Salt Lake Tribune | 1942-03-01 | Page 18

‘ 18 A 1 5alt 'Cake irtibunt Sunday norning r 1 hilt L ahot Established April La Issued every morning by Salt The Tribune C-- - 15 1871: Pe Tribune Publishing Company a member of the Associated Associated Press is exclusively? entitled to the of ali news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paver end also the local news published herein la Use --for reproduction Salt Lake City Utah Sund ay Morning 1 March 1 I 1912 brilliant red military successes in Russia to organize a campaign to drive out of this government certain officials whom they long have disliked—presumably so they can get their own boys in The locals reds hastily ducked underground when Stalin signed the treaty with Hitler promising neutrality and supplies at the start of the war a treaty which made the war possible The locals became nazis then Now they are democrats Their homeland has been attacked Although accustomed as they are to having the party line take more hairpin turns than the Burma road they have required a little time to get their breath back from the Isst one and adjust their vocal chords to the democratic tune again Echo 1Cliveden' Uproar The first shrill test of their readjusted larynx came only 10 days ago when they took up a phrase dropped by Mr Roosevelt at a press conference and discovered the presence of a "Cliveden set" in Washington Their the New magazine MaSSeft published a list of women senators and government officials whom it charged were in this "set" No one here paid much attention because the commies tried to lay it ell on the head of Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean who has been prominent socially but not active politically ' The magazine W435 not quite clear about what Mri McLean's "set" was supposed to be doing It is implied thly had spread some ill founded rumors but did not mention any such rumors It said Hitler must have heard of the rumors from Mrs McLean's salon but did not say how he got them or how they could have done him any good If they were ill founded Clarity however has never been an essential of the party line when it was nazi democratic or unblushingly communistic Picks Up War Cry The "set" notion was falling like a dud when the commie newspaper the Daily Worker picked it up The paper started running editorials like the one Thuraday entitled "The Clive-de- n Set and the Duty of the Press" in which it complained because the American press has not taken up its war against the Offensive tactics Only Will Shortfn and Win the War Maudlin Sentimentality Out of Place in Law and War - When Wendell 'L Willkie In a recent address delivered at Hollywood advocattcl offensive actcon against the axis hencea forth he struck-- responsive chord in the hearts of all military experts and students of modern warfare In the first World war as in the present conflict the German high cothmand counted upon Someone has said that "hatred is seldom assumed but is generally honest while the same cannot be said of love" And yet hate is easier to define than to defend It is an intense aversion which may have its source inanger resentment dread or natural antipathy Whilq habitual hatred based on malice or envy is indefensible there is a form of enmity as natural as friendship The first fulmination of divine wrath recorded in the holy writ was addressed to the snake: "Thou art cursed—upon thy belly thou shalt go And dust thou shalt eat all the days of thy life—and I will put enmity between thee' and the woman and between thy seed and her seed 4 ii 1 i 1 4 1 1 - — a I 1 i - 1 1 - V i R i g A 11 4 A i I ' I - - 4 ' " man--ho4:- I soft-spok- i ly - ' I - three elements 'orsuccess—surprise dacity and spee4: All of thesd tratagems were effective until a harrii d opposition developed similar tactics on the very edge of the last ditch Of curse the advantage is always with the- side that has planned In both and preparea for the struggle all their great wars the Germans directed energies and accomplishments to the prosecution of :savage and sudden assaults upon unsuspecting and unprepared neighbors Foe 40 years Germany had been building up a fighting machine that went into action in 1914 For 20 years it has been concentrating upon the conquest In which that :truculent power is now engaged Particular attention was paid to the development of 'propaganda and aviation —the first to lull peaceful populations to slumber and the second to awaken them in terror Arm)es that fight on the defensive are bound to be easy marks for aggressors AFaiting an attack is to master of ceremonies let the enemy-b- e He will watch and wait while defenders He will have fidget and fall asleep the psychological benefit of surprise