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Show The Herald-Journa- THOUGHTS l' Special Delivery Edsons Washington tT&: JLND i, Wcdncvla., Kvenini;, Peecniher 8 1943 Published cvcrj- - week day afternoon by the Cache Val-'f-- y Newspaper Co, 75 Wo. t Center Street, Logan, Utah. 50. Telephone all depart i delivered by carrier 75 cents a The Herald-Journmonth; three months $2.21, six months, $4 50; one year, $9 00. By mall outside of Cache Valley same prices as above. By mad in Cache Valley 75 cents a month; three months $200; six months, S3 75; one eur, $7.00. matter in the post office at Entered as second-clas- s Logan, Utah, urder the act of congress, March 4, 1879. Proclaim I.ilierlj through all the land." Uherty Bell, Via North Africa THINGS Column SUMS SPENT IN SOUTH AMERi iia-nt- BY PETEK EHSOV VV asliingtim lleralil-.lmirn- BT RAY NELSON , al const rui t.vely n.-i,- ' .,,, 01 ESTION ABLE ,M The usefulne,, ,, th, was to call alt. ntu,n k,H)i Correspondent It's too bad that Senator Hugh l ut A. Butler's flying trip through it now . ikvo.w. 'e lav N.-I Latin America was made D1" 'irunn.n Comm lu, a hurry, and that his re .v ... ltrs report v. ill b,rrJ 7gJt sc hastily and carelessly i n mred tr.e real inve.stig.u,,, s J that it ("! he the minor items vu, worm ? ' ! o fu lul"S. shot ing into me these For the sen ttor (. Maintenance of (' s P-lfygpfrom Nebraska was on a hot In add. Lon to th p I tra1' that would item of another fi lh,r , have led to favel of U. S ln' many U. S. gov- - Amenta. j eminent expend- lI Bearing in no,,! tll(, itures that might riMlosures on uk W j n v f not bear close nunt's Canol od II I pi(,.,,t mT" scrutiny. ;aoa, tlur- - are a .oijl, umK .terns ,n a Exaggera ting I0 Edsoa them by big fig if ,to Argentina for ml ,,,,1 ures and dupli- ii.d another si :,,m cated items, lumping authoriz- Mexican icfinerv ations and credits and unexpected There is an item ot balance' in with actual expendL for office oveil,c..diiv.imn., just and itures was not necessary and did nanist retire " expends 0f no good. Furthermore, Senator I . S. govc rent ,gent,es Butler hurt Id's own cause by Latin Amur Tin u,m submitting his report direct to million for t. const rm non 0( 0( r the Senate instead of through the new embassies not be qjei. committees on appropriations or t onod, nor can may the other js federal expenditures. lion expenditures of the State rw This roused the ire of Senator pm Intent for diplomatic oq Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, ciations over purely three vc.ux ,f ranking member of both commit1'igure is correct. Bm 1 tees, and gave the Nebraskan a above that there are 0er apparent powerful opp inent to defeat his more than 50 uni dinned p purpose. government agent ic runnin" Senator Butler spent days mound in addition .n Aimy taf' on his 20,0o0-mil- e trip to 20 coun- Navy. The Butler i.po-- t glle Merry-Go-Roun- d tries. That gave him two nn8 t Lews to them various anc half days per country, and his perhaps duplicating ituns BY DREW PEARSON There is a average travel had to be 400 miles miscv'laneow a day, to boot. In some places catch-al- l item of MVi m.iuot he few hours The a the spent only activ ties of 15 ages Ever since he graduated from West he was a soldier, not a polituian, covering Point he has been one of the storm- and was not interested in Nogues' senator frankly admits he dd ces SmUhsontan Inst .lution Se come back an expert on South hetive Service. Public iest and most discussed officers in politics. Their friendship, however, rot Sethe Army. Army politics can be did not encourage other French-- , America but a little more careful rvice, An hives Securities and Ex as intense as in civilian life if men to aid the United States, and digging would have shown what change Comm.sn.on, Tariff Com ( Continued On Page 6) not more so and for years Gen- eventually Patton himself broke was really wrong and what was eral Patton has had staunch de- things off when it was suspected fenders and bitter critics. that the fascinating society in his t ImNmTstf: villa was reporting back to Nogues Many of the incidents Involving Ceneral Patton