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Show itr J Friday , January 8, 1943 j THE DESERET NEWS Salt Lake City, Utah w (She It MayScare Some Peoole9Bul Not Hitler v r-Y HOttEV , ok VNeuis Aerial Rou te Carries China -- - Member of the Audit bureau ot Uiretitatton. and of the Associated Pres Published after noona except Sunday. Euablulud Jun IS, 12.J0 POUTccao PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS message to the seventy eighth Congress! yesquite enterday was literary, patriotic, lightening and encouraging lng for its Implications as much as for Its disclosures, It was a good review of our first year of war, of cur defeats and of our victories on the combat and production fronts. The exact arms production fig pres were interesting and encouraging, and, as the president said, will give no aidLand comfort to theenerry Militarily, the message was ing and adequate. It was charged with reassuring, though restrained, optimism and wuth'broad hints of better days to come. ,, But on domestic - and world eco- "hornic and sbcial problems, theip resident" to git e much indication was of what the administration has on the fire One thing w e could not quite understand about the presidents message was hisL statement that he trusted that Indi yidual security, including the right of employment and Ihe right of assurance against lifes hazards, will not be regarded as an issue. Nobody disagrees with the desirabiindividual security for every Amerof lity ican, but many loyal and social minded persons do disagree with the president on the best way to attempt Bringing this secunty about. In this connection, one part of the message wras just a little inconsistent. In one breath the president said that the service men after the war had' a right to - expect full employment for themselves and for all able bodied men and women who want to work. But In the next breath, he said: They expect the oppoitunity to work, to run their farms, their stores, to earn decent wages. They are eager to face the risks Inherent in our system of free enterprise. Everybody wants security. But freedom of the individual and his enterprise and absolute job security are as far apart as the poles. 'The only wray we can all be absolutely certain that we will never be out of a job at some time or other is to give up all our freedom and succumb to Then we may complete regimentation. have to work for nothing,.or next io At that rate, is absolute security worth the price? All in-a- ll, the president's message contained very little that was new and nothing that was wholly unexpected. Its mildness on domestic matters and issues was interpreted by some to be, and easily could have been, a wholesome bid for po- liUeal unity at a tiffle when unify is most needed. Time will telL LIFE Vital Goods' - S ma Road, then, and then only, can you realize how tenuous is the lifeline between China and the ioutstde world. It as thin and delicate as a spiders thread among and r . - Case Of A Greenhouse rHE Salt (From The Washington Star) LJ IS countrymen long have known . Captain Eddie Riekenbacker as a pio- neer in automotive transportation on the lan'd and in the sky, as an engineer. and a builder of automobiles and airplanesL ?s a proponent of techmcaT'progress in every field of endeavor, as a patriot and as a personality of world-widsignifi- cance. But perhaps they did not appre- ciate to the full his great spiritual endowment. In any case, the past few weeks must have taught them much In that re ' gard No other man of the present dread ful period of human experience has carried himself with a more convincing modesty. Both in his interviews with the press and in his representatives-o- f radio broadcast,' Captain Riekenbacker demonstrated a quality which thousands of his contemporaries will be happv to believe is characteristically American. His humility in the face of national adulation, his unwillingness to claim credit, for1 courage and fortitude during a cruel ordeal, his- consideration of his compan-Ion- s in their exhausting trial in the 1 , i . mid- - Pacific, above-a- ll his breadth-ovision have moved a vast audience to pride and happiness beyond the capacity of" words to tell. The whole community of the United States seems better to de-6erve to sun he because he has sur. vived. , Riekenbacker is Captain nfct a profes- sional manipulator of language, and what he tells the Nation therefore Is ail the more impresshe because it is not con sciously literary. Something of Abraham Lincoln echoes In the thought which he parUcularfjwished to stress at the moment of his return: I hope that the trip, what hardships we had to accept or endure might prove to be a lesson to the people back home in the stimulus to drive them on to a greater peak, because f . without their effort and the material they re producing, our boys cant do tpe job they are so willing and anxious to do:in the four corners of the world.? ,, , - , , P alienee. Everybody I , The Australians and Americans now - Buna' in New Guineas Our own worried motorists, however, are still won- deejng when they can get their bands on some. Los Angeles Times. day authorized the purchasing agent to call for bids on the construction of a 30x60 foot greenhouse in Liberty Park. Admitting that the greenhouse is needed in the ordinary bourse of things, the public would like to know: Is this a typical example of the things we cant do without lit a wartime budget? . And is it such things as this that raised the city's million dol1913 budget by nearly one-hal- f lars and added one mill to the proposed tax levy to "be set next fall? And while were asking questions: How much war-vita- l material will this greenhouse consume? Where is thisma terial coming from? And what war job will the greenhouses construction deAnd finally: Will prive of manpower? for the plants ,it make a good bomb-shelte- r and ants? We dont want to keep nagging at the city fathers" over details of their enlarged budget; But we have a right to be inquisitive and critical, and we expect to exercise that right, when they say they couldnt cut the budget down any lower and then they plan expenditures like this one. Maybe we shouldn't Walt until mid-yea- r to agitate for a redaction In the city budget and levy. And oh say, by the way, whats the matter with the present Liberty Park greenhouse You'll Be Invited To Join V. McNUTT of the war manpower commission, has an- pHAIRMAN PAUL f swered no to the question: Does a man have to join a union to get a war job? The question Is Important Sn View of the Impending reshuffle of American " manpower. But, he pointed out, unions of course can "myitenew workers to join. The only trouble with this is that the "invitation often is, accompanied - by -- very forceful persuasion, which has been known to take the form of anything from a third degree to mob murder. Certainly, the manpower commission should set up some rules .to limit the form the invitation can take. And, if it neglects to do so. Congress and state legislatures should take an active hand. The Matter Of Soap From Des Moines 'Register We boast of our literacy, yet in 1941 the value of all soap produced in this country was nearly twice as great as the value of all the books manufactured in this country, says an editorial in the Review of Literature. Saturday J Well, if you ask us, thats not as bad as it is made out Cleanliness is next to godliness, whereas books are of different kinds; Furthermore, -- there are approximately .25, 0Q0, 000 persons under the age of. 10 who are much heavier consumers of soap than they are of books though often reluctantly, in both' cases. T ipi nine y Lake City Commission yester--I - e T L over the great, jagged mountain peaks of this region. Fogs envelop it, Ice elinps to it and fierce monsoon winds tear at it until the w under of it is that it doesn't snap. And often the Mikados men lurk among the clouds hoping they may catch soma .wayfarer, unawares. Last week I reported from India something of the great work our American fliers are doing in link between maintaining this China and her allies. It not onlv iff great work but it also is vital" to the cause of theUnited Nations. Should the spider's web be severed it would be a staggering blow to our gallant allies. Certainly we can sav tlfat If this artery were cut, China, not only would suffer terrible material losses, but it would be a challenge to pubTttrmoraie, They Mean Welt Its amazing the amount of fun the jokesters can get out of the serious-busness of rationing. Even that one about freezing ice cream is still goingVtrong. Los Angeles Times. ", . . h - not-ther- nd the-acti- y pro-Naz- left-win- home-grow- g n d -- Do not forget that China is all but isolated and this lifeline is the touch of a friendly hand in the dark. . Maintenance of this strategis link is an ob Yankee fighters protect the route from pi ow ling Japanese Yankee bombers cons'antlv raid enemv airfields to force the farther hack into Buima, awav fiom the lifeline. Yank-- e nansport planes regularly wing their way into China with those (From The California Milk News essentials which provide the flint to watch the "little profesIt Is interesting to set off ihe powder hom- - our govern ment cal Is 'economists, v sors - It take a stout - neart and a do their stuff these davsr skilled hand to negotiate that every government bureau is loaded skvline. A good, deal of its runs ' withAlmpst -these economic- - advisors. They are having across solid mountain ranges the time of their lives pulling levers and where a forced landing v ould then watching to see what will happen mean anything you can think of These economic lever pullers remind me of a thats nasty. visit I once made to the switchman's tower in a Much of the time, especially at big railroad yard. tins season, billowing oceans of The men m this tower pulled levers that diclouds cover th rected hundreds of trains onto many tracks. solid white mountains with an occasional vil Freight and passenger trains. These powerful trains carried vital material and passengers. If Uanous peak of rock jutting up the switchmen in that tower pulled the wrong through. there would be a collision many people lever MUST FLY HIGH Would be killed, a lot of valuable material lost, The pilot must climb into the It was no job for the amateur. The men in thin air above the clouds or fly this tow-e- r had to be piactical parlraod men. Thev ' v ith blind. And flying blind had to know their job from the giound up. No mountains of rock all ground ytu place for a theorist. They knew their job andy the tiains rolled in and out without accident. isnt pleasant But todav our government has placed a lot Finally theie comes the hump of amateurs in the swtichn'an's tower. Giyen or highest part of the tange, and them authority to pull any lever tjiev wish. Few, oyer-th-is planes must be lifted if any of these switchmen, (economic advors) at a height of maybe 18.000 feet. ever had to operate a business and make it make I have been in some odd places a return that would meet a payroll, paV taxes in vanojas parts of the wot Id, show a profit that would keep thebusines but going over that hump'with-ou- t and , running. new. was something oxygen these little professors," these 'economic As your "breath gets thin and advisors, are now being permitted to pull any short you wonder whether you lever they wish; send our business train up or really have led the sort of life down any track thpir fancy dictates If time It, a wreck well, it is just too bad. It was all done you should if you see what I mean. in an effort to win the war. Not all the effort comes In flyBut if a practical business man should