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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.
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Directly across the channel into north-
b^M western France - Distance: about 114
miles French coastline is fortified.
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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
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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. Other good sized
gates have given him a comfortable
chunk of cash.
He could retire now with enough
to last him the rest of his life, but
he’s playing it safe and adding
something extra to a bankroll that
has had the unhappy experience of
fading all too rapidly.
SPORTS SHORTS
C. Gene Tunney modestly does not
rate himself in his list of the eight
best heavyweights, but does rank
Jack Dempsey, whom he whipped
twice, as the No. 1 scrapper
Dempsey was followed by Fitzsim
mons, Corbett, Jeffries, Louis, Sulli
van, Johnson and Sharkey, in that
order.
C. In eight of the last nine years,
the team that was in last place in
the National league standings on
the morning of Memorial day, won
the pennant.
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