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Show Build Huge Plants and Power Dams to Supply , 2 Billion Pounds Aluminum for U. S. Defense LISTEN TO BAUKHAGE The Natl Farm &Honit, 10.30 each morning, Monday through Fnc While Walter Winchell is on temporary active duty with the II. S. navy his column is being conducted by guest columnists. This weeks is written: By Believe It Or Not Ripley. Tiie first gossip column the statue of Pasquino, a witty barber, was set up in Rome and contributors pasted satirical and witty comments on its base. Thus columnists were born. The first war correspondent was George Wilkins Kendall, who the Mexican war (1846-47- ) from the battlefield exclusively for the New Orleans Picayune. By means of a special pony express, he was able to scoop all other papers and the war department as well. A newspaper printed on cheese was published in Gouda, Holland, about 1840. Since the cheese could be eaten, the Dutch readers were said to be in the habit of "swallowing anything. A French newspaper published on a large handkerchief was another curiosity, which did not at all startle Paris in the eighties. It was the origin of the nosey press. Another publisher in Brussels, Belgium, had an idea. He printed his paper on rubber sheets, to enable the ladies to read it while taking a bath. And the Blanc sur Noir white on black was a French innovation reversing the usual order by printing its news in white letters on black paper. And talking of news, the French "La Presse Prophetique was published for the purpose of giving the news of next year. It was not a success because it was published in hieroglyphics. When the newspaper business was in its infancy, the reporter was called an emissary," the editor "a register. "The Romios of Athens is a daily paper published in verse. The German newspapers have recently discarded question marks from their headlines, because one editor of Essen, Germany, was sent to a concentration camp. By mistake the headline "Hindenburg Congratulates Hitler, was provided with a question mark instead of an exclamation point. Suicides are banned from Turkish newspapers. When 1 used a picture of the emperor of Japan in my Believe It or Not cartoon, the Japanese ambassador in Washington made a very urgent telephone call to me. He requested that if a picture of the emperor must be used, then it was of the highest importance that this picture be printed on the front page of the newspaper, because it is a Japanese law that nothing must appear over the Supreme Portrait of the Son of Heaven. I explained to him as gently as I could that this rule cannot be followed in America. His Excellency thought for a minute, and then he suggested that I place over the cartoon a printed admonition to the American public not to set down such as drinking any objects glasses, pots and pans, etc., on the picturel He was greatly disappointed when I explained that the American public will not be restrained by any such printed admonition. The Japanese newspapers carry their staff a special employee called the prison editor. He is paid a salary for taking the rap in case the newspaper is fined or sentenced to jail. In such a case the prison editor (whipping boy) goes to jail without interrupting the even tenor of the newspaper. The Japanese press law provides Jail for the offense of "belly treason another word for "secret disloyalty of the paper. on Aglait Illunanortut (Pages for Everybody) is the title of the Eskimo newspaper published at Nain, Labrador. It is published in the winter only, because in the summer its readers have no time to read, being busy with seal and fishing. The oldest newspaper was recently discovered in Ostia, Italy. It was published in 58 B. C., was engraved in wax upon stone and contained the following news items: (Date) 7 days before the calends of August (July 24). In the land of Cumo born 30 boys and 40 girls. Harvested 500,000 loads of wheat. Supplied 500 labor steers. Crucified the slave Mithridates for having blasphemed against the spirits of his Master. Repaid 10,000,000 sesterces for which there is no need. The real father of newspapers was Julius Caesar, who Instituted the famous "Acta Publica, which ran for six centuries. And so it is in order that Italy should be the first to modernize her newspaper business by introducing "push-butto- n the which press, brings all Italian newspapers totally under the domination