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Show TIIE BEAVER PRESS, BEAVER, UTAH - WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Can . Kill Democratic System VVirs By BAUKIIAGE Analyst and Commentator Wat 400-year-o- ld In ndemoc j ratic methods is apt to lose the habits of I democracy." suppose he meant 0 M mat mat cialism had so Dy to come by evolu tion, which is an ancient axiom of the more conser-vativ- socialists. Communists i a y it can come only t. . by revolution. Attlee also said that socialism was a way of life not an economic theory. That will be questiond by some people. lie added that socialism demanded a higher standard of citizenship than does capitalism. Some people will quarrel with that too. Many will say that It Isn't that capitalism doesn't demand a liigher standard of citizenship, but simply that capitalism (or any other known system, for that matter) doesn't always get it. Capitalism fails, when It does fail, not because there is any thing wrong with free enterprise or competition, but because sometimes the standard of morality or standard of citizenship If you will, running the system, bogs down. Then free enterprise is shackled and competition destroyed. The anti-trulaws were passed to who tried to check people punish free enterprise by killing competition. Those laws wouldn't be needed, government intervention wouldn't be needed. If the standard of morality, of citizenship, were high enough among the people who control enterprise. Long before the war, and increasingly so when shortages began to appear later, big business began crowding small business out of existence. Because of war conditions and the powerful Influence of big business, the small buyer couldn't compete. He wasn't able to get the raw materials. Small business is the keystone of capitalism. According to the Committee on Economic Development, 98 per cent of the business units in this country employ 50 people or less. Those "business units" of course aren't limited to manufacturing firms they include the roadside hotdog stand, the hand laundry, the tea room, and the country store as well as the business men producing manufactured Items on a small scale. If this 98 per cent of a capitalistic country's business isn't prosperous, capitalism can't succeed. In fact you can't have capitalism when big industrial groups monopolize business any more than you can have It when the state monopolizes business. v mr;- st n What is happening to small business today? It can't compete. Big business is making big profits, payof ing big wages (regardless whether the take-hompay of the workers is equal to cover high prices or not). Small business can't afford to pay the big wages, and the small town merchant is not making sales and profits because the consumers in his company haven't the money to spend. A recent issue of the Kiplinger magazine made a survey of conditions in small towns as reported in a thousand letters from small busie nessmen, teachers, preachers, doctors, lawyers, housewives, working-meand working women in those n town.;. The net of the survey was that there was a definite letdown In business after January of this year, and that the people curve) ed believed that there Is a further letdown In prospect. There is evidence of reduced consuming power which Is the first sicn of a depression. A sign that the wealth of the nation Is getting out of the buyers' hands. Now that's a pretty gloomy picture and not wholly subscribed to by commerce department people here. They will tell you that business everywhere, large and small, showed a tendency to level off after January of this year, that there was a definite weakening in the first quarter of the year. But they believe that was a temporary trend, that It's over now, that business will reverse itself, and that the general trend is now upward again. They make no differentiation between large and small businesses In their prognostications and studies, and they feel that the trend for all after-the-w- panies." village cobbler: "My shoe repair business is good." As the Kiplinger magazine puts it: "The folks in the small towns Their incomes are harder up. haven't gone up as much as the prices they pay." In other words, according to the survey, the wealth is getting out of the hands of the consumer. And whether this survey or the commerce department's optimistic prediction are more nearly correct, (congress abolished the small business