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Show PAGE FOUR PRO VP '(UTAH) DAILY HERALD - FRIDAY, 'APRIL1 24; i 1942 rwr iitwtMi .' (excepting Satardar ul Sanaa?) Soaoa? Hand Published Sanaay Mornla PvblUhd by tha Herald Corporation, South Vim Waat Btraat, Pro to, Utlh. Bntared second cUm matter at the poatofflca to FroTe, Utah, under the act of March a, JIT. Oilman. Nleol Bwthman, National Adrertla-ln Adrertla-ln representative. New York. Saa Fraacieea, Detroit. Boatoa, Loe Anvelee, Chicago. Member United Preea. N. B. A- narrloa, the Serippa Lu of Kowapanara and Audit Bursa ( Circulation Ubarty throuch all the land" The IJberty Bell Subaerlptiea tarma , by enrrUr la Utah "aoTinty, l eanta the month, tf.M for aU snontha, la adaneo: iT.lt tbo year. Is advance; hy natl anywhere In United State or Its aoaaeaaloaa eonta the ' months II M for ela monthi ; IS.TI the rear In advance. The Herald will not aatuma financial re-aponalblllty re-aponalblllty tor any orrora" which may appoar In adrertlsementa published In Its columns. In those Instancoa where th paper la at fault. It will reprint that part at the advertisement 1a which the typographical mistake ocaum. It's War We can't buy new automobiles. We shall have to use the old jalopies year after year, instead of turning them in every spring for new models. We can't buy tires. We shall have to walk to stores and bridge parties or else use buses and trollies. Gasoline is rationed or will be to dealers. We must either spread our share through the month or lay up the car the' latter part of each month. Stores and laundries and various service agencies are saving tires and gasoline. Our demands for instantaneous in-stantaneous service are coldly rejected. re-jected. We have to plan now and take advantage of regular pick-ups and deliveries. Refrigerators and stoves and 'radios and washing machines are not being manufactured any longer. Dealers are running out of patterns in linoleum. We cant get aluminum percolators or other cooking dishes. Sugar is short. Typewriters aren't on sale. We can't have cuffs on our trousers. It's terrible or is it? Certainly it's inconvenient. Our civilian life isn't quite normal. But suppose the next time somebody you perhaps? begins lamenting our handships in this war you pin . him yourself? down, to specifications. specifica-tions. Exactly how much have we been hit by the scarcities, the rationing, ration-ing, the deprivation thus far? We are escaping very lightly thus far. Suppose we were Britain. We wouldn't have been rationed on tires because for two years and a half there wouldn't have been any new cars and petrol rationing would have permitted us to drive no more than 200 miles a month. We should be accustomed long since to scarcity scarci-ty of most types of food not merely a few. We should-be limited to one suit, one coat and a few haberdashery haber-dashery items a year, and should long fervently for the good old days when only trouser cuffs and extra pants were banned. Suppose we were French, or Belgium, Bel-gium, or Dutch, or 4 Norwegian, or Poles, or Serbs, or Czechs, or Greeks or Chinese? To be sure, we're none of these. We're American and proud of it. Why suppose the impossible? Why compare us with those unfortunates? Because they, too, once thought it couldn't happen there. They, too, declined to sacrifice against the future. They awoke too late. Thanks to them, we know in advance the dreadful cost of half measures. We can and will give up luxuries which we have taken for granted in order that the Armies of Democracy may have all they can use of what there is. . . . It's war. vl II The fill! iiiiiinim Let's Clear The Air The Senate has decided wisely to study the effect of patent control upon war production. It is to be assumed as-sumed that the inquiry will delve deeply into the matter of international interna-tional agreements, which has received re-ceived considerable publicity. There have been serious allegations, allega-tions, reflecting upon the essential patriotism of industrial- concerns whose efficiency during the war is vital. To the extent that these were justified, the bottlenecks found should be broken. But there were instances in which it appeared that, while unwise cartels had been created cre-ated to control prices and inflate profits, no possible American military mili-tary right had been waived. In these cases, the Senate can clear the atmosphere by ascertaining and publicizing all of the facts. Washington