of the Italian Press and Propaganda Ministry. The Germans copied that system with its minister of propaganda and public enlightenment under the famous Dr. Goebbels. Washington, D. C. TANK BUILDING PROGRAM There was a good reason why Lord Beaverbrook, dynamic ister of supply, listed tanks as the No. 1 objective of his visit to the U. S. He flew over largely to try e to persuade our army chiefs to him the major share of our growing output. There is sharp division in the army over this. Armored unit commanders have been champing at the bit for the tanks now beginning to roll off assembly lines. They need the equipment not only to train their men and officers but to keep up morale which sags when modern war machines are missing or simulated. Buck privates to generals have griped over being forced to "play at soldiering." This was one of the main causes for the strong sentiment among citizen soldiers against extension of their years service. They could raise no enthusiasm for continuing to train without equipment. On the other hand, the general staff believes that it is far more vital to the immediate security of the U. S. to let our tanks and other armament help hold off the Nazis 3,000 miles from our shores. The strategists contend that a U. S. tank is performing Infinitely more valuable service knocking out Nazis on the torrid deserts of North Afrisa, or the bloody steppes of Russia, than using up oil in a training camp in Texas., They favor sending most of our new tanks to Britain for the present, and Beaverbrooks mission is to clinch that argument. British Need. The British need for tanks, parn ticularly for the latest type, medium tanks, is extremely urgent. It was lack of these that caused the rout in Greece and prevents the British from taking the offensive in Libya and on the continent. Also, without medium tanks the British would be in desperate straits should Hitler make his feared overland move into Spain and Portugal, across the Strait of Gibraltar and down the Atlantic coast of French West Africa to Dakar. Thanks to the U. S., the British are well supplied with light n tanks. So far they have received about 500, together with spare parts. These light tanks have given a good account of themselves. They are superior to similar German and Italian types. But mounting only guns and lightly armored, they are no match, as Greece and Libya have proved, for medium Axis tanks. KuvezT (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WE, THE CONSUMERS, PAY THE TAX loOUR LEGISLATIVE bodies cal, state and national would have us the Toms, Dicks and Harrys of Vie min- JkWWKiflirrwi 32-to- STEEL SHOWDOWN The OPM and the steel industry finally have taken drastic steps to regulate supplies and increase capacity, but it took all kinds of nagging by the government to get them to do it. One of the most spectacular of these nagging sessions took place in the OPM board room recently and was attended by Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel; Tom Girdler of Republic; Ernest Weir of Weir-toIrving Olds, new head of U. S. Steel, together with Ed Stettinius, the old head; Leon Henderson; Knudsen; and representatives from the army, navy and maritime commission. The steel manufacturers immediately put the government representn; atives on the defensive with the ques- tion: "Well, what do you want us to do? Cut off all steel to the con- sumer? Price Administrator Henderson replied that such a curtailment would be disastrous, that steel to the consumer could not be cut off right away. Other government representatives hemmed and hawed. So did The meeting got the s. nowhere. Finally Admiral Emory Land, relative of Lindbergh, but no believer in his views, got up. Land, chairman of the maritime is a close friend of commission, Bethlehems Eugene Grace. But looking at Grace and the other steel manufacturers, the admiral gave them a dressing down he might have given to his own sailors. Tve been listening to you for two hours, he said, "and Im fed up with it. I dont know what the fault is, or whose fault it is. But I do know that the shipyards are four to six weeks behind because they havent got steel. And I also know that if you fellow's want to, you can correct that shortage. "Youve been talking about expanding your plants. Now if you mean business, instead of talking about It expand. Next day the steel manufacturers announced their plan to build new factories and