Salt Lake Tribune | 1943-02-24 | Page 6

b Issued r it A ev-r- y h i Z-ifft i bun Established April 15 1871 La Tribune PubiLehine morning by belt I rhe Tr:bune is a member of th reproduction of all news Ke Company I liberal democracy in its hour of cress when ruthless foes and foolish friends unite for its undoing whether intentionally or heedlessly is like a realm described by the Master in the 13th chapt-r of St Matthew from the 2Ith to the A - m ut VCTEt7S He cited the case of a farmer who sowed good seed in his field But while his men slept arF'enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way hut when the blade was sprung and trought forth fruit then appeared the tares also so the servants of the householder came and said unto him: Sir didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said trio them: An enemy hath done this the servants said unto him: Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? Eut he said: Nay let both grow together and in the time of harvest I will say unto the reapers: Gather ye together first the tares and bind them into bun dies to burn them butgather the wheat into my barn" This parable is fully as apropos today as it was twenty centuries ago The founders heads and defenders of this reyublic sowed the clean seeds of patriotism of unity for defense of individual freedom ard of national independence But enemies have come while the people were sleeeing they sowed the tares of dnstrast and disunion they sowed the tares of internal strife and suspicion of those who are fighting an enemy threat- ening our four freedoms they sowed the tares of treachery and betrayal Along with the wheat of good citizen-'Hi- p have sprung up- tares now blossoming into apathy loquacity and vindictiveneSS Whether tares can be separated from wheat when the harvest time of peacecomes to bless the nation and the earth no one may say But the tares are doing their mischief now Their fragrance is poison to patriots It gives hope to disheartened foes conveys information to roving sul:marines: weakens and withers morale in our armed forces: undermines the confidence of fighting men in their rei:itary leaders It has been learned that axis submarines prowling the south Atlantic were lzept posted by spies and sympathizers in Argentina and other South American countries until they knew the time of sailing the cargo the speed and the destination of every ship bound for one of the united nations Evidence collected reselted in many arrests of unsuspected Citl7Crli along with suspicious character's Upon such information enemy submarincs aet and upon such treachery our rhiTs are sunk and our fellow countrymen die It will be necessary now to ferret on: the miserable wretches who probably dsgailsed as iatriots and professing by-st- y but steeped in the hatred that motivates the fuehrer and encouraged by publications that direct animosity toward our a:lies instead of the axis caused the Finking of two American cargo ships in the north Atlantic in which some 850 soldiers sailors and civilians were lost The enemy may be as desperate as he Is ruthless but this is war and we know he is out to destroy us if possible—man hy man ship by ship troop by troop until his lust for blood and power is satiated But the men (fir cliques or institations in this republic who aid and abet enemy or comfort him 1vith words or winks with haniugues or-- hints are zko mut-lower than an open foe in a de: Cared war that oblivion should erase their names and memOries from all reccrds of our national progress Rumor and Prober :tand and Fall Together Americans are devoting their time means and energies to winning the war Some are concentrating on winning the next election A few have dedicated themselves to investigations of each ctner's activities To this latter classi)elong professional probers whose susterAnce is found in rumors no matter how atsurd or malodorous It has become almost axiomatic to ririte that every rumor has a prober—not necessarily to expose its fallacy but to piirade and publicize it Although the federal bureau of investigation has ascertained and collected carloads of evidence to support disclosures rumors continue y air from Berlin Vichy and almost every night to be circulated ail Arrerin countries for general dissemittation by short-wav- e interceptors sort of rtimor is circulated and 7:: deprivation of the var is magnified or dIstorteduntil committees are formed cr narned to investigate the slicing of Lread the demerits of screen pictures M-- a continuance of colonial policies in the coming peace conference the comparative treatment accorded alien enemies detained for the duration the amount of gasoline it took to carry the first lady of the land to a colored singer's concert and so on ad infinitum This may indicate "eternal vigilance" and display of delayed birth but it also keeps the people in an uproar of apprehension not conducive to an