Show J I— f 1 Draft Touchy Issue THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON UTAH :( For Nation's Politicoes Fear Strong I private Business Complains of Disadvantages' Volume Tops Five Billion Dollars Against Military Service Even as Occupation Needs Point Up Requirement for Large Army By BAUKIIAGE Analyit end Commentator Service 1816 Eye Street NW Washington D C One of the administration'! hottest political potatoes is a matter that nobody likes to talk about— even the opposition It Is military service Wot universal military service next month or next year but any old kind of military service today and tomorrow right up to election tay 1948 The problem has many facets but It has one awesome nub — the veteran vote There are several danger signals which tfik Democratic administration Is watching with some trepidation: the criticism over continuation of the draft which the President has given his complete and unqualified support recurring complaints of discontented soldiers and their families appearing In radio congressional national committee and other Washington fan mail which add up to a resounding demand for more and quicker discharges and finally a growing fear that the feeling which used to be called isolationism is cropping up in a new The administration doesn’t dare make any move to permit a drastic reduction In the armed forces now Military experts think it wiU be the middle of October before any such move can be contemplated By that time they think the danger of any serious outbreak in Japan will be over or there will be evidence that one Is coming WNU Await Jap Reaction To Occupation ' I V : 'i The fun impact ef the occupation of Japan" will not be felt until American soldiers are deep in the heart of the country Before that the reaction of the Japanese people and the Influence of the military leaders as opposed to the Influence of the emperor cannot be gauged Suffice it to say that the surrender terms as well as the surrender itself came as a shock to the Japanese people ’‘Many Americans fail to realize that a relatively small American army landed in Japan in an area in which there were no Japanese except those permitted to be there by the authorities who arranged the surrender There was no contact with the general population or the military Scattered over the rest of the country is a powerful Japanese arfny as yet fully armed In defense positions strengthened when the Japs completely reorganized their borne defense against Invasion after the capture of Okinawa Disregarding thq thousands of Japanese sailors new on shore the air force the supply troops and others It is known that on Hokkaido there were two full divisions (A Jap division is between' 13000 and 20000 ' men) - On Honshu there were 44 divisions and 7 brigades (a brigade On Kyuis roughly half a division) t shu 14 divisions and 7brlgades It is estimated that we would have 000000 men in the Islands by the middle of September That is against a Japanese army (not counting the sailors airmen and others) of well over a million That is why there can be no sharp reduction in American troops until ‘we know what if anything is cooking under th cherry trees And then when that question Is answered we have the question of occupation It bas been estimated that to police Germany Japan and Korea and perhaps parts of China will take 1200000 men Where win they come from? Where will 300000 eopie from for that matter? Already a sharp reversion against military service has begun and If it follows the Curve after the last war recruitment on a basis of voluntary enlistment is hopeless At Its low point the army after World War I numbered 130 000 men I well recall the story of one of my officer friends whose regi-j- : ment stationed in the middle west dropped so low that men themselves votrd to spend their post exchange funds for a recruiting campaign With a band and a company he paraded the countryside for a week He got Just three recruits and two of those were rejected as physically in U S in Recent ' Reaction JVeuw Of lax Question Spotlights ' Movement 7 when Uncle Sam will pay him $23 a week for not working at all?" (He referred to the unemployment compensation called for In pending legislation) That's the position the administration is in when the cry to end the draft arises Veto Attitude Beam Watching The complaints from the veterans another matter They are not so much concerned over who gets into the army as who gets out A lot of them are marking time right now later a lot will be sent overseas in the boresome Jobs of policemen Why shouldn't I get out now and get a start In business? Why shouldn’t my husband come back and support me In the manner to which I have been unaccustomed since he Joined up? Why shouldn’t my boy get back to school where he belongs? Why shouldn’t my sweetheart be allowed to come home and marry me like he said he would? And some day sonny and daddy and