OCR Text |
Show Tale of Two Cities Issues Public Writes About - PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1945 -am ! m t m m - m Let there b some more test made of my metal. Before so noble and so great a figure. Be stamped upon it Shakespeare. . I knew thy works: beheld, I hare set before thee an open deer, and b man can shot it; . for. thou hist a lltte strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Revelation Revel-ation 3:8. "What has become of the call of the president and the judgment and reasoned pleas of General Marshall and Admiral King?" Secretary of War Stimson asked in his broadcast appeal for a national service serv-ice law. rWill those who have trusted to these men the lives, of 12,000,000 citizens in uniform," he continued, 'at the eleventh critical hour deny to them the strength they say they need to bring this conflict to a close, with the saving of as many men, as many lives, as possible ?" These are not rhetorical questions. Mr. Stimson obviously wants information. So do many others. The answers, which have long rested with congress, rest for the moment with the senate military affairs committee. Senator CMahoney has charged Mr. Stimson Stim-son with giving an "unbalanced impression" of the manpower situation. He says that "our soldiers have not been let down by the people peo-ple on the home front?" But what exactly does that mean? Does it mean that we are producing up to capacity, that we are providing our forces and our Allies with everything required of us, that we are building up a war-goods stock pile for the bigger operations to come? Does it mean that the war is progressing at its maximum possible speed? Does it mean that not a life has been lost, since the first dark days, for want of a gun or a shell or a plane? We doubt that the senator meant all that. Absenteeism and labor turnover have been with us since the war started. So have manpower, hoarding, industrial inefficiency and bad distribution of labor. Last July the president asked congress for a national service law. The request was tentative and, to use one of Mr. Roosevelt's favorite words, "iffy."- Congress can't be blamed too much for not having put it at the top of the agenda. But last month the president requested such a law again. This time it was urgent, with no strings attached. Congress has heard a lot of testimony since then- Mr- Stimson and Mr. Forrestal, General Marshall and Admiral King, WPB Chairman Krug and others have echoed the president's plea Representatives of organiz ed business and organized labor have opposed op-posed it. Certainly enough evidence and advice have been gathered to make a verdict possible. If the senate is convinced that our excellent excel-lent production record is the best we can do, and wholly adequate, then it should have the courage to kill the May bill. But if it has any doubts, then, it should enact some legislation to cjeal effectively with what our military readers insist is literally a life-and-tleath emergency. The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's By Drew Pearson (CoL Robert Going On in National Affairs f0 S tV WASHINGTON Latin American diplomats have been seething backstage regarding dynamite-loaded subject affecting western hemls- WlVl AVA wAl4tAM - At al. . f icuiuuiu mure uun anyuung in years u. S. military bases in Latin America. President Roosevelt has stoned a directive In. structine the state department to secure certain bases considered necessary by the army and navy after the war. The directive Is drawn In such a way that the state department has no discretion. It is directed to secure the bases, period in effect Ignoring the question of whether Latin American nations want to lease the bases or not. Inside advisers say that the directive wax written by the army and navy without consulting w naie department, and tnat we president apparently ap-parently did not read it carefully before signing Since then the state department has been secretly se-cretly negotiating with two ccountrles Brazil and Ecuador. Although it will be denied. President Vargas has definitly agreed that after the war. the United States can maintain certain strategic bases on the bulge of Brazil opposite Dakar and the bulge of West Africa. (This dovetails with the president's Casablanca arrangements with Churchill for a giant U. S. base at Dakar.) U. S. BASE IN GALAPAGOS Meanwhile similar negotiations are underway with Ecuador for a naval base on the Galapagos islands, just off the Panama canal. Unfortunately these military base plans are being handled in such a way that they are causing serious Pan-American resentment. Prior to the departure of Sumner Welles (real father of the good neighbor policy) from the state department, he had discussed with Latin diplomats plans for a cooperative western hemisphere defense. de-fense. It was to be a mutual matter, with all Pan- American nations working together to defend the Americas. Under this plan, U. S. troops working with other American trooos would have been wel comed in Latin American countries on leased bases. However, the good neighbor nations were left out in the cold at Dumbarton Oaks, are still sore about it, and are secretly ready to balk like a mule at the idea of U. S. bases being rammed down their throats. The Galapagos negotiations with Ecuador Il lustrate their viewpoint. Ecuador wanted an ad vance from the United States of between 15 to 20 million dollars to build new roads, and the state department immediately linked this