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Show I if!.-- "J i - -r - PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 195 Editorial.... And aU the trees r the fields shall knew that ,1 the .Lord have brought down the high tree, have .exalted the lew tree, have dried up the green "tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish Exekiel 17:24. Under whose feet (subjected to His trace), lit nature, fortune, motion, time, and place-. Tasso Mr. A verjj and Mr. PpMllo In ordering the second anny seizure of Montgomery Ward & Co. facilities, President Presi-dent Roosevelt chided Sew4U Avery. Ward's board chairman, for his fitter fight against employe unions "in reckless disregard of the government's efforts to maintain harmony etween management and labor." Mr. Avery surely deserved some chiding. So, it seems to' us, does James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians. Mu-sicians. Both men have defied the government govern-ment by defying War Labor Board orders. But Mr. Petrillo has fought management while,Mr. Avery has fought labor. And the contrasting treatment given these two men raises a question of how well balanced the government's efforts toward harmony have been. Mr. Avery's defiance of WLB orders has twice caused the government to send in troops to occupy and operate Ward properties. proper-ties. The second occupation followed a C. I. O. threat of a general strike by Detroit war workers and an act of vandalism in Ward's Dearborn, Mich., store which destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of foodstuffs and hard-to-replace merchandise. Mt. Petrillo's defiance of the WLB was followed by a polite letter from the president asking him to call off his strike against the recording companies, as the WLB had ordered. or-dered. Mr. Petrillo refused and nothing more was done. The recording companies signed on Mr. Petrillo's tfrms. No war plant man-, agements threatened a sympathy lockout. After Mr. Petrillo's refusal the president announced that hcswould search the law for a possible means of compelling Mr. Petrillo to obey the WLB. Apparently there is no such legal means. At any rate nothing was done. But no such lack of legal support has de terred the government from moving in on Ward's with guns and injunctions. Elsewhere in the announcement quoted above, Mr. Roosevelt said that "strikes in wartime cannot be condoned, whether they are strikes by workers against their employers em-ployers or strikes by employers against their government." With this all patriotic Americans Ameri-cans will agree. And most of them will agree that no brief can be held for Mr. Avery or for Mr. Petril-lio. Petril-lio. The actions of both have been against the public interest. Nor can there be any argument that labor deserves fair treatment. But fair treatment is one thing and preferential pre-ferential treatment is another. The latter is against the public interest, too. The Washington i Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's VZS" 8L Alien on active duty Going On in National Affairs WASHINGTON Secret talks have Imm talc ing place for the past two weeks between the state department and British Cabinet Minister Richard Law of the problem of feedine Italv. Verv mue nas leaned out oi uie backstage sessions, but it can be revealed that President Roosevelt has given dtfinite Instructions that the Italian people must get more food and be encouraced to take a greater part in the war. He believes a well-fed people do not-become a communistic people The British, however, have opposed anvthins more than subsistence feeding. Actually the de- Date over wis nas seesawed secretly back and forth over a period of many weeks, and probably gets to me root oi tne basic difference between British and American policy in the Mediterranean. . At one point during 'the argument. Lord Hall- fax handed the state department a confidential "aide memoire, considered , by diplomats some thing of a scorcher and warning of "a grave, danger of divergence which would "have far reaching consequences for the whole settlement of Europe. This "aide memoire" is interpreted by many diplomats to set the stage for future British policy in the Mediterranean. Hitherto unpublished, it states: "Wadda You Got That I Haven't Got, Caesar?' Car Care . The outlook for new tires in 1945 is definitely defin-itely bleak. The outlook for new cars just isn't. All of which calls for more nursing, coddling and fussing than ever if the old bus is going to endure for the duration. What to do about it is old stuff by now. But perhaps a brief roundup is worth repeating, re-peating, especially for the many service wives who may be faced with symptoms of automotive senility that would even stump the family tinkerer who is now overseas. So here are a few do's and don'ts suggested sug-gested by car and tire manufacturers: Keep tires properly inflated. Check pressure pres-sure weekly. Switch tires, including spare, at least every 5000 miles. Check wheel alignment, casing flaws, brake balance. Avoid fast stops and starts and don't speed! 