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Show UTAH EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE PALE. : GENERAL European War HUGH S. WHO'S i' lesson from France is not clear enough to learn but there is one lesson from the whole bloody mess that simply shrieks. No nation can rely on any other and certainly not we on the British navy, or Latin America, or on anything but our own strength. France created the "cordon sanl-tairthe ring of little nations like Poland, Czechoslovakia and Ruma nia, to keep Germany captive. She relied on them and they on her. She relied on the British navy. Britain relied on the French army. When Hitler began to show strength, France wanted to stop him. Britain wouldn't play. When Mussolini hijacked Ethiopia, Britain wanted to France wouldn't play. stop him. Both let Hitler and Mussolini build up the strength to ravage the French and British reliance on little nations In the "cordon sanitalre" and their reliance on Britain and France. university, after more than SO years of practicing and teaching Journalism, he still commands affection and e proteges, respect from his an emotion somehow filial, and somehow belonging In that nostalgic picture which the late Clarence Day and Mr. Lindsay and Russell Crouse have recreated for the stage. They used to set the type for the old Evening Sun in the local room. Charles A. Dana ordered some linotype machines, found workmen delivering them to the World Instead, got into a row about it and said to the devil with the whole business, or words to that effect. At any rate this classic of newspapers for many years thereafter kept clear of all technological entanglements, Including typewriters. Dr. Cooper's s pouting mustache was electrified daring the ordeal of getting cut the paper like sensitive antennae, catching impulses out at the air. This was the enly way they could explain his way of spotting a red-hnews story in some bit of trivia, moving across his desk. They called him "The Human Sieve." That was due to his trick of sifting bogs, libel suits, and sloppy writing oot of a piece of copy with a swift slash of his pencil. When a reporter was beaten on a story, or made a serious error, or otherwise offended. Dr. Cooper would clutch both sides of his desk, lean back, close his eyes and howL And when one of the boys really put something over (it had to be good) Dr. Cooper would croon and cluck over him affectionately. Re was always yelling for copy and the boys. If the story was hot. had to write it in short takes. Thero was always a blls-taOf copy paper loose hi the city room. As press time came near there were yells, bleats, and a bedrunning lam which could be heard all up and down Park, Bow. Oot of all this came a paper as cool and neatly fashioned as a daisy in the meadow human, subtle, civilised and deftly done. The noise, smells of ink, grease and tobacco, and above all, Dr. - Cooper's energies seemed to make a formula for newspaper "oomph." Dr. Cooper, short and stocky, with his bright brown eyes alert and narrowly focused behind his glasses, joined the Sun staff as a reporter in 1889, after a year with the Hartford (Conn.) Post He was with the Sun 24 years as city editor, news editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor. He retired to become a teacher of journalism in ot rd ts 1919. Rounding 74, Dr. Cooper never moans over the good old days, and has no regrets for the passing of personalized journalism. He thinks newspapers of today are doing a better job than their predecessors. Among his colleagues were Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis, Woodford Patterson, now secretary of Cornell university, Nelson Lloyd, O'Neill Sevier, George Cartaret, Stephen French Whitman, Homer St. Gaudens and a score of other names. IT'S a long stretch R. Chafee's from small-ar- Adna Indian-fightin- m g equipment to Brig. Gen. Adna R. Chafee's new mechanized From 'Boots and "TaYer'a Saddles' to 'Man son saga. The The Gear Shifts' 'alher was one of the greatest Indian fighters in our history, battling the Kiowas and Comanches along the trail to the Sierra Madre in New Mexico. The son, schooled in the mounted service, was a cavalryman like his father, but in refl-n- t years has specialized in studies of mechanized warfare. His new armored divisions are said to be similar in organization to the German panzer units. Army men say they fill a long-fel- t need in the service. Brigadier General Chafec was born at Junction City. Kan., in 1884, and was graduated from West Point in 1906, a few years too late for the Spanish-America- n and Philippine workouts, but he is a veteran of our later military entailments in Europe, holding the Distinguished JService Medal and is regarded as a good organizer and fighter as "boots and saddles!" " changes to "man the 900-mil- e gear-shifts!