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Recollections
The Business Recession .
The United States News published at the nation's capi
tal thus sizes up the current recession from the heights of
the post-war boom, which it predicts won't be very severe
or prolonged, but before stabilization occurs the price
level may be down another 10 percent, but still far above
prewar and above the level at the end of the war:
Now that trends definitely are down, the prospect is this:
SPENDING BY GOVERNMENT will cushion the decline,
out not reverse it this year. There's nothing in sight big enough
to turn the present tide.
DEFLATIONS, like inflations, tend to be bigger than ex
pected PRICE DECLINES, if they come quickly and without great
resistance, will be helpful; if resisted and dragged out will pro
long the agony.
TURN UP will come when prices again look like bargains.
All signs are that the deflation well under way will be
moderate in its extent and fairly short in duration. Money is
abundant. Unfilled wants remain vast. Population still is rising.
Spending plans of government are growing. Even so, the wise
individual is one who gets his affairs in order and who tries
to adjust his thinking to problems that go with decline rather
than rise.
- This forecast is based upon statistics showing at new
highs for post-war are auto output, part time jobs, unem
ployment of factory workers and real estate loans. On the
downside are declines in industry output, 5 percent; ma
chinery, 9 percent; lumber output, 21 percent; shoes, 19
percent; textiles, 11 percent; coal, 18 percent. New orders
a,re down 10 percent, loadings of freight cars, 20 percent;
new dwellings started per month, 38 percent; residential
contracts, 42 percent.
Sales are down from post-war peaks as follows; depart
ment stores, 14 percent; wholesale prices, 7 percent; farm
prices, 15 percent, grains, 39 percent; meat, 25 percent;
scrap steel, 49 percent; lead, 30 percent; exports, 27 per
cent; imports, 21 percent; commercial bank loans, 7 per
cent. ' There is nothing alarming in the outlook of a gradual
readjustment from boom inflation, an adjustment badly
needed for economic stability.
What Kind of Democratic Leadership?
. What direction will the democratic party take in Ore
gon? - This question may well be answered in the choice of a
new chairman for the democratic state central committee
Saturday night.
There are two Multnomah county candidates for the
top job. One is W. L. Josslin, who was secretary to the
late Governor Martin. The other is Mike DiCicco, tire
distributor in Portland and chum of Mike Elliott, the
Multnomah county sheriff who has admitted to phoney
claims in his campaigning last fall. Elliott was the char
acter who had a tough time getting a bonding company to
go for his bond.
The choice between Josslin and DeCicro should be easy
to make. Josslin is clean and steady. DeCicco is too in
terested in deals and pushing Mike DeCicco.
But the disturbing bit of politics on this coming elec
tion is the introduction of a third man in the race for chair
manship. Clarence F. Hyde of Eugene is now being men
tioned. Hyde says he wouldn't do anything to get the
chairmanship, but at the same time he tells his friends he
would serve if drafted. Leaving aside the qualifications
of Hyde, the introducing of his name might split the vote
to give the result to DeCicco.
If Oregon is to have a two-party system, the democrats
should pick the strongest man as state central committee
chairman. If there is proper leadership in the state for
the party, more credit would be given the democrats for
their candidates.
Oregon needs a healthy democratic party. Its choice
of leadership Saturday will have a lot of bearing on its
health in the months to come.
."Vote T-H Repeal or Else"
At his Thursday press conference President Truman
paid that democratic votes in congress on the Taft-Hartley
labor-management relations law repeal will be a test of
Jiarty loyalty and he put actions on other democratic plat
form measures in much the same category.
', Mr. Truman bluntly indicated that senators and repre
sentatives who failed to vote for the two-year-old labor
Jaw repeal will have little to say on who gets federal jobs
and that they had better support the repealer if they want
nny political patronage to get political jobs for their con
stituents. In other words, the president threatens to purge the
democratic party of those who do not support his program
mn a bill most of the congressmen voted to pass over his
eto. All of which has aroused a resentment that boom
erangs on the repealer.
Other presidents, particularly KDR, have used the
'patronage club to secure passage of pet legislation, but
Ihey did it sub-rosa. This is the first time in recent years
t any rate, when the chief executive has publicly placed
1 J'a patronage purchase tag" on votes for his program.
' So Mr. Truman has broken another precedent as he did
4n his "give 'em hell" campaign for re-electino, and will
'probably continue along similar lines in the future. He
iloarned these tactics in his early training as a member of
the Pendergast political machine in Kansas City and has
Jiot outgrown them in his exalted office.
