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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) vDAILY: HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942 "Nafion M Vol IaPChasers? Mefal Saver FORUM ) ( 1 i ft f Krery ' Afternoon , Bscepttnf - Saturday and -. .i. '- . Sunday) : . . Sunday Herald Published 8undr. Morulas - Published by th' Herald Corporatlea, - It South First Wert Street.- Provo. Utah. Entered m ; second - rlue - matter at 1 the postolflcs In "Provo, Utah, under tha act of March i. 117. - GiUnan. NIcoi a.Ratnmsn, National Advert lain la-in representatives. New York, san Franclaco, Detroit. Boston, Los Anfelea, Chicago. " Member . United ?. Press, N. S. A. . Service, the Scrip pa Learae of Newspapara and Audit' Bureau of Circulation. . Subscription terms by carrier In Utah ..nfvKh-ertit the raontu. tl.M ."Toe six' Avmi--m' t&.7&'tlie viif. In advance: jNj jj?':" iiyiwfVT - by, mall ; In, county, .; ouiarae county ta.it the year, la advance.. . ' ' , The Herald will' not assume ' financial responsibility re-sponsibility i for any errors which may appear ln advertisement published la IU columns. In those lnatanceswhere tbe paper Is. at fault. It wlfl 'reprint that part of the advertisement la which"' the typographical miai,, oecure. ' "Liberty through . all the land' The Liberty Bell M The Fact of War Erases Theories. ' ' . A few years ago there was a wide difference of opinion in the United States about the - Philippines. Many people believed the United States should withdraw and let them .take theiri chances with Japan; Lilie so manyof the opinions we held a few short (months ago, such a belief has now gone up in smoke-the smoke of bombs over Manila. ; It would have been one thing to withdraw of our own free will a few years ago. It is quite another thing to be kicked out by the Japanese. It would have been one thing for anjn-dependent anjn-dependent Philippine state to fall to Japanese, aggression. It is quite an- other for a Philippine Commonwealth under direct United States protection to fall victim of a ruthless aggressor. ' " Whether it is possible to hold the islands against the present attack is a military question, and the answer is being rapidly hammered out on the swaying battle lines in the Batan Peninsula. Rut this thins: is certain: if the worst happens, and the Philippines are lost, the honor of the ' United States is, pledged to 'regaining them, cost what it may. For 40 years the United States has stood on its pledge that some day the Philippines should be free and independent... It is not going to back down now. .Our relationship to the Philippines is unique in colonial history. We did not-seek them. They came to us as a sort of byproduct of ttte Spanish War. When the shooting was over, we immediately im-mediately set up civil government, sent teachers and administrators to .stret-fethen it. . Within 20 years almost all civil servants of the island were natives. Within 30 years the Philippines had been- made a free commonwealth with an elective president and legislature. legis-lature. More than half the population-today is literate, and practically all of the 37,000 teachers in 11,000 free "public schools are Filipinos. A high degree of tolerance between its Moslem, Christian, and pagan residents resi-dents has been achieved. Agriculture, industry, and trade have flourished. All this has not been done to' ripen a plum for Japan. - - H To guarantee Philippine freedom is not altogether crusading altruism. The fact is that the only kind of a Pacific world in which the Philippines Philip-pines can safely be independent is the only kind of a Pacific world which can be free of a constant con-stant threat of war for the United States anyway. " . When the President gives the solemn sol-emn pledge of the United States that Philippine independence will be established es-tablished and protected, he has the nation behind him. In this, as in so many other matters, Japan has wiped off the slate such differences of opinion opin-ion as have existed. In this, as in so many other matters in which we once had or thought we had a choice, the ugly fact of war has left no choice. 1 This, too, must be seen through to the bitter end. u-ltutj-uvvlp anru-u-iri!i Voluminous Understanding Each of 13 Latin American countries coun-tries is to receive a collection of 5192 books selected by the Library of Congress. Con-gress. That many carefully chosen books, the library believes, will give their readers some understanding of economics, science, literature, art and life in ,the United States. Well, it' ought to do that, and the venture seems praiseworthy enough. But more understanding of the people of the United States will be spread through Latin America and the world by our conduct of the war than h by any other means available at pres- euu , oy Miuwuig ine. aDiuty, tne stamina, and the character to win through, we shall be presenting the world with , an ; object . lesson more eraijhic at this mrtmFif p - - v. Mil KIJKJ IYO. - - THE WASHINGTON MERRY -CO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going Ori In National Affairs By Drew; Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON The powerful . farm lobby, whose log-rolling deal with labor elements mutilated muti-lated to ineffectuklneas the