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Show Thursday, November 27, 1947 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEFHI, UTAH PAGE THREH A VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY ' - bmall Business Enterprise (Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles on current problems by Louis Bromfield, one of Americas leading writers.) By LOUIS BROMFIELD Released by WNU Features. r f -- 'a A --- rr at ? ? X :ji J - X k THERE ' - ... i ...J., rs, u 71.- - i I ... s1 1 i ... , MET OPENS 63RD SEASON In case yon weren't able to get to the Metropolitan opera house in New York for opening of the opera season this fall, this is the way it would have looked if you had been sitting off to one side in the first balcony. The brilliant scene of New York's assembled elite included several kings' ransoms of jewels, assorted ermine, chinchilla and silver fox fur coats, and a few hundred boiled shirts. The performance was Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschero." super-marke- b A' vfl v MARTIN BALKS TAX CUT. . . . All hope for passage of an income tax reduction bill during the special session of congress died when Ilarold Knutson (Rep., Rep. Minn.), left, conceded defeat after Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin (Rep., Mass.) opposed presenting the bill at this time. tew CnURCH SERVES THE WORLD . . . These Filipinos are getting medical treatment at this clinic near Manila because of the generosity of church-goin-g Americans. Contributions from churches in every state in the union made it possible for Church World service to send the drugs, instruments and other medical supplies used at the clinic. tracked down these days? 4. How many different kinds of trees are there on the White House grounds? 5. Why is the India rubber worm so called? 6. What is the "ultrasonic laundering" of clothes that has been predicted by a British scientist? 7. What is the ratio of people to land in Alaska? 8. What is a grebe? The Answers 1. The row . p vT ' s 4 1 - t '. ; . ONE MAN'S BEST FRIEND . . . Purchased 10 years ago as a souvenir, this personable alligator, still a baby of 82 pounds, has won the heart of his master, Carl E. King of Chicago, with bis gentle, mature habits. nt 7VT rt if V, . ; Vf Metropolitan Optra's Wagnerian section. Is to gulp a raw egg straight from the shell as a vocal d tones. tonic. Gives brr city's square. mwy',,ww.immitwt'!yu,ywm .mux wm. ims., nm, u i.. WHAT, NO HAM? . . . ritual of soprano Astrid Varnay, youthful queen of the CI1IVALRY IS NOT DEAD . . . These chlvalrlc looking gentlemen are some of the boys from Siena, medieval city of Italy, which nostalgically recalls the good old days twice every year by reverting to fifth century clothes, customs and habits. Big feature on these occasions Is the "Patio of Siena," a medieval horse race through the yui).ii,..inwa v u Z e - r - - i ' t j yL.& i..vr. i.ii&J WrSni jsW- viKy - hrtfeW--.-v- : ,Bis-.--- !ii '. COME nOME . . . Ceorge Trunin (left) and lifford Evans, now safely bark In the V. S., stand beside sine of their Tiprr Cabs shortly after landing at Flmendorf firld In d flight. Flairs were painted Anchorage, Alaska, on thrlr on earh plane lor every nation they crossed during the leisurely ROl'Nn-lRirrER- S C round-the-worl- global Jaunt which they began last August. 4: BRIDEGROOM . . . Mueller of Frsnl.furt, Germany, first German war bridegrto reach the V. S., la oom-to-be welcomed at airport by his Intended bride, Thelma Domrrian of Taunton, Mass. WAR the spar 2. It is said to have originated in India in the third century A. D. 3. By airplane. 4. Ninety different kinds. 5. Because a specimen, ot for example, can extend itself or be pulled to a length of 90 feet. 6. The use of vibrations of high ly pitched inaudible sound waves to shake out the dirt. 7. Approximately one person to every 10 square miles. 8. The grebe is a paddle-footealmost tailless diving bird related to the loon. d, Huge Ventilating System In New Brooklyn Tunnel The Brooklyn-BatterVehicular tunnel, now under construction in New York harbor, will have the world's largest ventilating system, says Collier's. It wll deliver 4,200,000 cubic feet of fresh, air a minute, or 12 per cent more than the system in, the Holland tunnel between Manhattan and Jersey City, and 68 per cent more than that in the Mersey tunnel between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England. I might add that Notre Dame also came along with a spirit that Army and Navy might have equalled but never could surpass. Notre Dame meant football in this country from the days of Rockne, Dorais, Gipp, the Four Horsemen and too many others to mention here. Last Game at South Bend Having been a close friend of Knute Rockne's and Notre Dame for many years, there are certain rebuttals that still might be offered. Many letters have come in attacking Army for dropping Notre Dame, just when Notre Dame was storming back. These letters came from Notre Dame's subway alumni, not from Notre Dame. What this Notre Dame subway alumni and others overlook In charging Army with retreating under fire is that from 1932 through 1937, Pittsburgh, under Jock Sutherland, wrecked Notre Dame in five out of six games. "I'm through with Pittsburgh," Elmer Layden told me. "We haven't got a chance. They not only knock onr ears back, but we are no good the next week. I'm calling off the Pittsburgh series." Which Notre Dame did. I talked this over a few days ago with Sutherland, who now coaches the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jock smiled. "You couldn't blame Notre Dame," he said. "They only scored 15 points against us in those six years." So Notre Dame, having broken off the Pittsburgh series when Jock was around, can't consistently charge Army with quitting Notre Dame with Leahy around. I have an idea that Jock would like nothing better