and shock from whil no individual group army or people 4) likely to recover until the battle is alost over or when it is too late Every succeitful coup of axis armies has resulted fr(m offensive action Unless the Uniteel States follows up the policy outlined by the commander in chief in his recent address — that of striking the enemy whenever and where-eve- r he may be found our allied forces will have a hard-timto win this war According to Wendell L Willkie the people of the United States must "think in terms of striking not blocking" while the navy should be "seeking out the enemy not hugging our shores for fear the enemy will seek us out as some of our distinguished senators have suge KI en -- e "set" Also it published a story that C I 0 President Philip Murray had written all members of con gress asking that the Dies committee be dissolved because the committee had not investigated the Cliveden set American appeasers and nazi organizations and agents The Daily Worker heralded this as "the gathering storm against Dies" but it was still obviously having difficulty gathering it Obviously the most energetic commie storm gatherer would g not do all this to annoy a society woman just Of course such a low if somewhat thin cloud might befog popular attention from strikes of some of Mr Murray's unions such as the aluminum strike in Cleveland which was holding up bombers That might make his Interest understandable but not that of the commies who are waiting in Russia for the bombers Different Hairpin The commie interest was apparent in their choice of government officials for their Clive-de- n set blacklist a list to which their paper is daily adding: Obviously too their "Cliveden pet" could not be the same one Mr Roosevelt was talking about because at the head of their 'list were: Edgar Hoover the F E I pursuer of nazi agents Assistant State Secretary Adolph Berle presidential brain gested" "I am tired :of hearing of movements to defense efforts" said Mr "We should begin to talk of tynquering efforts and victory rallies and bombardment bonds" Unless Americans cease swallowing poisonous proptganda listening to treacherous wkIspers 4'of "negotiated peace" warning the navy department about risking in distant waters heeding pacifist o and appeasers who seem to be recovering-frothe body-bloJaps administered to isolationists at Pearl flarbor they are dk)omed to a long war and perhaps to partial defeat confined Willkie cloud-rollin- w Offensive 9tion in everybattle zone where the enemy can be hurt is the only course to follow henceforth i New York highlights !Driscoll By Charles certaint In a Important sense the Normandie belonged to New York She was close to the hearts of New Yorkers She had been lit her Iludson river pier a symbei of the suspension of ordinary life and activever since the paperhanger ity in started his offensive against the country that owned her These Many months she had flown no flag Indeed she hardly knew where her next flag was coming from Every personYwho was visiting New York for the first tin' asked to beshown the Normandie Thoui6 her paint had dulled and she was far 4om spruce in appearance during recent months her great bulk and lovely lines impressed landsmen and seafarers alike But you should have seen her coming up the bay that first day when she docked at the great newpler built especially for her at the end of her maiden voyage New York celebrated as for a conquering hero Windows everywhere carried signs 'Welcome Norniandie!' Broadcasters 'forgot everything 'else to tell the world how the queen of the seas looked and acted as she completed that memorable voyage My wife and I attended the big party that was given aboard the ship for the press and shipping people The great vessel shone from stern to stern Every bit of glass was polished and every inch of brass gleamed So did the faces of the pr?tui Frenchmen of the and crevH A wrecked pip is always a sad sight because you at reminded by It of all the labor and loviriz care that went into her building and cg the hopes that were centered upon- he1 4 s never so sad a sight in But there the waters of It e world as the hulk of the lost Normandie as she lies sprawled in the street Hudson river ricer Forty-eight- h Released by litcNaught Syndicate Inc war-tim- ei truster Assistant State Secretary Breckinridge Long A lot of secondary state department officials were in the list Including an officer who once refused a passport to a red and few formerly isolationist senators like Wheeler and Nye added some flavor to It Also Included was Eleanor Patterson another society woman who is running a newspaper here What these people said about Roosevelt before the war was nothing compared to what