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Show Forward.lnto ' PROVO, UTAH- COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1947 Hurdles in the Home Stretch The end of the Christmas recess will find .congress facing the gravest challenge to statesmanship and legislative wisdom since the war ended. The question of long-range aid to Europe and the problem of inflation at home cannot be put aside any longer. They must be threshed out to a decision. "And the members will be working toward that decision deci-sion under a big handicap. We are coming into another presidential election year, and the record for solving pressing national problems in a campaign year is not too brilliant This is particularly . , t r e A- A. T m. 1. true wnere uuierent panics wui.rci m? White House and the capitol. The League of Nations got hung up pn a political hook in 1920, when there were a Democratic president and a Republican congress. con-gress. -There was a slight Democratic ma jority in the house, and an almost evenly divided senate, under Mr. Hoover m isss, when the country floundered into that de pression-ridden "election year. The patient t ! J M .1 1 'X ' 1 -3 A JJ. nearly aieu wnne me puuucm uutims uo agreed. Once again, in 1948, we have a partisan split in the two branches of government. And this time two big issues, similar to those cited above, confront the lawmakers. The emergencies in foreign policy and domestic economy are of different origins and require different remedies. Yet the effectiveness of each remedy will depend upon the other. The two prescriptions must be written with that thpught in mind. American voters might as well resign themselves now to a lot of finger-pointing and a good many dead-end snipe hunts. It is already clear that the Marshall plan is in for some rough going. And while high prices, like sin, are something both parties can safely safe-ly be against, there will be further efforts to fix the blame, rather than find the cure. There will also be some side trips in search of quick and easy vote-winning issues. About the best thing the" voters can hope for is that the forthcoming disputes will be conducted in an atmosphere of sincerity as well as political expediency. They can also hope that arguments will spring from careful care-ful reasoning. It is not enough for a congressman to tell the administration that it has got to "stop its shenanigans with foreign aid money." It is not enough for the administration to ask congress for funds or powers without giving the most detailed assurance possible that they will be used intelligently. The revealing hjstory of the last 25 years is available to congress and the president as they enter the home stretch of Mr. Truman's term. It is a history of isolation, appeasement, appease-ment, unpreparedness and war, of prosperity and depression, of free enterprise and gov ernment control, of big private spending and big public spending. Some members of the present congress had a hand in making quite a bit of that history. They can remember, and others can team, what was done and what wasn't, what worked and what didn't. They may not agree in evaluating successes and failures. But surely they can see where the most glar ing mistakes were made including some made in the legislative chambers of the cap itol. Let us hope they do not repeat them. A Timely Reprieve Just before the deadline .for sinking Italy's 31 remaining submarines, the Big Four am bassadors to that country relented and modi fied the Italian peace treaty. As a result the Italians may scrap the vessels instead of sinking them. This will give a hard-up Italian Itali-an industry several thousand tons of scrap steel and machinery. The salvage operation will give a winter's work to a lot of unemployed. unem-ployed. The good sense and agreement of the four governments are encouraging, if belated. It seems to have occurred to them in the nick of time that the scriptural wisdom of beating swords into plowshares is not only a hopeful hope-ful symbol of peace but. under the circumstances, circum-stances, a sound and modern reconversion policy. V- - M l . , YVL ""J V f rr . Unpopularity Contest A budding political movement seems to have been nipped by the wintry frosts. The results may be seen in several resignations by officers of the Progressive Citizens of America and union threats of withdrawal from the American Labor party. These actions leave only one question unanswered: un-answered: Which is the more shocking to some of our leading progressives, the idea of a third party or the idea of Henry Wallace at the head of it? Preliminary Winner General MacArthur nosed out Emperor Hirohito and a Communist in a poll of Japanese Jap-anese students to determine which man they respeciea most. Now that the general has won the semifinal semi-final in the lightweight division, many of his admirers hope that the will come home and try his luck with some heavyweight competition com-petition in the Republican championship bouts at