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Show X A Flashes Welcome Home , Son NeU e.-Sf-- Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday, March S, 1943 By The Associated Frees Member of the Audit Bureau qf Circulation and of the Associated Press. Published after- Marathon Dance ST. LOUIS. The De Soto Hotel guests smiled approvingly as the laughing couples entered the hotels hall room to dance Saturday night They frowned In bewilderment as cheerful couples,, apparently as fresh as ever, swung about on the ball room floor Sunday morning. They threw their hands up In an attitude when the dance wes etlll going strong that afternoon5 Then came the explanation; The dance was sponsored by the AFL Machinists Union for all war workers on all shifts. It was a three-shif- t dance lasting 20 hours. Five orchestra played also by shifts. noons except Sunday. Ettabluhtd June IS, 18S0 We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States With . ( 60 Its Three Departments Of Government As Therein Set Forth, Each One Fully Independent In Its Own Field , Days Of Nothing? THIS week the Twenty-fiftUtah Legls-Iature will yind up its constitutional session. It has worked hard, and, in the main, conscientiously. But when it takes Inventory of the Important fruits of its toils, it is going to find a pretty empty cupboard unless it performs some 1 h Bean-Bnrg- The meat In the hamburger, dwindling for now vanished. sometime, has William D. Hopple, though, has solved the meat shortage with a new 'burger made without any critical materials. Principal Ingredients are soybeans and oatmeal. It looks, tastes and smells like the real thing," says Hopple, if you use just a bit of imagine-tioi- r . . . y last-minu- legislative miracles. From the start, It has been a hectic session in some ways. First, House Insurgent Democrats bolted the decision of a Democratic caucus and elected a speaker. And the Senate chose a president who certainly jwas neither a leftist nor an administration man. it 'looked As though" there "woul (The some hot fireworks and considerable reform. The fireworks developed, but so far not rhucIT'F&form. In some "respects the Twenty-fiftLegislature has been very disappointing, and, we might add, disap- Always The Gentleman - KANSAS war. Reorganize the state reorganization i as to reduce the fiscal power concentrated in the hands of the governor and lhe finance.commkslon which he appoints. . 3 Scrap or completely overhaul Utahs ponderous, unwieldy and unworkable direct primary election law. 4 Amend Utahs "little Wagner act to protect the rights of labor, the public and the employer by racketeering and abuse without erasing any of labors legitimate gams. None of these things requires a lot of new legislation, only amendment and revision of present laws and spending and tax schedules. But to date none of them has been wholly accomplished. And the session has only a few days more to live, ven if the clock is stopped on the sixtieth day, Thursday. Economy, it seems has become a meaningless platitude in Utah. Balls to give some relief from state taxation were killed by factions who were afraid of being hurt. And now the legislators are looking for more money to meet budgets, instead of cutting the budgets to the bone and then sawing up the bones if necessary. Reinstatement of a property tax and a hike in the sales tax are among the increased tax measures being considered. A bill to reorganize the state fiscal setup was killed In the House after the Senate had passed it with a substantial majority. It wasnt a perfect bill, but neither was it very drastic. Concerning the direct primary law, the Senate has passed, by a 19 to 0 vote, a bill which combined convention and direct primary into one streamlined system. Each party's convention would nominate two candidates for each position and then a direct primary election would determine the finalists. It looks like a good system. The House has passed a primary bill of its own, but it merely seeks to amend the present law by making the dates of the primary elections several months earlier. If this great difference between Senate and House bills reflects a corresponding difference in attitude, neither of these $JUls will pass and the primary la will remain as it is today, unwieldy, cumbersome, unworkable, and undemocratic. There is a bill in the legislature to amen'd the "little Wagner act1 As suggested in No. 4 above. It is not lost as ,yet, but it will lake some vigorous effort to get it passed at thi$ late hour. , , We do not wash to imply that the Twenty-fiftUtah Legislature has done nothing. But if you .eliminate the more or less routine agricultural and judiciary all-ou- t 2 one-side- d elim-natin- - ' g A By Westbrook Pegler WORCESTER, Mass. On Sat- urday