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Show THE LEW SUN. LEIH, UTAH "" I IMm WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Farnham F. Dudgeon French Break Diplomatic Ties With England Following Loss Of Fleet in Naval Encounter (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions arc expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) p.i..h ,y Western Newspaper Union. ' i " ' ' ' '', - J X s ' i ; I '.' i n u ' ' . v y., y ; ' v .'rj'.'i "Take a tip from me," or "How to be a vice president" might well be captions of this picture showing Vice Frcsldcnt John N. Garner congratulating con-gratulating his colleague, Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon, upon his return to senate duty following his selection as the G. O. P. nominee for Mr. Garner's post. Garner, never without a cigar, reportedly told McNary Mc-Nary at the time of his congratulations that "Charlie, the first thing you must learn for this job, is the proper way to hold a cigar." THE WAR: Strange Battle Since that fateful day on which the French government came to armistice armi-stice terms with Adolf Hitler, major problem facing Great Britain has been the disposition of the French fleet. For control of the seas and the continuation of the naval blockade block-ade against the axis powers is vital to the British cause. Weil did Winston Churchill and his advisers know that If Germany interned in-terned the French navy or turned it against England, the combined naval weight of Germany, Italy and France would be superior to their own. Naval experts throughout the world had predicted that England would never allow the French fleet to fall into German hands. And after aft-er a brief but fierce naval engagement engage-ment on the North African coast these predictions were fulfilled. As Prime Minister Churchill reported re-ported to the house of commons this battle wrecked the French fleet and cheated the dictator's attempts to control the seas. In addition to heavy French loss of life, Churchill said, seven of France's crack warships war-ships were sunk or badly damaged. At least 217 other French naval units have been seized in British ports since the armistice. This naval battle occurred when the French naval commander at Oran, Algiers, Admiral Marcel Cen-souls, Cen-souls, acting under Nazi orders, chose to fight it out after a British ultimatum demanded that he either deliver his ships in British ports or scuttle them. In the resulting battle the back bone of the French fleet was either sunk, seized or dispersed. Two days following the naval encounter en-counter the French government notified Germany that because of the "unjustifiable aggression" by Britain's fleet, France had severed diplomatic relations with England, Thus allies of what had been termed a "never-ending" alliance came to a distinct parting of the ways. DOMESTIC: First Installment It costs money and a lot of It to carry on a program of military preparedness and defense such as that now being undertaken by the United States, but some U. S. citi zens have believed that such money would just automatically appear upon call Such is not the case and now for the first time U. S. consumers NAMES ... in the neics ft Gen. Charles De Gaulle, head of the "French national committee" in London, appealed to Frenchmen in America to help in carrying on war against Germany. C George Bernard Shaw, famous British dramatist, cracked that if le were in charge of "this war, I should ask Hitler what food he needed, need-ed, so that the war might be fought out to a finish." C. On the anniversary of the day he joined the White House staff in 1903, doorkeeper to Presidents for 37 years, genial Pat McKenna died in Washington, D. C. C. Finding her brakes failed to hold as her auto plunged down a steep grade ending in a precipice, Mrs. Virginia Rios Watkins, 32, of Oklahoma Ok-lahoma City, told her mother, "Take care of my boy," warned three other oth-er passengers of an impending crash, swerved her car into mountainside moun-tainside near Tamazunchale, Mexico. Mex-ico. She was killed, the others only injured. are paying their share of this defense de-fense bill every timethey go to a movie, buy a package of cigarettes, drink a glass of beer or order a pint of liquor. For the first of the new defense taxes has been placed in effect on the following commodities and at the increased rates listed: Half cent on a package of cigarettes; ciga-rettes; 75 cents a gallon on liquor; $1 a barrel on beer; and movie ticket tick-et taxes will start at one cent of every 10 cent admission fee at 21 cents Instead of 41 cents. Taxes on toilet preparations increased in-creased from 10 to 11 per cent; automobiles au-tomobiles 3 to 314 per cent; mechanical me-chanical refrigerators 5 to 5 Mi per