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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII. UTAH Neighbor WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS , By Edward C. Wayne Stowaway Mento Inters) . in ins IS SUM HIT "'---' 'No Quarrel With U. S.', Declares Hitler, But 'Aid to Britain' Ships Will Be Sunk; Debate Continues on Lease-Lend Bill; New Japanese Envoy En Route to U. S. (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In then columns, the are thus of Itae new analyst and not necessarily (hia newspaper.) - (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Act ' A'.-lTA l--"4:i-'A'C! it I 6 FORT DIX, N. J. Taking- advantage of a snowfall along the eastern seaboard, members cf the 44th Division's ski patrol glide down a hill in their first maneuvers in this huge army encampment. Warfare knows no seasons, so Uncle Sam mast prepare to fight under any condition. The patrol pictured here was organized by Lieut. Eric Wilkner, formerly of Laphvnd, Sweden, but now of New York's 113th infantry. EIGHT YEARS: Of Hitler On the eighth anniversary of his assumption of power, Adolf Hitler told his people and the world that U. S. aid for Great Britain "will be torpedoed" and that "Europe will defend itself" in case "those people" peo-ple" (meaning Americans) enter the war. A cheering crowd of 20,000 gathered gath-ered at the Berlin Sports palace for the speech heard the German dictator dic-tator tell of Nazi plans to defeat England in the coming months. He said that Germany had "armed and armed and armed" and that anyone seeking to destroy that nation would get a rude awakening. He told also of Germany's preparation of military mili-tary surprises that will be used In the coming battles. He said that enemy hopes for revolts In Italy be-' be-' cause of Italian setbacks were in vain. The British were challenged to invade the continent Hitler declared that 1941 "will be the historical year of a great new order in Europe." He said also that Germany has never been against American interests. BRITAIN'S NEED: Congress Considers There was a growing feeling In congress that unless the President's measure to permit him to lend or lease material supplies to Britain was passed soon, the Germans would arrive before American arms. Administration leaders made concessions con-cessions to opponents of the bill in order to obtain greater speed. They agreed to set a time limit on the President's powers, they were willing will-ing that a clause should be contained con-tained in the bill to prohibit convoy by U. S. naval ships, and they were agreeable to an amendment which would require the President to report re-port every three months to congress. Further they would not go and effort to make the proposal ineffectual inef-fectual by further amendment met firm resistance. 'Meanwhile supply nd military experts held conferences confer-ences with the new British ambassador, ambas-sador, Viscount Halifax, whose arrival ar-rival in America was unprecedented. unprecedent-ed. He came on the ILM.S. King Seorge V, a new battleship just recently re-cently launched and which was not yet known to be in commission. He was met at Annapolis by President Roosevelt. MISSION: Failure Expected Kichisaburo Nomura, admiral of Japan, is a graduate of the United States naval acsdemy. During the World war he was Japanese naval attache in Washington and a close friend of the then assistant secretary secre-tary of the navy, Franklin D. Roose velt. Now Admiral Nomura, admittedly a pro-American among Japanese, is en route to Washington as the new ambassador from Tokyo. He sailed, he said, on what promised to be "a mission of failure." Young er men, offered the job, turned it down. They said it would be sure to end their political careers. But Admiral Nomura is a man of courage. He lost an eye when a bomb was thrown and killed several sev-eral other politicians. He received a glass eye from the empress herself. her-self. Before he left Tokyo he had a duplicate made, in case anything HIGHLIGHTS . . . of the news Envoy John G. Winant, former Republican governor of New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, is acceptable in Britain s the American ambassador, succeeding J6eph P. Kennedy. Gnests The Grand Duchess Charlotte Char-lotte of Luxembourg, now a refugee in Canada, will visit President Roosevelt in the s cond week of February. She will be a guest at the White House for two days. ( .. Ill ' should happen to his artificial eye. It is not his eye, however, which is most likely to fail him. Back home Foreign Minister Yoskue Mat-suoka, Mat-suoka, also educated in an American Ameri-can college through the kindness of American charity, did not wait for the admiral's