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Show P D D D 0 Secret Food Parley. In a message to the Social Democratic Demo-cratic weekly, the New Leader, President Presi-dent Roosevelt expressed concern because "over wide areas of ' the earth freedom of the press is now but a bitter mejnory." He went on to point out, truly, ,4that all free institu-. tions are endangered by any encroachment en-croachment on liberty of speech or of the press. "This," he said, should emphasize anew to all of us the necessity for constant con-stant vigilance which now, as always, al-ways, isthe price of liberty and particularly par-ticularly liberty of the press." Simultaneously, the President was sitting tight on his dictum that the United Nations press shall be barred fr6m even setting its impious foot on the sacred soil of the Hot Springs, Va., hohtel whehre allied conferees are to discuss international food problems. There will be innocuous opening and closing sessions at. which reporters report-ers will be permitted. For the rest, it is none of the public's dashed business busi-ness what it hinted men pie doing about the food situation. Repression feeds upon repression. If the press can be barred from a foods conference, it can be barred from any conference. It can be kept out of every public building in Washington. Wash-ington. It can be excluded from the Capital City entirely. . It won't be. But it can, just as legitimately as it can be forbidden to eliter the Hot , Springs .hotel. In -their anxiety to help win this war, the newspapers have leaned over backward to censor themselves. With only occasioanl, usually unin-' tentional lapses, Ihey have religiously religious-ly heeded the requests of Mr. Roose- velt's censorship agencies, though they were under no legal compulsion to do so. When the President made his famous fa-mous secret tour of the nation the newspapers co-operated, against their better judgment, to the point of absurdity. For better reasons they observed the same silence when Mr. Roosevelt went to Casablanca. This was not done without anxiety. anxi-ety. Nobody knows better than working work-ing newspapermen how the demands de-mands of public officials grow, once any sliahtest concession has been made in the withholding of news. It has been supposed that- Mr. Roosevelt delighted in the give-and-take of press conferences, the battle of wits between skilled cross-examiners and reluctant witness. With his power to turn caustic at will without comebock from interviewers who, as man to man, could pi nhis ears back and to terminate the conferences confer-ences if the pressure became too great, the President never has appeared ap-peared to need armed guards to preserve his secrets. Having imposed such terms in the battle area, where theh are obviously justified, he now seeks to impose them on the home front, where no question of presidential security is involved, where no military secrets are to be protected. The unreasonableness of. his attitude atti-tude is recognized by almost every other official involved in the conference confer-ence official involved in the conference confer-ence preparation. If the President's own publicity sense has so atrophied that he needs evidence it is to be . hoped that he has read and reread the protest of one of his most fcdtnful . admirers and defenders, Raymond Clapper, who on this subject wrijtes with a bitterness , entirely alien to his usually equable temper: "We newspaper. workers..may not have the social graces that Gro-ton Gro-ton and Harvard could have given t us are hired p try as best we can to keep the American people informed in-formed about tneir government.' At . least -.we are still assuming it is our government the " government that people jare paying taxes to finance, buying Jboigs - tq support, and for which their sons are dying in tropical jungles and dirty -Africa"" f it; J PROVO (UTAH) THE WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1943 War Teaches Us Value of Sulfa In Healing Wounds ByD R. THOMAS D. MASTERS Written fort NEA A superficial wound, such as an abrasion or laceration of the skin, is chiefly important as a portal of entry for infection. Whoever undertakes un-dertakes the care of simple wounds like a cut finger, a needle puncture, or a "skinned knee," must first avoid introducing infection infec-tion and then try to eliminate any infection carried into the wound by accident. The attendant should first wash his own hands carefully several times with soap' and water highly high-ly effective as a disinfectant. He may then apply rubbing alcohol, if available, to the cleansed hands. The hands should be left wet, unless un-less sterile towels are available. The wound should be washed also with soap . and ' water, applied freely, and then the same rubbing alcohol applied. The popular antiseptics such as tincture of iodine or hydrogen-peroxide hydrogen-peroxide are still standard treatment, treat-ment, but the great success the military forces have had with powdered sulfanilmide suggest that this new antiseptic should take priority in ordinary lacerations lacera-tions and abrasions occuring in civilian life, also. Mortality through infection in battle wounds has been cut to a fraction of that suffered in previous pre-vious wars thanks to the free, required use of sulfi-drugs. Every hospital is equipped with supplies of sulfanamide, and its use is rountine there. It is not yet widespread wide-spread in home use, but will become be-come more and more common as a topical application. The oral use of the sulfonamides must be restricted re-stricted to those under the care of a physician. Sulfanamide powder is inexpensive inex-pensive and obtainable in bulk or packeted in small envelopes suitable suit-able for a First Aid kit in home use. The powder may be shaken directly onto the wound. It should be applied so that it gives a "frosted" "frost-ed" appearance. The wound may then be covered with a sterile gauze bandage. Such ready-prepared bandages should be a part of any First Aid equipment or medicine chest, but if they are not available, a freshly laundered handkerchief or towel will also serve relatively well. The dressing should be kept in place for several days. Frequent changes of dressing simply increase in-crease the opportunity of introducing intro-ducing infection. It is obvious that if the wound becomes unusually unus-ually painful or the adjacent region re-gion swollen and red, professional care should be sought. Ambrose Pare, the great French military surgeon, once said: "I dress them (wounds), and God cures them." Had sulfanilimide been available to Pare, he might have claimed more credit for himself him-self as physician! Among His Souvenirs i ! X 7 1 sKV JLeeZT I NOT MUCH OP A v. . : . , lEw-GO-HOliD i Q's and A's The following is a question and answer release explaining the new War Manpower Commission regulations reg-ulations which carry out the president's "hold the line" executive execu-tive order: Q What is the purpose of this regulation restricting the transfer of workers? A To set up rules under which workers may be transferred in an orderly manner to the war jobs on which they are needed most and to assure that such transfers will be in conformity with the "hold the line" order. Q Does the order apply on a nation-wide basis or only to selected se-lected areas or industries? A It applies on a nation-wide basis with .special provisions for areas or industries in which ap proved War Manpower Commission Commis-sion stabilization programs exist, such as the 16-county stabilized area in Utah. Q What are the special provisions pro-visions in areas or industries where employment stabilization programs exist? A Transfer of workers from essential to other essential activities activ-ities may be made without regard re-gard to changes in wage rates or salary scale if in the interest of the war effort. Statements of availability issued by employers or War Manpower Commission officials of-ficials serve as evidence that transfers are being made in the furtherance of the war effort. Q Does the regulation "freeze" workers in their present jobs?. A It does not. In areas where employment stabilization pro grams are in effect, workers may I Bumble bee queens go into the transfer, in accordance with the fields along with .other members terms of su2n programs. In other of the colony to gather food. i Service Man and Social Security By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent What to do aboutthe social security benefits the old age pension pen-sion money and the survivors' insurance in-surance of men and women going into the armed services from private pri-vate employment is one that is still kicking around, unsettled. Forty-one of the states and the Territory of Hawaii have made provisions to freeze the 'status of workers going into the services with respect to their unemploy ment insurance benefits, but the federal government still pokes along on its part of the social security program. The way matters stand now. every year that a service person stays in service the old age and survivors' insurance benefits from social security decline, and if the person stays in service for as long as five years, the benefits will be entirely canceled out. That is a rather severe penalty for anyone doing his patriotic duty to his country. It makes it nec essary that when the guy or gal gets out of uniform, he or she will have to start all over again, build ing up benefits. The