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Show I J provo, Utah county, utah. Wednesday, September 28, 1949 Our Policy On Monopoly Needs Review The government's civil anti-trust suit against the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. seems to us to be a signal for a full-scale full-scale review by Congress of the nation's entire en-tire policy on monopoly power. . There is serious doubt whether the objectives ob-jectives the government seeks in this case are in the public interest. Indeed, the Jus- v tice Department's confusing interpretations . of the anti-trust laws are making it increas-" ingly difficult to determine exactly where the public interest lies in any monopoly suit the government may bring. f In the A. and P. case, the department asks that the 6000-store food chain be split into seven separately-owned retail divisions on a geographic basis, that its produce wholesaling and sales unit be dissolved and that its manufacturing activities be divorced divorc-ed from buying and selling operations. . I-. These ends are sought, says the government, govern-ment, because the A. and P. has violated the -Sherman Anti-Trust act by restraining competition in food making and selling, and by monopolizing a "substantial part of trade and commerce." I The government argued in the criminal suit that A. and P. restrained trade by: T Forcing suppliers to grant secret rebates and preferential prices that amounted to discrimination against other buyers. I Selling food below cost in some areas to undercut competitors, while charging high-r high-r prices, to make up the loss elsewhere. "Subsidizing" its r e t a i I operations through profits made on its manufacturing and wholesaling activities, thus gaining an lunf air edge, over other retailers. f Since the criminal case was decided, 'two highly reputable independent sources have contended that the government's argument k full of holes. The Yale Law Journal referred re-ferred to it as a 'parade of mistakes." Prof. The 1952 Race As long as.the candidates for the 1952 presidential race are being generally picked already, some observers have turned their attention to the Progressive party, asking . who will be its candidate'in the event it is not Henry Wallace again. The suggestion . has been advanced that leaders of the party are quietly grooming Paul Robeson, the singer turned lecturer on behalf of communism, commu-nism, for the nomination. It might be logical. Robeson was well known in his own right before he turned to politics, and since Itime he has figured much in the news; his views are a neat fit for the Progressive party. . . " With so much forethought given to it, .the 1952 race should really be interesting. I '. ; M. A. Adelman, economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ripped into the government's stand in an article for the Quarterly Journal of Economics, published by Harvard University. As these sources pointed out, the A. and P. does not constitute, a monopoly in any ordinary sense of the word.- In 1947 it had 6.4 per cent of totaMJ. S. sales in 600,000 retail food, stores. Its share has been declining de-clining since 1933- not rising. Nor has the chain held more than 18.8 per cent of the business in any particular area where it has operated. The great weight of the evidence ;ndi-cates ;ndi-cates that the A. and P. has used its admittedly ad-mittedly great mass buying power not to raise or fix priced, restrict output and choke off its rivals. It. has used its economic leverage lev-erage for exactly opposite purposes the lowering of priees to consumers, the elimination elim-ination of costly middlemen and wasteful distributive methods, the making of savings sav-ings at the manufacturing end. Inevitably, competitors' toes were stepped step-ped on. Brokers and wholesalers and, similar simi-lar middlemen were rudely shoved but of the way. But is it necessary to protect inefficient in-efficient operators in order to "maintain competition" in the food business? Professor Adelman said the great fallacy in the government's case is that it "confused "con-fused the niaintenance of competition with the protection of particular , competitors." There is no advantage that one competitor can gain over another that does not hurt the second one. But the murt to particular competitors is nothing for -the public to worry about so long as competition is fairly preserved and there is free entry for newcomers to the field. The facts suggest strongly that such competition is being preserved. Like Old Times A locomotive builder is said to be working hard on devising a diesel locomotive whistle that will sound like the familiar mournful wail of