Show 4 at Ogden (!ta w enter Ml at tb portomoa 3 1879 Mrtabwtht to Act ol Congress fnsA Serric and a B C rtptJon pric HAS p moatfi ilSOO par all aewi also tb Pm ts dispatch en credited locmJ nm Midi fTMMfcfr T?xii4wwl jmt M IR M onmN seiusielj to is or '48 Results Tell Story Of Politics MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 10 1951 'Red Tape Brigade' Doesn't Learn "We'll Clean Up Ma" By Drew Pearson Tru- The coiner of this somewhat em- 500-fol- ffT -- one-ce- Taft-Truma- n Taft-Vinso- "me-too- all-da- One Man Should Replace U S Munitions Board me-to- 575-00- p Questions p me-to- Answers anti-me-to- ot Ar-Af- ter me-to- me-to- Too Bad 'Jumping Joe' Not in Senate on anti-me-to- Paragraphs Olympiad Should Be a Dilly run-awa- m goal that the ball would have to go through the goal posts procurement czar' twice to count as a score So let sports fans be ready Next year's Olympics may produce two sets of results the real ones and those manufactured for the glory of Moscow "Such an official could make his decisions more quickly could with finality resolve conflicts between the services and could scissor through the red tape which normal-- ! ly surrounds a conference type of operation In other words what the senate subcommittee demands is a man instead oi a board to do the Job And that is probably what Lovett is going to have to end up providing The surprising thing is that it hasn't been done before The lesson of World war U was forgotten quickly when the munitions board was set up originally in the national military establishment After trying several ways of "M j realty did picaresque expression really Well the pilots speak Russian You also will notice This haa sosae verification to fact Bet that they do all their flying up north where they control the ft got started f rem wtlow tree hlassnms which people eftest so-- f ground They never come down here (in allied-hel- d terrierred to aa "cats and decs' 4also nt j "me-too- ! ! or j won in J Decause of Governor Thomas E Dewey's " campaign And they drift happily toward the Taft camp mis reporter has wholly retired from the business of predicting elections and no one in his senses at this early date would even try to guess at the outcome of a n or a race It is worth pointing out however " that the famous theory is just about as phony as any politi can be cal tneory And the actual results in 1948 tell the story as clearly as any political story can be torn Can be Summarized moment was indicated What really happened in 1948 can be simply summarized y In An harangue found veteran federal officials in- most states President Truman key to a create rationing system ran pretty far behind and Gov sisting it would take six months force to be dispatched ernor Dewey ran rather far ahead field a envisioned They training large of their respective tickets The to every corner of the land to operate it spread was unusually wide in the where the local Republicans At this juncture up spoke a man who was not enmeshed states had waged campaigns of the ortho dox "Chicago Tribune"-teste- d sort in the Washington tangle: Ana tne only Republican of any "I can do it in three weeks' significance who ran well ahead of o far more of a Nobody believed him but the matter was so urgent they Dewey was than himself Republican Dewey In Illinois for example Presi finally told him to go ahead and see what he could do Truman squeaked through by The man was Frank Bane executive director of the dent a majority of only 33000 But Council of State Governments and a sort of minister without Governor Adlai Stevenson beat Col Robert R McCormick's gubernaportfolio to the 48 governors He was banking on help from torial candidate Dwight Green by By Douglas Larsen they ended up with a "czar" in the a gigantic majority of nearly 0 them and a lot of local people besides form of General Somervell who of the One WASHINGTON— big while Senator Paul Douglas got tne ion done mere is some He got it Alerted by wire the governors sprang into trounced Curly Brooks by nearly weaknesses of the military unifi- talk of getting him back set-uex500000 votes cation which has been action Volunteers spread out in every town ferreting out Both Governor Stevenson and by the Korean emergency office space furniture willing hands to serve on ration Senator Douglas were to the left posed is the munitions board President Truman if anything n The report of boards With a big map a set of pins a telephone and a small of Lyndon No one by the wildest stretch of Johnson's senate preparedness subthe imagination could say that committee which lashes out at the headquarters staff Bane kept tabs on the tremendous organ Green And Douglas were even slowness of the build-uof the ization effort Where pressure was needed it was applied slightly and o tenstained with services says this about the board: A