Show 1 I f r II i I t I Ij t if c l i r Dads D a d' d s t 01 It r C O BR BRN i ii i 1 1 1 4 1 I I N i i t. n I oIo o oI oe r 11 t j 1 j'S A LI S IS URAL nUL STRONGHOLD a a RUSSIA HAS secretly created beyond be ond Ural Mountains a gigantic Industrial I 1 ge so huge It exceeds the most rumors The unbelievable p d I of the Soviet development of that 1 I ent nt f I it I t region out of any enemy's reach Is 1 treated In detail by John Scott in tho the fJ of The Readers Reader's fI Issue s Digest DigestI I e report of the American Journalist five U years a worker in one of the thea M Sat at Ural plants is 15 substantiated by I a former Brigadier of the Red Army who served on 0 portent soviet purchasing missions 9 Not hot Kot only have the Russians construct- construct i I j more than two hundred new plants J I d w Immense size in the Ural area Scott sports ports but they have also spent millions g dollars in developing the rich and andI g 1 I neglected neglected mines of the region Ho bes it as the greatest program of ot J I Austria 1 expansion in world history I curled out at a a. cost ranging as high 1 v u 56 per cent of ot the total national in- in InI I 1 throughout the last decade Giant machine works steel mills mils cap cap- captAi I tAi iSe e of producing tons a I. I day oil of ol and enormous plane tank and andr r rr rt supplies factories are operating on Ugh high production schedules Located hun- hun teds of miles east of the fighting lines lie e new industrial empire has been en- en urged since the tho beginning of the war warthe 11 ft t the tho mass removal of munitions fac- fac tries les from the threatened area of Mos- Mos DT er Three newly constructed railroads of four billion Ed id d seven power plants unite the industries into a powerful reserve arsenal far from Iron hos hos- hostile j tile lue bombers Both Scott and former General Bar- Bar Bare sine e Indicate that this mighty industrial e power has played an inestimable In the surprising show of Russian Length against the Nazis on the eastern tat at t. t However both warn against any kire bye that the new Ural industries are aro dent clent to feed the Soviet war machine f the aid of British and American rz x orts o 0 o o 0 1 I IJOHN JOHN L L. LEWIS defied the govern govern- I Ih int t shut down an important segment ft is vital defense Industry and brought I tra on the head of all aU labor the bill passed by the House House all all In faer rier fier to enforce his demand for the teed shop which he ho contends Is cs- cs to ensure Job security for work- work Jo IS es Yet today Lewis Is firing veteran coa on of an organization he I because they dont don't see see eye to tote te 0 with him on his torrid isolationism A b far tar 22 have been axed and more are arc t tei to go They are organizers re- re remal paal mal directors and the general coun- coun count t for tor a number of years of District i Bof 8 or of the United Mine Workers District I Mis js the chemical coke munitions and division of ot the V. UM While I branch of actually District 50 is isH t separate H arate union completely union completely under the man ce-man ce man domination of Lewis Last I i miner zmer he suddenly f removed the vet- vet tan top tep officers of ot the union and re- re reP Pd P d them with Ora Gassaway one of of I Ils close henchmen and Kathryn Lewis I daughter Gassaway a time one-time min min- mine e gets a year and Kathryn to fI has never ne worked In a mine or fac- fac WJ itry Drew Drew Pearson and Robert Robertj 15 j 1 Allen Alien t f O O O I REDUCTION Ora oyE o n OF OP the first acts of the war warI I C board was a new order dras- dras tally limiting the use of crude rubber ltd US ud latex latex and and the effects of that order ch into every home For example af- af afIf J If irr February 1st only reclaimed rubber rS r tar bo used In such bUch non-essential non willan products as bathing suits and an 4 es Ct erasers erasers- toys and novelties lawn IM j lad j garden hose trouser belts bel ts combs 1 v nd t and tennis balls baHs and other sporting P Imo heels for ordinary footwear hold aprons and sponge b rubber uncles Tho use of rubber will be per- per t to 1 but In much smaller quantities n previously pre in such materials as for tor printing and publishing later ler bottles and Ice bags baSs shoe ce ce- ce ceI I i t 1 t and plumbers supplies U Q U Q V Q I 1 11 l n WAR Wll W. W R WORKS WORK'S WORK BY BYI I i 8 IN I 1899 1891 NG SHELLS to the battery of Vf 1111 W t artillery art Ulery are the veterans of ot Bat- Bat BatA 1 j A of ot the Utah Volunteers com- com coma I a ded l by Major Richard W W. Young of Ei Lake L city According to the files of ot oft I e t Utah Writers Writers' Project gun crews directed bV by Lieutenants George e W. W 6 s and anel W. W C. C Webb both botn bothe bothof of or Sal Salt Salte I e le City i On February 6 1899 at 1 30 p. p m. m argent b fire has almost ceased Amen Amerl- Amerl 1 I V infantry