Show - :411 t ktt oh Aivysv Established April 15 1871 Lake Tribune Pub4labing leeued every morning 14 by - gait Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning September 9 1913 Press is exclusively The Tribune is a member of the Associated Press The Associated tor reproduction ot all news dispatches credited to It or ilot otherwise credited In also the 10Cai news published herein Loaning Ourselves Money And Protecting Our Liberties This morning as you got up the vast anwar industry of your country-starte- d other day of production the armies of the United States began burning up gasoline and shooting bullets at the enemy before midnight tonight your government will have spent $210000000 in carrying on the war This is nearly $100000000 a day more than was being spent last year at this time 1Today marks the opening of the third war loan drive and it will be necessary for the people of the United States to buy during the present campaign more than twice the amount of bonds that they purchased during the first half of the year They are being asked to do this not only to finance this most expensive conflict in all history but to help prevent inflation now and in the years which entitled to the this paper and prudence Dr Charles Cheney Hyde of New York has rendered this opinion: "Any man in uniform is part of his country's armed forces and as such has every right to help win his country'--s battles in any way he can I know of no treaty or agreement among nations which forbids any uniformed man to bear arms It would be a good thing if people generally knew more about international law : because in my opinion all this war is is a fight for international law" "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" reads like a passage from one of those thrilling episodes described in the Bible Likewise in the second book of Maccabees one may read of chaplains in the armies of the Lord "fighting with their hands and praying to God with their hearts" No matter how Lieutenant Commander Forgy may feel about the duty of chaplains while bombs and bullets are falling around them the great mass of his fellow countrymen applauded his action set music to his words and paid him will follow homage as an American Christian who The people of Utah are going to supbelieves that "God defends those who deport this drive because they want more fend themselves" than anything else to bring this war to Under the auspices of the Kiwanis an early and successful close They want club indorsed by the local unit of the their sons brothers and husbands who navy Commander Forgy will address a have gone forth to fight the enemy to be luncheon meeting at the Hotel Utah this d the best-fe- d and noon Members of different civic and soldiers in the world Utahns business clubs have been invited accordwho have remained at home are doing ing to announcements published Accomeverything they can on the home front by other heroes from combat to win the war They have responded in' panied zones he will attend several functions in the past by purchasing bonds they will Salt Lake City including a meeting of do so this time although the goal is the ministerial association and Mormon higher and the sacrifice will be greater church officials this evening They know that no matter how many The Salt Lake Tribune joins the gensacrifices they make the fighting men eral public in welcoming the famous chapare making far greater sacrifices They lain and commending him as a militant know that every dollar they put into war defender of human rights and religious bonds will return them a hundred-fol- d liberty In satisfaction because they have played their part in the victory to come Those who are directing the drive The Day of the Dog and the loyal men and women assisting them face an immense task This state At Utah's Annual Exposition is expected to collect $41000000 during the campaign to loan the government While the dog show this year is held It will require the untiring efforts of an under the direction of the Utah State army of canvassers going from door to Fair association its immediate sponsor is door from desk to desk and from work the Intermountain Kennel club of Salt bench to work bench until every man Lake City and the exhibition is being woman and child is acquainted with the staged under the grandstand Importance of buying bonds and war Some 250 specimens of the canine stamps branch of the Canidae family of quadNot only has the quota' been raised rupeds are competing for favors—from to record heights but the scope of the watchdogs to lap dogs with a number drive has been limited this time to exof hunting dogs of the several species ' dude all banking sources from participaand educated animals that lead the blind tion In other words private citizens and guard isolated camps of soldiers in war plant groups nonbanking firms and the fighting