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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD rimim St. Lawrence Seaway Plan Would Open Great Lakes Ports to Ocean Skipping EiPtaiiP O ROBEkAt,LEN Washington, D. C. RAILROAD TEST Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Heres a story about the time Goering was summoned to Hitlers private chambers to explain the loss of 20 Messerschmitts in a single nights raid . . . Hitler was nervously biting the tips of his paws and moaning over the sour news . . . This disconcerted Hermann Why are you so worried over 20 he said. After all, we planes? still have many more than they1 . . . Hitler flew into a tantrum . , You fool! Cant he screamed. you see disaster ahead? At this rate well soon outnumber them only five to one! Gene Fowler addressed the school of journalism at the Univ. of Missouri . . . Knowing Fowlers colorful reputation and good nature, the authorities there asked him to lay off muscle journalism and other harsh aspects of newsgathering in his talk . . . Fowler agreed, delivered a sugary lecture on the moral code of reporters and the ethics of journalism, all couched (and sound asleep) in copybook maxims . . . Later, he gathered the students and led them outside onto the lawn . . . Lissen,he said softly, every word I said in there was strictly off the pitchfork! The most important thing in journalism is the expense account. And remember this drinking and gambling expenses are just as legitimate as cab fares and phone calls to a guy tracking down a story 1 Genevieve Rowe, the canary, offered this repartee between Adolf and Goebbels. Hitler sent for Joe and said: Did you see what that awful foreign correspondent wrote about me in his piece yesterday? He said I was a murderer, a thief, a butcher well, you must have read it I won't stand for itl Whatll I do?" asked Goebbels, have him purged or expelled? Im said the mustache, No, gonna make him prove it! Memo to Pulitzer Friz! Losers: In 1933 Tobacco Road, now in its eighth year, could not have won the Pulitzer ribbon for being the best play because it was a dramatization of an Erskine Caldwell novel In 1934, the Pulitzer play prize a dramawent to The Old Maid tization of a novel. ... Clarke Robinson has been squiring a couple of British sailors about Took them to the Polo town. Grounds, the Stadium, Radio City Music Hall, Jamaica racetrack and several night clubs, winding up on floor at the Rainbow the sixty-fift- h room . . . Later they went onto the balcony and looked over New York city by night from the sixty-fift- h story a magnificent sight . . . Robinson asked them what impressed and awed them most. I dunno, said one of them. I think I should say what awed me most was the way you serve tea in those wee bags." The Japs literally kicked Wilfrid Fleisher, Herald Trib correspondent, out of Tokyo several months ago . . . Yet, in his mail the other day came a formal invitation from the director of the Japanese Institute in New York to ship tea at Rockefeller Center in honor of the returned residents of Japan. (Note to that Institute: The little man who wasnt there was Wilfrid.) Roland Browns reminder to all j For National Defense chiefs, June holds a special significance. It will indicate whether government operation of railroads may be necessary. In June the nations railroads will meet their first crucial test of whether are adequately they equipped to handle the enormous increase in freight resulting from the defense program. When the wheat harvest starts in the Texas Panhandle and continues north, the carriers will be on the spot to prove their determined contention that there is no shortage of freight cars, and that they can cope with the great demands of the defense program without the government taking them over as in the World war. Railroad moguls are fully aware that they face a decisive showdown, and they are making tremendous efforts to meet it Twenty-fiv- e thousand cars have been mobilized to handle the Texas crop and a strict rule has been laid down that they must be kept rolling. Cars will not be allowed to be used for storage purposes. If a shipment cant be unloaded without delay, cars will not be released. Cars will be peremptorally recalled if shippers dont load. Circuitous routing is being eliminated. And the railroads themselves are now distributing the materials and equipment they will need months hence, so that the maximum number of cars will be available in the This peak season next autumn. alone is expected to release 20,000 freight cars. Mechanied Cavalry. It took a war in Europe to do it, but the U. S. army is now doing a whirlwind job of replacing cavalry with tanks and armored cars. Even Secretary of War Stimsons aide, CoL Eugene Regnier, has gone in for mechanization. Commenting whimsically on this the other day. Secretary Stimson said: After riding horses all his life, Gene is now commanding the first reconnaissance battalion of the First Cavalry division. He rides in a bantam