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Illinois Valiev News, Thursday, June 28, 1945 Returns Eroin a German Prison Grave to Health ► WALTER A. SHEAO POULTRY BLACK MARKET. WASHINGTON - The black mar ket in eggs and poultry is so bac that the War Food administratior is seriously considering the freez ing of all eggs in storage Mean while J. Edgar Hoover s G-men have been quietly probing the poultry black market in the Delaware Mary land area with startling results. Their findings will reach high into Delaware state politics and per haps into the Washington headquar ters of the War Food administra tion and OPA. Already Clifford Shedd. Delaware WFA official, has lost the authority to release poultry for civilian con sumption from tile army’s set-aside, but his chief in Washington. Gor don Sprague, says he is taking full authority for anything that might be found wrong with Shedd's administration. Sprague has taken You would never think that Pvt. Joseph Itemler of Fredonia, Wis.. shown above as he appears (left) at over direct charge of all poultry re the Kennedy General hospital in Memphis, was the same man who is shown at right, a bag of bones, as leases, but claims that he knows U. 8. troops found him when they captured a German prison camp where he was held. He weighed 70 pounds no irregular action by Shedd. on March 29, 1945. On June 7 he weighed 124 pounds. He was fed a planned starvation diet while a prisoner. Meanwhile, black market op erations along both the West and the East coast are so seri ous that legitimate poultry and egg dealers are being forced out of business. The situation in New England, New Jersey and North Carolina is especially bad. Drums Furnish Home and Industrial Gonvenience Tim Stills of the War Food ad ministration told Congressman Anderson's food committee that OPA should suspend all price ceil ing on eggs in an effort to channel eggs back into the legitimate mar ket Tliis immediately caused deal ers to hold on to their eggs (or a pi ice rise. I’. S. PRESTIGI ABROAD Hardboiled Republican Congress man Everett Dirksen of Illinois had a secret meeting with his GOP col leagues in a house lobby the other day following his 36.000-mile trip around the world He gave them plenty of food for thought. Among other things. Dirksen said: Rates to employers are increased from the average of 3*4 per cent they are now paying to 4 per cent to finance all the insurance features, and employees would pay approxi mately 3 per cent more than they are paying under the present law but are given greatly expanded pro tection. MP »■Mt «? Ji "I went into Turkey where 83 per cent of the pictures in the Turkish newspapers and 40 per cent of the lineage is supplied them by the OWI. In other words, they are telling the Turks what this country is like— selling the United States to Turkey. ' They're doing a great job and if it wasn't for OWI, American pres tige wouldn't be half as high as if is today "1 came to the conclusion." Dirk sen said, "that OWI is something we've got to keep after the war." Rl ssl AN Rl LATIONSIIIPS Unless something unforeseen hap pens to upset it. Harry Hopkins has won a resounding victory for im proved relations with Russia by ironing out the main points of the Polish dispute f-fe x ■ W ä F- Amputees at the Waller Reed hospital, Washington, watch Pete Gray, one-armed hall plavcr of the St. I.ouls Browns, demonstrate how he can catch a ball, shake off his glove and throw the hall with the greatest of ease. Left to right are: Pvt. Steve Lawrence, T 5 Anthony Motyka. Pic. I’cler Brennan, Sgt. John Gallagher and CpI Harry Waters. Gen. Omar Bradley appointed head of the veterans' administration. "If I had a son I would like him to go to Bradley or Ike for advice," the late Ernie Pyle once said. Service» men are backing the choice. \rmv‘s E\|M‘rimental Helicopter Nelson \\ ins \irain I'hc agreement, hammered out in several intimate talks be tween Hopkins and Stalin, pro vided for an immediate meeting by three groups of Polish lead ers in Moscow to set up a new Polish government representing all factions. This will Include ex Premier Mikolajctyk ol the Lon don government, who has been kept closely Informed of all phaxea of the Kremlin discos- ■ions and baa approved them. ( ABITAI TALK c Chica g o's Mayor Ed Kelly still ins the most impressiv e service Ili on's cen ter in the world. has taken ire of rnote than I5.IXI•0. (MM) G I id served them more than (MX) (XX) rT103 iS 4 The silate and intern >r depart ih have their ej es on the ■s State's budgvit carries a nuance for a U S ambas- What the helicopter of tomorrow may look like is pictured by this idor to the Philippines Interior's irries a salary 1for a high new army model. Seen in flight in Upper Darby, Pa., it looks like a >ner If there is tndepend* giant bumble bee with its stubby fuselage. The craft Is an experimental ice, th er e uill be an amibassador; m ••’el and has been undergoing tests since August. 