few preliminary regional meetings had helped build up dencies In Illinois in fact you of the fundamental failures could say that Dewey was dragged to "One procurement coordinasteam down by the extreme weakness of a tioneffective has been the lack of an ofo Q — What are some of the leglocal ticket When the Monday morning deadline for the start of ra- violently other than the secretary of endary feats ascribed to John which polled around half a million ficial deof defense in the department Henry? was ready In three weeks the votes less than Dewey did tioning arrived the set-u- p fense with the authority and reA — When laying track John sponsibility and the sole job of foundation had been laid for a system that was to serve— on Truman Squeaked Through could drive an eight-inc- h Henry In Ohio again President Tru- overseeing and expediting procure tie and the a greatly expanded basis —throughout World war II man squeaked through by the tiny ment for all the military services spike into a railroad solid rock under it —with one blow between conflicts and 17000 a of while resolving RepubliYou would think this sort of showingwould make a dent majority hammer He helped can candidate of the them It appears that the munitions °f urn me to statute oeira lunnei ana was board on the bureaucratic mind but it doesn't seem to The red Taft gubernatorial intended Dig uig was by beaten Frank by stripe worker! faster than any 20 men put function that Lausche more 320000 than perform by tape brigade drawing upon an inexhaustible arsenal of un- There is no "However three of the four together He died hammer in hand need to multiply these board are under while trying to beat a steam drill members of the which are broadly repreintelligibly directives soon regained control Jealously it has figures in a contest sentative of the general tendency secretaries from each of the three They can-nguarded and enlarged its domain ever since military departments throughout the country in 1948 Q — Has a standard distance and be expected to have the ob-- ! still worth All the poor citizen can do is hope that because it is 10 But theIn exception isTruman measurement for aircraft for speed beat jective perspective required noting Kentucky been established? years later the story will be different this time and the paper Dewey by 125000 but the extreme unified procurement" o Each succeeding secretary of deSherman Coop July t 1952 nautical legions of Washington officialdom will be forced to retreat er cameRepublican miles and knots will be standard within only 25000 votes fense has tried to do something of snatching the senatorship from about bolstering the board's au- distance and speed measurements to previously confused positions thority and activities but with not for aircraft Virgil Chapman In plain language the hard facts much success No matter what has o Q—How much did It cost belie the whole theory been done the board has succeedColumbus to discover America? There are some other hard facts ed in remaining a kind of nebuthat Republicans will also do well lous upper atmosphere toorganizaAbout $36000 His payroll for 90 do any- men! aboard to bear in mind In New York in tion which never seemed the Santa Maria Nina out turn 1948 for example Dewey beat thing more concrete than and Pinta ran to 250000 maravedis When Senator Taft won in Ohio last year Truman about what nad been or some $3500 a month by only 161000 votes dull reportssome time back The the senate was assured the continued services of an able while Henry A Wallace polled well purchased board was not set up to do any — What is the present average over 500000 most of which would was But it legislator thereby deprived of the brightening have gone to Truman with no purchasing itself but sort of super- lifeQ span of white women in tbe United States? Influence of another man who intentionally or otherwise Progressive candidate in the race vise and coordinate it — And in Pennsylvania Dewey car- Changes Haven't Helped It is now 715 years which AJ is often very funny ried the state by only 250000 with New chairmen came and went is qver five years more than life The man in question is Taft's Democratic opponent of 55000 going to the Progressives Staffs were shifted No matter how expectancy pf men much personnel of the board was 1950 Joseph (Jumping Joe) T Ferguson His recent testi- G O P Loses Big States 0 — What Is the best method This secondary group of facts changed to get it a going concern result was always more of the of storing the corn plant? mony on the Ohio election before a senate committee gave suggests a further conclusion The the hour And we bet it was with in 1948 not only lost same card trick Washington some idea what it had missed when Ferguson Republicans The most recent and drastic efa number of big crucial states fort to improve the board