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Show i MOAB, UTAH ] GENERAL which rules the waves of the * * RIGHT ON FOREIGN FORECAST No matter what they may think of Roosevelt's domestic policies or politics, some of his severest critics give him credit for being absolutely right on foreign strategy. Exactly two years ago the President told his cabinet in categoric terms that he was convinced war was inescapable in Europe, and that the results would be serious in the extreme for the democracies. Last summer, also, he informed congressional leaders that war was inevitable in the autumn-and got scoffed at for his warning. In view of the President's consistent record for accuracy on things international, his present views are very much worth record- And are you serious about the "undamaged, unwounded and unhurt" clause in your spring offer? Are you willing to stretch a point? I mean would it be okay if Adolf is brought in with a little mouse over one eye or with a lock of his hair missing? It would be a helluva note if I catch him and you rule the capture illegal just because he says that his back hurts him or something. - * o RED HERRING One of the weapons of modern war is the red herring. Honor has departed from warfare. The Nazis used subterfuge to get into Norway, German aviators dressed in Dutch uniforms to land in Holland. Italy maneuvered in the Mediterranean to keep the British from sending too many ships to Scandinavia. Mussolini was the red herring. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to figure that if Germany ever wanted to land troops in the Western hemisphere, Japan would be the red herring, would send her fleet toward Hawaii. Probably she would not land in Hawaii, but merely maneuver enough to keep the U. S. fleet in the Pacific, prevent it from protecting the Atlantic coast, At present only four cruisers, plus one small airplane carrier and some decrepit destroyers, guard the Atlantic. Before the Pacific fleet could return through Panama to the Atlantic, Germany could land all the troops she wanted in Trinidad, or Puerto Rico, or the northern tip of South America. Military minds calculate that German troops even could be landed in Newfoundland, which has, at Botwood, one of the best airports in the world. And from Botwood, they could land in Maine about as fast as U. S. forces could concentrate against them. Germany, however, is not likely to bother with New England. Far wealthier, far more important are the oil fields of Venezuela, the tropical plantations of Brazil, the wheat fields of Argentina. Here there are large groups of German and Italian settlers. Important fact: The Low Countries now invaded by Hitler are among the most densely populated in the world, have no raw materials. Outside of Africa, the wealthiest raw material area in the world, also the lies under the Mon- a ce Mio. o Who is going to judge whether he is hurt or not? I want a good referee as I have a hunch that Adolf will do a lot of squawking when he finds himself in Pittsburgh in a ‘‘Million Dollar Thirty Days Only Contest,"' and he may insist that he is in terrible condition instead of being undamaged and as good as new. In fact I think you should stretch a point and say that if he is warped a little in transit the cash offer will still stand. * . * e next November to record by popular vote the aspiration of her people for statehood. The plebiscite will be included in the general elections in the territory November 5. It will have no direct bearing on the granting of statehood, other than to focus national attention on the issue. Its sponsors hope to expedite action by congress on a bill providing for statehood now pending before the house committee on territories. To many people of the islands, the issue is crucial. Statehood to them represents the fulfillment of a hope that was born nearly a hundred years ago and has been ardently cherished since Hawaii was annexed in 1898. Activated by a group of American colonists in the islands, a move for the annexation of the then Kingdom of Hawaii was almost consumated in 1854. The death of King Kamehameha III put an end to treaty negotiations that were almost completed. Sentiment Kept Alive. Nearly a half century passed before the matter again arose with sufficient decisiveness to bring it to an issue. But sentiment for annexation was kept alive by the growing number of Americans settling in the islands and by the constantly greater integration of American institutions into the body politic. When annexation finally came, Hawaii would have much preferred that it be as a state. Those who worked for annexation, however, were of the opinion that the United States would follow its established policy and advance her to statehood when she had demonstrated her fitness. Present day advocates of Hawaiian statehood insist that it was upon this understanding that she surrendered her sovereignty and became a United States territory. Now, Hawaii feels, she has been kept waiting overlong; it is just 40 * e don't * * o ‘ALL DONE BY MIRRORS' "The New York police department today began distributing leaflets inscribed ‘A healthy