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In the Day's News
THE SUGAR COATING
. S. Army Leader
By CHARLES V. STANTON
The OPA tells us it is "holding the line" on prices.
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by Russians, who were then
our allies.
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HAVING made that disclosure,
whose gravity can not be
over estimated. King proceeds to
draw a distinction between the
Russian agents who did the spy
lng In Canada and Stalin of
whom he speaks with carefully
measured kindliness.
What he knows of Stalin or has
learned of him from those asso
ciated with him during the war,
he says, "causes me to believe he
would not countenance action of
this kind on the part of his
country."
I!e then adds:
"I believe that when these facts
are known to him (Stalin) and
to others in positions of full re
sponsibility we shall find that a
change will come that will make
vast difference Indeed."
FROM what we know of Hussia's
governmental system. It is
very difficult Indeed for us to be
lieve that anything of this sort
could go on WITHOUT STA
LIN'S KNOWLEDGE.
So we may assume that Pre
mier King's words are carefully
chosen In order to provide a face
saving outlet for Russia In the
event that the shaie of events to
come should make such an outlet
acceptable to her.
(We must remember that face
saving can be extremely import
ant In the conduct of Internation
al affairs. Nations are nut unlike
small boys, who often get them
selves Into a position where they
have to fight when they don't
really want to, UNLESS they can
find a way to save their faces. In
seeking to force Russia into UNO,
we must be careful not to HU
MILIATE her. She might then
have to fight to save her face.)
THIS Is a time for straight think
ing. So we might as well ask
ourselves this grave question:
"What COULD involve us In
war with Russia now?"
Tills Is the realistic answer:
The grim convlilion on our
part that we NEVER CAN get
along with Russia and that we'd
better come to grilw with hrr
WHILE WE CAN HANDLE HER
th.it If we wait too long It will
be TOO LATE.
AT the moment, Iran Is the
world's hotlost spot, liut Iran
Is ONLY A TOKEN.
We're taking our stand las
Secretary Byrnes told us the oth
er day) behind the United Na
tions, and so ate Insisting that
Russia shall submit her differ
ences with Iran to the United Na-
tlons Organisation for settlement.
Iran Isn't important enough for
us to go to war about. But the
PRINCIPLE Involved IS Import
ant enough.
Also It Is beginning to look like
this Is the time for a showdown.
IK we can't get along with Rus
sia Inside the framework ot the
United Nations, now Is the lime
to find It out.
Iran can tell the tale.
THIS is ii time for looking at
hole cards.
OUR ACE IN THE HOLE IS
THE ATOM BOMB -which, so
far as any outsider has been ier-
milled to know, we alone pos
sess In Its completed form
READY FOR U-SB.
As long as w alone possess the
atom bomb, ready for Immediate
use, no nation will tfsro 8 10
war with Us.
.Suwa. apparently w hRve '
find cut about Russia, now Is the
time to do It.
attempts to create fear of inflation in our minds, to preserve
its embrace upon the country.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics index of wholesale prices,
for the period from 1939 to 1945; shows the following price
increases: Metal and metal products 12 per cent; fuel and
lighting- materials, 16 per cent; house furnishing goods,
21 per cent; hides and leather products, 21 per cent; chem
icals and allied products, 25 per cent; building materials,
32 per cent; textile products, 45 per cent; foods, 54 per cent;
jarm products, liu per tent. Is this "holding the line 7
It is interesting to note that foods and farm products,
Items upon which the public is most reluctant to release
controls, have advanced most in price.
Considering claims that prices are not as uniformly high
as in the inflationary period following the first World War,
we must heed the fact that OI'A pricing policies have
crowded thousands of low-cost items, particularly in manu
factured goods, off the market, thus forcing purchasers to
buy more expensive items. Buyers have been required to
spend money for expensive substitutes. We must also con
sider that some of this talk of holding the line on prices
does not include the fact that existing prices are possible
only because the government is paying billions in subsidies.
Instead of paying our money for GOODS, we are paying
our money in TAXES.
Even now we are in the midst of inflation, but it has been
sugar coated and disguised to tempt us into swallowing it j
without realizing we're being doped.
The percentage of dollars in circulation in 1915 was
191.86 per capita, as compared with 61.38 per capita in I
1920. Thus we have nearly four times as many dollars to '
play with as we did in the last inflation. But our dollars I
will not buy goods because production is lagging.
