Show '' qZ drlq IP rbt 12 Thursday Morning iit be F-Z- the IBehindof gakt Vibutt' Established April 15 1871 Issued oes17 marnths by Balt La ItS Tritnm roc Tribune use By Pant Mallon WASHINGTON — Herr Goeb bels spoke of "the tense situation regarding textile supplies" and "limited nutrition" in encircled nazidom He did not tell the half of it The other half can now be disclosed with the authority and re straint of in official U S commerce department report This shows the ever widening cracks behind the lines in Germany It reveals that the biggest crack (the one which le' causing the condition which Goebbels is a shortage of manpower to keep the factories go ing The news has been kept In side Germany but Berlin knows officially the reich labor office has listed a demand for 1500 000 workers at the end of each month since the beginning of the year The ministry of labor admits officially the unemployed number no more than 10000 (we had 3500000 out of work 'In the sensational boom year of Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning December 251841 Hitler Look!! About For New Theater of Conflict - hopes evoked by the Christmas time Never have seemed more necessary the bulwarks of Christianity against the paran hordes with their fanatical worship of the false gods of efficiency and militarism' Never has the birth of the Savior appeared more important tlian at thislYuletide when dictators deny Him in d their hearts and trample on heels Ltis teachings with iron-sho- d With 364 days of anxiety and conflict behind and another 384 days of anguish and bloodshed stretching ahead Christmas stands like a green island of peace in the turmoil of tittle- - For on this one day those of us who Are not actually fighting the enemy or watching for some new treachery from beyondthe seas can pause for a while to ponder on the true meaning of this observance which marks the birth of that gentle founder of Chris iron-boun- tianity "For unto you is born this day" an angel told an ancient world "in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord" Down the years has echoed the mysticism of that holy night turning men's hearts) often too briefly from worldly cam and petty hatreds toward an ideal shining like the Christmas star Obscured sometimes by the dust of battle shadowed sometimes by the earth's iniquities that star gleams still waiting only for men to clear their eyes so they may look again on the tranquil skies of a peaceful and a just world This Christmas of 1941 will live in rtsrFt's memory not for its gaiety but as a petod when mankind took a new and soberer look at the world resolved to make it a better place and heartened by new bonds of friendship between men of good will This year our thoughts go out to the men in army camps to sailors at sea and to those valiant ones battling on distant shores to keep the foe from our doors Stern realities lace us this Yuletide but they have not eclipsed its spiritual values They have not quenched the cheery glow of charity or the bright fires Araericati chilon the family hearth dren rose this morning with their faith In Santa unimpaired and parents looked on with grave faces but smiling eyes as they retailed happier holidays in those and good will" dstant days when "peace earththis on reigned There seems to be little doubt that Herr Hitler will emerge from his fortune-tellin- g seance at Berchtesgaden with a plan to conquer the world atagain this time with a tack one on Gibraltar and another on Turkey One will be a feint and the other will be in earnest but which will be which remains to be seen There seems to be no other way out of it for the fuehrer unless he tries to invade Britain again and the air picture is entirely different ffom what it was the last time Germans are probably getting weary of hearing and reading about Japanese "victories" in the Pacific and want to bear Adolf tell about their own boys and what happened in Russia The only way to cover up the Russian defeat is a new campaign or better still two campaigns So any hour we may hear that the nazi legions are marching to assist the Turks or the Spaniards in "their fight to keep the Americans and the British from overrunning their lands" The German army is still strong and it would be - unfortunate if people and leaders in the democracies forgot this Britain will have her hands full if the nazis strike at Gibraltar and a thrust through Turkey at the Russian oil fields again must be stopped at all costs Meantime there is hope that the war in the Pacific can "be stabilized" as the military experts put it full-fledg- ed two-prong- ed newspaper-busines- - y life-bloo- I s During my reportorial and editorial days it was my fortune to work on sheets that published seven days a week and always came out on holidaya the same as every other day of the year In columning for syndication in which I am 210W in my fifteenth consecutive oyear my job has been 365 columns a year always week has a significance So the seven-da- y all its own for me and Christmas with all mem-- its glory and beautt and ones still means another column too Each Christmas it is my custom to send a printed greeting to a small list of friends For several years I have written a special poem for this Christmas Broadside This year with much disturbance In the air a sat down in great perturbation to write' Christmas poem I found myself turning out words that sounded familiar to me I was beset by the fear that