lover will come back And they'll Join a veteran's organization and they will vote at the polls ah there’a the rub! Now we come to the third point which is really the most Insidious the one which has to be handled the most delicately We may have learned In this country that an ocean Is no longer a barrier against the enemy But we know there Is another barrier which separates our maritime states from the heartland of the nation bordering the Mississippi flood plain That part of the isolacountry forgot its tionism and threw' its whole heart into the war But the war is over — on paper anyhow It is time to put the hand back to the plough again There is need of stout arms and and strong backs in the fields though Japs and the Germans may not let why require watching George do It? That is a natural feeling and clever pollticans would have little trouble in turning It to account by raising the cry of militarism of im periallsm and all the other Isms Ahich men whose barns are their castles and whose meadows are their empires dislike Such a sent! ment could be turned against one administration as" well as another but it so happens that the mid die west is naturally somewhat Republican In its leanings normally and the Democrats are now In tho saddle One very keen political observer who has watched the way of the voter for many years said to me the ether day: “If there were a Presl dential election tomorrow Truman would win It" And when you consider the matter coldly there are good reasons for the statement The Republicans have had one healthy Issue after another knocked ou from under them Truman has glv en business its head he has sat on the OPA he has released one con trol after another he has most soli citously deferred to congress he is on the way to break up the war agencies and get the business o1 government back Into the old line departments Such 1$ the picture as of today--all clear except for one little clou in the aky not much bigger than serviceman's hand but there thunder and lightning in that cloud and If the circumstances were such that ita bolts of wrath were directec at the administration It would no even take say a Stassen to win tha Presidential race on a walk Is a a -- By next February— barring unex pected developments—alLioldiera In Europe except those in the army o occupation and the minimum required to dispose of the army'a sur plus property will have been to the United State MaJ Gen C P Gross chief of transportation aaid In an announcement by the war department Return of American forces In the Pacific will be completed next June according to present 'estimates More than 175000(1 men are ached tiled for return from the Pacific Unfit theaters while approximately 2000 As one officer remarked bitterly to 000 remain t be returned from Eume: “IIow are you going to get a rope Some 130000 other troops man to Join the army for $21 a iso are to be returned from other month (the basic peacetime pay) overseas theaters ByALJEDUCKA When congress ponders a new revenue bill this fall one of the major propositions under discussion will be the taxation of enUnder pressure of established cooperatives terprises the colons can be expected to comb the situation thoroughly since the rapid 'growth of cooperatives in the present century not only poCes the question of tax equality but also of maintenance of revenue But though the question of taxation itself appears to head up the cooperative question now there are other and ever more deeply rooted underlying causes principally the movement’s threat to the tradition al American business system U S the credit tot the birth of the movement the Rochn this respect the whole co- dale enterprise of 1844 atlH receives operative development may genera recognition tor establishing well shape as an economic the three general principles under widely function evolution though frequent which These principles Include: cycles have robbed it of the today 1 One vote to each member rehis- for consistency necessary gardless of stock holdings 2 Distribution of net savings to orical reform At the present time how- patrons Ini proportion to their purchases ever American 3 Limited fixed interest on are on a rising tide with ital shares instead of variable capand unlimited dividends he strongly established is re! Organization of farm farm organizations numberwith the pattern etively ing 4390000 members being moulded simple to give each member an steadily complemented by equal controlling interest In the manufactconsumer and operations Upon subscribing for capital stock or paying a member uring groups During tha season rural marketing and puralone did over chasing billion dollars worth of business basis mostly on As a result of the steady growth of spearheaded by the f&rmer associations and their extraditension into various fields tionally established American businessmen are stirring uneasily Whereas only the handler and supplier of