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Show I THE LEIII SUN, LEHI. UTAH IP1 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne iKeleased by Western Newspaper Union.) NO TIME FOR PROFITEERING IN CRISIS BECAUSE OF the World war In 1917, the government needed quantities quan-tities of paper trainloads of it. The president of one of the large paper mills was called on the phone and told the daily quantity that would be needed. "That will take the complete capacity ca-pacity of this mill," he said. "We are now operating at capacity on commercial orders. We will stop a!l our commercial business and turn our entire production over to the government, on the one condition condi-tion that both the government and ourselves put cost experts on the If 4nk U. A . S "u we govei nmeni accept as 1 a price the figures of the experts! which show the lowest cost We! will supply the paper but will not! do en at a penny of profit to ourselves." our-selves." i The president of that paper company com-pany was a German born, natural ized American citizen. Nazis Employ Giant Tincer Maneuver i In Drive to Cut Russian Supply Line; Federal Agents Arrest 29 Persons In Largest U. S. Roundup of Spies (EDITOR'S NOTE Wh opinions are expressed In these column, (her re than ( (be new analyst and not necessarily of (hit newspaper.) i (Releaed by Western Newspaper Union.) I 1 I 1 fc:,:i&dj&-z... then lived in Germany. Ke had!? . H S.,' ser. but he was first of all an Amer ican, and his company, on his condi tion, made the paper the government govern-ment used throughout the war. During the war, I was talking with the head of another company which w?$ turning out a product the gov-ernment gov-ernment needed. It was billed to the government In units, but the orders would come In many cases for quar-. quar-. ter or half units. When the fractions frac-tions made a complete unit, the price was that for one unit, but if for only fractions, the price was proportionately pro-portionately higher. As he talked about bis order, be said to me: "I am going to have all of these fractional frac-tional units billed as fractions. It will mean more money for my company, com-pany, and the government will never nev-er check it up." "Does the price you get when billing bill-ing as complete units cover your production costs?" I asked. I He assured me it did. - "You have a son in France, and 4 nave a son at sea with the navy," i saia -When the government called, they offered all they Jhad. iney did not attempt to make profit, or bargain as to price." I saw the moisture come to his eyes as he said: "You are rieht and the government will pay only me price agreed upon. It covers the cost." No patriotic, loyal American will , attempt to make a profit out of sup plying tne necessities of his gov ernment when it is at war or pre paring ror war. That, of all times, is a time for sacrifice in so far as a sacrifice can be made and still be n a position to serve. A SYMBOL OF DEVOTION WAS THE HOOD TO ME ENGLAND lost more than a battleship when the Germans sank the Hood off the coast of Greenland. The Hood was a symbol of the toy-t toy-t alty and love of English women. I was on board the Hood when she was being constructed on the ways beside the Clyde near Glasgow Glas-gow in the fall of 1918. On her as workmen were several hundred English women. They came from good English homes. They weie not worKing because of need of wsn They were working because of love oi cngiand. They were working so that England might win the conflict in wnicn she and the United States were then engaged.. Jhat work was meir saennce to a cause. It was an evidence of their love of country. The Hood was but one of many war projects in which English worn-en worn-en were doing the work of men. Not far away other hundreds were making shells for use in American guns in France, and still other hun-dreds hun-dreds were at work making cordite and nitroglycerine. 4 Any nation In which the women show such devotion to their country cannot be defeated by mere male brutality. The battleship Hood was a symbol sym-bol of that devotion. INCENTIVE' PLAN REPUBLICAN MEMBERS of the house of representatives have named a committee to ascertain what the American farmers want as 'arm program. What that com-mittee com-mittee should do Is to propose a farm policy that would mean a permanent per-manent solution to show the farm-ers farm-ers how it would work to their advantage ad-vantage and to the advantage of afl rviiicrica. Jin,ie.!ta.the dlrectlon of nur. ging the farmers "to de," rather than payments for "not doin " Th "uicentive" plan U oa the right road and that, coupled with the Andersen bill