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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1946 Editorial... Utah Pictures to Russia The magazine "Amerika", published in New York by the New York state depart ment and which is distributed in the Soviet Union, has asked the Utah department of uublicity and industrial development fair a series of photos depicting Utah's public - campgrounds' and the manner in which theyi are used. The pictures are to show the Russians just how we, out here in Utah seek recreation in camps maintained by public money. The public campgrounds in the forested Mirror Lake section, with cold water piped to every camp site, permanent camp stoves, vtables, benches and clean toilet facilities, ire included in the pictures being sent to In the i meantime, the magazine ' "Look" is asked the Utah publicity department for series of photos telling a complete "Utah tdry". It seems that the world is fast learning that Confucious was right when he fsaid: "one picture is worth ten thousand 'words". The Washington Merry -Go - Round A Daily Picture of What's v ,w p$ Going On in National Affairs s. Alien on active duty) i Note Drew Pearson's column today takes tlje form of a letter wrften from war-torn Austria to his daughter In the United States.) Vienna. Hey, Quit Pinching My Fruit! United Christian Action Publication of Charles Darwin's revolutionary revolu-tionary writings on evolution was followed by years of bitter contention between science sci-ence and religion. (The famous Scopes "evolution "ev-olution trial" in Dayton, Tenn., took place only 21 years ago.) It seemed to many that these two forces were irreconcilable, and that the enlightened world would be forced to make its choice between fundamentalist theology and a faithless materialism. But time passed and tempers cooled. Scientists Sci-entists who were devout Christians and liberal lib-eral members of the clergy pleaded their cases with sincerity, and were finally listened listen-ed to with respect. The idea that science and religion were compatible and complementary comple-mentary took root. Today one of the top best sellers is a book called 'Peace of Mind.'V which sets forth a persuasive argument fcjr the power of psychiatry and religious belief, working hand in hand, to bring comfort and cure. So perhaps a similar reconciliation can be brought about between the antagonistic forces of religion and international politics. Certainly it should be. And there are 4igns from the World Council of Churches conference confer-ence in London that an effort may be made xo ao so. It is encouraging to see John Foster Dulles among the leaders in this effort. Mr. Dulles is both an active Presbyterian layman and an experienced and acknowledged authority on foreign affairs. For most of his mature ma-ture life he has been intimately connected with international politics. And so when he can say, after a lofrig and jpotentially disenchanting career, that "the Imoral and spiritual forces of the world, in-'adequate in-'adequate as they are, still have power enough to secure a just and lasting peace," one may safely put it down as considered j judgment and not rhetoric. Another encouraging sign from the Lon-idon Lon-idon meeting is the sentiment which favors 'joint action by the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches in the interest of this just land lasting peace. Mutual distrust and differences of creed, along with an unclear policy regarding the .church's proper participation in worldly af-; af-; fairs, have served to divide and weaken the .strength of these two great bodies and in a J measure to inhibit their individual actions. There are great difficulties in the way of a united Christian action, of course. But "there is also great need of such action which I religious leaders are beginning to recognize. It has been said repeatedly that man must make great moral and ethical strides if he is to overtake , his scientific accomplish- ments and survive their destructive possi-l possi-l bilities. The statement has become trite and ; tiresome. Yet only now are there signs that its . fulfillment is , being given concerted thought. The dangers of secrecy, selfishness and cynicism in high political places may at. last mobilize the various Christian .churches for united action. The power of a common voice and purpose behind such action would be '.difficult to overestimate. It might indeed be the "last, best hope of earth" for bringing a just and durable I peace to the world of the unleashed atom. : They're Off Again ( The revived OPA announces that restaur-J restaur-J ant ceiling prices are still in effpet, though price controls on the meat, poultry and dairy J products which they serve are off, at least j until Aug. 20. In case the OtA boys weren't listening during the recent congressional hearings, I it's little things like this that had business- men tearing their hair and talking to them- selves, and probably caused more opposition to OPA than Chester Bowles' reactionary 1 villains who, he assured us, were hell-bent J to- create inflation and ruin the country. My Dear Daughter: -c I am in the old and once-beautiful city of Vienna, and being here makes me feel old myself and reminiscent. This was once the gayest and most frivolous