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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH Tax Question Spotlights Spectacular Growth of Movement in U. S. in Recent Years Draft Touchy Issue Co-Operati- For Nation's Politicoes for Large Army. 110,000 ps co-o- ng By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street NW, Washington, D. C. One of the administrations hottest political potatoes is a matter that when Uncle Sam will pay him $25 a week for not working at all? (He referred to the unemployment compensation called for in pending legislation.) Thats the position the administration is in when the cry to end the nobody likes to talk about even the opposition. It is military service. Not universal military service next month or next year but any old kind draft arises. of military service today and tomorVets Attitude row, right up to election day, 1948. Bears Watching The problem has many facets but The complaints from the veterans the vetit has one, awesome nub eran vote. There are several danger is another matter. They are not so signals which the Democratic ad- much concerned over who gets into ministration is watching with some the army as who gets out A lot of trepidation: the criticism over con- them are marking time right now, tinuation of the draft which the later a lot will be sent overseas in President has given his complete the boresome jobs of policemen. Why shouldnt I get out now and and unqualified support; recurring a start in business? get soldiers discontented of complaints shouldnt my husband come Why raIn and their families appearing back and support me in the manner dio, congressional, national committee and other Washington fan mail, to which I have been unaccustomed since he joined up? which add up to a resounding deWhy shouldnt my boy get back to mand for more and quicker discharges, and finally, a growing fear school where he belongs? Why shouldnt my sweetheart be that the feeling which used to be called Isolationism is cropping up In allowed .to come home and marry me like he said he would? a new form And some day sonny and daddy The administration doesnt dare make any move to permit a drastic and lover will come back. And reduction In the armed forces now. theyll join a veterans organization Military experts think it will be the and they will vote at the polls; ah, middle of October before any such theres the rub! Now we come to the third point move can be contemplated. By that time they think the danger of any which is really the most insidious, serious outbreak in Japan will be the one which has to be handled the over, or there will be evidence that most delicately. We may have one Is coming. learned in this country that an ocean is no longer a barrier against Await Jap Reaction the enemy. But we know there is To Occupation another barrier which separates our The full impact of the occupation maritime states from the heartland of Japan will not be felt until of the nation bordering the MissisAmerican soldiers are deep in the sippi flood plain. That part of the heart of the country. Before that, country forgot its isolathe reaction of the Japanese people tionism and threw its whole heart and the influence of the military into the war. But the war is over leaders as opposed to the influence on paper anyhow. It is time to put of the emperor, cannot be gauged. the hand back to the plough again. Suffice it to say that the surrender There is need of stout arms and terms as well as the surrender it- strong backs in the fields, and self came as a shock to the Japathough Japs and the Germans may nese people. require watching, why hot let Many Americans fail to realize George do it? That is a natural feeling and that a relatively small American army landed in Japan in an area clever politicans would have little in which there were no Japanese trouble in turning it to account, by except those permitted to be there raising the cry of militarism, of imby the authorities who arranged the perialism and, all the other isms surrender. There was no contact which men whose barns are their with the general population or the castles and whose meadows are military. Scattered over the rest of their empires, dislike. Such a sentithe country is a powerful Japanese ment could be turned against one army, as yet fully armed, in defense administration as well as another positions, strengthened when the but it so happens that the midJaps completely reorganized their dle west is naturally somewhat Rehome 'defense against Invasion publican in its leanings normally after the capture of Okinawa. Dis- and the Democrats are now in the regarding the 'thousands of Jap- saddle. One very keen political observer anese sailors now on shore, the air force, the supply troops and others, who has watched the way of the it is known that on Hokkaido there voter for many years said to me the other day: If there were a Presiwere two full divisions. (A Jap division is between 15,000 and 20,000 dential election tomorrow Truman men.) On Honshu there were 44 would win it. And when you condivisions and 7 brigades (a brigade sider the matter coldly there are good reasons for the statement. The is roughly half a division). On KyuRepublicans have had one healthy shu 14 divisions and 7 brigades. It is estimated that we would have issue after another knocked out 600,000 men