Show 4 t L j Dads Dad's Column I I I t Oo PRIVATES PRIVATE'S I MEt iEA EN I WILLIAM jUAt P. P McDermott In the August Augu AugustI I waders wader's Digest says From to soldiers sailors marines and RAF RAP and Canadian fighters v rv week ek throng Chicago's unique I service ce Mens Men's Center Center Center-a a story 13 club building in the heart of the business I district turned Into a mammoth recreation recreation Son tion resort reTt City officials from the mayor to white whito wings and private citizens by bythe the thousands chip in to make It goIt go It Its Iti the ne buck privates private's heaven heaven all all of- of are re barred One Bronx lad remarked Its the only place Ice I 1 know where a guy cant can't spend a cent ent Literally everything Is free tree Food one week-end week recently the boys in uniform who stormed Chicago's hospitalitY hos- hos hosA hoeA totality citadel were served hot dogs cups of coffee cookIeS cook- cook les jes bottles of soft drinks thinks sandwiches and cigarettes A restaurant estimated the free tree take of or food bed to be worth a week That's That'll not all The boys got free tree tickets to the theaters a movies and bowling alleys that week end week end I Ing Ine 1000 to a Chicago-Brooklyn Chicago double double- header Free shines shaves clothes pressing pressIng press press- pressa Ing and mending Twenty five artists from the Chicago Art Institute make I j free portrait lt sketches to be mailed home to mothers and sweethearts Dancing teachers give free tree instruction I II I There are several dance floors and I 2500 debutantes and stenographers home I girls and college girls each under 25 I end aud nd each ach endorsed by a pastor an employer or a club representative ate are aa as partners One Cee floor fitted up as a night club bul but bu with no liquor served served served-d draws r raw awe 8 thousands Name bands such as Cab Olloway's and Ted Weems' Weems play there without charge and tall fall over themselves j lot br the opportunity Stars such as Helen HelenI I I Hayes Bayes Bob Burns and Walter Huston I I put jut on programs I Another floor has a music appreciation I room where quiet youths can play or I listen to the classics a craft shop where hundreds congregate to make I i leather bags for tor mothers or sweethearts I or belts for fathers or brothers Scat Scat- 1 about are pianos and 25 or 30 1 girl players who know how to Jump I I from a love song to jive music in a flash are on duty to accompany those thoss I I who nho want to sing I i Chicago In its vast has shown that a big city can be the village I neighbor Food shipments are hauled free tree treeby I by railroadS railroad carried by Redcaps Redcaps Redcaps-no no I I tipping tipping to to taxis which deliver dellver them their L without charge Clubs high schools I groups of every kind supply cakes pies doughnuts and sandwiches Packers I j restaurants and food tood wholesalers donate I supplies by the truckload Laundries dc do dothe the linen free tree I Most of the activities have developed I I out Jut of ot experience One lad was seen seer L I shoving sho a couple of sandwiches inside his shirt to shirt to eat on the train h he explained Promptly the canteen worker r I I jacked a lunch box-lunch for tor him Now an any P service man can have one one hundreds hundreds are arc i given out dally daily I I The tame lame of the has spread until 1 theres there's scarcely a man In the armed I L services who hasn't hant heard of it I o 00 o o CONGRESSMAN J. J W. W Robinson 0 of r 1 I the Second Congressional district ar arrived arrived ar- ar rived In Salt Lake City Sunday last I j hoping to be able to remain in his home a I state for a month or so to plan for the j ji i campaign for tor his re-election re next NOVember November November Nov NOV- ember and to visit various war defense I plants in the state being a vital member member mem niem ber of war committees in order to give him a better opportunity to meet with officials and others others- Interested in these then 3 matters Representative Robinson has ha S represented Utah in congress for nian many years and rendering valued service Zo for tor r his home state and will undoubtedly be hi a I re elected as he should be for tor he wit with a Senator Murdock Is and always has been stalwart workers for Utah's advancement I HIS JU'S HAVE n SECRET WEAPON ION l DOII OrK nUT HUT IT nOO lIm TOO THE TuB JAPANESE have a secret weapon 1 dope According to an article in Readers Reader's Readers Reader's Read Read- ers er's Digest Tokyo's war lords are deliberately deli dell spreading dope addiction in tb the a territories they Invade Every Jap soldier soldie r r Is H told In