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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION - , 'Realistic Attitude Marks Change in Allied Diplomacy New Journey Into International Cooperation Combines Idealism and Realism; Step Away From Old Style Power Alliances. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. 1 .3to38L - -teevi WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. I What kind of a man is Stalin? That question was put to President Roosevelt at the White House press and radio conference on the day of his return to Washington from Eu-- i rope. He was tanned, alert, cheer ful, still pulsing with the conscious-ness of achievement. His answer, which came without a second's hesi-tation, I thought, was significant. Stalin, he said, was a realist, just like himself. I am not particularly interested in the accuracy of that answer, either as an analysis of Stalin or of the President. But to me ' the fact that the President chose realism as the outstanding and com-mon characteristic of himself and the man on whose word and deed so much of the future depends, was, I think, significant. On the whole, in the light of later pronouncements, use of that term seems a good omen rather than a bad one. Mr. Roosevelt is committed to a plan for the postwar world which leans toward the ideal, rather than toward the old style diplomatic "realism" which is nothing but tactics behind a laundered facade of protocol. I think the American people have shown plainly that they are more interested in stopping or at least postponing wars than they are in the slogans of the isolationists or the imperialists. Granted that, the fact that Roose-velt emphasizes the "realist" side when he speaks, gives one a feeling that he and Stalin and Churchill have been able to reach some rough agreements that are practical enough to work, and yet are a little less earthy than the old power alli-ances, - Which always end in wars .and always will. The Conference 1 recall very well that crowded news conference for which friend and foe alike turned out.to see what the President looked like after his trip. One hundred and seventy-nin- e working press and radio correspond-ents were there, not counting offi-cials. The Innocent expected some hot, inside stuff; the cynical hoped the President would reveal errors by concealing them; the average re-porter knew it was going to be a good story one way or the other. Everyone was satisfied. Those who yearned for the dramatic got the story of the German plot which didn't come off. Those who were looking for trouble were gratified that he revealed no new concrete de-velopments. The objective reporter got his quota of news, for everything a President says is that. But the two remarks of the Presi-dent stood out in my mind the one i mentioned (realism) and another, made almost as soon as the last of us had squeezed into the crowded oval office, and they were, I be-lieve, most revealing as far as our future foreign policy goes. Those in the first row had time to take in the President's cheerful and informal appearance the colored shirt and tie pull-ov- sweater which he had worn on his trip and which, because of one meeting fol-lowing another from the moment he , arrived at the White House, he still wore. He had been on the job since 9:30 a. m. it was then after four. As soon as the signal that the last reporter was in the room was given, the President began to speak of the success of the trip, and he said that those who shared with him In the hopes of a durable peace (he referred to Russia, Britain, China) were motivated by the determina-tion that there would not be another war while this generation lives. I must admit that the words at first struck me a little coldly "while this generation lives." Not much long-rang- e optimism there, I thought. But afterward and since his later pronouncements, general though they have been, I feel a lit-tle better about it. It seems to me that perhaps we are at last em-barked upon an adventure in inter-national cooperation with enough idealism to keep our eyes on the heavens and enough realism to keep our feet on the ground. That is my New Year's hope and wish. Analysis of a Reporter's Job As I sit down to my typewriter, I sometimes try to visualize the people who will read what I write just as I try to visualize the little groups gathered about the loud-speaker when I talk to them. Sometimes I shudder lest they ex-aggerate the importance of the things we reporters report. I am not a bit different from the anxious anonymous reporter who, after the last war, still clad in his khaki shirt, wearing the OD (it's "GI" now) tie and trench coat, who came down to work and stumbled around the various offices and meet-ings getting his stories and writing them under the eagle eye of the copy desk. " The reason I am worried now is because I hear so many people talk about the things "the Washington correspondent" writes or says on the radio as gospel. Well, most of us try to report what we see and hear. We don't always know wheth-er it is true or false. We just try to tell you about it. Most of us label what we know and what we think. Some do not. Sometimes when we talk with peo-ple we think really ought to know, we report what they say with a lit-tle more confidence. If we can't quote the "Brass Hat" or the cabi-net officer or the senator who told us this or that we say "authoritative quoters." We are supposed to know