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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. SUNDAY. JULY 9. 1944 ! Editorial . . Then I uw that wisdom excelleth folly, i far aa light excplletk darkness Ecclealaatee 2:1. A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. Sir W. Temple. Doubling in Diplomacy Two London newspapers, The Times and Lord Beaverbrook's Express, have been moved to editorials of enthusiastic and rather remarkable praise by the American 'capture of Cherbourg. The cautious and conservative Times quite bubbles over, while the Express hastens to refute any suggestion sugges-tion that the American part in the invasion Jia hn nlaved un undulv. "Suggestions have been made," the Ex-Dress Ex-Dress editorial says, "that American armies ra mtttincr mnre than their due credit in this year. Nothing more ungenerous could be said or written. Americans have proved themselves to be a race of great fighters in fho vorv front rank of men at arms." Says The Times, "While every section of the Allied force made its contribution, tne most immediate credit is due the gallant American troops who have driven a path up to some of the most formidable prepared positions in Europe and smashed, their way into Cherbourg with unsurpassable dash and vigor." These well-deserved appreciations undoubtedly un-doubtedly reflect the popular sentiment. They sound spontaneous as well as sincere, in contrast to official statements which sometimes seem to spring from a sense of diplomatic etiquette as well as from the heart. . . x The American GI isn't alone in the successful suc-cessful accomplishment of this added task. The average Englishman's admiration of him is reciprocated over here by our high regard for the British soldier. Relations among the governments of the fighting Allies, while good, haven't always al-ways been a honeymoon. Plain Main Street citizens of all these countries, too, have been confused and disappointed at times by the policies of Washington, Downing Street, the Kremlin or Chungking. But they just can't be distrustful or jealous of the heroes of Guadalcanal and Stalingrad and Alamein. ' The men who do the fighting, one sus-.pects, sus-.pects, are doing more than all the diplomats and heads of governments, to weld the spirit of allied peoples into a common bond of purpose, pur-pose, understanding and trust. And up to now, they seem to be doing as well as the diplomats in solging the touchy problem of French friendship and co-operation. Radar and Reticence Rushing in where angels fear to tread, we are so bold as to take issue with Dr. Irving Langmuir, distinguished American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, on a rather misleading mis-leading statement. In press quotations of a recent speech of Tii- T -ano-minr there is a charcre that this R country fails to recognize, and occasionally penalizes, incentive in scientuic aeveiop-ment. aeveiop-ment. By way of illustration he notes that "Prime Minister Churchill has mentioned the great part played by radar in the war, but no official of our government has offered of-fered a word on such scientific accomplishments." accomplish-ments." Perhaps Dr. Langmuir failed to see the numerous American news stories and advertisements ad-vertisements extolling and partially explaining explain-ing radar, which were shut off some time ago by military censorship for security reasons. reas-ons. But surely he knows that, incentive or not, radar was a development of U. S. Navy scientists. And though our officials may not have talked much about it, American radar has proved to be an exceedingly handy gadget. We'll be hearing more about American radar after the war. Meanwhile its actions are speaking eloquently, despite the gag of official reticence. t a. All ( mt?t Tfio Busiest vMan in the Russian Army Bonds and Ballyhoo At a bond rally of the New York Curb Exchange, Fred C. Moffatt, its president, expressed the opinion that "stark reports from the battle fronts" rather than "theatricals" "the-atricals" should be the persuasive factor in the sale of War Bonds. Many wiy agree with him. There is certainly cer-tainly a great deal of incongruity in bond-selling bond-selling promotion, ranging from the theme of warts full tragedy and horror to such ballyhoo as three-way big league ball games and glorified bank-night auctions. The treasury department is known to deplore de-plore the bad taste of some bond-selling methods. Its own campaign for advertisers is invariably dignified, and it still believes that individual solicitation is the most potent po-tent sales method. . But the treasury knows that different people need different kinds of persuasion to make them reach for their