zones institutions will be asked to buy bonds Dogs were despised by ancient peoto the limit Much has been said and writwho described them by certain habples ten of the soundness of the investment its but the devotion and fidelity of dogs represented in the purchases of these to their masters something that' has perbonds until it would seem that every sisted for countless centuries in spite of person who can read or listen to the radio abuse and neglect have gradually won a should be "sold" on this plan of savings place in the hearts of most iformal and Citizens of Utah should not need any appreciative human beings more "pep talks" on the subject of buyTo be sure there are individuals who ing war bonds They should and no doubt cling to primordial prejudices and diswill give their fullest support to the play an atavistic hatred for dogs but as present drive knowing that they are ina rule humanity is gradually improving vesting in freedom and building bulwarks In many respects against the ruin of runaway inflation The dog show which opened yesterday while laying aside a loan to will be continued through today be collected on "rainy days" best-clothe- best-equipp- ed gilt-edge- ct Greetings to a Chaplain Extolled in Sono and History "When thou goest out to battle be not afraid against thine enemies of them for the Lord thy God is He that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you" This advice taken from the fifth book of the Pentateuch may be given to anyone who engages in a righteous cause whether clad in clerical garb or a military uniform whether involved in a controversy br a conflict whether defending truth or honor It was no more applicable to the ancient Israelites than to loyal inhabitants of the Hawaiian archipelago who were treacherously attacked on the 7th of December in 1911 'Nor was Gideon the warrior judge nny more justified in swinging his terriblt nword against the Midianites than was Chaplain Howell M Forgy who took the place of a slaughtered patriot at Pearl Harbor and performed a hero's in defending his comrades his ship part his country and civilization against a horde of heathens trying to destroy both Jews and Christians "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" cried the courageous chaplain as he helped serve cannon that might have been called Gideon's guns had they been available 40 centuries ago Some timid beneficiaries of the gallant defense that finally repulsed and still pursues skulking savages who murder vhile making overtures for peace were inclined to regard it unethical and ft breach of international code for a chaplain to actually participate in a battla One of our leading authorities on diplo- matic proprieties and international juris r" New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK—The patriotic effort of the laundrymen to keep business away has backfired The publicity campaign urging people to patronize the laundries less wear soiled clothing and do their washing at home was too good The customers took it seriously and last week there wasn't enough washing to keep the laundry hands busy It was evident throughout most of the country that the public had taken the campaign too seriously but it was especially bad in New York where there was a sudden falling off in business that seriously threatened existence of some businesses Now the laundrymen are saying something like this: "Of course it's all right to wear your old shirt two days instead of one to help win the war and there's sense In everything but there's more sense in scratching your head than in tearing your hair out Don't turn us all into a filthy nation and close up all the laundries We've got to live don't we?" Many of the larger restaurant a in Manhattan are now closed on Sundays and Mondays meatiest' on Mondays end Fridays and have cut the one square of butter down to postage stamp size There was a fair influx of steaks for restaurants and hotels only two weeks ago but the prices were too high for most old customers and the tempting bits went uncalled for Fróm $250 to $350 was the price for a sirloin in most restaurants and in some places no potatoes or vegetables were Included A large chain once noted for good food rooms still has the air In conditioning Its club sandwich formerly famed throughout the country has become‘ a lettuce-tomat- o sandwich chiefly full of goo The strong dressing is supposed to make you forget the lack of meat The price has gone up not down Older men and women Are taking over g the jobs in New York Where a restaurant Clin get a suncrannueteri wniter who has had experience the lob is clinched Many married women who formerly wpi-table have come back to the old Jobs But most restaurants are glad to get even elderly men who never before waited table They cart learn ed table-waitin- tipl ITU 4xTRA By David Lawrence WASHINGTON — The voluntary