up with the long-coveted naval base on the Galapagos islands. We offered them the money in return for a base. From a business viewpoint it looked like a good deal. But In Ecuador, no government giving up the Galapagos Islands for 1 anything except mutual defense and world cooperation can stay in office IS minutes. So the present Ecuadorean government is worried sick over bartering a base on the islands for fifteen million bucks. JESSE JONES SPILLS BEANS They are in exactly the same mood as a previous Ecuadorean government shortly before Pearl Harbor when Jesse Jones accidentally told a press conference how he was loaning money to the Pacific Development Company to develop the Galapagos island of Albermarle. Roosevelt personally had devised the strategy of forming an American Trading company to put a base on Albermarle. He had gone fishing there in 1938 purposely to inspect it. His great uncle captain Amasa uciano. put in at tne island on his voyages to China. FDR's m6ther. as a young girl, also stopped there on a trip to China. So the president, well before Pearl Harbor, and knowing war with Japan was inescapable, had the Pacific Development company organized as a Delaware corporation, and instructed Jesse Jones to give it a $30,000 credit. Whereupon. Jesse naively naive-ly told his press conference all about the credit. Immediately, Ecuadorean newspapers hit the ceiling. The deal was call off. Later, when Japan attacked, Ecuador jumped in with 100 per cent cooperation. She not only gave us a base in the Galapagos, but another on the mainland. Brazil, Paraguay and nearly all Latin American Amer-ican countries did likewise when they saw the need for common defense. This illustrates their frame of mind. Though they dread the spectre of U. S. troops on their soil, they have cooperated ' Amn,1o4olv iirhon tkaro i c a pool rlornfop arirl uhnn continental scale; the Crimea conference an ;they can work together on a mutual proposition. Beneath the surface they are now increasingly resentful at Roosevelt's onesided directive demanding de-manding U. S. bases on their soil after the war. CAPITAL CHAFF Inside reason why Boss Ed Flynn-of the Bronx went to Yalta with the president was "for the ride." He didn't go to smooth out relations between the Vatican and the Kremlin The Russians say that when this is to be done they will talk direct, not use Tammany politicians, even though Flynn is a close friend of Archbishop Spellman. Ecr since last summer, and the father Orlemanski episode, the Russians are a bit leery of dealing with second-band representatives of the Vatican Secretary of the Interior Ickes is still wating for Jesse Jones to write him a letter let-ter as he did to other cabinet colleagues asking ask-ing for a note of commendation regarding his work as federal load administrator. Ickes was pub licly critical of Jones' loans, so probably he'll wait in vain to hear from Jesse. . . . Forthright James G. Rogers, deputy OPA administrator has a real sense of humor. He tells this story on himself: "Somehow or other the OPA got our a reg ulation in which we included a price for live chickens without feathers" In 48 hours. Kentucky's Senator "Happy" Chandler saw one son-in-law. Lt. Col. John P. Gregg, return from a series of daring B-29 flights over Japan, and his other son-in-law. Major John Cabell, depart tor a new air assignment over Europe. 'Emotional Regimentation9 In a recent sermon, the Rev. Harry Emerson Emer-son Fosdick was speaking of the dangers of "emotional regimentation." When things go well the national spirits go soaring; a military reversal and we get a case of countrywide coun-trywide blues. Differences between this country and its Allies depress us on a trans nouncement is a cause for general elation. The cpuntry also seems to be suffering from a mass determination to get this war over with as quickly as possible, and to join in an international organization for enduring endur-ing peace. Maybe that's emotional regimentation. regi-mentation. But it's also known as national unity. Mr. Churchill's Shapka Prime Minister Churchill wore a new hat at the Crimea Conference. It was a becoming becom-ing hat a shapka, it was called made of black lamb's wool. Though said to have been a present from Canadians, it was of Russian ! design. And it looked warm and comfortable, comfort-able, as well as handsome. Many Americans must have felt a twinge of envy when they saw the picture of Mr. Churchill wearing it. And it may have occurred oc-curred to them, as it did to us, that hat reform re-form in this country is long overdue. There is plenty of fruitless agitation for more sensible sen-sible men's business attire, especially in summer sum-mer a sort of Four Freedoms, from coats, neckties, collars, long sleeves. But the reformers seem to shy away from hats. This is a pity, for men's hats are both impractical and unbeautiful. They blow off in the wind. They offer scant warmth in wintertime where warmth is needed. They afford little protection and less comfort in summer. And the monotony of style and color. There is no better material for a bitter soliloquy solilo-quy on our regimented life than the parade of headgear on one's fellow men as they file along a city street snap brim after snap brim, all snapped 'precisely at the same angle; crown after crown, creased in conventional conven-tional uniformity. It's enongh to make a man start a revolt. But of course no man will. No, he will cast a longing look at Mr. Churchill's shapka, a dashing, rakish