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Show TIIE LOGAN, LTfAlI, ta;;;; light. The Herald-Journa- SIDEGLANCES l THOUGHTS Hiknov.s I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell, Ami lie rang mine. We were young- 'I 'I - T1 i4i com by hh nruviec we' r tt me u . 1" ' "Tomorrow," I say, "I will call ou Jim, .In .t lu show liml Pm thinking of lnm. put tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes. And the distance between us grows. Aiound the corner! - yet miles away. . "Here's telegram, sir. . . Jim died today! we get, and And that's what deserve it) the end: Around the corner, a vanished X? 79 rtr are The next lime we save gas to drive to Grandma's tor an farm dinner, we'll make sure its not the haying season 1 The Washington MERRY-GO-ROUN-D other had its roots in French, and referred to the daily portion of food served to soldiers and sailors, which obviously makes it the lineal ancestor of tho word that is causBY DREW ing Prc.liss Brown to lose his sleep, his hair and his hoe to with had do word a This hereafter. for happy nothing Soldier found gold along Alcan relatii ns, who did not share in the soldiers daily allotment highway, hut rnulan't touch it; !, was it to proof foo and so, perhaps now Chilian worker stake out distinguish it clearly, nouns J with the Frencfi a which made it become ration. their rlaiinn in pioneer country; loeal OIA boards carry on valSo it develops that the word in which we are interested iantly despite Washington wranshould have been pronounced ration all along, and not ration, gle; tankers transport planes because ration was dropped out of the dictionary more than and IT boats for delivery in a century and a quarter ago and now is anachronistic. England. friend. W ASHINGTON American sol- The misunderstanding never would have arisen, and given diers who spent dicary winters through the Arctic forest us opportunity to clear it all up as we now have, but for tracking to build tiic Alcan Highway to radio announcers, who looked ration up in the dictionary Alaska frequently saw the sparkle and found that it could be pronounced either ration or ration, of gold in the stream beds and wanted to stake out claims for but that ration was preferred. peacetime development. They wore But the soldiers never were fooled. They continued to say not allowed to do so. a insisted few and most so did of us, though ration, purists Now, however, civilian construcupon muddling us all up by saying ration. tion rree.s are along the If you are still in doubt, here is a little couplet which we same trail, and coming are staking out claims for the gold which L'. S. tossed together on the spur of the moment : not very probable. In view of the fact that this insurance is designed as g protection for property owners and not as a business or a gamble, the suggestion seems very sane. The possibility of more than token raids by axis forces in this hemisphere becomes ever more remote. A dividend, in form of extended insurance, would seem to be in order. money-makin- INGENUITY The Buick company is making aviation engines generate some 60 per cent of the electricity needed to make other airplane engines, by utilizing the )owcr that otherwise would be wasted during grueling test runs. The Dodge company is planning to do the same thing in its Chicago plant. Buick estimates that in this way 07 jht cent of the power is recovered from gasoline used in tost- ing. Presumably this also will hold for Dodge. Testing goes on 21 hours a day. Each engine runs for about seven and a half hours. The savings arc obvious. The ingenuity involved is commendable. It is an example of the! spirit in which American industry has whipped shoitagcs so as to whip the axis. This - Curious World JYOOHOO(I -- c.;.n the First world war began, were used for scouting airplanes ONLY THEN' CARRIED NO AND PILOTS OF THE ARMS, OPPOSING Planes ,aved a friendly greeting WHEN PASSING INI THE AIR, SINCE MANY OF THEM HAD MET IN CIRCLES BEFORE THE WAR. AVIATION corn )94) A SAUlL HAVE BV SiRWCC. INC T M U ) star, MAGNITUDE." than a larc-- e STAC THE TERM DOES NOT REFER TO THE STARS BUT TO ITS JO Our OTAVPnC'g?, NEAREST star. a black A wav tc EYE, HE USUALLY LES RED,".Yf J.SArWlER, A r.v YS.v , A' VC AM?S. 7-- 9 yNEXT; ' T',' ' f. le IMITJIM XTIC NURSE Diplomats have (lie reputation of keeping late hours at both ends of tile night. Bill Cristina Michels, daughter of the Chilean Ambassador, gels up at ti'3i a. m four mornings u week, prepares her own breakfas', slips out of the tug Embassy residence at Sheridan Circle, ami catches