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Show THE LEW SUN. LEW. UTAH T? 1 T WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Landing of Naval Forces in Iceland Brings Speculation on Future Moves Of U. S. in Setting Up Defense Bases; Shaded Communiques Dim War Picture (EDITOR'S NOTE When aplnloai ara .zpr.ti.d In tb.ce damn., ther r tb... .( (b. iivi analyit and not a.c.aiarllr ! tbla newapaper.) (Released by Weitern Newspaper Union.) f rcsri4 ill P L sue Hi Dr. J. C. McCracken, superintendent of the American Hospital for Refugees In Shanghai, China, is pictured with two of his charges from the baby clinic. The children seem to be thriving on meals made op of cracked wheat, which they consider a luxury. The Red Cross bags are then cut up and used for making ICELAND: A Move The sudden step which President Roosevelt took In ordering the oc cupatlon of Iceland by American . naval forces, and the plan to thus re lieve the British in the handling of that distant adjunct of the occupied Danish kingdom not only clarified the present foreign policy but brought repercussions on both sides of the Atlantic. . These were both favorable and un favorable to the move, the British Brit-ish hailing it with obvious delight as "putting teeth" and definiteness into the U. S. policy of insuring arrival of lease-lend aid and the fullest co operation short of war with Britain, ' The Axis powers, as were to be expected, were quoted variously as vigorously opposing euch action which, apparently, they did not learn of until it was an accom plished fact The Germans said the U. S. now had troops "in the war lone" and could expect results; the Italians called it a "provocative" step; and the Japanese called it "de facto American entry into the war." ' Theso sentiments were echoed on this side of the water by the chief opponents of the administration. Senator Wheeler not only being outspoken out-spoken against it, but drawing White House fire for having an nounced the rumored objective before it took place, thus, accord' ing to a White House secretarial statement, "jeopardizing American lives." '-; - - More interesting were the specu lations concerning future moves, the Nazi sources recalling in their com- ment on the President's action the fact that he had spoken previously of the strategic import, from a Western hemisphere viewpoint, of the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, and Dakar, African port. The President also made clear : that geographical definitions of the Western hemisphere, as far as he is concerned, do not make much difference, dif-ference, and that when one is defending de-fending a certain section of the globe, it is more important to "outguess "out-guess the other fellow" than to draw geographical limitations on your ac- RUSSIANS: A Picture Gradually, as the Russo-German war moved into the latter part of the first month, a growingly clearer picture of the situation could be obtained.1 ob-tained.1 . . - . . Stripped of equivocal communiques, commu-niques, and delving behind these with the aid of town names and gen-eral gen-eral lines, here was the portrait of conditions at that period: - : The Germans, together with their allies, had attacked along a 1,100 mile front, with initial quick success in the extreme north, in the central district, and a slower success in the south. This continued, with the Russians, falling back and burning towns and supplies as far as possible for about a week or 10 days. Then the German advance ran Into the Stalin line and an entirely different tempo of Russian resist-ance. resist-ance. It was almost as though a large train had run into a resilient obstacle, which halted It gently and then even began to shove It backward. back-ward. - - The Russian communiques painted paint-ed this picture as far more favorable to the Reds, and the Germans mini-"ud mini-"ud or ignored things, and spoke of everything being "expected," and Tunning on schedule." All this of From other points came data, however, tending to show that the German machine had perhaps not met its master, but at any rate a foeman worthy of its steel, and one that was not going to be a "push- pTenti0 KnMf Previous OP- 1 YTlt V I t-rt L : r - 11 L-. ' clothes for the children. AXIS: Sickness: Two American Incidents tended to show that since the start of the Russian Rus-sian campaign, even before, there had been some signs within Ger many and Italy of what might be termed Axis sickness. Walter Alexander, 57 - year old American citizen born in Germany, left there about six weeks ago. He had been In the real-estate busi ness In Berlin since 1933. He finally arrived in Jersey City, where he was quoted as follows "Forty per cent of the German people are against Hitler and the war. "The German people are Just be ginning to tire of it And they