Merry-Go-Roujnd i nWilv Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs Br SSZ PiTB!Z5- WASHINGTON Two headlines which blazed across the Washington panorama recently re-cently indicate part of the reason why Federal Loan Czar Jesse Jones was eased out of the policies and powers of the Defense Supplies. Metals Reserve, and Rubber Reserve Corporations. Corpora-tions. The headlines were: Armies Face Quinine Shortage With Java's Fall; Battle Of Bataan Ended Because Quinine Pills Ran Out The facts behind these headlines constituted consti-tuted one of the things which jolted the President Presi-dent and caused him to transfer the buying of vital war supplies to Vice President Wallace's bureau of economic warfare. What happened was this: Shortly after Pearl Hartor, the war production pro-duction board and the bureau of economic warfare war-fare urged Jesse Jones and his purchasing organizations or-ganizations to buy quinine. Ninety-five per cent of this drug comes from Java, which seemed likely to fall. This drug is almost an all-out essential in combating malaria. And with thousands of U. S. troops slated to fight in the tropics, malaria is about as dangerous as the enemy. TOO LATE However, Jesse Jones and staff waited. Sumatra fell. Then Java was attacked. .The world's only real source of quinine Seemed sure to fall. Jones ordered a small amount. Then, on March 5, just one day before Batavia, capital of Java, was captured, Jones' Loan Administration finally sent a telegram, by this time ordering all the quinine there was 'to be had in Java about 52,000.000 ounces. ' The telegram was signed by Will Clayton, Texas friend of Jesse's and deputy federal loan administrator. Wishfully, the telegram spoke of June and July delivery. But not one ounce of quinine will ever be delivered from that order. Prior to this frantic telegram, the WPB and BEW had held many meetings with Jones' staff urging the purchase of quinine. LIVES VS. DOLLARS At one time, a BEW official told an inter-government inter-government meeting which was arguing about quinine purchases: "If the war is over early and we at-if left with a lot of quinine on our hands, then we have only wasted dollars. But if the war lasts a long time then we've wasted lives." And it. now looks as if that were what would happen. It is not fair, of course, to blame Jones . for failure to" send quinine to Bataan. But it remains an unfortunate fact that for U. S. troops in Africa, Persia, India. North Australia, and the West Indies to say nothing of United Nations troops in all. these and other areas we have a pitifully small reserve of quinine. - - It consists chiefly of 3,165,000 ounces purchased pur-chased by Jesse Jones from Merck and Co., which had had the foresight to order it long ago. Thus this was merely a transfer from a U. S. firm to a government firm of quinine already here In the United States. It did not enrich our total quinine supply. We alsd have some othei reserves, but added all together, the total is pitifully small for a nation at war. And if we had acted early enough we could have had Java's total annual output of 52,250,-000 52,250,-000 ounces. ARMY LEMONADE The War Department is making preparations prepara-tions to serve lemonade to American soldiers in the tropics. Experts in the Quartermaster Corps have hit upon a method of dehydrating lemon juice, so that the essence can be preserved and transported trans-ported in the form of crystals. This is the first time in military history that the regular Army rations have included lemonade. But the Quartermaster General makes no apologies. He says, it is not only a refreshing refresh-ing drink, but also is full of vitamins. Here is the Army recipe for lemonade: one eleven-ounce can of lemon crystals, and one gallon of water. Shake well before using. The French poilu may have his wine, the British Tommy his beer, but the Yank gets his swig of lemonade. HOT TIME IN NAZILAND The Senate Patents -Committee recently listened to testimony on - the business aspects of the cartel deal between "Remington Arms Company and the Rheinisch - WeatfaWlische Sprengstoff Company of Germany, whereby Remington, though a friendly U. S. company, agreed net to sell an ammunition ingredient to Great Britain. Also the senate committee discovered dis-covered there was a .chummy "social" side to the cartel business. Justice Department Attorney Allen Dobey caused ripples of laughter when he read a letter written by A. A. Dlcke, former