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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1944 Editorial :m . The betting treasures by a lying tongue 1 sv vanity tossed te and fre of them that seek death. FroverDa ziie. Sin had many tools, but a Ue la the handle which fit them all. Holmes the Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Kctnre of What a Going On in National Affairs Br Draw Stoma (Oat. atn a. an Army Burns 7,000 surplus uniforms that naa rorcea in warehouse ; In contrast, FEA remakes worn-out battle irarb for US hv UNRRA;-political pledge by Raybourn turns nouse prooe into a witch hunt; Butchers, neon makers, typify small-business reconversion recon-version problem. were heaped into burned. a big pile by the military and the Longest Fight The second World War is five years old. At dawn on Sept. 1, 1939, the German arm ies marched into Poland. Today the weary remnants and replacements of those armies ova hainep tnrnaA hoV fVirnutrVi PnlnnH tru wnrrl th samp borders which the Nazi in-' WASHINGTON Camp Lee, Va., recently ward tne same Doraers wnicn ine iazi in (wltneMd one of t uUBUal tontirta in the vaders crossed so confidently five years ago. i history of this war. when 7,ooo fate uniforms Urjjanizeu nosuiiues in ruiauu utaieu vmy io days. But the Poles never stopped fight-mo;. fight-mo;. Even before the capitulation, the late General' Sikorski succeeded in forming an army of 80,000 in France to carry on the battle. And at home guerrilla units were or ganizing which eventually became the un derground armyof 250,000 that now, after five years of stealthy, weak resistance, is striking a strong and open blow against the oppressor. The Polish forces outside of Poland have fought unceasingly for the victory that is now in sight. They went through the battle of France in 1940, and were the first men into Narvik in the ill-fated mvasion of Norway. Nor-way. Another army was organized among released prisoners in Russia. Seventy-five thousand men were transferred to the Mid dle East. 'These fought through the Libyan campaign and are now aiding the advance in Italy. Another 80,000 are fighting with the Red Army. The Polish navy was at Dunkirk and Dieppe. Its small force of warships participated par-ticipated in the Bismarck attack, and in Atlantic and Mediterranean operations. And Polish merchantmen have sailed all the world's oceans in Allied convoys. The 12,000 men of Poland's air force have flown more than 7000 sorties, dropping al most 8000 tons of bombs and destroying or damafirimr UDwards of 1000 enemy aircraft. In the cast five years Poland has lost al most one-fifth of her prewar population 6,600,000 killed in battle or by torture, pn vation and disease. Yet the most brutal pun ishment that Nazi sadism could devise hs not been able to weaken Poland's hope, or kill her resistance. Poland's contribution to victory may seem small when compared with the armies and industrial misrht of America or Britain or Russia. But Poland's contribution of spirit and courage has been very great. Without this examnie. and . its later reflection in England, France and Norway, in Greece and Yugoslavia and Jtussia, ireeaom in j&u They were burned because it waa claim tfc uniforms had become a fire hazard. Thv ht Kmh tying; unused In a warehouse for so long that, ac- tonuiig 10 iap. ueorge Howson, the dye In the green nemngDone twill Jackets made a chemical reaction wiui a solution put on the uniforms to protect against poison gas. This cause the uniforms 10 roc They had been stacked on top of each other for a long time as surplus. Furthermore, it is estimated that 100,000 other pieces of fatigue clothing are in uie mow conoiuon. In contrast, far-sighted Foreign Economic Ad mnusiraior ieo Crowley has pioneered a unique system of saving old army uniforms. He has been remaxing uiem Into clothinr for th rHf of European civilians In the liberated countries. During the early nart of the war th rmv brought back from overseas tons of old field packets, worn-out socks, shirts spattered with mud and blood, but them in bales and sold them as rags on the junk market Now instead Crowley is taking over these discarded uniforms and has iransiormea a park avenue skating rink into a second-hand clothes factory where he ma.lr nw clothes out of old. A pair of socks worn out at the heel are trans. formed into wristlets. Two discarded and tnm shirts are put together into one. A field packet with Rrm anoi oil u made Into a vest These reoum ciotnes are then turned over to UNRRA for distribution in