have the feeling that it does not matter whether they win. They feel they have lost their freedom anyway. "Business men in Germany are disgusted, because they can make no move except under government reg ulation and orders." And Count Carlo Sforza, once a member of Mussolini's cabinet, but who now declares he was one of the original foes of Fascism, said at Ann Arbor, Mich., that a British victory In the war would be the Instant In-stant signal for the fall of the Mus solini government . Even now, the count declared. there might at any time be a "passive "pas-sive strike" on the part of the Italian navy, which does not like to fight on the side of the Germans. He said, however, that Italy was so much under the domination of Hitler that the people knew a signal for revolt against Mussolini would mean that the Germans would march on Milan, Venice and Trieste and also on Rome, Germany must fall first before the present Italian regime collapses. he said., SYRIA: End of War The official announcement that a formal request for an armistice had come to the British from General Dentz of the Vichy defenders seemed to bring an end to a campaign cam-paign which ended on the saddest of possible notes. Churchill struck the British attitude atti-tude by saying: "I hardly need say how very glad His Majesty's Government is to see an end brought to this very distress ing conflict in which 1,000 to 1,500 British, Australian and Indian troops who had volunteered In order to defend France have fallen killed or wounded under French bullets as a result of the lamentable confusion into which the affairs of so many-good many-good people in so many parts of the world have been thrown by the victories of Hitler's army." This was a gentle way of acquainting acquaint-ing the people with the number of casualties there had been In the British forces. How many the Free French, under De Gaulle, had lost was not mentioned, but it was believed be-lieved to have been heavier, as they assumed the brunt of the attack. Alfred Duff Cooper said: "I am horrified to hear that funds are being collected to celebrate the victory in Syria." The decision of General Dentz to sue for peace came at a time when the pressure was being put heavily on Beirut which, it turned out was the key to the whole campaign R.A.F.: The mastery of the daytime anon an-on the western front of the war remained re-mained with the R.A.F., which was carrying out bombing attacks In the new large tempo, with squadrons aloft by day and by night It was revealed that th m,.- now have floating anti-aircraft bat-tenes bat-tenes around Wilhelmshaven. and that flights of bombers which meet with no resistance at ail over the French coastal areas except from anti-aircraft fire, are meeting with considerable fighter resistance as soon as they get over Germany. Iceland Leader fa ' f l h Shown here is Hermann Jonasson, prime minister of independent Iceland, who approved ap-proved President Roosevelt's dispatching of American forces to take over defense of the island from the British. LEASE-LEND: Aid Speeding A report that President Roosevelt was going to ask for another large lease-lend appropriation to add to the seven billions of dollars, a goodly portion of which was spent and all of it allocated, was coupled with the statement that American lease-lend aid to Britain is now moving at a speedier clip. The statement was made that a ship a day, approximately, is dock ing and unloading at Red sea ports, not accounting for such others as may be arriving in convoy in Eng land itself. If these ships are well loaded with the munitions of war, then the British commands in North Africa as well as on the British Isles should be having measurably strengthened their hands. The period in which General Auchinlech took over and General Wavell gave up the North, African command was followed by a con tinuance of the inactivity which had marked this stalemate. But as soon as the Syrian peace was announced, it was expected that the North African battle would be resumed, and that the new general plus his new equipment, would make determined effort to release the long-besieged garrison of Tobruk. KNUDSEN: And Rubber The statement by William S. Knudsen, of OPM, making a tour of the defense production areas, that he had little worry about the rubber situation, despite the fact that the government foreseeing a shortage, had ordered the tire makers not to use more rubber than they had in the first six months. Mr. Knudsen said that the rubber situation was this: that even if the supply of real rubber was cut off, the industry knew enough about syn thetic rubber manufacture to pick right up and continue the supply of suitable tires and other articles with out feeling the shortage of the actual article at all. a lauc wiin ruDDer experts re vealed that while