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Show - 4 - - . PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 1944 Editorial . . . . And Moses returned, tante the Lord, mad said, On, this people hare Unned great Bin, end utc made them rods of gold Exodns 2241. Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains. Hannah Moore. AAerry-Go-Round The Late Dr. Fu From London comes the news that Dr. Fu Manchu is dead. The insidious Chinese villain of fiction has been dispatched by his creator, creat-or, Sax Rohmer, after a 20-year career which brought the doctor fame and the author a very respectable income. Mr. Rohmer performed the deed with understanding un-derstanding reluctance, but he had little choice. In reality. Dr. Fu was a war casualty. casual-ty. - The trouble, Mr. Rohmer explained, was that the Chinese government considered him shockingly bad propaganda. He was giving the world a bad picture of the Chinese, the government said, and just couldn't be allow ed to live any longer. Dr. Fu's departure set us wondering about its ultimate effect on dramatic and fictional villainy. And our conclusions were far from heartening. Obviously the mystery- ariduremendpus concentration of ships around thriller fans are in for a bland diet if the precedent of Dr. Fu's execution catches on. Any unflattering literary or dramatic por trayal of any United Nations citizen might be taken as a national insult by the government gov-ernment involved. Contemporary movies, plays and books would be bereft of French collaborators, Mexican rustlers, homicidal Amazon tribesmen, tribes-men, Balkan brigands, turbaned terrorists of India, in fact, the entire.stock in trade of the cooseflesh branch of creative art. Of course, we in America could get by for a while on native villains. After all, a na tion should be allowed to insult itself. But once the world movie market opened up again, we should have to fall in line and make our fictional characters as spotless as our neighbors. An obvious solution of this dilemma would be an unrelieved procession of villainous villain-ous Japs and Germans. But this, too, has its drawbacks. For one thing, we can pick up our newspapers any day and read accounts ac-counts of real-life villainy by these two races that make any fanciful misdeeds seem pale. Also such a scheme would restrict the locale lo-cale and circumstances of any drama of conflict con-flict to the point of boredom. If the fundamental dramatic formula of good versus evil is to be preserved, we shall probably have to adopt one of two courses. Either we can go back to the ancient Greek scheme of making the gods the villains, and letting them steer the mortals into trouble against their wills. Or we can ask that the whole thing be threshed out by the interna tional conference at San Francisco in April. Maybe they could have the citizens of the world agree to trust in the cautious foreword fore-word that "resemblance to any actual per son, living or dead, is purely coincidental." And the authors , of each country might be allotted a quota of villains by nationality, a maximum number each year. Then, perhaps, while we all work to achieve a kindly, cooperative and peaceful world, we could be permitted the safety valve of vicarious villainy in the realm of make believe without fear of international compli cations. A Heavy Decision It is good to know that the increase of the Italians' bread ration from 200 to 300 grams a day, ordered many weeks ago by Presi dent Roosevelt, has at least become effective. effect-ive. It is less pleasant to realize that the basic problem of caring for underfed Euro peans cannot be settled till the war is over. There is only so much shipping space available. So which shall it be military supplies to shorten the war and save the lives of American and Allied soldiers, or food to avert death, disease or permanent disa bility among the innocent civilian sufferers in devastated regions? It is a heavy decision, and one which none of us would like to make. But when it has had to be made, there has been only one possible pos-sible answer. The war must come first. The enemy must be beaten as quickly as possi ble. Lives and hard-won gains roust not be sacrificed for want of munitions and equip ment. Wedding Bells Two or three of the bride's brothers caught up with the reluctant bridesgroom just as he was high-tailing it into the cane- brakes. If he had had a few hours more head start it would have been too late. He didn't want to come back and face the music of the wedding march ; but the broth ers all wore determined looks and shotguns. shot-guns. You ain't done right by our little Nell," they said, "you have took