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Show BIVEB VALLEY LEAPEH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, IS! Fren ECONOMIC -4 F jGHLJGHTS Duval People Feel Franco Fights Alien Communism - tAfFM3 !t INSEPARABLE WELFARE. im-fnl- -s ' His was demonstrated President when the Tcommission to study the career service. jintea of Washing- team a of oris and Kintntr, Alsop like the traditional world. Yet 3,'Kf to a naughty it has passed ffSne ltfofunnoticed. eiy the view of most j STSSnlst.. is the imposing un-i- n i?0 V that stands square and movement the way cf any improve the admimsVtrm government ,tnd,bur" i"Seof uie IS patronage system in power pay off and indirectly or di- - Synched LfW I SSiations .iiils ., ! nnr! hnokprs.' Ttoir sisters and their cousins their aunts, to federal jobs. It in Washington for that the President has Unthinking about ways and means something about tearing doing barrier, anid establishing this m ! American career service patterned Lore or less after the justly-fame- d 1 The appointment British civil service. to be a tan-- I seems commission lithe end. toward this jible start been I job this commission has fnven requires first calibre minds. it has them. It consists of two Jus-- I members of the Supreme Court, believed Retime .y m Reed and Frankfurter; the Frank Murphy; a industrialist, Genera! 3 I Wood of Sears Roebuck; a fora Gano Dunn; engineer; Leon- mer civil service commissioner, art White, and a Treasury adminis-- l trative expert, W. H. McReynolds. All these men, it is said, have long ten interested in improving the gov-- 1 1 distin-tjflishe- of service. eminent I Under o I work the English plan, the real f the government is done by their jobs all their are then retired on J adequate pensions. They cannot be disj discharged, zv.wc for reasons of A or change incompetence. honesty who hold men j working in the them liver, and does party-in-pevv- er not affect at all, and so they can afford Usually as soon as they j they f leave school or university, and they are subjected to the most rigorous ! training in their respective fields. ' Promotions are based so far as it is on ability arid ef- humanly possible ficiency. They don't get the publicity I -t- hey do get the results. And some of them, such as Sir Robert Vansit-- I tart of the Foreign Office, become I even more powerful an,d more sought I after than cabinet members. J In the United States, we have us- ed the career system in but one to be n. politically enter the service 1 $ ) jj ; ; i I I ! y v A" organized, made up of elements borrowed from the Italian army. Nothing could be further from the j truth. "The Italian legion was i s f i A f (Librairie Plon) under the title, m ar desiring the spoils. The inevitable result is waste, inefficiency, and .duplication of effort. The most brilliant department head, if his department is filled with incompetent or lazy political favorites, is obviously stymied. No matter what the committee decides, any move to place the government service on a career basis is certain to meet with much congressional opposition. The patronage system is too old and too strongly intrenched to make its abandonment easy. On the other hand, the great wealth of dispassionate opinion is in favor of the career system even though there would undoubtedly be differences in any definite over particulars plan and it may be that Congress will be eventually forced by public pressure to make a move in that direction, even though it does it reluctantly. idealists eager to stamp out communism. "The Italian Legion does not in any way correspond to the regular army; it has next to nothing to do with it. Like the Spaniards, however, the Italians have made a good showing in battle. The men are dis ciplined, patient and courageous; their officers intelligent, and eager for action. A study of the Santandcr campaign shows them mtn of acticn, good tacticians, proof against fatigue, eager to keep going the last day as the f.rst. They did not have the equipment at the disposal of our (French) units in action; however, they knew enough to make the best of what they had." General Duval has praise also for the Moroccan troops in the Nationalist service. "It has ben said," he writes, "that the native troops represent an element of barbarous savagery. Our own experience, however, has taught us 'hat Moroccan troops, under European leaderquick-witte- d, on vises. Money Down Up-to-Da- - live-stoc- t no-ti- ts - anti-aircra- ft Chevrolet Has Business Conditions j conili-tion- o the-shar- 114,-37- 1938. Combined new nnd used cars sales for the month, were January Caused Inventor to Be Strangled About 1579 the council oi Danzig units, as compared with a year ago. caused to bo strangled the inventor For the past three months, Mr. Hol- of a wc;t'i.",fli in!chi'e lest his inler pointed out, there has been a vention reduce many workers to steady rise- in the monthly percentage 166,341 144,-91- 9 - " ornciAi " Uli- - Ai?fB4 f ! BIOISTiATION nOUIII CHEVROLET. 