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Show Why Doesn't Ho Feel His Own Piitse? IOWI and War Desk Chat ll PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER "30, 1943 Editorial.... In Full Stride American industry at last appears to have struck its full stride in war production. produc-tion. The job that has been done ever since Pearl Harbor has been amazingly good. Now it has become superlative. This obviously is true as to volume, considering con-sidering Donald Nelson's disclosure that in November the overfall munitions and armament arma-ment index had climbed to 665 per cent as compared with November, X94X. It is true also as to quality, which perhaps is at least equally important. In the beginning we had to manufacture from whatever plans were available, in order to get some weapons with which the threat of quick Axis victory might be repelled. It can be admitted now that many of the items were distinctly inferior. It is "to the credit of our industry that, while multiplying its volume of output almost al-most seven times ,it has managed to shift to always better weapons, so that now, in many fields. American material is the best in the world. Peter Masefield, British aviation expert who used to be very critical of our planes, now rates the Consolidated Liberator as best in two classifications ; the North American Ameri-can Mustang in two; the Lockheed Lightning Light-ning and Lodestar, the Republic Thunder-botl, Thunder-botl, the North American Mitchell, the Cur-tiss Cur-tiss Helldiver and Commando, the Grumman Avenger and Hellcat, the Douglas Skymas-ter, Skymas-ter, the Boeing Clipper and the Chance Vought VS-43B each in one category. That is to say, this Britisher now feels that in two out of every three classes, American planes are the best in the world. That is high praise. Nor is it confined to planes. In numerous other fields tanks, for example -we are producing the best there is. Americans have stepped up the firepower of Flying Fortresses until they are the best-protected best-protected planes in th'e world, and are mounting IS millimeter cannon, more powerful pow-erful thanvthe World War field pieces, in planes. You read about the Nazis' terrible rocket weapon which was a major threat to Allied ships. Now you don't hear about it any more. Why? American inventiveness a story to be told some day, when the Germans Ger-mans can't profit from it. There was a little while when we could pride ourselves upon the Volume of our mass ? reduction, but couldn't boastxnuch,-about ankee ingenuity in providing ah outlet for production lines. Now, once again, we can hold up our heads in proud belief that if there is an answer, American research will find it ; if there isn't an answer, American inventiveness will make one. The Washington Merry-Go-Round Coi, brt y- .t a: i at -i . Ail.. Progress of Safety The public seldom hears of the labor and research being carried on to make the railroads rail-roads constantly safer. Devices like the tight lock coupler developed in 1937 to reduce re-duce the amount of slack between car couplings coup-lings and to prevent them from riding over each other, which often results in dread "telescoping," are merely strange expre-sions expre-sions to the layman. The same is true of the improved highspeed airbrakes of recent years. Only experienced trainmen know how these brakes, with a system of graduated pressure, can bring a heavy train to a stop in a minimum of time and space; or if the additional safety factor embodied in the new type axle developed by the Association of American Railroads after two years of exhaustive ex-haustive tests, and now standard equipment. equip-ment. The passengers of a transcontinental limited, at this moment speeding across the country would be amazed if they were told that cars like the ones in which they are riding had been tested in a "squeeze" machine ma-chine under stresses of 1,000,000 pounds. Perhaps most interesting are the rail de-" tector cars. Through the use of these cars, which "feel" with magnetic "fingers" for hidden defects within the rail, it has become be-come possible in recent years to discover the causes of incipient breaks and remove the rails from the track. In 1941 detector cars moved, over 142,500 miles of track. In 1942, 193,000 miles of track were so inspected. It is expected that in 1943 something more than 225,000 miles will be given similiar inspection. in-spection. These are only a very few of the safety developments of the last few yearsn the American railroads. Others include heavier tracks and improved signalling equipment. No headlines herajd the safety progress of the railroads'. But