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Merry-Go-Roun- d Entered at the portofflc to Act of Congress March at Ogden Utan a aewnd 8 1879 Member of The Associated atcj£f P ggfe Subscription price $100 per month 11200 to tta ttss tar entitled -m exdueKel la Praa Th crc or otnerwe not It to credited Of aU newV diapatche and also the local news SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 26 1945 A- Sick Man of the Orient landed in - republltlon — — Japan to obtain Even before Americans have View of the demoralization it is apparent that a first-han- d stubborn but unwise Nippon is of the stripe of the hardy to give up and go to person most of us know who refuses as pneubed even when stricken by something as grave take to monia Finally when this fellow does give up and so long and his bed he is all the worse for having resisted of rea requires more care and attention for longer period covery — if he does recover We know now that Japan was licked weeks ago bne shores was licked when our navy was able to stand off Jap licked was and bombard her defenses and factories She when our airmen were amazed at the lack of fighter She was licked then and long before that was The loaf of bread that was Japan at Pearl Harbor offer was made merely a thin crust when the surrender some form The inside had vanished All that was left was surrounding a void We once called Turkey the sick man of Europe Japan is the sick man of the orient and the fears of some to the decades to come contrary he will be an invalid for re-sista-nce The Economy Bloc and Utah Senator Harry Byrd issued a Last Sunday statement saying that every federal agency including army and navy civilian departments employing civilians should week with no overtime and this establish the in a saving change from 48 and 44 hours a week will result of two billions annually to the taxpayers On Tuesday he issued another statement saying that immediately upon the convening of congress the bill to give the president authority to reorganize the federal government should be considered "must" legislation The federal' government is "bloated beyond any power of description according to the senator The streamlining and simplification will be a colossal task he reminds The senator on Wednesday issued still another statement saying that the joint economy committee of congress is investigating with a view to taking away from the army and the navy every possible dollar appropriated for war but not spent The aim of the committee he asserts is to promote a balanced budget for the nation What Senator Byrd and the economy bloc propose to do is of great interest to Utah where an important segment of the state's labor force is attached to government payrolls This is not to say that reduction of war industry payrolls should not take place but to suggest that we assume an alert attitude with respect to the peace-tim- e operations of be our depots It could happen that one area singled out to provide an unequal and unrealistic share of the national economies Senator Byrd is striving to accomplish (D-V- a) t Writer Believes U S On Bulgaria In Drew Pearson's abof the Treasury Morgenthau contributes a guest column on how to handle post-wGermany) By Henry Morgenthau Jr NEW YORK — In September 1944 President Roosevelt asked me to outline for him the plan for the treatment of Germany after her defeat He knew that I had devoted a great deal of thought to the subject and he wished to take a plan to the Quebec conference which was to be held in a few days As secretary of the treasury I had been led into the whole problem of reparations currency and financial controls I had seen that these could not be divorced from the broader aspects of what to do with Germany Since the death of the president and in recent weeks we have seen how narrowly America averted disaster at Germany's hands Had the Germans been able to unleash the atom bomb on which they were feverishly working the war might well have had a different and more tragic climax The invention of this new and horrible weapon of destruction points up even more clearly the need for rigid controls on Germany in the post-wworld I have been working on a book on the control of Germany One interesting and provocative point I am discussing is the entire question of whether it is wise to keep American boys in Germany in an Some of us army of occupation have probably noted for instance the remark of an American soldier who had just been presented with a glass of beer a smile from a pretty girl and a flower from a small child: "These Krauts ain't (Note: sence Ex-Secreta- ry By Lowell Mellett ar In performing our vastly en- larged role in international affairs we run the risk at times of biting off more than we can chew In the case of Bulgaria we have bitten off more at least than this particular 4 get that the provisional govern- ment is something the Bulgsjfl jpls writer can digest fne secretary of state Mr has written a note to the Byrnes provisional government of Bulgaria saying that the United States is not satisfied with that government nor with the arrangements it has made tor noiamg