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It will reprint that part of the advertleement la which tha typographical mistake occurs. . Goodby To Passivity There is no general agreement with the newv name, War Bonds, .which has been given to the government's govern-ment's promises to repay billions of 'dollars borrowed to finance the defense de-fense of Democracy. Some preferred the World War I title, Liberty Bonds. Others argued for reviving Victory Bond as a cognomen. But the bitterest enders are glad that at last we have discarded the misnomer, Defense Bonds, a termitic fifth columnist which was doing more damage than a dozen Fritz Kuhns.. Technically, perhaps, and very fundamentally, we really are fighting fight-ing a defensive war. That is, we aren't an aggressor nation. We aren't trying to seize by " force another an-other people's territory or trade. We aren't attempting to force our ideology, ide-ology, our form of government, our system of economics upon the rest of the world. We are .merely refusing refus-ing to permit Germany, Italy and Japan to Nazify the world, including us, by force. pression - of that new spirit. War Bonds. That means Fight.' We are not yet in position to make ' Germany, Japan and Italy suffer at home what our allies in-Europe and Asia have. been forced to. en- . dure. We do not yet have the material ma-terial with which to undertake those ventures, nor as yet nave we been able to move what we do have to the places where it is most needed. But almost every day sees another an-other bottleneck broken through, and the machinery of production and transport speeded up. Even in. the news of disaster there are bright spots. The toll we take of raiding Japs and Nazis proves our defenses in the fighting areas are being strengthened. Our counter blows gradually become more frequent, more daring and more effective. " We aren't on Easy Street yet We haven't even turned the corner. But we shall turn it the day, that, by sweat and tears, we reach that point at which we can attack enemy-hejd territory for keeps. And the discarding discard-ing of the passive name "Defense Bonds" is a real step in the right direction. We are defending Democracy, but we know that we can not preserve pre-serve human rights by defensive methods. "Having been forced to fight fof what we treasure, we intend to take the offensive and to pursue it to the complete destruction of axis agression. It was high time that we got rid of the stultifying passivity suggested suggest-ed by "defense." It expresses too well the spirit of letting the other fellow set. the pace, pick his spots, name the game and make the rules," Wars are hot won in that way. Late, but not too late, the Pacific American people have begun to adopt a belligerent attitude toward this war. The new name for the government's gov-ernment's bonds is a concrete ex- mm l ne Staggering Work Hours New York City's experiment in staggering working hours should interest every industrial community. Ostensibly it is aimed merely at relieving re-lieving the terrible subway congestion conges-tion at work-going and home-coming hours. Actually, it may point the way toward a partial answer to the transportation problem created by the rubber shortage. If the more than seven million of New Yorkers. can. be moved around the big " city's 300 square miles of territory, without unbearable hardship, hard-ship, by deconcentrating their travel trav-el then there is hope for other cities when private cars no longer are in use. ;;Among the Things We'd Lose K the Axis Won" llllliillll Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs WASHINGTON If looks as if the President Presi-dent will have to give 1 Postmaster General Frank Walker the same dose of personal prodding prod-ding that finally snapped Attorney -General Francis Biddle out of his moon-gazinsr lethargy and started him cracking down on seditious operators. oper-ators. A venemous flood of Axis propaganda is daily going through the mails. It is no secret. Walker knows all about it. For weeks he has been bombarded with complaints from outraged citizens demanding that this subversive activity be stopped. The Postal Inspection Service knows aU about it. The oldest and one of the most efficient effici-ent sleuthing agencies in the government, the Inspection Service, is itching to move in. But with one exception. Walker has done nothing. The exception was The Galilean, a publication pub-lication put out by William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt leader recently arrested by the FBI on charges of sedition. The paper finally was barred bar-red from the mails, but only after strong- I f icial pressure on Walker. But the several hundred other seditious publications continue to have free access to the U. S. mails to spread their vicious pro-Axis lies and poison. Among the worst of them are a number of foreign language papers edited by alien Fascists, who are under investigation by the FBI. If he needed any. information on them, Walker could get 4t. in 'a few minutes by a telephone call to the Justice Department, two blocks down Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Avenue from his huge, ornate office. But to date Walker hasn't done a thing to halt this sinister flood of enemy propaganda. " During the World War not only were such publications barred from the mails but the Post Office Department obtained the willing cooperation co-operation of express companies to refuse to carry any matter banned by the Department. 