it is reassuring to know that such progress is continuing without interruption, in-terruption, even in wartime. WASHINGTON Tjistinguished 71-year-old Senator Dave Walsh of Massachusetts has ap pointed himself committee of one to protect the purity or American wwnsnnow, ne nvy w partment wants to send WAVES overseas, hut Walsh, as chairman of the senate naval affairs committee, says, "American women must not be subjected to the evil influences of service abroad." The navy wants WAVES overseas because of the manpower problem- As things stand now. the navy is obliged to use men for clerical work at many overseas bases nowhere near war zones. The navy has large establishments in Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Newfoundland, the canal zone. These are no more dangerous militarily than New York or San Francisco. WAC5 are allowed to serve there, and the navy is allowed to send civilian women there, but WAVES are barred because Dave Walsh is out to protect American womanhood. Everybody hlsrh un in the navy has pleaded with congress for authority to let the WAVES go overseas, including secretary Knox, Aamirai Ran dall Jacobs, chief of naval personnel, and Captain Mildred H. McAfee, director of the WAVES. Admiral Jacobs told house naval affairs that Admiral Harold Stark. European commander-in- chief, had sent word: "Send me WAVES. I could use fifty in my London offices and replace fifty men for fighting." The house committee was impressed and was willing to give the WAVES a break, but Walsh blocked action on the senate side. The matter never came out for debate on the senate floor. Walsh sat on it in committee. Meantime, the war department has sent 1,000 WACS to the North African theater alone. MORE STRIKKES AHEAD There are a lot more strikes in the country than the public is aware of. The government has abandoned the policy of regular announcements of the number of strikes and the number of man hours lost. Thus the strikes do not get into the newspapers. news-papers. But there are some figures which reveal that the no-strike pledge of labor organizations is not very effective. In November alone, ,there were 120 strikes. The December figure will be only slightly? lower. In the week before Christams, 81,000 man days were lost in plants engaged war production. Two days before Christmas, 21,000 people were out on strike, and a number of critical items were behind be-hind schedule. Some of the strikes have no relation to wages. Take for example the strike which Washington officials refer to as "The Baltimore backhouse strike." The Western Electric plants at Baltimore are producing such highly important items as marine cables and radar wire. But white workers went on strike because white and colored workers did not have separate toilet facilities. The war department was obliged to step In last week and take over the plants solely because of toilet trouble. Workers began coming back slowly, but four days after the plants were taken over, over half the workers were still out. Unfortunately, there is every probability that strikes will Increase, rather than decrease in the future. Next in line demanding wage increases will be aircraft, steel and shipyard workers. John L. Lewis's victory broke the line, has stimulated demands de-mands for increases in many industries. After the president yielded to Lewis, George Harrison, railroad brotherhoods chief, visited the white House and said, For Gawds sake, you give it to your enemies, why not to your friends?" RED TAPE BAA'S RED MEAT Meat producers in Mexico would like to send a million pounds of fresh beef a week to the u. S A., but the U. S. A. declines to receive it. There is no question of foot-and-mouth disease, dis-ease, as in Argentina. It is merely a technical ques tion of whether or not U. S. federal meat inspec tors should cross the border. Washington says "no." The law gives our inspectors in-spectors no authority to operate outside the United States. Washington says Mexico will have to set up its own federal meat inspection system before the beef can be shipped across. It is a game of tick-tack-toe, with the housewife suffering. A new meat-packing plant haB just been completed at Juarez, on the border, for the purpose pur-pose of processing meat for sale to the United States. President Avila Camacho personally dedicated dedi-cated the plant, and its operators expected to slaughter 250,000 pounds a week, for shipment across the border. But not a pound can come across. Actually, an old plant at the same site years ago had U. S. federal inspection, under a special agreement, and tne present operators can't see why this agreement agree-ment cannot