some disagreed with Mr. Knudsen, the outstanding majority believe It could be done, and with ease. Said one: "We can make a tire that will outlast and outperform a real rubber rub-ber tire right now. All that is need ed is for our factories to make slight changes in technique. . "If our supply of raw real rubber rub-ber were cut oft, here is what I think would happen. Factories would be started In construction to manufacture manu-facture hundreds of thousands of tons of synthetic rubber. "While we were waiting to get them In production, we have six months' supply of sheet rubber on hand, and for another six months we could operate with mixtures of reclaimed re-claimed rubber and synthetic rubber, rub-ber, and so, In the 12 or 14 months that it would take to get the new factories built and In operation there would be no lost motion at all, for we have inventories of finished tires that would last about six months." He could say little about the price of such tires, but some experts thought they might be slightly more expensive than rubber tires at first until the "know how" had been achieved In making them. MISCELLANY: London: Nazi fliers dropping Incendiaries In-cendiaries and bombs over England were beginning to mix leaflets with them, announcing in the English language, lan-guage, "The Battle of the Atlantic is being Lost" , Berlin: A German newspaper editorially edi-torially commented on the occupation occupa-tion of Iceland: "This Is a stab in the back of a nation wrestling with Bolshevism." Moscow: Women and children, heeding Stalin's request for guerrilla guer-rilla action on German forces in the rear of the front line, are Joining such bands. Moscow sources claimed that these bands had accounted ac-counted for 18 tanks. London: When the war f. say British political leaders, a Pan-1 Slav agreement whproK- d.... Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia and Poland will Join a united and or-ganized or-ganized front contiguous to Germa ny, was envisioned. Kathleen Married Love (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) Remember he used to call you "my little Duchess" and moon around place where you were dining with Bill? By KATHLEEN NORRIS I F MARRIED men with good if unexciting wives, could get it through their heads that the fascinat ing sweethearts they want so much to marry, after a di vorce, are' just the same as other women, and will make wives no better and no worse how simplified and stabilized marriage would be! a . Ana ii attractive young women, mildly bored with seven or eight years of wife hood,' could possibly foresee the complications into which tempting illicit affairs on the side would draw them, one o: . America s most serious so cial problems would be les sened. But a husband will continue to think that the lovely, eager, sym pathetic girl t In the office has no lauits. And his wife will go on dreaming of the perfect lover like that man she met at Jane's so polite so handsome So attentive. And so the mischief goes on, breed' Ing incalculable difficulties, heart breaks, disillusionments for all con cerned. ' - Same Situation Over Again. When Mildred divorces Bill and marries George, things usually go wonderfully for a few years per haps three. But then, if any woman friend is mean enough to remind her of some of , her sentiments at the time of the divorce she meets cold stare from Mildred's eyes, Mildred doesn't remember things exactly that way. "I'll never iorget how you and George adored each other!" babbles the friend. "Do you remember you two used to meet at 'Chez Louis and simply stare at each other for hours? Remember he used to call you "my little Duchess and moon around places where you were dining with Bill" No, Mildred doesn't remember that She admits that Bill was such a brute she had to divorce him or go mad and that George had been crazy about her for years, and so she married him. Further than this she doesn't go; the subject seems to hold no interest for her. Sensible Viewpoint. No marriage retains, after the first few months or year, the trem bling glamour of the honeymoon: sensible women know it, and resist the Illusions of the new affair. And sensible men remind themselves that the girl friend, all sympathy. youth, fragrance, lure today, will turn, after a few years of marriage. into just another faulty, unreasonable, unreason-able, selfish and -extravagant com panion as was the discarded wife. Which brings us to "Bobby's" let ter,, which came to me a few weeks ago. This is part of it "After a few years of marriage. when our two girls were seven and five," writes Bobby, "My wife and drifted apart We seemed to have no Interest in common and life became be-came a dull and dragging affair for us both. I was then traveling for my firm, and met a woman I will call Hazel. She was a most