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Show THE Logan, Utah, Thursday, September 23, 191. HERALD-JOURNA- 10 VANDENBERG AMERICANS A Republican senator has expressed some sentiments in a partisan statement which members of both major parties can subscribe to, in spite of the heightened The political emotions of this election year. sentiments are not new, but they need to be expressed. We should, and probably will, hear them several times again between now and November. When Senator Vandenberg served notice on the world that America is united against aggression and against the foes of freedom, he was speaking for the great majority of his countrymen. Those in the Henry Wallace camp will disagree. And because they are so much more vocal than numer-in ous, they may mislead some people other countries into thinking that a fundamental difference on foreign policy is the main issue in their presidential campaign. But if they will listen to Mr, Vandenberg, he will put them straight. He cautions y other nations not to confuse of over policy foreign phases controversy with a controversy over the basic fact of that policy. There are, of course, other bipartisan arears of agreement in this campaign. Both parties and their candidates favor such things as lower prices, adequate wages, and more and better housing. Nevertheless, high prices and strained budgets and a housing shortage still exist. And there are conflicting opinions within the parties as well as between them, on what remedies should be used. Those issues are not only domestic but considerably political. As such they are of less interest abroad, even though their effects may shape our foreign policy to some extent. But the bipartisan foreign policy stated by Senator Vandenberg is, in its broadest aspect, divorced from politics. And it will not change with the rise and fall of our index. two-part- cost-of-livin- MOST SPEAKS fOR IN DECLARING g UNITY and IS PAID $1 AN HOUR AS PRESISOMETIMES I WISH I HAD REDENT; R MAINED A H. S. T.; ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE CLAIMS RED SPIES ARE IN U. S. CHURCHES. TRUMAN PIANO-PLAYE- WASHINGTON. When and If Harry Truman leaves the White House, he will have saved up until 1948 just about $4,000 a year out of the total $75,000 annual salary which the people of the United States pay their presidents. In the year 1948, thanks to a Republican tax cut, Mr. Truman will save more. The President sat down with paper and pencil the other day and figured that his job as president had paid him only $1 an hour up until the G. O P. tax cut. He estimated that, getting up early In the morning as he always does, he had average 4,200 hours a year on the job. After taxes and other heavy expenses of entertaining and travel, he saved $4,000 the first year and $4,200 the second or about one dollar an hour. However in 1948, thanks to the Republican tax cut, his net Income will be $12,000. And I vetoed that bill, chuckled the President Today Mr. Truman Is out on the Hustings trying to break through his usual wall of guards, servants and secretaries in order to show' the people his human side. The truth Is, that despite the steady stream of callers Truman receives dally and the reams written about him, only a few close friends know the real man inside the White House. Actually, he is a lonesome man. Not many people know, for instance, that Truman keeps two large anthologies of poems on a desk by his bedside and, before dropping off to sleep at night, likes to prop himself up in bed and read from the classics. His favorites are Shelley and Keats, but he can also recite at length from Alice In Wonderland. One passage the President likes to quote is the Red Queens remark to Alice: Now here, you see, It takes all the running you can do to keep . In the same place. Truman also likes to read history especially the biographies and autobiographies of his predecessors because, he told a friend, "it is men who make history." Historian Truman Truman's secret ambition Is to write the hisof his own administration, but it will have to wait until his term is finished. There are times when I make up my mind I am going to do it and start assembling my thoughts, he confided to a friend. Then the pressure of work forces me to drop It. There Just aren't enough hours in the day. He complained that the public never knows the true history of a period until long after it is past and sometimes forgotten. The trouble, he grumbled, Is that people have to depend on Drew Pearson and the Alsop Brothers for their Information. As a boy the President used to crawl out of bed at 5 a.m. to practice on the piano for two hours, and he still gets up early. He has more Important thngis to do now, but once he confessed wearily to a friend: Sometimes this job gets so strenuous that I think I should have stayed a The President has an orderly mind and an amazing memory. He kept a careful record and still recalls the exact number of rounds he fired as an artillery captain in the first World War. It was 18.342 shells. Whats moie, he remembers when he- - fired his last round Nov.