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Show 1, ; PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. WEDNESDAY, 'JULY 18, 1945 Editorial... Let's Get Acquainted The first meeting of American and Russian Rus-sian soldiers' in Germany may have been an important landmark on the road to world peace. Before then they had been separated not only by the .enemy, but by a veil of suspicion, sus-picion, misconception, confusion and- spoonfed spoon-fed propaganda. Suddenly the enemy was gone and the veil was torn aside. Two grpups of ordinary, unpretentious, frank and well-intentioned young men greeted one one another with grins, handshakes "and a slap on the back. There have been many such meetings since then. And the preponderant evidence is that the American doughfoot considers his Rusian counterpart an OK guy. Gi Ivan's opinion isn't on record, at least over here. . But is wouldn't be surprising if the good impressions were mutual. The Russian soldier has grown up with a distorted impression of America and her citizens. He has heard witch stories of vil lainous landlords and employers, of starved and exploited workers, of a thousand and one evils of capitalism, until it must have surprised him to find Americans looking, not like a combination of Uncle Tom and one of Dostoevski's more doleful characters, but hale, hearty and happy. As the Yank, he has developed a curious, curi-ous, all-embracing definition of the word "Russia." Russia has meant vast territories, n way of life, Marshal Stalin, the Comintern, Comin-tern, the Red army, revolution and liquidation, liquida-tion, or occasionally devious, secretive, onesided one-sided foreign policy, depending on the speaker speak-er and the context. He too must have been surprised to run into a delegation of hale, hearty, happy citizens tf the U. S. S. R. It would certainly be well if more ordinary, ordi-nary, unofficial Americans and Russians could share these soldiers' experience. It wouldn't settle the world's problems, but it would help. Many of our soldiers have said that the Russian soldier is more like an American than any of their other Allied comrades at arms. If that is so, then perhaps the Russian Rus-sian shares the American's democratic fondness fond-ness for judging a man at his face value, regardless of origin or background. There has been too much economic accusation ac-cusation and rebuttal between the United States and Russia, to much deliberately planted suspicion, too little effort at genuine genu-ine understanding. But the realistic fact remains re-mains that these countries are the dominant vorld powers. International friendship requires acquaintance ac-quaintance and understanding between peoples peo-ples as well as heads of government. So perhaps per-haps a wise bit of postwar planning would be for both American and Russian to give some thought to the development of so prosaic pro-saic a thing as the "tourist trade" between their peoples. The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's r kta.: i a Alien ea un iu iiBuwuu Miaua a.tlv. dolri Going i A Choice He Can NoLbngcr Avpjjf The Strike Weapon Harry Bridges, the powerful and unpredictable un-predictable West Coast labor leader, is quoted as saying that the strike weapon is no longer effective in the United States. Probably Mr. Bridges is not the only high-up unionist who has reached that conclusion, though no others have expressed themselves with such flat finality. And, whether or not the Australian head of the longshoremen's union made his statement with mental reservations, there is abundant abund-ant evidence to support it. It was inevitable that public opinion should turn against strikes and strikers. in war industries. Responsibility for work stoppages which cost time and lives was usually fixed on local officials and local mem-r mem-r bership. Most of the top union officials con- deirined strikes in their'own domains. Nevertheless, the whole union move ment has suffered some loss of public esteem. And the result of these violations of the wartime no-strike pledge may be evident evi-dent in the days of peace to come. Some weapons should be handled care-1 care-1 fully and used only on the strongest provo cation. Ihe strike is one of them. It is a legitimate weapon in the hands of responsible responsi-ble persons who use it as a last resort in enforcing just demands. No fair-minded person would deny labor the use of it under such circumstances. But too many war-work stoppages have arisen from impatience, not from tolerable and insoluble situations. Too many have betrayed a lack of sympathy with the orderly civilized processes of discussion, arbitration and compromise. Too many have smacked of senseless class war in the midst of tragic conflict. There is little doubt that the strikers' short-sighted impatience has led the foes of unionism to provoke further stoppages in an attempt to inflame public indignation. indigna-tion. This baiting and goading has worked, even though wise labor leaders have urged their membership to endure these provocations provoca-tions calmly and present them for public judgment in a dignified manner. Thus wartime strikes have not so much destroyed the weapon's effectiveness as they have turned the weapon against labor itself. it-self. They have caused themselves loss of time and wages and public respect. By flourishing the weapon indiscriminately they have succeeded in boring or angering a great many, and frightening no one. Mr. Bridges counsels labor that a newer and better weapon is political action. This advice comes from a man who has tried bothj ' violence and suavity, and has noted