hat that also keeps the ears warm and sits lightly on the brow. Then he will go forth as usual in the same old felt, still looking uncomfortable", unflattered and unimaginative. SENATORIAL FLATTERY BOOMERANGS California's ardent Senator Sheridan Downey has been staging a stubborn up-hill fight before the senate foreign relations committee against the proposed Mexican-American water treaty. In the course of the battle, Downey .has had plenty of arguments with senate colleagues, most of whom favor Cordell Hull's last treaty. However, Downey loses no opportunity to flatter a senator whose vote he might swing against the treaty. The other day Downey told the committee that a new Mexico court decision favored California's position against giving water to Mexico. As he made the statement. Downey nodded admiringly at Senator Hatch of New Mexico, whose vote he is trying to woo. uiu ;uu I train vriui mLiJ wv.w. rv.w. asked Senator Hatch. "Why?" returned the senator from California. "Did you know the trial lawyer's name was Hatch." asked the New Mexican, "and the supreme court reversed me in that case? Ill tell you about it sometime if you're interested." Senator Downey hastily changed the subject. sub-ject. Note Many California solons, like Yucaipa's hard-working Harry Sbeppard, have fought the Mexican treaty tongue-in-cheek, but Solon Sheridan Sheri-dan Downey really takes the battle seriously. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) , I W '"pipAI' - -' W fa ?r ! I i , ' J mm y ll 111 7 mm , "Mft Marianas Fashioned Into Huge Pacific Base Ernie Pyle is with the Navy in the far Pacific. This article was written on the way. BY ERNIE PYLE IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (delayed) You may wonder why we have American troops at all here in the Marianas Islands, since were are 1900 miles away from the Philippines, China or Japan itself. Well, it's because in this Pacific war of vast water distances, we have to make gigantic bases of each group of islands we take, in' order to build up supplies and preparations for future invasions farther on. The Marianas happen to be a sort of crossroads in the western Pacific. Stuffi can go either west or north from here. Whoever sits in the Marianas can have his Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD February 26. 1925 A Berlin dispatch stated that the condition of President Ebert of the German reich is so serious that he may not live through the night. Fifteen Democratic state senators sen-ators in the Indiana legislature went on a sit-down strike in Dayton, Day-ton, Ohio, in protest against the Republican Gerrymandering bill on which they refused to vote. By staying away from the senate they prevented voting on' the bill, because be-cause of the lack of a quorum. Walter Cox claims to beat all records for early onions. He planted this year on February 19 and expects to get results just as good as he did last year with his early planting. Dell Webb, city recreational director, di-rector, announced a school for baseball pitchers and catchers to be held in the high school gymnasium. gym-nasium. Greater activity in baseball base-ball than ever before was indicated indi-cated with the Twilight league in operation besides Rotary clubs sponsoring junior leagues. Thirty Years Ago From the Files of February 26, 1915 Renegade Piute Indians in southern Utah defied the posse under U. S. Marshal Nebeker and a crisis was looked for in the next 36 hours. The Indians were I under the leadership of Old Posey and Old Polk. Unless Old Polk and his son, Hatch surrender, in obedience to such demand. Marshal Mar-shal Nebeker proposes to personally person-ally lead the posse against them, and the Indians will be either killed or captured or the posse wiped out. finger on the whole wide web of the war. Thus the Marianas are becom ing a heart of the Pacific war. Our naval and military leaders make no bones about it, for the Japs know it anyhow, but they're too far away to do anything about it The Marianas are both thrilling and engaging right now. Scores of thousands of troops of all kinds are here. Furious building is going go-ing on. Planes arrives on schedule sched-ule from all directions as though this were Chicago airport only they've come thousands of miles over water. Convoys unload un believable tonnages. These Islands will hum through out the war and they will never return to their former placid life, for we are building on almost every inch of useable land. Supplies in staggering quantities quanti-ties are being stacked up here for future use. You can take your pick of K-rations or lumber or bombs, and you'd find enough of either to feed a city, build one, or blow it up. Fleets can - base here between engagements. Combat troops train here. Other troops come back to rest. Great hospitals are set up for our future wounded. Pipelines criss-cross the islands. Trucks bumper to bumper dash forward as though they were on the western west-ern front. Oxcart trails turn almost al-most overnight into four-lane macadam highways for military traffic. There is no blackout in the islands. If raiders come the lights are turned off, but they seldom come any more. The Marianas are a pretty safe place now. Great long macadam airstrips ore in operation and others are being laid. The' Marianas arc the seat of some of our B-29 bomber fleets which will grow and grow and grow. Thousands of square tents, thousands of curved steel Quonset huts, thousands of huge, permanent perma-nent warehouses