atand ing, though. The tempt to tell one of these switchmen" that he lever that business man transports must be . .main's. md, was pulling the would be branded a "stubborn reactionary, a and you find still more of Uncle Sams boys scattered along the route t(f keep the planes in the aii This Job of maintenance, of Little Economic Amateurs Pull Levers To Guide U. S. Industry We StandFor The Constitution Of The United States With Its Three Departments Of Government As Therein Set Forth, Each One Fully Independent In Its Own Field Lesson In Greatness , -- ALMOST ISOLATED - m pro-Na- for-th- r . MACKENZIE . BY DEWITT sariously the orations of Henry Wallace, and believes it is the purpose of the American ' people to liberate the French colonies and feed and pro- tect them perpetually even against France. But, whatever they think, American troops that far from home. should not be needlesly exposed to treachery by Frenchmen on the ground of a tern- firmness porary waiver of idealism. A resort tolives that1 would be a cheap price to pay 'for There are an astonishing otherwise might be thrown away.-- , number of Axis sympathizers After all, the French people should not be among the French in North Af- given too much to say in this affair. In saving rica," says he, and they are a drowning man, the rescuer has the right to hindering -- usJLbust him on the chm to stop his threshing and ' So what to do? insist on playing grappling and if the French Well, the French are polititheir complex politics to the" detriment of the bedemented for the time cally American soldier, they should be made harmless ing. and deserve no great conas long as the necessity requires. Those who are sideration from, an army and a worth saving wilt submit and those who favor the people whose mission in Africa Axis will deserve whatever it is found- necessary to free them is, incidentally, to do to them. both there and at home, from e to rescue France The Americans are 'Nazi Germany. Eventually, if out and in. primarily but to drrve the Germans this sort of thing goes on, vade the Continent at the conclusion of which enand British, in as an incidental result, will be terprise, France, Mr. Pegler, and i for military rea- free again to mess up her affairs as of old, and sons, will have to abandon the pretense that we doubtless will. But Giraud admits that he has -- are indrfferenttotbeti poht tcff-anothing to fight wrthrantrTJe Gaulte seems'pri-maril-no and attitudes of them eivil authorities, establish interested in politics, so they are in a firm military control and tell them, not ask them " position to insist on this or that kind of civil what to do. - administration or to tell the Americans how things One of the - many reasons, whv France fell must be done and by whom. was that the nation was politically Incoherent and It is a mistake to think that the Germans corrupt. There were Invented, and are the only people who practice, who worked at cross purposes but, paradoxically, firmness on civilians and local politicians who get forthe common purpose of destioymg the repubwhen they are in military occupation lic. Their press was unbelievably traitorous and , obstreperous of a conquered land, unstst if we must that this . Is" venal, and most of th,eir politicians were viler Innot conquered and that the Americans territory are merely passing through. If there lives de- -cluding some who have been held up to us by Red or otherwise radical refugees and sotne pend on It, the soldiers should and, it Is hoped, of our but expatriate propagandists 'will act accordingly. , as for and freedom democfighters Pyle seems naive however, In wondering at racy. our softness In dealing wrth elements of doubtful t When forced Jo Jt on some occasions. Amer- interest, for he should know that we have been ican commanders in foreign landR have had the -- doing that at home ever 'since 1933. Officially, at least, although certainly not popularly, we have capacity to take over and establish military govbeen very kind to Communists and partvliners. ernment for the security of their troops and the success of their missions This could, and judging Within 12 hours after Pyles storv appeared there -from Pyles account, should be done again. was published a photograph of Mrs, Roosevelt in The French people on the Continent have a jolly group which included Joe Curran, the nothing to lose by such a move,unless one takes president pf the National Maritime Union, BY WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK In the frankest story yet sent from North Africa, Ernie Pyle writes that our offilot of small-frpeople have left in office a Nazis and who therecials who were put in by the and are permitting Fascist fore must be societies to continue to exist. 'Deseret News War Analyst -C- HUNGKING, Jan. 8. When you have climbed from India into Chungking over the adventurous aerial route which is a substitute ' Japanese-controlle- d e Bur- -- . By Westbrook Pegler American Planes Take Place Of Lost Burma Road -- " French Polities Needs Watching I YoClt, The State Of The Union Fair Enough These Days Congress Responsibility BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Gentlemen and Ladies of the Congress of the United States: - In spite of every pressure from powerful propagandist groups, the majority of the people of the United States spoke theirdecision hminmistakable language in the last election. If you deduct the votes in the solid South, where the choice .is not made on current isues but in adherence to a tradition which Is no longer tenable, the protest vote was overwhelming. The American people expect you to respond to ffiiir wIUrThey Will be a Very angry people if you fail them. He-kn- eyf f -- You possess specific constitutional powers and obligations. You have the power to legislate. You have the power to appropriate