Show 1 ‘ 0 ' - - 4 Behind the - Zilo:lj e ' gall at t gf 11) - e : 1 111t--7:- Wood ovt7 morning by gait Lake Dribuntiiiiblishing Company CZ -- the Tribuneia a member ot the Associated Pram- - The AasoCiated Preto is erolustvety entitled to the or not otherwisa credited in this Paper ud ilea lase for reproduction of all nue dispatches credited to itisbed-hersini I -- - scat Lake City Utah Tuesday Morning October a Echoes from Navy Day Disconcerting to Dictators not -- - I- - I - - --- - - - ' t 1 - able to understand the methods of American politicians are probably bewildered by conflicting accounts of preparedness 'and power that float around the earth from hour to hour One voice cryTng In the wilderness will— assure them that the United States is wholly unprepared that its army is in its air fleet Inefficient its navy obsolete and its morale shattered An ' other will proudly proclaim the intent of the United States to resist and the ability to repel any attempted invasion of the western hemisphere Puzzled totalitarians therefore are in quandary They are not sure as to what Alternating may be expected of them Invitations and defiance make a welcome seem uncertain Even fifth columnists in close touch and on the ground are dubious as to what word should be sent their Some oracles declare foreign directors the gates are open the provocation is sup ficient and the capacity for resistance is at its lowest ebb Then some harsh voice Is heard admonishing trespassers to keep off the grass Secretary Frank Knox for example : tells all hearers including Hiller and company that "the United States fleet is the most powerful In the world today" In the Navy day program the secretary described the naval strength of this republic as superior to that of any potential enemies "With the new riavy equipped and afloat Its offensive power plus our Insular position will provide the best security we can have in a world dominated by brute force" he declared When one considers the time It takes to build a battleship and learns that five years may be required to make our navy all that It should be to keep pace with the development of "brute force" as a menace to human liberty the policy of abandoning the enviable position attained In the first World war is brought to mind with emphasis During the closing years of that conflict we built ships of all kinds to the rate of 6759000 tons per annum We established 159 shipyards and 819 shipways on the first day of July 1917 there were 40000men at work In ship building plants 300000 In the yards and 250000 employed for the allied maritime trade London correspondents marveled at the energy and execution that followed the declaration of war on April 6 1917 Such haste meant waste of course as delay Involved losses of more than money Mistakes were made because any nonmilitarymation Is at a disadvantage in essaying new tasks when events are crowding upon each other's heels Haggling over ccistif and deliberating over plans were considered crimes Nor is it possible An— mediately to achieve success and security in the lace of danger when every statesman has a plan and every politician knows how to handle a campaign of national de fense That is the chief weakness of a democracy in war But the nation is now trying to counteract the folly of Scuttling of our water defenses selling our ships for songs dismantling our munitions factories and go ing to sleep at the switch while hatred was seething In Germany and Hitler was coming over the hazy horizon from Austria Admiral Stark reported In the navy program last Sunday that 25 new ships had been added to the fleet since Navy day last year and that "46 more have been reconditioned and put Into service exclu- sive of the 50 old destroyers being transferred to the British" Chief Compton of the naval operations board asserted that new destroyers are being brought into commission "at the rate of one every three weeks with ship building in general far ahead of ached ule" Seven years ago he said "the navy was ten years behind the parade since when 137 combatant vessels have been added to our sea forces" The complete armada will Include 645 men o' war among them 32 battleships 18 aircraft carriers 85 cruisers 325 destroyers 185 submarines and more than 14000 airplanes ' Whether Great Britain will be able to hold the aggressors off until our navy is large enough to patrol and protect both coasts or Hitler will be willing to postpone his contemplated invasion of the western hemisphere until the United States is ready for all comers remains to be seen In any event it is reassuring to hear from the secretary of the navy and two competent naval officers the truth about preparedness however disappointing it may be to designing dictators 1 - Greek-Albania- - two-ocea- -- - ' - Another Small Vation Pounced on by Ruthless Powers Just as was surmised in these columns yesterday the accusing howl of Mussolini against the Greeks for allegedly attacking Albanians