scout car and has armored cars and tanks under his command. I tell him this is strange for a man who has sworn that horses are the only thing in life. But he says it takes the brains of a good cavalryman to handle a mechanized unit. Note Colonel Regnier deserted his swivel-chai- r job in Washington for El Paso, Texas, where Gen. Innes P. Swift commands one of the most active army posts in the country. . Conscientious Objectors. Announcements that 1,100 conscientious objectors will report to nonmilitary training camps in the next few weeks are a lot of hooey. Real fact is that only 201 draft registrants have even been classed as genuine religious objectors. Out of the 6,000,000 questionnaires received from draft eligibles, less than 2,500 sought exemption on the Of ground of religious scruples. this number, 201 have been OKd so far. They will train in eight camps as follows: Fifty at Camp Patapsco, Elkridge, Md.; 14 at Grottoes, Va.; 12 at Lagro, Ind. ; 32 at San Dimes, Calif.; 10 at Richmond, Ind.; 40 at Marietta, Ohio; 32 at Coloradc Springs, Colo.; 10 at Cooperstown, NEW YORK. More than per cent of the worlds merchant shipping will be able to enter Great Lakes ports if the St. Lawrence seaway project is approved by congress. Only 67 miles of canals are needed to open a 2,350-mil- e waterway into the heart of North America. Vessels with a draft of less than 14 feet are now able to enter the lakes, but their (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 70 small size has greatly limited their cargo carrying capacity. Proponents of the project assert that it would prove a valuable aid in national defense. The St. Lawrence seaway was approved on March 21 by a joint board of engineers and diplomats representing Canada and the United States. Congress is expected to accept or reject their agreement in the near future. Test Borings Made. Since November, 1940, United States army engineers have been working in the International Rapids section of the river, making surveys and test borings and drawing up plans. Construction work can begin soon after congress and the Canadian parliament approve the agreement. The job to be done Immediately will cost $266,170,000. It consists of damming the St. Lawrence at the foot of the International Rapids, where the river drops nearly 90 feet in 48 miles. A control dam would be built some 40 miles up the river to regulate the level of Lake Ontario and provide an even flow of water into the deep pool created by the main dam near Massena, N. Y. ' canal with a minimum depth of feet, equipped with locks, would be built on the American side. Powerhouses would be built under the main dam, and would produce approximately 2,200,000 horsepower, c making the St. Lawrence development the largest in North America with the exception of Grand Coulee in the state of Washington. Completion of this project, which will take about four years, will remove the last important obstacle to deep water traffic from Great Lakes ports to the Atlantic. With a few other minor channel improvements and canal enlargements a seaway extending 2,350 miles into the heart of the continent, from the Atlantic to Duluth, Minn., and which will accommodate any vessels of draft or less, will be completed. Save Freight Charges. A recent survey by the department of commerce indicates that approximately 70 per cent of the worlds freight vessels would be able to use the seaway, and that it will save $80,000,000 a year in freight charges to shippers of the Middle West The International Rapids section of the St Lawrence is the largest undeveloped source of waterpower remaining in North America. It has the further advantage of being located near the heart of the United States biggest manufacturing cen- A 27 hydro-electri- SOUND SHOULD BE DIRECT, NOT INDIRECT TAX WHEN WE TAX business we tax production and distribution. When y Jobless on Sixth Ave. w stilling the days tick by, as each empty nanded minute adds rust to their lives punishment without crime . Frayed intellectuals in the Vth ve. library trying to escape barbed wire reality by plunging into the . Waitresses shelter of a book . holding their smiles like torches, trying to please you and trying to hide tiie fact that their jobs do not please tli cm . . . Celebs taking public acclaim while trying to avoid private whisper ready to pounce on them and spoil it all. LAKES MlCMlQA 4 MUROM IAKC t fci ters, where factories already are importing power from Canada, and where residential consumers' rates are among the highest in the nation. The project itself is not a new one. Ever since 1895 Canada and the United States have worked together at the job of making the Great Lakes, their connecting channels, and their outlet, the St. Lawrence, economic assets to the continent. Canada completed the biggest link in 1932 with the opening of the Welland canal, enabling freight vessels to Niagara Falls, which was the chief navigation obstacle up to that time. Small Canadian canals on the St. Lawrence