'Walker is one of the most genial officials in Washington. But he is not noted for either initiative or forcefulness. He never does anything any-thing that might disturb the peace of his easygoing easy-going daily routine of running a government department that runs itself. ROOSEVELT'S MEMORY ; In past years when the President received the first poppy from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, opening their annual fund-raising drive for the widows and orphans of ex-service men, he took great delight in showing the little girls who presented the poppies a china donkey and elephant on his desk, and asking them which they liked best. Sometimes, to the embarrassment of VFW officials, the tots chose the elephant. This year no chances were taken. Geraldine Reynolds, five-year-old orphan of an AEF veteran, was carefully care-fully coached to .point to the donkey. V ' But Geraldine didnt get a chance to show ner political astuteness. The President, perhaps for ' reasons of national unity, didn't put her on r the spot. Instead, Jie gave VFW officials something else to talk about a demonstration of his remarkable memory. ' When little Geraldine was perched on his desk for a i picture the President demurred: VOhV no," 'that's the way we posed when I got &' PPP7 1st year. Suppose you stand down B Drew Ttmrwn u( here beside me to make it different this year." JONES' EXPERTS There was one illuminating portion of Jesse Jones' testimony on the rubber shortage before the Truman committee that was not reported in the press accounts of the hearing. This was his interrogation by Senator Ralph Brewster of Maine on the experts Jones consulted con-sulted when he decided in 1941 to reduce sharply sharp-ly the synthetic rubber production program recommended rec-ommended ty Edward Stettinius, then OPM raw materials director. The following is the Brewster-Jones exchange: ex-change: Brewster: The report recommended the creation of a committee of experts to pass on these technical questions. Did you create such a committee? Jones: Well, I don't know what you call experts. Brewster: I don't think that Is susceptible of definition. I think either you know it or you don't. Jones' answer was a long statement about consulting with "people in the industry." Brewster: Now, did you or didn't you have a committee of technical experts? Jones: I don't know whether we had a committee or not. Brewster: Mr. Jones, that is a very amazing statement. Jones: I don't think it is amazing at all. Brewster: You don't know whether you had a committee of technical experts or not? Jones: I don't know what an expert is. Brewster: Well, you know what a commit-tee commit-tee is, don't you? Jones' We had a committee. We had a great many people working on it. Brewster: Well, I think, we can conclude then that you did not constitute a committee. Is that a correct conclusion? Jones: That is your answer. It isn't mine. MERRY-GO-ROUND On the insistence of his doctor,. Federal Works Administrator Philip Fleming went to Florida to recuperate from a severe grippe attack, at-tack, but that didn't keep him from working. At Boca Chica, the hideaway near Key West discovered last year by a number of artists, writers and high federal officials, Fleming completed com-pleted the details of the new military highway to Alaska . . . Representative Ewing Thomason, able, hard-working member of the House Military Mili-tary Affairs Committee, is rated by Army chiefs as one of the best civilian military experts in the country . . . Following the speeches of Senators Joe Ball ofMinnesota, and Alex Wiley of Wisconsin, on the ' anniversary of the day Norway was invaded by. the Nazis, -acclaiming the . heroic resistance of the Norwegian people to their conquerors, the Senate cloakrooms buzzed with comment over the failure of Senator Sen-ator Henrlk : Shipstead . to say anything. Of , Norwegian descent on both sides of his family, Shipstead was m bitter , isolationist up ta Pearl Harbor, Since then, while Voting for war measures, meas-ures, he is still on close terms with isolationist leaders. . ,' '.- ' ' (Copyright 1942 by. United Feature - Syndicate, Inc.) . , ft I .itf lt I piilii tfittS ljftl 4 "ksii1 kills Vi'-' ... 