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Show . I. ,. I ; ; , 20, 1945. Two 6 f itHeiFoii ft Are S ti I II Rid i n g PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH,; TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Editorial . . . LIUle children, keep yourselves from Idols. 4 John 5:21. Yet, II he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. It he worship not the True God, he will have his idols. Theodore Parker. The Washington MerrY - Co - Round A Daily Picture of What's By Drvw Pearaon . tCoL Robert ry-i v .t-At i im.: Allen oa wui vn in iiBuunai nnuii ootlvt ootjrl WASHINGTON Public and congressional opinion regarding the atom bomb -has moved so rapidly that the Truman-Atuee statement just barely caught up with it. A few weeks ago, the Trum'an-Attlee plan to share the atom secret If other nations reciprocated would have been considered con-sidered revolutionary. Now some senators and many scientists think it doesn't go quite far enough. Chief reason for the rapid change in public opinion has been the educational campaign staged by the scientists and some senators. For instance, scientist Milton Burton of Oak Ridge. Tenn.. went to see Senator Chan Gurney of Stouth Dakota. Gurney, a sincere and able gentleman, devoutly believes that the sun rises and sets in the war department's pentagon building across the Potomac. Some of his friends suspect that he takes out a prayer rug and does obeisance in the direction of the Pentagon every morning. To him a brass hat 'can do no wrong. Thus the army's plan for airtight control of the atom bomb to him was perfect However, he listened politely to Oak-Ridge scientist Burton. Burton wanted to outlaw the atom bomb altogether, but the senaor from South Dakota remained unconvinced. Finally, Burton pulled his trump card. He unfolded the danger of setting off the nitrogen Chain. This is one thing the scientists have been deadly afraid of. "You realize, senator," explained the scientist, Our only hope for the future, says Generalt "enough sott- Santa and the Atom A Canadian psychiatrist, Ma j .-Gen. Brock Chisholm, polled his rank on Santa Claus the Dther day and banished him from the face rf the tarth. We gather that General Chisholm Chis-holm holds the good saint and all he stands for responsible for much of the mess that mankind finds itself in today. The General has sensibly concluded that the world has become a dangerous place. Apparently the unseen presence of both Sint Nicholas and the atom bomb is almost too much for the planet to bear. And since the bomb can't very well be dismissed, once it's here, the general has given Santa the gate. Chisholm, lies in, teaching children to think for themselves and reach their own conclusions. conclu-sions. To accomplish this their upbringing must be on a strict basis of reality purged of all escapism. Henceforth, the general declares, any child who is taught to believe in Santa Claus has had his ability to think permanently injured. in-jured. The child "will become the kind of man who develops a sore back when there is and the entire world would go up in flames. We would simply be another flaming star in the heavens, later a barren desert. People from other; planets wouia iook out ana say an, in ova: a new star:" Scientist Burton was deadly serious. So are other scientists. They say it is quite possible that sufficient number of atom explosions would ignite ig-nite the nitrozen in the atmosDhere and the en tire earth would be burned up, just as other plan-' ets are today. MCKELLAR CONVERTED Another Oak Ridge scientist. Charles D. Cor- of Senator ' V I I VL '-"T '-V ssZ-" -Z-r II Desk Chat, Editorial Column Carious Cynic Cants ... .a .taxes some women au minutes to make up their face -and 30 days to: make up their mind; . . .perhaps the increase In divorce stems from the; fact that while all marriages arc made in Heaven', the more recent ones were of an inferior quality due 7 to a help shortage in the celestial kingdom. ...guarded virtue is only pressed wickedness. , . .women are made to be loved not to be understood. Or thump the . keys of your type writer With considered deliberateness. With the many and numerous obstacles and barriers being put in the path of the Pearl Harbor investigation, one is forced to the conclusion that there must be several skeletons in the closet or woodpile that certain persons in high places prefer to keep under sup-, cover. . . SMILES TEARS The smiles You gave me Veaterday Seemed wholesome, Sublime I like To treasure them And keep them For mine. Yet, even smiles Will fade And pass With the years; And yes, I now realize So do Our tears. IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT new ideas are always suspected. A rather corny singer was giving giv-ing his renditions of the currently popular 'hit' tunes at a small local nite-club. And more In fun than in appreciation, tne auaience called him back again and again; When he had exhausted nil