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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, MAHCH 29, 1944 Editorial . . . . And let none of your Imagine evil In your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord. Zechariah 8:17. Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law, To keep the Good and Just in awe, Hut xnnfina ths Rd and Sinful. Like mortal cattle in a penfold. Butler. Every Hour On the Hour Every hour on the hour, and frequently in between, the German radio now broadcasts broad-casts reports of progress of Allied bombers over Nazi territory. Secrecy is gone and with it efforts to prevent the bombers from riding the domestic radio beams. Bombings have become a part of daily life, like the weather. And the broadcasts, like weather reports, give warnings of the storm of retribution that surges day and night across the land of the master race. Americans who recently came from Germany Ger-many on a prisoner exchange tell us that the first six months of their internment Allied bombings strengthened, rather than weakened, weak-ened, Nazi civilian morale. They were speaking speak-ing of morale in Baden-Baden, not Berlin or Hamburg. But even if this bulwarked morale does prevail throughout Germany, it is unlikely that Germans can continue to accept bombings as casually as they do the weather. There must be tremendous confusion in the wake of these bombings, in addition to destruction. The confusion must mount with every raid, however high the morale. A reading of excerpts from Swedish and smuggled German newspapers, collected by OWI, indicates that. These reports reveal the growing problems prob-lems of the government and relocations that follow repofted bombings. There is inference infer-ence of a smoldering undercurrent of unrest in the accounts of new regulations and increasing in-creasing arrests. There is a card system for those who must stay in bombed cities and work, another for those permitted to leave. If an evacuee's house or apartment remains re-mains intact it is requisitioned to shelter the homeless. And the evacuee is not always welcome elsewhere. Berliners received extra rations because of the bombings, since "Berlin is the heart of Germany and of the New Europe of the future." But that isn't much comfort to the people of Frankfurt who have also been bombed. These are only a few samples of a few stories from inside Germany. We don't gloat over them. But we can be glad, even for the civilian Germans' sake, that life under Hitler grows more intolerable. The German people know the cure- Until they effect it, they can expect the bombs and the disruption and disease and death and the radio warnings every hour on the hour. The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going on in National Affairs By Drro t'raraoo (Col. Robitl 8. Allan ell? doty) A Hard Man to Sell The Three R's for G. L's The Army has sent out a call for civilian school teachers to replace men needed urgently urg-ently for active military assignment. From three thousand to five thousand men and women will be required. to take over the instruction in-struction of illiterates in uniform. Our public schools as well as the Army are short of manpower. The armed services have taken many men teachers, and large numbers of men and women have left teaching teach-ing for better paying war jobs. If the Army quota is met, it will add more difficulties difficul-ties to the present educational problem. But the Army's call cannot be ignored on that account. Illiterates, no matter how intelligent, in-telligent, cannot make first-rate soldiers in a war in which the scientists play so large a part. Furthermore, the Army probably offers of-fers the last chance for the illiterate adult to gain education. Illiteracy being the social and economic millstone that it is. the country coun-try cannot afford to ignore this military opportunity to cure it. Polygamy and Dependency Maybe it's just coincidence that the roundup round-up of members of the polygamous "fundamentalist" "funda-mentalist" group was made after Selective Service started taking fathers. An editorial writer in another state recently came up with the suspicion that the law descended upon this religious cult after one of those ambitious fathers with six wives and ."3 children was put in 1-A. and filed a claim for dependency allowance after his induction. induc-tion. Let's see $50 apiece for the wives would be $300, with $30 a month for the first child of each, and $20 a month for the other 27. That would make $1020 a month. Maybe it was just as well that the federal agents stepped in to nip