Show THURSDAY EVEN INS FEBRUARY 23 The Blind Men and ihe Elephant Chain Store Buying Experts Teach Army Men New Tricks Modernize Supply Systems PUBULSHING COMPANY A L GLASMANN EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER Associate Editor Leonard G Diehl Associate General Manager FrahcU Frank AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Every Evening and Sunday Morning Without a Muzzle or a Club t Entered at the posto'fice at Ogden as second ciaes matter according to Act of Congress March Member 01 The Associated tress umcea tress sstuA service ana A is u By PETER EDSON S 1S79 Standard-Examin- Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Feb 20— There's still a little bit of jealousy between the regular army officers and the experts brought In from private industry to speed up the defense effort and that's only to be expected Privately army officers will admit that the bright boys from Sears Roebuck A & P Penney and other chain outfits are teaching them all kinds of tricks about buying and as a result jthe entire supply system of the services is being modernized so the government will buy on a buyers' market when prices are1 lowi and the national economy will be stabilized by putting some seasonal industries to work in slack periods "' Out of the original $13000000000 appropriated for the defense effort all has been allocated except a matter of some $600000000 — mere chicken feed That doesn't include the supply bills to keep the serv ices going but that's where the The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or cot otherwise crecutea in en is paper ana ajso tne local news — " ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICES ' 75 o a By Carrier 85c a month $320 a year when paid in advance By Mail— Must be paid In advance hjbctk&a fuiv mOntn JolAJ a yeaX 1U Uk&O AUliiU liciaua auu W wiu — Meanwhile Democracy Functions Some people have their eyes so firmly fixed on some doom they see far on ahead waiting for democracy that they overlook the fact it's functioning right here and now When the draft act was passed last year it was thoroughly debated for months Every argument for it and against it was given the full play time and again Then-aftemost complete kind of discussion public and and unofficial the duly electprivates-officiaed representatives of the people passed it by a broad margin If the passage of that act revolutionary r l departure as it was from traditional American principles did not represent the will of the American people in what possible way could that will have been expressed? bill Since the Similarly the lease-len- d draft act of last year there has been a congressional election A good share of the senators and representatives now on the floor have been to their constituencies for acceptance or rejection New members were elected by people who had on eye on European developments and the ways in which they might affect the United States Now bill comes the lease-len- d No one can say both sides of this proposed legislation have not had every conceivable opportunity to present their cases A continual parade of witnesses for and against qualified and unqualified expert and inexpert statistical and emotional has passed through "the committee rooms of both house and senate Debate on the floors of both chambers has been exhaustive Every conceivable scrap of information every imaginable point of view have been spread pub licly before the legislators and the country The president apparently feeling the criticism that followed last year's destroyer' transfer for which he did not go to congress for authority appears to have made an especial point of keeping out of this pending legislation Amendments have been proposed argued and some have been accepted The people through letters to congress and the newspapers have had their direct say aside from the official debate e Soon the bill will pass or it will not pass Whichever is the result it is hard indeed to see how democratic process could have had more deference how any possible means has been overlooked to make certain that the decision is the deliberate decision of the majority of the American peo The Washington Merry-Go-Roun- d By? all-o- ut 5 lend-leas- smart buying comes in It explains $175-0000- J'"" -- " ' NLA BOAKfe CARTER'S o NEWS COMMENTS ' or not voter I was wholly justified in Peter Molyneaux in his Texas believing the candidate meant uusua aesuimuon And equally jus Weekly observes that my disap- - what he said 4Af ! "u wen maw- - pointment in Wendell Willkie is tified in expressing the sense of i" mg a little tne general added that he had not not due to any change in Mr Will being "sold out" when he says oeen aDie to auena tne senate committee hear- - kie but because I read into him he was merely making political mg because He had been busy with an article certain things in order to make speeches xnat ienow iarK isolationist Missouri sena- - him fit my own wishful thinking But I am glad