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Show 1 PAGE FOUR PROVO '(UTAH) DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER " 9, T9I2 SECTION 'TWO ary- 4ftraoa .(beaptlnf Ittvrfay u4 SnOty) -Iu4tf HmiK Pnbllahad writ? Kerala rmbllahad br the ' Harald Corporation, f , ! Tun Wt ItTHt, JroTO. QUb. Xotarad . m mM' elaaa matter at tha pottotflca Is Prava. Utah, andar tba act of March I. 117ft. Oilman, Nlcol Itnthman. National Adrartla-ta Adrartla-ta rapraaaatatlTaa. Kaw York. San Ftaaelaco. Catron Boatov. Loa Anfalaa, Chicago. Vambar Cnltad Fraaa, N. S. A. arrUa. tba ertppa Laaroa of Wowapapara and Audit Buraaa of Clrcalatloa. Xlbartr through all tha land" Tha Ubarty ,B1I Spbacrlptiaa tarma by aarrlar I. Utah eoanty. " l aasta tha month, ft. .for als month a, la adranea ; 17.10 tha yaar, tn adraaaa; by mail aayariiaro . la - 7nltad aUaUa or tta poaaaaalona tl canta tha month: ll.lt for als mootha; IS.7I tha yaar ta adranea. Tha HaraJd will not aaanma financial ra-aponaiblllty ra-aponaiblllty for any arrora which m'ay appoar In adTortlaamanta publlahad la Ita colurona. la thoaa Inataacaa whara tha papar la at faalt. It will reprint that part of tha adTertlaament la which tha typographical raietako aecura. Afraid of the Electorate By their hesitancy about dealing with critical war problems, both the administration and Congress are exhibiting a lukewarm faith in democracy. It is anybody's choice whether the insult isr to the public's intelligence or to their patriotism. Whichever may be the reason, week after week positive action is deferred on important problems. Wage stabilization, taxation, farm produce prices, rubber conservationthe conserva-tionthe list could be expanded almost indefinitely, but these are major items. Let's concede at the outset that nobody in Washington intends to insult even one voter, let alone many millions. Quite the contrary. But it is an insult, a slanderous insult, when our selected officials dare not do things necessary to win this war, for fear the voters might punish them at the polls. . . They think, perhaps, that the public pub-lic is not intelligent enough to understand under-stand the compelling logic of those facts which have convinced Washington. Wash-ington. Fearing a monster of its own creation crea-tion an ignorant or a vindictive electorate official Washington prefers pre-fers to take no chances. "Let's wait until after election," is the attitude. "Let's try inoffensive stopgags first. One might work." Meanwhile we are losing the war. Meanwhile we are piling up inflationary infla-tionary forces that soon may become be-come uncontrollable. Meanwhile we are burning up irreplaceable rubber.. Meanwhile our procrasiina-tion procrasiina-tion is preparing to cost the lives of thousands of our young men who should not have to. die. ' 3fc y Washington believes that those I who work for a living are so selfish tnat tney win not ao tneir part to win this war and to preserve the American Am-erican way of life. Washington believes that the farmers are so selfish that they will not accept the hardships that are necessary to win this war and preserve pre-serve the American way of life. Washington fears that -the nation's motorists are so selfish that they will not give up joyriding to help win this war. Such fears insult every mother's son of us. We should resent Washington's Wash-ington's attitude, and more of us do resent it than Washington yet realizes. The electorate must hold Washington to account. Loose Talk ? Walter Reuther is a big man now, vice president of the United Auto-bile, Auto-bile, Aircraft and Agricultural Workers' Work-ers' Union, CIO. he can afford rto longer to pop off, just to get headlines. head-lines. Reuther claims that, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing reports that the Fisher plant at Pontiac is five months ahead of schedule, it has produced only one gun. Unfortunately the union leader has two Fisher plants confused. One is five months ahead of schedule. The other has produced only one gun. The latter still is ahead of schedule, since the one gun is a prototype, and the plant is not scheduled for production until October. Oc-tober. That's the sort of loose talking that is even more to be condemned in highly placed officials, who command com-mand news space, than in the layman lay-man to whose grouching not even his own family, pays much attention. mm no The 13 Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs J?TZ WASHINGTON Before he delivered his message on wage and price stabilization, the President had a significant behind-the-scenes talk with Jim Patton, head of the National Farmers Union. The President wanted to get the farmers' reaction before he made his speech, especially from tho smaller grass-roots farmers. So he asked Gardner Jackson to bring in Patton, who represents thousands of small farmers. Accompanying Accom-panying him were Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, and Jackson. The President told Patton he had definite plans for curbing the increase of farm prices and asked his opinion. "The farmers will go along with you, Mr. President," Patton replied, "provided you give the nation