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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1944 Editorial ... . Grand Assault Day Tomorrow Tomorrow is grand assault day for the people of the United States the home front. It's the day set for the launching of the Fourth War Loan. However, there will be no anxious moments mo-ments in a landing boat, nocry of anguish as an enemy bullet sears your flesh, no light and smell of death, no scream to God for swift, never-ending sleep. It is for other Americans to undergo these trials. These "other Americans" happe,n to be your sons and brothers and fathers and husbands and uncles and cousins and dear friends. When you are asked by a volunteer war bond salesman to invest in the Fourth War Loan, you measure your sacrifices against theirs, whether you will forego what is yours by right in ordinary times, to place your resources little or big back of your fighting boys. Buying extra war bonds may mean temporary tem-porary hardship to some individuals. You can be certain of one thing that if your purchase of Extra War Bonds does not entail en-tail a sacrifice on the part of you and your family, you have not fully met the challenge of the Fourth War Loan. Battle dress for your home, beginning Tuesday, will include a red, white and blue emblem the Treasury Fourth War Loan shield which proudly proclaims: "We bought extra war bonds." "Let's All Back the Attack" with extra war bonds. The Washington Merry-Go-Rou hd A Daily Picture of What's Going on in National Affairs Br Draw Pearaoa (Col. Robert 8. Allan ell, doty). Something Lacking The heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures tem-peratures in this locality have provided many of the'-joys of an old-time winter for the younger generation in the way of skiing ski-ing and sleigh-riding. But, with all this, there has been something lacking. Ask any kid you meet on the street, and he'll tell you what it is no community skating rink within easy access of Provo's children. It's been many years since Provo has had a finer opportunity to produce magnificent skating for the crowds, than this season. A few years ago, with a comparatively open winter, and hardly any sub-zero temperatures, tempera-tures, a fairly decent ice skating rink was provided as part of the community recreational recrea-tional program. It proved immensely popular, popu-lar, with thousands taking advantage of the wholesome and healthful outdoor sport from early in the day until late at night. While nearby Utah lake 'provides an ideal skating surface, though somewhat hazardous hazard-ous to the uninitiated, the distance from the city places it out of reach for the rank and file of the youngsters of this community. There is no finer and more healthful activity ac-tivity than skating under proper supervision. In these days with the problems of juvenile delinquency plaguing our communities, it is needed more than ever before. Breakthrough "I'm mighty glad the Russians are on our side," says the man in the street, reading the headlines from western Russia and eastern Poland. And so say we all. It looks as though the Red army may be achieving that breakthrough which is its real goal but which hitherto, although the Germans have been pushed back from five to seven hundred miles, never has come. Territory is of minor importance in this war. Integrated armies are all-important, ft the Nazis really are cracking up in the Ukraine, they can hardy hope to rally short of the Bug river. In order to avoid possible disappointment in future we should remember, however, that every mile stretches Soviet communica-" communica-" tion lines out longer and brings the Nazis closer to their sources of supply. As the fighting moves toward Berlin it is bound to become tougher going, and slower. Wise Course To those who doubt that we do progress politically and socially we commend the Anti-Saloon League. In World War I that organization put over prohibition. Four million mil-lion ex-servicemen felt aggrieved, which no doubt contributed materially to the wave of organized lawlessness that resulted. Now Dr. George W. Crabbe, superintendent, superintend-ent, opposes any attempt to repeat that error. "The servicemen." he says, "would feel that something had been put over on them." While he favors national prohibition, prohibi-tion, "there is no use trying to force this on the peoole. Public sentiment mii't hn the controlling influence." That is democracy at work. It's wise not to talk too much but it's still okey to say, "Another war bond, please." Reports have it that Hitler is in the durrms which could be most any place in Berlin. Shoppers have discovered that a new expression ex-pression has come out of the war "Sorry, we're all out!" In Cleveland an investigation showed that a great percentage of the beers ran lelow 3.2. Now the consumers will do the foaming. There's a Beautiful Mustaho Comin g Info Your Life! WASHINGTON At a safe distahce from