Show — we"'Wto i— 1 IiiQFd Erery Morning bT LJs Get Back to Work By Sumner Welles Former Undersecretary-o- f State The request of the Argentine government for a consultative meeting of the foreign ministers of the American republics raises issues W'hich affect the very basis of relations The future of Pan Americanism and the healthy growth of an regional system will depend upon the way in w'hich these questions are de- 8 1914 Transportation in France Crippled by Enemy Occupation inter-Americ- A America's wartime election i3 over The candidates have spoken and the citizens have cast their ballots Results are not assured at this writing but the verdict is in and it is now time to get back to the most important job facing th'13 country- and her allies — that of winning the war Bringing this conflict to a victorious conclusion and building a permanent peace are the tasks which a war-tor- n world must press ahead To win the war and the peace there must be unity Today on the day after election it Is fitting and proper for the people of the United States to forget the animosities of the campaign and to resolve that they will unite as never before for the vital tasks ahead Whoever sits in the White House for the next Tour years he will be our president our commander in chief and our hope for the future Continued unity of the American pepple and of their war allies is our “last best hope” Without it America will fail her gallant fighters her children who will be the citizens of tomorrow and her coming generations of unborn sons and daughters With unity and patriotism and cooperation nations America and the other peace-lovin- g cannot fail The campaign of 1944 is over The people have spoken Now let U3 get back to work Death of Dr Alexis Carrel One of France’s Great Scientists Ever since a famous American aviator formed a partnership with an equally famous Frenchman to engage in scientific work people of this country anxiously awaited revelations as to the attitude of these eminent gentlemen after the tide of war began to turn against “invincible nazi forces” Charles A Lindbergh returned to the land of his birth and entered a manufacturing field with which he was more or less familiar while Dr Alexis Carrel left the island on which artificial hearts were being constructed and proaxis sentiments were coagulating Without resurrecting controversies that ought to be forgotten although the danger cf nazi encouragement and aggression is not over and may not end for many decades it may not be inappropriate to mention the passing of Dr Carrel which occurred Sunday in Paris Aside from this association for scientific Investigation and ignoring opinions which were unwise and mislading the utterance of which proved embarrassing to the flier and distressing to the doctor it should not be forgotten that a man of intellectual attainments and philanthropic impulses just died with his fondest hopes unrealized Dr Alexis Carrel working with 200 colleagues was trying to perfect a superior type of human being along lines indicated in his book entitled “Man the Unknown” In 1941 a foundation was established in France to begin “the reconstruction of man from the physical as well as the mental Having been engaged in research work in Chicago university and the Rockefeller institute for many- - years during which reriod he won the Nobel prize for important discoveries In surgery Dr Carrel developed an antiseptic credited with saving many lives in the present war Notwithstanding the charges of collaborating with the nazis while they occupied Pans accusations undoubtedly based on a misconception of his scientific efforts to prolong life it is to be hoped that the good accomplished by the doctor will live through the ages and that unwarranted suspicions will vanish with receding waves of hatred that have been sweeping over the earth view-point- ” Japs Foolinp Tlirmelvrs With Fantastic Battle Tales The Japanese propaganda machine is working overtime putting out conflicting and confusing reports over the radio Some observers think that Tokyo's boasts of having sunk countless American warships actually misled her own sea forces and helped bring about their defeat in the waters of the Philir-pLre- s Tokjo has been sending out news that American bombing planes attacked the Nip capital although no corroboration has been forthcoming from American military sources It may be possible that one of our planes Lew over the Jap homeland recently to take pictures an activity which has been routine in many theaters of war Probably- - when the truth is known it will turn out that the inhabitants of Tokyo were more frightened than blitzed “Sweeping victory” stories about the naval engagement will no doubt be swallowed by the majority- - of the Japanese people who have no opportunity to hear anything but official news releases The Japs are apparently ‘quite gullible as shown by tales told in the south Pacific of captured Nips who thought they were fighting on the soil of Texas and confidently explained to their American guards that California had long ago been subjugated by the “victorious invaders” of America Propaganda such as this may- - provide temporary jubilation for Jap citizens and soldiers but its value as a’ military weapon is most questionable Railroads and harbors are playing a vital part in the European war It has become well recognized in this country that the lack of first-clas- s docking facilities and the snarl of French railroads left by the Germans have held up our operations on the western front Reports from France indicate that the systematic sabotage committed by retreating German armies has done more to put the railways of that country out of operation than the damage done by- - allied bombing and French underground work while the enemy was in possession of the land But the railroad situation has worked both ways with a national strike in parts of Holland still under nazi control seriously- - crippling the German war effort Rail workers in Holland have refused to keep