for one thing tor remarked vviiikie conversationally "is one Therefore says Peter it is not Mr Willkie's reversion to type of the dullest persons I've met in a long time I Willkie who has changed his posi has helped clarify something oon t see now ne keeps-iwhich as I started out to say olfice tion but rather that I have " murmured the lso "Well! don't know He's a little right and more has been working in the back of He has led me to iationist general my mind By this time wrong believe of the two men that they were at the track gates Again there was Since Mr Willkie's visitation to Roosevelt silence broken this time by Johnson Willkie — Mr and back to reread his Roosevelt U more "Wendell" he said "how about a bottle of beer London I went philosophy and theories as he him alive to the fact thatinstinctively before we turn in?" the world in various articles or self "Thanks Hugh but I don't think Td better and wrote thembefore is and that a gone yesterday the political new order of speeches 1 is Im very tired and I've got a busy day ahead campaign society coming began upon us than Mr Willkie will Thanks just the same Be seein you" These 1 put alongside his cam- - ever be Johnson nodded and the two men went their paign speeches Finally I compared lend-leasThat is not to say that I there-- f ways even farther apart these two groups of talks beside fore the remarks he made after his in- all approve of the technique or Shipping Crisis the policies of the New Deal dorsements of H R 1776 while in It has not Jeaked out yet but to relieve the London I still think it moves too much and finally beside his tes- shinnirtC Ithfirfairo tho moriUma nmmliin nisi on emotion little on hard 11 Otiore lilt) senate corn- cold facts oftoorealities nn tho vr nf i orroBfffnir ""'"'V I still i w a w- aimv ii is rcxiiiu jva uu xt ehne ai t Ai 1J1- jiiiLLce t think too many of its leaders are c"J"3 J iiicttcii tliai ula J W t11C11 ACW O Mil bllUUJ either social crackpots or out for ne nlan was for' Ampr rnn Bhinnincr vwmorrr -o the political gain ov a ° Af anlrr thof 4hnvA 1o But I am not talking of the ian-"ia- u a JJUS WOUiQ New Deal fVia mnn tiff Vi'o I am talking' of Mr iicmjtti xiaj pie iiave avomea ineir seizure oy Germany woum Willkie has had to say— even from xvuoseven ano Mr willkie as buiho revenue ana the days when he was fighting the persons I have suspected for So while we moan gently to ourselves xvc 6cuiue sometime that as unpredictable "uuiu ave reieaaea otner snips in American wa-- 1 TVA in 1934 about the fate of democracy in the future ters tor tne jnpsn The onlv time Mr Willkie de as is Mr Roosevelt he none the But the New York underwriters refused to carted from that one main them- e- less knows by instinct that to let's not overlook this pretty convincing insure the cargoes of the Danish ships They feared that of restorine the oast with In morrow wont De the same as demonstration of its vitality that is going on that the Danish crews once they got ©n the high ternational free trade and freedom yesterday and to survive the United would saiL for Germany instead of South among all peoples— was for a re States must change its ways too every day before oiir too of ten unseeing eyes seas I believe he knows by instinct America fao tne maritime commission hopes to nod of about six weeks the final American crews on the ships six weeks in the presidential cam that international free trade is put Fewer Farms Note-- The state department flatly refuses to paign finished because of the science of any Danish Italian or German seizure Willkie un of mass production Mr time that That in During permit In the terrific 10 years just passed the ships in American' harbors questionably gave the impression stinct is borne out by the fact in 'the talks hedelivered that that he instituted a New Deal whole number of farms in the United States Capital Chaff He knew enoug-to realize the The new TVA picture "Power for Defense" nnf nnW fnr if Hnmoti declined 31 per cent from 6288648 to United Ht States must shift its think :l :m u t iw 4 i i j j msinouuuu man tuiy lum ever also because of the international j Its conceptions its values and At the same time the average hold- produced by wiuer ing the government It will be ahown in ism nr intprvpifinnism nf it fnr its outlook to survive ing increased from 138 acres in 1910 to 174 more theatres than "The Plow': and 'fThe River" ein policies I do" not think I read' And even though I disagree in comoinea paucno wno rode into his stated views wishful tne of much that he has acres today his horsefrom Buenos Aires to Washington thew thinking on my partanyFor Mr donexecnnique do I concede "is readily that That — efimtf sH "Taromhn f" when tnMl t Mr rtooseveit has done t partly due to the fact that the tin Viiu innf anA wim Wtllii iiiiimi: was very ueiiniie xn to norse nere nis stand against war and any try to prepare the Unitedmuch cust $i£v & mgnt 10 sauie dust bowl which we have been industriously