| Show ©g jSalt editorials E'bini April 15 1871 Issued every morning by £itlcc The Salt tribune Don’t Let It Get Yon Down — Monday Nov 11 1948 Lake Tribune Publishing Co Salt Lake City FRANK KENT’S COLUMN Communists Continually T ry To Control Wreck U S Utah Armistice Day Takes On New Meaning Iii Period Following Another War Since that November dav in 1918 when an agreement was signed ending hostilities in the first World war the anniversary has been celebrated as Armistice day here in America For a number of 3 ears it marked a joyous occasion when that “war to end all wars” was concluded victoriously for the allies It was a day upon which to recall the glories of peace and rejoice that the horrors of war had ended It also was a time for paying tribute to those brave men who made the supreme sacrifice in order that democracy might survive But with the outbreak of another global conflict far more destructive and bloody than the first Armistice day became somewhat dated No celebration of peace was appropriate while the world underwent another upheaval But this year it has been planned to observe Armistice day as a welcome time for s' the service men of the second World war are organizations sponsoring programs and entertainments for this purpose One thought which comes to veterans of that first World war is the wide difference Vet-tcran- WASHINGTON between the ending of that conflict at a and the manner in which the second World war ended piecemeal First came V-- E day the ending of the conflict in Europe then V-- J day which marked the capitulation of Japan Both terms placed the accent on victory rather than on peace Today after more than a year of a rather hectic peace almost any celebration seems inappropriate or premature It is altogether fitting that a period be set aside for paying tribute to the men and women who served their country in the second World war The nation owes them a great debt of gratitude For those who died in battle for those who suffered injuries and for the millions of others who gave up civilian life to wear uniforms their fellow countrymen bow in tribute Welcome for the living and regret for the dead So comes and goes another Armistice day It is to be hoped that some time not too far in the future a day will be celebrated when a just and permanent peace is achieved for a troubled world cer-tainYi- Fellowship Week Observed It is time for thought for prayer— spoken or unspoken — for kindness and confidence so inseparable from fellowship Fellowship is a term by which to designate an educational religious fraternal or eleemosynary foundation or association It also has a broader significance that will appeal to most people who study the purpose of this period of observance Fellowship in a week devoted to observance of that idea means the friendly alliance of individuals of different backgrounds religious affiliations or political preference for the advancement of a worthy cause for the amelioration of suffering from fear famine or failure This is Fellowship W'eek to be observed with high resolves good deeds and contrite hearts in houses of worship or in the homes unselfish men of and women Sponsoring the observance are Salt Lake Wins Approval As a City Beautiful Around the Earth law-abidi- well-meani- the Young Women’s and Young Men’s tian associations whose influence and trations are not restricted to any creed Chrisminiscoun- try or complexion but extend to all the world in 69 nations where chapters are maintained According to the last available statistics the Young Men's Christian association numbered 1869963 members of which 657241 are bojs The Young Women’s Christian association has a membership of more than a half million located in all the zones and continents A distinctive feature of both organizations is the combined interest in social and spiritual welfare While the week began yesterday the festival of Fellowship will reach it3 climax next Friday the 15th of this month The December issue of the enterprising and artistic magazine known around the earth as “Pageant” lists “America’s Twelve Most Beautiful Cities” including Salt Lake City of which the two authors travelers commentators and appraisers say: “Salt Lake City is a candidate with Denver for the distinction of being the cleanest city in the United States Little cold streams run down the streets of Salt Lake City and the place almost knocks you over with its cleanliness You get so you don’t even flip a cigaret butt carelessly The giant mountains around Salt Lake City are overpowering So is the Mormon temple It is a dream city filled with real people” Other cities listed are Ann Arbor Mich Concord Mass Denver Burlington Vt Colo Madison Wis Natchez Miss Orlando Fla Portland Ore San Francisco Cal Santa Fe N M and Savannah Ga Such a tribute should put inhabitants of Utah’s capital on their good behavior Just as an award for a noiseless municipality should have muted the auto horn and stilled the screeching brakes so should- - this classification for charm serve to make residents careful about throwing paper fragments on thoroughfares or dropping wads of chewing gum on the sidewalks “Pageant” is entitled to the gratitude of Utahns and of Salt Lakers in particular for giving credit