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Tka Raraia . wUI aot aaaaaaa flaaaotal fa ponatbtllt (or aay arroca which may tvppaar 4 la aarartUanxTli p-lallana ta tta aalomaa. laf ehoaa toataacaJ jwacra tha yaaar to at faalt, ' rill raprtnt taV aart a( tha adaartlaamattt la a-htea tha typatraphleal attotaka , Nebraska Sarcasm One need not'be cm unswerving follower of Senator George Norris' economic philosophy to sympathize with that honest, belligerently straightforward old horse as he sat in the United States Seriate the other day and listened to the "debate" on gasoline rationing. On the merits of nation-wide rationing ra-tioning there is room for legitimate disagreement, unless one accepts the thesis that our rubber situation is so serious that we must ration gasoline to control the waste of tires. Even then, Senator Kilgore of ' West Virginia made a pertinent point that the. proposed system for Rationing fuel to save tires permits every motorist to do about 60 miles a week of non-essential driving. Unfortunately the "debate" wandered wan-dered from such matters to what many consider an unseemly display dis-play of vituperative demagogism directed against the men notably 'Leon Henderson who are trying to handle a very difficult situation with a minimum of errors. To Senator Norris, as to many outside out-side of Congress, the air of the Gentleman's Gen-tleman's Club grew unbearable. Briefly, caustically and effectively he said: , "It is obvious to an onlooker who listens to the statements of grave and reverend senators that not only is. unanimity necessary, but it is achieved in the Senate. The. Senate knows how to handle the rubber situation; and the co-ordinators, or whatever they may be called, are all wrong. "It is quite evident from the discussion dis-cussion and the statements of senators sena-tors who know more about the rubber rub-ber situation than any of the co--?rritnr! thrrt there ouaht to be no regulation of gasoline which would m ThA effect the use of rubber in any way. "We can handle 'the situation. That has been demonstrated in the past hour and a half. It was further demonstrated by the great speech made this afternoon by the senator from Florida (Mr. Andrews) in which he called attention to the steel and iron in sight in the Senate Chamber. He call attention to 80 tons of iron, 85 or 90 tons of steel; and the great quantity of other metals. He called attention to something that made chills run up and down my spine, when he said that if the facts should become generally known we might all be arrested for hoarding steel right here in .the Senate. "That demonstrates that we know how to regulate rubber and gasoline gaso-line and that we ought to do it. It has been demonstrated that 96 senators sena-tors can do a much better job than can one person who wants to be a tyrant, dictator, or something else, and set the pace for the whole country. coun-try. "It seems to me that we have had a demonstration of how to settle the whole thing; and I do not see why we should not proceed to settle it." Nor do we. Ask Dad We hadn't realized what an infant in-fant Assistant War Secretary Patterson Pat-terson must be, until we learned about his prophecy that gasoline and tire shortages will stop petting parties for the duration. Shucks. We're not so old ourselves but we can hobble around. Yet even we can remember when there weren't any automobiles in general use. And do you suppose there weren't petting parties then? Ask Dad. He knows. Back to the Back Yard S i ' Major Problems of War Tied Up In Distribution Keep That Scrap Rubber Rolling In For Your Uncle Sam Washington Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's fcromg un in nauonai ahous WASHINGTON Secretary of War Stim-son Stim-son had to wait twelve year for It to happen, tnit he has just won an important naval victory. When he was Secretary of State under Hoover, the biggest row Stimson ever had was with the admirals of the U. S. Navy. It was deep, bitter and personal. Stimson contended that big warships were not necessarily the best type of vessel for the Navy, that small, fast cruisers, able to fire at liglitning speed, might be just as good, perhaps better. Stimson maintained that the Admirals should experiment with different kind of ships before they put all their eggs in the big ship basket. Because of this argument, the late Admiral Hilary P. Jones resigned for a time from the American Naval Delegation at London; and a battery of admirals bombarded Stimson publicly pub-licly before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Com-mittee. But Stimson won his fight until Roosevelt entered the White House. Then the admirals rushed to the man who once was assistant secretary sec-retary of the Navy, and concentrated on their one great love big warships. LESSONS OF WO BATTLES The Navy's announcements of the past week, however, have supported Stimson ,100 per cent. For in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway Island, the Navy's big warships did not fire a single shot at a Jap vessel. They did not get even remotely within range. Everything was