i wuuw States boviet Ambassador Oumansky thinks highly action on the Dart of the Roosevelt in spite of itself for an era of the violently 'creating in the southwest for many years of picture "Confessions government which would be likely hemispheric nationalism or a xsazl to take us into war was the most tspy Had Mr Roosevelt been more take toll to of its blasted has begun hopes New Farm Board definite of Mr Willkie's cam- - technician-minde- d part as it were and ruined homesteads After manv vsrs nf ssnnnnrtinc th 'NTpw Tionl paign mistakes perhaps many would not e All this means fewer of the kind of men farm program 'the powerful Farm Bureau federa- rePeatediy inferred a vote ror have been made that have been was a vote for the principle committed He is tion wants M set" up a" new government farm perhaps more who are solid proprietors standing - with agency oi America ior Americans against like a man who knows whic-wouM lafcelv dominate it something's their feet on their own land Such men are In backstage congressional conversations the W£" Bai"i raeuiuiug wrong wants earnestly to meet the n: a a a vo u cA fh repeatedly denounced President forces of tomorrow but because " Roosevelt for the backbone of any country To make it farm All of custom habit -: u and the publicity from his headauar training picks up environment d worse experts now believe that with the tools wrong ters at the time stressed the fact to achieve that -- f i i a! goal production methods half as many Be that as it all may I feel Air ap Lllta ¥Ci Jf MVfO this— President Roosevelt's ' thinkfarmers as labor today could produce all the LU iu" txiese important Dureaua fn tion whirh — naiRPrt ATr t ' i ing is turned more in the right a aave food the country needs to repreXTr th Wililri gooaiy xaiurany — ow— firT tk0 : ' ' i i i i i direction than " ii of Mr Willkie -memoers on tnat DOaru tmd nj HrlflrA Viimlf nlsn man nf Mr Willkie that People living on the land have a value to continues to reoo iar vice President- waiiace ana ssecretary Uearc — i to vert ' those the mere the food of free days far are the country oi Agriculture wickara beyond Surelv thrp was no wishful way of life He doesn't they So vigorously opposed also is the explain president: thinkinr in acceotinsr on face value he means He just pumps produce They have a stability a solidness — Hoover estaonsnea a lamous farm those thincs Mr Willkie said I what ioie out that ' But catchy expression shown by no other kind of people Thus every board to buy wheat It was a mess believed him I did so because I his utterances he indicates he by Prioritlea oolino thousrht he at last was Airplane effort to devise new ways of living on the In terms of the past — The tician but a man who as one thinks are manufacturing companies which assuredly Mr Roosevelt does soil or farm life not merely as a business going to nave to decide very soon wnetner they newspaperman wired back to his not continue commercial and both is a paper "actually means it" It was of building a contribution as military to but living way So what Peter Moly' or his the" latter planes only appearance of forthrightness neaux despite may national stability and deserves encouragsoftly suggest I still For months this debate has been raging inside Md intellectual honesty which won feel let down by the man for the defense commission With lagging plane pro-- 1 nim many many of the votes cast whom A ement' ) voted on I the of J or him duction war department chiefs are demandin that including mine what he had to say Mystrength sin When along on Clark in Senator concentrate the Three-fourth- s only surprise of the area df America is companies military orders a few million others was But with civilian air transportation more popular sufgested Mr Willkie's present po- - with" three-fourth- s of the people feel tnan ever this would mean a serious business 8luon was m marked contrast to that 1 didn't susDect the thins? flat— making Ule stand he took in hscampaign Mr Willkie said were just cam loss to many commercial companies right at home So after many hours of secret debate the ir speecnes Mr Willkie quickly an paign speeches I took them sericommittee has sent a representative swered: "You1 kn6w what campaign ouslyand that was the error priorities Dutch reported annoyed because the Nazis craft i inLedger Syndicate n — on! i - WVlv Virinrr thorn ttuuun nia recom SDfNfhp iu ine facnic coast i10 iinvesuraie I cheese to of off their most mendatinn will flpnpnrl whpthpr iniim(rrial Germany shipped LEAGUE FOUNDER DIES ?