this matrimonial practice before it spread any farther. WASHINGTON It hasn't been officially an nounced, but U. S. Ambassador W. Averell Har- riman is coming back from the Soviet, perhaps for good. He has not been the success that was hoped. That is not necessarily a deflection xn Harriman, because being a successful ambassador in Moscow is the toughest diplomatic assignment in the world. However, an ambassador is like a newspaperman. He is supposed to report on what is going to happen hap-pen in the country to which he is attached and he is not supposed to get scooped. Harriman. however, has been badly scooped on six different occasions. He has failed to notify the State Department in advance regarding six resounding Soviet slaps. Slap No. 1 was against the British when Pravda, reported rumors of separate British peace talks with German Foreign Minister Kibbentrop No. 2 was the Izvestia slap at the Vatican. After this, the president couldn't help commenting sorrowfully that there are several million Catholic voters in the IT. S. A., and that the Russians couldn't have thought of a better way to alienate (them from FDR No. 3 was Russia's rebuff of Poland's govern i ment-in-exile, and the refusal of Allied interven tion. Here again, there are some 3,000,000 Polish voters in this country, most of whom went down the line for FDR from 1932 to 1910. OTHER RUSSIAN SLA PS- No. 4 was the Pravda slap at Wendell Willkle, who had fought for more Russian lend-lease, raised Ithe roof because the Red Army wasn't getting enough planes, and was one of Russia's best friends in the U. S. A. No. 5 was the announcement of sixteen autonomous auton-omous Soviet states, interpreted by the Chicago Tribune and other isolationist enemies of the presi dent as being a move to outvote the Allies at the peace table. No. 6 was the recognition of the Cfedoglio gov ernment in Italy just, two days after we had made up our minds to ditch Badoglio. None of these incidents was reported in ad vance by Harriman. However, the future of Mr. Harriman is not considered nearly as-important as the question of why Russia slaps down her friends. Best explanation explan-ation in diplomatic circles is that the Russians wage a new type of agressive diplomacy completely complete-ly unfamiliar to genteel U. S. British diplomats. The Russians know exactly what they want and keep after it. For 2 years, their chief aim has been the second front. And since Teheran, where been disturbed over rumors that the second front might not materialize after all. So they have hammered ham-mered home an aggressive, needling diplomacy, until un-til they get what they want. This is one of the things Ambassador Harriman will be asked to report on ijf he can. MONARCHIST SERVANTS The Peruvian ambassador in Washington, erudite Don Manuel de -Freyre y . Santander, Is dean of the diplomatic corps. As such, he enjoys great distinction among ms colleagues. The bulter of the Peruvian ambassador, a Spaniard named Jose Escribano, is conscious of his master's distinction and serves him faithfully. Yet he has a distinction in his own right. He is a leader amonp Spanish Republicans in Washington, and an ardent foe of Franco. Eseribano's political activities came to the attention of the Spanish ambassador, Don Juan Francisco de Cardenas. He scowled and resolved to speak to his colleague, Ambassador Freyre. "Why," he said to the dean of diplomats, "do you countenance these republican activities in your embassy?" With only a trace of a smile, the Peruvian ambassador replied, "And what would you have me say to Jose? Must one expect one's butler to be a monarchist?" SMALL, BUSINESS ORGANIZES A lot of mystery has surrounded the question of who paid for the radio recordings of Vice President Wallace s speech before the American 'Business Congress. The big radio networks were i unwilling to give him network time to broadcast ;his speech, so more than 500 radio records were made, at considerable expense, and air-expressed all over the country. j Who paid the bill has been the subject of con Isiderable speculation. Must people have con i eluded it was a labor union. However, here is the answer. The bill was naid by A. L. Blinder, a Chicago furniture manufacturer. Incidentally, Wallace's speech before the Amer ican Business Congress climaxed the most success ful small business meeting ever held in the U S. A. It marked a long distance from the fumbling frustrated convention of small businessmen called by the Commerce Department during the early days of the New Deal which got absolutely no where. Since then, small business has been organizing, until it