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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1944 Editorial .... A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; bat A broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverb 17:32. An ounce of mirth ia worth a pound of sorrow. Baxter. How Britain Did It Speaking of a national service law as moat of the country seems to be, after the president's message to congress it might be interesting to see how similar legislation has worked out in Great Britain. The chief points of interest in a quick survey sur-vey would seem to be these: 1. National service was Imposed quickly. Eight months after war began, the second emergency powers act required citizens to "place themselves, their services and their property at the disposal of his majesty." 2. Opposition was short-lived. It came principally from the extreme left, and largely large-ly dissolved upon labor's early inclusion in the government 3- National service has not stopped strikes, although all strikes are "illegal." There have been frequent work stoppages, the largest involving 252,000 coal miners. But none has been nation-wide, none has been authorized, and almost all have been of short duration. Britain lost 1,527,000 man days from strikes in 1942, as against 5,900,000 in 1918. Manpower control. In both the armed forces and industry, is centered in the ministry min-istry of labor, which administers the war cabinet's manpower policy. The principal tools of this control are the restriction on engagement order of May, 1940, and the essential work orders of April, 1911. The first ruled that most employment could be secured only through the labor, ministry's employment exchanges. The second prevented pre-vented workers' being fired or leaving their jobs, with a few exceptions, without labor ministry permission. Men from 18 to 41 are being called for military service, and those of 41 to 50 are registered for industry. All women from 18 to 45 have been registered for employment, employ-ment, although those who have children living liv-ing with them are not called for work interviews. inter-views. Women of 19-24 already are drafted for the auxiliary services, civil defense or special industrial jobs. Most Briton are at work far more than are registered under the national service law. Last spring the minister of labor reported re-ported that less than 3.000,000 persons, including in-cluding children, the sick, crippled and aged, were not in some form of national service,. Britain's national service regulations have ample machinery for appeals by workers or employers. Penalties, which run up to two years in prison and 500 pounds for workers, and the prison term and unlimited fines for employers, are not often imposed, and then only as a last resort. The universal draft system seems to be working smoothly in the United Kingdom. But it would be foolish, on the basis of that, to attempt a prognosis of a similar system's success over here. Britain's size, population, economic setup and economic problems are too different from ours. Also, Britain has been through a blitz, and the front is still only 21 miles across the channel. The Washington MerryCo-Roun,! It Sometimes Happens to Vrresponslbl e Little Boys IF A KND- WE AKTEQ (JWCLE Gives HIM A &UM "Permit HERE'S a jirr POR.bU - BUT "Remember -rr is only to PROTECT Xou?- 5ELF WITH! A Daily Picture of What's Going on in National Affairs Tell It To thv Marines You can't find the money, or you feel that the war is won or you haven't been canvassed can-vassed or you'll do it tomorrow or Tell that to the Marines, especially those Marines who bought Tarawa with blood and tears. Tell that to Mark Clark's Fifth Army boys in Italy. You have only a few days to do your duty in the Fourth War Loan drive. Do you need a brass band to awaken you to your responsibilities to the fighting men from this community? For your own sake, we hope not. Your country needs you now, but always keep in mind you need your country more. You can't afford not to buy extra war bonds. Your real canvasser is your son and your neighbor's son. In already too many instances, in-stances, he is visiting homes here in the spirit because his rendezvous with destiny was death. Fail to do your duty by buying extra war bonds and you are slamming the door of your home his home in his face. Whatever What-ever the final outcome of the Fourth war loan here and nationally, it will be a failure for YOU unless you have bought all the extra war bonds you can possibly buy. You alone are the judge of your fidelity to our fighting men. The person who isn't afraid of being overburdened over-burdened usually delivers the goods. The one thing you can't afford is to let the