Show q ' rat ibAanti Zt gak jatt 51871 Established Issued Every Morning Silt 12 by The Salt but-mere- ly - - Excellency flounders 'While flirting With Voters Having announced his candidacy for reelection Governor Herbert B Maw is losing no time in beginning his flirtation with labor leaders who are supposed to control the votes of members in their respective organizations With his honeyed words and beguiling smile his excellency may cover troubled waters with scented oil and calm the storms of opposition that have been gathering force within his party during the past three years Being both his forte and fortune he is entitled to make the most of this natural talent and a pleasing personality But when the governor accuses the press of misleading the public by not giving true facts in the Montgomery Ward case he is getting beyond his depth All the news available with reference to that controversy and it is safe to say all that the governor knew or knows about that matter is what appeared In the newspapers If he had any secret or exclusive information on a matter of such moment space was his for the asking so that he failed in his duty and responsibility to the public when he forgot or refused to divulge it Intimations that news had been suppressed indicate some inside knowledge of his own—an assumption he and the public know to be absolutely of 30 Indicted ' ' L were being tried by the nazi courts in Germany According to the magazine Time these 30 alleged seditioniats are charged with declaring among other things that the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor "was deliberately invited by the public officials of the States" and that "the cause of the axis is the cause of justice and morality" and that "any act of war against them is unjust and immoral" Their probable defense Time thinks will be that the expression of these thoughtsI was merely the exercise of the con- stitutionar right to free speech These men and women before the bar of justice are being tried most observers declare in an in this How the nazis must be laughing up their sleeves at reports from American : sedition trials! Members of this group who are charged with engaging in a seditious conspiracy who have openly sneered at democracy and praised the tenets of nazism are using every safeguard provided by democracy to avoid conviction Their attorneys had employed every legalistic telmicality to stop or delay the case until the trial judge was forced to hold one of them in contempt of court Thg open defiance of government and the courts is typified by one of them Lois De' Lafayette Washburn who boldly giyes the nazi salute on the streets of Washington and thumbs her nose at the court building Hearing of their antics one wonders how long such foolishness would be permitted if they - ‘-- -- ': with ?rmanying C )J)- N p ( p 0-- -N ) dip °( x ) )) ) )) ‘)) 1 0 11 4 G I ar'rERY - 011106- 411M ly soft-pedali- ng war New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK—Our own Gene Buck the song Houston Texas who re- A Eugene Buck the Texas man was 55 years continuously a railroad man: As a boy he was a telegraph operator in But A W Brand of San Gallipolis Ohio Diego wants to know whether I've ever caught bullheads and crabs and then roasted the fish with the crabtails and a few bullfrog legs Should blleviseasoned with watercress he adds "Boy that's my California friend Sorry that's among the feasts I've missed since I've never been a fisherman Many readers have written to ask what I think of the killing of the little foitxtels in Ohio Pictures widely published show I boys beating the cornered foxes to death before admiring crowds Since this column is widely read in nice homes I shall not attempt to say what I think of such people Instead I would like a recommend that the humane sacieties and similar organizations miugurate a long view educational campaign in that region School teachers have done more than any other class of people to inculcate kindness to animals throughout this country If a section of Ohio has been missed it is not too late to start a little a education there Nc- e - ‘- 5 t -zty -illsh b7--Z7‘ N:t N NAZIStFRENZIEP k -- I )) C I - - 4' 1 EFFORTS T43 atRIZY 40) Ownsh4 AMI -- - e c (--- 1 ) c ) 3 -- e 'm) ( c ?WI -o eN 1 k" Q resistance The weakened Jap garrison inclination for a there had nodeath-loving last ditch fight to the hills fled Frankly they The bulk of the jap force lured into Wewak will face the kind of starvation - depletion fighting that has come to characterize the whole south PacifI iwar strategy even the Isla part of it That mode of warfare works You push fingers like chess out toward objectives swiftly In the rear of the Jap frontal or positions either mainland bases The Japs still hold islands within sight of Guadalcanal for