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Show PROVO, UTAH " COUNTY. UTAH. TUESDAY. APRIL 2, 1946 Editorial :.; The Washington Mry - Co - Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs National Air Policy American aviation remained at a standstill for seven years after World War I, while Europe soared far above and beyond us. Then, in 1925, came the report of the Morrow Mor-row board, which co-ordinated' the 24 aviation avia-tion investigations and reports made since 1918 added its own recommendations, and presented them in a coherent pattern which became the legislative framework for our belated advance in air commerce and air power.. - That power reached its peak, of course, Hiifinaf V10 laf fnnr vonrs. thrnuirh broad authorities and immense, expenditures under TJZJfZ the war powers acts. But now, nearly a year fter V-E day, we are in a position not unlike un-like that of 1919. We still have a national air policy based on the Morrow board recom- MAtiTnf!nno Tn Viv UrrVi rf OA VOars' H. ucuuanwuo. ill MIC "6"" J " .44!.,t K.. kl.Mn I M.., 1n-,. Vancement, it is not much better than the .heg9n ,n Mexi City jn the winter of 1945, dur ing the Chapultepec conference. At that time Roosevelt was in Yalta. At that time, also, the foreign ministers of Brazil, Mexico and Peru, together with Ecua-dorean Ecua-dorean ambassador to the United States, throughly through-ly discussed with Nelson Rockefeller the question of Argentine recognition. In fact, they even worked out a formula by which Argentina, the only Latin American nation which had not declared war on the Axis, would join the other Pan-American nations na-tions and in return receive our recognition. The formula was: (1) That Argentina would declare war on Germany and Japan immediately; (2) That Argentine Ar-gentine troops would be withdrawn from Brazilian Brazil-ian and Chilean border; and (3) that Argentina would suggest that the Pan-American Nations appoint ap-point a committee to investigate all Nazi activities activ-ities througout the hemisphere including Argentina. Argen-tina. HARRY HOPKINS SAID NO This formula was sent by radio to FDR, then By Drew Pearson (CoL Robert S. Allan on a c 1 1 v duty) WASHINGTON Now that Colonel Peron is finally confirmed as. president of Argentina, the state department faces its toughest Pan-American problem to recognize or not to recognize. Strongly influencing this question may be a secret document with the initials "OK, FDR" in the corner, giving the late president's approval of Argentine recognition. At one time Secretary Byrnes swore that such a document did not exist. He told Nelson Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, former assistant secretary of state, .that he, Byrnes, knew FDR better than Rockefeller and that he was convinced Roosevelt could not have okayed Argentine recognition. I Rut Rrwlrf11ii. nrrvlnrawl tKa rfiviimant nrwt Byrnes had to admit that the signature was authentic. auth-entic. This column is now able to publish the fuU text of the secret Roosevelt decision to recognize recog-nize Argentina. Behind this decision were some hitherto con- nothinof the seven lean years after Armis tice day. There is one cheerful aspect, however. In about a month hearings are scheduled to begin be-gin on the so-called" 'Mitchell bill, which would establish a national air policy board of nine members appointed by the president. The bill's author, Sen. Hugh Mitchell of .Washington, would have this board report within three months on the questions which "seem to be most urgent and vital to our aviation future. Among them would be the governments policies toward technical progress in air transportation, the size of our peace-time air forces and their co-ordination with government govern-ment agencies related to aviation and trans portation, the maintenance Of a balanced , aboard his cruiser en route home from Yalta. Har ry Hopkins, who was with him, was opposed. He did not believe Argentina should be recognized. Admiral Leahy, also with the president, had the opposite reaction. He favored recognition. In the end, Roosevelt wired back his okay. But there were hitches in Mexico City. Argentina Ar-gentina felt it was then too late to declare war Simultaneously the state department received word that the Russians were making overtures to Argentina and conniving with the fascist elements around Peron. So the final decision at Mexico City was to leave the door open in the Chapultepec agreement for Argentina to sign up later. Following this. Brazilian Foreign Minister Pedro Pe-dro Leao Velloso flew to Washington from Mexico City and had further conferences with the state department. Finally a new formula was devised by which Argentina would join the United Nations at San Francisco. After it was drafted and received the approval. of the Brazilian. Peruvian and Ecuadorean gov ernments. Nelson Rockefeller took it to President Presi-dent Roosevelt. He read it and expressed his approval. ap-proval. Then young Rockefeller suggested that the nd expansible aircraft production, the rela Jtiori of civil to military aircraft industry, the adaptation of wartime improvements to existing ex-isting modes of air transportation, and, fin-tally, fin-tally, the co-ordination, strengthening, and preservation of all types of the nation s com-mercial com-mercial transportation. That's a large and jaw-breaking order, but Jit needs filling. There are plenty of varied aviation reports available today, as there were after World War J.