Show THE OGDEN PUBLISHING COMPANY Merry-Go-Roun- as Mjwod portofflc at Ojdii Entr3 of Oonjre Ujrca according to Act U mttr Member of The Associated PrtM DREW PEAESOH By - (Major Eobrt 8 Allen on Press NEA Sarrics and A B C " Th Associated Pr b to it or not othrwU credited erdiUd pr Sa una P- dwtJ duration— and (The Bras Ring— plastic for the is Merry-Go-Roua free ride on the Washington v aer-awarded to Leon Henderson the best' public vant Washington has seen in a long time but who never learned that the American public hatea to be scolded) WASHINGTON—About 25 years ago the writer of this column was' crawling along a roof dodging escape below a fusillade of old shoes from a fire crawled through he To get out of the line of fire anemic a scrawny where room a and Into to study desk a at trying was seated youth imaginasNo one by the greatest stretch of the his foreseen have would ever tion at that time cigar-chevdbellicose the as bulging emergence ration eentlemen who was to fix moreout prices more genercussed and get! more essentials man in America ally than any rnn Mnri'raorL in those dear dead t war I days at fiwarthmore college was so timid that anything but bellicose He was this freshman let he a was sophomore though he find haven in his room Leon at that time was the greenest thing on ' the campus some place in first his year college Taking sophissouth Jersey he had arrived at a relatively in" his pocket ten dollars with" about ticated college determined to get an education And he did In his room he kept a stock of crackers which he sold to the hungry and the less impecunious at prices charged prices slightly higher than on"ceiling"' table did any other in the town He waited chores he could find around the campus and eventually was graduated the way through It was a fight aallfivht it monoDolized all of ih nkd h that none left for the bel- -' hA — t nrirv ucuna foj — Become has he currenuy m- which ligerency " for mous Leon the Bellicose" Leon went to teach o aft!t at the 'University of Pennsylvania For ' a brief Interval I taught there too mat was wnere and t aati firt rlimh1 to the role of economist com where he also began to develop the bellicose iresn-me- n plex Standing up before a bunch or enn and making them like economic geography Leon requires a certain degree of belligerency and soon became an expert aii f which histnrv la imoortant only for one reason: It illustrates how - the new deal or at hn nf th most imoortant men in it gradu ally drifted into one of the most mistakes of any the public insteaa oi piay war period— luff ii n tn American natriotLsm At nv vat hv the time Gen Hueh Johnson was frothing at the American people and making his Blue Eagle scream Leon wenaerson naa come to Washington and much to thenut-fro-surprise of Old Johnson — t Dnf A " AiUJL auta Min that Via rnnlH so and aback— delighted— The general was so taken that anyone could use cavalry language approacmng hlo ftgrn thnt hi hired Leon on the SDOt ' Somehow or other Henderson from that point way to on seemed to have tne idea tnai-iget along with people was to "crack down"" It w rpn Jflhnson who Invented both the "crack down" phrase and the crack-dow- n technique But an was Henderson apt pupil it was a defense he had worked up as Partly a Tiilt Af h prlv Inferiority comrilex But what ever' the reason' it was one very important factor In Hendersons failure as price aaministrator History probably will show that Leon was not at il h failure irate coneressmen would have us believe In fact I think Henderson will go down men or tnis aommisira as one of the outstanding ' ! tion Hm TaIim the IUd Hnnst and inrere he has the COUraze of his convictions works day an& night and is a good Hminitmtnr A lot of the mistakes for which he got" the blame were not his mistakes The application for truck licensing which s complicated made truck owners tear their hair was prepared hv th rrff ir of defense transportation not by Leon Scarcity of tires belonged at Jesse Jones's doorstep but the fists were shaken at Leon The oil companies and the WPB blocked the but leon oil pipe line to the Atlantic seaboard ' ' orit the hlain for Void houses And part of the blame heaped on Leon's head was because he just didn't grasp the fact that the American public will make any sacrifice if its emotions are swayed but will sit back on its haunches like a balky mule when it is scolded Leon didn't realize that Gen Iron Pants Johnson's just crack-dow- n had worn out TVior Ii nn nfhr factor Tpoti didn't realize he didn't seem to know that the American people don't co for Tivoni who is ponatantlv bein? photo graphed with a big cigari in his mouth or taking his stenographer lor a ride in a Dasitet on nis bicycle handlebars They consider it cheap stuff and thv'r not Hkelv tn follow m man who nulla it Cordell Hull for instance never has a picture taKen witn a Dig cigar in nis moum jxor aoes Jesse Jones have his photograph taken pedalling a bicycle with a girl f on the handlebars They may smoke and they may do other interesting cnings out iney aon t nave ineir pictures taKen doing them They know the American people like dignity Thus dignified Jesse Jones has watched undignified Leon Henderson take the rap on rubber rationing and Henderson has been foolish enough to let him get away with it Some day Leon Henderson will come back and the American people will realize that he is one of the best public servants who has ever sacrificed his time his money and his health