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Show THR Pape Two Asked by FDR Terrific Air Attacks Spur Allied Drive Against Nazis on Central Italian Front; Moscow Conference Offers Blueprint For Lasting Peace in Postwar World Acceptable Compromise Lacking; Presidential Veto Forecast for Any Bill Banning Use of 'Economic Stimulant.' (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ... Released by Western Newspaper Union. '"". In By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WND Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. The administration is in the midst of one of its fiercest contests to "hold the line" against stabilization. It is the old question of subsidies for farm products and it looks like a fight to the death. The house agriculture committee, with Representative Steagall and others swinging over to the Republican side, is backing the bill which would renew the appropriations for the Commodity Credit corporation and cut out the subsidies to processors, distributors and some direct cash aid to farmers. The present legislation expires in January. A presidential veto is taken for granted for any bill banning the use of subsidies. Administration supporters believe that such a veto can be sustained, but they see a tough, bitter fight ahead. The key to the whole difficulty is violent partisanship. Successful politics is like successful living in the family, in the community, in the world it depends on the ability to compromise. In this fight, there seems to be no one able to work out '? Cost of Living Complicating the problem Is, as usual, labor's insistence that the cost of living has gone up higher than statistics show, that the Little Steel formula is no longer a fair yardstick for wage increases since decisions of the War Labor board, plus insistence of the director of stabilization, hold down wages while the administration has not carried out its promises to roll back the living roll-bac- Of course, there is the point that the politician doesn't like to mention nobody who depends on votes wants to be in a position later on of having to remove those benefits. Another point, not stressed, is that subsidies to processors mean that the government has a right to look into the books of private industry. But to the President, it is subsidies or inflation. At a recent press and radio conference, the President said that he pot the head of the Farm Bureau federation. Edward O'Neil. to admit thnt letting prices go up in free market, which the povern-men- t says would have to be the alternative of the subsidy if the farmer was to grt the incentive for increased production, would mean a little inflation. The President then told the story about the man who took jur--t a "little" cocaine. He soon became an addict. It was then that a woman reportr er, known for spicy questions, asked If the President didn't think that if his rn;iMire .u carried we h-- rr.ii.'ht become subsidy addicts. The Mem to think so. Preside! didn't o il that acnrulture has lie p'iir,t been petting s:i?s:d:s since 1933. Whether or r t there is danger in rr.i'.d economic st, mutant any rf which ti e adt'.ir. s'rat.on feels is a wartim nre;fy. everybody ad mils a! runaway ii:"ation must be ri t- avoided if rt io!l,!e. ach.irry The whole of cotn-p'ca'u- stabilization was cren'ed to prevent it. The proponents of the subsidy plan say thr.t the fie' t aci'St thern Is P 11 I K FS one-thir- daily in Holland. The cut rr freat deal to the Dutch, v hose standards have lowered. i Food Contribution a . nv-h.- 64,000 votes. Italian King on Spot The other day when I stepped into Noted for his political tight-rop- e the broadcasting stutiio just as the walking, King Victor Emmanuel of Farm and Home Hour had ended, I Italy now threads a found some cookies, some Brown shaky line, Betty and a meat loaf sandwich wait- very with the new demoing. These samples had been saved cratic forces in the from a more elaborate layout of country demanding good things made with soy beans his abdication. which had been the subject of the Led by former F & H broadcast. foreign minister and AlI ate them with pleasure. refugee Count Carlo I J '1 though the meat loaf was 25 per cent Sforza, f demsoy grits, it tasted exactly like meat ocratic Italy's elements to me. The cookies and the Brown have expressed apBetty were excellent. proval for setting up flour and the bread soy grits Soy King Victor's some had soy flour in it are both grandson. on the market ready to contribute Prince Vittorio Emvitamins, mineral, protein, vim and manuel, as the nom I'rince Vittorio vigor to our food, reducing the coninal monarch, with exof scarcer more and sumption a regent like Marshal Badoglio to pensive products. A saving of from him until he comes of age. 20 to 25 per cent in meat and still represent Chief to King Victor is objection food values having almost identical that he not only allowed Mussolini is nothing to be sneezed at. Soy, it is pointed out. is not a to come into power, but that he also substitute but a supplement to other supported him throughout his adfoods and you would be surprised ministration, renouncing him only when it appeared Italy would lose how many tasty dishes can be produced with it. The Bureau of Hu- the war and the smart thing to do man Nutrition and Home