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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1
Farm Groups OK Brannan Choice;
Truce Request Fails in Palestine;
GM Wage Pact Could Set Pattern
By Bill Schoentgen, WNLJ Staff Writer
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinion* are expressed in these columns, they are those of
Weetern Newspaper Union’* new* analyat* and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
APPROVED:
Brannan
President Truman’s choice of
Charles F. Brannan to succeed
Clinton Anderson as secretary of
agriculture has received the whole
hearted approval of the national
farm organizations.
They consider the 44-year-old
former assistant secretary of agri
culture “a friend of the farmer.”
One of the bases for this feeling
of harmony is the fact that Bran
nan and the farm organizations con
cur in ' thinking that the prewar
parity law is badly outdated.
Such crops as soybeans, for in
stance, have attained a much great
er importance since the law was
passed but still have no satisfactory
price fixing basis. Other farmers,
including cattle and dairy produc
ers, claim their parity scales are
out of line in this postwar period.
Ideas developed by Brannan to
help remedy this situation have
been largely adopted by the lead
ing farm groups and are incorpo
rated in bills now pending before
congress. Unless congress acts by
the end of this year the law guar
anteeing farm prices at 90 per cent
of the fixed parity rate will expire.
Serving quietly as assistant sec
retary of agriculture for the past
four years, Brannan has made
himself the backbone of the ad
ministration’s drive to enact a long
range farm program.
Thus, the farmers think a lot of
Brannan because he has demon
strated that he is looking out for
their interests in a realistic, level
headed fashion.
President Truman, it appeared,
had made a good choice in putting
Brannan at the head of the de
partment. Almost everybody was
satisfied, and that, in an election
year, was a most desirable situa
tion for Mr. Truman.
FAILURE:
JVo Peace
It was difficult to say who would
suffer more from the Arabs’ rejec
tion of U. N. truce plea for Pales
tine the Arabs themselves, the
Jews or the United Nations.
Probably the Jews came off to
better advantage in the world coun
cils of public opinion, inasmuch as
through their willingness to .accept
a truce they now can appear in the
role of a nation which has been
wronged and is forced to fight a
war that has been thrust willy nilly
upon it.
The Arabs simply brushed aside
the idea of a truce with the con
tention that they could not halt the
shooting war until the state of Israel
is abandoned and the Jewish army
demobilized. There never was any
question in the minds of Arab lead
ers about the truce. It was literal
ly unacceptable to them. Their
position was stated definitively by
the Egyptian premier, Mahmoud
Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha, who said:
“There never will be founded a
state called Israel, or any other
name, as long as the creation of
that state relies upon the theft of
Arab land, the extermination of. its
Arab owners and the sacrifice of
moral principles of its Arab neigh
bors.”
Nevdfctheless, the Arab refusal
was a bitter blow to the U. N.
security council. It had been or
ganized for the express purpose of
resolving just such disputes as this
one in Palestine, yet it could do
nothing more than make a weak
gesture of placation.
There was little doubt that the se
curity council had been rendered
toothless and impotent on the Pal
estine issue by the U. S. attitude, or
rather lack of attitude.
What position the United States
would take as an individual nation
with regard to the Palestine war
was not, clear either.
At a conference with Chaim
Weizmann, Israel’s president, Pres
ident Truman promised that the
U. S. would provide financial sup
port for Israel in the form of a
loan of about 100 million dollars.
Further, he hinted at the possibility
that unless the Arab states cease
fire the U. S. might provide arms
for the Jews.
Day after the conference, how
ever, Mr. Truman dismissed Weiz
xnann’s plea for a loan as some
thing that could be handled by the
export-import bank, and he com
pletely ducked the issue of raising
the embargo on arms shipments to
the Middle East.
FEWER BENEFITS LOST
People Are Discovering Social Security
Although inadvertent loss of bene
fits remains a major problem, the
number of persons who deprive
themselves of old-age and survivors
insurance benefits because they de
lay ffltng their claims is decreas
ing steadily.
That report has been made by
the Federal Security agency’s so
€ial security administration. In
No Quarter
S7(E^TERRANEANI^BF»~^m)
Fires of war between Arab and
Jew continued to burn in the Holy
Land when the Arab states re
fused to comply with a U. N. re
quest for a truce. Attacking Jew
ish forces at all points, the Arabs
said they would not quit until the
Jews renounced their new state of
Israel. Meanwhile, as victorious
Haganah troops took over Acre
(1), Egyptian planes intensified
the air attack on Tel Aviv (2) and
Arab troops enjoyed their great
est victories in Jerusalem (3).
