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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1944 Editorial . . . . He hat filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. Luke i:oa. Riches either serve or govern the possessor. Horace. The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture pf What's Going On in National Affairs By Draw f amnum (Col. Kabrr. a. Allaa m live asty) TVie State Department Speaks Up The effect of our State Department's unequivocal un-equivocal and categorical damnation of the present Argentine government's policy will be watched with interest for several reasons. rea-sons. It may decide the immediate fate of Pan-American solidarity as well as the future fu-ture of the Farrell-Peron regime. And it may also provide a pattern or preview of the manner in which the post-war world will deal with nations of aggressive tendencies. ten-dencies. This last would be particularly true if the present denial of hemispheric recognition should fail to alter Argentine policy. No one hopes that it will fail. But if it should, then something further must be done. Economic isolation would probably come first, despite the hardship it would work on this country and Britain. And if that were unsuccessful, military action would not be an impossible eventuality. In such a course of events the American governments, led by the United States, would have to improvise. For if the Argentine situation does not get better quickly, it may get worse. A solution probably will come before a worldwide peace organization is set up. So any step that' the Western Hemisphere Hemi-sphere nations might take would be of great importance: a successful one could be incorporated in-corporated into a world agreement; a failure fail-ure would serve as a horrible example. Thus far the State Department's actions have been of a sort to arouse public admiration. ad-miration. Secretary Hull's dealings with Vichy France and Franco's Spain were criticized criti-cized severely, but were defended as expedient expedi-ent moves which hastened victory and saved lives. There is no reason for a similar attitude atti-tude toward the Argentine regime, which has been irritating and hurtful to the war effort, but is not in a position to inflict such immediate and vital damage as the pro-Axis European governments. The State Department has made it abundantly abun-dantly clear that our dissatisfaction is not a cloak for interference in Argentina's internal affairs. In fact, our indictment of the government's gov-ernment's Fascist, militaristic complexion is only secondary. The primary indictments of the Farrell-Peron Farrell-Peron government are these : It has violated its country's pledge to support the war against the Axis, thus striking a "powerful blow" at hemispheric co-operation; it has "openly and notoriously given affirmative assistance to enemies of the United Nations. The growth of Fascism in Europe has taught an obvious lesson. Heeding it, the State Department has spoken early and decisively. de-cisively. A change of Argentine "attitude in response to these words will augur well for peace in years to come. Something. Tolls Us It's Not as Easy as It Looks Why Kill Hirohito? A Honolulu editor urges that the execution execu-tion of Hirohito is necessary to prevent fur ther Japanese aggression. Granting' that the editor, in a city which includes a large Japanese colony, knows the character and habits of the Jap better than most of us. we still question his suggestion. Hirohito, believed by his people to be a descendant of the sun goddess, is a confusion of god and emperor. He is the center of the Japanese state religion, but his temporal power has risen and fallen according to the whims and temper of his ministers. And there seems ample evidence that the militarist mili-tarist clique, not the emporer, willed and planned this war. To execute Hirohito would be both inexpedient in-expedient and un-American. Such an act would probably rouse the Japanese people, even though defeated, to a fury that would prolong resistance and cost many more American Am-erican lives. Besides, it is hardly fitting that a country founded on freedom of worship wor-ship should put to death a ruler who. however how-ever senseless it seems to us, is regarded by his subject as a divine being. If we bring the Tojo gang to justice, we shall probably have killed- the present root of Jap aggression. Banishing a Bromide Coincident with the War Panpower Commission's Com-mission's curtailment of hotel service comes a proposal from Glenwood J. Sherrard, president presi-dent of the American Hotel Association, that all employes of business dealing directly with the public forthwith stop using that irritating phrase: "Don't you