Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, January 31, 1946
An Attractive Chair
From Odds and Ends
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can of Hut pulnt, and a can of del­
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phinium blue enam el; a piece of
blue and white ticking and a atrip
of coarse white m a te ria l thut waa
SEL1IN G STEEL INCREASE
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dent Truman's appointments are
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very brief. Senators get five min­
K t l t a H d by W estern N ew ap.tp er Union.
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utes with him. Congressmen get
P A T T lR N S A y
from 3 to 15 minutes. Cabinet mem-
S IA M FOR
CHANGE AGAINST FACT­
T W I COVIR
ber$ frequently get only 15 minutes.
F IN D IN G PROPOSAL
2.
So recently eyebrows went up
WASHINGTON — An
editorial
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A
P A P IR
when the White House bulletin
surveyor hus reported 72 per cent
PATTEI
board listed OPAdministrator Ches­
of the newspapers approved Mr.
I.
ter Bowles for a full hour with
WORN CA N !
Truman's fuct-flnding solution for
S
IA T CUT |
President Truman Observers knew
labor claims at first, but suddenly
AWAV \
that the heat was on to increase
turned around and in one week dur­
the price of steel, and sell to in­
ing December (22 to 29 >. 65 per
9twr<
flation’s No. 1 enemy on giving the
cent attacked the plan.
I T Q L tM
nation its first big inflationary shot
This he considered a strange and
in the arm.
inexplicable turnover of public opin­ raveled out to m ake narrow fringe.
When Bowles entered the Presi­
ion, or press opinion, and he criti­ Combined, these odds and ends
dent's office, the die was already
cized it. He said the change came made an a ttrac tive chair.
cast. Truman had decided that steel
about when the Truman fact-finding
The old chipped white enamel was
prices were going up. His job was
board for General Motors was con­ rubbed with cuarae and then line sand­
to sell the idea to Bowles. Truman
fronted with the union proposition of paper until smooth. The new seat came
next; then flat paint which waa allowed
himself had been sold by his old
going into company profits to set fu­ to dry twenty-four hours before applying
friend. Reconversion Czar John
ture wages on this basis.
enamel. Next, the cover waa made with
Snyder of St. Louis, who in turn
a straight two-inch fringe trim m ed band
My analyst friend has simply
had been wined and dined by the
and Uea around the uprights of tha back.
been confused, as have most
a a a
steel people in Pittsburgh.
readers of the current labor
N O T E — Thia chair seat la from
Chester Bowles also had talked SAVES PERSONAL BELONGINGS AS FLOOD WATERS RUSH ON . . . A high hat. battered cage contain­
news, by the emotion of oppos­
HOOK ID which contains more than thirty
with big steel leaders. His talks ing pet cat, and several pails and containers which held her most cherished possessions, were saved from
other th rifty homemaking Ideas
Rooks
ing factions. The truth behind
were far more energetic, more per­ the home of Mrs. C. W. Voyles, Atlanta, Ga.. as the swolleu Chattahoochee river flooded her home.
are 19c each postpaid. W rite direct to:
the matter is evident.
suasive than Snyder’s. Bowles once
M r. Truman advocated the
ran one of the best advertising
MRS. R U T H W Y E T H SPEARS
fact-finding solution out of the ex­
firms in the nation, is an excel­
Redford Hills
New York
perience of the railroad union
lent salesman. All his salesmanship
Draw er IS
brotherhoods, who have enjoyed
was turned on big steel leaders.
Enclose 19 cents for Rook 10.
Its operation for more than 13
“ You are going to have a
years. The idea of establishing
Nam e-
bigger margin of profit than yon
a public concept of the facts,
realise," he told them. “ You are
with 30 days’ cooling down be­
Address
now working i t hours in the
fore strikes, in the case of the
mills and 52 hours in your cap­
brotherhoods, never entered the
tive mines. When you drop to 40
question of how much the rail­
hours, you will net a big saving
roads were making.
in overtime. The price of scrap
PROBLEM
OF D E T E R M IN IN G
iron is now at ceiling. It will
F U TU R E REAL PROFITS
drop in the spring, which means
The idea of going into company
more saving. Production per
profits of the past for a wage scale
man went up to 10 per cent after
for the future was developed by the
the last war. It will do the same
after this war, which will save
union in the General Motors case,
merely because the company had
you 100 million dollars alone. You
war profits and the union wanted
can’t tell what your profits will
bigger wages. In the every-way-
be. So why not try out a new
similar steel case, the same CIO
increased wage scale without a
unions have taken an opposite
sharp price bike* Try it out for
stand because there were no steel
six monUis—then come back and
profits.
we'll examine the whole ques­
Mr. Truman is now moving to in­
tion again. If you need a price
crease the price of steel through
increase then we'll give it to
WREN CONSTIPATION makes you fsel
Mr. Bowles in order to create
you.”
