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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
G eneral
Friday, Nov. 22, 1940
Hook Posy Pad for
Chair or Foot Stool
Atlanta Armory Destroyed
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
Washington, D. C.
Washington. I). C.
WALLACE TO PLAY STRONG
ROLE
DANGER OF ’INFLATION’
The greatest danger before us now
; is "inflation.” In barnyard Ameri
can all that means is high prices.
Since they are not as spectacular
as the bombing of workers’ homes,
they usually don't get attention be
fore it is too late.
War inflation is about the deadli
est bearing of war upon the poor.
Wages in war never have advanced
as fast as the cost of living. The
price of anything is mostly the cost
of labor to produce it. The higher
they go. the higher the cost of living.
War inflation (high prices) is the
worst bearing of war upon the help
less.
Germany is tombing the
homes of England’s poor non-com
batants and seeking to cut off the
supply of milk to babies and food to
adults. England is hell-bent on the
same process—to blockade Europe
and starve into submission even her
most gallant defenders: France.
Finland. Poland.
I do not counsel otherwise. We,
ourselves, invented war frightful- !
ness in our blockade of Southern
A view of the early-morning tire that swept through and destroyed
Mary Lee Abbott, of Boston, who
ports and our destruction of food
supplies in Georgia and the Shenan the 179th Field Artillery National Guard armory In Atlanta, Georgia. was picked from a howl of debu
doah. It must make the wounds of The damage to the building and to equipment for thr army was esti ta ntc<« as the "Glamour Girl of 1940”
Christ bleed again, but so it is and mated to be about $509,000. Pending investigation, authorities would by a committee of pulchritude ex
not comment on the possible cause of the blaze.
perts In New York.
we must accept it
But let's not be blind to a similar
war of starvation against our own
people—high prices. If they go too
high they will destroy the practical
living value of every insurance pol
icy, social security benefit, wage,
salary or pension in the United
States. This is not because they
will reduce those payments. They
won’t But those payments will buy
so little in a high price structure
that they will become chaff.
I hear that Wall Street pundits say
that it will be only a “mild infla
tion.” I honor the sincerity of their
opinions but I suspect their knowl
edge. Once you start this deadly
process it is like a snowball rolling
down hill. You can no more suffer
it "gradually" than you can fire a
gun gradually. It is a progress that
feeds upon itself.
With much actual experience in
war inflation, I have made a study
of this thing for years—from the
beginning of history. War price in
flation always grinds the face of the
poor, not only during hostilities, but
This picture shows Ludington, Mich., coast guardsmen rigging a
Kate Sandor, employee of the
for years thereafter. It lowers the
buying power of their wages. It breeches-buoy in an effort to remove crew members of the City of Flint, United Railway Signal corporation
also doubles or multiplies the cost flagship of the Pere Marquette Railway carferry fleet. The City of Flint of Woodbridge, N. J., shown in hos
of war. not merely while it is going went aground during the terrific gale which swept the Midwest, and in pital after thr explosion which de
stroyed the plant.
on. but for years thereafter in the which 75 men were known to have perished on Lake Michigan.
toil, sweat and taxes in which work
ers and their children must pay for
the vastly increased cost
So far, we have only the symp
toms of war inflation.
But the
germs are so plain that it takes no
microscope to see them — terrific
governmental spending and in
creased debt and deficit capacity
production, a sellers market and a
desperate disposition for counter
bidding in a congested market with
expense no object.
It has been said that high taxes
will stop it. I shall write another |
column on that. It is crazy non
sense. Do high taxes of as much as
10 cents a gallon prevent the price
of gasoline from going up as high as
18 cents in some states when it
should be 6 cents? High taxes are
not the answer. Mad as it may
seem, I am for deficit financing of
this war and not for higher taxes.
This may come strangely from
me. who hates personalized power,
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but I am also for giving the Presi
dent a complete power of priorities
to stop competitive bidding and to
ration production not to the longest
purse, but to the most necessitous
use. The latter can only mean sky
rocketing prices. It necessary, I
am for giving him complete authori
ty over the price structure to pre
vent its rising above reasonable lev
els. Everybody knows it is high
enough now for reasonable profit
• • •
TWO PARTY SYSTEM
It is suggested that Mr. W llkie
should be appointed to Mr. Koose-
Father, mother, brother and sister joined the parade of the marines
velt's cabinet and accept, I think down Constitution avenue, Washington, D. C., as the Fifth battalion, ma
The big town "went to town" In a
not. We must stand united in pre- rine corps reserves, marched to the Union station. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph big way to celebrate election night.
paring this country for defense, but Smith, Elizabeth, 18, and Robert, 8, tramp alongside their own Henry Here 1* a joyous scene at Times
that doesn’t mean that we should Smith, who is one of the contingent departing for a year’s training, prob square In the heart of New York’s
give up the principal instrument of ably in the West Indies.
white light district.
our democracy which we are pre
paring to defend—our two-party sys
tem.
We are not at war and even if we
were, we would commit suicide for
Americanism if we abandon the in
stitution of political debate by re
sponsible
leaders
of
opposing
schools of thought. For the present, I
Mr. Willkie is the titular leader of
the party of almost half of the Amer
ican people. That half is in opposi
tion to many of the policies of this
administration. He now acts as their
anointed spokesman and advocate.
If he abandons that part, he would
certainly be derelict in the duty he
owes to them for their trust.
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For about 160 years, the vice pres
ident of the United States has been
either a pure figure-head or else a
trouble-maker in the family of his
chief, the President.
Tom Marshall, vice president un
der Woodrow Wilson, is remembered
only tor his remark: "What this
country needs is a good flve-cent
cigar.”
