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HtfDAY, AUÛÜSt ¿1, 1944
:e thinking instead of political pan*
betas that make everyone happy.
Anyway it is a problem worthy»,
of any one’s thinking.
^ l |í r £ a H C o u n ty Iburiw J
'published tvvary Friday at
Moro, Oregon
MONEY MAD
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under
the
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL,
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STILL WITH US
As a reasonable guess there
are some 11,000,000 American men
in the armed services. There are
many thousands of American worn-
en also serving. Thousands of Am •
trican workers are making war
maUrial._________________________
Yet, our industry has been car-
rying on very well. People are
well fed, reasonably well clothed
Ser ous shortages exist in metals-
There is hop«*—and some evidence
-that the war will be over before
this time next year. What . is to
become of these millions of men
and women ?
• '
•
After the war is over thare will
_ be little market for the planes
,we are building, no demand for
powder or sheila, trucks will be a
drug on the market if the gov-
eminent sells its supply, tank
manufacture will atop. Civilian
demands for housing, new fum i-
lure, new cars, gadgets can hard-
ly be expected to use all the pro-
ductive force of a nation geared
so high, and aided by the m illion
who will return to peace time in-
, dustry.
„
Magazines are now full of art-
icles advising sold era to be cau-
tious about entering thia business
cr that. Much of the advice is good,
for no one should go into any
business without a knowledge .if
it.
. .
>,
However, these men must have 1
pUce in the world. They have
earned H. Truth is that monoply
lias grown dur ng the war much
faster than it was before the war
and it was rapidly taking over
American Industry then. The4“ad-
ministrat on of the common man"
did nothing to keep him in busi-
neaa, but much to keep him a lab-
crer and serf to faithful union
leaden. ?- ‘
,
; D urng the w .r every ¡ndu.try,
l«r«e »nd h w II. ho. learned how
to ret «Ion, with fewer men. Our
' own egriculture uses three end
four men now to do the work of 30
1 before World 5^ar *1. Two men
handle a s much wheat to storage
as 12 did a few years ago. Mach
inery has made many men un-
The Kilgore hill that brought
Senators back to Washington to
debate would give unemployed war
workers a minimum of $36 per
week for a year-after, the cessa
tion of their work. That is a sum
that was considered a very fine
wage a few y ea n ago and U u
pretty big payment for not work
ing. .
.
The GI bill gives ex-soldiers
$20 per week for a year after they
are dischared, that is; if unemploy
ed. The Kilgore bill would give
those who worked in shipyards and
other government pUnU>
that seem pretty high, more com
pensation than sold ere who work
for $60 per month. There is, how-
ever, an amendment that would
give both classes $36 per week,
It is a little bard to imagine
what might happen to a country
that starts into the busine» of
paying unemployment compensa-
Uon in amounts so near to peace
t me wages. There are still men
working for wages less than $•'»■-
per week.
It does not appear likely that
the administration will be able te
crowd the Kilgore bill over in the
senate. It is probable that it was
introduced only for politcal pui-
poses anyway- Its brief existence
may show labor that the admin is
tration is anxious to g et all it
can for them and at the sam?
time its defeat may prove that the
Republcpns and southern, or real,
Democrats are aga nst them,
Complete control of the huge un
employment compensation funds
-in the United States has long been
an urge of the administration bu-
reaucrata whose desire for money
u an insatiable itch. Congress will
probably permit the states to con •
tinue handling their own com pen-
cation fundo-
. .
Germany is now reaping the
result of having a civilian com-
mander in chief of her fighting
forces.
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In Other Days
VL
Q . CLARK
Cnolrmon, American
Economic Foundation
Endaittor P ostw ar Jobs?
As debated by
Walter B. Weisenbnrger
Richard T. Frankensteen
In tirao li on<d Fica president
Exncvtive Fic« P resid en t
1/nSad /4«Coma6iia-4ircro/t-
N a tio n a l A ssociation
Agricuitural Im plem en t Worker» o f
M
of
Manufacturer».
Am erica, C J.Q .
