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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JULY 16. 1944 Editorial For ear transrresslons an multiplied before thee, and our tins testify against as; for oar transgressions trans-gressions are wit us; aad as for our Iniquities, we know them Isaiah 69:12. .'. When thou are nrenarlnr to commit a sin, think not that thou wilt conceal it! there is a God that forbids crimes to be hidden. Tlbuluus. Merry-Go-Round i The Washington England Can Still Take It Once again we have reason to offer Eng land our profound sympathy, and admira tion for her rugged courage. Somehow the British people never look better than when the situation is serious. And certainly Mr. Churchill never appears to such good ad vantage as when in time of stress he ex presses in measured eloquence the angry defiance and determination of the people he has been chosen to lead. Today's flying bomb attacks on England are different, both in purpose and effect from the blitz of 1940-41. And the British pepole'a reaction is different; they are no lax cotiraflreous. but their ansrer seems to be fiercer, perhaps even contemptuous, in spite of the frtghtiui toll 01 tnese roDot attacks. at-tacks. -, For that reason their impatience for a full dfsensaion of the raids and counter- measures was understandable. This time there are no siren warnings, no dog fights, less chance for effective ground fire. The new bombs fly in almost without warning day and night, ram or shine, completely un- predictable. .Londoners naturauy wanwa to know what was being done. Mr. Churchill's speech must have been comforting. The people learned how long 'Hitler's secret weapon has been an open secret se-cret to the Allies. They learned how often Nazi plans had been frustrated or weakened by heavy bombings, first on the robot's testing test-ing grounds, later on launching areas. - They discovered that the flying bomb is an instrument for desperate, wanton, aimless aim-less civilian slaughter largely because Allied air power delayed its use beyond the day of invasion. Civilian deaths in London have been greater than British losses in Normandy Nor-mandy during the same period. Once again the war is a grim reality to London. But now British and Allied arms are across the Channel, and the attacks on London Lon-don are the last blows of a wounded, dying,, but still treacherous- enemy. Mr. Churchill offered no hojte for immediate im-mediate relief from these attacks. He did not minimize their seriousness. Yet Britons Brit-ons know that their military science has devised de-vised a successful defense against every new enemy development thus far. They know that the robot, for all its destructiveness, cannot duck or dodge or shoot back. They have the prime minister's assurance that "everything in human power" is being done. And when Churchill says "we have never failed yet" the British people know that he Sis not spetaking lightly. They proved once that England can take it, and they know t that England can take it again. n Teacher Shortage The National Education Association has reported a teacher shortage of 70,000, the greatest in our history, and has also re vealed that 170,000 teachers were new to the job last year, many of them with msuf- fient training. This situation is serious, but certainly not surprising. It was to be expected that the armed forces would take many teachers, and it has to the number of 100,000 in the past two years. But in the same period about twice that number have left teaching for better paying jobs. Unless something is done, our education system will get only a fraction of them back. , The remedy is apparent. The average teacher's pay has always been such that those who entered the profession had to possess pos-sess a large share of selflessness and ideal-im. ideal-im. Today, with taxes and living costs zooming, teachers have been among the most unfortunate of the wage-frozen white collar TorlcGrs High taxes and high living costs are likely like-ly to continue for some time. So will the teacher shortage, unless salaries, retirement pay and job security are generally improved. Once teachers have tasted of the fruits of a decent living wage, iff going to take more than a red apple to lure them back to the classroom. He's Had Basic Training Rumor persists that President Roosevelt will deliver his acceptance speech from Normandy. Nor-mandy. In such an event, the Democratic convention may have to hustle to get word to him that he has been reclassified 1-A and drafted before he reaches the front