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Show THE WASHINGTON n PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1943 MERRY-GO- ROUND 0 D 0 D March Is Red Cross Month! President Roosevelt has designat-edVlarch designat-edVlarch as "Red Cross Month." During Dur-ing March the American Red Cross Wat Fund appeal will be conducted conduct-ed throughout the nation. Hundreds of volunteer workers in cities, towns, and 'Crossroads hamlets will offer every American an opportunity to xm1nbute to the Red Cross and its In peacetime many persons have been satisfied to become members of the Red Cross by subscribing the minimum membership of one dollar. Surely, this year, few of us will be content to make such contribution. Global war, which has made necessary neces-sary the dispatch of a dozen A. E. F.'s to the far corners of the world, has multiplied many-fold the work of our American Red Cross. Wherever United States fighting men go, there, also, the Red Cross goes. - This week, and for the next several sev-eral weeks, the story of Red Cross activities will be told, work that is now going on and that will be continued con-tinued and expanded according to the support the Red Cross receives from the public. It is our sincere belief that if the r" public realized the extent of the job being done by the Red Cross, it would not need to be asked for a contribution contribu-tion to this worthy cause. The great- - est "selling point" for the Red Cross is the work it does. Today the American Red Cross is the only non-military organization operating within military and naval reservations. It is the liaison between the people and the soldiers who fight to defend them. Here are only a few of the things that the Red Cross is doing for the soldier who may be your husband, your son, or your neighbor: ; At home and on foreign soil, Red Cross field directors sometimes called "trouble busters" are ever present, offering friendly counsel and assistance to servicemen in personal and family problems. For soldiers with our expeditionary forces, Red Gross overseas clubs for servicemen are a touch of the America they love sb well transplanted to foreign soil. In the midst of the opening phases of the Battle of the Solomons; Red Cross personnel were with our, Marines, Ma-rines, distributing cigarets and com- Xfor iits as a reminder that we, the American people, were there beside them. For more than one serviceman, the Red Cross has been the only means of communication between him and his family. 7 . It has provided recreation for fighting fight-ing men convalescing from sickness ctnd the wounds of battle. Red Cross volunteers by the millions have pro-Huced pro-Huced surgical dressings by the tens of, millions for our soldiers. In the Jorm of food and medical supplies, the Red Cross has brought hope and , succor to the victims of war and to bur Allies. Wherever disaster has itruck within our own boundaries, it has extended its assistance, always I ..witnaut oeing assea to ao so. iaii; organization of the people doing ibr the people what no other organi-i organi-i Ration can do. It has been truly indmed The Greatest Mother' :Excess Deductions i;The government has collected millions mil-lions of dollars in excess social senility? se-nility? taxes, half of which are legally refundable while the remainder the ;emplbyers' contributions are gone forever. L 'Yfarkers. :who have been required to I make needless excess payments hgveihad to wait as much as a year tbi collect, and meanwhile to comply witha mass of red tape requirements. -Unless;; they, happen to know and "assert i their, rights the workers never do collect? the Treasury does not take "thb initiative. . This. is worth haying in, mind when Sthofc pcras-you-earn income tax bill :i iratoed; in connection with. such, over-collections as it may involve. Crop Bonus Is Major Issue Bv( PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent This business of making Incentive Incen-tive payments to farmers for erowing more war foods and fibers is so wrapped in the basic cultural cul-tural economic of the countty that it becomes a major issue When coupled with farm labor and man-Xr man-Xr supply Pfpblems you have what amounts ?to another agn cultural revolution, more sweeping STthe farm programs introduced intro-duced with the New Deal. In the two