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Show LEW FREE PRESS, LEW, UTAH . . ,1 . I Next Decade to See Changes in Air Travel v WhosjNews That Seem Fantastic to All but Aviators This Week Released by Western Newspaper Unioa. 'GIMME' ATTITUDE IS I LIVE in a small town in which there is a park. In that park art comfortable seats. On warm days those seats are occupied by a considerable number of men, most oi them 50 or more years of age, some The of them physically disabled. majority could fill jobs which these days they could have for the asking. I, too, sit in that park at times to listen to the conversations. Almost invariably they turn to the subject of "what the government owes them" and their hope for collection. The "gimme" habit has mastered these men. They have been fed on a diet of "something for nothing." They expect a perpetual "dole." I know many other men in my town, and in other towns and on farms men of equal age and of equal needs who are working for the living they want and must have. They are enjoying life because they work for what they have. I know farmers of more years than the average of those men in that park who are working long hours, not alone that they and their families may live, but that the nation, our armed forces and our Allies may be fed. They know the joy of work. In this land of opportunity, it is not well that we should acquire the "gimme" idea. Instead, we should encourage and practice the desire to work, to save, that we may do for ourselves the things the men on the park benches demand that the government do for them. DEFINITION OF A BUREAUCRAT REGARDLESS of what Webster eays, to me a bureaucrat is the fellow for whom I, as a citizen and taxpayer, have provided a job, and who then feels he can push me around, be discourteous when I seek information, and be generally disagreeable. He feeds at the public trough, into which I pour food, and a bit of brief authority has given him a swelled head. He sees himself as the boss. You frequently find the species holding public offices,' of both high and low degree, everything, in fact, from dogcatcher to heads of important bureaus and departments of the public service. They forget that we, the citizens and taxpayers, have the privilege of changing employees. HOW AMERICA LIKES ORDERS ISSUED THE LATE GEN. HUGH JOHNSON instituted the method of "cracking down" as a means of getting results. It did not work. Other bureaucratic chiefs have tried the same method of enforcing their decrees, and it has not worked for them. American people have been masters for the past 150 years. They do not appreciate being talked to as 6laves, even in wartime. An article on the serious rubber problem by Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers in the February issue of the American Magazine was couched in the language American people understand and appreciate. His is the method and language which will produce results so far as by the people is concerned. He asks, rather than commands. The American citizen does not stand for dictatorship. NON-WA- R EXPENDITURES SHOULD BE REDUCED THE 24 PER CENT of his pay that it is proposed to take out of the worker's pay envelope is needed and will be paid without undue protest. But that is not all he pays. If he has a telephone, he pays, as an average on all phones, $14.13 a year as tax collected by the telephone company. Over and above the state sales tax, if any in his state, he pays a tax on everything he buys, a tax which is, and must be passed along by the manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer and the transportation company. The war must be paid for, and there is no complaint about taxes to pay war bills. There is a complaint against the cost of unessential civilian activities of government, whether they be local, state or national. People demand the elimination of such expenditures. .., PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TAX BURDENS I DO NOT HAVE the figures for all states, but in California the privately owned electric light and power companies pay as taxes a fraction over 26 cent3 out of each dollar of gross revenue received. In most other states, the amount is approxiThe publicly mately the same. owned utilities CBrry no part of our taxt burden. WElARE ENGAGED in an war, out those on the home front have not been disciplined to take Drders, as they do in Germany. American citizens are more inclined to listen to requests, than they are to commands. That is the American all-o- ut way. AT THE LAST ELECTION, Idaho voted every person over 65 years of age a $48 a month pension. Now Idaho is trying to raise the six million dollars a year with which to do the paying. Curiosity lo Know Uriel The