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Show Foriim'n Agin 'em THINKS PUBLIC SHOULD BE BETTER INFORMED Editor Herald, 1 The "coal situation is serious and critical. How did this greatest country on earth get into sucha dilemma? There must be praiseworthy praise-worthy merits to the miners' .cause, otherwise , other labor Croups such as the hundreds of thousands of C.I.O. and railroad brotherhoods would not back Lewis. It is too bad the public j is not better informed regarding' the whole affair. That is the reason this article is written. 'The conditions of government operation of the coal mines make it impossible to. claim that it was a sovereign function. It developed in the trial that the government operated 4he mines through the same mine companies and officers as though the titles were still in the owners' hands. -The directive ordering the seizure of the mines stipulated that there was to be a minimum of interference with managerial functions. The miners were' told not to consider them-! selves as government employes. The mine owners -continued to enjoy the profits and the government govern-ment continued to tax the mines. The contract the miners had with the government embodied provisions of an .earlier coal contract con-tract allowing either party to re open the contract on notice, "in the event a significant change occurs in the government wage policy." , No honest or informed person can deny that in the .six months that have elapsed since the K rug-Lewis agreement was made, major changes have arisen. The Dun and Bradstreet 'index of 31 wholesale food prices reached a new all time high of $6.49 in November, whereas before price control was removed June 30, the same 31 prices were only $4.35. Where are those who advocated that if price controls were removed re-moved that prices would shoot up only very temporarily, and would then soon recede to a natural level? When Lewis tried to bargain with the government he was arrogantly ar-rogantly informed .that the government gov-ernment was a mere, "temporary custodian," and he was referred to the operators.. Is that the way a sovereign functions? Should a miner or a bus driver have fewer rights because the company he is working for happens to be "operated" "oper-ated" by the government? One criticism of the Soviet Union is that labor unions there have no real power because they have, no right to strike. The same ones' who offer this criticism of Russia now want to import the same doctrine here while criticizing critic-izing it there. Does that make sense? The president last May asked for legislation to revive injunctions injunc-tions against labor. Congress denied de-nied him. He is not trying by indirection to get it from the courts. That is the reason all labor must stand with Lewis. I do not wish to infer that I think Lewis is blameless, or that his position is faultless, but it is foolhardy to assume that he does not have a case. Don't blame Lewis. Put the blame where it belongs with Truman and your government. G. T. HARRISON r TAKE V It's Wacky World When Kangaroo Shoots Man a And a Turtle Wrecks a Car Your Gl Rights EXPEDIENTS COMBAT HOSPITAL-BED, SHORTAGE B T. O. KRAABEI. Director, National Rehabilitation ! Sale by WAA umsion, American Legion j Of all the production bottle-' SUNDAY HERALD THISSEFl fit' PAGE Surplus Medical Equipment' For Utah hospitals and HAWKS DECLARED FARMERS' FRIENDS SALT: LAHB CITY, Dec. f U.ft) Contrary to the- popular belief hawks are an ally of agrl culture, at least in Utah, accord ing to Morian W. Nelson. reort veteran entatlve ' the U- S; deprtma$ VI (UVUItUtS. necks which have plagued the physlclans retUrnin t0 Private Speaking in Salt Lake City lasf American people since V-J Day. pra5tU?e lnltedA iodfyA l, Nelon ",d,ihat the haw5 , ' . " -, IT '! participate in a War Assets Ad- in the state should be conserved; the stopper in production of hos- ministration sale of S8.000.00fl for their rodent-klllin valua. puai peas lor veterans nas work By NEA Service CHICAGO (NEA) In 1946 hunters were shot by a rabbit and by a kangaroo. A woman peacefully peace-fully taking a bath was shot by a dog. A fish sneezed at a fisherman and the fisherman wrecked his car. A sparrow innocently caused a $50,000 explosion. Once again it is time for the National Safety Council's annual roundup of the year's wacky accidents. ac-cidents. Arthur Crosbie was the Australian Aus-tralian hunter shot by a kangaroo. kang-aroo. He shot the kangaroo first. Crosbie reloaded his rifle, walked up to the fallen kangaroo and put the gun butt against the animal's ani-mal's neck. The kangaroo suddenly sud-denly stretched a forepaw against the gun's trigger and shot Crosbie through the arm. William Humphrey, 16, hunting near his home in Louisville. Ky.,! walking along a Philadelphia bagged a rabbit. While beingi street, suddenly was set upon by stuffed into Humphrey's