the steam locomotive. The , Idea is supposed to be to give better warning to motorists who don't seem to pay enough attention at-tention to the present diesel horns as they approach rail crossings. Well, maybe that's it. But we suspect that this particular research just reflects America's Amer-ica's reluctance to yield its romantic railroad rail-road past. The engineers working on the new diesel -whistle are probably the same breed as the GI's who in wartime went down to the London docks just to hear one good toot from engines being unloaded from home. Patient Little Animal, Isn't He? The, Washington Merry-go-Round Drew Pearson Says: ICivil Rights Controversy Simmers Behind Closed Doors WASHINGTON For three years, a running filibuster has been going on to keep' the fair employment practices bill from coming up on the senate floor. But after 2,000 pages of testimony, testi-mony, the weary talkathon was temporarily Tended without fanfare when the bill was discharged dis-charged by the senate labor committee. This is the most controversial of all the civil-rights civil-rights legislation and is certain to- touch off another filibuster as soon as it reaches the senate floor. All that is holding it up now is the iPemocratic high command -r- still undecided j whether to bring up civil rights at the tail end of this session while the senators are too tired to talk and In a mood to go home, or to save civil Tights until the 1950 election year when it will Jbe more potent politically. Ji The last words of the three-year filibuster against the fair employment practices bill were Isaid behind closed doors. Starting off, the man 'who blocked the bill at the previous session, Senator Forrest Donnell of Missouri, spluttered: ''Drew Pearson in his newspaper column gave one undue credit for delaying this bill!" 1 What had happened was that Donnell, Hhough not a Southern Democrat but a Midwestern Mid-western Republicfn, had blocked the bill dh a technicality. Though' this also had taken place behind closed doors, it was reported afterward in this column. Not pleased at being exposed, onnell went on angrily: "I think the members of this committee com-mittee know I am not one to bicker over technicalities!" (Copyright 1949 by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. 'infinite wisdom'," chided Hill. "You can't make a mistake." . Finally it was agreed by an 111 vote to discharge the bill without a reommendation either for or against it. The lone dissenter, in .this case, was not Donnell but Hill of Alabama. I GERM WARFARE 1 Despite the unpleasant news about Russia's a-bomb, those who plan U. S. war strategy had long ago figured on a Russian weapon probably even more gruesome namely, germ warfare. Bacteriological warfare preparation is now no secret either in the United States or Russia. By the end of the war the United States navy had developed a germ capable of wiping out the entire Japanese rice crop. The germ, of course, was never used. .But since then, American scientists scien-tists have continued their experimentation, while Soviet scientists are reported to have been work-in work-in leverishly and to have developed two types of virus. One would wipe out cattle, the other would. spread pestilence among human beings. . U. S. intelligence regarding developments behind the iron curtain is now much better than at the end of the war. It's even known that the Russians are working on inoculation for their own troops so they could advance into enemy territory . immune to disease germs. after their own bacteriological warfare units had knocked out the enemy. For some time this was to be Russia's chief answer to the atomic bomb, for germ warfare, can be prepared in small, inexpensive laboratories labora-tories instead of.the acres and acres of industrial piants necessary iora-pomp construction. WINCHECX RESCUES 1 I THE GENTLEMAN FROM MISSOURI - On World Affairs Albania's Fence-Straddling Hoxha Beginning To Wake Up By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER Enver Hoxha, one-time school teacher and since 1945 Joseph Stalin's eauleiter in Albania, is beginning to see the handwriting on the wall. , Not all his bluster can cover up the fact. His public utterances are still defiant. The Albanian people are being misled by their dictator s proclamation of a whole months' popular celebration of "friendship with the Soviet Union." The hundreds of Russians Rus-sians who are running Albania for Stalin have never been feted so much. But -underneath Enver knows that he may soon be struggling not only for his regime but for his life. Enver is throwing out ballast. For 'the first time in three years, he is insisting that although