arrival in Washington. Matsuoka declared to the diet that he considered U. S. policy "outrageous," "out-rageous," in that it objected to Japanese control of the western Pacific. Pa-cific. He said that the fate of world civilization depends wholly upon America's attitude and refused to accept the theory of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull that the invasion inva-sion of Manchuria by Japan was the first step in destruction of world peace. HISTORIC CITY: History Repeats The town of Derna, now in Italian Libya, has an historic place in American history, for it was at this village where ended one of the most courageous exploits of the American army. The year was 1805 and the United States was at war with TriDoli. after refusing to pay tribute to that nation in order that American ships would not be molested by pirates on the open sea. "Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute." had thun dered Charles C. Pinckney a few years before and the slogan was re pea ted now. William Eaton, a captain in the American army who had been at tache to Near Eastern countries, found himself in Alexandria. Ervrnt. There he recruited a motley crowd or about 40 Americans, several hun. dred Greeks and as many Arabs. On March 8, he started across the burn ing desert toward Derna, a city of 10,000. The campaign experienced untold hardships, was almost without food or water, several times faced revolt in its own ranks. But by cool brav ery Eaton dragged his army 600 mues across the sands and attacked Derna. On April 27 the city fell to the American army. The war end' ed soon afterward and Eaton re-turned re-turned home to be forgotten. As March approached this year another army which started in Alex andria stood before Derna. now a city of 65,000. British troops with modern mechanized columns, lines of communications and trains of wa ter, had put to rout an Italian force several times larger, engaged them in battle at Sidi Barrani, at Bardia. at Tobruk, and appeared to be masters mas-ters of the desert More than 100,000 prisoners had fallen before them. Shock in Italy In Rome there was no confirmation confirma-tion of the rumor that Marshal Ro-dolfo Ro-dolfo Graziani had been relieved of his Libyan command. But the Graziani Gra-ziani rumor was not the most startling. star-tling. There were stories of uprisings upris-ings in Turin and Milan, of troops joining in the demonstration against Mussolini, of anti-Fascist speeches in the market place and of obscene words written on posters containing Mussolini's picture. All this was denied, but more persisted. per-sisted. They said Germans had taken tak-en over the Italian censorship of postal, telephone and telegraph services. That three Italian generals gen-erals had been shot that thousands had been arrested bv secret Dolice. that revolt was halted only when German troops took over. MORE: Resistance Presence of the Germans in Italy and the Italian army was having one effect however. The Greeks were meeting suffer resistance in Albania. Alba-nia. German planes and pilots engaged en-gaged Greeks and the British air force. Tanks and mechanized units of the Italians counter-attacked around Valona in force. Athens said their lines were able to hold out and would soon resume the advance. i y j ' te-rt 'if I mm- taUl&tlMjJ, herzLl wfC LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Embarrassed naval officers have threatened disciplinary action against any sailor who might have helped Shirley Dale, 23, pictured above, aboard the V. S. destroyer Long, two hours before it sailed for Honolulu. She was discovered and put ashore. . DEBTS: U. S. Needs Money Congress is ready to consider plans to increase the national debt limit and raise additional funds to finance defense efforts already authorized. au-thorized. The present debt limit set by congress, is $45,000,000,000. Chairman Doughton, of the house ways and means committee, introduced intro-duced legislation to raise this limit to $65,000,000,000. At the same time a plan was sub mitted for selling 25-cent defense stamps to the general public. The plan parallels the War Savings stamps of 1917. Meanwhile the committee of fed eral finances of the United States Chamber of Commerce sounded a warning. It recommended a federal feder-al agency to "co-ordinate the debt program with the general fiscal plan." They also suggested congress establish the debt limit at a sum only necessary to cover the necessary neces-sary borrowing immediately in sight. "Financially," the report said, "the government is in a wilderness." wilder-ness." DRAFT: Harsh Words In England the government has had the power since the early days of the war to draft manpower and capital