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Show "v.-;v ;7 Ur,--- vvy-, i.v- '.'fX.'-vl''--CA'" ; i t fe - i -v'lr- y 4 'it - ... y.PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945 Ed itor ial .... Nazi Versus German - When this war began the German people doubtless believed that Hitler was sending - them into battle to win land, power and glory for themselves. It may be that even Hitler deluded himself with the same notion at I first But the fiction has long' since beenj i , dispelled. X To any German with access to even a smattering of truthful news it must have . been clear for some time that the war was being fought for the Nazis, not the Germans. Today that fact is abundantly evident to all. Since the Allied breakthrough from the Rhine, the German civilian has been sampling sam-pling the fate of the . people of occupied Europe .during their temporary conquest. Unarmed citizens have been machine gunned when they, tried to surrender. Guns at their backs nave forced the untrained aged and children to face the Allied guns before them. Probably the Nazis defend their inhumanity inhuman-ity on the grounds that it is a German's "duty" to defend their fatherland against the "hated invaders," the "terror bombers," the "bolsheviks," or whatever. Theoretically, Theoretical-ly, 'that might be so. But actually it is obvious ob-vious that the heiling throngs of yesterday are by now heartily sick of the Nazis and their war. But the Nazis are not so busy with efforts to save their own skins that they neglect to punish civilians even in territory that has fallen to the invader. For example, they could spare three men to return to Aachen and assassinate Franz Oppenhof, the Allied-appointed Allied-appointed mayor of that city. The Nazis may call Oppenhof a "collaborator." "collabora-tor." But even they must realize that the term has a different meaning here. Aachen's fall ushered in no alleged "new order." It was the beginning of the last act in the terrible drama of Nazi ambition. That's all that it was. But life still had to be lived. And it was Oppenhof s job to help restore a semblance of orderly life, and to help dispense a stern but reasonable justice. For that Oppenhof was murdered. The Nazis had threatened to kill those who aided the Allies. Now that threat was carried out. It can scarcely be the last of such murders. Oppenhof s fate will become known. His story will be whispered in the conquered portions of Germany and proclaimed where the Nazis still stand. Thus any non-Nazi asked by the Allies to serve in civil government will feai; for his life. And so lpng-as any ardent Nazis remain re-main at larjpelhere will be reason to fear. A tlesire to end the hopeless struggle and aid in a restoration of peaceful living will be overshadowed by the constant dread of the Nazi assassin s bullet. , True the inevitable' may be defied a little longer. It cannot avert the Nazi's defeat. But it can and may complicate the conquer or s task ana prolong to some extent the fighting and, the occupation. The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By Draw Pearson (CoL Robert S Allan on active doty) 1 Perfectionism Again We have heard a good deal lately about "perfectionism" in the field of international relations. Now that form of reluctant reser vation has made its appearance in an impor tant area of our domestic economy. The National Association' of Manufactur ers did not participate in drawing up the new labor-management charter because it found the charter's provisions overly general and premature. The charter is a general statement, to be sure. It doesn't "get down to cases," as thef in am wishes, it is no blueprint. But it does define and recognize some specific rights of management and labor. . And it reveals t desire for co-operation and good will and mu tual respect, as we hope this one does, is Worth cherishing and developing. The NAM executives can foresee the alternative alter-native of postwar triumph or disaster which rests upon labor-management relations as clearly as William Green, Eric Johnston and Philip Murray, who wrote this charter. It is regrettable that the NAM has chosen to dis regard the charter because it was not born in mature perfection. We hope they change tneir minds. Notable Career Ended A notable business and ecclesiastical ca reer has drawn to a close with the passing ,oi atepnen Li. cnipman, formerly oT American Ameri-can Fork, in Salt Lake City, Saturday at the age of 81. He was president of the Salt Lake temple at the time of his death, a position he had filled since he retired from his business interests more than 10 years ago. President Chipman was born in American Fork in 1864 and was one of the leading A? . r il. a 1 Wj . citizens oi me nortnern utan county area for more than half a century. As president of the Alpine L D S stake, he achieved a record in length of service with his two counselors, James H. Clark and Abel John Evans which stood unequaled in church annals for a long time. He was a former .student of the Bfigham Young university, a member of its board of trustees and executive execu-tive committee for many years, and was considered one of the staunchest supporters the church school ever had. He served his community in many positions posi-tions of trust and was held in the highest esteem because of his integrity and inspired in-spired leadership- The Daily Herald tenders condolence to the bereaved family. , T WASHINGTON