cent; matches 5 cents to 5Mi cents per thousand; electrical energy, 3 to 3V4 per cent; gasoline 1 to 1V4 cents per gallon; lubricating oil 4 to 4i cents per gallon; playing cards 10 to 11 cents a pack; club dues and initiation ini-tiation fees 10 to 11 per cent. All these "nuisance taxes" are expected to produce about $475,000,-000 $475,000,-000 of the billion dollars to be obtained ob-tained annually from the defense financing program. Major portion of the remaining sum will come from increased income taxes. Value Received One big reason why these new taxes are so necessary is the expansion ex-pansion of the U. S. fleet, now estimated esti-mated to be the largest In the world -and this estimate includes the hitherto first-ranking British fleet. Naval experts put the present strength of the United States fleet at 395 completed combat ships of 1,327,320 tons. This does not include in-clude $500,000,000 worth of new war ships just ordered by the navy or nearly 100 other vessels now under construction. Latest available fig ures on Britain's navy put it at 313 ships of 1,277,189 tons. While these figures are admittedly inexact they are best obtainable in Europe. Army Expansion Not to be outdone by the navy, the war department is moving along with its program of expansion and streamlining at an increasing tempo. Taxes that consumers were paying were being used by this branch of the service for new equipment, for intensive specialized training and for long-deferred promotions in the ranks of army officers. A recruiting drive of an additional 38,000 men is under way and Is expected to bring the ranks of the regulars up to 280,-000 280,-000 by September. TRUST BUSTING: Birthday Many laws at 50 years of age are outmoded and more often are forgotten for-gotten and discarded. This is not true of the Sherman anti-trust act which passed its fiftieth birthday with the federal government having 83 anti-trust esses involving 1,580 defendants pending in U. S. courts. Instituted by Senator John Sherman of Ohio as the nation's answer to the rising fear of monopoly in those days, the same law is being vigorously vigor-ously used today in battling restraint re-straint of trade by big corporations. EDUCATION: Saving Democracy When more than 11,000 teachers from throughout the nation gathered for the seventy-eighth annual con vention of the National Education association in Milwaukee, Wis., "saving democracy" and making the "schocO the first line of defense" were the keynotes of the meeting. Through the major speeches and committee reports of the convention ran this same theme U. S. schools shall continue aid in meeting "the challenge of dictators." Traying Colonel' 1 ., Col. Frank Knox, testify-in testify-in before the Senate Naval Affairs committee as it was considering his nomination as Secretary of Navy, strikes this "praying pose" while presenting a portion of his testimony. The committee apprised ap-prised his nomination by a 9 to 5 vote and the military affairs committee approved the nomination of Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War by a 13-4 vote. POLITICS: 'People's Movement1 While old guard Republicans were pondering the strange political phenomenon phe-nomenon that boosted Wendell Will-kie Will-kie to be their standard bearer in the 1940 campaign, that gentleman was busy outlining plans which he hopes will aid in carrying him to victory vic-tory in November. First step was his resignation as president of Commonwealth & Southern South-ern corporation. Then he announced the appointment appoint-ment of a permanent political advisory ad-visory committee of 12 members to help in the campaign. This group, headed by Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota, will replace no other party par-ty organization but appears to be an attempt to solidify all elements of the G. O. P. and at the same time make a bid for the nation's all-important independent vote. At the same time Willkie declared that he wanted no campaign contributions contri-butions of more than $5,000, no individual in-dividual cash gifts of more than $10, and attempting to limit the "big business curse" as much as possible, possi-ble, he stated that he wanted "no corporate contributions In any guise whether they be advertising in campaign cam-paign books, programs, or anything else." The more $1 contributions he receives, re-ceives, the happier he'll be, he says, for "In my judgment this is a people's peo-ple's movement and I want to keep it so." Apparently the G. O. P. "oomph" man realizes that his biggest job is to keep the good graces of the grassroots public opinion that was such a vital factor in his nomination. nomina-tion. FAR EAST: To Be Continued Biggest problem facing Generalissimo Generalis-simo Chiang Kai-shek as his Chinese forces have