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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- NEPHT, UTAH S, RUSSIA: Nazis Claim Strength WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Armed Services Do Everything Possible to Protect Mental Health of Servicemen; Parents Advised to Cooperate. A'euu Double Up Claiming that waves of and fighter planes had leveled the Russian base of Krimskaya and extended operations beyond in the Caucasus, the Nazis boasted of reestablishing their air superiority over their embattled bridgehead at Hardest Fighting Still to Come: Byrnes; Chinese Forces Rout Foe on Yangtze As Japs Drive Toward War Capital; Allied Airmen Pound Italian Objectives Army's Greatest Hazard? It's Question of Morale Thursday, June 10, 194$ Novorossisk. Even so, Russian pressure contin ued against the Nazis' only foothold in the Caucasus, with the Reds developing another threat to Novoros sisk by landing troops on the shores of the Taman peninsula to the Ger- (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expremsed In these columns, they are those of Western .Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ---Released by Western Newspaper Union. H Hotbeds in these times are not always places to start plants. Housing conditions in some towns are so bad that beds are rented on an eig:ht-hoplan. The occupant of the bed gives way to another rentet at the end of his shift. You will be missed . . . but not when hope is small And I revolt against the tricks of Com May Mean Wheat! Corn may mean Indian corn or maize to us and the Australians, wheat to the English and oats to the Scotch and Irish. ft 1 rmlf ur Promise: fate, You will be missed . . . but not when I recall The awesome shutting of a quiet Clean Seeds mans' rear. Minor action flared on other secgate, tions of the Russian front South of Not when the winds come racing dedown the sky Leningrad, the Reds reported and And there is chill and famine in stroying a network of dugouts, while shooting up a freight the air . . . train. Before Smolensk, artillery fire Not when the heart is desolate and was said to have wiped out two dry . . . Not when the eyes are mirrors of enemy companies. despair . . , COAL STRIKE: By BAUKIIAGE Analyst and Commentator, Failure to clean and treat farm seeds before planting' time is responsible for most of the bad weed infestations that cut down yields on thousands of acres of farming land. pill-box- tVNU Service, Union Trust Building;, Washington, D. C. What's the greatest hazard your boy must meet when he joins the army? Not the weapon of the enemy. We know only a very tiny percentage of those who don the uniform succumb to that. It's the mental hazard. Take it from a man who met it and who, since, has read the alarming figures which show the war's mastodons who weren't as smart a "fitting in" that's all morale is, "fitting in," getting on when you, who have sat down to your meals three times a day as regularly as the clock, miss the chow wagon; you who have had a kind and solicitous mother or teacher looking after your private troubles are suddenly faced with sharing the troubles of your squad or company or squadron. Now, how are you going to adjust yourself to this sudden change? In the first place, you have to understand why everything seems (any war's) mental casualties. And to meet that mental hazard you need just one thing mental health. Let me quote a few words on the subject of morale from one of the books which the army and the navy and the wise ones in other professions say is a wonderful protection for the mental health of the boy who joins the army. That book is paper bound. It costs 35 cents. It is called "Our Armed Forces." It has a lot of pictures in it and a lot of sound sense. It is printed by the presses of the Infantry Journal, 1115 17th street, Washington, D. C. It is not sold for profit. And here is what it says on the subject of morale. (As I say on the air, "I'm quoting"): "Morale is an important quality of citizenship in the crises of peace, when the internal security of the nation is threatened.' It is even more important in war, when the very existence of the nation hangs in the balance. It is, therefore, an objective of army and navy leadership to build a high degree of morale in the soldier and sailor. Why you, a free-bor- n American citizen, who did as he pleased when and how it pleased him, suddenly have to get up by a bugle, keep step, salute, eat, sleep, drink, walk, run, crawl when somebody else says so. The first thing you have to realize is the purpose ahead. The next thing is wivy other people whom you never see insist on achieving that purpose the way they do, regardless of your convenience or your date at the post office. Your Own Orders "Your government controls the armed forces." That means that the men your folks elected, just the way it was planned by the makers of America, are really the ones who are telling you what to do. Which means, if you follow through, that you yourself and your folks are telling you. I chose book. Broadcaster's Diary came to work this morning a little late and right in the midst of the crowds of war workers surging down to their offices, I was suddenly struck with the