° tne things which were said BUFFALO get more olanes or not Well it's a strong reason N Feb 20 (AP) NOV WCTe JUSC Note— War department chiefs contend they could etr' Herman E 75 Gahwe' a founder LAH VOI6 IOr SDeecneSJ A o nn oHrJitinnol crpt mnnlh nlant and first When they start building bomb shelters 1942 of the was war: a Walther president vote nnrcllftH if nil rdmmprrial nrripc wr "iie against is dead league The he ones in the first league the 1941 outfield (Copyright by United Feature Syndicate Inc) they might put as helped form has since become an head of a at Yankee stadium fAPio-w leading us to international organization of young -- xiaw oicp-11a Sm AU war— just government iy 5 camDaiE--n stuff to set the people's societies of the Lutheran ofchurch British hope that the German "all-ou- t' Chicago Maybe he just wanted to see if the V0Ttes? a not iere tor justitication nainf woo VJ fensive will be all out of luck leeiine of betravnl whon Printing and publishing is one of temrilatine Mr the WiUki' largest U S industries Ac- Defense program may be due for a crackWe're still wondering how many of Hit- - definition of the things "he had cording to the census the total value of its annual production exsay m the campaign? " TO a u — nr down Well better that than a crack-u- p Ipr nArii-t-o- 'it n non-committa- lly I I - i- I —a WVAAJ I I 1 Wt - I ! ' fViy-mifr- T" — 1 — uuuwne - — - h : e ine-Argenun- " I s uvv anti-Germ- i an - ior tf -- --- war-mongeri- jMr YOUR INCOME TAX PITTSBURGH— It la funny howimagined that Mr Willkie would a suspicion which lurks in the back basically change from what he of the mind sometimes works to has always appeared to believe the forefront whether you like it But I also submit that as a wunan — ' Washington Tips Keep an eye on the work of the 30 labor representatives on Sidney Hillman's staff While only a few of these men will be in Washington — others working on a regional or separate industry basis — here is one of the first cases where labor is sitting in with management to determine' industrial policy on a big scale If It works out well in the defense effort to the satisfaction of both sides there will be an effort to spread the idea in private indusThere's no big reserve try officer training camp effort today as mere was in ror the simple reason that training carried on since 1920 has turned out 105000 reserve officers available for service With regulars and national guardsmen there's enough trained officer material to handle an army of two and a half million Real reason for greater Japanese activity around Hong Kong is to stop Chinese bribery of Japs who then permit smuggling of supplies for Chinese army through coastal Japanese patrols Tourists are barred from headquarters for the duration iit an meats flour and cereals San Fran se nil that announced soon cisco will buy fruits and vegetables The lines aren't hard and fast but Teace Offering For Willkie personally the most dramatic part of his hectic day in Washington occurred at the Union station en route to the midnight sleeper He was wearied tousled and alone trudging through the great domed waiting room when suddenly he came face to face with General Hugh Johnson alsoxoutward bound During the election campaign Johnson was one of Willkie's most rabid boosters But this love turned to vituperation when Willkie declared for bill Since then General Johnson the lend-leain his syndicated column has been "scorching the pants off" the man "who only a few months ago he acclaimed as a shining Sir Galahad &o tne otner mgnt ootn men looked at each other in silence then Willkie remarked pleasantly wen Hugh nice to see you" un nuno replied jonnson Again there was 1 : G-m- Willkie is still undecided what he will do but return to law He has been offered a number of lucrative positions one carry ing a salary of $120000 a year uwun rut 00 rs is leaning toward a Uy and as a result these rubber and soap companies are going into entirely new businesses starting from scratch There will be funnier ones than vjcamDie also the need for the current appropriation bill which will enable the quartermaster corps to buy food and clothing Three Main Food Buying Offices Takek f od It will cost three-quarteof a million dollars a day an army of a million just to feedmen Yes a day and a half To do that trick the chain store Some steel rails laid half a cenboys have set up three principal tury ago still are n use but their purchasing offices to supervise the average life is 15 years in servict job for the whole country New York will buy condiments and non will buy Chicago perishables job" uncu er ( Drew Pearson and Robert 8 Allen WASHINGTON— Wendell Willkie went e hill but personally for the president's he doesn't like Mr Roosevelt any better than be fore Willkie made this clear to friends following his conference at the WTiite House Winston Churchill he indicated had it all over Roosevelt in ability and personality was "much simpler and more direct in manner "There isn't anyone in America quite like Churchill" Willkie said "He was the most con genial companion I've met in a very long time He has a gay buoyancy that is incomparable Willkie also told his friends that he had ab solutely no intention of taking a job under Roose velt "The president hasn't offered me anything" he said "and I hope he doesn't because I'll turn it down One thing I don't want is an appointive