-J But again they re-Jquire re-Jquire tying together.: JThe single voice of experience of any one government agency, ibranch of service, or division of industry Jcannot begin to give the .whole picture. Our need of a new, intejigeht national air policy is tremendous. Much has been, said Jabout the fact that our present military air-craft air-craft are obsolete. This is a day of revolu tionary advancement in viation. This coun-1 document be initialed. FDR complied. It was one rtry must start from scratch, know where it's going, get on the way, and be sure of Jgetting there. The Mitchell bill looks as if it would be able to give us the needed start. It may be hoped that congress will give it the careful consideration that its important subject Jmatter deserves. Russia's Motor Monopoly ! Russia is rushing the construction of her automobile factories not in one industrial icenter but in SEVMN, and each of the seven is reported to be aimed for a production ca-pacity ca-pacity as great as Detroit. One factory, near-Ilng near-Ilng completion, will have a capacity of turning turn-ing out 1,000 automobiles a day. The goal, under the five-year plan, is one million cars the first year, and six million a year by 1952. I This means approximately ten million automobiles au-tomobiles in the next five years. The Russian Rus-sian market cannot absorb this many automobiles auto-mobiles ... so Russia must look for foreign outlets, foreign markets, and in competition with American made automobiles. This means 'price' competition. It means .fort that P ran PTrrwrt HTDRK'. srilrac V i,.t, :,j-- ; ,,i. . . nations hi tne Aiiaimc v-ny uwntuv conierence motor industry m this country in order to wisecracked: "We asked for 500,000 tons of wheat He Sure Left a Lot of Offspring JLimesM2:mYsi. W to Home, Sweet Prefab Home of the last official documents he ever signed Shortly after that, Roosevelet took his last journey to Warm Springs, Ga.. and a few weeks later the American delegates to the United Nations conference at San Francisco used the document as a basis for the admission of Argentina to the conference. The formula bearing Roosevelt's initials in the margin follows in full: "Articles 1. 3, 5 and 6 by their nature and purpose constitute a single declaration. "It shall be acknowledged that the Argentine nation has accepted the invitation implied in the above articles when her government shall have: "(A) Declared by decree the existence of a slate of war with Germany and Japan: "(B) Expressed conformity with the principles prin-ciples and declarations of the final act and complied with such principles and declara tions; "(C) Signed the final act of Mexico City at the Pan-American Union. "The Argentine government will then: "(A) Be recognized by the governments of the American nations and "(B) The United States as the depository state will request that Argentina be invited to sign the joint declaration of the United Nations." Other Pan-American nations know all about 0viof0np n Vll t4Ariimmf anil i .fill im doubtedly influence their attitude toward recognition recog-nition of the Peron government. UNRRA MERRY-GO-ROUND After Mayor LaGuardia was appointed to take Governor Lehman s place, delegates of hungry nations at the Atlantic Desk Chat Descriptive Definitions DATE what an executive some times makes with his secretary. ENGAGEMENT when the date happens to be with the woman wom-an he loves. APPOINTMENT when the date happens to be with his wife who more often than not meets him during business hours because she wants some money. FREE COUNTRY a place where one man Is as good as another an-other ... if his check is. ever-mounting cost of living in meet the the USA f Is it part of the Russian five-year plan to Reep American workmen discontent while Russia tools her motor industry? Will American labor be able to compete Jwith Russian labor? J Or, will Russian competition, plus a 'low' tariff, in the world automobile market cause Ja serious labor depression not artificial jin the U. S. A.? and you gave us a "Little Flower'". . . . Without disparaging the many fine qualities of Fiorello. some felt that food problems would not be solved by an atomic bombshell The LaGuardia appointment was right out of the Missouri mule. . . . . . Some UNRRA delegates tried to sell the Russians on Churchill as Governor Lehman's successor. suc-cessor. They told the Russians: "He is only half English; the other half is American." Replied the Russians: "We will take him in halves" . . . Meanwhile 1.000.000 Jews in enemy countries are still being treated and fed as enemies rather, a tough sequel to the five years they suffered under Hitler. UNDER THE DOME Most comprehensive program for penetrating the Soviet iron curtain and making friends with Soviet Russia has been put forward by Wisconsin's Wiscon-sin's Senator Alexander Wiley. . . . Hollywood has decided to do something about Assistant Secretary Sec-retary of State Benton's request that Hollywood depict the