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Show ' PRINTING PUBLISHING VOL. b', NO. 8. David Keith Bldg., Dial SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, March 20, 1942 Published by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR Fate of Free Enterprise Rests With Small Business i Economic Processes Altered as Producers Seek to Beat Enemy Competition; Profit Motive Relegated to Background. i r i fa- ij By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. get these facts before government officials and before members of con-gress before they act; his third is to assist group action wherever it is necessary to assist private effort Mr. Sheperdson cautiously points out that he can not solve the indi-vidual's problems as such but wher-ever a group of interests are con-cerned or wherever the individual represents a group of allied inter-ests, he can and will be of assist-ance. He admits that winning the war is America's first job. A part of small business can help in the war effort and the government can help small business in this field by advising the 35 or 40 per cent oi small manufacturers who are "con-vertible" in changing over their es-tablishments to produce war prod-ucts. Specifically his job is to an-swer an avalanche of inquiries. This he tries to do in simple, straight-forward language. One of his chief tasks is to help the small manufacturer to answer the complicated questionnaires and to fill out the forms required by all who get government contracts. His division has 31 representatives in the field talking to small business men personally. He has 12 consultants in Washington with him. He has also the tremendous resources of the bureau of foreign and domestic com-merce of the department of com-merce. And he has the of a group in congress very much concerned with the plight of the small business man and he has the sympathy of Donald Nelson, head of the War Production board. Central Authority As an example of this sympathetic, by the time this is writ-ten congress will probably have ap-proved of the formation of a hun-dred million dollar corporation of which Donald Nelson; himseif, will be the head, so there will be no split authority in war production. This corporation will have the pow-er to make contracts for military supplies, it will see that these con-tracts are let exclusively to the smaller manufacturers who are ca-pable of converting their plants to war production. As to the 60 to 65 per cent of America's small businesses which cannot be converted, Mr. Sheperd-son is rendering such aid and com-fort as his long experience, his knowledge of the ability and the shortcomings of the small business man and his wide general knowl-edge make possible. "Small business," says Mr. Shep-erdson, "is usually managed by one, sometimes two, and rarely, three men. Big business has management specialists who hire brains. Big busi-ness has research departments. Small business cannot afford these things. Many business men cannot even read blue prints. They do one job and do it well. They may have learned their business from their fa-thers. They have energy and genius or they would not have succeeded. But they need leadership and edu-cation. "Many of them keep no records. As a matter of fact 80 per cent keep none. In most cases the prob-lem they are facing today boils down to management. "The department tries to help in their education. It is now prepar-ing a business guide and there is not a five dollar word in it. It doesn't even mention assets and lia-bilities. It says 'what do you owe?' and 'what do you own?' " That guide may chart the course of many a small business through the stormy waters ahead and keep the flag of free enterprise flying. (Incidentally, if you are interested in obtaining a copy, I shall be glad request on to Mr. Shep-erdson.) to pass your WNC Service, 1343 H Street, N-- Washington, D. C. "The war is placing the United States on a basis of economy." A cabinet member made this statement in a private gathering in Washington at which I was present 2 few days ago. He was urging the need for a study of post-wa- r condit-ions. "If we are going to maintain the principle of free enterprise," he went on, "we must begin to think now about how we are going to change back from a system to the normal democratic system of individual enterprise." What the cabinet officer was get-ting at is this: the major part of the energy of the nation is gradually be-ing turned into war production. War production is a national enterprise. The objective is to obtain the great-est amount of armament and other supplies and necessities demanded for the creation o. a huge military machine, as quickly as possible. This is an entirely different econom- - , 1c process from that upon which free enterprise is based. Free enterprise is the production of goods for civilian consumption on & competitive basis at a profit suffi-cient to encourage the producer to keep on producing. Under war conditions the only competition is with the enemy. Prof-its may be made