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Show Salt Lake City, UtaH m THE. DESERET NEWS ! Sweetheart In Every Port IfH-Nem- s Japs Expected To Start, New Venture Soon f Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation and of the Associated Press. Published after noons except Sunday. Euablahtd un 15, 1850 The 9 Teen Age Draft. China Expects Enehty To Strike From Burma Or Nearby CIRST step in the draft of two or three million 'teen age American youths was taken this week by the government when President Roosevelt officially scheduled the registration of 18- - and (Deseret Newg War Analyst! The Japanese are taking punishing, costly defeats at the farthest fingerholds of their zone of conquest Both in the Solomons and on and around New Guinea they are paying dearly for desperate efforts to check the turning of the tide. Gen- boys. The presidents proclamation, made possible by an act of Congres, set the week beginning Dec. 11 for registration , of 'those who became 18 in July and August; fixed the week beginning Dec. 26 for those who became of age in November and December, and provided for contiguous registration on "their birthdays for; thosewho- reach' their eighteenth V . eral MacArthurs reports leave Jittle doubt that their adventure on the Papuan Peninsula., which two months ago menaced Port Moresby and - year after Jan. 14. 1943. . Congress gave the administration and the military the authority to draft, train and utilize these youths as they . see fit without any. restrictions except h for the deferment of those employed TrT agriculture. But with that authority goes a grave responsibility to the boys themthe nation. selves, their parents-an. We Will expect, as we have a right to expect, that every practical precaution will be taken to safeguard the morals, morale, mental equilibrium and health of 'this Jarge segments Americas teen age youth. The future welfare of the nation depends upon it It is a fact that boys In their teens, even in their upper 'teens, are going through the period when lifetime habits, impressions and characteristics are being formed. In the words of Hr, Edward A. Strecker of Philadelphia, of the American Psychipresident-elec- t atric Association: No other would be so seriously damaged as this che by its disarrangement and disorganl- Wttiofrand'wbuld'become so maladjusted not only immediately but throughout its future. Many of the countrys eminent medical men and educators publicly have cautioned against the dangers of drafting IS- and boys. Among them are: Dr. Caroline B. Zchry, director of the "Child Guidance Bureau of New York City; Dr, Nolan D. C. L.ewis of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital; Dr. Thomas V. Moore of the department of psychology and psychiatry, Catholic University of America, Washd age-grou- p - ington, D. C., Prof. George S. Counts of Columbia Dr. Frank J. University; CflSrien, head of New York City schools, a$d Dr. George S. Stevenson, medical director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. But the teen age draft soon is to become an accomplished fact. The military ruled "thlfthe "urgency of the need greatly outweighed these dangers and Congress and public sentiment accepted the militarys judgment But they are not forgetting, nor will we forget, that the military promised Congress and the American people that these youngsters will be trained thoroughly before they are sent into action and that their services in battle will be used as sparingly during their teen years 4 the military situation permifs. The administration and the military will have more than the lives of these teen age youngsters in their hands. They must become the parents and the teachers of these youths. They must mold character, educate, build mental stability, and develop moral cleanliness. They asked for, and have assumed, a Sacred trust. Down The Hatch QUOTING the brewing industrys own that 2,765,269,658 pounds of food products are "used annually in making beer in the United States, the National Womans Christian Temperance Union is calling on Agricultural Secretary Wickard to halt this wholesale waste at a time when all the world is on short rations. Referring to figures in the United Brewers Industrial Foundations booklet Beer And Brewing In America, pub- 144,-87X6- 'Norwegians have been warned that any person caught listening to a radio d program not broadcast from a station will b. put to death. The order was issued by the Bfclch German-controlle- toi occupied Norway. . City To Pierce Deadend Salt Lake City Commission Is to THE 1 be congratulated upon its decision finally to come to grips with the problem of breaking the traffic bottleneck at North Temple and State Streets." The city fathers yesterday earmarked $40,000 of the citys 1943 budget to pierce the North Temple deadend by cutting it through to connect with the western end of Second Avenue. It was estimated that about $34,000 will be needed to acquire the five parcels of improved property necessary for the and $6,000 to build the few rods of connecting roadway.' The City Creek Canyon Entrance Improvement League and the Utah State Road Commission are deserving of considerable. credit, tog for keeping interest in the project alive. This short link of road connecting North Temple Street and Second