agricultural products and material formerly had been pressed competition by ' the cooperatives now las been extended to manufacturers ef farm machinery hardware palnta electric refrigerators washing machines' toasters' clocks cigars cigarettes lipstick tires and batteries now In addition cooperatives drill wells own pipe lines refine petroleum possess timber tracts write Insurance end operate banks telephone companies and electric power Installations From the beginning the cooperative movement assumed the nature of Joint enterprise for performing a service for each participant's individual welfare Though contemporary history traces th real origin of toe cooperative movement back to Rochdale England where poor working people organized a grocery coop In 1844 to avail themselves of cheaper food some historians credit th birth of the movement to local farm ' groups which banded together in the U 8 In the 1820s to reduce insurance costs Following the establishment of th local fire Insurance groups the cooperative movement assumed another form In the U S after the civil war ' In th national farm Grange a social and educational organization alee bent upon relieving stringent economic conditions Evenmethtually turning to ods to attsin Its early objectives the Grange failed in promoting a because of the purchasing of agents bogged In pushing consumer partly as a result of tha panic of 1873 and gave up e farm machinery manufacturfollowing ing overproduction and As the movement to take root here during World War I and congress recognized It ts an instrument for aiding the farm producer legislation was enacted to afford tax relief to operators In 1916 congress stipulated that farmers fruit growers and like associations organized and operated on a basis and acting as selling agents for their members should not be requested to pay an Income tax on earnings In subsequent legislation! the solons provided that could purchase as well as sell for producers deal with as well as members become corporations and pay Interest on stock and not be prosecuted under the laws Th government also set up a federal agency to loan money to cooperatives In 1921 with the financial machinery expanded through th farm credit act of 1933 In 1933 the securities act els permitted to tell equities without prior approval of the Securities and Exchange commission which exercises that right over corporate I ” auea Though b ship fee the local group thed adopts and elects a board of directors A manager Is hired policies outlined and facilities secured Although In charge the manager remains under supervision of the directing board In addition to observing the Rochdale principles In voting 'savings distribution and stock payments local groups often confine Ownership to farmers raising products handled by the coop restrict securities transfers and limit the amount of shares a member may hold While are generally organized on the local level they Years H1IB mere than 409 units at the most with 118009 members doing about $5000 000 business annually Though con have failed In sumer labor th past th CIO’s entrance Into the field en a limited basis bears watch-ta- g anew with the union tactics apparently aimed at making up future tighter wage rate by reducing staple living costs In staging th praises of farm coops advocates describe th movemeans of putting th ment as country's gigantic rural plant on more efficient basis with resultant profit to the producer This Increased efficiency can be attributed to both the size of and th nature of their own--' ership By banding together farmers are able to purchase goods at lower prices and group distribution results in smaller overhead and decreased handling charges By owning the business of course avert dealers’ margins Though cooperatives have been the target of competitive businesses complaining of their tax R Newton Wayne preferment manager of the National Association of declares that the Increased return of farmers results In payments of higher individual Income taxes At the tame time Newton says the larger profits enable operators to spend more on merchandise in the local communi' ties s are making Charges that huge profits on their operations only serves to emphasize the size of margins formerly enjoyed by private dealers' Newton avers By bandihg together for operations farmers have tended to offset their 9 f 'ns t U W- i Ilf t r AtiOTHi A General QuV Th Queifio 1 Who was Ramett 2 Do elephants lj a ' Notes of m New Yorkert toey sleep? Deal be disappointed that Halsey 3 Lentigo is anoths what? didn’t ride Hlrohite’s horse Aircraft is distW That was Just ' the - colerful Old Bey's way of laying he'd get to She “weft" method Admiral Halsey always weft mean? Tokye 5 Sterling s was feed with the silver As frixample: Th coo I aately what part pun tael 6 Where was grstulatery message he sent to Benjaai submarine crew after s Job well lin bom? 7 Chile stretches aloe dene: roast of South AmerW “Your picture Is on my piano" many miles? 