Show i TIIR CARlAVn TIIP CEO Scons CARlAKn ITTAH Reasons for Failures i A' r Impartial Groups Attempt Study of Business Flaws By BAUKIIAGE Ntwi Analyst ond Commentator WASHINGTON— The favorite game in Washington today is a new version of “button button who’s got the button” n recession Only for “button” read: Depression readjustment or what have you— if you have anything Sen Robert Taft as chairman of congress Joint committee on the ecosent out to a long list of business men nomic report had a questionnaire The gist of the report seemed to be that there was going to be a business recession but It was going to be in the other fellow’s business Frequently it is too much faith tn taxes and competitive the other fellow s failings and too financing There are very definite opportunity little regard for ways in which the business man own that one’s in solving these might be helped business causes problems This la failures particularly the problem of management The CED report especially true mentions these: busiof small Through advice and nesses Locating of these and preventing them was the Job reundertakcently en and reported on by the Com mlttee for EcoDevelonomic pment a Baukhage non- partisan group which makes studies of this nature was Just as this organisation completing its work another somewhat similar group was setting a task for Itself In the hope of out some of the other straightening kinks in the business world This was the National Planning association which is out to discover how the many firms which steadfastly maintain good and year-lrelations with their employees do the trick Both propositions are highly interesting some "failures” CED Furniahea Fair Reporta The Committee for Economic Dehas for its chairman velopment Paul Hoffman who in private life is president of Studebaker corporation Directing its research and division is Raymond Riiblcam the advertising man Is highly re-This organisation It has a staff of spected the research doing and Its members lean over to bo backwards In fact at a newa conference called hero to discuss the report’s findings one reporter became pretty riled because be couldn't get Hoffman to comment on the tax situation one issues ef the political of the moment There are two reasons why CED'a latest report (on small business) is counsel from his suppliers through from the large guidance available trade associations by means of programs instituted by his own comservices munity through special which could be provided by established counselling and market research agenpies within the means of the small enterprise more extended research supported by business men and foundations special courses In universities colleges and schools and expansion secondary of the present services offered free by the department of commerce These art graphically illustrated In the diagram Meeting Needa Of Buaineaa But the greatest problem to place before the is how small business man the facts both as to his and how to satisfy them needs That Is up to the Individuals In will who1 each take community enough Interest to read the report (available without charge from the for Economic Committee Development 285 Madison avenue New York City) and bring It to the attention of the local business men’s clubs chambers of commerce and similar groups which The other proposition Is In the making and which likewise bat a purely objective aim la being carried on by tbo National Planning association wbicb Is also a Tbo non profit organisation ns Its purpose: NPA itatea in Americana “Planning by business labor and agriculture government” which will probably Ita study take a year is entitled ’The Causes of Industrial Peace under Collective Bargaining The project Is under direction of two special committees composed COMMUN1TY PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE BUSINESS EFFICIENCY MANAGEMENT COUNSELING ADVISORY Services from suppliers Three members of the Sevin UNUSUAL GRADUATION TRIO exercises st the Los Angeles family received degrees st graduation Sevin (center) Mrs Sony of Calif ornis I campus of University her college course in five years grandmother completed 21 and her married son Lois her Shown with her are daughter Marshall 23 also graduates NEWS REVIEW Labor Act Is Effective Weather Hits Corn Crop bitVerging on mental and political exhaustion after a y ter fight weary senators voted 68 to 25 to override labor bill President Truman’s veto of the s wallop The action sustaining the ing 331 to 83 house vote to pass came on the bill over the veto plea to heels of a final presidential (Dem Alben Sen Ky) to Barkley forces in the muster all possible senate "to prevent this bill from becoming law’’ Opponents of the measure needed and the veto 32 votes to uphold they waged a desperate objective to attain their battle was a smashFinal result however the ing defeat for Mr Truman at hands of the congress Highlights of a opposition fight to delay the senate vote as long as possible In order to ses- gain support was an PROTEST STRIKES act In With the force only n few hours scattered protest strikes suddenly walkblossomed Into s out of 180000 soft coal miners At least 41 mines were closed The walkout apin 10 states repeared to be a spontaneous action on the part of the miners to the new labor law HS ran IN AND post announced was in a statement Gen MaJ by Parks Floyd L chief of the war who recently business Although small business needs all as indeIndividualistic and hard to Influence as a at the top of cocoanut monkey these And disunited palm make up of the firms operating In 96 per cent this country today As the CED report puts It: is more vir“Small bnslneaa ile and more ‘durable thsu might be deduced from the hue and cry beard for many year as te the disadvantages under Nonetheless which It labor small businesses are confronted with special problems and difflcaltiea that are very real It ia vital to all buaineas and to nil cltliens that conditions anaror-abl- e to small business be remedied wherever possible’'' The report finds that the problems of the small business man fall into four categories: management highly pendent relations public d v a on The statement s a id that Eisenhower the Coaccepted lumbia presidency with the approval of the President and the secretary of war His will become effective resignation "at such time as his superiors may release him from active duty In the O W army” The man who mapped the strategy which brought victory to Allied forces in Europe In World War II will retain bis rank as a general for life and continue to receive of about a compensation $15000 a year Initial speculation on a successor to General Eisenhower as chief of staff centered on Gen Omar N Vetnow Bradley administraerans’ who tion c h e commanded the predicted a army C( S 'I I V'i t three billion bushel corn crop this Chart Illustrates how comprehensive CED program will aid in year were hastily revising their essolving problems of