| Show i r ) 4 1 - I Inscribed a quarter of a century ago the names of 15 American- soldiers of Japanese descent who had shared the risks suffered the discomforts and made the sacrifices demanded of our fighting men in the first World war such a demonstration of racial prejudice might have been expected in Germany but certainly had no place in the United States of America Under the federal constitution which all legionnaires are supposed to indorse and uphold persons of Japanese parentage born- in this country are citizens thereof they are subject to military conscription and thousands of them are now in Europe taking an active and creditable part in this second World war What right—legal moral or military— had the Hood River post to authorize or permit the shameful act of incredible intolerance to be committed in the name of an honored legion of veterans? As to whether entire responsibility is to rest on the local tranch or to Sully the whole organization is something Americans are entitled to know—something the axis Is gloating over as a justification for its own behavior Secretary of War Henry L Stimson declared that "such action is wholly inconsistent with the American ideal of democracy" An eastern legion post regretted the erasure as "a reflection on the entire legion" But the Hood River post and its commander J B Edington refuse to recant or to comment The secretary of war told a press conference that the erasure of nisei names includ- - ing men who had been wounded in action is a reflection on the military system He also praised the fighting spirit of Japanese-America- n soldiers many of whom have distinguished themselves or died while fighting against the Germans in Italy They do not ask any consideration beyond that accorded Americans of German Spanish Chinese or Filipino descent who have served the republic faithfully and fearlessly in this or the last war But they are entitled to just as much recognition and to more commendation than is due misguided misanthropes who Insult comrades in arms and disgrace the noble organization to which they belong Be it said to the credit of the legion that many posts have invited the 16 nisei veterans into their membership Paul Roselle a legion commander in the state-'oWashington is believed to express the views of legionnaires generally in saying: "We protest because we think such action is contrary to the Americanism we have sworn to support and defend-T- o foster such racial persecution and discrimination is to imitate the methods of our enemies and betray the ideals of America and the legion" - i : : - - ) - 4 i it:::: It--1- -à'w I 0 - Ai! 4 ---- ' t1 ':' '7' clo 1q"ii :! 1- ar--1 -it 1111 4 I '11 - - '0) i r 5414 ' "" - i - 1 3 Id4sel- - - ' - - ro r v 4e e 95 :4 vo''' : 1 le- - 1 -- 6 r to':-- r Itti "'" 7:-- — v ::7”-- -- 1::: ss t'" 1 - - 0- - - "-- t' toitAlift elt - t - ) :: IF :o '4 s The Lyons Den-- - BY rie("61-- 11 IRI Cileao t01Iit anti-free- - -- dc y0 k :-- : br ilo' - ::'7'4 - PNOtPlill 1101111t re AND CATMO STWDOCATMCC7-MANtsliN- 10- - x Mallon Raps Compulsory Military Training asleep to dangers from without These are democratic ways The taking of a boy from his home work and career for a year of service in the army is a Prussian method instituted by the Prussian militarists after the war of 1870 It must be an inefficient way of developing an army becauzle the Prussians have never won With it nor has it produced results in France and some other nations which took it up On the opposite side of the same fence a radical editorial writer in a metropolitan daily (I think he is the very one who called my above friend "fascist-minded- " and certainly he thinks the Roosevelt regime and particularly the Mrs Roosevelt regime is just about right on everything) wrote recently: "The only way this country' can get away from maintaining a very large army and developing a militaristic caste system after this war is by compulsory military training" is not the strangest collection of bedfellows upon any world mattress? Radicals conservatives people who think each other fascists or communists Mr Roosevelt and the chamber of commerce PM and the N Y Herald-Tribun- e Mrs Roosevelt and "the fascist-mindeall enjoying this same deluhion—insistently loor there is no more truth In saying this is the only way to "avoid a large army" than that It is the only way to maintain an army It would be a large army of more than a million youths 11 to 21 years old a new large army each year But it would hardly be what we would call a skilled army By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON — A strong generally thoughtful editorial writer who is against t h e Mrs Roosevelt particularly Roosevelt regime spoke out in several metropolitan papers recently (Note I think the radicals called him fascist-mindeduring the last campaign