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Show ... I D The Deirt 0 T I R A L S I November 9. Salt lake City, Utah News CLAPPER Early Approval Of Moscow PactUrged We do not realise our By Raymond Clapper WASHINGTON and the effect of our 190 - . to the Moscow agreement in constructive importance is prompt action by 'the Senate in approv- of the' United States "With, its three departments of government a therein set forth, each-onfully We stand' for , ing it.. independent InJtswrvfield - considerable doubt in America abou t Russia's intentions. Sen-at- e approval of the Moscow agreements will I -- If Ever There Was A Wartime Scandal end admlnis-tratiorir.bel- last -- -- - the -- 4 crease demands of the railroad brotherhoods, the steel workers and a thousand and one-othgroups who already have " started pressing- - their claims? ; And Mr. Lewis and the administra- - Juneltrtook the -- .?fo produeUvfi-Uavel4mifi .whichthe d each week. So who can deny that Lewis got , what he wanted apd that the through Interior Secretary Ickes, gave it to him7 eveiFlifter the War Labor Board had said no." Die- adminis-tration- The "destinations. How many, especially in the inland regions', realize that some 3,000 mer- chant ships participated in the landing on Sicily? How many are conscious of the truth in the words of Admiral Emot y S. Land, head of the War Shipping Administration, that "this is a war of Soon transportation on the Seven Seas after the entry of the United .States into the war, many men died from the lack of supplies, and the cry! "Too little and voiced on every side But too late, this complaint has not been heard for a long time. How was the change effected By the utilization of all merchant ships and of all merchant seamen available and increasing the size of the merchant growfleet many times. And ing. Last year the president asked for the launching of eight million dead .weight, tpns of new ships, and obtained much more than that amount. This year ' he asked for sixt een" mil lion dead weight tons, quota will be more than met. It might be well to point out here that the production anTmanning oi these ships, which are so vital to the the vvareffort, are In Administration, a tripartite organization consisting of the U. S. Maritime Commission, which gets the ships built; the U. S. Maritime Service, which. trains the enrollees for the Merchant. Marine, and the Recruitment and Manning Organization, w hich puts- the men on the sjiips. And between these three there h&Sbeen built a bridge of ships on which the armed forces of the Al s and-th- until ultimate victory is theirs. While the chances these men of the Merchant Marine take are extremelv hazardous, for merchant ships are- most fiequent prey of the submarines,their training has been of the best. First they individually are taught sea safety, s, how to swim under burning oil, and how to ahandon ship Thpy o aie trained in gunnery ami m fust aid After this course in sea safety, thev ate taught the task of opeiating a merchant vessel and may specialize in the duties of any one of five departments: Deck, engine room, hospital purser, radio, cooking and baking And that, briefly, is the story of the U. S Merchant Marine. Wheiever the fighting men of the United Nations are found, -- there the men of the Merchant Marine are taking the supplies and equipment needed to keep them going Without them victory would be i impossible jGod bless and protect the men of the Merchant Marine for if they fail the Allied cause is doomed - al-i- at War-shipp- -of ing By D. N. DOnt worry, gals. Dont worry at all about your stockings drooping. No,- - there hasn't been a fresh Importation of nylon or silk hosiery- - to Salt Lake. Its just that the peak In stocking slack has been noted. On a magnificently dressed store w indow 'model, the onb flaw was that her stockings bad that crinkled look-e- ven as jours arid. jours.-Ju- st check It up to ration fashiom those whom they displaced, for Mr. Willkie'does not differ great-ly fiom Mr. Roosevelt in such matters. Dew'ey's people w ould be mote on the efficient and practical side, and I can See him making a lunge for the files to make them safe for study for material to be used In futurff campaigns whenever old New Dealers might raise their heads In the elections. Whether it were Willkie or be Dewey, the change would the woild gradually to foiget anthropes, grown arrogant over the years as their feeling of power grew, would be thrown out abruptly. If not bodily. This would cause some tion and Interrupt continuity in many offices, but that it would Impede the war effort I cannot agree On the conti arv, It would eliminate waste and impediment and, assuming that the people had elected an opponent of the New Deal, I believe they would have this purpose and picture in mind and would rejoice and pitch in harder than ever to win back the United States. the Atlantic Charter and the four fieedoms because they are per- . and fortunes' of - sondl Pollucal slogans of Mr. Roosevelt. most of them. .Mr. Pegler home, though, in Mashing. Some of them also sincerely tlflnk ton, there would be great com- the period of change would be a motion. The new man would season of serious faltering and move in with bis own Jim Far-lewould cost casualties on all the to throw the rascals out and there would then ensue fronts and stretch the war by smh an exodus as the country some Immeasurable time. has never seen before. Econo, These arguments, however, mists and selfless anonymities would have been presented in all and nonentities, actuaries and lawyers, professors and bleedtheir fearsomeness In the caming hearts, house pets, press paign and, assuming that an opagents and Information special, ponent and not a political apostle ists would go down the road in of the president is elected, we crowds and there would be a have to accept the change as the dean sweep at the Treasury, ""studied and deliberate decision of and in the