Paragraph 15 of ot his military e handbook that the Chinese Europeans European S j J and nd East Indians enslaved by narcotics I will become the servants of their Ja Jap masters and eventually will disappear The article says the Japs Japa embarked o on their rule and policy of conquest conques l t by drugs In 1931 when they discovered 1 i that smoking opium troops In the Manchurian Man Man- armies were the first to surrender surrender sur sur- surri render or flee and that ridden dope ri populations were easy to manage However the article notes that conquest conquest con con- quest by narcotics Is a two edged sword conI I i According to the chief of the United Unite ci i States otates Bureau Bujeau of Narcotic Commissioner Commie Commis Harry J J. J Anslinger a thousand thousand d j hospital beds at alone are tilled filled d with heroin addicted soldiers of the Ja Jap L j army j The Digest article says the Imperial 1 I Japanese army profitably handles pr production pro pro- auction and distribution of narcotics narcotic s in jn the conquered territories In China Chini Peasants refused to raise the opium n I PoPPy Tokyo brought them into lie line ie e I with a new law making taxes payable I in ino ii so 50 o much raw opium per acre When When n I opium addiction moved too slowly tt the theP ES Jap ap P generals built huge factories I to 0 o convert the 1 1 I I opium into the more leth lethal morphine and Heroin A As Au a a. result ac ac I ac-I c cording to the Readers Reader's Digest article th if he number of ot known addicts In Chins Chinas g fOur ur northeastern provinces Increased d in from in rom In 1936 to over 0 1939 W 1 what hf Now there is ls great concern ov over t I at p Pacific may happen in the vast Western a areas area that have come coma under JE Jap Ip control i since Pearl Harbor 00 1 LLY E SPEAKING KING THERE ARE ARB tw two things that ti the average ma man thinks he can do belt better er than anything elso one else one Is I. to edit a ahe I and the other Is to run ti the he town own baseball team But every now 51 and ci then hen you hear of some fellow who Is in one profession understanding rig Continued on rage Pour i 4 Dads Dad's Column Continued from Paso Page Ont Ons pretty retty well wen the situation In another one Perhaps It la h. because we feel feet the same way as ae the professor or because beMuse we think that he might have sat eat back of a desk like ours one time timo himself but we feel he hit It on the head when he says IY that higher standards prevail In a small newspaper office than In moat most of ofu of u y tho the large city offices In the city the editor figures anything that happen happens Is III alright because it Is III news whereas In the small office the editor Is la pretty well acquainted with most of the folks living in fn the town and has bas a personal Interest In them and also In the place where the paper is printed Ills contact makes the tho subject matter closer and warmer than Just being news mews Not so 60 tso far wrong Tong professor I o o A o KELP KEEP GOING WE SPEND lots lota of talking and writing in In praise of labor and Industry In their method of working for the Interest of the country during war time Of course that Is what they should do earn praise for themselves by carrying on and not standing landing In the way of any branch to let Jet It U carry on Its assigned task There Thera was and still is trouble with labor striking ing and Industry suffering a hitch In production There was more trouble ex expected expected ex- ex petted than transpired thank heavens I We have eulogized on the tha work of the railroads In transportation and bus com corn panics of our factories turning out In mass quantity of the laborer buckling down and doing his Job But say Bay what about throwing a big bouquet at the farmer who tolls toile at his chores kept busy with his cows and chickens wheat I and corn fruit and berries lIe He goes his way usually unsung rising early and working late no time and a half hail overtime overtime over over- time no hourly schedule shortened helpIng help help- Ing hands handa weather to worry about storage storage storage stor stor- age to fret over There Is III a great deal to worry about and not take for granted In farming But on their way they go these thee farmers farmers' of our nation plowing sowing and reaping grinding feeding an and 1 shucking Stay at home do their Job mostly without complaint because that I. I Is what they have always done be before before bee be- fore the war and It is what they will wUl still do att after r the war is over They are fighting for their country and and their way ways Isn't s nt easy euy nOV INFLATION I SAYS