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Show H PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. TUESDAY; " - : : " T APRIL 16. 1946 I Editorial . . . The Washington :S What Price Tame? "Who's Who" is a valuable publication, . but hardly what you'd call snappy or prove- cative. It never occurred to us that anyone tpnnM stiidv it. or. ha vine done so, reach -2 some ominous conclusions. But that's ex nrtlv what's hannened. 5 . TVia bearer of the heavy tidings is Dr. 5 Manheus Smith educator, author, sociolo- gist of the selective service system, and, of 1 i rouse, listed in "Who's Who." He has risen )l I from his study of this thick volume of Amer- ft ican'biography with the sobering announce-t. announce-t. that fame is unhealthy. In fact, he says it is likely to carry a person off be JJ-fore his time, f; Our. natural impulse, on hearing this, was ?J to lock the office, throw the key away, stop 1 1 trying to amount to something, and just con- centrate on living out our normal life span. 1 1 But before succumbing to the impulse, we j decided to dip into "Who's .Who" and con- firm our worst suspicions, ine dip, we are ? hannv to rpnort. left na somewhat refreshed. In the brief time that we dared spare, we decided to sample the first 100 Smiths in the book. "Who's Who" is full of Smiths, and we didn't get over as far as Smith, -J (James) Mapheus. But our sample did af- ford what might seem a typical estimate of 1 1 longevity and distinction, as represented by J the typical and prolific tribe of which Dr. i J. Mapheus is a member. I The first 100 Smiths, we found, have an ! average age of 61, as against the average American's life expectancy of 65 years. That 2 I didn't seem too high a price for fame. And i when you reflect that the roster of "Who's i : WVirt" ia Tirotvn1ar9ntlv mnafiilinp nnH that. Merry - Co - Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs , J3 uicuuuuciouiij uiaavuiiiK, cwiu moi S 1 the average American male's life expectancy is rougniy oj years, me price seeuieu suu I ) more reasonable. ; Of course, all those Smiths may shortly ! succumb to the burden of fame. But right i now they seem to be doing well. In fact 11 a i. a. r i-v i . 1 ; j.1 t oi mem are past eu ana suit oearing ine burden with no apparent ill effects. Dr. Smith thinks that- fame ought to bring health and long life, since it also brings "wealth, education, medical attention, and servants." We doubt that the many teachers, teach-ers, clergymen, and librarians among our 100 Smiths are bothered with much wealth or many servants. But, granted that education edu-cation and medical attention contribute to a healthy existence, why is it, then that thir . great or small fame is cutting them down to four years too soon Z Dr. Smith has the answer strain, lack of 5 exercise, overwork, and erratic hours. To which we can only add that' if those de-. de-. structive factors are the price of fame, then a lot of famous people in this country have been overlooked. ; And if all of us tired, sedentary, overworked over-worked citizens are to take our rightful places in "Who's Who," the next edition is going to take up more room than Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf of Harvard Classics. By Drew Pearson (Cot Robert S. Alton on a e 1 1 v duty) WASHINGTON It is no secret that what worries the war plans division of the army and navy is the fact that future atomic bombs can be pried into the United States in suitcases. This is a known possibility that the American public should always keep in mind. - In fact, the probable warfare of the future will consist of smuceline 20 suitcases with 20 atomic bombs into 20 key cities of the USA. Then the enemy would notify Washington that unless it yielded on certain points by such and such a dead line, these 20 cities would De Diown to dim. Both the army and navy necessarily have studied this possibility most carefully. That Is their job, and higher-ups who are frank privately pri-vately agree that future intelligence retarding foreign nations is all-Important Also tht the day is looming: when big- land armies and battleships bat-tleships may become as old-fashioned as horse cavalry. v In the last few days, however, congress has made two moves entirely . out of keeping witin the trend of modern warfare. First, the house appropriations committee wiped out the state department appropriation for "intelligence," in other words the unit- which studies what other nations are doing. Second, the house military affairs committee has voted to continue- peacetime military conscription for the first time in history. Continuation of the draft is. of course a very debatable subject: However, few people except certain coneressional moss-backs would deny the state department money to carry on "intel licence" abroad. The