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Show THE PAGE TWO PS mmmm Pi 1f& "17 (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) AMERICA'S SMALL TOWN 1XD MERCHANDISING THIS TOWN is first of all a m arid place. That is the foundation On that jpon which it is built. foundation of merchandising is also the spiritual, cultural, social itructure of the community. Take away the stores and with ihem would soon go the churches, ichools and all those things which .nake the town a desirable place in which to live, and a desirable place tor people of the farm homes to visit The influence of, and the advantages offered by the town do not stop it the corporate limits. It is the senter, the hub, of a community. Its spiritual, social and cultural influence extends into the farm homes. The people of those homes are a part tt the community of which the town Is the hub. They, too, support its churches its schools and its market place. They, too, are interested in its prosperity and advancement, and Its continuance and improvement as a market place. Such improvement means increased convenience for them and increased values for their arm acres. For this town, and all other American towns, the shortage of rubber that makes necessary the saving Df tires, is not an unmixed evil. There is less inclination for the town's people or the farmers to travel longer distances to larger market centers. The trade of the community is staying at home. The conditions of today offer an opportunity tor tomorrow for the merchants of this and all other American towns. Buying that is now being done in local market places will continue after the war, provided all merchants make the most of their opportunities. For them it means larger and more varied stocks of merchandise. It means merchandising, instead of storekeeping methods. It means providing in home stores those things people have previously gone to larger centers to obtain. This and modern advertising methods in the home-tow- n papers will keep the business of the community in the home-tow- n market place. Duilt V. S. DEMOCRACY IN A DINING ROOM P. G. B. ("BUD") MORRIS is a friend of many years' standing. He Stratford-on-Avo- n is English-bor- n an l American citizen, who flew American naval planes in World War I. I was having dinner with him at the Arrowhead Springs hotel, of which he is manager, in the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains in southern California. It is a pretentious place, with bridle paths and saddle horses, golf courses and A-- dinner coats, lavishly WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS furnished lounges and spreading balconies. If located in Europe, such a place would be a rendezvous of wealth and the nobility. In America it is a rendezvous of democracy. I asked "Bud" to tell me who some of his guests in the dining room were. There was an Iowa farmer and his wife; a merchant and his wife from a small Nebraska village; a United States army colonel; the head of one of the great packing concerns of Chicago with his wife and her friend; a country doctor from Pennsylvania; a New York society leader and her daughter; a private from a nearby army camp and his mother, and so on. The men were all gentlemen, the women all ladies not by class but by instinct. They were all eating in the same dining room, all selecting their choice of food from the same menu, all paying the same price. There was no thought of class distinctions. They were all Americans. Such a gathering in such a place could be found in but few countries outside of America. Because it can happen here is what makes America tick, what makes us love this land of ours and its institutions; what makes us fight for its preservation as a land of opportunity. CONGRESSIONAL POLITICS IN WAR TIME THAT THE minority lobbyists at who threaten timid Washington, loss ol members of congress with votes for any infraction of the lobbyists' demands, do not represent any considerable number of voteri is illustrated by the result of polls. A congress that is more interested In winning votes than in winning a war should note that 02 per cent vote for legislation thai would force labor unions to register with the federal government and report their receipts and expenditures. It should note that approximately 75 per cent oppose the 40 hour work and demand at least 4 hours before overtime is paid. LABOR'S DIVIDEND OUT OF A NATIONAL INCOME of 100 billion dnliars, 74 billion 74 per cent will this year go to labor. That Is labor's dividend frorr the business of America a fai greater percentage than can b found in any other country on th It includes all labor meglobe. TI Vt Vi a II I 1 i ii IT1 1TT1T t in Washington, D. C. WHERE HONOR IS DUE General MacArthur'! Although spectacular defense of the Bataan peninsula gathered all the headlines, praise and honor is also due other g officers who kept up the unspectacular but very necessary part of the defense. One unsung hero who has done a great job Is Maj. Gen. George F. Moore, in command of the harbor General defenses of Corregidor. Moore's guns bagged so many Japanese planes that the Japs didn't relish flying over Corregidor very much. Then there Is Brig. Gen. Charles C. Drake, the quartermaster, who has the heartbreaking job of rationing supplies down to almost noth- By Thursday, April 36, NEPHL UTAH TIMES-NEW- Edward C. Wayne Impending Menace of Allied Invasion Postpones German Spring Offensive; Army Adds New Draft Classification; Hero of Philippines Stages Repeat Role LABOR: Peace Is Hailed SSII 1 1 SSBJII1I M "I HI! Mil I A BbTTCR WAT OF Phil Baker tells about the who was tugging a suitcase down Central Park West. The corner cop stopped her and asked where she was going.' "My Daddy and Mummy were having a fight" explained the child. 