now begins to represent a potent force. Judge Thurman Arnold, Maury Maverick, who is small war plants administrator, and Guy Holcomb have helped. But recently the two hvest wires in the American Business Congress have been George Seedman, president of the Times Square Stores, and Harry Golden, president of the Magna Prod ucts Co. of New York. (Copyright by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Neighbor Airn Now Globular By PETER EDSON Dally Herald Washington Correspondent -? The United States is coming out of this war with more power than it ever had before the greatest economic and military machine in the world. As strength breeds enemies, the United States is going to need friends. People in government have therefore begun to think about the post-war problem of maintaining eood relations with the rest of the world. Specifically, the De-nartment De-nartment of State has asked the President to ask Congress to amend the "good neighbor act" of 1939, so thst more of this same good neighborliness may be extended ex-tended to other rations of the world, outside Latin America. Hearings on this proDnsal are scheduled to open soon before th House Committee on Foreign Affairs Af-fairs and Rep. James W. Wads-worth Wads-worth of New York is already promising Republican opposition So what's it all about? The charge will be made that thrs is another scheme to spend a lot of money and spread the New Deal all over the world. It will be called an international WPA. It may be branded an effort to perpetuate per-petuate UNRRA or set up a new co-ordinator. not of lust Inter-American, Inter-American, but of World Affairs in short it will be called trloba-l lone v. Desk Chat Tlhhi qa ihsi VYhwww W Itj D L . r I L Copyrltrkt. 1044, By Kobert 17. Lush kea servic, lac. PROLOGUE I A Colorado farmer, looking: tor some at rayed calvra on a September evenlnn In 1919. cornea neon a alclt atranferr who hardens aim with an Important written m,eaaaa;e. Seeking; help, the farmer fHa and knorka himarlf oat. Whea) he revlvea both atrnnsrer and meawnsre are cone. No one believe be-lieve hi atory. Wrr AMERICA? IV I WAS tmly 3 years old when my grandfather, Jan Mesrik, suffered bis strange injury in the autumn 41 1919- I have one of those flash memories of the scene when my grandmother called my mother a$d father into the kitchen. kitch-en. But Whether it is a real memory mem-ory or one imagined from later descriptions, I do not know. I can aJso remember the set of my grandfather's jaw as I saw it when ; I followed my grandmother grand-mother into his room during his illness. But this, too, may not be a real memory, for since that time I have become quite familiar with that mariner of setting the jaw. I inherifcd that jaw and that mannerism. I know how it works and what it means. It means that the rest of the world can go fly a kite; that the man behind the jaw is going down his own road, asking ask-ing favors from no one, caring little what others may think. In my grandfather's case, the man was walking alone With his God. But, I'm: younger, and maybe I want more human company. At least I'd like to have a little more human company for my grandfather, grand-father, a few more people to understand un-derstand him as I understand him, even though he's gone now. Still it is not alone for this reason rea-son I am writing this story of my grandfather. I hope that an explanation ex-planation of Jan Mesrik will help others, people who never heard of him, to understand better what has happened since that night in the fall of 1919, for, although the events of that night had a direct bearing on the rest of Jan Mes- rik's life, what happened in those hours in our little part of the world profoundly affected . the lives of people in every corner of the earth. T HAVE a month In which to write this story. At least they tell me it will be a month before I can wrap my hands around a stick again. A Gerry spattered the Mustang I was flying and although I managed to bring her back to the take-off field in England, I landed in the base hospital myself. I'd been doing some assorted thinking about my grandfather and the things he believed in ever since I. can remember. Lately it's all become pretty clear and straight. So, while I have the time, I want to set it down. Then I'm heading back for another swipe at the Messerschmitts in the war that my grandfather believed be-lieved unnecessary. Much of what I am writing I observed ob-served at first hand, though some of it, of course, happened when I was too young to be a very competent reporter. The rest I have heard from Old Jan, my grandfather, and