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Show Spirit of First 1th Will Give Cradle of Liberty New Note to Independence Day Fourth of July Celrbration to Be Worldwide in Scope This Year CisOLillOMSrS! Accoid rg to a Wash oer i gton report, To the Gasolatiomsts, America is only a road map Eut for a man who doesn't need it a full gas tank means an empty heart. The Story Tellers: Heheheh: Mefoofskjs little boy. Max Jr, fell in with some tough.es on the block who taught him the Nazi salute. He came home parading all oer the hguse, dmrg it, Hi, Hitler'" Mefoofsky's yelling shocked entreaties were of ro aail In desperation he called in Dr Schmetric was Mefoofskys Nu, doctur7 frantic ry "Do jou tmk ve'll have to hamputate7 You write it, sa.d John Adams to Thomas JefTerson, for you wield a pen ten times more eloquent than my own. And Thomas JefTerson vrote it. That was 166 years ago. But today the Declaration of Independence gleams among the Literary jewels of the world through the sheer beauty of its phrasing and the human dignity for which it stands. Thomas JefTerson at that time, in the year of grace, 1776, was a young man of 33, known for his clarity of expression and ability as a writer. How well he wrote all the wold now know s. , In that hall m Ph.ludelphia. learn- ed and courageous men pledged their Eves, their fortunes and their sacred honor" that we nvght be a free nation. Sure'y enough, the men who signed the Declaration of their fortunes, Independence to say nothing of their lives, for those indeed were perilous tunes King George of England was not disposed to treat lightly the matter "We of d.slovalty to the crown. must all harg together," Benjamin Frankl.n had said, "or we will all hang separately " But he knew when he said it that it was no joking matter, although millions have had a good laugh since then at the witti-nes- s r of h,s remark. That First Fourth. The Fourth of July, 1776, was a hot, sunny day, and m the afternoon thunderstorm broke Although the Declaration was adopted on the fourth, it was not engrossed until some weeks later. The announcement of the Declaration created a restrained enthusiasm, tempered by a knowledge of the gravity of the step In tins respect it closely resembled our own Declaration of War agamst-Japaand then against the a peace loving naentire tion, fully in accord with these declarations of war, waited tensely for developments. The document was proclaimed to the people in the state house yard on July 8. At the same time the liberty bell was rung to summon the populace Wlthm a few weeks after the great bell tolled, King Georges army under General Howe was hovering uncomfortably rlose, and soon thereafter the long and bitter chapters of the Revolutionary war were being written w privation, blood and heroism. The first publication of the historical document was on July 8, in Dunlaps Pennsylvania Packet Other printed copies appeared in Newport, Boston and Salem. A Symbol of Freedom. The big bronze bell with the familiar rent in its side has been the symbol of liberty and free expression to countless millions of Americans since the new republic embarked on its perilous enterprise in the year 1776. The crack came into the bell hen it tolled the funeral of Justice Marshall in 1835. In the raised letters which adorn its crown it is proclaimed that the bell was cast by Pass & Stow in the year 1753 by order of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania for the new state house "erected shortly before in that city." However, the great bell could make other claims It could claim but it does not that it was the first bell turned out in an American foundry This, then, is the background in which the first Independence day was cast, and all should be familiar with it. The spirit of liberty which glowed from the pages of the immortal Declaration has been the guiding star of the American people from that far day to this. The pattern of liberty which was fashioned then has been woven into all of our Axisf'-whe- Include Him Out! A favorite Gold-wy- n snapper, story isn't a to hear a Liberty editor tell it It's a yarn that throws a spotlight on the famed producer. Mr. Goldwyn sent for Edward Chodorov to discuss writing a picture. He was shown a script. He he didnt think it would told Goldw-yOf course, make a good flicker Goldwyn didn't hire him. The story was "Woman Chases Man and was one of Goldwyns few failures. Several years later, Goldwsn The new story Deeded a writer. editor suggested Eddie Chodorov. Goldwyn hit the ceiung "Never mention that name to me, he thundered. "I won't have him around. He was connected with one of my worst flops! one-lin- e The Dept of Justice is working probing backgrounds of a crowd of candidates for various Federal benches . . Admiral Kim- mel, suspended following the Pearl Harbor disaster, was cheered by 200 at a of his Annapolis college-mate- s Washington dinner recently . . . Readers Digest, which advertises 4 million circ, has 5. over-tim- e New York Heartbeat: The Big Parade: Eve