for the doubtful pleasure of being panned by the columnists But until then here's hoping his successor will mistakes and realize profit by his that though ypu can drive the American people to water it doesn't pay to push their heads down to drink (Copyright 1943 by United Feature Syndicate Inc i ?22ib2 nd - ana aJo tnt qcj j Id advance By WEST'S? a year ilail-M- d uii y- - SfV--- 8 Nevada and 11100 ng Web'er School District's Problem some of us When social problems arise conversation merely have a new topic for because Others are affected uncomfortably mm-- i of the new situation A few persons to do ever are so situated that they have now the something about a solution Just and Weber county school district board to do something superintendent are having about a vexatious problem soon Fourteen hundred housing units are to be opened for occupancy by war workers and their families The number of persons south who will live at Washington Terrace of of Ogden may well equal the population Price Utah approximately 5000 persons The immediate problem is how to provide war housschooling for the children of that least 1100 boys ing area There will be at and girls of school age The area lies within the Weber7 county school district jurisdiction hence the board' and superintendent - pre-Wor- ld t'' two-shi- ft ' schools ! i This matter "of schooling for the children of war workers has its important war aspects' Mothers of- children do not want to remain in a spot thai fails to afford schools d for their children If mothers are not and happy the family usually moves d war That means turnover in industries So we must have schools in order more speedily to win the war ' - satis-yfie- short-hande- The Parity Formula V batrenewed the One can hardly consider tle over the farm parity formula without Professional farmer spokesmen on the one side and provincial city dwellers on the other may be able to see one argument' as indisputably correct' and the other as utterly wrong But the matter is much less simple than that For many years the farmers have been in the economic dumps For the first time since World war I they now have a market for all they can raise at excellent prices But they are unable to get help to plant cultivate and harvest nor can they buy machinery Certainly the wages paid for labor constitute just as valid an element in the farmer's production cost as in that of the manufacturer or the merchant and this should be true of the wage allowance which the farmer makes for his own long day and that of members of his family So it would seem wrong for anybody to 'dogmatically condemn farmers for asking to have wage costs made an element in the formula on which the ceiling prices of their products are to be based On the other hand economists warn that 'if "the parity formula is revised upward we must expect the entire price control program to collapse Stabilization Director Byrnes has moved the farm wage ceiling up to $2400 a year which is little enough to compete with factory wages but which does open the door to a big lift in farm production costs This increase on top of wage boosts already effective will push up the ceiling on farm prices if the parity formula is amended to include wages as an element Inevitably the price of foodstuffs to wholesalers and retailers will go up and the distributors either must raise their prices or be ruined But foods are important elements in the cost of living Any substantial boost in food prices will be ground for wage raises which will increase the costs of wjiat the farmer buys and the wage of the labor he hires Thus say the economists a vicious spiral will produce inflation The only method suggested by which we can avoid the alternative of doing injustice to the farmer or of producing inflation is a system of subsidies which would have to be paid out of taxes levied on farmers factory workers and the generally unorganized conflicting sentiments j anti-inflati- on -- - V J - - have got to do" something about the matter ' The federal public housing agency profacilities poses the construction of school but these structures won't be ready for use until next September Available school buildfilled ings in 'Ogden and in the county are use The ojd Quincy school is available for but that would involve a difficult transportation problem Furthermore it wouldn't house enough pupils unless operated on a ' basis expedient has been suggested and it seems to be the best method of meetsome of ing the situation That is to use the housing units at Washington Terrace forschool buildings To do this will require the use of about 40 of the units for f bull-dozi- ng th - ! " m f a - 1 y V I d at TUT t By PETER EDSON Ogden StAndard-Examin- er -- : i em-ploye- sof " Nos 14 and 18 ex- any territory "Wages paid-icept Alaska are exempted from stabilization control by WLB general order No 8 That would of course apply to places like' Hawaii Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Wages of all farm workers receiving less than $2400 $ pear— which would take in over three million hired" hands— are similarly exempted from control of WLB and placed under the jurisdiction of the secretary of agriculture Flexibility Provided Machinery for federal wage stabilization enforcement has been set up so that It would not interfere with previously established agenciea having control over wage ' stand ards or wage mediation boards Thin la nart of the oritrinal presi dential order establishing 'the wage