OCR Text |
Show - TIIE BULLETIN Bruckart s Washington Digest Legislation Against Chain Stores Will Come Up Again WHOS THIS WASHINGTON. The politician who is a demagogue the fellow who has nothing on the ball and gets into politics on his gift for gab always must have a bogie man, a hobgoblin. There must always be an immediate threat, like the sword of Damocles, hanging over the L heads of the dear If the political demagogue doesnt have that sort of thing, he is utterly lost, because usually he can not talk about fundamental issues. The favorite bogie man of fellows like former Sen. Tom Heflin was Wall Street." Day after day, ole Tom would drag Wall Street onto the floor of the senate and shake the gizzard out of it. There were others like Tom and there were other hobgoblins. The chain stores, for a number of years, were the meat and drink of this demagogue and many an otherwise punk got elected to office because he could talk for 10 hours about the evils of the chain stores. We always have had our trust busters, the baiters of corporations. One bogie dies and another takes its place and the thing goes on until presently one of the old and and almost forgotten bogie boys is brought to life again. As plans take shape, it appears that the country is going to be told again about the evils of the chain stores. There is going to be an attempt to legislate them out of existence. Many a shout will ring out on the floors of the senate and house about the danger to the independent store operator, the man at home. The bQl, whatever form it takes or whatever it proposes to do, will serve as a vehicle for a shouting mob of representatives and senators. As usual, they will offer ' no new argument, but they will send copies of their speeches back home and make a great howdy-d- o over themselves. pee-pu- pre-sessio- n lem that destruction of chain stores will raise retail prices of the things they sell by as much as 20 per cent. Who is going to pay that? You and I and everyone who buys for consumption. If I can get my cigarettes at I am not going to pay 15 cents. So, if congress or the state legislatures find it necessary to protect the independent, that policy should be adopted. But the extreme position of taxing them out of existence or destroying them some other way is utterly silly. It is, as I said earlier, rather like cutting off my nose to spite my face and I have a beak of which no one could be very proud! This chain store bogie man is just another of the many that are used by politicians to build up themselves. Once before, in these columns, I expressed the hope that some time I would like to see an honest politician. I think it would be refreshing to all of us. I heard lately, too, of a movement against those people who sell direct to the consumers. There are certain types of them that ought to be locked up. Most of them, however, have a legitimate product and they are making that product to sell to consumers. The movement that is now said to be spreading has evolved into what is called the Green River ordinance," a municipal law which is designed to prevent canvassers. any Should Give Thought to General National Policy Because of this prospect and the existence of several other things like it, there ought to be some thought given to the question of a general national policy. In other words, I am of tiie opinion that the congress and the several state legislatures ought to keep their feet on the ground instead of jumping off the deep end when there is no boat in which to ride. I see no profit in cutting off my nose just to spite my face. There is just as little sense to that as selling out to the "vested interests." There is something to the argument in favor of regulation of great chains of stores. It can be truthfully said that they exert a lot of pressure on the independent. They house-to-hou- Problem of Separating Crooks From Hones t People Now, there may be sound reasons for a city council to bar anybody from selling direct. At the moment, I do not know of any. Yet, according to the reports received by the federal trade commission, there was a small town out in Wyoming which actually convicted some boys from the neighboring farms and sentenced them to jail because they violated the city law, by selling direct to the householders in the town. That town ought to have a very red face, it seems to me. I said that there were certain types of canvassers ought to be barred. I refer to the racketeers who scour the country in crews, selling this or that or the other; who are here today and gone tomorrow, and who many times leave a wake of dishonest dealings, insults and ometimes plain thievery. Of course, there ought to be. punishment of that type. But why punish the honest ones by placing them in the same category as the crooks. The problem becomes one of separating the crooks from the legitimate people, but your demagogue will not do that, whether that demagogue be a member of congress, a member of the state legislature or a member of the city council. He would not be able to bleat so long if he attempted to analyze the real situation. This "Green River ordinance" hysteria is being promoted by some outfit which, it appears from the federal trade commission Information, goes from town to town and operates campaigns for passage of such a law. Those fellows make money out of their campaigns. The local merchants pay the bill. For the life of me, I can not see where they are any better than the agents of the direct sellers whom they are seeking to prohibit, because the agents make a profit. ' I