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Show History Hangs on Her Fate:. PRQVQ. UTAH : COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, -1947. Exports to Russia vs. Aid to Europe It has been moved by Harold Stassen and neconded by Rep. John Taber that the U. S. industrial material to Russia. The suggestion sugges-tion has received a good deal of immediate supportthough not from, the president, to whom Mr. Stassen addressed his advice. The Republican aspirant to Mr. Truman's .t.. lflhplpd the oresent trade with the Soviets "wnnnmie arjoeasement.' and at first glance iflhl seems accurate. Our scrap iron shipments to Japan before the war are almost al-most as fresh in the public mind as Russia's obvious militarism is today. One may ask if niter the Japanese experience, we are again providing the materials of death that will be used against us. But there are other questions that' should be asked before the demand for a break in Soviet-American trade increases. What sort of machines and materials are we sending Russia, and how much? Is it wise for the U. S. to impose economic sanctions on its own, while trying at the same time to strengthen the UN? If such economic sanctions are imposed, what will Russia do about them? In connection with the last question Mr. Stassen made an interesting point in his tele gram to Mr. Truman which has drawn an equally interesting, though unofficial, reply -from the state department. Mr. Stassen called attention to the fact that the Communists and the Russian gov ernment "have not permitted a normal flow of machinery and equipment from the steel works of Czechoslovakia to western Europe and have obstructed the movement of ma terials between eastern and western Europe and eastern and western Germany. , The state department's point is that if the Russian government can check the normal flow of exports from its own and its satellite countries now, it might shut off that flow completely in retaliation for America's em bargo on exports to Russia. Such action not only might add enormously to the cost of the Marshall Plan but also prove to be the final stroke that divides Europe. It should not be forgotten that the secre tary of state's original proposal for European recovery took in Russia and the eastern Eur opean states as well as the 16 nations that finally accepted it. One objective was, and evidently still is, to hasten the return normal trade throughout Europe. It stands to reason that the quicker this objective can be reached the less the Marshall plan will cost, and the less chance there will be of its failure. The members of congress who favor Mr. Stassen's suggestion and who also favor the greatest possible economy in the program of European aid might consider such factors as the relative cost of providing and trans porting American, machinery and Czech machinery, ma-chinery, American and Polish coal. It can be armied. on the other hand, that he Russian satellites, especially Czechoslo vakia and Poland, must export in order to ive. The Soviet government might have to permit them to trade, however much it dis- iked the idea, in order to retain what sup port it has in those countries and to avoid an even greater economic burden. Whatever the decision tin continuing pos sibly dangerous exports to Russia, it will not be easy. There are risks involved "either way. It is 01 great importance that tney oe weighed carefully. And it is certainly equal ly important that both congress and the ad ministration, in weighing them, avoid the growing danger of making this question stil another issue of domestic politics. Poetry Bureau Uncle Sam could have taken a tip from Japan when he set up his many bureaus and departments. He never had an imperial Po etry bureau, which for years has conducted a poetry contest under direct' supervision o; the emperor. Economizing measures have forced this bureau to close down. In its banner years 35,000 contestants sub mitted verses, written in the finest handwrit ing. The subject was announced by the em peror, who often contributed a poem himself, (It is not stated whether the officials felt i necessary to award him the prize). The Japanese government did many worse things than encouraging poetry. Its war lords did far more damage. Many countries foster art by subsidies and prizes. Is poetry less wortny 01 attention than art? The Audience Waits Though the Big Four foreign ministers have changed the setting of their neace con ference to London, the same old controversies controvers-ies have arisen that deadlocked them in Paris and Moscow. An anxious world audience would doubx less appreciate a few less changes of