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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH Communists Await Depression in U.S. DREW PE ARSON f i , W i . Republicans reorganized the senate, they WHEN theDemocratic chaplain, the Rev. Frederick Brown f AN.ANNUA15VEH1 ' a-- i p f V y': Harris, and replaced him with the Rev. Peter Marshall. However, it appears that Mr. Marshall does not entirely agree with his Republican friends regarding labor. For the tall, talk at the New sedate clergyman delivered a broad-gauge- d i York Avenue Presbyterian church recenUy on labor, soil conservation and various problems on which the GOP congress has frowned. I am not suggesting that the whole responsibility for labor unrest lies upon employers, said Mr. Marshall, but I do say without any fear of contradiction that where employers are men . . . and where they are willing to run their businesses as Christ would run them, then I say that labor troubles would vanish." Touching on the quesUon of reclamation and soil conservation, both drastically cut by GOP leaders, the senate chaplain said that soil erosion alone destroys 300,000 acres of land annually, equivalent to dumping into the ocean each year 1,875 farms of 160 acres each. Wonder what GOP leaders who put Mr. Marshall in office would say If he should open the august senate one day with similar words of wisdom? WASHINGTON. There are a good many ways to judge the moods of official Washington. Sometimes you can assay them the moment you read the latest statement of the bureau of labor statistics. Sometimes you can interpret them in terms of the number of press and radio conferences that are NOT cancelled or the number of presidential or cabinet fishing trips that are scheduled. Sometimes you can read the story in the Congressional Record or the Gallup poll. But in recent times one of the best barometers of Washington emos tell me) is the facial andor oral exprestions (some of my sions of the professional Communists who inhabit the carefree District of Columbia. .To help you understand the above statesomewhat joy. The reason for his gayety? The fact that he foresaw a real depresment. let me refresh your memsion for the United States. Later the financial man again met the Comory concerning the K r e m 1 in's munist, informed him he was sorry to hurt his feelings, but that there most cherished was going to be only a mild recesdesire. That dearest wish, as sion winch would serve to check the boom. No bust would follow. you know, is a That was the opinion of most of great, big all-othe experts government, industry replica of the deand labor at that time. The whole pression of 1929 for the United country, despite the fact that business was booming, seemed to be States. aware of the dangers of inflation. Let's step for a Furthermore, people were In the moment into the mood to check extravagances (for sanctum sanctothe Newburyport and example, rum of the Soother viet's No. 1 boy, experiments). It Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, appeared there would be a slight recession, that it would relieve alias Marshal Stalin. The following is an excerpt from the labor tension and encourage the official transcript of a conver- more efficiency on the part of worksation between Harold Stassen of ers and management. Also, it would Minnesota and Josef Stalin of Geor- adjust inventories, bring down real estate prices so that people could gia, U.S S R., not Georgia, U.S.A.: buy homes, reduce the cost of livStassen: Our problem now la ing, and In general, take the wind to see to It that we out of the sails of a boom that do not have a demight be followed by a bust. That was in April. pression, an eeonomio crisis. Well along about the middle of Do you expert a cri Stalin: July, tile Communist ran into the sis? financial expert again. Again the Stassen: I do not . . . with wise Communist was smiling we ran policies Well," he leered happily, avoid a crisis . . . "wheres your mild recession that was going to take the wind Do American Indus 6talln: out of the sails of trie! have a lot of orders? Is that true? lie snifTed the breeze blowing And that American off the 1otoinac a couple of factories can't keep tunes and added (as if he had pare with them and caught the scent of attar of that all factories are roses) : "Smells a lot like 1929 " running 100 per rent? to me." Is that true? Ttie Communist went on, obviStassen: Yes, substantially, "John ously enjoying himself: but they are largely Lewis got the biggest wage settledomestic orders . . . ment in his history. Didnt you say But that is the most Stalin: wage increases were inflationary? Important . . , magaWhat are the other labor leaders zine analysts and the going to do? Didn't I hear someAmerican press carry thing about an increase m the price open reports to the efof steel as well as coal? And what fect that an economic about the other side more loose out. crisis will break change in people's pockets? ConStassen: The problem Is one of gress talked about letting the boys . . . stabilizing withhave cash for their terminal leave out having an ecobonds? That wouldnt do much to nomic crisis. . . pull down prices and releasing But what about busi Stalin: credit controls on Installment buyness men? Will they ing. And the railroads saying they to be be prepared cant 'pay their coal bills without a resregulated