must correct that last statement. The agents of the direct sellers are different. Usually, especially the legitimate agents,, live in towns in their territory and pay their taxes and buy their human needs there. The promoters run the campaign, take their profit and scoot. AH Factors in Situation deny this, of course, and answer that there is no pressure. Their statement may be true insofar as it may mean that the chain store has made no calculated plan to drive the independent out of existence; Yet, their very bigness is, of itself, a pressure because they can buy in larger quantities and obtain lower cost prices than the individual who buys a few cases of canned goods at a time. When they buy at lower prices prices, they can sell at lowerhimself and the independent finds hard put to meet the competition. That sort of thing happens in every community where chain stores are in operation. It will continue to happen, because there is not a man nor a woman who will say honestly that he or she will pay a higher price simply because the store at home is owned by somebody who is a local citizen. I am old fashioned about it. I will go to a chain store many, many times, because I save money. It is my money that I am spending and I am going to get the most for it that I can. The fellow who owns a local Need Careful Consideration store is in business to make a profit I suppose that some of the things and I am willing that he shall have I have said in this analysis of a na-- . a profit, provided he can give me tional problem will make me as pop-the same value for what I spend as ular as a skunk with some local indedoes some other store. If the pendent runs his store in a slipshod way, fails to manage his affairs efficiently and thus has to have higher prices, I see no reason why I should be the goat. To me, the situation is exactly the same as if d both competing stores were and one of them gave better values. home-owne- State Regulation of Chain Stores Can Be Accomplished If the chain stores are abusing sole- their power, a power they have conly because they are big, the surely gress and the several states can be ought to take notice. There sane regulation of them. They can be made to correct any abuses, but I can not find any legitimate excuse for destroying them. I am in the role of a consumer, and every consider that his legislator ought to constituents are consumers and that they must be given consideration. I have been told by men in the government whom I believe have ageneral understanding of the prob- : er EW YORK. Prevailing fashions in iron men make us proud Mf our own model. We cite big, smiling, durable Gabby Hartnett, bat- ting .296 over a Gahhy Is Our period of 16 Own Model of years, with a high of .354, An Iron Man only dropping three pop flies in all that time and still pegging the ball to second with no letdown in machine-gu- n speed and precision. Phil Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, ups him $5,000 r conin a $27,500 tract, for his eighteenth season with the Cubs. He's growing grsy over the ears, but this department is ready to lay a bet that hell still be In his catchers armor after the overseas Iron men have been sent to the showers, even U they are batting 1.000 at this moment. Hes a marvelous handler of pitchers, with a laugh that eases tension and keys down nerves. At Woonsocket, L. I., where he grew up, he was Charles Leo, name long since lost. It was in 1922 that he signed for what looks like a lifetime stretch, as a rookie catcher for the Cubs. se player-manage- HR. OLIVER CROMWELL CAR-- L MICHAEL lives up to his name. At the conference of southern busi- ness leaders at Atlanta, the chancel-lor of Vanderbilt Dr. Carmichael university cries Cries Down Yen down the yen ioT wcurity as For Security "the goal of stagnation and defeat" With grim Cromwellian tenacity, he has been shoving this home for years. Dr. Carmichael says "security" is fundamentally at war with sound economics. He is a native of Goodwater, Ala., a Rhodes scholar from the University of Alabama. A HARD-BOILE- bantam-weig- D, cod-liv- er By LEMUEL F. PARTON ht British newspaper man was assigned to a colonels staff in the World war. The colonel was He temptuous. Warns England tossed the n handcomer a Sweeping Syria. Is Vital Need Take that he said,' "and study it You might be able to digest it in six months." "Perhaps I can," said the scrivener. "It took me only three months to write it That was gamey little Leopold e see reporter S. Amery, for the London Times, later a cabinet member, now patting his steel spars to Mr. Chamberlains "appessement" the reciprocal trade treaty and all deals with the dictators. He says, "Yon might as well try to please a tortoise by stroking Its back." In parliament, he has been for many years the leader of the diehard conservatives. He is against any social fixings or trimmings whatsoever, and, having been, like Kipling, a reporter in India, is for the old empire formula without any modifications. The son of a poor civil servant In India, he scrambled through Oxford by snagging every scholarship in sight. He went to parliament and in 1922 became secretary of the admiralty. Later, as colonial secretary, he swarmed aU over the empire, making fluent orations in Syrian, Arabic, Turkish, French, Italian and German. In Cambridge he had confounded his elders by his gift of tongues. He Is a bitterender who says Der Fuehrers big hones arent going to ran over him. He has been a prophet of doom and has waned England against meeting a crisis by sweeping the