Charles G. Dawes, vice president
under Coolidge, became famous
when his alarm clock allegedly
failed to go off and he arrived at
the Capitol too late to change a tie
vote.
Charley Curtis will only be re
membered because of his social war
to place his half-sister ahead of Al
ice Longworth at dinner. And Jack
Garner will go down in history be
cause of his private refrigerator and
his covert opposition to Roosevelt
None of these vice presidents was
an active worker for the head of
his administration; many of them
deliberately hindered it
Now, however, for the first time
In recent history, we have a vice
president who will be a right hand
of the President
Wallace was
trained under Roosevelt and can be
counted upon to be a great asset,
not a deterrent
It is not supposed to be known
yet but already Wallace has dis
cussed ideas with the President
whereby he will work on three im
portant problems. They are:
1. To act as liaison officer be
tween the White House and con
gress. This is the most important
job of all.
2. To act as a sort of ambassador-
at-large in cementing Good Neigh
bor relations between the United
States and Latin America, especial
ly where congressional affairs are
concerned.
3. To formulate plans for shifting
the nation’s industrial economy
from armament to a normal basis,
after the war is over.
PATRIOT BUSINESS MEN
Behind that irate outburst from
the New England Shoe Manufactur
ers association at the army's new
method of buying shoes was an un
told story of how a group of busi
ness men working for the govern
ment saved the taxpayers about
$6.000,000.
The manufacturers were indignant
that the army, under Defense com
mission guidance, had scattered its
orders for 4.000.000 pairs of shoes
instead of giving this juicy business,
as in the past, to a few big firms.
But by this new method the army
was able to obtain shoes at $1.50 a
pair less than they cost during the
World war.
A group of business executives,
working devotedly in the procure
ment division, in the past six months
not only have saved the government
several hundred millions on defense
supplies, but have not disturbed
market conditions or caused con
sumer prices to zoom. The shoe
deal was only one item in this re
markable record, but it is a typical
one.
Because of the long battle in con
gress over the Selective Service act,
the army was not sure until the very
last moment whether it would need
shoes for 400.000 regulars, or for
1,000.000 additional draftees. So it
was September 16 before Brig. Gen,
Cln/ord Corbin of the quartermas
ter corps rushed to the Defense com
mission with his requirements. The
procurement aces were all ready for
him.
For weeks they had quietly sur
veyed the shoe industry. They knew
the capacity of every plant, from
the giants capable of turning out
thousands of pairs a day to the
smallest factory in a Boston loft.
Also, they had carefully studied
World war experience, when the
price of shoes had sky-rocketed as a
result of the placing of big orders
with a few firms.
So, discarding the army's system
of asking for bids on the entire
4,000.000 pairs, the commission ex
perts quietly asked every reputable
manufacturer in the industry for a
price on the number of shoes he
was capable of producing. The re
sults of this wily trading were re
markable.
During the World war, the army
paid $4 a pair for shoes. Through
the procurement division’s method
of negotiated contracts, distributed
among 25 factories from New Eng
land to St. Louis, the army was able
to get its 4,000,000 pairs of regula
tion shoes at $2.50 a pair.
Note—Chief of the procurement di
vision is quiet-spoken Donald Nel-
son, the former Sears, Roebuck
dynamo.
• • •
MORE G-MEN
Along with the speed-up in produc
tion of airplanes and tanks, there is
a much less-heralded speed-up in the
production of G-men.
J. Edgar Hoover is now turning
out special agents of the FBI at the
phenomenal rate of 40 a week.
Formerly, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation had only 90 special
agents, but a recent congressional
authorization boosted the figure to
1,500. Hoover now has almost at
tained that mark, with 1,340 trained
and 160 more to be produced.
liy RUTII WYETII SPEARS
Citv of Flint Aground in Storm
‘Marching as to War’
'IfOU
Hi-Jinks in Gotham
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Nazi Bombers Overhead
Mr. Willkie so far gave away at
the outset the greatest asset of his
party—the strong opposition of mil
lions to any involvement in Europe’s
quarrels—that I sometimes wonder
at his decision to run and his Phila
delphia acceptance.
There were preconvention candi
dates who did represent that opin
ion. He didn’t challenge them on
that vital point then. If hi* beliefs
on that question were those of so
many people in opposition to this
administration’s, he should have
fought for them more openly.
Alive After Blast!
Panamanian Consul
Vl/IIEN I made Hie sketch in
Sewing Book 5 showing the
method that our Grandmothers
used for making original hooked
rug designs, I forgot thut Grand
mother did not wear silk stockings
every day. There have been doz
ens of letters saying, “1 would
like to hook tho flower designs for
which you give directions in Book
5. Will you please tell me if I
cun use old silk stockings for
these?”
Silk stockings may be used for
hooked rugs but they do not wear
as well us woolen muterials. They
are perfect for hooked chair pads,
foot stool tops and wall hangings.
All the popular stocking colors
muy be dyed soft «recn, red and
brown tones, without first remov
ing the tan color. “While dye”
should be used first if bright colors
are needed. After dyeing, cut a
strip uround and nround the stock
ing spirully, making it from %
inch to IVk inches wide according
to how fine the work is to be. When
your design has been marked as
described in Book 5, draw the
stocking strips through the burlup
with a rug hook.
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Flowers may be hooked In outline or In
a ahacli-d effect, as shown here And here
Is good new* tor all of you rag rug en
thusiasts. Book fl la now ready for mail
ing. There la still another lx>ok rug de
sign In It: also a braided and a crochrUcd
ruit and dozens of other things that you
will want to make. Send order to:
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