Show r -- Established April 15 1871 Issued every morning by Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company Salt Lake City Utah Tuesday Morning May 25 1943 The Tribune Is a member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use lor reproduction ot all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein Man Power Meet Clears Air in Salt Lake Region I Military men government officials and civilians got together the other day In Salt Lake City and exchanged views on the man power problems in this section There was a great deal of "straight from the shoulder" talk and the air was much clearer after it was over It was like a brisk thunderstorm over the valley The sessions held under the supervision of Regional Man Power Director John R McCusker accomplished one important thing if they did nothing else — they gave everyone a chance to present his case and to learn the other side of the problem There was plenty of agreement on the need for more workers in Utah's industrial areas but wide differences on the cause and cure of the situation Army and navy officers admitted the need for a sound civilian economy but pointed out that the war program must take precedence even at the expense of civilian conveniences Business leaders agreed that the war comes first but they did protest against what they consider prodigal use of man power by the services Both Captain Omar D Conger of the naval supply depot at Clearfield and Colonel John S MacTag-ga- rt of Hill field denied that there is an overabundance of labor at their stations and invited doubters to visit these installations But that there exists in other military organizations was admitted Major M J Tierney cited Fort Douglas as one place where cuts can be made in personnel On the other hand Salt Lake and Ogden business spokesmen told 'of growing shortages in almost every category of help warning that some establishments — such as cafes and laundries — may be forced to close for lack of labor They cited the mounting population demands on civilian services along with rapidly shrinking labor sources a condition which they said is threatening to upset the entire economic structure The problems thus presented by the war program are not easily solved They will require much study tolerance on the part of all and a truly patriotic approach Civilians will be called on for further sacrifices business men will have to find hitherto unused expedients war industries should take particular care that the labor at their disposal is efficiently used and military men and draft authorities should keep in mind the importance of the home front as they carry out their plans Meetings such as the one conducted here will do a great deal toward placing the problem in its proper perspective for all groups thus furnishing them with a better foundation on which to rear some reasonably workable program over-staffi- n 4 :1 i1 1 I J i ng Utah Ranks Highest In Eminence of Natives Utah has the highest rank of any elate in the union for the number of "superior" persons born here in proportion to the population according to Edward Lee Thorndyke famed former professor at Columbia Dr Thorndyke according to an article in the current number of Time magazine has arrived at this conclusion after studying lists of native Americans who have reached eminence in all fields of endeavor Perhaps these revelations will be no e Utahns who can look surprise to back in the state's comparatively brief span and recall in their own memories many friends of early days who have become outstanding educators military men actors and actresses jurists and leaders in scores of other branches of human endeavor Others born later or having come to the state in comparatively recent times may be amazed to learn of the high standing gained by sons and daughters of Utah Many of them left Utah years ago to follow their destinies in other places but most of them recall their birthplace with pride and return frequently to renew old friendships visit relatives and bask beneath the blue skies of childhood Yet when one recalls the fact that most of these outstanding Utahns are within a generation or two of the pioneer founders of the state it is not so surprising that they have attained prominence The vitality and versatility of the settlers of most communities are proverbial Early residents of this state were accustomed to toil all day in the fields or small workshops then in the evening turn to dramatics or singing or study It was their only entertainment outlet There were no traveling theatrical companies or concert musicians in those early days and no radio nor movie3 so the pioneers formed their own companies of players and choral singers Others became educators because there were no other teachers and the children old-tim- - I - i t could not grow up unschooled Some of them became outstanding educators and many of their youthful charges gained success in the law or in literature by means of an education which had it3 beginning in the primitive pioneer schools Thus it was that culture which is today so easily come by became a precious thing an objective gained only by personal efforts Children grew up in this atmosphere They saw their elders take parts in plays they even played small parts themselves on the stage or danced and sang before audiences Dr Thorndyke's findings may astonish residents of other states but here in Utah it is just a verification of something "we knew all along" Air Warfare Holds Center of Stage Now With the exception of the fighting on Attu the entire war right now has turned into a global air conflict Since the Tunisian ground victory British and American airmen have taken the center of the stage in the