Show t H H t of A i J 4 1 i S Dads Dad i I I I i i t Column f 1 1 i. i I i t it 1111 II ft TREES I THINK that I shall ever see seeA seeA seeA A poem lovely as a n tree A tree whose hungry mouth Is 1 prest Against the earths earth's sweet flowing breast looks at God all day tree A-tree A tree that And lifts lUts her leay lealy arms arni arn to pray A tree that hat may In summer wear wearA I A nest of ot robins In her hair Upon whose bosom snow lifts has lain F Who Intimately lives with rain Poems are made by fools tools like me But only God can make a Do tree I V vO O Cr i F ANNUAL NUAL WAGE PROBLEM SAYS ss ERIC A. A Johnston I hope we r can avoid learning the hard way I think it Is a mistake to force annual wages down the throats of ot management This problem goes to the roots of ot our free I society and Its freedom may be destroy destroy- destroyed ed If we use the the wrong means to gain the right ends By forcing for mg business Into a straitjacket the Job regularity at- at at at- attained attained tamed might be more than offset by the I American free free- loss of ot our traditional I I dom dome If It everyone everone must pay ah ail au annual wage many will hesitate to engage in I business Then the government would be I I tempted to step in and become the em em- employer employer as Is the case In to Russia today I em-I I t O Of 7 f f THE 1111 JAPANESE ESE MEN RETURNING from the Pacific I theater of ot operations have Invariably I Impressed upon me the tough character I. I of ot the enemy and they have stressed I particularly the remarkable tenacity and adaptability of ot the Japanese troops they I have havo come caIne In contact with I do not I doubt them In the least The TIle staying I power of ot the Nipponese Is all too evi evi- dent But how about the resourcefulness and enduring qualities of ot our own peo peo- people I pie Cast adrift In Jungle or In for for- forbidding forbidding forbidding bidding mountainous territory they t eem seem to make mako out even when the enemy is at their heels A story that will bear out this statement Is told by Dorothy r. r I 1 Cushing Gushing Dean McKinley whose ex ex- ex experiences she relates s. s Is now on a speak speak- ing tour in the Middle West w. w w- w V. V c. c o o o ABOUT GUAM GUAM ONCE a neglected Isle and far off oft tho steamer big-steamer routes has come rapidly Into prominence in the wake of I Ithe 1 the war It Is the focal point for deci decI- decisions I in the fight light against Japan There Fleet Admiral Chester W. W has his lila headquarters The Island is la the center of ot a vast air network and Construction e plans are going forward to make it a powerful base in the Western Pacific Superhighways already thread their 11 way over the island which is 32 miles mUes fR long lens and from fr m 4 to 10 miles mUes wide Roads RoodS have havo been cut through though the Jungle-cover- Jungle J td 4 hills Guam to those who had seen It before the war var would In many places places' be he unrecognizable Modern construction I Is 1 changing the face of ot the Island whose villages were leveled by bombs and guns 1 In the summer battle ba tle of ot 1944 1044 The Island was occupied e by the Japanese December Dc ember I 1 10 1941 and remained in Nipponese hands about 2 22 2 2 years I I Guam Quam In American history dates back to 1898 when it was ceded ce sd to this coun coun- country country country I try by Spain by the treaty terminating the Spanish American an war The soil is 15 fertile and anti well watered and the coconut coco coca coconut nut breadfruit rice sugar and indigo are cultivated Slavery was abolished on February 22 1900 I Guam Quam Is 15 the prize of ot the Marianas HOW MUCH TO DIG UP ur UPA UlA A 4 UliS Wl THE ceiling price on digging tip up my husband an excited female oice O on the other end of or a n telephone line asked as ed Hugh L. L Thomas Thomas' office of or price administration price specialist abb well welt stuttered the surprised Mr Thomas ThomasI I 1 want my husband dug up ana moved o ed to another cemetery and I 1 want wha j that hat service the voice continued Theros Theres no regulation covering that particular service and no price control on digging up husbands madam the Price specialist said after atter a hurried T check I Well there should be bet bel I the wife wile de de- de dared The cemetery where he is wants I 35 and 35 and the cemetery where I want to take him would only charge and 20 and andI I know it shouldn't cost more than 15 15 j Salt Salt Lake Times Time A. A I ALASKA'S WEALTH ALASKA MINES to o date have produced ed valued at some same of Ii this value gold accounts for 70 per cent copp for 25 per cent and sliver silver lead tin tin tungsten chromium platinum pl me me- metals metals metals antimony and mercury for tor the rest 5 Ov C O SlUE SIDE OF Ok Tilt Tile SAYS A San Francisco correspondent of Pt the tho Christian Science Monitor How the press looks to the diplomat rather lather than how the United Nations looks to the press has brought forth the first known poetic burst of the Confer Canter ence It comes from Ellen Stevenson wife Ue of ot Adlai Stevenson a sp al assis assis- assistant assistant tant taut to Secretary of ot State Edward R. R Mr Stevenson is handling an I important phase of press press' relations at San aa Francisco and obviously Mrs Stev Stev- Stevenson 1 enson couldn't hold it in any longer Ji Rem r it is The press cas Is here the press Is there