from experience whether what we hear is sound fact or just wishful thinking. The longer we live, the better we are able to judge between the real people and the phonies. Most in the government don't try to fool reporters because they know they can only do that once. Maybe twice. You know the old Scotch proverb: "If he cheats you once, shame on him; if he cheats you twice, shame on you." Many people-thin- that unless we attack the party in power, we must be in' favor of it. That isn't true. We know, as the old bull said, "One cow is much as another." We know that despite the different party re-galia politicians display, they are really pretty much alike once they get into office not as good as they might be for the most part, seldom as bad as the opposition paints them. The Active Element But the party in power is the ac-tive element, it makes news because it does things. The minority merely objects. We report what is done. Not because we approve or disap-prove of what is done but because that is a concrete act. The opposi-tion can do little more than oppose. That is negative. We know that if the opposition were in power, it might do the same thing, and the party in power, which would then be the minority, would object. That is hard for the partisan lay-man to understand. We know that. We have ideas, too, and the party in power usually has some pretty good ones which the minority has to ob-ject to, merely on party grounds. Not being of either party we, the reporters, may also become parti-sans not really of the party but of some of the party's ideas. It is hard to make some people believe that we are not partisan when we are objective, easy to make others believe we are not when we are. I have covered Republican and Democratic regimes. I have cov-ered one Democratic regime a long time. I certainly hope, for the good of the state, that I shall be able to cover a regime of the Republican party, not because I think it is per se better or worse than the Demo-cratic regime but because I think a change is good for the republic. When the next administration comes in, I shall report what it does. I shall lean, in spite of myself, to-ward the constructive issues it pro-mulgates. But that won't, I hope, make me a Republican any more than my leanings toward the con-structive side in this regime make me a Democrat. I am neither. I am, and hope to remain, a reporter. But, as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, so truth often lies in the ear of the listener. WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS Red Army Drives Toward Baltic Sea; Partisan Forces Ban Jugoslav Ruler; Allied Heavy Bombers Smash German Gun Installations in Northern France (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. BOLIVIA: Neiv Government First order of business on the new Bolivian revolutionary government s calendar was compensating survi-vors of the 19 striking tin miners shot by troops under direction of the ousted Gen. Enrique Penaranda last December. As calm was restored in the coun-try, U. S. withheld recognition of the new government, to determine whether it was a successful pro-Axi- s coup in view of the fact that the guiding light of the movement, Paz Estenssoro, was once locked up m connection with pro-Na- activities. U. S. interest in Bolivia centers around its rich tin and quinine re-sources, among the last left to the Allies following Japan's occupation of Malaya and the Indies. The revo-lutionists have expressed a desire to continue favorable business rela-tions with the Allies, a matter on which General Penaranda himself had hedged. STORAGE: Seek to Ease Glut With U. S. food storage facilities crammed, many meat packers have been selling pork products below ceiling prices or in carload lots at a discount. At the same time, it was revealed that the War Food admin-istration prepared an order restrict-ing storage of such meat special-ties as hogs' heads, bones, ox tails, tripe, hearts and liver to 10 days without permit. Meanwhile, WFA extended its price support of $13.75 per hundred-weight to 270 to 300 pound hogs,, because, (1) packers have been buy-ing bargains outside of the 200 to 270 pound support range and guar-anteed weights have been piling up in the yards; (2) farmers have been sending 200 to 270 pounders oft to market to get the $13.75 top. PACIFIC JITTERBUG: Doughboys on captured Makin island in the Central Pacific watch somber little native hula dance. Troop Gliders EUROPE: Blast Rocket Guns While U. S. and British troops bat-tled the Nazis at close quarters in southern Italy, waves of Allied bombers rumbled over northern Trance to smash at German rocket 'gun installations. Both on the U. S. Fifth and Brit-ish Eighth army fronts in southern Italy, doughboys and Tommies en-gaged the Germans in hand-to-han- d fighting, Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's men fighting for mountain peaks flanking the road to Rome, and Gen. Bernard Montgomery's warriors striving to clear the path to the highway hub of Pescara. As reports continued to seep Into Britain and the U. S. of the Ger-mans' new rocket gun capable of hurling an explosive charge of from 7 to 21 tons about 20 miles, Allied bombers combed the French chan-nel coast around Calais to blast at the installations for the new weapon. Ban King Charging that the war minister of the Jugoslav government-in-exil- e I. GltDER RELEASED 1Y TOW PUtfE 2. GLIDER IAN0S ON SUDS 3. noon iush