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Show "Yuh Wanna Fight?" PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1945 Editorial .... Their wine la the poison of dragons, and the ruel venona of asps. Deuteronomy 32:33. It Is the act falsehood. Cicero. of a bad man to deceive by Sixteen Million Jobs for Women When President Roosevelt. Henry A. Wal lace and Beardsley Ruml agree that we can and must have 60,000,000 postwar jobs in this country, it must be so. The 60-million figure first appeared in one of Mr. Roosevelt's campaign speeches, and pome suspected that he was just raising Governor Gov-ernor Dewey's ante of promises for a prosperous pros-perous future. Mr. Wallace repeated it in his plea for the commerce department job. But now Mr. Ruml, an economist and businessman, busi-nessman, has removed it from the political arena and dressed it up with logic. That logic, much simplified, goes like this: Full employment requires high productivity and low production costs. A market for this increased production requires more people with more purchasing power. More purchasing purchas-ing power means a big national income, and prosperity. Prosperity means full employ- The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's By Drew Pearson (Col Robert rv. u a & Alien uvuig vru iu AbiwuM mtauo active o n duty) WASHINGTON Those who sat at Roosevelt's Roose-velt's elbow during the Yalta conference give a new slant to the reasons why sensitive General De Gaulle was not invited to Join the Big Three. They say that neither the president nor Prime Minister Churchill had any objection to De Gaulle's presence, but felt rather neutral about it. Stalin, however, was the man who flatly opposed op-posed it. Stalin, according to those returning from Yalta, Yal-ta, pointed out that this was to be primarily a military conference and France was only playing a minor role in the war. Since the Big Three were bearing the main brunt of the war, Stalin said he saw no point' in having De Gaulle sit in on a conference concerned largely with military strategy. The Russian war chief was aulte definite and repeated the point that If the Yalta conference - a a m a . were conevroea primarily witn political and economic econ-omic post-war problems, it would be different But when military matters were being discussed, he just didn't want De Gaulle around. Then to clinch his views. Stalin recalls that France surrendered to Germany early in the war, and refused to turn over the French fleet to the uruisn as per treaty arrangement. Ana. concluded Stalin, "when you landed in " X- " -"r". V.IL A , ., . inent. (Or you can start at this end and wu"".i"eJr nre on yu- .. ... . . - -.. avrci. ihiukvcu ana -uurcii work it backwards.) Anyway, Mr. Ruml figures 60,000,000 jobs and a $140,000,000,000 national income as about right. A lot of smart people are now figuring out how to create those jobs. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, we can't be of much assistance to them. But we did get to wondering the other day about the 60,000,000 people who are going to take these jobs. So we retired to a neutral rorner with the World Almanac and eventually event-ually emerged with some eight-cylinder figures of our own. The Bureau of the Census estimates that our population will increase about 6.3 per cent in the 10 years between 1940 and 1950. tk armed with that estimate and the. official 3940 population figures, we projected our-elf our-elf five years hence, when peace will presumably pre-sumably be here to stay. By 1950 we should have 43.843.150 males fcnd 43.814.189 females between the ages of 38 and 65 from whom to draw our 60,000,000 job-holders. Let us discount students, un-fcmployables, un-fcmployables, and the like, and assume that all the men have jobs. We shall then need 36.156.850 women to fill up the roster. Let us also assume that there are still 6,-C96.799 6,-C96.799 farms in this country, as there were Jn 1940. We ought at least to allow one 18-to-65 female to each farm as wife and moth-rr. moth-rr. That leaves us 37,717,390 women to fill those 16.156,850 jobs. In other words, almost al-most half the women between 18 and 65 will k' working full time away from home in ir50. It is estimated that 17,500.000 women are ill. who didn't care much one way or the other, maae no xuriner suggestions about De Gaulle LADIES OF CONGRESS The menfolk of congress might take a lesson irom the Ladies Congressional club when it comes to holding their tempers and keeping their iisis in meir pocxets. On the day that "titular Republican leader" John Rankin of Mississippi Jumped on the back oi congressman hook or Michigan, an Interest ing aftermath occurred at the meeting of con gressional wives who form the Ladies Congres sional club. But the ladies