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Show UTAH EMERY CO NTY PKOGRESS. CASTLE DALE. Hobson's Choice BRISBANE THIS WEEK Washington. One of the pieces of legislation enacted by the late seventy - fourth congress was the ship subsidy bill. Residents of farming communities and smaller cities and towns in the interior probably paid no attention to it Nor was tjjre any whatsoever. outstanding reason apparent why they should give thought to a rather complex and yet piece of legislation. But it is important even though the circumstances under which it will be effective may not so appear to the agricultural sections of the country. The new law provides an undisguised subsidy as the basis of encouragement for development of a new American merchant marine. It is the first time that such a policy has been carried out by the American nation and it is, therefore, yet a matter to be tried out before anyone can say definitely that the results will be satisfactory. Those who sponsored the legislation have long contended it was both sound and sensible and their argument prevailed in con- Snip Subsidy far-reachi- gress. Advocates of the measure say that it will provide at least a start for the construction of new and faster and more efficient American owned ships. They contend further that the policy upon which the nation has now embarked as regards shipping will cost less in the end than other disguised and concealed subsidies that have been employed. It may be necessary to recall that the United States long has paid what amounts to a subsidy to ocean going ships in the form of excessive rates for the transportation of ocean mail. There are 43 such mail routes and the ships operating on these routes, consequently, benefited to the extent of the number of pounds of mail they carried because the payments they received were on a pound basis. This contribution from the federal government enabled many of those shipping companies to sur vive. But it is only natural that one should ask why a subsidy is ad visable or necessary at all. The answer is plain. American owned ships, ships flying the American flag, are required by law to meet numerous conditions that are not required by any other nation of the ships registered with their admiral ties. With these conditions, among many others, it becomes easily un derstandable what borne difficulties con American front Difficulties flag ships in competition with world shipping. Above and beyond the factors just mentioned, it is a matter of record as well that ship construction in the United States costs more perhaps than any place else in the world. Here again American standards are influential. They bring about higher wages and shorter hours for American labor in American shipyards. Thus, a new ship starting out begins its service with a handicap of greater cost upon which a return must be had if those who invest their money in ships are to receive a profit thereon. Then, there is a further distinct and important reason. I refer to national defense. It has long been the conviction of military and naval men that American freight and passenger ships should be so designed, that developed and constructed, they might be converted to satisfactory use as auxiliary craft in time of war. In this connection it will be recalled that tremendous sums were expended by our government in building ships for use in the World war. There was such vast waste of money at that time that it seems incredible anyone should ever make the same mistake again. But to avoid that mistake advance preparations are necessary and that is a point strongly stressed by those who favored the ship subsidy legislation. . Now to link the importance of the ship subsidy bill with agriculture: prod-Lin- k American With ucts must have access to foreign the Farm markets and this access must be under fair and reaconditions. sonable competition Such reasonable and fair competitive conditions cannot be obtained if American built ships, constructed at greater costs because of the higher standards of wages and living of American labor, and operated on a basis of greater cost for the same reasons do not have some protection from the government whose flag they fly. They cannot, for example, meet the freight rates offered by the Japanese whose labor basis is distressing and whose general construction costs are amazingly low. Nor can they com pete with ships constructed with government money and subsidized by special privileges accorded by their governments. So, it is made to appear, at least from this line of reasoning, that American firms are left to the mercies of foreign shipping companies in their efforts to expand our export trade that is, they are left to these mercies unless this govern ment takes a definite stand by which American flag ships are accorded some advantages. I suspect there are many features of the ship subsidy bill which was fathered by Senator Copeland, New York Democrat, that will prove unsatisfactory. Indeed, I am sure some of them will be found to be wholly unworkable. But the point is, after all, that a start has been made toward honesty of policy in dealing with merchant ma rine problems. I think no one can refute the statement that as between concealed or disguised subsidies and forthright payments that are known as subsidies, the forthright and honest method is decidedly better. Since the United States normally produces a surplus of