pocketbooks. It also knows that though some workers may use an awkward or undignified approach, their patriotism is unquestioned and their results satisfactory. So the treasury hasn't interferred with the different sorts of local or impromptu rallies. After all, the point is to sellWar Bonds. And they are being sold and bought at a rate ahead of the last bond drive. Results still count most. And even tiie most fastidious can find satisfaction in the spectacle of Americans over-subscribing one immense quota after another with higb spirits as well as a knowledge of their serious seri-ous obligations. The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Jones refused administration request that he denounce Texas revolt; some say he's playing long shot to be nominated nomi-nated for vice president; whisperers wonder why FDR has not fired recalcitrant recal-citrant cabinet aide; Jones' power on Capitol Hill as RFC head is said to be the answer. WASHINGTON Inside the cabinet, they are facetiously saying that, for FDR, July is "Jesse Jones Month." Exactly one year ago, the president was confronted with an open, virtriolic row between his vice president and his secretary of commerce which he solved in favor of Jones. Today he has a Southern revolt on his hands wnicn ne nas ioia insiaer ne Diames partly on Jesse Jones. So the question is: What he is going w ho B.OOUI it : ii tne president lets a member of nla own cabinet get away with what looks like open rebellion, rebel-lion, it is a tip-off to the other rebels, and revolt spreads. Already the unhappy whisper Is going rouna uiai "jesse nas sometmng on the president and that the president doesn't dare fire him. The whisperers and some aren't too far from the White House point out that Jesse got away wiin tne aeiays on syntneuc rubber which set back the entire nation, and that he even had the nerve to make a public statement shifting the blame to the president They also point out that the senate banking and currency committee, which privately went into the Jones-Wallace dispute over the board of economic warfare, sided with Wallace and were shocked over some of Jones' delays, especial ly on quinine. They also point out that, privately, the presi dent obviously doesn't like him. and yet, despite Jones' 70 years and the effective manner in which Governor Dewey has ridiculed Roosevelt's "tired old men, Roosevelt keeps him in the cabinet. JONES' POWER ON CAPITOL IOTX The answer probably is that Jones has more power on Capitol Hill than any other cabinet mem ber especially among Southern recalcitrants with whom the president needs to get along. Jones has loaned money to tne constitutents of more congressmen con-gressmen than anyone in history. Just as the one banker in any small town is a potent person, so Jesse Jones, backed by RFC millions, is all-power ful in tne little group of men and politicians who control legislation. For instance, Jesse recently was under fire from Senator Clyde Reed, Republican of Kansas, in regard to claims that he was controlling the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad by not per mltting one group of stockholders to pay up their RFC loan and thus get free of Jones domination. The senate prpbe of the situation was squashed largely by Senator Ed Johnson. Democrat of Colorado, Colo-rado, who quite frequently said: Jesse Jones is the only man who does any favors for us up here on the Hill, and when he wants a favor, I'm going to reciprocate." All of this came to a show-down recently when Jones' close friend and associate. Will Clayton, sent to the White House his resignation as surplus property administrator. Clayton, also from Texas, and longtime assistant secretary of commerce under un-der Jones, had been accused of helping to inspire the Texas anti-Roosevelt revolt through his cotton firm. Anderson. Clayton & Co In resigning. Clayton not only said that he did not know anything about the Texas rebellion, but went further and stated that he considered "un- American" the idea of depriving the people of their vote through reversing their wishes 18. the electoral college The White House, believing in Clayton s sin cerity, did not accept his resignation. The Incident was embarrassing to Jones, how ever, because fl he did not submit his resigna tion, and (2) he did not denounce the Texas revolt. REFUSES TO DISAVOW REVOLT Jones did go to the White House and tell the president that he had known nothing about the Texas matter, but the president later implied to friends that he didn't believe him. adding that George Butler, Jones' nephew, who is chairman of the Texas Democratic executive committee and led the revolt, was attorney for many Jones projects and worked