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Show t . .V D DDOD Ration Book No. 2 Point rationing is scheduled to be inaugurated soon, after the present ration book has been replaced by a more comprehensive, more flexible substitute. The -new No. 2 book may appear "Complicated at first and its use with a point system undoubtedly will lead to temporary misunderstandings and irritations. Therefore it is important that we approach the revised rationing setup with comprehension and tolerance, recognizing that the scheme takes full advantage of mistakes made by other nations who were forced to precede pre-cede us in broad-scale rationing. Much of the apparent complexity really is on the surface. After the first week or two of use there should be nothing left to gripe about except the shortages themselves, and neither the OPA nor your storekeepers created those. Blame a paperhanger named Hitler, a stuffed shirt named Mussolini, Musso-lini, a phony god named Hirohito. The expression "point system" means just this: There are a great many foodstuffs which are interchangeable. For instance, in-stance, it is a matter of taste and convenience con-venience whether you have corn, peas, stringbeans, spinach, beets,, or some other vegetable. You may at the moment think that peas would be ' nice. But peas are scarce and there is a relatively plentiful supply of corn available. You have a fixed number num-ber of "points" to spend on canned fruits and vegetables. Because peas are scarce, a can will cost you more points than would a can of corn. You -tfke your choice. Probably you select se-lect the corn, or something else that won't use up too many points. Thus the OPA will be enabled to conserve the scarcer items to con-rentrate con-rentrate attention on the more plentiful, plenti-ful, without frequently changing the value of the overall ration ticket is has been necessary with gasoline, or which there is no substitute. Meanwhile the housewife is free to exercise her choice. Unlike the British Brit-ish woman, she can trade wherever she wishes. She is reasonably certain vShat, month after month, she can obtain ob-tain all the fruits and vegetables she really needs. The system is not perfect, the OPA admits. But experience in other countries, coun-tries, with refinements that will suggest sug-gest themselves to every consumer, has involved an amount of red tape that the American people never would stand. Let's give point rationing a fair try bejore we get excited about the irritations irri-tations that will crop up. One of the things most necessary for keeping up morale of soldiers is good books. There is no better way a soldier can spend his leisure than in good reading, and there is a tremendous tre-mendous demand for it on the part of our troops. Everyone who can should send books to his local collection depots. Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale University. ' For some time to come the war is obviously a war of aggressive attrition. attri-tion. That attrition is just as vital on the home front as on the military front. And our powers of attrition and combat are increasing more rapidly than the axis'. Herbert Hoover. I had ! plenty of opportunity for watching our fellows. They made me proud. They were calm and acted just like old, experienced fighters. pvt. Vincent J. Alfarino, wounded in North Africa. There are only a few Americans who place appetite above patriotism. , Nineteen fortyrthree will not be an easy year for us on the home front.- President Roosevelt; . No generation is wholly free from specimens who justify " the charge that it is soft or spoiled, but the pres-, pres-, ent generation, is far more free than KP most. President Everett1 Case of Colgate Col-gate University. . provo (utah) Strofetu) HeMsuNpAY- ianuary u- 1943 9THE WASHINGTON U. S. Propaganda Set-Up Growing BY PETER EDSOJV Daily Herald Washington Correspondent U. S. "Propaganda" for overseas over-seas consumption-has now branched branch-ed out into so many different forms you'd hardly recognize it. Of course it isn't supposed to be propaganda, the way the United States puts it out. Propaganda is only the nasty stuff put out by the Nazis, Fascists and Japs. What the U. S. puts out is purely educational material designed to tell other people the truth on what the American war effort is all about. Not much has been heard about this American counter-propaganda show. The short wave radio broadcasts beamed in many languages lan-guages and to many lands have been publicized. But the radio is only one phase. Movies are used, and the printed word. Some of these printing jobs would knock your eye out, and they're published publish-ed in two, three and four colors and in languages such as Arabic, Chinese and Afrikas, as well as the familiar Spanish, Portuguese, GeYman and English. Most pretentious of the publica tion jobs is the new magazine Victory. It's a big picture-maga zine job of the Life, Collier's, Look and Satevepost size. Vol. 1 No. 1 was put out as a trial a few months ago. Issue No. & is now on the press, and No. 3, edited and published by Crowell Collier's under direction of the Office of War Information