Show Zbe 54it gakt Zribune Saturday Morning tizilt'gtli:Vil10 71Established April Issued sver7 mortattsby 15 18- Ball Lake Tribune- Publishins 1 Compam—Y 'eC Press The Associated V Press Is exclusively entitled to the The Tribune is a member of the Associated use tor reproductio n of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Maming January 18 Finishing the Job Himself Safety Hinges On Speeding Aid to Britain WA AtN e4 1 I aifi':'ii4 Anr 40 "2'41 By Colonel Frederick Palmer WASHINGTON—In the heat of the controversy about grant- 1941- - Economy Program Backers Must Keep Move Alive Mlit lorlhbl:IM71--)1AWAIItallif- Lib r7)02 '-- -- By Frank R Kent ing President Roosevelt the powand er asked for in the lend-leaallied-ai- d bill let us coolly get down to cases about what are its objects and how they are to be executed in terms of force— of arms and speed The first object Is to enable Britain to hold out long enough' to profit by all our planned extensive aid in the future Then how win the victory over Germany? How keep "short of war" under the authority ask eti for to carry through the president's outlined program? Be lure that the crucial test' for the little island is coming-withithe next six months We all know that her primary needs are security for her shipping and from bombings She has been under submarine siege in varying degrees since the war began At the present rate of shipping losses there is no serious danger for her sea -- transport for six months In se lished in Rome Mrmen and British Boy Scouts are "still searching for a large body of Italian generals and senior °M' cers" supposedly 'wandering among the dunes of the desert or sinking their identity in the waters of Mare NostrUm This war in Africa is terrible thing and the Only person who ' seems to follow it with glee is Selassie Willkie's Statesmanship Riies Above Mere Partisanship Addressing a New York audience on the 'eve crf his departure for Europe to study conditions on the ground' Wendell Winkle urged every American to favor "ghing President Roosevelt all the powers needed to carry out his program"—a policy indorsed by the titular leader of the Republican party from the first According to his best judgment based on observation and the trend of events Mr Winkle said that "if Britain's defense collapses the free way of life enjoyed In Alnerlea will pass away in a few years" The only way to keep America out of war Mr Winkle maintains is to "supply to the fighting men of Britain the resources they need to defeat and crush ruthless - P F Ickes Still Covets Forest Service Control i In the face of an almost universal opposition particularly from the west Harold L Ickes still covets control of the United- States forest service free from politics for so many years I and again is attempting to persuade the president to sign an order for the transfer of the for'est service to the department of interior an order which would have to be considered on or before January 20 when the law making possible such transfer ' dictators" 1 Although the Republican standardbearer made a remarkable fight against the president in the recent campaign "he bait never wavered" says the New York Times "never for a moment in the whole course of his speaking tour failed to ad- vocate aid for those nations which have been fighting for their freedom" his acceptance speech at Elwood be supported the policy of "extending to the opponents of force and totalitarianism the material resources of this nation" In his closing speech at Madison Square Garden be insisted that "all of us—Republi cans Democrats and independents—be Lew in giving aid to the heroic British people and we must make available to them the products of our industries" As the Times now states for the evident information of Representatives Fish and Tinkham and other obstructionists: "At nci stage of the campaign did a single Republican leader use to challenge Mr -Willkie or to dissociate himself from these views of Mr Winkle or to question their as en expression of the opinOn selecions of the Republican party tion day he received the largest number of popular votes ever polled by a Republican candidate" After the election in which his views onthis the most absorbing issue of the campaign were manifestly vindicated MrWilikie refused to change his mind or his attitude or his convictions with reference to America's best method of avoiding participation in a world war that threatens this continent from both boun- - ' - - - daly oceans Wendell L Willkie by acknowledgment and tradition remains the leader of his party in the nation Senator Austin 'Nof Vermont is the accredited leader of the same political party in the United States senate Nothing that Taft or Tinkham that Fish or Landon may say in the press In congress or on the rostrum will express the sentiments - of the Republican h the authenticity that party with ' these actual party leaders exert It is to be regretted that the aspirations: or prejudices of certain gentlemen have blinded