now before the house, would do Jheuick and .PPCal to American INCOME FACTS ACCORDING to the United States ury of our more ihaa 130.000.. .rp e;,1,274 h8ve facmes to IZZ": '- Of that - - mor wan one mil- ikl li -Twiii S Great Career Ends 1 r si: ji m- ' ; Sad new) to the world ol musir. uvm the death of Ignace Jan Paderewski, world famous musician and Polish patriot, who died in New York of pneumonia at the age of 80. The great pianist was ill only a lew dav. His long career was one of continued brilliance. At 9 he was a child prodigy and at 18 a professor of music. An accomplished concert pianist at 27, he later became a world recognized statesman and first orime minister of a free Poland. " w--"' wiummmm Enthusiasts The figure In the lower left corner of the picture Is an R.A.F. pilot, who Ing to come from Australians in PLANES: In fiyria floats on a rubber dinghy, dropped by the land plane overhead. The the R. A. F. in Syria and northern Af- .cr uvmg 8floi sown oy wazis, was spotted by the English air concerning the performance ncrvicc, woo racuoea me wgn speed launch, shown Just as it an- maneuverability of American. P A a than 4 Vi a fT! I m ... . V ' e p ane D0Verea above, until rescue was com pleted, then sped away upon another mercy mission. These dramatic events are almost a dally occurrence in the battle of the Atlantic. REDS: Fighting Hard In spite of empty communiques from both Russian and German sources on the progress of the war on a 2,000-mile front between the two former allies, one thing was evi- aeni, mat tne Russians were fighting fight-ing with all their might and main, but that they were being relentlessly pusnea oacit before the fury of the uerman mechanized onslaught Bit by bit and piece by piece the picture began to be seen. desDlte the fact that both sides were bar ring war correspondents from the scene. The huge front was divided into four general parts, the far northern, the northern, central and southern. On the far north there was no discernible activity. This was the part which Germany hoped to invade in-vade by means of her occupation of Norway, i The northern front really began with the Finnish-Russian border, that part of it which lies to the southeast and separates old Finland from the road to Leningrad. Here me lighting was severe, but annar- ently was mostly in the air. Another An-other portion of this front lav some. wnat to the southward, and included the states of Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania, and the Germans mov- lng from East Prussia, were invad ing these territories only recently taken over by Russia, and were slowly forcing the Russians back in to their own territory. Here the fighting was extremely severe and the Russians were fnre. ing the Nazis to advance slowly, wnere at au. The greatest Nazi advance was on the central front, with the rail cen- ter of Minsk, reputedly a "life-line" oi Russian supply between south and north armies, as the prime apparent objective. Here the Germans were claiming their greatest successes, and on the basis of meager dispatches, dis-patches, they had Indeed covered uie most mileage in this district. Yet most observers believed the Ukraine, the southern front, was the one the Germans coveted most Yet it was on this front that almost no advance had been made, the Russians Rus-sians , claiming to hold the Prut river, which was still a conslrfprahiA distance from old Russian territory. Thus the old Nazi "nincera tph. nique'' was evident as It was obvious ob-vious the Germans were trvin to divide the Russian defending armies into two parts, and drive southward to surround and encircle the Ukraine defenders, and to do the same via e name states with the northern defenders. SPY: Roundup In swift, secret moves, aeents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were unusually good, and they were built planes. These reports constituted an oddity, oddi-ty, however, with regard to the bombers and fighters. From northern north-ern Africa came glowing accounts of the performance of Martin-built bombers on the ever - growing sn-engtn oi Britain there. The bombers were fast the sights II Hp) a year. Of .... " one million lion J----take of thi r7 iTZTr to invest. Those i mJJ or total gross income oS W ' we should divide it betwf?',s rest of us. it would gll th-no th-no about 12 cent, a mr MORALE: The Mental Side As to the DroDflffana which contained much more space and information than did th mi WM very indication ttat boa side, in the Russo-German war believed strongly that the other oth-er s inner morale was weak. There were dozens of stories from Russian sources telling ol Nazi sol-diers sol-diers