Show r - 10 Friday Morning E be 5z11-- rakt t Established April t noun Lamed evot7 morninn re 1140 ‘ Behind the Scenes of Current News eitibuln- -1 15 1871 PubUairI Otani:4ml - The Associated Press is exclusivelv entitled to the credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Paper nd dispatcheslotel reproduction of all news also news published herein the mit Tribune is a rnernber of the Associated Press lase for axis propaganda chiefs evidently are aware that too few Americans listen to their broadcasts except for laughs or out of fleeting curiosity and that most of these would neither believe nor repeat tales they heard directly from the axis The technique therefore is designed so that you will hear the story from your neighbor your cousin your aunt or your friend—people you know and trust" Here is how it is done: "The secret axis sympathizer knows that these broadcasts are for his instruction that the nasty tales told thereon are the rumors he is to spread He drops them one at a time perhaps half jokingly so as to allay suspicion in a factory restroom a swank club a barroom a lodge meeting or a neighborhood store His wife does the same in the beauty parlor the bakery the drug store A bystander is pretty certain to repeat it to a friend as a joke or a piece of gossip By the time it has gone through a half dozen mouths it no longer From there on it sounds like a jest travels fast and is sometimes believed because by this time it is being spread by people who cannot be suspected of treason and have no idea they are doing exactly what the axis planned" In the course of time it will be repeated by some politician then it will be read in the comments of critical columnists next some member of congress may state the case and call for an investigation Thus the work of the fuehrer is done Seeds of suspicion are planted a crop of distrust is cultivated a harvest of division is expected and a feast of conquest is in contemplation Evidently- the axis has decided General Goering's estimate of democratic unity and American credulity offers what Aryans regard as a more effective method of entrance than by armed invasion The Post finds a reason for the fact that "around the clock from Berlin Tokyo Rome and subsidiary stations the United States is being bombarded with more such invented tales than ever before" Rumors are coming from Europe indicating the imminence of Ambassador John G Winant's relinquishment of his diplomatic post in London Rumors are coming fromCairo that British officers are becoming envious of General Eisenbower and initerfering with his author-i- t Rumors are coming from Rome that conflicting factions of Frenchmen are beRumors are comcoming irreconcilable ing from the orient that General MacArthur is being ignored by British and American authorities Rumors are coming from Berlin to make civilian allies think the war is over and that further efforts and restrictions are unnecessary One cannot help wondering about these rumors so patently designed to bewilder irthabitants of the united nations and hearten the fifth columnists that infest every allied country but Russia Two inquiries concerning this phase of the global war need to be answered by some wise observer not tainted with isolation or malevolence It may be interesting to know where these rumors originate and what methods are employed to transmit and circulate them As the purpose is apparent it might be well to reperuse an article printed in the Saturday Evening Post a few weeks ago explaining tie Inside workings of "Hitler's Short-Wav- e Rumor Factory" n It is a fact that such messages are nightly sent from Europe and received nightly in the United States The well-know- federal bureau of investigation has recorded and- decoded thousands of these camouflaged instructions from nazi headquarters It has more than 400 technicians translators and monitors who receive compile and analyze an average of 1500000 "words of information and propaganda picked up every day" at listening posts scattered over the entire republic Insinuations misrepresen tation S conversations and tall tales Imaginary calculated to create suspicion and start controversies in a carefully conducted campaign to "divide and conquer" are coming in a continuous current Among the more frequently repeated are listed the following: "The British have no rationing and g are throughout England on American tires and gasoline The Red Cross doesn't really need your blood bene Indications of a Plot Against Utah Legislators There seems to be some sort of concerted although surreptitious movement to make legislative service unpopular in Utah In the first place the campaign to raise the pay of lawmakers was decisively rejected last fall by the general public Since almost everybody admits that these people are underpaid especially in view of the