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Show it - . 1 ' " f " . s. ... ' j . S ' 16, 1945-,- PROVO.' UTAH; COUNTY, UTAH. THURSDAY AUGUST Editorial... the Wrong Tree . , -,If,-We are not careful some of us too 'many of us may make a mistake that has" .-already been made a thousand times. The homely I and picturesque phrase for it is barking up the wrong tree. r As long as there was. a chance that the - opponents of an effective world organization would make a frontal attack on the San Francisco charter, the obvious and necessary course for advocates of lasting peace was to thrive for ratification. "But that is no longer our tree;. The opponents have abandoned, it -. and liopped. to another one less exposed, They know that if they fought ratification tney would be badly licked; but they also know that ratification can be made a meaningless crestUre if they play their-cards right. The two prime essentials of a functioning United Nations organization are (a) the delegates from the various countries on the Security Council must, have authority to cast their votes without submitting each or any question to the deliberationdelays and maneuvers man-euvers of the legislative bodies of these countries, and (b) the organs and commit tees' of the United Nations must have sufficient suffi-cient funds for adequate staffs, quarters and equipment. Those are the trees the opponents have taken cover in: those are the trees to watch from now on if you want world peace. When a representative or senator clears his throat and expands his chest and opens up, "I am for world cooperation for peace! I voted for ratification of the Charter! Bui but but but . . . ," look out for him. . The foliage on those trees is going to be jvery thick and hard to see through the next few months. Pressure is a Fine Thing i'4 Unfortunately "pressure groups" has be come an ugly, term in American politics, tPeonle confuse "Dressure oro'tina" with "loh- jbyists" and lobbyists ARE an ugly thing. ILobbyists work right in the halls of con gress, and by fair means and foul, try to persuade, cajole, and. bribe our representatives representa-tives ho vote for their special interests. Pressure Pres-sure groups, on the other hand, are people who, right, in their communities, unite in a common cause and influence congress by the power of their numbers. That is one of the healthiest signs of our democracy. It means the voice of the people is listened to. There isN therefore, no stigma about belonging to a pressure group. Quite the opposite. It is the,; solemn responsibility of each citizen to join whatever pressure'iroup most closely represents ms views De 11 pro; or anti a particular piece of legislation. Each person owes it to the democracy in which he lives to make his views known. In former years a single voice in a town meeting had an ef fee on government. Now, a single voice is lost in the general uproar. The voices that are heard above the uproar, and are heeded, are those of pressure groups. There are many crucial matters which will be decided by congress during this next fateful year. Our job is to decide what we want congress to do about them and then join, or form, a pressure group in order that congress will hear from Us in a big way. No Sauce for the Gander President William Green of the AFL is a veteran labor leader, but he seems to have the wrong conception of his important role in the creation of a peaceful industrial at mosphere now that the war is over. He has rejected the proposed Ball-Burton-Hatch industrial relations act, not reasonably reason-ably and categorically, but in a single blast of general damnation. He has rejected the suggestion that labor and industry sit down with government to chart a course for preventing pre-venting added difficulties in the difficult time of reconversion. Mr. Green shudders at the thought of any government control of labor, though he can scarcely deny that his membership's em- ployers areiheld strictly accountable by the governments or the general conduct of their business. What s sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander, in Mr. Green's book of proverbs. Rather, the AFL leader makes the brilliantly bril-liantly original proposal that industry and labor get together and iron things out. It is apparent that Mr. Green would approach Buch a get-together with his same set of implacable ideas, and that this meeting would fail as most of the others have. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach's statement state-ment that the public interest should take precedence over either industry's or labor's self-interest doesn't seem to have 'got across to Mr. Green as yet. even though it might seem obvious that what is best for the public interest will be the best for labor's self-interest in the end. d. i . ' v . . " l1". 