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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE, 2 Page Here&There The Murray Eagle Publisher General Manager, C. Editor, J. 13. Wallace B. & Wallace Entered as second class matter, Feb. 8, 1927, at the Post Oi'ijce. at Salt Lake City, Utah, under Published Thursdays Act of March 3, 1879. year in advance: $1.00, Salt Subscriptions Luke County; elsewhere in U.S.: $2.00 1 Too Much Crisis With the fierce militarists at the head of the J.ip;incse tM eminent, one would expect that if there is ever to he war with Nippon, it must hegin soon. With remarkable regularity, the news from J.ipan has told us of new crises in the Pacific, l or several vcars the commentators have told us that war with Japan is inevitable. All of this has been adroit propaganda. The fact is that J.ipan has always been in terror of war with us. She dreads the mere thought of fighting the U.S. Navy and even the most J.ip has lost some sleep over what would happen to Tokyo and her strained industry if American bombers start working on that city. We need no military expert to point out that four years in China has brought Japan to k of ruin without accomplishing much. J'.vcn in simple battle strategy the Japanese army has not proven itself greatly superior to the as they Chinese, badly trained and are. Where the Japanese have shown ability is in the air, bombing defenseless cities without the-brin- opposition. In the modern sense, Japan is not prepared for more war. Icr exhausted economy would not survive the punishment of today's means of destruction. (July her fleet offers Japan a means of putting up a real fight, and they know too wet! how eager American sea dogs are to rip them up. With Hitler floundering about in Russia, the continued success of China and the presence of powerful units of both American and British navies in her front yard, it is expected that the honorable Japanese w ill gradually sense the hollow ness of tlieir ow n w ar chant. 1 National - International Problems Inseparable from Local Welfare his country is just beginning to encounter some of the biggest and most difficult problems that a military economy makes unavoidable. The arms program is getting into stride. Our aircraft production is at the rate of about 25,000 planes a car. Production of tanks, machine guns, army trucks and other vital necessities, is n increasing fast. The navy will be far ahead of the completed original schedule. In the next two years, unless something unexpected occurs to change the picture, we should become the foremost military pow er on earth. This doesn't mean that wc arc dointj our utmost. Wc aren't. Labor troubles continue to mount and undermine production. Governmental red tape, delay and indecision still hamper industry. A few segments of industry have not been able to get away from the "business as usual" point of view. There is plenty of politics in the defense set-uand there is too much divided responsibility which makes for passing of the buck and general disorder. F.ven so, the gigantic American production machine is moving forward, and it is successfully making the immense change from a peace-tim- e to a e economy. To some, this change means profits and expanded opui tunity. To others, the change means possible ruin. In that sorry category fall thousands of businesses which have not been given a place in the defense picture, and which arc now unable to continue their norma? peace-tim- e ways. 1 two-ocea- Wc apologize for bringing the delicate subject to public attention, but it seems to us that something should be said about it. The words "Comfort Station" are engraved in large clear letters right on front of the city hall. To commuters it must seem a rather quaint title for this noble city's central landmark and main office building.' While it wouldn't be dignified to challenge" the word "comfort" as far as the is concerned, portion of the building it refers to the cannot w e do think that help but be public the amused and chagrined at irony and exaggeration of these words. The wildest optimist wouldn't figure on the weather wearing the letters out for at least 100 years. The old Vine street philosopher says one of the most discouraging attempts he has ever made to serve humanity was the time he picked up a hitch-hikwho complained because there wasn't a radio in the car. er o o On a holiday, silence descends on Murray town so completely that you can hear the rusty gears in Od's brain slowly grinding out those strange thoughts that make his friends shudder. You can hear the worms underground getting ready for the early bird, it's