Show t 4MPt - 1 16A Sunday Morning -- a Behind the Scenes of Current News 1 gab -- 1 i 4 Established April - i Z-tibrm--- I 15 1871 Tribune Issued every morning by Salt Late 3 ceC41-P-4- 1 Publistlina Company : I Salt Lake City Utah Sunday Morning March 29 1942 1 priced in dollars against money which if the enemy is victorious will be worth nothing They are not "smart gamblers" State Takes Another Step Toward Economies I - Governor Herbert B Maw and his ministration merit praise for their efforts toward economy in state government This time it is the highway department and the governor has announced a trimming down program which while not sudden or drastic will result in a saving of $300000 and elimination of more than 200 employes Following a meeting with members of the 'commission and other executives in this bureau it was revealed that a reduction in personnel is planned over a period of time by elimination of replacements rather than discharge of workers now employed Reorganization of use of cerwork will permit year-roun- d tain individuals now only busy seasonally and a "stenographic pool" will gain fuller efficiency in office work For a number of years Utahns have felt the need for reduction in state expenditures They have watched with dismay the spiraling costs which followed increased demands for more services more highways and more public conveniences Appeals for economy were met with promises and plans which languished in pigeonholes between election days announced LMIL Herbert B Maw CLIILIOULPVA along with his candidacy for governor a program for reorganizing the state government which would result in consider- able cuts in expenses most citizens cast a somewhat jaundiced and cynical eye in his direction It would be a good idea they said but they had heard that one before At any rate they decided it was worth a gamble and they elected him and his ticket But Governor Maw was apparently in earnest He went to work on his reorganization plan at once and after legislative tussles and political squabbles—and perhaps some mistakes—the blueprints became a reality and the new system began to operate Thus far it has not proved but it is working perfect nor It is working well enough to merit praise of many taxpayers and quite a number of business men Somewhat slowly but steadily it is taking hold and as each department comes under scrutiny ways are found to reorganize the work of the personnel to gain Some departments like the efficiency liquor commission have gone about the job voluntarily and within theIr own organization have found ways to plug up waste holes or increase revenues With federal levies soaring and living costs mounting Utahns can be grateful that this economy program is making headway It is easing the load on the taxpayer staggering under an immense but inescapable war burden ad- : i 1 I 1 ' 1 ‘ i a I IX71-- " 1W fool-pro- ' Lieutenant General Jonathan M Wainwright is proving himself an able successor to the Hero Of Bataan General Douglas MacArthur who has gone to Australia to assume full command of the war efforts of the united nations forces in the south Pacific The Japs have made frequent air raids on Corregidor the American fortress which commands Manila bay and have concentrated other military strength in that area in an attempt to clear out that thorn in the side of the operations in the archipelago Thus far American and Filipino fight ers have stood off the enemy with accurate fire from antiaircraft batteries and their infantry forces without air support have held the enemy at bay and even thrown him back in fighting on the peninsula Corregidor is proving a costly adventure for the Japs and unless they can subdue it they must detour it in their attempts to invade Australia Y and "Aussie— troops As American land on the "down under" continent as more planes and equipment arrive and as the troops assimilate MacArthur's spirit of action hopes gain for a real counterblow against the Japs now slowed down in New Guinea When it starts the raising of the siege on Bataan will be one of the first objectives But all this requires time and patience MacArthur will move when he gains sufficient power to strike real blows and follow them up with an draft seem to have I - i of r Gambling for Liberty Offers Players Wrong Odds According to Walter–Lippmann there is no "labor problem" as such The difficulties which have arisen in worker-employrelations are just a part of the whole problem—that is the war problem To center the blame on industry management congress or labor is to miss the forest while looking at the trees In spite all-o- offensive ut Legion Chief Voices National Commander Lynn Ti Stambaugh of the American Legion sounded a trumpet call for patriotism and industry in his recent address at 'a public meetLake sponsored by the local ing Veterans' organization Pointing