4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, April 19, 1947
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Predicts a Recession
The United States News, published at Washington, which
speaks with a finality almost equal to that of some of our
know-it-all columnists, predicts that as every boom has its
end, Americans are discovering that our present business
boom is near the turn when rising prices will give way to
declining prices, when rising profits will give way to profit
declines and when unemployment will increase.
This accounts, says the News for the flurry of advice by
President Truman to everybody to cut prices, to raise wages,
"to try to fix up in a week or two all the distortions devel
oped in 18 months of inflation. But advice won't be enough
and a turn-down in the business cycle will be required to
iron out the price kinks so things can now go ahead again."
It continues:
"As this situation apparently is to work itself out. . . .
"A turn from inflation to mild deflation will be seen clearly by
midyear.
"Prices, over all, will decline 15 to 20 precent before stabiliz
ing in first half, 1948. Some prices will fall much more than that,
others less.
"Wage rales are not likely to decline much. They're rising now.
"Unemployment, however, will rise as working forces, other
than wages, are reduced. A rise of as many as 4,000,000 may
occur in unemployed ranks.
"Output will decline as much as 20 percent, over all.
"Trnri too. will shrink. The decline may exceed 20 percent
in dollar amount, but will be less than that in physical volume as
prices decline.
"Prnfite will deflate much more ranidlv than they have inflated
"The cycle turn, to be apparent in two or three months, will
almost certainly be at its low point in first half, 1948. It will start
its swing upward during second half, 1948, after farm product
prices, many other raw material prices, have been shaken out.
In the shake-out process, prices of building materials may decline
215 nercent or more: of farm products. 25 or 30 percent. The
cycle turn will correspond to that of 1920-21, but may be some
whnt. Ipsr Rpvprp
Perhaps it is some such sentiment as this in business circles
that accounts, along with strike threats, for the continuous
decline in stock exchange security prices. But even the
News exnects onlv a mild and brief recession and not a seri
ous depression, and a recovery on a sounder basis than at
present prevails.
One Way of Streamlininq
The legislative reorganization act of 1946 which became
effective with the current session was designed to stream
line congressional activities for greater efficiency by reduc
ing the number of standing committees from 81 to d4 witn
the intention of consolidating their duplicated jurisdiction
into a more compact pattern.- But congress itself has at
last partially defeated its objective by creating a maze of
subcommittees with an accent on specialization.
The old standing committees previously followed to some
extent, the practice of dividing up into subcommittees, not
ably those on appropriations and the judiciary, but the reor
ganization act has stimulated the trend to such an extent
that there are now 146 subcommittees of congress.
These are in addition to six joint committees and five
special or "select" committees. Of the latter four are inves
tigation groups, although the reorganization act was aimed
at confining investigations to the regular committees.
The extent to which the senate has sprouted subcommit
tees is revealed by their number of same as follows r appro
priations, 12; banking and currency, 7; civil service, 4; Dis
trict of Columbia, 6 ; judiciary, 5 ; labor and public welfare,
8; public lands, 6; public works, 8; rules and administra
tion, fi.
In the house there are even more subcommittees: agricul
ture, 9; appropriations, 12; armed services, 12; District of
Columbia, 6; education and labor, 6; expenditures in the
executive department, 5 investigative; foreign affairs, 6;
house and administration, 4; judiciary, 8; merchant marine
and fisheries. 8; public works, 5; veteran affairs, 6.
The goven ment of a great nation is so complex and in
volved that i; has evidently been found impossible to con
sider all the details in one group, hence the group has been
split into the subcommittees devoted to specialization with
their recommendations subject to approval of the whole
committee, just as the committee recommendations must
be submitted to the senate or house for final passage. Any
way it is a practical solution probably not contemplated in
the original reorganization blue-print.
The Korean Deadlock
General Hodge, United States commander in Korea, has
repeatedly pictured the situation in that area so disturbing
that the American government cannot fail to take action
to keep Korea from becoming another Poland and as such
a threat to our occupation forces in Japan. Every effort
at Russian-American cooperation has failed. The Russians
have established a draft system in their zone in northern
Korea and are organizing and training a huge army to
back up a Soviet dominated puppet government in taking
over the country while waging ideological warfare and infil
tration in the American zone.