by the producer but every phase of his business must be government controlled. The gov- - eminent already says that automo-biles or ice boxes or radios or phono-graphs cannot be made for ordinary civilian consumption. The govern-ment tells the manufacturer what he can have in the way of raw mat-erials and tells him what he can do with them. The big corporations for the most part-ar- a already on .a basis working for the government. Prices are cont-rolled. Big business which is convertible to war production has already been fitted into the new design. Big busi- - ness which is not convertible and ' .which makes an essential civilian product is able to adjust itself. Small Business Problems I But small business faces a differ-ent problem. By small business is meant, according to government " definition, a manufacturing plant employing 100 employees or less, j wholesale establishments with less than $200,000 annual net sales vol--J time; retail stores, service estab-- 1 lishments, hotels, places of amuse-- I ment and construction establish- - ments with annual net sales or re-- ceipts of less than $50,000. I About 35 per cent of the small businesses of the country, of which ) tbere are 168,814 establishments, ac-cording to the classification of the United States department of com-merce, are capable of conversion from civilian to war production. This leaves 60 to 65 per cent of these small businesses which employ nearly 25 million men, in an ex-ceedingly precarious position. The vast majority of the people in the United States and the officials in Washington believe that small busi-- ( ness must be preserved if free is to continue. "What's to be done about it? Well , 1 spent an hour in the office of the man selected by the department of commerce to fight the fight for small business. It is a very plain office the only wall decorations are a cal-endar i and a map of the United At the desk sits a man with hair and a fine Scotch h burr. Up until three months ago his 1 business card read "William Shep-- t "dson, Financial Consultant, tele-- i Phone Worth 55 Liberty Street, i iwenty-sevent- h Floor, New York." I iday his card reads "William sheperdson, telephone District 2200. "lv'sion of Regional Economy, Bu-ll reau of Foreign and Domestic Com-- J merce, Department of Commerce. Washington, D. C." " The Alternative. S Mr. Sheperdson takes his job very A seriously. He believes that if small 1 Usuiss is not preserved two steps s(,lftK.foUowone bi6 business will 2 and sma11 business will H ,msh-two-- the h"e to government will 5) take over. : Hj a' is what he wants to avoid. "rst Unction is to get the facts n ncning the problems of small iness together; his second is to Washington Cancels Cherry Blossom Festival There will be no cherry blossom festival in Washington this year. For years people from all over the nation have been coming to Washington to see the cherry bios-som- s along what we now call the Tidal Basin and what used to be known as the La- - more poetically gT"have lived in Washington-- on 1914. But I never lose and off-s- ince the thriU I had when I first walked arbor of white-pin- k under that magic blossoms. charm in their There is a delicate petals. It is more than the scentless captivation of the eye. It steals mere about side you. casts a gentle spell yu The world fades away, time StThe cherry blossoms wil! bloom always have Thou-sands this year as they and their beauty 11 enjoy the symbol of forget that they are something we must hate. In reality, the cherry blossom is never have heard of a "new order, and who hated no one. J IIEFS ...By Baukhage ' ZZT' Great BHtain mf'T" uare bei"8 asked to fIant bean, ?m haU aSin as many soy- - .000 onn year as toey did last- - or beanTJ0"8- - Last year aU soy" ken. Production records were bro- - tionh Unlted States offlce of educa" PublW chanSed toe name of its ion $ Sch001 Life. to Educa-- j . 10t Victory. Enemies WittMn ef Gates EDITORIALS By O. If. LUND Verily the Time Has Come Which Macaulay Predicted When Powers From Within Would De stroy Our Civilization There are, for the United States of America, two big, battle fronts. One is the wide world, where the enemy is known and in open action. Another is the battle front here at home where lurks a foe made up of some citizen who are well organized and well entrenched behind "an at-torney general who seems to favor them We have their written and printed word?, taken from the cleaDest and best paper in the country, the Christian Science Monitor, which has made a thorough investigation. It is a pro-Faci- st organization, directed by the Axis and using the axis tactics They believe they are doing a patriotic thing but they are being used as instruments of destruct ion The American pro Facist movement is headed by Father Coughlin, Wm. Dudley Pelley, certain Bundists and snrne stragglers from the American First organization. They are more dangerous than the enemy abroad. Here is what they stand for: Defeat. The loss of the war. Acceptance of such terms as Germany and Japan will give. To under-mine morale. To throw put the officers of the govern-ment, by force, by mob action, by bloody revolt. (We have their own word) To break down the war effort. They say that defeat by Japan and Germany should be welcomed and that Iheir worst would be better than what America now has. America, they say, their own United States, is more anti-Chris- t than the barbarians of Japan They have prepared plans for great pogroms against the Jews and against all who do not believe as they do They ,. laugh xif j.ReaAl HfirboranihPpefor jjiore ..such ,ter.rible t ings. Their papers reach millions.