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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. THURSPAY, DECEMBER 30, 7948 Gallup's Top 10 'Heroes' Make Good List We are pleased to note that Dr. George Gallup remefnber? has recovered from what Mr. Truman calls "the late unpleasantness" unpleas-antness" and once again has sent forth his emissaries to ask the people : "What man, living today in any part of the world, that you have heard or read about do you admire ad-mire most?" This is a slight variant on the last similar simi-lar question, which Dr. Gallup asked in March of 1947. Then he wanted to know "what person" was most admired. But only two women made the top ten last year anyway, any-way, so the current list still offers a good chance to see how fickle the fickle public, is. It shotild surprise no one, including Dr. Gallup, to find that Mr. Truman got the most admiring votes in this post-election survey. He moved up from fourth place in 1947 to finish in front a feat, incidentally, that was duplicated in 1948 by the world's champion Cleveland Indians. Last year's winner was General Mac-Arthur, Mac-Arthur, who wound up third in the latest poll. That isn't bad, considering that a whole new generation has reached maturity since the last time the general was home. Winston Churchill also finished in the top five, though he dropped from third place to fourth. . The only three persons who kept an unchanged un-changed place in the public affection were General Eisenhower, who was second both years: Secretary of State Marshall, fifth, and Pope Pius, in eighth place. Governor Dewey, who was elected president by everyone every-one except the voters can console himself with the thought that -He's more popular Never Underestima te the Power of Paternal Love after one defeat. He was seventh this year and tenth fn '47. Newcomers were ex-President Hoover, who replaced Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as No. 6; Harold Stassen, replacing the other 1947 feminine entry, Sister Kenny, in ninth place, and the eminent Dr. Albert Einstein, who was tenth. .. If a comparison of the two polls signifies anything, it seems to emphasize that Americans Amer-icans have not forgotten the war. The Eisen-hower-MacArthur-Marshall-Churchill foursome four-some is right up there both years. It also suggests that Americans adrnire a non-professional fighter like Harry Truman. The fact that these five men have retained retain-ed top position for nearly three years indicates indi-cates that their place in the public's esteem is deeply rooted. The other five, with the exception of Pope Pius, reflect the connection connec-tion between popularity and publicity. Mr. Byrnes had recently resigned as secretary sec-retary of state in March. 1947. This year he is not even among the also rans. Mr. Dewey's political prominence undoubtedly elevated his position, and the same may be said for Mr. Stassen. Mr. Hoover was the subject of a laudatory book in 1948 which became a best-seller. He is being consulted more frequently as an elder statesman. So it is not surprising to see him on the list. Dr. Einstein's efforts for world federation and peaceful uses of atomic energy may ac" count for his place. Movie stars, radio comedians, sports' heroes and other supposedly "popular" people peo-ple are conspicuously absent. Velhink it's a pretty good list anyway. J MANPATe I. . . ST 7 VdT fa 1 Fable of a Dead Santa Claus Murde! Mystery! Whodunit? New Year List The old custom of making' a list, of New Year's resolutions; now little more than a butt for jokes, had something to commend it. ' . . No one of experience would attempt, in "these days, to operate. a household without a budget. It is the financial guide, which lists the expenses which must be' allowed for. those which one can hope to be -able to make, and balance these expenses against income. But most people try to run their lives without a budget. The old-fashioned list of resolutions was a guide. On it one could mark down certain things which had to be done in the year ahead, and other things he would like to do. Against this list, from 4ime to time, he could balance the. time, the "energy, and the strength of will for carry -ing out each resolution. I The New Year's list has made many a good joke in its day. It may also have help-led help-led to make many a better