assortment of songs, he proved he was not altogether lacking in wit, when he stepped up to thempli-fier, thempli-fier, and said: "Ladies find gentlemen: You are not the only ones who know talent when you meet up with it . . . "When I sang this group of songs in Buffalo, the audience presented me with Twenty-five Dollars . . . when I sang in Cleveland, they presented me with an automobile . . . when I sang on Broadway, they presented me with an apart ment house . . . wh - oOo A well-known, left-wine radio. commentator has predicted that But then a loud voice from the we might be at war with. Russia; back of the room interrupted. Atomic Bombs, and Next Pearl Harbor o rmo-fc inh fn An rA rpfiisAa tn think realis- yell, went to work on the family . , , ., I Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee. So also did Wil ucany wiien war imwicus. Maybe so. But we incline to the opinion that there would be a lot more shirking of tough jobs if fantasy were to be liquidated. For the atomic bomb began as fantasy. So did the airplane and the automobile and the other coldly realistic, scientific products of man's ingenuity. They are essentially products prod-ucts of the same sort of imagination that created Santa Claus. Without imagination and fantasy, or even escapism, the human animal probably would bt still living in a tree or cave. And if mankind man-kind is going to escape winding up in trees and caves again, as a consequence of its own destructive ingenuity, we rather think that those same qualities will have to come to the rescue. It isn't imagination that has got mankind into most of its past and present troubles. It is rather that man has yielded instinctive- By PETER EDSON NEA Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 The page telling what happened i: Washington on Thursday. Nov. 15, should be permanently dog eared because its record is jo liam Pollard, a professor at the University of Ten nessee, but now working in New York. McKel lar. a powerful, energetic figure in the senate, had not even wanted to annoint liberal vouncr senator Brien McMahon on Connecticut as chairman of I utterly fantastic. the atomic bomb study committee, even though; At the White House, at 11 a. m. McMahon introduced the resolution. And when ' President Truman with an able McKellar finally consented to go along with Mc-Mahon's Mc-Mahon's appointment, he stacked the committee with reactionaries. However, when scientists Coryell and Pollard finished explaining the danger of the A-bomb, the Tennessee senator actually got down from his presiding pre-siding officer's chair to make one of the most Nazis Saw Double When 75th Moved done about controlling atomic-energy. atomic-energy. Truth is the atomic ags simply has not fully dawned on congress or the people they represent. rep-resent. The issue of what to do shtnf fnnfrolHrifr nto-mir ptiprev the most potentially destructive! lhe sor,Jy besct Germans were By NEA Service There were times, during fighting fight-ing on the western front, when . or five by asking brick?" 'Was it brick by in the next five months anytime within the next years . . . And, by the by. Great Britain1 Wonder why the defense law- wants to hold on to air she hashers for the war criminals nave even at the expense of the United; not entered pleas of insanity and States fighting another war to preserve the English brand -of Democracy. "But, father." argued the daughter, "I think we ought to buy an automobile now before the price goes up. You can buy one for a song now." "Uh-huh!" agreed the father, "I know that song "Over the hill to the Poor House"." brought in a flock of alienists to prove their clients innocent? Not all letters received by congressmen con-gressmen and senators are from 'nuts', cranks, and radicals . . some are letters of praise. Make the strokes of your pen, atom control. 1 Another senator who has seen how a cut-. throat international race to get control of the atom might wreck all civilization is Republican Senator Alexander Smith of New Jersey. Smith spent several weeks on a New Jersey speaking tour both educating and souinding out public opinion regarding the bomb. He reports that the people generally are ahead of Washington in believing that the secret must be used as means of working out international cooperation and per-1 manent peace. I assist from prime ministers At-tlee At-tlee and Mackenzie King. Senators Senat-ors Connally and Vandcnbere, Congressmen Bloom and Eaton, Dr. Vanncvar Bush and Admiral Leahy issued the important U. S. -British-Canadian statement on atomic energy and atomic bomb control policy. The obvious aim uma r vi i wt t (Ko iara V tnurn Pfi '.in o-i HKlm,0,Hs How's that for being alert to disarmament and the prevention number one question faung of world war three the country and the world today? on ranitni hill nnp hour earlier Congress would rather play poli- force ever created by mankind--: ready to swear has been at large in the world fori