the liberated countries and Rus sia, formerly, ciouiea were nurrhiuH v tnmni ' . ; . J wicuvt a mucn greater cost to the taxpayer SACRED POLITICAL, PLEDGE Among speaker Sam Rayburn's cronies in tne nouse of representatives, a political pledge is as binding as a death-bed promise. Or at least Sam himself regards it If he didn't the make-up of the present nouse committee nroDlnr eunfti m penditures might be different. When the committee was beinir annotated fair. minded Rep. Clinton Anderson. New Mexican Democrat, asked Rayburn not to put him on the committee, as chairman unless he ra working majority. I am not going to conduct a witch-hunting probe." the tall New Mexican told Rayburn. "This has got to be a fair and impartial inquiry. And it can't if you appoint Gathings, reactionary Arkansas Ar-kansas Democrat, who will work hand in glove wim in JiepuDiicajis. "Yah, Und Den It Happenc d, Dot's All" h'-mmm Mmm stJlMf L 2 JkaXifteg LaUCL3UlUU V H LSUA fLLUSUl First Biography of America's Great General iCwrrtsst. 1M4, Ass WooswrS Mllleri PiriaS. BE aemff. isc "I promised Gene Cox of Georeia Td atmoint Gathings to that committee." Rayburn renlied. "but rore could not have survived to see impen-jI'H ask Gene if he won't release me from the Hcwever, dine victory. Now that victory is in sight, at the end of five vears of ar, it is proper that we should long remember and hail the nation (home which has fought the longest, and suffered the most. the reactionary Cox. knowing what Rayburn wanted, suddenly disappeared.' He didn't come around the capitol and couldn't" be found at So Rayburn, to whom a promise Is sacred and who is one of Cox's best friends, felt he could not keep Congressman Gathings off the committee without a release from Cox. Even when Anderson came to Rayburn and told him the room in th jWardman Park hotel where Cox was hiding out, the 'speaker declined to act The resignation of Charles E L Wilson .from' ea, fffi SS5 the Vice chairmanship Of WPB, and the of Anderson, gave him a lecture. statement that accompanied it, reveal symp- ow. if i put you on this committee.- he said. Recurring Symptoms "it's got to be understood that you're not going to vpte with the Republicans. It's got to be understood un-derstood that, on matters of procedure, you must vote with the Democrats. On matters of detailed fact, naturally, your conscience will be your The malady is likely to afflict the most slT A. toms of a distressing malady that has been cropping up periodically in Washington since the war started. Some people call it "Po- X ' winac icv ex. "ITALIANS! BE PREPARED!" XXIV C ICILY to Eisenhower was but a stepping stone. He began to work harder than ever there was no let-down. I lis eyes were now on the mainland of Italy, just across the strait, and the ultimate ulti-mate conquest of Europe. He set about making Sicily a great supply sup-ply base for the next invasion. Shiploads of men, munitions, and supplies poured in from North Africa. Day and night the Allied Al-lied bombers raided the Italian coast from the tip of the boot to the outskirts of Home. "We're phiying in the big leagues now," General Eisenhower Eisenhow-er exclaimed. "You can't hit a home run by bunting. 5fou have to step up there and take your cut The time has come to discontinue dis-continue nibbling at islands and hit the Germans where it hurts. I . don't believe in fighting battles bat-tles to chase someone out of somewhere. some-where. Our object is to trap and smash the enemy." While subduing Sicily, the Allies Al-lies began an all-out air offensive against the Italian mainland which left that nation reeling. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill on July 16 sent this message to the Italian people: "The time has now come for you, the Italian people, to consult your own desire for a restoration of national dignity, security, and peace. The time has come for you to decide whether wheth-er Italians shall die for Mussolini Musso-lini and Hitler or live for Italy and civilization." The appeal was punctuated by the roar oi Allied planes over Italy, but they did not carry bombs they bombarded ltaiy with this message in printed leaflets. leaf-lets. The following day the Heaviest Allied force ever to raid the Italian mainland smashed at Naples. Three days passed without with-out any apparent reaction in Italy. On July 19 the Allies struck at the Italian capital at Rome. General Eisenhower was demanding de-manding his answer. After Eix more days of terrific bombing, on July 25, 1943, the answer came, and it astounded the