than a Joust with Leahy. And vice-versIt would be interesting to see Leahy and Sutherland, with an even shot at material, hook up. I know both would relish the chance. Leahy is a great coach, one of the best. He also has material that most coaches can only dream about He has much better material than Army has. In particular, he has Johnny Lujack who was once rumored headed for West Point Pro vs. College Football rreo Licenses Cive Indians Pretty' Cars 7, y CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT LIVESTOCK FATTEN HOGS FASTER by stimulating their appetites with Dr. LeGear's Hog PreAlso an ideal tonic for brood scription. sows and pigs. Has helped increase profits for millions of hog raisers. Satis, guar. HELP INCREASE MILK PRODUCTION of skimpy milkers by stimulating sluggish with Dr. LeGear's Cow Prescripappetites tion In their feed. A cow tonic guaranteed to givs saUafacUon. WANTED TO BUY WE BUT AND SELL Office Furniture. Files. 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Sholtz took his entire cabinet of state officials down the Tamiaml trail to hold a powwow with the Indians, explaining that Florida wanted to assist the Indians in any way cense plates. possible. But the Indians turned down his offers, insisting that they The Redmen have at least one addidn't want any help from the palevantage over the "palefaces' In that litheir faces except free licenses to "dress to for hsve don't pay they cense plates. The policy was started up their cars and make them look bout 17 years ago by Gov. David pretty." 2. How old is the game of chess? 3. How are illegal stills being 0-- 0 super-market- TALLAHASSEE, FLA. Florida's dwindling band of Seminole Indians onre again will be able to "dress up their cars and make Ihem look pretty" as a result of a liagreement on automobile F. Leahy heights that a year ago, Biff Jones, Ar-my's graduate manager, told me he could easily sell a million uciceig at $10 each. I think he could. In the series of 34 games Notre name nas won times. Army row? d ts tax-fre- such times with 4 ties. Notre Dame was far in front until the war came along where, for example, from 1928 through 1943 Notre Dame won 13 games, lost 1 and tied 2. Army had no material and man--' power to match Notre Dame and Army had no Rockne. But most of these games were contests, hard and closely fought, until Army piled up a terrific mar gin of 107 points in 1944 and 1945. Frank Leahy came back in 1946 to check the Army hurricane with an party, largely emphasized by its extreme dullness, where neither team would take a chance. It was the dullest game I saw last year. Now they have met for the last time in many years at South Bend. This is the end of the road for some time. How long, no one knows. It may be a couple of years it may be forever. No one has ever questioned the superior material Notre Dame has known in these 34 years up to the war... Notre Dame has been the capital of football in this country al ways the team you had to beat and always the team you seldom did. Usually the team with the better football material and at least adequate coaching more than adequate with Knute Rockne and Frank two of the Leahy coaching st price-suppo- f a ts absentee-landlord-tena- is always the end of a reached !. ? General Qua 1. Which has the most bones In its neck, the giraffe or the spar- every road. Back In 1913, a Notre Dame team came to West Point with a quarterback known as Gus Dorais and a stocky end remembered as Knute Rockne. This combination beat a strong Army team 35 to 13, with Dorais winging the ball to Rockne in a complete rout. This game started a series that Tii sffliri fcinnifht niMniiiTiri i eventually became more important than Harvard and FLEES RED SLAVE CAMP . . . Yale, Yale and Irma Mohaupt, native of CincinPrinceton, Californati, Ohio, is bark in V. S. after nia and Southern three years in a Russian slave laCalifornia, Army bor camp in the I'kraine. She and Navy or any finally escaped into the American inter-teaduel you xone in Germany. can think of at the i. moment. iiiis.intu.wyi) jni ...... .i.L.i.jwjJupiiimwa.i.w.'S The Army-Notr- e Dame meeting y ANOTHER A x& 4 I I p lf. general iarm, tne v small business enterprise has in the past been a great bulwark of Amer' ican independence and character, and frequently of our economy as well. The question is whether our present complicated and complex industrialized economy any longer can afford these remnants I S$ of another day, and whether the proprietors of the general farm and the small business enterprise can survive much ' longer the econom ic strain placed upon them. Tied in with the problems Bromfield of both is the ques tion of distribution, notoriously expensive and inefficient, and in the actual process of painfully adjusting itself. It is not only that the world has shrunk immensely in our time but also that the United States has shrunk with it. The problem of ad- SiifildiirfrinifYiMiDi justing wages and purchasing pow"In a sense, the small distributor, er to the prices of all commodities by the corner grocery has become the most urgent one as exemplified store, and the general now confronting the free enterprise farmer are, like the horse and bugsystem. Size, specialization and efgy, relics of a former day." ficiency all have their bearing upon living costs, and notably upon food Burner is not concerned with these Tices. things. He is concerned solely with The old - fashioned general making his dollar buy as much as farm is an inefficient unit in our possible, both in quality and quantity. highly complex interrelated proThe fundamental point is. that the duction economy. So, too, is the pressures against the small entersmall retail enterprise competprises are economic and, therefore, ing with the efficiency, buying and distributing power of the extremely powerful. In a sense, the small distributor, as exemplified