been steadily retreating retreat-ing before the advance of the invading invad-ing Japanese army has been the obtaining ob-taining of adequate supplies war goods and foodstuffs. Thus when the Japanese announced an-nounced that they had sealed the Chinese Chi-nese border with French Indo-China and that this source of supply for Kai-shek's government was definitely definite-ly cut off it looked like a grave blow indeed had been struck at China's Chi-na's cause. But from Chungking, provisional capital of the Chinese government, authoritative sources have announced an-nounced that despite this loss, the war will be continued, for accumulated accumu-lated reserves will allow military operations to continue at their present pres-ent pace for at least a year. MISCELLANY: Three Years C When Moses L. Annenberg pleaded plead-ed guilty to indictment charging him with evasion of $1,217,296 in income taxes due the federal government, the "boys fcn the back room" were betting plenty that the wealthy Philadelphia Phil-adelphia publisher and former operator op-erator of racing news Information services on a huge profitable nation-wide scale, would get off with a few sharp words and a much sharper sharp-er fine. But the "railbirds" failed to reckon with U. S. District Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago, who, after hearing the testimony of the government and after listening to Moe's plea for "justice" sentenced him to serve three years in federal fed-eral prison. C Southeast Texas battled cloudburst-swollen streams in a damn t. ing flood that took at least four lives, left hundreds homeless and caused property damape estimated at at least a million dollars. C. A new federal prison for correctional correc-tional care of 600 male prisoners has been opened by the justice dpnart. ment in Denver, Colo. C Extraordinary precautions hav been put into effect at the port of New Orleans because of the dan of fifth columnists and possible sabo teurs, according to the port commission commis-sion of that city. 4V Y. 7. ' . t , - . ( 11 ' -"" v - if I ' V ' v (i i ii-' a. ri - t . Kathleen Norris Says: How Dangerous Is College For Your (Dell Syndlcate - Carolyn will also find at college a wild young group that mistakes freedom for license, and familiarity for love. She will find girls and men who are at home in every night-club and roadhouse for miles. By KATHLEEN NORRIS CAROLYN graduated from high school this spring, and Carolyn's mother wants to know whether wheth-er it's safe to let a girl of eighteen go 500 miles away to college. Carolyn, of course, is dying to go. She has never been away from home. She has never been on her own. Jean is going. Carolyn and Jean have been schoolmates for all the four years of "high." They have studied and chattered chat-tered and walked to and fro together since small-girl days; they have danced with the same boys at school dances, and gone to many a movie with boys and without. It would be really cruel, thinks Carolyn's mother, to refuse to let the child go on into the new experience experi-ence that means so much to her, that glamorous world of college of which she and Jean have been dreaming for actual years. And yet Pitfalls Loom Large. And yet one hears such disturbing things about girls who are pushed out of the home nest so young, who have to choose their own friends, decide de-cide which amusements to take and which ones to refuse, manage allowances, allow-ances, guard health, and avoid all the pitfalls that are always awaiting the inexperienced. The general consensus con-sensus of opinion, thinks Carolyn's mother, is that college girls are pretty reckless, and that home training train-ing is soon forgotten in the independence inde-pendence and exhilaration of university univer-sity life. It's expensive, too. Extremely expensive. ex-pensive. No, Carolyn's parents think they'll have to say "no." But what to offer her in place of a prospect so completely alluring? Carolyn has had a week-end at college. col-lege. She has seen the beautiful dignified buildings set under the great trees; she has heard the laughter laugh-ter of the free and happy groups crossing the lawns and going in and out of the big doorways; she has sat in the memorial theater, so fascinatingly fasci-natingly complete in every detail, and listened while girls and boys no older than herself have walked the boards. Friendships, excitement, fun, picnics, theatricals, beaus summed up, college comprises everything ev-erything Carolyn's heart or any other oth-er girl's heart wants, and she pleads and weeps and promises and argues passionately while the matter is in debate. "She is so pretty," her mother writes. "She has always been so carefully watched! How can we safeguard her from the danger we know is there? What is your honest