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Show . Thursday-- December 25, 1947 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH - - WALTER SHEAD kirn i T WISH someone would explain what kind of free enterprise A it is that compels a free enterpriser to buy from his com petitor or close up shop. The speaker was J. P. Seiberling, president of Seiberling Rubber company, before a house committee's hearing on sale of government-owne- ' WALTER WINCHELL V "A s h :, ' - ' v , ., v.... . ' A GRAY the ' d rubber plants. Seiberling was voicing opposition to : the same sort of thing independent steel, aluminum, glass and other in- - ' dustries have complained about in the sale of other government-owne- d plants to private industry when the only private industry big enough to buy is the already monopolistic, powerful, competitive "big industry." As a matter of fact, there is no such thing as free enterprise in this country in the several branches of industry where the big, boys have a throttlehold on competition. Seiberling declared, first, that these government owned synthetic rubber plants which cost the taxpayers a half billion dollars should not be sold until a national emergency rubber stockpile is built, nor so long as the government requires mandatory use of synthetic rubber in tires. He pointed out that companies of moderate size which could not buy the plants would be required to purchase synthetic rubber from their competitors, which would give the big rubber manufacturers a "real and possibly decisive competitive advantage." ' iti : t 7 ,fr2i:J i liri ;.V &f 'M - - .i si - . description of by leader of India: "News is anything that is bad." . . . Eisenhower's appearance on the newsreel screens entices the lustiest applause. . . . The posies Vicki Cummings gets backstage at "Love or Money" are from the stagdoorkeepers of her last four flops. Out-quip- 'vL 41 liVMH rf 5 f x4 A 4V ' on the B'way bookies total points two teams score in CORN KING . . . Walter J. Harpel, 45, of Shannondale, Ind., crowned basketball. 1947 Corn King of North America, is shown with the exhibit of 844-corn that won him the grand The Gen. Bennett Meyers war frauds Indiana certified yellow dent hybrid Exposition In Chicago. thing (and the way he dragged in a championship at the International Livestock corn is "good soil management married woman's name) recalls the Harpel'a recipe for growing Harry K. Thaw murder case. . . . Thaw that builds up the soil's organic matter supply, good seed, plenty oi shot architect Stanford White dead (on fertilizer and hard work." I the Madison Square Garden roof) for . mii i ii in i.n ii hi mmm iihh.iiiiiiiu.. i. iiiL.ii mjh hi "seducing" Mrs. Thaw, showgirl Evelyn ar Gloria Swanson may be the next of the syndicated columnists out of town at first. Girl-tal- k stuff. . . . record-breakin- D top-flig- ht . Nesbit. . , . The millionaire-kille- heat r ii i . ... i the chair by doing a bit in the daffy house until the public cooled off. . . . The N. Y. World (a respectable newspaper) "tried the case in the papers" by running a contest before the trial offering $500 for the best letter telling why Thaw should die. . . . The winning letter: "Any man who, to save his own skin, would drag the good name of a woman into the case, doesn't deserve to 11 " , v?,".,- J , ;J - ... - v live." DREW PEARSON Price Control Fails Voluntary that more and more of the RESERVE board insiders report big business leaders are coming to the view that voluntary controls on prices will not work and that congress eventually will have to enact the President's program of compulsory controls on prices, credits, allocations, et cetera, if the war on inflation is to be won. Typical example of the ineffectiveness of voluntary controls or by industry is the wild competitive war that has broken out in the mail-ordindustry since expiration of Regulad down tion W, under which the government required a payment and a year to pay for goods purchased on the installment plan. Bowing to competition within the industry, major mail order houses nave slashed the down payment to 10 per cent on most merchandise. Meantime, many other installment firms are requiring no down at all. It was such "easy credit" buying that led to the last depres-lSin- , and that is why more and more of the nation's business leaders 7""'luctantly are coming around to the view that the only realistic way to deal with mounting prices, credit expansion and other inflation germs i by returning to compulsory controls. er one-thir- WORLD CAPITAL CITY OP GLASS . . . Glass will be the main motif of the projected United Nations buildings in New York, shown here in a model. Most startling Innovation is the use of double-pane- d glass sheets