Mediterranean sector bombing and burning ports airfields and factories in Italy and on Italian islands The air "invasion" of Europe from Britain continues with growing intensity Activities in the south Pacific have been almost entirely in the air during the past weeks Even on the Russian front the chief news is concerned with aerial fighting This does not mean of course that the global conflict has permanently become a "war in the air" Any day or any hour ground or naval fighting will break out again But even then the airplane will play a leading part as it did in north Africa and as it is now doing in the Aleutian islands It is obvious that as the war progresses the air arms of all belligerents are becoming more and more important It is an encouraging turn of affairs as far as the united nations are concerned because their strength in the air is gaining every day The airplane factories of thi3 country and of Britain have been for some time outproducing those of Germany Italy and Japan Our training of pilots gunners bombardiers and navigators is proceeding at a satisfactory rate and — best of all — we are suffering fewer losses in men and machines than the foe in almost every sky battle The handwriting i3 on the wall for the axis powers In this case it is "sky writing" because each day sees growing air supremacy for the allies Without undue optimism it can be said that the k bomb raid3 on Germany's industrial areas and Anglo-America- n 'round-the-cloc- transportation systems are seriously When crippling Hitler's war machine history finally gives this conflict a name it may be known as "the war in the sky" Dam! Behind the Scene of Current News By Manning By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON— The 'liberals may be awakening from their dreaming One of their leaders at least g is rubbing the mists of from his eyes and pub licly suggests that hereafter they revise their war and post war program to base them on truth and realism In an article in the weekly liberal bible the New Republic no less a power than its fore most editor Bruce Bliven forth- rightly indicts himself and his associates on many counts of political somnambulism I did Sot feel I had to ask him for permission to quote from his article because the substance sounds &a if it came from this wistful-visionin- - ?- - column In spots It reads almost phrase for phrase along the lines of free advice to liberals offered by me since the war started urging them to awaken and see Britain Russia and China as they are not as Vice President Wallace and the New Republic had viewed them and counseling them to renounce their antiquated liberalism which espoused totalitarianism in democratic socialist or communist forms in favor of a truly liberal doctrine of freedom for the individual and the common man Well the sleeping part of it is all there now as advice from Mr Blivens to liberals and hi3 position may carry more weight His words also suggest there is a chance that the course of professional and orthodox liberal thought may be turned away from its marked totalitarian and narrow new dealish channels and modernized Cause of Awakening The alarm which seems to have awakened Mr Blivens (he implies) was Mr Stalin's announcement that the Russians have not ' abandoned their historic desire for a piece of a "strong Poland" Says Mr Biven: "Men like Churchill Stalin k and Chiang keep silent during the war for diplomatic reasons about those of their opinions and policies which may strike a disagreeable note among the populations of allied countries but they don't abandon these beliefs and policies" Britain he finds still wants the empire despite the offer of Mr Bliven and associates to ffee Indian Egypt and some other places But you will hold your hats when you hear him saying: "I am aware of no evidence that Stalin has altered his ideology a particle under the pressure of war" He even mentions a few bad things along with the good about Russia the bad including "merciless wholesale executions of political opponents universal spying the ruthless carrying out s v- - - 1 r fr J I T By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK— Wartime conditions bring about marked changes in our regular pattern of life and I'm not telling you anything new when I say that But it leads me into a little story "I picked up an English flier today" said my wife to me last night I am sure I didn't change expression though she undoubtedly expected jne to So she went on from there And Ishould explain that my wife is a lady who has lived nearly 20 years in New York and knows enougth to keep the doors and windows of her car locked when she is driving Well she was in the Times square subway station when she heard an obviously lost English boy the same age as one of our daughters ask a lady on the platform how to get to Yonkers The lady didn't know but vaguely gave wrong directions My wife thought how the poor fellow undoubtedly on limited leave might easily waste a whole day following those directions So she said "I'm going to Yonkers and will gladly show you the way Take the next train on this track and stay on until the end of the line There are trolleys buses and taxicabs at the terminus and they will take you wherever you want to go" By the time the train had reached 242nd street my wife knew that the young flier was all right so she loaded him into her car which was parked in a neighboring yard and drove him to the center of Yonkers There he was able to get a bus to the home of the friend he wanted to visit Maybe that doesn't sound important to a resident of a small American town Such hospitality and friendliness toward a soldier of an allied country might be taken for granted in