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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION . . ZZZI-- I A C-- O I I Tie Army's New Wooden Plane J I ' . .'--. ThisTan office war ' departme'nV sketch o, the new type wood and material military transport plane. It is twinorigin about the size o, the present-da- y all-m- al tr anspor plane the Curt.ss Performan domestic airlines. It is officially designated details are a military secret. Mississippi levee in Louisiana is partially the cause for discontent-ment in Axis nations. Soybeans, from which many plas-tic articles useful both for the war effort, and helpful in the homes, is another farm product that is being further developed. Bagasse obtained from sugar cane waste has proven its worth for electrical goods, wash-ing machines and automobile parts. Possibly the toothbrush you used to-day had a handle made from sugar holds no more. For many plasty dishes don't hurt when they land on the target because of their light weight. On top of that they won t break and are also too colorful to throw around. Any angry wife will think twice before she begins to lay down a barrage with such am-munition. Many of the war plants construct-ed, and in the process of construc-tion today, have no windows. All artificial lighting and takes care of what nature used to consider her job. Glass bricks that let the health rays of the sun through, but prevent vision, now take the place of windows. Those who aren't "up on" their knowledge of what is going on in the world of substitutes still say something to the effect that "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." But there are glass houses today, with more in the off-ing, that wouldn't be in the least affected by anyone who might want to throw some stones at them. Even some good, solid glass bricks wouldn't cause them any damage. Statements from scientists busy working in laboratories far Into the night in all the free United Nations have hinted that what has been seen so far in plastics, is nothing compared to what is to come. One spokes-man stated that by October, 1943, synthetic production will be sufficient to provide the na-tion's military needs. As you look about and see the hun-dreds, thousands, of articles of ev-eryday commonplace variety, you automatically begin to ask yourself, after fully realizing the significance of the substitution era you are in, whether that article, or this article ' Often you hear the statement that possibly, because of the nation's all-o-war and deathdealing on the Axis, most of its natural resources such as oil, coal, iron ore, will be used up. But from the great strides taken by industries making substi-tute synthetics and plastics, it isn't to suggest that maybe there will be no need for the present natural resources in years to come. At least, not as necessary as today. Miss and Mrs. America have found that many synthetic prod-ucts are clothing them just as well as when they could buy all the silk they wanted from Japan. Scientists state that it is quite possible that every bit of cloth-ing you will be wearing to the not too far distance will be syn-thetically made. Maybe four or five of the pieces of clothing you own today are synthetically made, and yet you never real-ized it. Household furnishings, from glass fireplaces to dishes, from dressers to stoves are now being made from synthetic materials. The old gag about the errant husband hiding all the dishes before facing his wife probably having some strategic, or scarce material could not be sub-stituted by a plastic. More than like-ly in the months to come you won't be surprised when that article ap-pears in its plastic dress. Scientists have tagged the millions of years in ancient man's past as belonging to certain periods as he slowly developed from the brute stage. Then there were the various ages, of stone, wood and iron. The astounding use of steel, brought about by quicker, more efficient pro-duction methods, gave that period of development in the U. S. the title The Steel Age. You wouldn't be surprised, would you, if after this war is over and won, the present days, and then, would be appropriately titled the Plastic Period, or the Synthetic Era? Newspaper Union. Released by Western INEQUALITY OF FREIGHT TAX THERE IS a radical inequality lr new tax on freight bills that wi cost western state farmers million of dollars. The tax is a percentag of the height paid. The market most food products is in the heavil populated sections of the East. It i that the beef 01 to those sections Texas and New Mexico is consumed. To that market go the hog prod-ucts of Iowa, the wheat of Kansas, the fruits of Florida and California. As a sample of the inequality ol that freight tax: To ship a box of oranges from California to New York costs three times as much as to ship a box from Florida to New York. The Califor-ni-three times as grower must pay much tax as the Florida grower. The equipment needed in the productior of oranges is manufactured in the East. The freight charge on thai machinery to California is three times what it is to Florida. The freight and the tax is added at the selling point to the price of the On what he must buy, as well as on what he sells, the California grower' pays three times as much tax as the Florida grower. What anDlies to oranges, applies in the same way to all farm products. They must all be sold in a com-petitive