3, . The Washington ' V ' C Aerry-Gd-Rbuhc A Daily Picture of What's faSSS Going On in Wationar Affairs ?, 1 ft. tVi writer, visiting In Japan, got considerable first' hand information about the emperor from a yonug Japanese Quaker, Rehzo Sawada, who ; had been picked to accompany, Hironiio, men vrown rrrore, on a trip to-see. the western world; -.s ,- $r. - Whv sawada. educatea m wuaxer , scnooi in Tokyo, was chosen- to accompany the young princi oitthis history-iriaking trip, f do not kftow, except' that the Imperial council of education wanted ' commoner, of Hlrohito's age who spoke English and rfrench . to travel with ..tne tuture emperor. ,..'.' f ' Never before had a ruler of Japan left?, its shores. In the past scarcely was the emperor even seen by bis subjects, some idea ox nis isolation can be gained from the fact that the word "mlka means "awful;" the word "do", means - "place; and the name "Mikado" means "awful-place.? . .: In. the old days, priests came to worship at the "awful place." but they never saw tne emperor em-peror whose other name even today is "Tenno, meanlnr "Son. of Heaven." The emperor is syn onymous with the sun and from this comes Hhe Japanese nag. witn, sixteen spreading, rays sjn boiie of the rising sun and tne emperor. : . Tn- fhnc Hnva lh Mikado was the theO' retical owner of all the land and lall the people and their possessions. He was their God and protector. pro-tector. His land and shield came from Ama, the ancesrtal region." Thus arose the cult of Shinotoism which actually means "rule of the superiors" or "way of the Gods." Even the word for government in Japan, "Matusurigoto". mns shrine vislUng' or "religion." MODERNIZING THE EMPEROR Thus durine most of Japanese history; in fact up until Just after the arrival of Commander Per ry in 1852, the Mucado was an etnereai pirituai belne. not a ruler: and it came as a: definite, shock to many Japanese that their enujerdr-to-be should sail off to England and France to absorb western In fact, some of the more intense patriots actually threw themselves on the lailroad tracks in front of the train carrying mronuo jto xosa hnma In nmfatt airalnat th rinartiir. Naturally Hirohito may have ichanged a lot during the 25 years since his trip. Jfaturally. also my friend Sawada was prejudiced in his favor. However, the story of jthat voyage was one ;of a young man anxious to mingle with his fellow-men fellow-men who astounded the emperor-worsbippers by wrestling on the deck With his aides, got a bloody nose, and danced democratically with the' servants of the Duke of Atholl in the same 'barbaric' Scot land, which, according to Shinto priests, is made from the mud and seafoam left over after creation of the "heavenly .isles" Japan. i Hirohito even managed to deliver a public speech to the lord mayor of London; and no em peror in all the history of Japan nad ever delivered deliver-ed a public speech before. In all Japanese history, furthermore, no emperor had purchased an article of any shape, size or form. In Paris, however, Hirohito insisted on going alone and buying; a necktie, and later a pearl for his mother. HIROHITO GOES UNDERGROUND ? Out tf the Ashes of Depth Once'NevAS Histoiy Unprepared for Peace His greatest ambition, however, was to ride on the Paris subway or "metro." Before leaving Tokyo, Hlrohito's staff Jiad .been Strictly forbid? den to let the heir to the throne ride on any subway; sub-way; but despite this, the crown prince bolted most of his staff and ventured underground. He insisted in-sisted on buying the tickets himself and handed them to the fat lady guarding the gate. I But he handed them to her in a bunch, in stead of spreading them out fan shape, so that immediately be out of work ex (Peter Edson is on vacation) BY DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Washinrtf n Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 The end of the war finds the government govern-ment less prepared for the problems prob-lems of peace than it was for war in 1941. As the country faces one of the most crucial periods in its history, here's a quick look at the situation: situa-tion: OP A and war production board, the biggest war agencies, most closely affecting each citizen, are in the middle of a big scrap over reconversion and what controls to drop. Other than meaningless vague statements, no decision has been made as to how much price control to keep. Treasury, labor, agriculture and commerce departments are in the midst of major reorganizations with new top men. Most of the officials at the second level are inexperienced in-experienced men or about to lose their, jobs through changes. No machinery exists to do anything any-thing for the millions who will This js-Augyst, hottest month of the year, when the ladies try on their new winter furs. Boys will be taught homemaking in St. Ijuis schools. Darn those socks! An intensive campaign against rats is scheduled for fall Things are tough all over for that family. j We're all waiting , for Uncle Sam to turn back to the doctor the job of telling us what we can and what we can't eat. "Retail Prices ..Hold LeveF headline. Since when have they been on the level? she could not punch them quickly. All of which brought forth a storm of abuse in metro French, heaped on the head of the future ruler of Jaoah. "Kimi," he appealed to one of his aides, "the grandmother is talking to me I didn't expert so much conversation. She seemed to have