Show ---- atZ Ur N4p rake ZItiltartr---- FOY lasuod every 18 A 1 Established April 15 1871 tr Bait noun eubtlant °tam PanY mot-uln- a I m & Salt Lake City Utah Sunday Morning February 14 1943 The Tribune is a member of th Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusivelv entitled to th Tim for reproductiop of all news dispatches credited tr It or not otherwise credited in this Paper nd also the 10Cal news published herein Danger Spots Remain In Allies' War Program trusive to the point of diffidence so that only those with whom he had been associated closely in one way or another were in a position to know the sterling qualities of the man Descended from pioneer stock he participated in the privations of early days in a small settlement where comforts were few and luxuriès nonexistant while aboriginal natives prowled with furtive ways a menace to colonizers One of the traditions of the northern valley is the avoidance of Smithfield by savages after the mother of the deceased chased a gang of these pilferers out of town with a carving knife n James and A Langton inherited a measure of determination from the maternal side of his ancestry He was an athlete and a wrestler in his youth as well as a student and a defender of his convictions all through life Educated in public schools Brigham Young college at Logan and the Deseret university he took a course at Cornell In New York and began a career of teaching which he followed in the intermountain west until he received an appointment on the Utah board of tducation In 1922 he became an editorial writer on the Deseret News a place he held with distinction until a few months before his With Russia's war machine continuing its splendid drive against the axis Invaders with Rommel chased into a doubtful haven in Tunisia and with the Japs stopped in the south Pacific the world picture has brightened considerably for the united nations There are however two spots of immediate danger reznzdning but steps are being taken to eliminate them One is the submarine menace and the other is China's dire need for weapons supplies and something to revive the y counwaning morale in that try China has been under fire for a longer period than any of the other united nations ever since July 7 1937 when the Japs created a crisis at the Marco Polo bridge near Peiping and used it as an excuse for launching a cruel and unprovoked Invasion of a neighbor nation British Prime Minister Churchill has uttered some very assuring words on the submarine problem in the house of commons recently and he is not in the habit of boasting to his countrymen President Roosevelt has promised that aid to China will be stepped up as soon as is humanly possible These are both vital problems the sodeath last Friday lution of which even while fighting on Patient sympathetic and understandseveral other fronts is an essential job ing he was a confessor and advisor for his for the allied nations Not only must we fellow workers who must feel his loss with build cargo ships faster than the Gera poignant intensity as his was a place mans can sink them but we must perfect not easily filled by another His readers weapons and tactics to eliminate U boats will miss the calm dignified and impartial from sea lanes The recapture of Burma character of his writings and his many and the reopening of the Burma road friends will recall the reticent smile that into China is also on the united nations his greeting accompanied "must" list The Salt Lake Tribune extends conThere is another danger point which dolence to the widow the family and while it is a British problem holds peril friends of the departed and offers this for the entire global war plans of the humble tribute to the treasured friendship allies That is the problem of India rey of a cently aggravated by Gandhi's protest fast which it is feared will have widespread effects in this British colony It Unconditional Surrender will not be solved by suggestions from Gets Overwhelming Support this country and is probably being fostered by axis secret agents but it looms Public Opinion made a canvass of large on the war horizon and some temAmerican sentiment for Gallup's "Instito should be found preporary remedy tute" with reference to the Casablanca vent it from becoming a stumbling block decision to continue fighting until an "unto allied victory zonditional surrender" of the axis aggressors is assured The following question was put to people of all sections affiliaThe President's Address tions conditions and circumstances availWith Hints of Secret Plans able to interrogators: "If Hitler offered