a bus to tlie other end of town At the Sibley she Hospital, works as a nuisc's aide. The sights and smells of a hospital are new to her. but she docs what she is told. One day she was giving a massage to an old man whoso neck muscles were sore. When she war finished, he looked up gratefully and said, "You can always tell an experienced nurse." home Wlule front soi.nir.KS the Office of Price A is bang drawn and quartered in Washington, one very real tribute to the American system of government is the manner in which local OPA hoards more than f 000 of them are .standing up valiantly to their job These boards woe thrown together hastily in late December, 1941, to ration Hies They knew not lung about rauomng. Nobody did. Formal rationing was something with winch Americans had hud no experience Ncvt came automobiles, typewriters, sugar, and then along tnc Atlantic rd-gasoline. whit h is politically inflammable. Never has there been an evenly distributed woik load cm these groups of inexpei icnccU men nnd women, assigned t he seaboa- AS COM BY EARTH1Y ES ES PARED soldiers could not touch. Boys from almost every State were sent to Alaska on that pioa road job cutting neering through tall timber where none hut Indians had passed before. They worked from Dawson Creek, In Alberta, to Fairbanks, Alaska, but the place where they saw the gleaming gold war. in the Yukon, near Whitehorse. At first, there was little time to think about private projects, for one battalion was lacing against another to compute its stretch of highway But when a lull came in the work, the men asked permission to try their luck st panning gold. The officers, however, ruled this out. Another season has rolled around, and things have changed. The pioneer road is being replaced by a permanent highway, built by big construction companies Elliott Construction Co., and Becketcl, Price, ana Callahan. These companie i have mining engineers attached to the construction gangs, and they are not hound by military discipline. Note: Finally the Army has modified its regulations to permit n little amateur gold panning by soldiers in Alaska, for reel rational purposes. This mtivity will tie in the same class with to give the Koldicrs swrt in their spare tunc. What tree has knees? task of regulating their neigh- bors. At times a greut blow-uhas seemed inevitable because of the unpredictable peaks of work, because there was not eiougli money until recently to lure good help. In cause office p Charles Hanson Townc. SECOND HANDS Second hands on a watch are useil to convince yourself that the wutili has not stopped 1. When jiarkcd in a while your wife dashes into "tins store just for a second." hile a valued customer tells 2. you how yesterday's golf game went when you are hurrying to eaten the 5:15. 3. While the last departing guest at the late party tells your wife about what "That womau said at the dub." 4. hile waiting In the reception room after Mr. Bwellfroiu . tary has announced will see you ui just u i.i,.. .... 5. XV hen listening ... .,.t' .iiiu, tv .... mons, civic club ..o i toi crusts. t i lien stepping out o. a ho a cr alter noting that you lo.go. to take off your wrist v.accli. 7 After dropping tile watch on floor, bang.ng it against door, washstand, sink, steering- wheel, rake, hoc, lawnmowcr, The The American Business Congress has asked Congress to extend the coverage of war damage insurance without collection of further premiums, on the basis that thus far there have been no losses and that substantial damage in future is er then now we are busy, tired men: ued with playing a foolish game, ued witli trying to make a name. And , WORTH CONSIDERING THINGS Around the corner I huve a friend In tins great city that has no end; ct days go by, and weeks rush on. And I never see my old friends' face, tor life is a swift and terrible race. Fron now on we shall talk about rationing with a clear Remember that, and you cant go wrong, though you may become involved in arguments. Dear Herr Goering: In Reply to Yours of Recent Date I The Friend THOUGHTS ON RATIONING fashion 'if BY liberty alone, not truth alone, but truth and Liberty with Truth, shall yet enlighten the world. Its the i RAY NELSON Not To ration. f?! U w ill not assume financial responsibility for m.V The Herald-Journerrors which nm appear in adicrtisenionts published in Its columns. that In tlniM instance, where the paper Is at fault, it will refrlnt occurs. part of the advertisement in which the typographical mistake conscience, and when somebody inquires caustieallv if we think we know more about