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Show ' '''' I DeskCh&t, Editorial Column J t f w I PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, 'JUNE 21, 1944 v E iitoriaL Befotce. O young man. In iter youth-Eo- ciesiastes urn . 4 3- f w& hould tee Bavtegs, banwetchtae. vvspaper hopes that . every reader line his Income and expenditures ' Awhat is it you Cannot afford when you i r.avuf II eiutt Afford mora .war bonds? p&Gan'J; afford more equipment and more re- '. infarxements for enbattletl troops t i Citn't- atfnrA fll dnrtea.eli nssiired future for Awtind your family In tW&st-war period? f-'fi.Atk vou wfflihff to trade these things for a -J'. J T V " 7--w few. tmnorarv treasures now 7 Every doi- xlar vou nut aside, now in war bonds Will inajce the invasion so much easier, win bring "the Peace so much closer. 'wilFexa TFT .... r 1 ., nm. u . . !- . J. .consider nis responsjDmues to ms country. himself and our fighting men, and ask nun gelf pr:berself : ''Can I aford not to buy the most war ,bbnds I have ever bought during a war y loan?" it Great Team 'h 'fW are the onlv two cecroles in the world i who could have done iti" says England's General Montgomery or tne Anglo-American planning and accomplishmeht . of the inva sion . ... . . . The general is prouawy ngnt. umer tl-Axia nations Ouarrel with each other, smA within their own boundaries. British and American policies and diplomacy don't always jell. But the two armies have fought as ne-from Tunisia to Normandy. And General Montgomery gives credit where icredit is obviously due to General Eisenhower. Eisen-hower. , , ' Through the long pre-invasion months of to General Ike. Any American officer who couldn't work with his British colleagues Merry-Go-R A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs The Washington V ound ICsl. Robr 8. All mm mmi mm i 9i was sent oacking. By such methods General EisenhowerA showed that he was a great . -'A . . m il . " A. nQ.Ugh coach, to put togeroer me greatest teaxn to the iwrld. ' Delivering the Goods Moscow reports that up to April 30 the U&ited States sent to Russia $5,357,000,000 Worth Of arms, raw materials, food and equipment, on lend-lease. Of -this $4,612,-OOiOOfr $4,612,-OOiOOfr reached the Soviet Union. If these figures mean what they appear to mean, it's JfTonderfuli ' For a time waterways to Murmansk were frightfully dangerous, and German raiders .Wefe-hav4ngf. the time of their life with our conwa. Nevertheless, it appears that 86 per cent of everything did got through. The accomplishments of our merchant seamen and of the naval men who protected them make even the gigantic figuresof lend-lease aid to-QtUssia seem unimportant - 'Atlantic Wall We are just beginning to get some inkling as to how far from easy were the initial landings, on the Normandy coast. For the first few days everybody wondered why the Germans didn't try hajdqr to stop us. Now we nave the answer Ithey did. They just weren't good enough to halt the Juggernaut we sent across the channel, though many thousands of American honies will learn eventually how much damage they accomplished. accom-plished. ' . Perhaps the enormity of ourx venture and the difficulty with which we are learning now it has succeeded thus far Will placate those hotheads who were all botherejd because be-cause we didn't row or swim across the channel a year ago without the long preparation prepara-tion that now has made success possible. Theme Song Looking at the pictures of Nazi war prisoners pris-oners in English port towns, we were wondering won-dering if the boys still remember "We Sail Against England" that invasion song they learned four years ago. And if they do, we wonder if maybe their faith isn't a bit shaken shak-en in the sort of military strategy that first composes a ineme song xor a cross-cnannj attack and then never goes any farther. Return of the Perennial ' In this strange pre-convention silence it is rather solid and comforting to. hear' the X cultured voice of Nbrnfan Thomas crying in .it.