men in the service down. Stej up and buy more than your share of war bonds! Bf Draw Pearsofl (Col. Robert 8. Alias e D 1 1 T doty). WASHINGTON A pood many people have In quired of this columnist regarding the fact that he was offered the alleged "Hopkins letter" ome weeks ago, but did not publish it. Here are more details. The letter was offered by Joe Lleb, who says that he organized the first Roosevelt for president club in 1932, and now claims that be was the organizer or-ganizer of the first MacArthur for president club. The reasons why this column decided against publication pub-lication were: First, It seemed Inconceivable that Hopkins would write a letter of that kind, since all his conversation con-versation and efforts have been to promote FDR for a fourth term, not Willkie; second, the letter was a copy and looked phony on the surface; third, it was offered by a man active in trying to smear Willkie bv making it appear that he was secretly linked up with Hopkins and the White House. i This is one of the chief tactics or Old guarai Republicans as far as this columnist nas Deen aoie to determine. However, there is absolutely :io sorrpt deal between Roosevelt and Willkie. Their relationship is one of mutual respect, but no cordial admiration. The president appreciated Willkie's public cooperation co-operation with him on foreign policy, but he has never been enthusiastic over Willkie's unofficial ambassadorial trips to various parts of the world, perhaps because they tended to crowd him. FDR, from the limelight. And when the president learned learn-ed that Willkie had an invitation from the Australian Austral-ian government to visit that country, he ia reported re-ported to have stepped in with a hint to the Australian Aus-tralian government that Mrs. Roosevelt take the trip instead. Some time before this, the president had offered offer-ed Willkie the job of civilian defense director, which Willkie refused partly because he didn t think ne should accept any post in the Roosevelt adminis tration, partly because he felt that the civilian defense job was an almost hopeless one, which could not be straightened out easily and which would onlv hurt him politically. Willkie's friends suspected the president of having ulterior political motives m offering him this Job. But while the president doesn't relish too much political strength on Willkie's part, it can be said that he is most anxious that Willkie continue hts bi-partisan support of his foreign policies. There fore, when Marquis Childs published a magazine article detailing various wisecracks which the president purportedly had made about Willkie. the president took the trouble to write Willkie a long etter, taking up the points in the article one by one, and carefully refuting each one of them. It was the kind of letter you write to a man whose respect you consider important and want to keep. SOFTENING CASUALTY MESSAGES The war department has received many letters recently from ministers and private families, sug gesting that, instead of sending casualty messages by telegram to bereaved families, they be sent to a committee of pastors in each community, one of whom would then deliver the message and seek to soften the blow of the tragic news. So far, however, the war department has taken the position that it should continue delivery of the casualty messages by Western Union messenger boy. Army officials argue that delivery by a clergyman would cause confusion and delay, and that a clergyman might not be available at the Jime, or he might lack proper and immediate transportation. Also, the Army argues that casualty message has a high priority, which means that its transmission trans-mission is expedited, and this might be offset by delay at the receiving end if the message had to pass through the hands of a clergyman. On the other hand, many communities have leen anxious and willing to organize committees of pastors who would be available at all hours of the day' or night. They also point out that tragic consequences con-sequences have resulted in many cases where & death message was delivered to a lone mother or wife with no one with her at the time except a telegraph messenger. NOTE: The Army's present procedure is to telegraph as follows in the case of a boy who has been wounded: "Regret to inform you your son, Private was date) seriously or slightly) wounded in action in (area). You will be advised of further developments." Signed by the Adjutant General. In the case of a fatality, the message reads: "The Secretary of War desires that I tender to you his deep sympathy in the loss of your son. Report received states that he was killed in action. Letter follows." Signed "Ulio" (Adjutant General). VIRGIN ISLAND