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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTYUTAH. FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947 Editorial... n tippy L-uiiumya Pan American Airways has just received the Inter-American Safety Council's award for flying three-quarters of a billion passen-geV passen-geV miles, throughout 1946, without a single accident. A passenger-mile is the equivalent of one passenger xiy um uuc ... w v.-. ... of a billion passenger-miles is the equivalent of 750 passengers flying a million miles each, or a million passengers flying 750 miles each, or of you flying around the eartn at tne equator 30,000 times last year, if you had nothing better to do. Considered that way, the record that earned earn-ed that award is impressive. But it is only part of the story. Pan American's last fatal accident was Jan. 8, 1945. A pilot misjudged his China Clipper's distance from the water, and didn t level off right, and killed 23 persons at Port of Spain, Trinidad. That was a bad crack-up. crack-up. But since that human error in a type of craft no longer in use, Pan American crews have handled 1,445,500,000 passenger miles without fatality. They have taken clippers back and forth over every ocean, among all the continents, to many of the islands, in winter and sunK mer, rain and snow, fog and hail, night and dav, in complete safety. Stay-at-Homes are inclined to be impressed impres-sed and sometimes scary when Daddy climbs aboard for San Francisco or New York, Honolulu Hon-olulu or the Belgian Congo or Constantinople.. Constantino-ple.. The farewell's gaiety often is forced, and there's more hope than assuranec to the final "Happy Landings." Pan America's achievement emphasizes that although accidents do happen and Pan American undoubtedly will have one some day again flying has become so safe it's almost humdrum. There are lots of annoying things about flying. It's tiresome sitting up all night. It's monotonous flying hour after hour above clouds. It's exasperating to wait for minutes min-utes or hours in beautiful weather,, because the pilot for some reason of his own won't take off. It's inconvenient to be set down en route and put on a train, or taken to a distant alternative terminus, because the pilot pil-ot won't chance landing where you wanted to go. But it's safe. So safe that 98 per cent of insurance companies now make no restrictions restric-tions on flying on commercial scheduled lines. So safe that insurance companies have increased the amount of flight insurance insur-ance you canjbuy over the counter. It's safer, saf-er, National Safety Council figures .show, than riding the same distance in an automobile. automo-bile. , That means that. Pan American is not alone in jts safety achievement. All the lines, including those with sensational accidents last year, have done well. Some have done exceptionally well. Colonial has never had an accident in 17 years of operation. The same is said of Chicago Chi-cago & Southern, with some 450,000,000 passenger pas-senger miles of safety. Delta shows 565,-000,000 565,-000,000 accident-free passenger miles; Continental, Con-tinental, Mid-Continent, and Northeastern about 200,000,000 each. Maybe you don't like to fly. So don t. But if you do, don't worry. Happy landings. 1 . The Trend In Retailing A number of retailers' associations have recently held their annual conventions. Ex perts in various phases Of merchandising The Washington Merry-Co- Round By Drew Pearson A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs WASHINGTON Monday's secret caucus of house Republicans ,was a howling success largely large-ly because the man who was expected to howl the loudest aeainst the Knutson tax bill was not on hand. Michigan's scrappy representative Al Engel did not show up probably because he did not want to be bound by the vote of tne caucus. Otherwise the turnout was large. Speaker Joe Martin of Massachusetts opened the session by reminding re-minding the GOPsters that the Republicans are pledged to reduce taxes and government expend itures. "The house can be proud of its record," he said meaningly. Joe was careful not to mention the senate, since custom dictates that no reference be made to the senate In house proceedings. Mar tin's listeners knew, however, that he was refer ring to senate opposition to budget reduction and tax-cutting. Ways and means committee Chairman Harold Knutson then took the floor to explain the tax bill. Although he usually bangs the table and employs extreme sarcasm, Knutson was sweet and mild as he went through the bill and orated that this was a bill for the wage earner. Repub lican camoaien promises and Republican tax policy wil not be a variance, he said the Amer ican workineman will be the gainer. Here New Jersey's Fred Hartley took his cue and promised that the labor bill to come from his labor committee will also be the wage-earner's bill. A few labor officials might not like it, he said, but they are the people who live off