Show f I Dads Dad's rn Column I FOR FORIN I VICTORY I II IN Iff THOUSANDS of communities throughout Nazi-conquered Nazi Europe the letter V has lias appeared chalked on onUs onIUS IUS COs Us on ou streets pavements sidewalks On store windows and billboards It Is j I I I today the symbol s for lor Victory used by I i millions of ot oppressed sed people who some someday day will rise nn ana destroy In Iii I one week in July Jul more than French Frenchmen f men and women were thrown In their I community charged with scrawl scrawl- scrawlIng I r lag Ing this vengeful symbol wherever they r could Increasingly It is used for ex ex- example example r ample In Morse-code Morse form three form three light taps and one heavy when heavy when knocking on ona ona a 3 neighbors neighbor's door or again In concerted applause LSe at movies and plays The be so- so called illegal radio in various Euro Euro- European European European countries use it now as a call signal station statton Identification or Responsibility for its spread if it dim dim- difficult difficult cult for the Gestapo police poUce to trace All AH they can do In futile exasperation 19 is to execute mass arrests That takes time and only serves ser to encourage the thc spread of ot tho the Victory symbol and to encourage hope and determination throughout Europe that men may one day be free In a recent wave short-wave broadcast t. t j. j B. B Priestley the British novelist t ex explained ex- ex explained the uncontrollable spread pread of ot V Vas as ns follows Europe needed a simple sign of al allied al- al allied allied lied defense faith and hope and found It U In the letter V That V is for Victory a a. symbol of our cause our be- be bellet bellet beliet liet that modern man cannot be en en- enslaved enEa enslaved slaved E a ed that the Nazis are doomed Dont Don't mate make the mistake of ot thinking that this Is a childish thing thin o o o 1 CONSIDER CONS TUG WHEN WIlEN YOU aro doing an extra heavy Job of or complaining and your electric fan doesn't stir up enough breeze for f r I you the evening meal is too heavy for tor summer consumption and you go to a at a movie to cool off orf Just remember the many thousands of soldier boys who are In hotter spots than yours ours driving trucks and drilling carrying packs and digging ditches In the blazing sun The case where troops from an eastern camp marched and waited in tho the heat of a aday ada aday day da to be re by a 0 governor who was Tas over o two hours late in showing up didn't cool us off oft any either cither when we heard It Thero There Is no bonus waiting for these lads and although they may carry a heavier coat of ot tan than you have a a. amore amore more thoroughly developed sense of ot routine and a decidedly better physique than both of us us they are perhaps willing willingto to exchange their place In the army for jour sour place pl ce On a shady porch O O O OI I 1 WOULD not enter on my list of ot friends though graced with polished manners and fine sense yet wanting sensibility the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm Cowper O o O OVE WE VE READ In the year five-year period beginning in 1914 only trucks were produced and their manufacture j I IWas was spurred to a a. measurable extent by I government go order as army transport of- of officials j visualized the role the truck could play By contrast during the past I five fire years trucks have rolled from the assembly lines of the nations nation's motor manufacturers and in 1940 a total I of trucks were in use through- through throughout out the country Today the truck does I hundreds of ot Jobs undreamed of in 1914 and does them with an efficiency that i would amaze the designers of ot those I pioneer models Yet today's commercial cars produce more power operate with far f r greater efficiency run more economically economically I cally and cost as little as a third th the I I price of ot the average truck in 1914 o 0 f 10 c- c I I MINERS MINCUS TO MEET PRODUCERS OF the sinews of the nations nation's defense effort iron effort Iron ore copper I lead zinc tungsten t n. n molybdenum man man- manganese manganese C mercury gold silver sliver and other metals aro are planning to meet in San Francisco September to October 2nd at the tho annual American Mining Congress convention conven n. n Metals for Dc- Dc Defense I Is the theme chosen for this meet- meet I I log ing Taxation labor relations distribution tion and economic problems of ot the min mm- mining I I ing tag Industry will be considered as well as 3 the tho need of or adequate priority ratings for mining machinery and supplies in order to assure continued capacity pro pro- production prof production i of this great natural resource f Industry b SumER FIRES WITH Tins THIS month and next eing T so popular for camping and picnicking it itis itIs is wise to remember before ever leaving on the trip that th t Just such Buch a n party as yours ours often causes damage in heavy wooded sections where careless folks have smoked cigarettes and flung the lighted match Into papers and rubbish Perhaps in building the camp fire to prepare the meals they the were not careful in putting out the blaze before they left the tho grounds So is great damage caused in heavy wooded sections There bere Is so much needless waste w i ste and havoc that is due to a bit of thoughtlessness and a little spark becomes a great blaze c that spreads through the woodside If It any of ot our readers have seen a a. vast tract of ot ground burned to a crisp swept barren by fire the stumps of ot trees as monuments to toman's toman's mans man's carelessness then you know tho the I sadness that fire leaves in its wake O O O OA A HARVARD HARV MD law school professor der de dared disclosures of defense Information by Senator Wheeler violates a federal