'S Have regular checks of ignition and battery. bat-tery. Replace worn spark plugs which waste gasoline and put an undue load on the battery. bat-tery. 4 Keep head and tail light lenses clean. Have spare bulb on hand. Let the garage man go over distributor, coil, condenser, voltage regulator, generator and starter. Don't tinker unless you know how. Garages are busy and short of help. But it takes less time and bother to check for early trouble than to repair a breakdown. So use your car with care and kindness in 1945 and you'll stand a better chance of having hav-ing it at the station when your soldier or sailor sail-or comes home. -i Sacrifice "Come on, you racing fans; send a postal card to your congressman in defense of the recreation that is keeping you from going nuts in -these troubled times . . . Why do we haev, to sacrifice our recreation, along with everything else that we are giving to the war?" Those are excerpts from a letter to the editor of a New York newspaper anent the governrnent . order, closipg ra trjacka.- lyestigators, "you send any more men into oui V a a - . . . FA A J AL. 1 l - m "Rotterdam. Warsaw. T.nhlin T.irhVe nnH ' Stalinerad naners Dleaxe rnnv. "If the U. S. government were to indicate its intention of expanding the scale under which Italy can receive supplies, there would be a grave danger of divergence of policy between the U. 5 government on the one hand and his majesty's government and our Allies on the other hand. "Such a divergence would be bound, in the view of H. M. government, to have far-reaching consequences for the whole settlement of Europe Furthermore. British public opinion would not at the present time permit of H. M. government associating themselves in the rehabilitation of Italy except to the limited degree necessary for the actual war effort. "Should the U. S. government decide to take an independent course, public pressure would al most certainly force H. M. government to make their own position clear and the divergence in policy which H. M government foresee would im mediately become open and obvious, "H. M. sovernment therefore greatly hopes that the U. S. government will be prepared to give consideration to the views expressed above and will not take any .unilateral action from which tne Brmsn puoiic migm compel mem 10 aisassoci ate themselves." EOOSEVELT OPPOSES BRITISH This note was delivered just before Roosevelt conferred with Churchill at Qubec last September, And despite this blunt memo, the president went counter to British wishes by ordering Assistant Secretary of State Acheson to press for a $50,-000.000 $50,-000.000 UNRRA grant for relief to Italy, by sending Ambassador Myron Taylor to the Vatican to get church assistance in distributing food supplies, and finally by sending a personal letter to Secretary of War Stimson Oct. 31. assuming personal re sponsibility for increasing the Italian ration. He also authorized General William O'Dwyer, former Brooklyn prosecutor, to keep working on an 8-ooint prosram for the rehabilitation of Italy. Insiders say that Roosevelt's determination to give Italy more inspiration for co-operating in the war was one of the back ground reasons why Prime Minister Churchill got sore at Count Sforza, also why F. D. R., in turn, authorized Stettinius to issue his cryptic statement opposing British in terference on Sforza. A showdown and possible solution of the entire en-tire Allied controvrsy over Italy is expected soon. STETTINrUS DETECTIVES Churchill still appears to be boiling mad over, . - . . . . a f t . - A . a- publication in tnis column oi nis instructions to General Scobie to treat Athens as a j "conquered city." At his request, Secretary of State Stettinius Stet-tinius is still urging his house detectives to track down how the cable leaked. Stettinius. has even enlisted Postmaster General Frank Walker's inspectors, who recently took the unusual and almost unprecedented step or search ing the files of the News Syndicate then distributing distrib-uting this column even though the story had been passed by the censer. Secretary Stettinius" seems to think the leak came from his near-eastern division which has been critical of British behavior in Athens, and there is some talk that Wallace Murray head of that division may be promoted to be ambassador to Turkey in order to get him out of Washington and prevent future leaks. Murray would make a good ambassador and we hope he gets the job. But regarding the leak guess again, Mr. Stettinius, Stet-tinius, you're not even warm. CAPITAL CHAFF Because the five-gallon gasoline cans, or 'blitz' cans, used by the army in France were being lost in great numbers, the army and OWI finally hit on the scheme of offering special war service