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Show UINTAH ' I1. VSIN RECORD I Heres a Little Boxer Rebellion muu aiuui4MlM -- WHOS HEWS Ask Me jj. O THIS WEEK... By 19 S cumstance was a bit alarming Sud- denly, how'ever, the depression settled down on the country. The President took note of it after a time and announced that prices had to come order to encourage buying That was in by the consumers. January of this year. Early in February, he told the press that there had to be higher prices to bring the country out of the depression. Subsequently it was on February 18, I believe, he took another position on the price question. He said in a formal statement: It is clear that in the present situation, a moderate rise in the present price level is desirable and that this rise need not and should not extend to all prices. So that now we are committed to a price rise on some commodities and present or even lower prices on some other commodities. It is to be presumed (because there is nothing to show a contrary view) that all of the machinery of government is to be used to bring about price rises in some commodities but not all of them. However, to continue our review: I reported to you in December, 1937, and have mentioned several times since that there is a trust busting drive on that is as big and as broad as the famous which big stick Theodore Roosevelt used when he was President Tweny-nm- e cases agunst monopolies are pending now in federal courts and the federal trade commission has some others in process of prosecution. The prosecutions range all the way from ladies half size dresses and against individuals who design stales through the list to Aluminum Company of America. Now, while the trust dnve has been on (and some folks have been crud enough to charge that the trust busting drive is to keep the folks fiom realizing we are in a depression), another thing has hapI refer to the passage of pened. the new farm aid legislation. I have not been able to understand the law, but Secretary Wallace calls it one of Gods blessuigs to the farmers because he savs that it will or limit ptoduetion and theie-b- y force a greater return to the f irmers. In Mr. Roosevelts statement on the general price situation, however, he spoke of the new program as follows: Our progiam seeks a balanced svstim of prices such as will promote balanced expansion in produc-tir- n This is not a policy of dow'n m le-du- ... rcsnction; it is a policy of abun-- d " seem to recall some phrases of a few years bilk which described the p ins as leading first, to higher prices for agricultural products through "scarcity; then, there came the more abundant life and later bal meed abund inee. I assume the balanced expansion must represent something taken in between the other policies, but I frankly do not understand. That is the reason why I have attempted this report to you by way of a re-u I 1 v it w. Although admitting that much of the nt w piogram is too deep for me to analyze, there Trade aie cert in phases which have Treaties b e en operative and fiom which results have begun to show. Tike the lecipiotal tiade tre ities as an example I c mie tu rnss some figures down at the Di artment of Coinnurce the tther day and tin v wtre sonu thing if a levelation They showed that in 1UJ7 th s nation of outs Was im K i i porting more agricultural commodities than it exported. I could not find when that condition had obtained before. Certainly, there have been few times in our history when that has happened. The department figures showed that the United States imported 18 per cent more commodities from the farms of the world than it exported from our farms. Further examination of those statistics reveals the disturbing fact that the bulk of those imports were things which our American farmers could have grown right at home. I can find no other reason for the condition than that the reciprocal trade treaties which were to bring us prosperity have taken prosperity to some other farmers. The circumstance caused me to wonder then whether these trade treaties are not slow'ly grinding the American farmer into the dust. I have tried to find out how the new farm aid law, which restricts production further in the United States, is going to help this situation. Accepting Secretary Wallaces statement that it will result in higher prices for our farm products, will it not by the same token make a greater difference between foreign prices and our own? And if that be true, is not it to be expected that there will be more imports of farm products from foreign lands? My reasoning brings an answer of yes m each case, and so I cannot see where we are going to get balanced expansion out of those factors. Now, as A1 Smith used to say, let us look at the record as it concerns the trust busting drive and its relation to prices, employment and the like. I simply have no patience at all with the big business groups that ignore or forget their responsibilities to the public. There is no excuse and can be no excuse for crushing any individual who is trying to run a business of his own. It is one thing, however, for a business to have growm big because it serves its public well and quite another thing for the same group to have attained its bigness through savage tactics. stiU Prince, the Boston banker, was in faith has He great playing polo. the durability of Time Better men, institutions trial that was held at Madison, Wis. As far as I have read the record in that case, the basis of the charge by the government was that the oil companies had used a pricing system which was fostered by the infamous NRA, a policy laid dow'n by congress. Secretary Ickes of the Department of the Interior, now one of the loudest mouths m the chorus of bust the trusts, insisted on the oil companies getting together. He wrote letters to them to that effect. Of course, the NRA was held unconstitutional but the decision was based on the question of congressional authority to delegate powers to the executive officeis It did not declare that congress had no rght to grant privilege of agreement on prices for purposes of stabilization. We might also look at some of the tactics employed by the government. Robert H. Jackson, who was the spearhead and spokesman for the trust busting drive, lately has been promoted to the job of solicitor general of the United States Mr. Jackson told a senate committee considering his nomination that he had picked "the proper forum for the oil case He said the Department of Justice would continue to do it. They picked a New York court to hear the case against the Aluminum company in order to get the proper kind of a jury as they did in tlie oil case. The tactics used in the Aluminum case seem to me to be almost reprehensible. For instance, the government had been anxious to set a date for the trial and the Aluminum company counsel urged early action The record of that day in court in New York revealed that when Judge Knox proposed a date early in April, Walter Rice, one of Mr. Jackson's assistants, admitted to the court that the government did not jet have enough evidence far afield from the price question. I wonder if it is so far off the subject. As I said earlur in this discussion, legal action against anybody, individual or