Help Wanted A Holyoke. Mass., draft board turned down the plea of a young wife who asked her husband's deferment for an "extreme emergency she wanted to repaper the house, and there was no one else to do the job. If the Holyoke housewife will just be patient, pa-tient, we know of an Austrian paperhanger who has failed in a somewhat more ambitious ambi-tious venture in Germany and, we understand, under-stand, is thinking of returning to his old trade. n wiui iviu c ui If uai trial anhar. Going On in National Affairs ! t I ") CHICAGO Probably no delerata attending wis quaarenniai meeting of Democrats win take time to read them, but if they would brush the dust off the 1935 hearings of Hugo Black's senate lobby- investigating committee, their eyes might bulge a on regaraing me origin or ine current Texas-south era revolt against Roosevelt These senate hearings show pretty clearly that me recent convention iea oy Jesse Jones' nephew naa its origin, not in Austin in 1944, but In the of. flees of Pierre du Pont, John Raskob, Alfred P. Sloan, Joe Pew and Will Clayton In 1936. Actually, the southern revolt began with the famous "grass roots" convention in If aeon, Georgia, In 1936, called by the Southern Committee to Up hold the Constitution" and supposed to represent ousinessmen ana farmers of the South. Secretly. however. It was financed by millionaire Republicans In New York and Wilmington, Del, plus a few weaitny iumnermen ana cotton brokers in Texas. Lamar Fleming, head of the slant Texas cot ton firm of Anderson, Calyton ft Co.. was one 1936 contributor. So, also, was his son. In 1944, Fleming was on the steering committee of the Texas cc vention which rebelled against Roosevelt. Anothei contributor to the Macon grass roots convention was Win Clayton himself. (He also gave $7,500 ts the Liberty League organized by the du Ponts.) After an these Texas contributions were In the bag, however, there still was not enough money to stage the grass roots convention on an impressive scale. So Vance Muse of Houston, sparkplug of the southern committee to uphold the constitution, went to Wilmington and collected 910,000 from Pierre au font ana John Raskob. With this, and various other amounts received from General Motors directors, thev stared a lew- baiting, Negro-baiting rally at Macon, featuring raDDie-rousing speecnes oy Gerald I K. Smith and Governor Gene Talmadge of Georgia, together with pictures placed on the chair of every delegate show, ing Mrs. Roosevelt entering Howard university, a negro college, with two Negro professors. The Macon crass roots ratherlncr alao nrometed .icsse jonea i or presiaent. SENATE INVESTIGATION Vance Muse, who collect tha rfu era! Motors money in 1936, continued to be active mnu ivimw up at tne lexas convention m 1944 as . M At 9 A. . a une ji uie oacxsiage operators against Roosevelt. Questioned bv the sena. commit In iQ-i Muse made it clear that the du Pont-General Motors crowa went in ror rabBie-rouslng at Macon with uiclt cjrea open, nere is pan or um testimony: Senator Black: "Did vmi m tn a u, Ruirnti and talk to him and Mr. du Pont nrmnn?' r- muss: -yes sir. I told them what I wanted me money ror. Senator Schwellenbach: "Aft tha mMHn you received 5O0 from Henry duPont, did you not?' jxlt. muK : t u. Mir. - Sen. Schwellenbach; "anA 1 fWl rm 9 A xrom Aixrea f Sloan or General Motors ? That was after the meeting?" Muse: "Tea. air." Sen. Schwellenbach: "So It mi unuiwni that the dU PontS. If thev did not Innw tha Alm-i- .-4,S M AV A. Via. a. a uuon 01 wiai literature (picturing Mrs. Roosevelt wiui two r egToes ) , aia not disapprove or It, be cause thev contributed another HSAO" Note As a result of rontrihlitlnna tn tha rVtm. mlttee to Uphold the Constitution, the duPonts Gen eral .motors ana wui ciayton found they were con- 1W..AI I -.1 - ... ...... inuuung muirecuy ana witnout tneir Knowledge to two anti-Semitic orpanizationa ment for sedition and on trial for stirring up armed revolt against the United States. Some of the money of the Committee to Uphold the Constitution was paasea on to james True ana Henry Edmunason, both now on trial for sedition. BORING FROM WITHIV The StOrV Of how hi? bmrin its attack on Roosevelt through patriotic, high-sounding names. Is too long to be i.oiu nere. out aunng 1930-30, we du Pont family alone, with Its associates, contributed $356,667 to such organizations aa th Amntnn TtiMn' League, Minute Men, Crusaders. National Economy ico.Kue. ocnuneis or tne KepuDUc, Farmers' Independent Inde-pendent Council, Liberty League, and various Pennsylvania's