market and that market is the heavily populated sections of the East. The farther away from that market, the heavier the tax paid by the farmer on what he sells and on what he buys. It is not an equitable tax. FROM THE STANDPOINT of the consumer, merchandise ceilings are Eine on things you can buy. But when it is ceilings and no merchandise, or merchandise and no ceilings, it does not seem to work so well. COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS AND SCRAP COLLECTION THERE IS at least one phase of our war effort where no inefficiency can be found. That is in the promo-tion of scrap collection by hundreds of country newspapers. I have no idea as to how many hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap iron and steel have gone into the production of war equipment because of the activities of these country newspa-per publishers, but the total is enor-mous. On a per capita basis, it is undoubtedly greater than the collec-tion in the metropolitan centers, aft-er deducting contributions from large industries. As an illustration: The scrap collected under the pro-motion of the Peetz (Colo.) Gazette amounted to 235 tons, and Peetz has a population of only 207. ' SABOTEURS OF PRODUCTION THE FRENCH PEOPLE have lost the liberties they claimed to prize. Today a German soldier tells the Frenchman when to work, at what to work, where to work, how long to work, and how much to accomplish. The French people lost largely be-cause French workmen sabotaged their government. They thought more of "social gains" than they did of national liberty and refused to pro-duce the equipment needed to defend their country. The American rack-eteer who demands a letdown in pro-duction can ransp AmpWca in the hard road France is following. Anyone who directs or advocates a letdown in production is a saboteur and should betreated as such. . A 'LISTENER' ATTAINS THE HEIGHTS AN ACQUAINTANCE of some years ago was a man of exceptional conversational ability and he talked incessantly. He had unusual abili-ties which his friends believed would carry him to the heights but he talked. He was well informed on many subjects, a man of opinions. He ex-pressed all of them on all occasions. He talked, but never listened. He talked himself away from, rather than toward, the pinnacle his friends expected him to attain, and he never reached the heights. Another acquaintance of those same years did not talk. His vocal chords were affected and he could not speak louder than in a whisper and then with difficulty. But he could, and did, listen. By being a listener, he attained the heights. For many years he represented his dis- trict in the national house of repre- sentatives. It can pay to listen. IF WE COULD but have returned to us those millions of pigs we de-stroyed a few years ago, I could have bacon and eggs, or ham and eggs for breakfast- -if I could get the eggs. BUS DRIVING AT 3S MILES PER HOUR THE MAN who makes the rules drives the bus does know that more ofA6 13 d,ne t0 tte mechanism to its tires at 35 miles an hour than at 45 miles an hour and it takes more gas. The man who drives his own car knows what t means to his car to drive in sec- - 38 comPared with first The mechanism of the modern bus toTmiir00"6"10 WHEN I GO to'the for store and ask eggs, and there are no when I want butter, and there eggs butter; when is no I want bacon rmPrk' and there are none or To or beef for a stew th I wish I were a farmer Therm and his family at least can " eins American flag, and It "5?' ugar hog respects that gesture HUOUSEHOLD illlflTSffi To oil a door lock, dip key into oil and turn several times in lock. A little salt added to the last rinse water will prevent clothes from freezing on the line. A few cranberries added to ap-plesauce when cooking will give it a delightfully new and interesting flavor. When liquid glue has hardened so as to be unfit for use, try soft-ening it with a bit of hot vinegar, just a little at a time. Dip the knot on the end of that new halter rope in glue and let it dry a few days before you use it, and you won't have any trouble keeping the knot in it. Better use waterproof glue if you can get it. If a fruit pie runs out in the Dven, sprinkle salt over the spilled juice and the oven will not become filled with smoke. Photographs that have become soiled may be made to look like new by washing them with a piece of white cotton wadding dipped in cold water. Do not use colored cotton wadding and never use soap, soap powder, or ammonia just cold water. I NATIONAL I AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD YTiis Generation Must Pay for the War . . . The State Department Becomes Annoyed . . Bell Syndicate WNU Features. WASHINGTON. In every war there are those who insist taxes should be so high that no unbear-able burden of debt should be left for our grandchildren. And there are others who say that the priva-tions of war are bad enough, without making the people already suffering endure super taxation as well. In the last war we heard another argument that this, the 1917 affair was a war to end war; hence, since there would be a better world after it, it was only fair that the children to come should pay a little for what had been passed on to them. There is a joker in the argument on both sides, when it comes to de-ciding' whether to pay the cost now or pass it on to future generations. The simple fact is we are not