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Show 7'V CKy r I 4 i 51 "This is the place! N. VOL- - 3 r 3. (OH No.3'12) i 7 Keith Bldf Phone Was 4648 ! fatwtd !.Ht u Second RELIABLE REVIEW OF WORLD EVENTS my NEWS ANALYSIS By in tha English channeL Both and English denied responsi-falllt- y while Lithuanian, Italian and Swedish merchant vessels wen also being sent to the bottom. In neutral ports, word of such disasters spread quickly; observers wondered if the protest might not take form In new peace pleas. On land, Adolf Hitler had little chance tor western front activity. He was too busy in Czechoslovakia, where student-inspire- d uprisings against Nazi rule were smashed via liquidation of 13 ringleaders before a firing squad. Ger-ma- ns Trail md neutrality mads way in between member for politics. For md January 8, when reccnvea-- t congress grasps public attention, rfUcians have their only chance to aeU The Cause of the Republican side at least on pH On trail, dree stumpers were hitting In yie national headquarters session fidiington planned a skull I-- i strat-(- (. map campaign ihe Democratic party, mean-nblicontented itself waiting for no. jbnklin Roosevelt to say yea or Trouble Ahead gew Yorki District Attorney Tom The most Incorrigible Finnish opDewey was not so busy prosecuting Bundsman Frits timist could not deny that the future looked tough for the home team. With negotiators back from their fruitless talks in Moscow, all Finland quavered as the vitriolic Bus-Ia- n press loosed blast after blast against its Scandinavian neighbor. December 7 to e, ident, respectively, of the General Electric company, announced their retirement January 1 to make way for younger blood. enlto Mussolini warned that Italy wants the "final word" when peacetime returns to Europe. Wang Chlng-wei- , whom Japan hoped to establiah as puppet ruler of China, has balked ao much that establishment of the government has been postponed. Dr. James Monroe Smith, of Louisiana State university who was convicted of fleecing state and college, ab tempted to kill himself in prison with a razor blade. AN AMERICA: rood and Bad st national Issues! dent. least two other 1940 Thurman Arnold listened to hopefuls, was preparing to talk. complaints a few days and Tint on the agenda la a speech at then startled labor with a ruling: where Organized labor is not Immune from B, Mianeapolii December observers an to hear Jtrty hoped prosecution, and the Justice departmover, other stumpers: ment will prosecute unions attempt(1) Ohio's Sen. Robert Taft, who ing to prevent private industry from -- finks low on Gallup polls, opened using improved production methods hk campaign at Cleveland g by designed to faring cheaper and betGallup polls for leading to ter goods to the buying public. n perllcial facts and piling up sentiment' On his schedule TAXATION: kbre Christmas are at least eight es Something About the Destructive Gold Standard Argument strategy Mcr an streamlined If early signs lndlcatioa Seriously con ddered la a blitzkrieg to November, Instead of a long paifn. Meanwhile Marion national chairman, told Mar-miita- nt Long simmering has been the blow-ubetween spenders and savers which is bound to come when congress meets next January. Reason: In the next fiscal year the 0 national debt will pais the legal limit; congress will have its choice of boosting that limit on spendor making an about-fac- e ing. First signs of an squabble came after Marriner Eccles, federal reserve chairman and pending advocate, told SL Louis bankers that congress should raise p $45,000.-000,00- womens organization which will seU the by punching doorbells but 2crteri M0O strong, rrot h social contacts. One Job: the notion that all Repub-wome-n are rich and wear or-- "wtch Jralin "D Roosevelt kept himself playing with the press. Laying fjjtnerstone for the Jefferson me-win he said he ' Washington, hi be present when Vrs' dedicated In 1941. This, he ?Mnted later, was Injected Inten-t- o trip up the commenta-Jt- 1 A few days later, dedicating W ? memorial library poed more fun: (the press) will ... I give due lnter- "V statement that we wu fine day when we W the building. At Baltimore, Montana's Sea Bur. Whcdcr (who may be John peech hit lnnLnd'da,e) md MlUatory with Frank-5v- lt At Dallas the Texas al iMocIation, booming John tok a crack at John Lewis' hero fadUing a eated to sin and JWet MARRINER ECCLES No friend of the frwnuy. taxes next year. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgen thau was ing at the time, so the dirty work of repudiating Eccles statement fell to Undersecretary John W. Hanes. Said he: I don't think he (Eccles) spoke for the administra-tio- a .1 doubt seriously if he sprite old I am certain he didnt for congress. WSI to-buy Rehlng that k! himself toasted the for treasury. speak with mfc- Observers thought John Hanes EUROPE; boss would secretly applaud the remark. for Henry Morgen thau alProtest or Plea? though loyal to the Preiident hai Jcd lt. fakdy kq ta ciu-f.