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Show KMRRY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH - HIGHLIGHTS OF ARMY Rabbits and Bod.,, fc.Jtbits are becoming Urt factor in Australia economy. The is taking .o many bit skins for the maB military felt hats tfcaU building up a comfortabk A change credit Blind People Can Now See9 Plays Through Medium of Phonographic Discs wr NEWS With Uncle Sams army at its peak size and with inpeacetime Notes of An creasing activity in military deInnocent Bystander: velopments many stories of wide The Wireless: All the grumbling interest develop in army camps you hear about the Armys morale the nation. Herewith throughout being way down to here is German are a series of articles presented Gen'l Marshall, Army cooking. Chief of Staff, made that warning depicting various phases of army in his speech. Its all tricked up to activity. disturb the soldiers loved ones, and its surefire with the stupider Congressmen . . . Clark Gable's nifty Our an via a Red Cross show: cestors lived in log cabins and sod huts to establish a govt based on the theory of We, the People, and not I, the State Many of the afternoon dramas contain some of the theaters best players. Why dont the sponsors also try to hire a better grade of writers? . . . One place where a writer is needed but needed is on the "single shows. The patter the announcer and artist swap between numbers always sounds as if theyd lost the script and are covering up the wait . . . One headliner explained the reason he never used guest stars is because he's never met a star who knew how to behave like a guest. ... The Story Tellers: Correspondent James Young, who was jailed by the Japs for reporting what he saw in China, gives them real reason to holler copper in a Readers Digest hoticle. In Japan Risks Destruction, Young should raise lots of blood pressure in Tokyo . . . Clarke . Robinson, profiling Admiral Harold R. Stark in World Digest, reports, that the present Chief of Naval Operations made his first hit with FDR No punch-pullby defying him is Time, which describes publisher Douglas M. Stewart of Commentator, to wit and to wow: Boston aesstocky,' heavy-lidde- d thete with a taste for antiques and Colliers editorialist Aryans . (is that you Maury?) for Nov. 13 He calls has a punchy crack The New Yurrop: ... ... ... Nazi-occupi- Disorder.. er - When the news first came through 95 refugees from Nazi-lan- d had been refused permission to land in Argentina, and faced the fate of being returned to concentration camps, Selwyn James, a scrappy Britisher on PM, boldly called Sir Gerald Campbell, chief of the British Press service. He urged him to have the refugees admitted to British Trinidad. It would be excellent publicity for the British, James said, aside from being a decent and not too unlikely act of humanity. He got a polite brush-of- f . . , The gloomy ship started for Europe, and Rep. Sol Bloom rushed in protest to the British Embassy. He was turned down, too . . . When that happened, cocky newspaperman James got Campbell on the phone again, and ranted and roared for half an hour It must have been tophole as far as accents and persuasion go . . . Because, finally, Campbell promised to have another go at the Embassy . . . Result: The refugee ship has changed course again, and British Trinidad will be at least a temporary haven pushed-aroun- d for those ninety-fiv- e that those - ... outcasts. Ed Howe, the late editor of an Atchison, Kansas, daily, was always envied for his serene outlook on life . . . Celebrated writers read his stuff and wished they had his peace of mind . . , Now his son. Gene, writes in a magazine: My father was the most wretchedly unhappy At the man I ever knew Same time, H. L. Mencken, the Baltimore journalist, was hollering his head off. People were clucks, he yelped, and the world was a hoose-go. . . Now, in his fascinating memoirs, Newspaper Days, Mencken confesses he was always as happy as a kid with his first long pants, all day long. ... w Tne other Vignette: a Canadian soldier went into Hamburger Heav-- n and wolfd about five hamburger sandwiches, so hungry was he . . . As he went to the cashiers desk, he was told: Oh, I couldnt think of taking money from you. Youre doing something to make it a better World, and all I can do is wish I could. Sorry, no money from a soldier. And whenever you are in the neighborhood again, please come here and eat all you want! . . . The Canadian said he'd like it lots more if he could pay his way . . . I have the money! he said, displaying a wad . . . Sorry," said the cashier, wouldnt think of it! . . . The Canadian is one of the wealthiest men in the world. His name is Duncan McMartin. Has about 40 million smackers. The army is in the junk business to save Uncle Sam millions of dol- lars. section of PhilaIn an delphia, a little group of men and women spend their work-day- s picking over a pile of woolen and cotton scraps. They are salvaging waste material from the cutting Broadway star recording play for the blind. Mady Christians, with and piecing machines used in makWolland and associate players, acting Hedda