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Show 0 0 DO Commonwealth Elections Two members of the British family are holding general elections this summer. South Africa already has voted, and tabulation awaits return of soldier votes cast abroad. Australia probably will vote next month. The two- polls are entirely different in their world significance. One is, in a sense, almost routine, as though we here in the United Slates were to choose between President Roosevelt and some Republican Re-publican opponent as ardently behind be-hind the war as he, but critical of his administrative methods. That is in Australia, where Premier Curtin seeks a clearcut majority for his Labor party. The Opposition took Australia into the war originally, so there is no. possible question that, whoever wins, the land down under will go on fighting with all the vigor at her corrfaand, In South Africa the ballots now scaled away, awaiting count, may decide whether the United Nations are to lose a small but respected ally against the Axis. Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, the old Boer leader, is prime minister. He is ardently belligerent against the Axis. The Nazis were so anxious for the success of his opposition that for weeks during the campaign a German Ger-man radio station beamed propaganda propa-ganda against General Smuts at the bouth African voters. In all probability, reliable observers observ-ers believe, the sometime intelligent Nazi propagandists threw a political boomerang. Their interference with the South African poll provided the government with some of its most effective arguments, and won from newspapers an amount of space that the election might never have obtained ob-tained otherwise. This Nazi interference, made the issue clearcut. If General Smuts loses strength, even though he wins the election, Goebbels will be able to claim that South Africa is tired of the war, that ties binding together the British commonwealth ere weakening, weaken-ing, and to use this in argument directed di-rected to other belligerents and to neutrals. If, on the other hand, the prime minister min-ister gains in strength, the fact that the Nazis made the issue so clearcut will make them look even more ridiculous ridi-culous as propagandists and less impressive as "supermen" than they do right now. Poorly informed . Administrator Prentiss M. Brown expresses the feeling, in an interview with JnEA Correspondent Peter Ed-son, Ed-son, that only in Washington do the people feel that price control and rationing ra-tioning have been "the most confused sector of the home front war." Venturing no opinion whether Mr. Brown's agency's work has been "the utmost" confusing, or even whether it is so regarded by the people peo-ple anywhere, we want to set Mr. Brown right on one thing: The people everywhere, from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf, feel, rightly or wrongly, that the handling of rationing and price x control has been very, very confusing. confus-ing. If OPA's regional offices report differently, we advise stronger spec tacles - and higher powered earphones ear-phones for their use. ; No satisfactory all-synthetic truck tires have been built as yet by anyone; any-one; No satisfactory all-synthetic tubes have been built as yet by anyone. any-one. J. P. Sieberling, rubber manufacturer. manu-facturer. . . There' . is an adequate supply of textiles to meet . all military :. and essential es-sential civilian heeds. The major pro- : gram is ; to 'sel thatthe use is; made. WPB Chairman Donald Nelson; PROVO (UTAH) m fli-n TfHE WASHINGTON! THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943 D CHAT BY THE EDITOR Transition rom Bull ome The letter from a defense worker's work-er's wile, ieprouuced in tnis column col-umn in Tuesday's Herald has produced pro-duced a repiy irorn a proieswionai man, a resident of this city for more than ha.f a century. You remember, the lady scathingly reproved re-proved some of tne people here for their failure to rent their vacant va-cant housing facilities, including tneir vacanc basements and expressed ex-pressed the wish that the big de-tense de-tense projects could have gone to other states where peopie are more hospitable and appreciative than they are in Utah. iere is a reply from our retired piofessional man, whose identity , nke the lady's, will remain anonymous: anony-mous: "The letter by 'a defense worker' work-er' in your issue of August 3 seemed seem-ed silly, sad and tragic, to say the least. "How in heaven's name could the residents of this 'beautiful valley' including Provo, know that this defense worker was coming to live among them, and find on her arrival ail tne modern conveniences con-veniences of civilization awaiting her? "Why did she not purchase a building lot (as we did) dig a basement base-ment with her own hands (as we Uid) haul bui.ding rock from the canyons for the foundation (as we did) or purchase cement, put in the foundation, erect the walls, put on the rooof and then move .u. 