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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD History-Makin- g mgfm Events of 1940 Pass in Review DREVf 131 kJ1R?,IALLNI 1 IKeleased bv Western Newspaper Union.l OXE OUT OF FIVE AMERICANS GETS GOVERNMENT PAY THERE WERE 27,794,620 people Americans as late as last November 1, receiving all or a part of their living the cost of their food, shelter and clothing from the United States government. There is something radically wrong when such a condition can exist in this, the wealthiest nation in the world, a nation in which is concentrated 50 per cent of the purchasing power of the entire world. of all of the More than Americans are either 131,000,000 working for or being assisted by the federal government. Of that vast number, that 27,794,-62- 0 Americans, 1,009,769 people were in the armed forces of the United States on November 1. To these we are this year adding 1,400,-00- 0 more as conscripts for a defense army. The federal government civilian payrolls on November 1 carried a total of 1,090,416 employees, of which the executive department accounted for 1,082,018, the legislative branch for 5,957 and the judicial for 2,441. Pensions and unemployment insurance were being paid to 2,208,006 people, of which only 858,694 were military pensions. There are in the United States approximately 6,500,000 farms and government checks went to 5,756,840 of these as payment for not raising certain crops. On the relief rolls and Including those receiving other forms of government assistance, were 7,418,580 cases, representing 18,052,000 individuals. Other Items bring the total up to that 27,794,620 individuals Americans whose cost of living is provided in whole or In part by the federal government To make it complete, to this vast total should be added the employees and the recipients of assistance from municipal, county and state governments. 1 have no knowledge as to what that number may be, but It would run into the millions, all of which Is paid, or charged against, Americans. the Americans, as a people, are not heartless. We sympathize with, and are always willing to assist those who through either misfortune or inability are unable to provide for themselves, but we resent being imposed upon. family Today the of four is providing for six people. Are we asking too much from the government? Are we contributing to the indolence of our fellow Americans? Are we sabotaging ourselves? It is time to investigate. Time to ascertain definitely and honestly just who needs and who does not need assistance, how much of government we need, and how much is superfluous frills. Our legislators will respond quickly to an aroused public opinion. Will we, as a proved charitable people, express that one-fift- h , rtt.nl i ,'in Nine Nations Fall Before Washington, D. C. FARM TRENDS The hearings of the special bouse committee investigating farm under the chairmanship of Californias kindly Rep. John Tolan, deserve a lot more attention than they have received. Leading experts have disclosed some extremely significant facts concerning agricultural trends that are affecting the lives of millions and the future of the United States. Yet Tolan has had a tough time keeping his committee going. Lack of public interest due to the European war has played into the hands of elements who oppose doing anything drastic about the migrant problem, among them the California Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Farmers. Prof. Paul S. Taylor of the University of California told the committee of three significant trends: 1. Rapid enlargement of farms under a single operator. In a survey last summer in the Middle West he found one 9,000-acr- e grain and live stock farm in Ohio. At the same time, 25,000 tenant farmers were unable to obtain farms. 2. Spread of farm management services for absentee owners, such as business men. Already there are several professional societies of men in this field. 3. Wholesale elimination of farm labor through mechanization which is rapidly changing the traditional American concept of the familysized corn belt farm. "Our ancestors of three generations ago, Taylor warned, "found the solution for their goal of Independent working farmers, secure on the land. In the land reform clauses of the Homestead act. Today the march of mechanization and other economic forces have produced dependence and Insecurity on the land for our generation. Stern necessity compels us to find our way to maintain independence and security among those who work the soil. Note One of the most interesting trends reported by Professor Taylor was that the acquisition of farms is now a "rage" among business men, who In several midwestern cities are holding weekly farmer luncheons to hear talks by farm management experts. According to Taylor, the business men take up farming partly as a substitute for golf and partly "as a safe place to invest funds. y, DEFENSE HOUSING Defense Commissioner William Knudsens frank admission of lagging plane production wasnt the only