the nazi-lie- d Daily Worker was saying It's Tough One If any of this makes much sense to you from any standpoint you are a better reporter than I As long as no one can say who spread what rumor or did anything worse the campaign itself stands as the great- est possible help the nazi cause has received It is an open bold fared st- tempt to east treasonous implications upon and to oust certain leading officials of Mr nooseveit's government including the one who is conducting antinazi espionage Distributdt by King Features Syhdicate Inc eV s corn-me- nd - - H H : P I :' Historical Note—Hitler in Russia - 4 l!P4r77-4- - r-- -- 1 19421 1 Kent Sees Demand Grow 17o End Labor's Lobbying Manning ®Q() t k 1 t By Frank R Kent - - V S 0 7 1 IN ff t L - ott—r I ' t 4 I il ' : 14 - ' 'F-- 4 1' ' 4 1 ' e- - 1 ' A Ir'''tf— 1 - ::47-- -- - I I: 4 F- t le Al t -- --''' 4''' i ' il eA '''‘-f-- t- 949vgl-'C'''' 'tA‘ ' iff7 Al' P ' ' t4 ''' ' la (AfglihNi' 'I t ''' - - I 49 A'A'' of t :' - s' 's ss s 4 e 14 'It' '' ' ' 49" ' '''14 I - on Past Results Bail That has been the administration formula in the past and the results have been now -- - t s 4 - a 4 i ) 111 - ' P1' - :9 134t:144f 'CIII4 ' 4411111111111111 f k '' 9' 4 141 (itrifroms‘ C1- - 7— 1111111 I 421 — :: - NA ‘ wT-o--- a :: I IN 1 141-Ft----- --J trelevr' VA OF -:-- WASHINGTON—As Once more there arises in congress and in the country 94 demand for some restraint upon the labor lobbyists who are using the war to enforce unreasonable and dangerous labor advances these lobbyists present what amounts to a demand upon the president that no restraint be imposed It is a situation which calls for courage and firmness from Mr Roosevelt The problem is his and his only In this as in practically everything else everybody is limited by the limitations of the president And in the matter of labor demands Mr Roosevelt's political alliances obligations leanings and commitments are such that he is not in position easily to deal with them on their merits The hope is that this time he will cast off the strings that bind him live up to the brave words of hist speech about not permitting any group to gain advantage at the expense of us all and not put forth one of the compromises for which he is famous and under which the labor professionals will get enough of their demands now to enable them to renew pressure for the rest a little later irii1A” bad If it is adhered to they may be disastrous because hovering over the nat 11 44 tion is the sinister threat of uncontrolled t4 '': Azi ''ll'' 1 ' I Vf r 'I ' inflation 81'4' w''' 0' Nothing could contribute more to si do 0 e L' ' make threat a reality than to acquiesce that s ‘0411: in the plans of these labor lobbyists now 442' For war or no war their purpose is to drive " I Yt' e i ' e ideal which will toward their closed-sho- p Irke4 '4 ' f '' tiftt impose upon the nation a labor tyranny im' possible to resist and which will carry wages - 0 ' ' and prim to a perilous height 1 Though in his speech Monday night the or president of reiterated again and again his protnise "uninterrupted production" production continues to be interrupted by 47: e and jurisdictional strikes walkouts tie-uF ' '9 i In other words the breast-beatin- g controversies o 0 f71' t1 proclamations of their passionate :' 9E(r-MANNIN- G by both A F I and C I 0 leaders patriotism have not been sufficiently implemented to GAUT?! ITP4DICATI ' )111it::ZV- :)("4sgpt:4'"!:' 00101miglinlette Induce their followers to work without interruption in the defense factories the output of which will determine the outcome of the war These are the facts Yet to read the bombastic utterances of Mr William Green and Mr Philip Murray one would they command gather that the forces which Seeks Drainage Forum Pleases are completely united behind the president Forum Rules permitting no selfish consideration to diEditor Tribune: Permit me to Editor Tribune: I don't knuw wholehearted effort to win the war minish the following: present Letters ppearing in this column anything better' to read than the is that despite the extreme gravThe truth of not th do The views express It is the responsibility of the Forum so I a1way4 read it Tribune of the situation no opportunity is beThey are the opinions of deity the TribThe with which through governMent contributors r I get wonderful infOrmation une may or may not agree The ing overlooked to push toward the compartment of to the interior at from 'the letters of SylVeRter lOHOWIng rules govern contributions pletely closed shop which is their most a pass1 Let tern limited to 250 word provide Washington Earl J M Brandon Dad Stree cherished Ideal and preference given to short cont dearly of the Utah states