Here Is how the army will determine what men are to be discharged after the war In. Europe is over. Special forms have been quietly sent to commanding officers in all theaters. They are to be distributed to the G.I.'s who will fill them out. try to figure out the number num-ber of credits they have earned to fivf 1bem a quick return home. l The one ithing still undecided by the army is the number !of credits necessary for immediate release. This columnist is able to reveal, however, that: 1. All credits will be determined as of the date the war in Europe is over. 2. Special credits will be given for overseas service, and overseas service will mean any service serv-ice outside the continental limits of the U. S., including in-cluding Alaska. Thouands of men who served in Alaska wUl receive overseas credit. Overseas service will be determined from the day a man leaves a port of embarkation. 3. Combat credit will be given only for those receiving the medal of honor, distinguished service cross, legion of merit, silver star, distinguished flying cross, soldiers' medal, bronze star, air medal, purple heart or bronze service stars for battle par ticipation. No other awards or ribbons wUl be included. 4. Credit will be given for children who are under 18 years of age on the day the war in Europe ends, but for some mysterious reason the army will not aUow credits for more than three children. Note One mystifying thins about the forms which have been secretly sent commanders overseas over-seas is that they make, no provision for a serviceman's service-man's age, thus men over 38, many of whom have not been declared physically fit to go overseas, will have to sweat it out longer in uniform than younger men. HENRY KAISER CONCILIATES Few people realize It, and shipbuilder Henry Kaiser is too modest to admit it, but he was the guiding genius behind the recently signed pledge for post-war industrial peace just promulgated by Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. chamber of commerce, CIO President Phil Murray and A. F. of L. President Bill Green. Kaiser figured out the scheme last fall after seeing the terrific bitterness of the election cam paign. H first approached Bill Green, told him that if Green, was sincere about believing in a 60,000,000-job program, management needed assurances as-surances of labor peace. Green was agreeable. Next Kaiser visited CIO President Phil Murray, Mur-ray, found he was also in hearty agreement. Murray even- pointed out that certain CIO unions were already trying to sign post-war compacts with employers,, guaranteeing no strikes and full labor-management cooperation. Finally, Kaiser went to Eric Johnston, sold him on the idea that a Joint pledge by business and the two big labor groups would be a great help to the natjon. Johnston agreed to call the, first meeting, invited in-vited Kaiser. Murray and Green to a hush-hush dinner in his Mayflower hotel suite, debated the entire proposal up, down and sideways. Not content with a bare statement of 'unity and pledge of labor-management peace, Kaiser has now quietly' proposed that the U. S. chamber of commerce, the A F. of L. and the CIQ set up a new, well-financed , organization which can actively go about the business of contactingJocal labor leaders and local business men. preaching the gospel of cooperation on that level. PETRILLO CRACKDOWN N . Congress Is so steamed up about the rambunctious ram-bunctious practices of horn-tooter James Caesar Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians, and bushy-browed John L. Lewis, Mine Workers' chief that responsible labor leaders are greatly worried that it may pass the Bailey bill. Authored by Senator Bailey, North Carolina conservative democrat, the bill provides that employer em-ployer payments to a union for any purpose other than a check-off of union dues by outlawed. This would invalidate the agreement Petrillo won after defying the record manufacturers and the government for two years, and which provides that the manufacturers pay his union a royalty oil every record made. It would also rule out the ten-cent-per-ton coal royalty Lewis asked after he saw Petrillo get his. Even thou eh many of them have lltle sym pathy for the Petrillo-Lewis methods, labor leaders see in the Bailey bill far more danger than appears ap-pears on the surface. For if the bill becomes law, it will knock out not only Petrillo royalty set-ups. but also numerous negotiated agreements whereby employers agree to pay a small portion of their payroll into health funds joinuy aamimsierea oy the union and the employer. ThpP are used to pay sickness and accident benefits, medical costs and death benefits for employes, em-ployes, and more and more employers are agreeing to include contributions to these funds in their contracts with the unions. There have been no complaints about these funds, but they will be illegal if the Bailey dui Decomes w. CAPITOL CHAFF T.. Hirr has named the New York firm of Fuller, Smith and Ross to handle advertising of B..rr.in nrnwriv to be sold through RFC. This firm is also the advertising representative for the Aluminium Company of America, wnicn nas a major Interest in plant facilities to he sold through RFC. . . . Despite the wide publicity ridiculing him fw month abo. Representative William uai- lacher. former Minneapolis street cleaner, has won the respect of his colleagues in the house. He still occasionally mistakes a young congressman