Show - 18 A -- Sunday Morning Established April telortillatt Sall L Mune asued every e Dv lose tor is reprodu-r- t a creel Del Oi a41 el the ew otesoclated limps tette also t he erase erect sc-- ei Ouzo any — citt bun PUbtlanins I t c‘ new P itono A It erest t exctuelveny in not otherw'ce credited escreta ted Of ”n ol toned herein to the pa per ant' porn led Olt Salt Lake City Utah Sutiday Morning November 15 1942 What Will the Harvest Be? Judging by Records of the Past As veterans of our several wars those fought during the past three quarters of a century passed in review between rows cf applauding Americans who lined the streets of Salt Lake City on Armistice day In a parade including the sole survivor of thelocal branch of the northern army in the Civil war the remnants of our dash- ing mountaineers and artillerymen who helped drive Spanish tyranny back to its spawning place the legionnaires who fought in 1918 to make the world a safer place for democracy and the men now enrolled to battle for the four freedoms tpon which democratic governments must stand—one could not help wondering if physical conflicts will ever be outlawed and discontinued As a method of settling disputes and asserting rights resort to force has always appealed to mortals At the very beginning when but one family lived on the earth according to available records two brothers fought until one was killed The cause of the combat was envy It was not eue to any weakness developed in a long The irrita line of dissipated ancestors not did tion result from the jeers of a derisive public The opportunity was found In a sparsely settled section of an unpopuruler lated earth governed by an e from whom nothing could be concealed From that time on the tribunal of force has had its chambers crowded with ded offenders each trying to justify his act by some ingenious excuse One might claim to have been oppressed another to have suffered in a trade: still another to have slain a neighbor in defense of the good name of the court And so it has come down through the ages— a record of treacherous assassination of mortal combat or torture of ambuscades and massacres of feudal and religious wars of conquests and invasions—until the wonder grows that anybody is left on this troubled sphere to perpetuate the bloody record Human nature has not changed much In fifty centuries Disputes between individuals groups tribes nations and races that comprise the human family have always led Ica fighting at the drop of some particular hat while methods:and means of carrving on these conflicts are becoming more deadly year by In spite of the development of reason the spread of religion the advancement of civilization and the preachments for peace wars are worse now than ever before Take the first World war as an example There were 36000000 men engaged —20000000 on the side of the central powers and 16000000 with the allied forces After a little over four years of warfare confined largely to the single continent of Europe the casualty lists 18000 000 showed 10000000 dead d wounded of whom remained hcpeless or partial wrecks and 4000000 civilians massacred by the Turks and Bulgarians who were aligned with the Germans After a look at the map showing the extent of the present war one might wonder where the first war got its name The current conflict is raging in both hemisperes on four continents involving two This is a others with 20 governments world war without question It is fiercely fought by fanatieai aggressors with the latest and deadliest implements of destruction It is a war in which pagan throwbacks with a following of Christian dupes are trying to destroy the four freedoms of democratic government and reduce conquered peoples to a condition of slavery Men ask what are we fighting for— and any nitwit ought to know that we are fighting for existence All other considWithout exiserations are secondary tence they would vanish like dreams If we fail to fight and to conquer it be curtains for independence for defor Christianity with a long mocrac2ualt for another engagement all-wis- redh:-n- so-call- ed r one-thir- - 14-i- ll Verified Reports Are Best But Rumors Travel Faster q 0 e g I 0 ii 0 0 I 0 i 1 There appears to be no dearth of news from the North African front since the veil cf secrecy which protected our fighting men in transit svas rent for all to see In fact there has been an ernLarrassment of riches even two or three versions cf every event which has happened since the opening of this campaign In such confusion this is a safe rule I: which the ordinary observer should Ye Wait until the orlicial an- roccrnenL Sometimes facts may irg but in the meantime to know everything as 1isten to or read