fact that this change in Washington which I have become used to is typical of other changes that are going to take place all over America. I was walking down 16th street. That sounds prosaic but it used to be a street of beautiful mansions, many of them historic. It sweeps out of the Maryland countryside, down a hill and up another crest from which you can look down, through a vista of ancient trees to the blur at the As I .. end which is the White House with the statue of General Jackson on his horse silhouetted against it. rearing ' This morning, as I say, the workers were swarming out of the houses they are boarding houses now to work. I glanced up as I passed one sedate old home, the wistaria still Environment Now when Johnny Doughboy joins up, he changes his habits of life as much as Christopher Columbus would have to change his if he came back and took a job managing a big. decorously draped over the doorway up whose curving drive once the carriage and later the limousine swept to meet milady descending. I peeped, indecorously, through the beautiful leaded windows of the dining room. It was filled with little tables, the cloths stained with precious but too hurriedly Imbibed morning cnfTee. I thought a moment. How will Delaware avenue and Locust street and High street look after the war? Those neatly cropped lawns, even an iron deer or two if they haven't gone into the scrap collection campaign'' Sic transit gloria but perhaps the past glory will be replaced by someWe can hope. thing more glorious. modern corporation, or riding herd on a bunch of or bossing a section gang. It would be tough for Chris to adopt himself to his environment. If he couldn't manage it. he Wfnild probably go haywire and blow his top. The dinosaur and some of his fellow prchistorics who couldn't adjust themselves to their environment retired permanently to positions in museums. Man, some men that is, adjusted. They took the ice ace. the floods and the famine in their stride and here they and ere at the dead s oh-in- I In Washington E F s ly there Is a The driver system. takes as many people as he can going in Die Fame direction. It used to be called the "pick-up- " system. The name changed but ri"t the practice. It's st. II a great y '1? ing. e l The Virlory mifTi. red from In t!u I). .', tn t. . i! tin.-j : "iet of Columbia, it's drink of li.:..r ttiiup. S :r o people who t ike it s.t-- i d ,v. n can't stand up after vard anjl.o. first-han- BYRNES: Reports to Nation The 100,000th war plane rolled off the assembly line as the newly appointed War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes spoke to the na- tion. "We have at length caught up with the Axis in our preparations and portal-to-port- CHINA: Rout Japs Five Japanese divisions of 75,000 men were routed as Chinese troops counterattacked along the Yangtze river. Even as the enemy was thrown back, American bombers and Chinese fighters swooped on the Jap air base of Ichang, and 10 tons of explosives were dropped. The Jap rout came after they had thrust south toward the Yangtze in their drive to the Chinese provisional capital of Chungking, 295 miles to the east. According to the Allied communique, the Chinese armies developed an encircling movement, cut off the Japanese line of retreat, and then chopped up the entrapped units. Besides raiding Ichang, Allied airmen were active over other sectors of China. Jap warehouses and railroad yards were blasted at Foochow. are forging rapidly ahead," he said. "We have a long, hard road ahead. The hardest fighting is yet to come. Now we must not only keep up our production but we must assume a military major part in the operations of the enemy." Recounting America's tremendous production achievements, Byrnes revealed that the U. S. turned out 100 fighting ships in the first five months this year; more than 1,000 cargo vessels were built during the 12 months ending May 31; 100,000 pieces of antiaircraft cannon have been produced and 1,500,000 machine guns and sub- GOP: machine guns manufactured. Post-Wa- r Committee By April 1, Byrnes said, the U. S. So that the next Republican nawill have spent 10 billion dollars in buying land and building camps and tional convention might have the air fields in this country. Referring basis for drawing up an appropriate to his new position, he declared that platform Sfaling with the part he would seek to bring unity among America should play in the post-wa- r the government agencies entrusted world's reconstruction, 49 prominent with carrying out the war programs, members of the GOP were named saying their teamwork was as nec- to serve on a special committee to essary as that of the soldiers. study the question. Announced by National Chairman MANPOWER: Harrison Spangler, the committee consists of 5 senators, 12 congressTo Cut Deferments men, 24 governors and 8 party offi1 demen will million be Only ferred in industry by the end of this cials. According to Spangler, it will be year, Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower commission, de- the duty of the committee to chart a program embracing the extent to clared. During the year, McNutt said, which this country should commit in mainitself toward 6,000.000 physically