catches on passing an amendment to the social security law which would automatically freeze benefits a worker may have accumulated before going into the armed services seem to be three: Some Not On Social Security First, not everyone going into the services has any benefits com ing to him. The way the law now stands, it covers only workers in industry or commercial jobs. Agri- strpaa thv mnv transfAr tn 4nYm J cultural workers, oomesuc serv- at the same or lower wage rates, lants, nousewives anu uui aim . No restriction, however, is placed I eiigiDie tor coverage unaer social upon the transfer between activ- I security. But a lot of these people ities not included in the essential I go into various Drancnes 01 uie activities list and from such activ- I Army and Navy? just as do people ity to essential activities. Ifrom commercial and industrial Q What effect does this regu- occupations. lation have on existing rights of The latter are no better than the employees under agreements with former or vice versa, and to let their present employers? th. i. wno in civilian life A None whatever. Since this I uaed to eniov the social security regulation is concerned only with I Denefits hang onto all those bene- A Daily Picture of What's v I7(KSSJS Going on in National Affairs !tfv" WASHINGTON Things the President might remember about diplomacy and freedom from Vhe press: transfers of workers to other em ployers, the rights with the pres ent employers are not affected. . . Uncle Sam wants to borrow, For freedom for tomorrow Buy a War Bond today! o SERIAL STORY DARK JUNGLES BY JOHN C FLEMING & LOIS EBY COPYJtlOHT. 14. NIA aCRVICK. INC. Lou Rents Hold Down Remodeling In Provo Area A total of 32 additional apartments apart-ments and 35 additional sleeping : rooms have been created through 34 private remodeling projects registered at or brought to the attention of the Provo Homes Registration office for the 12-month 12-month period ending April 1, according ac-cording to S. I. Levin, HRO director. direc-tor. There were 125 remodeling cases recorded, and of this number num-ber 98 were direct applications for special reconditioning service ' while 27 owners required assist ance only in filing priority applications appli-cations for critical materials or such other help or advice as finance, need of skilled labor, etc. Of the 125 cases, 34 have been completed or started, creating the 32 additional apartments and. 35 sleeping rooms; 62 have been abandoned, and there is no report on 29 v cases. Of the 62 abandoned cases, 32 were considered not feasible,. 13 were given up because of rent control and the high remodeling cost, while 17 were dropped for lack of labor and finance. "Rent control and shortage of skilled labor deterred a total of 30 cases or an average of 24 per cent," said Mr. Levin. "Also a portion of the 32 cases abandoned as 'not feasible' were affected by the higher cost of construction and rent control." The above figures, Mr. Levin said, do not . in any sense represent repre-sent all of the private remodeling undertaken s in ; the county, "but should give a fair cross-section average of results and, reasons for the very low number of cases started and completed ( "Many jobs were started be fore the freezing of ' critical ma terials, others filed for critical materials with supply houses and lumber companies..- Still - others abandoned their plans' due to one or j: more reasons, such 'as -t high cost of construction, rent control, or Inability to secure skilled labor and did not bother to file an application for the free technical services offered. A vigorous newspaper campaign stressing' the needs and benefits of . added .? housing for defense workers and owners and outlining outlin-ing the services of the national housing x agency : through the HOLC rwas 'sponsored - by -Mr. Levin's Toff ice. THE STORY t Barry FleUIa aaa eoaae to Guatemala in searck of a qatckstlver mine operated by tke Quick Iadlaa tribe. He and kla Mexican Kuide, Joae, anally reaek (titehc territory. Tke cklefa council listen to Barry'a plea that America need quick-ailrer quick-ailrer aad promlae to slve him aa aaavrer tke following mora-" las-.. When aa Iadlaa grirl la attacked, at-tacked, Barry la accused and held prisoner. Joae manage to ateal two male for tkelr escape. On tke trail a train, Barry la suddenly atrtcken with malaria. He ekafea wkea tke faithful Joae insists they Sad their way back: to Alll-soa Alll-soa Topplaff'a plaatatloa aad delay de-lay the Quiche Iadlaa venture until he Is completely well. ' UA IS WORRIED CHAPTER XIV TOSE and Barry had broken zig-zag pattern in the trunks of the zapote trees. Jose, riding ahead, looked fuzzy and distant. I He could again feel burning fever on his