have now every French.officer friendly to the been reported to certain members U. S. A. a ms, and other reports of how of the Senate Military Affairs the General ordered an Italian Committee, including his battling peasants mule shot when it went polo days when he is reported over a military bridge, and his to have shot a horse which didnt perform satisfactorily. The manner of firing his 35 Mats. 50 Eves. Military Affairs Committee is revolver Into the air when dressChildren 10 Anytime being besieged by both Patton ing down a fellow officer, are all friends and Patton being probed by Senators. critics M hat they are interested in is Army wives being particularly active, and some of the incidents not so much General Patton, but reported back from North Africa the broader question of army promake it easy to understand why motions. They are wondering about g between Eisenhower was reported to be the Army's skeptical about keeping Patton. Washington and Algiers and who One of these occurred shortly af- was really responsible for keeping ter Patton landed in Casablanca, Patton on. where according" to Constantine They are also skeptical about YOULL BE SEEIN STARS! Brown he behaved with remark- all army promotions from now on. able indiscretion ' and bad taste. Inasmuch at Patton's behavior in This referred to the fascinating the hospital was so studiously kept French society with off his record and his name sent which the General surrounded him- up for promotion regardless, they 11 A self in his villa outside Casablanca are wondering how extensive this cover-u- p and lute ' at Rabat. system extends. Unfortunately, one result of the NO POLITICIAN PATTON WITH Patton inc'dent may be to work a hardship on other VIRGINIA WE1DLER General Auguste officers. Nogues saw to it that the General EDWARD ARNOLD did not look for charming his at to friends villa, much JOHN CARROLL 2 DROP the amazement of the French and JEAN PORTER Arabs, who knew that Nogues had THAT COLD fired on American troops and imGUEST STARS prisoned French officers who aided , (IN ODDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE! STUFFINESS the United States. Nogues had even Use 2 drops Penetro Nose Drvqis LANA TURNER gone inland to try to persuade the nose. to open Sultan of Morocco to declare holy GREER GARS0N tY Breathe freer almost instantly war against the United States. IJj'; and give vour head cold the air. WALTER PIDGE0N Nevertheless, General Patton was Caution: Use only as directed. Get on the most intimate trms with I? , ROBERT TAYLOR gpaosr! k 17 Nogues, explaining to friends that 1 -h - will not assume financial responsibility for ny errors which may appear in advertisements published in its columns.' In those instances where the puper Is at fault, it will reprint that port of the advertisement in width the t pngriiphionl mistake orcunv The Herald-Journa- l I have set the Lord always before me: because He is hand, I shall not be moved. Isalm 16:8. my Miscellani ' . He had JiiHt put some money in the cash register. The bell had c untied clear and triumphant and cheerful as he punched the keys lo ring uo the amount. With the grin of a boy who has von a pocketful of marbles during he turned around and l oonhour, at riht Nothing is so Iiiitli and above ail danger that is not below and in the power of (od. Ovid. said: Not liberty alone, not truth alone, but truth and Liberty with Truth, shall yet enlighten the world. Many years ago there was a Swedish king named Charles XII He built a fine army and went to battle against the enemy. As the bullets whistled about his ears, and the smoke from the gun3 drifted across the fields; as the roar of fightbecame more intense. ing Charles XII stuck out his chin and chest and said: 'In the future, this shall be my music. Then (he man who had just punched the cash register turned to look at it "Did you hear that bell a moment ago? he asked. In the future, that shall be my music! . . . For him the bell toll is ROOSEVELT IS RIGHT 1 President Roosevelt's refusal to sujijort any official observance of Pearl Haibor Pay is very sound. That day is, as lie says, a day of "great infamy." It is