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Show f Monarch of All He Surveys PflOVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, 1 SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1945 Editorial.... It Is also written In your law, that the testi- tsony ef two men I true. -John 8:17. For when one's proofs are aptly chosen, Four ae as valid as four dozen. Prior. Nazism in Defeat The Nazi political philosophy, compound ed of distortions, lies, opportunism and terrorism, ter-rorism, flourished in fertile soil when things ""were eoimr well for the Nazi war machine- But it required victories to justify its vio lent measures because it was less a way oi living than a blueprint for conquest, a means toward a violent end. Now those victories are not forthcoming. The soil which nourished Nazism has been The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's 'rSSS-" Going On in National Affairs I e tf I u f WASHINGTON Between British operations oper-ations in Greece, and Russian operations in Poland, Po-land, patient, idealistic Ex-Governor Lehman, head of UNRRA, is having serious difficulties-Though difficulties-Though Poland probabaly has suffered more than any other country, UNRRA has only just been able to start workers and relief toward that war-torn war-torn country. It was last summer that the Lublin government govern-ment asked that UNRRA send a mission to help rowna. governor unmini on ice immediately drafted a reply. But the U. S. office of censorship censor-ship stepped in and said that the reply could not be sent to the Lublin government by uncoded the Nazi philosophy and those who created it are utterly incapable of coping with defeat. de-feat. Recent pronouncements of Propaganda Minister Goebbels and Labor Leader Ley would be amusing if they did not create the uncomfortable impression that the German nation is in the hands of madmen. Goebbels tells the Germans that "he who fights with least regard for losses has the most chance of winning" Ley tells them that it is well that they are no longer winning, for "the intoxication of victories in all quarters of the globe was distracting-" There has been more of the same from these and others. And Hitler, of course, has been gibbering increasingly fantastic promises prom-ises of ultimate victory without even attempting at-tempting to back them with a semblance of logic. Perhaps the maddest of all stories concerns con-cerns Hitler's plans for a new capital after the war. The story comes from Stockholm, is credited to neutral and competent in A OUil AtAVM wv uivu a i ,i - . . . . . " V ? m m t m m AI I the movement of supply ships and personnel. Whereupon Governor Lehman's office asked the state department to send the message in code to the American embassy in Moscow, which in turn was to ask the Russian foreign office to deliver the message to the Lublin Poles. The state department and the embassy in Moscow Mos-cow were glad to comply and the messase was passed on to the Soviet foreign office. Several weeks passed, and Governor Lehman assumed that the message had Been delivered. Then, suddenly, the Soviet foreign office, in rather an aggrieved manner, returned the message mes-sage saying that it could not deliver it to the Lublin government. The Lublin Poles, it was explained, were separate government and no i part of Moscow. Therefore, the Soviet said. Gov ernor unman snould communicate with -them direct. di-rect. MOSCOW SATS NO This, of course, was exactly what Governor Lehman had tried to do, but had been barred by the U. S. censor. In the interim. Lehman had troubles with Moscow regarding the question of sending UNRRA workers into Poland to distribute supplies. To try to iron out these difficulties, Lehman pro-nosed pro-nosed going personally to Moscow to confer with Stalin .For a time he thoueht this was all set. Then, suddenly, at the Montreal UNRRA con 11 ' " " a I At M rill! 1 M I TL-, L--.