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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. Thursday, December 14, 1944 Congressional Machinery FJcmentsTakenFrom Soil by Bumper Crops Should Be Replaced Slated for Overhauling Man About Town: Noel Coward will apologize for his careless comment on Brooklyn overIs seas soldiers in hospitals. Sec'y Morgenthau resigning from the Cabinet after this bond drive? .. . Washington insiders insist that Att'y Gen. Biddle will inherit a U. S. Supreme Court bench. His successor probably will be Tom Clark of the Dep't of Justice. ... Bob Hope's new eol'm is said to have already made 60 gazettes. His weekly take is about a "G." . . . Photoplay's coming out with an article on Bette Davis and her Corporal chum quoting all items on them. When Bette was asked if she planned marrying, she replied: "I am 36 and too old for such nonsense!" . . . And just what is the "March On Washington Movement," which is listed in the N. Y. Classified (Red Book) on page 46? so-call- ed lend-leas- pot-sh- dust-storm- s, sun-spot- ... The Red Cross in Hawaii and Australia sent out urgent requests for publicity women, who are needed. Salary: $150 per month (to start) By now, plus room and board. each of the Army nurses who es- ... caped from Bataan has been promoted to at least the rank of Major. . . Emergency surgery saved the index digit of talented Ethel Smith, the organist. Almost lost it in H'wood preparing sandwiches for servicemen. . . . Despite the recent reports, pals of the heirs insist the N. Y. Yankees team is not for sale now. Unless, of course, you 75 new have a fabulous offer. mags will hit the stands within 6 months. ... Insiders hear that the banks are keeping a record of all large bills for Mr. Whiskers. From "C" notes up. The veason may be to call them in eventually and ask owners how they got them. Also to check on black marketeers, many of whom are offering 2 per cent to get them changed into 10s, 20s, and 50s. lend-leas- hasn't yet offered us any documented proof that Gov't or Upton Close other pressure groups got him fired off NBC. . . . When depositors of a certain bank (not in N. Y.) read that an accused Hitlerobter was in the owner's employ they withdrew nearly six million dollars by noon day of publication here! . . . Betty Hutton, we hear, is worth nearly a million slugs, and can't find a H'wood house at any price. ar high-geare- d Sallies In Onr Alley: Buss Faw-cet- t. publisher (or, if you prefer, the mag-natereports on the maid sitcheeayshun in H'wood. Alexis Smith's new maid was all dolled up the other day ready to accompany Alexis to the studio. The actress politely reminded her that she was hired as a housemaid, not as a personal attendant To which the gal exploded: "Nutz to housework, madam. I only took the job so I could meet Errol Flynn." . . . Sunny Skylar offers cigarette-shortag- e gag No. 66543. to wit: "The cig famine has slowed the tobacco auctioneers down to a drawL" i B ARBS by Baiikhtige In these days mhen chinery of all kinds 14 is Rith on a list at 02 Still lung afflictions sound of wind, anyhow. I hear you Washington m remark. Under the Hull reciprocal agreements, tariffs to 36 per cent are only 1 per cent lower than they were before 1913 and 8 per cent higher than under the Underwood act of that year. The French air ministry has temporarily suspended voluntary enlistments in the French air force because "the number of applicants exceeds the number who can be enrolled and instructed." maout- fertiliner may be hard to obtain. Frequently, however, companies nelling crushed stone and other noil treating chemical have equipment which mav be rented at reasonable rates. When a large area Is to be rovrrrd. It Is generally widest in call on onr of these to help with the job. A large dump truth, hauling a spreader, rwn rover a hlg pasture In rnsrkably short lime. fit cities u spread farm scarce, com-pani- Congress going to streamline Itself. I wonder If the cortgiesn en will have to diet down to a svelt silhouette to match. Li r - t " '. t s DEPARTMENT OFFICE EQUIPMENT WE BUT AND SELL. Office Furniture. Files. Typewriters. AddCash Registers. ing Machines. Safes. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE SB WMt Broadway. Salt Lak City. Utah. REMEDIES Nerrana breakdown sufferers can secure definite help. Write C. E. KLI'I.F. W. Platte, Colorado Springs, Colorado. SCHOOLS Salt Lake Barber College EdNv. F. Formerly Gillette, Mgr. Classes170now starting. Write for inRerent St.. Salt Lake. formation. "Mc-ler's- " Used Cars Trailers Vacuum Cleaners, Repairs VACUUM CLEANERS, bought, repaired, parts, guaranteed ; low prices, quick service. Send by truck to PKOSpERirr SHOP, 233 Stat St., Salt Lake S, Utah. Invest in Liberty Buy War Bonds it Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender. Inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it or you are the quickly allays to have your moneycough back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis ), well-heele- deep-roote- CLASSIFIED . record-breakin- e's sports-minde- Many secondhand Army cars are now being offered by dealers at $400 each. Some paid $200 for them. It costs another $60 to repaint from If you think the Army color. there is no racket on the cig shortage, how come so many now show up wrapped in cellophane? h:h$fJf rem-mittr- Since 1921, Soviet Russia has become the most d country in history through its sports-for-aprogram for which it has appropriated as much as $100,000,000 annually, says Collier's. This has not only resulted in the construction of 650 stadiums, 3,500 gymnasiums and 10,000 playing fields, but has also encouraged 35,000,000 men and women of nearly all ages to compete in athletic events. Furthermore, as no one is permitted to make money on sports, either as a promoter or a participant, there are no professional athletes in the Soviet Union. ll - War-spurr- Russia Spent $100,000,000 Yearly on Sports Program I will not be troublesome so pluses long as the war lasts. Food needs of our Allies and liberated regions may keep it quiescent for a while even after Germany cracks up. But in some future day it will become a war and their sons coming home from the army, they will be able to work more land than hitherto. Homesteads for Soldiers. "The government is already planBulk of Complaints Against the Legislative ning to give homesteads to serviceworrisome reality. men. When this is done, the owner Branch Are Inconsistent, but Committee Reports from liberated countries of an expensive farm will be in a What will the coming transitthat the food supply situ- tough spot to produce crops in comion from war to peacetime Indicate ation there is less acute than had petition with the man who has no Setup Needs Revision. to mean American economy been anticipated. France, the Balcapital investment in the soil poragriculture? kans, Poland and even eventually tion of his food factory. That question has been Germany may require less food By BAUKIIAGE "The only way the American raised with increasing fre- from our supply than we had been farmer can News Analyst and Commentator. successfully compete of on. in Stocks Great goods counting farmnot either in domestic or world markets quency only by dirt to 5,500,000 be Britain are in reported of tive the government branch W.NU Service, Union Trust Building ers but by in postwar years, is agriculthe last two years can be seen when tural economists, too, as Un- tons, against a normal 1,500,000 tons. crops at a lower cost byperproducing Washington, D. C. unit. In built These reserves been have up the two most popu- cle Sam's armies and fleets such a program, the steady use of It is an old American custom to it is realized that e from shiplar charges offered were either at congress whentake a have won smashing victories substantially ments out of this country. If these mixed fertilizer containing nitrogen, will be an ever something goes wrong and no- that congress was a "rubber overseas and as prayed-fo- r were reduced to say, 2,000,000 tons phosphorus and potash or that it was "obstrucMore factor. enormously important body else is handy to blame, no stamp" tionist," which adds up to a con- peace becomes a closer possi- when the war ends, there wouldSur-be bushels per acre can, and will niean matter whether the trouble is left for relief. about 3,500,000 tradiction. bility. more food from less land. It will jaundice or just One thing is clear. When the war veys by me Stanford Food ReBecause of the fact that the also mean more good food per acre plain grouch. belief the the be search will situation institute farmer's ends, support to help build healthier human beings You may recall that this feeling growth of the country has demanded an increase in the and farm animals In the future." reached an unhappy high in the faand mous "bundles - for - congressmen" body of administrative The need for building up the is executive law, congress campaign of 1942. Some practical soil's productivity is widely recogcivil on the to seized forced Jokers in Seattle delegate more power nized as a postwar "must." No less and more functions to the adservice retirement bill which made an authority than Secretary of agriincludall government employees, ministrative branch. To overculture Claude Wickard recently come this trend In so far as ing members of congress, eligible "Now is the time for declared: for pensions, as an excuse to start possible will be one of the efto worry about soil ferfarmers the horseplay. By the time the silly forts of the reorganization, of tility." s season arrived, everyone with an which I will speak in a moJ- y In answer to any farmer's stateoverdose of prickly heat was taking ment. Meanwhile, it is interestment that "My yields are better on the another or one out in note it way that Senator LaFoling to than ever," Secretary Wickard lette himself called attention to poor legislators. counters with this question: the accomplishment of the TruThat was very funny to every"Ask yourself how much better man investigating committee in body except