so still. One of our customers told us that he couldn't take his afternoon nap because the little man who wasn't there kept asking him questions. O Work war-tim- r v O now underway on the Murray Eagle Christmas edition, and unless we've been too much of that hard cider, we feel sure that this number will be our finest achievement to date. is ng 0 0 Girls arc most attractive when they least pect it. ex- 0 0 'No motorist will want for attention when Chick's new service station opens for business. Murray will have the choicest group of service stations to be found anywhere. o 'o With a hamburger in one hand and busy with the cash register with the other, Ted Brady is a picture of a very busy man. .O' O No one seems to know how harmful "cokes" are. They contain as much caffcin as a cup of coffee and have about 27 different extracts. The sold billion "cokes" 5 company last year and netted over 29 million dollars, according to an article in the Magazine Digest. ('oca-Col- a 0 o To be an isolationist tional dog house. thco-retic- al p, O O is to be in the interna- o 0 Anton Bloom observed Navy day with thusiasm this year. en- 0 0 Janet's upholstered . . the counter stools "chic." has had I)rivc-ln- n . quite O O Commissioner Freeze was out inspecting the streets Wednesday and is preparing for w inter attacks on highway surfaces. 0 o Houdini is a distinguished looking individual when dressed in his town togs. We've often thought he would make a great character actor for lollywood. 1 O 0 Hay J.itobson was down from the mines last week for a hair cut and complaining over a back The pain didn't hamper wit a bit. injury. Ravarino Service Ray's scinti-latin- y 17 pleasure from the Thankv Rivlnif holidays If all the parti in your car are in good condition! There are a lot of thinss, too, that make driving a real thrill: ,1 good radio, fog lights, etc. Tome into our station today and look over oar Miggestions for your car. There will be no obligation . . . Take a look! i mi GET SET FOR WINTER DRIVING NOW! WASATCH GASOLINE CHAMPION SPARK PLUGS GENERAL TIRES CAR WAS! 1ING CERTIFIED LUBRICATION WILLARD BATTERIES Your Local WASATCH DEALER! " two-ye- unless they want to be sure no jeep gets out of the army in any better shape than he was when he came in. I asked Sergeant Mooney and he said it was the rules that every soldier must be exactly like he was when he was accepted. He said one reason why I could not get out was that I was in such lousy shape when I reached camp that it would be impossible for a army to ever get me back in the same condition again. i 1 Frpdprili- attend association, will gional conference directors and ttf be held in ofal J Sourer; Member Rftprrlvi v , i mciiiDers of thU assou tion whn a 7, 1941. Kldi11? ,resnt, David B. River ton; Jamrs M L. Betffr McKinley Fitzgerald TV J. B. Bradley, Other association at this meeting c Pioneer, Kama, VaU West. Eden, and Salt La V ar Nati-a- lrm hn LaytonAi. agg Loan be about for 1941, may be lower. tee recommends that eveSt be made to conform phase of the cron J; adjUstment program. Utah farmer should k. ;'Every informed that there is the United States a a, more wheat than willgreat be needed in 1942 and ta?g price received for Utah's w 1S affected by national crop .ndSfotSftS! ZS . FmpEFENSE Jwm BUY united states Jev RtfT ifJ MnP0Nds 3 Buy Defense Bonds NOW! SAVINGS AND STAMPS njijTTTTLnjnu"ijrirLri r. NOTARY PUBLIC Otto Bixby thought he was going to be released and he was all set C. and everything but after the med-- ' ical Inspection he was told he wood have to stay in the army. The records of admission showed he had four teeth missing when he got In and they don't check with the fact he has six missing now. They won't accept his explanashun how h last the other two. They just finished a big athletic field for us at this camp and we got a regimental football team on witch I am trying out for the re serves. In the first scrimmage I got a sprained ankul, two broken toes, a dislocated arm, a soar back and two teeth knocked out but I Hill do not feel no worse after It all than I do when I get back from a manoover. America On guard! Above ia a reproduction of tht Treasury Lepartment'i Deienae Savings Poster, showing an euct duplication of the original "Minna Man" statue by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defense B. Wallace Court Avenue Phone Murray 35 155 Bonds and Stamps, on sale st your bank or pos-- t office, are a vital part of America's defense preparation For Draper Feeds see or call W. E. W4 Zhm & SON 429 East 39th South Phone Mur. 750AV I asked Sergeant Mooney how 1 done and he said I must of