engaged in no hair-pulling ex cept rxssibly with their eyes. ,Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas of California, wife of Movie Actor Melvyn Douglas and an actress in her own right, had been asked to give a talk. She had some interesting things xo say Boom women in politics and she said them with charm and frankness. Among other things she told how a statesman who had helped to Introduce women's suffrage claimed that women's entrance Into politics had not lifted the level of political action. Mrs. Douglas Doug-las took exception to this and argued that certain cer-tain women had made rapid political strides in recent years. She also maintained that women could not develop politically overnight, any more than an actress could attain fame and footlights overnight. As an Illustration, she said that many people thought she had become an actress right after she left college, when as a matter of fact she had been studying acting almost since the age of five. IRATE MRS. RANKIN Then Mrs. Douglas made a plea for sticking to facts and not hiding behind prejudice. "There is no place in our society for hate," she said. "We don't get anywhere by hating each other. For instance. If I may be very frank and speak entirely off the record. I think that the kind of thing that happened on the floor of the house today was most regrettable and is not going to contribute to the good of congress." :f..it.. i i a. i rru v.-. t iiimitruiaitiy an ominous duu-duzz rose irom painfully employed today. There has been;the ladles of con?re8s. Mr8. Rankiri( whose hus. good deal OI lalK aoour tactlUl ways and j band had leaped on Frank Hook, had several tneans of asking them to go home after the v.ar and vacate jobs for returning veterans. J.'ut the above figures suggest that the prob- 1 m will be in getting most of them to stay friends Dresent and they gathered around her. Mr Hook, the man who was leaped upon, also had feminine friends present and they gathered into another eroup. Finally Mrs. Rankin, smiling sweetly but with It remains to be seen what all this is going) touch of steel in her voice, came over to Mrs. to do to marriage, home life the care and . much better actress training of children, and the domestic urge! you are a diplomat. When you've been in Wash-in Wash-in general. We don't know, but we venture jington twenty-six years, perhaps you may know to predict that our traditional picture of "the how be more politic. little woman is due for extensive altera tions. and that the maid shortage will move I" to the realm of constant predictables with l?ath and taxes. The Case of Harry Bridges Senator Murray of Montana has asked the 1 congressional race Mrs. Douglas smiled with equal sweetness. Most of those present agreed that although she had struck fire, what she said had had a wholesome whole-some effect and might even have healthy repercussions re-percussions on the floor of the house. POLITICAL POT BOILS Although one national election is just over, both Republicans and Democrats are already scrambling frantically for victory in the 1946 t resident that deportation proceedings ajrainst Harry Bridges, president of the International In-ternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Warehouse-men's Union, be dropped so that he can become be-come a citizen of this country. 4 The senator charged that the proceedings vould have been dropped long ago if Mr Ordinarily, party headquarters would be as quiet as an emnty church at this time of the political year. However, the Republicans teed-off teed-off by voting a $750,000 annual war chest to drive thf New Deal out of Washington. Although it's all bcint; done quietly. G. O. P. Chairman Herbert Browncll is efficiently sweeping dead wood from party headauarters and preparing to triple the present staff desnltc the manpower shortage. bridges was not head of a labor organiza- When Browncll has the party machine going :.M i full blast, he will be spending almost as much . . . , i., . monev as the national committee lays out during Mr. Bridges IS charged with being a lom- a presidential election vear. mnnist. antl nlnttinor this flrovernment's over- Brownell Is expanding the party's research throw by force and violence. His record of and publicity staffs, plans to add a separate radio I- iu, ,.. -.nt t; division, and to emulate the potent political ac- co-ooeration during the war is excellent. Ini,. u ..vu.iin h nrtv omniu. tion all the way down to the doorbeU-rlnging level. One of Brownell's first orders was to buy several dozen coptes of the PAC's official handbook, hand-book, "the first round," and have every party official read it. Meanwhile, the Democrats are also swinging into action, paced by Chairman Bob Hannegan, who has developed a streamlined program to see if he can