manager of Saper-Cr,. Pictures entered the "Get out!" he howled at man sitting there. "While i'm Ve aw By I'll not tolerate any here." Delos Wheeler Lovelace But Most of Us Will Live To Learn Every Prophecy Has Come True! Just a Natural loafing roiffi "I beg your pardon," Eai(1 young man, "but I don't woS EW YORK. A couple of years here. I just came in lookm? Ior a position." ago Chester C. Davis would "Then you're engaged," growls 5,000,000 switched have manager, "and r.cw youv: farmers into defense industry. He'll the be glad now fired! Get out!" The young man, surprised, F ooa Czar Came they stuck to To His Office Via their plows. picked up his hat and turned ta the manager. "Do you mind tPii Six of Our State minietrator ing me," he asked, "just what he ought to like whatever the 5,000,-00- 0 of a job I had before you firJ farmers can grow, even if it is me?" spinach. All From Vood Fifty-siyears old now, Davis He was used to be footloose. Wood is known in Gcrmanv born in Iowa and got his AB at as "universalrohstofT'tr,.. little Grinnell, but later he day Clem-so- n material of which any thin can picked up a law degree at in South Carolina, and his made. German soldiers are clad first job was in South Dakota. in fabrics produced from wood d He was editor of a They eat yeast, molasses, anri paper there and then he rolled sugar made from wood; als cheese and beef from wood-femosslessly on to Montana. Montana always has a fine crop of cattle. German soldiers move to Rus. girls, and he married one in 1913 and finally became state sian battle lines in trucks which are greased1 agricultural commissioner. Marwith lubricants and riage nails most men down, Buna tires made from especially when it produces two employ sons, but Davis rolled on to Illiwood alcohol. nois to run first a grain marketing association and then a cornstalks processing company. but All this seems it turned out to be just right for a job with the Agricultural Adjustment administration, first as direc tor, then as administrator. And that led, by a neatly selective process, into the Federal Reserve system. He has been president of the re ovat serve bank in St. Louis for several w wtr defense in and against sum tt maybe years money he has people wanting formed the habit of dropping his Yes. GROVE'S ABiD Vita fleshy face and looking somberly mios re priced amazingly from under heavy eyebrows. low . . . less thin IHc a day Consolidated Features. WNU Release. N low-inco- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. school two in a China reached after a fast hop in a plane or a huge dirigible. The graduating classes of Hudson's Bay Eskimo elementary schools will fly to New York or Chicago for supervised study-visit- CALIFORNIA high spend weeks study - vacations """" J" x s. natives from the forests of Malay will fly to universities in California or Australia and fly back to the native villages as agronomists and physicists. "Impossible!" you say " or perhaps only: "Not likely! As a matter of fact, it's not only Half-nake- d possible but it's entirely probable. You can take the word of a man who knows! He is Harry Bruno, who grew up with American aviation and with its early heroes. If any man is qualified to forecast what's ahead in an America that has always pioneered in flight and that will probably be even more dependent on air travel in the future than it has in the past, he is that man. So when he makes such prophecies as those given at the beginning of this article, don't just laugh them off. Instead, read these words of his: "All this and more can be accomplished with the planes and airships that exist today. But the world of tomorrow will fly greater, faster, more economical flying machines and airships than now exist." You'll find those words in a new book, "Wings Over America The Inside Story of American Aviation," written by Harry Bruno and published by Robert M. McBridge and It's not Company of New York. only an interesting book because it's the "inside story" told by a man who, as one of the six original "Quiet Birdmen" and as today's foremost aviation publicist, has knowledge of every memorable and spectacular event in the development of America's aerial power. It's also an important book important right now when America is engaged in a struggle. For, as Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, who wrote the introduction to Mr. Bruno's book, says: "The United Nations will win this war through superior science, or they will not win it at all. We must cut loose from the past and embark upon audacious new strategies, with air power as their core. We must utilize our superior technological setup to spring intellectual surprises, in machines and strategic