out the war need for all-oefforts in an all-ohe called attention to the gravity of the situation faced by this country beset by totalitarian enemies across both the oceans which lap our shores "In order to win this war" he :I- -dared "we must devote more time to 9ttr war effort than our enemies are devoting to theirs This war is a new kind of war that cannot be won by heroism alone rt is a war of machinery speed protective armor and production" This leader of veterans of a former war also had something to say about the peace If we want a permanent peace he said we must insure one with power Power of our own might combined with that of other nations desiring peace is thJ only way to a world in which war la banned forever he asserted in-Sa- ut ut er of frequent appeals for unity for concentration of all our efforts on a total war there are still too many persons and groups in this country giving lip service to a patriotic program while wondering just how they can turn the national emergency to their own personal advantage Politicians business men and labor leaders are thinking in terms of votes profits and wcirk hours when they should be clearing their minds for the m9st important task they and their millions of compatriots will ever face Winning this war is not a job to be done in off hours It is not a hobby to engage the leisure attention It is not a part-tim- e occupation to be sandwiched into periods of more "serious" thoughts about making a living It is true that men women and families must find a livelihood during these times of stress it is also true that the economic dislocations have forced many to "rack their brains" for some plan to carry on in the face of a business col lapse brought about by priority rulings 3 These things require attention they can not be entirely neglected but there are many persons not beset by such worries who are scheming and planning— not to give everything to the nation's war program but to get everything possible for themselves out of the emergency gamblers and ''re They are short-sighte- d playing for the wrong odds They are put ting up the great prizes of liberty and the American way of life against an imtnediate gain of-- a few thousands or harn a million dollars They are risl(ing something so valuable that it can not be York Highlights NeW By Charles B Driscoll Somebody shelled the lonely beaches of Mona island- from 'a submarinerhot long ago The ship was nct identified but the Italians- have been mattfri claims in that neighborhood and this daring attack uptin the almost uninhabited little island bears all the identifying marks of a brave Italian' exploit Since there was noobdy on the beach to hurl a roc at the gallant submarine captain the shelling went on for 130112t time We learn that there has beenof late a small C C C camp on the romantic little Island which lies in Mona passage off the coast of Piierto Rico If this is so C C C must be going in for treasure hunting for there is no other industry or activity on the strange little island of Mona I wonder whether the captain of the submarine knew when he was tossing away expensive shells against a jungle that he might be turning up a treasure long sought by romantic explorers When Captain Kidd came homeward from his fateful voyage into the Indian ocean he stopped briefly in the West Indies and learned to his consternation that some of his old political friends in New York and London had conspired against him to save their own faces and had accused him of piracy He had gone out against his will on an expedition against p1rates4 He had taken a few enemy ships Britain was at war with France and Kidd had letters of marque against the French He carried homeward much treasure taken from these enemies Many of Kidd's men deserted when they heard the bad news in the West Indies' Kidd bought a much smaller vessel and sailed it with his old ship to Mona island where he spent a long time transshipping He cargo and making other arrangements then made for New York stopping at Gardiner's island off Long island and burying some of his treasure there Captain Kidd was an intelligent man a succesqui ship captain and ship owner over a loryr period of years He knew that the politicians with whom he had become involved in this expedition were unscrupulous rascals - - -- - 1 (''' 1 -- trs ' E d:e4frlN ate? 1 N te i - 104 0s 1 - 'A tv14 v 1 4I11 4-'''''-'t te' -- f ' § r41)-' ' - - ' -- t- - '7 '' - ) 4 y-r-e1: C i ' 4 i 00" I c:2-:- f x - ' f i ' '‘'41exi---t'crztrii-''- - :!- 1 -- '' -- tr 1 i' ofvIP tD 2 I I miX1IUill SAleCi'4 4 s' f4''-'-'-"-- - - ' ' - e 14 r" - "' L ' - - -- 10 rf:: ort e '- '1e)--- 4tisno o ' I- -- s)051 6 ei ()Nei)? - 1?4' C:ei) : ' :1 N641:74611 4 ‘' rA'-e'- 41re tC111Itt(10' ' '' 0‘ 45 V-ik- ' : ' '' 11'41111:C"1714 & 7 41t' ' ' ' '$' v4'' : ' : 1-- : a- ' ' It L3- t ) tiott'c ' '' 4:-:- 0 ' 11" ''''''' ''sr'7 -:' ‘'''!i - "h fx'7n:'4 L': ''''''''"— - f''? 