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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, Page Two Tremonton, Utah- IWJII- Ernie Pyle With the Navy: BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Published on Thursday Distribution for Friday at Tremonton, Utah, First West Street of Each Week Fhone 23 Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as Second Class Matter October 15, 1925 A. N. RYTTING, Editor-Publish- $1.75 With the advent of the San Francisco World Security conConference it is well for us to review the proposals to be be to no new are agreements there sidered. Fundamentally, reached, but only the details SAN FRArNCIbtU 0f an organization for the of a world WORLD SECURITY establishmentwhich is to direct ganization MJiNrrlvEirNri international affairs, as per the agreements reached at such conferences as Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks. is known by this name only beBRETTON WOODS world of the gathered at this New cause representatives matters of international money to consider Hampshire village and finance. To the extent that the Bretton Woods agreements are made operative, they may serve to influence profoundly international trade in the postwar period, thus eventually effecting the lives of every worker and businessman. The great financial suggestions formulated actually consist of two plans : 1. The International Monetary Fund: This fund is a method suggested to be used to stabilize the dollar value, or the pound value, as the case may be, of the various countries of the world. It was agreed that this fund would help to promote foreign trade because of this stabilization. 2. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: It was agreed that programs of reconstruction and development will speed economic progress everywhere, will aid political stability and foster peace, and that expanded international investment with shared risks of such foreign investment is necessary since the benefits will be general. Speaking specifically, this International Bank would work similar to our own Federal Housing Administration, since the fund would be used as a guarantee for the investment o f private capital to be used for reconstruction in the various devastated countries of the world. THE DUMBARTON OAKS CONFERENCE is known as such only because it was held in a famous old colonial house in our Nation's Capital, where agreements were reached on proposals for the establishment of a general international organization as outlined at the Crimea Conference. The conference generally recognized that there should be establish ed an international organization under the title of the United Nations, the Charter of which should contain provisions necessary to give effect to the proposals, the purposes of which are definitely outlined to maintain international peace and security, and to afford a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the achievement of these common ends. from Granger's Washington News Letter ... ZOOMING AHEAD GEORGES. BENSON plan withTrayon and it will work with, cotton. It Costs Something People say there is a practical cotton picker ready for introduction after the war. It will cost a lot more than one big sack and a string for each member of a family; it will likewise pick more cotton in a day than they can pick in a week. Efficient tools call for capital investment. It means laying out money, but efficient tools are worth it. People say we will see many mechanical cotton choppers after the war. It is not impossible. This will increase the number of acres of cotton per worker; make more yield per day for every man. The picker and the chopper will create high wages and good living for a lot of people. But rayon can win its war with cotton if cotton tries to stay in the field armed with hoes share-cropper- hant 's s. S. NORMAN LEE com-petitio- n. : NOW AVAILABLE W .1 AMERICA UNLIMITED By Eric Johnston America Unlimited one ot m series comprising Erie Johnston' Mr. Johnston is president ot the U. S. Chamber r (Editor's Not: This article is Natives Live Poorly, However; Cultivate Small Farm Tracts "America Ualimittd." more than a decade of fog, America has aSaia its native optimism. born an was I optimist. I belong to tfc Personally, ,s? Americans and I think they are in the maioritv-,.,- v By Ernie Pyle Girt nation's faith in the lose not recuperative powers ev en in the OKINAWA. Since this island is the closest to Japan we've years. gloomiest is this to feel really Japan, landed on and since we seem understand the nature press the best that was rather than just some far outpost, I'll try to describe to you of It is well tobecause in twTT it is basic to a individuals. that faith, like. looks it what e true understanding of America itself. New Race Built on Actually it doesn't look a great them the money hoping I suppose Though sentiment is part of it, that A deal different from most of ica. In fact it looks much more like """""y-- ' America Amer- than anything the marines have seen for the last three years. The climate is temperate rather than tropical, and Vfc; that she could buy herself AFTER off from being executed. After all the propaganda they've been fed about our tortures, it's going to be a befuddled bunch of Okinawans when they discover we brought right along with us, as part of the intricate invasion plan, enough supplies to feed them, too! During our first afternoon on Okiso is the vegetanawa my group of marines went tion. There are about a mile and a half inland. Our tropical-lik- e trees Ernie Pyle vehicles were not ashore yet, so we on and near the on our backs everything to had beaches I think they're Pandanus we had.pack bushes. But there are also many Personally, I was overladen as trees of the fir