two crutches to walk on. But so far you've given us only one crutch. You've tried to limit farm prices and labor's wages, but you haven't done anything about industrial profits. And while wagrs and farm prices have gone up a little, the profits of factories and munitions makers have gone up 400 per cent. "I can assure you the farmers will go along with you on anything of benefit to the nation," Patton continued. "They'll limit their profits and oe glad t,p make any sacrifice to win the war. 3ut they won't do it willingly if they see big Dusiness making enormous profits out of the war," CONGRESS DAWDLED Roosevelt replied by telling how he had asked Congress last January to pass a tax bill limiting all incomes to $25,000. But he said Congress had dawdled and delayed until no tax bill had been passed yet, and thore was nothing in the tax bill even approaching his plan of limiting incomes. Then the President cited the case of an Englishman who had come to see him and told him his annual income was $500,000, but that after paying taxes he had $22,000 left. However, the Englishman was only too glad to have even that much. "You can tell that story to the newspapermen newspaper-men when you go out," the President added. Later, Roosevelt called Patton to the White House again, this time with the heads of the Farm Bureau, the Grange, and other farm leaders. : "What happened to the story I told you about the Englishman and his taxes?" the President Pres-ident asked. "I didn't see it in the newspapers." t gave it to' the press, on the doorstep of the i White House," Patton replied,, "and also told them about the spread between industrial profits and farm-labor profits. But as far as I could see only two newspapers carried it." NOTE: Roosevelt did not mention the name of the taxpaying Englishman, but friends under stand it was Lord Beaverbrook who last January Jan-uary lectured the President and various other administrationites on the light tax burden of the American people. PLASTIC BARGES The controversial question of whether steel can be spared for barges to relieve the oil shortage of the East may be on the verge of solution by the scientists of the Navy's Bureau of Shipping. They have discovered how to make barges believe it or not out of plastics. For months the New England states, as well as most of the Atlantic coast, have been clamoring for barges made of wood, or steel or anything with which to haul oil through the inland waterways. These waterways are safe from submarines, cost taxpayers millions of dollars, yet they are relatively unused during a crisis when the open seas contain lurking death. So far the Maritime Commission has dawdled inexcusably regarding wooden barges. But now the Navy may have the answer. The Bureau of Ships has developed a certain type of plastic, made of lignum, Which is sufficiently durable to use in the hulls of small ships. The plan is still in the experimental stages, but it may be' the anwer to the oil barge problem. prob-lem. GENERAL. PAT HURLEY When Brig. Gen. Pat Hurley, U. S. Minister to New Zealand, returned to Washington the other day, he wont to call on his old friend Secretary of War Stimson. The two men had served together in the Cabinet of President Hoover, Stimson as Secretary of State and Hurley Hur-ley as Secretary of War. Hurley gave Stimson his views jon problems in the South Pacific, but insisted he didn't want to do any "back seat., driving." He did say. however, that he would like to be more in the thick of things. He had enjoyed the assignment which took him to the East Indies in January, In the effort to run the Japanese blockade with supplies for the men on Bataan. And . he had enjoyed the more recent assignment as Minister to New Zealand. But now he wanted a post not -so far removed re-moved from the battle lines. When 75-year-old Stimson heard this, he looked at 59-year-old Hurley in a paternal way, and said, "You've done a good job, Pat, and you have reason to be proud of yourself. But before you leap Into the battle, go home and read First Kings, Chapter 20, verse "H., Hurley went back to his suite In the Mayflower May-flower and looked up the passage. 1 was the passage that Stimson qudted so effectively at his press conference: "And the King of Israel answered and said. Tell him. Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off." (Copyright 194"2 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Test of Strength 9 f) si , Wmm l - - $ Provoan Transfers To New York Post Hold Everything Mr. and Mrs. Bert Oakley (Allese Duff in) have left Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, to make their home in New York City, according to word received by Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Oakley, parents of the young man. After attending the B. Y. U., Bert went to Washington where he graduated from Georgetown university. uni-versity. Following his graduation, he was associated with Robert Hinckley, assistant secretary of the U. S. department of com: merce. Mr. Hinckley recently accepted ac-cepted a position with the Sperry Aircraft corporation in New York where Mr. Oakley will continue to work with him. Orem News OREM Howard Downs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Downs of Sharon ward, has left for the Great Lakes naval training station, sta-tion, at Chicago, Illinois. He is a machinist mate, holding the rank of third class petty officer, a The KLrthday anniversary of Mrs.' Verde Washburn was the occasion for a party given at the home of Mrs. Thomas A. Jacobs. Lovely garden flowers were used in the entertaining rooms, and a delicious chicken dinner was served. The honor guest was pre sented a lovely gift. There were in attendance: Mrs. Ada Skinner, Skin-ner, Mrs. Mayme Wells, Mrs. Dean Park, Mrs. J. D. Pyne, Mrs. Roy E. Park. Mrs. Clifton Pvne. Mrs. Verde Washburn, and Mrs. Jacobs. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Kofford have purchased the J. W. Snyder home and moved into it Monday Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Crandall and Beth went to Spanish Fork Sunday for the funeral services of Mrs. Crandall's nephew, Fred S. Dart. Mrs. Mayme ' Wells and Mrs. R. F. Crandall were in at tendance also. Lawrence Maycock and his son, Booth, with Mr. Lynch of the U. P. M. company of the Geneva plant, enjoyed a week-end of fish ing in the Uinta mountains. Mrs. Steven Terschanski entertained enter-tained a group of children at her home, honoring her small daughter, daugh-ter, Gay, who was seven years old. Games and delicious refreshments were enjoyed by twelve little friends. Mrs. Lorna Maycock and her daughters, Helen and Jean, with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Grooms and their family of Salt Lake City, enjoyed a day's outing in Provo canyon Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gilligan and children, Patsy and Tim, visited with relatives in Salt Lake City, Sunday. Their son, Ray, who had spent the week with his grandparents grand-parents there, returned home with them. v Junior Burr came from Los Angeles, An-geles, Calif., to spend the week-end with, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Burr. Junior is employed with the Bega Airplane corporation at Burbank, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Burr entertained at a family dinner-Sunday, covers being laid for Junior Burr of Los Angeles, Mr. and Mrs. Orson Burr of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Mr. and Mrs. Glen Burr and family, Mr. and Mrs. Le Earl Burr, Norma, IQenneth, and Jesse Burr. Germans Execute Family of Twelve LONDON .Sept. 9 (TIE) The Germans have executed a family of 12 near Brno in former Czechoslovakia Czech-oslovakia for having supported wives and children of Czechs executed ex-ecuted for the assassination of of Reinhard Heydrich, notorious gestapo leader, the London radio reported today. Union Peace May Launch' New Labor Party Opines Edson By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent When the A. F. of I and C. I. O. conferees sit down some time toward the end of September in of local unions much, if any. It wouldn't reduce the number of walking delegates or business agents. It wouldn't reduce the number of labor representatives on War VT ,i , w i sory groups for the War Produc An airplane can be seen from a distance of 10,000 to 15,000 feet under favorable conditions. labor unity and labor peace there is perhaps only one formula they can follow to bring results. That is to agree to organic unity immediately, then work out their differences afterward. If the conferees decide to negotiate nego-tiate as they have in the past, trying to find the precise answer for every question that faces them the only prospect which some of the smarter labor politicians in Washington can see is anothei long-drawn-out series of tiring meetings, ending in a stalemate or a complete washout. The differences of opinion, the internal battles and bickerings of both the A. F. of EL and C. I. O. organizations are so bitter that any thought of organic unity of the two bog groups must take Into consideration the fact that these feuds will , most ' certainly, continue. Jurisdictional strikes betweer unions within the A. F. of I are probably just as numerous as jurisdictional strikes between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. unions, and any theoretical peace between the parent organizations will not solve those locaT jurisdictional battles. A. F. of L., the older of the two groups, has had these jurisdictional scraps for years and has never been able to dc anything about them. How. then, can peace with the C. I. O. heal these sores unless A. F. of L. is willing to give up its Ideas of craft unions? Expecting Ex-pecting a F. of X.. . to give up that is hke asking the moon to do into eclipse every Wednesday at midnight It can't be done. WHAT BENEFITS ACCRUE? Taking a cold-blooded look at this situation, what is there to be gained by this much sought-after organic unity in the labor movement move-ment aside from the beautiful generalization that peace is wonderful? won-derful? In some mysterious way it is thought that peace between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. will help win the war. But how? It probably wouldn't reduce the total number of jurisdictional disputes. dis-putes. It might reduce the old