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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1945 cJ:i.:J Luuuuai... And he brought me to the door of the eourtt and when I looked, behold hole in the wall. Ezeklel 1:7. Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wtofi, and speaK as you thing. Tacitus. Voiqe of Germany We are too close to Adolf Hitler's tempestuous tempes-tuous career, and we lack too many essential data, to attempt any objective and final appraisal ap-praisal of what made the funny little paper-hanger paper-hanger into the most hated figure in world history. One possible explanation comes to mind, as we think back over the past 15 years. And to the extent that we accept this explanation, it may help us to deal wisely with the Reich so as to avert a World War HI. Let's grant that Hitler had much more intelligence in-telligence or dunning than we used to suppose. sup-pose. By all means, we can concede his inordinate in-ordinate talent for demagoguery and we do proclaim the profundity of his depravity. With all these, no man could have led an un willing people into some of the excesses into which the Germans followed or accompanied their Fuehrer. This suggest that Hitler never was, in fact, the leader of Germany so much as he was the highly articulate voice for the basest instincts of a nation that was, on the whole, willing and anxious to be led into war, atrocities, atro-cities, racial Dosrroms. anti-relieion. In this theory Hitler could be compared to a firebrand in a mob. Every member is anxious to commit an illegal, immoral act, but for the moment they are restrained by some vestiges of superficial decency, or perhaps per-haps by vague fear of the consequences, or even by the mild inertia of habitual docility. The firebrand climbs onto a' convenient tree stump, and scarifies the mob's passions until decency, caution and inertia vanish. The mob does what it wants to do. No Hitler could have lead or forced Americans, Ameri-cans, in the mass, to do what the Germans as a people have done with little protest. It does not seem probable that any Hitler could have induced the Germans to do such things if they had possessed any deep-seated tolerance, toler-ance, any genuine' love of peace and good will. Hitlfcr, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels can he taken as symbols of what we know as Nazism. But just as in the beginning they were the tools of ostensibly respectable Junkers and industrialists, so in the end they were the personification of the unmorality of a nation that, even now, thinks the worst cning u nas aone is tost tne war. When we are deciding how to deal with millions of t Germans too unimportant and numerous to be tried as war criminals with millions of Germans who now claim they didn't know what was going on across road in horror camps let's remember that Adolf Hitler at his worst probably was only the vile voice of a very dangerous people. Petain's Trial Some French elements are disturbed by the return of Marshal Petan to stand trial for treason. They fear that his defense will bring up matters that may split the people of France. What is it, then, that France really wants? Is she satisfied to gqt a scapegoat? Or would she really like to find out what caused a supposedly great military power to collapse in 1940 what led a supposedly genuine gen-uine democracy to grovel at the feet of the dictator Hitler? How can France become strong if she fears to probe the real causes of her weakness? Secret Weapons Uncle Joe Stalin has a secret weapon, too. It is a howitzer or mortar (correspondents seem uncertain which) so big that, in the words of one, it makes American nine-inch-ers look like whisky jiggers alongside highball high-ball glasses. Indulging his often sardonic sense of humor, hu-mor, Uncle Joe let the Japanese ambassador and his military and naval aides watch these enormous guns rumble in the May Day Parade Par-ade past the statue of Lenin. The Japs appeared ap-peared morose. They may have been remembering remem-bering the non-aggression pact that Marshal Stalin is not renewing the treaty that Soviet spokesmen say Japan has violated. The Kenny Method Dr. Morris Fishbein, secretary of the American Medical association, says that Sister Sis-ter Kenny's method of treatment is used "in the "vast majority of hospitals where infantile infan-tile paralysis is being treated." Sister Kenny Ken-ny says she must give up her work in this country because the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis refuses funds to finance it. Dr. Fishbein's statement indicates that the Kenny method has .value. Why, then, can she not have National Foundation financing, fin-ancing, If there is some valid reason then the public which donates these funds, should be informed. The optimist and the pessimist merely look at the world through different colored glasses. - How much more is it going to take to make Adolf realize that his "dream world'' is just a bad nightmare ? The Path of Glory The