Curie, chin cupped m hand, studying the Hudson from a Claremont Inn ringside table . . . Jeanne Cagney, Jimmys . . kid sister, a refreshing breeze Lieut. J. Bryan, 3rd, of the Curtis mags, and his bride doing the midtown before shoving off to a naval Dean indoctrination school . . Murphy, the mimic of FDR Bnd other treating the Loews Staters to his art Memos of a Midnighter: Lord Mountbatten, while here, dwelled at the Lowel1 Hotel under the name of . Major i nulips . Billy Conns chums say he needs a fight too, to pay income taxes of $11,000 . Add to the Fergoodnessakes Dept: Brig Genl Hale's punch line about Midway: "The Navy found the en emy and the Army. Navy and Marines gave 'em hell!" was edited by some radio stations to gave em the works!" . . , The Havs Office changed the movie title- "The Magnificent Jerk to "The Magnificent and what happens7 In the Dope, film, the word jerk is heard three times. . - Polo Grounds Vignette: Johnny . Long and Bob Chester relay it Both stood, of course, when the National Anthem prefaced the game . . . Directly m front of them stood a bloke wearing his sombrero . . . Bob tapped him lightly on the shoulder and said. "How about your mil. , . "Oh, I forgot, was linery? the reply, "I'm so sensitive about being bald . . . You're in good said Johnny, "so'g the company, American Eagle! . . How is the war going? On the neutral exchanges in Switzerland the Nazi mark has taken a terrific dive dropped 20 per cent in the last two wks. And to our whiners about inflation: The U. S f has gone up correspondingly in Zurich . . . Hanson Baldwin, naval expert, believes the war will last seven.jears One important exec (not FDR) believes that by 1945 Germany will again belong to the Germans and that Hitler will belong to the historians . . . H. L. Menckens next book will be reminiscences of his mag days . . . V Released by Western Neuspaper In.on. 1, bandagts Linked With By CHARLES A. SINGLER les 6 0 pen hae lutheir at sea in an effort to dt'ier g, iso-i e fur pleasure dr rg m the EastTh s n er s that the ern States gas shortage is no lv ger a qiitst til of buri irg gasoline It is now a matter of burning conscience Some people and certain newspapers continue to grumble about But our armed their loss of gas forces hae jet to protect their loss Amerof blood Thtre are icans con plaining tidsy that tl cy may have to walk. There are other cusunlt is in battle, Americans, praying that some day tl ey may be able to walk again The measure of their hero sm is the n eu'U'e of the gas slacker s coward ce The gas s acker has h,s coi slitut onal riglhs mixed up with his drner s lieei se He tint Ks that 10 n illu n Americans are ready to stand "behind a gm so that be can sit behird a whiel It neecr occurs to h,m that cheat.rg an ambulance out of its gasoline is as rotten as cheat.i g the wounded out of them -t Presidential Peace Plan institutions, as well as into our speech and our evervday fives. Liberty is an esei tial jart of all of us We draw it in with the very air we breathe. It is mconceiv alle thrt a country nurtured in tl ese fine traditiorj could ever accept the Joke of a foreign power, or that the flame of liberty should ever burn out on these shores Those who in their arrogance thought that it might planned badly indeed Liberty Pell Rings Again. And so the liberty bell has rung again Its fiist reverberations were hear4 from the U S,S Augusta, in the North Atlantic, at the time the Atlantic Charter was wr tten The bell pealed st.U louaer when America entered the war But this time its reverberations were heard throughout the world, guaranteeing to all peoples that freedom winch is the divine heritage of all This Fourth of July will differ, both in celebration and in spirit, from other Fourths of many years past. Once more America is at war, but this time we fight not alone for our own liberty but for the liberties of conquered countries and for those nations whose liberties are threatened by the aggressor nations. The Changing Times. The fishing trips and the basket picnics of last Fourth and earlier Fourths W'iU largely be converted this year into trips to training camps Lend-Leas- e - t Pattern Advances Made by America Looked Upon As Contributions to a Common Pool Instead of Loans. By BAUKIIAGE muts i 4 oraer J V II Street, YY ashing ton, D. C. President Roosevelt has completely nvtrsed tlie ancient sl gan "In tune of peace prc--j are fur war," to make it read, In time of war preW'SV Service, 1343 pare for peace i Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Bell. r., home of onr Liberty domira'ed countries who will owe their liberty to the efforts of America and tlie other Un'ted Nations ergaged in file struggle for world freedom. A Quiet Fourth Expected. Indications now point to the quietest Fourth m many vears Regulations issued last March by the Federal Explosives Conti ol bet (Rated a ban on the sale of fireworks and "turj cdoes" of fie fireworks varie5 he measure was designed to ty save materials needed for munitions and at the same time lessen