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Show THE PAGE TWO. The Herald-Journa- HERALD-JOURNA- LOGAN, UTAH, L, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 19 41. THE SILK SITUATION l SIDEGLANCES THOUGHTS Published eery week da'- - afternoon by the Cache Valley Newspaper Co., 75 West Center Street, Igan, c '.ah. Telephone all departments 50. delivered by carrier 45 cents per The Herald-Journmonth. By mail, in Cache Valley, $1 00 per year, $2 25 for six months, ft 25 for three months, 60 cents one month; elsewhere $5 CO per year. matter in the post office at Entered as second-clas- s Utah, under the act of congress, March 4, 1879. Belt "Proclaim Liberty through all (he land." IJIa-rtI,o-ga- n, The Herald-Journwill not assume financial responsibility for any errors which may appear In advertisements published In Its columns. In those instances where the paper Is at fault. It will reprint that part of the advertisement In width the typographical mistake occurs. THINGS & The power to tax is the power to destroy. Dell Is Dead Those who are governed least are governed best. THOMAS JEFFERSON. One Step Dell Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21. is dead. Prisoners at the Denver county favorite jail can no longer hear their beautie lyrics sung by the ful singer, the onetime member of a socially prominent family whose footsteps turned to Denvers districts. For Dell died as she had lived the victim of a tough break. one-tim- In men whom men pronounce detine, sinsin and blot. Joaquin Miller. 1 find so much of red-lig- ht NO ESCAPING THO The speckled career of the woman whose real name was Mrs. Winifred Idell Bouviere ended when more than a ton of cement and bricks toppled on her from a building on Larimer Street in the heart of Denver's section. Officials said the building tumbled because the vibrations of passing traffic for half a century had loosened the mortar. It was typical of Dell's lurk that she chanced to be passing at that moment. CONSEQUENCES AS fervently as anybody, we wish the world were so stituted that we didn't have to decide things. If we could just rock along in some kind of Golden Age languor, letting things work themselves out, convinced that everything would be all right somehow without our deciding anything, that would be dandy. flop-hou- This is a cold world, however. It is a world in which we have had conclusive demonstrations that the most dangerous thing of all is just to settle back and drift. Right now, for instance, Congress has the responsibility of deciding whether to break lip the army built thus far and start building a new one, or to hold the present establishment intact until there is a change for the better in the conditions that dictated building that army in iron-and-stc- el the first place. It is an unpleasant Her life included a carefree childo Denver home, hood in a a marriage terminating in domestic troubles with her husband and then her husband disappeai For the past 13 years of her lif One Step Dell lived in the red light area where she accumulated a record of 48 arrests. well-to-d- Some people will be displeased either way. But congress lias often complained that authority was living taken off its hands by the executive. With authority goes responsibility. In this matter, it has both, and the people will hold its members responsible for the consequences. decision. Should the United States resolutely bear down on every action that will help to defeat the nazi aggressors? Those who believe and urge that, bear potential responsibilities; we might get into a war with all its horrors; we might become involved in the realignment of a Europe wre do not know how to realign; we might achieve other unforeseen results, mostly evil. Should the United States draw back from active aid to those who resist aggression; pull back to a static defense of this continent, indifferent to what may happen m the rest of the world? Some like to kid themselves that this decision is without consequences. Yet that decision implies taking this chance: if the Germans and Japanese win, break up the British fleet and empire, restrict according to will all U.' S. contacts with the rest of the world, foment nazi revolutions in half of South America, they might then force a war on a lone United States at their pleasure. Either decision today could bo wrong: either decision implies future possibilities that are unpleasant. Yet those consequences, either way, must be faced; the only unpardonable course is to advocate a line of conduct, thinking and hoping against all reason that it will have no consequences at all. 