Avenue will be a permanent Improvement to Salt Lakes network of streets an improvement with value out of all proportion to its short length and cost. It Is hoped and believed that now it has decided to move, the city will proceed with the project as expeditiously as physical problems and equitable treatment of the property owners will right-of-wa-y permit French Morocco . Larger by 19,000 square miles than France herself, French Morocco composes the bulk of the Sultanate of Morocco, which includes also Spanish Morocco and the International Zone of Tangier, on the Strait of Gibraltar, according to the National Geographic Society. Principally an agricultural country, .French Morocco presents a more fertile appearance than one familiar with motion picture romances set in its desert wastes" might suspect There are large areas of sandy and rocky desolation, but abundant crops of wheat, barley, corn,' beans and other vegetables, as well as groves of olive, lemon, orange, fig and almond trees clothe the productive regions, particularly in the broad, riverribbed plains north of the Atlas Mounta-tainFiv WCTU president asserts that in an average year the products of some 3,000, 000 acres of land and thousands of farm hands are "wasted- in making beer. America is becoming, and will be for . . some time, the bred basket .of the World, the WCTU head reminds Can th starving people of battered Europe ancl Asia, when 'we are able to reach them, be fed with the food products which have been turned into alcohol for the profit of the liquor traffic?" It is Interesting to note that the&rew-e- rs booklet mentioned cites the follow-in- g uses of food products In the course-o- f a year of beer making: malt (from barley), 1,958,419,675 pounds; corn, 441, 161,545 pounds; sugar and syrups, pounds; rice, 188,943,875 pounds, .and hops, 31,926,866 pounds. It does seem that America is pouring a jot of good food down the hatch. com-mls- We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States With Its Three Departments Of Government As Therein Set Forth , Each One Fully Independent In Its Own Field s. lished ar Friday, lVovember'20,'1942. million acres of forests, made up of cork, cedar, oak, and palm trees, in addition 13 the extensive orchards and vineyards. High in the Atlas Mountains huge cedars attain a height of more than 10O feet. Most of. the more than 5,000,000 inhabitants are Moslem Berbers and Arabs, with a turbulent past. There are large Jewish colonies, and a good many Negroes. In recent years, large numbers of Europeans, especially French, have settled in French Morocco. New quarters of cities, with striking modern buildings, have sprung up. Huge sums were poured into the construction of the new show city of Casablanca. Contrasts between the unchanging ancient oriental civilizacustoms and twentieth-centurtion are seen on every hand. .More than-- a thousand miles of railway link the ehief towns of the colony and connect with Algerias main lines. Of the 4,500 miles of roads, more than 2,500 'are first class, with paving over long stretches. In normal times, there was dally air service between Casablanca and Toulouse, in France; another route reached to Dakar, Jumping-ofplace for South Atlantic transoceanic flights. y f These Days If II Duce Had Sense BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY If Mussolini were really clever, he would try to get an S. O. S. out of his prison. He would find a way to signal the American Army and Navy to come and rescue his people from their masters. For obviously the Italians are now a conquered people and Musoljnl has become a lesser Petain. The pupil has conquered the teacher. The founder of Fascism is a Nazi puppet But the old boy can retrieve some Shreds of reputation by J opening the way of an occupation of Italy. He can redeem himself with his own people by becoming a revolutionary against the Nazi He can cast aside his fancy uniform and go underground with the Italians who remember Garibaldi and Mazzinl and he can kill Germans. Itajy is as conquered as Norway. And Mussolini must know that, for every time he forgets, Himmler is sent down to remind him, to remind him that Hitler regards him as an old dodo, a whose army could not fight the Greeks. I suppose It Is too late even for that. Soon enough, too soon for Hitler, our planes will be flying over Italy and Mussolini will hear them and see them and he will know that in that great American Army are lots of boys who first heard Italian from their mothers lips and those boys will be fighting for the freedom of their ancestral homes. Men fight harder and truer when they fight that way. II duce will understand and fear that. He will also know that the first Americans who land on Italian soil will be welcomed by the Italian people, welcomed as liberators from the conquering Nazi. competent mind would dls- cover a way to save his people, to save them so that his name-manot be everlastingly cursed by his own countrymen. He would discover a formula for a bond between himself and his own people, and even if he failed. It ought to mean something to him to die with a German bullet in his heart. rather than an Italian stiletto-- For surely It will be one- or the other there Is no other way - for such a one as Mussolini. Eh, il duce, its tough to guess