section), this much at least can be said: You can redistribute the wealth by the socialistic intervention of government. That kills capitalism. Or you can redistribute it by permitting full and free competition-competit- ion on the part of the producers of raw materials, competition on the part of labor, (an expensive item), competition on the part of processors. Industrial or labor monopoly, as I said before, will kill capitalism in the end as effectively as the Communist with his little red hatchet. A Even Russians Got This item was passed along to me by a friend. A high officer in one of the armies which fought against Russia was visiting this country, and told this story: Recently in Berlin, he was entertaining a high Russian officer stationed there. It was a farewell party as the Russian and his wife had been ordered to return to Moscow. The host remarked that it was nice that the Russian could take his wife back from the rigors of occupation life in Germany. The Russian had dined well, and perhaps was indiscreet. Anyway, he confessed that he was anything but pleased; that he was dreading the period he and his wife must pass in the "camp." Then he explained that every Russian, before he was allowed to return to the Soviet ITnion, had to pass through a center, and be indoctrinated with just what he should say to his friends and relatives. I repeat this Hem because it comes to me In a direct, Intimate manner; not a part of any organized propaganda. It's as hard to reach an agree mcnt with 10 lawyers haggling ovci every word In a labor controversy as It is to get into heaven with 16 theologians haggling over how many angels can stand on the head of a pin. Good pastures save grain, tayi department of agriculture. Yet, and around about foreclosing tlrno, good grain will save pastures. No Quarter President Truman's choice of F. Brannan to succeed Charles Clinton Anderson as secretary of agriculture has received the wholehearted approval of the national farm organizations. They consider the former assistant secretary of agriculture "a friend of the farmer." One of the bases for this feeling of harmony is the fact that Brannan and the farm organizations concur in thinking that the prewar parity law is badly outdated. Such crops as soybeans, for instance, have attained a much great er importance since the law was passed but still have no satisfactory price fixing basis. Other farmers including cattle and dairy produc crs, claim their parity scales are out of line in this postwar period, Ideas developed by Brannan to hcl remedy this situation have been largely adopted by the lead' ing farm groups and are incorporated in bills now pending before Unless congress acts by congress. the end of this year the law guar antecing farm prices at 90 per cent of the fixed parity rate-- will expire Serving quietly as assistant sec retary of agriculture for the past four vears. Brannan has made himself the backbone of the ad ministration's drive to enact a long range farm program. Thus, the farmers think a lot of Brannan because he has demon strated that he is looking out for their interests in a realistic, level headed fashion. President Truman, it appeared. had made a good choice in putting Brannan at the head of the department. Almost everybody was satisfied, and that, in an election year, was a most desirable situa tion for Mr. Truman. FAILURE: Ao Peace It was difficult to say who would suffer more from the Arabs' rejection of U. N. truce plea for Pales tine the Arabs themselves, the Jews or the United Nations. Probably the Jews came off to better advantage in the world coun cils of public opinion, inasmuch as through their willingness to accept a truce they now can appear in the role of a nation which has been wronged and is forced to fight a war that has been thrust willy nilly upon it. The Arabs simply brushed aside the idea of a truce with the contention that they could not halt the shooting war until the state of Israel 13 abandoned and the Jewish army demobilized. There never was any question in the minds of Arab leaders about the truce. It was literalTheir ly unacceptable to them. position was stated definitively by the Egyptian premier, Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha, who said: "There never will be founded a state called Israel, or any other name, as long as the creation of that state relies upon the theft of Arab land, the extermination of its Arab owners and the