Washington Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of -What's : PE Going On in National Affairs ?e t i. 3 a tV" SAN FRANCISCO By all odds the most skillful diplomacy game at this conference has been played by clapper, dignified Anthony Eden of Great Britain. He has managed to come out as the friend of all sides, and the most important of all, the mediator between Russia and the united States. In other words, Eden has completely reversed re-versed the previous role of President Roosevelt, who up until his death had acted as the mediator between Churchill and Stalin. The Churchill-Stalin rivalry was not merely personal. It was historic. It was based not only on the fact that Churchill just after the last war, urged the sending of Allied troops into Russia to help the White Russian generals overthrow the embryo Bolshevik regime, but that he flirted with the Cliveden set which in 1939 advocated war between be-tween Russia and Germany while England sat on the side lines. This was the basis for the personal suspicion between him and Stalin. But historically. Church hill was carrying out a century-old British policy of isolating Russia. For 100 years, the country with the greatest land mass in the world, Russia, had been kept without a warm-water seaport by Britain, the country with the greatest navy in the world. That xivalry was the reason for the Anglo Japanese alliance, whereby the British, working through Japan, helped to stop Russia from get ting Manchuria and a warm-water port on the Pacific. That rivalry was behind Britain's sphere of influence in Persia (now Iran) to prevent Rus sian use of the gulf of Persia. That rivalry wes also .the cause of the Crimean war in which the British fleet and British troops actually landed land-ed on the same spot where Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt later held their Yalta conference and J waged a bloody battle to prevent the Czar from coming down to the Dardaneles and getting an outlet through the Mediterranean. Finally this 100-years-old Russo-British rivalry rival-ry was behind Britain's taking Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland away from Russia after the last war to block her outlet to the Baltic sea. ROOSEVELT SITS IN MIDDLE That rivalry continued during the Teheran- Yalta conferences, with Stalin and Churchill both trading against each other and Franklin Roosevelt sitting in the middle. i At Teheran the argument was over a second) front through the Balkans which Churchill favor-1 ed, or through France, which Stalin favored, Churchill wanted the Allied, armies to get into the Balkans Russia's sphere of influence andj thereby keep the Russians out. He dldnt,want Allied armies ruining factories and alienating the population of western Europe which was to be Britain's sphere of influence. In the end Roosevelt tipped the scales in favor of Stalin toward a second front through France. Once at Teheran, Churchill trying to poke a little fun at Stalin, said: "Marshal, I have noticed that whenever anyone comes into contact with you they become slightly pink." To which Stalin replied: re-plied: "And Mr. Prime Minister, any good doctor will tell you that pink is the healthiest of all colors." And Roosevelt, wanting to pour oil on the troubled waters, said: "Gentlemen, let me remind you that there is nothing more beautiful than all the colors of the rainbow." But at the end, as Churchill bade farewell to Stalin, there was still tension between them. "Well, good-bye, Marshal," said the prime minister, "I'll see you in Berlin." "Yes," shot back Stalin, "I in a tank and you in a, pullman car." STETTINIUS LOSES OUT Roosevelt was shrewd enough to continue as middle man even at Yalta, despite the fact that he was slipping physically. He kept both Russian and Great Britain in the position of playing up to the United States. The loss of that strategic bargaining power is the most important development of this conference. confer-ence. Stettinius has lost what Roosevelt had and Anthony Eden has cleverly stepped into his place. The United States has now slipped into the position pos-ition of being the chief rival and potential opponent op-ponent of Russia, while Eden has maneuvered so that England sits- in the middle, able to throw its weight to one side or the other. It is not healthy for any nation to get out on a limb as the chief opponent of another. And real statesmanship in the state department should have steered away from these rocks during the advance conference conversations. The error can be patched up. Public opinion in the United States is too sane to' let the unfortunate U. S. A. vs. U. S. S. R. clash poison our relations. The goals of peace are too important. But mistakes like this are exepnsive and we cant' afford to make any more. CONFERENCE CROSS CURRENTS Greek Foreign Minister Sophlanopoulos at first was considered a British puppet but surprised everyone by voting against the British on Argentina. Argen-tina. He sides with Russia against Argentina's admission