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Show UTAH EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. St. Lawrence Seaway Plan Would Open Great Lakes Ports to Ocean Shipping Washington, D. C. RAILROAD TEST Private Papen Of a Cub Reporter: Here a story about the time Goering was summoned to Hitler's 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 planes?" he said. After all. we still have many more than they" . . . Hitler flew into a tantrum . . . Can't You fool! 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 maxima . . . Later, he gathered the students and led them outside onto the lawn . . . he said softly, every Lissen, 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! Genevieve Rowe, the canary, offered this repartee between Adolf and Goebbela. 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 wont stand for it! Whatll I do? asked Goebbels, have him purged or expelled? I'm said the mustache, No, gonna make him prove it! Memo te Fnlltser Prise 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 squir- ing 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. 1 The Japs literally kicked Wilfrid Fleisher, Herald Trlb 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 celebs (who get big Hollywood heads) in the current heat wave in In weather like this, Hollywood: don't forget the cooling system gets the biggest billing! 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. Mechanled 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 After riding horses all his said: 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 ellgibles, 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 Colorado Springs, Colo.; 10 at Cooperstown, N. Y. While operated by the government, the camps are financed by private funds, supplied chiefly by the Quakers, Mennonites, and United Brethren. In some instances the men pay their own costs, at the rate of $35 a month. New York Newsreel: The inspiring I Am an American Day ceremonies in Central park-oce- ans of humanity making public their love affair with America. And the thousands of new citizens opening their hearts to the wonderful country that opened its gates to them . , . Carloads of families leaveager ing the city every week-enfor 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 people 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- y . The sapboxers in Union square who wear their ignorance on their tongues and cant take heckling, although they demand freedom of speech for themselves. .- Jobless on Sixth Ave. watching days tick by, as each empty-Hande- d minute adds rust to their lives punishment without crime . . Frayed intellectuals in the Vth library trying to escape barbed reality by plunging into the . Waitresses shelter of a book holding their smiles like torches, trying to please you and trying to hide the fact that their jobs do not please them . , . Celebs taking public acclaim while trying to avoid private whispers ready to pounce on them and spoil it all Australian Opinion on War Prime Minister Menzies of Australia held some very, important conversations with high Washington officials during his recent visit In these talks he expressed every confidence that Britain would win the and war, but he was hard-boile-d realistic regarding the time necessary for a victory. Coming from Australia, which has a detached and unbiased view of the situation, his opinion is impor- tant During Britains he said, 1941, an of effort must be concentrat- ed on defense. During 1942 we can really begin to concentrate our efforts on building up a real war machine. And in 1943 with America's help we can take the offensive, and we wiU win the war. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D The 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. 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 Propocargo carrying capacity. nents 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, SHOULD BE DIRECT, NOT INDIRECT TAX WHEN WE TAX business we tax production and distribution. When we tax production and distribution, This is the we tax the consumer. hidden tax we hear about Taxes are a part of the cost of production and distribution. They are a part of the cost of a product That additional cost is added to the selling price of the product, or prevents a lowering of the price if economies of production would otherwise lower IVATCKESlte it If business production and distribution did not pass on to the consumer the increased cost occasioned by taxes, business would soon be bankrupt and the consumer would lose by a loss of jobs. We are all a part of American business and all are dependent on its continued operation. All of us are concerned directly or indirectly with production and distribution. When the politicians tax business directly, they tax all of us indirectly as much, or more, than any direct tax would have amounted to. Politicians looking to their personal future a continuance of their jobs attempt to mislead the mass of Americans by boasting of their intentiop to take from business the money needed to pay for the extravagances of government, and they succeed in putting over such a misleading idea. Men well versed in finance and Industry, well qualified to speak on the subject, tell us that before we are through with the present world holocaust the federal government will be facing an indebtedness of a sum so great that $150,000,000,000, it is impossible to conceive what it means. In the face of such a prospect, congress does not attempt any economies in the normal operations of the government. Despite the fact that more than a million men are now in the armed forces of the nation, that industries engaged in providing implements of preparedness for ourselves and war materials for England are providing work at high wages for millions of men, and seeking more help, 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 must either work or starve. The receivers of relief vote, and the politician will not jeopardize that Hpe Is Mai Is it an . a crime vw of the proSJj aWtisX be identical? Hom? spring of Patriot). Lloyd George, J. Fuller r . lAff MtCMtOA 4 MUROM THOtAANft MtTlOM 041 w 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. in ters, where factories already are im- for four years, it is pointed out in opbe would still it and Washington, from Canada, porting power where residential consumers rates eration before many of the other are among the highest in the nation. defense projects are finished. Another defense factor recently The project itself is not a new one. Ever since 1895 Canada and advanced is that the seaway will the United States have worked to- provide a protected supply line for the United gether at the job of making the the new defenses which Great Lakes, their connecting chan- States is building on Newfoundland, St. nels, and their outlet, the St. Law- which guards the mouth of the isrence, economic assets to the cont- Lawrence. Newfoundland is an inent Canada completed the biggest land approximately as large as the link in 1932 with the opening of the state of Pennsylvania. The St. LawWelland canal enabling freight ves- rence disgorges the waters of the sels to Niagara Falls, which St. Lawrence into the Atlantic was the chief navigation obstacle through two