anti-Inflation price control Mil in the House, Is again gunning for the price control measure. This time the lobby, boys are operating in the Senate where the legislation is pending before the Banking Committee. Thanks to the-abJe and courageous leadership of Senator Prentiss Brown, of Michigan, his subcommittee sub-committee put all the Hpuse-pulled teeth back into the bill and recommended that .'it' be approved ap-proved by the fun committee. With such an' endorsement, en-dorsement, favorable action is practically certain. Further, the restored bill has the strong backing back-ing of Senator Charles- MeNary, potent and astute Republican Floor leader. These factors gready strengthen .chances of passage by the Senate. And that would mean that the log-rolling combine , in the House would have to back down. But to forestall this possibility, the farm lobbyists lob-byists have cooked up1 a' neat scheme. They have started a, vigorous undercover pressure pres-sure drive to remove control of farm prices from the Office of Price Administration, headed by independent in-dependent Leon Hendeson, and place it ' in the Agriculture Department, where the lobby wields powerful inside political influence: If this is done, the practical effect would be to destroy the effectiveness of preventing run-away food prices. It would bie comparable to turning over, the fixing of indiistrial prices- to manufacturers. man-ufacturers. 1 The country may be at war, but the "gimmie" toys-are. still riding the gravy train. MORE DE-RUBBERING Further restriction on the Use of rubber is in the- offing. Likly to be banned are raincoats, overshoes, rubber bands, rubber toys, balloons and various everyday - items. The extent of the new curb is dependent upon the amount of saving the drastic tire rationing will produce. If too mucTi rubber is consumed in January, other rub ber articles will be put. on the proscribed list. BEAVERB ROOK'S WRONG HOST - The Secret Service-did a superb job in guarding guard-ing Winston Churchill and his staff during their historic Washington vvisit, but there was one em barrassing slip -up. Secretary Morgenthau invited his old friend Lord Beaverbrook to drop in at his home on Christmas Day. At the appointed hour, Beaverbrook Beaver-brook 'hopped into a Secret Service car and was driven to a handsome house in a fashionable residential resi-dential district. "I'm Beaverbrook," the British Supply Minister Min-ister said. "Come right in, Your Lordship," was the hearty welcome. "It's a pleasure and honor to have you call. I want you to meet my wife and daughter." After the introductions, Beaverbrook was served a. drink, and after a shtrt stay, expressed his thanks and departed still not knowing who his hospitable host was. Further, he still doesn't know to this day. , . ! Note On their second try the Secret Service men drove Beaverbrook to the Morgenthau mansion, man-sion, it- HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WASHINGTON Three ace Hollywood directors, including Frank Capra Who directed "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Washing-ton," are now going to Washington to join the army. Their job is to produce pictures to boost the morale of the men; also training films. Army brasshats finally have awakened? to the fact that the right kind of films can accomplish wonders for morale. Also they think a lot of short cuts can be taken in army training by visual education educa-tion through films. The Washington-bound Hollywood directors who are going to do this job are not going to be dollar-a-year men. They are actually putting on uniforms and going into the army. They are William Wyler who directed "The Little Foxes," "Dodswortn," "Wuthering Heights," and "Dead End"; also John Huston, who directed "The Maltese Falcon." He is the son of the famous actor Walton Huston. Finally, and already in Washington, is Frank Capra, born in Italy, intensely proud of his Americanism, Amer-icanism, and director of such f amousvpictures as "Lost Horizon," "The Bitter Tea of General Yen," Mr. Deeds Goei to Town," and "Meet John Doe." An army uniform is no new thing for Capra. He entered the last war as a private, came out a lieutenant. But the big question is whether the army will really make use of its Hollywood recruits. re-cruits. Will they be turned loose to make stirring morale pictures or will they be snarled in red" tape. When General Fred H. Osborn, chief of army morale, first was told Frank . Capra was available avail-able for duty, he looked bored, suggested a desk job. Then a few hours . later he woke up who Capra was, and rushed out to really put him to work, GOOD NEIGHBOR TRAIN ' Nelson Rockefeller is about to send a train to Mexico. And if it were possible, he would like to send trains all around the Latin-American circuit. He got the idea from Floyd Odium and his "Defense "De-fense Special" trains, which toured the country to tell the public what defense production meant. Why not do the same thing below the Rio Grande ? The imaginative minds in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Rockefeller) (Rocke-feller) snapped at it, and immediately began looking look-ing around for trains. They went to Richmond to see an Odium train, which they could have taken over after January; but it was a bit travel worn, and they