stabilization program It means that new decisions of the rtwage and hour division setting a new minimum wage up to 40 cents an hour in some industry previously not under the fair-- labor standards act provisions would stand Wage inertia eg called for by state mini mum wage laws are sfmilarly ex empted This also applies to wage scales paid to private companies holding povernment contracts and working under the Walsh-Heal- y conact as well as to holders or tracts on government construction Davis-Baco- n projects under the f ' act O '' We salvage everything but the bullet holes Wfe change a motor here in two to three hours Back home three days was considered fast time— Lieut George Cole of marine corps ground forces at Guadalcanal Never since the beginning of the soviet-Germa- n conflict have I found such supreme confidence among soldiers of all ranks as I found here on a vast battlefield that covers approximately 10000 square miles —UP correspondent Hen-"r- y Shapiro from Stalingrad front On the immediate success of the surprise landings (in Africa) there has been a tendency on the part of people to say "Why heavens the whole thing Is over!" Nothing could be more untrue — Secretary of War Henry L Stimson snow-wrapp- ed Sports make you offensive minded That's the big thing After all this war Is much like a game It's you against the other fellow It's the intelligent application of your offensive power— Lieut Slade Cutter former Annapolis gridman ' who commanded a submarine in South Pacific classes which alone among Americans already are taking a hard economic beating Economic stabilization is no simple matter' whit-coll- ir " " MWik " ington Correspondent The one uoint about the srov'ern- ment's wartime wage stabilization program which will surprise and please people the most is tnat- - it is possible to get a raise and that nearly 10 million workers are completely exempt from wage freez ing controls In th first place there Is - no ware control for employes of small business and that is inter- nreted to mean every one of the 15 million employers who has" not more than eizht employes on his payroll Right here some' five million workers are exempted Au in war labor thority for this la No 4 it covers board general order and stations stores small filling the like But any employer sucn as the operator of a chain or tore who mav have eight or less employes in every one of his storea is not exempt if the total number ' of his employes is nine or more A man running two businesses— a hot dog stand and a shoe shine parlor for instance— with only four employes in one and five in thefithor would have to zet arovernment permission to give the help a raise !A Similarly In the case of a nego tiated wage agreement for say all the printing shops in any city or all the plumbing repair shops tnen all the workers employed in any of these shops would come under government control even if there were only two or any number ofj employes less than eight working in an independently owned establish ment entering into - the trade asso ciation agreement Domestics Excluded The two million domestic servants of the country are also excluded from wage control orders Another bie srroup of: employees whose pay may be normally in creased are the three million state District of Columbia county municipal or territorial governments That covers garbage collectors policemen tax collectors and the like The federal government is given wartime jurisdiction over local government wage and salaries under the stabilization order but this authority is delegated to the heads of local governments by WLB general order No 12 All the local officials' must do fa qpe that four copies of the " wage increase order are sent to' the joint committee on salaries ana wages department of labor Wages and salaries fixed by federal o state statutes are x completely exempt Control over the pay scales of the more than a million civilian employes of the war and navy departments has been "secretaries of war delegated to the ' WLB and navy by general order - Ice-breaki- ng SO THEY SAY The War Today Wash- - Wages of women may be Increased to the same rates paid men doing similar work without prior government approval under WLB general order No 16 Ultimately this may serve to increase the wages of froni four to ten million women industrial workers In all the exceptions mentioned above there is one important condition An employer may make any of these permitted i Increases-- he likes but he can not use these increases as a basis for demands that the prices of the goods he ' makes or the services he performs Any Idea that there Is to be no further toil and be increased in any way" That's sweat and blood would simply lead this country to to control inflation tremendous disappointment — Secrtary of War sNext: Who can get a raise Henry L Stimson 0 194 Our New Year's Present to the AxU Wage Freeze Exempts Many And Nearly en Minions Are Still Able to'feet Kaise The Washington JANUARY 3 SUNDAY MORNING STANDARD-EXAMINE- R VIOLENT DEATH TOLL DECLINES (By The Associated Press) Deaths in the nation oyer the New Year's holiday resulting from violent causes — automobile accidents drownings fires shootings at least stabbings etc —numbered two-thirbelow 115 today almost the total for the aame period a year ago Utah had one a traffic death and Idaho none The recent trend showing a 50 per cent reduction in motor vehicle deaths was indicated in the number of traffic fatalities reported since New Year's