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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION T Pressure Groups Point Way To Mild Fascism in U. S. Government by Majority Rule Ceases to Exist When Various 'Interests' Begin Trading Votes for Concessions. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator.' In WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. At a recent White House press and radio conference, the President was ., explaining his remark that it was time to discard the term "New Deal" the remark that gave the cartoonists so much fun. He used a fable about "Old Dr. New Deal" who had healed the patient of "internal troubles" (the depres-sions). But when the patient had an accident and had broken his arms and legs, he had to call in his part-ner "Dr. to heal him. A correspondent asked: "Doesn't that add up to a fourth term declara-tion?" The President showed his irrita-tion in his answer. He said that that hadn't been under discussion, that the question was picayune, Then he caught himself, leaned back, half smiled, half apologized, with the remark that the questioner would understand that he had to an-swer that way. Two things came to my mind at once. First, that the President was thinking about the. war and postwar problems, and to be brought back to earth with a bump was very much like being awakened by an alarm clock in the midst of an interest-ing dream. That was one thing I thought of. Another was just what the United States, and the whole world for that matter, would be suffering from aft-er the war and what the cure would be, if any. Recently there have been several predictions that we were in "for a dose of mild fascism." Background for Belief I never took that so very seriously until three news items were called to my attention. One was the state- - ment that the CIO committee of po- - Jitical action was planned as a nu- - cleus of a labor party. That didn't smell of fascism but it had a slightly collectivist aroma. The next item was in the London News Letter, a little pamphlet edit-ed by Commander King-Hal- l, mem-ber of parliament, the contents of which are cabled to Toronto, Can-- j ada, where it is printed as an Amer- - lean edition. King-Ha- ll is an inde-- 1 pendent in politics with slightly con-servative leanings. Here are the excerpts to which I refer: ", . , There are many indi-cations at what might be called the lower levels of domestic practice, that there are forces and tendencies at work In Brit ain which are going to produce great changes in our political system. Some of these changes were foreshadowed In a pam-phlet entitled "The Future of Party Politics" written by Com mander King-Ha-ll in 1937. It was there argued that a crisis, both domestic and international, was developing and demanding for its solution a high degree of national unity in Britain, and that the political 'expression of that unity, and the instrument for making it effective must be a national. government . . ." In other words, the writer means by a "national government" a co-alition government such as England has now with no opposition what amounts to a single party. Just what all this was getting at, I understood a little better when 1 read an article by Freda Kirchway in the Nation on the mood in Britain. Miss Kirchway had interviewed a number of people in England and she says that "big business forces in England have recognized more clearly than these forces in Amer-ica the need for government con-trol." They are ready, she says, to accept the government as a part-ner to save themselves from liquida-tion. Some of the people interviewed by Miss Kirchway gave her the impres-sion that they saw in the set-u- p ahead "a successful, polite form of which will prove ac-ceptable to the key people of these groups. She doesn't agree with this herself and she believes British la-bor will be ready to fight it at the second election after peace but she believes these people believe it. How much of a similar feeling ex-ists in the United States, I do not know, but, quite independent of Eng-land, many people are shrugging their shoulders and saying it is a possibility here. One thing may point in that direc-tion. That is the way the various pressure groups are now operating in congress. Already many trades have been made even to the point of those "unholy alliances" (all alli-ances except those in which we be-long are unholy, of course) which it was charged in the senate had been formed between southern Democrats and some northern Republicans. As soon as powerful pressure groups can agree among themselves to trade concessions for votes, gov-ernment by majority rule ceases and the moment you begin to break down the party lines, you are in danger of having one party, which in the end is no party. I can well understand how when anyone contemplates the problems of