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Show I Strategic Outposts for U. S. Defense p r ffi8pil Azores t V CANAtVf CAPE. VERBIS. A .irtHMMHiaiUimWWilWlN ttrO0VMf tiMft'in '"""'- J gimiMiM.i SMirmnniifMi Placing V. S. troops in Iceland in occupation or strategic Atlantic outposts were taken "in order to forestall any pincers movement under-taken by Germany against the Western hemisphere," according to a statement by President Roosevelt. Above map Indicates bow this works. (1) Iceland occupation nullifies any Nazi threat from the north and occupation of Trinidad, and British Guiana (2 and 3) take care of the southern Jaw of the pincer hinged on Vichy-Frenc- h Dakar In Africa. Some sources contend taking over of Azores and Cape Verde Islands (shown In large type) would further greatly strengthen hemisphere defense. Exit Lawes : ' , ,,- - s j lilt n! y i I I Y M- - 1 J. , j ... . ,i y j r" . .M.tm a. - For 21 years Lewis E. Lawes was boss of Sing Sing and now ie Is leaving to be a writer and lecturer. He Is shown taking a last look at his old domain, where as warden he became internationally famous as penologist. Heating thins' 1 , makes itpoureas Small piece, Placed in a U bag W,p nd ing clothing Because thekiuu the workroom of should be provid ! light and air. t Itmakesabildifle. serve hot cold foods oSffli A swinging door kitchen and dining J, venient household 'aid homes. be instaUedinoldai ,1 jlan toHf Town : Secretary of State Cordell Hull has recovered sufficiently from a threatened collapse. He will re-sume the burden of his office and the world soon . . . Mrs. FDR's new radio sponsor may be Brazil at $2,000 a broadcast . . . Hitler's squawk that an American ship is arriving daily in Alexandria Is a lie. It s two ships! . . . Insiders argue that Columnist Joe Alsop was sent to Bombay, India, presumably be-cause there Is no greater distance from Washington. Alsop embar. rassed the White House and the navy by stating In print that his kin, the President, was waiting for an Incident to get us Into war just before he got his naval commission. Carol and Lupescu are concerned about their reception here. Why? They got a most cordial press on their arrival to this hemisphere . . . Hess is supposed to have said that he fled because the stars by which Hitler lives "deserted him after May 12th" . . . Our submarine de--j tectors have been perfected to the point where surface craft can now signal: "Come up for identification or be sunk!" . . . There are models of cargo vessels being tried out in Long Island sound, which are Mr. Hitler's newest headache. For practical purposes these ships are as far out of the water as the subs are under it. Exclusive! Jap subs, manned by German crews, are waiting in the narrow straits of Vladivostok to sink American supplies to Russia ... A great number of German-America- n Bunders will have their citizenship revoked shortlythanks to the splendid work of the Immi-gration Service via Sylvester Pln-dyck- 's office. The Democratic brain trust fig-ures that either Farley or O'Dwyer can lick any G.O.P. candidate for Mayor of New York. Some believe Farley will race against Dewey for Governor, but it may be Farley vs. Wlllkie. A'ofes 0 an Innocent Bystander: Magic Carpet: Ralph Ingersoll, the publisher, now on his way to Russia (to interview Stalin) was complaining to Steve Early at the White House the other day. "Steve," Ingersoll intoned, "those Russians are holding my passport." 'They are?" responded Steve. "And they want us to give them a hundred million dollars worth of machinery!" Steve then called the State Dep't and, before Ingersoll knew it, he was on his way to Moscow. Eyebrow Lifter: Mr. Ingersoll was saying before he left that he had just learned the hardest thing to find in Russia was a Communist "How's that?" he was asked. "Because," he explained, "the population of Russia is 160,000,000, and there are only 5,000,000 party members." Despite the rigid censorship In Germany, the underground manages to circulate the latest news picked up via short-wav- e from England and America. When they want to dis-cuss in public what they heard on BBC, the favorite method Is to say, "Do you know what I dreamed?" and then proceed to relay the news picked up on the foreign station . . . Another popular method is to tell about a speech heard on the Nazi station and praise it and then add how a foreign station cut in with a "lot of lies." The speaker repeats the "lies" he heard, and his listen-ers get the drift . . . Since meetings are verboten in Germany, the anti-Naz- is have become great funeral-goer- s. When a funeral is announced, a mob shows up at the cemetery and, as they walk behind the hearse, they trade information. Add Picturesque Reporting: The best description of the Russianazi tangle, with both sides the other in their communiques, is the New York Times' Edwin L. James' phrase: "The war of the -- typewriters." By Way of Report: They are go-ing to film the life 0f Lou Gehrig. h.ch certainly was a life to ad- - mire. There is plenty of drama he hL KnOth0r bal1 player- - After great for two dec- - mthtio fatdGd- But the baseball if 3 bust of him e b fiZll'T Hisbusthadahome, none. Grover Cleveland Alexander. Cartoon Material: A Nazi snv gleefulv " fy HUU'S aides the Pchline his to decoding office, to vif could frlend-- so make t foursme ing through the f revolving door. MJ TLbm pfBvrPtAttsoH I iff ifn &R?BE'fcAylN CHANGES IN PRESIDENT WASHINGTON. Recent months of war in Europe have made some significant changes In the habits and the outlook of the President. He is more serious, more worried. Also he is more circumscribed. The lat-ter Is important, because