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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1944 TRUTH is said that "Charity covers a multitude of sins." It Ca. often be also truthfully said that "Truth" of lies. Truth is one of the most hbled words in the vocabulary. Whenever we see a column, a booklet or treatise cap. tioned "Trtith" we begin to get suspicious., Truth usually of glaring headline speak for itself, without the proclamation of most the pernicious false. Under the caption of Truth many hoods imaginable are circulated and proYnulgated. .f fact, no oerson dares to tell all the ni,:. ao i about another person or on most subjects? truth unvarnished forbids too full an unfolding of Truth on any anc Diplomacy I all occasions. labels their or propa organization.that Usually any person some ulterior purport, ganda as Truth, have an ax to grind serve. They dazzle and blind the unsuspecting by their blatant profession 'of Truthfullness, while they sow their false am1 pernicious propaganda, and seek to enmesh and plunder So beware of persons and publicity schemes which orb of "Truth" seek to get your ear by hitching their kite It Red Cross Month, 1944 (so-calle- d) covers-multitud- . rma state jAss&uiga and the N. E. A. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Editor and Publisher O. 8. WILKINSON, Ca BY THE PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Year, $2.50; 6 Mo. $1.25; 3 (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mo. 75c. A First Class Publication Entered In the Post Office in Bearer, Utah, ag Second Class Mail Matter, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Phone 24 Advertising rates quoted when requested. r WHEREAS the war has entered a decisive stage requiring the fullest mea.sure of individual sacrifice; WHEREAS the American National Red Cross is an auxiliary to the United States armed forces and, as such, is providing indispensable service to our troops throughout the world as well as their families at home ; WHEREAS these wartime activities, including the blood for the wounded, recreacollection of tion work in military hospitals, provision of aid to families of servicemen, shipment of food parcels to prisoners of war, production of surgical dressings, operation of overseas clubs and recreation centers, and recruitment of Army and Navy nurses, all combine to save countless lives, restore hope, and provide comfort for our fighting life-savi- ANOTHER TUG-OF-WA- Our wonderful, helpful Congress, guided as ever by a quest for votes in the coming election, are girding for a showdown fight with the President, the Secretaries of War, Navy and the Treasury department, and all other honest realists who sense in an the necessity of backing the war effort of to dishonest the President's override veto the unfair, attempt and wholly inadequate tax bill which Congress passed and sent to the White House for approval. The President, with all the facts before him, including estimates by the Treasury department, asked for ten billion, live hundred million dollars in new taxes. Congress framed a bill which they estimated would raise somewhat less than two billion dollars, and which studiously avoided any and one-haincrease in taxes on the vested interests those who own and control America and are in a position to pay the amount needed without seriously affecting them and was dependent chiefly on increased taxes on alcoholic drinks and tobacco, and a few luxuries including moving picture tickets, the only source of amusement available to the poorer classes. Now Congressmen are charging that the President by his veto is attempting to "discredit Congress." Well, if he can discredit Congress any more seriously than it has discredited itself during the past year or so, he will have to "go some." If the course taken by Congress for the past year or two would not unsell a critical world on democracy as we have examplified it, we should like to know what would! These representatives and senators are doing everything in their power to force the world into some form of dictatorship, while the Administration is singing the beauties of democracy. If a government of the people, by the people and for the people is to survive even in America, with all the subversive d elements which are at work here, a few southern Democrats had better be consigned to the political garbage can. It is expected that the outs will dissent whether the proposal is right or wrong; but when the "ins" join forces with them to defeat all rules of fairness and to sabatoge the war effort, it is time decent people filed a protest so vigorous that it cannot go unheeded. This is no time to play "dirty politics." whole-heartedl- y, lf so-call- ed so-call- self-seeki- hard-heade- Greatness, after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. Phillips Brooks RUSSIA SUFFERS AND ENDURES WHILE NAZIS SCHEME AND PLUNDER That it may take the Russians a quarter of a century to rebuild and rehabilitate the vast area of her territory which was ravaged and despoiled by a scourge more deadly and devastating than ever issued from the gates of hell to devour humanity, is the opinion of Edgar Snow of the editorial staff of the Saturday Evening Post. This investigator and commentator who has gone from one stiicken section to another in Asia and Europe, personally contacting people and carefully appraising their difficulties, has been supplying readers of the Post with some intimate and authentic details of conditions and problems to be faced in the present and postwar periods. His observations in Russia, found in the February 12th issue of the Post, should be read by every American who appreciates courage, sympathizes with misfortune and looks forward to a better and safer world in which future generations may have an opportunity to live and labor in peace and security. Those conscious or unconscious, but nevertheless pestiferous purveyors of nazi propaganda who have been trying to separate the allies and divide the American people, as the people of France were estranged, scattered and betrayed, ought to be compelled to recite the articles of Edgar Snow until victory is assured. It is humiliating to note that certain congressmen, applauded and encouraged by subscrsive publications are making substantial contributions to the enemy in the following ways : 1. They warn our soldiers and civilians against our fight2. They call upon the Russians who have already allies. ing lost more men than we have enrolled, to help us fight Japan. 