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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941 Every Afternoon fKrreptlnr Paturdar nl Fundajr) Eun'iaj Herald Publlihpd .Sunlay Morning Published by tri Herald Corporation. South Fir Wen Street. Provo. t'tah. Fntered lerond class mattsf at the potofflc In Provo. L'tah. under the act of March 1, 17. Gllman. N'tcol Puihman. National Advortlsinn representative. repre-sentative. New York. n Franileeo. Detroit. Uioti. U09 Arteelca. Chicago ' Member United Press. X. E. A. S.-rvire. Editors' Exchange, the Scrippa League of Newspaper and Audit liureaa of Circulation. Subacriptlon termi- by carrier In Utnh county. BO cenfa th montn, I 09 for six montt.a In advance; $5.75 the year. In advance; h mall In county. 15 00; outside county ti.li th year In advance. -Liberty through all th Und" Th Liberty Tba Beraia will not uiumt financial responsibility for - any errora which may appear In advertisements published In lt coiumna. In those Instances where the, paper la at fault. It will reprint that part of ths advertisement la wblca tba typographical mistake occurs. The Bitter Lesson Experience may be the best teacher, but sometimes experience exacts a bitter, bitter price. Fortunate is he who may see the experience of another, learn from it, profit by it, without paying all of the price. Norman Angell, who recently lectured here in the tabernacle tab-ernacle on the Community-University Concert association course, spent a lifetime working for peace. In 1933 he won the Nobel prize for work of that kind. He can scarcely be cited as a war-monger. What is the lesson of the past few years as Angell learned it? lie has told it, in words fraught with all the bitterness of "it might have beei." Hear him: - "Because we would not listen to the cries of Chinese children massacred by the invader, we have now, overnight, over-night, to listen to the cries of English children, victims of that same invader's ally. "Because we were indifferent when Italian submarines submar-ines sank the ships of repuhlican Spain we must now listen to the cries of children from the torpedoed refugee refu-gee ship going down in the tempest 600 miles from land." No one, -anywhere, has arraigned more bitterly than this Englishman the course of England in the past 10 years. If Europe, 10 years ago, had united to say "no!" when the first aggressions began in 1931 in Asia, and in 1935 in Africa, to say nothing of Spain, things might have been different. But today is today. Nothing is more hopeless than to turn back 10 years and sigh "if only " Today is today, and what is done today molds our tomorrows. to-morrows. What was not done 10 years ago, . made today what it is. Today we mold tomorrow. To turn back to yesterday is valuable only if, seeing the mistakes made then, we use that knowledge to avoid making them again today. Europe and the world turned a deaf ear to the cries of the victims of aggression then. Now half that world has paid a bitter penalty for its indifference. Shall the rest of the world remain deaf until the lesson comes home to it as 'it has been taught to Angell and to his England? The past is the past, and it is gone. Today is today, and on our resolute determination not to make again all those old fatal errors hangs the future. A Trade Balance Shifts Tlie -whole -picture -of-South American trade with the United States has shifted, largely, no doubt, as a result of the war in Europe, but also partly because of a conscious effort to stimulate it. The United States always used to sell more to Latin America than it bought from there. Today that has been reversed. re-versed. In February the U. S. exported $G2,000,000 worth of goods to Latin America, while it imported $82,000,000 worth. That gave Latin America a favorable balance of $20,000,000. That means that the chronic shortage of American dollars dol-lars in Latin America is being relieved, and suggests that the way is being paved for increased trade in the future. In fact, the total of February trade both ways was $15,000,000 greater than the month before. As in local trade, so in international trade, volume counts. The United States stands for increasing, not decreasing, decreas-ing, the volume of such trade. Within such limits as the war leaves open, it's being done. . 5, , , Losses p ' - i 1' OUT OUR WAY TN MY GAELSH I FiKJALLY GET THB c : Ox f "TO LET YOU PLAY BALL. V v p-t-- L-i 1 live: va ALPr MP AKJO WHAT 7 ) LlMrl CO YOU DO? MISSTHBEE . TlVfTS-Ml Fl ipc; A COW -THT COME H ( A ' EiJ . OUT HERE.' WHY DOKJ'T V WHERE YOU DlDM'T y 1 . I EVER USE MY i X USE YOUR HEAP AL MISPLACEO T. m. reo. u. . pat. orr. Washingtcn Merry-Go-Rcund (Continued From Pag One) his veto power necessary. if that became I IKISH BASES Tpbin also urged the president to use his influence to persuade Eire to make air bases available to Britain. "Some Irish-American friends," Tobin said, "asked me to intercede inter-cede with you to send military supplies to Eire. I told them that I felt Eire should make the first move by turning- over bases in Ireland to the RAF. "I was born in Ireland, but 1 am first and always an American, and I believe