certificates cer-tificates to French school children for returning empty cans. The systm works fine, except that a soldier doesn t dare put down a can half-empty for fear a nimble-footed French child will grab it up in order to add to his collections of cer tificates Senator Claude Pepper of Florida has engineered a deal between the Office of Defense Transportation and the resort people in his state. Florida hotels will stop advertising in northern north-ern newspapers and ODT will stop issuing specific pleas to the public not to go to Florida. Florida hotel advertising has been up 25 per cent this year out s colonel Monroe "Kowpoat" Johnson had to call on the Civil Aeronautics board to get the Commercial Airlines to stop ad vertising trips to Mexico and elsewhere, thus giving giv-ing the impression there arc plenty of seats on planes. The house campaign expenditures committee stole the march on the senate campaign group when it began its investigation of public opinion polls. The senate group headed by Senator Green of Rhode Island had been planning a similar in vestigation, put determined to Keep its plans secret. They were kept secret too long. . . . Los An geles Congressman John Costello, defeated Dies committee member, will stay in Washington as manager for the capital office of the Los Aiuzeles chamber of commerce. .... The house campaign expenditures committee will ask that its authority be continued by the new congress in order that it may prepare a series of recommendations fdr changes in the election laws. It will also ask federal fed-eral authority be extended to include the primaries for federal office-seekers in the south and some other areas where the primaries are far more important im-portant than the actual election The latter lat-ter recommendation will be made over the objec tion of representative took Gathings of Arkansas, anegea Democrat ana . a member of the committee. commit-tee. Gathings was so angry over the investigation of Arkansas voting by the senate campaign committee, com-mittee, that he threatened one of the senate in state and they'll come out in a coffin? (Copyright 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc,) Win the oovtrowt g,ji Minutia Who Says Home Folks Don't Know They Must Help to Win This War? Asks Correspondent By QUENTIN REYNOLDS Written for NEA Service The 45th Division was havins a very nasty time in Northeast ern Sicily. They were tryina to take San Stefano which was pro tected by high terrain and it wasn't good. The Colonel in charge of the sector where I was, turned to me and said bitterly, "I suppose back in Palermo they think this is easy. Back in Paler mo, they don't even know there's a war on. I was alone in Palermo (50 miles to the rear) a few days later. Things were humming at Seventh Army headquarters. Messengers dashed in and out. omcers stayed at tneir desks for 12-hour stretches. G-2 was buzzing buzz-ing with new information and plans and counter-plans were being be-ing made. Occasional air raids added to the tenseness. One overworked over-worked Captain said to me tired-ly, tired-ly, "This is pretty tough. I bet over in Algiers they don't even know there's a war going on." A few days later in Algiers, I was at General Eisenhower's headquarterf. His overworked staff was about ready to drop from exhaustion. Food was terrible, ter-rible, much worse than at the front. One day, one of the staff officers who hadn't slept for two days, said to me "You know. I bet people at home don't even know there's a war going on, Pleasant Shock- So now I'm home. I've been with the army so long in combat zones that I feel as the Army does that people to the rear never know there s a war going on. But I've gotten a pleasant shock since coming home. People here in America quite definitely do know there's a war going on, and be lieve me, they're doing something about it. In the war zone we hear about one big strike, and we swear at labor and grouse about people at home. Since I've been back, I've been to about 20 war plants and the manner in which men and women work there has made me realize that for every one man who has been on strike, there have been five or ten thousand breaking their backs over lathes and drill presses. I've seen men and women work in plants in Britain and Russia; I never saw people work harder, more intelli gently, or more loyally, than our own American workers men and women. We never hear about that: we only hear about the occasional oc-casional strike. We forget that most of the workers in war plants have sons, brothers or relatives in uniform and they're breaking their necks to produce war weapons that will help them. We forget that every war bond drive we've had has been oversubscribed, and it isn't because everyone at home is making mak-ing plenty of money. Taxes cut that income down so that when;room . whPrc u)0 you buy a war bond now, youvc!eij ovcr t-.