7' tt lit ' ' r -' ' jd'''t 4:4 I) '' sr)1 4 ft 1 I) Le0 P li ''''''''''' 1:::-- 1' N- 4n- White House Delays After what happened in !the last war common sense would seem to have made this one of the first of our defense moves Apparently it is to be one of the last though public approval of drastic action along these lines at any time would have been practically unanimous Thus far except for frustrated attempts by congress to act the only Indication of interest In the matter has been the Whtie House statement that it is being "considered" However recent disclosures by a senate committee not only of outrageous profits s by specific firms but of evasion of excess-profittax by payment to officers and employes of huge bonuses as well as stirred 'public indignahuge salarlea-hav- e don to a po:nt where something now seems certain to be done 4ipt e s4 rl 10::'' e 11 'r - ' t - - - --- - --is 4'f ' "Liio '''Z ' f ' 'I' y : fr tj 4 se"' 'Tr' 4 - to'17' ' u'7- tYNDICAII' 0—- teM - eer7:-- " All Not Gouging While it is true'that many plants with war contracts are not making excessive profits or paying unduly swollen salaries it is also true that those which have been revealed as operating the bonus racket and piling up too heavy profits are not- isolated instances A good many are making too much money and there is no excuse whatever for continuing to permit it Particularly is there no excuse for those who are outraged by the efforts of the labor leadweek and push ers to hold on to the forward to their joint goal not to be equally outraged by the corporate heads who are gouging the government for more than a fair return on their war work Both the labor excesses and the management excesset add terribly to the cost of the war and that adds to the burden of the people Because the unescapable and basic fact is that the 'full cost of the war comes out of their pockets There is no other place front which!lt can come These being the facts it would seem the clear duty of: the administration to put an end equally to the profiteering of the manufacturer and to the profiteering of labor through the time and a half for over 40 hours' work and other - ra-1- ) et ": 40-ho- ur labor-management By Our Readers several P Lord prophecy already has been fulfilled to the letter Prophecy ts others of similar high placement I but history foretold If you believe in "free- agency" surely But Satanic greed will probyou would not shut a prophet's ably have its way and millions of ignorant and innocent go to mouth A teacher of prophecy is a prophet and so long as my their doom as a sacrifice on its altar of infamy all the warnings skeptical friends ha ha my beof the Jesuses Lincolns Jefferliefs I will heh heh their theories I venture to say that if Mr sons Jacksons Kitsons et al to the contrary Lund or a "great divine" were C Z Anderson to prove a point to the satisfaction of 99 the other one would Provo Utah remain in the ditch He couldn't die holding on to the spirit coatBacks Beliefs tails of Torn Paine because his Editor Tribune: A gentleman skepticism teaches that Paine intimates that only a few chosen' has been totally annihilated for What a pity that all eternity ones have read Tom Paine's man should be a reasonable such one of Reason" and that "Age obliterated could not possibly believe in BibAndrew A Van Brunt lical prophecy had he done so Calls for Change My dear sir all clergymen and all lay Bible students worthy of Editor Tribune: If you own that designation have read the things men must have you Paine Ingersoll and other noted b own thn men and women who atheists infidels skeptics evomust earn a livelihood Just as lutionists and fallacious scientists and find them very intereffectively as the black man Those think- esting was owned in the days of chattel be ashamed to own most of - slavery is but the ownslaveryThe aic their followers atheist knows no more concerning of labor Our loud boast is: We are ing his professed skepticism than does the average Christian fighting to save democracy I have concerning his belief What democracy? That phrase been asked several times if I've democracy when used to adever studied philosophy I read vance a political party's prophilosophy to ease the mental tension while I was studying gram fan be found defending Robinson Crusoe and Treasure s the most undemocratic Island is our For instance society It is a historical fact that far called la democracy wherein more than half of all Biblical there is mass production operated by the 2 per cent who own By SCP per cent of the industrial liam Park wealth wherein we soon will have $150000000000 in "enThink kindly of the angleworm bonds" hanging over slavement him meet when Be gentle jou of the taxpayers heads the And give a sympathetic squirm It makes no