also a day of deep disgrace for the American nation. We are not disgraced because we lost an engagement on that day. We are disgraced because we wet . aund asleep, we were caught offguard, we were beaten as a result of disorganization, uncoordination, unforgivable naivete. The American people are not capable of spending an en- beautiful. - O tire day in the depth of deletion which alone would express how we should feel about I earl Harbor. So let's not try. left's V hat does the word brown to your mind? whip the Japs and get ourselves a day of rejoicing that we bring To mine right now it brings can properly celebrate. the back of a robin redbreast, oak al 1 The Washington ... on com- Army keeps hush-hus- h leaves in late autumn a plete story of the Ration affair; chicken leg In the frying pan . . . g three officers flew r. suit I once had which didn't In Sicily to probe scandal; lat- . fit . a beet field after it has tons stormy conduct is an old been fertilized. story in military circles; Senate; -- O Military committee critical of These people had this to say Army promotion system. about freedom: WASHINGTON The complete But what is Hartley Coleridge freedom? Rightly understood, a story on mercurial General George Patton is, for some strange reason, universal license to be good." Thomas - Jefferson -- - The God still being kept very hush-hus- h u ho gave us life, gave us liberty by the Army. at the same time What the War Department does-i- h seem to want known is the fact Mary Bakrr Eddy "Whatever i nslaves man is opposed to the that three officers oivine government. Truth makes flew from W ashington early in man free. August and investigated the Patton Daniel Webster If the true affair. spark of religious and civil liberty Officially it has been stated that he kindled, It will burn. Human General Eisenhower himself made cannot agency extinguish it. the decision to let Patton apoloO gize. This has been the War DeShe had picked and dabbled partment's official position, and her way across every counter technically, it doubtless is the of the store, leaving her tracks truth. as a muddy dog does on the But to the average layman's way clean kitchen floor. of thinking, the War Department Turning up her nose at what came pretty close to handling the fhe called awfully shabby stuff," whole thing itself. Anyway, here is she pouted: You just cant find what happened: anylthlng worth buying nowadays. Major General Miller White, asIt's terrible what slorea try to sistant chief of staff in charge of push off to cuftomcrs. How are army personnel, and Brig. General you going to do your Christmas Russell B. Reynolds, together w(in shopping when there's nothing a colonel, flew from 'Washington to huy? to North Africa shortly after Gend One of these gals, I thought, eral Patton abused the who curses the war because she soldier in a Sicilian hospital. In North Africa they picktfl up can't have red slippers and all the goodies she wants to eat. Major General Everett Iughes, One who squeals when the radeputy commander. Chief of Suption board cuts down her gas ply, In the North African theater man and she can't go to more than and Eisenhower's right-han- d for North Africa. Then they flew two bridge parties a week. to Sicily and investigated the PatOne who scolds the salesclerk because but one pound of ton matter carefully. In Sicily they spent one day iandy is allowed to each cuswith General Patton. He told them tomer per day. Her sacrifices because of the of one emotional scene where he war are truly tremendous the had wept and prayed beside the obese, stupid snivelling, selfish, bed of a wounded soldier. He cited this as compensation for abusing shortsighted, roohety, whining, two sick soldiers. cowardly old hag! In the end, they made a recomO A grizzled old miner, summoned mendation to General Eisenhower. to appear as a witness in a law- He accepted the recommendation. technically and officially suit, was being questioned by the Hence was his. plaintiffs lawyer as to his educa- the responsibility tional qualifications. EISENHOWER OI'POSF.D Can you write? queried the PATTON high-rankin- IDLE PLANES . transport