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Show I G Q J D iD Come, Josephine jJiqLye you filed your application for a. post-war airline from here to there? Jt.fjoesn't need to be very specific; you can alwaVs decide later where pu wartf to start, which way you jntend to go, and where you. hope to .winct up. Neither is-it required that fou fenpw anything' about flying, or frgif ic, :or aviation management, or hjSX pYpu haye q plane, money or .backers. A piece of paper, a pencil, $ thi;ep-cent stamp and imagination will dp the trick. merjcan Aviation, a trade magazine maga-zine discovers that 80 companies and i)4i7viduals already have filed appli-.Qatipils appli-.Qatipils with the Civil Aeronautics Boprd.fqr routes that would total 350,-.7 350,-.7 miles without counting those who want to start qn airline but don't trouble to say just whence or whither. Some of the applicants are sound, established entrepreneurs air ljnes, trucking, bus, railroad and steamship CQiripqnies. Others are "paper" companies, com-panies, women, even high school , iThe description "paper company" .cqri be very ( damning, but needn't be. One bf th0 paper companies, presumably, pre-sumably, is Jfrie group of ferry pilots jprgghized as Trans-Oceanic Air Lines, Inc., which has registered with 4kp C its original slock issue. These men know flying and know a great deal about the international aviation situation. Z "Recently 16 major domestic air lines got together on a declaration of principles for post-war expansion, world-wide, which calls for "free and ppen competition." These companies intend to get into the expansion-scrap when the war is over. public interest in 'the helicopter is jrejlected by applications for 75,922 milesf such lines of which 49,130 are sought by the Greyhound Corp., which is new in aviation but veteran in -transportation. W. B. Stout, one of the big men in American aviation, now with Con-. Con-. solidated-Vultee, predicts flying automobiles au-tomobiles and trucks and helicqbs (not the Parisian or Washington type the "heli" here comes from helicopter) heli-copter) for commuters. All is confusion, .all is ambition, all is aspiration and enthusiasm in the post-war aviation field. But of one thing" we can be sure a new flying era is no further away than the time it will take to clean up the Axis and shift our industrial stance. So, to paraphrase the old popular song "Corns, Josephine, in My . Flying Fly-ing MachinS' :; -. "Up, up, a little bit1 higher, My imagination's on fire." Does Mr. Lewis Err? John L. Lewis told the War Labor Board how his constituents slave in the mines far an average yearly in-eome in-eome only $37 a year above that of the lowest classification of government govern-ment clerical workers. That would be interesting if true. . ' The Bituminous Coal Institute cites Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showing that for the identical period mentioned by. Mr. Lewis, 1942, coal miners averaged $1827.08 in pay in spite of all layoffs, strikes, sitdowns, -vacations, etc. Basic pay during the period the minimum for a man . working full time was $1750, allowing: allow-ing: for two weeks off without pay. A. C. A. F. No.' 1 government clerk draws $1260 a year, without time and a half for overtime. ' :: Somebody must have given phony "figures to somebody else. :' They took me to a first-aid station where I met the German pilot whom :J had. shot down. He was very pleasant pleas-ant but seemed amazed I got him so easily. Hq actually congratulated me on good v shooting. Lieut.- -Tom A". Thomas, Jr., rescued after being shot down in Sicily, PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY, AUGUST- 22, 1943, ?rHE WASHINGTON! MERRY-GO- H A T BY TXHB EDITOB Provo will share in $he utility rate reductions expected to arise out of the federal power commission's commis-sion's recent order, directing the Utah Power & Light company to eliminate $27,000,000 of book value, val-ue, representing write-ups and other improper charges. Since the present Provo utility rates are the same, (less 10 per cent) as the Utah Power and Light company rates, it stands to. reason that any reduction ordered or-dered by the Utah public service commission in the private utility rates, will automatically follow in Provo utlity rates, subject, of course to action by the local utiU ity board. While a rate reduction will naturally na-turally be welcomed by the consumers con-sumers generally, the commercial users are the' ones who ' realty have a "squawk" coming, because T ' -- I. ' Vl.k'n mey are paying a. mum aujicj. rate than residential users un der the present complicated and antiquated rate smiciurewpicn the Provo utilities inheritedfromJ the Utah Power and Light Com pany. There was a lot of furor in the press