Show ECONOMIC highlights industrial news review we ve are now shutting down goodbye until better times long live the queen queena these courageous defiant words were the last spoken to the world by the official dutch broadcasting station at Bando eng the city which was made headquarters for the allied command in the netherlands east indies after batavia was lost at the time they were spoken the this twenty years ao ago issue of march 22 1922 the regular quarterly conference of the parowan carowan stake will convene in parowan carowan on saturday morning march at 10 and continue throughout that day and sunday county clerk john W gives out the word that an agreement has been signed between the county and the federal government for the construction of a road beckhom flat at a cost of acro across ss approximately the new construction will reach frona from mule point to a short distance this side of the robinson well tomorrow is cleanup clean up day at the church square with the days work to be climaxed in the evening by a social the day is being sponsored by the ward bishopric and M IA I 1 A friends were surprised to learn one day last week of the marri marriage aage of glenn dark clark of parowan carowan and mary dover of cedar city miss kathleen mitchell is home again after attending the for a couple of quarters the march term of the district court was to convene on monday oi of next week the cedar city post of the A american in legion was presenting the comedy drama it pays to advertise in the opera house on saturday night mrs E A hoyle is home again after spending several weeks with her daughter mrs R R page in provo scott day ray adams and douglas mitchell attended the junior prom at the murdock academy last friday one of the most important of pacific positions was now securely in the harsh hands ot of Hiro hitos brown legions another all important area had fallen to the en emyan enemy which in only three months of war had made incredible progress in those three months the united nations had taken major defeat after major defeat all they had to comfort them was the knowledge that the enemy had paid a big price for his victories in men ships and materials of war the story of the loss of java is the old sto rythe story that is perfectly expressed in the phrase too little and too late the dutch defenders fought extremely well so did the handful of americans and anzack who were with them the U united nations naval and air did all and more than could be expected the odds were simply too great the initial air supremacy pos hessed by the defenders at the beginning of the action was soon lost japan is said lo 10 to have thrown planes the larger part of her entire air force into battle the little tl dutch fleet was almost entirely destroyed in brave and daring operations against a far larger far more powerful jap fleet on the ground invader troops outnumber er the ed fenders tremendously and their equipment was far better jap an landed seven seve n to ten divisions of about men each in the is land most important of all the defenders received only a tithe of the aid ay they expected from the united stats where will japan strike the australians expect they will be invaded as well as subjected to air attack and are preparing for a last ditch stand there are rumors that hitler is working to persuade the japanese to aid him by attacking russia through manchuria many an authority is convinced that an attack on the west coast of the U S is well up on the jap military 1 calendar an attack that might aven even assume the scope of an attempted invasion whatever happens it is clear that the united nations will suffer more hard blows unless and until it is possible to send gigan japanese troops were in the suburbs and it was clear that java tic quantities quan of planes weapons supplies and men to the key points in the pacific the last few months have provided a terrible example of the futility and waste of fighting battle with only token forces here in america production is getting into high gear but all the t he planes and tanks and guns in the world are useless unless they can be sent to the battlefronts thus our war problem is largely a shipping problem it is clear that ship out oui put must be speeded up fast it must do more than offset the to toll taken by enemy submarines and surface raiders it must far exceed it estimates say that ten tons of material of various kinds must be shipped for every soldier in an expeditionary forchand force and 40 tons must be shipped for every soldier in a completely mechanized unit that indicates the colossal shipbuilding ship building job we have ahead in this connection it is significant that the enemy is concentrating his naval attacks on tankers it is said that troop ships have been beliber abely passed by submarines on the search for the vessels which carry that basic sinew of war oil that is certainly logical exported an aai and naval strength must be accompanied by limitless quantities of fuel if it is to be effective tanker losses so far have been dangerously high and new production is not adequate the lesson is clear we must have more efficiency and less politics there must be harder more productive work no one need doubt the quality of united nations nation sol diers they have demonstrated demonstrated their valor time and again they simply been given the tools the job demands best guess now is that the new treasury proposed tax bill which would double income taxes in the middle income bracket and impose a long list of increases in commodity and excise taxes will not pass in its original form in the opinion of many the bill does not go far enough into lower income brackets in addition sen ciment for a general sales tax on everything except foods is ungues growing this tax of bourst would hit every worker every in in come group it is probable that some system will be devised for collecting part of the individual income taxes on a weekly or monthly basis this can be done through ii a payroll tax reason for it is obvious many taxpayers simply dont have the money when annual tax bills fall due and that presents the treasury with a difficult and expensive collection problem A food survey involving 1000 high school students in one utah county shows that very few have adequate diets most of the students ate meat on sundays with a little left over on monday and the supply getting smaller as the week progresses gr esses inadequate amounts of milk were used few used tomatoes or citrus fruits potatoes are the main vegetable fruit supply auppl y is limited and very few have an egg each day |