and aviators laying down their arms, saying, "we don't want to fight against the Communists." Tht Germans, on the other hand did not make such claims, but took the line of telling the world what brave and foolhardy fighters the Russ ans .were, and by telling stories of stands to the death" to paint the Picture of an army suffering defeat after defeat and letting its soldiers fight even inside of burning build-ings build-ings until all were killed. The purpose of each of these types J?tories was to ,mPair morale. This caused many observers to feel that the outcome of the war might well hinge on a breach in the morale of either side. completed the greatest spy hunt in me nation s history and arrested 29 persons on espionage charges. Twenty-two of the group are natives of Germany. For two years the FBI had been closing in on the spy ring which is specifically charged with conspiring "to engage in espionage activities" in the United States. Warrants issued for the arrests charged the spies with giving information infor-mation to foreign nations concerning concern-ing cargoes of British-bound ships and with revealing new developments develop-ments in U. S. naval, army and aircraft air-craft products. BOMBER: U. S.' Biggest The taking to the air of the B-19, a $3,000,000 airplane, and believed the biggest bomber in the world to- day, also the fastest and most powerful, pow-erful, was an event. Yet It disclosed that biceer and raster ships are the rule of the future, fu-ture, and the not-far-distant-future at that Not so very long aeo 400 miles nn hour was a dream, and many experts ex-perts declared that at 600 miles an hour, or 880 feet per second, the air resistance would burn up a plane. This was explodea when the U. S. army announced that at Wright field a civilian test pilot dived a plane at the rate of 661 miles an hour, or 968 feet a second, which is losing altitude almost at the speed of sound, which travels only 1,120 feet a second. The speed of the pilot, Bob Fau-sel, Fau-sel, tester for the Wright company, was a mile every 5.44 seconds. Last year Andy McDonough, an air-line pilot and an air corps reservist flew a ueu Airacobra in a dive at 620 miles an hour. And Capt Ben Kelsey had Diloted a Lockheed from March field, Calif., to Mitchel field, L. I in seven hours! at an average of 420 miles per hour. ine tip-on as to the future came from Washington, for Langley field, already with a wind tunnel which will test ships designed for 300 miles an hour, is going to be revairmed w test ouu-miie-an-hour ships. wreaking havbe'with Nazi and Fas cist planes in the air and on the ground. The Curtiss-buUt Tomahawk .fight er planes also came in for unstinted praise, not only on the North Afri can front but in Syria as well. But the Vichy French had the same Martin bombers that the Free French and British had in Syria, so it was Tomahawk against the U. S. heavier planes there. The reports of victory were still optimistic in Syria, however, the airmen reporting that the Toma hawks shot down the U. S. Martins quite as well as they did the Junkers, Junk-ers, Heinkels and Capronis in Af rica. "The fire power of these fighters Is teryifc and they have all Jhe speea you want," said the pilots. NOBODY: Satisfied The passage by the house military mili-tary affairs committee of a report condemning a long list of persons and agencies as having bungled the national defense showed a puzzled puDiic that apparently nobody was satisfied with the way our prepara tions were being managed. The house committee attacked the administration, the defense advisory commission, the army, the navy, OPM, the maritime commission and the state department and Secretary icKes. The President It said, had been too prone, when new problems arose, just to name another board, with the result that endless complications compli-cations and confusion had arisen to slow progress. And harking back to the President nimself, it was recalled that he, too, had declared himself far from Notes of an Innocent Bystander: William L. Shirer's Book, "Berlin Diary," is now out. Shirer was CBS correspondent in Berlin for years. He tells of the German mother of an airman who was notified by the Luftwaffe that her son was dead. A few days later. BBC in London (which weekly broadcasts a list of Nazi prisoners) announced that her boy had been captured. Next day she got eight letters from neighbors telling her they had heard by shortwave short-wave that her son was alive in Eng land ... It is against the law in Germany to listen to foreign broad casts . . . The mother had all eight arrested for "breaking the law" . . . When Shirer wanted to use the story on his