know there's a war on?" The phrase, Mr. Sherrard points out, is no excuse for poor service. It also might be said that poor service is no excuse for this ill-mannered retort by employes. One possible solution might be for the customer to be actively conscious of the fact that there is a war going on, and that he can't expect peacetime service. A little more understanding and fewer complaints about things that can't be helped might go a long way toward banishing "Don't you know there's a war on?" to the limbo it deserves. One of the easiest ways to keep a wife is in money. Modern history Germany is bounded on the east, west and south by Allied troops. Smith angled for Dewey's denunciation to keep himself in limelight; expects post-war nationalist trend to boost him into power in '48; shipbuilding official said to have used navy workers to paint home; letter favoring Germany over England helped defeat de-feat Rep. Lambertson. WASHINGTON Real fact is that Dewey's denunciation of Gerald L. K. Smith was exactly what the rootin-'tootin' ex-evangelist was angling for. Last fall, Smith foresaw the nomination of Dewey and remarked at the time: "One of these days, I'm going to say: Tom. better be nice to me or I'm going to endorse you.' That would be the last thing in the world that Dewey would want. My endorsement in the 44 election elec-tion would be the kiss of death to a Republican candidate. My time will come in the post-war i penoa in me election of "48. The candidate will not be m it will be a young veteran of this war, but I'll be behind him. "If business conditions are bad inflation, widespread unemployment farm foreclosures then my candidate will be elected A strong nationalist na-tionalist can come to power only under sucn circumstances. I am gambliner that these condi tions will then obtain, because any professional politician elected president in 44' will lack the courage to face the biff problems of readajust- mem. troiessionai politicians are loo cautious that is why they will fall. In 44. I wil lhave no influence, but mv voice will be heard pecause I will provoke them to attack at-tack me. I'm now only keeping the flame alive; mats all I can possibly do now. But when the regular politicians can't or won't meet the big problems of readjustment,' then the flame will spead. and the extreme nationalist will come to power in '48.!' All this is why Smith is attempting to tie in with war mothers' groups, veterans' groups, old-age old-age pension groups and, at the same time, cater to big business by howling about the "Red menace" and the Jews. Smith collects over $35,000 a year rrom small eontriDutors alone for his campaign. PRIVATE USE OF WAR WORKERS Shortly before the invasion of Europe, the navy department sent an urgent message to all shipyards making landing boats to speed up production prod-uction in order to have enough barges for the gigantic amphibious operation. Recently, it has been reported to the navy that, during this critical period, a leading; executive of the Dravo coporation, Wilmington, Del., which was engaged in building barges, took the time of government-paid employes to try to paint his own home. The executive is R. W. Remp, vice president of Dravo. Here is the story, as told In sworn affidavits, affi-davits, of what happened": About 25 employes of the Dravo corporation were ordered by supervisor J. R. Qualk to load a naval truck with navy drop clothes (for protecting against splashed paint), navy paint brushes, ladders, lad-ders, planks, and other naval painting equipment, while being paid by the navy and working on the navy s time. "Said truck was taken out of the yard to the newly purchased home of the vice president of the Dravo corporation, Mr. Remp, and said men were ordered to paint the newly purchased home of said vice president. 0 "Several hours after the men started on the job. they were called back and the entire job was dropped when the AFX. painters' union protested against CIO shipbuilders being used on this paint Job." Note This was at least one case where a jurisdictional labor dispute saved the government some money. REP LAMBERTSOVS DEFEAT One factor which helped defeat isolationist Re publican Congressman Lamberston of Kansas in last week's primary was a letter he had written, saying it was more important for the U. S. A. to do business with Germany than with England. The letter date. August 15.1940. and addressed to Mayor E. VV. Irv ine of Axtell, Kansas, read as follows : "Dear Mayor and friend: I love you, but I am agin you on this stuff. You may be right. I can see your side, but there is more hope for our future business with Germany, Italy and Japan than there is with England, when it is all over. "I don't think we ought to do a