night, Jan. 16, the Textile Workers of America of the CIO bad a banquet here at which Ahtoe Cote was solemnly Installed In the office of president of the Central Massachusetts Board of the union. The festivities were held in the headquarters of the joint board and were attended by the jrgonai director of ,the National War Labor Board and Emil Rieve of NeW York, president of the national union. The name of the regional director of the War Labor Board was given as Saul Wallen and Saul Waller, in the Worcester Sunday Telegram next morning. But, at the office of the board In Boston, in the absence of this "Was stated official himself,-- It that his name is spelled Wallin. At any rate, Mr. Wallen, Waller or Wallin and Mr. Rieve made speeches and Mr. Cote responded. The Sunday Telegram published a photograph of these distinguished persons and several Worcester policemen now or formerly on the local vice squad today put their fingers on the likeness of Mr. Cote and safld he was the same Amos Cote who had been arrested on July 25, 1932, in a small tenement apartment in the company of two women and con victed in the central district court of Worcester, Special Justice Jacob Asher sitting, on charges of operating a house of prostitution, possessing gambling Implements, t Two slot machines and possessing liquor. This was in prohibition days. One of the women was let go and the other was convicted of vagrancy. Cote was sentenced to two terms of six months each, one for running 1 brothel the other for possessing the slot machines, and fined $100 on the liquor charge. He paid the fine, but was released nirprobatlon until June 20, 1934, when, again, he was arrested on a liquor charge. This caused the revocation of his parole and he was sent to the house of correction to serve his Six months. While thus engaged, Cote .was taken to court on the new liquor charge and given one month additional He appealed this sentence and was given a new- - trial before a Jury which took a more serious view and sentence to hiked the three months and added a fine of $100, which was paid. Thus his total time out of circulation was nine months. The police data In the files at headquarters in Worcester say the young woman who was- convicted of vagrancy told the policemen of the vice squad that she shared her earnings with to-wl-t: five-cen- one-mon- 50-5- 0 that he could be with her. This was denied and the sincerity of u Aif Cote Is 40 Slavers On The Loose A MID 11 the rationing of gasoline, rub- ber, food, sugar, candy, shoes, news-printmanpower, liquor, and what not,' it seems a little Ironical that it should be un necessary 'to'TaUort cigarets. But m a disptach from the WPBs beverages and tobacco division in Washington, D. C., the Associated Press this week brought word that: "No restrictions on the manufacture or distribution of cigarets are necessary at present. Yet the domestic consumption of in 1942 hit an peak of 236 billion, an increase of 29 billion over the previous high In 1941. The division reports that stocks of leaf tobacco in the hands of dealers and manufacturers are adequate for the time being Further, that there was a large 1942 crop of clgaret leaf tobacco, adequate supplies of Imported tobacco known as "Turkish, and no labor problem in the Industry because it is highly mechanized and located generally outside critical labor areas. Isnt It a bit Ironical, to say the least, that of all our civilian Industry only the tobacco Industry Is unaffected more or less by wars impact Production of food and some of the other necessities of life have taken an awful beating at the hand of , cig-aret- all-tim- e cig-are- Mars years old, Is and known to the Worcester police as a drunkard, a drunken driver and a brawler and, to their knowl- identified edge, never n with work. By just what processs Brother Cote became the leader or boss of not merely one local but a whole council, or joint board, of locals of the textile workers, none of thd policemen who have been having official dealings with him as an offender for 13 years has the Slightest idea except that he Is a fast persuasive talker with an Invincible aversion to work. The textile industry is, of course, a vital war industry. of Unfortunately, the text Brother Cotes own remarks on his Installation at the reeent ban quet and the thoughts eypress-e- d by Brother Rieve, the general president of the union, and Mr. Wallen, Waller or Wallin, rehas-bee- Cote. Wh!le Cote was serving his gional director-- of the National-WLabor Board, a government time, Christmas came along and he got sentimental about MS' official, are not available mother and applied for parole so at-th- is Clapper Little Learning , The report Indicates that clgaret production now Is running at an high rate to meet greatly