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Show t ..PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD ' MONDAY, -APRIL'6; 1942 PAGE FOUR AIUtmm , Saaptias Smaday) Svada BaraM PbUhd Saadar Stoma Wbllahad br thi' Qtrtld CerporatUo. M South rirst WMt BU-Mt. ProYd. UUJ. Entarad m MBd 1M muiw at th poatoffiaa Provo. Utah, madar tb act of March S, UTI. - dnmaai Kleol Rnthman, HaUoaal AdarUa-tea AdarUa-tea rapraMBUtlraa. Naw York, San rraoelaoo, Detroit. Boston. Vo Ansalaa, Chicago. V Ifambar Unltad Praam. N.' . A. Sarrlaa. tha Bcrtppa Laua at Nawapapara adit Baraaa of ClrealaUaa. OJbarty through an tba laad" Tha LIbarty Ball v "xfeacrtptlm tarma ay oarrl ar ba Otah ouatr. 4 aanta tha - month, -IMS tar Ms asontha. la adranoa; 7.IS tha xar, In Uwt X naU aaywht ra la Cnttad . BtatM or it toaaaralona t eanta tha month; ll.tl (or au " inoatba; I.TI tha roar la advaaea. , Tha Horald tm ' aot aaaaraa " flaaaatal ra-po&alblUt ra-po&alblUt for aay arrorf which may appaar la dvarttaamrata publlahad la Ita aolamna. la thoaa laataaeaa whara tha aapar U at suit. It til raprtat that part of tha adTartlaamaat b which tha typographical ntetakaatteara,' ! Conscience and Country . Once again the problem of the conscientious objector dramatically forces itself upon an .America at war. Lew Ayres, popular and accomplished ac-complished actor,- goes to an Oregon Ore-gon camp to cut timber and clear underbrush rather than man a gun in. the hour of his country's greatest peril. Ayre's profession of faith reads as the word of a sincere man who has long pondered what he well realizes may ruin his career. We have no reason to doubt his sincerity. sin-cerity. Americans, however, may well doubt his reasoning. . "In my opinion, we will never stop wars until we, individually cease fighting them and that is what I intend to do," Ayres explained. ex-plained. The first part of that statement state-ment may be true but how apply it to the Japanese airmen who bombed Pearl Harbor? How apply it to the German panzer- troops who overran Poland and made people of that nation a "subject" race? Would Ayres have retired to his California mountain-top home, lifted not a finger come invasion and cheerfully been assimilated into Nippon's co-prosperity sphere or Hitler's New Order? These ideologies ideolo-gies certainly must.be as repulsive to Ayres as is war itself. Some may come to the defense of the actor with Samuel Johnson's "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," or George Bernard Shaw's "you'll never have a quiet World untiUyou knock patriotism out of the human race." But, in rebuttal, rebut-tal, Cato. held that "love of country is more potent than reason itself," while - Thomas Jefferson .said "my affections first are for my own country, coun-try, and then, generally, for all mankind." man-kind." Lord Byron. felt that "he whe loves not his country can love noth-mg. noth-mg. Fortunately, few must choose between be-tween the dictates of their consciences con-sciences and love , of their native land. Usually the two are entirely compatible. Lew Ayres found - it otherwise, and in one respect it must be admitted his decision may have taken as much courage as a soldier needs in the face of-enemy fire. But such courage as . Ayres'. does not win wars and that happens hap-pens to be the big job.- The answer to conscientious objectors objec-tors and those who are too lazy or too indifferent to do their part lies in the type of enemy we face. This is no War of the Spanish Succession Suc-cession where armies battled under codes of honor, and the laser knew nothing would be lost but a few acres of territory. Our enemies in this war not only want our resources; re-sources; they hate and would destroy de-stroy our way of life. If that way of life is not worth fighting for, it most certainly is not worth the energy we expend in peace time to keep it functioning. It isn't worth having at all, if it means so little we would see it crushed rather than sacrifice to save it. Most of us say: "It is better bet-ter to die on your feet than to live on your knees." "HeUor-Sweden? How's Things iWith You?" niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ji. lijiniiiiumuiuimi uiijHHiii JiiJiiinHinimiiiiiniinnuinurfniimjjniiiismfiiiKiifrirniiinfniniimiiiiitiiiJimmnnin: Washington Me r ry-Co-Ro u n d A Daily Picture of What'. Going On In National Affairs WASHINGTON There is a lot more in the wind at the special executive board meeting of the powerful Auto Workers this week than the announced purpose to decide on Whether the