STORIES IN LIFE
Gloomy About U.S. Debt? Read This
I Ocean Park, Calif. (i Most people talk gloomily about
the national debt. But mere talk Isn't enough for David Ep
stein, a 70-year-old bellhop. He's paying off his share In
Installments.
Two years ago Epstein read that each American's share of
the national debt Is $1100.
. "So I mailed I check for $100 to President Truman." Ep
stein said, "I got a nice letter of thanks from the treasury de
partment, so I sent another In 194$. I wrote the third rhrrk
today. 1 Intend to keep sending them until 1 pay off the
1700."
; Why does he do It?
"I Immigrated here from l.llhiunla ,111 years ago. I made
new life for myself, I love America and freedom and want
t pay my share."
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
New Army Secretary
Has Points Against Him
By DREW PEARSON
Washington While it's difficult to get the right men to fill top
government jobs, the proposed appointment of Curtis Calder,
head of Electric Bond and Share, as secretary of the army is
going to cause a lot of eyebrow-lifting among farmers.
In the first place, Electric Bond and Share was one of the
trusters
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
A X-rfsV
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SIPS FOR SUPPER
More of Same
By DON UPJOHN
Doggone it now we're going to have to do it all over again.
Word comes by teletype from Springfield, Mass., that G. C. Mer
riam & Company which publishes Webster's Dictionary, has pro
duced
Pgr
new
collegiate edi
tion and here
we've no more
more than got
through learn
ing the words in
the last one. It
keeps a fellow
busy. For in
stance, in the
new one there's
a brand fresh
definition for
the word "cold." We'd always
figured this mean the snuffles
and a new package of Kleenex,
but the dictionary credits the
new meaning as coming from
Russia, "Cold as in a cold war."
The Russians also are given
credit for such words as "corn
inform" and "party line," while
Winston Churchill'gets credit for
"iron curtain." To those in the
habit of learning the dictionary
power
whose abuses
led to passage
of the holding
corporation act;
and the record
of the federal
trade commis
sion regarding
its operations
make juicy
reading. &
more recently,
been one of the most effective
and ruthless members of the
power-trust gang in fighting the
government's program for pub
lic power and rural electrifica
tion. Nevertheless, it is now pro
posed to take the head of this
giant corporation which has bit
terly opposed the government,
and embrace him in the bosom
of the government as policy-maker,
among others, for the army
engineer! which build the mul
tipurpose dams for the govern
ment. "To put Calder in this job,"
says the rural electric coopera-
left. One returned after the
noon hour but the other refused tjve "would be about the same
to go back.
as making Ham Moses, of
Trading votes for postmasters Arkansas power and light the
secretary of the army." Moses
is the power executive who once
gave
wives of congressmen he want
ed to vote against public power.
On the foreign front, Calder s
Oitr, ftpl.ba
seems to be the height of some
thing or other but the idea was
not invented by Mr. Truman.
It's been done before.
Two great events will run
neck and neck tonight weather connections are also important.
permitting. Opening of the base- One of the army's most vital
ball season at Waters park and iobs pertains to Germany. That
of the annual hobby show at the country, from which sprang two
armory. These are probably great wars, may hold the key
two of the biggest affairs here to future wars, and the cabinet
outside of Christmas. This is officers who make decisions re
going to be quite a trick for garding Germany must be im
Gardner Knapp the inveterate partial.
baseball fan and king of the Mr. Calder. however, is a
hobby show. Even Gardner who director of the United States
can get around town in more and Foreign Securities corpor
different places at once than ation, and the United States and
even a flea will have a tough International Securities corpora
time riding the two hobbies at tion, both organized by Dillon,
nylon stockings to the bying to block a treasury declar-
?J .I?'' may We. "dd .'her? are once tonight. But we bet he'll Read and company, for the
1.VO00 new ones in this edition
And we bet the FT 4c BA isn't
mentioned.
Kicking the"r,iftHorses
(Independence Enterprise)
Two nf several mpmhr nf
the Independence Chamber of hobby show goes on throuKh
Saturday ana aunaay. Ana
come to think of it, so does the
Commerce, who volunteered
their services to help repair the
road south of town to Buena
Vista, Tuesday were fired from
the job before noon. It seems
that the two men became tired
and were leaning
get to the ball park, hobby or purpose of financing public util-
no hobby. Anyway, he says it ities in Germany before the
will be a hobby show to out war.
hobby all hobby shows, just like The Dillon, Read group has
the baseball opener will out open always believed in building up
all openers. At any rate, the Germany and, despite the mis
take of having financed what Defiantly
evemuany Became pari oi nii
ler's war machine, this grouD
has continued to support Ger
man cartels.