innovations, on the enemy. And thus it will be that the dreamers, the pioneers of yesterday's aviation will become the realists and leaders of today and tomorrow. The dynamics of air power are so intensive that we must plan for tomorrow if we want to be on time today. Fortunately America has the leadership to achieve this. Harry Bruno tells us where and why." Such being the case, let's "cut loose from the past" (so far as our ideas of the limitations of air travel are concerned) and "embark upon audacious new" voyages into the future with Mr. Bruno. You can do that by reading the last chapter in his book "The Next Ten Years." Always Look Forward. At the outset of that chapter he says: "The gods of aviation have one rule which all must obey: always look forward." Then he admonishes us to "Look ten years r ahead to a world in which the defeated Axis gangs are a thing of the past, and you see one of the most powerful reasons for each and every one of us to buckle down and do our utmost to guarantee this victory. Thanks to aviation, this is one of the most glorious ages in world history." Besides his predictions about the California high school youngsters, the Eskimo school children and the d natives from the forests of Malay, Mr. Bruno foresees also the day when: "Shepherds will fly from the crags of Tibet to universities in Vladivostok and fly back to their native villages as doctors. "Plane loads of professors will take off from Madrid to train South American Indians in new universities established near new airfields in Colombia, in Venezuela, in Peru. "The whole world will become the oyster of any American with a two first-han- d post-wa- half-nake- liner is not a plane of the "far This Glenn Martin future" rather it belongs in the "near future" for plans for its production already exist. weeks' vacation and the low cost level authorized by government regof airplane and airship travel will ulation, fly on to their destination, make a most enlightening vaca- and land on earth, on a roof top, or tion in Norway or India a reality on water as fancy dictates. Instead of wheels, the craft is mounted for the Detroit mechanic or the Boson rubber floats inasmuch as it ton librarian." rises and descends like an elevator Planes of the Future. anywhere, wheels are not needed. How will they be able to do all These 'copters will be so safe and this? Here is the answer in Mr. will cost so little to produce that Bruno's words: small models will be made for 'teen "The big planes of the next decade age youngsters. These tiny 'copters, will glide through the stratosphere when school lets out, will fill the at speeds of 600 miles an hour and skies as the bicycles of our youth more. They will enable a man to filled the roads." breakfast in New York and have But 'copters aren't the only madinner in Paris on the same day. chines that your children and their Citizens of Detroit and Denver will will be driving. For, says children be able to do exactly the same, even Mr. Bruno, "the great sport of our though their planes will fly nonyouth will be motorless flight. Glider Eutowns to home from their stop meets will be held all over the counrope and South America. much like the sailing meets of try, "Their planes will not be patterned other years." now boats after the huge flying that However, the glider won't be a cross the oceans. The new planes of 1952 will be huge stratosphere machine for "pleasure driving" only. It will become an important land planes, whose sealed, d cabins will carry more economic factor in the transporta- g than 200 passengers in all the luxury tion of the future. "Powerful sky trucks will tow trains and comfort travelers enjoyed on cargo carrying gliders since all luxury steamships like the Queen of the bulkiest slow freight will be Mary and the Normandie. They will but carried by airplane or be powered by banks of gasolineg dirigibles. The glider will also become the great transportation medium of commuting." Trains of Gliders. Which means that when you decide to visit Aunt Emma back in Syracuse or Cousin Will out in Oregon, here's how you'll go: "Glider trains, towed by a lead passenger-carryinplane that will fly hundreds of miles, will drop gliders carrying local passengers at airW ports all along the route. Thus, a trip from New York to Albany, for instance, would be made in a glider attached to the New sky train. Passengers would board the train at the overhead station of Rockefeller Center. The which started from LaGuardia Field, would pick up the Albany glider at Rockefeller Center (and pick it up , L in flight, too) and continue on .,,-.toward Buffalo. Over Albany, the PROPHET of the Albany glider Harry Bruno, who conductor-pilo- t "grew up" with