GOVERNOR Secretary of the Interior Ickes does not usually consider himself a judge-maker, but he is quietly ana unotnciany assuming that role in order to get rid of the governor of the Virgin Islands. The governor is Charles Harwood. who has been in the hair of many Virgin Islanders, to say nothing of Secretary Ickes' own sparse locks, for several years. He is chiefly famous in the Virgin Islands, a community 85 per cent Neero. for in troducing legislation imposing one year's imprisonment imprison-ment for a minor violation of the moral code. The bill did not pass the Virgin Islands legislature. Governor Harwood has complained to Secretary Secre-tary Ickes that, when he was appointed, he thought it was understood he would1 not have to spend too much time in the islands. He spends considerable time in Washington. For some time, Ickes has hoped to get rid of the governor, but there Is one major difficulty. Harwood is one of President Roosevelt's oldest political friends. He served in the New York state assembly when FDR, then taking his first plunge into politics, was elected to the state senate from Dutchess county. Harwood and the president have, been good friends ever since, in addition to which the Virgin Island governor has been a substantial contributor to the Democratic party. Therefore, since the secretary of the Interior can't get rid of his governor of the Virgin Islands :n any other way, he would like to see him made a justice of the U. S. court of appeals for the District Dis-trict of Columbia, where Judge Fred Vinson's seat is vacant. The court of appeals, incidentally, has become one of the outstanding courts of the country, coun-try, free from politics, and with a higher caliber of judges than at any previous time in history. to . 1 1 m mm m f m mm i AND THEM IF HE ABUSES HIS PRIVILEGE DURIMGA GREAT CRISIS n L THlS FUN ? - 9 I WHO IS TO BLAmASES?' " ' " -"ilr"" - U. V ON SECOND ThOUOmT. ; '"tf ' V 1 THink: I'LL WAIT 'r 'jfcz v.) ' A 'VS Y UNTIL you GROW UP X MMaMWHHaMWHa)aamBVBBMaMMMaaBamWkMaaBaaMakWMBaJ Octal Planish 5yrtct. 1MB, Steelat tiwto XMatrttat wr RB& Scrrfe. im. If a man's excuses for beinjr late were all bound up in one book 'twould make a nice volume of fiction. The only indication that modern youth is slowing down is that it takes a girl 40 years to .reach 30. The ration book gives wives more tips on what to have for dinner than the cook book. Bathtubs now can be purchased without authorization from the WPB. That's something some-thing to sing in and about. SENATOR BUTLER'S "B AND B" A capitol employee who shared a taxicab with Republican Senator Hugh A. Butler of Nebraska, one-man investigator of the good neighbor policy, was forced to listen to a long political harangue against me v nite House by the Webraskan. When Butler finally left the cab, the driver inquired about hi3 identity. '"Why, that's Senator Butler of Nebraska," he was informed. 'I thought so," said the cabbie. "I've driven him several times and he always talks about politics. poli-tics. The last time he rode with me, he told me confidentially that the next Republican presidential ticket would be 'B and B." Do you reckon he meant himself and Governor Bricker of Ohio?" (Copyright, 1944, by United: Feature Syndicate, Inc.) XXII pEONY fervently influenced the uoctor when Mr. H. Sanderson Sanderson-Smith invited b.im to Join the CCCCC in Washington, D. C. Peony yelled, "Oh, do it! Wash Ington! we'll meet senators and generals and the President, and maybe it'll lead to yourfinally going into politics Saaaay! -When did our plan to make you a senator get lost in the shuffle?" : On the surface, the Cizkon was so idealistic that it dripped, and this was the department to which Dr. Planish was particularly as signed. In lectures and pamphlets, it shouted the best t&ttle -cries: "The traditional American right to work unhampered by labor 'racketeers," 'rack-eteers," and "The menace to fundamental fun-damental American institutions, by foreign atheism and Jewish .international .inter-national socialism," and "The Founding Fathers' ideals of Free Enterprise, an Economy of Abundance, Abun-dance, and Free Competition unchecked un-checked by sumptuary laws, so that the Poorest Citizen may- have his chance in the race for -fame and fortune against the wealthiest corporation or the most aristocratic aristo-cratic and highly educated individual," indi-vidual," and "The Cross and the Stars and Stripes or the Assassin's Assas-sin's Dagger and the Crossed Hammer Ham-mer and Sickle WHICH?" All that Dr. Planish had to do was to take the slogans he had believed be-lieved in and turn them inside out. He was still in the Ideals and Public Pub-lic Improvement business, even if he had gone over to a