all-oeffort to bring the war to a successful termination By all and speedy means let suspicious circumstances be promptly dissected and questionable characters be closely watched but those who furtively flit from group to group with dripping-scalpelprobing this rumor and that without discriminating between friends and foes of this republic ought to hold a convention and practice-oeach ultra-patriotis- st ne Et-er- rr s n other Nothing should be permitted to slacken interest in the main objective nor to confuse the public mind as to the identity of the nation's enemies Hoffmat's Interpretation of Gopel of Four Freedoms As an example of congressional con- sistency unintentionally revealed from time to time one may consider the demand for suppression of Walter Winchell's frank comments in the press and over the air exposing factional plotters who are obviously trying to revive the isolation movement and defeat postwar plans for peace even as it was done at the close of the first World war—a folly for which we are now paying in blood and tears With never a word of rebuke for carping critics who are constantly complaining about allied war policies and production just as the fuehrer would direct in cunningly attempting to discredit the leaders of our military establishment and undermine the morale of men on the fighting front as well as on the home front Representative Hoffman of Michigan recently demanded of the navy department that Winchell be silenced or dismissed from the military service To save Secretary Knox from an untimely controversy and obviate the likelihood of certain squirming statesmen taking out their spite on the navy Lieutenant Commander Walter Winchell tendered his resignation It was not accepted but a transfer was made so that Representative Hoffman is probably gloating over his success in "stripping the naval officer of his uniform" It proves the power of the congressman and his actual concern over free speech His achievement is a sweet morsel for him to chew with its gestapo flavor from over the ocean Winchell has announced: "The navy will fight the underseas threat and I will continue to fight the undercover threat" Amity and Unity To Gain and Preserve Peace At the close of last week's convocation of the Episcopal church in Salt Lake city the Right Rev Arthur W Moulton bishop of Utah called for cooperation among churchmen of all denominations to unite in trying to make the postwar world a better and safer place in which to live This will require an organized effort on the part of us all" he said And humanity in general is reaching the same conclusion A severe test of religion is coming Humanity will have an opportunity to advance in harmony hand in hand or to resume its antiquated envies and enmities based on bigotry or diverse interpretations of the scriptures This is "Brotherhood week" throughout the nation—observance of which is an acceptance of the second pledge of the "Four Freedoms" Off the Record that They say of the block-bustdropped on a dwelling its every bit as effective as starting a kitchen range with gasoline Seeing themselves on rare occasions these days in the papers we suppose the little Dionnes are surprised to note how they have grown If you walk you wear out leather: if you ride you use up needed rubber if you sit down McNutt wants to know why you aren't in the shipyard As the cabinet and the duce are now one R n d the same it is supposed the day islargememos ly put to writing Step by step we are getting back to the economics of the Pilgrim fathers—the fellows who used to give thanks for abundant crops Churchill and F DP evince not the slirzhtest interest in reports that Hitler may exThe Casablanca tend the pipe of peace boys won't even look it over for the fuse North American Newspaper Alliance er inter-Mussoli- AodnompoOr ni :1'77- Walter Lippmann very substantial progress political agreement THE TOWN RIGHT NOW? 4 'C'''1t's1 N 4i ::e 'tr k ' c't kto et ''''P y p4e 'Co4A:'''"I - of S' ift - It'cft 4 4:4 !PI' r eX If a a - 7 -- 4 t4:! : -- : IP 7 11 77 41" r I - - ao- iti :i rJ I - e "owl s' 4t01 r - AV Pvie 1dg 4c1-7-- - e -- lif I ' Lt 1Vhen Mr clared that Rbomevelt deFrenchmen will "be by a government of represented their own popular choice" and that we had not "the remotest idea of keeping the Quislings or Lavals irr power" he was serving notice that none of the temporary arrangements we made imply tacit or secret engagements to perpetuate the Vichy in counterrevolution and restoring French military power in the empire the army will not be used to deny to France a republican form of government And when Mr Roosevelt on his return has several times pointed to Dakar and insisted that it must be in absolutely reliable hands his position was made even more explicit He identified American strategic security with the restoration in France of a regime purged of collaborationist and quasi-fasciinfluence He was