USA as it really is rather than a land of cowboys and gangsters. A $2,500,000 picture tentatively called "Magic in the Air" will be produced prod-uced by the Gerrold T. Brandt group. . . . Congratulations Con-gratulations to Comdr. John Steele of the American Amer-ican Legion for finally going to bat 100 per cent on the veterans housing program. Best veterans' &ble solution extension of the draft. idohe by the American veterans committee with the Yet congress continues to temporize and AMVETS also active. The veterans of foreign wars idodge the issue. The latest delav is the were on record as favoring the bill, but weren't so lias us kouc qui xur one vi government agencies which. without any fanfare, is doing an A-l job the tariff commission. Just as the state department is ebout to embark on new tariff treaties, congress decides to lop off the tariff experts who prepare all the trade data for the state department. . . . Charles Wakfield Cadman, famed American composer, com-poser, has written a new song. "Clear the Way," dedicated to labor writer Lewis Booth. (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Delay and the Draft m. T7 14. A 1 e 1 , . jnusinienis nave iauea to Dring our peacetime army to the size that our national Jstrength. position, and safety seem to re-tquire. re-tquire. This has been pointed out to con-gress con-gress and to the public by most of our top military men, and it has been clearly im-plied im-plied by the secretaries of state, war, and Jnavy. Their advice and warnings have tpointed toward one unpleasant but inescap- fVtlA enln txr Dvtonclnn rf 4-Via 4.n?4- t....t. militiivii affair- Ui J I i 3C1VC. fc . . ."T"". n UW.1&WI1 tne lesser-known no noia two weeKs oi puouc nearings on extension ex-tension of selective service, which expires May 15. It is difficult to see what these hearings 'can accomplish, beyond the delay itself. Cer-tainly, Cer-tainly, opposition to draft extension can be llound. The continued calling up of young fmen, even in relatively small numbers, is painful and unpopular. But when all the Joblections are in. it is likely.that the neces-5ityy neces-5ityy as set-fortii in expert testimony, will Jremain. And, worse than the delay, it seems to us, Is the way- that . congressional opinion has Jshif ted with shifting internation currents. When tension with Russia was highest, a "year! extension of the draft seemed a fore-jcome. -It cannot shrink or expand as Mr. Stalin's conciliatory statement, the tempor-izinjr tempor-izinjr was resumed. We cannot trim our military requirements require-ments to the unpredictable changes in Russian Rus-sian policy. The size of our army is a long-term long-term consideration It must take into account ac-count the fact that there will be many disturbances and tensions for some time to HUSBAND NEEDS TWO WIVES The bride who'd be The perfect mate Must keep in 'mind Both-soon and late That it's her privilege As well as her fate To work industriously The whole day long. She must be tidy, Ambitious strong With the will to do. Know right from wrong. She must be willing, kind Yet always mindful Of the ties that bind. At eventide When shadows fall She must be her Other personality . . . Must become the Patient, winsompaI Eager to listen As well as to chat ... Ready of wit Never dull or flat. Each ideal wife Beneath the sun Must learn to be Two women merged in one! Yesterday's Tomorrow's Simile As honest as a 'swindle-sheet. Once News Now History Thirty Years Ago From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD Of April 2, 1916 Joseph W. Dunn and C. H. Ward of the Commercial club good roads committee, appeared before the board of county commission ers and submitted a proposition for bonding the county for a cement road for 50 miles from the Point of the Mountain to Santaquin. George Austin and other rep resentatives of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company will make a trip to the Castle valley country to survey the area for a sugar factory- Plans have been carefully but secretly worked out io enlarge the Provo Electric Supply company com-pany into a $100,000 corporation. The stake MIA pennant for the greatest number of points scored in special MIA activities was awarded to Bonneville ward. The following are the next three: Grand View, Springviiie Fourth, Provo Sixth. H. C. Nutt, general manager of the Salt Lake Route, reported that as soon as the snow is off the ground a corps of engineers win te sent into tne field to de- It ermine the best possible route into uinta Basin. By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 2 Housing expediter Wilson W. Wyatt made a two-day plea for his emergency- program before the Senate Banking and Currency committee after the bouse got uirougn Knocking the foundations out from under it. But how much resconstruction the senate can do is a bit uncertain. One of Wyatt's key points is a provision for guarantees to the manufacturers . of prefabricated houses. It's a new industry, bucking buck-ing all sorts of obstacles, and housing people in Wyatt's executive execu-tive end of the government feel that the builders need all the encouragement en-couragement they can get. - mere are now 33 manufac turers of prefabs in business, and this is their big opportunity to survive or perish. Wyatt estimates the present capacity of the in dustry at 100,000 units a year, but his new program calls for 250,000 this year and 600,000 next The industry could easily be expanded under wartime production produc-tion methods to the point where new prefabricated houses would roll of the assembly lines like peanuts out of a slot machine. The catch is that nobody knows whether the public will buy them. ioo Revolutionary Popular taste is a funny thins. All the logical arguments in the world can be presented on the advantages of living in a stream lined, dustproof, mothproof. 