eve An Asso-iate- d Press survey showed that 74 of the total violent deaths since New v Year's eve resulted from automobile accidents Of the 265 violent deaths reported oh Jan 2 1942 automobile accidents accounted for 171 Principal factors for the decrease in automobile deaths were gasoline rationing and "observance of the lower driving speed law ds : By DeWltt Mackenzie j ::iWk!ih:: 1 NEW DELHI India Jan i 2 — Whether to introduce first the man and then his achievement or to reverse the process is a quandary who for both are big know-hiwell tell me I shall be favoring one of "his" characteristics if the accomplishment comes first Perhaps we might begin by say in that India not only is among the maior allied arsenals but may well become the most important base for operations against the but-thos- e m Japs J Don t forget that once werr wit ler has been hung drawn and quartered the united nations will cut loose with ail tneir power against Nippon Airpower to Hit Japs When that happens ft is quite likely as I see it that a tornado Of airpower will sweep from India through Burma across China and island up rip the Mikado's Iitj-lby the roots That rather fixes the status of India in the allied scheme of things As late as last Sbring this great which hangs down into the stormy Indian ocean from the Himalyan "roof of the world" like a giant heart lay virtually unprotected against an attack by the Japs in their triumphant westward drive Had the Mikado's barbarians de sired to extend their i conquest to India at that moment they prob ably Could have raped and massa cred their usual way througn tne defenseless country until its very vastness halted them thjougn overextended communications Certainly the long vulnerable eastern coast line lacked protection by land sea and air India like a lot of others had been caught unprepared But Nippon didn't strike probably because she already had overrun all the territory she could consolidate Now an attempt at invasion would be a terrible risk for this country has been soundly armed India's chief weapon of both defense and offense at this juncture is the ' R A F and its young colleague the Indian air force which "mushroomed up here from nothing to a tower of strength It would be almost impossible to overemphasize the importance of this fighting arm And here I must repeattwhat I said before — that our Tenth American air force is doing a magnificent job in cooperation with our British colleagues Good in Offensive This coordinated air fleet has a : striking power which can prevent the Japs from sending a expedition across the bay of Ben- gaL But it can do far more than that for it has achieved superiority and has deserted the defensive for the offensive The Nipponese defenses in Burma already are being softened up by bombing in preparation for the' big allied drive which will" come in due 'course With that background It would seem to be time for the delayed entrance of the man V Meet Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Pelrse of air officer commander-in-chie- f the air forces in India' That is a big title to carry around but the commander-in-chihas the stature He is a big chap both physically and mentally and is among that top flight of British neatair chiefs who can ly on the fingers of one hand The air chief marshal Is a tall well set up rangy individual vwho wears the tan of many suns He still flies his own ship just as he did 30 years ago The Wprld war brought him decorations for daring and skill He rose rapidly until in this war he has held several top positions In the air force He was knighted in 1940 and in the same year became chief of Britain's great bomber force A year ago he came to India to tackle the organization of one of the world's key air forces One of his greatest achievements has been the creation of innumerable flying fields and bases for the maintenance of supply throughout "this nuge empire e sub-contin- ent sea-bor- ne ef d L GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT Copyright 1942 New York Tribune Inc Th known and confirmed com bat losses of Jap aircraft in the Solomon islands area are officially stated as being 667 up to this time This is a highly significant figure but like most casualty fig ures it requires interpretation In the first place this figure of 667 represents known and officially confirmed combat losses It does not include probable losses of damaged 'aircraft which may h a v e crashed on return flights or those losses which cannot be officially and definitely confirmed by our observers because of poor visibility or the exigencies of &it fighting Losses of this type may be conf servatively estimated as adding 25 per cent to the total bringing the combat losses of Japanese aircraft in the Solomon islands to a total of 833 Consider Losses Next we must consider operational losses These are1 losses which occur due to causes other than hostile action — crashes in in bad weather landings take-off- s or those ' due to human factors such as poor navigation faulty judgment and the like Having in mind on the one hand the hazards of operating over water and the generally poor condition of the airfields iin this area and on the other hand the light construction and easy handling of the Japanese Zero fighter it seems reasonable to estimate the operational losses of Japanese aircraft in the Solomons operations at about 70 per cent of the combat lossesJ This would give a figure of 883 for operational losses and it would