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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1944 Editorial ... . Behold therefore, the goodness sod severity of God: on them which fell, severity; bat toward tnee goodness, If thou continue In his goodness; other-Wise other-Wise thou also shalt be cut off. Romans 11:22. The crest and crowning of all god. Life's final star, is Brotherhood Markham. The Washington Okay, Lot's Go! Merry-Go-Round By Pw FMnw (Col. Robert 8. A 1 1 an all doty) Geneva After the War West Coast steel processors and fabricators fabrica-tors who have worked up a tremendous volume of business under the stimulus of war-time contracts, are now looking towards Geneva Steel plant as the answer to the problem of survival of the heavy industries on the coast after the war is over. The basic problem confronting the western west-ern plants is one of obtaining raw materials at a lower, more competitive base than the existmcr eastern base. Principal sources of the raw steel or pig iron in the west are the Geneva plant, near Provo, and Henry Kaiser's Fontana plant, with a capacity of roughly half that of the Provo plant. Before the war. the independent independ-ent processors were forced to pay base prices for finished and semi-finished iron and steel of approximately $11 per ton. which is equivalent to eastern seaboard base, plus the intercoastal water freight rates of approximately 55 cents ier 100 lbs. In the past this handicap to western processors proces-sors has made it possible for the big steel companies in the east to ship finished products prod-ucts to the west coast landed to sell at approximately ap-proximately the same price per pound or per ton that the raw material would cost the far western producer. These independents now have their eyes on Geneva as the main hope of the future of the industry to compete with the big companies com-panies in the east. They have been told on good authority that pig iron, ingots, and plates and shapes can be produced at Geneva Ge-neva as cheap, if not cheaper, than at any other plant in the United States. This is the viewpoint of western industrialists, indus-trialists, as outlined in a recent issue of the Iron Age by Osgood Murdock. "If this mill (Geneva) could pass into independent in-dependent western hands at a sufficient discount dis-count to be able to produce competitively, if conversion is not prohibitive, and if railroads rail-roads grant low enough rates to the west coast to land finished and semi-finished steel on a roughly competitive basis, these young industrials and others like them will take a crack at any competition," says Mr. Murdock. "They believe the productivity of their labor, the enterprise of their engineering staffs and the competence of their production produc-tion and sales management is equal and superior to most. "So a nebulous movement has begun and the thought has been implanted that western west-ern independents whose very life and future depend on competitive raw material should band together to support and pledge their collective troth to some enterprise to take over Geneva, postwar, and operate it for the sole purpose of encouraging western industry indus-try by supplying competitive raw material." The aim of the western industrialists, according ac-cording to the writer, is to obtain in some way, for the west coast, a base price on finished fin-ished iron and steel within from $3 to $5 a ton of Pittsburgh, Chicago, Birmingham and Baltimore. The western industrialists who have their eyes on Geneva poin out that there is a vast potential field in the west for the industry. There is not a single manufacturer of electric elec-tric welded chain, nor of screws, and only a single tubular plant west of the Rocky Mountains, Moun-tains, they point out. However, Mr. Murdock errs when he includes- cast iron pipe in this category. Apparently Ap-parently he hasn't heard that there is a cast iron pipe plant at Provo. Mail Censorship Australia is disturbed about misuse of information in-formation obtained in the process of censorship.. censor-ship.. Such material has been used as evidence evi-dence in prosecuting rationing offenses and in checking tax avoidances ; and secret business busi-ness formulas have been filed with government govern-ment agencies. This has a familiar ring. Details differ, but information taken by American censors out of our letters has been used for purposes purpos-es which have no slightest connection with the nation! security. It is our contention that censorship can legitimately do only two things: First, prevent pre-vent military harmful material from passing; pass-ing; and second, extract information bearing bear-ing upon sabotage or espionage. For no other purpose, however, worthy, should censorship cen-sorship be utilized. Comment Having counted several hundred, then waited several days, we have cooled off enough to comment objectively about the 117 grinders who stopped working on Superfortress Su-perfortress motors one day after the B-29 raid pn Japan was announced. If one of those men was our brother, we should close the door of .our home to him and erase his nanie from the family Bible. That, we hope, would better indicate our feeling than the physical or economic