Gabler before the Joseph ing millions of army uniforms. microphone at the sound studios of the American Foundation for the Saving these cloth scraps last year Blind, New York, N. Y., for the Book production of the Ibsen play. Talking more than the government saved $1,500,000. NEW YORK. It is not often that whose work reaches the blind peoTo provide uniforms for the blind ple of the country on the discs of people have the advantage half a soldiers, over the armys million and is the the Talking Book are Dame Sybil it seeing. Usually the quartermaster depot buys the other way round. The blind who Thorndike, Otis Skinner, Eva uniform material, then sends it to live far away from Broadway, howMady Christians, Hilda manufacturers who have contracts ever, have on their Spong, Bert Lytell, Whitford Kane, a distinct edge with the army to make the soldiers seeing neighbors. , As they cannot Selena Royle, Wesley Addy, Brenda trousers,' coats, shirts and ' other go to the theater, the theater now Forbes, Edith Taliaferro, Joseph clothing. Scrap cloth that accumu- comes to them complete, with full Holland and House Jameson. lates during the manufacturing proc- sound effects and incidental music To date no less than 44 plays have ess Is returned to the depot, careand acted by players from the been acted onto the discs solely for fully sorted, baled and auctioned to Broadway stage. the use of the blind an impressive ' the highest bidders. The idea of giving to the many list of classic and contemporary The army knows to the penny thousands citizens drama which includes such plays as of sightless how much scrap material is saved across the Elizabeth the Queen, Ah Wildercountry the chance to in the 'manufacture of each piece Hedda Gabler, the the ness, that hear best contemporary King Richof clothing coat, 10 cents worth; Our Town, with ard II, When Lato has theater originated offer, overcoat, 14 cents; trousers, 5 the American Foundation for the dies Meet, The Silver Box, The 6 cents; field Blind, New York cents; field jacket, which decid- Rivals, and The Bat. The playcity, cap, .6 cent. ed to utilize the Talking Book ing time of all these productions corj The book, de- responds with the time the blind this for purpose. 1 Army Musicians signed to bring the best in inkprint listener would spend in an actual Army musicians will soon be play- books within reach of blind people, theater. The average modern play runs to ing new Bell Lyras, a variation of consists of phonographthe glockenspiel popular in Euroic discs on which trained readers four or five double-side- d discs, or pean military bands. record the works of the chosen au- from two to two hours and a half The instrument contains a keythors. The discs are played on an of playing time. The older plays, board similar to that of a piano, electric reading machine resembling which are given without cutting, run but is played by striking 22 metal a portable phonograph. to almost double that number. bars with a small mallet . The tonal For several years the Library of Shakespeares Anthony and Cleo-patr-o and harmonic effects have a tre- Congress has been with takes up seven double-side- d mendous carrying range ,and add the foundation, and by using con- discs, or three hours and a half of possibilities for musical variations. gressional appropriations, has met playing time. The Bell Lyra player carries the most of the tfbst of the majority of Thanks to all that has been ac30 by 22 inch instrument in an upthese recorded works, and places complished to date, the theater now right position by means of a shoul- them in 27 regional public libraries comes in this way to the blind. It der strap. For concert work it may across the country which operate comes to them, moreover, free of also be played from a stationary departments for the blind. all charge. The blind individual who rack. The Bell Lyras will replace wishes to enjoy what Broadway has Theater chromatic bells, now used in U. S. In launching its new venture of to offer without leaving his armarmy bands. The new instrument bringing acted plays to the blind, chair has only to send a list of the can be played on the march. the Broadway theater was found eaplays he wishes to hear to the pubA of lic library nearest him, and one by to young group ger Fashion Notes players from contemporary suc- one these plays reach him, each with These its individual enchantment. Soldiers riding the iron steeds of cesses formed the nucleus of a repthe armys' armored force are asertory company to which guest stars plays even travel between library sured ample protection this winter from time to time come to contrib- and reader postage free. Among those for fingers and hands operating ute their services. weapons and equipment. vs. A twin glove of wool and leather lambskin lined muffs fastened on their handlebars, into which they has just been perfected for the force by the quartermaster may slip their hands, if tests now corps. The outer glove has leather under way by the quartermaster successful. palms and thumbs. An inner glove corps prove When priorities clash CHICAGO. is fashioned of knitted wool. A strap with