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Show I a n 1 0 0 QO ceilings on xne nuui The Office of Price Administration, appears to have won. the long battle . over price ceilings on live beef ani- - mais, wnicn nave uecii w-posed w-posed by cattle raisers, major pack-and pack-and the War Food Administra- tion. The Uttice oi economic oiaoiu-zation oiaoiu-zation is expected shortly to an-Vnounce an-Vnounce the ruling that will give OPA control xver prices from hoof to han -burger, and which ought to result in tmore beef getting to market and onto ur dinner tables. OPA makes no rash claims for the new ruling. It predicts only that the ceiling will relieve price pressures ' which, in the past year, have strained the existing beef program dangerously danger-ously near the breaking point. Last year's "stake" by cattlemen (hushed up by OPA) kept beef off the market in the hope that public indignation, plus ' pressure from the Agriculture Department, would blow the lid off .the whole- price setup as regards rbeef. The impending extension of control should prevent a recurrence. : Opposition to this control has maintained main-tained that a fair overall ceiling can-f can-f not be put on live animals, since beef "vis priced by grade and it is impos-: impos-: sible to judge, grade on the beef. That is true, and price control will not af- feet the truth one way or the other. :The point is that the traditional speculative specu-lative method of buying live beef j'now carries a real and contnuing threat of inflation. . So far, the large packing houses ' have been able to make a go of it, ueven under OPA regulations Their activities are so diversified that they can sell beef at a scanfprofit, or at times even a loss, and make up the -difference on byproducts. It is the small packer, who slaughters or processes pro-cesses but doesn't do both, who has caught it in the neck. Some such firms have had, to quit. Others have been forced into black marketing to sur- ;vive-' 1 ' It i3 to protect these small busi-' busi-' ' nesses as well as the consumer that ' OPA has fought for. beef ceilings to ; cover the whole industry. Present price Controls have worked as a rath-:. rath-:. er ineffective brake, since a limit on the packer's selling price also limited ' what he could pay. But present con-' con-' trols could not limit last year's sit-down sit-down on the range. Now, with a legal limit oh what he can get, the stock- man cannot hope to gain much by ; repeating that technique. , : The impending ceiling will be the I signal for a chorus of loud howls. : But granting that some of them will be justified, the new regulation is still a needed step toward breaking the black market and the beefsteak : hnttlfineck. ) Tempest in a Samovar The commentators have been in a diplo'matic tizzy since it was learned : that Mr. Stalin, hurrying home to : Moscow to greet his guests, called on Mr. Eden before he, did on Mr. Hull. Some circles hadn't been so upset up-set since the feud betweeKMrs. Gann and Mrs. Longworth over dinner- ' table protocol ruffled the placid surface sur-face of the Hoover administration. Is the understanding among the three statesmen now conferring in -Moscow in such delicate balance that ra fancied jsnub could send it toppling? : If it is, this is a time to do some seri-! seri-! ous worrying, If it isn't, let us stop : pouting; remove the chip from tur shoulder, give Mr. Hull credit for the : common sense that he possesses, and' : allow the gentlemen to proceed with the important business at hand with-: with-: out any more distracting attacks of ; vapors from the onlookers. Growing Boys The clothing and haberdashery men may be in for. an .unexpected post-war boom. The Army has discovered dis-covered that, while the "composite" recruit is five feet eight, weighs 144, has a 33-inch chest and wears a 9D shoe, he tends to grow after a few months in the service. Weight goes up, the chest fills out and, thanks to those long hikes, he wears a half-size half-size bigger shoe. Looks like new outfits all around. PROVO, UTAH Bumper Potato Crop Assures BY GAVNOR MADDOX NEA Food and Markets Editor NEW YORK, Nov. 1 Have you a sack of potatoes In your' home? That's the new patriotic inquiry on the home front today. The ans wer bean directly on our war effort. With the fall crop alone esti mated at 360 million bushels 73 million more than than last year's crop it looks like a full dinner pail for America at war. Bui waste and spoilage and lack of storage space may steal a great deal of food. There have been other bumper crops of foods essential for war. They have been stored for winter and there isn't much storage space left for our surpise package of potatoes-So it's up to the American Ameri-can public to get on the job. Extra storage facilities have been rushed. Dehydrators and canners have been urged to work at full capacity on round-the-clock "schedules. Hotel, restaurants, restau-rants, schools, institutions