-! DII By Frank C I IIC VaillUpping UIUUK Robertson About 1870 my grandmother, a, c1 : ference last fall. Soviet delegate Vasill. Serffeev fco' -V v V a ' TvlX ot announcedv bluntly and publicly that seriously in high Nazi circles. Agamst the Lehman couldn't go to Moscow. background of other recent Nazi utterances, it seems credible. Hitler, the story goes, has abandoned the idea of keeping the postwar capital in Berlin, for Berlin is too shattered to rebuild. So he plans to move it to Hamburg. Of course Hamburg can't be rebuilt, either. So he would move Hamburg 'down river to where Cuxhaven now stands. He doesn't say Under UNRRA rules, its own international workers must distribute relief in each 'country and nationals of that country are not to be in charge. However, the Russians have been suspicious sus-picious that UNRRA workers were disguised intelligence in-telligence agents, and their suspicions were heightened bv the "way Col. L. F. R. Shepherd operated for British intelligence in Greece under the ulse of an UNRRA worker. Despite rebuffs. Governor Lehman kept on patiently pushing aid for Poland and now his ef What would become of Cuxhaven. Perhaps it 'orts have succeeded. Since the Yalta conference r,M Via t1 Uoi-lir, i ironed out the status of the Lublin Poles, Rus- sia has consented to have UNRRA workers go to Poland, and supply ships have already departed. depart-ed. WHO'S A LIAR? Senator Bushfield, South Dakota Republican, Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From tbe Files Of THE PEOVO HERALD Of March 25, 1925 new agreement with the state ex-) I tension department for the re- l employment of J. B. Welch as county agent. "t Thirty Years Ago FROM THE FILES OF MARCH 25, 1915 i The first Commercial luncheon was held at the Hotel Roberts The recently constructed two- with 75 business men in attend-story attend-story garage opposite the Iron- jnc.. to lon ton plant of the Columbia Steel were T F piei.pont. W. Lester company, was destroyed by firejMangum, Wm. M. Roylance. J. with damages totaling about fW. Dunn, S. H. Belmont. Lars E. $3500 according to Fire Chief lEggcrtsen. Preston G. Peterson. Reed Boshard. The building was Alex Hedquist, Walter P. White-owned White-owned by J. R. Baldridge, but head. J. T. Farrer and Willis K-was K-was leased by Jesse Long of the Spaf ford. Steel City subdivision. Only the; concrete wall remained standing! Excavation for the Salt Lake less than half a mile to a mile and free-enterprising little Pennsyl vanla Dutchwoman, persuaded my grandfather to sell his pros-' perous farm on the very outskirts of St. Louis, and, remove to the mesquite and gumbo sou of Texas to insure," as she put it, free land for the boys. My grandfather, needless to say, lost his property. His boys, who might have become wealthy nad tney stayed on the farm at St Louis, ill started out as Texaa cowboys and remained poor to the end of their days. Fate played another prank, on my grandfather, grand-father, many years after he lhad sold his woruuess Tex as gumbo it was discovered to lie a-ton one of the richest oil fields la the country. There is no thing unique F. C. Robertson about this. Millions of other American families have had similar experiences. Its only sis Inificance is that it is a sort of symbol of the saga of America, What is the reason for the American people rushing blindly about their great country like a herd of pigs suddenly loosened in a corn field; trampling down as much food in an hour as would ; last them a month if they -stayed I put? The key to the puzzle undoubt edly lies in that little word, free. Everything was free, from freedom of movement to free land, free timber, mountains full of free minerals of all kinds, and freedom to start a business if you had the necessary gab and savvy to talk somebody into loaning you enough money to do it with. The tradition is that all this fuss and fury was making us the greatest and wealthiest nation on earth. What we were actually doing was destroying the greatest I mass of natural resources in the world as fast as we could. Instead a great reservoir of ,r; if-' i - standard of living, our great tret) Q What is the Army's Shooting Shoot-ing Star? A The P-80 jet - propelled fishter Diane. Ceiline is above the 40.000 feet of conventional of retaining fighters, and speed believed ; these resources for the use of un oorn generations, cenairuy as much entitled to a proper share of them as we were, we depleted greater than any other fighter. Q How many fingerprint rec ords does the FBI have? A 94,000,000. Q Does the Signal Corps use much wire for telephone communications? com-munications? A It has used as much as 235,-000 235,-000 miles in a single month. Q How long is the Strait of Bosphorus? A About 18 miles, and from Jew-ridden" American passengers It is almost incredible that the leader of A nation now fighting a losing battle for its present guilty life could delude