recently about John Boving- don, one-time dancer, who was dropped from a government po sition. He should not have been discharged from the Office of Ec onomic Warfare because he Was a rhythmic dancer even if, as he denied, he had taught the sub ject. There is nothing disgraceful about rhythmic dancing, and it is no bar to government work pro vided the dancer is otherwise qualified. And Bovingdon's aca demic background appeared quite adequate. No, the reason for firing Bov- ingdon was not his dancing. It Was the record of his interest in Communism, his class consciousness, conscious-ness, his apparent lack of that good balance which was essential for the job of economic analyst. Add to the woes of trying to run a newspaper with women. A crisis developed at the news paper office last week when two young women reporters, who dis like each other anyway, arrived at the office wearing dresses that were exact duplicates. They eyed each other with amazed disgust and then one of them went to her locker and took out a jacket she had kept there tor chilly days. She donned it, buttoned it tightly, and wore it all day despite the fact the ther mometer hit 93 and the humidity was higher. 0O0 Editors of the Sioux City, Iowa Io-wa Journal sadly shook their StSffS Cf9, up as are no insignificant accidents to Don't Look Now, Biit- SOVTEOME HAS HUM(a SOMETHING OH YOU f HEALTH COLUMN Most Industrial Injuries to Eyes Qin Be Prevented By DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS Written for NEA The unprecedented drive for war production has many angles, and the prevention of eye injuries is certainly not the least important import-ant of these. Industrial accidents alone account for the loss of more than two thousand eyes each year, in spite of the fact that occular injuries are largely preventable. Unless education concerning methods of prevention of eye injury in-jury is emphasized, the demands of war on industry may increase the incidence of serious accidents to the eye. Large industries maintaining main-taining safety directors and medical medi-cal staffs have accounted for a relatively small proportion of eye injuries, ' Practically every occupation is hazardous to the eye, but those occupations where flying particles are frequent, molten metals may be splashed, acids are used, or injurious light rays are present, are obviously dangerous. There sign of the times" when a new reporter - who had been a street car mqtorman the last six years -resigned after three nights of work "because they wouldn't let me write editorials." bOo Hip Pockets? Since the 'paint on' shocking fad has become increasingly popular, po-pular, the younger ladies who. used us-ed to carry their money in their stockings now carry it in a special spe-cial pocket built into the hem of their skirts. , Juvenile Humor "Science has discovered an animal an-imal that weighs more than two men and can see equally well at both ends." "I don't believe that. What is it called?" "A blind horse." 0O0 And now we have 'painted on sox' for men. And now. the more or less credulous puUic are won dering if this includes a painted- un garter ior tne synthetic men's sox. Jack MacPherson who is sta tioned somewhere in England, was on a furlough in London and while there got caught in an air raid aiert. He had no more than squeezed through the door until a sweet young voice asked: "Is there a macintosh in here that's large enough to keep two young iauics warm.'' ' "No," said Jack, "but there's a M-act-nerson who's willing "to try.' More Definitions Personality - that thing that enables - a man to ap- uress suit without everybody ev-erybody wondering wha.t resEaur ant or orchestra- he works in' ' Village - a place where pebple are vehement -in denouncing na yet Keep up friendly a"u wu reiauons with those wno are known to be dishonest. Liberal - one who via generous vviwi vmer people's money, fears fluid swear words. WMb Evacuated From Berlin BERN, Aug. 21. (HE) German frontier advices said today jtha$ about 50,000 -persons had been evacuated, from Berlin a figure generally regarded here as too lOWs The reports, said the evacuation had been limited by the lack of manpower, with even the youth of the eity ' engaged1' in ' vital - war efforts. Ack of . rolling; stock, motor vehicles and other means of trans- portauoji aiso was saia to be im peding the evacuation. the eye Check Eye Condition A preliminary physical examin ation before entering industry should include a careful examination examin-ation of the eye. Workmen whose Vision is good or corrected to normal by glasses are more alert o the possiblities of accidents than those with partial vision. Un corrected visual defects not only ead to poor work and increased ' ' - 9 i 1 Wvliy'x " . , ; - The Chopping Bock 3 ROUND