and government agencies are working at saving the crop. Would Waste Space-Potatoes Space-Potatoes .are too bulky to ship overseas when dehydrated foods and grain take far less space. That's why nutrition strategists have assigned potato supplies to the home front. There are over thirty million families in the United States. If every family immediately buys two bushels of potatoes one for present use and one for winter storage the danger of loss will be eased. If every citizen eats more potatoes, whether at home or in restaurants, every day, that will help, too. The average family of five normally nor-mally eats a little less than a bushel a month. But there are enough potatoes from this year's total production to provide nearly near-ly an extra month's supply for every family. That means more potatoes from now on in all family fam-ily menus. In every community there are some forgotten or little-thougnt-of places where potatoes can be stored. It's up to the local defense committees and merchant groups to work together in minding these places and putting them to work for victory. Fresh Irish potatoes are not difficult to store. They need a cool dark place with temperature not lower than 40 degrees and not higher than 60 degrees. Many varieties will keep well from tnree to five months if stored at 40 degrees. If kept at 60 degrees, they will keep only for a month or six weeks. Keek "Em In Dark For home storage, cellars, clos ets, back porches or even a bar rel or pit in the back year win do Keep them away from light light will turn tnem greenisn and make them taste bitter. Don't allow al-low them to freeze as that will spoil them. Many chain and independent stores are now featuring sacks ot potatoes on the "Victory Food Selection." They weight 50 or 100 pounds. Even apartment dwellers can store these and help the fight A hall closet can be cleared out for the duration and turned, into an emergency potato bin. Potatoes will keep in such a place from a month to six weeks if there is not heat in the closet. Nutritionists place potatoes high on the list of essential foods. But they have been unjustly accused of being unusually fattening. 'Taint necessarily so. Let's com pare. A medium potato contains about 100 calories. A pat of butter (remember nutter 7 ) contains about the same, so would two small slices of bacon. A pound of potatoes hides about 385 calories but a pound of loaf or white bread contains 1185 calories. He Wim't Be Satisfied Until the Lock Is Broken Forum 'N Agin 'em Letters to the Editor Liability Can Also Be Valuable Asset Postmaster Urges Early Gift Mailing SPANISH FORK Postmaster R. W. Creer of Spanish Fork is asking the assistance of all who are mailing packages to service men to get their parcels in the mail early. - Because 'of the un avoidable handicaps of the war there will be much delay in the delivering of gifts, cards ana let ters. The postal branch of the gov ernment has lost many of its em ployees to military service, and other employees are doing an unusually un-usually heavy part of the postal work. All Christmas mail must be In the office during November if it Is to have a fair chance of reaching service men for Christ mas. Idaho Civilian Population Drops WASHINGTON. Nov. 1 (TIE) Idaho's civilian population declin ed 57,242 persons between April 1, 1940 and March l, 1943, the Bureau Bur-eau of Census reported today. The drop from 524.809 to 467,-567 467,-567 probably was brought about by movement of families to war maustry centers. The new estimate or population was based on registration for war ration book No. 2. Leaving the Navy feels like jumping overboard and not know ing how deep the water is. vice Admi. Aaoipnus Andrews oa retirement. , Editor, Daily Herald: By listening to the radio and reading newspapers, especially the editorials, I have come to the conclusion con-clusion that there are quite a number num-ber of citizens who seem to be perplexed or mystified, as was Senator Ellender of Louisiana when my friend Senator Abe Miir-dcok Miir-dcok of Utah made the statement in the senate that our government! indebtedness is an indebtedness to ourselves, and as we, the citizens, are the government, our indebtedness indebted-ness is an asset as well as a liability, lia-bility, or words to that effect. One editor remarked that Senator Sena-tor Murdock is a thirty third degree de-gree optimist. Perhaps the simple, concrete illustration I am giving here may cause him to agree with Senator Murdock. At least I hope it serves to clear up the perplexity in the minds of some of our citizens." citi-zens." ' However, before presenting the illustration let me say that I am presuming Senator Ellender, and all others, agree that We the citizens citi-zens are the government, hence the citizens and the government are. one and the same. I may also state that I recognize recog-nize that borrowing from 'another nation is a different