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Show X D TORI I Ike DuerW Nw felt UU City, Ue PEGLER ' Two Puzzles Named For Price Of One We stand for the' constitution of the United States with its three departments of government as therein setforthi each one fully independent in its own field. It By Westbrook Pegler I voting In the s etate constituNEW YORK Ever since last tion aays the Legislature may Nov. 3. the day after election provide condition by which day, except on Saturdays, Sunqualified voters who are an- and days holidays and one week - avoidably absent on necessary when X was off on sick report, 1 business within the United a certain portion of State may vote and eo forth.. each day to a The election law- - says a voter ro puzzle who le unavoidably absent on on business within the United pounded Nov, 3 by my States, which does not include Great Britain, may vote as an tingulshed absentee but must first go colleague, Mrs. Eleanor Roos-evel- t, through some rigrtarole with the elections officials, including a in h e r description of the duties, occucolumn of that pation or business which require Jy- such absence. Being patient and In that little . persistent at puzzles, 1 went to j essay, don the 1 the authorities for Information before, that might help solve this one, Mrs. Roosevelt but even in Albany where there wrote: "This are experts who know all, the Is election day. answer to the mystery remained X One Mr. Pegler year ago . just that. Unless I am correct was In Great Britain 'and tried In my guess, and It is only a -to hard an absentee stab, very get like the- - newspaper voters ballot. However, with guild, that, which permits Mrs. Rooseone delay and another, it reached velt to belpngalthough ineligi- me just about the date I should . ble, because she is so distinguishhave been home and so - Miss ed, the elections officials who her the absentee ballot did Thompson and I both failed In sent so our civic duty last year. for similar informal reasons. This Is really a bargain pm Now some people are sure to le. That Is to say yon get two say that it is impolite to discuss puzzles for the price of one. but 1 doe that sentence mean:" these puzzles In this-wa- ItWhat reached me Just about the date - assure you that this is written admiration as well as perplex-Mis- s I should have been home and so because Mrs. Roosevelt and Thompson and I both failed itv those who sent her the absentee in our civic duty? ballot would seem to have solvDid the ballot reach Mrs. Roosed in an offhand wav a problem evelt while she was still away but which has been giving Congress should have been home and, if and those who believe In the indidnt she vote ItT That tegrity and of the one has stuck me so far but states a great sovereignty deal of honest wor I am still working on it. No rv. That is the problem of the of prompting, please, or you may absentee vote for members ruin my chance for the nine silthe fighting forces who find ver dollars and set me down with themselves overseas, or absent from home within the country nothing but a box of vitamlna. The other puzzle may be statin a presidential year. All this ed follows: "How did Mrs. argument and the disruptive conflicts of opinion and principle Roosevelt qualify for an abcould be solved by the simple exsentee ballot as a citizen of the pedient of passing around abstate of New York?" I believe this is a trick ques- - sentee ballots anyway whatever state law may say to the eon tlon. being that she didnt because the election laws tralY- (Th tploloNi expressed hereto ere the make no provision for absentee writer' wa end are le srdec voting by civilians outside the te present ell side f pahlUhed earrent question limits of the United States unless They Is net eseesserlly tsprseeet th they are in the federal service, eplnions f this paper.) Maybe If's The Russian Sense Of Humor whatever that means. Is, or was, their own state as they are In Mrs. Roosevelt In the federal servthe fate of Galicia and in ths ice, and if so in what branch and on what pay roll is, or was, she future government of Spain. carried and for what duties? They are not as concerned with Again and again and again, to keeping the structure of Amen borrow a term from the president ican representative republican Really Except For Trucks ism as they are with calling dehimself, the people have been asis sured that Mrs." Roosevelt cent, patriotic Americans Fascists men have to wear shorts." where the bars loom up like strictly an independent individual because they believe in governThis Is really primitive. There miners lamps, Yet an ment by constitutional law rather is a strip of mud 20 to 50 feet Otherwise you cant tell the with no official status. -ack-from --the officer out here-th- e absentee- - ballot did reach' her "than by the whim of a pleasing from the men. All of them are somewhere, sometime, which fact, and popular personality. jungle begins. That strip has So they blindly sign petition laid alongside the provisions of been made into a road, on which muddy, and wear their shirts the law, would suggest that for to Congress without reading them in spots the surf washes up un-- . open. the purpose 'of this occasion Mrs. and without knowing what they hwein der your Jeep. Once our car-1 orber wn sn an