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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD GENERAL City of London HUGH S. mqim JOHNSON Financial Hub Of British Isles J IfeulFam Notes of a Reporter to Ilis Editors (Sears-Roebuc- Jr WNUSot Washington, D. C. FOR WIIAT? When "Old Acquaintance troupe played command performance at White House, understand Peggy Wood left FDR practically speechless when she burst forth with: Please, Mr. Roosevelt, dear Mr. President, don't send our dear boys over there to fight. I have two arms, I have two legs, take me but not our dear boys! etc. . . . Leon Henderson may ease out of defense board tired, ill . . .1 hear Nelson exec on same board) will eventually Inherit Knud-sen- s k post. Intimates of Camacho believe he would follow any war policy adopted by U. S. within 24 hours . . . Jolson not stalling, really ilL , , . Peem's short-wav- e story about new British superplane (The Tornado) as reported by BBC from London appeared In last Things I Never Knew Til Now colm month before BBC confirmation. who claim England cant win should read what Hitler wrote on that subject In Chapter XII of his book, viz: The British nation can be counted upon to carry through to victory any struggle that It once enters upon, no matter how Appeasers long such a struggle may last or however great the sacrifice that may be necessary, or whatever the means that have to be employed; and all this even though the actual military equipment at hand may be Utterly Inadequate when compared d with that of other nations. soandso, isnt he? Long-winde- Hear an afternoon N. Y. paper is readying a new colyumist, not a professional writer but a famous personality as a circ builder. Starts in March, Understand it is not D. Thompson, who starts same time. Radio key men have been conferring secretly In Washington on the part radio will play in maintaining public contact in case we are actively involved in a war. Even during possible bombardments . . . The Nazis have a neat method of trying to win favor with U. S. radio commentators abroad. They classify them as heavy laborers for ration card reasons. This entitles them to two pounds of meat instead of one. P. S. It doesnt work. There Is talk of increasing the to two years. . . . Ye ed salutes Homer Price for this form of criticism . . . People, he says, who claim the home town paper doesn't print all the news should be glad it doesnt! W. W. draft period Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Wireless: Praps they dont settle many problems on the American Forum, but they get them out in the air and provide a lot of listen-abl- e brawling. The back alley tanMorris Ernst and Cong. between gle Starnes a recent Sunday could be a sell-ou- t at the Garden. The way to handle 5th Columnists was the temper trigger . . . Raymond G. Swing asked why, if Hitler has planes, he didn't pour them at Britain when the conditions for it were good. We are, he hints, eating too many Nazi figures without salt It was hard to get worked up over Rebecca, even with R. Colman, I. Lupino and Judith Anderson in excellent Jobs. England has taken too much lately for anybody to care about one mans love storms. z The tear jerks were too . . . Jas. Thurber makes a discovery about quizzes. They reveal how much the contestants don't know, which is colossal. What is needed by our men is some slogan of high purpose like Make the world safe That one is just for democracy. a little like offering cheese to the mouse caught in a cheese baited trap. He doesnt want any more cheese. So the trial balloons are goUnion ing up on another one Now. I wrote a piece on the ballyhoo for a federation of English speaking peoples. In it I used the expression Union Now and said that what is now proposed is to unite us with the British empire under something like the Articles of Confederation under which the 13 Colonies fought the Revolution which means, of course, in addition to Union Now," War Now. I argued that all the Articles made was a league of nations proved by both of them and the later international league to be futile and That column drew indignant denials including one from Clarence Strait, the author of Union Now. These denials complained that the proposal is not to entangle ours with the destiny of other nations in any futile league. No, sir. We are going all the way into an United States of Earth, in which America is to be only one state among many bound, not by weak articles of confederation, but by a document like the Constitution of the United States. The distinguishing features of that Constitution are no secession; control in a superstate of interstate commerce, all foreign relations, taxation and spending, the right to make war, to keep troops and ships of war and the denial of those rights and controls to the several states including the U. S. A. All right If I misconstrued Mr. Streit, I am sorry. But I didnt misconstrue the others and I didn't misconstrue Mr. Streit very much. They say, and so I think does he, that this is only an eventual result. Right now all we need is articles of confederation with these other nations but (as in and after our Revolution) as soon as the war is won" under