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Show v THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE TWO fis the 'Cotnnmora AAan' Pit - Tuesday, August 12, 1947 , WWWWWWW' to Kyle? Vt, AUL M ALTON Population May Backslide To Low Intelligence Level New Brand of Socialism Big Man John Lewis new coal economy, calling for bigger round of prices ancj wage increases, seems to have some economic relation to a new brand of socialism advocated by the latest AFL economic survey. The survey howls UNION e headline: "High Prices Threaten Workers Jobs and Living Standit furnishes what it calls The Way Out. The way out, says the AFL, Is "Consumer Cooperation," and It adds: "Consumer cooperation means cooperative ownership of a business. Every member is a . . . we must start at once to organize as consumers we cannot afford to wait . . . Now lets see. Lets understand this. Consumer cooperation is ownership of a business, eh? That, of course, is socialism. Moreover, it is a different, advanced type of socialism than that which the British unions have imposed on Britain. The British government bought the business there with- government bonds, and as is the normal case when the government owns anything, no one owns it This new AFL socialism is not state socialism but union ownership. The unions start factories fir shoes, clothing or even automobiles, maybe. Immediately this breaks Its own union monopoly of the work In the privately owned shoe, clothing or automobile factory. In work and price then, AFL would compete With its own members, for the purpose of underselling them and making their business unprofitable. If AFL was successful, their members would lose the private ownership Jobs they have now. In top By BAUKIIAGE ards." Then at the end News Analyst end Commentator. WASHINGTON. When the Henry Wallace for president movement was launched in California it made a lot of Republicans happy just to think about it, although they never really believed that a third party was possible. (When I was in college a friend of mine wrote an essay entitled: Why a Third Party Is Impossible in America. This was just before Teddy Roosevelt came out with his Bull Moosers m 1912). ... part-own- er BACK IN CIVILIAN DRESS . . . Reconverted to her prewar splendor, the SS Queen Mary again is ready to resume her luxury trade, plying between Southampton and New York. The 81,235-to-n liner served as hospital and troopship. - If Wallace were to become president of the United States it is unlikely that the common man whom he champions would have any more to say about running the country than he does now. However, when Wallace says this is the century of the "common man." he isnt far wrong. The revolutions which have swept the world in the past decade cerThere are others, however, who tainly would not have beon possi- - while they may agree with Brown ble if they had postulation, question the methods not had the sup- now being used to develop these HOW BLUE TOUR EYES ARE . . . port of the peo- Innate abilities" Anything can happen at a baby show, as witness this scene taken during Judging at a Los Angeles A very dim view of the situation ple. This support was not necessarIs taken by Canon Bernard Leland Dexter, contestant for the bluest L competition. Iddings eyes, went to sleep in midst of excitement and had to be judged In ily the result of Bell, educator, pastor, author and his carriage. free choice, intel- consultant on education to the Epislectual decision copal bishop of Chicago. or popular vote. He thinks Henry Wallace is cor Put a squirrel tail on the radiator day at tltzaiton they would start singIn fact, for the rect in his description of the curcer rent cap, stick a pennant in your hat, ing "How are things in most part but he says. "It does century and ho for the open road, the closed tainly under Mus- not follow because the common man Franco, has suddenly beenjifted into control bridge and the detour that unravels solini, Congress is to make an inquiry Hitler and Stalin that he is your spine and puts gravel in your thereby automatically into the high cost of living This opwas the it disposition! made competent properly to exert should raise it considerably. posite. Neverthecontrol " He thinks Wallaces less, they were definition ought to be expanded. Baukhagt not revolutions of He saysLike a kaleidoscope in which several apparently unrelated Ours is the century of the the upper classes. adolescent common chips of glass shift suddenly from a meaningless jumble of perpetually Even in the case of Great Brit- man, of the common man un- color into an understandable pattern, so at least scftne of the ains very mild revolution, which skilled in the art of living Unof the intricate economy have beworlds whirling segments a was the result of popular vote and taught in the wisdom of the race, he gun into place to form a coherent unit. dropping free choice, the traditional po- is incompetent either to rule or to For masses of Americans, to whom economics could be namourgers, litical and Intellectual leaders were be ruled popcorn stands, hot boiled down into a matter of you either have it or dont have fudge Armies Close Trap. swept out of office. Headline. parlors and popsicle spots Need Education If only some of our leaders it, the international hysteria of monies, credits, loans, spendper capital . . . And a civilization Americans are committed to For Common Man