capital in the world. Your grandfather, grand-father, Count Gizycki, lived here for a time and when. he died he, requested in his will that he be buried in his red hunting jacket. That perhaps, was sVmbdlic of those carefree, never-to-be-forgotten days of the Hapsburgs when a very privileged few rode to hounds, danced in great castles along the Danube, and enjoyed life at the expense of the unprivileged thousands. Vienna holds many memories for me. I was first here in 1920, shortly; after the last war, when the city was being looted by the Italians but was still relatively gay. the Viennese seemed able to smile, the cafes were crowded, trie opera was in fulljuwnpg and I had a marvelous time. I even tell in.lnv with art American lariv whose name I can not now remember. That really shows I am getting old. Then I came back in 1923, when I was a young newspaperman and you had not entered enter-ed my life. Vienna was still nonary but still fairly gay and I remember sitting In a cafe, listeninr to a forty-niece orchestra play "Yes We Have No Bananas." That song dates the trip. I was then interviewing Europe's twelve greatest men. PersonaUy I didn't thing that some of them were to areat such as Mussolini but fit was an assignment and my editors thought dif ferently. Anyway, in. Vienna, I interview president Hainisch and Chancellor Seipel, the latter being very busy and not at all anxious to see me. President Hainisch was more gracious but I remembered re-membered getting lost in the maze of corridors leading to his office and being out of breath and afraid that I would be terribly late. That was 23 years ago. Since then another war has intervened, another defeat for Austria, anotner post - war period when her people must begin to rebuild the ruins of their shattered lives. Today, Vienna as like a once beautiful woman, broken, tired, pa thetic, unabashedly peddling her virture in the street. The once magnificent opera house where, twenty years ago, I heard Jeritza sing, is now a shambles. Its walls still stand but bombs have ruined its interior. The once gay boulevards are heaped with rubble and the people who move along them walk as if they diant really care whether they ever reached their destinations. Today I called on the president of Austria and the chancellor. The old president and chancellor whom I interviewed in 1923 are dead. New men have taken their places new men fajcing- the same problems. Today, instead of cooling my heels to see them, they waited to see me. 1 was late. There had been a misunderstanding about the time of my appointments but they waited for me. They were pathetically glad to talk to someone who would listen to the plight of Austria. Chancellor Figl is a tough little peasant, determined de-termined to get the Russians out of his country and he pays great tribute to Gen. Mark Clark, the American commander here, for not letting the Russians outbluff him. President Renner is an old-fashioned old-fashioned socialist, "beard and all, the type which the communists have been pumping off in Bulgaria Bul-garia and Germany. Probably they would have got rid of him also if General Clark wasn't even tougher than the Russians. General Clark, incidentally, has been doing a fine job and it's too bad. all that Texas furore over the Rapido river battling should have been raised. It makes the Russians think he doesn't have the support of his government. I am back at my typewriter in the Bristol hotel the same hotel where I stayed 23 years ago and am looking- out at the crowded street- . cars, the bombed roofs and the unhappy people. peo-ple. I have been thinking- about war. Twice in my lifetime Austria has been defeated de-feated in war bitterly defeated. Why is it, then. that they come back for more? I don't suppose, if you asked one of the wretches in the street below, he would admit that Austria ever would go to war again. Yet somehow or other, war starts. I am sure the great majority of the Austrian people had not desire to go to war with Serbia when their archduke was snot at Sarajevo in ivit. But the Hapsburgs decreed war and so war was waged four long and terrible years of it, leaving leav-ing Austria in bitter misery. I am sure also that very few of the Austrian people could have said anything which would have deterred Hitler when he dragged them into their second war. this one even more terrible than the first. They were helpless. Sitting here, looking out at this forlorn city, I can t help but wonoer now long this endless circle of war will continue. The only answer I can think of is that when the people who do the fighting and the dying are able to make the decision regarding war, then there will be no more war. As long as there are Hitlers or Hapsburgs or Czars or little groups of men who can order people into battle regardless of their wishes, then just that long there will be war. Last year I had hoped that the day had come when dictators ceased to have life-and death power pow-er over nations. But now we see two or three men sitting in Moscow who, almost with a wave of the hand, can take the Russian people into war. I am sure the Russian soldier walking the streets of Vienna has absolutely no desire for war. But some day he may find himself shooting at his former allies, simply because he does