Show 1 :k2 Zbt iSSUOd Established April Every Morning by rhe Salt Lake Hitler's Vest Walt 1st Tribune :: ' ) 15 1871 Funnelling Company i'-- t ' --- ' - FOR EFFRY -- - : '1 Salt Lake City Utah Friday Morning September 22 1914 8 -- i ' 1 -- '''--:: i') - - -' : Pony Express Riders Are Honored Today Among all the figures that symbolize the early west there is none so romantic as that of the pony express rider and his mount Patient pioneers toiling miners colorful gamblers desperate outlaws and grim vigilantes all have their places in the picture but they fade into the background when the daring dashing dauntless pony express rider thunders along the trail and into the little settlements scattered along the way from St Joseph to Sacramento Today Utah and Salt Lake City join the west in observing Pony Express day under the auspices of the American Pioneer Trails association It was through Utah the pony route wended its way and Salt Lake express one was of its principal stations That City station stood on the ground now occupied by 'The Salt Lake Tribune which unites with the association in paying tribute to the intrepid znen who carried the mail in those early days Imagine if you can in this day of the telegraph the telephone the radio and the air mail the vistas of thought stirring in those early American minds when isnessages were "flashed" from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast in the unbelievable time of 10 days One znessage Lincoln's first inaugural address reached California in 7 days and 7 hours to make a record Those were hard-ridin- g expressmen on their wiry western horses who wrought the miracle Beset by Indians and sometimes by highwaymen their trails led through the wilds of an almost unexplored land Across wide prairies through- hazardous canyons and over dangerous deserts they made their way riding against time and death Perhaps no finer tribute can be paid the pony express riders than a quotation from the pen of Utah's former governor Charles R Mabey whose book of poetry has been dedi- cated to them: The riders are dead their ponies dust The years have buried the trails they made The mouldering posts are strewn with rust From stockless gun and armless blade Where once the savage lurked in force The settler sleeps in his calm abode And only the ghost of rider and horse Streaks down the path over which he rode" t First to Tread German Soil American troops continue to make history They have not only driven the axis out of many strongholds in Italy and France but have been the first of the allies to penetrate the'homeland of hatred and horror They have not only cleaned up the Nipponese nests of trickery and treachery in the southwestern Pacific but have actually carried the battle back to the Philippines At the present rate of progress it will not be long before Gen Douglas MacArthur's consuming desire will be gratified with Corregidor avenged Taking into consideration our unpreparedness for war as a result of the wanton sacHfice of ships and implements of combat during the decade following the armistice of 1918 the failure to fortify island outposts and keep the navy up to ordinary requirements the constant accusatioEs of "ghost-dancinand every time a measure of defense was mentioned the calm assurances by isolation newspapers of the improbability of attack on Pearl Harbor or Wake island the number of pseudopatriotic clubs and associations organized by German consuls and agents befriended and defended by "nationalistic" politicians and papers our escape from total extinction by designing and foes would be considered a miraculous intervention of providence except for the marvelous speed and energy of American industry and patriotism promptly aroused and properly directed Awakened on the day that Japanese treachery wrecked the hopes of isolation immunity and exposed the perversity and blindness of axis dupes patriotic Americans haves-heltheir land secure from Invasion have kept the war against democracies far from our shores and have taken a glorious part in carrying the conflict right to the doors of both Japs and Germans It is a matter of local pride and satisfaction to learn that a soldier from Utah Lt Richard Spencer Burrows of Ogden was "the first man to cross the frontier" in the invasion of Germany according to press reports from - g" "war-mongerin- g" ed the fighting front Salt Lake Teachers Deserve Praise for Ration Job Teachers in the Salt Lake schools have rendered valuable services to the community as well as to the war rationing program by giving their time to the task of issuing gaso- line gallonage books They served without pay and put in long hours in the two-da-y period required for receiving applications for nearly 125000 "A" books and giving them out to qualified motorists tt k I t 4 A t 0 o 1 P s L Designated schoolrooms were jammed with crowds while groups of teachers kept long lines of applicants moving Their job was a difficult one and required much patience as do all activities connected with meeting the