the new confederation, we shall create with them a real federation, on the plan of the American Constitution and rub Uncle Sam out as an Independent entity. It is all consistent First these people sell us into a war when it isn't necessary and, without waiting for Mr. Hitler to sell our country down the river, they want us to do it ourselves. We commit national hari-kar- i, dilute our strength with the weakness of the world and dissipate the wealth and advantage our fathers fought and labored to create here, to the four winds of heaven and the five continents of earth. GOVERNMENT CONTROLS So my old buddy Leon Henderson told the lumber industry that $50 a 36,-0- ... pro-blit- Washington, D. C. Great Commercial Center Selected as Target (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) The com-pafinancial downtown district of London known as the City, which is the special target for German raiders incendiary bombs and the scene of Englands greatest fire in three centuries, has been acclaimed one of the most important commercial areas cf its size in the world. The irregular semicircle of ancient streets beside the Thames known as the City is only one square mile in area, but for centuries it has set the financial pace of the wprld, according to the National Geographic society. WASHINGTON. ct JO 1 Workers Rises Expenses Level Stay at ar d, Farm Prosperity Continues Rise TO ri -- i i w - t 77. -r- . v y - j I 7T For Febrmmry, pf mwkI (Mi I ft j st The Story Tellers: Sen. Sheridan found himself labeled Downey Morton Downey" in New Horizons. His squawk ought to convince the editors hes no tenor . . . Leland I Saw Mussolini Stowe, The Humbled" (in Look), said: g Greeks have very little respect for the Fascists fighting qualities because the Fascists almost never fight hard when the terms are even . . . The Readers Digest Reader is must reading. It is a collection of tli at miniature mags choice selections over an period. There is a basic fault here which NRA tried to solve. No other nation condemn outright all industrywide agreements as combinations in restraint of trade. All other tAiAui uitNsftj uNwturnr industrial countries condemn only such agreements as are not in the That is a realistic public interest. recognition that every principal contract In business I in some reThe spects a restraint of trade. NRA formula was that such codes should not be regarded as violations of the Sherman and Clayton acts. survey of business conditions for February reveals that prosperity is steadily rising. Increased industrial employment is stimulating demand for farm products. The resultant larger farm purchasing power is raising demand for manufactured products. Meanwhile many prices are gradually moving higher. A By L. G. ELLIOTT (President, LaSalle Extension University) Prosperity of the farmers is slowFarm Income has ly Improving. again risen higher, and is now the best in 10 years. The outlook is for continued improvement as long as defense expenditures remain large. Greater demand has pushed the prices of many products higher. The general average of tho prices received by farmers is about 5 per cent above that of last year at this 1 - Indo-Chine- Gnmim mkdit comtipatm i , full-form- QUARTERMASTER CAMPS Here is good news for some lucky draftees! Within a few weeks, the army will announce the establishment of two placement camps to train likely selectees for the Quartermaster corps. First of their kind since the last war, they will be located at Camp Lee, Virginia, and Fort Frances E. Warren, Wyoming. Selectees with experience as auto mechanics, blackelectricians, smiths, truckers, machinists, painters, radiator repairmen, sheet metal workers, storage battery experts, tire Mechanic Rescues repairers, tool makers, upholArmy sterers, and welders will stand the Navy Aviator in Desert best chance of getting assigned to RANDOLPH FIELD, TEXAS. If these camps for a It had happened in the movies, audicourse in army buying, maintenance ences would have shrieked in dis- and transportation methods. belief. I Technical Sergeant O. A. Miller, CRACKING PEACE FRONT veteran air corps mechanic, of h Meanwhile, the Isolationist front field, Texas, was driving of the strongly paciflstic Womens across the Arizona desert not far International from Gila Bend. Suddenly a navy Freedom Is League for Peace and cracking. training plane sputtered overhead Miss Emily one of the reand then glided to earth on the des- vered foundersBalch, of the organization, ert wastes, just off the highway. has tendered her Forced landing . . . Motor quit," the executive boardresignation from because she explained the navy pilot to Sergeant of the aid stand Miller. With the aid of his auto tool of Miss Dorothy Detzer, secretary of kit, the army man proceeded to the league and one of the most effectrouble shoot the ailing engine. tive In Washington. lobbyists Miss In a couple of hours it was purring Balch strongly favors, all-oaid smoothly again. to Britain. A passing motorist was pressed into service to halt any stray traffic that might happen along on the Able young assistant to the attor-ne- y road, the plane was taxied onto the general Matt McGuire Is headed a and after