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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Entered as second class matter Feb. .8, 1929 at the Post Office, Randolph, Utah, udder the' Local Governments Build Up Huge Public Works Program; Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Per Tear in Advance. Wm. E, Marshall, Business Manager Layton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor THEY MIGHT, AT THAT Where are you taking 'that brella' stand? Mrs. White Develop New Horror Weapon umde- manded when she saw her husband lugging the heavy container, filled with umbrellas, to the back of the house. I thought you were going to help me clean the house for the party tonight. You know, the guests will be here in a few hours. Yes, I know, dear, he grunted, but I want to hide these umbrellas before they get here. she exWell, of all things, claimed in astonishment, practically accusing our guests of planning to steal the umbrellas! You never can tell, he said stubbornly, shaking his head, they might repognize em. Released by Western Newspaper Union " 1. .i (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) . Human Churn Mose had passed through a har- rowing experience. He had just seen a ghost. Ah jes come out of de cowshed, he said, an ah had a pail o milk in mah hand. Den ah hears a noise by de side of de road an de ghost rushes out. Did you shake with fright, Mose? asked one of his audience. Ah dont know what ah shook wid. Ah haint sayin for suttin ah shook at all. But when ah got home ah foun all de milk gone, an two pounds of butter in de pail. , NOT WITH BAIT! While sitting on the beach, a woman directed a statement to her little daughter, not yet four, about a pretty young girl swimming with remarkable grace and ease. She swims just like a fish, doesnt she, Patty? her mother asked. Patty just nodded. She was more engrossed in watching her young uncle trying to strike up an acquaintance with the pretty girl. After a dozen or more futile attempts, he returned to the shore disgusted. As he sat beside his little niece, he muttered, Boy, I jeant even get near her. Department of,agricultuie representative bucked the railroads petition for a 25 per cent rate increase in final hearings before the Interstate Commerce commission in Washington, D. C., while the carrlers argued that the boost was necessary to prevent deficit operations. Department opposition was based upon two points: First, that an increase in freight costs to farmers would retard the electrification of rural regions, and, second, that it would impose a heavy burden upon the fish industry and curtail the movement of its products. Railroads are destined to lose more than 200 million dollars at present rates next year, the carriers argued. Since 1939, wages, fuel and supplies have risen 50 per cent to a total of 2 billion' dollars, they said, and even with the' present high volume of traffic they only figure to earn 30 million dollars in 1946. Pending settlement of the carriers petition, the ICC held over a temporary 10 per cent wartime raise. - WORLD LABOR: Wage Warning Protesting against Russian policy of withholding information of whereabouts of war prisoners, Japanese from all the home islands gathered in Tokyo to demonstrate their disfavor. FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Trade Pact Pres. Juan Peron and his entire cabinet looked on as British Ambassador Reginald Leeper and Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Bram-ugli- a signed trade accords cementing commercial relations between the two countries. Pleased by the event, Peron announced that he had ordered three shiploads of meat to be sent to Britain before Christmas with the compliments of his government. Peron might well have been tickled with the agreement, which calls for Britains purchase of 83 per cent of Argentinas exportable meat surplus in the first year at prices 25 per cent over prevailing levelsDuring the second year, Britain will take 78 per cent of Argentine supplies. The latest price boost brings the total increase up to 45 per cent over the 1939 level when Britain, first went in ' for large-scal- e buying. In another accord, the British relinquished their control of Argentine railways in exchange for shares in a new company including Argentine government and private capi- tal. Under a third agreement, Argentina will be permitted to utilNo wonder, Patty popped up, ize blocked wartime trade balances saucily, shes a fish, and fish are in Britain for retiring sterling debts, hard to catch. buying out British investments, or making cash withdrawals of 25 million dollars annually. Silence Speaks Volumes five hours the jury fidgeted PUBLIC WORKS: For and looked at the clock. Fnally the attorney sat down. It was ap- Huge Backlog parent that whatever the merits of Helped by federal aid in planning, his case, the jury was mad enough cities and counties have states, to vote against him. a huge $4,107,136,000 pubdrawn up The opposing lawyer saw his lic works program. Along with fedYour honor, he said, chance. eral running into the bilprojects the other counsel has set an exoverall program the nations lions, ample that I believe it would be wise not only promises to provide necesto follow. I therefore am also subsary public improvements but also mitting my . case without argu- a possible source of bolstering emment. ployment in the event of a business Not Much Proof State, city and county programs "Sir, could you spare a dime for are broken down into those using a cup of coffee? whined a pan- federal