was atAt— Storing in silos saves more o where they had strongly didn't make the grade last summer by Secretary of corn's food value than any othtempted local candidates also They This is not the place to review Ferguson's contributions came perilously close to losing oth- of Defense Lovett It aimed at er method a maximum centralizato the captial's lighter side Just one sample will suffice: er large and important states even providing their local tickets were tion of control over military supthough He declared that the Ohio press had been overwhelmingly comparatively strong And precise- ply Lovett ordered the services to these states are still doubtful against him and intimated the newspapers' tactics were ly the board detailed produc If Senator Taft is nominated his furnish He gave the board unfair But being an amiable fellow he did not wish to situation is sure to be far from tion schedules By Carey Williams to monitor and police all authority New in York Gov where He offend newsmen covering the senate hearing So with a easy board times the gave delivery America and Sweden lead in the Dewey's organization will hardly to change any orders of number of alcoholics There is no wave in their direction he added: "But I am not casting any put forth a great effort for him authority to individual services avoid the In Pennsylvania meanwhile the bottleneck here oror of duplication overstocking on the aspirations increasing decay of the Republican ders reporters" has just been draSimile: As busy as an antlqae The reporters had to blink to make sure they weren't organizationdisclosed hunter trying to find some pieces matically by their loss of Plans Going Smoothly He instructed the board to set of furniture looking at Archie on "Duffy's Tavern" And there were lots the ancient stronghold of Philadelphia up special task forces to see that more like that one A columnist says every AmeriFinally there is the problem of special procurement programs were When Taft triumphed the senate got teacher back the south Southern leaders like going smoothly He gave the board can is entitled to privacy of his Gov James F Byrnes and Sen power to allocate the scarce ma- own life Of course public figures again But it lost the class comedian Harry F Byrd are widely quoted chine tools among the three serv- are expected to the effect that General Eisen- ices hower would carry four or five On top of that Lovett wrote a Take home pay Is something southern states but they rather re- regulation forcing the services to that has an abbreviated home gretfully predict that their people report to the munitions board any life will never vote for Senator Taft important deficiencies or bottley In a few months the winter Olympic games will be For the traditionally Democratic necks which the board might not The driver of i truck south they say "Mr Republican" know about otherwise he prayed at 85 miles per jsays So under way it's none too early to remind sports-lovin- g would be rather too much of a All this however apparently has hour And we bit it was with not done the trick at least not to fervor thing folk the world around to be prepared for something very good These facts and figures may the satisfaction of Senator Johnmean a lot or very little If there son's preparedness committee The Another thing to remember is special this time main a of more of are few a man never finds himself the tax scandals that target report Harry As everybody knows the Russians have entered for S Truman could make as poor a course is the White House for not by losing his temper 1952 By all accounts they have Some pretty talented ath- showing against Senator Taft as ordering a tougher policy of cutJoe" Ferguson made in ting back civilian production to The Russian are willing to try letes in many lines and ought to do well according to any "Jumping the military to meet its most anything on a five year plan Ohio last year permit needs except peace fair test Wants Complete Reform mm miii i fc SAY But the point is the Russians have no stomach for coming WHY Truman still insists on the Fair Nevertheless the members of the committee make a major point of Deal It's possible he knows some in second or third in any endeavor In the communist realm acrd triek asking for a reform' of the whole political prestige is marred by anything short of complete setup: The man of distinction Is the "We believe that what is needed victory The natural corollary of this is to assure victory— is an under secretary of defense one with gravy on his tie with complete responsibility for the by whatever device is necessary supervision of procurement of all A Russian basketball team touring China brought along three military departments or a JOSEPHINE broader delegation by the secretary its own referee to change the rules whenever required to of defense to the chairman