statute If It such Is the tho case should there not bo be something done about It If It he heis heis heis is a n law breaker the fact of his being f a United States senator should not shield him him from prosecution O O Oo O CO HARRY nARRY L. L Hopkins has baJ assured the tho British i people that American and British ships In the North Atlantic c arp ar patrolling on parallel lanes t with only one onG on object in view to view to guard tto tt t o worlds world's life line No enemy he be said x n 1 i on Page Tour Y w. w Dads Dad's Column Rf r I Continued from Pace Ones One tan stop the ceaseless tide of or ships carrying aid to Britain dally o c o oTHE oTHE THE PATTERN of business develop develop- developments developments Federal Reserve ments Dents In the Twelfth District during June Juno and July Jul followed closely closel that of other recent months This pattern was one of continued ex expansion ex- ex expansion expansion with the tho underlying force of national defense demands losing none of or Its urgency As Industrial operations continued to expand uninterruptedly further additions were made to factory employment In June Aggregate payrolls of factory factor workers continued to Increase and In the tho three Pacific Coast states were 69 59 per cent higher than a year earlier when the defense effort had barely entered Its Initial stages o BOG O C. C FROM I AN X ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE MAY I through the columns of or your newspaper thank all who are arc In any anyay way tray ay contributing to Aid for Britain I think I would particularly like to say Thank you ou to every woman In every country who has helped to send cloth- cloth clothIng clothing Ing boots etc to us here In England I am a member of or the Women's Vol Vol- Voluntary Voluntary Service In this city and after the last Jast terrible blitz we had was called upon to perform many man duties One or two days I spent In helping to distribute clothing to those who had their homes smashed to pieces or burned out and had lost c everything Believe me It tt was then that I realized Just how much we wo I appreciate your kindness In sending these goods Our local headquarters were I burned to tho the ground too and wo we lost including everything everything Including hundreds of ar ar- articles articles of clothing We managed to Get j another place and were able to carry on oni I i with a few things we had stored In an an- another another another other building Then further supplies came In from surrounding towns I I wish I could put Into words Just i what I felt during this experience I am afraid I cannot One thing I felt very j I clearly however and that was the J I Brotherhood of or Man Is 15 very possible when Love Lovo reigns In our hearts Surely I these experiences will bring us nearer I Ito to each other and so nearer to God I ISo So to every woman In every land laud who Is contributing In any way wa we wo say Dear sister lister all nIl we thank you AN ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE Christian Science Monitor I V o G THE UNITED States News says Army experts who once thought the Philippine Islands could not be defended successfully success- success fully I now are changing their opinion I In tho the light of the development of the j airplane Japans Japan's planes are no match i for made American-made planes and her air airI Industry is able to turn tarn out only about I I a month I 00 0 I AMONG THE many man defense activities In Washington D. D C. C the past week the tho state department protested the dropping of bombs by Japanese planes near the U. U S. S Gunboat Tutuila and announced the Incident closed after the Japanese I promised government go t. t Pr red red- redi full i Investigation nv g Uon Acting Secretary Welles and reparation denounced Germany tot for Its note otc to tho the t Mexican government with regard r gard to tho the blacklist recently Issued by President Roosevelt and for the th Nazi governments reported threats of ot reprisal v O V v I I. THERE ARE MILLIONS LIKE LIFE YOU YOli MIL MR PARKINSON 1 IN TIlE TIKE Public Forum column of Mondays Monday's Salt Lake Tribune Mr Dean Doati I Parkinson submitted the following un- un under unI under under Booster der the tho caption of Willkie to true which Is only a Just tribute a American and expresses the sentiment of millions of or former antl Winkles About a n. year ago now a man from Rushville Indiana started out on a campaign tour of the United States whom I almost despised from the first time I heard him speak That bat feeling stayed with me all during his campaign I almost applauded within my own when the distasteful practice of eggs and a c tomatoes was resorted against him and his charming wife In some somo parts of the country Today I love this same man with even moro more energy that I despised him a a. year car carago ago I wish I had the ability and the prestige to tell the world that Wendell Willkie is the man the United States Stat s needs for president next time to blaze blazo tho the trail for America l to follow after alter this war Is 15 over If H I had only made mad madea a n. nonstop flight lIght In an airplane from New York to Paris back about 1927 I would now have the prestige prestige and and from all appearances the appearances the ability I am pretty positive pos we wo are going to have another election In 1944 The Re Re- Republican Republican Republican publican party would be very foolish to omit the name nome of Wendell Willkie as their candidate for the president How How- However However ever I think the Democrats are going to have an opening about that time If It the tho Republicans find they can can- cannot cannot cannot not use Willkie the Democrats ts will pro pro- probably probably bably be glad to put him on As Willkie goes so goes the nation |