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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTTEJULE. UTAH West Pointers Learn About Army Bombers '' 'v Filet Square PLovely Table ( - WHO'S V Y NEWS " - THIS BrJ possible It U entirely that many people have (ailed to piece WASHINGTON. at Wealth fether several n naGrill velopmenU oflatede-O- tional Import ly, and may have missed the significance of an action of congress in its closing days. The two incidents to which I refer are the federal grand Jury indictment at South Bend, Ind., of a number of automobile manufacturing executives and the action of congress In adoption of a resolution providing for a broad-gaug- e inquiry Into big business. . The two, when pieced together, spell a sensational drive against the "malefactors of great wealth." The result? Well, let's examine the scheme, the pattern and the prospects. There was a period In 1936, it will be recalled, when business Interests felt that President Roosevelt was preparing to follow a policy as far as government relations with business was concerned. During that period, there was a considerable Improvement in general business. In that interim of time, as far as any observers could reach a conclusion, the President was relying on advice from many men in whom business had confidence. But there came a sudden end. Out of the clear sky, Mr. Roosevelt proposed reorganization of the Supreme court of the United States and the addition of six Justices whom he could appoint at once. Through weeks of battle when it became apparent that one guess was as good as another whether the President would win, business men and women again became afraid. 'That was when the present depression began. It was also the time when Mr. Roosevelt turned away from his previous close advisers and began listening to the new brain trust' which has come to be known as the "board of and commissions. And the important fact In addition is that the 1500,000 which the investigation will cost will be expended under the direction of President Roosevelt To bring it down to simple terms, when congress adopted the resolution for the inquiry, the board of strategy was able to turn on enough political steam to force adoption at an amendment placing the funds under the direction of the President, rather than under control of congress, as usually Is done when con- gress participates In an investiga- tion. That action means that investigators for the committee win be able to rely upon laws covering inquiries and searches made by the department of justice, the federal trade commission, the securities and exchange commission and the national labor relations board, among others. The combined powers will be To explain further the full meaning of these broad powers, it is necessary to cite constitutional provisions prohibiting illegal search and seizure. The investigators for the committee must be able to dig deep into private records of any bank or corporation or individual If they are to accomplish fully the desire of the board of strategy for complete exposure of all the secrets of business. When they get all of those records, of course they can analyze them and place their own construction on the business practices. That is today, by Inference and innuendo, hint or open charge, the investigators can smear anything or anybodyand the newspapers will spread the information. It being an official investigation, it will be followed closely by the press and, strategy." as usual, there will be little chance As the depression became sharpfor the individuals to reply. When er and the numbers of unemployed they are marked to be smeared, increased with startling rapidity, they will be smeared, whether justly the board of strategy sought means or unjustly. It is a deplorable to offset the condition. The group thing that our government stoops also had to find a goat which is to that sort of thing but it has always done when plans go awry. done so in a number of Instances. There followed then the vicious and Intemperate attacks on "big busiNow, as to the main objectives. ness" by the Robert indication is that the guiding Every H. Jackson, then favored at the hands in the pro-H- it White House as the next Democratic jected investigMorgan New for York the candidate govertion are deterDuPont ating norship. Secretary Ickes also let to destroy mined loose-hivocabulary and none can two great masses of capital. I deny the interior secretary's capacmean, they intend to break up the ity for speaking biting words. For combination of men and money in weeks and weeks, we were treated two instances. The banking house to a barrage of words in which "big of J. P. and company, and Morgan business" was pictured as beyond the huge industrial setup of the the pale of good citizenry and ought DuPonts are marked. Whether they to be destroyed. like it or not, those two groups are g The drive was not to be made the goats of the depress successful in gaining public acand those on the sion of 1937-3claim as had been hoped for. The inside recognize that it is a fight truth ia that it failed to get the to the finish; There will be other country excited at all and the profit corporations, other individuals, to the trust busters did not materi- whose business lives will be laid alize as had been the case when bare, but the Morgans and the Du"Teddy" Roosevelt was swinging a Ponts are the real targets. The big stick of demagoguery in the board of strategy believes the Morsame field of political endeavor. gan bank and the DuPont interests Indeed, this drive flopped at the start are chiefly responsible for the refuswhereas the drive by the earlier al of business to yield on many of Roosevelt was good politics tor the crackpot ideas of the professors, several