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Show PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1940 PAGE TWO JSC J SX- U,fi- i y-SJi IWJL VV' 1.JL By Williams "Liberty throuch all tn land"-Th land"-Th I.lhrty Boll Every " Afternoon ExcptlnT Satnrdiir ml Sunday) 'Sunday . HeraM Published Sunflty Kornlnj sv Published by tM Herald Corporation. South ; rirT Wnt Street, ITovo, Utah. Kntered -cnd clas matter t th poatofflcs In Prova. Utah, under the act : Mnrcti i. 179. , . . Oilman. ' Nleol A Rgthman. - National Adverumn representatives, repre-sentatives, vr York, fan Francisco, Detroit. Boston. Ue ,neiia. Chlms-o., ,, . Member Tnited Praa, N. E. A Service. Wprtorn Features, the t-rriipa Lengue of Newspaper a:d Audit Bureau ct Circulation. ' --' Subscription terms ft crrlr la tltah couiity. centa the month, J 00 for at tnontha ti advance; $4 Th the jfir, In ad-ance: by . malt In county, SS.tti; outsld county. IS. 7 tlia ytar in advance. Ihi Herald win not sssums flnanelal responsibility for any error' which may appear In advertlaement published in Its columns. In those Instance where the aper la at fault. It will reprint that part of the advertlaement to which tha typographical mlta-s occurs., i t . .Next: British-French Union What must be done,' is done. , - Whatever the result of the European war, it how. seems certain that Britain and France are being driven into a more or less tjerir.aneYit union.. Not the military alliance of the World War, or even of this war, but a permanent union such that the two will be for practical purposes one country. They would use one coinage and money. They would abolish customs barriers. ( Their organized labor and organ ized employer, groups would federate. Transport and communication com-munication would be co-ordinated. Each would make compulsory compul-sory in its schools the language of the other. Yet each would continue to administer its own domestic affairs as at present. .. Does this sound fantastic? Will no nation sacrifice anything any-thing of its own national sovereignty,? The answer is, it will if it be riecessaryv . . . ' For practical purposes Britain ahd France are on just about this basis today. Co-ordination of their war 'effort has made it so. Even if they win the war, jhey may have to continue some such arrangement as a counterweight to the 80,000,000 Germans who now greatly outweigh either country taken alone, . " ..... r--, -. Well, why nbt? . Switzerland does pretty well as a federation federa-tion of people speaking French, German, and Italian. Language Lan-guage is no barrier. Both Britain and France have vast colo-; colo-; riial empires whose defense even in future peace times might well be undertaken in common. Peasant France and industrial indus-trial England supplement one another pretty well. The franc is pretty much a tail to the sterling, dog anyway why not merge both into a new currency? , . The world today seems to be separating out into a few - large units. , True, the disappearance of Ethiopia, Austriar Czechoslovakia, Czechoslo-vakia, Albania, and Poland as small independent nations was accomplished by force. . 1 . : ' ' But that may ndhe the less compel the British and French to do voluntarily and by agreement what Russia, Germany, and Italy have been doing by conquest- create a larger' unit which can function as an economically independent unit. Perhaps Per-haps then some part of Clarence Streit's -dream of "Union" might come true, and other countries be drawn to enter the. French-British union. . k , , Would such a division of the world into a few great unions bring peace ? : Nobody knows. All we know is that the " division of the world into small, antagonistic countries did not; .. . . ... . IrTa. - New,Deal; Leaders Roy Qyer " i e nl .. . . a !! Sa e or . F anes . to. Allies AMildAnhoyah.ce ' , '.. .Of the 8,000,000 Americans urged by, the Association of . Germans Living. Abroad (Berlin) to "see to it that every - German living abroad remembers his allegiance to Germany," probably at least .7,839,437 will be very much annoyed. This curious German organization takes the position that the "German nation" numbers 100,000,000, and that 8,000,00a subjects of that nation live in the, United States, 3,000,000 in Switzerland, and 1,700,000 in France, etc.: This .is, of course, midlly irritating. But it will irritate none so much as those people of German extraction who are among the most loyal and patriotic of Americans. To be thus admonished to "remember their allegiance to Germany' will only