A joint Soviet communist master plan for Korea was dis
covered as early as last October by American army officials
and Russian orders to Korean communists in the American
zone to foment revolution against the American military
government have recently been unearthed, General Hodges
has staled. It is the same pattern followed in the Balkans
and Baltics.
According to the Cairo Dclaration of 1943, Korea was to
become free and independent "in due course." The Moscow
Agreement of December, 1945, pledged Russia to the same
goal and provided that the first step toward it should be
the creation of a provisional Korean government under a
joint Russian-American trusteeship working in cooperation
with Great Britain and China.
American efforts to realize this program have been wreck
ed by Russian insistence on the exclusion and suppression of
all .Korean elements seeking Korean independence and all
negotiations on preliminary administration and economic
unification of Korea have been suspended for nearly a year,
while the Russians rule and strip their zone.
The American military government has established the
beginning of an elective democratic government in its zone,
but its measures are inadequate to meet the situation for
lack of Russian cooperation.
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The Fireside Pulpit
Reverend George H. Swift
Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church
That "All Gone" Feeling! Some years before the last war,
General Mitchell had a vision of security through air supremacy.
His contemporaries did not see the vision. Their inability to see
it then cost us billions in money and hundreds of thousands of
lives. In the realm of the spiritual some men have the power to
see visions which are not noticed'
by their contemporaries. Saint
Paul alone of the group that
journeyed to Damascus on the
day of his conversion saw the
Christ and talked with him. In
the Old Testament we read how
the prophet Daniel, who was
walking by the river Hiddekel
saw a vision, while others pres
ent saw nothing. Instances of
this character are countless.
Why do some people have vision
can see future growth, future
needs, future trends and make
provision for them, while others
see only that which lies at their
feet at the momentl
Why do some comprehend
things while others at the same
time and in the same place see
or feel nothingl
Daniel alone saw the vision
by the river Hiddekel because
he alone had the spiritual back
ground which enabled him to
see and understand it. Moses
alone saw the "burning bush"
and fathomed the depth of its
meaning because he alone had
the spiritual preparation to
comprehend the presence of
God in this phenomenon.
While some people do not be
lieve in God, this does not mean
that there is no God. When
people believed that the earth
was flat, it still was quite round.
Some people claim to receive
no benefit from religion; this
does not mean that there is no
value to religion.
Our ability to see and feel
spiritual things depends largely
on our reserves of spiritual
power. If your spiritual tank
is empty, do not expect to enjoy
spiritual understanding. If you
have that "all gone feeling," if
you are spiritually low, it
time to refill. The source of
spiritual supplies is well known.
Many people are too lazy, mdo
lent, or careless , to read their
Bibles, to attend services of
worship, or even to seek the
help of God in prayer. They
cannot see beyond the material
things they handle. They are.
of course, spiritually empty!
i lor supper
By Don Upjohn
Lotta fiddlers around town
yesterday and today, folks fid
dling with the new parking me
lers, some of them having ai
much fun as when they got their
kids an electric train for a
Christmas present. Maybe with
all the figuring to be done ac
cording to directions on face of
same City Manager Franzen
should have set up a parking
meter school for the bewildered
citizenry.
Looks to us as if with the
penny for 12 minutes, et cetera,
up to a nickel an hour, about
the handiest thing a man could
carry when doing his downtown
parking would be a stop watch.
Strike Causes No
Serious Trouble
Portland, April 19 VP) Tele
phone officials said today they
were experiencing practically no
trouble because of the strike.
The Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company said as many
as 14,000 long distance calls had
been handled in one day. The
normal volume is 32,000 calls.
Operators are asking whether
calls are emergency only when
switchboards become crowded.
Most of the city has dial tele
phones and service remains nor
mal on them, officials said. I
While the meters don't start
clicking officially until next
Monday we imagine the city will
pick up quite a few surplus
nickels and pennies up to that
time by folks who haven t heard
One of the meters would be a
nice thing at home to use for
a baby's bank. It would be
quite an incentive to saving.
Horror Item of the Week
Dear Sips: Imagine the har
mony we'd have all up and down
the avenues of Salem, if the
new parking meters had only
been equipped with loud speak
ers and connected with a cen
trally controlled juke box.