labor la-bor rather than those with the interests of labor truly at heart. Representative Dan Reed of New York also spoke briefly on the Knutson bill, after which Representative. Karl Mnndt of South Dakota warned his colleagues that "the new dealers will come in here with false figures to discredit dis-credit this bill." "They will attempt to show that the small taxpayer is getting far less of a break from this bill than the big taxpayer," Mundt said. "We know the sort of figures they will use and I know where they come from. The fact is that the treasury department has what amounts to a secret liaison office with the PAC and between them they'll see to it that the Democrats have all -sorts of charts to smear this bill. "On the surface Secretary Snyder appears friendly and square with the Republicans," continued con-tinued the South Dakota congressman, "But there are things going on down there which we ought to look into." Mundt asured his colleagues that the figures the treasury would show would be false. When someone asked how the public could be informed inform-ed that they were false, he replied that the authors of the figures "will be exposed." "Truman himself will get them out," promised prom-ised Mundt, "Now that he has decided to follow the Republican policy of clearing out disloyal government gov-ernment employees." Showing Off His Brainchild TRUMAN GOES REPUBLICAN The man who really brought the house down was the closing' speaker, majority leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana. He spoke first in support of the tax bill as a boon to the lowly wage earner, then warned that the Democrats planned to block the bill so that the president could pish similar legislation next year and claim credit for It in the 104A ramnalim 'That's in keeping with administration tactics! tnese days,, proclaimed Halleck. "Ewp sinr th ! m.nWaiinm tnr nrtinn hv h pre election, the president has been following the leadiernment, by the press and by the Study Made On Press Freedom NEW YORK, March 28 (U.R) Freedom of the press can continue con-tinue only if the press is account able to society, a University of Chicago commission reported to day. The study is one of a series be ing prepared by the Commission on the Freedom of the Press, financed by grants from Time, Inc. and Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor chan-cellor of the university is chair man. The commission in its report entitled "A Free and Responsible Press." said that press freedom is endangered because of the great decrease in the proportion of the people who can express them selves through the press; because the Dress has not provided a service adequate to the needs of society; and because the press has engaged from time to time in. practices which society con demns. The report contained 13 recom of the Republicans. Over the week end he finally moved to clean the Communists and other subversive subver-sive elements out of government. The Republicans have been after that for years. Truman's popularity popular-ity is rising because he's a smart Pendergast boy who knows enough about politics to know which way the wind is blowing. "Why' concluded Hallerlc signs of the times so well he's done everythine 1 except register Rentihlini fining public which "taken together, give some indication of methods by which the press may become accountable and, hence, remain free." "SUGAR DADDY" TOBEY" Colleagues hushed it up, bufan intra-party Republican spat broke out at the secret GOP cau-rati0Pin cau-rati0Pin the other day. Veteran Senator Charles Tobey of New Hampshire, who favors continued rationing, and freshman Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, who wants to polish controls, did some toe-to-toe verbal-slug- Except for acid language and baleful glares, - - ii uunca were proxen Q's and A's have thorouehlv discussed consumer Drcfer- E'.,1?"" ,OT w"er ,. boss of th. ences, dealings with manufactures, the price ro Tobey bluntly accused McCarthy of being the aner Mack, boss of th ' wants to end sugar con 1I"P Gonotnn UahjI.1 - situation and Other problems involved, in the that the chief reason for Mack's position is that . v.h--. nas exiensive sugar plantations in Cuba and could use for itself all the sugar prod- ished j""uons ii rationing were abol- Tok!'