air power, with a few submarines also participating. And in other theaters of war, what we have needed most is small fast cruisers and destroyers for convoy work, the type of vessel Stimson said the Navy should try out exhaustively. exhaus-tively. Meanwhile, there are indications that the big battleship advocates have been decisively defeated. de-feated. Senator Brewster of Maine has reported that he understands the Navy has abandoned work on five super-dreadnaughta in favor of expanding ex-panding the aircraft carrier program, This is a move which has been urged by many White House advisers, who also want to see battleship battle-ship steel going into merchant ships and patrol pa-trol vessels wnich can be finished in 1942, not 194V. A staunch advocate of the battleship who has been won over to the new strategy of naval warfare is Admiral William Leahy. One of tho ablest and, most forthright officers who ever bossed the' fleet, Admiral Leahy has come back from ; Vichy to confess: . "This war has made a fool out of me. These battleships I advocated have to be wrapped up in cotton wool. The trouble with us is that our Bureau of Ships sees what the Japanese are building and says 'We've got to build ships to match the ..Japs.' Then they see what the British are building and say 'We've got to have ships like those.' "What we really want are some far-sighted designers who will plan some' ships which nobody no-body else has ships that' combine the best features fea-tures of the battleship and the airplane carrier.' CAPITOL CHAFF -' High Commissioner Sayre of the Philippines has ent hi resignation-to -the President. His Bntitrt 8. Allen Draw 1' aran letter carries a tag line that he is available for other duty. (Sayre is the son-in-law of Wood-row Wood-row Wilson) . . . Undersecretary of War Patterson Pat-terson has drafted Herbert Bayard Swope. ex-star ex-star editor of the New York World, to advise him on - public relations for the duration ... Jack Dempsey has resigned as Undersecretary of the Interior to run for governor of New Mexico. Mexi-co. He will have the President's full support. . . Likely successor to Dempsey as Undersecretary of the Interior is Mike Strauss, pubUcity expert for Harold Ickes unless the White House objects ob-jects to having two men from Chicago in the two top Interior Department positions. Usually, the Rocky Mountain states get first crack at one of these jobs ... To prevent sabotage, the Army soon1 will begin fingerprinting all war plant workers Including officials of factories. A SUGGESTION FROM PEARSON AND ALLEN In the rear trunk or rumble seat of your automobile is a rubber mat used to keep suitcases from getting scratched. It is not essential to your car, yet it contains between be-tween four and seven pounds of rubber. Probably you could replace it with a piece of old carpet, or even let your suitcases ride on the bare boards. At any rate, If everyone of the nation's 20,000,000 car owners turned in this mat, it would net around. 100,000,000 pounds of rubber. HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WAR Hollywood has sent a dozen or so notable producers to the Army, where they are doing interesting in-teresting and sometimes valuable work. Of these, highest ranking are Jack- Warner of Warner War-ner Brothers, and Darryl Zanuck, president of 20th Century-Fox. Between there two has developed a rivalry as to who shall salute whom which threatens to put in the shade even the good old dinner-seating- clash between Dolly Gann and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Col. Zanuck, who draws $260,000 yearly from 20th Century-Fox, got into the Army first with the rank of lieutenant colonel, which nets him around $3,000. He is in the Signal Corps: Then Jack Warner got into the Army also as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Corps. Whereuoon the rivalry started. Lt. Col. Darryl Zanuck invited MaJ. Gen. Dawson CM instead, in-stead, chief of the Signal Corp, out to Hollywood, Holly-wood, where he gave him a big blow-out with all the stars and starlets for trimmings. Shortly thereafter, Lt. CoL Zanuck was promoted pro-moted in the Signal Corps to the rank of full colonel. So he sported eagles on his shoulders, whereas Lt. Col. Jack Warner bad only silver leaves. Then Col. Warner staged a big Hollywood Holly-wood luncheon for General ''Hap" Arnold, his chief in the Air Corps. And all Hollywood is waiting to see how soon Jack Warner becomes a full colonel. If and when he does, they know that Col. Darryl Zanuck will have his eyes fixed on the rank of brigardler general. (Copyright, 1M2, by United Features Syndicate, Inc...;,. SOMETIME In the next week r so, find time to go up to the attic and bring down that tricycle or scooter Johnny has outgrown. The rubber tires, sold to the Rubber Salvage Campaign, will help to Keep 'Em Rolling" and "Keep Em Flying", in the scrap with the" Jao. Q, . Soiree we doubt if it is ever excelled. ex-celled. No audience could be satisfied after such an evening of virtuosity vir-tuosity on the part of Mr. Foldes until they had applauded vocifer-busly vocifer-busly