chastisements chas-tisements that first suggested themselves. But incidentally, we would also fire all 117, and ban them forever from war work, and refuse them any public assistance of any sort. A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs V FDR will let convention pick running mate, won't demand Wallace; gathering gather-ing will be lively, with many states backing favorite sons; Hitler s pictures and speeches betray signs of faltering falter-ing healtfi; president cut to quick by Mrs. Luce's denunciation, friends say. WASHINGTON The boys .who complained about the Republican convention being dull won't nave to make the same complaint about the coming Democratic gathering of the clan. The president has now taken Henry Wallace at his word and is going to turn one thousand-rip- roaring, hitherto check-reined delegates loose to select their own vice president. Wallace told him before going to China that he didn't want his own political liability to stand in the- way of the re election of Roosevelt himself. Furthermore, the president isn't going to be any place around probably not within telephoning distance. He may be so far away that he won t be able to dictate to the convention even if the boys relent at the last moment and beg him to So it may take days to nominate a candidate for vice president. Every favorite son from all over the U. S. A. will have his hat tossed in the ring by his state delegation. There will be at least a dozen. Here are some of those who will be on tap when the starting gun is fired: Speaker Sam Ray burn of Texas, so far in the lead, with the southern big-wigs backing him hard; Ambassador John Win-ant Win-ant former GOP governor of New Hampshire: Supreme Court Justice Douglas, who is not an enthusiastic candidate but who stands strong with the president: Jesse Jones. Senator Barkley; Gov ernor Broughton of North Carolina; Senator O'Ma- honey of Wyoming; ex-Justice Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina; Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois; Senator Jackson of Indiana, the convention's permanent per-manent chairman; and Governor Prentice Cooper of Tennessee. A good hot time is going to be had by all. It may be so hot they'll wish they had Wallace as a compromise. HITLER'S HEALTH Although Intelligence officers aren't saying much about it. Adolf Hitler's health has been attracting at-tracting considerable attention in Washington lately. late-ly. Fact is. the Allies have several ways of checking check-ing on Hitler's physical condition. Captured news-reels news-reels and still pictures are closely compared with previous films for clues. Likewise, recordings of Hitler's latest speeches are compared with earlier talks. Recently, Hitler made two speeches in me week. Both were broadcast by the German radio. A group of Intelligence officers and diplomats who heard him were surprised at the tone of his voice. ' HiUer sounded listless." commented one ex pert. "He sounded weary, tired and solemn. There was no power In his voice, no fire, only a dispirited tone of dejection. He seemed to reading his speech. He stumbled and went over words and sentences several times before, getting them straight." Another expert saw the latest newsreels of Hitler Hit-ler last week, was surprised at how punchy and pale he looked. His face was described as "very puffy." "Hitler has taken on weight," this expert said, "and it's not flattering to him. He seems to be letting himself go and apparently isn't getting as much exercise as a lot of his men who are running run-ning backward. His eyes also look hollow. The war isn't agreeing with Adolf Hitler. DEWEY PLAYS POKER Governor Dewey was travelling back from Chicago. Chi-cago. Suddenly, newsmen on the train looked up to see the GOP candidate in their private club car. where a poker game was in progress. He asked if he could play a hand. Dewey played a few hands, lost. Finally in a game of "5-card stud." the governor had a pair of fives and a king showing. The dealer called for bets on a last card. Cautiously. Dewey was about to pull out. when Warren Moscow of the New York Times advised him to stick. Dewey placed another bet, drew another king, won the Dot with two pairs. "Warren," Dewey said, "maybe I ought to take vour advice on other stuff, too." Note Dewey, trying hard to improve earlier bad press relations, made progress in Chicago, FDR'S REACTION TO LUCE SPEECH Only a few close friends know it. but nothing in years has wounded the president so much as Conrressladv Clare Luce's scathing speech de- nonnrinfr him at the Chicaco convention. To insiders, he has not tried to conceal the way he felt. He was not irate at the congressladv from Connecticut, but very much hurt at her charges that he had led American boys Into a war which he could have avoided. The president xead every line of the Luce speech, and almost every word cut him to the aulck. Incidentally. Republicans intimate that Mrs. Luce, by her scathing, telling vitriol, was deliberately aiming aim-ing to bulldoze the president out of running again. Mote It is probably an accident, but ex-Undersecretary ex-Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles H publishing publish-ing his lone-awaited book. "The Time for Decision.' on Julv 19th. It is a