Greenville or Winona In New York it is unusual You have to use a good deal of judgment in such cases I am happy that my wife used her judgment intelligently and helped one lonely Englishman to feed that New York is not so different from his Kentish home after all Great mystery attends the disappearance of part of the left ear on a bust of Calvin Coolidge in the capitol A thought is that it was talked off With further refinements of the RAF blockbuster the German war factory may have its choice of being granulated pulverized or drip ground - ? v jJ I : I'd 1 fi si 3 0 1' By Walter Lippmann Not much more time ought to be spent arsruinff about how much taxes are to b abated The question is eminently one that can be compromised and adjusted The con tinuing agitation about the abatement ot taxes is softening up the taxpayers is obstructing the establishment of an efficient system of tax collection and Is postponing and making more difficult the levying of the new taxes and the compulsory savings which are - Imperative if the Inflation i to be controlled The dispute about how to collect taxe should be settled quickly so that we may address ourselves to the question of collect ing more taxes and of impounding the ex cess inflationary money Advocates of the Ruml plan have per formed a useful service in making it plain that in order to make we taxpayers cur-rn- t therp must hf some relief from th need to pay two years' taxes in one year th They have it now appears educated enmuai-as- m on isut tneir this point treasury has carried them too far By arguing do except the total can will that nothing cellation of the 194 z tax liability tncy nav fallen into a dilemma: either they are cona very special benefit on one group ferring or thev Are misleadinr this rr tuvnnvuri group of taxpayers into thinking that they are going to nave a special oeneiiu Class Involved The taxpayers involved are the salaried and professional men who are earning net incomes over $25000 a year Under th present laws these men assuming them to e and without inherited wealth be find it very difficult to retire and live at their accustomed standard on the income from their savings For in the year after the governthey cease to earn they owe ds d to ment anywhere fronv of a year's earnings The Ruml plan enables them to retire without making this payment This would mean for most of them the difference between being able to liva on their savings and not being able to live on them at their expected standard of living Thus it is not true that the Ruml any taxpayer plan makes no differencea totremendous difuntil he dies It makes e man ference to the successful when he retires or for reasons of health is no longer able to earn a large salary or large professional fees can be made for the A very strong case Ruml plan as a measure of social reform Under the prewar tax laws the most suce men (as measured by cessful their earnings) business executives lawartists yers doctors engineers inventors were under a severe handicap In the few years out of their active lives in whica they were able to earn large incomes it was made increasingly difficult for them as tax rates were raised to accumulate money for their old age Those who had inherited wealth and those who had acquired it before the tax rates became severe were in a far better position Yet by and large of it is true that the dynamic initiative and our social order resides in the salaried professional men who because of character and of special gifts and unusually hard work command for a time large salaries or fees In a capitalistic democracy they the ability ought to be encouraged a and short period of to save enough out of to retire comfortlarge earnings in order ably is undoubtedly a potent incentive to them The popularity of the Ruml plan is that it recognizes this defect of the prewar tax laws and corrects it But this is wartime Because It is wartime it is almost certainly impossible to carry out this otherwise desirable ofsocial the reform For if the senate's version Ruml plan were adopted can it be denied that in the next tax bill the rates would have to be raised very considerably on incomes over 525000? Is It conceivable that taxes can be raised drastically against the millions of new taxpayers with their lower incomes in the same year when the men who have large earnings obtain relief d to amounting to anywhere from of a year's taxes? Program Cleared It is not conceivable and many of the advocates of the Ruml plan have recognized the fact by saying that once concurrent gress has made the old taxpayers some portion of the forgiven taxes can be recovered by raising the rates Their argument has been that the orderly procedure is first to make everyone current and then to raise tax rates Copyright 1943 New York Tribune Inc self-mad- two-thir- one-thir- By Our Readers The Public Forum tions and the patriotic and war effort they faithful all-oall put forward to date to win the war seem not to enter the political side of Mr Walker's analysis when it comes to leaving out politics for the duration My compliments to all the patriotic political parties and social groups that don't bear the administration's trademark just for their effective and patriotic war effort regardless of poliErnest Evans tics Questions Party Leader ut Editor Tribune: Your front page jINS) dispatch appears to me to be about as sham a piece of wartime politics as one could conjure up Referring to Cabinet Member Frank C Walkers' reputed statement "The Democratic party in 1911 will stand or fall on the administration's war record" Only "the administration has a brilliant war record it has performed a near miracle etc etc etc" says the chairman of the Democratic