into the San Francisco conference. . . . ... He also helped to pass the Greek 8-hour child labor laws, later was condemned to life imprisonment by the Metaxas dictatorship under King George Real expert on peace machinery ma-chinery is Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco Van Klef-fens Klef-fens who once served on the league of nations secretariat. ... A lot of San Francisco delegates once were newspapermen, including Turkish Congressman Con-gressman Falih Rifki Atay who edits "Ulus" and is president of the Turkish Press association. Another. An-other. Huseyin Cahit Yalcin, is editor of the newspaper news-paper "Yenl Saban." AUSTRALIAN ROW The two Australian delegates, though both members of the same labor government, have been rowing with each other. Deputy Prime Minister Min-ister Francis Michael Forde, minister for the army, has been established as head of the Australian delegation, but for a time there was quite a little debate as to whether he or Herbert V. Evatt, Australian Minister for external affairs, should make the opening speech on behalf of Australia before the conference. In the end he lost. .... Forde was an electrical engineer and a teacher before finally entering parliament. . . . External Minister Evatt is also attorney general and .the youngest high court judge Australia has ever had-He had-He was appointed the chief justice at the age of 36. The British dominions really take this con ference seriously. Their delegates are carefully se lected to represent every walk of political life especially Canada. The Canadian delegation also includes one woman: Mrs. Cora Casselman from Alberta, the only liberal woman member of par liament. . . . Other delegates are W. L. Mackenzie King's growing political rival. M- John Coldwell of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, who mav eive the crime minister a real run for his money in the June elections. Nevertheless, Mackenzie King put him on the Canadian delegation. delega-tion. . . . Also Gordon Graydon of the Progres- sive-Conservatice party, another Mackenzie King opponent, and Senator Lucien Moraud, a con servative big businessman who is president of of Les Prevoyants Du Canada, director of the Bank of Montreal, and a vigorous opponent of the prime minister's policies. (copyright, 1945, by the BeU Syndicate, inc.j -s.- k 8?y AIL DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT If you are troubled with in somnia, don't try to fall asleep. Then, soon, you will be asleep. This- is the somewhat startling advice given by Dr. Bisch.- The cast majority of Insomniacs, Dr. Bisch points out, are so afraid they Will not sleep that, of course, they won't They approach bedtime bed-time with tension and 'anxiety. They count sheep or practice some other sleep trick and then observe their own reactions. They begin wondering how long they have lain awake. They turn and toss. throw off the bed covers, then retrieve re-trieve them. They keep repeating, "I must sleep" They work them selves up into a veritable lather of nervousness. Finally maybe hours later they give, up in despair. They stop thinking sow terrible it is not to be able to fall asleep. And, presto! they are asleep! There's nothing like a. wedding To make a fellow learn At first he thinks she's hisn'n, But later learns he s her n. Your real friends are those who can accept your friendship with out imposing on you. Th rfnrtnr w ha vf riff a diffi cult time in getting an exceeding ly cranky patient to follow his prescriptions. Finally he told him in no uncertain terms that he MUST follow the idoctor's advice if he was to get well. Several days later when the doctor called to check up he found no improve ment and he asked: "Why what is the matter? Didn't you follow my prescription?" v "Not I, repnea me man. "ii i had, I would have broken my neck because it blew out the window!" Dream of Peace Comes True By PETER EDSON NEA Service Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 To Ahmet Emin Yalman, press, rep resentative of the Turkish deleUo see what could be done about gation to the United Nations con ference, has come one of the strangest and pleasantest experiences ex-periences of the whole San Francisco Fran-cisco meeting, marking the end of another, smaller search for peace that began back in 1939. Or maybe it began a r couple of hundred hun-dred years' before that Anyway In 1939 Mr. Yalman was a Turkish commissioner to the Century Cen-tury of Progress Exposition in New York. In June of that year there came to the Turkish Embassy in Washington a delegation of Molo-kans Molo-kans from California. They wanted want-ed to migrate to Turkey and the case came to the attention of Commissioner Yalman in New York because it was in the nature of "new business." Now the Molokans are a lovely people, a clean and humble people something like the American Ameri-can Quakers. The word "Molo-kan" "Molo-kan" means "a drinker of milk." They eat no pork. Molokans arc pacifists. Originally they came from what used to be southern Russia, though their homelands are now in Turkey on the Russian border. Over the centuries they had built up their own customs and culture in which the desire for peace was always a dominant influence. When they grew tired of the continual warring and massacres on the Turkish-Russian border some of the 'younger spirits had migrated to America to find peace and here they had prospered. There is a small colony of them in San Francisco, larger communities com-munities of several thousand families in the Fresno and Los Angeles areas. Thev made aoad citizens. They pay their taxes and iney never cause any trouble. But in 1939 a group of these Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files of The Provo Herald Of May 8. 