our domestic affairs in the post-war period, it is hard to keep one's mind on the war. The Change in Invasion Plant It is a perilous thing these days to write more than an hour in ad-vance of the invasion if one uses the future tense. The majority of opinion "as I write" (that's the sav-ing line) believes that the inva-sion won't get under way until late spring although one report through Sweden said the Germans were ex-pecting it between Christmas and New Year's. But from the time that General Eisenhower was named as com-mander and the other, changes in command were named, it appeared that the shape of the whole Allied plans for the assault on fortress Europa began to change rapidly. The speed with which the Russian armies were moving toward the German frontiers set new forces in motion. Suddenly the Mediterranean be-came less important In the picture as Washington saw it. It was point-ed out that the British had a larger force of men, ships and supplies in that theater than the Americans. What had seemed the most impor-tant thing in Europe to America ever since our troops landed in North Africa suddenly grew less im-portant. The Middle East, which had looked as if it were the gather- - The Mood in Britain And here is another excerpt, a quotation from a speech in the house of commons which the London News Letter says was given a "wide meas-ure of assent." ". . . Government must al-ways be by majority but let it not be by party controversy and party majority. In this country at the present time, there seems to be coming into being a cen-tral body of opinion very well and adequately represented on all sides of this house. It is to that central body of opinion that I should like the government to appeal in a bolder and more forward-steppin- g policy . . ." This speaker continues his appeal for a single "central body of opin-ion" and warns against "dividing a people (the British) who provide some bridge between the extreme capitalism of the United States and the extreme collectivism of Russia." ing point of a new blow through the Balkans, perhaps with the help oi Turkey, shrank on the horizon. The shifting of British commanders seemed to make this clear. And then there were calls for greater speed on the part of the Allies, it seemed as if a fear that Russia might get to Berlin first was stirring new activity and there were stories that Spain was not as anxious for Allied friendship as she was to keep the "Bolshevists" from getting nearer her borders, that if she must make new enemies, at least it was better to have the Allies against hei than to have Russia get too near her. But even without these rumors, it grew clearer and clearer that the job ahead was colossal. Hopes that Ger-many could be brought down by bombing alone were given up. II really seemed as if her factories and indeed her cities had moved underground. . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Red Army Forges Deeper Into Poland, Southwest Drive Perils Nazi Troops; Allied Bombers Blast Western Europe; Strikes Show Marked Increase in 1943 (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these e'"m"Vit,ne.MDer') Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily Released by Western Newspaper Union. PROHIBITION: Before Congress Prohibitionists lined up in support R. Bryson's bill for-bidding of Rep. Joseph sale or manufacture of au beverages containing more than Vz of 1 per cent of alcohol for the duration as a congressional commit-tee prepared for hearings on the measure. As prohibitionists organized sup-port, Rep. Emmanuel Celler said it was rumored that they had raised $10,000,000 for lobbying in Washing-ton. , Meanwhile, it was reported that the n league would remain on the sidelines during consideration of the bill, devoting its efforts to persuading President Roosevelt to declare prohibition as a war meas-ure under his present vast powers. COLLEGE FOOTBALL: No Deaths For the second time in the 12 years he has compiled statistics on college football deaths, Dr. Floyd R. Eastwood of Purdue U. announced no fatalities due to football in 1943. Possibly because of a lack of suf-ficient amounts and quaUty of equip-ment, nine deaths were recorded in high school football, Dr. Eastwood said. Fatalities in the sport have gradu-ally decreased since he started his survey in 1931, when 31 deaths were announced, Dr.