funds for planning and oth- handler. Im sorry, young man, but I have U.S. AIOS WORKS PLANS no money, answered the fatherly gentleman, but I should like to ' give you some good advice. Nuts, sneered the panhandler, all I get is good advice, and no money- - If you guys never have any money, how do you expect me to think your advice is worth any. Schools Sanitary $319,000,000 thing? Projects $ 54b, 000,000 LET HIM LEARN , let-dow- n. ers by the various governmental units themselves. In obtaining U. S. money for planning, applicants must show a capacity to build within four years with their Silently, Gerry watched his neigh- own funds and agree to repay fedbor take some machinery apart. But eral advances without interest at when the neighbor had broken two the start of construction. parts in the struggle, Gerry finalOf the 4,630 projects totaling ly clucked his tongue and said: $1,296,997,051 mapped with federal That wasnt the way to do it. I funds, sewer, water and sanitary could have told you how, but I fig- improvements costing approximateured you needed the experience. ly $546,000,000 constitute ethe largest item. Following are school extenA Bright Sign sions or new building, $319,000,000; Minister Well, Deacon, business public buildings, $117,000,000; hosmust be improving.. Money seems pitals and clinics, $73,000,000; highto be circulating more rapidly. ways, roads and streets, $46,000,000; Deacon Thats splendid' news, parks and other recreational facilisir. Are you getting more money in ties $30,000,000; bridges, viaducts the collection plate? and railroad overpasses, $28,000,000; Minister No, but the pennies airports, $20,000,000; and miscellaneare getting brighter. ous projects, $116,000,000. blue-print- - FREIGHT RATES: Wind Up Hearings ed WARFARE: New Horror Add the latest to sciences horror weapons : A new poison so" deadly that less than one - seventh millionth of a gram is enough to kill a man and a h cube could wipe out every person in the U. S. and Canada. Existence of the new terror weapon was revealed by Dr. Gerald Wendt of New York City in a General Electric Science Forum. Describing the latest killer as an innocent looking crystalline toxin, he revealed the poison was invisible, microscopic in size and easily spread. Because of its great destructiveness and cheapness in manufacture, any small nation possessing the toxin could become a formidable world threat. Wendt declared that the U. S. already has spent 50 million dollars in research on the new weapon, a small sum in comparison to expenditures on radar and the atom bomb. one-inc- MEAT: r' Crisis Widens No less than 36,000 butcher shops throughout the nation were said' to have closed and almost 100,000 clerks and packing house employees were reported idle as the crisis in meat continued. , Receipts of cattle and hogs remained far below the high levels established during the suspension of QPA and ran considerably below last years runs. As packers awaited the large seasonal fall shipments, they were compelled to bid ceiling cattle and prices for lean, grass-fe- d inferior grades of hogs. Some of the stock received was said to be suitable for purposes As delegates to the 29th general conference of the International Labor organization convened in Montreal, Que., Director Edward J. Phelan issued a warning against rising wages not based upon increased production. Hitting against inflationary wage boosts in a report reviewing the world reconversion picture, Phelan- told delegates from 51 member countries including the U. S. that workers should refrain from strikes crippling resumption of large-scal- e output; employers must keep prices within reasonable limits, and governments should act to bring capital and labor into harmonious agreement. Wage boosts based on increased productivity are essential to continued prosperity, Phelan declared. While more goods will tend to lower prices, higher pay will permit a bolstering consumption, greater both employment and business. Ung der those circumstances, measure a fair represents for wage determination, Phelan said. 113-pa- ge - profit-sharin- MARRIAGE; Rocky Road Whereas restaurants spent 40 cents of each dollar of revenue for food, they now expend 55 cents, it was said. YUGOSLAVIA: Jail Archbishop Acting upon the testimony of the voluble secretary to Archbishop Alojzijo Stepinac, head of the Roman Catholic church in Yugoslavia, Marshal Titos communist government arrested the high prelate and prepared to try him for crimes against the people. With 12 priests already on trial on the same charge, inclusion of the Archbishop would further tend to discredit religion in the d nation, following the pattern of communist hostility to all creeds. While the powerful Croatian peasant leader, Vladimir Macek, was implicated in the Archbishops alleged machinations, the government' hesitated to move firmly against him for fear of political re, percussions. Talking freely against the Archbishop, his former secretary alleged that the prelates castle in Zagreb movewas the center of an anti-Tit- o ment to set up an independent Croatian state. Charging that the Archbishop worked closely with one of Draja Mihailovitchs in bands, promoting the secretary declared that the high churchman planned to finance a terrorist campaign for separation. Russian-dominate- ex-ai- ds nt The diplomatic rat race, started by Russia, is on. History will record the unspeakable tactics the support of Germans as an atrocity of peace. The allied diplomatic throat slitting (while promising to revive Nazilands power) not also only