them to the fact that Britain atands alone between the aggressors and this repUblic Every official familiar with regardless of diplomatic developments political affiliations senses the danger of invasion should England f1l Well' inforreed Unbiased statesmen AAho place the welfare of the country above the fortunes of a party favor the policy of aiding Great Britain in the titanic struggle for control of the Atlantic ocean now k fought to the water's edge Fifth columnrsts and frantic victims of their insidious propaganda fill the air with hackneyed if cries to "keep America out of tbe war" They' do not pretend to know how this can be accomplished but merely add to the confusion of those who are succeeding in doing ' that very thing 'As :'omeone has said: "The problem to be solved is not how to keep America out of the war but blow to keep the wIr t out of America" It is not a partisan issue it is a national Issue---an issue of life and liberty ' vital to preservation of democratic ideals to perpetuity of popular government to survival of the United States of America courts!-Interpretatio- New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORX — Onset Mass There's a name that sounds like history What was the onset that gave the place its name? Onset of British troops or wild Indians? Onset of plague winter or prosperity? Such a place name is suggestive and interesting FDr D Woods Little Rock Ark has som interesting reflections on in a letter just received I'm quoting extensively because I think the thoughts will be helpful to many relative Almost everybody has a Sail Dr Woods: seems "The question of to be pretty generally misunderstood not only by the public but by those who write or talk on the subject Almost everyone seems to think that is a positive state that a person is either wholly d Well or wholly maybe they are but I don't think so I know a man who writes easily and beautifully with his right hand and plays handball unusually well with his left hand I know a woman who as a child wrote with her left hand but who now writes well with her right hand And Incidentally she doesn't stammer am considered a person I write with my left hand yet I play golf and throw with my right hand And to make confusion worse confounded I am a dentist "You may think that a barber Is an oddity but after all his only necessary adjustment is a pair of scissors I fail to see any other handicap and when you consider that a barber shop is full of ' mirrors and that in a mirror a person looks normal it appears that the lit tie handicap is more than compensated dentist Un"But consider the til recently the equipment folks didn't care which hand you used They made the chairs d cuspidors forceps etc for a person and you could take it or leave it Those that did take it were forced to make a thousand and one adjustments in order to get along "In your article mention was made of a barman who was afraid of the ber Weil I have beer4ulling and filling for more than 20 years and I don't believe more than a dozen people have ever noticed which hand I do the job with They are concerned with what I am doing to them to the point where they don't even care which hand I use 0111e big dental supply companies now make chairs and other equipment for operators and I believe that people generally are beginning to recognize that the southpaw is entitled to some consideration '11 read your C011111111 every day and have failed so far to find one that was not in- teresting'" Now that last line isn't What's commonly called a compliment Is it? r well-express- left-hand- s one-tent- left-hand- - heart-rendin- right-hand- left-hand- left-hand- - g ed left-hand- ed ed right-hande- left-hand- ed left-hand- Black Shirt Generals Rescued From Desert Perils - it t is currently reported and occasion ally denied that some of Hitler's innovations adopted by Mussolini at' the birth of thi totalitarian axis have fallen into a condition of what Grover Cleveland called "innocuous desuetude" seems to For example the goose-step- - bave for the quickstep the guttural command of "vorwaerts" is translated to mean "lebe wohr the "blitno longer appeals to fascist's who zkrier L prefer to "kibitz" the tkriegsspiel" between Germany and Great BritainThe Italian invaders of Greece did not t happen to meet any "Greeks bearing gifts"—those they met were receiving gifts The black shirt generals promoted by their fascist chieftain over officers of riallitary training and experience have adopted the motto that "discretion is the better part of valor" One by one they have been overtaken in the desert of Libya or the hills of Albania and comforted by British soldiers until the Italian army eventually may have to elect their generals from the Tanks in order to have au thortzed leaders of retreat General Argentinea is the last black shirt strategist to be rescued from a ma- larial position in which he was "hiding by the water' edge" as the report was pub ed ed left-hand- - - ed left-hand- ed be-in- - ed right-hande- ed