the recipients of the and better plant varieties machinery alerrors executive a few and thoughtful bundles exposing have had to do with those increases. in and the committed pregreatthat know ready people who Over much of our best farm land, est danger to a democratic govventing others by the mere better yields are the most proof "ever present exposure threat ernment is lack of confidence nounced cause of accelerated soil and censure." In the parliamentary body. They a steady decline that depletion The one field in which congress knew, too, that most of the sins most farmers can't see yet, but of congress are due. to the fact can greatly increase its efficiency which could bring a nationwide and in so doing, not only checking that some of the congressional crisis in soil fertility. the methods established by willful aggression of the administra"No great nation can afford to tive and executive branches but renfounding fathers have grown neglect the productivity of its soil. out of date. dering a real assistance to them and The problems of abundance, bafAs one congressman put it to me to the whole nation, is in a refling as they seem, are a challenge. exand of committees the be can't "We the other day: organization can be solved r and their soluThey billion-dollabudmethods. r their pected to handle tion will be the gateway to a better e is not setup." gets with a penny-antCongress at present way of living. But to the problems In July, 1943, Senator Lafollette equipped to offer sufficient conof steadily declining production intro-dube-d Wisconsin of of in the structive writing help (Progressive) there is no answer. That pathway a plan for the reorganization legislation and therefore, frequenteventually leads to decline and ruin. of the committee structure of the ly, the last word goes, by default, It not only is impossible to prosenate apsenate. This year the to the interested government duce abundantly on depleted soils; of a joint agency, or that particular pressure a proved the appointment good deal different from that of that Europe won't be much of a it is almost impossible to produce committee on organization of both group armed with the technical in- the manufacturer or industrialist. market for our food surpluses. efficiently. houses. The Smith committee in the formation necessary to bolster its The farmer's peak production job When Germany Surrenders. Huge Crops Robbed Soil. case. house. Senator Maloney and Repreof will be completed. Vast stocks Some decline in food prices can g four years of "After of Smith sentative Monroney and others carVirginia, food and fiber will be in storage; be Representative deafter farmfor Germany's war, inexpected seem to production chances the of committee his in the report ried on, until today e :ompetition for markets will be feat, for then both military and ers have special need for checking bright for consideration by the 79th vestigate executive agencies, strings keen. Industry, on the other hand, of farm commodities buying up on their soil resources and for congress of a plan to streamline out this point, as others have. The will be reconverting from war pro- is likely to taper off. This need be repairing the effects of depletion." the machinery of the governreport says: to duction the greatest peacetime only a gradual movement until some Such a checking up would in most ment's legislative branch. "Today a large percentage of the output in history. The backlog of deadjustment can be ef- cases reveal that the soil's fertility In addition, a committee of most important legislation is . . . mand for virtually every commodity downward in the fected volume. By production lawyers has just completed a four-yeautomobiles, end of the Japanese war, the re- level is lower than it was in prewar painstakingly drafted by the very used in civilian life Fertility has been one of the study on the reorganization of executive officials who are intended machinery, building materials, re- conversion from war to peacetime years. casualties in the battle necessary congress, the results of which have to be the recipients of the powers frigerators, radios, heating equipof civilian goods should to meet wartime food fount! favor ia congressional circles. which the legislation delegates. ment, household furnishings production will production be well under way. Prices, however, Peak-loa- d I think H apropos at this point to Furthermore, croppings have the same officials be big enough to require years of could go to 90 per cent of parity goals. taken a heavy toll of the soil's reoffer two quotations, one from the industrial activity. re generally the only expert and for the basic crops. The government sources of nitrogen, phosphorus and works of the historian Charles fully Informed witnesses to testify if Some believe that in level economists at that to is step pledged potash. Beard, mentioned by Senator LaFol-lett- e before the legislative committees of emand two industrial at for with least output years peacetime support Rehabilitation of the soil is