al though the charge WAS of a political nature and therefore not intended to be believed literally) "There is only one way to assure ourselves of military strength whenever needed That way consists of a system of compulsory military training" That is simply not true There are many ways of assuring ourselves of military strength A logical whenever needed straightforward way consists or putting military training into the high schools and colleges to develop and keep trained the necessary officer personnel and enlarging and modernizing the national guard giving it weapons including airplanes and tanks artillery ammunition and commissary to develop a private personnel That would be the more effldent way because it would be constant always up to date always ready to handle the latest Implements of warfare scientifically and efficiently although there are of course many other things which must be done including the maintenance of in-a greater permanent military ventors' council with laboratories continuance of West Point and Annapolis at war size or larger and an alert ever watchful and efficient war department to see that we do not fall d - We would have to maintain another one for older men for We would have to defense have an air force constantly alert a corps bent on nullifying the effect of rocket 'bombs and what other new weapons daily a whole war department of just as much strength as if we did not have compulsion in - training These trainees would only be reserves—reserves that might otherwise be obtained more ef ficiently by a real national As a friend of mine guard puts it: "We must be a military but not a militaristic nation" and we need a national guard which literally must be "a guard of the nation" I 1' I ) k 1 '' - Al ' ' - : ! 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I can't take It - ip '' - 1 An immediate meeting of the chiefs of government of the major powers at which decisions must be reached so that the present threat to allied unity will be averted and so that neither foreign imposition nor mob rule but popular 'democracy will become the means by' which the united nations will jointly restore governments to the liberated regions A meeting of all of the united nations immediately thereafter so that the proposals of Dumbarton Oaks may become the basis for a final agreement and an international organization may be promptly installed: and The delegation to the security council of that organization of the initial authority to handle all political questions These will never be successfully solved if the three chiefs of government attempt to deal with them in their rare and apo- radic meetings There is still tithe to turn the present tide if the government of the United States will only assert the bold vigorous and democratic leadership which it has long since been called upon to assume Copyright 1944 New York Tribune Inc p - - - I - :: l ? r 4 : - - - Altif 1 11''1 r l 'f - l'cl:- : " -- - --- r § I ' t :71 t ' ''''' :ii: - ' ' 1:' 1 :: :: :: :::: - - ':- - ::::: ' f '' ': ":: ::: :: ? rr'ti r: t t4 't' ‘: -:- :' i- - -- Apologies : : r ":::" ' '' '' ' — : 1"' t at : - ' : it' 41:-!::- : - rk rr---: :':: i tt5 '" ' ' ' '''' c Lit if a 1 - 1 - - 2- ::-- : : : ': - - 4 : i - i - ' - 1 I : I r - '' f -- - - : - 1 i ' "' -- rrt ' t ''' ti- :: 1 1 f'' '" I 1 '3j4t - A11 A' Alginate"' - : :: -t ::-- '''''' 4 VI4 4 iti - : 1t t' 4 4 - k'''':3 :I t - 1 - 1 :: i 1 ' :: ::- : : - ''7'''t- NI i "'4e'''': ' VI I ''"-'- : 0 -- ' Di F-- - - 's' "0 4 n t '' ' - k t i ' i 0' ': 'r$t1tik f111'i ' iA -- r ' - ' 7'' '01 ESTAILISKED 18S0 ! - 1' cf-- - 2 I - -1 i t i ''""::::' --1F-- 1 ': : 1- a :Lr''' e' : i f '':: SA 3-- : 1 ': L'' ri u k ''''''''''1 i- :'''' ' - 1 3 -:: - F - 2''"- ': 4 ': :d - - - - -': ''' a '7- 1 4 ''"-4'-"-i'r1- - t 4604t t ' - r-- PVZL'SIP :1- - ' 4 -t - (:-I- t: ' 1 - t'- -' rf-- - : '- - r' i I : 0 :''' '' - rF1 t'' r rlt ' i - - ": : 1 ''' : I Aoa i' 7 ' i I ''''': 5' I D)1tr2L-----t4'' - ' '' f - e:?!--- r-- :1 2' k I fl 1 ' ) - ' ''" fri4 - k - :'' - C' Lir i - ‘111-''- - - LP''' " ! 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That's what I think I may be wrong— Excuse me if I've talked too long —Stoddard King in "The Raspberry Tree" Notes on the Cuff Department A headline in the paper says: "Buffalo Succors Family of Eight" And to think of the way human beings have treated these kindly animals! Martin Nyvall who has a place about three or four miles north of us has compiled some figures on the cost of raising your own chickens and eggs He has a flock of some 20 hens and a rooster or two and he says he figures that for 1944 his eggs cost him a buck apiece and spring fries $150 per lb x taken? - trl 't : I kl qj each fault but rise above It And arrogantly say: "What of it ?" What'er befalls should disdain To make excuses or