little Johnie and his Line Portable twin the fastens Pipe gloves large gauntlet over overcoat sleeves to keep out Portable pipe lines that can be Christmas stocking come off second best that is if metal toys are being cold air. readily moved for installation over used to fill it this Christmas. For to When necessary for the soldiers difficult terrain carry gasoline while many department stores in the units to adjust equipment, operate a ramotorized to supplies dio or do anything which requires field, have been developed recently throughout the country were fore- free movement of the fingers, the by the army. outer glove can be pulled off. The The new pipe line comes in half-mil- e wool inner glove will still provide units, each comprotection. plete with a centrifugal pump drivgasoline enMotorcycle riders may soon have en by a gine, according to Army Motors, the publication of the motor transS. port school at the Holabird quartermaster depot, Baltimore, Md. Each half mile unit can be moved by cargo trucks and used independently of any other unit These self contained sections, alone or in combinations, are said to be able to deliver gasoline through swamps and forests or over mountains at a rate of approximately The pipe 200 gallons per minute. can also be used to assist or even replace floating gasoline tanks for operations. : long-playin- g Priorities Toys And Johnie9s Sock Comes Off 2nd Best pop-gun- Defense For U. ship-to-sho- re Army Food Supply Mldtown e, Typewriter Smiths: cashiers Ribbons: Pete eye like a cafeteria . . . John Barrymores: Happiness sneaks in through a door you didnt know you left open . . . John Galsworthys: Ones eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes . . . Ben Hechts: His smile appeared to wear a little crutch . . . Elizabeth Curtis': He panthered up and down the room . . . Olin Miller's: A woman never knows what dress she doesnt want until she buys it. An s, ATLANTA, GA. Margaret Mitch- During last summers maneuvers in Louisiana, 40 freight cars daily were necessary to bring in rations at 12 railheads for the 123,000 men in the Second army. Here is what they ate each day: 270,300 pounds of beef 202,748 pounds of bacon 81,099 pounds of potatoes 275,737 eggs 13,517 pounds of coffee 167,605 bananas, apples, oranges Horses, too, had healthy appetites. Cavalry units consumed 33 tons of oats and 39 tons of hay daily and as for motor vehicles nearly eight gallons of gasoline were used in each during a days operation. More than 10 per cent of the men walked holes into the soles of their shoes by the time the final phase of the maneuvers was reached. , An emergency supply of 30,000 new pairs of shoes was kept on hand for ell, famed author of Gone With the Wind, is shown purchasing a United States Defense Savings Bond. In statement which she issued when buying her bond. Miss Mitchell said: Whether we go into war or not, we must be prepared for war. It is only common sense that in times like these every nation must be able to defend Itself. I want our country to have the best ships, planes, tanks and guns and plenty of them. If 1 can help by buying Defense Bonds, I am glad to do so. replacement Railroad Fares Set Up Job Plan to Aid personnel traveling by Men on Leaving Service in Army uniform on official leave, WASHINGTON. - Selective announced it had serv- rail fur- lough or pnss at their own expense, ice headquarters will benefit from reduced fares for arranged for the classification of another year. The present reduced skilled workers now being dis- fare arrangements made last May charged from the army so that they and due to expire this month, have may be speedily employed. been extended to October 31, 1942, Approximately 200,000 soldiers are H. W. Siddall, chairman of the railto be returned to civilian life and interterritorial road military comin will be released other thousands the succeeding months provided the mittee representing all of the railinternational situation does not roads in the United States, has notified the quartermaster general. compel their retention. ' Priorities va. Toys sighted enough to make advance purchases of scooter cars, bicycles, all metal wheel goods, and defense toys including air guns, there does exist a shortage in these items for 1941 Christmas shopping. No child need be at cent inChristmas, despite a crease in demand this year over last It is expected that the nations e toy bill will reach an high of a quarter of a billion dollars this year, according to a report of the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, 111. Reflecting our national armament program, military toys and games are more popular than ever, despite mass production handicaps. Toyland arsenals include dive bombers, guns, defense forts, Red Cross ambulances, trucks and airplanes of all varieties. Similarly slanted are many war games and books featuring life in army camps. Manufacturers of miniature railroad trains and equipment, directly affected by priority rulings, report a 10 per cent increase in demand. A record number of the nation's 150,000 perennial train hobbyists, anticipating shortages and substitutions are sending their