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Show ttdh PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1944 Editorial Get In the Scrap Now Steel requirements in this war are 55 times greater than in World War No. 1. In the first World War it required 90 lbs of Steel to back each soldier at the front, in this war it requires 5,000 lbs. It takes 20 tons of shipping to land one soldier on an invasion beachhead, and takes a further 5 tons of shipping per month to maintain him. Steel is generally a combination of about half scrap and half pig iron. At the present time the steel mills are using 55 scrap and 45 pig iron. The use of scrap makes a stronger, higher quality steel in less time and with tremendous savings in natural resources. re-sources. In this critical year of the war, it is needless to point out the results of such savings. . . :1 . The desired inventory of scrap is 7y2 million mil-lion toits. When the consumption of scrap exceeds the collection and inventories start to diminish, a critical situation is brought about. In many of the steel producing areas, mills are operating on less than a 10 days supply . of scrap. This explains why the United States Army has been asked to participate par-ticipate in a nation-wide drive to move all dormant material into channels where these vital materials can be processed and fabricated fabri-cated into imolements of war. The most desirable type of scrap remaining remain-ing todav is on the farm, since it is heavy and produces lar.ee tonnages. The farm is actually a mine of metal and only a fraction of the farm scrap has yet been moved. One of the largest problems to date in accomplishing ac-complishing the collection of scrap has been transportation, which had to be arranged through the local scrap committee. The United States army will cooperate in assisting assist-ing the movement of salvage to the pro cessors to be n re pared for shinment to consuming con-suming mills. This, of course, does not mean a pickup on every farm offering scrap. The local committee will designate various points at which the scrap will be accumulated. Upon Up-on accumulation of two or more tons, the county director will advise the war produc-tin produc-tin board, who will request the necessary assistance from the United States Army through the headquarters 9th Service command. com-mand. This is indeed an important year in the war and our nation's history. Any cessation of effort or flow of supplies will not only prolong the conflict but cost an unnecessary loss of life. Certainly the collection of scrap is a vital rart of our war effort, and offers every civilian an opportunity to help in this war. Let's all go out and help win the war! Facts About Coal People are wondering whether the coal industry in-dustry can meet the goal of 620,000,000 tons in 1944, set for it by government officials. Coal men believe it can, provided: First, that there be no more strikes in the coal mines. Second, that the government fully recognizes the mining of coal as a vitally essential war activity by exempting trained mine workers from duty in the armed forces. Those already in the service should be returned re-turned to their regular occupations, as it is today impossible to replace those trained and experienced men. Third, that an adequate ade-quate amount of mechanical operating and safety equipment and supplies be made available to the coal industry. The belief of the coal operators that they can get out the coal needed if given the men and equipment to do so, is strongly buttressed but-tressed by statistics. An estimated 589 million tons were brought above ground in 1943. If the fortv million Inns lnRf fn tha nation through strikes in that year are Qea to tne total actually produced, the re- maicates that production for this year exceed oy nine million tons the of- I set for 1944. r, the coal industry had the fore- fluncn a modernization program e tne war started. Ninety per bituminous coal rrnriiirvH mechanicallv. 