eror, but to greater likelihood of accidents. Protective goggles are of many kinds, and must be adapted to the risks present. Occupations in which flying objects are likely to occur call for goggles having tem pered or hardened glass lenses and equipped with side shields. Fine particles and dust can be occluded only when the glasses completely enclose the eyes. Gog gles of the eye-cup type snoum be employed when the hazard is the splash of acid or molten metal. Such glasses, without holes for ventilation, will provide protec tion against fumes or gases. When glare must be' eliminated, colored lenses made of hardened glass should be usd. Infra-red and ultra-violet rays may be filtered fil-tered out by the appropriate colored lenses. Electric arc and hydrogen welding produce rays of such intensity that the entire face must be protected by a helmet. Glasses Preveirt; Injury Workmen who wear glasses for the correction of refractive errors should not burden themselves with goggles too. Instead, the proper correction should be ground into the goggle lenses. Goggles should be fitted with the same care as corrective glasses. If the,y are not comfortable, they may be taken off just when they are most neeied. Condensation of moisture on Ijie lens may be reduced by applying ap-plying soap to' the glasses, and rubbing them until a high polish is produced. Although goggles are probably the most important single factor in preventing eye injuries, machinery ma-chinery and tools designed with a.iety in mma, or wie employ- Once News . Now History From the Files Of THE PROVO HERALD Aug. 22, 1920 Republican delegates to the state convention met at the Central Cen-tral school and endorsed Senator Reed Smoot for U. S. senator .and pledged support to him at the con- rfab. They also endorsed Harvey Cluff for attorney general. Eph Homer was named chairman of the delegation. Preston G. Peterson Peter-son was selected to represent Utah county on the platform committee. commit-tee. A number of people were insisting insist-ing that the city commision appoint ap-point a traffic cop. "Our city has reached that stage when the traffic traf-fic on the main streets is, so great that a traf ic cop is almost a necessity, neces-sity, and then there is a tendency upon the part of some drivers to exceed the traffic speed, thus endangering en-dangering the lives of the moving public. Let us have the traffic cop." Provo labor unions were planning plan-ning a Labor day celebration. ment of protective shields are also important. Fans and good ventilation ven-tilation will reduce dust and fumes which may contribute to accident. The best eyes become fatigued in the presence of faulty illumination and with the diminution diminu-tion of acuity of vision, accidents increase. i DEATH IK THE LAST EDITION By Adeline McESfresh COPYRIGHT. 1043. NEA SERVICE. CNC. THE STORY i Joe Parker, vrell-loved vrell-loved editor of the Midvale Express, Ex-press, has fceev fovnd stabbed to death. Society reporter Fat Cleveland, Cleve-land, sports writer Cleat Eaas, and ex-newspapermaat Dave Elson are determined to aolve the murder. mur-der. There " are two elewst a . threatening, unsigned letter found among Joe's papers, and the -voice of a man vrho attacks Pave in the dark of Joe's empty house. ' - - - . TIIE TYPEWRITER CHAPTER IV THEY buried Joe Parker, the next afternoon. Pat never knew how she got through the short service at the church and again at the grave when the solemn "Ashes' to ashes and dust to dust" brought fresh tears to the eyes of almost everyone' every-one' in the crowd. Of course, Dave Elson's firm hand on her elbow helped a lot. s . Later, after they had gone back to the big house that had been Parker's home since childhood, pat decided that the scribbled note on an immense basket of red roses was as much of a comfort to her as any thing else. ?He Was a great man- and a true friend to all who knew him." Pat could not bejp being a bit surnrised at the donorl for Ran dolph tbertori never agreed with Parker. Not on the plans for the new city 1 park, improving Main street, or anything 'else. But Ws message, so siricefe and thought-JtuL thought-JtuL iold her that tragedy bid'eon-quered bid'eon-quered all other enemies and the flowers wereAthertohs final'trib-ttte. final'trib-ttte. ' "That man never paid tribute to anyone but himself, -PaV' Xave remarket, sarcastically when she told ham about " it, ' "He has one ambition-7-money. How he gets it doeshT 'Shatter? x " ' The girl laughed. "My, but you're cynical,,., she told him. "Is that- what New York- does .for you?? ' - ' ' " . -su- v:.y. . ?