by chain vast, the corner grocery store, and the and coopstores, eratives. general farmer are, The economic pressures of our like the horse and buggy, relics of a century are all toward bigness, eff- former day. This was before the iciency and low-coproduction and world and this nation had shrunk, distribution, exactly as the rewards when the retailer bought his food of the automobile industry have directly from the farmer, and food assembly-lin- e commodities were not shipped from gone to big companies which produced rural communities into the cities a commodity of high quality for a and then back again to the town in low price. In the problem of food those same rural communities with costs this efficiency begins at the an enormous distribution markup in farm, extends through the old field between. This markup the big food handlers are able largely to elimiof distribution to the retail outlet. nate by direct mass buying and Cycle of High Costs. The high cost of food begins on shipping. The forces of economics the farm through inefficiency and and of mass production and distribution are difficult or impossible to low production per acre, which produces high costs per man hour and resist Of course, it would be possible per commodity unit. It continues for government to subsidize the through the field of distribution which involves handling many small, inefficient, handicapped commission times merchants, operator with taxpayers' money, market rigging, and at times a very largely that is what has spread of price between producer happened in the case of the inefficient farmer and consumer of several hundred and the per cent. The point is that small retailers systems in agriculture.' But the as well as the great chain stores or consumer takes the beating because he continues to pay not cooperatives are a link in this chain, but that the small retailer is largely only high prices but also taxes In the form of subsidies out of at the mercy of market rigging, commission merchants, expensive the other pocket. small-lo- t distribution and multiple It is notable that the National distribution agencies (that is, the Poultrymen's association recently great wholesale buyers and com- urged congress to drop all poultry mission merchants, the local wholemeasures so and egg sale distributors, et cetera each of that the subsidized, inefficient poulcut a takes whom eventually paid try producer would be eliminated for by the consumer or in losses by and the prices would find a lower the small retail proprietor). level to the consumer, but one still At the same time, the small profitable to the efficient producer. retailer Is a victim of the ecoSentimentally, I hate to see the nomic squeeze created by the general passing of the farm and the corner grocery store. ability of the chain stores, and cooperatives Both institutions gave me much to set low prices because of happiness and friendliness In my smaller purchase and distribuyouth, but I am afraid there isn't tion cost. Rarely, save in deluxe any longer much place for them in arras like New York's Madison our highly complex, economic civiliavenue, can the small unit rezation in a shrunken world. In the tailer set a price higher in his end, we shall be forced to catch up with our times by the sheer ruthless community than that of the big force of economics and because the ger organizations, although his consumer no longer can afford costs may be much greater. The economic tendency and pres- either institution. sures today are certainly all in the direction of low costs, high effiEx-G- .l. Finds Old Army creciency and the bigness which conates them. The consumer is Shirt in Surplus Store cerned almost wholly with the goal HASTINGS, NEB. When Charles the for best the of buying quality E. Jenkins, war veteran, was buylowest price. Certainly chain stores and cooperatives ing work clothes In an army-navare growing and will continue to do store here, a familiar looking khaki in the case of shirt caught his eye. so, taxed or It was the shirt he wore through even with for big cooperatives, Solomon islands campaign. He the lower can sell at still taxes Uiey turned it in when he was gradprices than the small Independent had uated from officers candidate school operator. In 1944. Dollar Value Paramount. Jenkins' Initials and serial numAll of this, of course, raises the in the shirt were In his own ber if not of monopolies, grave question nation-widat least in certain handwriting. When Jenkins submitstates and areas. Monopoly, in turn. ted his dogtag at final proof, George store manager, gave Implies government regulation. But- Engelbrecht. at the moment, at least, the con- him the shirt. super-marke- jo ft There are times when it seems that the pattern of our agricultural and business life appears not to have kept pace with the development of industry and technology. The old frontier of the general farm is one case in point. Another is the field of distribution of all goods, but notably of food, and the small enterprise, either retail or industrial. Like the m'A I ' 1 - " IVil-het- It is always a pleasure to have an argument with an expert We are referring to Paul Brown, who is now head coach of Cleveland's powconference team. erful "Pro football," he says, "soon will dominate football Just as pro baseball took over the old game from the colleges. College Interest is slipping badly. In such cities as Cleveland, New York, Chicago and Washington, the pro gams i now MERCHANTS L.1 Your Advertising Dollar buys something mora than space and circulation in the columns of this newspaper. It buys space and circulation plus the favorable consideration of our readers for this newspaper and its advertising patrons. supreme." The fact Is that college football today in the matter of public interest Is so far ahead of the pros, there isn't even a faint argument LET US TELL YOU MORE AD OUT IT |