An official report is now be
fore the army department critl
baseball season.
A circuit judge in Illinois has
huled that the word "obey"
shovels
man
their useci m ,ne marriage vows is cizing ex-Undersecretary of the
when the county fore
ne by. He, net know-
"as antiquated as hoop skirts."
The women have beaten him to
ing that they were working for that ruling years ago. They may
free, told them to either get to even come back to hoop skirts,
work or get off the job. They but they won't fall for the other.
Hardly Worth Their While
Bellingham "Pi Thieves broke Into the Ferndale grain com
pany store and lugged away a 2S0-pound cash register.
The loot? Owner E. Terpstra said fe register contained
five pennies.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Child's Sense of Money
By HAL BOYLE
New York M"i The poor man's philosopher says: an adult
has a sense of money. But a child has to grow up to it.
Money isn't as funny to a child as it sometimes can be to a
grownup with JrvJ
a sense oi per-
ation that whiskey aged in sec
ond-hand barrels is just as good
as whiskey aged in new barrels.
The treasury contends there is
no difference between new and
second-hand barrels in the ag
ing of whiskey, but Seton Port
er, a heavy contributor to the
democratic national committee
(after the election), rushed in,
pounded on treasury desks and
demanded that the ruling be re
considered. Mr. Porter stands
to lose money if the treasury
sticks to its original position
favoring second-hand barrels.
FARM BATTLE A furious
battle has broken out between
the farm.bureau and the agri
culture department.
The first salvo was fired by
Allan Kline, head of the farm
bureau, who protested angrily
because he wasn't consulted
about Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan s new farm program.
Kline ordered his
state organizations to oppose the
program, later made the strange
declaration that the program
offered the farmers too much
money.
Brannan will now carry his
case against Kline direct to the
farmers, who are beginning to
wonder just who Kline is sup
posed to represent.
CONFUSING THE RUSSIANS
On Easter Sunday, the Soviet
officer attached to the U. S. air
safety center at Tempelhof air
drome, Berlin, watched 13,000
tons of goods landed by U. S.
airplanes in a single day a
ill
ask-
nai e..-
spective.
A friend nf
mine earns his
living in the
hours between
dusk and dawn.
One day h i s
small daughter
came to him
and said. "You
know what the
other kids call
you? the nisht watchman."
Before he went to bed each
morning my friend had a habit
of putting the change in- his
pocket on the bureau top. Then
he would Joke:
"That's what they paid daddy
today."
One day his daughter said to
him: "Don't we ever make more
than five bucks a day?"
It was only then that he
learned his daughter had joined
a social class above his own.
On another occasion he for
got to put some change on the
bureau ton. Before his daughter
trotted off to school, she shook
him awake and said:
"Why don't they pay you
more regular?"
Another friend of mine has
timid son whom he is trying to
make into a rugged citiren.
When he complained he had
been beaten up by his school
mates, his father said:
"The next time you throw the
first fist."
A few days later the boy, who
was In the third grade, came
home and told his father he had
thrown the first fist when at
tacked, The proud father wanted to
know what happened.
"Well, It was a second
grader," his son said.
His disappointed father, hop
ing thi boy's adversary was at
Army William DraDer, another
Dillon, Read executive, for re
building cartels since the war.
James Forrestal. ex-secretary
of national defense and former
head of Dillon. Read, is also in
this group. And it was one of
the companies of which Mr.
Calder is director U. S. and
Foreign Securities which caus
ed Forrestal great embarrass
ment. For a senate committee iandini. or takeoff everv thirty
revealed the fact that he had seconds.
made a profit of $865,000 by Before the Berlin blockade,
selling his holdings in this cor- the totB, flow of goods int0
poration in 1929 and had avoid- Berlin Irom tne western zones
ed paying income tax on the by raili barge and truck all
$865,000 by creation of a fam- tnree put together was not
llv homing corporation in wana
da. Capable as Mr. Calder may
he as a business executive, his
corporate background is not go
ing to inspire confidence among
the two million men who would
serve under him in the U. S.
army.
BATTLE OVER WALLGREN
The administration charges
that senate republicans stamped
ed democratic procedure by
bottling the nomination of Mon
Wallgren up in the armed ser
vices committee, don't coincide
with the inside facts.
What democratic Senator Mil
lard Tydings of Maryland, the
committee chairman, didn't tell
the press was that G.O.P.. Sen
ator Wayne Morse of Oregon
was ready to cast the deciding
vote for floor action, but Tydings
missed the boat.
After G.O.P. Senator Chan
least bigger than he. then
ed, "what happened?"
"Well." his son replied, "She
said mean things about me."
