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Show SECTION TWO PAGE . FOUR PRO VP TOTAHf DAILY - HERALD. RIDAY.? ITANUARY 16, 1932 (l HVV: Met I II II II II .l,v 1 IA II "-' :!. -,r- saw v v ft i u l saw r 1 i a a j ft naaBBBBBBBBaBaaaaaasni i i i Krtrjr Afternoon (Bxceptln Saturday and - Sunday) . Sunday Herald Published Sunday Morulas ' Published by the Herald Corporation, South First West Street, Provo, Utah. Entered S as second class matter at the postofflcs In Provo. Utah, under tba act of March S, 1171. Oilman, Klcol A- Botbman, National Adertle-- Adertle-- Ins representatives. New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Lot Angeles, Chicago. - Member United Press, N. JB. a. Serrlce, r' the Scrlppa i- Leacue of Newspapers and '- Audit Bureau of Circulation.' "Liberty through all the . land" The Uberty - Bell Subscription term by carrier la Utah county, S cent the month, ll.Ot for U , months. In advance; f 5.71 the year. In advance; , by mail In county $5.00; ou tilde county 11.71 i the yes In advance. . ... The Herald will not- assume financial responsibility re-sponsibility for any errors which may appear In advertisements published In Its columns. In those Instances where the paper Is at fault. It will reprint that part of the advertisement In which the typographical mistake occurs. Expect the .Unexpected It is fun to predict the future, especially espe-cially if anybody takes your prediction predic-tion seriously enough to read it But it is unsafe, and a good many experts have already founfr this out to their embarrassment. Therefore, this will be an editorial without a single prediction. We don't know what is going to happen in the next six weeks or six months, or six years. And neither does anybody else. If prediction of the results of a war were possible with any accuracy, it would really be unnecessary to fight the war. The factors making for victory would be so cleanly and clearly stacked on one side that there would be no point in fighting at all It is the fact that the result is uncertain uncer-tain that makes it necessary to fight itout to see who was right. Americans tend to go on the easy assumption that the United States cannot possibly lose the war. That is quite a different thing from a firm faith and belief that we can win if we fight hard enough, that we must win if it takes our last cent, our last drop of blood. The bland assumption that we are so big, so powerful, that we can't possibly' lose, no matter what we do or do not do; is a fearful state of mind for people to get into. Obviously the Japanese think they can win; otherwise other-wise they would not have launched the war. The talk that it was all a desperate attempt to plunge the Japanese Jap-anese people into some strange form of Oriental suicide is all nonsense. The Japanese military lords have laid their plans craftily, and, weighing their force against ours, they think they can win. up to now, they have scarcely lost- a trick; their raid on Hawaii, their campaigns in the Philippines Philip-pines and in Malaya, have been car ried on with military efficiency, no matter what one thinks of their mor alitv. They suggest that the Japanese ; belief in victory is not based entirely, in opium smoke. This is not talking defeatism. This is merely saying that future events are unknown; that in the nature of war things happen which no one ex-' pected; that there is nothing about the latent power or situation of any land, our own included, that guarantees guaran-tees victory without the stern, efficient, effi-cient, determined fighting that alone brings victory. . We must have faith in ultimate victory vic-tory that will carry us through whatever what-ever disappointments and setbacks await us (and they await all nations who engage in a major war) . And we must have the courage to back up that faith in' action, steadily, unrelentingly unre-lentingly until victory is achieved. Good for Fuel Only Fire in the Foreign Office at Tokyo burned up about half of that institution. insti-tution. All important documents were saved, the Domei Japanese news service reports. What documents could possibly have been of the slightest importance in a Foreign Office devoted entirely to. Reception and broken faith? How couicl Japanese treaties be more worthless, even if the flames had consumed con-sumed the fragments of those which have already been torn up by the Japanese Jap-anese government? No, since the last ounce of benefit bene-fit has now ; been squeezed out of Japanese . "diplomacy of dishonor," the last treaty