sour situation he could have tagged. Another is defense housing. This is a real muddle. Although congress voted $290,000,000 . five months ago to provide housing for new workers in the defense industries, not one shovel of dirt has yet been turned on a single project. Housing for civilian workers on army and navy reservations and arsenals is progressing satisfactorily. Several projects begun last summer opinion? by the U. S. Housing authority for defense employees In Pensacola, WILSON G. O. F. CONGRESS, Fla., and Montgomery, Ala., are AND SELECTIVE DRAFT nearly finished. Several OF THE MORE than 17,000,000 private undertakings also are well men registered In the draft, less under way. But that Is all. In other areas, thousands of dethan 40,000, about 2 per cent, have been actually called into service. fense workers In private plants are Of the 100,000 who were to be en- being forced to crowd their families-intlisted In January, 60,000 were reunsanitary quarters, pay exorbitant rents, or live miles away placed by volunteers. d from their jobs, In tents, shacks and Barracks have not yet been for all of either the new other makeshifts. Meanwhile, the army of conscripts or the organized money congress appropriated to National Guard. There are not guns house them is lying unused. or pants or shoes enough to go DIES BLACKLISTED around. From 1918 to 1920, with all the ferRep. Martin Dies, who has done a vor engendered by a world war in lot of blacklisting, has himself been which America was engaged, a seriput on a blacklist. ous effort was made to secure the He has been barred from taking enactment of a universal military out any books from the Washington training law. Behind that effort public library because of refusal to were such men as Julius Rosenwald, pay a fine of 80 cents for keeping Henry M. Bylesby, Victor Lawson, books beyond the period. J. B. Forgan, Ogden Armour, The wordy Texan withdrew They Charfes M. Hutchinson, and others. Shall Not Want" and "I Went to Pitt In 1918 a Republican congress would College," and the library had a very have passed the bill as a Republican difficult time getting the books back. measure, but the Democratic PresiAfter repeated requests Dies finaldent Wilson would have vetoed It. ly returned them. But he refused tc Through the Intercession of CoL E. pay the small fine Imposed, at the M. House, President Wilson agreed rate of two cents a day, for his to sign the bill, provided It could be tardiness. Making no exception to reintroduced under a new number its rules, the library thereupon and as an administration measure. placed him on its blacklist until he When that was done, the Republican pays up. congress would not pass It as an administration measure, and the ON THE DISTAFF SIDE project was dropped. Sen. Hattie Caraway has received a letter from a man back In ArkanREAL VALUE sas which says, "Dear Miss Hattie, THE BRIEF personal Items In a I want to be in the Secret Service. inan render newspaper community Please send me gun, badge, and valuable service. They keep people handcuffs by return mail I know thinking of friends and associates, something! and make of the people of a comMrs. Caraway is an expert in munity a homogeneous whole. making white fudge with walnuts. Mrs. Mary Norton of New Jersey NEW FRONTIERS THE FRONTIERS of the future drives around Washington In a car are found In the industrial labora- with New Jersey license number 13. tories of this country. From them Her chauffeur is Luclle McDonagh, who is niece, clerk, and chauifeur. we will get In the future, as In the new those add which things past, CAriTAL CHAFF to the pleasure of living, provide Navy brasshats often are peeved new Jobs and preserve old ones, create new demands for products of at the views of Independent-mindethe farm and continuously raise the Rep. Melvin Mans, war flier and standard of living for all of us. Give ranking member of the house naval the industrial laboratory an oppor-mit- y affairs committee. But they respect to operate as a free enter-priz- e his ability. When the navy wanted and America will go rapidly a congressional expert to make an Inspection tour of its aviation train-biforward. station, Maas was picked. RFC-finance- d com-plete- two-wee- d g Reporters Private Papers: Conquering Forces as U. S. Arms. By ROGER SIIAW (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Of the many significant events in the year, 1940, the sudden and generally unexpected collapse of liberal France was perhaps the outstanding disaster. Other significant happenings were the of Mr. Roosevelt to a third term as president of the United States, and the triumph of Churchill over Chamberlain in British imperial circles. Another phase, not to be overlooked by any manner or means, was the surprising success of the 1940 campaign against the British isles, and the comparative lack of success in the matter of German air raids, the destruction of Coventry notwithstanding. Still another upset was the silly double collapse of Italian armies in and in Libya-Egyp- t, with savage