ordered life. Union 'Responsibility By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) This (s a fable and so, of course, isn't true but like all fables, it pic tures a situation that might well come to pass if certain people don't watch out. It seems that an international character-. named Santa Claus was found dead in bed with his boots on one day. While external evidence at first gave the Impression that the old gaffer had died a natural death, there was some suspicion tHat he had met with foul play. The mystery was: Who would dare to do such a dirty deed? Mr. Claus had considered himself him-self something of a citizen of the world. He spoke many languages, fluently. That is, his money talked. talk-ed. He made his home in the United States, and it was the taxpayers tax-payers of that bright and happy but inflated land who financed most of the old man's international interna-tional generosity. At first, when the old codger had gone on his spending sprees nly once a year,' nobody minded. Lfeut since the early days of the war, he had been in the habit of playing Santa Claus every day. , Some said they thought the old coot had gone a bit batty in his dotage. Others started a movement move-ment to have him locked up, and a guardian appointed. But nothing noth-ing came of it. Then the body was found, quite dead. One Whale of a Wake There Was one whale of a wake. Mourners came from all over the Prof Proposes Canal Through Lower Mexico MADISON, Wis., Deq: 30" U.R proposal would cut .2.000 miles, 1 40.1)00,000 acres of grazing land A geographer proposed Wednes-,rom tne Panama route between now controlled by the Taylor me east ana west coasts, grazing aci.. . inc layior aci, Not all day that a canal be built in lower! Once News. Now History From the Files Of The I'rovo Herald 10 Years Ago Dec. 30. 1938 Winner of the grand prize in the Christmas home lighting con jii ahir nniriii . a ro iri'xtnnn.m c oc :j .1 .... 1 - " " ! .......... ... ... .-. 'w. ........ , ... , nipx I'll III MINI U' HHUlIltM WrilP - ..- T i V IT 1 1 . . , 1 A A. . I rt 4 , . , ! ' .vinuiu'is lin ti int. 1 1 1 1 1 . itiif 11 id 1 irf lvi 11 v 111. drill utr tiwijii 11-1 11 "i some of their opponents, argue. Evidence jWay between the Atlantic and'of the University of Colorado! grazing lands at a time when they on the other sijtfe comes trom Mint. Mich., where an. employer discharged 150 striking drivers b4 took part in a wildcat walkout. walk-out. TheTeamsters Union of the. American Federation of Labor then entered the pic- i Pacific oceans. charged that cattle and sheephad deteriorated because of "un- William H. Hobbs, University iancne,s are trvin? to et ''more, rest rained exploitation," Kelley of Michigan emeritus professor than half of the 13 western states said. said a canal of "greater capacity jat bargain prices Jrd West " taxes had been paid up 89 per cent, considered by County Treasurer Andrew Jensen to be better than expected ex-pected v there was talk of locating the new state honor pri- and less vulnerability" than the Panama canal was needed. Kellev said this was the of a move to get congress to sell 'the lands were sold openly. Nampa Ousts Slot Machines drivers? to replace tnose " discharged. j Mexico, about l.OOO miles north NAMPA. Ida.. Dor. 30 UP i (Idaho Falls and Bancroft have The Teamsters Union happens to be one ;of Panama, would be much less By a narnnv margin the Nampa! voted to license the machines for wnicn is qiine frequently criticized. In fairness, fair-ness, its action in Flint should be chalked up against some of the charges made by its critics. i. 1 1 : i. '1, -J" iL . 1 1. ! . V . uire. as ii on uie sme ot me orivers . ,or Hobbs. in a speech to a national! at all. Regarding the strike, as a breach of 'geographers convention here, said contract, the union not onlv approved the ja combined open ditch and tu-:-; dismissals, but undertook to find 1.50 new "el sea-level canal across the Te-, muaniepfi' isiimiu in iunn Mexico, about 1,000 miles north Wonder what grandfather would think of the volume of mail which was carted back and forth over the country this past Christ-mastide? Souvenir Hunter , A Scotsman was arrested for assault when he snatched from the mouth of his est ranged sweetheart the upper plate which he had bought for her in a happier time when their love was untroubled. Maybe all he