decided to get up a new one. Rockefeller's Joseph C. Rovensky was assigned to the job. and plans were made for exhibits of tanks, anti-air-craft guns, jeeps, and the wide range of raw materials needed to produce defense equipment especially 'the raw material that comes from Latin- America. Mexico will be shown, for example, how her rubber, lead, copper, mercury, and jute are going into -the production of defense materials for the Hemisphere. - " (Copyright; ,194 f by '-United: Feature Syndicate, ----- Inc.) a 5 1 uS MA Sottkx. IN War Worries On Capitol Hill By PETER EDiSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 What to do with all the millions of patriotic citizens who are too old or too young or who have flat feet, bad eyes or something like that but still want to get in there and fight the Japs, Germans, and Italians is one of those problems One idea has been mentioned in cabinet circles but so far hasn't had much success. The proposal is to take all this good soldier material, ma-terial, enlist it for the duration of the war in a kind of CCC. Grant the same pay men in the regular services get. Then use this army as a reserve labor force. This army behind the lines would be organized in mobile units for assignment where there were labor shortages. The units could be assigned to third shifts and swing shifts in war industry plants working around the clock. ; Because of labor's opposition to the pay provisions, the idea probably prob-ably won t get anywhere, but it's a suggestion. Small Business a Big Worry ' Establishment of a small busi ness unit in the Department of Commerce now brings to six the number of government agencies worrying about this question. The other five are: Floyd W. Odium's contract dis tribution division of OPM is at the top of the, heap with a White House order creating it and giving it the job of spreading the work. There is a contract distribution in the office of the under-secre-ary of war. The Department of Justice has a small business unit in its antitrust anti-trust division. Senator James E. Murray, Butte, Mont., heads a special Senate Sen-ate investigating national defense, de-fense, which has interested itself on behalf of the little fellow. All that is needed to completely complete-ly confuse the issue is the appointment appoint-ment of a co-ordinator of government govern-ment agencies investigating, studying, recommending, and trying try-ing to do something about small business. He could be known for short as the COGAISTRATTD-SASB. COGAISTRATTD-SASB. Civil Aeronautics Authority is interested in checking up in more detail on who rides around in chartered airplanes and why. New regulations require the pilots of all hired planes to inspect the baggage bag-gage of their passengers. That doesn't .apply to commercial planes yet, but on all flights cam- AUNT HET By ROBERT qghixn . "Church" uplifts me even If it's a .poor sermon.'- -It makes" me feel respectable to be among so many folks eras must be checked in compartments compart-ments inaccessible to passengers during the flight. Additional regulations regu-lations are coming. How Nazis Got Aluminum- ;One hitherto untold chapter in ,the long story of how Germany began to fight economic warfare as soon as Hitler took over is revealed in Department of Justice investigations of the world alumi num cartel. Soviet Russia and the United States aluminum com panies weren't in on the original trust agreement of 1931, .but the rest of the world was taKen in. uv eluding Canada, Great .Britain, France, and other principal producers. pro-ducers. In 1932 they agreed to limit production to 50 per cent of caDaciv. which amounted to an actual cut of about 25 per cent. In 1934. Hitler begain building ud the German army and air force and he needed aluminum Through the German member of the cartel, the idea was put over that while the German gov ernment didn't want to upset the world trade restrictions of the in dustry, it had to have more alum inum. It was proposed that Germany Ger-many be allowed to produce above the cartel requirements, but solely for use in Germany and not tor ex port." Furthermore, for every Dound of aluminum produced in Germany above the cartel quotas, the German government would buy another pound of aluminum from the non-German members of the cartel. By this slick trick, the German government secured the rights to unlimited production in Germany, curtailed the Production in her po tential enemy, countries, and bought up the surpluses of those countries. The net result was that if, from 1934 to 1939, France hadn't made an aluminum pot, pan, vacuum cleaner or automobile automo-bile part, she still could not have produced enough aluminum for planes to match the German re armament extort. Cranium Crackers CONGRESSIONAL QUIZ " Civilian leaders as well as Ar my and Navy commanders are im portant in wartime. Can you supply sup-ply the answers to these questions about Congress and some or its members? 1. Senator Tom Connally of Texas heads the committee which sponsored war declarations in the Senate. Name the committee. 2f The Republican and Demo cratic leaders of the House are from the same state. Who are they and from what state do they come? 3. What outspoken senator, an isolationist leader up to the bombing bomb-ing of Pearl Harbor, ' has offered his services to the Army? 4. Will bills to raise money to fight the war be introduced in the House or- Senate ? 