transportation moving in spite of dire threats from the German military leaders and gestapo agents A Swiss newspaper tells of one instance where Yankee ingenuity- - succeeded in getting a rail line back in shape where others had failed In the' region of Pontarlier says the article a locomotiye lay- - on its side blocking the line From August 10 to September 5 the Germans were told that it would be a long and difficult task to remove the engine because it required cranes When the Americans arrived they and the French rail workers who had suddenly- - become more acute unbolted a stretch of rails and reassembled them to form a new-- track alongside the locomotive and the line was in operation on the same day Notwithstanding incidents such as this it is generally agreed that it may be some time before French railroads will be doing a full war job That is why the speedy resumption of transportation through the port of Antwerp is so vital to the drive into Germany Constantine Brown Says: WASHINGTON D C — Gen Sir Harold Alexander commander of allied forces in Italy announced this week that the campaign has bogged down He gave an official balance sheet of 14 months of fighting which revealed that there had been 90000 American casualties In this fruitless struggle brought the allies to the Gothic line He did not disclose the losses suffered by the Bntisn imperial French Polish and Erazhan forces On the profit side of this balance sheet the only advantage the allies have obtained is the killing of a large number of Germans The campaign in Italy-- which followed our successful liberation of Sicily was not the making of the American general staff When Prime Minister Churchill met with Pres Roosevelt and his chief military advisers at Quebec in August 1943 the British strorgly advocated a campaign in the Italian mainland The American strategists It with all their power They pointed outopposed was gothat Italy ing to be a headache to the allies who while capable of expelling the Germans from the major part of the country could not muster sufficient forces to make a thorough 30b of it if we were to undertake an invasion of Europe across France They pointed out that strategically Italy had only little value and the most we could hope from a successful campaign would be to establish airfields from which we could more easily bomb the Romanian oil fields and Balkan territories occupied by-- the nazis This the American strategists contended was not worth the risk Mr Churchill however won his point He convinced that the Italian campaign would be easy- smcc his “scouts' were sure that King Victor Emmanuel and Marshal Pietro Badoglio alto surrender ready were “in the bag” and to the allies The American ready pointed strategists out that the Italian army inconsequential and that the Germans had prepared strong positions which would block our progress and make us pay heavily for each success Unfortunately the American predictions have come true After difficult and costly operations at Salerno and Anzio we pushed the Germans back to their main line of defense at a heavy price As soon as the liberation of France began the Italian campaign became a secondary operation which grew more difficult every day because of the difficulty of supplying our troops sending replacements and at the same time attempting to provide a limited amount of consumer goods for mlhons of Italians The campaign in western Europe turned out to be more lengthy than was nntieipntcd Inst summer The British who feel that they must send their troops Into some section of the Balkans such as Greece to establish their influence after thte withdrawal of the nazis will soon be compelled to draw on their forces in Italy The French who are now fighting for their own country have withdrawn the divisions thev originally sent to help the allies The casualties in the last few weeks have not been particularly heavy but there have been many cases of illness among the men which have swelled the number of men not available for combat so-call- ed w-a- s w-a- s Gen Alexander's statement that the campaign may be considered as bogged down is alarming inasmuch as the Germans will pot attempt to reconquer the lost Italian territory but may take advantage of the lull and their strong positions on the Gothic line to dispatch a number of troops from Italy to the Siegfried line or to the east The American strategy intended to keep as large a number of enemy divisions hemmed in on a wide front while we attacked the Germans in the west with the bulk of our forces Now the Germans are able to reinforce the Siegfried line with troops who have escaped from the Balkans and probably with troops from the Italian front Off the Record the great industrial ' conversion Ideally would be effected in a matter of minutes so as not to throw pickets out of work Grandfathers and small boys are off now to the wars in Germany With us the worst that can happen to such is playing the outfield for Brooklyn Germans in retreat need have no qualms about leaving ammunition behind As it fits French guns it will overtake them Dora decided against sending her sergeant an electric razor Couldn't find out whether the jungle was wired for AC or DC inter-Americ- an an cided Consultation between the American foreign ministers is a procedure established by existing agreements The principle was first agreed upon in an accord reached at the conference of Buenos Aires in 1936 It was subsequently confirmed and implemented in further unanimous resolutions adopted at the conferences of 1938 and 1940 The Argentine request therefore is based upon an agreement between all of the American republics w'hich provides that each American republic has the right to invoke a consultative meeting of the American foreign ministers should it believe that the peace of the new world is endangered The provisions of this agreement made possible the conferences of 1939 1940 and 1942 These meetings w'ere largely responsible for the rapid unification of the hemisphere Pan-Americ- an