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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1951)
A -IBM M.' . M p i n atcn man, actrenx, uwqwi. Quaggy, January . iaoi Small Business Takes Beating L C7 In Mobilization By Clarke Beach WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-P-A small factory In Boston manufac tures the tiny washers that are molded into rubber heels so that the heels can be nailed to shoes. It cant get the little bit of steel it needs to keep in production. It is one of the major suppliers of such washers. If it can't turn them out the entire shoe industry will be adversely affected. And de fense workers must have shoes. Defense plants need electric power, and utility companies need copper and aluminum wire to transmit it. But a small Carollton, Ga., wire plant almost went out of business because all of its copper and most of its aluminum supply was cut off. A Minneapolis company tows barges on the Mississippi river, many of them laden with supplies for defense plants. It couldn't buy enough .barges to fulfill its con tracts because shipbuilders could n't get enough steel for them. Many a small business is taking a beating as a result of the mo bilization program. Aopeals Received The senate small business com mittee has received so many ap peals for help that Chairman Sparkman (D-Ala) says it is grav ely concerned lest large numbers of small businesses go to the wall. The senators' concern isn't whol ly a matter of sympathy for the little fellows. Many point out that In a period of total mobilization the country would need their productive capacity. And they don't like to see small business getting smaller while big business gets bigger. Too much concentra tion of economic power, they say. The committee has arranged for many small factories to get the vntofi-il(? fViv ti i-crf Vint if he- i;,.c tv,t (Kpv nrP nnlv a :main fraction of thoe that are in t'-ou- , ble. Hearings Planned : Sparkman has instructed the committee staff to prepare for hearings beginning January 12 on the current problems ot small business. Although the chief problem now Is in the shortage of materials principally steel, aluminum, cop per, zinc and plastics before long it is expected that the draft will threaten the foremen and skilled jyorkmen around whom many email enterprises are built. Spark man has appointed a subcommit tee, headed by Senator Benton (D CoTin), to keep watch on the man power problem. Since July the committee has been sponsoring small business clinics throughout the country. Local businessmen are brought to gether for a full day's session and are told by Washington experts how they can do business with the ; government during the mobiliza tion period. To Centralize Efforts Sparkman has introduced a bill, with Rep. Patman (D-Tex), chair man of the house committee on small business, to set up a smaller Defense Plants corporation. This would centralize all the govern; ment's efforts on behalf of small business. The legislators are recalling what happened in the first years of the last war. Between Decem ber 1941 and December 1943 the total of business concerns in the United States dropped from 3, 400,000 to 2,990,000, a net loss of 410,000. Nearly all of these were email businesses. Small manufacturers of civilian goods were squeezed out of exist ence for lack of materials and skilled workmen. They couldn't convert their plants and get con tracts for war goods in time to t ave themselves. Laurence G. Henderson, staff director of the senate committee, on the other hand, says that a critical situation is developing. His staff recently reported to the committee that "a large seg ment of small business today is critically handicapped by material shortages" and that "unless dras tic remedial action is instituted at once many small manufacturers are going to fall by the wayside." Henderson says NPA's program of help to small business isn't proving very effectrVe. He adds that the national production au thority or some other government agency should be sponsoring the business clinic program but that the legislators are doing it because none of the executive agencies has taken the initiative. t ,( .. s . i s MIllM, ! II j.'llMMM II "Till II ai i.nn .w TO WALK "SI A Of I C I ' FleM Mankal br Maattfcnr lus Iroa cleats attache to his shoes btfort strUU n at "ttz tf In Frwci cladtf b muttf ! Ilosi tits M Weather Shift May Prelude Cold 50 Years Associated Press Science Editor By Howard XV. Blakeslee BOSTON, Jan. 6-;P)-The un usual weather this last fall is merely an introduction to about 50 years of colder climate to Come. How much colder? Enough so that farmers should be told right away that growing seasons' will be shorter during the next 25 years. Enough so that the public should be told it is being misled by stor ies that world climate is getting warmer. These are conclusions of Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler, student of weather cycles, and chief of staff of the climatic research division of the Weather Science Founda tion, Crystal Lake, 111. and psy chologist of the Babson Institute of Business Administration, Bab son Park, Mass. The present weather changes fit war predictions based' nn weather which Dr. Wheeler, then a Psychology professor at JCansas univcrbii, mane seven vcars a"o Charts History He had then charted 17,000 bat tles in world history, to find that ! w'"ld wars take place in ivarm periods. And he pointed out that both World Wars One and- Two came in a warm period. In cold periods, like the one now starting, he found that al though wars continued, they were smaller, usually civil conflirts Nations in the cold times turned to reconstruction. Love of ljhertv grew stonger. He said Christ lived in one of the cold periods. ; To date, the weather war, pre dictions have fitted current his tory. Dr. Wheeler's present pre- j dictions are concerned solely with predictions about the warm cycle, which he says is just ending, and the cold just ahead. Important Cycles His studies show two imnor- tant cycles, one of a hundred years between two warm peaks, the other a thousand years. We are now entering the cold half of a hundred-year cycle, Wheeler