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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH Land Tree Farming on Mined-Ou- t Answer to Coal Industry Problem 'Hirohito Now' Strategy Gains New Proponents By BAUKIIAGE Kai-she- that her mission was fight for an immediate of fensive against Japan, In the in terim two things have taken place. The Chinese government has let it be known unofficially that it realizes that America is so occupied elsewhere that a drive on Japan with China as a base cannot be expected at the moment. This would seem to be a retreat. It may be only a demarche, for suddenly, from several other quarters including and Dutch with many American voices echoing in between, the demand for Hirohito Now action is being heard. It may be team work. The Chinese course so far is this: Chiang discouraged be cause of the futility of his pleas for additional supplies and help and Americas failure to replace certain supposedly unsympathetic American representatives In Chungking, he or quarters show-dow- n Aus-tralia- n Kai-she- down the airplanes offensive First, there problems which with t coal industry Analyst and Commentator. WNV Service, 1343 II Street. N-Washington, D. C. Some weeks ago the story of the real purpose of the visit to America of Madame Chiang k was told in these columns. Since then it has been confirmed by unofficial statements credited to Chinese power. is the improvement guns and second, increased experience in warfare. I talked to a British naval officer who had been aboard two convoys which fought their way to Murmansk and three that weathered the fierce attacks in the Mediterranean taking supplies to Malta. He emphasized the fact that green gun crews could not meet the onslaught of the dive bomber. Trained crews of anti-aircra- ft anti-aircra- ft could. mined-ou- Tree-farmi- ng miners call the devastated land surface left by strip No word could mining, spoils. be more fitting than "spoil in the way the coal miners use it. After the strippers have finished, the earth surface looks to the public eye as if it had been plowed by blasts from hell. The appearance of the stripped acreage to the public eye does not happen to be agriculturally true. The fact is that the strip miners steam shovels have turned up virgin soil which otherwise could never have been touched by a plow nor have nourished a seed; aerated by the shovels action; enriched the tumbled earth by mixing through it broken-ulimestone; and provided new surface contours which hold run off water and raise the water level for the entire surrounding area. Trees can turn these spoils into sections of recreational paradise, but until the foresters have done their work, the public remains blissfully anti-aircra- Polite Chinese Then the head of the Chinese mis sion was called to the White House and it was explained that if he with drew at this moment it would embarrass the United States would he please take a nice long trip investigating American until the disturbance blew over. Perhaps he had the promise of more of the products of these plants. But that has not been made public. In any case, the Chinese, noted for their politeness acquiesced. A little later Britain and the United States signed treaties with China relinquishing their extraterritorial rights there. But no sooner had this step been taken than suddenly voices, unofficial to be sure, but fairly strident, began asking if this Hitler first strategy was really sound? Couldnt Britain and the United States divide our efforts and still conquer? By the time this reaches print there may be similar statements from official sources down under, or from the vitally concerned Dutch, but meanwhile, either or systematically inspired, continual calls for action in the Far East now are being heard. Of course, this is not new. There were similar demands which had to be silenced by official utterances from Roosevelt and Churchill nearly a year ago which, if they had not sufficed alone, seemed effective when bolstered by the launching of the American and British expeditionary forces in Africa. war-plan- ts d Airplane's Role By a change in the face of the war, I refer particularly to the role the airplane is to play. Aircraft is a vital factor in offensive and defensive warfare, but it has been demonstrated that airpower alone doesnt win and hold. This has been proved by the success of the convoys which have gotten through in the face of terrible onslaughts by the Luftwaffe. Two things have served to cut BRIEFS Suppose you lived in Hawaii tfrom a magazine by that name) The first harrowing nights of blackout, when the whole family lived in the bathroom ... Buy War Bonds-So- me members of the War Labor board are inclined to make decisions which they know the board can't enforce, with the easy explanation let the President