union shall waive double pay for Sunday and holiday work. Inside indications are that approval ap-proval cf this step is certain. I An undisclosed item on the agenda is the question of the UAW declaring open war on John L. Lewis and embarking on a campaign to drive his cohorts out of Michigan In recent months Lewis elements have been very active in the state. Hand-picked henchmen hench-men have been conducting an organizing drive among dairy farmers, signing them up as members mem-bers of tho United Mine Workers. Other henchmen hench-men have been active among utility, transportation transpor-tation and construction workers. Still others have been busy under cover within the UAW itself. it-self. Tt was these last operations that decided UAW chiefs to call for a bare-knuckle showdown show-down with miner czar. Privately they have been sore at him for a long time. But until he started meddling in the affairs of their union, they kept their grievances to themselves. Now, however, they are determined de-termined to "have it out with him, and the executive board will ' be asked to approve such action. If the board does give the green light, the stage will be set for momentous labor history. It will mean that Lewis faces a head-on battle with another CIO union as big as his own. It also will mean that the other CIO leaders and unions will have to take sides and declare themselves for or against Lewis. CTO insiders say there can be only one. outcome, out-come, of Buch a battle: Either Lewis will quit the CIO or be expelled from it. The betting is that he will walk out There already are significant signs that he is secretly ; planning this. He hasn't paid the UAW's per capita tax for three months, and there have been a number of attempted raids on other CIO unions. Note: At a private meeting of UAW leaders several weeks ago, UAW president R. J. Thomas charged that Lewis was secretly supporting restrictive re-strictive labor bills in Congress. WOULD - BE STATESMAN Every election campaign . produces a crop of "novel" office seekers and this year Montana has the record of being the first to turn up one of this ilk. - He "is Byron DeForest, Great Falls credit exchange official, who has tossed his hat hto the ring as a Republican congressional aspirant. In a long statement interspread with frequent capitalizing' DeForest'. gives these reasons -for wanting to go to Congress., 1. 'To start something which . will really act -people agog and take their minds off the war." . " 2. "Tc run as - the anti-New Deal, horse and buggy candidate. My wife and I .took, our first honeymoon" with a horse "and buggy, hence the horse and boggy slogan." 3. j; "To say and demonstrate' that : the New By Draw Putmh aae MaWrt S. Alia Deal has just about wiped out every semblance of democracy we have in this nation." 4. "As I'll not have much work the balance ol this year I fancy I could have a lot of fun in a campaign." And on flaming battlefields all over the world men are fighting and dying to save democracy and freedom for mankind. A COMMUNIST FRONT Last month the House voted overwhelmingly to continue, the Dies committee for another year. But the Texan stall has to run the gauntlet of the Appropriations committee before he gets any money to continue his hdfly controversal operations. Dies is no hero to leaders of this potent committee. com-mittee. Further, his Communism-nudism blast, without the knowledge or authorization of other members of his committee, at officials of Vice President Wallace's Economic Warfare Board, has not made these committee leaders feel any kindlier toward Dies. But the thing that has really got them up in arms is a charge that Dies' committee is being secretly used by Communists to wreak vengeance ven-geance on liberals who have fought the Reds. This is an old Kommy stratagem. They used it to get revenge on David Lasser, head of the Worker Alliance. Lasser fought the Kommies within the organization tooth and nail and finally, final-ly, when he couldn't drive them out, resigned and started a new outfit that smashed the Alliance. The Reds have never forgiven him for this and last year they secretly accused him in certain cer-tain influential congressional quarters of being a Commurist. As a result he was fired from a government job. Several Appropriation leaders want to dig into these charges, and Dies may have the interesting: experience of being subjected to an investigation himself. WHITE HOUSE GUARDS The tragic killing of an FBI agent by two Army deserters in Virginia recently bad an important im-portant repercussion which has not been advertised. ad-vertised. The incident caused a shakeup in the military guard of the White House. What only a few insiders know is that the two deserters had served as White House sentries for some time. At that time no effort was. made to investigate the background and character of soldiers detailed for this duty. Those assigned ty the unit were accepted without with-out question. 