expand production. CAPITAL CHAFF White House press secretary Steve Early kept it to himself, but privately he was sore at the bungling of Churchill-Roosevepress relations. If they had left it to him, the result would have been different. lt American editors resented the fact that first news of the meeting broke A lot of other Ameriin London. cans resented the idea that news about their own President had to come via the British censor. Roosevelt himself, not the British, was to blame. t Lake 570 KC and other NBC Blue Network A be cl 'all bead Sore than America believe the greater porYour Share of Tain asend futu tion of the taxes they levy is collectbeed from the corporations. If we If youre an average : sts wlth lieved that we would not object so $109 was your share of the7eS.'. much to extravagance in govern- 000,000 paid in taxes in AtteT, ment operation. Tmy an ended June 30, 1940. cials war In a factual survey of 165 corAmerican the made by porations, old pa Federation of Investors, it was found ut any e: that these corporations had paid a those total of $2,565,356,532 for taxes in VTSor. ALUMINUM lend-leas- KUTA, Salt For National Dofonta Sauxito Minot or Fioids Alumina Plant 1, 2. Alcoa 3. Reynold A Aluminum Co. of Conoda SSkeepn Aluminum Plant 1, 2,3,4, 5. Alcoa 6. Raynoldi 7. Reynolds (Fall 1941) to b 1940. The tax collector took that amount Frcpowrf Govt. Flaato out of the pockets of the 165 cornum' 8, 10, 11. Op. by Alcoa SALT LAKE HOTaj These corporations in porations. 9. Op. by Reynolds of out took the turn it of pockets 12. Op. by Sohn Co. Nice quits room at 11.50 Wdl It is 13. Op. by Union Corb the ultimate consumers, and we elont to everythin. Coffee Sbolla I 14. Op. by Olm Corp paid it in the form of an increased NEW GRAND HOTEL, 4th So. , Canadian Plant price for the merchandise and servsss than 15. Aluminum Co of HOTELS ices we purchased. The corporauman fo U Canada (Sells to $.) coltions had to pass along the tax When ill RENO. NEVADA OOd a bl Electric Power HOTEL GOLDEN Renoi Urme lectors bill if they were to continue Generating Facilities big El moil iw.ni, I.. I..,., in business and provide jobs for Just at their 3,490,801 employees. They OFFICE EOUIPMPt.'j arrive could not have taken it from their I aske the AND USED desk tn4 buffer E 5,888,689 people NEW stockholders, annual K V. need an S. will director-generaddin the OPM production estimates mehi. uf William Knudsen, typewriter, who supplied the money to create of S. L. DESK EX S5 W. Bro.4.,7 erslty 1 of 1,600 million pounds of aluminum for national defense. Map shows where bulk will be produced. the 3,490,801 jobs, for the total divito th Plants indicated by pouring ladle symbol. Nos. 1 to 5 are now producing at combined rate of 635 dends paid were only $1,247,358,722, Funeral Cars As clc Ambu, the amount of million pounds, by middle of 1942 will reach 720 million. Plant 6 produces 40 million pounds, and or less than one-haHad they New or used, cash or terms, mate, Plant 7 (nearing completion ) 60 million. Proposed government plants will produce in millions of the tax collectors bill. das,r,tea on request. the pockof attempted to take it out LORENZO SMITH ft pounds when completed: (8) 150, (9) 100, (10) 100, (11) 90, (12) 70, (13) 60 and (14) 30. Part ets ske 8W of their employees, it would 255 East 2nd South Suit Uk.ents fr of Canada (15) production has been contracted for by United States. have meant taking from each one unive will add further tonnage. The pots an average of $735. wi WATER SOFTENER Union to Western Newspaper Special and pans collected in the recent The only practical, or possible --lea hov Hardest made Water soft WASHINGTON, D. C. What has been happening through- drive, for instance, cannot be used way was to get it back from the WITH A RAINIER WATERs, St aFe out the United States during the last few weeks would have for making bombers but they might consumers the Toms, Dicks and 809 State, Clmer Supply Co C Some; DEALER FRANCHISES AVAjrity ca be remelted and used to make army Harrys by including it in the price constituted a phenomenon anywhere but in a democracy. field kitchen equipment or to of their merchandise, and we, in "'''v'''''wost-gra- d TRUSSES FITTED eavy From Sauk Center to gay Broadway a fellow could take "quiet" steel, thus freeing other the end, paid all of it, and then hemi-sthis girl to the swellest dance in town with no more capital aluminum for