pieces and weld them together. Not for eleven years has the Democratic national na-tional committee picked its own officers. Always they were handed down from up above. During Dur-ing the harmony days between FDR and Jim Farley, there never was any quarrel about this. But after the 3rd term renomination at Chicago when Farley stepped out, it was a different story. And at the last committee meeting in Chicago, Chi-cago, when Ed Flynn resigned in favor of Frank Walker, leading Democrats arrived at the meeting meet-ing with blood in their eye. So much so that Pennsylvania's Senator Joe Guffey warned rebellious re-bellious Indiana committeeman Frank McHale: "We've collected the proxies and we've got the votes, so don't start any trouble. You'll get licked." At Chicago, therefore, it was left to Chairman Chair-man Frank Walker to appoint his own secretary, treasurer and other officials usually elected by the full committee. DEMOCRATIC COM3IITTEE LOBBYISTS Back in the early days of the New Deal, a terrible hue and cry was raised over the fact that certain members of the Democratic national committee also carried on a remunerative lobbying practice on the side. The issue received so much publicity that the president denounced it publicly pub-licly and called upon all committeemen engaged in lobbying to resign. As a result. Bob Jackson of New Hampshire, Arthur Mullen of Nebraska and Bruce Kremer of Montana all resigned from the committee. Today, however, the -White House and apparently appar-ently the public have lost their sense of smell. For months, the same situation has existed, but the White House has said absolutely nothing. Oscar Ewing, who represents the Aluminum Corporation Cor-poration of America, one of the biggest companies compan-ies doing business with the government, holds' no less a position than vice-chairman of the Democratic national committee. Its secretary isj George Allen, executive of the Home Insurance company, one of the fire insurance group whose giant lobby against the Sherman anti-trust act hai been vigorously criticized on Capitol hill. Treasurer of the committee is Ed Pauley, who had the decency to submit his resignation when his business put him in the position of lobbying: for a high-octane gasoline plant. However, unlike the days when FDR publicly demanded the resig-! nation of Arthur Mullen of Nebraska from the committee, Pauley' resignation has not been accepted. ac-cepted. TAXES AND CAMPAIGN FUNDS Recently, Frank Walker has made a unique mf,.i, it move toward a similar situation. Privately, he isj ' , ...... , trying to persuade committee members to take 1 m sorry- Doctor. but 1 think Missouri's Robert Hannegan as the new national j the market is going to crash," said chairman. Hannegan happens to be commissioner Dr. Planish.. i of internal revenue, and Frank Walker is either Dr. Kitto looked at him as at very naive or very forgetful of past Republican . , . . . . scandals when big contributors to the party did,one who had slaPPed the baby, not have to worry too much about income taxes. Mr. Hamilton Frisby said, "Plan-Today "Plan-Today Republicans are already licking their . ish, I've got a tip on a radio stock chops over the charges they could so easily hurl against a Democratic chairman sitting in judgment over the income taxes of Democratic angels who contribute to the campaign fund. NOTE: Hannegan, an able executive, is the Missouri Democrat who led the fight to refuse Missouri's Republican governor, Forrest C. Don-nell, Don-nell, his seat for forty days, until the Missouri supreme court ordered him seated. Hannesran was first discovered by Assistant President Jimmy I fMneK- "louht highly of him that he 3ld intimates, Dr. Alwyn Wilcox, Forum'n Agin'em Gideon Planish THR STOUYt Am Managta flffrnniT of tkr Hckrt Kuril School Foundation Mr. Gldtion I'lnnlah. former Ucan of Klnai-klnlrk Klnai-klnlrk ollcirr. former rdltor of Rural Adult Induration, uara modern mod-ern a lrn-.LnitthoUi to promote t nnd-ralalaa;. XVIII TT was not the success of his cir cular so much as his genius: in foreseeing the stock-market crash of October, 1929, that brought Dr Planish to the acute personal at tention of Mr. Hamilton Frisby. All that summer and early fall, America had been speculating on a soaring market. But the Planishes, the gamblers with life, for once were not gam bling. It was Peony's doing. She had pinned the Doctor in a corner and given an order: "You're not to buy one share of stock, on margin or any other way. We're mbre broke than ever. If we invested, we'd have to borrow some more money, and we mustn't do that. Never. It's a matter of principle Besides, there's nobody we can borrow from. Dad turned me down!" The Reverend James Severance Kitto, S.T.D., said to him, "Doctor, as