and rate Increase. Congress freight trained? tried twice to cut taxes too, right Stassen: No. some will have where it would do high prices the objections. most good. Where," he asked Stalin: Yes, they do. again, "wheres tins recession, and That Is a verbatim record with all the serious thought about checkomissions which do not affect the ing a boom? context. They reveal Stalin's keen With that, the Communist walked Interest in our domestic economy off, chuckling In his beard. My fand any prospective depression In inancial expert admitted he couldnt that economy. answer him. The conversation took place In "Its this way, he said to me the Kremlin on April 9 of this year. afterward, people feel about inflaA friend of mine, a financial extion the way they felt about sin. pert met a Communist acquaintEverybody is against it but they ance who was bubbling over with want to get theirs. God-guid- deep-disher- price-cuttin- g ... boom-and-bus- Fanciers Fancy Fancier Bantams (or to be honest, my wife) have recently acquired three new bantams for our flock. Elmer, the and his two proud 1 "tunes. Clementine and Adeline. Bantam raising is a real industry in theUmted States. Among my acquaintances, most people raise bantams for pets. Elmer, Clementine and Adeline had hardly gotten out of their crate which brought them all the way from Ioa to Florida where they are now ensconced, before the ladies were leaping up on my wifes arm and eating a piece of bread right out of her mouth. The industry breeds the birds for exhibition and fancier aale. they call the undersized but healthy and handsome roosters, the cocky ones. The bantam breed is centuries old. In China they produced miniatures with long and flowing tails to grace the gardens of the Manchus. Great estates in Europe have been decorated for hundreds of years with these delectable little creatures kept for no purpose other than the beauty they could impart to the landscape. ITS A SWEET ' may burst into explosion any Andrei Groday, myko, Soviet dele- gate, protested that an emergency debate on the issue was unnecessary and France added that the United must not Nations act too hastily. council did schedule two special meetings in response to an American request to speed up the discussion of trouble in southeastern Europe. Russia objected to this, too, charging that the U. S. was attempting to prove that an extraordinary situation had been created in Greece." Main U. S. proposal for working out the difficulty in Greece calls for chain-cafeter- Yanks Are Coming The conservative Athena newspaper Elinikon Alma has reported on excellent authority that United States troops will aid Greece halt further invasions such as the one government forces now are fighting. The newspaper quoted an American spokesman as saying, The United States are decided to contribute to the safeguard of Greek freedom and independence, even with American armed forces." establishment of a powerful border patrol with authority to scout both sides of the borders separating Greece from the Communist-dominated countries of Yugo. slavia, Bulgaria and Albania. War Again As additional troops were sent up to reinforce both the invading leftist guerrillas and the Greek government forces, the swiftly developing battle in the rugged heights of northern Greece began to take on a ter, told a press conference at Ioan-mn- a that several of 20 prisoners taken by the defenders were unable to speak Greek and wore the Red Star insignia of the Soviet Union. In the meantime, a war department announcement said that one invading force of 2,000 had been gripped in a pincers nine miles from Albania and that a battle of annihilation was in progress. A second column was halted In its drive toward Ioanmna and surrounded by the government troops. ar cups! Frances Henderson wishes to inter- rupt the column to relay the one about the two Indians. . . . They were squatting on two different mountain tops holding a corn ersation hy throuing up smoke signals. . . . Their repartee was halted by the first atomic bomb which, as you probably know, sent up a lotta smoke. . . .To which one Injun flipped: "I wish I had said THAT I" TIIE IRISH IN HER . . . Weary of waiting for official housing projects to get under way in Belfast, Ireland, Mrs. Joseph Close manfully shoulders a bod and totes bricks as she helps her husband build their own house. Sounds in the Night: At the Riviera: "On Broadway, Planned Economy means sticking tfie other guy with the tab. In the Cub: An isolationist is a guy who didnt think we belonged in the last war but is trying to get us into this one. At Lum Fongs: Td like to see her in something flowing. Like a stream! ... ... PAUL MALIGN FLOOD CONTROL: 10-Ye- News Item: Congress to Adjourn Nearly every mans home is no Vacation. Hmmm. Whoever longer his castle since congress heard of a vacation after a picnic? made every landlord a king. . . . . . . The Soviets do not want to Heres a freak angle to the housing the desperate Despite change our U. S. They just wanna problem: add their S. R. . . . Most everyone need for new homes, there are has some ridiculous theory about 25,000 unemployed building workers those flying saucers." Ackchelly, in New York City. . . . Churchills they are the mates to the famous manuscript (the initial Installment) Dish That Ran Away With the has been insured for a Spoon and became