583,816 NEXT MAKE . 50c - KEXT MAKE. 464,647 A . t I 292,893 Specialized Men LET'S GET ASSOCIATED Associated One-Sto- p Service PARLEY ARCHIBALD (Manager) s, t Tnum You Pay As You Drive ve j Franklin RooseWASHINGTON velt last week announced he had signed Congress' bill for $725,000,000 to run WPA until June 30. Stubbornly, he also took prompt and emphatic advantage of Congress' invitation to ask for the $150,000,000 it had lopped offin case an "emergency" loomed saying in effect that the lopping itself had create d an emergency. Then he pictured the abrupt firing of 1,000,000 WPA workers in April, or of 1,500,000 from the scaling-dow- n 30. to June April Equipment In Town te COPJ1E OPJ, ." EMERGENCY? Car Lubricated Latest sun-plu- s carry-over- ALSO - FOR ONE WEEK - STARTING SATURDAY With the "With the 1938 wheat crop the fourth largest on record," Kilburn says. "Wheat aciage adjustment is vitally important this year if we are to avoid unsaleable surpluses. AAA allotments are designed to conserve, soil fertility while meeting the problems by producing only enough for domestic and export requirements and a normal This liberalization applies only (1 in the case of farms where the excess is not more- than 5 acres or 3 per cent, whichever is the larger, ami the operator was not notified of the excess acreage before December 15, and (2) where farmers received erroneous notice of their 1939 wheat acreage allotments and corrected calling for a decreased allotment did not reach the operator before December 15. County agents will furnish additional information on this program. "Pi 1 haps a shift to a larger acreage cf moie intensive cash crops may be the way of meeting the payment due next fall or in paying for the home improvement so badly needed. Possi bly the farm expenses are high. Why, Can some of them be lowered or avoid ed by replanning the cropping and enterprises, Could more', work bo exchanged with the neigh-- 1 bors to avoid the peak season rush and the high cost of infrequently used machinery? It isn't much fun to figure just how much income the farm can reasonably be expticted to produce but it helps greatly in preventing the purchase of items that be come tremendously difficult to pay for." Copies of an inventory and record of increase over sales for correspondbook are available fret? of cost at the ing periods in the 1938 model year. In November, the advance wns slightcounty agent's office. ly more than 6 per cent; in December it was 25.4 per cent, and in Jan31.7 per cent. Improv- - uary, General improved business ed plus the public's enthusiasm ever the 1939 Chevrolet, featuring Ccntinuim? the advanc-- that has new type knee action and the excluever since introduction sive vacuum gearshift with steering been of its new 1939 models, Chevrolet column control, is credited with sold 51,936 new ears and trucks at upturn, Mr. Holler said. "The retail in January, W. E. Holler, gen- heavy volume of used cars," he added, eral sales manager, announced lately. "is especially gratifying. It show This compares with 39,409 units in that in spite of the increased new car January lf3S, and is an increase of business, this end of the dealers' op12.5(36 units or 31.7 per cent. eration is under complete control, m In the same month, Mr. Holler an- that dealers are in splendid position 5 to move new cars and trucks." nounced, Chevrolet dealers sold used cars, or 8,925 more than in ship, conduct themselves in a way beyond reproach. The high decree of discipline in the Moroccan regiments might well have been an example to the anarcho-syndicalisof Barcelona." Infantry Still Supreme General Duval finds that infantry is still supreme in battle and notes that the greates-- t advance in material since the World War has bcn in artillery. Ppain has been a provlnj1 ground for many new weapons. Some of tr.ttro. lilro the soviet tnnks captured by General Franco's Moors with army blanket and bottles of kerosene, fa'le.l in action. It is notable thai side has employed pas. MiiitMiv tactics remain fundamentally the same, varied only by the extreme ruggedness of most of the p::i;!i battlefronts. There has been greater