- Eastwood said. Since most deaths have been due to head injuries, he suggested that grid leaders look into possible use of new crash helmets designed for military use during the present war. '44 CONVENTIONS: Chicago Bids With 10,000 visitors expected at both the Democratic and Republican national conventions this year. Big Business in Chicago bid to have the conclaves held there, with New York also reportedly interested. In Chicago alone, representatives of hotels, restaurants, realty and financial concerns, banks and utili- - miuum.ijiuiiji" If T4:V 4w "War Is Hell" Nowhere better is this expression indicated than in this Italian town of Castel Di Sangro, lying in rubble. AGRICULTURE: Hogs Pour In Shipment of 476,500 hogs within a span recently in comparison with 278,400 for the same period a year ago, reflected crowded condi-tions in 12 leading middlewestern markets, with only choice 200 to 300 pound pigs attracting $13.75 per hundredweight. Many hogs were left unsold as daily trading closed, and fearful that animals might contract pneumonia with snow and colder weather, some packers urged farmers to curtail shipments, while embargoes were imposed at other centers. Tight labor conditions restricted packers' capacities, and in Chicago, at least 200 soldiers from the labor pool of a nearby camp were sent into the packing houses to help out. RUSSIA: Tangle in Poland Russian armies forged deeper into pre-w- Poland in flaming action on the eastern front, overrunning terri-tory the Reds claimed as their own, but the Polish government-in-exil- e insisted must remain part of the country. As the Russ surged forward into pre-wa- r Poland, Gen. Nicholas n threw out a spearhead to the southwest, aiming toward the en-trapment of 500,000 Nazis from the rear in the big Dnieper river bend. The Reds entered pre-w- Poland at a time of heightening tension over their claims that the White Russian and Ukrainian provinces of the old state were racially related to Rus-sia. Reportedly headed for Washing-ton, D. C, to seek U. S. support for the Polish government in exile's case for retention of the territory was Pre-mier Stanislaw Mikolajzyk. WAR PROFITS: Want Strict Control Recommendations to change the present government procedure of re-capturing excessive profits on war material by rewriting old contracts, were bitterly opposed by Senators Walsh (Mass.), LaFollette (Wis.), Lucas (111.) and Connally (Texas). Two recommendations particular-ly opposed would exempt from pres- - SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Jungle Fighting Like the story of every other is-land in ' the South Pacific, U. S. troops have had to fight for every inch of ground on tropical New Guinea, where landings have placed doughboys in possession of the air strip on Cape Gloucester and a beachhead at Arawe. With the enemy dug well in the jungle, U. S. dive bombers and ar-tillery helped clear the way for. the infantry as it edged forward through the dense brush about Cape Glou-cester. In similar terrain at Arawe, the enemy also fell back grudgingly. While doughboys clawed forward in New Britain, other elements of the U. S. Sixth army beat south-eastward along the New Guinea coastline toward a juncture with' Australian troops driving north-ward. In this sector, the Allies aimed for the big Jap shipping base of Madang, supply point for their coastal positions. Ace Lost Only hours after a dispatch from Guadalcanal had announced that pudgy, Maj. Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington had shot down his 26th Jap to enter the selective list of U. S. air aces, his mother received word in Okanogan, Wash., that he was missing. With a mother's faith she said: "I am confident he is all right and he will show up somehow, some-where." Called "Pappy" because of his comparatively older age among the younger marine fliers, Boyington was a picturesque daredevil. Once, "Pappy" purposely led a squadron over a Jap airdrome, circling the field slowly and daring the enemy to come up and fight. When they did, "Pappy" nailed three. STRIKES: Increase in '43 Almost 14 million working days were lost through strikes In 1943 compared with 4 million In 1942, records of the .bureau of labor sta-tistics indicated. Approximately 3,337,091 workers were involved in the estimated 3,737 walkouts, which topped the 1942 to-tal of 839,961 men idle because of 2,968 strikes. Last year's strikes doubled the 1927-'4- 1 average of 1,945, but it was pointed out that the depression pre-vailed during that period, and be-cause of scarce employment walk-outs were less frequent. EUROPE: Plaster Defenses Flying over an front, Al-lied bombers rapped hard at Ger-man defenses and industries in west-ern Europe preparatory to the her-alded invasion. But in Italy, bad weather restrict-ed Allied progress over the moun-tainous terrain, and equally bitter resistance in the future loomed with the discovery that the Germans were constructing another "Siegfried line" of concrete and steel several miles in depth, and just to the north of their present positions. Continuing the softening up proc-ess .f western Europe, swarms of U. S. and British bombers and fight-ers lashed at German factories, the important naval base of Kiel, air fields strung over northern, and the channel coast, along which the Nazis reportedly have erected rocket guns. Chairmen