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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Let's Face Fads Farmer Organizations Organize Pressures To Clip Price Laws By BARROW LYONS WNU Staff Corr»«pondnf WASHINGTON, D. C. One of the hardest fought behind- the-scenes battles in congress in re cent months has been the fight to preserve price control—to main tain the Presi dent’s “hold-the- line” policy. Ad ministration lead ers have felt that unless virtually all changes to the emergency price control act were defeated, the dev il of inflation would get his hoof inside the door; and that from then on there would be no stopping him until he had pulled down the house. This has seemed an arbitrary and dictatorial viewpoint to leaders of farm organizations. All over the country their clients, the farmers of America, have smarted from vari ous OPA rulings. They have been determined to find some relief from those which have irked them the most. Farm leaders do not wish to destroy basic price controls, how ever. Barrow Lyons But as a result of the com bined attacks of business and farm interests, price control faces today one of its recurring crises. Scores of amendments to the emergency price control act have been referred to the senate committee on banking and currency, and debates be hind closed doors have been charged with fire and brimstone. Among the amendments which stand the best chance of acceptance are those proposed by Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry (R., Neb.), Republican Whip. These amendments include elimination of the 60-day limitation on the time for filing formal pro tests against inequitable prices, au thorization for organizations as well as individual sellers to challenge in the courts price regulations, a re quirement that civil enforcement proceedings be brought in the dis trict where the defendant resides or maintains a place of business, op portunity for the defendant in price violation proceedings to plead that the price at which he sold was no higher than parity price. Farm Group Support Recently a newspaper release sup porting the Wherry amendments was issued by the farm group and signed: “The National Grange, by A. S. Goss, national master; Ameri can Farm Bureau federation, by Edward O’Neal, president; National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, by John H. Davis, executive secretary, and National Cooperative Milk Pro ducers’ federation, by Charles W. Holman, secretary.” When a combination like that gets behind a measure, some thing generally gives way. This time resistance is nnusnally stubborn. The administration is fighting with all its power every move to weaken price eontrols —particularly proposals which would permit prolonged legal proceedings, and thus make a law that is very difficult to ad minister virtually impossible to administer. But it is on the legal front that the farm leade r make their princi pal attack. Their joint statement declares. “The legal subterfuges that OPA has employed to prevent court tests of some of its high-handed actions are destructive of the people’s re spect for and confidence in govern ment . . . "The chief reason that price ceilings on food have been rea sonably effective has been the fact that American farmers have con tinued to produce at the highest lev el in history. “This production has been CClvieved in spite of serious handi caps imposed by OPA as a result of inequitable ceilings, tardily an nounced, indefinite and unjust regu lations and widely differing and often contradictory interpretations. In many instances, price regulations and other actions of the OPA have disregarded the will of congress. The agency has refused in instance after instance, to make price ad justments required by law, even though these adjustments would have made little difference in the cost of living and would have ma terially increased production.” There is not enough space in this column to go into all of the intrica cies of this battle. The OPA has made so many blunders that it is hard to find an unbiased audience before which to defend it, despite the fact that it has been far more effective in controlling inflation than many who dislike it are willing to admit. But there are mighty few people in the organization who like their jobs. Many of the leading business men who accepted posts under the new administrator, Chester Bowles, took thankless tasks at considerable financial sacrifice. The Office of Price Administra tion has killed off two administra tors. The turnover on its legal staff has been about 500 per cent. I have come to the conclusion that to ac- * cept a job on its staff requires just about as much patriotism as volun teering for behind-the-lines fighting in enemy territory. GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Supreme Allied Commander. (WASHINGTON, D. C., VIA ENGLAND) American troops embark for the kick-off. Photo shows American troops as they embarked for the invasion of Hitler’s Europe on D-Day. (Signal Corps Radio Telephoeo). Deputy Commander AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ARTHUR TEDDER Briton who turned to the air after be ing wounded as infantryman