able to pass it on. We must pay it our-selves. It is only the method of paying in which we can decide, not the time of payment. The fundamental error in most arguments about war financing is that the debaters insist on regarding a national government in the same way they regard an individual. Some Own, Some Don't But if a country sells bonds to its own people, the eventual result is that a lot of its people own bonds, and another lot do not. As a gen-eral rule, it will be the prosperous people who own the bonds, what we might call the shiftless who will not. It is the prosperous people who pay most of the taxes, which in turn must pay the interest on the bonds. And the principal, if indeed that is ever paid. (Britain has never paid off the debts she incurred to fight Napoleon.) Now none of this will have any effect whatever on the production of food, clothing, houses, furniture, automobils, or other things which people want. No product need be shipped out of the country to pay interest. The worst thing that could have happened, financially would have been inflation. Bad as that is, it is not our grandchildren who suffer so much from it as ourselves. The re-shuffling of property which inflation always produces has little effect on the economy of people as a whole a couple of generations later. So it is the folks living during the next few years who do the suffering. They can't pass much of it on! Hecklers Compared To Boat Rockers There is a growing impatience in Washington, and London also, if re-ports are correct, with the element so vocal in both Britain and Amer-ica who keep rocking the boat about peace terms. Admiral Darlan, In-dia, and a few other ticklish prob-lems. These critics of our relations with Darlan did not even wait until Dakar was safely in our hands before in-sisting that he must be thrown over- - uuaru at once, ana. neia up in No one has publicly urged that Darlan be executed for his crimes, but such is the temper of some of this group, who have access to the front pages of newspapers for reasons utterly unconnected with the present war, that it would not sur-prise the state department at any moment if this also should be de-manded. It happens that the position of Secretary of State Cordell Hull on all this hubbub about Darlan and peace terms is well known. Hull agrees heartily that it would have been absurd and wicked to have spurned the tremendous aid which Darlan was able to bring to the side of the United Nations, especially as such spurning would not only have cost the lives of many thousands of American and British soldiers and sailors in the immediate North Af-rican campaign, but might easily have prolonged the war for years by dooming that North African cam-paign to disaster. Most of the critics of this use of Darlan began their shouting while the North African campaign still looked from a four thousand mile distance, like a walkover. When it developed that the fighting around Tunis and Bizerte was really seri-ous, with air power not sufficient to retain the control of the skies which had made Rommel's earlier defeat possible, they had committed them-selves so definitely that they could hardly draw back. With regard to peace terms, the position of Cordell Hull is that it would be perfectly futile to discuss peace terms while a long, hard war is still before us, especially in the Pacific. What the critics of the handling of Darlan by the United Nations, of the failure to give India its immedi-ate independence, of the failure to declare that no country shall ever again rule another, and all the rest of it never bother to explain is what might happen if all that they clamor for should be done. Suppose that the future of Ireland had to be decided, among the other peace terms. The leaders of the Irish Free State certainly believe that the "Four Freedoms" apply to them. But how do they construe it? They construe it to give them Ulster. Now. without a moment's consideration of the merits of the case, we have a situation here which involves tremendous possibilities for trouble. The Orangemen, it is be-lieved, would fight, fight even to the death against being ruled by the South. Buy War Bonds Synthetic Era Taking Shape Today. MORE SUBSTITUTES Raw Materials Might Have Less Importance After War Ends. Remember not so long ago when the slogan, "Accept no substitutes" was popular? To-day, because of war demands for strategic materials, the very opposite of that is the rule! And the enemy is beginning to realize that what with Paratroopers dropping down on them from the skies in synthetic cloth parachutes, from transport planes made from substitute synthetic material, it would be good for them if they could get a personal substitute on the battle fields all over the world. As the war progresses, Americans are awakening to the fact that they are in the middle of a chemical revolution, the end of which is not in sight, and the social possibilities of which are far from being com-pletely, thoroughly achieved. It used to be that the motorists of this nation were completely de-pendent on the laboring, sweating natives comine out of the jungles of South America and the Southwest Pacific area with their crude rubber extracted from trees. Within a year, according to William M. Jeffers, there will be plenty of synthetic tires for every one who has a car. And those tires will be synthetically made from all native, easy to