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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH' 31," 1942 V r V J V Jtvri Attwuw . (liMptlii - atar&ay ut Sandayi snday Herald Pnbttebed' Snadsy Moralas -j. Pobllahed ' by tae Herald Corporatioa, M oatu First West Street. Prove, Uuk. Entarad. , . ea cend etaae matter at the prt office tn Protro, Utah. ander tbe act of Mara t, JITt. ' Oilman, Nlcol Rutfaman. National Advartla-tar Advartla-tar repreeeatattvee, Mew Tork. Ban Fraaclaoo, Detroit. Boston, Uom Ancelea, Chlcaca. . Mtmbw DdIM Frees, N. . A, Ssrrtco, the Sctippe Lesaue of No ' A adit Boreas of Circulation. Liberty brouxb . an the land" Tbe Liberty Ball haer10tloa terms 5 by carrier ta TJtab ownty, l , eenta the month, tl.M for aU month, la advance; 7.M the year, la adraai ey naU anywhere In United States or ! MMseeeton. t eenta the montht for U donthat i.T( the year la advance, Tha Herald will sot aarania financial re-ponstbttlty re-ponstbttlty far nay arrera wbksh may aaaar la advertisements published tn It columns, la thoae laataaeaa where the paper la at fault. K will reprint that part of th advertisement b" which th typographical m la take eoears. "Gee..This Is More Fun Than Hitting Each Other!? Politics Not As Usual At a gathering of leaders of a major political party, the cry went up, "Win the war, yes, but politics ' as usual." You could see them trampling each other in a scramble , for the pie counter, and running like , mad to catch the gravy train. Of ' course, some stalwarts of the other . party also show more concern over keeping Cousin Katie on the public payroll than they do about driving to victory. Politics, yes, but not politics as usual. This country and all her citizens citi-zens must have shirt sleeves rolled up now for only one job winning the war. Any interference from any source, clique, group or special interest in-terest cannot be tolerated. age 9fr vw Some people evidently would rather see us lose the war, or at 'least fight to a stalemate, than see the New Deal in office. Some New Dealers apparently would rather gum up the war machine than depart de-part from their places of glory and big salaries. Harsh words, but these , are harsh times. There will be primaries this spring and summer and elections this fall as usual. No one has argued seriously seri-ously otherwise. Abraham Lincoln ran for his second term during some bitter days of the Civil War. Wood-row Wood-row Wilson took his case to the country in the congressional elections elec-tions of 1918. Elections and bitter political . wrangling, however, are two differ ent things. France played politics as usual fight up until Nazi boots goosestepped under the Arc de Triomphe. Cabinet ministers, deputies depu-ties and bureaucrats thought it more vital to lambdst political opponents op-ponents and thus divide the country coun-try further than to unite the army and the people to save the republic Unfortunately, evidence exists that some of our tub-thumping statesmen would ' follow the same disastrous route as did the French. Some of them seem dead set on an" old - time, knock - down political fight as if there were nothing greater great-er at stake than election of an alderman alder-man from the third ward. 4) wt wj . The people will elect those they believe will do the most to finish the job so well started by MacArthur and others. The only consideration is which candidate has done or will do the most to hasten the day of victory. This is not a war for or,jby New Dealers or Old DealerRepublicans DealerRe-publicans or Democrats. It is a war for and by Americans of every race, color, creed and party or no party. Just as there are those trying to promote Hitler's .smart maxim "Divide "Di-vide and Conquer" by creating racial rac-ial and religious troubles, so some may help him by shouting that only one party can win the 'war. Americans Ameri-cans bent on crushing the enemy 'won't listen. I! Washington Merr y-G o-Rb un d V?TS-'Ca'-'--'- m s mymm "mmmmm Silver Shirters! Slimy. Sheet Barred From Mails FORUM n Agin 'Em On the Class Forces In World Conflict K Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs WASHINGTON The decision to give up double pay for Sunday and holiday work in war plants wasn't the only thing that happened at the closed-door meeting of the CIO executive board. Thrc was a lot more that wasn't released re-leased to the press. One sensational item was the demand of left-wing left-wing leader!, that prices and wages be frozen. Believe it or-not, but the hottest clamorers for freezing prices and wages were Harry Bridges, Australian-born longshoreman leader, and Joe Curran, radical head of the seamen. CIO and AFX. leaders have vigorously opposed this. 1he leftists, however, once turbulent isolationists