it would be in our interest as well as Britain's to help the RAF get the bases." NAZI I JACKET , j As if being; driven frorci their homes isn't enough,- refugees from the occupied countries run into another misfortune in Lisbon, Lis-bon, Portugal, last open port in Western Europe. The U. S. Secret Service has learned of a giant counterfeit ring in Lisbon, believed to be operated by Nazis, which has been ruthlessly ruth-lessly preying on refugees wait ing for passage on the few ships and planes leaving for America. Large sums of phoney American Ameri-can money and "raised" notes have been exe'hanged for francs and other European currency at a so-called "Black Bourse," where refugees are led to believe they will get a higher exchange rate, in dollars, than at banks. The Secret Service was informed inform-ed of the racket by Portuguese s 7 DID ME copr. by AUNT HET By ROBERT QU1IXEN "Joe never remembers what the sermon's about, but it ain't bwatwe his memory L had. If the preacher pronoum-es a word wrong, he'll remember remem-ber it from now on." officials, who believe the bogus money is being printed either in Germany .,, . or ... Czechoslovakia r Thousands of refugees have been fleeced by the counterfeiters. A French refugee who arrived in Boston recently with his family fam-ily was heartbroken to learn from a bank that his entire savings, sav-ings, $5,500, had been exchanged on the "Black Bourse" for American Ameri-can 52 bills which had been skilfully skil-fully raised to "$50's." t TWO-DOLLAR MEN The investigation of dollar-a-year men launched by Missouri's Senator Harry Truman has considerable, con-siderable, undercover support in the OPM, particularly among younger officials, who, in some cases, do the work for which their big-name superiors get the credit. The youngsters jest about this among themselves, and the other day several wits wrote a mock "news story" that is getting a big laug'h when handed around. It reads: "A bottleneck in the production of dollar-a-year men, seriously endangering the progress of national na-tional defense, will entail the imposition im-position of rigid priorities in the near future, it was learned authoritatively auth-oritatively today. "High OPM officials explained that the shortage developed as a result of competitive bidding for dollar-a-year men between the OPM production division and the American Battle Monuments Commission. As a result, they said, the existing stockpile has been depleted. They forecast as an immediate possibility the recruitment re-cruitment of $2-a-year men, the supply of which is virtually inexhaustible. in-exhaustible. "A, hitch in this solution to the problem, however, may develop de-velop because of the activities of the Defense Commission Price Stabilization Division, whose director, di-rector, Leon Henderson, is known to fear a price spiral if this plan is adopted. "Taking quick steps to meet the emergency, Jesse H. Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, announced an-nounced that he was considering a $12,000,000 loan to American industry to enable production of several thousand gross of dollar-a-year men. "Immediate delivery, he warned, warn-ed, cannot be expected, inasmuch as the plan contemplates production produc-tion of the executives through a training -from -within apprenticeship apprentice-ship program. Embryo dollar-a-year men will begin as first vice presidents in hundreds of American Ameri-can industries, he explained, earning earn-ing $25,000 annually to start with, and working down over the course of a few months to the SI salary- Once they have achieved achiev-ed this status, industry spokesmen spokes-men said, they will be released to the Government." XOTE: One top OPM official will have no part of the $l-a-year men. He is General Counsel Coun-sel John Lord O'Brian, who has barred them from his staff. All lawyers in his division can have no private business connections by Williams . ,r v I ASK YOU TO GET y IM OKI YOUR. SIDE YOU COULPA .JUST AS WELL GOT ME OM THE OTHER. TEAM --THAT 3 WHERE YOU DlDW 1 A YOUR heap: r rvtci. se. 4-25 and must work on a full-time government pay basis. - MERRY-GO-ROUND I Insiders say that the appointment appoint-ment of Lt. Colonel Frank T. McSherry as boss of all government govern-ment programs for training defense de-fense workers means the elimination elim-ination of John Studebaker, chief of the U. S. Office of Education, Educa-tion, who was out to make himself him-self the Mr. Big of this activity. Studebaker has long been far from popular in White House circles cir-cles ... In Mrs. Charles W. Weis Jr., president of the National Na-tional Federation of Women's Republican Re-publican Clubs, the GOP has a strong claimant for the most beautiful woman in high political politi-cal ranks . . . Commander H. R. Thurber, Navy press chief, has received a novel suggestion from a landlubber regarding patrol bombers. Instead of designating them by initials and numbers as at present, the fan suggested each ship be named after historic battleships, bat-tleships, such as the "Kearsage" and "Olympia." (Copyright 1941 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) O SERIAL