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Show I 4 JTHE Salt Lake City, Utah Deflation She Both Sides Rush Tanks Into Africa of Clrultion AudUuru Pres.. Published Memtwr oTih nd of the Associated eter-noo- n except Sunday. Euabllthtd Jwii'IS. 1850 ' : f? ':i Boole Of Maneuver Expected To Last For Long Time - Demise Of Farmer Brown for the Utah haa gtjte Farm' Bureau Federation of group to the voiced strong opposition U. five companion bills Introduced' Inofthe LaFOllette S. Senate by Senators and Thomas of Utah to place the farmer under federal labor laws. execuSelvoy J. Boyer, the bureaus, tive secretary, warns that this legislation would put under a mate of federal and control every farmer who hires more than three pePsons at any time the during the year. He points out thjat red and costs farm increase would bills and tape tremendously and urges farmers them. to others to join In opposition The five, bills, offidally numbered to $ 2864, may be 'thought -purpOseUto to be laudable conditionsof agricuk the improve tural workers), but in practice they could 'AN A official spokesman Wis-consln regu-Jatio- n in-th- w- - i - . - 25 elr -- -pr- oduction, K. 'k per-son- - Teachers Salaries IN the midst of the excitement about increased salaries for policemen and anfiremen, the public should not forget teachers. school other group, namely, the Luring the last school year. Sept. 1,1941,-t-o June 8, 1942, a total of 972 Utah school teachers left their positions for various Of the group who. left their reasons. to teach elsewhere (257). 122 positions e admitted that salary difference was the chief reason. The 188 who entered another occupation, aside from the 89 who Joined the armed services, made the admission. Same Approximately of the school teachers left the classroom during the. . school year 1041-4No one mostly for financial reasons. knows the number who left the profession during the summer recess or the number who have left since school - one-fift- h . 40-ho- lf ate S 2862 would regulate-privagencies dealing with agricultural labor and make a farmers hiring more a matter of bureaucratic control. ; S 2863 would provide for the fixing of wages on "large Industrial farms and would create agricultural wage boards school has had five different teachers in one subject Of course, many of the to help tell the farmer how to run his farm and what he had to pay. In about all of these cases the "large industrial farm means one where the farmer hires more than three persons at any time, and that means nearly every farm. S 2864 would extend the benefits of Social Security to the farm hands and the taxes of Social Security to farmers. If all of these bills put together didnt finish putting the farmer completely out Of business, he ..would have to hire a Philadelphia lawyer to keep his books straight and himself out of jaiL -- Production costs ., would go skyrocketing, food costs would follow suit, industrial wages and salaries would have to be raised again, and inflation would spiral merrily onward and upward. The authors of these bills know, or should know, that working on a farm is nothing like working in a factory or in a mine. It is healthful, meals and lodg- ing usually are included,; and it mostly is seasonable. In most .sections of the United States, a vast majority of farmers hire a few men only for a few days or few weeks to get them Over the harvest-ah- d other work peaks, the farmer and his family doing the other work. Most of the year, the farm hands and even the farmers themselves are working in industry or in the mines. And even in the fanning season, most farmers employers and employes. He helps his neighbor and gets his neighbor to help him. There may be some large farms or some dairy- - or poultry producing prises where conditions are sufficiently similar to factory and mine conditions to justify some similar legislative treatment at some time. But surely the general regimentation and disruption of agriculture pro-h posed by those five bills would be disastrous rathef than helpful. And this surely is no time for any further social experimentation. We agree with the Farm Bureau; for the welfare of the farmer, the consumer, and the nation, these bills should be killed by the education and labor committee In whose v ' BY J. R. TRIPLET . Deseret News War Analyst mechanized Movement of equipment into Tunisia by both the Allies and th Axis it on a scale to suggest that battles of maneuver will persist throughout much of Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson's budding offtntlve. Ntw tank destroytrt of the d U. S. Armored Force epeedetert mounung 105 millimeter guns were among the cargos! of the North African AEF and should help provide the edge needed finally to pen up the Germans and Italians or driva them into the sea. They complement both wheeled and batteries. fixed anti-tan- k The use of tankt against tanks usually is expansive one side or the otherr-A- n example wee the shattering of a large British Armored Force in e Libyan Desert ambush last Juns 13, a battle which started Marshal Rommel on hie way Alexandria and the Nile. FALL INTO TRAP Purueing a light German armored division end, In turn, pursued by a heavy German armored division, th Briuih tanks were trapped in a defile between Nazi tank guns and Nazi batteries reported to skilfully camouflaged that RAF reconnaissance filers had felled to detect them. The tablet were turned eventually, however, by the British" Eighth Amy's offsnslve end It was Rommel who found himself stripped of tanks ss thtAEF landed m North Africa. tanks to Hitler flew Tunisia and has movad heavier models by tee for what may be his lest stand in North Africa. Unconfirmed by Axis