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Show unty Chrc jj s j hurs., Mc : 1 , m o N s MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE. DELTA, UTAH i - ' - .... ... - - l:i Seers Silent on Commodity Trend Myth of Current Price Dip: 'Truman Planned That Way' By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator, WASHINGTON. It is still open season for economists, i! financial experts and market wizards. It took about a week ij after the first drop on the commodity market to send them ,! into their holes. Up to that time, you cpuld get a prognostica- - tion anywhere from the Chicago stockyards to Broad and Wall '.. streets or Pennsylvania avenue and 15th street. But along about the sixth day of the dip, anybody who would tell you whether we were facing a perr.ianent nose-div- e or just weathering the flutter of a few yards of ticker tape was as rare as a vote against tax-i- ! reduction (that issue, itself, had changed after the sixth diri). j The reason no expert would talk j was that all of them had been mak--1 ing wrong predic- - duced to give a touch of verisi-militude to an otherwise narrative. The sooth-sayers say that several methods were pursued, some of them OR" j , I X ? , ' ;, L. 'JLi tions ever since Coolidge's per-manent plateau of prosperity of pre - depression days or Hoover's corner around which prosperity was always duck-ing. The most silent man in Washing-ton was Secre-tar- y of the Treas-ury Snyder. He successfully. For example, the President slam-bange- d at what he called the "gamblers" in commodities who were driving np food prices by speculating in grain and other futures. That did open a Pandora's box, and some of the plagues released alighted on the very rooftree of the White House. But it also threw a scare into the marketeers and the markets. Then came the day of a White House press and radio conference when the President made a remark credited at the time by some of his friends as an unhappy slip when he said that if the cost of liv-ing was not controlled, there would be a crash. That got headlines, frightened a lot of little fellows who pulled out their chips, and, combin-ing with other evil Jinns released from the economists' Jinn bottles,' did the trick. There are many others of these tales which will grow, such as the creating of sun-spo- by the admin-istration's atomic-energ- y experts. But one is enough for the moment. Anyhow "it was planned that way!" Taft-Hartle- y Issue Losing Its Potency There has been a lot of noise over the y act lately, and on the surface it looks as if the law might become an issue in the presi-dential campaign. If that should happen, it certainly would help the prestige of Senator Taft. But the say it can't happen. As you know, last autumn, right after the act went into effect, a lot of people felt its provisions would decide the votes in the But those elections came and went, and it was hard to adduce any sta-tistics to prove that T-- had figured very much, if at all. Later on, animosity against the law died down. But now both the CIO and AFL have announced their preliminary plans for campaigning against the men who voted for it; Taft has used it in his campaign speeches in Midwest centers where labor is strong; Philip Murray was indicted under its provisions, and both Murray, representing the CIO, and the International Typographers' union have charged it is unconstitu-tional. But the issue still fails to command any real dramatic in-terest. This is another proof of how a controversial issue that calls forth bitter debate and stirs up nationwide interest at the mo-ment, can fade into the back-ground ,as time passes, and by election day have little or no effect on votes. It is much like a fire that makes Page 1 because it breaks out just as an edition of an afternoon paper is going, to press. It may get a banner on Page 1 if the news is light, but by the next edition, it may have shrunk to a single head on an inside page. Recency expands the importance of all events. You may recount excit-edly at dinner how you almost got hit by a truck on the way to work. But by tomorrow night, you'll be telling with much more gusto about a fish you caught last summer. The City of Washington always quails before a real snowstorm like a pup with the hose turned on it. Baukhage knew that t0 many people re- - membered what he and others had said two years ago last fall. Snyder, at that time reconversion director, (l had predicted that by the spring of (he next year (1946) eight million people would be unemployed. In fact, so many others believed that 1: that Henry Wallace, already dream- - ing of a home with white pillars on Pennsylvania avenue, decided to j make "Sixty Million Jobs" a come- - j hither plank in his platform. He I; wrote a book with that title and it became a best seller. His book set a I goal of 56,500,000 to 57,500,000 civil- - j ' lans employed by 1950. But somebody must have stolen the idea or else they wanted to play a mean trick on J Wallace and on Snyder any- - ' how there were 57,149,000 per- - sons employed in this country as j of January, 1948 two years j early, and 10 months before presidential campaign time. j Likewise, in October of 1946, sev- - eral astute Washington inside-stuf- f letter writers were saying privately to their thousands of clients, and the i AFL monthly survey was saying in p i public print, that by early 1947 i p prices would come down. One could ' say on January of 1947, with con- - lj siderable accuracy, that there was j a general agreement on recession ! . , beginning soon and followed by I j more a little later. J i! j Other writers predicted it a little J ' i) later, and some, by summer, were J s insisting that deflation already was ' ( here. : t s But what happened? In the ( very year of that doleful proph-- 