Show TZlic Issued ---Establi- every T alt falit Z ibilllt April shed morning by gait Lake Tribune 1 An Accolade for Grandfathers 15 187- 1-Publiahing :':::'i':'::''i':::"''!'1'::':::f::::-TREA-- -' -- — '" : And yet it seems that General Charles De Gaulle the troublemaker in Algiers who forced General Giraud's resignation from the I The French are as divided today as they were when the nazis marched in between their fActions and took possession of that land Placing political advantage above patriotic to retain sovereignty and they are still quarreling even as politicians continue to nag and needle each other In these United States of America It may not be consistent therefore for any American to take contentious Frenchmen to task for incessant bickering over the exercise of a power they lost through bickering as we have in this republic the same sort of carpers with which to contend Here we have isolationists in the United States senate who oppose collaberation with any other power in postwar deliberations and adjustments essential to the establishment of a durable peace Here we have legislators who put in most of their time investigating federal officials or each other Here we have senatorial oracles who try to earn their salaries by insulting our allies in the middle of a war for existence Here we have influential malcontents who join the chorus of hate that enemies sing to discredit our constitutional leaders Here we have verbal saboteurs who re willing to help the axis in its attrmpts to "divide and conquer" if they can only gratify spite or ambition while so doing self-respe- ct self-sacrifi- 4 - ''''''' v4 :rs- OF ALLSEAES ::11-1A- 1':? k Els0Sm046Aseri 01- - 1 1 Nt i c'"4 ' ' k i - 4 ' C T'' Z 1 '' ' WASHINGTON—President Roosevelt recently selected a small group of editors and writers n and invited them twice to the White House for a long and rather intimate discussion of the problems of the war For doing this simple and useful thing he now is being attacked by a section of the Isolationist press whose mistaken purpose is to arouse competitive jealousies and stir up friction between the president and the many writers who have not been invited The palpable effort is being made to discredit the dozen who did attend The claim is being will be unduly influenced publicly made that they in what they write or edit In fact it is charged openly that the attending writers are made confidantes on information they cannot print so that Other things can be planted on them that they may print This correspondent—although his name was published by an isolationist critic in thelist of those allegedly present at the informal White House gatherings recently—does not happen to have been invited to any of the sessions The president has every right to invite whomever he pleases to the White House for the discussion of public business What's more Mr Roosevelt is merely following the precedent set by other chief executives Who since the era of President Theodore Roosevelt have asked writers and editors singly or in groups to come to the White House occasionally for a discussion of contemporaneous affairs Nor has such a custom ever disturbed the regular newsmen whose duty it is from day to day to report the "spot" news that comes out of the executive offices It's a good thing for the president to hold as many press conferences as possible The regk ular sessions with all the correspondents are much too crowded and uncomfortg able for or hearing A larger room should be Used possibly the East room with chairs provided Also impromptu questions and answers have sometimes produced unintended embarrassments that never would arise if the subjects or topics were submitted to the president In writing in advance of the meetings as is done in the British parliament These White House press and radio conferences have developed Into an institution of which America may well be proud—an example and a challenge to all the governments of tile free world to be At the same time it is a fortunate development that the president can find time also to see smaller groups and give them his ideas about the war and its progress These sessions could become as useful to the president as to his visitors for a chief executive lives in virtual seclusion He leans only what he reads or what callers tell him AM if those callers happen to be sycophantic jobholders or supporters there is not likely to be any reciprocal to visits such advantages As for writers and editors all of them with rare pcception have too high a sense of duty to their readers to allow themselves to be overwhelmed by the awe of a presidential presence and thus permit themselves to be swayed by anything told them if it is something with which in their writ- they cannot conscientiously o are too much to be used for ings They vigilant political purposes and the president is much too experienced to believe they could be In wartime and in the formulation of international policies for peacemaking it is important that the press of America be clearly Informed