instance and several Marshall islands eastward of our advanced positions on Eniwetok and Kwajalein So the Japs are always in the rear of our lines and we of dot-atol- ls long-conquer- ed theirs But we have the air and sea power and this we use to starve the bypassed Japs The Japheld Marshall islands of Jaluit Mill Wotje etc as well as the ones off Guadalcanal are swept almost daily by our air bombing No surface ships can easily get in to bring them supplies They have no planes at these points generally and the only safe avenue of supplies for them is by submarine Not much ammunition or food can be brought in that way Our advanced bases thereafter are Strengthened with plane runways and suitable ship facilities for the next bypassing jump Already our new holdings at Hollandia and in the Marshalls and on New Britain give us an air sweep (but not air control) over a vast arc reaching the southernmost Philippine islands all the Carolines (including Truk) and even the base of the Marianas (Yap Saipan) which are the last island outposts to be hopped south of the Japanese mainland No place in this area can be used as a Jap Pearl Harbor 1 not even Truk which we have already bombed 32 times and thus have reduced to a secof the ondary outpost Most are airImportant Jap holdings fields not naval bases (three at Truk for instance) why the Perhaps this explains Japs so seldom- these days exhibit a desire for death in the last ditch of futile resistance No general movement of nazi troops from the east to The western front to meet us has yet been observed True enough the battle line is only about half as long as last year and the enormous Russian claims on are captured men and material conceded to nearly everywhere be of little benefit as military Information although they may be good propaganda But both the numbers and equipment of Russian troops on the fighting front have been constantly increasing It would be Imprudent for the Germans to withdraw any large number of divisions and switch the emphasis of their fighting effort primarily against us As a matter of fact their recent reinforcements in Italy the Balkans and along the northwest coast seem to have come entirely from reserves held i mow RP---71e-! in Germany Austria n-- its weight Distributed :13? King Features Syndicate r?:$:3n7rsxZZWMM17Z: The-Lewi- to cals the "hold political trench" declaring that "the new deal is a political party tiedi up with the labor movement under an able political leader" It may be as his friends contend that the president has no thought of politics and is concentrating wholly upon the war But these are the facts Nor' does the known hostility of Mr Lewis to the president affect them Mr Lewis and Mr Mur- ray of the C I 0 are not friends either but that did not prevent Mr Murray from standing with Mr Lewis when the test came two years ago They are all alike —these labor bosses out for all they can get in the way of money and power for their unions And as Mr Biddle the new deal is tied t4p with them The seizure of Um Ward plapt and the protest in congress ought to make the situation clearer than before There are many more union members than there are employes but It Is still true that the bulk of the voters are not yet in the 'unions and that some of those who are have been union members coerced into becoming such and are not happy about it It may be that before this case is over the great mass of unattached voters will understand the de- gree to which Mr Roosevelt and his administration are "tied up' to the labor bosses And that might make it worth while in deal- ing with controversies between businessmen and labor leaders the facts as presented by Senator Byrd in a notable speech and by Mark Sullivan in recent articles leave little room for defense They point out that the Ward case parallels almost exactly that of John 14 Lewis and the coal miners last year The same 'contract-signin- g issue was involved with the same government board which appealed to the president when Mr Lewis rerefused to sign fusal differed only from the :Ward refusal in that it was flagrantly defiant and denunciatory whereas the Ward refusal while firm was neither arrogant nor bellicose Another difference of course was that the Ward refusal did not threaten to tie up a basic industry upon which the cohduct of the war k as-Be- rta s - ) - ' II :cc At LI 1"'4roc zif N' povir2ti 111 I I ::::: : - 41 I I I'll :: - : ' -- I $ Art f'- '': g a':::: i '' ' - Z - '' ' OMAR BOW t''- Write - 2 1:' ' ' : :: : : ' "Mti :: - - - - t: l'"r:""TICr-4 r:: : : ' — z k - c 11 (0 (9) 'i By ' :1:: 1 0 1:' ''- z ' may as ':1 ' r':1::: '::1::'? 