sympathetic sym-pathetic and understanding friend, and we became lovers, Hazel giving up her Job and maintaining a little establishment in a town some 20 miles from my home. Bobby's Complicated Problem. "When my wife discovered this she left me. but did not Immediately apply tor a divorce. A year passed and I was promoted, moved to another an-other city, and had an opportunity to meet some unusually Interesting people. One of these, a young radio actress, is everything I ever dreamed of finding in a woman, of fine family, beautifully educated, . lovely in every way. We are deeply In love; Margaret (the radio actress) ac-tress) for the first time. Norris Says: Affairs Come High CHARM FAILS "The third time is the charm,'' runs an old saying, but it failed to work in the case of this husband and father, who seemed unable to make up his mind regarding a suitable mate. Read the observations of Miss Norris, as obtained from his first letter, pleading for a solution, then an urgent telegram. He had solved his own problem, y "My problem is Hazel, who Insists upon my marrying her as soon as my divorce is granted, which will be late in June. She has changed completely, so that my original feeling feel-ing for her is wholly destroyed. She is critical, bitter, threatens a law suit; . Indeed, her lawyer has been in touch with me. Naturally, In my notes to her in the beginning of our anair i mention marriage, and she proposes to take advantage of inem. sne can hurt me very much with my firm and of course with Margaret; should she pursue this course. Please advise me as to any obligation I may have In the matter, and as to the best way oi nanaung it" , My advice to Bobby might have been that he did have an obligation to Hazel In the matter, or I might have suggested that he marry no one lor awhile, having complicated xne uves of three women so thoroughly., thor-oughly., , Answers Own Question. But before I had time to answer this letter it was answered by a telegram from Bobby which arrived ar-rived this morning. ine telegram reads: "Please dis regard and destroy letter. Hazel and I married last night Bobby." ' So this now loveless and stale relationship re-lationship has ended with a wedding after all. But weddings begin something some-thing as well as end somethine. and it is a grim sort. of contract into which Hazel and Bobby have entered. en-tered. He is paying his first wife alimony and he will soon be paying a doubled alimony to his second wife. a seriously crippling situation financially. finan-cially. If Margaret decides to Join this fascinating gentleman as his third wife she will have to retain her well-paid position and contribute substantially to the family budget Not Real Marriage. Not real marriage, this sort nf thing. And women In their hearts want real marriage. They want th richness of that tried and tested relationship re-lationship that shares ups and downs, good times and. bad; that weathers the long years, builds up a thousand memories of hreakfaet table talks, nursery cares, kitchen crises, scares and relief from scares, emergencies, changes, and long serene periods of happiness and companionship. It is a foolish man or woman tv, Jeopardizes all this for a fleeting nas. sion a deceptive time of flattery and delusion that all experience all history, all good common sense pronounces to be Just one more will-o-the-wisp. Over and over again the victim of, the married love affair emerges a sadder and wiser man or woman. The home that once seemed so dull appears to the M. vorced wife a very haven of safety and content Her heart achp fn- her children, whether she has them with her in the chaos of wreckage, or whether they are staying "for awhile with Jim's mother.". The dis covery that her new mate has human hu-man faults, abruptness and selfishness selfish-ness and lack of understanding, Is Diner mow. She has caused all this trouble on the ground that dar ling Leonard was the perfect man- it is rather flat to begin to say of Leonard the same bored, critical things she said so recently of Jim, Take a look at the couDles who threw discretion to the winds and startled their respective circles with me revelation of a "grand passion," iew years ago. before you .tak the leap 7 1 LJdi 4 (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) AS WE GO ABOUT SAVING MAN HOURS EVERY LOYAL AMERICAN will approve of any method which re sults in the saving of man hours so badly needed in our national defense preparations, but The press was given a graphic story of production speed in conneo tion with the recent launching of the battleship South Dakota. Ac cording to that story, before the ship hit the water, the keel of a new one was being laid on the ways she had just left So great was the effort to save man hours that the workmen who had built the South