ing, inflation at home and crises abroad began to take on some whose slogan is "Dont forget to would. . . . the Idea that the majority alchange the oil and look at the batshould rale and the theory The canon isnt snobbish. He Is meaning. Within a matter of hours came a sudden spate of developments, starting Dewey is regarded in some tery!" not looking down his canonical nose ways has been that the people quarters as the White Knight would be wise enough to select at anybody. As a member of so- in England and ending up on virtually every farm in America. Having no ostensible connection on the surface, each fresh turn of events was linked Ben Pease says that if the ancient News item Just at present, a sort a person of sufficient Intelliciety he takes his share of the blame with preceding occurrences To philosophers, as well as econoprophets could get a peek at Present of silent night, as it were. gence, experience and Integrity by saying that society has played inexorably -- tothe common mag a low trick "for mists, it was a perfect chain of causes and effects. represent them at the job of This is how it began: which those who control education ruling. AD Field Marshal Viscount Mont- DEATH " are chiefly of chargeable a Of late, however, ROAD: number gomery, chief of the British imBell quotes the late Dr William persons approaching the problem general staff, suddenly was Safety Report from quite different angles, have Ruiney Harpers definition of an ed- perial called home from a tour of the Far A man: ucated man who the educaby Compared with 1946, death is takexpressed concern about the East. T EON HENDERSON, former price administrator, has told the Repub-lica- n tion and training of the men availing a back seat on the nations highMontgomery returned to Great ways this year, the reable for the responsibility of car steering committee in the senate that the present governmental to advise the government Britain port of the National Safety council policy is heading toward a wild boom and then a bust. rying on the business of governHe declared the price structure is shot through with distortion and concerning drastic curtailment of has shown. ment. the nations military establishment, For the first six months of 1947 unbalances and that prices, just as in 1920, have been allowed to get out I have been assured by cost of which (3 6 billion dollars a the y death toll stood of hand, that profits of business and Industry are swollen and that wages here who have been familiar with could no longer be borne by at 14,480 That year) have not kept pace with the rise in pricesi the personnel of congress over a figure is 9 per cent the threadbare British economy. below the 15,890 fatalities recorded number of years that we perhaps Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, chairman of the GOP committee, In London, Labor government for the same period last year. At have as high type of men, mentally took the opposite view. Re said there la no evidence today that 2 officials, no longer able to stave the same time, travel was 11 per and morally, in congress today as prices are out of line with wages and he declared that factory off a frank admission, told the cent heavier this year. we have ever had. In fact, 1 am workers today can buy 20 per cent more with their pay than they world that Englands plight was told they are making excellent use could eight years ago. Chances are that there isnt a housewife According to the safety council s desperate, that the tight little isle report, 2,490 lives were lost during of the greatly expanded sources of in the country who will agree with Senator Taft on that statement. was on the sharp brink of ruin. June, which information on the issues they have a 5 per cent Senator Taft even assejfted that he believed higher rents would help represents Prime Minister Clement Attlee, as- Increase over the June, 1946, recto consider and are, therefore, betbecause the landlords would make some repairs purchasing power sailed with charges of "bungling ter informed than any congress has ord In view of the increased traffic, On one thing Taft and Henderson agree namely, that luxury taxes to and "failure nevertheless act, ever been. however, it was a marked improveshould be investigated. was given a vote of confidence when ment. Nevertheless, we hear from eduhe sketched out a plan which would Even the larger cities in the nacators, from economists and statishave British miners work an extra tion were ticians, all aorta of dire warnings. decreasing their traffic bonr each day to Increase Englands fatalities. New One that has recently stirred up York whittled its coal production, key pillar In Its deaths by 15 per cent and Los Anthe press considerably was by Guy economic structure. Irving Burch, head of the populageles by 18 per cent. Jacksonville, The British pftsis was born out Fla , was tion reference bureau. It seems tops on the .record book The producer who lunches daily A community of families who live Burch read a survey made In EngCanon Bernard Iddings Bell of four factors': Shortage of Amer- with a 69 per cent decrease from with his two . . . Chinaon U. S. ican will dollars loan barges anchored in East river. (the land by Sir Cyril Burt at the re1946. Indication was that cities were ", . . unskilled . . . untaught . . towns citizens idling away a Sun- Some rent extra cabins to boarders. have been used up by Christmas); becoming