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Show xtdh They Make 'Em Broad In Mexico PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 1945 Editorial.... And they were offended in him. But Jesus aid onto them, A prophet is not without honor, save Jn his own country and in his own house. Matthew 13:57. The Washington Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's B PS1 J CoL Robert Going On in National Affairs ?etft"-duiV" WASHINGTON One Nazi Question m.rV Censure is the tax a man pays to the public ,wn,cn u- army observers have watched with Tbeir pro-tem conclusion is that he will not for two reasons. He figures the Allies, have an even more potent gas than he (regarding which he is probably right): and second, he probably knows that snmc TT S war rhlf ii.vu. Every SO often, war effort, generated by use gas because of the tremendous advantage it The Hood River Incident patriotism but twisted by a lack of perspec tive, turns to war hysteria. We had a lot oi it in the last war. We've had some in this war. It's always bad. It makes people kind, good, helpful people do cruel, bad, stupid things. We've just seen one instance lately. The town of Hood River, in Oregon, has recently done itself and its country a dis- service, it nas removea irom n iuu ui would be to us. In the Pacific. Hitler probably knows that the war would be over in a few weeks if U. S. troops turned on the gas take for instance. I wo Jima where U. S. Marines have battled inch by inch, suffered heavy casualties and. as this is written, are still trying to get stubborn Jap troops from caves and tunnels. If gas were permissible per-missible on Iwo Jima. the Marines would merelv drop a counle1 of tons of ifas on the island and then wait for the results. They would not even need to land a man. Likewise on the main Jap islands. Gas, too. troops, no costly necessary. Meanwhile, the United States, not being a series of islands, and now being too far awav V.iVVi evViihitpH ihe names of those could levcl Tokvo off " no time. No invading honor, which exnibiteq tne names oi itrooos. no costiv landin oneration- wiri Z ilgniing ianu ujmgi xwr men ivum.j, names of 16 Nisei. Hood River has not said tAr AiA vic Wgnso thRr Nisei were guilty of a crime ; or that the, fr j tor S, Sff"' soldiers; or that they had refused to drill. 01 j Earlier in the war whe it was feared HU,er to fight, or to risk their lives m the war might use gas. and when the Jaos did uncork against tyranny and barbarity, the war for a eas twice asainst the Chinese, an these thinrs int npice for all POOPleS. No. They re- wcre carefully considered by U. S. war chiefs. jUSt peace lor U P1" --.for nf But they considered the fact that gas would moved the names because the ancestors olihave terrific rep(.rcuion8 against the British these members of our armed loices w ere ;isies. for exactly the same reason that they would Japanese. !n tne Japanese islands. Though these factors are carefully studied, gas It is possible to Understand how anyone, .will never be used bv the U. S. army, despite itr or indeed, any community, can hate the Jap-?d vantage in the Pacific, unless the enemy user anese against whom we are at war. The Jan-!u '""t. -However, an uo-to-date. alert chemical u JlZalv, T.Q.tio,l 'warfare service is probablv one good reason Hit- anese nation has preached and piacticed il?r has nrvrr lmcorked his chemicals. treachery, brutality, torture, in the cause Swedish mimtions king Of aggression. IhlS we aie Ilgntmg. e, Apropos of Swedish industrialist Axel Wen- nergren attemDts to get off the black list a report re-port by U. S. Ambassador George S. Messer-smith Messer-smith is significant. Messersmith. when U. S. consul con-sul to Berlin, later minister to Austria, was the 1 Desk Chat, Editorial Column ANSWERING CURIOUS CTNIC much wind left for climbing? . the fellow who nreaehea Tin I unto others as you would have PERT AN PERTINENT V them do unto you does not! "Men on Southern chain gangsf want this to aDDLv to havinir; worked untU they drop from ex- H want this to apply to having the boys treat his daughter as he treated the girls when he was in his salad days. she is old enough to be worked until they drop from ex- nausuon. news note. Aren't the Japs brutal to their