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WASHINGTON -- For perspective on the present South Pucific between Japan and Britain, it is well to remember that for years Thailand, then known as Siam, was a pawn in the power game of the bigger nations of the Pacific. In this game the United States had a hand. For years, American financial advisers have been attached to the Thailand throne, one of the having been Francis Sayre, of Woodrow Wilson, now High Commissioner to the Philippines. We wooed Thailand on many occasions, including the ornate reception given the former King of Siam, who as "Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half Brother of the Sun and Keeper of the Twenty-fou- r Golden Umbrellas", came to Washington in the days of Herbert Hoover and was regally entertained. The British were even more interested in the Siamese. British advisers for a time ran the kingdoms government, trained its army, supplied the one or two ships for its navy. But half a dozen years ago the Japanese began preaching the doctrine of Asia for the yellow man, and Siam for the Siamese. That was how the name came to be changed to Thailand, a nationalistic token of home rule. Young Siamese nationalists took over the government and Thailand, grasped the Japanese bait as a step toward nationalism. Reason for Japans interest in this small country was not nationalism. hut the fact that a slender finger of land, about as wide as the Isthmus of Panama, called the Isthmus of Kra, is controlled by Thailand. A canal through this Isthmus, connecting (lie Indian Ocean and Gulf of Siam, would give a new short route from the Pacific to India, render Singapore impotent, and (lit three days from the trip a between and Burma. Such a canal would leave Singapore's giant guns and expensive naval bases guarding an siui highway, almost as unimportant hs the eitraits of Magellan after the Panama Cunul was one-side- tug-of-w- ar Imtn-Chin- built That is one reason tho British are ready to fight to keep the Japanese out of Thailand BUREAU SNATCHERS Rare is the congressman who hasn't "just the spot in his district for some foundling agency of the government, especially since the defense program focused attention an conditions in Washington. New York congressmen are busy trying to grab bureaus for teeming Manhattan. Sabnth of Illinois wants to transfer certain offices to Houston of Kansas sings the praises of Wichita, and Cochran of Missouri has entered a bid for St. over-crowd- Chi-'ag- o. Louis. So far there has been no serious possibility of the proposed transit rs taking place. But when the majority and minority leaders of the House, who hail from the same state, take up the chorus, thats different. Recently Majority Leader John McCormack was giving the House the legislative calendar for tha Representative Sahaths bill, creating a committee to investigate week. decentralization proposals, was among those scheduled for debate. Jumping to his feet. Representative Joe Martin, GOP leader, broke in. Say, how about shifting some of these government offices to Massachusetts? and ROBERT S. Im all for it, grinned McCormack. Lets get together. Maybe wc can get somewhere. OBJECTIVELY PREJUDICED Senator Burt Wheeler continues to give fronic testimony of his own in his clamor for freedom of speech and press. was His first demonstration when he attacked a Philadelphia radio station for alleged refusal to carry a Lindbergh speech, then refused to lift a finger when three Montana stations (operated by Wheeler pals) barred Walter Winched and other commenators from the air. Next display aiso came in WheeJohnr lers home state. Erickson presided at an addressed by meeting fiery Senator Claude Pepper of Florida. Shortly thereafter Erickson was fired from a state job by Governor Sam Ford, isolationist crony of Wheeler. Wheeler's latest demonstration of fair play was in the Senate. Opposition Senators Nye of North Dakota and D. Worth Clark of Idaho introduced a resolution for a probe of war propaganda by the movies and radio. The resolution was referred ,to the Interstate Commerce Committee, headed by Wheeler. Whereupon, although the Senate had not approved the investigation or voted money for it, Wheeler appointed a subcommittee to conduct public hearings to get at the bottom of these charges of propaganda. And to conduct this inquiry he named: Isolationist Clark. Isolationist Homer Bone of th Washington. Isolationist Charles Tobey of New Hampshire. Isolationist C. W. Brooks of Illinois. Only reason Wheeler did not appoint Nye is that he is not a member of the Interstate Commerce Committee. Only neutral member of the investigators is Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Arizona rookie. NOTF - The statewide poll being conducted Falls by the Great (Mont.) News shows that if Senator heeler wore running for on his isolationism platform this year he would he defeated by over 100,000 