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Southern Oregon News Review Hnirsihy, July 18, IJ4 6 SOUTHERN OREGON NEWS REVIEW Published every Thursday by THE SISKIYOU PUBLISHING COMPANY 16? East Main Street Ashland, Oregon WENDELL LAWRENCE. Editor ss mail matte, in the post office at Ash- E ntered as second land, Oregon F eb ru a ry 15, 1 935, under the act of C ongress of M arch 3, 1679. Buyer’s Strikes it used to he that never a das went b\ out what some individual told us what a horrible ogre the Office ot Prue Administration was. Of late we haven’t had ans c llers stop bs and cuss the Ol’A. Most of them seem to be standing ah it with a frightened husk in their eves wondering just what length ot jump butter and beet "ill take next, and discussing ways of putting on strikes to demonstrate against cur rent prices. In Portland Buyers' strikes asked for resumption ot price controls and renewal ot rationing. In Philadelphia a little red headed girl picket ed a c.uun shop. She carried a sign: Ice ( ream cones now seven cents . The Buver's strike will not bring back 40 cent butter nor five cent ice cream cones. ”1 here is an economic law ot supply and demand w Inch will function no matter how many pickets stand before a retail store quoting last weeks prices. I'he consumers of the nation, the nnddlg class, the poor and the rich will bu. what they need and desire it they ean get it. The cost of these articles which they buy is paartlv set by the de mand and largely by the cost of production. I he cost of production has risen since the w ar ended because of the continual demand by labor leaders to maintain and to increase wages to a point even above high w artime levels This rising cost oi production is one factor that is caus ing the prices of commodities to increase. The demand for commodities, plus the amount of money in circulation which is available to use in competitive bidding for goods also forces prices higher. Buyers strikes are no answer to the problem. The very people w ho picket must bus and the market 1 which they buy is a seller’s market. The demand sets the price. The most money speaks, and today w ith every American pocketbook loaded with folding money bids tor avail able goods cause increased prices on the goods. Buyers strikes; the very name i a misnomer, the buyers can’t exist w ithout buying and today he can only strike and then go into the mar ket and pay the prices. ★ ★ ★ The Great and The Gullible Walter P. Reuther, president of the powerful CIO United Automo bile workers announced this week that the 800,000 member:» of the automotive group would walkout W ednesday for a few hours in pro test against rising prices. * Other labor leaders stated that they were planning union walkouts to emphasize that they weren’t going to let industry get away with increased prices. V, c wonder why these leaders who are so anxious now to control prices weren’t thinks y about increased cost of production a few weeks back whpn they, called strikes which added hundreds of miliions of dollars a years to the notions cqal bill in the form of increased wages, or why they didn't consider the billion dollars a year which has been added to’ the cost of shipping all ty pes of goods because of the rise in freight rates which in turn was caused by the rise in wages. These rises in wages are not absorbed by industry but are passed on to the consumer, and in this case right back to the worker. The price lines which were originally set up received their first break through when the well known Little Steel formula was adopted. From then on the flood increased. Each rise in wages caused a corresponding rise in the goods produced. Labor charges were added to goods all the way along the line, and the consumer, who is in the main, the laborer, has had to turn around and take the money from increased wages back out of his pocket and put it on the counter to obtain the very goods which he has been producing. In this fashion, while wages have increased the value of the dollar has decreased. The amount of goods which a dollar will buy lessens daily. This can be directly traced to John L. Lewis, Walter Reuther, the late Sidney Hillman, and other labor leaders w'ho misrepresented .he case of the worker to the members of their unions. These men, who forced wages up after the close of the w ar when war contract cancella tions had caused the loss of billions of dollars of government contracts ■ nd before private industry and production could get into swing to meet the demand for consumer goods are responsible for the inflation w hich daily forces the value o f the dollar downward. The union laborer, the worker, in the end will be the individual who is hurt, in an inflation it is always the laborer, the worker, w'ho bears the brunt of the rising costs. Once inflation has begun it rages through its cycle unchecked, with the wages of the working man never ap proaching the continually decreasing valuation of the dollar. We are now in an inflationary period. It is too late for congress to • lo very much about it. The economic forces which create cycles of inflation and depression have been unleashed by the very labor leaders who were supposed to protect the men whom they represent. When the depression of 1949 and 50 hits at this country it is possible that the wage«earners will have plenty of time on their hands in which to do nothing but reflect on the causes of the depression. Sane, sober reflection will find that it was America’s labor leaders who sold out the workers to the tune of unlimited wages, who caused the cycle of inflation which led to the inevitible depression. Rising prices caused by increased costs of production can’t he halted now by union leaders h iding their men out in protest against the price rises. Union leaders should have considered the factor of wages being part of the cost of production six months ago. ★ ★ ★ Housing For College Students Having been through the mill, as one might say, on this business of finding a place in which to live in