remind them the more strongly of their allegiance to the United States of America. , , ; t ? BY BRUCE C-ATTON ,. Daily Herald Wawhlngton. . . Correspondent : , WASHINGTON, April 9 De spite assurances that all la sweetness sweet-ness and light within the administration ad-ministration on the' sale of mili tary airplanes to France and England, there have been some sharp behind-the-scenes rows. At the White House conference of the co - ordinatlng -s committee, headed by Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. a reliable report says harmony was obtained only by exertion of presidential 'authority; 'authori-ty; that both' War Secretary Woodring and . Navy Secretary Edison strongly opposed the pro gram gave in 'only because they had to. - - ' - . It Is also reported that 'upward of a year ago there 'was an In- side-the administration proposal to turn 'the famous bomb "Sight over to England and France, and 4 thtii,: this-' .was -blocked bj un yielding opiwsition of high' army officers. ' 1 ' . ' ' ' ' ' S. JVEEDS PL'ANES, COXG RESSMAN SAYS ' ' Tha administration" claim .that sale of planes abroad is not in any way hampering procurement of our own services is hotly ,de nied by Congressman Melvin Maas of Minnesota. " Ma as-just returned from a trip to Paliama, where as a member of a special House ut-committee he and others Inspected canal defenses. Land defenses, Maas says, .are , In good shape, uut there's a shortage of planes. IUgh officers there . say they need three times . the plane strength they ' now have, he 1 We'll Get a Picture of It, Anyhow V -- v - t :L 20,000,000 V' -c iT ,3 7 iT'sjusrA A ';BUSiMess maa WMt? 1 : r-vV' r ' LITTLE BlTTy -V? K,LL ,T nays. Tlwy 'holler 'to iVahlng ton about ' it and are told "that there Just arent any ; plane to MDare. Aleanwhlle, the allies ' are going to get a-lot -of new; planes uwause u 'dont need them, JAPANESE TRADE - . STIIX. GOES ON . - - -The ' famous Japanese trade agreement. abrogated . .With1' a flourish,' expired -two months ago but its death lias ' had nor prac Ileal effect whatever M All that happened was that it is now legal for the administration- to restrict trade with Japan if it ;'wantsj to, and it ' pretty obvlouslyv doean't want to. Senator Schwellenbach has been trying all winter to get action on'? his bill i to embargo shipment of any goods.. used fin the war on China, and so far he hasn't "eVeri ' been able to get a hearing. - '."k-m-'I u h y , $r SENATE MAY PROBE.. iauff FOREIGN PROPAGANDA '; ,., - Keep one eye-7-or. maybe both of ; them on 1 they resolution' for a snecial Senate 'committee to'lh vestlgate ' foreign ' propaganda. The , resolution : is "Sponsored "by Senator.. Clark, "of ..Missouri is. and was just okayed by the foreign relations, committee.- Inside dope Is that .if the Senate adopts the resolution, - some of the hottest stories of the year will presently be forthcoming. Peppery Patter IK ROOSEVELT1 announce a reorgamzauon a plan to save, $150,000 . about the same amount congress will have .to spend ' Investigating It." . . Census, enumerators should check up on the swimming pools ' If they . want to . count "aU our flo&Jng ' population. ' ,, , A;-4, . t. , William Dudley Pelley, the would-be "king," Is about to be crowned by the Dies committee. : , . An Illinois ..farmer has in-stalled in-stalled a radio set on his tractor Md. listens to; the marketmews as he plows. When wheat drops he just stops the .'tractor and -lets his soil conservation go to work. . ' . The Vansar sophomore, , down whose throat a toothhnwh was accidentally forced, must have1 felt disgraced In view of the tradition tra-dition that snly freshmen swallow swal-low everything. ' Two congressmen, recently Indulged In-dulged In a heated argument as to the number of Democrats flow in Jail. " But-lt doesn't matter. The..; last seven years indicate these ' fellows , are 'Just an un-needed un-needed surplus anyway. , . , . . ', ) -j The ' Silver - Shirts may . have ndopted the Idea of taking over the White. House because it has been - vacant .- too much of the time., . 5 ' ' . ' : -i-: K -PAT.-; ';-' FGRUM !n. Afjiii 'Em- : '--'..- t- '" Circus'Last Year At - iJtald County Fair N oted Dance Floorj' for . Ttoods LONDON (U.E The best danc ing 1 floor in London possibly in the world--wil probably "be put at the disposal of . members of .the Canadian services. , It Is the old London Country Council building in Spring Gardens. The assembly room there is famous for ; Its fine dancing floor,- , . . .