be revived. Dr. George E. Totten, chief of meat inspection in the department of agriculture, mentions the matter with annoyance, but seems to do absolutely absolute-ly nothing about it. Meanwhile, we buy ton of meat from our Latin American critic. Argentina, while spurning meat from our ally Mexico. WAR CHAFF From the Philippine grapevine: Puppets of Japan arc called "military objectives" by Filipinos loyal to the U. S. A. Many "military objectives" have been shot at. including Puppet President Jose Laurel ... In leaching ..Filipino citizens prop, er respect for the Japanese Imperial forces, the Japs instruct thef to bow low and toward the north (the direction of Japan) . . . Suggestion for savinz manpower received from various army camoi: Have fewer chauffeurs sit in cars for hours waitinz for commissioned officers. Officers are pretty good drivers themselves, and the WACS are excellent . . . Major Si Bartlett, husband of Ellen Drew, the movie actress, is back from overseas. over-seas. He was the first American to release a bomb over Berlin. "Berlin," says Si "is still my favorite tarc-et." ... At Scott Field, HI., civilians get good pay. including time and a half over 48 hours, for teaching radio operators, jaeanwnue, non-wwa bi S66 a month do the same joo, pius scnooi gusra, fire guard, barracks guard, calisthenics, barracks orderly, shoveling coal. Many of the civilians . are draft-deferred. (Copyright, 1943, by United Feature Syndicate. 2ac.) There is no royal road to Tokyo Marine Commandant Com-mandant Lieut. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift 1 VlwaW r 14 IlliSaV IS 'k jf -Jbr I, in. lvr ISK ' VSR. . maj sm? mv u-jmrn u i . ; A ' ! ' m it i i i I Sljr MtxunUb Mun tJy Charles Dickens coptiuoht, is. evsvica. ma CHAPTER XIX YOU re0011 the jname?" 'I recollect the; name." , "And the man?" 1 "No, not the man. pid be ever wrong me?" I , "Yea!" J "Ah! Then it's hopeless tope-less." tope-less." "I did not go to Mr. Edmund last night," said Milly;. "You will listen to me jutt the same as if you did remember all?" "To every syllable you say." "Both because I did not know, then, that this really was his father, and because I was fearful of the effect upon! him if it should be. Since I have known who this person is, I have not gone either; but that is for another reason. rea-son. He has long been separated from his wife and son has been a stranger to his home almost from his son's infancy. In all. that time he has been falling from the state of a gentleman, more and" more, until" she ro$e up hastily, and, going out for afmoment, returned, re-turned, accompanied py the wreck that Redlaw had behtild last night. "Do you know rod" asked the Chemist. ; "I should be glad," 'returned the other, "and that is in unwonted word for me to use,, If I could answer no." The Chemist looked at the man, standing in self-abasement and degradation before him, and would have looked longer, but that Milly attracted his attentive gaze to her own face. t "See how low he s sunk, how lost he js!" she whispered. "If you could remember alii that is connected con-nected with him, do you not think it would move your pity to reflect that one you ever loved should come to this?" "I hope it would," he answered. "I believe it would." XTIS eyes wandered tp the figure AA standing near the door, but came back speedily to her on whom he gazed intently. "I have no learning, and you have much," said Milly; "I am not used to think, and you are always thinking. May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done to us?" "Yes." "That we may forgive it "Pardon me, great Heaven!" said Redlaw, lifting up his eyes, "for having thrown away thine own high attribute!" "And if," said Milly, "if your memory should one day be restored, re-stored, awe will hope and pray it may be, would it not be a -blessing to you to recall at once a wrong and its forgivness?" He looked at the figure by the door, and fastened his attentive eyes on her again; a ray of clearer light appeared to him to shine into his mind, from her bright face. "He knows that he could only carry shame and trouble to those he has so cruelly neglected; and that the best reparation he can make to them now, is to avoid them. A very little money carefully care-fully bestowed, would remove him to some distant place, where he might live and do no wrong, and make such atonement as is left within his power for the wrong he has done. To the unfortunate lady who is his wife, and to his son, this would be the best and kindest boon that their best friend could give them one too that they need never know of; and to him, shattered shat-tered in reputation, mind, and body, it