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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY. JUNE 19, 1945 Editorial... Turn us thou unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our daya as of old.- Lamentations Lamenta-tions 5:21. To err is human, to forgive, divine, Pope. Election Sideshows Only one thing can be said for exaggerated,, exagger-ated,, vituperative political campaigning. It Btirs up partisan excitement and helps get out the vote. And this technique of the sideshow barker is so successful that even in times of crisis like the present, when scober thought is a prime necessity, it is employed em-ployed as freely as ever. We had a dose of it in our last presidential campaign. And now England is getting some of the same. With the end of the European war and the imminent elections, the name-calling name-calling has broken out like a family row that explodes as soon as the. guests leave. As usual, both sides claim all the virtues and warn of their opponent's treachery. But this time the feeling is perhaps even sharper because of the Labor Party's plan of modified modi-fied state socialism. Mr. Churchill warns that socialism won't brook criticism, and that some ort of Gestapo Ges-tapo will appear in the United Kingdom if Labor triumphs. Mr. Atlee, Labor's leader, holds the Tories responsible for child labor and sweat shops, unemployment, and a badly bad-ly housed, fed, and clothed nation, in presenting pre-senting 'his case for collectivism. All this is the same old assortment of melodramatic half-truths. And it reminds us again that we're still waiting for some politician, American, British or otherwise io mane a speecn in me loiiuwuig vein; No political system in itself can guarantee guaran-tee you all the good things in life. And no economic system is so perfect that it cn run itself. State socialism has been a great (hing in Sweden, bringing down prices, breaking up monopolies, and still letting private business live. Nationalized industry was tried once in the United States when the government tried to run the railroads during the first World War, and made a sorry, expensive, confused mess of it. It all depends on the men who operate the system. The machinery of state socialism can't guarantee low taxes, high living standards, and a bath tub in every home. Neither can the machinery of a capitalistic democracy. State socialism in itself can't legislate away depressions, greed, corruption and incompetence. incom-petence. A capitalistic democracy can't legislate permanent prosperity into being. The best thing a system of government can do is to leave a people free to choose the best men for the job of running that government, govern-ment, and free to change, them if they fail. That means finding men of integrity and wisdom who don't think that aceess to consumer con-sumer goods provides all the answers, and who believe a nation's critical concern for its ethical principles is more important than two cars in every garage. And that means the slow task of broadening broad-ening and improving a people's education and level of intelligence until it can develop and recognize such men. Jt is a difficult and unspectacular task, but one that is highly necessary and richly rewarding. ' Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other The Full-Employment Bill A bill of excellent intent, popularly known s the full-employment bill, has come before congress with the blessing of War Mobil izer Vinson and, apparently, of President Truman. Tru-man. Its purpose is the just and necessary one of guaranteeing a job to everyone with the ability and desire to work. It would achieve this purpose by havins: the president submit to congress an annual production and employment budget, containing contain-ing a statement of. the nation's job needs ' in the coming year and an estimate of private and public investment and expenditure to provide these jobs. If investment and expenditure didn't promise to fill the job quota, the president could recommend a program ' to stimulate private investment. If that failed he could then recommend a public spending program. We doubt that the bill as it stands would fulfill its intentions. One reason is that it apparently is based on the necessity of 60,-000,000 60,-000,000 jobs. And nobody yet, so far as we know, has proved that to be anything more than an arbitrary figure. In the boom year of 1943, 51.5. million civiians had jobs. Some put in overtime equal to the labor of another 5 million workers on a prewar work-week basis. That makes 56.5 millions. Subtract the 5.8 million mil-lion housewives, over-age and under-age workers holding jobs, and you get 50.7 millions. To increase this force of 60 million would mean employing almost every person in the armed forces. That takes no account