in the islands by the from under them. Truman has givmiddle of September. That is en business its head, he has sat on the a against Japanese army (not count- trol OPA, he has released one conafter another, he has most soliing the sailors, airmen and others) of well over a million. That is why citously deferred to congress, he is there can be no sharp reduction in on the way to break up the war American troops until we know agencies and get the business of what, if anything, is cooking under government back into the old line departments. the cherry trees. Such is the picture as of today-- all And then when that question is clear except for one little cloud answered we have the question of in the sky, not much bigger than a .occupation. It has been estimated servicemans hand, but there is that to police Germany, Japan thunder and lightning in that cloud and Korea and perhaps parts of and if the circumstances were such China will take 1,200,000 men. that its bolts of wrath were directed Where will they come from? at the administration it would not Where will 300,000 come from for even take, say a Stassen, to win that matter? Already a sharp re- the Presidential race on a walk. version against military service has begun and if it follows the curve By next February barring d after the last war recruitment on a developments all soldiers in basis of voluntary enlistment is Europe except those in the army of hopeless. At its low point the army occupation and the minimum reWorld War I numbered 0 after quired to dispose of the armys sur-plmen. I well recall the story of property will have been reone of my officer friends whose regi- turned to the United States. Maj. ment, stationed in the middle west, Gen. C. P. Gross, chief of transpordropped so low that men themselves tation, said in an announcement by voted to spend their post exchange the war department funds for a recruiting campaign. Return of American forces In the With a band and a company he Pacific will be completed next June, paraded the countryside for a week. according to present estimates. He got Just three recruits and two More than 1,750,000 men are schedof those were rejected as physically uled for return from the Pacific ' unfit. theaters, while approximately 2,000,-00- 0 As one officer remarked bitterly to remain to be returned from Eume: How are you going to get a rope. Some 150,000 other troops man to Join the army for $21 a also are to be returned from other month (the basic peacetime pBy) overseas theaters. unex-pecte- 130,-00- BARBS . The Mexican government has turned its German prisoners free and invited them to become citizens if they wish, with a thousand peso stake In a plot of land if they want It. III Ahd now they pick cranberries by machine. But it still takes a deft human hand to roast tire turkey to go with them. by Daukli age tax-exem- are co-o- by-la- IK co-o- batteries. now addition, drill wells, own pipe lines, refine petroleum, possess timber tracts, write insurance, and operate banks, telephone companies and electric power, installations. From the beginning, the movement assumed the nature of a joint enterprise for performing a service for each participants individual welfare. contemporary history Though traces the real origin of the movement back to Rochdale, England, where poor working peoin ple organized a grocery co-o-p 1844 to avail themselves of cheaper food, some historians credit the birth of the movement to local farm groups which banded together in the U. S. in the 1820s to reduce insurance costs. Following the establishment of the local fire insurance groups, the cooperative movement assumed another form in the U. S. after the civil war in the national farm Grange, a social and educational organization also bent upon relieving stringent econftmic conditions. Evenmethtually turning to ods to attain its early objectives, the Grange failed in promoting a purchasing p because of the unscrupulosity of .agents; bogged in pushing consumer partly as a result of the panic of 1873, and gave up a farm machinery manufacturing co-o-p following overproduction and As the movement began to take root here during World War I and congress recognized it as an instrument for aiding the farm producer, legislation was enacted to afford tax relief to operators. In 1916, congress stipulated that farmers, fruit growers and like associations organized and operated on a basis and acting as selling agents for their members should not be requested to pay an Income tax on earnings. In subsequent legislation, the solons provided that could purchase as well as sell for producers; deal with as well as members; become corporations and pay interest on stock, and not be prosecuted under the anti-trulaws. The government also set up a federal agency to loan money to cooperatives in 1921, with the financial machinery expanded through the farm credit act of 1933. In 1933, the securities act also permitted cooperatives to sell equities without prior approval of the Securities and Exchange commission, which exercises that right over corporate issues. Though historians claim for the ' In co-o- co-o- under-servicin- st Geographic Division Holly-wood- frames? According to YANK, the army magazine, Jap chow is worse than that served in American outfits where the cooks are recruited from the motor pool s n If VW, ' r Vr Pacific The Notes of a New Yorker: :hey sleep? 