- !u.i rr- - rpi inn wnniarnpHN 1111111 1 1 1 1 1 1 r 11 i v I i i hi h. lias again accepted the Socialist Party's presidential nomination, lie is going to run for the fifth time Mr.Thomas didn't have to be drafted He lloesn' t expect to win, but he isn't down-heartd.V down-heartd.V Hell be right in there pitching again, fhtmng away at both major party candrdateshewing to his old, consistent line Withcholarhr oratory. Mr. Thomis will probably get even fewer rotes thaft usWl this yeaiv But" ItVgood o have him back no reticence-, no disavow-als. disavow-als. Quite like old times. -ir Intuition s German prisoners reveal thaft Hitler was -On the Noi-mahdy beaches only two days be- , fore the. invasion. - Perhaps his vaunted in tuition told hini h'd better hurry home to iserchtesgaden n wdyi up petore the coni pany got there. the war-now raging- fn'Nbnnattdy, th naval battle of the Potomac conUnues--over the queation of untfonoav V. ' N- ' I It mav seem fantastic, but what a vounnr naval officer should wear has beme1 a real probleno. In Washington, for instance, the standard summer uni form is gray, especiauy selected by Admiral Ernie King. who. went over the head of the lata Secretary of the Navy Knox to the White House to get the summer, grays adopted. . But if an officer is flying to the west coast. ne unas cnac tan summer Knaxis are stanaara Then if he moves on to Pearl Harbor, he finds wax Aamirai wmrnz naa Dowed to Admiral! King and grays, not khakis, are what the well-dressed naval officer should Wear. . But 'When he coes on to Noumea. New Cale- aoni. reacquariers or tne soutowest rmcuic, khakis, not gtays, are in vogue again. ' What is to be worn all depends on the naval commander of each area. Meanwhile, the laundry bills, the baesjasre space ana tne extra anirts, cap covers and, in some cases- different buttons and Insignia are enough to keep a young ensign in poverty, drive his wife to distracUon. Different colored shirts must be car- tried for each, different type of uniform: Tan shirts for tne khakis, gray shirts for the grays. White shirts for the blues. ' PARTIAL GOLD BRAID But the most .irksome ruling pertains to the winter blues. It has been ordered that the dark navy blue uniform, used as the working-uniform during winter months, shall have gold Drald ex tending only two thirds of the distance around the sleeve at the. cuff. But blue uniforms worn in the evening must have stripes running completely around the cuff. Result: Officers must carry at least ..two sets of blues- one for "evening and one tor worn, very aim cult when airplane baggage must be light Here are. some other do's and dont's which the! well-dressed naval officer must obey: In Washington you can't wear aviation green uniforms except in arriving at the airport or in departing from the airport. Admiral King has thrown his weight With the battleship school and ruled that naval aviation officers should not be too consplclous. z Except ror a few favored omcers, no goia chin strap can be worn with the gray summer uni form. The chin strap on the cap must be black, also black shoulder boards and buttons. 8 Whites are mandatory in the evening, to-e-ether with the hleh stiff 1898 Snanish-American war collars aespue uie iranuc taunary prooiem. 4 You can still get away with wearing KhaKi uniforms in Washington, despite Admiral King's orders for grays. He modified it when it was found that to make gray compulsory would have forced officers to discard 600,000 brown uniforms and use up" so much cloth as to threaten civilian clothes raUonlng. CAPITOL CHAFF Simultaneous with leading the an U -Roosevelt revolt In Texas. .Jesse Jones' nenhew. Georere But ler, came to Washington to ask the civil aeronau tics to license a new atrplalne line at Houston . . .i Folks are now wondering: whether FDR will re-i ward his enemies A. , About the only radio eta- ion license durine the war was given to a, compeu- tor of Jesse Jones in Houston trecenUy, go-getting young Judge Roy Hopkins. He got the license after he showed that the other Houston radio stations, sta-tions, dominated by Jones, carried very ; few announcements an-nouncements for. bonds, Red Cross or the war effort ef-fort . , Democratic Chairman Bob Hannegan had thought that South -Carolina was Safe in the hands of Assistant President Justice Jimmy Byrnes the president thought that Texas was safe in the hands of" Senator Tom Cotinally and Speaker Sam Rayburn. Neither was prepared for such rude awakenings . . . Justice Byrnes has assured the president that- In the end South Carolina will be OK. . . . -To