he has as usual saved the remnant of the Greek rebels that recently Underwent defeat in the Greek mountains by giving them sanctuary sanc-tuary in Albania, this time he is not he says feeding and comforting, com-forting, resting and rearming and sending them back to fight again, but disarming and interning them. ' , , "I Fear the Greeks . . . w Frr three vears the little Al banian schoolmaster has thumbed his nose at international law, the western democracies and the United Nations. Now, under pres-urc pres-urc from within and without. he is beginning to crack. ntirte nreasure took the form of threat bv the victorious Greek government to follow the fleeing Green gueruias over xne Albanian border and destroy thm where thev were. ' In so doing, the Greeks would be legal ly justified, rne u. s. special Commission on the Balkans has repeatedly testified that there have been willful violations of the frontier by Albanians. If Greek guerillas and ' Albanians ran use Albania as a base from which to attack Greece, then the Greek government nas a rignt to counter-attack and invade Albania. Washington and London have advised the Greek government atrainat thin For political not for legal reasons. Such a Greek in vasion, however justified, might furnish the Soviet Union with nrtvt fnr turnincf its rreent quiet intervention in Albania into This brought a hoot of delight from the other senators, since Donnell has been known to debate literally foran hour over the placement place-ment of a comma. Red-faced, the senator from Missouri' went on to explain that the only reason he had held up the bill was at the request of Alabama's Senator Lister iill who had been called over to the White House. Yet. no sooner had Donnell disclaimed responsibility for blocking the bill, than he turned around and called . for more hearings-which would have prolonged the filibuster fili-buster indefinitely. . , - Minnesota's hair-trigger Senator Hubert Humphrey leaped to his feet. v "How, much more hearings do you think We need?" he snorted. "We have already heard from 250. witnesses who have filled 2.000 nasea of testimony." In a vote on Donnell's proposal for mpre hearings, four other senators sided with him Taft of Ohio, Pepper of Florida, Hill of Alabama, fcnd Withers of Kentucky. Three senators sided witn Humphrey and- for FEPC Thomas of Utah, Neely of West Virginia, and Murrav of Montana. But Chairman Thomas pulled two proxies out of the bag from Morse of Oregon, , and Douglas of Illinois for FEPC. This gave Humphrey and Thomas a one-vote majority for a moment at least. The 1,278 Americans and other refugees who left beleaguered Shanghai last week aboard the SS Geri. W. H. Gordon can thank Walter Win-chell Win-chell for their rescue. Behind that fact is an almost unbelievable story of official procrastination and red tape. For weeks, about 400 Americans have been pleading with "their government for some means to leave Shanghai, while the American President Lines also has been pleading with the state department de-partment and the navy for .permission to enter Shanghai and pick them up. 1 But the navy passed the buck to the state department and the state department , passed it ! DacK, gn top or which Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson said "No." Even the personal appeal of George Killion, head of.the American President Lines, who has raised more money for the Democratic Demo-cratic party than Johnson, got nowhere. Killion had flown back from Europe to arrange the evacuation, was willing to risk his ship. But the government was not willing to cut red tape. Finally Walter Winchell blasted the defense department for cowardice. Next morning the SS Gen. Gordon was permitted to enter Shanghai. - MERRY-'H-ROUND 1 DONNELL'S "INFINITE WISDOM" 7j ' Then Donnell triumphantly pulled out a letter from Smith of New Jersey, authorizing Donnell to vote for him and trusting to Donnell's "infinite wisdom." Donnell raised a question, however, on how the proxy should be applied. "Don't forget that you are empowered with Most attentive newspaper reporter at the 'senate debate over arms for Western Europe has been quiet, Ted-haired Jean Montgomery, of the Soviet's Tass news agency. She has been scribbling "copious notes on everything that has been said for relay to Moscow . . . Correction: though Ben Mandel -of the house un-American 1 activities committee, keeps up certain contacts with Congressman John Rankin of Mississippi,' no longer on the committee, this column is now convinced that Mandel does not share Rankin's race views as previously stated. Sincere apologies. Hollywood Comes ToKOVO! For your daily listening enjoyment en-joyment dial 960 for these programs. Monday through Friday i .. 