national committee I suspect firing his first big political gun of the 1944 presidential campaign First he takes all credit for the successful war effort to date as individual military and social success of all the country and credits it entirely to the Democratic party just for an effective bid for votes in 1944 In fact he insinuates that no other party individual or group has had even a small hand in helping to lick Hitler and the Japs with all this recent military and naval success all over the world And all this in the face of the administrations' pleading for nonpolitical announcements during the war du- Kai-she- of economic plans" China he now sees truly as being "very far from being a political democracy on the western model" But he is rougher with Mr Roosevelt than I have ever been contending apparently that the president is not strictly a new deal leader: "Mr Roosevelt became a new dealer after he got into office and on an ad hoc y basis He surrounded himself with an unusual group of men and women with a progressive outlook and item by item they sold him the various parts of the new deal program They were helped in doing so by the fact that year after year the depression continued to be so serious that almost any experiment seemed better than just to let matters drift" Delusions of Grandeur He concedes he and associates have exaggerated the "altruism" of the American people by hoping they would give away much more after this war than they will and directly confesses: "Some American liberals have delusions of grandeur as to the extent of our influence upon the allies" in writing the peace and now "It is better to be grim and correct than to take a rosy view that turns out to be wrong" he rightly adds Reluctantly he is even prepared to accept a postwar plan "based on arrangements that are as much to the benefit of this country as anyone else" He suggests liberal should go that far too although this requires a drop from their world visioning To to the confused and 'disheartened "liberal" he offers a new goal: "A conception of the dignity of the individual or freedom and fairness for all" Why that would be democracy Mr Bliven! The libs could have gotten it all from this spot in the past three years for 3 cents instead of paying 15 cents for it now I would like to think that I helped to cause or inspire this Unforrevolutionary change tunately I cannot There is no copyright on truth It cannot become a private possession When the other fellow comes upon it we may think he took something- - from us whereas he really only opened his eyes There may be unity in this country yet Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc Cites Welfare Statutes Editor Tribune: In an evening k paper of May 20 David R is quoted as saying: "The Utah welfare law specifies that all money in excess of $30 a month paid to a welfare client must be based on budgetary needs" Mr Trevithick cannot produce a mandatory clause that even contains the word "budge-etary- " in either the state or federal law a3 pertains to old age assistance which the federal law does specify must be administered by a single or separate state agency distinct from direct relief clients and the state Title 89 1937 session laws does provide just how need shall be determined and Mr Trevithick knows it just as well as he knows that section 8 of the same act empowers the governor to make present grants $40 flat and that the same act holding Trev-ithic- ration" But' of course the 22000000 voters that Willkie attracted in '40 and the state upsets in antiadministration tactics and records in the intervening elec day-to-da- New York Highlights - Public Softens Under Tax Abatement Talk Senator From Sandpit many cooks broth — Old Saying Too many friends and such gourmets as before mentioned we celebrated the Sabbath joyfully Unless contributions come from friends we expect to eat tha't delicacy known as "henfruit" for ye rest of ye month the spoil Mr Pepys Reports Much has transpired since I last made notes in ye diary The Missus returned from ye effete east bringing with her such megrims as caused her to be immediately confined to her bed Much4 medication was ordered Lord by ye Royal Blood-lette- r Sulfa and your humble servant was kept busy dispensing that new magic remedy called Two by Two Two by two They walk this way As others will Another day And of each two Who pass my door I know that one is loving more e" which really performeth miracles I know whereof I speak for did not I become afflicted with ye same dire misery and the Missus after one dose arose from her bed and cared for me ? And I in turn arose and cared for her! 'And alternately we arose and cared for each other as long as ye prescription lasted But again the Sabbath came and the matter of food and the preparation of it was uppermost in my thoughts Last Sabbath I prepared a fowl to a queen's taste This Sabbath I'd a rare treat A small but luscious beef roast! Sir David de Coursey proffered his assistance in cooka ing the same So did Dame Monhollan who liveth in the same block with us But I deOne must clined all offers thinks I eventually stand alone so I more or less tremulously prepared to cook ye roast alone Rubbing it tenderly with salt and other condiments I placed it in ye oven Spuds commonly but vulgarly called potatoes I added At various times I basted ye roast and spuds the meanwhile watching a pan in which a strange but toothsome weed called "asparagus" boiled Dame Lois House sometimes known as "Ye Captain" brought over a large specimen of ye citrus family misnamed "grapefruit" because it tasteth not at all like ye grape but is wholesome and healt-hfu- l withall With the assistance of Na-rit- nt w