bring the total losses of Japanese aircraft from all causes during the Solomons operations to approximately 1416 Active operations in the Solomons have been in progress for about four and a half months This means that the average total Japanese loss in aircraft has been slightly over 314 per month in this : f undertaking the Solomons offensive lasc August considerable though the risks "were is shown to be sound and well considered Training Program It may be added that there Is some evidence that the Jap program is no more able to keep up with the losses than their production of aircraft The encounterJap pilots we are now' are far inSolomons ing in the ferior in skill boldness and experience to those with whom our fliers first came into contact when the Solomons offensive commenced This is probably due to the shortening of the training period because of the desperate need for lack pilots and to an increasing airof availability of combat-typ- e so that advance for craft training pilots are rushed into faction with no experience other than that obtained with trainer planes Of course the losses resulting from such methods tend to be cumulative because the use of poorly trained pilots Increases both combat and operational losses of pilots and of aircraft There can be no doubt that the Tons r makine every possible effort to increase their production' of aircraft but in doing so tney face serious and perhaps Insuperable obstacles Among these are shortages of raw materials of mo-of tor fuel and lubricants and machine tools Also under such conditions it will be almost impossible for the Japanese to deof sign and produce new models aircraft embodying the lessons of while our airthe present fighting ' to will tend improve in craft charactertactical In and quality istics Thus to a growing quantitative superiority we shall add a mounting qualitative superiority The Japanese are now in the same unhappy position as the Germans in having begun a war which they had to win within a given time or abandon all hope of winning it The office of price administrarationtion today listed important ' follows: ing dates as Coffee: Jan 3 — Last day for using coupon No 27 in wir ration book 1 for purchase Of coffee Cou- pon No 28 becomes valid Jan 4cof-It will be good for one pound of fee and valid until Feb 8 Sugar: Jan 5— Last day on which institutional and industrial sugar users may register at ration ooaras x ior January j anu suiujr ments Jan 31— Coupon No 10 In war ration book 1 Is good for three pounds of sugar through this daU Mileage gasoline and tires: Jan : 21— Last day for using No J3 cou- pons in "A" books No 4 coupons become valid Jan 22 Jan 31— Last day for 'temporary "T" coupons to be Issued directly by ration board Beginning Feb 1 J'T" rations will be issued on the— — basis of ODT certificates of war necessity All motorists must have tires inspected by this date Typewriters: Dec 31— Last day on which holders of typewrite! certificates could purchase ma chines War Ration Book I: Jan 15— Last day for obtaining this book issued for ' Book No 1 originally coffee sugar but now good also will be used in obtaining subse quent books - " ? " i - fr "YANKEE DOODLE DANDY LONDON (UP)— When the premiere of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" was 'shown at the Warner theatre Leicester Square London the prices of the seats were $5 to $5000 to be paid for in war bonds The audience was made up of clerks typists war workers shdp girls film fans soldiers and office boys who sat in $1009 seats given to them by banking and insurance corporations The war effort got $870419 the largest sum of money ever paid to a London theatre for One per- formance' 7 - ' The total estimated Japanese production of combat type aircraft is from 250 to 400 a month — say 325 a month to strike a medium of the various available WITH THE U S" ARMY AIR estimates In other fwords the J apanese FORCE IN CHINA Jan 2 (AP) have beeni losing practically their First Lieut Robert Mooney Kan- whole production of new combat sas City Mo a fighter pilot and aircraft in the Solomons First Lieut Roland Hill Margaret-vill- e type islands area alone ever since AuN Y a - bomber navigator gust last r killed in combat with the Japs were This does not take into account buried with military honors today their losses In the New Guinea at an 'American air base cemetery area which have been considerBoth Mooney and Hill were the able nor does It : include their losses in China in Burma and in 3ona of newspapermen the Aleutians It does not Include operational losses of combat airWHEN HE WAS A BABY craft in advance training ferrying Me WATERFORD (UP) — and in such operations as anti Charles F Browne better known submarine patrol convoy and offas humorist Artemus Ward was a shore reconnaissance in home native of Waterford and proud of waters his Maine heritage In" a letter to Adding up the foregoing facts it a friend he told of his early life: is now clear that the Jap air forces "I was bom in the state of Maine as a whole are diminishing in size of parents As an infant I abstract- because Jap aircraft production is ed a great deal of attention The not sufficiently great to keep up nabers would stand over my cradle with the losses In particular xthe for hours and say 'How bright Solomons operations are costing that little face looks! ! How much the Japanese very heavily and once again the policy of the navy it nose'? 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