airplanes. The steel some. Belta, Elastic Stockings, Crotchet, . industry, which burns up one-haThe "then some was the taxes Extension Shoes, Arch Supports eouI be than a couple of battered pots and pans. In Oklahoma City, pound to five or six pounds of aluArtificial 135 Limb W. 3rd Co. five a by the wholesale jobber and solid citizens drove downtown to hurl their skittles and dou- minum in the making of each ton of paid the retailer. They, too, if they were ble boilers at a target painted on the posterior of an effigy steel, may well consume 100,000,000 to remain in business, had to pass BABY CHICKS pn the on to the consumer the amount the Hitler, then let them lie there for Uncle Sam to pick up. In pounds next year. Denver Hatched Blood Tetwfig ( Aluminum, paradoxically, is the tax collector took from them, and Harrison, N. Y., a dog bit a girl scout soliciting old aluminum most Leghorns S6.50 AA : of all the metallic we plentiful paid it 88.25; Heavies 3: is Columl from house to house; he was a German police dog, of course. elements known to man. It is in Such are a large part of the hidAAA 28.25. All premier u a contributed form rare in Rose (sic), the rocks our under the feet, Lee, exhibiting clay Gypsy den taxes we pay. Our law makChicks write on a nearby hill, in the water pan dance. And more than 1,000,000 Americans did their bit high ers tried to cover them up, and COLORADO HATCHERY Deev we in in often swim the and very in the drive to collect scrap aluminum for national defense. food we eat. they succeeded for a time, at least WNU S. Week No. 4135 with a percentage of the people. In a few short months the threat of Hitlerism had brought Aluminum is never found in the They realize that to levy a direct in Con , the light, silvery metal off the kitchen ranges of the nation native state, as iron, copper and tax on the consumer of an amount John Quincey Adams, a.' jp' and dumped it all over the front page. For just as World gold are; it is always locked tight equal, to the indirect tax he now War I has been described as a war of steel, World War II was in chemical combination with other pays would arouse a protest ex- served as President of u elements. Napoleon III, awake to States, went to congress pressed through the ballot box. rapidly developing into a war of aluminum. the advantage of light aluminum They are to fool all of the ber of the house of repre trying World War I was a static and sur- cavalry equipment would give him face affair, fought from fixed posi- is summed up in the recent report over his enemies, offered a fortune people all of the time, but will find tions. World War II is character- of the house military affairs com- to the French scientist who could it will not continue to work. Either in the form of direct or movements of mittee on defense progress: ized by lightning-lik- e find a cheap way of producing the indirect taxes, the consumer is toNicholas highly mechanized fighting forces. cost Decline. which Aluminum Price then $545 a pound. metal, close to 3 cents to the day paying Airplanes and tanks rule the land, Murray But "In 1938 this company finished the But it was not until 1886 that an tax collector out of each dollar of while airplanes and swift, modern e southern year with an inventory of a stock of American youth, Charles Martin his income. He is battle fleets fight the Battle of the aluminum equal to the normal re- Hall, unlocked the secret and working for rsities th paved d of his Atlantic. nearly ,000 enrol quirements for a year. As of the the way for aluminum at its present government time. 90 to of cent working per todays date of April 3, 1939, congress had price of 17 cents. Eighty They will The taxes of those 165 corporamilitary airplane is aluminum, for authorized the navy to build 3,000 the still of Hall's basis fr- howev process, 1940 amounted to $585,518,-63- 4 alloys of the metal, as strong as planes and the army 6,000. Such a the aluminum tions for The collep industry, makes use d structural steel, are only more than in 1939. There will no expansion of program required air 1 ivy, as heavy. Modern tanks use the be a tremendous jump in 1941, unfacilities, inasmuch as a somethin production W0! RURAL HAPPY aluminum for gun platforms, inteder the new tax law, and again we, supply of the metal was on iting from rior fittings and wherever else it years the consumers, will pay it all. hand. However, late in 1938 