Remington vice president, who went to Cologne, Germarfy, to negotiate the ammunition deal. Describing a dinner he had with R. W. S. officials, Dicke wrote: "That certainly was a treat. You can Imagine the rare wines, champagnes, foods, etc., not to mention some 1828 cognac which was used to drink a special toast to the friendship of the two companies and to the success of our plans for cooperation to mutual benefits. Dr. Muller (head of R. W. S.) is also well acquainted acquaint-ed with the duPonts, who usually stay at his home when they are in Cologne." Remington Arms is a duPont subsidiary. R. W. S. is a subsidiary of I. G. Farbeninduatrie. giant German chemical trust, which curtailed production of several vital war products in the United States through cartel agreements' with large U. S. firms. , (Copyright 1B42 by United Feature Syndicate, inc.) V Let's Get Mad i a1' - 1 , ' 'Gj IP Y6 . BREAK FAITH ; '-i 'fft J I jpfYiM . I'M. w v: 5 8Mb, t-jk ., KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR if "' , -fr iflr ECUADOR THE AMAZING "Ecuador rides the equator." The characterization is apt. The American republic whose domain falls part on the one side of the earth's belt line and part on the other, and whose name was drawn from the fact, is a country of swift motion, startling contrasts, amazing changes, breath-taking possibilities. A region about equal to the territory ter-ritory taken up in the United States by Wyoming, Ecuador comes close to running the gamut in climates. In the hot and humid lowlands along the Pacific is a strip averaging aver-aging about 40 miles in width. No more fertile area is to be found anywhere in South America. In the cold, dry regions high up in the snow-capped Andes are known deposits of the world's most precious metals, untouched. In between, as though fashioned by some titan criss-crossing or Andes and transverse mountain range, are the 'Hoyas." They are temperate and healthful basins set in rugged beauty to combine in a fertile plateau 300 miles long and 20 to 30 miles wide. On this plateau and on the elopes toward the Pacific Is settled almost the whole of the population of the republic. On the other side, to the east of the Andes, is the Montana. Here is another country; an Ecuador Ecua-dor hardly changed from what it was before Columbus discovered America It is a region of dense forests, of sheer cliffs, of deep-cut deep-cut canyons. Here, within a few miles, are abrupt fallings-away from 18,000 feet or more to 400 or 500 feet. Here rivers finding their source in the snows of towering peaks plunge from the inter-mountain plateau-land to a plain below, to spread out and interlace as they make their way to the Amazon and the Atlantic. The temperature is high. Here and there along uie water courses are settlements of primitive Indians. It is virgin territory, of infinite possibilities By no means least In Ecuador's amazing catalog of the unusual are the famed Galapagos Islands. 600 miles off -coast and directly under the equator. Though of some rertility, their chief value is scientific. scien-tific. The islands came by their name through discovery there of giant land tortoises found nowhere- else in the world except on the Mascarene islands In the Indian Ocean. Darwin explored the. Gala pagos in 1835 and his study of rare forms of life found there strongly innuencea nis Tneory or Kvolu uon" All wild life, including wna aonKeys, is rigorously pro tected by the government. On the pateau betwleen the two ranges bf the Andes at an elevation eleva-tion of 9,371 feet stands the an cient city of Quito, capitol of to- day s republic as It was capital of me vuuo Kingdom before the coming of the white man. Quito is one or the three New World cities to antedate the discovery of America. Mexico City and Cuzco. Peru, are the . others. Uuito. though a thoroughly modern cltv of over 100.000. retain utin if tenuously, some of. the flavor ot an ancient culture not unlike that of the Incas of Peru. ' Once reached reach-ed with the greatest difficulty, it is now connected by rail with Guaya quil, Ecuador's largest oort. oniv 297 miles away. cacao, ivory nuts, rubber, cof-, ifr r tSc fee, cotton, sugar cane, kapok, rice, fruits so runs partial list ot Ecuador's products of the soil. Unique among the fruits is the naranjilla," which suggests the tomato, the orange, the grapefruit, grape-fruit, the raspberry and pineapple, pineap-ple, but is none of them. Unique among Ecuador's young and growing