previous discussions on incentive payments, major attention at-tention was ven to examples its effects on a typical wheat arm of the great plains area When you mnv. into the corn belt or souui into the cotton belt; you find even m re sweeping changes in crop control, penalties and incentJV.,t- On corn itself, the change isn t marked, Tnere arc -r Books of the Month so IS fnr -ffirn ana uiclc i ent of 3.6 cents for every bushel of corn grown on te alloted acreage, similar to the 92 cents per bushel paid on wheat crown on allotted acreage, u? there is no additional incentive in-centive to grow com, though there is no penalty imposed on the tar mer if he chooses to plant corn S. more than his alloted acreage, reason for this is that with the increased goals for meat ani mals, there is w"". mand for feed is past year waa ?ne of America s best growing " - - .eW . T UTAH VERSE Contributions for this column should be sent to Mrs. Jessie 3. Dalton, 624 South First Bast Street, Springville, Utah. Enclose self -addressed,' stamped envelope if return of copy is desired. IN LIEU OF WIND SOCK One Sunday, flying over North Dakota Wr" have to make a landing in a field. Ttie navigator looked in vain for smokestacks, Or even clothes upon a line. But none revealed To us the way the wind was blow ing. No sign of smoke or wash could we espy That wc might land, wind blow ing in our faces, We hung distressed between the earth and sky. But one there was who dared the neighbors' censure Or rise a soul who didn't even care, For, flaunting in defiance of the Sabbath Her sheets and slips were billow ing in the air. Her clothes told us all we had to know Somehow, I've always wished to tell her so. MRS. GEORGE SCHULTZ 1841 Hubbard avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah. ft T-k 21 fii 't tXfl x By Drew IX y(Uiy riClUie OI TVnaiS (Major Robert Going on in National Affairs Jyt Til .tT WASHINGTON" The State Department Isnt mnnounctng it, but several diplomats from the smaller European states in addition to Finland are coming in to express worry over Russian victories. These Jiave-thelr-.ke-and-eat-it-too diplomats want Hitler to be defeated, but don't want Russia to win. Some of the State Department boys, among them Assistant Secretary Adolf Berle, secretly secret-ly agree. Best answer to this fear was expressed inadvertently in-advertently by Soviet Ambassador Litvinoff in talking with a prominent businessman from the middle west. Litvinoff asked him. what people in that part of the country thought about Russia. Rus-sia. "I'm going to be perfectly frank with you," replied the mid-westerner. "People In my part Of the country admire the great fight Russia has made against Germany and they have the highest praise of your army. But they fear the spread of communism after the war." Ambassador Litvinoff replied thoughtfully that there was no ground for such fears, that all Russia wanted to do was to defeat the Axis as quickly as possible, then live in peace Within With-in her own boundaries. "However," added Litvinoff, "if the fear of Russia in western Europe really worries you, there is one very easy way to dispose of it." "What is that?" asked the gentleman from the west. "The American and British armies should march into Berlin first." Srtfta drouth the yield of corn might be reduced to a danger point. That's why some wheit of which there is a tiwo-year tiwo-year 'carryover, has been authorized author-ized for sale as feed. Too Much Cotton But now get into the cotton belt and see what incentives and penalties pen-alties do to the average small farmer there. Take a topical Parmer Par-mer Smith, who has 30 acres of eround, southern farms rufmii.g Sailer than in other sections. There is .till a tremendous carryover carry-over of short staple cotton so ?he Department of Agriculture triple A program authorizes payments pay-ments to farmers for NOT planting plant-ing more than their alloted cotton acreage. Payment , rate for 1943 is set at( 1.1 cents a pound- Suppose Farmer Smith has a cotton allotment of 15 acrca 11 he gets 400 pounds to the acre, he can collect $66 on his 15 acres Butl if Farmer Smith goes over his cotton acreage allotment, even so little as an acre, he doesn t eet any money. 