Show :7 e- -' 4 1 - Political Rifts May Hinder Giraud's Rule i: e 7 1 4 1 : 1 gtatiT eqtilxanc- -1 Ijc Lammed ivory I Established April 15 1871 enarnina by Sall rnbuns Pubilanato Mar DttlY a flt 0 Ito Dbe I rusu- -s a ape tor re prod octeoe 1111 IL be 1 ad la MA 61 la soc IS tee ere alt ce c hes a rem t on Coo Lb local new A d a Affords Axis Entertainment '' :: 1 !: ! - k a ' I Constructive criticism is always ben- eficialto a business an industry or a government Nor does It lose its virtue or value during an emergency The more erious the undertaking the more useful are creative suggestions especially when offered in a manner to aid rather than embarrass to help and not to hinder Notwithstanding the crisis facing this republic now united with other nations in fighting for the rights of mankind Rainst aggressors who rely to a large extent on propaganda and terrorism con- structive criticism discreetly tendered to our own leaders instead of the nation's alert enemies is decidedly beneficial But it loses its potency and purity when blatantly blazoned to gratify a grudge or please a partisan prompter: One of the most serious handicaps a democracy is obliged to face or surmount in a time of international strife is the Irrepressible resolution of irresponsible persons to direct the movements of those who are responsible for the nation's se curity alignments precautions and press - ervation Habitual carping critics whose daily growls and housetop coal-painkeep foes supplied with texts or friends on tenter-hook- s of apprehension can accomplish more harm and weaken morale more effectively than emissaries and fifth columnists can possibly do with the Every once in a while short-wav- e commentators broadcasting from secret fault-finde- rs ts ' 1 - I 1 1 i 1 territory axis-occupi- follow- scribe the avidity with which the nazi propagandists seize upon the snarls of snipers translate and interpret them to suit totalitarian 'purposes and disseminate the morsels throughout their domains as evidences of disunity and dissatisfaction in the United 'States of America Certain syndicate correspondents undertake to justify censorious comments on conduct of the war at the home front RA well as on the second front by searchthe records for utterances of famous ing writers on the beneficial effect of criticism No one has or will deny the need of constructive criticism under all circumstances or the need of discriminatory criticism in a time of global war when the morale of citizens and soldiers the confidence of allies and the cunning of enemies are given full consideration Walter Lippmann on the other hand !Lees danger in the overindulgence of personal or partisan animosities in a period when passions are rising and hatred is settling over the earth like a pall of poison gas In a recent contribution to this newspaper he writes: "It is not danger and it is not trouble that makes men anxious: it is the fear that they may flinch and falter when fear that we they meet them: that e here at home who have thV awful responsibility of the enormous power of America may lack the moral lucidity to be equal to cur task It is the way so many are talking about these things that does such injury to our course and to our and to our confidence in the future" However Mr Lippmann sees no need for anxiety and even less for despair He says that "no one is going to commit this nation to the Machiavellian philosophy just because in a splendid achievement there has been some incidental moral confusion among those who had a very and that the least successful part high-octan- far-flun- future i ' self-respe- Hope and courage are assured and Mr Lipprnann believes that "the greater action has been so sound is so wholesome at its core that it will transcend the rest and it will generate a moral energy which will sweep away like a clean wind the dusty leaves of sophistry" Fault-findin- g and motive questioning win be scattered and confidence in the future will be seen where distrust and division once covered the land More Water Required For l'reent and Future Needs Despite the cheering news from Salt Lake's watersheds indicating that recent snowfalls in the mountains have made up for deficiencies caused by a dry slimmer and fan the water situation is not one which calls for complacency With all thankfulness due the weather man for November and December precipitation the city still has a water problem Increased population and large drafts on the normal supply by military and industrial establishments will require all the water that can possibly be placed Nvithin the reservoirs and mains next er This section of Utah will be extremely fortunate if the winter turns out to be I Driscoll By Charles NEW YORK—Dennis McEvoy prodigy on of Author J P McEvoy entertained a small group of us at a table at The Players last night so well that two of us missed the last train home Dennis