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Show PROVO. -UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1946 The Washington Merry - Go - Round A Daily Picture of What's r Jgy uouij jn in piBiionaj aiibui s. aiiir on Editorial... The Dispossessed ' By what are called . civilized standards, i. i r j vYoniru ivjin n important debate has UP housekeeping. It was shy on topsoil and taking place among fcJod experts inside altitude, ana mere was always vue jwbbi-bility jwbbi-bility of a tidal wave sweeping inhabitants Itnd dwellings into the sea. But most Bikinians probably . would echo he sentiment of the elderly and diffident resident of the Waldorf-Astoria who said to an out-of-town friend, as they entered the lobby, "It isn't much,, but I call it home." the administration regarding the use of horse meat for feeding Europe. Horse meat is a type, of food which Americans Amer-icans know little about. Within Europe it is standard diet and certain countries, especially France and Belgium, have repeatedly informed the United States that they would like to buy more horse meat here. If two and half billion pounds of horse meat could be sold to Europe which is the amount available in the U. S. A. It The natives were used to the place, lney toi-,wouid take care of most of Eumne-j feeding m-oh crated its vagaries and appreciated its com- lems and eliminate any need for u. S. A. rationing forts. . Now they are gone, bag and baggage. We have been looking at the pictures taken just before their departure. The people appeared xonfused and unhappy, from King Juda on down to the breech-clouted infants. And as we looked at them, we had the un Such a program has been ureed by UNRRA officials and also by some experts in the army and navy. However, the plan has run up against several sev-eral snags, chiefly that of U. S. meat packers. The big packers don't want the American public pub-lic to get the idea that horse meat is processed in their plants. They fear that the suspicion would linger in the consumers' mind even after l-li. v,,V VT,M,,ir.ri iU,,:.e,nicrency inainorse meai irom smaller meal conuonauie itcmiik !.. iw " packers, many of them state-licensed. How ever. could become typical of the atomic age, un- Harry Reed, who does most of the meat procure less the world's leaders acquire, quickly andjment for UNRRA in the department of agriculture permanently, more good sense than any world leaders have shown belore. For the Bikinians are the first people to be uprooted and dispossessed by the atomic bomb. They were lucky, df course. They didn't see the bomb coming, but those who did were kind enough to come and explain the situation carefully, then take them by the hand and lead them away to safety. The rest of the world will not be so fortunate, for-tunate, unless both war and the atomic bomb are outlawed through agreements of mutual sincerity and good will. If war should ever threaten again, there would be no advance warning for the people of Detroit, Calcutta, leans toward the bis meat Barkers and thv nov er have wanted small stale packers to get into the inter-state business HORSE MEAT FEEDS ZOOS Another source of opposition is expected to come from the many horse lovers throughout the country who probably would claim that the United States was being de-nuded of horses. Officials point out, however, that several hundred hun-dred horses are. slaughtered weekly all over the United States to feed the zoos of the nation. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, the United States today has a larger surplus sur-plus of horses than ever before in history. Agriculture Agri-culture department estimates are that 3.000,000 surplus horses are now on the ranges and farms of the country. The gain which they alone consume would go along way toward feeding Europe. Officials estimate that these 3.000,000 surplus ta . nrhravor TVio Rilcininns' un- horses would supply a total of two and a half -f" ;! il. i,sV i billion pounds of meat, also give fats for soap. easv expression the knit brows and appre .hensive eyes would become a sort of universal uni-versal mask. The earth's billions would cast about them in cold desperation for a place of safety. together with hides to ease the scarcity of leather. Note While price of almost everything tended tend-ed upward during the war, the price of horses did not. Government buyers purchasing draft animals for UNRRA report that the country has thousands thous-ands of four to six-year-old horses which have You Take What You Can Get These Days First the dwellers in the likely target cities,1 never been harnessed. Farmers haven't hnrl tim then everyone. And there would be no place to break them in, would like to sen them if to go. It is significant that these early victims 'of the atomic age lived on that handy and hardy symbol of escapism, a South Sea isle. "On such an isle, palm-fringed, sun-warmed and sea-girdled, where fevered effort and frantic competition were outlawed, people Used to dream of "getting-"away from it all." But the Bikinians were getting away from something specific. Their, demote, insignificant insignifi-cant strip of coral inqharted on maps and minds as the f3o.f "danger spot of dry Sand on the face of the globe. 