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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. WASHINGTON. — Some people are wondering whether the fact finding board for the meat packing industry took the trouble to read the newspapers. If so, they might not have recommended that the house wife bear the main burden of the cost of increased wages in the meat packing industry. The fact-finding board, which in cluded Dr. Edwin E. Witte of Wis consin university, Chief Justice Raymond W. Starr of the Michigan Supreme court, and Clark Kerr, former chairman of the meat pack' ing branch of the war labor board —three able men—decided that a 16-cent pay increase was fair and equitable for meat packing work ers. But they added that only five cents of this was “absorbable by the meat industry without price or subsidy relief.” In other words, the fact finders recommended that the big meat packers could pay only 5 cents of the 16-cent wage incres. _ out of their own pockets. The rest would have to be passed on to the consum er or the government. Their report was filed February 7. However, early in December, long before the fact-finding board was appointed, a number of smaller meat packing plants had already signed contracts with the CIO and AFL for 15 cents an hour pay increase with out any strings attached re garding increased meat prices. The small packers who signed such agreements included Hygrade Food Products of New York, George A. Hormel of Austin, Minn., and others in the Chicago area. Apparently, the fact finders did not take this into considera tion. Apparently also, they ig nored the fact that Swift and company previously had agreed to a pay boost of 10 cents an hour without any strings at tached regarding increased meat prices to the housewife. For, despite Swift’s offer of 10 rents an hour and the smaller com panies’ increase of 15 cents, the fact finders recommended that only 6 cents of the 16-cent increase could be paid for by meat packers. The remaining 11 cents will be passed on to the housewife—unless the gov ernment votes a subsidy. BREAD WASTE SCANDAL. Department of agriculture sleuths have been doing some quiet check ing of unscrupulous bakeries which violate bread sales regulations in order to kill off competition. Despite the fact that the nation has been forced on a “dark bread” diet to help feed war-starved peo ples of the world, thousands of loaves of good bread are still go ing to waste, or being fed to hogs and chickens. It works like this: If a big bakery is trying to grab business away from a competing bakery, it will begin supplying gro cery stores on a “consignment basis,” which means that grocers’ shelves are loaded up with supplies of bread in excess of what they can sell. The following day—somet mes the same day—drivers pick up the un sold loaves and replace them with fresh stock, charging the grocer only for the bread actually sold. Idea is to promote sales of a particu lar brsdd of bread because of its “freshness.” This is a violation of war food order No. 1, but it hasn’t stopped certain bakeries in Houston, Texas, Richmond, Va., San Francisco, Cleveland, Kansas City and St. Louis from carrying on the prac tice on a huge scale. Instead of making their re turned stocks of one-day-old bread available at a reduced price to poor families, the loaves frequently wind up in garbage jins. One Texas farm er who tipped off the depart ment of agriculture about condi tions in Houston said he had been buying wagon-loads of bread “fresh enough to eat” to feed his hogs and chickens. ATOM VS. BATTLESHIP Unless President Truman does something drastic about it very soon, the forthcoming atomic tests in the Pacific, scientists say, may turn out to be a study in water spouts instead of atomic energy. On-the-surface atomic-bomb explosions, the scientists claim, will add nothing to the knowl edge already accumulated from previous explosions at New Mexico, Hiroshima and Naga saki, except that we may learn the size and damage of the world’s largest water spout. Administration lobbying to con firm Ed Pauley has reached white- hot pitch. Gov. Mon Wallgren of Washington was brought east to put the heat on Senators Magnuson and Hugh Mitchell, the latter having been Wallgren’s secretary. Both will now vote for Pauley. . . In some states, where the November race will be close, a vote for Pauley may mean defeat for a Democrat. . . . The Pauley-AUen-Vardaman Merry-Go-Rounds have evolved the latest Washington wisecrack: “Tru man is suffering from Pendergastric ulcers!” *1041*4* R&fvoJiteJi In WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Correspondent WNU Washington Bureau, It If Eye St., N. W. New ‘Hold Line’ Policy Doesn’t Satisfy Anyone An old Greek philosopher once said: “Give me a theory and I will find an argument to support it.” In his address to the nation on October 31 President Truman de clared a simple policy, too easy and simple in fact; (1) that manage ment could raise wages in general without raising prices (2) that labor must be moderate in wage increase demands and (3) that we must get back to collective bargaining. His talk was quiet, candid, plain, in up holding his theory. But it didn’t work. His new wage-price pronounce ment of February 15 is the direct opposite. (1) It permits more than moderate wage increases (2) it per mits increase in prices and (3) it throws collective bargaining over board and restores wage controls under the National Wage Stabiliza tion board. In other words, the President has returned to wartime controls of wages,- prices and pro duction until reconversion is com plete. And the President has an excellent set of arguments