for a messenger, but he is listened to with interest when he has something to say about legislation . . . While the meat packers howl about how they can't make any money, OPA officials are scratching scratch-ing their heads as they read the industry s profit figures. Eight major companies average from 1936 n loan a nrofit of s22.382.000 per year before paying taxes $17,472,000 per year after taxes But in 1044 their profits before taxes were $153,193,000, orH oftor fa- S44.110.000. In 1941. however, be fore price control was established, their before- taxes profit was 7i,iw,uw ana weir tak $49 650.000 .'Net sales In the 1936-39 period averaged $2,071,265,000, only $2,908,159,000 In 1941 and $4,551,734,000 last year. The companies are Armour. Cudahy, Hormel, Hygrade, Morrell, Rath, Swift and Wilson smau companies, nwevci, having hard sledding. fa. L JOES' RIGHTS Tbt book Itellins war veterans what their rights are in words of one syllable has just been written bv Cornoral Max Novak, editor of Yank magazine's "what's your problem?" department. Novak, the G. I. Joe's legal eagie, oecame wwrw ughly disgusted with the way discharged veterans are taking a, beating on their veterans' rights through sheer ignorance, and so sat down and wrote a book, "How to cash in on your discharge benefits." (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, inc.) C'Did Be Dot Our Goot Fuehrer Vas Misinformed?" Jk 'jtf 'sfflkte ' (,y Pyle Makes Friends With Sailors By ERNIE PYLE IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC One of the first friends I made aboard our aircraft carrier was a tall, well-built, mustached sailor named Jerry Ryan. He wears dungarees, smokes a pipe sometimes, and always wears his sleeves rolled up. He's from 716 West Locus St.) Davenport, la., but his wife is living in In dianapolis. He is a boilermaker first class. Jerry had served one hitch in. the navy before the war. He knows all the little ins and outs of how to get along. Everybody likes him. He isn t especially talkative, yet it's safe to say he knows more people than anybody else on the ship. Ryan is what is known in the navy as "a good man." He's skilled skill-ed in his work, he's dependable, and he s very smart. He d die be fore he'd curry favor with any body. He's the kind an officer can depend on utterly if that officer plays square with Ryan. But he gets a pretender so quickly it would make your head swim. Ryan's concept of right and wrong is very sharply drawn, and the Irish in him doesn't hesitate when a crisis comes. The other boys were telling me ' of an incident in-cident It was one of the days when Jap bombs hit his ship, off the Philippines. A great hole was torn in the deck. Several men were killed, and many wounded. Bodies of their comrades were still lying mangled on the deck. A sailor came up to look at the damage, and said almost exult-ingly exult-ingly "Oh boy, this is great. Now at least they'll have to send us back to America for repairs." Without saying a word, Ryan turned and knocked him down. Ryan runs what is known as the "oil shack." From this little domain do-main the condensers are regulated. regu-lated. He has dials and gauges and a phone and a clipboard on which are kept hourly records of oil pressures and water levels and all that stuff. The "shack" is a little room about the size of an apartment kitchenette, with a metal workbench work-bench and drawers full of tools, and one folding canvas stool. I Ryan's oil shack is a social-center. There is always somebody hanging around. You can get a cup of coffee there, look at sea shell collections, see card tricks, or find out the latest rumors that started on the bridge five minutes ago. Jerry brews coffee for his guests in a nickel-plated pot over an electric grill. The pot has a red hash mark for one hitch of service in. the navy. And soon he is going to award it the Purple Heart. It got dented in the Philippines Philip-pines typhoon. Some nights we pop corn in the "oil shack." The boys' folks send them corn in cans, and they beg butter from the gallery, and pop er up in a skillet on the grill. ! One of Ryan's friends who comes to eat popcorn is a Negro j a tall, athletic fellow from his home town" of Davenport. They were on the ship together for a year before they found out they were from the same place. The colored boy's name is Wesley Wes-ley Cooper. He is a cook. He was a star athlete - back home. He's the best basketball player in the whole crew. When he gets done with the war he has a scholarship waiting for him at the University of Iowa. Wesley comes down to the shack almost every night after supper. He smokes a curved stem pipe, and holds one, hand up to it, and listens and grins and doesn't say much. j We were popping corn one night. One of the boys said "Wes, how about getting us some more butter?" And another one said1 "Wes, bring some salt, will you?" And a third said "And bring me a sandwich when you come down, will you Wes?" And Wes grins and his white teeth flash and he said. "I suppose sup-pose you'd like for me to go up and cook you a whole meal?" And he never made a move. Another of my best friends is Howard Wilson, a bos'ns mate second class. Like Lieut. Jimmy Van Fleet, the fighter pilot we wrote about, he is from Findlay, Ohio. In fact they are good friends. Wilson is a low-spoken, hand-sode hand-sode and highly intelligent man of 35. He has a beautiful home and a good business back in Findlay. He is part owner