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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1944 Editorial . . . Jeans Mlth unto them. They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sicks I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Mark 2:17. And while the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return. Isaac Watts. Strange Bedfellow Smoke-filled rooms are nothing new in our political life. The heavy hands of men with votes or money to deliver have often tipped the scales at both parties' conven-toins. conven-toins. But certainly nobody ever classified such practices among the prettier ornaments orna-ments of our political system. These practices weren't any prettier at the 1944 Democratic convention simply because be-cause it was big labor rather than big business busi-ness or big-city political bosses that played the dominant role. The C. I. 0. political Action committee was new on the scene this year and, promising millions of votes, was powerful. Its role was not unexpected and might have excited no particular comment except for one unscrupulous element it had collected. This element is the "late" Communist Party. Last winter the Communists, in a sudden burst of enthusiasm for democracy, dissolved their political entity and moved into the New York State American labor party, a potent organization which carried the state for President Roosevelt in 1940. They were led into the A. I. P. by Sidney HiHman. and the move split the party. Mr. Hillman is also head man of the C. I. 0. political action committee, which is as hard to separate from A. L. P. activities as paper from a wall. His Communist activities antedate the A. L. P. split by many years, for his interest in and obvious sympathy for the movement are almost as old as the. Russian Rus-sian revolution. Under these circumstances, it must be embarrassing to many Democrats that Mr. Hillman took the play . away from the Flynns, Hagues, Kellys and the solid south at Chicago, and spoke the deciding word in the vice presidential selection. It must have embarrassed Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, after his long, demagogic feud with the Communists, first to receive their blessing and then find himself respectfully consulting consult-ing one of their close associates. Obviously it was embarrassing to the vice president of the United States and two members of the president's cabinet, who, as Peter Edson revealed in an illuminating convention con-vention story, rode freight elevators and sneaked up back stairs to confer with the C. I. O.-P. A. C. leaders. It must even be embarrassing to the president presi-dent and his running mate to be beholden to a group which has incorporated into itself the never-idle Communists who heckled and picketed the president and dangerously obstructed ob-structed our war preparation before Germany Ger-many attacked Russia. And it must distress the majority of C. 1. O. members or any American of either party, for that matter to see such an alien, devious, unpredictable, devilishly clever organization or-ganization so influentially mixed up with a convention in which its interest is only expedient. Heroes of the Rubber Stamp We don't hear as much about Belgium in this war as we did in the last war, when a little corner of it stayed free. None of it was free after 1940. And yet some of it was. To take a single example, there are the eleven hundred Belgium notaries public, concerning whom some facts have recently leaked out. A Belgium notary isn't as easy and informal in-formal in his ways as are his American opposite op-posite numbers male and female. By law there can be just eleven hundred of him. He belongs to a guild. He is appointed for life. Usually he tries to have the appointment appoint-ment pass to his son. He makes wills and draws up marriage contracts. If any land or house is to be transferred he has to sit in on the contract. No notary, no contract. No contract, no soap. When the Nazis came into Belgium they at once started to steal property of Belgian Jews and of all others whom they considered enemies of the New Order. This took in quite a hunk of the population the solid, patriotic hunk. But the notaries wouldn't play ball. They had a rule against transferring transfer-ring stolen property. Not one of them broke the rule. In four years no forced transfer of property in Belgium has been legalized. A certain Herr Doktor Wester-mayer, Wester-mayer, installed by the Nazis, goes through the motions, but everybody knows what the Herr Doktor's Nazi stamp is worth. These Belgium notaries are rather solemn people. Some might consider them dull. But the Gestapo, backed by the German army, couldn't move them. They couldn't be bribed and they couldn't be scared. Little things like this tell why Hitler was beaten long before D Day. The Belgian notaries stand for the integrity of their country and of civilized Europe. They won their Marne battle and made ours easier. The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By Drew Feafaoa (Col. Kotxrn S, A I I n tfaty) Too Tired For weeks German armies in the east have been rapidly advancing backward. That's tiring. When they stop, the Russians pound them. That's wearying. And now when they are almost too tuckered out to raise a hand, the Fuehrer reinstitutes that stiff-armed Nazi salute. So we can believe the German radio when it says that pledges of loyalty to Hitler have been slow in coming through from the east-in east-in front because of "extreme fatigue." Repatriates describe deplorable Nazi treatment of U. S. prisoners; fed potatoes, bread and water, while Germans here enjoy en-joy luxuries; big guns come into own vs. air power on Norman and Russian fronts; CIO working on plan to secure more influence in-fluence in Democratic