final check. Ser- for a Judicial highway appointment, probably geant Miller turned it over to the the vacancy created by the recent navy man, who used the roadbed for retirement of Justice Petyton Gora runway to get into the air. don of the U S. district court for the A very nice letter of District of Columbia. appreciation was received by Sergeant MilPresidential Secretary Steve Ear-l- y ler a few days later from the navy has on his desk a brown bottle of ho had been assisted from vitamin pilot pills, a gift of Joe Tumulty what might have been a rather haz- former secretary to Woodrow Will ardous situation. The signature at son Says 1 wish Tumulty: they the close of the note of thanks . . . made vitamin pill, when I had your Robert E. Lee, Ensign, USN'R. man wit. Pope. S H0T1 Salt Lakes NEWEST T v 1 :a 4 ii 7r h 9 oi & 7 v . Ran-dolp- f fasT Indo-Chin- three-mont- anti-trus- com-fortin- Income night the district Is usually deserted, since almost the only permanent residents are the custodians or as watchmen of buildings which are treasured by the Empire for their 1936 past or present significance. By day, however, a million people daily crowd in and out of this small area Increased Buying Power on business. The volume of news dispatched Reflected in High from the newspaper offices of Fleet this makes in times normal street Store Sales. a world center for journalism as well as finance. MINNEAPOLIS. Spreading payThis same square mile of Lon- rolls from roaring defense indusdons inner core was the birthplace tries have hoisted the American of John Milton, Sir Thomas More, familys buying power to new reCharles Lamb, and William Penn. covery heights, a current family It was the residence of Chaucer, and buying-powe- r survey reveals. The was visited by countless notables average urban workers household acwho were involved In the literary saw its monthly income soar nearly tivities of Grub street or Paternoster $7 in the last six months of 1940, row. There at 17 Gough square, Dr. while household expenses remained Johnson wrote his epochal diction- at 1936 levels, according to a curary of the English language. rent family buying-powe- r study. A few blocks south, within the The favorable margin between avhigh paneled walls of Middle Temple erage earnings and living costs is hall, on February 2, 1602, a troupe the largest in the eight-yehistory of actors presented a comedy by one of the index, according companys of their company, a newcomer to the survey conducted by the was it named Shakespeare; Northwestern National Life Insurdestined for ance "Twelfth Night, company. Record department Broadway in 1941. store trade volume, and improved Famous Men Lived in Area. installment collection ratios reflect A physician at old St. Bartholonet buying power in the this mews hospital, which had been handsgreater of the American consumer. founded by a kings jester, discovLiving costs sank to a low for the ered the circulation of the blood in October, and have stiffened year William Harvey. Meanwhile, in the a trifle since, but have been far Fifteenth-centur- y succesGuildhall, by the rise in industrial outstripped sive lord mayors were elected and pay checks, the report states. but traditional under the banqueted Measuring the effects of payroll mysterious figures of Gog and Ma- and living cost changes on the gog. Another landmark of the reAmerican pocketbook, the study gion was the Cheshire Cheese, the shows that an average employed inn made famous by Dr. Jqhnson workers family of four, with earnand Boswell. The Old Bailey, site ings of $120 at average 1933 payof Londons modern criminal courts, roll levels and the same has associations with the old debt- amount for its spending living expenses at avors prison and the execution place 1933 retail prices, had to pay where malefactors were hanged or erage in to maintain $131.11 burned at the stake; the last burn- the same June, 1936, standard of living; meanIn 1789. took place ing while the check had John Bunyan, William Blake, and climbed to family pay $133.92. Daniel Defoe wandered through the In June, 1940, the same standard City to a common burial place on its of living for a family of four cost northern fringes. Other tombs in while the familys pay check the district include those of John $131.86, had climbed to $150.86; by the year-enfaMethodist the founding Wesley, the pay check had ther, and George Fox, first Quaker. rocketed monthly almost another $7, to Both traffic and tradition center $157.49, while living costs had actuof the City is St. Pauls cathedral, ally fallen $1.10 from June levels, the empires parish church. In December, 1940, Names of the knotted streets of totalling $130.76 or same as in mid the practically the City are almost unbelievably 1936, the report shows. quaint; Stew lane, Friday street, Thus the great increase in payBudge row, Knightrider street, Red rolls in recent months has meant a Lion court, and Fetter lane. net increase in American spending power,, the report points out, as total living costs are the same as they were a year ago, and actually less than they were last summer. Minor .LaSalle Map of Business Conditions. increases in clothing and fuel, have