her back up." So this large and irate lady, whomsoever whom-soever she may have been, went the privilege f scolding the "son ef heaven" for the first time in more than a thousand years. Once while driving through Paris in an official of-ficial parade, Hirohito exchanged coats with one of his aides, told him to look stiff and Uncomfortable, Uncomfort-able, and slipped out qf the car to explore Paris. The procession went on, the crowd applauding the uniformed figure who sat bolt upright, an effective ef-fective substitute for the prince regent of Japan. These are some of the things which had led many missionaries and state department officials to the conclusion that Hirohito is liberal and moderate. Unquestionably he is more moderate than the military men around him; Perhaps also it is true that he was opposed to the war. However, Hirohito has now become so much the tool of the militaryists. So indelibly stamped with the mark of facist conquest, that it will be extremely-difficult to buiid a new and democratic demo-cratic Japan with him in the saddle. Some of the factors on the other wise of the balance sheet will be discussed in' a future column. 5 MERRY-GO-ROUND . i The FBI has been called into investigate how and whence this column last week published the blueprint of the U. S. army for governing Germany Ger-many The resignation of John Winant as ambassador to Great Britain can be expected within with-in 60 days. He was not taken to Potsdam. . . . The resignation of George Messersmith as U. S. cnv6y curity agencies. On top of being out of work a large percentage of the unemployed find themselves far from home. War manpower commission isn't equipped to do anything about it. Businessmen Can't Plan-Quick Plan-Quick reconversion of industry would solve many of the problems prob-lems but the government hasn't given businessmen a chance to do any concrete planning. Statistical information which the. government furnished bus! ness and industry about markets, population, production, etc., during dur-ing peacetime was not gathered during the war. Vital for planning these figures don t exist now Office of civilian requirements admits it doesn t have the remotest remot-est idea of what uncontrolled demand de-mand for civilian goods is. It only concerned itself with seeing that production didn't fall below basic civilian needs. Probably least prepared ,for peace is the veterans administra tion. General Bradley, whose duties in .Europe occupied him until a few weeks ago, hasn't even scratched the surface of what has to be done to that agency to pre pare it for the job of getting about 8,000,000 men back into ciivlian clothes. First thing the veteran is going to do when he gets back is try to all fouled up. The department of justice, selective service and the national war labor board aren't agreed On just what a veteran's re-employment rights are or his Preferences for a new job. The way it stands now it is Impossible for a vet to get a job in . the automobile industry,' for instance Even OWI is caught, flat-footed. For many weeks before V-E Day it had dreams of "Now it can be told" information for the press and radio. It wasn't until the announcement an-nouncement of the atomic bomb that it dawned on them they'd better be getting to work on the V-J story. S Apparently OWI as well as he Ttiirty Years Ago l Prom the TUertf . v " The Prero Hersld . ; Of August l ms . . i " :?' . . , r Two , train loads J of 31 cars,! carrying Denver . & RIo'-Oande employees and their families were brought to Provo on an outing for the day. The cars' were placed on the Heber branch tracks, near Center' street' , and the crowds gathered at Pioneer park. The events included a program at the Provo tabernacle, a danc at the; Mozart-hall, and a ball game at Timp' park. v - ,-F W..-C. Hathenbruck owner of springs; In Slate canyon is in communication with- Salt Lake City officials relative to the sale of water to that-city; The Provo man declared he could furnish 4,000,000 gallons every 24 hours A transient lai town, . about' 50 years of age., blew his brains out with a 38, caliber revolver near the intersection' of Second . East! and Second North streets. A statement was found in his clothing cloth-ing which indicated the man was either insane or a victim of amnesia. ' Twenty Years Ago From the Files ef The Prove Herald Of August 1. 1925 With the new city and county building being rushed to com pletion, the interior, of the mag nificent structure is being divided into compartments especially designed de-signed to meet the requirements of the various departments and offices of Provo citT and Utah county. Provo was threatened with an epidemic of .whooping cough, the city health department warned the parents in a communication. 3 .Nothing; trubr";grcajt.i.wa eve accomplished without enthusiasnw U yo ; are vrtot enthusiastic about , your work, tomething is wrong and you should find out the reason and correct Hit once. ;"i . :'; No man "keeps uipt hi enthus lasm automatically-.'' tt:" must 'ba nourished -wlthrnew'f aspirations, new efforts, jiew, actions: and, new visions.