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Show IDon't Make Me La ugh, Boys PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. MONDAY, JULY 15, 1946 Editorial . Pioneer in Scenic Publicity Randall L. Jones whose unexpected death was recorded in the daily press last week is one'Utahn whom the state will always be indebted: for publicizing the grandeur of her scenic wonders to the four corners of the earth. A native of Cedar City, Mr. Jones was one of the first to become intimately acquainted with the fantastic coloring and shapes of Bryce, Cedar Breaks, Zion and other southern Utah scenic marvels. He became one of the first to catch the dazzling colors of these wonderlands on the film and latex to show them on the screen and from the lecture platform throughout- the country. coun-try. Starting out as a hobby, the showing of the scenic Utah films as a travelogue, in time became his full-time job, as the Union Pacific took over the job of promoting these scenic resources and opening the wonderlands wonder-lands to the public. Our own intermountain west was just as ignorant of these scenic attractions in our backyard as were the people of other states. Back east Mr. Jones displayed his colored viewr with his lecture, and he encountered difficulty in some places convincing audiences audi-ences that the colors actually were as vivid in nature as they were on the slides which he flashed on the screen. When the first visitors returned from first-hand viewkig of the scenic spectacles they confirmed everything the pioneer publicizer of our southern Utah canyons had claimed in pictures pic-tures and talks. Randall Jones was an architect by profession pro-fession but his major enthusiasm in his later life was for nature's architecture in the great southern Utah region where he was born. The Washington MerrY - Go - Round A Daily Picture of What s f jgSS5' Going On in National Affairs a a i i in on a 0 H v dutr) WASHINGTON If all the history of that fabulous character Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky Ken-tucky and his family were compiled in one volume, vol-ume, it would make a novel more unbelievable than fiction. The only other unbelievable thing Is that grown men In the war department with the responsibility re-sponsibility of millions of lives on their shoudlers should not have seen through the congressman from Kentucky long ago. If they had read past references o May in the Washington Merry-Go-Round or kept the usual clipping morgue operated by any efficient newspaper, they would not today be so re-faced when called before the Mead committee. But they did not even bother to consult FBI files or the court records of the justice department, depart-ment, Instead, Secretary of War Patterson humbly went up to Congressman May's office when summoned. sum-moned. So did Patterson's aide, the present undersecretary under-secretary of war. Brig Gen. Kenneth Royal. In Washington, cabinet members or sub - cabinet members do not call on congressmen; it's the other way around. Reason why the war department chiefs groveled before May will be told later. Revolt of the Suckers Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime union, is the latest union leader to join the leadership of what might be caller the Revolt of the Suckers. Recently CIO President Philip Murray rebuked the communists for their infiltration tactics. Then Morris Munster resigned as head of the CIO furniture workers as a protest against communist control of his union. Now Mr. Curran has lashed out against the same state of affairs in the NMU's higher echelons. eche-lons. Mr. Curran spoke in no uncertain terms. Among other things, he called the recent NMU elections "one of the worst machine jobs I have seen." He charged the communists commu-nists with withholding from the membership member-ship information on the state of their own union. He accused them of putting parasitic followers fol-lowers on the payroll and running the union into the red, of trying to make their blessing bless-ing a prerequisite to holding union office, of discrediting anyone who opposed them, and of breaking their promise to allow the rank and file to control the union. This is substantially the story of Communist Com-munist tictics in every union where they have managed to seize a strong hold. It is evident that the Communists in the labor movement think they're smart. They have absorbed the Russian revolutionary technique which emphasizes discipline, secrecy, sec-recy, tight organization and unremitting work. They obviously believe that the rank and file can be led or pushed, rallied by song and slogan, and made to swallow any preposterous pre-posterous story that suits the leaders purpose, pur-pose, so long as it is told loudly and often enough. This may have worked well enough in Russia and some other countries. But here the communists have made several bad mistakes, mis-takes, which are now catching up with them. They evidently thought that