an election next Sunday The intimation is that we won't recognize the government to be elected nor conclude a peace treaty with it That's our privilege of course no government has to recognize another government if it doesn't want to But this life-lon- g Democrat isn't able to swallow the reasons Mr Byrnes in our behalf gives the Bulgarians for our attitude He says: Byrnes' Note "The information available to the U S government has not satisfied it that the first existing provisional Bulgarian government is adequately representative of the important elements of democratic opinion or that the existing government has arranged for the scheduled elections to take place under conditions which will allow and insure the participation therein free from the fear of force and intimidation of all democratic elements" He says more but it is all to the same effect the final word being "The will of the majority of the people can be determined only if all the people are able to vote free from force and intimidation" The Bulgarians in the war just ended were our enemies and there is no occasion to waste sympathy on them They have earned any penalties we and our allies are likely to impose' on them —even suof their elections by forpervision eigners — if all the allies including Russia are agreed that this is the stuff to give them The question remains: are we formulating a wise doctrine from our own standpoint? ar so Is Stand Untenable m 40-ho- ur non-Europe- ments" If this doesn't baffle the Bulgars It surely will confuse some South Carolinians where such "democratic elements" as the poor whites and the Negroes have never been allowed to participate enough to meet the secretary of state's prescription (Of the democratic elements old enough to vote in South Crjolina 10 per cent voted in the last election whereas in non-po- ll tax states the average was 63 per cent Purpose of Peace The purpose of this peace however is not to argue against the poll tax in Mr Byrnes' state and of certainly not to argue in favor a poll tax for Bulgaria It is to argue that we are about to take—a position concerning Bulgaria with similar situations in the offing in Hungary Romania Greece Poland and who knows perhaps Japan — that we cannot maintain either ideologically or practically The fact that Mr Bevin for reasons purely British is following the same line does not alter its absurdity Note that Mr Bevin has not indicated any willingness to apply the same formula to India or Burma or even the little Chinese island of Hong Kong They are shrewd men Messrs But they an Byrnes and Bevin dealing with a shrewd man in Mr Stalin and they shouldn't do any Fora for moment Forget reality thing to make him laugh bad" That remark sums up the reason why United States troops should not be a part of the long-terarmy of occupation in Ger many The uniaentmea private who expressed this opinion in tones indicating a pleasant surprise was one of the first to enter Cologne He shared the views of many thousands Americans Are Sympathetic A day or two later one of his comrades Sergeant Francis Mitchell explained to newspaper men why Americans could not hold combat troops or administrative much of a grudge against their officers of the AMG the routine civilian enemies The sergeant had of this sort of occupation can be been fighting hard for weeks but done better by the troops of Gerwithout a great deal of hate in his many's European neighbors heart He was doing a hard job same The argument applies to efficiently He knew from read- all other troops Being and from talking that the sides the Americans the nazis were guilty of horrible bru- nations should withdraw theunited soltalities But he could not connect diers of Canada Australia and these bloody excesses with the South Africa and the Dutch Belsmiling apparently friendly people gian and French colonials No in Cologne He said he and his in be left should army occupying fellows just hadn't been trained to for without arranging Germany g resist kindness from a leaves to keep the troops fraulein or a motherly woman frequent with their own country in touch or a gentle old man or a wistful and fan be managed people child He thought it was very for the FrenchThis Russians and Britwomen that offered young pleasant ish it will not be possible for men him beer that housewives gave from other parts of the world him food that all the people The disinclination to have Amercheered and waved as if they ican troops share in the routine were being liberated Americans are pretty proud of of policing occupied Germany is fellows like Sergeant Francis no reflection of a desire to withMitchell It is good to know that draw from American responsibiliean they fight so well and not lose ties and privileges in helping to the sympathy for others the re- maintain the peace of the world sponse to kindness and the con- The great majority of the Amerisideration that makes them good can people are eager to have their citizens Bitter and brutal expe- country play its full part on the A few years ago a Box Elder county fruit grower in rience have neither embittered nor international stage But the dethem