'Mummy told Daddy to go to and Daddy told Mummy to home-nobo-dy's go some place else. So, I left two-yeME with any sticking Haw! high-rankin- anti-aircra- ft ing. Another man who performed military miracles is Brig. Gen. Albert M. Jones. He commanded the southern sector of Luzon, south of Manila, and accomplished the seemingly impossible Job of withdrawing his beach defenses to join the forces of General Wainwright on Bataan. Then there is Gen, James R. N. Weaver, in command of tanks, together with Generals Joseph P. William E. Brougher, Bradford G. Chynoweth, William F. Sharp, Allan C. McBride, Clyde A. Selleck, Clinton A. Pierce, and Arnold J. Funk, all unsung heroes. Note: General Wainwright should not be criticized for commanding part of the battle of Bataan from Corregidor. General MacArthur, according to those returning from the Philippines, also directed the Bataan battles from Corregidor. Va-cho- MARKET INFORMATION LEAKS Government sleuths are probing a series of mysterious leaks of Important market information from key war agencies. On several occasions recently certain Wall street traders have obtained advance tips on important moves to be made by the War Production board, the Office of Price Administration and the agriculture department. In one instance cotton brokers got wind of an agriculture parity price announcement 45 minutes before it was made public. This announcement was supposed to be absolutely secret until publication. The market operators not only learned about it, but used the information for private profit. The WPB order banning all nonessential building construction also was tipped off in advance to certain members of the building trade. So, too, was the OPA's action Imposing a price ceiling on fats and oils, and allowing an increase In wool prices. Word regarding this move leaked out two days before the order was issued. Under suspicion for these leaks are certain dollar-a-yea- r men, who, while not directly connected with these matters, were in a position to learn about them and to tip off business friends. MERRY-GO-ROUN- ft As early as D General "Hap" Arnold, chief of the air corps, told officials of the Insular Affairs bureau that if he were an enemy he would like nothing better than the assignment of bombing Pearl Harbor. He pointed out that the navy was always huddled close together in the harbor, that the harbor's mouth was narrow, making it difficult to get out, and that it was a perfect target for an efficient air attack. ft The Truman committee is investigating sensational charges by the Long Beach (Calif.) Independent that southern California airplane factories and shipyards are far behind schedule, having been delayed by cost plus charges, slowdown tactics, arbitrary union hiring, extortionate initiation fees, farcical inspections. It is also charged that one plant, scheduled to be in full production last June, is far from even fractional production. Meanwhile local plants stand empty awaiting government orders. 41 New influx into Washington is the Australian War Supplies mission. About 180 of them are coming to 1939, town. 41 Although a Democrat, Congressman Vincent Harrington of Iowa made the Republican Lincoln day address at LeMars. Iowa, last month. 41 A government filing clerk found the name "John Bull" mentioned In aid to correspondence on England. She brought the letter to a superior and asked, "Who Is Mr. Bull?" ft Congressmen are alarmed by the threatened paper shortage, which may curU.il Government Printing lend-leas- e CONGRESSIONAL WASTE Rookie Representative Earl Wilson of Indiana, imaginative advocate of a 10 p. m. "curfew" for govern- ment stenographers, recently popped up with another idea. He proposed that house members, who occupy two big office buildings on Capitol Hill, be herded Into one chanical, clerical, profcssion.il, arm. so that the other might be used by mine and factory. Out of it laboi war workers. This was hitting bepays taxes, just as out of the 4 pei low the gravy line, and fetched cent that goes to capital It must pa) Wilsona hot retort from Representtaxes and out of the receipts to in ative John Rankin of Mississippi, d us try it, too, must pay taxes. plus some dark looks from others. DRAFT: Has New Class Both Japan and Nazi Germany Instead of classifying men as. eiwere reported to be suffering bad ther fit or unfit for