driver is a safe driver' in a campaign to keep down auto accidents. ‘The health of a motorist is an important consideration in any safety drive,' said Police Commissioner Valentine. "There are many accidents caused by sudden illness.' ''-News item. Hopeful citizens of Hawaii have added a forty-ninth star to the United States flag in anticipation of the day when that country will be admitted to statehood. However, the extra star is just an experiment, and the flag won't be used until the issue has been decided. Japanese residents, 148,972. Within the territory, the civil and political structure closely parallels that of a state. The governor, secretary of state, and the higher judiciary are appointed by the President of the United States. The legislature and major local officers are elective. The territory is divided into counties which have the same home rule as those of a state. As a territory, however, the parallel ends there. Her people cannot vote in national elections for the President and vice president, and they have no senators or representatives in congress, but are represented at Washington only by a single delegate who has no vote. This, to the people of Hawaii, is contrary to American tradition. To them it means taxation for representation. They point out that up to the middle of 1937 a total of $155,858,707 had been contributed by Hawaii in federal internal revenue. The people of Hawaii pay the same federal taxes as the people of the states. Tax figures show that Hawaii has consistently paid more into the federal treasury than have 14 to 19 of the states. Carries State Responsibilities. She is subject to the same laws. She would be included in compulsory military service in case of another draft, as she was during the first World war. In short, she carries the same responsibilities in every respect as those of a state. As a state, Hawaii would be entitled to two senators and one Apple sauce! Also hassenpfeffer, baloney and bunk! A healthy driver is not necessarily a safe driver; we have been chased up alleys by some of the healthiest drivers in existence and knocked for a goal by drivers who were notably in the pink. " oz a FAT GIRL: 1940 You'll get thinner by and by, If on a diet you plan to sup, Meanwhile let them laugh at you; Chins up, little lady, chins up! Richard Avedon. & + - Comedian Jack Haley's definition of Yale is ‘‘a period between a change in voice and a job as an insurance salesman."'' a . & DAYLIGHT SAVING CHAOS Today at timetables I stare, And find a train that won't be there; It's where it ain't, the trainmen say- I guess I will not go away! . ADD a = SIMILES As individual as the way a person opens a boiled egg. As shabby looking as your old shoes when you are trying on a new pair. As long-winded as credit titles in & movie.-Wallace Reyburn. Hawaii has chosen the plebiscite to be held next November. The matter is non-partisan; both the Republican and Democratic parties in the islands are sponsoring the plebiscite and urging the people to vote. So general and wholehearted is the support being given to it in the islands that it is freely predicted the affirmative votes will be virtually unanimous. Other fears for Hawaii's chances of eventual statehood center around the islands' military importance. Hawaii is America's first line of defense in the Pacific ocean-the bulwark which stands between the states of Oregon and Washington, with their totally inadequate facilities for warding off an enemy, and invasion by the fleet and air armada of a foreign belligerent. Army, Navy Oppose. Hawaii is a Gibraltar-like element in the nation's national defense scheme, and because of that a barrier to its statehood arises. Both the army and navy departments of the United States have expressed strong opposition to any change in the islands' form of government. Uncle Sam has spent millions for the fortification of the islands, and indirectly to protect the mainland of the United States. California, with extensive fortifications, is considerably better equipped to fight off an enemy invasion than either of the two states to the north. Pearl Harbor, United States naval base situated in the island of Oahu, eight or ten miles from Honolulu, is the center of the elaborate network of defense. It is the snug and secure anchorage where the whole fighting fleet of the nation can lie at anchor; on its shores are a navy yard, a submarine base, a powerful radio station, fuel tanks, dry docks, barracks and other military necessities. Because of this, army and navy executives are hesitant to approve of any measure which would change the islands' form of government. They fear that a change might, by the greater independence of statehood, interfere with future development of the United States' midPacific stronghold. Norwegians Given Credit for Weather Although Hawaii is better known to the layman as an ideal vacation spot, it is known to military experts as one of the most closely guarded island groups in the world. This lone guard, standing beneath tropical palms, is symbolic of the U. S. army's heavily fortified Hawaiian area. years this year that formalities were completed which established her as a territory. 