MB. FRANKBNSTEEN O * fIN 8 :
An analytical approach to this ques
tion suggests breaking It down by
asking: (1) Is there such a relation
ship between Wartime Profits and
Postwar Jobs that a limitation im
posed on Wartime Profits would pro
duce a consequent reaction on Post
war Jobs! (2) Has there actually
been effective limits imposed, on War
time Profits? We believe we can
prove, conclusively, there is no re
lationship between Wartime Profits
and Postwar Jobs in our present poli
tico-economic system. From 1920 tó
1929 no profit limits existed. Taxation
on Corporations and big income.was
cut to nothing at all. Profits rolled
4n like a tidal wave at the tame time
Jobs rolled out. Jobs, it seems, de
pend not on how much money a
Corporation has, but on how much
money the customers of a Corpora
tion—the common people—can dig
out of their pockets. The profit-
takers had all the money in 1929. the
common man had little. That’s wh/
we had a depression. That’s why
there were no jobs. We shall prove
there has been no effective limita
tions placed on profits. There has
been regulation of profits (in the
public interest) during the present
war; but these regulations were im
posed to RrevSnt "unbridled llcnue"
in the taking of profits, and prevent
resulting inflationary trends. Experi
ence. at this timé, emphatically indi
cates “ B u sin est” is still the favorite
son of the tf. 8. Congress. “Them
that has, gits”, is still axiomatic of
American economic life. “Class” con
sciousness is not the prerogative of
the radical element, alone, in these
United States.
/
Bethlehem Chsptef No. 76, ÔJLS.
Meets Every Second und
aurth Thursdays in ea:h
th. Visiting Members
[limited — Moro, Oregon
j Ornduff, W. M.
Ntyt-U tHosklnson, Secretary
Lapine Rebekah Lodjre No. 116
* MeeXjs 2nd and 4th
Tuesdays of each
m-onth. Visiting mem-
,
« -
ii
b here welcome.
Between meal snacka, wisely 1 top cinnamon 12-S cup rolled oat A}
McKee N G .
planned*. can be an important
of the ¡regime for building
121 A.F4k A.5fc
the 1st and
maintaining good nutrition
3rd Thursday evenings
W V d f l i ™ « r i- M u lU . Many ‘ C«a»l ohorUni«, « I t , ; ooda.
of each month Vr.it ¿ng
citHdreh ’haV< dmah caparities for «P^es sugar and molasses. Add
members are cordially
food, and ¡t m gytoa impusable for b eaton eggs. Mix and add rolled
•nvit^d to met I with us.
them to eat epough at breakfast o*t»; wheat germ, raising and nuts
R. P. Briabine W. M
R. V. Lockhart, secretary
to keep them bright and alprt un- Add milk and sifted flour. Mix well -
til lunch time. This" C ¿sp ecially <nd drop by teaspoons on greased, —
^ ^ a at
t n nn
n b a k i« pans. Bake 12-16 minutes Moro Lodge No. 113, I.O.O.F.
true when breakfast is eaten
Meets 1st and 3rd
early Amur, as may be necessary to moderate oven (876) degrees.
Tuesdays in I.O.O.F.
hall- ; Transient and
when parent» work, or when child- .sc
visit ng brothers arc
ren live a .«onaiderable d stonci NOTICE TO CREDITORS
cordially mvsted
from their school.
.
AJI persons having claims a-
to meet with us.
A m 4-morn.ng » . c k of food.
BrtaU 6f Nonl MauJ
Ernest Houston N. G.
^ - A & K e c e a . e d ; . » hereby .o t-
Percy Thompson. Secretary
terU lb u t do not apo.l the app-
&
t
NOTICE TO'CREblTORil
tite fo rlu p ch has proved of *
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1
a
All persons having claims again •
.
- - v chndren A cupful ? rop*r ' T * ? " »nd duly verified
to the undersigned, the duly ap st the estate of Frank P tts, de-
of m lk and graham crackers are
pointed, qualified, and acting Ad- ceased are hereby notified to pre-
frequentlv provided for grade
minietrator, with the Will annexed, gent them, with the proper vou-
school children^ The same fooda
of the Estate of Nora Maud Akers, chers and duly verified, to the un
are often used for the younger
deceased. at tiie office of T - Lester dersigned, the duly appointed,
children in kindergartens and nur
Johnson, attorney at law, Wasci, qualified and acting administrator
eery centers, although smaller por
Oregon, within of the Estate of Frank Pitts, de
tions may be served them. Milk
— x
and bread, t r fruit are other choi,
° i , the ceased, at the office of T. Lester
Johnson, attorney at law, at Was
,
__first
WMfcation
of
this
notice,
.