One reason production is down is because of OPA price
juggling. Hundreds upon hundreds of manufactured items
are not being produced today because it is more profitable
to produce something else. Women, for instance, have much
difficulty in finding cheap house dresses, because the manu
facturer cannot make a profit on such items and turns to
a more expensive line where he can afford to produce. Over
alls, work gloves, men's shirts, sheets, work socks, and
numerous other items are no longer available in sufficient
quantity, largely because OPA has upset price balances.
Whenever prices are adjusted in one spot, something else is
thrown out of line. Price adjustments can be brought into
balance only through froe competition and operation of the
law of supply and demand.
We have been made to fear the possible effect of removal
ofOPA controls. But there are two sides to the fear.'
A 'it-cent poll of Koseburg merchants showed a majority
to be favorable to continuation of price controls. Certainly
they were not of that opinion because they love the OI'A.
They know that if controls are removed prices will go down,
not up. They have invested heavily in expensive merchan
dise, and, when prices go down, they will tako a substantial
lass in profits. Therefore, they prefer OPA price ceilings
as a cushion during the period of price decline.
Immediate removal of OPA control doubtless would cause
prices on some items, particularly those most scarce, to rise
temporarily. But, on the other hand, we would more quickly
return to a wider variety of merchandise, including many
of the now extinct low-cost items.
We hear it said that the American public, with a huge
backlog of savings, would go on a spending spree if price
controls were removed. This might be true to some extent,
but we doubfif it would be as great as some would have us
believe.
Talk, for instance, to people planning to buy new auto
mobiles. Aside from those desperately in need of transpor
tation, you win una the majority plan to wait a year or two
to get a look at promised new models. All available money
is not going to leap out of pocketbooks the moment price
controls are lifted.
It's not succumb to the doctrine of fear being so earn-
e.stly preached by administration propagandists.
Let's lick some of the sugar coating ofT the inflationary
soporific and analyse the contents before we let it bo rammed
down our throats.
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Argument, Sentiment, Comment
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH
Congressman, Fourth Oregon District
Skipper Ready to Bet
Ship Win Survive A-Bomb
BREMERTON, Wash., March
20. (.) The skipper of the bat
tleship Pennsylvania said yester
day he would "offer a 50-50 bet
I'll) take the Pennsy back from
Bikini to her berth at the Phila
delphia Navy yard."
The big battlewagon is In har
bor here, loading tanks, trucks
and lashed-down airplanes, set to
sail Sunday for a spot she'll oc
cupy as one of the target ships in
the atom bomb test in the Pacific.
"Nobody can say flatly whether
the bomb will sink a battleship,"
said Capt. Carl 1L Bushnell as he
supervised loading operations at
the Navy yard here.
"I've talked to scientists work
ing on 'Operations Crossroads'
and it's my opinion the Pennsyl
vania may come through."
Back Pay Pledge Doesn't
Cancel Call for Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.
HP) The CIO Longshoremen's
Union won a formal pledge for
payment of $8,000,000 in back
wages yesterday, but announced
that a coastwlde strike still is
scheduled for April 1.
Harry Bridges, president of
the International Longshore-
men's and Warehousemen's
Union, said that members of the
negotiating committee would
leave this week to take ud Dosts
along the coast and get strike ma-
cninery going, unless something
happens between now and Thurs
day?' Union officials explained that
Atomic Bomb Test
Elaborate preparations to make
a test of the effect of atomic
bombs on naval craft have been
under way for some time. All of
the plans and specifications had
previously been worked out. I
believe even the lists of scientists
and War and Navy Department
personnel wno win be permitted
to see the tests are also nearly
complete. But it was only this
week that the bill to authorize the
use of Navy ships for targets in
tne test was passed ty the House.
It was argued on the floor by a
few members who were opposed
to the conduct of the tests that it
was wrong to destroy a number
of our ships, some of which have
oeen completed less than t-o
years. The answer to this objec
tion was that uc cannot tell what
soj't of ships tn have in our fu
ture naval (k'fense unless . We
know definitely what happens' to
ships when they are attacked
with atomic homos. 1 ne comple
tion of some ships now under con
struction has been delayed until
these tests are- made. It was
pointed out that, unless some mod
ern ships are used as targets, we
have no way of knowing how
modern construction will react.