emphasizes their split underlines the cleavage between FDRs foreign policy and the zigzagging now practiced by Americas leaders. Roosevelt said: As for Germany, that tragic nation which has sown the wind and is now reaping the whirlwind we and our allies are entirely agreed that we shall not. bargain with the German con- ' spirators, or leave them a shred of control open or secret of the instruments of govt. We shall not leave them a single element of military power or of potential military power. From a front page story in the New York Herald Tribune of January 1, 1945: Allied supreme headquarters, confirming reports from the front of a mass slaughter by the Germans of American soldier pris- oners, issued today an official statement which said that 115 Americans, were murdered in this way soon e aftep the German statement The (issued after began. an investigation) said the Americans captured near Malmedy, Belgium, were lined up in ranks six deep and were mowed down by machine-gun fire. But a year and a half later American diplomats are ready to. treat German soldiers like allies! counter-offensiv- There is nothing so hypocritical and stupid as the current syrupy drooling by allied diplomats about the difference between The German people and the Nazis. people is the most obnoxThe-Germa- ious type of weasel-wordin- g. . . . Naziism is merely a new label for ancient German venom. One of For every three marriages in 1945 there was one divorce, the Federal Germanys military heroes is GenCount von Haesler. He once Security agency reported in the first eral declared: statisof such government reporting It is necessary that our civiltics. ization build its temple on mounFrom the rate of 1.9 divorces per tains of corpses, on an ocean separa1,000 population in 1937-3of tears and on the death cries tions jumped to 3.6 in 1945, it of men and women without also was revealed. numbers. Germany must rule the for years, depression Except the inferior races of the world! the divorce rate has gone steadily He said that in 1893! 9, Secy Byrnes naive babbling that the Germans will behave like good, little rodents if they are gifted with democracy, must make intelligent citizens shudder. 'Germans had a taste of democracy during the days, of the Weimar republic after the: First World war. They promply spit it out and swallowed Naziism. by-prod- only. Meanwhile, OPA promised to act upon restaurant operator protests against imposition of June 30 ceilings on meat dishes. With the restaurateurs claiming that the restoration oi old prices in the face of in- -. creasing costs would force them to close, OPA said it would modify ceilings to assure adequate earnings if evidence of hardship were offered. For the Record: In 1940, and repeated as late as 1944, Stalin declared that a Communist state was never safe until the whole world was Communist. Allied now are cooing with Nazi militarists. But its safer to tangle with a cobra than clutch the paw of a Junker killer. In 1944 Field Marshal von Rundstedt issued, a secret report to German generals hop-hea- ds Marriage offers no problem to Mr. and Mrs. William H. Saver of Pittsburgh, Pa., who celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Saver, still ranks at the top of the deck with her husband. that stated: With the booty we have accumulated, the enfeebling of two generations of enemy manpower and the destruction of their inU. in even the S., rising upwards we shall be better dustries, when wartime the period through to placed 1942 conquer in 25 years and marriages dipped between than we were in 1939. We 1945. dont have to fear peace condiFSA studies showed that martions analogous to tlfose which with and divorce rates rise riage we have imposed because our prosperity and war and sink with adversaries will always be divdepression. ided. Their disunity will force them to fight each other, and EUROPE: Germany will play one side Proposes Union against the other. Winston Churchill echoed U. S. Allied plans to rebuild German inSecretary of State Byrnes proposal for a strong, unarmed Germany in dustries must have been inspired calling for a united states of Eu- by the ghost of Hitler. When the rope to work within the framework Nazi military machine cracked, of an international organization tc leading German industrialists held a secret meeting on August 10, 1944 preserve peace. and Zublueprinted strategy for mobilof at the Speaking University rich in Switzerland, Churchill sug- izing German industry for the Third gested that a reconciled France and World war. Germany form the cornerstone of i The following news' clipping continental union, with the British should be on the desk of asS. U. and Russia every deleempire, lending sistance. In welcoming Germany gate at the Paris conference. It was back into the family of nations, published in the January 29, 1930, er Churchill asked that the people b issue of the German zeitung, Beobachter: distinguished from their Nazi leaders. Germany can have only one ardent wish, namely, that the A united states of Europe established to preserve peace in the old spirit of misfortune should hover over every allied confereworld would not conflict with the nce-, that discord shall arise United Nations, Churchill argued. On the contrary, he said, success therefrom, and that finally a ' world peace which would otherof the U.N. was dependent upon a wise ruin our nation should disnatural grouping of western counsolve in blood and fire. to tries strong and desirous-enough From a speech by Adolf Hitler. " meet threats to security. Volk-isch- |