40 mechanically thanks t n trio l'nvoof 'f more than $400,000 onn in mr.i,n; perating and safetv twentv wars V w. These are the facts of the "coal crisis." ley show that there will be no serious coal Bnortage it tm industry and the hundreds of millions, of dollars of private savings invested in-vested in it, are allowed to produce to capacity. The Washington Merry-Co-Round By Draw Trmnnm (Col. Robert S. Alton otlvo doty) A Daily Picture of What's Going on in National Affairs WASHINGTON Handsome John Hamilton, ex-GOP national committee chairman, now chief political adviser of Pennsylvania's Joe Pew, had a talk recently with Congress-woman Clare Luce and Elliott Janeway, of Time and Fortune magazine, maga-zine, about the all-important question which absorbs ab-sorbs all Republicans whom to select to defeat FDR. "A day or two before the Republican convention," conven-tion," said Hamilton, "my law partner (George Wharton Pepper, former U. S. senator from Pennsylvania) will call Justice Owen Roberts and ask him to say that his statement to the effect that we would have to sacrifice some of our sovereignty after the war to an international police force was an inadvertence which he did not really mean. After this assurance. Justice Roberts will be the Republican nominee for president." Mrs. Luce, however, did not agree with John. She maintained: "The only man to run against the commander-in-chief is a man who can be classified classi-fied in the public mind as a commander, namely Douglas MacArthur." However, Elliott Janeway went over to the bookshelf, took down Sandburg's "Life of Lincoln," and turned to the page where a New York editor is informed of Lincoln's nomination. "Who is Lincoln?' the editor asked. That's the kind of candidate we've got to have," said Janeway. Jane-way. "Someone who isnt known someone with no flaws or blemishes they can pick holes in." All of which, according to the Democrats, is an illustration of how the Republicans are frantically fran-tically fumbling for a candidate. MBS. ROOSEVELT'S NOSE Nobody seems to know who wrote it, but here is the jingle which spread like wildfire after publication pub-lication of Mrs. Roosevelt's picture rubbing noses with a native Maori woman in New Zealand. "A poor benighted heathen, with a Jungle for a home. Who'd think my fame would spread afar, to lands across the foam ? I wasn't very handsome, I was not very bright; But now they come to see my nose, the island's greatest sight. My nose was once a simple nose, a little flat and bent. But now my nose is not a nose, it is a monument. So, tourists, take your place in line and, for a modest fee. Rub the nose that rubbed the nose of Mrs. Franklin P. A thought has Just occurred to me which I find rather stunning; Since my nose rubbed the Roosevelt noee, will it too keep on i-unning?'' ANZIO ORDNANCE Next Comes the Ta nning sw m :r " vusv Is yf Us w i i The Chopping Block By Frank C. Robertson Desk Chat Listening to several public for ums lately has caused me to have a high regard for my own lack of definite convictions. When I hear lads go out on a limb in irrevocable irrevo-cable defense of some proposition, and get the limb sawed off under them I am thankful for my ability to skip lightly from branch to It s not the first time Provo has won recognition for Its attractive at-tractive girls, but it adds one more voice to the testimonials. This time it's E. V. Durlln speaking in his daily column "On the Side," in the San Francisco Examiner. In his March 1 column col-umn he says: "A Chicago artist who recently visited Blackwell, Okla., says that town has a high- branch and change opinions over-i" vv uumui wu,u night if the evidence seems to;try T naven.t been to Blackwell, justify. I have a fear of the ir-jbut up to now I always thought revocable. Provo, Utah, had the highest When I hear a man solemnly percentage of good looking re aver that half a dozen words Responding Mr. curling-, from the mouth of the President 'compliment, Clayton Jenkins, sec retary of the chamber or commerce com-merce sent him a letter stating "that the only reason why the Chicago artist would make the statement about the Blackwell girls is that he apparently ha never had the privilege ami pleasure plea-sure of seeing the girls at the Brieham Younr university and (.their beautiful neighbors, the town I gins or trovo. Lightnings to London By Bernard W. Crandell Coorrtsat, 1M4, SEA Serrieo. lac has made a sieve of the Federal Constitution and forever destroyed destroy-ed representative government, I wonder what that man will oe able to say a few years from now. The same goes for the men on the opposition op-position who see the Congress only as a group of bad boys willfully trying to