been offset by the decline In food prices, the study shows. --- closePublic attention has been so and in war Europe on the ly riveted that debate Lease-Len- d upon the in the Far Agreeable alarming developments unProf Bjorn--Mr. almost Bzudi East have escaped your idea of clvilization? noticed. Dzudi Its a good idea. This is the fact that the Jap- - and I think strikdefinite somebody anese are now within and the start it. ing distance of Singapore Berlin Dutch East Indies; and that Wading In has been urging Japan to become Can 1 see Mrs. Dobson? .l the aggressor in the south Pacific collector . chanty in order to divert American attenMI) I TePlieimi from n,?rr Europe. tion away Ca? 1 see you now No one knows better than the Gerthe middle of e plate inlrl oj soup,' Amerthe that office man foreign Some men smoke iffipre land ican people are skittish about havand the kind you pi(j ing two oceans both Atlantic cigarettes a So as Pacific churned up at once. you go along. a ah German attempts to persuade Japan be to focus American attention on the For His Comfort o jig new. Far East are nothing Stranger ( savagely it Tig on my hat, sir! Absolutely new, however, is the re is 014 Gentleman So I feel truer fact that the Japanese are in a much more strategic position to take over And I hope in the future yo pay ! the Malays and the Dutch East Indi- wear soft hats, and not these our es-two regions vital to the supply brimmed abominations. sprh of American tin and rubber. ifferei For what the Japanese very quietSoon to Know roll h ly have done is to occupy the powerSergeant Hi, you cant go in if tr in Private Why not ? ful French naval bases of Saigon enbei a. Because thats the generaTi h. and Cap St Jacques in French tithe "Then why has he got priiaxe who door? In gauging possible war in the spin Do Stop asking why. you Air to c Pacific, one should remember that a fool? A Japdistance is I don't know yet, I only cm usth anese fleet cannot cross the Pacific yesterday in ai to attack the United States without ie ci great risk, because of distance. Nor t Hi Still Feeling could It have attacked Singapore, ulu v You Draftee First know, previously, without grave risk, be- like Id like to punch that jig tl cause the distance from there to boiled befo top sergeant in the c in Japn is almost as great as from again. Japan to Honolulu. Second Draftee Again? v by Now, however, with the French Draftee Yes, I felt s you First naval bases In her posyesterday. dra session, Japan is in a far better posii in J tion regarding Singapore and the rig1 Dutch East Indies than she would Siing be regarding California if she occulot I pied Hawaii. than It still will not be a walkaway for Japan to take these British and k is Dutch possessions, because they are C., well fortified. However, the job is of cc now about 50 per cent easier. us s Strategy which U. S. naval exin th for to it. follow to do is to and knew what No, perts expect Japan e eve wo have many polite words i begin the attack at the moment Hitwee ler begins his long expected invameaning the same thing, but to ' sion of England. we are listless, have bilious s d. bad breath and gas pains with an MADE IN JAPAN still gish intestinal action we tear Recently, in a test of equipment the product Grar ADLERIKA, e ii at an army airfield, four parachute found best 40 years ago. Take ! sumi flares were shot from the ground. a bottle of ADLERIKA tods; all r They opened beautifully, but only try it At your Druggists. will three Ignited. The fourth was a dud. on c Several soldiers dashed out to salhe ti In Silence vage the parachute. They are selill I in element dom recovered, because being made Silence is the efen of paper they usually burn up in the great things fashion their Th flare when they reach the ground. together; that at length the; and ma lust The failure of the dud flare to igemerge, Cle nite saved this one. into the daylight of Life, air to But on retrieving it, imagine the they are thenceforth leve soldiers surprise to find on the for chute the interesting little stamp: anc Made in Japan. ie Y The salvaged flare was one of a lot DISCOMFORTS MENTH0U1 an ' of 3,000 purchased several months Ouicltfh got ago from an Ohio company. OrdSTUFFIHEi TS nance officials admit they knew the SHIFFIDI e th chutes of the flares were imported SNEtZIM Thn from Japan, but assert they were p w forced to use them because at that thi time no U. S. firm made the articles. Me They say they have now stopped the use of Japanese 'chutes One Science a Genim in new flares. One science only will one g fit, so vast is art, so narrow -- The Bahk of England, known as the exclusive Old Lady of Thread-needl- e Street, sits in the midst of it a private Institution which since 1694 has had the exclusive right to issue Englands paper money and to hold the reserve funds of all other banks in the country. A coins throw to the east on Throgmorton street, stands the Stock exchange, which deals in the government bqnds of its own and foreign countries, and in the stocks of most important corporations of the world. Londons Wall Street. Throgmorton street becomes the curb market for trading in American securities during the daily