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Show Page THE JOURNAL 4 IE ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY TilD, ,n A oooooooooqoe Administration K forces attempts tldelandj The Lmi by Republican senators to prevent increased borrowing capacity of the commodity credit corporation and finally put through by a vote of 46 to 5 the bill which would give the CCC authority to increase its borrowing capacity from the treasury from 4.74 billion to 6.75 billion dollars and at the same time bar import of crops that compete with crops in this country. The Republican onslaught upon the measure was led by Sen. John J. Williams of Delaware, who not only sought to prevent upping of the loan authority but to cut oct all rigid 90 per cent price supjprts. On the final vote the five opposing senators Williams Including Senator were Allen Frear, Democrat, also of Delaware; Irving Ives, Republican of New York, Lev-ere- tt Saltonstall, Republican of Massachusetts and Robert C. Ilenrlckson, Republican of New price-support- 1 t ioe j California. was decided h, Jf' 0, bat it split la the Tall) by a vote of ( t, William D,otUl majority that the opinions two cues, wS and Texas, presented difference from that tf fornia decided in the ments favor in 5 1947, ed In the face of these decW chiding the basing point cuT house passed a bill by 1 which would boost from fir $50,000 the maximum fine lation of the Sherman law. If the senate passes fin it will be the first time siaci Sherman act was passed h that penalities under the lav increased. The house select eomziL investigating lobbying a? ties is running Into diffla? among members of the i? itself. Congressman Clarel Hoffman, Republican of Kr Jersey. gan, has introduced The house already had passed the sure proposing mpeW) bill in slightly different form so the measure is now in the hands of a the house committee dt new committee eosU Had Conference to joint senate-hous- e vestigate the lobby groq, iron out the differences, but there hi resolution, Co is little likelihood of much change said that ariht Hoffman in the measure as passed by the of the house lobby fc! senate. committee, ft tlgating At this It written, there Is every is headed by C - f VOi i , The JOURNAL A weekly newspaper published in the interests of the residents of Davis County, at Layton, Utah. matter at Entered as second-clas- s Act of the under Layton, Utah, March 8, 1879. Capablo Tt:a Yeali' two tOng. RMERICA AT THE MOMENT is supposedly of vital importance. Well, maybe, but I know other things of equal importance that the country at large is is neglecting. The two other things on which and women men I and know placed? Age figure. who apparently think a boyish figure or sylphlike anatomy are the chief aims. They are important, but if the principles would pay just half as much attention to loyalty and integrity, this world would soon be a place we'd be proud to think we had a hand in the moulding. A Ofttn tier over-emphasiz- ing Published By INLAND PRINTING CO. Phone: Kaysville 10 over-empha- sis MEMBE-R- UTAH STATEM ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Nat'l. Advertising Representative Newspaper Service. Advertising Age In America has come to be al222 No. Michigan Ave. most a disgrace. Yet those who scorn it Chicago, 111. look forward to reaching a ripe-ol- d age. Some of our ignorant youth even go so Subscription: $1.00 Per Year far as to ridicule age. Like all who ridiCarnegie Payable in Advance. In combination with cule, they brandish the only weapon they The Weekly Reflex, $3.00 per year. are capable of using. And all this is inspired by a gun manufacturing company In Albert W. Epperson Oklahoma operated largely by men in advanced years. The Editor Manager president of the company is 76 years old; the chairman of the Richard 0. Anderson board of directors is two years past the century mark; the man News Editor who serves as both and treasurer also has passed J. V. Woolsey his allotted three-sco- re years and ten. There ar more than 400 Display Advertising Manager employees of this company with an average age of 42. Ernest R. Little In doing some research on this company, which, by the way, Classified shotIthaca Gun is the Advertising Manager Company, Ithaca, N.Y., manufacturing guns, I learned that three million of America's workers are more than 66 years of age. I myself have discussed this matter of older workers with any number of officers of big companies. I have Do you live in never yet found one that claimed age was a deterrent in engaging an employee. What they invariably said was that ability was their keynote, and that in many inDavis stances, an older man was preferable because of the ex. . . then youll want perience he could bring to the job. Bernard Girabel of the Glmbel stores told me once that he thought they got to know whats going on. best results by mixing the older men with the younger A subscription to the men. An officer of Rogers, Feet said they never turned away a man because he was too old. He said definitely Reflex-Journ- al that the older men nearly always were far, far more handle customers because they were brought up able to in an era of courtesy and thoughtfulness which is sadly is only lacking today. So all this should be Kbpeful for Oklahoma and New York $3.00 states other are that and themselves states, concerning with (104 issues) obsjor men past 50. vice-presid- ent County? . . w probtoJ v X, 'X indication that President Truman Is likely to veto the basing point bQl recent passed by the congress. This measure was obviously an attempt to invalidate the ruling of the United States supreme court which held that the basing point system of operation by industry is a violation of the anti-trulaws. The bill as passed sought to legalize that system. There also is likelihood that some' attempt will be made to override the supreme court because of its decision on the Texas tidelands oil case. Texans in the eongress, including such administration stalwarts as Senator Connolly was greatly shocked and disappointed and at the ruling. The dazed court followed its ruling in the California case, holding that the federal government has the same primary rights to the dbrieh Teas and Louisiana Frank Buchanan of P vania, has tended to fear, to intimidate ad vent individuals gressmen and cations, from orTj exercising constitutional right of to speech and their right st congress. tion Hoffman had introduced solution to require tbs bers . of the lobbying to register just like Of interest to cotton a resolution passed 1 wn) grows by 1 voice vote which provide gency cotton acreage m those whose 1950 crop 11 1 AND SO TO including bnsineu or substantially destroyed w causes, aged by natural each two provides that for acre destroyed, one new of 1' ted with a limit ditional acres. Then f position. y I BED!-- WE HOPS. |