iso-lationists but now red hot all-outers since the Russo-Nazi war, loudly demanded a CIO stand in favor of drastic regulation. "It's time we formulated a constructive war policy," shouted Harry Bridges. "We ought to take the lead instead of being pushed to do things. We should declare for freezing prices and wages, the payment of overtime in defense bonds, and against slowdowns. Let's put an end to this petty squabbling among ourselves and concentrate all our efforts on winning the war." Joa Curran, burly head of the Greater New York Industrial Union Council, echoed Bridges' demands, also demanded a bare-knuckle stand toward John L. Lewis. "Lewis and his gang recently withdrew the charter of a big New York Local," Curran declared, de-clared, "for no other reason than that the Local wouldn't kowtow to him. I'm for the CIO giving this local a charter and defying Lewis and his crew.'" Note: Neither Lewis nor any of his henchmen hench-men attended the boarjl meeting. LEWIS' DUN ' Lewis' dun for $1,650,000 which he claims the CIO owes the United Mine Workers, also came in for bitter words. J. R. Bell, his brother-in-law and CIO controller, con-troller, was forced to admit that until Lewis demanded repayment the sum had -not been carried on the CIO books as a debt. Also, CIO president Phil Murray bluntly questioned the validity of the debt and pointed out that most of it was incurred while Lewis was head of the CIO. Murray also indicated that he was prepared pre-pared to go over Lewis head and put up to the UMW membership directly whether they approved Lewis' dun. Murray said he knew Lewis had acted without the approval of the miners. The most sensational feature of the discussion dis-cussion was the bitter attack on Lewis' stand by Van Bittner, head of the West Virginia UMW. Lewia is secretly gunning for Bittners scalp, but Bittner made no bones of his defiance defi-ance of the miner czar, and the CIO leaders listened to him with open-mouthed astonishment. astonish-ment. NOTE: Both Murray and Bittner are on the UMW payroll, but they wont be for long. They are slated to be elected president and ;vice president of the Steel Workers at their convention in May, after which they win quit their UMW jobs. SAVE BACON FAT Even your bacon fat can help win the war. War production officials are about to announce an-nounce a campaign to have the housewife save left-over cooking fats and grease for the manufacture manu-facture of munitions. - She' will take the fats and grease to the -butcher shop, and collect five cents a can. The butcher will seH it to the rendering plant for 5-six cents, and it will be used to make soap, Br Drew raaraoa aad Robert H. AJIew and the by-product glycerin, which is important impor-tant in the manufacture of explosives. We are running short of glycerin, normally obtained from Philippine cocoanut oil. The collection campaign will be managed y the Office of Civilian Defense, and will be another answer to the millions of housewives who are afiking, "What can I do to help win the war?" PUSSYFOOTING PROBE Representative Wright Patman of Texas is trying to keep it quiet, but a hot row has broken out in his Small Business Committee. Several members are up in arms over A the Texan's Tex-an's "coddling" of dollar-a-year moguls accused of discriminating against little business men. Feelings became so roiled during the hearing hear-ing on the sugar shortage that Representative William J. Fitzgerald of Connecticut threatened threaten-ed to quit the committee. Previously, Representative Repre-sentative Charles Halieck of Indiana had stalked out of a hearing on "fire insurance rates," charging it had nothing to do with small business busi-ness problems. What irked Fitzgerald was Patman's refusal re-fusal to delve into charges that Fraser M. Mof-fott Mof-fott Jr., chief of the WPB alcohols unit, has helped to bring on the sugar shortage by permitting per-mitting the conversion of large quantities of Cuban sugar into industrial alcohol instead of using huge U. S. gram surpluses for this purpose. Moffat admitted to the committee that his division was "not advocating any loans for adding grain handling equipment at the present time," but contended that he had "nothing to do" with the earmarking ' of approximately 800,000 tons of Cuban sugar, -one-third of this year's crop, for conversion purposes. ,v When Richard C. Cooke, president of the New England Small Business Association, who handled the sugar hearings for the committee; asked if he could question Moffat and other dollar-a-year witnesses about their "business connections," Patman replied curtly, "Absolutely "Abso-lutely not. You are not a lawyer." ' NOTE. Patman also expunged from the record the testimony of Guy Holcomb, aggressive aggres-sive