advantage of her pretty and innocense. We aim to see that she makes an honest man of you." And so the wedding bells rang out. The reluctant Turkey and the blushing United Nations were united for better or worse. The brothers and cousins of the bride were all -there with their shotguns within easy reach. Everybody said it was a lovely wedding, wedd-ing, and that they had never seen a prettier bride. The Washington A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By Draw Pwon (CoL Robert a Allan on active doty) WASHINGTON Biaaest shake-un in the high . command since General Eisenhower's appointment ap-pointment as European commander is betas dla- cuBscq, pacKsrage at tne wnue House. Some of a eisa is reported to. have been studied at Yalta. The shakeiUD will be aimed at solving wA difficult problems: m Cooneratlon with th sun general star, despite the fact that Russia u not u tne war against Japan; and (2) the tug- ox-war Dctween Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur as to who will command the final rfHv on Tokyo. . The No. 1 problem, involving Russia. ably. will be worked out by setting up a separate branch of the combined chiefs in Europe with ueneru umar uraaiey. Field Marshal Montgom ery. ana marsnai znukov as its members. They w loncuon in rcgara 10 me European war only, will have nothing to do with the war against The No. 2 problem of who will command the knock-out blows asainst Janans has bcn th. subject of considerable army and navy wirepulling. wire-pulling. General MacArthur and his friends have Deen conaucung a vigorous campaign for his over all appointment. On the other end. the naw Mints out with considerable truth, that if it were not for the arnnnrt ha Philippines and the skillful operations of Admiral Nimitz, MacArthur's cam Da ism would hav rnttr nowhere. Nimitz not only was able to land troops for MacArthur but operated his fleet so adroitly that after the initial Leyte operations, the Japs were unable to send reinforcements to Luzon. At first. President Roosevelt considered solving solv-ing the feud by designating Admiral Kins- as supreme commander in the Pacific. This, however, how-ever, brought a terrific howl from MacArthur and wouldn't have been welcomed by Nimitz either. Final solution therefore probably will be the appointment of General Marshal as over-all Pacific Pa-cific commander immediately after Germany is defeated. He would be over-all commander of both the army and the naw and of the entire Allied operation against Japan. Simultaneously. General Eisenhower would he brought back to Washington to take Marshall's place as chief of staff. General Bradlev would then carry on In Europe as commander-in-chief of the American forces. CHURCHILL SPEARS RUSSIAN Prime Minister Churchill tried out some of his newly learned Russian on Stalin at Yalta with disappointing results. At several points during the meeting. Stalin had come up with expressions which he thought were proper English, such as "what's cookin?". What the hell goes on here?", taught him bv his ambassador to Washington, Mr. Gromyko. So Churchill decided to match Stalin bv trv- ing out some of his newly learned Russian. Rat tling off what he thought was perfectly good Russian, the prime minister looked around proudly proud-ly and waited for Stalin to reply. Nothing happened. Stalin looked nuzzled. Then Stalins interpreter said: "Excuse me, Mr. Prime Minister. I didn't understand un-derstand the language you were talking. I only speak two languages myself Russian and English. Eng-lish. Would you mind saying it in English or in Russian?" Churchill. Stalin and Roosevelt all joined in the laugh that followed. YICHTTTE INTRIGUE It was announced In Paris recently that Jacques Jac-ques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, who arranged for Admiral Ad-miral Darlan to turn up in North Africa, had been arrested by De Gaulle. However, it has remained a mysterv as to how De Gaulle got hold of the famous Vichyite, since he had been living in Portugal. At first it was assumed that he had gone back to France on a visit and was then nabbed by French police. Real story, of Lemaigre-Dubreuil's arrest, however, has now come back through uncensored diplomatic sources. Actually, he was kidnapped at night in a small Portuguese village near Estoril. Lemaigre-Dubreuil and Jean Rigault. another close friend or U. 5. Charge D'affaires Bob Mur phy, had rented a house in the Portuguese suburbs and were asleep one night when a group of Frenchmen woke them up and, at the point of a gun, put them into a fishing boat. They were then taxen oaex to France. Certain state department officials are jittery over what will happen when these