himself jnio pottering aoout wun mis impossioie dream. It is almost incredible that his fan- At any rate, that is his reported plan. And on the banks of the Elbe he would erect a statue of a "Goddess of Liberty" to wel- - .vi.L.j. j CaI.Vm'i'I' an4 aeni wne oiupiua ux -"".recently rose on the senate floor and called this coiumnisr various Dranas or liar Because ne re-Dorted re-Dorted that the Duponts. the Mellons. and the Pews, of Pennsylvania had contributed heavily to the senator's 1940 election campaign. If the senator wanted to indulge in name-calling name-calling (Incidentally he wasn't very original in his epithets) he might also have included GOP tasies could be listened to and repeated by 7su w- H- "rke L II. ' JUS lOUOwers. utions with the secretary of state of South Dakota. : It IS almost incredible, but not quite. Fori Theyincluded: Lammot Dupont. $4,000: Irene! it is not unreasonable that a man of Hitler's jDupont, S2.500: Alfred Sloan. $2.500; Donald i mentality should flee headlong from reality Bf When he COUld no longer cope With It. Hitler tof tne chicago Tribune. $3.000: Marv Ethel Pew. JcnoWS he will never reconstruct the German i $1,000: Earle Halliburton (Pew). S5,000; Joseph capital. He knows that if Germany ever ' Pew. si.ooo: Mabel Pew Myrii, $1,000. erects a Goddess of Liberty it will not cele- L ,Con?me,1tinf ? thMe 8trtTOV fjJJT , u,-fu 1.1:., folks who lived a long way from South Dakota. BTate tfte Hitler concept 01 ilDertJ. ! Senator Bushfield sratefullv said: (Coneressional Yet like a child, or even more like a, Record, page 5849. June 12. 1943): j fool, he seeks to dodge approaching disaster ! "We are tremendously inspired that we have ; by refusing to recognize its approach. Even !. eovernment in this country which permits in-' w J u cJlvv,im i dividual Americans to accumulate and make if one doesn t believe the Stockholm storj, money so that they can give this sort of contrib- tnexe IS evidence to support mat statement, ution to their friends throughout the country." wonder what is Senator Bushfield s defin- today. & Utah railroad station was be-a half wide. The crucifixion by fire of Her- igun Tuesday by John Hunter. American Fork contractor, reo-j resenting the Chlpmsn Merc. Co. man Schalow. leader of a weird u will be a one-story brick struc Q What is a quid in England? A One pound sterling. them as fast in a hundred years as Europe and Asia has been able to deplete theirs in a thousand And what we got out of this forc ed blossoming was a crop of some thousands of top-heavy private fortunes. There are those who will take Issue with me on this, of course. They will point to our high even break public school system, fees libra ries ana sucn as evidence that no matter- what the cost the results nave Deen worth while. I will admit readily that for every Tommy Manville or Bar bara Hutton there is a hundred useful, hard working millionaires, million-aires, but there is no novelty in individual usefulness, or worth-lessness. worth-lessness. That exists among every class and in every nation. The points that are impressive is that while we have been reducing re-ducing the ratio of our national wealth from vast superiority to relative equality with the. older nations of the earth we have never succeeded in abolishing poverty. We have developed a class struggle more acute right now than at any other time In -our history. We have the largest, most prosperous, and most frightened fright-ened middle class any country has ever had. I was myself plumped Into this middle class rather suddenly when I started selling imagination imagina-tion instead of muscle. I didn't gain much. I supposed all the middle class had to worry about was getting into the upper bracket. brac-ket. Instead, I found most of them plagued by constant fear of plunging back into the working class. Having come from down yonder I realized that we wouldn't would-n't have much to lose except our "respectability." In these days of powerful unionism and high wages members of the working class frequently have more money and more leisure, and are better informed than the harried mid dle class. Fear of closing social stature is a foolish thing, but very real to millions ot Americans. If our nolicy of plunder and wastefulness had been a success it appears to me we should have a secure and contented popula tion, instead of one constantly haunted by fear of bankruptcy or unemployment, and