party. WASHINGTON War department officials are much concerned over the way the Germans have been treating American prisoners. Reports from exchanged American prisoners reveal conditions condi-tions in German war camps unspeakably bad. One prisoner, recently returned from Oflag camp No 4 in occupied Poland, reports that the diet given giv-en American prisoners is as follows: Breakfast Nothing (served with water if you want it. t Lunch A bowl of thin soup and one thin slice of black bread (occasionally mouldy and invariablv stale). Supper Two Dotatoes. These reports disclose that, if it were not for the food packages supplied every week or ten days by the Red Cross, prisoners could not live. As it is, most are reported suffering from malnutrition. malnutri-tion. One American prisoner, trying to describe conditions con-ditions throue-h the Nazi card: "Food is plentiful and good. They treat us fine. We have no complaints. Everybody is happy. tun i iorgei io len mis lo Sweeney." While American hnv. a r. iivi nor nil atnu. j - . . ... jwawo arid water. German war nrimntn in tha tt e A are accorded the best of treatment, minimum of worK, gooa doming, rooa and shelter. They are even permitted their own camp newspapers, are generally accorded entertainment and almost luxurious lux-urious treatment. Note German relatives nf American rltln. used to evade, renanrnhln hv lattara ilmiu. - -viT . - v vv, a ui itii.di i,v. that of the U. S. prisoner. One such letter said: "Everybody Is very well over here now. Anna is well. Esther is well, and so is Joseph, but grandmother grand-mother is haDDiest of all." Grandmother hud heen dead for five years. HEAVY ARTILLERY COMES BACK Uncensored dispatches from the Russian front reveal that one bie reason for the current Red Army success is the Russian ability to mass all types of artillery in unprecedented quantity before every major offensive. The Red army is a carefully tailored organiza tion, never unduly excited about new weapons of war. Each Red Army division Is well equipped with a balanced number of tanks, planes and heavy guns. Never, throughout the entire course or tnc war. has production of any type of weapon been cut down in favor of others, as we sometimes have stopped tanks and artillery in favor of airplanes. In the early days of the war. when "victory through air power" was so popular, the Russians continued building planes, but also continued stronsr emphasis on artillery. Meanwhile, the British and American high commands put such stress on air power that they slighted heavy guns and tanks. Artillery production was never great. Tank production has been sporadic. spor-adic. Now, air power is not nearly as effective In Normandy as had been honed. Air corps officials blame it on the weather. However, artillery men point out that their big guns are never silenced by the elements, are more accurate in close-range warfare than anything else Invented. Fact is ,air power has very definite uses, but only in relationship to ground forces. One of the maior myths now beiner exploded In France is the theory of "deadly accurate precision bombing." bomb-ing." While Air Corps publicists show numerous reconnaissance re-connaissance photos to prove the accuracy of pre cision bombing, they don't show the many pictures of bombs going wide of their mark by many miles. For example, one unit sent out to bomb Ger many dropped its entire bomb-load on a Swiss village vil-lage more than thirty miles from its target. This is not an isolated case. Same thine has happened In France. Hungary, Rumania and Czechoslovakia Result is the war department now has a hurry call in for vastly increased orders of artillery, forcing war plants o work round the clock to catch up with the demand for big guns. CIO AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY CIO officials came away from the Chicago Democratic convention determined to strip Boss of the Bronx Ed Flynn of some of his power over the Democratic party in New York state. Fact is the CIO was seriously hampered in Its efforts to negotiate with New York state delegation delega-tion to the Democratic convention because they have few members inside the Democratic party. Most of New York's CIO members belong to the American labor party controlled by Sidney Hillman. Hill-man. Although this group polled about 400.000 votes in recent New York elections, it has less bargaining power in Democratic councils than its voting strength would indicate. Therefore, the Hillman brain-trusters are working work-ing on a new plan to secure more power inside the Democratic party. They propose to dissolve the Labor party after the first of the year, and start mass entry of labor party members Into the Democratic Demo-cratic organization. Labor party members would then be elected as Democratic ward leaders, county committeemen, members of state executive committees, ultimately as delegates to future Democratic conventions. 00000oC9959500059 CENSORSHIP OF SOLDIERS' READING It is ultra unusual to find a senator com- Iplaining because an executive agency follows a law which he himself has written. Yet that is the position of Ohio's Senator Bob Taft as a result of the soldier-vote law which makes its a prison offense of-fense for officers of the armed forces to permit official distribution of propaganda material which might affect an election. Bob Taft was responsible for this section of the law. The bill became law without the signature, of the president. Because the army has tried to follow it scrupulously, scrup-ulously, it has been placed in the ridiculous position pos-ition of banning Charles Beard's book "The Republic," Re-public," even though it is permissible to distribute copies of Life Magazine containing a resume of the same book. This is because the law makes an exception of magazines and newspapers, permitting their distribution to army camps. While the rest of the soldier-vote act Is only a temporary measure for the duration of this war, it happens that title 5, the section now causing all the trouble, is a permanent addition to the law of he land. Unless altered by congress, it will mean permanent control over reading material for sofdiers in and out of of the country, in peace or war. Note Senators Theodore Green of Rhode Island and Scott Lucas of Illinois are now urging new legislation whereby the American doughboy ican. read any book or literature available to American Am-erican civilians. (Copyright. 