corporation, is destiuetive, demoralizing and evponsive. I know nothing about the merits of the oil case or the aluminum case or any of the others bejond what I have picked On the other up in the records hand, however, it is plain for anyone to see no "price stiucture can be arnngod for balanced expansion if the federal government Is going to decree one course of action for business with one hand and write an obitu iry for the same business with the other hand That is to say, if the people tire tin ble to know or undi island what the r government policies me, it is quite liltilv that those s ime people will coni lime to ask ruh other "Where are we going and wl.at is the end ' going to be7 Iup ipcr L'niun. ha'1 what date 8, r 0nhJ ernment fiscal What 5. do the of the Apocalypse L pc , eit d yhat rp- - ) trying to reform business and leave the situation to time,'' he says. Time has treated him nicely and he may well give it a testimonial. be is the grand At seventy-ninseigneur of American business. Only four years ago, he engaged in a slugfest over the control of Armour & Co. He got what he was after the chairmanship of the board. He has many such trophies, having controlled 46 railroads, and, in general, one of the biggest cuts in the Amer-- I ican dream of any man of his day. His (mainly liquid) fortune is estiBut, mated at around $250,000,000. for many years, Makes Point he says, he has made it a point to of Being in about 20'000 Debt Always be 0Q() debt That is revealing in connection with his ideas about money and success. He emphasizes the dynamics of money. It isnt money unless it is working. Stagnant money just dries up and blows away. Hence you draw cards even if you do have to drag a few chips for markers. Hes a little too heavy for polo, with a massive gray head, deep sunken, pondering eyes, and heavy, gray moustache; a bit grim, perhaps, but not formidable. When, early in October, 1929, a small black cloud appeared on the horizon, he viewed it with a telescopic eye, saw it for what it was, and got out of the market The cyclone never touched him. Until a few years ago, he was still riding to the hounds at Pau, in southern France, master of the hunt He has marble palaces here and there, one of them the former mansion of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at Newport Remarking that he has been in busmess 55 years, he says this little squall will blow over in two or three months. e, hard-hittin- It looks like a rebellion of some sort, but it is really only a battle royal among kids at Palm Beach, Fla., championships in Miami. The young entrants are from for the purpose of getting in shape for the high-chatwo ladies Sun Notice the and Surf club. the mixing it up at the left. young ir i NO ARMS FOR IIIM Navy Launches New Destroyer Frank Littcll of Mt, Vernon, Iowa, student at Union Theological seminary, New York, who represented the National Council of Methodist Youth before the house naval committee on the United States naval building program, where he attacked President Roosevelts request for increased military exaction penditures as anti-sociand said the young men he reprewill not bear arms sented in event of war. The navys newest destroyer, the at San Francisco. Second naval vessel 1,500-to- n Maury, launched recently to be built privately on the west coast since the World war, the Maury was christened by Miss Virof the ships namesake, ginia Lee Maury Werth, al the late Lieut. Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury. 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Dr. Walter Albert Tuba Aces Jessup deplores Prized Same this and other as Athletes Phases of tha scramble for students in the annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, of which he is president. The fight seems to be entirely in the field of activities. No mere scholar gets competing bids from rival faculties. Since he became head of the Carnegie foundation, in 1933, Dr. Jessup has been a consistent deflationist, so far as education is concerned. He wants fewer a"d better students in the colleges. He assails the col-- I leges which would teach anybody anything. He is against educational trimmings, excrescences and gadgets, as the Little Scotch ironmaster doubtless would be if he were looking over the current scene. Other leading educators join him in this, but the big mill has to have p!enty of raw ma- Brain Mill tcrial, to keep on Needs Raw grinding, or else become just a Material crossroad plant. So they go after even the tuba players. At any rate, each can blow its own horn. Dr. Jessup was president of the University of Iowa from 1916 to 1933. A native of Richmond, Ind., he was educated at Earlham college and Columbia and gathered several honorary degrees in later years. He was superintendent of schools in Indiana and dean of the college of education of Indiana university. He has won high distinction in the educational field and is the author of a book on arithmetic. One gathers that he u'ould not recommend Benny Goodman for a college faculty and that quite probably the next Carnegie report may find adversely on the shag, the jeep-e- r and the susy-q- . He is for low kicking and high thinking, as against the prevailing reversal of this formula. extra-curricul- to prosecute. This seems Western pe po c States postage 4. On is (fiat e Apo 6. What s secretary f dence m the Pres.cC frat thi e a 7. What is a tr What He left for Europe to forget about stance? A transparent intimates A business for a while and An opaque substance e the if a be thing good would it that 8. When has t.h, ; Msen government would be similarly negsued mourning stam- - a lectful. Washington should stop That brings me to the recent conviction of the oil companies in a Trust Busting 2. 3. 0 Washington, D. C. now. Well, the higher prices began to materialize They came along to the point where eight or ten months ago there was genuine evidence of a speculative boom. Mr. Roosevelt said recently in a statement to the press that the outlook on this cir- ' to the What is a Rhode, tYTT TYVtt T YTYTVT The poi traits the age YORK. In 1929, at New seventy-one, Frederick H. women have been n by William Bruckart Washington Changes In President Roosevelts policies have been coming so fast Changes lately that about 1 am able t0 do Come Fast this week is to review .the situation. I have gathered information and advice from many official sources in an earnest effort to understand what is happening, but with all of that I am quite incapable of what I would regard as a complete analysis. As the air pilot would report while flying through fog: the visibility is zero. The proper basis for a start, therefore, appears to be with recollection that one of the cardinal policies of the Roosevelt administration was control of agricultural production to accomplish higher prices. Another basic plank is the foreign trade policies under which reciprocal trade treaties have been negotiated with numerous foreign nations. These two plank3 were designed to make markets available for what we produce, first, through scarcity of quantity and, secondly, to stabilize the world exchange of goods on price levels which we, in this country, considered to be worth while. 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