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Show Unholy Rivals PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945 Editorial... He who has one deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as be would tell ue-cicero. ttni wlUiaot thv mind weald I Ao nothing ; thr iinm chanld not n as It were of necessity, but willingly, Philemon Zi. apaiasaaaapBaaassB Unreasonably Regional This country is so full of regional pride and prejudice that mevitaDiy a lot oi political poli-tical journalists hastened to explain the first oresident from Missouri ana Missourian svmbols. There was a marked tendency, especially amdno; the Washington and New York writers , to appraise Mr. Truman's qualities and predict his course of action in terms of healthy Skepticism and muUsh resolution with which tradition has endowed the na tives of his state. Less specific writers sought to interpret the new president against the more general background of his midwestern origin. But a quick look around might convince the most casual seeker after typical midwestern political po-litical characteristics that there ain't no such animal. It might be noted first that Alf M. Lan-don Lan-don comes from Kansas, and Henry A. Wallace Wal-lace from Iowa. Senator C. Wayland Brooks is from Illinois. So is the poet and Assistant Secretary of State, Archibald MacLeish. Wendell Willkie was a native Hoosier, as is ! Senator Ray Willis. Senator Joe Ball hails from Minnesota, and former Senator Gerald Nye from North Dakota. Now scramble them all together and try to find a common political denominator. You find instead that the theory of typical mid-western mid-western political temperament has been nipped nip-ped right in its grass roots. The same divergence can be found among prominent politicians from any other section sec-tion of the country. No further examples ''are necessary to prove that you can no more explain Harry S. Truman politically in terms of prairie farmland than you can explain Franklin D. Roosevelt in terms of Groton and Harvard. Probably our regional thinking is a holdover hold-over from a century ago when the gulfs between industrial New England, the agri- cltural South and the frontier West were very real and very wide. Some of the basic economic differences remain today and probably prob-ably always will. But the expansion and de velopment of our country, and particularly the abundance and speed of transportation make any barriers of thought inexcusable today. And yet regionalism stilt exists as a resul of habit, thoughtlessness and, to some ex tent, a political expediency that fosters it It is a mild form of bigotry and not too sen ous, perhaps. But it is not good, either. Today especially we need to be Americans first of all in our political thinking. Presi dent Truman has appealed to "every Ameri can, regardless of party, race, color or creed," for support in the effort to gam last ing world peace. He will need that support in all his new and difficult duties. That does not mean we must be uncritical unthinking robots. Unity, not uniformity, is what we need. And it will be easier of at tainment if we can get over the habit of viewing our fellow citizens in other sections of the country with contempt, suspicion or condescension, and crediting them with mass thinking based on some cock-eyed geogra phical concept.- The Washington Kamerad! Nazi thought is mystifing at best, and when expresssed in a smattering of English it becomes even more so. Thus we can t be sure what was going through the mind of the German soldier we read about who gave himself up to the Americans with these words : "Surrender New York Detroit John L. Lewis Surrender. We can scarcely hope that Nazi education caught and identified those names in a very flattering light. But still there's an outside chance that what he was really trying to Bay was this: "I surrender to the people who piled on a narrow island the world's most imposing mass or masonry to bouse a great rich city which stands today, unbombed and un harmed. "I surrender to the people of another great city, one of many arsenals, whose rplanes and bombs and guns have blasted our own great arsenal of the Ruhr to rubble, and all but leveled our once proud capital of .Berlin. "I surrender to country where a strong man can aeiy tne orders and wishes of his government, wrongly and in time of war. ana stin live. "In short, I give up.w A country-wide campaign is on to fix all auto brakes. The driver gets the fix the pedestrian the breaks. .president Truman has no intention of rushing the lifting of the racing ban. This is no time to give the nags the run-around. Interest in War Bonds is so hiVh. vnn'ii - - w v -- vCicner buy ana buy! With camping season here, careless folks are again causing forest fires. We can get along much better without that brand of trail blazing. 'We hear very little these days about, the German goose-step. Now it's just duck in a hurry I Merry-Co-Round A Dally Picture of What's J s.t s t XT-4.1.