a handsome young man (I should say he's about 30 but I've never inquired as to his age) spoke and sang in Japanese wrote extensively in Jap characters burspeech lesqued Hitler in a and recited French poetry He wasn't showing off either We urged him on He isn't bashful and hS isn't boastful: just right–In fact the little group of customers agreed that old J P has got himself a right smart son It isn't altogether accident or a miracle that young McEvoy is the way he is His talented dad was early possessed of the notion that our standard educational system isn't perfect He was making plenty of money and spending it rapidly So he invested rather extravagantly in his pet idea This was simple He thought that a good education must be a varied and variable one and that the more the pupil moves Bearings and pistons of axis tanks found by the desert wayside were completely burned out It what comes for not stopping every 500 miles in the race for life to change oil Service men in New York now get free rides in the subways Surely there are less drastic means of acquiring a commando training With the bad tidings from Africa the communique writer is obliged to put several coats of varnish on the truth which in turn disguises the odor of fish n - A - t: " r 4: k''' " :: : ': - ': - r: - - : :7t ' '' r' :i 7N '- 47'1 ' NI :'AN44Its - - ! —: ‘: ) iv: 1 a ) - — - - 2 ' J'' ''-- 41-k- : v-- N ) ' - '' i ' '‘'t Ikt‘N''''' 'Nlt:t t A '"a' t A Ungar day to tat Nk 4 -- 7" ''' 1 - - 1 e : - 4: - 1 7g-"- 1 tr il '14:411 t fk V11 4' 4'' ' '''' A J 9i (- ' yi )'' o'fi'' 1( ' h z "' ' - 'e r 4i Ak f'4' A IsS i t E ' -- v A '' '' ' ' - z 4 Ns - foe thew A 'A ') ''''(VkkIr0:tttl ' Ay - '' ' ' There is a mild crisis of confidence on the home front which showed up in the elections has now claimed Mr Henderson for its first conspicuous victim and will come to a bead after the new congreas meets The trouble is caused by the impact upon CiViliang of the gigantic and on the whole immensely successful mobilization The crisis of confidence is due to the fact that the managers on the home front have as yet been unable to make the civilians understand what is being asked of them and why and to look as if they themselves knew' clearly what they are doing and why So we roust ask ourselves whether the genetally accepted basic theory of policy on the home front is workable and intelligible The theory which we are supposed to be following is that the price of everything —goods farm products wages salaries and services—should be frozen as of some date and that all prices should then be prevented from rising by heavy taxes and the sale of enough war bonds The public has been told that on the one hand there must be a general "ceiling" and that it can be maintained by closing the "inflationary gap" Mr Henderson was to hold on to the ceiling and Mr gap In exMorgenthau was to close the ceptional cases there was to be some administrative rationing This has been the fashionable theory of how we were to com- - A longer day to fight I - :A- f I i ::-- : ' - ' ':010' I sed 1 f4N dr - r - ' :0r) 4A 4iedAtiallillbaCk scour the seas I — - ': - ' — ' s 1 ) 1- - -- E 404"5'':z ' --v' 140o ? - P177 ‘t - f:r::::-- 7 '' l'!7- 7- t - 17 it sr(11'4' --'70 Ai 7-- -- - 7 : -- - - '' - ' '' - - " t '1 - - - - - ' :s - ' ' - - '' ' ' ' :4d 4ett'4' -' -'” -- earort""1--"' '"'-''- '' --- ' - ' t It will be interesting as the motorless age takes hold to Fe e what this new generation will do about lifting a fallen horse from the Icy streets A - ' 2: ' - : '- - '''''-- : A--- V l'''''''' -- i - -- : - :' ''' "-- : '‘ A' - ''- ' ! - t 1: — 'r - r 1: - - ‘cthc"-- orAP - -- To 20eve"-6"vv----tz--- 7 - Ps- A 1 N ''s----- '""t- isoogkoopmew ''' '"1110410111124:::"":)'""Val" e'12---ie- k —— 4 s 1' - - ''''''''''' 11111km - - - voo f(1- A A IlLts s- - --- ‘ - :rotCla"4 - - - -- - ---4 41 9-V------ -"' - 1016 OV 4041 bring the enemy to hie knee's —And else Nazis Might Benefit Our offenalve may have to be pootponed if these men together in December and they are conBy Colonel Frederick Palmer with some of the Arab tribes North fidently driving on toward MilExpert Military who are being "worked" by axis lerovo Alliance American Newspaper decide to throw a propagandaTrench Optimism soars high at the WASHINGTON — Quite the into exiating monkey that if they take Milprospect for Christmas present biggest llerovo the arrangements as a result of Adjunction of the Don came the allies from the miral Darlan's death The nazis railroads are bend Russians where the - they can cut off the German thereby would benefit to a greatstill making it bloody for er extent than if they obtained armies in the Caucasus in a Hitler whose only good a temporary military success in Russian triumph equal in magnig from his is fronts that Tunisia to tude the consequent German the deep mud is delaying the Possibility that some