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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1944 Editorial . . . . Before I go whence I shall net retdra. even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death- Job 1031. From all sides there Is equally a way to the lower worUL Cicero. I They're Hard To Fool This was the year, the statisticians told us, when the women voters could swing the elections. Well, maybe they could and maybe may-be they couldn't. It would take a nationwide nation-wide check of registration to tell. But the very threat of such a possibility should have shocked the candidates into a complete com-plete revision of campaign strategy and tactics. tac-tics. It didn't, of course. Electioneering fol lowed the old traditional pattern, and there's nothing to be done about it now. But wait till next time, as the Brooklyn Dodger fans are in the habit of saying. The women vot ers will still be with us, and the wise office-seeker office-seeker will start right now to build an en- So this is going to be a little sermon to them on how to win votes and lnnuence women, or vice versa. The text is taken from the words of a great and wise magician magic-ian who explained why he refused to perform per-form for an exclusively feminine audience. "They don't want to be fooled," he said. "They sit there cold-bloodedly and try to see how the trick is done. With an audience of men I can raise a cigaret to my lips with my right hand and make three moves with my, left while I'm taking one puff. But the wo men just sit and stare at my left hand." Now this, we contend, is a great and fun damental truth which is true in politics as well as magic. Politicians have ignored it since the 19th Amendment was passed. But the fact remains that women in general don't want to be fooled. They don't go for smoke screens. The old m umbo-jumbo of name-calling and half-truths half-truths and pious protestations, which was old stuff when Andy Jackson first went to the hustings, doesn't confuse or divert the ladies worth a darn. They're inclined to keep their eye on the hand that's doing the trick and ignore the cape-swishing. The trouble is that men (including politicians) poli-ticians) let themselves be fooled by women as well as by magicians. They're inclined to disnjiss women's political choices as anoth The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What s J p Going On In National Affairs c t iVe1 S u t y Our democracy proves strength in weathering weath-ering wartime election ; Ann Sheridan an example ex-ample that politics need not split friends; Will Clayton's wife made sure he publicized publiciz-ed allegiance to FDR; Hillman moves to disband PAC, though others favor continuance. continu-ance. WASHINGTON During the campaign, Ann Sheridan, having returned from touring the war camDs in India and Burma, wired Warner Broth-era Broth-era in Hollywood, with whom she has a long-term contract, asking if she could suspend her contract for about six weeks in order to do some campaigning campaign-ing for Governor Dewey. She added that she knew Warner Brothers were for Roosevelt, but she wanted want-ed to do some work on the other side. To this Harry Warner wired back, telling her to take the time off she wanted and adding "Isn't this a wonderful country where you can be for Dewey. I can be for Roosevelt and we can all be good friends after the election." To which words, this columnist would like to say Amen and add that it's an even more wonderful wond-erful country than most of us realize, because probably no other major nation in the world could weather a wartime election of such Importance. Great Britain has not had a national election for nine years. Brazil has not had one in over a dozen years. Canada and various other British dominions, where, according to political scientists, democracy flourishes even more luxuriantly than here, have had no national wartime elections. On the other hand. Cuba, though a belligerent has held a presidential election. Perhaps the U. S. A. can take a little second-hand pride in the Cuban Cu-ban election, because the Cubans were soinff alon with our example. Anyway, it takes a strong democracy, a tolerant toler-ant democracy, to withstand the brickbats, the name-calling, the savagery of what has been the most difficult campaign since the J884 campaign between Lincoln and McClellan. And now that it's over and we have demonstrated demon-strated that we can do it, let's all get on with the war. PETTICOAT POLITICS Women sometimes have a lot to do with back stage politics. Witness Mrs. Will Clayton, wife of the suave, handsome surplus war property administrator ad-ministrator who. because of his anti-Roosevelt business associates in Texas, has been accused of being against FDR. The other day, however. Will Clayton made a speech before the Women's Democratic club on the subject, "Why I Am for the Re-election of Franklin Roosevelt." Behind that speech was a lot of feminine wire - pulling chiefly by gracious Mrs. Clayton. . Mrs. Clayton is a lady of both force and charm. Frequently she differs with her husband. When he contributed $7,000 to the Liberty Leasrue er example of womanly intuition. 