I have been invited to witness
tha tests and may do so if too
much time is not required, and if
there is a lull in Congressional
business.
Lend Lease Still Going
Believe it or not. we arc still
shipping vast quantities of goods
on lend-lease commitments. I-cnd-lease
officially was declared at
an end on VJ Day, but it was later
agreed that -goods being manu
factured and in transit would be
delivered. Such goods. Inciden
tally, include 18,0IX),nS) feet of
hardwood lumber, considerahle of
which could be used as flooring
lumber for homes. The countries
receiving lend-lease goods since
the actual end of the war have
agreed to pay for them over a
period of thirty years at an inter
est rate of two and three-eights
per cent on the unpaid balance.
This week, an attempt was
made to reduce the amount of
these commitments by SUOO.OOO,
OKI, hut on a straght party vote.
Republicans voting to save the
money and Democrats voting, to
spend it, the House Insisted on go
ing ahead and spending the $-'00,-Oon.noi).
The vole was close - 171
to 1 IS.
Magicians In Congress
I w as reminded by the announce
ment by Congressman Kill iJin
hain of Texas tha' he wouftl not
seek reeleciion anil would retire
from Congress that we have at
least two excellent magicians In
the Mouse of Representatives
one Repuhliean and One IVmo
cial. Kin lauiham Is positively
a genius as an amateur magician.
I have seen him ri't his act, and I
helicvc he Is tar hettcr than most
Helps You Overcome
FALSE TEETH
Looseness and Worry
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Congressman
iMichigaa.
Although not a member of Con
gress, Carl D. Shoemaker, also an
excellent amateur magician, has
been closely identified with the
work of Senate Committees for
a number of years. Carl Shoe
maker has done his act for the
Oregon State Society and numer
ous other groups. He is a for
mer Rnsebure man. His brothers.
S. J. Shoemaker and Dr. B. R. j
Shoemaker, live In that city.
1947 Agriculture Yearbook
The 1947 Agriculture Appro
priation Bill, now pending before
Congress, includes an item for a
new Agriculture Yearbook which I
will be known as the 1913-47 edi
tion. Tho title will probably be !
"Science and the Karmor" and '
will cover recent developments on
such subjects as animal breeding,
nutrition, plant breeding and dis
eases, soil, fertilizers, insecticides,
fungicides, and kindred subjects.
The new book will go to the
printer late this year and will be
ready for distribution some time
in 1947. This will be the first new
yearbook since the 1942 edition,
publication having been suspended
during the war.
I still have available for distri
bution a limited number of the
1942 Yearbooks entitled "Keeping
Livestock Healthy," a copy of
which will be sent on request as
long as my supply lasts.
the strike had been voted by the
membership and it would begin
automatically unless further
member action . were taken at
coast points.
Rusa-Swiu Ties Renewed
BERN, March 20 . Swltzer-'
land and Soviet Russia have
agreed to resume diplomatic rela
tions after a lapse of 22 years. '
Ties severed by Russia in 1924
after a Soviet official was assas
sinated on Swiss soil. '
The Empire State Building In
New York has seven miles of ele
vator shafts.
Hammering & Gumming
Saws a Supplies
Work Guaranteed ..
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Located Reap Henninger't
Mart No. 2
Just off Stephens St.
Rom where I sit ... Joe Marsh
Shaking Heads and
Human Liberties
It's a funny thing. Now that
the war's over, there's a lot of
bead-shaking In our town. People
saying: "What's the younger gen
eration coming to?" "How can we
end these strikes?" "The country's
going to the dogs!" "There ought
to be a law!" etc
But when the younger genera
tioa was walloping the Axis "super
Men" and labor was doing the
soat colossal job in history you
Ter keard a murmur. But now
that we're back to our traditional
Ufa of personal liberty, just see
how the heads begin to shake again.
I guess there'll always be head
ahakers folks who feel "there
ought to be a law" who believe
that the best form of regulation la
suppression, whether it's applied
to beer or baseball.
But from where I sit, America's
done pretty well with the idea of
personal choice and Individual lib
erty. I guess that's just the way
aVmcricjuu are made.
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with Mobil radiator flush.
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