of the produce a Russian triumph In a Central Asia league soccer munitions board of such powers held by the secretary as are necesgame the Soviet coach announced after an opposing team's sary to permit him to act as a It works out maybe others will be inclined toward this unorthodoxy and away from the prevailing notion that you're not in business until you've denuded the capital warehouses of every available desk and have hired people to lean on them Yet one shouldn't be too hopeful Back in 1941 Washington got a lesson like this and profited little Top government officials were meeting on the Sunday after Pearl Harbor desperately concerned with our dwindling stocks of natural rubber With supplies from the Dutch East Indies cut off rationing at the earliest possible tory) where we can shoot them down and see who is flying the plane —Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg on being asked ferry eeverte- g- Wheat tt rained whether Russians were flying Mig-1- 5 jets over northwest the treat aa people weadd tap it Korea getting military procurement fas) r&inim$ "a4s ad decs" prop- erly controlled during the last war i when the latest casualty of infla- WASHINGTON— It's a poor ex- - tion the penny postcard bows out ample of the policy on January 1 but Canada is deliberately with- - j For about 80 years during which holding precious aluminum from helicopters haw replaced horses the United States This has already and which have seen a d the aluminum th of ct-othe? government home construction and vilian uses But far more serious t Lnce sua has been toting the the air force is not getting all the popular green stamped postcard to aluminum it needs to build Jet all parts of the country— even to — Furthermore part of the alumi- our troops overseas for on ny num Canada is withholding from us Government subsidies helped of was financed by American RFC loans during World war IL course but it is still a tribute to What Canada has done is divert American individualism rugged aluminum from the American to that the penny postal could survive the British market It won't be ad- so long The postal was first issued mitted but the real reason for this n 187 J during the administration diversion is to force this country to of President U 8 Grant T alar In 1898 swap steel for aluminum the same postage For example Canadian alurrti- - was authorized the more elaborate num shipments to the United States picture card on which you place dropped from 34800000 pounds per your own stamp month last March and April to a j One reason congress boosted the meager 5300 000 pounds per month postcard to two cents after Jan 1 touay— a decrease of 85 percent was because big business has been In the same period Canadian ship- - exDloitina the oennv oorta) for mA ments to Britain have shot up from vertising purposes Actually only 21100000 pounds to 39 700 000 about 10 percent of the 4000000' pounds per month — an increase of 000 cards sold yearly in post offices H percent are now used for personal corresAs proof that this is a cold- pondence blooded squeeze-plaCanada has 10 ion tne advertisers com doubled its aluminum shipments to further nrovided a 10 oerrent mir Australia Brazil Uruguay ana evrn charge for postcards purchased in Argentina at the same time it bulk lots of over 49 But the post office strangled the aluminum flow to this country In fact the United doesn't think the new department price will States is the only major market seriously affect sales Even for two less metal received Canadian that cents the government postcard is a As this year than last result the still far and away the best mall United States is the only North At- bargain anywhere in the world lantic' pact country that has been Note—mail a postcard today to forced to clamp civilian controls the Pearson poll of Republican on aluminum candidates for president Mail tt to Box 1952 Washington 13 D C Canada Wins Meanwhile the Canadian squeeze mna sxait xne v£Jnaia'M! or has accomplished its purpose and our preference for 1952 forced the United States to swap Ike Wouldn't Be Converted American steel for British alumi- An off - the - record crack by num Hard up for steel but over-- 1 George Allen onetime White House flowing with aluminum Britain has jester is proving good campaign agreed to divert 22000 000 pounds ammunition for Eisenhower boost of aluminum to American purchas- - Urs who want to prove Ike is a Re- ers during the next five months la return Britain will be allo- publican Sen Henry Cabot Jr of cated 25000 tons of fabricated Massachusetts leaderLodge of the I American steel 45000 tons of steel want Ike'' forces and former Sen tons and 28500 of another ingots Darby of Kansas are repeatiron and steel scrap from the Harry remarks Allen made before the ing American zone of Germany national industrial conference board The