Economics would be to jump onto the Allied has a handy little pamphlet contain- bandwagon. Removal of King Victor Emmaning recocs, and you can get one by sound the death knell of writing to the bureau, care of the uel would in monarchy Europe, since he is one department of agriculture, Washing- of the last rulers with any actual ton. D. C. There are recipes for mint loaf, governmental powers. chile con carne, suggestions for use of soy with vegetables when they are SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: served as a main dish; soy In sauces Last Step and mixed with cereals to give a Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur took the richer protein diet many sugges- final step toward driving the Japations for making what you have go nese from eastern Australasia with a further and accomplish more. massive attack designed to clear the enemy from the big air and sea base A Letter of Rabaul in New Britain. I a when letter that get Frankly, Feeder point for Japanese forces I sometimes makes me real mad, mention it on the air. I shouldn't in the Solomons and New Guinea, ever do it, I suppose, because I usu- and nerve center for enemy resistin the whole eastern Australally get a flood of sympathy which ance area. Rabaul stood threatened asian I don't deserve but one of perhaps the best replies I ever had was from as U S. forces spilled over into the remaining Nipponese holdings in the a man in SpcarOh, S D . who wrote Solomons, which flank the base and to rrr as follows: offer me.'ins f r harassing any Allied "Koch morning at II a. m. .VIT7, force attempting to move against tune oii in. Now, ma bp mutnkcn, vrf it item In me tliat at lime voii the big pivotal position. of the Treasury Isthink vrnp ttf thr Ivtlrtt xill reeelie Occupation nrr 'hilling hrtitu the hrlt' uhtrh hut lands heralded MacArthur's drive in alua finn rtaniilrrrd cnuatlils and the Solum' ns to cut off Rabaul. un ;iiWi tint tint in a great many efle, Then. lT. S. troops landed on the if lie d'tti'l tut hrtnu the hrlt. Me nl last two important Jap strongholds maUe a tnhil mm an it rrm that nme of Choiseul and Bougainville, with nf thr itti'l that n fail nut fur lit tn that there it ( t)l IIISG units of the ererr.y fleet and air force offering resistance. ahnre thr hrlt tn hit at.m FOUR POWERS: Postwar Blueprint From out of the conference of foreign ministers in Moscow was fashioned a pact between the U. S., Great Britain, China and Russia pledging a finish fight with the t Axis and this for the postwar world: 1. Establishment of an international organization of both large and small sovereign nations to maintain peace and security; 2. Before the establishment of such an organization, the four powers will act together to preserve order; 3. Regulation of the armaments of nations. For Italy, the powers dedicated four-pow- blue-prin- H ! fnl-di- . . . by Nazi occupation authorities in Holland have even cut the putrh h'.rfe-meThe weekly ration meat ration coupons, which usrd to be good for l.VI gr;rr s of ;it, now are good for onty 100 er;,rn". or about two ounces, arrnrd.r z t" a re trrt published in a f Zero an f iii I'r r, costs. The fama organizations and the Subidie$ and Votes Pi pot-sho- an acceptable compromise. Already the feeling is bitter. processors and the distributors oppose the They don't put it that way. They say they oppose subsidies for rolling back consumer prices. They argue that subsidies to Increase production and support prices in a free market are all right and are horses of another color. The President sees no difference. Subsidies which permit the government to buy up commodities or make loans at a minimum price when the market price dips below that figure are all right, say the farm bloc, but, they claim, the "new" subsidies go further than that in that they mean payments direct to the processor and distributor and also buying and selling by the government. This, they claim, is in itself Inflationary because it means payments out of the treasury. They say they don't believe that the money will get back to the farmer, that it means "grocery bills paid by the government," with very little real saving to the consumer, and finally, which is the real rub, it means too much government control, purely political. They say the " publicans naturally take the side op4'V V"?4.v posite to the administration because v 9? rtnXSy:wV site they can win some farm votes as to farmof champions higher prices ers if they take this stand. On the other hand, they believe that the bill will be vetoed eventually and the Democrats say . the veto will be sustained. If so, the Republicans will not be criticized for supporting a measure which is defeated. And the Democratic support in the house agriculture committee, subsidy supporters say, was "bought" by allowing the present subsidies for the products grown in districts of the congressmen who An Allied transport is shown rumbling over pontoon bridge thrown up supported the bill, to stand. American engineers across the Volturno river in Italy. The administration followers say by that it seems strange for the ReELECTION NEWS: . publicans to raise a cry against sub- EUROPE: sidies when tariffs are subsidies. Blast Communications GOP Maintains Grou th They mention the sugar "subsidy." once over Continued