overseas over-seas branch, will be out in February Feb-ruary or March. This issue No. 3 will contain paid advertising, solicited from American business houses in for eign trade. The magazine will be plced on newsstands in foreign countries and it will be for sale. The idea here is to make it compete com-pete with a German propaganda magazine called Signal, which has been distributed the world over for the past three years and by perhaps per-haps 25 million copies to make the . German cause look good in the eyes of neutrals, non-belligerents and conquered countries. Rockefeller Broke the Ice-First Ice-First effort to knock Signal off the foreign newsstands was made by Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which published a magazine maga-zine called En Guardiaz or Or. Guard, in Spanish and Portuguese for South American consumption. En- Guardia clicked, so this pattern pat-tern was adopted for other countries, coun-tries, and a certain unconscious rivalry has perhaps developed be tween the Rockefeller boys and the Elmer Davis OWI boys as to who is putting out the best magazine. Either way, the German Signal is a shoddy and sorry job by comparison. Signal is decidedly second rate. Fuzzy paper and not so good printing. There's noth ing cheap about the American magazine, however. Slick paper, beautiful illustrations, elegant typography, tint blocks and full color on some pages; Aside from the difference in quality, there is a marked contrast in content, too. The German sheet portrays the gay and smiling faces of the inhabitants of occupied occu-pied countries, the tears of gratitude grati-tude as the Czechs, Poles, Ukrain ians and such people were deliv ered to the tender Nazi saviors from stern rule of oppression. In other words, hooey! The American magazines, on the other hand, lay off all blatant condemnation of just what life in the United States really is and what the American war effort is shooting at. Home life of an American workman work-man of German descent, to show what the American standard of living amounts to. Any sap would be able to get the point of this, contrasting it to living standards in Germany or any of the Occupied Occu-pied countries. Stories of what refugees from Nazi oppression are doing in America. Am-erica. What "Freedom" means under the American way of life. What the Four Freedoms are all about. The story of American war production pro-duction and American resources. No direct bragging, but subtly putting across the idea that this much strength can't lose. Stories of American feats of arms, such as ' the saga Qf the cruiser Marblehead. , The story of American planes. Issue No. 3 of Victory will have a press run of over 50,000 copies, and will be printed in four or five languages. In addition to the newsstand distribution, there will be selected circulation, spotted by State department. Army, . Navy, and OWI's own personnel abroad, to make sure that the messages reach important foreign officials and are read where they will do the most good. In other words, this is a direct approach to the more literate, the more intelligent, the more influential leadership in for eign countries. Victory isn't for sale or distrib ution in the U. S. Both Needed in me rigiit i .... . ... . ,. . ' ., : I 9 AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN V XEAVE FOR ARIZONA SPANISH FORK Mr. and. Mrs. C. E. Webb will leave early next week for Mesa, Arizona, where they will make their home, and where Mr. Webb will accept a government position in the pro duction of precision instruments for airplanes at Chandler field. Arizona, ior the duration of the war. .Mr. Webb is well known in Spanish Fork, having engaged in the jewelry business for "several years. Both he. and Mrs.' Webb have been active in Nthe auxiliary wpr orme i u. a. church. "I never fool myself by wishin' Pa was like some handsome man in a movie. I know if he was, he would not have me." Lehi Legislator Sponsors Bill For School Aid Once News . . . Now History Twenty-Three Years Ago Today From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD Jan. 24, 192Q Fire destroyed Utah County Wholesale Meat company's plant southeast of Provo with total damage of $20,000. ' The first annual railroad men's character ball in Provo was held at the Mozart pavilion. D. T. Dol-lahite Dol-lahite was chairman of the ball which was attended by about 400 people. More cases of influenza were reported re-ported in the last forty-eight hours in Chicago than for any similar period during the epidemic epi-demic the previous winter. There we're 2,514 new cases. News from Moab that a 500-barrel 500-barrel oil well had been brought in by a company of Utah men was important industry news. The striking- of oil in Diamond Fork canyon, and the known presence of oil in Uinta basin made "practically certain" that the long promised oil boom in Utah would have an energetic beginning begin-ning in the spring. Byron Dastrup accepted a position po-sition as deputy county clerk and Mrs. J. Glen Bonnett as deputy county recorder. Vineyard News Mrs. S. H. Blake has gone to Pocatello, Idaho to visit with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mae