you know, I entirely disapprove of gambling, but the present Wave of Prosperity shouldn't be called gambling; it's more a rising tide of democracy. I'm two hundred thousand thou-sand ahead of the game at least on paper and I can give you a straight tip on a wallboard stock that will double in the next for you. Quadruple in a week." "I'm sorry, Mr. Frisby, but there's something phony about this bull market." JN December he was invited Hamilton Frisby to go down to a shooting-box in Louisiana. - His fellow guests were Frisby internal revenue. CASEY AT THE BAT Out in Chicago, a year ago this month, rebellious re-bellious Democrats beiran to kick over the traces at the manner in which Republicans were getting an uie juicy piums in wasmngton while Democrats Demo-crats were being ignored. The man who came to the president's rescue at that meeting was Eutrene Casey, a man who had lifted himself by tho boot straps from a Maryland farm right into the White House. Casey had been out in the Middle West for months, listening to .Democratic tales of woe, and in Washington had been fighting Democratic battles until he had become one of the few whom folks trusted. He still is. He salved Democratic wounds last year at Chicago and he may be the one to do it this week at Washington. In fact, so many committeemen committee-men are arriving already pledged to Casey for chairman that, unless Frank Walker performs a miracle and puts over his internal revenue commissioner, com-missioner, the Irishman-farmer from Maryland may find himself with the unwelcome job of pulling the Democratic party up by the boot straps at a time when it will take some Herculean pulling. ' Hannegan is Frank Walker's choice for national na-tional chairman, not FDR's. Inside fact is that the president did not want Hannegan on the ground that he didn't know him. The president, unlike 1940. is not adamant on any one man. He wouuld take Eugene Casey, who is already on his staff and who knows the party, or genial Joe Casey, ex-congressman from Massachusetts, or Oscar Chapman, able assistant secretary of the interior. i Meanwhile, revolt in the Democratic tanks is so fervid that Frank Walker himself tooW a trip out to the Midwest to soothe ruffled feelings but failed. Despite his efforts, rebellious Judge Jim Quigley, Nebraska national committeeman, has called an early meeting of the committee for today, to demand the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard and Farm Credit Governor A. G. Black. In the end, revolt will be so bad that harassed harass-ed Frank Walker, much against his will, probably will have to remain as national chairman. (Copyright 1944 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) the surgeon, and Jesse Veith, the investment counselor, who had so brilliantly guided his clients through the boom and the crash that he himself had not gone bank rupt. Frisby had taken two draw ing-rooms on the southern train for them. Dr. Planish happily noted that he was apparently not expected to spend any money, and he liked this touch of high life. In one of the drawing rooms, they opened up on him as soon as the train had started and they had poured out the first of the illicit drinks. "Planish, now there's Just us girls here and we've all taken our hair down, tell us: what Insjde dope did you have on the stock market?" said Frisby, with the awful geniality of a detective being be-ing chummy with a murder suspect. sus-pect. The other men bent toward the Doctor like two older and tougher detectives. "I didn't really know anything special. I just figured it out, as a mathematician would." "You a mathematician, Doc?" said Jesse Veith. "It's one of the branches I specialized spe-cialized in sort of," beamed Dr. Planish. "Tell me how much the cotangent cotan-gent of the ellipse of the cube root of seven is." Frisby was purring on, "What did Marduc tell you?" "Marduc?" Dr. Planish was puzzled. "You mean to pretend you don't know him?" "I don't believe I do." "Colonel Charles B. Marduc, the big New York advertising man and publisher Marduc & Syco?" "Oh. yes. I think he's sent us a sizable contribution. But I've never met him. What would he know?" Veith snorted at Frisby, "I told you so. This Planish guy hasn't got any more of the lowdown than" "Than an investment counselor!" suggested Dr. Wilcox. "Oh, shut up. Let's play a little bridge," said Veith. Mr. Frisby brought out the cards, very silently. For all of that terrible week end, during which they did three hours of card playing and drinking to one nour of hunting, Dr. Planish felt that he was endured only because be-cause they had to have a fourth at bridge. "N the train back to Chicago, Frisby led Dr. Planish aside, looking as though he must have met him before some place. "Doc, you