handicap the the President. I have done a little debating in my life, and I never engaged engag-ed in one that 1 wasn't pushed into a little more extreme position than 1 really wanted to take. De- rr - 1 I fS" iff J I THE PRICE WENT UP During one of PaderewskTs ; visits to a small town In upstate I New York, he took a stroll along 1 the main street one afternoon. Hearing a piano and following the sound, he came to a house on which there was a sign reading: Miss Brown. Piano lessons 25 cents an hour." Pausing to listen, the great pianist heard the young woman trying to play one of Chopin' nocturnes and not succeeding very well. Paderewski walked up to the house and knocked. Miss Brown Robertson bates can be amusing, but they; came to the door and recognized are seldom a solid basis upon him at once. Dengnted, sne invit' which to form opinions. . Listening to a radio debate re- ( cently on the Japanese-American f question I had the feeling that ed him in and he sat down and played the nocturne as only he could, afterward spending an hour correcting her mistakes. Miss the debaters were pushed a little; Brown thanked him and he de- further than most of them wanted parted. to go. I doubt if the one side Some months later he returned really wished to appear as in-ito the town, and took the same tolerant as they sounded. And if'walk. He soon came to the home it hadn't been a debate prehaps of Miss Brown and, loking at the the other side could have found sign read: some merit in the opposing argu- "Miss Brown (Pupil of Pader-ment. Pader-ment. ewski). Piano lessons $1.00 an This is not to say that one side, hour." R. Ashfield in Tour Life, cannot be right and the other: oOo wrong. it is that fundamental; He naa Deen away rrom camp Principles are often ignored in a on a 24 hour pass, and when he debate for the sake of more im- handed his ticket to the conduc-mediately conduc-mediately effectual repartee, the tor, the conductor said, 'Siey, smart quip or the clever come- buddy, your ticket is for St Louis hni'U ' n nH thin train is on the Kan- Lockheiwl Lightning IVJS's America's most versatile fighter. Originally designed to j in the two debatable subjects i sas" City line." 'nlercept tnemy bombers, it is used also as a dog lighter, ground strafer, tank destroy- jhave just mentioned there is; "Goodn'ss grashush!" answered ;li r, ,.ki ,i ; .. ..m-It UmKn, nni innrr-wtnrr. n k n m-o nK : .k;r. isurclv a ritrht and ft wTiiii? sirieithe befuddled passenjfer, "dosh . i ii ir ill jii'iiiii. I iiiii ill .liL.iirv ifwiiiti .1 1 1 i j iini:-iiiiii:r uiiuiiriauiii, num. c - - . cru mill 11 .T3u.li;; tt- ! " -Pi" ' CHAPTER I A m j6 A Psychic Reciprocity ast month the Japs broadcast to the world the news that spirits of their soldiers killed in Attu had valiantly opposed the American conquest of Kiska. And some day soon these same propagandists are going go-ing to be forced into the reluctant admission that the ghost of the oft-sunk American fleet has returned to raise the devil w ith the imperial navy. Although the problem of supply on the Anzio beachhead has been emphasized, another factor which the public doesn't realize is the problem of' yr all began, so goes the story, ordnance. L , . , Inside that slender fooUiold in Italy, there1 over a"cr-dinncr colic in must be not only kitchens and temporary hospitals Washington. -it was March, 1942 but, even more important, ammunition dUmps and perhaps the darkest month for the repair shops. This is the job of ordnance. A tank Allies in World War II. Bataan was is no good unless it is kept in repair and it is the ,.,.. v . T . To, job of ordnance not only to build tanks, but to tottering; the Japs were m Java train men to go along with them into the field of and Singapore; and in the Atlantic, battle to see that they are kepk running. our shipping was going down at f, ""V "ame 18 U? ,f aU1leuy f nd, every .ther the appalling rate of 300.000 tons type of weapon. That is why the Anzio beachhead X . has to maintain machine shors. repair earaees. Per month- Qur p"38 twin-enained plus a large number of trained ordnance men to keep the weapons at the front operating. All of this has to be done under the terrific hazard of enemy artillery fire, because Nazi big guns are never out of range. Paradoxical fact is that the man responsible for the good job being done by ordnance is a former navy man. He is hardhitting Major General Gen-eral Levin Campbell, chief of ordnance, who graduated grad-uated from Annapolis but later joined the coast artillery and has been in the army ever since. It was Campbell who decentralized ' the some what moribund ordnance department shortly after pressed an eavesdropper as born Pearl Harbor, moving ammunition to St. Louis, 3f weary desperation, or a mis-automotive mis-automotive vehicles to Detroit, safety and security begotten sense of humor: to Chicago, artillery carriages to Rock Island, 111.. "I guess we'll have to fly them and getting things away from Washington where, ' over." as he says "People are always breathing down! The response had come from your neck. , General H H- (Hap) 4 faiLWt?Lf.Ielred ll des .for e i Whether the general was seriously wn rHMHfn7 w ' 12,, " , considering the possibility-or im - - - w t vivmg ait an i (ij ir rocket gun similar to the Germans weapon, it was really General "Hap" Arnold, chief of the air forces, who failed to take action on the airplane rocket gun when its feasibility was proposed several years ago by Arnold's arch-critic, Major Seversky. Actually, the ordnance department has to be guided by what the fighting services want. "They never get credit for the new inventions they develop," de-velop," according to Assistant Secretary of Ware McCloy, "but if they ever miss one, they catch hell." Slilppivg Josses were up In March, 1942, and P-38 fighter planes were not getting to England fn MiTicioit cfiiantUy. It v:as decided to fly them across the Atlantic via Labrador, Ge:nlar.d a .d fo:-lxid-a dating mid nofct jrojcct. Bombers had been flown over but never fighters. This is the story o liow it teas dorse. Lightning fighters and P-39 ',Bell Airacobras, desperately needed by Britain, just weren't getting there in appreciable quantity. The cabinet member turned to his dinner companion and asked a question then uppermost in Capitol Cap-itol minds: "With shipping as it is, how can we get more fighters to England?" The answer would have im- Temporary insanity sounds like a good plea in defense of making an incorrect in-Some in-Some tax report. Presidential candidates will throw their hats into the ring and other folks will dust them off. The black market man does honest workers work-ers instead of honest work, 1 OPA POLITICS . The la3t Iowa Democrat to run for re-election to the U. S. senate, charming Clyde Herring, was defeated partly because the Republicans were in charge of OPA machinery in the state. Though Senator Guy Gillete, after "a period of indecision, has now announced that he will not seek re-election, up until last week he and his cohorts co-horts apparently were taking precautions not to run the same OPA risks as Senator Herring. A staunch Democratic politico has just been placed in charge of all OPA administration not only for Iowa but also for Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota. He is Rae Walters of Harlan, Iowa, a grain and feed merchant. He replaces ex-Congressman McKeough, who recently resigned to become midwest mid-west political leader for the CIO. Walters, former Des Moines OPA district director, dir-ector, doubtless has many excellent qualifications. However, the manner of his appointment was peculiar. OPA regional administrators are supposed sup-posed to be taken from the top of a civil service list. There were fifty-six names on the list, of which seven men at the top were considered qualified. Walters name was well down the list, among the forty-nine considered unqualified because of lack of experience. Among those at the top were Alex Elson, OPA regional attorney and acting administrator for the Chicago region; Frank Marsh, who recently resigned re-signed as deputy administrator for field operations; Michael F. Mulcahy. Chicago OPA district director and the choice of Mayor Kelly. In the past, Chicago has picked the regional administrator because there are 5,000,000 people in the Chicago area and only 2,000,000 in the remainder of the region. However, in this case, someone reached down, took Walters' name from low on the civil service list and put it among the three top men. Tip-off on how this was done may be the fact that Walters is the buddy of Jake More, Democratic chairman for Iowa. They grew up together in the same town. Also, it is significant that