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' want SUIT at this the can't sale find you you If you 'hil kiiil p': : i-- -- :4 f'sI'''''' : x I SUITS EIEGULAE1 - - Mon's ez Young Wien's 100 Wool Genuine "Blousing System" i i A :::f- Simile: As meaningless as the sum in a financial report to which "before taxes" is t ::: - Farmer - 16: ‘ 3 1 Jewelry Two business men driving a car at the edge of town saw a horse and buggy coming their One said to the other way "Well Joe you can't tell he may be 20 years behind us or six months ahead"—Capper's she die is the official who in March 1942 urged a gatheringtof radi- of freedom But aside from the merits of these contentions and centering upon the conflicting 711Th'ISIP Anthropologist Hooton of Harvard who for a while had us reverting to the ape now is designing the ideal train seat instead of a trapeze Who now remember when you had to holler all over a large Texas farm to find the vice president of the United States? Among other fascinations a seedman's catalog offers six common garden tools combined in one handy lending implement An opportAnist would be the his gadget inventor who peddles failures as the latest in costume south And he saYs they're still Work is the least o' my idees When the green you know gits 1 fighting the Civil war Being a westerner he is allowed to act back in the trees! as referee James Whitcomb Riley "The Road Rack: The city Hous bound commission of Salt Lake City My d eamship has been waiting Utah has decided to sell the I ng Awai ing long for me city's six air raid sirens"— Philadelphia Record But I must put the kettle on And et the cups for tea Max Gerber says that sometimes the best inspiration is Iis d earn sails are aquivering born of desperation To be upon their way But must do the ironing now Broadmindedness is usually And end the hose today that has been highmindedness flattened ' Iis h Id is stored with precious ms Gerry Mae Kopp who is now And ace to deck a queen up in Alaska writes that she But gingham is the frock I wear certainly misses The Tribune Well we miss her too and reTo kOep my kitchen clean gret that conditions are such cannot get the paper Lfeaz some day my ship And- - eave me far behind Tyndale Lloyd who Is with But cannot make ready the marines in the Pacific says tomind! I ha e so much "survival of the fittest" in that yett —MisSouri his neck of the woods means the fightin'est survive Not on the Cuff ' In tHam Jr's squadron back Experience is supposed to be In Atlanta Ga there are boys a teacher but she demands the from the north and from the pay of a medical specialist - t 11'9EDEZ (IMO 11201kTEDElf Czechoslo- and Ham Park the organization concerned-ithe Ward case is the chief earliest and most ardent group urging a fourth term that Sydney Hillman head of the CI 0 political action cortimittee 1has an admitted campaign fund of $700000 and is vociferously de- mending the Roosevelt- reelection that Attorney General Bid kind of thing can be done to one 'business it can be done to any business: that this is an instance of federal strong-armin- g sharply at variance with any conception administration attitudes - Is IIIIMEMEMOM Off the Record Senator From Sandpit - these are now available against us That is ) doubt what the nazi's want us to believe It is too muci to say—as some noted military authorities are —that the German retreat was a strategic Maneuver designed to reinforce the western front The retreat 1as cost the Ger- mans rather eavily in a few places wherej their encircled troops have rot escaped They evatu tted most of their men from the Crimea1 but had to leave some behind They also escaped from' Tiraspol where several divisions had been surrounded But at Odessa and at least two points in the Dnepr bend they lestsome divisions —no one knows how many The Russians unquestionably are preparing for a new drive' and the true situation is one of doubt that the nazis have sufficient force to attack them in advance of the blow to offset Poland Some Swedish reports say 15 divisions were used in policing suggesting occupied Russia vakia was done to Mr Lewis and in the end he got more for his union than he had asked The contrast to the Ward case is complete In that case acting with great speed the government took over the plant ejected its head and gave the union a victory In considering these things It is impossible not to recall: (1) that this is election year and the president (unless all signs fail) will seek it fourth term (2) that the C I 0 which It is contended by the authors of the law under which this action was taken that the seizure is in violation of the intent of congress And it is asserted by others that it is without moral or legal justification that if Ali ly putes act though Senator Byrd appealed to the attorney general for action under the act Nothing ing MacArthur's Move On Hollandia Foole Japs By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON — G e nera I MacArthur fooled the laps