more traffic conscious. quest of the royal commission on day afternoon sipping nee wine and . . . The depressing migration of population. time he is 23 has a clear theory, shortage of coal (not enough to per. . . Comely gypsy derelicts to Bowery fleabags every to operate and replaying fan-taindustries mit As a result of his survey. Sir formed in the INDONESIA: light of human ex- build maidens near Tompkins Square evening They seldom speak to each manof stockpiles); shortage Cyril, suggests that in SO yekrs the perience down the ages, of what U.N. Looks garbed in colorful native costumes other. number of students of scholarship constitutes a satisfying life, a sig- power, and inflation. . . . The hot sweet potato vendors weakened under the was a It matter in of Morally the Britain will be approxi- nificant life, and who by the age of ability regret, Miserable humans in night court threat of domestic political and Dutch government said, that the on Mulberry Square. . . . Union mately halved and the number of 30 has a moral philosophy consonant forums where the worst possible advert for the hueconomic crises, the London stork matter of the Dutch - Indonesian Squares open-ai- r d almost doubled. This with racial experience man race. . . . Prisoners delivered to the verbal conclusion was based on psychoBell thinks that what we do not market broke swiftly, as sharp sell- fracas was being brought before the anyone can join police headquarters via a back door hit all sections. United ing Nations security council logical tests and size of families in do and what we ought to do to and whisked into bidden elevators. . . To a few million other observers, And, although U S state departBritain. educate is, first, to give children Cocky prisoners in the police lineup Shady lawyers hanging a krow ledge of the races wisdom, ment observers scoffed at the idea it was not so much a matter of who crack sokes in hope of creating "a around to in had courts, that Nation of Dollar di hoping as a was pick it developments England regret fat orable atmosphere." surprise J? N , imparting to them what they ought up homicide cases. Theyre to know rather than teach them produced a reaction over here, it it seemed, was even then overdue Seen in Future called "thousand dollar men. to be something more in its action Gents who carry gum - tipped Burch has studied population sta- what they would like to study; sec- appeared A thouz is the established fee than coincidence that- Australia and India laid the probpoles to pluck coins dropped in celtistics for the United States from ond, to teach children how to read, for an attorney allotted by the after London stocks lem before the council, where it lars The citys version of a beachShortly the standpoint of psychological write, listen to arid speak tile court to defend an accused on the Chiwheat . broke, comber to prices vie with the immediately Trafflcops refereeing began tests, educational attainment, eco- English language, third, they must murderer. the midtown traffic tussle be taught decent manners, the cago board of trade showed losses Balkan issue for priority of debate nomic status and type of occupaof to nine and nine cents Although the Australian and Intion. He says: "We may reach the rights of others; fourth, they must a bushel, while corn and oats dian delegations told the council general conclusion that the lowest learn that honest and craftsmanlike dropped off from three to four cents. that the strife between Dutch and third of our people in each one of achievement is the only door to sostoi ks aho receded some-wh- it Indonesian forces threatened world approval,- - fifth,, these- - four categories has families cial teachers Industrial on the New York stock expeace, a Dutch spokesman in Washabout twice as large as those of must "inspire reverence for the n and impart some objective change. ington said U. N had no juristhe highest third At the same time. It became apdiction of what the various faiths knowledge CECRETARY of State Marshal gloomily disclosed to the house foreign And he concludes: Netherlands authorities insist on parent that the U S government, about us are to do and teach. affairs committee that a Soviet fifth column, composed mostly of Ger"As a voting participant In faced with high prices of grain and terming the struggle a Dutch "pomans, is working night and day to create chaos in Germany. At an I wish that some smart statisand food continued helping to solve the many Inlice to recontrol action," designed shortages meeting, Marshall, m effect, declared tician would try to figure out if tricate problems of our complex abroad, would issue a call for an- bellious Indonesians who hate to The Russian game is to keep Germany in chaos, realizing the kind of education which civilisation a dull and backward other big wheat crop this year in- wait until 1949 to attain their indethat desperate, broken, hungry people are easy prey for Commuwould give a man a high income individual Is almost as helpless stead of reducing wheat production pendence as a sovereign state The nism and will turn to Russia for aid. likewise makes him fit to run a as an Idiot. In fact, be may goals as was planned previously Indonesians, however, say that the He emphasized that European recovery is impossible without stepped-u- p be more dangerous to democratAs the picture began to take Dutch are country ks complicated as ours a war