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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH - SUNDAY-HERALD-SUNDAY APRIL-19;- 1942' SECTION 'TWO " arary Afunom i ' - 1 Ecptln Saturday ano . auaar , ... , , :.- nrnUr Harala Fwfaliab4 uadtrMcrnln'c V ' PabUifcad by tha BmU . Corporation, ! . South First Wat Burnt, FToro, TJta. Kntaraa . as. second claw matter at . tba poatof tie In rr,- CUh. under th act of March a. 1ST. ' 'oilman. Nleol Batsman, National AdvrU-' AdvrU-' tn i opro ntatlvaa,' Now Tork. Ban rraaelaco, Detroit. Boatoa, - ! Ascolta. Chicago. " ilt'mber' United Preae,' V. .X.. a' Borneo. :tho Sortppa Loasuo of Nowapapora and AodJt : Saroa at Circulation. . ,. Subscription, terms by aatrloff - la ' Utah county, ' casta, tha month. ' fl.M for air ' months.' (a advance; $7.11 tha yertja adranco; by mall ujrwbera '! . CaJtad SUtoa or Its poaeeeiiona eonta tha month: IS.OI for ais menthaT I5.TI tha year In advaneo. ti Tha Herald will sot' aaannia financial re apoaalblllty for. any errors' which may appear "Liberty ' - tt) advortiaamo,nta pabiiabod rn Ite columns, in. throerh . aii ,h0f,' (DSte.acs where tha paper ttr at fault, H The Uberty ' "1U reprint that pert of the advertisement la Bell , which tha typographical mistake occurs. The City Garbage System Announcement ; bf an increase of almost-95 per cent in the Proyo garr bage removal rates for' the present type of service is disturbing to those who have, to foot the bUl. The rate has been raised .from the present 36 ; cents, net,- to 70 cents, net, per month for once a week, rear yard pick-ups. : At the . same Ume, an ; alternate type of service calling for pick-ups from along the street curb has been announced to cost 40 cents net, an increase of only four cents per month from the present charge of rear-yard service. Nearly everyone agrees that the garbage system has been a good thing, although it has not been patronized pat-ronized as widely as had been hoped. This is one reason for the increase, city officials say. On the other hand there has been constant criticism that more men have been assigned to each truck than seems necessary, and this no doubt has contributed to the deficit incurred during the first year of operation. oper-ation. There has also been evidence of divided responsibility in' the. supervision su-pervision of the system between the board of utilities and the city commission. com-mission. However, a beginning has already been made to correct this weakness, it is believed. The large increase in the rates is unfortunate because it will make it more difficult to bring every home in under the plan, a goal that the city officials have striven for from the beginning. Failure to get every home into, the - plan will militate against the success of the city-operated plan. The people who pay the bill for the service and the taxes to meet the deficit have a right, to expect that the same rigid efficiency and economy is employed in the operation opera-tion of the garbage system as a pri vate operator would use. The public is not incUnec to be chcffitable with a publicly-operated system " if Vthey have any fears of waste or - inefficiency. inef-ficiency. ' ' ' " - . .' . ' r '-v ' ' ' ' v. . The benefits of a garbage, system on a community-wide basis are too valuable to , be lost. The system should be strengthened ana the rates made as low as possible with the utmost, in .economy and efficiency efficien-cy of operation demanded. Nutrition Is Important War-time exigencies -confront the nation with the stern necessity of conserving carefully the vital resources re-sources of the country, -with all efforts ef-forts bent toward the one and only goal to win the war. Food will win the war. The necessity neces-sity of putting the nation's food supply sup-ply to its greatest possible use. was never greater in our history. Nutrition Nutri-tion has taken on a new meaning, for America's housewives, as the' need for keeping the manpower in tip-top efficiency becomes one of the nation's paramount aims. The Victory cooking schools recently re-cently inaugurated by the Utah State Nutrition Council, a unit of the State Council for Defense,, the Utah State Press association and cooperating cooper-ating local agencies constitute a valuable stimulus ,to the cause of proper nutrition. The first of these schools was held in Provo a few days aqo with Julia Lee Wright, director of Safeway Stores Homemakers' Bureau, Bu-reau, in charge of the session. The response was gratifying with more than 600 women in attendance. Commendation is due Safeways for contributing the services of Mrs. Wright for this occasion and the committee in charge is also grateful for the valuable cooperation rendered rend-ered by those who assisted in making mak-ing the event such an outstanding success. 