t By Ham Park I know that one May sometimes sit With stricken eyes And laggard wit And yet be glad When their hand3 touch Of being loved However much — Ferry - Adams Notes on the Cuff Department Ham Jr came nearest to an accident since he's been flying on the day he was married He and one of his students were high up over Atlanta It was a cloudy foggy day A veritable pea soup of a fog Ham was at the controls The instruments told everything except where they were Ham came down out of the clouds to get his bearings Suddenly a monument appeared in front of him One of the numerous Civil war monuments erected on the hills of Georgia He pulled the stick back and missed it by inches A few minutes later he landed at his field "Boy" said his "student" a veteran from the south seas "I haven't been so scared since I ran into a flock of Zeros the same way!" Then there was the Scotch woman who went into an Edinburgh bank with a lot of money and asked for governmcnt bonds ''to help get rid of Hitler" She said she'd been saving it to get a divorce from her husband but "we must put first things first" repeals all acts in conflict with it5 He also knows that section 6 of the federal act reads: "When used in this title the term old age assistance means money payments to needy individuals" Payments cease to be money payments when a case worker turns them into commodity payments When she dictates what the recipient can and miust buy with his check He knows also that old age assistance cannot legally rate in the same category with relief clients Mr Trevithick's attempt to deceive the public in a manner that could mean defeat of his whole political party is a poor gesture on the part of a shameless and cruel organization intended to make cheapskates of Utah's citizens Paul H Allred 717 North Second Weit sU Lands Hospital Staff Editor Tribune: I read every now and then of some deceased rich man leaving a large sum of money to a hospital a school or other institution It seems to me that it would be a good idea for some to remember the Salt Lake General hospital which is going so very much good for the poor and unfortunate of this county I do not know of an institution where gifts of money wrould do more good I think also that the general public should more fully appreciate this hospital which operates more in accordance with the principles enunciated by the Master than any institution I know of Poor broken bodies by the thousands most of them destitute and without means come from all directions and get the service needed without any reproach or humiliation Personally I compliment and praise the overseeing commissioner the supervising doctor all the other doctors and in ternes the employes and the nurses The people are fortunate in having such an institu- tidh in their midst All should be thankful that the needy may receive attention whenever necessary and that the service is as good and efficient as it is CNLund 217 David Keith building j Would Make Nazis Work Editor Tribune: Wrhy bring all of those Germans over here with a nice free boat ride and a tour- - ist trip over our beautiful try? Yoii know how much coundam- age 15 rioting prisoners can cause How about 150000 and n to our war efthe slow-dow- fort? They have been living in north Africa Let them continue under guard and see that they raise enough food for themselves and extra for the other starving people Save all of that transportation of people and food Take over a boatload of seed and they could work the land where mines have been laid then it would not be 'the natives who were blown up If a few escaped they would soon be under guard anyway Millie Roberts 426 North Sixth East Logan Utah We do not want soothing syrWe wrant to be treated as grown-u- p free men and women When there is tough meat to chew we are sorry but do not fool us Let us have it to sink our teeth into and we work We will buy all the harder twice as many bonds not half up w-i- ll as many— Representative Walter H Judd of Minnesota self-mad- self-mad- one-thir- two-thir- Christopher Billopp Says: It is an inhospitable home indeed that has no spare bed which may be offered to an overnight guest ai3 gladly But sad to relate the overnight guest is not content with a bed only He will want the top of the bureau and at least the first upper drawer necessitating the removal of your reserve razor blades dental floss and cough lozenges flashlight certificates insignia of office as assistant air raid warden He will take an option on 50 per cent of the coat hangers in the closet and 25 per cent of the floor space which calls for the disposition of your pajamas dressing gown bedroom slippers and the shoes and suits of clothes you may desire to wear before his departure Worse and even more unreasonable he will expect a bathroom all to himself stripped of your toothbrush tooth paste washrag face towel bathg towel safety lotion razor shaving cream foot powder talcum powder styptic pencil hair tonic and other items essential to a normal morning toilet On the other hand he will expect the bathroom to be equipped with the shower bath hose and spray and the household's one stiff nailbrush regardless of how you are to get under your own nails Should the bathroom as well Include the family medicine closet you will during his visit experience all the sensations of being in a wilderness miles from the nearest doctor So it is that in preparation for an overnight guest you must pack and move with as much care as though you were setting out on a prolonged journey No hospitable person would deny a friend the use of a spare bed for the night But how much simpler if the bed were made for him not in the guestroom but out ia the garagel after-shavin- |