'lhen let her add, from time to time, anything and everything that will make for usefulness, economy, convenience and beauty? "We, who came to beautiful Provo, 50 or more years ago, have cleat ed the sagebrush from where our homes now stand, organized irrigation systems, waterworks systems, electric light plants, built churches, schools, laid out parks, installed sewer system, paved streets and sidewalks, planted plant-ed trees, gardens shrubs, flowers in fact, made tne desert 'blossom as the rose.' "Again, many, many of the defense de-fense workers who have come to live and work in Utah during the ttant year, nave been fine, aesir-able aesir-able people; but, sorry to say, some have not brought with them refinement, culture or superior education. Many residents who have opened their homes to defense de-fense workers testify that un-cleanliness, un-cleanliness, destruction of prop erty, naoituai drinking, smoking, immorality have been the rule of the lives of the renters, rather than the exception. These cpndi-ions cpndi-ions are certainly regrettable in any community. . And this lady goes off fcn a huff because no suitable ready-made ready-made place could be found and she was not wihing to build a home of her own or purchase one of the so-called cheese boxes' or new homes built and linanced by the Federal Housing Administration." The argument is often advanced by people on the government pay- oud uiat food subsidies should work here because the Britisn have had a measure of success with them. A member of the British Brit-ish parliament on a recent visit to the Lnied States expressed astonishment at this reasoning. England, he pointed out, cannot produce what she eats. Her food must be imported. War has imposed im-posed whoUy artif icial obstacles to normal imports, such as ship sinkings, high insurance costs, spoilage, and the like. England's outuiuies aie designer to, absorb this coot, not to inciease food production. pro-duction. "But here in the United States," said the M.P., "you propose to bribe your own peopie to produce pro-duce food for you. It would never occur to the British ' to do such a thing." Definite Derisive Definitions Social Tact is making your company feel at home when you visa tney were. Suicide Blonde one who dyes by her own hand. t Sa.es Kestauuioe a triumph of mind over chatter. Committee eiialrmatn the sucker suck-er who is pickeu to do all the work. Cyni5 one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. . . Taxi driver a fellow (or girl) who drives away business. Optimist a persorK who does not worry about all the tumult and chaos around him because he has a hunch it vPPen to him. . . .and the one about the soldier rho wrote to .his best girl back home and told her he comd not . e veal where his outfit was, then, n trying to say "it" in a different way, he ended the letter with "isle of View"... but the censor cut it out of the letter. (If you don't get that one, repeat "Isle of View" over several times.) . . ' -i Punative pun . The modern girl can never tell how, a boy will turn out until the old folks turn in. ' ' j "".'..today's absent-minded contest, con-test, was won by the druggist who, when asked if he had a wife, replied; re-plied; "No. ,but I have something . .t : . , " . mk ) ) l$$5AL$BURV STEAK. v ft -a. New Books In The Library Prefaces To Peace, a symposium sympos-ium from the books of Wendell L. Willkie, Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson, Henry A. Wallace, and Sumner Welles. Towards An Abiding Peace, by R. M. Maclver. Free Men of America, by Eze-quiel Eze-quiel Padilla. U. S. Foreign Policy, by Walter Lippmann. Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time, by Harold J. Laski. Assignment To Nowhere, by Lowell Bennett. Querns Die Proudly, by W. L. White. Western Star, by Stephen Vincent Vin-cent Benet. The Humboldt, by Dale L. Morgan. Mor-gan. Abundant Living, by E. Stanley Jones. The Shining Trail, by Iola Fuller. Ful-ler. Dawn Over the Amazon, by Carleton Reals. 