agricultural products, it becomes highly important to agriculture that the foreign markets are accessible and that the costs of transportation do not entirely eat up the value of the commodity exported unless the wheat from the plains states and the cotton from the South and the corn from the Mississippi valley can be moved at reasonable cost. It can be moved at reasonable cost only if American shipping is protected. That is not alone my opinion. It is the opinion of many experts in the field. One might properly inquire why the foreign boats should not be used to handle American commodities if the freight rate is lower. There are two very valid reasons why this should not be obtained. One is that constant rate reduction by foreign shipping companies would sooner or later, probably sooner, destroy the American merchant marine. With thi3 end achieved, the foreign shipping companies would do as they have attempted to do on a number of occasionsjack up the rates to suit themselves. The other reason why American goods should be shipped in American bottoms is that a mercantile marine is as necessary an adjunct to our national economy and our national welfare as are the lines of land transportation. This may seem to me a broad statement but I believe, nevertheless, it is a truthful one because all fields of industry as well as agriculture would suffer if we were left at the mercy of foreign shipping companies. Further, the commodities that we import would pay whatever rates the foreign shipping companies demanded in order to reach our shores and we would pay the bill. It seems, therefore, that while this legislation probably is far from perfection, probably has entirely too much governmental finger in the shipping pie, presents a start that eventually will be helpful. I have heard no answer to this statement. It is going to cost about so much for transportation on the ocean and if we can maintain an American industry upon that cost plus the aid of a subsidy of the type now initiated, we have laid out a sound unit in our national commercial structure. It goes without saying, therefore, that if it is helpful to one part of the country it is going to be helpful to all others because we are so interrelated. Descend Among Bicycles Many Strikes and Worries Two Flags That Clash Two National Hymns This column, like others to written in Europe, traveling about by auto mobile, will represent an effort to see things clearly, and describe them simply, according to the old formula. , You descend from the ship at Havre into a world on wheels, bicycle wheels, a change from the world on automobile wheels left on the other side Arthur Brisbane of the Atlantic. Here working men and women, thousands of them, ride to and from work, ten to thirty abreast, depending on the width of the street. 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Crowds grew bigger, the Frenchmen sang the two hymns at each other, more and more violently, with excellent voices, not one out of tune, all knowing the words of their respective hymns. The "Marseillaise" says, "Let us go, children of the fatherland, the day of glory has arrived"; the other says, "Arise ye prisoners of starvation; arise, ye wretched of the earth." SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY "Hobson's . omo into beinff as uie nc Waterlilies grow best in a gar den pool that is not too clean. They like sunshine and seldom in shaded places. France is a land of bicycles, of bloom WNU Service, Associated Newspapers. many political parties, and, at the moment, a land of strikes. Like all Tall Fellow other European countries, it is a land of permanent war scares. The tallest man in history, acAmerica looks upon war as a dis- cording to the record of all au tant, improbable possibility, and thenticated cases, lives today in when it comes spends billions on Bushire, Iran. Although only 20 airships that do not fly, ships that years of age and still growing, never go to sea, and similar evi- this Persian giant is ten feet six efdences of patriotic dollar-a-yeinches in height and weighs 450 ficiency. Europe's nations live in pounds. Incidentally, he is so a state of fear, as an American weak that he cannot walk or hold family might live if it knew that, up his head for more than a few at any moment, minutes at a time. Collier's gangsters from next door might en- Weekly. ter, "shoot up", the household and set fire to the house. It was a scene never to be described, now that Dooley is dead, and Artemus Ward. Nobody bothered the descending foreigners from across the water. A few Frenchmen hit other Frenchmen, not hard, then agents or the Surete, whom we should call policemen, gradually dispersed the crowds, that met and sang at each other again the next day. They live in the suburbs and work in Paris, or vice versa, and, meeting in the railroad station, it enrages Political students have been en- them to encounter those that sing gaged lately in stirring arguments the wrong hymn and wear the over what possi- - wrong colors. Pests and bly may be a new influence in the Drouth Those singers have chests like o f drums, c a m paigns complexions that reveal 1936. I refer to the disastrous concountless billions of red corpuscles ditions in some of the plains of the and voices that could be heard, al- Middle West resulting from lack of most, from Los Angeles to Santa rain. 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