age through ions ter C N Lund and recently I ocean on and for California Nevada and 2 clearly Write Calls for Help legibly Board was particularly interested in e of the paper only drainage for the alkali and a ReIlgtou and racial discilewhat Andrew A Van Brunt had The president's new war labor board has lands of these three 'twig orsi derogatory or sectar an to say about the Aryans the Partisan or pernature are barred a desire for at least a partial Finer is it the states expressed fesponsicannot be sonal Teutons Arabs Cauc as ian s of rising wages and apparently to dig a state of restraint Utah printed bility and from 4 Personal aspersions nrohib Mongolians and Huns realizes the danger Yet it has not taken canal from Salt Lake valley to Red where we all are descended It 5 an unequivocal stand and the feeling is NVendover Poetlrii nont ritiiittons not line at Nevada the Is an entertaining subject wanted The that it is apt to yield to labor pressure in channel this for barred- - itot be 6 purpose Letters may He suggests an encyclopedia obvious misstatements of fact wr the "Little Steel" fight which will reduce to run from Wendover0 to the for statement"' which are not in would be a good investment it to much the same state of impotency Carson sinks thence across the cord with tor play and good Ingle I have one but in the mean7 The Forum is not an adveras its defunct predecessor the mediation Carson desert through tising medium and cannot be used time I shall also make a suggesand precipItate a state of affairs very board Los the purposes for into advertising Angeles paSsand is tion and that that everyone 8 Writers must sigh true names indeed to the price administrator river will baffling Letters Ink In addresses and Interested first read a book Leon Mr AnHenderson It is not surprising Los be carried over assumed name if of The the eteosion In all cases called "God's Covenant Race" writer so requests is appalled at the prosHenderson Mr would that riser address name and seep geles however true se by J H Anderson In the book from-tkemust be attached to communication A general rise in wages at this time hinds and a:kali the pect consider cannot Is included also your pedigree The Forum 9 means a general rise in prices which- - he more than one letter from the same provide 'a permanent drainage from Adam to the present day writer at one time cannot control against The Tribune cannot accept 10 which I am sure we alLwould is still possible for the war labor board which bear It ties for letters publication we ento tells wha know for it like libelous or actionable remarks to halt this fatal race but it cannot do it tell4Mr Let the state of Utah all they all and us all are from tailing loint legal responsibility without presidential support It is still posthatthis Ickes drain' Secretary start to finish After you all for congress to enact restraining legis''sible is in fundamental age problem have read this book please let lation but it has heretofore found that imof this any plan development for W W W Tremonton—See us all hear from you through without presidential support Mr neck woods of possible the N Browning rule 8 the Forum Roosevelt has taken a firm stand against the William Simpson demand and despite senlatest farm-blo- c R L K Rexburg Idaho—See A N D: See rule 1 D G Huntington: See rule 1 ate action if he stands firm will gain his rule Mrs N R P Goshen: See point If he is equally firm about the labor E L Pleasant Grove: See E E Boise: See rule S demands he can be sure of overwhelmirg rule 2 rule 1 public support Mrs E'S Provo: See rule 2 Copyright 1942 by the Baltimore Sun By or Ham Park Another Rumor Editor Tribune: It is rumored God give them strength to I pity no man who has to that on many of the leading manucarry work If he is worth his salt he facturers of razor blages hair Our fight for liberty Gandhi promises if the nazis come his will work I envy the man who rubberless girdles and golf Reward them for each sacrifice will fight them as it fought the Brithas a work worth doing and pins party In the world that is to be balls are preparing to petition ish If he means lie in the car tracks the does it well—Theodore Roose—Afton Dale Idaho Falls the little man with-thlocli of nazis will know what to do velt Idaho hair 'in Germany who named Hurd1e It takes 60 banks and law firms to rehimself Ilitler for a stay of Be thankful that there are Notes on the Cuff Department organize the Wabash This is the railroad proceedings until they can Pr"The river has to be reorganized after each hurdles in life Rejoice in the ish those their ordersfor the Somehow I things so essential to our high standfact that they are higher than spring overflow made of neutrality