Spangler and Walker ties agreed to raise $75,000 to help defray hall expenses, etc., for either party, or $150,000 for both, if they met in the Windy City. As the national committees under Frank Walker of the Democrats and Harrison Spangler of the Republi-cans studied convention sites, the Office of Defense Transportation de-clared Chicago was the city least likely to upset train schedules, since regular line sleeping cars with 11,368 beds terminate there, compared to 7,129 In New York. CANADIAN WHEAT: To Increase Imports With approximately 350,000,000 bushels of U. S. wheat expected to be fed to livestock during the cur-rent feeding season, an. additional 100,000,000 to 150,000,000 bushels will be brought in from Canada, accord-ing to government sources. Because U. S. railroad cars will be sent into the interior of Canada this winter, from 25,000,000 to more bushels of wheat will be imported than otherwise possi-ble, due to the freezing of the Great Lakes. Although the fteavy dairy and poultry producing areas of the Northeast have bettered their feed situation, feed grains are needed in the drouthy south central regions, and protein meals are scarce in the southwest range districts. The to-tal supply of feed concentrates was estimated at 169,000,000 tons. SOLDIERS' VOTE: Urge Uniformity While congress wrangled over whether the federal government or the individual states should control soldier voting in 1944, the war and navy departments recommended that applications for absentee bal-lots bedistributed by the services and local officials accept such appli-cations any time before election. Other recommendations made by the army and navy were that voting material be designed for air car-riage, and that a serviceman's vote be acknowledged by an officer no lower in rank than sergeant. Ballots must be distributed to the servicemen by mail, the depart- ments said, and although it is the army and navy policy to assist sol-diers and sailors in voting, "nothing must interfere with the . . . primary obligation to wage a victorious war." RAIL TRAFFIC LAM-J- L mt iTfhTftfi ii'l ll Senators LaFollette and Walsh ent repricing all contracts for stand-ard commercial articles, and prod-ucts not actually a part of goods delivered. In the first case, the senators said, one company with orders for a standard commercial article did six times the business of the 1935-'3- 9 period, yet would be exempt from repricing. In the second case, the senators said, one machine tool company whose product, of course, does not actually appear in finished war goods, did six times its normal busi-ness, yet would not be forced to re-price its contracts. The nation's railroads broke all transportation .records last year, both for passengers and freight. Voll ume of freight hauled was 14 per cent above 1942, the previous high and passenger traffic shot up 58 per cent over the preceding year Average load of freight per train was 1,116 tons, another record Per car load was 41 tons. Average vol- ume of passengers per car was greater than ever before. An of about 20 per cent In gross revenue is expected. STEEL Within six months production of steel should return to nearly normal conditions, it is said. "Output of steel ingots will be lower during 1944 than the record set last year of 89 million tons." While the invasion barge program is in progress, demand for d steel will continue high, it is Dr dieted. Also needed are steel strips for landing mats. On the domestic oi rans'r Prn pipes will be substan-tiall- y mcreased- - The Rub The tired-lookin- g man the divorce lawyer, "g0 a divorce from your viiM the attorney. "Aren't tions pleasant?" 1m 'eia-- "Mine are," came the "but hers are simply terr'?. a The honeymoon is over .h begins worrying over how the grocer instead of the florist'7 On Guard Gushing Hostess - Yon i, I've heard a great deal abouH Absent-minde- d Politician p"' sibly, but you can't prove a Jj Accommodating Traffic Officer (reproachjulL) V lady, do you know anything ahJ,""! traffic laws of this city? Fair Motorist Yes, a UuU C help you? I Handicapped "My papa got an invitation 6e the judge at the spring ? show." ' "What does your papa kr-about flowers?" "That's just the point. A W. is supposed to be neutral 8P1 everybody says my papa doe smell so very good." "' ' The Goal Pop Now be good uhile fm out Offspring I'll be good for o iri ,i Pop (reprovingly)-Son,you- llm be a real son of mine until you're iui for nothing. Well, Well, Well! , Traveler What is this pV doted for? Travel Guide Mister, this isr--. starting point of the world-- yc i can start from here and go air. where you want to. Released by Western Newspaper Union. LABOR AND CAPITAL CAN WORK TOGETHER LABOR IS, and has been, a polit-ical football. No honest and prac-tical effort has been made to solve the labor, capital and management problem. Political