a fugitive from $. . . . Mayor ODivyers niece, a charging tall Joan, may shelve taking her bar prices. . . . Best line on the flying exams and try for the stage. She is saucers, we think, was: "Anyone with the troupers of the Clinton who tells you that he has seen flying Playhouse in Connecticut, on the circuit. saucers must have been in his Straw-Kad- y half-millio- n 1 Greece WINCUELL for Greek Warfare Flares; Flood Curbs Advocated n Nashville, Tenn., wanted publicity, So he disappeared in a Tennessee cave. State police, cave explorers and boy scouts searched the cavern for 10 days trying to find his body. Notes of a New Yorker A1, IDS' REVIEW Program Terming the problem one of desPresident Truperate urgency, man, in a special message to congress, proposed that a swift start 950 million be made on a dollar program to control floods in tf!e entire Mississippi basin and change the character of the river from a destructive giant to a productive force. He strongly implied that the present congress should undertake the e task before its Immense, adjournment. A number of senators immediately threw their support behind the Presidents proposal. In general, the construction program as outlined by Mr. Truman would provide a coordinated system of storage reservoirs in all the major tributary basins of the Mississippi, coupled with levees, flood-waland diversion channels to protect cities, towns and farms In those basins. Also, he proposed that soil conservation measures be put into effect farther on the tributaries of each major basin in order to retard the flow and run-of- f of waters from heavy rains and reduce topsoil loss. r, long-rang- ls up-riv- RACKET: Training Hit Dr. Allan Bates, a Chicago scientist, testified before a house armed services that universal military training has become a vicious political racket and will be "a horrible cancer on the United States. He cited the fate of European nations in the last war, declaring that despite assurances from their top army leaders that universal traincast reminiscent of the Spanish would safeguard them from Ining civil war. vasion they all fell before the Nazi The war ministry disclosed that blitzkrieg. six strong guerrilla units had been As an alternative to universal milconcentrated along the Albanian itary training. Bates said the United and Yugoslav frontiers of Greece States should concentrate on a and that all were poised to join the strong striking force, a large air original Invasion force of 2,000 force, strong reserves and a well which government troops had so organized national guard, all backed far been able to repeL by adequate scientific and Industrial research. Napoleon Zervas, defense minis LIFE With a record crop last year and one million more than prospect both in the United had been expected, the spokesmen States and Cuba, assurance that said. the sugar shortage definitely is over Despite this outlook for sugar was given by sugar industry supplies, observers hesitated to prespokesmen. Housewives, now revel- dict that industrial sugar rationing ing in adequate sugar supplies for would be ended before October 31 as scheduled under existing legislahome use and canning, were adtion. They explained that the beet vised that they need not fear a recurrence of wartime and postwar crop would not be harvested until this fall. Meanwhile, the United shortages. Private estimates indicated that States will obtain its sugar from U. S. production of beet and cane traditional suppliers like Cuba. HaMriking specimen of a Blue sugar this year would exceed last waii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Cochin bantam rooster, bred for production by more than islands. year's Its beauty. The Philippine Islands, which for450,000 tons, doubling previous estimates of the anticipated Increase, merly sent this country nearly one A bantam Is really Just a little Cuba, sugar capital of the world, million tons of sugar annually, will chicken, bred down by selecting the will produce a record crop of more send none this year because their small ones in a normal breed and than 6 4 million tons, nearly two sugar production has not recovered mating them with the "ponies as million tons larger than the crop from the devastation of the Japa- CHICAGO. WALTER EM, COWBOY . , . The rugged Colorado mountains provide a true western setting for the picturesque Ski-H- i Stampede staged annually at Monte Vista, Colo., under auspices of the Monte Vista Commercial club. The 1947 edition of the stampede is scheduled this week-enwith a rodeo (above) as the major attraction. A parade and raring are other program events. The United Nations security coun-cil, which has yet to meet a tough and overcome it, problem head-orejected an American appeal for an emergency debate on the Balkan situation, despite reports of increasing strife in Greece. When Hersehel V. Johnson, deputy U S delegate, warned that the crisis developing in CA E MAN . . . John T. Hurn of . - RIDE Enel to Suirar Shortage Seen t? in ' 6 By BAUKIIAGE and Commentator. - Chaplain Gives Words of Wisdom Reds See Nations Economy GravitatingToward Disaster NVu s Analyst - TWniMri'ii-i-ifrti'- nese military occupation. The estimated increase In sugar production in the United States would place the 1947 crop at 2.2 million tons, of which about 1.7 million would be beet sugar and the remaining cane. Last year