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Show I MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH jCKI-- 4 I , : Li 1 JII,,1,,.1 Old New Yorker st A Brooklyn newspaperman once enjoyed roaming through Broadway from midnight to dawn. He haunted saloons and theaters and hobnobbed with the inhabitants of the show world to gather material for yarns. He did what B'way colyumists are now doing. His name: Walt Whit-man. . . . About a century ago, a New York scrivener turned out a novel that was a financial failure. As a result, he gave up writing and took a job as inspector of customs on the Gansevoort street pier. He held this job for two decades. Her-man Melville never lived to see his novel become one of the great clas-sics "Moby Dick." ... One of the struggling poets in Greenwich Vil-lage (at the turn of the century) managed to live by scrubbing the floors of a saloon. Years later he scaled the heights and became the English poet laureate John Mase-fiel- W. C. Fields started on a bender In Hollywood and wound up with a hangover In New York. He was surprised to see John Barrymore at the Stork club. "What's the matter," asked Barrymore, "didn't you know I was in town?" "I didn't even know I was!" was the retort. Jim Crouch recalls the time Er-nest Truex played the title role in "Rip Van Winkle," and a killjoy critic gave the star only this much space: "Ernest Truex excelled in the sleeping scene." The Press Box: The activities committee announced a year ago it would investigate Fascist groups in the U.S. Nothing, as you suspected, has happened. They can't even decide what they should do about Gerald L. K. Smith, the notorious soandso. . . . Stassen complains that Taft and Dewey are teaming up against him. The ones who really should worry are Jack Benny and Fred Allen. . . . Collier's (which points out your inaccura-cies) spells Alice Faye's name "Fay." It isn't an easy mistake to make, either. Her name's been in lights for a dozen years since "Wake Up and Live" was filmed in 1936. . . . The creators of the comic strip, "Superman," settled their case out of court for over $100,000. They will introduce an Idea in strips never done before. Intelligentsia: The magazine set has the giggles over the jokester who had the New Yorker's movie critic as his chump. John (of that mag) was sum-moned to the phone the other Sab-bath evening, told to move his radio closer to the receiver and was asked silly questions for a quiz contest, which it wasn't. In-siders (who pulled the gag) still are in stitches! At the National Press club a porter thought things never would look any cheerier until we came up with another FDR. "When Roosevelt was alive," sneered a Repub, "everyone In Washington was miserable." "I know," said our hero. "But the rest of the country was happy." Broadway Confetti: "Inside USA" has to run a year at a big biz before it pays angels a dividend. . . . We have a new kerrickter about Duffy square. He greets the pidjins by name: "Hello Pierrel Howz Beatrice? Well, Oscarl Where you been, Sammy? If it isn't Hortensel" . . . The black market ticket scan-dal (at the circus) has the specs taking fewer chances. Manhattan Murals: The sign in the Delancey street delicatessen: "Patrons Who Consider Our Wait-ers Uncivil Should See the Man-ager." . . . The upside down ad in the subway trains, which has all the chumps twisting their necks. . . . The sign on the dance hall: "Most Exclusive Place in Town. Everybody Welcome.". . . . The res-taurant (on the Stork club block) still being built, which has had three different owners who ran out of money. And It hasn't opened yet! "Our big danger," said a head-line reader, "is from Russians who think this nation's asleep!" "Yon mean," corrected a lis-tener, "from Americans who think this country's awake!" Will Rogers once had a banquet to "attend" after a "Follies" per-formance. He hastened there with-out changing his cowboy suit. One of the Snobnoxious sarcasm'd: "Why didn't your horse come?" "Because," snapped Will, "he's a lot smarter than I ami" News Item: "Stock Exchange prexy, Emil Schram, declared emphatically that Americans needn't worry about another 1929 crash." You needn't if yon don't buy any stocks, he means. WfK.y JVEW.5 ANALYSIS Farm Groups OK Brannan Choice; Truce Bequest Fails m Palestine; Si Wage Pact Eotsld Set Pattern By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer colnmns. they art those of (PniTOR'S NOTE: When opinion, arc .pressed In thes. Wlcrn N.w.pw.r Union', new. analjst. and not eceSsar,lr .f th.a newspaper.) ? Current Events? Although they might seem a bit obscure to anyone who doesn't make a conscious effort to memorize the front page of a newspaper every day, these questions do have ansivers. As a matter of fact, the questions are so difficult that even the answers have ansivers. 