But by the same velopment of a peaceful world calls some excitement invited a neighboring fruit grower to brutalized token it has not equipped them for each nation to contribute what "come and see something" The first grower pointed out to appraise the significance of the it can best perform reaction to their presence The duties of an army of occutrees and their foliage and fruit There was great contrast German Nazis Fawn pation in Germany are not in the The trees with the most luscious fruit and greenest leaves It is quite natural for the av- role Americans are best suited to Europeans readily undererage Germans to become meek act had been fertilized with commercial phosphate soil builder and and will be quite satinoffensive characters to all stand that our The trees with puny fruit and unhealthy appearing foliage appearances whenever they are isfied to provide the men ifmemis indicated by cooperation obfronted or with soldiers the had been fertilized with barnyard manure alone The first vious label of on the commissions which arbitrary authority bership set on the technical staffs policy fruit grower said he now was "sold" on the value of com- It is not conscious hypocrisy that which try to carry it out and on them anxious to please a mercial fertilizers The second immediately responded "Me makes command the military high a and little conqueror fawning too" This second man's complaint after experiencing more subservient for they have been It is no aspersion on the Ameritrained in obedience to force rath- can soldier to adjudge him too inprofits from phosphate use is that under government re--1 er than in obedience to justice experienced in the ways of inter No men in the armies of the unit- national banditry to serve as a strictions he couldn't buy as much as he desires nations are likely to be so sus- guard in the German reformatory Dr E G Peterson president emeritus of the Utah State ed ceptible as Americans to the dan- The misfortunes of Europe have of this peoples bid for com- put its soldiers through the cruel Agricultural college told a meeting in Logan Friday that ger The misery of hunger and bitter course of training which passion and cold is bound to be extreme fits them to serve most efficiently experiments on 30000 farms proved that the use of phos- in Germany this winter until the in the surveillance of Germany phate fertilizers produced more crops on less land and the workers in her heavy industry and They are willing and able to do soldiers have be- the lob Americans can be con products were of superior quality possessing qualities pro- her demobilized to food raise gun crops and re- tent with the honor their men have moting better health for man or beast that consumed the build houses there will be malnu- won in the incomparable fight they trition and for The peo- have made— and bring them home is exposure secret products phosphorus which he called the key ple The only possible her (Copyright 1945 by the Bell way to to life avoid it would be to divert food Syndicate Inc) and othmaterials and labor from state and federal Although agencies interested in agriEuropean nations even more in culture and the more intelligent farmers know that every er need of them the American soldier in the dollar invested in the use of phosphates produces additional But of army occupation has not seen dollars in agricultural wealth so great is our "cultural lag" the devastation of Poland and Yugoslavia and Greece that the loss of phosphorus from our country's soil has Russia He Norway and Czechoslovakia reached what Dr Peterson terms "calamitous has seen little of the suffering of proportions" Frnace Belgium and Holland and By We are in danger of degrading into the impoverished Major George Fielding Eliot agri- may well look upon that as the As watch somewhat ner culture of central Europe The "key to life" is being drained inevitable destruction of the bat- vously we and impatiently the prog his tlefield In heart he ress from our soil at the rate of 400 million tons a year Little the lot of Germans withcompares of the for the sur negotiations the lot it hp of the city or town or countryside render of the Jan emnir more than a million tons a year are being added each year from which he came in the states comes plainer and plainer that the Within 100 miles of the place where Dr Peterson was The tendency is for him to be- Jap authorities who are dealing the Germans are more des- with us are having trouble conspeaking there reposes 80 per cent of the nation's supply of lieve their own army that it titute and miserable than any oth- vincing must the surrender order rock obey er from are sure to which the critical soil element may be phosphate people and they This appears to be at the root so Soon him tell he will become drawn if he is not now a ready victim oi an tne delays the contradictory p statement and the broadNo wonder then that a committee of farmers business to a campaign for relaxing police casts that are emanating from more for treatrules and lenient men and technologists after hearing what Dr Peterson and ment of Germany The various hints that Tokyo is