1 hey tor-against Roosevelt m 1936, she contributed $7,000 get that on occasion this intuition is a mat ter of deciding on the basis of fundamentals, to help Roosevelt. In this year's campaign. Mrs. Clayton wanted it Hpfinitplv unHfrctru-kH that HueHanrl 11-a 4rw 11 I 1 1 1 " 1 1 1 ,v wnue xne men are mistaxing tneir own ar Roosevelt. She went, therefore, to Mrs. Will H. sorption in the political Sideshow lor deep-j-Javis, wife of the chairman of the war labor dish thinking. They also tend to confuse a diplomatic silence, maintained in the interest of domestic do-mestic tranquility, with a wifely submission to the lord and master's suggestions on how to vote. , The moral of this highly generalized sermon ser-mon is pretty obvious: Let the next batch of candidates woo the feminine voter by sticking to the issues and the record and laying off the red herrings and rabbits pulled pull-ed out of the hat. The candidates who do it best may find themselves elected. board and herself chairman of the program committee com-mittee of the Women's Democratic club, suggesting suggest-ing that Clayton speak before the club. Mrs. Davis gladly agreed. Then Mrs. Clayton, Clay-ton, to make doubly sure that her husband's position pos-ition was understood, arranged personally for a radio hook-up. Will Clayton was against the president presi-dent in 1936. but there is no question about where he has stood in 1944. HILLMAN WOULD END PAC Sidney Hillman didn't advertise it but, during the last days of the campaign, he took steps to disband his controversial Political Action Committee. Com-mittee. The final decision will not be up to him alone, for the whole thing wvll be threshed out t And in doing so thej may raise political jBut not waiting for the convention. Hillman ai- campaigning to the adult level on which it belongs. ready has sent notice to most of the 200 members of the PAC staff that they go off the payroll Nov. 15. Originally PAC was set up as a permanent organization, and there are several schools of thought inside the CIO regarding its continuation. One group, including auto workers president R. J. Thomas, wants to keep PAC alive. Hillman, on the other hand, wants to shut up shop, concentrate on New York politics, and also get his health back. NOTE What most people don t realize is that One Nation Americans will choose a president today just as they have every four years, in peace and war. Tomorrow, again just as always, Americans will remove the campaign but- tons from their lapels and once more bc-jSidnev Hillman was kicked out of the Roosevelt .a.. c & i womam w come citizens in me uiiilcu ouiics, nut uem ocrats and Republicans. This discarding of campaign buttons is al-! ways symbolical, for we discard most of our animosities with them. The storm of political politi-cal feeling is swept away, with only a few disappointed die-hards still grumbling like distant thurtder. But this year we need to be sure that all animosity vanishes quickly, for time is precious and much remains to be done. We must close ranks behind the newly elected president and commander-in-chief. Wc must remember that the majority has spoken and decided, and that it has spoken freely at a time when such freedom is particularly par-ticularly precious. We must remember that the greatness of America is America itself its millions, not the leaders or parties that come and go. And we must remember that the world looks to that American of the millions to day, to 'its Strength and its freedom and Kentucky ... In the 1940 WUlkie-Roosevelt cam-its cam-its decency for hope and help. It is onlv a ',,?" J1? i . , ...... ., . committees compiled 410 pages of exhibits of scur- nation undivided and indivisible that can rilous literature. They expect the total in this cam-maintain cam-maintain that Strength, preserve that free- paign to be much greater. Neither party is simon dom. and enhance that reDUtation for de- Pure Last summer a young friend of GOP administration without so much as a thank-you note during the embryo days of the War Production Produc-tion Board shortly after Pearl Harbor. Hillman was then co-administrator of the Office of Production Pro-duction Management with General Motors chief William Knudsen. and was flat on his back