widely- be slow in com- - those impatient it happens can differing tales from Vichy Berlin and neutral sources It was not extraordinary that rumors and wild stories should fly in the wake of startling news that an American force had landed in Morocco and Algiers After citizens back home got over that almost anything was believable But citizens of these United States ought to heed the warnings of leaders against becoming too optimistic There is plenty of work to be done yet by the A E F in Africa "Consolidating gains" has a prosaic sound and "mopping up" i3 not nearly so thrilling as storming a city But these tasks are important and our military- leaders are wise enough strategists to know that they have to be accomplished before the campaign moves Into the next phase How well the Americans and their British allies do these jobs may make or mar their subsequent moves against th0 enemy which is Germany and Italy—not the French If our forces can extend their control all along the southern coast of the Mediterranean and if our naval units can maintain a supply line for the troops across the Atlantic it will be soon enough to sit back and take account of what it all means Th-es- e precautions require time and the American people need to be patient They must be patient if no news of a startling character comes through and they must be patient if some reverses are so-call- ed - sustained In the meantime we can all be proud of our achievements thus far of the courage and stamina of our boys overseas of the skill and diplomacy of their military We can also be compassionate leaders for the French who are suffering the buffeting of fate both in their homeland and In the occupied colonies They have been assured that results will justify the means and they know our leaders will be their friends The people of the United States believe that their former comrades at arms trust in our good faith Utah Celery Week Brings Cheer to Consumers Everywhere Utah Celery week opened Saturday and will extend all through the period ending November 21 During this time residents of this commonwealth will follow the annual procedure of sending samples of this succulent delicacy to friends and serving a lot of it on their own dinner tables Neither war nor weather hampered the growth anti- - cultivation of this year's crop and an abundant harvest has been assured Many parents will no doubt ship a bunch or two to sons in army camps and while not taking the place of cakes or cookies for the soldiers celery may serve to remind the boys of the days at home besides providing them with material for boasting about their home state This year because of unusual strains on transportation facilities shippers of celery have been asked to get their packages started a day or two earlier than heretofore Celery which grows so well and matures out-of-sta- te in this intermountain area has done much in years past to spread the fame of Utah's agricultural resources Each fall thousands of bunches have gone out to many parts of the country as individual gifts for friends' Thanksgiving tables or as wholesale shipments to large population centers where epicurean tastes have learned to watch the market for the appearance of this popular so satisfactorily product Again this year Utah celery will carry Its refreshing message of good will to thousands of dinner tables throughout the land Off the Record fortune department: An oyster years on the job has yet to spot a pearl Meanwhile a housewife who wasn't trying finds $1928 in an old tomato can Asked to name two things that come from the cow a western tot said "the double-di- p cone" Correct but the ration planners will shortly attend to this The early settler had his meatless days Sooner bu i had only to sit in a doorway or later a buffalo steak would amble by By the light of the silvery moon the winged squadrons set forth to flatten the cities ot the foe It was not thus in the songs Wheel of shucker Ersatz Superman Behind the Se 6nes of Current News 15 1871 40 when he were young Among the least expected solutions of the great man power problem we just saw a Western Union messenger with painted fingernails and green wedgies While smoking a forbidden cigaret in bed a western woman of 90 set fire to the mattress There is no age of discretion as far as we know So far in the matter of bombings the states Almighty has blessed the-the worst that can happen at the moment is being struck by a falling officeholder In the case of the Illinois culprit caught with stamps taken from a postal station it is suggested he write "it is wrong to steal" 5000 times with a postoffice pen :4)3:73 - - -- By - Manning Congress Minority Has Chance to Better Tax Laivs ettle2 1 :t--ft 7 : WASHINGTON—It seems agreed that as a result of the elections the prospects are enhanced for a more practical and adequate treatment of the vital problem of taxation in 1943 Whether this expectation evaporates or is realized depends to a considerable extent upon the Republican leadership in the next congress i c k fl LI -- c ti : ""'"") 11 iotort1 te-ge-- t ' - - - - II 4 - - 4" i s - : it - p - - I t 1 t - ' - -- 4ds Vt - -- - - I10 tw iptc::ra:::-ll:sJ--s::s:-ltb- s t' '' :' $14'4 ' 'a 4 fl?''' 