scenery, ana a iew more cnanges in the script. There are said to be 20,000,000 dogs in the unuea states, mis does not count the people who are sometimes designated as curs. s "Truman Takes in Key West", sav the news, and it might do no harm for a lot of people to go still farther in search of repose. w Advisers seeking a "practical use for atomic energy" might beat the world by finding a better way to get us up in the morning. . . I1 , - -zm, a . ft in' mr- . g" The Chopping Block The Washington Merry-go-Round By Drew Pearson Laux Stymied in His Efforts To Safeguard Paratroopers tt WASHINGTON Here is more about the 800 U. 5. paratroopers shot down by our own troops oyer Sicily and the army's attempt not to rectifv the error, but to punish officers who wanted to correct the causes of this tragedy. One of the men who took part in this Sicilian airborne Infantry operation and was lucky enough to live through it was Lt. Col. David Laux. Afterward, After-ward, he directed his energies toward making sure that future army transports carrying paratroopes were equipped wth self-sealing gasoline tanks so they could not be shot down so easily by antiaircraft anti-aircraft fire. A transport carrying paratroopers must necessarily fly low and slow; therefore 4t is an easy target from the ground, no matter who is firing. And the planes shot down over Sicily had no self-sealing tanks, armor plate or any other protection whatsoever. However, when Laux was opposed on better bet-ter protection for these planes, he finally wrote a letter direct to Secretary of War Stim-son, Stim-son, who turned the letter over to one of the officers opposing Laux on self-sealing tanks Gen. Barney Giles. And Giles immediately ordered Laux to Alaska. A day or two later, after Col. Laux had ar rived in Alaska, Giles followed him up with an amazing ouu-wora telegram, wmcn, If congress ever gets around to investigate, would be revealing evidence. Gen. Miles telegraphed Gen. Dale V. Gaffney at Nome, Alaska, directing him to secure from Col. Laux all reports, papers and letters relative to self-sealing tanks and paratrooper transports. The telegram also asked that Laux authorize the air corps in Washington to pick up any papers in Laux home pertaining to the protection of para trooper planes. and whose gambling with people's lives is Drab- ahlv ...a.. . 1 n . . 7 - - 4K " , n Meyers' gambling ww wurc jcuae a money. Quite a few good young officers are now getting get-ting recognition in the army and are doing A-l uu' wucn n comes to oust in & tuns re sponsible for traeic errors, the olH hnu h tv-" cMutMinifl suu operates. ence as food czar, one of his severest hecklers was Izzy Stone of PM. When Chuck Luckman bower) out as food czar, Izzy Stone was one of many who came around to congratulate him on the swell job he had done . . . Tho r.mirman tnm served without salary and with most of them fertson book before the members ikying ineir own expenses ... A colonel went to the barbershop in the Pentagon to get a haircut. oevenieen peopie waited anead of him. After a long wait he was about to get into the barber's shair when a general walked in. "You're next," said the barber . . . Then three other generals walked in; all got their haircuts ahead of the colonel. It doesn't pay for anyone less than a gen-eral gen-eral to get a haircut in the Pentagon barbershop. I TOO TOUGH FOR BARNEY By this time Gen. Gaffney smelled a rat. And being a tough Irishman with a son who was in troop-carrier outfit, he got on the telephone and proceeded to bawl out Gen. Giles for sending Col Laux to Alaska "When I want any officers of lieutenant Colonel rank up here, I'll make them myself ,M he said. "You don't need to concern yourself with sending them to me. When Giles remonstrated, Gaffney shot back . "Don't give me any of that, Barney. What's ine matter; Has juaux got something on you?" Thus; Col. Laux. the man who tried to pre vent future mistakes in the army, sat out the rest of the war in Nome, Alaska nearest point to Siberia. Meanwhile, the army had searched his files, and frankly admitted they wanted to burn all hit 'reports, letters, etc., which demanded de-manded self-sealing tanks In troop-earrylnc planes. Laux managed to keep one copy of his letter to Stlmson, however the letter re-, re-, cently published in this column. In this letter, Col. .Laux told the secretary of war that there had been "criminal negligence" in regard to troop-carrying transports and that he, Laux, "was prepared to prove it." However, no investigation was ever made. Meanwhile, Brig. Gen. f Mike" Dunn, who was re duced in rank when he protested army failures, three times was later