explain For only cowards from censure shrink Or give a hang what people think I think I shall reform and try To be a somewhat harder guy And not the timid sort of minion Who worries about men's it!" - ' 1411 - may Discern anything and what sense of smell I have left is limited to smells I don't like And are my sinuses and antrims clogged up? Wow! I've tried everything except Drano but nothing has worked I may try it if I can apply it figure out a way to would be Standing on my head the logical way I guess and then taking a spoonful Wonder if I should take my teeth out first? Doggone it anyway Here when I ought to feel immense Instead I feel like 30c! I should write "thank you" letters to the swell friends who sent us gifts but right now I don't feel up to it So I'll just say to Hugh Dougall Joe Casella Cliff Nelson Cliff (Hardware) Evans Leon Sweet Vern L Halliday Hazel Heppler Neal McDonald Fortunato Anselmo Clayton Smith Cora and Jim Sadler E O Howard Jim Whitaker Dorothy and Paul Chesley —"Thank you very very much but you shouldn't ought've done an '4' it ' ' ' And let the chips fall where they Between Coughs and Sneezes Al ls I can say is—this is one swell time to have a cold Bcy! Do t::: d" Thar ain't no sense in gettin' riled—Bret Harte - - Is-th- Senator From Sandpit Lyons ze Atir 1 el'ivo - 4-- : - - A few months ago Bernard De Voto wrote an article attacking the writings of Ernest Hemingway Sinclair Lewis and others Lewis hit back via the columns of the Saturday Review of Litfeud became the erature and the Delioto-Lewi- s Lewis most exciting literary battle In years is a member of the Institute of Arts and Sciences which is limited to 250 members New members are proposed and admitted only when a member dies and Is vacancy occurs The literary section of the institute now has seven vacancies On Nov 29 at the Knickerbocker club the members Cohen-Corcor- ' 11 d Met and DeVoto's name was proposed for membership Sinclair Lewis asked to be heard The Nobel prize winner made a fervent speech seconding the proposal to admit De Voto Ben Cohen counsel for Jimmy Byrnes may Cohen become counsel to the state dept team former member of the served for a while as Ambassador Winant's counsel in London Richard Watts who left his post as drama critic for the Herald Tribune and went to Ireland and China for the 0 W I is reCollier's is publishing signing next week Gertrude Stein's articles describing life in France since the Normandy inVasion Miss Stein doesn't know it yet but the editors have inserted commas periods and other clarifying marks Her American agent gave legal consent to add the punctuation LindaDarnell and Peter Donald went to Philadelphia last week to appear in a war bond show At the Philadelphia station they were greeted by a Pennsylvania official who took them into a "I don't know car to drive them to the rally how you feel about it Linda" said Donald "but "I'm glad to hear you I like Philadelphia" say that" spid the Pennsylvania official "Philadelphia is a great city We have everything in the world right here Everything And entertainment? You're only two hours from New York" When the first American tanks entered Paris the people who lined the route began to cheer each tank that went by Each tank had a name which its crew had painted on its sides One was "Armentieres" and the liberated citizens shouted "Vive Le Armentieres" Another was named "Ore"Vive Le Oregon" and the Parisians cheered G I truck Third in line was a five-to- n gon" The citizens read the name printed on the windshield of the truck and cheered "Vive Le Prestone"—the name of the oil which to- gether with the date it was last supplied had to be displayed on the windshield by G I regulation '''' 1u -- ) )44 A Ire' 1 ''' r?r' 4 p : 'f:'- I ' 4 $'''''': '' 'kt''' -- t t ''' ''' oil ark e'' '53) 17: 1 ' P - -! -1 c I - - d a 64it i -- L - I w V - a - ' 1 I - cf" ) J t '' ' 1'1 ! ' '1 Y 1::1:' I ' vs ' ) 'Jr 11 :r'"71:-"-c't--4- -- ' ' Christmas 1944 is over and as America's home front recovers from the Stunning news of army reverses on European battlefields the realization dawns on us that a dangerous and 1 7Ar la r iti t: - s - I far-seein- Home Front Must Rally To Cope With War Peril 1 1I ': I lit A '7") well-found- association It may not be amiss to recall his civic and political activities culminating in his candidacy for the U S senatorship in 1938 was not a Republican year in Utah and his ambition was not realized But his interest in material development and community welfare never waned As a holder ofthe highest degrees in the Masonic fraternity as a regent' of the state university as an active Rotarian and member of civic social and professional clubs Dr Wherry was a factor in state and municipal growth whose enthusiasm and confidence were an inspiration to all who served with him in any capacity