opinion of co-educational institutions? institu-tions? What do you think are the chances that she will have the wonderful won-derful time she anticipates, and return re-turn to us happy and satisfied when she graduates, ready to take up family and home and smalltown life again?" Questions Mother Can Answer. Well, the answer to that is, what sort of a girl is Carolyn? From what sort of a home has Carolyn come? In the everyday tests of character how sure of Carolyn is Carolyn's mother? A hundred years ago Carolyn would have been marrying, at 18, and perhaps departing, bonneted and shawled, on the front seat of a prairie schooner, never to see her homefolk again. She might have been stepping into a lifetime of misery and disappointment, but she would have faced it, plunged into cooking and sewing and farming Daughter.' WNU Servlc.f and bearing children, endured whatever what-ever discomfort her mate's intemperance, intem-perance, or unsuccess, or harshness imposed upon her. College isn't quite so serious a step. And yet it's grave enough, too, and mistakes made in college years can shadow all her future for a woman quite as deeply as even an unfortunate marriage can. Even the most ill-starred marriage has about it a certain dignity. But the girl who creeps home beaten and destroyed from college has to possess superhuman qualities to bring her young, broken life back to anything near normal again. Groups Vary Morally. At college Carolyn will find all she dreams in companionship and freedom. She will find that many of the girls and men are fine, come from good homes, hold to a code essentially es-sentially the same as that their fathers fa-thers and mothers knew. These love good times, dancing, picnics, house-parties, house-parties, theatricals, sports, big games, and are continually planning and plotting for all of them. But they take them as rational human beings, the men, however uncon sciously, thinking of all women in the terms of their mothers and sis ters, and the girls well aware that to hold the respect of desirable men friends they have to preserve their own. So in groups, with the right element of brothers and sisters and responsible persons, they go up into the snows to ski, descend to tha beaches to swim, fall in love, fall out again, consult over finals and seminars and extract fss a glorious glori-ous youthful time its very happiest possibilities. Carolyn will also find at college a wild young group that mistakes freedom for license, and familiarity for love. She will find girls and men who cut classes, entertain a general scorn for teachers and for learning, learn-ing, are at home in every nightclub night-club and roadhouse for miles, and believe in giving free rein to the most elementary human instincts. The first boy she fancies will choose some occasion when she has been eating and drinking, petting and dancing to excess, to convince Carolyn Caro-lyn that what all the other girls do certainly can't be such a serious mistake, and without caring very much Carolyn will presently find herself involved in the usual sordid affair. A Sheepskin of Cynicism. There may be moments when she is genuinely shocked, made uneasy by considering just how rapidly all this has come about, but the telephone tele-phone ringing, and the voice of some ringleader telling her of the new day's plans will quickly reassure her, and she will plunge back into the whirlpool, glad to escape the need of analysis or giving the matter any great consideration or any very serious thought WTien the inevitable moment comes to end all this, the valuable, the irreplacable element of her life is destroyed. Whether she has had only a dozen petting parties or a hundred, one lover or six, one bewildered be-wildered half-intoxicated evening in a night-club or twenty, one flunked subject or ten, won't matter. She will come home utterly disenchanted, disenchant-ed, hardened, cynical. Her old friends will not interest her, but no town or crossroads village will be so small but what she will find in it the sort of superficial Bohemianism to which college years have accustomed accus-tomed her. Girl Must Make Own Decision. Some colleges and all sororities try to keep tbeir girls under control by means ol permissions, regulations, regula-tions, closing hours, "lockouts." But these only work with the girls whe want them to work. So the problem is strictly Carolyn's. Caro-lyn's. It is for her to decide it; Mother and Dad can't do much. j Ar ASS iPhillipr CABINET MEETING The President Gentlemen, these are your two new cabinet associates, associ-ates, Mr. Knox and Mr. Stimson. Secretary Hopkins Pinch me; I still think I'm dreaming. Secretary Ickes I was positive this was coming. Mr. Hopkins What made you positive? pos-itive? Mr. Ickes The boss' statement that he