dost under the rag. makes it valuable to the baby's health. A generation ago, cod-livoil was given to children in the fat butter fat, did not. More rewinter time, to build them search work was necessary before it waa discovered that while butup" after colds or various ter was rich in vitamin A, other respiratory illnesses. It oil contained two vitamins, was not until 1921, however, one of which was later named that a long series of painstak- vitamin D. Effect of Sunlight ing investigations, terminatMore work was necessary and vitaof in the discovery ing took years of patient effort bemin D, made it clear that it fore science unraveled the myscod-livoil is valuable as a tery of how sunlight could have source of vitamin D, and also the same apparent effect in preoil. as why this vitamin is essential venting rickets Once nutritionists understood in the diet of growing chil- how sunlight acting on a fatty subdren, as well as adults. stance in the skin could produce er cod-live- r er er Questions Answered Miss G. M. L. Yes, it is true vitamin D, however, it was not Discovery of Vitamin D sweet potatoes contain a that After years of patient work and difficult to carry the process small amount of protein. In fact, how fortito and learn exfurther and dramatic step many thrilling seven periments, forms of vitamin D have been revealed by seienee. And scientists have also solved the mystery of how such widely separated f aetors as eod-liv- oil; er sun- light; a diet that Is rich in, and carefully balanced with ealeinm and phosphorus ; and ultraviolet light, all can perform the same service for the body. Readers of this column may have observed that the discovery of a number of the vitamins came about chiefly through the efforts of investigators to discover a method of treating or curing obscure nutritional diseases. In most Instances, however, carefully controlled laboratory experiments flayed-theipart in reaching the ultimate goal after some clue had been found as to what the mysterious substance might be that helped to control a baffling nutritional disease. The discovery of vitamin D was no exception I new-Clea- one-tim- r fy foods with a satisfactory content of vitamin D. Today we have at our disposal irradiated milk, or milk to which a vitamin D concentrate has been added. Margarine, too, has been enriched not only with vitamin D, but with vitamin A so that this moderate-price- d spread for bread has been made an effective vitamin carrier. Natural Food Sources of Vitamin D The richest natural sources of vitamin D are the oils, including the liver-oi- l of the tuna, swordfish, rock fish, salmon, halibut, mackerel, cod and haddock. The body oils of many fish also furnish substantial amounts. That accounts for the fact that canned salmon has been regarded as such a splendid food in the diet of children and adults. It is not only a good source of protein and of energy values, but it contains substantial amounts of the minerals! calcium, phosphorus and iodine, and has been found to be an unusually good food source of vitamin D. contains small Egg yolk amounts of vitamin D, and when their protein is composed of four amino acids known to be essential to nutrition. Some of the protein may be lost if the potato is boilech but it is entirely preserved when the potato is cooked by dry heat. Mrs. M. B. Both cooked lentils and baked kidney beans contain! over 20 per cent of carbohydrate. Low carbohydrate vegetables In chide cabbage, celery, cauliflower,1 lettuce and spinach. , WNU Ce Houston Ooiidl -- 1M 4X B fish-liv- er . i The Tallest Tree The claim as to the whereabouts of the tallest tree in the world is now officially set tied. Records of the United States forestry service at San Franciscd showed the worlds loftiest tree U located in California. Government computations fixed the height ef the record holder, a Sequoia lit Humboldt State park, at 364 feet. Unconfirmed reports, circulated for several years, told of Australian eucalyptus trees 400 to 50d feet talL World forestry statist tics, however, limit the highest known eucalyptus to 325 feet. Cleveland Plaindealer. long-dispute- d Vitamin D end Rickets D is associated Vitamin Inti- mately with the prevention and cure of rickets, the most devastating nutritional disease of children in temperate climates. Indeed, it is the moderate, and in some cases the small amount of sunshine In the temperate zone that accounts partially for the presence ef rickets. Historians have given us reason to believe that this disease may have existed in England even before the Roman conquest. Certainly it appeared in a serious form, both in England and in other North European countries, in the Seventeenth century. In fact, early literature refers to it as the English disease, and the early attempts to fathom its causes were written hi Latin by English and Dutch doctors during the 1600s. In rickets, the childs head grows large and out of proportion to the body, while the leg and arm bones, and In severe cases even the ribs, are bent and twisted oat of their normal shape. Need for Calcium and Phosphorus The two principal minerals required for constructing the bones and teeth are calcium, obtained chiefly from milk, cheese and green leafy vegetables, and phos- phorus, found in generous amounts in eggs, whole grain cereals and dried legumes. But one of the things that made it so difficult for scientists to determine the cause of rickets was the fact that apparently well fed children, who had plenty of calcium and phosphorus, frequently developed the disease. Mystery