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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEIII, UTAH I 111(16 Future Course li e u-,; a;j Son U. J. nai hiu .iiA American Fighting Materials I Be Divided on World's Battlefronts Is FDR s w' avc ncF J By BAUKIIAGE Rational Farm and Horn Hour Commentator. . 1343 H Street, N-W, Service, r sbtagton. D. C. ... t last waked up 7l7ot the task America 'fS Donald Nelson ha iunment of sweeping i Austin stables of tne in-"tAu? in-"tAu? iflShness which K defense production. But .rrE Ideated a new K rests upon the trfi shoulders, as great spu-fcelson's spu-fcelson's Is materially. rt front men are oyui6 everjffw" ,.nntnt for fnd fleets si --7e 6inews which America iuo of so them. ... irSS. we CO" K we to decide how our I" jj.j in n vet. I be Qiviueu - A enough for all? L the problem which the r .Li. .trienra face to- ana uu .. ... L Winston Churchill came to a at least one-nau ui "' evince President Roosevelt L otter's military aavisws Cmain objective is the defeat C, That we must not permit ui strategy ol forcing oau ie war to accomplish its aim v to divert American supplies Europe to we rar the battle oi we auauui; iattle of the Pacific. vt'$ Purpose Some Objective et Ambassador Litvinoff came ihington for a similar purpose. i two powerful weapons, his tawsiveness and the Knowi- Mhehad something we want m Russian aid against Ibis aid, if not in the form hi Soviet military assistance, mean at least permission to Wan soil Kamchatka, the f Asian land to the Aleutian i and perhaps even the Si- port of Vladivostok as bases Ufa against Japan. iigh neither Roosevelt nor il stated flatly for publication Je tithe "public enemies No,. Kla be defeated first as I ike others, certain lesser rusted into print with inter-mi inter-mi Secretary ' Knox was more specific. He said that was the enemy who must feted first" - - was immediate and out- protest from the Chinese I the Far East a second er of war. Earnest and emphatic protest leaked P behind closed dnnrs nhi pp. the Australian and Dutch g was so evident that ;ere questions at a White i and radio conference. psident answered in general ssm ne couldn't reveal mili- Jcrets but that if we looked ft of the world he thought I ana mat American aid or ; manpower) were I can't describe his tone nosphere but my own in. m that America wa S, or on the U79 Participation in military winy points than most tesed. t : same day, Lieutenant-rc pal Van Mook t-y naa left the White Pm that the iWrw u f .thathe feTmTre Resident aEreeri us. - uui una VI v.uau ea 10 r- ucu mat Amri.. e United Nations. Can See t Surface K Panese nrona. at?PorV. 5 e for- WOred war l at th conference he ui cyn ical smile. Truly this looked like the dissension which has been the Nazis' favorite ally. But Herr Goebbels fortunately can see only the surface. Underneath there Is a realistic policy being pur. sued which is based on certain facts, No one can predict the fortunes of war, but the picture as the persons in responsible position here see it looks something like this: It is generally believed that the stories of violent dissension between the Nazis and the German High Command are largely party propa. ganda. In any case there is no evi dence of a serious internal break down in Germany. The Nazi Invasion of Russia has failed of its two objectives: First, destruction of the Red army as Sgming unit. Second, the capture ol large quantities of supplies such as oil and foodstuffs. The German losses have been heavy. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, the German military machine is intact, and it still has oil and sup. plies for at least a year. On the other hand, although the Russians have made a masterly defense de-fense and are conducting a success ful counter-offensive, they have regained re-gained little more than one-tenth of the ground the Germans captured. There is no evidence that any permanent per-manent German winter line has been cracked. This means that a German offensive offen-sive is still possible in the spring and since Russia is exhausting her supplies it is doubtful if she will be either willing or able to attack Japan from Siberia. In the Far East, Singapore has been the hot spot from the time the Japanese established their superior air power in the western Pacific. From then on, Singapore was no longer valuable as a base because its docks were no longer safe from air attack. Military men' said from the first, however, that as long as it stood, it had a powerful nuisance value for it immobilized Japanese air, sea and land power and prevented pre-vented successful invasion . of the Netherlands Indies, or at least the key island of Java. Even if it fell, they said, that did not mean that the defense line of the United Na tions based on Java would crumble. As a result of this overall picture, pic-ture, those in charge of getting aid to the United Nations have worked out this division of supplies: Continue to send to Europe (Britain (Brit-ain and Russia) the amount of supplies sup-plies which she has been receiving. Send the increased production to the South Pacific. Reinforcements are now