by governmental spokesmen Thus a constructive step has been taken Heretofore the president's relations with the reporters of Washington have been good but with managing editors and publishers the relations have been strained Mr Roosevelt has had a sort of attitude toward the owners of newspapers and it may well have resulted from the ideological complexes of those new deal bureaucrats who have had such ready access to his ear The publishers on the other hand have looked askance at the use of the administration's power to injure the press just because as they felt most of the editorial pages have not happened to agree with the radicalism and at times the totalitarianism of the new deal In time of war however and in the anxious that lie ahead it is important for all of us days to work together against the vicious set of international enemies we are fighting- Any move therefore that looks toward bringing together our president and our press whether through large groups or small through writers or editors or publishers is a move in the right direction and should not be suspended just because of the mischievous maneuvers of an isolationist-minde- d twice-a-wee- thick-and-th- in chipon-the-s- houlder - opposition - New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK—Yes friendahips can spring up in New York as elsewhere In fact they do much oftener than most people believe You may remember my speaking of a young navy man by the name of Stewart Stanley from Joplin who called at our house one day to see me merely because he had been a regular reader of the column in his home town and on a day of liberty from his navy job at Lakehurst N J decided to hunt up the writer of this column He also had heard that the lady of the house next door was Helen Marshall or Mrs Bliss Woodward formerly of Joplin Well this how it goes Today my wife and Mr and Mrs Woodward attended the rharriage of Stanley and his lady at the Riverside church on Riverside drive' at about 125th street There was a little sociable conversation afterward and we are now ttying to figure out how we can get the Stanleys to come to our house for dinner some evening gas rationing being what it is Stanley was (and is) in the insurance business in Joplin If peace should come he'll be hard right back there pitching Mrs Stanley comes from Baxter Springs Kan My wife is not a trained reporter so she was able to tell me only what the lady wore and her first name Naomi Well we can't all be reporters can we? 4--:- -- j t-- 11' -- f1 - '' I - 4 - 1 - -- ? !:::': t "-- - e'- - : 1 Z ( ) V I i 0 - 1 ffo ' ' ' 1 - I I 41 i - X't - i I -:- - - t 41t Lw- " 010 ::-'-'Z:' Lebanon Situation Gravely Affects War of National Liberation have adopted too much of a highhanded policy with the newly created independent government The American and the British governments will do their utmost to get the French to change their attitude if possible without losing face The reason the conflict between the French and the Lebanese is considered so important is that rebellions spread fast in that section of the world If the Arabs in Palestine Syria Iraq Saudia Arabia and north Africa lose faith in allied promises there is no telling what problems might confront us in the near future And we already have enough on our hands Japan also enters the middle eastern picture On the surface there seems to be no connection between the Japanese and the Arabs But official circles point out something which escapes the average citizen: That the emperor of Japan is now the ruler of more Moslems than any other head of government in the world There are more Mohafnmedans In the newly acquired Japanese territories than there are for instance in the British empire For the time being there has been rio active cooperation between the Arabs and the Japs although Tokyo has sent a number of agents to the most important Arabic centers in the middle east They have made no But should these headway Mohammedans believe our 'pledges are worthless nobody can say what may happen Moreover the British have vital interests in the middle east and a hostile Arab population may create a situation which would seriously interfere with the allied war effort ' The question of republic is simple At the time the British and the Free French were under the command of General Georges Catroux decided to take that important strategic country away from the Vichy— that is to say the nazi—influence they promised the Lebanese The re complete independence Rome The French Committee of the-Leban- 4 of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned— Wellington The Bridge Club Meets Look girls today I'm up In the air so to speak It's over this rationing thing A woman a friend of mine my age just phone me that her daughter had birth to twins I just given thought she' was thrilled over being a grandmother something I hope to be one of these days if the Lord spares me long enough But that wasn't what she was excited about After she'd told me about the blessed event she said "Just think that means two