quarter, Reuters reported lest week that Col. Gen. Heinz Ouderlan had been hustled across tha Mediterranean m an effort to help Rommel out of the hole. is th tank expert publicized by the Nazi ts "the for hlz'Jmt-ploit- s phantom generel in the 1940 campaign against France. Maj. Gen. Charles W. Ryder, Who commandes the American mobile units attached to the An-- . dCrson. expedition, presumably Was assigned quantities Of tank tanks, destroyers as well at armored , cars and artillery by Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower. Gu-deri- -- -- hands they now repose. C" We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States With Us Three Departments Of Government As Therein Set Forth, Each One Fully Independent In Its Owp Field t s, are-bot- " NEW YORK This letter cornea from Pittsburgh end gives one of th reeson why e draft of civilian labor et this time would be premature: "Whet I want to say 1 thla, and every word le the actual truth end can be verified. T am e local agent for e truck line, busy right now hauling preclou war material. 11 my employee, Among members of the teamsters union, there It e steward who thinks that buying e war bond (I admire him for this) will offset hit refusing to permit a trailer load of war materials to move because the driver wet In arrears In his unloiw duet, I have on record at my office the fact end dates of one occasion when a trailer wee loaded with steel for an airplane plant at along with ateel plate . Th for the army at driver who wee scheduled to take the load had let hie duet laps for a month because his draft number waa up and was leaving for duty on bia return. . Do you think my steward would let thl load move? Do you think the local war department -- would do anything? Do you think th police would get the load going? Do you think the steward would drive tn truck himself? Do you think th union would furnish a driver? WITH POLICE PROTECTION No to ell thee question. I wee up all that night trying to find a driver end some meant of load going. We finally got it going Setting thday by sneaking It out of Pittsburgh, and only with thank to th police of Wliklneburg (suburb of Pittsburgh) wet the load safely convoyed to th superhighway and on It way. The above' police mad the steward and hie cohorts heed beck to Pittsburgh. (Union officitle have priority on tire end rate deferment in the draft so that they may carry on such traditional activities In the name , of labor with a capital colored driver, e union men for eight yean, to load tome government materiel from the printing office In Washington. The steward came back end said he refused to work with a Negro. He promptly walked Off the job. Later th local tent the only man available on their extra list, who also was a colored man, and another of our driven refused to let him help. I, myself took ' the second colored man to where he was to help the driver and, sure enough, there wee the steward telling the driver not to let him help. Both colored men can vouch for me on this at it caused a terrible row. The colored man end myself went to see on of th union business agents to get at the bottom of this, a I have often used .colored men and no one had ever refuted to, work with them. The business agent phoned the driver who had refused to help and lightly slapped th back of his hand. He did mention, however, that if th government labor department heard of ' this the local would be on a epot. On leaving this Interview I was told that there would be no trouble in the future and to be a good boy. I was willing to forget, at I have often been forced to do, but the next morning the steward walked In and called me some name and again walked off the job. This morn-ln- g when he reported I asked for an apology end he again walked offrTodayThr business agent-le- ft e note on my desk that once more ell had to been forgiven and to put the steward-bac- k work. But I will let them pulldown mv doors I will ever put this steward back to work. will pull down my doors. I know them. They The colored men, meantime, have been quested by the union agent not to carry out their Presldent Dan Tobin and threit of wrlting-to having the stewards book taken off him by the, executive council. The colored boys forgave (they know whet la good for them end they want to live), but they notified me by phone that they have written to Tobin and they want me to back them up. DELIBERATE slow-dowThe seme steward raises hell with our driver for speeding up end calling in too soon for more deliveries or pickups. Many other trucking , firms have this same condition. . "W cant buckle down and win this war with stewards demanding slow deliveries and th like with asturance Of backing of the union. And they have the effrontery to joke end laugh about it. -- L. be-fo- -- -- n Ed.) They had stayed up all night end followed the truck at far as Wliklneburg. Thl It only one example. I have had any number, of ceaee, but her it th climax. . Monday, Nov. 2. I eent our steward with a - 12-to- n the-bil- . .'V v Pegler By , , d already under present inequities to produce the food necessary to win the war and pre-serve civilian health. Witness the milk, butter and meat shortages and those Impending in a great many other lines. Without a complete economic reshuffle, these bills would finish the farmer off at least for the duration, and penalize the consumer, like nothing yet proposed. la If you dont think so, consider and their practical effect for a moment. S 2860 would extend the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) with its collective bargaining and union selection features to every farm which had four or more employes, other than children or spouse of the fanner, at