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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM, UTAH - THE FLEET'S ON GUARD! poinU and get safely back to flu Hawaiian base. With Howland, Baker and Jarvii Islands now American possessions being developed for refueling and aviation purposes, the United States government holds a strong positior in the South Pacific. America alsc owns Palmyra island in that vicin-ity- , which has a quiet lagoon suit-able for seaplane landings. Kiska in the Aleutians is one of the six American ports closed to foreign shipping and over which no civilian aircraft is permitted to fly without approval by the government. Meanwhile, the military establish-ment in Hawaii hasn't been neglect-ed. It has become the most im-portant defense center of the na-tion. It Is estimated that approxi-mately $100,000,000 has been spent on fortifications alone. Many a world power is now angry with itself for not having annexed more of the several hundred small islands that dot the Pacific, and which are now looming more impor- - Uncle Sam's 'Battlewagons' Leave West Coast Bases For Greatest Maneuvers in Nation's History With Hawaii Serving as Focal Point By JOSEPH W. LaBINE Its movements shrouded with secrecy, the strongest bat-tle fleet the United States has ever seen is sailing from home bases at San Pedro and San Diego this month to compete in the most extensive and strenuous naval maneuvers in the nation's history. This will be no child's play under a warm tropical sun. Instead the battle chiefs are sending their iron-cla- d mon-sters as far north as the Aleutian islands that "drip" off the frigid west coast of Alaska. Here some ships will wrk un-der the most unfavorable wartime conditions possible. Mean-while others will "fight" as far as 1,500 miles below Hono-lulu. Announced last December when America was worrying 'strenuously over Japan's aggressive attitude, the maneu-vers may well be considered a stage show for Nippon's bene-fit, though official Washington has denied it. And inten-- tant for naval purposes. Today for the first time it is apparent that the nations which control the islands are those which control the Pacific itself. Japan's Tacific Power. France, Portugal, Germany and The Netherlands have disappeared as strong contenders for Pacific power. The last to leave was Ger-many, and its place was taken by Japan which was given most Ger-man possessions under mandate at the treaty of Versailles. Under this mandate Japan took virtual posses-sion of a strip of the Pacific 2,500 miles long from east to west and 1,200 miles wide. She acquired 623 Islands, including the Marianas group (with the exception of Guam); the Marshall islands; the Caroline islands; and the Palau is-lands. tional or otherwise the war games will focus national at-tention on the navy just when congress is considering Pres-ident Roosevelt's recent arm-ament appropriations bill. The casual layman witness-ing this display of maritime power will probably be moved to stick out his chest with pride. Not so the navy's commanders, however, who will probably view the re-sults of the war games as very tangible evidence that America needs more battle-ships. With other nations de-veloping longe range cruisers and airplanes, the vast Pacific be-comes more difficult to defend. Fewer refueling islands are needed by an approaching enemy; they can r" - - i of the Pacific has been the focal point of annual maneuvers for sev-eral years. But this spring, for the first time, the navy's show will be diffused over the entire eastern Pa-cific, piling even higher the evi-dence that Hawaii is tremendously important in protecting our west coast. Without it, our first line of defense would be the mainland-Califor- nia, Oregon and Washington. If foreign nations have strength-ened their position in the Pacific with long-rang- e cruisers and planes, America is helping its position by developing several strategic islands as refueling points and refuges for bombers. These include such bar-ren spots as remote Howland island, 1,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. Re-cently a navy bomber flew this dis-tance and return. The feat attracted little attention, yet it was tremen-dously important. A few years ago, the flight range Since Japan Is probably the only nation from which the United States has anything to fear in the Pacific, the Versailles mandate now looms highly important Japan can estab-lish naval bases almost halfway across the ocean from her horns shores and within 2,500 miles of Hawaii, within easy striking dis-tanq- e. But she has not yet estab-lished these bases, and Uncle Sam has made his Hawaiian islands so I - 4 ' ' ! i - t ' ' -- .5 , . , a. impregnable as to discourage the most optimistic would-b- e attacker. Which once again emphasizes the islands' importance, since an ene-my from the west would almost have to gain possession of Hawaii before attacking the United States. Oahu, the island on which Hono-lulu is located, is circled by a coast railway on which guns can be moved quickly to stave off any at-tack. Latest anti-aircra- ft weapons are ready for the enemy, including huge horns capable of picking up the sound of aircraft miles away. This sound is transferred to candle-powe- r searchlights. Once the enemy plane is bathed in light, range-findin- g devices auto-matically aim the guns on the tar-get. Quietly Uncle Sam has been expanding his territory in the Pacific. Through colonization he has annexed Howland, Baker and Jarvis islands, none of great commercial value but important as military landing fields. U. S. Joins the Race. Talk of guns and battleships and fleet maneuvers may sound strange to American ears today, and more take a long "end run" around Ha-waii and unless America's first line of defense is close at hand, there's apt to be trouble. Almost 175 men of war, about 500 planes and 50,000 to 60,000 men are participating in this gigantic affair, all under the command of Admiral Claude C. Bloch, recent successor to Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn as CINCUS of the fleet. Aircraft Carriers Help. Three aircraft carriers, Saratoga, Lexington and Ranger, are carrying their brood of war birds to Ameri-ca's first line of defense. Mighty battleships, slim destroyers and cunning submarines will play vital roles in this make-believ- e conquest and protection of the Pacific. The 1938 