miliattacks of the Jitters, the former be- tary physically service along certain rigid cause of air raid expectations in a standards, the army had worked out country badly equipped to withstand a new class, men who, if certain dethem, the latter because of the im- fects were corrected, would be pending menace of an . American-Britis- h marked fit for duty. invasion of Europe, This was a new designation unReports had reached Norwegian der the Class grouping. It will circles in London that several di- be called "Suspended visions of new troops had been In it will go men who have been rushed to Norway. It was known declared unfit for dental reasons bethat vast labor battalions were en- cause of nasal obstructions, hernias gaged feverishly in building de- which can be repaired, or stomach fenses along the channel coast. troubles correctable by dieting. As to the Japs, they were said to The new draft rules also called be having air raid alarms constantfor men to be sent to hospitals for ly, even when no enemy planes were three-da- y periods if there was real in sight. Many of these reportedly doubt about their physical ability. had been caused by their own planes There more detailed study could be in practice or patrol flights. made, and perhaps some minor reBelieving the American ships pair work done. which raided the Jap mainland had Once these men have been corcome from Eastern China, Japanese rected physically, they will be subplanes had lashed out at various ject to by the army towns there which might have harmedical staffs, and if marked O.K. bored American bombers. would be taken out of the suspendUnquestionably the raids upon ed list and put in full Class Nipponese cities were a serious blow to Japanese morale. Their "sacred BULKELEY: soil" was not immune to outside atHero Repeats tack. Not often is it in the cards for a The worriment believed to be suffered by Hitler over possible in- hero to stage a return engagement vasion thrusts was such, London had on the field of valor, but this has said, to have caused a practical happened for Lieut. John D. Bulke-le- y and his squadron of motor torabandonment of .any offensive in Libya or the Mediterranean front pedo boats operating in the waters It was possible, they had declared, of the Philippines. In January Bulkeley's men had that the German spring offensive might be forced to be a spring de- daringly entered Subic bay and had fensive, and that the offensive might be postponed until summer if put on f at all. Many believed that if Hitler was to win the war at all, it must be in 1942, and that the practical abanoffensive donment of a grand-scal- e on all fronts at once was really a confession of defeat. ." GOP: 1 t Comity, Following their Chicago convention, the Republicans had gone back to their homes somewhat surprised to find themselves with a platform of Internationalism, to find that they had abandoned isolationism and that this program was written and put over by Willkie, an However, they went back resolved to try their utmost to win a few elections this year, and some of the leaders were frank in saying they hoped for new life for the party from the change of heart. The national committee chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr. said: "The Republican party may well be proud of its accomplishment. It was a great day for the party when the Willkie resolution was adopted." Some observers had felt during the battle against it that Mr. Martin wasn't so pleased as he expressed himself afterward. But in the main the GOP was confident and lively about it all. The big paragraph in the platform was number three, which read: "We realize that after this war the responsibility of the nation will not be circumscribed within the terri- Wj1"".'. ZtLZ Tf ft LIEUT. JOHN D. BULKELEY Return engagement of a hero. sunk a 5,000-toenemy warship. They returned the following day and did it again. This time Bulkeley's squadron had darted by night in between a flotilla of destroyers and discharged their n lethal torpedoes at a Japanese light cruiser, which had been reported badly damaged and probably sunk. In this later foray he had had the misfortune to lose two of his boats, the PT 34 and the PT 35. The former was forced ashore on the island of Cebu and the crew presumably made prisoner. The other was destroyed when trapped in the harbor of Cebu to prevent its falling into enemy hands. Bulkeley, already holder of the Navy Cross, was in line for more honors. At the very time the report came through, from his home in New York came word that he was the father of a baby son, a brother old for the Bulkeleys' daughter Joan. -- LUEBECK: Bloivn to Atoms Neutral sources had reported In Sweden the effect of the Royal Air p blitz in the form of force's day and night bombings on one important German port, the city of Luebcck on the Baltic. Swedes returning to Sweden from this port described it as blown to atoms. They said the people of Lucbeck had told of "torpedo bombs" landing in the city, and literally flattening whole blocks of non-sto- 'J 4, MARTIN AND WILLKIE "A grral day for the party." torial limits of the United States, that our nation has an obligation to assist in the bringing about of an understanding, comity and among the nations of the world in order that our own libertv may be preserved and that the blighting and destructive processes of war may riot again be forced upon us and peoupon the free and peace-lovin- g ples of the earth." Outside of this, the party pledged itself chTefly to an attempt to hold r down expenditures. non-wa- II I G II LIGHTS The first of the Cinderella Fleet had been commissioned, and went out cn the The Atlantic looking for bnat 110 feet long, has a wooden hull and with twin Diesel engines. The first was oflicialiy called the IC 505. but to navy men she was a Cinderella boat. They are being fabricated in large numbers all over the nation at small boatyards. New York: higb-Fpee- d buildings. Scarcely one stone was left on another, they had reported. One big shipping firm had written to Swedish correspondent on a plain piece of paper, saying their company's building and docks had been totally destroyed. Not even a letterhead remained intact Seamen returning to Stockholm reported to newsmen that very little, if any of the port installations were left, and that the destruction in the town itself was "beyond description." in the week's news NAVIGATING WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY JOHM HADUY Ul 1731. H6 INVENTED' THE OCTANT. FORERUNNER. 01 THE FAMILIAR SEXTANT. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions aro oxpresse In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newcpspc-- Uuiuu.), JITTERS: it Japs, Nazis 1942 Tim-bucto- o, ar lease!" mm, WILLIAM H. DAVIS He points with pride. The chairman of the War Labor board, a division of the production board, William H. Davis, had issued a report hailing with pleasure the figures on labor troubles since the first of the year. He cited the fact that strike stoppages in war production had been only 0.06 of 1 per cent practically a negligible amount. Strikes during the first quarter of 1942, he said, had been only of those during the same period of 1941. He said that the policy of the board, which had been sold to the major union leaders, had worked out beautifully and that there was no doubt about the success of the war production as long as this condition was maintained. At the same time, however, the only rift in the peaceful lute of labor was the issuing of joint statements by Presidents Green and Murray of the AFL and CIO, now themselves at peace, attacking the National Association of Manufacturers. Both Green and Murray accused the NAM of making disparaging statements concerning the War Labor board in a series of newspaper advertisements. This, they felt, was distinctly a blow aimed at the solidarity of labor in the production setup. th "no-strik- e" FLEET: Of France Interesting discussions, most of them theoretical, over the possible future activity of the French fleet assuming that Laval was turning it over to German uses either directly or through Vichy, had reached the press, some figuring the fleet an important addition to Nazi might, others saying it would be of little help if any. British naval authorities, pointing to the experiences of their own handling of war vessels during wartime said that when a ship was put in fighting trim it could move 200,000 miles or more with only minor refitting. But, they said, when ships have been demilitarized that is, laid up as have the French ships for extended periods of time, refitting them for war duty is a big task. This, they said, was especially true of huge battlewagons like the Dunquerque, giving the opinion that it would take months, perhaps a year, before she could be put in true fighting condition. PATENTS: Formal Seizure From Jay Forecast for 1942: Franklin's colyum in Richmond, Va.: "Walter WincheU will cease to write bout Cafe Society because it won't exist Walter Lippmann will write the best columns of his life and nobody will read them. Mark Sullivan will be drafted into Government service to help administer the nationwide plan. Dorothy Thompson will fight it out with Clare Boothe Luce for the role of Julia Ward Howe or Florence Nightingale. David Lawrence will continue to do his stuff so long as he can find papers to print it after which he will join the USO and work in a canteen. Raymond Clapper will gain in courage and, breaking with Roy Howard, will emerge as a real columnist m jm THE RFTTTft WAY TO TREAT CONSTIPATION DUE TO LACK OF M THE DIET IS TO PROPER'BULtC CORRECT THE CAUSI OF THE TROUBLE WITH A DELICIOUS CEREAL, KEUOCwS THERE ARE MANY example, of clever headline-writinWe think this is one of the best: When John Mase-fielarrived here from England when he was poet laureate, he refused tc grant newspaper men an interview . . . So one evening paper ran this streamer: 'King's Canary Refuses to Chirp" which made a better story than the interview could have been. From the editorial page of the N. Y. Post: "If Adolf Hitler captured Our Town, which are the first ten New