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Show THE LEU! SUN. lEIIl. UTAH ASK .I? 1 I mm .II ev7 vm (Released by Weitern Newspaper Union.) WE, THE JOHV DOES, ENTITLED TO KNOW IN LESS THAN 18 months, th congress of the United States, our representative at Washington, has obligated John Doe, Mrs. John Doe, John Doe Jr., Sally Doe and Baby Doe for $512 each, the whole Doe family for $2,560. All of us John Does, and our families, realize the need of being prepared to defend our nation, our institutions, our way of life, our homes, but as those who must pay for that defense, we are entitled to know what it it costing and what we are buying. Appropriations made by congress for 18 months, up to August 1 of this year, have amounted to $67,559,885,-510. $67,559,885,-510. During that 18-month period, congress has obligated each man, woman and child, including the babies, for $512. Each family of five is obligated for $2,360. And that Is not the end, for additional appropriations appro-priations of from 6 to 10 billion more will probably be made before the end of December. We John Does do not object to digging down in our jeans to pay for whatever may be necessary to defend this land we love, but as the fellows who must pay the bills, we feel we have a right to know what we need and to receive an account-ing account-ing as to what we are actually getting get-ting for these sums for which we have been obligated. Certainly someone must know how many really serviceable planes we had when the agitation started and can give an honest statement of what we have now. We should know how many light, medium and heavy tanks we had when it started and how many we have now. We are entitled to more than a statement state-ment of an 800 per cent increase in heavy tanks, because that is meaningless mean-ingless when we do not know how many, if any, we started with. With an army of one and a half million civilian employees, it should be possible to keep books, to take an inventory, to know what we have, what we' need and what we are getting. get-ting. If those who represent us at Washington do not know these things, they are spending our money like drunken sailors and when the opportunity offers a year from now, we should carefully pick as representatives repre-sentatives others who can be depended de-pended upon to obtain the facts and give them to us fellows who must pay the bills. It is our money that is being spent so lavishly and we are entitled to know what we are buying, and why. .' LIGHTNING RODS WAY BACK when I was a boy, the wagon of the lightning rod erector was a familiar sight on the country highways. He disappeared with the passing of the last century. It is a safe Let that the farm home or barn ornamented with lightning rods was erected before 1900. It was a profitable racket for a number of years. - GETS IMPORTANT POST PAUL APPLEBY worked for a couple of years in the print shop of a country newspaper in Missouri. With that experience, he went to Montana and for a few months operated a weekly newspaper there. Then he went to North Dakota and another paper for another few months, and then on to Minnesota. In Des Moines, Iowa, as a member of a debating society, he became acquainted with Vice President Wallace Wal-lace and that acquaintance resulted in his appointment as undersecretary undersecre-tary of agriculture. Now Paul Appleby Ap-pleby is in England investigating the food needs of the British people for the American government You might term it "from 'devil' to ambassador." am-bassador." GOVERNMENT BONDS A GOOD BUY WHENI was a small boy In Iowa, old General Weaver of that state, then the leader of the Greenback party, was a frequent visitor at father's borne. His demand was for printing press money. In recent years, we have come close to General Gen-eral Weaver's idea. We have sold the banks 27 billion dollars worth of government bonds and the banks have issued the printing press money. More money means more inflation. To prevent an increase In the currency, the government is selling its nontransferable bonds direct to the public. If the public does not buy voluntarily, it is possible pos-sible that congress may conscript portion of each person's income as a means of disposing of the bonds. They are a good buy and their purchase pur-chase by the public will go far toward preventing that greatly-to-be-feared inflation. We have now more currency than is good for us. MAIN STREET MORE THAN three-fourths of an the counties in the United States contain no town of more than 10.000 people. A fraction over 50 per cent of the members of the house of representatives rep-resentatives come from districts in which there is no town of over 5.000 people. This is an indication of the Fart rural America has in determining determin-ing national policies and legislation. People of the towns and farms can. if they wish, dictate what we, n a ration, shall do. Main street bw greater in"nncf than Broadway. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Food Shortage in Europe This Winter Means Thousands Doomed to Starve In Most of Areas Occupied by Nazis; U. S. Court Obtains Spy Confessions (EDITOR'S NOTE nbii plBlsaa ere expressed (a these eelamne, they re those ef the news euljal not necessarily ef this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) What Price a V iWlliiil' tfii-tiiM:' ' ma ' l ' x t. The scene is a street In Unlondale, N. Y, The country is not at war. It la, however, arming for defense. Arming as never before. For the menace, It Is charged, is world wide. And so an army pursuit plane leaves Mitchell field, New York, one day. A few minutes later it crashes In Uniendale street. You see the wreck still burning. Yon don't see three children burned whose clothes caught fire. The pilot of the plane bailed out. INCIDENT: U, S, S, Greer Attacked When the news was flashed that a submarine attacked the U. S. destroyer de-stroyer Greer while the latter was en route tov Iceland, the words "incident "in-cident of war" leaped to the thoughts of many. Still, there were other "incidents" and they did not bring war. The Greer was not hit FOOD: For Conquered Most were agreed that the coming com-ing winter will find starvation walking walk-ing the lands of conquered Europe. Germany took the bull by the horns by Btating her position clearly. Not only, said Berlin, was Germany not going to feed the hungry in conquered con-quered Europe, but she felt at complete com-plete liberty to feed herself from the stores of conquered countries. If anybody was to feed conquered nations, let Britain and the United States, who control the seas, do it, declared Berlin. As long as this was the declared Nazi policy, it was a certainty that the United States and Britain would do no feeding of these populations, for If the food was sent over, Germany Ger-many felt "at liberty" to feed herself her-self with it The food would just be going into enemy hands and doing do-ing no good to the starving millions, it has been held. Assuming that the Russians in conquered con-quered sections of the Ukraine had not been able to flee, but had been able to burn their wheat, as seemed likely from general reports from the area from both sides, then there were a few million Ukrainians in danger of starvation within the shortest possible time. Nor were the people in France, Norway, and the low countries in any better condition, and with the exception excep-tion of the Rumanians, the Hungarians Hungari-ans and the Croats, reportedly fighting fight-ing with the German arms, and the Finns, coming down from the north into Russia, most of Europe was going to be hungry. I talked with a Russian refugee from Paris, who had been conquered by the Germans but escaped to this country by a devious route, and he told of the French people eating dogs, cats any meat they could get their hands on. Starvation already was stalking the land in August, he said, when he escaped via Lisbon. Medical men said this hunger would not point definitely to revolt, however, for starving people soon lose their ability to fight or to resist even the inroads of their own hunger. hun-ger. Starvation carries with it only apathy, finally coma and then death, they declared. JAPAN: Full Mobilization Ordering a full mobilization of his country, and at the same time, according ac-cording to rumor, bidding President Roosevelt to visit him "in the Pacific on a Japanese battleship," Premier MISCELLANY: ' Berlin: German fashion dictators had decreed shoes of straw as an "ersatz" for leather. Rationing decrees de-crees that each person may buy only two paias of leather shoes each year. Now, such is the demand for straw ihoes (which wear out In four to six weeks) that the manufacturers r running out of straw. Mad World! a : lie r Asm. ft Prince Konoye of Japan seemed to be throwing a monkey wrench into what little hope remained that Nippon Nip-pon might be peace-bound. The tempest, which these sources figured the Nazis were stirring up in Japan on the question of the Siberian Si-berian port, was raging full blast when Konoye issued his order of complete mobilization of the country. coun-try. Konoye said "Japan is facing the greatest crisis in her history, and a total mobilization of the nation is necessary to overcome the emergency." emer-gency." This statement was a far cry from his July 30 position that all Japan wanted was peace and prosperity in the Pacific, to "close out" the China affair, and to be friendly with the United States. Dispatches from Washington said that diplomatic advices had been sent to Tokyo, probably the cause of Konoye's action, stating that this country was going to "stand firm" on its right to send lease-lend aid to Russia through Vladivostok, and to continue to send such aid as long as peaceful relations exist between Russia and Japan. The same day Nichi NichI, influential influ-ential Japanese paper, defied the United States to "place any obstacle ob-stacle in Japan's rightful sea routes in the name of freedom of -the seas." It continued: "Japan will not hesitate to take steps against any obstacle such as this." Complicating the issue at about the same time were two Russian seaplanes.carrying 47 Soviet airmen, flying pver the Bering sea on their way to Washington to join the Russian Rus-sian mission to this nation's capital. While Moscow disclaimed anything any-thing but a peaceful intent for this trip, another Japanese paper, the Times and Advertiser, took alarm at it, stating it was "an effort to establish a warplane service between be-tween the United States and Russia."' Rus-sia."' This newspaper said that Japan felt itself now encircled by the British Brit-ish and Americans on the south, through these countries' aid to China and the Dutch East Indies, and that any "effort to encircle Japan on the north" would be a matter for grave study. SPIES: First Trial News readers turned their eyes to New York where 19 out of 33 members mem-bers of an alleged German spy ring went on trial on charges of espionage. espio-nage. The other 14 pleaded guilty, which made it improbable that the full story of their guilt would be told. But the trial of the 19, prosecutors in the federal court said, "would unfold un-fold ramifications beyond belief. U. S. Attorney Kennedy said that much of the information in the possession pos-session of the prosecution had been obtained from those who had pleaded plead-ed guilty. One of these, Everett Minster Roeder. 