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Show THE PAGE TWO Practical Planners Plot Nation's Economic Future i- Blended Colors in Knitted Rag Rug Governments of Many Nations Changed As Liberating Armies Advanced in 3944 -ry Common People Get Chance io Establish W-- f J'JHi !344 tV By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator In the Stork Club actress Joy Hodges was irked when a deb (from the neck up) bothered a fellow at their table for a dance. "Oh," said Hodges, "go ahead and dance with the dolly with the hole in the head!" Rufua Le Maire, the 20th Century-Fo- x exec, is liked in Hollywood because be can be kidded about his funny face and laugh, too. Rufe himself tells of the time In the Brown Derby when he announced: "I'm going to New York tomorrow for some new faces." "Be sure," heckled Wilson Miz-ne"and bring one back for yourself!" lic; five Soviet Socialist republics again took their places in" the U.. S. S. R.; four countries were liberated; and three Axis satellites deserted. A year-en- d bulletin from the National Geographic society reviews these momentous events. Nazi-shackl- ed WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. "Sixty million jobs!" That phrase has been batted contemptuously, about hopefully, with the raised eyebrow of cynical doubt, with the set jaw of desperate determination. People may believe it is an ideal dream or feel that it is quite practicable but the majority of experts will tell you unless it is achieved we face the old cycle: inflation, depression, war and pestilence. But the phrase "60 million jobs" has acquired a new meaning in the last few weeks. Why? Because of a plan that has been presented to achieve this goal. The men who have worked it out, and the things that have brought them together and welded their ideas into an effective implement, have caused some of the experts, who are accustomed to weigh such ideas on the scales of experience and either toss them into the scrap heap or hold them up as worthy of use, to call this plan good. The "plan" is contained In a little booklet issued as Pamof the National phlets Nos. Planning association and called "America's New Opportunities in World Trade." And let me hasten to say right here that this organization is not to be confused with another New Deal group of a similar name which congress In its wisdom, or otherwise, has weighed in the balance and found wanting. The National Planning association about which I am writing is a nonassocigovernmental, ation of businessmen and scholars, labor leaders, farmers, bankers and manufacturers, all. Insofar as this task is concerned, at once selfless workers in the vineyard of the public good, and husbandmen who realize their neighbor's prosperity is likewise their own. There are three reasons why the plan for creating jobs, worked out by this organization, has made an impression on Washington and elsewhere: First, it has been examined and praised by certain media of public thought which can hardly be described as champions of the impractical, the Utopian or the unAmerican the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and Business Week, to mention only three. Second, because of the men who authored or sponsored it all leaders in their respective fields of American enterprise. Third, because of the way the organization which brought these men together came into being. Now let me give you the gist of the plan. hard-heade- d red-bou- 37-3- 8 who had no responsibility for the actual carrying out of the programs, men who had no power whatever to make the decisions necessary to meet the actual conditions with which they were faced. At about the same time, a similar group was meeting in England. It had moved a little farther ahead, perhaps because its members had come to the point where they felt that efficient planning, such as suc- cessful business institutions carried through, might be applied to public affairs as well. They called themselves the "P E P" (political and economic planning). This group was made up of British government officials, people from the "City" (London's Wall street), members of industry, finance, the Bank of England (which, you recall, is a private institution) and others. By virtue of a fortunate international marriage the ideas of the American and British groups mingled. And so, the American group came to the conclusion: first, that planning must be done by rd-looking, rather than historically-minded groups, including persons who actually had to make the decisions to carry out the plans. Second, that since (as the previous years had shown) even the industrial and governmental efforts fall when the "unplanned" efforts go down as they did in the depression, it might be wise to carry the planning into the national forwa- well-plann- field. By 1934 the National Planning association had been organized had received the backing of a number of foundations, individual contributions and memberships and was able to issue its first report in December of that year setting forth its principles. Other reports followed. Birth of a Big Idea Just when the "60 million jobs" idea was born, I do not know. Certainly it was before anyone had hit upon that particular figure which, indeed, must be considered rather as a symbol than an exact estimate of tomorrow's needs. But there was one statement made at a meeting in 1940 which seems to me to have been the inspiration for the present report. It was Donald Nelson who spoke and the gist of what he said was this: "In order to get full production for the war effort we must conquer certain future fears. Labor must