Senator! Gillette, not OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, juinouncea waiters' appointment. -IN Oil possibility, as it seemed then of ferrying fighters across the Atlantic Atlan-tic is unimportant. What is important im-portant is that two days later, his phone rang, and the President posed the same question. The general replied that while it had never been done, that was no reason why it couldn't be done, and he'd look into the matter. The world knows today that the seemingly seem-ingly impossible was accomplished. This is the story of how it was accomplished. T IKE so many imaginative enter--L' prises, the plan looked simple and foolproof on paper. Actual planning and execution of the flight was passed down to Brig.-Gen. Brig.-Gen. Frank O'Driscoll Hunter of the then embryonic Eighth Air Force. "Monk," as he was better known, hacf been an ace in the last war, was well known for' his daring dar-ing (which included sporting a truly magnificent black handlebar mustache) and found a task tough enough to be to his liking. Four fighter groups 320 aircraft air-craft were to make the 3000-mile over-water ,hop, via Labrador, Greenland, and Iceland, to the United Kingdom. Half of the planes woula be P-38's, the remaining re-maining 160 F$39's. Auxiliary belly tanks would provide the necessary minimum range of 1000 miles Since the fighters lacked the more intricate navigational devices, B-17 Flying Fortresses would lead them across. Ground crews would be dropped off at points along the route to re-service re-service the fighters when they passed through. All in all, it seemed no more hazardous or sensational sen-sational than a routine crosscountry cross-country flight. But "Monk" Hunter's staff of officers turned up a list of "kinks" that would have to he ironed out before such a mass flight could be undertaken. And some of them couldn't and wouldn't be ironed out until the day man became master over nature. 1 No belly tanks for the P-38's would be available in time. 2. The weather along the proposed pro-posed route was consistently bad, and downright dangerous with the arrival of the "Froehn" winds velocity 750 m. p. h. which swept the Greenland coast every week or so. 3. There was no exist inn sys tem of gathering weather data. 4. Greenland had no radios, and '"fading" in that area' was persistent. 5 Proximity to the North Pole (magnetic) would, it was said, make a fighter's compass spin like a top. 6. Airdromes at Greenland and Labrador were incomplete. 7. Focke-Wulf "Kuner" patrol planes had been frequently seen on reconnaissance over Greenland and Iceland. Added details did not brighten the picture. Officers from Greenland Green-land and Lieut.-Col. Milt Arnold, who had traveled over the proposed pro-posed route by bomber, arrived in Washington. Their reports on the weather were gloomy. Even during the summer months it was bad, they said. Warm air carried north by the Gulf Stream would hit the cold air off Greenland and form overcasts rising as high as 25,000 feet. Bad enough for bombers, suicide for flgliters. Hunter and staff scratched their heads and came up with a plausible plausi-ble solution. Have B-17s take off in advance, fly half the distance of each leg, take weather observations, observa-tions, then radio back to the fighters, fight-ers, ordering them off only if conditions con-ditions permitted. Coast Guard cutters would send in periodic weather reports. Giant PBY fiv ing boats'would be on constant con-stant call for search and rescue work. It was the best that could be done and it seemed good enough. It would have to be, for the plans were going ahead. The fighters had been equipped with British radios, necessary in the particular field of operations where Any violation of the constitution th eng'neer know he'sh on the lis wrong, whether by a president wrong railroad?" or itnvone else. In a quest for pow-j oOo jer both sides stretch the consti- Heard on the Orem bus: Tin a ,tution as far as possible Rnt stickler for etiquette, I am. But jwhen it comes to presenting actu-itell me, does a girl make up be-they be-they would be used. Extra oxygen "vl evidence as to who is guiltv the fore she kisses .or does she kisa i . j i i i j , i , . ? ... . i . niLi. on4 than ivialr im" Lmiuuii uuu Deen installed, per- urunicu icnu iu ureurac a jhuci""1 - f mitting flight at 20,000 feet ridiculous. A preliminary inspection flight Neither can there be any ques-by ques-by Capt. Michael (Flash) Gordon tIon that racial intolerance has showed that but one runway at no Place in our form of demo-Labrador demo-Labrador was fit for use. There crcy. It becomes a question of was parking place for but foul act- then- as to lust what is in-planes; in-planes; space for 80 at one time tolranc and discrimination. The was needed. Radio equipmenl tact and 016 seldom jibe, would have to be installed at the ?ome, of us instictlvely "look Greenland base. But all of thai down "Pon other people, yet u i, ..... swear bv all our cnn tbaf wi .?f!?"