2 If the threat jf war should grow with the progress of science, every piece of land on Pthis planet could come to enjoy Bikini's tem-JJwrary tem-JJwrary and dubious distinction. With a sorce that knows no earthly bounds carried 3n a missile which knows no Jimits of dis-! to the U. S. A. General Vaughn bumped his knee, . .. .... .. cn Inn hlif fair, haant u-er r a rr t-t rr Sarrive) safety would be an eventual impossibility. impos-sibility. There is only one escape in the hearts Sand minds of the political and military leaders lead-ers who make the decisions and guide the destinies of their fellow creatures in this alleged al-leged age of intelligent, emancipated, and individualistic in-dividualistic man. prices were right. BUMPTIOUS GENERAL VAUGHN Twelve years ago, famous Filipino General Emilio Aguinaldo sent President Roosevelt a nine and one-half-foot carved table of Philippine hardwood designed to serve as a cabinet table. It was so large, however, that it couldn't get through the doors of the cabinet room and has remained in the main executive office lobby ever since. The table is a beautiful piece of workmanship with four large carved buffalo heads originally attached to Xh2 four legs. For many years the buffalo heads were admired by all White House visitors even though someone occasionally bumped their knees against them. The other morning, however. Brig. Gen Harry Vaughn. White House military aide, hurrying through the White House lobby, also bumped his knee on a buffalo. Promptly the four carved buffalo buf-falo heads came off. It mattered not that the table was a present from the Philippines' most famous leader in token of his long withheld friendship You Can't Eat Idealism 2 Now comes the not surprising word, from the New York Herald Tribune's Buenos Aires bureau, that Britain refused to join Jthe United States in denouncing the Peron regime's Axis connections because Britain Jgets a good part of her scant supply of meat from Argentina. Foreign Secretary Bevin Sos said to have told Secretary Byrnes that JBritain would join in issuing the White Paper if, in exchange, America would guarantee guar-antee Britain's meat supply. That is stripping the confusion of politics Zand economics down to the bare and ancient JJframework which still exists for all our hopes and efforts to bring a new decency Sand idealism to world government. It still Jseems that one's own freedom from want is more important than-one's neighbor's JJfreedom from tyranny. People don't bite -the hand that feeds them, however unclean JJthat hand may be. tNew Date for Coal Strikes If the coal strike is to become an annual JSevent, we should like to suggest to John L. Lewis and the bituminous mine operators JJthat they change the expiration date of their contracts from March 31 to, say. May 31. It's still chilly throughout most of the JJcountry in April, and, in a lot of places, snow in May is not uncommon. A fire feels JSmighty good on frosty evenings. This is a JJpoor season for folks to have to cut down ron coal or be without gas. School is still in CONGRESSMAN'S PAY Elder Statesman Josephus Daniels points out that in addition to his $10,000 a year salary, a congressman receives various additional prerequisites, prerequis-ites, such as $16,120 annually for each senator to pay his office help. $9,500 for each representative to pay his office staff, while committee chairmen get additional cleVk expenses. The ex-secretary of the navy also observes that Senator McKellar of Tennessee has a total of $38,140 to spend for office assistants. However, Mr. Daniels, more courteous than this columnist, did not mention the McKellar relatives on the senator's sen-ator's payroll, plus his government limousine and chauffeur Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina also gets $19,720 annuall to pay for clerks on his senate commerce committee; while other committee commit-tee chairmen receive extra allowances. However, it remains a fact that conscientious congressmen, with no independent income, are unable un-able to save money in Washington, especially if they arc scrupulous about campaign contributions. Perhaps the solution is the system