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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Entered as aeeond clan matter Feb. 8. 1929, at the Post Office. Ra dolph, Utah, under tht Act of March 3, 1879. Layton Marshall, F Itor and Proprietor Wm. E. Marshall. Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION 81.' I Per Year in Adrancs THE BIG STICK WAVES AGAIN CAP AND That Wont Do Wife (learning to drive) BELL car behind. From Now On, It Was Marigold Young lady, Ill have you understand my word is law. Sally Well, heres where I make a few amendments. IDEA Two people were walking along a road together. One was a young woman, the other a handsome farm lad. The farm lad was carrying $ large pail on his back, holding a chicken in one hand, a cane in the other, and leading a goat. They came to a dark lane. Said the girl: "I'm afraid to walk here with you. You might try to kiss me. Said the farm lad: How could I, with all these things Im carrying? Well, you might stick the cane in the ground, tie the goat to it, and put the chicken under the pail. Tit-Bi- ts Magazine. IN THE IVE CLASS Anti-Monopo- ly Handy Man The chief constable of a small town was also an expert veterinary surgeon. One night the telephone bell rang. The chief constables wife answered it. Is that Mr. Jenkins? asked an agitated voice. Do you want my husband in his capacity as veterinary surgeon or as chief constable? Both, madam, came the i We cant get our new bulldo, u open his mouth, and theres a burg- lar in it. Magazine. Tit-Bi- ts The Insult The three street musicians trust-bustin- Trust-Buste- suits in governments anti-truNew York federal epurts and of campaigning for the governorship of the same state. He is shown here with Rep. William P. Connery, Jr., (left) and Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, before Black was named to the high bench. st By JOSEPH W. La BINE The Big Stick is being waved once more in Washington, this time to an accompaniment of sound and fury that makes the trust-bustein the lusty days of 1900 and 1910 seem like so baa-in- g sheep by comparison. many The company actually does manuis pretty much the same old game; Todays cracking-dow- n facture all of the virgin aluminum only the terminology, the amplification and the size of the field ingot in the country today, but exare different. plains the only reason there is no rs Trust! was the cry almost exclusively in the old days; now we hear monopolies, big business, combines, princes of privilege, and sixty American families mentioned in the same breath. A generation ago the anti-trucampaigns were fought in the courts, at comparatively small political meetings and in the press. Today they are fought in large measure over the radio, with some of the stirgovernments ablest in a of millions long people ring up parade of special broadcasts. In addition, the current attack advances at one time in a vast number of directions that" would have amazed and confounded the but which are characteristic of the tremendously increased scale of operation which the nation has come to accept from its government in recent years. Monopolies were originally scheduled to have been dealt with by the special session of congress which closed just before Christmas? But when it became evident that protracted wrangling was to keep even s the bill, the executive reorganization bill, or any other of the must legislation for which the special session was called, from being enacted, the e from drive was switched the legislative chambers to the broadcasting studios. Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout (pronounced Houghwout) Jackson and Secretary of the Interior Harold fire-eate- rs Tom used to like my pensive ways." ' Has he changed? Now he calls them expensive. Robert H. Jackson (center) is the busy director of the governments g forces. He carries the double burden of prosecuting the Government Opens New Campaign Headed r Robert H. Jackson; Revives by Favorite American Political Custom st - Hen- ry! That little mirror up there isnt set right. Hubby Why, whats the matter with it? I cant see anything but the old-timer- s, wages-and-hour- anti-monopo- ly post-hast- on the record of the evidence what the government is actually doing. Their scope defies history to produce a precedent. Four Acts in Effect. law of The Sherman anti-tru1890 remains still the most important of the rules under which the battle is being fought, but there are three others: The Clayton anti-truact of 1914; the Federal Trade Commission act of 1914, and the law of 1936 to" protect small business men from chain competition. Now the administration seeks more. As Robert H. Jackson, himself, law is an has said, The It has served American invention. two noble American purposes: It has kept the mushroom growth of American industry from killing itself and severely injuring the people in the period of its growing pains, and it has provided excellent campaign material for ambitious politicians. g as the national political sport died at the opening of the World war. From the time the Sherman act was passed until the close of the first Wilson administration there were a little over 100 suits instituted by the government. Now, since President Roosevelt first took office in 1933, there have been 47 suits, and more than half of them are still pending. The interim between the two eras of brought out certain inconsistencies in the federal attitude st st Robin-son-Patm- an anti-tru- st Trust-bustin- trust-busti- ng la- Jackson, as head of the antitrust division, has 20 new assistants, costing $150,000 to help him wield the war club, and has opened offices in the New York Federal Courts building for