sacrifice of moral principles of its Arab neighbors." Nevertheless, the Arab refusal was a bitter blow to the U. N. security council. It had been organized for the express purpose of resolving just such disputes as this one in Palestine, yet it could do nothing more than make a weak gesture of placation. There was little doubt that the security council had been rendered toothless and impotcpt on the Palestine issue by the U. S. attitude, or rather lack cf attitude.What position the United States would take as an individual nation with regard to the Palestine war was not clear either. At a conference with Chaim Weizmann, Israel's president, President Truman promised that the U. S. would provide financial support for Israel in the form of n loan of about 100 million dollars. Further, he hin'cd at the possibility that unless the Arab states cease fire the U. S. might provide arms for the Jews. Day after the conference, however, Mr. Truman dismissed plea for a loan as something that could be handled by the export-impobank, and he completely ducked the issue of raising the embargo on arms shipments to the Middle East. Weiz-mann- 's rt FEWER ,1"L J MEDITERRANEAN f I ICYPT 1 )J ... I reANS 1 JORDAN ISRAEL ,..I,J Fires of war between Arab and Jew continued to burn in the Holy Land when the Arab states refused to comply with a V. N. request for a truce. Attacking Jewish forces at all points, the Arabs said they would not quit until the Jews renounced their new state of Israel. Meanwhile, as victorious Haganah troops took over Acre (1), Egyptian planes intensified the air attack on Tel Aviv (2) and Arab troops enjoyed their greatest victories in Jerusalem (3). VOICE: Belittling For Breakfast Some of the more sentimental hands around the American Broadcasting company's Chicago studios like to think of Don McNeill as a beautiful and vibrant symbol of the rise and snowballing success of ABC itself. At least they both were young together and both had to ngnt tneir way up through a welter of circumopposable stances to find adjoining places in the sun. As toastmaster of ! America broadcasts. which have never received a full measure of congressional approval. sank to an even lower level of disesteem because of a series of programs beamed to Latin America last winter. of The scripts in question, denounced by senators as sabotage, slander and libel of the U. S., first attracted attention in March during house appropriation CORNBALL: committee hearings on the Voice of America. In the sample script that the committee wanted to look over were some ill- chosen remarks about Wyoming. Wyoming congress men shrieked in anguish. Other scripts were examined, and Sen. Homer Capehart (Rep., Ind.) finally aired the whole thing before Stout-hearte- the senate. The legislators shuddered as they heard Capehart read from the scripts such excerpts as: "New England was founded by hypocrisy and Texas by sin." "Nevada's two main cities com pete with each other because peo ple get married in Las Vegas and divorced in Reno." The programs were handled by the National Broadcasting company under contract with the state department. Rene Borgia, the man who wrote the scripts, was fired, and Alberto Gandero, Borgia's supervisor, resigned. uninhibited the Breakfast Club pro- gram. McNeill will celebrate his inth on June with the same kind of capers he has been executing five days a week between 8 and 9 a. m. since 1933. Despite the subterranean regard which tins sophisticated generation purports to hold for the more direct and obvious types of humor, McNeill has found that being a cornball pays off. He works without a script and his gags are strictly off the cuff. Ho once invited a herpetologiit (a student of reptiles and amphibians) who visited the program, to "Come into the parkin? lot after the broadcast and I'll show you n McNeill rare specimen. virer." An J when him that her butcher and she is a commented. Although inadvertent remains a major problem, the number of persons who deprive and sur ivors themselves of insurance benefits because they delay filing their claims Is decreasing steadily. That report has been made by the Federal Security agency's soIn cial security administration. old-ag- e "What A windshirtd Jersey woman d i a !.o nn ideal ar- rangement. He fattens them u;- and you pull them in " McNn'l parlays this kind of patter with a f,.,.j.vt of genuine camaraderie fr t;1(. plain people who are gue-t,.n his