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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) -DAILY' HERALD, - WEDNESDAY,-JULY 29,-1942 3 : (Innf e - Satarday U Svadark v ' ta' nrWwr Btrwt, Proro, UUh. , Bntrl . M'.mwtr;i'MUw' ae th poatoffre tar" j: Mv.(Vttyyi , ;ef--f-.toreh' UT. 2 ' OBaJNt."Iflel V Ratbman. National Advartta. i-.tmg uprnnutlnw, Ktw York, ten Francisco " DatroH.' Boston.": Im - Auroloa, , . Chlcave Moaibar OaJtad . Praaa. X B. A. Barrios, fa- PoriPpa - Laarua of Newspapers "Wbarty-throoeh "Wbarty-throoeh an ths land" The Liberty Salt - Sabaerfptfan terms - kr rlif;Ti; Bui' teaoty. aania tha mMk;- I.IKt months, to advance: the yaax. tn ad ra book ey mail anjrwhera-. In., Unltal Biataav; er snr; possessions (I cants tha month; MM far sta months; tl.7( tba yaar ta MTMca, , Tha Herald .will t not .assume flaaactal aaa aponstblllty' fo'r any " arVc-'"-wWchriBay-iitaaa' In adrartlMmeB pubirsheS Isf- tta 1 stmnv:Ti thoaa 1nataneaa- whara "tha paper M'ar-faatt, will reprint that part oft the- adTerllseiaent as which tha typographical HataJaa aaaia. ' owGppA M?n Go Wrong 55 ' Mefditating;:-.upon.: the; fallacy of juman . judgement, the perils of prognostication and the blind spots I of .skilled observers, we turned back to the January issue oi a, national publication to reread an article by a .veteran press association corres-! corres-! pandent . who spent more than a 5 'dozen years in Tokyo. The thesis of the article may be ; judged from- this statement, quoted by: the writer with approval and : agreement: "As-a matter of cold fact, Japan i as: a Great Power is a hollow t -bubble, blown almost to the burst-?$npoint.'', burst-?$npoint.'', f Thenceforth the article went on to assert; among other things, that: & Japanese fleets are not capable Fof v operating successfully far from their bases . . . But remember Pearl Harbor. The people of Japan individually 'lack -initiative . . . But remember : what happened in the Philippines, at Singapore, in the Aleutians. 9fi Jp 3fi Nippon has no ships for overseas commerce because all are needed to supply the expeditionary forces in China . . . But remember the other expeditionary forces Japan moved by sea, while carrying on the war in China. Gasoline is so scarce that Japanese Japan-ese water police could not operate their launches . . . But there seemed to be plenty for the planes that devastated de-vastated Hawaii, captured Guam and Wake, the Philippines and Hongkong and Singapore and Burma, Bur-ma, and bombed Australia. - : Finally, quoted' with approval as of today: "As a menace to any country of any fighting consequence, Japan does not exist. As a first-class power, pow-er, Japan is a myth." These conclusions become signifi-cant signifi-cant in the light of their timing for publication almost simultaneously simultaneous-ly with the first onslaught of that war in which, up to date, the Japanese Jap-anese have beaten us badly. Looks pretty bad, doesn't it? One might say that this .veteran newsman news-man scored close, to zero? But, that would be unfair. In spite o this and other equally erroneous appraisals ap-praisals of Japanese potentialities, this correspondent's batting average aver-age was ordinarily rather high. What is the moral, and what does it all matter? Just this: It is easy to second guess, in war. Almost any reasonably reason-ably intelligent analyst can make the experts look like simpletons, after the event. Remember how Hitler's experts worked with the Russians intimately, intimate-ly, and knew to the last uniform button but-ton what the Reds possessed on the strength of which the Nazis began be-gan a' three-month stroll through Russia which still is going on. Siberia . A Bit Too Far We can sympathize with the indignation in-dignation that prompts congressman congress-man Pheiffer of New York to ask a mandatory death penalty for any alien or citizen who gives aid and comfort to the enemy. But fear Mr. Pheiffer has not given enough consideration con-sideration to the way such a measure meas-ure might work outt How, for example, would he define de-fine "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy? Secretary Knox gave the Japs comfort when he reported on what happened at Pearl Harbor. G-Man Hoover gave the Germans aid when he disclosed the arrest of eight saboteurs and listed the places they were told to destroy. Would Mr. Pheiffer have these- officials of-ficials mandatorily sentenced to death? Also, it is well known that mandatory manda-tory stiff sentences often result in acquittals where guilt is unquestionable unques-tionable but where juries believe the inevitable punishment exceeds the crime. If rioting takes place I shall feel helpless. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian leader. The 0I11MM11II1M Wa shington Merry-Go-Ro un d It T TVi X tin n:-. 0 T T:1 H ttl- By Drew Po (Major f iOUy ritlUIU OX VVUUia VTUUiy wa ui muuwuw nuuus Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON On many occasions President Pres-ident Roosevelt has summoned labor and capital capi-tal to the White House and demanded that they iron out disastrous disputes. But when business and labor leaders called on him last week with a pledge of "cooperation to win the war," the President had absolutely nothing- to do with inaugurating in-augurating the move. The unprecedented step was worked out in a behind-the-scenes conference held in the private pri-vate dining room of a Washington hotel a few days before the labor and business leaders called on the President. Even before this, however, Eric Johnston, new, refreshing president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, had warmed up the AFT and CIO, as exclusively reported in this column. After this advance work, Johnston summoned summon-ed to the secret hotel meeting APT, President William Green, CIO Secretary James B. Carey, AFI Secretary George Meany. William P.With-erow, P.With-erow, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, and all the others who later called on the President, except CTO President Phil Murray who was out of the city. Elaborate precautions were taken to insure secrecy so that no one in the administration, notC-even the President, knew about the get-together. get-together. Those present met with one thought in mind to wipe out completely all barriers between capital and labor for the duration of the war; and to work shoulder to shoulder for victory. vic-tory. Eric Johnston sounded the keynote of the meeting. "I guess this is the first time in history." he said, "that the AFL, the CIO. the NAM and-the U. S. Chamber the four great organizations organi-zations representing employees and employers have- ever sat down voluntarily to adjust their own differences without government help. "We are all intelligent enough to realize what's at stake in this war," Johnston continued, con-tinued, ,Mand if we don't work together, free labor and free management will be washed up We? Simply cannot be divided at home and expect ex-pect to. win this -war. Therefore, I think we ought ta agree right how on some unified plan of action." ' After considerable discussion, it was decided decid-ed to suggest to the President a "joint economic council'' This would be composed of representative representa-tive of the rour groups present, and would advise- with war agencies on labor-management problems and make recommendations, from time to time, on war labor policies. It .wasn't announced at the White House, but this was the basis for the plan of on active doty) cooperation which Industry and labor spokesmen spokes-men laid before the President a. few days later. LABOR'S INFLUENCE Despite the seriousness of the business-labor business-labor session, there was one mirthful moment when Johnton made a grinning remark about labor's "influence" with the government. "What are you talking about?" replied Bill Green goodnaturedly. "Big business is in the driver's seat. Your dollar-a-year men are running the show." "That's right," chorused CTO's Carey and George Meany of the AFX.. "Why, labor doesn't even have representation in the cabinet." This dig at Secretary of Labor Perkins brought a howl from everyone including sedate William P. Witherow, president of the Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' Association. "Come now," persisted Witherow. "You still-' haven't answered the question. What's the secret of labor's influence with the Administration?" "I guess it's because we control more votes than you fellows," grinned Carey. NAZI LIES Goebbel's propagandists