1944. Early tests i.i.llcate that it has merits not found In previous models. if not, a cummissioner Released by Western Newspaper Union. WAR EXPERIENCE HAS I I IF ASHINGTON today is a vast DEFEATED SOCIALISM WASHINGTON. — They say Mr. - ’ ’ stage upon which events of national and international moment Churchill blundered when he ' crowd themselves with lightning claimed socialism would bring a | rapidity and with kaleidoscopic | gestapo to the British, rob the indi clarity. They are events and pro vidual of his rights and make him a posals which have ramifications af- I slave to the state—at least the po’>>> footing the lives and destinies, one. cal experts say it in chorus here and abroad. As 1 way or another, not only of our own they see it Church 'people in the cities and hometowns ill is "the man who in America, but of people every won the war” and where. should have run for And we criticize our congressmen i reelection on that . . . gripe at our governmental agen- I platform. I wonder. j cies freely and often, but, as a mat- . The very day he I ter of fact, it is amazing that with I spoke, a British- ithe quickening and increasing! spirited province tn tempo of affairs here, the men Canada voted on so and women in government keep , cialism. In Ontario, | abreast of the times and the respon- i a straight - out so sibilities with which they are faced cialist movement, . as well as they do. Churchill called the Coopera- I Just within the last few days . . . I Victory for the Reciprocal Trade ex- I tive Commonwealth federation, had tension iR the house and its defeat j won astonishing success last time, [by a senate committee . the gaining 34 seats, more than a third I overwhelming vote of confidence in ' of the provincial parliament. The [ world cooperation by the house | program was government owner action of Bretton Woods . . . the ship of banks, insurance companies, streamlining plans for the Veter- I railways and certain heavy indus ans administration by General tries. This was to be the new rising Bradley . . . the President's vic- j political movement of the postwar tory in the Russian empasse at San Canadian world — but it was nipped Francisco ... the Truman pro far below the bud, and. in fact, frost-killed, when the people of in posal for temporary unemployment compensation during the reconver dustrial Ontario (where labor s sion era the modernization o< strong) cut its power te an insignifi the governmental set-up as planned cant 6 seats in a parliament of 90 I . . the Murray-Wagner-O'Mahoney votes. New \ eterans’ Head .-M- - 'Here's something you fellows may not agree with, but I want to tell you that the OWI (Office of War Information) is doing a great job for us abroad. In India, for instance. I met with a group of political leaders who began asking me about the lennessec I alley Authority. I was surprised that tliey would know anything about it, and asked them how it happened; they replied that they had seen an OW I film show ing IVA. WNU Washington Bureau \ «21 Union Trust Building The new measure, a tailky. 185- page document, carries with it ap- 1 propriations which will run into bil lions of dollars The section on hos- | pitals and health centers alone calls for $950.000,000 over a 10-year Ilow empty oil drums are being used in the Pacific area is shown by these photos. Left, the drums were period. That it will meet with deter used in asnhalt p'ant, as stacks, etc. Cent T, household use, wash sinks made from drums. I'pper right, view mined opposition is a foregone con of one of the oil drum farms. Lower right, used for barbecue. Other uses include bomb shelters, gateway clusion, for it attempts to national arches, legs for water tanks, incinerators, sewer pipes and reflectors on light poles. ize all provisions of the present act, except medical and public as sistance, taking over old age and survivors insurance and unemploy ment compensation from the states and placing those features ex clusively in the hands of the fed eral government. Coaches One-Armed Ball Placers By P aul M allon This Concerns Every Citizen .full-time employment bill . . all these are a few examples. And now .the Wagner • Murray • Dingle bill which will affect the lives of ev ery man. woman and child in every hometown and rural community in America. It completely overhauls, enlarges and federalizes the present social se curity law, bringing under its pro visions an additional 15.000.000 farm ers. farm laborers, domestic em ployees. small merchants, profes sional men and women, seamen and employees of non-profit organiza tions. BILLIONS INVOLVED But what they did not know is that Stitts has not requested OPA to suspend or even raise the price ceiling on eggs. OPA. under the price control act, cannot raise these ceilings without formal re quest from the War Food adminis tration, and this request has never been made. Finally, the WFA may be forced to freeze all eggs in stor age, permitting the army to take what It wants of them and release the rest for civilian market. Hundreds of thousands of cases of eggs are in private storage this year while their owners play for an eventual price rise The black market on those eggs which do not go into storage Is so had that while creameries In Minnesota cannot get eggs, eggs from Minnesota larms are going ya llligiil chan nels as far as New York City. Cwre sp s a dss S« The farmer is entitled to