arriving in the Pacific in greater numbers. A3 the tide of battle changes it will rest with the President and his advisors. to make, the choice of where and in what volume America's Amer-ica's contributions to the defense ol democracy shall go. On the wisdom of this choice will depend the future course of history. Radio Censorship And News Casting Sometimes the radio commentator commenta-tor grows very wrath at those who steer the censorship of state. Recently Re-cently into every broadcasting station sta-tion which has a news service came a dispatch telling of the crippling of an American ship by a submarine subma-rine oft the coast of North Carolina. It was official. The censor had passed it for publication but NOT for radio. i Immediately, as president of the Radio Correspondents' association, I was stormed by colleagues demanding demand-ing that I protest at such discrimination. discrim-ination. But the decree was logical. If we had broadcast that the crippled crip-pled ship was putting into port, the submarine could have picked up the message and pursued and perhaps caught its limping prey. Next morning, when the paper! came out with the story the battered ship was safe In harbor. It isn't likely that the submarine commander command-er gets the morning papers. What irked me as a commentator far more than this incident was my inability to tell you . Washington'! little secret of how spring came tc the capital In January. I couldn't say anything about it at the time, because that might have helped the enemy, too. , Now that it can be told, it doesn't seem so interesting. In fact It seems improbable. RIEFS . starr acti. Bill i. by Baukkage IV. With."00- L While the house and senate foughl over the painful questions of ceilings ceil-ings for farm and other prices, the Washington press and radic corps had some problems of. theii own. Byron Price had been namec censor and had issued his instructions. instruc-tions. , A reporter observed: "The rest of the country may not bavi it but at least the press hi Ui Price control!" Urst Meeting of War Labor Board . 7lfm7rh IO - tm 1 - , r " n v I Sr (r k S V, . - . i i - I & V .. . 3 .7 First meetins' of fliA nnur VfilAMi tit- , . . rice obalrm. Oeorte W Tl- (ZiPZr "S.' mte" (sealcj, letl to rlehll: Eyes of Navy Look Down on a 'Ward' ma , " , .'' The tanker far below (shown in picture at left) can feel somewhat safer now. It is under the watchful ve of the navy blimp squadron, an important adjunct of the U. S. navy which patrols the Atlantic from dawn to dusk. Right: the interior of Uncle Sam's blimp roost on the Atlantio seaboard, with patrol blimps seemingly lording it over the smaller training ships. The blimp squadron carries bombs and some machine guns. Both Have Hearts in Right Place MaJ. Bernie Bierman of the U. S. marines (left) who has generated several Minnesota teams to football titles, is shown here ready to Join the Leathernecks at Quantico, ; Va. Right: Because the navy already has a Thomas Hart, and also because this Thomas Bart of Reading, Pa., is only 10, he will have to wait until Admiral Hart retires. Largest Mohile Gun Starts East fflA -J" lt fS-. ' ?r--v r- a,' m v,s, ins 1 1 . .... .... -i it.i- hiuii In s Milwaukee fac- The giani Ziu-muumever imiwuic --; - - .. ... lory is sLwn It was being prepared for it, rip east to the ordnan e proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md. The howitzer Is the largest fully mobile gun ever built. Brings Cheer "JLI 'wT A "1 Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt makes her annual -visit to Children's hospital hos-pital In Washington, cheering op the tiny victims of infantile paralysis. Photo shows Florence Speis, seven-year-old victim, showing Mrs. Roosevelt her toys while being treated treat-ed in a whirlpool tank. His Biggest Bout 'i c w 4 tint"" JJ-" 'j Private Joe Loois puts on bis arrnr hrocrans at Camo Upton, L. I., as he begins army life routine. The chamo entered the army 6ay artei be pinned back ears of Buddy Baer. Washington, D, C. UTILITY SENSATIONS The hard-hitting Truman committee commit-tee hasn't got around to the matter yet, but some hot sensations are in store when the committee digs into the dollar-a-year-man nan-dling nan-dling of the power phases of the war production program. For years one of the hottest Issues in Washington has been the power lobby. It has been repeatedly investigated, inves-tigated, and several years ego, after aft-er fierce legislative battles, the federal fed-eral power, and holding company laws were enacted to curb the lobby. The Truman committee has confidential con-fidential information that today this lobby is more powerfully entrenched in the capital than ever before. For months, it has been operating directly inside the government, formulating for-mulating and running the power policy pol-icy of the OPM, which was until last week the key war production agency. The OPM power division is not only manned with utility officials, but they are still on the payrolls of private power companies. In other words, while presumably working for the government, they are actually actu-ally paid employees of