enough to wring from him at least two encores, so the performer per-former very graciously rendered his own arrangement of Kodalys "Viennese Clock," and a Grieg Norwegian dance. The next number of the festival will be held in the tabernacle, Sunday, Sun-day, June 21, at 8:30 p. m. At that time, Yves Tinayre, assisted by Professors Robinson and Keel-er, Keel-er, will give a song recital composed com-posed mainly of pre-eighteenth century vocal music. By PETER EDSON Dally Herald Washington Correspondent The major problems of the war effort can be shaken down into a single problem of distribution. Not just transportation, though that's important and closely related, re-lated, but the much broader meaning mean-ing of distribution which includes supply and allocation and rationing. ration-ing. It's really amazing how little Is known about this subject. It takes a war economy to bring out that fact in stark nakedness. Any problem of production can be licked. But the problems of distribution dis-tribution are something else again and they hit at every level from local distribution of the morning's milk, of which there is a surplus, to world distribution of rubber, or which there is an artificial scarcity. The problems of distribution therefore there-fore reduce themselves to taking these surpluses and shortages and finding ways to divide them up so that everyone has enough to get by on. There are no rules for this matter mat-ter of distribution. The only rule of thumb has been that nothing was ever distributed to anyone unless It was profitable to do so. No one government agency has ever concerned itself with the overall over-all aspects of distribution. Even TNEC the Temporary National Economic Committee, which supposedly sup-posedly dug into every phase of contemporary economics was woefully weak In its studies of this subject. In this wartime controlled economy, econ-omy, there are half a dozen government gov-ernment agencies concerning1 themselves with some phase of distribution though no one has general, coordinating supervision, and it would probably be too big a job for anyone to tackle. Production Is Easy The new Food Requirements Committee, set up under Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Wlckard, has the problem of seeing that there is enough food produced for the United States and the United Nations, too, but its responsibility stooa there. Production, - how ever, isn't the problem. All that has to be done to get production is tell the farmers to produce and guarantee them a price, both of which have been done. Thus, though the law says there must be 65 million acres allotted for the production of wheat, pres ent surpluses are so great that the country could get by next year if only 21 million acres were planted. Similarly, there may be vast surpluses of pork, cheese and other food products. The prob lem of storing these surpluses or transDortine: them to market, is thus a primary worry. Agricultural Marketing Administration Admin-istration has gained a little experience expe-rience in the problems of distribution distribu-tion through its programs for buying buy-ing up surpluses of some commodities com-modities and distributing them, through the food stamp plan, but this is an artificial and rudimentary rudimen-tary approach to the problem. Trapped In Middle The civilian interests in this matter are supposedly looked after by the Consumer's Division of the Office of mce Administra tion. It is an advisory organiza tion .purely, but its advice carries weight in the making or decisions which . OPA hands down as w what shall be rationed, and when and how. There is foreseen no necessity to ration clothing: this year, no need to requisition housing:, hous-ing:, no shortages of essential foods. Where shortages develop, as possibly in coffee and tea, rationing ra-tioning will have to be applied for equitable distribution. Caught in the middle of all this planning of distribution are the agencies governing: transportation, the War Shipping Administration, allotting space for exports and imports, im-ports, and the Office of Defense Transportation, co-ordinating the movement of goods at home. With shortages of all transport faculties, facul-ties, with normal sources of supply sup-ply cut off, with extra loads ot troops and war supplies to carry, theirs is the job of trying to facilitate fa-cilitate the distribution of such goods as there are. Maybe, out of all the experience gained in meeting these wartime problems of distribution, enough knowledge will be acquired to lick, dat ol' debbil distribution as called for by Point Four of the Atlantic Charter, "to furthes the enjoyment enjoy-ment by all states. . .of access. . . to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic econ-omic prosperity." uWlOIIiilG ..H? j s t y . " a r v : 1 -A SiIARE2nd share ALIKE) Once News, Now History Twenty-five Years Ago Today From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD Of June 19, 1917 Marriage licenses were granted to the following: Parley Lorang Larsen andMartha Jane Bee Provo, Reed Meldrum and Margaret