47, pleaded guilty to "obtaining "ob-taining information and sending it to a foreign power." He worked in the plant of the Sperry Gyroscope company, com-pany, makers of the famous secret bombsight of the United States army on of the country's most prized war possessions. But the airing of the secrets of the spy ring in open court promised news readers a delectable dish they were looking forward to. Sensational revelations were excreted nt nrtw. column activities. ew 'fitu. . .. 'Mweiu Spy - v; r I sjBjBsyjsjsBjer I'dniiv'W' Lucy Boehmler, 18, who pleaded guilty in New York to charges of espionage for Nazi Germany. She Is said to be part of a ring which visited vis-ited various parts of the country to obtain military secrets. LENINGRAD: Near Siege Despite what undoubtedly has been one of the greatest defensive actions in world history, the Russian Rus-sian defenders of Leningrad had before be-fore them the question of a siege of the city itself, and the problem of whether they could hold the attackers attack-ers back until cold weather comes to their rescue. Like northern New England, Leningrad Len-ingrad weather is described as "nine months of winter and three months of early spring," and this spring-tide has now given way to the, autumnal autum-nal rains, which will shortly be supplanted sup-planted by winter's heavy snows. The Russo-Finnish campaign at the beginning of the war demonstrated demon-strated that mechanized warfare doesn't pan out so well in the snow and ice, and the Reds are hoping that If they can hold out through the rest of this month, they'll get a progressive breathing spell along the whole front that will permit American aid to materialize, and a reorganization of their defense. It was evident, not only from the Soviet but from the German communiques commu-niques that the Russians were putting put-ting up a magnificent resistance all along the line, that Budenny's army got across the Dnieper without being completely knocked out as the Germans Ger-mans had forecast and that General Gen-eral Timoshenko in the center is carrying on a protracted and more or less successful counter offensive, while Voroshiloff on the north is holding hold-ing the attacking Germans and Finns back.M long as he can, while keeping his armies generally intact Berlin dispatches told of Russians "contesting every foot of ground," and halting the spearhead advance of the Nazi forces to only a couple of miles or so a day. Moscow said that first reports dl a separate peace with the Finns were premature and inaccurate, yet this might have meant simply that the Russian negotiations with Finland had fallen down, and that the Finns had decided to stick with the Nazis and carry through. ; Some observers had thought that as soon as the Finns reached the Russian frontier, and had recaptured all the old Finnish territory that Russians had taken over at the beginning be-ginning of the war, they would probably prob-ably quit or be glad to negotiate for peace. v GASOLINE: Still a Fight The gasoline shortage in the eastern east-ern section of the United States still was in the controversy stage, with much of the muddle being discussed in print and revealing how hopelessly hope-lessly confused legislators, administrators adminis-trators and oil operators were with regard to each other and the problem prob-lem itself. Some filling station operators wanted to close down, said they were forced out of business. Others wanted a price rise of a cent a gallon. gal-lon. Others wanted a government govern-ment subsidy. Still others said they were getting along O. K. Some oil suppliers said there was no shortage, others wanted barges built still others wanted 17,500 idle tank cars used, and yet the Washington Wash-ington authorities said they couldn't find the cars. The railroads offered to cut the tank car rate 50 per cent, from S cents a gallon to 2 cents, and the big eil companies pointed out that the tanker rate was one cent a gallon, gal-lon, though this was difficult to figure because practically all the tankers are owned by the companies themselves them-selves and they need figure no wofit Meantime, three pipeline propositions proposi-tions were muling around, trying to get ready to start while several senators sen-ators and congressmen, including Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, charged "bureaucratic blundering." HITLER: Long-Range Plan Perhaps the most novel view of Hitler's long-range war plan came from the pen of the talented John T. Whitaker. former Chicago correspondent corre-spondent in Europe. He -said Hitler believes fifth-column fifth-column activity in America is undermining un-dermining democracy, and that eventually Washington will call on the British to surrender. Whitaker says the Germans feel that not Britain, Is the "weak sister." IHP d 1 ii IThila Waller Winchell is on temporary tempo-rary active duty with the V. S. navy hit column it being conducted by $uest columnists. This week's column is written: By KATE SMITH We're All Americans' As a singer and commentator I have had my say via radio to millions mil-lions of Americans both at home and abroad. From time to time I receive gracious Invitations from editors to express myself as a reporter re-porter on topics of the day. I always al-ways welcome such opportunities and more so now, for I feel that not