5. How has Rep-John Dingell of Michigan figured" in the war news? , Answers on Page Seven Republicans Name Arizona Novelist Publicity Mar WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 UJ? The Republican National committee commit-tee today has a new executive and publicity director Clarence Bud-ington Bud-ington Kelland, the author. Kelland, a member of the committee com-mittee from Arizona, was assistant assist-ant eastern manager of the 1940 Willkie campaign in charge of publicity.- He was appointed last night to replace Franklin Walt- man who resigned recently to. reenter re-enter newspaper Wjprk., v ..,: All Must Realize Situation Critical Editor Herald: - Since America is at war let every one of us realize that we are fighting for the very 'existence of our nation. Let every citizen calmly and earnestly take stock, to determine how he can best 'help to further what is now our universal uni-versal task to win that war. to win it as speedily as possible," and to win it with a minimum of suffering suf-fering and death. Let those who have to do the watching and waiting do so in such a manner that it will make a further service' to our nation. Let us not be hypercritical of every move that ' Is made. ' Let us not repeat' tales of. gossip. Let us not spread the poison called fear. Rather, let us be real, honest-to-God, stand-up-and-take-it meri- cans. Let us shun the rumors and the gossip.- Let us take the losses with the wins, keeping our chin up and our minds clear and steady. Let us give a helping hand here. give a kind word there. Let us accept our changed conditions, shoulder . the sacrifices, meet the need, and keep going. Let labor work like our soldiers fight. Let women knit and sew and sing a song' of cheer. Let s have an all-out all-out for victory. Let us do these things and providence helping us we cannot lose. PAUL BRIGHT. -) i; mm "mi California will provide more metal for national defense by using old automobile license tags with "economy strip license,'' li-cense,'' shown above by Emma McGuigan of San Francisco. Stripe slip over old date. ianScience Church The North Star 'is gradually moving toward the point of "true north." Valce Up, Americans! Wake up. Americans! Ameri-cans! Make America's answer roar out over the world. Every citizen must back the United States Army and Navy to victory back tbem with work and money. Do your part: Buy United "States Defense Bonds and Stamps at your post office, bank, or savings and loan association. Get Defense Stamps at your retail re-tail store or from the carrier boy of this newspaper. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE The Allnees of God Is asserted. "GOD Is the subject of the last Lesson Sermon Among the Scriptural references are: "And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, outof the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." (Ex. 20: 1-3). "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." (Deut. 5: 6). The following excerpts are taken from Science and Health with Key, to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: "Question. What is God? Answer. God is incorporal, divine Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. Question. Are there terms synonymous? Answer. They are. They refer to the absolute God. They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and wholeness whole-ness of Deity. The attributes of God are justice, mercy, goodness, and so on" (p. 465: 1-15). "One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood brother-hood of man; ends wars; fulfills the Scripture "Love thy neighborhood neighbor-hood as thyself;" annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry; whatever is wrong in social, civil and religious re-ligious codes annuls the curse on man, and leave nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destrov- ed." (p 340: 23-27). SERIAL STORY HIS CHRISTMAS CAROL 8Y ADELAIDE HAZELTINE COPTWICKT. ?et. NCA SERVICE. INC- SALAZAB CONFERS ABOUT AZORES BERLIN, Jan. 3 (CBl (Official broadcast recorded by the United PreStf- to -New York ) President DrJ Olivelra Salazar was reported in Lisbon ' dispatches today to have i conferred in his .capacity as minister of war with the military commander of Horta, the Azores. The undersecretary for war and the chief, .ofthe general staff of the Portguguese army also were present. . . . , . THH STOBYi The teraui f Aa-4rw Aa-4rw Dearborn's will Bpeelfytaa; that hi aeeretarT' Carol, aad five other eat ploy ea, aha 11 ( whether or aot hia playhoy aoa Aaay la rinlar the boalaeaa ae-eordlaa: ae-eordlaa: to hla father' poUey of "aervlee to the people," pat Carol, who haa loved Aady alaee Kirl-hood, Kirl-hood, la a difnealt apot.