Teheran, Te-heran, the full story can now betold of the measures meas-ures taken to. protect the president from the plot against his life. The message from Stalin, warning Roosevelt that Nazi paratroopers had come down In Iran, reached the American embassy on the day of the president s arrival. Stalin himself had arrived the night before, and learned that 38 paratroopers had landed in the country side, that 26 of them had been rounded up, but that 12 were still at large. Since the Soviet and British embassies were adjacent in one part of town, and the the American embassy more than a mile distant, it would be safer for all three leaders if they could be brought together togeth-er and guarded by the same force. But the problem was how to get the president safely to the Soviet embassy? ThP nrohlem was solved bv a finesse of which the U. S. secret service may now be proud. The main route between the American and Soviet embassies em-bassies was guarded constantly by Persian police. Churchill had covered this route when he arrived, driving from the air port to the British embassy. Sporpf service men looked at the crowd of specta- trg iinrt nn alone the wav. and shook their hpads. There were between thirty and forty thous and neoDle a motlev mixture of races in which a desperado might easily mingle without being noticed. no-ticed. So secret service ordered out U. S. troops to simDlement the Persian police and then took an other route entirely. When the Yank uniforms appeared, ap-peared, the whole town was sure the president would come that way. Thus, every other part of town was deserted. PRESIDENT VIRTUAL PRISONER Secret service bustled the president into a car, and drove him down the side streets of the town, unobserved by anyone. They had tried to get an armored car, but there was no such equipment to be had in Iran. However, this journey, and the the return journey four days later, were safely executed. exe-cuted. At the Soviet embassy, during the four days of conferences, the president was a prisoner in his own quarters. He lived in the same building where the conferences were held, and did not venture outdoors at any time. Another secret service worry was about the water supply. Teheran has no general sewage system sys-tem or piped water supply. The water runs down from the mountains in open aquaducts, which many use as a semi-sewer. Fortunately, the British and Russian embassies were equippedd with their own special pipe lines. But even this water was carefully tested before the big shots arrived. Only members of the American party who got sick were some of the secret service detail, who experimented too freely with dishes of camel's meat. Note This assignment was by far the most difficult ever undertaken by secret service in guard- the person of any president. Chief of the detail was ; Michael F. Reilly. OIL MEN ON SUBSIDIES Economic Stabilizer Judge Vinson recently held a revealing session with a group of midwestern oil men which got right down to the heart of the subsidy question. The oil men were headed by Reid Brabell of Leonard Refinery, Inc., Alma, Michigan; Gerald Day of Western Petroleum Refiners Association. Tulsa, Oklahoma; Barnev Majewski of Deep Rock Oil company, Chicago: and several others. They! told how midwest oil had been taken away from' Illinois. Nebraska, Ohio. Kentucky and other mid-' western states in order to give more oil to the east. And they asked that the midwest be allotted more crude oil from- west Texas. West Texas is easily able to supply more oil to midwest refineries, and these refineries want about: 75,000 barrels more per day. Furthermore, Judge Vinson feels that they need it. The visiting oil men told how oil reserves were being used up to sucn I an extent that midwest farmers would not have ! enough gasoline to run their tractors for spring! plowing. However, there was one big hitch. The cost of transporting crude oil from West Texas by rail (pipelines are crowded) would run about 90 cents a barrel above normal. So the midwest refiners wanted the government to pay the extra charge. "What we want is a compensatory payment of a war-induced cost," they explained. "What-' asked Judge Vinson, the champion of subsidies. "A compensatory payment of a war-induced war-induced cost? Well, will you explain to me the difference dif-ference between that and a subsidy?" The oil refiners grinned, argued a littlebut finally admitted that there was no difference. "In other words," 'said Vinson, "a subsidy by any other name would smell as sweet. And you arc against subsidies unless it's a good subsidy." Note The midwest refiners probably will get their transportation subsidy, especially as oil companies com-panies shipping to the east coast by rail instead of tanker get a subsidy from the government of around a million dollars a dav. JAP PILOTS DETERIORATE Fliers back from the Pacific have given Washington Wash-ington officials encouraging reports about combat com-bat between