increase the number of Roosevelt supporters in the house and senate next year. The Democrats .came out of the campaign with a $400,000 surplus this time, and plan to raise more. Hannegan. together with Speaker Rayburn and Democratic Leaders McCormack of Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. Ramspeck of Georgia and Drewery of Virginia, have mapped a shrewd campaign to capture cap-ture another 50 seats in the house. They plan to concentrate on the 57 districts where the Democrats Demo-crats lost by less than 12,000 votes and have figured out that in 27 of these, the Democratic losing margin was less than 9,000. Their hopes are high, but they are preparing for a tough light. co-operation during fact, it has been excellent ever since Germany Ger-many invaded Russia. Before that his record, rec-ord, in deed and action, was notable for disruption dis-ruption of national unity and of preparations for national defense. Perhaps, as Mr. Murray suggests, if the alien Mr. Bridges were not a powerful leader and popular figure in American labor, his actions ac-tions and utterances would have attracted less attention. But it hardly seems reasonable reason-able to suggest that his position should render ren-der him immune to a full, legal and orderly considerotion of the serious charge against him. irrelevant and Immaterial We see where the senate agricultural committee summoned Aubrey Williams' boyhood boy-hood pastor and Sunday School teacher to testify as to his qualifications as rural electrification elec-trification administrator. They received the pertinent information that Mr. Williams was headed for the ministry min-istry in his youth and subsequently, as the minister put it, "denied the divinity of Christ." The incursion of such a private and extraneous ex-traneous detail as Mr. Williams' religious beliefs seems to us not only irrelevant to the Inquiry at hand, but also tasteless and downright down-right dangerous. If this precedent should be established, a man's fitness for public office might well be determined by the combined techniques of the Inquisition and practices of Puritan New England and the Gestapo. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, inc.) I was not proud of my country and its actions after the close of the last war. We walked out on the rest of the world and came home, stuck our head in the sand and said: "Let the rest of the world go by. We can live here unto ourselves." House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas. jlL Jbp B-29 Superfort Crews Face Arduous Hardships in Raids By ERNIE PYLE IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (delayed) When you see a headline saying 'Superforts Blast Japan Again," I hope you don't get the idea that Japan Is being blown sky high and that she'll be bombed out of the war within another week or two. Because that isn't the case. Wc are just barely starting on a program pro-gram of bombing that will be long and tough. Even with heavy and constant bombings it would take years to reduce Japan by bombing alone. And our bombings are not yet heavy. Too, we have lots of things to contend with. Distance is the main thing, and Jap fighters and ack-ack and foul weather are other oth-er things. The weather over Japan is their best defense. As one pilot Jokingly suggested, "The Nips should broadcast us the weather every night, and save both themselves and us lots of trouble." Almost the first thing the B-29 boys asked me was, "Do the people peo-ple at home think the B-29s are going to win the war?" I told them the papers played up the raids, and that many wishful wish-ful thinking people felt the bombings might turn the trick. And the boys said: "That's what we were afraid of. Naturally we want what credit wc deserve, but our raids certainly cer-tainly aren't going to win the war." The B-29 raids are important. Just as every island taken and every ship sunk is important. But in their present strength it would be putting them clear out of proportion if you think they are a dominant factor in our Pacific Pa-cific war. I say this not to belittle the B-29 boys, because they are wonderful. won-derful. I say it because they themselves want it understood by the folks at home. Their lot is a tough one. The The situation in Greece is tragic because the dark figures of internationalists and anarchists inspired in-spired from abroad have intervened in our public life. Greek Premier Nicholas Plastlras. . Love of home. ... is not necessarily connected connec-ted with the house. Americans move often and may attach their home feeling almost entirely to their lurniiure or car. "Bride's Guide to tne u. s, A.." booklet distributed to American soldiers' wives in England. Once News Now History Twenty Year & Ago Frmo (he Files of THE FROVO HERALD March 1. 