difference whethWhen greedy robins eat him er it's Roosevelt Churchill WillLet this thought govern what kie or the Happy Warrior When do— you they tell you we can have deHe never done no dirt to you! ' mocracy with our mass produc—Stoddard King tion operating under a private on money system then they are Notes the Cuff Department n I received a letter telling you something they ahave pebeen unable to prove over expressing indignation over cerriod of ten years If democracy tain abuses in defense production by these people is to become an Copis of the letter were sent the writer stated to our accomplished fact why haven't with they taken care of the average congressional delegation ten million unemployed until the note that the letter wai not 19417 dissolved the monopolies written at the suggestion of controlled by the 2 per cent and any chamber of commerce I am afraid it will have no effect' chased the money changers out of the temple of Wall street?-- unless the writer signs his true which one said in '32 he would name My copy was signed B do if given a chance by issuing Ligerent" "United States currency" inH Asa Fowler says worry of bonds stead is misery ahead of schedule Politically speaking after the election in "what year" can we When we How time flies expect fulfillment of these prommoved into this neighborhood ises? Unless something conSusan Dixon was just a little structive is done before the end a in braid girl with her hair of this war the communists are one of Now she's the prettiest to get us W E De Witt sure nurses In St Marks hospital Scores Fire Delays Ev:a a tombstone will say good things about a fellow when Editor Tribune: In reading the he's down paper of March 23 I see that our wonderful city commission has It is said that this inscription solved the problem of protectcan be found on a tombstone at Church Comsie ing the fire station while the firemen are out answering an Essex: Do they realize what alarm look with alive "When pictures are doing? Should a life they movements free be lost through loss of time in When ships like fishes swim locking the station they will be below the sea stied for every dollar Salt Lake When men outstripping birds City has scan the sky I have always been told that l'hen half the world deep first five minutes at a fire the blood shall in drenched be" are more important than the next five hours Patron: "What makes the white-plat- e lunch cost more than Why should not the fire stations' be guarded rs well as a n the other place subje's't to sleotge? Welter: "ITh'ir costs We A Taxpa) er have to wash the white plates" M Editor Tribune: War with all cross-- c urrents of hate slaughter and waste is absolutely unnecessary hi this modern world of unlimited production and transportation! It is here for only one reason: Because a relatively small percentage'of inhuman beings with the Satanic perversion of the dog in the manger persists in its refusal to admit the inherent right of every human being to equal enjoyment of the of the world into which he was born An armistice could be had in 48 hours if Churchill Roosevelt Stalin and a few others would issue a joint manifesto to the world pledging that they will abide by the decisions of a world: court representing all lands in a decision as to a just arrangement for equal access to sit world resources and to the gates of transportation (Suez Gibraltar Panama) and that they agree to abandonment of the bonding system of synthetic money that has made possible the monopoly of these things in a few hands The inherited special privileges of the few exploiters coming down to tis from the Rothschild usury have recently been admitted as the root cause of all world troubles by no less of persons than an the Bank of England Vincent C Vickers Sir Richard Acland Its personal impression is these obvious limitations will prevent the effects of industrial drafting from falling upon a great number of people certainly upon far fewer than the draft for military service although any opinion about this requires longer distanced vision than anyone enjoys these days New Agency Likely 'A new agency of government will probably be established for this man power mobilization It is not likely to be in charge of any of those so far mentioned Madame Perkins Sidney Hillman General Hershey or Paul McNutt Miss Perkins thinks It should be innaturally the labor department and McNutt has been working on the assumption it is a question of public welfare Varying degrees of conflict have arisen between-thesfour which precludes the possibility that any of them will handle it Mr i Roosevelt is looking daggers at the press again the sharpest of them being off the record An erroneous report in One paper that Ambassador Winant might head the man power mobilization set-u- p is the s only apparent thing that roused his interest the wrong way But