recommended for promotion promo-tion by the navy. He has never been promoted. Nor has the army done anything about some of the nigh-ranking officers who stui run the air carps MERRY-GO-ROUND When Chuck Luckman held his first confer- By FRANK C. UOBERTSON Things have surely come to a pretty passing when a woman is more eligible than I am to become be-come an Expectant Father. The temptation is great to inform Ruth Louise Partridge that I, too, am eligible to become an Expect ant father despite my advanced age but being a fentleman always al-ways I shall refrain. Something seems to have hap pened to my friend Ruth. She appears to have become cheerful and mellow of late. Ordinarily, she seems to be in a state of chronic displeasure with the world. Perhaps it is the approach of Christmas and its accustomed accus-tomed genial spirit. I doubt, however, if she could be perm anently happy even if we were all so stuffed with culture that it ran out of our ears as she would like to have us. It just isn't feasible, Ruth. Not all of us. you know, were Kobertton Knrn with "ancestors." Sneaking of Christmas. I have just had a kindly word of advice frnm tnv noveiiest iriena v-iiiico H. Snow. "For Christmas," he writes, "I suggest that you buy your son Glen a copy of the book, HOW GREEN WAS MY FATHER." FATH-ER." Glen, I might comment, has known about his father for years. The rashness of women in be-raminc be-raminc Exnectant Fathers is in line with my life long belief that women are bv for tne more cour ageous sex. An instance of unpar-allelled unpar-allelled moral courage that came tn mv attention a few days ago was that of a springvuie way who consented to review a Rob- ly, the women of America have wasted a lot more cloth than that by their stupid subservience to ths dictates of a so-called clothes designer in Paris, France. My wife, after -reading this copy, came up with the following prayer which she advises me earnestly to repeat several times each day. . "Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, And nudge me when I've said enough." f . - -W - N , n HISTORY TEACHER TRUMAN John Dean, a lfi-vear-ntr hish Of Charleston. W. Va whn rtvnt1v contest on what place organized labor holds in a ucmucracy, cauea at tne wmte House recently, accompanied ac-companied by Senator Harley Kilgore and Eugene Carter. Dresident of the Went Virginia mi aim irt- eration of Labor. And when the youngster Informed Truman Tru-man that he was a student at Stonwall Jackson Jack-son high school In Charleston, it cansed the president to drop an Interesting bit of Anteri- " can history. "Coming from a school with a name like that," he said, "it's rather appropriate for you to be the winner of an essay contest on democracy. Stonewall Jackson- was a great man and a great leaaer. - . "Young man, do you realize that when Stone wall Jackson was your age. 16, he walked all the way from Charleston to Washington and sat on tne steps of the secretary of war until he was given an appointment to the military academy at west jfoint? " Young dean said this was news to him. but ne planned to teu nis classmates all about it. UNDER THE DOME Nebraska Republicans are not enthusiastic about having Senator Kenneth Wherry, the "merry "mer-ry Mortician," speak in their towns. They fear embarrassing questions might be asked about the end of OPA. Wherry was the most vociferous of all senators in promising low prices when the OPA ended ... To be discouraged from speaking in his home state is heartbreaking ironv to a man who simplyoves to speak . . . The all-imnortant cement case now pending before the supreme com t will decide for the first time in history whether tne federal trade commission nas the right to prosecute antMrust cases hitherto exercised chiefly by the justice department. For years the teaerai traoe commission, whose members constitute con-stitute the oldest-aged group in sovernment. have scarcely moved on anti-trust cases. For instance, FTC oldsters deliberated the cement case for 10 long years. A companion case on price fixing of steel was held up by the trade commission for 26 years ... In contrast, the attorney 'general has wound up major anti-trust suits In two to three years especially' under trustbusting Thurman Ar nold. Copyright, 1847, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. Drew Pearson Off to Europe Drew Pearson leaves this week for Europe to report first hand on important developments de-velopments there. He will ar-irve ar-irve in the middle of the most difficult winter Europe has faced since the war and at a time when the Communi ts are staging their peak drive to take over western Europe. He