thing further until England is leveled. We are doing everything: we can to help them now. Men are not important and we haven't them ready anyway, and we are giving them all the stuff as fas as we can get it to them. "I am not for William Allen White on this proposition and I am not for conscription now. Hoping that rieht prevails. I am. W. P. Lamberston." This letter was circulated all over Lambert" son's district orior to the recent primarv. In addition, ad-dition, many Kansans who do not particularly love Roosevelt resented Lamberston's slur on the mili tary record of the Roosevelt boys. MERRY-GO-ROUND Cautious Mr. Turk If you want the real low- down on why the Turks finallv broke with Germany, Ger-many, it was because Hitler had moved troops out of Bulgaria just opposite Turkey. After that, the Turks weren't afraid of being attacked. . . . With Sweden and Switzerland both closed to Hitler for escape, his few remaining- havens are Japan which won't last long and Argentina. ... It hps long been rumored that the Nazi top men were building up cash reserves in Argentina. More artillery Inside dope on the army s sud den Increased orders for heavy artillery is that it was partly inspired by a group of Russian gen erals visiting the Fifth army front in Italy. . . The Allies were bogged down The Ruskies sur veyed the equiDment. asked: "Where's your artillery-" Clark pointed to his few bie guns . . . Russians were shocked, gave him a lecture on artillery rather than air power About the same time, we had failed to level off Tarawa with our bombing, should have used artillery. So orders for more big guns followed. The Vets' Return The War Department is fishing around for a sound system of discharging dis-charging vets after Hitler collapses. . . . Best advice ad-vice in Army circles is to have men with overseas disabilities discharged first. . . . Men who've served: the longest periods in combate are due for second preference, followed by married men with children and other dependents. . . . Married men without children would come next, and single men would be last the veterans of foreign wars say that, when Germany falls and the army starts cutting back on soldiers, men in the Pacific should get equal consideration when discharges are being handed out VFW says that, while service in the European and Petcific theatres is uniformly hazardous, men serving In the Far East are more likely to be permanently disabled by tropical disease. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Presidential assistant as-sistant Jonathan Daniels says. "Washington is another an-other mill town, and everybody works for the mill" White House assistant David Niles has purchased a New England farm on which to retire if. FDR is licked in November. . . . Vice President Wallace is brushing off those who want him to form a third Libery party. "Our big job is to re-elect the president," says Wallace. (Copyright. 1944 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) HAD ONE BEFORe BUT J ( WV IF OTHER GUVS CAN '"I GET PEOPLE Tb ( "".' "l1!! ill fir I Vote Dewey Weakness, View rirjt Biography or America s Great General C7tsk(. 144, Am Wowmra JiUtcrf DfstrftorteC. JOCA Service, Ijmv TT was mid-January, 1943, when General Eisenhower suddenly appeared in Kansas. He had left North Africa and come to Washington. Wash-ington. No hint was given of his coming. After a few days in the capital, consulting with the General Gen-eral Staff, he took an inconspicuous inconspicu-ous car with a driver and went to West Point to see his son and only child, John, cadet in the Academy. Driving into the grounds, he parked the car under an overpass and slipped into the commandant's office. A call was sent to John to come immediately to the office. Young Eisenhower was in overalls in the machine shop, his hands and face discolored with grease. The order was to come as he was: and he did. His surprise can be imagined when he saw his father, who, he thought, was in North Africa, standing there. After a visit the General drove back to Washington undiscovered. A few days later he appeared in Kansas, greeting his younger brother, President Milton S. Eisenhower, of Kansas State College, at Manhattan, forty miles east of Abilene. He arrived at Fort Riley on a plane at dusk and sent word ahead. With only a driver he went to Manhattan, where his mother and an elder brother, A. S. Eisenhower, Eisen-hower, vice president of the Commerce Com-merce Trust Company, Kansas City, and his brother, Milton, awaited him. The dinner was embellished em-bellished by favorite foods, including in-cluding the well-known Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania "puddin" brought from home by his mother. An evening of visiting followed. In the