of pensions for long-serving congressmen, despite the fact that a sensitive house of representatives just vetoed a pension plan last week. CAPITAL CHAFF Representative Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut, Con-necticut, who has announced she will not seek reelection re-election this fall, is busy writing two plays now. She also waited quite a while for an appointment appoint-ment at the White House, complained to Republican Repub-lican colleagues that apparently the president doesn't want to see her. . . Congressmen could save money for the treasury if they would read the congressional record more carefully. Three days after Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire Hamp-shire had inserted an article on the German underground under-ground movement, five columns of close type. Representative Walter Judd of Minnesota inserted exactly the same thing in the record. . . . The Russian purchasing commission, after trying unsuccessfully un-successfully to find quarters in New York, has renewed its lease in Washington for another year. The owner of the apartment house used by the Russians received 6,300 calls and letters from people asking for apartments when the Washington Washing-ton Times-Herald printed a story saying the Russians Rus-sians would not renew their lease. U. S. TROOPS IN INDIA Excerpt from a letter sent by a U. S. sergeant in India: "How pathetic it is to see grown men exiled by their own people. I am the first sergeant of a group of men here in India. It is up to me to help keep the morale of the men up. There is no work to do. so I try to organize games to keen their minds husv. Rut it is un tn tn the session. . I people back home to see that they, at least, have So tile Strike OUZht HO be Scheduled tO hnrxt nf something to look forward to xomo rief- inite information instead of depressing rumors. In the last month J have lost three men to the mental ward. One T had the misfortune of seeing last week, a fine, healthy, American sergeant, this week a babbling idiot in a. strait-jacket, strait-jacket, who can remember nothing but his wife's name There are dozens of such cases, and they certainly aren't war casualties." (Copyright. 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Sstart at a time more convenient for the pub Jlic. If baseball officials scheduled the World Series t otake place at Lake Placid in Jan-jjuary, Jan-jjuary, people would kick, and with good reas-on. reas-on. 5 The same goes for the coal strike. The public is going to start complaining after a while blaming either Mr. Lewis or the op-Jerators op-Jerators for needless inconvenience. So, if we were John L., we should insist Son starting the new contraband the new strike on June 1. That wfc it would be possible to tie up the mines and a good deal JJof industry, to slow down national production, produc-tion, and to have a good long strike before J the -first snow. Theublic woudn't shiver and the schools wouldn't have to close. And the striking miners cdlild get uTa lot of fishing. The Air Force will never reach it full stature so long as it remains the divided responsibility of agencies whose major interests lie in our fields. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, AAF commander. The first signs of starvation yellow faces and dejection are apparent among many people on the streets. They are getting get-ting just like the Dutch were, and I think it will be worse here. British Medical Officer at Hamburg, Ham-burg, Germany.- - WgL :'yf Li W The Chopping Block Desk Chat, Editorial Column Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD Of April 6. 1926 President Heber J. Grant, speaking at the priesthood meeting meet-ing of the semi-annual conference at the tabernacle announced that committees are at work arranging the details of life insurance policies to be offered -the members mem-bers of the various priesthood quorums of the church. More complete announcement was promised by President Grant at a later date in the wards of the church. President Grant explained! pie: those who have to be told PERT AND PERTINENT "It is a pretty tough world for the man who must start alimony payments before he has finished the payments on the engagement ring." Budget Advisor or, who has to begin paying pay-ing instalments on a baby buggy. "It is a fallacy to believe that a girl who smokes and takes an occasional drink, will not pet." scratch out the 10th to 17th words in that sentence. "Scientists have discovered that rubber like human beings suffer suf-fer from fatigue. . . . "current advertisment. yes, rubber tires. "There are two kinds of peo 'Whether it brings that members of the church for many years have been joining