says. ' The cooling signs, he says, ac tually began about ten years ago. Arctic explorer Donald MacMillan returned from the north last sum mer with a report that not in years had there been so jnuch ice. In recent years, winters, have become sporadically much ; more severe. Palestine suffered ah un precedented snowfall. Blijtzards have appeared of the sort charac teristic of cold periods, such as the one in the west two years ago. Weather Explained The erratic weather this last fall is explained, under his stud ies, as characteristic of the peri ods when climate li shifting from warm to colder. Dr. Wheeler says weather ex perts have been ignoring the ups and downs of the hundred-year cycle, and paying attention only to the thousand-year periods The last previous thousand-year warm peak was about 1000 A D; The next Is due some time after 2000. This thousand year shift, now on the warming-up side, has caused frost lines to advance northward in Finland, Norway, Alaska, Russia, Siberia and Can ada. In Greenland, farms and cemeteries tha,t had been buried under ice and snow for sij; hun dred years, are now uncovered. Glaciers have been receding all over the world. Warm water fish have been migrating northward for several decades. Southwest winds have been increasing. Because of these signs, Dr. Wheeler says, the public has been t i 4 , Scy SHC $ iN : -.. . : 1950 ANNIE OAKLEYS Wacs attached to the Second Service Command In New York polish up their marksmanship with carbines on the rifle range at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn. told that world climate Is becom ing warmer. They have not warned about the coming drop. "There is not the slightest chance," he says, "of the world getting steadily warmer, nor is there the slightest chance that we will escape a long, severe cold pe riod that is on the way now." After the thousand-year warm peak of next century, he says the hundred-year cycle will be riding the downside. Cold dips then will be worse. "It is practically certain," he says, "that within the next few hundred years it will get so cold at times that again several feet of snow will fall in Rome; rivers will freeze solid; ice will form on u v.ndg.tth.mnowW ;V - Enlistment Rush Noted SEATTLE, Jan. G-(A)-A rush of enlistments was reported today by armed forces recruiting offices here. Most recruiting officers attrib uted it to an Increase in number of men being drafted, and reports that draft ages may be changed. Army and air force enlistments the Nile in the coldest winters; and the Baltic sea will freeze over between Germany and Sweden." of the Many Pendleton Get noW M, color,, o at onty n at St0.00, SMjj ttto 95. and this week wert reported double those of the first week of Decem ber, and marine enlistments nearly three times greater. The navy reported its recruiting station staff had to work after regular hours to handle the rush. and the coast guard said It had enough applicants to fill Seattle quotas through March. MALHEUR INCOME UP ONTARIO, Jan. 6-(P-Farm In come dropped slightly in Malheur county last year. County Agent Harry Sandquist reported today. He said the total was $28,797,750, which was 4.8 per cent under the previous year and 14.1 per cent below the peak year of 1948. fs I LTQ Sensatiosial Values M i ; ; French Drive Relieves Red Threat to Hanoi By Seymour Topping SAIGON, Indochina, Jan. 6-JF) -French machlnegunners have cut their way back into the fortress of Chucpahisan In the fiercest fight of a big push against the Vietminh in northeast Indochina. High French officials said today the offensive, forcing masses of the communist-led rebels off bal ance, has relieved at least tem porarily a long standing threat to Hanoi. "The facts speak for them selves," said the aggressive French commander. Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. Visibly confident, he returned with the Vietnamese (pro-French) premier Tran Van Huu to Saigon Quality that will mean peak office efficiency in 1951. Quality in office furniture by Sikes or Art Metal, quality in forms, papers and equipment, In all the things that make for efficient, profitable operation in the year ahead. LOOK TO COOKE TOR rn coats. tYPe$ v of r. v' must 9 noW- from a visit to Hanoi, a provincial capital, trading center and defense bastion of the north. Post Abandoned A delayed dispatch from the front said the French recaptured Chucpahison Friday. The post, 18 miles northeast of TIenyen, had been abandoned to the rebels in a withdrawal from the Indoehinese Chinese frontier zone last fall. Ti enyen. between the French-held ports of M on cay and Haiphong, is a base of the massive French forces which struck inland Thurs day to clear the salient. The main body has met little re sistance other than the treacher ous terrain, though French offi cers estimate 12,000 Vietminh reg ulars and others thousand of guerrillas had concentrated in the area. Countless ravines in the thick jungle had to be crossed on thin bamboo strands. Bad weather limited aerial support and scout ing. , Columns Converge A French army communique said two French columns have converged on Chucpahisan, one thrusting northeast from Tienyen Look lo Cooke for Quality . . . nr 4- oW a few $7 95, while only- MCES-135 i j and the other driving 10 mile straight west of Hacoi. The Vietminh troops were re ported withdrawing and a French military spokesman expressed doubt that any substantial number now remain within the Tlenyen-Hacoi-Chucpahisan triangle. In any ease, the French action appears to have broken up pros pective attacks on Moncay and Tienyen. A French ' communique Friday night indicated the rebels still wert harrassing the line of Trench posts to the south which guards Hanoi and its communication cor ridor through the Red river delta to Haiphong. But the main power of Vietminh blows which started Christmas day appears to have been spent AUTO SHOW CANCELLED SEATTLE, Jan. MVThe Se attle Automobile Dealers associa tion announced cancellation today of its 1951 auto show scheduled for March 10 to 18. President Richard A. Smith said the action was taken because of the national emergency and uncertain automo bile production schedules. 1951 u and 'ti Uny " ?