increasing cost of living one cannot help wondering why something is not done about it When the only perquisite of the position seems to be a little reacreation that might be found in junket trips and adverse resolutions are adopted by a majority of holdovers accustomed to travel the plot begins toothicken But "the most unkindest cut of all" is the effort made to deprive legislators of a chance to obtain additional employment from the state after their y sessions are over No raises no trips no jobs in the face of growing demands on time and service these combine to indicate a deep deliberate plot that ought to be probed "All work and no play" nor sufficient pay "makes Jack a dull boy" joy-ridin- causeanimal just as well We have promised to feed Russia and England if our own babies starve Roose- i blood will do velt and Morgvithau never intend to pay off war bonds and stamps' Jewish docters are mixing Negro and white blood in their blood tanks There are 120000 British agents in the United States some of whom are sabotaging war factories to create fifth column hysteria The chaplainaare profane and prostitutes are allowed in all army camps The president never mentions the constitution in his talks The Republican congressmen are going to repudiate the national policy" The idiotic story about Lord Halifax giving Mrs Harry Hopkins a million dollars' worthof emeralds the fake tale of the president's son being favored in a south Pacific battle the silly slam on the American navy broadcast by Representative Haas the absurd report that allied generals in Africa are glaring at each other in jealousy the insidious appeals made to American Negroes to look to the axis for greater opportunities than they can obtain in a republic the instructions issued to strike leaders and other saboteurs to delay wartime production these are listed among the short-wav- e blitzkriegs launched by the German propaganda minister A more serious and plausible set of rumors thus disseminated may be traced easily to sources in axis centers Three classifications of this sort of propaganda are siren by the Posra authentic inIntmant They are described as follows: I Distorted news summaties and frankly persuaaive talks by renegade Americans and others This is standard-typ- e propaganda 2 Code messages to axis spies and saboteurs in this courtry These are concealed in programs which on' the surface :teem merely extraordinarily inept propa- ganda 3 60-da- iNew York NEW YORK—Thinking out loud: Here's a very pious thought that can be overdone and twisted into grave error: "Well we shouldn't complain since the boys out there in the jungle are suffering the way they are" That's all right in regard to inconvenience or hardship at home so long as that inconven-- 2 ience or hardship is necessitated by the effort of the boys at the front But it wouldn't do the boys out there any good if we were to whip ourselves each mOrning upon arising or if we were deliberately to freeze ourselves to death or if we were to give pneumonia to all the members of our famColds pneumonia asthma pleurisy ilies And bronchitis are sweeping New York just as 1 said they would because of the lack of proper heating of homes and other places if this helps the boys out front and if it is nobody's fault and if it could not be avoided okeh! but we have strong suspicions that a little ' efficiency at certain spots in the political machine might have obviated We know that the necessity for all this some of the bigbugs think the way tO win the war is to make the customers suffer When and I think that's horseradish the influenza plague hits New York it will sweep across the country as it did after the and I pay heatless days of the last war no attention to the medicos who try for publicity by announcing that you won't catch cold on account of lack of proper heatI know better and so do you and ing none of us went to college to learn that a cold office gives colds and other diseases to the workers in it Instructions to axis sympathizers and orders ' Coming across the figure 110000000000 sports final headline it turns out to be the new federal budget evidently going into extra innings in a -- --- public mind and even in congress that the taxpayer would save money under a Ruml plan or that some portion of your taxes would be "forgiven" acthe national taxpayer as tually a whole would save nothing until he dies or his earnings have ceased Your payments would not be siiipped or eased You would merely pay last year's taxes this year as usual and call it this year's taxes the same next year and so On Jobless Pay No Tax In such a case all that would be wiped out is the obligation of always owing the government a year of taxes and you would not realize any money on this until you are in heaven or fihr other reasons your earnings Have ceased Essentially the Ruml