U. S. and Jap fliers. It boils down to this: The Jap fliers are getting poorer, and the Americans better. Reason is that the Japs have lost their best fliers, whereas most of the American fliers have been saved and are now getting back into the Pacific theater as veterans. American practice is to send men Into combat theaters for three or four exposures, then bring them back to the states for a rest. Since U. S. plane losses have been less than Jap losses, and since U. S. pilots have been saved in a high percentage per-centage of cases where planes have been lost, the American flying force is now basically a veteran force. New men are being sent out all the time", but they fly under seasoned men who are returning to the Pacific for their second tour of duty. Washington Wash-ington officials are confident that 1944 air activity in the Pacific will be both spectacular and successful. suc-cessful. SMALL FARMER VERSUS GOVERNMENT Comptroller General Lindsay Warren is a tough battler when it comes to scrutinizing war department depart-ment accounts. He was equally tough in defense of a small farmer recently when he ruled 'that the government must pay to J. I. BrannOh of Allen, Okla., the sum of $10 for the service rendered by his jack to an iron grey mare owned by a Farm Security Administration debtor. The government strongly contended that it owed the jack owner nothing, since the FSA client had given it a chattel mortgage on all of his property prop-erty and all that might be- after acquired. The client defaulted and the FSA closed out his property. Brannon. the jack owner, caried his case to the Comptroller General, who decided with him on the grounds that the Oklahoma statutes provides for a breeding lien upon the colt and that it was. therefore, paramount to the chattel mortgage held by the FSA. The Comptroller General held that the claimant farmer, Brannon, had a lien upon the colt from the very beginning of its existence. (Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) . Gictan Planish zz h Sinmirfiw One road to happiness is paved with smile stones. The WAC's com prepared for the worst, and are surprised that it doesn't hurt more, while the soldiers expect to be let off lightly aud are surprised sur-prised if they are hurt. Capt. S. L. Crason, Fort Monmouth (N. J.) dental clinic. Cop?rlft, IMS. Sinclair Letrti LMstrikate y nn service. THE KTORVi As Dean of Kla- i niklnlrlc ol ! la 1920. nidron Pianist, la wrr ll-folf rmrd. la demand de-mand a puhllr iprakfr. and rrlfrrnl to a a "leader of hn-nianttarlaniani." hn-nianttarlaniani." Ilia wife. Peony, la attractive, extravagant and ambitlona. It ia ahe who tanrit they raah In on fcla lecture en-raaementa en-raaementa and who ura;ea him to write remunerative articles for Itnral ,nlt Kdnratlon. When lr. Jolyn. publisher of Rural Adnlt ICduratlon, offers him the editorship at an Increase In salary, sal-ary, he accepts. XIV JJIS job as editor of Rural Adult was not working out as he had dreamed. He had to learn painfully, from his own assistant an aged party who would himself have been the editor if he had not been a periodic drunk a whole tiresome, technique tech-nique of getting out the magazine: how to read manuscripts by smell, without wearing out the eyes; how to get a thousand-word article into an eight-hundred-word space; how to choose the lead article arid, with a stern printer waiting, rewrite re-write its ttfle; and, most of all, how to obtain photographs for illustrations. He usually telephoned to the press agent for a railroad or a factory and promised him. a credit which would undoubtedly sell 10 threshing engines or 10,000 passenger-miles. All these mysteries the Doctor could learn and did learn. What troubled him was that he was getting get-ting only half of his handsome salary. Mr. Joslin explained that this wasn't his fault; that he was, conservatively, con-servatively, ten times as anxious to pay up as Dr. Planish was to be paid up or Mrs. Planish to get the check. It was the fault of the printers, print-ers, who insisted on getting thir wages every week; it was the advertisers, ad-vertisers, always so slow to meet their bills; it was the paper manufacturers, manu-facturers, always so intolerant about credit; it was the dead-beat subscribers; it was everything except ex-cept the publisher himself. Jittery now for the first time since their marriage, the Planishes had their landlord dunning them for the fifty dollars a month, "the corner grocer refusing to charge it, and the maid becoming so impudent impu-dent that they had to pawn Peony's wrist-watch. The Doctor was terrified. The warmth and faith of Peony were even more important to him than the good steak dinners which he was not getting and of which he thought all through the hungry days. And it bothered him even more that Peony was not getting the brown juicy steak either. But she did not nag. She scoffed, "Well, look at us! The hometown boy and girl that went to the