the' . results. ! WASHINGTON The congressional nulla baloo over attempts to corner the American rye market has only scratched the. surf ace. This Is the Inside fact . If congress should ever dip deep enough, It will .unearth one of the juiciest stories of riding the grain market the country has heard for a long time, Including some of President Truman's close supporters, chiefly Ed Pauley former treasurer of the Democratic national committee. i Other Democrats active in rye were Senator "Pappy" ODaniel of Texas, L Senator "Happy." Chandler of Kentucky, attorney General Dob Ken ny of California, ant Senator Scot Lucas of Illinois : senator Lucas was cnieiiy; engaged in trying to lift transportation restrictions so the Chicago boys could unload their tremendous quantities of rye. Chandler and Kenny were let in on the deal through their friend, Ed Pauley. Their profits were relatively small. Chandler making less than $100. 1 ; They were stowaways compared with the really big operators. General Foods, owned in part by Mrs. Joe Davies, wife of; Roosevelt's former ambassador to Belgium and to Russia. General r ooas, alter buying 89 per cent or an the deliver able supply of rye and being stuck with it. then performed a beautiful salesmanship job in- per suading the Belgian government to take a million mil-lion bushels off its hand paid for by U. S. tax payers through lend-lease. : The department of agriculture has now order ed a hearing on the earlier rye gyrations of Gen eral foods. However, no hearing has yet been ordered on more recent developments, including the operations of Democratic bigwig Ed Pauley and the glamorous salesmanship by which a mil lion bushels of rye were unloaded on trie Bel gians. : One other interesting point is why the war production board ordered distillers to use 10 per cent rye in making grain alcohol. Obviously this helped the General Food boys get rid of their vast rye hoard. : NO CEILING ON RYE . The story begins in the Winter of 1942. when ceiling prices were put on alt. grains except rye. Official explanation for this exception is tnat rye was way below parity around 52 cents a bushel and the ceiling price was leftipff for the benefit of the farmer who deserved to get parity, which is' over a dollar a bushel However, this left' rye sticking up like a sore thumb as the one grain in which speculators could trade, and general foods imrhediately went into the market, worjeing through 41 well-known Chi cago grain operator Dan Rice. General Foods excuse is that they were hedging against infla tion. At any rate, they began (to buy rye in tre mendous quantities until, bv Nov. 29, 1943, they had so much jammed into Chicago elevators that Charles Metcalf. vice president of General Foods, was called on the caroet by the business conduct committee of the Chicago b6ard of trade and warned that he had so many relatives and friends buying rye for him through disguised brokerage accounts that he was barred from buying any more December rye futures. i Finally, in May 1944, the-General Foods rye corner reached the stupendous .total of 13,262,000 bushels or 89 per cent of the entire rye crop. ' It Was for trading througlffthis period 1942-44 1942-44 that the agricultural department cracked down on General Foods with an order to show cause why they should not be barred; from the Chicago grain market. ELEVATORS ' JAMMED l However, it is since May 1944, that some of the interesting things happened, j During the summer of 1944" there was so much rye heaped up in Chicago elevators that the war food administration instructed .the WPB to order grain distillers to use 10 per cent rye in making alcohol. Naturaly this was a boon to General Foods. It helped get rid of its .accumulated rye. Ordinarily, alcohol distillers don't use rye Whether someone pulled 'political wires to get rye used during the summer of 1944 is not known. Anyway, WPB issued the order on instructions from the war food administration and on the ex cuse that room had to be made in the Chicago elevators for wheat. Meanwhile, speculation continued. Rye still was the only grain on which there was no price ceiling, it was the only grain In which spec ulators could operate, and by the winer of 1944-45 1944-45 other people besides General Foods were in the market, too. In fact, a lot Of money held by wealthy European refugees in this country went into rye. This refugee money played rye against General Foods. They sold short. The refugees were gambling that the war would be over last winter and they could import Argentine rye at around 65 cents a bushel to replace re-place their short sales in Chicago. As a result of this trading, the gigantic total of One billion rye futures was out against a 30-million-bushel crop in the winter of 1944-45. G. P. LOBBYISTS BUSY Meanwhile, the General Foods boys were racking their brains as to how to get rid of their rye. They didn't know what to do with it. The rye market is limited. Only a small amount goes into rye bread, and General Foods' tremendous holding became embarrassing. Also, Chicago board of trade men were demanding that the rye be moved out of Chicago. So General Foods lobbyists got busy in Washington, and. after some wining and dining of Belgian commercial counselor' Joseph Jo-seph Jennen, they managed a deal whereby Belgium Bel-gium wouldT take rye off their hands. Belgium wanted rye as cattle tecdm in order to build up its herds, seriously hit during the German occupation. Under war food rules, rye cannot be used for anything: but human consumption. con-sumption. However, after receiving promises (but with no guarantees after delivery) that the rye would be used for human food, the -foreign economic econ-omic administration ordered the commodity credit corporation to purchase 1,044.000 bushels of rye for Belgium. Simultaneously, FEA ordered 3,005,736 bushels for UNRRA, to be used in feeding Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia which are legitimate legit-imate rye consuming countries.