left-hand- '''''7 'IIIV-400- r t bombed - ed ed The heart of Glasgow that city of shipyards has been hard hit by bombings as well as the city centers of the great ports of Liverpool and Bristol where the docks have been considerably damaged Munition plants and especially airplane plants which are more widely scattered out side city centers have largely escaped But damage to some docks in a congested port and also to city centers must slow down production and Interfere with business progress in modern industrial in tegration It is a creeping persistent air siege to which Britain is being stibmitted in the same way as enveloped cities were by cannon fire and mine sapping in historic sieges Berlin says that the British bombers have done no damage to any German industrial plant That is a propagandic lie But German bombers are doing and can continue to do more damage to Britain than British bombers to Germany ITALiAN GENJEC B E NI P'14(iFiaiLit6141"wTITTI Palk Deiends The building are still trying to find a moral for the story of their late encounter with political bureaucracy Managers of the building recently decided to enlarge Its emergency hospital This required a new city permit was When application made to Fire Chief Brennan he responded with this question: "Are all the patients janitors?" been-abandon- t 10-b- - ! ed "Hardly" "No permit" said the chief firmly explaining that its against San Francisco law for anybody but a janitor to go to bed in an office building The distracted doctors took their troubled' to the health department which passed the buck to the city attorney's office The latter supported the fire chief—nobody but - - - - ' Senator From Sandpit Whatever are the benefits of fortune they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them In the Mall Dear Sir: After work I used German Revolt to take my dog and climb to What then? In the light of bne of the peaks above Wasatch realistic information wishful boulevard and watch the lights thinking is stretched unreasoncome on Salt Lake City is the imin an of any prospect ably most beautiful city in the world mediate revolution in Germany Perhaps the following should be until she is pounded by armed called "Autumn Blues" force We shall have to repair 'I dread to see another winand expand Britsh bases to make ' ter come I guess it's 'cause I room for us in clearing the seas wonder will I see another spring of submarines and for our planes and bear a robin sing And pick — and to send an army to the new green from the sage Europe For that too we must to crush it in my hand and prepare to make sure of victory breathe the fragrance of our "Short of war?" Isn't it an land and on my bended knees outmoded phrase in these days thank God that I have seen when ihternational law has ceased to exist on the continent spring and heard a robin of Europe and the formality of sing"—C D Connors Clevedeclarations of war is a discarded land Ohio relic? We are already committed to Capitol House Cleaning Now that we have a Maw war with Germany in our prepFor our official kids arations for all-oaid to Britain and in our arming against Everything's just dandy— 'Cause he'll screw down the lids her Hitler does not want war with us If he can prevent it What he And when the "gimme game" wants is to be able before we starts can make our power on BritWith all palms outstretched flat tain's 'side too strongly felt to With cries of "I want this" reduce her to yield to a negoAnd "Maw you gimme that"— tiated peace or better—sign on the dotted line in the helpless There's gonna be some spanksubmission of France ings Japan's case is the same as Dealt out to the little 'dears Germany's She would avoid war And some will sit in corners with us to concentrate her enAnd some thrown out on their on of her her task far ergies ears eastern conquest The authority the president For Maw won't wait 'til spring asks for is over the whole like For din and fun that given to an admiral or genShades of Brigham and Heber! eral in war over his domain Pioneer thrift '411 This for the long-tim- e prepara—L M A Mused tions looking to 1942 1943 and also 1944 Notes on the Cuff Department N A N As Jack Harrington received a ' 7 janitors Result: The health department had to deny a permit to the hospital—even as formerly constituted But the last straw so far as the doctors were concerned was this: The man who turned tthem down was the health department's Dr Becker—who maintains a private office in this very building and who for years has sent patients to its hospitaL—Medical Ecpnomics ut house-cleani- - it li ! ng - A ': IW-ever- trailer $ &AIN' KIIC'1‘? I make room for a new birth with! out a struggle D C Grundvig Huntington Utah 3 Assails Britain's Record - By Ham Park Christmas card from Roy George a former Salt Laker While it's a little late to be commenting on Christmas cards I thought you might enjoy the originality It says: "Christ of this one max is that stuff which the daV before you are wished a lot of very merry and New