2 "Get Tough-I Cah Take It!" Thel! Washington ii liiiiiiiiiiiiiM Merrv-Go-Round Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs By Drew rtanei aas B. aiMt WASHINGTON For many months hard-boiled hard-boiled Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold has made headline news with his sensational sensa-tional anti-trust exposes and prosecutionsor the biggest Industrial giants in the country. The latest was the case of Standard Oil of New jersey and its synthetic rubber deal with the Nazi-controlled I. G. Farbenindustrie. This amazing record has won Arnold the title "the greatest trust-buster in history." " is richly deserved. . Arnold's service to his country In smashing key monopolies is without equal, and incalculable incal-culable in economic and military consequences. It is a safe bet that when the history of this period is written, Thurman Arnold, the former Yale law professor, will be credited with some of the moat far-reaching economic reforms of the New Deal. For without the enactment of a single new law, and often despite the strenuous undercover resistance of Administration big-shots, Arnold has forced more fundamental clean-ups in big business than all the violently controversial New Deal measures combined, f Arnold has struck directly at the heart of monopolistic control patent domination. He has smashed some of the most powerful patent empires em-pires in existence and brought the light and life of free competition to thousands of independent inde-pendent business men. It is accurate to say that he has literally unshackled a number of major industries of the U. S. from the crushing rule of international monopoly. BUSTED CARTELS Few realjy understood how great are Arnold's Arn-old's extraordinary achievements in accomplishing accomplish-ing this result. The average newspaper reader visualizes Arnold's trust-busting triumphs in terms of their effect in the United States. Actually they are a great deal more far-reaching than that. - In every one of his major attacks Arnold not merely destroyed a domestic monopoly but he also smashed the foundation of that monopoly an international cartel, which, with, a few exceptions, ex-ceptions, meant a German alliance, secretly used by the Nazis to further their plans for world conquest. . . This is Arnold's cartel-busting record to date: r Military optical goods The American Bausclf & Lomb company compelled to sever Its tie-up with the German Zeiss corporation. . SUfiieaium The Aluminum Corporation of America and Dow. Chemical company forced to break ties with I. G. Farbenindustrie., Beryllium Beryllium Corporation of America Amer-ica - (which voluntarily asked Arnold to Intercede) Inter-cede) unshacked from, Nazi connections. Tungsten-carbide Vital in the manufacture of machine tools. General Electric and Krupp hook-up broken.' The day General Electric was indicted op monopoly charges in this case the price of tungsten carbide plummeted from $205 a pound to $50 a pound. During all the time General Electric, was charging from $205 to $453 a pound for this crucial product, it was selling for $50 a pound in Germany. Electric lamps General Electric compelled to sever tie-ups with A. E. G. in Germany and Phillips in Holland. Electric light glass bulbs Corning Glass company forced to break ties with Phillips. Potash and NitrogenAllied Chemical company com-pany forced to sever its tie-up with I. G. Farbenindustrie; Far-benindustrie; Schering chemical Corporation forced to do the same with the Schering Corporation Cor-poration of Berlin. These disassoclationa meant the opening of vast Sonth American chemical and pharmaceutical markets to American business busi-ness men Dye stuffs and Photographic Supplies General Aniline company purged of its tie-up with I. ' G. Farbenindustrie and a number of German-American officials. This also opened great South American markets In these lines to U. S. firms. Synthetic rubber and a number of vital chemicals, .such as toluol, used to make TNT Standard Oil of New Jersey compelled to sever its tie-up with T, G. Farbenindustrie ana to make some 2,000 patents available to any XJ. S. company royalty free