for defense. Virtually the same powers were voted to President Presi-dent Roosevelt under the selective service act In neither country has there been much of a crackdown on industry, the force of the law being sufficient to compel co-operation of recalcitrant plants. But now England is talking of drafting labor to man its factories and in Washington there has been threat to use the power on one or two industries. Most vocal of these instances was at a meeting of the lumber and timber products defense committee when Leon Henderson, defense commissioner in charge of price control, warned that prices must be cut sharply and production speeded. Henderson said there had been some improvement He said prices in December dropped to $35.01 per 1,000 board feet but would have to come down to $25, or the government govern-ment would take over. "I've had all the arguments, excuses and explanations explana-tions I want and a whole lot more than I need," he said and stalked from the meeting. In the Army Winthrop Rockefeller, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller, got up one morning at 5 a. m. and reported re-ported at the New York recruiting office at 6 for transportation to Fort Dix, N. J. He'll never get rich, he's in the army now as a private. On the other hand, Ernest Eisle, 22, of Pontiac, Mich., who fought to evade the draft is dead. When federal officers called with a warrant war-rant for evasion, a gun fight resulted. result-ed. Two officers were stabbed and young Eisle fatally shot With the approach of sm-int? the draft will be speeded. The objective objec-tive is 800,000 men in camp under the selective service law before June 1. Between now and then the monthly drafts will reach about 100.-000 100.-000 men. MISCELLANY: C The sword which George Washington Wash-ington gave to the marquis De Lafayette La-fayette will be returned to America. Marshal Petain of France handed it to Admiral Leahy. American am bassador, for delivery to President Koosevelt. C The B'nai Brith voted its ninety-seventh ninety-seventh anniversary award for "honor, duty and achievement" to Norman Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross. C The North Star, ship of the bureau bu-reau of Indian affairs, has reachprf the Antarctic ice barrier and is loading load-ing the equipment of the Byrd expedition expe-dition for its return home. C. The Chase National Bank of New York retains its place at the head of U. S. commercial banks for 1941, according to the publication "Amer ican Banker." Chase has deposits of $3,543,337,546. ...jium"JW " ""II"J'"IW 'iiy nin j r--r h - -,r '''w'sV ; v .'' ; ' ' Vv " A V - j American Agriculture Indebted To Abraham Lincoln More Than, To Any Other of Our Presidents ''4 r yr .vr. r.'.y v--'. - A4' jiaw miwm By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) A TALL man in rusty black arose from his chair on a flag LA drarjed datform and L speaker's stand. He seemed ill at ease as he gazed on the weathered faces of the Then he began to speak. ness vanished. His sorrowful, voice warmed. His hearers leaned forward to catch each word. "No other human occupation," occupa-tion," he said, "opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor la-bor with cultivated thought as agriculture . . '. Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two where there was but one is both a profit and a pleasure. And not grass lone, but soils, seeds and seasons; saving crops, dis eases of crops and what will prevent and cure them; hogs, horses and cattle; trees, shrubs, fruits, plants and flowerseach is a world of study within itself." The speaker was Abraham Lincoln. Lin-coln. The time was September 30, 1859. The place was the agricultural agri-cultural fair held by the Wisconsin Wiscon-sin State Agricultural society at Milwaukee. Most Americans remember Lincoln Lin-coln as our first martyred President, Presi-dent, as the Great Emancipator, as trie statesman whose principles have stirred men everywhere. Few, perhaps, realize what a profound pro-found influence Lincoln and his administration left on the agriculture agri-culture of the United States. Yet all his life he was a close student of farming. He knew its needs and foresaw the possibilities of its advancement as few men have done before or since. And it was as a nationally recognized representative repre-sentative of the farmer and the small town democracy he knew so well that he was invited to address that meeting in Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. These things considered, it is not surprising that in the anguish of the Civil war that threatened the nation's existence, Lincoln found time to promote the cause of agriculture and give it an impetus im-petus