file danger of fires However, fins ban has been somewhat modified since then to dispose of stocks on hand Amended regulations forbid giant crackers and rockets of the "supr-dupe- r variety but allow manufacture and sale of firecrackers not more than five inches long, of torpedoes containing less than five grains of explosives, and all other works within specified size limitations. During the motoring years that stretch behind us the Fourth has been marked each year with a great flux of auto travel from city and country and vice versa. This year, Because it is an axiom that the man behind the gun has to keep his mind on the gun, ard the nun be- hind the man bthrnd the gun has to koep'his mind on the man bihmd tlie gun, it isn t safe for people as a whole to look too far beyond tlie baibed wire. That is why there hasnt been muth talk about the plan. A nation m tlie death grip finds it risky to turn its attention from the brutal nteds of the moment to humanitarian hopes for the But a formula is being future. worked out that has the astounding purpose cf using the very fires of war to forge a weapon for peace. Hints of the program were revealed, partly between the lines, m a document wh.ch made up tlie Presidents last quarterly statement on the lend lease operations, and partly m tlie Piesidents address to the assembled representatives of 'he United Nations on Flag day Both references hark back to an idea set forth in an article which appeared in these columns long before we entered the war. That article said that Secretary Hull had a oiled and ready "peace machine for use when the moment arrived. "Secretary Hull," it stated, "believes that tlie roots of war grow m the soil of evil economic conditions, that war cannot be prevented unless nations indulge in mutually profitable trade. the Mutually profitable trade, secretary believes, can only be achieved when there are mutual concessions and mutual benefits in other words, the basis of world trade must be reciprocal trade, to be brought about by means of the famous Hull reciprocal trade agreements. The President in his last report to congress clarified the a meaning meaning of "benefit, which of course has changed since America entered the war since with our own military fighting forces has now become a The President very real factor. made it plain that now that we e are at war the principle as it develops removes the possibility that a condition or finance will affect the full use of all material resources because the advances made by America are not loans but contributions to a common pool with which the common war is being waged. So much for the part is to play in war. Now to its role in the peace plan . The President said If the promise of the peace is to be fulfilled, a large production among nations must be restored ahb sustained This trade must be founded on stable exchange relationships and liberal principles of commerce. "Liberal principles of commerce can only refer to reciprocal trade and tlie President concludes that the lend lease settlement will rest on a specific and detailed program for achieving these ends which are the "material foundation of the liberty and welfare of all peoples. tranter pattern contains a and two bv 4- stnemes matenaus sotenes u eh 13 a of our lllusD-auor- s Send required to Benin Circle Needlecraft Dept, Minna St. San frrancuco, Calif. Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to coier cost of mailing) fur Pattern 117 LaLilj No Aeuj 4nahst and Commeniator. it by IS1 ci lor of a ... Name of the principles of the Atlantic Crarter which in turn lists the four freedoms One of the four freedoms is freedom from want which at or ce involves economics and the most intimate interest of man, his persona! At the Flag day celtbra welfare tion at the White House fur the first Lme since we entered the war the President offered to the German and tlie Japanese pec pie, over the heads of their governments the hope that they might share the benefits of an Allied victory. For tlie first time there has been a direct official contradiction of the charge contmualy dinned into German ears by Herr Goebbels that defeat means their destruction. The Pres. dent offered them the oj posne. He said in his Flag day sjieech. "YYe ask the German people, still dominated bv their Nazi whether they would rathir have the mechanized hell of Hitlers new order or in place of that, freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and from fear," He made an identical appeal to tlie Japanese people. Without attempting to attack 01 defend the pract cability of tlie President s plan or the theories upon which it is based, it is significant that an effoi t is being made First, to use a war weapon (lend lease) to blaze a trail to peace; second, to provide an econom.c basis for the r restoration and, third, to make use of both of these factors in driving a wedge between the enemy peoples and their governments by offering them hope of something better than what they have. from Many Fields Mary members of the New York Stock exchange have unusual occupational backgrounds, says Colliers. For example, the roster today includes a former undertaker, jockey, explorer, magician, prize fighter, army general, baseball player, vaudeville dancer, and a night-clu- b singer. There is also an ordained minister, the Reverend Chester Apy, who bought his seat in 1939 and still preaches every Sunday in the Church of the Second Advent in Eatontown, N. 