saying in effeet that we are pledged to restore the French empire only to a democratic French republic For only that kind of France can be trusted in maintaining- the peace aril order of the Atlantic ard the tranquillity of the republics of the western hemisphere Copyright 1913 New York Tribune Inc that fascist st - -- : : — li:' - 'r 's 0)-L4S:dt- ''-- - 7:- 'c-6 '' 4 'i - 41 :- ' i - qe-tli- -- 1 x'' 0 ' Ak14 4 4 ' ” k !'i!: ' ' C4 'In: t Cr:--1 - ) k:NN - A N: V- - - e- - - Nt '- )111 r -- 1001- 'Knittint' He Sass Editor Tribune: Conf ucius 'Do not hate :your enemies" Jesus said "Love your enemies" An excellent reason said Is found in the words of a mod- ern p9et: "Love will give the clearest sight" Blind unreason has said The war should be left to the hardheaded realist" and ''armchair strategists should stick to their Burke Catham Peel and other Britishers sat in their armchairs a t home and condemned King Georges "bullheaded" policies Today even British history books refer to the American revolution as In "King Georges blunder" 1857 the chief executive of this nation sent an army west to exterminate our impoverished pio- neers who were grubbing- brush and starving in the desert Today history calls that act "Buchanan's blunder" Seeds of the present W a r were planted by al - d ( Amely To Verna a nd Pet-- ) Want to write a lovely sonnct - ti'$-- By Our Readers (and hate-hounde- realists of the last one Too many wars have been left to realists God hard-heade- d forbade David the privilege of building the temp1e of peace because he had been a man of blood Matters of battle-fron- t strategy belong to men of iron of course but matters of prin- ciple such as those found in Lincoln's immortal speech given at Lewiston Ill on August 17 1858 belong to every soul under our flag of freedom Besides let my Cedar City critic and others who seem to 'kVA 1k in darkness at noonday take note: Thirty-on- e years have passed since I first set foot on Japanese soil I know them as xvell as know myself Per ha is therefore t he quest in of Jail:Int-Srelations is my nitting" Lloyd O I vie I- -k- e Aid for 1tred Asked Editor Tribune: could ha e we if Oh sonle Forum writers By Ham Park But my brain Nvon't hrip a hit Sad and lonely thoughts surround nie Makes my rhyming quite unfit Fountain pen gets clogged and rusty Was-tepaper covers floor— Feel that Edgar's own pet raven's Found new shelter at my door d 'Used to see the sun Now he hides behind each cloud Dull pain knocks against my heart-wa- ll Gloom enfolds me like a shroud Wants Bread Sliced Sleepless nights are filled with demons Leering grinning at my plight Even Lady Moon is absent Stars have lost their shinfring Editor Tribune: I have read many of the criticisms of the housewife on the bread-slicinproblem I heartilYegree with her and the very intelligent article of the school marm As far ko' been able to see as I all of the articles have been criti- visnl from a patriotic standpoint They draw attention to tile Starving people of Europe Nvho havent any bread Now that is beside the question as it has nothing In do) with our being NI iCed The queshad tion is has it helped our ‘var A II !wog ra m things being considered Rs the schoolmarm said the blades of the bakeries are idle' and rusting while millions of knives are being used making a bad job of it Would it not he better to have the bread sliced and save millions of loaves that are now being wasted and send the flour thus saved to the starving people of foreign countries? A Housewife Husband g light Friends all say my days are numbered Don't oare if their twle conies t rue - Lite to moo has lost its !moaning If it can't be shared with you Win the war and hurry home dear All my troubles then will go-For there's only one thing ails - moo Darn - all I in Dorothy M it you so! Itrillierg Brigham City Notes on the Cuff Department Note to contributors: I can't guarantee publication of any contribution to say nothing of some particular date Right now I have at least nO poems on my desk Some are good and some are terrible Who is to decide? Why the editor and yours truly but the editor has the final say I might as a sentimentalist let one go through but he as a realist who is responsible for the quality of the page would kill it Nlany's the time he has blue-penelle- d wThat I Write That Matt Set-Nic- e Editor Tribune: This quotation from the letter of a private V S A stationed somewhere in (anip in California may be of interest to your readers: "We have one mail call a day --- at 6:15 p m This is the some of the greatest pleasure men have have seen some of them go away sick because they did not get any mail The faces of the ones who do receive mail light up like a Christmas tree some boys read letters over six or VC ri times may he because they hadn't hoard from home for so long I have 'leen missed only one day and I have an idea from that bow these others feel who don't