during the war period. There is more of this kind of business-freeing business-freeing cartel-busting up Arnold's sleeve. Unless he is "kicked upstairs" or blocked by undercover Administration knifing, he plans other exposes and prosecutions as sensational as those he has already chalked up. Arnold knows Just what he wants to do and how to do it and unless he is stopped -you'll be reading headlines about more of his coups at frequent intervals. NOTE: Ace Arnold aide in this history-man history-man king1 anti-monopoly crusade is Joe Borkin, a young, two-fisted redhead who is probably the greatest cartel authority in the world. MERRY-GO-ROUND J2Ln WUey' x-raniter to the Baltic itates, tells friends that if the French fleet does go SIlTi t0.vHltlfr " wlU "n"1 " troes into battle, then turn its guns on the Nazis. Diplomatic- worry is vice versa . . . Wendell Wilkle refers to congressional Isolationists as "wobblers," "wob-blers," a paraphrase of "wobblles," the term once applied to members of the L W. W. . . , Represtatlvc Karl Mundt, North Dakota Isolationist, Isola-tionist, is no New Dealer but he is publicly boasting boast-ing that he is a strong supporter of the National Touth Administration, one of the President's pet agencies. In an advertisement announcing his candidacy for re-election, Mundt listed himself as a "member of the NTA bloc in Congress." JCoPyrtfct, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) a:' t' $asr ' mm& i Vafel ' :nS'Bmm mi- : i 'aN, : ' Sv : : S Housing Headaches Plague Authorities In Washington I Was Thinking- By ELSIE C. CARROLL I was thinking of the many different dif-ferent kinds of human experience that are coming out of this war. We hear stories . of atrocious crimes, of cruel inhumanities, of degrading cowardice. But we also hear of Incidents of merciful goodness, of tender charities, of ennobling courage. A lady , who knew friends of the woman of this little Story told it to me. In Australia women have been knitting for the Red Crossas they have in this country. After Mrs. K. finished a sweater for a child she took some, tangled-yarns she had left from an aflrgan and embroidered a British flag upon the breast of the little sweater. She turned it in-with other work to the Red Cross center,-hoping her little whim might please some British child. She thought no more of the sweater as life became increasingly increasing-ly tense and she devoted more and more time to war work. Then, a short time ago as 'she was hurrying down the street one day, she saw a little boy wearing her sweater. She stopped in amazement. How in the world could a child in Australia have come in possession of the sweater she herself had seen packed and sent to England? . Excitedly she called the lad to her and asked for an. explanation. . "Where did you get your sweater?" sweat-er?" . "The Red Cross lady brought it for, me?" he replied timidly. She noticed two red scars across his cheek. "Here? In this town?" she persisted. per-sisted. "No, lady, in London after the bombing." The child's face and trembling form betrayed sudden agitation. "Tell me about it, won't you?" Mro. K. begged. She learned that the bov's home had been bombed. Hi nnrpnt and baby sister had been killed. He had been dragged from the wreckage more dead than alive. In a Red Cross hosDltal he had slowly recovered from hlo injuries. vme aay a tied cross nurse had come into the hospital ward with a sweater In her hands. She had waced it with other clothine bvi his bed and had helped him to areas. "You are srolncin a refu gee ship to Australia";' she had told him, "so you won't be hurt again. See, I have brought you this nice sweater made ' by a wo man in the country to which you are going, wouldn't it be wonderful wonder-ful if someday you should meet the good woman "who' put this flag on your sweater?" And it wa wonderful for the little boy and for Mrs. K. She was so impressed by the unusual ness of the incident--and perhaps too, by the stoic courage of - the little raid victim, that she adopted him. So now, he has not only his Australian sweater vith the British Brit-ish flag, but an Australian home and mother. , On The Sunny Side By MARY EIXKN CAIN Pu - i It Is quite impossible for anyone any-one to pass judgment upon our need for the many phases of Civilian Civ-ilian Defense at this time without first having studied very carefully the detailed program of that or ganization. When we stop to realize that ose who are responsible for each SQd