more ration books and we can all have meat!" Girls to my way of thinking that's just another form of black market Why those twins won't be able to eat meat for months! Oh well it seems that this world is made of those who give and those who take but it seems to me that those who take are in the majority at least on the home front But I can say this girls my own personal conscience is clear—I've complied with everything the government has asked us to and I can stand in front of my mirror and put on my make-u- p without getting sick to my stomach And that's more than the chiselers can do if they're honest and I don't think they are I bid two spades : A destroyer burns 3000 lons of oil an hour Why Worry? Long-distanc- The Statue of Liberty was unveiled in 1886 The first real piano was de- veloped in 1709 Mice bring forth as many as litters a year CN 11 t' - '11!- 'N- - ' t (r ' - - - - ' so Le 4 - ' Frorn the : 1 ' '''''AQ Vlig Atir 096 40 6 i 0° 1 - t- r ?"' — 41 that clears Today of past regret and future fears Tomorrow—why tomorrow may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years —Omar Khayyam Notes On the Cuff Department Dave Coursey is preserving our wild life He is "corning" not canning a deer that Bain Matheson shot I understand that we're to have a hunk of ''corned" deer meat when the operation is completed The tomato plants in Fred Rose's victory garden—the ones that brought forth 2 and 3 pound tomatoes—In their exuberance have produced a second crop that was nIpped by the recent frost 'Fred wants to know if there is any way to use them? I don't know but couldn't they be made into some sort of "chilly" sauce? Lawrence Nink's Christmas problem is solved He's gogift to give away all the necking ties he's received that he's never worn Accident note: Wallace Bredevieyer is nursing a badly a fracture elbow after making landing on it on the sidewalk in front of his borne the other day Fortunately it was his left elbow nt 1 i4 c4 9 (4)::14A 9 1 '' - - (14-- Red Cross work 4 N-- zl 1 t ''- ' (xi: t!'"'I p el k) -1 i t you '414 A i 1 y -- f1! - 4 bet 141- L '1 she deserves the finest' And we can't think of anything that would please her half so well es 4 N 1 feedWrestling with rations ing you well despite shortages doing her share of war and t! ) 143 -- :4 ( ( Ham Park v ::e '3' t : 1 e-- ' - '!:: ' Lf Iv 1 - -:-- k t ' AN I ' —- i i1 1K J - -- i lb i l'ell-":---- 4 AMERIC 1 I - t4 rs 4 - 09- Deserves ta In 0 ro as 4 1(1 d a :'' ' 1 hes' IF of ti i le IImise: trist1 erS Cl le Th iS - kAi imv- Get on to the liar's technique and you can pretty well deduce the facts Nowadays you can tell how the land lies from Goeb- ()le to the ' '816"P' ir4 How stimulating to Inert a clerk who will meet one half way—you know: The customer is right if he can prove it' AT i cw ''''- sittation Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc !V- 1 :kt'k r one-poi- Warren wanted control The appointment stopped be to throtBaruch's jab tle scafidalous -- corruption and yet aid business transition holding the reins out of Warren's hands and in the administration of the other technicalities foreign trade offers the clearest example The world needs everything but has no money and little goods to offer in exchange Now if we just lend treasury money wholesale around the nations to buy our goods we will court economic disaster We did Baruch him The wood ibis is the only stork found in America 17 lend-leas- etc) Borneo had the first oil well in the Netherlands Indies The duck hawk swiftest of al fliers can fly 180 miles an hour By Ah my beloved fill the cup gal- e telephone calls have doubled Since 1941 Na- o - too love!y furs—practical ) lk l' ) - t AtemrcerraifetaendttinFluor iFhaeshfiionnes—cstofotahtes every American fur traditional in the West In IL' : --- - A A A Us r Our ' - 0 CHARGE BUDGET '''i)-4°''''''r '' Our expert furriers will be pleased o 4 0 -- t - s 0 LAYAWAY ( 41- -- Night Monday KSL- -10 pmealt: that has become fine quality oA01-fr V A NEWS—Every pprieirricees ' ' P l't 1 is niaecwkesttsyleasndfrofumr to help you ' y of 'glorious "All-- Come in and see our lovely collections P'tvi Thru Friday t NT 1t-''''- L ' 0 4 1 I A t A-q- I t di 1 i ' ppop--- A ' '4 e:— P i '' if t - I I - Odd Facts tional Liberation apparently did not intend to have a really independent republic in that section of Syria It considered the pledges given to the people of Lebanon before the Vichy forces were expelled as one of those war promises which should not be accepted literally The committee representative at Beirut became gravely concerned when the Lebanese took 'themselves seriously and proceeded to organize their country as an independent republic The French representative Mr Helleu had on hand a number of Senegalese eager to fight He let them loose on the new government the newly elected parliament and disposed with the aid of some tanks and a couple of battalions from Senegal of the whole "nuisance" In prewar days these methods worked successfully But now the situation is radically