on the border proved to be false It now appears to have been deliberately designed to arouse the fascists against Greece It was also evidently intended to serve as a justification for il duce's invasion under der fuehrer's orders The Greek government has officially and emphatically denied that any Greek n frontier With an area of 50257 square miles and a population of about 7000000 Greece is primarily an agricultural country Until the outbreak of the European war the largest share of her trade both import and export was with Germany Another little nation is feeling the com- bined force and fury of the two dinosaurs revoltingly reincarnated in this age of enlightenment for the purpose of dragging mankind back to fossilized environments of a prehistoric period No valid excuse could be offered for totalitarian interference with the affairs of either Greece or Turkey Neither government has been having any trouble with minorities Both have been making rapid strides in modern advancement since the first World war Although no match for the nazi and fascist motorized units and mechanized methods of killing indiscriminately it is believed the two peoples will participate in the dance of death as heroically as have any other opponents of ruthless aggression Mountain Blizzards Send Memories Back to Summer Last summer with its sizzling heat and protracted aridity seems very far away when one reads of deer hunters beIng trapped in the mountains of Utah by snowdrifts and blizzards Away down south In Utahts Dixie 10 hunters were caught and held by the fury of the recent storm In the northern portions of the state six others were reported missing while stragglers made their way to lower altitudes with the roar of angry winds and the tingle of frost In their ears Some canyon roads have been obstructed by falling timbers and heavy drifts of snow so that vehicles will en counter difficulties until the ways are cleared which will be done with characteristic dispatch by the road commission It Is not necessary for Utahns to travel In search of climate—all they need to do Is to wait for any particular brand to come around -- t - N New York Highlights By Charles B I Driscoll NEW YORK—Edward Bernays gave a party at his apartment in the for Manuel Komroff when Kornroffs new novel "The Magic Bow" was published Mr Bernays sent Ms invitations by wire and assembled one of the most brilliant companies I've seen at any literary "tea" this season g Komroff is a writer He has turned out ten or a dozen books all told including history and fiction He has done a tremendous amount of magazine writing He never allows himself a resting period be tween books but has a new one started before the latest one is off the prim We're told that the elder Alexander Dumas when writing short stories would tout his last period at the end of the last sentence of a story and immediately on the same page would start his next story Among too many of the literati of today It's customary to celebrate the completion of each book or story by a spree lasting until all the proceeds of the work are spent In advance of publication Lowell Thomas has built a reputation as a commentator on the air and on the screen In those jobs he reads from script He does a fine trick as master of ceremonies at the annual Dutch Treat show There he also reads his remarks But Thomas can speak extemporaneously too I heard him the other day at a luncheon He wasn't expecting to speak and did g on his feet He all of his was even more convincing than he is when reading prepared manuscript The garbage men who work our block automobiles each man arrive in driving his owns about 9 o'cloek in the morning When the cars have been parked across the street the men foregather at one end of the block and using leather aprons and heavygloves start rolling out the barrels of garbage and trash standing them at the curb for collection by a truck later in the day This area finished they hop into their shiny cars and speed on to the next De luxe garbaging I call it Sherry-Netherlan- hard-workin- speech-thinkin- good-looki- Released by Mc Naught Syndicate Inc : it ill' 't - Hope Would Remain In place of that hope there would remain a realistic prospect that Germany could do no knore than barely sustain herself for an indefinite period Hitler still could not export and without trade with the world he cannot ultimately survive His whole industrial machine is now It is producing war materiais manufacturing no goods for export Without exports the German standard of living is bound to weaken continually His limping axis partner Italy is far less well equipped to meet that strain and it might well be ex- pected that the break would first develop there where the standard of livingis alreadyshaking under war pressure With Rumania therefore Hitler is fairly well fixed economically for the winter and next year With Gibraltar and Suez he might acquire enough to continue several years But the British