might be salvation." He took her head between his hands, and kissed it, and said: "It ; shall be done. I trust to you to do News Releases By PETER EDSON Deny Herald Washington Correspondent "The domestic branch of the Of flee of War Information should b liquidated the minute the shooting stops, but as long as the war lasts it will be necessary to keep some kind of a centralized government news bureau manned by civilians. This is the opinion of Palmer Hoyt, tor the past six months di rector or QWi'a domestic news mi. reau. He is leaving Washington soon to return to his job as editor edi-tor of the Portland Oresronian. He goes back home the usual sadder and wiser man. He came to Washington full of beans. He saw his job at OWI as on of crettin out the war news, and he didn't think the war news was getting get-ting out. He intended to stay only three months, in which he would reorganize the bureau, then get out himself. He stayed six and things aren t all hunky dory yet. though Mr. Hoyt admits freely that things are now better than they were. Some of the battles which OWI goes throusrh, internally and with ether government agencies, in just trying to get out the news, are really pretty disastrous. Navy, Army Six months or a year agot uraa tho Nw that, una mltiWar nntn all ita nm Hth a Vth.ThankS grip, for fear someone would find out about what was going on. Today To-day the Navy is apparently trying to let go of stuff while It's hot. as witness the record on Tarawa, in getting out the story within 24 hours after it happened. 14 j -i,. . un wie Diner nana, n una Arni.Y !5KnJlWT"5,T!.?ni?,that now hoards news like an old n- . nuwu 1V4 W 1J, It . wiH it I were so happy as to know for what." AS she rose, and turned her man, implying that her mediation had been successful, he advanced a step, and without raising his eyes, addressed himself to Redlaw. "I am too decayed a wretch to make professions; I recollect my own career too well. But from the day on which I made my first step downward, in dealing falsely by you, I have gone down with a certain, steady, doomed progression. pro-gression. That I say." The Chemist entreated- Milly, by a gesture, to come nearer to him; and, as he listened, looked in her face, as if to find in it the clew to what he heard. "I speak," the other went en, "like a man taken from the grave. I should have made my own grave, last night, had it not been for this blessed hand. r "Oh, dear," sobbed Milly, under her breath. 1 I could not have put myself in your way, last night, even for bread. But, today, my recollection of what has been between us is so strongly stirred, and is presented to me, I dont know how, so vividly, that I have dared to come at her suggestion, and to take your bounty, and to thank you for it, and to beg you, Redlaw, in your dying hour, to be as merciful to me in your thought as you are in your deeds." He turned toward the door, and stopped a moment on his way forth. "I hope my son may interest you for his mother's sake. I hope he may deserve to do s.o. Unless my life should be preserved a long time, and I should know that I have not misused your aid, I shall never look upon him more." Going out, he raised his eyes to Redlaw, for the first time. Redlaw, whose steadfast gaze was fixed upon him, dreamily held out his hand. He returned and touched it -little more with both his own and bending down his head, went slowly out. (To Be Concluded) hen with an urge to set. The wails of the Washington press cores covering the War Deoartment get louder every day. Holding up for two weeks on news of the German sneak bombing raid against the Italian nort of Bari is a case in ooint. This disaster, as bad as a second Pearl Harbor, exceot for the fact that freighters instead of battleshins were hit. was a greater blow to the British than it was to th ImnHrana and a terrible re flection on the British lack of anti-aircraft defense at an Imoort- it nort. Jt was all under General Eisenhower's ton command, however, how-ever, and the War Department's atroarent effort to mlrlmlze the news by buryin it in the middle of Secretary Stimson's otherwise di'll war summary, two weeks after it haooened. is a sad reflec tion on a bd news, nollcy. While OWI doee not deserve all the credit for speeding tm the Vaw'a release of its war news. It does not deserve all the blame for the Army's current slowness. Tne Bari story was forced into the ooen as a result of owi nroaainjr. As a matter of fact, OWI seems to have let the story leak to make sure that It would get out , Trying to get Army and Navy to release news faster broke one OWI denutv. Nicholas Roosevelt of ti Ovater Bav branch of the fam