Show raQE1 M outlay Morning ngut fljc akr tLt good vr7 Nazi Domestic Situation Poses Problem FAtablished April 15 1871 Lit °Lao mor1ng bi Salt l'ribuz k Pubilatura Pap 4:ab Ttbdo One 'Ills associated Press ks excitialvety rrteves ts a reercbirr of th Associated Press credited to It or not otherwise eradited 'or reproductiorl of oil Dow' dispatches local new ouolished herein also the Salt Lake City Utah Monday Morning December Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus Even Santa Claus believes it this year because the war labor board has approved a salary raise for him With wages frozen throughout this broad land of ours—even before the cold weather set in—there was some alarm felt in the workshops at the North Pole Santa looked at his helpers and his counterparts who patiently parade the department stores in the glad yule season and shook his head "Would they go out to the arms plant this year?" he wondered Now everything is cheery in the polar regions despite the wars going on farther south Santa and all the minor Santas are The going to get a wage adjustment W L B has said so and no other bureau has denied the story or countermanded One year ago today while a power profeasing friendship was negotiating a treaty of peace and while isolationists were assuring the American public that alien assault or invasion would be posro i rible missiles of hate and destruction fell from a cloudless sky on United States territory destroying ships and planes killing thousands of men in uniform awakening Americans from their dreams !of peace and immunity and confronting the'government with an almost incredible dilemma It was a treacherous attack maliciously planned and executed under a flag of truce While suave and smiling emissaries of the Japanese government were negoaiating with our state department and arranging terms of a more amicable agreement the Japanese navy escorting plane carriers and directing submarines was steaming across the Pacific under 'Specific instructions to demolish our naval base and army camp near Honolulu No declaration of war had been made—a treaty of amity was already in force and a more linding pact was under consideration To be sure nobody trusted the junker Jilp to any great extent but the hold Acquired on the Nipponese government by ite rrilitar party wes entirely underostimeted The very first Americens to the order—at least not yet So Virginia you can be sure that old Santa will be on the job as usual this year His helper who has donned the boss's togs for a visit to your favorite up and department store will jingle-jangl- e down the aisle bending down to hear your tremulous request for a new doll or a miniature welding outfit Yes Virginia there is undoubtedly a santa Claus He has not gone to war this year But next year? Well we'll wait and see What with the draft and all it's pretty bard to say about that GetA Marrying Judge Into Real War Production offi- cials suspected their sincerity from the start When Commodore Matt C Perry brother cf the famous Oliver H Perry representing the United States government sai:ed into Yeddo bay 89 years ago he cautioned his men to keen in mind the possibility that outward signs' of amity concealed a lurking animosity The Japs might bow smile apologize and vow eternal friendship but he felt convinced they 'would say one thing and do another" On his return to Washington after establishing trade relations between Ja- pan and the western world the commodore took occasion to incorporate in his official report a reminder that "once and In!-- all erying and deceit pervade their entire policy" His appraleal wae not axnap judaTnent" as many financial and of those times leaders tornmercial thought for native born Japanese have never changed except to develop and in- - War industry has claimed the "oHg!nal marrying judge" of Yuma Ariz and Earl C Freeman has ended his retirement to take a job with the Consolidated Aircraft corporation in San Diego According to reports from the coast city Mr Freeman's past life has already caught up with him as he has met as fellow employes in the airplane factory at least 100 of the couples at whose marriages he presided in the "old days" It is to be hoped that Mr Freeman will 'hear no reproaches from his renewed acquaintances and will find that the marital knots he tied have proved durable and not too confining With his past experience the former justice should go far in the airplane industry especially the welding department New York Highlights tensify these characteristics Although Japanese authorities made evcasional boasts of an intention to subjugate Asia and eventually extend their power over the entire earth—declarations that antedated 'similar threats of the fuehrer by many years—no one seemed to give them much attention Nor did anybody seem inclined to heed the warning By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK—Diary: Visiting over coffee in a west side restaurant with Mrs James J Corbett widow of Gentleman Jim the prizefighter who knocked out John L Sullivan away back there when the world—even the sporting world—was young Mrs Corbett doesn't give one the impression of belonging to history so I take for granted that she was married to the She gentleman boxer in his latter years g comes from Omaha She is a well preserved lady with gray hair and a pleasant smile I was telling her how my elder brother now with Jim in the isles of the blest used to have his hair cut in the Corbett dour style how he used to study thepompal poses of Corbett he saw in the scarce newspapers that reached our Kansas farm in those days and how he used to read the Corbett fights blow by blow to