8 In Homer’s “Iliatf he Boner Delightful (from an was a herald who shout GauHs “D 24th m a Taper): Aug walls of Troy with tha Here At City Hall deception low many men? will begin at noon" fli 8: 5 if f i i h The Answers Final Guffaw Dep't: The foot a 1 Pharaoh of Egypt newsmag once used to kick this is now in Its mouth W richest man that ever fe 2 No they kneel down" were booted because one of our pre3 Freckles The Aug 13th dictions fizzled 4 Wings (1945) issue of Ihe same critic conengine fusel tained this gem: “Lest week Rus- ail 6 About sia was not ready — 11 ever aha 6S Boston Mass would be — to go to war with 7 For 2600 miles Russia went to war with Japan" 8 Fifty Nippon on Aug 8th To make the revenge aweeter — this broadcaster was first to accurately forecast Russia's positive entry into the war The House Ways and Means Committee has been giving a frosty reception to Pres Truman's request for greater Jobless benefits with Rep Knutsen of Minnesota asking: “If wb pay a man $23 a week for cot working what will we have to pay to get him to work?" “The answer to that" commented a politico “Is that you’ll have to pay him a living wage that's alL" “Yes” agreed a colleague “but what constitutes a living wage?” “That" was the retort wonderful “depends on whether you're giving It or getting It" Sallies la Onr Alleyi In the Cub Room Fanny Ward the old swapped howjoodoos with her friend Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy “Frank" she “how asked do you keep so young?" Looking at his charm' tag companion alongside him Mr Justice replied: “Courtin' " In “Polonaise" the new operetta the principals ars all European-borKlepura Is a Pole hi wife MaHa Eggerth is Kurt Hungarian or Austrian Boia tha new comedian Is from a and other foreigners Include David Lichlne the ballet master and Tanya “Who’s ths Important person in the show?" Inquired down "The Interpreter?" 8 fvfv ash aif I Successful include refinery at McPherson Kan top and grain elevator of Indiana Farm bureau at Indianapolis Ind CLASSIFI DEPART ME AUTOS TRUCKS I f FOR Fn-USES V INSTRUCTION BARBERS ARE IM DEI Barberinf taught in a few nor a permanent business with I SALT LAKE BARBER ESw JF Gillette Mr lMk always 1 I -HfllfA I Ull If IOVC VaH 1 PINEHUR! CIGARET1 The nationalist group has adopted another rodent for Traitor L Petaln Mads with The consists of sobbing about Petaln’s age end Treat foumlf to tho pleasv fin imokt— a smooth nh blubbering that he was merely tryof comwith affiliate previous disadvantage being dsamte— mad of celoetrf usually regional to save France Nutzl When ' specially Blended to th pops pelled to sell their products on a ing groups to obtain maximum can tut Mnchurtk ta trtin flexible open market and buy on a Petaln was ta Vermlny of operation with tha regionAmerica' nondard clear ahorta more or less rigid retail price level he was an accessory to Nazi crimes aobctRato— nJord al bodies ta turn sometimes combinhr committed against Frenchmen ol aokr who demand mi ing with national associations But' he further states from their ctaarettoa Ploiw all Including Promo iashr Fatcnted ta any case the local group retains In spearheading the opposition 10 sentages 83000 French children to' work 'extract of root I a voice In tha broadened organizathe Na- ta moistur oondutonlne— th 0 Germany as slava laborers! aretto aoralUed to do to tion through th selection of deletional Tax Equality - association Tho us of DW reserves gates points to th fact that agent ta n cuiw When the six Americana were $ h?Tooopto anted proeou of thta CooBM While membership ' fees ' stock retained after patronage refunds re- arrested on State Dep’t orders remolllfyin feature of may balp to relieva dry throat sales and reserves provide working main untaxed thus enabling them cently front pages whooped about eouh and ether trrluuem borrow on n to do business at lower cost while the espionage angle capital This remoklnt The tlxarette mr much mor pleasant and large scale to finance operations a also permitting continuing expanporter pointed out that th spy hoopwith ordinary cold and otto sion' As a result the(NTEA asserts study of the Farm Credit adminiswas la tory difficulties cuch u tar merely the gimmick used by are rat a at 1939 ta growing tration revealing that apsome in an attempt to of 10 times that possible for tax muzzlediplomats of the proximately Journalistic criticism ol GET A CARTON DS ’ then existent resorted to loans paying enterprises A few days State Dep’t policies It your dealer eannot fupply Kas of tho Mississippi Not only that but many (II M ' While figures show 4390000 memago a Federal Grand Jury refused postpaid urten of 10 pack bers of 10300 farm marketing and tag corporations have shifted to a to Indict three of tha accused and R L Swam Tosacco cow acstatus either numta other three were not Indicted