changed The Arabs are aware of their power in the world The irre- fleeted action of the Committee of National Liberation stirred up not only the people of Syria but the whole Arab world including Egypt Washington and London became worried The French had put their foot in a wasp's nest and there is a serious possibility that the Americans and the British might be stung too unless the situation is remedied within a short time Pressure is now being brought Senator From Sandpit I mistrust the judgment on General De Gaulle to change his attitude and keep his pledges It Is hoped that the direction of the Committee of National Liberation will prove more cooperative than he has in the past suit has been that these people collaborated with the allies and facilitated the defeat of the Vichy forces under the command of General Francois Dentz Following this victory and the establishment of a joint British-Fre- e French administration the Syrians were told they could have elections to get themselves a president and a parliament They took the word of the allies at Its face value and proceeded to hold elections The British meant what they said It was to their advantage to have an Independent—nominally at least Lebanon The loyalty of the people of this new republic was certain The American government in order to show that It approved the idea of a Lebanon republic sent to Beirut a diplomatic agent George Wadsworth our former charge d'affaires in By Constantine Brown WASHINGTON D C—Washington and London are gravely concerned over the unexpected flareup in the Lebanon republic where the representativ6 of the General De Gaulle's Committee - wartime extinctions of many little businesses But generally the question is what the government (now the manager and purchaser of all business) is going to do in individual business lines or let business do Whenever in business trouble Mr Roosevelt calls on his old FDR standby Bernard Baruch should call him "Never-Miss- " for he has never done a bad job Now as chairman of a committee to consider war contract cancellations he is to devise the government policy for the first step toward peace The situation he is to solve not only involves the economic safety of the nation but possibilities of scandals which could rock the administration The appointment came after Comptroller General Lindsay Warren an independent agent of congress had reported to his sole boss that the army and navy were granting unreasonable allowances to contractors 'Unbelievable though it sounds $7000000000 have been canceled already (due mainly to changes of designs in tanks i ' In ernationalmoneyand banks such as the British" and are talking about now treasury are only facilities to- carry out the exchange of goods It does not even approach the heart of the problem which is the exchange of goods The international market is really no different than when you go into the meat market with a dollar you have earned by some service and get some meat The dollar only is the medium of exchange betweett your production and the butcher's production Russia wants to pay for her e not just "a token Stalin told Donald payment" Nelson -- and she wants to buy all kinds of implements from us What can we take from her ta enable her to pay? If everyone wore a Russian mink coat and ate caviar three times a day we could not easily import the billions of dollars of goods to enable Russia to repay We cannot buy Russian autos without interfering with our own labor or Russian grain in ths face of our surplus We can buy gold from her mines (which she considers worthless except for dentistry and selling to us) and thus accumulate more at Fort Knox but that too is obviously not wise economics Like the nazis she has only a managed curgold backing reneywithout Will we try to erect discriml- laws natory tariff again fre trade that would disrupt industry and labor or a system- of managed trade? The technicalities therefore are real and important but the stock market seems to be discounting them heavily When the peace comes it may take the more optimistic view provided by the domestic- market piled high The technicalities involve only details of foreign trade taxation war contract cancellations financing the 'vacuum left by 4 I '1'7‘7'' ti(:) -' I 70-- S i I 1t r ow 4zt : vs f fiTit:'' —1 1 4 ' t 574 1 lip — 1 ' 1 :t 0 Iv! 00'''N7V't09 ' ) r--6 - - ' 44 t -- A C : --- t l1 - - 1 ' '1- - (i CA - ''(711(-- 1) -' N 1 i i p-t- -: - 41 N---- ) 7-1- 7"-- " 1 1 ")) I I ty -- - II AvLK-!!!