3. Lentigo is another Dont be disappointed that Halsey Cl didnt ride Hirohitos horse. . . . what? 4. Aircraft is distinrtf.. That was Just the colorful Old O'Boys way of saying hed get to Ihe weft- method. - , Tokyo. . . . Admiral Halsey always was good with the phrase-turner- s silver is .. tool. As frixample: The con- nately what part pure 6. Where was Benjamii rs gratulatory message he sent to a 2 r submarine crew after a Job well 'in bom? 7. Chile stretches along tar done: :oast of South America Nrni Your picture is on my piano. many miles? 8. In Homers Iliad ,1 The Boner Delightful (from an n was a herald who shoufe ls Gaulle De 24th m. a. Aug. paper): of Troy with the Here. At City Hall, deception cerelow many men? , monies will begin at noon. ge) weft mean? 5. Sterling ... air-wal- The Answers Final Guffaw Dept: The foot a newsmag once used to kick this is now in Its mouth. We were booted because one of our predictions fizzled. . . . The Aug. 13th (1945) issue of the same critic contained this gem: "Last week Rusif ever she sia was not ready to go to war with would be Japan. . . . Russia went to war with Nippon on Aug. 8th. To make the this broadcaster revenge sweeter was first to accurately forecast Russias positive entry into the war. 1. Pharaoh of !ere! e se Egypt, Jolly richest man that ever liv;4aye 2. No, they kneel down. "A ' 3. 4. ail. Freckles. sen Wings, engine, fuse!r0US' B. About Boston, Mass. 7. For 2,600 miles. 5. 6. 8. eleven-twelfth- s, Ale atiri seen Fifty. tolly CLASSIFII The House Ways and Means Committee has been giving a frosty reception to Pres. Trumans request for greater jobless benefits, with AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCf Rep. Knutsei! of Minnesota asking: "If we pay a man $25 a week for not working, what will we have to pay to get him to work? com"The answer to that, mented a politico, is that youll have to pay him a living wage, thats all. 1 rt rr a Yes, agreed a colleague, but what constitutes a living wage? INSTRUCTION That, was the retort wonderful, IN DEMAJ BARBERS on whether depends youre giving Bartering taught ARE in a few month a permanent business with a bii it or getting it. DEPARTMEl for n SALT LAKE BARBER Edw. F. Gillette, Mgr. . COLU l,E:rork Sallies In Our Alley: In the Cub old Room Fanny Ward, the MISCELLANEOUS doll-facswapped howjoodoos with WE BUY AND SELL her friend, Supreme Court Justice Office Furniture, Files, Typewrite Safes, Cash Reesr? Wh Frank Murphy. . . . Frank, she Ing Machines, SALT LAKE DESK EXCHAN 15 West Broadway, Sait Laki C:;omP asked, "how do you keep so r cui . charm. . his at young? Looking WANTED TO BUT le s ing companion alongside him, Mr. se raw furs, Justice replied: In Ship allandof your Courtin wool to NOKTHKianm HIDE AND FUR d Tqu Chopin-inspireCOMPANY, the new Polonaise, Brd West, Salt Lake City, when ip S operetta, the principals are always receive highest marke all European-born- . . . . Kiepura is a Pole; his wife, Marta Eggerth, is Ma READ THE ADS, !aro Hungarian or Austrian. . . . Kurt Bois, the new comedian, is from tom mittel-Europand other foreigners on I include David Lichine, the ballet Tri jot master, and Tanya. . . . Whos the .hilc most important person in the aucl show? inquired a clown. The inI'lerr terpreter? nco ar e, ... a, Have You PINEHUR5 le include refinery Successful The nationalist group has adopted at McPherson, Kan., top, and grain another rodent for a pet: Traitor elevator of Indiana Farm bureau at Petain. . . . The consists Indianapolis, Ind. of sobbing about Petains age and blubbering that he was merely tryprevious disadvantage of being com- ing to save France. Nutz! When on a pelled to sell their products Petain was in Verminys flexible open market and buy on a he was an accessory to Nazi crimes more or less rigid retail price level, committed against Frenchmen of he further states. all ages including children. Petain In spearheading the opposition to sent 35,000 French children to work the Na- in Germany as slave laborers! tional Tax Equality association points to the fact that p reserves When the six Americans were retained after patronage refunds re- arrested on State Dept orders reco-o- boo-hooe- affiliate with regional usually groups to obtain maximum efficiency of operation, with the regional bodies in turn sometimes combining with national associations. But, in any case, the local group retains a voice in the broadened organization through the Selection of delegates. While membership fees, stock sales and reserves provide working borrow on a capital, large scale to finance operations, a study of the Farm Credit adminis- tration in 1939 revealing that ap- of the proximately one-hathen existent resorted to loans. While figures show 4,390,000 members of 10,300 farm marketing and the actual numpurchasing ber of individuals participating in the movement may be considerably less since a person may belong to more than one organization. , With 7,522 units and 2,730,000 members, the farm marketing cooperatives do by far the largest busactivities totaliness, with 1943-4- 4 ing almost $4,500,000,000. Handling of dairy products accounted Jor $702,000,000; livestock, $030,000,000; grain, dry beans and rice, $452,000,-00cotton and its products, fruits and vegetables, poultry and