where credit is due v AMERICANS ALL By DR DANIEL A POLING " My dear Ingrid Bergman: You have brought to America a radiant new personality and something else from your hardy northland that is I think unique I have yet to hear an unappreciative criticism of your work Your pictures throb with life and beauty and my friends agree that in these difficult times they help make life worthwhile Now your “Joan of Lorraine" by Maxwell Anderson has been clouded in its Washington opening by a circumstance beyond your control I hasten to add that the play is truly great and your interpretation worthy of the exalted-them- e But greater than anything you have done since you came to America is your rebuke of our American hypocrisy m dealing with some of our own people With a red face I thank you for saying publicly that if you had known of the discrimination against Negroes in public halls of our nation's capital you New York HIGHLIGHTS By CHARLES DRISCOLL NEW YORK— Confined to the house for Diary: a few days recuperating from a severe attack of influenza with complications So it was 28 years ago that we nearly burst our lungs proclaiming that the first war to erd wars was victoriously finished that we would hang the Kaiser and that there would never be another war because the League of Nations would see to that How far awav it all seems — e'cept perhaps to the thousands of crippled and sick eterans of g that war who occupy those a hospitals and remote all over the country The captains and the kings who got the:r glory out of that great g mostly have departed leaving poor John Pershing a lonely old man in a graying dusk "Thunder Out of China” by Theodore H White and Annalee Jacobv (Slane Associates) is a terrble book to read at bedtime China has been perishing starving fighting since ever humanity can remember I’m afraid it will continue that way for a while even if we were to turn over to it all the ocean of food and goods that we are now sending to Yugoslavia tow-err- sani-ton- blood-lettin- would not have come to Wash- ington It is not strange that you had not previously known that “such things prevail in this country" We are so vigorous in our denunciations of others and so m our criticisms of conditions far away that you got the impression that we always self-righteo- us practice at home what we loudly proclaim abroad! Forgive us my dear friend and be patient We are making progress With every good wish Smcerely DANIEL A POLING P S: My secretary who saw you in Alaska broke into my dictation to tell me that you were the brightest spot of all the shows that came to the north Copyright 1936 New York Post Corp LYONS DEN By LEONARD LYONS On a recent afternoon an attractive lady tried to enter the elevator to the Waldorf tower Detectives barred her way and asked where she was going "To my apartment" she said “I live here” They told her that the elevator was reserved for President Truman who was upstairs and for 'his party The lady — Rep Claire Boothe Luce who didn't identify herself — said: “But I’m in a hurry I have a dinner date and I must get to my apartment" The detectives suggested that she wait in the Mrs Luce said she lobby couldn”t wait “We’re sorry" said the detectives “but we have strict orders Unless you have an appointment to see the president you may not use this eleJust then Bernard vator” Baruch arrived to see the presiHe asked Mrs Luce dent “What are you doing here Clare?" and she told him of the Mr Baruch took her problem arm told the detectives “I’m taking Mrs Luce with me to see the president" They entered the elevator and that's how Rep Clare Boothe Luce was able to go to her apartrgent It was Sen Glen Taylor of Idaho wrho tipped the Associated Press to the story that O P A had decided on a lc increase in the price of zinc Taylor did it because the story which wasn’t to be released for a week had leaked to some insiders who were preparing to make a killing m the market Field Marshal Smuts of South As baffled as the golfing dub who is told ‘‘Try harder but above all don't press" is the center ordered to play heads-u- p football Africa tells this story of the loyalty of the men who served under him in the Boer war against Britain: In 1914 when England went to war against Germany Smuts sent a message to a former aide of his named Coenbritz: “Meet me at Potchefstroom with 2000 men” When Smatz stepped off the train at Potchefstroom the 2000 troops were there and Coenbritz said: "Here we are General This time do we fight with England or against England?" In 1910 some Boer war veterans volunteered to fight and were told by the British that they were too old Their spokesman patted his rifle and said “Too old you say? Give me an Englishman at 1000 yards An expected stampede for men's scarce shoes failed to Moreover if the sex develop wore nylons it wouldn’t put on its last pair to go out and look for nylons An onlooker says it seems incredible a liner the size of the Elizabeth is so easily docked But why? Once in New York harbor you just drive north and - and I’ll show strength PAUL MALLON OBSERVES New York Figures Provide Understanding of Election WASHINGTON— A thorough understanding of the election result is available in a knowing study of the New York City figures