- fa hurU at p,lnful ,nd the most fa emtw 'Allans Is whose disdained bomb. v been easy Wne- - ,mlor nation-dextroyi- Growing Industry PER YEAR SEE IT At Bayonne, N. J-- , government inruvestigators scoffed at sabotage mors when a U. S. owned but tanker exploded to inistered four persons. jure Panama-reg- Quits Baltimore, Brother John IponeAt intimated that Scarface Al. Just Ca- released from prison, is humbled and ready to ciy quits. Said John: "He's In a cheerful mood and doesn t hold a grudge against anybody. Rubens Finale At Miami, the daughter, mother father of Ruth Marie Rubens, in a figured two years ago case, Soviet passport fraudulent Bute any FORSAKEN RUBENS gmh will nay in V. S.S.R. learned their notorious rrietivehad Prleder-ichovn- a become "Cltizeness Ruth of Boerger be heard of and probably never will U. $ tha in again Appeal General g. At South Bend, Ind., to appeal corporation moved which GM and the conviction under found guilty of three affiliates were (by the violating dcnlcrs into using ihe GMAC financing plan). kn Co-Operati- on One Government Agency Presses Litigation Against1 Industry, While Others Urge It to Get Ready for Wartime Production; LoUypops Being Investigated. By WILLIAM BRUCKART Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WNU Service, National WASHINGTON. There were two news stories emanating from icial sources hers recently that seemed to emphasize an umiaual contradictory situation that obtains in present national government policies. One of the stories had to do with a projected expansion of our military services. Representative Vinson of Georgia is prepared to ask congress at its next session to spend an additional $1,300,000,000 on our navy. Other house leaders are submitting an army expansion prog gram that will cost a $1,670,000,000. -- st America. Ths department lawyers were obviously in high glee because New York judge had admitted some 3$ documents into evidence in the proceeding. Mention was not made that the judge had rejected something like 140 other documents, or exhibits as they were called, but much glory was claimed for the government's side.-I- t is not for me to say whether the gigantic Aluminum company has violated a taw; that is ths function of the court The thing that X object to Is ths apparent role of the government lawyers in this and numerous other proceedings. Their attitude is almost the same as though they were engaged in private litigation instead of serving and seeking justice in behalf of all of ths people. It is an attitude that la dangerously near to persecution, rather than prosecution, and it is wrong. regarding the Aluminum trial recalled that there whole flock of other suits were being pressed against nearly every kind of business in the nation. The department of justice seems to bo trying to get some kind of a record In its efforts to harass business, and this Is not surprising when one considers that Thurmand Arnold, the former professor, is guiding this policy and that Attorney General Frank Murphy is more of a crusader than even the late Theodore The announcement capacity each. Utah coal coked per day equal 1,025 tons producing 600 tons of metallurgical coke. 18,000,000 cubic feet ot gas, 18,000 gallons of tar, together with a quantity ot amonlura sulphate and motor fueL The tar is used to produce flotation oils and creosote. Amonlum sulphate is consumed largely in Pacific Coast states. The company's blast furnace averages approximately 500 tons of pig iron per day and consumes 900 tons of iron ore dally. These materials are manufactured from products of coal and the latter ldant Iron mines owned and operated by Columbia contributes $1,000,000 Columbia Steel company in Carbon ApproxiUtah to poyrolls. annually and Iron counties In Utah. a mately 1.000.000 tons ot freight are These industries company ths moved annually by marked contrast to the small plant which brings to the railroads some which was built near Cedar City In 1849-5and indicate what can $2,000,000 in freight revenues. when resources are The company's plant near Provo can develop now operates 5$ coke ovens with a available. Established In Utah In the early twenties, the Columbia Steel company, western subsidiary ot the United States Steel, has expanded its operations many times. Growtn ot this Industry, shown in a new picture above, la indicative ot tbe expansion ot Industry that can take pace in a state where resources are a great as they are in Utah. In addition to its own expansion, the Pacific Coast Cast Iron Pipe company has built a plant for the manufacture of pipe to the Columbia plant at I ronton, using largely products ot ton-co- present HELP WANTED Light agreeable employment for men and women over 50. Job qualifies you for Federal Securof $30 to ely Benefits and insures you annuity $60 pr month on attaining age 65 or over with 3 to 6 