1 ; ; ' - Generals Are Truck Drivers In Army's "Keep 'Em Rolling" luoior i ransport dcnoois 4 V No buck private army mechanic is this gent flat on his back greasing greas-ing up the front shock absorber link of a 4ton truck. He's Brig. Gen. T. J. Camp, of the 8th Armored Division, learnin how to "keep 'em rolling" at a U. S. Quartermaster Motor Transport school. By DAVENPORT STEWARD NEA Service .Staff Correspondent ARMY DEPOT, Ga., April 14 Out here .in the piney woods, generals gen-erals and colonels are being anointed an-ointed with crank-case oil and pumped full of knowledge by motor-wise officer and civilian" instructors in-structors of the U. S. Army Quartermaster Quar-termaster Motor.. Transport school. That's one . reason why. army trucks last longer and roll farther far-ther than they did in. the days when the infantry was "queen of battles." Some othe'r reasons whv the quartermaster corps is able to "keep 'em rolling" longer are three other schools like this one in California, Maryland n d Texas. The army doesn't care to advertise their exact locations. These ranking officers are taking tak-ing the hitherto unsung, but mighty important "preventive maintenance course for general and field officers." It is advisable, AUNT HEX By ROBERT QUIULEN "Freedom. '-spoils folks. Sallie nays this is. a free country; and other folks can keep their younguns off the . street If they don't -want her brat's- whoopln' cough.". to state it gently, that they pass their exams. CAVALRYMAN IS IN CHARGE Commanding officer of this particular par-ticular motor base and commandment com-mandment of the motor transport school is a big, amiable, ex-cavalryman who thinks as much of trucks as he does horses Col. Richard N. Atwell. In fact, the colonel thinks more of his trucks, in practical terms. Every two weeks "Prexy" Atwell At-well gets a new batch of students. In the extensive shops, built on the-rolling red hills, coveralls enclose en-close brigadier generals of infantry, infan-try, colonels of artillery, lieutenant lieuten-ant colonels of armored divisions and majors of cavalry. . . Motors spit, cough, hum and roar; officer-students officer-students get sweaty, greasy, dirty and tired. , For two weeks the students drive trucks, tear down and reassemble re-assemble motors, listen to lectures lec-tures and study far into the night The recreation hall has been pressed into use as a classroom. HIGH-RANKING TRUCK DRIVERS The current class will take a convoy to Fort Benning, Ga., and the truck drivers on this trip will be j just who do you thinkgenerals thinkgen-erals and colonels. . Company . of ficers and enlisted personnel Jong have been submitted, sub-mitted, to gruelling courses in the maintenance of mechanized equipment, equip-ment, but the short course for ranking officers is comparatively new. Tod many high-ranking officers used to keep trucks rolling until they almost fell apart, despite the pleas of company commanders and mechanics. Hence, this short course to "develop for officers of higher rank an appreciation of the capabilities, limitations and maintenance of motor vehicles and functions of motor transport personnel." per-sonnel." - On The Sunny Side By MARY ELLEN CAIN When I first heard of an Ameri can author's going Into seclusion for the duration, I wondered if perhaps that might not be the best possible way in which some writers conld serve their country after all, everyone . must . read some escape . literature, in these trying times: And, where could one do that type of writing better than in a quiet, secluded place, away from all of the war news with its fears, and its heartaches. The longer that I thought about it, ' the more I became convinced that if one could serve-best' by living apart frqm it all that' is also a duty certainly,. writers who are not in good-health: or, those who had recently experienced the tragic loss . of loved ones, were justified in seeking escape In seclusion se-clusion if, through that means, they could best serve their country, coun-try, or their fellow citizens. . Yes, indeed, the seclusion idea became as appealing, and as irresistable, as an opportunity for a trip into a quiet, cool, canyon, away from the noise and the heat of the city streets. ' - Strange that the memory of an Incident out of the years long past could suddenly change one s think' ing again. I was a little girl of, perhaps, scarcely more than three, skipping along beside my mother, as she led the Cow to be staked out in a different patch of withering grass, on the drouth- burned. Kansas nomestead. ' Dis covering a large rattlesnake, my mother explained to me that she must stay and watch the snake while I went to the house to get her the hoe. - I told her that I would not bring it to her. After waiting for some time, she returned re-turned to the house to find' that I had closed the windows and doors. Armed with the . trusty hoe, , she returned to kill the snake,, but found that it has disappeared. Mother very carefully explained to me that because I had