this country produced 1.76 million tons of both beet and cane sugar, which was about 200,000 tons below an average crop. With supplies of cane and beet sugar now adequate to supply all demands by housewives, demands for other sweeteners are expected to flecline These sweeteners, many of which were used In war time as substitutes for sugar. Include corn sugar and sirup, maple sugar and sirup, honey, cane sirup, sorgo sirup, and molasses Russian Obstruction Now Open to his friends have been worried appears GENERAL SoMARSHALL is all state to the department crowd. The Paris conference confirmed the worst about the Soviets. Not only are they against peace; they are opposed to restoring stability. They are against the Western powers even aiding Europe further. Officially, they have presented this deliberate position. Consequently nearly everyone now realizes Russia has become bolder in promoting a not very subtle revolution to establish world communism. They will block anything which interferes, and cooperate only with ventures furthering their revolutionary cause. This projects a somewhat new field for diplomatic operations. Marshall seems to want to let things develop to see what Is necessary, and then to do it, without any preconceived fastidious or isolated notions that it should be done thus or so, and only he can do it. Consequently new policies like the Ruhr restoration are developing slowly and carefully. No one here really knows anything to do about the open Communist obstructionist revolution, except this. War is unthinkable. You cannot appease a revolution. You cannot even appease a Communist, except by destroying yourself for him. IE L PHILLIPS Lexicon for Newspaper Readers Ideology gas pain. ... A blueprint of a Totalitarian . . . Any state in which everybody is supposed to get word, along on one three-lette- r Yes. Isolation . . . Being astraddle a weathervane in a cyclone and insisting it's nobodys business. A country with Democracy plenty of shortcomings, none of which is made compulsory by secret police. Satellite . . . The innocent bystander who was allowed to vote as ordered. ... Aggression . . . Obsolete; see plebiscite. Parley . , . See wrestling match, rodeo, donnybrook. Cooperation , . . The business of working together while facing In all directions and insisting I was misquoted. i i '"1 t fMt.at.iA.. GOOD OLD SKATE . . . Americas oldest and best known roller skater is Pop Carter, who admits to being a neat 90. lie has given exhibitions in every state and 15 foreign countries and has been a professional skater for 82 years. $ '$'! v y W'VS. ff i. S Robert Ringling is out as top man of the circus and John Ringling North is back, as a result of a new court decision. Both men, we hear, have that same feeling of uncertainty that is experienced daily by the aerial acrobats. WALTER SHEAD Outlook for Farm Measures ' I 'HE BEST GUESS here in Washington is that with full prassure of the farm organizations turned on a white heat, the senate wall restore most of the cuts made in agriculture department appropriations. It is expected that the full amount of 267 million dollars for soil conservation will be restored; that the school lunch program will be hiked from 45 to 75 million dollars and further that for farm surplus disposal the full amount asked, 48 million dollars, will be restored. If the house finally agrees to this restoration in conference, the agriculture bill will go to the President with only an approximate 15 per cent cut instead of 40 per cent, as it came from the house. Although wool represents only something like 3 per cent or less of the American farm production, the wool bill stands out from all other farm measures in distorted proportion. This is because of the fact that it was in direct opposition to our annotinced reciprocal trade policy in that it boosted the import duties upon w'ool from Australia and other countries. Since its modification, however, leaving impost of duties or Import quotas to discretion of the President, the bill resumes more or less its original objective form namely to support price of American wool and to aid in liquidation of U. S. wool stocks. GOP leaders say that Presidential veto of the act would be an admission that Mr. Truman does not expect to be president after 1948. ALL IN A LATHER . . . Find a dog, even if he is a blue blood with a pedigree longer than an Mr. elephant's memory like Mac, shown here, who doesn't get that lost-soexpression on his face when he gets dunked for a bath. ul WRIGHT PATTERSON Climax of World War the late summer of 1918. just before the close of World War I. that I was walking on the Strand in London with a member of the British .nobility. Two British Tommies came toward us and we stepped off the narrow walk to permit them to pass. "That, I said to His Lordship, "is illustrative of j T WAS In I Event of the who do future. The comEngland moners, the fighting in defense of the nation, have learned they are of equal, or superior, importance to those with titles of nobility. That incident was evidence of a new spirit abroad in your land. The present British government is the climax of such incidents II ILL OF FAME . . . Don Black, hurlcr for the Cleveland Indians, pitched the first nohit ball game of Ihe 1947 American league season when he set down his former teammates, the Philadelphia Athletics. right-hand-ed |