joker In this deal is that the at the Sea View club near Atlantie United States must return tbe j aluminum after its own plants arc City "i know General Eisenhower is expanded to make up the shortage Republican" quipped Allen Britain is allowed to keep cause Lord knows I've tried hard the steel with no strings attached enough to convert him to be a Another ironic fact is that Brit-- ) Democrat I didn't have a bit of By Major Thomas ML Nial contribution of 22000 000 luck ain's Veterans who have served since of aluminum won t come the Korean war started are now pounds from Britain at all but will be Solving Copper Shortage One of the most strategic metals eligible for a big slice of the same shipped directly to us from Canada benefits granted World war II vets j In other words this is the same In the world today is copper All The veterans administration ex aluminum that of defense projects are re normally would sorts pects other benefits to be added by have been shipped to the U S tarded because of it However when a couple of young congress for these vets early next market anyway but was withheld year These probably will include in order to force this country to men called on defense mobilizers in a "GI education bill" and some sort Washington with a new invention of plan guaranteeing loans for buy- kick in precious steel by Which the government could Ickes Predicted It save millions of pounds of copper ing homes But here is the final ironic pay- all they got was advice and the Right now vets who have served anywhere anytime since June 27 off During the recent war Jesse 1950 and got out of service under Jones then czar of the RFC adThe new invention is a bimetal conditions other than dishonorable vanced $68500000 without interest combination of copper and steel are eligible for five major types to the Aluminum Company of whereby a steel sheet can be perof benefits Canada (affiliated with the Alumi fectly lined with copper thus sav Medical and domiciliary — Hos- num Co of America" to build the ing tremendous amounts of copper pitalization is given first to vets Shipshaw aluminum plant on the yet at the same time giving steel who have been disabled in or due ?aguenay river corrosion resistance to military service Then as hosJones also extended another S34- Dunne World war II a groun of pital space allows it is given to 240 000 at three percent interest civilian scientists organized a board those who have gave the Canadian plant an order in Washington to sort out new all its aluminum and provided ventions and use them for the disabilities These vets also must swear that they are financialthat if the order was canceled be--1 armv and navy Today this board ly unable to pay for hospitalization fore 1945 it would not be necessary has been replaced with runaround- elsewhere lor canaaa to pay oacK tne o - er To get domiciliary care the same 500 000 However ted up with the governHarold Ickes then secretary of ment William turner one of the requirements are made This care is designed to give vets a "home" the interior vigorously protested Inventors is privata busiand is given to those who have a He argued tnat the USA could not ness interestedgetting In Cleveland this permanent or semi permanent ail- control Canadian aluminum and weea ment which won't let them earn a that equipping a Canadian power project with vital turbines would living When hospitalization isn't need- Mtcbl'k American power projects Heat Quits at 45 Below d ed treatment of wiiaota uaiii vwiwiauu'wio Aiiuiiiir FAIRBANKS Alaska Dec 10 disabilities is available at VA out- son parts of Grand Coulee and oth- ' AP — A power failure blacked out ers patient clinics or from VA author Fairbanks for seven hours last However Jesse Jones had his ized private physicians Dental night and shut off electrically opertreatment is similarly available "" 51" In aluminum from at upon approval by the VA fulfilling zero weather Many residents in Vocational rehabilitation — Some lCKes prediction homes with automatic coal stokers disabled vets may get education or End of Penny Postcard or oil burners stayed up all night at expense government training There will be some nostalgic stoking furnaces with wood with tuition supplies and in many cases subsistence allowance To be sighs at the post office department chopped from boxes eligible the vet must have a serv severe disability enough to entitle him to compen sation and have the VA agree that the training is necessary to over come the handicap T50 Disability rights— A vet disabled in active service may qualify for Cordon Market 2680 compensation Monthly rates for Washington ' "Two Merry -Tramps" drama such disabilities range from SIS to uni— mwM wii r c r'orinrrd hv $150 depending on the degree of Wood at Ward at the Grand opera 19 lmmh cnU house disability plus additional money P°und: P°rk legsfor amputations blindness etc If legs i cents oeei roasts 10 cents the vet is 50 per cent or more dis- per pound veal roasts 15 cents per G F Boreman attorney was lo-abled he may also receive money pound syrup 45 cents with waffle cated at 416 Eccles building for dependents plate tree: butter 32 cents per Certain disabled vets are en- pound coffee 32 cents per pound Excelsior Cash Meat Market was titled to $1000 toward the purchase can meats poultry fish and featuring of a car or other vehicle Other game in season such veterans may get a federal Dr S w Badcon was elected grant for a "wheel chair home" es- - president of the Weber County Gerrett Fort general traveling Medical society Other officers in- -' passenger agent of the Union Pa- pecially adapted to their needs Life insurance — Any service- clude: Dr V L Ward vice presi cific Omaha was an Ogden visitor man in active duty on or after the dent Dr W M McKay secretary start of the Korean war is auto- and Dr Harry W Nelson treasurer Scott Davis freight agent of the Union Pacific had returned to Ogmatically covered against death in active service for $10000 This to were Rabbits ha den expected free protection continues for 120 plentiful at Promontory when the A slereopticon lecture and musidays after leaving the service if first drive of the winter season the vet was on active duty 31 days was planned said E L Ford chair- - cal was to be given in the First A vet may choose to continue this man of the committee in charge of ward meeting house for the benefit coverage by paying the required the campaign "Tim Larson and I of a departing missionary — made a second triD to Promontory" premiums within the—120 days Survivors benefits The widow he said "and found thousands of A great shoe sale was being held children and dependent parents of ' rabbits available We will turn the at the Lewis Shoe House 234$ a deceased veteran whose death rabbits over to the unemployed" Washington was due to service may qualify for death compensation Monthly payments vary according to the number and relationship of the deA pension (as distinpendents is guished from compensation! granted to the widow and children of certain deceased vets who died of causes not due to service Funeral expenses up to $150 will be paid by the VA at the death of any vet Additional costs covering transportation of the body will be allowed under some conditions For further information about the above benefits call the nearest VA office good-neighb- By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON — "Harry S man is Robert A Taft's bittered aphorism was a leading Roscoe Drumnaond chief of th Christian Science Mon supporter of General Dwight D lor the ReDublican itor's Washington bureau has found a remarkable twist in Eisenhower nomination He meant that as the the capital Somebody in government is trying to get some- president grows weaker in the country Senator Taft s chances of thing done without creating a new agency to do it gaining the Republican nomination Specifically the National Security Resources board is improve proportionally ine reason is simDle As the trying to promote the dispersal of new industry in the resident weakens the orthodox United States for safety reasons Says the board: epublicans are corresnondinelv to ignore the strong "There is no need of a bureau in Washington or else- emboldened hints in the polls and elsewhere that Senator Taft is not their parwhere in the federal government to do this job" ty's most popular candidate Like a cool wind off the lake isn't it? They look at the rather sDecial the Ohio election last year And apparently the effort is meeting with considerable result oflisten to the They If views Initial success despite the board's almost heretical story that President Truman only 1952 Canadians Withhold Vital Aluminum From Americans f 13ft- - -i Hr f- asW--$a- B — mkit rka is 9 beauty both remember y ' I j -- Korea Vets Eligible For Benefits "be-thou- gh run-arou- in-f- -- ! i service-connecte- -- 1 It Happened in Ogden — 20 Years Ago -- - Years Ago mm i - j I I These Women ' ' Sketches By 'Ben Harraufhs "Movinq Man" When choice or real necessity to says we must up and go sons strange town or neighborhood we let one person know that person is the moving man who takes our worldlv goods a and moves them where we designate to city or to woods it's his great van that hauls the that we may chance to things own and he will come from S" request by letter or by phone no matter what the quantity or weight of things may be he makes the job look very Ight but heavy is tbe fee and I have often wondered if he and would he in the ffrnove make his job look very light if he would have to move ' ' ' ' — " aaa — "Honestly mm After I aaed every trick ta the boak to hook Barr found oat he wm tome to uk me ! mrrv him ANVW - I or |