fit men, including fathers, will form the pool from taining world peace. Of equal imwhich 2,700,000 must be Inducted to portance, Spangler said, will be the round out the goal of 11,000,000 for committee's task of mapping a course for our own domestic rethe armed services. Of the number, McNutt continued, construction. "We must plan for a free and 900,000 will be deferred for farm work, 900,000 will be exempted for prosperous agriculture; labor condependency, and 1,500,000 will be de- ditions which will insure labor its ferred for industrial work. just share; and conditions which will McNutt urged employers to prepermit industry to expand, grow, depare for replacement of the 3 million velop and produce the things which men now deferred in industry, in- will add to our standard of living," cluding fathers, whose general in- Spangler declared. duction around August 1 recently was predicted by Selective Service ITALY: Director Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Her-she- Softened y. FARM SUPPLY: Simple Priority Needed By merely filling out a form drawn up by himself or his retailer, a farmer will be able to obtain priorities on 178 types of supplies. Individual purchases, however, will be limited to $25. The form must simply read: "I certify to the War Production board that I am a farmer and that the supplies covered by this order are reeded now and will be used for the operation of a farm." To facilitate its ruling, the WPB ordered manufacturers to get the hands. supplies into retailers' Among the scarce items are batteries, chains, cold chisels, pitchforks, hoes, harness leather, galvanized pails, pipes, horsecollars, pliers, ropes, shovels, barbed wire and bale wire, wrenches, tubs and poultry netting. WPB also is seeking to speed up output of axes, boxes, fcedtrouglis, egg cases, sprayers, hand cultivators, milk r'ls. wagon hardware and plowshares. HIGHLIGHTS Spud-legger- date-make- d knowledge of Axis military technique gained Bringing back from his observations on the North African front, Lieut. Gen. Lesley McNair (left) , commander of ground forces. Is greeted on his arrival at third army headquarters by Lieut. Gen. Courtney Hodges (center) and Ma, Gen. Wade H. Haislip. Lieutenant General McNair was wounded while on his inspection trip through the battle area. PAY-AS-YOU-G- O: At Long Last The house took the first step in th passage of its conference commit tee's legislation. n One hundred and Re publicans joined with 89 Democrats in approving the bill, which for gives all of one year's taxes of $50 and allows for a reduction of 75 per cent on the remainder over $50. The legislation also provides for a 20 per cent tax, after exemptions on all salaries or wages. Persons obtaining incomes from other sources, like farmers, must estimate their yearly earnings and then pay oft! the liability on a quarterly basis. Persons who are left with a 25 per cent tax after the 75 per cent forgiveness must pay off the remainder in two annual installments, due in 1944 and 1945. In all, the government hopes to recapture three billion dollars under the proposed sixty-seve- bill. CANNED MILK: One Red Point With canned milk production off 25 per cent from last year's output of 75 million cans, and with the government purchasing half of the supply, the Office of Price Administration placed condensed and evaporated milk on the rationed list. You will be missed when life is at fts best When every rose has opened to the sun, You will be missed when I no long- er quest . . . With all goals made and every victory won; For this is love delight And bear alone night! ... to share the least Up water. the terror and the P. S. WHAT HAVE YOU Britishers In Tunisia are splitting their sides over this one. One of the Tommies there lost his bayonet, and rather than face the consequences of admitting the misdemeanor, carved out an excellent imitation of the missing weapon. For weeks he went about his duties with the fake concealed in his scabbard, safe from censure so long as his handiwork went undetected. When the inevitable order came to "Fix Bayonets," however, he was undone. He simply stood there, his scabbard un- TO SELL? Cash Paid FOR Office Equipment Store Fixtures Complete Business of Any Kind Write, Phone or Wire Intermountain Merchant Supply If E. 4th So. touched. The sergeant demanded an explanation. "It's a promise I made my father," said the Tommy. "As he lay on his death-be- d I told him I would never bare a bayonet on the anniversary of his death." "That's the damndest fish story I ever heard!" the sergeant thundered. "Lemme see that bayonet!" "For breaking a solemn promise," said the Tommy as he slowly drew forth the bayonet, "may the Lord turn it to wood!" An MGM writer decided he wanted to get into the Army. "I'm serious," he told pals. "I want to be one of the best soldiers." And this is what happened at the Induction eenter. that the place was crowded and that it was so stuffy. The psychiatrist heard him and marked down "Claustrophobia." "Oh, please," said the scrivener, "don't do that I'm just overanxious." The man wrote: "Nervous." "Oh, look now," said the lad. "I'm not nervous. I was drinking last night." The man wrote: "Alcoholic." "But I