those fears, whether acknowledged or not, do haunt ninety per cent .of adult Americans. Our indignation catches fire whenever we read of thousands of men going on strike because say, half a dozen men have been discharged for cause. The strike may be evil, but it is inspired by our demoralizing and thoroughly justified fear of losing our job. When a thing is free it means something for nothing. , Our national , economy has always been conducted on the principle of freedom to gamble. I am not particularly opposed to gambling. but I do tnlnk everybody should know the rules, and not be forced to play unless they want to. The gambler's secret aim, whether at cards or in business, is to get something for nothing; his code is never to give a sucker an Desk Chat, Editorial Column religious cult at Oroville, Call- ture. with attic and basement and NEW SOURCES FOR GUM fornia will be investigated by the1 cost about $10.ooo. It will.S-S?" -S . Butte county jury. Schalow diedifront on Center street and First!,. SHIGAG?.' U-R TheTs re" from the ordeal. 'West 1,ef in s,ght or gum chewers. Lee F. Randolph, director of. Phil Q. Wrigley, who banned his the California School of Fine Arts 1 tu. .t nMM.4t.. j:. J gum to all but overseas service- will join the summer school fac:!pl;yed ,n an of Vhe frt!J"L LINES TO AN - story about a farmer's loss of 3025 ABSENT HUSBAND 'pigs by theft, an alert copyreader My dear, the house is spick-and- thought the figure pretty high span. I and phoned the farmer to check Since you are gone, untidy man.uP on it, "Did you lose two thou-Vn thou-Vn nHrti rianffiinff from rhairJsand twenty-pigs?" he asked. And No muddy footprints on the stair; when the distraught farmer an- Are every one immaculate: ulty at Asoen Grove to teach art na.. "unnn v, : velopment of new suppl ui ui..i20, its up to you:" ' r."?" L V"""r" ' ' '.T,- , Anrt when T dash unstair lust wnen ms cum win ue avail-i ; able for civilians again, but re- of the best artists in the country WHo the Convict 8 Are itlon of a liar? PARATROOPER PROTECTION It has now been exactly one year since this Recently an undisclosed number of Amer-1 column revealed that American and British air- naval gunners on the second night of the Sicily invasion. In making this disclosure it was also re vealed that transport planes carrying U. S. para l.-K LASl or A BHUKlnut nrtrtu that manufacture will be Many fruitgrowers on Provo! EASJ LIVERPOOL, O. (U.R) lgln as as shipping space is Bench have pulled up their peachl"" ' a blank sheet of Pperavanable for tne new supplies. trees, believing the trees dead on Bnd a pencil stub was enough! account of the discoloring of the prompting for an East Liverpool, wood but such action is deplored resident to write a long letter to, FARMERS RENT ARMY LAND by Prof. Laval S. Morris, BYUhis neglected soldier-brother. CAMP ELLIS. 111. (U.R) Twen- horticulturist who stated that the ; i ty-five pieces of land, totaling 2.- discoloring while due to the Se-;GRASS SKIRT COMPETITION 1 579 acres of the Camp Ellis mili-vere mili-vere winter temperatures, was notf TOLEDO. O. (U.R) Turnabout is.tary reservation, have been rent-by rent-by any means an indication thattfair play: 1st Lt. Paul A. Wil-Jed to farmers and will be put un-the un-the trees were killed. Iliams, on duty in the Pacific war der the plow this spring. The : area, has a photograph of his wife, land was rented to the highest Mrs. Rose Williams of Toledo, i bidden at an auction. The one-The one-The county farm bureau asked dressed in a grass skirt so he can! year rental for the 2,579 acres was the county commission not to re- show her picture to the natives. '$16,044. Murderers, Assassins, Thieves, Torturers scrub. There is no ring around the tub, No socks left lying on the floor, No shorts hung on the bathroom door! This is the way a house should be man tnanKed mm ana cnangea to! the copy to make the loss read ' two sows and 25 pigs. From Hel lo! A PROPHECY IN ISIS The time will come when people peo-ple will travel in stages moved I've always said but well, you by steam engines, from one city fean soldiers were sentenced to prison. They were requested by their own government to oend ten to fifteen years of their lives in jail. Most Of them had fought honorably 'troopers were not equipped with self -sealing for their country. But nevertheless they a bullet entering the gasoline were punished severely for an unforgivable