amount it requested wa only $4,150,326. compared with hundreds of millions soent for "intelligence" in wartime. What some key congressmen con-gressmen don't seem to realize is. that money spent for intelligence after a war starts is like building a hosoital after a smallpox epidemic is in full swing. Like modem vaccinations, it is intelligence in-telligence before a war starts which really counts. Note A lot of people are wondering whats happened to Democratic Representative ixuis ita-baut ita-baut of Grosse Point Park. Michigan, hitherto considered con-sidered an able congressman. He is the subcommittee subcom-mittee chairman who insisted on cutting the heart out of the state department appropriation bill. We, Us, Company t t t i f t i M I S V I TWO GOOD CONGRESSMAN The Colliers' awards for distinguished service in congress to GOP Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan and Democratic Representative Mike Monroney of Oklahoma met with wide aporoval in the capital. Vandenberg was recognized for his efforts in United Nation's affairs and Monroney for outstanding service as a legislator. Several chuckles were sandwiched between the kudos as President Truman man the presentations presenta-tions at the White House, especially, when he handed Vandenberg his silver plaque. Thanking the president for "getting out of my ways," Vandenberg Vand-enberg added: "Lucky for me you aren't still in congress. Harry. I wouldn't have made " it if you hadn't moved to the White House." TRUMAN STANDS PAT I: : ! i 1 The Die-Hard Whenever he pops up in the news, which is frequently, James C. Petrillo has a way of inviting comment. The invitation is hard to resist, for the boss of America's organized musicians is a colorful and intricruine per sonality, whatever other opinion one may have of him. Perhaps Mr. Petrillo's most fascinating characteristic is his die-hard opposition to the Industrial Revolution. The rest of the world gave in long ago, but Mr. Petrillo fights on4 So far he has done pretty well in deiiance of such authority as has been put in his way. But We doubt that he can win in the Jong run, for reasons that must be as clear to him as to anyone else. Mr. Petrillo obviously feels that anvone who joins his union is entitled to a job. That is a praiseworrny sentiment, but you just can't run the art of music todav on a niere- work basis. Music is a highly competitive profession. The buying public is discriminating. discriminat-ing. It wants the best it can get for its money, which means a brisk demand for the best soloists and orchestras and few bidders for the inferior performers. Formerly Mr. Petrillo tried to force all sorts of musicians, good and bad, upon the public. But now he is asking larger studio orchestras in the movie industry, with a $200-a-week scale for 10 hours' work, because, be-cause, as one of his union officials put it, 2000 or so musicians in Hollywood studiot have "displaced 100,000 musicians throughout through-out the world." That is sad, but it is inevitable. And Mr. Petrillo's .efforts to get 100 per cent pay increase for the 2000 who have displaced the 100,000 won't remedy the situation. Going His Way Douglas Corrigan, the famous wrong-way flier of 1938, is going to run for the U. S. senate in California on the Prohibition ticket. Perhaps Mr. Corrigan has been watching the postwar drift of international relations and has decided that the world at last is going in his direction. President Truman reafirmed to members of the house committee on the minimum wage bill last week that he will not hesitate a moment about vetoing the bill if it comes to him with the inflationary Pace amendment tacked on it. "Legislation bv rider is darned bad public policy." he told Representative George Outland of California. Frank Hook of Michigan and Anay BicmiUer of Wisconsin. The three conrressmen had called While House Secretary Dave Nlles a day earlier to see if he had any suggestions to help in the fight to bring in a minimum wage bill without the crippUnr Pace rider. That nght Outland was called at home and asked to be at the White House next day along with Hook and Biemiiler. Thev left their presidential conference with a definite assurance that the chief executive wants the original minmum wage bill, without ex traneous matter. "That's the bill we want." Truman told them. "And we're eoing to keep fighting for it The entire conference was in dead earnest. with no pleasantries exchanged. "If it comes ud here with the Pace 'amend ment. I'll simply veto it lust like I did the rescission rescis-sion bill a couple of months ago with the rider returning re-turning USES (U. S. employment service) to the states. "This business of attaching unrelated riders to bills is no way to legislate and won't put my signature on that sort of thing. 