wrong. You might have been sitting in London today, heading", a government but you would have been a man among men. What are you today? Not even a supplicant of your fuehrers bounty for he gives what he wants to give and you must live on the crumbs off Goerings table. I wonder if you ever talk these things over with your remaining children, They must know that you who founded a dynasty for them are leaving them nothing but the memory that your father was an honest blacksmith. Think it over, 11 duce. It was a greater men than you who guessed right during the last war. Hecama in on tha ' winning sie. Anglo-America- n ly y - -- drive toward Australia. Is near an ignominious end. The land troops are pinned back to a narrow atrip of coast between Buna and Gona and efforts to relieve them from the sea have only added to the toll exacted from the Japanese navy in the bitter" war of attrition in the South Pacific. In the Solomons Japanese fortunes have been,even worse, if possible. Our ftavy now adds . more shipsAo the already formidable list of cneipy losses, suggesting that what Secretary Knox calls round two of the Solomons slugging match has cost the Mikado's fleet two battleships, eight cruisers and some 18 lesser craft. STILL POWERFUL These are truly crippling losses, but it la too early to sugaltered the have that they gest balance of sea power in the Pacific definitely in our favor. Our navy is preparng for round three in the Solomons and there is no disposition among the men who know best to count the Nipponese Navy out in For one thing, the Japanese battleships sunk or damaged are said to be of the Kongo class, a group of remade battlecruisers which composed the least formidable unit of the Japanese first line. Nearly 30 years old, they represented an early, experimental stage of Japanese naval architecture. The Kongo, which gives the class Its name, actually was built in England, and the other three, the Haruna, Hiel and Klrisima were Japanese efforts to copy the British-mad- e model In converting them to battleships speed was sacrificed for armor, which obviously has insufficient been protection against American shells, torpedoes and bombs. STRENGTH SECRET A still uncertain factor In 'the Pacific naval situation is - the capital ship strength Japan, has been able to add to her fleet 1937, since the beginning of when" the naval holiday ended and a curtain of deepest secrecy was dropped on her warship construction. The best authorities, however." believe that ahe must have at least four new battleships either in commission or nearly ready, some or perhaps all of them of 40,000 tons or more and armed with mighty rifles of at least 16 inches. None of these has been reported vet in action, nor is it likely that they would be risked on the outermost fringe of Japans defense lines unless the need became desperate. The Japanese high command sorely needs a victory to present to a public which must have been stirred and depressed by its latest news from the Paadcific, which includes the mission of one battleship lost The armys record these last six months, since the conquest of Burma, has been no better than the navys. Ita one maior campaign, that against the Chinese in Chekiang and Klangsi Provinces, was a costlv failure. All this suggests that the must try a new thrust Japanese soon. -- Waning prestige and the probable lowering of their armed forces morale call for it as much as the strategic necessity of striking back at the growing concentrations of Allied power at many points on the periphery of their "Greater East Asia. Naturally they are trying not to telegraph the next punch but signs increase that it will come in southeastern Asia, from Burma or French The Chinese report Japanese reinforcements into moving Burma and into the small ocof Chinas southcupied patch western province of Yunnan. An to attempt conquer all Yunnan would seerrLto beaJoicaLnxt for tha Tokyo high com- step mand. Indo-Chin- Child Labor- Measure Tabled WASHINGTONlNov, 20. (AP) The Senate finance committee has tabled a bill to permit use of child labor in the nation's sugar beet and cane fields without loss to growers of benefit payments. The hieasure, introduced by was Rep. Domangeaux opposed at a committee hearing by four witnesses, including Katharine F. Lenroot, chief of the children's bureau. Department of Labor. No witnessed appeared in support of the bill. Senator Ellender said it was too late in the harvest season for the measure to be of any value. He said it was doubt-fu- l If it would be presented at the next session of Congress. The measure also has been opposed by grower groups in most of the sugar beet areas. (D-La- ), (D-L- a) Poetic Justice CHICAGO, Nov. 20 (API Assistant U. S. Attorney John Xiely, who prosecutes draft vanders in this federal area, waa listed as a draft delinquent yesterday by local board 65. Fair Enough!; - ; Lets Keep The American By Westbrook Pegler ' 'NEW YORK Discussion of Our plans for, the great new world of the future seems slightly premature, not to' say cocky, at the present writing, but, assuming that the Germans presently get another bellyful and quit again and that the Japs are aU but annihtlat-- . ed, which seems to be Ambassador Grews minimum for victory over them, then what about postwar immigration to this