-e r .r really got to dig. i ve seen long lines waiting in front of blood clinics; people giving blood, sometimes more often than their health permits. I've seen them digging deep for money to give to the Red Cross. No Jokes I used to hear jokes in . tne war zone about rationing at home. Remember those songs we had in the Sicilian messes: "Don't waste food, boys. Remember the folks back home are rationed. we used to laugh at home rationing, and figure that the folks were probably squawking because they could only get steaks three times a week. Well, I've been home several months now, and I have yet to hear anyone squawking about ratidnins. Rationing isn't severe, but you do have to stand in line, and you don't get steak or roast beef very often, but all I've heard people say is "now lucky we are things, aren't really toueh." And if things get reauy tough, I'll bet you 50 to one you still won't hear any squawks. Have you heard about the war profiteers? I used to hear about them when I was in Sicily and Italy, but since I've returned I don't hear about them. Somebody in Washington is doing a pretty good job. Maybe it's the President. Presi-dent. Maybe it's the whole triple threat team of Government, labor and industry. It would -take, Houdini to hide one cent of ex- By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE What conglomeration this New Year's brings. The open house was fun. Some people I didn't know came, Just to tell .me they knew me urougn my column ana weed It! A fine compliment Also a fan letter from Lt. "Jack" Davies whom you will remember if you ever saw him. It began, "Ruth you charing old helion "and went on from there? Said he was sitting dn "the Jap's censored doorstep," and it warmed his heart tor see the old column still going aimlessly along III fix him. Anyone who wants to read the rest of the letter- (and can make it out) will be charged five cents for the privilege, the pro ceeds go to the Red Cross. This morning also received a fan letter from a lady who sent the Thanksgiving Thanks-giving opus to a friend in Cali fornia. Liked it Oh, life has its ups and downs, and this week the downs have it This neighbor has been very hard hit by war. Four stars across the street, two of them boys already invalided home, and another on the way. Four stars in the little house just around the corner, one of them (MacKay) just reported missing in action, young Ben Bullock a prisoner of the Japs these many many months, and now Bert Miller Mil-ler two houses away from us, not to mention Dick Wiseman wounded wound-ed and (.months in a hospital. There are other things too, but never mind that. What a fearsome world we have made for ourselves. our-selves. Oh yes we have! This has all happened before. We had a preview of it a generation ago. and hid our heads like they say ostriches do (by the way. they don't. Only the dumb humans try to get away in that silly fashion) Well I feel this way about it. If there is a power in Europe that can keep the Germans includ lng the dear German people in line, then more power to them and I don't care who they are. We have never yet found anyone who could, and if in this extremity along come those awful awful Communists to do it, nurran say. All this yapping about the communists makes me sick. If the majority of the people in the world want to be communists, that is their business and theirs alone That is what we are fighting for. to let the majority of the people do the expressing. That is all we have in this country and not always al-ways that and we think we are the Lord's anointed. Why?. In 1776 we were tne (jommunisis, remem ber? and loqk what's happened to us! No one or no system can make all the people happy all the time. The best we can hope for is to have some of' the people happy all the time and all of the people happy some of the time. If people want to be anything at all, what right have we of all peo ple to say no? That is as long as they leave the rest of the world alone. It's been a long time since Russia overran anyone. If they want to paiat their heads green and stay home to do it, that a thexr look out When people start wandering wan-dering around other peoples countries saying "You've got to do this or else, they are the people to get excited about, and that has happened to us twice in the remembrance of young peo ple. Well, that's the way I feel Labout it "I've seen men and women work in. plants In Britain and Russia; I never saw people work harder, mora Intelligently, or more loyally, than our own American workers wen and women." writes Quentln Reynolds. Here an aircraft plant Is In full operation in the small hours of the morning, turning out warplanes for the air forces. Air Control Stops Up Production Of Navy Plane Fabric PHILADELPHIA (U. Air conditioning is playing an im portant role in the production of I training planes at the U. S. Naval Aircraft factory here, and has increased