75 CENT CLUB Perfect Reception It seems odd that these radio-disrupting sun spoxs ana ciouas on solar bases never siJjss U rcr Desk Chat, Editorial Column The other evening when we tuned into our favorite program a few minutes early, we were rather startled to hear the preceding pre-ceding announcer proclaim: "Miss S will now sing her favorite favor-ite farewell solo Thanks Be To GodV Overheard in the high school hallway: "After he kissed you five times, then what?" "Oh, then he began to get senti mental. Where's the Catch? Jiminy. Crickets, the bland. bantering, budget-balancer and payroll deductor, makes the col umn again with a story about a man who wanted a necktie and bought one at a men's furnishing snoppe giving tne merchant! a check for a dollar. Instead of depositing the check, the merchant attached a rider to it which read: "This is an expert- Once News Now History Tinenin Ypnrst Ann Mment to determine the life and M WVIliy 1 cars SiyU lvalue of a $1. Do not deposit until Safeguarding Atomic Secrets BY PETER ED SON NEA Service Staff Writer Congressman Hook, house sponsor of the orig inal minimum wage bill, assured Truman that there was a "majority of four" in the house labor committee aeainst the Pace amendment, and said he'was confident that the house also would reject the amendment when the measure comes to the floor. He reported that a steering committee of 75 house members had been formed to push tne bin Outland and Biemiiler also advised Truman that sentiment was increasing in congress to raise the legal minimum pay standard from the 65 cents-an-hour base, approved by the senate, to 75 cents. "Our slogan is '75 for 75," they explained, referring re-ferring to the 75 members on the steering committee, commit-tee, and their goal of 75 cents an hour . . . . "Of course, we still may have some trouble with the rules committee." said Hook. "We are not sure what will happen there, or what kind of a rule they will give us for floor procedure. Truman laughed at this and said he appreciated appreci-ated their problem. "No one knows what will happen in that committee." com-mittee." he agreed. "As you probably know; there is a fellow-statesman from Missouri among its members." He referred to conservative Democrat Roger C. Slaughter, former mayor of Kansas City, who represents Truman's home district and is one of the most anti-administration members of congress. con-gress. Note Congressman Slaughter is being nicknamed nick-named the "Ham Fish of the Truman administration," administra-tion," because, like Congressman Hamilton Fish of Roosevelt's home district, he opposes the president on everything. t CAPITOL CHAFF Representative Al Elliott of California, a former form-er prizefighter, threw federal workers out of his office when they became abusive while trying to argue for the pay-raise bill for federal employees. Elliott bumped the two federal workers' heads together, then walked them out of his office. .' . Senator Wallace White, Maine Republican, refused re-fused to sign the recent report on reorganization of congress if it contained data on broadcasting congressional debates. Other congressmen on the committee proposed two short-wave stations, one seem to interfere with the reception of sinir-iLn the t..Z , one ln t7e.,west' to Ietih P1 . , u" U1 i"g - hear what their representatives sav on the floor of congress Bills to broadcast congressional WASHINGTON While new atomic energy control Dill just agreed on by Senator Brien McMahons special committee is mild compared to the original May-Johnson bill, it is still plenty tough. The original May-Johnson bill proposed fines up to $300,000 and imprisonment up to 30 years for disclosing atomic secrets. The new bill puts the maximum at $20,000 and 20 years. But that's still a long, long time and a lot, lot of money. Prohibitions in the McMahon bill are numerous. It would be unlawful for any individual to own any facilities for the production of fissionable materials or to own any of the materials unless licensed to do so by the government. It would be unlawful for any U. S. citizen to deal in fission able materials, export them or import them, or engage in their production outside the United States. It would be unlawful for any individual to use fissionable material in a weapon. In short, the commission has almost complete monopoly control, con-trol, and this extends to control over information on atomic energy. en-ergy. The McMahon bill would direct di-rect the commission to pass out information somewhat thicker than has been the practice in the past eight months, but only if this would not jeopardize the common com-mon defense and security. Information on industrial uses would be shared with other nations, na-tions, but only after congress shall declare it's safe to do so. That