1925 Frederich Ebert, president of the German republic Is dead. The end came this- morning to the remarkable re-markable man who started his life as a saddle maker's apprentice appren-tice and live, to see the German empire overthrown and himself named first head of the new democracy. de-mocracy. The cabinet has decreed de-creed eight days of national mourning as a tribute to the dead president. Richfield high school carried off the greater part of the honors in the first annual commercial contest at the B. Y. U. held for typewriting and shorthand stu dents. e e Nicholas Longworth of Ohio was nominated to be the speaker of the next house of represent atives with John Q. Tilson of Connecticut as floor leader at a Republican caucus. There is an opportunity for Provo to get an additional grant from the Harmon foundation for playgrounds it was announced at an American Legion meeting. The University of Utah basket ball team defeated the BYU at the Deseret gym, 36 to 24. Question of the day, "Does Marriage Disqualify Lady Teach ers?" Many school districts had invoked a ban against married woman teachers, while quite a number of progressive districts Welcomed them in their schools. water every inch of the way to Japan, every inch of the way back. And brother, it's a lot of water. The average time for one of their missions Is more than 14 hours. The flak and fighters over Japan are bad enough, but that tense period is fairly short. They are over the Empire only from 20 minutes to an hour, depending depend-ing on their target. Jap fighters follow them only about 19 min utes off the coast. What gives the boys the woolies is "sweating out those six or sev en hours of ocean beneath them on the way back. To make it worse, It's usually- at night. Some of them are bound to be shot up, and Just staggering along. There's always the danger of running out of gas, from many forms of overconsumption. If you've got one engine gone, others are liable to quit. If anything happens, you go in to the ocean. That is known as "ditching." I suppose' around a B-29 base you hear the word "ditching" almost more than any other word. "Ditching" out here isn't like "ditching" in the English Chan nel, where your chances of being be-ing picked up are awfully good "Ditching" out here is usually fatal. We have set up a search and rescue system for these "ditched fliers but still the ocean Is awfully aw-fully big. and It's mighty hard to find a couple of little rubber boats. The fact that we do res cue about a fifth of our "ditched' fliers is amazing to me. Yes. that long drag back home after the bombing is a definite mental hazard, and is what eventually event-ually makes the boys sit and stare. Maybe you've heard of the "buddy system" in the Infantry. They use it in the B-29s, too. For instance, if a plane is in dis tress on the way back and has to fall behind, somebodv drops back with him to keep him com pany. They've known planes to come J clear home accompanied by a "buddy." and you could go so far as to say some might not have made it were it for the extra courage given them by having company. But the big point of the "bud dy system" is that if a plane does have to ditch, the "buddy" can fix h,is exact position and get surface rescuers on the way. The other morning after a mis sion, , my friend Major Gerald Koberuon was lying in nis coi resting and reminiscing, and he said: You feel so damn helpless when the others get in trouble. The air will be full of radio calls from those guys saying they've only got two engines or they re running short on gas. "I've been lucky and there I'll be siting with four engines and a -thousand gallons extra of gas. I could spare any of them one engine and 500 gallons of gas if I could just get it to them. It makes you feel so damn helpless." Minutia By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE It happened on Saturday. I was drudging away on the type writer and I banged out THE END and called to mother and asked what tune it waa. She said, "Three-fifteen. Why?" and I said, "I've finished, my book," and I put my head down on the table and bawled. Mother came In and we did a special little dance which la reserved for such occasions, oc-casions, and w both bawled. (Perhaps I should say wept in stead. My lady mother doesn't bawl.) But I do, and did. So I phoned Gertrude Wiseman and told her to come over for a dish of green tea to celebrate, and when she came she had been weeping too-but for another rea son. Everyone has their troubles these days. The tea tasted flat, due no doubt to the salt tears. The event called for something stronger than green tea; hard as it is to get. (My jar-full is prewar.) pre-war.) Everything tasted flat. I have been fighting my way through this book for six years. That's a long time. Every