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Show rrewr1'. " " xrrrii .m,i-mvwu .lmwiulii.,.ihi ..e.i iuj., --?fr.T"rTp Congressional leaders privately private-ly advise small business leaders, "Tell your people not to be panicked pan-icked by lurid reports and sell their businesses as many did early in World War II." Scare headlines by publicity seeking bureaucrats bu-reaucrats are putting a false front on ran material supplies; sup-plies; man; statements are made hoping to stop planned investigations, they say. i r, $20,160,000 worth was given to France in that same month. Tin is said to be short, yet $2,000,000 worth was given to the Netherlands Nether-lands in January; $800,000 worth to French North Africa the previous pre-vious month. Many Congressmen want to find out why we give away materials ma-terials said to be short. The annual report of the Senate Small Business Committee headed by Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, Ala-bama, just issued, indicates no one has been able to explain why these materials should be short. The Committee refers to the study by 18 leading economists at Harvard School of Business who find that the present economy econ-omy can support an army of 6 million men. So far, the only statements on shortages have been made by bureaucrats, and by monopoly officials busy cutting off supplies to independents. Besides curtailing gifts of supposedly sup-posedly critical materials abroad, fair distribution is needed need-ed at home. This is one reason why the House Small Business Committee Commit-tee headed by Rep. Wright Pat-man Pat-man (T.) bitterly criticizes Federal Fed-eral Trade Commission failure to enforce Anti-trust laws. This committee says the FTC needs more money because it needs better men; a v : '-ong statement. These are just a i the points mentioned by ss-men ss-men when they state: "If small businessmen keep up present active interest in government, gov-ernment, just as Big Labor and Big Business have always done, their problems will be far less ... and the Nation won't lose any wars either." This is the C. W. Harder year bureau heads may roll, lopped off by the House and Senate Small Business Committees Commit-tees now gaining power through greater support from increasing organization of independent businessmen. bus-inessmen. First target in the battle to end material shortages for both civilian and military supply will be the Marshall Flan. Congressman Con-gressman Fred L. Crawford of Michigan on the floor of Congress has called attention to public bitterness over the diffusion of the American substance. In a recent speech in St. Louis, Stuart Symington, Chairman of the National Security Resources Board, said since V-J America has given nearly thirty billion dollars to aid foreign nations, equal to 60 of the total national debt at Pearl Harbor. But right now, besides the squandering of American taxpayers' dollars, squandering of so-called critical materials creates genuine alarm. Examples: Copper is said to be critical, yet in January, 1951, Marshall Plan officials gave $6,625,000 worth of copper to Germany, Austria, Netherlands. Cotton Is said to be short, but Nation.! rdamloa of Independent Biulnui |