settle it By Don W. y The The outlook in the Giant shovels set aside the overburden and expose the coal. Kai-she- mil-itar- y because the ceilings of slate over these veins are so thin and crumbly that no mine timbering could support them. Submargina! Land. Most of the ground which bears coal close enough to the surface to be strip mined is submarginal which government agricultural experts have been urging for years be taken from ordinary agriculture and put back into woodland. In Indiana its value before mining averaged only $20 an acre in the nine southern counties where there is open cut mining. The college of agriculture of the University of Illinois rates grazing land on a score of from 1 to 10. One is tops; 10 is impossible. Before the strippers went to work, the land they shoveled in that state yas rated 5 63 barely par. When they got through it was rated 7.49 good enough to grow trees. The strippers shovels damaged surface fertility, but did not destroy it. Stripping shovels do destroy earth top humus. The deep fresh earth they bring up to replace it lacks nitrogen. If humus and nitrogen can be returned, the new soil, because it is virgin, will be better than it was before. It has not been worked out by improper farming or bleached of its minerals by uncontrolled water. It has been enriched by minerals mixed in from below. Formerly below average on the raters' scale, the land is now well above. Trees are regenerating this land and making parks out of waste. In Illinois alone, only one of the 21 stripd mining states, 7,250 acres of land in 12 counties have been planted with 7,000,000 trees since 1930, and the rate of forestation is increasing so that 2.000,000 trees strip-mine- Educators are fighting to keep a -- 00 colleges which the and army navy wants to take over for military training, for normal higher education. Buy War Bond- sThirty million people will make out income taxes this reds of thousands of farmers among a great many who have nev-e-r made out a tax return. few of the year-hun-d- the tumbled-uearth as possible, as quickly as possible, If it were not for the need of layering humus on the soil the reforester might plant, except for black locust, no hardwood trees at all. He would concentrate on the evergreens. For the conifers, members of the great pine family, will grow on land too poor to support any other kind of trees. Out of the first 5,000,000 trees planted by the Open Cut Min' 1,761,900 ing Industry of Illinois, were black locusts, and 1,462,000 conifers. The needle-lik- e leaves of these evergreens drop only every three or four years, but it is a con tinuous process. Their duff does not make as much humus as broad hardwood leaves, but it is good humus. Favorite conifers for strip "spoil planting are those which are native p to soils such evergreens as the Scotch pine, Norway spruce, and the red pine which struggles a gallant living out of the thin earth which veils the rocks of northeast Canada and the bleached hillsides of abandoned-farNew England and Pennsylpoor coal-count- vania. v. Such species are grateful tor the mineral food the strip miners shovels have brought up from underground. They grow much more luxuriantly and rapidly on the spoils than they do on the untumbled land nearby, and far better than they ever did at home. A large proportion of the conifers included in the 6,000,000 trees planted on Indiana spoils during the 1930s are now 10 or 12 feet high, covering the d banks of the lakes created by the shoveled-ucontours. At least one observer is reminded by this reforested land of the Irish Hills of Michid gan and the lakes of steep-pitche- p forest-bordere- Spoils Second, the country was in urgent need of harvested wood for construction lumber, for fencing, and for fueL In 300 years it took seven trillion two hundred billion board feet of lumber to build this country. And third, the pioneers were faced have already been planted this year. Favorite species for the spoils reforesters are black locusts and the evergreen conifers. Black locust for with seemingly endless mature s. three reasons: Only swift harvesting of some of them could save them (a) It is a legume, a tree bean. from the deterioration of old age. As a mat-e(b) It is a fairly hardr of silvicultural wood tree, even in poor fact, this is still soil, and true sheds each autumn a of thousands of thousands of large fall of square miles of forestland in big leaves. (c) from the time that it has virgin reached a diameter of four inches it pine has in some sections ponderosa resolved has commercial value; first as fence itself into a race against the beetle posts; later as mine timbers and plague of these aged trees. Harvest! ties. uig some stands of virgin Douglas The first of these reasons is most 5? JaCe agamst internal tree we are to continue to important