young chief of the Justice Department's small business division. Holcomb had charged that the WPB was discriminating against small firms such as bakeries, which need sugar, and suggested that the committee probe ,the "corporate alliances or interests" of dollar-a-year men handling the auger problem. All this was stricken from the record. MERRY-GO-ROUND The Brazilian ; Government is looking for clandestine radtio stations in the interior which are tipping off the Axis on the departure of U. S. bombers to ' Africa. Half an hour before 1 a bomber leaves, they seem to know all about it in the Wilhelmstratte . . . Hard-hitting Harold Har-old Moskovit is organizing a meeting of New York Young Democrats in Schenectady in April to put some new Juice in the Democratic Party ... Marshall Dimock, associate commissioner of Immigration, has been asked by Congressman Congress-man O'Connor of Montana to admit extra Mexican Mexi-can labor this summer for sugar beet harvesting. harvest-ing. However it looks as if no extra Mexicans would be admitted. Interned Japs, Germans and Italians will be used instead . . - Senator Bunker Bunk-er of Nevada is one of the Democrats who . wants to oust Ed Flynn from the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. Incidentally. Inci-dentally. Flynn "has a ranch in Nevada. ' (Copyright 1942 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Editor Herald: There is much wonderment just now that Japan has so much strength. Formerly the general opinion was that Japan was comparatively com-paratively weak. Both these erroneous er-roneous opinions are due to the fact that the real nature of the world conflict Is not understood. The conflict la not merely between be-tween Japan and the United States the Japanese and Americans or any two nationalities or groups of rationalities, but it is between fascism and democracy. Of course, where the fascist have control of the government, have state power, that Is a fascist state. And on the other hand where the people have control or state power that is democratic state. Not every one in a fascist state are fascists and not every one In a democratic state are democratic. Only the small minority In any state are fascists while the great majority in every state are democratic. Who then are the fascists? Who are the democrats. The fascists in all capitalist states are the owners and rulers who are de termined to continue to own the country and rule the peoples The democrats are the non-owners and ruled who long and strive for their share of the wealth, liberation from oppression and exploitation, the right to be free. The fascists are comparatively few in numbers num-bers but are immensely strong ln wealth, position and control. The democrats are great in numbers num-bers but comparatievly weak In wealth, position and influence. In short the fascists are the owners and rulers, the democrats are the non-owners and ruled. Such in general are the class divisions, positions, interests and forces that are in conflict. The strength of Japan is not so much the strength of the Japanese nationality: but more the strength of world fascism. Imperailism is another strong force in tho conflict which can not be fully treated here. Suffice it to say Japan's war in the Pacific Pa-cific is an imperialistic adventure. It's purpose is to steal colonies from other imperialist powers. While Germany's war on Russia is both fascistic and imperialistic, ideological and economic. It's purpose pur-pose is to steal Russian territory and destroy Russian socialist democracy. de-mocracy. Both fascism and Imperialism are the enemies of democracy, and must be destroyed before peace, can come and the world be free. We Americans have to fight the foe both .within and without; but about the final there is no doubt. Because the gcowth of human society so-ciety is ever onward and upward to more light and knowledge and freedom the fuller life. E. A. MITCHELL AUNT HK1 By ROBERT QUnJUKN 1". No wonder Emily Is mad. When everything was plentiful, they, had no money; now they're rich, and thing they want ain't to be had." Alcohol, Tobacco Bill Large Figures Editor Herald: The word "wine" occurs in the Bible 261 times. In 151 instances a warning is conveyed; in 71 both warnings and reproof, in 12 places wine is referred to as venomous and poisonous. In five texts it is absolutely prohibited. The Woman's T e m p e ranee Union states that the daily liquor bill of the U. S. A. is $9,000,000 or a total of $3,285,000,000 a year. It is stated that each day's yes, each day's drink bill would feed one million Chinese refugee children chil-dren for nine months; or 600.V00 English children for six months; or feed most of Europes' famine-threatened famine-threatened peoples. Every dollar of the fifty