parties have, for years, pronounced against consider-ing labor as a commodity, but tio effort has been made to put labor jri any other basis than as a commod;iy in our industrial production. Because labor represents votes ;ts real problem has be3a igaored, i1 has been encouraged to run wild, and a very considerable portion ol it has wound up in the hands ol racketeers with whom the politicians consort as a means of securing votes.. If that condition continues labor "will kill American industrj and when it does labor will have killed itself. There is a real solution for the la-bor, capital and management prob-lem that can be found if an honesl and unprejudiced effort in that di-rection is made. Such an effort has been made with varying degrees of success in a number of industries, In all such experiments, labor has been considered on the basis of e partner in production, entitled to an equitable percentage of production income, with a definite knowledge of what that income amounts to. The results have proven satisfactorj to capital, to labor, to management and to the consuming public. These: experiments can be the foundation upon which to build a general policy, backed by basic, protective, lawi under which the courts can rendei decisions in individual or collective cases without entailing Interminable delays. Such an effort will not be made so long as political partiei want to play to a labor gallery, want to use the labor problem as I vote attractor. Labor today, in the aggregate, re-ceives even more than a fair and equitable share of our productive revenue. Management and capita; expect labor to be satisfied with I statement that such is a fact. Laboi wants to be shown and as a partnei in production would be in a positiori to know. It is easy to name reasons why a three-wa- y partnership In productioi is Impracticable or impossible, bu' if honest and capable men, with un-prejudiced minds, attempt to find the way it can be done they wil surmount all of the obstacles ant produce a basis on which such I partnership can be built. When tha' is done, when there has been enact ed a basic law providing for th( recognition and operation of such I partnership, the labor problem wil nave been solved, the day of strikei and production stoppages will- bi over, the place of the labor racket-eers will be gone. o 6ERIOUS MISTAKE IS RICH FARM STATE IN THE EARLY SPRING of 194 the government began building i large high explosive plant In a Mis-sissippi valley state. As a site manj thousands of acres of good farn lane was purchased. The farmers were moved off, the farm buildings razee and then, when the plant was laid out, it was found some 15,000 acre! more land had been purchased thar was needed. Some one had madi a mistake. That mistake had caused something like 90 farm families giv lng up their homes, being moved away to strange localities and among strange associates. It had cost the American people a siz able sum of money to pay for un needed land. It had deprived the nation of the food product of 15,00( acres of the best of corn land. Foi the last three seasons that land ha! produced only a bountiful crop o: weeds. o a I AM ONE of a favored few whe once each month receive a copy o a small publication, "Washingtor Close Up," issued by the Citizeni ' National committee. It is filled witt factual information regarding the activities of government. The facti It contains should be in the handi of all the American people, and 11 they were, it would obviate all dan ger to our American form of gov-ernment, our American way of life. A way should be found to give sucl Information a far wider circulation. I HEAR "The Solace of Nature" mentioned as the subject of a "pa-per" read at a woman's club. I dc not know what the lady said but 1 get mine by looking over the greer lawns, the flowers, the palm treei and remembering the cold and snow and howling blizzards I encountered at this season for so many years, e e 'e CLASS ROOM THEORIES are all right In the class room but for gov- ernment, dn times like the present there is needed sound horse sense rather than the trial and error test ing of bureaucratic theories. Give us more men equipped with a prac- tical know-how- " and less of those equipped only with untried theoriej and dreams. e THOSE WHO OFFER ALIBIS fot their own shortcomings should be willing to accept the alibis of others but they seldom do. th?1? E,CIVILIAN PAYROLLS ol government there fa JtUy 359.354 more fta" for January, 1943. That numb" would go a long way toward pr" vuhng that European second C 00 WE PAY THE SUBSIDIES In taxes instead of prices of subsidized commodities. faSfwl?118' thr fellow's but our success the fruit of our own abiUty CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT OFFICE EQUIPMENT WE BUT AND SELL Office Furniture, Files, Typewriters. Alt lug Machines, Safes. Cash Rpcistera SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE Ifi West Broadway, Salt Lake city, lui Used Cars Trailers mitomoniiF? j iMii. For reller front the torture of in t Piles, PAZO ointment hss been fiiu for more than thirty yesrs. Here's hr First. PAZO ointment soolhe inlUmrt ( areas, relieves pain and Itching. Second, PAZO ointment lubricslel hirdened, dried parts helps prevent eiekinl soreness. Third. PAZO olnlmenl lend. t to reduce swelling and check bleedinf. Fourth, ifs easjr to use. PAZO inl f meal's perforated Pile Pipe mikel plication simple, thoroujh. Your iuii caa tell fou about PAZO ointment. 