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Show fHE RICH COUNTY toured es WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS REAPEB second class matter Feb. 8, 1921 Act of March 3. 1879. ad the Post Office. Randolph, Utah, under tb Wm. E. Marshall, llutineas Manager SUBSCRIPTION 11.59 Per Year In Advanea Leyton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor Menace Early Jap Conquests ; Ask Overhauling of Vet, Bureau; Smoothen Big Three Relations HIGH PRESSURE TACTICS The had been atthei district but severe, unusually torney had one more question to ask before dismissing the witness. Mr. Dixon, he caustically demanded, how many attempts have been made to have you tell a different story than the one you just told the court? And who were the people who made those attempts? The answer was prompt. Several people tried to make me see things their way, but you have been the most persistent by far. cross-examinati- on TAKE IT EASY OPA: Farm Prices Passed by the senate as part ol a bill extending OPA for one year, a provision requiring that farm producers be granted cost plus profit headed for rough treatment in the house, with Pres. Harry S. Truman joining to oppose the amendment. Drawn by Senators Wherry (Neb.) and Shipstead (Neb.) and adopted proby a 37 to 30 vote, the cost-plu- s vision stipulates that it shall be unlawful to establish or maintain against the producers of any livestock, grain or other agricultural commodity a maximum price . . . which does not equal all costs and expenses (including all overhead expenses, a return on capital and an allowance for the labor of the producer and family) . . . plus a reasonable profit thereon." President While 1 Truman de- Stranger You raise nothing but hogs around here. Do they pay better than corn and potatoes? Native Naw, but yo see, hawgs dont need no hoeing. Division of Labor Friend It seems to me that your sister does all the housework around your home. Why dont you ever help her out? Girl Friend Oh, we have everything divided up. We take turns. I Boy do the housework from Christmas to New Years, and she does it from New Years to Christmas. Good Old Times Lettie I. would like to have lived in the days of King Arthur. Betty I dont know as I would have cared much for the days, but I would have liked the Knights. Life with Father Dora My father just bought a big insurance policy. Cora Accident? Dora No, he took it out on purpose. Postwar Planning Veteran I suppose that in the years to come I will have to make a living by my wits. Girl Friend (dreamily) Well, half a living is better than none! Double Check Colonel Why is that young ator so certain he plastered a avi- Jap cruiser? Major All he said in his report was, My bomber done tol me. BAD SYSTEM of sugar first five months of 1945 the For the first time since Nazis came to power, the Roman Catholic feast through exceeded that for the same period day of Corpus Christi was observed in Munich, with procession wending in last year, the War Food adminisMichael d city. Outspoken foe of Hitlers regime, way through tration fixed rigid quotas for governCardinal Faulhaber officiated at ceremony. ment and civilian users for with the home Three relations were Harry Hopkins PACIFIC: and Joseph E. Davies, President front obtaining 10,000 less tons than Trumans special emissaries to at present. New Campaign From January through May, disMoscow and London. 'Following reUnder heavy attack in the northof sugar totalled 2,955,906 tribution of reports from them upon ceipt ern portion of their empire, the their to the U. S., the chief short tons compared with 2,747,543 return Japs face equally heavy pressure last year, it was revealed. in the south, with Allied forces un- executive expressed confidence in a settlement of the Polish question, Reflecting criticism that the imder' command of Gen. Douglas anwere as the Russians pending sugar pinch has resulted moving into northern Borneo declaring we to us xious from loose allocations of the comas with get along in a drive to conquer the island that are with them. modity in the face of to easily could be the prelude The late President Roosevelts over supplies, figures showed that as a campaign against the Indies and No. 1 confidante, Hopkins appeared of June 2 raw sugar stocks amountMalaya. Rich in oil and rubber and pos- to have played an especially key ed to 275,746 short tons compared in the discussions abroad, with 442,234 last year, the beet insessing good ports and airfields for part with Mr. Truman revealing that he ventories. totaled 374,052 short tons a thrust to the west, Borneo was not on the irksome as against 465,222. conferred only 1942 in overrrun by the Japs early while the Allied cause in the Pacific Polish situation but also persuaded after the Russians to surrender their destill remained paralyzed mbs Take Heavy Toll agPearl Harbor. With Jap shipping mands for vetoing the right ofcomA commander in the famed U. S. 21st nations to air their bomber force in the Marianas, CoL coming under increasing U. S. air grieved before the postwar peace and sea pressure, Borneos value to plaints Alfred F. Klaberer, estimated that 500 , 000 Jdpanese had been killed in the enemy has been sharply re- organization. While the step toward bringing raids on Tokyo, with the possibility duced, and Allied invasion forces the figure might even be lji00,000. met only meager opposition as they together the dissident Polish eleOne Look at Yokohama , he said. ments an was considered encouragmoved inland in the mountainis there and the next it has minuteit of a ing move for, the development ous country. disappeared. 