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Show - I 1 D D 0 D Wealth Is Drafted Much opposition to a manpower draft arises from the misconception that there is no draft on wealth, and therefore there should be none on labor. The 1942 earnings reports of leading lead-ing corporations, now available, show that wealth definitely has been drafted, and help to measure the bI-fectiveness bI-fectiveness of that draft. The Magazine of Wall Street has analyzed statements- of 710 manufacturing manu-facturing concerns. These show that dollar Volume of gross business has risen 71 per cent above the 1928-29 pre-depression peak. But on that vastly expanded volume, those corporations corp-orations last year earned 47 per cent smaller net profits after taxes. That is to say, wealth invested in manufacturing has to produce more than three times as much, to earn a dollar of net profit, as it did in 1928-29. ' National Industrial Conference Board studies for the first nine months of 1942 show that taxes contributed substantially to this decline in corporate corp-orate earnings. The net income of 205 industries, before taxes, increased $170,000,000 during the first three-fourths of last year, but their net after taxes decreased de-creased $286,000,000. Taxes constitute a major weapon in the drafting of wealth." But they do not carry the entire burden. Arthur Krock of the New York Times, summarizing sum-marizing an off-the-record talk by Herbert Bayard Swope, special consultant con-sultant to the Secretary of War, enumerates 13 controls which government gov-ernment exercises over wealth. The government can force manufacturers manu-facturers to make what it wants; can seize their plants; can fix prices and then renegotiate to reduce them further; can absorb excess profits by taxation; can fix every element entering into labor costs; can give, withhold and otherwise control materials, ma-terials, transportation facilities, manpower, man-power, and to some extent capital. There is no complaint about this conscription of capital, as a wen-measure. wen-measure. It is taken for granted, as is the drafting of men to do the actual - fighting. J Everybody and everything is conscripted, con-scripted, in modern war, except yfcxboT. Can that escape permanently? A Real Hero There must be some sort of really significant medal which can be given to Lloyd Converse, 43-year-old aluminum alum-inum worker who ploughed 20 miles through a blizzard, afoot in sub-zero weather, to be on his job in the morning, morn-ing, and then work two consecutive eight-hour shifts. Such devotion should be, in the words of Donald Nelson, " a real inspiration in-spiration to every American war worker." Its recognition with an important im-portant medal would add to the inspiration. in-spiration. To men like Converse none will begrudge the often too casually bestowed title "soldier of industry." We took it for a while, and now we're dishing it out. 'And the men who are doing it are the same old breed of Americans. Navy Secretary Secre-tary Frank Knox. Unless the Hitlerite army and state and the new order in Europe is com-pletely com-pletely smashed, we cannot hope for any better future for the world, for vour country, for mv country. Rus- sian - Amoassaaor to Britain lvan . Mqisky. .tliQu ." I -tHihk it will be a lona war and '.. there is ; much danger ahead for transportation. ODT Pirector Joseph B. Eastman. "... Eyery! American , must do his utmost ut-most to help win the war in the short-estrpossible short-estrpossible time at ' the lowest" possible pos-sible : costloflife, for the harder we work;; the: isobner t .will our , victory, come James ; A.. Farley, PROVO (UTAH) fTHE WASHINGTON E THURSDAY, APRIL' 1, 1943 lewis Holding Aces for Miners Right in the Middle of a Knotty Problem By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent The studied attempt of the administration ad-ministration to treat John L. Lewis no different from any other labor petitioner is taking somewhat some-what of a beating: and it begins to look as though the United Mine Workers had a good chance to get some, if not all, of their requested $2 a day increase in their basic wage rate for the next two years. The attempt to make Lewis accept for miners a new wage agreement within the Little Steel formula now has a good chance of defeat. Lewis won't have to strike his miners to win his demands, de-mands, either. For wily old John L. Lewis has