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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH ilent on Commodity Trend U Myth of Current Price Dip: Truman Planned That Way1 News Analyst and Commentator. New GPO Business Venture r a s r. the chSffi book store business. For thats exactly sectio wants to do-o-pen up regional book stores m various oi some 3Q,000,uUU of copies sDeed up delivery f tip rmintrv to as on an has 4 It is still open season for economists, financial experts and market wizards. It took about a week after the first drop on the commodity market to send them into their holes. Up to that time, you could get a prognostication anywhere from the Chicago stockyards to Broad and Wall streets or Pennsylvania avenue and 15th street. But along about the sixth day of the dip, anybody who would tell you or just weathering the whether we were facing a permanent nose-div- e flutter of a few yards of ticker tape was as rare as a vote against (that issue, itself, had changed after the sixth dip). The reason no expert would talk-wathat all of them had been mak- duced to give a touch of verisimilitude to an otherwise ing wrong predic; tions ever since narrative. The soothsayers say that several methods Coolidges per- manent were pursued, some of them plateau of I I of prosperity successfully. For example, the d President at what pre - depression he called the gamblers in days or Hoovers corner around commodities who were driving which prosperity up food prices by speculating in was always duckgrain and other futures. Is i .t That did open a Pandoras box, and some of the plagues released ton was Secre-- ' alighted on the very rooftree of the tary of the Treas- - White House. But it also threw a ury Snyder. He scare into the marketeers and the knew that too markets. Baukhage Then came the day of a White many people re membered what he and others had House press and radio conference said two years ago last fall. Snyder, when the President made a remark Bt that time reconversion director, credited at the time by some of had predicted that by the spring of his friends as an unhappy slip the next year (1946) eight million when he said that if the cost of livpeople would be unemployed. In ing was not controlled, there would fact, so many others believed that be a crash. That got headlines, that Henry Wallace, already dreamfrightened a lot of little fellows who ing of a home with white pillars on pulled out their chips, and, combinPennsylvania avenue, decided to ing with other evil Jinns released make Sixty Million Jobs a come-hithfrom the economists Jinn bottles, plank in his platform. He did the trick. wrote a book with that title and it There are many others of these became a best seller. His book set a tales which will grow, such as the goal of 56,500,000 to 57,500,000 civilof by the admincreating ians employed by 1950. istrations atomic-energexperts. But one is enough for the moment. But somebody must have stolen the idea or else they Anyhow "it was planned that wanted to play a mean trick on way! Wallace and on Snyder anyTaft-Hartle- y Issue how there were 57,149,000 persons employed in this country as Losing Its Potency of January, 1918 two years There has been a lot of noise over the act lately, and on early, and 10 months before the surface it looks as if the law presidential campaign time. might become an issue in the presiLikewise, in October of 1946, sev- dential campaign. If that should inside-stueral astute Washington happen, it certainly would help the letter writers were saying privately of Senator Taft. But the to their thousands of clients, and the prestige say it cant happen. AFL monthly survey was saying in As you know, last autumn, right public print, that by early 1947 after the act went into effect, a lot prices would come down. One could of would its felt people provisions say on January of 1947, with considerable accuracy, that there was decide the votes in the a general agreement on recession But those elections came and went, and it was hard to adduce any stabeginning soon and followed by tistics to prove that T-- had figured more a little later. if at all. much, very Other writers predicted it a little Later on, animosity against the and were some, by summer, later, Insisting that deflation already was law died down. But now both the CIO and AFL have announced their here. preliminary plans for campaigning But what happened? In the against the men who voted for it; Taft has used it in his campaign very year of that doleful prophecy, prices started on the speeches in Midwest centers where that took them into their labor is strong; Philip Murray was e indicted