1:36 P. M. PAULA STONE'S. HOLLYWOOD U. S. A. .9:90 T. M. DEEMS TAYLOR Monday-Wednesday -Friday 4:00 F. M. AT HOME WITH LIONEL BARRYMORE Tuesday and Thursday 4:00 P. M. GEORGE MURPHY'S GOOD NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD There's Always A Good Shew -:. n Kv TH1 1.000 WATT VOICI Of CENTRAL UTAH open intervention. Already the Russians occupy ' the island of Saseno off Valona harbor a real Gibraltar . but for its total lack of fresh wafer. Furthermore, an attack by Greeks is the one thing . that could rally the Albanian "people around the increasingly unpopular unpopu-lar regime of Hoxa and his communists. com-munists. UN Guardian Angel True, as long requested in these columns, the Greek government stated (on Aug: 27) that the outstanding out-standing Greek claims on Albanian Alban-ian territory would be 'pressed "only by peaceful means and within the framework of the United Nations." That was a good beginning but only a beginning. For in the first place, the Greek claims are preposterous in themselves, and should be foreotten. In the sec ond place, nobody ipr Albania would believe the Greek government govern-ment though it swore on the bones of Saints Cyril and Methodius. Meth-odius. . .' To reassure the Albanian people, peo-ple, the U. S: and British governments gov-ernments ought publicly take notice no-tice of the fact that the Greek government intends to respect the U. N. Charter. Another form of outside pressure pres-sure that frightens Enver Hoxha is the constitution and move to New York of the Committee of Free Albanians. The head of this committee, .the. former minister, Midhat Frasheri, captained the non-communist resistance organization, organ-ization, Ball! Kombetar, during the war. -He and his colleagues are all tough fighters. They are popular among the Albanian people. Once it is clear that they are being backed by the United States and Britain, their popularity is bound to increase. Sword of Damocles But -of course, the main reason, why Hoxha is weakening is hi total inability even with the help of Moscow to feed and look after the Albanians. Hunger and misery are growing and BARBS By HAL COCHRAN Cleveland notice seized a flock of lottery tickets and made Jt quite clear they weren't taking any cnances. A coupe has no back-seat driver -and sometimes not even a front. . We're beginning to believe that a pedestrian is a car owner with teen-age children. ." A woman's club is urging campaign of "wise spending." As if women needed to be encour aged to any kind of spending. .' A Pennsylvania town has a pet ting patrol. Now the girls will have to watch' out for the arm of the law. Minutia with them, political dissatisfac tion. Albanians have a way of making short, shrift of unsatisfactory unsatis-factory rulers. .In no country are men more trigger-happy. A successful revolution could transform Albania almost any time. i So what? - So this nothing could . help the United States in the cold war more than the elimination of So viet influence from Albania! That little country is a "Balkan window on the Adriatic. With Greece free of civil strife, 'Albania 'Al-bania a friend, Tito "neutral," the western democracies could so threaten eastern Europe in the Balkans as to make a Soviet invasion of western Europe a most hazardous undertaking. Elimination of communism from Albania would therefore strengthen the free bloc of coun tries quite as much as the re armament of France. The Soviet Union is geographically geograph-ically not in' a position to pro tect Albania. Which is why Enver Hoxha sleeps so badly in these cool autumn nights. (Copyright 1949, General Features, Corp.) By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE Let's see this is the 3rd in stallment of my travelocue of the trip down Rock Canyon from the South Fork of the Provo River, Including the Rider's in the Sky episode. I keep telling myself I must call Dorothy Richmond Rich-mond and' ask her for the full names of the girls who made that memorable ride but I keep not doing if. Don't ' give up hope though, for I will get : around to it eventually. Where were we? Oh yes, I had Just seen an eagle, an EAGLE that is, and now I will go back a little and tell you more about my horse. Flax. As I mentioned before, she had ; a saddle sore which I had been doctoring with everything I could lay my hands .on -including foot-powder, foot-powder, which did very well, being drying and . . . oh what Is that word . -. . astringent? Well anyhow,' Johnny Sheepherder told me. how to build ud the saddle so that the weight wouldn't rest on the sore, sooo, when I saddled Flax for the long trek, I put