Pan-Americ- JO TO ALBAHy after Pearl Harbor A considerable section of the press in this country has urged that the request of the Argentine regime should be rejected on the ground that the latter is not recognized by the great majority of the other American phqihi tfuntr np c7fTTr MANWING: trwstCATv governments The New York Times in an editorial of Oct 31 states: “A government that denies democracy to its own people cannot M with reason invoke a democratic process in international relations in an attempt to extricate itself from an untenable situation Let Argentina set up a constitutional government Then there will be no question of recognition' To many in the United States this thesis may appear logical particularly at a moment when this country is engaged in a war to advance the cause of human liberty And yet w'ere such a policy to be adopted by our government the entire structure of n the existing system would rapidly disintegrate and the policy itself would go by the board These are the reasons why: First how many governments in the Americas are today granting democracy to their own people? Are we to take the position that only those which w'e ourselves regard as truly demo- - Imponderables Often Determine War Fortunes Mediterranean The Dodecanese By Leslie Rain Imponderables are the peskiest war ingredients to measure What they are made of no one has succeeded in analyzing beyond vague designations like morale climatic conditions the state of the people’s nerves the emptiness of their larders the value of their money working hours and conditions and the thousand and one irritations incidental to a nation's war effort Since these imponderables always get in the way when an analysis of the war is attempted it is scarcely possible for mililet alone outtary leaders siders to draw up exact time tables It i3 a wise strategist who includes in his calculations all the elements of war and then leaves a wide margin for unknown quantities because there is no telling whether the imponderables will wmk for or against one Two glaring examples are Germany’s failure to conquer Britain when she was almost prostrate qnd her misIn Occalculations in Russia tober 1942 Russia seemed to be beaten and out of the war In October 1913 Russia was hacking to pieces the much vaunted wehrmacht This reversal came about because the German generals forgot to include in their blueprints a number of Xs for imponderables The allies too have overlooked the Xs on a number of occasions The story of Fearl Harbor Is too well known to need elaboration Next comes a whole string of British miscalculations in 'Malaya Singapore But Hong Kong and Burma these are old examples There is a better one at hand in the islands of Chios Leros and Samos occupied by British troops because military strategists wisely decided that those islands could neutralize German forces scattered in the Aegean area serve as offensive bases against the Thracian coast and afford good flank protection for Turkey if she were attacked by So there were a nazi forces number of sound reasons why those islands should have been taken by the allies Up to a certain time they seemed to be fsafe and sufficiently protected ’against German attacks Suddenly the picture changed completetly and the islands became very important both to the Germans and to us Nothing that happened in the military hne-u- p of the area brought about this change Nevertheless a number of Xs appeared which the Germans were not slow to The recognize and art upon Moscow' conference definitely established a united front among the allies concerning the Balkans The Dodecanese islands became far more important than they had been before the conference The atmosphere in the whole area became charged and the Germans struck first Had we also realized the significance of the changes brought about by the Moscow conference large-scal- e reinforcements would have been sent immediately to these e would be a pushover and that no real opposition was to be expected until the Po valley was reached Our mistake consisted in believing the Italians who as Senator From Sandpit life” Friends have said “Don’t you two get lonesome away out there nil by yourselves?" And I say “Let me tell you something — the lonesomest place on earth is your crowded city” Lonesome out here? How could we be among all the forces of nature? The wind sighs a sad requiem to the summer that is past but the pattering of the rain upon the fallen leaves seems to say in gentle rhythm "There is no death fear not for spring will bring rebirth” Outside my window there is much chattering as the barn swallows select their nests in the farm buildings instead of the raucous noises of city traffic I hear the gentle lowing of cattle instead of the acrid smell of motor exhausts and furnace smoke there comes to my nostrils the aroma of farm cooking — the preserving of the fruits of the orchard and field against the coming of the snows These little things plus the friendly neighbors the compensation of country life— well how could one be lonesome ? mi f By Ham Park the “Senator” Senator with wit so sharp Some day when you play on & harp Or fry to a crisp down below To Oh Depending on which way you go What comforting thoughts will go with you — Your farm so fresh with' morning dew Your pup your cats and mayhap The fact that maybe you’re a sap ? — Wanza H Robinson Dayton - £ uiiji 3T")i of Inter-America- good-neighb- or cratic are to be regarded as having the right to invoke the provi- - siona of agreements unanimously agreed upon by all of the American republics? In such event with how many other American governments would we be able to inter-Americ- an consult? z Second is the United States to revert to the- fatal pokey of earlier decades and attempt to decide for the peoples of the other 'American nations what governments are good for them? - If we do we immediately H U--f de- stroy the very keystone of the present arch of understanding which consists of th treaty engagement not to intervene in the internal or