American aviation, will cut his craft loose from the makes some startling but "too con- train and glide to earth. By the servative," so say bis friends pre- time the lead plane reaches Buffalo, dictions about air travel during the he will have dropped all of his glid next ten years. ers along the route." "But all of these machines can of 5,000 horsepower burning engines each. But the use of gasoline, in still fall down and kill people no, aviation, will some day be as ob- sir, I'll stick to good old Mother Earth!" you say. The aviation of solete as the era of steam in automobiles. Electric engines of 10,000 the future will become increasingly Mr. Bruno believes. He horsepower, receiving their impulses safer,, "All writes: will aircraft have tele from through rays transmitted vision weather survey sets, enabling ground stations will supplant gasoline engines within two decades of them to see and hear weather con ditions along the routes that lie the end of the war. ahead. In this manner, they will be with more time, out able to fly above "Passengers or around storm for a more economical ocean crossareas and add to the comfort of ing, will ride in the comfortable each flight. helium-fille- d dirigibles of the new "All airplane factories will be enworld. These giant cargo and pastirely will underground, Atlancross the senger airships tic in about 36 hours, carrying fast and deep enough so that no aerial freight and about twice as many bomb can ever hurt them. Airports will also go underground and what passengers as the fast planes." will appear to be an empty field will If you decided to sell your autoJ suaaeniy Decome active wnen a mobile because of the inconvenience lands on it. A quick taxi to a plane of gas rationing and wait until after the war to get a new one, don't designed spot, and down will go the count too much on becoming a underground hangar as the surface "motorist" again. For, according sinks under the operation of a large An international police to Mr. Bruno, automobiles "will elevator. force, armed with the newest type start to decline almost as soon as of air weapon, will have no trouble the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will maintaining order and understand be as well known as Henry Ford's, ing." Such is Mr. Bruno's preview of for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the "things to come." Do you find them new means of transportation. hard to believe? Then reflect upon Instead of a car in every garage, there these final words: will be a helicopter." "These predictions are a lot more Why? Well, these marvelous ma- conservative than the flat prediction. chines can do everything an auto- in 1900, that before the century was mobile can do, do it better and be- over man would build a machine sides take you up in the air, far that would really fly. If anything. from the gasoline fumes of the most of my friends men like Igor crowded highways. Look at this pic- Sikorsky and C. M. Keys, who read ture of a Sunday afternoon pleasure this chapter, for instance mark the "drive," as Mr. Bruno paints it: predictions down as being too earth' "The family will take off in its bound, too conservative. And this helicopter from the backyard or the should tell you that most of you will roof hangar, climb straight to the live to see them all come true! " super-passeng- er pre-w- ar oxygen-equippe- cargo-carryin- glider-towin- g, cargo-carryin- g York-Buffal- o sky-trai- n, ,., , S 1 . Aviation Pioneers Made Possible Heroic War Exploits of Today America wui never ioreei Uie courage and heroism of such World War II heroes as Capt. Colin Kelly Jr., Lieut. Edward H. O'Hare, Gen. Claire Chennault and Gen. James H. Doolittle, who wrote their epics in the air and signed them with their honor. Let us not forget, however, the names of the pioneers who made these war exploits possible not only the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtis, Billy Mitchell and Admiral Byrd, whose activities we are all familiar, but the many other audacious men whose reputations have been obscured. Here is a partial list of the roll of honor: Calbraith Perry Rodgers, the man who flew across the continent in 1911 and one of the outstanding aviators of prewar America; Jimmy Taylor, the unassuming, little known flying genius who for 20 years was one of our ace test pilots; Lincoln Beachy, a great exhibition pilot who with made tests that saved thousands of lives; Vernon Castle, a brilliant war time aviator who is remembered (if at all) as a dancer; Roscoe Turner, a speed demon with a useful pur pose; Clifford Henderson, the of aviation, who did more than any aviator except Lindbergh to at tract American attention to flying. These Americans