faction disaster allied offensive in Tunisia In the allied camp opposed to The ability of the Russians to Optimism Soars the "Vichy traitor" may have continue offensive exceeds their Without overstating the Rusthe murder has been engineered all expectations in Washington advanced but this theory is so sian achievement it is certain After each forward thrust it was distasteful to all those working that Josef Stalin's legions have thought that it must be their for one purpose only—to defeat turned the tables on Hitler's last this year The difficulty of the enemy—that it is being disarmies almost as abruptly as counted General B L Montgomery's artransportation in winter weathThe appearance of er it was contended would comAdmiral Dar Ian on the side of my did on Marshal Erwin Rompel them' to settle down to posithe allies caused the greatest mel's forces on a much smaller tional warfare until spring scale in Libya controversy we have encountered But they have shown that so far in the war Passions were Rommel is credited with never they can lick winter and German had more than six diviaroused here and abroad but it having shock divisions at the same time is inconceivable that any antisions in Africa According to the most authoritative reports Hit- Dar Ian group regardless of how 'Here we are past the third week s hostile it may have been should have incited the slaying Aware of Blake By Ham Park is aware of the risks Everyone the allied forces would encounFolks who take too much for And the thunder of guns ter if portions of the French are usually taken for Rolls across the sea granted and the civilian army population plenty—Anon became disunited again- and beBlow high winds of America The Bridge Club Meets gan to ahoot at our lines of fan high communication Instead of fightWell girls I see done The coals of patriotism to fiercer it again—announcedthey've ing the nazis with the hope of ahead of flames an early victory we would have time that they were going to While on the anvil of liberty to concentrate our forces on ration aomething 'It'llgive the The bent emblems of hate "pacifying" the French empire hoarders and chiselers a chance Are straightened to wands of It is no secret to say that for to stock up and if anyone thinks brotherly love such a task we would need as there aren't plenty of them in much as five times the present this country they're just too Return winds of America ren force in Africa naive for words For the life turn General Giraud's success in of me I can't seewhy they don't To mothers of men his new job hinges on rnany condo like the Utah liquor commis- - i Thethe scent of pine and of clean siderations The elderly general sion did and slap on the ration' clover may have difficulties filling' Adorder without any warning Drive away the shrouding fog mfrs! Darlan's shoes because he That was fair to everybody My of war did not go to Africa with a husband says this talk of havreveal the flag of freedom And "mandate" from Marshal retain ing to report what food you in the Waving resplendent Some of the governors including have on hand is a lot of malardawn! Pierre Boisson who rules Dakar key Who's going to check up on you? Do you suppose for may not be willing to cooperate Then winds of America as heartily with General Giraud Instant that American people then as they did with his predecessor would stand for another search Unstop your mightiest organ but it is hoped that the close and seizure thing like happened tones how And cooperation of the two men with during prohibition? For the peoples of the world to the allies may serve to bring all else is the government going to sing again the French in Africa under one know whether or not you've got And drown in the music the standard basement or garret or cupyour things they should forget In any eVent the shot that boards stuffed with food sup- Williams in Menthology —Ann killed Admiral Darlan may cause We had aummer soldiers plies? a serious erection in Africa and and fair weather patriots during Notes on the Cuff Department those who instigated the murder the Revolutionary war and I met two very charming knew the situation well we've had them in every wax ladies the other day They young since and don't you forget it I are Carolyn and Marilyn Heabelieve the majority of our peoton and are identical twins It ple are decent and honest and must be difficult if not impospatriotic but we've our share of sible for their friends to tell those whose god is greed What One hRs a tiny them apart In Russia the reds put int() we should have is a "Roll of Dison fRce but the trick mole her service an tank which honor" for hoarders and chiselIs to remember which has the blends with the winter now ers and fifth columnists The mole Carolyn or Marilyn The name of a creamery on the memory is 'very short so public sides should complete the we ought to have something to Diner: " see