9 Racial Problem Overdrawn. Hawaii claims that the one frequent argument used against statehood-her racial problem-is one that has been greatly misunderstood. According to census figures she has a lower percentage of alien population than the city of New York, and it is declining yearly. Many who have visited the islands declare that nowhere have citizens two or three generations removed from immigrant ancestry developed a more united loyalty or a stronger feeling of Americanism. Based upon 1935 calculations (and Hawaii's population has increased considerably since that time) the distribution of population by race was estimated to be as follows: Hawaiian, 21,710; CaucasianHawaiian, 18,742; Asiatic-Hawaiian, 17,236; Chinese, 27,264; Korean, 6,668; Filipino, 54,668; Portuguese, 20,550; Spanish, 1,267; Puerto Rican, 7,368; other Caucasian, 50,258; and representative in congress, with a second representative upon the addition of less than 40,000 people to her present population. (Hawaii claims a 1940 population of 414,000, which either exceeds or compares with the population of nine states.) Hawaii's gross assessed valuation is more than $425,000,000, surpassing that of nine of the states. This figure, records show, exceeds the gross valuation in any state at the time of its advancement from the status of a territory. Sugar production is the biggest industry of the islands, accounting for 80 per cent of the world's supply. Vacationists and travelers annually spend upwards of $20,000,000 on her shores. With completely modern public utilities, large financial and commercial institutions, splendid highway system, inter-island transportation -by water and air, her progress puts her on a par with other sections of the United States. Plebiscite Is Non-Partisan. Now, as a dramatic way of registering her claim for statehood, ‘Joe College'? He Doesn't Exist! STATE COLLEGE, PA.-Hollywood to the contrary, there is no such typical student as "Joe College' or ‘‘Betty Co-ed," says Pauline Locklin, assistant professor of English literature at the Pennsylvania State college. "There is no more a student type,'' she asserts, ‘‘than there is a student nose.' The college man drinks what he it means-and is thirsty for and can Pay for, she declares. ‘It may be benedictine buttermilk or lemon coke."" As to dress, the student often is purposely indifferent just to prese rve his individual personality. "The So-called collegiate type of humor is another myth, " she said Most of such humor is imitative and is Copied as much in towns and cities as ona college campu s." Forecasting System SAN FRANCISCO.-To Norway belongs the credit for having originated the system of mass analysis in making weather forecasts, according to Charles L. Mitchell, senior forecaster of the United States weather bureau. That system is now used in the United States. "‘While there has been something of a revolution in weather forecasting since the World war," he said, "nevertheless it was the Norwegians who, during the World war, originated the system of mass analysis now in use. Schools Maintained. "This is now so much part of the work that we maintain schools in both Chicago and Washington, where weather forecasters can take a three-month course in this part of the work. "Before the war forecasting was largely by reckoning from high and low depressions as shown on the weather map. "During the war, however, weather forecasters were unable to get reports from ships on weather conditions, for the reason that these reports are valueless unless the precise positions of the vessels are known. No Forecasts Sent. _ "For manifest reasons the belligerents did not want to make known to the enemy the positio n of any ship, and so weather forecasts from them were not sent out. "It was then that the Norwe gians began studying cloud and air formations and by the application of mathematics were able to make shrewd weather forecasts. "At present we are able to make up. what might be called a ‘topographical' map of air layers , except that the air is always in motion." our solution-permanent it is solved think not!'' for us alone? ob a * What seem does a that slight or safe mean? phrase to .. It be if a e fense of this continent. It is 90 per ve oe to do AND all these things 23 OS =z USED desks and chair adding mch's, safes jy g, EX., 35 W. Broadway, Ss. L. DESK WASHING MACHINES ty MAYTAG - APEX - DEXTER 0 - $20 - $30 ROLLS REPAIRING, ALL Mag HOMER HANSEN MATAG gp 426 So. State, Ty Salt Lake City. MARKING DEVICES Rubber Corp. Stamps Seals - - Metal Bronze Tags - No, Memoria] y Name Plates. 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Advertise to thapd daj their own Mgr., P.O. papers Box at low 150, cost. Wri Grier j Salt Lake City, FUR "Lar ké Te Ma STORAGE ji:tvered Send your Fur Coats and Winlip th Cloth Coats to Utah's Oldap'*m: Fur Store. ni bing Refrigerated VAULTS j,,,. 