matter and that such an indebtedness cannot be an asset to us. Now for tne illustration. Say. for example, that I am the owner of 10,000 in cash. That is a cash asset. Now if I borrow ihat cash from myself to buy an apartment house with, that is a liability, as I expect to pay myself back the $10,000. However, what really has happened,; so far, is that : have traded my cash asset for an apartment house asset. If all goes well and I . manage the apartment house well, I can pay myself the $10,000. Then I will have two assets a cash asset and an apartment house asset. But suppose that soon after I purchase the apartment house it takes fire and burns down, and in the meantime I have neglected to insure it. Under such circum stances I find that I now have a smoke, ash and rubble asset; which I admit is not a very valuable asset, but I own what is left of It, therefore it is still my asset. j find It has become a liability as well, as an asset, as I must use time and energy to clear the ash and rubble away. This, then, shows how an asset can also be a liability. Now I shall illustrate how a liability can also be ah asset. Had I borrowed thy $10,000 from myself to buy a bomb or hand grenade with and thrown it at Hitler's feet, the moment it exploded I would have traded my hand grenade asset for life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness, or at least for the. preservation of that asset, as ; Hitler was strongly threatening to destroy me or enslave me. Did I make a good trade? I'll say I did! This, I think, makes it clear how our indebtedness to ourselves is fast becoming a real asset. Not only is our indebtedness to ourselves our-selves an asset, but I feel quite sure that we the government will pay back to ourselves every cent we borrowed, and then some. DR. J. W. AIRD. 1719 Laurel St. South Pasadena California -SB- Educator Avers WACs Help Pay Debt to History By responding to the all-states recruiting campaign of the Women's Wo-men's Army Corps, women of this state may not only fulfill their obligations 'toward the winning of the war but also repay a debt to the women of American history. his-tory. President F. S. Harris- of Brigham Young university, said today. v "The Women's Army Corps perpetuates per-petuates one of the oldest traditions tradi-tions of American history," he de clared. "Our civilization has been built and defended by men and women together from colonial times, through pioneer days and the era of small cities to our mod ern industrial age. "Women have helped In the1 work of developing this country and in the winning of its wars, True, they have never before been called upon to serve as soldiers, but that, too, la, merely a new chapter in the continuity of nts- tory, the educator stated. "The pioneer women of this country have won a place for themselves in business and the professions. They have paved the way to comforts and privilges which women of our generation enjoy. Temporarily, those com forts and privileges are threat ened by totalitarian war, and it is the responsibility of contemporary women to help protect them not only for the sake of future gen erations, but as a debt to gen erations past." Education, said President Har ris is one of the fields in which Dy Halcoln Taylor COmtraHT. t3. MCA ilERVtCC. INC ENZELL'S STOET CHAPTER XXIX never told me now 7 got your stuff," Imhoff shouted to Enzell, to make himself heard over the roar of the engines. Stein had been tied up with leftover left-over strips of Schroeder's bed sheet, which Pat had brought in her raincoat pockets, and everyone every-one had settled down as comfortably com-fortably as possible. ."Let's have the yarn." "Too much noise, protested Enzell. "What's the matter with the intercom?" said Rick. The suggestion was adopted and all were soon fitted out. Enzell was silent a moment "Berlin was where I first got hint of this business. I went there on quite another trail, some U-boat stuff which I never got and took a job as a waitet in the Adlon. 1 "One day I was in a suite to pick up a tray. The people had already gone out. I Went to the open window to shake the tablecloth table-cloth and heard voices in the next room. "A WOMAN was lamenting what would be 'Adi's fate at the hands of the enemy. Now, nobody In Germany "calls Hitler 'Adi' but real intimates, particularly particu-larly his old friends Of the early days. ; ' "'Frieda!' the man boomed. 'You upset yourself unnecessarily, my dear. Adi's very clever. And he always looks ahead. I happen to know he has in this matter. He will never be taken alive or dead.' "'But how in the world she began. "Here he shut her up. 