prisoners of war? "After several vears of ex- called 'Miss' if she knows when; haustive study, we have found her father is pouting or just;nat the future affects to a great, trying to be dignified. degree, our conditions of today. wmversiiy scientist. perhaps its greatest effect is to be found in income tax and installment buying. "If you want something done a 'real' kiss before hreak fast, i Properly and quickly, find a busy you can rightly include that i executive." Business Lecture, jg children are keen observ ers, and by the time they are ten years old they know almost as much as their parents. if your husband gives you he is still in love. ana xo lira a busy executive, ex-ecutive, hunt for one who CUSSes the telenhnne Woman, is the clinging vine; "Most of us are in agreement man tne sturdy oak. :on the subeict that nniltio hmilH Thai's a fine poetic thought be free from religion. ..." And it is not a joke. 'Church Annual. But, sometimes, j particularly when it help Life plays tricks the other side win votes. Because. . . . Many vines are clinging To awful sticks! IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT a book docs not become a classic until un-til people don't read it but say they have. Lord, suffer me to match a fish So large that even I In talking about it afterwards Shall not need to lie! oOo f, You have all heard the story of the thrifty Scot who always too!: his wife's false teeth with iThat Newsprint Shortage Again!; him when he left the house so i This announcement appeared in i she would not eat in-between a small country weekly: meals. . . . but yesterday, when "Owing to lack of space. sev-;he called to his Wife: "Good-bjrtH cmi uiiiiis ana qcbui; win dc. ,,v vwjio ivici iu taiv muc postponed until next week.'' ' Donal's glasses off when he isn't looKing at anything. Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile: as simple as filing Form 1040. oOo CAN YOU FIGURE THIS ONE OUT? Today was tomorrow, yesterday; yester-day; but today is today, just as yesterday was today yesterday IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT the 'silent promise is usually fulfilled. "Scrap the old and adopt tbe new" applies to the conduct of ' tyour business but not to your The sergeant was dozing on his but if yesterday was today and bunk. tomorrow will be today tomor-, A pleasant smile suffused his row. which makes today yester- relaxed mug. By Frank C. Robertson are fighting against the culture and the educational edu-cational system which have produced and maintained the Japanese army and navy. t?.. iA,- nMln, .rtr.0TviT, rt i first U. S. diplomat to warn the state deoart cut um c iL T .mrnt of what the Naris were up to though for death all members of the Japanese race be- a iong time they wouldn't believe him. cause they are members of that lace, we Regarding Axel Wennergren. Ambassador cannot justify a war on the lines of race. Messersmith later reported from Mexico City in To do so, puts us shoulder to shoulder with!1043... . . uow , . , . r , ,L . i i ,i 1 naJ known of Mr. Wennergren s close the Nazis and the Japanese war lords. And )COnnection with the Nazi government in Germany this is what Hood River has done. as early as 1933. ,. , ,. . . , "Undoubtedly he had this close connection Perhaps they did not realize this. Perhaps with several of the highest officials of the Nati 1 hey will SOOn correct it, replace those names; government, including Air Marshal Goering. It in trip full realization that thev are the WBS notorious at that time that Wennergren was SJS with the,e Ple- His '"ocistion with names of Americans fighting on equal terms ;h,Kh officials of the Nazi overnment was well alongside all Other Americans. Lntll they known and there was no endeavor to make any do so, they have declared themselves to be concealment. in favor of the complete extermination of a!i "There is no doubt whatever that wennergren fnr- Via , Vin .jmnio was convinced that the Nari government would Japanese everywherefor that is the simple be ablc to carry through the dornlnation of at and only argument by which they can SUS- least eastern and southeastern Europe." tain their act. both political horses One of the first jobs of new Secretary of ' Commerce Henry Wallace will be either to pick a