Bevin and family. She. will also visit Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Munk at Logan and her brother and family Mr. and Mrs. James Bevin at Ogden. She expects to be away for two weeks. All ward members are invited i to attend a dancing1 party at Lake View Tuesaay evening following Mutual. Clouide M. Stone and Mrs. Bernice Rawlings of the ward activity committee extends an invitation for everyone to at tend. Mrs. Olive Burningham will present her hobby, Indian relics, at Mutual Tuesday evening before the Bee Hive and Gleaner girls. Any adults who. wish to attend are welcome. David McClarty has gone to Long Beach, Calif., to visit relatives. rela-tives. Miss Elaine Shumway entertained entertain-ed at her home Thursday evening for Donna Whitley, Mary Lou and SALT LAKE C?TY, Jan. 23 U.Pt Legislation to provide increases for teachers' salaries and raises for other school employes and for maintenance and operation of common com-mon and high schools in Utah was introduced today by Rep. A. B. Anderson, D., Lehi, chairman of the house education committee. Anderson's bill would appropriate appropri-ate $1,316,000 from the general fund to pay for the raises and maintenance. The action was endorsed en-dorsed by a recent meeting of the Utah Education association. The house late Friday passed a resolution memoralizing Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard to permit use of ' hot" wheat in Millard county to feed poultry and livestock. "Hot" wheat is wheat produced in excess of federal quotas allotments and already al-ready stored in the county. It also urged revision of wheat quotas quo-tas on a basis of normal, rather than drought, year yields. Barbara Harding, Dorothy Goode and W ilda Wells. A pot luck supper sup-per was served and dainty favors given. Class Leader Mrs. Mary Y. Miner will give the . theology les-son les-son at Relief society Tuesday aft ernoon, the meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Harold Hold- 1 AM A MURDERER BY MORRIS MARKEY COPYRIGHT. 1042. NEA SERVICE. INC. Lake View News Members of the Lincoln high school faculty enjoyed a delightful delight-ful banquet Thursday evening in the Lake View recreation hall. Forty-four guests were served by the ladies of the ward Relief society, so-ciety, under the direction of President Presi-dent Lillie Sumsion. Assisting in the kitchen were: Mrs. Lillie Sumsion, Sum-sion, Mrs. Verda Madsen, Mrs. Rosetta Johnson, Mrs. Annie Boulton, Mrs. Martha Scott and Mrs. Mabel Williamson. Mrs. Gayle D. Taylor was in charge of the tables, and was assisted by Mrs. Margaret Taylor, Miss Edna Scott and Mrs. Ruth Van Leuven. Elder Richard Bigelow, who re cently returned from a mission will be the speaker Sunday in the regular sacrament meeting which convenes at 11 a. m. Mrs. Helen Edwards will render two vocal solos. Mrs. Olive Lloyd and her family have moved to Provo to make their home The Lloyd property has been sold to Mr. Jackson of Beaver. Prior to Mrs! Lloyd's departure de-parture the Relief society met at her homer, for their regular work and business meeting. A social hour followed and dainty refreshments refresh-ments were served to 18 members by Mrs. Martha Scott and Mrs. Mabel Williamson. ;: Mrs. Lillie Sumsion spent last week visiting1 relatives and friends in Salt Lake and Magna. ; Mrs. Kate Zobell will give the social science lesson Tuesday in Relief society. A good attendance is oesireo. AVE ATQUE VALE" CHAPTER XVII JYNTHIA had not become hys- -terical. She had not fainted. She seemed stunned, as from being be-ing struck, rather than frightened or terribly distressed. Certain women had kept their wits, and led her to her own room. Mrs. Malcolm Fleming, who was Dr. Fleming's wife, had been among those women, and she was a capable creature. Dr. Fleming himself, having rushed to the side of Colonel Merriwether and discovering dis-covering at once that he cpuld be of no avail in that place, searched out Cynthia's room on the second floor, and sat on the edge of her bed. She looked at him. He said, "He is gone, my dear." She closed her eyes, from which no tears, came, and the last touch of color washed out of her face. She shivered, as with bitter cold, and coverlets were drawn over her. Dr. Fleming mixed something in a glass, and ' she drank it. He took one of her hands, and massaged mas-saged it gently, and nodded to his wife, who did the same with her other hand. , Anne West was there, sitting in a low chair and staring at Cynthia Cyn-thia with eyes very wide and her lips parted a little. Dr. Fleming lowered the lights, and when he went quietly to the door his wife followed him. "I don't believe shell blow up," he said in a solemn whisper when they . had reached the hall. "I'll have to go downstairs. If you need, me, send Anne. IH be back In a little while anyway." There was almost , breathless silence in Cynthia's room for a considerable while. Then she spoke to Anne, without looking at Anne. Will you go find Hank?" she said. Anne said eagerly, "Of course, darling., It lay within the nature of -her loyalty that she felt no disappointment because Cynthia had not wanted Fred West instead. in-stead. . She