. an JnJLere?.tin8 coincidence," declared Tobey, fixing McCarthy with a withprin a very interestine coincident that th. ' tv,X . T.,i , . . . i ..v.,.w u,a um ,a aeconyoi measure McCarthy McCar-thy ftas introduced) is strikinelv similar to th a oii- Mack's testimony before the banking "MaybeHhe senator can explain that," added Tobey, who also brought out that the Wisconsin senator had circulated a letter among his colleagues col-leagues supportinjKthe Peosi-Cola nnition with. i,"" gummy namingxxne company. COCA-COLAXS. PEPSI-COLA complicated business of turning rawsmaten ala into goods' on store shelves. And tfifegen- eral tenor of feelinir is that the consumer-will be offered more and better goods and th further price advances must be opposed. Pricing of goods, as one resolution observed, observ-ed, is the .joint responsibility of manufacturer manufactur-er and retailer with the consumer making the ultimate decision on whether the price is right. It does no one any good to produce commodities which people won't buy because they think they're overpriced. And retailers retail-ers are working to see that goods in that category cat-egory disappear from the channels of trade. The effort of retail business to' improve quality is an important, and often overlooked, service to the consumer. It is bearing fruit now. The shoddy merchandise which was unavoidable during the war years is going rapidly Into limbo. Retail buyers are insisting in-sisting that manufacturers provide the best possible article for the money and they are refusing to buy when they think that isn't being done. Retailers are also stressing greater efficiency effic-iency and courtesy on the part of employes. The curt, disinterested clerk of the war years, who couldn't be fired because there was no one to take his place, is disappearing. No modern nation has ever equaled, prior to the outbreak of war, the crushing offensive offens-ive power attained by the German war machine ma-chine in 1939. No modern nation has ever been broken and smashed as was Germany six years later. General Eisenhower. - Parties in many cases accept all the votes they can get from women and then jjuickly forget about them until the next election rolls around. That's the sort of thing we are fighting against. Miss Edesse Dahlgren of New York, chair-man chair-man Multi-Party Committee of Women.- I u be glad to, for the gentleman is very mucn mistaken,' shot back McCaKhy. "4 suggest that he read page 192 of the hearings, where I brought out that the Pepsi-Cola companVand the Coca-Cola Coca-Cola company both had selfish imprests in this sugar controversy. Coca Cola naturallyovants controls con-trols continued because it doesn't want to see its chief competitor get all that sugar from its Cuban plantations. I might add that it was under my cross- examination of Mr. Mack that these sugar hoi ings of Pepsi-Col,were unearthed." "Well, I'm wKmg to so bv the statistics of th department of agriculture," countered Tobey in the secre caucus. "These show it Is absolutely necessary to continue rationing to protect the American housewife against commercial users. The department also , informs me that 85 per cent of the commercial users do not object to continued con-tinued rationing and that, in fact the only big commercial user demanding decontrol is our old friend and the senator's friend, Pepsi-Cola." McCarthy retorted hotly that Tobey was be-Ing be-Ing "unfair.- Coleagues intervened and the (wo rUdlators finally cooled off. Making a final plea for continued sugar rationing. ra-tioning. Tobey told the closed-door GOP caucus: "The American housewife got 50 pounds of sugar per year for every member of her family before the war, and the bill I have written to continue con-tinue .rationing, and which I hope congress will approve, is aimed to bring the housewife as close to the pre-war level as possible." Under his bill, Tobey explained, home consumers con-sumers would get a 35-pound average in the next 12 months and any increase in production would go to housewives, instead of soft -drink manufacturers; manufact-urers; until the 50-pound pre-var average Is reached. (Copyright, 1947, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) O When did the U. S. first explore Antarctica? A In 1840, when a navy expedition ex-pedition stopped there. q When was window glass de veloped? A During the third century A. D. It was cast on large flat stones. Q What causes twilight? A Atmosphere over the earth's surface, which reflects sunlight. If there were no ' atmosphere, darkness would fall sharply. Q What are the two official languages of the Union of South Africa? A English and Afrikaans, a variant, of Dutch, Q What connection is there between our celebration of St. Valentine's day and the seven saints of that name? A None is known. The cele-! a little background will show vvh Battle for Natural Gas Control By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) An organized drive by the oil and gas industries to prevent the federal fed-eral power commission from assuming as-suming complete control over production and gathering of natural nat-ural gas has opened in Washington. Washing-ton. If the drive succeeds a virtual vir-tual monopoly will be given existing ex-isting pipelines and holders of FPC certificates of convenience and necessity, who would be left free to expand operations without with-out fear of competition. Under the industry's new proposals, pro-posals, rate-making powers of the FPC over production and sale of natural gas going into interstate inter-state commerce Would be limited limit-ed in such a way that the commission com-mission would have -to allow gas companies to pay higher field prices at the well. This would mean higher prices