be cured of the fear that this tremendous production effort will bring a reaction and that war workers will be working themselves out of a job later. Capital must be cured of the fear that it will bring inflation and Must Boost Imports, depression which mean that they are working themselves out of their inForeign Investments A 10 billion dollar trade budget vestments and profit." Whether this caused the board of calling for increased imports and in- trustees of the NPA to call upon creased foreign investments. That its committee on international policy sounds pretty unorthodox to start to set their heads to writing a prewith. There would be tariff reducfor full employment, I do tions to increase the imports on the scription not know. But it might seem to have thus that will only theory foreign caused constructive thinking in that countries be able to get the money direction. to buy our goods. These are some of the men inThere would be steps taken to volved: make foreign capital investments William Batt, one of America's secure in order to build them up. industrialists and a member There would be an international leading the War Production board, heads bank for reconstruction and de- of the NPA's board of trustees. The velopment; there would be long-timchairman of the committee of the foreign trade agreements coordiNPA which prepared the report is nated with Investment May, economic advisor to the Stacy programs. McGraw-Hil- l publishing company. Now, in order to understand why There are 21 others who such an unorthodox program finds the committee which drew compose up the resuch ready acceptance in a They are representative memworld fed up with Utopian plan- port. bers of industry, labor, agriculture, ning, let me take you back to the finance, public affairs, professional genesis of the organization from life. which this plan emerged. "America's (Copies of the plan We find ourselves in the comNew Opportunities in World Trade," fortable but somewhat gloomy Pamphlets Nos. can be obquarters of the old City club in New tained for 50 cents by writing the York where met a group of men, National Planning association, 800 most of them engineers, lomt econ- 21st street, Washington, D. C.) omist, others interested as members of that club, who had become tired RATS! They say that rodents deof the type of "research" which was sert a sinking ship. largely a collection of ancient hisIf that is the case Washington la which looked and backward tory assured a safe voyage for we have of forward. In the capital more than our share. saw men These the weakness In And the White House has its quota, the kind of "report" frequently too, although the situation there has asked for and submitted to great been ameliorated since the days corporations and other Institutions when Theodore Roosevelt hired a and exby high-paispecial rat charmer to run out the perts, but written entirely by men vermin with trained ferret. e long-tim- e hard-bitte- 37-3- d d BRIEFS "Merry Christmas," said the boy. "Well, I might," said the wistful lady, "if he asked me." don't know who least he deserves a I Bobby is, but at sock. It is a dangerous thing rettes, biting your nail, when clga oversleeping or being inaugurated gets to be habit. by Daukhage On June Iceland became a modern republic. On that day the elected the nation's former regent, Sveinn Bjornsson, president. In a national election held in May the people had voted to dissolve their union with Denmark. First settled in 874 and organized as a republic 56 years later, Iceland was independent until 1263 when it joined with Norway. Both Iceland and Norway came under Danish rule in 1381. Norway vas separated from Denmark by cession to Sweden in 1814, and the two countries formed a union which lasted until 1905 when the union was ended by mutual agreement. Icelanders had long agitated for independence, but it was not realized until 1918. Iceland was then recognized as a separate kingdom with unlimited sovereignty. Germany tried In prewar years to get control of this strategic North Atlantic island by establishing commercial routes. British forces were stationed on the island shortly after the beginning of World War II. They were replaced in 1941 by American units. U.S.S.R. Five other republics, 1,500 miles or more to the east, resumed their prewar status. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, freed from Nazi occupation, again became a part of the Soviet Union as Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republics. All three had first entered the Union in 1940. The Karelo-Finnis- h Republic, farther to the north, was the fourth to be added to the Soviet family. It also had first entered the Union in 1940. Its border city of Viipuri guards the western approach to the Russia's new city of Leningrad. Arctic port of Pecheng (Petsamo), acquired from Finland in September, extended Russian boundaries westward to Norway. The fifth state restored to Russia In 1914 is the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, a slice of territory lying between the Ukrainian Republic and Romania. Once known as Bessarabia, this area has experienced a round of governmental changes. Before World War I it was Russian ground; from 1918 to 1940 It belong to Romania. It was turned back to Russia in 1940 and set up as a republic of the Union, only to be reoccupied by Romania the next year. To four German dominated nations France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece freedom came toward the close of the year. France, whose liberation was heralded by Allied landings on the Normandy coast, June 