under its provisions, and high. both Murray, representing the CIO, other similar bad guesses and the International Many Typographers might be mentioned, all of which union have charged it is unconstitucontributed toward making the tional But the issue still fails to prophets reticent, and so when the command any real dramatic inslide came in February of this year, terest. would even fox nobody whisper for fear that not even a kit would This Is another proof of how a appear. They knew that nobody controversial Issue that calls would believe them after all the forth bitter debate and stirs up that had nationwide interest at the mobeen going on. ment, can fade into the backIn any case, this dip, drop, deground as time passes, and by pression or delusion, whichever it election day have little or no turns out to be by the time these effect on votes. lines reach print, or later, will hove It is much like a fire that makes its garland of myths and legends entwined about it. Page 1 because it breaks out just as an edition of an afternoon paper is The best myth, of course, going to press. It may get a banner that Mr. Truman on Page 1 if the news is light, but by planned that way. the next edition, It may have shrunk to a single head on an Inside page. The blueprint Is simple enough if Recency expands the importance of are at good you reading a blueprint all events. You may recount excitbetween the lines. Prices were getat dinner how you almost got edly too At worst, high. ting they might hit by a truck on the way to work. on a real depression before bring But by tomorrow night, youll be election; at best, they would bring a with much more gusto about series of strikes and work stoppages telling a fish you caught last summer. which might seriously hamper the Marshall plan on the one hand, and The City of Washington always add to the discontent of the voters on the other. It would be like any quails before a real snowstorm like operation, not dangerous from the a pup with the hose turned on it. surgeons point of view. Just a little amputation of credit, at least so said doctors who work on the body economic, which would let enough blood out of some businesses to cause a little unemployment. Enough to scare off strikes and make businessmen a little more cautious about expansion. Relax, ladies. Dont feel guilty There was some evidence that this may really have been intended about listening to the great and because the President did ask in his grievous trials of John's Other November 17 message to congress SchmoV' every day at 11:15 a. m., for credit control? and increased brought to you through the courtesy of Philbottoms Ossified Sheep Dip. bank reserves. However, when conThe news is now out that soap said to that along gress "humph operas, as presented interminably with the President's other he turned around and on the radio, actually might do you demoted the man who is said to some downright good. An anthropologist. Prof. W. Lloyd have written the deflation prescription from the chairmanship of the Warner, and a psychologist. Dr. federal reserve board (Marriner William E. Henry, tuned in on a Ecclcs), and put in a man supposed daytime radio serial over a long to have more sympathy with an op- I period and arrived at the ponderous solution that soap operas are "of posite course. I considerable value to our society," However we mustn't spoil a The two scholars, consultants for a research organization which digood stoiy by fads. There are other points which can be Introrected the studv for Columbia The most silent man in Washing- er sun-spo- y Taft-Hartle- y d i s&afe&s&ssws-;- in fcn FOB DISTINGUISHED SERVICE . . . Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt presents the national achievement award, one of Americas highest honors, to the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, England, for her distinguished services to her country which have been an inspiration to the women of other countries. - ing. m r s slam-bange- . ,4 NEWS REVIEW Aid for China Asked; Senate OKs Budget Cut Although it was obvious that his$ heart wasnt in it, President Tru- man presented congress with a request for 570 million dollars to be sent to China as a prop for the foundering economy of Chiang Nationalist government White, House and state department sources admitted that the request was something less than a and claimed that the President had acted under pressure from the Republican congress which has insisted that the U. S. must support Chiang against the Communist revolution in connection with the European recovery plan. At best the 570 million dollars is a gesture just a chip in relation to the vast