Democratic Boss Ed Flynn who managed the entire fourth term campaign for Roosevelt lost six out of the 13 election districts in his own Bronx in his own party vote In these districts the Dewey Republican vote was larger than the Mead Democratic vote In only two of these districts was the American Labor party (charged with communism) vote sufficient to let him skim through Now Mr Flynn’s trouble is shown to be that he lost Democratic votes The ALP vote my city experts tell me was about what was expected But by playing with this faction Flynn alienated so many Democratic By HAM PARK Half the world knows not how the other half lives — George Herbert We Live and Learn “Doc” Stayner an accomplished musician employed by the various motion picture studios in Hollywood told me the following story It will no doubt lose some of its punch m being written instead of told but I’ll do my best A musician had been playing the bull fiddle in an orchestra for 20 years steadily Then he got a night off which he spent in out in front Upon his sitting to his accustomed place return the following night the man who played the second bass viol said: “I hear you were out front last night How did you enjoy the overture?” “Oh it was all right I guess” was the reply “but I got the surprise of my life" “How come?” “Well you remember where we keep going ?” The other nodded agreement we’re while “Well going the guys on tiddle-t are the other side going zoom-zoom-zoo- zoom-zoom-zoo- 1 tiddle-tiddle-tum- first O-- P CIO-communi- CIO 2 The CIO Notes on the Cuff Department Orphan Annie is off again and probably before this is printed she’ll be straightening out the kinks in someone else's life But just the same every time our doorbell rings I sort of expect to find her and Sandy standing outside when I answer it Frank Capitolo is back on the job at the Rotisserie after a bout with arthritis It was good to see him being his genial self again Louis Roser hunted all over town for an alarm clock to give a watchman who was having difficulty in getting to work on time because of illness in his home Finally Louis called on A1 Sorensen who promptly gave him a clock for which he would Great accept no remuneration guys both of them COLEMAN OIL FLOOR FURNACES Just arrived! 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POST or remodeling SF61WUIT CORPORATION OFFICE— SALT LAKE tightly z: teeth buying building is st tied up with the communists There is no way to wriggle away from these facts except by wholehearted instead of halfhearted repudiation !” — Anon ’ ve -- recent campaign First there was the communist inspired effort to damage Governor Thomas E Dewey when a group of veterans led by the communist supported Michael Quill a CIO official broke into the state capitol at Albany second there was the radio speech of a communist official m Pennsylvania who assailed the Republicans as “reactionary" and called for the election of all C I A C indorsed candidates who were all Democrats third there was the government radio address in Moscow broadcast here which indorsed all CIO andidates for House and Senate fourth the editorial in the goi eminent controlled Moscow newspaper calling upon all communists in the United States to support CIO indorsed candidates fifth the concrete instructions in the September issue of Political Affairs official communist monthly in which American communists were directed to “lead fights on popular issues by working in various organizations be militant favor extreme demands ondenounce many compromise agitate fronts for causes that serve communist ends accept party support Democrats discipline against Republicans In elections this fall” This ought to be enough to degree to which comproc the identified themselves munists with the Democratic party and the degree to which the Soviet leaders went in their efforts to promote its success In a few states like Maryland the support was avoided but in New York the greatest of all the efforts of the Democratic candidates to shake themselves loose by "repudiation” of the communists have been futile continue to The communist urge the election of the very Democrats w'ho most strongly repudiate them Of course “repudiations” such as came from Chairman Robert E Hannegan the other day meant little because they did not include repudiation of the CIO too That Mr Hannegan w'as in no position to do Nor has any other Democratic manager or candidate except Senator Byrd done that The two things which neither Mr Hannegan nor anyone else can dispute are: 1 The Democratic party is tightly tied up with the m Laugh a Little Laugh a little now and then It brightens life a lot You can see the brighter side Just as well as not Don’t go mournfully around Gloomy and forlorn Try to make your fellow men Glad that you were born J METCALFE Answer to the book match puzzle: All you have to do is to fold the match in the middle forming a right angle No matter how or how often you drop it it will invariably come to rest standing along one of its two edges Some people get credit for having a pleasing personality when they're just proud of their was unmistakably plain They figured they would play with the communists leftists radicals or whatever that faction may want to