pronunciation than Webster's needdictioir.ry does, we shall sniff haughtily and rifer the ier to flte American Speech Quarterly, published by Columbia university. There he (the needier) can discover as did wre (the erstwhile bewildered! that the lexicographer slipp'd up when he said the word should be pronounced ration rather than ration. Kemp Malone of Johns Hopkins has discovered, and the Columbia university department ol public information passes on the news in four pages and almost 1000 words, that once upon a time there used to be two words ration and ration. One had its roots in Latin, and was a doublet for ratio, and meant the relation between two similar magnitudes in respect to quantity. Py rhyming ration with relation, it becor; clear that this one was pronounced ration. Hut about ISIS, soon after the burning of Washington, this word becar, e obsolete and disappeared from dictionaries. JITT.Y ft AND Published every week da,v afternoon bv the Cache Vais Icy Newspaper Co, 75 West Center Strict, Ixiyin, Utah, Telephone all departments 5(1. delivered by earner 00 cents per T.ie Herald-Journmonth; in advance, three months, $1 75; six months, J3.G0; one year, $7 00. By mail outside of Cai he Valley; in advance. per month, 00 rents, three months, $150; BiX months, $3 00; one year, $0 00 matter in the post Office at l'.ntered as second-clan- s Lot an, Utah, under the act id longresn, March 4, lS.lh Proclaim litierty through all the LuiiL Utterly Hell. r FRIDAY. HERALD-JOURNA- L TEARSON equipment has been lacking, and because the boards have the had to operate against gram of human nature. In a country pccustomcd to Yes" for t lie answer, they have had to say "No." They stand athwart the path of the desire of the American people. It is their duty, given them by their government, to rende- - this war service. .Many of the members resent government methods, but there is remarkable loyally to the programs they administer. Generally, active board members develop from an i.ttitude of toward zealousness. Their loyalty under the terrific pounding they get is inspiring. These past months have been hard cm the morale of OPA men and women, hut tiierc has been no remarkable increase in resignations from boards. As various .dements fight OPA, the board members stand up and carry on. Whatever may bo happening to OPA in Washington, it is not (ailing apart in 111" field. TANKERS HELIX I.K PLANES Everybody knows that bombers XX XX e- sn.i.,, Ut-s- street car, telephone, tabie, chan or bed. It MAP LINGO This lingo is sort of horrible, but it may amuse you: XVaitrcss: Hawaii, gentlemen, you must be Hungary?" Customer: "Yes, Siam, and we cant Rumania here long, either. Venice lunch ready? Waitress: "I Russia table. What'll you Havre?" Customer: "Anything at all, but XX' A have long been delivered to England under their own power. But the big problem has been to deliver fighter planes, which have had to be taken apart, crated, can't Jamaica little speed?" then reassembled on the other Waitress: "I don't think you side. can that Alaska." Fiji fast, Now, however, r. new system Customer: 'Never mind asking has been devised whereby U. S. but just put a Cuba sugar tankers are carrying fighters on anyone, in our Java. deck twenty to each tanker Waitress: "Sweden it yourself. and setting them down a few days I ni onfy here to Servia. later in England. Customer: "Denmark our bill The War Shipping Administra- and call the Bosphorus. He'll pro-! tion is keeping the Army "cleaned bably Kenya. I don't Bolivia know out of fighters" by this method who I am." of delivery, and is rapidly buildaitress: "No and I don't of the the Eighth strength ing up You sure Ararat." Air Forces Command which is Boss: "Samoa your wisecracks. battering Germany. XVhat's got India? Do you think NOTE: PT boats are also being this arguing Alps business?" delivered to England on Customer: "Canada noise. Spain of tanUcis in the neck. Abyssinia." AKt.EN UNE I AN ISM Two weeks ago. policy m.ilui . in the State Depart mi nt com id eil Uiat if the New Argentine Government broke tcdwlions with theAxis, the P. S. taiv-- i iiim-ndespite the re.ulnmnry iliarnclct of the new regime, would extend Lend laa.se aid. But since that linio. the Runnier. Government lias taken a number of stops against democratic groups in Argentum. It lias even Rationing of coffee, one of thp Red Gloss bandage-wrappinfirst foodstuffs to be brought stopped under government control because by a group of to Argentine laities of shot (ages due to war hns been Latest Wold in Washington is "olaxed for the first time begint that even if Ramil e ning July 1, according to O. 