Corcoran, the famous ex-brain truster, is not- nearly as far out of the picture as his old friend, now enemy, Harry Hopkins would like him to be. "Tommy the Cork" has been playing play-ing very close to Bernle Baruch; also, though most people have forgotten it. Corcoran was the man who, got Jim Forrestal his first Job. in the navy depart ment and helped boost him up the ladder to be secretary of the navy. 1 , MORS STARS IN WASHINGTON While thousands-of capable, well-trained young sters are out In the front lines with the rank of "corporal, sergeant or 2nd lieutenant, the desk of ficers of Washington conunue to reap promoUons. The senate military affairs committee 1s now probing this In connecUon with4 new list of pro motions to be generals. "At the rate we are showering show-ering stars' remarked forthright Senator Wall-gren Wall-gren of Washington, referring to the fact that generals wear stars on their shoulders, "The U. S. Army wUl soon Jock Mke the milky way." Senators axe especially scrutinizing one rec ommended brigadier generali Colonel E. F. Jeffe, attached to th war production board. Jeffe's chief dlsUnction is being the Army Ma son man for WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson, whq has been telephoning senators urging that his aide ber made a general. n private lite, jeite was executive vice presi dent of Consolidated Edison -of New York, which andles a lot of General Electric products. Wilson was head of 'General Electric. In public life. Jeffe has aroused the Ire of various government associates, among them R. S. Dean, assistant director of the Bureau of Mines, by; taking a dictaphone record of one of Dean's teiepnone conversations. ouy uean wrote to jei-feI jei-feI am interested to know that the office of the executive vice chairman of the War. Production Board has gone in for the use of the dictaphone Without the common courtesy of advising the person who is called upon that he is speaking for the record." . . NOTE-r-When Wilson urged hacd-hitting Senar tor Kllgore, of West Virginia to promote Jeffe, Kil-gore Kil-gore replied: "I am for promoting every man at the fighting front, but not plush-bottoms in Washington." Wash-ington." - (Copyright-, 1944, by United Feature- , -Syndicate, Inc.) The armed forces wlU be demobilized at a rate of 500,000 to 600,000 per month (after the war.) All production WiU ceas, -Most of the workers in the munitions .industries will be released. Airplane plants and shipyards wUl operate little. This inevitably in-evitably will leave large pools of unemployed in war-boom areas Sen. Walter F. George of Georgia. our preparation or demobilization plans must not become an excuse for any relaxation of our present wao production. War MobilizaUon Director Direc-tor James. F. Byrnes. , If majorities in legislature pass bills merely to press their advantage and say "Let the courts decide," liberty will not be preserved in the courts, it will be lost there. Federal Judge Learned Hand of New York. All 6f the things .which we use In. this. war. everything we. send to our fighting allies, costs money a io or money., une sure way every man. Sod Heroics I HAVE BUT CNB , S-PT I itcS ) UFE TO 6WE TO 7 I jT VMMi I f 1 ?MSi i--jV I I rZ 'TmXk il ; ' I Jmm l I 5 ,- . .. . I With Ernie Pyle in France Ernie Gives Some Lighter Incidents From the Front By ERNIE PYLE - SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE (By Wireless) The war is con stantly producing funny things asjness. American bivouac areas are heav ily guarded by sentries at night. And the sentries really mean busl- . 1 A . . A.coftiirion dog is the Ijest watch dog, says .woman and child can keep faith with those who hi voith a neefitrrM Br"! ?? r Riviny tneir lives IS tO-WOVIde ' sri n mnrlfli ia. litiHl& rn ef nol film rni. r. i . . . v j . , and a Dirrgiar is liable to steal hhn. Roosevelt. well as tragic things, so I might as well tell you soma of our lighter light-er incidents. For example, the first night we spent in France one of the colonels who slept with us under an apple tree was an army observer from Washington. Uusualiy we don't care for observers from Washington, Washing-ton, but this colonel was a very nice guy and a good field soldier too, and everybody liked him, While we were eating our K rations next, morning he said