-,- , "Murals Honor Eiigene'Fleld ' ' ST. JOSEPH, Mo. . E-r-Murals representing the poems of Eugene Field who began his literary career car-eer here, are being .paintd on the walls of the Little. Theater auditorium. audi-torium. Among the "poems "are "Little Boy Blue." and "Wynken, Blyn ken and Nod." . v" V - ' Editor, Herald: "- , . Well, folks, according to Thursday's Thurs-day's Evening Herald, we're going go-ing to liave a circus at our county; coun-ty; fair this falL Well, didn't we have a circus last ran 7 ai least did. -I'm still wondering what became be-came of my trays of cookies, choice pickles. Jam and, bottle of peaches. Also my. cucumbers, onions and milk-white eggs. The management manage-ment promised to investigate and give. me a calL I'm still waiting for that call. We have all heard of. 'wise crackers, fire crackers, soda crackers and safe crackers, but 'I'm ; asking the county fair board s to ' consider in their budget bud-get plan a fund for' to do away with public self helpers. If someone some-one -could only Invent a finger cracker In the shape of a good lone sharp stick ' to be wielded by some- dozen or' more - husky fellows who have respect for law and Order, ' well that would be Momethine. Last fall, after the men . folks had caged up i the ducks, chickens, and turkeys, and it irs nearinfir midnite. I cau tiously asked the attendants if I may take nome my vegetables, fruit, cookies, etc. but I was in formed that nothing could "be re moved mtU - morning Sunday mornlnsr.' WelV being a sincere believer in law and order, I went h6me, "returning the "next 'morn ing to find chaos and disorder. I gathered up what was left of mv entries and with1 my spirits rather squelched. I again entered many things In the state iair with fine results, nothing being lost, only a hen. which suffocated on the way home. But back to the county fair, and the Suggested Suggest-ed finger crackers. I'm sure, had X , had one. I 'would . have been tempted to, use It. While Agoing through, the " Agricultural building build-ing I saw." a well-dressed gentleman gentle-man : and tw ladies. Did I say a gentleman I mean a male and two 'female "species, who were taking in the fair. As they ap- nroached the lovely display of flowers, the male helped himself to - three, beautiful roses, placed one - In his ' coat lapel and gave the' other two to r his friends ftest they sampled, the different plates of grapes, egg . tomatoes, and ended with a nice peach each By the time they . reached the hot-dog stand they , were pret ty. well J.f ed - up anyway . they cost a .dime,: so that's where the finger . crackers come in. What a t ne . ide to charge an entrance fee .of. 25 cents and 10 cents It may .- be . the means of keeping some of f those self -helpers out that5 Is, I If you get your fences in. fine shape. But- last year's circus -hasn't daunted my fair spirits.. '; I'm . 'still going -to - display: dis-play: cookies, fruit and. vegetables,: vegetab-les,: etc TH try for, every sweet-corn sweet-corn - prize if Les Bunnell will sell - me his prize seed corn and then stay, out" Well, 111 be seeing you at the county, fair here's hoping more city women get fair minded.., So long. ' " ' A FARMER'S WIFE ' P. ' S:' What about the nungry man who was given a six months' 1a?l sentence for stealing a loaf of bread ? It may be an idea for the fair board to consider. I Was: Thinking By ELSIE C. CARROLL I Wis thinking when I read the announcement of the coming of Robert Frost an artist on the university lyceurn couse, of two de lightful evenings I spent listening to this foremost contemporary American poet and of the antici pation with which I look forward to having that pleasure aarain. One of the chief ways, we add to our personalities is by contacts with personalities richer tnan our own. Whether we realize It or not. evrry such contact give somr- tlilnir we didn't have before. It may be a broadening of our view on some pha of life; an Insight Into a truth we hadn't seon before; a gllrnne of beauty la new form; an awakening of forgotten memor ies; greater appreciation of some profound thought any one of hufidmls ef f hintr which make w a little different from what we were before the contact. I know-that I shall enjoy the delightful whimsy of the poet. He seems to be pokintr fun at h'mself In some of his asides, but all the time you know he 1 tourhln subtly uton universalities. I will en lov catchlne "again the "essence of hU fine pholosophy. His casual, almosr playful manner which nevertheless weaves poetry out of simple speech, will delieht me