and general manager of three movie theaters. His wife is running them while he is away. In those bygone years back in the old hometown, Jimmy Van Fleet used to go to Howard Wilson Wil-son and borrow money when he got hard up. Now the younger Jimmy dwells in the comparative luxury of officers quarters, and the older Howard lives the lowlier low-lier life of a sailor, sleeping on a rack in a crowded compartment, and wearing dungarees. That's the way things go in wartime. Howard is old and wise enough that it doesn't bother him in the slightest. He accepts the war and his own lot calmly. The other pilots know of this friendship, and ask Jimmy if he's keeping on the good side of Howard to insure he II have a job when the war is over? He says he is. U. S. Sole of Surplus Plahts By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 4 Antitrust Anti-trust division of the department of justice will soon enter the pic- ture as an active factor in deter mining who can buy what surplus government property; if its original orig-inal cost was more than a million dollars. Now in preparation for issuance in the neat future is a department of justice memorandum memoran-dum which will be a guidebook on what conditions of the Sherman Sher-man anti-trust law a prospective purchaser will have to meet, and what he will have to do or be to get approval. Assistant Attorney j General Wendell Berge, In charge of the anti-trust division, has al ready started to train a staff to process these proposals. First principle will ODVlousiy be that no sale will be approved if it will tend to give anyone a monopoly in anything. A corollary may well be that sales of surplus war plants will be frowned on if the buyers intend in-tend to shut them down just to remove their productive capacity from competition. This repre-cents repre-cents an interesting tie-up with the administration's free enterprise, enter-prise, small business, full employment em-ployment policies. The contribution contribu-tion any sale will make towards post-war employment will thus become a test of merit for any prospective; purchaser. ALUMINUM PLANTS AS TEST CASES As an example of how these anti-trust restrictions may.be applied, ap-plied, disposal of surplus aluminum alumin-um producing and fabricating facilities may offer early test cases. The government now owns nearly 10 0 aluminum plants, Valued at over 800 million dollars. The government's, mine aluminum ingot proaucing plants now represent rep-resent 42 per cent of the total in dustry capacity. Aluminum Com pany of America owns 38 per cent, Reynolds 16 per cent, and Olin Corporation the Other four. Only two of the government ingot plants have thus for been declared surplus. Both have high operating costs and nobody wants them. Navy is now using the Queens, New York, plant for stor age, while army has taken over the Burlington, N. J., plant as a depot. When it comes to disposal of the aluminum ingot plants which All Indictments of Albert B. might be used by private Indus Fall, E. L. Doheny, Edward L. Do-4try, a couple of complicating fac Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD of April 4, 1925 Your G I Rights By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 3 Here are some additional rights for veterans vet-erans under consideration by congress con-gress and veterans' administration: administra-tion: Congress has been asked to ex-lend ex-lend the Emergency Maternity and Infant Care program now available to wives of enlisted men to include wives of veterans, wid ows of service men, and infants born after the father left the service. A woman whose hus band is killed in battle before she make application cannot get these benefits. An infant born under the program cannot get in fant care if the father has left the service before its birth. Veterans of Foreign Wars are protesting the fact that veterans' compensations and pensions are considerably reduced during per1 tods of hospitalization in Government Gov-ernment hospitals. VFW spokesmen spokes-men say this has resulted in many veterans leaving Veterans' Administration hospitals against I medical advice. : policies taken out by servicemen in World War II will expire in 1945. Congres is now studying the possibilities of extending that time through .the duration of the war. This would save millions of heny, Jr., and Harry F. Sinclair, growing out of the naval oil reserve re-serve leases, were quashed by Justice McCoy of the District of Columbia supreme court. The indictments in-dictments charged Fall with accepting ac-cepting bribes from Doheny, Fall and Doheny, with conspiracy to defraud the government in leasing the California oil reserves. Dr. George R. Hill, Jr., a native of Springville, professor of botany and dean of the Utah Agricultural college, has resigned to accept the directorship of the agricultural department of the American Smelting and Refining company. William F. Hanson of the B. Y. U. music department won second prize in an international music contest with his songs based upon the stories of the -Ute Indians. Judges were Victor Herbert and Reginald Werrenrath. Luclen L. Nunn, pioneer in the development of hydro - electric projects in Utah, died at the age of 72 in Los Angeles. He was re sponsible for the organization of the Telluride Power company in 1892. Later, he endowed the Tel luride Association with securities to provide for the education of young men in electrical engineering engineer-ing and