three months. For half that time it has been before congress. The house, apparently feeling itself! utterly incompetent to deal with1 the issue, has given up trying. And the senate is just now beginning begin-ning to go to work on the prob lem by sending the McMahon. committee to Oak Ridge, Tenn.. where some of the material that . , V-1 1 li . I . L W UIV Ut'll M ..Mil I llll'll - , At- , . . I iiiai unserving ineir progress was like watching a fast tennis match. The 75th was blooded in the there were two 7 5th Infantry Divisions. The 75th and there is only one, the Germans Ger-mans to the contrary bounded back and forth along the front with such rapidity tics, that. after all, they understand Meanwhile, scientists and some senators make World War II 111-! . . , rr. . in . . . . a ten-man jomt congressional committee three years and eleven months behind the times began! a long-winded, full dress inquisi-, l1 haLhappf!"fd "it LP- 5. Should Be rtdi i iidiuui cti uic steal i. wi two chief criticisms of the Truman-Attlee control ly to the emotions which he snares With the plan. They say (1) that the plan must be worked lower animals hunger, fear, greed and 'out by the heads of states, not by the foreign such. He has made his imagination the servant of those other emotions too often, and has reaped some horrible consequences. All of man's best works, his books and buildings, music and machines, had to be dreamed before they could be done. And it doesn't seem likely that the world would be any better off it it followed General Chis- ministers who just failed so miserably at London (2) that it was a mistake to put future control in the hands of the United Nations, since the United Nations already has proved a disappointing skeleton, inadequate to cope with the intricate problems of peace. The atom bomb, they feel, can be used to create a real system of world cooperation cooper-ation not subject to the veto of one power. U. S. S. MISSOURI PAPERWEIGHTS Just before the giant battleship Missouri was about to leave Pearl Harbor for the east coast last month it was published that she was held up v,w nn momn u was puonsnea tnat sne fu" V". a ""' '""VA v" """by "trouble.' Here's what the trouble really was unique human gift of imagination. The soot on the deck where MacArthur siened cus room wnerc lne neanngs j Turner "IS nf wnon rfSiSSf I being held. The only iluminat The general would call these conclusions; Under orders fro,m someone, the navy yard tore What in the world could the congressmen hope to do about j Pearl Harbor now? Pass a law , that would prevent Dec. 7, 1941 1 tU.R A froiift ever hannenlnff" No this neeaea was more like the baying of political hounds on the trail of some poor goat to skin and sacrifice sacri-fice on the altars of history in atonement for - the congressmen's own past shortcomings. The committee got away to a characteristically befuddled start. A fuse had blown in the big sen ate office building majority caucus cau-cus room where the hearings are ion Firm With Russia fuzzy-minded escapism, the. product of sev eral years' unquestioning and delighted be lief in the material existence of Saint Nick up the entire section of the deck and replaced it wttn new wood. ; Then the old boards on which MacArthur and i the Japs had stood was turned over to the wood- But we Still think it might be better if theiworking shop at the navy yard and made into choice must be made to solve the atomic bomb m terms of Santa Claus, rather than the other way around. Sic Semper, Tyrannis paperweights. But what burnt up enlisted men was that the paperweights were then given to the brass hats. Not one enlisted man was able to get a souvenir of the memorable surrender occasion, though 1 thousands, of them had given their lives to help' achieve it. CAPITAL CHAFF Navy explanation of whv General Mac- One newspaper obituary of Field Marshal ,A.rj.hturJ photo was omitted from the official ex- w j vr. vt ai StCTXJ. O II ICt I, IIICV SCllL Ausrust von Mackensen spoke of him as "the hawk-faced little soldier." Probably few of j us who remember him, by way of photographs, photo-graphs, from the first World War ever thought of him as being small. He had a tall, imposing look. Hawk-faced he was. That face, with its fierce mustache and wild, burning eyes, was almost as devoid of flesh and blood as the grinning death's head that adorned the tall fur shako of his hussar's uniform. He was quite a figure the perfect symbol of Prussian Prus-sian militarism. Yet Mackensen was small. Or at least he lost as much stature through the years as the militarism which he symbolized. Mackensen, nearly 96 when he died, had entered the German army when he was 20. Bismarck's iron fist ruled the reich in those days, and young Mackensen served Bismarck Bis-marck well in the Franco-Prussian war. He served Wilhelm II even better in 1914-18, came from two spot lights set up by newsreel men. While congressmen con-gressmen are used to being dazzled daz-zled by their own brilliance, they were positively blinded by the movie spots. Chairman Barkley ordered them doused. In the echoing, cathedral dimness, dim-ness, committee counsel William D. Mitchell rose and began to introduce in-troduce the exhibits of translations transla-tions from Japanese secret code diplomatic and military messages. He couldn't be heard.so was told to sit down and get his mouth closer to a microphone. The first two witnesses called, Admiral Inglis for the Navy snd Col. 