country by the peoples of other lands? t I think that when it Is all over the American people will sfill have sense enough to ey elude wholesale immigration of those whom Kipling, irt his lesser breeds, because experience has shown that they can work rings around Americans, both Vrhite and negro, and live on less andthat they .tend ta . depress the American living standard and live mysteriously apart from us among us. It is a fact that we had Chinese troubles in California and elsewhere in the West7before we had a Japanese problem and it is not. insulting these peo pies but, if you like, complimenting them to say that they can get by on less food, sleep, recreation and comfort and produce more work than we can. When vou come down to it, that is the same as saying that they are better men than we are, which admission might take some of the pam out of exclusion. -- DIGESTING A MESS OF FISHHOOKS But are ve going to open the doors to the peoples of Europe without regard for their politics, past performances or occupational talents? Because, if so, we shall be trying to digest a mess of fishhooks. These people will include most of the smart and nasty agitators of the Continent who did much to provoke Fascism in Italy ant the idle, sedentary parasites who flocked to France when the heat became too great in their own countries and nagged the Frenchmen to distraction. The fact is that we have many of them among us now telling us what is wrong with the only country on earth in which they are safe and wanting us to do things their way. In our great, humane generosity we bent our otfn laws out of shape in the last rush before the war and because we were unwilling to risk excluding genuine victims of racial, religious and political persecution, let in many doubtful cases who were just Clapper Says: Especially inspiring to every American, fcr"the armed forces or in civil life, i3 the gallant story of the two ad- mirals who lost their lives they plunged Into the heart of the Jap invasion fleet and swept it with slashing broadsides that sent the Japs Ogp' r mto confused firing on each tjf other. Rear Admiral Norman Scott and Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan were faced with superior Jap forces bearing down on Guadalcanal with overwhelming numbers of landing troops ..They had to decide on the spot whether to risk every- thing on a plunge into these Mr. Clapper heavy forces, led by two Jap battleships. They decided to go In. Both lost their lives. But the Japs were smashed. Those Jap ships that survived fled from the scene. The Japs didnt get to Gudalcanal. They suffered heavy Thus the second round of the Jap efdamage. fort to retake the Solomons was won. The Japs came back the next nigth in a final attempt and were beaten off again. Now they have retired to lick their wounds. They will came again undoubtedly. Meantime they may try to pound Guadalcanal by air. They have not yet put their full naval force into this fight. They were using old battleships. They have better ones that they may vet decide to risk. The Japs have face to save. They have Invested men and ships in Guadalcanal. They are certain to coma, back again to try to make their investment good. vihen A GREAT CRISIS PAST as cruel and conspiratorial as the. Fascists and . Nazis. One proposal came from a high quarter of our government shortly "before the war to admit to Puerto Rico as many refugees from Spain and France as could be ferried over in a hurry, and if that bright idea had been adopted the situation in Puerto Rico would be much worse than it is today. Not all refugees are victims of injustice, although all of them say they are. Some fire primarily refugees from the exasperation of their decent, orderly neighbors in the homeland ,who finally got fed up with their ceaseless aking, their defamatory treatment of all who disagreed with them and their assumption of an intellectual status which forbade them to engage in common work. NEED FOR CAREFUL SELECTION If we must have immigration-in-th- egreat new world of the future then, certainly, it should be selective according to a catalog of talents in which we may be deficient and a record of useful work should weigh more than a record of the cops or organizing ructions in the 'stoning . streets. . Would that tend to exclude Ideas, then? - If so, that would be no new principle in our Immigration practice, for we are hostile to Nazism Fascism and have taken a position somewhat, "shaky to be sure, that Communism is equally detestable and dangerous to the American Government. That is an attempt, at least, to exclude ideas which are fundamentally and practically, the .same, but because we recognized in Fascism or Hitlerism the more Immediate threat to our physical safety and because these isms fought the Com-- 1 mumsts we gave the status of refugee, with all the comfort and sympathy which that word implies, to some immigrants who are,, in fact, no more desirable than so many Nazis. No political idea now current in Europe offers any improvement on the government of the United States, and the only economic ideas that Europe has to offer us are the ideas of Bankruptcy and state control of most private property and state possession by confiscation of the rest. It is an expression of despair and defeatism to say that we