1 i ecy, prices started on the up-- t shoot that took them Into their 1 ' ' e high. 3 t Many other similar bad guesses might be mentioned, all of which contributed toward making the - ji prophets reticent, and so when the - slide came in February of this year, i; j nobody would even whisper "fox" c for fear that not even a kit would i; ( appear. They knew that nobody M "would believe them after all the ' i withoutthe-wolf-wolfin- g that had ' 1 been going on. In any case, this dip, drop, de- - pression or delusion, whichever it ; turns out to be by the time these I, t lines reach print, or later, will have ,; its garland of myths and legends ,; - entwined about it 4 The best myth, of course, is j;l that Mr. Truman "planned it :j that way." ;!; The blueprint is simple enough if you are good at reading a blueprint :i between the lines. Prices were get- - .i ting too high. At worst, they might bring on a real depression before election; at best, they would bring a '.! series of strikes and work stoppages which might seriously hamper the ;;j Marshall plan on the one hand, and 'il add to the discontent of the voters ;i on the other. It would be like any j operation, not dangerous from the surgeon's point of view. Just a little J amputation of credit, at least so j il said doctors who work on the body i ;j economic, which would let enough . blood out of some businesses to j J ' cause a little unemployment. Enough ! to scare off strikes and make busi- - !!J nessmen a little more cautious about 'y expansion. 'la' j! There was some evidence that ! this may really have been intended C because the President did ask in his e November 17 message to congress k 'h for credit control. and increased bank reserves. However, when con- - gress said "humph" to that along 0 with the President's other recom- - mendations, he turned around and ' demoted the man who is said to have written the deflation prescrip- - ,J. 'J tion from the chairmanship of the j federal reserve board (Marriner ' ' Eccles), and put in a man supposed ' ( to have more sympathy with an op- - I i posite course. i a J However we mustn't spoil a good story by facts. There are other points which can be intra. inTnTlrnrfiini WALTER SHEAD New GPO Business Venture WONDER how proponents of individual free enterprise WE feel about the government printing office going into the chain book store business. For that's exactly what UU wants to do-o-pen up regional book stores in various sections 3f the country to speed up delivery of some 30,000 OUU copies 01 which it has printed and has on the 70,000 different books and pamphlets hand. . . Last year GPO was rated the world's largest publisher and turned over to the U. S. treasury more than three million dollars It obtained from the sale of about 37,000,000 books and pamphlets. Most of these books are sold by mail from a nickel up to possibly a dollar a copy and consequently much of the revenue was m small coins. Thousands of the small coins attached by glue or tape to letters had to be washed in gasoline to remove the stickiness. t Best seller, according to GPO, was a 15 cent booklet, "Infant Care, put out by the U. S. children's bureau. More than four million copies have been sold, many to physicians. One costly item $50 for 37 volumes of the actual record of the trial of the major war criminals at Nuernberg is another good seller and right now in demand is the state department's $1 volume of "Nazi-Sovi- Relations." It contains captured documents from the German foreign office files from 1939-4- K H. I. PHILLIPS Special Delivery Letter You have caught them napping, Henry. The elevator vote i signifi-cant, local or express. There is also the escalator or moving stairway vote, Hank, which you should not overlook. A lot of your supporters are escalator types; they like to sit down while going upstairs. This is a growing trend in America and a man who could promise escalators for all would be a shoo-i- In the meantime, Henry, check the people who are for you going up in elevators, subtract those who are for you going down and multiply by those who walk up. This will give you as good a line on the outcome as any deductions you are making now. Tours truly Elmer. Mr. Henry Wallace, Dear Hen: In a press interview you said to newsmen, "You'll be amazed at the final outcome of this campaign. vou have no idea how many people are afraid to express their views these days. For example I am constantly lurprised by the number of people who see me in elevators and say they will vote for me." Well, Henry, maybe yon have the elevator vote sewed np. I do not blame you for clutching at it, as a lot of voters ride in ele-vators. Yon are the first candi-date for the presidency to ap-preciate the support of elevator passengers. The rest haven't ap-preciated what a lift (that's a joke, son) elevator voters can give a man. WESTBROOK PEGLER Judge Can Wield Power THERE is always a delicate question how far a judge should go in a trial. If he thinks the U. S. attorney is throwing down the case, deliberately sticking his chin out or neglecting the government's interests, he has the power to butt in and ask questions. He. can call him into his chambers and warn him. He can practically take over and make sure that none of the jurors is under obligation to anybody. But does it ever happen? The U. S. attorney in charge may be doing his best, but the fumble and fix can take place in the preparation of the case or the drawing of the jury. Or he might be an earnest third-rat- er stuck up against the trickiest criminal lawyers in the country. The department of justice persecuted a whole covey of citizens during the war for thinking disloyal thoughts. The case dissolved, after months ol disgraceful nonsense. It will be historic, for people were dragged clear across the country