'Thielen for the Army both revealed they were not at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, which oi course made them experts. At 10:30 the lights came on. And at the same time the word was passed among the 200 rc- LAKE CITY. Nov. 20 little more firmness is in relations between the United States and Russia, according accord-ing to William H. Chamberlin, of Cambridge, Mass. Chamberlin said that there needs to be a delicate balance of friendliness and firmness our relations with Russia. "There is a tendency in America, Ameri-ca, perhaps a hangover from war propaganda, to assume that, in our differences with the Soviet Union, Russia is always right and we arc always wrong," said Chamberlin. Chamberlin explained that there must be a spirit pf reciprocity recipro-city and equality between the two nations and that Russia must cooperate as well as the United States. Battle of the Bulge, where it saw 26 days of bitter action in freez ing cold. Operating in the nor thern flank of the Ardennes Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD Of Nov. 20, 19Z5 winning a series of spectacular victories OnIX'11) cme to Washington from Seattle the other tho Fas torn Frnnf '7 , R ' ""t""' wui ius iu conquer. the eastern ront. erry GO round SCaMle PSt ' Intellience- He also, served Hitler, but only as a show Mr. Ttuman took a long-delayed step to-horse. to-horse. His aging bones WOUldn t permit any-jward mending, her relations with the ladies of the thing more active. They trotted him out ! P"5 b inviting them to a White House supper. . tn mal(P sneeches nnH to nose in his death's ."". veri a lQX wno were Ien out were to make speecnes arm to pose, in njs aeain s4more miffed than ever The dinner was head hat ana gOla-Draiaea umiorm, as tne j delicious turkey, sweet potatoes, three different embodiment of a lost glory. kinds of ice cream. . . . Mrs. Truman went out ioi ner way wr oe miormal There was no head. But he lived too long. And when the AI-,De. se just piunRea nerseif down among sev lied troops captured him the aged hero of Galicia, the man who had seen and partici pated in the rise and fall of -the German Em a naval officer recruited from Hollywood to Brisbane at $7 per diem to get the picture. It was explained to MacArthur's headquarters that when all the photos were collected they would be presented to the nation at FDR's library at Hyde Park. The photographer waited a couple of weeks at $7 a day. but MacArthur refused to pose That was why Mexican. French, and British eenerals wre included in the navy's photo exhibit of war lead-f porters assembled for the Pearl ers, but not MacArthur. . . . Gen. Clayton Bissell.i Harbor orgy that President Tru cniei or army intelligence, is now on a trip to man would hold a special press, South America. The state department asked himj conference at the White House inj to steer clear of Argentina, because they didn't half an hour. That could be for, want it to apepar we were sending them any dis-' only oncthing to announce thei tingiushed visitors at a time when we frowned on l results of the U. S. -Canadian-1 their fascist form of government. But Bissell ic-1 British conference on atomic , . bomb control. Now it may have been that President Truman was smart enough to announce the results of his conference with Prime; Ministers Attlee and Mackenzie! King so as to take the news play away from the opening day of the Pearl Harbor probe. But probably not. A better gueso would be that the president made his atomic energy announcement; just as soon as he had it ready j no sooner and no later. Anyway,; few of the reporters left the capi-', tol for the White House because! ; Pearl Harbor with its possibilities j ! for sensational disclosures looked i like the bigger story. But was it? What happened at ' Pearl Harbor four years ago u nothing compared to what may happen at the start of the next war. Whether or not there is another an-other Pearl Harbor on a bigger scale to start ..and finish world war III doesn't depend on anything any-thing 4he Pearl Harbor investigating investi-gating committee does In the next six weeks. It depends on what Is Electric Chair at Sing Sing Unused OSSINING. N. Y., Nov. 20 (U.R) Joseph Francel, state executioner, execu-tioner, can chalk 1945 up as a profitless pro-fitless year. Sing Sing attaches disclosed today to-day that for the first time in it's 56 year history the electric chair has gone unused for a whole year. The last