completely before moving into Hollandia and Altape They observed our ships the New Guinea streaming up coast from Lae and Salamaua and naturally concluded we were to hit Wewak their point nearest to us By every trick possible MacArthur encouraged that impression The Japs hastily assembling most of their force around Holandia (probably two divisions) rushed them to Wewalc whereupon MacArthur bypassed them proceeded along the coast and took Hollandia without much Smith-Connal- "even-hande- C dZ::70 owmpt Talb - r(e the conga Pgar ar e- C kf Oat c(57ra) --it Cft 3 ' --t -7- C ") -- IP - t ' - 7g' leo r - :- 8 - 0 4 - (r) -- N 1 l Llet ‘ c c"b x 4 t0) 'go ' I Sm C 1 -- : L fa I ( r ( di t 1) 'st 01 - -- ? D617Ems:A45 : k- 7----- meeting the appeal of the war labor board over the Lewis refusal was to do nothing Nothhappened to Mr Lewis He ing was not compelled to sign He Was not even denounced from the White House He Waif not proceeded against under the war labor dis thing about the president's seizure of the Montgomery Ward Chicago plant is the clarity with which it is revealed that this administration has one policy for dealing with one group of citizens the eMployers and quite a different policy for dealing with another 'group the labor leaders and their unions Toward the first it is ruthless and hostile: toward the second servile and partial This is not news to those who have followed the Roosevelt record in labor matters But it has now been made so plain that the conviction which informed men have had over a period of years seems likely to become much more widely in fact widely held--s- o that the political reaction may be important: For this time there has been no pretense of no "equality of treatment" d show of justice" This time with the president approving fromf his vacation retreat and with no national crisis threatened the full weight of the government was thrown on the side of the unions The attorney general Francis Biddle perflying from Washington sonally directed the soldiers who took over the property and physically ejected the protesting head of the firm from the build- I - --- e 1- i()k14f -- 'i -- I -2"1 J r20 WASHINGTON --- When the administration leaders souglit to broaden the resolutions Inquiring into the Montgomery Ward case so as to cover an investigation of the labor relations of that company they played Into the hands 'of their opponents For many years elements in congress which have sought an opportunity to investigate all the intimate details of labor union affairs and their methods in collective bargaining elections have been blocked Now the admAnistration hands the full subpena power to cOmmittees which start off with a desire to prove that Union labor politicians and the administration have a political alliance whereby in exchange for the votes of the unions the administration plays favorites and grants special privileges The whole subject has been for several years but with the exceptionstewing of the vigorous Investigation conducted by a committee headed by Representative Howard Smith of Virginia Democrat every resolution that has proposed any inquiry into labor union affairs has been successfully blocked by the administration This time the spokesmen for the administration seeing a resolution proposed which on its face is an attempt to inquire into usurpation of power by the chief executive thought the best way to take the stingout of it was to turn the spotlight of publicity on Montgomery Ward's labor relations which have by no means been without blemish Senator Byrd on the senate side promptly accepted the amendment broadening the itcope of the resolution of inquiry and it is to be expected that the house will do likewise Thus two congressional committees will be investigating not just Montgomery Ward's relations with its employes but the war labor board's files and records on the subject of the "maintenance of membership" clause in union contracts Likewise an inquiry will be made as to pressures exerted on all regional war labor board as well as national war labor board panels It would not be surprising if the congressional committees also made a comprehensive inquiry into the recent coal strike and the various communications that passed between the war labor board and the other agencies of the government and the United Mine Workers Naturally the 'committees will inquire into what opinions the attorney general rendered ' when President Roosevelt said he was helpless to do anything about the' defiance by John Lewis and the miners' union Also it will be ascertained no doubt why the department of failed to apply the penalties of the Smith-Connal- justice law when by concerted action of some kind strikers stayed away from work even after the coal properties were seized by the government The congressional