conversation con-versation the matter of a soldier's j responsibility under shock or weariness came up and the General Gen-eral told of an experience in North Africa never before related. He had gone farther to the front than was wise and was in danger of being surrounded by the Axis troops. In a jeep loaded with extra ex-tra gasoline he and an orderly started hurriedly on a far course over the desert. Driving for hours and hours, making a wide detour to get back ' to camp, they took turns at the wheel. The orderly was at the wheel when the General Gener-al went to sleep: and probably the driver did also. Suddenly they found the jeep off the road and partly overturned in a ditch. Neither Nei-ther was hurt. After a long struggle strug-gle the machine was righted and they could proceed. "What did you do to the orderly for going to sleep?" he was asked. "Do? Poor chap, when we returned re-turned I sent him to the hospital ' to sleep to li?3 henrt's content." i That was the human side of Ike Eisenhower. I After a few happy hours with : his mother and brothers in Kan-' Kan-' sas, the General slipped away. Be-j Be-j cause of threatening bad weather. he leit in tne eariy morning ana W wwiiwt) -- .. -i f5? - " J w Hf Mrs. Dwlght David Eisenhower pins a medal on her famous husband. It is said that when the young second lieutenant first met Mamie Geneva Doud in 1915 he decided de-cided then and there, "This is the girl I'm going to marry." (Chapter VII.) "What do you want to see him about?" growled the M. P. "I'm Private Walter J. Thorpe,' the soldier replied. "Tell the Gen eral I'm from his home town." Ten minutes later, after much telephoning, messengers going back and forth, and inspection of Thorpe's credentials, General Eisenhower Ei-senhower stepped out smiling. "So you're from Abilene? Come right in." The General and the private from his home town were closeted for twenty minutes at Allied Headquarters. Head-quarters. Thorpe came out, shoulders shoul-ders erect, and a happy grin on his face. "He remembered me," he exclaimed ex-claimed later. "We talked about things back home. I'd met him while I was working on his brother's broth-er's farm in Kansas. The General asked me how I liked the army and how long I'd been stationed in Northern Ireland. He noticed I wasn't wearing any stripes and asked me how many months I'd been in the army. I told him two years and explained I had missed out on a technician's rating back in the States. We talked quite a bit about Kansas wheat and about farm folks we knew back in Abilene. Abi-lene. "Twenty minutes later I figured I'd taken up about enough of his time," Private Thorpe explained, "so I got up and got ready to leave. took his plane back to Washington. Then I thought about those guys j No one in central Kansas excepl in my hut, and I asked the Gen- the family knew of his visit. j eral whether he'd write me out The news came in a day or two j something to prove I actually nad that he was in London he had . seen the Supreme Commander of jumped the Atlantic in an airplane all the Allied Forces. He wrote a note and handed it to me. Then he said, 'I'm glad you came to see me and if you're here again, drop in. You're always welcome.' Then he shook my hand." Private Thorpe proudly displayed the note. It read, "Dear Thorpe: I'm delighted that, as a fellow Desk Chat to take up his duties as Supreme Commander of the Allied Army. pENERAL EISENHOWER'S de- votion to his home folks and his neighbors back in Kansas, while engaged in the world's I greatest war, is a true insight into the measure of his own greatness. With battles raging around him he never forgets the old home town of Abilene. While at his headquarters In London, when laboring under the stupendous burnen of the Second Front, a twenty-three-year-old private walked into headquarters j and asked an M. P., Td like to I see the General, if he's not too busy." tary aide reports that letters from home give the General great in spiration for his day's work. When the mail comes in he inquires eagerly, "Anything for me from home?" He is as delighted as any G. I., as- he tears them open and eagerly reads them, frequently remarking, re-marking, as he once wrote to a friend, "I cannot possibly tell you how much I appreciate the trouble you take in writing to me." Another time when a correspondent corre-spondent wrote to him that "the letters must be a too heavy drain on your time," the General replied, re-plied, "It is an odd thing your asking me how I find time to write letters. It is almost my only relaxation. re-laxation. Moreover, there is nothing noth-ing from which I get more real enjoyment than hearing from old friends. I like to keep in touch with them. The feeling that .they are rooting for me and