3. They ridicule the four freedoms, renounce the Atlantic charter and repudiate the allied call for "unconditional surrender." 4. They tell our soldiers and sailors that a Russian victory-ovethe Germans will tempt the Red army to turn its guns against the allies. 5. They accuse the British and Russians of fi 1 t i n ! fnr tVip tlirir nwn . .na . if la wn HIV 'III II. .arp notI VI'1iinrr same for ourselves, our country and our posterity. 6. They keep harping on the expense of war, heedless of the fact that we have no cities to rebuild, no houses to rear above the ashes of homes and villages, no industries to revive, no blood to leach from our soil. 7. They accept the immunity by which our hemisphere remains in tact as a matter of course, without considering the sacrifices made by other intended victims to keep the are the enemy busy elsewhere. These mischief-maker- s meicinaries who exert a pernicious influence almost as demoralizing as Hitler's hypnotic hypocracy. That the Russians will have plenty to do for the lifetime of another generation is outlined by Edgar Snow as follows: "One way to visualize the task awaiting the Russians after the war is to think of the Soviet union in geographical terms of our country. For instance, take a dozen large towns which have been destroyed by the nazis: Sevastopol, Rzhev, Kursk, Khor- kov, Kiev, Odessa, Leningrad, Rostov, Novorossiisk, Stalingrad, Smolensk and Dnepropetrovsk. In population they formerly corresponded to the American cities of Trenton, Atlantic City, Nashville, Boston, Baltimore, San Francisco, Chicago, Milwaukee, Peoria, Washington, Pes Moines and Cincinnati, respectively . "Leningrad was never completely occupied by the Germans, of course, but made itself into a fortress and for more than two years was continuously bombed and shelled. This city, which is about as big as Chicago, will doubtless have to be largely rebuilt. All the rest of the cities mentioned with Odessa and Sevastopol yet to be taken are from 50 to 90 percent destroyed. Stalingrad, a town the size of Washington, D, C, before the war, was about 95 percent obliterated." r - - ti-iirit- V. I I . 4 V. 1 1V self-centere- men to-th- e Medals Won By Marines MEDAL OF HONOR The Congres sional Medal of Honor (Navy) is America's high est award for heroism on land, sea or in the air. It is awarded for valor and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. Established in December, 1861, it is awarded in the name of the Congress of the United States. The medal is worn about the neck. ; WHEREAS, through its vast network of local chap- ters, this agency of our people simultaneously conducts an extensive program of training and community service, while continuing with traditional efficiency to lessen the distress of those overwhelmed by disaster; and WHEREAS this agency is wholly dependent upon individual support and personal participation and is issuing its appeal to the entire citizenship for a minimum War Fund of $200,000,000; mmm NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America and President of the American Red Cross, do hereby designate the month beginning March 1, 1944 as "Red Cross Month" and earnestly beseech my fellow Americans to' observe it by opening their hearts to this humanitarian appeal in order that we may keep the Red Cross at the side of our fighting men and their dependents in their hour of greatest need. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America NAVY CROSS The Navy Cross is i awarded for mm to be affixed. on sixty-eight- FRANKLIN P. ROOSEVELT President of the United States DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS The Distinguished Plying Cross is con- The Distinguished ferred upon any Service Medal Is member of the air . Then the Post editor says : Conceive of the jobs involved in rebuilding all the American cities I listed. Think of the thousands of factories, power plants and other public works, railways, administration buildings, schools, libraries, churches, laboratories and homes that would have to be replaced. Think of the hundreds of satellite towns and thousands of villages surrounding each metropolis. In Russia most of those have been as thoroughly burned, demolished, shelled and plundered as the larger centers." After reading such accounts of desolation, all the secondhand propaganda rehashed from Berlin must give forth a jarring note. Salt Lake Tribune. Lowliness of heart is real dignity, and humility is the brightest jewel in the Christian s crown. Bond MONASTERIES ft es- MEDAL h. LEGION OF MERIT The award of the Legion of Merit is made to outstanding officers and enlisted men for "extraordinary fidelity and essential service." It constitutes a reward for service in a position of responsibility, honorably and well performed. It stems from the Badge of Military Merit, established in 1918. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE r, com- manding cheers had become c:...:-ltie- s. decoration. This medal was tablished In after their dinary heroism in the line of duty. It ranks In third position following the Brevet Medal. A small gold .star on this decora- Ition and service rib-fbindicates a sec ond award of the 1782. same DONE at the city of Washington this 19th day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and land of the Independence of the United States forty-fouof America the one hundred and extraor BREVET MEDAL The Brevet Medal' , of the Marine Corps, has not been awarded in recent years. It was originally awarded subordinates (officers or men) who were forced by circumstances of battle to lead landing parties or detachments AND WAR Since the Nazis were already established in and around the Benedictine monastery on Monte Cassino, the Vatican could not appeal against the bombardment of that strategic site without making these enemies of Christianity the immediate beneficiaries of the appeal. NevertheJess Vatican authorities requested that the monastery be spared bombardment. To fulfill the request Allied commanders would have had to expose their men to otherwise avoidable death and mutilation before the enemy's guns. Monte Cassino is a position offering great advantages for obeservation and, indeed, commanding approaches to the Garigliano Valley. Obviously the appeal of the Vatican spokesmen could not be heeded by Allied commanders. It was a case of American lives and the lives of Allied troops against the preservation of buildings, lhe military code calls for avoidance of destruction of sacred buildings wherever! possible. But it states that those known to be used for military purposes by the enemy are legitimate objects of attack. The Nazis believe they have a very handy psychological weapon in the sacred buildings of Italy. They have not hesitated to install themselves in this monastery or at Castel the papal summer residence, and in both cases the Nazis have hoped to embarrass the Allies by evoking pleas from the Vatican authorities on behalf of the buildings used as Nazi strongholds. As the Nazis and Fascists once sought to hide behind the Roman Catholic Church as they advanced from aggression to aggression, so now in their retreat they seek to hide behind its shrines. But it is a case of lives against buildings, of Protestant, Jewish, and Roman Catholic lives. Monasteries, churches, convents have often figured centrally in historic battles. Had the Nazis succeeded in establishing a new precedent at Monte Cassino or Castel Gandolfo, their retreat toward Rome would have become more comfortable every few miles. Christian Science Monitor. awarded those whose exercise of extraordinary good judgment in a position of great responsibility and whose outstanding performance of duty reflect credit on American SILVER STAR The Silver Star, in stituted in 1935, is granted to persons serving in any capacity with the armed forces of the nation cited for gallantry In action which does not warrant the award of the Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Service Cross. It replaces the tiny Silver 8. Citation Star of himself or by heroism extraordinary achievement while participating In aerial flight. The medal is identical In all services. NAVY AND MARINE CORPS MEDAL The new Navy and Marine Corps Medal Is awarded persons in the Navy and Marine Corps for acts of heroism other than those performed in actual combat with the enemy. It has been granted for courageous conduct such as rescues at sea. 1917-191- AIR MEDAL PURPLE HEART The Air Medal Is The Purple Heart, awarded to any per- originally established son who, while serv- by General George ing in any capacity Washington In 1782, with the armed was not issued for forces of the United many years. It was States, distinguishes reestablished In 1932, himself by meritor- and made retroactive ious achievement to cover awards to all while participating In officers and men who aerial flight. It is were wounded in acgranted in cases tion In any war or where the act of meritorious serv- campaign under conice does not warrant the Distinditions entitling them to wear wound chevron. guished Flying Cross. A FUTURE for Young America ! BONDS mean the future of (7)aR Americaand the future of your IS IT FUNNY? Now that President Roosevelt has spiked going to take it as a good story even if utterly untrue and just wait to be imposed upon by another such fake? Is it funny? Probably the Russian leaders have learned to make allowances for the fantastic irresponsibility of large sections of the American press. Probably no serious damage will be done to n understanding by this latest insult. But if that understanding is to become a pillar of peace the American press and public can hardly go on enjoying stories which attempt to picture Russian leaders as Keystone "cops." There is a hang-ove- r of unfriendly thinking hcre'which should be cleared The up. writing and publishing of such a story put out with bald faced lack of authority and with newspaper men able to find out from if they did not know already, that Timoshcnko was not even at the dinner in Teheran was inexcusable. This is a new low in irresponsibility, and ought not to be taken as a joke. Christian Science Monitor. ity, distinguishes arms. It was established in 19J8. Gan-dolf- o, that tale about Marshal Stalin "bopping" Marshal Timoshcnko at Teheran, is that all that is to be done? Arc the American press and public Naval forces of the United States who, while serving In any capac- , baby ! These bonds are backed by the United States government, the best security in the world! They can mean a better life, a finer education for your child and freedom from post-wworries for you. Make this best of all investments regularly for your family for Victory! ar Russian-America- s, Full information will be cheerfully furnished by this bank; local headquarters for Government Securities. . BEAVER CITY BRANCH OF MILFORD STATE BANK! MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION |