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Tuesday June 24 1047 tte at The tiy Tribune La Putihshing Co Salt Lake City - 3 1 - 1 i I 1 i I : 1 I :' )i i 4 4 ) 1 ' ''l 1 1 i II 1 i 1 1 i : I fI 1 ' 1 ' 1 i I 4 1 I I I 4 - i Steel Executive Warns Against Impatience t I I I : - ' i I 1 H 1 ' I ' 1 1 ' ' S 1 I ( Oh 1 Among the many historical cultural and entertainment events being conducted here in the Utah capital as part of the Centennial celebration none has attracted any more country-wide interest than the National Collegiate athletic meet at the University of Utah stadium Outstanding track men from all parts of the United States came to compete and try for new records in the various races and other feats of strength and skill peculiar to collegiate athletics While the national meet was not scheduled as a drawing card for a great number of visitors many people came to watch the thrilling However the mast important competitions phase of this great athletic contest is the interest with which the track enthusiasts in all parts of the country received reports of the achievements in speed and skill made by the noted contestants Two new world records were set during the meet here and another was equaled The Centennial competition has other claims to world interest It is regarded by the sports authorities as a proving ground for next year's Olympic games in London In spite of cool and rainy weather the stands at the Utah stadium were crowded with track fans who knew that history-makinevents and athletes destined for world note were to be on view Contestants They were not disappointed and officials from all parts of the United States were enthusiastic over the hospitality shown them here in Utah They wentaway singing the praises of the people of the state arti the local men in charge of the meet The Centennial commission Thornton D Morris who is chairman of sports committee and Coach Ike Armstrong of the University of Utah all are to be congratulated on the fine manner In which this important national athletic I 1 i vt '- -i 'I I 7ings ture "It's antiquated" said Corsi '"Why it goes way corace to 192S" This week held hearings on minimum wages for the beauty parlor industry a Be -- heard beautician testify: The lifeepan of beauticians is 23 years less than in other pro-fessions" Why is that'" asked the commissioner The beautician explained: "Because we work with women" Sports Dept: Ira Gerahwin alw ays bets the long shots when he tjrackto vittth the ratnceosthHe went to the inveterate long-shplayer Cershwin kiouzht a 12:ticket on a 100-toot -1 shot His friend bought a $2 ticket on a shots his friend suggested just 'Ira" before the race began "I'll make a deal with you If my horse wins I give you half If your 50-to- -1 horse wins you give me hsdf" "Oh no" Gershwin res- thsoned "Since my horse is twice that yours is you're entitled only to if my horse wins" Publicity Dept: Sir Laurence Olivier who was knighted recently was asked to make an American tour Olivier turned it down because of film commitments in England ''But you'd clean up in America" the star was assured "Now's the time to cbtasehn Tecoein all the publicity you've in the states—the success of your 'Henry V' the success of your Old Vic run the one-four- th - e t i i Graziano did" Mistake — Nat Perrin the screenwriter sat In Ftomanoff's with a New York businessman who whispered: "I think that blonde In the corner is ogling me" Perrin turned and noticed the lady She was sitting in a booth apparently alone A few minutes later the business- man repeated: "I still think she's trying When the man repeated this a third time Perrin left the table and walked rethe other booth Then he past turned and the busineI misssman asked: "Well Nat "I'll say you were" taknT Perm reported "She's not alone She's with Clark Gable" 8 At that we'd sooner entrust the world to this year's grad than to his father who took over in peg-to- p pants bulldog shoes a porkpie hat and a mandolin ' w tii i t 4 !' ! t t i hii i is ' -' 4—---'-- ra -- t i' i 1111 t " 1i 4 - leAIIP empetni MIMIC AND 'AIM'S i : '4-- k )1sa 111 - Il 1 e 1 illt4 e - 0 t 6 '' - -'-- ''''' ) 11i i 1 ‘' f w0° ' '' - t '- - 1 ''''':----4 - 1 s '"gb ? 101 1 - 00)3 )11k10:: — 4 - i "4 Rcer1to4Nim4 1 4' VINOICAVIr aniumwmbo t production of eggs milk poultry butter or cheese In butter and cheese our reserves are not too good You can tee plainly this nation is not going to have enough to give Europe much unless we start stinting ourselves Indeed in PAUL MALLON OBSERVES Food Situation Looks Dim for Aiding Europe Ue S cani the administration farm experts are getting ready to urge Mr Truman to undertake some kind of campaign to cut down American consumption of foodstuffs He may wait until later in the year when the crop prospects are more definitely established but there is every indication here that the administration will embark on a national dieting campaign in connection with its European relief efforts Now you frequently read that the exportations of Ameri-i can foodstuffs is what has driven prices up That la hardly true Wholesale prices of farm products have not gone up much at least not nearly as much as retail prices in the stores Retail prices are loftier out of line because of the increased cost of labbr particularly The grocer wet So we may not have enough corn for ourselves and cannot now look forward to sparing much for the continent There will be plenty of rice We will ship much of that But a peculiar situation makes the rt meat possibilities vague Foreign buyers have been contacting supply agents here quietly the past few weeks and have made future are purchases Their contracts to disconsubject however tinuance by the administration of export controls Only such amounts as the government releases will go abroad That is one reason for the recent price increase of beef (the excess of commitments) Pork stlpply is short We had a heavy loss in spring pigs caused both by weather and disease Throughout the midwest the young pigs and sows died Furthermore the young sows did not produce well They rarely do All in all then pig supplies are going to be low will Fruits and vegetables some mostly be plentiful and inexcess lines we will have an need have created just about an Insoluble situation We are trying to put a peg in an abyss Our crop prospects are good but not anywhere near good enough Our wheat outlook is bumper but in a way it is all sold We will have ample for ourselves and the rest (perhaps billions of bushels) will go to supply-and-expo- Europe But our carryover frotn last year is one of the smallest on record The average year holdover runs from 150 to 300 million bushels whereas we have only a little over 75 million So our normal bin is about half empty On the other hand our spring planting of corn has suffered dismal destruction from the rain and cold The corn belt particularly Iowa has been so thor- oughly saturated with moisture that farmers even yet cannot get into some of their fields for replanting This condition runs through Illinois Indiana Wisconsin Missouri ohio Kansas and Nebraska according to the experts who have been out over the ground We had a late spring in the first place Planting was delayed"rhen came the I I I I 1 I writers' cramp from answering all the messagesI found await-i- n me on the S S America I got one from as far east as Co- lumbia Pa "We had a grand voyage — weather good—sea calm and a very sociable crowd on board I found everyone at home well and conditions fairly good The weather could be better "I hope you and the Miasma have been well Have a cigar on the Clan Maguire "Cordially yours ‘ adding in his labor bill Wholesale prices of hogs and cattle are up only a little on the exof changes although the prices steaks and pork chopa are up tremendously The price of wheat is actually down a little from what it was although a couple of days back It started up again Certainly the price of corn will firm and probably grow higher as a result of the weatesituation Indeed if you count the average of all the commodities destined for your table this year the price is not likely to go down for the rest of this year and may go higher —Patrick Maguire" The City's Crown a city great? Huge makes What piles of stone Heaped heavenward? Vast MUItitudes who dwell Within wide circling walls? True glory dwells where glorious deeds are done Where great men rise whose names athwart the dusk of misty centuries gleam like the sun! So may the city I love be great Till every stone shall be articulate —William ID Foulke Notes on the Cuff Department Judd Chamberlain district governor Lions club Ely Nev has invited us officially and personally to attend the Ely stampede sponsored by the club July 4 5 and 6 Attorney General Grover Giles is scheduled as the principal sspeaker at thwilelJubley Alathn celebration That added inducement to dour acceptance 'second only to our I--1 n u there again Stan Tracy of the FBI sent me a copy of the book "The of the I' 13 I" by the ediStory tors of Look magazine It contains a lot of interesting and instructive reading Sometime ago I ran an item by an insurance actuary pub- - E4 LAZ" b- - t 1 I I tt I A 1:1 P 46) k f t I t i 1 1 1 1 1 I t t t 0 c 1 LI EIG rl1 a rk'11bLi ) ') -- 00 1 n 1 I 4 u - El i i 1 t 1 1 ril Ei 10170-- I - D 11 1 it 1 1 s ' 000001 - 1 t I t -- ---- I 11 11 t 1 Et effmamb- - I I 1 7 )o 1 1 I I any type flooring' I A004MOM z V V 11 I GOED 11 