writer are about. And they sign a petiRoosevelt was regarded as buretor filled witll water The to pmrat lil 14 a( pnbllheS current tion to support a bill which not member of some federal service. driver dried it out with a band" represent th asaritr hl The provision for absentee ptaB only give a vote to soldlersbot ag from his first Aid kit, saying; which alsodeprives a state iof a Thats the most use Ive found right which is inherent in our for th kit. system of government and our Other part of the road are way of life. They petition not in driven through the being support of a law which they have Cars bulldozers. with read and studied, but in favor of swamp are hub-dee- p in the constant a slogan over which there is no People Blindly Sign Many Petitions . battle with the mud, which our I J disagreement. They, sign for th driver say Is far worse than By George E. Sokolsky civics are Inadequately taught, right of a candidate to conduct on Guadalcanal, where R was NEW YORK The other night, if at all, and therefore they, and supervise his own election, more sandy and not ao deep. which is precisely what Hitler poor things, have been deprived after the theater, I dropped in of one of LST the richest heritages did when he got himself his pres. The bow door of "our at Liindys for a sandwich. There of an American citizen, nameent job. opened just before we came into was a crowd and as we waited a Gloucesof the beach east realization of state's ly, Cape (Ths pinion xprs8d hereto ars ths for a table a pretty young ter. It took some minutes to an writer svrn and ars published la ardss righto within the American poked s petition into our faces, ta present all aides of earrent snestlofi. build up a footing under the union. asked us to sign and said it was They do not neeessartly represent ths are not In Interested ramp with sandbags, and with They sf this paper.) spinlaws to get votes for soldiers. I supbeach sand pushed up by a bullSTATEMENT pose something like that ia going X)T CONDITION OT dozer. Then steel mats wer laid on in many places. I was with before our vehicles could com First Federal Savings and Loan Association two Intelligent men, both of off. readthis whom Of Salt Lk. Citr, Salt Laka CiIt, Utah signed petition, Iq order to save time several ing it only casually and swiftly. Sa at Dec am bet 31, lMl of ua went over th side into asked the young woman what ASSETS I boat which the a small Higgins rirat mertrava loan . was about. She 11,171 430 21 petition to We beach. the Other loan. 030 7S pushed ug up that it was to get Congress Loans on pass book and rsrtificatoa . plied 4 029 SB Into surf. off jumped to pass the Green-Luca- s bill. Now, -- b ?eft!Wa ioM under contract 11389547 we In wet. got soaking Although tate owned .. 134 750 19 it look-jnprecisely three hours Investments and eecunise a couple of hours 832 Ml 97 thta DM and cask on hand and in banks iy 152 503 7 14oom"w pletely dry. ynrmtur and equipment (less depreciation) 922 43 tention to the rain, because the Deferred charges and other asset 3.29587 , some matters of law check for . air ia warm andsoon dries you TOTAL ASSETS which my education has inade92,900 089 M me. But this quately prepared -sloyoung woman, shouting the LIABILITIES asgan Votes for Soldiers! MAn ben ihars accounts " $2,098 307 38 Advance she ail and sured from Federal Nome Loan Bank 480 453 89 . sundry that Borrowed monev . lil . 135 240 20 knew that it was a good measLoanaiB urocea- a00 ure and theyrsignedWlthourever' ' Other liahintie Jfl 060 43 read the bill, which Is, tQu ..having lagepreparatthn. citisay the least, unintelligent On1? a few of the men ashore re wearing steel helmets, as zenship. The young woman said that re hea an,? are required th the army and navy were for tlle up ne. which is bill. I asked her how sho the f1? miles back from three or Jour ' ! have-devote- f Shall Ve Sing, 'Let Four Freedoms Ring?' dls of us MANY were they handed down by government -They got their freedom by fighting government and then binding it in chains" as Jefferson said. The less free government was, the more free men were. And, as Pettengill points out with just freedom, none of which came from government but was asserted against" government, our fathers did pfetty well. and A half, our seven per go. In. a century cent of the worlds people acccumulated 45 per cent of the worlds wealth. - By 1920," we could buy more of the goods " and comforts of life -- than 435,000,000 . people living in England, France, Italy, And in our own day, two World Spain and 10 other European Germany, Wars have, been precipitated by govern- v We had more purcombined. countries mentg of some nations trying to force a billion Asiatics. than power chasing their will on the people of other nations We .wasted . and. threw... away... enough. Americas founding fathers well knew" f00d to"feed40 million Frenchmen. New that too much government was libertys York City had more telephones than greatest enemy. So in the Constitution all of Russia. Several American states they reserved freedom and. liberty to each had more automobiles than Gerthe people and specifically delegated to many or France or Italy or England. government those powers which are Freedom. Just plain freedom. Not necessary for government It was recfreedom