by the sign tipcamouflage remind us when the war is over ping is forbidden" Waiter: "Lord bless you sir that while our boys were dying Looking through an of so was apples in thQarden of In battlefields all over the world edition of 1929 we find e Eden" a the tropic of Capricorn in the citizen was a louse! Well there The students were watching right place I go again getting myself so the professor of chemistry give A wistful note creeps into the wrought up that I'll bet my a demonstration of the propa is blood foot! But duce's later utterances up pressure but erties of various acids girls 1 can't help it I've got nothing definite He is still for "Now" said the professor "I an in war and this it's interest victory and saying so in no am going o drop this half dollar not a financial one either There certain times into this glass of acid Will it is probably a reason for the dissolve'?" "Sometimes" remarked one of things politicians do but some"No sir" replied one of the the fuehrer's worried astrologers me tells that if there is thing students to another "I wonder if there's one in this instance it isn't a "No?" repeated the professor any future In all this" very nice one Whose deal is it? "Then perhaps you can explain to the class why it won't disInds of America According to late photos there ere occaFions Joe Stalin is Blow strong winds of America solve" without the pipe 'As in the C "Because" came the answer blow strong elf military gas the win4r1 must "if the half dollar would disAt your gates stand the enemies be with - ou of peace solve you wouldn't drop it in" 4 4 -- 1tilt TRAVIO A c‘orddoem ' ---4 ---- '1 Continued Russian Gains Amaze Washington ler never has had fewer than 120 or more than 180 divisions in Russia But six would be a big reinforcement in Tunisia Up tothe end of October the Germans had the initiative in their Russian campaign They probed for weak spots for their surprise punches in weaving their way forward T ' into winter quarters Must Plug Holes Now it is the German i who have to plug holes made by surThey have to prise punches rush divisions through the snow In desperate efforts to recover lost strong points They have to form new defense lines on frozen ground behind captured trenches which were dug in soft ground Russian generalship shines ' Off the Record te - - such-and-su- ch stay-at-hom- A-h- I I I I ' quite upset German calculations Stalingrad which the Germans needed as an anchor to hold this is not theirs They year's gains captured no oil fielfl except the small one of MailvDp which is within easy range of Russian air fields i i I i - t 1 f ! - I I I v t II L 1 1 1 - t 'i : 1 1 1 Li - Christopher Bil lopp Says Teaching is the imparting of knowledge from one person to another The person doing the imparting is the teacher the person to whom the imparting is done the pupil If the pupil does not grasp it the teacher rnay 'resort to illustrations with apples or to oranges or sticks of candy- endeavoring reach the pupil's brain by way of the stomach If these do not turn the trick it is time to draw diagrams Diagrams failing it may dawn upon the teacher that the difficulty is an exceptionwill be a strong ally thick skull There "The trouble with - n d i I Adequate Machinery Lacking Thus' we find ourselves at this advanced stage of the war withotit the adequate machinery and the general popular discipline which are required for rationing in a country of this size Moreover the other part of that the the fashionable theory which is taxes and can be closed by inflationary gap served to postpone the dehas bonds war ' velopment of an effective control of purchasing power It is true beyond dispute of course that tremendous taxes must be levied in order to control the postwar effects of the tremendous debt But it was never true that sufficient taxes could ever conceivably be levied during the war to close the gap between the money the people earn and the wartime supply of civilian goods It would be necessary to double or perhaps triple the come within sight of doing existing taxes to taxes are impossible such and that Copyright 1942 New York Tribune Inc If they retain their present can still prevent positions they traffic on the great arterial Volga river But the Russians have oil fields nearer Moscow than the Caucasus and their army is receiving the output of the Caucasian wells by rail Where last summer the German army set out to get the ntISSian army before winter closed in t probably as many se 50 Germa-- divisions are now in danger of being caught in a trap in the Caucasus area Their rail supply lines cut or seriously impaired they cannot be sup- ported by shipping across the Black sea Hitler must throw in his best any troops ruthlessly to stallcatasthreat of such a major A few divisions or a trophe which he bombers hundred cannot afford to spare for Tunisia may be enough to decide'' the day in