fraternal organizations for no other reason than to take advantage advan-tage of the cheap life insurance offered by these organizations. "We have felt for some time that our priesthood should have more of a spirit than has been the case," he said. "For that reason a committee has been appointed to work out a church-wide group insurance plan which will meet the demands cf the members of the church." The announcement came as a distinct surprise to the majority of men assembled at the meeting. Gerald Chapman, notorious bandit, was hanged at the Hart Sunshine Just a hint showers of snow. or. Sample of every Kind of weather Seems to foregather here To help us understand The many kindswc'll have Throughout the year. what to do and those who are qualified to tell them." Lecturer and 95 percent think theyj belong in the latter class ification. oOo APRIL quorurosjThere's a measuring fraternal i Of the seasons Here in April's hall. Reminding us of summer. Winter, spring and fall. F. ach season is symbolized As the April breezes blow was made by a party of officials headed by Adjutant General W. G. Williams. The feasibUity of piping water to the camp from a nearby spring was looked into at detail. A plan was also probed ford. Conn, prison grounds fori to run a spur to the camp from murdering a New Britain police- the nearby Salt Lake it Utah man. A heavily veiled woman, believed to be Chapman's sister, attended the burial which was without religious services of any kind. Inspection of the proposed camp site for the summer encampment en-campment of the Utah national guard troops at Jordan Narrows railroad. The new units of the 222nd field artillery were expected expect-ed to attend the maneuvers. w Frank Dudley, 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dudley of Mammoth, lost his right eye in an accidental explosion of giant caps found in the hills on an Easter hike. A litle boy went into the hardware hard-ware store with a sample of rope, showed It to the clerk, and said: "Pa wants some rope like this." "How much does he want?" re plied the clerk. "Enough to reach from the cow to the post." Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile: as obstreperous as a 6th Grade ball team .after winning a close game. oOo ORIGINATING One of the most natural and satisfying emotions in human nature na-ture is the joy that comes from originating. The little child loves to build with blocks. . . he fashions towers, tow-ers, castles, bridges and buildings after his own fancy. The older child rejoices in making mud pics and in creating dramatic plays to work out his own fanciful ideas. He loves to be the pirate, the mighty big-game hunter, the slayer of Lions, and the doer of mighty deeds of strength, fortitude and courage. But. when he gets a little older, he is likely to become indolent. . to lack energy and incentive. He ! becomes satisfied just to drift along from day to day. . . to be a follower and content to let someone else do the constructive and creative thinking. It - is the man who originates an idea and develops a plan of action and who follows thru to a successful conclusion, who be comes a leader and who profits as a result of his originality and initiative. By FRANK C. ROBERTSON Money matters is something I don't profess to understand having hav-ing had so little of it, no doubt. Many well wishing friends have tried to educate me, but somehow my mind goes sort of numb. My education in finance has been given me chiefly by someone who has taken some of it away from me. There is, however, one thing 1 think I do understand, and that is that our present financial setup set-up is not infallible. It is based upon gold, and we are told that we can't get along without it. Let us imagine, im-agine, for instance, in-stance, that we collected all the gold in the world, burled it in the hills of Fort Knox, K e n tucky, where so much of it is buried at present, and then that some prankster suddenly sud-denly dropped an atomic bomb - which could generate heat enough to destroy the whole business. Would the wheels of industry go dead-? Would we sit back and starve to death because there was no gold. If we were dumb enough to do so then we should certainly merit starvation. There would be just as many commodities in the world as before; be-fore; just as much food, clothing, shelter and transportation as before. be-fore. The only thing we would be short would be money. There would still be currency in circulation, cir-culation, but since that currency is based upon gold, and to many times trie actual value of the gold itself, it would have no intrinsic value. That currency belongs to somebody. some-body. Most of it, of course, belongs be-longs to banks, who deal in it, and rent it out to the public: oflcn renting the same dollar over and over again, and always at a nice profit. I can conceive that this sud posititious disaster at Fort Knox would create great havoc in bank ing circles, but that panic need not extend to the general public longer man it would take for the president to issue a decree stating Minutia Uncle Sam Needs Men for Posts Throughout World s BOM IN I&. CAROLINE IS. MARIANAS . ADMIRALTY ,r-4 ? ILIPWNS IS. BVUKVU AUSTRALIA ITALY CCA MANY i FRANCE CZECHO- tifHIUWNI It RYVKYU -rowKP .