Department of Justhe majority of the accesssible tice, and hundreds of bureaus votets 1 think that most of ns never even we may brush off the heard of where Communists possibility that the successor and their like have been quietly would be either General Marshall " tucked "away for all these or General MacAnhur General" Marshall is an unavailable ideal years. I tan see whit smoke rom the and Mac Arthur would have to coming chimneys pull out of the war at the front jahipg tqwafd ihe first of the as Labor Relations the come to year home and campaign and Board burns its old confidential that would kill him off political-- " - files and trucks' bound for the ' Iv. The two outstanding possibilpulp works with the records of Arthurdalo and other expensive ities are Mendell Willkie and Tom Dewey, and If any one depersonal foibles of th! benign but mighty and determined. feats President Roosevelt or hi i hole e for th Democratic nomSoon, of couise, others would move m behind them and, In ination, one of these probably will be the man. "WillkiCs case, they would be In any case, the new president ust-new fates and personalities not much different in the ecowould be bound to go on with so"the war. becayse the country is nomic and social theories from y great and stimulating, for thous- ands of barnacles and bitter mis- I.P1 writer t Flashes Of Life By The Associated -- the ate prevented collaboration before They could see the political trend going against the administration. It was reasonable for them to fear that history might repftt. itself. Recently quibbling resolution over the Connally might have seemed the beginning of a second retreat Into Iso- jjg v. LEEDS Cos . y s,v Press With Interest Wash Detectives SPOKANE, Mike Vecchio and Harry Davenport 'bounded up two teenage boys who admitted 'looting rabbit hutches. For"tvvohours Vecchio and Davenport drove around town, returning to owners the bunnies the bovs had given them. But the bovs must have had the rabhqs in their possession quite a little while The detectives found they had more rabbits than ow ners. Repaid Nazis. The Moscow pledge answers that kind of doubting Likewise, Moscow and London must have had doubts about America s intentions after war. They know that the Sen- lation. wrlOr!! own wif nro pnhllihnS In oritor to preoont all iltn of onmnt onnotion!. Thor do not norMsartl npieMt th! opinions of this paper ) see' Secret Weapon & Open an Account aw ram. opinion! expressed herein re the onn and are In order ta present all tides of published eurrent (.nation. They in not neeessarlly represent the olnioits of this paper ) - -- -j- OFFTHE RECORD k By Ed Reed Alstaph erolse so increases the appetite that it ls virtually impossible (ever to feel filled up during the evening. e e Probably no one in the citv lrstens to ao many complaints, gupes and troubles as do. the m the T OPA rationing board. ' .tte were much amused during the Shut-urecent to see campangn virtually every giyj in the board at the 1 , City and County Bhilding wearing a tag ,lhatiiWDont tell me about it! p -- . The problem of how to study the piano, without objections from the neighbors aphas been solved, at least bv one parentlypiano-owner We came upon this brainy latest proof of the Ingenuity of the average American in ah ad run recently m a local paper, under Apartments to Reht.Vas fob lawsi 1)1 PLEA, M3. 3 lg. rms. - riano, overstuffed 7 on-F- or , -- half lor alimony!" my - freedom salaryfor " - . half forjbond and. ; "" ; " Ore. PORTLAND, Three Portland youths spied an unattended army jeep and thought It would be a cinch to operate. It Isnt like other cars, they Iparned. . . . The trio knocked over a roadside mail box, plowed through 20 feet of cedar hedge and mowed down a deputy sherlfCs fence before bringing it to a stop. . i Rationing has given rise to manyjiew fads and fashions, the latest of which is the bicycle progressive party. Few hostesses can afford, i ationally, that is, to give parties by themselves. So the guests are invited to one place for soup, another for salad, and so. the meat course all the guests chip in points.- i Gasoline is precious, so traveling to the different homesns"via"hIc)cte.Thre works outline , . except that the ex- - deeply committed that he couldn't be elected on any platform of negotiation or compromise. Will-Ki- e would be pretty sure to adopt the president s foreign and peace policy in general terms. Dewey, being very demure at this stage of the game, has not had ta say what soit of pfeace he would stand for, but coopeiation in the world would be obligatory because by then his country will be so deeply involved that Isolated nationalism will be out of the question However, I think either one would soft pedal, and It Is useful for the Senate to act also to reassure "our allies. We know how disturbing it can be to have unanswered doubts about an ally. Some of Russia s actions In recent months raised doubts in America. Our officials were mystified We were uncertain what Russia intended to do conference While the Moscow was going on I saw an article in a prominent American religious magazine which stated that if Hitler could be removed from would make a power, Stalin treaty immediately w ith the . -- Around Town , And what manner of men go down the sea in these ships? They are the boys from the high schools and colleges, from the farms and the shops and the factories, from the business and professional and entertainment worlds, the to boys you have Watched grow up. While we hear much of the deeds of valor performed by the men who are fighting the battles, we hear little or nothing concerning those who brave tjfie perils of the deep below, and the aiyabove. them that the fighting men of the Allied Na-- . tians may receive the food, Ihe gasoline, the ammunition and other supplies necessary to keep an army on the move. They are men who have volunteered for this extremely hazardous service, for there is no drafting of men