wanted for Christmas was her two front teeth. The Wash ingtonMerry-Go-Round Drew Pearson Says: 9 : United States Had Advance Notice of Indonesian War WASHINGTON I-iside fact about the Indonesian In-donesian war is that the United States received 'ample adv?'ce- notice it was coming. : Merle Cochran, American member of the United Nations Good Offices committee in Indonesia, In-donesia, Warned the state department by cabl one month before the attack. He reported that .the Dutch were piling up supplies most of them niiide in America preparing to wipe up the Indonesian Republic, even while U. N. mediators were trying to settle the dispute. Cochran iurried the Dutch regarding their activity, hut sot waved aside with the r bland rrpl that the Dutch army was preparing pre-paring for "routine maneuvers." But ps:bly because of his inquiries, Dutch rcprosentHt ics in Washington were more frank. .They informed both the state department and the U. 8 joint . chiefs of staff that Communists had permeated the Indonesian Republic and were plaining a revolt in February. . . . If this revolt was successful the Communists would use Java and Sumatra as a base to take over British Malaya, Borneo and the Philippines. Therefore, concluded the Dutch, they planned to take "police measures" in advance. It so happens that the registered Communist vote in Holland itself at the last election was 10 per cent. a:id U S. observers say that the Communist percentage in Indonesia is less. Howevei , U. S. reaction was mixed. The' .state department, which hitherto has coddled the Dutch, began to get alarmed. Certain U. S. military men, on ttie other hand, in effect winked. "Police action." they indicated .to the 'Dutch, was ati internal problem of no concern to the United States. ! TRI'MANS MILITARY PALS Conflict between the U. S. military and the state department is. of course, nothing new. And .the above illustrates what has happened to U. S. r foreign policy time and again ever since President Presi-dent Truman took office. In Germany, in China, ,in Argentina and in Spain, the prosident has .let the military influence, sometimes dominate, his foreign policy. Immediately after the Dutch attacked, " the stale department, belatedly wide awake, drafted a strong note to the Netherlands. It was just as strong as the Australian statement at the United Nations. , When the note was sent to the White House, however, tin president toned it down. Again the military were suspected J But over in its revised form, the American t protest put the Dutch almost in the same cate-gory cate-gory jis the Hitlers and Mussolinis in their 'wrecking ol the league of nations. It also brought , howls of private anguish from the Dutch. I THE DUTCH WAIL Last week. Dutch representatives called on U. S. officials again. They were up in arms over , curtailment of Marshall Plan aid to Indonesia even though this slap on the wrist sounds much louder than it hurts. i (Copyright. 1948 lay the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Actually the state department has curtailed only $14,000,000 of unspent ECA aid to Indonesia. The remaining $47,000,000 has alreadv been committed and will not be cut off though mostJ or u eouia oe. t urtnermore, our huge $350,000,000 ECA allotment to Holland still stands even though $350,000,000 of this amount is passed on to Indonesia. Nevertheless, the Dutch were" irate. Without attempting to quote them direct, the gist of what they said was this: We don't understand your policy. You spend five and a half billions to fight Communism Com-munism in Europe, yet in the Far East yoy support Communism. We wouldn't be in the . Western European pact if you hadn't asked . us to get in. We could have been neutral in the last war, and we could be neutral in the . next. We don't want to have our country overrun by the Russians as it was by Hitler. We realize that this Western European pact is largely for the defense of the United States and that we are essential to it. So if the United States is going to cut off Marshall Plan aid because of Indonesia, we might begin warming up to the Russians. We don't want to, but we may have to. So far it doesn't look as if the president is going to be scared by Dutch threats. Mr. Truman may make mistakes, but the last thing he does is scare easy. He's much more likely to get his backbone up. I N IT E D