of the many young servicemen and women who want to finish their education, those who will remain in an undoubtedly expanded peacetime Army and Navy, the young women wo-men in the civilian labor force who might want to quit work and get married, and the civilian workers of both sexes whose schooling school-ing is not completed. The bill doesn't seem to couple any goal of national income with this full employment. employ-ment. It sets up public works machinery before making a move to ease wartime restrictions re-strictions on private business and thus encourage en-courage investment and expansion. It is certainly government's duty to create an atmosphere in which full employment can flourish, to provide work at times when private business is unable to, and to guide The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's $S Going On in National Affairs ? ttVi 3 o V WASHINGTON Harry Truman has now been president of the United States for a little over two months two of the most historic montns in the nation's history. These two montns are sui-ficient sui-ficient to get a fairly accurate gauge of how the new president is going to function for the rest of his term. On the surface there iff1 a new atmosphere in the White House when you walk into it these days. If, for instance, you drop uV on White House Secretary Sec-retary Charlie Ross, he is cordial, courteous, but brief. There is no invitation or inclination to sit down and gossip. This businesslike atmosphere prevails throughout the entire White House staff. If you eo on in to see Ross's boss, you get in on time. There are few waits. And the little man on the other side of the big broad shiny desk listens intently. He wants to hear what his visitors have to say. These are two definite innovations. Gone are the days when big shots calling on Roosevelt would fret and fume during an hour's wait, then, after spending' half an hour with him, go out and brag that they had spent an hour and a half "at the White House," With Truman you are allotted a certain number of minutes, and he holds to that schedule. C Moreover, you can make the most of your allotted al-lotted time. Truman is anxious to listen. Roosevelt on the other hand, did most of the talking himself. him-self. Visitors had to interrupt forcefully to put across their ideas. Y GOOD DOMESTIC ADMINISTRATOR Truman gives the impression of having a firm grasp on all domestic problems. He knows them thoroughly undoubtedly better than Franklin Roosevelt during his latter, years, when he was devoting all his time to the war. One of Truman's frequent replies to callers when they urge sanction oil some special idea is: "I realize that. But it takes tune to do all these things, and seldom have so many important things confronted us all at one time. Ill set around to that just as soon as I can." One thine that worries him most is our foreian affairs. The new president frankly realizes it is his main weakness. He does not have Roosevelt's international background, therefore has to "rely almost wholly on his diplomats. Truman's method of running the government is that of picking good men and giving them free rein. This is a good system, and we could have had more of it in the past; But it breaks down when the president is not sure he can rely on the men picked to perform the most important job we now face building up the-peace after the war. Truman told Stettinius, for Instance, that he was to be his own boss at San Francisco. But he found that Stettinius called him en the phone once or twice a day to get his approval of almost every decision. ?; FIRES HIS FRIENDS Unlike Roosevelt, Truman does not hesitate to fire a man who doesn't produce. He let Leonard Leon-ard Reinsch go back to hit; radio job in Atlanta the day after he handled himself badly in a press conference. He transferred Edward D. McKim, his administrative assistant, after it became known that the genial and likeable McKim seemed too engrossed in Mrs. "Hope Diamond" McLean's dinner parties and the social whirl of Washington. Politicos on Capitol Hill credit Truman with one political error so far His letter to the house rules committee asking it to vote out the fair employment practices bill, bitterly opposed by southern legislators. Writing a letter of this kind to a congressional committee went further than most Roosevelt attempts to influence congress, and members of the rules committee resented it. However, if Truman erred politically, he did not err when it came to carrying out party pledges. tie put nimseif squarely behind a promise he made during the campaign, which Republican congressional leaders, having made a similar pledge, welched. Final impression you get of Truman during his trial heat is that he has been working under tremendous pressure, is tired and needs the rest he