Uv. George H. Lvon, former New York and Buffalo newsnaoer editor, edi-tor, has the job now. He Is entitled en-titled to at least some of the credit for whatever imorovement if tnv. has been made In the re lease of war news In the last few months. But In this effort to. get out more news for the domestic nress. Lvon has had the full back ing of OWI Director Elmer Davis and PMmer Hoyt. Let's Have the Unfavorable The fiasco over the Bari story, the bad release on the General Patton incident, and the beautiful ball-un over the release of the President's Cairo and Teheran conferences con-ferences indicate how much room there is for still further inwove ment What it really seems to take to get the unfavorable news pried out of the War and Navy depart ments is a eood Congressional in vestlpration, such as the Truman eommlttee conducted on the Army's Canpl oil project In Can The following poem, "A Soldier's Sold-ier's Prayer," as printed in the "Stars and Stripes,' somewhere in Italy, was sent with Christmas greetings to .Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bigler from their eon. First Sgt. Mont L. Bigler of the tank bat- tanon m General ciarxs army Sgt. Mont has been in North Africa and Italy for 14 months. Two brothers are serving Uncle Sam, Corporal Edgar R- Bigler, in field artillery, with the ;45th Fv A-, stationed in Hawaii for the past two years, and Staff Sergeant Vandus J. Bigler of the air corps, who has been in India for six month. A Soldier's Prayer Dear God in heaven somewhere up thlre; I humbly beg you hear this prayer. Hear me Lora, ana unaersuuta, It's not just me, its every man. Give us strength to do this task. Pon't let us weaken that's all we ask. We don't want praise for what we do Just do our best, and win it, too. When we're sliding off the track Reach down, Dear God and bring us back We realize you pave the way For each advance we make each day. There's something else that t tmgnt aea Sort of look out for Mother and Dad. Dear God, thank you again. Not Just for me, for every man. 0O0 The Commonwealth of the Philippines is one country that has a changeable flag. Although the basic design remains constant, during peacetime the blue stripe Is uppermost and in time of war the red stripe takes the upper position. At Christmas time in Oxfordshire, Oxford-shire, England, it used to be the right of every maid-servant to ask the men of the house for ivy with which to decorate the rooms. If any of them forgot or refused. It was the custom for her to steal a pair of his breeches and nail them to the outer gate. In other arts of England a ereater pen alty was to debar th offender from the privilege of the mistletoe. It is renorted that Mae West. the jovl str. recently cwd ; JiHoohera nf ("Word Wnllsh Dlct'omarv. The lower- ease m wst Is a llf bU wnu bv members of the Raw while on air d"t.v. and tti trm h been MO o;enran r.c bv fl4ra of he other TTnltert Ntia hmt it has found Its way into the diction ary. GOSSIP You cannot prevent neonle talk ing, even gosslpIneyicIously, if you deliberately do what others consider wrong. Particularly is W. M U 4 VUIOU where everybody seems to know everybody, else's buainss. That is why those with marked uncon scious guilt complexes, as well as those with consclously-realiced guilt usually feel safer in large cities. Dr. Louis E. Blsch. ada, and the House Naval Affairs Committee conducted on the Navy's Brewster Aircraft mess. But this very difficulty accord ing to Palmer Hoyt is what makes necessary some kind of an 'inside government agency, run by civil ians, to keep after the news. Whether or not OWI stands between be-tween the reporters and the news is a debatable Question. Certainly Army and Navy public relatione departments stand between , the reporters and the direct news sources. The reason given for his interference is the need for maintaining main-taining secrecy and protecting military security, with which there can be no argument The need for something like OWI in such a situation is to keep prodding the old hens off the nest eggs of news before those eggs all turn rotten. Marshall Keeps Job The decision to keep General George C. Marshall as chief of staff .and place Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in position as supreme su-preme commander of the Anglo-American forces on the conttnent of Europe in charge of the coming invasion, is good news. General Eisenhower has proven his ability in the invasion b. General Marshall has demonstrated himself to be one of the really grteat chiefs of staff in American history. Even though Marshall might like to go into the field, it would seem foolish to shift two! men away from jobs