thus a In an article he wrote on the the congress having jurisdiction remain high say at about after the war, so no further severe necessity, if the fertility level is to subject, and another from the arti- ever the proposed bills. If there are ployment an150 billion dollar income level drop than that may be necessary. be built up and the productive cle itsell opposing witnesses they do net, as demand for farm prodAll of the foregoing factors spell capacity of the land maintained in This is what historian Beard said: a rule, represent congress er the nuallythe sufficient to absorb a competition in the farmer's postwar the competitive postwar period. "As a more than casual student of people generally but rather some ucts would be total production at about 1943 operations. Farmers can arm themthe Congressional Record. I venture special group." All things considered, the cost of levels. selves now to meet that competition plowing, this opinion: It is possible te pick seeding and cultivating a But even if the nation's efforts to and to withstand the economic out of the Record for the past 10 Expert Knowledge maintain postwar production and shocks that will accompany the (not orations) addresses years Needed on Many Bills Get It Early! succeed, farm economy transition period. If they do some which for the breadth of knowledge, does not mean that there are employment That must be prepared to withstand some straight thinking they can be strongtechnical skill, analytical acumen, not men in "The War Food administration know as who congress shocks. The switch from peace to er at the war's end than they were dose reasoning and dignified pres- much and more again calls on farmers to accept than many of the entation, compare favorably with persons appearing before then in war will inevitably bring changes in- at its beginning. First of all, they delivery of their fertilizers during techcan safeguard their future by keepmethods to cope with new similar utterances made in the pre- favor of, or in the winter and early spring, when a par- farm to, opposition in marketing and production. ing their finances in a liquid condithe manufacturing plants can ceding century by the bill. But even a senator can't niques ticular In such a setup, the individual tion, by buying war bonds, by shunmake delivery most easily, and great orators." to men. all be all things farmer who uses antiquated meth-- : ning debt and by avoiding the pitto store it In their barns and LaFollette. subscribing to this d Then there are the ods or who fails to maintain the fer falls of overexpansion through the sheds for ase when needed," opinion, adds frankly, "There is, to bad poetry, lobby groups with their technical tility level of his soil is doomed to purchase of additional farm land. be sure, more trash P. H. Groggins, chief of the failure. chemicals and fertilizers branch, Secondly, they can take out an "indemagogic claptrap, and clotted experts. lima can a with What committee Three Big Problems. surance policy" for long range nonsense in the Record of the past advises. ited appropriation do in competition 10 years than there was on the anMost farm authorities are of the farm productivity by undertaking a "The individual fanner can asto fund with a with private group sure himself of sufficient fertiliznals of congress from 1789 to 1799." opinion that postwar agriculture will soil fertility rebuilding program. or technical face three hire the best legal er by placing his orders as (Aye, aye! ) Present high food prices have almajor problems: Its far as possible ahead of the seaThe senator reminds us, however, brains in the country to presentconsome farmers Into land 1. Farm acreage, vastly exlured ready son of use. If all farmers will of the extremely complex quality case? How can a member of a Such food and meet to wartime overexpansion. speculation panded da this, plants can be kept workof the problems which congress has gressional committee be expected to recklessness brought ruin to mildemands will have te be reknow as much about a subjeet as a to face today and the distractions effilions in the wake of World War I. means ing at the capacity permitted by more duced. That member of a government departavailable labor. Continued maxito which the members are subIt can bring disaster again this cient farming en fewer acres. on time his whole ment who spends mum production and ose of ferbetime. jected, and then, comparing the cont. Farm may surpluses involved? tilizers Is necessary in support gress about which he is writing (the the particular subject come a peacetime headache. "During and Immediately after of the war food program." Fortunately, the situation is the last war when food prices were 76th) with the first congresses, he 3. farm income curable. One answer la greater even higher proportionately than says he is convinced "that for diswill Inevitably decline when the specialisation on the part of the interestedness, absence of corrupthey are now, many farmers were field is the same whether the crop present