two Vichyites are put on trial by De Gaulle. Lemaigre-Dubreuil was one of the most famous big business lobbyists of France, was founder of the "Taxpayers' League." a founder of .the Fascist Cagoulards. and subsidized various French fascist papers before the war. He helped Murphy on the idea of cooperating with the Vichv government, and when DeGaulle took over North Africa, Murphy helped Lemaigre-Dubreuil escape in an American automobile. CAPITAL CHAFF Quoth Senator Tom Connally of Texas dur tag prolonged hearings on the Mexican waterways treaty: "The floor of oratory in this committee room Is as hard to control as the notorious floods of the Colorado river" Secretary of the Navy Forrestal has taken a firm stand that navy men s views on politics should not be censored. . .... There are about 375 baseball players in the American league, of which 130 are 4-F's. Baseball Base-ball moguls says: "If the 4-F's are barred from baseball, the game will have to be played by old men." The senate campaign expenditures committee talks of removing the $3,000,000 limit on the amount of money a political committee can spend in an election campaign. They claim this limit, is unworkable. The committee also proposes pro-poses lifting the $25,000 limit for Individual sen ator's campaigns and the limit of $5,000 each for an single contribution to a political committee. Thus, grandually, the old Hatch act is whittled down Colonel Harry Vaughan, now military aide to Vice President Truman, was formerly his secretary. Vaughan is now virtually back on the office staff in uniform Not as many people peo-ple know about Elmer Irey as know of J. Edgar Hoover, but Irey is being talked about for Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis' job as dean of baseball. base-ball. Congressman Cochran of Missouri says: "If baseball gets Irey, they won't have to worry about gamblers. He knows them all." (Copyright, 1943, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Always the First Harbinger of Spring With spring not far off on the calendar, we stand a pretty good chance of getting rid of this mean temperature. Although it is Important that the returning veteran fit into the economic system and be able to support himself, it is far more important that he be able as a citizen to contribute to the solution solu-tion of the great problems which the country will face in the next generation. This is the object of liberal education Dr. Robert Maynard Hutch-ins, Hutch-ins, president of U. of Chicago. The way to prevent a repetition of German aggression is the creation by the peaceful nations of an organization for the defense of peace and the insurance of general security. The leading- Allied powers should place at the disposal of this organization the necessary armed forces to be employed to prevent or to suppress aggression aggres-sion and punish its instigators. A Polevoi, Red Star military wfjter. i ..... The Chopping Block i& Prank C Robertson jSSr. Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files Of THE PROVO HERALD Of March 4. 1925 Calvin CoUidge today renewed his oath of office as 30th president presi-dent of the United States in a brilliant ceremonial at the steps of the capltol. Before the judicial, judi-cial, diplomatic and military peerage of the nation, massed at the eastern entrance-where presidents presi-dents of history have launched their administrations Mr. Cool-idge Cool-idge reaffirmed his pledge to his office and to the constitution. His slow and even drawn words leaped leap-ed out through the radio amplifier ampli-fier in front of him to span the earth. It was the first time an inauguration has been broadcast The new Coolidge cabinet to take office is as follows: Frank B. Kellog, secretary of state: Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury; John W. Weeks, secretary sec-retary of war; Charles W. Warren, War-ren, attorney general: Harrv S. New, postmaster general; Curtis u. wubur, secretary of the navy; Hubert Work, secretary of the interior; in-terior; William M. Jardine, sec retary of agriculture; Herbert Hoover, secretary of. commerce; John J. Davis, secretary of labor. Provo was scheduled to enter tain the Utah Bankers association at the two-day annual convention conven-tion to be held here June 5 and 6. The program will be arranged by Marriner Eccles of Ogden and carl xt. Aiarcusen of Price. xne xrovo.cuy schools are abreast with the most progres sive schools of the nation declared de-clared Superintendent H. Claude Lewis on his return from a super- imenaents- convention in Cincin nati, Ohio. Steps were taken by the city ana county commissions provid big for the completion of the new city and county building within tne next 12 months. Architect Joseph Nelson was authorized to prepare the specifications incident inci-dent to the advertising of bids. The cost of the work is estimated at $150,000. Thirty Years Ago From the Flies Of March 4. 