Industries are vegetable vege-table ivory and the manufacture of the hat of native straw which, through error of California gold prospectors as to Its origin, was to became famous as the "ranama Hat." Unique among Ecuador's . rich mineral deposits gold, silver, copper, cop-per, aluminum, mercury, petroleum petro-leum is quayaquillite, highly valued val-ued for explosives. i So Ecuador "rides the equator,' holding place unique in the family of New World nations; eagerly absorbed ab-sorbed in the adventure of discovering discov-ering ways ever new for turning to use a rich natural heritage, peculiarly its own. K Once News, Now History Twenty-five Years Ago Today From the File of THE PROVO HERALD April 24, 1917 The sort of patriotism found among Utah men was exemplified by Ludwlg Poulson and his son, Edward L. Poulson, ranchers from Corrinne, who leased their ranch, sold their personal belongings, and enlisted In the U. S. army for service in World War No. 1. Col. C. E. Loose contributed $200 for purchase of seed by needy Provo people for garden planting. Clinton Larsen, high jumper, made a record leap of 6feet 5Vi inches in a B. Y. U. "interclass meet Members of the Provo Martial band wrote Governor Simon Bamberger expressing willing ness to enlist in a body to serve the country during the war. The members were Joseph B. Walton, Alfred A. Loveless, David tt. Loveless, Love-less, Rodney Snow, Arthur Snow, James King, Hehry V. Smith, John A. Warner and Henry Samv ders. " Joint Recital Set For Music Students Max Butler of Snowflake, Ariz., and. Harris Brlnkerhoff of Provo, music students at Brigham Young university, will be presented in a joint recital in College hall, May 4 at 8:15 D. m. Mr. Butler, who will play the violin, has been concertmaster of the B, Y. U. symphony orchestra for the past two years, and won the Adams medal for excellence last year. He is a former L. D. S. missionary to England, and a student of Professor LeRoy J. Robertson. Mr. Brinkefhoff, formerly of Circleville, is a major in-music. Harold (Gas Curfew) Ickes Socked Again In Decision ' BY PETER ED30N Dally Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 24 Another An-other good healthy sock was taken at the Hon. - Harold Ickes, in ms guise of petroleum co-ordinator for national defense, when Director of Defense Transportation Joseph B. Eastman signed a decision in which it was stated that he, Eastman, East-man, had authority over pipelines. No fuss was made about the decision de-cision at the time, for it was all done in the best of taste and according ac-cording to correct government proceedure. But the effect of the decision can be - interpreted as being the first step toward putting put-ting jurisdiction over the pipelines under the Interstate Commerce Commission, of which Eastman is chairman. And that is important. Pipelines for the transmission ot petroleum products may seem rather remote from the dally life of the average citizen, but when potential pipeline deliveries are translated into gasoline for the tank of the family automobile or fuel oil for the oil-burning furnace products which are going to be increasingly scare because of tanker tank-er torpedoings along the Atlantic coast then pipelines become everybody's ev-erybody's business 1 and every man's interest is something more than academic Secretary of Interior Ickes serves as petroleum co-ordinator though the informal authority of a Presidential letter of last May, telling the co-ordinator to co-ordinate all federal activties concerned concern-ed with the production, refining, transportation and marketing of petroleum, particularly as to national na-tional defense. Dream Up A Shortage The co-ordinatcr's office shortly short-ly thereafter created the first gasoline shortage, which didn't exist, and iproposed doing things about it. One of the suggestions was for a 24-Inch pipeline to run from the Texas oil fields to the New York and Philadelphia refineries. re-fineries. It was turned down by the row defunct Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, which said that the 450.000 tons of steel for the line couldn't be spared. Then the gas shortage disappeared disap-peared and no more was heard about pipelines until German subs began sinking tankers along the Atlantic coast, when a real short-' age developed. The petroleum coordinator's co-ordinator's office called a conference con-ference and has recently proposed that some 1400 miles of exisiting pipelines be dug up