- - Don't discount this because it comes from a Bmall paper. We have their own words in print. The die is cast. They are determined and will stop at nothing, having more than once advocated the quick removal of the president. Let us tell all who will listen that their effort will bring about the fall of this nat-tio- n. They have started that which will destroy them and "Must I shoot a simple-minde- d soldier boy who des erts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily ag-itat-who induces him to desert?" A. Lincoln. Editorials l CONTINUED) "Truth, beauty and goodness are the meters of the world's own lives and into our dealings with our fellow men is the progress." The degree to which we incorporate them into our true measure of our under the Law. "In deal-ing with fellow man," advises Dr. Emmet Fox, "put Cod on both sides of the table, and the outcome will be true success for both parties." "The most meritorious of all, is to anticipate char- - ' ity by preventing poverty; namely, to assist the re-duced fellow man either by a considerate gift or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by put-ting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livlihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity." a CO-OPERATI- ON Q An American International Cooperation Committee to help reconstruct cooperatives in war-tor- n countries after war has been organized. While all the rest of the world was going down hill the people of Eastern Nova Scotia were developing and thriving because of cooperation. Farmers, miners and fishe meD or-ganized 500 cooperatives and have prospered greatly because of this. Coop credit unions, factories, markets, stores, hospi-tals and housing projects. The world's finest and most ideal cooperaeive country Denmark, has had its system trampled in the dust Brief Personal Items Read every line of the Ed-itorials and do som thinking Mrs. R G. Page, an estima-ble waman, happened to see our sign the other day and rushed in with the year's offering from Mr. Page who has been on our list since just before the year 1. He is a mighty good man and has a good position at the arms plant. John George Ruckert, grand-son of Mrs. Ada Collins, has gone to join the navy, just 16. Robert Glissmeyer, son of Wm Glissmeyer, the merchant lailar, is in the military service in Washington and has been made a lieutenant. Two other home town boys have made good at the training school at Quaniico, Va., and they are now with the marines. They are, Bruce F Hillam, son of Mr and Mrs. LeRoy F. Hil-lam of 257 Kensington Ave., and Laurence racroft. son of Ralph Racroft, treasurer, of 1068 Norris Place. They are University men and both are 2nd Lieutenants Mrs. L M Million has sent in her remittance for the year vhich proves that she likes to read the paper. She is a fine soul and takes pleasure in ex-posing herself in verse,some of which appears in this issue Fri en d &y Iv cs t e Ea rl wri teS; Let us not allow this war to get under our hides. It is all for a purpose. It is the inevi-table sequence of man's ingen-ious selfishness, for the mend-ing of broken laws Peace wi'I be rsstored the moment man's obligation to God is settled. Manifestly Satan has been bound to judge by the hordes of devils that are turned loose. What a tragedy it was that a comparatively young man should die because of liquor, his last hours being divid-ed between he jail and the hos-pit- al ' There whs nobility in him because his father was as near to Go Mincss as is possible for ii human. Liquor, like death loves a mark. Let jud-nv'n- t be mild and let us lay a mantle of mercy upon him and rrnv that over 'hfre his noble sire will be able to take him by the hand and see him through Rome pay when d e Some people pay when over-rule. Some never do, Brothir how do yon do. Faith Council Tiic Failli Cornell meets rww- a at 3 P M. in I lie court room of the City & Co Bh g Mii'iinda Madscii will Iced lire Kaith Horn and at, 4 P. M. S. M.Moiii-i- i en w.ll piuniiil ii in- Minn by Rev.J L. Wilkmsi n Open Forum Speaivris on topi's of current n'erest will address a public meeting of the Ope" Forum in the City and County Building, Rm. 206, Saturday evening, March, 4, at 730 GOOD BOOK FOR SALE AT COST. Andrew Jenson's Autoiography at $1.50. Form-erly $3.50. Very interesting. Call on or send to Mrs. And-rew Jensou at 154 No. 2nd W. Mystery of the nameless lady and the unknown giant. Another recollection