others who had first-hand knowledge. Jan Mesrik was born in 1870 in the town of Lovuce, in Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungary, of middle-class parents. His father ran a small hotel. Jan's schooling was the equivalent of our high school education, but this was supplemented by constant con-stant rending, much to the disgust of his father who found him a trying combination bellboy, doorman, door-man, busboy and barmaid. In later life my grandfather looked back on these years as pleasant and profitable ones, despite de-spite the constant scoldings of his father. Why, then, I have asked I my grandfather, did he come to j America? He would tell me that i he came to America because it ' was a free country, and because he was a liberty-loving man. But, i I would ask. were you ever op pressed? No, my" grandfather could never recall any incident to show that he was actually oppressed. op-pressed. One small event in his childhood always stood out. It had disturbed him considerably at the time. It concerned the unexpected un-expected visit to my great-grandfather's inn of the Count and Countess Korzycka and their two small children. TVTY grandfather was just 10 years old. It was his first encounter en-counter with the ruling class. The count and countess, alone, might have impressed him greatly, but their sons were about my grandfather's grand-father's age. They were dressed in a fashion that strove more toward adornment than utility. They were irritatingly condescending. Furthermore, my grandfather was convinced that he could whip both of them put together, a thing that he yearned mightily to do, bit it was impressed upon him at that early age that they were his betters, untouchable. When he was 18 years of age Jan was taken into the army for the customary period of training. Although the caste system in the army was strongly apparent and painfully defined, nothing of consequence con-sequence occurred that could be pointed to in later years as an example ex-ample of oppression nothing, that is, except the fact that he was in the army, that he was in it at the command of an authority over whom he had not the slightest slight-est control, and that in joining it he did so under an oath which bound him to defend not himself, nor his homeland nor any principles prin-ciples which he might feel important, im-portant, but to serve an emperor he had no voice in selecting and giving to that emperor his whole allegiance here and hereafter. It was no specific acfr of oppression, op-pression, then, that decided young Jan Mesrik to come to America. "It was merely a feeling," he would explain, "a feeling that you couid not escape, a feeling that you were a pawn in the hands of someone else. But it was a feeling so strong that it overwhelmed everything else. You were not a free agent, a free human being. You were a puppet." (To Be Continued) WHY WORRY? It is estimated by Prof Ele-mosyne Ele-mosyne that if all the "Worrying-won't "Worrying-won't - help - its" that have ever been uttered were gathered together to-gether In one vast noise, that noise would be heard on the moon, around the moon, and half-way back. And. Dr. Declasse says that the "Don't - worry -. it - will - come-out come-out - all - rights' 'now reach the stupendou total of six hundred and sixty-five quintillions, or an avearge of ten per man per day for each inhabitant of earth since time began. There are not statistics on the number of people who have told their neighbors of the two things about which they should not worry--"the thing that can be helped and the thinjr that can't" - but the eminent Prof. Von Wumpelnick says that long and careful study of the subject has convinced him that there are a great many more of these people than there should be. However, there is undoubtedly a preponderance of testimony both exnerts and inexnerts - to suoport the opinion that worry Is a bad think. It is probably that worry was first introduced to occupy oc-cupy the minds of those whose minds were not otherwise occupied. oc-cupied. These communicated their worries to others, as is the way of those so afflicted, and, according to Dr. Snin-orhi. nin out of every tten now have it and the tenth is When you ask at the Department i not entirely immnne. .of State for specific examples of; Worry is an insidious thing and what this broadened "rood n'Thbor lolicy may eret the United state? into, you come up with definite ooi'ests tnt have already been made to the Ignited States bv fnreicm governments. Melp Wanted. Mostly Engineers often caused by the most trifling occurences like the loss of one's money or one's iob, and it is frequently fre-quently disproportionately aggravated aggra-vated "by extraneous circumstances. circum-stances. . . like having a wife and family to sunport. Men who Afghanistan pvs for the loanre perfectly well themselves of-of of-of a hydro-electric engineer, to ten worry about the health of their replace a Jap who has been ; innocent wives and children. Some kie'-ed out. ; chronic worriers have been known The second front has already begun. When the Germans have been sufficiently stunned we -will move in. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery. If people realize that for every ton of bombs dropped on Berlin two tons of gasoline are required to get it there, we will have less trouble getting 'public co-operation in saving gasoline. Col. Bryan Houston, deputy OrA administrator. . ... r orum n A.gin'em Wants Definition of Free Enterprise EditorvHerald: We hive heard recently a lot of pratifl about something called "free enterprise." Now Mr. Oro Moore comes out and asks the question' which most 'people are asking iih their own minds. What i s"f reeenterprise ? " It wotlld seem that this inquiry of Mr. Moore's would be the oc casion Qiat the Messrs Christiansen. Christian-sen. Willis and Mr. Eggertscn were looking Jfor. A chance to further explain jand expound their doc trine of death and destruction to this thing which is in our midst. But no! Not a word so far have we heard from the learned breth-ern, breth-ern, in explanation of thing "free enterprise." Surely it can't be that Mr. Christensen doesn't know what he is writing about. It can't be that Mr. Willis, in his hatred hat-red for anything and everything anti-Roosevelt, has been seeing a mirage, and thinking it something some-thing dangerous to the New Deal has cried out in protest. Surely, it would seem that one of these "anti-free enterprisers" would be good enough to answer Mr. Moore's question. To most of us,-"free us,-"free enterprise and "private initiative" in-itiative" has been the thing which in the past has made our country "click," but, if in the future it's going to"turn out to be a delusion leading to a "snare," let us not hug the delusion wile we fall into the "snare." If we have a "devil" in our midst let us by all means cast it out But how can we cast it, if we don't know it. So, with Mr. Moore, I also ask the question "What is free enterprise?" JOS. H. TAYLOR. SNAKE RIVER PROJECT APPROVED WASHINGTON, March 29 (Ui?) The house flood control, recommending recom-mending a $810,000,000 bill for flood control projects to be undertaken un-dertaken after the war, late yesterday yes-terday suggested that $43,000 be allotted for projects on the Snake river at Heise, Roberts and Weis-er, Weis-er, Ida. There are six non-sectarian American colleges in the Middle East, some of them going back to the 1860's. Robert College in IHirkey has asked to expand American Am-erican engineering training for the the Turkish army. Bierut College in Syria seeks to improve its courses in agriculture. Ethiopia has asked for a military mil-itary engineer, a road builder, and a plant breeder, to aid in national reconstruction. India has asked for a Reclamation Reclama-tion Service engineer for a project in the Punjab. This man will go on to China. China itself has asked for 30 technicians. And so on. All such request are now being met by appropriations from the President's emergency funds. The idea for post-war development is simply to center all such activities activ-ities in the cultural relations program pro-gram of the Department of State, give the work a definite appropriation appropri-ation every year, and keep it subject sub-ject to control by Congress. The exchange of technicians represents only one phase of the cultural relations work that hn been carried on since the good neiehbor act was authorized in 1939. Primary emphasis has been i placed on increase of mutual un derst8nding through exchange of students, professors, journalists, doctors, leaders of thought in all fields. Many of these exchanges !are privately financed. Some of the Cost Is Shared American cultural centers have been established in a number of Latin American countries, where English is taught, American music mu-sic and documentary films seen and heard. Aid has been given to translation of American books ,into Spanish and Portuguese, and Vice versa. The whole program. in fact, has been carried out on a reciprocal basis, even to thj sharing of expenses. From a materialistic viewpoint it can be shown that such cultural, exchanges pay dividends. Tech-jnicians Tech-jnicians trained in American : methods want American