6 Vrtment of Agriculture for the 10 years has been urging cotton farmers to grow something besides short staple cotton. The program hasn't been too successful success-ful but under the war demand for other crops, there is the opportunity op-portunity to make incentive pay-merts pay-merts to farmers to convert. Suippose Farmer Smith, therefore there-fore is given a quota of six acres of peanuts. He can couecu incentive in-centive paymente on from 90 per cent of his quota, or 5.4 acres, on up to 110 per cent of his quota, which is 6. 6 acres. On the 12 acres over his minimum goal, Farmer Far-mer Smith can collect an incentive of $30 an acre, which would give him $36 in addition to his $66 for not growing more than his 15 acres of cotton. h Support For Dairj And Poultry On top of all these incentives for specified crops, the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture has announced an-nounced that its policy will be to "support" prices generally for dairy and poultry products, and for other food crops most essential to the war effort. This general policy of support will be carried out through government loans, price guarantes, or government purchases. In other words, if the Incentive principle is accepted and the money is forthcoming from Congress Con-gress to carry them out, there will be other devices thought up to incent further farm production. Already announced is a plan whereby the Commodity Credit Corporation, another Department of Agriculture subsidiary, will buy up tomatoes, green peas, sweet corn and snap beans for canning, paying the growers more than the market price, then reselling at a discount to the canners. The idea is to enable the canners to sell their processed foods at prices under the ceiling pric.es set byaOPA. The theory behind this is that it will prvent inflation and an increase in-crease in the cost of living and be cheaper in the long Tun than if all incentives ;and price supports sup-ports were removed, prices paid to the farmer being allowed to rise with the tiemand. GARDNERL NS NAMED SPANISH FORK President Henry A. Gardner of the Palmyra L. D. S. stake ahd cashier of the' Bank of Spanish Fork, has been appointed by the government on the United States Treasury Victory Vic-tory Fund committee,, represenb-ing represenb-ing this district. This committee is composed of leading bankers of the state and nation ajid it is their function to assist in the selling of government securities other than Series K bonds. 4- Once News, Now History TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD Feb. 28, 1920 A youth scheduled to appear at the juvenile court on a charge of burglarizing a local store failed to show up. Later it was found he had enlisted in the marines at Salt Lake City. Officers, after giving the matter some though, decided to let the case rest and permit the youth to enter the service. The city commission fixed the levy for irrigation of city lots for 1920 at $1 per lot. Mayor LeRoy Dixon was authorized auth-orized to enter into a contract with the Provo Foundry for the abandonment of its water power site on West Center which was to be taken over by the city. Judge A. B. Morgan, District Attorney J. H. McDonald and Court Stenographer Adelbert Big-ler Big-ler made their routine trip to Duchesne Du-chesne to hold court. First Aid Classes Prove Popular Here Transparent women's hats seemed to be all the rage. A millinery mil-linery shop advertised these "in nany new and beautiful effects combining maline, silk crepe or laces or quite plain excepting for a knot of flowers or a bright touch of ribbon artistically placed." 1 Standard Red Cross first aid certificates will be awarded so'on to Provo high school health and heredity class members completing complet-ing their work in first aid an nounces Ivan Young, health and heredity adviser. Hogarth Barton, field representative repre-sentative from San Francisco, assisted as-sisted Mr. Young with first aid and water safety. Mr. Barton taught a first aid class last week to a group of teachers who attended school, seven consecutive nights. K. E. Weight, LaRee Hymas, Ivan Young, T. W. Dyches and Frank Chambers, high school instructors, in-structors, were among those awarded certificates. SERIAL STORY THE TERRIBLE EYE BY EDWIN RUTT COPYRIGHT. 