obtain, ei-ther chemically or from the earth itself, material in the U. S. , An interesting part of this chemico-industri- revolution is that the rural section of the United States is taking an in-creasingly important part in it. Chemurgy, the science of finding new industrial uses for farm products, has been very busy during the past years. Now that the war is on, the good it is do-ing can be noted in the exten-sive use made of casein obtained from skimmed milk. The plas-tic material obtained offers the best possibilities as a substitute material in various kinds of war material. Parts of many bombers, dropping block busters over Italy and Ger-many, are made from casein. Fur-ther research will find still greater uses for it. As it is now, a con-tented cow chomping grass along a DEPARTMENT COLLECTORS RARE COINS Want to buy U. S. and foreign srtA and copper coins. Send list of vik,. ' have to Shulti, Salt Lake, Utah. 5 OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEW AND USED desks .ndihli ' typewriters, adding; mch'i. fili. 8. U DESK EX.. 36 W Brod.,J; USED CARS TRAILERS CSED CARS TRAILER 00401! Liberal Credit Term. JESSE M. CHASE Buj - Sell - Trad. STORES IN OGDEN. PROVO. SALT LAKE CITY POCATELLO. BOISE. BLACKFOfrr RHEUMATIC TABLETS Do Yon Suffer from ....R..heumatic Pains? tv, mKitt f j like they were being torn apart? HiiUNZ TABLETS have proved beneficial in thousands of cases. $1.08 by mail. HEINZ DRUG State St. and 21st Booth Salt Lake City, Utah AUTOMOBILES WANTED CASH PAIcT For Used Cars and Equities Contracts Notes Paid Off LYMAN'S 5th So. & Main Salt Lake m am mm oo m m in Center of Business District MAIN STREET AT 5th SOUTH 10 Btiuliful Dooms . . til with Illicit and radio . . COFFEE SHOP New Comfort & Convenience W.N.U. Week No. 4301 SALT LAKE e Vx A. ' DOTHISFOR j; Wight Coug'jiiifj WHEN A COLD stuffs up the nose, causes mouth breathing, throat tickle and night coughing, use this time-test- Vicks treatment that goes to work Instantly... 2 ways at oncel At bedtime rub good old Vicks VapoRub on throat, chest and back. Then watch its G action bring relief from distress. It PENETRATES to upper breath-ing passages with soothing medicinal vapors. It STIMULATES chest and back surfaces like a warming, comforting poultice ... 'and it keeps on working for hours, van while you sleep to ease coughing spasms, relieve muscu-- ! lar soreness and tightness and bring grand comfort! Try it to -n- ight . . . Vicks VapoRub. j Gas on Stomach Relieved in 5 minutes or double money back When excess stomach acid causes painful, suffocat-ing gas, soar stomach and heartburn, doctors usually prescribe the fas medicines known for symptomatic relief medicines like those in a Tablets. No laxative. Bell-a- brings comfort in a jiffy or double your money back on return ot bottle to us. 2c at all druggiata. For Victory BUY U DONDS AND STAMPS Relief At LasT For Your Code) Creomulslon relieves promptly b-ecause it goes right to the seat of tite trouble to help loosen and expei germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-flamed bronchial mucous mem-branes. Tell your druggist to sell yen a bottle of Creomulsion with the u-nderstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis HOUSEWIVES: Your Waste Kitchen Fats Are Needed for Explosives TURN 'EM IN! Help lore, ilchy, redness of externally caused pimples, and so aid healing u HOTEL BEN LOMONd OGDEN, UTAH . ill!"'- -- vtt;li 850 Room 350 Baths - $2.00 to $4.00 Faintly Roomi for 4 persons - $4.00 Air Cooled Lounge and Lobby Dining; Boom Coffee Shop Tsp Room Home of Rotary Kiwanis Executives Exchange Optimists " Chamber of Commerce and Ad Club Hotel Ben Lomond OGDEN. UTAH '. Hubert E. Vlalck. Mir. V May Warn of Disordered Kidney Action Modem life with its hurry fji irregular habits, improper eating drinking its risk of exposure ana k tion throws heavy strain on , of the kidneys. They are apt " ,d d and fail to Biter m and other impurities from the we-i- e bl00ci- - h.tksft You may suffer nanclng njIhti headache, dizziness, getting up tiy leg pains, swelling feel ( tired, nervous, all worn out. ut" f kidney or bladder disorder times burning, acanty or too urination. . tM Try Boon's Pil!. D "boi1 kidneys to pasa off harmful ""'"wit waste. They have had more '""too-centur-of public approval. A ber mended by grateful users ever Asfc your neighbor! f, , WNU W i DnRGflIEIS , I that will save you many a ; dollar, will escape you if jj ; you fail to read carefully and !; regularly the advertising of ; ; local merchants ; Tn this paper I Value of Tree A fine oak or elm tree in tie front yard will sell a house that might otherwise hang on the mar- - ket for 10 years. 1 Depends on Heredity Whether a baby chick will grow Hp to be a good egg producer or not depends largely on its heredity, o Old License Plate Still, Useful t .'