hand in glove with his uncle. At the time .Clayton resigned. Jones had been confined to his bed with an infected kidney. However, How-ever, a high-up member of the Roosevelt administration, admini-stration, who lives in the same hotel with Jones was detailed to go to see him. The emissary, comes from the South, is personally fond of Jones and backed him in last July's show-down with Henryi Wallace. He put up to Jones in substance the following proposition : "While it is conceivable that you didn't know In advance about the Texas anti-Roosevelt revolt, now that you do know about it. will you disavow it? Will you make the same statement Will Clayton made that it is un-American to put on the ticket electors pledged to disregard the wishes of a major ity of the people of their state? Finally, will you urge your friends in Texas to drop their revolt?" It was also believed that, with Jones dominating dominat-ing three radio stations and two newspapers in Houston, the county which led the revolt, he could do a lot to put it in reverse. However, Jones refused. He said he didn't want to meddle in the Texas politic! i?u9ttorv Kn repeated re-peated that he hadn't known anything about it In advance and didn't want to get mixed up in it now. VICE-PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS? Of course. Jesse may change his mind. But as a result of this and other moves by the secretary of commerce, several around the white house are wondering whether Jones is playing a long shot to be the vice presidential nominee. They have not forgotten the balloons he had hidden in the democratic demo-cratic convention hall in Houston during the Al Smith nomination in 1928. Marked "Jesse Jones for president", they caused smiles by breaking loose and floating over the crowd prematurely. Nor have they forgotten Jesse's secret moves to be the vice presidential nominee instead of Wallace at. Chicago in 1940. And as he is strong with the conservative and southern wing of the party, they are convinced that, if tfte coming convention is deadlocked over Wallace, Jesse figures the whole southern revolt could be compromised by putting him up as Roosevelt's Roose-velt's running mate. , It sounds like a long shot. But Jesse has played the long shots ever since he was an over-invested real-estate operator during the depression, desperate to become Herbert Hoover's RFC director. And the long shots have pulled him through. (Copyright 1944. United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) The very existence of the robot bombs is enough to show the danger if the Germans were to be permitted per-mitted to re-arm. Technically this weapon could be perfected, and with thousands of these bombs being fired a day the results might be other than those that can be achieved now. Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelxn Munthe de Morgenstierne. The United States stood at the bedside when Finland was born we gave her life as an independent inde-pendent nation. She is now committing suicide. Sen. Tom Connally of Texas, Foreign Relations chairman. , jr Once News, Now History-Thirty Years Ago From the Flies Of The Provo Herald Of July 9, 1914. Honors came to the Provo band when the crack musical organiza tion was selected to represent Utah at the golden Elks jubilee at Denver. Many Provo Elks were planning to make the trip as delegates del-egates to the national convention. Candidates were nominated by the wards for Pioneer day queen as follows: First ward. Lavern Openshaw; Second, Alene Cluff; Third, Dora Haws': Fourth, Elfreda Jensen; Fifth, Helen Newell; Sixth, Six-th, Norma Poulton; Timpanogos; Amy Meacham; Lake View, Evelyn Madsen, Zetella Goodrich; Pleasant View, Florence Mel drum; Vineyard. Edith Madsen; Sharon. Stella Park. Lilly Burr. Ethel Park; Bonneville. Vera Overlade; Pioneer, Niene Fisher. Chief attraction for the celebration celebra-tion was the horse races, the card in charge of C. F. Westrope, Alva Nelson, Al Cluff and Ed Morgan. Horses had been entered from Og-den, Og-den, Heber. Sprlngville, Spanish Fork, and Provo. The baseball attraction at-traction pitted Provo against the fast Eureka team. The newly constructed Orem line obtained an amendment to its franchise, from the city commission, commis-sion, permitting the new road to haul through Provo at any time, three freight cars one train on Center street during the first five years of the franchise; and from the fifth to the tenth year, two cars: After 10 years it shall be optional with the city commis sion whether any freight cars shall be permitted to be hauled over the principal streets which are designed In the ordinance. The road was permitted to haul during the life of the franchise, in