every detail of America's civilian civil-ian defense have studied England's civilian defense first hand they were there, and personally Investigated Investi-gated the methods, errors and successes suc-cesses of the civilian defense in actual warwe can be most grateful grate-ful that it is not an experiment for us, but the best plans that could be devised for our protec tlon. After having seen motion Pic tures of the methods used to fight incendiary bombs, one comes to realize that in such emergencies each person must be trained to protect his own home, and' the lives of his family there's no time to wait for the fire department. Ana, thw 'is true also in cases of Injury, and shock first aid train ing for each person could savfe many lives. , The training of civilians to protect pro-tect their own homes and lives, as well as the homes and the lives of others, is the great project which the Civilian Defense and the American Red Cross Is at tempting to put over in each and every community in the United siaies.. mis nation Has - never known a greater humanitarian effort ef-fort each officer of the law, fire warden, volunteer fireman, boy scout messenger, ambulance driver. and many, many other volunteer worxers must complete the re quired hours of first aid training before he can qualify for the position. posi-tion. The security . alone which this protection affords each and every citizen Is well worth the work and the effort which each and every citizen should put into it. Being prepared for an emergency cannot possibly create the emergency, but 'it can eliminate the fear of disaster. disas-ter. And if the emergency does arise, it can be met with calmness and efficiency, when each civilian is trained to do the duties to which he is assigned. One way in which we can prove to our service men that we are solidly oback of them is to have a one-hundred per cent registration in the civilian defense that will convince them that we stand ready to protect their homes and ' the lives of their loved ones even as they are protecting us. SUBMARINE LAUNHED BROTON, Conn., April 18 HE The U. S. submarine, Blackfish, was launched at the Electric Boat J company yards today, the second in 10 aays. By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington ! Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 18 How housing authorities go about determining de-termining how many and what kind of shelter to build In a community com-munity - that experiences a boom due to rapidly expanding;, war industry in-dustry makes one of the more revealing re-vealing sidelights on the intricate detail somebody has to think about in a well-run country, to take care of civilians. Take a typical case of a new aircraft parts plant to employ say 5000 workers. From a production standpoint, a city of 200,000 or so, where there Is available power, transportation and proximity to not only raw materials but also to the final assembly plants, is chosen. The purely manufacturing manufactur-ing aspects have been settled, the labor supply problem comes rext and right with it, the problem of sheltering workers. This la where the fuii begins. 'First, the lobar force must be analyzed for skills. How many machinists, machine operators, semi-skilled workers, common laborers, la-borers, men and women, married and single, will be needed? What will their pay be? Pay scales determine de-termine the amount workers can pay for rent or towards purchase of a home of their own. 1001 Questions The next step is to look at the local labor supply. How many are unemployed now? Say 2000. How manv have the right skills to work in this new 6000-man plant? Say 1000. That will leave 4000 in-mv grants to be supplied. How many of these 4000 in migrants can be sheltered in exist ing dwellings? How many vacancies vacan-cies are there houses, apart ments, rooms for sale or for rent and how many are. suitable for these new citizens? Assume 1000 vacant housing units are revealed in this survey. That would leave 3000 to be supplied. How permanent is this plant to be? Win it keep going after the war, will it cut down 50 per cent, or is it purely a defense plant that will shut down completely the day peace comes? The answer Is im iportant, for it will determine whether this new housing is to be permanent or temporary construe tlon. Then comes a survey of the lo cal building and real estate cir cles. How much housing can pri-j vaie capital supply t win tne local banks help finance new housing? Real