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Show PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, : WEDNESDAY" JANUARY 7, 1942 PAGE FOUR Give ThatGeritl Many Americans Active In 'German -Gbritrbled' Business r. 1 i 1 k-- ' . ... , u , : i Bret? Aftaraoo (Exeaptla ' Saturdaj d 0oada.r Harald PnbUahat Sunday Hornln s " Publlabad by tha Herald" Corporation. I Soutb First West Btroat, Prove. Utah. ' Bntorvd a- second clan mattar at tba poatofflca In , Proro, Utah, ondar tha act ot March I, II 7 i. OUmu, Nlcol aV Rothman, National Advents-. Advents-. lag rapraaantaUTea, Maw York. Ban Franclaco, Detroit, Boston, Vom Angelas, Chicago. " afomber. United Press, K. B. A. Service. - the Borlpps League of Newspapers . and Aodlt Bureau of Circulation. mi "Liberty throucn all the land" The Uberty Bell Subscription terms by carrier la Utah county, 10 ' cents tha month. . for al tnenths. In advance; IS.TS tha year. In advance; by mall In county, fS.tO; ontalde county II.7I the year In advance. , ,; ' !. The Herald will not assume financial responsibility re-sponsibility for any errors arhlcb may appear In advertisements published In its columns. la those Instances where the paper Is at fault. It will reprint that port of the advertisement In wnlch the typographical mistake occurs. War Is a Matter of Faith War is a matter of faith. War is not a chess game in which men sit in favored nooks of safe withdrawal with-drawal and solve abstract problems. ' War is not a balance of forces, in which some geometrical ratio between be-tween the productive power of one group is balanced out on a sheet of white paper against the productive power of another and the whole resolved re-solved into a balanced equation. War is not entirely factory against factory, gun against gun, plane against plane, though those are vital. War today is not color against color, or race against race, or even nation, against nation in the sense in which that was .understood a few years ago. It is also men against men. War is faith. We have , today a conflict of faiths, as we have'had so many times in the world's past, s i We are going to win this war, for many reasons. Not alone because we will pile up the greatest mound of munitions, though that will help, though it is indispensable. Not alone because we-have at our disposal the greatest natural resources, though that will help,' and that, too, is indispensable. indis-pensable. We are going to win this war because be-cause "we have faith that we must win. " .We are going to win because we have faith that the things we fight for are good, and needful to men. We are going to win because we shall cleave mightily to our faith. i The other side believes it is or dained to establish a superiority over other men. The German and the Jap anese believe (the Italians do not really believe it) that they are somehow some-how chosen to dominate others. We believe in the right of the others to rule themselves. We wish dominion over none. The other side believes man is a puppet, a cog, a unit. We believe man is a personality, a soul, a collaborator. We believe he is competent to get together to-gether with his fellowmen and to rule himself. That is the difference. Y We have our faith. They have theirs. Which faith shall prove stronger? strong-er? Which faith shall persevere? Which faith is just and right? Which faith deserves to live? The guns are necessary. The tanks, and the planes are necessary. The industrial production is neces-sairy. neces-sairy. The whole material panoply of victory is necessary. But in addiction, addi-ction, there is needed faith, faith un bending and undying that what we struggle for is worth survival. That is the faith that will carry us to victory. Pearl Harbor The wounded from Pearl Harbor Har-bor are arriving in the United States. It is a spectacle to which the rest of the' world has long been inured China knows it, and Britain, and Germany, Ger-many, and Italy, and Russia. We must steelourselves to this and like things. That is what war means. .: ,The wounded from Pearl Harbor, however, have given their lives or their bodies to a cause that is worth i defending, worth suffering for. In the month in .which they sustained" their injuries or k met death, a still greater number of people were struck down by traffic injuries which were no less : terrible and all for nothing. We are suffering nearly 4000 traffic casual- : ties a month, resulting in deaths as permanent, in wounds as ghastly, : as those of Pearl Harbor and for noth-ing. noth-ing. - . f ; W6 cannot spare any more in these days the toll of the road, the dead who produce nothing, the wounded who suffer. The