violated, the last pledge broken, we can't see that it makes any difference any more whether the Japanese Foreign Office was only half or wholly burned. WastetPaper tolte .Germany 111!!! The III III! Washington Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs RIO DE JANEIRO While the weightiest minds in Rio are concerned with a declaration of war or severing diplomatic relations with the Axis, another vitally important discussion is going on behind the scenes regarding war supplies and Pan-American trade. As a matter of fact, reciprocal trade, as Cordell Hull long has pointed out. actually has everything in the world to do with our political alliance. For instance, it happens that we cannot buy Argentine beef, wheat, corn, and butter because we have great quantities of these products ourselves. It also happens that Argentina is the chief nonconformist at this conference. Likewise, Like-wise, Chile, in ordinary times, competes with rtltr MnnAr onH amp fn i i t- Tftou fViilA a 1 an i a lukewarm about too positive action aeainst the Axis. On the other hand, the tropical countries produce rubber, coffee, cocoa, mahogany, oils, 'hemp substitutes. These do not compete with us, and it happens that they are the best friends we have against Hitler and Hirohito. In regard to trade, two sets of discussions are going on behind the scenes in Rio. One is th nttamnr tn crat mtr vital war malprlnlji fnr the U.S.A. Chilean , copper, Bolivian , tin, Brazilian Brazil-ian rubber, Peruvian quinine, Brazilian manganese, man-ganese, quartz, tungsten, tung oil and a long list of other things. The second discussion is regarding the future. For what Latin-American nations want 10 Know is wnetner tms wartime trade is going to keep up after the Dutch East Indies, Malaya and Africa come back to their own. 'AMERICA'S TROPICAL. EMPIRE As long ago as 1935, four years before war started in Europe and seven years before we began to worry about tin and rubber, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, then Brazilian Brazil-ian Ambassador in the United States, urged begged and cajoled our State and Commerce Departments to buy more tropical products "from South America, instead of Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and Africa. "We Should trade by hemispheres," Aranha argued. "Europe has her colonies in Africa and ' Asia from which she gets coffee, rubber, tin -and all sorts of tropical products. And Europe will always favor her own colonies. "In South America we produce exactly the same things. Yet you buy from Europe's colonies in Asia and Africa instead of buying from us. Furthermore, you have to haul it half way round the world, It is expensive, and in time of war you might not be able to get it at all. There arc a lot of people in high, places in Washington today who wish they had taken Aranha's advise and ' begun, seven years ago, to build up our rubber and tin supplies in South America instead of the South Pacific. However, When Aranha, ' by that time Brazilian Foreign Minister, came to Washington in 1938 -and urged that we send agricultural experts to Brazil to advise regarding increased rubber planting, the U.S. Agriculture Department Depart-ment actually balked at spending the necessary $40,000- and wanted this 'amount paid by the state department. . n-'Now that" "the "war is on, the great bulk of By Drew Fear on and Kotx-rt 8. Allen Latin-Americans are just as anxious over Singapore Singa-pore and the Dutch East Indies as we are. They sec their fall as a great victory for Japan and a great blow to democracy. However, many Latin - Americans cannot understand why we insisted on getting our tin and rubber from across the Pacific, especially when the Dutch and British formed an international cartel to hold up the price against us, and when we could have cultivated the Good Neighbor policy by getting tin and rubber much closer to home. BRITISH RUBBER MONOPOLY Some, Latin-Americans are even frank enough to suggest that we might have saved ourselves some costly fighting on the far side of the Pacific. But . particularly they are interested inter-ested in whether we are going back to Dutch and British tin and rubber as soon as this war is over. In this connection it is interesting to read over the stormy diplomatic notes which the late Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State under Coolidge, sent to the British Government protesting pro-testing against their Malayan rubber cartel. That was in 1925, but Secretary Kellogg sounded very much like Thurman Arnold, the trust-busting