It means that he sees fewer people, loses some of his old contacts. During his first eight years In office, probably no President in his-tory was in closer touch with the country as a whole than Franklin Roosevelt. Not only did he see a great number of congressmen, la-bor leaders, business men and poli-ticians during his daily routine, but he traveled more than any other President. Several times a year he took turns round the country, kept his ear to the ground, met all sorts of people. Ever since the International emer-gency, he has stutk close to Wash ington. Not once has he got out into the Middle West, even during the 1940 campaign. Seldom has he gone farther away than New York or down the Potomac. Thus he has missed the relaxation, the rest, and the obvious joy he used to get from his roving junkets. Also he has missed his old personal contacts. Note The President boasts that he rests on a railroad trip, and this is really true. He seems to sleep better on a Pullman, and on occasion orders have been given to the train engineer to stretch out a run between towns in order to give the President extra sleep. More Gold Braid. Roosevelt's contacts thus are lim-ited by remaining in Washington, and in Washington also, he is more circumscribed than ever. He does not see nearly as many members of congress and men from many walks of life as formerly. This is because he is concentrating so much time on national defense and foreign affairs. All important decisions in the state department come across his desk. The freezing of Axis funds, the closing of German-Italia- n consu-lates, the speeches of Secretary Knox, have to get the President's O. K. Important decisions regard-ing the army and navy come to him, and a constant stream of ques-tions regarding OPM and aid to Britain confronts him daily. So the President sees far less oi the men who helped to build up the New Deal, far more of army-nav- y officials, One Dollar Men and dip-lomats. Much of this is unavoid-able, though part of it could be eliminated by more diversification of control. However, this change in the Pres-ident's mode of operation is not as important as the change which grad-ually has crept over his general out-look. On the surface, and in press conference, he is the same old wise-crackin- g Roosevelt. But underneath he is not. No longer does he have the same zest lor what he Is doing. In the old days when he was building PWA bridges and WPA schoolhouses, writing labor laws, crusading for so-cial security, fighting the big utili-ties, he loved every minute of it He was building up, crusading for human needs and human rights. And his enthusiasm was boundless. No War Enthusiasm. Now, however, he knows lhat ev-ery step he takes in foreign policy, every dollar he spends for the navy, every man he inducts into the army, may be a step toward tearing down rather than building up. He believes the steps he is taking are absolutely necessary. But he has no enthusi-asm for them. In other words, he has no enthusiasm for war. Most of the men around Roose-velt believe that war is inevitable, and it may be that he does, too though he has not admitted that publicly. But judging by his hang-ing back in opposition to his more vigorous military-foreig- n policy ad-visers, the President hates and dreads the idea of this nation going into war. He hates the reactions and after-maths of war, and he hates the idea of having history record him as a War President At the same time he believes that ,this country will have to move fast, and if it does not move now it may be too late. For the best definition of an isolationist, Roosevelt firmly believes, is one who by procrastina-tion wants to see his women and children in the thick of the fighting here at home. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Ben Welles, son of Undersecre-tary of State Sumner Welles, is working as a newsman in Panama. Nelson Rockefeller, government worker, gets up at five in the morn-ing, shuns parties, goes to bed at ten. The Rockefeller office has been flooded with requests from movie stars who want to tour Latin Amer-ica. When senators fail to pay their ' bills at the senate stationery room, the disbursing office, instead of dun-ning them, merely docks the amount from their pay checks. j "America," latest popular book-let by David Cushman Coyle, has been officially endorsed by the American Legion, General Federa-tio- n of Women's Clubs, the Council for Democracy, and the selective service board. PI Hail (Kelt'uned by Wern Nawipaper Union.) WE THINK TOO LOCALLY, NOT ENOUGH NATIONALLY THERE IS In America too much local and not enough national polit-ical thinking. We fail to realize that the foundation on which the Repub-lic Is builded Is national In scope, that the national government can, and docs, dominate our entire sys-tem. National legislation can take from the states, and through them, from the counties and municipalities, many of the rights and privileges we have felt belonged to us locally. In our two-part- y system, those of each party are interested in con-trolling the state, county and mu-nicipal patronage and the election machinery of these political sub-divisions. We pick candidates for represen-tatives and senators on the basis of local service to the party, rather than on their ability as statesmen. We continue them in office so long as they produce national funds for local use, or support such minority legislation in which we have a self-ish interest The result of it all is a wild orgy of spending and government by and for minorities. If we do not learn to think nationally along political lines, we will some day awaken to the fact that Washington