STORY BY OREN ARNOLD YESTERDAY I Carolyn and Rob-- Rob-- t-Tt licrrc that the X-HHit muit rr-maia rr-maia a secret and the remaining portion aafrfcnartlpd agralnat dnn-Tc", dnn-Tc", Lrniift Sorml mmri to Hob-ert'a Hob-ert'a oftire. Carolyn overhear her tmpaanioned plea to Robert to fire the power that 1 their. To(cethrr we can be the man and the woman of the agct," SAFETY IN THE WEST CHAPTER IX JT was obvious to Carolyn that Leana Sormi was irrational about the discovery in the Schoen-feld Schoen-feld Laboratory, and victimized by her own emotions. At the end of Leana's melodramatic melodra-matic speech to Bob, Carolyn had wanted to interrupt. But a latent, creeping fear of the woman with the foreign name had somehow become intensified in that quarter-hour. It was a senseless fear, she told herself. Leana probably , was just wrought up over everything. every-thing. But no; no, she wasn't either. She spoke too earnestly, too impressively; im-pressively; plainly she had been thinking all this out Plainest of all now was the fact that Leana loved Dr. Robert Hale. "She's crazy about him!" Carolyn Caro-lyn half whispered to herself. A flash of practical reasoning told her instantly to quit this strange new secretarial job and go back to her old position in the bank or find a new routine somewhere some-where with good, solid Ken Palmer. Palm-er. Ken, the kindly plodder who loved her sincerely, but who had no more color than the bookkeeper bookkeep-er he was. , She knew in the same instant that she would never do that now. If all the X-999 in Bob's laboratory labora-tory was about to blow up in her face she'd still stick to this new job, even though she couldn't have said why. Here was too much potential; a lot had already happened, and every hour gave promise of a great deal more. It was like being in a mystery play. Intuition rather than practicality practi-cality also prevented her from revealing re-vealing her presence to Leana Sormi. She heard Leana's plea: heard Bob take a courteous, kindly, but somewhat superficial reaction to it, giving Leana very little to tie to. Leana worked herself into tears and so fled rather abruptly. Bob came immediately to Carolyn's Caro-lyn's ofTice. Carolyn felt herself blush guiltily, even though she had no actual guilt. To cover her confusion, she feigned deep interest in-terest in her shorthand notes, pencil pen-cil and pad in hand. "That was Leana Sormi," he "CHILDREN, STRENGTH OF THE NATION" Alertness of Parents Can Avert Menace of Disease By Dr. Richard Arthur Bolt Director, Cleveland Ouild Health Association Written for XEA Service ' Fifth of 12 articles Despite the advances of modern preventative medicine, infectious diseases remain a grave menace to child health. Children are born with a considerable amount of immunity im-munity against such troubles; but this soon wears off, and mother may have a case of measles or mumps on her hands. While these diseases usually are not fatal, thye leave many children chil-dren weakened and with defective hearing, poor eyesight or malnutrition. malnu-trition. This does not mean that parents par-ents should fret too much over whether Mary or Johnny gets the measles, whooping cough or other so-called children's disease, but by all means avoid exposing them to such maladies as long as possible. pos-sible. Diptheria and small pox are something else. They are extreme ly dangerous, and parents should have the .child immunized against diptheria before the ninth month and vaccinated against small pox during the first year. Some doctors advise immunization immuniza-tion against scarlet fever and whooping cough. There is merit in both, but these measures have not been, accepted generally by the public. It is a fact, however, that where immunization has been carried out systematically in. institutions, in-stitutions, scarlet fever has not been so prevalent. If it does appear, ap-pear, it shows up in a milder form. Tuberculin Test Is Important Young children are especially likely to contract tuberculosis if they come in contact with it from others in the home. Be certain that the milk supply is protected and that anyone in the home suspected sus-pected of having the disease is given a tuberculin test. The lives and health of many babies have been and will be saved now that syphilis is a wora which can be mentioned outside medical schools. Every person contemplating contemplat-ing marriage should have a blood test to determine whether they have syphilis. If the test is positive posi-tive they should place themselves under their private doctor or a clinic for intensive treatment. If you are an expectant mother it is doubly important that you should ' be tested again. Such a test may save your child from being born blind or with other LOVE POWER said, unnecessarily. "Did you hear her?" "Oh. Why yes." She wouldn't lie about it! "She sounded rather distressed, Bob. Naturally so, of course. At least, I thought I heard her voice indicate that, uh " ' "She will be all right. She is a brilliant woman. Girl. She is only 29. I mean, well, that's a woman, isn't it?" He smiled a bit. "Exactly when does a girl become a woman, come to think of