documented refutation of the Luce charge that FDR could have prevented the war. In one chanter. Welles tells how the president, as early as 1937. planned an Armistice ,Dav appeal ap-peal to "all nations to get together n a head-off-war Ulk. and how British Premier Chamberlain vetoed th idea. :' MERRY-GO-ItOI'D Oklahoma's Governor Bob Kerr has sprinkled his Democratic convention keynote speech with Biblical phrases. Fnr vears. despite his many other duties. Governor Kerr has found time to teach Sundav school. . It isn't supposed to be Known but some White House advisers had been urgine the president to call in Harry Luce, publisher of Time, Life and Fortune, with a view to gettlnr his support. Now, since Mrs. Luce's bitter, brilliant denunciation of the president fit Chicaro. they have chansred their minds Howard Costlgan. founder of the Washington Commonwealth Federation, Feder-ation, has started a new movement on the west coast called the "Party of the-Pacific." and stands a chance to win a seat In congress, com November Novem-ber Cnogressman Jennings Randolph of West Virginia Is trying out a new wrinkle in campaigning. He is havin" produced some one-minute one-minute films of himself making a campaign speech for distrbution throughout his congressional district. Dry cleaners in a Minnesota -town picked the worst time of year to go on strike watermelon season. The four nivotal freedoms of history are God's word. God's commonwealth, God's deed, and God's summons. You preserve them not by fighting for them, but by using them. Rev. Paul &nerer, mew York pastor. Those who go through life attempting to avoid their share in Its preservation are bound to lose the very semblance of life Itself Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson. Someone had the girl by Hie hair. Then . I. saw the flash of scissors and great hunks of black hair fell from her head. I asked a Frenchman the reason and he said "she had been a friend of the Germans. Lt. Francis Carpenter in France. Desk Chat An' What'll Ye Have, Lads? By S. BURTON HEATH There appears to be some misunderstanding mis-understanding about the war production pro-duction holiday that Donald Nelson Nel-son has granted to distillers for the month of August. In case you happen to be interested, here are some facts about it. The nation's distillers can and probably will make about 20 million gallons of 190-proof firewater during August By the time that has been watered down to potable liquor lt will be enough, In theory, to make 200 million "fifths" of rye and Bourbon and gin. That sounds like a lot, and really, it ain't hay. But It's a lot less than you might think, and besides. It's purely hypothetical. In 1942 it required, 02 million gallons of whiskey and 37 millions of neutral spirits to wet the national na-tional whistle. That Is more than six times what can be distilled during the August holiday. In 1943 we put 66 million gallons gal-lons of whisky and 25 millions of neutral spirits down the hatch more than four times what can be made In August. Even In the first four months of this year, while we were complaining com-plaining loudly that whisky couldn't be bought, we managed to guzzle more than 18 million gallons of whisky and almost nine millions of neutral spirits. Mr. Nelson and the War Pro duction Board are not putting the distillers back into the whisky business. All they did was say, in effect: "In October, 1942, we made you give up producing whisky and begin be-gin making industrial alcohol because be-cause we needed your facilities Now we can spare you for one month. It's up to you and the War Foods Administration what you do with that month. "You can close shop and give all the boys and girls a vacation, or you can make whisky if you can get grain for it or you can make blending spirits." The distillers aren't going to take a vacation. Neither are they going to make much Bourbon Corn Is too scarce and too much needed for other purposes. They can make rye because rye grain is relatively plentiful. Some will do that. Others will make neutral spirits powerful grain alcohol such as few have even considered drinking since prohibition was repealed. re-pealed. Neutral spirit can be used to make gin, to fortify wines or to blend whiskies. As a matter of fact, the drinkers of this country coun-try need neutral spirits, more than they do whisky right now. There are close to 270 million gallons of whisky in storage a four-year supply at the rate it has been withdrawn since the first of the year. But on March 3 we had only 17,600,000 gallons of blending spirits, and that was less than enough, even at current low rates of consumption, to last through this year. - If we use up our blending spirits and do not replace them, we shall all be forced onto a diet of straight whisky. So far as quality goes, that should be no hardship. But it would raise the dickens with quantity. Over all, the whisky that we buy has about two parts of neutral neu-tral spirits to every five parts of whisky. The brands vary from bottled in bond with no neutral spirits to one Very popular trademark trade-mark that is only one-third whisky, whis-ky, the rest being neutral spirits. As long as we have plenty of blending spirits, the whisky already al-ready in storage can