amount of timber that would be needed to restore the rotting derelict of Chiangs government. Theory behind this latest extension of aid, which will be used to finance Chinese imports of cereals, petroleum, coal fertilizer and so forth, is that the money will enable Chiangs government to free other resources for purchase of arms and ammunition to continue the fight against the Communist guerrillas. But that is more of an idle hope than a valid theory, because the government forces, despite their American arms and equipment, are being bested consistently by the Communists. Kai-she- half-measu- i s. BUDGET CUT: Indifferent With little discussion and a good deal of outright indifference, the senate adopted a resolution to cut President Trumans fiscal 1949 budget by 2.5 billion dollars. How much significance the senate resolution would have in the final analysis was questionable, in view of prevailing uncertainties which might affect both sides of the ledger. The reduction would leave an estimated 10 billion dollars for tax cuts and debt reduction. Republicans, therefore, were feeling increasingly confident that an income tax slash of up to 5 billion dollars could be enacted. Brevity of the senate discussion and its lack of apoplectic oratory was in direct contrast to last years strident contest over the budget committee's recommendation of a cut in the 1948 budget. Democrats made no effort to block the proposed spending slash which had been recommended by the house-senat- e budget committee. It still requires house adoption. Biggest bug in the senate's budget recommendation was the fact that it probably embodied a number of inaccurate estimates. Republican sponsors of the measure admitted that accurate estimates of budget needs were impossible at the time. Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N. H.), chairman of the budget committee, compared the estimates with a guess at the final score. But Sen. Alben Barkley (Dem., Ky.) called the procedure "a step in the dark. pre-gam- e IRELAND: New Premier Even to members of the Eire assembly who had helped defeat him it was strange to see Eamon De Valera, premier of Ireland for 18 years, sitting quietly on the opposite side of the house as leader of the opposition. In his place as premier was John A. Costello, former attorney gen eral, whom the assembly had voted cointo office after a new alition had taken control of the leg' islative group as a result of the previous elections. Costello, in a dignified speech to the assembly, explained his sudden emergence as premier of Ireland: I consented to this nomination at the request of a number of parties who felt that the interest of the country required that there should be an inter-part- y government and that the premier of that government should occupy a position In political life detached from the con troversial bitterness of the past. inter-part- y The government1 whose choice Costello was is compounded of six political parties of apparently divergent ideals: Republican, United Ireland, Labor, National Labor, Independent and Farmers. Just how long a government made up of so many diverse components would last was the subject of much speculation in Ireland. In their present cooperative mood the parties of the coalition may carry on for a year or two, but few were prepared to give the government a much longer span of life. CAT FEET: First a Dream Like the fog that comes on little Carl Sandburg, honored e and honorable poet and voluminous biographer of Lincoln, was creeping into the senatorial race in Illinois. A hitherto almost imperceptible drive supporting Sandburg as a possible candidate lor senator picked up considerable impetus with the release of a public opinion pjll indicating that he might become a popular choice over the Democratic candidate, Paul H. Douglas, and the candiRepublican date, Sen. C. Way-lan- d Brooks. As far as the question of how a poet can turn into a politician is concerned, those favoring him say he is a good man, he understands the common people and is educated and about the countrys needs. The opposition claims he is politically inexperienced and, since he is a writer, is an impractical dreamer and an idealist. . But Sandburg, the poet, once wrote: "The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream, cat feet, free-vers- Nazi-Sovi- H. . et ure. 