public Automobile owners Alio were unable to obtain ration books on the distribution days will have to apply by mail to th e ration- e 1 P c-- r ': - it — ttz4- i 'Ir1W tZ! 4' ' k' k ''tt'L s 7 fr Itt e '' e - t - le 11 t - ''4 1t:r 411tta - ' ''' 1 ' Lr7'N'2 '''' iN-'a"0::--eat-?'04-- -- 11111 ti ‘11- ' Isk''"' ' ' IL e - - ' It i'' z4' --- h' I i II e ge !t : e 1: : 40-1''''"7':77'-:— ' a - si' ' ::zo " 1 7'' ' 7 k - 7 :7r ::' ' day The public is entitled to know all the facts about these conferences They are not personal affairs to be conducted by amiable friends and boon companions only to have the favorable released later though hitherto secret details Lives are at stake through favorite chroniclers soldiers sailors and the lives of fine American airmen who must now be landed somewhere in the Far East in ever Increasing quantities and over a long period of time before we can beat been Japan Chinese man power should have trained and equipped for that job It took two and a half years to prepare an invading army of a million or more men to go only 80 miles from it take Plymouth to Cherbourg How longofmust millions of now to send an invading army Americans the1000 miles or more from the Philippines to Japan or the 500 miles from the China coast if we ever can get in and defeat the Japanese land armies so heavily intrenched there? These are the questions left unanswered by the exuberant almost jovial comments Issued at the press conference at Quebec about the "suecess" of these meetings between the president and the prime minister : ) 2 '6 '''''''' '''‘''''' :a- ' "1"Ns - a :‘i-1- ' " k 7 r i - 4- ! eVI f')9 '647 : :4"- ' i': '' A - - Driscoll By Charles BHard-Boiled Smith comes from Mr A News of W Brand of San Diego who says that he has : former corchecked his facts with S C Kelly oner of San Diego county He says Hard-Boile- d o Smith Was shot and killed on the Lake road near Camp Kearney in the fall of 1919 by a soldier I wonder what happened to the soldier Hundreds of soldiers tortured and subjected to horrible indignities by Smith during the War to End came Wars swore to kill the brute when peace Hard-Boiled I hope and believe that there is no our side Smith in this war----oThere is a notorious bum and panhandler operating on the East Side who uses force to compel his victims to contribute He walks with crutches and a wooden leg so is generally known by the unimaginative name of Peg leg His chief sources of wealth are the East Side bars particularly along First Second and Third eves from 14th at to upper midtown He comes stumping into a barroom when there is a good lineup showing signs of being distinctly heated up with liquor He starts with the first customer in line "Here gimmee a quarter!" he says If the victim doesn't respond or refuses the gift Pegleg begins shoving him around He pulls at his coat jerks his tie throws his hat on the floor "Give give!" he growls "If you can drink whisky you can give me a quarter! Come on now!" A man is ashamed to fight with a cripple so usually gives The performance is repeated all the way down the line but most contribute quietly Hodges-Escondid- - alter witnessing the first assault A very large proprietor of one saloon ordered Peg leg out of the place "Whaddya mean?" snarled the cripple and brought his left crutch around in a swift half-circ- striking the proprietor across the shins- The big man retreated Next night Peg leg came again and the scene was repeated While seeing stars from the crutch blow the big Irishman this time clipped Pegleg on the jaw knocked him down and bodily threw him out upon the sidewalk There the bum lay howling calling all good citizens to witness how he had been beaten by a big bully A riot ensued It was stopped by a cop who arrested regleg and commended the tavern keeper le a '''MM4ZWMIM1MV$MMq! '' 1—- -t y '1 0 - 2- ' ' - 'i 4 le- 4 If - ' -- :- 444:::::"'" t''o ' 11:":44jv" PNOIMI31 SIPUSLIC Awl GAHM TZECP'M A 14 NI N SVMOICATIt gt Lippmann Suggests New German Government By Walter Lipprnann While it may be argued that the formula of unconditional surrender was not the most expedient slogan for war propaganda the event is very likely to show that it was the most accurate and honest brief description of what must necessarily happen to the Germans when they are defeated For any formula to let Germany surrender not unconditionally but gn negotiated and agreed conditions assumes the existence immediately after Hitler of a German national government with which we could negotiate which could make a contract with us Itis now clear that no such German government can exist Immediately after the German defeat For the nazi regime is totalitarian: that means that every organ of decision that every post of command both military and civil and not only in government but in corporate Industry in the trade unions in the press and in the schools is manned by nazis or by men whom they have appointed and controlled The arrest or dismissal of these nazis must paralyze or destroy the German national state