increased demands, And the extent of this demand is Shown by figures giving the consumption trend In America during the last 35 years In 1907, for Instance, the per capita consumption In the United States was 60 cigarets By 1913 it had increased to 164. In 1919, It was 426. And last year it reached the startling average of 1,680 cigarets for every man, woman and child In this country. What a strangle hold the little white slaver must have on a good many folks all-tim- e Marvels Of V-M- ail ll left-hande- d il Post-Dispatc- Millions Every Day i hospital with a sprained right knee. Modernized ST. JOSEPH, Mo. For several years an office room in the city nsa Wis used asTSoy Semit headquarters. Then came.the depression and the WPA moved room was taken over the (Today By George E. Sokolsky Buchanan County draft by NEW-YO- RK A charffltng'ladjr Te: bqard ,Nq,L cently accused me of refusing to see both Yes Maam, Were Sorry KANSAS CITY. The ban on sides of a question. When I told her that bakery slicing of bread requires she is quite right, she expressed surprise extra manpower, rather than less, R. L. Nafziger, president of if not anger. Yet, I cannot possibly un- says the Interstate Bakeries Corporaderstand how there can be two, sides to tion. "It takes more time to answer a moral issue. phone calls from protesting womFor instance, I recently complained en than it did to slice the bread, he explained. about the methods that the Philharmonic Furthermore, he said, some cut employed to dismiss 14 artists, the com- bakers, givenonpermission to are the loaves, guide lines mume is that plaint against every year cutting almost all the way sicians are dismissed; but every year a through Hes asking Secretary Wickard public statement is not made announeng If they cant finish the job. their names and wrecking their careers. Pig Id The Parlor The dismissal Is not as Important as a SPRINGFIELD, 111 A fine old cowardly method employed against these mansion is the home of Illinois governors but since it Is located particular men. in the heart of the city, it lacks pig sty. Again I complained of certain para- a That posed a problem for Gov. Block a which in bulletin Plan graphs Dwight H. Green whose young and Nancy, have suggested snooping and politics. I did not daughters, Gloriahim with a handJust presented the Block but Plan about some complain against porker. The girls would like to keep the pig. Their father said, private snooping. A New Jersey Block "well see and began scouting were how showed group fighting the pig housing situation. they pie snooping while preserving the Block Red Faces on leave, CHICAGO. Home Plan, but in St. Louis the OCD folks deLieut. John Hess of the armorvoted themselves to smearing me which ed force told this one on him' is irrelevant and immaterial I may be self: Recently he and four ether the worst person on earth, but pointing tank maintenance officers were to my wickedness does not make snoop- driving from Louisville, Ky.. to Fort Knox when their car sputing right tered and stopped. Knowing Another instance of the confusion of something about tank engines to on the - enwork set they the human mind Is the fourth term. I gine. An hour later they asked a am opposed to a third term and a fourth passing motorist to push them i into town,- -term because when a president serves A Negro garage attendant liftfor 12 to 16 years, he really serves for ed the hood, reached a finger Inside, twirled something and, life as most life spans go. That violates with a grin, turned around. Genall all principles of 3 representative republic tlemen, he said, what you failed to do was tu'n on the of a dynastic gov- switch." and leads to the danger ve i.. ... ernment. On the other hand, like other Americans, who afe against a fourth term, I seek a candidate who will not play a cheap game of catering to faction and class and race and creed for votes. I seek a man who will represent principles and character. I do not demand that his principles be mine, but I do object to a man who studies the Gallup Poll and then decides what he ought to say and do. Certainly there could be no advantage in voting for a man who does not say in public what he pronounces id private. There is nothing for America in that QhLI know. Be practlcal, thy sayA candidate has to.be elected. He has to play up to labor publicly while he privately tells the businessman he is with him. He has to be all things to all men and women until he Is elected. But after that, he will be himself. I dont believe It A man who is capable ever of being a liar and a hypocrite, is just that I have no one In mind, no Individual no candidate. Believe me, this is not an attack on anyone nor subtle praise of anyone-I- t is a search for decency In American life. - And the pity of