channels, one on either N. Y. side of Newfoundland. up to that time. A canal with a minimum depth of Newfoundland is accessible only Small Canadian canals on the St 27 feet, equipped with locks, would Lawrence now carry freight direct by water or air. For several cenbe built on the American side. Powfrom the Great Lakes to the sea, turies military tacticians of everhouses would be built under the but their minimum depth of 14 feet ery nation have regarded the St. main dam, and would produce ap- limits traffic to small vessels. Never- Lawrence valley as the logical inproximately 2,200,000 horsepower, theless these shallow canals have vasion route into North America. making the St Lawrence hydro-electri-c been operated at capacity for sev- Strong bases at Newfoundland, supdevelopment the largest in eral years, carrying some 9,000,000 plied from the interior by a protectNorth America with the exception of tons of freight last year. The new ed water route, military men say, Grand Coulee in the state of Washseaway will be limited in capacity will block any possible invasion of ' ington. only by its canal and locks system, North Americas "vulnerable waist Completion of this project, which but it is estimated that it will carry line. will take about four years, will re- at least In peacetime, proponents of the 25,000,000 tons of cargoes anmove the last important obstacle to point out, the seaway will project nually. deep water traffic from Great Lakes Roosevelt Supports Project. give agriculture and inports to the Atlantic. With a few President Roosevelt has urged the dustry the benefit of water-hau- l other minor channel improvements immediate construction of the St. freight rates to any port in the and canal enlargements' a seaway Lawrence world. as a necesdevelopment extending 2,350 miles into the heart (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) for continental defense. Shipof the continent, from the Atlantic sity in the protected waters of yards to Duluth, Minn., and which will the Great Lakes could produce a , accommodate any vessels of large percentage of the warships draft or less, will be completed. n needed for the navy, and Save Freight Charges. of every type. Lakes cargo-carrieA recent survey by the departshipyards have the further advanment of commerce indicates that ap- tage of being nearer to the source Ballots Help Nation More proximately 70 per cent of the of steel and other materials, it is Than out. would be able pointed worlds freight vessels Knitting Needles, to use the seaway, and that it will The national need for more elecWomen Advised. save $80,000,000 a year in freight tric power already has brought charges to shippers of the Middle about an increase of production at CHICAGO. The American womBoulder dam, Bonneville, West TVA, to ans two years The International Rapids section Grand Coulee, and other big hydro- after right closevote, gained the of World War I, now of the St Lawrence is the largest electric plants. The President refor the first time provides her with source out of that Lawrence St waterpower undeveloped cently pointed an opportunity to be more than a remaining in North America. It has power is badly needed particularly back-sedriver during a period the further advantage of being lo- to produce more aluminum. of national peril, Mrs. Melville Even though the St Lawrence decated near the heart of the United States' biggest manufacturing cen- - velopment would not be completed Mucklestone, president of the National Consumers Tax commission, declares. In a message to the 2,500 units of her organization in 43 states, the SOUND BUSINESS 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 28, 1920, women have had the franchise. The 10 points proposed are as folby-pa- ss mid-weste- Voting Is Patriotic NCTC Leader Says 25-fo- ot two-ocea- rs vote. We must prepare for defense. We must have battleships, airplanes, tanks, merchant ships, all the implements needed for war. But we must also prepare for the future and it will be a dark future if we are to face a national indebted- ness of $150,000,000,000. Congress should economize in every practical and possible way, and it should levy an honest tax and collect it in an honest way so each individual may know what he pays a direct Instead of an indirect tax. at me! 1 J Old Doc WlgglM (Md man is rich wboitotik , pocket. Which reminds m J your vitamins. Folks all: if any ms firth, the old vitality thats Up why this den for it's extra-ric- h inhi mins that an hetiatj peoples meals-- As PEP'S a KELLOGa,8 PEP, too. Why not have it te just know youll ilka m A serial rick is vkmk Dark Igaonx Ignorance is the mind, but a night w or star. Confucius, i lemitt 1 Crash' Casts sasilyn functional distort Lydia & FlnkhamlK pound. Plnkhams ( for relieving pain cfW and cranky s 1 nerrtwae-disturbanc- Ods of Ik tlve medicines yw ea for this purpose- -a tor women. WOBTSTw j c Self FstitN Be patient with wf above all with youndt I de Sales. t PIONEER SPIRIT I. STILL ALIVE ne 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 by well-kep- t, 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 high schools, each led by g girl majorettes, and with modem 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 srflall cities of the West. That pioneer spirit is not dead, and will not die. It is the American spirit. neni ORANGE, nt lows: For municipalities and counties 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 Army Survey Reveals Appropriate Gifts for Soldiers would result in greater governmen- OUR DEBT tal and therefore in lower To answer many reCHICAGO. easily portable. Heavy and bulky tax efficiency, THEY TELL US that to levies. Yet not one would cur-ta- il maintain of for quests approprisuggestions gifts are not desirable because the a democracy it is any essential essential that the ate gifts to send soldiers in the ex- soldier might find it inconvenient or governmental citizens be Mrs. Mucklestone added informed. One of the panding army of the United States, even Impossible to take them with service." things we should like to be accuMoreover, not one of the suggesthe Headquarters Sixth Corps area him if he is transferred to a differtions is experimental all have been rately informed about is what we in Chicago has conducted a survey ent camp. Desirable gifts cover tested and found successful. owe nationally, including the liabili tried, a morale officers of among chaplains, large range articles from subIn August American women will ties of the numerous men. and enlisted corporatscriptions to home newspaper and celebrate ions and administrations we the twenty-first have From a soldier's point of view, it personal apparel. anniversa-rfinanced of the and whose debts we have passage of the Nineteenth was agreed that any gifts for his All gifts should be Amendment. By pressing such a guaranteed. personal comfort and enjoyment and properly addressed, giving the were acceptable. It was suggested, rank of the receiver, as well as the program as this in local governHOW MUCH would ments, they will demonstrate that a real growl however, that gifts be small and camp, company and post office. from the Russian bear they have 'come of age politically frighten the Nazi wolf? 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