get mail thPy hope Or" One of the 1lothe1's thought re my best literary efforts and how I have cussed him Then Nye like the late J H Paul and C Thorsen Too many people take up the space in these- columns and offer not one constructive thought Of course I'd defend their right to free speech but do wish they would try and use their brains a little No doubt they do have a few friends and right now is the time to ask them all to get in touch with their- senators or go see them when they are home for week ends or write letters telling them- to support H B 11 on $10 pensions More power to Thomas l'kf Reese representative of Salt Lake who is reported as saying he is ashamed of the number of people on pensions Many old people are short of funds because some shyster stock salesman robbed them of their lifes savings and others who spent Much of their time building canals roads bridges schools and churches for which they received no money Some have raised and editcated a family and they would rather starve and freeze than ho hunliliated by the case Nvorker who gives them the third degree A woman'S pension is short because she had a few hens domiciled in a piano box too cold no eggs Another had a small vegetable garden A dear old man carried willows several miles and wove baskets for 60 cents pension trimmed Many girls deny themselves romanco home and children as Cod intended in order to hold jobs and support widowed mothers Robert Crookston Logan I've learned that his judgment had saved me from a lot of grief I'm not giving a blanket approval of editors but they have their place Nohlese Oblige On Valentine's day I mentioned certain individuals to whom I send valentines I for public services rendered left out tine name and I am making- this note voluntarily Laura She rma n Gra V ShOS given more of her time money and s:14-- than haxoe many who have received public recognition La ura I'm sorry! 11 of-th- e S-- - 1 It I '-? i Senator From Sandpit In time one can get used to anything hut he gets used to luxury a lot more quickly than he does to deprivation—Louisville Courier-JournThe Bridge Club Meets Well girls I never thought I'd live to see the time when I'd go on an enforced diet and feel patriotic about it but I have! This rationing thing has done the trick Of course I don't expect to lose any weight the first week but before the month is over and I've used up my 48 points I hope to have shed quite a lot And it's going to be comforting to be aNe to say to myself when I stand on the scales in the bathroom and see my weight drop This fat I've shed may not go to make glycerine to make explosives but just the sarne it's giVell in the defense of my country!" 1 soppose you girls all 'have your new ratii 1 cards? We haven't ours yel don't have time to gct them and my husband isso timid that he gets shoved out of line Not by men—by wornen They push him around something awful lies one of the old school whose rode Is that no) gentleman N0111i1 ever 24trike a lady I've told hint that no lady would do) what some of these modern females do so that rule is out of (late It's practically the law of the junAnd another reason gle- - now makes him hesitant to hold his place in the line to get ration cards is because Nye haven't a can over our allowance of five cans each Do you know what he wanted to do? He wanted to list a couple of cans of things we don't have just in order not to look too patriotic Imagine Girls I don't think its any hardship to conform strictly to the rules I have nothing but contempt for those who try to evade them This rationing strict as it is still leaves us the best fed nation on earth During- the last war I felt a certain sympathy for liquor bootleggers I looked upon the prohibition act as the work of a lot of starry-nyevisionaries who wanted their Ideas enforced by law But don't Int any get the idea I feel the same about the black market in food! I'd turn in my On brother if I found hp was dabbling in that! Bationing r means share a col sh Tts and I am 100 per ccnt for it! oair-- kJ - hard-heade- d gang Should Hitler be successful in reinforcing a rinies'in Tunisia to a point w here they could in a in tain themselves defeesiee:v against the I3ritish Eighth army in the east and strike offensively at the Afriear British and French forces in the west the entire aspect of the allied campaign mg1--t undergo a change He might gain the important strip extending from Tunisia to Gibraltar drag the into Spaniards and possibly the Portuguese the war on his side and avoid a large-scal- e operation of his enemies in western Europe this year From all reports received in-- Washington Russia has now become a purely defensive front The nazi high command no longer entertains the hope of smashing the Russian armies and depriving them of their Caucasian oil If the German Italian Sloe yak and Rumanian forces can manage to hold their own on the shorter Dnieper river