| Show THE OGDEN 6-- A Uncle Sam Planning Steps To Protect Small Man In U S Business Squeeze SltfMard' JttamtWV PUBUiSHUNU COMPANY A L CLAIM ANN OJ1TOH AND GENERAL MANAGER Associate Editor Leonard Q Pienk Associate CeneraJ Ma&agei Francis Frank AH INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Evtry Evening and Sunday Morning Without a Muztl cf Club U79 second class matter aocordlng to Act of Confrtii March At Ogden Entered at the A NEA and Service li Press UnlUd t C Associated Mip&r of The fttii entitled to the use fot rt publication of ail nwa dispatch credited to rh iuoeuud Press ti exclusively tbo local ctwi it of not otherwise credited ta tola gaper a BUBSCHIPTION PRICES when paid in advance By Mall— Must be paid la advance T8o $920 month ISo carrier fiu 00 a year in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming All Other Statea SLOP tt month $1300 tt yar month Brass Medal for Hitler If there is one quality in the exercise of which Adolf Hitler stands alone it is brass By PETEI d effrontery sheer impudent By Drew Pearson and Robert 8 Aiten other quality than any That more WASHINGTON— The British are an extremely come has he people But if they were not they would patient way the him long has carried do of complaining over the manner in which lot a in Germany d state department red tape snarls the It took brass to claim powerUke reich-sta- g the it took brass to stage events books state- program For after their purchases are all approved and fire in the face of his own officially stamped by General R L Maxwell who is is it easier the lie In charge of export licenses for the president the the the ment that bigger matter stili has to go to the state deparment division to brass took to make people believe it It of munitions controls ' "This is my last terriThis is under Joseph Green prosay at Munich-tim- e who became famous several years ago for fessor for while thejmaps torial claim in Europe" putting all sorts of obstacles In he path of arms took to It table on the loyalist Spain while simultaneously letting arms lay Polish conquest the be shipped to Germany despite the treaty of 1920 soviet at of railing brass to close 20 years prohibiting this (This he did however with the friendcomplete approval of Secretary Hull) Russia with a pact of Green's office now has been shorn of any real in 1939 It but since it was created by congress It ship and close trade relations authority e cannot be ignored But it is one of the most took brass to invade country after country snarled the in so state bureaus It them claiming only the wish to "protect Russian much so that it sometimes takes department a week for a British thipment to get Green's OK even though took brass to reverse utterly the it already has been approved by General Maxwell his superior policy after less than two years Green has no authority to stop a shipment In But for sheer impudent effrontery this he has no authority to do much of anything refact now s one wins the brass medal It But this fact it takes about a wek for shipdespite amHitler's to ments von clear Franz Papen through his office vealed that dipBritish British Protest bassador to Turkey approached The situation became to bad last year that the lomats there with a suggestion that Germany British and finally prepared a memorandum on the off andJ3ritain just call the whole thing and sent it to Philip Young conscientious subjecton crusade" son of Owen D Young of General a in "holy march together Electric who Is the reprelease-len- non-aggressi- " red-tap- - hard-worki- ng ' Russia Docs Hitler imagine for one moment that the people of: England the plain ordinary lived in cellars people of England who have torn bv bombs fought and died from Dunkirk to Crete seen their homes and churches reduced to smoking ruin would ' wn tolerate overnight a government which pronow and go cruposed "Let's forget all that arm with the sading against Russia arm in men who have' so brutally injured us and who have proved so utterly faithless?" The British people the people of the Dominions the remaining free people of all countries are not like that to be played on in like a great organ and emit a tune master any change of key some tinpot at-wi- ll chooses overnight He may be able to tell the German people on Monday "This is theenemy hate him is fight him!" and on Tuesday "No that the enemy hate him fight him!" But he can't tell that sort of thing to free people anywhere in the world That such a monstrous manipulation eVirmiH fvpn hpi attemDted is an insult to man and woman m trie worm wno &uu athes the air of freedom nlVevery 1 i nsn for the Discard enty-fouor five years ago there was a heated discussion of "hyphenates" It meant those people who are designated as "German - Americans" "Greek - Americans" "Italian - Americans" nd the like never was a- more unfortunate There L ' chalice of words At its best sucn terminology r- Swedish-American- s" 4 suggests a divided allegiance something mora or something less than simply "Ameraccurate as applied to icans!" "It never-wa- s nine out of ten in connection with whom it was used What was meant and what is meant