itry receive orders for an ad- ad acIon race ebb on n enemy positions Lieutenant nil I d SWUng to his h's men Come on he lets s go go Hay Hayt I Lieutenant Gibbs I fr 4 L. L I e go w with th the charge 1 I And leave Pins Gibbs called back Hell no ill 11 t v on Gu tt take em cm cm with Come on men I but on n the wheels Lets Let's roll 1011 down this U An AD then was enacted one of tho the cj t scenes ever witnessed I ft It was the first artillery but of ge Ce it In history and likely the last l j h fed ed won the day dayl The utah batteries L bout tOnt their cannon along with the tho thet t tb tb b line stopping as Lieutenant I recorded now and then to fire on I m natives to start them running running- fied leel i t Y I dap pra ra natives broke cover under the then n j of close ose 4 th the range artillery shrapnel b as cj t American Infantry picked them 1 j tt It ll rifle e fir Ire fire The enemy breast- breast tt tan t ere taken without the loss of ot a n from rOIn the batteries 1 PRESIDENT RES I ets ENT ROOSEVELT asked Con Con- an 4 fOr for the Navy t ant u. u of a a special a bill authorizing establish establish- con I corps Corp a Special limited service Marine I a composed of World war veterans I older a men to be used In patrolling a gUarding guar n vital facilities The Navy I t legs 11 that students in school or I gO Who have not yet reached their serve bIrthday y may inky enlist In the Naval I With Permission to complete the d nt t school l year before reporting for forO I i l hep O 0 0 O 0 O Oi i SECRETARY Perkins reported Continued on Page Four s Dads Dad's Column iN 4 Continued from Pace Page One hourly hourI earnings of ot wage earners In manufacturing Industries rose 15 per percent percent cent to a 0 new high of ot 78 1 per cent cent cent- 16 15 per cent above the same time last year Average hours worked per week neck hours were 4 per cent abo above e last year and weekly earnings 2 per percent I cent cent higher DUSy IIAms THERE ARE few Idle hands In these days of war war those those of every ery citizen n turned to dally tasks of or earning a living and keeping up a home There are arc those hands giving gl extra time to assisting their government In defense defend hands do- do doIng doIng doing Ing Red Cross work hands to carry out orders for civilian defense Busy Bus world this And so docs does It ft nil all tend to hearten us for tor a final victory for tor our cause We Wo Weare Weare are told that a a. military survey of ot our resources Indicates that when our armed forces total 3 men that there will be employment for tor all of this country's workers In other words I this removes remo unemployment from fro f r o m In America removing all Idleness by men and women able to be employed Should we exceed the mark of 3 fighters there will be a drastic call for tor workers I It will lead to people who are arc doing nonessential non non non-e work being shifted to keeping vital Industries going Then we will find women supplying the labor laborin labor laborIn in mass formation We e are arc proud to to have the number of ot men needed for tor the armed forces fortes and civilian JUan labor ready to j I supply the hands to scrub the decks for I action o O 0 O 0 I GROU- GROU Y GROUNDHOG HERE WE come right around to I Groundhog Day D y and even If It you jou OU aro I of or the school of thought who cant can't take tako much stock In this sort or of weather fore fore- forecasting forecasting I casting you still are arc going to ask if It tho groundhog saw his shadow on February I 2nd No one seems to be able to tell ten tellus tenus tellus us how this business started and most every everyone one treats it as a Joke If It the I groundhog coca gOCS Ret a view of his shadow and creeps back for tor six Ix more more weeks of o winter we don dont t remember at the end endor of or that time whether or not it Jt was tho the fault of or the groundhog If Ie the day is dark and he doesn't see se his shadow be- be beI I tween sunrise and sunset do we go out and spade sp de the tho garden and arid sit down dO to I order garden seeds because winter is lover over according to groundhog rules i Dont Don't forget torget tile the fellow who used to tomake tomake tomake make weather r prognostications by a n J goose bono back in grandpas grandpa's day got goti i just as big a kick out of It as you do doover doover over this groundhog method o o o 0 I ABOUT BLACKOUTS L THEY HAVE found out that during I blackouts you can see more by b not directly at the objects you wish i to see The idea Is to sort of ot look out of or the corner of your eye and this Isn't I really the corner but a certain a circular I i zone outside the center of ot the eye Due i to our Increasing ln bright lights Americans have not developed dev de loped those certain nerve nene centers which aid In seeing In the dark There Thero is a A. suggestion made by b n a psychologist psychologist that we wo can