any time during the preceding 12 months. Practically speaking, there are no farmers who doenot employ more than three at least for a few days or weeks during the year. This bill then would labor unions invite membership-insatiablto move in on the farms with their organization fights, strikes, boycotts, disputes, coercion, intimidation, etc. It is conceivable that' production of food could be thereby virtually- suspended. S 2861 would extend the Fair Labor Standards Act to cover about the same farm farm?,,. It. .would- - mean a for overtime. week with It takes no Imagination to visualize what that would do to farm production and to costa and to consumer prices. Not Refldy For Conscription Westbrook . bus-inestf- food an throw - our economic setup into an unbalanced mess, bring on the worst inflation In our history, and even conlose the war and the peace, without " accomplish-"the to tributing appreciably ment of their avowed purpose. 7It is difficult to visualize anything that would be more foolhardy than to like adopt these five bills, or any others farmer American The them, at this time. has a little more than he can do completely-Americ- FairEnoughI tread-tracke- - disrupt Saturday, November 28,1942 DESERET. NEWS men are joining the army, navy, and marines, but the exodus is primarily due to poor salaries for teachers. to authoritative stateAccording of living in large cities cost the ments, has risen 19.1 per cent since the war began in Europe, 16.5 per cent since January, 1941. In recent months the rate of increase is less than it was during the same period in World War I, but the trend is still upward. During the period when costs of living have been rising since January, 1941, weekly earning of factory worker have increased 39 per cent and farm wage rate more than 50 per cent. During the same perlod, salaries for school teachers, in spite of sporadic attempts to improve .the situation, have stood almost at a standstill. The Department of Commerce reports each year on. the annual average and salaried earnings ofpersons in 40 industrial claatiflcatlonir In 1941, the average was S1.47S, or $37 higher than the average for teachers. For the same year, 15 states reported the average salaries for teacher let than $1,000, and 33 of the 43 state reported average salaries for teacher lest than $1,441. The average salary of teachers, principals, supervisor, and other employes in Utah in 1939-4was $1,394. Government statistic show .that empoyes of mines, factories, utilities, banks, insurance companies, retailers and wholesalers, arid numerous other industries where preparation and education are not So exacting make more money than do teaehers.' the state auditor is Meanwhile, compelled to state that "the amounts disbursed from the state district school, high school, equalization and uniform school funds a re mot true expenditures, but rather amount which the state collects for the various school districts in accordance with constitutional and legal provisions (State Auditors' report, Nov. 5, 1942). Every schoolman in the state .knows that the state has been collecting more money on the state levy1 for schools than is distributed by the State. The State Legislature should consider the matter of increased teachers salaries. And, above all, it should direct the surplus in the district school fund into the rightful channel to. retairt-ihservices of capable school teachers. wage-earner- s 0 e These Days Whose Idea Was It? BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY To come back to this' .iron lid on ambition and initiative, it is evident that at most 3,000 persons in the United States will be affected by the prohibiting to keep more than $25,000 per annum of one come within productive earnings. To earn at must a person this sacred class, least $67,200 by working. Of course, under the order, a multimillionaire like acTommy Manvllle or Doris puke may of accumulated out more or $67,200 quire wealth without being affected by the Byrnes order. It is only the man who actually works to get his money who is troubled, and there are too few of thote to make this a matter of such serious importance to Justify what will actually, be a capital levy. Therefore -- ve -- have to discover the motivation for it I do not go along with those who are all excited because they have discovered that in 1928 the Com- munist platform favored such a limitation upon earnings.' The Communists l schemes that favor so many it is almost impossible to propose one without discovering that somewhere along the line, they --were for it. It I simpler logic to point to the influence of the CIO, of Walter fteuther and Mr. Eleanor Roosevelt, both of whom advocated thif particular limitation upon th And American zest for what may have been their motives? Walter Reuther has a prolonged history of assertion that management in industry does not know its business and that th management of labor does know how to run industry. That, in "essence, was the Reuther plan and that, in principle, was the gist of many speeches. to men Mrss- Roosevelt's opposition being paid adequately for work done is more difficult to understand. Mrs. Roosevelt is on of the largest earners of come in my own field.' It is doubtful whether she comes under the ceiling because what she receive would be classified a fee, like a lawyers or a doctor's, and as Mr. Byrnes order has been explained to me, fees are not under the roof. H6w much she earns, I do not knOw but being in the business myself, I can estimate that it is large. Walter Reuther and Eleanor Roosevelt have been the principal advocates of this prohibition upon capacity and It is njore than amazing .that they should have .been able to have