1. Capitals of the seven Arab league states fighting Israel are: Mecca and Riyadh (dual capitals of one state), Baghdad, Damas-cus, Amman, Beirut, Cairo and Sana. What states do they be-long to? 2. Sir Alexander Fleming has been awarded the American Medal for Merit for his contribu-tion to medical science. What contribution? 3. Republicans meet in Phila-delphia this month to nominate their candidate for president. Where did the GOP nominate its last successful candidate? 4. When President Truman nominated Charles F. Brannan as secretary of agriculture it brought the total of Truman cabinet appointments to 10, 16 or 21? 5. Everyone knows that the Taft of the Taft-Hartl- act is Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Identify the Hartley. ANSWERS 1. Mecca and Riyadh, Saudi Arab-ia; Baghdad, Iraq; Damascus, Syr-ia; Amman, Trans-Jorda- Beirut, Lebanon; Cairo, Egypt; Sana, Ye-men. 2. He discovered the germ-killin- g properties of peniclllium mold which led to development of penicil-lin. 3. Last sucessful GOP candidate was Herbert Hoover, nominated in June, 1928, at Kansas City, Mo. 4. Mr. Truman has appointed 16 to the cabinet. 5. Rep. Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (Rep., N.J.) APPROVED: Brannan President Truman's choice of Charles F. Brannan to succeed Clinton Anderson as secretary of agriculture has received the whole-hearted approval of the national farm organizations. They consider the former assistant secretary of agri-- culture "a friend of the farmer." One of the bases for this feeling of harmony is the fact that Bran-nan and the farm organizations con-- cur in thinking that the prewar parity law is badly outdated. Such crops as soybeans, for in-stance, have attained a much great-er importance since the law was passed but still have no satisfactory price fixing tiasis. Other farmers, including cattle and dairy produc-ers, claim their parity scales are out of line in this postwar period. Ideas developed by Brannan to help remedy this situation have been largely adopted by the lead- -' ing farm groups and are incorpo-rated in bills now pending before congress. Unless congress acts by the end of this year the law guar-anteeing farm prices at 90 per cent of the fixed parity rate will expire. Serving quietly as assistant sec-retary of agriculture for the past four years, Brannan has made himself the backbone of the ad-ministration's drive to enact a long-rang- e farm program. Thus, the farmers think a lot of Brannan because he has demon-strated that he is looking out for their interests in a realistic, level-headed fashion. President Truman, it appeared, had made a good choice in putting Brannan at the head of the de-partment Almost everybody was satisfied, and that, in an election year, was a most desirable situa-tion for Mr. Truman. FAILURE: No Peace It was difficult to say who would suffer more from the Arabs' rejec-tion of U. N. truce plea for Pales-tine the Arabs themselves, the Jews or the United Nations. Probably the Jews came off to better advantage in the world coun-cils of public opinion, inasmuch as through their willingness to accept a truce they now can appear in the role of a nation which has been wronged and is forced to fight a war that has been thrust willy nilly upon it. The Arabs simply brushed aside the idea of a truce with the con-tention that they could not halt the shooting war until the state of Israel is abandoned and the Jewish army demobilized. There never was any question in the minds of Arab lead-ers about the truce. It was literal-ly unacceptable to them. Their position was stated definitively by the Egyptian premier, Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha, who said: "There never will be founded a state called Israel, or any other name, as long as the creation of that state relies upon the theft of Arab land, the extermination of its Arab owners and the sacrifice of moral principles of its Arab neigh-bors." Nevertheless, the Arab refusal was a bitter blow to the U. N. security council. It had been or-ganized for the express purpose of resolving just such disputes as this one in Palestine, yet it could do nothing more than make a weak gesture of placation. There was little