92" ea any Your Coats are: @ @ of Stored De-mothed $) for " HUDSONIZING Cleans your Coat and lack9 heeball & rime, $4 be tpe revitalizes the fur. FR, SEND COATS COLLECT 10: 7 HUDSON BAY)" FUR CO. ae 240 So. Main St. Salt Lake City, Utah WNU - Week No. 4021 - SALT HOTEL BEN LOM OGDEN, UTAH 2 as a combination measure of reemployment, recovery and defense. That was the year Hitler started. It was the year that the administration gave most of that $3,300, 000,000 to Henkins for raking leaves, ewe Ogig :: 25¢ OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEW typewriters, & Everybody is now squawking about our lack of tin and rubber and our failure of action in motori zing and mechanizing our army. This column has been squawking about it for five years. Seven years ago this writer had written into the Recovery act ample authority and ap- propriations 25¢ prints TRUSSES For, even for the relative strategical ease of continental defense, Mr. Roosevelt has not prepared the military and naval weapons to make good his position and the whole of recent history proves that bluffing on a bobtail is suicide. FAT'S IN THE FIRE The fat's in the fire and our navy is in Hawaii. Our miniature army is relatively equipped with bows and arrows. It is a pitiful Falstaffian insufficiency. We are quibbling about the design of a rifle already adopted and in production after years of experiment. It appears now that the navy has known the facts of its weakness against bombs from above, mines from below and secret foreign building programs for some time-without admission before the crisis. Surely there was no ignorance in this government about the absolutely inefficient equipment of our army in almost everything needful for modern war and its own grotesque inadequacy. ‘ 16 Hospital 7 Instruments, Surgical Manufacturers of Abdom R Trusses. porters, Elastic Stockings. Cor Supply ans Physici The Lake gj 48 W 2nd South St. - Salt cent against any attempt at ‘‘defending" America by attacking in Europe or Asia-with either men, money or materials. It would be a political-as well as naval and military-catastrophe, Me and REX PHOTO * The President does the deliberate ‘reverse of "saying clearly what he is aiming at."' His carefully guarded exterior seems to be full to the bursting point with some kind of interior content he. doesn't often reveal but every time a new pressure comes, a little of it squirts out-like "frontiers in France" and ‘‘quarantine the aggressors."" The whole ccuntry is behind him at any cost or effort to prepare this country for de- = PRINTS Developed prints 25c. ast 16 Roll may It creates an occasion to repeat the quotation from Lloyd George's speech that upset Chamberlain. "The nation is ready as long as its leadership is right, as long as you say clearly what you are aiming at, as long as you give confidence to them that their leaders are doing their best for them.'' g Temple, KODAK FINISHING quib- I don't know what that means but it sounds like ‘‘our frontier is in France.'' The statement identifying airplane timetables with the pace ‘of conquering armies or from the point of view of conquest is utterly misleading-almost as misleading as it would be to say that the speed of a race horse compares with that of a telegram. An airplane can go from Africa to South America in a few hours. But an army can't. It can't go at all if our navy and air force are efficient and afloat and not chasing boogey-men in the east Pacific. This aspect of the speech was cryptic obscuration coupled with sensational and misleading terrorism. a, Ra Reasonable Completely No. E. 70 RICHMOND, - bling about, but no utterance by a President of the United States on our future course in a world at war is a ‘slight'? phrase. This one wasn't intended to be slight. It was coupled with an assertion that too many of us have been deceived by the ‘false teaching of geography" into feeling safe, ‘‘physically, economically and socially,'' from the impacts of attacks on civilization elsewhere. Then followed statements that, from the point of view of conquest, Santiago, Chile, is closer to Europe than Alexander found Macedonia to be from Persia or than the distance Caesar traveled from Rome to Spain-that is, four or five hours from Africa to South America as compared with four or five weeks it took the armies of Napoleon to go from Paris to Rome or Poland. if APARTMENT HOTEL § I of treach- and also for its plea for pan-Amerlcan unity in defense. This unity the President called ‘‘our solution." But then he said: ‘‘Is this solution- from Yours, Elmer Twitchell. P. S.