1915 Heber C. Jex formerly of Spanish Span-ish Fork was appointed receiver of the federal land office in Salt Lake City. Surveys for the line between Provo and Pay son are being run by the Salt Lake & Utah railroad rail-road company, but the officers of the company state they are unable to give any definite information as to when construction work will begin. It is expected here, however, by people closely associated as-sociated with the company that the road will be extended to Payson by summer. The first revenue received by B-29s Praised By the Pilots By ERNIE PYLE IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (delayed) The B-29 is unques tionably a wonderful airplane. Outside of the famous old Douglas Doug-las DC-3 workhorse, I've never heard- pilots so unanimous in their praise of an airplane. I took my first ride in one the other day. No. I' didn't go on a mission to Japan. We've been through all that before. I don't believe in people going on mis sions unless they have to. And as before, the pilots here all agreed witn me. But I went along on a little practice bombing trip of an hour and a half. The pilot was Mai. Gerald Robinson, who lives in our hut. His wife, incidentally, lives at 1Z3 south Girard-St.. Albu querque, N. M., on the very same street as our white house. I sat- on a box between the pilots, both on the takeoff and for the landing, and as much as l ve flown, that was still a thrill These islands are relatively small. and you re no sooner off the ground that you're out over water, ana that feels funny. If the air is a little rough, it gives you a very odd sensation sitting way up there in the nose For the B-29 is so big that, instead in-stead of bumping or dropping, the nose has a "willowy" motion, sort of like sitting out on the end of a green limb when it's swaying around. The B-29 carries a crew of 11 Some of them sit up in the cock pit and the compartment just be- nina it. borne others sit in a com partment near the tail. The tail gunner sits all alone, way back tnere m the lonely tail turret. The body of the B-29 is so tak en up with gas tanks and bomb racks that there's normally no way to get from front to rear compartments. So the manufact urers solved that by building a tunnel into the plane, right along the rooftop. The tunnel is round, just big enougb to crawl in on your hands and knees, and is padded with blue cloth. It's more than 30 feet long, and the crew members crawl back and forth through it all the time. Maj. Ru'ss Cheever reported that he accomplished the impossible the other day by turning turn-ing around in the tunnel. On missions, some of the crew get back in this tunnel and sleep for an hour or so. But a lot of them can't stand to do that. I've heard combat crewmen bring up the subject a half dozen times. They say they get claustrophobia in the tunnel. There used to be some sleeping bunks on the B-29, but they've been taken out, and now there's hardly even room to lie down on the floor. A fellow does get sleepy on a 14-hour mission. Most of the pilots take naps in their seats. One pilot I know turned the plane over to his co-pilot and went back to the tunnel for "a little nap," and didn't return for six hours, just before they hit the coast of Japan. They laughing ly say he goes to sleep before he Desk Chat ANSEWERING CURIOUS CYNIC . . . . the more a man needs an education, the less he seems able to realize it. . . . . whiskers is one of the few things a man can achieve without inspiration. . . . . bald men are the first to condemn a girl for flirting. . . . one of the problems of life that older folks can't quite understand un-derstand is: why some girls seem to unerringly select the kind of dumb cluck they shouldn t DIRGE FOR MARCH All day long And thru the night I ponder over 'Miscellaneous' And confusing Computations. Full of awe And full of wonder Gross income. . . . net. . . Without equivocation, My auto number Personal equation. Sixteen less twenty-one. Item one forty-nine. My total losses-Charities, losses-Charities, profits, Debts all To be divided By earned assets. My name, in full, Signed on the Dotted line. . . . Life grows more complex Less sublime As the income tax becomes More complicated each time. HIRSUTE ADORNMENT A sailor who had been on duty for some months obtained shore leave and went home. When his wife answered his knock at ithe door of their home, she exclaim' ed: "Why Henry! What a lot of whiskers and