- - 11, 1918, tory piano-player- ." 10:52 a.m. Pet Peeve Triman's pet peeve is the way Senator Ferguson of Michigan has handled the former War Investigating Committee. I built that committee into one of the finest on the hill, the President complained bitterly to an associate Since Ferguson has taken over, he has made It into a garbage company." Reds In Religion ? House spy probers plan to follow up their Corn- - four-pow- all-o- Merry-Go-Roun- d munlst expose with a report on Reds In religion. They claim to have unearthea Soviet agents trying to infiltrate into American church groups. The report will charge that if such Infiltration was accomplished which seems highly doubtful the next step would be an antireligion propa ganda drive in the U. S. A similar to that In Russia, with Red agents working from within to undermine the churches. Merry-Go-Rou- House jester, is reported George Allen, pulling backstage wires to block the sale of the governments Cleveland blast furnace to Kaiser. George, a director of Republic Steel,Henry performed one of the greatest political favors for Truman. He persuaded Eisenhower not to run for president , . . Joe Jacobs, a career man, will be new U. S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia . . . The Republican National Committee has hired Fred Boston McLaughlin, man, to make a political survey in the border states , . . CIO officials believe that Communist-controlled and left wing CIO unions will split off from the national organization by the end of 1948 and form an third labor movement , . . Utah Republicans have devised a secret campaign technique, patterned after the old chain.letter system. It works this way: seven people pledge to vote for a particular candidate (always a Republican). In turn, each .one seven of his close friends to vote for thepledges same candidate. Thus the chain Is continued until it the state. sweeps high-power- public-relatio- Under The Dom- eArmy Chief of Staff Omar Bradley isnt the kind who will pull his rank even on an enlisted man. Not long ago a sergeant wes assigned to help Bradley move some belongings to his new quarters. Instead of turning the job over entirely to the sergeant, Gen. Bradley pitched In and helped haul the baggage himself. In fact, Bradley made eight trips, the sergeant only seven. . . . President Truman has told Intimates that If hes Secretary of the Army Royall wont be around much. . . , Secretary Marshall Is secretly out to block America's best friend, Australian Foreign Minister Evatt, from becoming president of the United Nations. Reason: the American delegation fears it cant control the d Evatt, wants a puppet as president of the General Assembly. . . . Seen talking together recntly: J. Howard McGrath, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, whos In poltical trouble, and Preston M. Tucker, head of the Tucker Motor Car Company, who's In dire financial trouble. Wonder which could help the other most? Down-to-eart- h two-fiste- So They Say Without the bulwark of the (government) price support program behind them, American farmers would not dare to produce as they ate producing today Secretary of Agriculture Branan. will not assume financial responsibility for any errors which may appear in advertisements published in Us columns. In those Instances where the paper is at fault it Wv! reIrml that part of the advertisement tn which the typographical mistake occurs. al HONC KONG, cin na.-- in The f dist ;ier but lur Mother m-- each' It t being. he aid 0f a lei preter I I .al l'J with ter levied 4 en or more shaw boys effort to fic how abut ot vv in en. they (ucn, being jtn busml ,fithout ev talked against McLemoro & V tJeo to ,jitor this ian movement. They1 business, just as many 0f had it. They owngrandfathers thei t' own ricksf do not consider it and make a living degrading', out of it all they know how to do wonder how thev v.ould earna three squares of rice a dav ,r denly uplifted, so l0 S uaas ai Hr. stored buslw . v9-- jffiuc I sW C is s esda art Pilling a rickshaw to be as gruelling a doesnt job as foreigners think it rickshaw is undeiway it0n, carry a puller along. Too, nu'.d the pullers I have seen have and chests of v e,T ample pr 4. .tons, indicating that the task too unhealthful. Also, when a cline is reached there are al pushers standing along the st ready to give the rickshaw b boost for a little pushes m which is contributed by the senger. ftrs it H , All Puffed Up Hoover Study May Turn Up Ideas For Government air training Good The job of the commission i passed. win. is tc BUREAU ff OF THE BUREAUS make a report at to run the bureaus year on how the executive branch A bureau of the government can be reorgan- isnt so silly when you look at the the end of this ized to operate more efficiently. proposition AmerThere have' been several of these ican government has become today. commissions assigned to do the There are now between 40 and each same job but