energy was a substitute for resourcefulness, and that discipline takes the place of adaptability. They overlooked the fact that the "dopes" and "suckers' might succeed in electing some of their own officers who wouldn't forever come to heel. Most of all, perhaps, they forgot that they were up against a different sort of rank and file. Sure, the rank and file and some leaders, like Mr. Curran, have played along with the communists. But tie rank-and-file American can be pushed just so far and fooled just so many times. He can also be suspicious and alert. He is literate. And he has ample sources of information in a country coun-try where inquiry and speech are free. During the war, when the communists were lying low, the rank and file seemed to wise up. Today the same old line and tactics (and the communists seem to lack the imagination imag-ination to develop new ones) just aren't going over. The Revolt of the Suckers is under way. COURT RECORD Before Secretary Patterson entered the war department, he was a very able judge on the 2nd circuit court of appeals. Had he bothered to do a little checking on the chairman of the military affairs committee with whom he had to do so much business, he would have found a revealing record in the 6th circuit court of appeals. The record would have shown that May's brother-in-law and cousin were sent to jail for relief frauds back in the old Civil Works Administration days, and that May's political machine burned down the county courthouse in May's home town in order to destroy the relief records and prevent the conviction. Patterson Pat-terson also would have discovered that 14 of May's friends and political supporters went to jail for relief frauds, and that May appeared as their attorney. A congressman is not supposed to take a case against the federal government. He is paid by the j federal government and is supposed to be the I servant of the federal government. Therefore, it lis a penitentiary offense to profit from handling la case against the federal government. Perhaps ' the ebullient Andrew Jackson May got around thte Ion the technicality that he did not profit. Anyway, jhe appeared in court shamelessly and brazenly to ! defend one of the worst relief frauds in U. S. j history. J Furthermore, if the Mead committee would , dig into the files of the post office department. they would find that May exerted all sorts of pressure to have the case dropped. He used his influence as a congiessman in exactly the same way he did on ..behalf of the Erie gasin war profiteers. Desk Chat, Editorial Column ZABoTagm The VHOLE LABOR MOVEMENT YOU'P dETTER. VO J 50W)eTHNC5r- PADDED RELIEF ROLLS What happened was that, back in 1934. Harry Hopkins and his CWA staff found that in "May's home town of Prestonburg and the surrounding county, 112 per cent of the people were on relief in other words, more people than were in the county. May's industrious machine, led by his henchman, Judge Walt Stumbo. had even dug up hundreds of names of people later identified as buried in the cemetery. May's brother-in-law, J. D. Mayo, a grocer, was in on the racket. So was his cousin. Curtis W. May. who ran the Kruger Baker and Grocery Groc-ery company. Both went to jail. Mrs. Mayo, wife of May's brother-in-law. was in the county relief committee, while a niece also was employed there. This was how the racket operated. The county relief committee gave a relief certificate to an alleged needy person, who then took the certificate entitling him to $40 worth I of groceries. The grocer gave him perhaps $5 in groceries and certified that he nad received $40. jThen the certificate was sent to CWA head quarters in Louisville at a net profit of S35. which was usually split between the grocer and the person per-son on relief. The situation was so scandalous that the government gov-ernment discovered 22 sacks of mail sent to Louisville Louis-ville containing unhandled relief orders. In other words, they had merely been filled out and certified certi-fied by grocers including May's cousin and brother-in-law without even bothering to put the certificates in the hands of alleged relief recipients. re-cipients. Since some of the alleged relief recipients were in the cemetery, this would have been difficult. diffi-cult. Others were mountain families who could not read and write and had to depend on the county relief committee to fill in the certificates. After the FBI got into the case, the local relief re-lief crowd burned down the county courthouse court-house to destroy the evidence, not realising that sufficent records remained in Louisville to convict them. In the end, the government had to restore to a mail fraud case, since the bogus relief certificates were sent through the mails. Twenty-seven May henchmen and relatives were indicted, with 16 finally going go-ing to jail, including the head of May's ma-Chine, ma-Chine, Judge Stumbo. Note Reason secretary of War Patterson and Undersecretary Kenneth Royall were so obsequious ob-sequious to May was that he was scratching their back while they were scratching his. Late in the war, Patterson moved heaven and earth to pass a compulsory labor bill conscripting all labor. May introduced this for him and pushed it through the house. It was killed in the senate. Royall also has favored more military control con-trol of the atom and May has carried the ball for him on this. He introduced the May bill giving major atom control to the military and, more recently, re-cently, has gleefully acquiesced in the sabotage of the senate's civilian control bill by the house military mili-tary affairs committee. (Copyright. 