the big drive. Western' Union and Postal Telegraph systems are due to be tried there. And he recently succeeded in obtaining permission to sue the Aluminum company, already operating under the consent decree of a Pennsylvania federal court, in New York, where he is slated to run for governor this year. An idea of the variety and scope of other federal anti-trucases pending in the courts may be gleaned from a brief summary of a handful of them: Jackson swears that the Party Dress Guild, Inc., is restraining interstate trade in womens and misses party dresses. Monopolies are apparently making it something e of a task for ladies to get out at all, even to parties, for he also charges the Half-Siz- e Dress Guild, Inc., with restraining interstate trade in womens- and misses half-siz- e dresses. The Protective Fur Dressers corporation, he says, is skinning the public as well as the more sprightly world of rabbits, by restraining and monopolizing trade in rabbit skins. Local No. 202 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America is charged with restraining the fruit trade; the United Sea Food Workers with tying up the salt water fish business, and the Dairymens Association, Ltd., with fixing the price of milk' in Honolulu. Oil Defendants. Several oil company officials, recently convicted at Madison, Wis., on charges of conspiring to restrain gasoline trade, are making plans to appeal the verdict. Federal investigations are being made of suspected monopolies ir the rubber, cement, milk and winA feddow products industries. eral grand jury in Milwaukee, Wis., was investigating monopoly charges against automobile finance companies linked -- with Ford, Chrysler and General Motors, but the court dismissed the grand jury without hearing its report, much to the chagrin of the Department of Justice. More will probably be heard on this score. Which of these suits will be won by the government, which may be dropped and which won by the defendants of course remains to be seen. The record for the first era g of (up to a time shortly before the war) was 42. persons imprisoned, 1,338 fined, and 104 decrees secured in civil proceedings. odd-siz- - And Keep the Change Customer (telephoning) Say, three of those apples you sent me yesterday were rotten. Im going to bring em back. Grocer Thats all right, madam. You neednt return them. Your word is as good as the apples. A sles. in 1909. Monopoly charges against the Ethyl Gasoline corporation, Earl C. Webb and John Coard Taylor, also grow out of the manner in which the government protects patents. New York Headquarters. st bored through several popular songs, and disbanded for a few moments to take up a collection. One knocked on the door of a nearby house A gruff man appeared, and thundered: Well, what do you want? Ive come for a little gratuity, sir. Gratuity! Why, my good man, I thought you came to apologize. Absolutely O. K. boy was about to purchase a seat for a movie in the afternoon. The box office man asked, Why arent you in school? O, its all right, sir, said the youngster earnestly, Ive got mea- other firm producing virgin aluminum is the enormous capital investment required to make it on a large scale. The electrolytic process invented in 1886 by Charles Martin Hall made it possible for the company to reduce the price of aluminum from $8 a pound to 20 cents despite continually rising production, costs, but it is an expensive process. The company now has such a head start that no group of investors has been willing to risk the capital necessary to set up a competing business. Paradoxically the same government now prosecuting it protected the Hall patents until they ran out Sen. Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina shows how he hurled Amethe book which inspired Secretary Ickes recent ricas Sixty Families monopolies attack to the senate floor during a heated discussion. Sen. Josiah Bailey of North Carolina gave the book its first heave to the floor. L. Ickes were the Nos. 1 and 2 cheer leaders. (At this writing Jackson is Frequent water drinking, said rumored about to become United the specialist,, prevents you from States solicitor general.) becoming stiff in the joints. Seek New Laws. but some Yes, says the What these two and the President of the joints dont serve water. have said has been so wideAnnapolis Log. ly heard and read that even the remotest hamlet is already familiar Still in Doubt with it. But what is the governHo, ho, laughed the American ment actually doing not saying in lad. Jack said he always thought this renewal of the old familiar war against trusts? Sandy Hook was a Scotsman Haw, haw! chortled his EngThe administration is again deAnd just what manding that congress pass laws, lish companion. nationality is the bally blighter, any- such as that requiring the federal lihow? censing of corporations, which will strengthen the campaign against MAKING PROGRESS big business and monopoly. President Roosevelt is seeking the of heads of large corporations toward a planned economy which may or may not remove some of the alleged evils. And the anti-trudivision of the Department of Justice has 29 antitrust cases pending determination by the federal courts. These are H20 co-e- d, 1 st which the administration is determined to clear up. Jackson, speaking before the Georgia Bar association last May 28, pointed out what he termed one of the most obvious conflicts in our policy when he declared: While the nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly. Unless we are prepared to reconsider the conditions upon which we will extend patent protection we can have no consistent policy. 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