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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER I; 1942 Coup de Grace? Utah Verse Stmt - AfUnuoa CEseapttag' Saturday ul toad?) Su&dar Marald FublUh.d Sunday Uonla abl!sh4 r th Herald Corpo ration, it SmU rirat Wut StrMt, Proyo, Utah. Entar4 aa Mosnd clftM matter at tba poatofflc ta Proro, Utah, andtr tha act of March t, 4171, Oilman. Nlcol Ruthman, National Advartla- tn rpranta.tlT . V . w Tork. Kan VratieiauA- IHtroit. Bottom, 1m Anctlaa, Chlcaco. "XJbrty through an Mam bar Ualtad Trait, W. B. A. Servica, tha land" tha Sarlppa Laarua ( Kawipaptra aod Tha Lib arty Audit Buraa ( Circulation. Ball ' Subscription tartna by aarrlar I Utah aeunty, (I cant tha month, ft.la far ata Month, la adraneat IT.lt tha yaar, 1 advanea; by mall anywhere la United Stataa ar tta oaaeaelona tt eenta tha month; II. lor ata ion tha; IS.Tf the yaar la adraaee. Tha Herald will ; aot aaeuma financial ra-ponalblllty ra-ponalblllty (or any arrora which may appear la adrartUemeste publlihed la tta column, la thoae Instance where tha paper ta at fault. It will reprint that part of tha advertisement la which tha typographical mistake eccura. So-Many Spokesmen Reverting to the subject of loose talk in high places, it should be rt-marked rt-marked that Draft Director Hershey, in his confusing conflict about the calling of fathers, is no the only offender. of-fender. Hq is not even the worst, unless because the military draft is so necessarily heart-wracking a matter. ' The radio and newspaper accounts ac-counts are filled with confusion created, cre-ated, by half-baked statements from those who should be careful what they say. This has nothing to do with the privilege conceded to almost al-most everybody to express opinions. It refers to statements of alleged fact, to opinions by persons so highly placed that in time of war censorship censor-ship their expressed ideas are the closest the public can get to facts. The controversy over the rubber situation was a prime illustration. That is about washed up, but the spieling of conflicting "facts" goes on apace. In adjoining columns the newspapers news-papers quote the head of the War Labor Board that wages must be kept up so that the standard of living liv-ing may be maintained, and quote the head of OPA that the standard of living must be reduced to its lowest low-est point in modern times. A news magazine of wide circulation circu-lation ventures to warn the British Empire at length and with apparent authority what all America is thinking, think-ing, and then has to explain that it didn't mean what its words seemed to say. 'Ah aviation expert declares flatly that our war planes are almost scandalously bad, and another asserts as-serts just as assuredly that they are the best in the world. The Army says a flying fortress sank a specific enemy ship, and a Naval aviation hero in an officially approved interview says the Army's land-based planes never sank anything. An admiral writes two articles for a national magazine to prove that military aviation should not be made an independent arm, and a reserve Army officer is forbidden to express his counter opinion. Wendell Willkie, on a trip around the5 world on which he is acting as messenger for the President, voices controversial opinions, and the President Presi-dent says that what his agent thinks isn't worth reading. We do not suggest that these and other offenders be muzzled. We think they should not. Free speech is one of the things for which we are fighting. All we ask is that men whose words command public attention exercise ex-ercise the minimum of discretion required re-quired of the cubbiest of newspaper reporters, and find out the facts before be-fore they start talking. If a given country produces certain cer-tain specified products, we will not be her competitor by producing the same products for the same export market. Solidarity depends on the co-ordination of continental economyPresident econo-myPresident Manuel Avila Ca-macho Ca-macho of Mexico. The IIIIIM ashington Merry-Go-Round & Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs BJSTZ w (Drew Pearson today awards The Washington Washing-ton 2Jerry-C-Round plastic ring to the grand old man of the Senate, George Norris of Nebraska.) Ne-braska.) WASHINGTON Next Tuesday, George Norris of Nebraska fights a climactic battle. He may lose. Tho odds are against him. But the odds have been against him in every other battle bat-tle he "has fought, and he has never hesitated to give battle. It was the same way when he fought to smash the "Ohio Gang" around Warren Harding; Hard-ing; when he pushed Che bill to outlaw "yellow dog" contracts, when he fought for passage of the "lame-duck" amendment, and when he battled bat-tled the private power interests to harness the Tennesse Valley. The odds were always against him. But the tougher the battle, the harder he fought. Senator Norris today is 81. And