snuffed-out snuffed-out lives, the broken hoodies, of those whom the automobile has crushed, are i given for nothing at all, a mere sacrifice sacri-fice to our national Moloch of carelessness. THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND - A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON The American public already al-ready haa had a tough blow in regard to the use of automobile tires. But the Inside figures indicate indi-cate that the blow will be even tougher in the future. The production of synthetic rubber for tires, begun by Germany several years before the war, in this country now totals only between 7,865 and 10,000 tons for an entire year. Moreover, the new synthetic rubber factories, fact-ories, financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, will not get into production until April, at the earliest, and most of them not until un-til August. And when finished, their total production pro-duction will .be only 48,000 to 50,000 tons yearly Thus, a year from -today, we may possibly havea total of 60,000 tons of synthetic rubber if we are lucky; if the plants are finished ahead of schedule; and if they produce a little taster than is expected. Conpare this 60,000 tons to the 720,000 tons of rubber consumed by the United States .during the past year, and you get. some idea why Leon Henderson was so abrupt f and tight-lipped about clamping dewn on tire , consumption. RUBBER FACTS Here are the new synthetic plants under construction and their schedule of completion: Goodyear, completed April-May, 10,000 tons capacity; ca-pacity; Goodrich, completed late August, 10,000 tons; Firestone, completed August, 10,000 tons; U.S. Rubber, completed August, 10,000 - tons; Standard Oil of 'La. (private financing),, completed com-pleted late 1942, 8,000 to 10,000 tons; DuPont (private financing), completed late 1942, 10,000 tons. . In addition, the RFC announced last week that plants capable of producing 80,000 more tons would be sponsored by the government. But with the entire nation in a race to get defense de-fense materials, these plants will take another year to get tnto production even if then.. Thus, unless we are able to send tremendous tremend-ous labor battalions to the jungles of the Amazon Ama-zon and here the scarcity of shipping is important impor-tant it will be seen that the United States has in effect suffered an economic Pearl Harbor. And like Pearl Harbor, the rubber defeat came about largely because we were caught napping, ; "BOTTLENECK" JESSE Complacent, genial Jesse Jones, whose job it was to lend the money for these synthetic rubber factories, was questioned recently as to why he had not been more far-sighted. His reply re-ply was: "Hindsight is always better than foresight." fore-sight." However, since we have many other lessons to learn in this war, and since the first President Presi-dent of the United States advised his countrymen country-men to "look . back for the purpose of profiting by Dear Bought Experience", it is worth looking at the record on rubber. The record, as written in the WASHINGTON WASHING-TON MERRY GO-ROUND, shows that as early as July 13, 1940, eighteen months ago, Edward Stettinius, who had been woefully wrong . on aluminum and didn't want to be wrong again, announced that before the end of July, "it Is expected a plan for synthetic rubber production will have been worked out which in the future will eliminate our dependence upon imports." In that same month, Emil Schram of the . RFC, lived up to Stettinius' announcement by working out a plan with Goodrich and Phillips Petroleum to finance a rubber plant capable of producing 100,000 tons yearly, which at that time was about one-sixth of our consumption. However, Jesse Jones, who as Federal Loan Administrator, Ad-ministrator, outranked RFC Chief Schram, stopped the deal. The plan fell through, and Schram, Jts gusted with interference and procrastination, later resigned. Six months passed. And Stettinius prediction predict-ion that we would work out plans to become independent of the Dutch East Indies remained only in the paper stage. STETTINIUS TEARS HAIR On December 8, 1940, this column reported: "A fundamental difference exists between the Defense Commission and Jesse Jones. The commission com-mission believes that production of synthetic rubber should begin immediately, and wants a subsicbr of . 