I might be putting down words I had read and dimly remembered I was afraid I might be getting myself in for a plagiarism suit Thumbing through old scrapbooks I discovered the poem I liad been looting I had written it myself just 25 years ago and it had been published in many newspapers I'm going to give it to you for the rest of this column Then can run home and eat Christmas dinner with the family A CHRISTMAS CAROL The message of the Christmas bells Throughout the world is drowned By screaming shot and bursting shells on Europe's battleground What woeful sounds of human hats Upon the breeze are borne What mourning M111101111 sadly wait How many heartstrings torni 0 gentle Child Messenger of Love of Galileo Sweet Look down with pity from above ctIr hearts look up to Thee! That millions disregard the words That once proclaimed Thy birth To peaceful shepherds and their herds "Good will and peace on earth" That peoples madly follow Cain That all earth's fertile sod Cries out to Thee of brothers slain Forgive us Son of God That we have stumbled Lord we know Help us this Christmas day To stern the tide of human woe And wash the blood away! Released by MeNaught Syndicate Inc on newspapers soul-stirri- The "tense situation" regarding textiles has been officially attributed to the transfer of women hosiery and garment workers to munitions industries the past few months The Ger man public has been officially Informed the obvious labor pinch is due to the necessity of calling up additional male reserves for fighting duty in the grueling Russian campaign So far der fuehrer has been trying to muster civilian foreign workers from conquered court tries and drafting women During August his labor offices called in 134000 women to ask why they could not go to work (a gentle form of feminine con From 20 European scription) states (mostly France and Croatia) he has acquired 1700000 workers and even Russian primoners are being assigned to the farms forests mines and ha tortes Admits Failure That these moves have proved insufficient is now formally admitted by the Goebbels Cluistmas appeal Thus la nazidom admittedly approaching the end of a rope upon which most wars have been lost Thus is der crafty fuehrer called upon to devise a new trick to save himself as he has done so often before However the ng - - Selected sayings: Remember the Alamo just begun to fight Damn the torpedoes Remember the Maine tafay ette we are here Remember Pearl Harbor We have - anniversary of World war I was observed lately without cheers How did it ever come out? The twenty-thir- d If It's In July If it's the rain Is good tor the it's a football Saturday good for the Russians crops On The world says a British biologist is In the interests of quiet though it sometimes seems advisable to let them have it unfit for babies A few more trustratiorf on the bleak Russian steppes and Hitler'l patience with Hitler may snap what may nothing can surprise us We've seen everything front a secretary of labor who crochet& to a hot Garbo Come now V 0 - I )44- - - - :?:47 liAttid r'l i:irli - I 0'0 0 '4000104 4060 AC04 0tiet" 040044 i !I 0 csk - :4y !t13°:T :2 16 00 1 '02-- -"Stp I t t 0 -N' 't 1' -- 147 14 - PA - i i v011 - N Al c A u'"11'1Ktse: t 3 2 ATILIA!Llit '1 L° suEP-SLEE- PI By Colonel Frederick Palmer Military Expert North American Newspaper Alliance A 1- -! -- ALL SLEEP nINCEFUL IS So 1 - 4 k 31tircos '16 ' I ) 1 I 1 L es 'i A fl S amorm I I S ‘N 1929) NEW YORK—On Christmas day It has been my custom extending over many years to depart from the regular routine of colsome unming and to attempt to express ' thoughts appropriate to the day This is my thirtieth Christmas on a seven-da- y week with no holidays in the Totalitarian Suceess And Individual Effacement President Roosevelt In his address daring the bill of rights observance pointed out some obvious differences between the basic theories of democracy and totalitarianism It is a timely subject and one which many Americans could study with profit The broad principles of the two political systems differ as the prealdent pointed out on the status of the individual Generally speaking the democratic system seeks to advance the welfare of pertons and hence looks orelhe government as a servant of the people Totalitarians see the individual as nothing but a cog in the machine and divert the entire activity of a people toward advancing the welfare of the state This latter philosophy makes for an efficient state sad permits an "all out" war effort without the knowledge or con' sent of the people It offers a glamor to many t In which appeals sf efficiency — the past it has appealed to some Americane But these Americans and those Europeans who have accepted and supported dictatorships overlook the most Important feature of the system That 41 order to gain nth' glamor of effit ciency the rights of the individual must be severely limited: in fact they must practically disappear Many otherwise thoughtful persons efbecoming enamored of the "clicking" ficiency of a totalitarian machine have apparently forgotten the cost They are like a man who admires a new automobile so greatly that he mortgages his entire life to become its owner The men and women of German x have mortgaged their lives and their liberty for a shining new machine It works magnificently but it has cost too much No machine In all the world no matter bow well it runs is worth that much So it is with outsiders who