r i Brackarts Washington Digest World War Battlefields Yield Metal Wealth Legislation Against Chain Stores Will Come Up Again WHOS v'VJ NEWS HOTEL Itb S.. THIS Danger to Independent Store Operator Will Be Theme of Discussion; Question of General National Policy Needs Thought; Sane Regulation Is Possible. WNU WASHINGTON. The politician who is a demagogue the fellow who has nothing on the ball and gets into politics on his gift for gab always must have a bogie man, a There must always be hobgoblin. an immediate threat, like the sword of Damocles, hanging over the If the heads of the dear pee-pu- l. political demagogue doesnt have that sort of thing, he is utterly lost, because usually he can not talk about fundamental issues. The favorite bogie man of fellows like former Sen. Tom Heflin was Wall Street. Day after day, ole Tom would drag Wall Street onto the floor of the senate and shake the gizzard out of it There were others like Tom and there were other hobgoblins. The chain stores, for a number of years, were the meat and drink of the demagogue and many an otherwise punk got elected to office because he could talk for 10 hours about the evils of the chain stores. We always have had our trust busters, the baiters of corporations. One bogie dies and another takes its place and the thing goes on until presently one of the old and and almost forgotten bogie boys is brought to life again. As plans take shape, it appears that the country is going to be told again about the evils of the chain stores. There is going to be an attempt to legislate them out of existence. Many a shout will ring out on the floors of the senate and house about the danger to the independent store operator, the man at home. The bill, whatever form it takes or whatever it proposes to do, will serve as a vehicle for a shouting mob of representatives and senators. As usual, they will offer no new argument, but they will send copies of their speeches back home over and make a great howdy-d- o themselves. n Should Give Thought to General National Policy Because of this prospect and the existence of several other things like it, there ought to be some thought given to the question of a general national policy. In other words, I am of the opinion that the congress and the several state legislatures ought to keep their feet on the ground instead of jumping off the deep end when there is no boat in which ts ride. I see no profit in cutting off my nose just to spite my face. There is just as little sense to that as selling out to the vested interests. There is something to the argument in favor of regulation of great chains of stores. It can be truthfully said that they exert a lot of pressure on the Independent. They deny this, of course, and answer that there is no pressure. Their statement may be true insofar as it may mean that the chain store has made no calculated plan to drive the independent out of existence. Vet, their very bigness is, of itself, a pressure because they can buy in larger quantities and obtain lower cost prices than the individual who buys a few cases of canned goods at a time. When they buy at lower prices, they can sell at lower prices and the independent finds himself hard put to meet the competition. That sort of thing happens In every community where chain stores are in operation. It will continue to happen, because there Is not a man nor a woman who will say honestly that ne or she will pay a higher price simply because the store at home is owned by somebody who is a local citizen. I am old fashioned about it. I will go to a chain store many, many times, because I save money. It is my money that I am spending and I am going to get the most for it that I can. The fellow who owns a local store is in business to make a profit and I am willing that he shall have a profit, provided he can give me the same value for what I spend as docs some other store. If the independent runs his store In a slipshod way, fails to manage his affairs efficiently and thus has to have higher prices, I see no reason why I should be the goat. To me, the situation is exactly the same as if d both competing stores were and one of them gave better values. home-owne- Sane Regulation of Chain Stores Can Be Accomplished It the chain stores are abusing the.r power, a power they have solely because they are big, the and the several states surely ought to take notice. There can be sane regulation of them. They can be rr ade to correct any abuses, but I can not find any legitimate excuse for destroying them. I am m the role of a consumer, and every Ini'islator ought to consider that his Cnnshtuents are consumers and that they must be given consideration. I have been told by men in the government whom I believe have a general understanding of the prob con-gre- -s fashions NEW iron men Prevailing make us proud of our own model. We cite big, smiling, durable Gabby Hartnett, batting .296 over a Gabby Is Our period of 16 Own Model of years, with a Grandmothers Rehearse New Dance Routine Problem of Separating Crooks From Honest People Now, there may be sound reasons for a city council to bar anybody from selling direct. At the moment, I do not know of any. Vet, according to the reports received by the federal trade commission, there was a small town out in Wyoming which actually convicted some boys from the neighboring farms and sentenced them to jail because they violated the city law, by selling direct to the householders in the town. That town ought to have a very red face, it seems to me. ... . . A British newspaper man was HARD-BOILE- F 'w 'vV wp' ' , Members of the Elderbioom