No man ever died of admir
ation. A woman with a mirror is
never without critic or an
admirer.
The world is a golden round.
Life comes full circle. No one
can cheat you except yourself.
The hardest thing for an
honest man to do is to admire
himself. But he never quits try
ing. A platitude is a pasture of a
bovine mind.
Vitamins will never be really
healthy until they can take peo- Gurnev of South Dakota moved
pie three times a day with or to table Wallgren's nomination
without water. as chairman of the national
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JEWELERS - SILVERSMITHS
Llvesley Bids., State Liberty
security resources board, Morse
asserted behind closed doors
that while he was personally
fond of Wallgren he didn't think
he was competent enough to
head up the NSRB "because of
some appointments he made
while governor of Washington."
However, Morse added, if
someone offered a substitute
motion (to Gurney's) to report
the nomination "unfavorably"
that is, with a recommendation
against confirmation he would
vote for it. This would have
given the full senate a chance to
debate the issue openly, instead
of having Wallgren's name bot
tled up in committee by the
present vote to table.
Morse's vote would have car
ried. However, Tydings and
his democratic colleagues
wouldn't play ball, with the
result that Gurney's motion to
table carried. That is why
Wallgren's confirmation can't be
debated on the senate floor,
where the final vote probably
would be for him.
...
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES
BATTLE OF WHISKEV BAR
RELS Seton Porter, president
of national distillers, one of the
most powerful members of the
whiskey combine, has been lob-
l.r , 5 J fill
AV I
you dohi et you 0uu-
ruytes, to pick io
STUI6HT WINKCaS, MUit
BEAT OD&S Of
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CAN'T TAKE IT
ANY L0N6ER?
ODDS ARE 2 TO 1
against a
Successful suicide.
KAHKAKIC. OHIO. CMC
lHlttl WITH 'THIS)
Diploma t i c
sources in Mos-
cow said Wed
nesday that the
reopening o f
the Berlin ques
tion, if handled
correctly, could
lead to that
happy goal.
An American
quarter remarked:
IJS&JL I
DaWilt MarRpBtir
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MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Hope and Suspicion
By peWITT MacKENZIE
tIPI Foreign Afltlrt Antlystl
Russia's offer to call of the Berlin blockade to hold the lime
light in international speculation. The reason is, of course, that
such a move might tend towards (whisper) an ending of the
"cold war."
As I pointed out in yester
day's column, It could be that
the Russian bear is feeling the
chill of the "cold war" in his
own bones. He may really want
easement of the struggle.
Wes Gallagher, chief of the
Associated Press bureau in Ber
lin, writes:
"Soviet overtures to lift the
Berlin blockade represents a
diplomat defeat for the Kremlin
"Something is cooking. At . ; .,,,,,, ... . .
j.. ..n k0j " nas suffered since the end of
this point it doesn t smell bad. Word War Sovje, W(J tQ con
, ... , trol all of Europe has failed.
That non-committal summary Communism ,ndP the Sovie,
reflects bo h hope and suspi- Union rc ,h defensive ,
cion a feeling which is mutual.
Both sides are proceeding with
the utmost caution. Certainly the indications are
The United States did make ,hat lhe communist drive to
a positive move Wednesday. ,weeP acros western Europe to
This was delivery of a note by ,h English channel reached a
Philip C. Jessup, - American dea? end some tlme a' Th
ambassador-at-large, to Soviet "W"1! of tne Atlantic Pact put
deputy foreign minister Jakob on the finishing touches.
A. Malik, in New York, asking
the Russians for a formal state- There is, it seems to me, an-
ment as to when and on what other new factor which may
conditions they would lift the have had something to do with
blockade. - Moscow's move. That is the
Back of this note is the real sweeping successes of the Chi-
hope that the Muscovites mean nese communist armies against
business. There also is the sus- the nationalists,
picion that some ulterior pur- The Red offensive in China
pose may be hidden in the na, created t new crisi! whlch
offer for instance the scuttling . . ,,.
of the new German republic ' c,U!,ng he western lliM
comprising the three western deP concern. Comunism has
zones of occupation. Moscow established a new major fronl
has opposed this project hotly, in Asia which might distract
some of the attention of ths
Obviously, it isn't love of the western powers from the Euro
hated capitalistic democracies pean theatre and so make easiei
which has impelled Moscow to the task of consolidating its posi
make this offer. tion there.
more than 11,000 tons a day.
Shrugging his shoulders at
the amazing performance of U.
S. air freight carriers, the Rus
sian officer walked out in de
spair. He said he could no
longer follow, much less record,
the speed and complexity of the
American flight pattern.
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