one train, not more than five cars of freight, originating in the city or destined to any point in tne city. between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. of each day. The new Columbia theater (Paramount) had its official gala opening:, featured by the appearance appear-ance of Emma Lucy Gates, re nowned Utah song bird and the Salt Lake tabernacle choir. Among the distinguished guests who oc cupied boxes at the performance were Governor William Spry, and his party; Judge James H. Moyle, candidate for U. S. senator; Hor ace G. Whitney and George T. Odell. Every seat in the theater was sold long before the opening of the performance. The Chopping Block By Frank C Robertson The trouble with farming right now is that the hired help gets so far behind with its fishing. Thai being a condition not to be toler ated they rectify it by taking Urn off right when the hardest work is to be done. Or that is what our boy did when a heavy crop of alfalfa alf-alfa had to be hauled. Right now our pocket edition tractor has gone balky and we find that all the available mechanics are likewise behind on their fishing so we must patiently wait. One thing the fishing season did for me was to demonstrate that I'm still a pretty good man with a pitchfork. Several years ago my doctor advise d me to "lay off the hard work," on account of a temperamental temperamen-tal .heart, and that was advice I loved to take. However, when hay is ready to haul it must be hauled. It took three days to do the job, and to the surprise of everybody, I n-cludlng n-cludlng myself. I held my end against a real ly first class 4$ " 'ft Sohertaaa hay pitcher, and with nn m .fl fects except a set of sore muscles. It's true that I have been working pretty regularly this spring, often long hours, and have got myself in fair condition, despite the fact that I have often been so sore and tired that I couldn't sleep' at night. But here I was up against competition in the form of a a husky young farmer used to hard work. I wasn't as good as I used to be. In my younger days I counted myself pretty much of an artist with a "stick of ignorance." I lacked the old verve and resiliency, but I still had the know how. And that I find, is still the most important im-portant part of any job from using a muck-stick up to being president presi-dent of the United States. In a reecnt Chopping Block it seems that I Inadvertently did an injustice to the Office of Price Administration, Ad-ministration, which I am more than glad to rectify. When applying apply-ing for rubber boots for irrigation purposes I was informed that farmers far-mers were entitled only to knee length boots by OPA regulation, and I so stated in this column. Mr. S. Grover Rich, District Rationing Executive writes me that there Is an exception to this rule, and that farmers may be issued either Type 2 or Type l .boot instead of the Type 4 knee boot. I am happy to report that I now have my new hip boots, which are a necessity in our part of the country. From the remote impressions .1 get out here there seems to be Quite a startliner lack of enthusi. asm for the Republican nominee ror president, Mr. Dewey. There was not too much ardor in the convention con-vention itself. There may be several sev-eral reasons for it, over none of which Mr. Dewey has any control. First, the critical state of the war makes even a presidential campaign seem a bit trivial. Or it may be that the people have de- tAA that th TtnnimrM itvnMtv la inevitable. Certainly there Is no young Loch invar spirit to ait Dewey, which was so evident four years ago in Mr. Willkie's case Thus far the campaign more nearly near-ly parallels the Landon race of eight years ago. except that Mr. Dewey is a baritone. It was known long before the convention that Mr. Dewey would be the nominee. Now there is nothing noth-ing in Mr. Dewey's record which should cause an overwhelming stampede to his banner. His record is good, but certainly not spec tacular, and he has been exceed Ingly chary -in letting the people know where he stood on any important im-portant issue. It was clear that he was in favor of patriotism, religion, re-ligion, and the home, but the spec ific issues were more or less in doubt. There was also the current belief that he was the darling of Mr. Hoover and the Old Guard. As governor of New York he had a better chance to carry that state than anyone else, and without it the Republican party could not hope to win. So. there was nothing in particular to evoke waves of enthusiasm for a man already cer tain to win because of circum stances rather than because of any outstanding accomplishments. That the Republican Moguls are counting more upon the electorate elector-ate