use of infantry in proportion to artillery support thnn was the pne-tic- e in the World War. Nationalist practice has been to use light artillery as accompanying guns, the gunners usually opening on targets in direct sight Air craft has bwrn employed principally for bombing, to assist the infantry in clearing strongly fortified position and for distant reconnaissance. Nearly all planes are used in formation; the individual flyers of 1914 are rare, except such extraordinary officers as Major Garcia Morato of Franco's forces who, on one occasion, is cited as having eneaared si n if ! handed more than a score of Russian planes. snooting down three and escaping with a whole skin. fL--"- ng May 1. n, Purchased On Easy Terms and No Money Down "Silvertown" With Its Life Saver Tread, Will Prevent You from Sliding and Skidding On Wet Pavement. Any over-planti- In '29, foreign demand was principally for farm products meat, lard, cotton, etc. That demand has been falling off and today the coun tries beyond the seas want more scrap-iromachinery, airplanes in brief, the material necessary to armament and war. And as far as anyone can see, the demand for weapons of death will continue to grow and the demand for the tools of peace continue to lessen. Can Now Be No organ- ized in Spain early in 1937. For the most part it was recruited from Black Shirt ranks after the Ethiopian campaign. The rest are men in search of adventure, dreamers, or Additional time to ccrnr ly v.ith 1939 wheat acreage allotments will be granted to farmers who unintentionally overplanted winter wheat by a Email margin end could net dispose of the "overage" because ticy were not informed before the December 15 deadlines, declares A. G. Kiburn, of the state AAA committee. In such cases, the farmer will be notified of the extent of his and may be granted a redetermination of his acreage after being given a reasonable time to make the adjustment. Mr. Kilburn points out, however, that in order to expedite 1939 wheat parity payments, redeterminations must be made as soon as possible. Ia no event can they be made later than hegira of the supplanted, and an ad- ominously different from what we vance on Washington by the victors sold ten years ago. Tuwm The It has always betti a good policy for farmers to take an occasional inventory and keep regularly some simple records. February is a good month for inventory taking, according to Robert H. Stewart, county agricultural agent. Most past season's crops are sold and the returns known. Few of the next season's expenses have yet been incurred. The long winter evenings of the new year furnish a fine time for the farmer to sit down with a good sharp pencil and check up on his past year's work. How far ahead or how far be hind has he gone financially? What is a reasonable valuation for all the things he owns? How do they balance against the debts which are coming due ? "Maybe this will not be a happy comparison but if probable income and expense comparisons are made and the best means of balancing thoughtfully worked out the debts will assuiedly be worked off more quickly," county agent Stewart ad by Government Populace Believed They Had to Revolt "Lessons of the Spanish War,"!'', . : .r e i y, gives a yi uitrsMuiiai ttciuuni OI me 'v. war in the Peninsula and its lesrons KZJ"i2 iui j'tii ouiuici ana t, jiiau, nc book eains weicht from the uncon-!- ! tlitional endorsement of General Weygancl. "At the outset", says General Weygand in his introduction, "there was on the one hand an established government, and on the other a .small group of men, determined to W.Jt World Photo. free their country from intolerable ELLERY SEDGWICK servitude. To begin with, odds fav. Editor Emcrilut of Atlantic ored the former, possessed of an army and supplies, far greater ter- Monthly trho recently toured Naritory, gold, seaports, almost the tionalist Spain and it emphatic in entire fleet, and through it ready hit opinion thai the war in Spain it access to outside aid. But the gov- between the forcet of Commanitm ernment was without unity and was and Democracy. dominated by foreign influence." and and entered the General Duval is confident that 193G Syndicalists, elections. nearly the war is regarded by the Spanish half a million Defeated by votes, they neverthepeople as a crusade against alien less seized control of the governcommunism and that it will unite ment and of Rightist the nation as it has not been united leaders, by the murderthe precipitated present for" centuries. He anticipates that war. General Duval traces the acwith the post-wthe