Show Fair Enough g ttteracwrdm Entered at the postofflc at Ogden Utah a secondAssociated Press United of Congreas March 8 1879 Member of The Press NEA Service and A B O Bubscription price $100 per month $1200 per year to the use for The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled credited in this paper otherwise not or to it credited ot aii n8WB dispatches and also the local news to Act P1 --- — —-——-- --- FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 24 1945 Neighbors Know Quisling Old Ed Howe the Atchison editor was always saying obthat the best estimate of a person's character could betheir tained from the person's neighbors Neighbors know their behavior at neighbors for what they are by observing fairly close range day after day We were thinking about this as we read about Vidkun Quisling Quisling as he faces a treason trial in Norway offers arguments in defense of each of his acts performed while he was puppet premier of Norway for the Hitler reglTne Norwegians however who knew Quisling before in the years the occupation and lived under his nazi regime labthe Germans dominated the country are is in deep ors We believe therefore Mr Quisling as to very was who trouble He made a terribly wrong guess the shooting was enderl gaing to be top side after all made a wrong guess Had he Laval was another who of the heap in been right he would be sitting at the top France today instead of in a jail cell awaiting trial On the other hand 1iere is DeGaulle who refused to cease fighting when the then bosses of France gave up and of character including persistence by reason of his strength is in Washington as spokesman for the new France wuis Men Wanted and Women Too of Overcome by an investigative desire we inquired the local manpower commission office as to what was hapthe working man and pening in their jurisdiction sinceand could rustle himself woman ceased to be regimented a job without reference to the employment office or that for certificate of availability We were told that the office unon a tag day— days has resemble a street in Glasgow usually quiet Yet the Ogden office has requests to provide personnel to fill 1800 jobs The coal dealers are frantically seeking men to help them deliver coal supplies All kinds of private enteremployers are seeking help and so are the public prises like the military depots In a day when the nation seems to be growing excited and layoffs Ogden continues to have an over acute shqrtatge of workers What about discharged veterans? Well the manpower veterans whether people have sent out cards asking the have moved into they want jobs A few have replied they retheir old positions but most of them don't send back are plies Perhaps they desire to loaf awhile Perhaps they rustling their own jobs 'Vj Some workers who have been placed on a 40 hours a week basis instead of the 48 which meant overtime payments for the eight hours above 40 have called to say e that the new basis means a significant cut in their e jobs to pay These were inquiring about part-timmake up the difference or a part thereof Some private employers have cancelled their orders for workers indicating that men and women are calling at the offices for work and the private employer has decided to be his own employment broker Or it could mean other things The manpower office people know more about employment conditions when all personnel matters are transacted through their office Our friends in the manpower office say it is alright with them if workers want to hustle their own jobs but they call attention to the fact the U S employment office is equipped to save them a lot of steps Applicants for work may examine the list of job openings at the manpower office before they start on their rounds They might discover some interesting opportunities As for the employers the office says it is trained to do a selecting job for the bosses who if they use the facilities won't have to sift out so many square pegs before they find those that fit the round holes cut-bac- ks I take-hom- First Chunk of Watermelon A L Christiansen our county agent devoured a chunk of Utah new crop watermelon at Hooper this week and therefore is in a position to state with considerable authority that the flavorsome Utah melon soon will be on the market Tomatoes are ripening a little later than normal with indications the that canning of this vitamin-plu- s product may get under way next week Early Elberta peaches probably will be available in some quantity the first week in September but the late variety will be at its best much later in that month Weber farmers don't go in for late potatoes on a large scale Their earlies have been marketed or are being held for a bounce upward in the market At a time when hay is in such good demand that it is being trucked to this locality from as far away as North Dakota we took a beating on our second crop chiefly on account of the frequent rains But these rains seem to have given the third crop a good start and they were of value in maintatining our pastures for our important dairy industry The beet crop hereabout is doing quite well thank you The onion crop is light On