to the spoil reforester decay. have because the peculiar function of the forests in those sections many old legumes, in the book of the soil trees need to be removed so that a new young tree g chemists, is that crop can grow. plants put nitrogen into the soil the critEnough farm land was ical chemical lack of finally cleared. In some spoiled earth. country, too much. Some harvest Humus. forestland proved unfit to Humus is plant food decayed Trees were the natural and only usevegetation. Its chief source is fallen ful crop these acres would grow leaves. The broad leaves of hardwood trees are its most un7,Ln?,d.anlSUthern logger. prolific proharvesting second vider. The spoil reforester is and even trees The faced with the problem of getting evidence was inescapable as much humus on the surface These of trees were volunteer crops. for-est- g Amer-Harvest- bean-growin- Being Stocked With Fish Reforested spoils look like any a supporting fish hatchery, the plantother green, watered rural area ing of quail, roads and bridle paths The better. only ridges and valleys winding along the ridges, skeet and left by the mining operations devel- - rifle ranges, boating, picnic grounds, With the and a op streams and lakes. municipal arboretum of all help of state conservation departthe trees native to the state. ments, particularly in Indiana, these Both as erosion retardant and to are being stocked with fish. The city provide food and cover for wildlife of Linton, in the heart of Indianas the mine operators foresters are g country, bought more planting such species as hazelnut than 600 acres of partly planted serviceberry. wild plum, wild cher-r- y spoil land, including 28 lakes, the grapevines, dogwood, honeylargest two miles long. Plans include suckle, mulberry and elderberry. strip-minin- DoJ 8ffer Do yo,krh;?u third-growt- h r.eas Ca b,6 grown over and over on the same land. Where seed trees had With ..wsa fire protection provided quate new crop. But in some area" fire, erosion, or other can u destroyed natural seed sourr' young growth and the surface tility of the soil. This wa n larly true of abandoned Fires had swept throuch stumping the T' litter and dead Saves snag when the merchantable timber was Maybe you are one of many people who think all of the dimes and dollars go to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. They do not. Half of the money goes to the counties which can se City or Sou pole or W ' - cases. Many children, badly crippled, were not discovered until later. Many died without the true cause of their death being known. These cases were in the East, near New York, Philadelphia, Boston and New Haven cities where there are excellent doctors and plenty of you ir. s. Poliomyelitis, polio or infantile paralysis whatever you call it is an old disease. A picture carved on a tomb in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and mummies from the Land of the Pharaohs prove it. Many persons have had poliomyelitis, recovered and never knew they had it. They are carriers. It is estimated there are 50 to 1,000 carCarriers riers to every victim. beconje nauseated but, fortunately for them, the virus centers in the digestive system instead of in the spinal cord nerves. Poliomyelitis is taken from the Greek polios gray, meaning plus "myllos meaning marrow, Victims call one anplus "itis." other polios." Each year there are in the United States an average of 8,000 to 10,000 victims of this disease. Many become cripples beyond cure. The greatest epidemic in this country was in 1916 over 27,000 reported h0 ,i this infantile paralysis, like the outlook m-rvof in the war against the enemies tablets democracy, is encouraging. The fight goes on, propelled by the bymtr National Foundation for Infantile HEINZ DRUG and dollars Paralysis and by the ;tsia Sil .d celedimes of a fighting people who Citj, uj President the of brate the birthday walk. by dancing so that others may OFFICE EQUIPMFnt No cure has been found, but the Sister Kenny treatments, taught to NEW AND USED desk, doctors and nurses all over the land typewriters, adding here nurse, Australian g. - DES EX., by the famous W.Vjg since 1940, alleviate suffering and reIt must USED INSTRUMENTS duce crippling be emphasized, the Kenny method for UBi is NOT a cure, though it restores cord ions and pianos" Wnt,"1 about 80 per cent to normal life and the other 20 per cent are generally helped. USED CARS-T- rW It takes one nurse and two assistants to treat 10 patients with the USED CARS TRAILER Com Kenny method. The nurse can learn Liberal Credit Ten her part in a week, but it takes the JESSE M. CHASI Buy Sell physiotherapist months to master T the art of teaching paralyzed musSTORES DJ OGDEN, PROVO. SALT cles to work again. POCATELLO. BQisEjgr,; The cotton rats used in polio virus research come from