this temperory do un- only others had to say about what phosphorus will do to im- European Soldiers' Viewpoint rinnhtprllv rnrSArit the hnnps f On the other hand the argu- most Jap leaders there can hardly prove our agriculture and the calamity that will befall us ment that it is more important to De one tnem who is not anticiif it soon isn't returned to the soil— no wonder after feed Greeks than Germans seems pating aoiwar of revenge sometime hearing extremely logical to a Greek sol- But the this the committee voted to do something about the situation dier It is not difficult to per- ideas is present utterance of these certainly for the The western states council organized recently to pro- suade a French Poilu that it is purpose ofalmost soothing army and better to keep French homes warm getting the army to the with mote western development will be asked to call an eleven-stat- e next comply winter than provide fuel for the imperial orders without makhomes It seems ing any unfortunate "incidents" meeting to discuss the adoption of a program to pro German more than Just to a Russiannothing The last thing that the very mote further commercial production and use of the phos- tryman that Russian cities getinfan magentry who immediately for reconstruction rather the throne desire is that phate resources of this locality for the upbuilding of the terial than that German factories be re- surround there should be such outright soil and the improvement of agrictulture within a radius built Stories of continued short- treachery as should make certain ages in their own home communithat they will never again be trustof one thousand miles or more from the source of the ties harden British Belgian Dutch ed such treachery as might well and other troops against the de- sweep supply the throne itself and away mands of Germans to have their the last shreds of imperial presown shortages relieved x in a holocaust of blood and tige Therefore it is not a fire sentimental desire to get merely our own to Save Something The Humboldt river of Nevada which received its boys back that prompts the pro- Trying that have been at some pains they remain in Germany to They name from Fremont two years ago won distinction by being posal u loriK save as what they could of the u taxes to uiuy superthe complete disarmament described in one of the famous rivers of America series of vise of imperial institution as a future ralthe reich and to hasten the dis- lying point for the nation under books This honor was accorded the river because of its mantling of German heavy indus- - conditions which would permit u maw banc on me devastated coun- themselves to — — — tho — tn It " accomplishments provided beaver for the trappers tries j of Europe ers they have exercised ever since salthe may get furnished a fairly safe route for immigrants to follow dic- vageable machinery at the earliest the abolition of the shogunate These are the men who have in tated the paths of the pony express telegraph and railroad possible moment some cases opposed the V S Combat Troops Exit military and accounts for considerable Nevada agricultural producpast — not because Americans remaining in Ger- hotheads in thewith the idea of a tion But the river which has been called more names than many after that should be only they disagreed but beJapan— our members of those boards and cause most otners is being called on for more service Nevadans commissions wanted to proceed more which will deal with slowly they surely toward the realvarious aspects of control as ization and propose to store flood waters in its upper regions to control the that idea Now I think wen ds our snare ot the variety we can of be reasonably certain that the stream so that it will do more good and less harm of technicians needed to carry out will do all they can to keep they work Another mustang must submit to discipline of civilization theThere a tight rein on the army as it is should be no line officers (ConUnuM OS Following Page JVXJr Kutlll on °thS way to Berlin Forget the obvious fact that Mr Byrnes' note was intended for Moscow as much as for Sofia Asks Too Much When if ever would Bulgaria be able to meet the conditions laid down by Mr Byrnes? He is ask- ing the benighted Bulgars to achieve almost overnight a degree of democracy not yet reached by his own proud state of South Caro-lin- a He is asking for an election "under conditions which will allow and insure the participation therein free from fear of force and in timidation of all democratic ele- an good-lookin- ' Phosphorus: Key to Life War Moves Analyzed soft-soa- far-seei- SEE DR ZELLER FOR AN EYE EXAMINATION TOMORROW! With Victory won and millions of workers returning to their jobs it is all the more important that you are prepeace-tim- e pared to meet competition with efficient satisfactory work Faulty vision does place a serious handicap on you Don't take is right see Dr Zeller a chance! Make sure your eye-sigat Anderson's tomorrow ht ng n i iiri imi Humboldt to Be Harnessed - world-dominati- A i a i-- --— r--1 r $ o tL's — ng 2449 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD A |