Year's is that stuff which the day before you are wished a lot of very happy Flora Coralie and Roy with you a lot of very merrys and a lot of very happys" Mrs James V Sadler phoned to gay that she thought that legislators and lawmakers should set other people a good example by OBEYING the laws Many of them probably the majority do just that Mrs SadBut we have exhibitionler class of society and ists It' unfair to judge a whole group by the acts of a few Many- of us need the prayer of the old Scot who feared that he might become like so many he saw around him—dead r from the chin up—and hence his daily petition: "Oh Lord keep me alive while I am still living" Dr J A Wallace Ely Nev stopped over for a few hours Friday en route to Washington D C for the inauguration Doc Is one of the presidential electors from Nevada He invited E A Richardson another Elyite and me to lunch with him at the Hotel Utah and showed us his Invitation from the president and Mrs Roosevelt to visit the White House the lucky stiff Senator Pat McCarren has made a reservation for Doc at a hotel—he gets a fair $4 room for $8 which isn't bad considering everything The only way to go to Washington in my opinion is in a i ! -- World war to make the world safe for democracy and establish an international tribunal or court to settle national disputes even as the nation settles state disputes The honored Woodrow Wilson Introduced 14 points at the Geneva conference All of them were discarded by the royal family or titled class of Britain An international machine was set up called the League of Nations Because the titled class was left In control of this machine we Americans rejected it Had Mr Wilson's 14 points been adopted it is highly probable that the people's right to rule would have accomplished international solidarity Be that as it may All ideas of internationalism are now being branded as sabotage and espionage and we are asked to assist this same British royal family and titled classes to save national Integrity There may be such things as birth life and death also for social institutions Our honored president tells us that thern new order of society has far the majority of support and that he believes in democracy which of course is ruled by the majority And then he insists that we help the titled class of Britain preserve the old order In nature this is to be expected as life does not accept death to - C--ISI By Our Readers Editor Tribune: At least a few Americans have a memory Twenty-fou- r 25 years long years ago we were entering a Editor 'Tribune: In your paper of January 13 page 10 colUmn 3 you printed an article "Army Projects Fall Short of Job Hopes" by Mr Greenwell of the W P A In this article Mr Greenwell gives the impression to the public that the union is discriminating against W P A Here and now let me say: There isn't a man on W P A If he honestly wants work on these contracts but what can meet the mall fee asked by the union to obtain work And the union's cooperation in this can be testified to by every man who has obtained work on these projects Certainly private contractors were awarded these jobs If W P A were relied on defense would be slow indeed It is far easier to obtain work through the union than the W P A unless you are one of the "professionals" and this cry "It must be made easier for W P A men" burns me up What shall the union do? If a man says he Is from W P A shall we give him everything free as he is used to? Well I hope not Go on any of these projects and see the difference in the ambition of the W P A and union men The union has its faults but right is right in any mansset-u-land p and they would be a poor ' if they didn't protect the men but if the W P A wants to join the boys there are equal rights for all I'm sure Mrs Ross Thomas 4100 South Fourth West Street Pilot to pilot pline to plane the British are better than the Germans but there is no gainsaying that the nazis will surely outnumber the British in air power including our reinforcement for the next six months and maintain a preponderance for a year Under a whittling and gashing siege the time may come when the bravest of people may gasp "we can endure no more" under a prolonged ordeal of murderous odds In that case there will be no preannouncement that terms are being formulated The word of the incalculable world disaster will come to us very suddenly All this tragically emphasizes the mortal necessity for speed— speed—speed—in sending planes anything to check bombing destruction in Britain Time for debating the president's request need hardly interfere with pressing this supremely vital immediate objective Suppose Britain is made secure —secure in the sense of such a stalemate as that of the trench line in France established in 1914 which was not broken until 1918 four years later How win the victory? By attrition through superior bombing power Is possible but the British talk about having the answer to night as well as daylight bombing If they have it the Germans will get it