society, an organization formed by a Philadelphia widow in 1904 for the d purpose of choral singing, are seen as they rehearse for a New York night club act. The 11 Gold Star grandmothers from Long Beach, Calif., shag, truck and sing in swing style. They range in age from 65 to 71 years. Membership in the Elderbioom society is restricted to women over 50 with white hair. white-haire- Born in U. S., No Longer a Citizen YOUNGEST REFUGEE bantam-weigh- t as- signed to a colonels staff in the World war. The colonel was He temptuous. Warns England tossed the book Is Vital Need a hand- on Syria. Take that. he said, and study it. You might be able to digest it in six months. Perhaps I can, said the scrivener. It took me only three months to write it. That was gamey little Leopold e S. Amery, ace reporter for the London Times, later a cabinet member, now putting his steel spurs to Mr. Chamberlains appeasement, the reciprocal trade treaty and all deals with the dictators. He says, You might as well try to please a tortoise by stroking its back. In parliament, he has been for many years the leader of the diehard conservatives. He is against any social fixings or trimmings whatsoever, and, having been, like Kipling, a reporter in India, is for the old empire formula without any mpdifications. The son of a poor civil servant in India, he scrambled through Oxford by snagging every scholarship in sight. He went to parliament and in 1922 became secretary of the admiralty. Later, as colonial secretary, he swarmed all over the empire, making fluent orations in Syri-aArabic, Turkish, French, Italian and German. In Cambridge he had confounded his elders by his gift of tongues. He is a bitter-endwho says Der Fuehrers big horses arent going to run over him. He has been a prophet of doom and has warned England against meeting a crisis by sweeping the dust under the rug. one-tim- The youngest refugee in the huge camp at Svcpravice, Czechoslovakia, seems very happy. The camp has been established In a former canning factory near Prague. It houses 280 refugees, including German Jews and Social Democrats. NEW TYPE RAINCOAT n, Returning to the United States from Siberia, Mrs. Pauline Kim, a Jewish woman born In Brooklyn and former teacher at Staten island, learned from Immigration authorities that she and her son can stay here only six months. Eight years ago she married Herbert Kim, a Korean student at Columbia university, and lost her citizenship, lie took her to China and then to Siberia. He is being held in a Russian concentration camp as an economic spy. Mrs. Kim Is now a Chinese citizen. four-year-o- ld All Factors in Situation Need Careful Consideration suppose that some of the things I have said in this analysis of a national problem will make me as popular as a skunk with some local merchants. I believe, however, that there are two sides to the argument and that there must be moderation in dealing with the hobgoblins that aro built up for selfish reasons, either political selfishness or for monetary gain. Hence, I argue that the country and its legislative bodies must look at all factors involved in the situation. Hysteria and demagoguery go hand in hand, with the demagogue leading and capitalizing on the circumstances he has created. If it can be shown where the brush salesman or the salesman for the floor sweeper or the home remedy salesmen are wielding a bad influence upon the life of the nation, prohibit them as is done many places with the saloon. If it can be shown that the vast majority of the people get no benefits from chain stores and that the chain stores damage the national life, get rid of them or regulate them closely. My thought continues to be, iiowever, that there must be moderation in legislation. $ Western Newspaper Uniou, 1C a le Automobile Safety Glass f 5 Replacement while yon wait ! DE LUXE GLASS CO. j Glass for Every Purpose" , 1 141 Eaat 3rd So. Bt. Salt Lake City j bi n; w lo sa ICE CREAM FREEZERS ai FOUNTAINS ICE CREAM COU. TER FREEZERS and lee Cream cablnetw Bar Fixtures. Stools, Carbonators. Steam Tables Also reconditioned equipment tern.. CO. ManufaeturerT SS Post Office Place . . Salt Lake Cit SODA ci Si hi ATHLETIC GOODS sc GREAT WESTERN ATHLETIC GOOdJ Uniforms, Bata, Gloree, Baseballs, Softballs, Vollyhalls, Athletic shoes, etc. UTAlb IDAHO SCHOOL SUPPLY CO. Salt Lakes sa & le mi TRUSSES we Instrument. Hospital SunnHea, Surgical Trusses. Manufacturers of Abdominal 8uo . porters. Elastic Stockings ! The Physicians 8uppy Company 48 W. 2nd South St Salt Lake City. Dtah no TYPEWRITERS la: tei wc ad co TURN YOUR OLD TYPEWRITER IN AS DOWN PAYMENT ON A NEW PORTABI.S i or Rebuilt Standard Corona Remington, Royal, Underwood, UTAH TYPEWRITER SERVICE 18 Weat 2nd South Salt Lake City pe .... ity po ou j lur An OLIVER CROMWELL CARMICHAEL lives up to his name. At the conference of southern business leaders at Atlanta, the chancellor of Vanderbilt Dr. Carmichael university cries Cries DownYeni own the yen for security as For Security of the goal stagnation and defeat. With grim Cromwellian tenacity, he has been shoving this home for years. Dr. Carmichael says security is fundamentally at war with sound economics. He is a native of Goodwater, Ala., a Rhodes scholar from the University of Alabama. house-to-hous- I said that there were certain types of canvassers ought to be barred. I refer to the racketeers who scour the country In crews, selling this or that or the other; who are here today and gone tomorrow, and who many times leave a wake of dishonest dealings, insults and sometimes plain thievery. Of course, there ought to be