'No questions, ques-tions, Frieda! Even to you I must say nothing further. And you'll keep to yourself What I've said.' I listened a bit more, but he "When I checked up on that suite, I found it was occupied by a certain Nazi and his wife, both old friends of Hitler's and still close to him, though the man was not prominent in the party now, having dropped politics for plane manufacturing. "I quit the Adlon and went to Dresden, where our friend ran a big factory. I kept my eye on his plant and found he was shipping ship-ping certain unusual-looking plane parts to a small assembly plant in Chemnitz. Why? He had his own assembly lines. "I made Chemnitz my next stop. The plant was significantly well guarded but there are ways and means when you have a well-filled well-filled pocketbook and before long I managed to see that a really huge plane of most unusual type was being assembled there. "I looked around for a worker I could pump and, after some saloon study, picked a likely subject sub-ject A small, dark, thin, nervous man about 35 with a lot of inhibited in-hibited self-importance in him wanting an outlet. Kind that unbuttons un-buttons when drunk. I got to work on him. The best thing he let out was that some Nazi Great Man was coming to see the plane soon. "This sounded like a lead and I kept watch. "One night a big limousine without escort drew up outside the plant A man got out, then two others. I couldnt see faces but that voice! That walk! There is only one Hitler, thank God! ' '"THE three men entered tne A plant and I did some hard thinking, fast The car was not Hitler's official one, I knew, and there was no entourage, no guards! This was an unexpected windfall, although not surprising in the light of. future events. The chauffeur drove off a little way, then got. out to stretch his legs. changed the subject ery firmly.' He walked around, to the front of the building and fell into conversation conver-sation with the sentry. There was my chance! I idled past the car; then, making sure I wasn't observed, ob-served, picked the simple lock on the luggage compartment with bit of wire I carry for the purpose. pur-pose. It was the work of a minute to lift the lid, climb in and close it down over me. Those top-flight Nazis were sure to talk when they left the factory and now I had a front-row seat "Everything went like clockwork. clock-work. Once in the car and on their way again, did they talk! "Luck had been with me so far but now it broke. A blow-out! I was out of that luggage place and down the road before the chauffeur could leave the car. But of course the setup, in the rear gave the show away. "They almost got me in Stuttgart Stutt-gart They had my -description from people in Chemnitz, where a fast check probably showed me as the only missing person. And they thought I'd head for the frontier, as I did. "The close call in Stuttgart made me change plans. With the frontier hermetically sealed to me I was sewed up in Germany, for a while anyhow. So I sent oat my message through the Dutchmen. Dutch-men. "In Stuttgart I wrote and mailed the (Zeilen letter and also, in case one of my messages got into Gestapo Ges-tapo hands, a better to one Stolz in Bingen, in meaningless code Then I broke north, pulling up in Frankfort, sneaked out to Wiesbaden Wies-baden to park my staff in the library there and mail the Gehrig letter. Then back to Frankfort to go to earth in the Jail. "The rest of the story you know," Enzell concluded matter-of-factly. ; The little audience of three which had listened quietly without with-out interruption now burst into excited comment Rick's voice shrilled somewhat plaintively. "I say," he protested, "I catch the drift of most, of what's been afoot but there's one thing everybody every-body but me seems to be in the know about ' What is this "stuff of yours anyway, Enzell or shouldn't I ask?" f T Be Concluded) Characters and situations are fictitious. Aar roseiablanco to actual persons or happenings -Is coiaoWoB OL. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1943 Battle Line Sags On Home Front By PETER EDSON Dally Herald Washington Correspondenc . If that is .a smile of compla- cency-about-t h e-war playing around the corners of your smug face, partner wipe it off and look alive. For things on the nome front are headuv for trouble. and in some sectors couldn't be much worse. Just roll the bones and pop your eyes at these- seven black points: 1. Deputy Fuel Administrator Howard A. Gray frankly admits tnat tne coal situation is bad and is likely to get worse. Total coal production for the winter is estimated to fall 15 mil lion tons below the 665 million-ton demand. Work stoppages cut pro duction SO million tons. Conversion Conver-sion of oil furnaces to coal last winter increased coal demands by nail a million tons. Best guesses are that the country will just barely be able to get by, but. a severe winter, a mine strike, a breakdown in transportation, would see coal chaos. 