Estate Board and Builders' Exchange have to figure on this, too. Maybe they'll do it all, and maybe they'll balk at the whole idea, figuring this new construction con-struction will over-buSld the com munity, driving rents down after the war Is over. . Battle of Location In most cases, private building interests ' can handle part of the job.: usually providing- houses and partments that will rent to higher paid workers. For low income groups, government subsidized housing aften has to paovide the' shelter. Suppose the split is 50-50. That means the government must provide in this typical mythical case some 1500 units, perhaps half to be permanent, half to be temporary, temp-orary, some dormitories for single workers, the rest family units. Then comes the battle of loca tions. Where will the city permit the hew housing to go up so that It won't compete with housing al ready available? If the location is on the other side of the tracks, what about public utilities sew ers, streets, schools; hospitals, shopping facilities ? ' The municipality munici-pality may be broke and taxpayers taxpay-ers unwilling to assume mother' bond Issue. The federal government govern-ment has to foot the bill in that case. All these housing headaches are no exaggeration. . Every defense or war bousing project must by law be approved by the President. Getting all this data ready for submission to the White House means that the Federal Public Housing Authority must prepare careful analyses and surveys with their recommendations. These are known technically as LPR'S Local Project Reports. There's one for every defense critical area In the country. ' ' o WAR QUIZ 1. This pretty leaf on the uniform uni-form of a Navy man looks ns if it might indicate somebody having hav-ing duties in forestry or bo tan v. Who' wears it? z. in the American Army "slangua ge' Shat is an "ape-knocker"? 3. Deprived by the war of a n important raw material some nations are studying means to grow guayule. What will this plant supply? ' -'-: AnwRent on Page Six, Sec. Two 1 :."-. SERIAL STORY FRANTIC WEEKEND BY EDMUND FANCOTT COPYRIGHT, tl NBA SKII VICS. INC. DESTROYER LAUNCHED' NORFOLK,. Va. April IS (URT ine uesiroyer snuoncK slid down the ways of the navyV- yard here tooay to set a new . construction record of only 60 days from keel iiaying to. launching, ---.t: AUNT HET By ROBERT QUIIXEN - - Tve quit Iookln' at home V magazine. Just as soon as. I put up new drapes, they show pictures of a. new kind that make mine look out-of -style." TUB STORY I PerSy !? artlaf. laTltes Myra Mack, ker aollr brother Mlehnct Mb rr 17-yei-al aUtcr Vkt tort a weekead at him cam try kM mrmt Jloatrral, NUrl Mnkkau, alas a Midler, will ke tker rarat. Mm thiaka ( aakla a yrettr ataaarrapkca wheat ah aas. HUfml hav aaca' ea a irala. ENTER FAY RANSOM CHAPTER IV PEGGY'S excitement over the . 'a . . ' . weexena suaaemy xaaea w dismay, and her gamin-pretty face melted Into a pout, "But Myra!" she walled. "I've got nothing at all to wear!" "If you've got. glamorous ideas about this house party, check them at the lipstick counter," replied her sister. "You won't need anything any-thing more fetching than your swim suit especially if the weather Is as cooking as' it's' been today." But Myra's glance was gentler than ; her words. Here was another an-other "babjr" of the, family t suddenly sud-denly grown up,' just as Michael seemed . to . have done. And this no-longer-child, if not exactly beautiful, was certainly dangerously danger-ously attractive. And more. She had a kind of vitality , that made one feel, she was charged with electricity. ' Her dark hair fell In natural curls about, the nape of her neck, and with her blue-green blue-green eyes there was more than a suggestion of the piquancy of Vivien Leigh. It was odd, thought Myra, that she had never noticed that -resemblance - before. It boded' no good for some man or men. , She wondered, what went on . behind that lively face. One got so much in the habit of thinking of one's own family as just a collection of younger brothers and sisters that one often forgot vthey hatt lives of their own and were living their own thoughts and-feelings, independently inde-pendently of the rest of the family. fami-ly. . ; ' . .i: i , . "No," said Myra, , wondering whether1 it would be, wise after all. to take' her- sister-away, 'you needn't .wprry( about clothes. The place is b'ljiied rnilesaway from anywhere." 