don't drink much," he interrupted, "I'm all keyed up. To be awake I took benzedrine." The man wrote: "Drug addict." The poor guy is back at MGM. When Larry Lesueur, the CBS correspondent visited a soldiers' hos pital in Moscow, he chatted with a Under the regulations, 14 ounce wounaea man wno the doctors said cans, or several cans totaling 14 wouldn't be able to Sent a pain T.. ounces or less, now are worth one sueur asked the soldier what he red point The 14 ounce can is the planned to do and was told that he size popularly bought for infants, intended to go back to the front and the payment of one red point "You can't" said Lesueur, "there from their ration book, of course, are plenty of men to take your will not be felt as severely as by place." ."You don't understand," was the adults, whose purchase will reduce their quota of stamps for meat, Russian's reply. "No one can take cheese and fats. another's place in a fight" Officials estimate that the average A reader requests the orieln of th adult needs three or four pounds three or four points worth of word "racket" It was underworld-es- e for "party." In the old dav In canned milk a week, if fresh millc New York on the lower East Side isn't used. when mobsters ran a dance or afATTU: fair for a pal in a Jam they sold tickets to it Kiska Next? "We're gonna have a racket Fri Facing the west, Japanese soldiers say. Often small bowed in hallowed respect of their day night," they'dwould time gangsters emnlov that thena with wild cry theme to get emperor, ready money, with no launched a final, suicidal counteratthought of holdine the event Such tack against American troops on cheats were called "racketeers." Attu island. And when a stranger was being Mowed down by American fire, the they'd ask: "What's his attack collapsed, and the last organ- checked, racket?" ized enemy resistance on this westernmost of the Aleutian islands Some of di were rahhlnv K.f came to an end. some 20 days after drama criticism. A Broad pungent first American troops stole the vet way recalled woollcott s slap at ashore under the protective cover of second-ratmusical. "The t1nt " U. S. naval units. he wrote, "hasn't a lee to stand im Conquest of Attu turned eyes to and there are chorus girls to match." Kiska, main Jap base in the AleuU. S. the Isolated tians, by victory. Pvt M. Wllk of "This Is the Operating from Amchitka, American Army" tells of the bloke whe to hammer the airmen continued brought his troubles to The Good Japanese airplane, harbor and camp Will Hour. "Mr. Anthony," he installations at the base. Approxi"my best friend ran iv with mately 10,000 enemy troops are sup- my wife. They've been gone a month posed to be stationed on Kiska. and, Mr. Anthony I miss him!" Harbors, shipping and airdromes were left in flames as Allied airmen flew in from the east and west and pounded both ends of Italy. Heavily hit were the port facilities of Naples, on Italy's western shoreline. To the east, the air base at Foggia was raided, with grounded planes, a gasoline dump and barracks offering the target. In all, 150 Flying Fortresses and Liberators participated In the assaults. Despite the fact that fierce fighter opposition was encountered over Naples, the Allies reported no Boil Cracked Eggs Cracked eggs can be boiled without their contents oozing out if a teaspoonful of salt is added to the Build Liberty Ships Seventeen great shipyards ar now devoted exclusively to th construction f Liberty ships. Each yard, according to the National Council of American Shipbuilders,, was laid out and especially designed for Liberty Ship construction thus making possible a production of merchant shipping. record-- breaking For 3 110 cents per day yon can protect yonr rtprht t 4 rive your ear under Utah's NEW MOTORISTS FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW. This wilt protect you up to S50.ao Property Dama- - and f 10.000.00 Bodily Injury. Phono your local FARMERS or write for foil information. AGENT FARMERS AUTOMOBILE INTER INSURANCE EXCHANGE 1114 Continental Bank Bids. Salt Lake City. Utah Ice In Life Belts Standard equipment on most; ehips of the United Nations are inflated life belts inflated with carbon dioxide gas. This is th same gas that carbonates beverages and it is known in its solid form as ice." "dry TYPEWRITER RIBBONS DONT THROW TYPEWRITER RIBBONS AWAY I and re newa old worn-ou- t. dimmed ribbons. increases life of new. Makes nice printIt keeps keys clean, works when you SAVES. 