- i Complete governmental control of the economies of belligerents has marked the present conflict The wars in Europe and in the Orient have assumed an economic character through the widespread use of blockade and counter-blockadBlockade Closes Markets. Allied naval blockade closed central Europe's markets to American goods. German occupation of Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, and the entrance of Italy into the war barred American products from almost the whole of Europe. Some of these nations had been among this country's best farm markets. Agricultural exports were also seriously affected when the allies pooled their economic and financial resources and centralized purchases through a government commission. This effect was increased when England shifted as much of her food purchases to her dominions as was possible. She took this step to save her foreign exchange for the purchase of war necessities. British imports of cotton and wheat this country's two principal export crops has dwindled greatly. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace estimates that exports of American agricultural products in the fiscal year which began July 1 will be at least 30 per cent below last year. This will mark an 80 per cent decrease below the level attained in the first World war. England's Market. Continuation of the war through 1942 may force Great Britain to purchase a larger proportion of her agricultural supplies from the United States. The agricultural department warns, however, that by this time the belligerents would be apexhaustion. financial proaching American products agricultural would be needed, but nobody could pay for them. "It appears likely that both belligerents and neutrals will find it advisable or necessary to continue many of the economic controls established during (the war," the department added. American trade can be reconstructed after the war only so far as a way is found to finance the transactions. Foreign countries can purchase American products only by exchange of goods or through the shipment of gold to this country. The department points out that use of gold will be difficult because the United States has most of the world's supply. e. One by one they fell. Britain and France were helpless or unwilling to stop it. They are responsible for the threat to us today because, finally, came the case of Poland. Britain and France at last were drowsily preparing. But neither was remotely ready. Nevertheless they shoved Poland into the guns. The case was weak. Danzig was a German city. The Polish corridor was a monstrosity. Furthermore, worst of all, Hitler wanted no war In the west, he was headed east and southeast. France, under British pressure, joined in declaring war when Hitler marched. It was one of the greatest and most stupid blunders in history if not the very greatest It forced Hitler to turn to the west The result already has been the destruction of six small neutral nations It terriand the French empire. bly threatens the British empire. It threatens us. Recriminations have already begun. We hear that France didn't want to go to war and Britain forced her that the French government didn't want to abandon the defensive and plunge into the disastrous Belgian pocket that Britain forced it and didn't support it The facts aren't clear. But the blunders are. They shout their lessons to us. Don't start anything you can't finish. Get fully ready before you start slapping down earsr Don't rely on anybody but yourself. Don't push other nations into warlike positions to de- fend In yourself. this blundering diversion of Hitler to our direction when he might have gone eastward to wear himself out in battle with the bear of Russia, we are not blameless. We supported and encouraged it morally. Part of the argument to bring France in was that only if she were in war could she be sufficiently unified and mobilized for war, and that if she did get in she would have time to get ready afterward. Exactly that is being said to us in this country today. There is another way to say it It is "Get a dic- Australia to Speed Plane Production, Training of PilotsA - CANBERRA AUSTRALIA. program for making Australia one of the front rank world air powers by March, 1943, has been announced by Prime Minister Robert G. Men-zie- s. tator." Step by muddled step we have fol- blundering European war polWe are still following them. Our two new war cabinet members believe in doing that. That is why they were chosen. Our greatest need is new and competent leadership before it is too late. lowed icies. WANTED: Gen. ket e" one-tim- Industrial A PRODUCTION MAN mobilization isn't just madly appropriating billions. Billions are necessary, but success is threatened if they are thrown away. Contracts with suppliers are necessary, but they are no good if they don't result in swift and ac- ceptable production so regulated that all the separate parts come to the assembly line properly timed to all other deliveries and with no spoiled work or parts that do not fit. I doubt if we are giving