plan simply means that when your earnings cease your taxes cease at the same moment Under a true plan you would pay March 15 on what you earned the first quarter of this year instead of on the basis of last year's income This formula would probably mean an increase in immediate taxes by whatever amount your income increased this quarter over last year It would be a still better method of taxation if collections were made monthly but to do this congress would have to abolish the present complicated tax structure and lay a simple basic tax—which would not be a bad Idea either Chief obstacle toward clearance of the atmosphere now is House Ways and Means Chairman Doughton who has saved the money for his own taxes and thinks everyone else should have done likewise ' In any event no plan is likely to go through before March 15 so payment must be made then on the basis of last income instead of–firstyear's quarter earnings of 1943 Mr Roosevelt's' request for $16000000000 more in compulsory savings and taxes will not be granted by congress No one sees how such a figure can be pay-as-you-- - met The president presumably based his proposal on expectation that the treasury will again propose a vast spendings tax (a levy on everything you have left after paying your income and other taxes together with a plan to raise $10000000000 through compulsory savings (t aking bond purchases out of your pay envelope) Levy on Sales Looms Congress is in the mood to go along with a compulsory savings plan perhaps not to as great an extent as Mr Roosevelt wishes but it will not accept the spendings tax and does not believe it would raise the money anyway In lieu of it a sales tax probably will be adopted The preponderent guess is that the nation's pocketbook will be tapped for less than as much as Mr Roosevelt ‘ ds wanted Some are advocating- - the doubling of the current 5 per cent victory tax on incomes of $624 but this is unlikely The victory tax is not yet considered a success A great ismer wall is starting to rise against it although it went into effect only Janu1 Employers complain that labor is demanding an increase in wages equal to the amount deducted for the tax If granted this would nullify the government's program of wage restraint and inflation control and destroy the basic reason why the tax was adopted The idea of making one man responsible for another man's taxes is wrong anyway To make an employer assume the goy- ernment's obligation in collecting a tax from an employe is an experiment which cannot prove- satisfactory to the employer the employe or the treasury in the end Frank Walker's choice as Democratic national chairman was a defensive rather than an offensive political gesture Walker is a quiet unaggreSsive capable man who is likely - -- to sit comfortably on the party cauldron and its seething currents within until after the war: His appointment by Mr Roosevelt (the president made it not the committee) will attest a current theory that politics is kzi do Y- :- - It SVOU'VE 'ir 4- 04"-'-':k- - vc1I - 1:111114'441:: -- ""rormo :t tvtr t:rirra-tr- 7 41e ''''''-- - - : i rinTi ft'ftftftondol :e 4' se : c ' :z:)yeF:1' - - ? - J ‘iPtia()I So THE9'RE TOO 1 - 4 ''4 0--'- Cc-2)-'- '' r 41111ral 'e L''Ls''"--- ' "k te 1 e - 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's - ‘ IS tiefrL IF you TH' COV'MENT OVER 0 '1 it (--- e10911' ( -- ' ‘ !i -- '''' ' t 1I ' - - - aav Editor Tribune: America will come into her own but not without a great deal of serious thinking by a great many people then too thinking along lines uncommon in the past In the president's message to congress he said: "Young men and women want assurances against the evils of all major economic hazards — assurances that will extend from the cradle to the grave This great government can and must provide this assurance" This great government is none other than the chosen representatives of the It cannot make good people these promises because the instrument and the only one by which security and plenty can be guaranteed is in the hands of private individuals That instrument is the power the banks now hold to issue our medium of exchange These young men and ON00411 Auitt UP 4 ' -a- tittle 0 P K7'r - 'P ' By Our Readers doled out to them In the form of ration cards by a government in partnetrship with private individuals (special privilege) to whom it has delegated power to Issue our medium of exchange thereby controlling the value of the ration cards But If the government will "stop protecting" these private Individuals in their issuance of our medium of exchange therethe handicap by removing these young people and against It congress will resume its con-stitutional prerogative to Issue a "debt free" medium in the form of national currency then they will be able to "build" a society of security and equality of