now carry freight direct from the Great Lakes to the sea, but their minimum depth of 14 feet limits traffic to small vessels. Nevertheless these shallow canals have been operated at capacity for several years, carrying some 9,000,000 tons of freight last year. The new seaway will be limited in capacity only by its canal and locks system, but it is estimated that it will carry at least 25,000,000 tons of cargoes annually. Roosevelt Supports Project. President Roosevelt has urged the immediate construction of the St. Lawrence development as a necessity for continental defense. Shipyards in the protected waters of the Great Lakes could produce a large percentage of the warships n needed for the navy, and of every type. Lakes cargo-carrieshipyards have the further advantage of being nearer to the source of steel and other materials, it is pointed out. The national need for more electric power already has brought about an increase of production at Boulder dam, Bonneville, TVA, Grand Coulee, and other big hydroelectric plants. The President recently pointed out that St Lawrence power is badly needed particularly to produce more aluminum. Even though the St. Lawrence development would not be completed by-pa- two-ocea- BUSINESS . . d appointment of Sherman Minton of Indiana to the U. S. court of appeals makes the third judicial reward for A member of the famous senate lobby investigating committee, whose sensational exposes of utility lobbying led to the holding company law, Hugo Black of Alabama, chairman, is a Supreme court justice, and Lewis Schwellenbach is a federal district judge in Washington. ONTAftO THOUtANO UKl l ST-- F RANCH DrtrwMift ro Rtftl IQ SCA Great Lakes ports would be made available to seagoing ships in four or five years if the St. Lawrence seaway is approved by congress. The map above graphically illustrates the work required to complete the project. for four years, it is pointed out in Washington, it still would be in operation before many of the other defense projects are finished. Another defense factor recently advanced is that the seaway will provide a protected supply line for the new defenses which the United States is building on Newfoundland, which guards the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Newfoundland is an island approximately as large as the state of Pennsylvania. The St. Lawrence disgorges the waters of the St. Lawrence into the Atlantic through two channels, one on either side of Newfoundland. Newfoundland is accessible only by water or air. For several cen- turies military tacticians of every nation have regarded the St. Lawrence valley as the logical invasion route into North America. Strong bases at Newfoundland, supplied from the interior by a protected water route, military men say, will block any possible invasion of North Americas "vulnerable waist line. In peacetime, proponents of the project point out, the seaway will agriculture and ingive dustry the benefit of water-hau- l freight rates to any port in the world. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) mid-weste- Voting Is Patriotic NCTC Leader Says Ballots Help Nation More Than Knitting Needles, Women Advised. CHICAGO. The American womvote, gained two years after the close of World War I, now for the first time provides her with an opportunity to be more than a back-sedriver" during a period of national peril, Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, president of the Na- ans right to tional Consumers Tax commission, declares. In a message to the 2,500 units of her organization in 43 states, the former national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, said that if we women seize our opportunity, we shall find the ballot a far more effective tool to use in patriotic service than the knitting needle ever was. A crying need in the U. S. is thoroughgoing improvement of state and local governments, Mrs. Mucklestone said. By cutting costs and lowering local taxes, such improvements would make it far easier for the taxpayer to bear the national defense burden. Declaring that "this is an important job which the men, in the main, have left undone, she urged "organized women to adopt a program for civic betterment and then to "put the program through. This is possible, she said, because since the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 26, 1920, women have had the franchise. The 10 points proposed are as follows: tant. During 1941, he said, all of Britains effort must be concentrated on defense, "During 1942 we can really begin to concentrate our efforts on building up a real war machine. And In 1943 with Americas help we can take the offensive, and we will win the war. The lAKl MCTtQH con- MERRY-GO-ROUN- Army Survey Reveals Appropriate Gifts for Soldiers To answer many requests for suggestions of appropriate gifts to send soldiers in the expanding army of the United States, the Headquarters Sixth Corps area in Chicago has conducted a survey among chaplains, morale officers