enough attention to either one of these principles. There is too much ballyhoo about billions. It tends to pacify the demand of the people for drive and effectiveness. This column began insisting years ago that we call in Bill Knudsen but not in his present job of passing on and clearing contracts. What this situation needs is a great production man and Bill is the best we have. He may be good at contracts, but if he is it's just luck. That has not been his life's work. There are many men more expert in contracting. What he should be doing is fitting army design and specification to civilian manufacture to insure the speediest, best and most economical production. If Hitler succeeds in his boast reBritgarding the conquest of Great timeain, next move on the Nazi table is almost sure to be Russia. You can write it down as fairly cerSotain that Hitler will Invade the 1. viet around September There is one big reason for this famine-stricke- n food. Europe is sure to be Polish The winter. this wheat crop is bad; so are the Balkan crops. The French will not be able to reap much of a harvest Denmark is already killing its cattle for lack of grain. Norway never was entirely However, just across the Carpathians lies one of the richest granaries in the world the Ukraine. Its wheat crop this year, although nut the best, will be sufficient to keep down a lot unrest in a hungry Euof anti-Narope. Hitler not only needs it, but long ago announced in that infallible document, Mein Kampf, that he will take it. Obviously Stalin knows this. That is why he has sent tremendous reinforcements into the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. That also is why he has edged his borders across Bessarabia up to the Carpathian mountains. ts bus. The could have walked right into the part without taking off hia hat As be retires as professor of Journalism at Columbia Washington. D. C. ATTACK SOVIET IN SEPTEMBEE WASHINGTON. Plans to overcome the unfavorable effect of the war upon American agriculture are being drawn up by the federal government through the office of foreign agricultural relations. While the war has been hurting the farmers, agricultural department experts believe that when peace is will be resumed, the after-effecfar worse. They are convinced that farm prices will continue to suffer unless the war' lasts more than three years, when increased foreign buying will begin to bolster the mar came too soon for France. If she relied on Mr. Bullitt, she missed the 'Lite With Father TeaTowehV Federal Government Plans To Cushion Effect on Agriculture. were somehow supposed to be obliged to do. Who obligated us? Mr Bullitt did say openly that we wouldn't be in it at the beginning but would be in the end. The end Howard Llndiay NEW makeup to play "Life With Father." Dr. Charle Phillips Cooper, managing editor of the New York Evening Dr. C. P. Cooper Sun, around Natural Lead for the turn of foot-bea- wmitnm We are already officially blamed Dot doing something that we Service.) say It was W for YORK. to n heaven. By LEMUEL F. PARTON Reporters ned i LESSON FOR V. 8. Most of the lessons of the war are too obscure to learn. The fall of France can't be explained. Gossip filtering back indicates a stench to WEEK WOT if Washington, D. C. THIS (Consolidated Feature J&ur: C.MfTitrA? 1 I vnr Can baby Elephant ouiv.v. Asks Science as Birth Nears Reduces Farm Export Market JOHNSON NEWS - w. It involves an increase of 11 times the present program for training pilots, observers, gunners and aircraftsmen and an increase of seven times in the present program for the production of aircraft. This would give Australia by the time the program is in full operation in March, 1943, a total aviation personnel of 57,473 and an air force of about 2.000 planes. With the program and production then in full operation. Prime Minister Menzies believes that Australia can increase the air force each year until it ranks with the most powerful air nations in the world. Large Gain This Year. Under the program as launched, Australia will have 28,500 trained men, consisting of crews, pilots and ground personnel by June, 1941. By June, 1942, an additional 18,012 will have been trained and by March, 1943, when the entire program will be in full operation, an additional 10,961 will have been trained, giving Australia an aviation personnel of 57,473. which will be maintained thereafter. For carrying out the program there will be installed as rapidly as possibl.