new undersecretary of commerce, or let the !old undersecretary, William A. M. Burden remain on. Whan UTall.a ,U M.a. Via ...ill "Those fellows down in Washington, says find an interesting situation. Burden, a member a prosperous manufacturer to his prosperous ! of a Democratic rdministration in 9 hot presi-friend, presi-friend, "thev irritate me. They irritate you. dentiai race, contributed si.ooo to the Dewey cam-And cam-And -e've got plenty of company." Koned i.h m?u$i What that gentleman says is partly tnie.Pub&;nwj; hhB-elf .b8olutely Ihere are many people Who for one reason Ineutral. However, when you are in the middle of rr Other don't like the OPA, but it doesn't jone of the hotest presidential campaigns in history, follow that there is, therefore, something :and 'ou a rnember of the administration in reprehensible about the OPA. One of ihB5SSm& cardinal Virtues of an effective price-fixing 8on did, by contributing no money to either party, organization must be its willingness to incur I However, there is another unique angle to the the displeasure of special interest groups, burden contribution. He explains that before he The OPA must and does work, not for the!de thf op ift hTe consulted his boss. Sec-, Sec-, t-L c :i . i ... i retarv of Commerce Jesse Jones and that Jesse benefit of special groups, but for the general advi,vd him to make the contribution. JJOOd. I jo White House insiders this confirms what , . , -v-,. , ,, ;the president suspected all during the last cam- It is often necessary for OPA to Say ' no naign. that Jones was riding both political horses. to business men and manufacturers who Jesse's cousin. George Butler, was chairman of the want to ra se nrices. Frecmentlv thesp dis-, Democratic convention in lexas wnicn pm an The Chopping Block I have a feeling that meddling cheapest wines and in Utah's perennial liquor contro- brands of whiskey. versy is a good way to get myi I might add that owine to ra- fingers burned. There s no reason, cial discrimination there are far Once News rior, NOW Hl'stOrV day and .tomorrow all at once. Curiosity got the best of Jim- He was falling asleep. Suddenly, his face grew stern, angry, and then he shouted: "Halt: Can't you blankety-blank- iny Crickets the other day when' tv.biank sheen keeD steo0" he called at Wing Lee's for hisel3 DlanK cCrj P' i more low income people in this state man in utan. A short time ago I had occasion to return to Utah for a few days. One night I happened to be out with friends who had a couple of bottles that had to be "killed." As I write this I realize with somewhat of a shock that I had more drinks in that one evening than I nave taken in three months Virtues of Unpopularity why I should. If it comes to that there s no real reason why I should write a column except that I'm a poor talker, and I like to have my say. I know very little of what's going on. I read where the author of the defeated bill to sell liquor by the drink stated that she, personally, was opposed to it. It's not to be wondere d at then, that the bill was defeated. defeat-ed. Few bills ever do pass when they are iponsore d b'y their e nemies. F. C. Robertson The only significant thing about; sionary real might well be built J'". te unique at- with whisky bottles gathered titude of Utah lawmakers toward .from public toilets, dark alleys, the liquor - problem. land the back yards of dance halls That attitude I heard discussed in our great state. a nine more clearly when tuning i The other dav I was cursed and laundry and pointing to the Chinese characters on the laundry asked: "Is that my Twenty Years Ago From the Files of THE FROVO HERALD Of March 18. 