will now enjoy with' his old friend. Governor Mon Wallgren, in Washington State. All of which makes it even more miraculous that Franklin Roosevelt held out physically as long and as well as he did. SENATORS RULED NORWAY Less than three weeks ago, young Senator Hugh Mitchell of Washington had, the unique distinction dis-tinction of being the high civil authority in Norway. Nor-way. "Opposition leader" of -Norway was Michigan's Mich-igan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson. The two senators, arriving in Norway to investigate in-vestigate surplus property for the Mead commit tee,, drove from their dock to Oslo's famed Hotel "Bristol. All along the way. they were astonished to see fully armed Nazi soldiers strolling about freely. Several hundred thousand armed Nazis' they discovered, were still in Norway with no one to accept their surrender. The Norwegian government was due to return re-turn shortly, and unttt their arrival, Senator Mitchell as a Democratic senator of a eovern- ment to which Germany had surrendered was the highest civil official there. Since Norwegian party lines are not yet fully redrawn, Ferguson, a Republican, was entitled to be called the "opposition "op-position leader." The proprietor of the hotel told the senators that the entire hotel had been occupied by Nazi officers until two days earlier. On Way 28, an American Colonel Wilson had arrived with 12 of ficers the first American staff to reach Norway. "We want living space and office rooms," Colonel Wilson told the proprietor. "But the hotel is fully occupied," replied the embarrassed hotel manager. Later he casually mentioned that the occupants were Nazi officers. At Wilson's suggestion, the Nazi commandant was called in and asked to leave. Two hours later every Nazi had -packed up, walked through the lobby with full equipment, and marched to a camp on the outskirts of the city, The American commander is now installed in the fabulous mansion built by the notorious Vid-kun Vid-kun Quisling for his own occupancy. Not only did the hundreds of thousands of Nazis surrender to a dozen Americans and a somewhat some-what larger British military; -mission, but a group of six American sailors arid their officers took over ten surrendering submarines in the harbor near Oslo. f 4 The two senators saw Nazis with side-arms all about them during their stay in Oslo, but weren't worried. They wore their -arms as a matter of pride because no one tried to stop them. Most of the Nazis were in nearby camps with their own armed sentries. (Copyright, 1945, by the .Bell Syndicate, Inc.) VUAR 'EACB Your G I Rights By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent Once News Now History- Twenty Years Ago ''From the-FIlea of: The Provo Herald' Of June 19, 1925 The McMillan Arctic expedition sailed from Boston In the Peary, planeshlp of the tour. It was hoped the expedition may result in finding the lost explorer Amundsen, as well as discover a new continent Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin was reported to be seriously ill at the caDital. as his condition had taken 5 a turnj for .the worse. He has been suiiering irom oron-chial oron-chial asthma and complications for more than a week.-He was holding his own and hope was held out for his recovery. "The German excursion" wtck of the Lackawanna railroad in New Jersey claimed a toll of 43 dead, it was reported after a re check of the hospitals. The train ran into a sand-logged switch, engulfing 100 passengers in steam. Judee Ben Lindsey of Denver predicted that the future will witness wit-ness the absolute passing of. our sriiriinal and juvenile court. The work of these institutions will be done by specialists highly trained in the field of human welfare, he said. They will be called from one city to another in the same way that a preacher is called today from one pulpit to another, he declared. The Legionnaires of Utah were planning a state convention at Brigham City. James Drain Is the department commander. City Marshal J. M,. Burns of Castle Qate died from wounds received re-ceived when he was shot by a negro assailant, Robert Marshall, a coal miner. Little News About Big People By PETER EDSON Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 19 WASHINGTON. June 19 Biggest aiirerence qeiween iru-man iru-man and Roosevelt, say some of the recent official business callers at the White House, is that Truman Tru-man doesn't do all the talking, listens to what his visitors have to-say. Another marked difference is that officials who used to pass the buck on their hottest problems, prob-lems, laying them on Roosevelt's desk for settlement, are now told in effect that they were hired as cooks, not as waiters so they should start doing their own Here are some questions on veterans' priority for