GOP hoaa .To Paw tha e.. Oil Company,, also contributed $37,260 'to many of uu-se organizations aunng tne same period: and It is significant that two vigorous leaders of the anti-Roosevelt anti-Roosevelt revolt at the Tpyhi rnnvantl. lOll ar paid minions of Republican .Tn Paw To. t va. I ran. chief lobbyist for Sun Oil, and George Heyer of vsiuut? t. sun BUDSiaiary. The camouflaged hftr.ht.ainan Roosevelt got scared even further underground by wic uenaie investigation or 1836, But it never deserted de-serted the thorv that the heat wa Wa m. J. - .at li.t. Aa . " . . s rom witmn tnrougn the Democratic HOW much this had to do with the 1ah Oooa uoia salary orrered to Jim Parley Is his secret However it remains a fact that a n bend of the Coca fVla Rnttlln rnmnami iv cfflces in both New Orlesns and Chicago, is one most raDia nooseveit naters in the country mi ijoiusiana cnairman or tne Byrd-ror- presi-tltrr.t presi-tltrr.t c?mmfttee. NEW ORLEANS PLOT Two frequent meetlnr daces of the Southern revolt were An tone's .famous mstaurant in New Or leans sna Jack Garner's front norch In TTvaJria iTr-. Th-r m-r.-.t h-ve t-rrfflfl Coca r?o jmarl-.- amcntr K 670 r-op!e f Uvalde, judging y ne numoer oi times Jim rariey, went there -on Dusiness". ... At first, the meetlnn at An. tolne's were kept ultra hush-hush, and the boys used w pun tneir nats aown over their races when they went to meet with big Jim Farley's cniei Louisiana associates were L. K. Nicholson imblisher of the one-time liberal New Orleans Times-Picayune. Ralph Nicholson, publisher of the xxew urieans item (wnich Is said to be controlled by the International Power and Paper Comonnyl and, of course. ex-Governor Sam Jones. . . . When Sam Jones was elected on a purre-of-Huey-Lonc' ism ticket he sbolished Hueys system of having delegates to national conventions nicked bv a few bosses, their pockets stuffed with proxies. But lust before Jones went ent of office, he resorted to Kingflsh tactics in the battle a rs Inst FDR. . . . Using the proxy system, he selected hand-nicked delegates to the Chlcaro convention and electors who scretly have boasted that they are pledged to vote against Roosevelt In the electoral college. . . Jones called the meeting .lust before he himself went out of office, fearing that his successor, Gov. Jimmy Davis, might be in FDR's corner. CHICAGO TRIBUNE INVADES SOUTH Before the civil war, chief editorial goader of Abe Lincoln to fight the south was the Chicago Tribune. Later it carried on a Ion crusade for car-pet-bagging and Negro voting. Now Tribune publisher pub-lisher Colonel Bertie McCormlck has become a car pet-bagger In his own right Invasding Louisiana to crusdae against FDR. . . .When Picayune publisher L. K. Nicholson rave a dinner for Mccormiex in New Orleans, the Colonel said: "All Republicans present will please stand." Oout of fifty guests five stood. Continued Col. McCormlck: "Now all those who hate Roosevelt will please stand." Every man In the room stood except Theodore Brent of the Mississippi Shipping Company. (Copyright, 1944 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Shux! What a Trip This Turned Out to Be HAVE A 6OOOT1ME AND KB SURSTO , Be Good "lb my ( . The Chopping Block By Frank C Robertson Forum'n in em WORKER FINDS HIMSELF MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY Editor Herald: In December 1943 I arrived In Provo and February of this year my wife arrived. I had been trans ferred from the Carnegi Illinois Steel Co., in Chicago to the Gen eva Steel Co. here. We had fully resolved to acclimate ourselves and to take root in this fine American community. A few weeks ago we went to register as a prerequisite to the great American privilege of voting and found that in answering our country's call for experienced men to man a new war industry, we had sacrificed our right to vote. The Utah staute requires a full year's residence prior to election. We went to the Utah county attorney at-torney and we were advised that in his opinion we still had legal resi dence In Chicago until residence had been established by law here.l We wrote to the Chicago election commissioners for absentee ballots in time for the national election this fall, but were informed that as we had moved outside of their jurisdiction our registration cards had been cancelled and removed from the file. I could understand a law that would demand a short established residence as a prere quisite to voting in local and state elections, but the law seems unfair un-fair and unconstitutional that deprives de-prives people