Show 3k r in i j T in in on Merry -G- Senator Taft Will Do Plentv About Amending Wagner Act Either Way It Hurts o-Round" By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON April 15—Those who sat in on President Truman's aHS-- a ths highly secret meeting with ecocouncil of and cabinet the thr M — w nomic advisers considered it one Bubacrlptlot) prto tl to one on lot eotuif-of the most important sessions in TD AlttWJ W "'YTlV In n nthanKM credited — —r " w ti frn the history of the Truman adminiof)tB istration — or of any administraaba the inoeJ new tion for that matter Never before TUESDAY EVENING APRIL 15 1947 had a president and his cabinet come together with the nation's outstanding economists to chart the economic future of the country not after trouble starts com before health M McKay Utah's tvp death of William fact is that the 3 man Inside a upon of economic advisers gave missioner at the age of 59 affords solemn occasionm our council the cabinet a gloomy report on which to take inventory of public health progress the economic outlook of the na- to i£HM oTSwarca " WW a PVNB ' 1878 A By Peter Edson NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON April 15 (NEA) Senator Bob Taft of Ohio has lifted the curtain to reveal what he proposes to do about amending the Wagner act It's plenty It isn't quite as much as Minnesota's Joe Ball proposed But it's enough to cause loud wails from organized labor and great cheers from the employers 1S 00 i c a Dr McKay and Public Health -- years prior to 1935 Dr T B Beatty state health department who struggled n was a conditions aeainst tremendous odds to improve fundamental One of his great victories was affecting public health alert attitudes toward the against typhoid by encouraging state to water supply of our communities He caused the sterile become fly conscious He fought continuously for places serving food and drink glasses and dishes in public these battles He was making but usually was beaten in increased sanitation of the milk supprogress in promoting other achievements to his credit ply and had numerous when he retired his head "bloody but unbowed" Dr J L Jones succeeded Dr Beatty a few months before Governor Blood and the Utah legislature cooperated to provide the auspices and the legislation for cooperation with all the provisions of the Social Security act including the provisions for expansion of health activities Dr Jones and the state board of health reorganized the state health department to administer an expandefl general increased Utah public health program made possible by to the appropriations to match federal funds In additionover the took general program the state health department administration of a maternal and child health program and jr a program for crippled children its health expansion under federal aid As public began Dr McKay then practicing medicine in Ogden was one of many physicians in the nation who enrolled for work to specialize in public health Upon completing work he became an epidemiologist in the his state health department and later succeeded Dr Jones as StatFor more than 20 one-ma- I post-gradua- te post-gradua- te commissioner Under Dr McKay's administration continued progress was made through the district health offices as well as the state office in carrying public health practices and education to all parts of the state The district health offices provide trained personnel in areas that feel they can't afford adequate local health services The district offices augment and supplement the health services of communities like Ogden and Weber Dr McKay had expected to live to see the day when the state's district health offices in the more populous parts of the state would give way in favor of consolidated county health units It was charged by some uninformed persons that the a desire for state health commissioner was motivated by more control of local health matters His attitude was the health opposite Under the district health office plan the commissioner has state-wid- e authority Dr McKay insisted this should be adjusted to provide for local control He continuously urged Weber county to consolidate its public e health services under a public health physician plan serving under a local board of health Under this direcstate under personnel now employed in the county tion would take instructions from the county board of health Federal and state funds now being spent in the county under state health commissioner instruction would be spent under Weber county board of health direction full-tim- In atomic war we are much more vulnerable than Russia Atom bombs I know would be much more effective against us than against Russia— Former Pennsylvania Governor Earle ' Whiffs of Picnic Fires i Tulips are blooming the big league baseball season is begun the fish and game people are publishing fishing rules and regulations but the best omen about the progress spring season is to be found in the revival of picnicking Motorists moved up and down the mountain roads in vast numbers on Sunday Most of them were merely making to discover if the auspices were happy for picnick1 surveys ing but quite a number of the more venturesome launched into the season without preliminary exploration The day was so beautiful that the cautious motorists before they actually packed jjjjjjjo insisted upon a look-se-e up a lunch soon were engulfed in regrets over their neg lect —particularly after they caught a whiff or two of camp fires of broiling meat and fragrant coffee And if they didn't obtain these whiffs the sight of a picnic spread being arranged in a cozy spot off the side of the road was enough to stimulate their hunger and send them home to partake of the vittles they wished they had brought along in the Sthe -- car It' seems safe to predict that if the coming week-en- d offers fine weather there will be more persons gormandiz ing in the mountain rest places than a good camper can shake a broiling fork at We live in a time of political and economic diversity and cultural conflict far more acute than anything our modern civilization has before