are overlooking no bets in their efforts to disrupt good neighbor relations with South America.' Here is one of the latest of the whoppers they have broadcast: broad-cast: 0 Several months ago the city of Santiago, Chile, contracted to purchase 13 old trolleys from the Erie, Pa., street railway system. At the last minute the WPB and the Office of War Transportation vetoed the deal because (1) a cargo vessel couldn't be spared to deliver tho cars; (2) the trolleys were vitally ' needed in Atlanta, Ga., to provide transportation for war plant workers. The State Department explained this to the Chilean Embassy and was assured that the Chilean government and Santiago municipal au-thoritles au-thoritles would "readily understand" the circumstances. circum-stances. Within 24 hours after an explanatory message was sent to Santiago, Nazi short-wavers short-wavers were on the air with a high-powered bulletin, broadcast all over South America, stating: "Relations between the United States and Chile were further "strained today when the United States blocked delivery of 13' street cars to the city of Santiago. The cars have already al-ready been paid for and are lying idle; but the United States .refuses to permit their shipment to Santiago, where they., are needed to solve a transportation crisis." (Copyright 1942 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) kf m ' i i- mm ' wr ' i ,lvi''!!V''1'f'i'-' Vii Z?- f - S rfvV - i f 15 Once News, Now History Twenty-five Years Ago Today O Wash Tubbs r Wash Is Proud! Easy Is Amazed! From the Files of the I'liOVO HERALD July 28, 1917 To relieve the clothing shortage short-age in France, Provo stores were collecting old shoes to be sent overseas. - " '.. . J The social event of the week was the marriage of Miss Mer-line Mer-line Roylance to Abe Turner of Heber. Dr. John A. Widtsoo, then president of the University of Utah, had a narrow escape from death near Price when a clay bank in which he was digging on the side of a hill slipped, carrying him down with it. He landed on a ledge two feet square with a drop of 200 feet below him. o ; WAR QUIZvD 1. This medal is prized by all soldiers. It consists of a gold eagle set in a blue mounting upon which is inscribed in-scribed "For D i s tinguiahed Service." Midr die stripe of ribbon is white, end stripes are, red with -a fine blue striipe separation. sep-aration. What is the medal? 2. What branch of the Army is equipped with the following weapons: rifles, hand grenades, bayonets, pis-t pis-t o 1 b, machine guns, trench mortars, heavy machine guns, mortars, "75 mm, guns, 37 mm. guns? 3. There arc two dog watches naval vessel? Answers on Page 00 If you want a Big Surprise, Sur-prise, turn to the comic page right now and read that thrill adventure adven-ture comic WASH TUBBS' IIOPKIN APPPOINTED LOGAN J. Vern Hopkin' of Woodruff, chairman of the Rich county AAA committee, has been appointed "by Claude H. Wlckard, secretary of agriculture, as a member of the Utah State AAA-committee. AAA-committee. Mr. Hopkin will be assigned to the range and livestock administrative adminis-trative section of the AAA program, pro-gram, along with other duties and responsibilities as committeeman, according to Orville L. Lee, chairman chair-man of the state committee. Sid-'neV Sid-'neV J. Nebeker of Laketown held this assignment until he resigned as state chairman a few weeks ago.- - ' ' s -HigginsXets, Het UpJWhen His Ship r Building Contra Gools BY FETTER EOSON-. EOSON-. Dally Herald Washington Correspondent?." Andrew Jackson Higgins, the big, red-faced, gray-naired, tough, rough-and-ready Nebraskan who became a southerner and was all set to revolutionize the building of Liberty ships, is going through a week -of the worst punishment anyone ever got in this hot, backs tabbing town. i"Tm a little older," he says,- a little wiser, a lot more disgusted than I was when I came up here on March 11. I'm certainly no dumber." When he came to Washington on March 11, it was at government govern-ment request He had made a reputation as a miracle shipbuilder, shipbuild-er, making Navy patrol . torpedo boats landing boats, - tank lighters light-ers and sueh specialty craft. The government, through the Maritime Mari-time Commission, wanted Andrew Jackson Higgins