tank could easily cause the plane to catch fire crime: they diverted supplies essential to 'and the paratroopers inside would find them- the war on the German front. They called l? in a blaring cage without the "potest t. --i,-. chance of jumping to safety. As a matter of fact it "playing around with the black market. ;thls was the w:aymany of the paratroopers over Investigation has shown that most of the siciiv were killed. soldiers were not criminals. Most Of them I Immediately after the Sicilian disaster, a come from respectabl homes in email jardofjnoiry was ;Pjnted. mdone recom- towns. A little thought will show that they jused on all troop-carrying transports in the future, are not the real convicts at all. Simultaneously. Mej. Gen. P. L. Williams recom- The real convicts are not in military mended self -sealing tanks, also Col. Raloh Bagby, nr,p rriminaU f thp blark market chief of staff for airborne infantry, and Brig. Gen. prisons. The criminals oi tne DiacK mancec participated in the Sicilian cam- are on the home front: the woman ho;paJgn buys nylon stockings, the man who uses However, nine months passed after the Slcll-black Slcll-black market gasoline, the housewife who lan disaster and nothing happened. The war de-huva de-huva steaks at f ancv tirices without ration Prtment in Washington stodd still. Finally Lieut. Duys SteaKS at iancy prices, witnout ration Col FeUx Dupont. a member of the Dupont family points. These share the guilt of the convict- and Lieut Col. David Laux went over the heads ed boys. When a serviceman overseas reads of their superiors direct to Gen. Hap Arnold, who of civilians unwilling to put up with war-wrote an order that self-sealing, tanks be in-time in-time restrictions home, he doesn't hesiUtej&tw Unks to dip into the black market overseas. If 1 installed in planes. Gen. Barney Giles, chief civilians can get away with it, so can he. 'of staff to Arnold, blocked the order. Of course nobodv really gets away with it.' At about thu time, hard-hitting Senator Kil- ev.- : j ,. gore of West Virginia, who has done more to pro- Even if you dont get a ten-year sentence ,fect tne G , than almost anyone else in to prison, you re paying with boys lives in, congress, wrote a letter to Secretary of War Stim-Stacking Stim-Stacking up the bad days of war. son demanding that paratroopers get every pos- sible protection, including self-sealing tanks. Stimson. after some delay,, replied that this The Strong and the Weak protection was not needed. He turned down Kil- , , . gore's demand cold. As a result, paratroopers land- ."We may deplore, if we choose said;jng jn Normandy did so at great risk. Prime Minister Churchill to the house of; Sequel to this long story of delay, argument commons, "that there is a difference be-!fn i"ernaL Jealouy J the Washington . . j i.,. iv. i Brass-Hats have now belatedly come around to tween the great and small, between the ithe viewpoint of the men in the field and of Strong and weak in the world. There is un- senator Kilgore. It has now been one year since donbtedly such a difference. ..." 'the matter was publicized in this column, and Mr ChurcWir was speaking in defens . of the votmg procedure agreed to at Yalta, And i on ,n troop-carrying planes though it win still lie was referring, of course, to great and (take some time to instau them, small nations. No one will deny his broad (Copyright. 1945. by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) an A obvious statement, but it could do dignity and consideration with the great and strong ?. ve trust that the answer is yes to the with some expansion and clarification. . Does Mr. Churchill grant that greatness and strength carry responsibility as well as I first question, and no to the others. We trust power? Does he feel that a monopoly of ; that President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin greatness and strength implies a monopoly feel the same way. And we shall look for-of for-of wisdom? Does he believe that smallness jward to seeing their sentiments proved in and weakness have no right to equal justice, 'action at the San Francisco conference. . m . . a. v. n ?. . fpliistr ;, .Je. y-f l, I l St; . , . ill-, h j J - A'" jS xt l "- I First suggestion of the sort of charge which may be brought against Adclf Hitler. Hcinrich Himm-ler. Himm-ler. Benito Mussolini and other war criminals came when Lord Wright, chairman cf the United