moustach you've grown! I hardly knew you." Then, calling to their four-year old daughter, she said: "Mary Louise, here s your daddy come back. The little girl stood and looked at the stranger but said nothing. "Mary Louise," questioned the mother. "What is the matter with you? Why don't you kiss daddy?" Still gazing at her daddy's hairy face, she said: "I don't see any place." Mttwela lived 969 years-no years-no doubt he too, had days when he couldn't decide which risinp generation to worry about most. J ; 7 i; - I suupose that I am a philosophical" philos-ophical" anarchist At any sate hope that sometime there will be no government at alL and that every individual in society will be so self disciplined, so mindful of the rights of others that the idea of an external power pow-er to enforce roles of order and good conduct will seem preposter- ous. Now before you go reaching reach-ing for the telephone to summon the FBI read on that I really don't look for this ideal society soci-ety to come in to existence for couple . of million years, and t hardly expect to be personall y around at that date. Until then perha ps we will have to go on being ruled, nresumablv for our own good. aouenwra From the time when the first naked savage killed another sav age and enslaved the family of the departed we have had gov eminent. The enslavement of the mind began soon after the en slavement of the body, but it was little more subtle. Future re wards were promised for sur render of the right to think. For a long time there was lit tle pretense that government was for the benefit of anyone except those who did the ruling. Even TOonarchs who pretended to rule for the benefit of a kingdom or an empire believed in subjection of one class for the benefit of another. Then, finally, after slow and painful centuries a new idea came into begin. It was that government gov-ernment should exist for the benefit of the governed. Few of us have any idea how revolutionary revolution-ary that principle was. For the first time society as a whole recognized the dignity of the common com-mon man. It doesn't matter where it began, nor that it was slow in making headway. The important thing is that it aimed at more liberty for the individual. It reached out and touched millions Of people who knew only blind obedience and degradation with new aspirations and hopes. Because we here in America believed that we were the origin- 4v ing less and less with the private affairs of its citizens? The road back can only get us into more industrial and political slavery. Government can be good-, for the people only so long as government govern-ment is controlled by the people. When it is so controlled the.more powerful it becomes the better. control every added power of X4 government becomes a menace. . Any government, including ours, unless watched, will become totalitarian. There is something about the mere fact of being em- nloved bv the government which. 1 tlut. t -1 " ta. manes uiuc minus iirai m j J girl clerk behind the counter i a local tax department imagines that she represents the -police power of the state and so is justified justi-fied in freely insulting the very citizens who pay her salary. It "is these puny little people who engender en-gender hatred and contempt instead in-stead of respect for law. Weakening the powers of, government gov-ernment is no solution to our difficulties. dif-ficulties. Government must be stronger than the strongest adverse ad-verse force within it. But no class, whether elected, appointed, or chosen by Civil Service should be allowed to make a business of bossing others. When they are permitted to assume that they own the functions of government freedom for the rest of us has departed. de-parted. Government by fiat or decree de-cree has always meant a refusal of the rights of the people to pe heard, and we are getting far too much of it. Under war conditions much of it is perhaps necessary. but if the American people are not alert it will continue after peace and representative govern ment and the dignity or me common com-mon citizen will be a thing of the past. The signboard reads. This way to Freedom and Democracy." The trouble is now that we cant be sure someone hasn't turned it around when we weren't looking, and the arrow points back down the way to where a citizen has no right which government was bound to respect. Your G I Rights WASHINGTON. Mar. 3 (UJ! This question concerns the GI education program. Q I want to take an art coarse so I can get a Job aa designer for an aAvei-Uslnc- eemoany. The ta- a tors and protectors of that prta-jillon is pretty expensive tor a ciple, which was not altogether true, we have howled