world. Mussolini has alien TTISENHOWER had driven Mus-solini Mus-solini from power after 21 years of ruthless dictatorship. An exultant world received the news. It was revealed that in a dramatic dra-matic meeting with King Victor Emmanuel in Rome, Mussolini had been voted down by his own Fascist Grand Council through opposition op-position led by his son-in-law, Count Ciano (who, later, upon the demand of his own father-in-law, was put to death before a firing squad in Germany). The fallen dictator was neld prisoner in protective pro-tective custody. Italy hailed "the end of the painful nightmare that has dominated domi-nated our lives for the past 20 years." Demonstrations sprang up spontaneously everywhere, and anti-German sentiment ran high as crowds cried for a peace. Thousands Thou-sands of Italian workers stormed the plant of the Fascist '"Popolo d'ltalia," Mussolini's official newspaper, news-paper, in Milan and laid it in ruins. rTTHE fall of Mussolini caused the expectation of surrender to mount high. General Eisenhower granted Italy a reprieve irom incessant in-cessant Dombing in cder to give the new 3adoglio government an opportunity iw surrender. Bado-t Bado-t lio. to reasons of national pride jnd .ack of military strength, did no i take advantage of the opportunity. op-portunity. General Eisenhower put the issue squarely to the Italians on July 31: Italians! Tonight we send . a solemn warning. Listen care fully, and tell your friends to listen, for what we say affects the lives of every one of you. "Six days have passed since the overthrow of Mussolini. In those six days the Italian people have achieved mucn. But while you were working for your liberation, the Germans, too, were busy. When they first heard the news of Mussolini's downfall, the Germans Ger-mans were stunned. They iteid to themselves, 'We Germans in Italy are caught like rats, in a trap if Badoglio makes peace immediately.' immedi-ately.' But since then, day by day, they watched the inactivity of the Badoglio government You know better than we what has happened. There has been no sign of German withdrawal. ... "Italians! You know that on July 25 we let up on the aerial bombardment of Italy. We hoped thereby to give Italy a breathing space wherein to unite for peace and freedom. But the Germans, too, have used that breathing space to strengthen their own position, po-sition, and for that, full and sole responsibility rests with the new government in Rome. . . . "Italians! We cannot tolerate this, and we issue you this solemn warning; the breathing space has ended. Be prepared!" Riots approaching revolution broke out in northern Italy. Soldiers Sol-diers joined civilians in demanding demand-ing the immediate overthrow of Badoglio. They demanded peace. Underground radio stations broadcast appeals to the people to refuse to co-operate with-the Badoglio government and begin organized resistance. Italy was in turmoil. Badoglio had to declare de-clare martitl law and militarize the railroads and highways and communication lines. In Milan, the Cellari jail was stormed and 200 prisoners of the Fascist government gov-ernment were released. The whereabouts of Mussolini was mystery. President Roosevelt Roose-velt i st' led a warning to all neutral neu-tral countries to the effect that anyone offering asylum to Hitler or Mussolini or the Japanese w r criminals was committing an unfriendly un-friendly act against the Allies. NEXT: Italy Surrender- The Chopping Block The main subject of debate this week judging from the papers, la that of "good" versus bad" Germans. Advocates of a soft aa against a tough peace are busily pointing out that the average German is a fine man, and that after the war and all the horrors are due solely to the Nazis. Destroy De-stroy Nazism say these people, and give the- good Germans a chance to build up a powerful and useful Germany in an association of nations. It grieves me deeply to have to take the seemingly cruel, intolerant intoler-ant side of a debate, yet admitting ad-mitting that there must be millions mil-lions of good, decent Germans it Iseems to me would be making an ! uuoieraoie mistake to trust these people again. If there are good Germans now then there have I always been good Germans; yet for a hundred hun-dred and fifty years Germany has been the saber rattler of the world. How many wars can you think of during that time ih which Germans has not had an ag gressive part? The more "g o o d" Germans Ger-mans there were then the worse it looks for them, for in "only one Instance In-stance