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Show Little Fellows Say 'Phi' All Wanna Be Henry Fords-Conclusion Fords-Conclusion of Investigation By Frederick C Othmaa WASHINGTON Moat of the lawgivers long since have gone home. The house office building build-ing is full of scaffolding, which Is swarming with painters. They are covering the walls and about time, too with cream-colored cream-colored enamel. Then they are going over thla, when half dry, with cork rollers to give It a bumpy look. But if you fight your way through the tarpaulins and wind up in room 346 , . . Rep. Emanuel Celler (D N.T.) la carrying on in an aroma of linseed oil hla Investigation on business monopolies. Nobody much seema to be Interested. No other member of tha Judiciary committee la sitting with him. Most of tha seats in the audience audi-ence and at tha press table are vacant Thla, In my opinion, la a mis take on tha part of tha absent ab-sent ones. Strange facta are turning up. And interesting Information, In-formation, e Serious Representative So the intensely serious Rep. Celler waa Introducing one of hla witnesses, Fred L Raymond, tha Chicago- Inventor of the widget that looks out tha window win-dow to see how cold it is and turns up the furnace accordingly. accord-ingly. "He la a manufacturer of heating heat-ing epeclaltlea," continued Rep. Celler, "and tha author of a book. The Leftist' . . . oops ... I mean. The Limltiaf." Author - manufacturer Raymond Ray-mond turned out to be a pink-faced pink-faced sandy-haired gentleman in a loose collar and a green- really big. big businessmen liked the idea. Their mighty corporations corpora-tions were top-heavy with sub-managers, sub-managers, their coats were up, they were unable te supervise the enterprises for which they were responsible, and it waa worry, worry, worry all the time. He said ha believed that If they could be assured their competitors also would be chopped up Into reasonably sized bites, .most of them would go along. Rep. Celler waa Interested In the small businessmen. He's been fighting their battle fonj long time now. What about them? pained Expression Raymond 'a expression became pained. All the little fellows had said, "phut" to any scheme to hold down the size of American Ameri-can corpora tiona. Tha trouble was, he said, that there's hardly a small businessman in America Amer-ica who doesn't expect some dsy to become a big one himself. "Everyone wants to be another Henry Ford,' lamented witness Raymond. This waa a Jolt I can teU you, to Rep. Celler. For If email business busi-ness doesn't want to be protected from big. on account of Its knocking itself out to get that way, too, what'a the use T Tha congressman didn't say this out loud, of course. But hie Adam's apple Jiggled and, as I aald before, be-fore, you never can tell what you'll find behind a tarpaulin In tha U.S. capitol. Copyright IMS. United Features Syndicate spotted bow tie. He'd long studied the problem of big businesses busi-nesses gobbling up little ones. That very thing happened to his father, who manufactured coal pulverizers. A big boiler manufacturer manu-facturer bought the business on an or-elae basla. Then It went bankrupt and a still bigger outfit out-fit swallowed up the enterprise. This goes on all the time and It doesn't make much sense to, Raymond. Writes Book ' So he wrote his book, explaining explain-ing his scheme to pass a law cutting industrial monsters down to size. If a business has only .' ona factory, Raymond would let it be as big aa competition pcr-. pcr-. miis. Rut if It haa branches across the land, then he would limit it to 10,000 employee. Either way, ha figures, competition competi-tion would have a chance. His book In tha marts of publishing pub-lishing waa no great shakes. It froze out no competitora. So Raymond sent copies of It around free to businessmen, both big and little. He also talked to 'em. And here's where Rep. Celler blinked his eyee and I came out of that paint-induced trance. Raymond said most of the |