-1 a i Allen on cruuig vo ui xiBwuuai ouous a 1 1 v doty) WASHINGTON Harry Truman had two meetings with Republicans in one week, one neia after he became president, was publicised. The other held while he was vice-president, was not The latter was just before Roosevelt s aeatn. when Truman attended a luncheon given by sen ate Republicans elected in 1942 and 1944. He spoke of the importance of maintaining senate prestige, urging that every member devote himself to maintaining the standing of the senate as "the greatest deliberative body in the world. "As vice-president." Truman continued, am a partisan, an administration man, out aa sneaker of the senate I am strictly non-partisan. I hope you gentlemen will do everything in your power to correct me if you feel that as speaker I am guilty of a bad ruling on parliamentary pro cedure." Again, shortly after Roosevelt s death, Presi dent Truman was host to a delegation of eight Re publican senators, who went to the White House to pledge their cooperation to their former senate colleague. Spokesman for the group waa con servative Senator Taft of Ohio, son of a former Republican president, who entered the private office of a United States president for the first time since Herbert Hoover left the White House in 1933. "We are here. Mr. President, "to offer you our whole-hearted support, although there wiU be times in the future when we disagree over specific issues, you may be certain that we will be sincerely working along with you fpr the good of our country." The other senators -Senators White of Maine. Austin of Vermont Bridges 'of New Hampshire, Wherry of Nebraska, Millikln of Colorado, Colo-rado, Bushfield of South Dakota and Brooks of Illinois each offered their personal pledge. Some called him "Mr. President" some "Harry" The meeting was completely serious, with no wise cracks. OPEN WHITE HOUSE DOOR "I'm very happy you men have come here. Truman said after each of the delegation had his say. Tm a party man myself. I believe in the two-party system as an important part ox our Democratic government You men, as represent' atives of the minority party, are an integral part of our government "Although I am a party man," the new presi dent continued, "I intend to administer this na tion in a non-partisan way." He paused and re pea ted that statement Then looking into the faces of bis visitors. Truman said simply. "I will need your help, and welcome it. I have instructed my staff here that I wish to keep in close touch with congress and with my old colleagues. I want to assure you that the door to my office is always open." One thine the Republicans have drawn from those two statements is that Truman will give them full minority representaion on federal com missions. They never seriously made an issue of it, but they were strongly dissatisfied with Roosevelt's Roose-velt's habit of naming liberal "independents" to commlssioherships where the legal number of Democratic seats was already filled. ROOSEVELT AFTERMATHS Inside fact is that another Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting was arranged just before the Big Three left Yalta to take place in London or Paris in mid-May or earfy June. That partic ular time was selected because wooseveit tearea the San Francisco conference might hog down and a Big Three meeting could break the deadlock dead-lock One reason Stalin relented and is sending Molotov to San Francisco is because this May meeting of the Big Three is now thrown off balance by Roosevelt s death Some of Roosevelt's bitterest enemies clamored clam-ored to get aboard the funeral train to Hyde Park. One was Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia, who has voted against almost every Roosevelt domestic policy. Also Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, who fought him so biterly on foreign policy. Some senators frankly admitted that they were up for re-election and to get aboard the fu neral train would help them politically. . . . John W. Gibson, head of the Michigan CIO. is in a quandary. He was supposedly appointed assistant secretary of labor shortly before Mr. Roosevelt died, but the papers were never sent to the senate. Gibson does not know whether he will be assistant secretary of labor or not . . . The Axis propaganda line has switched. After long saying Stalin was the man who dominated the Bia Three, the Nazis now claim Roosevelt waa the man who really ran the Big Three- His death, they say, destroys aU chance of Big Three cooperation for permanent peace. ... Bernard Baruch, flying back from Europe for the Roose velt funeral, reported that we had captured one underground Nazi factory 28 kilometers long. In other words a factory 19 miles long was com pletely underground built with captured slave labor. LOAN LOBBYISTS About 35 congressmen got roped In on an off-the-record dinner at the Hotel Statler last week. They came to have fun but some of them went away boiling mad. Their hosts were the National Homehuuders association, recently active in lobbying among congressmen to keep the government out of the post-war housing picture. Despite failure to pro vide adequate low-cost housing in tne past, many finance companies specializing in home loans are doine their best to block government operation. No speeches were scheduled for the Statler dinner, but senators and representatives were asked to take a bow. GOP Rep. Frank Keefe of Wisconsin took this occasion to tell how his own banking business planned to issue home loans to veterans, while GOP Rep. Reld Murray of Wis consin urged more bathrooms for farm houses. He said farmers were able to pump water into bathrooms because of REA (Rural Electrification Administration). Then came the big event of the evening. After all the solons had taken their bows and everyone was in relaxed mood. Lobbyist Daniel A. Loftus of the National Homebuilders was introduced as the association's "forensic star." Then only five days after Franklin Roosevelt had breathed his last, Loftus launched into a bitter atack on the late President and Mrs. Roosevelt ROOSEVELT ATTACKED .. 1 lb STEAL La.Ksfe.. .