that I can recall from history have the Robertson my reading of Germans ever really tried to prevent a war. In 1911 France and Germany were ready to go to war over the matter of colonies. At that time war was prevented bv the 1oint -ction of the Socialist parties of me two nations. But it was the courageous leadership of the ereat French Socialist Jean Juares, who nrged Bebel and other German Socialist So-cialist leaders to refuse to fight. Three years later World War I broke out Juares was assassin-ited assassin-ited immediately, and the German working class went meekly to war. Only Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luvumburg among the leaders lead-ers raised their voices in protest. One wonders now if the German government just wasn't ready in 1911. The Socialist revolt may have been doing it a service. It is true that the Nazis were not a majority when they came into power, yet can you imaeine I any other nation that has ever en-. en-. poyed the blessing of suffrage voluntarily vol-untarily giving up that right and .submitting to the rule of an upstart up-start fanatic for so long as that : upstart might live? Applied to the United States. France, or England land it Just wouldn't make sense. Yet nobody could have been very much surprised when Germany did it Say. what you will the ruling class of Germany has always been arrogant and ruthless, and the common people have accepted it with supine humility. And. like any browbeaten people or person, they have gloated over the misery of peonle less fortunate than themselves. In a way they had had gloried in war as the only ,way to save their respect j For all that we hear much i nowadays about the peace loving jand honest Germans who have been forced to accept Hitler .against their will does anyone be lieve for a minute that their, voices would now be raised for peace and "soft" terms for the Russians or French, or any other conquered peoples if Germany was winning the war ? We know the kind of peace earnest and patriotic government execu tives. It is marked by what might be called a bigoted viewpoint of political theology feeling that salvation lies in one's own po litical or economic gospel, and in that gospel gos-pel alone. It afflicts the- patient with myopia, causing him to lose sight of distant objectives, such as the war that is being fought and the people affected by the patient's pa-tient's judgment. It makes the patient forget for-get results and become engrossed in the means toward the result. Very likely the malady has stricken the principals in the most recent case, as well as the subordinate WPB officials whom Mr. Wilson mentioned without identifying. It does not, however, reflect upon the sincerity or good intentions of any of them. This malady is seldom harmful to the patient, but it can be quite uncomfortable for the victims of the symptoms. And there have been known cures for this bureau cratic fever. Sometimes it is necessary to get the patient out of the Washington climate. But on other occasions it has been found that some straight talk or rough handling by a higher-up will bring the patient out of it. Perhaps that cure ought to be tried more from now on, rather than trusting that the disease will cure itself. The word "utility steak is added to our rationing language. If you run out of points, of course there's always that old cowhide suitcase upstairs. This is a bad year for rugs,! what with Hitler chewing and the jitterbugs cutting. We read "elastic defense" is being employ ed by the Germans. Don't tell us they're down to their last slingshot. One of our bombers sank a Jap cruiser the other day. A fellow has to be pretty lucky to run across one of those things nowadays. General Patton certainly got a break, being be-ing handed an army without any Sunday drivers. mur. He sat silent . Speaker Rayburn took this to mean assent. Fifteen minutes later, the committee held its first meeting, with Democrat Anderson of New Mexico in the chair and with alleged Democrat Gathings of Arkansas on the committee. But on the very first vote, Gathings voted with the Re publicans to start a witchhunting probe of a Los Angeles publisher who sold copies of John R. Carl son s dook, unaer uover. LITTLE - BUSINESS WAR CASUALTIES How tough the problem of peacetime conver sion is going to be for small business is illustrated by butchers and the neon light industry. In Philadelphia alone, a total of 1,700 retail meat dealers went out of business when rationing came in. There wasn t enouarh meat to handle; their assistants were