until a few weeks ago 'he felt that he was entitled to hang up his armor. But friends in Nebraska and Washington, who hated to see one of the nation's greatest liberals retire, urged him to run though he facod enormous handicaps. Tfliis time both Republican and Democratic candidates candi-dates are opposing him. His name has to be written in on the ticket. So, facing these odds. Norris took on what may be his last great battle. NORRIS'S FIRST FIGHT It was just twenty years ago that the Senate Sen-ate troke into hilarious laughter over an amendment amend-ment relating to the "lame-duck" session. Sponsored Spon-sored by the Farmers' Union of Arkansas, the amendment provided that senators who had already al-ready been defeated, but were still seated, should abstain from voting. As a joke, the amendment was referred to the Agriculture Committee, because it was sponsored spon-sored by farmers, and because it dealt with "ducks." But George Norris took, hold of the' idoa. He had often been struck by the absurdity of holding a session composed partly of men already al-ready defeated, while newly elected members sat on the side-lines for nearly half a year, i So Norris gave battle. It took ten years to win this fight, but "lame-duck" sessions are now a ' thing of t?ho past. President Roosevelt was inaugurated for a second term in January, 1937, instead of March 4, the date st ty the founding fathers In the days when they had to travel to the Capital Cap-ital by horse and buggy. TENNESSEE VALLEY Norris's fight for public power was the same kind of uphill fight, over the same ten-year ten-year period. Tt began in 1922, and ended only when the Roosevelt administration established the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was a fight to prevent private companies particularly Henry Hen-ry Ford from gaining control of the vast river system of the Tennessee Valley. , At one stage, the fight seemed hopeless "I expect to lose," Norris said. "I am going on even though I stand absolutely alone. I am going go-ing to do- th" best I can, but I cannot last forever." Thn he added, "The'll never name a dam after me." Today, NorrU Dam In the Tennessee Valley Val-ley is mtpplying pepver for scores of war in-JiMtr1 in-JiMtr1 and has et the standard for other govern rntmt pewpr projects at Grand River, tStmnevltVs, Grand CJrwIee- permanent monument mon-ument to George Norris bravery. Pwtraoa AUea as ktWa datrk To win the fig"ht, Norris was obliged at times to flay both Democrats and Republicans. Supporting the bill to give the Muscle Shoals contract to Henry Ford were President Cool-idge, Cool-idge, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, both of Alabama's Senates, Oscar W. Underwood, Under-wood, and J. Thomas Heflin, not to mention Joe Robinson of Arkansas and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Norris wrapped them all up together in one of the neatest bundles of sarcastic abuse the Senate ever heard. "This has been," he said, "a wonderful combinattion of the two great political machines Silent Cal at the head. Smiling Oscar, Happy Pat, Jovial Joe, and 'Me Too' Tom, all bound together by the sacred ties of fertilizer." (Norris suspected that promises pro-mises of cheap fertilizer were camouflage for getting private control of public power.) He added: "Five hearts that beat as one, carrying the natural resources of our country to the electric power trust." But despite this array against him, Norris kept battling for eight more years. In 1933 victory vic-tory was his. NORRIS ALMOST QUIT This fight, and the fight against the Teapot Dome leases, came as Norris was approaching the 1924 elections. A more cautious man would have avoided making enemies, just as a more cautious man would have avoided the present tough election race.: But not Norris. He made trouble' for himself ty dragging into public view the relations between Harding's "Ohio Gang", and Ned McLean, and denouncing McLean as a man "who has lived a life of debauchery, de-bauchery, and whose only distinction and whose only right to a place in respectable society is one that has been purchased by his money, inherited in-herited from an indulgent parent." McLean struck bade" in a way that threatened threat-ened to unseat Norris. He hired Gaston B. Means, as Means later publicly testified, to explore ex-plore Norris's public and private life, in an effort to find something damaging'. When Means failed to find anything, McLean even suggested a frame-up. The public probab'ly does not know how near Norris came to ending his pubiic career at that time. It was not the opposition of McLean Mc-Lean whicrn discouraged him, but a sense of general futility. Friends in Lincoln, Nebraska, wired that a petition to run again was ready for filing, but required his consent. Norris, however, insisted in-sisted he was through. He dictated a reply to his secretary, refusing consent, and saying he would not run. Just as the