1944. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Wouldn't This Bo C ozy?! Iff 1 mkl f W Buooy J&0' J&$8". JUST 1H0V6HT . ! Minutia By LOUISE PARTRIDGE Speaking of recreation and by the way you might look up that word in a good ten pound dictionary because it doesn't mean what we make it mean at all let's take a look at the local rheumatic fever record which is a public scandal, no less. There are too many individuals at large and in a position to make themselves them-selves felt who think that exercise ex-ercise is a cure for anything. The cemeteries in Utah are full of people who thought they could exercise away that tired feeling. The mortality of people in the prime of life who "never had heart trouble" is very sobering. Perhaps they didn't, but they had rheumatic fever and didn't know it when they were young. The most insidious thing about this disease is that you have it before you know it. This is particularly true of children as I should know as my eldest moppet was down with it this summer. If a child is tired all the time, there is something wrong. He may think he can't cut the lawn but will try to play ball, and this will throw you off the track as it did me, and the child may complain of some aches and pains, and it may be after a scout hike and that will throw you off as it did me. but remember there is no such thing as "growing pains". If you can't account for aches. and if that child is tired ALL the time, send him to the doctor and he'll let you know in a minute. min-ute. There is altogether too much exercise being urged on growing children these days. I know that is heresy and I'm prepared to suffer for it, but it is the absolute abso-lute truth just the same and another an-other thing, children or adults either in this altitude cannot stand the physical exertion that people at sea level can, 'and don't ever forget it. "Oh," you say, "I feel simply groggy at sea level. I feel so much better up here." Don't you believe it. You're groggy grog-gy because your heart finds it can let down and rest a little. It takes a while to get used to that. Adolescents Ad-olescents who have to put up with the strain they live under these days have all they can do without added unnecessary physical work to do, and right here is as good a place as any to deplore the pre-vclent pre-vclent idea that a child is a sissy if he doesnt go all out for dear old physical Ed. A boy with a rheumatic heart is no Tarzan, I can tell you, but he might ha've been a healthy specimen if a little lit-tle sanity had been used. Thank goodness the swimming craze has departed and left behind it people peo-ple who will be a little on the ill side all their lives. Certainly people peo-ple should learn to swim, but why make a religion out of it? If some one will come along with a program to encourage the growing grow-ing children of this town to lie down a couple of hours a day, I'll get behind it and push. Let's have a real feeling for re-crea tion, rest after labor that means, and less of this Hitlerian idea of Joy through strength whether It kills the participant or not. Q's and As Q. What do the Initials CAVU mean in Air Force parlance? A Ceiling and visibility unlimited. un-limited. Q Is Arezzo, recently captured cap-tured by the Allies in Italy, aft old city? A Older than Rome; the ancient an-cient Etruseans lived there. Q What is the oldest relic of man's existence? A The Pithecanthropus Erec-tus Erec-tus (walking ape-man); bones found at Trinil; Java, possibly of the Pliocene Age, which ended some 550,000 years ago. Q What service was first to have an officer commissioned by a U. S. president? A Coast Guard, 1790. Q What methods have been devised for gas assault other than shells? A Gas bombs, spraying from planes, gas mines. Q When was gas first used in warfare ? A In 1915, by the Germans. What to Do About Germany B YTHOMAS M. JOHNSON NEA Military Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 News from Germany has greatly speed ed planning for her future by several government agencies here which see a chance of an earlier collapse than had been reported although that was less early than many Americans have believed. Allied military experts are virtually vir-tually agreed that if we want a peace worth the paper it is win ten on, the first clause must din- arm Germany completely and ut terly. That is a hitherto unpub-licized unpub-licized reason for the attempted revolt of some German generals still untouched by the Nazi mad ness. They have means of knowing what the distinguished profession al soldiers of Britain, Russia and this country decided after study ing the problem of peace In Europe Eu-rope from a practical aspect un-tinged un-tinged by sentimentality. These Reischwehr chiefs want to cut Germany's losses, play safe, and get her out of a bad business witn at least a shirt. But Hitler wants a desperate last stand, a gamble that the Allies will tire of blood letting and ease off. But once again, the Corporal of Berchtesgaden is befooling his country. For the fact is that the longer he fights, the better chance Germany will lose her Bhirt. inaeea, if some people like the Poles, the Belgians, the Czechs