Mnio than 70 per cent of those in the poll wtio voted for him last year declared they would not do so now. CIO RE3 OI.T Troubles continue to multiply foi A D t TVnny) brut In r of John L. and head of the CIO United Const no t ion Wmkers A month ago Denny took a haymaker on the clim when Trotskyito leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters laical 551 were indicted by a federal grand jury, just after he g had taken the union under his wing with his brothers conwithout first but approval, sulting CIO iresident Uhd Murray Latest jolt is a revolt of ten locals of his own union in New York, the strongest purely construction units in the organization. The Ipcals are up in arms on several counts. One is that in the two years existence of the Cnited Const nation Workers there has never been a convention for the election of officers or adoption of a constitution. Another, that out of the $1 50 a month dues national headquarters takes $1, the highest per capita tax in the CIO. The locals suv thev are unable to opeiate on the 50 cents they get. The unions also assert that the New York UCW regional director, d Lewis, by Denny knows nothing about the construction industry, has refused to employ ho organizer for them with the $1 a month per capita tax they have to fork over, and has denied them the right to set up a council for joint action on common problems. After repeated protests, Loral 91, largest of the New York group, last month finally refused to pay the per capita tax, Instead it sent a ?I AKL-boltin- hand-picke- Go-Rou- nd ALLEN "token payment with a demand for reforms. Several days later, when no one was in the Local's office except a girl clerk, three burly men appeared and removed the Local's books and charter. The Local has instituted legal proceedings to force their return. d The top otf the high-hande- seizure blew the vol- cano. Heads of eight of the ten Locals, at their own expense, came to Washington and demanded that Denny institute the reforms they demanded. His answer was that they must first pay up their capita tax and then he would consider the matter." The Locals are now deliberating bolting the UCW and striking out for themselves as an independent organization. Dell was 52. Twenty years ago she was an outstanding beauty. She had a thorough schooling and reflected the breeding of her socially prominent family. At that time, she married a young Denver Patrolman, Walter Koening, and for several years, they were an example of domestic happiness. Then Dell changed. No one knew just what happened. She began leading the wrong kind of life. Her husband showed plainly that he was worried, and about 15 years ago, he disappeared. He left work one day, without a word to anyone, and to this day he has never been seen nor has a word been heard from him. Dell became a police character, and prisoners at the Denver county jail began to look forward to the times when Dell would be locked up. For she would sing to them. She was arrested 48 times. The other day. a on Larimer Street caved in on her. She just happened to be passing. She died as she had lived victim of a bad break. Dell was not master of her fate, captain of her souL e, clear-draw- -- Those too gern eyes-th- ey know too much, There is too much death in knowing! more women would take And yet I envy all they have Maybe if men the could drive From the yearning to the knowing. up golf with one hand. Jean Wolcott BARBS The handwriting on tho wall is a pretty good indication that the house is rented. Lots of home gardeners by now have lost faith in the old As ye sow, so shall ye reap, Plumber Sues for Lost Love Maybe he left it at headline. An optimist is planted watermelons the roadside. anyone who right along the the Meet Governments Prize Money-Saver- s BY IETER EDSOX Herald Journal Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 With all the millions and billions of dollars being appropriated and thrown around Washington these days, it is good medicine, every now and then, to take a run over to the department ot the governt a big ment w'hich seems to kick out of saving a tew thousand dollars here and there. This outfit, known as the Treasury Procurement division, does most of the miscellaneous buying for al the government agent-dieexcepting the deonly fense purchases and what the department of a griculture buys of surplus commodities. Just other day, ins t a n c e, proc the for the uremest an- division nounced that it had saved the flop-hou- NOTEWhile refusing to employ an organizer for the construction locals, Denny has three men in the area organizing apartment and hotel service workers. Another organizer is busy among the service em- BRITAINS AIM Free men, not slaves; free naployees of Yale College, at nearby tions, not