not control tne decision de-cision of his leaders. That is why I have been so discouraged about the Paris peace eonferen"- w--diplomats don't aiem to realize that Improving Improv-ing the lot of oar fellowmen ratuer fashioned diplomacy is the only road, to peace Please forgive this reminiscing. I got to thinking think-ing about these things as I sat here looking out the window at the dispirited people and at the apartment house across the street. One end is blown away but families are living in the rest of it. There are petted plants in some of the windows, however, and where there are flowers there is always al-ways hope. Please take care of my favorite son-in-law. Love. Your Father. J US Desk Chat, Editorial Column Pert and Pertinent "When we get into the next European War, we will need a new slogan . . . " lecturer how about, "They shall not pass the hat?" "Dark bread is healthful.;" says Dr. Fishbein, medical authority. which is all most people need to cause them to turn against it. "Knowledge is no burden . . . " says an adage and apparently, the lack of it weighs lightly on the shoulders of some folks, too. "The earth's weight is com puted as six sextillion, six hund red and sixty quintlllion tons. and is supposed to be the fifth largest planet in the solar system sys-tem ..." Science Notes it does seem that with all this weight and girth, Stalin would form the conclusion that it was large enough for both the Russians Rus-sians and those opposed to Stat-ism. BY AND BY Sooner or later Both you and I Will come to The land of By and by. Sooner or later We shall attain The realm of Never-never And then I pray You will forget The harsh words I have spoken And that Hand in hand We shall be together When we reach Our journey's end And come to The land of By and by. Overheard at summer school: She is so dumb she thinks an artery is a place where people go to look at pictures. When the Tartar condemns an enemy instead of exclaiming, Go to .... as we do, he says: May you stay in one place for-. ever. Many good ideas are ruined because the person who tried to explain them used too many words. ' ; Slow Motion J Housing expediter Wyatt has expedited his promise of 250,000 factory-made homes 8 in 1946 to 100,000. No one" can deny that the expediter expedites. His speed in re-ing up. verse gear has been remarkable. . To offset the reduced estimate of "prefabs" "pre-fabs" the expediter calls for an increase .of 83,000 in homes built opmheir sites this year. We hope the jcall gets an answer. The expediter also calls for an "increase of occupancy" of existing homes to accom modate 50,000 more families. More doubl- Potsdam and the Dark Curtain (Fifth In a series of six articles) By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 It would take a five foot shelf of books to review adequately the past year's record in observance of the Potsdam provisions relat ing to Poland, Austria, Hungary and the Balkan countries. With the exception of Austria, all of these eastern European states are under complete Russian control. Western European and American officials must admit frankly that they have only confused reports of what goes on in these satelites. Whats more, they are almost powerless to do anything but protest pro-test when they believe the Potsdam Pots-dam agreement is being violated in content or spirit. Take Poland. Its Provisional Government of National Unity was agreed to in Moscow by U. S. Ambassador Averill Harriman in the spring of 1945, six months before the Potsdam declaration. The new Polish government wasn't was-n't new but it looked new because it included elements headed by Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the Peasant party and the refugee government that sat in London during the wan The United States recognized this new government in July, 1945, just before the Potsdam, Pots-dam, conference opened. The three powers at Potsdam agreed to facilitate the return to Poland of all Polish people in western Europe "who wish to go." A lot of these refugees and armed forces did not wish to go. Movement Move-ment was practically stopped during the winter because the only transport available was un healed cattle cars, in is spring and summer more refugees have been going back, but today more people are leaving Poland than are returning. They don't like it there. The Potsdam agreement called for "free and unfettered elections as soon as possible." The one election held thus far has been a referendum on creating a one- house legislature on the national izaticn of industry and agreement on new Polish frontiers tentative ly determined at Potsdam, but left for final settlement in a formal peace treaty. Results of this election were known before it was held. This was hardly a free and unfettered election. General elections have been announced for November, but there is little indication they will be any freer, and in the American point of view holding these elections 15 months after Potsdam is not "as soon as pos sible." Only reference to Austria in the Potsdam agreement was one short section saying that a Rus sian proposal for extending the Austrian provisional government to all of Austria had been re ceived and would be studied fur ther after U. S. and British forces had occupied: Vienna. In October this