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Show Recently this column reported tire rationing would be needless; need-less; improbable. Now brace yourself. You could be a pedestrian. pedes-trian. Much depends on action obtained by Sen. John Spark-man's Spark-man's (Ala.) Senate Small Business Busi-ness Committee. A major scandal brews. Its slimy trail reaches around the World. An International Communist clique acted last summer. American boys now fight and die in Korea. Another foreign for-eign idea f E rubber division, and for 5 years in same post with Commerce Dept. walks plank overnight. His sin? He fought rubber cartel to standstill, so he is replaced by Lei and E. Spencer, Vice President Presi-dent of subsidiary of 'one of America's "big four" in rubber. A Senate investigation has already al-ready unearthed ghoulish facts. . Last fall civilian rubber use was cut to 84. Over protests of "4 Bigs" Glenn allocated supply so every plant could operate a 40 hour week. Another curious fact. Once before be-fore Spencer was "loaned" to government to break up cartels in postwar Germany. In 1948 a special investigating committee branded his work a failure. But now in NPA Spencer is associated with two of his associates in that failure, Richard Rich-ard Bronson and Henry Heyman. The facts are long, involved. There will be more next week. In meantime, if you buy, sell, use cotton, pray for a good crop. Marshall plan gifts of cotton stripping supply. ECA release 2011 announcing $15 million of cotton to Germany brings total cotton gifts for first 6 weeks 1951 to around $50 million. Same release announces gift of another $1 million worth of tobacco to Ireland, bringing total to-tal tobacco gifts to Ireland to over $8 million, estimated sufficient suffi-cient to give every Irish infant, child, man and woman 30-35 packs of cigarettes. This has given rise to a new joke in Washington. "Have you heard about the secret Anglo-American Anglo-American plan to dispose of the Irish question? The Marshall Plan is encouraging the Irish to smoke themselves to death." clique profits C. W. Harder on this conflict; threatens American Amer-ican business. Here's some background facts. Germany, birthplace of Karl Marx, creator of International Communism, also took lead in developing the international cartel car-tel system. Both systems spread ruin, disaster. Cartels built two vast German War machines that killed millions. Here's a brief description of a cartel. A monopoly controls supply sup-ply of basic commodity; keeps out free competition; rigs prices in a nation. An international cartel is a worldwide monopoly. Cartels control many commodities. com-modities. Rubber is one. Sincere public servants like J. Edgar Hoover protect nation against Communist undermining. undermin-ing. Other officials wage war on the foreign idea of cartels. However, there is a difference. An attempt to unseat Hoover starts public indignation. But Earl W. Glenn, head of National Production Authority (c)Natlonal Federation of Independent Business |