unconquered- would not be mortally hurt While she is understood to have now no plans for the recapture of France no plan to seize the initiative before next summer at least she would be able to sustain 'herself at Crossroads The defense commission is now at the crossroads although a fog blanket will be kept over it until after election Its experts have reported to the men in charge decision must be reached within five weeks on a program for tremendous expansion for caAmerican manufacturing pacity : Steel production is now 93 per cent of its capacity and the defense program is hardly started One or two authorities in steel contend the theoretical capacity limit can be stretched up perhaps eight points more but the government experts all seem to believe that current operations are right at the limit Either new factories must be built immediately or the use of steel for nonmilitary purposes must be purtalled Curtailment would mean limiting the supply of auand tomobiles refrigerators needed human goods But the steel manufacturers do not want to put a lot of money in new plants which will only lie idle after the war is over If the added capacity can be obtained In no other way the new dealers want the government to build the factories directly or indirectly through loans in such a way as to retain title but the steel men naturally consider this that a to be Socialism Other industries functioning at or near capacity are the machinery industry machine tools textiles aviation and ship building It is a hot problem too hot for campaigning predilections The boys here are trying to sit on it but you can already see the smoke rising from behind their chairs Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc Here and There There are 250000000 lems in the work! Mos- Oregon was the first state in the Union to tax gasoline The first tax was levied in 1919 The federal government employs one out of every 16 according originally used as a perfume instead of cooking commodity By Alarming el— ' 1 ua k g 4f' ' er lb ) f 'IfIN' k yf -- 'f - - -- I ' - 1:- — ' - 1 Nj - 4i - - s 4 )7' sl I ''fv41 ' ( 'By Frank R Kent fr ' ' - - - — -- - -- ' p - Y'- : Charge of Lying By Roosevelt Tt? - t N 'It - ‘ : 74411004 - - - — ? - ' ' t F ' - - ' third-terme- L6 linoormogila s- Q61114ELLO! 4 A top - 1 :r: v rill t P 9 'I II 'ttei :AI r tr:'''t7r '4'''''I':t?' st- r- t - t: 1'?- - for-out- -of l'il4-?:''::-I:'- lir 1 - j- o wen virtue MI 44I:149H'°?'4 Ad:-- The Palk eatmi $111110KAIS By Our Readers Forum Californian Disagrees de'strable With Campaigners Editor Tribune: While staying in your fair city a couiale ago we heard some political speeches by new dealers which truly amazed us with their 'sheer audacity and plain falsifying of the facts They gave the Impression that the people have Roosevelt to thank for the insurance of theft deposits In the banks — they gave Roosevelt credit for putting through the legislation Insuring the bank de fposits-osmall aepositors Now a look at the record will bring tut these facts: Senator Glass made the following statement on July 25 1935 on the floor of the senate: "When it was first proposed to establish the insurance of deposits fund the president of the United States and his then secretary of the treasury Mr Wood-I- n were very emphatically and bitterly opposed to it They said they would not stand for it But representations were made to both of them that this was certainly the most available if not the only constitutional Way of bringing about approximately a -- unified banking sysá tern In the countryt The following is a quotation in part from a letter written by Senator Vandenberg: 'the record will show that I offered an amendment (which became known as the 'Vandenberg amendment') providing for immediate federal bank deposit Insurance up to $2500 per account This amendment passed the senate and went to the The house adopted it in slightly amended form The president wrote the house and senate a letter demanding complete elimination of the Vandenberg amendment' But it remained in the bill despite his -- protest" 'Does this look as though President Roosevelt did this for the small depositors—that he wanted the small depositors to have their bank deposits guaranteed? George W Walker° C C C Officer Points To Value of Camps - Editor Tribuner One of the greatest Jobs in aCCC camp is to promote efficiency It has been proven at Camp Kimama that such an undertaking can be done The technical service began work October 10 1938 In Senator From Sandpit Man Is the merriest the mot Joyous of all the species of creation Above and below him all are - z - N (0( Ct"::'' ) -- w ii:i? 47 7- it ' -- ' serious--Addi- son Evanston Wyo turned out en masse to welcome the visiting Waldemar Shriners Saturday (Wildhorse) Anderson's hotel Avas the general headquarters as "Wildhorse" was chiefly respon sible for the ceremonial being held in Evanston After a hearty lunch at Becker plant we assembled at the -high school