1 180,000,000 to American rubber 1 companies. "However Jesse Jones doesn't believe synthetic syn-thetic rubber needs to be produced on a large scale. The defense commission counters with' a forecast of what might happen should all our rubber be cut off from the Dutch East. Indies. It emphasizes that machinery cannot be set up overnight. Stettinius is really aroused, may appeal app-eal to the White House of he doesn't soon move . Jesse." ; . Again on Feb. 12, 1941, the MERRY-GO-ROUND reported: "Stettinius is almost tearing his hair over the ponderous patience of Jesse Jones. In October, Jesse said that the RFC might construct a government synthetic rubber plant, but in January he said he : had 'shifted 4 back to the idea of, lending , money to private ? companies. But still later in. the same .month,' he announced that synthetic rubber is ; in the 'status quo'. ' ; . There the situation restjr 'waiting for Jesse- Jones to do something. Meanwhile, the, chance of Japanese taking the v Dutch East Indies becomes greater." - - . Finally, on May 16, 1941, just one. year after' Roosevelt asked the Defense Commission to do something about rubber. Mr. Jones announced a loan to four rubber companies to manufacture pilot plants. The loan was not $180,000,000 , as requested by the Defense ' Commission, . but r a i meager $1,250,000 tox each s company. Jesse was being a good banker to the end.. Today, however, his nickname In Washington is not.i?Banker"k Jones, but "Bottleneck" Jesse Jones. : i Note: During the months of argument over whether to build or not -to build synthetic rubber plants, half a dozen chiefs of the OPM rubber section have . resigned in - disgust, after' demanding drastic action in . view of the situation situat-ion in the Pacific. .;;;sK.:'v.v.i-;., -' (Copyright, 19, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Inipicut -The Crazy Ute (From the files of the Utah Writers' Project WPA) their horses abode. back to his former White settlers in the Uintah j Basin in 1886, first decided that there was a quirk in the mind of Inipicut, a young Indian boy, when he submitted to having his hair cut by the government echool teacher at Whiterocks without the howling, screaming and fighting which had become traditional for all Indian students first shorn. In- He went on sulking, both among his own people and the Whites. By the time he reached his eighteenth eigh-teenth birthday, he had become an iconoclast of the first water, refusing re-fusing to abide by either tribal or White customs and rules. Members of both races, intent on showing him the light of reason, rea-son, were - met with a hall ; of rocks, clubs, or anything which happened to be at hand. He liked sleeping in the sun and eating; no one ever saw him do any work, or attempt anything other than fill his belly. He stole food from White and Indian alike. Like the unsupported revolutionist in, any civilization, he was deemed a menace men-ace to an scoiety, and was at length expelled from the tribe, taking tak-ing up a solitary abode in the Hills. Relatives from the tribe attempted at-tempted to sut?ply him with clothes and a shelter, but he burned the blankets and the tepee, preferring to forage for himself. As the years rolled on, Inipicut-developed Inipicut-developed an amazing resistance to the elements, often Bleeping burrow animal-like in snow drifts, or lying near-naked on the frozen surface. It is reported that several sev-eral times passing whites chopped his hair loose when it had become frozen to the ground. After a few years, Iniciput abandoned all clothing, refusing even to wear a breach clout. The naked savage so upset the region that government agents attempted to take hljm to the- asylum at Provo. During the journey he escaped and out-ran For more than 25 years, Iniciput Inici-put maintained his exile in the hills two mires north of White-rocks, White-rocks, ranging over the countryside country-side in search of food, and shunning shun-ning the society of hie fellows. He died in 1917, and like so many rugged individualists whose mental men-tal working remain a mystery to the world, his life has passed into tlie limbo of legend, and many fantastic fan-tastic tales of his exploits circu- ipicut, only scowled' and "Z I It is reported that he could outrun out-run any human ever known, and many times distanced horses, evtn on short laps. Native whites in the region, maintain that he had one t5me murdered a member of his tribe', and that this long exile was1 fn expiation of his crime. The Indians of today carefully avoid the spot where Iniciput's ragged tepee stood for so many year 3, answering all queries With "Heap bad spirit live there." AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILEJDf Let Your Answer to Bombs Be We are fighting enemies who will stop at nothing. With our homes, our very lives at stake, shall we stop short of giving our dimes and dollars for. Defense? Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps every day, every week. , Buy as if your very' life depended "upon it. It does! , , FUNNY BUSINESS - ' a f " . A ' - 'WW a Ot -. ,ys'. . ' :. A. T NCA SOVtCl IHC T M 5 V. 1 T Off. 1teyre trying wreck the niorale of my squad agaial "Jane shouldn't brag about her fancy new bath rcom. It reminds folks of what a time she has makin her husband take a bath." Hospital Facts Q. How can I get hospital service ser-vice under this plate If I happen to be away from home when accident ac-cident or illness comes upon me t A. The plan will pay to another hospital to the extent of $4.00 a day for yourself and wife, up to 21 days of care for expenses incurred in-curred in any hospital anywhere to which either of you may have been admitted by a reputable physician during such accident or emergency illness while away from home. In case of your dependents, however, the payment will be $3.00 a day instead of $4.00, up to 21 days. - Q. Suppose I had received IS day care in some other hospital, how maray more days would 1 be entitled to service in our own Utah Valley hospital? A. You would be entitled to 21 days altogether, regardless of where you might have received it. Longer periods than 21 days at home would be subject' to the S3 1-3 rper cent discount; x; Q. Is there any conflict between this hospital service plan and the group hospital and surgical benefit bene-fit plans now In operation In Provo covering a number of different groups who are paying premiums to various insurance companies t A. No. The two forms of protection pro-tection do not conflict, but rather supplement each other, and altogether alto-gether offer that much additional protection to .those so unfortunate as to become ill. Various insurance insur-ance rpolicies have different clauses describing, the benefits obtainable, and it would be wise to study your own policy if you have one, . to determine exactly what those benefits bene-fits are. In general, it might be said that the Hospital Service plan would take care of your hospital bill Immediately while the additional addi-tional coverage offered by your Insurance In-surance policy ' could be used for other expenses which accumulates faster in times of illness. Usually, the insurance company requires only, that proof be furnished as to your having been hospitalized,- but does not pay the hospital bill direct. di-rect. They pay . you .a , stipulated sum under' certain' stated condi tiona This protection is yours -by reason of your payment of certain premiums The hospital service plan is a direct contact with the hosptlal . ' v- ; -".'-V-' . -- . ovrAjo. x wur own jiciwnai ques tions regarding the Hospital Service Ser-vice Plan win be . answered bj phctning 245 or calling uponrD.- O. Wight, director, whose offlae is on the main floor of the Farmers and Merchants bank. - ,v . By Peter Edson Daily Herald Washington , Correspondent i WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 Names j of three prominent New Dealers all at one time and- another close to the White House have bobbed up in high places on the councils of General Aniline and Film Corporation, recently indicated indi-cated by a federal grand jury in New York City along with its parent company, the I. G. Far-benindustrie Far-benindustrie or German dye trust. The three are: Judge John EL Mack, Poughkeep- sie, N. Y., Dutchess county neigh bor of President Roosevelt, who just a- short time before the indictment in-dictment was elected General Aniline Ani-line and Film Corporation presi dent. ; William C. Bullitt, Roosevelt ambassador hither and yon, who was elected a director of G.A.F. at the sam&ateme Mack was made president. The Hon. Homer Stille Cum-mings, Cum-mings, ' Roosevelt's former attorney attor-ney general who since his resignation resig-nation from the cabinet has been a hot-shot lawyer in Washington, New York and Connecticut. Cum min gs is now councel for General Aniline and Film. It should be made clear at the beginning there are no charges against Judge Mack or Ambassador Ambassa-dor Bullitt, and the connection of Homer Cummings with the case is 'entirely in keeping with the highest high-est ethical traditions of the legal profession. He is simply a lawyer out to earn himself another fee and in his conferences with the Justice Department on this case, the anti-trust division lawyers are most careful they don't stub their toes on another incident like that involving another German Dye ' trust sutfidiary, Sterling Products, Inc. Tnis firm thanks to high pressure activities of another an-other New Dealer now practicing law in Washington, Thomas G. Corcoran was whitewashed. ALL. EX-NAZIS All the individuals named in the indictment against General Ani- lineand Film are ex Germans, line and Film are ex-Germans, A. Schmitz, president of G. A. F. until Judge Mack's recent elec tion, is a brother of the Herman Schmitz of Berlin who Is head of I. G. Farben and reportedly one of the wealthiest and most in fluential men in Germany a man who will still be rich and world' powerful after Hitler is licked and gone; Wilhelm H. von Rath, G.A.