my soldiers is too precious to lose." Ike's letters are treasuretroves to the folk in Abilene. They horde them like gold. When one arrives at the postofnee everybody In town hears about it. They call each other on the phone to ask, "What's the latest news from Ike?" The neighbors in Abilene all turn out to see the news-reels in the motion picture theater "just to see Ike." As he walks across the screen they applaud vocifer- , ously. One night they were watching watch-ing as the French General Giraud ( pinned on him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. General Giraud Gi-raud stepped tup and gave General Gen-eral Eisenhower an accolade, a kiss on both cheeks. Miss Curry wrote him that the townspeople were somewhat shocked. The General replied. . "At the time that General Giraud gave me the French Grand Cross, one of my old friends asked me what Abilenites would say if they ever saw a picture showing me getting By S. BURTON HEATH ALBANY. Aug - (HE) When Governor Dewey denounced the C, I. O. Political Action Committee the other day, without naming it. for critlclzins; the New York soldier vote law, he waa etrikins; at one pnase of what many Democrats Demo-crats think may re-elect President Roosevelt the commander-in-chief issue. Democrats claim and Repub licans fear that the treat bulk of the uniformed vote will go to the president because his war leadership is considered a known quantity while that of Mr. Dewey would have to be taken on faith and hope. Similar considerations may influence the votes of many stay-at-homes who have men in the armed forces. The Democratic campaign will play that issue to the limit in every ramification Chai r m a n Hanncgan and his fejlow strategists strate-gists can discover or devise in hope of confirming servicemen and their relatives in their supposed sup-posed pro-Rooseveltism. As one approach. Governor Dewey's refusal to go along on the federal ballot for servicemen is being exploited. Here, thus far. the C. I. O. left wing pro-Roose-Velt organization appears to be doing most of the ball carrying. It is Governor Dewey's, contention that the "Citizens Non-partisan Committee for the Servicemen's Vote" is a C. I. O. left wing front with a thin window-dressing of Democrat and anti-Dewey Re publicans. Method Provided In- New York New York state has 1,100,000 men and women in the armed forces. for-ces. For them, contending that the federal ballot could not legally legal-ly be counted under the state constitution. con-stitution. Governor Dewey and the Republican legislature provided a simple method of voting. All that the serviceman need do is send to Albany, direct or through family or friends, his name, his pre-service street ad dress (to determine his election district) and his service address to which the ballot is to be mailed. He will be sent exactly the same ballot he would use if he were voting at home, which he Is to mark and mail back to Albany, whence it will be sent to the voter's home election district for counting. Last year 62.000 New York servicemen asked for ballots and 42,000 of them actually voted two out of three. The state war ballot commission estimates that 250.000 of New York's absent serv icemen are under age; some are aliens and others will not trouble to apply. If 350,000 should ask for ballots, the commission would expect, ex-pect, on the basic of last year's rctult, about 200,000 votes. In a close election that number could easily decide whether New York s 47 electoral votes shall go tc President Roosevelt or Gov ernor Dewey. Mr. Dewey lost the governorship in 1938 by 64 394. and Herbert Hoover carried New York in 1828 by only 10,481 votes. It's Dynamite, That's What Is It: What is considered more importantif im-portantif the Democratic C. I. O. coalition could persuade all servicemen and their familea and friends that Governor Dewey, fearing the service vote, is try ing to get across his contention that it is as easy for New York Bervicemen to vote under his law as under the federal; and that whereas there can be no question ques-tion about the legality of votes cast under his law, federal ballots bal-lots might be tossed out. He claims that, for the sake of embarrassing him, the C. I. O. Politican Action Commi 1 1 e e , through a. front, is perpetrating a fraud upon the soldiers and sailors by trying to hand them the federal fed-eral ballot. In time of war a court might hesitate to toss out soldier's ballots bal-lots because they did not Include every office at stake in the sold ier's home districts, but only the fcur offices for which the federal fed-eral ballot provides. The C. I. O. says, "Take a chance. Governor Dewey says, "Let's be sure that those who do vote shall have their ballots counted." Two Army