repercussions at home in the Italic peninsula. ... at H WAR The year 1940 opened with the continuation of one lesser war, In n addition to the two major conand flicts. This was the Russo-Finnis- h war, which lasted a little more than three full months. It began at the end of November, 1939, and ran on through a little more than the first two months of 1940 before Finland finally gave up. The Finns were virtually disarmed, the Russians took over the Mannerheim line, and the second city of Finland, Viborg or Viipuri, as well as certain highly strategic points In the Finnish gulf. The Finnish war president, Kallio, resigned. Following the Finnish war, the other three little Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, "voted themselves into the Soviet Union. Early In April the Germans pulled their No. 1 surprise of the No. 2 World war. Like a streak of lightning, they occupied Copenhagen, the capital of little Denmark, and Oslo, the capital of Norway. The Norwegian war was a brisk affair. The port of Narvik, way up north, changed hands between the British and Germans, and was the scene of bitterest fighting. It was chiefly important because it was an embarkation point for the Swedish Iron, en route for Germany. The British eventually evacuated Narvik, in the light of the subsequent British defeats in Flanders. Norway was placed under the local dictatorship of Major Quisling, a German sympathizer. FALL OF FRANCE People were surprised by Norway, early In ApriL They were even more surprised by Flanders, in May, 1940. Suddenly the hammer of Thor came down on the western European anvil Manfred von Brauch-itscthe German field commander, and William Keitel, who ran the Berlin war office, sent the field-graover the Dutch, Belgian, and Luxembourg lines like a sudden Whirlwind. Luxembourg, like Denmark, did not resist. The famed Belgian forts collapsed (as they had in 1914) quite promptly, and held out for less than a week. In Holland, German parachute troops, dropped from the ubiquitous Junkers transports, showed a remarkable military example. British and French troops poured up into Flanders, to help the Dutch and Belgians. The Germans took on all four of them. King Leopold of the Belgians suddenly made an armistice, and thereby saved his army, and retained his tottering throne. The British made an epic retreat via the Flemish channel port of Dunkirk, an operation In which the royal navy and royal air force covered themselves with glory. They lost most of their motorized and mechanized equipment, but a good part of the B. E. F. got back to England, somehow. The Germans went ahead and captured Paris. Premier Reynaud, who had taken the place of Premier made defiant speeches, then ran away. France surrendered, and government of Marshal Petain, General Weygand, and Admiral Darlan, took control. These men founded the Vichy government Anglo-Germa- Sino-Japane- h, ys the-Dutc- Da-ladi- semi-militar- y Science May Soon End Fog Menace at Airports Controlled artificial dissipation of the greatest enemy of airplanes, is foreshadowed by recent scientific discoveries In the United States, according to Dr. Sverre Pet tersnen, Norwegian meteorologist. It is entirely possible, Dr, Fetters-se- n said, that at a date, pilots coming into an airport where ceiling zero conditions pro- vail because of fog may see the fog, tin-hatt- Pattern No. m on RUSSO-FINNIS- Val Gnest, the colyums star correspondent in the London air raid shelters, reports: "The old women still feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square with the guns booming over them. Even the birds are used to them now . . . The newsboy in PicHalf-Tim- e cadilly chalking up: Scores: Jerry, 54 Down . . . The pieces of incendiary bombs fetching anything from a dollar for smarties A who pick them up chocolate-and-guvendor doing a roaring trade in the shelters . . . The raid during a violent thunderstorm. After a loud thunder crack, an urchin comforted an old lady with: "That wasnt Hitler, lady, that was God, and he wont hurt you . . . The real need of a coat with two pairs of pants. One to work In, the other to sleep in . . . The Savoy Hotel, where, when you book a table, you can book a bed In the shelter. Will you They ask you politely: be staying for the raid, sir?' . . . The ten-cestores, now fifteen cent . . . The gag badges you can buy with the inscription: Please, dont tell me how nearly you were bombed . . . Well, there goes the ed: Newfoundland, Bermuda, BahaWalter. I enclose a bit of mas, Jamaica, Antigua, St. Lucia, shrapnel Maybe you can use it in Trinidad, and British Guiana for a paper-weigh- t. South America. Our army and navy at once set about the fortification Virglnio Gayda, Benitos boy, now of the newly acquired bases. has a chance to show how good an This was not all: it was decided editor he is. All he has to do is that the U. S. possess two navies explain (to his fellow Italians) whatAtlantic and Pacific instead of one. ever became of what he called: The We had 15 battleships, for example, decadent British