which the are doing1 supremely well, in hope that they would do cQiiallv well in new posits.. .... . . The fuehrer has erected fortifications which are without parallel in the history of the world In these fortifications there stands a garrison which waits with fanatical eagerness for the moment mo-ment when it will at last confront the enemy and come to grips with him German high command to troops. Had our position depended on our military dis-J positions alone apart irom we mgnuiwm u-aian u-aian victories, we would have been in a dire plight now. Aneurin Sevan. British Laborite M. F. Every plan is now agreed. The timing ia now agreed on and in due course the decisions of Te heran will be unrolled on the field of battle. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. , Even if there are no CTirtstmas! "trees, they will scarcely be missed. There is too little feeling now for such external things. Toe people ww oe ouite content if Dee. 25 basses without fires. C. of C. Votes On Post-War Plans How is the shapel of things to come being visualised today by America's leading men of business? busi-ness? " t That question was answered tp-day tp-day so far as the Prove chamber of commerce is concerned in a unanimous resolution sent to the board of directors Of the United States chamber of commerce de clares Clayton Jenkins, secretary. following a special meeung oi iuc Provo chamber Tueiday. The Provo group! favors an in ternational organization for the maintenance of peace and security among nations, based upon tne principle of reciprocal collabora. tion among nations, which does not take on the aspects of a "superstate." Considering the Moscow declaration declar-ation and the recent senate resolution, reso-lution, the Provo chamber arrived at this conclusion: "We approve the establishment at the earliest practicable date a general inter national organization, based on the principle of sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, ana open to membership by ill such states, large and small, for the maintenance mainten-ance of international peace and security." I The Provo chamber also voted unanimously for toe proposition, that "This peace and security may best be safeguarded through the use of the armed forces or peace-loving peace-loving nations actitig through the combined chiefs off staff organisation, organi-sation, developed tf meet -future conditions." i Provoan Promoted To 1st Lieutenant PETERSON FIELD, Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 30 (Special) 1st Lt. Henry M. Woolf, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Woolf, of 758 North Fourth East, Provo, Utah, has recently been promoted to his present rank. He Is stationed at Peterson field as medical supply officer at the station hospital. Lt. Woolf, a graduate ofVBrlg-ham ofVBrlg-ham Young high school, waa attending at-tending Brigham Young university univer-sity when he enlisted in -the medi cal detachment of the 145th field artillery In 1939. He was station ed in California, and in the Hawaiian Haw-aiian deoartment through October 1942, attended O. C. S and was commissioned second lieutenant in February. 1943. Japan to Open Mighty Offensive SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 30 (CE) Japan will open a "mighty offen sive against Anglo-American military power in the Pacific and Asiatic theaters of war during 1944, Sadao Iguchi, spokesman for the Japanese board of information, infor-mation, told his nation in a broad cast reported today by Tokyo radio. MASKER SENDS CARDS Sgt. Delbert Warner who has been a Drtsoner of fthe Rumanian government since! his . bomber was forced down during the Floes-ti Floes-ti oil field raid, lsi beinar treated weU, he tells his f mtoher, Mrs. Eva warner, in two cards, dated Sept 28. and, Oct S3. , . . WARNING CAR OWNERS! , Don't Risk Your Future INSURE YOUR CAR NOW! Se LA VON E. PAYNE Representing State Farm Mutual Aato Insurance Co. 32 West Center St Next Door Mitchell Jewelry ' Provo. Utah rnOXE JgO 1852-M LUNCH 60X FAVORITE... Mountain mm ! J War workers switch to Folgor's... say flavor HOLDS UP in thormos Letters have been pouring in from war workers calling our attention to new proof of Folger's superlative quality. qual-ity. They say its fresh, vigorous flavor holds up even after hours ia a thermos bottle. They say other brands of coffee they're tried seem to lose flavor or become bitter tasting. But Folger'a keeps its goxMtaea Iweps the richer mora vigorous flavor that's sever beeli jualedby any other coffee in the world! ' wm's a mountain of vlavoh iNimt&ooHm ctmwsi I . - ' - ''',' - i.1 II mi. 'II in i ih i IT" - "'', n'n.ii' -iii.i w ,.,,.i. |