1925 The Iron Blossom Mining com pany, properties in tne Vintic ais- stammered Jiminy, as he grabbed 1 , j "'" "ii". nut package and left. Standard for $373,000, the offer! oOo made to the company officials. I DjDja EVER NOTICE that the The acceptance of the offer is individual who is always blow- ticket he name? "No," answered Lee," scliptlon means li'l or man, cross-eyed, no teef." "Er. . . . ah. . . . thank you," oOo It is passing strange that the man who makes a fool of himself is never called a 'self-made' man. Every conscious act of man is made because of one of two reasons: rea-sons: fear, or self-interest. recommended by the officers of here where I am at liberty to step: the company, subject to the ratif into any cocktail bar and havejlcation by the stockholders, a drink any time the spirit moves me. i The Provo city fire department That there should be a great, ana Buuaing inspector A. A desl of missionary zeal in Utah Loveless, have completed a sur is understandable, but I still ;vey of the fire hazards found hi. question that the people of Utah the city, it is reported by Mayor themselves really Intended their;0. K. Hansen. Several old shops present liquor law to be a meas- ana buildings vwhich constitute ure to restrict drinking, and to 'fire hazards were found within apply as much of a stigma as i tne fire zone and steps will be possible upon those who wish! taken to compel their removal, it to drink the legislature of the was stated The reason a cleric's sin Is so shocking is because a man has to be unusually wicked in order to be bad at all in a clerical environ ing his own horn doesn't have ment. state notwithstanding. An imposing monument to mis- Students of the Lincoln high school made preparations to issue the first yearbook of the school to be known as "The RaUsplit ter." President Calvin Coolidge sub mitted the name of John G. Sarg- appointed petitioners organize into pressure groups: lobby for the things they want. They even tell the public, and forcefully, that price control is all right in theory, but . . . anti-Roosevelt slate of electors on the Texas ticket Meanwhile. Jesse was telling the White House that he couldn't control his nenhew. F. D. R. never believed Jones' protestations i about his nephew, and today Jesse's advice to Bur- 'den now makes it look as if the president was., Now the fact is that war-time price con- 'i?'25c. I trol is not onlv all ritrht in theorv. it is jOLDSTERS CARRY ON , i . j . V, - j 1 , . I une ot tne great joos or mis war. tnougn plenty good in the works. And It IS working jitle appreciated by the public, has been that of painfully, awkwardly, but working. Prices older men on the home front. Some of them, are not spiralling into the blue. There are even though over sixty, have jumped in to take nowtrful nrpssures tendimr to nmh nrirp anv iobs tnat could hc,p keep the cou.ntry 8-powenui 8-powenui pressures xenaing to pusn prices ,ngfrom telegraph messengers to war plant wor- upward and the OPA is powerfully resisting. kers. them. Everyone, including the gentleman! The coal mines, for instance, could hardly fiuotcd. can thank the OPA for that. A pub-:have continued top output were It not for older lir nninion noli chowprf roitip timp aim thnt:,T,en- Before the war. the average age of coal uc opinion pou snowed some time ago tnat !mincrs wag around thirty- Now it i8-much high-most high-most of us do appreciate the tremendous cr service performed by OPA. We know that! John Pillsbury. of the famous flour mUls by if the OPA were to become too popular that that name, is among those who pays tribute to woiiM n rmuo fnr alarm Tt wonlH a!what older men are doing on the home front ... "J Vn V . , Some of his mills. Pillsbury says, are being run Sign that the OPA was not willing to risk cntirely bv oldcr men. And despite a seven-day unpopularity 10 ao me jod iney were set up week, which wears them out. they are doing a in do nvpvpnt an inflation that would wi-prW fine, patriotic iob. ,,c oTl Inside the army and navy also, the Job being done by men over 38 is probably not appreciated. Now too old for commissions as lieutenants, many of them have been detailed to menial work de spite college educations and skilled prewar train- Parents of th Snr rhrw-il in station KSL late one evening abused by four soldiers because, turned out on community day to I chanced to hear a commitee of t rfucri tn hnv - nt Hr!helD tut in much needed mn. cwn oting mierviewea on f0r them to take to a train. They crete sidewalKs around the tne suDject. Tne remarks of one were returned veterans; two of school building, gentleman were p a rticularly them had been wounded. "Is this ' frank and lucid. I cant quote the the kind of freedom we've been The controlling interest in the gentleman verbatim, but what he fighting for?" they asked me and : Post Publishing company was said, in effect, was