and relocated to relieve the eastern seaboard shortages. In the meantime, there na been kicking around for some months a proposal for a 12-inch and 10-inch common carrier pipeline pipe-line running from Wichita Falls, Tex. ,to Savannah. Ga. The line would tap the fields of East Texas, Tex-as, LouMana and Mississippi. One suggestion was that, deliveries at Savannah could be .barged up the lntracoastal canal to the eastern refineries and Norfolk and Charleston Charles-ton Navy Yards, Thus keeping the water transportation out of the ocean shipping lanes where submarines menaced. It was estimated esti-mated that this pipeline would have required only 85,000 tons of steel- plate of a thickness that would not have competed with steel plate capacity needed for fillip construction. Price Control Wrecker .The common carrier ptiase of the project was of special interest. in-terest. All exisiting U. S. pipelines' pipe-lines' are privately owned by the major oil companies or their subsidiaries. sub-sidiaries. They cannot carry each other's oil. nor the oil of the independent in-dependent producers, unless they buy it. As a common carrier the proposed Wichita Falls-Savannah pipeline would have been forced to haul the oil of any producer. It would have been something unique uni-que as a public utility to help break the major oil purchasing agencies' control of prices at the well. Nickel has been the mainstay of the economy of New Caledonia for many years, and the basis of the colony's consistent prosperity, says the department of commerce. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "I reckon It's possible for a girl to love a man twice her age, ' but It's mighty seldom they happen to love O SERIAL STORY FRANTIC WEEKEND BY EDMUND FANCOTT COPVfttOMT. !. NKA SKRVICC INC THE STORY Jmmt after Ike weekest gneata mt Feral y Lofton's Canadian roam try plate learm that oae of the party. Fay Raaaoaa. la a ( II road way alxht elaa tajrer, yomm rnr Mack aeea the Sarnre of a ataa la the atooa-llaht. atooa-llaht. Her brother Michael. Klarel Moakaeaae a ad Feral y briaa; alat ia. He tnras oat to he Baldy Brlea, Kay'a aaaanpr, who aaa eoato to tak her hack. Prdr. hla . aad Pnrra older alater Myra are aaeoaeeraed. Bat Mlehael aad rtiarei are aota la lore with Fay. &aa M-i-KKT aaa aiaas ox aer owa. www A barn belonging to Reuben G Jolley of the Third ward was des troyed - by ' fire. Damage was around $100. In Lark, the citizens took up a collection to buy a large Ameri can flag. When one man refused to contribute, he was given until six o'clock to get out of town. O ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ Questions on Page Three 1.- Insignia is worn by U. S. Marines on their collars. 2. King Peter is ruler of Yugo slavia. 3. Dogs are to . guard Army property against theft or sabotage. "I JUST RAN AWAY?" CHAPTER IX 'VOU must be very clever," said Peggy admiringly, ignoring Myra s questioning eye. Baldy Brien almost purred and was just about to expand again but Peggy got in first. "Would you be my manager?" Baldy stared at her. "Listen, baby. I'm in the show business, not running a girls' school. Run away. When you get your name in neon same place 111 come and listen to you, but I'm in it for dough dough for me, and dough for them that can make it I ain't a charitable organization." Peggy looked at him with in finite scorn. "Sucker!" she said. "And I swallowed your line. Why. you couldn't see talent if it was "pushed down your throat!" Baldy staritvt siiT-rvrica4 at 4V. in sudden attack. Then he bristledj "You're right, dead right, and I can't see it now." He turned to attack Fay. again and looked around the room in surprise. Fay had gone, so had Ferdy, Michael and NigeL "Where are you staying?" asked Ferdy's aunt quietly, realizing it was already late and that there were no hotels within many miles "Thanks very much," said Baldy. "That's kind of you, lady. I was going to take my forty In the back of the car, but if; you insist, 1 gladly accept your Invitation.' Invita-tion.' , . "I'm sure my nephew will enjoy en-joy you," said Ferdy's aunt, after ner nrsi surprise at his self-invitation. "He has such strange ideas anyway, n will serve him right," Baldy looked quickly at her but sne was Knining placidly. . Out in the moonlight. -Incom parably peaceful in contrast with al a. . me recent minutes ; indoors, the three men and Fay were sitting on the wharf. Onev by one they naa . supped out while- Baldy was uwiaing .me hoot . ana - naa wan dered down to the quay. The three men were smoking. "Now I know." said Ferdv suddenly. "Why you left New York." "I wonder." said Vnv Th moonlight cast soft shadows in the rugni. me air was warm. "Some times vou da something suHrionlv and you don't care whether it is right or wrong. You only know that you must do it." 