Pulsipher, Pul-sipher, Provo; Joseph Earl Stubbs and, LaRue Smith, Provo; Professor Profes-sor J. Morrille George, Provo, and Mabel E. Morley, Eureka. oOo W. R. Butler, accompanied by his wife and daughter returned from a six-week vacation in the Hawaiian islands. Mra. J. H. McDonald assisted by daughters, Inez and Edith, tendered tend-ered a patriotic farewell party ror Mrs. E. E. Corf man, who was leaving leav-ing Provo. BIRTHDAYS Saturday, June 20 JUNE PEHRSON DAVID FERGUSON DORA DEAN WALKER Sunday, June 21 VICTOR C. ANDERSON JOHN JACKSON A. N. TALBOT MRS. LEO THURMAN MRS. JOSEPH SUDWEEKS MRS. ELMER SMITH KENNETH GABBITAS AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN '111 cook fish if P will do the cleaninV but it makes me nervous to handle whole fish, 1, V always feel like they're looldn' at me." Greater Foldes Revealed At Piano Recital BY GEORGE W. FITZROY Andor Foldes, pianist par ex cellence, was the second attraction attrac-tion offered in the auditorium of the Josenh Smith Memorial build ing to the music lovers and sup porters of good music in rrovo, Thursday evening, by the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university summer school at its fourth annual music festival. Mr. Foldes friends, who are legion in Provo, were prepared In their minds for an evening of exceptional pianistic entertainment, entertain-ment, but we doubt if Mr. Foldes' friends were prepared to hear a new pianistic Mr. Foldes who played play-ed for them last night after a vpar'a absence. We sav a new Mr. Foldes because the artist last night was one who had gained an even deeDer insight than ever De- fore into the nrofoundness of Bach; nnp whn nan a more msmrea un derstanding of the "idealized form of programme-music," as Richard Aldrich used to say; and one who had a greater than ever respect and reverence for the youthful, eighteenth century Beethoven. This was the new Foldes who last night demonstrated beyond a doubt after he had played the Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, the Beethoven Sonata, Opus 14, No. 1, and the Schumann Fantasia in C major, Opus 17 that the American public must consider another name added to the all-ready select galaxy of pianistic pian-istic stars; Mr. Foldes' interpretative, versatility ver-satility did not end with the first part of his program. After the intermission in-termission it was again demonstrated demon-strated in an ironic, humoristic polka, from the ballet, "The Golden Gold-en Age." by the Russian Schos-takovitch; Schos-takovitch; the players own prelude pre-lude a dainty morsel that, pleased the audience because of its modern mod-ern tonal conception as well as Mr. Foldes presentation of its melodic beauties; a Bartok selection selec-tion from "The Diary of A Fly," r-the fly's steps were rather heavy at times; Professor LeRoy J. Robertson's "Etude in G minor" Utah's foremost composer was called to Xhe stage after its rendition rendi-tion at the request of the player and the demand of the audience; "Zephyr Cove," dedicated to Mr. Foldes . by the composer, Mana-Zucca; Mana-Zucca; and the last number on the program, one of the nine Schubert Schu-bert Soirees de Vienne arranged by Liszt. The performer's impulse work as well as his unusually brilliant bril-liant left hand actave execution may be equalled at times, but in the playing' of this particular O SERIAL STORY SPORTING BLOOD BY HARRY HARRISON KROLL COrVSIGHT. 1942. NZA CRVICC INC. A VISITOR CHAPTER IX FTER Strickland Ballard had left, Hunter sat on his cot wanting somehow to laugh, though it was much nearer a crying matter. mat-ter. Ballard had come with a vague hope of fastening the crime on Hunter. His real reason was to shield poor Junior. Because Hunter's motive all along had been pretty much the same thing, it .night seem as if they could get together. The trouble was that Hunter Dent was not quite prepared pre-pared 'to carry a crime of which he was innocent to save another who seemed guilty. Whatever Ballard's call, it took him hastily away. When Anderson Ander-son came for Hunter to talk over the telephone, he laughed ironically. ironi-cally. "If I have any more high-and-mighty guests like you. Dent, I aim to install a private phone. There you are." "Hello," Hunter said. " "This is Tracy Hannings. I can't be with you until 10 o'clock. Will that be time enough?" "Okay. We'll make it time enough." Hunter returned to his cell. Anderson An-derson obligingly brought the morning paper. Aside from the war -news, the most interesting thing to Hunter was the dope on the local mystery. 