cargo trucks met on a narrow road in Normandy. Truck Driver No- 1 a scrawny, frail little man, leaned out of his cab window and shouted: "Turn out, you. If you don't, I'll do to you what I did to the last guy what wouldn't turn out for me." Bie. bullrchested Driver No. 2. who had just been to the front and seen all the trouble he cared to for the day. meekly pulled out but as the other truck rumbled by, he yelled: "What did ya do to the other guy?" And thumbing his nose in char' acteristlc Yankee fashion, the frail little man answered: "Turned out for him!" Oklahoma cannot meet its own demands in fruit and vegetable growing. Baseball Doable-Talk "Was I fast? Lissen, guy, when I played for the Timps, every time I hit a home run I reached first base before the spectators could hear the crack of the bat. Then when I rounded second, the second baseman usually said something that made me sore, so I slapped the third baseman in the catcher's mouth. Not bad, eh?" An attractive young lady came up to the personnel manager in answer to our want-ad, and aftei the usual routine questions, hi asked: "Do you mind if I phont your last employer and verify th references he gave you?" "Why, no," she replied sweetly, "I don't care what you do so long as you don't ask his wife." All of which reminds us that the correct estimate of a man if about halfway between what hi wife thinks of him and what hie stenographer knows about him. IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT a thousand possibilities cannot can-not make one truth. Here's Progress Real and Lasting When you try to do your bit Just a little better every day That's progress. When you dig a little deeper toehold When the going's rough and tough That's progress. When you really realize That you can't fall into failure Unless yorf willingly pave the way That's progress. When you learn to do by doing And learn to earn by earning That's progress. When you cut the weeds of carelessness Growing in your field of energy-That'a energy-That'a progress. When you can be calm In the face of defeat As you are confident At the approach of victory That's progress. When you divorce maybe From your company And join hands with 'It-can-be-done' That's progress. When you open your mind ' For proper advice 1 But button your lips On unjust criticism That's progress. When you mingle the glow Of the midnight oil With the glare of the midday sua To perfect your puzzling problem That's progress. When you can command a no' When no is needed And demand a 'yes When yes is commanded That's progress- The camouflage unit was holding hold-ing a field day, and the radio news commentator sent to cover th event gave a running account oi the activities . . . "and now w are getting close enough to see I large number of the unit whic are perfectly camouflaged against the wall which is also plastered plaster-ed ..." Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile as anxious as a man with good excuse whose name hat been drawn on the jury panel It's the thoughts you think today to-day rather than your actions which determine what you will bl 10 years from now. citizen of Abilene, Kansas, you j kissed on each cheek. While I admit that I was just a Dit terror-stricken' terror-stricken' at the prospect, I figured out at the same time that those who knew the Eisenhower tribe of boys would be sure that it was something I wasn't seeking; but to which I could scarcely object. At that I'll bet there was a chuckle around the audience the night that you saw it" NEXT: The Elsenhower boys. called at my office to see me today. (Signed) Sincerely, Dwight D. Eisenhower." TN moments before and after a -L great battle, Ike frequently scribbles a few words in his bold hand-writing, or occasionally dictates dic-tates on his official letterhead plain, homey messages to his friends and neighbors. His mili- BEAUTTFUL MEADOW CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, N. B. l'.P In normal years, the President Presi-dent of the United States spent his summer vacation, on a Canadian island with an Italian name. President Presi-dent Franklin D Roosevelt's sum mer home is located on this bit of Dominion soil that has -a name which in Italian means "beautiful meadow." A man bigger than you is never a liar he's merely mistaken. BUT THEY DO PROVIDENCE, R. I. UXV Investigating In-vestigating a collision between a trailer-truck and a sedan, police found in the Utters demolished trunk a booklet: "Accidents Don't Happen." Do You Know the eight cardinal points in selecting a funeral director? All are explained in the booklet, "Your Responsibility," published by the National Selected Morticians. Write or telephone us for a complimentary copy. Berg Mortuary PHONE S78 WW ttsWj&MaBf I |