protestations most people like to jump Be ard of livint before turning their Since France has long by Vichy At this time in '27 the Japanese governattention to making thing of grateful for the fact that there operateu under the Napoleonic came out strongly in favor of naval ment are so many of them war Code wouldn't it be wise for us amament reduction And "Oh yeah?" was It is those hurdles that give to adopt it in dealing with This rumor is unconfirmed so to added the great American vocabulary to work like many other rumors may not your way you a chance Vichy? In ease you are not fato the front true half is to than bemore It They are your Code A clam found here yesterday in a commiliar with the Napoleonic friends your allies be hoped so anyhow We the trip They outme explain that under it a chowder appeared to be a retread mercial let common people in our great deUp the horde that would is presumed to be guilty person were hurdles if those The Normandie is of no tarthly use to strip you mocracy also find that what we until he proves his innocence not there statisticians as it is as you can't lay the think or say about public affairs The hurdles of life are set out There's always something to has no weight and is unnoticed: Empire State building on its sideior purfor a purpose They are a part be thankful for In this country Our duty is to raise more hogs poses of coMparison of the grand scheme of things we can be thankful that there is and sugar beets grain spinach On this new war time does someone no sabotage Take them as they come with C W Greeno There are lots of and less hell to wake up the fellowwho wakes have nerve-powa prayer for the fires explosions train wrecks Ogen Utah up the bugleg? heart-powe- r to and and the like but the authorities assure us that they are not negotiate each of them as you Patriot Sets Example Among shortages just ah'ead may be one come to it—Anon caused by saboteurs—just by as the stuff coMes from a part in shellac Editor Tribune: I have nocomfortIt's carelessness very world of where the yinited nations are the MacArthur's Men ticed several patriotic persons ing now busily varnishing themselves into cot- Far out in the blue Pacific mentioned in your paper Many ners Down beside Manila Bay Selden Heaps says that if we of them are mentioned for buyThere's a band of valiant solwere ever bombed here he'd In a way we shouldn't begrudge the ing defense bonds I guess that I'll bet diers Is to induce others to buy them sleep under his piano lawmaker a modestpension Congress was he's glad now he didn't take up Here is my story: Fighting through each endless a good fellow wheyi the treasury had it Whim- the Japs attacked on the flute day At the discretion of draft boards movie 7 my wife and I were December "The strike leader though no roes may be deferred as "essential" They "MacArthur's Men" we proudly a successful grocery Ir running coward and rather a swashcall them remain subject to call however to storm store and radio repair shop at buckling gangster type scarcely And though outnumbered one to Utah we had where papier mache ramparts in the big battle Raildolph ever ventures out alone and nine been for seven years Also we Sequenre then only with a powerful bodyhad an amateur radio station By those yellow sons o? Nippon The official scrap list now sets a figure guard"—Michigan paper which had to be closed down Fight for freedom yours and of 30 cents a hundredweight on old letters Exclusive so to speak mine We quit business op December ' unsuitable forreading to juries 31 and sold out on January 10 on the RusA German general When the roar of cannon hushes The entire proceeds with funds Now that J P 1storgan's bank Is an Insian front has an Italian orderly And the drone of bombers cease we had in the bank were used stitution as or are called open to the public would it be "striker" they to buy defense bonds (several' Each one's name will blaze in okeh to barge ix and fill a fountain pen? In our army And I suppose thousand dollars) I offered my glory many an Italian' at home has For his part in winning peace Next to feel the rubber stringency may services to help Uncle Sam at found it necessary to polish up male gallus In the dark days ahead be the Hill was and as field accepted his German When this war 's review is writIt will be no mean task keeping the chin junior aircraft radio electrician ten tires and trousers up I started work on February 2 'Intelligence tests for thti sebe chapters just for The We intend to buy defense bonds lection of army officers and the So we are to leave off vents lapels and them with all my salary exclusive vf grading of selectees for training trouser cuffs for the duration If Dotty Brace