in World War 1. Ground Force Chief LIEUT. GEN. OMAR NELSON BRADLEY Missouri bom, quiet-mannered Brad ley was the hero of the American victory at Bizerle. His job is to lead his mem from the channel to Berlin. Through Norway and Denmark and H ■ thenco into the hear! of Germany - Distance to Norway about 300 milei. JJ Through the Fa* do Calait and low- by A lands - best defended route of all— Distances: from 22 to 13S miles. ■jj Directly across the channel into north- b^M western France - Distance: about 114 miles French coastline is fortified. jjj I Through -the Boy of Biscay to soil* I beachheads in Western France — Dis- I tonco: about 450 miles by water. I Allies may also strike through South- Icrn France - Distance: about *395 miles 1 from Allied territory in North Africa. | Through Yugoslavia and Central Eu- j rope into Germany from the South — I Distance to Yugoslavia- 140 miles. Shown above are the six most likely invasion rentes as seen by Allied military strategists. Initial German r-n>jrts pot the invasion front opposite the south England coast, centering around the Seine river estuary and the Seine bay, about 80 miles from the British side across the English channel, along a stretch of about 75 miles of the French coast. Allied Promise Although France was the first country to feel the impact of Allied strength, United Nations’ leaders promised to strike through Norway and the lowlands in their war for liberation. The area indicated in white on the above map is the Nazi defense zone. Continued bombing of key communications lines complicated the enemy’s transportation problems and the past months of hammering at the German Luftwaffe so weakened that unit that the Allied air force dictated terms on which they should meet. Several weeks ago it was reported that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel bad moved approximately a quarter of a million men to that area. Beaches like these were first military objectives. IrapNG jy ypl^/ux^r U ' Released by Western Newspaper Union. W IN, lose or draw, Hammerin’ Henry Armstrong always has been the fighter for our money. Pound for pound, Henry just about tops the list of all-time great boxers. Look over the list of ring men and find one who has done what he has. The dark slugger set a record for bowling over his opponents and in so doing managed to win three world’s boxing championships, hold ing them simultaneously. More than once the experts said Henry was through. That has been the cry for years. Henry again up set the dope reeently when he knocked out Aaron Perry, a sensa tional comer, in Washington, D. C. Yet Henry insists he always has been a pacifist who avoids argu ments and heartily dislikes fighting. How is it, then, that a man who detests fighting can work up so much fury when he steps into the ring? Simple Answer The answer is simple—and quite obvious. Henry needs the money. He is fighting for board and room. During his ring career the little Negro probably earned a million dollars or so. He isn’t absolutely HENRY ARMSTRONG broke now, but he isn’t a rich man by any standards. The disappear ance of his hard-earned wealth doesn’t cause Henry too much men tal anguish. He remembers cheer fully how his likable ex-manager, the late Eddie Meade, managed to mess up their finances following ev ery big bout. Henry remembers that when the time came to split the purses, Meade always came up with a bril liant idea for doubling their money. The schemes always failed. Gene Kessler, a Chicago sports writer, tells of some of Meade’s get- rich-quick ideas: “There was the movie, ‘Keep Punching,’ in which Henry was star actor r co-director and financial angel. All Henry got for his bank roll in that venture was a few souve nirs and still-life photos of himself. There was the flash-front chop suey joint in Los Angeles which packed in customers but, strangely, showed no profit. In fact, it kept Henry broke feeding the good citizens of Los Angeles from his fight purses lintil a sheriff gracefully closed the doors.” Financial Venture But Meade’s greatest financial ventures had to do with the im provement of the breed. He was known to have invested an entire fight purse on one discouraged nag which ended up just where every one else expected him to. Armstrong retired in 1940 after absorbing quite a beating from Fritzie Zivic. He took a terrible pounding in that fight. His eyes were hammered into bloody, brutal messes. And when he retired he had only a small bank balance to show for his great earnings. The story goes that when Henry retired, Meade took the last of his earnings and bought a race horse. It wasn’t the best race horse in the world, but one day he won a $5,000 stake at Belmont. It was the first big money Meade had ever collected from the turf and the shock was too severe. He collected his money, re turned to Broadway and died. It wasn’t love of fighting that brought Henry back to the ring. It was necessity, eoupled with the lure of war-fattened bankrolls. And this time he is going to take eare of his own finances. The total gate for his match with* Perry grossed $60,000 in Washington. 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