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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH i THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Sntered u second class matter Peb. 8, 1828 t the Posi Office. Randolph. Utah, under tb WEEKLY NEWS Act of March 2. 1878. Wm. E. Marshall. Business Manacer SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Per Year in Advance Layton Marshall. Editor and Proprietor Wallace Urges Federation; Girauds Selection for North Africa Post Bolsters French Unity Against Axis; Post-Wa- r WASHINGTON. In every war there are those who insist taxes should be so high that no unbearable burden of debt should be left for our grandchildren. And there are others who say that the privations of war are bad enough, without making the people already suffering i endure super taxation as well. ' In tho last war we heard another argument that this, the 1917 affair was a war to end war; hence, since there would be a better world after it, it was only fair that the children to come should pay a little for what had been passed on to them. There is a joker in the argument on both sides, when it comes to deciding whether to pay the cost now or pass it on to future generations. The simple fact is we are not able to pass it on. We must pay it ourselves. It is only the method of paying in which we can decide, not the time of payment. The fundamental error in most arguments about war financing is that the debaters insist on regarding a national government in the. same way they regard an individual. Some Own, Some Don't But if a country sells bonds to its own people, the eventual result is that a lot of its people own bonds, and another lot do not. As a general rule, it will be the prosperous people who own the bonds, what we might call the shiftless who will not. It is the prosperous people who pay most of the taxes, which in turn must pay the interest on the bonds. And the principal, if indeed that is ever paid. (Britain has never paid off the debts she incurred to fight Russ Continue Ground Gaining Drives -- r Hecklers Compared To Boat Rockers There is a growing impatience in Washington, and London also, if reports are correct, with the element so vocal in both Britain and America who keep rocking the boat about peace terms, Admiral Darlan, India, and a few other ticklish problems. These critics of our relations with Darlan did not even wait until Dakar was safely in our hands before insisting that he must be thrown overboard at once, and held up in disgrace. No one has publicly urged that Darlan be executed for his crimes, but such is the temper of some of this group, who have access to the front pages of newspapers for reasons utterly unconnected with the present war, that it would not surprise the state department at any moment if this also should be demanded. It happens that the position of Secretary of State Cordell Hull on all this hubbub about Darlan and peace terms is well known. Hull agrees heartily that it would have been absurd and wicked to have spurned the tremendous aid which Darlan was able to bring to the side of the United Nations, especially as such spurning would not only have cost the lives of many thousands of American and British soldiers and sailors in the immediate North African campaign, but might easily have prolonged the war for years by dooming that North African campaign to disaster. Most of the critics of this use of Darlan began their shouting while the North African campaign still looked from a four thousand mile distance, like a walkover. When it developed that the fighting around Tunis and Bizerte was really serious, with air power not sufficient to retain the control of the skies which had made Rommels earlier defeat possible, they had committed themselves so definitely that they could hardly draw back. With regard to peace terms, the position of Cordell Hull is that it would be perfectly futile to discuss peace terms while a long, hard war is still before us, especially in the Pacific. What the critics of the handling of Darlan by the United Nations, of the failure to give India its immediate independence, of the failure to declare that no country shall ever again rule another, and all the rest of it never bother to explain is what might happen if all that they clamor for should be done. (EDITORS NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not neeessarUy of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. scramble Fears that a nation-wid- e of housewives to buy canned foodstuffs would develop following official disclosure that a point rationing system would be inaugurated in February failed to materialize as reports from retail grocers indicated only isolated instances of panic buying. Announcement of the ration plan which covers more than 200 canned food items made by Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard had been attacked by trade representatives as premature and almost certain to result in public hoarding and unfair distribution of available supplies. Federal authorities defended the advance announcement on the ground that complicated controls were necessary to administer the program. They contended, too, that if the public were not notified, rumors might circulate and cause hys- terical purchasing. Grocers attributed the absence of panic buying to two