- "Maybe Life is what does it, 'Pat. People are funny when you get around and see a lot cf them. You don't trust anybody, not even yourself. See what I mean. Pat?,, "Sort of. But it's wrong, Dave, all wrong." Dave ran his fingers through his hair in a characteristic gesture that she had almost forgotten. "I know, Pat, but" "Here, children," Sarah Harrington, Har-rington, Mr. Parker's old housekeeper, house-keeper, interrupted him, "drink some tea and get the chill out of your bones." A i LITTLE later Clem and Mary Evans came in. Dave switched on the light and the glory of the open fire was masked by the brighter- and less romantic table lamp. ' The tea, so piping hot and delicious de-licious when Mts. Harringten had brought it in, had cooled alarmingly alarm-ingly and Pat followed the housekeeper house-keeper into the kitchen to brew more. She smiled ruefully at the heavy bolt on the kitchen door. At least the -mysterious prowler would not get in that way again. "We should have known better." "What, dearie . Mrs. Harrington bustled from the cabinet to the .stove and- back again. She gave Pat a quick, questioning look. "The way Dare" and I barreled in here," Pat explained. "Why, Aunt Sarah, we: simply asked for trouble. The door was unlocked i that alone should have cautioned cau-tioned us. We might; have known the police would have locked all doors. Oh, rioip Not. Cleveland and Elsdn, Incorporated. Prize chumps?' . . ; Mrs. Harrington laughed. "Hey, you two," Dave " hailed them from the hall, "are you making mak-ing tea for the whole town?' "Indeed not," Mrs. Harrington chuc&ed, "but you can't make tea too' quickly if you want it to be good." - i - "If that's it, I forgive you?. He gave her a quick hug. Pat slipped off her perch on the kitchen table. ?, ; "What are Clem and Mary do-: ing? she asked. ' p"---v "That's what I came out about, Pat. We're epiriej to, have a look around the place and I knew you'd never forgive me if we started without you. Come on, sleuth." He started toward the door. "By the way, Aunt Sarah, we'll stop any time ta eat. You know me?' PLEM and Mary were already in the study, a large room filled with books and souvenirs that Joe Parker's friends had sent him from all parts of the world. Exquisite wood carvings, autographed first editions, oddities oddi-ties of every kind. All eloquent testimony that Joe Parker had been loved by all who knew him. "Look everywhere," Clem told them. "Don't miss a' thing. There's bound to be some clew,' there always al-ways is. No crime is perfect." His wife shook her head despairingly. de-spairingly. "I'm beginning to doubt that," she said." Pat almost agreed. She, too, had her moments when she was sure they would neyer know the truth. Half-heartedly, she sat down at Parker's desk. Mary, Clem and Dave were searching; the book shelves and the overflowing filing cabinet where Mr. Parker kept clippings of everything that interested him. "No use looking there, Pat," Dave said when the girl opened a drawer. "Blair turned it inside out." "I know," she nodded vaguely, "but I just" Her voice trailed off into nothing noth-ing and Dave turned back to his search, sympathetically silent. Pat's fingers caressed the keyboard key-board of the old typewriter on the desk. Absently, she rolled a sheet of paper into it and began to type the sentence that is as old as high school typing classes. "Now is the time for all good men " She stopped, stared at the line of typed letters. That "i" this was the typewriter that turned out that threatening letter! "Dave!" she cried, "Dave, I've found it!'.' ...... (To1 Be Continued) ever? , SO By FRANK C. ROBERTSON The great concern over a post war economic collapse is not altogether al-together what 'the marines call scuttlebutt. We saw it before, and we can see it again. The cold fact remains that following the war some twenty-five million people will be oliged to change their vocations. vo-cations. It will not be a shift from one industry into another, for at least one, and possibly two years. Everything points to the greatest era of unemployment in our history. his-tory. It can be accompanied by economic chaos and utter inisery, or it can be' ridden out like' a well battened ?hip riding out a; storm. a great o;ea.i aepenas upon tne officers at the helm . There are three pbyious I means of combating pie let-down. The unemployed can be carried over by a system of government insurance insur-ance for the unemployed on a scale far larger r"" than any w e U have known will add to our already bloated and ballooned national debt, and subsequent taxation. W e can return to a W. P. A. on a far grander scale, giving these twenty- five million, including in-cluding our discharged dis-charged soldiers, soldi-ers, employ-ment4at employ-ment4at a subsistence sub-sistence wage. The third re course is for Mr. Robertson the people themselves to voluntarily save enough from their present earnings, earn-ings, mostly in the