show to province a pr. rram that has had a nationwide ru't of ear'y morning listeners begging for more for 15 consecutive years. announcing the improvement, O. C. P:ge. director of the administn-tion'- s bureau cf and sur vivors insurance in Baltimore, said: "Our continuing efforts to inform workers of their benefit rights have resulted in increased public awareness that and survivors insurance benefits are payable only if they are claimed." old-ag- old-ag- e families with two chiHrcn "socially unhealthy," however they may be. th NV.i r ,1 Confess of Parents and Teac'r m Cleveland was tr,',J by a lVv, r sity of Chicago professor f,f e(jiica Hon, Robert J. Havichurpt. "A significant section (,f P,T Population now have too few cya. drcn n reproduce themselves " told the delegates to the c n, ar.n-.ia- vcyition. J ..." -- All tin Jim Crouch recalls the time Ernest Truex played the title role in "Rip Van Winkle," and a killjoy critic gave the star only this much space: "Ernest Truex excelled in the sleeping scene." public r r them seasoc Associat 6 r talio cai . siMII activities committee announced a year ago it would investigate Fascist groups in the U.S. Nothing, as you suspected, has happened. They can't even decide what they should do about Gerald L. K. Smith, the notorious soandso. . . . Stassen complains that Taft and Dewey are teaming up against him. The ones who really should worry are Jack Benny and Fred Allen. . . . Collier's (which points out your inaccuracies) spells Alice Faye's name "Fay." It isn't an easy mistake to make, either. Her name's been in lights for a dozen years since "Wake Up and Live" was filmed in 193C. The creators of the comic strip, "Superman," settled their case out of court for over $100,000. They will introduce an idea in strips never done before. IRESSIKlgj At the National Press club a porter thought things never would look any cheerier until we came up with another FDR. "When Koosevelt was alive," sneered a Repub, "everyone In Washington was miserable." "I know," said our hero. "But the rest of the country was happy." best ... Manhattan Murals: The sign in the Delancey street delicatessen: "Patrons Who Consider Our Walters Uncivil Should See the ManThe upside down ad in ager." the subway trains, which has all the chumps twistmg their necks. The sign on the dance hall: ... Exclusive Place In Town. Everybody Welcome." The restaurant (on the Stork club block) still being built, which has had three different owners who ran out And 11 Wasn't y,et,mo"cy---s- t . opened "Our big danjrer," sald a head-Mn- c reader, "i, frnm RussUns h think this nation', asleep'" "You mean." corrected a Rojten once had a banquet ' after a "Folliei" He hastened there h:s he Snobnox.ous cowboy suit. One sarensm'd: "Why rti'ln t your horse come"" 'jccaiue, snapped Will. "he'i a lot barter than I am!" per-chan- I""1 "St0,k Exchange a crash." vu " r nolh'T m e 1 1923 needn't If you don't bay stock, he means. was dr.- !& Sis r JTk I If If I ,111 I 1 M, and if jjils fhethcr i 111 tm We! v J km TO BIT trt in imjsif WANTED called tory." WE BUY AND SEIi Office Furniture. Files. Typor inn Machines, Safes, Cash LAKE n is Wright arajaign aga $ti ElCt DESK Sooth State St., 62 progran b wtrd Salt Lib that e putting u; iSBuch as ELECTRICAL EQIW Electric Motors Rwtn m called foi Automobile Generators andsi" fMars, aside Repaired or Ekiuii e Bo tea sun Special Attention to Out-o-i l "t ttiio time THE ARMATURE pwa much d( Sill FARM3 at I think P'iid is to RAg AN'D FOR SALE at reasonable pri outh of Price. 20 mile farming land with fuKoej; house and ottier "" tractor and Molvin would be Wi and she Hi AIKVESTJf BUSINESS Grigfrs Located interim U. S. 93. and 30 U. S. P.. and th, Mmious fr taitcMnj wit Aea out of FOR SALE Falli, Ida. c wh tun. Elmo, lit Kibotly Uganda ( machinery Stacker, as tejf a few w out of t!i t!f beneath HOME FOMSHS2. STEEL "- $2.5? 2.00 earn 1.50 24 to 100 100 or over " if the the cn ami c MurpI fothere h ... S tr.at t have furs ',. i to 2i toudirinj tme that tos t" FOLDING Cot with tached to frame with each end. Strong ang! " , heavy tubular enus. "yposition when 17" HH. Long, Sprinu Quantity rrices fpooSf All-Ste- tlrjr.t;,:-,- . IRON & fciwaec ;Cait-- t Miss:. F'ta'.al ija-' FORSALE Tnr bet . b r - to r- -j-, 1 P. S. i h .. , Qairntmt condr.ioni rcsu-- , JESSE M. CH fce w Pocatell '''eroizn ..u.n.. '? 