(Signed) Ethan Grant. How
about its playing the record
"Pennies from Heaven?"
Novelties
Got Only Vacant Stare
Slippery Rock, Pa., April 19
P) H. G. Marsden had a sign
"Chickens and Eggs for Sale,'
In front of his home on North
Liberty road. A windstorm blew
away everything except the
"for sale" part. Twenty-two per
sons asked "how much do you
want for the house?" before he
could get the sign fixed.
Strong Family Ties
Nancy, France, April 19 (P)
When the four sons of Farmer
Briey of the village of Xivray
began going out with the four
daughters of Farmer Goujon of
St. Jouir it looked like a good
"boy meets girl" story.
When one of the couples be
came serious, it looked like a
marriage.
Now they're all married the
last pair of them today.
Authorities disagree as to
whether coffee originated in i
Abyssinia or Arabia. j
The Candid Editor
(Editorial in Gervais Star)
Yes, yes it's true your editor
was arrested on Saturday night
So states the front page article,
its outright retaliation for his
newspaper articles. It is also
true that your editor was drink
ing, but not drunk as alleged
or he would not have been able
to take note of the exact time
of his arrest; and also true that
your city marshal (Ray Clarke)
was alert as a cat awaiting to
pounce down on its prey. Al
though I had been warned by a
few friends that such a thing
would happen, I took no heed
and that is the result. Ques
tioned by some of my readers, if
1 11 put a headline in my paper
regarding the arrest. My answer
was, "Why not, isn't that news?"
We picked up Doc Voight, the
dentist, and Alex Jones, the
haberdasher, and drove 'em
downtown in the rain this a.m
Doc was so grateful he offered
to pull a couple of our teeth in
payment for the lift. However,
Alex just sat mute and didn't
say anything about offering us a
couple of shirts for which, if he
had, we might have let Doc pull
the teeth.
With the big Budweiser horses
parading around the streets the
sparrows at last have had a
break.
By DeWitt MacKenzie
(lA) Foreign Arrtiri An&lyiD
That was a gloomy estimate
by Winston Churchill, Britain's
wartime conservative prime
minister, when he charged in a
speech yesterday that England
is being driven into ruin and
our empire is being scattered
and squandered" by the present
socialist government.
Curiously enough the news
dispatch containing that state
ment reached my desk just as I
returned from a discussion on
the status of British socialism
with one of England's clever
women who is visiting America.
She is Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamil
ton author of many books, a
former member of the British
foreign office.
Unwittingly Mrs. Hamilton
had given Churchill a partial
answer during our conversation.
I had asked bluntly:
"You haven't yet demonstrat
ed that socialism will work,
have you?"
Still Doubtful
She agreed that the "Q.E.D."
still had to be written on the
proposition. Thereupon I inquir
ed what would happen if the
socialist government, having in
augurated widespread national
ization, found it wouldn't work.
How would the country pull out
of that grave difficulty?
"We of course are confident
that things will work out all
right," she replied. "However,
the government Is proceeding
slowly and with great caution.
Nationalization will not be al
lowed to extend to a point which
would cause disaster if it didn't
work. Actually, the program of
nationalization is sharply re
stricted. (Government spokes
men have indicated a program
aiming at approximately 20 per
cent of industry being national
ized and the remaining 80 per
cent being left to free enter
prise) there is no intention of
wholesale nationalization but,
on the contrary, private initia
tive is to be encouraged. The
time never will arrive when, if
some part of the program should
go wrong, it couldn't be recti
fied." Great Leveling Off
There has been a great level
ing off in Britain, partly the
result of a change in the social
outlook of the country, and part
ly because of the terrific taxa
tion which has wiped out the
landed gentry to such an extent
that the red-coated huntsman,
riding to hounds with his cry of
"tally-ho," is becoming some
thing of an anachronism,. Some,
of this change is due to" social
ism, although the metamorpho
sis started long before the pres
ent government was elected.
Mrs. Hamilton declared firmly
that the leveling off process
would continue, and ventured
the view that the old school tie
was much less in evidence these
days.
Ft. Stevens
Not Desired
Washington, April 19 (U.R).
Secretary of the Navy James V.
Forrestal today endorsed Del
Monte, Calif., as "highly desir
able and economical" for navy
post-graduate school purposes.