punishment of that type. But why punish the honest ones by placing them in the same category as the crooks. The problem becomes one of separating the crook3 from the legitimate people, but your demagogue will not do that, whether that demagogue be a member of congress, a member of the state legislature or a member of the city council. He would not be able to bleat so long if he attempted to analyze the real situation. This Green River ordinance hysteria is being promoted by some outfit which, it appears from the federal trade commission Information, goes from town to town and operates campaigns for passage of such a law. Those fellows make money out of their campaigns. The local merchants pay the bill. For the life of me, I can not see where they are any better than the agents of the direct sellers whom they are seeking to prohibit, because the agents make a profit. I must correct that last statement. The agents of tlie direct sellers are different Usually, especially the legitimate agents, live in towns in their territory and pay their taxes and buy their human needs there. The promoters run the campaign, take their profit and scoot. j Mirrors and Picture Framina 3 35.4' only dropping three pop flies in all that time and still pegging the ball to second with no letdown in machine-gun speed and precision. Phil Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, ups him $5,000 conin a $27,500 tract, for his eighteenth season with the Cubs. Hes growing gray over the ears, but this department is ready to lay a bet that hell still be in bis catchers armor after the overseas iron men have been pent to the showers, even if they are batting 1.000 at this moment. Hes a marvelous handler of pitchers, with a laugh that eases tension and keys down nerves. At Woonsocket, L. I., where he grew up, he was Charles Leo, a name long since lost It was in 1922 that he signed for what looks like a lifetime stretch, as a rookie catcher for the Cubs. 1 gifts of glass player-manag- Although the World war ended 20 years ago thousands of individuals continue to make a living from the battlefields of France. In the Somme, near Albert, workers find huge amounts of copper, iead and iron. AH the recovered shells and bombs are first sent to an isolated spot near a special factory, where they are stored. Every safety precaution i9 taken to avoid injuries from live shells and bombs, and constant practice has insured a minimum of accidents. In 1937 more than 4,000,000 pounds of war material was removed from the Somme area alone. Left: Nicknamed The Negus, this shell hunter Is typical of the French worker in the battlefield. His divining rod, which probes the earth, tells him the type of buried war material. IJ1 OFFICE EQUIPMENT YORK. An Iron Man ,U' NEW AND L'SED deefce and chain, su. typewriters, addinp inch's, sales. 6-- L. DESK EX. 363 & States 8.11 ufr By LEMUEL F. PARTON lem that destruction of chain stores will raise retail prices of the things they sell by as much as 20 per cent. Who is going to pay that? Vou and I and everyone who buys for consumption. If I can get my I am cigarettes at not going to pay 15 cents. So, if con gress or the state legislatures find it necessary to protect the independent, that policy should be adopted. But the extreme position of taxing them out of existence or destroying them some other way is utterly silly. It is, as I said earlier, rather like cutting off my nose to spite my face and I have a beak of which no one could be very proud! This chain store bogie man is just another of the many that are used by politicians to build up themselves. Once before, in these columns, I expressed the hope that some time I would like to see an honest politician. I think it would be refreshing to all of us. I heard lately, too, of a movement against those people who sell direct to the consumers. There are certain types of them that ought to be locked up. Most of them, however, have a legitimate product and they are making that product to sell to consumers. The movement that is now said to be spreading has evolved into what is called the Green River ordinance, a municipal law which is designed to prevent e canvassers. any PLANDOME SALT LAR State St. Rates 91 0. When In RENO NEVADA eten HOTEL GOLDEN Hene 'a latM mast papular hotel WEEK By WILLIAM BRUCKART Service, National Press Bldg:., Washington, D. C. A Animals Develop Strange Friendship I 'if,-.- . . " i ,A S I . I ' if xCyi'l-X- Mi ."I o. 0 - - I ': i S'fi I ? ? '.i I .Vi . a i ' '1 - c x I 1 : (, .. I- - YU, j ft ; v y " oped In Akron. 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He Order of Exile was a savage and ironic cariBy Six Years caturist who had raised many blisters on sundry Nazi hides before he made his getaway. While he is a certified Aryan, he was an outstanding candidate for a concentration camp and was shrewd enough to see what was coming. When he landed here In 1932, to teach at the Art Students league, there was a row in the league, but President John Sloan defended him as one of the greatest of modern artists, and here he is, painting happily, and everything is gemeutlieh. He has given up caricature and lets the world go by. His paintings are hung in many good galleries, and he has a nice home in Queens, where, wilh his vwfo and two children, he says he enjoys hu exile tremendously. 9 Ccnaolifliifrd Nwi Features. WJNU buivutt. HOT CEREAL re as For a Delicious Breakfast f Serve GRAINS OF GOLD with That Toasted Nut-Lik- e flavor, at all Grocers 1 foi g FARM SEEDS to I- We Buy Seed ra t 4 Mail samples for bids. 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