1 .NOSE KUST ran ! To Rolisve Head Cold Miisnei When head colds strike, help nose . drain.clearthewayforfrccrbreathiriK comfort with lONDON'S NASAL 1011. M '"f" "l11 r JUST - miuimk DASH IN FEATHERS. X 0 ' ? 'f : I SNAPPY FACTS jiL rubeer i ' Th peak of tropltol Ame f can rubber production, ' eluding guayule, w l ' when about 62,000 toni wen J( produced in all countries c 1940 tho world'! produdiM of rubber was UW5" 0 mora than tamo out " Amazon Valley In J years from 137 to 1 cluslvo. a. By tho use of bud-a"'- S v the yield of rubber on f 1 . ' ' plantations In tome ca Increased from 500 to 1,500 k at per aero a year. c On. typo of fc"11 bomber require! mors n 3,000 pounds of rubbsri p ult planet require over pounds each. U REGoodrii!i : Walk on Gems Pulverized garnets (in coar;; grains), mixed with a plastic o: resin binder, are now applied I: decks, passages, etc., of our battle-ships, cruisers and smaller cut j to prevent accidents due to si-pping- , t HIGHLIGHTS .'. in the week's newt I RIVER: Vagaries of the White river in Indiana have shifted the boundary line between Decatur and Perry townships in Marion county. Two schools operated by the Deca-tur township authorities will have to be closed because of lack of funds. Property of the power com-pany is no longer within the town-ship's tax limits to provide revenue, it was pointed out. TRAP: Sir Malcolm Campbell, British auto racing driver, was fined $20 for causing injury to an odd-job- s man. A spring-gu- n loaded with red powder that Sir Malcolm had set on the boundaries of his land went off and hurt the workman's leg. RAZOR BLADES: All restrictions on the manufacture of safety razors and blades have been removed by the War Production board, officials announce. Another order allows the manufacture of 10,000 iron bathtubs, which will be made by a Chicago firm. FARM HANDS: Several organisa-tions in New York state, working In collaboration, filled 210,000 farm jobs last year. Only 3 per cent of the workers were normally farm hands. TYPHUS: Eleven "public" delous-in-g stations have been set up In Naples, Italy, by Allied military health officers to combat typhus which is spreading in the city. BEER: Boosting morale with "beer and pretzels in moderation," was proposed by the Cincinnati re-gional director of the War Manpow- er commission after studying re-ports of after-holida- y absenteeism which averaged 8 per cent. RISK: A further reduction in the cargo insurance rate on goods shipped between the United States and Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay has been announced. The rate is be-ing lowered to 2 per cent, from 3 per cent. In August, 1942, when sub-marine sinkings were frequent, the rate was 25 per cent. BRIEFS ... by Baukhage Ernesto Lecuona, thief song writ-er of Cuba and cultural attache of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, has recently signed one of the larg-ec- t song publishing contracts of Broadway history.o Colombia's entrance Into the war November 27 makes it the 14th American republic to join actively In the struggle against the Nazis. 00 The Hamburg newspaper Frem-denbla- tt recently urged residents not to molest the police and law courts with trifling thefts because the au-thorities were fully occupied with Important matters. ' The housewife now receives one brown ration point for each half pound of salvage kitchen fats in ad-dition to four cents a pound. Nearly a million cases of tomato catsup soon will be released to civilians. Suspender .buttons are to be re-stored to men's work pants, accord-ing to an amendment of WPB's Or-der e a o The navy's famous PT boats and all they have accomplished is owed to the mahogany tree of Middle America and to the men of historj who discovered its value in ship building. 00 A joke among German soldiers, according to a report reaching the OWI recently, runs: "It is very easy to recognize Allied planes. If you see more than three at a time, you know they are Allied planes." 0 0 With 22,000 fewer locomotives ant! half a million fewer cars, railroads are transporting 55 per cent more freight than during the last war. Venezuela is biggest producer ol petroleum for the United Nations, aside from the United States. |