provisional government was recognized. In November elections were held, the Catholic party winning 85 seats, the socialists 76 and the communists four. Since that time there has been almost continual strife between the recognized Austrian government and the Russian occupation authorities. There have been disputes over Russian land seizures, property seizures, refugees, property for merly held by Nazis in Austria, reparations, nationalization of in dustry and so on. In general all these problems arise because there was no specific program maDDed out for Austria at Pots dam or In later conferences of the foreign ministers council. But it is a toss up whether the situation in Austria without any formula other than agreements in a con-tol con-tol council of military. command ers, is worse than the situation in Germany, where there is a formula that is not being satis- iactorny carried out. Only a formal peace treaty with Austria can straighten out this tangle. But when Secretary of State Byrnes proposed drafting an Austrian peace treaty at the April meeting of the foreign ministers in Pans, the Russians refused to discuss it Equally loose were the Potsdam medium range provisions for the government of Hungary, Bulgaria, Bul-garia, Rumania, Finland and Italy. The first three of these coun tries have been definitely under exclusive Soviet control. The Red Army liberated them from Axis domination and Russian forces have' occupied them since the end of the war. There has been an allied control commission set up to work with the Russian government gov-ernment for making top policy decision effecting these three countries. The Potsdam agreement agree-ment piously declared its procedure pro-cedure should be revised. But over the past year it has been almost a complete dead letter. Whatever the Russians decide goes. Potsdam also expressed the hope that representatives of the allied press would be permitted free access to these countries. This argument is still going on. The U. S. government and Britain have recognized governments govern-ments in all of these countries, however, so they have their diplomatic observers on the job. The United States never declared de-clared war on Finland, so it has had no say on Finnish post-war affairs, though it will sit in on writing the peace treaty with Finland. One of the biggest, most constructive con-structive things to come out of Potsdam was the decision to proceed pro-ceed witfa the writing of peace treaties with Italy, Finland, Hungary, Hun-gary, Rumania and Bulgaria. These peace conferences have just opened in Paris, one year after the Potsdam communique, was agreed to. Other tasks ahead of the council of foreign ministers, under the Potsdam declaration will ho mv. lered in the sixth and last article of this series. New representatives in Congress Con-gress attend school. They sit in at an informal class .to learn Great about their duties. Q s and A's Q What was the southernmost point of Jap attack during the war? A Bombing of Darwin, Aus tralia. Q What unique income tax feature is provided in Japan's new constitution? A A sliding scale, depending on origin of income: 20 per cent on labor income, 25 per cent on enterprise income, 30 per cent on investment income. Q Who is the oldest U. S. Sen ator? A Arthur Capper, Kansas Re publican. He is si, has been a Senator 27 years. Q What is a krone? A Norwegian monetary unit, In 1940 kroner were worth 22.7 cents. Q Who is Commander of Allied Al-lied Ground Forces in Japan? A Lt.-Gen. Robert L. Elchel-berger. Elchel-berger. Q Will a bonus given by a state be deducted from any bonus congress might authorize in the future? A No. Civic Suggestion 'Way back in 1900, a new build ing was constructed at New York university to house a "Hall of Fame to contain busts of out standing Americans who were eligible to the distinction only for unusual service to the country coun-try and who could be elected when a quarter of a century had elapsed since their death. However, what we propose now for Provo is a "Hall of Shame which will be dedicated to careless care-less motorists. Perhaps one way to cut down the toll of destruction wrought by reckless but not w reckless drivers would be to have photo graphs of the drivers as well as their victims hung in the post-office post-office where they will be available avail-able to the public at all times. Over-age cars and the coming long Labor Day week-end, will provide an auspicious beginning of a "Hall of Shame." Little Norway has more coast' line than the United States even though the land area of the U.S.A. .is 2,977,127 square miles compared to Norway's 124,556 square miles. The coast line total to-tal for the USA is 8,341 and for Norway, 12,000 or approximately half the earth's perimeter. IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT the man with a clear conscience has a poor memory. MASTER STOKERS Now Available at BYLUND PLUMBING & APPLIANCE Terms Easily Arranged Buy The Best At BYLUND'S Pleasant Grave, Phone 2942 i j. HPHERS STEUUullnhltUb how, more than evgr dcfore MOW. a MOW 0FM D m 0ceWIOS , srIAUSTS THE ARMY HAS A GOOD JOB FOR YOU! Go od jobs in non-commissioned grades are being offered now by the Regular Army to qualified former servicemen! 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