failed to take the hoe to her the snake had crawled away and might attack any of us at any. time' or place. Later, when the cow nearly , died from a snake-bite, and we had no milk to drink for a long- time, nobody no-body needed . to . remind me C that perhaps It was the same snake that I had allowed to escape that had poisoned - the cow. I had watched ray mother do battle with snakes too often not to be'terrtr fied each time she attempted. to kill a snake, but that one experience experi-ence of having the ; blame for one getting away. put upon my shoulders shoul-ders must have made a lasting impression. And now, after all these years, when again I am . attempting to close the doors and ' windows against the horrible dangers of snakes snakes that don't know how .to be as fair as the rattlesnake rattle-snake that lesson which ' my mother taught - me .flashes back out of the past to remind me that "there is no escape" but ' only a temporary postponement, perhaps, per-haps, for those- who run away.- 7 Even thpugh . my , weapons be limited to' a fountain pen and a portable typewriter,; I want no part of escape or seclusion. War Shoots Holes in Copy Book Maxim of Earlier Era Emergency Set-Up Quiz, Answers What's what in the civilian war effort? The following questions and answers prepared by the Salt Lake district office of the information in-formation division. Office for Emergency Management, may help you. Q. Must a woman take a tape measure with her to measure skirt lengths and see ttat they are within War Production Board tneasuremente? ..A. No. The responsibilty rests with the cutter or manufacturer who must certify to the retailer that they are within the order. Q. Will It be hoarding to lay In next winter's supply of coal now? A. No on the contrary, it will be a great help If you will order your next winter's fule supply now and let your dealer fill it sometime during the summer period rather than waiting until next fall and winter when transportation trans-portation facilities are going to be hard-pressed moving increased war materials. Q. When will typewriting rationing ra-tioning start? A. The Office of Price Admin istration has announced that ra tioning of typewriters will start April 20. This applies to new and used typewriters in the hands of dealers and distributors. Type writers now being manufactured as well as those in the hands of manufacturers will remain frozen, Q. Can anyone receive a rationing ra-tioning certificate to have a tire recapped under the April quota? A. No. Recapping regulations are designed to keep war production lines and other essential opera tions from faltering. Only where the need for private, transportation transporta-tion is proven as the only possible means, are applications considered. Q. Has manufacture of trucks stopped? A. Producers are now complet ing quotas for civilian use allocated allo-cated by the War Production Board after which truck manufac ture will be permitted only for specific orders of the army, navy, certain other government agencies and lend-lease requirements. Q. Are there price ceilings on electrical equipment? A. Dealers are prohibited from selling radios, phonographs, wash ing and ironing machines and do mestic cooking and heating stoves at prices higher than they charged on March 19. The retail prices must be conspicuously posted In the store. Air has weight , about one pound to.every.12 cubic feet. FORUM 'n Agin fEca Dog Tax Collector Refutes Accusation Editor Herald: In answer to Mr. Bentley's cry about dogs, I would like for Mr. Bentley to prove some of the things he said. He said that there never was anything done in regards to the dog that attacked the 80-year-old lady. This case was investigated and there was no scars or scratches scratch-es to prove she had been bitten by any dog, but the owner of the dog was contacted in regards to this, and was told that he would have to take care of the dog, which he promised to do. When Mr. Bentley reported this same dog had attacked him, the owner was told he would have to get rid of, or keep the dog tied up. We can show Mr. Bentley the reports on these cases if he cares to see them, which I wish he would ask for before writing an aricle laying there was never anything done. Mr. Bentley should read up on the law, 30 he would know just how far the dog catcher can go. Some7 people seem to think they can just report some dog to the dog catcher and he can run right down and shoot the dog. I defy anyone to prove any dog case that has been reported to me that has not been investigated and a report made of same, but the dog catcher has to stay within with-in the law in performing his duties. I write this to let you know the dog catcher has not hibernated and Is on the job. C. B. HOPE, 4 Dog Tax Collector. Pedestrian Protection A Car length to a Step I A CAR LENGTH TO A STEP1" Thafs the way the Afaerican Automobile Association Associa-tion expresses