-Her heart alaka whea Aady. earreatly Involved In-volved with aleek Llada Jallaa, taras amaaaiceaieat over to na-aerepaloaa na-aerepaloaa Mr. Herrlck. whose oaly Idea Is to make aaoaey. Her rlek blames employe Bill Reeee for the taylaad elevator aeeldeat that lajarea aewsboy NIeky. Her rlek also takea credit far eaaa adjaatmeats made to easterners by Carol wlthoat hla kaowledare, la aa effort to aave ths stare's repatatloa. At the aaaaal store Earty Aady kisses Carol, ladleates e Is tkroark with Llada. Next day Carol Sads the will's eavelop la the vaalt. hat the will la kmc Herrlek thea area her for writ las; m retlremeat eheek for aa employe he haa dlamlsaed. althoairh aaala ahe waa oaly (ollowlaar the Dear-bora Dear-bora policy. Retaralae; to the atore for a Sle ahe haa fora;ottea. ahe overhears Aady telUaa; Herrlck Her-rlck he kaowa the trath a boat the elevator aeeldeat aad the .adjastmeats Carol haa made. Herrlek thea says he kaowa the whereahoata of the will, tries to blackmail Aady lata lettlaa; him -raa the store aad fonrettiaa; tta terme. Aady aaka for timet Carol feara he lateada to asrea to the ropositlaa. SEARCH AT NIGHT CHAPTER XVI iJKE fact that Mr. Herrick had told Andy the 'will was still in existence gave Carol new hope. Maybe she could find it Provided Andy didnt let Mr. Herrick destroy it first! She would have until Saturday morning. She was reasonably sure of that. ' But where would she look? Where, in a store like Dearborn's, would a man hide a will? In the end she decided she would have to search the store at night. It was her only chance. And her time was " limited. Once Andy gave . an affirmative answer and signed the contract, the will would be burned. Both Mr. Herrick and Andy would see to that . She must find it before it was destroyed. She must find it tonight! to-night! 7 .No one would think it odd that she should come to the store . to make a late purchase nor would they bother to 'notice that she didn't go out with' the last shoppers. shop-pers. She Could hide on an upper floor, make her search and. then let hersell out atidide'dobr.,.?- It waV that easy J When - the closing bell rang she was crouched behind a little used case on the sixth floor. She had taken pains to choose one where there were no windows to be closed and no lights to be turned off. After endless minutes she heard' the last salesperson go down the stairs and dared to straighten up. The night watchman was her only worry now. He made his rounds on the hour. She knew his schedule. It would be fairly sample to avoid him it she kept tab'on her wrist watch... Her plan was well in mind. When Mr., Herrick found the will in the vault he would have carried car-ried it to his office on the second floor. There he would have read it, realized its possibilities and hid den it somewhere neutral and safe. Not in his own office. That would probably be the last place she would look. f AROL had remembered to bring a flashlight and used it now. She would search all the general office files first Then the small safes where various records "were kept She would pry into the desk of Mr. Herrick's as sociates on the theory he might have planted it on one of them so he would be blameless if the will were discovered. ' - i Carol went about her task me thodically. She was in the general offices, thumbing through the files when she heard the watchman's steps. She had been too engrossed in her work to remember the time. Panicky, she "slipped behind the tall metal case and flattened her self against it then heard the man enter the room, saw the beam of his flash as he surveyed the emp ty desks. - ' She held her breath! If she were caught she'd be in real trouble. Even the finding of the, will could not explain this! . The, footsteps approached her hiding place, hesitated. She was too frightened to -think.' She could only ' feel fear 'inching down her spine,- freezing, her. - -- ' i . Then, C miraculously,; the -1 feet . turned back! Thank heavens! Hehadntseen he. She was safe again! . She waited until he was gone to the next floor before she risked moving, deciding not to be careless care-less another time. ' The files contained no clew. Where now? ; Mr. Herrick's office was about the only chance left 'It was im-probable, im-probable, that he would hide the will .there but it wasn't impossible. impossi-ble. She'd leave no' place un-searched. un-searched. . jyiNE-THIRTY. Half hour fore the watchman started his next round. Cautiously, she made her way to the second floor to Mr.. Herrick's office. She would start with his desk. The drawers were filled with re ports, expense records and the usual miscellany of any office man. Extra pencils, a box of cigars, ' some paper clips, a note pad. She - fingered them all, watching for the folded white paper that would be the wilL Then she checked his personal files. Having read stories where valuable papers were concealed in " the back of pictures on the wall, -, she began to remove those, look-' ing for evidence of tampering. - v . She had the largest one in her hands when she heard the noise. ' It was only a rustle, a stir of air ' But it was foreign to the silence of the quiet store. Carol, stiffened, not daring to move to hang the picture back in v its place, finally managed to lean over and push the button on her flashlight to. extinguish its beam.' : Waiting she could hear the sec onds ticking on her wrist watch, feel the rasp of breath as it tore up and down her throat Her lungs seemed to swell and burst The movement ' came again. nearer this time. It was no long- ' er a swish. It was the sound of leather treading on wood. It was stealthy feet ; - A .hand slid along the wall, feel ing for the switch. - ' Then, blinding light flooded the office.." --. '. - " x'x'. -, She was. caught! " :--)' . .(To Be Concluded) . 41 |