0's and A's Q What well-known artist recently re-cently was reported missing in action in the South Pacific? A McClelland Barclay, member mem-ber of the "war arts corps,' who was making sketches in New Guinea as part of a pictorial record rec-ord of the war. Q The Isle of Capri has long been a favorite sopt for tourists. Where is it and what military importance im-portance does it have? A The picturesque island lies off the harbor of Naples, often-bombed often-bombed target for Allied planes and possible invasion port. Q The name of Benito Mussolini Musso-lini has appeared countless times in the public prints, but v the chances are you don't know what his middle name is. Can you recall re-call seeing it in your newspaper at any time? A The middle name of Italy's fallen dictator is Juarez. LAB GIRL By Rene Ryerson Mart COPYRIGHT, 1849. NBA SERVICE. INC. Times change--mother used to blush when ' ane J, was ashamed but daughter is ashamed when she blushes.' - .?;' THE STORY i NVd Fraiek mnees at the dlaaer table that he ha beea drafted. He ref ummm to let his well-to-do father ftaasle MMMlMlea for him. TO HELP WIN THE WAR CHAPTER II f7TTH a sense of unreality, Bar-" Bar-" bee listened to the conversation conversa-tion between her father and brother. "Ned this is no time to joke. Of course, you're not going into the Army as a private. You're too valuable a man." Archibald French spoke with utter conviction. convic-tion. The sons of all his friends were officers. There was no rea-lon rea-lon why Ned shouldn't have a commission, too. But Ned shook his head again. "I'm sorry, Dad but I mean it. I've no particular training to fit me as an officer. So I'm going in as a private. Then if I show any ability I'll be recommended for Officers Training. That's the American way to do it the democratic dem-ocratic way." Mr. French dabbed jerkily at his mouth with a napkki. "There's no sense in being foolishly idealistic ideal-istic about this, Ned," he opposed. "In the first place, you've no idea of what you're letting yourself in for, if you go as a private. . The hardships "That's just the point," Ned broke in. "Too many officers don't know what the life of a private is. f I know, IH be a better officer vhen my time comes." Charles Mowry spoke up. "I ahA Ned's right, Mr. French. It's fine thing he's doing. It's a dis-race dis-race the way every man with a ttle education or money is grab- ing a commission. "It's no use talking anyway, Ted said. "My mind's made up. Barbee saw : the opposition rowin in her father's face. Sm made her decision qutcfciy. Slipping Slip-ping from 5 her 1 chair she ran around the table to Ned, threw her - arms . around, his neck and kissed him. With her arms still around Ned's neck she smiled at her father, exerting all her charm to win him over. Whatever hap-? pened there mustn't be a quarrel between her father and Ned now. Im proud of him, DacLJ Aren't you?" ; '"r-'''.-?' - Mr. French wavered and was lost. When the two of them sided against him, he was rarely able to hold out He swallowed hard. "All right, aon. If that's the way you? want it. I only hope you don't regret your decision. : . . Ned'a . face . lit; up. : -t; won't, Dad.",.,' "D ARB EE went back: to her seat, -r;her eyes very bright with unshed un-shed tears, and pretended to listen while Ned and Chkrles and her father talked over Ned's immediate imme-diate plans. But she wasn't really hearing what they said. Over and over in her head tolled the dreadful words: "Ned is going to war! Ned is going to war! My. brother is going to war." Ned and Charles went out immediately im-mediately the meal was over. Archibald French shut himself up in the library. Barbee had a feeling feel-ing that he wanted to be alone, wanted to adjust himself to the idea of his son going into the Army as a private. That hurt his pride, Barbee knew. As president of the town's leading bank, and with his finger in half a dozen financial and civic enterprises he could so easily have made the contacts necessary to get a commission com-mission for Ned. Soberly she climbed the stairs to her room and closed the door behind her. Her own reflection looked back at her from the mirror mir-ror opposite. It seemed so long ago that she had stood there preening in her new dress, silly, frivolous girl interested only in clothes and looking pretty. Now so many other things were more important. The thought served as a spring to action. Purposefully she took off the blue dress, replaced it in its box, smoothed the protecting tissue paper over it and fastened the lid. She'd take the dress back to the store tomorrow. The $25 that it cost would buy a war bond. The simple act of renunciation helped a little. But she was still too restless to read or listen to the radio or write letters, the activities activi-ties that usually filled her evenings eve-nings at home. She had to keep moving or she'd cry, and she didn't want to do that. She and Ned were unusually close for brother and sister. Per haps, tne racx mat tneir mother had died when they were very small had had something to do with