probably won't happen for a long time. The commission would be directed di-rected to establish libraries and information services to see that scientific progress was encouraged. encour-aged. But restrictions would seem to nullify this big-hearted sharing of secrets. Anything which the commission classifies as ."restricted ."restrict-ed data" and the commission can write its own regulations as to what's restricted. This is where the fines hang heavy, heavy over the head and the jail house doors yawn wide, wide. "Whoever," the bill says, "lawfully "law-fully or unlawfully, having pos session of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with, any document, docu-ment, writing, sketch, photograph, photo-graph, plan, model, instrument, appliance, note or information involving in-volving or incorporating restrict ed data" well, anyone at all qualifying quali-fying as any of these "whoevers" will have to watch his step. If he discloses any of this re stricted data "with Intent to injure in-jure the United 'States," he can be fined up to $20,000 or imprisoned impris-oned up to 20 years, or both. The catch here may be in the "intent" which is awfully hard to prove in court. If anyone reveals restricted data without intent to injure the United States, but "with reason to believe" it would be so used, the maximum penalty would be $10,000 and 10 years. This might nit newspapers, magazines or, other publications. If anyone attempts or conspires to acquire any of this restricted data, or if anyone "removes, conceals, con-ceals, tampers with, alters, mutilates muti-lates or destroys" any of this data, it would be $20,000 and 20. This might effect .the curious scientists. scien-tists. The commission would be I further authorized to issue regulations regu-lations requiring anyone licensed ;to use fissionable materials in re- the search or manufacturing to keep records and reports. Also to maintain main-tain certain standards of safety and health. Any licensees not complying could be stuck for $o,uuu ano iwo years. The significant thing about all these regulations which the commission com-mission would be authorized to write is that they would be supplementary sup-plementary to existing laws. No violator could be prosecuted without with-out approval of the attorney general, gen-eral, which is a minimum safeguard. safe-guard. But the commission could practically write its own code of laws in the form of regulations, and that's an awful lot of power to give any commission in this land of the free. BARBS BY HAL COCHRAN This is the season when some husbands send an Easter bonnet back and their wives get madder than a hatter. A pastor says a girl should hesitate before marrying a man who says he is head over heels in love. Maybe, the .idea is to wait till he gets back on his feet. Senate to Pass On Oil Land Bill Fought By Ickes WASHINGTON, Aprii 16 (U.R) The senate judiciary committee today considered a house-ap proved bill that would recognize state ownership of the oil-rich tideland areas lying under water off the American coasts. The measure would supersede government suit claiming that the lands belong to the federal government The case is pending before the supreme court. Committee Chairman Pat Mc- Carran, D., Nev., was not certain the committee could vote on the bill today. A judiciary subcommittee com pleted hearings Feb. 7, but Mc- Carran has delayed consideration by the full committee on grounds that transcripts of the hearings had not been printed. Attorneys-general from 46 states all except Arizona -nd Wash ington filed a joint brief in favor of the bill before it passed the house. Harold L. Ickes, as secretary sec-retary of the interior, fought the bill. ing commercials. TODAY'S TRAFFIC TIP Watch for. curve signs, and heed them. -Danger may pe just around the corner. A watched road never turns unexpectedly. Remembersan Re-membersan "S" curve can turn laughter in slaughter. proceedings have been introduced by Senator Claude Pepper of Florida and Representative John Coffee of Washington. . . . Senator Glen Taylor, one of the best of the new senators, will campaign intensively to try to defeat his colleague, Senator Charles Gossett, in the Idaho primary in June. Both men are Democrats Taylor a liberal and Gossett a reactionary. (Copyright, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Modern youth still proposes to a girl on his knees if she happens to be sitting there. m Despite laws, some of our cities still have the smoke nuisance. Where there Is such smoke there should be some firing. - A platitude is a familiar saying that is entirely surrounded by people who Exclaim, "You can say that again." FIRE EXTINGUISHER PLANT BURNS DOWN DENVER, April 16 (U.R) Execu tives of the Red Comet Fire Ex tinguisher Co. were blushing scarlet