train ourselves to toh hAve h ve blackout eyes by practicing at at I home at night with the luminous but buttons but but- buttons buttons tons sold as markers m for electric switches When you have a a. moonless night ho he suggests thaT th t you practice looking at gaunt trees following their trunks and branches and through accustoming your eyes to tho the darkness you might bring the tho tree into more detail It is not likely we wo In this mountain retreat will ever have occasion for tor a blackout yet blackout jet we wo can never tell what might happen O 0 O 0 NOTHING I ELSE L n COUNTS T INDICATIVE OF OP how the automobile industry and American Industry as ns a whole Ls Is is preparing to carry out President President dent Roosevelt's enormous assignment to build tanks and planes and guns Is this by the President of pf the worlds automobile company says the Industries News Service We In General Motors think wo we can see our way clear to do about 10 per percent percent percent cent of tho the Job That ought to be bo a agoo good goo start of industry as a whole s President C C. E E. Wilson said The big bl problem now nov Is for tor each of ofus ofus us to get busy and do the things that I we can do the tho best bust with the single objective in mind of ot seeing how quickly we ca t win this war Nothing else I counts I There Thero Is no question that our country I I now is facing a very difficult situation I We are not a warlike people we are aro a peace-loving peace people It Is no criticism of or anyone in particular that we are late lato with our defense and and war program We Weare Weare are all to blame for lor It That Is the kind i of people we wo are The facts of the matter are that thit there thero Is a much better Job being done than the public realizes During the year General Motors trebled Its quarterly production of war materials and each successive month In 1942 will show ever ever increasing acceleration of production I j jand and deliveries f r Discussing tho the problem of ot retooling j for war production Mr 1 Wilson said f It varies for every Job If Ir someone I says MYS Well what part of your jour our facilities can cnn you use I say If I it ft is making a battleship we couldn't use Use any of ot our facilities If It It is Is' making army trucks we use 95 or 97 per cent We aro are sort of ot confused by words It seems to me Subcontracting Is noth noth- nothing nothIng nothing ing but buying materials and parts from somebody else nothing else nothing new about It Conversion Conver Is Js nothing but retooling and rearrangement of ot a a. plant to make a a. dif dl- different dif dif- different ferent terent product The amount of retooling and the amount of or plant rearrangement depend on how great the change In the theold theold old product compared to the new one And when it comes to retooling and conversion or plant rearrangement we weare weI aro are used to doing It cv every ery cry year In the I automobile business b 1 Any machine c or material which Gen Gen- General General eral Motors now has and which are not usable In the discharge of the production pro pro- production productiOn obligations we can ourselves ful ful- fulfill fulfill fill we will make available to any other manufacturer who can use them in war production Since Pearl Harbor General Motors has undertaken additional contracts and has assumed obligations which have more than doubled its previous large war material commitments Further con con- contracts contracts contracts tracts and commitments arc In the pro pro- process process process cess of negotiation I The nations nation's need today Is for war production more war production and still more war production Tho The automobile industry perhaps more than th n any other helped to build up tho the nation In peace time there Is Js every reason to have confidence It wont won't let letus letus us down In war time O Oco OcoA O 9 A MAJOR difference dl between a 11 peace and a war economy Is Js that under peace economy there are arc about as many ob ob- objectives objectives ob- ob objectives as ns there are Individuals where where- whereas as ns under the war conditions all objectives objectives objectives tives must be brought together for one single purpose o o o SAYS OUR Washington correspondent President Roosevelt Roo has tried repeatedly to arrange peace between the American Federation and the Congress of Indus Indus- Organizations and when there seemed some hope of or success that the two groups might consolidate ex dent John L L. L Lewis refused to let C C. C I. I O. O play ball But the surprising Mr Lewis springs an nn unexpected surprise by asking his successor Phillip Murray and William Green of A A. A F F. of ot L. L L to con con- consolidate consolidate consolidate the two organizations Apparently Apparently Apparently neither big union will accept the suggestion and the two union labor groups will go each their own way way |