admire the German machine—the Lindberghs would the Moseley! the Petains--thea souls for glamorous ask us to sell our machine which heartless chromium-plate- d but runs smoothly requires a constant d for its fuel and human of flow lubrication tberty for its DTI SC011 5 goc1't' r':::::5':!::7::::oltfkts?"'ciec--t Nazi Army Change Gives Allies Opportunity to Act Manning By "'' ad-mat- ed) New York Highlights By Charles B 4t244:k s ' - The dasocisted Press Is excluidecle entitled to the to It or not otherwise credited In Ws taper and also We local neve published herein Never in the memory of men now living has there been a greater need than tlete one this year for the thoughts and --- News Pubilibing Cebngibbl le a inerctor of the Limo toted Press Vat reproduction at ail news dispatches credited Faith' Burns in America :AA War Christmas Dawns December 25 1941 Dalt grikt rtributte I This Was the Fifth Columnist I '!) f' 1ft ) !0L i1 f 114" 4740Z0""'"'"'goeNWi001r: 0N ! - aittq41 ANO'Oalltle 11014611 MM'' The m Using substitute materials" Rations of canned vegetables have been cut to 22 pounds for the entire winter for most Ger- mans Those who have preferred status may get two such tins no more However the cost of ed living index has actually somewhat due to stringent price controls If every American citizen should send a Christmas card to every axis citizen containing a full colored photograph of our local grocery store windows filled bountifully with food wines and candy at this holiday season the fruits of our different ways of life could be adequately presented Not Immune But we are not Immune Behind the government's move to set up a national organization for tire rationing immediately will is the idea that the set-u- p provide machinery for general rationing as other needs may develop Tires will be the first commodity ever rationed in this country but probably not the de-din- The movement is in charge of Frank Bayne director of field operations on 0 P A Re prob ably wilrestablish local committees (through the CiVillan de- tense organization) in every city and hamlet From these committees permits for tires will be issued on show of necessity Once the organization is set up other product can be added easily While tire rationing is in that teens a test it is fully justified on its own merits (unlike the Ickes gas rationing) Fifty per cent of our rubber comes from Malays 43 per cent from other British and Dutch possessions under attack in the far east On hand we now have a two months' supply of new tires The stock amounts to about 7000000 or 11000000 units and our consumption has been running about 4000000 units a month Today's suggestion of how you personally can help to win this war (No 4): Don't run out and spend money for blackout cloth Use a blanket and thumbtacks or something else you have around the house Shortsighted housewives have already caused a shortage of suitable material in this locality and have tied up all the seamstresses in town as Forum Editor 'Tribune: "Technocracy All of which demonstrates that: "Technocracy Incorporated the organization preparing for the change to this new social order is a 100 per cent American organization" Samuel Russell Answers Complaint self-elect- ed Senator From Sandpit Living is much like learning Ws go somewhat where we choose but mainly where the skates take us— Anon IHave For Little Things Not for the mighty world 0 Lord tonight Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might Let me be glad the kettle gently 1 By Ham Park you ever noticed that they have nothing people make a mess The mail carrier just brought another bunch of Christmas are from: The cards—theyHoward Frazee Leon Stanley Laura Sherman Gray Mr and Mrs Floyd S and Bob and Pat Leaver Mr and Mrs M A Francillon Mr and Mrs Llewellyn Lloyd Mrs Isabelle Lyons and Mn Millie Ewing Los Angeles: Jun Metcalfe Harry and Lucille Burns and Ethel and Al Day It's nice to be so remembered and we wish for them all the joys of the seuon Another discouraging feature is that some of us look & lot older than we feel And no matter what you do there Is always someone who will pop up and say he always suspected that you would Money mtiy not Insure happiness but it's a great help in achieving a more agreeable kind of misery Don't forget that the bigger a mans head gets the easier it is to fill his shoes Man Is the only creature on earth that shortens his life by working for things that the indulgencs in which will make it alder that nothing comes Into being only at the expense of something else we realize what a monopoly some people have on the false conceptions of ththgs realistic Their professed adherence to the Christian faith would pollute the morality ofan adult mule and bring a blush to the face of an atheist When men profess their faith In God purely for some selfish purpose they lower themselves to the level of hypocrites and become the servants of Satan True we should sympathize with-sucfolk yet I suspect it would have about the same effect as it would on a pugilistic billy that challenged the right of way of an oncoming express Sylvester Earl h Girl Writes War Song Editor Tribune: My name is Joan Parry and I'm in the fourth grade at the Lafayette school I'm 9 years old and I live at 133 North West Temple street made up a song called "Keep Tour Chins lip" Here it is hop youilike it: "We're in the war now but Keep your chins up high and Get your head off your chest