Philadelphia next June. Desk Chat, Editorial Column MAN a creature who will five $2 for a 50c article that be wants. WOMAN- a creature who will give 50c for a S2 article that she doesn't want. MODERNISTIC ART a means f expression for those who lack artistic talent - s INSURGENT a neat liberator . who fails to conquer. The Washington Merry-go-Round Once News Now History From the Files of The Provo Herald 30 Years Ago The Red Cross got over 2000 new memberships in Provo with I nearly 400 Junior members, reported re-ported Ar M. Thurman, secretary of the chapter 100 carloads of apples were to be sent to army camps, hospitals and the trenches overseas the Elks lodge played Santa Claus to several hundred children in keeping with a tradition as old as the lodge the mild weather permitted tennis playing on Christmas day at the J. Will Knight courts Lt. Alma Richards, BYU athlete and Olympic high jump champion, cham-pion, was a Provo visitor Henry Jones defeated . Dick Cox, Salt Lake, in a wrestling bout, Rolph Egertsen was awarded a boxing match decision over Char ley Midkiff of Salt Lake City on a foul. 20 Years Ago The Chopping Block Q's and A's Q Who first set foot on the Antarctic continent? A Carstens Egeberc Borche grevink and his Norwegian party in 1893. Q Where is most of the world's Jute crop grown? A In the new Moslem state of Pakistan. Q What is shoran? A Shoran is a radio naviga-j uon aid wnicn enables the pilot of a plane to know his geograph ical position at ail times. Q What is the price of newly mined gold? A At present the price of newly new-ly mined gold is set by U. S. law at $35 an' ounce. Q Why are English walnuts so called? A This species of walnut, na tive only to Asia and southeastern Europe, is called. English walnut because it was introduced to this country from England, where it has been grown since 1562. Q Where is the southernmost point' in Europe? A A point near Gibraltar. Spain, which is farther south than Italy, Greece, and even many points on the coast of North Africa. Q What is the source of the St. Lawrence River which empties into the Atlantic Ocean? A Minnesota. Q What state produces the largest catch of shrimp? A Louisiana. About two thirds of the entire United States catch of shrimp is taken there. if Etiquette Lessonette There are five little words, Id have you know. They are "Pardon me," Thank you." and "Please," Oh, use them quite often Wherever you go, There are few words More useful than these. These five little words Are filled with a power That money or fame Cannot give; So commit them to memory, This very hour And use them As long as you live! 4 m ine muieniura win oe nere when women insist on havin " the wedding ceremony include . I- 1 1 Jill . 11 A 1 W 1 - 1 una nuuiuuii. abu x uereuy waive all rights to alimony." a "Yes. Jim. it is correct to call a plane a 'she' . . . but never ... positively NEVER correct to call a she plain." oOo TO- i-: i t Ltt iv.i rx. -3 uc fin m ui i csv ilia i &s an warns mosi can oe suppuea oy comfy slippers and less conspir acy to raid bis bank account. By Drew Pearson U. S. Wanted Stalemate Of Foreign Ministers Conference MARSEILLE (By Wireless) During the London conference one U. S. delegate confided to a friend that we have been scared stiff for fear the Russians would take us up on our plan for unifying Germany. If they did, I don't know where we'd be. Fortunately, the Russians weren't smart enough and the London conference of foreign ministers ended in a stalemate exactly what the United States wanted. - In other words, the USA has put it. elf in the unenviable position of not wanting a peace treaty for Germany the same obstructionist obstruc-tionist position it has accused Russia of occupying occu-pying for the last two years. All this boils down to the fact that General Marshall is convinced that, once the four zones of Germany are unified, the' Russians will soon dominate domi-nate all Germany. Thus, for two long years, the USA has been harping on the idea of unifying Germany and now we are worried- sick for fear it will be unified. This reversal of position to some extent is a reflection on ourselves by at least 50. It boils down to two facts: 1. We know the Russians have done a better job politically in their zone than we have in ours. This doesn't mean that the Germans love them but it does mean that the Russians have carefully built up a German army, trained to take orders from Moscow. Also, they have indoctrinated some thousand able German leaders with enough Communist Com-munist allegiance to gradually take over the other zones of Germany once Germany is unified. 2. We know from experience that the Russians Rus-sians will be absolutely ruthless in opposing, the USA, once Germany is unified. In other words, theoretically, American newspapers would then circulate in the rest of Germany but they wouldn't -they would disappear in sewers. -Theoretically, also, American businessmen could do business in the Russian zone but they couldn't obstacle after obstacle would be placed in their way. Theoretically, also, Americans could travel all over a unified Germany. Actually, they would be arrested or kicked off trains on phony pretexts. Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the New York to Paris flight, was winging his way to Guatemala on a good-will flight hope of finding the plane in which Mrs. Frances Grayson disappeared was abandoned efforts to free Harry Hill, 22-year-old former college student, charged with the murder of his mother at Ottawa, Til u hlswtrosi annnnrM. xwsj -tuerrea r reiicn xoreign Minister JBi-i ment of marriage Melba Hind uuii ta now on me zence regarding itussia, wniie brusque Ernie Bevin is on. Hitherto it was Bidault who was always trying to conciliate between Russia and the United States. Russians get wise and quit talking about reparations. repara-tions. Their demand for reparations gave the American delegates the excuse they wanted .or deadlocking the conference. AS IN 1945 Fearfal f the French Communists, Bidault Bi-dault played a straddling game tried to please both the USSR and the USA. Now, with the French Communists on the downgrade, Bidault is frankly and openly pro-American. Bevin, on the other hand, has become more cautious. A year ago Bevin was bald and blunt about his anti-Sovietism but he has suddenly become cautious, believes Russian backs should be scratched scratch-ed somewhat. This is partly because Bevin doesn't particularly like Americans, partly because Russia Rus-sia has just made tremendous strides in winning over British public opinion by trading 500.000 bushels of wheat to the British for British ma chinery. This deal is peanuts compared with the U. S. loan to Britain, but it came at crucial time and ! has made a dent on Brush public opinion. marsh to Ray Lambson of Spring- ville BYU barnstorming hoopsters defeated the Peppards at Delta, 48 to 28 Oswald Pearson, Pear-son, Oakley, Utah, won the Rotary Ro-tary oratorical contest. 10 Years Ago The holidays were free from deaths locally Robert E. Hansen, Provo scouter, left for New Albany, Ind., where he was to serve as field executive of the George Park council the nation's holiday casualty toll stood at 548 lives lost by violent death Newton D. Baker, wartime) secretary of war, died in Cleveland, Ind. injured in an explosion at Orem were Alvin Washburn, 17, and Cecil Dickey, 12. TOUGH ON COLUMNISTS The Russians are gradually waking op to the importance of better press relations. At London, they' held a briefing for the press every day. This meant that after the foreign ministers finished talking Russian Interpreter Polakoff held a press conference at which he gave newsmen an ofr-tr.e-record fill-in on what had happened. This is an old trick one that the Russians learned from Jimmie Byrnes when he was secretary of state and decided that the best way to handle the press was to give the newspapers the truth about what happened hap-pened in a secret conference. Since then it's been a question as to which minister can leak the most and the quickest. All of which makes life tough for a columnist. Secretary of State Marshall held only two press conferences during the entire London conference and then only to, background (Charles Evans Hughes used to hold two press conferences per day). Marshall wasn't really sore at his alleged ad viser, John Foster Dulles, when the latter went to Paris to see General De Gaulle. It was Foreign Minister Bidault who was sore and for obvious reasons the conference between Dulles and De Gaulle meant that the American delegation didn't trust Bidault, but went over his head to get the views of the man tney figured would be the next premier of France. It was like going over Truman's Tru-man's head to ask Senator Tart about future American policy. When Marshall and Dulles realized how clum sy this was, they carefully leaked a story' that Marshall hadn't known Dulles was going to see De Gaulle and was sore at him for so doing. Nobody was fooled by this story, however One French man observed that America diplomacy will have to be smarter than that. One thing Dulles asked De Gaulle was whether wheth-er the French army would resist in case the Russian Rus-sian armv tried to rrou Franc an1 tab rhannvl ence of foreign ministers to arrange a peace treaty ports. De Gaulle replied that thev would resist if xor uermany ana Austria. - fine usa nerpea arm and equip 40 divisions. Now we wonder what will happen when the Copyright, 1947, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. Minutia AY FRANK C. ROBERTSON This receeding year of 1947 reminds me a little of a New York publishing company's editor who was out in Utah not long ago. He was being badgered a little by some of the local writers abottt the prejudice of eastern editors against things western. Admitting the generality he denied prejudice in his own particular case. He was, he claimed, almost a west erner himself. "While I was born and raised in New York, and have lived there all my life," he said, I was conceived in