their will enforced in spite Of the opposition of the Congress of the United States and the best Judgment of sound men. There is something in all this that does not meet the eye. Are most of these 3,000 men .Republicans or Southern Democrats who have been able, to contribute to campaign funds and will no longer be in a position to do so? Are only the labor union to have funds for campaign contributions? Thi is something for the new Congress to investigate. A congressional committee should go into this business not in executive session but openly so that the people may know the truth. anti-socia- -- - . (C6pyrtfht4 IMA Columbia Km Some? HEAVILY ARMED Possessing a strong frontal shield and packing an gun In addition to Its 105, the tank destroyer la designed, in the traditional phrase, to teak Out, pursue and destroy th enemy. The 103 gun, relatively new to the American Amy, ha a diameter a half-inclarger than Hitlers 88s end greater hitting power. Against the lack of side and top armor, the destroyer crew has greater visibility and maneuverability than tanka and less heat, noise and vibration. The Tunisian battle arena Is on which e retired British Army officer Maj. Gen. J. F. c. Fuller, pointed out last Jan. 11 must be taken and held by the Allies. With Rommel then army withdrawing a battered westward, even as now, General Fuller declared In the Sunday Pictorial of London: "At the very least, Tunisia and Its great naval base at Bizerte must be occupied by us and powerful air fields must be established there to command the waist of the Mediterranean. This undoubtedly was among the operations which were discussed in detail by Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt t the June conferences from which came the pledge that German itrength would be diverted from the attack upon Soviet Russia. anti-aircra- h The Bookrack BY FRANK WINN What do the most favored living American writers consider their best works? Well, for S3 of them at least, we know for a certainty because they selected the masterpieces themselves cm invitation of Editor Whit Burnett end submitted them for inclusion in This Is My Best, an anthology which is different from the usual works of thl kind in two important particulars first, the above mentioned feature, end secondly, because th authors themselves were net chOsin by the editor, but by th poll of 20,000 writers, literary critics, librarians, book dealers ahd others who are Supposed to know who is who in the literary world. Th resulting volume is " a treasure of modern writing which everyone who reads is certain to welcome. It includes stories. articles, drama, poetry, criticisms, biographies and excerpt from longer works each considered the best by its author, together with brief explanation also by the author of why the work was selected. The book closes with brief biographies of the editor, who each writer-b- y reports each one carefully checked with the best available information and containing a list of representative works together with the publisher which were chosen generally by . the auth. or Involved. few of th author .While .chosen by the poll were out of the country and not available, and In many Instances the works selected will not egret with the views of admirers of the various authors, the books must be accepted as a true-- rflection of whet authors think of Check Up Oh Insurance Policies probably be forced to reorganize their teles method. It la costing too much to tell ell kind of insurance. In fact, some New Dealer are said (r believe that telling fir Insurances ahould b eliminated by the adoption of automatic compulsory fire Insurance equal to th assessed value of one buildings. This, however, should not harm the good and independent companies which would still be needed to carry the insurance, make inspections and adjust losses. I further think highly of the, lnde- stocks of pendent fire insurance companies a Inflation hedges. Such companies have an advantage in being able to raise their rates to meet any emergency, a privilege not enjoyed by life (Copyright 1942. Publisher Financial Bureau, Inc.) BY ROGER W. BABSON-- ' NEW YORK Investor! will oonb' seeing newspaper reports about th government getting after fire insurance companies. Th trouble started with e grand jury investigation at Atlanta Ga.; it will probably, be pushed - by the - Department of Justice until it retch- - es the t Su- Court. preme The gov r has already investigated life In- e surance com-pani- - nt end came companies. The future of health and acciMr- - dent companies is not so clear. Most of their policies are now for small amounts with working people. 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Th answer Is that too many insurance companies have gotten into the hands of Wall Street and other financier or are being operated as helpless members of fleets. Of course, the difficulty Is that the of good, independent companiee, which are not mixed reputation up with fleets or Weil Street, may suffer with the weak ones. WHAT TO BUY The fir which companiee should come through this inves- tigation best are the medium-size- d one located outside of New York City free from certain fleet entanglements and not dependent upon any other company for business. Of course, a successful company must have a good group of loyal and active agents. Mott necessary of all. however, le an honest management which 14 working solely for the stockholder and has no conflicting Outside Interests. Such men ahOuld conserbe good businese-getter- t, vative investors and experienced underwriter. Insurance companies should insist upon thorough investigation both as to risks and investment. 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