billion bil-lion dollars spent for relief and defense during the past eight years, prior to the outbreak of the war with Japan could have been paid without appropriating a cent from Federal or State treasuries if the money spent for alcoholic beverages and paid out to meet , the cost of liquor-bred crime, accidents disease and premature pre-mature death in the United State3 during the same period, had been contributed directly by the people to Uncle Sam for these purposes. This la the conclusion of the American Business Men's Research Re-search foundation from a survey of the re-legalized liquor business, and from beer's legal comeback at the beginning of April 1933. Alcoholic beverages interests spent the staggering sum of $27,-920,643 $27,-920,643 for advertising in news papers, magazines and radio programs pro-grams last year. During the same period $36,693,488 was spent in advertising cigarettes and tobacco. With the tremendous pressure upon the public mind the Increased In-creased use of the two inseparable insepar-able evils liquor and tobacco produced by the great expenditure of advertising funds indicated it seems almost a hopeless task to combat such a program by organizations organ-izations which are practically without funds. C. V. HANSEN. o WAR QUIZ -is 1. Picture shows the decoration awarded United States air heroes. It is bronze in the form of a cross- on which is superimposed a four-blade propeller. pro-peller. On the reverse side are inscribed name and rank of recipient. re-cipient. It is suspended from a moire ribbon with stripes of red, white' and blue. Do you know how It differs dif-fers from any Other' decoration bestowed by our government? 2. The Royal Air Force has been blasting away at the Ruhr region in Western Germany, Because Be-cause of vast air fields ? Munition works? Steel mills? Factories for production of oil from coal? Airplane factories? 3. The fact that the Japs have a foothold in the big Dutch East Indies island of Sumatra will not affect American daily life because be-cause zoos can no longer expect to import Sumatran elephants, rhinos and tigers. But one thing will be sadly missed. Can you guess it? BY PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent . WASHINGTON, March 31 The Postoffice Department, has issued its first order of the war barring one issue of a periodical from the mails for publication of material held : to be detrimental to the national defense program under the so-called espionage aet of 1917, but there's nothing to get excited about. The publica tion held to be unmailable was the March Issue of the Gallilean, a magazine published at Nobles ville, Ind., by the FeUowship Press of William ; Dudley (Silver-Shirt, Seven-Minutes-in-Eternity ) F e 1-ley. 1-ley. -..'-. ' Bleeding hearts who may be inclined to , drain their liver . and lights over 'the ruling may as well save the self-torturev Darting from the mails one Issue of a - dirty magazine isn't any violation of the right . of free speech or freedom of ' the press and is no infringement infringe-ment or civil liberties. AU it amounts to is curbing the circulation of material that is definitely subversive, suppressing in its insipiency the publication of matter that threatens danger to national security. The border line between sedition and criti cism of government may at times be hard to draw, but the Pelley publication should offer no great problem on that point. Warnings have been issued by government - agencies that the United States is in for a wave of axis propaganda, a drive to divide American opinion and so disrupt the country's war effort. Attorney General Biddle has indicated in-dicated that criminal proceedings will soon be started by the De partment of Justice to expose and curb several persons and publications publica-tions against whom evidence of seditious utterance has been gathered. gath-ered. In coming months, therefore, you may expect to see increased activity of this sort. More Will Get It- Postal officials who inspected tons of this seditious material and barred it from the mails during the last war are frankly surprised that there has not been, more of it in this war. They explain the scarcity of it thus far only by the fact that this war is less than four months old. Seizures have been made of several one-shot, subversive tracts, but the Pelley Gallilean is the first periodical to be' touched under the espionage act. Examination of this magazine reveals what subtle and what stupid forms this propaganda can take. The title of. the publication might lead anyone to believe that here was a good Christian, maga zine. Even the masthead pro claims it to be "A 32-page maga zine devoted to research in the field of Christian Mysticism, Biblical Origins and Psychic Phenomena. Phe-nomena. It