southeastern W.N.U. Week Na. United States. After trying to breed them in captivity, scientists discovHuman Natan ered they would not mate unless they Sometimes human mty smelled alike. So they were sprayed grand; more often, not with creosote and all raised after-effect- iters s co battle against hard-scrapp- the Adirondacks. Forests Replaceable. The forest products industries are able to give the open-cu- t mine operators constructive aid and advice because they formerly faced a problem which, while not so grave, was similar. Early loggers looked on forests as if they were mines. Both timber and coal are natural resources; the prime difference is that once coal has been mined it is gone, while forests are replaceable. Long ago loggers were faced by a triple economic problem: First, land had to be cleared before it could be farmed. Woodcutters were the first pioneers, proud of their accomplishment when their axes let light into the swamp the sunlight without which corn could not grow. Planting young pine trees on stripped acreage. Reforested by Daukhage KENT BLADES 1- life-givi- mud-bordere- lot ? war-wear- steep-banke- td sorry W1 ,ith V. S. from a tour of duty outside thehis coland will soon, resume writing umn as usual. two-fol- uncover more of the hot and lasting fuel The only difference between him and modern strip miners is that with steam shovels we can go deeper after the coal 60 feet down if necessary. Instead of bringing the coal to the surface, this method of mining carries the surface down to the coal. Surface earth is piled up in d hills with intervening valleys. The valley at the end usually becomes, in the course of nature, a lake storing run-of- f water. Publio Does Not Understand. The public fails to grasp the possibilities of such land. It sees a big d pond surrounded by devastation. John Q. does not recall, if he ever heard, the statement of the U. S. Bureau of Mines that strip mining is a means of preventing waste of natural resources that can never be replaced. John Q. is no geologist, no engineer. He does not know that most of the strip-mine- d coal veins are less than three feet thick, so there would not be room for men to burrow through them if they could go underground; and that they can't go underground Mary;5;Wr? WALTER WINCHELL has returned Europe argument presented by the same proponents against waiting until we have finished "Hitler first is When Germany finally falls it will leave Europe and its people, especially its fighting manpower, y so that it will be hard to Interest them in a war half way around the world. We may get less help than we need for the job. Second, the process of reaching into Japan island by island, is a slow process as we have found al Guadalcanal and on New Guinea The northern half of New Guinea a long-hel- d Japanese stronghold, will be harder to conquer than the part now won back by MacArthurs men. We know that the Japs will not surWe know that in some render. places, like the Netherlands Indies, where a large part of the population is at best indifferent, the Japs can live off the land. It would mean fighting every inch of the way against no surrender" troops while the main Japanese armies were moving into China, fortifying the gateways to the continent. Those are some of the arguments we may expect to hear frequently these days. Madame Chiang when she recovers, may find easier to be insistent upon aid than her husband's unsuccessful men in Washington were. Meanwhile the going in Tunisia is tough and the military men are inclined to say, one field, well tilled enough of a job for them at present. 1, RAZOR Iniantile Paralysis. re-ar- War-Wear- Gudakunst, M. D. Medical Director. Nation! Foundation of p BnU Scourging the Scourge Coal areas p k. work for be the answer. The forest operators knew what it should be, because to a lesser degree they had a somewhat related problem, which new crops of trees have helped solve. tree-farme- rs Kai-she- Ru-J- beset the what to do land. is proving to I talked with an American naval officer who had been through Coral sea and the battles in the Solomons. He said that the ft defense of our most modern warships was such that fighter plane defense was hardly necessary, that time and again it had been proved that this new equipment could raise a wall of fire which rendered air attack by the Japs futile. Now, how does thfs affect the Hirohito now" argument? This way: We cannot leave Japan alone until we are quite ready and then expect to finish her off with an overwhelming airforce. As this is written, in spite of the constant and terrific bombing by Allied planes, the Japs have been able to complete and operate an airbase at Buna, the nearest Jap outpost to Guadalcanal. , in Spit6 01 mnatfrr!hHer',the iorant of tMs to ordinary The spoils can support vegetabuildings, have