Russia r'' His losses in men and mate1-il under Rommel are fractionally slight compared to athose in white He has had Russia Christmas of Russian snow red with the blood of his soldiers Any cheer he may realize from the mud in Tunisia is only temporary for the rains will cease and the mud will dry i i goods and services had all been frozen their peacetime position The law of supply and demand had to be obeyed by making netessary war work more profitable than unnecessary civilian work This has left the civilians short of goods and services The essential problcm then was not how to keep all price's at the prewar level but how to insure a fair and dependable distribution of a short supply of necessary things Just sitting on prices: to keen them from rising was no answer to this problem: all it did was to encourage Vv people to buy up quickly because goods were still cheap the irreplaceable inventories and to foster the dangerous illusion that in wartime the people could expect to obtain what they were used to at prices they Were used to Precious time was wasted talking about ceilings which might far better have been devoted to careful preparation for the rationing and the control of purchasing power which were inevitable Then the situation was reThe Ruksians won the versed initiative which they have re4 tamed They have gone on attacking after it was time according to the calendar to go British-America- f at their gains brilliantly in vast large-scal- e Genfighting in commonon with a smaller eral Montgomery's scale It never ceased pounding on a flanking line west from Voronezh to cover the defense of Stalingrad Then as winter approached in masterly tactics when the weather favored the Russians they broke their of- fensive in a continuity of re- serve' strength and vigor which 1 - The Russians could never be quite sure where the Germans would strike next They had to rush troops to plug the holes made in their lines to counterattack to recover strategic strong points All the while they were- - slowly losing ground on into the streets of Stalingrad but making the Germans pay a heavier and heavier cost for I all-whi- Theory That Hasn't Worked Too Well This is the theory we have been trying not very successfully to apply and in the attempt to apply it we have developed the bureaucracy and the questionnaires about which there is so much complaining Yet how hundreds of thousands of prices for goods and services were to be frozencentral-l ized economic police the most enthusiastic 'advocates of the general price ceiling have never explained Mr Henderson who has been showered with the brickbats knows this In fact he passed the summer of 1941 pleading that he should not be asked to do what he eventually consented to do—to try to police all prices and to try administer by our infinitely complex economy decrees Except as a very temporary stopgapeco-to gain time in which to set up effective nomic controls the general price ceiling' never made much sense If for example all prices and wages had really been effec1tively frozen where they wereto in June 1910 mobilize the when we began in earnest peaceeffect would have been to freeze the time economy so that it could not have--beeconverted rapidly to war What promoted the conversion was first that the government seized the control of vital materials and thus shut down civilian manufacturing and then that by offering war contracts and higher wages for war work it induced contractors and workers to go to the arsenals and sh4lyards and the like It is hard to imagine how the war industries could have been set going if Ai nrE7- - - I bat wartime inflation An earlier dawn to comb the skies Sentor From Sandpit - - "1111 far-flun- - about the better So Dennis went to school in JapanItaly Germany France England and the15nited States When he spoke and wrote Sluently In eight languages he was denied admission to the University of Chicago because he didn't have a high school diploma! The solemn old Players club on the downtown edge of Grammercy park has had something of a transformation Ever since Edwin Booth famous actor presented the old building to the little club of actors and artists that he had fathered the rooms have been gathering what the' oldsters call patina Some of the younger folk called it dirt and maybe there was just a bit of dust here and there The bedroom in which Booth died has been kept almost exactly as it was the day of the funeral But Ray Vir Den advertising man front Oklahoma became chairman of the house committee He started a housecleaning that has brightened up every room In the place and has even restored the crumbling brownstone front of the building ' Released by McNaught Syndicate Inc ' f onezh-Rostov mock-bombast- ic I - Moscow-Vor- B ct it" in Africa and had instructed him to cooperate with the Americana to the fullest They recognized the admiral's authority immediately