PAY HIKE:
New Formula
General Motors corporation
averted a threatened strike of 225,-
000 auto production workers by of
fering an 11-cent raise based on a
cost-of-living formula it probably
set a precedent which will be fol
lowed in settling other industrial
labor disputes.
Under the agreement, described
as an “entirely new approach to
the living cost problem,” GM pro
duction workers get an 8-cent cost
of-living increase and a 3-cent pay
boost based on annual industrial
efficiency improvement.
Terms provide that wages be ad-,
justed up or down each three
months to conform with fluctua
tions in the consumer price index
of the bureau of labor statistics.
It appeared to be a sound plan
and one that might be followed to
good advantage by other industries.
Biggest flaw in the scheme was the
fact that General Motors might
have to pass the cost-of-living raise
on to the public, which step might
have the eventual effect of nullify
ing the benefits of the raise to the
workers.
Significance of this adjustable
cost-of-living wage formula can be
seen in a review of the rise in
prices since 1940. The cost of liv
ing today is 69 per cent higher than
in 1940. Using 1940 as a base year
—which is what GM and the United
Auto Workers did in arriving at
their agreement—living costs now
are at 169 per cent. <
VOICE:
Belittling
Voice of America broadcasts,
which have never received a full
measure of congressional approval,
sank to an even lower level of
disesteem because of a series of
ill-starred programs beamed to
Latin America last winter.
The scripts in question, denounced
by senators as sabotage, slander
and libel of the U. S., first attracted
attention in March during house
appropriation committee hearings
on the Voice of America. In the
sample script that the committee
wanted to look over were some ill
chosen remarks about Wyoming.
Stout-hearted Wyoming congress
men shrieked in anguish. Other
scripts were examined, and Sen.
Homer Capehart (Rep., Ind.) fin
ally aired the whole thing before
the senate.
The legislators shuddered as they
heard Capehart read from the
scripts such excerpts as:
“New England was founded by
hypocrisy and Texas by sin.”
“Nevada’s two main cities com
pete with each other because peo
ple get married in Las Vegas and
divorced in Reno.”
The programs were handled by
the National Broadcasting company
under contract with the state
department. Rene Borgia, the man
who wrote the scripts, was fired,
and Alberto Gandero, Borgia’s su
pervisor, resigned.
4 ’ J
announcing the improvement, O. C.
Pogge, director of the administra
tion’s bureau of old-age and sur
vivors insurance in Baltimore, said:
“Our continuing efforts to inform
workers of their benefit rights have
resulted in increased public aware
ness that old-age and survivors in
surance benefits are payable onlr
if they are claimed.”
THE ARIZONA SUN
Throttling of Small Business
Can Kill Democratic System
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator
WASHINGTON.—Over in England, where the majority
voted to accept socialism because they felt the 400-year-old
“capitalistic experiment” had been a failure, they are finding
that you can’t vote yourself into a prosperity any more than
you can vote yourself into morality.
There are still a lot of Britons who think they have been voted out
of the frying pan into the fire. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, in a re
cent report to the Labor party, admitted that conversion into socialist
democracy was a long hard task, longer than they had imagined.
“We are engaged in a great ven
ture,” Attlee said, “We are trying
to build up a great, free, socialist
democracy.” He warned that a so
ciety changed by
u n d e m o c ratic
methods is apt to
lose the “habits
suppose he meant
by that that so
cialism had to
come by evolu
tion, which is an
ancient axiom of
the more conser
vative socialists.
Communists say
it can come only
by revolution.
Attlee also said that socialism
was away of life —not an economic
theory. That will be questiond by
some people. He added that social-f
ism demanded a higher standard
of citizenship than does capitalism.
Some people will quarrel with that
too. Many will say that it isn’t
that capitalism doesn’t demand a
higher standard of citizenship, but
simply that capitalism (or any
other known system, for that mat
ter) doesn’t always get it.
Capitalism fails, when it does
fail, not because there is any
thing wrong with free enterprise
or competition, but because some*
times the standard of morality or
standard of citizenship if you will,
running the system, bogs down.