Colorado." Historians will possibly record that compared to 1948 and the succeeding years 1947 was utter ly tame and undramatic. But if there hasnt been seeds, enough planted in 1947 to raise all man ner of hell for ensuing gener ations then I just haven't been properly digesting the things I've read in the papers. Take the failure fail-ure of the big powers to negotiate ne-gotiate a peace treaty. If ever we got a lot of stuffy, meari- one-thing - say another hokum it was the chit- ooerwoo chat of the diplomats who struggled strug-gled for national advantage and prestige, and got us all to a point where nobody would be particularly partic-ularly surprised if an atom bomb dropped into our yard tomorrow, and where practically everybody expects a savage world extermi nating war within the next live or io years. While we have just recently won the greatest war in history our great concern during "1947 was to figure out means toMup- oort the people we have con quered. Life used to be simpler When the ancients conquered people they made the conquered people do the work for all while, the conquerors sat back and took their ease, or used their leisure time to build up the world's most brilliant civilization such as the ancient Greeks had Now it is the conquered who sit back on their haunches while the conquerors sweat and toll to So, despite weeks of London deliberations the United States, Germany and Russia are right back where they started at Potsdam in the summer of 1945. All the talk at London, all the hours used up in interpreting speeches, all the money spent on cablegrams to Washington giving minute details of the conference, all the hotel bills rolled up by delegates all went for nothing. In fact, the American delegation knew it would be for nothing noth-ing even before the conference started. They just didn't want to. be in the position of admitting it publicly. So, as the last day - of the conference arrived, ar-rived, the British foreign minister remarked, "Is there, anyone who would care to suggest a date for reconvening; -this conference?" . General Marshall looked away.-Foreign Min ister- Bidault sat, arms folded, staring straight ahead. Molotov pretended not to hear and thus ended the long-awaited, much-advertised confer By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE So it's over for another year. This Christmas I didn't get a thins that couldn't be recognized on sight for what it was. This may sound silly, but I have received re-ceived gifts in my. time, that I couldn't make head nor tail to, and, having an understandable reluctance to ask the giver what in tunket the gadget was, I have never found out. No. this year my peeve is about people you would like to send regards to, but whom you have lost track of. who send a card and no address. This is very frustrating, and I don't care what Emily Post says about it, it isn't cricket (what ever that means). Lyman and I went caroling, (My two moppets, stout souls, stayed in .the car. being too old for that sort of thing.) We made a great hit with the Eyring ca nary and the Tanner wire-haired terrier, who couldn't take his eyes off my ukulele. The Eyrings let the canary out of his cage. He walked over in front of Lyman and I, and when we began to sing. ne began to sing. The cutest thine Lyman, who left his wife and two small children in Logan with her family, whilst he cam here to be with mother, says, "Tell them in your column that this has been one of the happiest Christ mases I ever had, and tell them that every son should come home to his mother on Christmas once in a while, just as I have done It is only fair. I wouldn't have missed it for anythine. As matter of fact, it has been a wonderful won-derful thing to have him home ' w V We have talked about Christ- mases past, and lived it all over, Lyman, being the baby, can't re member what I can. He can't re member walking on to a hot floor register and burning both feet He was about year old. My Sister Gertrude and hus band, sent a record of conversa tion between themselves . and their huge dog, half Spitz and half Chow. You would have to hear it to believe it. Makes more sense than most family conservation, at that. The dog, Fu, by name, is a very well mannered pooch. He would not think of putting his feet on the breakfast table. Oh no. He carefully turns his paws under, and leans his elbows on the table. That's light, b elbows, Well, I can't help it if you dont believe it. I saw it, so I know. Everyone but Ruthie. off to Salt Lake City. I have resolved to really get in and do big things, today. That's a joke, son. I will get nothing done at all. Will walk to town and take this column, and fritter away the whole day doing it. I am an absolute and com plete good-for-nothing. I can' rightfully blame it on Christmas, nor yet my last birthday, for as a matter of fact, I was good-for-nothing before they overtook me. Guess there's nothing to do but sit and wait for my second child hood. It it is half as good as my first one. I will be