as a goisig concern It is the very essence of nazilarn and for the Germans one of its most serious practical consequences that there is no such! thing as an opposition party) which is ready to take over the business of governing Germany For this fundamental reason the burden of governing Germany falls necessarily upon the allies While the allied government of Germany is subject to 'law and morals it will be for the time being sovereign in Germany and there will be no Germans whO have a legal title to exercise German sovereignty or have even a de facto authority There are in principle two pal election which would bring radically different ways which the allies can take The one is to recognize — when Germany has been disarmed and officially denazified—a provisional government to deal with it to support it and then to have it hold general election for a constitutent assembly to draft a new German constitution Apart from any question of the partition of Germany this conventional procedure would it seems to me be dangerously unsound So we must consider the other alternative which is not to begin the restoration of German at the top—in Berlin—but at the bottom in the cities the towns and the villages at the grass roots Let us Imagine how this principle might be applied In the beginning after the surrender the only government anywhere in Germany will be that of the allied armies German officials who are allowed to remain at their posts will be subject absolutely to the decrees and commands of the allied military governors But this arrangement cannot last long To make the matter concrete let us suppose we are governing the city of Cologne Very soon the allied military governor will begin to receive deputations from the inhabitants and among them - into being a set of local officials possessing for their limited functions genuine German authority At this point we should begin to see more clearly than we possibly can today how far the decentralization of the German reich can in fact be carried We shall not have foreclosed the issue one way or the other and we shall have the means of judging because the provincial government will be representative of its cities and towns and villages The chances are greatly against their wishing to submerge them selves completely under a Berlin government On the other hand they may wish to combine a high degree of local authority with a new federalism We ought not to make our own decisions finally until we see what Germany is is allike when lowed to grow up from the grass roots No reader will I hope mistake this for a hard and fast blueprint It is an attempt to illustrate the principle by which the allies can use their occupation and government of Germany to create conditions under which they can end their occupation within a reasonably short time and to do this by planting the seeds of democracy rL1: -- - At the next stage there might be a munici- - and Remembrance how allied! reflection What thin partitions serum from thought divide! —rope Lest We Forget Lest we forget let every calendar That lists days weeks and months of every year Wear g 1 I I i:— nt r:71 "1 was Installed cheerfully so Into 1 ' Li Li LI By nam Park C-- ' - : ' 1 1 Determined Politician A politician handed his cam paign card to a young bey The boy said "I am net old enough to vote" and the paid Mcian replied "You will be Imfore I quit running" i t —41 Drive Without a 0111' rl Walt's letter Wanda Fletcher who is a truck driver at Kearns has written a clever rhyme about driving the "garbage run" I regret that it's too long to be printed here And Hattie Robinson Torrey Utah also has written a poem of too great length for my use Hers deals with the harvest and det 1 Is quite good Mr Jeremiah is out on the back porch howling his head off to get in the house And when he's inside he wants to be outside What with all the exercise I get you'd think I'd lose weight but I've gained five I ftwaf-- 14)40' Ci - fib I ITAT7011 WAYS nutrur AND WLST SO ' 1 1 RETAIL trrrut mlWITH WHOLL1141 - I -- - :- - i ' q: r' ‘ r- -en ' 1 ' -- I t tEF' '04 1 l t' ' - -'--- 1 - 'r '"- ) F - - 1A - 00' ‘ I ' e 1 1 ' f 0 - - th '''''' - --- 1 - I r-- -- 4 0- LLLt 11 -- r"- h ir ot- t ' '' ftti 0 CLEANER " lb 7 40 rtza ty: f5 -- --- -- - t Tide - 0-- - —g eft-N - ":"-7-)- - 4E -- - group? for bettl loss then 20c tstday sot ZZ:Zi Veneats kiLinde - - I - ( ) : Stoves Sinks Refrigerators Tile Windows - - i ' ' Get 1- - i aehetesol Floors Paintod Walls I f i 1 ti- - 1 1 - - I ell jj i t ZERO - 1W-4ta- - - i fwedkoinwirsepar quart i i frverandrod Irf '''' -- stor - - k ' e to - 4''""------- --'''F' I -- -- - Seoppo Chimegia Conb riliallb 1 - - 47- 'ow im ''' - Wood work ' s '''-00V- USES I 1 '' 1-- :Is - alI r I 1 i 1 - - 1 J :I - 4l - a - K to i 0 - 4 AV 4404 C41 - i 1 v-- - owel 1 i I E v '' - 0 - figoir0 or N i k f: int mp - t - 1 ' - i 1 - - For QUICKER EASIER BETTER clean ing in kitchen living room bathroom use ZERO or armywhers in your home Household Liquid Cleaner It's tomorrow's wayuust dampen a awl) with ZERO and wipe! 