wasn't even considering it. Mr. Knox-I feel strange here, don't you, Henry? Mr. Stimson-No; I'm equally uncomfortable un-comfortable anywhere. Mr. Knox Gosh, I never thought I'd land in a Democratic administration. adminis-tration. Mr. Stimson If you're surprised, Imagine my amazement! Mr. Ickes Why should either of you be surprised? A Republican is apt to wind up anywhere. Look at me! Mr. Knox (still incredulous) It seems funny here when I think I ran on the ticket in opposition to Roosevelt Roose-velt Mr. Ickes That was no opposition! opposi-tion! The President Now Frank and Rpnrv. vmi know all the boys. There'a Mr. Morgenthau who has charge of all the money. Mr. Morgenthau All what money? The President And you all know Harold Ickes. Harold, are you surprised sur-prised to find Frank Knox here? Mr. Ickes No. I always said Republicans Re-publicans make the best Democrats. The President You all know Miss Perkins. She is the secretary of labor. Miss Perkins Did he say Is or WAS? The President And you know Harry Hopkins, the secretary of . . . of . . . what are you secretary of, Harry? Mr. Hopkins I lost all track of that The President And there's Mr. HulL Voice I propose that the cabinet now sing "Hull, HulL the gang's all here." Mr. Stimson Well, Mr. President I am anxious to get to work as secretary sec-retary of war. There is much to be done. I assume I am to have full authority there. The President You'll find out. Mr. Knox I think I'll go over to the navy department at once and get things going. The President I'll be right with you. Mr. Knox That's what I'm afraid of. TELEVISION OPERA 'TELEVISION is making headway. More and more homes are now getting their radio noises illustrated. It is possible not only for the family fam-ily to argue over the radio words, but over the radio pictures. Grand opera got Its first television tele-vision broadcast the other night. It proved that It is entirely possible possi-ble to throw a fat tenor's voice into your living room, and the tenor with it. Elmer Twitchell is so sensitive to the conventions and such a slave to form that be dresses f o television opera. "It is a nuisance, to dress for a radio program," said Elmer today, "but I never can get used to opera in any form unless I am all dolled up for it I climbed into my dress clothes as soon as I found that Pagli-acci Pagli-acci was coming over the radio. I just couldn't help it" But what made Elmer sore was the way Mrs. Twitchell reacted to opera by television. She went out and bought a new ermine wrap for it "Believe it or not" declared Elmer El-mer today, "that woman has me run ragged. Do you know what she proposed when it was announced that the Metropolitan Opera company com-pany would broadcast an opera by television, right into our living room?" "No," "She put on all her jewelry, had a facial, spent four hours having her hair done and then Insisted that we go over to the corner garage, hire a sedan with chauffeur and be driven right up to our radio set in style!" PROVERBS FOR 1948 Feed not to others your uncooked thoughts. Millenium: The cry of laziness. Conventions are the silly sands on which Proficiency is stranded. No man should win or gain applause ap-plause if ethics cannot bless his cause. Our ideals are often smothered by the dollars we have earned. O A General Qui The Question, - s 1. Are sound waves viv, 2. How many Ifflclf with cannon are given i.Blllte dent cf the UnitedlfaS 3. Are more than one n, fingerprints ever fnflPaUer" man? " n ont 4. In what state was the RaW of Tippecanoe fought? aW 5. What animal is knnn bear's little brother? 65 " 6. In law what does a i nolo contendere mean? P ' 01 in7.aln what is mill, deUveredh 10. One lump of sugar K how many feet of sugar 5 The Answers 1. Intense sound waves are vkl. ble and can be photographed t spark photography. 7 2. Twenty-one. 3. As many as five of the stand-ard stand-ard nine prints have been found on one man. 4. Indiana, near the present dtt of Lafayette. ' 5. The raccoon, because it walb very much like a bear. 6. I will not contest. 7. In long, hollow bamboo stalks. 8. The Latin word pupilla, from which the word "pupil" is de, rived, means "little doll." Tin pupil of the eye is so called be. cause a person can see his image reflected in miniature in the cornea cor-nea of another's eye. 9. The sheep have large fat tails which provide energy to the herders when their natural supply of food is low. Small wagons in which the sheep may rest their tails are provided by the herders. 10. Approximately three feet FARM LANDS IRRIGATED LANDS SS.OO TO HS.M. Partly improved lands all under the Valt-Owyhee Valt-Owyhee Government Project. Deep lot Abundance of water. Long growing season. sea-son. Write for literature. 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