seem to me a very confused person," said Frisby. "How's that?" "Maybe I ought to tell you the facts of life about the Heskett Foundation, and most other philanthropic phil-anthropic foundations not all of them, but a good share. You're supposed to be a professional or-ganizator or-ganizator " "A what?" "Fellow that makes his living by running an uplift organization; a professional at begging for money to use in publicizing the statement that when the world becomes be-comes civilized, two plus two will equal four. An organizator. He's the fellow that starts a society first, and then looks around for a purpose for the society afterward. after-ward. And the rich suckers that give him the money these come-on come-on s I always call the philanthrob-bers. philanthrob-bers. "But Old Man Heskett was no philanthrobber, and neither were quite a few of the other moguls that set up Foundations. Here's their idea With the increase in taxes, especially this damn income tax and supertax, a man can't afford af-ford to have too much income. And yet he wants to keep control of the big corporations in which he owns a majority of stock. So he places a big block of it in a Philanthropic Philan-thropic Institution, in a trust fund he doesn't get the interest, but he doesn't have to pay any pyramiding pyra-miding taxes, and he or his agents that's me, for the Hesketts hold the voting proxies on the donated stock, and control the corporation as much as before. "They don't care what the Foundation income is spent for, as long as their name gets whitened and how many coats of white wash it does take, sometimes! "Now I advise you, as a simrle- hearted organizator, to blow in as much of the Foundation income as you want to. Even with this stock market crash, there's twice as much as you've been spending. Go ahead do anything that will advertise the grand old pioneer name of Heskett. Only don't forget that I still audit the books." Dr. Planish felt shy but desper ate. "Then how about raising my own salary? I could use it." "Certainly not. It's much more likely to get lowered, if this de pression gets bad enough. You have some reputation not much, but you have been dean of a hay loft college, and a lecturer but how would it adorn the sacred Family Name to pay you more than rock-bottom wages? You talk about economics, Planish. Be realistic!" Dr. Planish sat and hated him. (To Be Continued) Bishop Noll Heard On Esquire Ruling Editor Herald: In the "Chopping Block" of January Jan-uary 16, Mr. Frank Robertson took a whack at Bishop Noll for his "supposed' 'part in the denial of Esquire's mailing privileges. Rev. John Francis Noll,, D. D., L. L. D. edits the weekly Catholic newspaper, "Our Sunday Visitor" at Huntington, Ind. In the Jan. 16 issue of that paper, in his column, "Right or Wrong," Bishop Noll has emphatically denied any part in the decision. Iri order to get his own viewpoint before your readers I ask that this column be printed. Mary A. Nickerson RIGHT OR WRONG "Since the withdrawal of the second class mailing privilege from Esquire, the Chairman of the National Organization for Decent. Literature has been interviewed over the long distance telephone by representatives of several met ropolitan papers and national magazines in the hope, it would seem, to find some connection between be-tween the action of the Postmaster Postmas-ter General and the NODL. "Of course, we found it necessary to disown any connection, to the great disappointment, it seemed, of the gentlemen who Interviewed us, because they should have liked to have publicized a story showing the influence which the NODL had over Mr. Walker. "Non-Catholics do not understand under-stand us. They entertain the notion no-tion that a Catholic in high position posi-tion is always dominated by his church, and will officially follow his Catholic conscience just as he 'would privately, while Catholica know that this is not true. I "Mr. Walker has a Catholic sense of what is moral and immoral, im-moral, of what is decent and ln-' ln-' decent, of what is calculated to in-ijure in-ijure the moral sense of the reader, read-er, and what is not. But the chief reason given by Mr. Walker for ;the withdrawal of the second class mail privilege from Esquire, as I he had withdrawn it from other magazines previously, is because it 'violates Section 596 of the Postal i Laws and Regulations, which is 'designed to "prevent the use of the United States mails for sustained ! and systematic appeals to lasci-jvious lasci-jvious curiosity, or for the circulation circula-tion of periodicals published for the purpose of profitably pandering pander-ing to the obscene, lewd and inde cent;" "The Solicitor of the Post Office Department has told publishers re peatedly that the second class mail grant