-- ' thre initial ground training schools; 10 elementary flying training schools; four air observers' schools; four bombing and gunnery schools; four wireless operators' schools; and two air navigation schools. Menzies announced that this rapid increase in aviation, coupled with the rapid growth that is taking place in the military and naval program, is intendeoTtojTiake Australia capable of defending itself. Upper photo shows a group of children en-joyi- a visit with their friend the favorite zoo elephant. Right This is Nancy, about whom naturalists are speculating regarding the care she will give her prospective offspring. No baby elephant in previous history in the United States has survived. By RICHARD A. KELLY (Released by Weitern Newspaper Union.) CHICAGO, ILL. Natural- ists have their eyes turned toward Brookfield zoo, near Chicago. For there some time during August or September, a baby elephant is expected to be born. This is a big event, not only because of the principals involved, but because it may provide the answer to a riddle that has puzzled scientists for generations. Will the baby pachyderm thus born in captivity live and be successfully reared to adulthood? Never before in the United States has a baby elephant survived infancy. So, as the keepers at the zoo are preparing the colossal obstetrical ward for Nancy, a buxom, five-to- n Ceylonese elephant, scientists are asking each other what are the chances of her offspring growing up into a fine, strapping pachyderm. Based on experience tables, these chances seem rather dim. Four times before in history in this country a female elephant has labored and brought forth young. Four times did she attempt to murder her calf and then savagely refuse to nurse it. Four times did the baby jumbos die after a short and pathetic existence. The mother in each of these cases was Princess Alice, an elephantine trouper with the circus of a generation ago. Tragic Jinx? But will the tragic jinx that followed Princess Alice also pursue Nancy? Not necessarily, says Robert Bean, curator of mammals at the Brookfield zoo. "In the case of the previous four births," he said, "because the same mother bore all four calves, it is possible that she was an exception which might not occur again. She evidently had some idiosyncrasy that made motherhood murderously distasteful to her. Her experience does not necessarily mean that all female elephants would behave the same way. It is a matter of record that one elephant calf was born and successfully reared in a Berlin, Germany, zoo. The same thing might occur at the Brookfield zoo. "It is well known, however, that some species of elephants do not reproduce in captivity. Because of the extreme rarity of elephant births their reaction cannot be predicted. Nancy Is Docile, "Nancy, unlike her predecessor. Princess Alice, is a docile animal. She is only 24 years old, or much younger than Alice. We are preparing to take every precaution to prevent accidents from marring a successful birth. Nancy will be given every encouragement possible to be a normal mother. She will not be separated from the other elephants unless it becomes absolutely necessary. "We hope that accustomed surroundings will have a calming effect and induce Nancy to assume her motherly duties toward her baby Sells-Flo-t- at o once. "If she refuses, however, the little calf will be fed cows' milk. We believe this will be a successful dietary procedure if the young ele- - phant is closely watched for adverse effects." anSo, in the weeks to come, the swer will be found to the question whether a baby elephant can survive infancy in America. If the answer is yes, then a new trend will begin. But if the answer is no, then the story of Princess Alice may be repeated. That story made newspaper headlines before and during the World war. It was immortalized in a chapter in Bene Fowler's book, "Timberline." First in United States. It was on a spring afternoon in 1912, near the close of the matinee that Princess Alice delivered the first baby elephant ever born in America. Fred Alispaw, the circus elephant trainer and his aides, were midwives. As a precaution during labor, they pulled a burlap sack over her eyes. But once the infant was born, things began to happen. "The nearness of humans enraged the mother," writes Fowler. "She lowered her great head, flexed her wrinkled knees and then rolled upon her baby, with intent to kill Alispaw tried to reassure her, to implore Alice to rise of her own free will. Her answer was a lashing blow of the trunk, knocking the trainer a full 20 feet across the sawdust floor. "She had shaken off the burlap son blinder, glimpsing her afresh and renewing the murderous attack. Attendants used wooden bars as levers to pry her heaving belly from the squealing newcomer. They applied elephant hooks to her defiant trunk and brought other persuasive instruments into play. Finally the hysterical mother reared to fight off the men, and now they dragged the bewildered, calf to safety. He stood as though puzzled by a world which greeted strangers with such sudden, ugly brutality." tion aircraft ignition distribu- system which will give milito tary planes enough added power make them supercharged ships at any altitude has been announced by one of the large airline companies in the United States. The government has approved the plans following flight experiments, according to one of the officers of the company. Carl