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Large Flowering Flant The worlds largest flowering plant, the Amorphophallus tita-nuof Sumatra, which sometimes reaches a height of more than eight feet, has blossomed, while unMeet Rags 11, der cultivation, in only eight STARS and STRIPES Mascot known cases, the last two being in the New York Botanical Garg Recently I interviewed a who probably will become familiar den in 1937 and 1939. m war-do- to all of you because the exploits planned for him are such as no dog ever had before He is "Rags II, mascot of the new army newspaper YANK which is the successor to the STARS and STRIPES, the army paper printed in Paris during the last war Rags II is a successor," too to the original Rags, who would have been mascot of the STARS and STRIPES if he hadn't been so thoroughly devoted to one of the staff, Corporal Tip" Bliss, his master. Rags grew to be a tradition and he Is perhaps a solar mth by this time.' He could understand Fngilsh, French and Elizabethan in which be was usually addressed by his master who was a scholarly person. , After marching over most oi France and learning some of the less polite corners of Paris, Rags came back to America with his This Fourth of July will find American boys celebrating the Declaramaster. Neither ever completely tion of Independence on many fronts throughout the world. Picture shows settled down Tip worked on newsa group of typical U. S. fighting men who are manning our Caribbean depapers and WTote pulp fiction. Rags fenses. They are equipped with modern Garand rifles and wearing moslived out his cycle as carefree and quito helmets. These finely conditioned mqp are experts in bush warfare. disheveled as his master. Tip acquired Rags who was a curly black throughout the land to visit soldiers, however, the scene wail change conspaniel of some sort at some French sailors, marines and airmen of because the siderably rationing port when he landed The two never Millions who formerly of tires and gas Hundreds of workparted, until the end. tn countless men who sought pleasure have been accustomed on ways in Rags was never formally inducted or will find country city strange the Fourth to drive far into the couninto the army and he got very little new delight in wielding the hoe or try will spend this Fourth bending publicity but his shaggy, waggy pushing the cultivator in victory gar- over lathe machines or putting TNT memory lives green m the heart of dens all over the land. Many, too, into shells to whittle down the Axis every STARS and STRIPES man. will glean with pride and satisfacAuto fatalities which usually reach YYhen YANK was given its send-of- f tion some of tlie agricultural re- the years peak over the Fourth of at a banquet in New York a few wards of early springtime efforts, to July holiday will probably be much of the old STARS and STRIPES staff be placed on the Fourth of July talower tms year. were present, among them "Wally Peace Practical Machine ble For never before in the history A Happy Day for Children. (the cartoonist, YYalgren), buddy of of our country has there been such That word "material is imporThe Fourth has been one of the Tip and Rags. A part of the cerea trend towards "grow your own" as tant in it is the promise of because mony was a presentation by Wally happiest days of the year for chilm tlie spring of 1942 dren in the past However, it must a practical peace mi chine which of Rags II to youthful Captain Thousands of boys who celebrated will supply the very quality, the lack be admitted that the Fourth of July Spence, who is executive head of of which doomed the League of the new last Fourth in the trad.tional Amerithese later years has become paper during can way will celebrate it this year Nations from the start. All the exAfterward when I slipped up to mainly a holiday for file children, In Iceland, in Chiefno in foreign lands how that matter perts agree a few comments from the new get and the s.gmficance of file day fective the covenant of the na, Ireland. Australia and 26 other has beenlarger League Rags who is even raggier than his lost in the rat of the battle front firecracker been have had been it outposts of our carried namesake for he is part poodle, he and the boom of the might the Declaration will be duly celebrat- rocket with its spray of colored fire out, it could not possibly have was finishing off part of a steak ed. On aircraft carriers, battleships, worked because it in the mam ig- right up on top of the main and stars against the darkening evebanquet I It table. cruisers, destroyers, subs and mineHow the children "ave nored economic relationships. sky ning was a political machine and you and flying sweepers, on was He afin most fact friendly, around this pestered their cant eat or wear polities. fortresses, tribute will be paid to time to break parents 1 fectionate, but not loquacious. down all restraints The that first grand Fourth of July And and resolutions for a safe and sane couldnt get a word out of him as policy, therefore, it wont be done with firecrackers! Fourth" and yield to their implor-ing- s although a dynamic part of the war to his plans. But I figured he had efforts of the United Nations, conEke all army just gone hush-husWidening Range of the Fourth. to buy them just a few cracktains m the belief of its authors, the people and was afraid that enemy While the Fourth of July has been ers before they are all sold out!" r basis for an effective reears might be listening. a major American holiday from The celebration for years has start- construction plan. However, from other sources, ed around the middle of June. One time Immemorial, it has been strictAnd now we come to the second usually considered reliable as the ly an American holiday with little could always tell that the Fourth evidence that its supporters believe papers say, I found out that Rags f7 more than passing press notices in was just around the corner by the d make it a sword, striking II is about to travel to Australia, there of crack lands firecrackers is or However, the of boom foreign for peace and victory at tlie same Iceland, Ireland and perhaps other s reason to believe that those counL noises that would time. fronts as yet undisclosed. For tries which are not under the Nazi have shocked us into investigation a The recently promulgated h YANK will follow the troops and The famous old Liberty Bell which heel will hail the Fourth this year few weeks earlier. Boyish celemutual assistance Rags II will follow YANK. He will announced the Proclamation of the as never before It may even be- brants were everywhere, and measand the Roosevelt-Molotoprobably be the most traveled army come an international holiday after ured their patriotism by tlie amount treaty adoption of the Declaration of Indeagreement both contain affirmation dog In history. Axisin of those at noise were least is pendence on July 4, 1776. to won, able make. they victory Many of us can look back to the days when no celebration of the anniversary of Independence was conAmenc.r.s in and out of school civilians on the home front merits sidered complete unless somebody by are rapidly seeking knowlecge of far more attention than it huS been had at least two fingers blown off. regions which the nations armed g.ven here, according to Johnson In those days all smart dogs left for More than 86 million motor veOnly four motor vehicles were forces may be called upon to deE Fairchild, instructor in g'ogra-ph- y parts unknown about two weeks in hicles have-beproduced in this registei ed In this country in 1895. fend. They want to know bow the and world affairs at Cooper advance.. The Fourth was a of day country in the past 42 years. loss of a seemingly remote country Union "Brightly colored maps, he gayety, of festivity, and basket picA nation-wid- e Boy YYar Bonds program designed to can affect the supply of commodipoints out, "greet German children nics, a day when the brass band The vocational schools of the na- promote a new degree of safety in ties and food products which the w their kindergarten classes and played on ell day long under the tion have set a goal of training two military pilot training will divide American household has taken for follow them through every stage of shade of the oaks and maples, and and a half million men and women the nation into ten new safety regranted. - Many have relatives going the r education, but in tus country the amber fluid Bowed freely down for war production jobs djring the gions Regional directors will be to battle,stations in distant areas. geography has been relegated to a parched and dusty throats These next year and thereby equal their appointed to educate the military The war has demonstrated that minor position in just about every are the dear dead Fourths of long record of the past two years. pilot in safe flying habits. the study of geography, even by primary and secondary school. ago. 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This tatica has its main studios and transmitter at Ogden, but its growing importance and increasing popularity necessitated the establishment of a studio in Salt Lake from which to originate many features that are only available in Utahs capital City. The Newhouse Hotel was chosen as the location for this studio because of its central location, its fine facilities and the many activities that center here. Included in the plans is the broadcasting of many of the special events and fine features that occur weekly in the hotel. Listen to KLO broadcasting from its Salt Lake studio in the Newhouse Hotel. I Daukhage vm ?U tr III ti, ' 1j.i ., iii . S t IJ J 1 |