resignation of William Mt rubber director has Jeffers about it so many circumstances and aspects differing from the customary withdrawal of a man from an official position that it is worth celebrating For Mr Jeffers accomplished what few business men have ever done during a brief stay In the midst of the conflicts and confusions of officialdom Mr Jeffers didn't want the job of rubber director or any other job in Washington As president of the Union Pacific railroad he had his hands full operating a trunk lins in wartime But the chairman of the Union Pacific's board of directors is Averili a - close friend of Harriman President Roosevelt now serving the government at London and the Harriman interests are powerful in the ownership of the Union Pacific So Mr Jeffers was persuaded to come He was indeed drafted And it can be said of him today —that he came he saw and he conquered Having no ax to grind no political ambition to serve no ideology to defend or and no interest in oppose someone else's camouflaging mistakes or placating some incompetent officials' feelings Mr Jeffers charted his own course He had a job to 'do and he showed all Washington and the country now to get it done In the first place when summoned before a congressional committee for a hearing he spoke bluntly and frankly and let it be known that he wouldn't be by politics or anything else into doing something he thought unsound The whole country applauded his outspoken remarks Forced the Issue Then Mr Jeffers found himself at variance with some of the lesser army and navy officers who conscientious about their appointed tasks nevertheless were in his judgment interfering with his assignment to get our synthetic rubber plants built navy promptly If the army andsomeofficers were right then one had given Mr Jeffers a wrong steer as to his authority and goals He forced a showeven though it made down some unpalatable publicity and seemed to reveal a bit of friction Inside the ranks of the adminBut in the end Mr istration Jeffers' point was accepted—he was permitted to have a fixed percentage of materials and supplies with which to build the synthetic rubber plants—a percentage he agreed was adequate though not as much as he would have liked He showed himself to be both practical and reasonable as well as assertive After a few 'skirmishes all Washington knew it was best to let Bill Jeffers alone to do his job as he had set out to do But even those who had disagreed admitted that when one did business with the Jeffers office it was easy to get a decision —an answer right away and not d or a stall a Trained Successor But Mr Jeffers did something else even more imoprtant than what has been disclosed thus far The day he came to Washington last September he began to train a successor He picked as his assistant Colonel Bradley Dewey and made up his mind that as soon as his assistant knew enough to take over the job he Bill Jeffers would go He even back to his railroad fixed a date—July 1—and was able to accomplish it within a few weeks of his time limit It can never be said of him that he cherished the slightest idea of warming a seat permanently in Washington or getting enmeshed in its intrigues of buThere reaucratic ramificat-ion- s are many men who come here and make the same resolution but they don't know how to "fire" themselves--tget such good assistants that they themselves can retire from the high-pressure- N D5 11111111holeimillo c ' -- - 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A man called on the news editor of a local paper and announced that his uncle had been taking the paper for 55 years "That's fine" said the news "I hope he'll continue editor to do so" "Oh yes he will I want to tell you about him He has always been a model of propriety He has never touched liquor or tobacco lie has never used proIle has never been fanity mixed up with women Ile Inexno no in vices and dulges cesses Arvi tomorrow he will celebrate his 80th birthday" "How?" a'sked the news editor —Toronto Globe and Mail Dewey 'Gets Away First on Postwar Plans bert W Hawkes of New Jersey for one declared that he had not By Jay G Hayden NANA MACKINAC 'ISLAND Mich —By declaring flatly for an defensive and offenn sive alliance Governor Thomas E Dewey of New York has cast a rock into the 1944 political sea Which is calculated to produce eddies far beyond the meeting of the Republican postwar advisory council that served as its setting The immediate effect of this pronouncement was to wreck completely the placid equanimity with which the Republican big shots here assembled were approaching their task Specifically it brought to light the fact that a resolution on foreign policy already had been cooked up for adoption by the conference with two collateral consequences First Senator Arthur H Vandenberg of Michigan who had been told off to direct this phase of