have exhausted the possibilities " of the American way and must now turn back to Europe at the worst stage of Europes history for novelties with which to iraprovenhe American way of life., Open the doors wide again and we will have the sort of journalism, already noticeable, and the same conspiratorial, international kind of domestic . politics which contributed so much to the hell of Europe today. trouble-m- -- Shown By Two U. S . Admirals BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON The more about this latest Solomon Islands victory that can be toldr the more it will inspire everyone In our-- nation whether Way ' But we probably never will be as nervous about it as we were last again week. For the battle lust ended win be an .inspiration to strengthen both the fighting forces and the country. The Solomons battle was marked by the same daring and gallantry that other American forces showed in the North African campaign. Everv arm of our service, from Guadalcanal to the shores of the Mediterranean, has shown itself equal to the demands of modern war. In these last ten days America has come of age In this war-- ' Our- - forces Ijpve shown that they have y equipment Our airplanes and our tanks, as well as our ships, are proving adequate to the demands made on them. Our forces have shown that they have the ingenuity and "the" skill In planning. They have shown the teamwork. was notable in the African campaign, and Gen-It eral MacArthurs bombers were in their with the navy m the Solomons action. pitching Finally our forces have shown that which comes out of the bones of the menquality them- selves, and. without which nothing else counts the personal qualities of courageous execution. We saw it in our jnen on wake Island, at Midway and on Bataan. In Africa and the Solomons we have seen it conspicuously In the commands. Officers and men are proving fully worthy of each other. The home front will be hard pushed to hold up its end and give these forces the kind of support they must have. We wont do it by griping over gasoline rationing as some congressmen are doing. Leon Henderson needs support against this budding raid on the home front. high-qualit- CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY The Japs were coming down on Guadalcanal In three columns. Two were headed by battle- ships, and the third column bv a heavy cruiser. Our far smaller forces had to break it up, or else see Guadalcanal become another Bataan. That was when Admirals Callaghan and Scott plunged in. They went in between two of the Jap advancing columns which about three miles apart, coming on abreast. Our plunging column was thus about a mile and a half from the Jap columns on either side. We took the chance of being wiped out by crossfire. But it was the one way in which we could fire broadsides in both directions as we went through that lane of e Jap 6hps. So our column ran that gauntlet of death, playing the one long shot left to us. To have hesitated would have been to lose everything. Our men took the necessary risk and won. For within a the third column of Jap ships, not able to determine m the dark what was happening, began firing on its own adjoining column about three miles away and the whole Jap formation broke up m confusion and fled. Admiral Callaghan and Capt.' Casein Young were killed by a hit on the bridge. Admiral Scott, on another ship, lost his life. We will have losses in this war but none that will hurt more th8n the loss of such officen as these. Editorial Forum A Realistic Policy (From the New York Son) Secretary Hun and his aids In the State Department can find In the American operations in North Africa full satisfaction for the American misunder--standmgthe maintenance of American relations with the Vichy government. The State Department has pursued the sub stance and ignored tha shadow. The substance, in this case, was the development by whatever means possible of Frensh resist ance to Nazi aggression. Almost as important was the mamten ance of a channel thropgh which authentic information concerning Axis designs could flow to Washington. Scarcely less important has been the consideration that maintenance of diplomatic relations with the Vichy government per mitted the preparatory atepa to be taken in North Africa. If tha Vichy government has now broken relations, the actual diplomatic break is probablv tha least price that Marshal Petain could pay for his continuance in power.-Th- e relations between the French and American peoples remain unbroken. American military cemeteries and battle monuments in France stand as a pledge that wa mean what we say whan w declare that wa intend no harm to France or to Frenchman. The Tealitm with which, the State Department has pursued its policy augers well for the political warfare that must support our military operations. wide-sprea- d before you telephone Your considerate use of the telephone has never been more important War calls are 9 on the wires and we urge you to think before you telephone. If the call lsnt neces- sary, please dont make it On all calls be brief. Help keep lines open for Victory. Dont call Ogden, Provo, Tooele and r . Wendover unless it is urgent. The cir cuits are heavily congested. THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE A TELEGRAPH CO. |