Then free enterprise is shackled
and competition destroyed. The
anti-trust laws were passed to
punish people who tried to check
free enterprise by killing compe
tition. ,
Those laws wouldn’t be needed,
government intervention wouldn’t
be needed, if the standard of mor
ality, of citizenship, were high
enough among the people who con
trol enterprise. Long before the
war, and increasingly so when
shortages began to appear later,
big business began crowding small
business out of existence.
Because of war conditions and
the powerful influence of big busi
ness, the small buyer couldn’t com
pete. He wasn’t able to get the
raw materials.
Small business is the keystone of
capitalism. According to the Com
mittee on Economic Development,
98 per cent of the business units
in this country employ 50 people or
less. Those “business units” of
course aren’t limited to manufac
turing firms —they include the road
side hotdog stand, the one-woman
hand laundry, the tea room, and the
country store as well as the busi
ness men producing manufactured
Items on a small scale.
If this 98 per cent of a capi
talistic country’s business isn’t
prosperous, capitalism can’t sue- .
ceed. In fact you can’t have
capitalism when big industrial
groups monopolize business any
more than you can have it when
the state monopolizes business.
What is happening to small busi
ness today? It can’t compete. Big
business is making big profits, pay
ing big wages (regardless of
whether the take-home pay of the
workers is equal to cover high
prices or not). Small business can’t
afford to pay the big wages, and the
small town merchant is not mak
ing sales and profits because the
consumers in his company haven’t
the money to spend.
A recent issue of the Kiplinger
magazine made a survey of condi
tions in small towns as reported in
a thousand letters from small busi
nessmen, teachers, preachers, doc
tors, lawyers, housewives, working
men and working women in those
towns.
The net of the survey was that
there was a definite letdown in
business after January of this
year, and that the people sur
veyed believed that there is a
further letdown in prospect. '
There is evidence of reduced con
suming power which Is the first
sign of a depression. A sign that
the wealth of the nation is getting
out of the buyers’ hands.
Now that’s a pretty gloomy pic
ture and not wholly subscribed to
by commerce department people
here. They will tell you that busi
ness everywhere, large and small,
showed a tendency to level off after
January of this year, that there was
a definite weakening in the first
quarter of the year. But they be
lieve that was a temporary trend,
that it's over now, that business
will reverse itself, and that the
general trend is now upward again.
They make no differentiation be
tween large and small businesses in
their prognostications and studies,
ar.d they feel that the trend for all
business now is up.
But listen to what the people sur
veyed by Kiplinger say:
A food wholesaler in Iowa:
“Bread sales are extremely high,
also flour sales are good and the
sale of rolled oats is good, as people
apparently are filling up on these
nutritious foods in preference to
more expensive items.”
A baker in Ohio: “We are selling
fewer cakes and pies.”
Women are doing more sewing at
home, with clothing prices so high.
An Illinois businessman said: “The
local high school, decided to have
a night school on sewing. The first
registration was 135 women.”
Young woman in Wisconsin:
“I’m not the only working girl in
this community who doesn’t have
the new look.”
Illinois -farmwoman: “We planned
to buy some new furniture, but the
price is too high. I am making
slipcovers.”
Even electrical items, dreamed of
by housewives as an after-the-war
necessity, are not selling well. Said
an lowa dealer: “The edge is defi
nitely off on hard goods, such as
refrigerators, washers, radios,
stoves, etc. Prices too high.”
A salesman covering
the small towns finds the going
tough: “I cover New York state
and I am working twice as hard for
half the business.”
Many little signs of hard times
were reported by Kiplinger’s sur
vey. Examples:
A Texas housewife: “I am feed
ing tramps for the first time since
before the war.”
A deacon: “Collections are off
at our church.”
A loan company man: “More
borrowing from sntall loan com
panies.”
A village cobbler: “My shoe
repair business is good.”
As the Kiplinger magazine puts
it: “The folks in the small towns
are harder up. Their incomes
haven’t gone up as much as the
prices they pay.”
In other words, according to the
survey, the wealth is getting out
of the hands of the consumer. And
whether this survey or the com
merce department’s optimistic pre
diction are more nearly correct,
(congress abolished the small busi
ness section), this much at least
can be said:
You can redistribute the wealth
by the socialistic intervention of
government. That kills capitalism.
Or you can redistribute it by per
mitting full and free competition
competition on the part of the pro
ducers of raw competi
tion on the part of labor, (an ex
pensive item), competition on the
part of processors. Industrial or
labor monopoly, as I said before,
will kill capitalism in the end as
effectively as the Communist with
his little red hatchet.