added up the tricks in his hand and made his bid so carefully that today he seems to hold the advantage. He has forced the President to ask him to continue negotiations with mine operators beyond the April 1 deadline. The administration administra-tion has thus played its best card this early in the game, and Lewis's hand is thereby materially material-ly strengthened. Two recent coal industry developments de-velopments over which Lewis had no control helped considerably in laying the foundation for his demands de-mands for wage increases. First, on the insistence of Solid Fuels Co-ordinator of War Harold L. Ickes, the industry went from a five-day to a six-day week. Naturally, Na-turally, miners were to get time and a half for that sixth day's operation. PLAY TO LEWIS'S HAND Mine operators put forth the claim that if the price of their labor was to be greater, they would have to receive a higher price for coal. Office of Price Administration granted the operators' oper-ators' demands, to the extent of 22 cents a ton not for just the coal mined on overtime, but for all coal mined, whether on straight time or time and a half. Lewis could stand off and Let these things happen without more than a token protest, for the reason that if mine operators were getting more money for coal, Lewis could get some of that money for his miners. That this was a reality is now best shown by the fact that today less than half of the miners are worked work-ed on the sixth day. Instead, operators work miners the basic five-day week at straight time, and get the extra 22 cents a ton on all coal mined in the five-day week at no increased cost of production. This government-a pproved double pay was right into Lewis's hands. All it did was let the gov ernment provide money for wage increases Lewis was about to demand. de-mand. If the government could approve inflationary price in creases to operators, how could it consistently deny increases to miners. BREAK FOR LEWIS The next good break Lewis got was in the recent Circuit Court of Appeals declaratory judgment in which Tennessee Coal and Iron was ordered to pay members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Work ers' Union for all time workmen are underground. Coal miners are not now paid on this "portal to portal" basis from the time they enter the mine to the time they leave. Instead, they are paid only for the time at work at the bottom of the mine. But here is a federal court decision which sets a major precedent and com pels employers to pay all miners for a longer work day, or else shorten the time actually spent at work. It is equivalent to ordering or-dering that all coal miners be paid an average of nine hours wages aditional per week. At time and a half rates that is equal to about $13 a week and it is better than the $2 a day in crease which Lewis is asking. Lewis won another point in getting his request for a continuation continu-ation of negotiations with the mine operators from April 1 to April 30, with the understanding that any agreement would be retroactive to April 1. Then came his best break of all allowing himself to be maneuvered into the position of having to be sub-poened sub-poened to appear before the Truman Tru-man Senate Committee investigating investi-gating labor efficiency in the war effort. Here was a public platform plat-form and sounding board easily worth a million dollars to the mine leader, to present his arguments. HHO-HOUi Once News, Now History 23 Years Ago Toda y Parachute Planj Closed by Strike From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD April 1, 1920 A number of Utah county Democrats were buying tickets at $2.50 each to attend the Jefferson day banquet at Hotel Utah at which Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma was to be principal speaker. Mrs. Inez Knight Allen was to be one of the speakers. oOo A women's municipal club to work for community betterment was organized with Mrs. C. E. Maw president,. Mrs. I. H. Masters Mas-ters first vice president, Miss Alice Reynolds second vice president, presi-dent, Mrs. L. C. Potter, recording record-ing secretary, Mrs. Norma P. Bullock corresponding secretary, and Mrs. W. F. ViOlett, treasur er. oOo old. Soldier Summit, the import ant Denver and Rio Grande terminal, ter-minal, "has grown from an obscure ob-scure way station to a thriving and rapidly populated industrial center,"1 a lengthy article said. "From east to west