controls us locally. A MIGHTY FACTOR ' IN COMMUNITY SERVICE THERE IS no institution or busi-ness enterprise that does so much for the community in which it op-erates as the newspaper. Directly and Indirectly, it promotes the in-terests of the community. It pro-duces acquaintanceship, friendship and good will between people of the town and the surrounding farm homes. It works week by week, year after year, for the interests of all. It keeps each Individual in-formed of the joys and sorrows, the comings and goings, the activities of his neighbors. That is a service which promotes the welfare of the community as a whole. It makes of the community, the people of the town and surrounding farms, a homogenous whole. , PARITY PRICES FOR THE FARMER IN 1941 THE GOVERNMENT is to see that the farmer gets the 1904 to 1914 parity price for what he raises. That means, they tell me, that what he may raise this year .is to pay proportionately for as much and as many things bought per year during the years from 1904 to 1914. Just how they figure it out, I do not know, and it is a safe bet that the average farmer will take the government's word as to the an-swer. It Is estimated that it will ' take close to half a billion of gov-ernment dollars to make the differ-ence between what the public will pay for the 1941 crop and what the farmer is to receive. It certainly will take mathemat-ical experts to arrive at the right answer for each farmer, but I do not know how much these experts are to get for the job. Einsteins probably come high. BOTH PARTIES NOW SUBSCRIBE TO DEMOCRACY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS or-ganized and wrote a Constitution for a republic, not a democracy. The term "democracy" does not appear any place in the Constitution. Wash-ington and Hamilton believed in a republic, with a ruling class. Jeffer-son insisted upon a democracy, with the power of government In the hands of all the people. Today both major political parties subscribe to a democracy. Despite all the com-plexities of government America can survive as a democracy if the people all the Toms, Dicks and Harrys, as well as the Oswalds, Per-civa- ls and Warrens, are given ac-curately all the facts about the op-eration of government The Ameri-can people can be trusted, but American leadership refuses to take the people into its confidence, and that lack of information will in time do for us just what it has done for Europe. PROSPERITY REGARDLESS OF how the war may end, or how long It may last William A. Irwin, educational direc-tor of the American Institute of Banking, says America is In for a long period of prosperity. He sees this country as the one great credi-tor nation that will be in a position to rehabilitate the world. It sounds plausible and may it prove true for us and for the rest of the world. EXECUTIVE 'CRIMES' THERE ARE several thousand federal laws not enacted by con-gress, the violation of any one of which can send you to jail or subject you to a fine. These are executive orders issued bx more than 150 dif-ferent departments, bureaus or commissions. Many American citi-zens have served jail terms or paid fines, or both, because of a violation of these executive order laws. Law-rence Sullivan, in "The Dead Hand of Bureaucracy," tells us new ones are being issued one each day. 'Good Neighbors' Junior Style n r; 7 Pmtm.um&ii.-jm- ti iW . Jtot-..g- t uzsi&u juutassiiwia4 A Boby Gallagher (left) U. S. r" to Brazil and Ro-berto Andrade .(right), Brazil's r" who recently vis-ited the U. S., are shown being greeted by crowds upon their arrival in Rio De Janeiro. This is the junior part of the inter-Americ- "Good-Neighbo- r" policy. New Air Chief fir m . fity This is Brig. Gen. Carl Spaatz, newly appointed chief of army air force, now operating as an Independ-ent division within the department of war. IN 183(1 th eem.mt coNstamtt Kit i rwee "W1 in , CORRECT THE Ctl&l AU?0Mt...Ett k rraeey iii moatiKpimMl OF WATER. figs; DASH IN FIATHEBSA HOTEL BEN II OGDEN. UTAH J lit Roomi-- 5I B.tta Furnllr Roomi fer 4 tl Air ChM UW "2 Dlnlni Kaon Ctf"l Rotrr - KJ"!lirSf Chimlxr at CoB'"l Hotel Ben Lorn OGDEN. VfH J yNU W MERCHM oYour Advertisi Dollar buys something space and e of B the columns paper. 1 circulation pi"31' able consider readers for this anditsadvertifl LET us tum Feeling the Bui He who is of a calm i nature will hardly feel sure of age, but to him an opposite disposition; age are equally a buri Saga of a Sinking Ship These dramatic photos show the end of the 7,769-to- n Glasgow liner Kemmendine, in the Indian ocean. Made from the deck of the Nazi surface raider which sank the ship, the pictures show in order: (top) torpedo striking, (middle) vessel begins settling, (bottom) ship is broken In half and going down fast. Baseball Smiles 1 A iff Two happy baseball warriors are these: Ted Willianis (top) after he hit the winning homer In the All-St- ar game, and Dizzy Dean (bottom) the day he announced his leaving the sport for a St. Louis radio job. Weil-Ordere- d Mil By a tranquil mind In ing else than a mind we. Marcus Aurelius. U. S. Gets 'Protection' in Bagdad Mi "ft rm 1 r4wl Cyf( It ' - i kTf jat fnfn , i ,'y'., ,. mat ii--r- y mmu . i MA--lfilAii- ri ?ir ...ifTi.i, " i Paul Knabenshue, right foreground, wearing dark shirt, is pictured outside the American legation at Bagdad, as British soldiers took over the legation for protection and for the protective residence of British sub-jects, during the war in Iraq. Knabenshue is V. S. minister resident and consul general In Bagdad. End of Dispute? " John L. Lewis, United Mine Work-- s chief is shown Signing . raet with Southern soft coal 0Zl wig; sur |