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There is also the escalator or moving stairway vote. Hank, which you should not overlook. A lot of your supporters are escalator types; they like to sit down while going upstairs. This is a growing trend in America and a man who could promise escalators for all would be a shoo-i- Well, Henry, maybe you have the elevator vote sewed up. I do not blame you for clutching at it, as a lot of voters ride in elevators. Ton are the first candidate for the presidency to appreciate the support of elevator passengers. The rest havent appreciated what a lift (thats a joke, son) elevator voters can give a man. In the meantime, Henry, check the people who are for you going up in elevators, subtract those who are for you going down and multiply by those who walk up. This will give you as good a line on the outcome as any deductions you are making now. Yours truly n. Elmer. CLASSIFII DEPARTMEI HELP WANTED LIVESTOCK Dont Take Chances With Calf Scr 60 of which are caused by vita cency. 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S. attorney In charge may be doing his best, but the fumble and fix can take place in the preparation of the case or the drawing of the jury. Or he might be an earnest third-ratstuck up against the trickiest criminal lawyers in the country. The department of justice persecuted a whole covey of citizens during the war for thinking disloyal thoughts. The case dissolved after months of disgraceful nonsense. It will be historic, for people were dragged clear across the country and forced to exist In poverty to be present at an outrageous farce poked up by a lot of Roosevelts idolators merely because some of the defendants said they admired Hitler or hated Roosevelt. Yet a hundred thousand Communists have flaunted their attachment to a power which is held to be a mortal enemy of our government. Not one of them ever has been indicted for sedition or treason and hundreds of them got jobs in the Roosevelt government. a er j WOll GIRL for General Work about Do flee. $100 per month and room. Also Technician, $175 and room. Give lision and references. Q. E. HOSPITAL, Fiechc, N SEEDS, PLANTS, WESTBROOK PEGLER THERE 6 piece tc pansies, crock No wn WANTED TO BUI WE BUT AND SELL Office Furniture, Files, Typewrite lng Machines, Safes, Cash Regis' SALT LAKE DESK EXCHA 623 South State SL, Salt Lake Ci A Safe, Sound Invests Buy U. S. Saving e( Bo WALTER WINCHELL Signs of the Times Wanna buy a snake? Besides the night club varieties, animal dealers If are stuck with dozens of em. you dont think times are. tough, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, the zillionaire, Is wearing his polo coatl Characters in Search of a Colyum-is- t: " Newsreel Sam, the Hissing Man. He haunts the newsreel temples (in various parts of the city) and when applause greets some neighborhood favorite (or national pet) he hisses. . . . If it is Union square, he hisses Wallace. . . . On swank Sutton place be hisses Taft. . . . On Broadway he hisses Eisenhower. ...He sits in the rear rows and gets his big kicks watching the craned necks. . . . " Jaeger the Waiter. y Hes the No. 1 at dys. . . , Takes all orders standing sideways ever since a show producer told him he had a Barrymore Pro feel. He always refers to himself in the third Person, frinstance: " Jaeger will be right with you . , . "Please, please, you must relax if you want Jaeger to wait on you. . , , "Jaeger is a very busy man, be patient. . , , "Now, Jaeger will take your order. , . . Comics, and others of the Broadway set all clamor for the services of Jaeger because hes such a lovable ham. He ... seven-year-ol- d Wanna Honse Cheap? A public relations firm offered a castle in England to anyone In the U. S. who would claim it. The offer didnt get one Inquiry! Lltree tea talkers hear Marlon Hargrove refused to revise his new novel the reason the Literary guild turned it down and MGM wont film it. The movie deal was based on its being a guild selection. The authors decision, they add, probably will cost him $250,000. GIVE THEM SCOTTS GOOD-TA- !' EMULSION helps ) Helps build stamina resistance to colds, if youngsters get enough natural A&D Is a high e! FOOD TONIC -- s mine of nature! and es Vitamins building natural oil to take. Many dc recommend it) Boy at your drug store dish-jocke- . MORE than it's powerful ' jus? o for nourish n gag-write- rs makes THEM lafj! hi: TASTER SMOOTH - DREW PEARSON Anti-Trum- Feeling Grows an A resentment among the Democrats now is so deep that L some actually are talking about trying to dump him. What Mr. Truman has succeeded in doing is alienating both wings of the party the southern Democrats and the northern liberals. This was something that Roosevelt, despite the kicking around he gave to some leaders was careful never to do. But now Mr. Truman has rubbed northern liberals the wrong way by ousting such Roosevelt appointees as Marriner Eccles, James Landis and John