--ifP "PjU-S' stuff? nip-Sf ( "0 m) Prelude To S. F. Parley By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 Establishment of a United Nations charter and a United Nations or ganization that Will be approved before the end of 1945 and reaoy to function by early 1946 is perhaps per-haps the most that can be expected from the San Francisco conference confer-ence convening April 25. No definite timetable can be made for creating a world peace organization, and the possibility that the whole thing may break rfnwn cannot be ignored. There are. however, three distinct phases to the task of making the proposed United Nations organization organi-zation a going concern: 1. Rewriting the proposals agreed to by representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Russia and China at the Dumbarton Oaks conferences last summer, putting them into the! form of a permanent charter which will be approved at San! Francisco. 2. Submission of the San Fran cisco charter to the separate United Nations. There will be representatives of 46 nations at San Francisco 47 if the new Polish government is ready in time, and 48 if Argentina gets there before the show is over. The San Francisco conference mav set uo its own rule on how many nations must accept the charter before it shaU become effective. Each government will be left to its own devices in oe- things are accomplished within a year, the world can well consider itself lucky. With these formalities out of the way, the United Nations organization or-ganization would be ready to begin be-gin its business of maintaining peace and security . . . supressinc acts of aggression . . . settling in ternational disputes . . . developing develop-ing friendly relations among na tions . . . achieving international co-operation. ciding whether to ratify thefff Oaks jH-ojKJsafcVjJf charter and Join the organization, or reject angLslay out. Uo to President and "Senate In the United States the charter will have to be submitted by the president to the senate and ac cepted by the senate before this country can join. If enough governments ratify within six months to put the organization in force before the end of 1945, that will be fast work. 3. When enough governments have ratified the charter to set up the United Nations organiza tion, then the various govern ments will have to name their delegates to the assembly. The number of representatives fori each country will be specified in the charter, if the Dumbarton Oaks proposal is followed. In the United States these representa tives will probably be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. They will be men of ambassadorial rank. The place of meeting for the first sessions of the assembly of the United Nations organization "Roosevelt," denounced Loftus, "Was a great dreamer who started to socialize things, aided and abetted by his wife, who rushed around with her rubber boots and her little blue roadster road-ster which was a Cadillac" He followed this with a tirade about tne socialistic schemes" of the new deal .and the Communist influence upon the White House. Di rect object of his attack, of. course, was the National Na-tional Housing act rne good-will earlier generated by tne lobby ists vanished. A dozen congressmen got up and walked out while Loftus was speaking, the attack especially incensed young Walter Hiiber, promis ing iresnman congressman from Akron, onto. Huber got to his feet as oon as Loftus finish ed and declared: It comes with 111 Brace two days after the burial of our great president to make a personal aiiacK upon him and his bereaved widow." 2. he room became hushed. Nearly everyone present, including Republicans, nodded agreement with Huber. "As a neophyte member of the public : buildings and grounds committee," continued Huber, "I don't claim to know all there is to knOw about housing public or private. But I've heard mention men-tion this evening of dreaming and of bathrooms in farmhouses. "As look about me, I see here many who recently opposed the confirmation of one of the ablest administrators we have ever had as head of the REA (Aubrey Williams). I'd simply like to point that without the vision and the dreaming that created REA and a number of other federal projects since 1932, you gentlemen wouldn't would-n't even have the home to build so that you can put bathrooms mm uiem. - jl The housing-loan lobbyists willf nave a hard time staging another cunner in ine future. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) may be designed at San Francisco or may be decided later. There are arguments both for and against holding the first sessions in Geneva, Gen-eva, Switzerland, seat of the old League of Nations. Switzerland is a neutral, not one of the United Nations. Convening in the United States is not unlikely. Time of the first meeting of the Assem bly will of course depend on when a sufficient number of nations shall have ratified. But with time and place sped fied and a quorum of nations haying named their represents tives, the United Nations organ ization will be ready to set up housekeeping. Election of Officers If the charter adopted at San Francisco follows the general out line, of the proposals made at Dumbarton Oaks, the first business busi-ness of the organization will in clude the election of a President a Secretary General, the adoption of the rules of procedure for the Assembly, the making of a budget and apportioning of expenses among the member nations. Next might come the election of the six nations whose repre sentatives wiu sit on tne se council with of the Big-Five United States, Great Britain, Soviet Russia, China and France. Then might come the election of the 18 nations whose representatives represen-tatives will sit on the economic and socal council. All these are functions reserved to the assembly by the Dumbar- Your G I Rights BY DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 24 Con gress is considering a plan to give enlisted men a 30-day furlough before they are discharged. Vet erans organizations and other groups pushing this measure point out that officers are able to use up accumulated leave and it is only fair that GIs should have the same right It would mean that before a man is forced to put on his civilian civil-ian clothes and start looking for a job he can look things over and line up a position while , technically techni-cally still in the army. 