granted by government, but ognized as fundmental that we, the peofreedom from government. Our fathers ple, should be the source of all power did not cry 'Let four freedoms ring.' and authority. Nor did they sing Sweet land of 11 libBut now, right in the midst of one of erties," Pettengill reminds. Now we - these wars for freedom, we find govern- - . have on paper four, 11 or 19 freedoms ment all powerful and all important and less liberty. again, but promising to dispense some Talking about the four freedoms, freedom- - and liberty to the people after Prof. Malcolm McDermott of Duke Unithe shooting is over. How did things versity law school, had this to say: The get all twisted this way? four freedoms set forth in the Atlantic Some months before Pearl Harbor, Charter readily are obtainable in any government awarded us four freedoms. government prison. You can enjoy freeBut Henry Wallace thought four freedom of speech and of worship, for there doms were not enough, so he added will be no one interested in interfering. seven, making 11. Then last week, the You will enjoy freedom from fear for President asked Congress to pass a labor you will be amply guarded by governdraft law and give the government ment agents. You will enjoy freedom about the only power it does not now from want, for government will supply have, the power to tell you when, where, you with shelter, food and clothing." how you must work, at what and for On the same subject, Frederick C. how much. And in return for the Crawford, business man. Insists that the!r hej: only a man in j air cariT enjoy "the four gave the promise of a second bill of He can pray all he wants, freedoms. rights, containing another eight ecotalk all day, and get three meals a day, nomic liberties. and his worst enemy cant get at him. But what government falls to tell us Surely this is the final freedom free- - j Is how it is going to put all these rights dom from freedom, and freedoms into effect The truth of Mr. McDermott spent year? in Europe the matter is: It is not going to put studying the methods by which dictatorthem into effect; because it can not ships fastened their control on citizens Government is not the source of in Germany and Italy. It is his solemn bounty.- - It cannot give the people anyjudgment that there is being foisted thing without taking it away from them upon us National Socialism, that is, - first But it maytry to give us a none other than system by completely usurping all of government," or Hitlerian fascism. human freedom. It amounts to giving up Yet, the advocates of what is happenfreedom on the promise of security. ing to us In this country have the gall to call their critics As Former Rep. Samuel B. Petten- The fascists. gill has written, our fathers had freeplanners are trying to take us back 200 doms. They didnt number them: nor years . . . and in the name of progress. seem to be forgetting that all down through history mans fight 'for freedom has been a pitched battle against too much government The English wrung a measure of free(King John) dom from government when they got the Magna Charta at Our forefathers 1 Runnymede in 1215. and its dictation at government fought Concord and Lexington nearly 1.70 years The French .and Russian revolutions were bloody, frenzied' revolts against government, supreme and tyran-"nica- -- day L last-freedo- Jew-freedo- t the-Germ- an ms" Think This Over On The Home Front attention has been called by the. boys at the Tooele Ordnance Depot to the following purported letter from a -draft board in which there is much food for serious thought If the letter never was sent it should have been, for it contains some excellent ideas that it would be well for "all civilians, as well as young men seeking termination of --their -- jnilitary cally essential occupations, to" keep in mind. With the thought that it has a "NUR message Tor all Americans, regardless of where they are serving, we are , producing the letter -- beret-. as You are classified in Class a necessary man in a critical occupation-- Uj an industry essential to the war effort Someone went to the army in your" - ' place. You have been excused from military. service 'for the present. So far as we know you would make a good soldier There are about 2,000 men, many of them your friends, from this small - county in the armed forces. All are sworn to obey superior officer and to defend: with their Jives the small part of the fighting front Intrusted to them. Many of them are homesick and without money. In a real way they are making" our lives more secure. You have the obligation to prove to the community that this local board was right in its judgment that your work -- 2-- i is more important for the good of all men, who, like you, are trying to serve their country. You can show that they are-rig- ht or you can show they made . a mistake. We know of at least five boys who have gone through this office who will never, return. That we had a part in . someone went In your place and perhaps will not return should be a serious thought for you. . Those of us who cannot do as the -2,000 have don can make them and their-futu- re more secure by doing our best work in our humdrum jobs at a type--writ- er or a Diesel engine. Maybe we can make our jobs as Important as a