family with horizonI had two canteens, a muusual. tal limbs. a blanket rolled up in a sette bag, The country over which my regirubber life preservthree poncho, ment passed during the first two and a assorted knives, shovel, ers, days was cultivated. It rose gradu- first aid kits, etc. Furthermore, I all was and sea from the ally had on two pairs of pants, was carformed into small fields. It didn't look at all unlike Indiana rying two jackets, and it was hotter in late summer when things have than hell. Anyhow, we finally got where we started to turn dry and brown, exwere going. We stopped on a hillmuch were fields cept that the side, threw down our gear, connectsmaller. The wheat, which looks just like ed our phones to wires on the and were ready for busiours, is dead ripe in the fields now. ground, The marines are cutting it with little ness. That is, the others were. Me, sickles. In other fields are cane and I lay down on the grass and rested for an hour. sweet potatoes. Each field has a ditch around its edge', and dividing the fields are little ridges about two feet wide. On top of the ridges are paths where the people walk. All through the country are little dirt lanes and now and then a fairly decent gravel road. As you get inland, the country becomes rougher. In the hills there is less cultivation and more trees. It is really a pretty country. We had read about what a worthless place Okinawa was, but I think most of us have been surprised about how pretty it is. Poverty and Filth Continue Together Okinawa civilians we bring in are pitiful. The only ones left seem to be real old or real young. And they all are very, very poor. They're not very clean. And their homes are utterly filthy. Over and over you hear marines say, "This could be a nice country if the people weren't so dirty." Obviously their living standard is low. Yet I've never understood why poverty and filth need to be synonymous. A person doesn't have to be well off to get clean. But apparently he has to be well off to want to keep clean. We've found it that way clear around the world. The people here dress as we see Japanese dressed in pictures: women in kimonos and old men in skin-tigpants. Some wear a loose, knee-lengt-h garment that shows their skinny legs. The kids are cute as kids are all over the world. I've noticed marines reaching out and tousling their hair as they marched past them. We're rounding up all the civilians and putting them in camps. They are puzzled by it all. Most of the farm families must have got out when our heavy bombardments started. Lots of farm houses have either been demolished or burned to the ground before we came. Often, in passing a wrecked farmhouse, you smell the sickening odor of death inside. But there are always people who won't leave no matter what. We couldn't help feeling sorry for the Okinawans we picked up in the first few days. Vfe found two who spoke a little English. They had once lived in Hawaii. One was an old man who had a son (Hawaiian-Japanese- ) somewhere in the American army! They were all shocked from the bombardment and yet I think rather stupid too, so that when they talked they didn't make much sense. I don't believe they had any idea of what it was all about. As one marine officer said, "The poor devils. I'll bet they think this is the end of the world." They were obviously scared to death. On Love-Dathe marines found many of them hiding from us in caves. They found two old women, 75 or more, in a cave, caring for a paralyzed girl. She wasn't wounded, just paralyzed from natural causes. One of the old ladies had a small, dirty sack with some When the marines money in. it. found her she cried and tried to give y EWER'S WATER HEATERS OIL BURNERS New Stokers Double Sinks Pumps 1345 . I Finds Nice Spot To Go to Sleep After that we began getting ready for the night. We figured the Japs would bomb us all night, that their artillery would soon start up from the hills, and that when it got dark, some slinky infiltrators would start infiltration. So we dug foxholes. The slope was so steep I chose a nice depression at the foot of a small embankment that didn't require much digging. Now we come to the life preservers. You may have wondered why I was carrying three lifebelts on dry land. Well, I knew what I was doing all right. I just blew up my three life preservers, spread them in the foxhole and I had the nicest improvised Simmons you ever saw. We finally got onto that trick after a few invasions in Europe and I slept all last summer in France comfortably on three blown-u- A A '. - .v 1 - 1 ! Eric Johnston faith is not merely sentimental. Though instinct has as much to do with it as cold reason, it is not irrationaL That faith, it happens, is rooted in our country's history and fully consistent with a and trium-i- s illusion or not It phant past. wishful thinking, but a concrete by product of two centuries of achievement. And it is kept fresh by a long p Natural Abundance Here, for not much more years we have therefore been eve? ing a new civilization and a race of men on the foundation 5 that natural abundance. Any m,? lurgist will tell you that the est, most resistant metals are m "pure" ores but alloys that blend the most valuable qualities of mant ores. It is thus with the America Z W who fuses in his blood and his spirit the virtues and vitalities of man races, creeds, and cultures -ing us an amalgam that is new' unique, and immeasurably strong common-sensof the That is why tolerance is knowledge and rightly a supreme many advantages which this nation enjoys in terms of vast spaces, American characteristic. It is, in natural resources, a varied and truth, another word for freedom. If ever the sad day arrives whea dynamic population, industrial skills, our tolerance begins