but it is nuestionable whether they would have recognized the authority of anybody New York Highlights is-th- fly Walter Lippmann - purposes - voir in Salt Lake is favored both as an essential improvement to the city's sys- tern and an important link in the cal war industry development It is nee ed e for the gasoline plant whi h will furnish part of the fuel needed by g our fleets of warplanes salt Lake and central Utah have assumed comparatively important places on the nation's war industry map Abrupt gains in populsaion and rapid growth of industrial areas are bound to place unusual strains on civic and economic structures within the section but every effort must be made to offset these stresses An adequate water supply or Salt Lake will go far to mitigate some of the problems which are bound to beser us in the de- - - a political upheaval Some of governors not have joined the allies had not Admiral Darien shown them definite proof that Marshal Pe- - for agricultural factor in the future production of food needed for war and the peace period to 1 J miral Jean Darlan The assassination of Admiral Darlan has created serious concern in responsible Washington quarters where it is not yet known whether the French university Instructor G Moran acted for nazi Interests others opposed to the former Vichy vice premier or struck out on his own initiative moved by en4ptions so characteristic of the French people Authorities in Algiers have been unable so far to deterrrinsr the motive of the assassin but the impression is that he acted ais a tool for some powerful interests May !lave Been Tool of course there ix a strong possibility that Moran was in the pay of the axis The zero hour for an allied attack in Tunisia is approaching and the axis forces have not yet comIt pleted their concentrationif is thus possible that the nazis may have used the Frenchman to kill Darien in order to create a perplexing confualon in north Africa with rebellious outbursts here and there These diaorders would of course handicap allied military operations The Darlan murder may cause occupation quarters in - ti tat Id to trat this caper end a wet one Such a propitious circumstance howevermust not Interfere with a long-rang- e program for increasing the total supply One part of this program of a range not so long is the construction of two additional city reservoirs which are seen as immediate needs to take care of a rapidly growing population and of new war Industries projected for this area Another is the settlement of the Utah lake water adjudication suit now in the hands of attorneys and advisers to the litigants which should clear the way for an important diking project Recently Governor Herbert B Maw called a meeting of representatives of the more than 3000 litigants in the water suit and asked them as the first step toward building the Utah lake dike to clear up the litigation according to a program acceptable to all parties concerned This group is due to report on January 4 to the governor At this time it is hoped that a workable plan will be offered for final settlement of the lengthy lawsuit and thereby provide a suitable foundatio3' for further activity This dike according to experts would save about 75000 acre feet of water in Utah lake from evaporation each year thus adding substantially to the supply of this region Besides making available more water for city industrial and military use the project would provide water Censorious Criticism 4 he A 1111P0C1 ti I 00 ems lie ZRJPIVlY to i t Or not eittierwi lie credited in published herein A Ration Difficulties Precipitate Mild Home Front Crisis ‘:44: By Constantine Brown General Henri Honore Giraud commander of the French forces In Africa who had been at the Tunisian front has returned to Algiers at the request of General Dwight D Eisenhower to assum the post held by the late Ad- Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning December 30 1942 5 DecemVer 30 1912 trribune From Now Until June Each Day Will Lengthen—McCutcheon 6 ':Wednesday Morning 1 - temptation to remark: you is you are just dumb" But that would be dreadful A dumb of being pupil should never be made aware dumb The ‘pupil might not be too dumb to return home and report what the teacher said And his parents will raise a terrible hubbub demanding to know who dares say an offspring of theirs is dumb Well any school principal- any school board any committee on complaints of the association would agree that parent-teacha teacher who blurted right out that a pupil was dumb must himself be dumb And so rather than invite such a situation the teacher will withhold the awful truth from the pupil grit Ms teeth and while the shadows fall and the janitor comes in to clean the room just continue to go over the thing again and again and again ' 1 f' 1 I I ( 1 t r er I I ' t P f I 4 3 k 41 e40P - -- - - m0”1--0--- - I' - - a S a |