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And I replied "You don't know the Murray gas board or you wouldn't ask such )1 -- I ' i ' ti— re- - ' ' - f - t It5 77114f E my white book go the names of Ras and Joe for such genuine pounds! '1 - ' I 1 1 bait i f- our popular thinking is stkil i grooved The known facts also seem to say clearly we do not intend to go chasing Jape all over east ' Asia MacArthur's announced I next Jump into the Philippines (announced by Mr Roosevelt) I will be short but the steps from there to the China bases 1"ov! moss and the southern Japan 1:: islands will require another sepa- - I rate operations and should not await the conclusion of the Philippine seizure We can go any place within reach of our air force becaute :': what is left of the Jap force is ' eubject to destruction by otz superior power But the lumps I must be limited by our ability to gather necessary force and t supplies My guess therefore is (again with knowledge) that we are heading straight for Japan as well as the Philippines and Bur I ma that the reinforcements re- leased from Europe Win take a couple of months to get around to Asia that Russia cannot bo of much help before spring but particularly this—the extinction of the bulk of the Jap array strewn through northern central I : and southern China must take at least a year from conclusion of I the European hostilities even I : ap power is definitely broken r earlier by occupation of Jap&ht I : Distributed by King Features Syndicate Reproduction whole or in part strictly hibitect I - unborn That may revere The gallant men who singing took their flight In the gray down from England's shore for France To start the flame to rekindle light In that fair land Oh there must be no chanoe of our forgetting how valiantly they fought To conquer fear nor how they summoned laughter To lips grown grim nor how their daring brought Victory to the brave men who came after! Greater love no man can have than he his life that others Who miay be free —Gene Romolo Provo Utah Notes on the Cuff Department Marvin (Ras) Rasmusmn who sold me my car sent mechanic Joe Maynard out to the farm to start the stalled motor for me Joe found that It had died of malnutrition—the fuel pump had gone kaput Its demise was a bit pmmature as it was supposed to last until after the 30- day guarantee had expired Just the same though a vaw pump 1 1 -- -t 5 i 5-- r-- -1 r-- 3 ( ' 1 meantioned his fleet and air force before land troczA The air force vill be of great- est benefit because the fleet is reputed to be on a 1 to 5 rat with ua a decided departure from the old 5 days in which - ri 1JT 1 ' f conquest of the Philippines which Is a gigantic undertaking In itself but the Japanese officials publicly are expecting on their radio a direct earlier invasion of Japan itself We think commonly of MacArthur and Nimitz coming up from the south to take Japan but there are several ways in one from our Aleutian outposts in the north or from Russia Speculations that Russia will declare war on our side immediately after Germany has fallen are gaining wide publicity But the Russians have only a guard force facing Manchukuo which nt committees will be formed which will make petitions and express grievances and offer suggestions Experience in dealing with them will begin to demonstrate who are the leading citi tens of Cologne that are trustworthy and competent At some point a representative committee could then be recognized as a provisional municipal council first perhaps with no more than consultative powers but evolving toward municipal Senator From Sandpit Ger- man - New York Highlights 4 Alt - tv' 41ts-- ' : '''''''14'r!''''''''-"'"'- i '' ''' ! -- f'-- - l' - 4 ':"4' ' "tNX ' 4 - 4 L ' ' - ' de '04 k 40 z ''7 A 1 i 4 il Jana Without making any pretense of special information from the Quebec meeting it is evident that this final victory involves what military experts are already calling "a atrategic nightmare" In general it looks easy in detail it will be hard The Quebec meeting itself developed no news from admirals and generals who occupied the 700 hotel rooms and the 130 newsmen wrote nothing important But an earlier war department statement on plans for demobilization laid out a program obviously designed to move vast quantities of our troops from Europe and this country into east Asia This report Indicated rather clearly that we Intend to do the job of defeating Japan ourselves and not rely heavily on arming the Chinese One negative step taken at Quebec indicated also we are not planrmig a single overwhelming operation as in EuRoosevelt and rope Messrs Churchill said they did not consider combining the operations of Mountbatten in Burma MacArthur toward the Philippines and Nimitz in the central Pacific under a single head Mountbatten'a campaign has not been satisfactory to many military observers and much talk of his differences in strategic thinking with Gen Stilwell has been heard Quebec by avoiding action seemed to