3Ecara POLISHING SELF I EC) 0 fr: 41L t kw) FinlosdowisAif GOLD IsSEAL 10 I 14 k -- 1 1 s t of 1 - I t6 rat ttl3 L2 osyst Pair Tro4o4 71e GOID SEAL COMPANY s -- 1 - Just spread GOLD SEAL SELF POLISHING FLOOR WAX on than 20 minutes you'll have a your floor Then relax! In less gleaming finish that's tough- durable and antislip Use on 11 ? d r cialipmnt - ! f ment I 1 v I t E-2- - - 1 - i —00 I Fit- vl ! moreover concentrates in the hands of the board's general counsel almost all but the board's strictly judicial pow era This official who must also be named anew will have the :greatest single concentration of unchallenged authority over any sphere of American economic life of any man in the govern - - - — 1 O 1 1 - 1 I offic - 1 I otkr -- I I and i ' i 1 1 AP 9 6 Li ' 11 -4 - 1 I I A 2zffu - P- n n't 0 Ni i I r u t 11 ra rm r-- r—: cl I We have a fine supply of 1 ! " 7 p ' desire to see old friends over 7:7117217a II ! chosen The bill -- nn rA U I I 1 1 t I T1 ward Walker sent me It had to do with the number of catI tle hogs sheep chickens and the amount of grain fruits and vegetables a man would consume by the time he reached the age of 70 The figures were colossal First off Fin Petrie columnist for the Kemmerer Gazette re marked that at today's prices a guy would be broke before he reached 35 Dick Hart got interested enough to attempt to break He found down the figures that of meat alone a man would have to consume six pounds per The average family would 'day use 20 pounds At a price of gay 75c per pound (a bit high I'd say) the cost per family The would be $15 per day includes fish oysters poundage I shrimp etc not included in the original estimate) "Four hundred fifty dollars per month for the average family for meat to say nothing of milk eggs butter etc! Phooey on actuaries!" says Dick f ! -- Is wri of the heart—Byron Much Obliged Folks! About a month ago Rev Patrick Maguire sailed for Ireland to visit his family He had told me what a thrill it was to receive mail right after the boat pulled out so I suggested that we his friends give him a big thrill by response for he writes as follows: "Dear Ham: I am getting I 1 fly IIAM PARK There is no instinct like that I i No chance of depressupply sion in these items can tie seen Nor will there be any excesses SENATOR FROM SANDPIT i even-befor- At this point again by the president's order a much wider range of consultation was - 1 substantial majority of the cabinet favored a veto Indeed the only cabinet members who actively urged signing the bill were Secretaries Forrestal of the navy and Snyder of the treasury All others either advocated a veto or like Secretary of State Marshall held aloof from an issue that did not concern them Political factors were of course carefully weighed by the president himself and his political advisers But the real clincher is understood to have been a warning to the president from Secretary of the Interior Julius Ai Krug that signing the bill might precipitate and certainly would not halt a coal strike at the end of this month The president'j view was that the country wanted a labor bill that would "stop strikes"' that the present bill had been peddled with this promise and that if it would not prevent a coal strike there was no excuse for IL Thus the president resolved his great dilemma in favor of the veto Preparation of the veto message itself had meanwhile begun in the office of the president's able legal counsel Clark e Clifford the president's mind was fully made up- To this wls added by the president's preparation of the speech to the country Finally the president concluded that he ought personally to intervene to try to persuade the eertate to sustain him Thus the call was Issued for the White House lunch of Democratic) senators These activities have so occupied the president and his staff that It is reliably understood no to thought has yet been given the battles next phase — the choice of men to implement the new law Two additional members of the labor board must be tion On this oecaston however he ordered his staff to commence a detailed analysis of the Hartley bill the day it was dropped into the hopper in the house and to do the same for the Taft bill when it was offered in the senate These staff studies of the work of the house and senate continued to be made throughout the whole period until the conference committee of the two chambers reached agreement bill wanagd thkreowifTal iorm of the ' - - i14- -- 't ' ' - ''' z- 01 - 1( Al I '' - - i 1I th - re- - 1: ij A '' e!s 1 1f - - - : 41 I --4 i - r''''' trbJ eAr ‘tt - : - '°'''''4- ' ''- It '-' I tiOME 11N ) 'hr litre - ft -- ' t T will desire to appoint administrators sympathetic to the problems of organized