it is that there is so little of It is like that admirable woman who wants me to see both sides of the Philharmonic quarreL Apparently she does not realize that there cannot be two sides to an act of indecency. It is like a man walking nude down Fifth Avenue There are no two sides to that and there are no two sides to private snooping and there are no two sides to the fourth term or to trimmers in politics. decade in office by Winging up the Subject Of a fourth term in connection with a yisit of Demo- cratic politicians to the kidding about a fourth term when they saw the president oil the eve of his tenth anniversary 1ft office. The chairman of the Democratic national committee, Frank C. Walker was along and he said .that although the fourth term was mentioned, it was not a serious presentation and that it brought no response from the president. Mr- - Walker said he did not know whether President Roosevelt heard the remarks, and if he did, he smiled them off. That, at any rate, Is the way the affair Is reported by the White House correspondents. Then Chairman Walker makes the comment that this Is no time to discuss a candidate for 1944. That is the redeeming remark about the whole business, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Walker was not merely trying to hedge against the trial balloon that he had permitted to go Col Ml Mi Km Itrrin) -- payer spy, toady, of petty blackmail to the Gestapo. Also suggesting that American democracy continues to function in the midst of total war Is the acUoft cU the Supreme Ceurt aside the conviction of the Nazi,-- , pr.opa gand ist.. George He was fl- -' Sylvester Viereck. nanced with Nazi money. But his conviction was set aside on technical grounds of trial procedure. The Supreme Court said that the conviction could not stand, however deserving of punishment Vierecks might seem. The fact Is that the Supreme Court is insisting upon scrupulous justice even for those who do not deserve It So It is hard to believe any propagandist who says that democracy is on the wav out in Americas total war. You cant even get up a witch hunt except against Harry Hopkins or some other PauL McNutt-- Or The minority opponents of the administration are not the hunted as in many countries, but the hunters. That Is a way of making democracy safe for everybody but those in power. -- monr -- eon-du- ct neat Revisions mittee investigation will reveal what Is meant by biased sources of Information. , As for the problem of committees and leadership Im reminded of a speech that the late Rep. Champ Clark, of Missouri, once made to "new congressmen. In urging that they not be discouraged If their committee did not make them happy, he wag reminded of his early days in Congress, when Maine with only four members had the chainsaanships of the and ways vitally important means committee, the navy committee and the committee on public buildings and grounds. - Give that a thought and you will begin to see at least on fault of the committee system, which operates almost wholly on seniority and hardly at all on a -- uents that tnake them just "erFirst, he said, the committee rand boys. And a study of the representatives or senator system Is obsolete. It results In hearings in any exhaustive com ness for the post THE SEVENTH SWEATER, THIS WAKES WONDER. IF OUR. BOYS FINE FOODS OOrfT LIKE THESE MM it lHt I find It a little more reassurng to the spirit to tMnk of a couple of other events that suggest to me the strengh of American de mocracy In the midst of total war. One Is the stir caused by the death of the White House peanut vendor, Steve Vasilakos. He had his peanut wagon on the northeast White House corner lor years. After Pearl Harbor he sold war bonds as well as peanuts. The point about Steves death Is that it has been re ported on page one of American newspapers along with tfie most Important news of the day. This humble man of Greek birth, received a whole editorial In the New York Times, which is in America about equal to being made a peer in England. The duplications and dispersions of By Jacd Stinnett WASHINGTON Probably effort. of information The, sources nothing will ever come of it, but upon which Congress relies are theres a lot of conversation go- Insufficient and toO often biased. Leadership is so scattered ing around about the possible rescores of committee elimto (through of Congress organization and ineffective because chairmen) obvious more inate some of its of the reluctance of Congress as defects. a body to delegate its powers, Probably the springboard for that there hardly is any at all. There is no defense against much of the talk is the recently This Is Con- pressure groups nor against published book, from constituents, Young. Mr. pressure gress, by Roland Young was for some years sec- whose demands on comparativeon ly trivial matters often occupy so retary of the State Committee much of a congressmans time Foreign Relations. However, George Galloway, an- that he has little left for legislaother student of the congression- tive considerations. . m al scene, in a recent address beOften I hav tried to point out fore the American Political Sciare hamper ence Association, summed up the how congressmen ed by demands from their constitfaults a little more briefly. 