be expanded to keep us drinking regularly if not plentiful. So don't be disturbed dis-turbed if the distillers make much more neutral spirits than whisky. That will be the smartest thing they can do, from our standpoint as consumers. With Ernie Pyle in France Ninth Division Distinguishes Itself In Cherbourg Battles BONDS COME BACK NEW YORK, July 11 EE Police at headquarters in Manhattan Manhat-tan were a little less embarrassed today when Max Bernstein, 29, returned re-turned $350 worth of war bonds which were stolen .from a 'headquarters' 'head-quarters' safe. Bernstein said he found the bonds In 'a subway station. sta-tion. Still missing was 3400 in cash which disappeared along with -the bonds. By ERNIE PYLE IN NORMANDY By Wireless) During the Cherbourg peninsula peninsu-la campaign I spent nine days with the Ninth infantry division the division that cut the peninsula, penin-sula, and one of the three that overwhelmed the great port of Cherbourg. The Cherbourg campaign is oia tuff bv now. and you are no longer particularly interested In it. But tne riinin ai vision nan been in this war for a long time and will be In It for a long time to come. So I would like to tell you some things about It. The Ninth Is one of our best divisions. It landed In Africa and it fought through Tunisia and Sicily. Then it went to England last fall, and trained all winter for the invasion of France. It was one of the American "divis ions in the invasion that had pre' vious battle experience. Now an odd thing had happen' ed to the Ninth while we were in the Mediterranean. For some reaa on which we have never fathom ed the Ninth wasn t released through censorship as early as it should have been, while otner ai- vlsions were. As a results the Ninth got a complex that it was being slighted. slight-ed. They fought hard, took heavy casualties, and did a fine Job generally, but nobody back home knew anything about it. This lack of recognition defi nitely affected morale. Every commanding general Is aware that publicity for his unit is a factor in morale. Not publicity in the manufactured sense, but a public report to the folks back home on what an outfit endures and what it accomplishes. Your average Doughfoot will go through his normal hell a lot more willingly ir he knows mat he is getting some credit for it and that the home folks know about it. As a result of this neglect In the Mediterranean, the Ninth laid careful plans so that it wouldn't happen again. In the first place, a new censorship pol icy was arrived at, under which the identities of the divisions taking part in this campaign would be publicly released just as soon as it was definitely estab lished that the Germans knew they were in combat. With that big hurdle accom plished. the Ninth made sure that the correspondents themselves would feel at home with them. They set up a small public-rela tions section, with an officer in charge, and a squad of enlisted men to move the correspondent's gear, and a truck to haul it. and three tents with cots, electric lights and tables. Correspondents who came with the Ninth could get a meal, a1 p!ace to write, a Jeep for the front, or a courier to thejrear and at the time they asked for it. Of course, in spite of all such facilities, a division has to be good in the first' place if it Is going to get good publicity. The Ninth is good. It performed like a beautiful machine in the Cher bourg campaign. Its previous battle bat-tle experience paid off. Not only in individual fighting but in the perfect way the whole organ lza tion clicked. As I have ' tried to tell before, war depends a great aeai more on organization than most people would ever dream. The Ninth did something in this campaign that we haven't always done in the past. It kept tenaciously on tne enemy's neck. When the Germans would withdraw with-draw a little the Ninth was right on top of them. It never ' crave them a chance to reassemble or get their balance. The Ninth moved so fast it got to be funny. I was based at the division command post, -and we struck our tents and moved forward for-ward six times in .seven days. That works the daylight out of the boys who take down and put up the tents. I overheard one of the boys saying: "I'd rather be with Ringling Brothers." Usually a division headquarters headquart-ers is a fairly safe place. But with the Ninth It was different. Something was -always happening. happen-ing. ... One night they had ' a " bad shelling and lost some personnel. Every now and then snipers would pick off somebody. In all the time I was with them we never nev-er had an uninterrupted night's sleep. Our own big guns were all around us and they would fire all night. Usually German planes were over too, droning around in the darkness and making us tense and nervous. One night I was sitting In tent with Capt. Llndsey Nelson, of Knoxvtlle, when there was a loud explosion, then a shrill whine through the treetops over our heads. But we didn't jump, or hit the dirt. Instead I said: "I know what that is. That's the rotating band off one 'of our shells. As an old artilleryman I've heard lots of rotating bands. Sometimes they sound like a dog nownng. Theres nothing to be afraid of." "Sure," said Captain Nelson. "Thata.what it was, a rotating oana." But