6, was almost by. the middle of completely free September. ' General Charles de Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation was recognized on October 23 by the U. S. state department as the de facto government of France. On September 21 President Roosevelt appolnt- - It Is easier to let the cat out of the bag before you want to than to let it out. of the back door when it wants to. Turning In a victory bond Is like killing the goose for one gold plated i wrm5APETYPiN5VCl! 1 GREEN M ( wk V 2 TAN 3 DARK ROSE 4 MEDIUM BLUE 5 BROWN dies three-eight- !i Avftl! BV JEV 'X3 hJ3 Tr'Z inch in diame- hs ter. These are sewn around a ' .... ... i v ryrrr.. ; her shoulder gently. "I wouldn't," ed, remember that it is always he comforted, "take that so seri- worth while to dye the rags so ously if I were you, my dear. Look that they blend harmoniously. at me. I've been out of the Army for ten years and they still call me NOTE This rug Is from BOOK 4 which a colonel!" also gives the complete knitting directions j : .wffli rmnniiiimiiwim rnn "rrrr The president of the newly established Icelandic republic, Sveinn Bjornsson, addresses the nation by radio on June 17, 1944, the day the island dissolved its union with Denmark. Axis-satellit- Vichy-Frenc- b Je-be- r rvj Os-me- Mac-Arthu- r. Record Breaking Dams Are Constructed During the Year .California's vast cower and irH. on the olina. It is the other TV dam The -- Tendam, nessee river near Paducah, became the 21st dam in operation under the Tennessee Valley authority. Its reservoir, longest In TV A, of waprovides 44 million acre-fee- t ter storage space, which would be enough to absorb two fret of Mississippi river flood crest at Cairo. Illinois Nearing completion Is largest and highest dam In the eastern United States, on the Little Tennessee river in North Car 184-mil- Fort-tan- ' hod-dibl- Re-ent- er Kentucky What about the rugged Individualists who can't roll their own? I M 3I3rAv cenwas at a veddy swank poddy. ter oval. A veddy indignant woman apThe colors are important of proached a distinguished looking course and it is essential that the man and panted: "I've never bean knitted strips be eased in with e so insulted in all my life! That evenly distributed fullness. The person over there just called trick is in pinning them in place me a floozy!" first as shown in the diagram. If The old chap (a colonel) patted you do not have the colors indicat- ed Jefferson Caffery, former United tion of his powers was conditioned States ambassador to Brazil, as am- on popular will. bassador to the French government Late in the year, Netherlander now established in Paris. On Arsaw the beginning of the Allied atinmistice day France was formally tempt to smash the western anchor memvited to become a of the German defense system, preber of the European advisory com- lude to liberation. From the southmission meeting in London. west Pacific came more good news for the first time in more than Belgium's Regent. Belgium, whose national liberation four years the nation's flag flew over released its own governing agencies, Hollandia in Netherlands New immediately took steps to restore Guinea. its prewar) standing. In the ab- Finland, Romania and Bulgaria broke their ties with the Nazi government, and moved toward agreements with the Allied powers. Shifts In Italy King Victor Emanuel III stepped aside in favor of his son, Umberto, designated "Prince Lieutenant General of the Realm." Premier Ivanoe Bonomi and his Italian cabinet contributed a novelty when they took office in June. They did not take the customary oath to the crown; instead they pledged themselves to fulfill their duties according to the constitution. The United States resumed diplomatic relations with Italy in October when Alexander G. Kirk was named ambassador. On November 10 the presidency of the Allied Commission for It$ 4 It S aly was transferred from military to civilian direction. ' Crown Prince Umberto was named The fledgling republic of Syria., in Prince Lieutenant General of the liberated from the Realm of Italy by his father. King 1941, added to its territory the inl of Victor Emanuel, who abdicated dependent mountain-kingdoDruz. Its people, dwellers in when Allied troops entered the capital in June, 1944. southern Syria, voted to yield their administrative and financial indesence of King Leopold III, held in pendence, and merge the manageGermany, 41 - year - old Prince ment of their affairs with the govCharles, brother of the king, be- ernment of Syria. President Roosecame "Regent of the Realm," to act velt appointed George Wadsworth until the king returns. minister to the republics of Syria In September, the tiny Duchy of and Lebanon. Luxembourg, neighbor of France, Closer bonds between the United Belgium and Germany, celebrated States and its African protege Liits freedom from four years of Nazi beria were assured by the Decemtyranny. ber, 1943, treaty, the provisions of Allied fighting men landing in which were made public on October Greece in October helped Greek pa- 30, 1944. The treaty stipulates that triots to oust the Germans.