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' i(- 'P:' - i' 1) ' r tc - : a ' 'I ' ' 1 ' 'PHO(Wil SIPUBLIC 'e y I'Vt - - ''' ' - - - 1 - - - A - I - -a - J - ' - cArtyTtiyNolcTe- 0 i - ‘ '2 a' f 420 7 - e ' : ‘ a' '' i i o' t? 7 4 ' -- r ) - - - e-- if) sr t r J - J w - 's - " 4 4 ' 45 : 3 ' :' - k reputation Not only from this but from other congressional evidence It Is becoming plain the week 'arrangement is to be changed Obviously the government cannot try a draft of man power or take many firm steps to promote war production in that way with union labor enweek and joying a working on the average 425 hours iIi ill 4 ' Lk::j r 40-ho- ur - Aviation Age nDawns in U 40-ho- ur This question however is pri- familiarity with fixing machinery and keeping it running when the hardware store is a long distance away— and no telephone to get someone else to do the walking hand-wis- e We ve had too many electric buttons and switches and automatic gadgets And while we have an inkling of what makes them tick we have seldom had to become practically acquainted with what's behind the enameled box because we have seldom had to fix these automatic gadgets In fact the mass production agencies which built all the convenience gadgets factory sealed units etc that nave made American life so soft and plushy stre7sed the "automatic and call our service agency" angle Embryo Mechanics Find Selves In Jam Now the service agencies "ain't" The competent service men are in the armed forces and the few left around can't meet he demand The result is that ve are in a jam We think we nave the idea of how the gadgets work but as soon as we pry open the "sealed factory nnits" we find ourselves in Barnyard Engineers Come Into Existence There's going to be more "barnyard engineering" done in this country in the next few years than was done in the past 50 Starting soundly and learning as we go we will actually an entire generation betraning (and ourselves of course) for Our places in the air age—which will be all machinery The air age is coming no matter what the olitcome of the war The United States is bound to be the leading nation in that age and in order to justify and hold that word position above the learizon the entire setup must he built upon the founda- a picklement There is a great discrepancy between our vaunted theoretical knowledge of machinery and what we actually know But we are darn soon going to make up that discrepancy because we are now doing our own service work Our carpentry plumbing metal working soldering and tion of a noptilation I that is fund'uientaliv sound in its unCcreitaT rlinn of what it tskes to make flyinl- machinery tick Distrtbuted by United Features Due to the illness of Hamilton G Park The Senator From Sandpit" column has been temporarily suspended - S electrit al repair are improving How many people know: (1) how to enrich or lean the carburetor mixture of a car (2) sketcn and describe the operation of a four cycle six cylinder automobile (3) engine "time" or describe the timing theory of any automobile engine (4) sketch and describe the elPctrical layout of an automobile (5) what the ratio is in revolution between the cam shaft and the crankshaft of a six cylinder automobile engine? But we are all going to become familiar to some degree with our machinery and how to fix it What's all this got to do with aviation and the coming air age? Well IL ties right in Every American is an engineer of some kind and we are now going to become practical engineers by servicing and repairing the household and motor car machinery we bought before the war and have got to keep running This means a great boost in the mechanical knowledge of the entire nation and a still greater boost in our skill in handling tools By Major Al Williams Every American is at heart an 3ngineer of some kind or other The youngsters of the present age are what you might theoretically call machine wise But they lack the marilya a matter of pay Time and half or double time is paid above 40 hours generally to union men The miners for Instance who until recently have been on the five-da- y week are now going to work six but they will get time and a half for the sixth day