defense problem centers around Pearl harbor in the Terri-tory of Hawaii. Known as the na-vy's largest base, this beauty spot of army and navy planes was 150 miles. That is, a plane could carry only sufficient fuel to fly out from its base 150 miles and return. There-fore aviation patrols were limited to circles of 140 miles around Ha-waii, the Panama canal, Alaska and the west coast of the mainland. The new long-distanc- e bombers have plugged the "holes" this system left in our defense net. No Sieve Here! When that navy bomber made the trip from Honolulu to Howland, it announced to the world that Uncle Sam's Pacific defense was a wall, not a sieve. It meant that observa-tion planes, the eyes of the fleet, could scout from Hawaii to the Aleu-tians, from Hawaii to Howland, from Hawaii to Midway. It also meant that bombers could carry their deadly cargoes between any of these than one individual will wonder why all this bustle about defending the Pacific. But in Wash-ington, where congress is building a program that will give the United States a navy "second to none," the matter is of vital importance. Actually our navy is not in the best of shape, and we are entering the rearmament race five years behind the leaders. The impossibility of America's continued abstinence from this mil-itary program is a growing convic-tion with more Americans every day, though a peace-lovin- g nation may rebel at the thought of building for war. As we turn our eyes west to the sinking sun, though, we'll be as-sured that no trouble will come from that direction before dawn j again lifts the Pacific's night shroud. The fleet's on guard! Western Newspaper Union. Ifc ll Sta ' iTlIE reflected rays of the noonday sun flash from the pane9 , of the great factory. A siren sounds. The whir of machinery stops. It is the . lunch hour. From his office window the "Old Man" looks out at the smoking chimneys across the tarred roofs of the far-flun- g plant whose prod-ucts are shipped by rail and sea to every nation. A boy brings a tray with a raw apple, a bottle of milk and some crackers. The "Old Man" is lunching at his desk. As he watches the workers swarm--I ing out of the factory, he 6ees a crowd collecting at the gate. Presently a man who is standing on a packing case begins to wave his arms. He is a swarthy little jman with a black mustache. The j"01d Man" can't hear what he is 'saying but he can guess. The "Old Man's" salary was published in yesterday's newspaper. His in-come runs into six figures more than the salary of the President of the United States. The man speaking from the pack-ing case is a professional agitator. It is his job to make the workers discontented with their lot "Soak the rich,' he cries. He doesn't care how much the "Old pa J, Jian pays out in taxes. " Down with capital! he is shout-ing. "Down with the 'Old Man'!" At the fringe of the crowd a young man is eating a sand-wich from his dinner pail. The "Old Man" recognizes the young man. He is the 6on of Charlie Pedersen, a foreman in the tool room. He has been studying mechanical engineering at night school. Young Pedersen is not paying much attention to the man on the packing case. As he munches his sandwich he is think-ing excitedly "A salary like that is something to work for! The 'Old Man started at the bottom just like me. It's ability that counts. I have ability. Some day my pay check will be as big as that!" The "Old Man" did start at the bottom, and he is proud of it Five thousand men and women work for the great company and he holds the helm. Their trust, their hopes are in his hands. The "Old Man" never went to college, yet his laboratories are filled with graduates from the best schools in the land. His alma mater was a backwoods schoolhouse where he trudged through the snow in copper-toe- d leather boots, McGuffey'8 Reader in his hand. With most of the men and women who work for the com- - pany, "Old Man" is a term of genuine affection. They are puzzled when they hear the agitator on the packing case describe him as an octopus. There are white-haire- d men on the pay roll who can remem-ber way back when the plant was a little one-stor- y building and the "Old Man" was a tow-heade- d boy who carried water for the foundry. As the "Old Man" looks out the window he is not worried about the man on the packing case or what he is saying. He has met his kind many times before. He is worried more about what is happening in America to-day and about the eager, bright-eye- d son of Charlie Pedersen. He is worried lest the sickness that has seized upon the rest of the world spread its infection through America; worried lest all the isms and insidious doctrines of alien places de-stroy our greatest heritage. Land of the free, and home of the brave! He thinks of Washington and Patrick Henry, of Jefferson and Lincoln. lie thinks of the thousands of brave Americans who have faced the wilderness, who have laid down young lives on Freedom s altar. He thinks of his own father walking beside his creaking wagon, crossing the Alleghenies, with a rifle in his hand, lie thinks of his birthplace, an humble cabin on an Ohio farm chopped out of the hardwood. He reviews his own life, from its lowly beginning to his present proud position in industrial America. I'Isn't the essential difference," he asks, "between this Amer-ic- a of ours and all the polyglot nations of the earth, that this has always been a free land where men of ambition the dizziest scale heights?" The social may register of American busi-nes- s is filled with the names of men who came into the world with empty hands. Is the man on the packing case right? What does he offer in exchange? 1 here must be bosses under any system. Isn't the better boss a man who has worked his way from the bottom man who to the top, a ,s a good boss because he understands the problem? It would be too bad, the "Old Man" thinks, if the sonf Cha, he Pedersen should miss the opportunity that is his by hentage. It would be too bad if America should become like other countries, so regimented and politician-rule- d that h would n0 ,onger Le iUe for a to toiJ pluck the prime fruits of reward. For then this country would cms tn. he-A- merica, land of Liberty. sweet Courteiy-Eru- in, ITawy & Co., Inc. PHOT0( PhotoSaS 2 enlargement coupon. PHOTO SAM'S UBORATto HOTELS HOTEL PLANDOME. SALT LAKE 4th Ho. 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