external affairs of any other American state There is nothing surer than that democracy cannot be fostered in the Americas through coercion or through imposition It will be stimulated through and friendship unity It will grow a3 economic and social conditions improve and as living standards are raised Third there is implicit in the present agreement to consult the obligation on the part of every American republic to participate in any consultative meeting requested by any other American republic provided such request rests as does the present request upon the broad grounds set forth in the "Agreements for Consultainter-Americ- an inter-- American inter-Americ- s an '1 £ I tion” I Finally the fact that the present Argentine dictatorship is not recognized by most of the other American republics cannot prevent Argentina from continuing to be a member of the American family of nations and’ from benefiting from “Agreements and Conventions” to which that republic is a party It has been the wise rule in the governing bpard of the union tfeat whether an American government is recognized by its fellow republics or net the representative of that country is always accorded his country's seat at the council Pan-Americ- “4 an table It is officially stated that recognition has been withheld from the de facto of Argentina becausegovernment it has not icomplied with its can commitments and obligations Unfortunately however the Impression is general throughout South America that the real reason for the failure of the United States to maintain official relations with the Argentine regime was its belief that the withholding of recognition would result in the formation of a new government more satisfactory to it inter-Amer- 5 3 2 £ K £ 33 a- - w 4 outposts Another example of the mysterious forces prompting unlooked-for war developments w'as the mistaken idea that Italy 4 Not for the mighty W'orld O Lord tonight nations and kingdoms in their fearful might — let me be glad the kettle gently sings let me be glad for the little things — Edna Jaqucs The Little Things I like this from Elbert Hubbard's writings: “A little more patience a little more charity for nil a little more devotion a little more love with less bowing down to the past and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and sured us that once we granted their terms Italy would be presented to us on a silver platter Everything looked yet the road all the way to the Po valley will have to be conJ quered yard by yard conHere the imponderables sisted of the temper of the Italian army and people Either Badoglio did not know or craftily covered up the fact that the king had no authority over the Italians and the promises of and handful of loyal courtiers would not be honored by the people upon presentation It is easy to say that we ought to have known better but no one can say for certain just when the change in the temper of the Italian people took place fool-pro- 3 1ijfV Argentina Entitled to Meet Hear Charges Says Welles Manning The Silt Lake Tribune Pnbllshlng Company The Election Is Over Now Let -- By 15 1871- - Salt Lake City L'tah WedneMlay Morning Noicmber 10 r The Road Bach Pjc Halt £akc tibxm Established April m I- f - - e irri"We have a gated farm where we raise hay wheat oats barley rye peas corn potatoes a large vegetable garden and some livestock” says Mrs Clem Toone of Magna Utah "My husband and four sons (three of them under 13) operate it We figure it would take four extra men to accomplish the work that electricity is doing on our farm” Mrs Toone won the Second Grand Prize in our recent contest on "How Our Family Uses Electricity to Produce Food for Victory” 350-acr- Here are some of the Jobs electricity is doing for this progressive farm family: “S I If lt 'zt £ vS Ida rJ Notes on the Cuff Department Sunday morning shortly after we had breakfasted and I attired in kitchen apron and cap was “vacuuming” the front room our doorbell jangled ("Jangled” is the best way I can describe the sound The other bells in the house go “Br-rrrlSo I went to inA Mr Shields vestigate from Price who was on his way home after visiting his in Ogden just wanted to see if I had a farm and what I looked like personally One look at me and his worst opinions evidently were confirmed For me — aprons and caps are out defi”) in-la- nitely Back to normal so to speak: The bulbs we found in our mail box must be those Bill Child promised us Anyway they’ve been planted and we’ll watch the result Our chief problem come spring— is to know flower from weed but we’ll learn Personally I’ve foundxthat those who respond quickest to my care are weeds! But isn't that true generally of life It’s the slow growth that we depend upon Look at the oak compared with the ivy! S ’Th pump slsctrlc ths houss 40 supplies head of cows and calvos 12 horses 50 pigs 100 turkeys 150 chickens with drinking "Washing dustv work shirts ana greasy overallsd would he a job without the eleetric wash "Separating cream Is a daily job with labor reduced by use greatly of our electnc motor driven cream man-size- water" range waffle tros and mixer help nutritions prepare meals in record time for hungry men and “Electric ’yt i hoys" In addition Mrs Toone says “Electric lights in the chicken coop helps produce more eggs In the work shop it makes possible the finishing of repair jobs so that time is not lost in the day The power-drive- n emery wheel sharpens mower knives cultivator blades shovels hoes axes etc thereby lessening manual labor According toi our men folks the electric refrigerator is a life saver and threshing time a little time out for a cool refreshing drink haying during gives thetn pep for more efficient work” ? t - Electricity is and in the doing a great job in many ways to produce food for victory— years of peace ahead will continue to bring profit to farmers throughout this area I When Electric Appliances are available £ IA is and Equipment buy them from your dealer UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO I 4 t |