N A TI O N S AT STAKE Furthermore the state department is convinced con-vinced that Dutch tactics in Indonesia are likely to foment Communism rather than block it. The Indonesian Republic represents middle-of-the-road natives who don't want Communism any more than the Dutch. Imperialistic Dutch colonial policies have played into Communist hands. In 300 years, for instance, the Dutch have increased the literacy of the Dutch East Indies only 7 per cent. During the United Nations mediation, the Dutch were so high-handed that U. S. Mediator Dr Frank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, got fed up and went home. He was replaced by Coert Du Bois. who protested pro-tested to the state department that he didn't want the assignment because he had been consul general in Batavia and was pro-Dutch. Shortly after Du Bois took over the U. N. assignment, however, his sympathies were all with the Indonesian In-donesian Republic. For a long time state department officials in Washington, wined and dined, by the Dutch, learned toward the Dutch viewpoint. But now they, have suddenly awakened to the fact that the issue is far more important' than revolt in the distant South Pacific. For it involves the issue of whether a group of nations banded together to-gether as the United Nations can' prevent war. If the authority of the United Nations is to be flouted at the whim of any member, then work might as well stop on the elaborate U. N. home now being constructed in Njew York. For it will become just as useless as the league' old home in Geneva another monument to the selfishness and pettiness of man. Note France and Belgium helped in the undermining of, the U. N. by refusing to vote With the United States to stop Dutch hostilities. vulnerable. The new canal, as outlined by Hobbs. would run from the Gulf at Puerto Mexico to the Pacific at the Loguna In-feriore. In-feriore. The Tehuantepec project would have twin waterways, each for one-way traffic, Hobbs said. HJs 'Single Package' Labor Bill Looms For Next Year WASHINGTON. Dec. 30 (U.R) A "single package" bill appeared today to be the likely formula for new labor legislation next year no matter how President Truman feels about it. Labor leaders hope Mr. Truman will heed their desire and call for flat repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and temporary return to the Wagner act while congress siudies any further legislation. However, an administration supporter in congress said he saw no chance of the lawmakers going go-ing along with labor's plan , even if Mr. Truman recommends it. Some of the president's advisers were reported split over the course -to be recommended. The congressional leader said congress would insist on knowing what the new law would contain con-tain before erasing the present one from the statute book. Hence he expectd labor legislation to be handled in a "single package" containing both a new statute and a provision to repeal the Taft-Hartley law. The AFL and CIO are publicly committed to seek only a return to the Wagner act. But some leaders are convinced that congress con-gress will insist on amending the old law to incorporate some Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley provisions. result by the act would be destroyed if i Z ..u 1 1 , . ' " J . between the other two deadlocked dead-locked sites, Crystal Springs, Salt Lake county and a site at Brigham City a contract for improvements at the Franklin, Frank-lin, Maeser a-nd Provo high was let to Lichfield and Menlove for $23,000 Moroni A. Miner, Mi-ner, Springville resident, died at the age of 76 the Orem electrical line announced it would run three buses a day into Utah county and back to Sajt Lake City postal business in Provo broke all records. city council Monday night voted three-month periods during 1949, to outlaw slot machines after mid-jwith Idaho Falls voting to increase night Friday. jthr license fees. The council took the action un- (Emmctt and Caldwell have der suspended rules at a recessed voted not to take any action on the meeting. matter. The council was deadlocked on I (Pocatello's city council appar-the appar-the matter until Mayor Peter E.'ei.tly has decided to take no ac- Johnson cast the deciding vote. jtion, but there was no vote on the (Nampa becomes the fourth city matter.) in the state to outlaw the slot ma-j enines as 01 me ium oi mrx. eor. ; i "-'N FAIRVIEW Frank Kay Vance inc ou.ei cues wruen n-vi- uu.