he had slept fine for .the first hour, before we had moved-in under our jeep for protection from the flak. He said that before we moved he had found a nice little mound of earth to put his head on for a pillow. He said that all his life he had had to have a pillow of some kind. After moving under the Jeep he couldn't find anything to put his head on. With that he walked over a few feet to show us the nice mound of earth. When he looked down, he started laughing. His excellent pillow of the night before had turned, out in the light, of day to be a pile of horse manure. XXX Another story concerns a mas' terful piece of wartime under statement by one of our truck drivers, Pvt. Cart Vonhorn. of RFD No. 2, Cooperstown, N. Y He had pulled into an apple orchard or-chard adjoining ours the night before, be-fore, ! parked his truck in the darkness, spread his blankets on the ground in front of the truck, and gone to 'sleep. When he woke up at daylight Vonhorn looked about mm sleepily, sleep-ily, and there on the ground right beside him, within arm's reach, was a dead German soldier. And when he looked on the Other side, there, equally colse, were two potato-mashers (hand grenades). Private onhorn got up very quickly. Later he was telling his officers about his startling experience, and he ended his description with this philosophical remark: "It was very distasteful." Everybody thought that was so funny it spread around the camp like fire, and now the phrase It s very distasteful" has become practically prac-tically a by-word. X X X After breakfast that first morn ing we had to round up about 80 dead Germans and Americans in the series of orchards where we were camping, and carry them' to a central spot in a pasture and bury them. , I helped carry one corpse across a couple of fields. I did it partly because tne group needed an extra man, and partly .because I was xorcing myseir to get used to it, for you can't hide from death when you're in a War. This German was just a kid, surely not over 15. His face had already turned black, but you could sense Wis youth through the death-distorted features. The boys spread a blanket on tne: ground beside mm. Then we lifted him over onto it. One soldier and I each took hold of a foot, and two others took his arms; One of" the two soldiers in front was hesitant about touching the corpse Whereupon the other soldier said to nun: "Go on, take hold of him. damlt. You might as well get used to it now, for you 11 be carrying plenty of dead ones' from now on. Hell, you may even be carrying me one or tnese aays So we carried him across two fields, each of us holding a comer or tne oianKec pur burden got pretty heavy, ' and we , rested a couple of times. The boys made wisecrack along the way to cover up their distaste for the job. When we got to the field we weren't sure just where the lieutenant lieu-tenant wanted the cemetery startf ed. So we put our man fdown on the ground anjd went back for in struetlons. And as we walked away the funny guy of -the group turned and shook a finger at the dead German and said: - "Now don't you run away while WKtarone;" ' , v ' X 'X . X , . ' The: Germans leave snipers' be hind "When'they retreat, so all The .other night a pretty im portant general whom I know was working late, as all our staff officers do these days. About mid night he left his tent to go to another an-other general's tent and talk something over. . He had gone only about 20 feet when a' sentry challenged him. And just at that moment the gen eral, groping around In the dark. fell headlong Into a deep slit trench. It was funny, even to the aren eral, but there was nothing hum orous aDout it to tne sentry. He suspected monkey business. He rushed up to the trench, oointed ms gun at tne general, and in a tone that was a mixture of terror ana intent to Kill he yelled: -uit out of there and git recog nized, you!' dor Sprincra Salvaaed ; For Servicemen's Knives DETROIT "1E) ' Razor-edcred knives for American' flehUnc men are oemg maoe rrom tough carbon steel in scrapped Chevrolet car and truck springs, according to the Chevrolet division. General Motors Corp. I' steel ror the knives Is furnished by the service department of cneaha Motors, Talladega, Ala., whose employees donate their time two nights a week, nroduclniar 10 Kiuves