will also arrive at a time when the American people have made one of their most important, and unique gestures of friendship to Europe Eu-rope through the ' Friendship Train. And he will endeavor to report first hand on the distribution of the food and the effect it has on European people. He will also report on the aftermath of the foreign ministers min-isters conference and the prospects that the Marshall plan has for bringing peace and stability to Europe. Mr. Pearson will cable daily reports to The Herald beginning begin-ning toward the end of this week. Barbs of her club. Springviue, ox an niaces! It seems, however, that the victim was chosen by lot or somethlnff. and so cannot ne neia personally responsible. And don't get the idea that i naa anyuung to do with it. If the ladies want it stick out their lovely necks it's all rieht with me Since I seem to dc writing mostly about women and every body else has taken a cracK at the New Look, why not me? All the adjectives such as silly and assinine have been worked to death in the matter, so it really doesn't -leave much to say, except: that the New Look is an affront to the eye and a scourge to the pocketbook. For many years, even before the war, for some reason that was propably a whimsy of Dame Fashion, women went about with their shapely gams encaseu in stockings of a drab color as near like the nude as possible, or else went bare-legged, with many of them forced to flaunt a network of varicose veins or an unsightly stubble of coarse, bristly hair. Then alone came a return to dark, up to black, stockings which the demimonde discovered a hun dred years ago adds fifty per cent to a cirrs sex appeal, and wmcn certainly make many poor legs look good, and even the lovliest look better. But were women satisfied with this New Look of interest sud denly visible in the eyes of all men? No. -Because some laughing hyena decided to make the whole sex look ridiculous, and perhaps because certain sellers .of .dress materials wanted to make more money by forcing the - women to discard the perfectly good dresses they already-had-and- buy new ones, a new style was decreed. Now skirts which hang with all the grace of a gunny sack fail, low enough on the leg, to conceal Its best features, and the new style in stocking color which just about had the entire male sex holding its collective breath. A few days ago'the whole coun try was outraged by the story of how carloads ox perfectly good clothes. which had been donated for European relief had found their way to the rag pile of a private corporation. Economical- By HAL COCHRAN . There is one nice thing about bores they don't talk about peo ple. An Ohio woman caught two youths who tried to snatch her purse containing 25c. She gave them no quarter. Many a man starts to show his wife who is boss and soon finds out.' It's nice to do things with your heart and soul, but you always get better results out of your. hands. If you're always longing for the good old days, try reading this stuff by candlelight. Minutia Now History From the Files of The Provo Herald 30 Years Ago DEC. 13, 1917 A slan was proposed to arbi trate the differences between the Provo Reservoir company, provo City, and 400 other defendants erowine out of the water suit before the final decree Is enter ed hv Judse C W. Morse Hewitt M. strong was proraotea to top sergeant at Fort Sill. Okla. marriage license issued to Joseph H. Taylor. Provo and Norma Tuckett. Santaquin the Herbert Hoover request for food conservation called for no meat on Tuesdays, no wheat on Wednesdays, and no steaks, chops or roasts on Friday Louis A. Culbertson. Jr. was appointed to the government scnooi ior training quartermaster's assistant as Jacksonville. Fia. - - w. Lester Mangum was nominated president of the Commercial Club and w. o. creer, vice presiaent. 20 Years Ago DEC. 14. 1927 Slightly overdue .causing some anxiety, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Lind-bergh arrived at Mexico City on a flieht from Washington he was met by President Calles and U. S. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow Henry L. Stimson was named eovemor of the Phil ippine Islands by President Cool-idge Cool-idge officials of the Provo Ice and Cold Storage company announced the plant would be enlaraed at a cost of $50,000 wedding at Spring Lake, Iris Moore and Lee Deuel BYU Cougars won a fast basketball game from the speedy Dixie Col lege quintet from St. George 42 to 34. Desk Chat QUERY UADRUPL1CATE . .why is it that - something you've heard never seems half as important as something you overhear? ' ..did it ever occur to you that you find far more happiness In anticipation than in realization? reali-zation? . .how many people do you know who aren't interested in your troubles unless they can figure some way of making some money for themselves out of your misfortunes?. . .did'ja ever notice that even in the dictionary, success comes after hustle? 