it?" "I wouldn't take that up today if I were you. We still have a moving job on hand." "That's very true. And you were saying you had an idea." " fY idea was about moving 111 the X-999. It seems to me that the only safe place to store it is away out on the plains or mountains. moun-tains. You said you would need electric power to run the experimental experi-mental laboratory. I mean, while you and your helpers adapt the stuff to to factory engines, and trains, and automobiles, and whatever. what-ever. Isn't that so?" "Yes." "Bob, aren't there electric power pow-er lines from dams and'things on rivers? I saw in the movies, or read somewhere " "I see what you mean!" "Good! There's, well, Boulder Dam. That's in Arizona, isn't it? Mr. O'Malley at the bank used to talk about it. It's a long way from any city. But the electric line runs over mountains and things, and look, couldn't we maybe get the X-999 out there even before you had a laboratory built? Maybe store it in a cave to ease your mind? "Goodness, Bob, you'll have no peace as long as it stays in this city laboratory here, you know that. Any nearby farmhouse such as you first chose would be dangerous. dan-gerous. But away off " "That's the ticket!" Bob had hung one leg on a corner of her desk, half sitting, but he suddenly got up to walk back and forth as he did when intent on anything. "That's exactly the right hunch, Carolyn. You're a dream!" That startled her a bit. She looked quickly at him. But he was gazing off, planning. It had been simply a careless word of thanks. "POR another hour he did a great deal of thinking out loud. During Dur-ing that time he ordered maps brought in. He surveyed the western west-ern half of the United States w-ith minute care, measuring the distance dis-tance to cities, calculating mileages, mile-ages, estimating what his labora f '. A child should be immunized against diphtheria and small pox durini the first year, afflictions resulting from syphilis. In the 19 states requiring prenatal pre-natal blood tests and in the 10 states requiring premarital tests, the consensus among health" officers of-ficers is that such laws will lead to a definite reduction in number cf babies born with syphilis. Glydo Lon Didder On Ooad Project SALT LAKE CITY, April 23 i:.P W. W. Clyde and company of Springville 'submitted low bid of $383,896.65 for surfacing of 6.086 miles of U. S. highway 40 between Parley's canyon summit and Kimball Junction, the state highway commission announced Tuesday. The road will be widened to a four-lane military highway with a four-foot dividing strip. The Parley's summit-Kimball Junction section is the first link in a vast military highway system joining Salt Lake City with the east. Clifford Prince of Salt Lake City, with a $5908 quotation, was low bidder for construction of a wooden bridge on a secondary road in Duchesne county between Bridgeland and Upalco. COPYRIGHT. 1941. ME SERVICE. INC. tory needs would be out there and how best to meet those needs. "Okay, I shall catch a plane tonight," he suddenly announced, relaxing. "I don't know why I never thought of this myself. "I was reared out there, you know. I can" "Were you, Bob? In the West?" Carolyn showed new interest in him. He noddea. ,;In Colorado. B. S." degree from Colorado U. I'm practically a cowboy." He laughed at that. "My dad was an insurance insur-ance supervisor over two states out there. Transferred to Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania when I was 19. I really can ride, Carolyn. Could, I mean. When I had time. In the last year or two " He ended a bit wistfully, 'she thought. But she studied him anew. That rearing accounted lor a lot of iis physical appearance and his mannerisms. A boy from the West! "Of course, every conceivable care must be exercised in moving it and, of course, I shall do it myself." my-self." He was back at work again. "There must be no mistake mis-take this time. First thing, however, how-ever, is for me " TTE talked for nearly an hour more, talked and dictated notes, and planned with Carolyn' help. Eagerly, almost hungrily, he seemed to confide in bts secretary sec-retary here, to seek her counsel and advice, her co-operstion. She was touched by that; no man could have paid her highef tribute; at least, no employer could have. When it was done and he had returned to his own office desk and she was making her typewriter typewrit-er sing its hearty staccato again, she heard the outer loor open for the second time this morning. morn-ing. But it was a man's voice this time and she recognized it for one of the three elderly watchmen watch-men who made constant night-and-day patrol of the Schoenfeld Laboratory buildings, punching clocks and keeping guard. "Letter, Dr. Hale," the man said. "From Miss Sormi, sir." "Miss Sormi?" Carolyn heard Bob reply. "Why, she was just In here an hour or so ago. And her ofTice is only " He paused. "Hmmmm. Well, she sent it. She's the queer one anyhow, if you ask me. Never laughs, nor passes the time of day with us like you always do, sir. Say, when you gonri tell us what you got them cops guarding the main lab for, Dr. Hale? Danged if you ain't got my