This practice opposes every administration purposes — the holding down of income to prevent inflation price limitations to keep down war and living - i Syndicate 1 : r 14 A 1:'''''' ' " e' : pot o 4 AP Inc 1 to -- -- of religious education in our homes a situation greatly to be deplored Bible : — i teaching in the Sunday School to be ef- -' ''''' ' fective must be made interesting and 4: v1 Definite courses of study have a ?iv i vital great advantage over disconnected and unrelated lesson topics We should aim 1::? to : ( give our children a thorough knowl-- -i 1 1 edge of the Bible in its relation to his:'" 7:7 1 tory an appreciation of its literary value and I t beauty a familiarity with the stories ' I which it contains and the great charac-- i i f term vvilich it depicts and above all an 1 understanding of the practical applica- tion of its teachings t't dilly life and the Mr- Rockefeller service of our fellow men ! re: i 4:7 it ''' 0" ' "--? '' '1rte" s ': ' The Sunday School is the natural feeder of the church therefore its work and program are of profound importance This is increasingly true because of the growingl 48-ho- ur te'll le 04! 1" (As Written Expressly for The Salt Lake Tribune) By John D Rockefeller Jr Chairman of the Board Rockefeller Foundation and Noted Philanthropist — - iy - oe- What the Sunday School Has Done for Me December 1 all such commercial users will be rationed on a basis of mileage used instead of This in itself coupon values may make up the shortages Ickes While the fuel and gas situation i darkening beyond expectations for winter drastic action arfainst coupon holders is likely to wait That Truman committee report demanding that the unions week for war go to a work was written by a union labor man Senator Kilgore of who is conWest Virginia sidered a mine worker representative New Dealing Senator Jim Mead is also on the committee which has a strongly 77 4r A ' ' - - f 4 I I — - 4? e C 69 fl'' ''" 4t'sWebc : ' 0 h'rete:" L ' P' siv ' ' I 2' ‘ : i r t - r ' v i ê 4i t A0:1 ‘ - - ' d: :t: 10 1 Ie'pt - 77 - - rv 1e1- - e' ''' - 4- ' rleS: "'''31S - - '4 Ild 'I-- (Qt" ''' t - c - ) J '' Ar''-- ' - Ø 404qe 1 4 1 -- REctAApANI4c I By Colonel Frederick Palmer Military Expert NANA NEW YORK—For the allies the strategic situation in the Mediterranean basin is as simple as it is confusing for the axis The allies have the advantage of the upper hand as they forge on with their offensive In the regrouping of the axis forces the quick major decision which Hitler had to make was either to withdraw from or to do or die to hold the portion of north Africa immediately Withdrawal opposite Italy would mean the loss of one side of the "death alley" for allied convoys through the Mediterranean The key point of axis Africa defense is Tunisia with its great port of Bizerte It is here that Hitler needs the three armored divisions which he drove through unoccupied France He had to make sure of the French Mediterranean shore lest it might be the next objective of the A E F after the winning of Algeria and French Morocco Naturally he did not want to ss Byrd Sets Minority Pace The truth is that the only effective and consistent minority leadership in congress has come from Senator Harry Byrd of Virlong fight against waste inginia whose labor-lobby domination padded competence payrolls and the useless bureaucratic expansion seems at last to have awakened a genuine popular response There can be slight doubt that it was because of administration identification with these things that the voters turned toward the Republicans rather than because of anything the Republicans had done to abolista or abate them- - It would appear therefore the part of wisdom for the Republicans in the next session to hew to these lines They do not need to make a coalition with the anti new deal Democrats All they need do is live up to the publics proclamations they have been making and an effective majority will be established in both branches—a majdrity which easily can compel administration attention a majority which can extend for the duraticin of the week lessen contusion and war the force replacement of the more blatant new deal incompetents whose unaccustomed authority has gone to their heads Two Taxation Principles And assuredly it can compel a more realistic approach to the whole taxation business which has been bungled—and is still being bungled From the start two things were clear about taxes One was the soundness of Senator Byrd's proposal that the tai laws should be of such character with rates high enough and categories broad enough as to require no revision for at least three years The other was that inclusion of a general retail sales tax was inevitable