that is felt down to this day. Boyhood on a Farm. Abe's early boyhood was spent on a farm of 30 acres near Knob creek, about 10 miles northeast of his birthplace at Hodgenville, Ky. Because of the hills and gullies only 14 acres could be cultivated. In the fall of 1816 the Lincoln family moved again this time across the Ohio river into the heavily timbered wilderness of southern Indiana. Here they es tablished themselves on a knoll surrounded by marshy, malaria- ridden fields. There was no drinking drink-ing water within a mile. Although Thomas Lincoln acquired an op tion on 150 acres to be paid for in installments at $2 an acre, he completed payments on only half of this land. The elder Lincoln continued to vary his farming and hunting by doing occasional jobs of carpentry. In 1824, after the family had been in Indiana seven years, the cultivated area of the farm totaled only 17 acres. Thus young Lincoln as a boy of 15 was hired out to the neighbors to plow, hoe corn, split rails and make fences. He also worked as a ferryman on the Ohio river. For this work his father received $6 a month. During the hog-packing season, however, he received an additional 31 cents a day. Once more the Lincolns pushed westward. This time it was early in the spring of 1830 and the family fam-ily trekked to the bluffs along the Sangamon river in Macon county, Illinois. Reaching majority ma-jority soon afterward, Abraham Lincoln bade farewell to his family and began life for.himself. Although he left farm work behind be-hind as a career, Lincoln never ceased to interest himself in agriculture. ag-riculture. As a surveyor, as postmaster post-master and storekeeper at New Salem, as a lawyer riding the court circuit around Illinois, as a congressman and as President he made his way awkwardly to the crowd oetore mm. Almost at once his self -conscious deep-set eyes lighted up. his f continued to be a student of farm' ing and farm improvement. When Lincoln entered the White House, farming was being carried on much the same as it had been in the past half-century. Man and horse power were still the main reliance on the average farm, although an impressive start had been made toward mechanization and improvement of farm implements. It took about as long to plow a field, plant a crop and cultivate it as it had taken in Revolutionary war days. This was particularly true of the newer areas of settlement. The reaper had been invented about 30 years before, but its use was by no means universal. The steel plow had been introduced in the late 1830s and had helped speed the opening of the newly settled West. The science of soil chemistry was even more recent. Although experiments in plant feeding in Europe led to the establishment es-tablishment of the modern fertilizer ferti-lizer in this country in 1850, pro duction amounted to only 20,000 tons in 1860. Today American farmers use nearly 8,000,000 tons annually. . , Aids to Agriculture. Soon after his inauguration, Lincoln began throwing the weight of his influence behind measures that would strengthen JUSTIN S. MORRILL the position of agriculture and promote its future growth. This was sound strategy in view of the impending Civil war. Within a year three bills of outstanding significance had been passed. These were the Act Establishing the United States Department of Agriculture, the Homestead act, and the Land Grant College act. Agriculture today owes a debt to the administration which snon. sored these acts. The progress it has achieved in the past 75 years would never have been possible without them. As early as his first message to congress in December, 1861, Lin-cob Lin-cob pointed out the necessity for a department of agriculture. "Agriculture, confessedly the largest interest of the nation," he declared, "has not a department, nor a bureau, but a clerkship only assigned to it in this government. "While it is fortunate that this great interest is so independent in its nature as not to have demanded de-manded or extorted more from the government, I respectfully ask congress to consider whether something more cannot be voluntarily volun-tarily given with general advantage." advan-tage." The Act Establishing the Department De-partment of Agriculture was the result, and in his second annual message the President was able to report: "To carry out the provisions of the Act of Congress of May 15th last, I have caused the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture of the United States to be organized. The Commissioner Com-missioner informs me that within the period of a few months, this department has established an extensive ex-tensive system of correspondence m and exchanges both at home and abroad which promise to effect