for gas consumers. con-sumers. Under present procedu-ure procedu-ure FPC will allow gas companies com-panies to pay the going field price only if the gas is purchased from other companies "at arm's length." Another possible outcome of the industry's drive against the commission would be that any national plan for conservation of America's estimated 200 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves a 50-year 50-year supply at current rates :of consumption would be made virtually impossible since all production pro-duction and final distribution controls would be left to state public utilities authorities. Vehicle by which the oil and" gas industries hope to put these curbs on FPC authority is a series se-ries of amendments to the natural natur-al gas act of 1938. In the senate these amendments are sponsored by E. H. Moore of Oklahoma and Homer Ferguson of Michigan. House sponsors are Ross Rizjey of Oklahoma, Henderson Carson of Ohio, and Clifford Davis of Tennessee, the latter oeing the only Democrat. Industry Hants Amendments Real backers of tne legislation, however, are the Independent Natural Gas Assn., the Independ ent Petroleum Assn., and the American Petroleum Institute, trade associations which represent repre-sent practically all U. S. oil and gas interests . lobbying actively for its passage. Hearings on these amendments are scheduled to open before the house interstate commerce commission April 14. Points at issue are pretty technical tech-nical for the average consumer who cooks or heats with gas, br' consumed is produced in such wells. . . T Under FPC regulations, when ever the gas from an oil well gets into interstate commerce, the on producer may be declared a natural gas producer. All natural gas producers in interstate com merce must keep books under FPC accounting methods. And sale price of their gas may be limited to a 6V2 per cent return on the depreciated original cost of the producing wells. Here is the real heart of what the oil and gas companies don't like. They don't want to be forced to keep books as the FPC directs, and they don't want their profits limited. The industry claims this price' fixing by the FPC has held back production, stopped exploration for new wells, and caused many well owners to,, flare and waste their gas, rather than sell it sub ject to FPC regulation. Give Her Time-She Time-She Might ' Change Her Mind! CAMDEN, N. J., March 28 (U.R) Four years ago Gustav W. Weber married "the girl next door." She's still living next door, too, Weber testified in New Jersey chancery court yesterday. On their wedding night, he told advisory master William Burton, the new Mrs. Weber went Once News Ndw History 20 Years Ago, From the File Of March 2S. 1927 Officials in Washington felt that th foreign defenders of Shanghai will be strong enough to hold the border lines at Shang hai against the yellow tide of natives. The U. S. fleet carried out long-range long-range battle practice in the Atlantic At-lantic ocean without an untoward accident. " Senator William H. King was hailed in Washington circles as the champion dancer. . - The third annual livestock show at Spanish Fork closed' and announced the awards in cattle, hogs and sheep. Henry Jones won several wrestling matches in Vancouver and ' Portland before sell-out crowds. 10 Year 8 Ago From the Files Of March 28. 1937 Springville opened her 16th an nual art exhibit in the new art building galleries. There was a possibility Italy might send 100,000. troops to Spain to fight with the rebels for fascist victory. The LDS church announced the building of new seminary buildings build-ings in Utah, Arizona and Idaho, including one at Spanish Fork. The Provo Timps started workouts work-outs after a call by Lefty Cole. Desk Ch 100 Years Ago March 27, 1847 One year before, be-fore, on March 27th, 1846, the apostles of the church held a council at the camp of Parley P. Pratt in which the camps of the Saints were more perfectly organized. or-ganized. At this meeting, Brig-ham Brig-ham Young was elected president over all the - "Camps of Israel," but not without an argument. Many of the Saints were per turbed, because from Josephs' death in 1844 until now, the quorum quo-rum of the Twelve had been at the head of the church. Many wanted it left that way. March 28. 