20th Century efficiency domicile with built-in bath and garbage dis posal. But if it looks like a squashed pile of something Junior created, bUndfolded, with his blocks, it just isn't the conven tional white clapboard, red brick. or chicken wire and plaster Cali fornia bungalow with green shutters that people are used to living in. Round houses still don't have corners for grandpappy to sit in or for standing the broom in and no place for corner cupboards. cup-boards. And it's still impossible to buy carpets shaped like a slab of pie, or concave pictures to hang on the inside of the outside trails. Maybe that's why they ay the industry need protecting. If these prefabs catch on in rural areas, however, watch for a revolution in the U. S. Christmas calendar art which illustrates scenes to go with "Over the river and through the wood, to grand mother s dwelling we go. The horse may know the way to carry the sleigh, . but look for him to rear back and run away if the old homestead is converted into something that looks like an- enlarged en-larged incubator. Maybe they've got something there, though, if the prospective buyer is interested in raising a family. End Housing Shortage But, seriously, the need for all the emphasis on prefabs is that there simply aren't going to be enough standard building ma terials to make possible the construction con-struction of 2,700,000 conven tional-type houses in the next two years. That's why Wyatt is leaning on 850,000 prefabs to keep that many famUies in out of the rain and out of .the hair of relatives they might otherwise have to double up with. Senators listening to Wvatt's program didn't seem to be too well sold. Senator Robert A. Taft thinks 150,000 prefabs is all the market will absorb. Senator Homer Capehart, the big radio man from Indiana, says he would go along with granting the prefab makers RFC loans for factories and machinery, but he's not so sure about the wisdom : of having the government guarantee them a market. If the government does that, Capenart said in summing up bis opposition, "I m in the wrong business." Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, acting chairman in the absence of the ill Senator Wagner, didn't stop to think how "My old Kentucky prefabricated home would sound if set to music He turned to Capehart quickly. "Well," he said, "you could build 'em a radio set for each house and make up for aU your other losses." 1 THE CLARK CLINIC announces the association of Dr. Stanley N. Clark, Jr. General Practice of Medicine Any man big enough to save his country won't do things for expediency or to win votes. A Theme for a New Sonr Lyric Tingle tangle. Jingle jangle. Mingle,, mangle monk Spingle spangle, Fingle fangle. Cringle, crangle cronk! Curious Cynic Cants . . . ...the height of desperation: the girl who marries a widower with seven children. ...you can judge a girl by the dates she makes and keeps ...remember, Genevieve, it isn't so much your actions but the thoughts you think TODAY that determines what you will be 10 years from now. . . . amateur radio performers are the only ones who are willing to work for the love of mike. The wife of a certain congress man who helps him by answering some of the letters he receives from constituents is sensitive on the subject of her deficient orthography ortho-graphy 4)ut nevertheless her demands de-mands for information as to correct cor-rect spelling sometimes placed her peace-loving husband in a delicate position. He appreciates her willingness to help him out and doesn't want to hurt her feelings by gruffly' telling her 'to look it up in the dictionary but last week 'when she interrupted his perusal of the evening paper with . . . "Henry, do you spell 'graphic' with one: T or two?" I "My dear," replied the solon with the utmost diplomatic tact. if you are going to use any. you might as well use two." TRUISM: the best time to save money is while you are getting get-ting it. Treu Method of Reducing XOVO Bldr Xoom Fkenc Relax taut nerve and muscles. Let us treat you th Trtu way of living I i i''yri f H fx - 1 i n m ; , 1 ? iHi IIL , V - 4 WSPW: h t t " i H-pfi fr':d1 i it - friii-'' , M ft wf . r 5 ' " if " yfil I k ' ( -lfi & - ' ' ' r i v 6 k CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES for Success to the . BOOTERIE On its progressive 'addition to Provo's shopping center. The lovely carpets and linoleums were furnished and installed by our floor covering department. t We have the homefurrnshings stocks the decorators and the skilled workmen to successfully decorate your home at competitively lower costs. DTI u |