...". ' A ---v ML fVi-- m ( AVM.. .1 7' ' The small tabs which this New York miss is holding fits right over last year's license. By using them, instead of full size tags, the state will save many tons of strategic metal, besides thousands of dollars production costs. Regardless of the size of the license, they will still cost the same as last year. It all depends on where you are living whether you will be seeing new automobile licenses, or new color combina-tions on the license plates on automobiles. This year only five states Colorado, Illinois, Mississippi, Wyoming and South Carolina are having new color combinations on the licenses. Of course, you might be living near one of these adjoining states and get to see them, but the possibilities are very small, considering how gas ra-tioning is cutting down highway travel. The reason for the use of 1942's license for the current year, 1943, is due to a WPB order, of March 18, 1942, curtailing the use of steel for license purpose by 90 per cent. State officials have devised many schemes to overcome the obstacles brought on by the lack of steel for plates. Some states will use a windshield sticker, some will use date tabs on the license plates, while even wood-en, fiber board tags will be avail-able. About half of the states will continue to use the old plates with a small tab, or strip (as shown above) attached to them. Of these states, 13 will not even use steel for the purpose, regis-tration will be shown by a wind-shield sticker. Florida and Massachusetts will use both tag and windshield identifica-tion. - Pennsylvania's license, which has had added a touch of individuality by having the plates in the shape of the state's outline, will go a little further this year in originality by having a date tab in the form of the state's symbol, a keystone. Ingenuity has been shown in every state with the license problem. Illinois is using new plates made from fiber board. Arkansas is using wooden plates for trucks and motor-cycles, but passenger cars will use their old license plus a windshield sticker. Wyoming will have new plates of orange letters and black back-ground, because they were made before the WPB order went into effect. The other four states' new color combinations are: Colorado, yellow letters with black background; Illi-nois, white letters with green back-ground; Mississippi, white letters with green background; South Caro-lina, black letters with yellow back-ground. The new plates with the exception of Illinois will be issued one to an automobile while the WPB order stands. Governed by Heredity The color of the eyes is gorer-- , i by heredity and if two parents have eyes of the same color the children ordinarily will have eyes of tie same hue. Crime's Punishment Crime is not punished as an of fense against God, but as prejudi-cial to society. Froude. Kiver Moves Away Steamboats once docked at the foot of the main street of Forest City, Mo. Now the restless Missouri river has shifted its channel until the town is several miles inland. Dentist's Assistant What the country needs is a mags-zin-for dentist's offices: Full of merry jokes and short anecdotes. Of course, others besides dentists would buy it. Glamorous U. S. Department of Commerce Puts Title on Plastic Industry in Bulletin. Acting director of the TJ. S. depart-ment of commerce's bureau of for-eign and domestic commerce, in a reference service bulletin, issued this statement: "The spotlight of industry today is focused on our glamorous plastics which are commanding much inter-est and attention. This gigantic new industry, now gone to war, is doing a fulltime job in meeting the require-ments of the war effort where per-formance counts most. "Both at the front and behind the front, plastics are playing an important part in war equip- ment. Through their use as materials vitally es-sential in both combat and indus-try they are now on equal basis with the older fundamental raw materials, glass, wood, stone and metal. "Although the new and original uses, as well as substitutions, in the civilian classification have been curtailed for the duration, the plastics industry, we feel as-sured, will not retreat after the war, but continue its rapid advance." BuUetins being printed for the de-partment of commerce contain lat- est information on present-da- y arti-cles now being made from syn- thetics. As each new substitute is put on the market, the various bulletins have been listing them. Along with the articles listed are the trade names, besides technical names. Celluloid, one of the earliest syn- thetics, which was used as trans-parent windows for early model car side curtains, is the forerunner of comb, brush, and mirror handles To Escape Insults Avoid too much miscellaneous Jitimacy and you can escape jood many insults. Here's Essence of WPB License Ordr Here is the essence of the WPB ruling of last March which restricted the amount of steel to be used for automobile plates. It stated that state and local gov-ernments during a licensing year to issue metallic plates in quantities up to 10 per cent of the weight of plates issued during the preceding year, but only for these purposes: First, only as replacement plates for those destroyed, or lost. Second ly, to those who are new licensees or registrants. Third, for issuing date .abs which are not to be more thn four Inches square, and to be attached to the plates. For those motorists living in states which have had municipality metal tags attached to their licenses all this will not be a new experience Likewise it will not be a new ex" penence for almost all the motorists who will have '43 stickers placed on their windshields. High and Low At the time of this writing, the available report on the total num-ber of motor vehicles registered in the United States was 32,452,-86- California led with the greatest number of registrations, having 2,810,566. The lowest state in registrants was Nevada having but only Dlaware topped her by hav-ing 72,973. |