1 However, since the killing of the FBI man, and the startling discovery that .the slayers formerly, for-merly, were detailed to guard the President, there-has there-has been a sweeping change In regulations. The Secret Sen-ice now makes a minute Investigation Investiga-tion of every soldier who patrols White House grounds, t&t t - w .. . , ; . .. . .. (Copyright. 1M2,' by United Feature v Syndicate, Inc.) -(- Christian Science Church FORUM 'n Agin 'Em-India 'Em-India Should Be Free, Independent Editor Herald: The crucial spot in the World conflict today is India. It is all important im-portant that the rulers of the British empire can be made to HPA tVlA lfcrtit on4 as 4n 4-Wa weKare 'of liberty, imiepenande-fPeutL 2 : 7). "But the Lord is vested in Sp4" the lesson scr- and the peace of the world, before it is too late. Also it is hoped our radio commentators . and news columnists can gin a comprehensive comprehen-sive view of the vastly fundamental fund-amental change . that is the . essence es-sence of the present world revolution revolu-tion ; and cease advocating ; in favor of imperialism and" the empire em-pire system. If there is anything clear, it Is that every people are entitled to individual liberty and every nation to national independence. The old imperialist slogans of "the white man's burden" and of "civilizing the savages" no longer have any potency. They are gone forever; because the world has come to understand they were nothing more than hypocritical, false phrases to cover up the system of conquest and enslavement. enslave-ment. Really "the white man's burden" was armaments and "civilizing the savages" was Shooting defenseless people if they objected to the last of their natural wealth and the enslavement. enslave-ment. of their lives and labor. Every nationality is distinctive from every other. It has a common com-mon language, way of loving and doing, art, literature and culture and above all a quite common way of thought. R has taken thousands of years of time to produce a nation; na-tion; and in that long process, many distinctive goodnesses and beauties have been developed that should be preserved to enrich the whole world. Imperialism, the empire system, has done the opposite, op-posite, it has destroyed national wealth both material and spiritual. Today the c o m m e ntators, especially Cedrick Foster are advocating ad-vocating that India must not be granted independence because the three different nationalities there would fight among themselves. British armed forces must occupy the country to prevent such a horror. What inconsistency! What nonsence! What kind of a war would it be anyway compared to what is raging , now. even if they should fight among themselves! And there's no reason, outside of Foster's imagination to suppose they would fight one another. Russia has about 180 different nationalities in the Soviet Union. Each and everyone of them is an independent -nation, speaking their own language, fleeting their own officers, making their own law, preserving and extending their national culture, And they don't fight one another. 4 India is a wonderful country. rich in natural resources, national culture and human intelligence. By ' granting India Individual lib erty and national; Independence. Britain would be . acting in the spirit of real democracy and Christianity: and would make a great contribution toward winning uie ; war and esiaDusning world peace, in a system of the sister hood of nations as ' wen k as the brotherhood of man. E. A. MITCHELL " Life shewn as ituality. The- subject of mon is unreality. Among the Scriptural references refer-ences are: "Thou shalt have none other Eods before me." McKellar Emerges As Newest Government Economy Advocate (his holy temple, let all the earth kopn silent before him. (Has. O. .20). "Little children, keep yourselves your-selves from idols." (I John 5: 21).' "For in much wisdom is grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." (Eccl. 1: 16). "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.i And again, the Lord know-eth know-eth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain." (I