and forced to exist in poverty to be present at an outrageous farce poked up by a lot of Roosevelt's idolators merely because some of the defendants said they admired Hitler or hated Roosevelt. Yet a hundred thousand Communists have flaunted their attachment to a power which is held to be a mortal enemy of our government. Not one of them ever has been indicted for sedition or treason and hundreds of them got jobs in the Roosevelt government. WALTER WINCHELL Siqns of the Times Wanna, buy a snake? Besides the night club varieties, animal dealers are stuck with dozens of 'em. ... If you don't think times are tough, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, the zillionaire, is wearing his seven-year-ol- d polo coatl Wanna House Cheap? A public relations firm offered a castle in England to anyone in the TL S. who would claim it. The offer didn't get one inquiry! Litree tea talkers hear Marion Hargrove refused to revise his new novel the reason the Literary guild turned it down and MGM won't film it. The movie deal was based on its being a guild selection. The author's decision, they add, probably will cost him $250,000. Characters in Search of a Colyum-ist- : "Newsreel Sam, the Hissing Alan." He haunts the newsreel temples (in va-rious parts of the city) ana when ap-plause greets some neighborhood fa-vorite (or national pet) he hisses. . . . If it is Union square, he hisses Wal-lace. . . . On stvank Sutton place he hisses Taft. . . . On Broadway he hisses Eisenhower He sits in the rear rows and gets his big kicks watching the craned necks. . . . "Jaeger the Waiter." . . . He's the No. 1 y at Lin-d)'- s. . . . Takes all orders standing side-ways ever since a show producer told him he had a Barrymore profeel. He always refers to himself in the third person, frinstance: "Jaeger will be right with you." . . . "Please, please, you must relax if you want Jaeger to wait on you." . . . "Jaeger is a very busy man, be patient." . . . "Now, Jaeger will take your order." . . . Comics, and others of the Broadway set all clamor for the services of Jaeger be-cause he's such a lovable ham. He makes THEM lag.' DREW PEARSON Anti-Trum- an Feeling Grows A resentment among the Democrats now is so deep that some actually are talking about trying to dump him. What Mr. Truman has succeeded in doing is alienating both wings of the party the southern Democrats and the northern liberals. This was some thing that Roosevelt, despite the kicking around he gave to some leaders was careful never to do. But now Mr. Truman has rubbed northern liberals the wrong way by ousting such Roosevelt appointees as Marriner Eccles, James Landis and John Fahey. Simultaneously he has made southern leaders boil over with indignation at his civil-right- s message. In fact, the only people Mr. Truman has pleased are the Republicans Result of all this is that some Democratic leaders are even talking among themselves about finding a new candidate Admit-- to l, "l60"r'e'ntohminiknatthioenChoafncae is ereat; for U's almt impossible sitting president t ,H0WwVnr' Smer?f em have been quietly a boom for Douglas, while others talk about a move for the Democratic ticket. After all. the first and only poliUca) speech Ike ever made was at a Jackson Dn, dinner at the age of 18 4r X- j WRIGHT PATTERSON Much Talk, No Action ""PHERE has been too much talk 1 and not enough action in regard to national economies on the part of congress. Individual Republicans are loud in their demands for less spending but collectively they con-tinue to vote for things we could do without. Individuals condemn the maintenance of an army of useless bureaucrats. Collectively they vote the money to continue to pay their salaries. It is time congress, as a body, provides the economies indi-vidual members insist must be made. It would be good politics to make good on promises. That is good advice for politicians at all times, especially in an election year. t ' ' - j . s r ""-- " 1 J FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE . . . Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt presents the national achievement award, one of America's highest honors, to the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, England, for her "distinguished services to her country which have been an Inspira-tion to the women of other countries." Crocheted PansiJ On Lovely Chairgg 5 7 05,' "ve"7 lovely chaT x certain to be a piece to 1, ure. Giant pansies, crochets ? the authentic colorings of the 1 ' ers, are done in a heavier usual cotton,. The set cJr quickly and easily made. ' . 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A NEWS REVIEW Aid for China Asked; Senate OKs Budget Cut Although it was obvious that his heart wasn't in it, President Tru-man presented congress with a re-quest for 570 million dollars to be sent to China as a prop for the foundering economy of Chiang Kai-shek- 's Nationalist government. White House and state depart-ment sources admitted that the re-quest was something less than a and claimed that the President had acted under pressure from the Republican congress which has insisted that the U. S. must support Chiang against the Communist revolution in connection with the European recovery plan. At best the 570 million dollars is a token gesture just a chip in rela-tion to the vast amount of timber that would be needed to restore the rotting derelict of Chiang's govern-ment. v ' 9 IRELAND; Neiv Premier Even to members of the Eire as-sembly who had helped defeat him it was strange to see Eamon De Valera, premier of Ireland for 16 years, sitting quietly on the opposite side of the house as leader of the opposition. In his place as premier was John A. Costello, former attorney gen-eral, whom the assembly had voted into office after a new y co-alition had taken control of