all the provisions of the bill except un employment compensation and tem porary disability insurance. He would get medical aid. old age and survivors insurance and disability insurance for which he would pay 5 per cent on his net income up to $3.600 He would make his payments quarterly or semi-annually. If the farmer has a hired hand, he would deduct 5 per cent of his net income for transmissal to the government, and records would be kept through the use of stamps to be issued for the purpose, eliminating any book keeping. The same method would be used by the small business man. He would pay on his net income up to $3.600 at the same rate, and if he has one or more employees not now receiv ing benefits of the social security law. he would deduct their percent ages and issue stamps to the em ployees to eliminate bookkeeping In some states from one to eight employees are not now covered by the social security law DOMESTIC HELP AIDED. Domestic help would come under the same provisions. If you have a maid, a cook, a washwoman, you would deduct the proper percentage from her pay on pay-day and pre sent her with stamps for her book Issued for the purpose Professional men such as doctors, lawyers, den tists. veterinarians etc., also be come eligible for the benefits under the law with a cost of 5 per cent on net income up to $3.600 Briefly, the provisions of the new bill provide: 1. A program of federal grants and loans for construc tion of hospitals and health cen ters especially in rural areas. Z. It broadens the present fed eral grants • in ■ aid for public health service up to 75 per cent of a. ounts exp.i.ued by me xla’es. 3. L rpands the community Bvron Nelson shown as h won the. wide maternal and child-health 72 holes of the $19.000 Canadian and welfare service, the federal Open Golf tourncy. He finished IC government paying up to 75 per strokes heller than Jag Mcspadcn cent of amount expended by the i the second man. states. All Canada is furnishing another i test of socialism and you can check j the results, but if CCF cannot win in the British labor center of On tario it cannot hope for much any where outside the radical far west farming provinces. In Britain the Labor party lead er, Mr. Atlee, answered Churchill directly, defending the theory of so cialism against the ideal of private enterprise for pri vate profit. While Churchill may have taken political li cense with the ges tapo deduction, he did not exaggerate the basic issue which has been laid; want socialism or free enterprise?” The war experience of people has not been favorable to socialism. The lack of competition among sellers has destroyed the interests of the consumers today, and government management has nowhere been satisfactory to the people. Unless a buyer can walk out of a store and go to another to purchase what he w’ants, he can never be protected as to the quality of merchandise he buys or as to price, no matter how much the government regulates it. Every man and woman has found that out to his great discomfort dur ing this war. not from books or propaganda, but out of his own daily experience in living. Competition is the only thing which protects the consumers, who are all the people. Government own ership and operation is as non competitive as a trust, a cartel or a business monopoly. Once any single force gets the power of ex clusive operation, the buyer must accept the terms. Where compe tition is most active, the buyer is best protected. Consider the serv ice the public gets on those western railroads where some are bemoan ing the parallel lines. It is much better than upon eastern roads which control a monopoly of travel. This is true of the buying of all goods or services. It is true of hotel accommodations, of buying ciga rettes, of renting a house or buying a dress If one power (government or private) owns all the business, or is in control of the operation for any reason, the public interests are not well served Of course, they at tribute our experiences to a short age of goods or help. That is true, but the economic effect has been the destruction of competition. The con sumer could be told what to buy and at how much. He could not get It acre« the street, cheaper or better. In my opinion, government owner ship is in the public interest only when it is in itself competitive— competing with private interests to serve the public better. Consider the two Canadian railroads, one private and one government owned. The public gets much better service than if the government owned both and railroading became a business of government bureaucracy, having po litical directors decide policies. Economically, socialism cannot generate business-like competition. In a competitive economy, a great portion of business develops from the necessity of one concern to get ahead of another. This stimulates in terest in products and sells more of them. The very incentive of compe tition adds to national income. I suspect Churchill who was nev er much of a politician) may nave seized upon the most popular valid issue he could present The labor leaders who took up a proposal to go "halfway to communism" have certainly not chosen the best time.