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FRENCH: Ilaukliaxo A black market potato truck was photographed by a news photographer in front of a fire house in s fear nothWashington. b c.irc'eners who have "irfiltralion" call ti c Jack rabbi's "jup rabbits." America's wartime labor situation moved toward a crisis with the walkout of approximately 450,000 miners after a truce had failed to end in a new contract Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, nominally the operator of the mines after the government had taken them over during the first strike threat, flayed both sides for the dis ruption of work. As a basis for compromise, the UMW had suggested a settlement of the entire wage question by payment of $1.50 per day as a solution of the question, or compensa'tion for the time miners spend traveling to and from their coal faces above and underground. The $1.50 payment would be temporary until a mixed committee had worked out a final settlement of the issue. The operators proposed portal-to- portal pay of 80 cents a day as a basis for discussion. The bone of contention entered into the issue of payment of overtime for 35 hours, which was a condition of the miners' last contract rr I all-o- that phrase because it heads chapter two in this book "Our Armed Forces" I'm talking about. You had better read it. The next chapter is called "Your Army." And you had better read that too because it tells you something of what to expect. I won't go any further and really I ought to have been talking all this time to parents, too, for they, of all people, ought to know what the boy is up against. What it is all about One of the great tragedies of being a soldier is the way the folks back home don't understand it at all. They think their job is to feel sorry for you; they don't understand what an extra stripe really means, they can't get you when you talk about home and the things you want to hear about and they write and tell you how noble you are. You don't feel noble. You want to know if the barn has been painted or if your girl has been around lately. You would, though, like them to have some faint idea about this unpleasant job of being a soldier. That's why it would be a good thing if your folks would read this "The state of mind we call morale has its roots in habits of thinking and acting. A student seated alone in his room, bent seriously over his books, may be tackling his studies with a high degree of morale. He believes what he is doing is worth while. He is determined to overcome whatever difficulties the subject matter offers. He works with a self urge. He gives up the picture shout and the ball game if doing so is necessary for success. He has confidence in his ability to acquire the knowledge and skill he is seeking. In the undertaking of hundreds of similar duties in the ordinary routine of living is created the intangible virtue called morale. The young man who enters the armed services may therefore bring with him the basis for the morale upon which his success as a soldier and the ultimate victory of our nation so greatly depend. "While morale has its roots in the character of the individual and his past experience, it may be greatly strengthened by association and close with others who are engaged in the same enterprise. Morale is contagious. It is a quality easily transmitted from one person to another. The serviceman receives his uniform. It is the symbol of his dedication. With it he becomes part of the great tradition. Behind him into history is a long line of those who have been so dedicated. The men who walked barefoot- in the snow at Valley Forge. The Green Mountain boys with Ethan Allen, thundering at the gates of Ticonderoga. Calm men in the gun turrets at Manila Bay. Marines at Guadalcanal . . . Chateau Thier. Tripoli. Helmeted fliers of ry a torpedo squadron at Midway. Through the procession of heroes, till bright as it recedes into distant time, has been handed down the great tradition." P II Labor Crisis topsy-turv- About Habits long-horn- 11 Sources of Vitamin C Citrus fruits and tomatoes ar Important sources of vitamin C Other sources are kale, cabbage, spinach and other green vegetables, and white and sweet potatoes baked or boiled in their jackets. il-- - . CIllRCH: Wendell Willkie called upon churches to measure the public actions of politicians according to the yardstick of their own teachings. ritK'KS: Farm prices rained 2 points between Apr.l 15 ntid M y 15. Advances in feed crop, fru:t., rotators and poultry ofT t riri'js in milk, meat and truck i n d ice. Sights You Don't See From a Rnv Interned and disarmed at Alex- The who peddles posies andria. Egypt since June of 1940, on elderly lady, uroadway, wearing the four blue nine French warships will be rebutton as proudly as MacArthnr STOCKS: Trading on the Chicago turned to service in the Allied ranks star wears his four stars . , . The steady Stock Exc miRc dipped to its lowest within six months. customer at the Hickory House who volume in 12 years during the fiscal Among the vessels are the 22.000-to- n his own potatoes . . . Th year ended April 30. There were battleship Lorraine, with eight brings midtowners studying a slcn painter 2T'5 membcr.hit s 13 cms: the 10.000-tooutstanding. heavy near the Follies stage entrance, with cruisers Duquesne, Tourville and all those nnkled chorines shapely the H(.IIIl;R: Sr;vivor of one Junc'e Suffren, with eight guns; . . The West 4flth Street nearby! 7.2W cr?h. with ton Harmon. cruiser Trouin, ciKht block Tommy between 5th and fith where ex from M:eh:gan, re- 6 Runs; three destroyers with you can buy almost anything from 1.381-torri.tly arrived i.j North Africa fei four 4.1 inh gutis. and the a hand grenade to a home In the du:y as a ficMcr plane pilot. submarine, Protee. country wholesale. in the week's neves flantffis5oCEJa1 White Fawn Flour Leads Them All 2nd-I,i-i'- J Ask your Friendly Grocer - n J M'lfSt. t '.If. Week No. 41JJ SALT LA KB |