drawing them closely together. to-gether. At any rate, she had always al-ways patterned her behavior after Ned's, and she felt' a compulsion to do so now.. He was happy and eager about going into the Army. She must at least try to be happy about it ' . i, Slipping into a robe she J went into his room. She hung up the clothes that he had left scattered around the room when he dressed for dinner. She turned down his bed, laid - out j his pajamas, tidied his desk. Above it in accrescent were ranged the pictures, of. some girls.' Barbee knew most of them." There 'was pretty red-haired Madge Sanders, dark Carrie Craig, blond Joan v- Carbry. that - rather plain looking girl who had the nice personality. Delia Overstreet Ned dated them all occasionally, but went with none of them steadily. In fact he took Barbee to dances and parties more often than any other girt And that brought her right to her big problem. She was going to miss Ned terribly. She simply couldn't mope around the house, worrying about him, waiting for the postman. She'd have to do something. Do something to help win the war. TTER spirits soared and then sank with a new depression. What could she do? She had no practical training along any line whatsoever. An expensive girl's finishing school didn't fit one to help win a war. Her chin took on a determined slant. After all there must be something she could do. She was young, healthy, strong. And then she remembered the conversation at dinner. Charles had been talking talk-ing about a chemistry course to train women for war jobs. There was the solution to her problem. She saw Charles about it the next morning. She'd gone over to the chemistry building early and had to wait. He was in conference with the professors of the chemistry chemis-try department and a government man from Washington. His face lit up when he came put into the hall and saw her. He was also surprised. "I haven't much time. Bee. We're organizing the course I'm to teach. What was it you wanted to see me about?" She told him briefly. He didn't react as she had expected ex-pected him to. His voice was troubled. I dont know, Bee. I I hardly think this is the thing for you." " " 'Why not? He explained it patiently as one would to a child. "The women we train here will go into laboratories in war plants. The jobs they accept ac-cept will be hard, dirty, sometimes even dangerous. That isn't for a girl like you; s ; 4 Charles didn't know her very well, Barbee decided. A hard job, a dirty job, a dangerous job was just what she wanted. Ned had made his choice by going in ; the Arrnyj; as a private. 'Well, she 3 wanted to shbw him that she had the stamina to do a hard job, too. Late; she heard Ken Carter ref er to this Quality s. ''guts,' and was to wonder .what .Charles . would have thought if shehad used, the expression. that. 4iay.-: H ...-'. ' - But she . didn't know Ken .men, . didn't' know , his' pungent vnvf of talkmg she only, knewv what she wanted. ; : . .... - - . - . . a-, .- . MERRY - GO - ROUND Pulse Feeling, Lady Marines BY PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent An ace Washington correspondent, correspon-dent, just back from a swing around the country to feel the public pulse, reports that he heard people giving Roosevelt hell every place he went but didn't hear Hitler's name mentioned men-tioned once. Pressure is being brought to bear, on WAC Director Oveta Culp' Hobby to approve changes in the design on the WAC millinery, mil-linery, for some Army officers male are convinced that the reason WAC recruiting has fallen off so badly is because the gals don't like that cap. The typewriter type-writer pounding that women do for the army being about the same as the typewriter pounding they would do for the navy, coast guard or marines, the feminine psychological warfare strategists figure that the outfit which has the snappiest uniform will get the most recruits. The WAVE hat being more feminine than the WAC cap, some of the male army officers trying to encourage encour-age WAC recruiting are sitting up nights worrying about having some new millinery designed for the soldier girls, as an inducement induce-ment to enlist and stop resignations. resigna-tions. Recruiting of lady Marines is supposed to have gone great guns up to the time the new green and white Striped seersucker summer uniforms were brough out. Since then, it hasn't been so good. What all this leads to eventually is the possibility of seasonal changes in style for all the women in service, just to humor them. At that, the -women would not be proving themselves less vain than the navy, which has switched uniforms uni-forms from white to khaki to the new slate gray, just as the