the right to vote in National elections, when they have not been out of the country in a lifetime. In other words, in attempting to do our bit and serve our country. we have been penalized by being disfranchised and relegated to tne same category as convicts, lunatics, luna-tics, illiterates and immigrants. We are taxed but have no representa tion. We pay our taxes promptly, buy our quota of war bonds, live conservatively and have two sons in the armed forces or this country, yet we are not fit to vote. Why should not we be exempt from tax ation during this period of dis franchisment? Why not remove the obligation of buying war bonds during this time? As our sons are now looked upon as foreigners and foreigners are not taken in tne armed forces. Why, not send them home on a furlough during this period so they could earn the big money that many foreigners are making? Is not the same man president over both Illinois and Utah? This unjust and unconstlutlonal Testing of Cows Required Yhere Milk Being Sold Proyo's health department has sent out official notices to all per sons selling milk within the city limits, calling attention to the provisions of the new milk con trol ordinance, violation of which may lead to court action. Public notice has been made through the press, also, in order that every one concerned may be acquainted with the law. One of the provisions of the ord inance is that every person selling mux, no matter now lltUe, or how much. Is required to obtain a permit from the city board of health. Another Important provision of the new ordinance, which Is also a state regulation. Is that all cows from which milk is sold raw must be free of tuberculosis. Bang's disease and mastitis. Every person wjio keeps a cow and sells milk is supposed to sub mit a written application for a milk permit to the board of health, and also a veterinarian's cer tificate showing that the cows are free from the three disease men tioned. People who buy milk should inquire of the owners of the cow. supplying the milk If the animal has been tested by a veterinarian, vet-erinarian, as required by law. Peo ple who keep a cow ror their own use, should have the animal tested for the protection of their own family. Complaints have been registered by milk producers, that there Is a great deal of raw milk from un tested cows sold in local neighborhoods neighbor-hoods at a low price, hauled around In fruit jars. In 10 years, entrants In an annual hole-ln-one golf tourna ment fired 80,380 shots and scored only four aces. statute should be removed from the records of this state. W. LISCOMB 670 North. Royal Circle, Provo Utah. Editor's Note: Thirty-two states including Illinois require one year's residence as a qualification ror vot ing. Five states require two years. Nine states require only six months. and one, Maine, requires only three months. Absentee voter laws have been passed to handle situations or this una. OETAIL f OR TODAY Brick la Nsvy and Coast Guard lingo, a BRICK Is an unattractive apd muscular type of female. Invari-ably Invari-ably she is a patriotic sort of individual indi-vidual who wants to help make some lonely serviceman forget his loneliness but only succeeds tn making him wish all the more that he were back home with his favorite girl or even back out at sea. Sailors who frequent the USO's or social gatherings sometimes some-times find themselves In the middle mid-dle of a dance floor with a BRICK. In most cases, they were dragged out there before they knew what was going on. Fortunately, BRICKS are not numerous and their good intentions can usually be- evaded with a tactful excuse such as, "I was wounded in 'battle and am looking lor a doctor Do you mind sitting, this, one out?" Qs and As Q What historic monument! confronted the Germans at Wilno, Poland? A A tablet which on one aide reads, "Napoleon Bonparte passed this way in 1812 with 40.-000 men,' and on the other aide, "Napoleon Bonaparte passed this way in 181X with 9000 men." Q What is the Navy's landing craft fleet goal? A 100,000. They're being built at 74 shipyards, and nearly 00,000 have been turned out. Q How many men have been classified 4-F? A 4,217,000. Q How are divorces obtained in the Soviet? A Formerly by mere declaration, declar-ation, but recently the law was changed to require court sanctions, extended only with good reasons. Price 2000 rubles, raised from 500. Q What is the world's record rainfall for one day? A At Bagqulo, P. I., a typhoon brought a 46-inch fall In 24 hours July 14-15, 1911. Son Francisco Blood Sold to Highest Bidder :. :'Ji!l!i!)i!!Ni!