'Actually it amounts to one month s extra pay. Observers believe the bill has a good chance of becoming law within the next few months. Officials here are worried about the small number of veterans who are taking advantage of the loan provisions of the Gl Bill of Rights. Several reasons are given and it is probable that something will be done-to-remedy the situation. Is so much red tape in volved that loan agencies and the veterans-, are discouraged from taking advantage of the bill right from the start. Veterans Administration is studying some-way to streamline its procedures. Exhorbitant prices for homes is another reason giv en for veterans not using tne homo Inan advantages of the GI iesftBillr Tlie-iwernment is refusing to. guarantee loans lo pay for farms, businesses or houses that are considered too expensive. OPA is working with Veterans Administration Admin-istration to help this situation. Q's and A's Q. What famous composer was oorn m ieipzig. Germany? A Richard Wagner, in 1813 the year Napoleon lost a decisive battle there. Q What was the original name of Vienna, Austrian capital now in Kussian hands? a vinaoDona Vienna, it was a Celtic settlement soon after the time of Christ Q What is the Japs' Kami Kaze? A The army suicide corps. Q What are two political dis tinctions of weimar, Germany? a ine Republic was set up there in 1919: the Versailles Treaty was ratified there that same year. Prewar population numbered 4e,uuu. Stan Sufferers PSORIASIS LEO ULCERS ECZEMA ATHLETE'S FOOT THOUSANDS OS DOCTORS I TENS OP THOUSANDS of sera eovnasaa arm Colusa Natural Oil - CUSTOMXBS TfcotoMnda btT vrlttea txnMUclted testimonial i TRY TT QM MONEY BACK GUARANTEE oifsuuasTi icrrr drug avoyson-paiushl'orliprJaavUle At the request of National Housing Hous-ing Administrator John B. Blan- ford, Jr., many war-congested cities are working on special plans to make housing more readily available to veterans and families of servicemen. Committees to do this job are already operating in many cities. Rockefeller Hurt In Okinawa Strike GUAM, April 24 (U.PJ Maj. Winthrop Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was burned slightly on the face and hands April 2 when a Japanese suicide plane damage a ship off Okinawa, it was disclosed today. Rockefeller, , a member of the 77th division, was brought here for treatment Desk Chat, Editorial Column YOUR INFLUENCE Each of us In some way exer cises a certain amount oz in fluence on those with whom we come in contact. Do you influence people to be cheerful and contented or are you one of those individuals who spread gloom and dissatisfaction instead of happiness? Whether you realize it or not. your words, manner, attitude and deeds exercise a certain amount of influence on your family and your associates. Have you ever taken tne time to think about the way and the degree to which .yon influence people? If not, do it today. You can be a strong Influence for negative or positive thinking. The person who is a creative thinker who plans things, makes things, does things, that helps to make this a better world for his fellow man is a good influence. Most of the progress and good in this world results from public opinion. Public opinion is YOUR influence for good or bad. Each of us in some degree exercises an influence on others . . . every man or woman is a guide a pattern an ideal or an 'oracle' to someone else. Yes, even your habits in some way influence others they either harm or help, hinder or hasten, the mental growth and development develop-ment ofjothers. SgtP. V. Hanna is credited with this one: Adolph wouldn't be in His present pickle If he had seen the "V" On our nickle. Perhaps the war food administration admin-istration is being run by a bunch of vegetarians. oOo The true proof of neatness Is to win applause from people who oo not like you. Wonder how many times the Jap cabinet will ' have to be changed before the marines take over and MacArthur and NimTtz set up a provisional government in the Mikado's empire? What the G. O. P. needs for 1946 is a good cheer leader. When we get into trouble, nothing no-thing 'seems to cheer us up more than to contemplate the fact that the other fellow is in a bad fix too. PROFIT AND LOSS The corporal appeared before the chaplain and seemed to have a heavy problem on his mind, and the chaplain kindly asked, what he could do to help. - ' "I just came to ask you," said the corporal, "whether it is right for any person to profit by the. mistakes of other people?" "Most certainly not," answered the chaplain emphatically. f'Then, if that's the case," said the caller brightening, "perhaps you'd like to return the Ten Dollars I gave you last October when you performed my wedding eremnnv!" There are two kinds of people: inose wno expect the worst and those who supply it Overheard on the Geneva Bus: "She said the only reason sha reads the daily casualty list ia the hope of finding the nam of someone she knows." . 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