1847 There has been a mission opened on the Society Islands ior three - years, and on this date Elder Addison Pratt sailed . from Papeete, Tahiti, Ta-hiti, on the ship Providence for America, and left Benjamin FJ Grouard in charge of the mission. mis-sion. March 29, 1847 An important day. for a, number of the pioneers at Winter Quarters reported themselves ready to start for the Rocky Mountains. le.OOOTH LEGION POST INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (U.R) The 16,000th American Legion Post has been chartered at Creedmoor, N. C. The all-World War II post has been named after af-ter machine gunner Moses Cash of the 30th division, who was killed during' the Normandy Invasion. The chap with whom we have, no overpowering desire . to become be-come better acquainted Is the one who when his sirl friend men-; tioned that two could live as cheap as one' answered "Yeah! But it's worth the difference to : me to stay single." . , 0O0 "Really; Bertram, liquor makes a lot of people loosen up, even tho many loose spenders- are tight" of the Better Business bureau notwithstanding, not-withstanding, there are still many people who capitalize on the gulli- bility of the masses. One such idea is put over by J the perpetrator industriously and. obnoxiously chewing gum until in exasperation someone asks: "What is that you are chewing?' "It's a new type of gum a men-' tal accelerator. The' more youj chew it, the smarter you get. In a few minutes, now, lot of swell, ideas will come to me out of the clear sky." r "Say, have you got another stick, j A f naai m menial vavaw . upper." 1 "Yes. here's a stick. It'll cost you $10." &oia. ? The buyer chews the gum for a few minutes but doesn't experience experi-ence anv tinumial reaction, and observes: "Funny. I donlt feel any different and 'yet you say you; get smart from chewing it; in fact, I think it's a joke." "See? What did I tell you? You're getting smart already!" IT IS SOMETIMES well to remember re-member that fruit isn't the only thing that gets canned in the slack summer season. How to allot pensions: Pick out the most worthy cases for consid-1 eration and pension the others. Anil th' thf- imrmm mittAmWt- who. when his teacher told him he must learn to write better. answered: "if I did, youd find' fault with my spelling."- r "'" A' GAG you'll soon hear over your favorite radio program: ; "Now that the new congress con-gress is in session, how has it affected your business?" "Terrible, terrible! Why . , even the people who never pay have stopped buying." ; Speaking of jurisprudence, thai' courts used to believe a man in nocent before he was proven; guilty. i ex- UIUI Juvenile Logic ' "Dickie, you bad boy!1 claimed his mother, "you not pull the cat's tall." j "But I'm not, mother," replied, the youngster, Tm only holding it . . . it's the cat that's pulling. fZ.,nur' run SOFT home to 2034 High street while he returned alone to 2041. She explained she had to take care of her mother and children! by a previous marriage. All Weber's pleas to persuade her to i live under his roof were; fruitless, he said. Burton recommended a divorce on grounds of desertion. i porcrj caws1 the hom appliance that turns hard water into... - SOPT WATffn Enjoy new luxury and labor-saving! Get the full story from: Adamson's 490 West - Center Phone 462 bration is believed to be. a continuation contin-uation of the ancient Roman festival festi-val called the Lupercalia, a carnival-like occasion celebrated on Feb. 15, not Feb. 14. . Q What is guayule? A A bushv olant indigenous to North America from which ! other fuels. the industry wants its amend ments rushed through now. In September, 1944, the commission com-mission ordered a national investigation in-vestigation of natural gas reserves, re-serves, their expected life for industrial, in-dustrial, commercial and domestic use, and their competition witn rubber can be made. The government govern-ment spent $45,000,000 during the war to develop a process for making mak-ing commercial quantities of guayule rubber, but failed. Work again under way, but sponsor- edprivateiy. A Does your brain, once it reaches mature sue, always re main that A No. After the age of 20 the brain shrinks continually. Q How many meome tax re turns are audited ior "errors each year. A Average is 3 in each 100, but the lower the income the greater chance it has of notN?e mg audited Hearings got under way a yeav later and ended last August. Firs', section of the report was issued in January, and four more sections sec-tions were issued early in March. This is about half the report, which won't be completed for another two or three months. It is the federal power commission's commis-sion's belief that any recommendations recom-mendations for changes in the natural gas act shon'r! await completion com-pletion of the report. No sooner has the first section of the preliminary draft of the report been issued for comment than William R. Boyd, president. of the Petroleum Institute, and spokesman for the independent gas and petroleum groups, served notice on FPC Chairman Nelson TRAIL ORIENTAL FRUIT MOttlllljee Smith that they thought the PULLMAN, Wash. (U.R) Ainanvai gas act should be amend- search for signs of the Oriental fruit moth will be started early in Washington this year, the agricultural agri-cultural extension service at ed immediately. Keep Books Under FPC What the industry really fears is that the FPC will take over Washington State College has de-control of the end use of natural cidecL Thirty-tow specimens ofjg&s, as well asits production the moth an insect pest that has and gathering. There are about done, great damage to peach and 425,000 U. S. oil wells. 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