to crumble political vitality, and, above all, reand decay, we shall know that lease from the ingrown hatreds and " the adventure is ended. Happily that festering historical that day is too far oft to be diafflict so many other sections of this e neces-saril- y "left-overs- globe. What distinguishes the American variety of optimism is that it is not fatalistic. It doesn't lean back and wait passively for wonderful things to happen, 'it doesn't consider progress "in the bag." Our optimism is active, always coupled in our minds with hard work, difficult undertakings, problems to be solved, venturesome projects. When we are most enthusiastic about the outlook is precisely the time we are least inclined to relax. It is in our national character to translate faith into action. Faith in American Enterprise Justified That faith has been justified. It seems to me from where I stand that confidence in American enterprise is gaining ground everywhere. I sense a more invigorating moral and economic climate, an awakening of those entrusted with the responsibility of leadership in every branch of national life. It is like an electric current that flows from group to group, from person to person, charging them with new zeal and overriding any hypochondriac pessimisms. The current is so strong that there is perhaps an element of danThe ger in the new danger is that the pendulum may be allowed to swing too far in the other direction toward smugness and social reaction. There may be a disposition in some quarters to dispense with the specific social gains and the broadened human outlook which have been acquired in the preceding period of economic trouble and political To detour that danger, it seems to me, we should bear in mind always that our people's capitalism must justify itself continually in deeds. It must justify itself in jobs, continuity of employment, an feeling of security for the average man. preservers. PresitteittMardiiif Cclkge Everybody who wasn't on guard Searcy. Artmtsts at the edge of our little camp, or who wasn't standing duty at the field telephones went to bed, for in Jap Competition country you don't move around at About 25 years ago people in all night unless you have to. walks of life began to notice and talk Going to bed was merely a figure about competition between indusof speech for everybody except me. I seemed to be the only one who tries. It was new then and interhad brought a blanket and I defesting. Before that, competition was understood to exist between people initely was the only one who had and firms in the same industry-mercnice soft life preservers to sleep on. vs. merchant, railroad vs. The others slept on the ground in railroad, sawmill vs. sawmill, etc. their foxholes with their ponchos But after World War I it was a wrapped around them. A poncho is changed business world, plain to wind and waterproof, but it has no "see. warmth. In fact, it seems to draw Among the modest newcomers in all the warmth out of your body and that remote era was a product called transmit it into the air. rayon. It was manufactured in the and gunny-sackThe day had been hot, but the form of yarn, like wool and cotton got mighty cold. And a very night yarns. The price to weavers was Speeds Up Detoxification dew came gradually, soaking The diverse elements in our naheavy $2.80 a pound against 50 for cotton Wheat germ oil has the property All the others practitional life can work together as everything. 55 a Last was of yarn. year pound speeding up the detoxifying accally froze and got very little sleep. partners in a joint effort. They can the price of both rayon and cotton tion of the enzyme, tyrosinase, on But for once in my life, I was warm prosper together, as complementary yarns, and rayon was on the market certain poisons resulting from autoas a bug. parts of a prosperous community. as a fibre, very much like cotton intoxication within the body. But I didn't sleep too much. Or they can give rein to greed, fibre, but less expensive. There's always a flaw somewhere. strife, and misunderstanding. To a Rayon Has Grown I've greater measure than most of' us My flaw was the mosquitoes. Back in 1919 the American people been so tortured by mosqui- realize, the choice rests with each never 2 as much rayon bought less than toes as that first night on Okinawa. one of us. Our faith, as I have said, as cotton. Last year the ratio was They were persistent. They were stems from a consciousness that 20 and rayon had captured quite tenacious. And they were the noisi- the ingredients of greatness are a slice of cotton's export demand. ABSTRACTOR est mosquitoes I've ever associated here, at our disposal But we know Europeans earn less than AmerEstablished 40 Years with. They were so noisy that when that the process is not automatic. icans and they pay more attention I pulled the blanket over the side Whether those ingredients will be UTAH BRIG1IAM CITY, to a ldw price. If it were not for of my face and covered my ears properly used depends, in the final the war using up all both industries tight I could still hear them. analysis, on human will and human 'can produce rayon would probably I doused my face twice with the intelligence. 