years. and so it is inevitable those two It was here, according to the best groups will be cast as the villains. information available, that the tacThere arises, next the question tics changed. The change in meth- whether such an investigation and ods is the real reason for the story. such a prosecution as has been startg Thus, it can be said that the ed at South Bend will do the country drive is still going on as any good. One ought not prejudge. strong as ever but it is going on in It may be that the motor magnates several fields without any apparent and their corporations are guilty as connection because the board of pups. It may be that the Morgans strategy has lost none of its de- and the DuPonts and scores of to convince the nation others among families with termination great that It Is being ruined by those fortunes have set about to wreck same malefactors of great wealth the New DeaL But the question in toward which Teddy Roosevelt my mind is: why has it not been waved his fist and bared his teeth. discovered before? It seems to me that if there was so much corrupNow, to put the pieces of the piction, so much improper influence beture together. The first section coming exercised and such illegal use prises the indlct-Hoof moneyed power as Is representthe ment of the ed by those who were pushing the Look$ mobile moguls. Ed-s- investigation, it should have been Ford, Walter P. found out at least suspected Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan and Wilseveral years ago. Mr. Roosevelt liam Knudsen, among some sixty-od- d has been in office five years and officials of Ford, Chrysler and it appears strange that there was General Motors and the companies no effort to uncover these demons affiliated with them in the financing until the business of the country as of motor cars bought on the installa whole lost confidence in the poliment plan. They are charged with cies of the national administration. violation of the antitrust laws, alThese developments have come though how anybody can believe the along as the depression grew worse. Ford interests ever could or would They reach their climax of preparaplay ball with the other two. I have tion at a time when another fedbeen unable to see. Anyway, eral agency, the board of governors big news stories were carried by of the federal reserve system, says the press services from South Bend, that the industrial depression in the and the department of justice here United States now is the worst in had much "background" informathe world. Neither England nor tion which officials were delighted any other industrial country abroad to hand to any inquiring reporter. has experienced a depression that They did this in order to has been as precipitous as the Unitwith the press inasmuch as the ed States is experiencing, the story was so sensational and so board said in an official statement vast in scope that none of us writers The power is not given to me to here could posftbly be permitted to determine the numerous and varied miss any phase of it facts, but the processes of deducThe other phase of the continuing tion eliminate many possible causes drive against "big business" takes for our nation's condition most of the form of a great inquiry, thinly them. Indeed, excepting governdisguised as a general study of busi- mental meddling and the harassing ness practices. It Is a somewhat of business, big and little. C Western Newspaper Union- unusual type of investigation and Is middle-of-the-ro- trust-bustin- ad g XL LAV to be managed in a very unusual manner. The committee that will do the Job is made up of three senators and three representatives, and a representative from each of a number of executive departments ' 0 I O To VttwJ f ret , , . x A 4r , academ, greop of cadet, of the new first class at the United States Military week studying a class spent the where N. Mitchell new DnU. bember. at I.. field, part of their regal ar sammer training. A '"Xuohods Princess Beatrix Makes Her Bow 12.Year.01d Girl Makes Geese Pay of Manchester, Maine, though only twelve years old is said to have the largest flock of geese in New England. She started six years ago with a small flock given her by her father, E. C. Jacques B Academy They member of the Academy. have just fulfilled the latter promise, and M. Maurras becomes an immortal by a majority of one vote. He had spent 250 days in Jafl on a charge of having urged the assassination of 140 members of the chamber of deputies who had voted for sanctions against Italy; also on a charge of inciting the French peo ple to "sharpen up their kitchen knives" for use against certain proscribed politicians. In the 250 days he had written five books, swelling his vast collection of books on biography, politics, economics, literary criticism, history and what not to probably well over 100. I talked to him once in the Cafe des Lilas. a fragile, deaf, bearded old man with a contentious, blazing mind which makes one think of a sizzling battery running an automobile without any engine. In 1923, he was in jail for four months in a somewhat adventure for one Showed Duce who was to be gar. landed as an im-' Technique ' Pattern Crochet the sauares in - fir: tun orlH uiretuuns ior making sa materials required: illusd of squares and of stiMw. 