other scientific fields at Cornell and other universities. Pictures of the Timpanogos cave in American Fork canyon will be taken by the Fox Movie tone, it was announced. Desk Chat TRUE CHRISTIANITY Francis P. Duff, who was a chaplain in World War J won the lasting respect oi all fighting men. On the battle field, he ministered comfort to the wound ed and dying, regardless of race, color or creed. , "I tried to comfort all alike Protestants, Jews, Catholics and left to God to sort them out." ' We need more of that spirit of tolerance and understanding in America today. We need a more broad understanding of the fun damentals of Christianity., Too many 'religious' people see only the beauties in their own par ticular creed or sect and ALL thfe-. shortcomings of every other creed. We need less pompously pious mouthing of high ideals, less bigotry and Intolerance, emanat ing from some narrow-minaea pulpit-pounders and more human i understanding. Most bf the race . hatred in America is fostered and . nurtured by psuedo 'divines.' God never intended that we should use His name nor His house nor His teachings- aS an excuse to blast and destroy. He will not sort us out according to the measure of bigotry and in tolerance we preach or teach but according to our consideration of our fellowmcn. We cannot presume to interpret inter-pret theWord of God as it best serves our individually selfish purpose. We must seek understanding under-standing on the basis of the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto YOU.' LILIES Slender, straight And frail, White as snow. Cold and aloof, , Yet stately tall. i Easter lilies grow Like holy nuns Shedding tears J Over silent biers. Friends of death Yet in reverent grandure And sacred pride They mourn the Savior At Eastertide. men the task of converting their policies. It is argued that families covered by the insurance are entitled en-titled to full protection as long as the threat of death or disability faces the policy holder. - A bill to provide dependency allowances for all service-disabled veterans with families to support is now being considered by congress. con-gress. At present, compensation for permanent service-incurred disability is based entirely upon the disability Itself, regardless of how many people depend on the veteran fcr supper. .. tors enter the picture. First, the small business com roittee of the senate has launched aninvestigation of the light met als industry. That lends another decidedly anti - monopolistic cast to the proceedings. Second, the U. S. Circuit Court of New York, acting for the supreme su-preme court, has ruled that the Aluminum Company of America did formerly have a monopoly on ingot production. The point gen erally overlooked was that the Circuit court withheld judgment on whether the aluminum com pany should oe dissolved, saying in effect that this should wait on disposal of government facilities to see what the pattern of post war ownership might turn out to be The implied threat here is that if the Aluminum company acquires ac-quires much additional ingot producing pro-ducing capacity it will have to be dissolved as a moonopoly. ASKS GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES A recent government witness before the small business committee, commit-tee, Samuel Moment of the Booneville Power administration, even went so far as to- say that the government should make such favorable terms of sale or lease to new producers that their market would be guaranteed for five yeac$, through purchases for a government stockpile. Department of justice gets its authority to advise on surplus property disposal from two sourc- es. Congress reserved to itself the right to approve sales of prop erties costing more than five million mil-lion dollars. But in the surplus property act the department of justice was given authority to pass on the disposal of all properties proper-ties costing more than one million dollars, and in the war mobilization mobiliza-tion and reconversion act justice is required tor report to congress on the growth of monopolies. Attorney General Francis Bid-die Bid-die has already submitted two such reports to congress and he has announced plans to make Eat hearty and of the things you like to enjoy good health, but train your appetite to obey reason. : Perhaps you have noticed it too: that the man who lies awake for an hour will always declare: de-clare: "I didn't sleep a wink!" "Johnny," reprimanded the teacher, "what is that lump in your cheek? Are you chewing gum again?" "No. I ain't chewing gum. I'm just soaking a prune to eat at recess." Human nature is indeed queer: people who are easily shocked at naughty things like to talk about them. How may one boast of his courage cour-age or acquire congressional approval ap-proval for an advanced commission commis-sion who has never known dan ger. Written in tribute to Capt. Robert G. Hodson, sod of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hodson, who was killed in an airplane accident at Ogden, March 2, 1945. CEILING UNLIMITED The motors roar, now watch him soar. His wings dip in salute. For ' he's off tonight on a different dif-ferent flight. Flying a different route. Hfe's flying high there in the sky, . On Golden Airway Seven; xne nigm is clear, and God is near. And destination'i -HEAVEN. Red. Ignorance is the bliss that pre vents so many "people from ac quiring wisdom. 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