- ( : - 4vroc5 )1v-- -- 4Z(' - 7 - i -- t -- 77( 4- 1 - :1A$ ' fitz9 5c FATKCS '-- 1 - 1"-- - ‘ 1 - 11":-1-- David Lawrence Says: --- NI 1 1 V0 - it oft ' 451 1 orc 41141) 1 1 )) t L7)77C7IZ Ii 0 7 :11"A2 MUSIC" - Iczt ir ilk t41-f:- CsArlerk k la -- I rHeReuti-ro The international bankers then floated the loans the result of which is evident in the foreign bond price quotations today It will be no less costly to the people if the treasury does it this time The only way foreign nations can pay for what they buy is with goods over war-en- d prospects proclaims a new belief that the country is in for a heavy economic jolt when war production stops The reasoning behind this is already technical perhaps too technical like a legal technicality which obscures a greater truth Every inner report suggests major business started quietly long ago to prepare to meet new peacetime production needs Test producing is widespread though unadvertised Machines are plentiful so are labor and money and the demand for every conceivable item of living is T ---- -- :: A - De' Gaulle Insolently Insists That France Be Rescued for Mtn ' r!':00 1 note-takin- - : 1 - )VEGOT 15 I - earth-encirclin- A &RAN' PA 2$714 Anglo-America- Anglo-America- Two days have been added to the period allotted for raising funds for the war chest Two days in which Utahns may open their hearts and pocketbooks to sustain a record for benevolence and philanthropy built up by generous contributions to the cause of charity and compassion during the entire life of the state There has never been a pestilence or plague a calamity or catastrophe an affliction or organized evil or"the desolation caused by elemental forces of nature but Utah people have given freely of their time and means to alleviate suffering and help the stricken Whtn floods or fires hurricanes or earthquakes persecutions or wars have left groups or nationalities homeless and hopeless Americans have always responded and Utahns have always done their part Some 400000000 men women and children are suffering from sickness and starva tion from festering wounds and malnutrition from lack of shelter and clothing besides the few unfortunate individuals in our immediate vicinity The war chest is designed to help them- - to keep them alive until this global war is over to revive their hope and give them strength to carry on to keep this earth a habitation for humanity rather than perg mit it to become an cemetery The time allotted for collecting Utah's quota expired yesterday with little more than half the required sum-- contributed Today and tomorrow are days of grace—constituting 48 hours for redemption of our moral obligation The committee is doing a marvelous work entitling it to more liberal responses Let our generosity to be comparable to our thrift in the investments made in war bonds The time is short—the need is pressing '13"4 1 :' - Anglo-America- -- -it Two Days' Extension Of the War Chest Drive Period : r: 1 consultative assembly has arrogantly told n rescuers of France that the he will not support any sort of French government set up after the restoration except as it pleases him—the great De Gaulle It is a deplorable attempt of a political clique to neutralize the results of General n Giraud's cooperation with the allies However having the same sort of troublemakers in the United States of America the less said about the similar relations between Frenchmen may be the better - - ' :l:: ' ' :: I at time that By rind Mallon WASHINGTON—The way the stock market has been weeping brif3115::':' GRAN :: NO Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning November 18 1943 There was a' time in these United States when an Englishman's lack of "a sense of huor" was a tradition and a byword That was before many Americans had read such British writers as Jerome K Jerome W W Jacobs and a host of others whose books brought chuckles and smiles from persons who had been depending on Mark Twain and Artemus Ward for their literary fun There were probably as many Britons in those days who believed that Americans had "sonse of humor" or at least the brand we appreciated most was slightly too robust for public- consumption But as the years passed people on both sides of the broad Atwas broad in those days—began to lantic recognize mutual standards of humor Today we Americans can laugh heartily at British humor and the British have taken over our slangy wit to such an extent that it has almost become a national scandal This interspersing of humor has stood both the countries in good stead during trying days and will doubtless continue to tide us over crucial times ahead If Britons can laugh at the antics of some of our statesmen as Americans do and if Americans can join their allies In smiles at British tomfoolery in high places the bonds of frendship will not be overstrained Both nations being democracies have their share of bumptious blatherskites stuffed-shir- t Ciceros and earnest but tactless patriots They make enough noise to be heard across the water despite our war censorship and their pronouncements sometimes stir sharp resentment in hitherto friendly hearts One of the best antidotes against these threats to the completeness of amicable rela-n sense of tions is a healthy humor This mutual spirit of fun is well typified by the heads of the two governments President It and Prime Minister Churchill more nearly represent the feeling of the two peoples than co petty tempests raised in legislative halls L:s rAppyWWIHour (fsi::::::::si:!f:f::::i:::! 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