out or nosi . JEEPS AND OTHER HEAVY EQUIPMENT EOtlOW RAIL STRIKE: FDR Intervenes Seeking to avert a strike of 1,450,-00- 0 railroad workers which threat-ened to tie up the nation's whole transportation system, President Roosevelt acted to bring the unions and owners together, while orders were drawn for U. S. operation of the lines in case negotiations failed. Following a suggestion of FDR, the basis for compromise seemingly lay in payment of overtime to the rail workers after 40 hours, instead of after 48 hours as has been the case. For the 350,000 operating employ-ees of the roads, the overtime pay coupled with a flat four cents an hour wage increase, would result in an average hourly boost of eight cents. Besides the eight cents an hour for which they threatened to strike, the 1,100,000 rail em-ployees also proposed overtime pay over 40 hours. Under their terms, their average hourly increase would exceed eight cents. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC : Things to Come A thorn in the Allies' shipping lanes to the Southwest Pacific, Ja-pan's Marshall islands took heavy poundings from U. S. army and navy planes, while off to the New Britain area, Yankee airmen blast-ed the enemy's supply centers of Wewak and Cape Gloucester. In both cases the destructive 'aeri-al bombardment presaged ground action. As a springboard for future ground operations, U. S. troops stood on the Gilberts, to the south of the Marshalls, and in New Britain, doughboys recently landed at Arawe consolidated their positions and poised to the north, looking toward the Cape Gloucester region from which the enemy has been supply-ing its embattled troops on New Guinea to the east. To meet the Allies' challenge to their whole defensive system in the Southwest Pacific, the Japs strength-ened their air forces throughout the area, and poured in supplies for their troops. Stays on Job "MacArthur for President!" A rallying cry for some politicians, a popular topic for the man on the street, these three big had made a "lasting deal with the Germans and organized civil strife against patriotic elements, Josip (Tito) Broz's communist-backe- d Partisan forces forbade King Peter's return to the country until after the war. Broz's action followed the attachment of U. r J t4&4&guaatrr S., British and Russian King Peter officers to his staff, as a result of the Allies' preference for the Partisan forces over King Pe-ter's Chetniks because they have been offering the Germans more re-sistance. Further, Broz's political council canceled all treaties and interna-tional obligations of King Peter's government, on the supposition it no longer was representative of the people. VETS: Discharge Pay To every vet discharged after 18 months of service overseas would go $500 under provisions of a bill passed by the senate and sent to the house for consideration. Vets serving abroad for 12"to 18 months would be paid $400 and those less than 12 months, $300. Vets with CORN BORER: Neiv Treatment Irked by the corn borer's dam-age, John Bell of Wat-sek- 111., hit on the idea of curbing the pests by making the stalk of the plant distasteful. A soil expert for a fertilizer con-cern, Bell worked for three years on his project, reaching the point where he planned to submit his product to the University of Illinois' agrono-mists for testing. Mixing commercial fertilizer with combinations of minor plant food es-sentials, Bell spread his product over IVz acres of a corn plot in-fested by borers. Shortly after, it was seen that the borers began leav-ing the treated tract, which yielded 22 bushels more than the other acres. Although the compound absorbed by the stalk is unpalatable to the borers, it is not toxic to livestock, tests showed. GREAT BRITAIN: Migrations Planned Actual contacts of many Britons with the many parts of the king-dom's g empire have aroused their interest to resettle in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Af-rica after the war. Circulating among the population, numbers of soldiers from the domin-ions have acquainted Britons with opportunities existent in their coun-tries, and British youth now being trained in South Africa have inter-ested folks about its wealth and cli-mate in letters home. But while dominion representa-tives in London have been besieged by inquiries as to taxes, education and resettlement financing in their countries, the dominion themselves governments were said, to be chiefly concerned with reemployment of re-turning war vets before immigra-tion. 1 tiv.: words have tended to color the 1944 presiden-tial picture. Recently MacArthur talk received two strong stimulants: First, there was the war department's rul-ing that there was no bar to any officer ac-cepting a political nom- - 12 months or more service in the U. S. would get $300, and those with less than 12 months, $200. In the house, 44 representatives have organized for higher discharge payments, favoring Rep. William Lemke's bill providing $100 on re-lease and up to a year's pay. RUSSIA: Match Wits Russian and German generals matched wits along an 800 mile front as winter fighting flared to major proportions in the east. While the Reds surged into Ger-man lines guarding the Baltic re-gion, the Nazis threw strong tank forces against the Russians on a e stretch further to the south. Thus did one attack act as a lever ' against the other. The Russian drive was concentrat-ed on reaching the shores of the Bal-tic