- . k TTI' fun r ' ; xoRrl - i Slovakia sr k HUNGARY "BELGIUM h BULGARIA LUXEMBOURG a CNGLAW, V NORWAY ,. j i ..- TUNISIA' fRtNCH: MOROCCO uJ V . Wfef a A' MARSHALL "r"X V J SeC isiyS. T J. ' MIDWAY - S A f "S .Vf - .X AP-! 1 X II V) ASCENSIOft L ' if IS PHOENIX rs. "K; s - -ALASKA y V i ' ' X v - i. A ALEUTIAN IS. V'i' " HAWAII 1 CHRISTMAS L l i : f CANADA .r. U 1 . ' IULLAHU - ' ,CRUNLAN0 AT m CJ"K JAtV'CA FU'tTO r.MUDA? BRAZ1L ST. THOMAS ,TRINSOAO -t T. ERITISH CUUNA x FRENCH f GUIANA Nearly eight months after the war. the United States still mans garrisons on every continent and in 88 foreign countries and major islands throughout the world. Map above shows where U. S. land, sea and air forces are located, performing operation duties, guarding, surplus stock piles, maintaining main-taining bases and policing former enemy countries. This is the main reason for the Army's need of 1,600.000 men, the goal set for recruiting station to meet. Br RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE A short time ago, I was flatter ed to see a short editorial about my column in the "White and I mean, the "Y" News. It went on to say that I was a "former" alumnus of the BYU. and that made me smile because I have always thought that once you graduated, you were an alumnus for life. I may be wrong. There were one or two other things that made me smile too. but the biggest big-gest smile was caused by my being be-ing recognized that way, I was flattered. Thanks! We all seem to agree that, the famous 'Y should have better treatment. So far as I know, it is the largest letter known. I may be wrong. If I am. check me! I'd like to know how it sires up with other letters. It is unique in situation. Some people peo-ple have compared it to the "U" on the east mountains near Salt Lake City. Well, that is just silly. I would like to know if there are any of the men who worked on that "Y" living around here or anywhere. If you know of any let me know. As for finishing it and it should be finished I'm just afraid to hope. The thing that put that "Y" on the bur moun tain side who can remember the song that went that way? I can) Where was I? oh yes. The thins that put that "Y" on the mountain i has gone. I don't say there isn't plenty of school spirit at the BYU, There is, but it isn't the quality nor the quantity that built the "Y" for the sheer love of seeing it up there. The school is too large now for that sort of doings. Growth has its advantages of course, but it has its disadvant ages too. There is a glow of loy alty and a feeling of belonging Which Is lost in a big school. The time has long since passed when every teacher knew every student by name, but I can remember when that was so. In those days there were no charwomen, or professional pro-fessional janitors. All such work was done by students who wanted to go to school so bad they did an ything they could to get there. I have heard President Brimhall get up in what we called "devotional" "de-votional" in College Hall and shout, "Don't throw pacers on the floor at this school, for better men than you are have to sweep it up!" and he would shake his fist in the face of the whole student body. "If you throw things on the floor at home, we can't expect you to do much better bet-ter here, but you can learn," he would blaze, "and that goes for the grounds surrounding ' this school too!" In those days what was done was done by the students I can remember when the student body men that is turned out enmasse and dug a trench from the lower campus to Center street I think it was, to connect the Art building on to the sewer. By the great horn spoon, that wouldn't happen today. No one would care enough. They just go to another school that was already connected with the sewer. Before the Measer Memorial building was built, the whole school turned out to grub me sage brush on Temple hill to show where the building was to be built Then they all had their picture taken standing in the shape of a "Y" on the brow of Temple hill upper campus to you. I think that right there is the difference. Now it is "upper-campus" "upper-campus" and then it was Temple hill." Every