and from the foothills on the south to White River on the north home builders, prospectors and speculators continue con-tinue the buying of lots . . ." oOo Allen Leavitt, son of Sam Lea-vitt Lea-vitt of the Herald Office, accepted accept-ed a position with the News-Advocate News-Advocate at Price. In the "worst snowslide in the history of Bingham," the entire family of Enoch M. Parr, a shift boss at the Utah Metals, met tragic death under many tons of snow and debris. Killed were Mr. and Mrs. Parr, and two sons 14 and 4. HAZLETON, Pa., March 31, (UP) Manufacture of army parachutes para-chutes at the Duplan Corp. plant was halted today by a walkout of 1,500 employes which followed follow-ed a refusal of the regional war labor board to intercede in a wage dispute. The Philadelphia office of the WLB said it had no jurisdiction to enter the negotiations between the company and the textile workers' work-ers' union CIO) until arbitration efforts were exhausted. The union has demanded a 10-cents-an-hour wage increase and the company has offered five cents Although not then six months V , . . ' ? . , 1 FORUM MEETING Another in a series of public forum meetings sponsored by a group of cttizens of the Provo area will be Sunday at 3 p. m. on the first floor of the public library building. Speaker will - be ; George A. Startup,' a student of economics and tinance, who : will discuss, "Honest j Money ' and Peace vs. Usurious- Money and War." Open discussion 'Will follow. Fifty-five stars are listed in the American"- Nautical T Almanac for the use of navigators. FLOUNDERING . CHAPTER XXVII "JtfUMBER ONE all right, Captain!" Cap-tain!" "Number two all right, Captain!" Cap-tain!" "Plane number three all right, Captain!" Crisp reports like that flowed to Jimmy Crxr at intervals from all 10 of. the sailplanes he towed. "What about you, Pat!" Jimmy radioed - that personal question. He couldn't remember to call her Loraine, for the real Loraine sat beside him, pouting. Anyway, this was no longer a time for any sort of masquerade. Realistic facts confronted,-them. Directly ahead and around them was a snorting Rocky Mountain storm. It had arisen like a great black genii from the earth itself just beyond Four Peaks. It swept across the . crags of Superstition Mountain. It began with a sand blow, characteristically, then it added pebbles, hailstones, and slashing rain. It was a fury beyond anything Capt. Jimmy Carr had ever known. Up and down his "kite tall," ships were bobbing and dipping like so many corks on a pond. Number three plane snatched at the tow line so as to send a whiplike whip-like wave. Simultaneously, everybody every-body radioed their fears back at Pat .Friday. 4- "Hold it, Number 10! .T. Look out! . . . Careful!" Pat's tail end plane, the cracker of this sky whip, took the snap of it! But the plane held on. Next minute the blow was even stronger. It came not steadily but in jerks and snorts that were almost al-most cyclonic. In the tow ship, the., real Loraine Stuart had screamed twice in terror and Jimmy himself was deeply concerned con-cerned On him of course rested the-responsibility -for all. But Jimmy trained on the eastern seaboard, sea-board, knew nothing of Rocky Mountain storms. , "This one had trapped hinr before he realized its power and wrath. ."Can't turn back yet!" he radioed ra-dioed to his trailing pilots. "Don't want' to give it a full sweep at us from- the side. ; We're all hooked together, remember!" ,-MAny -yisibilityr,- somebody asked. ' "Zero!" Jimmy answered. "Flying "Fly-ing entirely by instruments but staying fairly well on the course. Listen, men." "Yes, Jimmy," Pat checked in, too. "Matter of technical interest. This being hooked onto one tow Line seems to function somewhat like a real kite. You get me? . . . My power plane has a real tail, and the tail steadies it in the storm! Or tends to. Maybe we discovered something!" That significant idea gripped all of them. "This may or may not be important,"' im-portant,"' Jimmy told them. "We can break our necks, men, or we can see it through. What's your wish?" "See it through! ... See it through, Captain ... see it through!" ; That came as a quick chorus. A chorus of courage, in all truth. The radio seti were crackling and spitting noisily now. Jimmy feared they might go out entirely. "Okay, then!" he said, hurriedly. "You men stand by for orders. If the radio breaks, use your heads! We'll take care of the lady first, then" "Jimmy! . . . Captain Carr? . . . Number 10 calling Captain Carr!" . "What is it, Pat? Do you hear me?" "Yes! Jimmy, I'm going to cut loose!" "Hey!" TTER announcement held the rest of the train spellbound, including in-cluding even he real Loraine cowering in thej towing plane. "Check your instruments, Jimmy. Jim-my. . We ought to be nearing Globe!" " ; "What of it?"