eggs, $130,000,-00tobacco, $120,000,000; wool and mohair, $107,000,000; nuts, and miscellaneous, co-o- lf co-op- s, 0; $258,-000,00- 0; $160,-200,00- 0; 0; 0, $115,-000,00- 0. y hip-pock- pt co-o- 2,778 purchasing with 1,660,000 members, total business for the 1943-4- 4 season was placed at $730,000,000. Seventeen major regional procurement organizations alone secured $151,640,000 of feed; $50,702,000 of gas, oil and grease; $19,871,000 of fertilizer, and $10,893,000 of seed. Never as successful in tha U. S. as in Britain, American urbau or consumer are insignificant alongside of the farm organizations. It has been figured that there are no co-o- co-o- Co-O- ps 1943-4- 4 '1 CIGARETTE Made with Gin-Sen- Fo g Wong Treat yourself to the pleasure ;nd fine smoke a smooth, niellos, cigarette made of selected utaul especially blended to the popular t$h can taste. Pinehurst Is truly u Americas standard cigarettes- -: eai shortage substitute enjoyed tor oil by smokers who demand satis!: from their cigarettes. Plnehuni' elusive Patented Panax Process trite extract of Gln-Sen- g root for moisture conditioning the cull ictl arette permitted to do so. The use of Gln-SeExtratli exclusm Is an hygroscople agent ented process of this Companj Be mollifying features of Gln-Sen- g t'VSi may help to relieve dry throat, tic, cough, and other Irritations tauu smoking. These cigarettes may bt much more 'pleasant and safe lor with ordinary colds and other rtfige tory difficulties such aa hay ow asthma, etc. res main untaxed, thus enabling them cently front pages whooped about to do business at lower cost while the espionage angle. . . . This realso permitting continuing expanporter pointed out that the spy hoopsion. As a result, the NTEA asserts, la was merely the gimmick used by are growing at a rate some diplomats in an attempt to of 10 times that possible for muzzle journalistic criticism of GET A CARTON Dlllfot enterprises. A few days State Dept policies. If your dealer cannot supply. Seni: n i East of the Mississippi ($1.65 Wet, g Not only that but many ago a Federal Grand Jury refused postpaid carton of 10 packs to: le corporations have shifted to a to indict three of the accused, and IL L Swain tobacco coMPMvait status either through ac- the other three were not indicted for Spring Street, Danville, Virgin or by the espionage but merely for purloinquisition by W voluntary action of stockholders, ing government documents. It NTEA declares. Is about time Congress probed the As examples, NTE boys responsible for president, striped-britche- s FAT Ben McCabe, cites the northern Cali- the whole shameful affair. fornia holdings of the Red River Get slimmer The American Navy and Hiro-proLumber company, bought by the without exercise hitos the same Fruit Growers Supply company, a eyeglasses You may lose pounds and have a subsidiary of the California Fruit thing. That the Japs are a very more Blender, graceful figure. No exercising. No laxatives. Nodrugs. Growers exchange, with a loss to shortsighted people. The Japs With this AYDS plan you don't the U. S. treasury of nearly $1,000,-00- 0 signed the surrender terms. But our cut out any meals, starches, potatoes. meats or butter, you am a year in tax revenues; the safety is in- - our fleet, not in their ply cut them down. It easier Ohio Cultivator company of Belle- signatures. We had their sigwhen you enjoy delicious (vitamin fortified) AYDS before meala. natures on treaties December 7th, vue, Ohio, purchased by the NaAbsolutely harmless. inchmeal testa conducted by medici'Ji. 1941. . . . The Jap is anxious to tional Farm Machinery more than 100 persona lost U to lhl Inc., with a loss of about $196,-00- 0 let bygones be bygones. So is any aft In a few weeks with AYDS '?uri Candy Reducing Plan. annually to Uncle Sams coffers, criminal on the day of his convicsupply of AYDS, J; Try a and the Globe Refining company of tion. Money back on the very first box ur, he; get results. Phone McPherson, Kans., taken over by e .c the National JVOC Sounds In the Night: At the Refinery Counter1 Leading Drug "A waiter is a guy who beassociation. Everywhere 4lO Against the background of al- lieves that money grows on trays. . . . At the When is Metropole: and ready established iai that tramp going to write her g the shift of some enterWNU W . At naughty co-o-p biography? prises to a basis, He made her an McCabe also cites the possibility of Chateaubriand: honest woman. Sent her back to her d the growth of consumer organizations, which would husband. remain tax-fre- e on two counts: one, Stork Club Confucius: Beware of because ownership would be vested a in Jap on his knees. It only makes beunions, and two, cause they would distribute earn- it easier for him to hit you below the belt. ings before computing their levies. tax-payi- ... ... WHY.BE ve ... y -- For the Facts on Farm Purchasing and Marketing Business Week magazine says it is rumored that Kaiser is going to turn out prefabricated moving picture theaters at $3,000 complete. - General Quiz Question i 1. Who was Ramesesfr K? 2. Do elephants lie do;5T 400 units at the most with members doing about $5,000,-00- 0 more than business annually. Though con sumer labor have failed in the past, the CIOs entrance into the field on a limited basis bears watchBy AL JEDLICKA anew, with the union tactics apWhen congress ponders a new