rucksack, the rabbit got a foot caught in the trigger of Humphrey's gun. Humphrey got shot through his foot. terson was enjoying a quiet bath. Her police puppy, Toby, was having hav-ing a quiet frolic. Toby spotted a pistol laying on the washstand, pawed it. The bullet hit Mrs. Patterson's hand. A simple salmon proved the undoing un-doing of James Mantakes of La Grande, Ore. He hooked and landed the salmon all right. It was when he .started driving home with his prize that the trouble started. Some desert dust blew in the car and into the salmon's gills. The salmon sneezed.' Mantakes looked around, puzzled, for the source of the sound, saw only the innocent salmon, and turned back to his driving. The salmon sneezed sneez-ed again. Mantakes whirled around. This time the salmon was staring at him through bloodshot eyes. Mantakes blinked. At that moment the salmon lunged at a grasshopper blown into the car. The salmon landed on the lap of the now thoroughly disorganized Mantakes. His car went crashing off the highway. The salmon sneezed twice more, then died. Sportsmen were not the only victims of screwy accidents. Margaret Standring, peacefully three strangers who beat her about ,the head. A clgaret, carelessly care-lessly tossed from a nearby building build-ing had landed in her hair. An ice cube knocked Jeannctte son Rheingold of Albany, N. Y., spotted one she scurried too. Only trouble was, Mrs. Rheingold was driving a car. The car hit a pole. Pete Bird of Shelbyville, Ky., had a lucky accident. As a child, he was chopping wood when a In Baltimore, Mrs. Ruth Pat-J Esslinger of. St. Louis cold. The! chip flew up and struck him in ice cube fell from a hotel window. the eye, causing a cataract and At a hospital, Miss Esslinger was: blindness. This year 42 years treated with an ice pack. ! later Bird was chopping wood The life of three-year-old Ernest Ern-est Liedmann of Chicago hung precariously by a series of threads. Ernest fell from a bridge into the Chicago river. But just as he hit the water, his clothes again. Another chin, flew uu and hit him In the eye, tearing loose the cataract and restoring his sight. About that innocent sparrow. The sparrow was perched on a farm wagon when 16-year-old Robert Marth of Plymouth, Wis., caueht on a nail nrolrudinff mm nwwl m nyraoum, wn caugni on a nau protruding rom!s Med h, raJied his rif, im a .pmng ana Kept mm irom;ed and fired. The shot missed the drowning until rescuers arrived. In Fairmont City, Mo,, a fire that started in a parked car set the automobile's horn bonking the alarm. And in a Hugo, Okla., tavern, another fire burned off the cap of a hydrant releasing, a stream of water on the fire, smothering it. Automobile drivers had their troubles this year. Gustav Riebow of Milwaukee is a kindly man. When he found a turtle in his back yard, he carefully put it in a box and drove out into the country to find it a nice box. The ungrateful turtle slipped out of the box, up Riebow's leg and nipped him smartly. Riebow's car hit a tree. A mouse has sent many a woman wom-an scurrying, and when Mrs. Or-i sparrow and hit the wagon. The wagon was loaded with 1300 pounds of dynamite. Result: A $30,000 boom that shattered 650 windows, one farm wagon, one sparrow. i wui ill . mil uiua iiir..i. mi fuuiiiw . ed perhaps the greatest hardship ment located at the St. Louis, Mo. '' STOP-WATCH on Americans. ' medical depot. REALLY PRECISE This statement will stand scrutiny. scru-tiny. For here the denial is not of a luxury or convenience but of the lawful prerogative of a citizen to avail himself of hospitalization hos-pitalization and medical care pledged by his government. Colonel D. E. Squier, region CAMDEN, N.J. (U.R)- Now there; director of WAA, said that the .is an electronic stop-watch that fixed price sale included many I clocks one-millionth of a second, urgently needed items, including I Developed during the war, the surgical, dental, professional and! RCA time interval counter is be scientific instruments valued at i mg produced for civilian use, par- approximately $3,250,000; X-ray As early as 1940 the American! equipment and supplies valued at Legion, advocated through its Na tional Rehabilitation committee the immediate launching by the $1,000,000; drugs, medicine and toiletries valued at $1,250,000 and hospital laboratory equipment l2.Aa?.2!?. "l? PPe worth about $2,250, rx. year ago, wun aemooiuzaiion already turning out hordes of veterans vet-erans in need of hospitalization, ticularly in the fields of science and industry. ' the price of defaulting on such a program became apparent. The American Legion then pro- Veterans may purchase through December 11. Sales dates for RFC for small business are December 10 and 11 and state 'and local government, December 11 and 12. IFoi? posed m'SSZS? several: SJS'dJSSS ternatives, including the fnHrt;T participate December 12 possible utilization of Army and! Navy hospitals as they were declared de-clared surplus and the more ex-1 tensive out-patient treatment of service-connected cases. The progress registered thus far in providing adequate care of our war disabled stems to a large extent from the prosecution of these measures. 