1 believe we killed earn Though only lightly defending the thefe." comparatively communicable coastfire Because burns caused by al regions, the Japs did fire the exbombs require the care of two or three tensive oil installations located people and the Japanese lack the perthere in an effort to prevent their sonnel to attend to the injuries, one use by the Allies for future opera21st force medic opined the death rate must b enormous, Klaberer said. tions. Flames from the storage tanks and wells could be seen for 40 miles. bomb-battere- Mac-Arth- ur over-optimis- B-2- 9 l 250,-00- 0 B-2- 9 VETS CARE: Legion , V.F.W. Critical SAN FRANCISCO: I Stung by the American Legion and V.F.W.s ringing denunciation of the veterans, administration bureau, congress moved to look into the whole question and give ear to the comprehensive program outlined by both service organizations for efficient functioning of the department. With a spokesman declaring that the bureau may eventually have to handle the cases of 18,000,000 G.I.s, the American Legion suggested the creation of a deputy administrator Housewife Well, why dpnt you under Gen. Omar Bradley and a work, if youre hungry? of authority under six realignment Tramp I tried that once, maam, assistants to handle medical care, and it seemed to make me hungrier. insurance, finance, loan guarantees, readjustment allowances, vocational Between the Acts rehabilitation and educaHe When is an actor like a tree training, tion, adjustment of compensation, surgeon? and retirement claims, conpension She I give up. struction, supplies and contracts. He When he takes a bough. Though criticizing the overall operations of the bureau, the AmeriAnother Atrocity can Legion and V.F.W particularly Hubby Why did you buy that rapped vet hospital care, charging hat? that 47 per cent of the institutions Wifie Because I couldnt get it now give inadequate treatment and for nothing! citing instances of abuse in some centers. To relieve conditions, the ' Call the Doctor proposed increasing He What are you coughing for, organizations bed capacity; boosting wages; allowhoney? authorities more leeway in securShe I swallowed that line you ing help and supplies; more intelliing were handing cut. gent segregation of patients to speed recovery, and replacing army with Easy Money civilian personnel. Girl (in restaurant) A scientist says that what we eat we become. BIG THREE: Boy Good! Lets order something Smoothen Relations rich. Troubled relations over Poland Bold and Fearless having been seemingly smoothened, She Dont dive into that pool the Big Three looked forward to its empty! their forthcoming meeting for planHe Thats all right; I cant swim, ning the peace conference to reestablish the broken continent of Europe. anyway. News of the approaching Big Three confab followed announceSun Kissed Bill My sister is the champion ment that officials of the U. S., Britain and Russia would meet in Mosorange picker of Florida. Phil Stye must be in the groove. cow with the WarBill No, in the grove. saw government and democratic leaders from within and outside of y Poland to discuss the composition of He My ambition is to be a great a more representative regime for wit. the country. She Youre halfway there Instrumental in smoothening Big . Red-sponsor- ed Semi-Vacanc- m Peace Force With French delegate Joseph Paul Boncour declaring that the conferWith his Chief of Staff Adm. William H. ence was erecting the keystone ol by. President Trnman reLeahy standin; the United Nathe of of overseas missions structure, peace ceives report Joseph Davies Cleft) and Harry Hopkins (right). tions meeting in San Francisco to approve plans for the first representative rule, the Polish gov- moved international London denied army, navy and air ernment in exile in the authority of the Big Three to force in history. Directed by a military staff comsupervise formation of a regime for the liberated country. Not directly mittee, with regional included in the Moscow parley and throughout the world, the world long at loggerheads with the Reds peace force may draw on because of alleged political inter- of the U S.s present army and reauthorities ference in Poland, the exiles navy, American branded the plan as a concession to cently estimated. All members of the United Nations will have to the Russians. grant the international force free BIG HARVEST: right of passage through their territory in the event of hostilities. Problems Mounting Use of the peace force will be Even as the department of agrito the unanimous apsubjected culture predicted a bumper wheat of the the U. S., proval Big Five yield of 1,084,652,000 bushels for Britain, Russia, China and France 1945, along with another banner genand a majority of the security couneral crop year, Kansas undertook cil of 11. the harvest of 215,000,000 bushels of its winter wheat with a heavy SHIPYARDS: shortage of both men, ' machinery, Workers Needed storage and transport. Premier winter wheat producing The rush of workers to state of the U. S., Kansas needs an jobs is seriously impedingpeacetime the conadditional 20,000 hands; 2,000 com- struction as well as repair of war bines; 2,000 trucks; and many ra- vessels, ithe navy revealed, with tion points for feeding extra work- the situation equally serious in both ers. Because of the local elevator west and east coast shipyards. glut resulting from the freight car With damaged