•* * *
Even Russians
Get Re-oriented
This item was passed along to me
by a friend. A high officer in one
of the armies which fought against
Russia was visiting this country,
and told this story:
Recently in Berlin, he was enter
taining a high Russian officer sta
tioned there. It was a farewell
party as the Russian and his wife
had been ordered to return to Mos
cow. The host remarked that it
was nice that the Russian could
take his wife back from the rigors
of occupation life in Germany.
The Russian had dined well, and
perhaps was indiscreet. Anyway,
he confessed that he was anything
but pleased; that he was dreading
the period he and his wife must
pass in the “camp.’’
Then he explained that every
Russian, before he was allowed
to return to the Soviet Union, had
to pass through a re-education
center, and be indoctrinated with
just what he should say to his
friends and relatives.
I repeat this item because it
comes to me in a direct, intimate
manner; not a part of any or
ganized propaganda.
* * *
It’s as hard to reach an agree
ment with 16 lawyers haggling over
every word in a labor controversy
as it is to get into heaven with
16 theologians haggling over how
many angels can stand on the head
of a pin.
• • •
Good pastures save grain, says
department otf agriculture. Yes,
and around about foreclosing time,
good grain will save pastures.
Electric Automobile
The first Wood electric automobile
was tested on the streets of Chicago
in 1893. It created considerable ex-e
citement along the route.
Foot-Candle Unit
A foot-candle, the unit ‘for meas
uring light, is the amount of light
produced by the flame of a standard
candle on a surface a foot distant.
'Man of the Woods'
The arms of the orangutan—“man
of the woods”—are so long that this
ape can rest on its bent knuckles
while standing upright.
Parking for Eaters
One parking space is required for
every 50 square feet of patron space
- In restaurants, according to a re
cent survey.
Plastic Wall Cover
A transparent, plastic wall pro
tector for use around stoves, bath
tubs, sinks and radiators has been
placed on the market. The protector
comes in sheets which can be cut to
any desired size or shape.
Synthetic Rubber Alloy
Alloyed with certain plastics, syn
thetic rubber will be used in great
quantities in the future. They form
a tough, resilient floor tile which is
unaffected by oils and grease.
Early Finns Honored
The Finns who settled along
the Delaware in Pennsylvania in
1638 were honored by Finland’s spe
cial commemorative stamp 10 years
ago.
Water on the Earth
Seventy-one per cent of the sur
face of the earth is covered with
water. Only 61 per cent of the area
of the northern hemisphere is ocean,
however, compared with 81 per
cent of the southern hemisphere.
Bust and Bustle Era
Fashion dictators are prescribing
abundant use of jewelry to comple
ment the "bust and bustle” fashions
currently in vogue. In keeping with
elegance of the new gowns, jewel
ers are creating lavish, delicate
pieces using the sister metals, pal
ladium and platinum.
Those Ugly Words
National Association of Teachers
of Speech made out a list of the 10
ugliest words, the most unpleasant
found in the English language. They
were: Phlegmatic, crunch, flatulent,
cacophony, treachery, sap, jazz, plu
tocrat, gripe and plump.
Lumber for Painting
Some kinds of boards hold paint
better and longer than other vari
eties, depending upon the density
and texture of the lumber as well
as contents of resins, oils and mois
ture, and such defects as knots.
Store It Outdoors
Where farm rubber-tired ma
chines ednnot be kept under cover,
they should be blocked up, and the
wheels removed and placed under
cover. Where this cannot be done,
the machine should be well covered
with tar paper or canvas, the ma
chines having been blocked up so
that the tires do not touch the
ground.
»
Early Ice Enterprise
An early American enterprise was
the shipping of ice from New Eng
land to the tropics, *rhe ice was
packed in white pine sawdust and
Americans promoted its sale by
showing the natives how to make
ice cream and iced drinks.
Millions Lost in Fire
Fire losses for this year in the
nation probably will reach 700 mil
lion dollars, twice as much in a
single year as was lost in the fire
that followed the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake, according to fire pre
vention authorities’ estimates.
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STATE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCCESS
The man who advertises has |
assumed the responsibility for suc
cess. You would rather deal with a
responsible man, wouldn't you?
Floating Fruit
Fruit may float in Jars because
the pack is too loose or the syrup
» too heavy, or perhaps air in the tis
sues of the fruit has not all been
forced out during heating and proc
essing.