not been able to destroy the German submarine base's tion, but the only plants passers-b- y see growing before the and submarine plants. go to work are jimson weed and an occasional volunteer brush. Navy and Land Troops We must therefore depend on our The shoveled-uearth is full of rocks navies and our land troops for the that would defeat or break the final destruction of Japan. And, it strongest plow, and the ridges and is argued, every day that Japan has depressions left by the shovels' turn- to increase her fortifications, every over would exhaust livestock pasday that she has to exploit the raw tured there if acreage could be put materials of her conquered territory, to grass. Trees are an answer to the harder it will be to beat her. this situation. It is further argued that Germany Strip Mining. cannot be absolutely beaten without Strip mining is practiced in 21 terrific losses on our side, once she states. Mine operators prefer to call retreats within her own borders, a it open cut mining. By whatever tight area, and can operate on a con- name, it is the oldest mining method. Aboriginal man doubtless first solidated and shortened front. black stone would burn She can be starved out Therefore found the argument is: Continue to move when he happened to light a fire on an outcrop. Then with his rude tools in through the rim of occupied countries until an Iron blockade is formed he forced the surface earth back to about the Reich, but meanwhile begin an all-ooffensive in the Far East; first, with the capture of enough of Burma to get an inlet to China, then, perhaps through the rest of Burma or Thailand move into China, reinforce her, send in our own troops and attack Japan with China as a base. If that is not done now Japan may be able to Isolate China, may be able with silver bullets to win some of her provinces to puppet independence and completely paralyze that valuable ally and block off entrance through her territory, so it is argued by the "Hirohito now advocates. f Chiang dered the Chinese military mission to the United States to come home. At the same time stories appeared to the effect that China felt that she was not being given a position of equality among the United Nations when it came to strategy and over all planning. BARBERS Forest operators have been called on by coal mine oper ators to provide the answer to one of the most annoying Japanese Empire. Xjg near Marysville rEPr' hair cut. 70 comm DornS 00 Stripped Acreage Bting Turned Into Recreation Centers by Foresters. New Line of Argument Developed In Favor Of Immediate Action Against IS pus BARBERS Insulating patriotic, Fuel saves fuel, tb aster, we a keep co ramble sun ie hot ' ream waI o keep jmble ire not try am- - Hdl f Hall abrup as this in: past, minu apart fr u no rei nt be broi friend Bob the Buffalo w jg writer what it is has brouj n best he ation in sig name is J1 Mims, in i great the e that ba I third it the top artists of C Jimmy starring for me . was in the greates knew, had ins Hanging can Hay. 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In the Army, Navy, rines, and Coast Guard, sales records in their contributed for local relief; the other Stores show Camel is the favo half is retained by the National Favorite gift with service ro Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. It also Camels by the carton, ' is used when an epidemic strikes tobacco dealers are feats and for research to try to find the Camel cartons to send to me cause, the preventive and cure of the the armed forces anywhere.- n Traynor at Ser well ov nx yea and the -! tty To relieve distress of HOtnH ns L bel them disease. was Infantile paralysis strikes the rich and the poor alike. Epidemics are not always near great medical centers. The first cases discovered by Nurse Kenny were children in families who" lived 10 miles from any neighbor or telephones, telegraph and improved roads. It was over 200 miles to the nearest doctor and hospital. This was 30 years ago. In 1942 there were two places in the United States that were hard hit; one was thickly settled, fairly wealthy New Jersey, with plenty of doctors, nurses and hospitals; the other was Arkansas, where was but one hospital in all the there State willing to admit any case of infantile paralysis in Its acute stage. This hospital could not begin to care for the 100 children who applied for treatment the first few weeks. That is where the National Foun- ?at'n ,Infantile Paralysis came picture. It had money. It t0 secure nurses ,knn! the Kenny method. Of trained that and more patients almost all have now gone home health Of the rest, all restored but a very be W3lking' Con diUongood0" Female Weal Gracefu BLI AND HELP BUILD UP RED Coni Plnkbam's E. Lydia TABLETS (with added Iron! 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