is a well-printed job, big type and arty, butcher paper. It .can't possibly b self-support ing, for it is devoid of advertising except for the inside back cover which blurbs other publications of FeUowship Press. One In particular particu-lar holds the eye. It is titled "Your Rights,' and the catchline is "Do you know what to do when the G-man ' comes ? That's the tip-off.. ' . Bulges With Balderdash Inside is the most misbegotten line of gibberish ever handed out. The titles are "What You Should Know About the Cosmic Role of Race," Why the World's Aryan Races Are Disgusted by War," "Why Modern Luciferians Would Abolish Races, "The Role the Almighty- Decrees America to Play," and "How it Feels to a Soldier to Lose His Life in the Heat of Battle." Under those titles you find such scurrilous stuff as you get only in "Mein Kampf" and the mouthings of Goebbels and Rosenberg: - "The word 'aryan means 'noble people' or 'the earth's aristocrats'" aristo-crats'" . . . "Germany Is coming to the fore because she typifies the best and finest flower of Xanthochoric culture." And bo on. That word means "light-haired," by the way. Violent anti-Semitism runs throughout. The United States is depicted as dominated by Mongoloid-Judaism, whatever that is. The doctrine is presented that the United States should not be engaged in taking the side of any nation. The role of the soldier is constantly belittled. If there is anything to get alarmed about over the barring from the mails of stuff like this, it should be centered on the fact that the country has to wait for a war to come along before it can take such action. JUGOSLAV GUERILLAS WIPE OUT 15,000 LONDON, March 31 (C) Jugoslav guerillas forces have wiped out an entire Italian division di-vision of possibly 15,000 men in bitter fighting at the Monten-egrian Monten-egrian town of Niksic, unconfirmed uncon-firmed reports reaching London said today. Radio Moscow said the guerillas advanced into the town alter the Italian commander rejected their demand for surrender. SERIAL STORY MEXICAN MASQUERADE BY CECIL CARNES cofrmetir, 142. NKA SCRVkCC INC. TIIR ftTPflYl Allan Strrle pom. Ina- - mm mavacla pfcotoa-raparr. Berk a Dr. a.-eat mmi danajhtrr. Am ir. H. mlaaltn la Mrxlra'a 1'ra-tnanla.-wbo have 41appeare4s a Ian nrni uf Harry lltoaop, madAeaeel by aayeferloaa lajretlan while on mlaaloa. Utah, fonnd, repeated re-peated only "The. yeiiew devllnl Allan, after meeting- trtth . nla matle Col. ISacobar r Haral Gaard. eheeka la at Ian or Thoa-aand Thoa-aand liellarhta, ejalaaea ita irvoprle-tor, irvoprle-tor, San So. n Chinese wwrklna; with V. . Sun Sn telle him vaere la Jnpnneae cannery da nearby Island 1 that "beaatlfnl nnd evil" KarLslaa, ajirl connected with It la often aeen with Col. Kaeobar. Allan Al-lan aaeeta her "Benor Steele, Mlaa Winer." a THE COLONEL TRAITOR? CHAPTER VI WVOU are most polite, senorl" A she acknowledged, and while her dark eyes held his, the smile grew faintly provocative. "We will meet again latert" Then she and the smile and the delicate fragrance were gone, tap-tapping tap-tapping Toward the patio. Sun Su toughed a beU, and when an Indian In-dian boy answered the call, ' directed di-rected him to get Allan's bags from the car and place them in room 7. "What's her name Minor?". "Asia Minor." The Chinese must have noticed the half-irritable lift of the American's brows, for he spread his hands again in deprecatory fashion. "It is not a jest, senor. I have seen her passport; pass-port; it was issued by the British government in India and is quite in order. From another source X have learned her father was an English ship captain who married an Indian woman in Calcutta. No doubt he had a sense of humor, for he insisted on naming their daughter 'Asia.,M "Well no matter what she's called, she belongs up in Hollywood," Holly-wood," said Allan with conviction. "She'd knock them cold. If you have an opportunity, you might mention to Senorita Minor that I'm prepared to be her slave!" Whereupon it was the proprietor's proprie-tor's brows that went up. Allan left them there, and smiled to himself as he followed the Indian boy and the bags. In a waU mirror, mir-ror, as he left . the lobby for a narrow corridor, he had a. fleeting glimpse of Sun Su leaning across the desk and staring after him in obvious perplexity. Asia! It sounded strange at first, but after ' he had repeated it a few times it began to be rather attractive. A Eurasian, he mused, starting to shed his damp garments gar-ments when the boy had left him to the privacy of a cool dark bedroom. bed-room. A .British subject, and something of a pariah in her native na-tive land; cast-out by the. Indian element and cold-shouldered by the British. That meant she probably prob-ably hated the English, mused Allan, which would account for her throwing in with a Japanese outfit especially if the wily Nipponese Nip-ponese were up to something which would be ta the detriment of England! "It all fits in!"