known—Dr Raymond B Fosdick Davis County Library Before the people of Davis county definitely made up establish and maintain a county public pir minds to the JStarary system proposal was studied for a long time are because there problems relating to a county-wid- e service that are not usually present mT&rary service for just one But after decision was reached to go ahead pnmunity Wm county did indeed go ahead as the annual report of full first the year's operation reveals With receipts of to work with the library did very well indeed $27588 account that it purchased 13338 books taking into j Mrs Helen Parker Gibson county librarian reports that Davis county folks are not yet accustomed to making Wm of the facilities at their disposal The situation is bound to change rapidly For the library is operating on a sound policy of building its book supply and providing branches where the people live for convenient book borrowing Taft's latest version of what he mark up the bill right away with the hope they can introduce it in the senate shortly after April 15 for immediate consideration When Senator Taft took the veil off his new omnibus bill at a press conference he repeatedly had to refer technical questions to Reilly "And don't ask me what other members of the committee think about this bill" said Taft "I have a hard enough time speaking for myself" He grinned broadly when he said it but he wasn't being fun ny It is a highly technical bill with at least 20 controversial labor law reforms t ' Prices have increased about 70 all commodities since per cent on last July 1 Foodstuffs have gone up about 80 per cent raw materials about 55 per cent on an aver1 age lf steel-make- rs F Five-In-O- economy wherein people are em- higher standards of anywhere else in the world However this can to disaster if we do not havelead more equality between power and goods produced buying We can't have QaVe-?- works — —— -- I The World Today By DeWUt Mackenzie fonly 10 weeks ago that Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh uaiton sain AF Foreign Affairs Analyst that the country was livbluntly This is one of the notable days on borrowed money and must ing Of the year for England — budget produce more goods for export or "a lower standard of life and day — the time when the chancellor face of the exchequer presents to par- more unemployment" Still there has been no indicaliament an accounting of the counthus far of any considerable tion and submits try's financial position in the determination of the break his estimates of income and exof the public to give the majority 12 the ensuing penditure during new socialist government a reasonmonths of time to try to overable length vast Always it is an occasion of crisis — or demcome economic the importance for John Bull because onstrate that it can't handle the it's the barometer of his economic well-bein- g And it's a matter of job We have here a striking exammoment for the average citizen in a more intimate sense because his ple of the national characteristic of standing together in an emerpersonal fortune may be affected or so it seems to me When by an increase or decrease in tax- gency in England a year ago I I was ation with many conservatives talked The Briton comes up to this who had voted against the socialknowlbudget day with the full ists the in general election and edge that England is in the midst crisis of a dangerous economic whose end cannot be seen It's Whe down both prices and profits "There is not much more we can do about credit" Chairman Eccles said "The credit controls of the federal reserve board are pretty rigid now The only solution is a cut in prices and profits" "If we don't do something about prices now" emphasized Dr Nourse 'the fall will be that much harder later on" Other significant points were developed indicating that "famine exists in the midst of plenty" Recent federal reserve statistics for instance reveal that 10 per cent of American families have more than 60 per cent of the savings that the top 30 per cent of the nation's families have 80 per cent of the savings and that the bottom 70 per cent have only 20 per cent This lower 70 per cent is the backbone of industry's post-wmarket As its savings diminish the chances for prosperity diminish Federal reserve board figures show that 40 per cent of American families have average savings of only $40 per family or enough to keep going only one week if the breadwinner loses his job President Truman was profoundlogic ly impressed with the cold of the discussion and told the cabinet he would hold similar sesr sions with the economic advisers ar soon (Copyright 1947 By The Bell Syndicate Inc) production buying power and inoutrunning my opinion indusmust face try the fact that prices will have to come down" Steel Shold Lead Reduction Secretary and Federal Reserve BoardKrug Chairman Marriner Eccles emphatically agreed Eccles said that the steel industry judg-"!- § by its profit index could well afford to take the lead in scaling — were fearful of the nationalization program I asked what they were going to do now that the socialist government was in power and the invariable answer was that they were going to support it until it had been given a fair opportunity to demonstrate what it could do That seems to be the explanation of the stoicism of the British public as this fateful budget day rolled around Reports that there might be some sort of cut in taxation naturally raised some hopes Of Britain's 14000000 taxpayers last year 13175000 had incomes of less than $2000 after taxes were settled And as for the wealthiest group — those with net incomes of more than $24000 a year after deduction of taxes — it dropped from 7000 individuals in 1939 to a mere 45 in 1945-4- 6 An unmarried person earning $400000 has been taxed $376700 No wonder the landed aristocracy is disappearing and great fortunes are on their way out Doctor Says: Tongue Is Health Tattletale Diet Causes Changes in Mouth In tongue examinations the phy- sician notes whether it is dry coated or smooth according to Current Medical Digest Loss of body fluids