which provide for about a foot of space between inner and outer windows so that solar heat can be isolated, making it simple to keep buildings cool in summer. Coolness will be a vital prerequisite of any building housing some of the hot IT. N. debates. H. I. PHILLIPS Love and Pickets It may be difficult to tell from a couple's actions whether they are making love or just going through arbitration proceedings. . Who will be able to observe any boy and girl and say for certain whether they are going together or just talking over their latest Juris- That action of Hollywood's top men in firing some dozen Reds, while generally welcome in the matter of known Communists, was certainly a new development in the slow motion technique. HOT STUFF My mind quite receptive will shortly be filled With gossip (the spiciest yet) : Yes, soon the most colorful , news will be spilled It's hairdresser day for my pet r' ,jfy . 7 ... -' . ' 1 ' I ' all-yea- r, house, $7,')00. Enjoy the full benefits of this famous with five miles of shore front," site lake Advertisement. I f Pier. "New mode, r-'- i ; )t f . - 1 S j LVVv1 t "Vf mA , JU.. i! - From the Swiss Alps to the Sahara desert, the world will be looking forward to a happier, more complete, and friendlier New Year. UariiuJloiiclaii Clails A gala occasion in the lives of the American belles was New Year's Day of former years, rfach expected her men friends to accept her hospitality on New Year's Day. On that day barriers were lowered a bit and the strict social form was relaxed to the extent that the men did not need special Invitations or formal introductions, and the young ladies g Carlisle Was Top$ self-polici- This department hasn't been intrigued by anything in years as much as it has by the case of a New York woman who, claiming wasn't living thai her sweetie-pi- e up to his promise to wed her, picketed his home. She marched up and down before the house bearing the equivalent of "Unfair" banners. The idea opens infinite possibilities in the world of romance. n 1 ... FEDERAL pay-jTae- v :5 i s Headline: "King George Bob Hope." Blimey! What's 'is bloody 'hooper? . . . Hope presented Their Majesties with autographed pictures. They'd have preferred autographed checks. faU day, back in year of 1895, in the stands watch- nell by the name of Glenn Scoby l T nt Warner, later iuiuwii aa x uiJ. Here, 52 years ago, was the real beginning of one of the great coaches of all time, Cornell Georgia the Carlisle Indians Pittsburgh 1; Stanford and 1 has Temple. Pop been a friend of mine for too many years to mention 30 40 what difference does it make? The years . & roll by faster than Man O' War could Warner ever run. Pop Warner has been football's greatest inventor of plays, including the single and double wing on offense, still just as popular as the T. Pop had a fine team at Georgia teams at Carlisle, Pittsburgh and Stanford where his football knowledge and his iron personality dominated the scene. He was the only coach who had not exactly the fear but the complete respect of Jim Thorpe, a football genius no one else could handle. This is easy to understand, for Pop discovered Jim Thorpe when he was an Indian stripling at Carlisle, just 15 years old. Thorpe then weighed 141 pounds. Pop still isn't quite sure whether his best team was at Carlisle, Pittsburgh or Stanford. The answer is, he had great teams at all three places. Look over the men he has coached: Thorpe, Galac, Guyon, Me- toxen, Hauser, Little Bear, Mt. Pleasant Hudson, Peck, Ernie Nev- ers, entirely too many to mention at least 50 in the upper here brackets of the game. His two greatest were Thorpe and Nevers Thorpe the genius Nevers the man Thorpe the greatest Nevers the most valuable. Ti 'I I'll n a young kid sat ing Vanderbilt and Georgia meet. The coach of the Georgia team . , - Doodling on the Typewriter a Great now betcha "news" "The Indians," Pop wrote me SO years ago, "are the only true amateurs. They play football for fun. They are no good In the rain for it isn't any fun. At different hotels they are more popular than any white team for they are quiet, never any trouble. No silver or towels ever missing. They are the gentlemen of our profession. But they play only when they feel like playing only when it is fun." I still think Pop's team, with Thorpe, Galae, Guyon and Mt. Pleasant In the back-fiel- d would beat the pick from Pittsburgh or Stanford, Harvard, Notre Dame, Yale, Michigan, Army or anywhere else. Pop Warner belonged to the old Iron-ma- n school of coaching. There was never anything soft about Pop. To him, football was something more than a matter of plays where he is still one of the masters. It was a game of condition of discipline of concentration of giving all you