they never accom- 50 major federal agencies, multi-functi- plished much. Former President with countless bureaus, branches, Herbert Hoover, who heads this ets. George Washington startedDe-U commission, created one himself all with only four, the War for the same purpose when he was partment, Treasury Department, Now headed by Rear Admiral in the White House and so did State Department, and an attorney general's office. At the time he was J. W. Reeves, the navys air train- Franklin Roosevelt. lest the citizens think concerned like it looks one of this mission But might the has ing program was he several that for a creating an empire do with job, fleet good highly the really, furnishing Con- and overstepping his authority bj Most reasons. and important. persontrained flight ground gress had a hand in its organiza- having the new federal government nel, both active and reserve. tion and provided to hire plenty of peform too many functions. is course The long, arduous The First President would foand, above all, complete. Of competent help to insure a good lded be shocked to take a peek at is for support There job. each 100 students accepted federal civil service list o. training, about 60 usually win behind the idea. And the' members todays jobs. It gives an insight as td just their wings 18 months later. appointed to the commission savvy, gents in the art of how much government activity has They go through a series of where good government. They include expanded over the years. courses from ComHe would find that there is practhey study such fundamentals former U. S. Civil Service as engineering, gunnery, essent- missioner Arthur S. Flemming, Dr. tically no limit to the sphere of ials of naval service, and many James K. Pollock, professor of po federal activity on land, sea, or in litical science at the University of the sky. Federal "astronomers' others, to advanced flight. When the last is satisfactorily Michigan, former Under Secretary probe the sky and space. Federal "oceanographers explore the botcompleted, they are fit to serve of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, Sena- tom of the sea and the U. S. "mine with the fleet. , The young men who meet the tor Aiken of Vermont and others inspectors operate deep in the earth. of equal caliber. high standards of navy air traincoun- DEWEY CAN TAKE CREDIT Also on Uncle Sams payroll are ing are among the finest the The Irony of the thing will be swineherdsmen who have the job try produces. They are readying themselves to perform a vital if what started out as President of tending herds of pigs at Veternational service. And the navy's Trumans pet idea ends up becom- ans Administration hospitals. U. S. measure the storekeeper-gauger- s system of training is unrivaled ing the basis of Deweys reorganiDew- amount of alcohol kept in bond by If of the government. zation anywhere. a boon distillers. F e d e ral ditchriders1 ey wins it will certainly be worked regulate various parts of the westto him to have a carefully HERE AND THERE Silence is golden, siys the sage, out reorganization plan delivered ern irrigation progams. Just that glance at the comon a silver platter. Streamlining when You are trying to rise above a the government is already one of plexity of govenment today gives his campaign promises. But regard- an idea of the size of the job which threatening irritation. You have nothing pleasant to less of who wins, it is a good bet the Hoover Commission has tacklthat the commissions report wi'i ed. If the former president mansay. You are still uncertain about have a great effect on the future ages to come up with a sensible an important decision to be made. structure of the executive branch. blueprint for an economical reorYou are feeling proud of a perAlthough the Hoover Commis- ganization of the government U. S. sion has kept its woik probably taxpayers should be very grateful sonal accomplishment. more secret than that of the Atom- to him. The perfect guest is the one ic Energy Commission, a few bits who can make his host feel at of reliable information on its plans PROCLAMATION home. have leaked out. It is well known the that Hoover himself is making offlSALT LAKE CITY, O.. Pi In a C. L. (Les) Pocock called the study on how to improve the issued today. Gov. proclamation student The oifice and said: ces of. the J, i Herbe. t B. Maw urged Utahn, to more S. president stillj h housing problem Is growing only former U. ek , 0 . 