small businesses timates in the light of continuing of both NPA members and nonOne Like all CED retorrential rains and widespread significant members have One is a sponsorship transformed floods which ports it represents the cooperative committee composed of 40 business efforts of top men in the highly much of the Midwest into a soggy labor field of business and leader The other mud Is and of mass top the practical research committee made up of 26 man in the field of science— political has been particularly Damage a economy heavy in Iowa extending from one cooperative effort experts In the field Floodsole purpose U to make whose The idea was explained to a end of the state to the other America a better place In which to group of us by Clinton Golden who ing of river bottom lands is only live There are no axes to grind will direct the research part of the loss the is report The second reason Golden explained that what hit Thousands of acres of crops have important to all of Ui 1i that today committee was after was a differ- been washed out' and the loss Is more than ever In a world of com- ent approach to the question of considered irreparable It Is too late relations to replant with anything except for- peting ideologiei the perpetuation our system de- of our democracy pends upon the fostering of small assistance that assistance Is difficult to proffer because small business isn't ah "it”— It is three and a half million small business men all Three girl students LOOK GIRLS A REAL ARABIAN FRINCE the Bayslde L I high school appear reasonably thrilled over He Is Prince Nawaf Ibn Abdul meeting n genuine Arabian prince Axis (but what’s the Initial?) the son of King Sand! of Arabia Prince Nawaf all decked out In his regal raiment visited the school In order to get a rough idea as to how American receive their youngsters education st department’s slon during which Sen Glen H Taylor (Dem Idaho) held the floor for eight hour and 20 minute and Sen Ore) talked Wayne Morse (Rep It for 10 hours and two minutes was the longest filibuster In modern congressional history act which conThe revision of the stitutes a wholesale Wagner act of 1934 was termed by President Truman in his veto message a "shocking piece of legislation’’ He asserted that the measure not strikes would “cause more fewer” and would put the country a long step on the dangerous road econtoward "a totally managed Experts ' General of the Army Dwight D Eisenhower has resigned as army chief of staff to accept the presiin university dency of Columbia New York effective early next academic FLOODED OUT: No Bumper Crop tow jlTaJcmi V IKE RESIGNS: Goes Academic year omy” M J) age crops and possibly buckwheat if seed is available On upland farms ponds and lakes also their boundaries overflowing will cut seriously Into corn yields All in all a bumper corn crop is considered extremely unlikely even with a favorable growing season up to October Some authorities have begun to believe that the government’s grain export program should be in view of conditions existing on the nation’s farms at present His decision to step out as top man in the natloh’s military hier- archy to take the "This legislation’ would encourage and arbitrary distrust suspicion attitudes” the President told congress COURSES AND RESEARCH of the STARTED THE WHOLE AFFAIR labor bill which occasioned one of the hottest battles in modN ern congressional history are Rep Fred A Hartley (Rep Sponsors of the labor re(left) and Sen Robert A Taft (Rep O) form measure sre shown here ss they met on the senate side of the capital to discuss the final showdown on the bill which took place In the senate THEY ground in forces Europe the war Other generals under confor the sideration position were Gen Jacob L Devera army ground forces chief and Lt Gen J Lawton Collins chief of army public Information ElsenAs president of Columbia to will be the successor hower Nicholas Murray Butler who retired and Is now Columbia’s in 1945 president"" emeritus "The general has also been elected a member of board of trustees the university’s during f i OPOSSUMS FOR PLAYMATES It Isn't every boy who has eight opossnm (or ’possum) pups for pets possibly because it Isn’t every boy who wonld want that many Bnt Jimmy Harris son of Mr and Mrs Robert Harris of near Geneseo I1IJ thinks It’s great ' fun-- Some" of the eight hre shown here ns they cling to his clothing and perch on his head They were captured with their mother RAPID GROWTH Industry Expands in Far West NEW YORK— The Far West of the United States has grown greatly In recent years In population' income industrial stature and international importance according to a study in the Index s quarterly publication of the New York Trust company just published "World War II” the study says "telescoped into a few years an Industrial expansion in the FarWest which might have taken several decades to accomplish even at the relatively fast rate of development some parts of the area had been enjoying"The war It is out pointed brought new factories and facilities to the region accelerated development of its raw materials expanded its power supply and Increased its population thereby adding both to its market potential and its labor supply With its vast store of natural resources and its rapidly the Far West creasing population look forward to a continuing postwar Industrial growth through development of new products and new markets” The seven states included in the study are Arizona California Idaho Nevada Oregon Utah and Washington "The Far West" according to the article "made the largest relative and income of gains in population all the areas of the United JStates War II and has during World grown faster than the nation as a whole since 1939 it Increasing population by 31 per cent as compared with a 7 per cent increase for the entire United States Factory Job In the Far West in the ame period rose 68 per cent as com pared with 46 per cent for the naIn food production tion the increase in the Far West amounted to 25 per cent as compared with 23 per cent for the United States as a whole "Continued expansion of Industry appears to be of primary importance to the progress of the Far West" the article concludes "Its Its cliabundant natural resources mate Its forest riches Its excellent harbors and Its scenic beauties have been the chief contributing factors 1q it s rapid growth In the and support past To accommodate a population Increase in the future comparable to that enjoyed so far in this century and particularly in the World War II period would seem Jo require the broader economy which its sustained industrial growth is furnishing” vrr y?ir : -- 1 N f' s r ' A f ARM HEMISPHERE MARSHALL URGES Secretary of State George C Marshall was the first of s number of civilian and military officials called to testify before the honse forelm affairs committee on President Truman’s proposal to arm the nations of the western hemisphere |