major reasons. One was the governments requirement that before a rationing book could be issued, any hoarded goods had to be declared and the equiva- - , lent number of rationing coupons surrendered at the time of registration. The other was that any case of hoarding where false representa- tion was made, might be punishable by a maximum fine of $10,000 or one year in prison or both. CASUALTY LISTS: Full Publicity Ahead Napoleon.) Now none of this will have any effect whatever on the production of food, clothing, houses, furniture, automobiles, or other things which people want. No product need be shipped out of the country to pay interest. The worst thing that could have happened, financially would have been inflation. Bad as that is, it is not our grandchildreii who suffer so much from it as ourselves. The reshuffling of property which inflation always produces has little effect on the economy of people as a whole a couple of generations later. So it is the folks living during the next few years who do the suffering. They cant pass much of it on I CANNED RATIONING: Little Panic Buying ANALYSIS - Col. Merian C. Cooper (left) points to map of China and Burma as he makes report to Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war for air, in Confident that the American pubWashington. Colonel Cooper returned to the United States after serving as chief of staff of Gen. Claire L. Chennault, commander of the China lic can take bad news, governAir Task Force. ment officials revealed that the ban on nation-wid- e publication of war GIRAUD: WORLD FEDERATION: casualty and prisoner lists had been lifted. Assures Unity Asked by Wallace The new policy, officials said, Gen. Henri Giraud had been the would permit publication Ever sinpe his quart of milk a anywhere day speech forecasting bettered Allies original choice for the post and in their entirety, lists of men Afof North conditions for the worlds underpriv- of high commissioner killed, wounded, missing or taken ileged, Vice Pijpsident Henry A. rica. Then the bullet of the prisoner. Previously newspapers had Wallace has been regarded as a No. assassin that killed Adm. Jean been restricted to publishing the 1 administration spokesman on post- Darlan made Girauds selection in- names of men whose 'next of kin evitable by the French imperial lived in their particular circulation war reconstruction. area. Thus his latest address proposing council. a world council to preserve peace That the elevation of Giraud to the Explaining the new ruling, one and promote the general welfare aft- slain Darlans post had a unifying spokesman declared it had been deer the war received close inspection effect was immediately manifest. termined that the publication of casin world chancellories, for it was Not only did the French North Af- ualty lists would not jeopardize nataken as a major administration rican civil and military forces rally tional security and moreover, the behind the new commissioner, but public has enough stamina and fortistatement of future plans. Wallaces recipe for international Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of tude to take the bad news of long quickly casualty lists if the papers care to organization afteiv the war: The the Fighting French, maximum of home rule that can be pledged fiis support of Girauds re- publish them. maintained along with the minimum gime and urged the formation of a of centralized authority that must temporary government to unite all come into existence to give the nec- French elements. Spring Neat Trap essary protection. While the murder of Darlan unActing with all the detective-thrille- r The vice president outlined a four- deniably settled the controversy ragtechnique for which they are fafold objective for future peace: To ing through the United Nations over mous, brought to a sudden Alpreserve the liberty, equality, se- the North African alliance of the end the liberty of Naand lies and the collaborationof United the curity unity tions liberty in the political sense; ist, observers believed that before Roger (Terrible) Touhy and his henchmen, in raids in Chiequality of opportunity in interna- his death Darlan had honestly re- desperate that cago tional trade; security against war canted his former views and was celebrated rivaled in excitement the Dillinger case of nearly a and business depression due to in- wholeheartedly leading his forces decade ago. ternational causes ; and unity of pur- for the liberation of France. And Safely in the FBI bag, whose pose in promoting the general wel- they defended the wisdom of Genfare of the world. eral Eisenhowers first alliance with strings had been pulled by Chief J. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT COLLECTORS RARE COINS Want to buy U. S. and foreign gold, silver and copper coins. Send list of what you have to Shalts, Salt Lake, Utah. Box 7 IS. OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND USED desks and chairs, flies, typewriters, adding mehs, safes, bkcases. S. L. DESK EX., 85 W. Broad wa. 8 L. C NEW TRAILERS USED CARS USED CARS TRAILER COACHES Liberal Credit Terms JESSE M. CHASE Trade Sell Buy STORES IN OGDEN, PROVO. SALT LAKE Q'TY. . POCATELLO. BOISE. BLACKFOOT RHEUMATIC TABLETS Do Yon Suffer from Rheumatic Pains? muscles feel .r like they were being torn apart t rn HhilNZ TABLETS have proved beneficial in thousands of cases. $1.08 by mail. HEIN? DRUG State St. and 21st South Salt Lake City, Utah AUTOMOBILES WANTED CASH PAID For Used Cars and Equities Contracts Notes Paid Off LYMANS 6th So. & Main Salt Lake In Center of Business District KUHN STREET 71 jMBlifnl Reims Ml nJifl . AT 5th SOUTH . . all vitk ttfepkciw .COFFEE SHOP New Comfort & Convenience 1 G-ME- N: G-m- en Relief At Last jail-breaki- ng ex-Vic- Concerning the treatment of defeated nations he advocated not only dismilitary but psychological armament. For the American people, Wallace said, the war is entering its grimmest phase where we will learn for the first time the meaning of war privations. But, he added, Hitlers desperate bid for a Nazi world order has reached and passed its highest point. 4-W- OFFENSIVE: Darlan. Tunisia Battlefront Although tropical sunshine had dried the surface of Tunisias boggy roads, the gumbo mud continued to hamper free movement of either the Allied or Axis forces. Principal strategic key was the .town of where General Dwight Eisenhowers army was endeavoring to anchor its positions for the comoffensive against strongly ing held Tunis and Bizerte. That these Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or are to have your money back. you CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Med-jez-el-Ba- b, all-o- To Escape Insults Avoid too much miscellaneous intimacy and you can escape a good many insults. . ut positions could not be won without fierce struggles was indicated by reThe Russians continued to prove ports that the Allied forces had that while the summer might have withdrawn from an advanced hill six belonged to the invading Nazi hosts, miles northeast of Medjez-el-Bathe winter was the season for Red Air offensives continued against revival. Axis bases in Tunisia and Axis supFour strong Soviet armies were ply lines from Sicily and Italy with proving this in four separate drives Flying Fortresses battering Sousse, J. EDGAR HOOVER against the cold and. weary Ger- Tunis and Bizerte. mans. These offensives sprung with GiFrench forces under General Edgar Hoover, were Roger Touhy, the purpose of destroying Nazi man- raud had carried out acBasil- (The Owl) aggressive Banghart and power and equipment and weakention along the waist of Tunisia, three minor criminal of the members on hold Eastern the ing Hitlers taking the town of Pichon and ad- band of seven that had escaped from front were centered on the Rzhev vancing in a drive to prevent the efJoliet, 111., penitentiary last Octosector, in the Stalingrad area, in fective junction of Marshal Rom- the gunfire the reaches of the Middle Don and mels Libyan forces with those of ber. Dead from were James OConnor and St. Clair in the central Caucasus. General Walther Nehring in Tunisia. Mclnerney, bank bandits and safe The central Caucasus drive was crackers. the newest on the Red schedule and DRAFT: The capture and killing of the deswas started south of Nalchik, where climaxed one of the most 250,000 peradoes Monthly Nazi armored mountain units had laid traps in FBI history. The neatly With fighting forces of 9,000,000 been trying unsuccessfully for weeks in separate hideouts on gang, living forecast for the United States the to to break through the Georgian by North Chicagos side, had been end of 1943, draft officials estimated military highway in Transcaucasia. shadowed for weeks. Hoovers men between that and 250,000 men 300,000 Most significant news came from 18 moved swiftly when they sprung the through 37 years old will be the Stalingrad area, however, for to called the colors monthly this trap. Russian communiques reported the year. TOJO: capture of Kotelnikovski, key transApproximately half of the 1943 portation town anchoring a draftees will represent the 18 and Real War Starts stretch of the Stalingrad-Caucagu- s The remainder will d railroad and a supply depot for the Gen. Hideki Tojo, Nazis eastern operations. Here big come from the ranks of childless war minister, had no bland words stores of Axis supplies were taken married men, since the pool of un- for the Japanese people when he apover by the Reds. From Kotelnikov- married men available for military peared before the Nipponese diet to ski the Russians began a spearhead service has been virtually exhaust- report on the state of the war. Ined. drive toward Rostov. stead, he warned grimly that the , Meanwhile the Red encirclement Included in the 9,000,000 fighting Allies were preparing to deliver of 22 German divisions trapped be-- ; forces will be an army of 7,500,000; counter - blows of great imporfore Stalingrad was tightened by a navy of 1,500,000; a marine corps tance and added that signs indiRuss advances of from 37 to 58 miles of 400,000 and coast guard enroll- cated the real war is starting from now. from the southwest ments of 300,000. By Russ Armies b. . Wat 4aGtUffop yTlSPECIfll DATES1 Help fore, itchy, redness of externally caused pimples, and so aid healing use Get Your War Bonds To Help Ax the Axis G-m- an 200-mi- le Bland-visage- J ForYour Cough May Warn of Disordered Kidney Action Modem life with ita hurry mud worry. Irregular habit, improper eating and drinking ita riak of expoaure and infection throws heavy atrain on the work of the kidneys. 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