a nigni, complete with leather cases. Handles are made from scran aluminium salvaged by the service serv-ice department or donated bv townspeople. Ed Hedner, Chevro let national director, of service said manufacture of the knives was suggested by soldiers, sailors and Marines home on furlough. t We have a request through Bla- jhop Hilton A. Robertson of PrpvoJ rrom casue w. Murpny, president! of the Hawaiian Li D S mission to narenta . wUvre mnA rtAntiv of service men stationed in thef central Pacific area to kindly send him -the names and ; addresses of their representatives in the service serv-ice to his office, address - 1560 South Beretania street, Honolulu, T. H. A President Murphy desires to have all. the addresses of the serv Ice men from Utah stationed In uie central racmc, togetner wttn the addresses of their parents. wives or other relatives, so that if jtecessary, he can make contact between the two. contacts which they themselves would be unabla to' make. . . ' -f . XL is uie assignment ox (113 UI- s-ioiia service for the L. D S hovsil who are in the central Pacific and he states that he finds those boys on each of the islands. Many of these boys, have told President Murphy that they areinore uy- terestea vnan ever in tne cnurcn - Bishop Robertson is a former president of the Japanese, the Hawaiian and Central Pacific mission mis-sion and would be In a position to perform a great service if he were! in tne islands now, Jlminy Crickets., whose hohbv It Is to make us itemize our swindle- Bheet just stopped in the office to- tell u that in his opin ton the most opUmlsUc wpman the world has ever known was King Solomon's 500th wife . '. quo ; -.: ' DEBIStVE DEFINITIONS FOi-mcs-- promising career. ALIMONY when two oeonle make a mistake, one of tne ha to payifor it. BORE a person who, when you ask Jhim, 'How Are You? tells you. REFORMER one who fails to realize the wickedness and intol erance in the firet person singular. Once News- - - How History FROM THE FILES OF THE PROVO HERALD OF JUNE 21, 1014 The annual meeting! of the Tel luride association was in session in Provo with L. L. Nunn, founder of the organization present . There, were about 65 members in attendance, attend-ance, with delegates present from 20 states. It Was observed that scholarships were granted the previous pre-vious year to 50 young men to help them in study of electrical' engi neering in the' leading universities or tne nation with f 50,000 expend ed, for this purpose. L. G. Night ingale of New York was president or the association, W. L. Blersach of Provo, business manager and treasurer. . ; ' . Dr. John Dewey, noted educa tional psychologist of the Columbia Colum-bia university, lectured at the B Y. U. summer school. Most serious accident of the Weelc involved a Vrig'' and a team or norses wmcn tipped over on the dugway in Provo canyon," just aoove worm For. ' The accident took place when the tongue dropped to the eround The vehicle, and occupants would nave roiled right into the river, except for a row of trees growing along tne edge or the . stream. The occupants, all of whom were bruised and cut were Sam Leavitt, Vera Davis, Vernon Gray, Lamar Hoover, Urval singleton and Al Cain. . . The old folks of Provo!" Pleas ant View, Tlmpaiiogos, Vineyard! and Sharon wards were royally entertained, COO of them being guests at a dinner served in the M. I. A. gymnasium.- The Prpvo band furnished music at the program pro-gram With Postmaster James, Clove acting, as master of cere monies. Races-ftJr"the men and women were run. Oldest gentleman present was Hans Ajfderson. 94, of the Pioneer -ward, and the oldest woman, Mrs.'jjMargaret Harris, S8, or tne sixtn, ward. The pastor of a suburban church made it a point to welcome strang ers in the most cordial manner, and therefore, after the complex tion of the services, always hur ried down the aisle to station himself near the door. One Sunday evening a Swedish-girl, Swedish-girl, who was employed in one of the aristocratic homes of that section, had attended services, and when ready to leave the edifice was addressed bv the minister. who noting that she was a strang er, extended jus hand. He welcomed her to the church and expressed the hope that She would find It convenient to come again, adding that if she would be at hoine