as surely as one side quickly adopts any new or improved arm of the other TE Recalls Wilson Ideals Union Plea British Better :cit:"° Forum an-°th- e- Who May Lie Down on Their Job? Tenants of a San Francisco professional - -- also on the south coast has been ' - -- 01 Air Siege On The air siege has been on for five months and today the Eng lish channel is practically a no man's land Dover and Southampton are crippled as available ports Recently in the progressive spread of destruction the great naval base of Portsmouth The West thoroughly acquainted with the fine conduct and accomplishments of the forest service the Ickes policies in connection with land withdrawals and his desire to force a general mine leasing act on the mining industry resents ckes' desire to augment his control of all its resources to which transfer of the forest service Would contribute greatly While the late Key :Pittman had the president's written assurance that the forest service would not be transferred there is some amdety expressed because last spring the president laying aside the Ickes order said "Not this session" The western states lately disturbed by the threatened further control of all their sovereign acWitles including the control of all their running water made possible of by the supreme what constitutes a navigable stream view with alarm the continued effort to trans fer the forest service:' ed - - expires WASHINGTON—Nearly everybody will agree with the presidential insistence that from now out the national energies should be concentrated upon the national defenses It' is a mighty task we have set ourselves and it would be unthinkable and criminally stuleft pid to go about it in a handed bumble-pupp- y way ' Nevertheless it is to be doubted whether the defense program will be promoted by permitting the I '''' Ar' confusion and complexity I of the defense effort to ob- - I I suture every domestic issue and divert public attention 1 from matters that conZed- 00‘ edly have been vital for the 4 last eight years—and still are Those who have been 1 Nue actively concerned about these things should not ' cease their activity nor per- - '1a J' be to mit themselves pushed- t aside I ' To do that Is not to aid In the defense program ' rather it is to weaken it ' To do that is to lose the ex- - Frank R Kent entremely necessary sense of proportion to courage reckless waste and render more In such a period likely demagogic-contro- l as the present it is difficult to imagine a worse break for the nation than the pended animation of the various organizations and agencies which have worked to keep down legislative and executive excesses restrain the administration radicals and make clear the peril of new deal financial heresies" It is more important that these agencies should continue to fight now than it was be- fore Unless they do there is a very great chance that the ballyhoo and bewilderment of the defense program will fatally enfeeble the federal financial structure and undermine the American economic system If that happens then no really strong defense will be achieved Two examples of agencies which would contribute to weakness if their activities Were abandoned can be given One of these is the National Economy league Mr Roosevelt himself urged the necessity of drastic reduction in the normal govern- mental expenses But he did not propose or suggest any drastic cut in the budget submit- ted to congress last week On the contrary his proposedreductions are trivial and meaningless There is about his perfunctory recommendations no trace of determination to avert the peril of national insolvency nor of any realization that it threatens He simply has not been able to bring himself to make the cuts he said are essential It is" says Senator Harry Byrd "a trick budget made to create the impression that there is a reducd Um in nondefense spending—an impression created by bookkeeping jugglery" Actually declares Mr Byrd the normal expenditures proposed are higher than those of the current instituted year and no economies have been : in the regular departments Yet the National Economy league has presented a detailed program by which $400- 000000 could be saved during the rest of the fiscal year ending on July 1 and it insists that two billibn more can be saved in the following year largely by economies in the fields of relief public works and agriculture The league ought not to allow the ballyhoo about defense and the propaganda to divert it from pressing Its program on congress Without militant help from Mr Roosevelt which apparently is not going to be forthcoming it will be a terrific fight to force any sizable reductions and the economy leaders in congress need all the help they can get To insist upon wholesale economy in all matters other than defense is the surest way to insure effective defense and every intelligent man knows it It is tragic that the president in this respect does not make his deeds conform to his words What is true of the Economy league is also