years coverage. Apply at room 400 Utah Savings Co. Bldg. Friday or Saturday after 2 and Trust P. M. or at Room T 0 1 , City&Co. Bldg. Tues.Nov, 28,7 p.m. Utahpia Association Roosevelt. Thus, upon examination I found that there were some 85 or more proceedings being pushed by the government, actions that may be in that called "major litigation they involve some of the main unite of American industry. I have no intention of offering a defense for any of them because I do not know the facta. It is, however, significant that these actions are going forward from me governmental agency while other group are calling upon American business to make itself ready for wartime production in event of need. It will be recalled how Preiident Roosevelt told press conference not co long ago that there were "raids being conducted on our war resources by some foreign powers. That is, materiel usable in war was being bought here, end there was little control of these purchases by our military services. Whether this condition brought about ths creation of control board within ths army and navy, I do not fact that know. It is nevertheless the control board soon was created and purchasing missions from England and Franco have to consult with that board. ; e . i 'I nt dons-whil- ed tion of anti-tru- st laws In automobile installment financing upon whet surely is s strange basis. When ths suit was started It was limply n charge of unfair competition in the matter of financing. The thing has simmered down now, however, and tha issue actually is whether it is violation of law for using methods of financing installment buyers in manner that results In less cost to 'I i 1 ii the buyer. Hold Its Wrong to Provido For Cheap Auto Financing . . That is to say, the present issue is whether it is a violation at law to. set means of cheap financing. From all of the facta I have been able to gather, our government, through its department ot justice, actually is asserting in court that it is wrong for the automotive companies to maintain financing corporations which will result in a saving to ths purchasers of motor cars. If that is cock-eyenot silly, then I have I I I d mentality- One ought not pan over the temporary national economic committee which has been sitting, off and on, for mors than year. The committee is supposed to be leading the way to new national economic policy, a new method of doing business in the United States. It mey, but I doubt it. Thus far, about the most tangible results certainly, the most important effect of the investigation and hearings Is the opportunity that has been accorded government theorists to expound their ideas. For them, it has been a great opportunity. Dozens of them have been able for the first time in their lives to see their opinions set down in printed form in the committee record of the hearings. Of course, in referring to the T. N. E. (me surely ought to call attention to the great number of witnesses from commerce and industry and the gouging end sniping of them that has been going on by group of thinkers who serve as lawyers for the committee. One ought to mention also to the testimony presented in a mim- her of instances by witnesses whose chief gripe seemed to be that they or their businesses were not making money. Lastly, reference should be made to ths effort that has been made throughout the hearings to die-credit every line of business that has i r ! i I half-bak- i j i i grown Mg. 4 Lollypop Induetry Actually Is Under fnveutigation I have no way of knowing what the government is spending in ell of these trials and investigations. Nor is it possible to know what the cost to business has been. Ths T. N. E. C. has had half a million dollars and it will get come more. The department of Justice has been hiring lawyers by the bagfulL The fedLong Range Planning for eral trade commission likewise has been jumping onto business pracWar Reserves Proceeding Mention should ba made, in this tices from great industries like steel connection, of the frequent state-me- n and cement on through the list to ts from official source! of the the manufacturers of lollypop. (Don't laugh at that last one. The planning for war reserves that hns been going on. This lollypop industry actually is under program has been In process of de- investigation, for some official believes that there is a large monopoly velopment since 1921, but it obviously has taken on new impetus since of lollypoppies.) few others among But to nemo fire broke out in Europe. Business has been advised repeatedly and the nation's industries that eager In various ways that it must considgovernment prosecutors are using to er itself at the beck and call of its make reputations for themselves as government In event of war. And lawyers, we find these: milk, oil, that is thoroughly sound. But how, I steel, building material In all phases, wonder, can these two things go hand sulphur, rubber, glass, motion