- The rye was purchased very" quietly on March 19, 1945. and officials of the ,;commodity credit corporation made a careful effort not to let spec ulators Know wnai was nappening. However, some of the politicoes Dresumablv were in the know, for it Was about this time that the friends of Ed Pauley came in on the deal. Pauley, now U. S. reparations ambassador in Mos cow, has lucky fingers. Whatever he touches turns to gold. Ed is-a generaous man. And several friends climbed aboard the zooming rye market. RYE SOARS As news of the Belgian deal leaked out. rye soared so high that the commodity credit corporation corpor-ation sold 50,000 bushels it had left over from the Belgian transaction at a lush pjpofit of $20,000. Meanwhile, the Beleians wanted more rve at the taxpayers' expense through lend-lease. But this time FEA turned them down. Finally, the Belgians offered to pay their own cash and were allowed to buy half a million more bushels on the promise that they would not use it for cattle ieea. Actually, they wanted t buy even more. But the U. S. army stepped in and bought a million mil-lion bushels, partly to keen it out of Belgian hands. By this time, valuable freight-car space needed for what was being used to carry rye to the Atlantic At-lantic seaboard. And every time a few freight cars were loaded with rye, an iteni apepared in the v X Wmh: 7t)fa U'rcll ..AX rj n Desk Chat, Editorial Column The following poem was sent to us from Caneadea. New York- pot for publication. It was written by a mother who lives alone. Her son was hospitalized in England after landing in France. He wrote her: "I'm OK, Mom, dont you worry. They treat us fine and the nurses are wonderful. The doctors say it will-be a long time before I'm fit for combat duty again. I wish I could get back in and help get it over with." FURLOUGH ... and After Home from training camp. Full of exuberance Supple and straight as a hand some, young tree. "How do I look Mora? Don't you be asking You look like a priceless jewel to me. Full of new dignity, Full of old deviltry. Coming and going, upsetting the place, Girls again; fun again, Music and 'laughter. Whole town delighted to see his young face. ' Back to grim duty now, Proud to be part of it, Fighting for loved ones, courage so high. Giving his life for us. God make us worthy! Curious i Grate Cants . . ..'gentlemen prefer blonds . who were born that way. . . . the more society dames try to keep up a front, the more they seem to let down the back. . . charm Is that Indefinable. something that a bow-legged girl has simply got to nave.. . . . the family martyr is the person who feels offended when some other member of the family complains of a pain also. COMMON SENSE In advertising I does not necessarily imply the commonplace. 'Oh, To Be Loved By An Octopus!" More ardent than The turtle dove Is Mister Octopus When in love With more: than Half a dozen arms, He holds to him His sweetie's charms! . Gas on Stomach afcm4trl Wtn aw mim acid tuM Mlafal. Miffmt kta ...... 1 . .nfc mi tuarlln.ni Atowi M.aa.il prmaitf tlx fuuat-Brtlni BCdtsUM now mm wrmvwmmiw iwn imrinw hum. an phj TablrtL No Usatlf. Brtl-uu brtnft contort m . ...Kfv. i Uffj k rtutre botUi to u foe uW our lads die! I (Adv. Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD July 18. 1925 More than 2000 admirers of Timpanogos paid homage to the giant of the Wasatch at Aspen Grove, Friday evening, at the annual an-nual - pre-Timp hike program More than 1000 persons, including many from far-distant states and countries, participated in the hike. Abraham Done, 72, Tucson, Ariz., was the oldest man present, and Margaret Barrett, Vineyard, 67, was the oldest woman attending attend-ing the program. T. B. Halbert, who hailed from Australia, was given a Timp stick for having come the farthest distance. Horse racing, for many years one of the major sports and entertainments en-tertainments in Utah county, is to be revived in Spanish Fork, next month, according to Dr. G. C. Taylor," president of the Utah County Livestock association. A modern grandstand was to be erected at a cost of $15,000, and the track was to be greatly improved. im-proved. Races were scheduled to be held from Aug. 29 to Sept 5. Senator James C. Murray of Montana Sponsored Much New Deal Legislation press obviously a planted story by those interested in boosting the prace of rye. So finally the department of agriculture stepped in and embargoed em-bargoed rye shipments to the Atlantic At-lantic seaboard. It was at this point that Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois used his influence to try to keep rye moving at the behest be-hest of his friends on the Chicago board of trade who wanted to clear rye out of Chicago. There is no evidence that Lucas was financially Interested. Simultaneously, Senator 'Pass-the-Biscuits-Pappy" ODaniel of Texas also began buttonholing of- j ficials in order to permit the movement of rye. Pappy was working at the behest of Ralph Moore, who, in turn, was working work-ing with Dan Rice, the rye manipulator manip-ulator for General Foods. All the more recent lobbying, however, failed to budge new Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. He has remained adamant ad-amant that freight - cars space eastward must be used for wheat, dairy feed, and other