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Show THE 'BIG STICK' WAVES AGAIN Stitches sr STAR DUST v. By It, VIRGINIA Opens Headed by Anti-Monopo- Campaign ly Robert II. Jackson; Revives Favorite American Political Custom Trust-Buste- r ft ffJ- " ' - st JOSEPH W. La BINE being waved once more in Washington, this time to an accompaniment of sound and fury that makes in the lusty days of 1900 and 1910 seem the "trust-busterlike so many baa-in- g sheep by comparison. ' is pretty much the same old Today's cracking-dow- n game; only the terminology, the amplification and the size s" clusively in the old days; now we hear "monopolies," "big business," "combines," "princes of privilege," and "sixty American families" mentioned in the same breath. ago the anti-trucampaigns were fought In the courts, at ' comparatively small political meetings and In the press. Today they are fought In large measure over the radio, with some of the stirgovernment's ablest ring up millions of people in a long parade of "special" broadcasts. In addition, the current attack ad' vances at one time in a vast num ber of directions that would have amazed and confounded the old' timers, but which are characteristic of the tremendously increased scale of operation which the nation has come to accept from its govern ment in recent years. Monopolies were originally sched' uled to have been dealt with by the special session of congress which closed just before Christmas. But when it became evident that protracted wrangling was to keep even the bill, the execu tive reorganization bill, or any other of the "must" legislation for which the special session was called, from being enacted, the e drive was switched from the legislative chambers to the broadcasting studios. Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout (pronounced Houghwout) Jackson and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes were the Nos. 1 and 2 cheer leaders. (At this writing Jackson is rumored about to become United States solicitor general.) What these two and the President have said has been so widely heard and read that even the remotest hamlet is already familiar with it But what Is the government actually doing not saying in this renewal of the old familiar A generation st fire-eate- wages-and-hou- post-hast- war against trusts? Seek New Laws. The administration is again demanding that congress pass laws, such as that requiring the federal licensing of corporations, which will "strengthen" the campaign against "big business" and monopoly. President Roosevelt Is seeking the of heads of large toward a planned economy which may or may not remove some of the alleged evils. And the anti-trudivision of the Department of Justice has 29 antitrust cases pending determination by the federal courts. These are the evidence "on the record" of what the government is actually doing. Their scope defies history to , produce a precedent Four Acts In Effect. ' The Sherman anti-trulaw of 1890 remains still the most important of the rules under which the battle is being fought, but there are three others: The Clayton anti-truact of 1914; the Federal Trade Commission act of 1914, and the law of 1938 to protect small business men from chain st Robin-son-Patm- Robert H. Jackson (center) Is the buey director of the government's g forces. He carries the double burden of prosecuting the anti-trusuits in government's New York federal courts and of campaigning for the governorship He is shown of the same state. here with Rep. William P. Connery, Jr., (left) and Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, before Black was named to the high bench. trust-bustin- Dy The Big Stick is "Trust" was the cry almost ex competition. Now the administration seeks more. As Robert H. Jackson himself, has said, "The anti-trulaw is an American invention." It has served two noble American purposes: It has kept the mushroom growth of American industry from killing itself and severely injuring the people in the period of its growing pains, and it has provided excellent campaign material for ambitious politicians. Trust-bustinas the national political sport died at the opening of the World war. From the time the Sherman act was passed until the close of the first Wilson administration there were a little over 100 suits instituted by the government: Seven under Benjamin Harrison, eight under Grover Cleveland, three under William McKinley, forty-fou- r under Theodore Roosevelt (both administrations), 37 under William Howard Taft and 18 under Woodrow Wilson. Then the thunder died down for a decade and a half. g Inconsistent Policy. Now, since President Roosevelt first took office in 1933, there have been 47 suits, and more than hall of them are still pending. The interim between the two eras of g brought out certain inconsistencies in the federal attitude which the administration is determined to clear up. Jackson, speaking before the Georgia Bar association last May 28, pointed out what he termed one of "the most obvious conflicts in our policy" when he detrust-bustin- ir HENIE is the most young woman in motion pictures these days. WashRecently she went to cross of ington to receive the of Knighthood of the Order the St. Olav, conferred by "While the nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be In some respects, often father monopoly. Unless we are prepared to reco?sider the conditions upon which we will extend patent protection we can have no consistent policy." Most conspicuous example of this line of reasoning is the Aluminum Company of America against which the government had filed suit a month before the Jackson speech, and which had so frequently been sued by the government without any conviction having been obtained, that it has come to be known as "Public Whipping Boy No. 1" for the The company actually does manu facture all of the virgin aluminum Ingot In the country today, but explains the only reason there Is no other firm producing virgin alum inum is the enormous capital in vestment required to make it on a large scale. The electrolytic process invented in 1886 by Charles Martin Hall made it possible for the company to reduce the price of aluminum from $8 a pound to 20 cents despite continually rising production costs, but it is an expensive process. The company now has