voting against Mr. Roosevelt rather than for Mr. Dewey is quite obvious. But it will take rather more enthusiasm than has yet been evoked for Mr. Dewey if he is to win. There is this to be said for Mr. Dewey: there is little that can be used against him. He is not a gay, blithe spirit like Mr. Roosevelt, but neither has he left a long train of petty irritations stored up against him aa our smiling and urbane ur-bane president. If Mr. Dewey is elected it will likely be because of the enemies Mr. Roosevelt has made rather than because of the friends Mr. Dewev has made. Mrs Simpson's famous remark about the young New York Governor will likely be repeated a great many times during this campaign. "You have to really know Tom Dewey in order to dislike him." Tom Dewey still has time to make his position clear, and to win the people. The feeling that he is too egotistical and selfwilled may wane. It is too early to form a fixed Judgement. If all voters were like me there would be a lot of head-scratching before election day. I'm glad the election isn't tomorrow, to-morrow, for I'd have a hard time making up my mind which way to vote. Td probably vote for Roose-' velt from sheer force of habit. Q's and A's Q Where is the world's high est railway? A The Central -Railway ft Peru crosses the Andes at a height of 15,600 feet. Q Whatis a tocsin and a toxic? A A tocsin is an alarm; a toxic is a poison. Q What .disease is the world's greatest single cause of death? A Malaria. Q What Is a parr? A A young salmon. Q What is Japan's secret weapon ? A Disease warfare; the Japs experimented with bubonic in China three years ago, with malaria mala-ria on Bataan; other plans no doubt are in the making. DETAIL FOR TODA Pie Ticket A PJE TICKET is one of many non-existent items used to make the life of a boot more miserable by those who have been in camp for a while and know what it's all about. Ii a new recruit suddenly sud-denly develops a craving for pie, hs is sent to the platoon leader for a PIE TICKET. The platoon leader will invariably send him to the mess hall and from there he will be sent further on his quest for the PIE TICKET. Another favorite is to have a boot keep a lookout for the Mail Buoy or stand Tide Watch. He may also be sent to get an imaginary Hammock Ham-mock Ladder or the Smoke Preventer. Pre-venter. This creates a lot of amusement for everyone but the victim. After going on one of these "wild goose chases," a boot is usually allergic to running errands er-rands for anyone' except the captain. Desk Chat, Editorial Column Here Is a little satire, aimed at the bureaucratic experts who are taxing over tne government de partments in Washington, accord ing to the Springfield. (Mo.) Leader and Press: "I am Mr. Brown, the new agri cultural expert. Here are my credentials." "Ah, yes, Mr. Brown. Harvard man, I see. Now which department depart-ment do you. ..." "I think I would prefer the publicity angle. I have some new ideas I would like to give the farmers.Take, for example, our most delicious berries, the potato and the onion. I think we should plant the trees closer together and prune the branches in the spring, just after the molting season. However, my chief concern and interest is bovine or cows. It has been our practice to t reduce number of useless male cows and this must be discouraged. Such as are produced should be butch ered and made into sausage to re lieve the pork and mutton short age. We have also followed the wasteful practice of feeding our young remale cows a year or more before breaking them to give milk. I think these young fillies should be trained to produce milk within six or eight weeks hafter hatching The whole dairy business needs reorganization. We must teach our dairymen to specialize. The cows in one region should give nothing but milk, those in another nothing but cream, those In a third noth mg out butter and those In a fourth region nothing but cheese We have, however, been very wasteful. No doubt you have read or the breakage of milk bottles, This can be corrected by using larger containers with rubber cushions around the top. We should not blame the cow, for it must be very difficult to sit on those small bottles." "Yes, yes, Mr. Brown; That Is splendid! But excuse me a mo ment I need a little air!" HE'S JUST A DOG Here is a friend who proves his worth Without conceit or pride of birth Let want or plenty play the host. He gets the least and gives the most He's just a dog. He's ever faithful, kind and true He never questions what I do. And whether I may go or stay, He's always ready to obey 'Cause he's a dog. Such meager fare his want sup plies A "hand caress, and from his eyes There beams more love than mor tals