broadcast the Nazi censor deleted it on the ground that Americans would not under stand the heroism of the airman's mother"! The way the foreign correspond ents now use the phrases "informed sources" and "according to reliable information" because stories in Europe Eu-rope are difficult to confirm, recalls this classic about the cub reporter . He was on a small town news paper and was assigned to cover a bridge party. He was told never to write anything as a fact that he was not absoultely sure about ... His story came out in the paper this way: "It is rumored that a bridee party was given yesterday by a number of reputed ladies. Mrs. Smith, it was said, was the hostess. The guests, it is alleged, with the exception ex-ception of Mrs. Brown, who says she comes from Illinois, were all local lo-cal people. Her husband says he is rich . . . The hostess, Mrs. Smith, claims to be the wife of Alexander Smith." MW IDEAS fab cMcune-maJzehl By Ruth Wyeth Speajs 1 SEW 25E AM ijMS STRAIGHT STRIP "CU? UAT.infijjff Two outstanding appeasement newspapers are very quietly pre- tJAVE you considered covering your out-of-door cushions with water-resistant artificial leather? It may be cut and sewn the same as any heavy fabric, The colors are all so fresh and gay that you will be inspired to try striking combinations. Use a coarse machine needle: a No. 5 hand needle; No. 20 or 24 sewing inreaa ana regulate the machine to about 12 stitches to the inch. The cushions shown here are green with seam cords covered in red. The sketch shows how they are made. The cotton seam cord should be about -inch in diam eter. It is covered with a straight strip IV inches wide stitched with the machine cording foot to allow the sewing to come up close to the cord. The raw edges of the paring to become patriotic. Prei c,ord coving are basted around arauons nave oeen made to get be- u wuiwm vi me cover vu we iigiu siae, as snewn, ana are then stitched in with the seam. hind the gov't at the next break in U. S.-German relations. A face-sav. -ing device is being worked out for their editorial about-face . . . Uncle Un-cle Sam has just cracked down hard on a "refugee" who was caueht do- ing Nazi propaganda here. His final citizenship papers are beinz with. held. His draft board tmt nftor hi and visas for kin refused . . . Hi initials are H. C. .. . . Immigration officials have just discovered a hie illicit traffic in Puerto Rican birth certificates for aliens. New York Heartbeat: iue Mory Tellers: Chas. T.inrt. Dergn sr. is profiled in the stt.p h his one-time law partner, Walter Eli yuigiey, who calls the niece "T.ito ainer, LiiKe Son" . . . Read the senior Lindbergh's speeches in the I dook, -your Country at War." and you u see now "like" they are. The j arguments the father made aeainst invasion m ivu (sensible then, may-be) may-be) show up in the son's soapboxing xii loti . . . Jaclc oafcie has a annA phrase, in Liberty, for those senti. mental memories of hard timp 0n that" he says, "reads better than It lived" . . . National la o - comer, taking its name fmm it chief subject national defense. It is common-sense-ational. Read it and give your brain a break. If you like variety in y0UI: ions, there is an idea for n ones made of burlap ariJT stockings on page 23 of SB Book 5. FT NOISE: Book 7. in the series o! V makers' Booklets by Mrs. Spear ' ' latest and contains directiens id V " than thirty things which you . for your own home or for gifts are working drawings for record' old chairs and other furniture ", for a spool whatnot; an unusual! rag rug; and many thing to nil needle and thread. The seven I two hundred f Mrs. Soears' NFiwi ior Homemakers. Booklets are 1 eacn. bend your order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEAI Bedford Hills Drawer 10 New IP", Enclose 10 cents for each ordered. Name,., Address, AflT Am! L Thi! na 1 Ev5 f fro rd s POWER: For F.D.R.? pleased with the way things were going, just a day or two before the nouse committee reported. William Knudsen, head of OPM, reported defense production lagging; lag-ging; Leon Henderson, price control con-trol man, was pegging the prices of ures and tubes and threatening in other directions; the maritime commission com-mission was displeased with the ship owners and Secretary Ickes was having a hard time with the nation's na-tion's oil men. Typewriter Ribbons: Znna n3i. He not only could neatlv cnnV I 1 . . w" eyeprow DUt COUld also nrnd,, 4 vitum a leeiing that he had unea ana nred it ... A. Devere: ncjuuice, wnicn sees what pieases, cannot see what is plain . . .Jean Richter: ReenlWt inn to uie oniy paradise from which we cannot be turned out n Wilde: Unselfishness