of New Orleans to make Liberty ships 200 of thm. He took the contract on March 16 and proposed to build them his own way on a moving assembly line principle. They sank perhaps $20 million of government money into making a start on building the yard.. And then'on July 18, four months after the contract was let, it was can celed bv the eovernment. The official explanation is that there- isn't enough, steel plate to make ships in the yards already producing, so why DUiia more yards. But if that is the case, it is almost axiomatic max uie con- f tract should ever have been let. Somewhere alone the long- nans 3f government, . somebody pulled the most cdlossal, $20 million blunder of this whole cockeyed war. Just Another Blunder JWho the culprits are may. be revealed through the siftings of the Congressional House' and Truman Tru-man committee hearings, but that's doubtful. Like the underestimates under-estimates on aluminum, planes and rubber, VAffaire . Higgins probably will go down in the history his-tory of the war production effort aS Just another one of the blunders. blun-ders. ' . Tour can't judge this .Higgins 'Casbjr any normal standards. Andrew Jackson Higgins himself isn't any normal individual. He's real, 200 pounds and more of blood and muscle, yet unreal something out of a story book.:' He is hard and profane, and in the same breath kindly, gentle, emotional. He has called every admiral in the Navy every name In a chief " petty officer's vocabulary vocabu-lary and it is said he must have a marine for a secretary. Nobody else could take, such; dictation. Yet when he talks about this shipyard that isn't going to be built, be goes Completely Fourth of July and tear jerker." "When I started this, men phoned me from all over. " Men from the Clyde. Men who- had been fired for making suggestions. sugges-tions. These men came to America Amer-ica and ' found in - the" old, j conservatively con-servatively 'run- shipyards ' here methods just as mossback as they had been on the Clyde. ' But we listened to 'era and T. took their suggestions. ' And. when the order canceling this , contract was read to these men, they tried to cheer, but -they were cheering through their tears. It made me mad.- It made me damn good and mad. , "What are we fighting for democracy de-mocracy or, bureaucracy? J "I wouldn't say this was an; attack at-tack on me. It's - an attack: on America. An accidental attack, not a .willful one.; ;f "For Their Boys" "This was to be one gigantic project run on the :: ideas of Roosevelt. No discrimination against the negro. It was to have the largest Industrial training school in the country. Twelve hundred and fifty whites and 1250 negroes. Well keep that going at our own expense,. "I 'got this-land for the Marl-time Marl-time Commission for $100 an acre 1200 acres of plant. - Neighbor- f ing land went for $1400 an acre. and all that will be lost. "When I told them it would take 170,000 piles, they said it was impossible. We sent men out into the woods. I had been a timberman. We went to these Ca JunsV- vTney had big trees, but they wouldn't sell them. But they had boys in the Army. And when we told them that the trees were to go into yards to build ships to haul their boys supplies,- they sold. They didn't ask 'How" much? but. 'How little? What was, the lowest price, others had taken? And they sold for that. "There's just one thing I want to tell you, and I don't think the Maritime Commission will object to it. If this type of thing is going go-ing to come up all the time, we're going to have a hell of a time winning " this war. I won't say were going to lose it. But we'll have a hell of time winning it." Alligator skin purses are made from the under skin, or dermis, of the alligator. r .. is HI Safety for the Young Workers The acute labor shortage makes it seem necessary for industry, in some instances, to hire workers under 18 years of age. Extra care and precautions must be taken to make working conditions condi-tions safe for these new workers. In the first place, the young worker Is adventurous, curious, careless, and foolhardy. He loves to take a chance. He shuts his eyes to danger. He needs a few hard knocks to "tone him down." Right here is where extra effort ef-fort and pains must be taken by