causes dryness in tongue tissues and other tissues of the body A dry tongue is a sign that dehydration has advanced to a stage which requires immediate attention tongue results from overgrowth of tiny projections which are normally worn short by the process of chewing food The cause is not known but it may be due to swelling Smooth Tongue Anemia A smooth tongue occurs in anemia and other disorders Lack of hemoglobin may result from "insufficient amount of iron in the body or bone marrow failure The with change is probably identical and stomach in the found that intestines which are also smooth from flattening and thinning of the mucous membrane If treatment with iron or liver extract are successful the tongue returns to normal from resump- tion of normal cell oxidative procA coated 60-da- al smooth tongues oo noi re sult from wearing artificial dentures Diet Causes Change Deficiency diseases which follow illness and poor diet cause changes in the mouth tongue and lips The usual complaint is soreness When all members of one familv have sore mouths or tongues it is most likely that their diet is lacking in certain essentials In certain families all members have fissured and furrowed This is due to heredity large? I have heard that shock is tongues If it does not cause any symp the cause toms treatment should not be Answer: Some apparently normadministered al individuals have enlarged glands In other cases the cause Question: What causes the glands is an infection But shock is not in the back of the neck to en- - a cause esses By Willam A O'Brien M D Written for NEA Service Taft has hopes of seeing Tru man about the labor issue some time soon to see what the president will approve and perhaps to try to get him to go along with the Taft program The five titles in the Taft omni bus labor bill call for: 1 Drastic revision of the Wag ner act to curb union rights and give more freedom of action to em ployers 2 Creation of a new mediation service outside the department of labor 3 Inclusion of most of the old Case bill to regulate union wel fare funds: and the check-of- f make unions accountable and suable to ban boycotts and five types of jurisdictional and organizing strikes 4 A new proposal to permit the attorney-genery to seek injunctions against strikes affect ing an entire industry or imperil ing national health and safety 5 Creation of a joint commit tee of seven senators and seven representatives to study the whole question of labor relations and re port to congress before next Feb 15 This would indicate that the new Taft bill is going to be just the first dose Reforms of Reilly There will be more fireworks over the Wagner act revisions than anything else Senator Ball's proposal to trans fer NLRB investigative and prose cution functions to the department of justice has not been included in the Taft bill but practically all other Reilly reforms are there One new section calls for the elimination of strikes and other labor organization practices which burden or obstruct the flow of commerce This would be made government policy "Supervisory employe" would be redefined to include not only foremen but also inspectors and plant guards A new classification of "professional employe" would be set up to include those whose services are intellectual requiring special skill and training Effect of these new definitions would be to remove such workers from the classification as "employes" guaranteed protection under the Wagner act M jfc m L A - Take My Word By Colby What's the Origin c Q Why is the bandanna handkerchief so called? —Mrs S H F Answer: Bandana is an English corruption of the Hindi word ban-dhn- u which Shakespear's Hindi Dictionary defines as "A mode of dyeing in which the cloth is tied in different places to prevent the parts tied from receiving the dye a kind of silk cloth" Of course the bandanna as we know it is a large cotton handkerchief with a garish printed design in either red or blue Richland: The late Franklin D Roosevelt was given credit for coining the word "boondoggle" He used it in several radio addresses Did he invent it?— H L H Answer: F D R did popularize the verb to boondoggle in the meaning of "to invent trifling and wasteful work for the unemployed" But the word is credited to Robert H Link a scoutmaster of Rochester N coined the word in 1925 as the name of a plaited leather lanyard to be worn by scouts as a neckerchief slide hence any handicraft article of little or no practical value Cincinnati: Can you trace the origin of the word to tout as "H is not all that he is touted to be" — N L :fi ItuV Answer: Originally the verb tout meant to act as lookout for a gang of thieves Then the word came to designate the spying on the secret performance of race horses in order to obtain information for betting Later to tout was to give a tip on a horse race in return for a portion of the winnings Such a tipster also became known as a tout Then by extension the noun came to mean any petty solicitor or runner as "A small person who looked like a lawyer's tout" — Kipling's "Kim" Finally the verb to tout took on the meaning of "to praise highly and insistently as "You're always touting these Greek dancers"—-SinclaY-w- ho ir Lewis' "Main Street" And now we say that a politician is touted as the friend of labor that Senator Blank's proposed bill is being touted as a preventive Of depressions that a certain person is not all he is touted to be etc Frank Colby 3221 Huntingdon Place Houston Tex (Copyright The Bell Syndicate Inc 1947) HIM:KKNHrUuu I fp t i """OK —" etui niil nmi 11 immmm'iimrmt n S!?lth ne - " ' YouTseemore jrou get more 3 Only Available YOU 7-- Ft — X rive Shelvactor Crosley Twice as much tood to tne irom Cold storage meat drawer Frozen storage compartment Quick release ice cube trays Sealed storage crisper see more through the C winHAw —v t O this new Studebaker— you a more chasing power oi3e co-oper- 62-pa- ge cabinet meeting: Dr Nourse' s Warning: dropped about five and one-habillion dollars between the first quarter of 1945 and the last quar ter of 1946 However while wages dropped in 1945 profits