2. A tire shortage is here, and a tie-up or a breakdown in rubber borne transportation impends. mere will apparently be barely bare-ly enough passenger car tires available, but the truck tire shortage short-age for the next nine months is going to be acute. There is enough synthetic rubber in sight and the stockpile of crude natural rubber will hold out. But extra military demands, loss of manpower, un- ramiuamy in working with synthetic syn-thetic rubber, labor-management differences, disregard of proper tire conservation orders, plus the extra neavy demands thrown on truck transportation to relieve rail transportation, have combined to create-this rubber crisis. 3. The railroads got past their October peak of harvest transport witnout a oreakdown, but the Of fice of nfnw Trananof-tatlnn haa a winter-long campaign ahead of it, furtner to load cars, further to speed-up turn-arounds, further to cut and limit unessential passenir er travel. Faced with a manpow er shortage of over 100,000 men and with rolling stock and roadbed road-bed overloaded and m need . of every bit of maintenance possible, the railroads will be hard put to get through the winter. 4. The entire labor front Is In a precarious position. Delay in set tling the mine and rail unions' demands de-mands for increased pay have npt increased labor efficiency. Strikes can develop in either industry. On the other hand, granting of wage increases to either will brirur A. F. of L. and C. I. O. unions down on the War Labor Board with further hammerings to 'break the Little Steel Formula, paving the way for general wage increases which can lead only to inflation. : 5. Senator Prentiss M. Brown may have resigned from his job nisi in time to save his reputation. Chester Bowles has done wonders in his three months in office, but the OPA position is still Impos sible. Its legal assignment under the Emergency Price Control act and presidential stabilization ord ers is to roll back prices and keep tnem at tne levels of Sept 15, iz. Yet it must do this by show ing a return to the farmers of at least parity or the highest price oeiween Jan. l and Sept 15, 1942. mere is only one way m which tnat can be done, and that ' is through the use of subsidies. But Congress will have none of subsidies, sub-sidies, and without subsidies the costs of living must go up, creating creat-ing more pressure for higher wages. 6. Congress, since its return' to Washington in mid-September, has done not one constructive thing to improve the home front situation. True, it has held a few investigations which have spot lighted some of the weaknesses or controversial issues of the war's sidelines, such as the Brewster aircraft mess, but it has hot sent to the White House a single piece ot important legislation. 7. On the all-important subject or tax legislation, congress at this writing has reached a complete stalemate, playing politics and talking about decreasing taxes. when the only obvious thing to do is increase them if the national economy is to soak up. the excess spending power, escape inflation, meet the costs of the war on at least a semblance of pay-aa-we-go policy, and keep down to as low a point as possible this inevitable burden of post-war debt What does it all add up to? Lake Shore DUP Serves Hot Meals SPANISH FORK Women of the D. U. P. of the Lake Shore camp are serving hot lunches to the pheasant hunters of the Lake Shore locality. The booth where hot soups, coffee and sandwiches will be sold is located at the E. J. Barney' place.. Money realized from the project will be used for erecting" a monument to commem orate the Lake Shore settlement American women have made their greatest contribution and- one which stands to lose most if this war is not t carried . through to a successful - conclusion." "Surely, no one, man or woman, likes to contemplate that possi bility," he said. "We must see that such a thing never happens; We must lend whatever talents and abilities we have wherever they will be most useful -toward the winning of this war, and for some, both men and women, mat means service in uniform;'' THE WASHINGTON HY-GO ROUND A Daily Pictnr of What's Going on in National Affairs By Drew etmntm (Major Kabert S. Alloa a 1 1 v Sy). WASHINGTON Forthright Ambassador George Messersmlth, first U. S. diplomat to report re-port the real lowdown on Hitler, has sent some confidential reports to the State Department about the wholesome anti-Nazi influence King Carol and Madame Lupescu, now in Mexico, has has led to a move to bring him into the U. S. A. Rumania, with its tremendous oil supplies, has become one of the key military spots In Europe, Eur-ope, -and the Allied high command Is anxious to get It out of the war. This, plus the real friends King Carol has made among U. S. Congressmen and officials visiting Mexico, has led to a move to bring him into the U. S. A. Previous opposition was based on Carol's and Lupescu's relations. However, the King is now married to the woman he always loved, has been faithful to her for 20 years. CAROL'S MESSAGE Meanwhile the Rumanian King has sent this with his personal views on Nazism, which he consistently fought,. and his hopes for democracy: democ-racy: npr three years