today inalmost every such case is " "Americans of German" Greek Swedish or Italian origin' Since rfnd ifKthat is meant why not say it? Granted that "Americans of Germanic origin" li a little more" clumsy than we're used to organizations with long names these days and we'd be willing to grapple with thya in the interest of accuracy and of Jusce to those who still thfnk their specific European origin in important Italy Starts a Short War The Italians didn't do notably well against the Greeks the British the Australians &6 another war a now they are embarking war on shorts and long pants for women In Florence police sternly forbid either garb and severely threaten that if a woman is caught riding a bicycle while ehe is wearing trousers- the bicycle will be confiscated "It is time" growls the newspaper Nazione "to take strong measures against this stupid "German-A- mericans" -- - Hollywood style" So Italy declares war on shorts and pants It may bea long war with the police doing the panting if Italian women are anything like American women 1 Soliders home on furlough report they sometimes become bored by the frequent drill Others get the same feeling at the -- dentist's Vacation time is when a wife can get a trunkful of stuff into a suit case treasury department's sentative regarding the' state department's division of munitions control Young showed it to Secretary Morgenthau who was so disturbed that he took the matter up with the president personally The president In turn asked Secretary Hull to do something about Joe Green But nothing happened In the end the memo went to Green himself who offered what Philip Young described as "absurdly lame excuses" for hi red tape Green's office continued to be hogged down as much as ever Finally several months ago the British prepared another memo asking if this bottleneck could not be speeded up However just as they were about to submit the memo they heard that Green was expanding his staff So they waited hoping that this might remedy the situation But It did not Green's routine Is just as slow as ever The following is an example of how he operates: Not long ago a U S machine tool manufacturer filled an order for shipment to New Zealand The OPM asked some questions thinking the machine tools might better be used in the U S A but the British purchasing mission explained that the tools were needed to make machinery for the production of equipment for Anzae barracks in Egypt' and Syria The OPM promptly approved and the British thought the matter was settled But they had forgotten the state department and Joe Green His division of munitions controls held up the shipment for a full week not because he had any authority but purely through red tape Note — Joe Green has the reputation of being the best friend of Herbert Hoover In the state depart ment Green worked under Hoover in Belgium during World war days and was arrested by the Germans on an espionage charge Hoover personally came to his rescue later helped get him a job in the state department Anti— Red Tape LaGuardia Pyrotechnic Mayor LaGuardia civil defense administrator vehemently does not like Washington red tape and does not intend to let it enmesh him He made this clear at his first press conference last week The OPM press bureau sent two stenog' raphers with stenotype machines to record the proceedings LaGuardia took one look at the layout ana with a sweep of his hand said "None of that That sort of thing is not necessary at my press conferences As the two astonished stenos gaped he added: "I've been having press conferences for many years now and there is no need to spend public money for a stenographic report The reporters will eet down everything worth taking That's their job and they do it very well' the OPM "But Mr Mayor" broke In one of press moguls "It "And another thing" snapped LaGuardia "I run my own press conferences — without red tape" Note — It was at this conference that La Guardia with the help of the newsmen evolved the "National Unity" label for his spectacular Fourth of July program Family Quarrel Behind Chrysler corporation's defiant refusal to bow to Defense Price Admilatrator Leon Heder- son and withdraw its price boosts is an interesting personal angle- Legal advisors of the auto company in this dispute are former Attorney General Homer Cum- mlngs and his former assistant William Stanley Law partners since they left the government Cummings and Stanley have a number of big business clients and several weeks before the Chrysler controversy got out Into the open made a effort to mollify Henderson Their first move was an Invitation made per sonally by Stanley to visit the Chrysler plant as the guest of the company Henderson'! answer was an emphatic "No" plus a blunt warning that if Chrysler didn t back down on Its defiant price the company would be publicly denounced and congress asked for compulsory price regulation legislation Stanley again conferred with Henderson but without results lit stood pat on his demand that the company drop its kited prices before discussions were begun onwhether it wu entitled to charge more talk to Note— In a economists of