drafted. Many of the butchers drifted into war Jobs or enlisted in the army. After the war. a lot will want to stage a comeback come-back but won't have the money to get started. Along with the butchers, the neon light manufac turers also took a bad economic Kcklnir. Because of the dimo-out along the coasts, neon lights were forbidden in hundreds of cities. In addition, the ma terials going into neon lights were needed for military lights, radio sets. As a result a total of 3,500 neon light manufacturers closed. They were silent casualties of the war. No obit uary notices were published. There has been no mention of their demise in the newspapers. But they were casualties lust the same. To get back, into business, most of the butchers and neon manufacturers will need money, but most of them can't borrow at the banks. However, the Small War Plants Corporation is now Studying this problem and is prepared to loan them money if their reputation was good and if they had been in Dusiness a certain number of years before war broke. This is just one small sector of little business which may have a tough time getting back on its feet but which Smaller War Plants is planning to help. . MERRY-GO-ROUND Vigorous, young Congressman Ed Rowe of Ohio took a healthy swing at the State Department's diplomatic secrecy the other day. . . . U. S. engineers engi-neers have worked a miracle in reconditioning the damaged port of Cherbourg. It is now handling more tonnage per day than it did in peace Senatorial candidate E. A. Stephens of Louisiana is waging a vigorous crusade against the plan to have Louisiana electors vote contrary to the wish of the State next November. Stephens compares this subterfuge to Hitler's elections which were stage-managed stage-managed . . Senator "Happy Chandler says he's lost ten pounds by cutting out second helpings. . . Henry Hoke's new book, "Blackmail." has Con gressmen who have misused their franking privilege worried. It's the best job yet done exposing misuse mis-use of the franking privilege on Capitol Hill. (Copyright 1944 by United Feature, Syndicate, Inc.). Once News, Now History-Thirty Years Ago From the Files Of THE PROVO HERALD September 3, 1914 Provo was getting ready to celebrate cele-brate the opening of "The Grat White Way" the new lighting system sys-tem on Center street and University Univer-sity avenue, including the business district. Large ornamental arc had been installed on steel poles by the Utah Power & Light company who held the contract.jThe system waM claimed to be eaual to sim ilar systems in cities of 100,05o people or more. Pr. and Mrs. Fred W. Taylor returned to Provo from a trip to Europe, after waiting fcr sever? 1 weeks in London for an opportunity opportun-ity to obtain passage across the Atlantic. They went to Europe to attend the Congress of Clinical Surgeons of North America. Dr. Taylor had intended to spend the summer visiting hospitals on the continent and had reached Paris when war broke out, and they ; were compelled to return to Lon don. The Knight Woolen Mills opened open-ed a. retail store on North Univer- goods made in the mill. Charter members of the Bet terment 1-r.gv.a held a meeting with George A. Startup, chairman in charge. The scope of the work of the league was outlined, the intention in-tention being to have various com-mitees com-mitees with special duties, such as censoring the post cards, picture pic-ture shows, etc., also one on dancing, danc-ing, a secret committee on law enforcement with a field secretary to cooperate with the officers of the law, and a committee on legislation. leg-islation. Among the accomplishments of the league in Salt Lake City, was the prevention of the shipment of liquor to Saltair resort by the check system; cleaning up the Dunbar club preventing suggestive singing in cabarets, etc. By Frank C Robertson Germany gave Poland, and Greece and Norway. Xsn"t It the Sheeresl Wnd of hypocrisy to urge now thai because of the good Germans Germany Ger-many should be given an easy and comfortable peace that would leave her the dominant nation o Europe, or in a fair way of becon ing so within a decade? It seems to me the world shoulc have learned something from th Policy of the British governmen between the two wars of build ing up "a strong Germany againsl Russia, and to Keep Franc needled into a constant apprec? atlon of her need of Great Brltaix as an ally. England gbt her re turn of the bread she cast upor the German waters, but it waj thrown back in her face with tb power of German military migL oenwa