labor The senators will be reluctant to confirm administrators suspected of any lack of sympathy with management And thus the battle is likely to continue perhaps with mounting force and bitterness Judging by the president's record on the labor issue to date the senate imust be prepared to combat an unusual measure of quiet doggedness persistency and methodical determination in the White House The stages by which the president reached his decision to veto the result of five months of congressional travail may be said to cast a new light on his character and working habits As his message on the state of the union disclosed Truman was aware from the first that the labor issue was immeasurably the most important domestic issue that would confront him during this session In the period of his inexperience he had a way of dealing with such issues without much careful prepara- Oa ' :! '' 41111164----- - - ' - - IL-- :t T 7 I: based on voluminous opinions from the labor department and N L R B But these reports were by no means decisive' Prior to the final decision the cabinet was consulted as the president's newly established and important custom is Contra ry to earlier expectations a Thsenators ' "'' 4 41- - lf111 ---- - Or e 1 1) I )--L 11 11) ii ) '''''''-- : I II if i ‘ i PO i t i I I — - film prize you won That's a lot of publicity" "Quite true It Is" Olivier replied "I got almost as much publicity at Rocky fly LEONARD LYONS :i It NEW meet was conducted THE LYONS DEN Labor Dept: Li Corsi the New York state industrial commiludcmer will spend the summer in New York conducting for the revision of the states numimumn wage struc- ) ND cHELTER5 p LANS MI wft I i law any fool can foresee bitter 11( uATOMIietatc DOME) N adopted The bill as reported from the conference committee was sent to the justice labor and interior departments and to the National Labor Relations board for criticism in minute detail The president's assertions in his veto menage that the bill was unworkable and unfairto the labor unions were disagreement between the president who prepared last week's powerful veto message and the srtit 1 ti A Pt1L g I WASHINGTON — The labor battle is by no means over just because the senate has overridden the president's veto The administration of any law is EtS important as its language And when it comes to choosing administrators of the new labor HAvEter you LEFT our 1 A' 4 1 1 1 - I t - I J ' I itI Centennial Track Meet Wins Hiol tn Praise ital" These words of caution are needed by many persons other than bankers in this state and surrounding areas They are spoken by it"man who regards industry and the future with I I 1 1 ' and exclude rival concerns from privileges conferred Should it pass the president would have to veto the entire plan or approve the OW -- 41 ' I I I realistic eyes They are not discouraging but precautionary Whenever some impatient individual raises his voice to deplore delays In and v6FL indignation because the industrial millenium has not arrived let him recalythiz timely admonition of Mr liathesiuS ' Although most bankers are men who can safely be classified aa conservatives and cautious individuals it occurred to President Walther Mathesius of the Geneva Steel company that a few words of warning might not be amiss when be addressed the Utah Bankers' association the other day After pointing out the undoubted advantages of Utah's new steel industry to the economic structure of the interountalz area and the almost inevitable development of other industries as a result of its establishment Mr Mathesius saki: "It will behoove all of us to guard against hasty and false optimism regarding the proper time eleraent for the establishment of fabricating plants in these Intermountain states What we shall need most of all is carefully reasoned patience 'It is true" he continued "that there is a fair tonnage of steel being sold in the intermountain area however from a market standpoint it is an area which still remains largely potential and must pass through considerable development industrial expansion and population growth to provide a sufficiently large demand close to home whereby to utilize the bulk of the output of the" Geneva steel plant For the tear future the continuing steel shortage not only in the western states but in steel allies generally will act as a definite hindrance to the establishment of fabricating plants in the intermountain area The steel shortage would not only affect the ability of a company to secure steel for the erection of a plant and the acquisition of equipment it also would seriously impede the company's efforts to obtain steel stocks for use in the fabricating operations Thus for the time being the Pacific coast