Cor. 3: 19, 20). "That no Hesh shou'? glory in its presence." (I Cof. 1: 29). "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." fLuke 16; 13). - The following excerpts are' from Science and Health with Key to the Scrinture. bv Mary Baker Eddy: "The human . mind has oeen an dolator from the beginning. begin-ning. The idols of civilization are far more fatal to health and longevity long-evity than are the idols of barbarism." bar-barism." (p 173: 30-31). The realities of being and the, origin of all things are unseen to mortal sense; whereas the unreal and imitative movements of mortal belief, which would reverse the immortal modus and action art style the real. Of a man it has been said "As he thinkcth in his heart, so ts he;" hence as a man spiritually understandcth, so is he in truth." (p. 213: 29-1 f 3-5). "In his resurrection and ascension Jesus showed that a mortal man is not the real essence of manhood," man-hood," and that materially disappears disap-pears in the presence of the reality." real-ity." (p. 292: 31-2). tered Colorado since the out break of the war. Sheriff Gus C. Anderson of Greeley said an even 400 Japa nese had entered Weld county so far. indicating that the northern Colorado county has received more immigrdnts than any other county. coun-ty. Highway patrol officials in Denver said a total of 179 Japanese Japa-nese from California have entered en-tered the 'state in; recent weeks. Other, estimates .said the balance bal-ance of the 1,200 had settled in southern Colorado farm areas. 1201) Coast Japs Come to Colorado DENVER, ' Colo., April 6 (Un official- estimates by state offi cials indicated tonight that- a least 1,200 Japanese from West Coast defense areas have en- BY PETER EDSOX Daily Herald Washington Correspondent ' WASHINGTON. April 6 The Hon. Kenneth McKellar, bachelor, senior senator from Tennessee, has emerged recently as one of the rreatest advocates of government economy in the congress, and maybe may-be there's a reason. You may recall that last fall there . was a great to-do about building x Douglas Dam in western Tennessee. Senator McKellar was agin' it. His point was that to build Douglas Dam would flood some of the best farm land in the state, cause a lot of farmers to be moved off their acres, and ruin the business of several canning can-ning factories. Senator McKellar proposed that two or three other dams be; built on other ' locations to give the same amount of power for about the same amount of money and at the same , time avoid the upset of "pea canning as usual." He wrote a bill to build "his" dams and he nearly, but not quite, slipped slip-ped it through as an amendment to other legislation. But the case for Douglas Dam was well prepared by smart young David E Lillenthal. chairman of the. Tennessee Valley Authority. Douglas Dam was presented as a necessary item of national defense. de-fense. It was shown how the dam could be built economically and quickly, as a duplicate.. of another TVA dam to provide the power needed for increased . aluminum production. TVA .wanted it The old OPM wanted it. The President wanted it. Everybody wanted it except 'Senator McKellar. The senator had to back' down and take his licking. Douglas Dam ap propriation went through. Wheta His Knife-Ever Knife-Ever since then, the Hon. Ken neth McKellar from Memphis has been a changed man. Never a New Dealer in the narrowest sense, he was yet a good party man and he went along with the administra tlon most of the time particular ly the' powerful southern bloc After the battle for Douglas Dam, however, the distinguished sena tor from Tennessee began to look through instead of over his spectacles spec-tacles at new appropriation bills. In the manner of a southern gen tleman at his best, he began to go rebel. Cut some of his pet proj ects from under him, would they? Well, maybe he could do a little cutting of his own. He was in an excellent position to wage war. He. had completed 30 years in Congress, and he knew all the tricks. He didn't have to run for office again until 1947. He was chairman of the Senate Post-office Post-office , . Committee, K which passed on postmasterships. Any congressman congress-man with a pet patronage post master to get appointed had to see Kenneth and a favor granted is a favor gained in the code of logrolling congressmen. Moreover, McKellar was ranx- ing member and most active senator sena-tor on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Carter Glass was chairman, but McKellar did much of the work. And the committee passes on