- Internal all naval, military and air installapolitical problems had divided the tions will be supervised by the U. S. people into factions, some opposing Significant changes took place in the return of the monarchy. The 1944 in the New world. Argentina cabinet decided to inform King abolished all political parties and George II, in London, that resump- - instituted strict censorship of the press. The tiny Atlantic island of modernized some of its 7,1- V"?TS. 3 Bermuda ancient laws. For the first time in the three centuries of its history women were given the same voting privileges as men. Philippines to Be Free. Events in the Pacific area were -highlighted by the return to the 0 , n ,tS S i Philippines of President Sergio a and his cabinet with the invasion forces of Gen. Douglas 4 The presence of the official was only suggestive of the resumption of authority on home soil, for it was understood that island affairs will continue to be administered from Washington. . -- 4 ti The future status of the Philippines was defined in two resolutions adopted by the U. S. congress, and signed by President Roosevelt on June 30. These resolutions grant Gen. Charles De Gaulle, head of the provisional government of independence to the Islands as soon France, reviews the 1944 Armistice day parade in Paris, flanked by Win- as the Japs are ejected, and proston Churchill and Anthony Eden of Great Britain. France was formally vide for defense by the construction Invited to become a member of the European Advisory committee by of United States military and naval bases. the Britifth statesmen. 777 SEW Arrange Evenly It Althing an legislative body sometimes called the "Grandmother of Parliaments" -71 rs N y EDGES r, 17 -3- three-quarte- Fingersnap in the Face: Governmental changes that shared world importance with the war news marked the year 1944. Iceland became a repub- Postwar Period. F YOU want to make a really effective rug from odds and ends of fabric and do it quickly this knitted rug is the answer. You cut or tear the materia in strips of an inch about wide, turn in the raw edges and then knit straight strips with nee- - J ' Democratic States Map Expansion of Foreign Trade as Help in Meeting Goal of 60,000,000 Jobs In Thursday, December 28, 19 i t NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- a, only now under construction. A gation program moved forward as earthen dam In the last concrete was poured on Biggest rolled-fil- l the world Is the Denlson (Texas) Shasta, second highest dam in the dam on the Red river, completed world (560 feet). Water from the early In the year by army engi- Friant dam In the San Joaquin val neers. Its 127.000-acrlake backs ley began on June 4 to pour through 80 miles up the Red river to Gainesthe new Madera canal. ville, Texas, and 60 miles up the Army engineers completed th Washita river to Ravia. Okla. To concrete Norfork dam on the North save Oklahoma's Cumberland oil Fork river in Arkansas, to supply field, the Washita was detoured by power and control floods in northeir Arkansas and southern Missouri. construction of 4 Vi miles of dikes. e for the center oval and the strips. Directhan 32 things to make for When a detachment of Wrens re- tions for more your homes and for gifts and bazaars are In old took an over building cently Included in this book. Copies are 15 cents a, small English town they tacked each. Send your order to: op the conventional sign: "AdmiraltyNo Admittance!" Beneath which a clown scribbled: "Wrens Nesting." MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills Enclose they were gabbing about an international socialite (now in her 80s) who for many years garnered reams of publicity by claiming to have retained her "joie de vivre" by standing on her head several minutes daily. "Tell me," said Les Brown to an intimate of the old darling, "does she still practice standing on her head?" "Heck, no!" was the retort. "She has all she can do just to stand on her feet!" At Gilmsre's SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER Commercial motor vehicles In the U. 5., bated en gasoline allotments, are expected to run 56 billion miles a year. Reduced to truck tire wear, that represents a tremendous ' number of tires. The rubber used In gat masks It now 100 per cent synthetic a tire Never use a tube larger, or smaller, than that for which it was designed by the manufacturer. Premature failure will result if you do. To return full mileage, synthetic tubes must be lubricated with vegetable oil soap Broadway Ballad: face : 4. Address Overheard: "He's in Washington flying a desk!" And now the nights are portents of Drawer 10 cents for Book No.' Name It happened over at Columbia studios the other day. They were filming a big mob scene having to do with Britain. An ass't waved some of them away. "That goes for you, too!" he barked at a man watching it all. "Why me?" he queried. "Because," said the ass't, "you don't look British enough!" "I don't have to look British!" replied the boss of the studio. ."I'm Harry Cohn!" So we were happy for a little while . . . And found the town a gay, exciting place, But happiness, of course, goes out of style And magic leave a fresh, enchanted 15 solution when on mounted ' dis- may And inns have lost their color and their lure 'And we who had so many things to say Are silent children, sullen and unsure. REGoodrich So goes it . . . and our lesson must be learned That rapture fades and mockery is cold . . . That life holds many bridges to be burned And fiddlers ask their pay in purest gold . . And those who play at love must be aware bramble, That oaths are rou th-- and scratch and tear! -- Don Wahn. Mid town Vignette: They would have you believe it actually hap pened to Earl Benham, who tailors the dandies about town. . . . Earl himself Is his best ad always im. . . The maculately Lucius-Beebe'- d other day he was lazying in his limousine waiting for a friend in front of his elegant apartment house. A huge, plump, costly cigar in his teeth and his jewelry (lashing in the sun. . . . 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