punk as the dickens, brings on stomach
money by which the steel com­
Bowles is a persuasive talker. He
upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort,
panies
can
raise
the
union
wages.
taka
Dr. Caldwell’s famous medicine
has more charm than any Washing­
to quickly pull the trigger on lazy “in ­
The simple truth is thus shown to
tonian since Franklin Roosevelt. But
nards” and help you feel bright and
be that the unions want a wage in­
he made no impression.
chipper again.
crease — for whatever reasons they
"After the last war, steel wages
DR. CALDWELL’S Is tha wonderful sen­
can concoct, for the reason of prof­
na laxative contained in good old Syrup
soared even without union pres­
Pepsin to make it so eaey to take.
its in the General Motors case, for
sure," Bowles summarized. “So did
MANY DOCTORS use pepein prepara­
the opposite reason necessitating a
prices. And once inflation gets go­
tions in prescriptions to make the medi­
price increase in the steel case.
ing. you’ll have labor coming back
cine more palatable and agreeable to
AIRBORNE
D
IVISIO
N
H
A
ILED
IN
NEW
YORK
C
ITY
.
.
.
M
aj.
Gen.
James
M
.
Gavin,
36-year-old
commander
until they get. not a 30 per cent
take. So be aura your laxative is con­
This is the essence of the mat­
tained in Syrup Pepsin.
increase in wages, but 50 per cent of the 82nd airborne division, and his staff legd the parade of his 13,00« battle-seasoned troops up the can­
ter, and anyone who Indulges
INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL’S— tha fa­
or even 75 per cent. You can’t tell yon of Fifth avenue. New York City. Thousands haileu the troops, symbolic of our victorious fighting forces.
himself In any economic rea­
vorite of millions for 90 Tsars, and feel
Most of them have since been discharged, although more than 1,000 have re-enlisted. This is believed to
where this thing will stop.”
soning about the matter Is wast­
that wholesome relief from constipa­
be
a
postwar
re-enlistment
record
and
has
proven
a
big
boost
to
new
enlistments
in
the
armed
forces.
EUROPEAN REFUGEES
ing his time.
tion. Even finicky children lova it.
Some of Jimmy Byrnes’ expediters
Thus the newspaper editorial­
CAUTION i Use only as directed.
have really pepped up old-line state
ists are proven by the facts io
department
diplomats
when
It
be right In changing their
comes to admitting European refu­
stand. The Truman fact-finding
gees.
solution has been headed by
When President Truman first pro­
union pressure into ascertaining
posed filling unused U. S. immigra­
company profits In the General
Motors rase. These are past
tion quotas by admitting homeless
profits, based on war business,
refugees from Europe, state depart­
and the manufacture of different
ment diplomats said they had neither
products.
funds, nor the personnel—nor per­
haps even the disposition.
The union would be entirely logl
However, some of the South
cal if it demanded a distribution of
Carolina blood which Byrnes
these profits to the workers. That
has injected into the state de­
would make sense, but it is entirely
partment (men who drink coca-
illogical in contending that these
cola instead of tea* decided that
past profits should measure the fu­
Creomulslon relieves promptly be­
Presidential orders should not
ture wage scale, because the same cause it goes right to tha scat of the
trouble
to help loosen and expel
be kissed off so airily.
profit is not guaranteed for the
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
Though no money was available,
future.
to sootho and heal raw, tender. In­
they finally went to the bureau of
flamed bronchial mucous m em ­
FACTORS
THAT
IN
FLU
E
N
C
E
the budget and squeezed out enough
branes. Tell your druggist to cell you
ALL
WAGE
CONSIDERATIONS
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un­
cash money to hire new consular
Indeed, the profits of General Mo­ derstanding you must like the way It
personnel. Already they have start­
tors henceforth will be measured'by quickly allays the cough or you are
ed flying supplies to Europe to set
to have your money back.
entirely different considerations —
up special offices to screen refugees
the
volume
of
production,
the
future
and give them visas.
cost of materials, the extent of for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Old-line diplomats are leaning
sales, the effects of advertising, ef­
back in amazement. They have nev­
ficiency and a thousand other fac­
er seen so much speed before.
tors. Past profits on war business B u y U . S . S a v i n g s B o n d s !