all bills granting money to federal agencies. On top of that, McKellar was named a mem ber of the Congressional joint Committe on Reduction of Non-Essential Non-Essential Federal Expenditures. Senator Harry F. Bird was chair man of that committee, but again McKellar was ranking member. Armed with this double-barreled shotgun, McKellar began blasting. Government Travelers He took a number of potshots at th Office of Civilian Defense. He began firing at the National Youth Administration ana uie Civilian Conservation Corps and he introduced a bill which would in effect abolish them both by transferring their useful functions to other existing government agencies. ' He started scrutinizing travel expenses of all federal organizations organiza-tions and he came up with the amazing revelation that the travel expenses of the government today, to-day, while only a small part of the grand total of all present ex- Senditures, are a sixth of what le total cost of government was when McKellar came to Congress In 191L McKellar's gunning apparently has just begun. His bill to abolish NYA and CCC probably won't get any place, he publicly admits. But before the hunting season is over, the Memphis sharpshooter will probably blast out of the federal fed-eral budget the equal cost of a couple Douglas Dams. And boy, is he laying for Dave Lilienthal! Kill his pet bills, will ne! ' o;WARQUlzj5 1." This insignia on the armband arm-band of a man In the Navy suggests sug-gests a quarter moon. Moon sug- . gests - astronomy, and astronomy suggests . taking observations' as to the location. But has the wearer wear-er got anything to do with this? . 2. Canada has recently re 1 n- fdrced troops engaged in defending defend-ing the British Empire. Were they sent to Egypt, Palestine. Eng- land, India? 3. President Roosevelt was-once assistant secretary of the Navy. Name two heads of 'state who actually served in navies- . Answer on Page Eight O SERIAL STORY MEXICAN MASQUERADE BY CECIL CARNES COmtWHT. II NCA SUVICS. INC. AUMIMLKT BjrlBOBJCBT QUILLJDI ft i. x ' Bv UOBUII QU1LLEN ' "Nature seems to balance h things. By t the -.. time - you : get false teeth to take the f pleasure out o' kissln', your kissin days are . over, any-way."- " " FELLOW PRISONER CHAPTER XI TVO man however brave can hear . himself sentenced to die un moved. A chill trickled up Allan's spine and down again; his lips tightened to a straight line; but tney did not tremble, and he forced his eyes to meet the steady gaze fixed upon him by Watanabe. He did not speak, for. there was so obviously-nothing to say. I have the authority to execute you immediately," continued the Japanese thoughtfully, "but I prefer pre-fer to wait a little just a little while, senorl . It happens you have arrived at an awkward moment for us. My superior officer fcere. Gen. Baron Kazunari Sagoya, is absent ab-sent at present .on a short business trip north to your own country, in fact. I think he may wish to question you before you cr leave us." Allan cleared his throat. He tried to think of something to say, but his thoughts were rather badly confused for the moment. Before anything useful occurred to him, Watanabe's smooth voice resumed. "You will be placed on a neigh boring island which we use for the detention of undesirables. You will have some freedom of movement, Dut you win not attempt to escape, senor! There are guards there who are expert marksmen and the waters of this Gulf are teeming witn man-eating sharks. I con sider it only fair to warn you of these deadly dangers." rnanK you," said Allan me chanically. . Watanabe took up the automatic auto-matic and put it in a drawer of his desk. He examined . the field glasses casually. "You may keep these, senor," he announced generously, but spoiled the effect by adding naively: 1 have a better pair- of my own already." al-ready." He handed them with a word in Japanese to the guard, who - hung . thenar over Allan's shoulder by their strap. "That is all for noWi senor. We will meet again, I'm sure." - At last Allan could say something some-thing with 'sincerity. - "I hope so!? he declared grimly. The blindfold- was replaced. With the guard in front and .the Eurasian behind, he was led back the way he had come. , He took. a long breath of the hot,' humid air when the last door , was passed; it was good to be above-ground once more. - .: .v .v-: Still blindfolded, he was placed in a launch. Only the guard was with him now. When the putt-putt ceased ' and the boat's nose grated against a dockv the - man removed the' bandage. - He