sea: (1) to cut off Nazi armies in the Leningrad region from those to the south, and (2) to cut off ship-ping at present helping supply them over Baltic lanes. General ination. MacArthur Second, the rumor , gained currency that the cocksure chieftain of the South-west Pacific was preparing to return to the U. S. for conferences in Wash-ington, D. C. It was pointed out that MacAr-thur'- s reigning goal is to lead Allied armies back into the Philippines. However, from General MacAr-thur- 's advanced headquarters in New Guinea's jungles, a spokesman for the general said: "There is no foundation whatsoever for the state-ment that General MacArthur ex-pects to go to Washington in the near future for conferences." TAX REFUNDS: Cash refunds will go to about 16 million taxpayers on their 1943 pay. ments, when March 15 arrives gov- ernment experts figure. The rebates will be made to wage earners who have paid in more than they owe un der the collection system. On the other hand, it is pointed out that many of the other 35 mil lion taxpayers will wind up the year owing the government, and will have to make additional payments. Manv refunds, it was said, will be small GRAIN SHIPMENTS- - Approximately 285 million bushels of feed grains will be shipped ovpr the Great Lakes during 1944, if Di r6 7ard admitration are will be nearly 100 million more bushels than were transported in 1943. Increasing water transport of grains will ri lieve the railroads Next season the reception will be increased to widen the ports which can be served by water area car- riers. Most grain moving eastward was unloaded at Buffalo HIP Store glass jars of fooTP places to preserve the colo?li;i Bananas should be ti room temperature, not i "'?trigerator. 'e t(. To keep irons from when ironing starched T " keep a piece of green cedar board to rub the iron over "lhi ironing. Wioi( . Coffee pots need scrubbing ing and sterilizing free,, s"' you have difficulty ii clear, well-flavor- coffee iC may be at fault. ' K Keep your electric cord from heat and water, Dn them under rugs or any where they will get unne J-- ! wear or where people can"',? over them. S Put the old dust mop i wash to thoroughly remove th J' then slip the top back on the die. It is now ready to use cleaning the walls and ceiw" Cream a little butter or with prepared muster Brush on a slice of cold coo'.f ham and let heat quickly i V oven. Serve with pan-frie- d sv, potatoes and cauliflower. ": lhsNews This Week By Delo Wheeler Lovelace Heiease. consolidated Features.-W- NU N' EW YORK.-W- hen young Peter hurried out of Jugoslavia was school after th of an EngUsh Young Peter Would told he had Not 'As Soon Beyio, Beggar as King royally re. at Partisan Chief Tito for maSng himself head of a home even a temporary govern-men- t. Tito boosts himself the more easily because young Peter quit Jugoslavia when the Germans crowded in. Rather he was urged out, a boy, by his generals. They had turned on Prince Paul, Nazi-lovin- g re--, gent, and made Peter king at a midnight crowning, but they felt themselves and the king too weak to buck Hitler. Peter is 20 now, bony and a bit breeches made d as riding plain when he visited the United States last year. He is a long-face-d homely kid, not too prepossessing, but reportedly in dead earnest. When he took the midnight crown he quit breaking speed limits and general fooling around. These days he Is In Cairo, a nice jumping-of- f place for a fast trip home when that seems sen-sible. He could easily take a wife with him, at least a fiancee. She would be pretty Princess A-lexandra of Greece. They finally reported their engagement this summer after a set-t- o with Pe-ter's advisers. Those cautious graybeards doubted the good taste of announcing the happy event while Peter's subjects were so unhappy. THE last time a Yankee migrated British parts and tried to make everybody happy he killed off all the knights of the Round Table and had his He Would Build own goose Utopia in cooked by Merlin. With-Postw-ar Canada Mark Twain he might have done even worse. It was a job to discourage all Yankees, but here comes a Down-east- with a program for making another batch of Britons "the happiest people on God's green earth." The program is C. D. Howe's, Canada's wartime munitions minister, and before that the world's biggest builder of grain elevators, and before that a Do-minion cabinet minister, 1YI. P. and professor, but before that a good steady No. 2 on the crew of the Waltham, Mass., high school. After high school and Massachu-setts Tech, Howe got a teaching job .over the border. He returned home for a wife. But then he went back for keeps. He was naturalized, built his elevators, got rich. He didn't rise quite as high as the Connecticut Yankee, but he was elected to par-liament, was hiked up into the cabi-net and there ran the railroads, the canals and the Canadian Broadcast-ing system. And when Hitler struck he took over the job of providing powder and shot and related items. Now, stocky, cheerful and 57 years old, he looks ahead. He would build in postwar Canada a nine-poi- nt utopia on "the broad basis of agriculture, for-ests, mines, fisheries and," be-lieve it or not, "private at makes it a Yankee Utopia. That might make it werk. T ORD HAILEY, baron of Shapur, L Punjab and Newport Pagnell, Bucks, aims to prove Twain was wrong by fixing up the weather. At SomebodS. Going IZkTkI To Do Something' is the head About the