again as it did before. It is, as he explained in one of his lectures, "the stuff around the talk" in his Poems that power of suggesting more than he savs that elves the emolonai response which makes his poetry so delightful. - . One of the chief differences between be-tween poets and the rest of us Is hat they see underneath the surface sur-face of thfnestrutha and beauties beau-ties of .which .we are unaware. How "many of us would be able to sec in a ne'er-do-well characteristics characteris-tics to remind us of the immortal Greek philosopher Socrates. . Yet that is what Frost savs he saw in the "hired man." old Warren, whom he makes the central flmre of one of his favorite poems, "The jem or the Hired Man." The character is an old man the poet knew, who worked all his life as a hired man, "To every suggestion sug-gestion others gave him." Frost said, ."he always replied 'Hell, no!' He rerused .life just like that. When some one asked if he wanted to smoke, he said: 'HelL no. My throat Is dry enough as it is. Al though he had. a doctor and a tanker brother, he preferred to die with kind strangers than to t beholden to thos who had no patience or sympathy with hit w ay of life The poet makes us fe! the nobility in this shiftless ol-J man with his prUe in the srt of building properly a J;vi of hay, his desire to make something of the young scholar Haroli Wilson, who studied Latin ar.d the violin because he liked them, sni wouldn't take stock In the c!d man's euperstitlorj. I hope he will read "The Data of the. Hired 3Lan. and ottwr re heard him read tWore, including "Mending Wall, for lntsLro, the simple sec cunt of t wo t44 farmers replacing the stones, that have fallen from the wall dividing their lands during the winter but alo a delightful character study f two vastly different persons one who t projjreive, eavrer to kae the old behind and find the "better new," and the other, a con-Krva-tive boldlnir to rid traditions, Ju-tifylng Ju-tifylng Mrrtvlf with worn-out maxims. Even more, it Is a commentary com-mentary upon the extremes of revolt re-volt "which fhallengm trouble-making trouble-making boundaries and conventions conven-tions which muAt be upheld at any cost." 1 hope to hear again "Stopping by Woods On a Snowing' Even ing' w hich also gives much more tl.an what appears on the surface. One hears underneath a warnlrg of the danger of losing eighl ol the real purposes of life.. by lingering too long on the pleasant bypath. I want to hear him read "Birches." and enjoy the spiritual angiography angiog-raphy it reveals, and TbeTlun-away," TbeTlun-away," with its tenderness and fine imagery. And. of course. I hope he will give some new ones. Robert Frost The name connotes con-notes to me an evening of rare delight and intellectual nd emotional emo-tional expansion. .... GRAND VIEW Mrs, Clark Carter, FUportrr Arizona U. "Adds Dormitory TUSCON, Ariz. rrj A 30-place 30-place woman's cooperative dormi tory will be built on the Universi ty of Arizona campus and will be ready for occupancy this fall, the boT-rd of regents has announced. an-nounced. The university has one other eo-ej . cooperative dormitory dormi-tory tullt seven years ago. Koads Still Duty SALT LAKE CITY. VXi Eighty-six per cent of the roads In the United States still are dusty, although a quarter century cen-tury has passed since clouds of dust enveloped a motorist every- tlme he went for a drive, ac cording to A. II. Benedict, tech nologist. . , The rr.iAn:nry ri us.s of tv.e Fun-day Fun-day tMrh I cr.) v S a -l rr.tr.j prty Friday I.:M at RsraUfi. The party returned to the r.orr.e cf June "Lti-iCfford whf-re ljnc.h was serrei to the f.Hcu.g: Li.:'.e Ca ::-.: r..-h. L-o.s E.l'r. lloor. Dor.na V. N-ecl. Evi IU.ie-hck, IU.ie-hck, n-by StratUn. Ju.- Lcrce-ford. Lcrce-ford. Eolith Jcaf-s. H:Lr,an cn, Ir-.n ILirard. Lis Srr..Vh, Jack F:ratt'--.. iic:t C.r..-.tf :i and Mrs. Mry C me rush-Mrs. rush-Mrs. Vert Jc hr.scn er.tf rtair.-i rr.e rnt. rs of her swlrg cl-b FYl-diy FYl-diy aftemc- a at her fcr-rr.e. Sowing Sow-ing and fK.Al chat wss the c vcrskn after which a ts!y I . - c eon was aenred lo the fo'ik-wlr.g: Mrs. D:t Davis. iTrs. Ruhr Etral-txt,' Etral-txt,' Mrs. Till: Dixcn. lirs. Lu-eiU Lu-eiU ILIls, Mrs. Clara l'i'", ilrs. Sinx Cartr ar.i Mrs, li-.s. Johnson and ilrs. llitt-.ee Jc-h.-.-son. A grcup cf frier.Is met st the hr.me cf Mr. sr. 3 ilrs. lUri n Johnson Saturday ercr.irg in the form cf a surprise prty m h- r. : r of Mrs. Ji hr..-n w tos I4rth-ay occurred on that day. Cards Kfre played and rcirts:.c:cnts Miud lo the ft;iowUg: Mr. rd Wrt. Lc-Iloy Taj-lor. iir. ar.