ajjd office buildings build-ings dot the island!. Lights burn all night and the roar of planes, the clank of bull dozers and the clatter of hammers is constant. It is a strange contrast to the stillness that dwelt amidst this greenery for so many centuries. cen-turies. There are 15 islands in this chain, running due north and south. They string out a total distance of more than 400 miles. We are on the southern end. We hold only three islands, but they are the biggest and the only three that count. The ' other islands are completely "neutralized"' "neutral-ized"' by our occupancy of these three. There are a few Japs living on some of the others, but there's nothing they can do to harm us. By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.O, Feb. 26 The half-dozen issues on which most people wrote to the Depart ment oi state last year were these: The Jewish question, with particular emphasis from a highly organized group seeking to bring pressure to bear on tne state Department to protest the British Government's wnlte Paper against the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The demand for a "Christian Peace." This was a campaign organized largely among Metho dists and Baptists, it was un-specific un-specific as to detail, the man crusade being organized on a highly Idealistic and moralistic basis to register the churches' stand in favor of a just and lasting last-ing peace. Feed the chUdren of Europe. inis was an issue wl:i naa a great deal of easy emotional ap- s tacked up In a State Department Depart-ment annex mail room until arrangements ar-rangements could be made to give them to the Greek relief,, that being the area to which shipping ship-ping had the best chance of getting get-ting through at that time. Poles, Greeks Write In Treatment of the liberated areas, particularly Poland and Greece. Minority nationality groups, naturalized American citizens who were born in those countries, or the children of such immigrants, took the lead in those pressure campaigns. Many Polish-Americans were organized in support of the London govern ment, mere has not yet been time to register any expression of opinion over the settlement of the Polish question by the Crimea conference of Roosevelt, Church ill and Stalin. But since many U. S. Poles gave their money to support the London government and since the Polish government peal and for which there, was a lift London has protested the great deal of sympathy. It had the backing of the Quakers. Nearly Near-ly a thousand letters poured in from conscientious objectors in the Civilian Service Corps. Many even sent parcels of food. They Desk Chat PERT AND PERTINENT "America has no born leaders.' critic. true. . . . most of our gang leaaers are aliens. "People should be taught to re spect grey hairs," sermon especially their own. "Farm children are better ed ucated than city children." yes, city children are not tempted to lick the frost off an axe blade. "Don't be too harsh In your condemnation of the teen-agers. . . . . " social worker. there are ten morally de cent ones for every rotten immoral One. The islands we haven't bothered with are small and worthless, Most of them have no inhabitants at all. The islands we took are Guam, Tinian and Saipan. Guam had been ours for many years before Japan took it away from us just after Pearl Harbor. Tinian and Saipan had been Japanese since the last war. We took the whole batch last summer. Guam is the biggest, and south ernmost. Tinian and saipan are right together, 120 miles north of Guam. You can fly up there i less than an hour, and our trans port planes shuttle back and forth several times daily on regular schedule. They have to make "dog-leg" around the island of Rota, about half way up, for there are still Japs on it with 50-callber machine guns, and they'll shoot at you. I've been on all three of our islands, and I must admit two things that I like it here, and that you can't help but be thrilled by what the Americans are doing. And from all I've picked up so far. I think it can be said that most Americans like the Marianas Mari-anas Islands, assuming they have to be away from home at all. The savage heat and the dread diseases and the awful jungles of the more southern Pacific islands do not exist here. The climate is good, the islands are pretty, and the native Chamorros are nice people. Health conditions among our men are excellent. They work in shorts or without shirts and are deeply tanned. The mosquito and fly problem has been licked. There is almost no venereal diseas.! Food is good. The weather is always al-ways warm but not cruelly hot Almost always a breeze is blowing. blow-ing. Anywhere you look, you have a pretty view. Yes, the islands are a paradise and life here is fine except it's empty and there is no diversion and the monotony eventually gnaws at you. ARE YOU RUNNING A RISK? Andrew Carnegie once expressed ex-pressed himself thus: "Wipe out all my mills. Take away my ac cumulated capital. But leave me my staff of trained managers. salesmen and factory experts and in a few years, I shall be back on the high road to prosperity again." And, not so long ago, another manufacturer said: If the un expected should happen and my plant and stock be wiped out en tirely. I would still have one thing of greater value than all Ala T MAaaataa 4ha 1 0$ H taer x s-rwowoe nit wa vi i.fmy trade. And, with that assured, I could" come back with colors flying because I could rebuild my plant and buy new stock. But good will is-- something