is still the primary market which must be reached economically by Geneva Steel company if the Geneva plant is to rnsiintain operations at a high enough rate to earn a reasonable return on invested cap- i 7 1 by The Salt Lake Tribune's Washington reau An influential opponent of Representative William A Dawson's bill to increase the acreage of public lands leased to a single applicant offered to accept the bill provided ceramendments were intain harmless-lookin- g serted The effect of these interpolations would be to favor Henry J Kaiser's companies favorable attitude toward reformation as follows: "With a momentous veto decision confronting Mr Truman in the shape of the labor union control bill the president must under the constitution either reject the measure in whole or accept it in whole Some students of government have felt that this should be changed—that the president should have the power to pick out parts of bills for disapproval especially in the case of appropriation bills" Explaining that the agitation was not new and that the general public has had a chance to consider the advantage of such an amendment the dispatch from Princeton concludes in these words: "Opinion on the matter of vetoing parts of bills was tested once before In 1945 During that year's congressional session Senator Arthur H Vandenberg of Michigan proposed to allow the president to veto parts of appropriation bills His proposal died In committee but an institution poll at the time found the public for it by a very substantial majority" Such an amendment would have a tendency 1I to discourage p rof es sio na I lobbyists to strengthen support of desirable reforms and to obviate a periodical threat of filibustering Dynamite could be eliminated from innocent appearing measures without destroying the entire structure by adoption of such an amendment It would simplify legislation and eliminate a lot of lobby pressure if an amendment to the federal constitution could be secured requiring separation of subjects covered by a bill and permitting a veto on each objectionable topic treated Under existing conditions when a pressure i - I As a result of a recent appraisal of public opinion the Gallup investigators reported a two-thir- ds I 1 :it c "stinger" two-thir- ds I ' bu- branches of the government legThe federal constitution provides in subdi1 that every bill 7 article 2 section of rision which shall have passed both houses of congress must be submitted to the president: if he approve and sign it the bill is recorded as a law if it be returned without his signature accompanied by his objections it cannot become a law without being passed by a majority in each house of congress Failure of the chief executive to act within ten days after a bill has been sent to him from congress makes it a law as much as it would be with his signature attached One defect in the article of the constituton quoted is the failure to give a president power to veto objectionable features of a bill without being obliged to accept it fully or to veto it This is a matter partially taken care of in the constitution of the state of Utah which says: "If any bill presented to the governor contains several items of appropriations of money he may object to one or more such items while approving other portions of the bill" Items thus rejected will not be included in the law unless they are submitted to a vote and passed over the veto by a majority" I ' ( group despairs of causing the defeat of a worthy measure calculated to correct some flagrant abuse an expert lobbyist may succeed in having an innocent phrase or clause insertect the effect of which will nullify some purpose of the act or hamper its enforcement of this method of - ' a left One defiant member of the lower house of congress went to extremes in denouncing the presidential veto He called the act an invasion ef the legislative domain and suggested impeachment proceedings However much one may sympathize with the gentleman in contemplating the fate of the remedy proposed is does not include plirighnient of the chief executive This is one of several contingencies not contemplated by members of the constitutional convention who deliberated the problems of earlier days during the summer of 1787 in rtiladelphia Although 21 amendments have been adopted since ratification of that immortal instrument nothing has been done to harmonize relations between executive and Bitter Split Looms on Choice Of New Labor Law Aids Utah Executive Right to Veto Parts of a Bill Would Simplify Enactment of Laws - ALSOP BROTHERS NOTE -- 11-- 1 1 tismarck N D it Minnsapolisi 2 Minn Chicago 2 CL 1 11 - 4 to- i ' I t- ) - ill - -? 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