war began. Allen and First Division Maj. Gen. Terry De La Marre Allen, commander of the First Division, which has cut such wide swaths through the enemy in both North Africa and Sicily, is now rated as one of the most colorful of all the !U. S. army commanders, not even excluding old Blood and Guts, Greejr Mantle Man-tle Patton, Allen's superTor"tom-manding superTor"tom-manding the U. S. Seventh army. He dropped out of West Point after three years to study philosophy phil-osophy at Catholic University in Washington. Then was commissioned commis-sioned a second lieutenant from civilian life. He is bitterly resentful resent-ful of other army organizations calling themselves "First" First Armored Division, First Marine Division, and so on. "There is only one 'first' division," he storms. All his orders to his troops in the North African campaign cam-paign end with this characteristic sentence: "Nothing in hell can stop the First Division." I The pants of Arthur D. Whiteside, White-side, vice chairman of the War Production Board in charge of civilian requirements, provide one of the more intriguing topics of gossip around WPBS headquarters. headquar-ters. Whiteside, president of Dun and Bradstreet, is one of the most energetic and dynamic ex ecutives in Washington, and his pants are characteristic. As he paces up and down in his office, hands stuck in his pockets, the tails of his coat part to reveal that the pants of his business suits are laced up the back, sailor fashion, and therefore adjustable. ad-justable. Also, there are snaps on the bottom of his trouser legs. if. S Sjc Quick Change Whiteside has some of his everyday business suits tailored that way so he can fasten the folded cuffs tightly about his an kles, kick off his street shoes, slip into some riding shoes, jump on a horse and go riding off across the hills near his West-port, West-port, Conn., home, without changing clothes before or after hours in his New York office. 3c 3C A footnote to Secretary of the Interior-Petroleum Administrator for War Harold L. Ickes' recent assurances that the gasoline situ ation is now improving is that the government car in which Mr. Ickes is frequently chauffeured to and from work is doing 40 unnecessary miles every time it maKes a trip. The car is kept in a government garage in Washington.- In the morning, it is driven out to the Ickes farm in Maryland. 20 miles from Washington, Wash-ington, to pick up the secretary. It hauls him to : work. At day's end It hauls him home. Then the car returns to the government garage in Washington. SIOP BUILDING RECORD REVEALED ' WASHINGTON, Aug. ' OLE The Maritime commission reported report-ed . today that American shipyards during the first seven months of 1943 delivered into service 1,046 new - merchant vessels represent ing a tonnage equivalent to that of tnis country's . .total ocean-going merchant marine at the - time ' of Peart Harbor;. " . .'.-'- V A Daily Picture of What's REEL'S Going on in National Affairs tf T,iS.tf?. WASHINGTON Inside fact is that Presi- . dent Roosevelt's fireside radio talk was sent to Churchill in advance for his OK and approval. Churchill's talk before the House o Commons, , however, was not sent to Washington in advance. ; If it had boeh, tactful suggestions might : have been made to tone down the "seared, scar- : red and blackened" threats, since U. S. policy is not to be harsh with the Italian- people now-: that they have kicked out Mussolini. Italians, . unfortunately, are extremely suspicious of England, Eng-land, think she wants to keep certain Mediterranean Mediter-ranean islands, Pantelleria, perhaps Sicily. Thr man who prompted Roosevelt to rebuff , the OWI for calling Victor Emanuel a "moronic : little King" was Admiral Leahy. He hot-footed it over to the White House immediately, warned the ; President there was no use heaping abuse on the : new Italian government until it had a chaice . to act. , t . . - Trouble was that OWI's broadcasts have been operated by a group of well-meaning Italian exiles who are so close to the situation they don't see the over-all, long-range picture OVER-ALL COMMITTEE The above hemming and hawing over Italy : points to the importance of the new Italo-Ameri-can steering committee recently organized in New York Supreme Court, Judge Felix Forte of Boston, Judge D'Alessandroni of Philadelphia, Generoso Pope, editor of II Progresso, Congressman D'Al-lesandro D'Al-lesandro of Baltimore, Dr. A. H. Giannini of San Francisco, James Montana of Buffalo and many others. This committee represents Italo-Amencans fmm nil nolitieal irrouDs Democrats and Re publicans, some with Fascist leanings before Pearl Harbor, some Utterly anti-Fascist but all