T H E MERRY-GO-ROUND
have absolutely nothing to do with
Last spring the department of
the
case.
agriculture quietly agreed to ad­
When the Truman fact-finding
vance France 750,000 tons of sugar
One of the best home ways to
LOAFER'S GI.ORY . . . This fellow
was turned into that illogical
from the Cuban crop. French colo­
was on his way to Loafer’s Glory,
vein, naturally its advocates
nial crops at that time were down
turned against It. They could not,
to practically nothing and even what G .I.’S L IF E INSURANCE G IV E N TO COLLEGE . . . M r. and Mrs. N. C., when he decided to turn this
in Justice to simple reasoning,
we loaned the French permitted a Robert S. Johnstone, Downington, Pa., are pictured in their home looking I crossroads into his own private
do otherwise.
per capita consumption of only 22 at photograph of their son, Robert S. Johnstone, 18, who was killed on i loafer’s glory. The name was given
Indeed, the unions themselves
pounds annually, compared to our 64. Luzon. His parents have established a scholarship at Lafayette college, by more or less spiteful neighbors
If you lack BLOOD-IRON
concede the falsity of the prof­
This friendly move is paying off using his insurance money, with the provision that a Japanese student of former days. The name look hold
You girls and women who suffer so
be
given
first
consideration.
They
will
add
some
of
their
own
money.
and stuck.
from elmplo anemia th a t you're pale,
its basis of establishing future
now, however; because under the
weak, "dragged o ut’’—thia may be duo
wages by repudiating their own
terms of the agreement, practical­
to lack of blood-iron. 8o try Lydia E
motors doctrine in the case of
ly the entire French West Indies
Plnkham's TABLETS—•one of the beet
home ways to build up red blood—In
steel.
crop for this year comes to us. It
euch cases. Plnkham's Tablet« are one
is somewhat larger than was antici­
A straight-forward, just applica­
of the greatest blood-iron tonics you
can buy I At all drugstores.
pated, and current estimates are
tion of fact-finding would have fol­
that we will receive about 900,000
lowed the principle of the brother­
tons. . . . Henry Morgenthau’s book
05—46
hoods example in the case of mo­ W N U — 13
on Germany, which appeared last
tors, steel, electrical workers and
fall, is not the only book the for­
all others, computing the increase
mer secretary of the treasury will
in living costs, measuring what in­
write. During his 12 years of close
creases in wages had been granted,
association with President Roose­
subtracting these, and proclaiming
velt, Morgenthau made painstaking
a just, sound wage inrease.
notes on every conversation he had
May W arn of Disordered
The solving could be done by
with FD R — and except for Harry
K idney Action
simple arithmetic. A principle could
Hopkins he probably had more
Modern life with Its hurry and worry,
have been established which would
Irregular habits. Improper eating ana
than any other cabinet officer.
be a yardstick for all cases.
drinking— it« riak of expoaure and Infec­
tio n -th ro w » heavy atrain on the work
C A PITA L CHAFF
The trouble with the union case
of the kidneys. They are apt to become
The radio time for Senator Taft’s
and the sympathetic administration
over-taxed and fall to filter exeeaa acid
and other impuritlea from the life-giving
attack on Truman's address to the
handling of it is that no principle
blood.
nation was reserved for him by the
has been established. In one case
You may euffer nagging backache,
headache, dlaslneea, getting up iflghta,
Republican national committee. . . .
the unions make one economic
leg peine, ewelling— feel conatently
When Henry Kaiser signed his new
claim; in the other they make the
tired, nervous, all worn out. Other elgna
of kidney or bladder disorder are eome-
contract with the auto workers, he
opposite; and the administration
tlmea burning, scanty or too frequent
remarked: “Dick Thomas (UAW
tries to do their bidding in both in­
urination.
T ry Doan's P fllt. Doan’s help the
president) is the man who came to
stances. How then, could there pos­
kldneyi to peas off harmful excess body
the west coast last year and con­
W IN N IN G F R IE N D S . . . Mrs. Ar­ sibly be anything else but confusion
waste. They have had more than half a
century of public approval. Are recom­
vinced me that I should take over
thur Vandenberg, wife of the U. S. and strife?
mended by grateful users everywhere.
the Willow Run plant and make YOUTH CARVES A CAREER . . . Bill Burnham, 17, Encino, Calif., has senator from Michigan and delegate
What the situation requires is the
A ik your net’ykborf
automobiles
That puts the re­ made his wood carving hobby pay. Using life animals for models, Bill to the UNO, is shown making establishment of a just principle, a
sponsibility on his shoulders to see has begun to cash in on his excellent work. His latest order was from friends with a London tot.
Mrs. common yardstick based on simple
to it that I have the men to do the a motion picture studio working on scenic background for a new pic­ Vandenberg is spending her sojourn truths. The war administration had
ture, Bill has three live deer, a buck and two fawns at his home.
In London studying social conditions. one in the Little Steel formula.
Job.”
By P
M
t L«Y
“Innards
DR. CALDWELL'S
SENNA LAXATIVE
coh ’ a . h
. o . n syrup pepsin
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
CREOMULSION
SUSftO U P
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That Naming
Backache
D oans P ills