He made the statement in a
letter to Rep. Walter Norblad
(R-Ore.) in response to the con
gressman's suggestion that Ft.
Stevens, Ore., might be a better
and a cheaper site.
Forrestal said the information
he had on Ft. Stevens indicated
that its permanent buildings
"are not of a type which could
be adapted to school use with
out a considerable outlay of
funds for alteration."
He estimated more than $2,
500,000 would have to be spent
for housing if the Stevens site
were chosen, and he said there
also would be maintenance and
classroom costs. At Del Monte,
he said, $38,000 would do the
job of providing classroom facil
ities. Land purchase there would
cost $2,149,000.
"You may be assured that the
final choice of Del Monte as the
site for a permanent post-grad
uate school was reached only
after exhaustive and extensive
surveys afforded conclusive evi
dence that, from the standpoint
of economy and purpose, the
best interests of the government
could be served by this deci
sion," Forrestal wrote.
He noted that barracks and of
ficers quarters standing at Stev
ens were an average age of 40
years.
McClelland Judged
Top Cartoonist
As the result of a contest that
ran for nearly 15 weeks and
which drew approximately 200
entrants, Charles McClelland,
seventh grader was elevated to
the position of Parrish junior
high's leading cartoonist. The
contest was supervised by Helen
Stanbrough, art instructor.
Placing second was Don Her
ring, an eighth grader. Other
pupils placed in the following
order: Kelly Conover, Jean La-
Dow, Kenneth Keppinger, Le-
Roy Gregson and Jean Hiatt.
The contest was originated by
Miss Stanbrough "because car
tooning covers such a wide area
in drawing." Parrish students
have been drawing cartoons for
the "Periscope, school publica
tion, student body campaign
tickets and tags and several
other activities which occur
during the school year.
Big Salmon Run
Reported From Dam
Portland, April 19 (ff) The
best spring salmon run since
1938 was reported today at Bon
neville dam.
Fish counters said the total
of Chinook salmon for the month
had reached 32,030, a figure
that exceeded the mark for any
previous corresponding period
since the dam was built.
In addition Bonneville said
April 17 established a record
for a single day, 9191 salmon
passing upstream. 7898 of them
Chinooks. The best previous day
for Chinooks was 5220 on April
23, 1939.
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Strike Pending
San Francisco, April 19 (P)
San Francisco AFL Department
Store Employes today awaited
sanction from the city's central
labor council before proceeding
with plans to strike against 17
large stores.
The union voted Thursday to
strike at stores in demands for
a $15 weekly wage increase,
five-day week and union secur
ity. Workers now receive $32.50
and $45 per week.
Labor Discrimination
Charged by Negro
Portland, April 19 W) Pa
cific labor unions are discrimi
nating against the Negro, Noah
W. Griffin, west coast regional
director for the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, said last night
The unions 1 have a ban on
Negroes, he told a meeting of
the local NAACP unit, and ad
ded, "This discrimination was
beaten in California by a state
supreme court ruling and it may
be necessary to take such court
action eventually in other
states."
Dr. Thomas Jovce
Dies in Portland m
Portland, Ore.. April 19 P
Dr. Thomas M. Joyce. 62. na
tionally known surgeon and
head of the University of Ore
eon Medical school ripnnrfman
of surgery, died here yesterday.
He was stricken by a heart
attack while waiting for a class
to convene at the Multnnmnh
county hospital.
Known from coast to nnaet
for his skill in sureprv
Joyce also achieved recognition
in uregon lor nis skill in teach
ing others. He was prominent
in a number of medical orean-
izations.
Surviving are the widow: two
daughters, Mrs. Richard M.
Cole' and Mrs. Susan Mullins,
all nf Portland? nnrf a VmihBr.
Judge M. M. Joyce, Minneapolis!
U. S. synthetic rubber nrodiic
tion rose from 25,000 tons in
1942 to 800,000 tons in 1945.
Clyde Johnson Called
To Scene of Blast
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Clyde Johnson, sub-carrier at
me aaiem post omce, has been
called to Texas City, scene of
the explosion disaster, where rel
atives are among the sufferers.
Johnson's brother - in - law,
whose name is not known here,
is "among the missing, and his sis
ter and one of her children ar"
among the injured.
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