satisfied. Lyman will not be here for the open house on New Years Day so if you want to see him, or call him, don't put it off. I wish he could stay, but it has been won derful having him as it is. So long, folks. feed them. So determined are we to see that the Germans don't work that we demolish hundreds of their factories which they might use to satisfy their own wants, and we ship them enough of the products of our own fac tories to make the price of what we have left go so sky high that Americans have to go without them. The soil of Europe, we are told is drastically in need of fertilizer Germany, one of the greatest pro ducers of commercial fertilizer before the war, could still do much to rebuild the impoverished soil if allowed to do so, but we think it wiser to keep their plants idle while we deplete our own soil by shipping the stuff we produce over to Germany. We can't, we are told, allow Germany to support itself until its boundaries and its form of government is fixed, and since we want the boundaries one place and a certain form of government for them, and the Russians want another we decide to appropriate billions of dollars to be used over there and the Russians decide to spend' billions of roubles to see that our billions of dollars ac complish nothing. The fact that we have" a nat ural and justifiable hatred of Communism has been used this past year to stifle or ridicule every criticism of Our own gov ernment or the system known as Capitalism. From the time of Washingtot on down the right to criticize was our most prized possession. Our fathers and our grandfathers used to yell, "Down with Wall street!" at the top of their voices, and nobody gave a hoot Political campaigns used to be waged or the issue of Imperialism. They did that, verily, in the campaign of 1900, but nobody thought to call William Jennings Bryan a Communist Com-munist or a traitor the way they do Henry Wallace today. And if you take a crack at Wall street today you are called, "a crack pot like Henry Wallace, and you hide your head with shame. If one tends to become a little more specif ic, and points out what one believes to be defects in any part of our system one becomes, willy-nilly, a Communist, and subject to investigation by some congressional committee or other and subject to' dismissal from one's means of earning a liveli hood. Formerly, one's private life was one s own. at least until an overt act against society was commit ted. Now we have an orgamza tion called the FBI which is busy as ants investigating the private lives of citizens for fear that some of us may have dangerous thoughts. Very nicely in this uneventful un-eventful year of 1947 we have planted or cultivated the seeds that promise well to grow up and choke to death our cherishid individual in-dividual freedom. FOOD FOR EUROPE Food shipments to Europe will cut domestic supplies of lard. sweet potatoes, meat, chickens and some canned fruits in-1943. Sugar, cheese, butter, bananas and dried fruits, which w'll not go abroad in large quantities, may be more plentiful. A semi-automatic, electrically- operated washer has been devised in which giant locomotives can be scrubbed, rinsed and polished in 15 minutes. fl mure, uja Q vnitf&1 Kilt one reason wny me cneerrui giver is cheerful is because he knows the publicity is worth the money. Nathaniel Hawthorne one wrote: "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose . chase, and is never attained. "Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without with-out dreaming of it; but likely noiivh it ia onna th mflmtnt mim . . . 1W 11 ... i say vj -ourselves, nere u is. iixe the chest of gold that treasure seekers find." Overheard on the bus: "My hus band and I do agree on one thing: He doesn t think anythln-s too good for me and neither do I A gag youll soon hear on your favorite radio program: ."Now, John, I wouldn't be so blue about Elsa jilting you . . . why, you can soon forget her and ' be happy again. "No, I won't be. able to forget her ... I bought too many tlSlncra syj hov An nar ' v. wu vtioj faj ments." - - AT LOW COST anatw Skid-Test Asked To Prepare Drivers WILLOW RUN, Mich. (U.R) Under proper conditions, test-skidding test-skidding an automobile is a good practice for motorists who want to avoid dangerous skias on icy roads this winter, says Charles Landers, Kaiser-Frazer project engineer in charge of test driving. "When the road is clear m both directions, and you are driving slowly, it's a good idea to make c fairly quick stop," he said. "That may put you into a slight skid but it will give you a chance t? check road conditions as well ts your brakes. If, with all , conditions considered, consid-ered, you feel safe driving at 60 miles an hour, then you should be going 40." Ac new synthetic rubber has been patented. Retention of its stretch and bounce at very lew temperatures is one of its advantages. Excellence and economy to rarefy are they found together. 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