the eve of the opening of the canning season for late crops the industry received news of changes made by the military people The canners are informed that the government will not reserve nearly as much of the total pack as would have been the case had the war continued This means that a much larger share of the products of our canneries will be available to the general public For instance: In the case of tomatoes the government asks the canners to set aside 36 per cent of the total pack instead of the 63 per cent Uncle Sam had requested Our Utah carrot or western banana has taken a slump in military prestige Not long ago the government was crying for all the canners could pack into cans so appropriate contracts were made with the farmers Now the government wants less than half as much set aside as they were calling for recently The canners not the farmers however will take the beating on this item unless the general public can be induced to consume far more canned carrots than they have been accustomed to buy After the Holocaust Babson Advises Investors Believes Atomic Bomb to Aid Cause of Lasting Peace n By Westbrook Peg lex NEW YORK Aug 24— Twice in course of Ernest Bevin's general statement of the foreign policy of the new British labor government he compared Hitlerism with Stalthough in more delicate terms and found them equal "One thing we must aim at resthe olutely and that is to prevent substitution of one form of totalitarianism for another" he said early in the address And later discussing Bulgaria Romania and Hunaarv he said tithe imnression we get from recent developments is that one kind of totalitarianism is being replaced by another" For years in the United States this has been the opinion of those Americans who resisted the communist influence in our politics and even in the national government under Franklin D Roosevelt The similarity is apparent to every honest mind yet from 1933 onward and more aggressively since 1941 when Hitler attacked Russia our communists and those who had lost confidence in American capitalism during the long panic attacked the faith of Americans in their form of government with false representatives Asked to Befriend Russians We were asked to be friendly to the Russian people and to give them understanding even to the extent of ignoring the truth and adopting a system from which they were unable to budge even though they had been sufficiently enlightThe Russians ened to want to have never had any experience under freedom and to them the dictatorship of a small group of strong men ruling by force and terror but benignly as long as they obey probably does represent complete liberty Friendly for the Russian people of a sentimental kind based on good will and generosity rather than acquaintance which has been lacking did not require us to adopt any phase of their totalitarian system For reciprocity had that been so we might as well have required them to adopt free y elections under the system capitalism and freedom of religion and the press The Americans however made no such conditions We were tolerant enough to grant them the right to live on under a dictatorship or overthrow it if they could and that was their desire however the Always propaganda persisted that whoever in the United States opposed communism exposed the penetration of communists and their sympathizers in the Roosevelt party and the Roosevelt government and hammered away at the fundamental likeness of the German and Russian systems was a nazi or a fascist and an enemy of labor and progress V' via Referred to This Bevin referred to this also when he said "there is a tendency to extend those names to groups of people and parties who are neither nazi nor fascist but who simply want to be represented and are disliked by the majority parties who see the possibility of winning power and would like to deny those parties the opportunity to express their views in the elecinism Washington Merry-Go-Rou- nd Note: In Drew Pearson's ab- - discussion but Churchill remained sence Leon Henderson former completely silent OPA administrator and economic The Potsdam disagreement to re- adviser to General Eisenhower move excess machinery from the contributes a guest column) hr American-zon- e industrial regions aiso served to remove some of the By Leon Henderson WASHINGTON — Little news has Russian snsniHnn that the Rritish r escaped so far from the delibera would work for a strone Germany tions of the reparations commis- as a bulwark against bolshevism sion which met in Moscow several But another decision reversing weeks before the Potsdam Big the Moscow agreement mav sow Three conference supposedly to the seed of future conflict between settle what Germany is to pay It Russia and her allies Maisky is generally assumed that the Pots- Monckton and Pauley had agreed dam decisions on war booty res- to treat Germany reas a titution and reparations were gion for reparations single purposes based on the work done in Mos- When the delegations arrived at cow by the reparations commis- Potsdam however Luther Gulick sioners— Sir Walter Monckton for of Pauley's staff personally gath Great Britain Ivan Maisky