gymnasium for the parade I love a parade but not after a hearty meal Then I love a nap But anyway we paraded and something happened that I've seen happen in screen comedies but never 'dreamed it could hap pen to me It was like this: Jim Davis of Rock Springs Jud Witherspoon tot Kemmerer Bill Nightingale and I were march ing more or less together When we came to an intersection in the business district some ladies standing on the corner recognized me and applauded I bowed and Jim and Jud and Billbowed too Then we threw out our chests and marched "tralght ahead much to the amusement and delight of the crowd The rest of the parade: you see had turned at that corner For me one of the highlights of the day was meeting up with Sharkey 'Moyer the illustrious potentate of Korein temple We badn't seen each other since 1929 when we were in Los Angeles during the ceremonial held that year It was a grand reunion for three of us—Sharkey Bill Si If vast and me After the banquet Sharkey and I were invited up to Beth and Sam Corson's apartment There I met Thelma and Leonard Cook and Miss Win Lister of Minnesota We had a swell time but I feared we might overstay our welcome until I learned that our host was going !leer hunting about 3 a m and wanted us to keep him awake until them HamByl3ark I've alwäys thought It was a lot of baloney when movie stars act bored when fans ask for their autograph Now I know It Is I was thrilled no end when Mrii Waldemar Anderson told me that some nigh school girls had been in the hotel to get my autograph And did I hit for cover? Not on your tintype! You couldn't have dragged me out of that lobby until those girls came back One I remember particuarly was a very charming little Chinese girl Miss Lily Wing I only had one man ask me for an autograph He was the hotel Elmer Meadowcroft clerk He wanted It on a check I met two very attractive young matrons — Mrs Charles Carruth and Mrs Ed Jones Mrs Carruth was Ellen Slack before her marriage and is a friend of the Llewellyn Lloyds Her father was one of the noviees to whom we were giving the works up at the gymnasium And speaking of the gymnasium there is something so unusual about theplumbing in the locker roomsthat some of the boys were talking of taking a picture and sending It to Ripley Ethel Kelly pointed me out to the ladies who were serving us at the banquet and for a while It looked like I was going to get nothing to eat except salad There was salad to the left of me salad to the right of me and salad in front Of me But I guess the woebegone look on my forlorn map was too much for them—for pretty soon I got a ' swell dish'of turkey It was an enjoyable visit one that I'll long remember Our boys of the band and patrol acquitted themselves nobly — El Kalah temple ha S reason to be proud of them One familiar face was missing—Doe Pinkerton's He's ill but Julius Daniels said the last reports were encouraging It was a fine ceremonial but if old Doc had been there it would hays been Derfect - t just a year 62644 man days have Much has been accomplished been written about this very worthy government movement to give the young man who is in need of work a chance to learn a valuable vocation earn money for his family and do all this under the best conditions and in a natural environment but it seems that these men are doubly fortunate at Camp Kimama who have made such an outstanding record Certainly these men who have learned how to work fully could not help but appreciate the things that they have learned from their enees and from their foremen 'sue-hou- expert-confere- es hap- -pened in 518630 miles driven by enrollee drivers It is gratifying for the splendid cooperation of those who have achieved this splendid record One can Dee at a glance that they are the men who have been trained and who are going on with the work that was intended for them to do Who can doubt the benefits de- rived for those who want to learn and increase their' powers of development? Camp Kimama leads the nation on grazing service accidents This is a record that challenges other camps and readers Surely Jackson Statement And be might with equal justice charac- terize as "deliberate falsifications" statements made by Mr Roosevelt's attorney generalof Mr Jackson in which in contradiction the facts he asserted that Mr Willkie's nomination had been brought about by powerful and sinister financial interests which had dominated the Republican convention of telegrams organized a synthetic and now conspired to put hi rill in the White House as their agent Witho t the slightest foundation Mr Jackson than whom none is made these and closer to Mr Roosevelt before Mr 15 minutes other allegations Roosevelt launched upon his "deliberate falsification" speech The truth is that that speech was a cleverly calculated piece of campaigning which the smart boys who assist Mr Roose-veltIh the—charm his speeches bellevcd-witRoosevelt of the personality hand the magic of his radio voice