Richly Ornamented
The most richly-ornamented
building in the world and one of the
strangest sights in India is the large
Hindu temple, Konarak, in the Puri
district of Orissa. The exterior is
thickly covered with sculptured fig
ures of gods and goddesses, which
although seven centuries old, still
are considered to be outstanding In
sculpture.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOB.
CANADIAN FARMS—Write us for FREE IN
FORMATION on farm settlement opportunities.
Fertile soils. Reasonably priced. R, C. liosworth,
Canadian Pacific Railway, Union Station, St.
Paul, Minn.
FOB SAFE—-Well established electric
and refrigeration business. Priced for
quick sale to dissolve partnership. P. O.
Box 488. Dodge City, Kansas
VENDING MACHINES
We sell cigarette, candy, and penny
machines of leading manufacturers. Our
supply of panned candies and ball gum
is ample. If you prefer the best, consult
us before buying.
P and M Sales Co. 614 - 19th SU
Denver 2, Colo. MAin 0484
DOGS, CATS, PETS, ETC.
GBEAT DANE PUPPIES. Harlequin.
A.K.C. registered. Show conformation.
Wonderful with children. Lovable de
positions. Write Hansen, 606 W. 10th Bb,
Hastings, Nebraska.
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
KOHLER Light Plant (2,000) watts.
Used five months, 2 %-horse motors.
Priced $550.00. B. H. Cline, Elbert, Colo.
FARM MACHINERY & EQUIP.
SLIGHTLY used automatic New Holland
hay baler with 700 lbs. of twine. Price
$2,000. John J. Sebesta, Star Rt., Bos
58, Lyons, Texas.
HELP WANTED—MEN
MEN’S wool presser. Good salary. Good
working conditions. Up-to-Date Cleaners,
Grand Junction, Colo., 124 S. sth.
INSTRUCTION
LEARN THE NEW AIR-VU SYSTEM
of making three-dimensional engineer
ing drawings in best equipped engineer
ing drawing school In mountain states.
Enter any time. G. I. approved. Our
students secure employment. The Alr-
Vu Co., 1026 17th St., Denver, Colo.
HIGHER cost of living requires more
earning power. The answer for quickest
results with less investment is beauty
culture. Enroll now. Day or night classes.
Free booklet. Free information, easy
payment plan. G. I. approved.
CBONNIE BEAUTY SCHOOL
309 Temple Court Bldg. Denver, Colo.
LIVESTOCK ~
FOR SALE—Registered Durocs, gilts and
boars, choice bloodlines, top quality;
pairs unrelated, vaccinated; modern
type; select from our wonderful pig
crop, priced reasonably. Member of
Colorado Duroc Association and 100%
Club. Write or visit us Sundays. Frank
Duffy Farms, 6 miles south, 1 mile east
Longmont, Colorado. Phone 026J5.
MISCELLANEOUS
Airplane, 194 S J3C, total hours 220,
$1,295, or will take late model wrecked
car In trade. Harold Helgoth, Rt. 1, Box
55, Boulder, Colo. Phone 021R11.
Roll Developed Overnight Service
8 High-Gloss Prints. All sizes 25c
Re-prlnts 3c each.
JUMBO ENLARGEMENTS sc each
FOX STUDIOS Billings, Montana
OIL REPORTER, news magazine cov
ering all Rocky Mountain petroleum
developments. Write for free sample.
251 Equitable Bldg., Denver 2, Colo.
REAL ESTATE—BUS. PROP.
TOURIST Season just beginning. Best
little case on Highway 6; low overhead,
good volume, near new dam site; won
derful opportunity for right party. 412
W. Platte Ave., Fort Morgan, Colo.
FOR SALE MOTOR COURT
ON U. S. HIGHWAY 30
24 units Completely furnished, 5 of
which are modern. Capacity 70 persons.
Showers, baths, garage, 4-room modern
residence. One entire city block, within
city limits, room for expansion on
property. Natural gas. Gross Income,
$17,500. Price $50,000, terms if necessary.
Ryan & Ryan
Telephone 4802 Box 814
Laramie, W'yoming
REAL ESTATE—MISC.
WHEAT LAND— )96O acres near Galeton,
Colo., Weld County, available to REA.
Two oil highways, lays Just right for
Big Thompson Gov. water, $30.00 per
acre. Robert Lofgren, 1301 Market St.,
CII. 7433, Denver, Colo.
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