for the Merchant Marine. They have little or no chance to cover themselves with glory, but they deliver their cargoes to their destinations content with, the knowledge that they are making it possible for the fighting men to continue the struggle Rush Next Year's Election May Bring Big Exodus From Washington lied Nations are marching to victory. -- Start Of A New Gold PEGLER They Still Go Down To The Sea In Ships all the services doing their part to help win this war, it is probable that less is known generally about the U. S. Merchant Marine than any other. While most persons who give the matter any thought at all, realize that supplies and equipment must be transported to our armed forces overseas, as well as to the allies of the United States, they have only the most hazy ideas regarding the actual j transportation of those things, and many believe that warships are the means by which they are taken to their elt - railroad men have not heretofore been paid. Actually, this $1 50 wall be nearer $2 by the time the travel time is figured in at time-anafter the first 40 hours Moscow d "e c 1 a r atlon may very well contribute mate r i a 1 1 y to Mr. Clapper shortening the war. It is Jikely to have deep effect in Berlin. Hitler knows just as well as we do that there must be a general .election in America a year from now.. He knows that in the previous election the Republicans made large gams and that the .results this week also are sharp-- , ly against the Roosevelt administration. Hitler could naturally assume that it might be worth his while to try to hold dn until fiext fall, to prolong the war unadmin istra tion til was- defeated, in the hope that more acceptable viewpoints might prevail as a result of a Democratic political defeat. A spanking declaration by the Senate, joined in by most "of the Republicans as well as the Democrats, makes it impossible for Hitler to delude itlmself that there Is , any chance of America changing its policy to make peace less severe on the Nazis. can propaganda .make . no effective. use election results, nor of the Senate's past isolationism, in face of an overwhelming Senate vote of approval for the heart of the Moscow 'declaration. rthe-Roosev- thatit"has suffered irr more than a decade of New Deal history. Now if the brotherhoods and other or- ganized groups are forced to strike to get similar treatment, this public wrath might grow-i- n a . pomt- - where-l- t- would- jeopardize labor 's reaL gains ag welLas affect Ihe political picture for years to come We know for a fact, that most Utah coal miners are patriotic. And we assume that those In the other states are too. They strike because they have been taught by favor, fear and force to follow the leader But if ev er there was a w'ar- time scandal it has beenln theTidminis-tration- s handling of Lewis and coal. form of increased vacation pay and elim- ination pf certain company charges But the ot,hcr $1 SCTreprescnts pay for some additional productive working time w hich them i ne r put and far un - In fact,- Sen- he previous-strik- es other ate approval of a cost! Lewis and the administration cost the "war effort 40,000,000 tons Of badly needed coal. Lewis and the administration likewise succeededjn undermining the War Labor Board, destroying the Little Steel formula, and blasting the dykes which have been holding back the tide of inflation. How can the administration now say "No to the wage in -- lend-leas- g overnments about our Intentions. d strength position on the rest of the Our allies know it far 'worfd. better than we do. Churchill and Stalin know what our mill-- . tary production is. They know the enormous number of heavy bombers produced last month, -ber of d th elarge-nu- m fighters. They know that in October w e built literally a . . small navy. "We are fulfilling astounding e requisitions for both of our main allies. We are undertaking special production Jobs that stagger the imagination of some of our best production men even today. . Yet we have such abundance of resources- that large stockpiles have been accumulated in most materials. In fact, we 'are able to ease off in production of copper and aluminum. Bottlenecks m production now are Yeduced to a very few. items. Our allies know how important it is to have such enormous military strength on the side of collective security, that withount no collective security would be possible any more than we could hope for it with Russia refusing to participate Thus the Senate, in making Its contribution now to the new hope of collective security and peaee, is making it clear that -- something -- broader than an administration policy is being proclaimed. The Senates almost unanimous action makes the new policy a truly national one, with roots probatjly deep enough to survive passing political changes. This is a most decisive week In American history. (Th opinion! expretind hrUi are the P-3- 8 doub'ts among tator Lewis, a creature of this the strike pistol against the nations head and dictated the terms of this contract. But, we repeat, at what OAL was coming out of the mines of Utah and the nation in almost normal quantities again today. But it is apt to be many moons before the trem-- . ora and reverberations of the last coal strike cease to shake the nation's pffiticaF foundation. , As usual, Dictator John L. Lewis got his way . . . and the Washington administration gave it to him But this time, what a price they, and the nation, paid. When negotiations on the new contract were started on March""10, last, 'Lewis demanded a wage increase for his United Mine Workers Today fpur stnkes later after -- the smoke of battle has cleared away, we discover: that Lewis has been; given a to-of what he tal of $175 or seven-eighth- s asked for, About 25 cents of this increase was in the form of minor concessions given VLB during one of the Lewis by-t- , The two events go together. The Moscow agreement ended e : -- only .7 ?pn onA AccountI; |