'’onendinr
r
co, Oregon, within six months from
which date is August, 11, 1944.
on the fBc’l lt i« for »-rvlng thorn.
..
Hennagis __________________ _
the date of the first publication of
Adult«, too, may *>«>«0*
Admini«tr»tor. with the Will An- tM> notice, to-wit: July 28, 184».
between-jn,«! ««acfe yprkinK j»o
E > u u o f Nor> MaU(J
p G O’Me«r»
,
w^o experience , mid-morning rh,
n ___ AHminati rator
In February, 1944, set the total en
traordinary costs of postwar business
n j i □ i*.
k «
« AJiert» AMCagMRe...
A
. .
Ammnmtravor
transition as high as 3« billions. In fatigue usually find it ^aqjoq, Q •
publication, August Date of first publication July 28,
the general Judgment of the busl- ercome by a short rest period a? <i
1944
1944
s s ^ w ’ o°w r J u S ’w i
’>ubll“ tton
’8- D“u ot
publi~ tion A u fu *
production of this country two-and-
provna. BHMh fet», jpepaaaxui
a-half tirfiea since 1939. our retained ¿n combating fatigue and promo*.-
earnings of ten billion for the way r. g working efficiency
— •
than rest
back are dangerously thin.
plus food. But again, thia means
MR. F g A N K E N S T E E N C B AL- food that provides real , nourish-
____ of Corn-
LENGES: The Department
ment—not the soft drinks and
merce"eVtimates” that funds available
av
to business for change-over w ill other beverages that may provide
amount to $58 billion $22 billion o temporary lift
tout no more
more than the $3« billion maximum
lasting
benefits.
As
with children,
needed. Thia means that a demand
for removal of present overgenerous milk has proved one of the beat
profit and price ceilings is a call for rho ore to r mid-moming snacks,
inflationary
unbridled I_____
. _ pbofltoertng.
Despite wartime*taxea, profits made and it can be supplemented by
a a a
by industry In 1942 and 1943 were asndwtoh, a piece of cake, cookies,
highest In history, with aircraft in- or wboie grain crackers, or fruit,
dustry 684% above 1939. Unrestricted depending on the needs uf the
profiteering w ill bleed life away
from the people’s purchasing power individual.
openly inviting overall economic dis
For a cook if packed wi th good
aster. Jobe for all w ill come through nutrition and one that is the per
advancing the average American’s
purchasing power and through col fect compliment to fhe in-between
laboration with our Allies of the giasa of milk try' these V-lunci
United Nations for world-wide eco cookies. Notice the ingredients— 1
nomic development.
~
sugfir and sp ee and other thing*
i MB. W EISENBLRGER B B PU B8. to make a delicious as' weU as a
MB. W E IS E N B U B G E B CB AL-
LENGES: Mr. Frankensteen says the
depression waa caused by employers
taking too much profit It' should
have righted itself then between 1931 -
1933 when all corporations ,had no
profits. He says profits have nothing
to do with Jobs; they depend on
money in people’s pockety. Where do
people get money without Jobe? They
had both up to 1930; lost both when
profits vanished. He thinks profits
haven’t been “effectively regulgted"
because they haven’t been ofnfis
ca ted. He advocates a profitless "po
litico-economic system ” That is to
talitär. an ism— Nasi fashion. With free
enterprise we get more of everything
by producing mòre. To have enough
postwar Jobs we must have enough
employers; to have employers we
must have Investments; to have in
vestments we must have a fair chance
»f profit He would destroy profits
and thus destroy Jobs.
'
JThe
has made _ a
The aircraft industry —
- ,
MB. FBANBEN8TEBN REPLIES profit. Sure! By producing 35 times nutritions cookie,
V-LUNCH COOklES
M r Weisenburgpr can find no sound as many planes in 1943 as in 1939 and
1 cup sugar
arguments to justify his demand for has made 8 times as many profit dol- 1 cup shortening
lifting all price and profit controls. lata. Corporate profits in 1943 ex 1 tap salt
4
tbsp
molaasei
That is why he resorts to*cries about ceeded the all-time peak of 1929 by L H tap soda
2 eggs, beaten
2%
while
wage»
were
up
92%.