1043. NEA SERVICE. INC. PRIESTHOOD MEETING The Provo stake priesthood Unkm meeting scheduled for Sunday Sun-day at 2 o'clock in the Fifth ward chapel, has been changed to the Manavu ward chapel. All members of the Melchizedek priesthood are- urged to- be - present. TYCOON ONCE MORE CHAPTER XIX JONAH spoke almost as if Mr. Channing were not there. "If I catch, the lug that tampered with this dingus, I'll brain him." "Ha!" exclaimed Mr. Channing, wrinkling black brows at Jonah. "I recognize you now. You're that itinerant photographer. Get the hell out of here." "I resent that," said Jonah. 5 "Come, come, boy," Calvin Meggs said impatiently. "Put the picture on." "I," stated Mr. Channing flatly, "am staying for no pictures." Mr. Meggs settled himself comfortably. com-fortably. "You'd better, Henry. Because, unless this young man is either a fool or a liar, this picture concerns the abduction of ,my horse, Bucephalus." Mr. Channing stayed. "The Sins of the Fathers" was the only possible title for the picture pic-ture that presently flashed onto the screen. And in this saga of shame, Mr. H. L. Charming had the leading role. The play opened upon a. sum- merhouse, basking peacefully in sunlight. Its bask, however, was short-lived. Fr6m the rhododendrons, which had already established th eir pro ficiency at harboring villains, the villain of the piece emerged. The villain was carrying a tvro-gallon can. At the summerbouse he paused, glanced around "with fox like furtiveness. -Theny, deliber ately, he emptied the contents of the can over the floor of the structure, and lit a n?atch. - "Father!" gasped Hiidy, out Of the darkness. "Fancy you, an in cendiary!" Mr. H. L. Channuig groaned. Jonah, dialing , ( carefully, "fiis'-pensed "fiis'-pensed with thW milling scene about the summerhouse. He got another picture. ' , . This time it. was just a quickie, but adequate A horse, a horse of, much hair, was loping t gently fa the direction of? the 'gatekeeper's lodge. Leading him, and legging it tight along with hirn loped Henry , L. Channing. - . ' A cry broke fcom.CalvhvMeggs. By gad," he shouted, "I knew it. You're a crook, Henry. A horse thief." "No, no, Calvin," said Mr. Chan ning, in anguish. "It was all in the nature of a joke."' The Terrible Eye, a thorough going exposer of evil, brought in the last act of the sordid drama. It showed Mr. Channing delivering deliver-ing the horse to the gatekeeper. It showed the gatekeeper leading the horse out to the road. It showed the gatekeeper striking the horse smartly on the flank. At that point, mercifully, Jonah stopped the show. The lights went on. Calvin Meggs was out of his chair, dancing in pure wrath. "I'll write the Jockey Club. I'll write every steward from from Maine to California. You'll be disbarred, Henry Channing. Youll be sei down from the tracks. The world shall know of your depravity." t'ALVTN," Mr. Channing was making a recovery, "will you shut up?" "Eh? Shut up? I'll write . . "Shut up. Now then," Mr. Channing took the floor and began, logically, at the root of the trouble, "this whole business comes of allowing al-lowing . itinerant photographers loose in the grounds. Did you follow fol-low me, young man, with a movie' camera?" "Ha! You admit it was you?" This from Mr. Meggs. "Certainly," said Mr. Channing brazenly. He had decided to brazen it out. "It was only a joke. What are you fuming about, Calvin? Cal-vin? You got your horse back." Jonah cleared his throat "If," he said, "I t were to flash a few more pictures, we might get one of a certain tumbledown house not far from here. Tethered behind be-hind this house" . . ' "Stop!" roared Mr. Channing. But Calvin Meggs had heard. "By gad," he exclaimed, "I see it alL You and your confederates spirited my horse away. But your dastardliness did not stop there. You Went further and substituted what I consider a rank selling-plater. selling-plater. You had- this selling-plater selling-plater newly clipped, thinking to deceive me. But I was suspicious from the start. Well, speak up, Henry! Do you deny these allegations?" allega-tions?" Y "It was a joke, Calvin, moaned Mr. Charming. "I had no -intension of keeping youi money. My plan was to tell everything later on. Then we'd all have had a drink and a good lattgh." v Mr. Meggs considered. "Henry," he said at last, "my inclination is to be big. On condition that you return my horse and my money, I shall let bygones be bygones." "Certainly, Calvin," said Mr. Channing, with a relieved