inquiries open up the whole subject of the administration's favoritism in handling unions as contrasted with its intransigent attitude toward employers The whole episode will come during the presidential campaign when It would have been much better for the administration if it could have avoided the publicity that goes with any searching inquiry into bungling on the home front Maybe the administration has a card up its sleeve It could get the better of its opponents in congress by a' simple method which it has used effectively before An attempt could be made to "pack" the committees with administration supporters Vice President Wallace appoints the senate committee and Speaker Rayburn the house committee This could mean that rubber-stam- p senators or those who will play ball with the administration in its mistakes would be chosen Congress has made a very important gesture By demanding an inquiry into the abolition of civil rights by the president in time of war it has come to the defense of the people against the first dramatic outburst of totalitarianism that has been observed in America during the -- "- - -- i - -- far-dista- nt David Lawrence Says: --- 1- There "witch but a manifest desire to give them a fair hearing But while defense lawyers wrangle with the court as their clients look on supercilloudly and while a certain newspaper excuses them as being crackpots and victims of a "new deal smear campaign" our men are fighting undergoing hardships and dying in lands Soldiers sailors and marines are facing death every day and night to defend the rights that are being so brazenly flouted in a Washington courtroom Ceiel ()1 pow- in Antics k tC) K ) "1 -- 4 I Lake- City Utah Saturday Morning May 6 1944 Democracy is a term which has been vari ously defined to provide a topic for factional controversies It was a word of ridicule in the days of Jefferson and of animosity during the reconstruction period following the war between the states Sinee the time bt Aristotlesome 333 years before the beginning of the Christian era democracy has meant government of the people through designated officials as against an aristocracy or oligarchy where a family or favoredAlass rules without reference to Merit or a likelihood of change The history of democracy dates back to attempts of the ancient Hellenes who cherished an ideal but had no method by which to govern Greece accordingly Citizens present at assemblies could vote not for officials to to administer the go'vernment theories individual wishes or their express Woodrow Wilson an authority on historical events and developments defined democracy as the doctrine of equal rights without respect to blood or breeding of a society without castes or classes of popular government and untrammeled elections Abraham Lincoln tersely described our democracy as "a government of by and for the people" In his "American Commonwealth" the English historian Bryce enumerated certain disadvantages of democracy as follows: "Weakness in emergencies incapacity to act With promptness and finality fickleness and domes-ti- c 41quent changes in bothfor foreign and customs changing policies a passion an abandoning old institutions the influence of demagogues 'playing on the prejudices and passions of the masses and finally the selfishness of pressure groups seeking to en rich themselves at the expense of the people But the first World war as Elihu Root observed brought into bold relief the virtues of selection against the ancient order of succession "The greatest change in national life throughout the world during the past century” he said "has been the growth and spread of democratic ideals of government and the correlative decrease in tha extent and power of dynastic government" In a letter read in a meeting where "Constitutional Government" was recently discussed Governor Thomas E Dewey had written: "The bulwark of human freedom will never be out of date Our constitution is the only instrument that has yet been devised by the brains of men to keep us free citizens of a free republic" A sentence from a communication President Wilson sent to the American Federation of Labor November 12 1917 ought to be read often It is this: "Let us show ourselves Americans by showing that we do not want to go off in separate camps or groups by ourselves but that we want to cooperate with all other classes and groups in a common enterprise which is to release the world from bondage—that is the meaning of democracy" n o2TH Publishing Company I —By N - American Democracy Means Popular Government Anti-America- April Lake Tribune Orr' Writer Contrasts U S Stand i In Ward Plant Coal Mines c J and th life of the nation depend By Frank R Kent Th Mr Roosevelt 's method of WASHINGTON bI g c APR I Fencing With the Lightning ' WY 4t0Avo - - r r - - |