And point it to the sky Those Jape may set some traps But our people are no saps So keep 'em flyin now And there's sure to be a wow If Hitler makes you mad Or even very sad Just keep those chins up high" Joan Parry Off the Record - sings Let me be 'thankful for little things Thankful for simple food and supper spread Thankful for shelter and a warm clean bed For little jcr3rful feet that gladly run T welcome me when work la done Thankful for friends who share my woe and mirth Glad for the warm sweet fragrance of the earth For golden pools of sunshine on the floor For love that shed its peace about my door For little friendly days that alip away With only meals and bed and work and play A rocking chair and kindly firelight— For little things let me be glad tonight —Edna Jaques Note on the Cuff Department First off I want to Wish everybody a merry Christmas That is everybody who takes time out to read this column Those who don't will have to get along without my wishes And second I want to let you in on something—the secret of how to be happy though married The whole thing con(Distributed by King Features sists in the husbands learning Syndicate Inc Reproduction to play second fiddle in close in Whole or in Part Strictly Prohibited) I harmony ' - ' Editor Tribune: A wait of woe from a (presumably) emissary of the United Veterans council informs me by znail that "Holt polluted and defiled the holy sanctuary when he spoke in the tabernacle that he brought down the wrath of the Great Almighty" Again: "We were right and we know we were and we will please ourselves and care less what the leaders think" A right smart divergence from the sentiments expressed in a letter requesting that the America First be denied the use of the tabernacle as well as a reliable yardstick by which to measure their faith in God and their membership in the church But when we pause to con to skate: N 14 By Our Readers tion" without he is unalterably opposed to any American citizens dying on foreign soil" etc etc Now to comprehend the new order for North America it must be considered that whereas the communists have a black beast they call the "capitalist aystem" the technocrats have a black beast they call the "price system" And how they hate it is set out in these phrases from a single page of technocratic blueprint: "Why should we fight to main tai this price system? Is the liberty and freedom of this price system worth the expenditure of a single life in its defense? Hell not America must needs A have a 'hew patriotism patriotism that is a negation of In all that was yesterday a country order to provide America's worth living for a patriotic war war is here This against the price system is the only war the youth of America will fight This war M a SYMOICall let will be utterly ruthless no minority racial religious or economic attempt to bar the highway to the new America for if ono does the youth of this continent will concede nothing short of this minority's annitaltl Incorporated" just like "America First Incorporated" is one of those 100 per cent organizations according to this protest In a recent technocratic print: "While every technocrat stands ready to defend this continent to the death from invasion from qoPer P' Forum Quotes Technocrats ' r - Germany complain of the inability of factories to undertake normal mechanical replacements and of rising costs attributable tothe "labor shortage" "higher prices of imported raw materials" "higher transportation charges" "the necessity for - : ffo0fP tricks are getting harder The shoe of force is pinching Hitler elsewhere Published annual reports of the coal leather and heavy goods industries in lute '70 shorter A news item reports that a 14- boy who had not spoken before startled his folks by suddenly remarkink "This is a heck of a world!" Instead of talking that kid had been thinking! The trouble is that most of us grumble about things we want to do but can't — instead of doing things we could but don't Thought for Christmas: Few of us can hope to make the world better but ILII of us can retrain from making It bitter year-ol- d The time nears when the filrn producer working on less than $2000000 budget will use papier mache pork chops in the Diamond Jim Brady banquet scene WASKINGTON—The proposed allied ink preme war council cannot start operating top soon to take advantagepf Adolf Hitler's having named himself as chief of the German army in the field Leaving out the old saying about thoso whom the gods destroy they first mks mad" here is an admission of German die'-tress in the Russian campaign Hitler has broken up his own staff system of coordina tion and the delegation of power which was responsible through expert commanders for his military successes They did the professional job He was the author of total warfare ruthlessness Through his fanatical leading he did them the professional service of irustilling German soldiers with a confident fanatic fighting commander-incommander-- tn C spirit He did not pretend himself to be a map ter of military tactics and strategy As con queror he profited by the renewed prestige of German war machine efficiency His decisions were political in when and where to strike The next task in the program of conquest was chosen A commander was named for its execution The commander listed the supplies and forces he needed Hitler thundered his incitations to the people Victories Gained Eloodless victories were won