the A F L C I O and other labor organizations Henderson urged them to counsel their executives to go slow In making excessive pay demands that be would resist these as determinedly as profiteering by business behind-the-scen- es in-cre- ne Ltr stralght-from-the-should- er way That is the predicament of the small business squeezed out by pri orlties but there is another angle ttiat has attracted attention of the divi justice department anti-trusion— the cases of small businesses st squeezed out by monopolistic com petition from big business Big Boys Early Attention has already been called to concentration of defense orders placed with major manufacturing companies In the rush to get de fense started It was perhaps na tural to turn to the companies with the biggest plants Also If the ? major industrialists had the best organization to get the business it was natural for them to get orders If however this combina tton of circumstances plus mon opolistic practices is used to freeze the independent manufacturer out of the defense effort then the eco nomic balance is thrown out of gear Thurman W Arnold assistant attorney general In charge of the anti-trudivision sees four dang ers to the little man from such a st set-u- p First the system Of priorities con frol may be used to prevent the small manufacturer supplies Second Secretary Ickes' oil experts would do well to probe the experience of the Chemical Foundation at Atchison Kansas where It has been making alcohol and a blended motor fuel for four years Sentiment is Increasing in several states for a "Federal Union of Nations" The North Carolina legislature has memorialized congress to undertake an International federal union now and Representative Woodrlng of Pennsylvania Is proposing the same to the Pennsylvania legislature John F Goldsmith Pennsylvania lawyer who first conceived the Idea Is pushing the Quaker solons (Copyright 1941 by United Feature Syndicate Inc) Collecting aluminum is just one way Uncle Sam can show he has plenty of scrap she couldn't live on l000 a week we'd! like to say that few of us can from getting the small manufacturer may not be allowed to share in the national defense production to the detriment of both the little man and defense Third the independents may be caught by artificially fixed prices and distribution costs as in the re cent Rocky Mountain region lum ber and cement cases where little men not belonging to the ring and following its policies could not get a foothold In business (Fourth the threats from big la bor — a few of the unions which like big business combines dictate the amount of labor materials and tools that the small businessman nxust use It Hard to Find is to protect little business from hardships like these that the anti-tru- st division proposes to set up its section A: program of this kind has never been attempted be fore Finding the right man to head an It economist with con tacts among the Independent busi ness men and the small business men's associations is one of the first problems There will be no formula for operations and no speech-makin- 111 ll MM In Toltio M lir 4- best llckj CHIPS California has more Burbtnk adultr going to school than children all because of the defense Industry training program The score is 6000 children to 8000 adults and most of the adults are studying aviation subjects Twenty-fiv- e thousand letters pour Into Washington every day asking for Interpretation of the WASHINGTON 1 law wage-ho- ur ment's The govern- 2500 purchasing agents buy 300000 different items And your government's legal Nastaff now ntmibers 6000 tional resources planning board estimates that in all cities of or morel there should be one acre of park space for each 100 Famous says of inhabitants great living statesmen: "The continuous attacks on the Con munlsts appear to me to be 'much ado about nothing" — Rep Adolph J fiabath of Chicago 10-0- Fair 00 Enough WESTBSOOKPE m NEW YORK July 2— This per sistent factual presentation of proof that the American Federation of Labor is positively crawling with criminals of the lowest type may' become monotonous to some However I just figure that we are at a very fateful point in the social and political career of this coun try and that if the unions are to have a powerful voice In the government the vermin must be cleaned out! Otherwise the whole will find them- American i people i p selves unaer tne ruie oi ers degenerates dynamiters stick- up men and extortioners That will mean nothing nhort of civil war for the people certainly will fight In the streets rather than submit With this word of explanation Z proceed today with some unfinished business in the case of a vicious criminal named Harry D Jones who has been convicted In Akron Ohio of hiring two men to dyna mite three buildings Consider first the official power which was given this criminal be fore we proceed to consideration of his background He is a vice presl dent of the Ohio State Federation of Labor business agent of the Akron local of the operating engl neers a vice president of the Summit county Cor Akron) Trades and Labor assembly and treasurer of the Building Trades