is letting other t., a uvea Uiune . . Alvin York: By our victory in the last war, we won a lease on libertv nnt n j j . ,. ' a uceu U) 11 . Sthl; iff? J isJa?7 lyinS around, but if other weekend and I'm you could est t.ha J3V Russell- A good test Of mnn'a s.t. Defense plant heads, seekin when he's pettfn .i,. -u-... Places for their worker, tn tin, . wlluo"t There were two distinct schools of eir work, were falling out with the Twain: Don't part with vor i"f oueht fthnnt th . I ferf..i t,,.,- j . .. wun your iiij. ions, vynen they are gone you may uu you nave ceased to not a General vst. But give me time. The nearest village is 5 miles away. All you find there is a general store, a garage ga-rage and a canning factory nowhere to' go for any good clean fun, unless von n-mn in at a smoke-filled family interested anil some of the neigh- i bors, and if that happened all over t!u country, the U. S. 0. could raise $10,765,-000 $10,765,-000 overnight. I'd appreciate it a lot, Mom, and so would every other mother's son in the thought about the problem nf I federal housine men. and it ing President Roosevelt further ad- hard to find anybody that was uiuonai personal powers in the I Phased with anything in the defense emergency. set-up-giving the Dress and snPnfc. The war department according ers wno we opposed to the New authorized sources in Wash I Deal handling of the whole show "-viiuit Hill. la. was putting pressure on coneres. declare a state of unlimited national emergency, a step already taken by the President but which tmiM free his hands for considerable action ac-tion now barred to him by the fact that congress has not given him the reins. The isolationist press attar-We this move instantly, and so did some congressional leaders who had generally gen-erally been regarded as administration administra-tion stalwarts. DOOMED: Are Big Guns The accuracy of American bomb-tag bomb-tag from the air and the size of "v""rcia "na oomos nas caused the plenty of material for their attacks on lis policies. FIELD DAY: For Britain As the Germans, led by Hitler In person, turned their backs on England, Eng-land, the British were having an aerial field day, running day and night air raids with minimal losses m men and ships and dealing out terrific blows to Nazi and occupied territory. But the Britisher in the street was not satisfied. There was a growing grow-ing demand for invasion nf th m,.s held lands. This spread far beyond" the man in the street" angle when army chiefs to doom to oblivion the if! eneral Rested that the time big railway guns, not to mention toe i! d,con?e,ior."hit and nm" atteck huge weapons fixed in coast euard ? ,tal pomls as a sur method Positions. " guard 0f wrecking the Nazis' entire build-Say build-Say the army chiefs: upfor an altack n the British isles These big guns cannot fire with k eJger,m, J- F- c- Fuller, said nearly the accuracy nor the effect h unders,0d the British had am- w me Dig air bombers. The war J"""'" na that if they did department might as well .1,," nave ttem. was the time tn this weapon." u" e them in cross-channel inv,ci ... . -'"' miciupis. live ... jhe Akron Beacon-Jour- iuFaie. does its Part- yet most ?: ""ngs we reret or resent mw nave Deen avoided if we had fcl 1CU. r-.. ... cr,l,cs aren't always " ' wnen. George Ber-nard Ber-nard Shaw was a critic a ,,n . tress asked him what he thought of ner ahiiifv ci . . . . ' ' " uaw l0ia ner to uiamea. nave two children, learn something about life, then she "UU1" oe aoie 10 act . . . She fol- u.w UD1S counsel . . . Five years Kiie returned to the theater and ..me a great English nr.trc.Qo Sybil Thorndike. Sounds In the Nieht: At th mous Door: "If you had mv hrain. you wouldn't have anything to worry wor-ry about" ... -Gawan, if 1 had your brains, I wouldn't have any thine to worry with ! " a ' 6 Madrid: "Don't get him angry, he's hable to hit you with his bank book" - . . At the Glass Hat: "Shn'. . good to her folks. Keeps away from them" . . . At the Riviera: "After the horse is stolen thf i .. aU the consulates!" At ri Morocco: "He's DODulur w. llllra 44 ' IC"' Zl . BOH i, gwxu!. u ins way. u. S. Army and Navy Jell, Mom, there's Love, iavui you can do me. The U. S. 0. is trying to raise $10,765,000 to run clubs for us, outside of camp. Places with lounge rooms, dance floors, games, writing writ-ing rooms. Places you won get a Dite to L View t the built 4 BilliradUi low h eat without paying a king's ransom. I know you don't have an idle million OPEN YOUR HEART OPEN YOUR PURSE GIVE TO THE They're doing their bit for you. Wil-you Wil-you do your bit for them? 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