abnormal demand for ran of This members congress. foolish enough to mortgage their own yield be large or small. Therefore, tion, and concern with the public food slackens. be accomplished by cutting farms in order to buy more land," the farmer who is able to get big good, the present body is of a high1944 farm crop acreage goals In down the number of committees er order." a recent statement of the Middle 371 million acres, yields at a relatively low productotaled compared upon which a member I allowed And that Is a sentiment which, cost is the one who will 325 million acre plantings in West Soil Improvement committee tion with to serve. In the haase (with lie . in the humble opinion of this writer, That is an increase points out. "The sellers were can- make money when competition is years. prewar a member rs substantiated by the majority of larger membership) of 46 million acres. Commenting re- ny operators who preferred to take keen. can concentrate on a sfngle their own cold profit on real estate objective students of the two bodies. Attention to essentials is, ol cently on the adjustments that will In work. the senate, rather than gamble on the chances course, important in any soil imfit postwar require to be necessary All Democratic Institutions I know of one case where a ments. Chester Davis, former AAA of food prices remaining eternally provement plan for postwar years. senator found that all six comSuffer During Wartime In addition to good rotation, the administrator and now president of high. mitters on which he served were The present legislators, if they "The memory of the crash and growing of d of St. legumes, bank Reserve Federal the scheduled to meet at the same deflation that followed is still painwished to be as tritely exasperating contour plowing where necessary Louis said: on the ame time In day. as many civilian slackers this and the return of manure and cror "The farm plant has been ex- fully fresh. Another solution for the problem our time of national stress, could refuse to the soil, the use of mixed "After the present war, American the rapacity needed panded beyond answer some of their critics with would be provision for employment to the peace- farmers will have to compete in fertilizer is a No. 1 necessity. Qual abundantly supply a s'.irug and a reminder that "there of exports, both tem- time domestic market and any nor- world markets. Because of current ity as well as high yield will be is a war on." When a war is on the porary and permanent, to advise mal income levels the temptation to acimportant factors in the postwai eport market that mtf-ytoughest flbred of democratic In- committees on purely technical matavailable. Farmers will face real quire additional acreage is strong. farm market. Experience has dem ters. This arrangement now exists stitutions suffer. red for arrrage adjustments and Some farmers believe it is a smart onstrated that fertilized crops are o) The Inconsistency of the bulk of but In such a limited degree that it in some areas shifts may be drastic." move because with more and bethigher quality and yield than unferthe complaints sgain.it the legisla Is hardly effective. farm sur- - ter machinery available after the tilized ones. The second problem Is mm P Tighter Competition Af ter War Demands Soil Fertility Be Maintained at High Level i Memos of a Midnighter: That deafening explosion was Carole Lan-ii- s screaming back at the Shuberts, who scolded her for missing rehears-- , als, etc. . . . Judy Garland has her aeart set on a Broadway musical and may not resume in H'wood for s while. , . . Garbo is no longer a vegetarian. Has to build up resistance by eating food. . . . Smartest looking pair at Gilmore's were the Ronald Colmans (Benita Hume). . . . That German ace (who is credited by the Nazis with bringing down 102 Allied planes) was shot down by an American, now back here. But mustn't reveal his name. Why's that? feThe Late Watch: A male resort owner is having nightly rendezwoos with a cabaJlero. age 25. . . . When Billy Rose's "7 Lively Arts" premieres it'll cost him one Including the fee for Broadthe Ziegfeld Theater. way's toughest detectives are looking for that louse who beat up a Army officer in a hotel. Cut his face to shreds with a broken glass. . . . Beaverbrook, they say, will Invest 20 million to .make Canada the world's movie center. . . . Maria Montez's earrings have her lusband's pix on them. He's Pierre Aumont, overseas. ... Newspapermen In New Tork hear rumors about the OWI pictorial service. That it may be taken over by i news syndicate. The A.P.? . . . Socony will be the new sponsor oi Info Please starting Feb. 12th. Same . . Returned time, same station. Marines boost Ty Power this way: We heard he was a regular guy, jut his rating went away up when '.he rumor spread that he had even . . . Th " iune some goes tc Paris edition of the oress next week. Everett Walkei m the staff here has gone to edit brig-time!- for ordering your 194S stationary. 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