Dakota were not permitted to stop work for a few minutes to see the monster slide into the waters of the Delaware river. All of that represented t com mendable saving of a few man hours when man hours are sadly needed. but Work in the great shipyards around ban Francisco bay was stopped, or seriously retarded by an unwarranted strike called In viola tion of a labor contract by a com paratively small number ef essen tial machinists. Over a period of 30 and more days, the time loss rep resented hundreds of thousands of man hours, and nothing much was done- about it xes, the conservation of man hours at Camden was all to the good, but that story of production speed given to the press sounded a bit like carefully planned propa ganda. HONEST LABOR ENTITLED TO FAIR SHARE PRODUCTION values, the amount for which manufactured commodi ties are sold, are divided between labor, raw materials, management and selling, taxes municipal, coun ty, state and national and capital. as Interest on investment Labor, the man or woman who works at bench or machine, de mands its fair share of what it pro duces. Collectively and nationally, we know labor receives a fair share of the national income, but each workman, Individually or by factory groups, wants to know that he gets his share of what he produces. s He does not want to take the word of some interested party as to the amount of his share. He wants def inite proot That is the crux of the real labor problem. There are labor -'racke teers and labor saboteurs who can be dealt with without injury and, in fact, as a benefit to honest labor. The solution of the problem of hon est patriotic American labor means finding some method by which each workman In each factory group may De definitely shown that he gets his fair share of what he has helped to produce. With all the ingenuity to be found In America, that should not be an unsolvable problem. It has been ac complished in some plants and those piants do not have labor difficulties NO ROOM FOR SABOTAGE OF AMERICAN DEFENSE ONE AND ONE-HALF MILLION men in the armed forces of the nation are working, at $21 a month. 1 a . . . wiui inadequate loois to nreDare themselves for the Job of defendinir American uoerties, the American way of life. , Thousands of other men are re. lusing to work at wages of from $160 to better than $200 a month so the $21 a month men may be provided with the tools needed to defend our UDerties. We do not want government on- eraiea industry. It cannot be as ef ficient as when privately onerated We do want, and demand, that pri vately operated Industry be onerat- ed without excessive profits and the government levies heavy excess proms taxes to prevent any nossi- bility of war profits. The government has drafted men for the armed forces at a wage of $-21 a month. It can, and may, draft men to man the machines to produce pro-duce the tools of war needed by the armed forces for the protection of American liberties. Strikes In any plant in which defense equlnment is being produced should not, and will not long be countenanced. It is that kind of thing which caused the downfall of France. It is sabotaging sabotag-ing the American defense effort -. TO BE SURE, this present war Is terrible, but it does not sound so bad when we realize more Americans Ameri-cans were, killed during the 18 months we were an ective participant partici-pant in the last war than the total of English losses during two years of this conflict " 'DOLE OR WORK? As an experiment, the state government gov-ernment of Illinois made an effort to find jobs in private employment for-, 90 individuals then on relief. Of that number, places were found for 46, two others refused to accept any Job, three did not show up after accepting and three did not want the kind of jobs offered. . The numbers were too small to prove anything but what would your guess be as u the percentage of those now on reliel who prefer to continue to receive a "dole" than to work for a living? A 100-ton glass furna troit plant recent! Jj record by pouring, IV ruption,ameUthSS tons, reports Collier' . trie flnprntinn n.v.:.. ' i years and a dav J? Inch-wide sheet of g "?! uncut, would be 2,400 1 X Fuller Pepa By JERRY LINS rces fi SOT. tt wire- ny o G-Me iding i I that) ort tir fMan'i "We're makln new .FBI. Uncle Fuller." says haver, Willie. "Since youyom na eatln' KELLOGO'S PEP J run around the bSes(e"ei your home runs countl" tativ' Which shows how W comj the knowledge o the joS who you have to get M g . mlns to feel as good as ll. , KELLOGG'3 PEP has got? ta that are most likely to k. V. tht In ordinary meala viws. and D. PEP'sa wonderful tasih J .. too. Why don't you toy W aU n look . Ind the Ptr tervhti 1Z the iail, N fa h 4S t lS.tkt minimum iailjtenX I argun the w! 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