'Guy breaks relations v h the Axis, Cardon, chairman of the County e aid may not be grainRationing and Price Control Board. ed in view of the Governments Coffee will he allowed on basis on stamps pronounced faseis a To keep their word in the matin Ration Book I until at least ter, If. S officials might extend August 11 as follows: aid to a trilling degiee. hut there Stamp number 21 valid for one will not be enough to lessen the pound on July 1; expires July 21. great fear wlitli Aigontmu mm Stamp number 22 valid for one has of tier poueilul pound on July 22; expires August nciglihm 11. Brazil. OPA also removed all restrictions (Copyright, lint, by United i'ii the amount of Feature isvn liei te. Inc l coffee green w hit'll roasters may buy. Green coffee is transferred without ration i urrcney. amt roasters may buy without to regard previously established allowable inventories. Large stocks of green coffee o:. hand in the United States, is well as the more regular arrival of imports with which to maintain 'he.se stocks, make it possible to move increasing amounts of coffee mto the hands of both roasters and consumers. The Office of Price Administration has consistently pointed out that the public- will receive the benefit of increases in supply vnenever they exist. This is the first time since coffee rationing that supplies have reached normal level, and that imports to sustain that volume ran be anti-- 1 pa ted. Soon after the outbreak of war it became obvious that shipping! then bringing coffee from South would necessarily be di- I found your glasses. Homer, (verted to carrying vital war ma-- I andjust in time, too that am t terials Therefore, coffee rationing ' Uno soup lincT vMs uiaugui a tod, whuh wlule ie- j XX n. s , - t . Rationing Of Coffee Is Relaxed Pie-dden- Lend-Leas- - r Whos It Going to Be in 1944 Political polls and prognostica- year aheao of the ltHI.Qov Thomas E. Dewey of New presidential nominating convent- York overwhelmingly first, and ions may not be worth Hie paper Willkie second. they're written on, but politicians Translating the poll returns into who make a business of keeping electoral votes by states and scorboth cars to the the states as their delegations ing at the the would vote in convenUon, ground same time are tally became: Dewey 283. Willkie to beginning 138, Briekcr 95, Stasscn 11. Bridgin with cneek es 4. Eliminating the 10 states reports of pretty of the solid south, the tally was impendgeneral Dewey 241, Brickcr 84. Willkie 76. ing upsets. One curious factor about this Some of them poll was that it checked with the go so far as to earlier poll which Hurja had made imheate that the of the Republican members of of the party the state legislatures which talNew Deal may lied Dewey 206, Bricker 129, Will-ki- c take one of its 70, not counting the southern EDSON in worst pastings y now states. In terms of general the coming election and is with the Republican state is going totally unaware of what it was Dewey to hit at that time. It is banking legislators, however, ti,e first with 29 per cent, Willkie that tact on the heavily 25 per cent, Bricker American people will not want to second with the third with 18 per cent. in administrations change is All this, of course, middle of a war, apparently notpolitical dope.. the to possigiving much weight bilities that the principal issues of the may not be the conduct fighting war overseas, but the issues ot much more domestic Even when a quarrel is ripe, confusion on the home front, and don't pick it let it drop. this matter of the fourth term. listcn-ers-i- n Among the professional Gas rationing has stopped a who claim to be attuned to lot of people from seeing this the political seismograph rumblworld and maybe the next. ings, Emil Hurja, who was Jim Farley's principal prognosticator The season of open windows refor a number of years, still ranks minds us that a radio is a device high. Hurja was one of the few midthat sounds swell in your own prophets who called the 1942 bas3d home and terrible next door. term elections rignt and he his predictions then on polls Sourness spoils milk and has which he had takes for the Pathfinder magazine, of which he is the same effect on people. now editor and publisher. Ever Letting the buying of coal go since the first of the year, Hurja until the first frost is a fuelish n has been sampling mistake. So They t aie not The Chinese people . What is called a exhibitionistsdeath-lik- e silence abroad is called silent determination in