'But I dont understand it all" said Nigel slowly. , Fay laughed, a low soft laugh. A fish splashed somewhere out on the lake. "Neither do I. It seems n auiet and peaceful here . . . after livins so long in New York." Michael interruDted. "But New York singing with a band like Johnny White's vou haven't given it up?" Fay laughed. "I haven't exactly exact-ly given it up. I just ran away." 'Ran away?" said NigeL "Yes. Baldy is rieht. I had everything a girl could want. Everything a million girls would give their eye teeth to get and I ran away. "You're coins: back?" asked Michael and there was a touch of wistfulness in his voice. "I don't know." Fay's mlm came slowly, and in the pause that followed the eyes of all three men rested on her. www ALL three were thinking the aMea Miui ai:aS All Ml5 moonlight they wouldn't have minded staving silently for hmira just looking at her face as it was at mat moment, it wore the love iv sadness or one who has cami every dream come true with a sue cession 01 miracles and then watched them all turti to dust and tinsel. Then she shook vher head and laughed lishtlv. throwing hir thoughts away from her. "i n ten you. When I first began to De noticed it was wonderful intoxicating. There was the ap plause, tne praise and money came easily. Then my agent told me tne time Marl mm tn hao o manager to build me up and he introduced me to Baldy BrienT He taucs too much but he really is as straight as thev come: accord in r to his lights." "What hannened then?" oVd Nigel. 'First vou have a manawr 4hm you have a press agent. Then you have to compete with Hollywood Holly-wood in hair, face and drmt Vnn have to be a glamor eh-L That means a dresser, it means endless hours for fittings, hair riraeilntf massage, voice lessons. It all costs money, and the one that earns it has to pay. . "First you are rich on fifty a week and it is all your own except ex-cept the agent's cut Then you go up to seventy-five and a hundred. By that time you find you have about forty left fox yourself. Then it goes up to a hundred and fifty. By this time you have thirty-five for yourself. By the time it gets to two hundred you have twenty-five left and a horde of people with their hands held out" She sighed and paused for breath. "But that isnt all," Fay continued. con-tinued. t'Your a pent, vruir man ager, your press agent, your maid all want to earn their money and they all find things for vou trt do. They endorse this or that product for you and you have to t n early after working all nicht tn pose for photographs for advertise ments. Tne telephone begins to ring all day. This and that want photographs, some amateur nas an iaea zor a series, somebody knows the nicest man who wants to meet you. Then there are re hearsals for new numbers and all the time you are earning more and more, and more rwtnnlo nr taking Digger and bigger cuts." A chuckle came from Ferdy. Fay looked at him and felt that he understood. She went on, encouraged en-couraged by the darkness and the silence of the men, "You want to sing real songs and all the time you are plugging numbers that sound ' like every other number, all for half a dozen people who are interested In making mak-ing money out of thenv And all the time you feel you want to sing real songs. .Then suddenly one morning the sun shines through your window and it is Spring for everyone except you, and you realize that you are just a glamorous glam-orous fly in a vast vh vHtH hundreds of spiders after you." Ferdy laughed again. "So, if you have any sense 'you get up, slip out, and take the plane to Montreal." "That's lust what T did. nnd Tm still all muddled up,'f 'THE next morning promised a hot day. ' A blue haze was hovering over the woods below the house and the distance was lost in mist , - Peeev leant nut nt tuj termined not to miss a sino-i in. stant of the weekend. "Where are vou rotas?" caid a sleepy voice from the other bed.. "To .swim before breakfast, said Peggy, smiling innocently. "Well. . behave, vnnraolf mur mured Myra, shutting her eyes again. "And if I find you making eyes at that agent again I'll push him Into the lake." ' (To Be ConusvedT i n' |