with a serious illness when Roosevelt reorganized the entire set-up out from under Hillman. Hillman didn't know about it until he read it in the papers. POLITICAL CHAFF All during the war. FDR has been a close reader of Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln" and has continued con-tinued his reading during the campaign. Someone who dropped into his private study one day found a copy of the book open to Lincoln's way days . . . During the 1864 campaign, McClcllan's followers accused Lincoln of squandering public funds, mismanagement mis-management of the government, destroying civil liberties, meddling with the war, and standing out for "unconditional surrender" .. . Lincoln's followers follow-ers called the McClellan people "copperheads." . . . Lincoln ran as commander-in-chief. He was helped materially by vital military victories, including the Battle of Mobile Bay and Sherman's march through Georgia, which gave proof of his effectiveness as commander. In the end, he carried all but three states in the Union New Jersey. Delaware and cency in the world of nations. The Need Continues Military medical men have learned much about the life-saving properties of blood plasma since the war began. And one of the lessons is that speed and quantity are often of highest importance. By a newly de-celoped de-celoped technique, many patients are now given four bottles simultaneously with plasma plas-ma being fed into both arms and both legs. Plasma is also being packaged in quarts rather than pint bottles now, for it has been found that cases commonly require two or three pints and some have required 10. It has been comforting to think that a pint of our blood will save a soldier's or sailor's life. Perhaps it does sometimes, but we know now that one pint often will not do the job. Blood donors have been admirably gener- smc hut tha nnflH is ctill crpat TVtPSP nw . i in Whin.tAn techniques are a reminder of that and noi (Copyright, 1944. by United Features Syndi more reminder should be necessary. cate, inc.) Congressman Joe Martin asked his advice about running for office. The sage Martin replied: I wouldn't get into this campaign unless I had to. This is going to be as dirty and under-handed campaign as the nation has ever seen. Stay away from it if you can." MERRY-GO-ROUND Among the organizations which have filed an accounting with the senate campaign expenditures committee is the "Girls Who Save Their Nickels to Elect a Republican President Club." Organized four years ago as the "Working Girls Who Save Nickels to Elect Wlllkie Club," this group reported a 1944 income totaling $44.74, with disbursements of $37.80. . . . The Treasury and star radio writer Arch Oboler have had a falling out which resulted in the recent cancellation of the transcribed programs pro-grams Oboler was to do for the Sixth War Loan. The Treasury complains that Oboler failed to get Treasury approval for a quarter-hour script before having it recorded. Film star Robert Young was in the star role, but the script was too hot for government govern-ment sponsorship . . . Governor Dewey may not have known it while attacking New Deal bureaucracy, bureau-cracy, but the brother of his campaign chairman is a New Deal bureaucrat. Philip J. Brownell. brother of GOP national chairman Herbert Brownell, is an attorney for the War Labor Board No Riddlo! Socialism Is Major Campaign Issue In Canadian Elections By CHARLES ROBERTS NEA Correspondent OTTAWA, Nov. 7 When Canadian Can-adian voters go to the polls in federal elections which must be held before late spring, the key issue is whether the country will go socialist. Premier MacKenzie King's liberal government has been in power since 'the Conservatives Con-servatives were turned out in 1939, and the Conservatives with a liberalized platform and new leadership, are making a deter mined bid for power again but. for the first time, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation offers a serious callenge to both old line .parties. In 1935, the CCF was a negligible negligi-ble factor. In 1940, when King was returned to power, the CCF won just eight seats. In subsequent subse-quent by-elections, however, four more seats have gone to the frankly socialistic CCF. The senior sen-ior parties appreciate the threat, and with ammunition provided by heavy industry and finance, which fear expropriation under socialism, the big guns have open ed a full barrage on the challenger, challeng-er, and with due reason. Conservatives Move In A year ago, provincial elections were held in Canada's most developed de-veloped province, Ontario. The Liberals were driven from office and the Conservatives moved in. It was not simply a party switch. however. The