competing firm, and his salary was now a comfortable $4500 a year, 'fhey had a thin tall house in Georgetown George-town and they entertained senators sena-tors perhaps twice and he and Peony and Carrie were happy anyway, Peony was happy anyway, any-way, Peony said she was happy. The Cizkon's chief operative, Ir. H. Sanderson Sanderson-Smith, was an esthete. If the sort of beefy, Hamilton-Frisby, Hamilton-Frisby, football-squad, Skull-aiid-Bones, Me'adowbrook-Club niil-' lionaires who always intimidated Dr. Planish also despised Sanderson-Smith, In revenge he knew how to make them tremble with his inside news about Jewish, Communist, and Scandinavian-Irish Scandinavian-Irish - farmer - labor conspiracies against them, and radicals now known to be manufacturing submachine sub-machine guns in a cellar near St. Sebastian, North Dakota. He panicked pan-icked them into giving him funds with which, as he caressingly put it, he would "put Bibles instead of tommy-guns into the horny hands of these sons of well of toil!" 'J'HE bad luck of the Planishes seemed over. The Doctor had been in the new Job only a year when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President, and during the experimentation of the New Deal, so alarming to the Better People, who liked to have the objects of their charity grateful and tran sient, the Cizkon became important impor-tant as a safeguard against loose spending and the horrid heresy of maintaining that Democracy also included people who did not live in your block. Years later, in the 1940's, even after America had enUred World War II, Dr. Planish was interested to see that, though H. Sanderson Sanderson-Smith himself was in prison on the astounding charge that he was a Nazi agent, other bodies were carrying on the ameliorative ameli-orative work of the Cizkon, with the slogans "The American Way of Life" and "The Sacred Right to Work" and "The Founding Fathers who laid down the principle of Free Competition" still frequently meaning that employers did not care much for union wage scales. rpHROUGH all the Planishes' prosperity ana social imagm- tude in Washington, the Doctor had spiritual trouble. Whenever his former colleagues, Chris Stern and Dr. Kitto and Natalia Hochberg and Professor Buchwald and George Riot, all of them Reformers at whom the Ciz kon had heaved a paragraph or two, came to Washington, the Doctor Doc-tor felt uncomfortably that they felt uncomfortably that he was no longer a Liberal. He tried to explain ex-plain to them that, really, he was more of a Liberal than ever; he and Sanderson-Smith were all for Constructive and Enlightened Labor La-bor Leadership, and they opposed only the misleaders who made a living out of Labor. They seemed highly unconvinced by him or by the fervors of Sanderson-Smith for whom they adopted Peony's name of "Sneaky Sandy." Dr. Planish tried to be lovial about it: "All right all right! You get me as good a job with some liberal outfit in New York, and I'll leave Sneaky Sandy fiat!" He had. he felt, proudly, "called their bluff." But he was still disquieted, dis-quieted, and he tried to explain it all to Peony, when she came in from a cocktail party to celebrate the anniversary of the reDeal of Prohibition. "Now get this. Peony. To be realistic, I must admit that the first purpose of any uplift organization organi-zation must be to support the executives ex-ecutives who gi'e their time and good hard work to it like a doctor or a preacher. But I do feel that if I make my living out of a movement to strengthen the public morale, then it ought well, it ought to try and do some strengthening, strength-ening, don't vou see?" "See what?" said Peony. He went on, thinking aloud. "And I'm afraid Chris Stern is right. The Cizkon isn't really liberal. lib-eral. Chris is probably Just as much of a fourflusher as Sneaky Sandy just as crazy to get power and publicity only he's a career ist on the right side, and Sandy is on the wrong side." Peony sniffed, "So what? He's a Liberal, but he's practical." When was he ever liberal?" "What's the diff? Wte get our salary, dem't we?" "In the long run, I think that an executive does better if he's known as a Liberal. By 1940, IH wager there!! be more money or rather, I mean a more dignified social position in being associated with anti-Fascism than with Fas cism. Besides.. I'm an old-time Fighting Liberal, and a man with his battles behind me, I mean my battles behind me. he simply can't turn his back on the People, don't you see? . . . No, no, it isn't fly-by-night advocates of individualism like Sneaky Sandy that come out on top eventually: it's proponents of communal discipline, like Col. Charles B. Marduc, the greatest great-est promoter of widespread prosperity