the management to help this young worker learn from the experience ex-perience of others. Rigid safety rules must be- laid down, and these regulations must be complied com-plied with to the very letter. Punishment for the violation of a safety regulation should be immediate im-mediate . dismissal. World's largest "denim mills are located at Greensboro, N. C. Berne, not Geneva, Is the political po-litical capital of the Swiss Confederation. Utah Verse My Grandson1 Whoops! I have a grandson! See that little mite, That's my firstest grandson; Say! he's a bit alright. Almost seems to know me, Just a day old, too, Bet you wish my grandson Could belong to you. 'Spect he'll start to whistle In about a week or two, He'll be callin' grandad Before the summer's thru. Smartest kid in Utah, An' I'm not kiddin' you Bet if, he was your kid You'd say the same thing too. Well perhaps I'm countin' A little bit too high, But if he don't do it Bet your life he'll try. J. A. OWENS GERMAN TRAWLER SUNK . LONDON, July 20 (U.R) Light British naval forces sank a Ger- 3ian armed trawler and heavily amaged another off Cherbourg, on the French cost, early today, an admiralty communique reported. re-ported. . A British patrol boat suffered minor damaged and two casualties cas-ualties under the attack of German Ger-man bombers, the communique said. Jl. AUM MSI By ROBERT QUILLEN I knew it meant trouble. When a young wife has her first baby, she don't want any " mot her-in-law, takin' charge of it like It was her own." SERIAL STORY BANNERS FLYING BY MARY RAYMOND COPYRIGHT. t42, NEA SERVICE. INC. TUB STORYl Christie Colloa, who has prom lard Bart Ka4n on. her flanrr, that she will rlve op Hylnir, la force to break the promiae to fly a aerloualy Injared rounfc man to a hoanltjil In the next town. I'revioaa. w the flltcht ahe has attended m committee meeting: for. n China Relief ball, met Sandra Hydall. a aew girl In town, and had a "scene" with her 'In which Sandra umjm ' they are "natornl enemies' beeaaae they care for the line man. WAR AND A PARTS CHAPTER V JT was while the young man was in ine operating room tnat Christie remembered about Bart, and waiting on a doorstep. It was 1-30 now. Bart's voice, when she reached him by phone, sounded almost angry, an-gry, hurt and immensely relieved. "Where in the world are you, Christie?" "At the Lakeville Hospital. Some poor fellow had an accident and I had to bring him here. It was a real emergency, Bart." 4 "Good heavens!" Bart exclaimed. "You drove him over?" ' "No. It had to be quicker than that. I brought him here in a plane." There was a long silence at the other end. "Bart," Christie pleaded, "surely you aren't angry; I didn't forget my promise. It was something I had to do." ' "I'm not angry, Christie. I'm frightened. There's a lucky star over you,, darling, but promise me : you won't fly the plane back." . "I won't, Bart. I'm taking the train, but there Isn't one to West- wood for several hours." "I know." Bart's voice was. sober. so-ber. "And my train pulls out in an hour." x "Oh, Bart, you'll write youH be back soon." "I was just thinking how, dat?t unsatisfactory letters are. Darling, it was pretty wonderful what you did. I'm proud as the deviL 'You won't do it i?gain, though. The kind of luck you have it might nl... A rrt ! : n "It's the very last time, Bart!' , When the phone clicked in place Christie joined the group of people on the sun porch. It was around 3 when a nurse motioned to Christie. Christie got up and joined her-in the corridor. "Your friend is going to be all right," the nurse said. "It was a good thing those doctors in Westwood got him here so quickly, and it was lucky you happeneefcto know how to handle a plane. Well, I guess you know how fortunate you are."' She was beaming. "I suppose you know I never saw him In my lifev until they brought him to the airport "He had a few rational moments," mo-ments," the nurse replied, stiffly, "And once he asked for you." "There's some mistake," Christie insisted. "He is a stranger to me "I'm sorry, Miss Colton," the nurse said, turning to go. ii was not until unrisue was her way to the train that she ze-membered ze-membered she Id failed to find out the young man's name. And this was strange the nurse had known her name. Maybe Bill Blake