Conservatives won 37 seats, but in second place came the CCF with 34, Liberals trailing trail-ing with 15. The trend was explained ex-plained by party spokesmen as due to political consciousness whipped up in industrial centers by high pressure labor organizers. organiz-ers. Such a thing could never happen, they suggested, in a place like Saskatchewan, where the property-owning farmer is supreme. su-preme. But, in June, the farmers in the heart of the national grain belt went to the polls after hearing of the danger of consfication and expropriation ex-propriation hanging over them if the CCF were elected. And the farmers ended an almost uninterrupted unin-terrupted Liberal sway, dating from. 1906 to give the CCF 47 of the legislature's 52 seats. Meanwhile, in British Columbia, Colum-bia, the CCF captured the popular popu-lar vote, but won only 16 seats to the Liberal's 20. In Manitoba, where a coalition government has extended the life of the legislature, legisla-ture, no election has been held since 1936 and figures on socailfst representation mean little, in view of the strong organization now existing there. In Alberta, Social Credit still inoperative continues firmly in control. Quebec Que-bec is politically apart from the rest of the country with its half dozen distinctive parties, and while the Roman Catholic Church this year gave its adherents freedom free-dom of action as far as the CCF is concerned, it made little headway head-way in summer elections. Sim ilarly, it has made little progress in the Maritimcs, with the exception excep-tion of labor-conscious Nova Scotia. Watch Saskatchewan Now the eyes of the nation are fixed on the socialist laboratory which is Saskatchewan, where bantam-sized T. C. Douglas, 37-year-old Baptist parson, is guiding guid-ing the CCF through its first legislative leg-islative program. From the outset he has contended the socialists plan no great expropriation program, pro-gram, but has warned that "commencement "com-mencement of large scale undertakings under-takings may be discouraged in favor of public or co-operative ownership." While his mandate is for five years, Douglas has promised to call an election in 1948. Meanwhile, Mean-while, his first year's program calls for no expropriation and the most socialistic of its bills are two providing for government-owned packing plants and a provincial insurance company. lective bargaining and paid va cations compulsory and compels mortgagees to share crop failure risks. Teachers are to get higher high-er salaries and the government ministers have voted themselves a salary cut of $1000 per year. When the federal elections come, the CCF will be led by M. J. Coldwell, a precise, urbane, 58-year-old former school teacher, teach-er, who says that his party is socialistic "in exactly the same manner as the labor parties of V' Jt f h . Jj T. C. Douglas guides first legislative legisla-tive progrma of CCF. a id A's US an. Q What do the German abbreviations ab-breviations Oflag. and Stalag. mean? A Oflag. Offzierslager, a prison camp for officers; Stalag. Stammflager, a prison camp for enlisted men. The abbreviations abbrevia-tions are to be used in writing to prisoners. ' Q What war-vital raw materials mater-ials arc available in the Philip pines? A Iron, chromium, copper, manganese, gold, hemp, among others. Q What is bricklayer's itch? A Iitching eczema of the hands caused by contacts with lime. Q How long did the Revolutionary Revolu-tionary War last? A Eight years April 18, 1775- April 19, 1783. Q What new type engine Is predicted for airplanes? A Gas turbine. On a transport, trans-port, 8000 pounds would be saved. Ration News Plastic heels and soles are now covered by price control freezing the price at the March 1942 level, Richard A. Paradis, OPA price specialist, said today. "Because they are not customarily custom-arily produced by plastic molders and fabricators, shoe heels and soles made of plastic materials have been exempted from price control," Mr. Paradic stated. "Beginning November 8, these products will come under the OPA price regulation. Dealers in coal and other solid fuel who have heretofore failed to give their purchasers an invoice, in-voice, sales slip or receipt, will be required to do so after November No-vember 11, Richard A. Paradis, OPA price speciolist, stated today. M. J. Coldwell leads CCG in federal fed-eral election campaign. the British Commonwealth," already al-ready in power in New Zealand and Australia and resurgent in Britain. The Conservatives renamed i the Progressive - Conservaties.j will be led by John Bracken,! o.ie time leaderf a protest party j and latterly Liberal premier of Manitoba, Who swung steadily to the right during his 21 years