city and made good! One bottle of milk in the house, and that belongs to that yelping young sparrow, Carrie. Oh, honey-sweet, honey-sweet, I think maybe it was all my fault. I was too. greedy!" She sobbed against his shoulder. she sobbed and looked up at him with the face of a little girl who has been naughty. He kissed her, and her sobs dwindled to a tired little whimpering. Her fault? he thought. Her greedy? Why, she was the one person in the world who didn't know how to be greedy. By God, she'd have a place on Long Island and a marble swimming-pool be fore he was through! This time it was the Doctor who wrote to Whipple Jackson, and he enclosed a promissory note, and they had steak again, and dry martinis, '"THOUGH he did receive only half his pay, it was not easy for the Doctor to quit Rural Adult Education. He enjoyed the small distinction of being a real editor and he, the one time Dean and Professor, had little value on the labor market now. President T. Austin Bull would not give him any ardent recommendations, recom-mendations, and. anyway, not till late winter would the slave philosophers philos-ophers be standing in that labor market while the trustees and presidents of the several colleges looked at their teeth and wind and conservatism. So the Doctor again took up the traveling salesman's routine of the itinerant lecturer. This time, he went at it professionally. profes-sionally. Instead of having Peony book his engagements in her chatty pink notes to the committees, commit-tees, he submitted himself, inspir ation and beard and all, to a minor lady lecture-agent who was not superior to dates at the Kosciusko High School Lyceum or the Ki-wanis Ki-wanis Ladies' Night. Under her skilled hand, the Doe- tor scheduled a whole repertory of shows from which the local committees com-mittees could pick: W. J. Bryan: Soldier-Saint Don't Be a Singe Cat Trust in Youth The Dangerous Age Home Learning for Grownups How to Keep the Young Generation Gener-ation at Home Is College Worth While? Should Girls Go to College? What's the Best School for Your Children? The answer to the last query was "the nearest one." This discourse dis-course was described by the Dragon as "sixty-one minutes of fun, learning, bright anecdote and sound advice, by a great professional profes-sional educator." These topics, with a half-tone of Dr. Planish smiling sidewise at the cord on his eyeglasses, were emblazoned in a leaflet sent out to all customers custom-ers interested in cultural wares. 170R two weeks out of every six, that winter, Dr. Planish pounded the pebbly trail of the small-time lecturer. Before the next summer, they had eleven hundred dollars in the bank, the new car and the newest piano had been paid for nearly and they had cautiously put up a little money on margin with a conservative firm of stockbrokers. "What if that ole meanie, A. J., don't pay your salary very often," crowed Peony. "We're going to have the marble swimming-pool without him!" After their financial recovery, the Planishes were able to step up on a fairly high plane of society; investment counselors and general managers of packing plants and high school principals and lawyers and dealers in music, with wives who had most of them been born middle-aged. "We're going ahead again!" Peony crowd. "These people ain't so hot. but wait'll we get to New York! We'll be chumming up with the Rockefellers and Mary Pick-ford Pick-ford and Nicholas Murray Butler!" One of their warmer friends at this time was a gasoline dealer who owned a new radio station. He invited Dr. Planish to make a regular reg-ular Saturday morning fifteen-minute fifteen-minute address for three weeks, and even paid him ten dollars per augury. So, on the miraculous radio waves, carrying his message at 186,000 miles a second, the streamlined stream-lined philosopher told the far-flungs far-flungs that they ought to read the Bible, that wealth did not ensure happiness, that just the other day he had talked, personally, with the Governor of a populous State, and that all conscientious citizens ought to vote a virtuous act that Dr. Gideon Planish had never yet performed. (To Be Continued Civilian Auto Outlook Shown (Secfbnd of two articles on the civilian auto outlook for 1944) By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent Whether or not passenger auto mobile transportation now an es sential part of the American eco nomic system will be seriously impaired or break down completely complete-ly In 1944 will depend on five main factors: 1. The manpower supply for auto repair work. 2. The supply of auto repair parts. 3. The supply of tires, the adequacy of tire repair and particularly recapping.- 4. The used car market and the possible requisitioning of cars from nonessential non-essential drivers. 