Empire." and 37 cruisers; but we were to soft, have no less than 32 battleships and The United Press includes in its 85 cruisers, before we got done. ten best news stories of 1940 The Also, the first peacetime conscripof Russia . . . Theres tion in American history was passed Enigma been no news out of Russia since in congress. The new conscripts Stalin established his censorship last were already being called up, at So what the UP is the close of 1940. Close to 17,000.000 January to believe is a big news lads, between the ages of 21 and 36, asking is:you"Russia story Keeps Its Mouth were registered. Shut! At Washington, a national defense board was called into being, includPaul Waner, The slugging star for ing military experts, labor leaders, Pittsburgh (for 15 years), has been and capitalists. The nations war in- fired. Paul, when he was tops, was dustries were speeded up to top reported to have been guaranteed a pitch, and congress voted billions life job in the ball club owners will for armaments. The President de- . , . Now he joins Babe Ruth in clared that the British would get a idleness . . . Babe being the player rough 50 per cent of our produc- who saved baseball from ruin after tion. the Black Sox scandal It must Franklin Roosevelt defeated Wen- not be thought, however, that basedell Willkie in the 1940 election. The ball . . . its crowd-getter- s total score was roughly 26,000,000 No, forgets are always electThey indeedy. The electoral ed to baseballs Hall of Fame. votes, to 22,000,000. vote, however, was overwhelmingly for the third term, although an of the naestimated New York Heartbeat tions press campaigned for the InNew Yorchids: Abe Lymans new diana utilities lawyer. Willkie stood theme song: "Moon Over America for the draft, and for aid to Brit- . . . The Rosalind Russell-M- . Dougain, but he received most of the las worduels in Columbias: "This isolation vote, and carried the outCalled Love . . . Warners Thing isolation-minded states in "Santa Fe Trail . . . standingly Hildegardes the Midwest version of "The Last Time I Saw POOR ITALY Paris . . . The "Truth or ConseItaly entered the war just in time quences program . . . The forthto look in on the collapse of France, coming "High Sierra picture, ana la jackal The Italian troops capother Hellinger high-spotured one French "city of 6,000, and another of 3,000 inhabitants. Times Square Ticker-TapJohn After the battle of France, Italy Barrymore told a chum that the skirmished with Englands Mediter- greatest actor on the screen is Gary ranean fleet while a few Italian Cooper and that he wished he could fliers appeared over London, and act like him . . . They insist that the royal air force bombed Turin the femme half of that scandalous and Milan, Italian Industrial cen- duo of Hollywood stars went to the ters for Flat and Will Hays office and, after she uni, In September, under General veiled die entire story, was comthe Italian Libyan army In- pletely exonerated . . . The Taluca vaded the British protectorate of Lake natives will betcha that Ann Egypt and bogged down 80 miles Sheridan and George Brent wer up the coast, in a feeble effort to married two months ago,' despite take the distant Suez canal the denials. Late in October, under Marshal Badoglios staff work, the Italians Memos of a Midnighter: The Phil abruptly Invaded little Greece, from Plants, celebrating their 2nd Anny, the Italian foothold of Albania. The stifling the rumors . . . The MGM Inoffensive Greeks turned around, information booth at Times Square with the great- will become a recru.ting station . . . and counter-attacke- d est success. The British navy, air The songwriters will picket radio force, and Australian units came stations with pianos on trucks . . . to their aid. The Italians were Count Adelburg, of the White Russian chased out of Greece, and the colony here, and Rosemary Warbur-toGreeks occupied close to a quarter of the Social Register, are Like of Italys restless Albanian colony. That . . . Trent Patterson, the Badoglio resigned, as chaos reigned thrush (recently In court over a at home. friend's husband), is being consoled On top of this, the Italian Libyan by a hooch exec . . . Sally Rand army took a bad beating in Egypt, incorporated herself last week to and went into retreat, with the Brit- dodge claims from her recent bankish in pursuit. The royal navy an ruptcy. There Is still $7,000 against and 3&v the Australians her, chorus girl wages, etc. 000 Italians were captured by Sounds In the Night: In The Stork: RUMANIA PARTITIONED "What a facet She looks like a milRumania was another major vic- lion dollars your enemy has . . . tim of the year 1940. It was sub- In Reuben's: "Nope, I dont wanna divided between Russia (Bessarabe a Broadwayite. I dont look good bia and the Bukovina)$ Hungary with a knife In my back In (northern Transylvanial; and Bul- Club Cuba: "Tell me, whose little stub are you? garia (the southern Dubrudja). check-booAt What was left, underwent an Iron Chateau-Moderne- : "The big whoopsl Guard revolution, which