cu-ros"ty up!" The old fellow ended on a genial ge-nial chuckle, but he passed on when he saw that Bob was already al-ready intent on Leana's letter. (To Be Continued) I Was Thinking By ELSIE C. CARROLL. I was thinking while reading a book on "How to Read a Book," how much less most of us get out of our reading than it is possible for us to get. There are, of course. various reasons for reading. I remember hearing- a lecturer once say "Most people read to keep from thinking." Perhaps there are times when that is a worthy objective when to keep from thinking is what one needs more than anything else. At such times if reading does the task, that is all we need ask of it. But too often we use it as a substitute for thinking when we should be thinking at least reading thoughtfully. The author of "How to Read a Book," Mortimer J. Adler, considers con-siders reading as "a basic tool in the living of a good life." That is the kind of reading we should learn to do. Mr. Adler says that those who can use reading to learn from books as well as to be amused by them, not only have access to the stores of knowledge, but they can furnish their minds so that the prospect of hours spent alone is less bleak. They also enhance their powers of conversation con-versation and acquire an invaluable invalu-able power to make friends and give pleasure to others. This is in itself a significant reason for right reading; for most of us are not "finished conversationalists." We seem to have little to say after the trite comments on the weather and health. Because we lack the power to converse interestingly on worthwhile topics, we too often turn to gossip and scandal. Right reading helps to give the power to live more richly and to give more significantly to others. We should look upon each book worth reading-, Mr. Adler tells us. "as a large world, infinitely rich for exploration." We should become so well acquainted with that world that we can tell others about it as if we had lived in it, not merely heard a travelogue about it. To do this we must learn to read "actively" instead of "passively." One's success in reading depends upon how nearly .he gets all that the writer intended in-tended to communicate. The activity ac-tivity depends upon his ability to get, by the use of his own experience experi-ence and. his imagination, what the author .suggests, or gives indirectly. in-directly. Mr. Adler states it thus: "With nothing but the power of your own mind, you operate on the svmbols before you (printed words) in such a way that you gradually lift yourself from a state of understanding- less to a state of understanding more. So, to pass from understanding less, to understanding more, by your own intellectual effort, is reading; read-ing; and. as the author suggests, is something- like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. One college in the United States, St. John's at Annapolis, Maryland, Mary-land, is carrying on a most interesting inter-esting experiment in the matter of reading. There four years are piven to training students how "to read, write, reckon," and how to observe in a laboratory, at the same time they are reading the great books in all fields. They realize that "there is no point in trying to read these great books without developing all the arts needed to read them, and likewise like-wise that it is impossible to cultivate culti-vate these basic intellectual skills without at the same time Riving the students the right matter to exercise them on." Great books and the right reading of them at this college make the foundation founda-tion of the entire curriculum. The need for right reading is not of the institution of education alone. The public needs it even more. We all need to learn the truth; the profound verities that affect life have been recorded in great books and are waiting there to help us out of the difficulties of our time. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler declared that "Little that is being said and thought in the modern world is In any sense new. It was the colossal triumph of the Greeks and Romans and of the great thinkers of the middle ages to sound the depths of almost al-most every problem which human nature has to offer and to interpret inter-pret human thought and human sspiration with astounding profundity pro-fundity and insight." Thus, books, rightly read, , can effer solutions to the questions of our day. This does not mean that they cannot do much more also to enrich life. Cranium Crackers NAMES IX SPOUTS Names of some of the players in various fields of sport are almost al-most synonymous with the names of the sports themselves. Can you identify the (sport with which each of the following persons are associated asso-ciated ? 1. Lou Nova and Lou Gehrig. 2. Bobby Jones and Bobbv Riggs. 3. Sir Thomas Lipton and Tom Harmon. 4. Eleanor Holm and Eleancr Tennant. 5. Hank Luiset'tl and Hank Oreenberg. Answers on rage Eight RADIO STAR DIVORCE! RENO. Nev., April 23 '! !:)-Betty !:)-Betty Jane Wallington today divorced di-vorced James Wallington, announcer an-nouncer on the Fred Allen radio program. She charged the announcer an-nouncer was cruel. I |