held a revolver in one hand while he loosed Allan's bonds with the other. "You make trouble, I shoot!" he said in halting Spanish. THEN Allan was free at last to stretch his cramped arms. He scrambled onto the dock, and the launch was promptly backed away. He straightened ' thankfully, and found himself looking into a pair of heaven-blue eyes. They belonged be-longed to .' the girl he had seen through the glasses. She was prettier pret-tier at this close range, and much prettier than the photograph he had studied so carefully before leaving San Diego. "Hullo!" he said. "Miss Kay Sargent, I believe!" "O-o-oh!" gasped the girl breathlessly. "Who are you?" "Aiian Steele." He held out a partially numbed hand. "I'm glad to find you at last, Miss Sargent. I ve been looking for you!" "Looking for me?" repeated Kay Sargent, and as the idea seemed to register on her mind, she drew back the breath she had lost in one long inhalation. "Tnank heaven!" she cried softly. "I'd begun be-gun to think nobody was ever going go-ing to do anything! It's nearly two months now , since we were brought here-by force, and not a sign from home!" "Huh? You didn't meet Harry Bishop?" . "Harry Bishop? No. Who is he?" "Why give you the details later! He came down here hunt ing for your father and you, but er came back without locating you. And .where is your father, Miss Sargent?" "He's over there, said Kay, nodding toward the island Allan had just left. She added bitterly: 'A prisoner! As I am here!" "But, why? Why has this outfit kidnaped you two?" "I don t, know!" she answered, and the despair in her tone gave him a hint of the torture she had suffered from uncertainty. "If I knew -Jhat .perhaps I. . could do something about it" Seems to be a Chinese puzzle with' a Japanese polish: . I .know your father, came here on some mission for our Government, 'but they ; didn't give : me the detaUs. Just what was he after?" "He "never told me. Father Is very careful, And "since' they brought us here I have had no chance to -talk 'with him. Every day, -at six In the afternoon, two guards bring him to the shore of that island. We see each other and wave our hands. I don't - believe they : ill-treat him. but oh. - he seems to look 20 years older--than when we left the. States.. j i "TyOW, now thumbs up!" he urged her hurriedly, detecting detect-ing the shine of tears in her eyes. "We'll bust this racket yet!" "C-can you really help us?" she demanded. "Aren't you a prisoner too, Mr. Mr. ?" "Steele. My friends call me Allan, Al-lan, though and I suppose yours call you Kay.Vdon't they? Let's start right out on a Kay and Allan basis, shall we? I've a notion well be good friends before we get out from behind this 8-ball." "I hope so Allan. Father and I need a friend." "Come to think of it, havent you one already? Who was that you were talking with here a while ago?" "Pierre de Fontanelle!" She brightened and smiled as she uttered ut-tered the name. "Pierre's a dear! He does little things to make me comfortable, and he tries to keep me cheerful! He's French." "I thought so from the way he talks." "You've met him?" asked Kay, eyebrows arching In surprise. "No seen him. He waves his hands. You look out, Kay, or sometime when he's chatting with you he'll get. really excited and maybe give you a nasty clip on the jaw." . - She drew back her head at that and laughed. It was a : rippling little Jaugh, musical as a .run on the piano, and it did queer things to Allan's insides. He wondered if he was going to fall in love with Kay Sargent ... Who is De Fontanelle?" : he asked, and actually sounded a trifle jealous. "What's he doing here?" "He's a prisoner like us. He came the day after I did. .He's a geologist, he told me. .; He was prospecting those mountains' over there for mineral deposits when the Japanese picked him ud. Thev said he was spying on them., He says they're crazy!" . "Yeah? If they're ctazv. w in a big way. The chief of the outfit is a general and a baron; next in command is a Japanese Armv col onel, and there's a scientist with eyes as sharp as microscoDes! Verv distinguished bunch of .. lunatics. I'd say. But this De Fontanelle what Is he politically? That counts nowadays. r . r. r ,.. ' ' - - "He's Free French. He's a ereat . admirer of General de Gaulle and he turns purple if ' you mention Vichy,, r a-.v..-s-. .- Sounds okay. mnrerfoA Allan He glanced at- his : wrist watch. They parade your father at six? It's Just that now." . ."And there The . comes! VA walked down here to wait for him, 1 ana louaaTou just arriving.' - V |