funds to the government. You have the power to control expenditures. You have the power to tax the -to investi..course, plajs a Big part In hold-- " people." You have' the power are You ing the route open. Official conduct required all gate I encountered one group of to guard our structure of government so about a dozen of these mechanics that it remains a representative republic at a lonely an field among he When they found mountains. and dogs not become a centralized buthat I was they or Russian German reaucracy after the crowded about me as though I a long lost brother. They fashion. It is up to you to see to it that were so pleased at seeing someour relations with all foreign countries, body from the states that they are such and enemy, friend and foe, ally were like a bunch of kids. They showed me pictures of folks back that bur future is not imperilled. The home boasted of letters less Constitution requires that treaties have than aandmonth old and believe see to business is it your me, a fast delivery is something your consent to it that no subterfuge interferes with for the boys in the- lonely pkrt of the big world. yout-dutNEED MORE PLANES So American skill and nerve Your reputation, has not been what lifeline open and thus it Should have been in recent years. That keep the an essential operation perform so because was permitted you for the Allied eause. definitely There is just one fly in the yourselves" the luxury of allowing others that the value to "think for you and to write bills" for of theand this iscould be multiservice others that You. legislation passed you. , plied if a few more transport and were available. called "must, that unresponsible planes One hundred more transports, perhaps even irresponsible persons passed as I understand It, would make on to you. The people dislike that. They a mighty- - difference to Chins's elected you to legislate, not the others. supply problem. You would understand that if You cannot pass the buck for your failyou could be here and see how ure to scrutinize bills and to understand far these brave people are making their supplies go. And, mind their purport by saying that the presiit is essentials and not dent wanted somethiftg. He has his busi- you, luxuries which come Over that ness to do and you have' yours and it is skvline. y How items ' could you plain where his functions end and yours pack intomany a single transport plane begin. When you permitted the wealth do you think? Not niany.and'not a huge amount on 100 transpoits, of this nation to be dissipated In futiliand yet the vital war operations ties, that was your fault and you are of one of the big four of the Alto blame. It is your fault because it Is lied nations depend on meager which are coming jiy up to you to make sure that these things supplies air. do not happen, To anyone' on the giound It I, a simple citizen, write to you stern- Is100obvious that provision of these transport planes would be ly because I have a vote and there are a grand investment. millions like me who vote and who are The subject Is one which is so that I shall return to definitely displeased. We are not disloyal, Itimportant in a subsequent dispatch. but displeased We do not want Hitler or the Japanese to win the war, but we also do not want the war used as an excuse scheme and alibi for every cock-eyethat every crazy galoot puts over. We are not exactly dumb. WA.have a pretty good idea of what is going on, and we dont like it ' Well, heres good luck to youjmp may I Di Payne died yesterday. He you justify.4he..confidence of. your con. stituencies. field secretary of the American Faithfully yours, Congress. In late, years lining. George E. Sokolsjcj he had operated a metal allofe Sarrio) (Coprhfhltd 1M, Colombia plant at , Burbank, near here. e TiiESiGiis "greedy peison thinkihg only of profit. Well, maybe our American businessman is such a peison. Butaf ter all, youve got to admit he knew his stuff; He knew the levers to pull to make this country the most productive in the world. Furthermore he knew enough to give the. citizens of thiscountry the highest living standards of any nation on earth. enough to enable this country to become the arsenal of democracy. So with all of his faults maybe Americas business fin aq isnt such a big bad wolf after all. Butwhat are these amateur switchmen doing today A Ith their newly acquired power to direct Americas business, What leveri are they pull. are they directing our mg.And up what tracks economic traffic, It would take more space than allowed In this blumn to enumerate the levers these amateur switchmen are pulling on American enterprise collisions on the home which kre causing head-ofront. Surely it should be plain to everyone that we have too many "switchmen towers" (government bureaus with too many amateur lever pullers working without a map of our great industrial system before them. Right now a master train dispatcher is needed. One who knows the American food industry from practical experience. His job should be to coordinate and direct, with unquestioned of -- this multitude of authority, the now clutter up our efeconomic theorists forts to help win the wan The bureaucrats are going to keep pulling their particular rubber bands so far that the elasticity gives out and then SNAP' lever-pulhn- " "Wake up, you boys m Washington. " oniie Times A new book by Elder Joseph Fielding Smith of the Council of the Twelve is now coming off the press. It contains a series of talks under' the general title "The Signs of the Times" given by Elder Smith under the r auspices of the Lion House Social Center this winter. y, oint-me- .. d f MdrXandMS Subjects Discussed Include i "The End Known From The BeglrTmng." "The Restoration Of All Things." "The Restoration Of Israel And Judah." 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