the marked difference dif-ference in speed of pedestrians and cars going even at 25 miles per hour. Many persons'do not realize how very much faster cars travel than pedestrians walk. That's one reason the Ct hit AIR CORPS SOLDIERS WIN PROMOTIONS SALT - LAKE CITY,' April 14 HE) Promotion of 15 "air corps soldiers at the Salt Lake army air base was announced today-by By PETER EDSON V Dally Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 15 Suppose you are a real estate man or a private building, contractor or just an ordinary citizen brought up on the old copybook maxims to the effect that "You, too, should own your own home" to be considered a respectable citi zen in the community Suppose further, that in these flush war boom times, you decide de-cide you want to build a new house Where does this new War Production Pro-duction Board order placing limitations limi-tations on building construction leave you? In the first place, if you don't live, in one of those localities still known as a "defense" area, you might just as well forget all about building that dream-house-with-blue-upstalrs-and - rambler-rose-climbing-over-the-door - and-yard-where-the-kiddles-can - play. Until the war's all over, that's out. PRIVATE BUILDERS GET A BREAK If you live in a defense area, and if you work in an essential war industry you have a chance. No one has yet accurately ' defined de-fined just what a defense area is, but if you'll take a rule of thumb definition, it's an area within two miles of a war production pro-duction plant, or hard by a transportation trans-portation system that will take you to this aforesaid essential war production job within one hour for a cost of not over 10 cents. This is the National "Housing Administration's Ad-ministration's unofficial guide as to what constitutes ' a defense area. Suppose you qualify as to location. lo-cation. What are your chances of getting in on any of this new construction ? In the long run, whatever new construction is done will be done by private builders who get the contracts from the government for approved jobs. John B. Blandford, Jr., new National Housing Administration boss, insists in-sists that this war emergency is not to drive private building out of the field and set government housing up as a monopoly. Bland-ford's Bland-ford's idea is that, private business busi-ness shall do all the housing work it possibly can, the - government stepping in only when there are temporary housing projects to be built, or Low rent projects which private enterprise cannot finance or handle profitably. The remaining restrictions are primarily concerned with the types "of housing permitted. First, there must be established a clear cut proof that additional housing is needed because of existing or future shortages of shelter sufficient suffi-cient to house workers in war industries. No need, no house. After that, no housing unit will be authorized which win rent fcf more than ' $50 a month or sell for more than $5000. These ' restrictions re-strictions are to be so tightly administered that the government may even step in and stop construction con-struction on houses already started, start-ed, if they are to rent or sell for higher figures. SO YOU'D LOUS TO REMODEL The restrictions will apply even to remodelling. If your house can be made" into a duplex or small apartments to . shelter additional families, the chances are such remodelling would be approved if it's in a defense area. Aside from that, any new construction or repairing to cost more than 5500 in. the city, or SlOOO.lf Its an essential job on a farm, must get local approval from ..your nearest FHA Federal Housing Administrations-office, which will handle t this control job for th6 War Production Board. . That's the ..way the picture stands now, but there is no assurance as-surance that even this will- be permanent. No one knows what the stockpile situation will be on building materials by "the end of the summer. If shortages of metal for . plumbing and wiring and eaves and heating units become be-come more critical, by 1943 the order may be that , the only new housing construction permitted will be for barracks. . o'WARQUIZ 1. This American Navy man's insignia with its globe looks as if the wearer might be the map maker for his ship, is that the. case ? - ' 2. Soldiers of a certain axis power looted the palace at Het Loo. Is it in - China, Burma Bur-ma Malaya. Norway, H ol-land? ol-land? 3. L an c e Corporal C. A. Churan, Jr., of New York City, thought, to be first American enlisted in British army, has won military medal for bravery in action at Tobruk. Where Is. that town? - (Answers on Page Three) fini;A Cbl. Hubert UV. Hopkins, v' base commander. ; Among those, promoted were Szt. Ellis D Orchard. Twin Falls.' Ida, raised to staff-sergeant, and Corp. Waif red . : M. Hasselblad. . uubw, nuuu, - cicvbicu lu . we rank - of sergeant. ...... .. ...i |