executions were on Nov. 16, 1944, when a man and woman were executed for a rob bery-murder in Niagara county. There are five slayers in the Fighting Divisions , salient in Belguim, the 75th cleared Salmchetcau and Been. and helped take the important bastion of Vielsalm. Sweeping down to the Seventh Army front, in the Colmar-Bri-sach area, the 75th eliminated the German pocket of resistance between be-tween Colmar and the Rhine'. By March 1, the 75th was up in north again, in defensive positions posi-tions on the west-bank of the Maas River in Holland. March 7, the division jumped to Bryell, Germany. On the 24th, the division divi-sion hopped across the Rhine, and a week later launched its first big attack on the other side. From then on, the 75th (ought in the Hotten-Grandmenil sector, took Witten, and conducted extensive ex-tensive mopping up operations in the north corner of the Ruhr pocket, at Eckern and other points. On V-E Day the 75th was at Luetgen, Germany, and shortly thereafter set up occupation headquarters at Werdohl. Later it moved out to operate an assembly as-sembly area for other troops being be-ing returned to the United States. rdeath house but they are await ing the results of appeals. Even if decisions were made in their cases before the end of the year, under New York law they must be given six weeks' notice of the date set for their death. Francel will be sure of finishing finish-ing out the year without a single $150 fee. nored the request, went to Argentina anyway, waiter wmcneii, who starts his 15th consecutive: year on the air Dec. 2, offered $1,000,000 in cash ior a iz'ft per cent share in the ABC network. He was not bluffing either. He had the cash in small bills in a strong box Eleanor Roosevelt was a guest of the Henry Wallaces during her recent Washington visit. She was feded "off-the-record" Dy tne temaie contingent of Washington corrc-i spondents. . . . Mrs. Truman still flatly refuses f w noia regular press conferences, has all her announcements an-nouncements made by her secretary. Reathel Odium, Od-ium, and Edith Helm, White House social adviser. ine jonn ttoetugers (she was Anna Roose MISISESTr erai guests and started eating Dress at the a inner was optional. Mrs. Truman wore a long gown. Rer daughter Margaret a short one. . . . Margaret was the most excited member of the party. "I am going to flunk an exam on account of mva tifo a t AAh v tvktfAmnir rvMir nice Torrvi and cursing the Russian soldiers for mJ'l' off with his chickens. Mrs. Truman took her guests downstairs to the .... ... , ... White House Projection room after dinnen to show He still wore his hussar 8 uniform and bis them a new picture, "Weekend at the Waldorf." fur shako. Rut both were lookine consider- xt was selected by Margaret. ably shabby and moth-eaten. i (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 1 CHRISTMAS CARDS Now on Display at GESSFORDS, Inc. TENDER MEAT - FINER FLAVOR -FINER QUALITY TQJjmiJZlM You Can Have a NORBEST Turkey This Year! NORBEST Turkeys are young, tender, " delicious. And for real economy, buy the larger sizes. There's more value, pound for pound. hook for the NORBEST Seal ... ON THE WING OF THE TURKEY YOU OUY The Provo Kiwanis club made preparation for the staging of a play "All In An Evening," at the Columbia theater. The play was written by Mark Anderson, a member of the club, about people of Provo. Music from the latest song hits is used in the score. The proceeds were dedicated to the Boy Scout organization. Twelve Provo students are attending at-tending the University of Utah: Ruth M. Berry, J. Rulon Morgan, Earl H. Phillips, Victor Hatch, Donald Mcintosh, J. Albert Page, Glen Ray, William Henry Ray, Jean Williams, DeLang Owen, Louise Foster, and Ella Hansen. Large audiences greeted the amateur ptfrfprmers in the M. I. A. road shows at the various ward houses of the stake. The best acts were selected to present a final show at the Provo high school auditorium two days later. Archie Sellers, Provo high school junior, won the annual cross-city long distance race, cov ering the two an a half milej course in is minutes ana on seconds. sec-onds. The junior class won the team prize. Fred Nelson finished second, with Vernon Dusenberry, third. University of Utah defeated Wyoming in football by a mere point, 7 to 6 at Laramie. An interception in-terception by Boberg accounted for the only Utah touchdown. Q's'and A'S Q What stone Is "fished" as well as quarried? A Jade. Russians of Turkestan Turk-estan wade in streams and pick up with their toes pieces of jade which have fallen from larger boulders. Their toes are so sensitive sen-sitive they can distinguish jade from other stones. Q What is annual U. S. steel capacity? A 95,505,000 tons. Q What is the meaning of the name Venezuela, where a revolution revolu-tion took place recently? A Little Venice. But the nation na-tion is a third larger than Texas. 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