found Henry Prentiss in the bar, talking in low tones with the butler, and beckoned to him. He followed her toward the stairs. , "Isn't It just perfectly awful!" . she whispered to him. ' : . JJE did not answer. They moved down the corridor on tiptoe, and he was standing beside Cynthia's Cyn-thia's bed, looking down at her. It was curious to see sadness in the face of Henry Prentiss. He took her hand, and touched her cold forehead with his other hand. "Tell Anne anything you want me to do," he said. Her pressure on his hand tightened tight-ened for a moment, and then relaxed. re-laxed. "I'll be around," he said. She nodded; He stood motionless beside her for a little while, and then touched her forehead again, and went silently out of the room. Mitchell Grace came out of the library on an errand, and through the doorway as it opened Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Thatcher saw Henry Pren tiss. He beckoned, and shook hands when Prentss went in, but did not speak. The photographers, done with their job, were packing their equipment. The fingerprint people were dealing with their last tail-end of duties. The body of Colonel Merriwether had not been moved. He was calm and precise, even in his final scene. His hair was still carefully brushed, and his eyes were closed. His white, delicate hands reposed on the table, and the left one was only an inch or two from the . pistol which had killed him. That weapon had been worked upon by the fingerprint men, and then replaced re-placed exactly as it had been before. be-fore. It was new, and shiny, and of an ordinary American manufacture. manu-facture. "The guy left a perfect set on the gun," one of the 'fingerprint men said.- "No- gloves, not a blur, and no wiping." Lieutenant Thatcher nodded. He leaned forward and picked up the sheet of paper which Vauhan Dunbar had4 placed so ostentatiously ostenta-tiously before his victim. It was a plain, white rectangle, and in its center there was neat typing: -AVE ATQUE VALE Do not grieve for the destruction destruc-tion of . this monster. Cynthia has least cause of all for grief, though by the, nature of things I cannot tell her why I or that might do her an injury. I have stalked him; year by -year, waiting for this one mo ment. There is no need to say here, now, why I have done this. He cruelly killed two people who were of great importance to me. When he did that, his end was written. Though I know it is useless, I beg you not to spend public money and the time of valuable men in the hunt for me. It will be completely futile. VAUGHAN DUNBAR. TTENRY PRENTISS said, 'H-m-JJ m-m. So that's it." Lieutenant Thatcher said, "At least We don't have to hunt around for motive. But we'll pick him up. He hasn't got a chance." The telephone rang. It was a city detective at Vaughan Dunbar's Dun-bar's hotel. "He left in the forenoon," the detective said, "and he hasn't been back. A suitcase full of things is in his room, all packed, and some coats in a closet. Everything seems orderly." "Take prints, if you please," Lieutenant Thatcher said. "And if it's all right with you people, I would like to come in later and go over the stulf. Of course, I'm out of my jurisdiction there but if you people don't mind" , Nobody would mind, naturally. "And you'll keep men there, in" case he does show up? Good. And check on his garage, and all his telephone calls. Can you do that?" "Well give it the whole routine." rou-tine." "Thank you." By midnight, the fact was ;"s-concertingly ;"s-concertingly apparent that Vaughan Vaugh-an Dunbar was eluding the "base. He had slipped through the network net-work of hundreds of men in uni form and out of it, or L-e had hidden himself somPirLere within the-1200 square miles tf Long Island somewhere bef'i th 34th street crosstown tutmCi ana Montauk Point. . By midnight, likewise, the aen who sat in the bar at Stone House were weary of talk, of speculation specula-tion and conjecture. They finished the sandwiches which had been brought to them. Dr. Fleming said that his wife would stay the night, and that he would like for Anne West to remain, re-main, too. Himself, he had one or two. hospital calls to make, and furthermore he needed sleep. Mitchell Mit-chell Grace could reach him if there were need. In any event, he would return to Stone House early next morning Colonel Merriwether's body had been removed by men from the medical examiner's office. -Fred ' West and Henry Prentiss ".went home. And Lieutenant .Thatcher went to NewvYorlc . (To J3e Continued)' A Daily Picture of What's Going on in National Affairs Utx".9mSi WASHINGTON Manpower Boss Paul Mc-Nutt Mc-Nutt has been sessioning with the Truman Committee Com-mittee regarding certain problems which touch the lives of everyone. They include: size of the Army, where we will get labor for farms,, and, whether the Army shall be used in mines and industry. in-dustry. , Senators on the Committee were impressed both with the gravity of the .problems McNutt placed before them, and his general views regarding re-garding them. McNutt revealed that jndersecretary .of War Patterson had been talking to him about a total armed force of 11,000,000 