louder for freedom and equality than anybody. any-body. We believed in freedom" so completely that we have always been ready to die for it. But we haven't been willing to do much thinking about it. We allowed an industrial de-Dotism de-Dotism to grow up side by side with our political democracy. We allowed top-heavy fortunes and abject poverty to set class against class. ' We nourished stupid and hate-breeding racial and religious intolerance. We made no attempt to correct conditions that were breeding war. We came to the comfortable condition of mouth ing pious phrases about liberty instead of being willing to work and fight for its as our ancestors had done. As a result we find ourselves in a world where the tendency to give man more and more freedom has been reversed, and the tendency is to give him less and less. Let's not fool ourselves; we can travel a road only one of two ways, forward or back. We marched up the road singing that that government governed best which governed least. Does anyone any-one honestly believe that at this time any government is interfer- foor-month coarse. Will the gov ernment pay for it? A. If you are qualified the government will pay up to. $500 a year, plus subsistence, while you go to school. According to the latest interpretation of the law, however, you are required to attend school or get training at least 30 weeks in each yearvia order to get the maximum of. $500. Also, the new interpretation says that you can only get one-thirtieth one-thirtieth of tht $500 or $16.67, for each week spent in school, plus subsistence if the course you take is shorter than 30 weeks. This is all the government will pay for books, fees and tuition. Q. Are applicants fer Federal positions who were discharged from the armed forces because ef fraudulent enlistment misrepresentation misrepre-sentation of age, marital status, etc. entitled to veteran preference? prefer-ence? A. Yes, if their service affords a basis for preference and they were separated under honorable conditions. Q. Can I get extra gasoline rations to look for a Job? A. Yes, if you can prove that is the best way for youto find the kind of a job you want. the citv on the haHs of earnings . gets his wheels up from the franchise of the Utah' The B-29 .is a very stable plane Valley Gas & Coke company con-lflnd hardly anybody ever gets sick sisted of a check for $60.94. be- In rough weather. The boys ing one per cent of the gross earnings' during the first year of operation. Marriage licenses have been issued to Vlrl Martin and Ilia Loveless, both of Provo; Darrell William Burk of Ogden and Lulu Hutchings of Springville. Reed Swenson will leave soon on a mission to the Central States. the plexiglass "blisters" where the gunners sit will blow out from the strong pressure inside, and then everybody better grab his oxygen mask in an awful hurry. The crew always wears the oxygen oxy-gen mask over the target, for a shell, through the plane "depres-surizes" "depres-surizes" the cabin instantly, and they'd pass out The boys speak frequently of the unbelievably high winds they hit at high altitudes over Japan. It's nothing unusual to have a 150-mile-an-hour wind, and my nephew. Jack Bales, said that one day his plan hit a wind of 250 mile an hour. Another thing that puzzles and amuses the boys is that often theyT pick up news on their radios, when still only halfway heme, that their bombing mission mis-sion has been announced in Washington. Thus all the world smoke in the plane, and the mess knows baut it but they've still GENERAL VISITS SOVIETS ROME, March 3 (UJJ Marshal Sir, Harold R. L. G. Alexander, supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean, has visited the headquarters of Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin, commander of Russia's Rus-sia's Third Ukrainian army, it was announced today. hall gives them a small lunch of sandwiches and oranges and cookies to eat on the way. On mission days all flying crewmen, even those not going on the mission, get all the fried eggs they want for breakfast That's the only day they have eggs. The crewmen wear their regular reg-ular clothes on missions, usually coveralls. They don't have to wear heavy fleece-hned clothes and all that bulky gear, because the cabin cab-in is heated. 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NEW STORE HOURS At a Meeting of the Retail Merchants of Provo held Feb. 15, 1945 it was agreed by a majority vote of thoso present to observe store hours as follows, beginning begin-ning March 1st. STORES OPEN 10 A .M. STORES CLOSE 6 P.M. Every Day Including Monday These Hours Effective March 1st Retail Merchants Committee Provo Chamber of Commerce |