form of war bonds, to tide them over. That would seem to be the sensible thing to do, yet human nature being be-ing what it is we know that something some-thing less than a hundred per cent of the population will have any material savings at the close of the war. A point in our favor is a certain cer-tain tremendous demand for consumer con-sumer goods as soon as the machinery ma-chinery for production can be changed over for the manufacture of purely destructive implements. We are almost certain to : have a golden age making the brightest period' of the Coolidge era! iook like a foggy day in San Francisco. And afterward we shall probably run wild, and get qurselves into a depression which will make the Hoover era look like a golden cycle of prosperity. We must use whatever stopgaps stop-gaps are necessary for this coming com-ing period of transition, or face the alternative of strikes, starvation, starva-tion, race riots, and beggary. Above all will hover the ominous cloud of Communism. It .will be no time to preach the philosophy of plenty through scarcity, A lot of us were always too dull-witted to comprehend the niceties of that argument. Whoever can pay his debts and lay by a reserve sufficient suffi-cient for his own wants will not only be helping himself, but helping help-ing the government, which, in the last analysis, is the rest of us. It would.be pice to see the old-fashioned and once discarded virtue of thrift have another inning at bat until our period of crisis is over. The National Resources Planning Plan-ning Board has declared that after the war we must see to it that our national income does not drop below be-low one hundred billion dollars, 1940 valuation. This is laudable indeed, in-deed, and entirely feasible providing provid-ing too large a share of the national na-tional wealth does not go to Various Vari-ous pressure groups at the expense ex-pense of the rest of the nation. No one really favors pressure groups. Plainly when too large a share of wealth goes to large corporations, cor-porations, as it used to do, consuming con-suming power of the rest of the country is strictly limited. If too much goes in the form of wages expansion is curtailed. If farmers get too much and labor cannot buy what the farms produce the whole economy is thrown off balance. bal-ance. If the distributors, or middle mid-dle men, take too large a cut the volume of both production and consumption must shrink. Everybody Every-body knows that, yet every one of them, with a thousand minor subdivisions," sub-divisions," have their - vociferous pressure groups trying to get something away from the others. It's like armies with bayonets pointed at each other. Neither" of them dares to 'relax. We . have two extreme schools of thought about the future. One would let nature take its course, depending uoon, "free enterprise" io see us through regardless of whp gets ' bumped. The other would plan bur lives down to the minutest detail with each of us putting our little mitt trustingly hi' the benevolent hand of the state andaUowing ourselves to be gently guided along a flat and uninteresting un-interesting path called "economic security." Anyone trying to suggest a certain cer-tain amount " of, .modification to either school is likely to get about as far without interruptioh as' the business man whOi said to his wife, "Dear,- I'm beginning to feel my new typist " It was no use for him.toaddt later, 'had better A Daily Picture of What's P2S Going on in National Affairs t jutyy WASHINGTON Don't be surprised if Hollywood Hol-lywood opens one of the strongest and strangest. lobbies ever set up in Washington. The film companies are making plans to this effect, and the lobby would not be to influence legislation, but to keep Congress acquainted with the multiple problems of Hollywood. The film industry now ranks, after farming, automobiles and steel, as one of the most important import-ant in the U. S. A. The farm lpbby is all-powerful in Washington. Automobiles and steel are potently represented through the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Manufacturers Association, Asso-ciation, as well as their own private lobbies. But Hollywood so far has let its views percolate perco-late to Congress through glamour girl photos plus Wjjll Hays' peregrinations between New York, Washington and Hollywood. Two years ago, the film moguls -hoped that : the appointment of Wendell Willkie as counsel in the. Senate "Smear" investigation, and later hi 3 chairmanship of 20th Century Fox, would help Hollywood. But today, through no fault of Willkie's, they believe. Col. McCormick's Chicago Tribune attacks at-tacks against Hollywood are motivated as much by his dislike of Willkie as his objection to what he calls "New Deal Propaganda" in