for ered evidence that the Russians Russia and Ed Pauley for the were removing as war booty en- United States But as a matter of fact the Moscow conference though it formula of adopted an eight-poigeneral guidance did not arrive at agreed understanding on the most important topics So at Potsdame results were produced by g between Stalin Truman and Attlee rather than by weighing statistics and factsemThe Big Three decision did phasize the disarmament of Germany through removal of industrial machinery which was one of the excellent points in the Moscow formula And in the main both conferences fixed their attention on Germany's disarmament rather than seeking maximum reparations And both finally avoided the disastrous Versailles attempt to fix reparations in money terms although Maisky at the beginning of the Moscow conference did advert to the $20000000000 total discussed by" Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta Roosevelt had agreed to accept $20000000000 as a basis for tire plants nt high-grad- horse-tradin- French-British-Americ- giving the communist salute of the clenched fist A few days later Harold Laski the revolutionary and chairman of the labor party announced that Spain was a fascist "plague spot" which must be eliminated Now Bevin says "his majesty's government is not prepared to take any step which woud encourage civil war in that country"All of which recalls the story of the English office clerk who discovered his wife in infidelity with a burly neighbor but announced that he had horrible revenge He met the bounder in a pub and when the cad wasn't looking stuck his finger in his beer (Copyright 1945 by King Features Syndicate) non-combata- nt - THIS CURIOUS WORLD e like factories from Berlin Gulick wrote a hot report to Pauley who told Maisky that Russia by proceeding on a zone basis had destroyed the agreement The next day the Russians filed a memo to show that the United States had done the same thing in the Russian zone by grabbing laboratories and 1000 German scientists So the final Big Three settlement really partitions Germany into two administrative parts — a Russian zone in the east and a zone in the west The U S R R sphere of influence extends unchallenged from the Baltic to the Mediterranean while her three allies will have constant difficulty in harmonizing their aims The formal Moscow sessions began with the proposal by Maisky that the Yalta formula be followed This divided reparations into three parts— 56 per cent for Russia 22 per cent for the United States and 22 per cent for Great Britain with reductions for each to meet the approved claims of other allies (Keep in mind that France assesses her war damage at When Monckton and Monckton said conferred Pauley his government had instructed him to seek more than 22 per cent and that he had a factual memo to document the equity of the claim Pauley however told Monckton: "My answer is No' — I'm not going to finish this conference as low sewing-machin- an 00 man" Pauley had statistics to show that the U S had borne 60 per cent of the war's cost and he wanted a dollar value placed on all war booty and restitution already taken by the Russians and the French This argument in the end was dropped Russia in effect will get approximately $4000000000 worth of capital equipment removed from Germany which will give her roughly one-haof such reparations Forced Labor Ignored Neither at Moscow nor Potsdam was a decision reached on Russia's demand that Germany deliver part of her annual production for 10 years Nothing was said about the delicate question of forced labor to repair devastated areas Nor was a decision reached as to what the French the English and the Americans will actually get in the way of reparations Presumably these will be on the agenda of the council of foreign ministers at its meeting next month Ambassador Pauley is making a tour of the European capitals to explain the reparations agreements and his assistant on reparations Dr Isadore Lubin will return soon When Pauley gets back President Truman who was impressed with his work at Potsdam will prabably appoint the reparations ambassdor to the post of federal loan administrator London Economic Conference The way is now clear for staging an economic conference of united nations' members probably in London the first two weeks of October This conference stems directstature of ly from the increased the economic and social council of the united nations' organization agreed upon at San Francisco and the determination to proceed in advance of ratification of the charter to discuss troublesome economic matters together Will Clayton while ostensibly in London for the UNRRA conference quietly arranged the economic conference which will discuss removal of trade barriers trade policies cartels and commodity agreements The latter which Include international lf 1 ( AMP M MID-AI- 3 ( ' J SACUY CACXXO WAfOS&0C THE BIRD WAS KILLED ) )(NAR04YTONj SUFFERED A f WITH A TW£JLV£ R OHIO V jSflxy Cy AMD THE CT TRANSPORT Au I 4) J 4 &V&M GoKb § When-- race PROmirc DIAMONDS NEXT: How much is on the HORSES ARE OFF" Says FRED SBRILLI m MgAj "P'e BfjQ) AND AUSTRALIA THE