1925 . Students of the Provo, Alpine and Nebo district high schools celebrated their annual activities and field day at Pleasant Grove. A Provo high student, Miss Nlta Wakefield won the feature event of the day, the declamation contest con-test in which all of the eight schools participated. She was presented with the Pardoe'gold medal. A wave of protest swept over me campus oi tne university of Oklahoma at Norman, Okla., over the resolution 4 limiting "dating" during the first four nights of every week, passed by the board of regents. The Greer cafe, 47 North First West street was held up by an armed rdbber who got away with more than $20 in cash from the register. The sheriff and police officers sent out descriptions descrip-tions of the gunman to peace officers of-ficers of adjoining countries in an attempt to tighten the net .around, him. L. L. Donnan, owner of the Upper Falls resort in Provo canyon, can-yon, filed a. petition for an injunction in-junction in the federal court against Utah county, and the Inland In-land Engineering and Construction Construc-tion company, enjoining the defendants de-fendants from widening the highway high-way which passes the resort. "Chick" Hart, football coach at the Brigham Young university, issued a call for spring football: training to begin on May 18 when he becomes affiliated with the cnurcn scnool faculty. President Heber . Grant was the principal speaker at the quarterly quar-terly conference of the Kolob L D s stake at Springville. Molokans from the Los Angeles colony wanted to return to their homeland and they came to the Turkish Embassy in Washington it. Their reason for wanting to leave America was this: One of the prophets of the Molokans had . a dream. In this dream it was revealed to him that the whole world was going to be engulfed in a horrible war. The United States was going to be involved in this war, according to the prophet, and the only country in the world that would n't be involved would be Turkey. So the Molokans wanted to go back where they came from to live in peace. Well, the Turkish Embassy staff and Commissioner Ahmet Emin Yalman thought this was a very nice but a little bit crazy. Nobody believed in dreams of old men who might be homesick. Besides, if there was a war,, they figured Turkey would be among the first countries to be involved and the United States -would be the last. Why didn't the Molokans realize that and stay where they were in peaceful America? So the Molokans came back to California and here they have stayed. But Ahmet Emin Yalman, now an editor of a newspaper in Turkey, never forgot the strange dream of the Molokan prophet, and when Editor Yalman arrived in San Francisco for the United Nations Conference, one of his first requests was t6 visit the Molokans. They arranged a little meeting of the Molokan Mothers' club out at the neighborhood house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill district. Editor Yalman went out with six other members of the Turkish delegation, and they had a wonderful won-derful time. There were several hundred of the old people there. They all talked Turkish and they all wanted to shake hands with every one of the delegates. The younger Molokans have drifted away from the old traditions somewhat and become Americanized. American-ized. But the old folks wanted to hear how things were with their relatives and forebearers back on the Turkish horder. They were told. The Molokans desire to return home however, is all gone. It was just a dream. They've found peace here. Q's and A's Q Who was Ann Jarvis? A Founder of Mother's Day in 1908. Q How many babies born in the U. S. have at least one loreign-born parent? A- One in 10. A auarter-cen- tury ago, more than half had at least one foreign-born parent. Q What, weight projectile does a 16-inch naval rifle fire? . a one ton. The shell travels nan a mile a second and can be urea zu miles. ' i Has war raised or lowered our population? AKaised it: the 30 per cent rise in Dirth rate within a year aff.' Pearl Harbor far outweighs nut mi y tosses. Q What does COMINCH mean in Navy code? Vr J?,iaies eet (Adml. Er nest J. King.) Your G I Rights Br DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA' Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 8 Here