council which dominates the Akron municipal building department The council has a practice of selling work permits at $1 a day to American citlzenawhile rejecting applications for full union membership Last November Jones hired two stupid brothers members —of his Operating Engineers' union which is one of the worst in the country — to blow up three building jobs that were being executed by C I O labor The motive is obvious His buildings trades council natur ally wanted those jobs and wanted also the dues and the $1 a day to be derived from work permits It also had an interest in wholly ex eluding the C I O from the local construction field One of the bombs was mistimed one of the brothers being killed The other was caught and con fessed implicating Jones And the Summit county (or Akron) Trades and Labor assembly of which Jones is vice president promptly called a special meeting which adopted a resolution protesting against a "smear" and promising "to work with all interested parties toward a solution" o£ the crime But neither f 1 m a cive-Kee- Tri-Coun- ty s about what all can g lllll II! 1941 a dliadvantait that the tntl-tru- st division will get In Iti first and ar —— ' I J this assembly nor any other A 7 ot L agency ever did anything to help the prosecutor Alva 3 Russell Mr Russell and his staff had to make their own case' And they never could show who If anyone In the building trades branch of union activity in Akron shared with him the Initiative In the conspiracy Meanwhile In Dayton a' union publication called the Labor Union denounced as a lie an assertion in these dispatches that there had been bombings In Dayton Of a truth there had been none but the error was geographical However the labor union is the political organ of John E Breidenbach of Dayton president of the Dayton Central Labor union and like the criminal Jones a vice president of the Ohio Federation of Labor Breldenbach's paper represents Itself to be the "state" labor publication of Ohio a claim which haa been repudiated by other publications and by certain Ohio unions An4 his editor has admitted in writing that the labor union "generally" suppresses the "harmful things" which of course might include the intimate official relationship of Breidenbach and Jones as presidents of the Ohio Federation of Labor The paper has not emphasized that since Jones was convicted his past record was unearthed by Mr Russell And what does this record show? What achievements qualified Brother Jones for four official positions in the house of labor? Well first back in 1904 he did 30 days in jail for larceny but he was only 18 at the time so why bring that Up? The reason for same bringing that up is that e crime committed he another year which showed that he never could be anything but a criminal of the most loathsome sort On August 27 of that year he assaulted a boy co-vi- and for that served two years three months and 14 days In the Mansfield Ohio reformatory In 1909 under the name of Hiram W Sylvester he got two years in the Missouri state prison for stealing a horse and carriage and served one year five months and 18 days Being no boy but a man of 35 years In Cleveland he was caught with a girl In his automobile after a night out together and got six months on a ce Ill charge of attempting to rape the child That Is why Jones did not take the stand In his trial on the dynamiting charges for which hi wal sentenced to serve from three to 21 years and that Is the character of the colleague of John Breidenbach the Dayton union journalist union politician and president of the American Federation of Labor for the itate of Ohio co-vi- ce Royal Crown Distributing Co 25th St Ogden Utah Dial 6903 ATTENTION in-th- doesn't cost a mint of money to make delicious be done until the problems of little business have been surveyed Tt and studied To get at the problem Arnold Is willing to receive complaints from small businessmen who have been subjected to squeeze plays In the defense effort He admits frankly that he cannot begin to answer individually all complaints received He expects to get a sizeable proportion of crackpot letters presenting Imaginary grievances about which nothing can be done out out or the mass of correspond ence the anti-trudivision does receive It hopes to be able to find out what the problems of the little businessman are in this period When the new organization Is set up Arnold hopes that It will be a friend of the little businessman in the long halls of government Big business has always had its representatives in Washington Small business has not Anti-trudivision hopes It can fill the gap Its work In enforcement of the Sherman anti-trulaw Im now beto bt known generally It ginning Is la cases where violation of that law puts the little business man at i - A Msm lJ ilfij® with THIS st a You mix economy with pleasure when KENTUCKY STRAIGHT st This to roach tho largo numbor who will got paid Thursday and havo ft yfcer Is 4 YEAHS OLD WEEK-EN- D THREE BIS DAYS for Want Ad RESULTS Phono want ads NOW - BOURBON WIJISXET you make cool drinki with Black Gold! 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