THE Industrial News NeWil Review Before long definite action to Impose a II ceiling on wages is likely to be taken I either by congress or by presidential directive Washington is really reany worried I I about Inflation It Is obviously imposIble impossible I sible Ible to control and fix prices so long longas longs as s wages rise In addition wa wages must be e limited if purchasing power Is III to be beheld beheld beheld held down More and rigorous controls over the nations nation's man power in all directions I Is also to be anticipated The time I may come when workers will not be permitted permitted per per- to change Jobs Jobs and and when employers employers employers em em- will wUl not be permitted to bid competitively for men This Isn't plea plea- sant But the exigencies of war may make it inevitable I iI I o o o SAYS JO SERRA Somebody will say he represents labor labor his his heart beart aches for l labor he be gets tit t to Of all an the known known and d truth truth stretching stretching there are few that will wW surpass this claim of bleeding for la labor la- la bor Labor has baa been ben so busy tending to Its own Job lt has p paid d too little attention to tc ridding Itself of the leech leeches and spongers I. I v. v o 0 04 TAVERNS TA ABOUT PRICES A wide REGION wide campaign to bring an end to flagrant profiteering In the sale of beer and soft drinks to member of the armed services In areas near camps and other military establishments has bas been launched b by John A A. A Carroll regional regional re re- re gional OPA attorney This Is a low form of chiseling Carroll Carron said It amounts to picking the pockets of our soldiers sailors and marines We are re going to atop civil suits and where necessary ary by criminal action O O O ONE COMPANY alone atone has 1 1760 re research search men hard at work In Id 14 lati t hunting for bigger and bett bettor y ways ay of blasting the Axis o oO O c FIDDLING G WHILE ROME BURNS BURNS' WHILE ROME burns on many far- far flung fronts battle and little encourage encouragIng encouraging the ing war news filters in through censors masters of political strategy fiddle with fugitive wage stabilization tion and price ceilings says the Industrial Industrial Industrial In In- Press Service On the home front furor rages over the tho Inflation spectre which hangs over the coat cost of the war our standard of living and the ultimate value of tho the billions we are pouring Into war bonds Inflation must be curbed at all costs say these captains of expediency everything everything every thing possible must be done to remove Its causes or control Its growth But what actually has been done to control Inflation What specific steps have been taken to prevent It Mr Hendersons Henderson's diluted OPA CPA has been given a dull weapon Indeed with which to clamp down price lids and police them Wa Wages s a major factor In price determination are still on the loose n. n t a r othe the wisp Mr D labor v Pro wage decisions deci deci- clone always alway up an and 1 under the new of cost to formula so eo continuing continuing on a III bro broad d and expansive scale now open up ip the the whole Inflation phantasmagoria to the too me wage-grab wage contingent I Thus we he two t emergency war agencies the OPA and the set up to control prices and speed war production production tion toothless and Indigent in the performances of their tasks They have thus thug far not only t failed of their purposes but actually obstructed ob ob- strutted the performance thereof And why Because neither has the power or orthe orthe orthe the weight that such such Issues require In an emergency such as we face The obvious and crying need Is for tor a definite national labor polity policy one upon which both labor and mana management ment can hang their hats hate one upon which wages and l' l costs can be For wage ine known costs b t- t determined V Until itil costa costs are determined prices cannot annot be properly set lIet until prices are properly set they cannot be controlled And until prices price are controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled Inflation cannot be prevented The American people want to win this war and the peace which will follow It They are ready to do everything within reason and to make all the necessary sacrifices to win It It Small wonder then that they are becoming restive Under the faltering Indecisive policies exhibited exhibit exhibit- ed on wage freezing so necessary In preventing preventing pre pre- venting Inflation Small wonder that they are fed up with political fiddling on the home front while Rome burns burnson I on the land in the air and on the sea II III |