WORLD?? GOLDFINCH It a billion? Aee Jersey m m I ments on sugar tin rubber etc are of extraordinary importance because in the past such under takings by governments really amounted to official cartels The ln- - inus the excess-proiittax could be 80 reduced against a 20 reduction in other taxes and yet all groups would be treated alike Unless congress very soon greattax ly reduces the excess-profimany industries will be obliged to shut down causing much unemploymentnowSurely the labor situabeen entirely changed tion has Already newspaper advertisements that heretofore asked for more employes are being pulled out of the papers while the "Jobs Wanted" columns have begun to increase Employers need no longer worry about the help situation but workers may well change their attitude-Iyou now have a job give your employer the best service possible I i ts mm f On the other hand these stocks have already discounted much of this readjustment In fact the total value of the stocks of some of these companies are selling for less than the net liquid assets of the companies However even this is no assurance that their stocks will not sell at even lower figures than at presentThe industry which is strictly a war industry which has not yet discounted peace is the railroads I have already called readers' at- tention to this but I again say that railroad stocks and second grade railroad bonds are selling too high It is true they may have another good year in "getting the boys home" but they are threatened both by lower earnings and higher operating costs Railroad securities which paid dividends before the war may be expected to continue to do so But the "war babies" will soon begin to pass their dividends I believe the stocks of all railroads — good and bad — will go off in price Tax Legislation All Important Now that World war II is over congress should immediately reconvene and repeal the war taxes es- By Drew Pearson He was speaking of conditions at home but he might have been referring to the campaign repartee of the C I O and some elements of the American Federation of Labor in our own election of last fall In that contest in some areas of New York populated largely by still unassimilated immigrants though naturalized and thus able to vote a citizen wearing a Dewey campaign button could expect to be heckled if not attacked in the streets There was an indication of that version of "democracy" a "very much overworked word" as Bevin said which so many political unioneers of the C I O were fighting to impose on the native American Tragedy of Last Election One tragedy of the last election was not a matter of personalities but the fact that the American people under the spell of the most powerful propaganda' ever exerted in this country and in fear of losing the war by changing presidents indicated to the peoples of Europe that they too had lost faith in the capitalism which had made their country the greatest nation on earth and our living standard the highest The Europeans looked to our verdict and not knowing how it was wrought believed that we had deliberately "gone left" toward communism The truth is that the majority who elected Roosevelt had been told that communism was not a totalitarian form but "democracy" and believed it and were worried by a subtle fear that we must accept diluted communism here or fight the real thing in a war Just after the British election a new picture showed Clement Att-le- e surrounded by his followers OA£-HALF-bGA- reaucuon nowever snoma do - tion" COLLIDED IN aisproportion to their former "creases s as shipping aircraft and munitions face a tremendous readjustment two-part- ( reasons I presume all taxes 'must be reduced somewhat so that all groups will receive some relief By Roger W Babson BABSON PARK Mass Aug 24 —World war II is over Numerous scares may occur In connection with working out details especial ly during the peace conference when the spoils will be divided amongst the united nations I am just as certain however that these coming threats will amount to nothing as I was last year when I said: "Germany will collapse next spring and Japan a few months later" Last week when the news of Japan's surrender came I wrote a column for farmers who I fear will be the greatest sufferers from an economic standpoints This week I will write for investors Securities to Avoid Considering industry as a whole peace must be bullish If destruc tion and death are bearish the end of World war II must result in improved fundamental conditions Of course certain war industries such Atomic Bombs Now let us consider the possible long-rang- e of the effects new atomic bomb on investments Briefare as follows: The atomic ly these bomb is bearish on downtown city real estate but bullish on suburban and country property It is bearish on the airplane manufacturing industry but bullish on the automobile industry It is bearish on railroads but bullish on highway construction It is bearish on large but bullish on department stores chain stores It is bearish on naval develepoments but should help peaceful pursuits The atomic bomb should aid appropriations for high school and college science