'be giving cotton some tough mosquito repellant which the maThe two essentials in the Amerirines had Issued, but it did no good can pattern of life and When the war ends these two big thought are whatever. It was 11 o'clock before FREEDOM and OPPORTUNITY. (Industries are faced with a struggle I finally got asleep. At 2 a. m. I These were the values for which for sales in world markets. It Is awakened and knew something was men and women of many nations, 'anybody's guess now how the strugwrong. What was wrong was my races, tongues, and cultures upgle will turn out, but King Cotton is face. rooted themselves to come to Amernot licked. The cotton industry is My upper lip was swollen so that icafrom the first boatload of colostill much bigger; still employs I thought I had a pigeon egg under nists to the latest shipload of immimore people than any other AmerAT it. My nose was so swollen the skin cotwere the goals for smart Besides, industry. ican was stretched tight over it. And my grants. They which generations of pioneers venton men understand how rayon left eye was nearly shut. tured into the unknown west, into made its remarkable gains. Those mosquitoes really put a hazardous economic undertakings, Volume and Wages scare into me. For they say Oki- into scientific and Rayon started out the American technological exnawa is malarial and I certainly got And today they remain plorations. way. It had relatively large investenough mosquito venom that night the most vital national values. As ments in machinery. With good OIL BURNING to malariaize half of California. So as we continue to measure Stools it turned out large volumes and early, I started taking long bright of rayon per worker. On a basis events, programs atabrine for the first time in my life. with the institutions, ofand of big results from their day's work freedom and yardsticks the men who worked drew good opportunity, we cannot stray too far from the highroad of the great wages. At the same time large outOkinawa Strange Invasion Beachhead American adventure. puts of rayon per man every day made it possible for prices to go A kindly Providence has endowed for FURNACES lower and lower each year, sales to on the beach when we landed. The this continent with all that mortal Never before had I seen an invabecome bigger and bigger. few assault waves ahead of us had man needs to live amply, happily, sion beach like Okinawa. Working people in America have There wasn't a dead or wounded pushed on inland. And all that vast and at peace. Those who came to a right to live well. When they man in our sector of it. Medical welter of people and machines that share the providential largesse had earn good wages they do live well. corpsmen were sitting among their make a beach hum with work were the great additional advantage of Money they spend is the very life starting from scratch. Their obliga-tion- s sacks of bandages and plasma and still many waves behind us. blood of national prosperity. But were not to master, but stretchers, with nothing to do. bulldozers and The the jeeps had to themselves; not any before they can earn good pay they to the past, but vea There wasn't not was acsingle There arrived. no burning yet have to turn out lots of merchanhicle Nor a single boat lying tivity and hardly any sound. It was to the future. They were not labeled dise ptr worker. And in order to and confined forever to some special on the reef or shoreline. almost ai though we were the origiTremonton wrecked product goods in volume they roust Phone 126 social dais, but left free to ex- was There at all nal anybody hardly explorers. bjyt gopd.tools. . ILwas a. successful by Thursday, April 26 Mill Dry, Brown Okinawa Like Indiana in Late Summer er SUBSCRIPTION KATES (In Advance) SOLDIER RATES - $2.50 YEAR ONE I -- ever-great- er scerned. there are crackpots and psychopaths and even foreign agents in our midst who preach group and race hatreds. But they are few and without authority, morally outcast and despised by the overwhelming mass of Americans. They seem more numerous and stronger than they really are because they shout True, so shrilly, and also because xception always attracts flf the e- more atten- - 'V I j Ikh jili '1 !( fib t tI - iniMBinn Willing to Lose Life. tion than the rule. The fact that they are so conspicuous is further proof that such men and their ideas "don't belong" in our free country. under various The fascist-minde- d labels, the racialists, the nationalists, the pathetic and didespicable stooges for foreign eare of them all ctatorships xcrescences. As long as the American body politic retains its democratic health it can resist them as readily as a healthy human body resists as germs. Such minor successes rin scored have these people may ecent years were symptoms of our social and political ills, and will be restored wiped out in the period of entered now we have vitality which gewarm, a We Americans are need nerous, friendly people. We bseek no special credit for this, are ecause at bottom these qualities a the proofs that we have beenand lucky people. Our tolerance in are the results, the spaciousness of large measure, and natural wealth of our countryThere was no inducement w the for niggardly spirit, no reasonhave fl tihnt Mtric uiuiuuuua anaj faced other civilizations in this brew former times. The polluted aw of tyranny has always and ciea been swept away by the an winds over our great prairiei towering mountains. tn As a nation our nerves is in heart our and steady super-dup- ss - right place. The willingness save life by losing life for ideals has been demonstrated" Americans on a score of battl- r efields. W hardened Our spirit is robust, J refined recent adversity, and confront can We cent sacrifice. 'Draw the future not with empty and courage; but with true optimism based not only certainty but on a conscious dream tion to the American au. for justice and happiness ofiW II ever humankind and ge toscther have been brought the most propitious circumjan rf it is here in the United America. One feels which conu kindly Providence ' watching is this miracle man to see the epic test of is working city for grandeur e Can man. thus richly or all the prerequisites op live up to his magn.Acen tunity? Can he temper new and lift his mind to levels? precedented .roiCA If he can. then this is UNLIMITED. mj fj j |