this NOW you can enjoy lovsThis may to can be employed efficiently save nil will be to company Inaugurated a program cooking, water heating weight and gain maneuverability. with additions since made to it callADVERTISING VALUES dean same eration the more than uses FOR RURAL MERCHANT Todays battleship ing for the capital expenditure of a million pounds several times as over $200,000,000. vement service enjoyed THE LARGE STORES of every Instead ot an inal much as the whole city of New crease in the connected with the city F. ot aluminum, metropolitan center demonstrate price York rounded up in the GOLDENE is manufactured 'j0 as there has been in practically all every day the value of intelligently drive. used newspaper advertising space. and critical materials, in strategic Restricted Use. To insure that intelligent use, these some instances as high as 200 per safe liquid gas delivered ,en jy it d This explains why you can no cent, there has been a decline in the stores employ the best expert ad premises in steel cylinders at way longer obtain aluminum for egg price of approximately 14 per cent They vertising talent available. for immediate use. For ft! There will poachers, for refrigerator trays, for All the testimony given before this pay large salaries to advertising contact impetition streamlined trains, hair curlers, committee was to the effect that the managers because they know the There will when and what" of mer"how, bridge girders or chewing gum Aluminum Company of America had toe MOUNTAIN exciter ROCKY counto Gone defend its had wrappers. chandising advertising. given 100 per cent b ius These advertising experts cannot, try, aluminum is needed in quanti- not only used its own money for ex1234 Beck St., Salt Ur1 Some umv ties the like of which peacetime pansion, but of its own initiative took if they would, hide their talents. Dial otbaU way America never imagined, much less steps to treble its production." must them .each day They display 1 completel consumed. and in each issue of the newspapers Alcoa by July, 1942, will be producarid as it in which they buy space. Every The United States annual mili- ing 725,000,000 pounds annually. Embroidered But on mo, Pressing in a offer lesson effective day they tary requirements of aluminum Seven New Plants. To press heavily e"e always when the defense program gets into merchandising advertising. Aided by RFC loans totaling some derlooked. linen, full production, have been estimaty place right side By a study of the copy the Reynolds Metals $35,000,000, ot These wil and turkish towel press ed at from 1,200,000,000 pounds to produce, rural merchants can anee this company, long a fabricator of aluForging an aluminum propel they Bide with a hot iron. 2,000,000,000 pounds a year and up. learn the "when "how, and ler blank. Defense aircraft will minum, this year entered the busiSuppose we take 1,600,000,000 pounds ness of "what of effective advertising. If, 'or Foe the metal. At making require many times the number and when, the lessons are applied to the estimate of William Knudsen, BfM "1 one of its two plants Ala., aluminum S. U. director-generof jAfter all forgings the of OPM as a fair their own merchandising problems, is already in operation, and at Longand average. That is twice as much view, Wash., another is nearing consumes in peacetime. the rural stores will fii?d how much lj.rtad )ll as the gr aluminum as the entire world proeffective will newspaper advertising completion. Together they will of an electrolytic furnace. This duced only five years ago. It is make do in the development of hme-tow- n 100,000,000 pounds a year. large rectangular pot is filled with to world the entire roughly equal fjln the las OPM is reported to have recomthe stone like ice, found patronage. LUessure put production of 1940, notwithstanding mended to the war department the cryolite, A y far-ofof adverthe f study only in Greenland, but manuong winnin the gigantic war machines that construction of seven new factured synthetically in large quangoverntising of the large city stores will me no got were built. In terms more familiar ment show the remerchant to the rural the "how tities here. Powerful electric curplants. According to all of us, it is more than twice adto of and "when these would be run by private rent is introduced into the cryolite, advertising as much aluminum as this country ports, Such a study will three by