-;"' i - i . Enthusiasm is -contagious-. people, just, naturally, xan't help but believe in and respect the 'enthusiastic 'en-thusiastic .man. v" . If your enthusiasm is cone, it is your ewrt -fault--. you hava failed to feed it with new bori- zons. . ---.v .. - - -. Failures -- financial.- moral -or spirituat--are: people who- have lost therdrivlng power and balance bal-ance wheel of their enthusiasmr vc Check' up on "yourself. Renew y our enthusiasm NOW. Pharmacist Mate Censorship Terminated WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 OI.R) President Truman yesterday de creed the end of wartime censor ship and authorized liquidation of the office headed by Byron Price. j Price also was directed to cease "at once" the censorship, of all international communications. The three points of. the president's presi-dent's order to Price stipulated that he should' at once: "1. Declare voluntary censorship censor-ship -of domestic ,pf ess and radio at an end. "2. Direct the office of censor ship to cease at once the censor- r I t i r The dock cka;:oni- Its memory's long . ' Nor is it measured By; its vibrant gonf. Whether we have-sunshine Or whether it's rain The elements have nothing to do 1 With the clock's loss or "its gain. For each of us, - Time is so fleeting That we shouldn't indulge Our troubles or sorrow; So, let us make, the most -. Of our allotted days, , . " ' Or the brief time We can borrow. J - .'rOO0 A news Hem tells of a soldier who had been: injured by a booby trapand was finally released front the hospital in the U. S. A. t a. i i s m. 3. a a un na ion aiy mn, jam icruua a lady's pocketbook and 'returned it Two weeks later they ' were married . ; . which goes to show that not all booby traps are on the front linejattlfield? . . Even with the temporary low ering of OPA points oh butter, most of us have to make: doubly: certain which side our bread is , buttered on. , rest of the goverrfment agencies: ship of all international com- Deueved tne constant assertions uwuiiwiuuu. of the war and navy departments that it would take months, maybe years, to lick the Japs. This-was done, of course, to keep up prof duction and without knowing the atomic bomb was coming. : It is difficult to assess the blame to either congress or the administration admin-istration for the lack of adequate planning, but when the jubilation over peace and victory wears off somebody is in for a lot of ex-f plaining. j ,"3 Give 30 day's notice to jail 1 . " ... 1 .Tl'JH ntnninvoii pvrpM fnr a iinalt'rfldni Somewhere in. the Pacifidi f De- SfwTTOdaW -t8 e riayedvyfPliareistT WX :i Mr. Truman acted in aecord-i Robert W.'.;Gammell of Provo, ance with the recommendations above. Is in this rest area -with a by Price. He authorized the end, field hospital for the Marines of of the nation's voluntary censor-1 the Fifth amphibious force who ship of press and radio, effective were in the battle for iwo Jim yesterday. . ; He, is the son of Mrs. George ! Vincent of 5? South 9th West . Normal cruising strata for mod-: street, Provo, and the husband 'of erit transports is between 6000 ; the former Jean Bean of Provo. and 14,000 feet. iHe also has a son, aged 3 years. Trap In Which the Japs Cried Quits t i!f.xl .'!ff,.li in th.e wor!?s Marrinerfget a job-his old one or a new Eccles' resignation as head of the federal re serve board is now on President Truman's desk. Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton is preparing the ground work for his international trade conference to take place In London some-' time in October. The conference will endeaver io combat world cartels and monopolies. . . . Director Di-rector Peron of Argentina waited until the word was absorbed' with Japanese surrender to clap one thousand patriotic Argentines in jail. Peron always al-ways waits until the eyes of the world are diverted divert-ed before doing an undercover knife job on democracy. de-mocracy. CAPITAL CHAFF . i If General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz enter en-ter Tokyo simultaneously, it will be the first time they have spoken or conferred since President Roosevelt called them to Pearl Harbor one year ago. The two men -have not been good friends. ...... During the earlier part of the war Mac- Arthur, then in Australia, told Nimitz and navy leaders that they would have to come to Australia if they wanted to talk to him. . . . Inside facjjt is that Russia and Japan had been fighting for about two weeks before war was , officially de-clared. de-clared. But the shooting was labeled border skirmishes. Tokyo didnt want any declaration of war, while, Stalin wasn't quite ready to launcp a big offensive. . . . Truman was kept - informed regarding all these incidents. . . . . Tip-off that Japan was weakening came after Russia declared war, and the Japs did not declare War in return, . . . .Gaylor Marsh, former U. S. consul general gen-eral In Korea, who knows the Japanese intimately, says that if Hirohito abdicates in favor of his son which be thinks is probable it will be to del feat popular -government in Japan; also to de-feat de-feat religious freedom; . .". .The army is due to cutback on almost everything except hospitals: oeverai new ones-wiu m duui uiciuaing au,t' 000.000 army hospital .in Puerto Rico by 'the Li W. Ttobert firm of Atlanta Be was secretary of the democratic national committee, .