such a head start that no group of investors has been willing to risk the capital necessary to set up a competing business. Paradoxically the same govern- s. through their Washington. benefit at Madison Square Garden in New York City sponsored by an impressive array of Carnegies, and Rockefellers. Beneficiary of the occasion was the Children's Village which lends a helping hand to New York's prob- in 1909. Monopoly charges against the Ethyl Gasoline corporation, Earl C. Webb and John Coard Taylor, also grow out of the manner in which the government protects patents on yital inventions. New York Headquarters. Jackson, as head of the antitrust division, has 20 new assistants, costing $150,000 to help him wield the war club, and has opened offices in the New York Federal Courts building for the big drive. Western Union and Postal Telegraph systems are due to be tried there. And he recently succeeded in obtaining permission to sue the Aluminum company, already operating under the consent decree of a Pennsylvania federal court, in New York, where he is slated to run for governor this year. An idea of the variety and scope cases of other federal anti-trupending in the courts may be gleaned from a brief summary of a handful of them: Jackson swears that the Party Dress Guild, Inc., is restraining interstate trade in women's and misses' party dresses. Monopolies are apparently making it something of a task for odd-siz- e ladies to get out at all, even to parties, for he also charges the Half-Siz- e Dress W ik 1 f I J i I Cv ii LbI i hi K: Vi "t ' :; " - II x' )' M , j , . f: ": JJT v 4 j l . . unaraga kRAGUS E U . . , I i . - Ut Iv I . v. . gooa quickly i,i :.:IK i n i III IIITftH tl here cai white sai you k itcream V of fur I i t J ' J Sonja Henle lem children, and thanks to Sonja a staggering number of thousands of dollars was raised. Sonja expresses her gratitude for all these honors in neat little phrases, but she doesn't get the least bit cocky about it She seems as completely unspoiled, as completely oblivious to her unique position in the entertainment world as Shirley Temple does. Grade Allen, long radio's queen of nonsense, is at last to get the recognition she deserves from Paramount pictures. They are having the author of Philo Vance murder mysteries write "The Grade Allen Murder Mystery." She will be the star, and no less a celebrity than John Barrymore will portray Philo Vance. That return of Gloria Swanson to the screen Is postponed indefinitely again. Columbia pictures, which had planned to have her play the lead In "Holiday," have decided Instead to give the leading role to Katherine HepGuild, Inc., with restraining Inter- burn. Joan Bennett and Cary Grant state trade In women's and misses' will be featured with her, so it promhalf-siz- e dresses. ises to be one of those knockout pictures that Columbia turns out The Protective Fur Dressers' he says, is skinning the with unfailing regularity whenever public as well as the more sprightly they borrow ranking stars from world of rabbits, by restraining and other studios. monopolizing trade in rabbit skins. Radio stars are much more Local No. 202 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf- thrifty than the early motion-pictur- e feurs, Stablemen and Helpers of stars. Most of them Invest their America is charged with restrain- earnings in businesses that are not ing the fruit trade; the United Sea so dependent on youth and enterFood Workers with tying up the tainment whims of the public. Jack salt water fish business, and the Fulton, tenor of "Poetic Melodies," in a Fifth Dairymen's Association, Ltd., with has bought a Ethel Owen fixing the price of milk in Honolulu. avenue haberdashery. of Edgar Guest's "It Can Be Done" Oil Defendants. program, owns a dog and cat hosSeveral oil company officials, re- pital in Milwaukee and is cently convicted at Madison, Wis., dent of a dog biscuit company. presiTruon charges of conspiring to restrain man Bradley, commentator on the gasoline trade, are making plans to Sunday evening hour, is president appeal the verdict of a cosmetic firm. anti-truThe division may have to fight an appeal from the InterThree young men whose youthful state Circuit Inc., on a decision ambitions were strictly serious have which agreed that the organizabecome radio's great comic trio. tion was setting minimum admisLanny Ross and Charles Butter-wort- h sion charges for second-ru- n studied law, and Walter moving pictures and prohibiting the use of started out as a newspaper them on double-featur- e man. It was Walter's programs. adaptation and revival of "The Man on the Federal Investigations are brin made of suspected monopolies in Flying Trapeze" that flung him Into the rubber, cement milk and ,in. night club entertaining and from there to radio. dow products industries. A fed eral grand Jury in Milwaukee. Wi ODDS AD ESDS-- On was investigating monopoly charges hi, return from a concert tour of agaist automobile finance comthirty Conn mil get hi$ final American panies linked with Ford, Chrysler Igor and General Motors, but the court ken Murray i, motl , dismissed the grand Jury without umph, being nhed u, U matter cerl of its hearing report much to the mon,e, rt, VrendenCt birthday hall chagrin of the Department of n Ua.h,ngton . . . Warner hav, Justice. More will probablv ho lA I lo on 6. new Torchy Ulan,. NoWii heard this score. Which of these suits will be wnn n,Une ,uho uiU by the government which may be h'ot'er tt i. 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S .Tilth of South Carolina shows how he hurled "America's Sixty Families" the book which inspired Secretary Ickes' recent monopolies attack to the senate floor during a heated discussion. Sen. Josiah Bailey of North Carolina gave the book its first heave to the floor. H Al 1 11 n y II I $: I V I - i, II all O nJ f M 1323 i; I fe W IttM As-tor- s, When Jack Benny first started talking about that rattletrap old car on his radio program, it was just the figment of a script writer's imagination. By the time radio audiences developed a hilarious attachment for his wheezy old motor, Jack began to wish that he really had one, so he and Mary Livingstone made the rounds of used-ca- r lots and found just the car of their dreams. 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