soared During 1945 net corporate profits were nine billion dollars In 1946 with wages dropping profits climbed to 12 billion However that was only part of the story During the last 1946 of quarter profits were mounting at the rate of $14900- 000000 for the year and during the first quarter of this year they increased at an even higher rate During this same period wages were tumbling from a 1945 high of 111 billion to 106 billion in 1946 — and still going down in 1947 That was why Mr Truman made his statement the day after the cabinet meeting that if prices don't come down wages must go up Industry Ended OPA 4 Nourse pointed out that industry had asked for a chance to make free enterprise work without price controls and that with OPA gone prices would find their natural lev el This level Dr Nourse said was a new high in history and hardly natural Someone raised the point that businessmen were worried about getting together to cut prices for fear of antitrust prosecution which caused Attorney General Tom Clark to report that he was look ing around for means of avoiding this danger "I don't think the justice de partment would prosecute any groups that got together to help the public Clark said Perhaps the most important part of Nourse's candid cabinet talk was about the future of American econ omy Nourse reported that he did not consider a recession necessary though it was becoming more and more likely because of high prices The country has reached a point he said where its productive ca pacity is so great that the nation can have almost any kind of pros perity it wants He explained however that if we are to have continued full employment industry must raise its sights plow prof its back: into expansion and con tinuously strive to produce abun dantly at low prices for the widest possible consumption Nourse cited steel as one Indus try which would have to exnand if we were to keep prosperous and if the national income were to pass tne mark With steel the big bottleneck in industrial expansion Nourse contended it is up to the first to bring prices into line then expand their production Steel Must Expand Secretary of the Treasury Snyder took issue with this and set off a flurry of cabinet debate "It isn't fair to ask the steel industry to expand at this time" Snyder argued "If they do their profits will be wiped out by glutted markets in the future We haven't had much steel for civilian purposes for five years so now naturally everybody is demanding a lot" Snyder added that demand for sieei exports irom the U S "by countries whose industry was crippled during the war not continue It was not fair would therefore he contended to ask American steel companies to build up their plants and have them idle later Both Secretary of Commerce Harriman and Secretary of the Interior Krug disagreed "This modern world cannot compromise with the past" Harriman commented tartly "It is foolish to talk about what we in former years But it isproduce imvery portant to consider what we can produce now especially in the light of how that production will serve to equalize prices and pur- The closed shop would be banned The union shop would not be forbidden but would be illegal unless at least half the employes voted for it Industry-wid- e would be restricted Onlybargaining unions made up of employes of one or of several employers employer in the same metropolitan district could be certified as bargaining agents Local unions could with international union headquarters but the locals could not ta co erced into signing or refusing to sign contracts with individual em ployers as to the 1945 steel strike Union coercion of employes would be prohibited Individual employes could present grievances to management and have them set- tled without intervention by union represent:: Craft unions would be protected and independent unions would be given the same rights as AFL or CIO affiliates Employers would be free from restrictions against making anv statement to their employes pro- viaea no tnreats of reprisal were implied The national labor relatione board would be increased from three to five members and their pay would be raised from $10000 to $12000 a year But that's about tne only break they'd get under the Taft bill for even their decisions now considered final It is really five bills in one It would be- made subject to court may have to be broken up into that review many separate acts to prevent a White House veto on the whole all-import- 2 In some fields wholesalers and retailers are pricing themselves out of the market The demand for certain goods —clothing women's apparel and shoes — has dropped to the danger point Even in lines recently scarce such as radios refrigerators and higher-price- d automobiles Nourse reported demand is going way down 3 While prices have increased consumers' wages have dropped This disturbed Nourse greatly Secretary of the Interior Krug and Secretary of Commerce Harriman backed him up regarding this The figures used by Nourse for his conclusions show that wages tiate with them considers a good labor bill should be called "the Reilly Bill" after Gerald D Reilly former national labor relations board member Reilly is not a senator but as legal adviser to both Taft and Ball he did most of the drafting on this measure The senate labor and public welfare committee will begin to tion The president had invited the council to familiarize his cabinet members with the national price crisis and they pulled no punches Dr Edwin G Nourse chairman of the council did most of the talking "If something isn't done and soon we're riding for a fall" he However he declared bluntly didn't limit himself to the dangerous price situation but gave a stethoscopic analysis of the nation's entire economic health Here are the high points of what closed he told the Supervisors would be permitted to join labor organizations but employers wouldn't have to nego- m f connaently You deep-dow- n more comfort get and more real advancements than your money buys in any other car : Exclusive "black Brakes 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