Assistant Attorney General in 1942. "The Government of the United States is opposed to Government monopolies of the products pro-ducts in any country," Kellogg cabled Alanson B. Houghton; U.S. Ambassador in London, in the summer of 1S25. He also pointed out that the p British-Dutch rubber monopoly had tripled the price of rubber since Jan. 1 and that this was ' a terrific gouge of the United States, which consumed 70 per cent of all the world's rubber. Ambassador Houghton reported that he had gone to spend a week-end with Lord Salisbury and discussed the matter with British Colonial Secretary Amery, to whom he suggested that two U.S. representatives sit on the British rubber committee. But he reported to Kellogg doubt that the suggestion would be carried out. On Nov. 25, 1925, Ambassador Houghton cabled Kellogg that "Winston Churchill (then Chancellor of the Exchequer) proposed a banking bank-ing syndicate composed chiefly of Americans to regulate the price of rubber." But on Dec. 4, Houghton wired Secretary Kellogg that Sir Austin Chamberlain (then Minister of Foreign Affairs and brother of the late Neville Chamberlain of Munich fame) "stated frankly that he thought there was little ho pa fiia government would change their position." That ended the Kellogg protests and the price of rubber stayed high until , the depression, which toppled it to a low of five cents a pound. Since then an international committee on which the United States was represented has regulated prices and exports. All of which is why La tin-Americans have their fingers partly crossed about investing a lot of money in rubber plantations if we are going back to cheap coolie labor of Malaya and cooperate with British-Dutch control after the f.war. (Copyright 1942. by United-Jj'eature Syndicate, Inc.) , . z-r-fte-t-. Your Federal Income Tax NO. 1 FACTS IN A NUTSHELL WHO MUST FILE A RETURN? RE-TURN? Every single person having hav-ing a gross income of $750 or more; every married person, not living with husband or wife, and having a gross income of $750 or more; and married persons living with husband or wife, who have an aggregate gross income of $1,500 or more.- WHEN MUST RETURNS BE FILED? For the calendar year 1941, on or before March 16, 1942. For the fiscal year, on or before the 15th day of the -third month following the close of the fiscal year. WHERE AND WITH WHOM MUST INCOME TAX RETURNS BE FILED? In the internal revenue reve-nue district in which the person lives or has his chief place of business,' busi-ness,' and with the collector of internal in-ternal revenue. HOW DOES ONE MAKE OUT HIS INCOME TAX RETURN T By following, the detailed instructions given on the income tax blanks, Form 1040 and Form 1040A (optional (op-tional simplified form). WHAT IS THE TAX RATE ? A normal tax of 4 percent on the amount of the net income in excess ex-cess of the allowable credits against net income (personal exemption,, ex-emption,, credits for dependents, interest on obligations of the United Unit-ed States and its instrumentalities, instrumentali-ties, and earned Income credit) in the computation of the normal tax net income; and a graduated surtax on the amount of. net income in-come in excess of the allowable credit (personal exemption and credits for dependents) against net income in the computation of the surtax net income. Utah Writers to Elect Officers Officers and directors of the League of Utah Writers will meet at the Art Barn in Salt. Lake City at 8 p. m. Friday, accoroding to Dr. Carlton Culmsee of Brigham Young university, pneeWent. A secretary-treasurer will be elected to succeed Oliver R. Smith, who was recently chosen for the ipost but who will soon go into military service. Mrs. Cleone Montgomery bf Salt Lake City is first vice president and Lamont Johnson of Huntington is second vice president. presi-dent. i Plans for the annual Writers' Roundup, which will be held in Provo in August, will be discussed. Action will be taken upon proposals propo-sals to amend the constitution. 1 Representatives of all chapters Of the organization are expected to attend. Cranium Crackers AUNT HET By ROBERT QTJIXXJC2f . fI i feel sorry for Emily She. makes her face, up to look like a girl of twenty, but her neck still looks like forty-five." ISLAND BATTLEFRONTS The war in the Pacific is being fought largely on islands, some bigger than the state of Texajs (like Borneo), some only a few blocks square (like Wake Island). Don't let these questions about inland battlefronts catch you at sea. 1. What British island off the coast of China fell to the Jalps after a few weeks of fighting? i ; 2. How many islands are there in the Philippine . group ? In the I tin : ' n n-Mi.