brow. Jose pulled his mule to a stop. "Hurrah! We have made it!" he shouted triumphantly. Barry turned his eyes then to the chicleros perched like monkeys mon-keys high up in the towering trees swinging their machetes, the bright blades glistening in the sun. Then his eyes followed the trees down to the ground where he heard the sharp, s efficient com mands, of a woman's voice, as she directed the bleeding of the. trees. At that instant the owner of the camp a little after midnight, voice stepped out from behind a A yellow disk of moon floated in tree it was Allison. A new Alli-a Alli-a cloudless sky. "It will be cooler son, a vital, commanding Allison. traveling at night,'' Jose had said. Her golden hair was cropped close "And with a full moon we can like a man's, she wore a wnite make good time. We will reach man's shirt open at the throat, the jungle about daybreak." jner learner Doots were spianerea Rarrv rode ahead and Jose witn gray mua. uarry looKea ior trailed closely behind. Jose in- a moment and then the light faded sisted on freouent stops and made and he slumped from the mule's Rarrv atrteh out on the sweet- back to the ground he had amellinff ot&ss and rest a while. I fainted. Barrv's arms and lees felt Hke Jose neara xne ami mua as sticks of wood with the strength Barry fell to the soft ground.. He drained out of them. His fever slid from his mule quicKiy ana had gone, but it had burned the picked Barry. up in his powerful energy OUt Of him and letl only 1 arms. Awson came runiuns across a listless husk. "le clearing. norrv W slnwlv tn his feet, his ; "What's happened to nun j ow " " " w - m m m m' a " she cried as she looked at the chalky, legs wobbling under him VI feel much better," he insisted. ""I'm sure I can make it now. Will KHUl U1C J UUfilV) wa. "We should make it to the planta- drawn face, the wasted, thin body. "He's been very .sick,' Jose said quietly. "For over a week now I ave ni "Bring him to my estancia," M . i, . JJ MTII m Vaij4 tion before noon. I will take the ""uuii Efn, .r,rh th to get the bed ready." Jose car- Jungle treacherous.? If you feel NJ -Vt? mallM ms s faint, 'call out and we'U stop On , ther nlodded. tneir sure- iwujwbi uarry openea ma ejrea footed little . beasts picking their and then closed them . again way cautiously over rocks that against - the strong light. 'When nroiectedJ, themselves abruptly again hie opened them objects in from' the earth. With a' trained I the room-took; on a dim, ghostly v. Jose oicked the narrow open-1 shape. : : 5 . . . 4--.,. i Tiru . J T nrhat Visa Vian iM in me BOllU wau w. ucca ouu i , . w uci t; ut it thav ctarted down the iuncle trafl. Ipened?'' he asked thickly. The light of the moon was shut! Allison was standing in front of out' and they were moving more the dresser stirring some medicine w . m a . a I. ' -a "' ' m a .-' - - slowly through the uucy niacs: . ness. ' in a glass.- She turned and came to the side of .'the bed. Her hand closed over Barry's. - - - TP Rm to Barrr that years Ybure icoing to t au-ngn nMUi rVin mw ahead I now. - she f said auietly. "You've the thin fingers of sunlight where been very sicki It was just a week they broke through a clearing, it ago toaay itnat you ana uuw ' was like finding the reassurmginvea nere ai.ine pbuwmwu. . ha.oM nf s itsfhniicik fn n world! Stranffe i -wonderment filled IRarrv'a vkeTeaUars eradually full W4 VMiW aa ivi,iw a -wst ww wna. w . . s sjr -mr f ' . ' m t- W knew they were approaching the j realization? dawned on mm, ie plantation.- , Next, men's voices smuea veryiainuj. 1 , . came to him.J CTear, deep, chesty J -"I remember now- youcnicie-, youcnicie-, voices that rang through the still- ros-then all went black. j , cess. He knew the native chicle- ; Allison. gave Barryhis medicine s were at work slashing their I and left the room, wnen, sue re turned, his eyes, were brighter and color had crept back, in his . cheeks. Allison had a letter for Barry. "A letter from Lila," she said. The chicleros brought it in from Puerto Barrios a week ago, right after you blacked out -on -us. I didn't open it for three days then I thought it might be something some-thing importantsomething that should be answered, so I read it! Was it important?" Barry asked. 