office If war should come I will enlist in the armed forces but I'm not taking a government 1941 Last of six short articles By NEA Service As much confusion is caused by the "earned income credit" as by any other one thing on the income tax blank The idea of course is to make a distinction between money you actually earn by personal services and money that comes in as interest dividends etc A higher proportion of earned income cuts down the tax so that in effect wages and salaries are not as highly taxed as other income "However the credit allowed on this can't be more than 10 per cent of your net income Maybe practically all of your net income came from personal services If it were all deducted you would have no tax But only 10 per cent of So the net income is allowed don't try to deduct all ' your "earned income" only an amount equal to 10 per cent of the net income and in no case more than $14000 (that won't worry ' very many of us) If you're running a business 20 per cent of your net profits is allowed to be considered as earned income— and the credit is 10 per cent of that — in short two per cent of net profits The local real estate taxes you pay on your home for instance are a deduction on your federal tax return But that deduction applies only to the person who actually holds legal title to the For instance suppose property your mother lives in her own home and you kindly pay her taxes It's a nice gesture but don't try to deduct that payment from your own income tax Same way if some benefactor pays yours you may then deduct the tax paid but you must also list the same amount as income And don't be late Unless your tax return is turned in personally at the collector's office or mailed so as to be received there by midnight on March 15 it is: subject to penalty 5 - British Hand Gas Masks To Prisoners Visitors LONDON Feb 20 (AP) — The British campaigning for everyone to carry gas masks are handing them to German airmen and seamen as soon as they are brought in as prisoners Voluntary visitors too usually it are handed masks oeiore tneir dock boats -- - m those are the mam divisions Supplementing that there will be 36 zone offices one in each of the 12 main and 24 branch federal reserve districts which will buy stuff locally for the camps In its zone All this buying will be done under the army quartermaster corps with a civilian expert sitting in to advise Under the old setup the Q MJ from each camp would do his own buying Sometimes when there were three or four camps in the vicinity of one market town the Q Mi's would drive up with their trucks early in the morning go into competition with each other for supplies run up priceSj and by noon have the market so cleaned out there wasn't anything left for the local housewives The new idea is to eliminate all that Further more truck farming in the vi cinity of each camp is to be encour aged so that areas will be largely Take clothes — take overcoats Right now is the slack season in the overcoat making industry All coats for this winter have been made and they haven't started on the coats for 1942 The army will need nearly a million overcoats for next winter It owns the cloth so it will soon let contracts to cut make and trim next winter's self-supporti- li wl ) ng Take shoes A soldier wears out four pairs a year Carter Glass wonders how Washington's men got through that winter at Valley Forge when the revolutionaries didn't have any shoes at all but since this won't be a barefoot army shoe buyers have to figure how they can get six million pairs a year out of present factory capacity Rubber Soap Plants to Make Powder Bags of finding plants to make the things the services want is a problem in itself More than g 10 years ago the army began its big with Life -- Saver Tread survey of industrial production fa cilities in the United States Ten Whether you need en tire or a full set don't let the lack of thousand plants were inspected immediate cash worry you catalogued and classified The sur Our service Bts your every vey took into account how each fac need— CASH CHARGE tory could be converted to make ACCOUNT or DEFERRED war supplies A corset factory for TERMS instance was found to be an ideal Regardless of what plan you prefer our friendly place to make gas masks courteous service will take care For some supplies the number of your needs of experienced manufacturers is limited There are only about four fiO ItEDTAP£— M0 DELAYS companies that' can manufacture explosives on a big scale— duPont Trojan Hercules and Remington The job of making 15 freight car loads of smokeless powder per day had to be turned over to them That done the problem of finding firms to load the powder bags for artillery had to be met With few experienced firms to approach the army looked around for companies 2661 WASHINGTON with good records of plant management and asked them to tackle the PHONE 795 job Two of those who said "yes" 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