a supremely disinterested family Nobody in that large household gave a hoot about who won the fight but John would manage to get out of cornhusking in time to drive his wild Indian pony to town and watch the bulletins in front of the newspaper office until the fight was over I suppose thousands of young men throughout th United States were affected with this Corbett mania in those days It didn't do them any harm The boys of those days learned about "the manly art of self defense" and if the boxing sport eventually became a racket in some places peopled by grafters toughs and gangsters that condition had nothing to do with the boxer who was so widely respected that he was generally known by the name of "Gentleman Jim Corbett' I gather from Mrs Corbett and her friends that Jim was really a nice fellow never a scholar Not being though certainly a learned man he avoided the temptation Into which more recent fighters have fallen to pretend to scholarship He tried to be a gentleman a gallant fellow a protector of the weak but he never lectured on Dante or anything like that Released by Mc Naught Syndicate Inc of General Homer Lea published in 1909 when he said: "The conquest of the Philippines by Japan will le less of a military undertakthe irg than was the seizure of Cuba by unless force United States No naval equal in combative ability to the entire Japanese navy and unless based on the Philippines at the beginning of hostilities could have any appreciable effect in opposing invasion of these islands Should there be a division of the American navy the fate of the warships in Philippine wa's ters would be but a repetition of land 1898 unless the Cuban disaster in Manila to were sufficient fortes prevent from sharing the fate of Santiago de good-lookin- Cez-vera- Cabe" since we suffered not only the most eornplete and humiliating defeat in the Pearl history of the American navy at subseHarhor one year ago today but rv:ently lost the Philippines to the same aagressive ensmy it may not be amiss to remind Amencans that there are certain features of modern warfare an which our military forces and government officials will always be unable to ccpe with the Germane and the Japanese: These comprise treachery brutality wanton of property and deliberate slaughter of noncombatants One year ago we saw and suffered a demonstration of these resurrected methods of a pagan past Effective as they are when emaloyed by barbarians civilized peoples will never adopt them The past year has been a continuous carnival of death and destruction Our soldiers sailors marines and fliers have successfully resisted every assault of force and fanaticism during the past six in the months We have gained on the MedPacifle and a strangle-hol- d iterranean The road is rough and strewn t h bones and ruins Nor is the end in sight Put we shall fight our way through to waers victory is waiting toe-hol- 0 ds 7 1942 War Labor Board Cheers Santa's Christmas One Year of Warfare Find the Battle Tide Turning rter Jaaan or to contact Japanese entitled to the this pa par Lad Off the Record - An oscar to all Hollywood for its lively to the 25000 top on net salaries— reaction probably the greatest emotional performance of this or any other season After the eyewitness accounts from experienced reporters on the spot in Africa comes the authentic lowdown via distant Stockholm We've forgotten whether the jubilant General Montgomery said he had the battle In the bag or Eugbug in the rug Television will be the supreme test for our versatile youth It will have to send an to the dislogue an eye to the actor and do Its trigonometry lesson er 5all gake - w4 December Kfribunt at Pearl Harbor Reconstruction 111a nning high-rankin- track" Asit has been his habit since he came to power in 1933 the fuehrer has not yet made up his mind He listens to the army clique which would like to see him take a strong stand and purge the radical elements to obtain a better unity with the But he also listens to the "purists" who are urging him to become the old Hitler of the Munich putsch cease playing with the old Junkers purge a couple of dozen of them and straighten out the affairs of the country before it is too late Navy Hardships Greater As far as it can be ascertained the army itself is not yet Infected by any ideology except that of greater Germany The spirit however is renorted to be not so good in the navy where the hardships are greater than Of course the in the army navy is far less important than the army and the air force anti the few troubles reported in recent months are considered merely as syratomatic of a general situation Observers who are endeavoring to keep as close as possible to the German situation believe that the time has not yet come when we can expect serious trouble in the reich Hitler havhis ing so far lent the weight oflikeis to the military prestige ly to continue to do so Otherwise he may find himself in much greater trouble than if he played along with the members who are thinking about the dogma of the party reich Hence he is expected to indorse whatever offensive plans the German general staff may have in mind now before he decides that some great purge may be necessary to consolidate the German war effort Too Many Friends Take Too Much ' By Frank R Kent WASHINGTON—It is interesting but not encouraging that one of the qualities which made former Supreme Court Justice James F Byrnes one of the best liked men in American public life and which contributed more than anything else to his Influence is the senate should now operate against the sue- cessful management of the great job he has undertaken as director of economic