deenders of the Islands costs recombeen hive living purposes in her sarong hears a mating Lnmour MacArthur's gallant men is IL mended as Chester felt Officers it Ashby ' its us in our victory suit a rule should be selected frcom K A To them we send our blessings Ely see Rule those whose intelligence as A question arises in NI's' York whether And we pray as brave to be measured by the tests reaches the Tammany tiger still lives as a political K E F—See rule I In our duty to our country a eretain level"—Government force some believing it now belongs in the V V B—See rule l Till at last the world 15 free realm of taxidermy publicity item --- N Ak fr-- (' -- f 9 ‘ - 1 ill') 1 III I I I1 " ' '' - 91 1 0191 ' '' i'' '7:1''')4 ''' 9 e 0-!t- - °) o vc 9 ''v ' 'A P Ip NN ) 9 A' ps : 1 AN II The Public Forum By Our Readers - t one-eid- water-- logged pollticaf--comme- to-Vt- ah ili - enator From Sandpit Off the Record distrust - er leg-pow- er - ( tr -- Jr 110117C 1 t doo- -- — f! if ' au- —it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel" Hatred was then and there ordained and established as a rationalsensibility To cherish animosity towards a reptile or a rabid beast and harbor a desire to kill either for self protection or to rid the earth of a menace is a passion no more pardonable than a similar aversion to human beings no less venomous and deadly In fact one might overlook the cobra or copperhead notwithstanding the 'decree of divinity with better grace than to conciliate or spare a murderous group or race of mortals who resolve to seek and slaughter human objects of cultivated and directed hatred Serpents are motivated by instinct while treacherous marauders are actuated by deliberate desire to maim or- mur"Whate'er he meets der their own-kinthe wolf may slay the snake may strike what comes his way one has some chance these to escape—but not a scourge in human shape who seeks his prey" Educators and moralizers in this country who peer down from their "ivory towworld and utter balderers" on a war-tor- n sin of "hating Japs or dash about the are Germans" doing a distinct disservice to their compatriots and storing up a messy batch of disillusionment for unfortunate youths who may listen Any attempt to segregate soldiers and civilians from the leaders of their government in a time of war is neither logical nor conduelve to success Americans who were bombed at Pearl Harbor or Manila since the start of hostilities last December and those who were slapped or stripped prior to that treachery have no illusions about the common sap They do not ascribe the barbarism of the race to its educated leaders Nor does any one who has read "Education for Death" by Gregor Zeimer care to bear about the nobility of young nazi souls Both peoples have been trained to hate Americans not just Rooseveltli or the new deal as some politicians do but every man woman and child in the United States Neither a jap nor a German nazi would hesitate one moment about shooting our soldiers or civilians In the backs women as well as men either sick or well armed or unarmed if he could do it without risk to himself It is obvious idiocy to tel young men who may be on the battlefield tomorrow or the next day that they must not hate the "poor Japs and Germans" who have been deluded by their leaders and forced to fight against Americans The laps and the Germans fight Americans British- Russians and Chinese because of a lust to slay they are gladly risking their lives every day to kill allied soldiers and unarmed civilians of the united nations they plot and dream and look forward to the time when they hope to see the United States lie prone beneath the heel of the axis with Americans cringing from blows and crying for mercy Who says we must not hate such Imps cf evil? Every fighting man should hate these potential ravagers and ravishers as the Creator told mankind to hate the snakes that coil beside the- path or crawl in the grass: Our defenders should not nourish the tremulous hate of fear nor the unreasoning hate of fanaticism It should be the cool antipathy of for evil adversaries who are trying to nullify the achievements of civilization and drag the image of God back to the jungle Idealists who would gild the loathsome face of war with benign sweetness Pollvannas who would carpet battlefields with flowers of forgiveness and impractical purveyors of pink tea strategy will all have to descend from their "Ivory towers" into the real world of warrior from today while some clear-eye- d the front tells them "the facts of life" March By Paul Mallon domesWASHINGTON—The tic commies are taking advantage of American admiration for ' ! 1 Behind the Scenes of Current News (7: Press The 1 1 - ' 1 -