France's paraRoaring growth of Republican As for complaint that the subsidy strength was evidenced in a smaton agricultural products would not disaical Riviera, Flying Fortresses at communications tering of important state and mayorreach the farmer, they call attention took alty elections. to the milk subsidies at present in lines shuttling troops between southern In New York, GOP candidate and northern Italy. To operation where the man who milks the France Allied medium bombers Joe R. Hanley won the lieutenant-governorshi- p south, the cow gets the subsidy direct from Democratic canMeanwhile, we know that the cost blasted harbors above Rome, which of living has already gone up. We the Nazis have been using to re- didate Lieut. Gen. William N. Haskknow that we need full production lieve strained road and rail facili- ell by more than 340,000 votes of of foodstuffs. We know that many ties. approximately 3,308,000 cast. Han-ley- 's As their heavy bombers smashed victory assured the GOP of farmers can't get the feed required to raise the stock or to fatten it to far back of German lines. Allied control of the state if Governor its most efficient weight for slaugh- troops slowly drew up for their next Thomas Dewey should make the assault on Nazi mountain positions race for the presidency, since, as ter. in central Italy. As rain continued lieutenant-governoout Hanley would of the by any money Payment to fall in swirling sheets and mudstep in his shoes. in does mean more treasury money New Jersey's governor during circulation but the subsidy pro- died up the country, U. S., British straWorld War I, Republican Walter E. ponents point to the kind of inflation and Canadian soldiers captured we get when prices aren't controlled. tegic heights for observing enemy Edge, returned to the political arena The administration says it is better action and took over important road to win the office again during World War II by defeating Democrat Vinjunctions for shuttling supplies. to control a few processors and disAs the Allies edged forward, the cent J. Murphy by approximately even if Sam has Uncle tributors, to snoop into their books to see he Germans snuggled deeper into their 100,000 votes. Edge succeeds reisn't cheated, than to let that vicious new posts along the 2,500-foo- t high tiring Governor Charles Edison. Republicans held their spiral of prices and living costs start Massico ridge facing Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army on the control of Philadelphia, with GOP to mount. In the next weeks you will hear west, and the rugged country con- Mayor Bernard Samuel besting a lot more of these arguments. fronting Gen. Bernard Montgom- Democrat and White House favorite William C. Bullitt by more than ery's Eighth army to the east. Re- y Baukhaga Collecting spider web for precision sighting instruments Is one of the rlut.es performed by women in the British Auxiliary Territorial service. firea'jse corn fields are exeel'ent h'de '.its for art sans, the Croat rr.lnirter for the interior has ordned faiiTers to rut their fields by tj.. in'l of this month. If they are not cut by thrn. they will be burned. II I Cr II I- - I C, themselves to destroying Fascism and promoting democratic government. They refused to recognize Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, telling that country its future treatment will be conditioned by its assistance in overthrowing Naziism within its borders. The L S.. Great Britain and Russia planned creation of a committee to advise on political questions in countries reconquered by the Allies. MINKS: Back in U. S. Hands With the nation's coal pits back in U. S. hands, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes conferred with United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis to end the walkout of al- most II T S KNKMY AI.IKNS: Srnee Pearl Harbor, 7.8M enemy aliens have been interned or paroled after a hearing. Attorney General Diddle reveals. That is more than half of the 14.733 persons as potentially dangerous. Kiddle says that 3,771 aliens have been n 'enied. of whom I.853 are (Wrran. 1.75)8 and 111 Hal.an. A few Utilitarians and Rumanians are held. se,d Jap-anes- bituminous miners. 3C0.0fiO Having given the pits back to private ownership October 12 after having taken them over last July, Ickes found them In his lap again, following their f eizure by President Roosevelt after the UMW began its walkout over failure of negotiations for a signed contract. The b.g bone of contention lay in the W;.r Labor board's refusal to ratify a new contract drawn between the UMW and Illinois Coal Operators, providing for an 8V4 hour day, with compensation for underground travel time and a daily wage increase f $1.50. Instead the WLB recommended an 8'4 hour day, with a daily pay boost of $1.12'. To Ickes fell the task of reconciling the r:.UV and WLB differences, even as a danger of a coul shortage arose, wnn deliveries prohibited to anyone w v.h 10 days' supply on hand, and snles limited to one ton to householders. . ' V. suEsinr's: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Politics Seen as Key in Farm Subsidy Problem Thursday, November 11, 1943 NEPHI, UTAH TIMES-NEW- week's nrics fi r.ROlM) GAINER: The Notre Dame football team is establishing a new rr,rk for ground