have. He was no easy task master. He gave the country a lesson that it needed. The primrose trail had no part in his philosophy. It would be difficult to say what coacu uas nau uie greaiesi uinu- ence on college football Pop Warner or Knute Rockne. Not so far Yost and Percy back are Hurry-U- p Haughton, or Walter Camp. '"pHE New Year, the turning of another page in the book of our lives. Before us appears a new clean white page, a slab of marble, whereon we must record the events of the coming year as they apply to us, to our country and to the world. What shall we record snow-whi- te thereon? As Longfellow said: "Life is real, life is earnest Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait." On the new page we might place our first entry: "Smile, save, serve." We can be thankful for another morning of life. We can be thankful for this day; for its failures which we must acknowledge as lessons. We must check our faults and failures. We must scatter seeds of smiles and service, so that they may grow to maturity, so that the reaping will not be shame and sorrow. We will smile, save and serve. could talk more openly and act more on formal occasions. Fond mammas told their unwed daughters that among so many charming and eligible young men they surely must find one on whom they could bestow their affections. It must be noted, however, that the young ladies had to be fast workers. No matter how informal these New Year's Day calls were, it was a gross breach of propriety for a young man to stay more than 10 minutes. natural than ' C ft Jffi ' DAY'S MIXUP The whole world celebrates New Year's Day, but not always on the same date. The biggest mixup occurred from 1552 to 1772 when Europe and England observed the New Year on the same day but at different times! In 1552, Pope Gregory III eliminated 10 days from the Julian calendar previously in use because it was 11 minutes longer each year than the astronomical year. England did not adopt the new Gregorian calendar until 1772, however, thus observing the same holiday at a later day. When translated into the Gregorian calendar, the Jewish New Year's varies from September 6 to October 4. The Mohammedans not different date only celebrate at but their calendar is dated almost 600 years behind the Gregorian since it begins with the Prophet's flight from Mecca In A. D. 622. MW YEAR'S JOY The theme of New Year's Day always has been one of joy. Regardless of the country or the people, or of the date on which it was celebrated, joy marked the spirit in which it was observed. New Year's Day of the Mohammedans is given as October 17; of the Hebrews as September, and of the Chinese as early February. The ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians and Persians began their year at the autumnal equinox, September 21, and the Greeks until the fifth century B. C. at the winter solstice, December 21. In 432 B. C. the latter altered the New Year's Day to June 24. The ancient Romans celebrated December 21, but this was altered to January 1 by Caesar in adopting the Julian calendar. March 25 was the date observed among most Christian peoples in medieval days. In Anglo-SaxoEngland, however December 23 was New Year's Day until it was changed to January 1 at the Norman conquest but later it was changed to March 29 and so re-! mained until the English adopted the Gregorian calendar. n ' The candor kid again. WESTBROOK PEGLER Politics in Teamsters' Union i- : - jj-.- w. Originator of Plays in, i vQ -- I T-'A HOSTILE agent with intent to unmask the boss politicians of the Teamsters' Union and to make them appear ridiculous and mean could not conjure more effective bombast than they proudly publish In REMEMBER TOM MIX? . . . Dedication of a marker to Tom Mix, their own Journals. The ignorance expressed in tome of the royal and famed movie drew crowds (including these three idol, cowboy of the Dan "International" Tobin, president, is stupidly imperial bulls to the spot along the Florence-Tucso- n highway in Arizona artless. Mix was killed In an auto accident seven years ago. The seven-fowhere Dave Beck of Seattle, Tobin's assigned protector in the Northwestern marker of malpal stone Is topped by a silhouette of Tony, the h province, has the sense to employ professional talent in mixing the tar'a wonder horse, and contains a bronze plaqne. published in his Washington Teamster. Tobin edits his own International Teamster. ' ' J""u" " V T i : ..'