the utilities. After being deluged with complaints com-plaints that the utility-ruled OPM power division was secretly aiding independent rural power co-ops, the house appropriations committee questioned J. A. Krug, head of the division, on these charges. Krug defended his staff, but the committee, unconvinced, ordered him to submit a detailed report on his dollar-a-year assistants, including includ-ing the amount of salaries they are drawing from utility companies while working for the government Two months have elapsed since Krug promised to produce this important im-portant information and so far he has not done so. All the committee has received was a cagey letter from John Lord O'Brian, former corporation attorney attor-ney who is OPM general counsel, giving a list of the power division's personnel, but hag nothing about their private salaries. However, the little information O'Brian did disclose dis-close speaks volumes. It shows that no less than 18 key officials in Krug's division are dollar-a-year and "WOC" (without com-pensation) com-pensation) men, who are still on private utility payrolls. Note: Appropriation committee members estimate that the total pay these men draw from power com-panies com-panies is more than $250,000 a year. War Production Chief Donald Nelson has privately indicated he will houseclean Krug's unit. . BAD FILMS FOR GOOD NEIGHBORS Young Nelson Rockefeller, who on the whole has done a good job for Pan American cultural relations, has bogged down badly on films for our Pan-American neighbors. His Museum of Modern Art, which was supposed to do this, has been laboring labor-ing for nine months at a cost of $15,000 per month to the govern mentand finally has brought forth a mouse. Rockefeller and Jock Whitney are getting a large dose of criticism about this because they personally are interested in the Museum and have permitted an amateur group to run the show into the ground. Without benefit of competitive bid ding or any system of checks and balances, amateur after amateur in the Museum has tackled the Job of deciding what kind of films should be sent to Latin-America. Here is a cross section of the results so far: "Better Dresses Fifth Floor," "A Child Went Forth," "The City," and "Power and The Land" all utterly unsuited and without objective for South America. Some reasonably good commer cial films have been donated, such as "U. S. Steel" "Greyhound Bus," "General Electric Excursions In Sci ence," and "ine American can Company's Silver Millions." Also Hollywood has handed over a group of pictures, such as "Eyes of the Navy." "Soldiers of the Sky," "The Battle," which are the best pictures that have gone to South America. Meanwhile the amateurs continue,' to chatter and muddle over uplifting the films for our Good Neighbors-all Neighbors-all at the expense of Uncle Sam. MERRY-GO-ROUND C. Navy Secretary Knox has a bust of Theodore Roosevelt on his desk. (.Bakers in the army quartermaster quartermas-ter corps are experimenting with "tomato bread," made by adding tomato to-mato juice or canned tomatoes (rich in vitamins) to the baking dough. C New York air raid wardens are complaining that every order they receive is countermanded five minutes min-utes after it is given. 1 E. B. Craney, Montana radio man who is a close friend of Senator Wheeler, recently promoted, financed and successfully completed a Red Iross relief drive netting over $60,- 000 in 24 hours. C Rep. William S. Hill of Colorado tried to drum up trade for pinto bean growers during his recent visit to Britain. He took with him a large bag of the beans and distributed them among British officials. "I hoped they might include pintos in lend-lease orders," Hill grins, "but the British still prefer their white beans." GJickled Pink!! And why? Because Be-cause h found there wts y to relieve that aggravating gas, headache, listless-ness, listless-ness, coated tongue and bad breath, from which h. had suffered, due to spells of constipation. He tried ADLERKA why don't you? It is an effective blend of 5 carminatives and 8 laxatives for DOUBLE action. ADLERSEA quickly relieves gas, and gentle bowel action follows surprisingly surpris-ingly fast Take this ad along to the drug store. - .",.,.,. Striving for Justice Our whole social life Is In essence but a long, slow striving tor the victory oi justice over force. John Galsworthy, Y mm ) Wh en your noetrtig become rnf, tr-rltated, tr-rltated, stuffy due to colds or dual, JuBt Insert a little Mentholatum In them. Not how quickly It soethes tha Irritated membranes And relieves re-lieves the stuffiness. 16 will also check aneeslng. One you enjoy Jientnolatum'a comforting relief, you'll always Want to keep this ReoUs ointment bandy. In Jars or tubes, 30o. Worthwhile Life Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain. Thret mor died ytitsrdoy, In boil thould Imm there's utt as good" as TER ELACKLEG0L I f fc ,CUT can- yMjn4 SALT lAKI-BOISE-POCATELLO Liking One's Duty The secret of hacDiness la not In doing what one likes, but in liking lik-ing what one has to do. James M. Barrie. 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