doubt that the se-curity council had been rendered toothless and impotent on the Pal-estine issue by the U. S. attitude, or rather lack of attitude. What position the United States would take as an individual nation with regard to the Palestine war was not clear either. At a conference with Chaim Weizmann, Israel's president, Pres-ident Truman promised that the U. S. would provide financial sup-port for Israel in the form of a loan of about 100 million dollars. Further, he hinted at the possibility that unless the Arab states cease fire the U. S. might provide arms for the Jews. Day after the conference, how-ever, Mr. Truman dismissed Weiz-mann- 's plea for a loan as some-thing that could be handled by the export-impo- rt bank, and he com-pletely ducked the issue of raising the embargo on arms shipments to the Middle East. CORNBALL: For Breakfast Some of the more sentimental hands around the American Broad-casting company's Chicago studios like to think of Don McNeill as a beautiful and vibrant symbol of the rise and snowballing success of ABC itself. At least they both were young together and both had to fight their way ud PAY HIKE : JVeto Formula When General Motors corporation averted a threatened strike of 225,-00- 0 auto production workers by of-fering an raise based on a formula it probably set a precedent which will be fol-lowed in settling other industrial labor disputes. Under the agreement, described as an "entirely new approach to the living cost problem," GM pro-duction workers get an increase and a pay boost based on annual industrial efficiency improvement. Terms provide that wages be ad-justed up or down each three months to conform with fluctua-tions in the consumer price index of the bureau of labor statistics. It appeared to be a sound plan and one that might be followed to good advantage by other industries. Biggest Caw in the scheme was the fact that General Motors might have to pass the g raise on to the public, which step might have the. eventual effect of nullify-ing the benefits of the raise to the workers. Significance of this adjustable wage formula can be seen in a review of the rise in prices since 1940. The cost of liv-ing today is 99 per cent higher than In 1940. Using 1940 as a base year which is what GM and the United Auto Workers did in arriving at their agreement living costs now are at 169 per cent. VOICE: Belittling Voice of America broadcasts, which have never received a full measure of congressional approval, sank to an even lower level of disesteem because of a series of programs beamed to Latin America last winter. The scripts in question, denounced by senators as sabotage, slander and libel of the U. S., first attracted attention in March during house appropriation committee hearings on the Voice of America. In the sample script that the committee wanted to look over were some remarks about Wyoming. Stout-hearte- d Wyoming congress-men shrieked in anguish. Other scripts were examined, and Sen. Homer Capehart (Rep., Ind.) fin-ally aired the whole thing before the senate. The legislators shuddered as they heard Capehart read from the scripts such excerpts as: "New England was founded by hypocrisy and Texas by sin." "Nevada's two main cities com-pete with each other because peo-ple get married in Las Vegas and divorced in Reno." The programs were handled by the National Broadcasting company under contract with the state department. Rene Borgia, the man who wrote the scripts, was fired, and Alberto Gandero, Borgia's su-pervisor, resigned. J'' r through a welter of opposable circum-stances to find ad-joining places in the sun. As toastmaster of the uninhibited Breakfast Club pro-gram, McNeill will celebrate his 15th McNeill anniversary on June 23 with the same kind of capers he has been executing five days a week between 8 and 9 a. m. since 1933. Despite the subterranean regard which this sophisticated generation purports to hold for the more di-rect and obvious types of humor, McNeill has found that being a cornball pays off. He works with-out a script and his gags are strict-ly He once invited a herpetologist (a student of reptiles and amphib-ians) who visited the program, to "Come into the parking lot after the broadcast and I'll show you a rare specimen. A windshield viper." And when a New Jersey woman told him that her husband is a butcher and she is a corsetiere, he commented, "What an ideal ar-rangement. He fattens them up and you pull them in." McNeill parlays this kind of ex-temporaneous patter with a feeling of genuine camaraderie for the plain people who are guests on his show to produce a program that has had a nationwide cult of early morning listeners begging for more for 15 consecutive years. Throttling of Small Business Can Kill Democratic System By BAUKHAGE Notes Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON. Over in England, where the majority voted to accept socialism because they felt the ld "capitalistic experiment" had been a failure, they are finding that you can't vote yourself into a prosperity any more than you can vote yourself into morality. There are still a lot of Britons who think they have been voted out of the frying pan into the fire. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, in a re-cent report to the Labor party, admitted that conversion into socialist democracy was a long hard task, longer than they had imagined. "We are engaged in a great ven-ture," Attlee said, "We are trying to build up a great, free, socialist democracy." He warned that a so- - ciety changed by I ( I ' ( : it ..,::.Ji u n d e m o c ratic methods is apt to lose the "habits of democracy." I suppose he meant by that that so-cialism had to come by evolu-tion, which is an ancient axiom of the more conser-vative socialists. Communists say it can come only their prognostications and studies, and they feel that the trend for all business now is up. But listen to what the people sur-veyed by Kiplinger say: A food wholesaler in Iowa: "Bread sales are extremely high, also flour sales are good and the sale of rolled oats is good, as people apparently are filling up on these nutritious foods in preference to more expensive items." A baker in Ohio: "We are selling fewer cakes and pies." Women are doing more sewing at home, with clothing prices so high. An Illinois businessman said: "The local high school decided to have a night school on sewing. The first registration was 135 women." Young woman in Wisconsin: "I'm not the only working girl in this community who doesn't have the new look." Illinois farmwoman: "We planned to buy some new furniture, but the price is too high. I am making slipcovers." Even electrical items, dreamed of by housewives as an after-the-w-necessity, are not selling well. Said an Iowa dealer: "The edge is defi- - nitely off on hard goods, such as refrigerators, washers, radios, stoves, etc. Prices too high." A traveling salesman covering the small towns finds the going tough: "I cover New York staje and I am working twice as hard for half the business." Many little signs of hard times were reported by Kiplinger's sur-vey. Examples: A Texas housewife: "I am feed-ing tramps for the first time since before the war." . A deacon: "Collections are off at our church." A loan company man: "More borrowing from small loan com-panies." A village cobbler: "My shoe repair business is good." As the Kiplinger magazine puts it: "The folks in the small towns are harder up. Their incomes haven't gone up as much as the prices they pay." In other words, according to the survey, the wealth is getting out of the hands of the consumer. And whether this survey or the com-merce department's optimistic pre-diction are more nearly correct, (congress abolished the small busi-ness section), this much at least can be said: You can redistribute the wealth by the socialistic intervention of government. That kills capitalism. Or you can redistribute it by per-mitting full and free competition-competi- tion on the part of the pro-ducers of raw materials, competi-tion on the part of labor, (an ex-pensive item), competition on the part of processors. Industrial or labor monopoly, as I said before, will kill capitalism in the end as effectively as the Communist with his little red hatchet. Even Russians Get This Item was passed along to me by a friend. A high officer in one of the armies which fought against Russia was visiting this country, and told this story: Recently in Berlin, he was enter-taining a high Russian officer sta-tioned there. It was a farewell party as the Russian and bis wife had been ordered to return to Mos-cow. The host remarked that it was nice that the Russian could take his wife back from the rigors of occupation life in Germany. The Russian had dined well, and perhaps was indiscreet. Anyway, he confessed that he was anything but pleased; that he was dreading the period he and his wife must pass in the "camp." Then he explained that every Russian, before be was allowed to return to the Soviet Union, had to pass through a center, and be