in; office in the west. Premier King' will lead the Liberals. It will probably be King's last campaign. cam-paign. Me will be 70 next month and is ready to retire after serving serv-ing as Premier for 18 of the last 23 years. DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, Nov. 7 (U.R) The Dally Mirror reported today that great parts of eastern and southern south-ern Australia were being paralyzed paraly-zed by what was rapidly becoming becom-ing the worst and most tragic drought of the century. The over-worked housewife is at last going to get some relief from the back-breaking job of trying to keep floors and carpets clean after Junior has tromped all over them with his synthetic rubber heels and soles, Richard A. Paradis, OPA price specialist, announced today. "Non - marking synthetic rubber rub-ber soles and heels are again being be-ing manufactured and celling prices have been set by which the manufacturer may sell them to the shoe manufacturer," Mr. Paradis said. Thirteen per cent of the retail sellers of women's and children's outerwear clothing in this area, who have not showed the OPA how they are figuring their ceiling ceil-ing prices, may be stopped from making further sales after November No-vember 15, Russell L. Humph-erys, Humph-erys, OPA price specialist, stated today. "Retailers were notified in September that this information must be fUed with the OPA district dis-trict office before October 15," Kick-ins Slow To $1000 Club By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent If the now-famous "One Thousand Thous-and Club of the U. S. A." folds ud without achieving its objective of moo members, each having contributed con-tributed $1000 towards re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, don't be too surprised. The admitted fact Is that the club leaders are finding it a little difficult to find 1000 men with 1000 extra dollars, and may be forced to run in a lot of ringers who have contributed the equivalent equiva-lent of $1000 in services. On paper it looked easy. An average of only 20 members in each of the 48 states would bring the membership to S60. and it should have been a cinch to get the other 40 in the District of Columbia. Oklahoma was the first state to crash through with its quota of 25 oil and cattle men, but after that initial success the going was slow and Dewey's blast at the club in his Chicago speech probably prob-ably won't help the rushing and pledging of neophytes for this blue chip fraternity. Orville F. MePherson. former Kansas Citv publisher who was called to Washington headquarters headquar-ters of the Democratic National Committee to help put over the One Thousand Club's membership .drive. V.nn't let the $1000 per man contribution gpal stop him from accepting lesser amounts in helo-ing helo-ing the Democratic coffers. MePherson Me-Pherson went into a Washington grocery store the other dav to do some marketing for his wife, but he had a little trouble finding suoplies to match the number of points he had brought along. Finally Fin-ally he got it worked out and the grocer asked him what else he could do for his new customer. Who you for in this election?" asked MePherson. "Roosevelt:" said the grocer. "Put it in writing." said Me Pherson. "Put it on the line." The grocer called to his wife and told her to make out a check for $50, then asked MePherson how he spelled his name. "Oh, don t make It payable to me. said MePherson hastily. Make it out to the Democratic National Committee." MePherson turned In the money, but it should be made clear that it takes bicger dough than that to crash the One Thous and Club. A Prosperity Argument is Used Some of the enthusiastic Wash ington backers of the One Thousand Thous-and Club argue that business men, instead of giving their money to the Republicans, should be crazy for Roosevelt instead of crazy against him because they have prospered so greaUy under the last four years of Democratic rule, making up all their losses of the depression. "These big profits don't show explains one of the One Thousand Club promoters, "but to anyone who can read a balance sheet, the profits are there. They are hidden in reserves and depreciation and the writa-off provisions of the tax law which will give a lot of muni tions manufacturers new plants and facilities for postwar bust ness, all charged off at the end of five years which, for most of them, will come in 1945 and 1946. ' "Business men have really made millions," this One Thousand Club solicitor went on to say, "but busi ness men are sore just because they haven't been permitted to make hundreds of millions. "The people we're interested in eettine into the Thousand Club however, aren t the multl-mlinon- aires, but