to sup port his latest theory. Something Had to Be Done Will it work? Labor doesn’t like it. Management doesn’t like it. And perhaps the public doesn’t like it. But something had to be done to alleviate the economic chaos in which the country found itself ground between the millstones of stubborn management and equally stubborn labor. And now with a bulge in the old price line, it re mains to be seen whether Chester Bowles can do the job. Some say here he has been given an impos sible job. Bowles says he can hold the price line if he has the co-operation of all concerned. He won’t get it, though. He has become the symbol of price control, something that in dustry is still fighting against, par ticularly the National Association of Manufacturers. It is no secret here that big busi ness men want inflation. They have the dollars, they have the plants and real estate and with inflation they will get more dollars, although low er valued dollars, and their plants and real estate will soar in value. Inflation only hurts the little fel lows, those with fixed incomes who depend upon their savings in bonds and insurance. When inflation comes and the value of their dollars in vested in bonds and insurance drops, their buying power toboggans and prices soar. Bowles says he must have the OPA law tor at least another year, and although the NAM and other big interests are ex erting tremendous pressure to per mit the law to die June 30, it appears as though enough votes may bi mus tered to extend it. If Bowles has his way within the President’s official family, he may save something out of the chaos and indecision which have marked han dling of this reconversion program. He is a fighter, he is courageous and he needs help. He gets little or none from congress and up to now has had none from the executive branch of the government. Inflation la Feared Farm organizations are finally rallying around the Bowles stand ard because they see in him the last bulwark against an inflation which will be ruinous to agriculture. The Farmers Union has honored him “for the most outstanding service to agriculture in 1945” for his hold- the-line policy. Because when Bowles held the line against infla tion of values of industrial goods he was putting money into farmers’ pockets just as surely as if he had raised farm prices. But Bowles now says we must con tinue subsidies. And farm organiza tions here have just adopted reso lutions saying that subsidies are ruinous to farm prices. In a two-day meeting of organized dairy farmers of the National Co-operative Milk Producers federation a black-picture of doom and despair was pictured because of subsidies r on milk and other farm produce. Dairymen were going bankrupt, they said, and they threw a big banquet for 250 con gressmen to prove it. At the same time the Farmers’ Union was honoring Bowles with a pat on the back, Jim Patton, head of the Farm organization, declared the President’s new program, which Bowles must make work, was a $250,000,000 bribe to business. On the same day they adopted a resolution declaring government subsidies would ruin them, they is sued a joint-letter from major na tional farm organizations indorsing the Flannagan school lunch bill. This bill is, after all, a $50,000,000 annual subsidy to agriculture tor purchase of surplus farm crops for the lunch program. So there is con tinuing prospect for confusion. The belief here, however, is that labor peace generally may be here soon and that if Bowles can get his way, the reconversion program may start moving smoothly. FIRST POSTWAR REGATTA . . . The National Midwinter regatta, held recently on the shores of Los Angeles, drew more than 75 crack sai'ing crafts from Pacific coast points, in a three-day meet. Many classes of the trim boats were represented In the colorful sailing event, the first smee the start of the war. The event was sponsored by the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce and Southern California Yachting association. BELIEVE IT OR NOT—IT RUNS . . . Edward C. Hammond, Newton, Mass., did not let auto shortages stand in his way. With a bit of Yankee ingenuity he concocted his own auto which Hammond calls the “Weep.’ 1 It has all accessories, including a wicker basket for golf clubs and a series of horns, sirens, bells and light. The builder'says that it can go 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Hammond is at the wheel of his creation. COMES THE ELECTRONIC HOT Dt/G . . . The “Radio Chef,” promised for several months, arrived at New York to make life more complicated. The gadget for dispensing the electronically cooked frankfurter is being demonstrated by Sammy Kaye. The frankfurters are wrapped in cello phane and enclosed in an oven-fresh roll, ready for the consumer, who deposits a dime in the inevitable slot. ARGENTINA HOLDS ELECTION . . . Strong man Col. Juan Peron, dic tator of Argentina, right, who appeared by early returns to have been defeated for the presidency by Dr. Jose P. Tamborini, left, democratic union candidate. Antiquated system of vote-counting resulted in several weeks’ delay in the final count. The election of Dr. Tamborini was fa vored by the U. S. state department as an aid in the “friendly neigh bor” policy in Latin America. KRUG SUCCEEDS ICKES . . . Jul ius A. Krug, 38, Madison, Wis., who has been appointed by President Truman as the new secretary of the interior. He was formerly chair man of WPB and chief power en gineer of TVA. Since leaving gov ernment service he has headed an engineering company. Krug ex pressed bis satisfaction in the way the interior department has been administered in the past by Secre tary