confirm his leadership There are some who think Mountbatten should already have rallied a sufficient British force in India for a large scale invasion of sduthern China and Burma saying' this should primarily be a British undertaking because they have the base from which to launch and supply it Such a prospective campaign might have been expected from a change of commanders but nothing leaking from Quebec has given it credence Now MacArthur is bent on IC' A a' :tt 5::' - It ' was-resolve- ur 1: :i - '::7-- i f1 st:-- 1 -- Jliti:?': " oet ) 12t - - 11401440004'4 1 ''I'' 4 ' ' ') - r's The various routine military planning announcements here are generally based on expectations of another year A few paragraphs from Kunming telling of our withdrawal from the huge central China front at Kwelin due to ineffective handling of the Chinese troops shows the difficulties a half hernisphere of - 7''' - t) 41doggib t -- 161''"' v:‘ '4'-'11ff- - - might not wish to undertake a I campaign in winter Also the bulk of the red army will be nearly a third of the way around the globe in Cterrnany tt the end of the European war Immediately available even It Russia Joined in would only be bases air and naval from venicn we might operate So the plain 'ruler facts indi- I cate we will have to do the job ourselves Churchill with char- - t acteristio factual humor insisted Britain would not be deprived of the honor of killing Jape but he T Japan "1::r - - -- 44 -- ' - -44- :: s :IN ' ''"''' e' ' iipatAt' --- -- 7:7: ::il t '' ::' 41 ' - -- '440Pir 4-- :s ' ':'''-----7-1sor- """--m-:- v 4 4 q5-- '' '''-- e - - - - 7- 1 rl ' ': 4 it - - ''r 1 '! 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't 4 - i 2' Z ::-- - V- David Lawrence Says: Minister Churchill? Surely "military security" doesn't need to cover up any longer the major blunders that were made in 1942 and 1943 in planning the war against Japan Also the American people would be in a better frame of mind to face months that lie ahead in the PacIfic if thetragic were not being misled today into a belief they that the rest of the road to victory in this war is easy The official communique says rather- naively that ''the most serious difficulty with which the Quebec 'Conference has been confronted is to find room and opportunity for marshalling against Japan the massive forces which each and all of the nations concerned are ardent to engage against the enemy" Why isn't there "room"? Why is it that the It A F and the American air forces In Europe can't "find room" In the Far East? Also why Is it that the prime minister in apparent good humor says that the only point of difference is ' about the desire of the British for a greater part in the Pacific war and that the difference amicably? The answer is that the British are quite willing and anxious now to send their navy alongside ours in the Pacific but we don't need more naval strength there We have an ample navy to pit against the small Japanese navy and it would be a mistake to complicate the problem by trying to put the British and American navies Into maneuvers together when the American navy already has the situation in the central Pacific well in hand for any frontal attack on Japan or the China coast Adm Mountbatten has been an excellent commander but Mr Churchill didn't back him up opportunely with the necessary forces and supplies and after the Chinese government was promised a certain aid at a psychological moment when the Japanese began their drive inside China that promise was withdrawn The Quebec conference might better have admitted this mistake and confessed its failure instead of drawing attention now rather lamely to the "big distances" in the Pacific and the "logistics" or supply problem as if these facts of geography had just developed Everybody who knew anything about the war against Japan and had a map to study knew two years ago that the way to bomb Japan on schedule was from bases in china Toa day although Generals Stilwell and Chennault have begged for aid constantly for two years big air bases they are in danger of :losing thewhich a trickle they have possessed and fromto the utmost adof air power has been used vantage Except for the gallant fight at Yunnan the Chinese forces "are badly beaten and for all present purposes virtually out of the war" according to a New York Times editorial yester- : - 11'g-- - ' 4 4G 4 -- - :7lt: :f f ' - 24-ho- And Back in the Philippines well-prepar- ing board although there will be some delay through this channel The teachers like many other volunteer women workers in various branches of war activities deserve a great deal of credit The serve without pay and work overtime to complete the job They give unselfishly of their time and efforts as part of the home front operations in the war program realizing as they do that every link in the chain is important if we are to achieve victory - - 1 1 ''s S N T'OUSAN1) WHO I LIVE A MINUTE LONCElk - or Mallon Visions Direct Advance On Japan by U S Forces By Manning - '''''1:17'' ' |