enough is being said on behalf of America for Americans. Not so long ago I introduced a new song of America titled "We're All Americans" which your editor thought should be the title of this column. . The lyrics of this song which I made recently for Columbia Records, reads: We're all Americans, We're proud to bear the name: Our nation's fathers wove a flag By the light of freedom's flame. Now waving bravely overhead. It tells us what to do; We're all Americans, All true blue. Permission by Collwill Corp. It Is that flag which gave us our birthright It is that spirit which gave us our courage. It is that freedom free-dom which made our land a great democracy. It is that something-faith something-faith perhaps which is found in the following stories: Youthful America I'm thinking ef a child, a little girl of 11. An average American girL her name is Mary Esther Wheatley, from Hamburg, N. Y. . . . Mary's daddy was an aviator, His was a hazardous job for he flew the untried planes ... he was a test pilot Making aviation safe for America was his vocation. One day, not long ago, he made his last flight for his ship crashed in San Diego bay. The heaviest heart in the world was Mary's, but slowly she recaptured recap-tured the faith which had always made her brave and understanding. She wrote the following lines: They say my father died ... he did not die, Why just tonight I heard him fly-above fly-above my roof ... They say he folded his wings at sea ... but daddy would have wanted me To doubt these things. You can't fold wings 1 That for a lifetime have been spread to fly above a first child's head! Tonight when all the world is still, I'll lean upon my window sill. And listen for you, Daddy Bill, And though the whole world fails to note A fast-approaching dying boat with ghostly motors in his throat I'll hear It come, and I shall be Proud . , . proud that you flew east to me . , . On wings , . . that no one else can see! Americans at Home Everyone Is talking these days about our national defense effort; and hundreds of thousands of loyal Americans are figuring out ways, great and small, to help. Knoxville, Term., , . . has figured out one that seems to be a very substantial contribution. For several years, Knoxville was the first major city in the Tennessee valley to use electricity elec-tricity generated by the TVA. But now, instead of an unlimited use of electric lighting, the city has resorted re-sorted again to flickering oil lights. The Aluminum company's plants at Alcoa need all the power they can get It ii TVA power. Since somebody some-body has to conserve it Knoxville has taken the lead in setting an example. ex-ample. Merchants are turning off their window display lights and signs at night One store in the downtown section substituted oil lanterns in its display windows; and strung them around the store's marquee. A florist flo-rist has resorted to candles to li?ht his windows. A cafeteria also uses candles to light the restaurant for its Family Night Under the impetus of these lie demonstrations of power sav ings, more and more ideas for curtailing cur-tailing power have been orieinated A 25 per cent curtailment of con sumption Is the goal. A F oreigner Abroad in America Last month hearts of all cans were touched with great sor-row sor-row at the passing of Ignace Jan raaerewsm. a magnificent pianist a supreme master of music hu technical skill was enhanced by his warm personality and generous nature. na-ture. Polish by birth and lnvn u - ef J nUiar me all his lif fnr that l. loved, still Paderewski was an internationalist in-ternationalist ... a citizen of the world. Even when he was ill and weas, even wnen he no longer played the beautiful music that has delighted delight-ed millions through the years, he gave his remaining strength toward the rehabilitation of his Always he was a leader among men. And yet he was a simple man . . . speaking a simple lan guage. It is fitting that we here in America Amer-ica honor this man. ANOTHER I A General Quiz The Questions J. When did the Seminole war What Is the world's oldest Jewel? . , 3. What king of England was beheaded in London? 4. What is the population of the Philippines? . . 5. What is the minimum age for a United States senator? 6. Where was the home of the ancient Etruscans? 7. Does the Stars and Stripes of the 'United States antedate the Union Jack of Great Britain? 8. What two states profited by the Gadsden Purchase in 1853? 9. The Grotto of Lourdes is in what country? 10. What states are regarded as the New England states? The Answers 1. Formal fighting terminated around 1841 in the second Seminole war, but the war has not yet ended technically, since no peace treaty has been signed. 2. Amber, "gem oi ine ages. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Charles I, in 1649. Approximately 16,000,000. Thirty years old. Italy. , Yes, by 24 years. Arizona and Nevt Mexico (a 8. strip of territory adjoining these states was purchased from Mexico for $10,000,000). 9. France. 10. The New England states are the six in the most northern part of the United States: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Con-necticut. B i S VA S 4 5 fe? . Cutting Reply "Your hair needs cutting badly, sir." "No it doesn't; it needs cutting well. You cut it badly last time." Good Advice Selective This letter from Bill says he got his nose broken in three places. Service Well, he should keep out of those places. Unnatural Doctor What is your profession? profes-sion? Patient (pompously) I'm a gentleman. gen-tleman. 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