which cannot be so easily replaced once it is lost. That is why it is so valuable." A concern that is doing nothing NOW to build up and hold good will is running a grave risk. Overheard on the Geneva bus: "He Is the kind of feUow who listens to every new idea with his prejudices." No man should have a job in the department of agriculture until un-til he can answer this question: "Which end of a cow gets up first?" One deterrent to most reforms is that the public is afraid if they adopted them. . they would begin to look like the individuals who advocate the reform. Crimea settlement, it is probable that similar protest will be felt here. The Greek affair got a little . different reaction. Not only the Greek-Americans protested what happened in their homeland after the Germans were driven out. but a measurable number of U. S. citizens of non-Greek origin ex pressed themselves on this, too. There was condemnation of British policy in trying to sup press the Greek patriots, and praise for Secretary of State Stettinius when he stated the policy of the U. S. government to be in favor of self-determination for all liberated nations. The significant thing about the American public reaction to this issue, however, was that it brought . out a little revival of isolationist sentiment. Again there was the demand 'that, if this was the way the peace was going to be settled, the boys should be brought back home. Dumbarton Oaks plans for a lasting peace organization is today to-day by long odds the subject that interests most u. s. citizens wno voluntarily write in to give the Department of State the benefit of their advice. Fan mail on this subject has had an interesting evolution. Women Bring Pressure Last May there were a great many letters from influential women, writing in to demand the creation of a world organization to maintain peace. It was an organized or-ganized campaign. Carrie Chapman Chap-man Catt, head of the Committee on the Cause and Cure for War which had maintained a lobby in Washington for over ten years, was a leader. In this group were the Y. W. C. A., the League of Women Voters, Business and Professional Pro-fessional Women's organization. National Federation of Women's Clubs, and others. Before the war they were interventionist in aim. Under a new name of The Women's Wom-en's Action Committee for Victory Vic-tory and Lasting Peace, some of these organizations are again active, this time to bring pressure pres-sure for adoption of the Dumbarton Dumbar-ton Oaks plan. Today there is a measurable and voluntary expression of opinion opin-ion favoring the creation of a World Police Force to maintain peace .in the future and similar expression in favor of severe treatment of Germany. Both of which are considered highly significant sig-nificant at this stage of the war. 'CZ Zt?TTtf U.r-.rrrrrr. 9 swains ft 161 West Center Sj. I Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomtdrion relieves promptly because be-cause lt goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed in-flamed bronchial mucous membranes. mem-branes. Tell your druggist to seU you a bottla of Creomulslon with the im demanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you art to have your money back. CREOMULSIQN for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Adv George A. Startup, vice president presi-dent of the Utah Federation of Prohibition and Betterment leagues, lea-gues, gave an address on "The New Patriotism" before the Price Education and Prohibition League. Knight Woolen mills will enlarge en-large the factory. A contract will be let for the erection of a new building for designing and cutting department, due to an Increase in the demand for the local woolen mills products. One hundred new machines will be installed. The city commissioners have authorized City Engineer George C. Swan to file with the state engineer en-gineer in behalf of the city, applications ap-plications for 200. second feet of water from Provo river for power "purposes. The water will be taken below the tailrace of the Olmsted Olm-sted plant of the Utah Power and Light company. The city filed on this water several years ago for municipal light plant and in 1910-11 spent about $12,000 on the project but for some reason the rights of the city were permitted per-mitted to lapse and the site was taken up by A. E. Snow. Q's and A'sj Q What is the population of j Iwo Jima? A In 1940 It was 1151, in 223 ( households. Q What is the total amount of gasoline allotted to the . public daily? A For the first quarter, 1,144,- 000 barrels. Q Where is Fort Mills? A On Corregidor. Q How many soldiers were killed in 1944 among all belligerents? belliger-ents? A 2,000,000 estimates a life insurance company. Q What is General Giraud's post? I A Commander of the 21st! Army Region in France, non-1 combat I BRONCHIAL IRRITATIONS of colds quickly relieved by Penetro Grandma's old-time mutton suet idea developed by modem science into a counter- irritant, vsponsiagsajve. Only 350, double Ripply S5e. Get PEN ETRQ I BASE WICM IN MUTTON SUET (Adv.) M OUY WAT BONDS... AND IfFFP TtiCU There's Positive Magic in tbe Perfectly Mellow taate of PM de Last in a tinkling highball. Seems to say "Let tbe world go for a few Pleasant Momentshere's Mo-mentshere's the finest whiskey a man could ask for. Richly flavored, bat smooth as cream. Perfect Mixer for very Pleasant Moment. rsi ron nxASAtn uouam National Distillers Products Corp., N. Y. Blended Whiskey. ZSJ& Proof! 49 Crein Nentral Spirits. |