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Overstuffed Illusions Today, when thousands of American families fam-ilies are living in one or two rooms, comes word from the arbiters of fashion in domestic do-mestic architecture that the American home is going to be smaller in coming years. But, they add, furniture will remain the same size, although it will look smaller because light rugs and bright-colored drapes and upholstery will create an optical illusion. That's all very interesting. But we wonder whether the illusion will persist when the housewife finds in the home of tomorrow that, although there is less room to get around in while dusting, the slrfaces to be dusted and polished retain their standard dimensions. And what of the tardy reveler, creeping stealthily toward bed with fervent hopes of not waking the little woman? We suspect that for him, traversing the maze of a compressed com-pressed living room in the dark, the corner of a king-size chair might banish the illusion il-lusion with the impact of sharp reality. The true perfectionist condemns no one but simply presses tnwarrl rho marV rr. Henry Noble MacCracken. college. As. What To Do About Palestine By PETER EDSON drives to do something about NEA Washington Correspondent Palestine. Apparently it has all WASHIKr.TflN .Tiilv lr. This1 ic kdki 'i,,.; ,;,k J been spent buzz-saw, but here goes. The point is. you have to take these great big foreign policy problems and fit them into something you're familiar with, close at home. Only then do involved issues begin to make sense. Take for instance, this matter of what to do about Palestine. It so happens that Maryland is the American state closest in area and population to Palestine. Vermont Ver-mont and New Hampshire may come closer in size and shape, but they don't have nearly ar many inhabitants. Palestine is 10,000 square miles with 1.600.n00 population. Maryland is 10,000 square miles and 1,800.000 population. popu-lation. Now supposing some high monkey monk commission from the United Nations came along and said to the people of the great free state of Maryland, "Lookit, you people down here have goti to take in another 100.000 immigrants, immi-grants, quick. The Russians in Austria have just confiscated thei property of a lot of Germans in Austria and told them to get out. They want to come to the American Ameri-can zone in Germany, but there isn't room. So they want to come to Maryland. Get ready to take them in." You can just imagine how much of a stink there would be in Baltimore if anybody tried to put over anything like that on the state of Maryland. Yet that is about the formula the U. S. and British governments now propose to work on Palestine. 'Palestine is in the news again . No. That's wrong. Palestine hasn't been out of the news since the end of World War One since the days of the crusades since the beginning of the Christian era since the days of Moses. It is the world's oldest story, the world's oldest problem. It has never been solved before be-fore and you can bet your last inflated, two-cent nickel that it isn't going to solve it now. Even if President Truman has just sent to London a new committee of deputy cabinet officers under Henry Grady to see what can be done about squeezing another 100,000 immigrants into Palestine quick. It isn't going to solve it now because this is merely another an-other attempt to solve it by the same means that haven't worked before. By force. By dictation. By arbitrary rule repugnant to everyone save the immigrants who would be shoehorned in. From World War One on this was exclusively a British hot potato. Having a mouth and belly full of it was no doubt exactly what made the Britishers talk the way they do. Anyway, the British sucked the United States in on this shortly before the end of World War Two. So half of it is now a U. S. hot potato. It is also the number one grade-Z, constant pain in the neck, and if everyone is not com pletely fed up on having this problem around unsolved, it must be because human-kind loves self-torture. This can be said with fujl sympathy for the poor, afflicted refugees who want to make Palestine their homeland. It can also be said without thought of religious intolerance. It needs to be said, however, to emphasize man's own stupidity and inability to