German vassals; a comNew Haven, Conn. munity of nations, freely cooperatBRITISH PURCHASER ing for the good of all these are Until February of this year, the the pillars of the new and better that the British people wish building of the southwest corner order oi Eighteenth and K Sts., NW., was to see. So wrote Lord Halifax in the an apartment house known as the Bradford. Today, the apartment Womans Home Companion recentdwellers have gone, and tne build- ly, outlining the type of world Britain would like to see following ing is teeming with the activities the present war. of the Bntisn Purchasing ComWhat do we mean when we mission. we are fighting for From an oftre on the top floor. say that We want to be able to Sir Clive Baillieu presides over the freedom? live our own lives as we like; activities of the "B.P.C. which inand not have to look over our cludes, under the British Supply shoulders all the time to see if Council, the Air Mission, the Shipthe Gestapo is listening. We ping Mission, the Food Mission, want to worship God as we like and the Naval Technical Mission. and freedom, based Sir Clive does not live up to the on this religious conscience, we will not let go. Yankee conception of a titled BritFor is not something conscience ish gentleman. There is nothing that can hand over to anyeffected abcut him, and no monocle body you else. in the eye. He moves with a tempo But in Germany they have we like to call American, and his given their ronscienecs to Hitler, speech is rapid and direct. so that people have become maHe had expected to make his chines. headquarters in New York. But The foundations of your counas soon as I landed. he says, I try, as of ours, have been Chriscould see as clear as mud in a wine tian teaching and belief in God." glass that to meet the implications of we had to change FROM O. HENRY from a commercial contracting For a pleasant evening, read to one of filing requests, some of O. Henry. and obviously this meant that I He can lie rymcal, ns when ho should he in Washington. explained the two lovers: "There When Kir Clive was in Magdalen came to each of them the instant College, Oxford, in 1911, he pulled desire to lie, dizzle and an oar with such conviction that deceive, which pretend, is the worst th.ng ins boat won the Grand Challenge about the hypocritical disorder Cup at Henley, and he was awardknown as love. ed the blue. With similar convictHe can be poetic; When tho ion. he is pulling an oar today. begins to He says, The moral temper of forefingertheof twilight n smudge lines of the Butish Commonwealth has the big city. been raised to heights such as we He can laugh at human nature: have never known before.'.' Sir Clive Love, when it is ours, is the other is an Australian by birth (he and name for sacrifice. When it beAustralian Minister Richard Casey longs to were in school together), but he is it means people Htross the airsliaft arrogant e and working today for the salvation of the Commonwealth, and, moreover, He call be mean: If man knew his three sons are commissioned how women pass the time when officers in the British Army. are alone they'd never He is not a politician, yet he they He can describe a man Inmarry. a very could compete with Churchill as a few words: He was a grizzly man, phrase maker. Across his office 82 pounds, smoked glasses, 5 foot desk he tossed this neat phrase to 11, pickled. express the value of American aid: "The material resources of this T1IE IllICK great country are being harnessed Those too bright ryes- they yearn like an engine of retributive justice too much, to carry us to victory. There Is too much pain in yearning. (Copyright, 1941, by United Those tired eyes they feel too Featute Syndicate, Inc.) much, Their ardency is burning. Lend-Leas- I squander a years savings to show tlie children wonders of their country, and all they do is read funnies! government $11,000 on snake at first thought you might imagine that the only need the government had fbr snake bite kits would be to administer when Republicans hit Democrats and vice versa, or when New Dealers bit businessmen and vice versa. But that isn't the situation at all. The department of agriculture and interior have field agents and forest rangers, and then there's the border patrol, all of whom frequently run into real rattlesnakes, copperheads or gila monsters and , have to take steps. Heretofore, there have been no standard specifications for snake bite kits, and the prices have varied, but the specifications division of the procurement division got all the boys together recently, got them to agree on a standard kit, and by making purchases in quantity, saved Uncle Sam the 11 grand. SILKLESS TYPEWRITER RIBBONS This matter of standardization of specifications on non-- d ;fensc purchases is what the procurement division is working on all the time, now. and it's bringing results. The drive for simplification has been indirectly purred on by th defense program, for In the desire to get civilian manufacturing down to as few lines as possible, in order to switrh productive capacity over to defense items, corners have to be cut. The OlM crowd got treasury interested in this proi demerit work, and now all government agencies have to submit their pur. chase orders to this division for analysis, simplification and cheek. The thing even gets down to fights over typewmter ribbons. There arc specifications, it seems, and then there are alternate specifications. Your normal, peacetime typewriter ribbon is a special woven silk over finely with three hundred threads to the inch. Theres a shortage of these fine weaves, however, because of the demand for balloon silk. So the government has adopted alternate specifications in which they take a coarser weave in the typewriter ribbons. Soldier. who go up in balloons should think of the hardships they work on government: clerks, because of this, whenever ' curement division's on building over on the other side of the railroad tracks in southwest Washington. Its well o,f he our-isee path, but its a si nonetheless. Its a kind of halhalf warehouse building, foffice. presided over by Director Clifton E. Mack. On one floor, you walk along a corridor till you come to a room where you think the architect must have gone nuts. The room is tiled, but with every kind of tile ever heard of, and no two square feet are alike. Nohod-works in the room, for it would drive even a psychoanalyist serewv in two seconds. But whenever the procurement division has to buy 'le. they take the salesmen to tha Dali room and say, "Give us a price on No. 67." Bids on government orders are opened every morning in the famous bid room. No. 798. It has a vamail box of the street-cornriety at the back, and sharply at 10 a. m., the two men in charge of the room start opening bids and reading over a loud speaker system the offers submitted by competitors for government business. The room seats about 1M peonle, and the salesmen and tradepaper reporters are usually on hand. Public reading of the bids is required by law, but before the contracts are let. they are tabulated by the contract and purchases section, which makes the awards. Not all the savings of the procurement division are measured in chicken feed. They saved a million bucks last year, on a $r million order of fixtures for. defense housing, hut nobody paid much attention to it. .to , er 4 I WASHINGTON OOZ1NGS I 4 Bureau of Standards recommends that women wash the silk hose thev intend to hoard, immediately after purchasing, to make em keep hetter. . . . Department of agriculture reports the biggest lamb crop on record. . . . Two bits out: of every consumer dollar fof spent in retail stores goes and food. . . . Automobile dealers filing stations get the second largest segment, 20 cents. . . . Typical sermons of army chaplain are to be published and made to available the public. . . . Nevada has 125 males to every I1 females, the highest ratio, whnew Washington, ' D. C has 91 males every 100 females, the lowest ratio. . . . Maybe some of the movaneies should be ed to Nevada, to even things up ... It rouldnt be any hotter Marketing Administration bought a miriinn cans feeo surplus grapefruit juice to the British, but tho limcjuiof" had never heard of it and woulan have it. The free school lunch program will get it, next winter. . . . Surplus 17 PLANES DOWNED raids Royal air forceFrench BERLIN on the German-occupie- d channel coast during daylight yesterday cost the British 17 planes, the high command said today. is in a state ot to Every citizen is urged ms part by buying Defense ings Bonds and Stamps, . America v sky-ridin- government Incidentally, the used over a million typewriter ribbons last year. And still more incidentally, the government used nine million pencils, 94 million sheets of carbon paper and 180 million paper clips. As that's nearly a paper clip and a half for every man, woman and child in the country. It ran be taken that maybe this is whnt holds the democracy together. Linked end to end, they should stop the Gorman invasion. Maybe, also, it explains the steel shortage. TALE OF SURREALIST TILE Furehasc of all this stuff, right down to the mops and pails tha scrub indies use on the marble corridors, Is conducted not from the treasury, but from the pro- - B.U.R When you suffer on pesky minor bums .'JLfftum. a jar or tube of rad a lavcr of this cooling. ointment over the injure; m feel delightful di. ll tholat.nm a medicinal tngr ta will promote mort rapid of the injured akin. Quick! at C3HWSED |