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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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S tudy Class, 6:45 p.m. Sponsor-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Specialising in tha Non-Con
fining Treatment of
Hemorrhoids (Piles)
Office Phone 4371
Lithia Hotel Building
Ashland. Oregon
NEW MATTRESSES
FACTORY TO YOU
OLD MATTRESSES
MADE LIK E NEW
Now Box Springs
While They Last
REED’S
MATTRESS CO.
492 A St.
Phone 6271
SALES AND SERVICE
O n all Make' o f bicycle*. — C.omc in anil
ALL TYPES
OF
SHOES
‘S iCqck
s r n r n g n
SHOE REPAIR
76 N orth M ain
A shland
The frien d ly shoe re p a irm a n ”
iate!/ accalorici
R E P A IR
0. R. EDWARDS
FOR FINE REPAIR
WORK BRING YOUR
SHOES TO US
John Cherney
let m ci/u/fi your hike u ith flu
Specialist in Wheeled Toys
343 East Main
STEAK HOUSE
397 East Main
Ashland
Phone 21611
W EST COAST
T R A IL W A Y S
Quality Cleaning
You'll he proud of your clothes
•I
397 E. Main
Ashland
Huffman & Frazier
REAL ESTATE BROKERS
144 E. Main
Phone 21101
Steak House
if you let us renew their beauty
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D R f*
C L E A N IN G
Honest to Goodness Man-sixed
Steaks
MR. AND MRS. KELCY SMITH
WARDROBE CLEANERS
Ashland. Ore
On The Plaza
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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
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