and the French had their way. Germany would be flayed alive. The longer Hitler fights, the stiffer his peace terms will be. Already they are likely to be very stiff. Nobody Wants the Germans- Representatives here of Poland, France, Holland and other victim ized countries will want some of what is now German soil but no Germans. They will make strong argument in logic and Justice. That would mean large Interchanges Inter-changes of population. It would ring Germany with nations all strengthened by addition of soil to which some have excellent claims, some not, and by more homogeneous populations. Germans Ger-mans and Poles, for Instance would be interchanged as they should have been and were not after 1918. The Turks and Greeks have shown how this is practicable practica-ble and makes bad neighbors good ones. More Germans would be cram med into less space the Czechs want the Sudentenland but with out the Sudetenland Germans who now inhabit it. Few nations are likely to welcome Germans as Im migrants. But belief grows that the Germans will still be able to make a good living if they try. Fbr instance, converting some of their enormous and unproductive state-owned forests to farmland and by tilling their soil so well that it produces as much as does Holland's, which is only 70 per cent as good but nevertheless Is made to outstrip Germanys Germany will have to farm more if the military men have their way. They would strip her not alone of Army, Navy and Luftwaffe especially Luftwaffe but of the means to build them up again. All machines, tools and factories meant to make arms or anything like arms would be wrecked. 20 Years of Re-education To insure that Germany will keep the peace in future will mean disarmament and re-education. That will probably take 20 years under an Allied armed guard also a lot of help from a large Allied civilian reconstruction organization. Those views are not all official nor officially adopted but they may "well prevail. Some well-in formed Americans hold them and so do many Russians who are very realistic and on some counts would go farther than we. As to reconstruction, some British Brit-ish civilians want to welcome Germany again more quickly to full partnership in world endeavor partly from what they hold to be humanitarian motives, partly as a possible customer for them selves and a counter-poise to Russia. The military men say there can be no peace with Germany If before she is cleansed of Nazis and re-educated she Is allowed to have a gtm or an airplane. Or any other weapon or means to produce it Desk Chat As one reader of this more or less compendium of factiousness puts it: "It's not the heat, it s the bromidity". NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: for those who contemplate starting in business for themselves, one of the most important lessons to learn is that, profit starts only where the cost leaves off. A clergyman was spending the afternoon at a house in the English Eng-lish village where he had preached. preach-ed. After tea he was sitting in the garden with his hostess. Out rushed her little boy holding a rat above his head. "Don't be afraid, mother,' he cried, "it's dead. We beat him and bashed him and thumped him until..." un-til..." and then catching sight of the clergyman, he added, in a lowered low-ered voice "until God called him home." oOo Reply to 'A Reader": Yes, we were taught in school never to end a sentence with a preposi tion, i But I once read that Charles Dickens (he was a good writer, too) never paid any attention to! rules of literature. Therefore, we try to write un- derstandably and if we violate the rules, it does not matter. About the only thing we have never done so far is to commence a sentence with a period... and some day, we may do Just that! Perhaps you do not know or even care, but a ton of radium would be worth fifty-six billion dollars. I 'Just for the sake of argument' is a truly Democratic expression. It is your right and my right to express a contrary opinion. This is the basis of 'freedom of speech' It is the American right of self expression. It Is our unremembered acts of kindness that bring the most reward re-ward in the future. A 'specialist may not know what is wrong with you or what the remedy should be. but he does know it is worth 1132.50. oOo Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile: as restless as spilled mercury on a porcelain table top. oOo If you would strengthen your character, promise yourself to ab stain from something you particularly partic-ularly like . . . and . . . keep your promise. And yet. It might be well for us to consider that all things are difficult before they are easy. TRUISM: More often than not, it is easier to deceive yourself than It la to fool the other fellow. The height of tolerance Is being able to tolerate intolerant people. Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile: Like trying to catch an elephant in a spider web. Kiwanians Meet At Canyon Party SPANISH FORK Featured by a talk by Mrs. Cora Clegg on "Pioneer "Pio-neer Life in Utah, Its Hardships and Amusements," the members of the Kiwanis club of Spanish Fork, their wives and partners, held a dinner at Canyon Glen in Provo canyon Monday evening with fifty members and guests present. Ernest E. Knudsen conducted con-ducted the program which featured fea-tured musical numbers by Mrs. Mary Coraaby, Mrs. Hilda Corna-by Corna-by and Helen Partington. Later, perhaps 20 years, she may be gradually permitted to build up a .small police force but under su pervision far closer than after 1918. Whether the military men who are realists will win out over politicians and propagandists already being heard remains to be seen. SAVEWAY DRUG STORES "Serve Yourself & Save" 129 W. 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