the leg-islative group as a result of the previous elections. Costello, in a dignified speech to the assembly, explained his sudden emergence as premier of Ireland: "I consented to this nomination at the request of a number of parties who felt that the interest of the country required that there should be an inter-part- y government and that the premier of that govern-ment should occupy a position in political life detached from the con-troversial bitterness of the past." The "inter-part- y government" whose choice Costello was is com-pounded of six political parties of apparently divergent ideals: Re-publican, United Ireland, Labor, Na-tional Labor, Independent and Farmers. Just how long a government made up of so many diverse com-ponents would last was the subject of much speculation in Ireland. In their present cooperative mood the parties of the coalition may carry on for a year or two, but few were prepared to give the government a much longer span of life. CAT FEET: First a Dream Like the fog that "comes on little cat feet," Carl Sandburg, honored and honorable free-vers- e poet and voluminous biographer of Lincoln, was creeping into the senatorial race in Illinois. A hitherto almost imperceptible drive supporting Sandburg as a pos- - sible candidate for sion of aid, which will be used to finance Chinese imports of cereals, petroleum, coal, fertilizer and so forth, is that the money will enable Chiang's government to free other resources for purchase of arms and ammunition to continue the fight against the Communist guerrillas. But that is more of an idle hope than a valid theory, because the government forces, despite their American arms and equipment, are being bested consistently by the Communists. BUDGET CUT: Indifferent With little discussion and a good deal of outright indifference, the senate adopted a resolution to cut President Truman's fiscal 1949 budget by 2.5 billion dollars. How much significance the sen-ate resolution would have in the final analysis was questionable, in view of prevailing uncertainties which might affect both sides of the ledger. The reduction would leave an estimated 10 billion dollars for tax cuts and debt reduc-tion. Republicans, therefore, were feeling increasingly confident that an income tax slash of up to 5 bil-lion dollars could be enacted. Brevity of the senate discussion and its lack of apoplectic oratory was in direct contrast to last year's strident contest over the budget committee's recommendation of a cut in the 1948 budget. Democrats made no effort to block the proposed spending slash which had been recommended by the house-senat- e budget committee. It still requires house adoption. Biggest bug in the senate's budget recommendation was the fact that it probably embodied a number of inaccurate estimates. Republican sponsors of the measure admitted that accurate estimates of budget needs were impossible at the time. Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N. H.), chairman of the budget committee, compared the estimates with "a e guess at the final score." But Sen. Alben Barkley (Dem., Ky.) called the procedure "a step in the dark." senator picked up considerable impe-tus with the release of a public opinion pjll indicating that he might become a popular choice over the Democratic candidate, Paul H. Douglas, and the Republican date, Sen. C. Way-lan- d Brooks. As far as the question of how a poet can turn into a politician is concerned, those favoring him say he is a "good man," he understands the common people and is educated and about the coun-try's needs. The opposition claims he is politically inexperienced and, since he is a writer, is an impracti-cal dreamer and an idealist. But Sandburg, the poet, once wrote: "The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream." TUNE IN TOMORROW Soap Operas Benefit Society Relax, ladies. Don't feel guilty about listening to the great and grievous trials of "John's Other Schmoe" every day at 11:15 a. m., brought to you through the courtesy of Philbottom's Ossified Sheep Dip. The news is now out that soap operas, as presented interminably on the radio, actually might do you some downright good. An anthropologist. Prof. W. Lloyd Warner, and a psychologist, Dr. William E.. Henry, tuned in on a daytime radio serial over a long period and arrived at the ponderous solution that soap operas are "of considerable value to our society." The two scholars, consultants for a research organization which di-rected the study for Columbia Broadcasting system, based their report on a detailed analysis of the serialized drama, "Big Sister." Women being the chief listeners, it .is they who derive the greatest benefits from these daytime dirges by having their egos bolstered and their spirits strengthened by hear-ing stories of Actional women going through problems and experiences that parallel their own, the scien-tists pointed out. "The basic and primary theme is that good and noble women who are wives and mothers are invincible within their own arena of life, the American family," said the report. "Men, who are superordinate elsewhere, are subordinate and de-pendent (iji the story) on the wis dom of the wife. This primary theme always triumphs over the second theme which runs counter to it that family ties can be broken and a woman's security threatened chiefly by the loss of the husband to other women, and, quite seconda-rily and obliquely, by death." Moreover, the social scientists said, the program, among other things, provides its women listeners with "moral beliefs, values and techniques for solving emotional and interpersonal problems and makes them feel they are learning while they listen." In brief, the report added up to a clear-cu- t spiritual and moral vic-tory of the soap opera over its hard-ened and blase critics. |