plane taken over by the army, operated by it for 14 months and recently returned, was used by the army during that jieriod an average of 42 minutes a day. American aviation says that if it had been retained by the commercial line from which it was expropriated, the plane would have flown an average of 10 hours a day. The army took ovr 150 planes from private lines, in all, says the mager'ie Was the time of all wasted like that of the plane in question? rrobably not. But who knows? Does A ? Congress SPREADING IT THIN Now the supreme court rules that it is proper for a union to attempt, by pickt ting with "Unfair signs, to ruin a business which has no employes except its proprietors. Mr. Justice Frankfu'r feds that it is quite fair for the union to pin the opprobnous adjective "fascist upon men who decline to join a union for the privilege of working in their own little cafeteria. The law, say lawyers, is what the court says it is. But justice and vnmon nicrality, thank God, are less flexible and ideological. And in the long run justice and common morality can change what judges think is the law. - FAMOUS SPY HORIZONTAL Pictured World War I enemy agent, 1,5 9 Variegated 13 Dry 14 Deeds 15 Every 16 Tear 17 Roll of film 1 8 Woody plant 19 Near 20 Print measure 21 Editor (abbr.) 23 Father 24 We 25 Music note 26 Hypothetical NUTEUm N NSHjPAL E P SAjrjl ban a lUT lo r d ere d W ORGY f EijPliiVJ L toeT A N'E Laceiation Eibium (symbol) Arid NY 39 r 34 Fiozrn water 35 Bright color 38 Tiee fluid 40 Samarium 32 36 37 38 She was a Jl EM DP Ate 4C.0 N C OjF?D js JENTjATETXOD a.l.e isc 1h 30 Quake plTl SS A A apsDrooted Efls cope's I VERTICAL 1 Spoil 2 Spaces 3 Hue structural unit 4 Sum up 28 Negative 5 Hut t 6 High card 30 Spurt 31 Neither 7 Route (abbr 33 Age 8 Bland . 29 Manifest I OLAIE Geiman of Mea.-ui- e area 41 44 46 Change Eiaduate Capital of instrument Norvv ay 48 Othci wise 49 Wagers 50 Cut 1 1 Sea 51 12 Aitule 52 Norse war god 54 Possess 55 Sorry 56 Standing room pieces 10 Musical 20 22 ) 24 25 27 Dine Noise Employers lion (symbol) Accomplish Also only (abbr.) 57 Writing tool (symbol) 42 Railroad (abbr high-ranki- shell-shocke- Answer to Previous Puzzle ) 43 Pair (abbr.) 44 And (Latin) 45 Missouri (abbr.) 47 Biblical pronoun Per .'0 Senior (abbr.) 51 Examination 49 53 Be defeated 56 Fillip 58 Solely 59 Strike (slang) 50-o- lawyer. However, it has been reported 'Nope. "Can you reed? ' from North by those returning Wa'al, I kin read figgers purty Africa that Eisenhower had planwell, but I don't do so good with ned to send Patton back to the w ritin. United States. Events which followed appear to substantiate those How is that ? For General Patton has "Wa'al, take these here signs reports. along the road. When I want to not been in eonilmt since the ungo somewhere. I can read how fortunate event in August, and while technically in command of fur, but not wnurto!" the 7th Army, actually that army o In answer to a request, we pre- has more or less reused to exist sent army officers' insignia of as a coni hat organization. Its divisions have been fed Into General rank: One gold bar second lieutenant. Clarks 5th Army. One silver bar first lieutenant Controversy regarding General Patton is not new in the Army, Two silver bars captain. and did not begin with the slapping Cold oak leaf major. Incident in the Sicily hospital. Silver poplar leaf lieu colonel. Eagle- - colonel. One star brigadier general. Two stars major general. 111 th zzsEBsnama' ci pearl-liandl- BEGINS TODAY! buck-passin- pro-Vic- m pro-Vic- I cold-clogg- ed PENETRO 61 Smell 62 Finishes 63 Unlock WILLIAM POWELL the Book LILLIAN DAY Based Upon t. 25 MATS. 30 EVES. - The 1 rrin mrmmftitimt FEATURE NUMBER TWO! THATS nO f LOVE k treat spiced with a lot of used to the idea place like home. , . v- sltC r ,tl, Die m - w .$2!'X2I lawKsa 9 hen Q0.4 Pnnf National Distillers l'ro.lm is t oi potation, N.Y Of k or Germany is going to have - 'pun! Cavanaugh, fighting hero of gridiron and battlefield.. It takes more tljan serving spaghetti to get a husband all wrapped up in his wife's , sonc! 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