deal with fundamental con flicts. If this oldest of history's prooiems can t be solved by peaceful means, how in the world can some of the newer ones ever get fixed up? Millions of dollars have been spent in propaganda, in newspaper news-paper ads, in literature, in organizing or-ganizing societies to organize in vain. If all this money and effort could have been collected in one pile, it could have bought and paid for a section sec-tion of land for every would-bc immigrant. Even the Arabs must have their price. That is not a facetious observation either. The idea of buying great areas of land is not new. The United States government in its short history purchased Louisiana, Alaska and the Virgin Islands from other PIONEER COACH ON DISPLAY SPALDING, Ida. (U.R) A historic his-toric coach that hauled a total of $1,626,222 from Lewiston to Spalding when the U. S. govern Bishop John Koyle of Dream mine fame comes now with another an-other solemn prediction as follows: fol-lows: He says world-wide trouble will start either August 14 or 27. 1946. World War III will begin by a Russian attack on Turkey, which will bring England in to defend her Mediterranean Interests. In-terests. The U. S. will not be able to come to the aid of England because of a reign of terror within. with-in. On the other date will occur a great financial crash and Wall street will be sent sprawling into oblivion. These two events, declares de-clares Bishop Koyle will begin in earnest the prophesied end of all nations. Those concerned might check up on August 14 and 27 news events. Pert and Pertinent "It is love that makes the world go "round ..." - proverb. but it is marriage that keeps most inhabitants hustling. "No knowledge is so important as what to say and how to say it ..." - advertisement. except, perhaps, what not to say and when not to say it. "Fish go on vacations too . . ." science notes. and . . . they always seem to pick the same time we do. "The estimated bird population of this country is about four billion bil-lion ..." - Orinthological lecture. it is assumed that the estimate esti-mate was made by a suburbanite sub-urbanite who has just planted his garden. PROGRESS All the death we ever die J Will be over in an hour 2 Summer showers help to Develop each budding flower Dimly, through tears, we may catch A fleeting glimpse of tomorrow As slowly we conquer Our fears and our sorrow When striving with might and main New achievements to attain. ing at his watch, he told them there wasn't time for the ceremony cere-mony right then , . . "But," he added, "if you will be seated, I will give you an opportunity at' the end of the service to come forward . . . and you will have the whole congregation as witnesses." wit-nesses." This was satisfactory to the couple and when the closing hymn had been sung, the clergyman clergy-man announced: "Win those who Wish to be united in the holy bonds of matrimony please come forward?" Whereupon, much to his surprise sur-prise and consternation, thirteen women and one man proceeded to the altar. MEMORIAL IDEAS WANTED WILMINGTON. Del. (U.R) Tha Wilmington Junior Chamber of Commerce, In a drive to erect a living memorial to World War II servicemen, has appealed to city residents for suggestions on an appropriate memorial. Fred T. O'Donnell, chairman of the Living Memorial Commission, said "It is the aim of the Junior Chamber of Commerce to stimulate stimu-late thinking along the lines of a living war memorial not a stone monument, but a memorial that will mean something to us today and in the future." Polyjramy Just before the services Sunday J the rector of a small church in! vestible to meet a couple who wanted to be married. After look- ment was making payments to the suburbs was called to the the Nez Perce Indians for their lands is now on display at the Sacajawea Museum. According to records, the hack made its first trip to Spalding in 1895 carrying $626,000 in $20 gold pieces. A lnrtiFSSFsf! governments, mere nas never M-JEM M MmmV e e Deen any question of title since. m-dicme u famous to re- is dollar diplomacy, if you ueVe pain, nervous distress and weale It like, but it is cheaper than fight- hlgbstrung feelings, of 'certain days-ing days-ing continual wars which must - when due to female inevitably be the lot of Palestine ml,I m miuiruMtM'0 miimt if present policies are pursued. LYDIA L PINKHAM'S Smm" (Adv.) 4 WATER HEATERS Electric - Gas - Oil Now Available At BYLUND PLUMBING AND APPLIANCE Pleasant Grove Phone 2942 No Increase In Labor or Parts Prices OPA or not our policy will be lowest prices possible 17 "" Pf Your Safety and Comfort Your Present Car Investment ALL YOU DEMAND in aspirin quality, purity and atrength. vou eet in St. Joseph Aapinn. one nner at any price. 12 tablets 10c. ou save evea more on tie 100 tablet aiso for 35c (Adv.) TO aU OUR FRIENDS and CVSTOMERS this is the most urgent and sincere advice we can give you today. 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