- m$ -TT - . - -,'.'-ai1. . I;, ... 0 , 14 Robertsoa we (fit A TtUphoto) nanlta every form of pubtte appeal. San Francisco patriots have never stormed the doors of the Red Croia btood tonkhoto)to attempVto aive their bloodier Ametleaojhtlng ?M kvrONMsi photo) opened a blood bank aad offered 94 a pint for the lUe-restorlng plasma . . . wen, taoonwr (hat was a dtflctent matter caUrclx. For sheer stamina It's hard to beat the Chinese. Time and again during the past eight years of war they have been on the verge of national destruction, but always some latent heritage from their centuries of patient endurance has enabled them to resist when they had nothing to resist with except their will to hang on. They are now learning how to dish it out as well as take it When their armies are beaten and surrounded and there is nothing left except to surrender, they attack. There is this difference between them and their enemies. When the Japanese find t h e m- selves 1 p a hopeless spot they recklessly throw away their Uvea, often by sui cide. The Chinese Chi-nese fight on. We are only coming to appreciate ap-preciate the ancient civilisation civ-ilisation and deep philosophy of this race. Within the memory of most of us the chinaman was only "the heathen Chi- iee." About all we knew of them was that had to send missionaries to try to save their souls, that they thought an white people were "foreign devus," who should be Mlled whenever possible: that their women were forced to bind their feet, and were slaves; that the men all used opium, and that tneir met consisted of rice, birds' nests, rotten eggs, and rats. we admitted a few of them to our shores because our pioneer tycoons had need for cheap labor, and we persecuted and abused them after they came here, and insulted them as a nation by forbidding for-bidding Chinese Immlrration. One of the darker pages of our nistory nas to do with the Chi' nese. Almost as soon as the first of them landed In San Francisco during the gold rush they were brutally murdered, robbed and beaten by such early day or ganlxed gangsters as "the Sydney tracks." When they laboriously worked over the abandoned placer plac-er claims of profligate American prospectors it was thought no crime at an to shoot them down, or torture them for their money. it is said that on one occasion group of American cowboys being be-ing pursued by Indians thought it would be a good joke to. dismount dis-mount their Chinese cook in the path of the Indians. Later indications indi-cations were that the young Indians In-dians had used the poor Chinaman as a mount and spurred him until he dropped from exhaustion, and then murdered him. When I was a lad I had a mor bid fear of Indians and China' men. One of the finest of jokes, according to the young hoodlums whom I heard talk was to slip up and cut the que off a Chinman. who was thereupon supposedly set upon and beaten by his fellow countrymen because without his pig-tail his body became a habi tation for devils. Upon the rare occasions when I was permitted to go to town I gazed with awe at these Celes tials padding about on their slip pered reet with their shirt-tails outside their -trousers. Whenever Chinamen were mentioned som-body som-body always had to relate the standard joke about the China man replying to his white neigh bor's greeting, "Belly cold this moaning, belly cold." To which the white master of repartee responded, re-sponded, "Well, tuck in your shirt-tall shirt-tall you darn fool, and your belly won't be cold." The yarn never failed to bring loud guffaws of appreciative laughter. I used to be permitted to ride the big four-horse wagons haul ing wheat from the rim rock ranches down to the steamboat docks on the Snake river In eastern east-ern Washington. On the way we passed a big orchard operated, by Chinamen. I used to be rright-ened rright-ened as I saw these plgtalled men walking around with long, sharp- S in ted iron rods in their hands, tey were used, I learned later, to kill rattlesnakes. Then one day a venerable Chinaman stopped our wagon and asked my father If I wouldn't like some fruit. He loaded vme down with luscious peaches and apples, and Invited ma to help myself whenever passing by. My prejudice against Chinamen China-men began to wane from that day. Once, when I was a serious-minded serious-minded young blanket stiff (migratory (mi-gratory worker to you) I happen ed to show my Socialist red card in a Chinese restaurant. The old camese proprietor looked over my shoulder and remarked, "Me Socialist, too." I