colonial waging in a world as complicated as German production, and assured the congressmen that this was the ic Institutions because he Is and that it looks like imperialism shape, the doYmnating motif apours. unanimous opinion of the "best minds available." Germany was the hub to to commanded be them demaeasily economic insecurity by peared of European economy before the war. Marshall pointed out, and could not gogues and dictators. be blanked out suddenly without upsetting the whole This gives u quite a different picEuropean structure. ture of the century of the "common "If Germany becomes a cancer, he warned, the thing will man. spread." Dr Francis Brown, staff associThe secretary of state implied that Germany can be made ate of the American Council on without again threatening world peace, but indicated that the probEducation and the executive secrelem was to convince France of this He declared frankly that economic tary of the Presidents commission, recovery in Europe hinged upon the French attitude toward Germany, doesn't quarrel with Burch's figures W ASHINGTON Extensive oper- out by more than 100 000 farmer year Bulk of the reduction in per- inasmuch as France fears any program that might develop Germanys but he says: "This population-intelligenc- e ations of the AAA soil conservation committeemen sonnel and other expenses will be war potential. This worry is aggravated by Communist report does not give enough were The ordered was resumed in halted absorbed in Washington and state he said. by program May prigram importance to the possibility of 'im- the department of agriculture after when the house voted to offices, allowing local AAA offices appropriproving intelligence by education congress finally approved a 255 mil- ate only 165 million dollars for the to retain most of their present staff In other words, if we broaden the lion dollar A farmer may sign up for any administrative fund for setup th.s year and to end it alto--, base of our teaching we can regain the setup Administrative expenses gether next year The AAA had number of approved projects, but a lot of the potential waste ma are in addition to' the 265 million worked out a 300 million dollar prohe is promised only a certain tcrial that Burch has discovered dollies which will go directly for gram and Fresldent Truman had amount of money with the provision What the Burcb report overpayments to farmers participating recommended that aqiount in his that he will get additional payments A MISTAKE waT made in the tive, must be something more than looks is this, says Dr. Brown, in soil saving practices if any funds remain after all farmbudget to congress San Frarcisco conference a debating society "human Intelligence never has Its constitution Inaugurated in early days of the Although the 255 million finally ers have been paid their minimum when the United Nations was orbeen developed to its' fullest provides a rather cumbersome New Year, the AAA program offers voted by congress is tower than the guarantees ganized Russia should not have method at correcting that mistake. among the great masses-o- f peocash and materials, principally sum asked, the soil program is be The program will be cut drastic- been aopeased by giving her a veto The time to make such a change is ple. Ne way has been found lime and fertilizers, to farmers for ing resumed on the same basis as ally next year At insistence of the power She should have been perNOW. Russia probably will quit if It accurately to measure the ulout soil The and carrying approved originally planned senate, however, the house agreed mitted to walk out then, and not is appropria timate capabilities of the human made, but it is better that she water conservation practices Local tion for administrative expenses is to go along with an appropriation oi later be in a position to block quit now than to wait until Commind. details of the program are carried about 18 per cent less than last 150 million dollars for 1948. action United Nations, to be effec munism dominates all the world. H. ld PHILLIPS That Summer Vacation Trip NEWS REVIEW Sodom-Gomor-rah- British Economy Menaced; Traffic Fatalities Slashed - UNDER FIRE . . . Howard Hngbes, west coast industrialist and long a fabulous figure in the American scene, is one of the principals in a senate war investigating committees inquiry into the awarding of 40 million dollars in aircraft building contracts during war. HUGHES 'WTXWWVX-- A' WALTER SHE A Warning Boom and Bust semi-annu- cross-countr- MA . . . Screen actress Betty Grable (her husband is Harry James) introduces her girl, Jessica James, to the camera for the first time. The blonde actress and her bandleader hnsband have another dangh-te- r, Vicki, now three. HELLO, WALTER W1NCHELL Cast of Characters in the Big Town 3 feeble-minde- one-four- th DREW PEARSON Marshall Exposes Russias Game s" DEFENSE SECRETARY . . . James V. Forrestal, first secretary of defense under the new national security act, bailed unification of armed services as the most decisive and definitive step in formation of the republic. FARMERS BENEFIT AAA To Resume Soil Program fc 'f t: i? WRIGHT PATTERSON Russia Thwarts United Nations i 1- -1, --z ... ACCUSED Chief Signalman Harold Ilirshberg is being d at the New York navy yard in Brooklyn on charges of mistreating fellow' American prisoners of war wbile himself a prisoner in a Japanese camp. court-martiale- 4 |