3 as ,th acute, on the eve of schools alive and a competent author! y on the Physically Employ hefNaflonal starting. In my office now are L principles of management, end Handicapped Week. three Puerto Ricans who have well qualified to handle this no place t? sleep tonight let of the report. re-- . alone a place to live. Another pretty more has who a Departmen Les, is that special "Papa port housing troubles this time of of Administration will be suggest-- !Who Woman Old the than ed. It will be a sort of "houseyear Lived In A Shoe ever had, con for living tfoiued beating-the-brus- h accommodations. . pre-flig- , Twenty - two - month - old Lawrence Phillips, Jr, of Springfield, Mass, has been puffing cigars for a year, but his mother doesnt think its cute anymore. Shes trying to wean him from the weed but says "Its worth a year of my life to put up with his screaming" when she tries to take away his cigar. Barometer Says Hard Winter Ahead Bug BANGS CORNERS, O. U.E windy fellows who make t home in the China Sea. Since we got here the tjj warnings have been up twice first time for typhoon Gert: the second for typhoon HazeL some reason, all typhoons in sector are given girls names, warnings are numbered, and one really clamps his hat firm his head until the No. 7 sign hoisted. When No. 9 goes up, the phoon has arrived in earnest. I ed what happened when N signal went up, and was told Ni 10 never had been put up- -u always blown down before hoisting could be accompli The typhoons cause some headlines in the papers out as Witness this one I saw u reading in the lounge of The A; lean Club: Gertrude, with an mile wind in her middle, appr ing Hong Kong. long-rang- nals. The woolly caterpillars are dark from stem to stem. she says. th al Si n ini al tut t J en live irned col s4 lersrt Si A ghter a of Mr. 3ichn ai Hr. st his 1 Jus rail tweek ill A rty i Qa !ltl slid M 1 vFer Si visit I ry of u Sir, ashong tJiy r Mi. ( Mrs rds c sum them ffl Foreign residents of the Hu: Kong Hotel get a charming miti cal reception nearly every rr. they leave the hotel. Theof is furnished by a group doll-lik- e girls, ranging in from four to eight, who t along the street with thee . ists singing, Mellily CT Along, Loll Along White mas, "Jingle Bells, and and Coca Cola. The continues until the music The are given a few pennies. operator of a bug barometer predicts that the coming winter will be a tough one. Miss Eunice Merton, who outdoes the weather bureau for confident e forecasts, says nature already has put up the storm sig- (ihm Sedne .son This is a tip-oon what s part typhoons and near typl play In the lives of this C colony. Indeed, one isnt consul an old China hand until he been through half a dozen o keeping agency and will probably also include the present bureau ol the budget. A rumor goes even further to suggest that the head of it, if it is created, will be Governor Warren, if the Republicans BY DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent Just WASHINGTON (NEA) whats cooking Inside the super-secrHoover Commission is the source of great speculation these days. The first sign of that greet, eye when boarding a Hong s street car is this one: Should ear be caught in a typhoon windows must he lowered and not be opened until the blow inoway There is no such Li thing in Hong Kong, bulWSI selling is strictly theold old women. Spry like though. They race be the first customer. tie Coming down in the a this morning we saw West. A blending of East and erable Chinese gentleman,In black silk cap, a queue. n silk gown, was fanning On with a sandalwood fan. new t of spanking were a pair and white saddle shoes. (Distributed by McNaugL Syndicate, Inc.) newsboy "Hornets have their gray paper nests. Mother as many wasps are sealing live spiders in the mud incubator tubes to feed their babies when they hatch. For Mis Merton, those and other portents spell out a cold, dark and long winter. catShes been seeing slat-gra- y one A pendulum, to brat erpillars for the first time since 1917, and that winter things froze exactly, must solid in November and there never inch longer at Spitzbergen was a thaw till February'. the equator. trinle-lnsulat- , well-found- We (Frenchmen) are going through a serious crisis. The financial crisis and poltiical disorder cannot go on any longer without danger. Premier Henri Queuille of France. Egg throwing is dangerous. It spreads like a disease. You dont know who will be caught up in the mob hysteria, and you don't know who the next victim will be. Henry A. .Wallace. While I have every confidence that the Dewey-Warre- n ticket will be elected. I never regard an election as over until election day. Overconfidence can lose an election. Republican National Chairman Hugh D. Scott, Jr. This Dewey mouthpiece (St'assen), who uses as though he were a candidate himself, speaks of labor as an item of manufacturing overhead to be punched off on an adding machine. Sen. ,T. Howard McGrath (D) of R. I., Democratic national chairman. the pronoun you be my customer. No, prices are too high, replied the second little lady. Lets play radio program, and Ill give away a million dollars. Americana! 