Mission to Moscow. That is why film industry leaders want to establish a streamlined, non-political lobby right in the Nation's capitol. CAPITAL CHAFF Quite a few Italian soldiers in Sicily undressed, un-dressed, hid their uniforms, put on overalls and went home to work, to avoid becoming prisoners "....Tom Corcoran, the ex-Brain Truster, is helping help-ing his old friend Mayor Ed Kelly and his ex-J3osa Jesse Jones in a proposed amalgamation of Chicago's Chi-cago's street car lines, buses, (elevated and alleged al-leged subway. . . .Milo Perkins got off to. Mexico this week to be gone until November the first vacation in seven years.... The State Department's Depart-ment's chief of the American Republics Division, blue-blooded conservative Phil Bonsai, thinks "For Whom the Bell Tolls' is entirely suitable for foreign distribution. Paramount censored most of the anti-Franco criticism out of it.... When forthright' ex-assistant secretary of war Louis Johnson got back from India his report was so critical of the British that State Department officials of-ficials scarcely believed" parts of it. But after Ambassador Bill Phillip3 got back from his Indii survey, Undersecretary Sumner Welles told Johnson John-son that pro-British Phillips was in complete agreement. .. .Among other things, Phillips advised ad-vised that Field Marshal Wavell was inadequate to command in Burma. He was subsequently relieved of his military duties. BRITAIN BACKS DOWN It was not generally known, but when Madame Ma-dame Chiang Kai-Shek was in the U. S. A. it ' planned te? present 's her with i gift-of two Liberty ships which she was to christen. Then , suddenly the gift was mysteriously held up. Now, several months later, it has been decided de-cided to present China with the two Liberty ships.. Behind this is one of the most important economic decisions made by the British Empire since the war began the decision to pay Chinese seamen the same wages as British. Inside reason why the two Liberty vessels were Withheld from Madame Chiang was because the Chinese proposed paying British-scale wages to the crews on these ships. This would have meant agitation by 10,000 Chinese seamen on British ships throughout the world. For a time this developed into an embarrassing, embarrass-ing, almost ugly argument. The Chinese government govern-ment felt that it had a right to pay its seamen any wages it wished on the two new Liberty ships we were giving Madame Chiang. But the British, supported by the War Shipping Administration, Admini-stration, opposed. The argument got down to the- very roots of Empire dominance: down to Britannia's rule over the seven seas. For what most people don't realize real-ize is that hundreds of British ships are manned by low-paid Chinese sailors. In peacetimes, Chinese seamen sail on every British merchant ship on the Pacific. Thousands of them ply up and down the Yangtze River, along the China Coast, among the South Sea Islands Is-lands all under British capfVins and the British flag. In wartime, their number has been perhaps per-haps greater, due to the terrific casualties among British seamen. U. S. VS BRITISH SHIPPING ?ne lower wage scale paid to Chinese is one way British shipping has been able to squeeze out American shipping in peacetime; also one reason why American ships have registered under the Panamanian flag. The Jones-LaFollette Act sets up labor standards aboard American registry regis-try ships far superior to those among Chinese crews ort British ship3. So after the last war, the American flag, despite de-spite the greatest shipping tonnage in the world's history, gradually disappeared from the seven seas. But now the British have taken a stepjwhich may mean more equalized wage competition after the war. They, have agreed to pay Chinese seamen sea-men the same scale as British. The British did not make this decision easily. Obviously they recognized the ramifications it would have on the Empire after the war. Sir Arthur Salter negotiated regarding the matter for weeks. Lord Leathers, head of the British Ministry of War Transport, made a special trip to this country. In the end, Prime Minister Churchill himself sat in on the discussions. Finally, the increased wage was agreed to not because of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and her two -stymied Liberty ships, but because of heavy ? Chinese desertions from British ships in Ameri can harbors. After the war, of course, the British can reduce re-duce wages. Also they are still below the Ameri-. can scale. However, economists inside the Government Gov-ernment feel that an important step has been taken toward equalization of American-British ' competition after the war. , (Copyright,-1943, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) |