gaining. The average is now about 483 yards a game. Tr e army team is clote behind wi'h yards. SI.i travel l ff s', con-pao- ft s: Soldiers will soon country in new triple-def- k , cars, the Pullman j nonntcd in ro' s , at Declaring that governn t.a subsiare comparatively cheap for (1) stimulating production of certain necessary and select crops; (2) preventing inflationary tendencies, and 3) encouraging sale of food through ordinary channels instead of black markets, President Roosevelt asked congressional approval for his food subsidy program. By use of subsidies, the President said, food prices can be kept at lower levels than if processors, distributors and retailers were each permitted to mark up their margins. Failure to provide stabilization through subsidies, he said, would bring about justifiable demands for increased wages. Use of subsidies to stabilize prices is presently costing the U. S. 800 million dollars a year, the President said. Of the sum, 450 million dollars is being used to maintain meat and butter prices by subsidizing the producer. Mr. Roosevelt answered the demand for a food czar by asserting that the different duties of the War Food administration and Office of Price administration made consolidation of the two bureaus impractical. (v. VAe (i. c e- - e (s. r. fs- - e- -e o- - - ( r fv. ASH MZ O ANomen dies RWOUND mm A General Quiz I ? The Questions' DREW PEAOSON 1. What river flows through three European capitals? 2. What is a quern? RUSSIAN RELATIONS IMPROVE 3. What are the national colors The diplomatic grapevine reports that relations with Rus- Df Mexico? 4. In diplomatic service which ia sia are going pretty well now. This is certainly true on the surface, and the highest rank, ambassador, while some irritations have occurred minister or consul? 5. Which two countries of South below the surface, both sides have shown a real tendency to try to get America do not touch Brazil? Washington, D. C. inter-Allie- d along. irritation Most serious The Answers was over the Mediterranean Council, through which Russia, the United 1. The Danube flows through States and Britain were to confer re- Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade. the and Africa North garding Italy, 2. A small hand mill for grind- Balkans. The Russians, snubbed earlier in ing3. spices. white and red. Green, the summer regarding preliminary 4. Ambassador. Italian armistice terms, took the 5. Ecuador and Chile. Mediterranean Council seriously and appointed as their representative Andrei Vishinski, the famous prosecutor in the Russian purge trials. This was the equivalent of sending the most outstanding member of the U. S. Supreme court or the leading of England. What People Are Doing lawyer Vishinski is a man of national 5 AT When Ensign George Swiggart stature, capable of making MediterMiles appeared for duty at the navy ranean decisions without consulting department in Washington, D. C, he Moscow. But to represent the Unitreported to his mother, Lieut. Amy ed States on the Mediterranean Brown Miles, in charge of officer Council, Secretary Hull sent Ed Wilpersonnel. son, U. S. ambassador to Panama. Put a few drops of up Wilson is a thorough-goincompeeach nostril at the very first sniffle A gold prospector from Leadville, tent diplomat who can handle any or sneeze. Its quick action helps Colo., bewhiskered F. E. Gimlett, routine job and handle it well. But prevent many colds broke into a meeting of the house almost no one outside diplomacy or developing. Follow WICi2 ways and means committee study- - Panama has heard of him. He has no national stature and he cannot act on his own. Immediately it developed that Wilson was to act as a glorified mesTree Blows Up senger and report everything back Contrary to common belief, a to Washington. The British repre- bolt of lightning does not splinter sentative was to do the same. In the tree; the tree itself "blows up" other words, Churchill and Roose- when its moisture is suddenly-turnevelt were to make the decisions, and into steam under high presthe much publicized Mediterranean sure. Council was to be a mere reporting agency. This immediately roused Russian NO ASPIRIN FASTER wrath. than genuine, pure St. Joseph Aspirin. They had welcomed the Council, appointed a top man. So World's largest seller at 10. None safer, none surer. Demand St. Joseph Aspirin. for a moment they considered withing new taxation. "I want congress drawing. However, for the sake of to put the WACs and WAVES back Allied harmony, they stayed on and Healthful Alaska in the kitchen with pots and pans and are the Mediterranean Coungiving Alaska is regarded as the healthbabies," he stormed, before he was cil a trial. iest of all the war fronts no body led from the room, lice, tetanus, malaria, or bed bugs. POOR 'PA' WATSON After calling every available now SecreHouse White Toughest job father in LaPlata county, Colo., to tary Maj. Gen. Edwin ("Pa") Watdraft board clerk John son of the White House secretariat service, Craig put his name at the top of the Induc- has to tackle each day is keeping tion list for fathers. Craig's job the President's appointment schedwent to his wife, and no sooner was ule on time. she sworn in, than she summoned Frequently FDR will sit talking to him to report for induction. They an old friend