today. A $60,000 fire gutted the fac tory here where they manufacture fire fighting equipment. RELIEVE THAT TQRUEKTIHG It is no lonttr nccMaair to put Bp with th trouble caused by Pin- Viinmm I A klriib mttmm- tiv way to deal with tbta ndr Infection naa been eetabiixhed. Aak your drnnrwt tor e-W, tka Pht-Worm tablets developed te the laboratoriea of Dr. D. Jam 4k Sob. The email. easy-favtke P-W tablets act In a epeeial way to itiewe Pin-Worma. So don't take chanea with the cmbanaMinc rectal itch and other dJatrcea earned by thea creatures that He irmtdeatba human body. If yow aoapeet .fin-Worm, set JAVNrS W and follow the direction. Tour drosxbt know t PW or Pin. Worms I AdV. 4 From the Files of THE FROVO HERALD Of AprU 15, 192C Six children of striking New Jersey textile mill workers, accompanied ac-companied by their parents and other strikers, marched to the White House to picket President Coolidge in an "effort to win his support for the strike. They car ried a banner which read: "Our mothers work nights, our fathers work days; who can care for us? There was a move on ln Wash ington to oust Lincoln C. An drews, prohibition czar and Emory Buckner, New York dis trict attorney for professiong their opinions that legalized beer would aid prohibition enforcement was being seriously talked by drys on Capitol hill. o Advices from Washington in regard to the outlook on the Pro- vo river project (Deer Creek) stated that Utah lake water users must come to an agreement before any further progress can be made, On the Provo river the Bates creek and Deer creek dam sites have been drilled and the re porV completed, but the design of the dam ana the estimate of the cost of the proposed storage still in progress. Reconstruction of several miles of D&RGW track is involved. Provo's clean-up and beautifi cation drive was in full swing under the sponsorship of the chamber of commerce beautifica-tion beautifica-tion committee. The drive was on to cut weeds on ditch banks, clean out trash from back yards, plant roses and trees, and clean up va cant lots. a The 22nd field artillery, Utah national guard was made a full regiment with Hamilton Gardner of Lehi promoted to colonel and regimental commander. there is no further space for endorsement." en-dorsement." y Then lie used the check at th cigar mart, and from there it went from hand to hand until it had twenty endorsements, whereupon it was presented at the bank for payment only to find there was no account. So, the twenty endorsers met and it transpired that each of them had made a profit of ap proximately 25. so each con tributed five cents to redeem the check. They are now wondering who- lost the original dollar that did not exist. This is a very neat reflection on' modern finance. If the check had been deposited "at once, one man. would have lost a dollar. As it is, twenty men have each made a profit of twenty cents! oOo GLOBALONEY is not a newly coined expression. It is a take off on a mid-Western rural colloquialism col-loquialism 'Hooey - galooby' which has the same general meaning: garbled, distorted and undependable. And then there was a Scotsman who was leaving on a business trip and called back to hia wife: "Now, dinna forget to take little Donald's glasses off when he isn't looking at anything." WE SHAMPOO and Mothproof Rugs & Upholstery Latest Machine Method MAYBERRY'S PHONE 1487 5 1 Q's and A's Q Does the U. S. have air fields in Saudi Arabia? A One. to be open to all na tions for three years, then revert to the Saudi Arabian government and continue operation' under American personnel chosen -by Saudi Arabia. Q How many British are to join Japan occupation forces? A 41.000 by May. Q How many board feet of lumber are used in building a house of moderate price? A 10,000. Q Is the Netherlands c6ntrol- ling Inflation effectively? A Compared to other Euro pean nations, yes. Prices are about 100 higher than 1939: wages are 25-43 higher than 1940. Q How much did taxes rise during World War II? A State and local, 22 ; fed eral, nearly 800. Approximately one in four of the 138,000 lives lost each year in the United States from cancer could be saved if the knowledge already in existence could be made available to all-assuming all-assuming that the knowledge is acted upon promptly. Here are the danger signals: 1. Any lump, or thickening, especially of the breast. 2. Irregular bleeding or discharge dis-charge from any of the body openings. 3. Any sore that does not heal. 4. Persistent indigestion. 5. Sudden changes in the form or growth of mole or wart. i- 6. Hoarseness persisting for two or three weeks. 7. Regional pain. Only in the early stages can cancer be successfully arrested. At the appearance of suspicious symptoms see your doctoi at once. 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