? He verily yelled it. "This is one hell of a storm, Pat!" . . "We're close to Globe!" "I'm watching for a chance to turn around! First lull wet get, I'll swing. I'll fake you back to Phoenix and then the rest of us will tackle this storm to see what we can learn." . ' ' "Jimmy, no! Why must you insult in-sult me?" f "I'm not insulting anybody! I'm trying to save your skin!" "I'm one of the. pilots. We've reached the place where I'm to out loose and land! Right near Globe!" ' , "You're crazy! The last earth we saw, was Superstition Mountain. Moun-tain. And evenlif we were over. Globe you couldn't see a spot to land, Pat! Vm taking you home." "Do you want to go back to Phoenix and admit the sky train failed?" "No. But I want to save your life more!" Jimmy barked. "So what, Jimmy Carr? I won't do it!" The others were listening, enthralled. en-thralled. Plane Number 7 spoke up. That was big Ed Bryan. "Miss Pat, you take and listen to the captain, please, ma'am." "Attention, Pat," Jimmy ordered. or-dered. "I'm going to turn the first chance I get. Can't risk a heavy side sweep all along the train, so I'll wait for a lull. When it comes, I'll swing fast!" "No!" "You heard- me, Private Friday! Fri-day! Do you want to be court-martialed?" court-martialed?" He could have been joking, indeed in-deed he must have been. It was a way he had teased her before. And yet, she was literally under his orders here; she was in effect a private under his captaincy and command. Certainly no male pilot in this strange kite tail would have dared act like pretty Pat was acting! PUT, then, a 2nan is a man, and a girl is a girl; the armies of the world will always have to take the difference into consideration. Especially, no doubt, if the individuals indi-viduals are in love. "Jimmy, I won't go back!" Pat declared. "We have got to prove things to the crowd back in Phoenix!" Phoe-nix!" "You've got to save your life! And these Superstition crags are" "I'm not afraid! I've been checking my instruments. We are up 12,200 feet, and I'll bet I know exactly where we are, Jimmy." "That's not the point, Patsy! Your life must" Click! The radio was dead! Lightning, thunder, all the mysterious 'phenomena 'phe-nomena of a mountain storm; had engulfed them. Communication was impossible now. V ! The men on that flying kite tail strained -to look back. Would the spunky girl in Number iO'actuauy cut loose?- . ..r:. . She would! 'v Even as they looked, Pat dipped her plane. It was her last signal. Next moment she dropped: the tow line! , , . . Appalled now, every man stared back and down at her ship. For a few. seconds it was a tumbling; floundering bit of white, a -sheet, a handkerchief, tossed in the blackness. Then, as if in an ocean of water, it faded into the roaring storm. S Be Continued) I A Daily Picture of What's iSTr "SSS Going on in National Attars!, tf,11'. i Q Was the recent assassination assassina-tion in Sofia of former Defense Minister Christo Lukof, a pro-German, pro-German, an unusual thing in Bulgarian Bul-garian history? A No. Among others, long before be-fore the present war, were the assassinations of two prime ministers, min-isters, Stefan Stamboulof and Alexander Stambolisky, by political politi-cal enemies. Q When a woman owner of war bonds marries should sho have the bonds reissued in her married name? A It is not necessary, but the bonds may be so reissued if she desires. Q Of the possible poker hands, how many are of less value than one pair? A About half, or 1,302,540 out of a possible 2,598960. Q Can one get a certificate for buying food in quantity? A If one lives in a remote area o if transportation prob-. lems make it impossible to mar-tion mar-tion period, he may apply to his ket as often as once in each ra-local ra-local rationing board for a certificate cer-tificate with which to buy up to the full value of all points in all the ration books of his family. Q Having been driven from the Caucasian oil fields by the Red army, are the Nazis getting all the oil they hoped to get from Rumania ? A No. They are