this: "Wc arc i . couidn't answer them. They j sold to J. W. Dangerfield and not interested in the liquor com-were asking me to break a law Neil N. Gergen by the Hick's mission aoing a Dig business, which I didn't helD to make, but brothers. There are some people who in- they made it plain to me that sist upon having their whisky. ! they were fed up with well mean-so mean-so we sell them as a concession. in restraint In other words it is the business one of these days there are'ent of Vermont to be attorney of the liquor commission to selljg0jng to be several millions of, general to the senate. Previously a nine uquur as puss j oie to these boys coming home, and if me name oi cnanes ueecner those morally unregenerate peo-U know anything of human nature' Warren had been rejected by the viv who n.ve i wne enougn to a j0t 0f Mu appointed guardians, senate, twice. know what is good for them. of other people's morals are go-! If this was the intention of the lng to be in for considerable of to end prohibition and set upi ' fi .n J f the liquor commission I wonder! . A J V 3mQ r. H that thev did not also tjrovide fori Kit SB--sss-i ; - M J a oaid lecturer to stand inside lllllJllVl each store and warn of the hor- . . i Q What is the procedure for rors of the Demon Rum. At least By Roth Louise Partridge examining a dissected human each counter should have a sup-: Strange how words disappear. brain? A The brain is sliced intc some 2000 .031-inch-thick pieces and every 10th slice is mounted on a slide and placed under a microscope. "Running through" ply of pamphlets from the W. C. from our vocabulary. Today's T. U. jchildren would come' as near My understanding of the matter i understanding Greek as some of was, at the time, that the peo-jthe things that Just a little time oie of the state of Utah were sick ago were conversation. I remem- of moonshining and bootlegging I ber the story of the old farmer -a brain involves 26 basic studies. ana had decided to offer liquor iwno saia nis norse surgicaieu costs several nunarea aoii&rs. for sale under proper conditions around and surgicaled around Q How big is the wooden box without setting up any institution ! until he broke the singletree." j industry in the United States? to judge the character of thelWho knows what a singletree Is? A About 500 factories, 25,000 natron :or is it single-tree? Well any-; tingle- how here are some more: mar- nr a i . i v . ive iivd in . .t.t .h. lin.mr tlnale- hame- tr8CM' cVfctnle. ' general sense? ive uvea in a state where liquor piw.j ...viiri ahaft j j-. "A Neglected Chapter of History'. in Hidden away under the After the war with Germany, first thought i i .1 i ; a 1 I .u:il.t A !. away under the mounUinous l?m . " ..i-- : wuT. .i .m. n documentation of this war are 18,000 pages wJll buck lhe handicap of age in geting neace- of testimony taken in the long, meandering, time jobs. inconclusive mass trial of seditionists which Argentina gets coal judge died. Only about 1,000 pages out of bing of Argentina, the state department is permit-the permit-the whole vast array of words is actual tes-iting the. shipment of several thousand tons of coal timony by witnesses. The rest of the palaver monthly to Argentina. what the legal fraternity calls 'lawyer About 25.000 tons comes down the Mississippi 4-it, ...' .4ii;-- cach month from Illinois to New Orleans, while talk, wrangling, stalling, objection-raising, a like 8moUnt come down to Pensacola. ria.. from motions for this and motions against that. Alabama, where it is loaded on Argentine ships. Its too bad that the facts have to be ob- . Th,f tate department's explanation is that this . l , , . , i is a cheap grade of coal not needed ig the im- scured by all this deliberately manufactured !mediatc &elnlty of either Illinois or Alabama. verbal fog. For there probably was sedi-0nd that in return the United States get im portion port-ion and treachery" in many Of those hearts. 'ant materials from Argentina, among them flax-The flax-The evidence pointed strongly to tie-ups and ffed necessary to the manufacture of paint. Argen- "c. r . vv K . , j .-Jul t3,.t,v, r-.. 