10 Years Ago By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE First I must throw some flow ers, before I get on with the seri ous business of the day, and this time, it IS serious. First, our orchestra concert last Wednesday night. It was a humdinger. Little Miss Barbara Allen covered her self with glory and as for Mark and Phyllis, what a thrill. Not many parents experience it Then I want to congratulate us on having such an outstanding school orchestra and it is out standing and I want to toss i flower to Glen Allen Dalby for his Chronicle of Youth which was played, and we mustn't fo- get Mr Sardoni who put it on the program, either. It is a fine thing to have young composers, and a fine thing to have a way of recognizing them. All in all it was quite and evening. I didn't play once when I should have kept still. That doesn t always happen And now. for the serious busi ness. A letter came to- me yester day which must be tended to and other things forgotten. I will put the letter in here, and you can see for yourself what I mean Dear Minutia," the letter says, and spells Minutia right, too but to get on. Quote; "Dear Min- uu, I don t know of a better way to get a very worth while project before the public than thru you. We want a lot Of Subs- for-Santa, for out patients, some who have no one to remember them, some who are just NOT remembered. Not just this year, but year after year. It takes so little to make these people happy. If we can only get enough interest aroused it can be a won derful Xmas for the giver as well as those who receive. If anyone wants to help, we have a list of names. Or just send gifts to the Xmas Fund, State Hospital. Tel. 295." The letter is signed, "Santa's Helper.- Well, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it, and if I do say so myself, we should be pretty darn red of face. It just never occurred to me that people pen ned up in a state institution, wouldn't all be remembered at Christmas. I should have known better. Now it isn't like someone asking us to adopt a whole town, as our neighbor, OREM is doing, more power to her, but lt does seem that to have a small group of people in Provo city never remembered on Christmas, is too much, even for our selfishness. For heaven's sake, let's do something some-thing about it. You, and you, and especially me! I have a sort of gift with a piano, and I happen to know there is a piano up at the hospital. My own contribution is this: I will be glad to go up there any time it would be convenient con-venient and pleasant, and have a musical treat with those people, playing for them what they want to hear, and letting them sing, too. Now, just let me know Santa, and as for the presents, well, get busy you folks. This must not happen here, so long, you potential Santa-Subs. DEC. 14, 1937 The Orem chamber of com merce entertained its members at a ttood-will luncheon and band concert at the Lincoln high school a large Provo audience heard Messiah at the tabernacle Pope Pius XI announced five new cardinals, none of them from the U. S. three men met death in a snowsllde in the mountains near Muldoon. Idaho the' New Deal won a judicial victory when the supreme court ruled 6 to 3 against forcing the payment of interest on OCTOBER MOOD There's a misty fog On the distant hills Which makes me Strangely sad, Birds in nearby trees Trill softly muted notes. As the colorful leaves Drift lazily down. The branches quiver In mournful mockery, I look again Toward the distant hills The haze is blue . . . Intriguing. In the Editor and Publisher of Dec. 6 comes a story with which we feel the average man is much in sympathy. The bar association in a Georgia city asked newspapers to follow more closely the actual language In legal complaints, to which an editor replied: "We will continue to translate. to the best of our ability, legal double talk, judicial mumbo-Jumbo and archaic nomenclature into langue the people can under stand." Now that winter is in the off ing, and golf is losing some of its allure and so hunting Is taking its turn to vie with religion, we are reminded of the member who turned up late at a bunting club on Sunday morning. Asked the reason, he answered it was a toss up whether he would hunt or go to church . . . "and," he added. "I had to toss up eleven times." 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