had a -number of long talks with him over many a cup of free coffee and "plecee pile." He was a follower of Dr. 8un Tat Sen, the famed father of the Chines Republic. He knew far more about the doc-trtnes doc-trtnes of Karl Marx than I did. and in those days I thought of myself as a rising young political economist. And now the Chinese are our "valiant, comrades in arms," accepted ac-cepted freely as one of our three great antes. We do everything we can to honor them, and the Generalissimo, and the "Ulssimo." We have even repealed the ob-noieus ob-noieus law which had been a Standing insult to a great people these many years; AU of which reminds me of my text for this Sunday's discourse: If we were so dead wrong in our fixation that the Chinese were aa inferior people does It not behoove us to go a little easy on our passkmat belief that we are so superior ta various ether races. creeds, and aatlosa? Desk Chat From the Provo Office of Price Administration comes this interesting inter-esting bit about the necessity of rationing. "Many of us have felt that gaso line rationing is unnecessary. They don t have gasoline rationing in Mexico, and here's what has happened. hap-pened. Reynosa, Mexico, has been gasless for several days. Monterey a tourist and industrial center, is also gasless, and officials say that gasoline shipped there has been bought by private individuals, a practice which Is creating a huge black market." "With an our war activity, with Increased use of gasoline by the military, most of us can still get enough gasoline to get us to and from our place of business, and on an occasional picnic. You may not like gasoline rationing, but you'd probably be walking by now, or paying fantastic prices for gas, if it weren't for rationing. "Make ' no mistake, there Is a real shortage of gasoline. The truth is, we've about reached our maximum crude oil productive capacity. ca-pacity. More and more easollne is being needed by the military and we simply must conserve our lim ited civilian supply. Join a car pool. You'll be riding longer and oftener If you do. Share your gas with others." ENGLISH AS IS I sen da my Tony to da school. to learna Mexican, So when 'ees grow up beeg 'ee be gooda beesness man. I like not da words 'ee learn eet ees not right, I theenk To calls boy and man da prune. da feesh, da guy, da gink. le calla, too, da woman, bird sometimes eheeken, hen. I getta sore, I ten heem use no foola word again. Den Tony 'ee looka eenocent, but speaks like da man "You poora nut, da words I learn is rmr MarlRan!" ANSWERING CURIOUS CTNIO . . . he can, who thinks, he can. . . And on the other hand, soma men need monuments to perpetuate per-petuate their memory. . . . beware of the snide politician politi-cian who pretends to offer you the horn of plenty. . . . the man who does not real currently popular books has ne advantage over the man who cant read them. CHALLENGE You Who like To spend a day Occasionally Wandering about In the hills Or along the banks Of a mountain stream- Have you ever Come upon young trees That were crooked And twisted Near the roots But as they grew High enoug to get the light Became straight and sturdy? These trees Are like our Boys and girls Here and there We come upon Young men and women Who have been handicapped By poor environment They are growing up. ... Crooked. This, then. Is America's Greatest problem. With the proper guidance At home. In our schools. In our churches These youngsters of -today Would grow straight and sturdy. This Is YOUR problem And MINE. What are YOU doing To help them Become better Americans? IT IS AXIOMATIC" THAT if you really like people, they wfll like you. NECESSITY toa harsh teacher. The class was studying magnetism, mag-netism, and the TSgt. asked: "How many natural magnets are there?" "Two, sir," promptly answered the recruit. "Win you pleas name them? "Blonds and brunettes, sir." EVENTIDE Age does not matter-It's matter-It's not so bad When one Is old Because, surely One lias learned To tell the dross From gold. - Age means tranquility That one has Learned Peace So when you grow old, Do not fret-When fret-When there Is No anticipation There is no regret. Young people feel That it's sorrowful To watch Youth Slip away They think We should cling Tenaciously To the ringer Of Day. Night time brings despair. .... It's the middle son Twilight That's so hard TO bear. Ban bearing have been mad so small that they can replace jewels in watch movements. Evert Duychlnck, of . Holland. ae tn tint stained rlass ta Ascrica oa aaocg Xalaad ia 1633. |