picand hand; how can business be en- tures, telegraph, telephone, utilities couraged to make itself ready in case of ell kinds, food distributor!, toof national emergency and go about bacco, insurance, typewriters and Tbe effort to that Job wholeheartedly while the trade associations. how that medical doctors era same government, supposed to be opthe antierating as a unit, is attacking and tradesmen, and subjectbeto included. seeking to destroy the very machin- - trust laws also should long-rang- i ery which the national defense reI quires even demands? t.l X used the Aluminum company. i ; an illustration, and It bap-- , only pens to be a good one. There are something like 50 army officers, eon- -( cemed with inspection, consultation, guidance, in the various plants of the Aluminum company. There i ; re dozens more, yes, several hun- i. dreds of army officers and naval t' i officers doing like work In scores aC other greet manufacturing plants. You can see them crawling all over skeletons of ships in shipyards. They have to make inspections to make sure the specifications sre met They n re to bo found in experimental laboratories, using private funds and private facilities for testa looking to Improvement of the various things used in war. All of which is fine;, it is s business ought to give, but acsin, there Is posed' that question of how can govern-meget all of these things group of theorists, paid by ' tiis same taxpayers, devote their time to prosecution of the most flimsy interpretation of lew violations? When X was digging around on the' list of pending government proeeeu-- , tlona I found the big three, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors, in the automobile field, were being prosecuted for alleged violai Now, no one can deny the importance of national defense. They may differ as to how much of a structure is required, but not as to ths principle. It always Is well to remember that few nations, or individuals, pick a fight when they know they re due to meet real trouble which Is to say that strong army and navy sre essential to peace. These two announcements concerning military plans were mads known on different days. It so happened that on the day that the army program was given to ths newspapers, the department of justice was distributing a statement telling of what It believed to be a great victory In court over a corpora tioa That action story concerned the anti-trugainst the Aluminum Company of By Whole Flock of Suite Mo-to-n anil-tru- erring Harass Business With Suits While Seeking Its Bunneu Being Harateed Latin-Americ- life blood courses h0 ! under her do ado control would not benefit from tariff reductions on crude petroleum and miscellaneous agricultural products. This brought (1) Observers two repercussions: wondered whether such recognition of Germanys control over Czechoslovakia and Poland might not be a blunder; (D the 50 per cent tariff cut on crude oil imports meant, among other things, that Mexico fwiiJ sell us at a reduced rate the oil she expropriated from U. S. companies. Loudest objector to the trade expansion was Fred Brenckman, legislative representative of the National Grange, who told that group's convention in Peoria, III., that he didn't like the a proposed Argentine trade treaty, necessitate would larger which pact naagricultural imports from that tion to offset larger exports from the U. S. Said he: It looks as if we were going to buy Argentine friendAmerican ship at the cost of the And the fought deficit spending. treasury, far from stumbling Mindly is sifting thousands of suggestions solicited during the past summer before offering congress recommendations on a 1940 tax ' program. That congress may also be contrary was hinted whenthaColorados press he Sea Alva Adams told favored establishment of a congresBritato and sional agency to police the apCwmsnY bi fc. Price propriation demands of executive etln hlRher every departments, not by way of block BritniH hed for the Nad Ing requests for funds but to give hLf d Ad" the taxpayer a chance to argue his r fadile forct aide id the story. !h?1. m,d raM learned the nvd base at Meanwhile It was ilblm,K. cusbudget bureau may not issue Its Nazl hlpa trans tomary revised estimate of receipts kfred R11,n Bn CsmTrf and expenditures this year. Like Si'try. urry ing was the the congressional tax committee, disaster. The which is holding Its recommendadikewi. tions in abeyance, the budget bureau 10,1 when the Dutch la law Sim stymied by abnormal conditions B,w struck a mine abroad. g, HARRY HOPKINS -- P . Happy, but otkert weren't. MISCELLANY: No Sabotage hope 1 soul-killin- farmer. at Hyde Park. of the worlds poverty, most of its woe and most of its misery has come to the human race through and by means of the Gold standard of finance. It has, since its inception, been like unto a great dragon riding rough shod over the bodies and souls of men and has strewn the shores