-:-.MUve in tolerance0 Out on the calling the speaker a bum. StSe1" " 18 te"p?sple and mora forsome time. jent Jay Japanese.Arnerlcana haveithan likely that the fellow higher The big bugaboo, and it was a not endured anvthing like theiuP is getting paid for something real one, still was the weather. Dersecution the 'Chinese used to'about Job you my not Reports rrew more pessimistic, enrtnr Then nut tho tv. K-ihave taken the trouble to learn. Radio reception in the far north an to hate the Jans,' and the' was garbled, and there was al- Filipinos. And of late years they ways tne possiouity ol misleading i hate the Okies and the Arkies WIT appeals to your mind HUMOR to your state of mind. The man who srets rice pudding fives times a week can understand why the Japanese are so brutal and barbaric. It isn't real propaganda unless you can i answer u except oj A young married matron from Macon weather reports and directions be ing sent out by Nazi reconnais sance planes. oeople with skin as white as their ; Regretted tne step sne naa isxen own. Now they send speakers! For the light of her life out to Utah to encouraee us to Nearly swallowed mi lcniie One day Arnold walked into further hatred of the Japanese of i While inhaling his liver and bacon. American birth. There is even al OVJCZT tendency here to be distrustful ofj ACHTVBVBMENT i the yard-Deople yard-Deople from other states who have!stick by which the world meaa-been meaa-been brought here on defense pro-ures vou . . . jets. AMBBITION is the standard of In reality hatred and. intoler-'measurement only by 3" ance SDrine-s from coward w. Pitv 1 friends. - - - -' the poor devil whose only claim to headquarters at Boiling Field Washington, where Hunter was poring over details of the flight. "Monk," he said, "it looks pretty bad. It's damn near impossible. We may have to pull in our horns." "TCI admit it looks bad," Hunter replied, "but I don't think it could possibly be as bad as that." Arnold turned to Lieut. Cass Hough, one of Hunter's chief aides. "Well, what do you think about it?" "I think it's entirely feasible," Hough replied. Arnold faced Lieut.-Col. John Stone and posed the same question. "Let Cass and me take a couple of P-38's and prove it can be done," Stone requested. Arnold left the building. A couple cou-ple of hours later his decision came back. "All right We'll continue con-tinue the work." T ATE in May the first two fighter groups were ordered to "concentration" "con-centration" areas in New Hampshire Hamp-shire and Maine, where they were readied for the flight. Families were left behind. Strictest secrecy was of the highest possible importance impor-tance General Arnold made that extremely clear. Personnel along the route had put two and two together, to-gether, but the secret seemed well-kept. well-kept. Seemed but shortly before the first groups were due to take off on the first leg of the epic-making epic-making trip, a journalistic bombshell bomb-shell exploded right in their laps. A national news magazine published pub-lished a story which spread to the corners of tfce world almost complete com-plete details of the impending flight! NEXT: Crash Landing Q's and A's q What is the northernmost city in the world? A Hammeffest, Norway. O Who was the first ball play er to establish the modern record. several time ; tied, of four suc- oacivA home runs In one eame? Morale in the Chicago office was shot: & tta rielehantv. Boston Q a ramH nr.i. . . -..cmt. Kl waiters appointment, xiowever, ne Braves scciin io worn at y:ou a. m. ana seems to be making things move. (Copyright, 1944. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) O What Biblical characters would correspond to: (1) Baron Munchausen; (2) Pierre Laval; (3) Abraham Lincoln? A (1) Ananias, (2) Judas Is-cariot, Is-cariot, (3) Moses. Q Can you think of any common com-mon outdoor sport, except golf, in which low score wins? A The only other common one is the cross country race, in which the scoring is by teams, and points are imposed as penalties. Hopkins in Clinic For a Check-Up ROCHESTER, Minn., March 11 friend and adviser to President Roosevelt, was in the Mayo clinic Friday for a physical examination following an influenza attack suf fered this winter. "Hopkins is very tired and Is here for a very brief check," ac cording to Dr. A. B. Rivers, physician phy-sician who cared for Hopkins last year when he suffered a stomach disorder. Rivers said Hopkins contracted con-tracted influenza after the Quebec conference and had been resting at .Miami Beacn. He flew here in an army bomber, arriving last night. New type flying gocrrles made for the Army and Navy permits observers to look directly at the (UJi) Harry I Hopkins, close sun and spot enemy plane. fame is the color of his skin. Racial rrpstlp- moana a lnt tr.1 him. It is a regretable fact that too often it is the loud-mouths who achieve leadership in government. Brass, noise, and sonorous nhrases often pass as brains. That is the excuse usually given by those who advocate more power for the executive exe-cutive branch of the government. But it is yet to be shown that the Domnous little men who get Dower through executive apDointment are one whit better than the burly bur-ly demagogues who get elected by rantinsr about their love for the dear "oeepul." A certain percent of each class is sure to get into power, but fortunately for us there is still some elasticity in' our form of government. More than one little bureaucrat has quit under fire when the guns of the Truman or some other investigating committee commit-tee has been turned upon him. And the people themselves are constantly rejecting the loudmouths loud-mouths and the braggarts at the polls. Of course others as bad are frequently elected to take their places, but in general we manage to get a pretty good set of honest and able representatives Lin our legislative assemblies It may be just a sailor's line. . . "I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you." OZARK 'ZEKE He was quite An easy-going guy Jes' wouldn't work An' I'll tell you why 'Cause he had the knack Of gitten' by Had Ozark 'Zeke Lived on a 40 Back b' the hill On land too poor to till So he piddled around With an illicit still Did Ozark Zek Old log house Kept in a terrible muss Never tidied up Too much of a fuss But really a friendly Sort o' cuss Was Ozark 'Zeke (this really should have Another An-other verse . . . will you help me write it?) OOO One reason songs that make the see where we would be if we had!hit Paradf dle ut i a,e the "strong" government some of , - .u. lesson in our native fnnHsta re HamorinP- lrrlnS' uofcenmg w for. No matter how wicked or In efficient an official might be we would be stuck with him so long up. There mis-nt De this for some of the paying commercials com-mercials which try to force vita as he could currv the favor with min Plus aown "l" Puuuc the dictator. Theoretically the office should seek the man, but it seldom happens hap-pens that way. A distinct class known as politicians make it a life business to seek office. When we think of politicians we think of craftiness rather than high moral purpose, and not without reason. Yet it may be that historv will adjudge two of the cleverest politicians we have ever had to be the greatest presidents we have ever had: Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In intellec tual stature neither, perhaps, could measure up to Thomas Jefferson. Jef-ferson. Yet each met and measured mea-sured up to a great crisis. Even Jefferson might not have done so well. Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile: as chic as an expensive fur coat and anklets. EX-WIFE ABSOLVED IN OGDEN SLAYING OGDEN, Utah March 11 C Carmita Conn Sanchez, 23. Ogden. today was absolved iof blame in the death of her former husband, Ernest John Sanchez, 25, air craft inspector. Sanchez was fatally wounded during a scuffle with Ma former wife in her trailer home Wednesday. Wednes-day. A coroner's jury said that the victim died of a gunshot wound "inflicted by himself" during th scuffle. |