for 15 or 20 minutes have four children. over the allotted time, and that snarls the White House schedule for RUSSIA ? the rest of the day. for fast diuretic aid This is hard on the general's nervSurge Into Crimea WHEN KIDNEY FUNCTION ous system, especially when bigwigs Taking no time to catch their from the war or navy departments LAGS from this need breath, Russia's marching Red le- are waiting to discuss military matinto stormed the the Crimea, gions kidney disturbance due to need ters. On such occasions Watson is Functional diuretic aid may cause stabbing back great body of land off the southern not above barging in and breaking of cause urinary flow to be fre ache! May Ukraine commanding the Black se. up the conference. quent, yet scanty and smarting! You may routes. from lose sleep "getting up nights" ofteu The other day when the PresiLost to Russia after the fall of dent's old friend. may feel dizzy, nervous, "headachy." Governor Bob Kerr In such cases, you want to ttimuLtt Sevastopol in 1942, the Nazis pri- of Oklahoma, was overstaying his kidney action jalt. So if there is nothing marily have used its former luxuri- time through no fault of his own or organically wrong, try STStemicaily ous resorts as health havens for Watson walked in and Gold Medal Capsules. They've been fabegan to pafor wounded soldiers. When it fell to rade mous prompt action for 30 years. Take nervously about the room. care to use them only as directed. Accept Germany, 200,000 Russians were here's the undertaker, Mr. no subsurutet. 35 "Well, at your drug store. killed or captured, and the exact President," grinned Kerr, catching number of Nazis remaining is un- the hint. "If one of your callers gets 4,000,000 Maps Monthly known, since that depends on the so he doesn't move, 'Pa' will move The United States army map could that be evacuated proportion him." turns out between three while rearguards fought bitter delayRoosevelt laughingly motioned service and four million maps a month. ing actions at Melitopol. Watson to a chair. Farther to the north, German "Sit down and talk to us for rearguards battled fiercely in the awhile, general," he said. "We're DON'T LET Krivoi Rog area to hold off the Rus- having a very interesting conversasians while the Nazis withdrew from tion." the great bend of the Dnieper river. With a sigh, Watson took a chair. SLOW YOU UP sub-surfa- FIRST SNEE ZE JaKL ol d BAG.(AG HE ... CONSTIPATION CIO: 5't Million Members BACK TO NORMALCY Growth of the CIO to over 5V million members increased the ranks of organized labor to over 12 million, what with AFL strength estimated in excess of seven million. Announcement of CIO membership was made by its president, Philip Murray, at the opening of the CIO's sixth constitutional convention in Philadelphia. Pa. To the 5Vi million memPhilip Murray bers, the CIO will more add two million In the coming year, Murray said. As the CIO delegates convened, they heard a message from President Roosevelt, in which he said that although the movement of workers was to new manufacturing-centerdesirable during the early phases of the production program, stabilization of employee! at (heir present occupations was now essential. s TOKEN'S: For Rationing Industry's eagerness to get back to peacetime operation is seen In the deluge of mail received by the chemical division of WPB. Theme Unlace the of every letter Is: straightjackct and give us a chance to expand. This pressure hits the chemical division more than any other because of the tight control which that division has exercised over the Industry, and also because of the tremendous future of plastics and other developments in the chemical field. Controls are so tight that no materials may be bought or sold without clearance with WPB. and in the course of getting clearance, the applicant must state a lot of Intimate facts about his business. Including buying price, selling price, profit, and inventories. The real meaning of the complaint Is that the industry is not worried about paper work so much as it it worried about limitation on profits. Under government control, prices are held down by the fact that sales are limited to war heds, but when this restriction Is removed, the demand for chemical materials will be terrific. And profits will go. through the ceiling. " CATITAL CHAFF The Argentine government had already retracted Its ban on the Jewish press even before PreIJit Roose velt denounced the ban. C Foreign Economic administration, which does a lot of business with Latin America. Is worried over the fact that Its initials, FEA. mean "ugly" in Spanish. C. There's a new breath of life in state department press conferences s'nee Fd Strttinius lock charge. C. Jess Jones hasn't held a pres conference for more than a year. 1 The tokens that wnl be substitutes for ration coupons for small purchases were described by the Office of Price Administration as g made of fiber, and between nickel arid a quarter in sire. They are colored red or blue, with orange edces. it was aid. Rfd tokens will be iif rd for meat purchases, and blue for processed foods. The new sysiem. will go into effect in be-in- When bowels arc sluggish and yen feel irritable, headachy, do at millions-dchew FEEN-A-MINthe modem - laxative. 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