equip-ment. equip-ment. Cultural centers spread knowledge of American scientific developments, help raise the standard of living in other countries, coun-tries, create a demand for American Amer-ican goods. The presentation is made that this is not charity, but security. Asbestos cement building products prod-ucts are manufactured by combining combin-ing asbestos fibers with Portland cement under great pressure. The usual proportions are 85 per cent cement and 15 per cent asbestos fibers. to worry because they were unable un-able to pay their grocers, when obviosuly. if there had to be any worrying the grocers should hava done it. Worry has turned many a man's hair white and this is cited by Prof. Wondershake as illustrating the indubitable correlation of the physical and the physiological entities. en-tities. The situation Is exceedingly confusing, but our own conclusion is that people should not worry but often do. . . . why even our selves, we find ourselves worrying worry-ing more often than not and most ly about what to put into the column and what not to. 0O0 What we do four ourselves alone DIES WITH US What we do for others for mankind REMA INS I M- MORTAL. 0O0 "Sam, Ah's a sick man, an't it looks lak de hain't no hope fo me," moaned Rufus to his friend. "Naow, Rufus, it all cain't be ; as bad as all dat," consoled Sam. "Yassuh Sam Yassuh," con- -tinued the sick one, "Ah goes to de doctah, an' he says mah veins am too close. He say Ah got very close veins. An' de only help fo me, he says, am to eat chicken brof free times a day, an' stay in nights. An' Sam, you-all know dat jes' cain't be done!" 0O0 PUTATIVE PUN: When you cannot can-not make light of your troubles, keep them In the dark. 0O0 And on the other hand, a lot of people know a lot of things that ain't so. It is not benevolence, but lnsur- . ance. It is not propaganda, but service. Even Sen. Hugh A. Butler But-ler of Nebraska, who toured Lat in-America and lambasted U. S. spending there, has put his approval ap-proval on the cultural relations program even at a cost of $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 a year. Actually, it has not yet cost the Department of State even $5,000,000 a year, but tnai is anotner story. MEDICATED 800(119 itch f "fopi . rashes by sprinkling on POWDER FOR Mexsana, the soothing, ran 1 V lie IT Dedicated powder. Re rAMILT Uot lievea diaper rasb. Cut in Pay General Mac Arthur has made a sensible answer to the Australian suggestion that we cut the pay of our forces in the southwest Pacific to the Australian army level. He favors raising the Aussies' pay. A good chunk of our tremendous war expenditure ex-penditure goes for military pay, but certainly certain-ly the American taxpayer doesn't begrudge it. Nor does he think that our G. L's at $50 per month and keep, plus overseas pay, are being overpaid. From what we hear of the Aussie soldier, it probably isn't too much for him either. The greatest contribution which , government can make to the progress of small business is the creation and preservation of genuine free enterprise. enter-prise. Vice President Henry Wallace. The temper and heorism of Japanese Christians Chris-tians came home to me when I saw them risking their safety to share their limited food supply with us over eight long months. Christ was not repatriated repatri-ated on the Gripsholm. He is still out there. Dr. William Axling, Baptist, missionary. By the end of this year Japan will have a strength in organic divisions equal not only to our planned strength in Europe, but in .the Asiatic theater as well. Col. Warren Clear, War Department Depart-ment general staff. We doubt very much if today will be one of the good old davs we'll be yearning for in a few years. Good old sprinor brines us the usual num- ;ber of 'swallows except the kind that' come 'out of bottles. ' I j Will use Exj Probably will use Wll nor un IIHIll Probably will not pff Undcidd j j No reply s The map above indicates the box score of President Roosevelt's query to 48 state governors on whether the federal ballot proposed in the new servicemen's vote bill would be acceptable to the various state. Note that only six definitely accepted the federal ballot, while IS definitely rejected it. -.yB g AN CLV Use WASCO Brand "VICTORY GARDEN" Fertilizer It Gives Best Results for Your Victory Garden It's made especially for the soils of this region. Uncle Sam wants everyone who can to grow a Victory Garden this year! Plan your Victory Garden HOW BUY U. S. WAR BONDS for Victory! Your Dealer can supply you with WASCO . . . 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