and enlisted men. From a soldier's point of view, it was agreed that any gifts for his personal comfort and enjoyment were acceptable. It was suggested, however, that gifts be small and CHICAGO, vste w , The Free fist. Can use 0,d O. M. Campbell, 4619 Clana, V2 pial f we tax production and distribution, Hope Is Main Ft we tax the consumer. This is the hidden tax we hear about. Is it an offense, is Taxes are a part of the cost of Is it a crime to tat! distribution. and They production of view the prospects are a part of the cost of a product. Why shou0 That additional cost is added to the country? should patriotism 1 . " selling price of the product, or prebe identical? Hope t econvents a lowering of the price if of patriot 1 4 omies of production would otherwise spring " Lloyd George. f lower it. If business production and dis?tyjlRice tribution did not pass on to the occa cost increased consumer the a1 sioned by taxes, business would Fuller soon be bankrupt and the consumer would lose by a loss of jobs. By JERRY rp crowd We are all a part of American t: ef ftem business and all are dependent on .eaten coi its continued operation. Ail of us are concerned directly or indirectly . genera with production and distribution. V muc tax business When the politicians 1 been so directly, they tax all of us inup jnidd directly as much, or more, than any tame to, direct tax would have amounted mart, old U Politicians looking to their perCfi V I siw tin sonal future a continuance of their Toy jobs attempt to mislead the mass ifekey of Americans by boasting of their n md bot intention to take from business the ed. money needed to pay for the extravOld Doc Wiggins used id I both man Is rich whos gota E ! agances of government, and they succeed in putting over such a misj pocket. leading idea. Which reminds m, tQ th Men well versed in finance and 30 your vitamins. Folks all: If any one of them j L, s( Industry, well qualified to speak on the old vitality is pum ; the subject, tell us that before we Te thats why this delic are through with the present world KELLOGGS PEP, a4- I ? for Its extra-ric- h holocaust the federal government in mins that are ladcim T1 will be facing an indebtedness of peoples meal- -: Bi anaJ ag a sum so great that $150,000,000,000, PEPs a it is impossible to conceive what too. Why not have it tjf V it means. In the face of such a just know youll liken m th prospect, congress does not attempt sob an; any economies in the normal operations of the government. Despite the fact that more than A cereal rich in wVamrfrw a million men are now in the armed tg by 6 forces of the nation, that industries Yi in of engaged providing implements it s preparedness for ourselves and war Dark Ignorant eBd ( materials for England are providis the l Ignorance work at high wages for millions ing a but night mind, of men, and seeking more help, Confucius. or star. 1 1 our relief costs do not come down. We are still spending billions for relief. The politician is not willing to say to those who prefer the meager living a government dole provides to working for a better living that they Cranky?! must either work or starve. The reCan't ilv ceivers of relief vote, and the polieasily?! distress r tician will not jeopardize that functional disturbance vote. Vey: E. Pinkham's Lydia We must prepare for defense. We pound. must have battleships, airplanes, Pinkham's Compound for relieving pain oi lrrer. tanks, merchant ships, all the imand cranky nervousness plements needed for war. But disturbances. One oi the: we must also prepare for the future tive medicines you car for this purpose made and it will be a dark future if we for women. WORTH W are to face a national indebtedness of $150,000,000,000. Congress should economize in Self Patient! every practical and possible way, and it should levy an honest tax and Be patient with collect it in an honest way so each all with yoursei KEN ( individual may know what he pays de Sales. ) a direct instead of an indirect tax. report Uia t-- J. fidence that Britain would win the and war, but he was realistic regarding the time necessary for a victory. Coming from Australia, which has a detached and unbiased view of the situation, his opinion is Imporhard-boile- r WATCHES! Wrist Watches J N. Y. these talks he expressed every Vr H While operated by the governcelebs (who get big Hollywood the camps are financed by ment, heads) in the current heat wave in funds, supplied chiefly by private like weather In this, Hollywood: the Quakers, Mennonites, and Unitthe dont forget cooling system gets ed Brethren. In some instances the the biggest billing! men pay their own costs, at the rate of $35 a month. AVin Tor A; JVet vsreel: Australian Opinion on War The inspiring I Am an American Prime Minister Menzies of AusDay cetemonies in Central park oceans of humanity making public tralia held some very important their love affair with America. And conversations with high Washington the thousands of new citizens open- officials