1 Send 15 cents in stamps J f coins nreferrprf Inv. tv.:.l to The Sewing Circle, ujm Need u afi.., Please migiuu Ave., new write UOU aress ana pattern Stanton's number Resignatl tr resiaeni Lincoln was distressed over Edwin M ton's resignation war. We quote by Rothschild: nouncement that surrender, Edwin as secre from "Li "Upon tl Lee was &! M. StanU dered his resignation. Thr" of the moTt 1721. mnm.... coinouie mem into aa ei cloth or spread! The rn design is set off by easy K Pattern 1726 contains chaJ anti-climat- ic which he handed to the Prl members took the ground that this! chamber of deputies were kidnaped would virtually end the wal and fed castor oil Mussolini is said Lincoln is reported to havs to have got his broad prospectus of moved. Tearing M greatly Fascism from Maurras and the nation into Dicces and thi bald head of one of them was paint- his arms about the secretari ed with violet ink and glue. In 1925, M. Maurras was sentenced to two years in prison, the charge being that he had threatened to kill the minister of the interior. Among the causes of his incarceration in October, 1936, was conspiracy evidence in the assault to Coaainri on Premier Leon Blum, in which he was severely beaten, while attendto Grocsrs ing the funeral of a friend. GIVEN ' His books and virulent editorials YOU CAN WIN $50 THIS against democracy in the Royalist, if you set QU1UI ... lanpaper, translated into many enter this simple, etsy Princess Juliana and her consort, Prince Brrnhard, proudly display guages, are the fount of Fascist rifl-von-- Ai their infant daughter, Princess Beatrix, who may one day rule the Dutch doctrine all over the world. His empire, at a reception at Soestdjik palace in The Hague for aged persons hatred of democracy is savage and NEWS ITEM C0NT1 residing in the surrounding district. Many of these had an opportunity vitriolic. He is witty, learned, bril1st Prize $50.00 WMmK to see the little princess. liant and he has the most excoriat 25.00 4 2nd " ing and corrosive vocabulary in S Prizes, Ca. 2.00 159 Cesb Prizes bttea ma wa France. Of Terror $250 Jacques, and now hires a man to help her care for the 500 goslings she raises in a season. Her ambition is to edncate herself, then bay a farm and go into business. She experts the money she makes from raising geese to pay the cost. s 1MJ Jap Commanders in China War BEACH QUEEN A FOOTNOTE to the main text lf or Clip the most nnomtl or liem tromyoar paper MjMli ernK U Ullj Complete this Urn TM OH Tm I MOUT flA-V- 1 oi a the world discussion on JaDan babies is the interchange between Avery Brundage, chairman bombing A Jap Bombs Cause tirf trust-bustin- In OlvmoicM V; dP YJ ! Tj m mist y . , &t & hi rIWy, i.ffcAJ iniii trust-bustin- of Gen. Hisalchi Terauchi (left, facing camera), commander-in-chie- f the Japanese forces in North China and Gen. Shunrokn Hata, commander-in-chie- f of the Japanese forces In central China, are shown at a meeting after the Nipponese had captured Suchow. Anti-Freck- le rti Esther Walker, eighteen-year-ol- d beauty of Oceanside, Calif., won the title of "Miss Queen of the Beaches" at a contest at Oceanside in which more than 100 comely maidens from Southern California participated Helmets Baffle Sun w auto-Pictu- When Charles YORK. N EWMaurras came out of the Sante nomi-Leave- 11 Fay Br LEMUEL F. PARTON prison last year, he was met by a committee-o- f distinguished Frenchmen, who Jail nated him for the Nobel peace prize To Get Bid 3 : Sfplfe WEEK re .v. A : A tire of ru . Olympic commit- tee, and William J- - Bingham (Bill -S- the Plugger), athletic director. Mr. says it has nothing to do with sports, and Mr. Bingham says it has with sportsmanship, at any rate and he withdraws from the committee and the 1940 games. The sports writers are becomins almost metaphysical in weighing and appraising the moral values ol the argument. Bill the Plueeer savs. in effect, that he won't play with ol Add the Name ndFU-V-A4flr" 0 where tod bought Name wo jWto" yonr ign MM Entry to lit SiSfreO.1 "H not lour than y,riudm,l Jougee decision f JT ys. I EN 1 baby-killer- He became Bill the Plugger by losing 19 races at Harvard and win ning the twentieth. Thereafter, he was Harvard's crack miler. He started out plugeine at the aee of fourteen, leaving school to work in a mill and help support his five younger brothers and sisters. He saved $30, went to Exeter and worked his way through Exeter and WNU W SALT LAKE'S NEWEST iDSjl Oar lobby to cooled oaring use Radio for Cvery Kttm Batts 200 Roomt-2-00 Harvard. He came out of the war a captain with appropriate decorations, did a turn in the banking business In Texas and became Harvard graduate supervisor and track coach in 1921. On the side, he is president ol a concern which imports rubber goods. el TF GERARD B. LAMBERT builds a house, they're likelv to find center-boarand a skvs'l vard on it. It's hard to see how he can get his mind ff his Mr. Lambert vachtingi but at d ieeps mma any rate, he be comes special ad On Yachts viser to Stuart Mc Donald, federal housing administra gargles and shaves of the munnudes built his chemical for tune at St. Louis. He was one of the original backers of Lindbergh ana the originators of great adver tising slogans. Author of a spirited "Defense oi Babbitts" in the American Mer cury, commander of the Eastern Yacht club of Marbleheart Masn he maintains a Valhalla for gallant oia yacnts. Consolidated Nw Features. WNU Service. . Prepared to repel the effects of too much sun are these five mermaids on the beach at Atlanti ru N. J beach helmets are designed to protect them against freckles. From left to rirht il e ,y' Ihe are: ,lr,s Helen Helen Price and Jean Rink, Murtland, Cowan. Lewis, Peggy Betty Saved by Telephone Wires wnpn ho r vrasnea near Durban, South Africa, two flyers fel! on telephone ucaui, wires and escape? Temple Squaj ffafes $1.50f?ii2l The Hotel T.nP'r.3 pher..YoU will r2&& mcnLYBECOMME Yoa can al-- o PPrwTT tor. The oil-sk- in HOTEL d ERNESTCROSSITER H AsBhslt Used to .Asphalt, which flna.homes most American used m r3 fortowaterprootogJ and wai Ing cf itreets tion of the au"Zi ervatlon of muma tb The Antilles, si were called on extension 1.000 Axores, were thus Columbus set out lltea. |