getting about half of the estimated capacity. Specific Ceiling On Veal Products WASHINGTON, March 31 OLE) The office of price administration administra-tion today continued its efforts to wipe out black markets toy setting set-ting specific dollars- and ccnts ceiling prices for veal products sold fcy packers and whoesalers. The new ceiling prices become effective April 3 and will replace individual packer and wholesaler ceilings imposed under the general gen-eral maximum price regulation. Similar dollars-and-cents ceiling prices will 'be set soon for retail sales of veal. Permanent retail ceilings already al-ready have been set for pork and OPA is expected soon to do the same for beef, mutton and lamb. The new veal prices are only slightly higher than the average of present maximum prices, OPA said, and will not affect current retail margins to any material extent. ex-tent. Ultimately, it added, the new ceilings may benefit low income families. Instruction Set For Food Handlers Plans were under way today for a course of instruction for food handlers of Provo following- a meeting of operators of food handling han-dling establishments with city and state health officials. The two-day course will be April 7 and 8 at a site to be announced. an-nounced. Two classes will be held each day, one at 8:45 a. m., the other at 7:30 p. m. Cooks, waitresses, wait-resses, dish washers, managers and others handling food are invited in-vited to attend . City and state health officers headed by City Physician C. M. Smith and Elmer B. Quist, sanitarian san-itarian for the state board of health, will conduct the course. Instruction "will include nontechnical non-technical discussion on bateri-ology, bateri-ology, communicable diseases, medical zoology, d i si nf ection foods, and personal hygiene and sanitation. Persons completing the course will receive certificates. When 80 per cent of the personnel of an establishment has completed the classes the firm will receive a placard for public display. "Grease wool" is wool in its natural state as it comes from the sheep's back before being cleaned. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUHAJGN "I figured Joe would get even in his will. If yod henpeck a man too moch while he's alive, hell usually usual-ly hit back when he's out reach." - r r PT S w . a. V. n r s YA0T1 WA.StiJ.lNij l-UN itiow loierani we n 1 f. of the French Island of Martinique, for two , years thumbing its nose at us within bombinj? distance of the Panama Canal, is illustrated y by a conversation which took place foetwe , i the State Department's Sam Reber ana' Treasury Department officials. r Reber had gone to Martinique to negotiate -X W 1 HI V IClIjr Aumu at xwixci l icuuuig plane carrier, cruisers and six oil tankers rusty ing in Martinique waters. Subsequently, the State Department announced that an agreement agree-ment had been reached with Admiral Robert whereby these ships would be turned over to f the U.S.A. Months have passed, however, with no result. After State Department envoy Reber re- turned, Treasury officials asked him: ' "What about the gold in Martinique? What is to become of that?" . They referred to 25 billions of gold francs still stored in Martinique. . 'j "Oh," replied Reber, "that didn't come up." g "Wasn't it even mentioned?" asked Treasury; officials, who remembers how France had de- f faulted on her war debts from World War I, still owing us several billion dollars. i "No." replied Reber, "did you think it would yf be safer up here?" f "Well, it certainly isn't very safe down j there," countered the Treasury. 3 "We decided," replied Reber, "that we didn't want to do anything which might infringe on J the sovereignty of France." That ended the matter. The gold is still in Martinique, and Admiral Robert, wno apparently appar-ently isn't much impressed by the subtleties of State Department appeasement, has continued con-tinued to thumb his nose at the United States. MRS.. PEPPER'S ORANGES Mrs. Claude Pepper and Mrs. Allen Ellender, wives' of the Senators from Florida and Louisiana, Louis-iana, got into a friendly argument at the Senate Ladies Luncheon club over the relative rela-tive merits of orange from Florida and Louisiana. Mrs. Pepper had remarked that there was nothing in the world to beat a Temple orange from the sunny state of Florida. Mrs. Ellender gently differed with her. "I am sure, my clear," she said, "that you don't know our