more (essential (es-sential grains, rather than helping help-ing General Foods unload the millions of bushels of rye which they hoarded in one of the greatest great-est gram speculations .of the century Note General Foods has come out of the deal in good1 American Free Enterprise system By PETER ED SON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 18 New York; Senator, Robert F. Wagner is usually given credit for being the author of more New Deal legislation than any one in congress, con-gress, but if a new tally were made today, it would show that the one man sponsoring the most reform legislation, is the Hon. James E. Murray of Butte. The junior senator from Montana. Murray s list includes these: the highly controversial full employment employ-ment bill, on which hearings will soon get under way. The bill to create a Missouri Valley "authority. One strike has been, called on the M VA by a senate sen-ate commerce sub-committee, but it has -two more chances before irrigation and agriculture subcommittees sub-committees in the fall. The broadened Social Security act with new provisions for public health : measures introduced by Murray, and co-sponsored with Senator Wagner and Congressman John D. Dingcll of Detroit. To Murray's credit on the statute stat-ute books are two important measures. The smaller war plants act, Creating the small war plants corporation. Murray is the acknowledged ack-nowledged senate champion of small business. The war contracts termination legislation which Murray, as chairman of Military Affairs subcommittee, sub-committee, co-sponsored with Georgia Senator, Walter F. George of the senate's post war planning and finance committee. Every ' one of these measures involves a whipping of big economic econ-omic jreform. Yet, there is little of the usual social worker or professional pro-fessional do-gooder in Murray's make' up. Conservatives might make a case that Murray Is dangerous dan-gerous and radical, basing their arguments on his record in congress. con-gress. But, there is nothing radical in his background. In the first place, he is a millionaire- Maybe even a multimillionaire, multi-millionaire, though not a multi-multi multi-multi millionaire. The basis of his fortune he inherited from a bachelor uncle, old Jim Murray. Young ijim Murray, the senator, who is' a mere boy of 68, was educated: at his uncle's expense as a lawyer in New York univer sity then he was put to work in a mine, but, he has built up his inheritance of hotels, utilities, mines 'and real estate so that today to-day he rates more as a businessmana business-mana rugged individualist, if you please, who says he is pri marily interested in saving the shape. It looks as If they made real money. The price of rye has risen from around 52 cents a bushel, when they first went tnio the market in 1942 to around $1.50 a bushel. In addition, Belgium and UNRRA came to their rescue, and finally the war production board has thrown out another life-saver by resuming the distilling distil-ling of whisky. This means that General Foods has probably sold another million bushels of rye to the whisky distillers this month. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) and all it stands for. When you ask Senator Murray where: he got all these ideas, he pulls from under the table a black leather bound copy of "For-tune" "For-tune" the magazine of big business, busi-ness, mind you and turns immediately im-mediately to a marked page in the issue for March, 1938. The title of the editorial article is "Business and Government," and the subtitle sub-title i VA Division of Industry into Smaller units might result in some , surprising profits." Yes, Murray wants to preserve the profit motive. Service - -Quality - - Phone 45 VALLEY MORTUARY Ptoyo AURA HATCH - LeROY JOHNSON Spanish Fork WM. R. JEX-r-Phone 175 Payson -WALTER M. RIGBTT Phone 107 There Is not space to quote extensively ex-tensively from the "Fortune" article here, but the subhead gives you the idea and it is the basis of Jim Murray's business and political philosophy today. Murray insists that he is not "labor". Many labor lobbyists have tried to pin their pet pro jects on his coattail, but he never belonged to a labor union and he says he never represented a union in a law case. He is not anti-labor, either. When he ran for re-election in 1942, he was supported by Phil Murray (no relation) and the National CIO, but he was opposed by the CIO Montana Local United Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. Murray has fought the big cop per companies and all other "in tercsts" all over the state of Mon tana, coming and going. They've fought him. When they tried to make peace with him after he had lickked them in the 1942 elections, he spurned the offer. People who know Murray best and work with him explain him by saying he is a born liberal Congress is noted for its peculi arities, but Murray is unique even in congress. Shy, and a poor speaker, he makes few statements on the floor. But he works him self to the limit, and he probably has more people in Washington working for him on legislative research than any man in town. His office is organized like a business, and he keeps his per sonal brain trust and his staff on the jump all the time, developing develop-ing ideas for new Murray legislation. If you have a,.. BENDIX Washer Try "0 - SO - CLEAN," the sen-sational sen-sational new suds-producing, water-softener," washing power. Removes the dirt, brings out the color without soap, bleach or bluing. O-SO - CLEAN is equally effective ef-fective in cold or warm water. 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