of time with more human wrecks than any other one thing. It originated in Babylon long ago, and in its story is written all the tragedy and shame of Babylon itself. When a group of nations attended an economic conference in London in 1913, and there and then brought about the death of the gold standard, it happened to be exactly 2520 yfars, (the seven times) since King Nebuchadneziar of Babylon called a similar conference and gave birth to the gold standard. It was one of the first steps taken after the Almighty had, so to speak, let go of the nations and set them adrift for themselves. It has proven that man cannot be depended upon to go it alone Since 933 the nations have been busy buying and burying their gold and thus preparing the way for the destruction of that Babylonic system. Its time is up. It will never be revived, like the ancient city it will remain buried, or used for beautifying and artistic purposes. And like wicked Babylon, it was destroyed as a money because of all its uncleanness, wick. . edness and iofamy...... . Those who are frightening the people with weird tales of Communism, say never a word about the worse evij called Fascism, and are dumb bechurch-killin- g fore the and conditions in all the of the nation. shame revealed Its the the cities as current magazines. by arge Owen Woodruff nod others have revived the N. D. A. and opened an exchange on Richards 8t. Like unto United Order. band-tngo- Hampshires H. Styles AS CONSERVATIVES record-breakin- It is probably true that most . criti-cUn- who has dropped the H." for campaign purposes, was found h Los Angeles. IS Michigans Sea Arthur Vsn-Rmbe-rg was silent; so war Penn-dvania- 's Gov. Arthur James, latest sew candidate. & 0. P. 1910 will proba-nrh- e $1.50 N. LUND, TURKEY GROWERS WORRIED Of the 32,000,000, turkeys produced in the U. S. this year, Utah has produced 1,000,000, or 30 per cent more than last year. And now there is danger that the prices will be beaten down, against which the growers are organising and should receive much encouragement. in-d- hi stand on Diwey, like at byC. N.Lund off- e W New C ser-mo- Gcnp.n-Americ- Mges, WORTH READINS dollars without knowing he has made so many paupers out of his fellow man. We read and hear so many lectures and about the Ox Cart days. If the sacrifices made were for the purposo in later years to bring their fellow man to poverty and misery they have transgressed the laws of a just God. R. M. Brandon In a happy mood did Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins announce foreign trade figures for the autumn months. Exports to the United Kingdom (except cotton) were down appreciably; ao were exports to Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Poland. But a ray of warm sunshine came from the south: Exports Moscow was obviously building up to Latin America in October were war talk as a prelude to what ob- 28 cent higher than in Septemper servers think Is an almost certain ber, $47,000,000 against $36,700,000. invasion. But all was not peaches and cream. Complaints against the govLABOR: ernments reciprocal trade program began blossoming in farm and Liability trial circles, and were even felt Compared with A. F. of L., the by diplomats. hands of C. L 0. are comparatively Announcing the new trade pact clean In the Justice departments with Venezuela would taka effect campaign to remove alleged trade December 16, the President printed restraints In the building industry. out that Germany and all countries Though both organizations have maintained Trust Buster Thurman Arnold has no right to indict trade unions under the anti-trulaws, it Is chiefly A. F. of L. building groups TOM DEWET which are suffering in the present Aiuwtr it MinnetpolU? drive. Already indicted, for examSilm that he faQed to hear the questple, is William Hutchenson of Inion most food Republicans have dianapolis, head of the carpenters bom asking about him: Where does union and an A. F. of L. vice presi- fetes. Published Weekly in Just so long as the money mongrels can devalue farmlands, restrict credit, raise price to benefit their selfish desires for greed, we will have misery and want. Millions of honest sincere men and woman hunting employment today, are being ridiculed, branded as laiy by a privileged few that have made them what they are. With the miserable circulation of the dollar today no man can boast a million or a hundred thousand Owen D. Tesag and Gerard Swope, board chairman and pres- iHHTOaS NOTE When epililaaa are expressed la thc?e columns, they news anslyrt sad not necessarily of this newspaper.) (bow W the . Rtlraacd by Wtatern If awipapcr Union. , Stump 1, GOOD WORD FROM NEIGHBOR BRANDON, Early Before Congress Meets Again , m 24 1939 redar fee Act of March BrackarF t Washington Digest To Capture Publicity Spotlight 'POLITICS: EDITORIALS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Political Activity Starts Utah, ' ii1 ii. i i i |