In no other way it is conceded can stability be promoted and needed revenue raised Instead the White House has steadily blocked the sales tax proposals and apparframing ently has given no thought to the of a bill that will stand up for more than a single year As a result we have had two crude and defective laws in two years Under the later one it is expected 48- 000000 citizens will file returns but the collections will fall so far short of producing the minimum amount needed that another bill to raise six more billion is already being asked 40-ho- Axis Defense Now Centers In Tunisia Area by-pa- the great French Med- iterranean base at Toulon It would be roost useful as a base for German submarines and Italian war and merchant ships There is an adjoining airfield Hitler was bound to have more covetous eyes on the French fleet than the base It would be most valuable in harassing allied convoys and their naval escorts in the western Mediterranean But he had to make a virtue of necessity although this left an opening for the French fleet to join the allies In the handwriting on the wall for him the boasted master fuehrer of thorough preparation coordination timing and surprise attack we have written the prologue our answer in kind As a diplomat and propagandist to match his Ribbentrops and Goebbels and as a drillmaster to match his drillmasters we set General Mark IV Clark deputy commander of the A E F under Lieutenant General who Dwight D Eisenhower made the trip by submarine to Algeria to confer with General Henri Geraud Clark was only a major when we began to expand our army with the rise of the nazi threat We did not wait until we were In the war for promotion by selection He became chief of staff to Lieutenant General Lesley J McNair in the training of all our rapidly forming divisions I lived with him and went about with him in the Carolina maneuvers He was a soldier after my own heart I understand why as the then youngest brigadier general in the armyt he had been chosen for this immensely reI shall have sponsible task more to say about Wm Later he was sent as commander of the ground forces of the A E F under Lieutenant General Dwight D Eisenhower Now after the part he played with Geraud and with Admiral Jean Darlan this son of the democracy has seen the end of resistance in French North Africa within a weekafter our land-ITand the third star of a lieutenant general on his shoulder All ths great area with its ports and air fields is at our service under a United States general as supreme Commander T : - — — - t - - - I!!'::-L': 1 :: I 4' r :ir ' I' I 1 1 I " - - 1 'llt ': 1 t ::17': - : :7' - half-bake- scheme vaguely aimed at the profit system and twice rejected by congress Distributed by McNaught Syndicate er New York Highlights - By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK—News of the passing cl George M Cohan did not come as a surprise to his friends who had been long expecting to hear of his release from suffering George has been a very sick man for two years and fatal malady was creeping up on him for a considerably longer time He had been living through his troubled days and nights at the scene of his boyhood in North Brookfield Mass Four years ago I approached George with an Idea In the interest of a friend I wanted the Yankee Doodle boy to write a daily brief comment on the news in characteristic Cohan style George was open to argument but front job the first felt that he could not do the conhad many meetings long justice We and some experimental writing versations was done Finally George wrote roe: "I can't for the life of me bring myself to feel that I could do a job on it "I thoroughly understood that one really has to take lessons in order to play a violin As a matter of fact I took violin lessons for 14 years but never could play the darned old thing "I honestly do feel that I should have made my decision earlier and saved you all the valuable time you gave to me but so enjoyed our several little talks that I make up my mind about tryjust couldn't until I actually had to" ing the thing The space filled with little dots indicates omission of phrases altogether too flattering to beloncT in this reminiscence The last time I saw him was at a pleasant dinner as guests of Captain Dennnis Francis O'Brien at The Players O'Brien g friend and was George's attorney confidant life-lon- - 4 - — i ur Means Many New Employes Even without that the 1942 law will re- quire a vast army of new treasury employee to administer and no one can estimate the number of uncollectible returns nor gauge the fiscal confusion Both will be large Nor are matters improved by the $25000 salary limit conceived by the CIO indorsed by Mrs