and theme victories which cost a surprisingly little loss of blood for the ground gained The people saw the promised land opening before them The generals rejoiced in more power As commander-in-chie- f Hitler has no alibi now in dismissing any general but himself He alone is responsible for failure or defeat Will he drive his soldiers on to further harships and sacrifice 1 How will Hitthey take it from Commander-in-Chie- f ler if further floods of their blood are shed without victory in Russia? Those who have worked with Hitler speak of his lack of logical reasoning power They saw him as having a proven gift of intuition Really he was a man who played his hunches His generals thought his entry into the Rhineland was a mistake when his army was too weak in numbers and arms to face a smashing blow by the French army which was not struck-- If it had been Irrance would have been saved The Hitlerian hunch had been right about the Rhineland venture as itwas later in the raping of Austria t the judgment of his generals Thereafter the generals had faith in the wisdom of his decisions aa long as they did not interfere with their planning and direction of the actual military campaigns ag-ains- Lowered Morale Morale must be lower in Germany than thought for former corporal Hitler to play this latest hunch which may be his second error after that of attacking Russia Goering is not unambitious If the people become disillusioned about Hitler the generals may prefer to have Goering as chief And then possibly Hitler is a natural military genius but such is not easily conceivable in complicated modern warfare It was the German army chiefs and subordinates who wrought the coordination of all modem arms in unquestioned tactical 'kilt The time is ripe for the allies to make the most of prompt coordination Washington is the logical place for a supreme allied council It comes nearest to being the geographic strategic economic and informs tional center London is off in one corner of the widespread area of the struggle Moscow and Chungking are remote The business of the new council will be to speed up production in realizing on all the resources of the allies as a whole to prevent overlapping and misdirection to chart all supplies and shipping for any terprise to advise out of its knowledge on plans for the enterprises and to see they have the initial necessary supplies and the flow of sUppliu is kept up we Christopher Bil lopp Says Plum Pudding Imagine the children saying they donl want any of the plum pudding that they would rather have vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce! What has got into the younger generation anyway? Their parents like plum pudding Their grandparents liked it and so did their Otherwise why did they great-grandpare- nts make such a point of bringing plum pudding to this country with them and prigult down the recipe through the The children might as well say they don't like the American Revolution and the Decleration of Independence and the Constitution The skeptics' society at an They might as well refuse to salute the flag This dislike of plum pudding is a serious early meeting will take up the moot question "Tommy Manmatter It strikes at the very foundation of our country ville: Is He This Important?" ' Surely nobody wants fifth columnists in We can only think of those their home Well this attitude toward plum chums Tokyo and Hitler that pudding smacks of alien propaganda- - They they deserve each other will be replacing Santa Claus with some swing band leader next So they don't want Who remembers the any plum pudding thank you? Indeed! bill of fare you could run No plum pudding? All right then Next an eye down until you came to no presents no Christmas tree Christmas 15 cents? and no Christmas dinner Let them have instead a peanut butter sandwich a hot dog Fortunately that song has and a soft drink- - The country is degenerpassed and not many are conating that's what It ie If plum pudding fusing Rawisori on the Rillerah goes by the boards what chance is there with Rostov on the Don for democracy? It costs an extra 10 per cent Parents should not give in to such this year to buy the wife a fur whims? They should tell their children coat to keep her warm or quiet they have got to eat plum pudding Even If they take only a mouthful of it- - And they The skeptics society will now are not to make anr wry fates either take up the bill as What this country reedit IS a return to passed by the house The boys the old standards and surely no better start will mark up a few prices to see could be made than eating plum pudding on if it moves Christmas 'day Parents do your duty Don't listen to excuses Say to your chilMiddle age is a sudden realizadren that they'll eat that plum pudding and tion that the "young married like it set" refers to some new crowd Among the subjects which Statistic: If the other 12 sirnatorles to General Ben Lear proposes to teach his intrepid Second army Ribbentrop's anticomintern pact were Laid end to end they would be no more prostrate Is geography And what to do about it A holiday Issue of a magazine for men Maybe it's too late to duck but there is nothing in this world offers hints on how to drink freely yet reoutlook that we particularly main sober As in indoor rowing however wanted tor Christmas this gets one nowhere Always Japan has an excuse of sorts It plays dirty pool but it learned it from the master race price-contr- ol - |