Show Jf IN WASHINGTON J Small Business Worries THE DEFENSE agencies and the control agencies sot up under the national production act maintain they are giving every consideration to small business firms in the letting of both prime and giving them full information and bid even permitting a price differential so that small business may get a part of the government business although unable to compete price-wise with some of their larger I The defense production has Issued a i booklet called a Guide for Small It tells them how they can obtain defense contracts and procure informs them on loan and tax gives them assistance on management and on conversion from civilian to military Is an over-all policy organization on the production front and It says that through June small business provided or 24 5 per cent of the dollar volume of all military purchases of services and And since that with military purchases the contention is that small business Is getting an even greater per But former Jerry of who Is now the executive secretary of the Cooperative League of the maintains this Is not that small business Is even worse In this emergency than It did in World War The former senator Is pushing for the establishment of a defense plants similar to the smaller war plants which was in existence during the last He says that most contracts for war materials are being awarded on a negotiated basis rather than by publicly advertised competitive A few weeks ago through Its small business executive committee placed into effect a four-point program for increasing participation of small business in defense They To bring into the defense effort on a prime sub-contract or purchase part every qualified producer who can be used so that orders can be spread across as wide a base as to find out and put to work the productive facilities of small to give small manufacturers all necessary Information concerning government needs and the steps they should follow in obtaining sub-contracts as well as prime and to develop and install procurement procedures which will encourage prime contractors to subcontract to small firms the maximum amount of business Favors Beef Controls It may or may not be but the National Farmers as opposed to the Farm Bureau Federation and the National strongly favors price controls on beef And the Farmers Union is strongest In the plains states of the Colorado and Montana where a large percentage of beef cattle is An official of the Washington office of the National Farmers Union told this reporter be would like nothing better than to have enough money to buy cattle and have f range to feed on at OPS prices for live He thinks there Is plenty of Incentive In OPS prices for an ever-Increased production of beef e e e Common Courtesy When politics takes a hand so does bias and The manner and attitude with which some senators questioned Generals Omar Bradley and Marshall before the senate committee has almost become a Washington Whereas these same senators questioned General MacArthur with courtesy and never questioned his refusal to answer a the same senators and yelled and sought to browbeat Generals Bradley and Marshall and did not even treat them with common When General refused to answer a question he was even threatened with And these two Bradley and Marshall are of equal military rank and the of Both are national heroes a long record of distinguished military service to our Power Funds Slashed The state department has Just worked out tariff cuts with 17 other nations under the Reciprocal Trade-Act which will result in greater exports for American But the house has voted several crippling amendments to extension of the art and it the senate may And almost while trie country's back has been turned watching MacArthur and other interesting the public power has been slashed I By long established the Korean stays with his three days in his house before returning with ht-r to his own parents' Off i- manhood bc-pins for the Korean only after Even if he is a bachelor's opinion has little The Koreans' traditional habit of wearing many and varied hats is said to have had its origin as a measure against An ancient the legend once concluded that men could not conspire if they could not put their heads Hence he required Irs subjects to wear such huge hats that whispered conversations could not be carried |