or line of endeavor When a man has been honored alike in his profession his community and his circle of friends as well as by children to whom he was endeared by' kindness and understanding his influence will endure and his personality will be remembered by all who have known and appreciated his character So the name and fame of Dr Arthur C Wherry will rest secure in the roster of those Utahns and Americans who have been of memorable service to humanity 1 I 14 ':11P i1 ' - To persons in the dining room of the Alta club on Christmas evening who received and returned the cheerful greeting of a popular member and prominent fellow citizen who knew everyone present and conversed with many it was a saddening shock to learn that he died next morning at 9 o'clock Dr Arthur C Wherry was one of those rare spirits found frequently in the professional world in whom exceptional talent and unusual charm of character were most hapA native of Kansas he had pily combined lived in Salt Lake City more than two score years It is not the purpose of this article to give an outline of the doctor's career except to say that he rose in his chosen field to high recognition in the state association and then to the presidency of the American Dental CHARTER! X I ' WASHINGTON—This world of tragedy has few voices still sufficiently powerful to make themselves heard above the din of battle and one of them is the voice of Pope Pius XII The pope's message broadcast to the world for Christmas was this year much less a message of religion and much more an essay on political science but running through it was a blending of both in such a way that if the peoples of all the world stirring could really learn and understand the background of that appeal it might be said with confidence that the process of making a permanent peace had really begun For irrespective of sect or creed of political party or economic class irrespective the pope's words strike deeply at prejudice at selfishness at brutality at the passions and hates of peoples as well as individuals which sow the seeds of a perennial friction that generates horrible wars The pope with courageous statesmanship contributes a definition in the following passage: But only on one condition: Namely that the peace settlement which should be strengthened and made more stable by mutual guarantees and where necessary economic sanctions and even armed intervention should not give definite countenance to any injustice does not imply any derogation of any right to the detriment of any nation (whether it be on the side of the victors the vanquished or the neutrals) and does not impose any perpetual burden which can only be allowed for a time as reparation for war damage "That any people to whose government—or even partially to themselves—the responsibility for war is attributed should have for a time to undergo the rigors of security measures until the bonds of mutual trust violently broken should be gradually welded together again is quite understandable from a human point of view and in practice will in all probability be inevitable "Nevertheless even these peoples must have a hope—commensurate to their effective collaboration in the work of reconstruction— of being able together with the other states with equal consideration and with the same rights to be associated with the great community of nations "To deny them that hope would be the reg verse of wisdom it would be to assume the grave responsibility of barring the way to a general liberation from all the disastrous consequences material moral and political of the gigantic cataclysm which has shaken the poor human family to its very foundation but which at the same time has shown it the road to new goals "No one certainly thinks of disarming justice In its relation to those who have exploited the war situation in order to commit real and tproved crimes against the common law and for whom supposed military necessity could at most have offered a pretext but never a justification "But if justice presumed to judge knd punish not merely individuals but even whole communities together who could not see in such procedure a violation of the norms which guide every human triart" Reproduction Rights Reserved ANY ATLANTIC David Lawrence Says: Dr Arthur C Wherry Closes a Career of Usefulness ) IT ?4 - Former Undersecretary of State As the year 1945 dawns the American people faces a future which seems less certain than at any moment since the war began At the very time when our armed forces are making their greatest sacrifice to speed the final victory the objectives for which they fight seem less assured than they did three years ago There has become evident a wide and growing rift in the basic political understanding between the three major allies Unless that rift is repaired unless unity of policy and unity of