stabiliza- - tion The reference is to his engaging personality which coupled with a genuine liklrg for people gave him a wider acquaintance and more friends than any other member of congress who can now he recalled with the exception of the late Nicholas tongworth who was in a classby himself But practleally everybody who knows "Jimmie" Byrnes likes him Almost as good a story-telle- r as the late Admiral Cary T Grayson ahreeed able companionable one of the reasons for -- - 1942 'Jr Byrne's Time(' By Constantine Brown WASHINGTON D C—While reports regarding chaotic economic and political conditions in Italy have been confirmed from reliable sources it is more difficult to check up on somewhat similar reports from the reich According to the best available information appears that there is serrous trouble within the nazi party itself SO long as the plans of the army were fulfilled more or less on schedule the party was consolidated behind the fuehrer and his field marshals There were many within the national socialist group who did not like the growing ascendancy of the Junkers but the country was delighted with victories and trained to feast on military successes rather than actual food Moreover the high command managed to give the civilians some of the leftovers from the loot the army was taking front various conquered nations So long as victories piled up the discontented elements kept low Recent Reverses Rankle The failure to break the Russian lines during the summer the defeat of Marshal Erwin Rommel and the arrival of American forces in north Africa which is paralleled by many Germans with the arrival of the Americans in France in 1917 appear to have encouraged many "purists" in the nazi party to raise their voices against the growing influence of the junker field marshals and generals These men believe that their fuehrer has been led astray by a military camarilla which controls him They never had much use for the blustering Reichsmarshal Hermann Goerable to maintain ing who was his position as No 2 nazi merely because he was popular with the country at large But they feel that Hitler has departed from the right road which was to establish a new order in Eudoc-- rope on social democratic comtrines more akin to the munist than any other doctrine Among these groups the attack against Russia in 1941 instead of an attempt to destroy Great Britain was considered a fatal blunder and the general staff was blamed for inducing Hitler to take that step The "purists" argue according to available reports that the generals all over the world are the g same and German officers have the same fears of Russia that their British and French colleagues had in 1936 and 1937 when they did their utmost to prevent the London and the Paris governments from helping the Spanish loyalists Soviets Presorve Leninism The miracle performed by the soviet armies according to communiat sympathizers everywhere wax not due so much to the military talent of the leaders as to the indoctrination of the soldiers who were fighting to preserve the teachings of Lenin This feeling that the original doctrines of naziism have been betrayed by the generals who have had more influence with Hitler than his original collaborators is said to be gaining ground in the retch Already there is much talk of changing the color of the shirts of the party members from brown to red The talk that Germany must fight Anglo-Saxo- n imperialism rather than anything else is gaining ground There seems to be an undercover struggle between the military caste now as ruling Germany with Hitler their standard bearer and the 100 per cent nazis who wish to bring Hitler back on the "right '7 his extraordinary effectiveness as a aeretor was his willingness to Interest himself in the causes of his friends and his agesista as well as his ability to help Approved Choke It is easy to understand how such arrlan would endear himself to his colleagues and why when the president drafted him for a position of such tremendous power and responsibility their gratification was greet and their commendation warm and sincere Most of them at once felt that here in high administrative position was a man who not only spoke their language and understood their "situation" but in addition was a personal friend always ready to do a favor and generally able to Here at last was a Ma to whom they could take their troubles ird tell their grievances who could and would do something about them No wonder they rejoiced Many members of congress dislike and distrust the more Important—heads of the new government agencithe particularly the advanced new dealers of the Henderson type There has been $n accumulation of resentment agniast them in house and senate Members have been unable to get audiences when they wanted—or to get satisfaction when they got audience As a result there is a considerable feeling in congress—not altogether without feundation—that things are being run here by men erwollen with authority and without understanding Friends Hamper Him But "Jimmie" is something else mie" is very different "Jimmie" is their friend "a guy you can really go to and talk" And that at the moment is "Jimmies" great trouble His congressional colleagues have descended upon him very heavily indeod They flock to his offices they grab him for lunch and dinner they keep his telephone jangling "Hello Jimmie this is Bill I've got to see you right away something important be right down" So it goes all day long The pressure never relaxes and the de- mands on his time daily increase For Mr Byrnes it is worse than mbarraseing—it is devastating He cannot shunt these house and senate friends off on