Nations War Crimes Commission, branded them as "murderers, assassins, thieves, torturers and the like," before the House of Lords. He declared HiUer may be arraigned on the specific charge of organizing the gas chamber murders of Jews and others. ' see, The clock has stopped; persuade it To run the way you always made it. The door to the garage work. And now the percolator won't perc. My kitchen knives are dull as care Without your expert touch, and there i Is no one to praise my lemon pies 'Hr itmfAr4 m with csirktintf 11a Sucn as, "Of course you're not too fat! Well, anyhow, I like you like that!" A house, I find, though spick- 'and span Is not much fun without a man! HE BLADE UP HIS MIND There used to appear in the catalogue of a mail order house a picture of a pair of corduroy trousers. Year after year the picture ap peared, together with the descrip tion of tbe pasta and the price, S3. In the twenty-fifth year of the 8d the company received this letter: let-ter: "Dear Friend: The more I been seeing them corduroy breeches, the more I got to wantin them. If you ain't sold them yet. let me know, and I will buy them. Yours truly, Si. Higginbotham." . BUNK ABOUT BUNK Would-be traveler: What is the difference between an upper and lower berth? Pullman Agent: WeU. the difference dif-ference is two dollars, but that's not all. The lower is higher than the upper, but the higher price is for the lower. If you want it lower, you have to go higher. Some people don't like the upper, although it's lower on account of being higher. If you take the upper youll have to get down to get up. ONCE IS ENOUGH "Pardon me for a moment please." said the dentist to the victim, "but before beginning this work I must have my drill.' "Good heavens, man!" exclaimed ex-claimed the patient irritably. "Can't you pull tooth without a rehearsal?" How's your memory? Almost perfect. There are only three things, I cannot remember: Names, faces, and, let me see, I forgot what the third is. Definition of slot machine: Civilian booby trap. to another, almost as fast as birds can't j fly. fifteen or twenty miles an hour. oOo a a m 1 I A giri can love a man zor nis won't! attentions, but hate him for his intentions. oOo "What, if anything." asked the inquiring reporter, "does the recent re-cent market break teach us?" "One thing, c o nelusively,-asnwered nelusively,-asnwered one of the victim, "that most of the names on the 'sucker list really belonged there." Your G I Rights By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON March 24 Magnitude and complexity of the Job of placing returning servicemen serv-icemen In their pre-war positions Is Just beginning to dawn on Selective Se-lective Service. The law governing govern-ing reemployment rights is worded word-ed in general terms offering many legal points of question. Rights of a veteran to his old Job, however, are broadly covered by the following conditions: 1. The job must be in the employ em-ploy of a private employer. U. S. Government territories and possessions, pos-sessions, or the District ef Columbia. Co-lumbia. 2. The position must have been other than temporary. 3. He must have left such position po-sition after May 1. 1940. in order to enter upon active military or naval service in the land or naval forces of tbe United States. 4. He must have satisfactorily completed his period of training and service and received a certificate certifi-cate to that effect. 5. He must be still qualified to perform the duties of such position. pos-ition. a. He must make application ! for reemployment within 90 day after he is relieved irom service 7. If the position is in the em-nlnv em-nlnv of a nrivate employer, he is entitled to his old job unless tbe employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible TETir When HE XrrHPEDw or unreasonable to reinstate the veteran to" such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay. The veteran shall not be discharged dis-charged from such position without with-out cause within one year after such restoration. The President has ordered set up in each state a State Veterans' Service Commitee combining representatives from Selective Service.- War Manpower Commission Commis-sion and Veterans Administration. Job of the committee will be to set up local committees to provide job information and aid in administering ad-ministering the reemployment a reporter turned in a -rights of veterans. 'k |