soldier's in Algiers. We certainly must try. These thoughts help us get up in the" morning when you dont want to and help us keep going when we are tired. Lets try and get others to feel : and work that way, too." That the men and women, young" ,and old, in civilian occupation in this nation, will heed the words of the above communication is to be desired. And that alt shall perform uncomplainingly - the task at hand until this bitter and .distasteful Job is done is something that must be done. Let there be no shirkers in this emergency. We were up University way the other evening and when we stuck our head in Kingsbury Hall we Saw Dr. C. Lowell Lee directing a rehearsal for a. coming musical: Meet Mr. Wolf. At that moment, rehearsals going too good, ' and once -- yr so,-wh- the-answ- er CUPPER -- 712:; Fighting On Cape Gloucester By Raymond Clapper THE MARINES WITH -- Cape Gloucester Our Wireless) yellow LST-boa- at beach t- 9:15 AT (By hit a.m. run from after a its New Guinea base. This Was where marine of veterans G u a d alcanal on went In 36-ho- Dee. 26. In 19 days after the landming our force arine ashore had to multiplied six times the original landing strength, .which if an. indication of how fast w are able to bring up reinforcements. Already a beach area of six or eight miles has become an enormous supply dump. - I carried a box of K rations ashore, and a mess kit, thinking there might atill be trouble getting chow. But I was wrong. In fact, I tried to give my rations away and nobody would take them. Capt. Frank O. Hough, of Cornwall on Hudson, N. Y said they had more than they could eat. - - The sight as we approached shore wa almost like gigantic ant ' pression was one of crawling movement everywhere. I could eee numerous trucks plowing back and forth along the beach road. These must be more JhanaXhouaand -- trucks and Jeeps te th am tween Hill 660, which 1 on end of our line, and the air. field at the tip of Cape Gloncrs- tee, about a dozen miles uway. We saw scores of men in ths .water most of them. nakecj. - Some Were bathing witl goap, soms were washing clothes, others-were -heaving -- sand- bags to build up a smootn runwav from the ramps on the LSTs beached on either side. When you see nalced men you know , you are at the front. said, LI. Col. Philip La Follette, with whom I was traveling. As toon as ths nurses corns in, the , i- - well-dresse- d ater-to-where -b- j( hip-hig- h e VnyViu"dI? 1 , 194-9- - Z n J,a 8! Wear whatever gives them th best concealment from snipers. Most of them, including officers, wear green coveralls. All the officers and men except General Rupertus wea- r- green GI caps with medium visors, the officers pinning the insignia of their rank pn the front of their caps. OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed SfaHwIliSSu 1 and Knox were " who could not resist taking Jobs with the New Deal In which neither believed, she was very, very doubtful, her knowledge of the political facto of her own country being such aa MAIIILINCRS to It is. The slogan Votes for Soldiers'-Ir- T connection with the Green-Luca- s bill is absolute humbug. No one is against votes for soldier Just as no one is against winning the war. No one is opposed to a hill In Congress, within our constitutional structure, which wM facilitate the voting by soldiers in the next election. Those who? signed these petitions to Congress without teed-in- g them ere no more for vote for soldiers then those who refused to eign them. The issue in the Green Luces bill is not vote for soldiers, but whether the tionai election of 1944 la to be Tammany ized as an incident of -bill, the war. The Green-Luca- s at present written, would the flection. It would do more than that, It would deprive each sovereign state of this American union of Its constltu-tiona- i Tight to determine which of Its residents shall enjoy the a bsllot of privilege - Of course,casting 'to many 'New' auloa Yorkers "the America of sovereign states" Is aa alien phrase. They would call ft Fascism. The fact that ft Is a hallowed by at least two of - American tradition and history does not concern them, berause American History Is alien to them. Even though born and bred In this country, they have gone through schools la which American history and ' SEATTLE: PnTE.AW0) GAW FQAweioe n; at V Tam-manyl- By D. N. Alstaph one, now lets trr When the boys and girls had- another. taken their places, he continued: - - "Are job ready I shudder to . - Thats enough think." of , that , Denver; Chicago, Cleveland Hew York, Washington, D. C -- . We thought that waY being just a bit in a hard oq the boya and girls, 'but they while even the usually unperturbed . .didnt Seem to pay much attention to the Dr. Lees was Inclined to soand a bit slam oest out by their director. We listened for a moment longer, discouraged over the lack of rhjthm , , 'm hie young thespians.. andthen discovered why 'Dr. Lees After a particularly bad few 'minutes shudder had failed to dannt his actors hi which the chorus tripped all over one . W and actresses the name --of the song aether, Dr. Lees commented: was "I Shudder to Think. were-n'- t cen-tnrie- lt'gjust like the real movies evea . Primitive, IV Around Town i -- 20 degrees cooler Insider In ETWOTE HOTEL UTAH Ain E.SWEG CALL -- aAeS' - |