know; Meanwhile he wags his tail to snow That he's my dog. He watches me all thru the dav. And no thine coaxes him awav- Ana mm tne nignwong slumber aeon He guards the home wherein I sieep And he's dog. I wonder If TVf.h nnntnf To follow where my master went. Ana wnere ne roae as needs he must Vfould I run after in his dust Like other dogs? How strange It things were quite reversed The man debased, the dog put flrat. I often wonder how 't would be Were he the master 'stead of me And I the dog. A world of deep devotion lies Behind the windows of his eves: Yet love is only half his charm iiea aie to shield my life from harm Yet he's a dog. If dogs were fashioned out of men What breed of dog would I have been? . And would I e'er deserve caress. Or be extolled for faithlessness Like my dog here? As mortals go, how few possess Of courage, trust and faithlessness Enough from which to undertake. Without some borrowed traits, to make A decent dog! Joseph M. Anderson Overheard on the Geneva Bus: She's the kind of girl who makes you forget she has been eating green onions." Crime is like a pair of shoes, we don't pay any attention to them un til tney begin to pinch. Be sure you are rlrhL then. sit down by the side of the road until the procession has a chance to catch up. IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT people peo-ple are far more Interested in what you ARE than in what you were. Individual enterprise does not dictate what you shall do, but it aoes demand that you do some- wing. PUTATIVE PUN: Even If gam- Dung is on tne level, it is probably prob-ably low level. And on the other hand, conversation conver-sation about a surgical operation dates back to Adam. I've got a lot of excellent friends jsut you nave tms singular power pow-er I miss you more In a moment or two Than the rest of them in an hour. Reservoir Holds 74,000 Acre Feet Of Storage 7ater The Deer Creek reservoir In Provo canyon holds 74.000 acre-feet acre-feet of storage water at the present pres-ent time, belonging to the various users who are shareholders In the Provo River Water Users associ ation, it was revealed here Friday. The storage lncluds 22,000 acre feet of water held over from last year, together with approximately 52,000 acre feet stored in the reservoir reser-voir this season. The supply on hand is much greater than was anticipated at the beginning of the season wateruser officials declared. de-clared. The storage also includes 5000 acre feet of Echo reservoir water belonging to the association. It is expected that an apportionment apportion-ment of storage water will be announced an-nounced by the bureau of reclamav tion at a meeting of the board of directors of the association July 15 in Salt Lake City. It was pointed out that present distribution facilities are Inadequate Inade-quate to carry the present volume of storage from the reservoir. When the Provo reservoir canal system enlargement, now under way, is completed two years hence, it is expected that the annual yield of the reservoir can be distributed each year. The work oh the enlargement of the canal has been begun by the contractors, J. E. and R. E. Walk er, of Salt Lake City at Mitchell hollow, northwest of American Fork. Next phase of the contract to be taken up will be the American Amer-ican Fork siphon, and the new siphon in Provo canyon from Provo Pro-vo river to the edge of the bench to replace the present inadequate siphon. CITIZENS OF UTAH COUNTY The Man for Republican Candidate to Congress from the 2nd Congressional District A V V C. ED. LEWIS THE MAN WHO KNOWS THE PRE S E N T AND POST-WAR LEGISLATIVE NEEDS for our service men and their dependents. C. Ed. Lewis is Past Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States saw two years' overseas service himself ... understands under-stands the paramount i5 before Congress today . . . What To Do About the Service Men When the War Is Won. THIS MAN WHO STANDS FOR A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AD-MINISTRATION RATHER THAN THE NEW DEAL! C. Ed. Lewis has the background back-ground and training in business busi-ness administration for a thorough understanding of Business' needs a return to the principles of free enterprise en-terprise upon which our republic re-public was founded. THE MAN WHO BELIEVES IN A SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL for business, labor, and professional workers in all fields. No more bureaucratic controls more efficiency in government govern-ment a reduction of superfluous taxation. Washington the Place-C. Place-C. Ed. Levis the Man Republican Candidate to Congress from the -2nd Congressional District. July 11th Primary (Political Advertisement Paid by Ed M. Rows) |