secretaries They won't stand for that: they know him too well insist on seeing and talking' to him personally He cannot refuse to re& and talk to his personal friends whom he numbers by the score Ile cannot be expected to turn these friencla into enemies as he certainly wouldif they found they could not get to him when they want If he tried to erect a protective shield about himself it would be so out of character that the reaction would be quick and strong It wou7d mean that all those close friends would be saying "Well Jimmie has swelled Ilk th I - 0o-- - ob r - 4 a - t v:k! '' 14 'LT rr7V:::- 7A c Kt01 - 1C7--04 ‘tx ardig014 i 0011P - ef1-- 4y1:o - 'L e 15 re"k ?5- - T1 --e 11appkiim Folit" 04 ibr'alt7 s:010 - 01 01 ki ILPVILIC Joint '7 Z17:5 AND 112''p- c54-PA4- By Major Al Williams Airmen both in England and the United States insist fearfully that before the full military efficiency of the two nations can be turned upon the enemy all friction between the army and navy leaders in regards to the status of air power must be removed by reorganization of army navy and air in the form of a threein-one mind in control over all When I argue in favor of this reorganization my position is somewhat weakened because you know that I am an airman (even though the plea is only for equal authority and representation for e Liddell hart the great British military critic who is not an airman and is a real authority on surface warfare takes the same view In Hart's latent book "This Expanding War" he says: NC-7--e S taff well-bein- n: after 11 p rn A combination of chemicals which taken internally tnjected hypodermically inhale d or rubbed on will make human being's wirer nobler and kinder Nonskid bath soap Futility? times At this life appears to be futile So different from what once we had desired When in the days gone by with roe-hue- d day dreams Of fame to come our youthful souls were fired We thought to do so much but In the planning-Forgo- t the round of duties large and small The daily grind the tasks that bring no glory With rise before us like a circling wall Perhaps this life is like a wondrous carpet Of intricate yet gorgeous flow10 ered design— Each ene to do a portion of the weavirg According to the plan of Will Divine Then 'tis for us to mar not the vast pattern Called Essential "The reactions ofthe respective services upon each other have been immeasurably Increased by the development of So long as there air power were only land and sea forces the demarcation of their functions was relatively simple It was only the edges that overlapped Yet history reveals the often bitter competition for the lion's share of the nation's resources Spheres Inseparable "When the two spheres and two services became three—by the addition of the air—the problems inevitably became more complex and the opportunities for discord far more 'extensive Because aircraft operate over land and sea the three apheres became inseparable—and the services likewise whether they liked it or not "Our slowness to recognize that plain fact has been all too clearly proved during the course Senator From Sandpit He that invents a machine augments the power of a man g of mankind and the --W Beecher What This World Needs Just looked over a list of new inventions and failed to find a single one of the following—all of which I submit are being anxiously awaited by suffering humanity: A telephone that will squirt water into the ear of the bore who talks over it longer than five minutes An alarm clock that willreach out with its hands and gently open your eyes and smile down Into them tenderly instead of scaring you half to death A golf ball that NV Ji send up a smoke column when it is lost A fountain pen that will emit a shrill whistle if it is empty when you start to sign your name instead of silently ceasing to fount after you ha v made your first initial A radio that will start yelling l'Turn me off! Turn me off!' It turned on before 8 a rm and !' 4411 SYNDICAIL Army-Navy-A- ir three-in-on- tfir9Ort4 k"r" -t 4Ita1litl air power in that general staff control) : ByPark Nor doubt eternal wisdom of the plan Until at length in deep relief completed With eyes made bright life's picture we will scan —Helen Kimball Orgill Notes on the Cuff Department At high 110011 today I am going to a wedding Pat the lovely daughter of Waide and Geneal Condon and one of my favorites of the younger generation will be married to Lieutenant Raymond E (Bud) Brim I'm not given overmuch to pray- ing but I'm going to ask whatever power watches over young bridegrooms that special care be taken of Bud so that he'll come back safely to Pat in order that she may have the happineas ahe so richly deserves Ham Jr has a very low opinion of Corpus Christi weather this time of year It's so windy and stormy that all training planes are grounded He says "Don't ever doubt the truth of what they sa'y about gremlins The water gremlins push up the waves and make them so rough that the flying boats can't land or take off There ought to be a law!" I received a great many telephone calls regarding the poem "The World Stands Out" published in Friday's issue It wss credited to Shaemus O'Sheel which may or may not be a pen name of the real author Edna St Vincent Mil lay It is an excerpt from her poem "Renascence" written many years ago and was printed in a trade magazine published by a reputable firm 16 years ago who I am sure had no desire to plagiarize A reader reports that after the traction bus had passed up a group waiting at a stop in a residential section 27 private cars with only the driver in them also Ignored them Well you can't force people to be generous and