highly beneficial results in the de velopment of a current knowledge of recent improvements of agriculture, agri-culture, in the introduction of new products, and in the collection of the agricultural statistics of the different states. Also it will be prepared to distribute, largely, seeds, cereals, plants and cuttings, cut-tings, and has already published and liberally diffused much valuable valu-able information in anticipation of a more elaborate report which will in due time be furnished, embracing em-bracing some valuable tests in chemical science now in progress in the laboratory." Lincoln closed his statement with the hope that the department would "realize at not too distant a day all the fondest anticipations of its most sanguine friends and become the fruitful source of advantages ad-vantages to all our people." How prophetic was this hope is a matter of history. Although the department was not represented in the cabinet with a secretary until 1889, it proved its worth immediately. im-mediately. Today every farm home feels its benefits. County agents everywhere assist farmers in improving their farm methods, testing their soil to determine its plant food needs, advising them on how to increase the productivity productiv-ity of their holdings. The Homestead Act. Another milestone in agricultural agricul-tural development was the Homestead Home-stead act, signed by President Lincoln on May 20, 1862. During the course of its operation nearly 250,000,000 acres of public domain have been thrown open to private farm, ownership. Instead of requiring the payment pay-ment of $1.25 or more per acre, the Homestead act gave 160 acres free to every settler who would live on it for five years. Settlers Set-tlers rushed into the new lands, and while the Civil war was still in progress 2,500,000 acres were thus given away. This created more than 15,000 farms of 160 acres each. New railroads were built to link the western farm lands with the eastern markets. The new crops helped feed the union armies, furnish hbers and raw materials to factories, and provided an exportable surplus wnicn bum a profitable trade with Europe. Most imrjortant sten in aiding the cause of scientific agriculture was the Morrill act, or Land Grant College act. named for Justin S. Morrill, representative in congress and afterwards sena tor irom Vermont. Signed by President Lincoln on July 2, 1862, this law gave to each state as many times 30.000 acres of nublie land as it had senators and rep resentatives. This land was to provide funds for the establishment establish-ment and support of a "college of agriculture and mechanical arts." The far-flune system of aericul- tural colleges in everv state of the Union today owes its exist ence to this act. These colleges are a Powerful factor in disrnvpr- ing new facts concerning the soil, us needs, crop ana live stock improvement im-provement and better farming methods. Not only do these col leges educate young men to apply these facts and methods in nrtunl farm work, but agronomists and soii scientists are continually carrying car-rying on experiments with crops, soils and fertilizers in their states. As a result of their work, the average farmer can have the benefit of exDert and nrartiVnl nrl. vice in preparing his soil for prof- uaDie crop production. Many of these COlleffes rrnvir1 rofnm . mendations for fertilizer grades best adapted to the needs of a fanner's soils and rrnna sfffii a test has established the necessity iur niirogen, phosphorus and pot- Obll. "Linrnln'e f nnt-tt-mt;n i i . wMniuuuuili HJ U1C development of agriculture," said au omciai oi tne Middle West Soil Improvement eommitt- ly, stand as much a monument to his greatness as any of his other oth-er achievement's Hi - i-i ttio yi. cor aency. It was astounding that under the stress of war and destruction de-struction he could h euuui cu and supported measures that would have such epochal consequences conse-quences to our development " to admit her ZZT M an, holding Up . wrown this throuPh L A delighted look came ' Brown's face cameov let me heetV keeping u tt j.""? f of his youthful pSj -omterestmgwKa DON'T BE EOS! BY VOUDiiiv...... do-take WACt itit morning-thorough, lt? helping you .taitVdSSfcS. , normal energy J r" ay. 'million! r.tuiti yournight'.restorteefe?!' next day. Try Fern A v' . ?1 " FEEN-A-MlfiTl Man's Error I In men this blunder sti find all think their litUe ? kind.-Hannah More. , Marriages Based on Glami Marriages cannot be kept all glamour according to psychola Infatuated couples sometimes t that marriage will run on glai but it takes bread and butlaj potatoes and a weekly pay chi keep it alive. 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