Show SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Small Business Casualty of Meat Price Rules Confuse Consumer THE FOUNDATION THREATENED According to several national economic surveys made public in the last week or small business Is becoming a casualty of This Is a serious and frightening fact for thousands of small because about small businesses form the foundation of the American economic many of them located in the home towns of the In the first two years of World War 16 per cent of the small businesses of the country were forced to close There are reports 1 J T many observers believe the fatality rate In the present de-P Syi mobilization program may 7 even higher than in those Jiffy Washington report revealed W small business if A committees are receiving an av- jl j of letters a day appeal ard from 1 I. Several reasons arc given for W the present The most L important are shortages of mall allocation of alum-J from civilian to defense the A uL inability of small business to vR for defense and the i expansion of big business to avoid 1 formally a profitable source for small UP A TREE Mild popular Omar remembered by thousands of World War II veterans in the home towns of America as the put the combined senate armed services and foreign relations committees up a tree during his testimony on the removal of Douglas MacArthur from his Pacific To begin General Bradley caused a stir among the Republican members of the committees by upholding the administration's actions with the sweeping statement that General MacArthur's Korean plans involve us in the wrong at the wrong at the wrong and with the wrong But when he flatly refused to tell the senators about his private talks with the President on the recall of he chased the committees up a For a day committee members argued among themselves whether they should take some kind of contempt action against the They voted 18 to against such action expressing the view that it might set a dangerous To the home town It seemed more likely the senators remembered Bradley's popularity with the men that make up a big part of today's Main Street NEW DRAFT LAW Senate and house attempting to reach a compromise on the two bills previously passed by the finally reached a settlement calling for extension of the draft until July with men of eligible for induction for 24 months of The old draft bill expires July The new one will require all men to register on becoming They would be examined and classified before they were 1814 and would be eligible fur induction providing the pool of men from 19 to 26 In their individual draft districts had been exhausted by the local The bill will put a five million person ceiling on the combined air forces and It also requires that all and reserves have at least four months' basic training before being assigned outside the United UP TO OLD TRICKS After rejecting American plans for a peace treaty with the Russians reverted to their old tricks in proposing their version of a The Soviet which was rejected by the United would bar foreign forces from Japan after the occupation ends and thereby bK ck an arrangement for American troops to help provide Japanese It was the same type of thing the Russians so successfully carried out in Korea and which led to the present situation in No one can believe the Russians thought the United States would accept their but one has to give them credit for having the nerve to suggest There is little possibility now of Russia Joining In the American peace treaty which is nearing BEWILDERED HOUSEWIVES Home town housewives entered their Main Street stores and meat markets on May without their usual dread of visiting a meat The government had just ordered a cut in meat After one look she became a startled and confused For the next 10 days she became more Meat prices were not down according to her figures but What the home town housewife saw was porterhouse steak up 7 cents a pound and sirloin up 9 Round steak was down 2 cents not enough to and short ribs of beef down 8 cents as she had expected of other According to the the up and down price juggling of beef actually produced an over-all savings to the housewife of one-half of 1 per This she couldn't One-half of 1 per cent didn't do a thing for her meat FAIR TRADE RULING-By a vote of the supreme court ruled that merchants who did not sign fair-trade agreements are free to charge cut-rate prices if they Under the laws of 45 distributors of trade-mark or brand goods may enter into agreements with retail dealers to sell their products at filed minimum Under the new court the home town merchant who did not sign such a contract or agreement can sell the product at whatever price he The only states not having fair-trade laws are and The ruling will have little effect on most classes of merchandise as long as business is most Main Street businessmen would not hold If business went into a Homeward Bound on Rotation Express American veterans of the Korean fighting board j truck bound for a rotation center they be for return to the United Tired slugged the truck |