-What are you offering this week for Mussolini? what its condemnation erous brutality of Hitler the approv~al should have been 100 per cent oe details know don't. From NEVADA. sto from Temple. or month. Block k analysis would be valuable because, I can't see how you can approve a speech when you don't know what it means. I have discussed this speech with several informed people. They. RENO, GOLDEN-Reno's largess most popular hotel, sare prove and the other 10 per cent to be from "‘peace-at-any-pricers." An + further HOTELS in WIOTEL able. Ninety per cent of them were reported by Secretary Early to ap- And about the idea of trying him. I do not want any part of that. If I deliver him it is up to you and Pittsburgh to run the trial. I am taking no e&ances on trials. All he would have to do would be to get a good lawyer to say that he wasn't quite clear mentally. Then there would be the old business of getting the psychiatrists to ask him a lot of questions and then report he was clearly a victim of the fact his folks made him eat lettuce without sugar in his boyhood or something. He would get put on probation and in no time would be on the loose again. So I want the cash on delivery, Sam. Let me hear you soon. DEPARTMEN / mS Washington, D. C. A digest of those "thousands of telegrams" drawn by the President's Pan-American speech on Hitler's latest blitzkrieg would be valu- ny * However, it is a novel idea and the most original business proposal of a decade. I know of no cash offer like it since the depression and it is good to know there is a man in this country who knows where to get a million dollars these days. For that much money there are people who would do anything. The big drawback is that Hitler has got such a big start, and I don't think it sporting to limit the offer to May. This is pretty short notice for grabbing a guy who has been on the loose so long, and besides, May is a hard month for the capturing business on account of the birds and bees and little green things furnishing so much distraction from any pursuit. Could you extend the time through June? ing. By nature, Roosevelt is an optimist. But regarding the present allied position he is not optimistic. In fact, he is inclined to think that the allies are in for a defeat, that their situation is much more serious than the American public realizes. Naturally, the President is not expressing these views publicly. Also they are subject to change. But the close study he is giving to the Monroe Doctrine, the defense of the American continent, and especially to the possibility of enemy air bases in Iceland, Mexico, and around Panama, all indicate that he is figuring on the distinct possibility of a crushing allied defeat. least populated, roe Doctrine. a At- lantic. Assuming that the British fleet should disappear from the Atlantic, the United States would then have to maintain two fleets-one for the Pacific and one for the Atlantic. And it would take at least four years to build a new fleet for the Atlantic. " s Newspaper Union.) WNU Services PARADED 5 i erig Behind all this were some very careful studies which the President and his naval and military strategists have been making of Western hemisphere defense. It may sound like scare headlines, but it is no exaggeration to say that to the strategists who take out paper and pencil to figure on protecting the U. S. A., Nazi activities in Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium have meant the very definite scrapping (for the first time in our 164-year history) of George Washington's Farewell Address on American isolation. Here is how the strategists figure it out. The keystone of American defense has been: 1. A big navy in the Pacific. 2. Friendship with Great Britain, Dear Samuel: I have read your offer of a million smackers for the capture of Adolf Hitler and in reply I would state that the proposition interests me. But I do not like the way you emphasize the part about his being caught "alive, unwounded and unhurt." What about me? by Western the 48-starred ae flag of the United States unchanged has remained since Arizona and New Mexico were admitted to the Union in 1912, a determined attempt is being made to add another star to its constellation. Hawaii-as at least part of its population claims-wants to become the forty-ninth state. Culminating more than forty years of effort to secure full rights as an integral part of the nation, the Territory of Hawaii will hold a plebiscite Pe Prechradadadlaladahm Soya Sw Tyree "aaa . sphere. The President threw aside a speech which had been prepared for several days before, and during the tense hours just after Holland and Belgium were invaded he dictated a new draft which emphasized the importance of Pan-American unity, plus force, to protect these continents. He even raised the question whether the American nations could stand idly by while dictators conquer the rest of the world. Mr. Samuel Harden Church, The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Released DANGERS McSHANE é / 1 ca Washington, D. C. Behind the President's speech to conference Scientific' the American was a very genuine worry over the hemiWestern of, the protection MILLION-FOR-HITLER OFFER ; reeg and "What about it?" check for $2.60. Exgstg et izes e THAT POSITION Struggle for Statehood United Features By ROBERT AMERICAN S. JOHNSON aYS- 350 Rooms-350 Baths - $2.00 # Family Gri Rooms for 4 persons * Air Cooled Lounge and Lob? Room Coffee Shop Home 1? of Rotary-Kiwanis-Executi Exchange-Optimas-"20"" Chamber Hotel of Commerce and Ad Ben ann On Forty-Year 3By i LPhillips . HUGH a Hawaiian Plebiscite to Focus Attention Old Ticket Honored Finding an unused ticket 34 yeg travel book purchased an Aug on a visit to London, he with sent it to the agency F 2# Bez EF}gz THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, Lo OGDEN, UTAH Come as you are T. E. Fit |