and a month I have seen history go by my door as I have lived awaiting the day when I would be able to serve the cause of democracy and the Allied Governments. I had hoped long, before this that I would have been Invited to play a part in hurrying the day of victory and the right kind of peace. "The voices and the energies of my twenty million people should no longer be wasted; those voices and energies can be turned into a tide of steel against the Germans, insuring the decisive role Rumania can and will play on the side of the Allies. "I have been willing for three years and a month since the day I was forced into exile to play my part in liberating my people from the Iron collar of nazism. U1 monarch to fight nazism and fight it to the day when death was imminent I f d,.bf"vd I would have been called to continue con-tinue in the fight , "rJ .Pn defiance of nazism and fasc- J' they stood for. I had expected more understanding. "Still anxious to serve, and especially in the darker hours that lie ahead for my country and my people, I have been quietly and patiently awaiting the call that surely must come if we ewywhwe? Pple" and f ree ovnunents aemwd.ofHiSef " WOuW not "l ,eft only when nazl gun-fire was turned opon roe, - j -s can WP-to save Rumania for Itself and for the democracies of the world.. "My only personal ambition is to be of service; serv-ice; to help in the formation of a Free Rumanian Government to take its rightful place alongside tne other Free Governments of the world." VINSON BALKS ' : Story behind the War. Labor Board's tejac-ZEL tejac-ZEL John U w1'" nne wage agreement with Illinois operators, which would have netted the miners about $1.50 extra a day, is that WLB Chairman William Davis at first favored ap proving the argeement, almost in full. But he Vhfsoiuked 0t lt by Economica Czar Fred At a secret meeting with Lewis and other WLB members, Davis strongly indicated that the board would okay the Illinois agreement, with one or two changes. Lewis was so confident con-fident 'after this meeting that he immediately Wired the coal utrilrtni In 1UK,. ..t.. to work. But a few days later, Davis" and public mm WLB were summoned to the White House for a confab with Vinson and his chief, James F. Brynes, at which the WLB officials of-ficials were quickly stripped of any notions they may have had on giving 11.50 extra to the miners. Vinson laid down the law in bare-knuckled terms. He said the portal-to-portal clause in the Illinois agreement, which would give straight time for 45 minutes a day or 75 cents additional for the time the miners spend entering enter-ing and leaving the pits, was inflationary. Vinson, Vin-son, let; it be known that he would veto the agreement if the WLB approved it in this form. When this was reported at a subsequent meeting of the full WLB board, labor members were so enraged they threatened to walk ont of he meeting. However, Davis and the public' ,n embers felt they had no recourse but to follow the ukase laid down by Judge Vinson and Byrnes. ; CONGRESS CUTS EXPENSES . Congress is really getting economy-minded. Executive .departments are in for a rough jolt when the $1,200,000,000 deficiency appropriation for war spending is reported by the House Appropriations Ap-propriations Committee. This measure will see the biggest "economy" in any appropriation bill since Roosevelt became President a cut pf at least 60 per cent, possibly pos-sibly 75 per cent. Inside fact is that the Office of War Information Infor-mation came within a hair's breadth of being abolished entirely. Committee Republicans, led by anti-Roosevelt Representative John Taber of New York, were against giving Elmer Davis's OWI any of his $5,000,000 budget request. This would, have meant camplete demolition of the government's vital war propaganda program. However, committee Democrats were firmly opposed and finally won out. A compromise OWI. appropriation of about $4,000,000 Is likely. There .will also be a big slash, probably, around 60 per cent, in the $25,000,000 deficiency request pf the Federal Housing Administration. No extra, funds will be approved for the Farm Security - Administration, which has requested' re-quested' approximately $44,000,000 to stimulate war food production among little farmers. In- ' mmA ,M. Ml nrlTl li frfttst n imtf tVl Manila Agriculture Department appropriation for further, fur-ther, funds. . . This j wiH hold up vital FSA functions fori months and may well mean, the abolition of the government's tarm security and rehabilitation, nmmm iinlM the Senate voids the House committee's action. The Appropriations Committee Com-mittee also cut a Labor Department deficiency request to the bone and will deny large sums to the War and Navy Departments until they have used up surplus funds on hand. . The War and Navy Departments, incidentally.; incidental-ly.; the bureaus where real money can be asveo. , -4 rriHmlvhf 101 C.v TTnltart Vafiir ' |