15.000 Beds Available-Today, Available-Today, some 20 military hospitals hos-pitals providing more than 15,000 beds are in operation. Thousands of veterans, stymied by "no vacancy" signs on hospital doors, are benefiting from out-patient treatment. Through these arrangements, promoted and endorsed by the American Legion as necessary, expedients, the nation has begun to make good its obligation of bed and care to sick and disabled dis-abled veterans. I and 13 and all other buyers may purchase from December 16 to January 10. Information on the details ol the sale will be made available by Mr. Ray Kingston, medical sales division in WAA's office at Fort Douglas, and orders from this area will be forwarded by that office to St. Louis as quickly as possible. List With THCUftiCSflNDmtlOENT tmtSTaTt MOKf.fctHCEHTtM.UTMI H0HtS4-M COOPERATION WOULD SOLVE HOUSING LACK Editor Herald: True religion is service to others. How many of us are thinking of the other fellow? Visualize our war - weary, nerve-wracked vets with their wives and crying children having to crowd in with- aged parents; while at the same time many people are living alone in four and five room homes. Is this true religion? Where is the willingness willing-ness to share? Why should we 16 Sign Up For Naval Reserve Sixteen men .have signed up for the new naval reserve the past week, according to CMM Beverly Ritter, enrollment officer here. Former army and navy men may enroll in the reserve. These enlistments actually will be "on paper" only since the men will not attend any meetings or make any cruises but will receive the latest news of the reserve from time to time through the mail. Ritter said. Ex-navy men who served in World War II will be given their rate at time of discharge and former army men can sign up as seaman or fireman first class. In case of an emergency, these ex-army ex-army men would be called into the navy. BARBS By HAL COCHRAN One sure way of making a better bet-ter world: spread around the sympathy you have for yourself. p Radios were affected in the OPA's decontrol program. Our neighbor s radio never was un der control. S It 9 Vandals dumped out 26 one- gallon jars of mustard at ' Pitt Stadium, a dog It shouldn't happen to not be our brother's keeper in cases of this kind? It takes love and kindness to make a home. Let us open up our nomes ana nearts to our; worthy vets. It isn't what one gets that creates happiness and peace. rather it is what one gives to; humanity. j . We must remember there was no heat in fox-holes, but plenty of hunger and cold, and cooties; were there keeping company withj other forms of suffering. ! This is no time to concentrate1 on luxuries, wno will unite in helping to alleviate the housing situation in Provo? In unity there is strength. Mrs. Emma D. Startup Hard work has a habit of helping people to overcome being be-ing poor. 9 9 Most of the complaints over who was elected will come from folks who forgot to vote. Plenty of hot water and heat at Dawn's Beauty Shop 341 West 8th North Phone 1766-w " HOTEL PROMOTION Beverages stimulate the imagination. The Daniel Boone Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia referred to by the promoters in Thursday's Herald has 341 rooms and the population of Charleston, the state, capital, is 70,000. The Daniel Boone sold $15,000 worth of beverages in one year, says the promoters. Therefore a one hundred room hotel in Provo is expected to sell $10,000 in "mixers" in one year. Reducing this reasoning to a mathematical equation it reads as follows: 341 rooms is to 100 rooms as $15,000 is to $10,000. But is it? Our experience is that the annual sales on mixers runs about $500.00 annually in the Roberts Hotel. Are the gross profits referred to based on original costs or the value after everything but the first mortgage is written off? At least 80 of these community hotels have been sold or written down to one-fourth to one-third of original cost Of course gross and net profits are two different things also. There is also a vast difference between 1945 and normal years in the hotel business. Exceptional years and exceptional cases prove nothing. -. MARK ANDERSON ?r i M,-- aifa; i fj. dJ, r i - , 1 1 ' 'J. . &J : Va. V rp nr i t : 4 ? 1 ,it , ; , p S 1 Your-home and r-4 -irXM . 00000'k : 'c t A ' what ii stands-,or ft 1 f v mK of your ' possessions. 1 jj ' ,v ' vS3rt' -StS : i See it as others do ... Be 1 lj j5tW Y Sure it reflect, the 114 JS (J esteem you hold for it. zf JB-" 'i rib "i riyft iwfw : y , f t It'! V li -! ' t ; . -'Pi- : ! Distinctive Home Furnishings f 4 210 WEST CENTER PROVO PHONE 920 |