had phoned the hospital after she left. TAN was driving up as Christie's taxi turned in the gateway She waited injtil Christie had paid the driver and then asked: "Why the taxi? Did you have car trou ble?" Christie ' shook her head. She told Jan the story. While: she was talking, she had the feeling that Jan was way ahead of her. There was something odd about Jan's expression. She looked, excited, dui not amazed. "The man you took to Lakeville was Stephen Marston, Jan said. -aiepnem wot really." "Yes. He was in the Wain- wrights' car, and Mr. Wainwright was driving. They had an accident, and Mr. Wainwright felt responsi ble when Stephen was injured. He arranged' for the operation in Lakeville. Betty Wainwright said sending, him over by plane probably prob-ably saved his life. Of course, I didnt know you flew the plane." vweU!" Christie exclaimed, "so my young man of mystery was Stephen! " That's why he thought he. knew me. All, the time he thought I was you." Td, he?"- Jan asked softly. OH,' I wish 'it had been." Conversation was changing. In Westwood, it might start with parties, the forthcoming spring anfl .summer dances;" but it was certain to end up with the query: "Will there be enough stags?" now that most of the boys were away. Christie was busy-with a dozen activities. There was the Chinese ball, which had been a wonderful success and where she had carefully care-fully avoided being thrown with Sandra; there was her Red Cross' work; the times she sold British emblems at benefit teas. When army maneuvers brought streams of khaki-clad boys and trucks through town she had served cofV fee and cookies at the station. ' Everybody else was doing these things, too.. Everybody except her "mother, who still "refused to: be lieve what she read and heard. "Things are so different now," Mrs. Colton sighed. "I wanted to give Jan a nice party, but all' the - - boys she knows hay been drafted." - .. " " 'J " ' , "Seems to me there are a lot of nice-boys at the flying field. Get some of these new boys," her husband looked up, impatiently, from his paper.; ' "You can't draft men for dances as you do for the, army," Mrs. Colton answered, . irritably. Christie had entered the room. The friction between her mother and father distressed her. Here was a small war, she thought, being be-ing waged daily by people who loved each other. These petty battles bat-tles made you understand how real antagonism between nations could drive peace from the world. .. :.' CHE was feeling sober. Bart was convinced t that ? the-- United States would be drawn Into the war, and she' was sure Bart knew what he was talking about. Then, Tommy had joined up. Summer went by. A golden autumn merged, into a 'wintry siege of snow and rain; There were few parties, and these were small and Informal. Mrs. Colton had flu and ' went o ft. to Florida to shake it off. When she returned she looked radiant"'" and well. She was going right ahead, she told the family, with her plans for Jan's balli- - "Cta-istie, ft's going to be beau tiful," Mrs. ' Coltdn said one day. She was standing in the doorway of the ballroom. "Can you imag ine this room completely trans formed into a white winter scene. with a forest of trees covered with snow and' jeweled with blue lights." - 'Add some red, and youH have ' a patriotic scheme," Christie said slowly... , t-r "You sound like your father. Honestly, I believe you have red, white, and blue stripes running up and down your spine.' The radio was on in the music room. As Christie passed the door the voice of an excited announcer reached her. Then, the awful import im-port of the words she had heard sent her flying back, to the ballroom. ball-room. - "Mother, youll have to call the party off. Pearl Harbor has been bombed." "Pearl Harbor!" Mrs. "Cotton's voice was startled. "How terrible, Christie. But I cant see that it has anything to do with Jan's party. The flowers are ordered. 4he iood, too.'- And all- the invita tions are out You 'must be out of your mind.' I couldn't call it off." "Mother, it : isn't patriotic It Isn't rlght"- Mrs. ColtonTf-vcice .was frigid.' "I don't see. that: a "party has any connection with patr!otisnV?-Pex-In this town are going to remember remem-ber this one as long as they, live.!!- , oc voniuweaj. |