5. The gasoline supply and the enforcement of gas rationing. Take them one at a time. Many localities have already reported that the supply of garage mechanics mechan-ics has declined as much as 40 per cent since the war began. Approxi mately one man out of six lost is replaced. The Army has taken many thousands, more thousands have gone into war industries, where the pay scale is higher. The closing of thousands of filling sta tions and tire repair shops has meant that many of the service stations where the simplest Jobs could be performed simply don't exist, and this has thrown a heav ier burden on the shops that stayed stay-ed in business. The number of garages is estimated at 8 per cent less than a year ago. Manpower Lack Cause Delay The fact that men in key positions posi-tions in auto repair work are in one of the 35 industries considered essential occupations, and as such are entitled to consideration for for deferment by Selective Service boards may have helped relieve the manpower shortage somewhat. Still, most of the delays which people experience in getting auto repair work done are caused by lack of manpower to clear trie work as fast as it comes into the shop. The supply of steel and other metals and alloys allocated for the manufacture of auto parts under the War Production Board's Con trolled Materials Plan is now con sidered adequate for the repair parts .demand. There is, however, j a reluctance on the part of many auto parts' manufacturers to make parts for old cars in any great quantity, first because there is a good chance of being stuck with them, second because parts are now under price ceilings which limit profits and make other man ufacturing jobs more attractive. Many parts are interchangeable as to light trucks and passenger cars, and as to various makes of cars. But expanding military requirements re-quirements for heavy duty truck parts get higher priority than is given to the manufacture of parts for lighter civilian vehicles. The Truman Committee report on transportation recommended upgrading up-grading priority so as to develop a greater supply of parts. Many millions of usable parts were lost in the big scrap drive, though such scrapping is now prohibited. Distribution Dis-tribution of what parts there arc is poor. Tire Shortage Serious The one shortage which may de velop first and most seriously, putting: manv cars off the road, is a tire shortage. At the present time there is an estimated shortage short-age of six million new tire casings. Production of new synthetic rub ber tires cannot possibly keep up with the 1944 demand, for more tires are wearing out faster. By the end of 1944 there may be an accumulated shortage of 11 million tires. The only hope for avoiding a transportation breakdown is through more extensive recapping and the salvaging of every available avail-able carcass, even if it is used only a few hundred miles. Office of Price Administration and Office of Defense Transportation Transporta-tion have toyed with a plan to put ceiling prices on used cars, but at the present time have given up on this idea. First because the supply Desk Chat If you have any criticism of the draft board procedure, don't argue about it until you know the facts. You can easly get the facta if you care to make inquiry, addressing ad-dressing yqur questions to the Selective Sen-ice Board, and be sure to sign your name and give your address. Anonymous communications com-munications land in the waste basket, and that's the only place they deserve, after all. Appeal boards quite often change the classifications fixed by the local boards, and when they do it's not fair to blame the draft board, so, before you blow off, get the facts! 0O0 Here's a ditty written by J. Fleming Wakefield, of 531 North University avenue, for use ' of war bond sales pep rallies and similar occasions. The turie is "Pop, Goes the Weasel." HIT HITLER HARDER "Our biggest job for Forty Four Is Hit Hitler Harder." We'll hound the Hun from door to door And Hit Hitler Harder. We'll drive his U boats from the seas; We'll hang his henchmen to the trees; Until we brin? him to his knees, . We'll Hit Hitler Harder For leaders we'll not need to hunt Who'll Hit Hitler Harder. We'll open up a second front,, And Hit Hitler Harder. We'll help the "nations on the track; We'll pat the Russians on the back. BUY BONDS to send them what they lack To Hit Hitler Harder. We'll bomb the Reich from out of the sky. And Hit Hitler Harder. Until their towns in ashes lie, We'll Hit Hitler Harder. Their streets may run with German Ger-man gore; The prostrate Hun shall rise no more; And so, our job for Forty Four 13 nn. niuer iiaraer. The road to victory may be rough We'll Hit Hitler Harder; Until the Fuehrer savs: "Enough' We' 11 Hit Hitler Harder. But when, at length, the fight la won, And justice deay: to everyone, We'll gladly cease to hound the Hun, And Hit Hitler Harder. "No, I d turn him over," said the doctor in answer to the fond mother who wanted to know if she should punish her rambunc-tious rambunc-tious offspring on a full stomach. of used cars on the market is now good, second because prices