'The girl, Sarah Kiker, had been released. The police would be watching her every ev-ery moment to discover her escort the night of the murder. The long-expected long-expected break in the ordnance plant scandal came. The elder Ghibardo had been arrested in the charge of fraud in the contracts for building the great plant, and his case would come up in Federal Court. The First National, and other local financial interests, were 'allegedly involved. Other financial interests meant Strickland Ballard, who had his finger in every pie that came along. Perhaps it was this involvment that had taken Ballard away so quickly. Tracy Hannings came at the appointed ap-pointed time. They went over the whole matter, detail by detail. TOURING the afternoon Hunter entertained himself looking out his single window. The autumn au-tumn afternoon spread over the western part of Middleton. The jail overlooked the river, and the old water-front section of town where -the . Jstick-up . had been staged. It was a mean, dismal, but picturesque mixture of dirty warehouses, old rickity buildings, poor dwellings in need of light and paint and sanitation. River rats, thieves, gamblers, riff-raff of all sorts, inhabited the neighborhood. Down there were plenty who would have esteemed it the opportunity op-portunity of a lifetime to kill a man and take $17,000 off him. But what on earth was the messenger mes-senger from the bank doing in that section of town with the bag of money on him, at such a time of night? And even more myste rious was the manner the thugs had found out the messenger was on his way. The killers had to know beforehand a lot of things that somebody was going to be red in the face trying to answer. "That brings up young Temple. He is the lad whose face is going to be red before all this is over!" Hunter concluded. Hunter got a pretty good night's sleep that night, and the next morning at 9 o'clock he faced Judge Elkhart and heard his bond fixed at $10,000. Hannings' took Hunter back to jail. Hunter didn't feel so good. Nor did his feelings look up as he saw the day pass. Always an active outdoor man, this enforced idleness was killing him. He slept fitfully, dreaming of Junior Jun-ior Ballard's dying, of the lost money: and questions about why the money was moving, and where, tormented his half dreams. After breakfast the next morning Anderson An-derson came to his door. "Visitor," the sheriff announced. He let Bella Ballard In. "Rattle the door when yotx want to leave, Miss Ballard," he said when he left. t "They think Junior has a chance now. The doctors won't allow him to speak, to see any of us. But Dr. Ferguson thinks If no complications compli-cations set in he will get welL" Hunter said warmly, "Well, Tm proud to hear that, Red. I really am." She looked around and grinned. "I like your apartment. Hunter." "No wisecracks, please. Or 111 have Anderson lock you up with me." "I think I would like that" "Like griefl . J'd .tear these Jail walls down to escape anything like that!" "Love that would burst through jail walls and jump heavy bond awes me. If you really would like to get out of here, at least temporarily, tempo-rarily, I bet it could be arranged." "You BET it could be arranged! No more of that I've seen the fruits of such wickedness, and I'm fed up on the flavor.' ; She said, with mock sadness, "You don't like the Ballard family trait very much, do you. Hunter I mean the sporting instinct which is such a marked characteristic character-istic of ours." "No bluntly, I don't care for it at all." SHE came and looked down at Vim a-nri 4Mtela4 Vila Visit. "Cn you don't like us?" "I didn't say that I don't like this so-called sporting blood you all have. Granting that life is pretty much of a gamble, there are still enough good laws in the universe for anybody to live by." "Come on," she urged. "It's a good text and the sermon should be uplifting. Your idea Is use your brains, work hard, be honest hon-est early to bed and early to rise. '"You can't make me ashamed of the old-fashioned virtues. I guess we can be realistic." "Please!" she begged. "When folks go realistic they are usually disagreeable." "Just the same, when Junior gets out of the woods he is still likely to be in a jam. I've been trying pretty hard to shield him. But I can't do it and get my neck in the noose. You and I know Junior's involved in this nasty business. My idea is that -young Temple gave the secret of the money movement away. Someone bet Junior he could not intercept the messenger, stage a fake stick-up, stick-up, and get away with it Now the messenger is dead, the money's gone, Junior's shot I'm in jail, your daddy is about to have a nervous break-down, and well, isn't that enough? Wouldn't you be sold on the old-fashioned plati tudes if they would have prevented this, as they would?" She was smiling when he looked up at her loweringly. . She had an insolent and beautiful way of standing, her hand on her hip, just eyeing him. "HI lay you a wager, Hunter. He said crossly, "Go play like you're a squirrel and run up and down, a tree and bark." "IH wager you your freedom, terribly as you profess to hate) "I never said I hated you." " saturated as your evil heart is with a desire for revenge, that in no time at all you will be asking ask-ing me to marry you, and what more, I might say yes, and we'dl be married!' "Red, will you please run along? Will you? I'd hate to" "It's on the barelhead,,, shej laughed. She rattled the door for Anderson to let her out An hour later Sheriff Anderson was back. "Get your knitting. They've got the hot-seat ready and are fixing to bum the seat of your pants out Come along.! (To Be Continued) |