-n 7 3. Are the Dutch East Indies larger than the Japanese islands? 4. Luzon, Oahu and Guam were among U. S. islands hit in initial Jap attacks. Where are they? , 5. Britain's greatest Far East base is on an island. What is its name ? (Answer on Page S, Sec. t) QUICK WORK BY BUTTE POLICE BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 16 (EE) Four minutes after Charles . J. Judd was held up and robbed of $55 in his new saloon here, a man giving the name of Joe Fortune was in jail, charged with the holdup, hold-up, police said today. ' . Fortune, an ex-convict, was arrested ar-rested a few blocks from, the saloon by a ! cruising radio squad: Officers said a revolver and part of the money taken in the holdup were found on him. THE CALL TO THE COLOR SI IS A CALL FOR DOLLARS Dig deep. Strike hard. Our boys need the planes, ships, and guns which your money will help to buy. .f Go to your bank,-post office, or sayings and loan association: Tell them you want to buy Defense Bonds regularly, 'starting now. . ate American Fork The Junior Literary league met Monday night at the home of Mrs. Leo Van Wagoner. Mrs. Ross Buckwalter was the assisting hostess. host-ess. The time was mainly taken up in knitting for the Red Cross. Miss Betha Storrs, a member of the leaeue. is the instructor. Light refreshments were served. There were 20 present. Mrs. William Miller has returned return-ed after spending the Ipast three weeks in Milford, visiting her twin daughters, Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. Beth LaBaron and their fam ilies. Conversion To Munition Plants Not Easy By Peter Edaon Dally Herald Washlaton Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 16 The big question now is how fast and how much the automobile industry in-dustry can convert to war pro duction. In that connection, listen to a little story from William S. Knudsen, head of OPM: I used to be the president of General Motors up to a year and a half ago, and we had two factories fac-tories in Germany. One was a truck factory in Brandenburg; the, other was a car factory near Weiabad and Brusselsheim, which made 130,000 passenger cars a year. - ' ' ,. "You would' think that when the German government , took over both plants you would get the greatest example of efficiency in conversion. A lot has been told about that. Now, .here is What happened: "The truck factory was taken over in toto, and has been working work-ing 24 hours a day, seven days a week ever since. The passenger car factory that had 22,000 employes was shut down. The men were carted everywhere. every-where. The forging machines were put to work making small forg-lngs.and forg-lngs.and airplane parts and 2000 women were put into plants mak ing airplane parts. That made a total of about 4000 people out of the 22,000 they had before. The balance were carted away to some other place." This statement from Knudsen, made before Congressman Tolan's committee investigating defense migration, may give a tip on some of the difficulties to be encountered en-countered in the conversion of the auto industry to total war production, pro-duction, which is being boomed so enthusiastically by the Washington Wash-ington amateur production experts ex-perts who have now become more numerous than military experts. It is Knudsen's belief that the English method of bits and pieces manufacture has not been successful, suc-cessful, and that direct subcontracting subcon-tracting by the procurement branches of the services would scatter responsibility and require a thousand inspectors to follow up the execution of the subcontracting. subcon-tracting. And the danger of the theory of "exploding" a model plane or tank and having various manufacturers produce parts is that when the product is assembled, assem-bled, according- to piudsen, "it might explode the wrong way." NAZI PILL PUSHERS All kinds of slick efforts are being uncovered to beat the "blackKsfbarring Latin-American firms supposed to have exis leanings lean-ings from trading with United States concerns. One of the smoothest was used by a drug manufacturing company , supposed to Rave important connections. German When this company was prevented pre-vented - from making - shipments of proprietary pill and medicines to the German agents below the Rio Grande, it hurdled the restriction re-striction by preparing, . concentrates, concen-trates, of the drugs and shipping them toy air' in