is a "privilege," which is not to be abused; that the general public must subsidize the cost of carrying periodicals through the mail; that those entitled to this "privilege' 'are publications which disseminate information. "In releasing his decision, revoking revok-ing the second class mail privilege from the publication Esquire, Frank C. Walker, on December 31, 1943. stated: "Congress prescribed that, to be entitled to the second-class postage post-age rate and privileges, a publica tion must meet the following requirements: re-quirements: "It must be originated originat-ed and published for the dissemina- i tion of information of a public ; character, or devoted to literature. the sciences, arts, or some special industry . . ." "The language of the Act of Congress establishing the Fourth .Condition seems plain and specific, j Whatever the featured and domi-jnant domi-jnant pictures, prose, and verse of i this publication may be they are 'not "information of a public char acter, or literature, the sciences, arts or some special industry," contributing- to the public welfara and the public good to the extent that this publication should be re- iiievea oi paymeni or. more Ulan $500,000.00 in postage per annum. "The order for tfte withdrawal of the second class mail privilege from Esquire is effective February 28, 1944, "to provide the publication publica-tion ample opportunity to appeal this order to a court of competent jurisdiction to fully review and settle this matter in which the publication, the Post Office Department De-partment and the general publio have such a direct and substantial substan-tial interest." "Before the second class wiail privilege is withdrawn from a magazine the publishers are cited to a hearing, where they are permitted per-mitted to "furnish reasons why the second class mail privilege should be continued." "The NODL did carry Esquir for a long time on Its "disapproved list," but removed it from this list not because its contents were altogether satisfactory, but rather because, being a magazine for men and selling at such a high price, it would not have many sub scribers or purchasers amony youths, and because most of the articles contained in the magazines were a little heavy to interest youths. The National Organization, however, was quite willing that diocesan or local organizations place Esquire on their disapproved list. "A few years ago the publishers of Esquire visited the writer and carried with them several pages of typewritten matter designed to indicate that the periodical did not offend against any of the five points of the NODL code. When the writer pointed out that the cartoons did offend against one point of the code, the publishers opened the current number and asked in what way they offended. The writer said they offended by the "gag" which appeared under the cartoons. When the publishers admitted that the "gag" was suggestive, sug-gestive, the writer remarked, "but the gag is your own interpretation interpreta-tion of the cartoon, and the interpretation inter-pretation which you want the reader read-er to give the cartoon." "For some months Esquire did improve in relation to the NODL Code, but I understand that lately It reverted to its earlier policy of coming at least to the bprderline which separates decency from indecency." INJURED IN ACCIDENT SPANISH FORK ee Dart. 40, an employee of the Utah-Idaho Sugar factory and at present working at West Jordan, suffered an accident Wednesday when starting his car preparatory to driving from Spanish Fork to tha West Jordan plant which necessitated necessi-tated the amputation of his littla finger at the second joint. Hl finger was caught in the fan belt of the car. Dr. J. W. Hag an performed per-formed the surgery. AIRRAIDTHAT HEAD COLD MISERY ZONE with Just 2 drops Penetro Nosa Drops. 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The War Food Administration savs that no cut-back in cream er milk is in sight for some months Desk Chat And then, there was the GI Joe who sent a postcard from camp to hia mother-in-law, say injr, "Havinsr a miserable time . . . nothing but rain and mud for ten days . . . wish you were here. oOo It is easy enough to find fault with the newspapers but it is well to remember that their subscribers sub-scribers didn t do it just to help some fellow get an education. English ... s she Is written A British bishop was considerably consider-ably upset and confined to his bed when he received a note one paste, shaving cream, or other collapsible metal tubes in order to get new ones after March 1. The tin content of such tubes has been cut so much that very little You can expect to see a cut in, . - returning tubes Kina --- ... j : v-.t. 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