courses but it will kill present plans for compulsory Universal military training It is a warning to investors in public utilities to watch cash book values If these atomic bombs are as reports indicate powerful as the it means that a world organization with teeth is absolutely essential to save civilization The manufacture of these bombs cannot be kept secret Every nation will know how to make them There will be bootlegging in atoms! However etna this is bullish and insures world peace for a long time to come if accompanied by a spiritual awakthe greater portion of the ening Hence I am more optimistic pecially s tax For political today than for many years 1 excess-profit- -- Agencies Use War as Excuse To Install Censorship Wall American representatives will press to make these "conversion agree to bring about ments" i i i seeking i i excess uruuuc in snuis graauai tion capacity to scarcer commodi- "es— an enureiy new appruaun By Douglas Lars en The way was cleared for such con Standard-ExaminWashington version agreements to supplant in c Correspondent Chapul-tepecartels at WASHINGTON Aug Aug 24— last spring and the principle has been accepted by Technically there is no more ofof news Byron Price The new Attlee countries head formally government in England is expected fice of censorship to join with the American hem- ended it with a flattering state ment on the splendid 30b the vaisphere group Will Clayton is determined to rious media of news dissemination cooperating with him avoid clashes such as those be- had done in countered with praise Cor-dell Newspapers tween Raymond Moley and Hull which destroyed the Lon- of what Price had done It is generally agreed inai wixndon economic conference in 1933 scu- a rnce wir uiu nis in spnere Clayton's emergence to power in sational iob with his assignment by It was foreign policy will be fortified deplenty tough but he kept the reorganization of the state head never got carried a clear which had in the past partment his duties and everywith away emphasized political decisions by ended up happy about iL body In officers service reality foreign his there will be two undersecretaries period of service with During of state —one political and one eco- the U S however he saw an ugly nomic The old system of "desks" development in the various fedfor each foreign country will dis- eral agencies which he tried to Under the appear and a functional system unsuccessfullywarstop will replace iL Under the new disguise of censorship pracits plan the new economic undersec- tically every agency whether to with do on had function will determine anything policy retary cartels trade barriers reciprocal the war effort or noL plugged up trade agreements and other eco- virtually every legitimate news The order went out that nomic matters which policies will source no government employe regardless be binding on the diplomats of rank could speak to the press Revamping the Government unless what he said was cleared The reorganization and censored by the public relaof government agencies is near at tions office hand The department of labor under OWI Order addition to this strangulation Schwellenbach is expected to be- of Innews within the agencies ofcome an administrative agency ordered war of fice which will be a major shift in that the officialinformation announcestatus from its predominant char- ments be clearedagency with OWL No acter in the past as labor's voice employe was permitMcNutt's war manpower commis- government to the public about to ted speak and sion will be merged into labor his script had until McNutt may become again gover- any subject That is cleared been why so many The nor general of the Philippines from takwere officials prohibited discussions national labor relations board and forum in open ing part of the most remaining functions of the Only a handful war labor board will come under or debates to trusted be men could who the department of labor which top heat the in of line out say nothing will probably also absorb the Unit- of an this argument were given ed States employment service censorwas This political is right security board though the social Schwel- ship plain and simple Byron Price bidding for iL Secretary lenbach has the inside track fought against iL But since the end of the war though because he was promised there hasn't been any relaxation a free hand in reorganization by A few of this Truman type of censorship President his friend will stories told" can be "now also it Schwellenbach will insist to keep forout come the our but to struggle attaches that the labor out of print that might eign embassies now selected by anything so good for the agency look not be appointed state the department f continues by him Both war and departments navy Secretary of Commerce Henry have reiterated orders to its civilWallace has been quietly planning personnel that to streamline his agency so that ian and is military to be given to the press imnothing top attention can be given to cleared first isn't through pubthat standof an agenportant matters like patents idea This lic relations busards industrial design small to okeh vested the right cy having