true of the people's committee to defend ' life insurance and savings This committee was organized last year for the purpose of informing and energizing the 65000000 lifeInsurance policyholders and 48000000 sayk depositors about the kind of' governmental encroachment upon private bust ness detrimental to their interests It is now established in Cincinnati on a permanent basis The need for the committee's existence Is clearuThe plan of the new deal to invade the insurance field has had no publicity lately but it has not been abandoned and there is a determined group within the administration which itches to exercise the same control over the insurance companies that now is exercised over the banks ThisIt is contended would mean that the continuous flow of premiums could be used to finance the federal government just as the administration is now able to force banks to buy federal obligationshalf-heart- - I - Editor Tribune: When the president of the United States on December 29 1940 broadcasting to the world asked for America's aid to her historic enemy shall I tell ykou honestly what people all over the world were thinking? Millions of Irishmen were thinking of the tyrant who pillaged Ireland for 700 years and murdered men and women for the wearirf of the Green Millions of Dutchmen of the itobber Nation of History" who took the diamond mines -of South Africa from the BoersMillions of East Indians of the conqueror who conquered not by force but by torture! Millions of Chinamen of the dope peddler who forced opium into China at the point of the gun and made the followers of Confucius a nation of dope fiends Millions of African negroes (the Black Man has no Rights) of the difference between the preaching p r a yin g hypocrites who enslaved them and the hard working German nation that never held a slave And Mr Roosevelt's enemies by him nicknamed "aggressor nations"? They were thinking of Mr Roosevelt's friends the transgressor nations But above all the Americans (not of course the of what were they thinking? Why of the '"mother country" who would have hung her own children if they hadn't Of the vandal hung together who burnt the capitol at WashOf the millions upon ington millions left by Cecil Rhodes for propaganda to return America "as an integral part of the British Empire" "Perfidious Albion!" Well the third-terpresident may give the lives of our children "our fortunes and our sacred honor" to aid the enemy of our forefathers but there's one thing the supreme court packer will never do—he'll never pack the court of retributive jusM Hard tice! British-American- s) support-the-preside- I ings-ban- left-winge- Christopher Billopp Says The Divan - piece of furniBut is comfortable to sit upon A divan is a soft low-slu- ng ture that there are times when it Is essential to get up as for example when a lady enters room - By Olin Miller Almost any girl will throw herself at a man if she thinks he's a good catch We have just learned that Sheza Moron attended a New Year's eve party and passed out with the old year poor child Today's couplet: A girl that's got glamour don't usually know grammar "If- no man would marry a woman he didn't understand posterity would be immeasurably better off" declares a sociologist In an odd way he may be right — there wouldn't be any posterity Too old to love too old to live Ding-buit few things stack up right "You can't have your cake and eat it too"— and if you save It to eat later it becomes stale - st d - - Paragraphically Speaking e rs life-insuran- ce m Copyright 1941 by Esquire Features Inc Chicago nt I the — If you are seated In the center of the divan and attempt to rise you will discover that ydu are trapped and as helpless as though you were in a quicksand It does no good to try to raise yourself by pushing down with your hands since divans have no solid bottoms and your hands will just go on sinking You might bounce up and down in the hope of achieving sufficient momentum to hurl yourself out but this is conspicuous and besides it is bad for the springs of the divan A better plan Is to edge forward gradually moving the weight of your body with a writhing motion from the divan to your legs which are on solid ground Eventually If you are successful you should land on your knees from which position it Is a simple matter to rise Another method is to roll until you are within reach of the end of the divan which has some substance to It Clutching the end you can pull yourself out of the divan's depths The rolling method is of course impossible if there are other persons on the divan with you If these methods fall there Is nothing to do but call out for help Possibly some good Samaritan will hear your cries and lend you a hand Becoming mired in a divan Is a terrifying experience Do not risk a like peril again but select a straight chair whose seat may be hard but which affords purchase for a quick spring Owners of divans could greatly reduce the risk if they kept at hand a derrick ready for any emergency - q I 2 |