indoctrinated with Just what he should say to his friends and relatives. I repeat this item because It oomes to me in a direct, intimate manner; not a part of any or-ganized propaganda. It's as hard to reach an agree-ment with 16 lawyers haggling ovei every word in a labor controversy as it is to get into heaven with 16 theologians haggling over how many angels can stand on the head of a pin. Good pastures save grain, says department of agriculture. Yes, and around about foreclosing time, good grain will save pastures. by revolution. Attlee also said that socialism was a way of life not an economic theory. That will be questlond by some people. Ha added that social-Is-demanded a higher standard of citizenship than does capitalism. Some people will quarrel with that too. Many will say that it Isn't that capitalism doesn't demand a higher standard of citizenship, but simply that capitalism (or any other known system, for that mat-ter) doesn't always get it. Capitalism fails, when it does fail, not because there is any-thing wrong with free enterprise or competition, but because some-times the standard of morality or standard of citizenship if you will, running the system, bogs down. Then free enterprise Is shackled and competition destroyed. The anti-tru- st laws were passed to punish people who tried to check free enterprise by killing compe-tition. Those laws wouldn't be needed, government intervention wouldn't be needed. If the standard of mor-ality, of citizenship, were high enough among the people who con-trol enterprise. Long before the war, and increasingly so when shortages began to appear later, big business began crowding small business out of existence. Because of war conditions and the powerful Influence of big busi-ness, the small buyer couldn't com-pete. He wasn't able to get the raw materials. Small business is the keystone of capitalism. According to the Com-mittee on Economic Development, 88 per cent of the business units in this country employ 50 people or less. Those "business units" of course aren't limited to manufac-turing firms they include the road-side hotdog stand, the hand laundry, the tea room, and the country store as well as the busi-ness men producing manufactured items on a small scale. If this 98 per cent of a capi-talistic country's business isn't prosperous, capitalism can't suc-ceed. In fact yon can't have capitalism when big Industrial groups monopolize business any more than you can have it when the state monopolizes business. What is happening to small busi-ness today? It can't compete. Big business is making big profits, pay-ing big wages (regardless of whether the take-hom- e pay of the workers is equal to cover high prices or not). Small business can't afford to pay the big wages, and the small town merchant is not mak-ing sales and profits because the consumers in his company haven't the money to spend. A recent issue of the Kiplinger magazine made a survey of condi-tions in small towns as reported in a thousand letters from small busi-nessmen, teachers, preachers, doc-tors, lawyers, housewives, working-me- n and working women In those towns. The net of the survey was that there was a definite letdown In business after January of this year, and that the people sur-veyed believed that there is a further letdown in prospect. There is evidence of reduced con-suming power which is the first sign of a depression. A sign that the wealth of the nation is getting out of the buyers' hands. Now that's a pretty gloomy pic-ture and not wholly subscribed to by commerce department people here. They will tell you that busi-ness everywhere, large and small, showed a tendency to level off after January of this year, that there was a definite weakening in the first quarter of the year. But they be-lieve that was a temporary trend, that It's over now, that business will reverse itself, and that the general trend Is now upward again. They make no differentiation be-tween large and small businesses jn No Quarter Jtru. tun S JORDAN EGYPT jQsRA0V.W Fires of war between Arab and Jew continued to burn in the Holy Land when the Arab states re-fused to comply with a TJ. N. re-quest for a truce. Attacking Jew-ish forces at all points, the Arabs said they would not quit until the Jews renounced their new state of Israel. Meanwhile, as victorious Haganah troops took over Acre (1), Egyptian planes Intensified the air attack on Tel Aviv (2) and Arab troops enjoyed their great-est victories in Jerusalem (3). QUESTION; KyT $ painted five year, aJ 5 