surplus property: Q My brother and I own a dry goods store. There have been many requests for work clothes wHish are hard to get. I understand under-stand that some work clothes have been declared surplus property and inasmuch as I am a veteran I would like to know how I cm get these items using my priority. A You cannot get any surplus property under veterans' prioritylQQjng if you plan to resell it. Of course you can get it through the regular channels. Your priority is only for goods that will go directly into maintaining or setting up the business. Q My buddy and I are planning plan-ning to open up a tavern. We know of some refrigerating eqiup-ment eqiup-ment we need which is Government Govern-ment surplus property, but it costs $3000. They tell us -you can only set items $2500 or less on a veterans' priority. We are both veterans. Is this true? A. One veteran is entitled to priority for surplus goods up to $2500. That means that two of you could buy up to $5000 worth. Therefore you can buy the refrigerating refrig-erating equipment you need. Q I saw a list of Items which have been declared surplus property prop-erty by the Government recently. I could use several of the things on the list to fix up my home which' is in need of repair since I have been in the army. How do I go about getting priority for these things? A. You can't get priority for surplus property unless you use it in your business or on a farm. Q I understand the Government Govern-ment has a lot of excess stuff it is selling cheap. Some of it I could use in my business. Where can I get a list of just what the Govern ment has and how much it costs? A Write to the nearest office of the Smaller War Plants Corporation Corpor-ation if you are going to use it in business or War Food Administration Adminis-tration for farm , goods. Q's and A's Q What is the size of Kyushu, southern Japanese island bombed by our B-29's? A About 210 miles long and 140 miles wide. Its population is more than 8,000,000. In normal times is produced one-third of the pig iron and one-half of the steel in Japan. Q What is the size of Bavaria, the section of Germany supposed to be policed by U. S. occupational forces? a it contains 27,000 square miles about half the size of Wis- World War I general of the armies John J. Pershing was invited in-vited to the White House ceremonies cere-monies in honor of World War II general of the armies Dwight D. Eisenhower, but had to decline. His health is considered good for his age He will be 83 in September Septem-ber but he is not considered strong enough to undergo public functions. Even General George S. Patton did not see Pershing when Old Blood and Guts" went to visit the wounded at Walter Reed hospital, where "Black Jack" now lives simply in small quarters. In the last war, Eisenhower and Patton were just a couple of other majors in the infant tank corps. Secretary of the Interior Haroia Ickes held hearings the other day on establishment of the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts, and quite a delega tion of New England blue bloods came down to protest. One claim ed his ancestors had hunted the land for 200 years and another said his ancestors had hunted it for 300 years. Finally one witness declared he was opposed to the whole game sanctuary idea because be-cause his forefathers had been on this land for 1,000 years. That stopped Ickes cold. "You don't understand, sir." the witness explained. 'I'm an Indian.' Ickes snorted. "If your ances tors were able to keep the ancestors ances-tors of these other persons present from taking the land away all this time, you certainly deserve snecial consideration. Ickes is head of the Office of Indian Affairs, as well as the a 1 Desk Chat PRACTICE MAKES . , It doesn't take Much practice To kiss a girl Unless . . . The fervor that You feel Is returned in Her caress. It doesn't take Much discipline To be gallant Once or twice And it does not Take a week To discover if She's nice. But, brother. Beware the maiden Demure as Any prude Whose red lips Are overladen With earnest Gratitude. The simple and Unromantic fact is She has got You hooked, Old Top! Unless you learn To kiss a girl And stop! The new OPA meat plan is regarded re-garded by most " housewives at pure baloney. Fish; and Wildlife Service. General Omar N. Bradley got lost in the veterans building maze the other day, and so got a fore taste of what's in store for Mm when he returns to Washington to take over as veterans adron istrator. Just after he got his appointment, ap-pointment, Bradley said he wanted to walk through the Veteran's building alone, to size things up. But when he had been gone an hour, friends phoned the building and started guards on a search. Twenty minutes later they found him wandering in a distant corridor, apparently too