sigh. "That's decent of you, Calvin. Well, that's that. Now I must get back to the house." o TUST then, in her pleasant and detached fashion, Mrs. Channing Chan-ning drifted into the Taj Mahal. "Oh, there you are, lovey," she said, perceiving her lord. "Corby told me you were here, so I slipped out to tell you someone took my tiara. But oh, it must be a joke." .. "What?" boomed Mr. Channing. "What are you saying? That someone stole your tiara?" "Yes, lovey." Mr. Channing's eyes bulged, then rolled upward. "Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord in heaven! Someone steals her diamond tiara worth $40,000' and . . ." "But, lovey dear, it wasn't Worth. $40,000. It was worth $250." "Clarissa, said Mr. Channing dangerously, "pull yourself together. to-gether. What was worth $250?" . "The replica of the tiara, dear.' Mr. Channing sagged limply, with relief. "You had a replica made? You were wearing it tonight?" to-night?" "Why, of course, lovey. Do you think I'd be such a fool as to bring a tiara Worth $40,000 out to a practically unprotected country-side?" country-side?" "Clarissa, said Mr. Channing contritely, "I have underrated you. But we're wasting time. If there's a thief inside, he may be after the spoons. Come on!" "Oh, father!" said Hildy. "Wait a minute. I think Mr. Logan wants to talk to you." "Eh?" Mr. Channing paused. "Who the devil's Mx. Logan?" "Okay, Jonah," said Hildy, "Go in. and pitch. Explain all about the Terrible Eye and don't, settle for a cent less than $200 a week. "No, ho," Jbnah said quickly. "I I've revised rhy notions." "Jonah, you idiot! Youl never have . . .' "Here!" shouted Mr. Channing. "Stop- this chatter!" He eyed Jonah. "So you'rfe Mr. Logan? Well, you report to me in my study tomorrow at ,10 sharp. Clarissa, Cla-rissa, as , the hostess, you ; belong in the house. Calvin, it's time you put in an appearance tdnight Come along; both of you. He was once more the tycoon, the overlord. Mr. Meggs and Mrs. Channing followed im meekly,. i (To Be Concluded) MOTHER'S PRAYER Now I lay me down to sleep (Lord, where lies his "head tonight?) to-night?) And give my soul to God to keep. (Oh, keep him safe, with honor bright!) If I should die before I wake-- And heaven or hell my-choice should know, T pray the Lord my soul to take Whichever place my son must go. MOLLY SCHULTZ, Salt Lake City. VICARIOUSLY The task of strenuous war may not be mine To bear. I may not sec the sinking sink-ing ship Or hear the screaming shells that rip Their way along the battle line. I may not have to witness children chil-dren 'die Of want or watch the slaves who roam From land to land denned the . joys of home Nor fight the hordes of demons in the sky. But I can keep the fields and pastures green And sow and reap and give my constant care To those you love at homo. Their unforseen Calamities will be my part to 'share And I can cheer their lonely hours, too Vicariously, our soldier boys, for you. GRACE M. CANDLAND, Q What is the importance Of Wilhelmshaven, Gorman city recently re-cently bombed by American airmen air-men ? A--It is the home port of the Nazi North ea fleet and has important im-portant foundries and repair shops. Q-rMust you surrender ration stamps when you cat meals in restaurants ? A No. Resaurants wil be rationed in the total amount of processed foods they may buy according ac-cording to the number of meals they serve. $ For what soup it Marseille famous ? A Bouillabaisse, made of vari ous fish caught In the Mediter ranean, boiled together and fla vored with laurel leaves, onions, garlic, tomatoes and saffron. Q In 500 at no trump, what suit must "be played when joker is led? - A Player leading most name the suit he wishes played to his lead. Q What sport is altogether American 7 A Basketball, originated by the late Dr. James A. Naismith at the Springfield, Mass., YMCA In 1881. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLCN May be Jane's family eats breakfast in the kitchen kitch-en to save fuel, but I wm raised that jwayand I won't pretend It took a war to start ihe.' ' LABOR LEADER EXIT One of the AF of L big-shots, John Coyne, president of the powerful Building Trades Department, De-partment, is about to get the axe. Coyne's Building Trades Departmont represents repre-sents about 1,700,000 organized workmen in the carpenters, plumbers, electrical workers and other AFL building trades unions. But .he will be oustod at the next meeting of the executive council in May. He was voted a leave of absence after the last meeting in Miami, where some members didn't approve his behavior. Richard Gray, secretary-treasurer of the AFL Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers Unloa is top candidate to succeed him. CAPITAL CHAFF Before Connecticut . Congresswoman Clare Luce delivered Tier maiden speech panning the British on future air routes, her text was carefully care-fully blue pencilled by the State Department. They did not object to criticism of the British, figuring that hands-across-the-sea policy was strong enough to take it. But they did cross out some of Clare's caustic words about Russia notL-giving notL-giving us more cooperation on airplane routes . . Staunch Roosevel-rooter Tom Berry, ex-Governor ex-Governor of South Dakota, has been appointed to the Farm Credit Administration despite the vigorous objection of Farm Credit Boss A. G. Black. It was White House adviser Eugene Casey, an increasing power in Democratic Farm politics, who put him across . . . Thomas Jefferson Jef-ferson once predicted that the fleets of Brazil and the United States would ride together as brothers. Now that this has happened, the Rockefeller Committee is working on a movie featuring Jefferson's prophecy. SECRET RUML PLAN VOTE The vote of the House Ways and Means Committee on the Ruml Plan was secret, but inside fact is it never had a chance of getting more than five votes. The flood of mail reaching committee mem bers, at first favorable, turned around arA showed conclusively that the country was against outright postponement of taxes. .Underlying .Under-lying sentiment expressed in the mail was that although high taxes hurt, it was unfair to postpone post-pone too much of the war cost to the next generation. , Also the Committee became more and more' convinced that the Ruml plan was largely cooked up for the benefit of top bracket incomes, in-comes, and if taxes were forgiven one year, it would mean shifting a much greater burden to lower income groups to make up the deficit. This, they concluded, was just what Mr. Ruml's war wealthy clients wanted. LITTLE AID TO CHINA Just back from Chungking, General 'Hap" Arnold, chief of the Air Forces, gave a glowing glow-ing report to Secretary of War Stimson regarding re-garding Chinese resourcefulness in battling the Japs. He was amazed and full of praise for Chinese ingenuity in repairing planes, landing in cow pastures and conserving fuel. As far as General Arnold is concerned he would like to send the Chinese -a lot more planes though in the past he has not been too keen about it. (Incidentally, one reason for sending him to China was to win him over to the Chinese cause). t . . However, despite Madame Chiang Kai-shek's graceful appearance here, despite Hap Arnold's enthusiasm, despite the President's public statements, China is not going to get anything ..much In the way of supplies. - Reasons are: (1) the impossibility of opening open-ing the Burma Road now with the mbnsobn season only a few weeks off; (2)the absolute necessity of cleaning up Africa and preparimr for a drive against Hitler in Europe; (3) Chinese Chin-ese political dissension which requires too many aims for personal armies. Some war weapons will be flown over the Himalayas, but not much more than in the past CURE FOR TYPHUS 5y way ot London has come word that the Germans have evolved a cure for the dread disease typhus. If bo, it is a discovery meaning the lives of thousands of men in the Eastern front. In 1914 "General Typhus" was responsible respon-sible for more lives than' machine gun fire, and xrum umo u ume it nas ravaged the Balkans, Russia , and Eastern Europe ever since. " The German cure was discovered by a -Dr. van Meerdock ;and is a combination of atebrin Tin m a rv aahi ww rm mr lji . juuMuuuuii. u. o. rutuc eajui Officials ' iwea uruweu regarcung- lne CUT , " vuuca occui lu ue iavorao xmpressea. - , . BROAD-BEAMED GOVERNMENT Ninety-six new mahogany chair urn - w.ui muukis tutu wui w ins " U4 bwwmj wnen me wro will give p that brass is necessary . . ., Most 6enat were, installed when the ; Capitol waa me teener soions use tnem with trcp (Copyright,- 1943 by United Fj Syndicate, Inc.) r r i |