wire was being carried off by a messenger, newsman Paul Y. Anderson dropped drop-ped into the office and learned from the secretary sec-retary what had happened. He pursued the mes- senger. put the telegram in his pocket. Whesn Norris's friends in Lincoln got no reply, they acted independently. Meantime a ground-swell of support arose all over the state. Norris got into the present race in some-what some-what the same way. Now that he is in it, he is going through with it exactly as he has every other battle. And he is rather glad he Is in it. Though this may be his last fight, lie will go down fighting, if need be. You could never put George Norris permanently on the shelf. He will die fighting. (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ft P Tolan Committee Recommends Shakeup of Defense Set-Up BY PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent A reoragnization of Washington's great war machinery, to end all reorganizations of Washington's giant machinery, has just been proposed ty the House of Representatives' select committee investigating investi-gating national defense migration, and the proposal is worth a couple of passing thoughts. Prefacing it with the blunt warning "the war can be1ost in Washington," the committee, headed by Congressman John H. Tolan of Oakland, Calif., goes right to town in citing the inadequacies of existing agencies and then telling what should -be done to correct them. The simplest explanation of what the Tolan committee proposes can be given in the form of a typed diagram: Once News, Now History Twenty-five Years Ago Today- office of War Mobilization Army Navy Office of War Supply Office of War Manpower Office of Economic Stabilization Now this Is ty way of being one of the simplest reorganization charts ever concocted in Washington, where the favorite indoor sport of everyone from the 14th executive administration officer up is to doodle reorganization charts on S paper napkins at lunch time. What the Tolan committee pro poses is the creatiom of one final, ultimate, supreme, top "holding company," headed by one man who would be the director of the Office of War Mobilization and would be boss of every phase of the war program oujtside of the strategy of the actual fighting, which would of course be left to the Army and Navy. This is shown on the diagram by placing the Army and Navy at tho side on the same level with the proposed pro-posed Office of War Mobilization. BRANCHES WOULD REPORT Under the Office of War Mobilization Mo-bilization and reporting to it are the three main branches, Office Of-fice of War Supply, Office of War Manpower, and Office of Economic Econ-omic Stabilization. Office of War Mobilization at the top would be the policy-making organization and the three offices under it would carry out those policies. Tn the Office of War Supply, the Tolan reorganization would put all the prominent agencies of the War Production Board, Army, Navy, Maritime C o m mission, Lend-Lease Administration. The function of the Office of War Supply Sup-ply would be exclusively the procurement pro-curement of material for the manufacture of war supplies, as the name indicates. In the Office of War Manpower, its proposal would put the present War Manpower Commission, the present Selective Service Administration Admin-istration and a now division of Training and Deferment. The Selective Se-lective Service Administration itself it-self would be divided, 6500 local draft boards continuing their function of recruiting for the Army. But all problems of occupational oc-cupational deferment would be hanadled by 1000 or 1500 occupational occupa-tional deferment boards and labor investigators who would clear all the conflicting claims as to whether wheth-er the job any one man was doing do-ing made him more essential to war production than to the Army. The Division of Training and Deferment would do what its name indicates, combining all the labor training programs now under un-der way . and seeing that every worker was employed where he would be most useful, as well as recruiting new labor for essential industries. The Office of Ecnomic Stabilization Stabili-zation would remain much as it is now constructed under Justice James E. Brynes, having jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over the Office of Price Administration, Ad-ministration, Civilian Supply and the National War Labor Board. NOBODY PLUGGED FOR JOBS No nominations are made in tMe Tolan report for any of these top jobs. It might mean that someone like Justice Brynes would be the logical man for the director of the Office of War Mobilization. Or it mig'ht be that Donald M Nelson would be the man. The big idea is to get someone some-one of Bernard M. Baruch's caliber cali-ber to run this war effort at home. The interesting thing about this Tolan committee reports is that it suggests making these Changes by act of Congress and not by executive execu-tive order from