his displeasure became known at a time when the labor issue was rising in congress Pnd the press He leveled off the congressional upswing somewhat by having his leaders (except Thurman Arnold) testify there against labor legislation but many sections of the press kept rising The president appeared to contradict himself somewhat when he concluded the press hns not as much power over public opinion as it formerly enjoyed This is probably true Peonle today are better educated to the issues of the day and seem increasingly inclined to do their thinking independently Yet if this is correct: Mr Roosevelt may have misguided the labor oblections he tles heard from ennTrePs or reed in the press If these were sunerfleisl criticisms limited to tlYs- - tvo nuthn-iti"- Q tbn they Ct'n eactilv di be ra tni corn ter by pressure Distribu'eci by Nii vc:tiues Syndicate Inc 411 & 1 4714 r1 1' vs' -- C r e - ' Laments Modern War pose My !- :I'- ''''-- The Public Forum ve i redA7:7"ceeA -- t : - eeN - -- 17'-- ' ''' C ‘15 cf:' CEol 4i tp: in mind- - is - 1i- - g' ' t a' o'' ( --' — - - ‘ - t4wed -- t 's Q ift r :s: 'j 4ø1w"- c- 1"' to'00005-'''- - - 104(00':' ' Nio- it:'e' 4 N 1 - 10 111 - - f i 41 or ' io7--':ofi- i' " I : 007 e!!--'1'- ''''i1' 47:' S7th'io''''fi''''ti"ol - :4010e: : mils) - ' - '400Øø' 1- -- t' i 4 111''' P 't ) LL!!' '' ‘ I J Asserts' By Frank R Kent WASHINGTON—It was almost 20 years ago that B M Baruch evolved his slogan: "Take the profit out of war" He has spoken and written consistently on this subject ever since No one has disputed- the soundness of the ideal nor disagreed with the methods he has suggested for putting in into effect Yet here we are up- - to our national neck in a far greater and more deadly war with no move made in that direction The strange resistance to the lesson!' of experience which characterizes this administration has prevented elimination of en evil which undermines national morale as it adds to the burdens of the people 'i es 1 based on need for the long range future They cannot say what they will do until the returns show them what they can do At present there is no need for this type of draftee But about nine months from now they foresee the possibility that there will be a shortage of soldiers of production mainly mechanics electricians draftsmen machine operators of various types They want to find out now what they have available to meet such a need when it arises A fair idea of the needs they expect is furnished by the questionnaire to be distributed to the current batch of draft registrants (36 to 44 and On that published list the citizen is asked to designate what previous experience he has had along a couple of hundred (mostly mechanical) lines The upper age brackets in this class too face a call for nonmilitary duty and eventually all who are not in military service You will not escape just because you are not mechanically minded They plan to invite you to run a bus or truck you some simple occupation like night watchman in a tank factory if you are not otherwise fitted and the need develops Certainly however they will be limited by the number of empty jobs and in a general way by aptitudes of the draftees Above all an act of congress will be required to enable anyone to be drafted for other duty than in the army The law now is restricted to that puror-gi- CurbKen t - 44) 20-21- )1 Plea for Total Effort --- 7 A salary-changin- I only Public Backing Can Force Profits By Manning - a day about this phase and others for nearly two weeks But he always speaks off his cuff never from a prepared manuscript and no stenographic notes are kept at least not at his headquarters There the piecemeal news accounts are pasted- in a scrap book as a recordAll these clippings show is that General Hershey expects a full mobilization of man power (quantity and quality unspecified) for all kinds of industrial jobs (otherwise unspecified) Industry reading these accounts in the papers has become somewhat apprehensive lest the government turn itself Into a gigantic transfer agency to shift most people from the work they are doing into something else with all the implicag tions of socializing business destroying (in some lines) business building (in some lines) that might be conjured from such an apprehension I do not: believe this is justified Long Range Future What the officials behind the MacArthur's Successor In Bataan Carries On Mr Ships y e- Draft Brigadier General Hershey has been making a speech - 1 Good-b- By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON—The precise nature of this coming 45 to 64 draft registration of man power for civil duties outside the army will probably remain unexplained until after it is concluded The Tribune le a member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the Ube for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this