Fahey. Simultaneously he has made southern leaders boil over with s Indignation at his message. In fact, the only people Mr. Truman has pleased are the Republicans. Result of all this Is that some Democratic leaders are even talking among themselves about finding a new candidate. Admittedly they dont think the chance is great; for its almost Impossible to block the renoniination of a sitting president. Ujiem have been quietly discussing a boom for S0eT?f (HWr?r' T O. Douglas, while others talk about a move for the Democratic ticket. After all. the first and only political Ike ever made was at a Jackson Puv H'nner at the speech age of 18. civil-right- Broadcasting system, based their report on a detailed analysis of the serialized drama, "Big Sister. Women being the chief listeners, it is they who derive the greatest benefits from these daytime dirges by having their egos bolstered and their spirits strengthened by hearing stories of fictional women going through problems and experiences that parallel their own, the scientists pointed out. The basic and primary theme Is that good and noble women who are wives and mothers are invincible within their own arena of life, the American family," said the report. who are superordinate Men, elsewhere, are subordinate and dependent In the story) on the wis VERY lovely chair certain to be a printed well-inform- Soap Operas Benefit Society - and pamphlets which it aailLast largest publisher and turned year GPO was rated the worldsminion doUars it obtamed from aver to the U. S. treasury more than three and books pamphlets. 37,000,000 the sale of about nickel up to possib.y a Most of these books are sold by mail from a was m small coins. revenue of the much and consequently a dollar copy to letters had to b or tape attached by glue Thousands of the small coins washed in gasoline to remove the stickiness. Infant Care, Best seUer, according to GPO, was a 15 cent booklet than four million copies have put out by the U. S. childrens bureau. More been sold, many to physicians. 550 for 37 volumes of the actual record of the trial One costly item is another good seller and right of the major war criminals at Nuernberg state the is departments $1 volume of now in demand Relations. It contains captured documents from the German foreign office files from 1939-4- six-part- y TUNE IN TOMORROW recom-mendation- free enterprise how proponents office WE WONDER feel about the government printing what GPO WASHINGTON. g MATTER SHEAD the 70,000 different books By BAUKIIAGE all-tim- Mi) of individual ft up-sho-ot Crocheted On Lovely Chaif dom of the wife. This primary theme always triumphs over" the second theme which runs counter to itthat family ties can be broken and a womans security threatened chiefly by the loss of the husband to WRIGHT PATTERSON other women, and, quite secondarily and obliquely, by death. Moreover, the social scientists said, the program, among other things, provides its women listeners 'T'lIERE has been too much talk with "moral beliefs, values and and not enough action in regard techniques for solving emotional to national economies on the part of and interpersonal problems and congress. Individual Republicans makes them feel they are learning are loud In their demands for less while they listen. spending but collectively they conIn brief, the report added up to a tinue to vote for things we could do clear-cu- t spiritual and moral vic- without. Individuals condemn the tory of the soap opera over Its hardmaintenance of an army of useless ened and blase critics. bureaucrats. Collectively they vote draft-Eisenhow- gently-cleansi- long-lasti- OESmOL1 and WNU-- W , SPEEDED-U- Much Talk, No Action - Driven nearly frantic by i burning of simple piles, you fidgeting in discomfo Countless sufferers are told relief from such c bathing tender parts witi lather i Soap then applying soot fully medicated Resinol Oi Why dont Vow try this t etsy way to the money to continue to pay their salaries. It is time congress, as a body, provides the economies individual members insist must be made. It would be good politics to make good on promises. That is good advice for politicians at all times, especially In an election year. P CGMF for KIDNEY SUFFERS so-call- ed Backaches, teg pains, broken sleep, Pr agne usually go so much quicker il to k'oley (the new kulney-- l . tirmilaeslup,Kihkidneye;then ALLA DKll UUU I'AllGN. That's the oau ami, aches, urges ones thought ' dryt, &o for quicker, longef-l1- 1 tooths bladder as well aa stimulate kids Lo this: use k'oley (the new Mne? Tilla: they also have direct eedauv o bladder. At your druggist them far more eaUsiaotorr Uosat BACK. |