call itself and that the faction would contribute enough votes to win The strategy of the faction is equally obvious etc The small communists minority wanted to establish itself in control by wielding a political balance of power over the Democrats Although numerically weak they succeeded in engineering Democratic campaign strategy to the leftist the viewpoint believing that comDemocrats had to go to munism to win This is the political lesson of the election The nation’s element (if not Subversive) could not contribute enough to the Democrats to win an election even in their strongest city On the other hand the Democrats lost the election by playing around with such groups Now because they lost on such bad strategy a large number of Democrats have developed political melancholia A congressman suggested President Truman should resign southern and Chicago newspapers chimed in likewise and a CIO candidate who had been defeated thought so too They wanted to get their own president to quit appoint Sen Vandenberg as state secretary and have him succeed to the presidency ar The real situation Is attested by various incidents of th m idd LET US REMEMBER turn right votes he barely shaved through at home Somewhat the same story was told by New York City as a whole Dewey got 1179000 votes in the Tammany controlled Democratic stronghold against only 850000 Democratic votes for Mead Lehman did but little better against Ives the city bipartisan vote being Ives 1007000 against 963000 for Lehman In both cases the ALP contributed 390000 which added to the enregular Democratic tovote wm the abled them barely city But by such tactics here again the Democratic leadership chased away so many Democratic voters that they actually politically weakened themselves — and actually defeated themselves in their races Now the Democratic strategy SENATOR FROM SANDPIT you" Let us remember once again Our men of World War I Who fought so bravely at the At Soissons and VerMarne dun Their deeds are deep And in our hearts in history And they are worthy today Than we can of more praise Some came back every say On home with empty sleeves And many crutches or in bed Of joined the sacred ranks Unselfour immortal dead To keep ishly they sacrificed our country free And make For the world forever safe In reverence true democracy let us bow our heads And Let us reby our silent gun Our men member and salute of World War I The evidence to substantiate these assertions is overwhelmthe ing The difficulty is to get people to consider and understand For example it is indisputable that from the first disclosure of the new deal spending policies in 1933 the Communist party which publicly estimates its membership at 100000 but w'hose members are far in excess of that have been their most enthusiastic No one who has supporters read the official communist organs and recalls the political facts of the last three presidential elections wnll deny that camBefore the 1934 made communists the paign open declaration that the new deal direction was straight toward the communist goal From that time their support of the late Mr Roosevelt and his new deal program never flagged reThough once Mr Roosevelt was pudiated that support it not diverted and the effort of the communists to make the Democratic party their own never In the recent camfaltered in paign again the communists New York placed the state-wud- e Democratic candidates on their own ticket and nearly everywhere called for the election of Democratic congressmen When Mr Roosevelt made his hard and fast alliance with the Congress of Industrial Organizations and C I O’s Political Action committee became the chief contributor to the Democratic treasury the real communist opportunity was presented For from th start they had saturated the larger unions of the CIO organization and the potency of their influence has been conceded from within as well as charged from without Today the communists are in conceded control of the American Labor party of New York without whose solid support Mr Roosevelt could not have carried the state in 1914 and are so strongly entrenched in C I O key positions that as Mr John L Lewis and others have asserted Mr Murray head of the CIO is “a prisoner of the off-ye- Distributed by McNaught Syndicate Inc By JAMES — When enough time has elapsed to permit an objective view and the record of this period starting in 1933 is written it seems certain historians will agree that the only political group in the country which thought clearly acted consistently and knew what it was all about was composed of the communist leaders in the United States who take their orders from the communist leaders in Moscow There are still millions who inclino to dismiss statements like that as political or prejudiced There are plenty who say they have heard that sort of stuff before or that it is a stock bugaboo which might frighten little children but should not alarm any normal adult That there are 0 many indifferent uninformed and inert people with this feeling is the real reason the American communists’ whose open aim is to wrec k our system and substitute their own have achieved today a power in American politics utterly out of proportion to their numerical CITY r 4 7 |