Ashland, we’re a hit worried about where Southern Oregon (College will put all the 700 students who are planning to enroll here next fall. W'e •.pent six weeks looking tor anything Iron» .1 pup tent to .1 I ijstle, anything, just so we might base a place in which to rest our j v ears bones at night, ami tmalli ended up with a th e m orchard. Most eollegc students won't waul to take on the .uklition.il responsibilities ot operating a tarni or a rails It or an orchard plus going to school. But right now- that s about the onls choice they have it the\ want to have! shelter at night. Ute. GUuHcJteA. /l/eoad Neighborhood Church Congregational CHURCH OF CHHIST Earl Downing. Pastor It might pav the coiumunits to get solid!) together on a plan to j Bible School, 9:45 A. M. C lass es Inr all ages; nu rsery for the E vart I*. Borden, M inister S unday School 9:45, Mrs. Jo h n tu rn is h liousng space as an emergens \ measure until the college o ltu u ls B arker, S u p erin ten d en t. Classea can get d o rm ito rie s c o n s tru c te d . \ n \ ideas as to how th is m ig h t lx- M orning Service, 11:00 A M. for ull ages. W orship Service. 11 u.m. Ser- worked could be tunneled through the Clumber of Commerce of five. 1 ' *H,n J esut' 1 «"'i» ______ S tudy Class, 6:45 p.m. Sponsor- M , . E . v ____ e n in _ g S e rv ic e _ , ___ 6:00 __ P. _____ It would be better to follow one plan and have it reads working than ’p|u, message of the evening will ed by the P ilgrim Fellow ship. All in terested persons invited to a t to have lout different groups working on fourteen different ways of be brought by Lowell Hull. tend. M idweek Service, 8:00 P M furnishing housing. Prvsbyterlun Church LOIS THOMPSON WILL ENTERTAIN THURSDAY The M ethodist Y outh F ellow ship is planning a p arty for T hursday evening J u ly 18th to be held at the hom e of Lois Thom pson in Valley View. The young folks will m eet at the church at 7 p in. for* tra n sp o rta tion. 0 Dr. E. N. Terrill ( ’hiropiactic I ’hysician 130 N o rth Maia S tre e t 'A F riendly enureh fo r inoiigiit- tu l People.” Hev. Ueorge M Shuman, Paator 9:45 A. M. C hurch School for .ill ages.’Mrs. W. M. P oles, su p er ritendent. _ II A. M. M orning W orship Special m usic by the choir. Ser 111011 by the pastor. 6:30 P. M. Young People’s Soe leties. 7:30 p.m. E vening service, o FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST S unday, Ju ly 14, 1946 S unday m orning service at 11 o’clock S ubject: S acram ent. ---- r- A D rivers License E xam iner is scheduled to be on d u ty in A sh land M onday, Ju ly 22, 1946, at the City Hall betw een th e hours of 9 a.in. and 4 p.m., according to an announcem ent received from the S ecretary of S ta te ’s office. : Persons w ishing licenses o r 1 perm its to d rive are asked to get ', in touch w ith the ex am in er well ' ahead of the scheduled closing j hour in o rd er to assure com ple- , tion of th eir applications w ith a m inim um of delay. S u n d a y a e h o o l at 9:.".() A. .’>1. W ednesday evening m eeting, which includes testimonies of C h ristian Science healing, is held it 8 o’clock. Heading Hoorn open daily from 2 to 5* P. M. except S undays and holidays. The public is cordially invited lo a tte n d these services, and lo use the Reading Room. 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Ore On The Plaza * qrtages are iding him back ARE Y O U A A N O Y ”? S ome f o i . i ,. gular “Handy-Andys” . They fix plumbing and wiring. They diagnose and treat their own ills, and even write their own wills. Some of them get away with it too—but in the vast majority they are just a pain to the ambulance surgeon and to the emergency squads of the gas and electric companies. Experience has proven time and again that it is cheaper and better in the end to have experts tackle the job at hand. That holds true of insurance too—the services of an expert in analyzing your insurance needs may save you thousands of dollars —might even save you from a financial loss which you or your business could not otherwise survive. We are experts on insurance! It is our business to know the right answers to insurance questions which can affect your well-being. Consult us freely and we mean freely— for we will be glad to review your insurance protection and make recommendations—at no cost to you! S. C. JONES & SONS BILLINGS AGENCY log W. Main St. Medford, Ore. Phone 7 ç $ 8 Dependable hisnrance Counselors Main & Oak Ashland, Orc. Phone 8781 e in the Bell System ere adding telephones the rate of three million year until shortages arted gettin g worse, ow it’s harder and hard- for us to get materials r manufacturing and adding. We aren’t complaining or we are in the same boat , every one else. But we lought you might like to now the supply situation .1 some of the biggest ems in the telephone usiness. EAD—There is a world short- ;e of lead. Even when condi- ons here straighten out, it ill be some time before ade- uate supplies are available. COPPER — In great demand but we will probably have ade quate supplies when the smelt ing, refining and fabricating plants get going. TEXTILES — Serious shortage of cotton and synthetic yams and fabrics, with dem greatly exceeding supply. STEEL — Steel and coal stri have affected supply in fact unprecedented d-.nand. RUBBER — Synthetics are fair supply but natural rub, is on Government allocation. LUMBER — Scarce supply d to unprecedented demand a dislocation ol lumber trade. BRASS M ILL PPODUCTS- U sed in C en tra l Off: switches and other telepho, eq u ip m en t. S u p p ly w il, short until disturbed cor. tions are settled in the cop industry, perm itting br mills to get bach to full-sc. production. It’s a tough situation, I. we aren’t giving up, a: more than you have giv„ up trying to get butter o sugar or shirts. W e’re d oin g the be we can with what we'\ got and hoping these d is turbed conditions will enc’. so we can really go full tpee.l ahe..d. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company t i l l Oak St. Ashland Telephone 3021 1