of famous crimes that baffled us in past and challenged our best detect-ive genuis written by Joseph Gollomb. Also how to find your way in a Blackout. A strikingly illustrated feature in The American Weekly, the maeazine distributed with next week's LOS ANGELES EX-AMINER. DEFENSE FACTS 1- - Recent changes in the teeth and eye requirements for in-duction into the armywill substantially increase the manpow-er of the state. It is therefore ordcrrd by Director Rich that all local boards reopen and consider anew all those classified in class I B or class IV-- F. READERS opraioivs (The opinions expressed in this column are those of the writers, and are -- ' necessarily concurred in by the editor and management of this paper.) Fditor Progressive Opinion. Never do I know of events when we had more disunity than now: Unions fighting Unions, Political cliques craft-til- y scheming everv daylight hour for dominance, church against church, "Lo, here is God,lo, there is God; man in Idaho advertising that lie can train you to talk with God for money. Oh, you liars and hypocrites, will you be able to bear the punishments you suiely will receive? Money money, money. Would the preachers come down front their money pedistals and go out and meet and receive Jesus should he come today? Or would they be the ones to incite the mob against him? R. M. Brandon, Bonita PROGRESSIVE OPINION A recent convention of a national manufacturing association approved a ninety per cent profit income tax above a minimUn exemption desired by assoc;ation members A profit income tax should include a tax on the appreciation in credit within monetary and financial organiza-tions incident to the increase in the national debt. The total in circulating and deposit credit in the U S. is approximately equal to the present annua' production in consumer production values or sixty six billion dollars. The naiional debt is in process of expansion by a sum equally as large and will be effected by a private monetization of government bonds and repayment pledges. Purchase of government securities by citizens from current income and a tax on the private creation of public funds can aid in public finance and largely avoid inflatsonary trends. G.C C i Take a Lesson From Him "America must win this war. Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure; I will fight cheer-fully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole strug-gle depended on me alone." From Just a U. S Soldier, True to Freedom's tmst, Who died at Chateau Theiry In Battle wild and fijry; Made our flag much dearer, Put us heartthrobs nearer To the end of wars. liuth About Some Prophesy-I- n as much as this paper has said so much about proph-esy we deem it, wise to sa' a farther word to those who doubt the fulfillment of prophesy. In doing so we shall quote the bible and what it says about Adolf Hitler and leave it to the judgment of readers whether or not he has fulfilled the prophesies quoted. 1 urn to Daniel-1- :21 and read to the end of the chapter. Verse 21 tells that there shall stand up a vile person to whom they shall not give the honors of the kingdom but come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by f at-- t erics Verse 22 tells how "With the arm of a flood that . shall overflow before him, rising to power and overrunning his enemies before they are aware of danger. Verse 24 tella of the conquest of so many of the countries of Europe making them prey and taking spoil. Verse 25 tells of the trouble with the countries to the South, France, Holland and Belgium. Verse 26 tells of the cause of the fall of these countries. Verse 27 tells of his alliance with Mussolini. Verse 28 tells of his opposition to the church. Verse 29 tells of his war with Greece and Africa. Verse 40 speak-- s of Russia coming against him like a whirlwind. Verse 45 says, "Yet lie shall come to his end and none shall help him." Tin chapter also tells how he is a man destined to shake the earth. Isaiah. sas in chapter 14 how he will lay the entire world in ruins and destroy the cities thereof. All these were made more than 2000 years be-fore Hitler was born. LIFE AND DEATH By L. M. Million I go in the graveyard and all is so still-- As still as the tombstones that stand on the hill. There is beauty around here, but what I have found Are the still faces that lie under ground. I read on their features the sorrow and care And some more than others, the cross they did bear. Then I wonder what hurt them and why they did die And leave this old world that is fill-ed up with sighs. There is one over there, so old and and so gray I wonder what life held for her anyway. And there is one right here, so young and so small It seems like life for him held nothing at all. I wonder where life comes from and where does it go ? It has always been something that I want to know. Where has the life gone to ? That held all these names it seems such a mystery And something that's strange! I stand here and ponder, and think of it all It seems like a dream that I cannot recall. |