during his recent visit In ing their hearts to the wonderful country that opened its gates to them . . . Carloads of families leaveager ing the city every week-end- , for a whiff of peace and beauty and gathering energy for next weeks struggle for existence . . . The chalking on the sidewalk at 45th Street and 5th: What have the peo. . , ple got against this world? People exiting from clubs and fraternal groups in midtown, standing on the sidewalk gabbing and saying to each other by easy stages good-b. . . The sapboxcrs in Union square who wear their ignorance on their tongues and cant take heckling, although they demand freedom of speech for themselves. WATCHES easily portable. Heavy and bulky gifts are not desirable because the soldier might find it inconvenient or even impossible to take them with him if he is transferred to a different camp Desirable gifts cover a large range of articles from subscriptions to home newspaper and personal apparel. All gifts should be and properly addressed, giving the rank of the receiver, as well as the camp, company and post office. For municipalities and counties (1) adoption of a budget plan, (2) preparation of an understandable annual report, (3) reduction of debt, (4) adoption of centralized purchasing. (5) adoption of the merit system, (6) preparation and adoption of a long-terplan; for counties (7) centralization of authority, (8) consolidation of small counties; for states (9) elimination of state trade tax barriers, (10) reorganization of state administrative machinery. Adoption of any of these 10 points would result in greater governmental efficiency, and therefore in lower tax levies. Yet not one would curtail any essential governmental service," Mrs. Mucklestone added. "Moreover, not one of the suggestions is experimental all have been tried, tested and found successful. "In August American women will celebrate the twenty-firs- t anniversary of tiie passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, By pressing such a program as this in local governments, they will demonstrate that they have come of age politically." r 1 k Jim-dan- Pj I ' x Girls! : PIONEER SPIRIT STILL ALIVE ORANGE, CALIF., is a little city of 8,000 people, typical of the Golden state. It was founded by pioneers who stopped there when it was but a crossing place of trails. Many of its first generation of settlers are still living. They knew it when the spot on which the city stands and all the surrounding country was a sandy desert. Their children see it today as a modern small American city, enjoying all the advantages America offers and surrounded t, by prosperous farms, ranches and orange groves. But the younger element is not permitted to forget its pioneer origin. I witnessed the parade that is a part of each annual harvest festival. The outstanding features of that parade were the covered wagons of the pioneers, the prospector and his burro, the cart of the pioneer peddler and handyman every possible display of the hardships and simple pleasures of the pioneer as the foundation on which the city was built. Interspersed with these were the brightly uniformed bands, many of them from the various county g high schools, each led by girl majorettes, and with modern floats representative of city industries and institutions. But it was the evidences of the pioneer days that appealed to the people and caught and held the crowds. These displays represented the spirit that is back, not of Orange only, but of all the towns and small cities of the West. That pioneer spirit is not dead, and will not die. It is the American spirit. i,N'vy by Id anno Nazi wolf? t over-taxe- d and fail to hJ and other impurities IroBf ser se to blYcra O may suffer up aoaclty uR headache dizziness, referri leg pains, swelling- -! oc tired nervous ail worn CXT)$rts sa of kidney or bladder dw 1 Ta y t times burning, scanty of ; wh Urination. Try Doan's Pitts. Pfld J et fim Kidneys to pass off n as th waste. They have bad mo tier century of public approve was veri Ik ials. bla been so f ale. you look efchel, f WNU W Salt Lakes NEWEST e thvisio idea t J it ;c iSSk. c eith e gon either o vf e- - belong fhj these f fWsami be trou u a lie 1 a iey t g n k -- OUR DEBT HOW MUCH would a real growl from the Russian bear frighten tiie v Modem life with its ta-- fe tie win 3 irregular habits Imprope 1 drinking ita risk of expos tion --throws heavy itraisW Ul JOT are L .. of the kidneys. They well-kep- THEY TELL US that to maintain a democracy it is essential that the citizens be informed. One of the things we should like to be accurately Informed about is what we owe nationally, including the liabilities of the numerous corporations and administrations we have financed and whose debts we have guaranteed. Mi rent May Warn of Distfed' have Kidney Acuity where L , . a or j;I fyI aF 4-l- - y th cl, stan & enou ,way fro Hold TEMPLE SCI;--1- 09 " RIG ALT Rates $150 to a mark of distinct Itl 8t this beautiful" ERNEST C. HO ba top hl (, Jhe orH |