Wallace iness and foreign trade is alit of out news coming aiding any has several new ideas for a as fact most becoming accepted to American business He wants the within government a new head up foreign trade under From time to time public spirited most of the over to take assistant come out with something officials economic activities of the foreignunder Leo that exposes corruption and inefadministration now that their duty ficiency They feel serve is greater Crowley to the people they Inflation Too often head to bureau the Against than Fight OPA face this "leak" is a h planted Chester Bowles and the the next to knife an enemy in the back their toughest battle in lose and Denials all around will follow It If they few months the cent then 25 ends with accuser getting per prices go up life in- usually fired or transferred if he has value of all savings and cent enough pull surance will go down 25 permeans cent increase Most enterprising reporters have Every 1 per consumers to 000 loss of $1000000 threat Herbert Brownell" Mr Pearson is and savers But the biggest un become i may inflation that on vacation and has invited naunemcontrollable and temporary leaders to provide articles tional into in his abployment might be turned for his real depression tom-tosence are being Already the (CopyrighL 1945 by the Bell want to sounded— many businesses Syndicate Inc) get the high pricesto which foreager the buyers ared willinggoodspay that come first Bowles lines off peace production the make to fight has resolved volume production that knowing in the months ahead will force a mx — er Latin-Americ- con-sorsh- ip an - long-await- ed half-trut- Merry-Go-Rou- nd ms long-denie- won his orices to ease He has line but the hold to battles recent in he must rewin them every daywar his magnificent win to order for a sound American dollar Correction wj The Washington Standard-Examinin Thursday's article to erroneously was creditedwas article The Pearson Drew written by Herbert Brown ell chairman of the Republican party and should have carried a line "By Merry-Go-Rou- es by-pa- ss Overalls Last Cutkura is mildly medicated depend able Start using Cutkura today Buy BOTH at your druggi't worid-know- n 1 3 Oklahoma — Mrs PITCHER E Dye has had a lot of experience in washing: overalls for five boys and her husband She has found out how to make them last longer Here is what she says in a letter to Faultless L Starch: "I cannot wash without Faultless Starch Ton bet overI think it will make alls last longer and look ten times better I know We raised five boys so I know what Faultless Starch to overalls Have it as far back as I can remember and my mother used it too I can't say enough i for Faultless Starch Now there is an Important message for anyone who has overalls in her wash Mrs Dye says that Faultless Starch makes overalls wear longer (that's mighty important today) and look "ten times hotter" (and that's important too HOW TO STABCH OVERALLS Overalls work pants wash shirts — and children's play clothes usually get very very it takes a lot dirty Sometimes to of rubbing on a scrub-boar- d take the dirt out And everyone knows that rubbing wears oat clothes as mnch as washing them does But when you give them a LIGHT starching: with Faultless Starch you save a lot of that rubbing You ee— Faultless Starch penetrates th fabric —so dirt can't grind in so And Faultless Starch easily dissolves instantly in water and carries most of the dirt right out with it So when you starch other things be sure to give overalls work pants children's clothes etc a very light starching at the same time You'll notice the difference when you wash them! I The men will really like it too The fabric feels smooth and slick — not scratchy and nd tl Mrs Dye Makes SO SMOOTH TO WEAR er 1 their contacts in the various agen-jcithe pub in order to lic relations office This situation results in much misinformation The iron-cla- d understanding between a reporter and his contract is that he will never quote him directly or reveal his source of in- formation Knowing that reporters are pretty reliable in this respecL contacts are tempted to-- hand out q£ m£ormation as feelers" or h0ir tn Instead of having to duck around corners and sneak into offices for news Byron Price would have complete freedom of all news sources A reporter would be able to get a statement or information from a government official speak ing independently He could check it and get the other side of it if In it's a controversial subject weigh light of the facts he could to the the news value and give it public With newsprint scarce much of what has gone on in the government hasn't been considered sufficiently important to compete with war news As a result things which normally would have gotten a complete airing in the press have had sketchy treatment From now on it will be a struggle between news gatherers and the bureaucrats who would like to remain holed up in anonymity in their bailiwicks rough They wont chafe as much around the neck and the arms It's a wonderful relief to wear smooth slick work clothes! Try it this washday And be sure to use Faultless Starch!— Adv -- 1 1 ' |