'Una. t s explained, is absolutely without coal, relationships that led straight to Berlin, Ger-and if we didHnot ship these amounu. the Argen- manj. jtine government vould cut off shipments of flax- The sedition cases should be brought into.sccd othcr s.tra!cic materials from us. eourt again and the issues sifted to a dcd5-!tttoS&n iOQ. some people. Already folks in Pensacola sty they . mi a 1 . ; n.vr Hvea in a ste wnere liquor, le.chaln whippietree. shafts, is sold by the drink, and is un- thillg whipSocket etc. and etc. and rationed. (New Mexico). As a,speaking of horgeI. who has men-fair men-fair and unbiased drinker I haye;tioned a horse-devil of late years? watched its operations closely Do children still talk of horse-and horse-and compared them to those of 1 devils? Mine don't. When we my own state. Observation num-!gaVe way to progress and made per one is tnat mere is mucn less cjty streets out Of our country visible drunkenness here in Albu-( roads. put the ditches into gut-querque, gut-querque, a city of 65.000 than.tcrs, the horse-devils left us. The there is in the citv of Provo. for; blood-suckers left us too. They instance. I have frequently seen used to be black and sinister in more drunken people in one the ditches when we went wad-night wad-night on the streets of Salt Lake ing. All Provo streets running City than I have ever seen here north and south had regular in a week. .irrigation ditches running. They employes. Observation number two is the difference in quality between the liquor for sale here in private liquor stores and that offered by were full of fauna and flora. Now they are gutters, and they're full of tin cans and orange peel. I don't think I like them as well. A descendant of early French and Spanish settlers of New Orleans. Or-leans. Q -How many nationalities does the U. S. S. R. embrace? A 175. Q From what is the name of Salzburg, Germany, taken? A The salt mines nearby. the state owned liauor stores of 1 Where were we? In the gutter Utah. The fine liqueurs, brandies.! How did the word garbage catch I and wines wnicn are practically .up witn us.- 111 ten you. 11 was unavailable in Utah, and which when people had to give up the people naturally use sparingly little pig that was kept in the both because of quality arTd of j back yard to take care of the cost are freely available here. swill. The swill bucket is now Apparently on the supposition I the garbage can, and the dogs tip that only low class people ever them over and they smell like drink. Utah people are usually, "will buckets just the same. l ean offered a choice between the remember when people stumbled - rwrmki IK- su4 0rhanM t n Wva n wa m would like to be shipping some-, word garage too for that matter, thing to friendly nations instead But getting back to horses again, w swfi i rBenuna. how long has it been since you Civilian Shoe Production Cut WASHINGTON, March 15 (U.R) Production of shoes for I civilians during the first six months of 1945 may be as much as 40 per cent below production during the last half of 1944, informed in-formed officials said today. The war production board's j shoe industry advisory committee reported that about 50.000,000! square feet of cattle hide will be ' available for civilian shoes dur-j ing the first half of this year. That compares with about 90,000,-000 90,000,-000 square fet in the last sixj months of 1944. other. In winter it kept out the u.athi In ummr tha dust. No Note Before the war. Min- rln md from hnrw. n went anv-hera in a bueffV nesota and Dakota farmers were shoe nail? And who knows these' or surrey without a lap-rob for waging a campaign to keep Ar- days what a dashboard is? II heaven's sake. Who knows what gentine flaxseed out of the U. S. 'don't know whether these words a carriage-stone is? No. it wasn't A. because it competed with their should be hyphenated or not used to keep the feet warm product (Copyright, 1845, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.). and In these times who cares? dearie. Or was it? What memories I Nobody knows what they art these words bring. Was it really 'anyhow. Lap-robe. There's 40- the game world? Why Not TRY THIS OUT and Either Keep the Change Or Take An Extra Suit! p2s lip ' Take $30 or S40 and start looking for a Spring Suit! Look for comfort, for style, for selection, sel-ection, for value! 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