old equipment back to the factory for reconditioning and repair. Toys classified as educational are in sharp demand. Reproductions in miniature of the advancement In the home makers art, science and enare all in evidence gineering, on the nations counters. toy-hung- 20-p- all-tim- anti-aircra- ft non-met- al Washington, D. C. LITTLE BUSINESS The President has on his desk a confidential report that would warm litthe heart of the defense-harrie- d read it could he man if tle business Submitted by Lowell Mellett, one of the passion for anonymity White House secretaries, following a careful survey in 35 states, the memorandum by inference severely criticizes OPM and war department handling of defense contracts. Mellett found that little business generally is bitterly disgusted with the whole defense administration, is convinced that it is being run by big business and corporation lawyers, and is up in arms politically about the matter. Mellett warns that the administration had better do something about the situation and do it fast or it wiU be just too bad in next years crucial congressional elections. A long list of specific grievances are detailed in the report: Little firms are excluded from defense orders in favor of big competitors, even though there was no difference in their prices. Endless from OPM and army brasshats because the little business men had no in with the big shots. Small manufacturers put out of business by the priority system which enables big concerns with defense contracts to hog supplies of raw materials. Mellett also implies that the Division of Contract Distribution, established several months ago to help little business, has so far accomplished very little in the way of results. Small business is still out in the cold when it comes to getting an equitable share of defense work. The gist of the report is an old story to the President For months others have been telling him the same thing, although not so comprehensively and effectively. The creation of SPAB and the Contract Distribution division was an effort to remedy the situation. But these agencies are manned with the same type of executives who have been running the defense program from the start big business men. There isnt one little business man among them. Lone Refuge. In fact, in all of Washington there is only one place where a little business man is functioning in behalf of small business. That is in the justice department, g Assistant Atwhere torney General Thurman Arnold has set up a Small Business section and installed as its head a genuine little business man. He is Guy Holcomb, a strapping, Atlanta filling station operator. who has never had a public job before, hates redtape, and loves nothing better than to tangle with a brasshat who is pushing around a little fellow. ofOperating from a cubby-hol- e fice, with only a secretary as his assistant, and without fanfare and hoopla, Holcomb in the month he has has been functioning already chalked up an impressive record as a defender of little business men. He has got them contracts, supplies, and entry to official doors previously closed. If you are a little business man and are having defense troubles, Holcomb is the one man in Washington to tell them to. "He may not be able to help you, but hell certainly try. There will be no complaint on that score. run-aroun- trust-bustin- two-fiste- d HITLER CARVES TURKEY The reported new French hookup with Hitler comes at an especially bad time for the British which undoubtedly is why the Nazis put the screws on Vichy so vigorously. Under these circumstances the Nazi squeeze on Turkey can be expected to tighten almost momentarily. In fact, the more the Nazi drive in Russia bogs down with weather, the more likely is Hitler to take the easier, warmer, short cut through Turkey toward the oil fields of the Caucasus and also toward the British oil fields in Mosul and the Euphrates valley. For months the Nazis have been bringing small boats down to the Aegean via the Balkan railroads and the Danube, and are reported almost ready for landing party attacks on coastal points in the Middle East Preparing to meet this, General Wavell has been sending a constant stream of reinforcements from India, most of them to Iran, Iraq and Palestine. The British say they are in fairly good shape though still woefully weak in tanks. Faced with this crisis, the Turks, as usual, continue to be the enigma of Europe. Diplomatic betting is they will bow to Hitler. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Bill Bullitt, former ambassador to France, was asked by photographers to pose with strip-teas- e queen Ann Corio, as the two happened to board the same plane in Hartford, Conn. Bullitt declined. Comment ed La Corio, Hed better never run for office my fans will snub him at the polls! A confidential commerce department report estimates that by the fall of 1942. 6,000,000 workers will be employed in defense industries. The number is now 1,500.000. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) CONTRASTIN' G OUR TAXES WITH ENGLISH SYSTEM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT wants jobs for its people; it wants industry to produce merchandise for export so it may have credits abroad against which to purchase food, raw materials and war equipment, and it wants cargoes for its ships. To encourage industry, it levies low taxes on corporations and high taxes on the individual, including those whose revenue comes as dividends from corporations. In this country, Secretary has advocated confiscation of all corporation profits of more than 6 per cent on the invested capi-ta- L Practicing!! There are approximifa practicing States. PRICE RISES FAST RECENTLY a woman went into a Chicago store to look at house dresses. She found one that suited, but wished to look elsewhere before buying. At another store she found the same dress, but the price was some 10 per cent higher. She hurried back to the tlerk who had shown her the dress at the first store, saying she would take the dress she had looked at but a few minutes before. It will be about an hour before I can sell you that dress now, said And then the price will the clerk. be higher. All dresses in that line have been taken away for todays mark-up- . That is what is happening practically every day in the great mercantile establishments of the cities. The prices go up while you wait Is that an evidence of inflation? physicians m LISTEN TO , , . . . i BAUKHAGE The Natl Farm&Ho 10.30 each monfiij Monday through Fri$ KUTA, Salt Lai, Mor-genth- with A Minneapolis corporation an invested capital of $3,496,000 earned and paid out in dividends in Under the 1940 a total of $1,140,000. 1940 law, it paid in taxes a total of $273,600. Under the law as proposed by Mr. Morgenthau, it would pay $930,240. If that company were operating in England, with the same amount of invested capital and the same earnings, it would pay at the present time a tax of only $57,000. But in England each stockholder would have paid a tax on what he received as a dividend.' That tax would have been deducted from his dividend check and would have been the same per share whether the stock- holder owned one or many shares. The individual pays instead of the corporation. The individual knows definitely how much tax he pays. Directly or indirectly, we Americans own our American corporations. We provide the capital invested in the tools with which industry operates. The taxes they pay is paid with our money, but we are not supposed to know that Figured on either a per capita or dollars earned basis, we pay a higher tax than is paid by the English people and that is another thing we are not supposed to know. To me it seems the English way is the more honest and more conducive to national welfare. A i. aJJ at 570 KC and other NBC Blue Network 5l Triangular, Square 1$ A triangular division t three infantry regiments, snents of supporting art battalion each of enginee and quartermaster company of signal total war strength The square division troop corps is abi is co two regiments, and a three regiments of supp tillery. It has one regim gineer, quartermaster ai troops, and smaller unil nance strength totals men. HOTELS When In RENO. 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PORK BARREL OF YESTERYEAR AND TODAY IT WAS NOT so long ago, as time is measured, that I, as a boy, listened to the discussions of governmental affairs by the farmers and townspeople as they sat around the stove in the general store in the Iowa village in which I lived. The most frequently discussed subject was the pork barrel, the rivers and harbors and public works appropriations made by congress. Well do I remember an item of $10,000 In one of those appropriations for deepening the channel of the Des Moines river where it ran through our village. It was as wise legislation, but other items for equally unimportant projects were severely condemned. They did not mean additional dollars to be spent locally. What was true of the American people in those days is still true. We look at the activities of government from a selfish viewpoint. We approve of any activity that means a profit or benefit to any of us as individuals or to our locality, regardless of its need or value to the nation. Farmers and town people are still discussing governmental activities and expenditures in thousands of American villages. Where appropriation items were once stated in terms of thousands of dollars, and totals in limited millions, the individual items are now in terms oi millions and the totals In billions. The figures are too great for those rural critics to comprehend. They cannot visualize such sums, but are not alone in that. Their they representatives in congress, the men who vote for such expenditures.' have no realization of what a billion dollars mean. If we, their constituents, could appreciate just what such appropriations mean to each of us, the discussions of former days would be riots of today. It may be well for us that we do not know. The pork barrel of yesteryear has become a great vat of today. beetk itic wasps from the eing liberated in bee reas of the United U What Comfort I o What Convend .What a Locatd ft? fill! arf-- mt visit Silt 'Mm ... 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