line it is the most the nazi high command can' hope for The 'slowing down of which is inevitable after its unbelievable strides of the last six weeks will enable the axis forces to pull- themselves together and organize a strong defensive protecting the remainder of the Ukraine and Rumania NVell - The Publ ic Fort m His :11W7 '°"1"''''4k't!!"0"sor:401 1 it 1 Vel 'NW )7r - 5141:-:-7!:ii00---- 4'req:t'--- 1-- - ''' - 1 ' ' 1 - s rpy 0t Ii i 1 - NF v4 eI i - 01J 110 ' t a&sz I - x ":"K -- s I cFt 7 - tT7 t r :z' ' :'- - '4''' '-- Kai-she- k return ÷ '- - Poland's friends China Not Forgotten It seemed that China had been Now forgotten at Casablanca replaced and others—let us say —coordinated That is why General de Gaulle's Fighting Frenchmen and General Giraud's Frenchmen who mean to fight are in north Africa in London and in Washington—seeking one another out and coming to know and trust one another again Serves Notice That the intervention of the president and the prime minister was firm is evident from what the president has said since his - - '5 xVASIIINGTON D C—Despite the ei ficulty of the Germans' position on the eastern front competent Washington military observers doubt recent reports from neutral 'countries that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has been appointed commander in chief of axis forces in the European theater of cperations It iN pointed out that the only activ offenske front on vvhich Hitler may hop to Win a spectacular auccess is in north Africa In fact on the African campaign depends the future strategy of the nazi armies and the political Pate of Herr Hitler and 11:s his 16f anti-Russia- propaganda That is why the general atmosphere is clearing in north Africa why measured steps are being taken to qualify France once more as a partner of the united nations why some objectionable officials are being fr !Lt 441 Russo-Turkis- we know that Field Marshal Sir John Dill and General Arnold went from Casablanca to Chungking and to India and obviously they did not go as sightseeing tourists Upon his return the president told us that "we do not expect to spend the time it would take to bring Japan to final defeat merely by inching our way forward from island to island across the vast x pa n e of the Pacific" The president would not have said this while high British and American staff officers were conferring with Genif China eral Chiang were not to play a decisive part in the war It seemed that nothing par: ticular was accomplished in improving the political condition among the French But in fact there is in6reasing evidence of a decided turn for the better since the president and the prime minister took a direct instead of an indirect hand in t h e matter What they did chiefly it would seem was to begin the reeducation of the French authorities who had been living for more than two years behind the curtain of axis Vichy censorship and 4 Al 1 plw P j- - - :fi 4f I ' 01! 1 -r ) t'Aktc-tY- '::' 7 1 1 ' 7 ' Constantine Brown By k ::: i":44::- fZ 1iiO'4 1''::1 a' HARDSHIP57 -- -- 0d tno to- ward It seemed as if Russia had stood aloof or had been left out Yet immediately at t er ward Mr Churchill went to Turkey and h soon it was evident that relations are improved to a point where an understanding- about the war and the postwar settlement has been reached or is in sight Turkey is on the vital southern end of Russia's European frontier and is therefore an acid test of what can be done to reach a constructive understanding between Russia and the western nations This was followed shortly by a speech of t h e Polish prime minister Genera I Sikorski which pointed to Poland's need of East Prussia in order to give Poland firmer access to the sea than was ever passible through the old corridor General Sikorski is in London has been in Washington and wn't it is hoped A Poland be going to Moscow with assured access to the Baltic would be strong and no longer inclosed in eastern Europe It could therefore satisfy the Russians that its policy would n not be Assured on that crucial point the Russians would have no interest in dealing harshly with the Polish frontier and a very strong interest in dealing with it so as to win the confidence of Poland and of -- THeFtE -- ALL THOSE vstHy I uNDER5rAND Y'CANIT Do ANY PLEASLME DRIviN1 THERE NoW — AND ONLY A OJARTER PouND o'BUTTCR Ar A Ti MC AND THEY 5Aq YHArTA NoPR S H 010 kg EVERY WEEK — NOW OVE-RERE Y'DON'T 114FT4 WORPY A 13 OUT LIKE THAT! EE BACK IN Bit by bit we begin to see why the men who Conferred at Casablanca were so much more optimistic about what they had done than was the world which studied anxiously the first official announcements The advance notices had promised a more dramatic agreement of the united nations 'and at first it looked as if no agreement had been reached Yet subsequent events have shown that in addition to the military decisions there ? eAcK VO4AT NAJITFI