-l Wis, G-eorte Byrnes, Mr. ar.d 2dr. Kt.'.ix Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Kerd Dot on, Mr and Mrs. Car!le Daws-tn, Mrs. Dot Davis, Mrs. 2a V.x Durr.s and Miss Alta Buckner jd Mr. and Mrs. Johnson-' - - Cranium Crackers PANAMA CANAL Vital American defense rpt. the Far.arr.a Canal Ttaa teen the center ct much interest recently. In the following statements, crss out those words or figures Li the par8.nthics.es which make the sentences sen-tences Incorrect: 2. The Pans ma Canal Zone U (24. 10. 15) miles wide. 2. The United ' States acquired the Canal Zone in 1H. y.J. 19CH). 3. The cities of Panama an 1 Colon (are, are not) part of the Canal Zone. . 4. The Canal Zdne Is d:ret!y Under charge or (a governor. U. S. Senate., U. S. Army chief of staff). Answers cm, page Hi The first white child tern In Arizona is said to have hem t-rn on a raft near Yuma. . ) BEAT AIR TRAIL. TO ALASKA Th is Sikorsky Clip-per Clip-per (ABOVE), icill carry 32 passengers and a crexo of six ' on the Scattlc-Juneau air route for Pacific Alaska Airways.-, Dotted line on the map (RIGl(T) shoics air link approved yesterday to connect with the network already established (heavy line.) Planes will go into operation May 15. ' - . . j v xt tx XX xx ;tt -a XX XX XX U. S.-to-Alaska -- - - Airline. Ready "-The United States will be linked with Alaska by regular airline service on May 15 as the result of a recommendation recommenda-tion to the civil aviation authority at Washington recently that permit be granted Pacific Alaska Airways for such service. , ... Pacific Alaska Airways, a subsidiary of Pan-American Airways, has operated air routes in Alaska since 1934, and the service out of Seattle beginning May 15 will connect domestic airlines in this country with the territorial routes. Present plans provide for two Crash Boats for South Africa CAPE ; TOWN, - South Africa (UE "Crash boats' which can operate up to about 100 miles out at sea are to be brought into service by the Union Defense Department to aid aircraft forced down at sea. Manned by a crew of 13, these vessels, 63-foot long motor boats, with a speed un- rs Visa nttrmt flft Vnnta. X-Ill be stationed at the chief , ports, 1 round trips a week between Seattle Se-attle and Juneau, with a stop at Ketchikan, a total distance of about 1025 miles. This connecting connect-ing link will he flown in six boors as contrasted to the three days tt now takes by steamer. Four-motored Four-motored Sikorsky Clippers, capable cap-able of carrylnjr 32 passengers and a crew of five or six, will be used on th route. WORK STARTED Construction has already begun on the ,'teattle passenger terminus at Matthews beach on Lake Washington, north of Sand Point naval air station. The base will Include waiting rooms, traffic and radio offices and load-(ngramp load-(ngramp and will cost $10,COO. ; . The korsky Clippers, known as the 8-42, will connect at Juneau Ju-neau with land planes which operate op-erate from. the Alaskan capital to Fairbanks. There Pacific Alatka Airways, operates two services to the westward, one to Nome, la Hub)-, and the other to Beihel by way f McGrath and Flat. The? "routes have speeded up Alaskan transportation transporta-tion so much that now I akes only a few hours to rover distances dis-tances between these cities which formerly took weeks by dog team. Present plans provide only for summer and fall operation of the Reattle-Juneau . air link as Ice furms In the northern harbor during the winter time, making L landing dsn ce-rous. Hight mil probably , continue from May 13 to about November 1. L'se af Clippers on the Alaska route is only temporary as h!rh altitoiie planes, such as the Boeing frato-cllppers frato-cllppers will 1 put Into o rue ration ra-tion when landing fiftJs of adequate ade-quate site arc cont rurtrJ at Kairlianks and ether northern points. -caltle operst, fvs will thrn I transferred (mm the Clipper base oa I-rike Wa.'-hi&5-ton to Drying field. och land plane- will aiJow 3 ear-roiinJ operation of paeo-jer paeo-jer and express ter Ice u air br-twten br-twten f--jitlle and Alaska aJ will speed up scbrdule crver tiiat to br put Into effect with liie Clippers. Inargaratlon of th. f-iU'-JTuccaa service In 3: ay will inquire in-quire an epar.!33 cf ;-rn. n 1 in Seattle for each flane uiLl ic-quire ic-quire tw-o pUutf, er.-taicria; effuse, ef-fuse, nClo operator anj one or two steward, as well a g rou.. J crew nrx! a traffic d?t irttt-Bt. . ICTOU li. S f-TI ll VI-. |