China. Th world must not be made to think we are gloomy. Chang Chungking government official. . Pmg-ehu- Si long as everybody expects that the sacrifices will be pethe rformed by someone else war can never be won. Tokyo radio, speaking of U. S. domestic . . . disputes. Very probably there will be heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and elsewhere before the leaves of autumn fall. Winston Churchill. of power A delicate balance ma,y have discouraged some wara in the past, but it has always broken down in the end. Today the developments of science and technology are such that any balance that might be achieved after this war would be too unstable to deserve the name. President old XV. Dodds of Princeton Harun- iversity. Quebec, Canada, has more churches than any other city oa the American continent in proportion to its size and population. t.:w U. S. GENERAL Answer to Previous Puzzle dIjR 510 n. UARRV Two-third- LAUDED 25 Important metal f 26 Recede 28 Cognomens 29 Ships stafli 32 34 Lair Anger shp 38 Male 39 Cutting tool 41 Mix 42 Beverage 43 Ampere J four-fifth- ! (abbr.) 49 Matched 3 Cover pieces 4 Den 52 Wrong 54 (prefix) Strike shat ply 45 Within 47 Transpose (abbr ) 49 Wound mark 5 Relax 50 Early English 6 Doctor (abbr.) (abbr.) 51 Soft mineial 7 EdEe of 52 Behavior dresses 53 Composition 8 Peruse 53 Suffix 56 Metal 58 Epic tale 9TangU 60 Sheltered side 10 Either 11 Nova Scoiia 62 Suffered defeat 65 He commands an in the South Pacific two-thir- VFRTICAL 1 2 Mother Iridium (symbol) convention in Philadelphia, which nominated Wendell Willkie. The question put to these delegates was. Who would make the best candidate for the Republicans in 194 . - BARBS cross-sectio- - Say- We have our worst enemy the now where he is, at least, ns worried over our next move as we are of his. Secretary of Navy Knox. opu-larit- cross-sectio- XXashingtmi Correspondent Lions one opinion on all manneg of issues and he now comes up with some rather interesting Findings. Few For Fourth Term One of Hurja's first polls covered the members of all the state HORIZONTAL legislatures. What amazed even 1 Pictured U. S. Hurja was the luge number of he got back write-i- n comments Army man, Maj.-Gcon his ballots -- about one out of s of this every four. entire group reported they were 12 Operatic solo opposed to the tourth term and 13 Before 14 Auricles everything it stand , for, altliougn s of the ballots 15 Immerses over 17 Flesh fond showed they hrlievid t lie President would seek a fourth term. 19 Compensate Less Ilian a tenth ixpressed them22 Rodent selves as favoring the President s 23 Sorrowful aspirations. Most ot them were 21 Dined from the southern states. 27 Tnradise These findings, ri presenting a 29 Baby's bed n of opinion from local 30 Toward close 31 Taid notice in politicians supposedly touch with affairs in their own 33 Title of locality, led the Hurja surveyors respect to the conclusion "that there are 35 Niobium unti-NeDeal Democrats more (svmhol ) now than there were four years 36 Mv.se If ago. and Unit they arc more in37 Music note tensely 'anti'. In short, it has 38 Egyptian sun been estimated that more than a god third of the delegates to tho 40 Half an cm Democratic convention will refuse 41 Woik with moveto join in a fourth-terneedle and ment. . . Some believe that if thread the Democrats Imd preserved their 42 Tantalum rule for nominations the opposition could defeat Mr. 41 (symbol) His troops Roosevelt in convention." fight the Dewey Strong 46 Stalk It should be made clear here 18 Males Unit tins opposition is not enough to stop a fourth-ternomination, even if the poll accurately represents opinion. Hurja's newest poll, to sound out sentiment on Republican their candidate, was made of the delegates to the 1940 G. O. P. lETEK El ISON BY Herald-Journ- 1?" With a third of the delegates who elected Wdlkie replying, the return came out .surprisingly with during overall consumption, abled all persons over 15 years to obtain a like share of coffee. Any deterioration of the present favorable supply situation, however, will again result in a cut in the coffee ration, and consumers a must be prepared for such tiotis whenever they are necessary. No change will b made in the previously announced allotment to institutional useis. reJuc-Americ- July-Augu- ' 18 18 19 20 21 L4 55 .67 (abbr.) Father 58 Dines for single voire Era Neither South Amer- -. jea (abbr Domesticated animal Rustle Biblical pronoun " Measure of area - ) 59 Part of "he" 61 Babylonian 63 6 1 deity South Caro- lina (abbr ) Symbol for tellurium |