'She was worried because she hadn't heard from you." I suppose I'd better try to an swer it." Allison said coolly, "I didn't know how long you'd be uncon scious so I answered it for you.". Barry frowned."' "Let me see the letter." - ALLISON handed it to him and left the room. He read it slow- y and then read.it again. It was so typical of Lila. She was frantic fran-tic that he hadn't written. A plane arrived from Puerto Barrios that carried no letter from him. Didn't he know how impatient she was to hear? She would never let him get out of her sight again. After this trip she was going to insist on a desk job for Barry, right there in New York; no-more of these trios into places so remote, so dangerous. Barry released the, let ter and it fluttered to the noor. He lay there quietly for a while staring at the ceiling. Later Allison came bacic Wn some fruit juice in a glass and bent over the bed, Barry drank it slowly. ' "Sit down," he said. "I want to talk to you." Allison brushed a nana across her forehead after, she had drawn up a chair. 1 5?This heaV she said. "I wonder if anyone ever gets used to 7" "They tell me they do,'.' carry said: "But it wasn't the heat that I wanted to talk about." "rknow iVs that letter!" Allison said gayly - V " - r ; "Just what did you say T" "Oh. not much; really. Just a short, friendly note to tell her that you had been sick, but that you would come along all right." , "You told her, o course, umi i was stayingJiere,irith you? : fWhat . else couldi teuj nerr Allison said a little sharply. fits while their brothers and sis ters in arms don't enjoy similar privileges is a decided gyp. Second, the social security law specifically excludes from coverage cover-age all government employes, and that of- course excludes those in the armed forces. Army and Navy Benefits Third, Army and Navy people have certain other benefits of their own in the way of allotments to dependents, which -are not avail able to civilians. Also, the service people can take out war risk in surance which in a manner of speaking might be considered just another form of social security. Oivinc the ueome in service those benefits plus social security might by some be considered too much. Anyway, that's the muddle. What to do about it? A change in the law is the first requisite if anything at all is to be done, and there are two principal approaches to that question. First, free the rights of all workers as of the time they enter the service and guarantee them the same rights when they return to civilian life. Second, consider military service as covered em ployment so that social security benefits would continue to accumulate. accum-ulate. Under this latter approach, it would probably be necessary to extend coverage to everyone an tne services, regardless of whether they enjoyed coverage before. Senator Theodore Francis Green of Providence, R. I., has a bill before be-fore Concrress now, not only ex tending social security protection to all people in tne armea serv- . a.Vn. 11 ices, but also providing uia.i au costs for that protection be met bv the federal treasury, without making any aeaucuona irwu w soldier's pay. Thatsa pretty generous gen-erous settlement. About the only rhir,or the Green bill wouldn't give the service men is the enjoyment of both social security insurance and military pensions. Apparently Apparent-ly double largesse of that .kind was considered too good for even a soldier. Leroy Pickett, shoemaker of Frankfort, Ind,. made e flower vase from old pop battle tops. The average price of a jeep is $900, which means 48 people must buy $25 war bonds to pay for one. "Oh. I knbwjrm an grateful cad, after aUlyouHrelaeen; through, for ihebut well,I ' just wish , you hadn't written Tier that's all." A. light twinkled nunievously. in Allison, blue eyes as she said, , ?rm sorry,. Barry. i-For v once: I really thought ,1 . was doing the right thing." ; r , - , . (Xs - Be Oonttn. r-': i AUNT HET By ROBERT QUUXJCN ata kllly to urge folks to " jaate or not to bate. Love ' and hate alnt things you can turn on like a faucet ljust because. you, decide to .dolt, - Most successful diplomatic conference i recent vears was held m Rio De Janeiro a htue over a year ago when all but two American republics went to bat for the U. S. A. and severed relations with the Axis. For some governments gov-ernments this was not easy. But one factor which made it impossible to do otherwise was the power of public opinion stirred up by the power of the press. The Rio conference was held in at atmosphere atmos-phere of frank, open, sweating diplomacy. Newsmen News-men crowded into caucus rooms, 'talked with delegates during sessions, held pness conferences with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles twice a day. Welles-jwas absolutely frank. So were other delegates. They knew that so long as their goal was altruistic the pross could be of immense value. A o' n rviatra ' vf fanf esr vrsrAl m 4-VtA influence of those great newspapers La Presna, La Nacion and La Critica, in Argentina that their pro-American dispatches nearly caused a political turnover against their isolationist President Pres-ident Castillo. y . NOTE: The President has barred newsmen . from the hotel where the