n. uur squashy aentimen i alists who are pleading now f ! the good Germans would dellbei ately repeat the mistakes of BrIL ish diplomacy; which, more than any other one thing, brought oh uus present war. ' If there lived in your neighbor noa a niMKing bully given to Def tng up the men. and scaring the women and children in tv community out of their wits; if -kept the community in constat terror as it wondered whom thJ next victim would be: would say that this bully should be p'l ted and pampered, and allowed;, n go nis brutal way because ne ni pened to have a nice, gentle wiT Then, mm oyv1 CSmnm . the time of the revolution of 1848? men like Carl Schurz. They go out of Germany when the saw th fight was lost Many of thei fought for the Union during f .' own civil war. There are a grr many good Germans and . we ev use the term with all sincerity who got out of Germany afte Hitler came to power., and wb have opposed Nazi fanaticism wit all the earnestness and zeal i the world. They have been of lu valuable help to us in winnl the war. If Germany could turned over to such people the an easy peace would be in ordeJ But it won't be. The country is in noculated with fascist ideas whic will require more than one r eration to uproot p And what can you hope V from the soggy, inert mass "good" Germans who for a hui dred and fifty years have accepts militarism without an audibl grunt of disapproval? They've i to develop some backbone be-they be-they can be trusted to stand ere Q'S and A' Q What is a Riijsttafel? . A A rice table. This Dutch dian smorgasboard style dlf may include as many as 35 h: ferent food items. Q Which travels faster, a hat hit tennis ball or a hard-hit goj bail 7 A One of Gene Saracen's sho was clocked at 120 m.p.h. and oil of Bill Tilden's drives at 118 p. h. Q What method has been d vised for braking on the Navy new M-l, largest of its non-rid airships ? A Reversible propellers. Q What is the "odograph' A The Army's M-l Automat! Road Reconnaissanc e Devil which draws a road map whil mounted on a speeding vehicle. I Q What is the advantage A aluminum landing mats for ir tary airfields, over those made steel ? A Aluminum mats, whic weight about 50 per cent less tha similar steel mats, can be n" conveniently shipped by air. A Questions On Manpower Rules (Editor's Note: Government manpower rules and policies affecting af-fecting job changing, manpower priorities and employment ceilings ceil-ings have been set up to win the war faster. How do they affect YOU? Send your questions to the editor. They'll be answered in this column.) MEN ASK: Q. I am a skilled craftsman temporarily out of work but a Job that will use my highest sklU will be open In about four weeks. I don't want to be Idle while I am waiting for this Job to open. If I go to the U. S. Employment Service Serv-ice Office for a referral, will I have to take Job beneath my km which will prevent me from taking tne one a now i cumins; up and for which there wlU not be enough trained workers available anyway f A. No. The USES can refer you to an employer for short term employment if the facta are as you say. Q. Do I have to accept a Job where I would be compelled to Join a labor union? A. No worker is . required to accept ac-cept a work opportunity, or continue con-tinue in it if, as one of- conditions Desk Chat, Editorial Column For about an hour a man from Denver had been boasting to an Irishman ,about the magnificence of the Rocky Mountains. At length, the Irishman ob served: "You seem mighty proud ov thim mountains. "You bet I am." replied the man from Denver, "And, I ought to be. since my ancestors built them. The Irishman thought this over for a few moments and then ask ed: "Did you ever happen to hear ov the Dead Sea in one ov the old countries?" "Yes. indeed." replied the man from Denver. "I know all about the Dead Sea." "Well, did you happen to know of employment, he would be re quired to join, resign from, or refrain re-frain from joining a labor organ ization. Q. My wife Is aa Invalid. If I am required to commute long dis tance, she will not have proper care. I can only get In a woman by-the-day to help. All the high priority Jobs which could use my highest skill would require me to commute. Must I accept one? A. No worker would be asked to accept a job which, would involve undue personal hardship. Send your questions to the editor. that me great-grandfather killed the thing?" ALONE Alone, I walk by myself Each street Seems alike to me People throng The streets along. 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