The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-02
SMALL BUSINESS BIG WORRY

SMALL BUSINESS
 BIG WORRY
 Establishment of small business unit in the Department of Com merce now brings to six the number of government agencies worrying about this question. The other five are:
 Floyd w. Odlums contract distri- button division of OPM is at the top of the heap with White House order creating it and giving it the job of spreading the work. ! There is g. contract distribution division in the office of the under secretary of war.
 The Department of Justice has a small business unit in its antitrust division.
 Senator James E. Murray, Butte, Mont, heads special Senate in- vestigating committee to study the problems of small business. Senator Harry s. Truman, Inde- pendence, Mo-, heads another Senate committee Investigating national de- fense, which has interested itself or behalf of the little fellow.
 All that is needed to completely confuse the issue is the appoint ment of a co-ordinator of govern ment agencies investigating, study ing, recommending, and trying to do something about small business. He could be known for short as the COGAISRATTDSASB.
 Civil Aeronautics Authority is in- terested in checking up in more detail on who rides around in chartered airplsnes and why. New regulations require the pilots of all hired planes to inspect the baggage of their passengers. That doesn't apply to commercial planes yet, but all fights cameras must be checked in compartments inaccessible to passengers during fights. Additional regulations are coming.
 HOW NAZIs
 GOT ALUMINIUM
 One hitherto untold chapter in the long story of how Germany be- gan to fight economic warfare as soon as Hitler took over is revealed in Department of Justice investi- gations of the world aluminium cartel Soviet Russia and the United States aluminium companies weren't in on the original trust agreement of 1881, but the rest of the world was taken in, including Canada Great Britain, France, and other principal producers. In 1892 they agreed to limit production to 50 per cent of capacity, which amount ed to an actual cut of about 25 per cent.
 In 1884, Hitler began building up the German army and air force and he needed aluminium. Through the German member of the cartel, the idea was put over that while the German government didn't want to upset the world trade restrictions of the industry, it had to have more aluminium. It was proposed that Germany be allowed to produce above the cartel requirements, but solely for use in Germany and not for export. Furthermore, for every pound of aluminium produced in Germany above the cartel quotas the German government would buy another pound of aluminium from the German members of the cartel.
 By this slick trick, the German government secured the rights to un- limited production in Germany, cur tailed the production in her poten- tial enemy countries, and bought ur the surpluses of those countries The net result was that if, from 1884 to 1889, France hadn't made an aluminium pot, pan, vacuum cleaner or automobile part, she still could not have produced enough aluminium for planes to match the German rearmament effort.
 SOME WAR ORDERS
 Issuance of individual requests orders and regulations restricting your usual peace-time libertie: doesn't make much impression. Yor kiss single privilege goodby ane don't miss it. But when you list anc add up number of these new order. the sum total hits you with an inn pact which makes you realize tht country is really at war. Here art just few of the recent ukases iron Washington:
 You shouldn't buy new materia for blackout curtains. Use old rem. nants because the country need! all the new cloth 1t can get. . | If you get new car, 1t will hay. only four new tires. The number o new cars will of course be limited and they will have no bright worl Tin and lead foils will b, baned for civilian use. Yol must save waste paper, rags, metals rubber. . You should not us, surgical tape on windows as an ali raid precaution against broken glass ses You should renew your flash light. . You should or shouldn' store four days,s emergency rations depending on whether you're listen ing to Paul McNutt or Eleano Roosevelt. . Hog bristles nor, than three inches long are reserve,