would completely crush Mr Winkle It was 'inspired by the Willkie gains of the past two weeks by the shortena ing of the betting odds and the 'fact that certain amount of apprehension had diluted the confidence of the Roosevelt managers The decision was reached to give Mr Willkie "the works" So far as possible with Mr Roosevelt preceded on the air by his subservient attorney general and followed by the vituperative LaGuardia that was what they did Did Not Crush Him Paragraphically Speaking But they didn't crush him And although planned to utilize frorn now on to the end the full weight of the president and his aids in a great oratoricalI attack it is not likely to crush him It will no more slow him down than the eggs and tomatoes which have been thrown at him and his wife have slowed him down Win or lose he'll finish fighting and even some of his opponents are conceding that he is a gallant fighter There is no question about the effective character of the Roosevelt radio delivery When one listens to him he seems unanswerIt is only when one gets off and thinks of what he has said or reads it the next day that the lack of candor is clear For exam-pl- c it was neither frank nor fair to accuse Mr Willkie of deliberate falsification when he said Mi Roosevelt hadI "telephoned" Hit-th- e Munich conand Mussolini before ference without recalling to the people that within an hour Mr Willkie had himself corrected that statement and that the only inaccuracy in it was that he had used the word "telephoned" instead of "telegraphed" By Olin Miller It is said that man was Christopher Billopp Says: our prevailing efforts have not been in vain Mr Hansen camp superintendent has reason for congratulating his foremen en- rollees and those who have in any way contributed in making and keeping such an outstanding ace- A ord possible—A Appleby Camp Kimama 'Company 4608 Rupert Idaho Favors Willkie To Restore Jobs Editor Tribune: Wendell Willkie says he favors continuing relief for the needy until they (Continued on 014Following Page) given speech to conceal his thoughts with If so why Is it that the fewer thoughts a man has the more time he spends concealing them? "Tell your wife everything" advises a psychologist who manifestly has sold out to the law- yers "It's beyond me how a married man can deceive his wife" bemoans a minisier And about 93 times out of a hundred It's beyond the married man Attending college is an attempt (usually unsuccessful) to ascend the tree of knowledge In an elevator A Denver pedestrian carries a klaxon around and honks back at motorists who tootle at him This is said to be a much more satisfactory lorm of retaliation than he Silent method 'nose-thumb:rig "Strangely enough Londoners of all classes huddled in air raid shelters are learning to talk with one another without the benefit of formal introductions and what's more they're beginning to enjoy doing it" declares a fea- ture wtiter In their derxrata fight tosave democracy the English may yet learn to be demo-cran- e 1940 by Esquire Fee ture4 Inc Chicago lii Copyright it is The Reading Father sayshe has just seen a most amusing piece in the newspaper He will the glad to read it to them And they all say they would like that very much Mother asks him to wait while she gets ber knitting So father waits—Mary says that reminds her to ask mother if she has made the armhole In her sweater big enough Father says there is no use starting while mother and Mary talk and Johnny begs them "for Pete's sake to pipe down" Father clears his throat The cook appears and asks mother what she plans for breakfast Mother says she was counting on scrapple Mother tells father to go ahead And just then the doorbell rings It is Susie Jones to see if Mary would like to go to a movie Mary asks what movie Susie says she hasn't picked one So Mary asks father for the section of the newspaper with the movie announcements Mother invites Susie to sit 'clown and listen to a piece father is going to read She says that's a lovely dress Susie has on Isn't It a new one? And Susie says "no" it's the same one she had last spring Johnny asks If they are ever going to let father read ' Mary says this looks like a good picture at the Imperial It's "The Woman He Forgot" with Gloria Franchot and Rupert CaP tleray Susie says she has seen IL But she would be glad to see it again Mary says "Oh no" She will look for something else Father rises with great dignity tossing the newspaper on the floor And Mother says "Why we are all waiting for you t4 read the piece - And father says "Never mind There's the paper Read it for your' ulna" I' - AAOttJM&f ' ' -1-1- OSI1 J4if -- -- - A1'V oti? 1 Aphls (193 kt3 40t7 -- 17 I Is' WASHINGrON—It easy for the !nest ' did to call ' : States United 'i dent of the I deliberate laosn fhe121 Though hi a his ( opponent - - 4 ''''--157117644A name that to omitted : it sneeringly -1 was his 'd1 is what Mr Roosevelt did and that -4 intention advertised 't4 es$) oIt was taking advantage of his position to dand it was not a courageous thing 1 because he knows that in return his opponent 1)1) ''1'4 ' s'''cannot call him a deliberate liar In this — -it is a tradition-- 'iv f' ! e NZ tountry 1 e"one—that the sound a and Ai: 4 be di- - i not 'Fockvi'::f 1 must &INI president Yet rectly accused of lying Mr do 4 fA ' f'-J''j It would be easy for 1'6??: ?"