Paper and also the local news Published herein i - March 29 1942 al(c 3ri1bunt Zbe 5a1t devices set-up- Senator From Sandpit little experience upsets a lot of theory—Anon A woman spent a great deal of her leisure time campaigning against capital punishment She never let an opportunity pass to sign a petition appealing- to a governor for the commutation of the sentence of a murderer She became a great admirer of a noted lawyer famous because he defended two notorious murderers add when this lawyer visited her city she arranged for an introduction in order that she might compliment hint A few days after she had met this lawyer and was still tinder the spell of his personality her son a young man of 22 just out of college was held up beaten and robbed by a couple of thugs Immediately her views toward capital punishment changed She favored hanging quartering and boiling in oil for the assailants The moral of this story is— it all depends upon whose 'ox is gored In Behalf of the Worm The angleworm's the friend of man The mascot of the garden Yet anglers toss him in a can And never beg his pardon I unreservedly affirm They don't do right by that poor worm The angleworm's a harmless A - well-writte- ' 500-year-o- ld ellf4F4 And keeps the humus fertile But when they see him quite a fuss Ia made by Mae and Myrtle He lacks the caterpillar's fuzz — But hPidsorne is ss handsome blve-nlate- does Ceiling on Profits The first can be accomplished by means the new tax bill now taking shape in the committees Whether or not congress can legislate to recapture excessive profits already made on war work and force restitution of bonuses already paid congress certainly can legislate to put a rigid ceiling on profits of the future and congress can outlaw the bonus game This was the sort of legislation Mr Baruch urged be put on the statute books when there was scarcely a war cloud in the sky anywhere Though it burns the new dealers to admit It it is too clear to dispute that failure to follow the Baruch advice has added billions to the cora Of the war and greatly retarded it is rejected the production The longer to pay A ceiling greater the price awe have over over profits and ceiling wages would not only reduce the cost of war by billions of dollars but if inflation is to be averted essential Mr Baruch has they are vitally in season and out He has pointed urged this one should not be imposed iwith- out that out the other that both are necessary to a successful war effort that the experience of the last war makes action along :these lines clearly in the interests of all Had 1Var Experience One of the moat Inexplicable things about our present situation is the reluctance to recognited as adopt the counsel of the onman war production the highest authority not only had an exproblems Mr Baruchwar which no one else in last the perience had but since 1919 he has devoted more thought time and money to problems than anyone else His experience his ability and his patriotic disinterestedness are conceded Yet though eventually the administration is forced in the direction he to get points it takes months of pounding it to move In the meantime the country pays a high price for the lost time That was the case with the single head of the production machinery whom it took 20 months to get the president to name It was the case with the industrial committees wecently announced by Mr Nelson more Liam a year later It was the case with other recommendations ignored at first and finally adopted because there was nothing else to do z war-producti- - - Public Forces Issues In the end it will be that way with the ceiling over profits and wages because nothing else makes sense and publicThesentiment signifiwill make action compulsory cant fact is that from the beginning the people have been ahead of the administration in these matters Public- sentiment of the forced reorganization original absurd set-u- p sentiment Public D C brought 0 d W P B Public sentiabout the ment soon may force action on the neglected issues of profitregulation and wage control And public senttment may so strengthen those who are fighting to eliminate the N Y A C C C and other governmental nondefense agencies which waste money and material needed for war purposes that administration resistance will be overcome If public sentiment does not do these things then they will not be done Copyright 1912 by The Baltimore Sun single-heade- Off the Record For the duration how does anyone feel About removing politics to a quiet 1room in the wing for incurables with the shades drawn Signs of spritrz are all along the northIn another week or so ern countryside grrndf-tile- r snd the"intiques for Nile- - will be dusted and moved out on the porch V d g 7 f- - - - - - - - !t- tlkikr4lAtUtbi- - - - 11"0116fikieutilholholtworadhArsAlha- r - - -- sto - 4': - i r |