."' Berk Is the aspirant to Tobin's throne. The old bumbler thought too off when a little the vandal goons Berk seemed he called eager i In the Oakland general strike last winter. Tobin already had called thrm off and was awaiting acclaim when word came that Beck own message had was the man of the hoar. The old flannel-mouth- 's been held op while Beck beat him to the streets with the order to cease and desist. Then last August the union held. In San Francisco, its great international convention of dukes, princes and barons, corne from near and far on lavish expense accounts. With Old Dan's blessing, Beck put through a constitutional amendment creating the special office of executive with plenary i , ; ;, j powers. That being done, Beck's only remaining uncertainty lay in tht risk that Tobin might name someone else to this job. A buck-aroo- s) ot hog-was- ' ': - .. ui . jRIGIIT v . Threat to Free Enterprise dictional dispute? PAGE TnRE-- Is-- ' PATTERSON ' .' t Pop undoubtedly was the Inventive genius. His single and double wing attack still have a big place in any lootbau offensive, it is a much stronger attack than the T for many teams, which many coaches have overlooked. Pop's word was a double bond. Some 29 years ago we left on a trip to Syracuse with Walter Camp. Pop was coaching Pittsburgh. Chick Meehan was coaching Syracuse. We all had breakfast together. "I'm sorry. Pop," Meehan aid, "but I haven't had the chance to scout you this season. What are yon osing today?" "I'm using ooly five plays. Chick," Pop said. "Here they are." Pop diagrammed each play. "If we nse another play call a penalty and I'll back you p.M Pop only used the five plays throughout the game. Football was simpler then and to my mind more the way college football should be. There was trust and faith between coaches and teams where today there is too much suspicion, distrust and lack of faith. Too many coaches and teams re breaking rules in regard to their and everybody playing personnel knows Trained Administrators Needed ..... f CINCE close of the war we have gress or the President, or both, will had some horrifying glimpes of provide an organization a man or rackless and wanton waste, in the a group to administer the money name of national defense. We now the American taxpayers provide. are going to provide billions of dol- Those taxpayers are demanding the lars, 19 to 20 such billions, for the best brains the nation can murter purpose of rehabilitating Europe; to for such a purpose. They want men of gain put the nations, of that contipossessed of the know-honent on their feet as broduceri. Ccn- - tfHkT mm . 'meif FIRST ARCHBISHOP OF WASHINGTON . . . The Rt. Rev. Msgr. A. O'Boyle (left), named by Pope Plus XII to he the first archbishop of Washington, D. C, Is congratulated by Francis Cardinal Pprllman on his new stains. Monolgnor O'Boyle, native of Rcranton, Pa.. Is now exerntlve director of Catholic charities of the archdiocese f of New York. Washington formerly was a part of the archdiocese Patrick f him lift- lalilmote. it In the way of gate receipts, pub- -' lie excitement, thrills and the rest of It the modern game is supreme. It is now a better game to watch despite its unlimited substitutions, where from S3 to 49 men make a team on the field. But through all the changes, variations and shifts, Pop Warner's single and double wing still remain among the most effective offensive ootball knot. THE beginning of ATYear two pathways each New open. One slants downward, slow deterioration clouding and finally blotting out all mental excellence, spiritual appreciation and even physical strength. The other leads to the finer things of existence, ascending gradually to lofty heights of mind and spirit At the entrance Life stands with cheery greeting and forward impetus for all who heed. Choose well your wayl He who lives fully in the .year at hand will create grandly for the year that follows. Regardless of any past, he who is his best self today will find much beauty in tomorrow. L. D. Stearns. Slart of Xjear First community In the world to celebrate New Year's Day every year Is the little colony on Chatham island. This British Islet in the South Pacific is tht nearest land area west of the International Date Line on the 180th meridian. The people are mostly Polynesian fishermen, but the few British resident hail the New Year In proper style. Chatham la 40 miles east of New Zealand. 'lam done with the years that were, I am quits. I am done with the dead and the old. They are mines worked out, I delved in their pits, I have saved the grains of gold Now I turn to the future for wine and bread I have bidden the past adieu I lsugh, and lift hands to the year head. Come onl I am ready for you!" Edwin Markham. Progress Continues On New Years Day It was on New Year's Day, 1852, that the first practical fire engine was tested. The cable across the Parifio ocean was completed, January L, 1903. Social Security administration uv ugurated, 1937. Amerigo Vespucci discovered the Bay of Rio de Janeiro. 1502. |