pros-perity " "Want a drink?" said Peony. "Of course I want a drink!" said Dr. Planish. (To Be Continued) Q'S and Als Guadalcanal was a rest camp compared to this. Corp. Harvey Tayne at Cape Gloucester. Q Until the war in the Pacific, about 90 percent of the world's supply of quinine came from the Netherlands Indies. Is the cinchona cin-chona tree, from which quinine is derived, native to the Netherlands Indies ? A No. The seeds were carried there less than a hundred years ago from parent trees in Peru;; Q Who was called "the Father of Medicine?" A Hippocrates, born on the Dodecanese island of Cos, in 460 B. C. Q How fast does sound trayel through hot summer air? Through zero air? A Through hot air (100') at 1266 feet per second; through dry zero air, 1088-1150 feet per second. sec-ond. Q While we. are importing more and more mahogany frdm Honduras and other countries an Middle America, why is much leiss being made into fine furniture?; A The U. S. Navy uses it jn building light, speedy submarigte chasers. J 5 Q When was duelling outlawed in the United States? i A In 1839, by congressional law. Local Boards May Issue Extra Gas SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 28 CUJ!) Motorists who need extra gasoline gaso-line in hardship cases soon may boards, which will be eranted " power to issue special gasoline nusker, wnicn does tne work or rations for these cases. 1 16 men, has made its appearance F. H. Azbill, Utah state mile- in midwestern corn fields, age rationing representative for the office of price administration, announced these powers would be given to the various boards under an amendment to the gasoline rationing ra-tioning regulation. 2 I lets all BACK THE ATTACK! BUY EXTRA WAR BONDS lC WIS fr mm vmm, Brook BKAJND KentnckT Straicbt Rourlxin Wh at v I T- tj i r r v' . . SS uuuai iuuiiciB m iuu. v.urp., 11. I. Proof x Desk Chat Several years ago, many, of our national and state leaders who should have known better, thought it would be possible to solve the unemployment problem by refusing re-fusing to make use of labor-saving machinery. They put thousands of men back to work with hand tools, with which most of them were most inefficient. One of the advocates of old-time methods looked at a modern machine that was digging a great trench at a rapid rate. "How many men with shovels does that machine replace?" he asked the contractor. "One hundred," was the curt re ply. "Why don't you Junk that ma- labor force was in 1939. when the chine and put 100 men with war broke out in Europe. So the shovels into that trench?" asked, question becomes what happens! ine Bright, modern thinker, to the 21,200,000 in the Army and U.S. Employment Alter the War By PETER EPSON Daily Herald Washington Correapondent Without' even trying to make any guesses on when the war will end, peak of U. S. employment, it is now estimated, may come in July, 1944, when there will be a total of 64,300,000 people gainfully employed. This will include 11.-100,000 11.-100,000 in the armed forces, and 10,100,000 in munitions industries. That will leave 43,100,000 employes em-ployes in civilian Industries other than the direct manufacture of materials of war. This is Just about what the gainfully employed Navy and the munitions indus tries, when the war is over? The soldiers and sailors won't be discharged iri a bunch, and there is every Indication that when this global brawl is over, the country won't again make the mistake of whittling the Army down to a corporal's guard, the Navy down to two on a raft. Peace-time armed forces of maybe three, maybe five million men will in all likelihood be main tained to keep the peace. Vets Face Good Treatment For the five to eight million veterans mustered out after the war is over there will be bonuses. there will be preferential consideration consid-eration for jobs, there will be rehabilitation re-habilitation for the wounded, chances for schooling and every favor that a grateful nation can bestow. The 10,000,000 plus In the munitions mu-nitions industries are the ones who will receive the first impact of the production change-over from war to peace. Some industries indus-tries making standard goods used in both war and peace like auto tires, for instance can keep right on going. Molds for military equipment will be replaced by molds for civilian equipment, and the more tires they make the merrier. mer-rier. Factories making bazookas and military aircraft and shells won't be so lucky. Factories which have to reconvert to make autos and vacuum cleaners will have to shut down to do it and that's where all this trouble you've been reading about Is going to begin. Or if you haven't been reading about it you will, till the subject bores you to tears. In