on 1 two ragged dish-towels; dish-towels; 2 my lavendar and white striped bath towel; 3 -a pink and blue striped bedspread. It was a lovely effect, .and it made me very sad to have to cover the whole thing with the saddle pad, which was a dull muckle-dun color with no verve to it at all, but that's life. Any how, we hadn't been on the trail too long before I lost the Tagged dishtpwels, and it will give you some idea of the ride when I tell you that I just didn't give a darn. We hadn't gone very far either before one of the girls was brushed off her horse by an overhanging tree and this in spite of my old-maid-aunt lecture thenight, before, warning the riders that it might happen. can- truly say that when I saw that empty saddle, my heart stood still, but the girl wasn't hurt and we went merrily (?) on our way. Cookie and I had made up our minds very early to travel light. No campfire cook ery. No salads in bowls, no box ties of beverages, NO FRYING PANS, no nothing, and we stuck to it. WE WERE NOT GOING TO HAVE OUR KNEES ! BRUISED BY WILLYWAW, r so we smug ly told ourselves. I was particu larly dead-set against -carrying a frying pan on a horfeback ride such as this would be, and I said right out loud that anybody who would carry a- fryingpan on i ride like this, was short a button but-ton or two. Well, Just before we started, as I sat streamlined 'and superior whilst the saddle-bags were distributed, up comes one of the girls and asks me will I take one of those' saddlebags, and I -said no I wouldn't, that I was not going to be burdened with anything but a couple of sticks of licorice, and the medical sup plies which I felt I had to take, and Nelda Holt's whistle. "WelV said the girl, "we'vei got to get them to town some way, and ALL THE OTHERS are carrying their share." Of course, that did it. I took the saddlebag, and . guess what was in it? You are so right. There was a FRYING PAN in it! I hope this will be a lesson to you, dearie. Don't go' around calling. names until you are sure it isn't your name. It made me feel a little better to know that Cookie got caught the same way, and banged her knees on some unknown bit of equipment all the way down. As I said before, it was a good thing we had Johnny Montoya to guide us. When we came up out of the South Fork, away up above us, on top of what looked like a sheer wall, we saw Johnny's white horse, so far away, Once News Now History From th Flies of Tho Provo Herald 10 Years Ago L Sept. 28, 1939 , All LDS missionaries iwersr called from Europe due tor war hostilities on that continent k Work on . the smokestacW for-Provo for-Provo municipal power plant was' begun . Warsaw surrendered on the 20th day of the siege Members of the American Bank erg. Assn. agreed that the depres sion had ended Norma Garrett Gar-rett told wedding , plans with Newal. James Robison Bon- heur club celebrated its fifth anniversary Eugene Fau, studentbody- prexy at Provo high school, announced - that Wur cheerleaders named were: Betty rrati, uartn rehrson and Edith Clark Dr. and Mrs. Wendell H. Taylor and baby daughter. Wendellvh. returned . tn hii home In Santa Monica after visit ing in Provo. 20 Years Ago Sept. 2r 1929 , Cougars annexed a 10-7 thriller from Nevada Wolf Pack W: Thalman Haslef entered medical school at university of Utah Fifth annual Utah county fair ended with a .record ! crowd at tending on the final dav A commission of American agricul tural and Industrial experts, headed bv Dr. Franklirf R Marrim of BYU returned from a two month study of ten million rri in i Siberia ; Vineyard Gun club was organized with the fol- lnwinff nfflrpre- Aimnt TVTian.. president Joy Clegg, vice 'president; 'presi-dent; James T. 'Blake, secretary; W. W. Taylor and Ernest Eklns, directors Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald and daughter. Ishbel. were enroute to the TTniterf State from their British home. McDonald said he was making the journey asl "a humble mis. sionary of peace." v and so high that it looked like a celluloid bath toy, and I was convinced that it was nothing more, but it moved, aid -I had to admjt it was real. We- stared at that tiny horse, and one and all we asked, "Do we" have to get up there, for heayen's sake? It just can't be done! We couldn't climb it without horses, let along, with!" So long, folks. It'a the GREAT GILDERSLEEVE 1 .and his sensational $50,000 &ame-My.Song Contest r 9:30 p.m. - - fairest p rices Here, complete mortuary service is available to families of every creed and circumstance. The latest facilities and resources are - at the call of every bereaved family of Utah. County Phone 378. 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