the middle-sized business busi-ness men. the fellows who do business in the $100,000 to $1,000,- 000 a year class. They're the back bone of American business and they're the men who should be for Roosevelt 100 per cent. Some Firms Work Both Sides of the Street Putting the touch on businesses that have profited or stand to profit under any given party is oi course an old political trick, indulged in-dulged in by state and local organizations or-ganizations of both parties. Many business firms have long been in the habit of working both sides of the street, one vice president contributing con-tributing to the Republicans while another kicked in to the Democrats. Demo-crats. Such activities are now somewhat limited by the Hatch and Corrupt Practices Acts, but still, with a $5000 legal ceiling on aggregate political gifts any individual in-dividual may make in a calendar jeer. $1000 touches aren't too tough. War contractors might be considered con-sidered fair game this year. In the first nine months of 1944 alone. Army and Navy have let 270,000 contracts for $26,000,000,-000 $26,000,000,-000 worth of supplies. i ct lie LJAwr kiiin LCI UJ nnV U lYlUJl For Christmas Cantatas - Vocal & Instrumental Selections Special Folio "CHRISTMAS JOYS" 34 FAVORITE CHISTMAS SONGS Cflf Piano, Solo (with words) UC SEPARATE SOLO and DUET PARTS For C, B Flat, E Flat, or Bass Instruments, Each Set 25c SONG SHOP At ROYLE'S RADIO AND APPLIANCE COMPANY 34 North University Avenue. : Phone 1775 Mr. Humphreys explained, "however, "how-ever, no enforcement action will be taken until November 15, the date by which a retailer must have on his premises a letter confirming OPA's receipt of his pricing chart, if he is to continue to sell the garments involved." Desk Chat Eefleetions of a Swing Shifter: In this column, some .time ago we spoke out rather bluntly against certain political under cover activity that was aimed to start a movement to discredit the value of war bonds and to get a movement under way for REPUDIATION RE-PUDIATION of aU war bonds. 'Where (here is smoke, there must be fire.' Last week a certain college pro- lessor in a mid-western university made a public proposal that "Next July 4th, let everyone who owns war bonds take them into the eack yard and burn them." Being a punster, the professor called it Bondfire'. Note he did not call it 'Bund- fire' though that is quite evidently evident-ly one of the sources of the re pudiation idea but not the only or major source. The American people have pur chased approximately 128 billion dollars worth of bonds. Practically Practical-ly every war worker has signed up to purchase war bonds to the tune of about 12 per cent of the total wages paid in 1942-43 and 44. In a majority of cases, this In vestment constitutes the entire savings of war workers. It is this 128 billion dollars that will help to cushion the transition (unemployment) period when the nation reconverts to civilian ci-vilian production. It is this fund too that many workers are counting on to pay lor the education of their children after they graduate from -high school. It is this huge sum that na tional economists count on to create 'full employment' after the war. But make no mistake about it, this hint at repudiation is not a mere passing thought in the minds of the cliques and blocs that seek to overthrow our present system of constitutional government. You may expect to hear more about it AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELEC TION. MORNING PRAYER Lord, help me To keep this thought With me: All the live-long day, I must guard against The harsh words I might say . . . To help me remember How utterly lost I would be If those I love Were not here With me. Help me to leave Outside my door All cynical wisdom All hate and fear; Let me never come home With cunning or guile And to put aside All grief and sin And wear an honest Open grin. Let me pause Before I enter my home And take off the cloak Of self-righteousness So I'll have No need to atone. And hang it up With my cloak of pride As soon as I Get safely inside. Let me take off The mask of pretense And put it On the shelf And, whether I'm merry Or whether I'm sad, I can be my simple Genuine self. No need to feign A ghastly mirth If I have cause . (' To weep; Nor spend the time In idle chatter , If I would sleep. For my house Is frank and friendly. Though nothing grand Or fine ... All I own Belongs to my folks And all they own Is mine Every professional was first an amateur. oOo It is vniir riinnrteit inn nnt vmii position, that makes you happy. Overheard on the Geneva bus: "She's the kind of woman who always seems torn between vice and versa.' 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