good paint Tho pt cracking and peeita. wood. Should I jcrapt of?,' f) paint and apply a coatof , paint, then a coat of 1 f: paint? - froi ANSWER: That woUJ , t good way to handl, th, Po, But first examine the J! ,cc leakage. It Is quit, since the house waa pa' years ago, small crackj J; opened up around the door frames that admit v ' lng driving rainj. Thli nlf leaks down Inside the u',. ( warm, dry days Is draw, 1 the walls, taking off paint,;., surfaces. , QUESTION: Is it tec.,.' flush a hot water system two? ANSWER: At the v... the heating season It Is jT. draw off several pallfula o' to flush off some of the tc tlon In the boiler, but it ij v'. sary to drain off the entire system. Use a boiler clesjC pound every two or three til, Oratorical Flight i',' - . ' r-- ' - i ; . l ' : S "'1 9 . f j 5 - i If Secretary of the Navy John Sullivan had possessed wings he probably would have flapped them in his enthusiasm when he went before the house armed services committee te urge con-gress to let the navy speed de-velopment of a G5,000-to- n snper aircraft earrler, costing 124 mil-lion dollars. " to It truly is a I Laxative Foci' TAnyone troubled with ccr as I was, should try eating kl H all-bra-n regularly. It has c bi so much good!" Mrt, Ho,'" T kowski, Kennyvmd, Pa, Br- c. lacks the bulk F v you need for reg- - ular elimination, sl eat an ounce of b KELLOGG'S ALL- - si BRAN every day ' g In milk and drink plenty of water. If not satisfied after ten days' trial, ' J Bend empty carton to KC;; Battle Creek, Mich., and p i TOUR MONEIf BACK, OrdeiEL. ALL-BR- today. (? Itching of) SIMPLE C2fi For quick, joyful relief, utt k: r Resinol. The medically proven ;:f r enta in this famous ointment act t to quiet itching, burning tormea; j j. added comfort, bathe tender pin 4 , pure, mild Resinol Soap. Buy U. S. Savings B;: i i ' ni;) There hasn't been enough of places this year to much less his paste Dry weather adds up to p'r dust and glare. And thai of trouble with R?k: many sections of the M est Eye's already a No. 1 proble year and we still have the it dustiest months ahead. Bat a bright spot even in this f picture. I'm talking abouU TrisulfanoL It's a new cobe of 3 sulfas and you know nt fas do to 8 liqul no dry particles to make son sorer. And it's easy to nee- -t with an atomizer and you p. it into the animal's eye. Usually 1 or 2 Trisulfanol r tions a day apart will do the.. I know what I'm talking :: cause Trisulfanol was year on the wmie". Texas plains before Cotter pr. the market It's worth -' to see your druggist on thu I don't have to tell yon Jaw, alias Big Jaw or Wootoi-- ; looks like-beca- use it I throughout the range eoj maybe you haven't heart five Potassium Iodide oyj- -j 1 or Sodium Iodide (by treatment Your druggist can take care of you oH too. If he hasn't any infonj dosage, drop me a W, ' almost breaks my heart to tt doesn t W- - something Cutter ' Better get started withff.: Water Here's an experience 1 r last fall in Nevada that effective vaccination can cattle we 400 head of mer water-infect-pastured on land' noto" A Taccinated with CuW' tridium Hemolytic?' except 3 breachy that broke away fr ,. fit There wosnto' among the vaccm' -- while 2 of the i . bulls died within tinw red water. Just for red water's death nte i clnated herds often or higher. For my sign-of- VeK tip-w- hen range steers feet in the feed l? (Lit CUTTER LABORAT0R' Berkeley LCaliform' FEWER BENEFITS LOST People Are Discovering Social Security Although inadvertent loss of bene-fits remains a major problem, the number of persons who deprive themselves of old-ag- e and survivors insurance benefits because they de-lay filing their claims is decreas-ing steadily. That report has been made by the Federal Security agency's so-cial security administration. In announcing the improvement, O. C. Pogge, director of the administra-tion's bureau of old-ag- e and sur vivors insurance in Baltimore, said: "Our continuing efforts to inform workers of their benefit rights have resulted .In increased public aware-ness that old-ag- e and survivors in-surance benefits are payable only if they are claimed." Unhealthy Families Families with two children are "socially unhealthy," however fash-ionable they may be, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in Cleveland was told by a Univer-sity of Chicago professor of educa-tion, Robert J. Havighurst. "A significant section of our population now have too few chil-dren to reproduce themselves," he told the delegates to the annual con-vention. |