day I told myself that if I lived to see it done. I would celebrate in a way folks would never forget-and it turned out to be green tea and three tear, sodden females! Egad, the things I owe that critter crit-ter Schicklegruber! Well, I went to the phone and called up some of my smart friends who can spell, and asked them to come up and help proof-read it. They had just started to arrive when the phone rang, and it suddenly dawned on me that I was on surgery call. "That's the hospital as sure as anything," I said, and for once I was right. Well, Jerry Smith took over for me, the sweet thing, but was my face red! We hardly made a dent in the proof-reading. Mother and some others have been at it ever since but the end is in sight. The end of what? You don't have to be crazy to write, but it docs help. Who but a person of un sound mind would spend six years stewing over a book without the slightest assurance that the thing will ever be sold? It will take me six years to get back to normal. nor-mal. Everything I did in those six years every place I went, I went with guUty conscience because I should be at home working on the book. I can't relax. I started a dress for the youngest moppet, and worked at It feverishly like I only had a few minutes to spare on it, then it came to me sud denly that I dldn t have to hurry. The book was done. That sort of thing. Well, that's how it, feels and I'm telling you all this to warn you not to ask me about the book, please. I really can't promise how I'd behave. ROW SHE SHOPS "cnsiiAtMAnnr Without Painful Backache Maay nffcrm niter nagging br kmcfce quickly, ceo the dieeover that the teal oamoi their trouble mar be tired kidneya. The Udaeya an Nature chief way of taking tak-ing the execas aeida and waat out of .tbe Mood. They help moat people paaa about 3 mi tMM. fanetiaa nmaUm matter to remain in your piooa, n 9R0kWOnOQm maioGT o nmwa iu y ww vmwi, may caun nacsinc backacb. rbeumaUe peine, W paine. Ion of pep and enerfy, getting up wchta. welliag, puffin under the eyea, Kailantmi and illaalium Frequent or eeanty inmiiro with amarting and Duraiog eome timet ebowe there ie eomething wrong with your kidneya or bladder. , Don't waitl Aak your druWt for Does Pub, uaed ucceeefully by miUiooa for over 40 yean. Tbey rive happy relief and will help the 1 15 milee of kidney tubaa fluah out noieom-MwaetabOM noieom-MwaetabOM your blood. Got DonVFUMv (Adv.) New Low-Cost Clothing Plan BY PETER EDSON NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C, March 1 Say you're a war worker. You had a tough time during the depression de-pression but now you've got money in your pocket and you need some clothes. Work clothes. house clothes, and something a little better for dress-up. The people In Washington who make studies of your dally life. who are interested in your welfare, wel-fare, who write orders intended to keep you on an even keel during war times they and the people who manufacture and sell you the clothes you need have a number of conflicting theories about how you behave. Investigators xor tne bureau oz labor statistics have gone, Into hundreds of stores and found you can't get the Inexpensive lines of clothing which you need and which you used to buy. Labor union representatives who claim to be looking out for your Interests say that because you can t buy these things you need higher wages. On the other hand, representa tives of the textile mills, the e4 o t h i n g manufacturers, the wholesalers and retailers are orone to say you now have more money than you ever had In your life, that in your present plush condition you wouldn't take the old, cheaper lines of merchandise as a gift, that what you want now are $16.98 dresses instead of $6.98, coats at $33 instead of $15, men's suits at $50 instead of $22.50. Therefore, say the industry peo ple, why make the cheap stuff? Inflation Warning But if there aren t any inex- oensive clothes for you to buy, say the representatives of WPB, OCR, OPA, WLB, BLS. OES and assorted government alphabetical war agencies, ypur cost of living will so ud. we'll Jiave to authorize wage Increases for you, and that will start an Inflationary spiral which will increase the cost of the war and might even wreck the national economy. If you can understand this simple little fairy story you can understand the main points of the big fight now being waged In Washington over the new war production board-office of price administration orders Intended to roll back the cost and increase the supply of the lower-priced lines of clothing. It may take some weeks or even months before the consumer who eoes a-shopping for new clothes will be able to see the effects of these new orders. They are ex tremely complicated and, the buying habits of the choosey and spoiled American . people being what they are, It Is impossible for anyone to predict how these thinss will work. For instance, supposing the order does succeed in diverting cloth not needed by the armed services from more expensive clothlns into the less expensive lines. Suppose the little womanl goes into a shop with six aouars, intendins to buy a house dress at $5.98 and keep the change. But the clerk says, sorry, we don't have any .at $5.98. All we have are at $1.98. Okay, says the babe, I'll take three and gimme the change to buy pearls and chewing gum with. Isn't that disguised inflation, and doesn't it defeat the purposes of the orders? Realizing that their orders may have bugs of this kind hidden in the yardage, WPB and OPA have both said that if the orders don't work they will be changed. This is big-hearted of them and it makes sense. If the orders are unenforceable un-enforceable and result in a clothing cloth-ing black market, they will have to be changed. Most of the noise comes from conflict within the trade among growers, spinners, weavers, converters, con-verters, manufacturers, wholesalers, wholesal-ers, retailers. Price rollback features fea-tures of the orders will unquestionably unques-tionably reduce profits at some levels, though- the orders are not primarily intended to destroy profits as has been frequently misstated. The real purpose Is to force production of more low-priced low-priced clothes. Makers and sellers of high-priced clothing will take a terrible lick ing. will have to go into production of less expensive garments or go out of business completely for the duration. Who else is going to get hurt and how much is something you'll have to wait and see. Desk Chat PERT AND PERTINENT 'A few short years back, Ed ward Bok paid a man $100,000 for peace plan. . . . "historical note. isn't it about time that Bok heirs Instituted legal proceedings proceed-ings for obtaining money under un-der false pretenses? "There is little difference be tween a civilized man and savage. ..." except that the civilized man is supposed to know bet ter. "Everything comes to him who waits. . . . . " especially, pointed remarks from cafeteria patrons. CONSOLATION My daily task Is to grope For "words To comfort Those who grieve Their worries. Cares, to mitigate And somehow, To relieve. Does it really Matter much If the things I say to others Are sometimes Difficult For me, myself, To believe? Most people are ambitious but too many of us allow our am bitions to keep us from succeed ing in small undertakings. Brief history of a self-made man. ... Trained by his mother. Taught by a feminine school teacher, Dominated by his sisters, Bossed by his wife, and. Sympathized with by his office of-fice secretary. "John,' requested the teacher. "Parse the sentence, Tom married mar-ried Jane'.- "Tom's a noun because he's the name of something. 'Married' is a conjunction be cause it Joins Tom and Jane. 'Jane' is a verb because she governs gov-erns the noun." NOMINATED Some sort of prize ought to go to the guy in the New York office of-fice of a news photography concern con-cern who dispatched this cable to one of Its cameramen on Sal-pan: Sal-pan: "Your Island Invasion stuff good, but shows only backs and profiles of marines landing. Can you arrange landing ahead of marines, get front view of them rushing Japs? Joplin (Mo.) Globe. I 'used to know a fellow Who was always, always, right-He right-He got so terribly lonely He died of it one night! SELZNICK SEEKS TO STOP ACTRESS LOS ANGELES, March 1 (U.F) Selznlck studios today prepared to take any legal steps necessary to stop dark-haired, British ac-tres ac-tres Vivian Leigh from apearing in a London play with her husband, hus-band, romantic actor Laurence Oliver. A rulins Monday by a London court refused to grant producer David O. Selznlck an interlocut ory injunction to restrain the ac-tres ac-tres from apearing in "Skin Of Your Teeth." Til bet you $10, that If you ever studied latin, you've forgotten for-gotten all you learned!" wagered the disgusted listener to the fel low who was bragging about his 'higher education. "Once I learn anything, I never forget It! I'll Just take that bet!" "O. K.! Translate: "Vox popull, vox Dei'." My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" A short temper is an expensive luxury. Each time a bit of gossip Is re peated, it is magnified. ABNORMAL HEART BELIEVED FATAL LOS ANGELES. March 1 (UJO Dr. John C. Jones, eminent heart surgeon, said today he would "thoroughly examine live-year- old Colin Gray, whose heart is four times normal size, but doubted doubt-ed if his. life could be saved by surgery. Colin, suierlng irom rare heart disease, was being sent to Los Angeles by residents of Vancouver, Van-couver, B. 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