Roosevelt and now under direction of the president put into operation through an order from Economic Director Byrnes This is as inexcusable a piece of demagoguery as we have been treated to in a long time Senator George chairman of the finance committee states that the result will be a loss rather than a gain in treasury revenue and that it will greatly boost administrative costs and general confusion Certainly it will decrease the power of the limited number of people to whom it applies to buy war bonds and make charitable contributions It is a cheap political gesture of which with the nation at war the administration should be ashamed If it were possible through this order to achieve a good purpose there might be some defense for it But all it does is further harass a small group of citizens without anyd resultant benefit to the treasury It is a labor-lead- — - 1 - ' t The only way to express that resentment was by electing Republicans to congress but Republican leaders will be making a mistake if they assume that either themselves or their party were indorsed t ' I 1 it ' I 'V - W-'--'1 4 1C '' J10''°' f - :dwovr77r lis :±w1--- ' 1 rr4 ''11 The quality of that remains to be seen but it is certainly true that in the present session minority leadership has not been first class No one contends that the new Republican gains were due to the Republican record It was on the whole a poor record largely lost sight of by the voters In their resentment over administration sins of omission and commission 4 Great Leakage Exit But some steps besides cutting coupon values can un-be taken A great leakage in necessary consumption is supposed to exist in "S" books On Syndicate Inc By Frank R Kent I' -- - ' A' - - situ- costs etc Make Few Sacrifices The election results have given impetus to the prevailing congressional that the unions have Impression not sacrificed as much in the war effort as other classes of citizens If the matter is allowed to drift on without solution it is likely the congressional tax-m- a kers will act in the next tax bill—imposing perhaps a 50 per cent tax on time and a half or overtime as "excess earnings" or rerviiring such earnings to be invested in government bonds Maas' hot Representative broadcast deploring the Inefficiency of our naval war effort in the Pacific is what many congressman perhaps a majority really think and have been saying among themselves Democratic Representative Lyndon Johnson of Texas has the privately taken somewhat consame view so it cannot be sidered a political matter No tiefinite action has been taken nowever for several reasons The naval command has been changed since the "sleeping cruiser" and other incidents occurred and naval communiques have been issued more promptly the past few weeks Also the question of a unified Pacific command is strictRoosevelt's problem ly Mr alone He is the only one who could :oin MacArthur' s efforts Solomonl island rmpone snd npRign under narently hr tak"i the polVion they are joined through himnow Distributed by Fin z Features' a- va ation is showing signs of deterioration Only a few ocean tankers so slow as to be of no use to the army and navy are still in private operation Railroad tank cars are showing the wear of terrific pace and repair shops are crowded we -- mmow 40 ) By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON—Some fancy inside administrative clawing attended Mr Ickes recommendation to Donald Nelson that fuel and gas rationing consumption be curtailed more sharply in the east As Fuel Coordinator Ickes knew (but the public did not) the Henderson office of price administration had taken an immovable stand against the Ickes recommendation in advance consultations 0 P A did not ‘vant any further curtailment and especially not a decrease in gas coupon values to three instead of four gallons (a 25 per cent cut) These was much inner tilting back and forth between them before Mr Ickes told Nelson the east would be short about 80000 barrels of gasoline a day and 139000 barrels of oil—apparently leaving the decision as to what to do about it up to Mr Nelson But Mr Ickes took some adsteps on the side to assure mation He privately told the army and jor oil companies navy requests must be given prior consideration before any consumer business thereby pro posing to leave less gas and fuel for public distribution despite 0 P A Official reason for the new curtailment commotion is that the navy and army now want their oil and gas delivered on the 'eastern seaboard Up to the African campaign they filled their Atlantic needs largely at gulf ports Also the transportation November 15 1912 Cfribune 171'bc Kake Th v-v - 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