to 15,000,000 men. This included not merely the Army, but the Navy, the Coast! Guard and the Marine Corps everything every-thing except the Merchant Marinf. However, McNutt pointed out that shipping ship-ping facilities and submarine warfare seriously limited the number of troops which could be sent abroad and supplied. The figure he mentioned men-tioned must remain a military secret, but he indicated that with Hitler's U-boats working, overtime around North Africa, it was going to be difficult to maintain a very large army in North Africa. In addition to North Africa, he pointed to the problem of supplying other war fronts in the Pacific, together with Russia and England. As a result, McNutt doubted the feasibility of a world's record army now. He was all for giving the military and navy what they wanted so long as it could be transported to the combat com-bat zones, but he opposed a huge army which would eat its head off at home, especially in view of the fact that morale deteriorates when an army is kept idle. At one time, McNutt said, a large army at home was considered necessary to protect the United States. But now military experts felt thil danger greatly lessened, though a certain number num-ber of reserves must be trained. ARMY WILL HARVEST CROPS McNutt was asked a great many questions about farm labor, especially by Senator Truman of Missouri. He replied that the Army had been unwilling to let men go home on furlough to help with the crop3 because this hurt morale. However, How-ever, he said the Army was working on a plan to send Army units into farm areas in battalionc or companies, and have them help with farm work on an organized basis under Aftny command. com-mand. "What about sending the Army into the coaZ mines?" someone asked at this point. This got no definite welcome. Thougl: the matter was not discussed in detail, it seemet' to be the unspoken feeling of tha committee tha too big an army going into industry and agri culture on an organized military basis migh-come migh-come close to developing a militarized system ir. the U. S. A. similar to that against which Wc were fighting in Europe. Only one member of the Committee, Senator Sen-ator Hatch of New Mexico, felt that the armet forces should be given free rein to go ahead ant! built up tremendous strength not subject to civilian check and supervision. Other Committee members expressed the view that it was only natural for any military leader to want the Army to be the bigrest i" the world; so a civilian check-rein by the .White House or Congress was necessary to bafiance farm labor and industry against armed strength. Finally it was decided that the most imoprt-cnt imoprt-cnt problems to lick before increasing the Army to world-beating proportions was the submarine and shipping. CONGRESSMAN GOES ON STRIKE In more than one hundred years of Congress, the firsf strike of a Congressman will occur .soon when forthright Jimmy Morrison from Louisiana's Louisi-ana's 6th District resign.3 from five committees. Jimmy's idea is that these five committees commit-tees Coinage Weights and Measures; Mines and Mining; War Claims; Invalid Pensions; and Public Lands are so much chicken feed and an insult to his district. If he cannot serve on the Agricultural Committee, in which Louisiana is vitally interested, or on Appropriations, Morrison Mor-rison says he would rather conserve his time for other things: All of which came as something of a bombshell bomb-shell to Democratic leaders who expect first term Congressmen to be seen and not heard. "I don't think the Admniistration will like it," advised one of Morrison's collagues. HE DOESN'T NEED 'EM "It doesn't make any difference whether the Administration likes it or not," shot back the Louisiana freshman." They need me, I don't need them. They didn't get me elocUd." "Folks will say you're a sorehead," advised-Democratic advised-Democratic Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. "In that case," replied Morrison, "I'll be right in with 90 percent of Congress. As far as I can see everyone is sore except the Republicans." Repub-licans." Morrison was barred from the important Appropriations Committee on the ground that he was a f irstTtermer. Meanwhile, Freshman Congressman Con-gressman James M. Curley, ex-Mayor of Boston, was appointed to the Appropriations Committee. This caused Morrison to remark: "It's bad enough to pass up the leading district dis-trict in Louisiana, but it's worse to appoint a man to the Appropriations Committee who is being investigated by the Justice Department. I , suppose the fact that Mr. Curley and John McCormack Mc-Cormack both came from Boston has nothing at . all to do with it." Note: Congress is going to hear more from Jimmy Morrison, nephew of the Spanish-American war hero Richmond Pearson Hobson. MERRY-GO-ROUND In the cast of "Commandos Strike at Dawn", is Lillian MacMillan, grand-daughter of David Lloyd George. . . The seamen's home in Glasgow; Glas-gow; which Mrs. Roosevelt opened when she was V overseas, . now has secured a beer license, after some difficulty.. Officials have found that if the men can have bcav they drink less I hard liquor |