Food Conference will be held at Hot Springs, Va., fearing news crumbs might fall from delegates. But at Rio De Janeiro, Sumner Welles and the American delegation occupied the same hotel not only with newsmen tut with the Japanese naval attache, whose country had just crippled our battleships at Pearl Harbor. STRAWS IX THE WIND Things the public might remember about the President's new yen for freedom from the press: 1. White House intimates say F. D. R. plans to hold the peace conference in the Azores, heart of the .Atlantic. This would mean that no newsmen or representative of the public could get anywhere near the conference, called to write what we hope is lasting peace, without a passport from the State Department, also without transportation on government controlled planes. 2. Every international conference since Casablanca has followed the President's new in- A spiration of isolated location, inaccessible to the press. The refugee conference in Bermuda will tax overburdened airplanes merely to transport trans-port delegates. The state department can argue that no space will be available for the press. 3. Inside fact is that many in the State Department wanted to hold the Food Conference Confer-ence at Saratoga, N. Y., because Virginia liquor laws will be hard for some delegates to take! But despite liquor restrictions, Hot Springs was chosen because the hotel is far from any town, can be so completely isolated from press and public. The Saratoga hotels are right on the main streets where it would be a simple matter for delegates to slip out for a minute or two and drop a hint to newsmen if anyone were giving the Food Conference the works. 4. When Collier's Weekly got permission from the Army and Navy to publish a full account ac-count of the Tokyo bombing raid written by an officer who participated, it was the President Presi-dent himself, who, nearly a year after the raid, ruled for secrecy. BATTUE AGAINST SMALL FARMERS Friends of Big Farmer ' champion Ed O'Naal of the Farm bureau say he is obessed with tte desire to kill completely the Farm Security Administration, Ad-ministration, chief champion of Small Farmers. Not only does Ed call it "Socialistic," but he has even wrangled with other Big Farm groups, including Charles Teague, President of the California Cal-ifornia Fruit Growers Exchange, in order to put the FSA out of business. Teague came to Washington with a plan for importing- Mexican labor to harvest citrus fruit in California and Arizona. At that time, the House of Representatives was proposing to transfer power from Farm Security to Extension Exten-sion Service, which would have upset a contract with Mexico, already negotiated; for importing farm labor. Fruit Grower Teague was sure that if Congress Con-gress hamstrung the Farm Security Administration, Adminis-tration, the Mexican Government would buck at negotiating a new labor contract, and there would be costly delays to California fruit grow ers. So Teaguewanted the Mexicans imported under the existing contract. But Ed O'Neal got to him, -urged him- to hold back. He admitted Teague's plan would work, but said he didn't want it put through until after Congress had finished hamstringing the Farm Security Administration. In short he wanted to embarrass the FSA more than he wanted to bring in Mexican labor to help California Cali-fornia fruit growers. Fruit Grower Teague is no radical, but he was disguisted. He boiled over in a letter to Governor Earl Warren of California, packed his bags and went home. SHIPPING WASTE Behind the scenes, the Truman Committee is sharply critical of the War Shipping Administration Admin-istration for failing to crack down on big ship owners who have not expedited shipping to our fighting forces. The Truman Committee now has before it some sensational testimony by members of the CIO National Maritime Union about a near mutiny on a merchant ship owned by the Grace Lines, in September of last year. Union officials have informed the committee commit-tee that this ship, loaded with munitions and supplies for an American force in the New Hebrides Islands, was laid up at an island port for 51 days without unloading. When crew members went to the capi and volunteered " their services free to assist native longshoremen in unloading the ship, the captain told them to mind their own business. It was not until crew members held a secret meeting, and formed' a committee to demand immediate action by the capUiri,jthat he agreed to the unloading of the ship. (NOTE: Probably .other factors caused the aia Vvn. fVio mvemmpnt was pavinsr the Grace j , w... 3 - . - WUIKU IflCOUb auuuii w. - remained unloaded in the New weonaes., (Cipyright 1943 by United Feature Syndicate,, Inc.) " t - X - |