the council's deliberations was annoyed by what he conceived to be a monkey wrench thrown into his well-lai- d plans Among others whom Senator had taken pains to Vandenberg consult and who had approved the proposed council resolution was Governor Dewey Secondly quite a few council members were disturbed by the discovery that their actions had been foreordained Senator Al after-wa- r Anglo-America- come all the way to Mackinac just to "sign on the dotted line" and that he intended to have his full say before any resolution was adopted Subsequently however Governor Dewey disclaimed intention to upset anybody's apple cart so far as this conference Is concerned He declared that he saw no inconsistency between his proposal of an alliance and the Vandenberg resolution which would pledge the Republican party to "participation by the United States in postwar cooperation between sovereign nations to prevent by any necessary means the recurrence of military aggression and to establish permanent peace with justice in a free world" The New York governor as it appears was gunning for big game He was attempting to rob Wendell L Wil!kle of his previously-hel- d Republican monopoly of the issue of postwar International collaboration and incident to his espousal of an n alliance he challenged President Roosevelt to come out from behind the log and tell the public exactly where he stands on this question So far as open pronouncements are concerned certainly Governor Dewey's declaration puts him out in front of both Roosevelt and Willkie in the Anglo-America- Senator From If they ever tax people on their speech some will have a mighty big gas bill to pay— Louisville Satyr The Bridge Club Meets I declare girls if I live to be 100 I'll never be able to understand men Particularly my husband This talk about men being only little boys grown big Is a lot of hooey Oh they grow big physically all right But it seems to me they grow smaller At mentally in direct ratio least that's the way my husz band seems to have progressed You'll remember I told you how he was affected by his income tax problems Well since then he has consulted a lot of his friends and now he's an authority on the subject And Just because I can't understand the problem as he explains it he flies into a tantrum and accuses You me of being mercenarysee I didn't claim any exemption for being married and 20 per cent of my wages is being withheld He said he was going to file a joint return so that full credit for my deductions would be given us So I- merely said: "Well then in case I have overpaid my share I'llhave to look to you for reimbursement instead of the government How perfectly ducky!" Really girls I was only joking but my husband can't take a joke He gets very dignified and says coldly "That settles it! I shall file a Separate return taking half of our marital credit and you do the same And may you prosper with your gains!" And with that he flounced into the front room and made his bed on the couch which is much too short for him Early in the morning I heard him crawling Into his bed but I didn't let on When I got up to go to work I knew he was awake so I wasn't very quiet But the more noise I made the louder he pretended to snore He didn't fool me for a minute though ' You know girls we women do have a hard time in this life We no more than get through raising our sons and daughters than our an d pit - -- - I Save the Crops randma Nineteen Thirty-thre- e Canned tomatoes carefully In her kitchen clean and bright Grandma worked with all her might Filled the jiiirs so that her men Might eat when winter came again e Grandma Nineteen Thirty-threPeels them in a cannery 'Mid machinery'm clash and din There Grandmother pitches in Saves the crops for Uncle Sam— Helps to feed our fighting man e So with Grandma through the years Working to preserve from tears Those who follow where she trod Firm her faith in man and God So the younger generation May become a mighty nation —Beatrice Rordame Parsons Notes on the Cuff Department Frank Samuels wrilem: "Dear Senator: I know what Steve Moloney did with the 11 bucks he won on the 'Can You Top This' radio program but can you tell me what the heck he will do with a half year's supply of dental cream?" (Nope Frank I really can't) Elmer Finch who left for West Yellowstone during the late hot spell to spend his vacation has sent an S 0 S for his He gays he heavy underwear has to break the ice in his water pitcher before he can wash I don't believe I've ever heard anything that has depressed me so Lorene Walker says a raise Is the incfease you get just before you go into debt a little en -- ø - --- --' Park husbands flop back into second childhood and we have to "mother" them But I suppose the old law of compensation will take care of us If it doesn't— well—it's just too bad Where's the lead? - - By 11 am - usual armistice