- ., , u, ' ;,on of Mr. and Mrs. Frank yance lawed slots are Boise. Rupert, and. farms of the United States at the ,f FairvieW was advanct.d to the Advances In ROTC Corps At College Twin Falls. WILBUR beginning of 1946. By BILL RUBLE S tntf Tr1un Sy' ' Aunt Gertrude rank of cadet 1st lieutenant in the Utah State Agricultural College eserve Officers Training Corps unit promotion ceremonies held last week at USAC according to Col. E. W. Timberlake, professor of military science and tactics. Lieutenant Vance is a member of the junior class at the USAC. Promotions were announced in conjunction with the annual Scabbard Scab-bard and Blade, national military fraternity, cadet hop. world. Most of them didn't have to come very far. They were al ready there, waiting for the next handout. They were people whom the old goat had tried to help in one way or another, over many years. Their weeping, wailing and teeth gnashing was really some-thing. some-thing. But as this emotional jag wore off,, and as the news got around that Mr. Claus had died without mentioning them in his will, the woe turned to resentment against the American taxpayers who had been financing all these giveaway give-away programs. It was they who must have done this thing. They had no right to do it, complained the mourners. If the American people were going to behave that way, why all these mourners and former beneficiaries benefici-aries would simply go back home and invite in the bad men from 1 the other side of the iron curtain, whom Mr. Claus had tried to keep them from playing with. How would these Americans like that? These Americans, who had been standing aroundthe walls-watching walls-watching the wake, finally had taken as much as they could take. They went outside . the room where the body was lying in state in state of decay and bankruptcy bank-ruptcy and conferred among , themselves. Explains the. Crime Then a quaint and somewat un-" couth citizen came back into the room and, acting as spokesman, addressed himself to the former beneficiaries as follows: "If you want to know who killed Santa Claus, look for the stains on your own hands. It was you who done hi rh in. You worked' him to death. Nobody could Carry that pack of his'n around 365 days a year passin' out stuff. "When the war came along you thought this old sucker" with a jerk towards the corpse "would see you safely through. He did. And how did you treat him? "First you milked him on. the Lend-Lease racket. When the war surplus stuff was sold you at 10 and 25 cents on the dollar, some of. you tried to resell it at a profit, and you kept the profit. Or you letthose guys from across the tracks snitch it off h "you. "We backed the old spendthrift spend-thrift to the limit. But that wasn't enough. Now you want us to sign up to help you fight our wars. 'You' try to let on that it isn't your war, but our war. It's your skins that have to be saved- And you'll pardon us if we say that from where we sit it doesn't look as though you were doing everything you could to help yourselves. "Sure vou've had a tough tim-Nobody tim-Nobody Tiere denies it. Everybody here wants to help you. When you didn't have enough to eat we helped relieve your shortages. We charged you nothing. We'll keep on doing it. J "Now, when you sUirt blaming us for your troubles and saying they're all our fault and our responsibility re-sponsibility to take care of, that we can't take. That's why we decided to put Santa Claus out of business. He's dead now. How do you like it?" fv Iroto-Rootm Prompt Srrvli'C f"Tinmiiiii 1 Radio Programs, Thursday, Dec. 30 clI 1948 SPECIALS 1.00 . GIRLS' DRESSES Fast color prints, values to AA $3.00 Now . . . 1UU CLOSE-OUT OF LADIES-RAYON LADIES-RAYON SLIPS Values to $3.00 Now CLEAN-UP OF LADIES DRESSES & SKIRTS Rayons, Cottons Etc. a aa Values to $5.00 4UU OUTING FLANNEL PAJAMAS Misses sizes. Values to $2.49 Now ........ MEN'S UNIONS Slijrhtly imperfect, most sizes I A values to $3.00 Now 17 Boys . . . . , . $1.39 CLOSE-OUT OF SWEATERS For boys' and girls' etc. values to $4.00 Now 1.00 BOYS' POLO SHIRTS Most sizes. Values to $1.29 Now 50c MEN'S RAYON ROBES Sizes small, Med. & large. Values to $10.00 Now 6.98 COLORFUL ROBE BLANKETS Size 64x76. 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