7.' IT;,'' " , .' .' ' "That just shows how little you Myra's eyebrows lilted, but she said nothing more. s pHE next day Myra was sent again to we omce oz jut. xtan-som. xtan-som. And again she saw the copper-headed girl at a desk. There was something familiar about her that puzzled Myra and she could not place it Something that made the girl seem out of place at a desk. However, she greeted her with a smile and the girl was equally cordlaL Myra stopped on impulse. "Do you remember that officer you saw me with on the train yesterday?" The girl blushed faintly and Myra decided that she did. An irresistible urge toward matchmaking was upon Myra and she pressed her question. "We are going up to Ferdy Lorton's place this weekend. Theartist, you know. I was wondering if you would care to join us? It's all very informal, but he has an aunt up there who looks after the place and as an alibi for anxious parents if your parents are the anxious kind. Again the girl smiled slightly and again Myra wondered what it was about her that she could not place. i "Don't bother to let me know now," said Myra. "Telephone me at the office if you would care to Join us." That afternoon Myra telephoned Ferdy. "I've hooked her," she said. "She called half an hour ago to say she would come." Ferdy laughed. "What is her name?" "Fay Ransom, daughter of the stockbroker." Ferdy whistled at the other and of the telephone. "Fay Ransom?" i "Do you - know her?" asked Myra. But Ferdy was In a Puckish mood. He laughed aloud and rang off. . "Darn you," mumbled Myra Into In-to the buzzing telephone. "What are you up to, Ferdy Lorton?" She shrugged and replace the receiver. Wasn't Fay likely to be enough of a problem, without adding mystery to the plot? "PERDVS- place in the1 lovely Laurentlans was just 60 miles from Montreal, yet as secluded as if it had been built upon, the highest crag in the Canadian wilds. Tucked away off the beaten track in a countryside ! of dirt roads, lakes and wooded hills, , it was a fairly large estate and had know about anything," replied a home farm complete with a Peggy with a.tots. of te bead.. . 1 French-Canadian family who did the chores for Ferdy. , s The house itself was a low, sprawling affair which had grown cnarmingiy as extra space naa : been added to the original cottage. It was set on a great outcrop of rock at the very top of a low hill, 1 f 1 - A uriu its windows gaza . on on every side over the treetops of thickly wooded hillsides. It was comfortably furnished and equipped because Ferdy spent a great deal of hfs time there, working outdoors or painting in the studio built onto the house while his aunt attended to the housekeeping. He arrived there alone a day before he expected his guests and announced to his aunt, that she could expect a houseful of guests for the weekend. She looked at her favorite nephew with a quizzical smile. "Well, it's nice to know in . advance. ad-vance. Usually you arrive unannounced unan-nounced bringing hordes of strange people with you." She was a small woman, ' so completely composed under all circumstances that it seemed as if, the calm of the. Laurentian country coun-try had . become an essential part of her nature. Conveniently, too, she was thoroughly conditioned to Ferdy's whimsies in the way of guests. . , r'-x v, - : "Do I know any, of the people who are coming up?", she asked. Ferdy wandered around, the wide lounge, across ' to the. plate glass window that filled an alcove and gave an uninterrupted view of a great sweep of country. "Yes. There is at least one you like. Myra Mack.? "Ha," replied his aunt. "I hope nothing is going to happen then." "What on earth do vou mean?" asked Ferdy with a grin. "You know very 'weU, said his aunt "She Is a very nice girl with a lot of character, but every time she comes here something extraordinary happens. Who else?" " ' Ferdy listed the ' others. His aunt listened patiently. , i "Must you -always be asking complete stranges up here?"! Ferdy grinned.- He turned back to his aunt and lifted a cautioning finger at her. 4 "You know very well you are as bad as I am. You always say that nothing is so fas cinating as the latest crop of young things. I'm merely pandering to your curiosity and bringing up affair af-fair selection." - : : :. ; She smiled her- admission of what he said. "True. All the same, that Mack girl has a flair , for complications. Well have any: thing from a'; circus, to' a triple ; t wedding before this weekend , is ' over." -. .' -,. - ' .(Te Be CeniloaedX |