thoughtful Another complaint I get although there's nothing I can do about it is about women w h o dawdle around downtown until the rush hour before goirg home They add to the confusion unneceasarily it la claimed of this war Every one of our reverses has been marked by a between failure of the servicse—Norway Flanders Greece Crete Malaya Soon after our rearmament began in 1985 I wrote (in support of) appointing a minister to coordinate the defense as a whole based on the argument which events of the war have now eurely established beyond argument—that air power would in future have such a dominating Influence on both land and sea operations as to make the three spheres inseparable Even more important than a coordinating minister was I urged the creation of a 'joint staff drawn from the three services and permanently at work- on the broader problems of defense' Realities Olincured "For the naval staff the general staff (army) the air staff were each occupied with their own problerna And none of them was able to study war as a whole Worse still each was concerned to press its particular claims to preference—in distribution of the public purse Indeed the most effective combination during these crucial years was the temporarily combined effort of the admiralty and the war office to clip the wings of their younger sister and keep in a humble place The hard realities of the coming war with Germany were long obscured by the dust raised by these wars of Whitehall As a close but detached observer of these 'wars of Whitehall' I had 'come to see that the foundation of any effort to deal with defense as a whole must be the foundation of a combined staff—free of sectional cares and sectional ties Only if an officer could devote his time to studying the broader Issue (war on the whole) could Air-Cindere- lla he be expected to see it broadly And even then he might hardly venture to say what he saw unless he was sure he would not suffer for doing so Independence Required: "Hence my conclusion was that 'there is one essential condition based on the human Thetor- those to this joint staff (toappointed consider war and defense as a whole) should henceforth be no longer dependent on their ownservice for promotion' It is more than we can expect from human nature that an officer should reach conclusions disadvantageous to his own particular service if there is a likelihood that he be subsequently penalized may for the broader view taking " have seen only too often how any broadminded sailor or soldier who gave due credft to the importance of air power could forfeit his chances of promotion as a result—just as within military and naval spheres a sailor who rated the need for destroyers as more vital than that for battleships or a soldier who regarded tanks as more important than infantry and cavalry was treated as guilty of both heresy and disloyalty The desert of service history is strewn with the skeletons of such pioneers are the milestones on the They road to our needless reverses in war" This shockingly clear thinking Is from a man who knows more about British military and naval history and about their services than does any other Distributed by United Feature Syndicate Inc ----that far-sight- ed - rest of them" and "Well who would-hav- thought Jimmie would go back on his friends?" ' No one can blame Mr Byrnes from shrinking from that eort of thing And 1:4 sides he wants to see them Nevertheless he certainly is in a spot The man actually has no time to think With a job concededly of vital importance to the nation and with power second only to that of the president It is essential for him to have rufficiert leisure to plan and to direct If he is to sue- ceed he has got to have opportunity for thought for conference and for admiztstrative work on the broad lines of policy He cannot possibly do these things adequately if he is overwhelmed with personal interviews on trivial affairs Distributed by :IdeNaught Syndicate Christopher Billopp Says Test Question You suggest to Johnny that you run crrer with him some of the questions he Ls likely to get on his English examination As a starter you select one consisting of columns of words among which some are misspelled Johnny starts to pick out those ?Ms spelled reading from left to right llAh" you exclaim No wonder Johnny gets rich bad marks He rushes to answer questions without troubling to find out first what Is being asked The words should be read from the top down That you aver is indicative of Johnny's character He is careless He goes off halfcocked It isn't that he doesn't know but that he doesn't think Before attempting to answer the question he should have read the instructions attentively What will happen to him when he gets Into the army and receives an order without studying it? He will probably walk right off into the enemy's lines and be captured At any rate he won't be made a corporal or a sergeant like the other careful boys Next Now there is no use protesting to carelessness Johnny's most besetting sin And that is arguing with his superiors won't get him far in the army either You point out that a man should never argueuntil he is absolutely sure of his groundOtherwise he will appear very foolish You say it is fortunate he has a father to discover his errors Just take your advice and he will come out all right After all you say carelessness Is the weakness of youth Even you were careless as a boy But what is your embarrassment after thisoeloquent lecture when Johnny kicks to his guns and proves beyond shadow of a doubt that it is you who have overlooked the instructions and he is right and you 100 per cent wTongi I I l k - I k I t i I i - |