- (Copyright, 1943k by the ,BeU Syndicate, Inc.) I one. But the government has this Q'S and A's Q What territpry did Poland get under the Potsdam agreement? A Eastern part of Pomerania province' in Prussia, most of Lower and all of Upper Silesia. : Q To what use is the major portion of the. 7000,000,000 pounds of paraffin wax produced annually annual-ly in the United States put? A More than 80 per cent is! used to coat paper ' and .paper! products, such as bread wrappings and drinking straws. . Q What is unusual about tropical trop-ical America's sand box tree? A It produces a large seed, re sembling a small pumpkin, which, on maturity, explodes with great violence, scattering its fragments in all directions, . QWhat is'kraft" paper, arid how has it been used in the war effort? A Word, coming from Swedish and meaning, "strength," is a new type paper product used to replace steel drums to transport vital dry chemicals. . ' Q What use are cattle raisers In the south expected to make of the new governmental insecticide, dot, when it is released com- lnproiallv? - A It is expected to provide a spray, when used with rotenone, that will effectively control cattle ucks .--. r t y cj !?9- v ii " c -: ' ' ;- rz?r: jcmtjLJ Formosa - VSltTI,0 ' Pacific Octm ; tA Jst Philippines ;r IITHAIUNM fV V. -T"2C?rMMi : -m AN AS MALAYA t RI2?i3'?. - . Map Above shgws hbw.Japan was: encircled by Allied forces which, growing ever stronger as the-enemy the-enemy grew weaker, made the Jap case hopeless.' ; America's amazing atomic' bomb was j the final crusher. Blacked-in Japanese home islands will be all that's left of the once-mihty Jap empire after lermc otltscUu 'declawtioo . are forced, - ' t" y With apologies to Joyce Kilmer: I think that I shall; never see ; A bug as jumpy as a flea; A ilea that hops around aU day. And Jumps on. me to my dismay; A ilea tnat may-in summer.Dite -And which I cannot put to .flight Flies arecaught by fools- like: mfi. But who on earth can catch a flea? At the dinner, table, litUe John ny suddenly asked:3 "Dad,: are caterpiuara good yt eatT'T , f ' And the finicky -rather scolded "Haven't f taught you better than to mention such things at the tabler - ..... .' Then followed a few minutes of painful silence before the mother asked: "Why, Johnny, did you ask that question?" "Well," admitted Johnny, I just saw one on Dad's Hettuce but it's gone nowl" " -oOc . ; It was and stilt s plenty exciting excit-ing when a pilot has to drop out of formation and come in ori."a wing and a prayer"-r-but it used to be nerve-trying to have to-go somewhere and get baclt again oa an 'A card. Though 1$ think of all . The portly platitudes I hava ever known. J . For each ending sersc That I write,; I must delve into-the unknown. Minutia By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE NEW YORK CITY. Aug. ll- Of all the off-key singing the Japf have done, their wail about ;ih inhumanity of the atomic bomb ,il the most irritating. In What, a saintly voice they recall the love ly Hague Convention which they never had anything to do with in all their hypocritical lives! They were', previously too busy getting ready to take over the unimport-ant unimport-ant people of the world, Including -us, to have fbne for, such things as the Hague Convention, but now suddenly it is their own 'beatitude. Why -they practically wrote the thing -themselves No one but: a Jap-ror a German would claim that instant death is less' human than torture, starvation, and crimertoo improbable to mention. Hague conventions are pretty silly anyhow. "Murder people gently," it mmxrm. nnn i niPin inn inrr shouldn't be, but in a world gone berserk I dontjknow -r What I mean, I suppbse, is that unless everyone lives tip to them there's i'vm x 13. .t l all the peoples in the world were decent, we wouldn't need; to worr ry about rules In war. 1 There would be no war,- As for the terrible ter-rible Gengis Khan,-the Nips have suddenly discovered, why it hasn't been any time: since they were holding him . up as .their . great ideal of a greatert AsU!The only thing 'I regret is I that Germany didn't get a taste of the atomic . thing. ; Japan,-it: is hardr likely, will ever again stick Its head out of its hole, -but the Germans are something else. They are jthellni in curables of this world,,; and 'it's too bad that they weren't: dosed with a -little of nhe;haif pfthe ; UNION CHARTER -rZJ vf . TO BE REVOKED CHICAGO, Aug. ,19 w.r Th International. Alliance of Tneatn- s cat -and Stage iEmploycs ,AFL today was given 69 days in which to revoke the charters of locals "not properly .under its jurisdicv. tion." v--.--, $k The etlon-was takeni late, ye terday: at the end of a- quarter ly meeting of the American Federation Fed-eration of , Labor's executive t council tn en effort to -end si a dispute" which has -curtailed oper- v ations in' Hollywood motion - pic ture studios . for ;. the pasttlive montas. 1'.- r -1 4 - t |