- F. secretary, another naturalized American, son and heir of one of the German Dye trust founders; Hans W. Aichelln, G. A. F. vice president, another naturalized American. These are the princi pal persons indicted, i . .v Where Judge Mack and Am bassador Bullitt come into the picture is through the staging of a sham battle within the G. A. F. organization, a battle in which it is made to appear the company is rid of its German control and is now run 100 per cent for U. S. interest by 100 per cent Americans Ameri-cans possessing the unquestioned patriotism and loyalty of Judge Mack and Ambassedor Bullitt and represented by such distinguished council as the ex-attorney general, the Hon. Homer Stille Cummings. Aniline and Film Corporation will result in 100 per cent production for the good of " the country in wartime. G. A. F. Is the second largest manufacturer of photo graphic equipment in- the United States and one of the three largest larg-est ' manufacturers of dyes and chemicals used in textiles, paints, leather goods and plastics. Much of its output, eventually finis its way into material used by the war industries. It is Essential a company of this size and character remain in American control, not only during the war but after. And no matter . what kind of window- dressing is shown to the public in the form of super-patriot directors direct-ors and officers, the fact remains that 85 per cent of the common stock of G. A. F. is owned by a Swiss company which is controlled control-led by I. G. Farbenindustrie of Germany. Profits from the operation of firms like these would even now be going to Germany if it were not for freezing of German funds. it would not apply, of course to the funds of naturalized Americans Ameri-cans like the original panel of G. A. F. officers and directors, nor . would it apply to transfers of funds to neutral Switzerland. More alarming than even this profit motif, however, are the potentialities which tie-ups such as this offer for espionage on American . war preparations. Doing Do-ing business with the war industries, indus-tries, German - controlled firms have a natural and easy access to what goes on and where. Curbing Curb-ing this form of industrial spying is as important as preventing sabotage. . Young Traffic Violators Work to Repay Parents MIAMI, Fla. OLE) Making lawn-mower lawn-mower chauffeurs out of young wayward drivers is tho latest idea of Sgt. Mack Oakford. head of the police, juvenile aid bureau here, whose job includes keeping' youthful youth-ful motorists in line.' . When Sergeant Oakford permits parents to pay the fine of juvenile offenders, he insists they be reimbursed re-imbursed by the guilty driver either by working at home or by having it taken out of his aow-ance. aow-ance. So, when a Miamian' sees the boy next door mowing" the .lawn like he never did before, the chances are he is paying mother or dad the rrice of a traflic ticket. BOOST WAR PRODUCTION " It is entirely possible that this effort to Americanize General Cranium Cracker WEATHER BLACKOUT Publication of certain weather reports has been stopped to block efuiMtf orpia,ti0n Jtpm, e my. That, however, is- no reason you should not ' know ""the ' answers an-swers to these questions about the elements. 1. Does the . sun's reaching its northernmost point mark the beginning be-ginning of summer? - , ;- 2. Explain the .difference between be-tween a hurricane, tornado "and typhoon." " , 3. What was Mark Twain's famous fa-mous remark about the weather? 4. What did the weather have to do with the English defeat of the Spanish 'Armada? 5. Is 32 degrees Fahrenheit the freezing point for alcohol, mercury, mer-cury, .water or gasoline T Answers on Page Seven POPULAR COMEDIAN HORIZONTAL 1 Partner of pictured comedian. Bud . 6 Pictured comedian, Lou . 13 Concern. V 14 Complete. 15 Pound (abbr.) 17 Relative. v 18 Animal. lfrFather. 20 Boat saddle. 22 Part of "L" 41 Measure of 23 Harp-like area (pi.) . ; instrument. 42 Pints (abbr.). 24 Occupy seat 44 Brood of 25 Bird. young. 27 Bottom of foot 47 Era. 28 Mollusks. 48 Compass 30 Plants for" point ! steel-makinfi. 49 Journey. 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