the White House. Heretofore the Tolan reports have suggested remedial action by executive ex-ecutive order. The committee has no legisfa-tion legisfa-tion ready to introduce in Congress Con-gress to effect the reforms it proposes. pro-poses. But if there is any one committee commit-tee which should be called to offer something constructive to the war program it should be the Tolan commitfee, which has ben studying study-ing labor migration and manpower manpow-er problems for 18 months and lias printed about 35 volumes including includ-ing over 15,000 pages of testimony. testi-mony. With a little needling maybe may-be tne Tolan committee would do something more than just write reports. From the Files of The Provo Herald Nov. 1, 1917 A cold wave froze an estimated 100 carloads of apples valued at about $5Q, 000 in Utah, county, according ac-cording to a report made by William Wil-liam M. Roylance. This repre- Contributions for this column should be sent to Mrs. Jessie J. Dal-ton, Dal-ton, 624 South First East street, -Springville, Utah. Enclose self-addressed, self-addressed, stamped envelope if return of copy is desired. OCTOBER October! October! ' The hills are all aglow With painted trees, And colored leaves That dance when soft winds blow. October! October! The leaves are falling down In showers all around my feet They're yellow, red and brown. October! October! There's magic in your name With Sunny days, and Indian haze And sunsets all aflame. WTROA' HANSEN HALLOWEEN IS FUN Jack O'Lantern time is here Their blazing eyes arc seen ThrougYi my window they will peer Because it's Halloween. An owl hooting in the trees Tries his best to scare Me, and all the witches Riding through the air. A ghost that wanders through the town Will more than likely be Waiting at the corner to Snatch away with me. But even when I am afraid And goblins make me run I like this day the best of all For Halloween is fun. - By WYROA HANSEN Community Planning By S. R. DB BOER, Consultant National Resources Planning Board We discussed the problem of vacant lots before. There is a good side to them as there is to all things. They furnish play space for children. When the blocks finaHy are Uiilt up, there is only the street space left for play. That is unless there is a city owned playground or equipped school ground nearby. Since little children will not go farther than a quarter of a mile to a playground. "This is the case in only a few choice aas. Before vacant areas are closed up in the building process it is essential that systmatlc provision of play space be worked out in the community plan. sented approximately one fourth of 'the total crop. A . front page notice reminded pranksters that Hallowe'en was over, and that it was time for vandalism to cease. It seems some over-enthusiastic Hallowe'en observers ob-servers wero still hanging gates in the trees and otherwise making mak-ing life miserable for the citizenry. once on construction of a Spring-ville-Mapleton Sugar company, it was reported by Jesse Knight; president of the company. Arch M. Thurman, secretary of the Provo Commercial club, compiled com-piled a list of all Provo boys in the service of their country, which was published in the Herald. Work was slated to begin at Prof. J. C. Swenson, manager of the BYU lecture course,. . announced an-nounced 12 outstanding numbers had been lined up for the season. SERIAL STORY BY PAUL DAVID PRESTON PLAY BY PLAY C NBA SERVICE, INC UNION SCHOOL P. T. A. A meetin of the Parent-Teachers' association of the Union school will "be held at the home of the president, Mrs. Milton Holdaway, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. A meeting of the get-together at this time is for the parents to meet the new teaching staff. There are many new pupils this year- and new problems to be discussed and Mrs. Holdaway urges a full attendance. DUANE VOLUNTEEKS CHAPTER XIX A S Mom Miller had expected it would, the luncheon for the two cadets in her home turned out happily. Indeed, it is impossible impos-sible to damage soldier morale with a friendly home-cooked meal. Norman Dana left the table lit erally pounding his chest. "Let me at 'em!" he boasted. "In the air or on the ground!" "Mom's propaganda has to do with on-the-ground scrapping first," Blythe reminded them. "And the field of battle is a foot ball field." "Mom Miller," Norman pinched Mrs. Miller's cheek, "for you I'll make a personal touchdown. What about it, Kogan?" "Shake!" said Duane. That's the mood they were in. Mom was starry-eyed with pleasure, pleas-ure, and Pop himself beamed at his . two talented "lads. Blythe couldn't keep from covertly watching Nancy Hale. Blythe's own smile was of surface depth only. Inside, she felt darkness like an impending doom. When Norman, Duane, Nancy and little Scooter were leaving, Blythe stole a moment alone in her room. "I've got to manage somehow not to upset things," she reasoned, frantically. "Until . . . until I can think what to do!" Think what to do. That was the problem which weighed on her. She had overheard Nancy agree to drug the two players, but she had not been able to work out a suitable counter-plan. She had simply procrastinated, torn miserably from within, in the wishful little-child feeling that something good would probably turn up to solve the problem for her. Nancy and baby Scooter left the Miller home first. Pop had orders to lie down' and rest an hour, and Nancy would go on back to care for his office where there was a lot of going and coming' here' in the week of the State U. game. Then Ncrman left; he had two hours of flying duty before he could report back for the last foot-ball foot-ball workout. Blythe overheard them, departing. She was about to decide on going with Nancy when she heard Duane speak. 46JF you aren't going to sleep, Pop," he drawled, gently, "mind if I kind of sit with you? I'm on leave, you know." "I'd be tickled, son. Sleep is for babies!" "Yes, sir." Mom was staring out the door. "That Nancy! Tlk-tlk-tlk!" Mom clucked her tongue in benign blessing. "If she ain't the dar-lingest dar-lingest thing!" "Yes, ma'am," Duane agreed, courteously. "Duane, I wonder If you know how much you have meant to her?" "Ma'am?" Pop was lingering his hair fringe and beaming happily. "What she means, son, is that Nancy needed a sort of big brother that night of the car wreck, and you happened to be the one. You'll have to excuse an old man for preaching, but it don't never do any harm to show unfortunate people a favor that way. You understand?" , "Yes, sir. X was glad to help, what little I could. But it wasnt just me. It was all of us. You folks, most of all. And the, team." "She thinks most of you. Duane," said Mom. "Well, I appreciate that, but ifs not" - "I tell you what, Duane," Pop was stretched put comfortably on the big sofa now, and Jabbing a finger at the younger man. "If I was some of you young buckos, be doggoned if I wouldn't be look ing at Nancy!" Mrs. Miller held up her hands and laughed. "For goodness sakes, what do you think they are doing?" do-ing?" she demanded. "Norman was even eyeing her right out in the open, here todayl" - ior no reason no reason at all that Blythe could see all three of the others turned and looked at her. And so far she hadn't said a word! Their , looks were open, frank, quizzical, until all at once they became self-conscious. "A-hnmph, humphl'? Pop put on a very poor act of coughing. He didn't have a cough, and the transparency of it simply made the little- matter worse. - To s her own consternation. Blythe felt herself blushing. She, Blythe Mil ler, sophisticate of 1942, fuming hot on the neck like a Lizzy-Jane somebody from away out on aa R. F. D.I She tore off all the pretense. "Listen, you folks," Ely said, smiling smil-ing . self-consciously, "don't look at me! Of course Norman was 'eyeing Nancy! Why shouldn't he? She's a very pretty girl. And Norman certainly isn't the least bit retiring." "You ought to know, honey 1" Pop said that and thought it awfully aw-fully funny, from the way he laughed. Mother MUler beamed, and Duane had a rather silly kind of gnn. Lordy, said Bly to herself, her-self, what a naive, folksy, simple-minded simple-minded bunch they are! .. AND tuen contradicting her '- rxm calf cVi a tiiHonlw 1iivm4 them for it; all at once she knew she wouldn't have these good people peo-ple any other way! Sophisticated? Modern? That kind of pretending didn't jell any more. The warmth on her neck was gone again, and Bly had an odd Iitile desire to hug all of them, hug them and kiss them then and there. ; Mom was making small talk again, going toward the kitchen to start the dishes, and Bly -would have followed but Duane motioned mo-tioned her to stay. When Mom was away, he softly closed:. the living room door. All at once then he was serious. s "Pop-Coach" he said, -1 have been, talking to Bly.", ; Both Ppp and Bly looked at him in surprise. Duane wax unconsciously, uncon-sciously, flexing his arm muscles, fist clenched. 'Yes, sir," he nodded, "And X wanted to tell you,. I don't knpw what the score is, but you can count on me. I'm not top smart at : figuring, things out, but if there's a job of work at hand" He paused, a bit lamely, appealing silently to Blythe. . :- "2 ought to-say, rpp, she put in, "that the pistol X brought you didn't come from Captain Foster, as you asked., It's , Duane',' I didn't think any of the Lincoln Field officials welL maybe , they oughtn't to get suspicious of anything. any-thing. Until you are until we" whatever needs to be done, I wish you'd let me do it for you. Fists It was a tender moment and pop honored that offer o friendship friend-ship with a long silence. He "was deeply, touched. : " All at once Blythe realized that this was vthe moment to tell what she knew, tool To tell that Nancy Hale had agreed to turn traitor lor thousand dollars. v , . (To Be Continued). |