Alcoa, one by passes through it, heating it to a vertise what. Insurance has consumed in all its history for companies, make of the rural merchant an adBohn Aluminum and Brass corporamolten leaves and mass, the through The blddin re54 cooking utensils and electric A white subtion, one by Union Carbide and Carvertising expert lining of the pot. gone beyt frigerators combined. stance like powdered sugar, called bon, and one by the Olin corporare has b What is being done to meet this tion. These WHAT WE RAISE CONSUME would add alumina plants (which is merely alumi'U lied "nat challenge? A great deal some of W. C. WEBBER, in the Northpounds a year. The Metals num chemically combined with oxyfinning big it by private enterprise, some of it Reserve company, a government is dissolved in the molten east Johnson County Herald at Overgen), Pposed to 1 by the government, some by the corporation, has Contracted with the cryolite. The electric current deland Park, Kansas, proposes that :e students two working together. Aluminum Company of Canada to composes the alumina, the oxygen America encourage the raising of education The Aluminum Company of Amerobtain about 750,000,000 pounds, passing off as gas and the then ail agricultural products we conr have ne' ica Alcoa" since it was the only 187,000,000 to be delivered during molten aluminum, heavier than the sume as a solution of our farm NOW, b, oJlege footb, iil m c producer of virgin (new) aluminum cryolite, sinking to the bottom of the problem. If all of Americas rural MrtftH, children t mtne4 nnw way wo ' in the United States until this year, to . mim. lo would The the aluminum is then Secondary, or reclaimed, aluminewspapers support pot plan, tapped Ac,f$ i t 75 tance than was first to get under way with dejjj LEGAL num (for the metal can in some into ladles and poured into would it solution a for NmjritjbJ, the provide ingot at ...at should fense expansion. What it has done ways be used over and over again) American farm problem. intervals. NO MEDICAL IXAMl g fln ed NO OTMf FEES NO AGFNT5 Will Before the Hall process can be XhorC tl&V6 cwnhftcjlly dfuqned t Jell"' H lowMt premium many complicated opera- WE, THE PEOPLE &11 USI)A Develops 150 New Cotton Hosiery Designs employed lyCTS relief a tommustoii, THAT WE, the people, own Amertions must be performed to obtain Of m MfK tnd 0t rfipl i' inv Ul i,B WASHINGTON, The U. S. departM lithit limly because of the international situais ican the alumina. It may be recovered illustrated by a surindustry hundred ment of agriculture has announced tion, congress three years ago ap- from a number of maii coupon today b materials, but It vey made by the American FedOfowp ifxufiiKo Policy it io ot i game &tic that more than 150 different cotton propriated funds to the department is obtained of Investors eration 165 from economically only covering Jl and of it stocking designs are now available of agriculture for investigating the bauxite, a mineral which looks industrial and service corporations. The fellows to the hosiery industry as a result of use of cotton for women's hosiery. sometimes like clay and sometimes For 1910 the total assets of these w ho had si. of home the bureau David H. Young, textile technoloInvestigation by like rock and occurs in many com- 165 corporations amounted to Crst call economies. Several of these designs gist for the department has devel- binations of colors. Their 653,815,300 Roughly, four $44,974,942,130. are in production and more will be oped cotton hosiery pounds of highgrade bauxite will shares of stock were owned by soon, now that cotton is expected to designs for every occasion. These make two jlncnt of ( pounds of alumina, which 6,3GO,000 stockholders, an average ol to be increasingly important. mesh for eve- will then make one pound of alu- 115 shares per stockholder. Legislavary from cotton-ne''rii'ri.l cli In an effort to reduce mounting ning wear to plain knits in various minum. 12 kilowatt hours of elec- tion that injures legitimate business mm pressi cotton surplus, and in anticipation weights for sports' wear and around are required to make a single In the United States Is legislation tricity assure for 5 shut-ofof a possible in silk supplies the house and garden. f pound of aluminum. injurious to ourselves. noved. i. . al lf S s lf Si - one-thir- - one-thir- So Hut day-to-da- al day-to-da- ,3 f. 1942-194- i h " No ' i 7?77wl0lUlthedr b |