'J'!. s Thus Uwho we : rl-W'","- -: FORMATION en Cini fertile If III I Hill. Cud;u) of his eves 'lcluU.r.? j, n fr- , Hh A Center r h- , - t Priced I a;;;,-.,.- J''V:;.T:c'!,t YOUR SCHOOL w vi U. 150 So. Third West, S.K Uj AND to?cthc the Ur METAL aiiL.iiiu.i, viw vim .kju v. Then ft h M MONSET country's awake!" -- cnd" ju' Dokerty us.-- who W.I I of Upon being offered fc relations. chicken, Sam accepted a iif tf an old "Now, Sam, would you srrfe, of son birthc of this nice stuffing?" t i ownjuggestei mother. "No, thank you," he re;!;. wet for Mr. after a thoughtful mome; ry to the f S. "And I don't see why the: eat it either." John B. Robertson. Broadway Confetti: "Inside USA" has to run a year at a big biz before it pays angels a dividend. . . . We have a new kerrickter about Duffy square. He greets the pidjins by name: "Hello Pierre! Howz Beatrice? Well, Oscar! Where you been. Sammy? If it isn't Hortense!" The black market ticket scandal (at the circus) has the specs taking fewer chances. L. Do fcearj- otiilities, out kWrust uiv ... Intelligentsia: The magazine set has the giggles over the jokester who had the New Yorker's movie critic as his chump. John (of that mag) was summoned to the phone the other Sabbath evening, told to move his radio closer to the receiver and was asked silly questions for a Inquiz contest, which it wasn't. siders (who pulled the gag) still are in stitches! loosevcit fcyiull boat The Press Box: The s Unhealthy Families Social Security People Are Discovering of loss fits a New told BENEFITS LOST bene-- - anniversary 23 w. - 1 n . . mm If Secretary of the Navy John Sullivan had possessed wings he probably would have flapped them in his enthusiasm when he went before the house armed services committee to urge congress to let the navy speed development of a 65,000-tosuper aircraft carrier, costing 121 million dollars. J ::Sy?:dthecw germ-killin- g cost-of-livi- Yorkers: 1 mold which led to development of penicil lin. 3. Last sucessful GOP candidate was Herbert Ilojver, nominated in June. 1328. at Kansas City. Mo. 4. Mr. Truman has appointed 16 to the cabinet. 5. Kep. Fred A. Hartley, sr. (Hep.. N.J.) g iVttP n 2. lie discovered the pi'ui"'iti(3 of penicillium 225.-00- g rJl 1 yfl ANSWERS 1. Mecca and Riyadh. Saudi Arab-l- a; liaglidad, Iraq; Damascus. SyrBeirut. ia; Amman. Trans-JordaLiUanuii; Cairo, Egypt; Sana, When General Motors corporation 0 averted a threatened strike of auto production workers by ofraise based on a fering an formula it probably set a precedent which will be followed in settling other industrial labor disputes. g vi rr Brooklyn newspaperman once enjoyed roaming through Broadway from midnight to dawn. He haunted s- oJ saloons and theaters and hobnobbed If h . . i? --- thei: with the inhabitants of the show h1 nucl world to gather material for yarns. 'glC the st He did what B'way colyumists are Id A TOURIST noticed,, ife rJS.tee now doing. His name: Walt Whitchief1 man. . . . About a century ago, a wiewam lu"'n& at the t New York scrivener turned out a missive novel that was a financial failure. el a Job As a result, he gave up writing and tory?" i r took a job as inspector of customs j c'Jlaffc "Why?" grunted "ctical on the Gansevoort street pier. He "Well, you could Kee'1 J. E. held this job for two decades. Her- -n- ey. Maybe 30 who w orJ; his lived to see A man Melville never 4 tustoru novel become one of the great clasof the . . One . sics "Moby Dick." wnrt.j ft V struggling poets in Greenwich Vil- saved ,vnnr .uuuey, you,. "t of the turn century) lage (at the accountmanaged to live by scrubbing the floors of a saloon. Years later he ;;Why?" again asked ft, scaled the heights and became the t or heaven's sakei" a English poet laureate John exasperated tourist 4t bank account you Could " then you wouldn't havt : V more W. C. Fields started on a bender .dsted w "Not working now . in Hollywood and wound up with ;afc:e cads F the chief. a hangover in New York. He was ,t devil, l surprised to see John Barrymore hoarder, n A MYSTEEt at the Stork club. ; OS INK-"What's the matter," asked ffri;ht's 1 Barrymore, "didn't you know I nd publ ,j was in town?" firm ca'ie "I didn't even know I was!" t tap-- l was the retort. Oratorical Flight Under the agreement, described as an "entirely new approach to the living cost problem," GM production workers get an increase and a pay boost based on annual Industrial efficiency improvement. Terms provide that wages be adjusted up or down each three months to conform