interval between the closing of the London exchange and the closing five hours later of New Yorks stock market. Lombard street, noted for its banks, adjoins Threadneedle and Throgmorton streets to form the Wall street district of London. Lloyds of London, a short walk east of Leadenhall street, in 250 years has grown to be the worlds largest insurance institution. It is an association of underwriters. Within the area also are the famous old financial house of Rothschild, and the even older Childs bank, which Dickens described in his Tale of Two Cities as Tellsons bank. Within vast metropolitan London, whose 8,000,000 people have spread their buildings over 692 square miles, the City Is a tight little center packed inside ancient boundaries like an English walnut in its shell It reaches from the Inns of Court and Fleet street in the west to the Tower of London In the east, from London bridge north to Clerk-enwe- ll road. This is the oldest part of London. Through 20 centuries It has preserved its identity and practically its original limits, thanks to the thick wall 35 feet high built around it by Roman conquerors. Remnants of this frequently rebuilt wall and its nine gates are responsible for the names of such streets as London Wall, Newgate, Aldgate, and Cripplegate, as well as Billingsgate Market. The wall enabled City dwellers to hold off William the Conqueror, who prudently built his Tower of London just outside the City. Since then, no sovereign has lived within the City. The king today first receives permission from the lord mayor of London before passing the spots, such as the Temple Bar, where modern streets cross the Citys antique boundaries. City Deserted at Night. Historic and literary landmarks, some dating from Roman times, fill the City, barely a yard apart By R BASES INDO-CHINES- E By Bombers. war-mind- thousand was aa outrageous price for southern pine, that $25 was enough, that if they didnt get the price down he was going to do something about it and then stamped angrily not only out of the room but out of Washington. I think Leon was about 100 per cent right on his facts and intentions that, somehow, this tendency toward soaring prices must be socked every time it sticks its head up and that, exactly as in World War I, it has already started, among other places, in wholly unjustifiable lumber prices. But to control this danger, government has got to get in step with itself. Leon must have forgotten that he was not back in his old NRA days, when government could talk to Industry as a unit and tell It, as The Front Pages: Lots of the anti-FD- Leon frequently and properly did. dailies are making it tough for to police and discipline itself and, in the public interest, to purge its future historians. The same Journals that exalted Willkie up to Nov. membership of improper practices. 5 are calling him A Thing now. BeHe could do that then because NRA cause he doesnt care If licking Hit- made such joint action by governler is a party matter or a matter for ment and any organized Industry humanity . . . The Berlin Journals lawful. are easier on him than some of his It is lawful no longer. Leon old supporters . . . Ray Clapper should have a little talk with Thursays events are not consistent, man. The latter, Mr. Arnold, is therefore why should I be consisttrying to put industrial gents in jail or at least getting grand Jury inent? Some people once they adopt an Idea, bury it in the ground and dictments against respectable citizens for potential felonies if they go on the rest of their lives defendit act as an industry to do, for examing it, without ever to see whether time and the ele- ple, what Leon commanded the lumments have caused It to decay into ber industry to do. It is and has a worthless handful of dust In that been declared by all our courts to be just as flagrant an offense to the way you can always be consistent A columnist and often wrong." t acts for industrial gents in Hawaii observed: I have writ- to combine to put prices down as to ten many lines that have been sto- put prices up. The former practice len. By numerous radio gag writhas proved to be the most effective g ers solemn. But then, it is weapon of the big fellows to slaughto know. That somebody ter competition of the high-coproduction of little fellows in business. really reads this column. ... mhgate. JoMS time. The trend continues to be slowly upward with only temporary Interruptions. Effects of expansion In Industry and larger consumer incomes are rapidly spreading out into every community. Consumer purchasing power has been most strikingly reflected in recent weeks by the heavy buying in retail stores, both in cities and In rural districts. Sales have declined from the high holiday peak but they are still from 10 to 15 per cent higher than a year ago. Hotel TEMPLE SQUAK Opposit RICHLY es anti-Britis- h MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Jts Mormon REC0JDa)w Rates $1.50 to $3.00 a mark of distinction at this beautrful houtelnfW6 ERNEST C. KOSSirtK, VIGILAI cobirhtte advertising is a grc3t ,1 cstabl1 lance committee, and maintained in yoUf mco est, to see that the aspire to sell to J'u t: always be worthy of your - |