of Cod Liver Oil oil had been used for many years because of its sup- posedly "tonic" or "building properties, when it was observed that regular doses of oil not only cured rickets in children, but also cured the corresponding disease in adults, called osteomalacia, in which the bones become soft as the calcium and phosphorus already deposited in them are withdrawn and excreted. Fat and Vitamin D One of the strangest paradoxes to the scientists In their early investigations was the fact that oil appeared to cure while rickets, another substance high in -- Cod-uv- er cod-liv- er CEVERAL months ago, the Nazis expelled George Grosz froxn the realm. He had beaten them to it by about six years. Just now, he gets American citizenship. He was a savage and ironic cart caturist who had raised many blisters on sundry Nazi hides before he made his getaway. While he is a certified Aryan, he was an outstanding candidate far a concentration camp and was shrewd enough to see what was coming. When be landed here in 1932, to teaeh at the Art Students league, there was a row In the league, but President John Sloau defended him as "one at the greatest of modern artists," and here he Is, painting happily and everything Is gemeutlich. He has given up caricature and lets the world go by. His paintings are hung in many good galleries, and he has a nice home in Queens, where, with his wife and two children, he says he enjoys his exile tremendously. CoeaoHitetrd Ntwi Faaturcc. WNU Barvica. er fish-liv- er cod-liv- Vitamin D Requirements important is vitamin D considered, that the United States Children's Bureau advises that oil or some other form of this vitamin be supplied to all abies, beginning at the age of two or three weeks. Mothers should be guided by the advice of their physician in determining when to start the use of a vitamin D preparation and what quantities to give. But if they want to give their babies the blessing bestowed on them by the scientists who discovered vitamin D, they must not overlook this important substance. As guardians of the health of both children and adults, mothers should see to it that vitamin D is supplied regularly through the use of eggs and salmon; irradiated foods and those fortified with vitamin D; and if necessary, oils or concentrates. So By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS a mother of a young baby today who THERE isat scarcely one time or another been told to give her child cod-livoil. Perhaps she does not know this substance must be given to the baby for the vitamin D that it contains. But oil which she has heard that there is something in cod-liv- WEEK WNU Sendee, National eaten regularly, the quantity is enough to have a significant effect in the diet of children. C. Houston Goudlss Asks How Do You Get Your Vitamin D? Relates Need for and Sources Of This Necessary Vitamin NEWS Danger to Independent Store Operator Will Be Theme of Discussion; Question of General National Policy Needs Thought; Sane Regulation Is Possible. By WILLIAM BRUCKART Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WHAT to EAT and WHY cod-liv- er fashion, topped by a short little tuxedo jacket. You can wear the skirt with your own blouseSL or just with the Jacket, so that youll find It very useful. See how tiny it makes your waist look, and notice the cute, crescent-shape- d pockets. Very simple to makey like all styles. Choose tweed,- wool crepe, plaid or flannel. The Patterns. No. 1641 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 remaquires 4 yards of two-pie- ce - 39-in- ch terial. No. 1646 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 remaquires 314 yards of 54-in- ch terial with long sleeves. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept, 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Frandscct Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins! each. Sn Byadlcete. something brand new and smart, to cheer you up y time during the when you feel a little Here are two of the very smartest things you can wear, both just as pretty and new as they can be I And theyre so easy to make that youll enjoy doing it, and ef course youll save, decidedly, by choosing your own fab. after-holida- let-dow- WNU Service. SALT LAKE'S REWEST HOSTELRY Oar lobby le ScUghtfaffy air ceeteddarlagtbei Rteb hr every 2, 200 a rics. Each pattern is accompanied by a detailed sew chart. Soft Afternoon Dress. This is a lovely design, very smart and new. It does very nice things to your figure. The wide girdle makes you look the gathered bodice fills out your bustline, and the full skirt is extremely graceful. The high neckline is scalloped to make it softer and more becoming. In velvet, silk crepe, satin, or thin wool, this will be one of the prettiest afternoon dresses you ever owned! Saspeader Skirt With Jacket. doll-waist-e- d, Heres a perfectly charmin; new princess skirt, in suspender HOTEL Temple Square St.SOte $24)0 Seen haa e Tm,Ii fcMh WUf Mnkb, ilee. wUI always ftetl Rlenee-latfkmTM fartetili. aaj aval, haraahly agraaetla Yee eao tt Hates The Betel e, fan Bail why thle hate! let HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Yee eea elae eyytaaiate why tfs a mart ef riillttllet to Mali ml IMi SmomtHwl IRNEST C heetehy ROSSITER, Mgr. the advertisements in jour paper regularly. find extraordinary values from time to time, in all the hundred and one things that make houses more attractive. READ Your budget will cover the improvements you want to make if you plan your buying with the news of bargains as a guide. Read the advertisements. - |