0ldat40,50,60?"i'j Han, Youre Crazy j Forgk you r agri Thousand we peppy at 70 Try pepping up with Oatrni. Contains tome for weak, rundown feeling dut solely to body a lark of iron which many men and women call old.' CatrtX Toolo Tablet for pep. younger feeling, vary Uy. Kw gat acquainted size oniy At atoreg verj'whji e in alldruc fan, at Walgreen' Try this 60a ho and Mo0arn Drug. j to Paint alone will save jour home, says an advertisement. Yeah if you keep up the payments. one cant even live 'lljr 'is PROVIDENCE, UTAH ElBerta One half of the world never knows how the other half lives until someone starts talking. Young men who drive with one arm aie J. H. Hale bushel 1.50 - 2.00 bushel 1.75-2.5- 'h aiiYiS expense. to run into a church. T PROVIDENCE PEACHES as cheaply as The greatest drawback to a budding love affair Is the blooming A HO EDGEWOOD HALL BARBS Nowadays, one. Lets play store, said the first child. "Ill be the storekeeper and I March 4, 1879. Herald-Journ- 0re' a movement afoot heie t v rickshaws, the idea b eWg human being should be ated as to act as a heal: 50 f h by by Congress, or number of men involved. The quality of training, the standards of morale, the character of leadership, the enthusiasm and dedication of purpose of those in positions of responsibility these are among the factors, tangible and intangible, that make for military efficiency and spirit. In time of peace, we must build our military forces with these principles in mind so that, if the need ever comes, we base shall have a finely-traine- d upon which to create a vast, fighing machine. The Navys present program if a good example, and today we are more than happy to give this program a plug, for we received a kind invitation to visit Naval Aviation Training at Florida, and to get Per.sacola, first-han- d a picture of the life and schooling of the naval aviator. The invitation came from Lieut Commander R. W. Lund, officer in charge, Office of Naval Officer Procurement, Denver. He stated that the navy is selecting several representatives of publicity media to make the tour of the Pensacola establishment. We would have liked to accept the invitation, of course. J A .jjeut, ,ftsw y. war-streng- th R LMore ut OLD LOOK FOR A NEW PORKER The Eastern Meat Packers Association and Purdue University announce that they are going to produce a hog tailor-mad- e to the requirements og Eastern meat consumers. We suggest that the consumers get together and unanimously recommend that one of the new critters principal features be pork chops at two bits a pound. , Like By HENR er thor-ughl- Jay Burden . 50. The Their THINGS et Published every week day afternoon by the Cache Valley Newspaper Co., 75 West Center street, Logan, Utah, Telephone all departments The Ilerald-Journdelivered by carrier, $1.00 a month; by mail outside Cache valley same price as above: by mail in Cache valley, three months, $2.50, six months $5.00, one year $10.00. Entered as second class matter tn the nnt office at Logan, Ulan, under act of congress, Boys Senator Vandenbergs statement came dispute at a time of tension in the east-wsover Germany, and of conferences in MosBy RAY NELSON cow seeking to settle the dispute. It came o nthe eve of the UN General Assembly discus- Aid To Schools; meeting in Paris, and a colonies. Italian sion of the former Naval Air Training Its reassurance should be fortified by Foster John Women acioss the United States, the presence of Republican are overwhelmingly in favor of Dulles at the UN meeting. schools, it Though Mr. Vandenberg addressed his federal aid to public in a poll taken remarks to the world, it is quite possible was revealed the Womens Home by that they were directed chiefly at Amer: recently Companion. Nine of every ten women from icas friends abroad. The Russian government must realize the truth of the sena- all sections of the country, and every walk of life, want tors declaration already. It must also fiom their local schools to receive help Communist realize that the backing from the national government. has helped cement bipartisan unity. But the citizens of friendly countries, Most educators admit that eduopportunities throughout and even some of the leaders, might under- cational the various states could be equalisas confused worried and ed considerably if Uncle Sam standably grow the campaign grows hotter. While the would contribute more cash to Democratic President and the Republican areas which need it for education. But the they would guard Congress keep on lambasting each other, against is thing increased federal control as they surely will, foreign observers may ot school policies. . They want the cash without forget that the same President and Condont want too of our present strings on it. They gress are the much power over the school foreign policy. vested in the hand of So the world should understand that our domestic squabbles are We recently saw a note comstrictly in the family. It should understand mending U.S. navy air training. that the family stands united when danger The excellence of a military threatens its safety and freedom, or those force cannot be judged entirely given it ty the appropriations of its friends. the even --V The Washington Rickshaw THOUGHTS 0 " You can count on tasty mixed drinks before theyre made if you ue Hill and Hill. Its distinctive Kentucky taste marks it fYdry a tYd Stfcdt liable NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORP, NEW YORK 86 PROOF |