Ickes. MAY RULE ITALY . . . Prince Vittorio Di Savoia, son of the regent of Italy and grandson of the last king of Italy, whose abdication has opened the way to the throne for/ the boy prince. His father is Prince Umberto. DOCTOR CHURCHILL . . . Winston Churchill, former prime minister of Great Britain, as he received the degree of doctor of laws from the University of Miami, at the Orange Bowl, before thousands in a public ceremony. HUNT WILD BOAR . . . Shown is James Lynn, left, and Benny War ren, Chicago Cub players who are training on Catalina island, Calif. They took time off to look for wild boar in the hills on Catalina island. AID ON FOOD PROBLEM . . . Herbert C. Hoover, former Presi dent and foremost food expert after World War I, has been invited by President Truman to aid in post war world food problems. He has been active in foreign relief work. CPORT has an odd way of hook- ^ ing up time and space. On one night lately we ran across an Aus tralian sportsman in New York, who felt fairly confident that Jack Brom wich and Dinny Pails could take pretty good care of the Davis cup next December. Next we had lunch with Beals Wright, the famous U. S. tennis star. Wright defeated both Norman Brookes and Tony Wilding on Aus tralian turf in Da vis cup play back ir 1908, when they were considered unbeatable, al though Australia retained the cup 3-2. Hero was a gap of 38 years in time and 12,000 miles in space with the Davis cup the main item of conversation. “I think we have an excellent chance to hold the cup,” our Aus tralian friend said. “Bromwich is good but in my opinion 19-year-old Dinny Pails is even better. Or he will be better with the 9 or 10 months of play and training he has left befori next December. Some good advice from Sir Norman Brookes won’t hurt. Bromwich is still in good form, an excellent player and a stout competitor. And we may have others by the cup date. “Against this strong Australian pair the U. S. must bank largely on Frank Parker, Billy Talbot and possibly Kramer and Schroeder if they can get out of service in time to reach former form. You will dis cover no Big Bill or Little Bill in this group—the pair who brought the cup home in 1920 after World War I. But it will be an experienced team that can at least put up a good front.” Beals Wright—and 1908 “Australia and 1908 are a long way and a long time back,” Beals Wright remarked. “We took a fool ish gamble because only Fred Alex ander and myself made the trip. I kept wondering what would hap pen if either of us should get sick or injured. We had no substitute. I had two great matches with Nor man Brookes and Tony Wilding and was lucky to be at my best in both contests. “Unless conditions have changed the U. S. team must be ready to face two important factors. One is the intense heat in December. When we played the temperature was 115 degrees. While it was a dry heat, still 115 is what you might call a bit warm. I recall an intense desire to take a drink of water through the matches, which, of course, I couldn’t do. You shouldn’t drink any water or anything else while the play is on. “The second factor is the turf, Australian turf is quite different from ours and England’s, where the grass has a much lighter or thin ner texture. Australian turf is much stronger, much more rugged. This means your spikes are likely to stick, affecting your ankles and your leg muscles. I don’t think my legs were ever quite as sore. I had to go in for rubber-soled shoes.” Beals Wright is the son of the late George Wright, who played shortstop on the unbeaten Reds of 1869, a team that won 55 garnes, lost none and was tied once. George Wright played profession al ball until he retired in 1876, the year that gave birth to the National league. He was also a brilliant cricketer and a good golfer late in life. Calls Tilden Greatest I asked Beals to name the great est tennis player he had ever seen in his 40-odd years of competition and observation. “I’ve seen many great ones,” he said “The Doherty brothers — Brookes and Wilding — Lamed — McLoughlin — Billy Johnston — the French stars, especially Cochet — the best that have come along since 1900. But the top man is still Bill Tilden in my opinion. Tilden had both speed and power on the court. As far as I could see he had no weakness in his championship years. He had amazing stamina. In addition to this Tilden had unusual court generalship. He was one of the few men I’ve seen in sport who could let down and then pull him self back. He had the art of keep ing his opponent off balance, both mentally and physically. No one ever knew what was coming next.” a • • Honesty Pays Off Several years sgo Hurry-Up Yost, Michigan’s famous football coach, made over 200 addresses in one sea son to high school and university gatherings. The theme of his many talks was this—“Honesty is the best invest ment.” “I wanted to prove," he told me, “that honesty was not only the best policy—but that it also paid bigger dividends in every way. In other words—that you could make more money being honest.” GrantlandRice When Your’Innards” are Crying the Blues WHEN CONSTIPATION make* you fed punk as the dickens, brings on stomach upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take Dr. Caldwell’s famous median* to quickly pull the trigger on lery “in nards”, and help yon feel bright and chipper again. OR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful sen- na laxative contained in good old Syrup Pepsin to make it so easy to take. MANY DOCTORS use pepsin prepara- tiona in prescriptions to make the medi cine more palatable and agreeable te take. 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