opconstituportunity underW our E De Witt tion - Pleads for Pensions Editor Tribune: Inasmuch as the old people are getting no By Ham Park all men Alert courageous open channels for God's plan To raise the weak direct the strong That we may meet him afraid when he returns un- This is Life Divine! —Lora Holman Notes on the Cuff Department Somehow the followTng letter touched me so I asked permission to print it It was written by Corporal John H Ashton U S marine corps from Guadalcanal to his bank here arranging for a joint account He wrote: "Dear Sirs: A foxhole seems an awfully queer place for this marine to initiate a joint tenancy agreement with his mother Louise Badger Ashton However such being the ease I wish that you would take care of the matter for me "Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to revolve through those great swinging doors of yours and take care of this matter in person The fact being I haven't seen the inside of a bank "for so long that I would be just as amused probably as perhaps you are when you ree a rollicking comedy at your nearest illation picture thcater—John IL Ashton" Bet Sherman and Howard A Means who arc to be married Saturday called just a few minutes ago for Ham Jr And was I embarrassed! I was a sight! While I was waiting for the "admiral" to get his hair combed and stuff I'd done the supper and breakfast dishes and started on this column When the doorbell rang he didn't give me a chance to grab'a dressing gown but ushered Howard and Bet in I don't think they minded my appearance particularly but to see the way I have to work and slave might not be so encouraging to a young bridegrAL oom-to-be Jack Huron of Ely Nev was He joined in town Tuesday our select group of "brass rail poisonees" and a good time was had by all - eral Douglas MacArthur gain some spectacular success the American people remember that a deadly war is being fought In the Pacific t Have Done Relatively NVell It is true that with the relatively small means at their disposal these two commanders managed to inflict severe casualties on the Japanese navy and air force and wiped out more Japanese in a couple of weeks than have the American and British forces in the battle zone across the Atlantic But at the moment the chief Interest lies Government-controlle- d In the 'defeat of Hitler information and propaganda agencies naturally are following the main pattern of our strategy which is to conquer the Germans first and then turn on the Japanese Under the circumstances and under the demands of our strategy the bulk of the available men and materials is being rushed to Russia Britain north Africa and other sections across the Atlantic which might latter develop into secondary fronts all leadblow at the European end ing to an all-oof the axis Meanwhile however the Japanese are far from idle Heavy losses in merchantmen and warships have- sobered Up the extremely optimistic Tokyo leaders While they are planning more offensive moves in spite of their shortage of destroyers and cruisers they also are preparing hundreds of strategic islands as bastions against an eventual American offensive They have learned one definite lesson— that the American fighting men in the air on sea rild on land are not "soft' and that Pearl harbor was only a fluke Hence in whatever offensive operations they may decide upon in the near future we must expect them to be thoroughly prepared It is unlikely that they will repeat the mia-takes their overconfident commanders made 0 ut - ftftrag- GAMTI syolciort Be all you are in all you do: t The faith and courage we exthat's all the world can ask of pect in him exemplified you—Victor E Southworth To seek the way of freedom for Infused with faith and courage of a love sublime Defending all those rights we claim divine To pray each night for God's protecting care For him his pals and all those men Who stake their lives and all they have Freedom's blessings to secure This too is war To meet each day as best we can h aa The problems destiny strewn upon our path To work and smile and wear a cheerful mien ' ( are not going to be I women tent with the kin'd of security Senator From Sandpit When the Going's Tough Thackeray wrote: "Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret Dare and the world always If it beats you someyields times dare it again and again and it will succumb" It is said when an airplane pilot escapes unhurt but scared from a crackup he should take to the air again as soon as possible lest he lose his nerve That makes sense And when life deals us a blow we should reply to it the instant we get our breath back It is the law: Those who battle adversity grow brave and strong They gain new strength to fight and win each time they try though at first they'may fail and fall Anything that can be accomplished without having to surmount obstacles is a thing anybody can do and such a thing may notbe worth the salt you try to sprinkle on its tail feathers The measure of a man's character-can be pretty definitely gauged by the way he reacts to difficulties They either spur him or check him according to the quality of his mettle "Tills Too ta War" (Inspired by Miranda S Walton's poem of the same name) To see your son surrounded by a Iight—impenetrable To know that he is hid with "--- -) - ) 0' 0 li ' AAA con- Speaks for Youth ' 461 - 1) - '- ' - ) :: :::::AH 7 The Public Forum Christ in God '" ' - - ' eg' 1 erp ri: -f Plb ! so-:70- we- 0 t ' - P ' - 'Ikv' ?i''''- MI - ' '''''''''''''''''"--- - ' t k 1 -- a- is 4' H ' 1 s- 14'' - 1 k - ) li nnbek-'1174- g '' AA! ev- - ‘ ( - 0 '' ASP () ' ' 1 Once In a while when our forces under Vice Admiral William F Halsey Jr or Gen- P I - e - k A !- ' ' By Constantine Brown WASHINGTON D C Jan 21—The double track railway from Canton to Saigon Is nearing completion according to reports from that far eastern area and it is expected to be in operation within the next four or five months The Japanese are working day and night building up their conquered territories and the islands in the Netherlands Indies group Including Borneo and Timor soon will become almost impregnable fortresses The Japs hope to make them into strongholds more powerfully fortified than those of the mandated islands News of' the Japs' activity reaches Washington occasionally but receives scant pub lic attention because interest is focused on the north African-Europeatheater Or n pto )" Japs Bolster Lines Against Pending Offensive by Yanks war - - 4r 14 ' r- t-- 144 t - — - - - ' 7::::tt1:t '00 — - attlida11111111111111111111110"o a- - AIN'T I GoNNA pAY 1 SrAIIKE ! 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" ' :7""--77s-':1- g4-- GOTTA pAy HIP'S -- )A ''L Manning ---- By erPC'71 bracket Congress will probably extend to all brackets whatever plan Is adopted but the details of application are difficult to dicide The error is common in the ary January 22 1913 - By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON — Some sort tax plan will of be adopted by congress Taxes have risen so high that everyone in the treasury and congress knows many citizens may be unable to meet their tax obligations unless the money is taken away as it is earned This will be- ten times truer when salaries start declining after the war Trouble is no agreeable formula has been found The treasury has privately passed the word along to senate finance committeemen that - it may be willing to accept akind of Ruml plan for lowest income taxpayers But they want to limit tkie plan to the six per cent normal and 13 per cent surtax two-thir- By Charles B Driscoll on what rumors to plant here These programs are often in the form of dialogues in which breezy comments conceal hints How do such falsehoods get into circulation 7 And why are they not checked? The Post explains: "This type of propagsnSa is the source of most of the disruptive and subversive rumors in this country These programs are not aimed at the average American listener The Highlights - Zeibune zAke 1Labor 'Policy' pay-as-you-- go 41 Rumors Beat Bombers In Dividing to Conquer air-bor- It dr1ic Salt Lake City Utah Friday Morning January 22 1943 1 - t - I - ' : where in their efforts to get a pension of $40 a month or more to enable them to live decently and inasmuch as governors and legislators and congresses seem disinclined to do anything I suggest that the people take it into their own hands and begin to do something for themselves In states like Utah where they have the initiative and referendum law they should prepare now to circulate petitions in every corner of the state in order to get their demands on the ballot in the next eleCtion In this way they can make their own law and if there are sufficient signatures it will be placed on the statute books This may also be done for the And it seems Townsend plan the only way that justice can be secured ' There is a stir throughout the world for something better than what the people have had in the line of human welfare It is a forward movement and the deserving ones who have bravely fought the battle of life must be awake to the opportunity This is the surest way to get Let the right kind of action us all move together and do our utmost We can all sign petitions and if we all unite we can make it into law by the initiative and referendum Butler Nielson Flays Shortsightedness When the Editor Tribune: boys were mustered out in 1918 and '19 they were under the impression they had fought and won a war to end all wars They were mistaken those men that were mustered out and those men that died over there their sacrifice was all in vain Why was it in vain? Because we had some selfish shortsighted individuals take over where these brave men left off These men were incapable as we can all now see of handling and taking care of a peace that had proven so costly to win The sons of the men that fought so gallantly in World War I now are fighting and dying for the mistakes of those men When and if we win this war are we going to let men of this type again take over as we lay down our arms? They already are telling us what kind of peace terms they are going to dictate I think the commonwealth of our nation as well as that of our allies should be the 'ones to state the terms of peace To unite as we are united now and to cut off the ugly head of conquest as soon as shown and not stand by as we did and allow Germany to rearm and feed the reptile as Chamberlain did with innocent people Let us establish the kind 4al league of nations advocated by Woodrow Wilson and protect our weaker brother nations and ourselves J A McKnight Park City A Carolina diner who combed an oyster stew for oysters and came up with five pearls is getting warm The next generation says the White House must know the blessings of social security from the cradle to the grave Thus as they say being to the manna born at Guadalcanal Another Setback Possible The possibility of another setback is not discounted by the Japanese general staff There WaS a time some six months ago when had we directed our major' efforts against the enemy in the Pacific we could have taken some of their conquered islands and established strong forces in vital strategic positions such as Timor or Borneo and from them we could have waged a war of attrition against the Japanese by cutting their lines of supplies Such an effort was not made because the united nations high command had other plans—the invasion of north Africa for Instance and all that could be spared for the Pacific battle was just enough to keep us on the defensive Now the prospects of a relatively easy victory In that area are slim The Japanese are exploiting their newly-acquirterritories rich in tin rubber and oil and intend to make them their chief supply source for Japan's resistance against the allies in the event Hitler is defeated soon While the exploitation was done in a more or less perfunctory manner in the months following the expulsion of the united nations forces from those territories the Jens set to work with a will after their first defeat at Guadalcanal After completion of the new Canton-Saigo- n railway the Japanese—because of this new ed line of communications—will be less concerned over possible increase in submarine activity against their sea lanes The railroad will make safe the transportation of food and raw materials from Malaya and a The Japanese have not neglected psychological warfare They are exploiting the Atlantic charter for their own benefit by telling the people of Malaya China that the four freedoms which have aroused such enthusiasm atmong the conquered nations are meant for the white man'S territories only and will not be applied to the yellow races Indo-Chin- Indo-China-a- nd Ch ri st opher Billopp Says - - Peacock fans are seldom seen today Wax flowers under a glass bowl seldom adorn the parlor table In fact there is no longer a parlor for a table Beards are no longer with us Frock coats have passed out of style Gay young blades anoint their heads with liquids other than Macassar oil Stables have been re-filaced by garages and spanking teams by shiny limousines Sanitaçy plumbing has supplanted the tin tub the china wash basin and the slop jar Carpets no longer adorn the flooras Electric lights have replaced gss lighta gas lights replated oil lamps The Widow of Vindsor no Itmger art down the law She has long since pas:led to lier rewards Four monarchs have since succeeded her to the throne Gladstone is dead and so is Disraeli The Boer war we are reliably informed is over and the British empire is quite a different thing from what itpused to be What a change has come about through mans inventive genius! We- speak by telephone and radio We fly through the air We look at pictures that move and talk Search any living roOrri and you will not find that marvel of our Childhood the stereopticon Add all of these together and what do they come to? Simply this: That in the last 50 years vast progress has been made in practically all branches of human activity But man not satisfied with what he has achieved sets out to conquer new worlds Nothing seems Impossible to him Such being the case how can it be explained that rubbers: plain black rubbers that you wear to keep your feet dry are as hard to pull over your shoes and just just as ugly to look at and just as cumbersome to wear as they were in good Queen - - - : - ' ' ed - ' 1 a 0 104tOMegbo'""""'"'""s"" 2 toria's day? a a ' 1 Ie'"eWrqPMe-OWVrT42r:Y'ftWMPF!V- 41WM4rWMO171084 ToreovAmpfmto74”!-”--'- ' — |