are not too excessive, and third because be-cause the imposition or maximum prices below existing levels might stop all sales, which would be disastrous. Similarly, there are no definite plans for forcing the sale of cars by non-essential drivers still on the road under an A gas ration. And only the gravest emergency would cause any effort to be made for government requisition of cars from non-essential drivers. Gasoline rationing has definitely lengthened car and tire life by cutting down the average car mileage mile-age from 9000 to less than 5000 miles per year. But military demands de-mands for gasoline are still increasing, in-creasing, leaving: less and less for civilian uses. There have been threats from Ickes, Bowles and others that gas ration might have to be further cut if a war emergency emerg-ency develops. Certainly pas rations ra-tions will not be Increased. The gas ration system, in fact, offers one most effective means for nolicine: the entire auto transportation trans-portation crisis, saving it from breakdown by limiting it to essentials. REAL PERSON BY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK We Need Both Insight and Will Power in Discouraging Situations In any depressing situation look for the possibilities. Despondency is chronically associated with negative thinking. No discouraging discourag-ing situation into which we commonly com-monly fall is pure disaster - with nothing to be done about it except succumb'. We ourselves make our situations seem like that by our absorbed concern with their de pressing elements. The first technique by which many naturally try to win "satisfaction "satis-faction from untoward situations, is will power. Facing depressing circumstances, they call upon themselves to play the mart: but the emotional conquest of depression depres-sion is no simple matter of direct volition. To be sure, in some crises of disheartenment a despondent des-pondent man may with good effect be told to "snap out of it." George Bernard Shaw makes one of his characters say to a self-pitying woman: "Your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton aridjthe Bible; and don't sit there crooning liKe a bilious pigeon." "- When, however, such reliance on strength of will is the person's soul resdurce in dealing with some long-drawn-out, chronic tragedy of illness, handicap, or bereave ment, its results can be deplor able. Such a person may refuse tr rrnek un. but onlv at the COSt of hard stoicism. He may be ntmntr. hut onlv bv becoming: flint like and obdurate, defying life and in the ena growing scorniui 01 11. So a strong-willed woman said to the minister after the funeral of her son: "Thanks for the service: It was kind of you. But for myself T r.nir nn faith in life left. Mv Son is well out of this damned world." Far from being weak, her will was inflovihlp hut rpliance on it as a sole resource in deep trouble carried car-ried her straight into a hard imperturbability. im-perturbability. Whri circumstances are dis piriting we need not only will- nsMM.Ai- -hut inoicnr 1 np ciLnai;iiT . .. :..:' positively to see tne possiDuiueo for good still resiaeni in tne i motion. mo-tion. Booker T. Washington even used the phrase, "The advantage AicaAvantntrpn ." He oueht to know. Born a Negro slave, allowed to carry the booKs or ms wmte ,vaati-'a rhildrn to the School- hut never to enter, shut out from the areas of privilege he craved most, tne advantage 01 ms disadvantages was far from obvious. ob-vious. Yet he won an appreciation of education, a determination to get, it for himself at any cost, a Sympathy with tne cruiaren 01 ms people who were denied it, a devotion de-votion to the cause of open doors for Negro, youth, that never could have been his with such depth and poignancy had he not been spurred by his own privation. Booker T. Washington was what he was not despite his early handicaps han-dicaps but in large measure .because .be-cause of them. This insight into the "advan- one from a negative to a positive attitude toward disheartening situations, sit-uations, is of far-reaching therapeutic thera-peutic value in ordinary life. Toward To-ward minor irritations, broken plans, or unexpected handicaps, some people instinctively make a negative response. They have never acquired the habit of gathering gath-ering up the broken threads of their cherished plans and weaving something else out of them. Rossini once had to write an opera for a company whose contralto con-tralto had only one good note in her voice middle B flat. He might have taken a negative attitude atti-tude but instead he wrote for her one of his most successful arias. He made her sing recitative on middle B flat while the orchestra wove glorious harmony around it. TOMORROW: Side tracking depression. PiciitCoucho cue to anas . . . eased without "dosing". V VAPOPUS fTT K -' UC3 HIS PICTURE.... Will Be a Permanent Remembrance if Properly FRAMED BENNETT'S 272 WEST CENTER HAVE IT FRAMED NOW! I |