ousted King Give him enough rope and he'll start Carol and his fribnd, At The Copaca-banjumping it "When he enters the room its Magda Lupescu. Carols son, MichThe Gerael, became monarch. Just as though someone left . . . man army moved in, to police the At The Radio Franks: "Why Balkans, establish air bases, and shouldnt he be crazy? Isnt he out oil control the Rumanian wells. of her mind? The new Rumanian puppet government, under dictator John Street Scenery: The sleeping pill joined the ads in a drug store window: "Take So did HungaAxis, dese and doze! . . . The safety ry, and the little Slovak puppet state slogan on a car: "You keep your which Is the rump .of what used distance and we'll both keep our to be Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile, healthl , . . The new airlines Russia was still on the make, and terminal building architectural poheld the balance of power In Eu etry . , . The tiniest autograph-signe- r In town: Little 8 year old Tope something that England had held for centuries. Within a year, Joan Carroll, besieged by the Stalin had acquired a third of Poat the "Panama Hattie land, parts of Finland, the three stage door . . . The pathetic looklittle Baltic states, and a piece ol ing giving Broadway a Rumania, all of which Russia had droopier look as they battle the win-terlost after the first World war. weathcrrrr. The Germans divided France Into occutwo portions, pied by German troops, and a third and directly under "independent Marshal Petain, who was much under the Influence of a politician who always wore white neckties swarthy Pierre LavaL Alsace-Lorrain- e was annexed directly to Germany, who had lost it in 1918. Bits of the French navy clashed with the British navy twice: once at Oran in Algeria, and a second time at Dakar, in West Africa. Meanwhile, a minor French general named De Gaulle a tank expert escaped to England, and organized a group known as Free Frenchmen, to carry on the war by pestering the Germans and the alVichy govlegedly ernment De Gaulle had the special ear of Churchill. De Gaulle planned the unsuccessful Dakar operation, and his agents were active in various other French colonies. French Premier Henri Petain in a surprise move ousted Pierre Laval from his cabinet and appointed In Flandin. his place Pierre-Etienn- e Anxious to know what the conquered enemy was doing, Germany immediately sent Ambassador Abetz to investigate. BATTLE OF BRITAIN Following the British defeats at Narvik, Norway; Dunkirk, Flanders; and Dakar, West Africa, the British isles took an increased hammering from the German air force, nicknamed the Goering flying circus, or G. F. C. The following ports took special aerial delugings: Liverpool, Bristol, London, Southampton, Plymouth, for the Germans wished y traffic with to disrupt the America, which entered these harbors. The Germans also attacked the two English "Detroits of Birmingham and Coventry. The courage of the British proletariat, particularly In the miserable east end of London, was astonishing. Something like 15 per cent of London was hit, and British Industrial production dropped (according to British figures) by 40 per cent. More dangerous than the Goering flying circus were the German subIn marines, still known as the closing months of 1940, these under-se- a monsters hunted In packs against the British merchant convoys from America. ' The British t, and ship losses began to Churchill said openly that he feared the subs more than the planes. German surface raiders and seaplanes and sinkings beaided the of gan to approach the hectic April 1917. In the midst of this crisis In December, Lord Lothian died the British ambassador to the United States. U. S. DEFENSE Following the French collapse of June, a veritable fever swept over the United States. It was called, by some, a needful awakening. It was called, by others, a contagious hysteria. It affected high and low, and reached to every corner of the country. God Bless America resounded everywhere, and the local interventionists were especially loud In their linking of the British. William Allen White, of Kansas, a veteran liberal journalist, headed an extremely Influential committee "to defend America by aiding the allies. It succeeded, behind the scenes, In helping to engineer the Ameriexchange of 50 "over-ag- e can destroyers, for a row of American naval and aerial bases on British New world possessions. The bases were to be held by the U. S. on leases, and they includ- two-thir- war-suppl- top-figu- re 1 fog dissolve to reveal the runways. He explained that one method developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shown to be entirely practical in a large-scal- e experiment. It consists of spraying the air with a liquid solution of sulphur chloride. It was found that by spraying 85 gallons of the solution a minute, a slice could be cut out of the fog 30 feet high, 150 feet wide and 1,500 feet long In the direction of the prevailing wind. Dr. Petterssen said. r, ... ... 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