small packages valued , at less than $10-" each. Export licenses aren't required for shipments valued at less than $10, so the stuff went through in a hurry and there was nothing that could be done to stop it. Next step was simply to set up a factory in Mexico. The concentrates concen-trates were diluted and properly mixed, and from the Mexican plant could be shipped at will to "dummy"', receivers la other Latin American (Countries, who: then turned the products over to the old distributors. TIRING JOB The problems of retreading tires continue to pile up. Best guess now is that there are about 4500 shops in the country equipped to retread tires, and they have about ' 10,000 machines available to do the country's recapping job. Working 24 hours a day, each machine can, resurface six new tires. Allowing for breakdowns and a few holidays, the maximum capacity would be about 20 million tires a year. Normal tire production has been about 48 million a year, so there is less than half enougn equipment available for the job. Each unit or mold takes about a ton of metaL but since steel is under priorities control, there may be no allocations for additional retreading equipment. FAST RUBBER Two systems of planting and harvesting guayule must be tested this year before any estimates esti-mates can be made as to how much raw fufcber can be obtained from this California bush. Under the one system, if. 75,000 acres are planted to guayule this year, then harvested for seed and replanting re-planting only, at the end of four years there t might be harvested 75,000 tons bf raw rubber. The rule of thumb is one ton of rubber per acre after four years. Thats too alow. So a new planting method may be tried whereby the 75,000 acres . planted the first year will be "robbed" and forced to yield more. The yearling plants will be harvested only half a ton of rubber to the acre, or 37,500 tons the first year. The seed will then be taken for nursery stock and replanted by crowding in some 40,000 or 50,000 plants to the acre instead of the normal, tested 8000 plants to the acre. " " " SERIAL STORY TAMBAY GOLD BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS COYKfT. tMt, NBA SKRVICC I MO. THB STORY i Ha Banner meim p "fcederta" iaaeh wagu at r a -! own Taatbaj- Plaatatloa owaed by Jaae Abb Jadsoa, last of arttetoeratla Mairiei aad noared oa the world. Other rhar-aetera rhar-aetera or Lorea. OUver, WelllTcr U. arof dlR-fflair, for Iadlaa relita) Iotf. Moat'a pet aknaki Old Swoby, fUoreae .refasee "Doc" OUrer la barbarian football atar Aaxel Todd, who la aaaklaa; atroaa; play for Jaddjr, dlallkra "Dor" whoae coarse fee la flaaklaa;. Mom aad Jaddjr coaaalt lawyer Maarle Neara a boat balldlaa; toarlat eaaap at 'rant bay. He tells them Sheriff Hoi I fatter Mowry. dlstaat left-haaded" left-haaded" eoaala of the Maarlea, believes la Tarn bay a;old lea-ead. Mom woadera If Jaddy Is falUa for A aa;e I, observes both "Doe" aad Sear a also Interested la her. GOLDBUGS FROM! BROADWAY CHAPTER IX "TVERYTHING went cockeyed, that misty Saturday. First, Dolf got loose and scared half a bus-load of convention-bound schoolmarms off the premises. Flooey goes fifteen lunches, good for forty cents average, making six dollars the establishment couldn't afford to. lose. When I told Dolf where he got off, he turned sulky on me and crawled into a bush, and wouldn't come out until Old Swoby showed up and took him fishing. Along about-five o'clock a load of Florida grapefruit rolled .in and Marty Spurgeon, an Ohio boy that I hadn't seen since 1938, climbed down. "Marty." I said, "you're side", "So what?" he said. "This cargo car-go has to be in Raleigh tonight." "That's as' may be," I said. "Stick out your tongue." He did. It looked like a secondhand second-hand mink tippet. I dug out my clinical thermometer and pushed it into his face. "One hundred and four,'' I said, adding half a degree to impress him. "O. K., Mom," he said. "Trot out the old medicine chest." "Marty," I said. "It's the hospital.'; hos-pital.'; Well, he started to beef, and then he started to cough and, in a minute he had both hands , to his chest, and his eyes got scaredJ The chills had struck him. It was penumonia, all right. They fall for it heavy, these 24-hour drivers. So I boosted him. in and wrapped tiim up and, delivered him at Leverton Hospital' "Who's going , to guarantee his bill?" the little punk at the desk wanted to know. "I am,'" I said,- and I stuck a fistful of bills under .his nose, and the fist "Satisfactory?" - - s , WELL, Fd done my good deed V for the