Louisiana oranges. They are simply divine. No Florida orange could even touch them." Mrs. Pepper, however, stuck to the Temple oranges of Florida. "I'll tell you what we'll do," she said. "I'll have some Temple oranges sent up here. And you get some from Louisiana, and we'll serve them to the Senate ladies and let them judge." Mrs. Ellender agreed. The Senate ladies also agreed to act as judges in this Florida-Louisiana Florida-Louisiana contest, and all looked forward to a feast of oranges. But Mrs. Ellender apparently was not ac-customer ac-customer to ordering oranges. Usually they are ordered by the crate. She, however, or. dered fifty, meaning fifty oranges, one orange f for each of the Senator's wives who usually5 attend the luncheons. They day ofthe contest arrived, but not the Louisiana oranges. Mrs. Ellender did not produce. pro-duce. Mrs. Pepper's Temple oranges arrived She won the contest. Later Mrs. Ellender's oranges arrived from Louisiana not fifty oranges, but fifty crates. They cost her $250. CONNAULY CALLS CARDS There was a hot flareup between veteran Senator Tom Connally of Texas and freshman fresh-man Republican Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan in a closed door session on the ap- , pointment of James Allred to the 5th Court of Appeals. Until this meeting, Adminis'trationites iifl. high hopes of converting Ferguson to Allredis side, which would have meant a 10-8 vote for the Texan's nomination. Even Connally, a political skeptic, thought the Mcchigan Republican Re-publican might forget politics and oppose the efforts of Louisiana's two senators to ditch Allred in favor of Archie Higgins, a former Huey Long henchman. However, Ferguson immediately launched a violent political attack on the President for naming "lame ducks' 'to federal posts. Apparently Ferguson was convinced by evi-dnce evi-dnce produced by Connally and others that Allred had no understanding, direct or indirect, with the president that he would be reappointed reappoint-ed to .the bench after stepping down from the Federal District Court to oppose Texas Senator "Pappy" O'Daniel in the last campaign. The Michigan Republican has made a fetish of op-opposing op-opposing the President on all major appointments, appoint-ments, and proved it on this occasion. "I'm against all these New Deal lame ducks getting jobs from the President after they have been licked in an election," he stormed. "I'm especially against playing politics with the federal judiciary." GHOST OF ANDY MELLON Andrew W. Mellon was not quite so frank. As Secretary of the Treasury under Coolidge he started a campaign to lower taxes on higher bracket incomes, arguing that this would release re-lease more money for individual enterprise. In a way it did. It released millions for stock market speculation and the Coolidge Bull Market. The Mellon theory later was called the "trickle-down" system, whereby a large amount of money released at the top gradually trickled down to the wage-earner at the bottom. bot-tom. However, the trickle was so meagre by the time it reached the bottom, that the inequalities in-equalities of that system led to the too well remembered economic holocaust. Today some Republicans, Once sold on the Ruml plan, gradually are realizing that if taxes are forgiven, it is the man in the higher brackets who really benefits, not the low wage earner whose taxes are small anyway. That is why Democrats call the plan "robbing Peter to pay a bonus to Paul." CAPITAL CHAFF The farm lobby was just as bad as the old utilities lobby which farmers once condemned in efforts to defeat Farm Security- Admin istration's farm labor program. They inspired telegrams irum iarm areas, wiucn pourco. rn0 congressional 01 1 ices, unng laenucai wvraor .. .German news broadcasts are still preferred! in the Dominican Republic, (because the German Ger-man programs provide lively Latin music, while U. S. programs bear down on the class-ids. class-ids. . .Dorothy Thompson, in high dudgeon, telephoned Eugene Lyons, Editor of the American Am-erican Mercury, to berate him and the State Department for saying in an article by Kingsbury Kings-bury Smith that the U. S. government plans the policical -and economic decentralization of Germany after the war... Both Alabama Senators, Sen-ators, John Bankhead and Lester HIllJ ate memDera or Phi Beta Kappa. Copyright, 1943, by United . Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1 - |