Yorkers he would hang? . . . Certain names will spring to your mind at once. Dorothy Thompson? Walter Winchell?" Ladies first, of course. Capt. Patrick Smith, whose articles on Japan were of great benefit to the U. S., is now an American and ready for any service the country wishes . . . Salute to the National Maritime Union: The one Union whose members do more than work for the country. They die for itl . . . "Banjo Eyetm": Leona Olsen of the chorus and Ben Bernie's boy, Jason, have called the whole thing J. Dorsey's manager spinach and the chief arranger bare-fiste- d it A foreign playboy, this week who told the El Morocco, Stork, Fefe's and other debbies he was from Holland, was collared by the FBI as a Berliner . . . Spring is really here. All 3 hatcheck gals at Iceland became brides last week. -- a ill DAY IT EVERY AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER. food-stam- p Morning Mail: "Dear Walter: So chorus girls never become famous just notorious, eh? The Winchell you sayl Howz about Ruby Keeler, Barbara Stanwyck, Virginia Bruce, Gladys Glad, In a Claire and Joan Crawford? Go stand in a corner, but don't get me wrong. I'm a former Hellzapoppin' chorine, and I have good reason to be nuts about W.W. Margie Young, Banjo Eyes." . 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President Roosevelt had ordered formal seizure of all enemy-ownepatents in the United States whether they had been directly or indirectly d owned. This was a climatic step following the revelations of a series of poolings of foreign patents by American large business concerns. It had been revealed that a Philadelphia concern, merely identified by the state department as a "German National," had been shipping chemicals from the United States to South American blacklisted firms as late as February, 1941. That this company had paid out a large sum in royalties to Germany last year, and that this year, although no more had been paid, the company was holding its royalties, later to be sent to Germans. That about half of the 1940 royalties were on a product Indispensable for the use of this country in building planes to fight the Nazis. This sort of activity was what actuated the President in having ordered the seizure of such patents. Oddly enough, however, at the same time as the facts about this company were coming out it was stated that much more information on the product had come from Germany to this country than had gone the other way. One official said: "I don't know what we would have done about producing it for American planes without this information." INVASION: Following the return of General Marshall to these shores, there were general hints that an Invasion toon Cleveland: The scrap metal short-ac- e of Europe was to be attempted by Alallegedly had caused a drop of lied forces. 150.000 tons of Republic steel during It seemed that In this picture the the past five months, it was report- Polish troops were not going to play ed. Government steps to move the such a small part. It had been rescrap were gradually relieving the ported from Cairo that "tens of thousituation. It was said. sands of Polish troops" had been London: Sir Stafford Cripps had sent to the Middle East to organize returned safely from India to Eng- themselves into a resisting army, to land, but his mission generally had combat any German thrust against been considered to have failed. Syria. Journalism's biggest laugh in a long time came when Sec'y Knox's paper published a competitor's personal letter to a reader. In which the rival boasted of many things he claimed he did in the interest of the nation . . . Knox's paper played up the conceited letter with the headline: "Whatta Man!" . . . When Knox saw it he was disappointed . . . "The slug 'Whatta Man!' was not o good," he said 'It should have said: 'And On The Seventh " Day He Rested!' ... Sound In the Night: At La Conga: "A bore is a guy who wraps up a idea in a two-hovocabAt Iceland: "Since we ulary" have MacArthur and so many Yankg there, why don't they call it UStra-lia?- " . At Roseland: "Hey, where hat Ripley been all your life?" In the Cub: "He's gotten to a point In his career where the only way you can Insult him is to ignore him" At LaMartinique: "Frus-trated- ? She' practically strangling from her halo" At Spivy's: "It's one of those Improbable things. Like Tallulah getting stage fright" In the Hickory House: "She uses her eyebrow pencil to draw little question marks over her eyes" In the "The gay life' worn her out like a piece of used confetti" In Versailles: "You can't have everything. Even a friendly slap on the back hat its sting." two-minu- te ... ... ... ... For You To Feel Well ti hour week, dvtct every day. T day y tnpplor, tn kidEMr fiLr' vaat matter from tha blood. how the if mora peqaia ware awar of kldoeva must constantly remove aur- matter that can no' it.iv fa the Mood without Injury toeaith, there would be better under Lmndinf of way the whole ayatem ia upaet wheo kidney (ail to function propsrly. 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