purpose between the United States Great Britain and the soviet upnion can be restored not only can no valid international organization be estab- lished but no lasting peace settlements can be concluded The people of the United States were led to believe a little over a year ago that the signing of the Moscow declaration meant that the major powers would agree upon thti settlement of all postwar problems The Moscow declaration is no more than a formulation of common objectives Without implementation it is of no more practical value than the KelloggBriand pact The failure of this government to insist upon such implementation—at a time when it was in a position successfully so to insist —is now bearing its bitter fruit The British and soviet governments have arrived at certain bilateral understandings As is now publicly admitted these understandings provide for a mutual recognition of "spheres of influence" Great Britain has obtained an apparent upper hand In Greece and Italy while the soviet union exercises predominance in the Balkans and in eastern Europe The British government has asserted its authority in Italy and in Greece It has controlled the composition of a new Italian government It has used armed force in Greece to repress One political element in that unhappy country The announcement by the state department that the United States disassociated itself from the British policy that it regarded ''the composition of the Italian government as purely an Italian affair" and subsequently that "this policy would apply to an even more prohounced degree with regard to governments of the united nations in their liberated territories" constituted a statement of principles which are inherently sound But made when and ACTUALLY as it was the effect was altogether disruptive Mr Churchill's retaliation was swift He promptly announced that the British government officially supported the solution of the Polish problem deeired by the soviet union As I wrote a year ago I believe that a solution of the character proposed is the one most likely to result in the creation of a strong stable and secure Poland after the war And what la the real reason for what has haappened? The real reason is that the United States was given the opportunity more than a year ago to assert leadership and' failed to lead If this country had then demanded of its major allies that precisely the same kind of organization be established to deal ' with politleal problems as had already no succemilully boon created in the military field in the case of the combined chiefs of staff a united nations council would have been set up lit such a council all of the political differences which have now arisen to disrupt the allied front would have had a favorable chance for adjustment At the worst open recrimination between the allies which helps only the German armies would at least have been prevented And what steps can now be tt - By Sumner AVelles - f ! 0000 bloody war remains to be fought It is not the time for despair but for rededication and resolution here at home that we will not fail our fighting men in their hour of peril It is time for work harder and grimmer work than ever before if the German and Tap enemies are to be beaten Great stores of supplies weapons planes and vehicles are Thoubeing destroyed on fighting fronts sands of men are being killed and wounded in their struggle against a ruthless and surprisiney strong foe in Europe In the Pacific thousands more will die before the fanatical and crafty Japs are defeated Out armies fleets and air forces are strong They have achieved miracles since the dark days that followed Pearl Harbor American industry has also accomplished wonders Now both face new tests as the war goes into another and perhaps more dangerous phase Strikes absenteeism disunity and internal strife are enemies as deadly as are the Japs and Germans Our fighting men can take care of the armed foes if we on the home front keep backing them up with our faith our courage and our industry is a matter of keen regret that the Hood River chapter of the American Legion has placed a blot upon the record of the national organization that no excuse or explanation can erase When myopic members of that local body removed from the "roll of honor" r WM" Issued Every Morning oy The Bait Lake Tribune Publishing Company It ' Welles Deplores Political Rift Among Three Major Powers —by Manning 15 Hood River Legionnaires Blotting a Glorious Escutcheon - No Virginia— 4 cake ginvtArtt7 'Established April rbt -- Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning December 28 1944 8 I e4 i ''''t‘ Social success has been defined as the infinite capacity for :) t'l 4 ' " ' s :: 4 being bored 1 ' i' - ‘ — - -p - S S S' S a - S ' - a— ‘ - - —j- --- ---- —-- -- t-- S e - e'tscts ( 7-- s- - —e- - sa I -- -- a a - :' |