or the usual general peace conference to which 40 nations will send 2000 delegates eager to orate and greedy to grab Insteadhe proposes four steps—first an agreement before the firing ceases of all the united nations that a few leading nations be appointed trustees or joint managers of peace second that the terms of a simple provisional peate' be agreed upon now which the managers or trustees shall impose upon belligerent Europe the moment firing ceases—and later on 'Asia third that there be a transition period from war to peace of a few years in which the world can cool off and have time for deliberate solution of the long-vieproblems of lasting peace fourth that after the foundations of a real peace have been laid some sort of world institution or league be created to replace the managers or trustees and preserve the peace Eleven very clear and'eogent reasons to support his four steps are given by Mr Hoover To few of these can exception be taken Concerning two no question can be raised One is that there Is an instinctive fear that negotiation by our officials of the questions during the war gigantic long-viewould disrupt the unity of the 'united nations Hence the escapist policy of "victory first discuss peace afterward" In consequence of this policy aside from a few very general aims and platitudes victorious nations in the past have come to the ptace table wholly unprepared for the immense problems they must meet As a result a blundering and bad peace has been made—a peace that inevitably again led to war Such apeace will follow this war if we go about making it in the usual way and without a transition period The other indisputable Hoover point is that out of 5000 years of war an illusion has been' built up in the human mind that war can be ended and peace made by signing a piece of paper Instead these hastily drawn documents—drawn while hate is still hot and emotion runs high—have usually become the prospectus of renewed war Must Be Complete Unity Of course the essential foundation of Mr Hoover's program is agreement among Great Britain Russia and ourselves Every- thing depends upon that and of course the president and Mr Churchill are fully aware of the fact—fully aware too that this agreement must be made before Germany Is beaten and the war ends To this end they seek a conference with Mr Stalin Russian cooperation is completely Indlspensable—but to gain thatr cooperation some very practical measures must be taken concessions made and compromises effected The problems ahead are multitudinous and vast Victory comes first of course but victory is now inevitable and to delay agreement upon a preliminary postwar program until the surrender comes is obviously perilous in rile extreme Mr Hoover offers a concrete logical plan that will hold the world together while the right eolutions of the basic questions are sought It would be fine if the president instead of rejecting it because Mr Hoover proposes it should make it his own— or at least use it as a base It would be fine too If the Republican policy planners who meet this week as Mackinac Island should follow suit Thus the whole business of for- eign policy could be eliminated from the Thus public sentiment comi ng campaign Thus the nation would be consolidated would be solidly behind its president In deeling with international affairs and the political fight here next year centered as It should be upon domestic issues Distributed by McNaught Syndicate w 14 1 'CLIS'rt ' ' ''''' - ''hi!1:g-444---c- t 4 - :lbfn-tz:??- '''174-Aft-:i-i-4- '': ?1- v4 I M1101 :' ''''''! 7'"i7"-----cr7-- 77V-- : '' 113: I : NApittik 11:444i 447:-7---"pqr-- zorir'I'''4'' ::::1:: 1i r:o r '': !!-- ' — ' -- " ' '''' - '' - - ' j- 1L:Z::? i' : ::J-- :''' : ': :- ''''?:f 1 - '4?i'i?''' "4':'' "t''r'!'s Z'4 !5'71' "?''-3'!'''''-"- :2-' ir"''' ' 2ii"41”- :::tl:n1 - - '''' "' -: - -- '2- - ' : s tgo''''-lo-c“i ' - 'g &: ''" risaitotzedooteolcootA4 '':1:"14'''e24-a-- - N's i ft -- — 14 :c- ' - i :: - ' ' '' r'!-"- fr'' - matter of saying just how the w business of collaboration with foreign nations should be gone about Governor Dewey made it clear that he was in no sense excluding other nations notably Russia and China from after-wa- t alliance with the United States But he did set up the thesis that close association of all English-speakin- g peoples after the war backed by united action of the American and British navies is at least one of the posts to witch future world peace should be tied In this conception he declared frankly he was drawing from Walter Lippmann's recent book "United States Foreign Policy —Shield of the Republic" The essence of this volume is that beginning with the Monroe doctrine and until after World War I the United States In fact looked on the British navy as art integral part of its defensive system It was the discontinuance of this conception