Weather of a B"tish committee which proposes a series of stations' throughout the empire to tell the postwar world, postwar airmen in particular, when to look for rain,! hail, snow, heat, clouds and what have you. The baron Is Just the fellow to take on a job like that and, moreover, to do it up brown. He was for years a singularly com-petent cog in the singularly com-petent Indian Civil Service ma- chine. He entered the service right after coming down from Oxford, Corpus Christi, with hon- ors In his heyday he made multitudes of Indian peasants prosperous by building the Jbe- -' Ium irrigation project. ?ed Delhi from a me into the country's capi-ta- l, he rose to be governor of tie WW &nt ften f Agra a"d Oudh civil disobedience a UiMahatma Gandhi under a firm For these successes he is handsomely decorated seT star of St. Michae! and St. George, the lotus and roses the order of the Star of thl only slightly less exalted elephaSs peacock, of the Indian ! AndM the age of 7! he is still flSl 0f ada, primed President Roosevelt with fact, CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT' OFFICE EQUIPMENT WE BUT AND SELL Office Fur...... FUes. Typewriters, Adding Machine s SALT LAKE DESK KXUIW ; J5 West Broadway, Salt Lake Cilr, in Used Cars Trailers She rubbed on medicaid rr.':. then covered with warm il.: day, Bother uses Penetro, n medication in a bass conbi: fashioned mutton suet. 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You may w "S ' '. headache, diM'nM'fll ' leg pain., .we 0 :. tired, nervous, all ' ti ol kidney or bladder J ls0 times burning, ,, urination. pMn'l Try onn' p''mHl to pass ' .: wastef They have h.d .,, century ol public mended by grateful Ask iiour neiO'lM" Underaged Soldiers The army, navy and mar::; corps have discovered, discha;-an-sent home, in the past more than 6,000 p;':. but underage youths who had i- -: able to enlist by misrepres:.-- : ', the date of their birth. j HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news I RICE: This year rice production reached the jjighest level in history at more than 70 million bushels, 48 per cent above the ten-ye- aver-age, 1932-4- BOMBER: A new "super" bomb-ing plane that is called better than the itself a new wonder, is now in production, according to the chairman of the house military af- - fairs committee. ' FORTUNE: The estate of Mrs. Charles Deering, widow of the for-mer board chairman of the Inter-national Harvester company, will be distributed among six grandchildren. It is valued at $4,750,000. ' PASTOR: The Rev. Charles Hors- - well, who drew nation-wid- e at- - tention last summer when he staged a y "fast unto death," sue- - cumbed to a heart attack in Sauga-tuc- Mich. He was 86 years old. Two days after he returned from his wife's funeral, on June 13, he refused to eat, saying: "I want to join my wife." EGGS: So splendidly have Amer-ican hens responded to the call for more production that eggs are com-ing into wholesale markets in great-er volume than they can be sold or stored, dealers report. They attrib-ute the increased supplies partly to the fact that last spring's pullets are now beginning to lay. Another fac-tor is the lack of a government pro-gram for dried eggs. SHUTDOWN: The Utah ordnance plant, Salt Lake City, has been closed down by the war department. Officials explained that the supply of small arms, which the plant was manufacturing, is sufficient for the present. FARM MACHINERY: The head of the WPB farm equipment divi-sion predicts that production of farm machinery in 1944 will fall about 10 per cent below the goals originally set. He said that bearings and mal-leable castings are the most scarce items, forming the bottlenecks in the program. BRIEFS. . . &y Baukhage Best seller in Britain today is a booklet on how to stretch a clothes coupon. Called "Make Do and Mend." the booklet offers the Brit-ish housewife a wealth of informa-tion on how to utilize her old clothes and household linen to the last thread by methods which would have made her shudder in peace-time. The booklet is one of the most popular publications. The d Rome radio told the Italian people that the Rus-sians are insisting on keeping their offensive going because they can do nothing else since they need suc-cesses to strengthen the home front. Revealing that attacks on German soldiers have become common in Greece, a public notice printed in the Greek press has warned the population that hence-forth German military authorities would shoot 50 Greeks for every murdered German soldier. Two hundred Australian girls re-cently attended the first meeting in Melbourne of a club whose mem-bership is limited to Australian girls either married to or engaged to American servicemen. The object is to enable girls who may later be-come neighbors in America to be-come acquainted in Australia. They feel they can be of mutual assist-ance in solving new problems. French patriots and partisans in northeastern France have become so audacious they often stop Germa-ny- bound freight trains and dis-tribute merchandise from the cars to the residents of the countryside. t Bears, wolves, wolverines and foxes have staged such a comeback in Norway during the past three years that they have become a plague to the Norwegian farmers. Stripped of their firearms by Nazi order, the Norwegians are unable tc combat the pests. New Steel Plane Panei num. this V, n alumi" "me total weight I? has toe ol aluminum equal area |