E. Swar.son. a uanian minister in Berlin reported this to Foreign Minister von He said, among other things, that Red troops from as far away as Siberia had entered Lithuania, and asked Ribbentrop's advice as to what his government should do. "Don't do anything," Ribbentrop advised, according to the cabled report "After we finish with Great Britain we'll take care of them." p. garden has counter-espionag- CT tZl been -- '"""c "a towel cross mot? stitch border, KPVpn rwtnm j idea is fflustratJ?.?" ' . use of vegetable ijg From hot iron 15 cents, you receive thetl motifs and the apron da? of the tea towel niornvb made up into a panhokwi a complete kitchen set J AUNT MAKTHA KUUicJ 15 ctnU for UA desired. Pattern Name Address No...., Know Your Ae Persons not certain of may &dd1v for thio rn the bureau of th will be given to them, if prcviueu a aennite tddr be furnished at any cams' u me iacts are required fj suses taken before 1880, may searcn we records are not connaenuaL J r Common About RADIO SPIES Five hundred men are being added to the staff of the Federal Communications commission to do a job e of a of wartime type never done before in our entire history. For this war presents a problem that was not known in World War L Widespread use of radio makes possible the transmission of spy messages or interference with U. S. government messages by spies. To prevent this, the FCC intends Usto police the ether waves. ing an allotment of $1,600,000 from the defense appropriation, they will expand the 'field force sufficiently to monitor radio messages 24 hours a day in all parts of the country. If it is suspected that an unlicensed operator is sending messages from a certain section, the monitors move in with mobile equipment and start their detection. Through the triangulation method, they pick up the beam of the pirate radio, and track it to the house of If it is a large building origin. office building or apartment house they prowl around with a detection apparatus strapped to the waist which, like a witch's crooked stick, tives the signal when the vital spot is reached. Meantime, the FCC requires that Description of Calf. The calf, relates Mr. Fowler, persons licensed for radio transmislooked like a "fatigued sion give proof of American citizenwas pink all over and had a trunk ship. Also it forbids amateurs to six inches long. Black hairs bristled broadcast outside the U. S., and from his blushing hide. He was 24 warns all operators to stop useless inches high and 36 from tip to tail." chatter by wireless. Note There are 55,000 licensed Zoologists everywhere were concerned with the youngster's future. radio amateurs in the United States. The mother refused to nurse it. She attempted to kill it when it apLOVES HOT AIR proached. The baby was fed a mixSummer heat has come to Washture of Jersey milk and condensed milk from a bottle. Two months ington, but the President's only method is to take off after birth it fell ill and died. An his coat and hang it over the back e a revealed autopsy putty-liksubof a chair. stance in the calfs large intestines, The executive offices of the White indicating digestive faults. House are but the Three times more within six years was this tragic story repeated. Each President will have none of it in his time Princess Alice tried to crush office. He keeps the vents turned her infant to death and each time oil and opens the French doors look-- 1 attendants were able to save the calf ing out on the rose gardens and the after a tremendous battle. All of south grounds. This, and the coat uie oaoy elephants died withm a removal, are enough for him. In proper, sepa-- , it wciivs irum ine same cause: rate the White House units have been es- -; uigi'suvc uisiurDancts. tabhshed in the various rooms. (This Event Attracts Attention. was to Twenty-twso years have passed as topreferred avoid tearing out walls to in- -i since the birth and death of the last troduce new vents.) But the Presi-- 1 baby elephant in America. Thus indent at first declined to have even a terest inevitably centers on Nancy's cowling unit in his rooms. approaching accouchement at the Finally he was persuaded to ac- -i Brookfield zoo. cept it, with thc understanding that Whether it lives or not, Nlncvs baby will be the hugest ever born it would not be turned on when he was there. at the zoo. Although a The same is true of the Presl-mus weighs 4.000 poundshippopotal !ts off dential yacht, Potomac. spring weigh less than 50. An c "! "ps me scales cl sc to tiomng equipment has just been in- -t i"'"" stalled throughout the uu pounds and stands boat, but the ao'iul three President insists that it be turned feet high. oil in his room. Ses; Cob A doctor would best thing to dowtthoastt is get at its cam. ltMt dont have to enimtlkt try to "cure" it aftirMsk can avoid havlnitt. Chances are you look far for the am the super-refin- k" la too! ed people do. 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