Mormon town in pioneer days had a Temple hill Somehow or other some of the temples got built, by the same kind of hearts and hands that put that "Y" up there, but that was long ago. Somehow it Just seems looking back, that the glory hath departed. that all currency in existence would be redeemed by the government gov-ernment with new currency which would provide all necessary neces-sary means of exchange, but which would be retired before anyone managed to get a corner on it, and new currency be issued as needed. Business would go along as usual, except that exchanges would be considerably freer and more abundant, shorn of all the devious manipulation and the high price of credit. I don't want to get in too deep with this, and bog down, but the obvious fact is that we could get slong without gold, and it is an obvious fact that the manipulators manipula-tors of currency and credit based upon gold are the lads who largely large-ly have the say as to what degree of prosperity, or the reverse, we shall enjoy. We can depend upon it that in general the men w ho control our money believe in a philosophy of scarcity for the rest of us. They also find it advantageous ad-vantageous to put the rest of us through the wringer once in a while just to make sure that their control is intact. We have to have a medium of exchange, of course. It is. an appendage ap-pendage to our economic system, much like a tail is essential to the welfare of a dog. But in our case the processes of nature have been reversed and the tail wags the dog. Many a bob-tailed dog gets along very nicely, and so would we if this golden tail of our economic system were suddenly sud-denly flattened beyond all human reach under the everlasting Kentucky Ken-tucky hills. It is too bad that someone doesn't come along who can talk plainly about money, so that the common people like myself can understand it. It is understandable that the big financiers, the bankers, bank-ers, the financial writers and others who profit from the system should try to make it sound as involved as possible. A magician's show falls flat without hocus-pocus hocus-pocus to deceive and delude his audience. Manipulators of money have the same sort of hocus-pocus hocus-pocus to make us believe in the reality of what they call "sound money." The difference is we accept the one as hocus-pocus, and the other as gospel truth. I have resd a number of criticisms critic-isms of our money system, but they all seem to suffer from a strange dysentery of words. They all seem to have adopted a core-' plicated lingo, interspersed with references to the purposes of the Almighty, which is understandable understand-able only to themselves, and which sprung on the common man invariably wrings from him that epithet so fatal to the crusader cru-sader for whatever cause fanatic. The Indians used to use wampum wam-pum as a medium of exchange when they found it wasn't practical prac-tical to exchange pelts for war-clubs. war-clubs. Undoubtedly some bright savage conceived the idea of cornering all the wampum and renting it out at interest, or buy ing all the pelts and warclubs in existence. He failed because there was too much wampum, and the poor Indians continued to-trade to-trade in peace. A beaver pelt or a war club continued to be worth so many pieces of wampum, and that was all there was to it. The money problem could be just as simple as that if we only knew it J Q's and A's Q In how many foreign places are u. 5. troops still serving? A 60. Q Who is Rudolf Hoess? A Former commandant, of Oswiecim concentration camp in Germany, and reported to have been Himmler's chief death administrator. ad-ministrator. He was found and arrested only recently. r Q How much mustering out pay does a service man receive? A $300. for G. I.'s and officers up to rank of captain who served overseas. Q What three important com mercial products come from seaweed? sea-weed? A Agar, used in bacteriology, baking, dental impression ma- , terial; algin, an ice cream stabi- , lizer; carrageen, suspending agent j for cocoa particles in chocolate j milk products. Q How much coffee is produced pro-duced in the world in a normal year? A 1,500,000 tons. BARBS By UAL COCHRAN It won't be long until pitchers who can't control their steam will start blowing up. e The United Nations Security Secur-ity Council postponed Its meeting a few days because of travel difficulties. Here's , finally gets some- hoping where. It Swell driving weather reminds us that pedestrians should be seen and not hurt. A Ksnsas man bas served en five murder Juries. By this time be ougbt to know the ropes. l If we could really make both l ends meet, we wonder if they'd recognize each other. |