!t4) Willkie to make as strong ' - ' - ' ' gr ' Ers0Z'si:''1'-'- ' a case of "deliberate talsil r' ' : eorP:Ago fication" against the 0 '''' 3'X 'as Mr Roosevelt made against the Republi-alcans Perhaps he will before ready' have done socertainthis is printed but 4 falsifications the of some ly VI are &tingly obvious there Is the 1 I1"N example For I -: of complete falsification 11:1r111-1the pretense "draft" the 1 Fle4 B Kent that Mr Roosevelt didat not nomination own e his calculatingly connive by Kelly Flynn not engineered was it that tt7 own personal subordinates Hague and his 751)ft'L Hopkins Corcoran Cohen Ickes 11''' including 1 there "is the false preThen 0 ' Zi'44:''ir and Jackson 1 he has been e nomination his tense that since 4 of the too absorbed in the grave problems about his own campaign ii°' think t :'''" 41pe to presidency Ai ' a' whereas it is a provableas his political ifi k4 House White sitii&1:'4i1--!:'''''the been using It out not only his po- ' :t1i"::ti:i3se mapping headquarters gle' 11 to the details ''' litical Strategy but attending is also the idfalse pretense that L4ic' There v'tit gov0 N ‘ these "inspection tourk"-paare necessary or helpful to ernment money 4i'r'71''Ar-4-7-we are enthe defense program upon which ': j in reality been have whereas they gaged seized upon by the 1:' campaign tours eagerly candie new deal politicians to promote his '':'' would be possible also 4:0'1044eAk":Ae(!!!! It theirs and dacy 1:kMA111' falsi' 4j4 for Mr Willkie to brand as a deliberate Wallace Vi "Rxe—Aitikts1 Henry by first speech that fication IQ 14117: Mr Roosevelt approved and applauded bythe label Republicans to tried he In which Willkie as the party by which he meant Mr of appeasement e o - - j: ' ' to Europeans ' 'Criticism - Measuring what he has done since he was frustrated in the battle of Britain the best of auAmerican military-economi- c thorities sizaup the new situa-- tion as follows: Seizure of Rumania will save Germany itself from th early economic collapse that was promised by the British stranglehold on Hitler's commerce Oil and wDeat the prime necessities of war will be available to him in sufficient quantities to take care of the Immediate war needs of Germany itself That is the studied opinion of those here who know about how much Rumania can furnish what Hitler must have But it will not be sufficient to give any help whatever to the occupied German areas — Belgium Holland France Denmark and Norway Their economic condition will remain critical If Hitler can now follow up with a conquest of Gibraltar and the Suez he can lay hands on the near eastern oil supplies — Turkish tobacco some additional foodstuff Such a conquest would not hurt the British milHer vital itary position much lines of substitute communications would remain open But it would weaken the blockade further to the point where hope of a British victory through internal German collapse would have to be abandoned for the present vanilla e -- ' - American workers to estimates r ' - 1- i 1 war NOW - -- 0 ê British blockade and the pros- j)ecti will favor a long long I ' "v—?'1--- perate drive into the Mediterranean areas has inspired gravewalls apprehensions behind the of official silence here11he is successful be will extricate himself from the vise of the I7 afloe- He further—stated: "Absolutely nothing happened on the frontier line and from the manner in which Greek posts were located passage through the frontier was entirely excluded al a possibility whether toward Greece or toward Albania There exists some information to the effect that Albanian bands have been formed in Al banian territory with an' unknown aim" While the Greek premier is fully aware of the plot by which Mussolini is expected to make Hitler's attempt to subdue the Balkans a little easier Metaxas defies the arch criminal and his accomplice by refusing to surrender Greek territory coveted by the land grabbers and claim jumpers of Europe Cablegrams and radio reports from Belgrade inYugoslavia convey the expected information that Mussolini has already attacked Greece by land sea and air hurling at least 10 divisions of 200000 Italian troops across the short-sighte- - I ' 'WASHINGTON--rilitlet'r-devr-- -band crossed the Albanian frontier Premier Metaxas promptly issued communiques informing the world that "the re ports from Rome were without found- i i 29 1940 By Paul Mallon : - ' 29 1940 - 2 What Did You Say -- - - - --'October - Scenes of Current News Established April 151871 I -- Zbt suit gakt Zeibunt 10 Tuesay Morntng I - ‘ S It I C4 iLei ' |