in-creased production by 35 per cent. The equipment, desisned by engineers of the York Corp. in' Q's and A's Q What air battle does Gen eral Eaker rank as the bloodiest of the war? A Plpssti. Cutting daily oil production from 26,000 to 3000 tons cost 350 planes and 3500 men. Q How many bridges have been destroyed in France in the war? A?M50.000. Q In Russia, what is a LAGG? York, Pa., is installed in two' A A type of fighter plane rooms where fabric for aircraft j Q When was the first paddle- is conauionea, ano ior tne urst, wheel boat devised? time this work can go uninter rupted 24 hours a day, seven days A Probably circa 527j in Justinian's Jus-tinian's time in Rome. Three oxen on a treadmill powered the craft. Q How many people are en rolled in colleges in the United a week, whereas formerly the rooms had to be shut down when the humidity was too high or too low. Previously in the fabrication States? cm vas is stretch-! A In 1940 the figure ::ae cf aLcrfifi. sil.42S.CPii: -in lfiil. 25C.C Vj. sudden change in humidity caused) the stretched fabric to sag and FOOD. LOCKER LAW necessitated recovering tne wnoiei plane. In the dope room humidity changes caused minute cracks in the varnish and the planes had to be re-painted, reducing the speed of the. aircraft by 16 miles an hour. The only alternative was to replace the whole covering'. The air-conditioned rooms are now kept at an even temperature of 80 degrees with a relative humidity hu-midity of 62 degrees, eliminating the former difficulties and permitting per-mitting uninterrupted work. i , . was MEETS DAD ON Zd BIRTHDAY PORTLAND, Ind., (U.R) His second birthday meant more than just another -birthday to Barry Bonifas, who met his father, Capt I. E. Bonifas, for the first time on that day. Capt. Bonifas has been in the Hawaiian Islands with the 7th Air Force for 28 months. cidentally, very few people are trying to grab anything they are not entitled to. We could complain about a lot of things at the, front, but we couldnt complain about our equipment. Stop .' rapping the folks back home. Believe.-it or not, 90 per cent of them wish they were there with you. Give the people at home a break.' What the hell they're our allies, aren't cess profit these day and just in- they? OLYMPIA, Wash., (U.R) The 433 refrigerated food lockers in Washington state now have to toel the line. The state department of agriculture announced a regulation regu-lation providing for installation of thermometers which will re- Your G I Rights By ANN STEVICK NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 Here's another example of home front! help for veterans: Q. Isn't a veteran supposed to get a break on having a new phone put in? A. A recent change in the lineup for telephones on hand gives a spot close to the front to the veteran who needs a tele phone for a - business enterprise whicn he. owns in good part and helps to operate. The veteran businessman gets in class three of the seven classes set up for handing out phones. This outs him behind business enterprises wno cnange addresses within the same area, for instance, but ahead of civilians who want new home phones for some special health reasons. If the veteran wants a home phone, however, he gets put into class six, along with families made up of the widow and small children of a veteran. This group gets a special preference only if they're applying 'for a phone in the same area in which they had one disconnected earlier. This official priority handed out by Office of War Utilities in War Production Board may not do you any sudden good in regions reg-ions like the West Coast, where military tr.d civilian workers are pouring in, with telephone men unable to keep up with demands, but it should at least keep you from losing out altogether. (Copyright, 1844,.by NEA Serv ice, Inc.) The Annual Budget Tussle By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent Every year the President sends to Congress three or four pounds of nice fresh, budget message and a lot oi people wonder "So what?" The thing is filled with figures $1 fit thf k-iiwl that: yynmmn N though some are round, fat long; short or trim just like the human variety. -! . But unless you have a secret yen for financial statistics on government spending; this annual report of the Bureau of the BudL get probably represents morn- man-hours of hard work and more of the duller facts of official life than any known tome that is supposed to teu alL. After the message goes to Con gress it may seem .to be pretty . well forgotten if not positively f ignored. Actually it isn't Appropriations Appro-priations committees take it and - kick it around. They give the impressing im-pressing of tearing it to pieces, raisingthis item, lowering that, killing some requests for money A. . . . . A m a ajwgeinerana wen tnuucing up' 1 1 new wavs of tneir own to xnnrf - money whichthe agencies getting it would never dare