peace now to all The president's address delivered to countries on the basis of not going farther assembled editors and the capital city corbut of leaving matters as they are now of all in of would you favor such a peace ?" newspapers parts respondents the republic and allied nations was a reAnswers were listed as follows: Yes 4 per cent No 92 sume of his report on the conference at Undecided per cent Casablanca I per cent "The overwhelming majorIn addition to former references made ity" says Public Opinion "is behind Presito decisions that must be kept from the dent Roosevelt's insistence upon unconaxis leaders and from fifth columnists ditional surrender" who seem to have their ears to every keyhole in the seat of government the commander in chief of the army and navy asNew York serted that the invasion of continental Europe had been definitely decided and By Charles B Driscoll planned although the timing would natuIt seems from reading between the lines rally depend on the outcome of an imIn the Oxford English dictionary that rubpending battle in Tunisia ber got its name from its quality of rubbing out pencil marks This seems to have been With a graphic description of the One Of the earliest usesvfound for the subntlemorable tour of inspection and consulstance which the Japs nave taken over for tation from which he recently returned the present th president explained how apparently When I was in country school in Kansas to reconcile discordant French elements nobody except a very snooty teacher used the word eraser for the rubber end of a General Eisenhower was nominated by pencil Erasers were the pieces Prtme Minister Churchill to upreme comof wood that were used to erase chalk writon in Africa the mand instead of the blackboard expeings If the teacher said You may stay after rienced desert veteran who had planned school and clean the erasers" you knew hero of all the rout of itommel---7tha- t that you were in for a job of pounding the the British General Alexander felt things together outside the schoolhouse Warning the American public in adthereby creating a great cloud of chalk dust most of which got into your eyes and vance that the axis troops are strongly nose and lungs intrenched and well supplied in Tunisia But if you held up your hand and said he said: "This battle will cost us heavily in to the teacher "Please may I borrow a rubcasualties we must face the fact now ber" she knew that you wanted a pencil with a rubber on the end of it You wouldn't with the same calm courage our fighting of calling that an eraser think men are showing on the battlefields" Yet Oxford is so snooty that it calls this use of the word rubber an American col- -' With praise for the soviet defenders of loquialism their homeland and a promise of supplies And the English "Who's Who in the to China the chief executive made an apstill puts "vaudeville" in quotaTheater" peal to civilians to so manage and assist tion marks like that Even a generation that the men in uniform who return from after the death of vaudeville the English still consider the word a bit of American the war will find "a country with an econvulgarity so will to be able firm and fair it proomy vide jobs for all who are able and willing Thurston L Crane Indianapolis is interested in my efforts to remind everybody that to work" Americans not Englishmen first flew across the Atlantic ocean He went across on the U S S Shawmut to meet the navy plane NC4 at Lisbon Death of James A Langton where it had made its continental landing A Native Son of Rare Ability That was on May 27 and it landed in Plymouth England on May 31 all in the year 1919 Able and scholarly amiable and unAlcock the first Englishman to get across landed in a bog in Ireland on the aISSUrning James A Langton was a member of the Fourth Estate whose work as an following June 15 Yet we are constantly reading in Amerieditor and an educator entitles him to a can newspapers and even reference books lasting memorial in the annals of the that Englishmen were first to fly the Atin Cache lantic west Born in Smithfield The Americans were 15 days ahead 1861 on November 16th of the county in England and years ahead of all landing be was a native on of whom Utah may Englishmen in flying continent-to-continewell be proud However he was unob Released by McNaught Syndicate - Soft-spoke- war-wear- self-contain- ed half-centur- Highlights felt-cover- ed -- nt I Behind the Scenes of Current News I The congressional reaction to the move was hesitant and mild but the above are some of the unstated factors which are being mulled over in the minds of congressional authorities With industry and labor apparently for the move and no ore pressing the cause of the taxpayer ( Mr Byrnes sa vs: "We must not shrink from high taxation during wartime") the subject may be allowed to pass unappreciated in its subtler as- pects (Distributed By King Features Syndicate Inc) 48-Ho- ''!1 WASHINGTON--- 11 e 4' I tv - LI i g r 4 1 ' :6ir c 17-- - " - -- ar- 11 cfri "b 0 i - "' Sfik 0- ' eer ' I I : 1 ‘(—CoNk'4 e e ll It' 4lif' "14: -- :'i' ? - (AtIt: T 1 ‘11 V : : - t S' 01"L ::: I - I Ali 1 1 ''''' -- ''' - P'cy 1 - '1 '4'r t 7: 0 —0‘ :" i j ::044q i rp -- : - : :010:' '' :00 )) 41411 Ntv--o '' - Ai" 1 11:71: 14 - 4P4 -- ' c' "41winialm ctv ' ''''''s '614 - e 0 : : illotr' (t c7i!1- - 41INIC ' ' ti"' 'V-- '1 m :'4'S '' '' - 2 ''''''' ' ' 4- t -' eNr t v'e" - ss L- - lc ' ail s - ol S boy Our public schools and colleges are doing an excellent job of training the minds and bodies of our youth but the real teaching of character must have a religious background and roost of such teaching outside the home Is still being done by the Sunday school The methods of today are a great improvement Colwell Mr over those of my boyhood but the text is still the Bible Only in so far RS we make Christ's teachings a part life can we expect the brotherhood of man to of our every-da- y become a reality ? Li Senator From Sandpit None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm--Irvi- ng Mack To My Valentine For you Dame Nature had a crush And of course I have too She took the best things in the world And made them into you She took the wrinkles from the prune And put them in your pants Then took the bloom from the Irish rose And put it in your glance She took the swing from the apple tree And put it in your hips Then took the "bla" from blarney And placed it on your lips She took the lace from the cat's -- pajamas And put the frills on your speech Then opened up a keg of nails And put you out of reach - She took the fire from a turret gun And put it In your eyes Then all of the sweet of the nazi retreat She put in your little white Hes She took the moon one night from the sky And set it in a tree— Then you took the best of what was left And gave it to lucky me! —Marjorie Springer Hughes Bountiful Utah Notes on the Cuff Department The world must be getting better One sees so little of the ugly valentines of yesterday Who remembers back when we used to get rid of our spleen by sending someone we didn't like a "comic" valentine? I remember one I got when I W118 in the eighth grade at the Oquirrh school It showed two hayseeds conversing and one said: "Farmer Park I hear your son is a deep student" Replied Farmer Park: "If you mean that he's always at the bottom of his Iclass t AND GAZIA sTkoicAti 61 by (Written expressly for The Salt Lake Tribune) By C H Colwell President Utah Baptist State Convention My attendance at Sunday school as a small boy where my father was superintendent made an impression on my mind and character that has influenced all my life The habit of regular attendance at Sunday school formed in those ' early years has stuck with me and I am still N4 the Sunday school and vitally interested e: covet child for the every privilege of attending t regularly accompanied by his parents is difficult to say Just what the Sunday has done Cr me as without the knowl- edge and training received there and in a real Christian home no one can say just what kind of a man might have developed from an active d 111PuilLiC The Forum What the Sunday School Has Done for Me quick-tempere- PHOINIII 11 11 74 Kit 1-- By Ha m Park you're right" But I the thing helped me I next to the bottom of Likes Slicing Own Bread Editor Tribune: The reason for was bread explained just the other day in"The Sen- ator From Sandpit" yet we still hear and read many complaints about the staff of life being un- sliced Or perhaps Mrs Preston Hughes does not read Hams column It not she is missing much The knives used for slicing are steel and must be replaced frequently taking vitally needed war material Small inconveniences such as unsliced bread are not sacrifices but as F D It quoted a privilege in helping win the war Personally I find bread much fresher not sliced and it takes but little effort to keep a bread knife sharp and that is really all one needs for "thin as you want" even slices So far we have given up very little indeed with unsliced bread heading the top of the list Mrs Leola S Johnson Ely Nev Flays Bread Slicing Edict Editor Tribune: The nervous hysteria aroused over the bread slicing Incident is no less than shocking One girl in a sort of gay fury storms over her misadventures slicing bread for sandwiches and a half a dozen pounce on' her in rage She complains and all the others denouncing her use ber complaint as the basis of their own Let's keep our shirts on gals class If I were sending out valentines today do you know to whom I'd send them? I'd send them for unadvertised acts of charity to Mrs J A Hog le Mrs E O Howard Clarence Bamberger S S Fox J N Casella Orval Adams George W Snyder Jim Ivers Henry W hold to a shred of consistency Doscher N P Mettome James d until the pencil W Collins Leon Sweet Verne D C in Washington pushers W Harmon Art Ralph Tracy decide that consistency is out Davis Newell B Dayton Forfor the duration Imo tunato Anse Cesare Rinetti No man power was saved by Drs Russ Frank Capitol° the bread decree There are thouOwens Frank Goeltz Pat Kirtsands of women everywhere to ley Jim Kerby Frank Spencer take little part-tim- e jobs runSol Kahn Bascom Palmer Cliff bread slicers No steel was ning Pearsall Dick Middleton Ed Leconserved As Aden Hyde editor Dick Ern Walker of the Idaho Commoner pointed Compte out bread knives are also made Browning and Dee Stockman and in fact the whole medical of steel Those I've menfraternity Obviously if some one does tioned along with those of the not have enough sense to complain about such nonsense the laity are only a few I happen to know personally who have conbureaucrats will soon have us tributed anonymously to our biting off our own toenails Bread slices more satisfactorcountry's betterment There are countless others I know who ily when it is two or three days old Butter spread on the end of are equally guilty of doing the the loaf before slicing helps kindly decent thing and I rehold it together gret I haven't the snace to reEmma W Flack cord their names But they'll get their reward of that I am sure The universal law of cornRetiortifig Why Worry penso tion works reordless of Editor Tribune: We can get creed or docrma As ye sow so a quart of whisky a week shall ye reap That's a quart more than good judgment allows us Regardless of speech difficans of soups We can get culties all nations smile and and up to the present moment laugh in the same language all the bread and butter we want Imagination is our greatest can get all the:becessities gift for it enables one to see of We life if we have the price that otherwise oppOrtunities We can even slice our own might be invisible bread without objections on the Never judge a man by his part of the government manners toward his superiors-When we have to share our own homes with strangers and judge him by the way he acts toward his inferiors "many a social leader with big homes too we will become a In a democracy one man with as house - keeper" boarding conrse makes a majority Harry Hopkins says in his article "Y011 Will Be Mobilized" Var1 McAlister's slogan is: : in the February 1942 Reader's "Don't the whistle doesn't Diqest move the ship" Then we may justly begin to The wife of every man in the worry about rationing Cheer up the worst is yet to public eye has an uneasy feeling come that sooner or later something Jacob Evans will happen that will open the 522 South Eleventh East street public's eyes half-witte- - - br4-17- As a result it is argtred there vrill a big increase in production One reason that all the war industries will be to! a full schedule another is that many nonwar concerns also going to the longer week will be compelled to get along: with fewer men Those dropped will becorri available for defense work and farm labor That is the argument From the man power! view therefore the new order which was urged to Issue more than year ago without the extra-pa- y provision: should be helpful—provided competency Ile exercised by the man power commission regulating the multitudinous dismissals- transfers and absorptions sure to take pace But the existing confusion in the corre4 mission plus the wide discretion vested -therein is certainly ominous It may func-- k tion better than its record promises thougtin other directions the new order is likely to have consequences sufficiently deleterious to more than offset the benefit of the in-- f crease in man power and to justify regret' that a more realistic method was not adopt-- i ed Consider for example the inflationarr effect of adding to the purchasing power of the people so huge an amount as will come from a 30 per cent increase which is whiat the new order means Mr Byrnes on Monday night pointed out what everybody conceded that the vast increase in consumer' income is our most serious threat of infla-- i tion—and insisted that this rise has got tu be stopped Therefore he opposed any increase tr: wages Yet at the same time he applaudec the order which carries with it very great increase The argument that will not be Inflationary is a one' It is based on the belief that the increase Jr production of goods will absorb part of increased purchasing power and that additional taxes will absorb the rest The ber:: 'economists do not agree with the first contention and the treasury record does no' support the second Opposition to a sales tax which is the one effective: :way to drain off the surplus money of the masses still persists in the 'White Houseand makes statements about the added burdens that must be borne by the lower &mi: middle income classes seem very hollow fel-ce- 48-ho- 48-ho- - - ur very-feebl- - stiff-genera- l - - Adjustment Problems It does seem that desirable as it is the' - week to couple it with a large pay is to augment the inflation periLt to endanger the lives of many small bust-- i nesses and vastly add- to the difficulties of obtaining an adequate tax program Nor will it avert the coming showdown on labor union demands for still more money Clearly: there loom ahead critical situations which& call for the highest courage and capacity on! the part of the administration It is not surprising that thoughtful men' here are op-palled It is not surprising that they should hope for action of our congress to lessen the peril of this latest administration pro--1 gram by amending the fair labor standards act which makes compulsory time and at half pay for overtime That is the big defect t present plan That is the reality whichlthe president would not face a year ago t when he insisted there was no need for a 4i- hour week to win the war and which he will not face now when he says a week i is needed That is why the plan threatens the real interests of labor as well as industry That is why only the unthinking will regard it without apprehension Distributed by AlcNaught Syndicate 48-ho- ur increase '1- - - in-th- 7 71 -- e - 43-ho- ur Partly Scotch The patient was sitting up for the fIrst time "I wouldn't let them operate on me again for a million dollars" he groaned "I'm sorry" said the dactor to the patient "but I shall have to operate en you t again" The convalescent let out a roar stand "Nothing doing" he cried "I for it" "But" argued the doctor "it's something that just has to be done You see I made a serious mistake When I stitched you up I I left one of my rubber gloves inside you" e The- patient was incredulous t me "Is that why you want to open " again? "Yes" said the surgeon Tne patient smiled feebly "Don't be daft man" he said "Here's a quarter—go and buy yourself another rub- - Ii ber glove"—Tatler and Bystander London ' - 1 Solves Problem How one salesman has partly solved the transportation problem and speeded up delivery is now disclosed T B Rinehart grocery operator calls at the doors of his customers each morning with a basket of pigeons under his arm The orders are written on tissue paper and back to the store go the pigeons Mrs Rinehart has the orders filled and on their way before her husband has returned from his round of calls--Manager- Review nent Picked Wrong Queue A couple from Edinburgh went to visit relstives in Glasgow Leaving Glasgow station Lhey saw a queue and the wife announced her intention Of standing in it She got a pound of tomatoes Farther down the street they saw another queue and again she joined in She got a box of face powder Then they saw another queue This time her husband offered to stand In He got vaccinated—Tatler and Bystander a Agmakw ll ur 2"- Our Readers unsliced I the-preside- OtY i ln Presents Argument 411:4 11114 tc1:4441''' 44i-ischo- time-and-a-ha- - gil '7 - I — :- 4 i f!s 7 tie" 4' - s 6 'l ' v - 14411 : :- 4' i''' 7 --- "-1- valp --- - '" 4‘ - ‘" 00 -- ' s- ' N'11 ' ' dff Mr tif - ' : - ': f I i4 vi11 'N ee5 6i I ' '' ::- - - ) v:iyP - 1 4 '' I s'i " -2- JA7 A' '' - 10 04 r ' '''- r)-'' 1- t Z - 44000( - ' V"‘ksi i - :"": :" -k- -- 1fe- 7-' 'e :f '‘ 11' - 0::411CtL ot S - 411 ' ri':::" 4' f 1 is assumed that ac-- before the pres:dent ek i'tt 37 It cording to his custom Issued his order he 'consulted with the heads of the CIO and the AFL But whether he did or not from them was assured from the begin-nrIt would be an unique labor leader indeedi who opposed it For the first clear effect of the extension Is to accede to the Insistent demand for general wage rise for a great army of work-er- a who are already getting higher par than ever before And this increase Is g:erj without modifying any labor law withdrawing any union prerogative or imposing any:sacrifice save that of working a few more hours to be paid for at the rate Some were doing this anyhow—and gladly The chief change is that many more will now work the extra eight hours and be highly paid for it L a0- - ur By Frank R Kent r- - V Lewis-Murra- month" Onaodft i 4''1': 8 By cloaking the new wage increase in the garb of a man power and antiinflation decree Messrs Roosevelt and Byrnes may have gained the tactical personal political advantage of thwarting the union drive— with labor approval Their coup might further appear to the radio listeners and headline readers as being as good as they say it is because Industry joined labor in its approval The truth Is the cost of the increased wages will not come from industry but from the taxpayer whose approval is never sought Most factory work now is being done for the government and paid for by the people in taxes As the war production Is $100000000000 a yearoutlay the cost of this wage increase may be several billions a year to the treasury of the United States Labor costs go into calculating prices (most war contracts are on a cost plus basis anyway) so industry has little to lose To 'whatever heights union wages are run up the government will have to pay most of the bill in the price of tanks machine guns and weapons of war Naturally however Industry prefers this covert method of ay wage increase over the proposals to boost the hourly rate directly Citizens Pay Even so you may glance hastily at the proposition and view it as fair enough in the face of rising costs of living But from the standpoint of fairness the most vital factors were omitted by Mr Byrnes When the unions got the 40- hour week some years ago they insisted it should not be accompanied by a decrease in pay If they worked 48 hours before the new law they wanted 48 hours' pay for the 40 hours So they received a pay increase in effect when the work week was cut and now they are getting another wage increase when it is restored Also the great bulk of the workers of the country are not In the unions but pay taxes as clerks and white collar workers Their taxes to the treasury will pay the increased union wages and their benefits are nil unless they have a contract calling for time and a half for overtime If the government intends to extend its decree to them and require the small business man to increase his wage costs the government will promote inflation further and grind the vanishing small business man even farther into the dust The fairness aspect crumbles even more when you consider Mr Byrnes' words: "Some men can be drafted and sent abroad at $50 a ''' ' i 1 44 The union contracts all require at least time and a half overtime and the additional eight hours are to be paid at that rate This is a wage increase of 30 per cent on the weekly rate and actually an- Political Advantage 41 51'ft Vr'6 ur men tc)' : over- per cent increase on the hourly rate of the week as a whole Instead of being an antiinflationary strengthening of the union wages ceiling therefore the move inwardly provides another 8 per cent increase in the rate and promotes inflation to that extent Even so this might look like only a typical Roosevelt move to thwart the Lewis-Murra- y campaign to break up the government "little steel" formula and hold the union increases down to 8 per cent while getting another day's work out of the ik Of Inflation in Work Week! t 12 other ote sat time pay" Say the worker was getting $1 an hour on the old week for a wage of $40 For the additional eight hours now he will not receive $8 more but 40-ho- - A !: I 1i'4 7 ARRIvE HOME THI5 WEEK— ur workers' existing right to - 3- 14-0- ur radio-listenin- 48-ho- 14 CENERALS AN ADMilIALS WAD Kent- Eyes Danger By Manning CortvAANDED CAtANONS kr GUADtkis CANAL ANI) HEW GUINEA By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON—Mr Byrnes did not tell the whole story of President Roosevelt's work week decree g The and headline-reading public got from him the picture that the government was cracking down on the unions at long last increasing the work week to promote war production and solve the man power situation The way he told it this government is determined to prevent further wage increases beyond the "little steel" formula and is equally dead-se- t against price increases Nine little words in Mr Byrnes' speech told a different story than the other 3000 he spoke These words were that dithe week was being ordered "without affecting the 48-ho- Prepare Hon Reception iVe - -- - - "- |