embar rassed to ask his way out Gen eral Bradley is understood to have accepted the veteran' Job only on condition that it would be a temporary assignirient. He is now in Europe turning , over his command, won't return to Wash ington for another 60 days or so. Brigadier General B. M. Bryan, Jr., assistant the provost marshall general in charge of German prisoners pris-oners of war in the United States tells how the first Nazis arriving arriv-ing at Southern camp accused the guards of having the same cars driven up and down the road just to impress the prisoners with the fact that everyone in this country owned an automobile. The camp was near a war plant, and the PW's couldn't otherwise explain why there should be so many cars on the road at shift changing time. "With typical teutonic thoroughness," says General Bryan" Bry-an" they check the Ticense plates. When they did realize that all were different finally admitted everyone in this country did own a car and that we were telling them the truth." Thirty Years Ago From the Files Of June 19, 1915 Provo city commission members decided to put on a 2-mill tax levy for the paving ; of Center street from Fifth Wejst to- Academy Acad-emy avenue, providing the Orem railroad and the abutting property owners will stand part of the cost, The state road running through the city will also be paved, mak ing a total stretch of two miles of paving through Provo. Heuser & Sims, Salt Lake con tractors submitted the low bid of $35,500 for the ninth schedule of the Strawberry high line laterals on the east side of West mountain. moun-tain. Work has begun on the $19,000 grain elevator at Tintic, erected by the Union Grain and- Elevator company, according' to W. O. Creer, vice president. The elevator eleva-tor will have a capacity of 50,000 bushels of dry farm grain; Marriage licenses were issued to Clarence Bergman of Eureka and Ruth Baker of Provo; John Davis Gale and Pearl Beckstrom of Mapleton; R. Clarence Lichford of Goshen and Vinna Haws of Provo; George T. Jenkins and Vera Giles of Provo. OFFICER ELECTROCUTED GREAT FALLS, Mont.. June 18 UX First Lt. John T. Tracy, 25, or forest Hills, N, Y.,- was eleo trocuted Saturday when he con tacted a 220 votl wire on the roof of a building where he was at tempting.. to local a volley ball. He had lived by his wits in a small community and was so suc-cesful suc-cesful at earning 'an honest dol lar' that he decided to really make a killing by hitting the big time. He had been in New York for several days casing the joint and decided his best bet was to sell the Brooklyn Bridge. However, the first fellow he tried to sell it to turned out to be the owner Of the darned thing, and if Rube hadri t paid the man $10 to keep quiet, he would have had him arrested! IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT your best opportunity lies closest to you. Oo , Sign Seen In a Boston Shoe Repair Shop: "Habiliments of pedal extremities ex-tremities artistically illuminated illumi-nated and lubricated for the infinitesimal remuneration of 15 cents per operation.'.' Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile: as pious as a candidate before election. When the bell on my typewriter goes 'ding,' - It's meaning is always so solemn But, at that, its familiar ring Tells me I'm near the end of the column! POETS WRITERS ) PLAYWRIGHTS1 IF You Are Writing and Not Selling CONTACT ME I CAN HELP YOU! MANUSCRIPTS Corrected, Prepared and Submitted for Publication Melodies to Your Lyric-Lyrics Lyric-Lyrics to Your Melodiesl Send 3c Stamp for Folder AUTHOR'S SERVICE ALLIED PUBLISHING COMPANY Suite 921 Black BIdg. 257 South Hill St, Los Angeles IS, Calif. consin. Its prewar population was over 8,000,000. f Q What, more than B-291 bombers and possibility of mva- sion, is the main threat to Japan's : four main islands? i A Starvation. The four islands Honshu, home of Tokyo; Hok- 1 kaido to the north, and Shikoktri and Kyushu to the south, house, in an area about the size of Can foifeia, 70,000,000 people who, for long, cannot produce enough food for their needs. Q What is the limit of efficiency effi-ciency for airplane oxygen systems? sys-tems? A They are valueless above 42,000 feet the national economy aWay from the dangers dang-ers of depression, inflation, and unfair business busi-ness practices. But to achieve prosperity it is necessary to do more than set a: goal of 60,000,000 jobs. It is necessary td ask what kind of jobs they are' going to (be, and how likely they are to last. It is necessary to admit that, under our system there have to be employers as well as jobs, and to recognize that without a good many sound, solvent and' reasonably unrestricted employers, the jobs won't be very good. m f JS3L rf B I mnAtm 11 v. 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