revenue bill this fall, one of ing parently aimed at making up future the major propositions under discussion will be the taxation of tighter wage rates by reducing enUnder pressure of established tax-payistaple living costs. In singing the praises of farm coto the situation can comb solons be the expected terprises, advocates describe the moveops, in the thoroughly, since the rapid growth of ment as a means of putting the present century not only poses the question of tax equality, countrys gigantic rural plant on a but also of maintenance of revenue. more efficient basis, with resultant But though the question of taxation itself appears to head profits to the producer. This increased efficiency can e question now, there are other and even attributed up the to both the size of more deeply rooted underlying causes, principally the moveand the nature of their ownments threat to the tradition- U. S. farmthe credit for the birth of the ership. By banding together, al American business system. ers are able to purchase goods at the Rochlower prices, and group distribution In this respect, the whole co- dale enterprisemovement, of 1844 still receives results in smaller overhead and demay for operative development general recognition establishing creased handling charges. By ownwell shape as an economic the three general principles under ing the business, of course, widely function evolution, though frequent which These avert dealers margins. include: today. principles of the it robbed have cycles 1. One vote to each member reThough have been the target of competitive consistency necessary for his- gardless of stock holdings. 2. Distribution of net savings to businesses complaining of their tax torical reform. R. Wayne Newton, preferment, At the present time, how- patrons . In proportion to their pur- manager of the National Association chases. , of declares that the ever, American 3. Limited fixed interest on capon a rising tide, with ital shares Instead of variable and increased return of farmers results in payments of higher individual the strongly established unlimited dividends. income taxes. At the same time, is relOrganization of farm farm organizations numberNewton says, the larger profits enwith the atively simple, pattern able ing 4,390,000 members being moulded to give each member operators to spend more on an urin the local communiby steadily complemented equal controlling interest in the merchandise ban consumer and manufact- operations. Upon subscribing for ties. are making Charges that co-ouring .groups. During the 1943- - 44 capital stock or paying a memberseason rural marketing and purship fee, the local group then adopts huge profits on their operations only serves to emphasize the size of maralone did over and elects a board of direcchasing 5 billion dollars worth of business, tors. A manager Is hired, policies gins formerly enjoyed by private basis. outlined and facilities secured. Al- dealers, Newton avers. By banding mostly on a tax-fre- e operations, As a result of the steady growth though in charge, the manager re- together for have tended to offset their farmers diunder mains of the the of supervision spearheaded by farmer associations, and their ex- recting board. In addition to observing the Rochtension into various fields, tradidale principles in voting, savings tionally established American businessmen are stirring uneasily. distribution and stock payments, loWhereas only the handler and sup- cal groups often confine ownership plier of agricultural products and to farmers raising products handled restrict securities material formerly had been pressed by the i ft . ' competition transfers, and limit the amount of by the now has been extended to manu- shares a member may hold. While are generally facturers of farm machinery, hardware, paints, electric refrigerators, organized on the local level, they washing machines, toasters, clocks, 4 - 5 '3 cigars, cigarettes, lipstick, tires and t Co-O- Up Requirement AtJOTinK I A ve Private Business Complains of Disadvantage; Volume Tops Five Billion Dollars Fear Strong Reaction Against Military Service Even as Occupation Needs Point ASK ME En-dur- o: non-payin- g ... labor-sponsore- 7 Study Co-Op- s and the action by technique of rural and urban dwellers were given extensive study in religious training schools sponsored by Catholic and Protestant groups throughout the United States this summer. Between June and September 87 rural life schools and institutes for Catholic priests and teaching sisters were scheduled by the National Catholic Rural Life conference. Nut less than 30,000 priests and nuns were to be contacted. principle Very Important Feople Dept: Arch Oboler is one of those studied kerrickters, according to Intimates. . . . More than before, they add, he keeps referring to himself in the third person. . . , Oboler doesn't want to do it or "Oboler didnt sleep so good last night or Oboler is getting hungry." etc. . . . Mr. O. wrote and directed a Metro Aim once and in conference he said: "I dont think Oboler will like that at alii . . . "Really? was the icy retort of a departing supervisor. Ill tell him when he comes tnl 80.6 cases ihowed clinical Improvement after onlf 10 with days treatment SORBTONB In impart1 scientific test. of SORETOIIEf: Mad by NcKcwoo 4 Robbin Self with aonai bid BO4 and U.CO |