Is
that
Totalitarianism” and charges that I
favor “confiscation” of profits. I favor •‘unrestricted profiteering”? It W »
such controls of profits as w ill now take hard cash to accomplish the
protect the buying power of. the change-over and provide civilian, and members of his family- On
average American, and w ill provide jobs. Treasury figures on hard ca»b the many presidential trips to the i
continued. Jobs, production and fair held by business are 10 billions. Busi Pacific northwest of Wilson, Hard-
profits in the future. Thia is the exact ness is opposed to “unbridled tafia«
ing, Hoover and Roosevelt the
->ppoelte of Naziism. In 1942 Berlin tionary profiteering,” by any grouf
Muck markets—the surest, thermom- at any time. All business wants is az colonel went ahead like the ad -}
•<«r of Nazi industrial profits—stood opportunity to do its postwar Job by vance man of a circus. He exsmin <•
«t the highest level in history, while advancing “average American pur
ions of millions ' of common people chasing power” by providing Jobs ed the line c f march of parades, 1
the speaker's itand;
exam nedr‘
fU i vod. Policies which doomed Cer- It can’t do with 10 bllUpiM
;owiiy cannot secure Arnettra's future. cost thirty-six!
_
boats, such as the ship that took
From the Observer, Aug. 14, l*2fi
Frank C- Schumacher, about 46
years old, assisting with the har*
vest on the Pierson brother’s farm
was caught in the machinery of
the combine and ao severely in-
jured that he died at 6:45 Mon-
day evening.
r
The
d ev« broke Wed'
on «>» . . R»y Powe11 self
propelled combine when threshing
° n » ' U 'P Piiie of * round “ u»
»He fr.m e to slide away and
the machine to turn over.
. E E Barxee collided with th?
left side of the Standard Oil
tank wagon in Wasco Tuesday,
janVmng up his fender, wheel and
,
,There are fewer store®, fewer radiator
Clarence
Sparling
last week sold
banka, fewer newspaper», fewer
law i n n . fewer tr u d Ó ta * . fewer 40000 « « k . of federation wheat
(Continued from Page One)
fernw. Theee in d ict« in general a «slivered at Hay Canyon, on ba. a
more officient prodaetion and aljo ° f
greater pwAta for thoae who own rr«
Obaerver, Aug. 1 8 .1 » . they wanted w ar department to
Arthur
S.
Johnson has finished
and operate the businesses. Busi
H his work as deputy with Assessor
But F1*
out and a
ness makes more tndney when
Otto Peeta, and Mr Peetz apeak, Prominent army officer who pro-
can be a monoply..
very highly of him as a thorougn fc8ted was eased out of his Job.
But huge production in dtaelf Is anj painstaking ass stan t
There hare been « a n y eoanptBinis
r«ot the answer , to thè economie Mayor C W Moore, of our sister
brought against Fly, who ia .quick
problem. The stuff must be sold cjty, Grass Valley, was transact' cn ^be trigger to defense o f his
Aaid to be sold people must buz jng business m Moro on the 11th. P°«kion He recently raised a fuss
end to buy they must have Jobs, Charley la just as young and cheer-
a magazine which interview-
buaineaaea, farms. Some place in f uj M be used to be when wo
the swing toward ’ monoply. the
were poor boy», just beg in-
trend must halt because of a »car- njn* ¡n good old Sherman county,
city of customer» with money to
M Sadie I. Orr, a Sherman
buy. When in industry crowds out ©oUhty girl of whom we feel proud,
a competitor, or puts I machine in one of the most successful tea-
the factory jh pWe$^<rf a man it
amongst the army of Mult
zIso reduces*Sa prospective cus- romaha, has been ao seriously
to mera by that amòùnt. »
stricken by cufnd’s dart, that she
Perhaps We can trade with other
not go back to teaching next
ration» not so mécbanited ‘ il- month. •
though there ' are other nations “ A couple of special cars were
that would ataf Fife to» W f tha hauled to Shaniko with another
manufacturing center of the world invoice of magnates to Tepori, on
There is competition there, and the C S. Ry extena on which will
the atari o f ffitulP Wars.