to ask for themselves. They take outtheir spite on people they don't care for, like Harold Ickes and Archie Mac- Leish and James Lawrence Fly. At and they give a little more gravy v to their favorite child, the Department De-partment of Agriculture. Congress Boosted One Asked. Fund A comparison of Bureau of tne Budget estimates sent to Con- gress in January, 1944, with the appropriations enacted by Congress Con-gress to cover the fiscal year ending end-ing June 30, 1945, shows that of the 18 major divisions of government govern-ment expenditures, eight were appropriated for practically as recommended in the last, presi-i dential budget message. One was increased by Congress and nine were reduced. The total net change shows that Congress whittled off the Budget Bureau estimates by only a little over 3 per cent The budget message mes-sage recommended total appropri- f I ations of 66 billion dollars and Congress approved for 64 billions, in round numbers. The two billion dollar net saving effected is of course not Inconsiderable, but this apparent economizing is half a matter of bookkeeping because in the War and Navy department appropriations Congress merely granted about 910 million dollars' worth of contract authorizations ' instead of actually appropriating the money this year for aircraft, munitions and other war production produc-tion which will not be delivered k . until next year. The day of spend- ing is therefore simply deferred and appropriations will have to be recommended in the President's new .budget message to cover these war costs on which the government is committed. When you eliminate these con'- tract authorizations from the apparent ap-parent budget reduction, COn ' gressional changing of Bureau of the Budget estimates is shown to be only about a billion and a. billion and a quarter dollars, or less than 2 per cent Eight They Left Pretty - Mach Unchanged The eight major departments of government spending which Congress Con-gress saw fit to make no major changes on Budget. Bureau esti- numbersfi lend-lease, three and a half bil- '. lion; interest on public debt, three and three-quarter billion; execu tive office of the President, three million; veterans' funds, one and a quarter billion; District of Columbia, Col-umbia, .six million; public debt:. retirement, 589 million; other re-, tirement funds, 506 million; tax' and other refunds, one and a half; billion. The one item which Congress, increased over budget estimate was a v55 million dollar raise on -soil conservation payments, bring-' ing the total to 505 million. ? All war activities appropriations appropria-tions were cut by two billion dol lars, nut about half of this saving , was made by transferring appropriations appro-priations to authorizations to let contracts, as mentioned above. Total war appropriations for the year were $54,588,000,000, nearly 85, per cent of all government spending. Other major cuts wnicn con-. gress made on budget estimates . were a three million dollar sav- ins? on legislative and judiciary appropriations, a four million dol- - . lar saving on Social Security ap- oropriations and a 150 million dollar saving on the executive de partment's appropriations. Ths) executive departments, of course. are congress pet peeve. of the lockers each hour. The state Liw allows a maximum ice- hnx "wurmlh" nt 1? devrm H cordfjn a chart the temperatures low zero. $ Meet Corporal Stork c ; Mutual congratulations were in "order between Mrs. Eileen Love .LfVand CpL Real TV Cote of Lowell,' jgi Mass., after he successfully de livered neriew daughter, Patricia Patri-cia Maud, in an Army ambulance ambu-lance which was rushins! her from her home at Army Air i f n tal at nearby Mitchel FieM-tj M Mrs. Love is the wife of anJ ' Army sergeant, upi. vote i j n unmarriea. in . ' :Y' I M v COFEE FRENCH TOAST One whole egg. or 2 egg yolks, 1 cup strong coffee, 1 tablespoon sugar, k teaspoon salt, sliced bread. Beat egg or egg yolk slightly and add coffee; sugar and salt. Cut sliced bread with dpughnut cutter and dip rings and small rounds quickly into coffee egg mixture. Saute in small amount of hot fat until brown on both sides. Serve with honey, syrup or mixed sugar and cinnamon Dry trimmings from bread in slow oven and grind or roll for use as topping for scalloped dishes, for coating meat or fish before sauteeing, or add to replace re-place some of the flour in muffin' mixture. URGES ADC RULES REVISION ' NEW YORK UJD "Sweeping revision' of the "hundreds of cumbersome, conflicting and out-of-date rules and regulations" that. hamper aviation must take place if postwar aviation is to grow, Sydney Nesbitt aircraft radio sales manager of Lear, Inc., and a member of the newly form ed Civil Aviation Joint Legisla tive committee, said recently. The committee is cooperating with both .houses' of congress to improve im-prove legislation regulating private pri-vate flying. .1 is |