goernment, tions of the communist leaders in realism inherent in Spanish characto orders from the Spain will an ter, independent part Seventhdirectly play World Congress, held in in European affairs, leagued with Moscow in August 1935, and quotes neither Germany, France, Italy nor Russian plans for a Popular Front Great Britain, but cultivating friend- Government in Spain to be followed dedirelations with while it ly all, in due course by the oustins of the cates its energies to the rehabilita- allied parties of the Left and formal tion of its War-tor- n land. establishment of a soviet regime. Causes of Revolution The French observer thus sums Analyzing the causes of the revo- up the situation as of July, 1936, lution the General says that the on the eve of the Spanish war: Republic of 1931 was torn between "When from the tribune of the a multitude of parties whose ambi- Cortes (Parliament) Calvo Sotelo tions and susceptibilities were courageously denounced the hideous played upon by the agents of Mos- actualities of the class struggle, he cow. Communist and anarchist agi- echoed the sentiment of a large part tators led the urban workers to be- of the middle class. There were lieve that a Unim of Iberian Soviet even workers and peasants v.'ho had Republics, once all power and prop- be.un to feel that if t'iey had to die. erty were in the hands of a dictator- they might as well die with their ship of the proletariat, would guar, boots on. The government no longantee them a workless, taxless, care- er defended their rights not even free existence. Workers' militia the right to live; they had become amounting to 400,000 armed men, pcriahs. If ever rebellion were a far outnumbering the regular army, duty, by the very doctrines of the were formed by the anarchist, com- Revolution, it was then. Speaking munist, and socialist parties. These to an American newspaperman in illegal organizations were covertly August 1936, the republican philaided by the supine Republican osopher, Miguel de Unamuno said, Ministers. Army equipment was 'The Spanish civil war is a struggle stored in warehouses in the large between civilization and anarchy.' " cJUes of eastern Spain where it Italians Good Soldiers would be easily available to the As to the war itself, General radical mobs. Duval's observations have a novel In 1934, as General Duval points interest. He takes sharp issue with at, the communists attempted to critics who disparage all Italian establish a soviet Spain, when they troops saying:: "The Italian Legion, being an infomented a bloody uprising in Catalonia and the Asturias. They were dependent entity, has come in for defeated by the Spanish Armv. In special attention. Many fantastic 1935 they broadened their alliance stones concerning it are current. It with the Socialists. left Republicans is said to have arrived in Spain fully lor-of-e- ; Defeertetl on warring Spain it is interesting to find one which speaks with peculiar authority. The famous French chief of staff, known to every member of the A. E. F., Gen. Maurice Weygand dispatched as an official observer, Gen. Jean Duval, whose extended report, published last June in Paris government State Depart- lent A young m?n wishing to ent the foreign service must have a bet-- ; education and back-- j ground, and must go through a stiff training in the generalities of diplom-- j acy. After that he is given a still stiffer training In the particular dip-- : lomatic field if he wishes to enter fa East, South America, Central Europe, etc. These are the men who ve kept this government function-- j H abroad and by large, say those Tho ow, they have done a splendid job. It's an open secret that many an Ambassador has been kept from mak-- ; oOo H ruinous mistakes by the advice of some to the U. S. News, sales secretary o r counsel According baSSV Vlhn -- .. jvncvv uie routs tuiu uic of American goods to foreign nations Pitfalls. in 1938 approached in physical volIn the other departments of govern-- i ume the boom year of 1929, though, Kent, a3 everyone knows, politics due to lower prices, dollar volume was w supreme. A change in Admin-- ! substantially less. The character of results in an immediate what we are selling now, however, is branch of Em,, A.UnUc Mo,l.lr Says I N the welter of books the most potentially often fails to make the ! WHEAT "OVERAGE County Agent Urges Farmers To Take MAY BE ADJUSTED Annual Inventory IN 'WINTER AREAS General Sees the Spanish War by ELLERY SECCWICK, Editor TAX BILLS OF 5TS JvTYWVAU NATION- PAGE EEVEI1 FRONK CHEVROLET COMPANY Phone 20 . . . Tremonton, Utah |