Military Importance Of Africa Would Belie Rommel Shift 1-- 7 w(7 OH MINN— A HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO - By 13 The Associated Press Is exclusivelv entitled to the Associated Press dispatcnes credited to it or not otherwlse credited In this Paper and also the local news published herein Submarine Sinkings 1:&ua1ly Meane onnivance 'J'---''- I Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning February 13 13 Use for 7 t-- ' ' - 6 Allied Aleet in 0 Hardship In Casablanca 1117" ' Brings Results ? - Qualified Marshal Rommel probably is the ablest general the German armies have produced in this war High ranking officers who have had to fight him hold him inthe highest esteem He is shrewd resourceful and a hard hitter and is the type of officer who can best be used offensively Moreover he has specialized in African warfare and knows the terrain better than any other nazi general In recent weeks Africa has become far more important to thehe axis than any other number of men theater of operations-Tthe allies can throw into that area is limited by their ability to transport troops and especially supplies from across the seas The room for retreating in the west is limited The situation canna be compared with that of the Russian armies which had all the room they wanted to draw the German forces away from their base of supplies NVhile the allies have only one railroad line and one highway to supply their forces after their transports have reached the three or four available bases the nazis hope to be able to reinforce their armies front across southern France Italy and he island base-- in Sicily Sardinia and Corsica whieh are not farther than 500 miles frora Germancontrolled ports in Tunisia Hence the picture as far as the supplying of the Rommel forres is concerned is nowhere as difficult as for the forces no the Russian front The British Eighth army also has difficulty obtaining supplies If the nazi aviation had not broken down—the reasons it has not been so active in the last few months on the eastern front are not clear— there is k- strong possibility that the hilt waffe will give us much more trouble in the Mediterranean So will nazi submarines Can Prolong AVarUnder these conditions and the question of air superiority in the Mediterranean area is of paramount importance Marshal Rommel still has a chance to prolong the war and avoid an early invasion of Europe if he can push the allied forces facing western Tunisia far back into Morocco So it appears highly improbable to military observers here that Hitler will take away from the only available active front the man who is best --fitted to make the utmost of it and send him to the purely defensive Russian front The allies in western Tunisia are now attempting by local counterthrusts to prevent the nazis from consolidating the positions- they gained in last week's combats The Mareth line generally known before the war as the Little Maginot line is no longer a strong defensive position The heavy guns which originally were intended to the Italians were guard that line against removed by the German-Italiaarmistice comymission a lid all tha t ROrnmel now has in tha t a Tea a re some pill boxes which 4Thav been equipped tvith heavy Machine - s n Chriqopher Ask altnost any Says: meaning of the word "logistics' and she will blush NV t:11 shame over her igru2rance She may have a vague idea that it has something to do with the war and refer the question to her his-paithe fit' k 110V1edged hoUNchOld a uthcIrty worin-th- nt that subject How can alle keep abreast of these technical war words when in the course of her on waking hours she must solve such problems as these: Get the soiled clothes to the laundresa and the clean clothes back without stallng on a country road that either will be a sheet oL ice or a quagmire Darn Father's find Johnny's seicks as fast as nails on the bottoms of their shoes make new holes in them Work out street car and bus routes by which Mary can go Into town and Johnny can get out of town Go to market for groceries and when she arrives think up substitutes for the meats and vegetables that can't be obtained and at which the family will not turn Lp their noses Prepare and cook the food for three meals a day and at the same time leave the kitchen to answer telephone calls without having anything boil over or burn up Inspect clothing to see that everyone :s fully provided and where essentiala are lacking study the ads in the newmpapera and set out on a shopping expedition to bring equipment up to scratch In her Spare moments stimulate all members of the family into action and battle against their tendency to bog down in chairs when there are important duties to be performed But Avon't it be surprising to the same woman to learn that logistics means nothing more than the moving and supplyinz of an army which she herself has been doing daily for years and years!