day, and what did I get for it? Trouble., Because if I'd been on the Job, maybe I could have headed off that mixed party of four. They came in a five-thousand-dollar limousine dragging drag-ging the flossiest kind of trailer, a regular plushcart, and made themselves at home. I didn't like the kind of sounds coming from the outfit. Before looking into it, r made the rounds. Dolf was back in his box, smelling of fish as usual after a spell with his pal, Old Swoby. Doc was inside the stockade checking up on his day's take. Juddy was in the Feederia talking with Maurie Sears, who had developed a Tambay habit. A swell-dressed bird was looking look-ing under the hood of the high-priced high-priced car. He turned around and looked me up and down, and said in a voice to match his dead pan: "Got anything fit to eat?" A blonde floozie with marcelled hair stuck her head out of the trailer. "Hey, Bernie! Ask that fat, gray witch can't we get some service serv-ice here," she said. "Look," I said. "I'm running this ranch. You aren't our line of trade." "Yeah? IH take a look after dinner. If we like it we stay." Then he handed me a fishy stare. "You wouldn't want to start anything any-thing in the line of trouble, would you?" Well, I wouldn't. Not with his kind. I've seen plenty shooting in my day. And I knew this lad was bad. If I'd had a bunch" of my truckles there to back me, now, I might have felt different. Bernie and his flat-faced friend Fick strolled, over to where Doc was standing outside his stockade. . Bernie said: "We're a coupla young mining men from Broadway Broad-way and 42nd Street. Ever hear-of hear-of Broadway, fella?" "Yes." Doc pointed to his 'keep out' sign." "You'll be wasting your time, he said. One of the broads in the trailer began to yell for Bernie. Back of her, the other frilla was using language like it don't do a camp a bit of good. . Juddy came out of the Feederia with Maurie Sears after her. ."What awful people, Momf she said. "You're not going to let them stay, are you?" ' , Maurie Sears said quietly: "May I handle this for you, Mrs. Baumer?" "What would you do?". I asked him. ' . . "Havent .'you a pistol on the place?" he asked. "I have, but you don't get it Why, it's a cinch that those two gorillas -have got an automatic apiece, and likely or not sr: tommy-gun stowed" away , in the trailer;. trail-er;. They'd dot you up like a sieve before you got near 'em." Doc came out of his stockade and joined us. "Can I be of help?" he said. "Another f Christian martyr," I said. "Do you want to qualify for an epitaph?" I sent Nollie to crack up some ice and put it in a pitcher. I car ried it over to the plush cart, myself. my-self. The two rats got sociable, after a couple of drinks. As soon as I could break away I came back to my gang. "Just-what I hoped," I said. "The youngest frilla is country bred. That's liable to help." T GOT Dolf out of his box and gave him a little soothing talk. Bernie met roe at the door. He took a gander at Dolf, snuggling quiet and peaceful in my arms. "What's that?" he said. "A friend of mine," I said and I set him carefully down on the floor, hoping that he wasn't going go-ing to get hurt His gal let out an awful screech. "It's a skunkl" "Nuts!" Bernie said and made a back-reach; The -doll's shriek near tore a hole in the roof. Well, the bullet struck the floor close enough to jar Dolf. He was used to .polite company; all the fus and yelling didn't go so good with him. Did he knock that bunch for a row of shambles! . ' It was worse than a fire panic. They got stuck in 'the door, all yowling and clawing like a tangle of cats.. . -J Bernie was waving his gat around like crazy, until Doc took it away from him and-tossed it over the palings. Then Doc held his nose with his. left hand and took the gangster's arm with his, right led him out to the road and advised him to keep going. : The ape bad ' fallen over -the bank, which was all right : and - was swimming across the stream,' ' ' We towed the trailer half a mile downwind and left it in a clearing. The camp' wasn't too pleasant that ' night on account of the breeze being wrong. . "What shall I do with the gun?" Doc asked roe. . "Keep it I said. "A tourist camp is no Sunday . school. . It might come in handy. I'll give you some lessons." . He nodded and put it in his pocket. - we saw no more or tne-coupia young mining, men from Broad way, but we heard plenty about that night's work. It -was a. swell ad for the Feederia and.it -made Dolf the best known character in the county.- . w. , , (To Be Continued) |