-he muttered, slipping into a bathrobe. He laughed at the recollection of Sun Su's disapproving countenance. "Watch out for your laurels, my gallant Colonel Escobar! Until I find out if she knows anything about the Sargents or poor Harry Bishop, I'm going to make a strong bid for your Asia's tendcrest affections!" af-fections!" TTE wandered down the hall, AA tracing the noise of running water to its source, and in another minute was stretched out in a tub of cool water. He believed he was on the track of something, though of just what he couldn't yet determine. "The yellow devils!" That was the one lead he had from poor mad Harry, but what better description could youwant of a mysterious Japa-nesegfoup Japa-nesegfoup who objected to anybody any-body spying on them? What could be their secret racket,, if any? He weighed some of the more obvious possibilities. A submarine base? No, hardly that. way up in the Gulf of California. A heavily fortified depot for war materials? Perhaps, though again the location did not suggest such a scheme. A supply base for seaplanes sea-planes and bombers? A base complete com-plete with repair shops, oil tanks and ammunition? "More like it!" he decided, finishing fin-ishing his ablutions with a shower. "But what would that have to do with the missing Sargents?" He had to give that one up- for the ' time being, he told himself, rubbing hard with a -big towel. Dry and deliciously cooL he went back to his room, threw himself on the snowy bed and relaxed. He began to formulate several plans of campaign. His first care would be to check up oh the fishing fish-ing company, working always cautiously if only from respect for what had happened to Harry Bishop. . There were various promising angles of approach) and easily the most appealing was the alluring allur-ing Asia! He might get some hint from her of what was afoot if he played the game carefully. At least it would be no hardship to have a ' mild flirtation with the lady in the hope of sneaking a fast one through her defenses. Presently he heard the sound of a measured step and the ring of spurs from the patio, upon which the window of his room opened. Came the scraping of chairs, followed fol-lowed by the murmur of two voices, a man's and a woman's, a a a TTE stole to his window and LA looked cautiously through a crack in its shutter. Yes! Asia and Colonel Escobar, nose to nose at a small table some twenty yards distant. They were "talking earnestly, ear-nestly, and Allan would have given much to know the subject of conversation. He saw Escobar take a long white envelope, backed with sealing-wax, from the breast pocket of his tunic and slip it aew the table. to Asia; and he saw the young woman put it care fully in her handbag and close the catch securely. He did a quick problem in angles an-gles and distances. If he wasn't mistaken, the bathroom down the hall might easily be within earshot ear-shot of the couple. He sped down the deserted hall, his bare feet soundless on the red-tile flooring. Into the bathroomlock bath-roomlock the doof across the room to the window! It was all a matter of seconds. - Then he was listening hard! Escobar was speaking, his voice light but with an undertone of seriousness. . "And when,' dear lady, am I to receive the reward you promised me? Could I do more than I have to prove my devotion?" "It will be soon now!" Allan had to strain his already strained ears to catch the low response. "Youll have no reason to regret your kindness to me,. Alfredo! This what you have done for me will literally save my life!" "I hope it .won't cost me mine, said the colonel good-humoredly. "For my sake, querida mia, never let anyone guess who gave you what's in that envelope. Even for your dear sake, I've no desire to face a firing squad at dawn! And now let's talk of more agreeable agree-able things My reward, for instance. in-stance. .,., v - '.. Allan found himself curiously uninterested in the colonel's reward. re-ward. He went back to his bed room and started dressing. ' So Sun Su had sized up Escobar correctly, he reflected. Moreover, the shrewd Chinaman's comment and the remarks Allan had just overheard matched perfectly with the incident of the "friend" who had hurled the epithet "Traitorl" at the colonel of rurales. No reasonable rea-sonable doubt of his perfidy could remain. "'Seemed like such a decent fellow, fel-low, too," summed up the American Amer-ican half regretfully. "As he said himself, you cant believe in anybody any-body any more,- or figure what they may be up to!" .(To Be Continued) v.. . |