attracted attenshun becui he knew the army was scouting the game and he saw a scout looking at me and saying he never saw anybody play the kind Of game I did. Well, I will close now with lots of love. tmms&tEi1 Your son, mLmj la Chicken fl unnn 3737 SO. STATE SPtCI At.IZATION "WANTED employment for two young women in early twenties; A B. degrees, intelligent, attractive, whimsical, litcraryi ambitious, poverty-stricken- . Can act, model! dance, sing. act. knit, sew., paint,' decorate, act. sell, ride horseback, read to Invalids, swim, act, play hockey, walk dogs, play bridge, teach, speak French, Cerman. Creek, Russian, Latin, fmce, act. direct, design, construct, act, cook, mix drinks, play piano and ukulele,' compose, act. wash dogs, parachute jump, play tennis, hook ruKs, mind children, act, psycho-analyic- . debate, garden, photograph and act Phone CHclsca between 3 30 and 0 p. m."-N- cw York Times. Rut how are you on ski Jumping ? and I On RI SOLVATIONS V-- cr THONE on Men may diHer -" !lebrate a holiday.n.ilv agree on G 0021 , if.. horne-fthoring- Believe it or not, there East 95th street, Is at 491 Brooklyn, a Society for the Prevention of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn. t Three New Jersey Judges have dr tlared pinball machines obviously gambling devices and denounced the claims cf operators and lawyers that they are not. Here and there you find a court that can't be f.mlcd Hitler Is givirg the New Order in Eurore and Asia and the dull Umd of the falling bodies gf Oic beneficiaries Is heard en all skies, It Is culture by way of ihe t nrintf 'lmd and the better hfe esaitut the background cf a stone wall. avarsmo I the Oqmrrh National If U.Phillipr IT S AN AGE OF 3 You will have a lot more Acreage Vital To Food Program Oscar. T.S.- -I wish you would ask Nellie Peterson to write me oftcner than three times a week. has EVERYDAY m FARM James H. Jensen, chairman of the Salt Lake county AAA committee, said this week thai an increase in wheat production in PAPERS THE PRIVATE 1942 would defeat some of the OF PRIVATE PURKEY of the "Food for Freepurposes Ma Dear of wheat Every day they are checking out dom" program. "Stores double of what almost soft are now from us bunch of a refugees the demand will be," he said. beds under them new rules releas "Any increase over the normal ing jeeps who are production on the acreage allotted will result in dangerous surmarried, or 28 supply of years old, or pluses. A needed at nome, n9 f wheat insures the nation against but they are still want but additional surpluses bepassing me up LU" come dangerous to the price foj like I was the sruc-tur- e of wheat. army's choice for permanent K P too, cropland devoted "Then, duty. I look and feel more like a to the growing of wheat which hardship case than most of the could have been used in growing crumb hunters who are being reto meet the needs of the leased and I keep telling the officers crops fod program, is in a way work'ing that I am no more use to the army against the needs of the nation account on than if I was married for defense. of I am in love. "Our soil must be safeguarded, Every time I argue that I am too. It is definitely a waste of needed at home they just laugh at soil resources," said Mr. Jensen, me so I gess they must have in"to grow a crop that is not needalI out that vestigated and found ed." ways let you and pop bring up the lie also, pointed out that if it no was not coal and wood and not for the price support of were help to speak of. When I think of the loan program and the protecto I how used squawk about tending the furnace it makes me sick all tion of marketing quotas wheat over. Believe me ma if I ever get prices would probably be at out of this and back in my own world levels and that with wheat home I will think it a priverlage to at 30 or 35conts a bushel there wouldn't be any desire to intend the furnace. crease seedings. lie quoted the recommendation It makes me soar to see a lot ot of the Field Crops committee of boys being released every day. But they certainly get checked up on and the Utah "Food for Freedom" three days before they go they get conference as follows: a complete going over by the doc"The 1942 wheat allotment will tors again. I can't figure this out g ftast&iqU'mq 1 r r. ... Reduced Wheat ervsce 3902 South State St. Phone Murray 710 "1 "This war will decide the fate f Germany, fur the hext loo years Hitler. A year a:i he said it wuld decide It for 1,0 j years. Whati a little matter cf M years U . micro phone iiffifi$68 Vu m!!)!,!?BRom A Notional Favor 7 i i i 0.6rMf. for H Notional DitliH.n WHISHT po7jy m. . rrtd-- J |