some evening :during the week, he would' be pleased to call. ' , "T'ank you,", she murmured, "bu Ay have a fella." And on the other hand, the chap who admits he is a self-made man mav not havi much t braar ahonf but it's decent of him to take all the blame on himself: AMERICANA 'Lost night at the carnival. noticed a company of people gath- ed a man standing nearby whatphvasioa patties? the attraction was, '. He, answered: "They're 'playing AW NUtS'." "That's a new game to me, how do they play it?" "Each player has a card with numbers on, and kernels of corn at the side of: the card. A man in the center of the sqtiare .form ed by the tables, 'spins a wheel. calls out a number, and the people place a kernel of corn.: on number in their cards ' v . they have it. This, goes on for seven or eight turns f of the wheei tnen one or the players yells Bin go!," and all the rest of the ptay ers tip over their cards and ex- OUR STARS AND STRIPES . There are many rules regardta: the proper way to display ithe flai . . . most of which were disre garded on Flag Day. The most important for cH of us to remember is: The blue field should always brat the observer's lea as ne races it from the street qr jn a hall. This is really Important and it win pay. each fit us to memorize this rule: "To the observer's left, ' vl learned- that "she had-no tntnrA ' even' found that she had -no supporters. i4 - 'f'i crmiotrs cynic cants. . v .riattery if the name some women wo-men give to the praise they hear given otners. : it is well to consider that It " takes two to make a pejttlng ; .the unvoiced idea is as good as '-no idea. ' j- i .of what avail Is a piece ojf art F , sufficient culture to appreciate 1 .r-OOOO -. 1 Mary had a little pair f Of stockings silkv fine. She used . to put her money there. a very tanrty sign. One day a stitch the stockinc-a dropped, A very nauerhtv crank: That caused before it could be stopped, A run on Mary's bank! ' Qs and A M Q--What is tne difference in neimg of a rrachire at high altir vuue via tow aiuluae T ' A rt , ... wnes xnvoivea in produc tion of red corpuscles heal slower at altitudes of 5600 feetoringh'er unless! the patient has been "up" nine 'months or more and has be come acclimated. . .' Q What is the salarv of con gressional pages? A ii7iM a year. Q-r-Who. manufactures medals? A Army's are made bv com- biTeroial firms: the U. S. Mint. makes them for other 'service branches. Q.WJat. is Anpteworthy about Caen, scene of one of the biggest biggest j A WlUlajn . the Conaueror em barked fjrom Caen in 1068 to. coh quer England. His tomb is at Caen. Q What strategic value la involved in-volved in Russia's Finnish offensive? offen-sive? i T A-With Finland out of the war, Russia would control sea routes which enable Germany to Import Finnish nickel. Swedish steel and ore, wood and food products from ttejlwth. ffT MAW ACCEPTS . DEBATE. INVITATION SALT LAKE CITY, June 21 (C Gov. Herbert B. Maw todav ac cepted an invitation to uphold the affirmative side on a debate here July 6 oh the questionj'should we adopt. President Roosevelt's peace pian ror a new league of nauons. The negative side of the aues- ttlon to .be discussed on the na tionally-broadcast "town meeting of the air," Will be upheld by Ely C. Culbertson, bridge, expert .turned former affairs analyst. TWO-WAY GOES LONG WAY- TOLEDO U.E A prewar two- way strettrh, a virtually unobtainable unobtain-able item as priceless as-a pair of PERT PEDIGREE ' '. . nylons, is en route today to Rus- I -looked up her record to' teersta; the gift of an unknown donor if she had any parents. to a recent war relief drive here.' V A ;t Have "Cojces lfs gejr tew A ...JLLJn-. , . X. u serve it at nomc i i tah 1 . " i1 or cdebraiinga Ctybrawttt the Scotch woirds for it at aydebank when a new carrier dowii the wy Yottf American celebrates it with his lamilur Uri9 tol-. If S phro of friendship that is heard wherever Amex fpoken, a cordial gesture that brings people together. In many the globe, Coca-Cola is spreading the custom of the pause that. become a symbol of refreshing good willjustas it is when you ; . J9THID JBM0KI AUTHOUTV' Of THI COCA-COIA COMPANY IV 0CMTl - Saltafc Cif U; f'Colces Coca-Cola tcs natural for popular names to iHfrltc (tietiilk abbrevia nftl?UBll,CiiCs i i I 1 -A A'.i V;i v A ff. |