Free to speak and free to stare I They stalk tho tha secret to its lair Provoke the diplomats diplomat's despair t They rOck the boat until we share The Symptoms of ot their mal mer 1 Report the nearest madman's prayer Confusion Contusion is their thoroughfare Tho The press is here the press Is La there On land at sea and and tn In the tho air til TO GET 1000 ADDITIONAL l AUTO TIRES AN ADDITIONAL allotment of ot Ti grado one ono P passenger tires Ures will augment i Utah Utah's h quota IJ ta of for tor civilian mo mo- Lewis A A- Clark tire representative office of ot price said today The Tho Increase of ot tires Ures over till thi Continued on Page Four I Dads Dad's Column Continued from Page One May quota means that B and andr C C r drivers with preference ratings of 2 or 3 will have some chance of getting new tires Mr Clark said pointing out that the backlog of applications from motor motor- motorists motorists 1515 with first preference ratings win wi L bo be taken care care- of in some areas Ex areas Ex change I o 00 o 0 o 0 WAR WI IS YELL HELL i GEN SHERMAN once said War Var Is IsHelL Is IsHell IsHell HelL and he was right That is one on reason why tho the American Amerl n people are I fighting one ono to erase erase- the causes of it It j and to rid the tho world of the depraved intellects that start them and and one rea reason rea- rea reason son why we we all ll want ant to get it over oven v vr r. r with within within in the shortest possible time The Tho hard hard- harder er wo we work now the sooner we will bo able to call ourselves ourselves' veterans B. veterans B. 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A Cook in the Ogden I O O O PRISONERS rm PItI O Ens ARE Aim PROFITABLE LE I PRISONERS OF war did more than worth of or work during the first three months of 1944 the War De Do- Department I Dc-I has hns announced Paid 80 cents a day the prisoners did man I hours of work on army posts and 3 man hours of work for tor private contractors The government collected I I the tho difference the between 80 cents and I the t e prevailing wage for the work they were doing for the private contractors This amounted to O O O HID 1111 YOU KNOW NOW THAT THREE SEMI mobile laundry compan companies compan I ice ies do a dally daily wash of 50 tons for the Fifth Army in Europe E I SOME acres of broomcorn is needed each year to supply America with brooms I THERE ARE 1200 military uses for O 00 O O OSUN SUN NEVER NE SETS SITS ON AMERICAN A SOIL TIlE THE flung FAR Empire upon the sun never sets has a present-day present dival Tho The territorial expansions of the tho I United States in recent decades have considerably lengthened the duration of sunshine on American soil In summer at least we vo can cnn truthfully say cay that the sun docs does not set on the Stars and I Stripes Continuous sunshine on American territories in tho summer Bummer months be became be- be became became came a reality with the acquisition of such Buch scattered far far st islands as Puerto Rico Hawaii the Philippines and a portion of or the Samoan group In between tho American mainland and the Philippines are the little isles of Wake Guam Midway Jarvis and Howland tiny Howland-tiny tiny dots of land in the ex- ex blue of or tho Pacific's salty acres Each of or these Islands is a a. stepping stone stono in tho the westward w Journey of the sun Each increases tho period of or duration in which the sun un shines on American soil soU Entirely apart from rom sea over possessions is the tho surprising revelation that sunshine in summer is 18 practically continuous on the North American con con- continent continent continent Itself In midsummer sun the Is Just setting on Attu when it is rising in Maine Mount almost in the tho geo geo- geographical geographical geographical graphical center of Maine is the first place in tho United States to greet the morning sun At almost that precise moment it is setting on Attu last of the Aleutians and tho last tip of land on this continent upon which the tho setting sun casts Its rays the rays the Aleutian fog tog permitting Christian Christian Science e e Monitor O 00 O- O OO OTHE O i THE TilE REAL TEST SAYS MARQUIS Shields a Washing Washing- Washington ton correspondent in the Minute Man Now is the tho real test of this war We can throw away the victory that seems to be so close We can throw it away by going In for a reckless spending spree Or we can cnn show the same self self- restraint that most Americans have hate ha e shown through the long course of the conflict That means putting every spare penny into War Wat Bonds O O O OTHE I TIlE THE PACIFIC WAIt WAIL 1 THE LATE Ernie Pyle wrote the fol ibl- following lowing The end of one war ar Is a great fetter broken from around our lives But there is still another to be broken I The Pacific war may yet be long and bloody Nobody can but it would bo disastrous to t approach it with easy hopes Our next few months at nt home will be torn between the new spiritual I freedom of peace half and the old grind grinding ing lug blur of half haU o o o v STUFF STUn FUNNY U iAre c fAre i f Dialogue to Are Aro you allergic No Im I'm Harry Were you inoculated In f No I was waa drafted Got your appendix I haven't h vent been Issued one yet dont don't knoW the c My God man you you Kings King's English The Tho hell ho he is papa play pIny golf I II Does your I No he learned to too to swear like that thatto N In to n the Army 1 f |