our harmless rotating band, we round a lew minutes later, was a jagged, red-hot, foot square fragment of steel from t 240-MM. German shell, which had landed a hundred yards away from us. It's wonderful to be a wise guy. REFLECTIONS OF A SWING-SHIFTER Whenever you make a purchase no matter what, you are creating employment for someone else. Every purchase you make means you are creating wages that someone some-one else. In turn, can spend. innrt saving part of what you earn "and Investing in war bonds is not only a virtue, lt is essential to the future of our country. It provides for the unexpected need. it is your obligation and patriotic auty. Thrift dictates that we do our spending wisely. Remember, It takes money to make money. This means you must spend money -to make money. And, lt also means you must save and acquire funds so that you will have money to spend to make jobs create wages when we turn back to peace time production. We should not measure and judge thrift by the test of saving but we must consider it a -means to an end. There is a distinction between saving for a purpose and hoarding the miser is a menace to progress. Without the accumulation of some savings, the purchase of war bonds we will worry as soon as the tide turns and financial worrits wor-rits hi.ve Wllftd more people in Peace time America than have been "killed so far in both wars World War I and World War II. Remember, when wide-spread unemployment returns, we can prevent panic and serious depression depres-sion if we will keep in mind that every time we make a purchase. when buying is needed, we create Jobs and wagea for the other fellow, fel-low, and In turn, create employment employ-ment for ourselves. Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile; as nonplussed as a stranger in the city who has just found a metered parking space and real izes he hasn't 5c to drop in the slot. Small Plane In Forced Landing. MURRAY Utah, July 11 Cs' The Utah Civil Air Patrol today to-day was looking for a" South Salt Lake county field that could be used for a takeoff strip for a small CAP plane that made an emergency landing last night in a hay field near here. Pilot Everett Rains set the plane down without injury to himself or damage to the plane when he encountered motor trouble. However, the field where he landed was not large enough I Lecture Slated On Price Contro K : 5fc Dr. Orville Hitchcock, national ly known lecturer, will adress tB Brigham Young university sumAJ mer school assembly 11 a. m Thursday, July 13 on "Price Con-' , trol Protects the Home Front." ' Dr. Hitchcock for seven years ' was head of the department of. Ohio. Since July 1943, he nas been a. member of the Office of Prlc Administration staff as senior in formation specialist in the fields of adult education. one who keeps the radio tuned to. tne program ne or sne us.es oesL,. j At the old Swimming Hole A lovely lady went out to swim. While the light of morning Was very dim; She stripped off her clothes And neatly poised Down by the big willow trees. Then a voice, quite disarming. Came out of the morning: "It isn t deep enough To cover your knees!" Valerie The Japanese were told their navy was invincible but were not told it was unsinkable. The path to paradise or purga tory is strewn with rose petals, rice and old shoes. There is no niche in the hall of fame for the man who decided to await developments. Ever look at it this way: when the whole world seems against you, the chances are you are wrong. CURIOUS CYNIC CANTS .. .. . . . 'two is company" three Is a triangle. . . . . reliability Is the first essential es-sential to a raise in salary. . . some members of the Ladies' Bridge club are Interesting talk ers. . . . and the others never seem to know any scandal. children have not changed much in the past fifty years except that those of today are not so adverse In using a handkerchief. hand-kerchief. The 'boss of the family is the And there's the one about the nervous sereeant at the miUm. ity hospital who said to his wlf ef before registering: "Darling, are you sure you want to go thru J with this?" Perhaps it"1s wrong to whip our children but we all got plenty of lickings when we were, young ana iook woat wonaers we are! It is passing strange . . . or, i it?. . . . that the Chinese communists com-munists quit fighting the Japanese on the same day Henry Wallace.. called on Chiang Kai-shek aftet visiting in Russia? Will the OPA continue to classify clas-sify the White House as an institution insti-tution 'after Thomas E. Dewey takes up his four-year tenancy? Yesterdays' Tomorrow's Simile as hard-pressed as radio news commentators in finding a new way to say 'Allied planes In greater number than ever before blasted Germany yesterday." HOW TO "KNOW" ASPIBIN Just be sure, to ask for St. Joseph Aapirin. There's none faster, sen stronger. Why pay more? World's Urged seller at 10. Demand St- Joseph Aspirin. AdT. i Y? V The government urges you to save surplus summer foods for winter months. It's & good idea to plan your canning program in advance. These few suggestions may be helpful at the opportune time: - A OS 3 - r i .&Sg.ae.-- MOUNTAIN SUPiPlOOMPANY Serving Twenty-three Utah Communities Vital a VJcr end Peace Have You Bought That Extra IVcc Dond? |