all this period of transition. of course, people will be milling around the country by the mil lions. Good workmen will get Jobs now held By Incompetents and the incompetents will again be unem ployed and wondering when they will start up the WPA. How all this is going to turn out, who is going to end up living where, doing what, and why no one can say. You can't predict how a cake of this kind will whip up, bake or come out of the oven because there isn't any recipe. Unemployment Insurance a Lif -Saver At this writing there Is only one sure thing for laid-off workers work-ers to fall back on, and that is the federal-state unemployment insurance insur-ance compensation. It isn't exactly cake that its recipients are permitted per-mitted to eat, but it is at least an emergency ration and it has been a lifesaver in the last four years, during periods of temporary un employment caused by plant con version to war production, s In the fiscal year 1939-40, over five million workers drew benefits. bene-fits. In the fiscal year 1941-42, over 3.2 million workers drew benefits. In the fiscal year 1942-43, 1942-43, this was down to 1,200,000. They collected total benefits of $176,000,000. The average benefit bene-fit was about $144, covering an average unemployment period of 11.4 weeks. Before congress now is the so-called so-called Wagner-Dingell bill, call ing for federalization and uni "I can think of a better one than that." said the contractor, "What's the matter with 10,000 men with teaspoons?" 0O0 DERISIVE DEFINITIONS AVERAGE AMERICAN a person per-son who believes the future peace conference will preserve world peace but who is powerless power-less to prevent neighborhood rows. INTELLECTUAL a person who scolds conservatives In political power but shudders at the sight of a split infinitive. DEFENSE LAWYER an at torney who waxes eloquent over his client's honor but who collects col-lects fee In advance. AMERICA a land where every one has the right to feel equal to his superiors and superior to his equals. 0O0 BE A "YES" MAN There is a type of 'yes' man who is all too scarce. We don't mean the kind of 'Yes' man who meekly agrees with the boss. We mean the men who will say, "Yes, I'll do it." to tasks to be done. Men who will say "Yes" to responsibilities. Men who will say "Yes, it can be done,' to difficulties dif-ficulties and daring new business adventures. General Goethals was this kind of a "Yes" man when he said "Yes" to the tremendous responsibility respon-sibility of building the Panama Canal. Admiral Peary was such a "Yes" man when he exclaimed that he would find a way or make one to the North Pole. The business world is full of men who say "No" to difficulties. They crawl out from under when the responsibilities pile up! That's why there is so much room at the top for .men with the courage cour-age to carry the big burdens and attempt the big tasks. Be a "Yes" man! 0O0 Curious Cynic Cants . . . no matter what beauty parlor par-lor she patronizes, they JUst can't give hard eyes that innocent in-nocent school girl look. . . . this is the season when your relatives yearn to be with you because they didn't fill their coal bin last summer while it was plentiful. . . . she is the kind that remembers remem-bers way back when youngsters young-sters used to get a thrill out of holding hands at Sunday school. . . . that Christmas present which you exclaimed, "Why how truly thoughtful of you. . . how did you guess that It Is Just what I've been wanting?" Have you taken it to the store to be exchanged ex-changed for something you really real-ly did want? ance administration, taking It entirely out of the hands of the 51 states and territories which now have separate and in places conflicting systems. Further, the bill calls for broadening coverage, providing what has been called "cradle to the grave" social security, se-curity, or an American Beveridge plan. There are other bills befora congress now, and there will be still others presented during this new session, intended to deal with some phase of this readjustment of manpower, biggest of all post- formity of unemployment insur- war problems. KEEP ON i M BO M lil Y Mil Facts about War Bonds 1. War Bonds cost $18.75 for which you receive) $25 in 10 years or $4 for every $3. 2. War Bonds are the world's safest investment-guaranteed investment-guaranteed by the United States Government. 3. War Bonds can be made out in one name oc two names as co-owners. 4. War Bonds can not go down in value. If theyj are lost, the Government will issue new ones. 5. War Bonds can be cashed in, in case of necessity, neces-sity, after 60 days. 6. War Bonds begin to accrue interest after one year. 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