with fluctuations in the consumer price index of the bureau of labor statistics. It appeared to be a sound plan and one that might be followed to good advantage by other industries. Biggest flaw in the scheme was the fact that General Motors might have to pass the raise on to the public, which step might have the eventual effect of nullifying the benefits of the raise to the workers. Significance of this adjustable wage formula can be seen in a review cf the rise in prices since 1940. The cost of living today is 69 per cent higher than in 1940. Using 1940 as a base year which is what GM and the United Auto Workers did in arriving at their agreement living costs now are at 109 per cent. - tf A Taft-Hartle- PAY HIKE : New Form) r." Voice Old contribution? 3. Republicans meet in Philadelphia this month to nominate their candidate for president. Where did the GOP nominate its last successful candidate? 4. When President Truman nominated Charles F. Brannan as secretary of agriculture it brought the total of Truman cabinet appointments to 10, 1G or 21? 5. Everyone knows that the y act is Taft of the Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Identify the Hartley. If T'A uM.fl V"" tti rr i KrrV-- i kho anyone long to? 2. Sir Alexander Fleming has been awarded the American Medal for Merit for his contribution to medical science. What ' There are still a lot of Britons who think they have been voted out of the frying pan into the fire. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, in a recent report to the Labor party, admitted that conversion into socialist democracy was a long hard task, longer than they had imagined. business now is up. But listen to what the people surveyed by Kiplinger say: A in food wholesaler Iowa: "Bread sales are extremely high, also flour sales are good and the sale of rolled oats is good, as people apparently are filling up on these nutritious foods in preference to more expensive items." A baker in Ohio: "We are selling fewer cakes and pies." Women are doing more sewing at home, with clothing prices so high. An Illinois businessman said: "The local high school decided to have a night school on sewing. The first registration was 135 women." Young woman in Wisconsin: "I'm not the only working girl in this community who doesn't have the new look." Illinois farmwoman: "We planned to buy some new furniture, but tho price is too high. I am making slipcovers." Even electrical items, dreamed of by housewives as an necessity, are not selling well. Said an Iowa dealer: "The edge is definitely off on hard goods, such as washers, radios. refrigerators, stoves, etc. Prices too high." A traveling salesman covering the small towns finds the going tough: "I cover New York state and I am working twice as hard for half the business." Many little signs of hard times were reported by Kiplinger's survey. Examples: A Texas housewife: "I am feeding tramps for the first time since before the war." A deacon: "Collections are off at our church." A loan company man: "More borrowing from small loan com r thos of tiprmwd In them folumni. thtr th n.w.p.per.) .n.lr.t. .nd not .Kar.l7 r APPROVED: 11 rami nn WASHINGTON. Over in England, whore the majority voted to accept socialism because they felt the "capitalistic experiment" had been a failure, they are finding that you can't vote yourself into a prosperity any more than you can vote yourself into morality. "We are engaged in a great ven ture," Attlee said, "We are trying to build up a great, free, socialist democracy." He warned that a society changed by NOTE: When opinion! . N..P.P I nion'. (FDITOR'9 to nhxeure doesn't make a conscious effort to memorize the front page of a newspaper every day, these As questions do have answers. a matter or jaci, inv are so difficult that even the answers have answers. 1. Capitals of the seven Arab league states fighting Israel are: Mecca and Riyadh (dual capitals of one state), Baghdad, Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Cairo and Sana. What states do they be- Writer By Bill Schoentgcn, VVNU Staff Events? Although they might seem a hit. t m rm ll'f lllO m ? Current Farm Groups OK Brannan Choice; Truce Request Fails in Palestine; Gfil Wage Pact Could Set Pattern Throttling of Small Business I lt be th, c l OES IT ElCSiTS r. Pl-r-,- in-n- This Spa' Is For Sal . SI VCI7 Wliy not tiac your .nnlfH i H " r" tat warf overi "llec I. L. 00 W this have ,1 in twernori alo r - |