headaches head-aches of employers hiring from both groups, but it might give them new ones. It might end the issuing of nasty statements by C. I. O. President Phil Murray against A. F. of L. President Bill Green, and Vice versa, but it wouldn't stop the fulminations of John L. Lewis. , It wouldn't reduce the number! tlon Board or the War Manpower Commission. It wouldn't even unify the labor movement. " The A. F. of Lb now claims about 5.6 million members, the C. I. O 5.5 million. Outside of these two major organizations are, the million or mre members of the railroad brotherhoods) and the millin or mre members of the independent unions such as the telephone and communlcatlos 1 uions and the Mechanics Educa tional Society of America. REAL. LABOR . PARTY LOOMING If you are going to talk about a unified labor movement you must take into consideration all these groups. But suppose by some miracle all these elements could be brought together and a united labor la-bor front of some 13 million members, mem-bers, representing approximately, a fourth of all the working people of the country, could be wrapped up in a neat package. If any such amalgamation were achieved, a lot of the people whe are now hollering for labor peace and "why dont they quit flghtin' each other and get together!" would be screaming against it. For, labor unity In the United States migh mean the formation of a real labor party that could conceivably dominate the American Ameri-can political scene. The last few weeks have seen the demands of organized labor for a larger voice in management of the war effort repeated with aggravating vehemence. A. F. of L. and C. I. O. want as much voice in controlling the American war effort as British labor has in the control of the British war effort. The reason British labor has such a loud voice is that in Great Britain Brit-ain there is a Labor Party which elects members to Parliament and has its ministers in the cabinet. It could happen here. RITES SCHEDULED BOISE. Ida., Sept. 9 CE Funeral rites were today scheduled sched-uled for Wednesday for Mrs. Sarah Jeanette Pemberton, 66, pioneer Idahoan, state treasurer of the Rebekah assembly of Idaho, and past state president of the order. Mrs. Pemberton died here Sunday. Sun-day. She was born at Silver City, Idaho, in 1875. "Bring it in the back, chum It might give the joint a bad anw)" Ward Announces New MIA Officers PLEASANT GROVE Preparing Prepar-ing to assume the responsibility of carying on this year's M. I. A. program in the Third ward are the following newly appointed officers of the Y. L. M. I. A.: Mrs. Emily Pederson, president; Mrs. Louise Nielson, first counselor; Mrs. Elizabeth Crystal, second counselor. They succeed Mrs. Anna Fugal Bailey, Mrs. Louise Nielson and Miss Anne Marie Walker. The presidency of the Y. M. M. L A. will remain as constituted last year: L. A. Bennett, Fred S. Shoell, Harry Wadley, with Ben Walker, secretary. SERIAL STOrViV WHEN A GIRL MARRIES BY RENE RYERSON MART eOFYRIOHT, 1S4S. Nf A SERVICC INC. 1. This insignia of the Army's 38th division has the white letters let-ters CY on a blue and red shield. What do they signify? 2. Tho English Eng-lish call- anti- nirrfoft ret "ack-ack"; the Germans call it "flak." What is the most common American Army term? 3. "Crow tracks" may be slang for bad handwriting in civilian life, but not in the Army. What's the military translation? Answers on Page Three, Sec Tw VW1 Experienced hunters consider the 12-gaugc shotgun to be best adapted for game hunting. AUNT HEX By ROBERT QUTLXXN "Parents sure didn't compliment com-pliment girls In my time. They tried to marry 'em off quick before they had time to go wrong." DREAM COME TRUE CHAPTER XVII ' TT happened so simply, like most accidents. The bus seemed to crawl on its way downtown that morning. Enid glanced at her watch again and again. She had thought that if she got to the station early enough she and Tom could have breakfast together in the station restaurant and then she'd tell him she was willing to marry him. And then, four blocks from Enid's destination, the bus hit an automobile. It was a minor collision, col-lision, but Enid knew there would be time consumed in argument, and taking the names of witnesses. wit-nesses. She slipped off the bus and started to walk. At the first intersection she waited until the line of waiting cars passed and then, disregarding disregard-ing the light, started across. She didn't see the car coming around the corner until it was almost upon her. She threw up her arm to shield her face. Enid opened her . eyes and moved and a pain pierced her side. She caught' her breath, and whim-' pered and a white-uniformed nurse came into her range of vision. "What what happened where am I?" "You were hit by a car," the nurse explained, "but you're going o be all right. You've got a couple of broken ribs. Don't worry now." Enid digested this bit of news slowly as full consciousness came back and memory fitted pieces of the accident together. She remembered re-membered now: the car, the screaming brakes. She had been hurrying, and oh, yes Tom. "What time is it?" she asked excitedly. - - "Ten o'clock." --.. V "You mean 10 in the morning oh!" She had missed him. Tom was gone. .