in the Isolationist era of the past quarter century Mr Lippmann holds that encouraged the fascist brigandage and brought both the United States and Great Britain to the brink of disaster Governor Dewey indicated that he fully subscribed to this opinion One thing that can be stated without peradventure is that there is very little isolationism in the Republican party as represented by its state governors and the sprinkling of congressmen and national committeemen who participated in the Mackinac meeting Whatever else may have contributed to change in Republican views with that regard the reason most frequently heard here is one of practical politics The Republicans are firmly convinced that the American 'people have turned Irrevocably against the domestic new deal and that only the predominance of issues arising from the war stands in the way of election of a Republican president in 1944 Wherefore It Is contended the first thing the Republicans should do Is to remove the war as a political issue by going just as far as the present administration can go both In measures war to a designed to bring the to estaband quick conclusion international collish after-wa- r laboration It was this thought which Governor Dewey may have had in mind when he stepped out ahead of all other American political leaders to advocate openly a permanent' alliance Anglo-Americ- an Hurries Home further The inhtthitants Patit(iiiis were worried It was impossibls to know what really was going on in Germany any more the Boche communiques lied ao much It was finally decided to send down a reporter The choice fell on Methuselah the aged saint who had seen everything Twenty-fou- r hours passed and Methuselah returned on the run and gasping for breath "What did you find out?" he was asked "What is the real situation down there?" "Well" said Methuselah when he had gained voice "when I got to Germany they were calling up my class so I got out of there in a hurry"— Reformatory Pillar Classified ad: ''Woman with cooking ability and salary in exchange for apt" How much cooking ability? The average man shaves 20 square miles of face during his lifetime lb -- ' QIVidlx 1 a - rt aWL14!Vetettt t"1-14- 'i "6"94°""3"4" tlitTNOINCLVP011 2'-'r f By Frank R Kent WASHINGTON—Recent complaint has been made that so many persons without either experience or capacity were putting forth peace and postwar plans that the peopie generally are bewildered and would welcome something of a practical nature couched in simple language' from someone whose background gave him a right to speak It is not possible to make that complaint since Herbert Hoover's speech Friday night For one thing though he has no official position his experience and background qualify him to speak for another his views are eminently practical and easily understood They are more than that—they emphasize the vital importance of agreement now before the war Is over among the allies upork a workable program Unless this is done It seems clear that chaos will ensue t k ") 7 ''' 5Ifs rY4 Mow000 NrA lit KI4N '' A ' - 0001121 7 Pr w 11411 lb 4 II I 1 1 Unity After War Holds Vital Part in Terms Manning —By ATTACK LIE t4) 61 Be Completed Company Lee Bonds and More Bonds Jeffers Proved War Jobs Can AVIA( - I Christopher Billopp Says: must:show you the new They say they that indeed portrait of Will and you reply - have arranged they must So when theythe lighting and placed you in the most advantageous position they inquire "Well what do you think of it?" What should you answer? Should you tell them that to be frank you have seen better portraits? Should you suggest a completely new mouth a major operation on the nose a new pair of eyebrows a different shade of hair a decided readjustment of the cars and a complete renovation of the background ? 'tear In Joind thnt a portrait Is not Nome that can be sent back to the shop and replaced with a new ono Think of the time and energy the poor artist has placed upon It Obviously he has done his best Think how often the sitter must have sat After all who are you to be passing art? You who judgment upon a work of more ambitious have indulged try nothing than photographs and modest ones at that What do you know about composition and tone and "highlights"? Probably the artist deliberately avoided a speaking likeness Maybe it's the sort of picture that "grows on you" From what they have said It Is clear that they are satisfied with it so why should you shake their faith? No telling what they for it and doubtless the poor artist paid alrc-bdtine spent the money on food and clothing for his young: onee All the portrait fledn are n few enthusiamtic words of encouragement from friends of theb owner And so after due contemplation you cross your fingerg inconenictiouely and sett emniv declare the portrait to be eminently satisfactory and an outstanding work of art v |