united now to do two things: (1) take Italy out of the war immediately f (2) save Italy from the mistakes of a Giraud-De Gaulle cat-and-dog fight. ' When this group met in New York, Dr. . Charles Fama, head of the medical board, Nw York city retirement system, had not spoken for years to Luigi Antonini, head of the Italian-American Italian-American labor cquncl. But they shook hands ana pledged io worn logetner io laxp xiaiy mediately out of the war and prevent political bickering over Italy's future government, as t among the French. MOVE TOWARD DEMOCRACY Long-sighted U. S. officials regard this Italo-American Italo-American move as one of the most broad-gauged steps taken so far toward early peace and toward healing European wounds. They recognize that we are in a unique position regarding Italy. With several million former Italians here, including many U. S. government leaders, this country can appeal to the people inside Italy much more effectively; also can help nurse Italy back to a democratic government without the mistakes of France. Long under despotism, Italy's transition from, the sick-room back to healthv democracv must " be careful and perhaps slow. Leading Americans . of Italian descent can supervise this transition period, form a trusteeship for the people of Italy if the State Department has enough vision to see the possibilities. CONSERVATIVE FDR Ex-secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, one of the few men who. doesn't hestitate to give bkre-knuckled advice to his one-time assistant, F. D; Roosvelt, was entertaining at dinner in the American embassy in Mexico City several years ago. It was during Roosevelt's first term when he was passing all sorts of New Deal reforms, and one of Daniels' guests from Wall Street launched a tirade against the President. "Do you approve of all the policies whicn your friend Roosevelt is putting over on the country?" he asked. I do not," replied Ambassador oanieis. t "I am glad," said the New Yorker, "that ' you cannot stand for this radicalism." "What I object to in President Roosevelt," shot back Daniels, "is that he is too "conservative." The New Yorker gasped. "You are the only man I know who thinks he is too conservative," he said. "We in New York think his radicalism will ruin the country." "On Uie other hand;" smiled Daniels, "there are about fifteen million of us who think he is too conservative and hope he will go further, uproot up-root all monopoly, and do it soon." Note: The other day this ten-year old conversation con-versation was recalled to Ambassador Daniels, nnw husv Ariitinp- hist n AwRnn rwi- in Rnlotcrh 'NT r -- " J O g,. .... 4 . , X "I still think," he remarked, "that President Roosevelt Roose-velt is too conservative." 0 HONORS FOR WORKMEN The Office of War Information is arranging a deluxe program for next Labor Day, hailing the contribution of American workmen in the drive for victory. "Producing for Attack" will be the theme of the program, and it will include inspirational inspira-tional broadcasts by President Roosevelt and other top-ranking war leaders. However, this isn't the only labor show on the OWI schedule this year. Anothr special celebration cele-bration for labor, to be known as "On to Victory" day also will be observed within the next two months. ;r It was conceived by Major Paul Hines, chief of the labor branch of the Fourth Service Command Com-mand at Atlanta, Ga., and promoted by Harvey Allen, author of "Anthony Adverse." All war plants will b3 asked to declare an "hour off!' on "On to Victory' day at which time special "War Merit" emblems will be awarded. Climaxing the "On to Victory" programs will be f nation wide broadcast in the evening acr cording to OWI plans featuring such speakers w icoiwciii nuuaereti, winsbon (jnureniu, lien- erals MacArthur, Eisenhower and Doolittle and Admirals King and Halsey. Joseph Stalin and wnifr iMu-9K ot tmna aiso may be Invited to take part. All the speakers will have' a special message for American labor. The evening broadcast will conclude with the sounding of taps from the steps of the Nation's Capitol, in memory of our war- dead, and an ans-weringtaps ans-weringtaps by U. S. buglers in Europe and the South Pacific. (Copyright, 1943, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) I believe that through men's sacrifices sacri-fices peace shall, come and may come. But I know: that by the sword alone it will not come and cannot" come,Arcxibishop -Francis J. Spell- "r . .. I; dm a bureaucrat A bureaucrat is. somkiB bccupyiiig a position that is wanted by omebpdy else who; when he aets in. will 'automatically become a iureaucfdt .Interior J: Secretary," Harold LI Ickes. : Y. - - .J -, v. |