for the actual through purchasing Sprtng Street DanvCI 9? or by th ber of Individuals participating ta quisition by espionage but merely for “purloin-togthe movement may be considerably voluntary action of stockholders It government documents Is about time Congress probed tat less since a person may belong to NTEA declares s more than one organization As examples NTEA president boys responsible for Ben the whole CaliMcCabe shameful cites the northern affair With 7522 unit and 2730000 members the farm marketing co fornia holdings of the Red River Get tlfonmcr The American Navy end operative s'do by far th largest bus- Lumber company bought by the without exerchi Fruit Growera' Supply company a iness with activities totaleyeglasses prove the sams You nd h” mty In pound subsidiary of the California Fruit thing That the Japs ere a very Innr slendrr frarWul 6xuro N Handling ing almost $4500000000 Nolalia hodr a loss to shortsighted people of dairy products accounted for Growers' exchange-witThe Japs mrdsinf V tlh this A YDS plan yo do t the U S treasury of nearly $1000 livestock $838000000 $702000000 signed the surrender terms But out out out any meal t arches meat or butler 000 a year In tax revenues the safety la In our fleet not ta theli tato grain dry beans and rice $432000 ply cut them down It (vtW had their sigWhen you enjoy Ohio Cultivator company of Belle000 cotton and Its products $258 signatures’ minfortihed) AYDhbefosvmeaw vue Ohio purchased by the nature on treaties December 7th Absolutely 000000 fruits and vegetables $160 harmles 1 n clt mcl tert conducted 1941 The Jap la anxious tc Farm Machinery 200000 poultry and eggs $130000 more lhaa Ito parson ° ooo tobacco $120000000 let bygone be bygones So is any 0 with A wool and atlv Inc with a loss of about ada ia a ( wk Flan — Cndy aRniiion supply $107000000 mohair nuts $49 annually to Uncle Sam’s coffers criminal on the day of hla convicof AVW Try and the Glob Refining company of tion 000000 - and miscellaneous $113 Money back oa th ruf 6 Crt result Ebon McPherson Kant taken over by 000000 the National Cooperative Refinery Soands In the Night: At th En-For the 2778 purchasing LMtdin Dnuf Ow duro: “A waiter la a guy who bewith 1880000 members total busi- association Ererywbera ness for th season was Against the background of at lieves that money grow on trays" At the Metropole: “When is Seventeen and placed at $730000000 ready established that to of aom going tramp th shift write enterhei WNU—W major regional procurement organAt naughty izations alone secured $131840000 biography?" basis prises to a Of feed $50702000 of gat oil and McCabe also cites the possibility of Chateaubriand: “He made her as honest woman Sent her back to hei con grease $19871000 of fertilizer and th growth of i IK husband" sumer organizations which would $10893000 of seed i Never as successful In th U S as remain on two countj: one Club Stork In Britain American urba or conbecause ownership would ba vested Confucius: Bewaro ol e Jap on his kneea It only make! sumer are Insignificant In unions and two beIt easier for him to hit you below cause they would distribute earn alongside of the farm organization! historians claim for the It has been figured that there are no tags before computing their levies the belt t'etr VIIYBE FAT! e BARBS The Mexican government has turned its German prisoners free end Invited them to beeom citizens if they wish with a thousand peso staks in a plot of land if they want It by Daukhage Business Week magazine says It rumored that Kaiser is going to turn out prefabricated moving picture theaters at $8000 complete Holly ’ wooden frames? According to YANK the army magazine Jap chow is worse than that served In American outfits where the cooks are recruited from the motor pool C And now they pick cranberries by machine But It atill takea a deft human hand to roact the turkey to go with them Facts on Farm Purchasing and Marketing 194344 Study s principle and technique of action rural and urban dwellers were given extensive study In religious training achools sponsored by Catholic Protestant group throughout United States this summer Between June and September rural life schools and Institutes Catholic priests and teaching sister were scheduled by the Nation Catholic Rural Life conference less than 30000 priests and were to be contacted Very Important Arch Oboler Is one People Dept: of tho studied according to Intimates than before they edd hi keeps referring to himself In tail third porson “Oboler doesn’t want to do It" or “Oboler didn't! Sleep so food last night" or "Obo! is grttlng hungry" etc Mr O wrote and directed a Metro fiiit once and In conference he said-“don’t think Oboler will like tax' at all!" “Really?" was th Icj retoit of departing supervisor TD tei him when he comes Ini kerrlckters Mor Q6'ilOWtd of fW Uiaknt w dy mam" l tfrt sosrrtjNi tcfcfiU&C soheios Stad ted M 50- ! I'r j $10 |