'OHt.TW0.Wtt, PURI 1 nfr Washington In Wartime: V SOMETIMES White House , .. . , .-One can t make out exactly what happened. Apparently "the some Democratic politicians-di- d In office beyond the end of his present term. But that is not a question to be ballyhooed on the anniversary of ten yearg In office. The very possibility lhat such a' situation may arise out of the war makes especiaUy.jof fensiya these current maneuvers of frightened Democratic politicians to whoop him Into the nomination now, eg 1 iVt-'' -- his plea fact that. In April 1933, while he was on probation, his mother complained that shrwas destitute and without support and Cote was officially reminded that, according to law, - It was his obligation to support her. Her rent was $10 a month and, thus ad-- " monished, the devoted son appears to have come up with the money. At any rate there, are no further entries on that score. -- HEN the Atlantic Clipper crashed at Lisbon a while back, micro-film- s of roorethan 176,000 letters to American soldiers serving overseas were lost Within three days, however, duplicate films of the letters were started from the United States to their destinations. , This Is one of the achievements made possible by the letter form,' now available at all postoffices for overseas let ters. The original letters written on these blanks are kept on file until word Is received that all the photographic reproductions have been delivered abroad. When e bills,-th3fewAews'came o t the accident et Lisbon, It others, you tan just about say that it has was necessary only to make new films of worked hard, but accomplished little. the letters that had been on the rolls In Of course we should mention the half- - the Clippers mail bags, then send these dozen or so memorials that have been new films on the next plane. passed asking Congress to do this and do films occupy less than 3 that Some of them are good, but they cent of the space taken by the original per letarent apt to do much good. The Utah ters. This saves priceless cargo facilities, legislature too has refrained so Jar from and makes speedy handling possible. passing any particularly harsh legislation, Friends and families at home will come for which it deserves a good measure of nearer meeting the overseas mens consomewhat stant demand for more letters if they use praise. When you consider the important is- the form at every opportunity. sues facing this session and then look at SL Louis Its achievements, it makes you wonder if it has not been 60 days of nothing. But of course it could have been worse. American families received 36,582.000 a day In life insurance payments in 1942, With about 2,500,000 skilled workers the Institute of Life Insurance reports. gone from farms to factories or the armed Payments were In the form of death beneservices in the past two years, labor short-- , fits, annuity payments, surrender Values ages on food production fronts are reach- and matured endowments. Obviously, insurance Is a good thing. ing the critical staga. x.- - - FarmLdbor &L as a Times described-Steown little- - groupr- By Raymond Clapp business man whOs John W. Maple, 17, knew Judgment can well be reserved WASHINGTON Somebody had how to start his slide down the the awkwardness or bad taste. If about a fourth term. Conditions career would have been Impospole but maybe he hadnt stu- nothing more, to mark off the next year may make it desirable sible in Nazi Germany where a died lesson No. 2. have end of President Roosevelts first that President Roosevelt continue Berlin peanut avendor would or a He was taken to the to be a h ' Wanted driver with gallantry in hi- - soul. His car struck and seriously Injured Miss Gall Trout, 21, so he stopped, ran- back to where she lay moaning- on the pavement; threw his suit coat over her And then sped away, unidentified by the group of witnesses. h tremendous burden ef financing an CITY, Kan. by polices The -- pointed. " As we size up the situation, this leg- to felature had solve, each of them vital to the welfare of the state and its people. These prob" .. lems were: r 4 1 Figure out some way to bring about" greater economy in state expenditures so that the peoples backs will not be broken er LOS ANGELES. 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