vessels receivshortage, farmers expect to dump sizable quantities of wheat on the ing first call on facilities for repair, the bnilding of new ships ground after filling up vacant necessarily must await their fixhouses, store buildings, filling staing. With the Brooklyn navy tions, etc. of the confrontyard in need of 5,000 additional Typical problem workers at once, the new 27,000-to- n ing other southwestern states, Kansas transport situation devolves aircraft carrier Reprisal is five months behind schedule and from the inability of the railroads the Oriskany is about half comto divert sufficient cars for the grain trade in the face of heavy war propleted. Approximately 3,000,000 man days of work will be reduction traffic and the redeployment of U. S. forces to the Pacific quired on the super 45,000-to- n the flattop Franklin D. Roosevelt. country. through In the face of impending harvest Both east and west coast shipyards and transport difficulties, the USDA have been losing about 600 emlooked forward to not only a bumper wheat harvest but heavy oats, ployees a month in the shift to jobs, with the tight manhay and rye production, and another peacetime banner truck and fruit crop. De- power situation in the west reflected of the by the necessity to tow the famed spite wet weather, corn crop has been planted, USDA flattop Frmklin to Brooklyn for said. es one-thi- ! two-thir- ds rd Union EXPERIENCE HAS DEFEATED SOCIALISM WASHINGTON. - They say Mr Churchill blundered when hi claimed socialism would bring gestapo to the British, rob the indl vidual of his rights and make him s slave to the state at least the politi cal experts say it in chorus heri and abroad. scribed the provision as bad and hoped the house would knock - it out, other critics declared that it would create confusion by replacing the present parity formula, scaling farm prices according to general costs. Countering this argument, Senator Wherry said the provision would apply if parity prices failed to meet expenses. SUGAR: Set Quotas Though distribution . Released by Western Newspaper WAR At they see it Church ill is the man whe won the war anc should have run foi reelection on that platform. I wonder The very day hi spoke, a British, spirited province ir Canada voted on socialism. In Ontario a straight - out so- cialist movement called the Coopera, tive Commonwealth federation, hac won astonishing success last time gaining 34 seats, more than a third of the provincial parliament. The program was government ownership of banks, insurance companies, railways and certain heavy industries. This was to be the new rising political movement of the postwar Canadian world but it was nipped far below the bud, and, in fact, frost-killewhen the people of Ontario (where labor is fetrong) cut its power to an insignificant 6 seats in a parliament of 9C votes. All Canada is furnishing anothei test of socialism and you can check the results, but if CCF cannot win in the British labor- center of Ontario it cannot hope for much anywhere outside the radical far west farming provinces. In Britain the Labor party leader, Mr. Atlee, answered Churchill directly, defending the theory of socialism against the d, - ideal of private enterprise for pri- vate profit. While Churchill may have taken political license with the gestapo deduction, he did not exaggerate the basic issue, which has been laid; Do you want socialism or free enterprise? The war experience of people has not been favorable to socialism. The lack of competition among sellers has destroyed the interests of the consumers today, and government management has nowhere beer satisfactory to the people. Unless e buyer can walk out of a store and go to another to purchase what he wants, he can never be protected as to the quality of merchandise he buys or as to price, no matter how much the government regulates it. Every man and woman has found that out to his great discomfort during this war, not from books or propaganda, but out of his own daily experience in living. Competition is the only thing which protects, the consumers, who are all the people. Government ownership and operation is as noncompetitive as a trust, a cartel or a business monopoly. Once any single force gets the power of exclusive operation, the buyer must accept the terms. Where competition is most active, the buyer is best protected. Consider the service the public gets on those western railroads where some are bemoaning the parallel lines. It is much better than upon eastern roads which control a monopoly of travel This is true' of the buying of an goods or services. It is true of hotel accommodations, of buying cigarettes, of renting a house or buying a dress. If one power (governmenl or private) owns all the business, oi is in control of the operation fi any reason, the public interests are not well served. Of course, they at tribute our experiences to a short age of goods or help. That is true, but the economic effect has been the destruction of competition. The consumer could be told what to buy and at how much. He could not get across the street, cheaper or better. In my opinion, government ownership is in the public interest only when it is in itself competitive--competiwith private interests to serve the public better. Consider the two Canadian railroads, one privet and one government owned. public gets much better service thao if the government owned both ano o) railroading became a business P government bureaucracy, having litical directors decide policies. ng |