-v."- v J "You mustn't get excited now," the nurse continued, laying;; restraining re-straining hand on Enid's forehead. fore-head. "There's just one thing, we got your address from your purse and we've tried to call your home, but no one ; answers. Will you tell us how to reach your folks?" , "My parents are on their-jway to California," Enid said slowly, making up her mind as she spoke. "But, you mustn't try to reach them. I you said I wasn't badly hurt" Grace Dingline came straight to the hospital from work that eve ning. Enid' explained ' again that she didn't want her parents to know anything about her accident. "WelL then, you 'must let me do what I can for you," Grace said. , Enid thanked her. "There's really nothing to be done. Unless if it isn't too much bother, you would stop at my house once in a while and bring me my mail." "I'll be glad to," Grace said, and in accordance with that promise, Saturday afternoon she brought in Enid's first accumulation accumula-tion of letters. "PNID sorted them quickly, her heart quickening when she saw Tom's handwriting on one of the envelopes. Unopened she slipped it under her pillow, reluctant re-luctant to read it in Grace's presence. pres-ence. And it was with a surprising surpris-ing eagerness that she drew it out later. Curiously enough Tom said nothing about her failure to see him the morning he left. If he had been disappointed, he had gotten over it. "I'll write and tell him what happened, now that I am better," Enid thought. So absorbed was Enid in her rather bitter thoughts that she paid little attention when a nurse bustled in and got her ready to go to the X-ray room, saying they were going to take some more pictures "just a routine checkup to be sure that everything is all right." It wasn't until after the X-rays had been taken, and Enid lay on the wheel cart waiting to be taken back down to her room that something some-thing the hospital doctor was saying say-ing to the nurse penetrated her lethargy. She lay awake all night, the words "spine" and "specialist," repeating re-peating themselves with growing, horror in her mind. If her back was injured it might mean that she would be a cripple for -life. TPOR the first time in ner hospital stay, she was glad to see the night nurse, come in at 6. She had always thought the early hospital hos-pital face-washing ritual was absurd. ab-surd. Now it was a welcome release re-lease from the prison' of the night and her own thoughts. And after her face had been washed and her pillows rearranged she fell asleep from sheer exhaustion. The voices were hazy when she first heard them. First Dr. Butter's; But-ter's; "Please wake her, nurse. Dr. Holliday wants to make an examination." exam-ination." And then that other voice with a strange catch in it, "Enid Enid Sharon." . Enid turned her head. It couldn't be. Of course not. She was dreaming or delirious. . Hank sent Dr. Rutter away, say- tog he'd consult with him; later. - He held Enid's hand, pretending to take her pulse, and fooling no one, not even the nurse who, with an amused smile, slipped quietly out of the room.. . "Why did you run away?" hs asked reproachfully. "I didn't run away," Enid's lips trembled. "My month's rent was up remember I only rented tha apartment for a month." She made a - helpless gesture with her free hand. "I I didn't think it would matter to you. Tha janitor said you were away with your mother and Clare, I mean Miss Adams.1 "Well " Enid closed her eyes against the nearness of his face. "I forgot to congratulate you." "On what?" "OA your marriage." His hand closed firmly on hers. "Say, what are you raving about?"' Enid stumbled over the words. "I saw her picture in the paper, the announcement of your. engagement en-gagement " Suddenly Hank began to laugh, a long, loud, ringing laugh. "All right," he said. "Clare's married but not to me. Wherever did you get the idea?" Enid's eyes opened wide. "But you said your mother that Clare was to be your wife." He frowned with concentration trying to remember. "Oh I said my mother had picked her for my second wife, didn't I?. I remember now." His eyes grinned at her.' "But I didnt say that I'd picked her. Mother did try her darnedest, beguiled me on that trip to New York, not telling me until the last minute that Clare was going along, and all. that sort of .tripe.' But it was no go. "You see, I'd found 'what ?I wanted, a girl who. likes children and dogs. A girl who can cook, and draw children's faces. You don't know anyone like . that, do you?" . T , "Oh, Hank, darling" It was some moments ' before she could say anything more, for somehow his mouth got -tangled up with hers.' At last she pressed her hands against his face, pushed it away. "But, Hank you don't want a cripple." ' "Who said anything about a cripple? I've looked at the X-rays. There's nothing wrong with your back. Well tape you up and in a couple of .weeks you'll be, as good as new. You'd! better hurry about it, too, unless you want to go to your own wedding on crutches."' , . ... Enid's mind ' seemed to run In a rut "Oh, Hank, darling . was all she could find to say. - |