are some questions regarding hos pital and medical attention for veterans: Q I am married, have baby son, and am trying to go to col lege with money from the GI Bill of Rig-fats. The doctor Just told us that the baby would have to have his tonsils removed within month. The money I am getting from the Government Is barely enough to live on, let alone pay for getting my son's tonsils removed. re-moved. Is there any provision any place where I can get the Government to guarantee a loan to have this done, or can It be done In a Government hospital? A There Is no existing Federal provision for helping you out of your predicament. Many veterans veter-ans with non-service-connected disabilities are finding it ex tremely difficult to get into vet erans hospitals. Families of vet erans are not given any free medical attention or hospitaliza tion in Government hospitals Your - only alternative is some local relief agency, Red Cross, or veterans' aid service. Q. Mr foot was Injured In flrhtlnr In Africa, This led to my discharge almost a year ago. Up until lately It hasn't been bother lng me much but a private doctor recommends an operation. I've heard so much about crowded veterans' hospitals I hesitate to go there to have this operation per formed. What do you adviser A. With your service-connect ed disability you have first priority pri-ority on the facilities of any vet- erans' hospital. By all means go to one immediately and let them examine your foot and ' decide f an operation is necessary. Q. I was Injured falling off a Jeep Just before I wai to go over seas. I was eventually aiscnargeo because of 'the Injury, although It seemed to be completely cured. If I have any more trouble with It will It be considered a service- connected disability? A Yes. PEDESTRIAN KILLED COEUR D'ALENE. Ida., May 8 OJ.R) Bernard Knudson, 33, Post Falls, Ida., was killed Monday when struck by an automobile driven by Wesley Waggoner of Spokane. Knudson was reportedly walking walk-ing on the highways near the state line gardens on the Washington-Idaho border when the accident occurred. Desk Chat, Editorial Column sign which reads, "Lost Children Will Be Taken to the Lion House." The implication appear! to be very effective. Promises prompted by prud ence are usually performed. AN IRISH TERRIER PUP A tiny bit of cinnamon fur, Full of life when she's awake Four sandy paws with Claw-tipped toes. White soot on her vest That is always clean. . Little tail that stands Straight up ... x A chummy little, Cuddley little. Irish Terrier pup Just eight weeks old. Yet, with all The native shrewdness Of her breed, knows Who it is that feeds her And knows when it is time To ' romp and play, And, best of all, knows She must bite just 'so' hard. Little black nose, Always cold, Alert ears that detect The slightest sounds Bie. bright, clear - Brown eyes that almost speak. An instinct that knows One footstep from another. One cf te few breeds Worthy to be trusted With little children The kind of dog That is never false To a trust And capable of more affection Than any other dog . . . A frolicsome, ever watchful, Playful, hungry, gentle and spirited Breed of dog that never forgets A friend or an enemy That's my Irish Terrier- "Shaggie Colleen." IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT a jeal ous person can always find something to be jealous about. THE TALLY It Isn't the job we intended to do Or the labor we've just begun That puts us .right on the ledger sheet; It's the work we've really done. Our credit is built upon things we do Our debit on things we shirk The man who totals the biggest plus Is the. man who completes his work. Good intentions do not pay bills; It's easv enoueh to plan: To wish is the play of an office boy; To do is the job of a. man.. Richard Lord oOo PARENTS HAVE BEEN WRONG Young people often have abili ties which their parents do not suspect. For example: Balzac's father insisted tnat nis son become a lawyer. Fame came as a writer. George Bellows' mother wanted him to be a minister, his father wanted him to be a banker. He became a famous artist. Cellini's father wanted him to be a musician. The son made him self a goldsmith. Darwin's father tried to make a minister of the boy who became a renowned naturalist. ; L. Damrosch's parents sent him to medical college: he had to prac tice his music at the homes of friends. " THE KIDS BELIEVE IN SIGNS In a prominent location at the National Zoological FarK, wasn ington. D. C there is posted a flKIOftS-SaOOTH-NO ICI UTSTAIS INIXMNSIVI-SUIt TO II 9009 ENJOY MAKING IT Mtily in your rvfrigarotor. Mix, whip nd ftz vaporafed milk, milk, pwr iwwl cream, Migar, with ANY FLAVOR rvcipM m vcli St package ! LonooftBenny BRAND STABILIZER Piaat ak yavr gracvr A man who had Just purchased pur-chased a parrot that refused to talk was determined to teach it at least one word. , Standing fairly close to the bird, he repeated for several minutes min-utes the words, "Hello! Hello!" 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