be^in Sept. 1, 1906, aryl be vig-
It is the Aiihe question ire talk- crousiy pushed until Forest
ed about bedk to 1982 when eirr reached,, oiv Crooked River.,
industry stopped IbddeAMr fc r tatk From the Obaerver, A»g. 18, 1915
o f sales. U is »till w th ue, only , l The carpenter work for L V
temporarily abated toy the expend- Moore’s new bam has been com-
iture o f government money« It has pkted by O A Ramsey,
not been solved. Now w e' are at
The first grapes of the season
the end o f government spending were brought to Moro Saturday by
limits and mnvt settle the problem, the Fleck orchard auto service.
We should have done It twelve for their Moro store.
years.
inatehd of ’ borrowing
Robert Urquhart was in town
money to put it ©It N«w thè proto- Monday after bridge material to
lem must . be fettled ' under the use in repa ving jbhe desk on the
cloud o / a huge government detot. bridge thia side of thè Erskine
It may bo ih a t B cannot be school.
fetttofi wRh arbitrarily held high
Miss Deiras Linnell Fagan was
rricea a f e wages that make us or- left by Mr. Stork Wednesday af-
able to compfiU with other nations, temoon at the home of Mr
*
It is Htely that H must ho aottyed M r» F B Fqgan, Dr. C L Poley
through’ recourse to solid ecortom- attending.
Kelly’s Column
r
MB. WBISENBUBGER O P E N S :
Postwar employment is most certain
ly endangered by the wartime re
strictions on profits. A t present
are managing to get along under
them. But. for the expanding peace
■®£
time production and the Jobe for
do
which the C IO stands—Just as we
he
—we need two facilities.,which the
CIO would deny. The first & a larger
accumulation 'of retained funds and
the second is an abatement of taxa
tion and price ceilinys Just as soon
as hostilities end. During the war
years from 1941 to the end of 1913,
after paying taxes, all the corpora
tions in the United States retained in
their business as working capital a
total of ten billions. The CiO says
that Is enough to take care of any
thing that may come up in the perce-
time reconversion of an economy that
did 300 billions of business in 1943
Also to confront the acquisition of
some part of fifteen billion dollars
of existing government plants, plus
some estimated twenty billifhs of
surplus supplies already in govern-.
ment hands. Also to tide qver the
uncertainties of getting their corpo
rate funds out of the last government
contracts and manufacturing inven
tories estimated at some twenty bil
lions. The Department of Commerce
y-n,*
J-.«
<nr*
,
. ,
•
, . zl
cd him, a;. I threatened dire things
urfless he was permitted to go
over the artfcle prior to its puh-
Pcaticn. He has been what might
be said to be the Fly in thé oint-
ment.
Colonel Edmond W. Starling ha3
passed on. ; People who knew him
best were the police and sheriff-
and the working press in the cap
Hal. The colonel.boased the presi-
dents, and they had to obey. It
was his job to guard the president
■■r i.
ig<4
Æ rllur & JH ill
is now being operated as a private
C O M M U N IT Y C L U B
Dues $1.00 per yr.
N ew Members W elcom e
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 2471
The Dalles, Ore
to
ANK
BY M A IL !
FOR SPECIAL DEPOSIT ENVELOPES
Harding from Seattle to Alaska,
When he was thréugh^ . with
plans of Spokane, flsgft
'v — -
couver or Portland they wefe îu
near fool-proof as human ingenu-
ity could devise. He was intensely
loyal to the president under hi3
charge, whether the president was
a Republican or Democrat.
No
on€ ever beard him d scuas poli-
no
knew his party afflli-
ation.
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Resolve to be thyself; and know,
fbst toe who finds »h'moelf, loses
jjjg misery-
—Mathew Arnold
I
hocovso fhoao lo n g Distance
caffs m oan io much
A soldier has to line up for a lot of things
but we don't like to aee him wait too long
fok a Long Diatanoe *«11
Would you mind helping a little by saving
the wires from seven to ten for the serv
ice men?
That's when thousands of soldiers rush to
the telephones at the camps and we'd like
to give them first call on Long Distance.
•wy Wor Bonds for Victory
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