gambled their necks, their brains and their monev that aviation might grow. "Wings uver America." Bar-nu- m pint-size- d n tree-stum- p skitter-skatte- r, of interrupted by a buck from next door who then the production NOW and column is young speaks the irreverent jargon of. tne spots. Yellow Peril of hot When, for ex Tokyo a Gangster ample, grave To Reckon With elder speaks somberly of Japan's dangerous Premier Hideki Toio he swings in with a carefree His is a too flippant reaction. The peril of Tokyo yellow, or is bad medicine for people in these parts, even though he has softened his earlier promise to route con quering legions through our states. Now he will only qrush our power in the Pacific. He seems to figure this won't be so difficult with those 26 new dictatorial laws, and with a new economic council to cut red tea-color- when purchased in large file. Unit for unit you can't ret finer quality vitamins. potency jua bet OKU VhS Vita mins A and D plus Bi at your druggist today! Hi -- He is big for a Japanese, with an untrimrfied mustache and a mere spatter of hair fringing the skin stretched tightly over his hard skull. He lives in the Samurai tradition, eats lightly, rises early, and pampers himself only in the number of cigars he puffs to ashes in a day. He graduated from Japan's Military academy and has been in the army all his life. His followers call him Razor Brains, a nickname Dutch would have envied. But as for his wife! She says that no gentler husband ever lived. She has never once heard him scold a servant. XIUSSOLINI iY1 seems nearer his final fall as the rumor hangs on that Crown Prince Humbert may be made commander- of With Good Fulcrum slap - happy Humbert Might Tip remnants of I t a 1 y 's Tottering Mussolini long-predict- ef army. ....... -- The Vanquished The discouraged are already quished. '"snore II rh. IT van- Bishop Spalding. lSQyit's tape. Tojo, according to men lately back from the Far East, heads up a band of military gangsters. He took over the government of Japan, they say, by methods such as Dutch Schultz used to take over the liquor racket in the bad old days here. The same methods will keep him in power until his gang meets a tougher gang or he is, himself, rubbed out. -- fi - mi -- Skills (PK, lr" n O a 9c ly,l erecon"'L00to. ai ' ." To relieve distress cf MONTHLY " Female Weakness WHICH MAKES YOU CRAHKY.NERVOOS! Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Comrepound has helped thousands to lieve periodic pain, backache, headache with weak, nervous, cranKy, blue feelings due to functional is due monthly disturbances. This to Its soothing effect on one of ORGANS. WOMAN'S MOST IMPORTANT Taken regularly Plnkham's Compound helps build up resistance against such annoying symptoms. Follow label directions. Worth tryingl Humbert has always given the Fascist salute with crossed fingers. His dissent, necessarily, has been guarded save perhaps when he balked at the Ethiopian razzia. But at 38 he could easily feel ready to Gather Your Scrap; come out in the open and tip over Throw It at Hitler! a tottering dictator. He should know, too, how to 43 WNU W run an army. He was a general on active duty two years ago. And this spring he led the Italians in Russia. Backward, mainly, but still it was experience. Once Humbert wrote a friend that he doubted he ever Them I nn't NlMt would be king. His prospects to io the Wdnej Kttur. deaigned n't are brighter now, but even if he marvelous job. Their taak u n of free flowing blood stream still feels the same way, he toxie impurities. The act oi has a son. constantly produw.l! froifelfit matter the kidney, must isremove to endure.as As head of the army he If food heath blood th on might When th. kidneys fail to f.mc cinch the throne for the nipper. He retention Nature intended, there Is has a daughter, too. His wife was waate that may cause body-- ' " tress. One may Buffer naeeincot Princess Marie Jose of Beleium d'"'n5 persistent headache, attacks They live more happily than most jetting up nights, swellinft,nervous, au feel tired, under th. eyea wno make marriages of state. pairs worn out. Tall, bookish, and a linFrequent, tcanty or burnin re sometimes further evidence ot guist, Humbert is still Bey or bladder disturbance. The recognised although a face romantically slender b diuretic medicine to j in youth has grown somewhat heavrid of execas poiaonous have M ftZ ier with the approach of the fat la. Coon's fillsThey than forty years of public PP'l iorties. endorsed the country over. nI Doan'e. Sold at all drug i"" An American girl competing in the Olympic games of '36 gave the crown prince a quick eye and cried "Gosh! He's handsome." 15-- n five-wa- y good-lookin- g VTdM |