Southern Oregon miner., December 11, 1947, Image 8

S o u th ern O regon News Review, T hursday, Decem ber II, | ‘M7
Tariffs Have Their Ups and Downs
ß i S T f r r Home Popping
NO H U M
Geneva Trade Agreements
To Affect World Commerce
P O M E T has what connection with
Santa?
LA EROD issued what order in re-
* * gard to children al the tim r the
baby C hrist was born?
By BAVKHAGE
duM/yi/ and Commentator.
WASHINGTON. — R ecently th ere have been rum blings
from congress rem iniscent of the old Sm ooth-H aw ley days.
It was the w arning from S enator M illiken (R ep., Colo.) and
R epresentative K nutscn (R ep., M inn.) th a t the recip ro cal
tra d e ag reem en ts act would have a lot of strin g s a ttach ed to
it when it com es up for renew al next y e ar.
N iw t
I f that means that ta riffs are raised again, history w ill be repeating
Itself.
As the amusing illu stratio n in this column reveals, the gentlemen have
been busy building up and tearing down the ta riff w all ever since 1913.
What w ill the next section of the w a ll—b u ilt a fte r 1940—look like?
The reciprocal trade agreements
drawn up at the recent Geneva con- supplies to Europe under a re lie f
ference which re­ program or to lend money fo r the
sulted in a num- purchase o f our goods unless we en­
ber of slashes in courage Europeans to sell to us.
im p orta nt duties Otherwise, they’ll land rig h t back
and inspired the where they are now. Even If they
Knutsen and M il­ build up th e ir Industries so they are
lik in
statements able to produce goods, unless they
brought forth an can sell some of those goods they
even louder blast w on't have the dollars to pay back
from the A m e ri­ what they owe and buy our goods.
can T a riff league.
That is why w arnings that strings
At the present m ay be attached to the act have an
w ritin g, however, ominous sound. ’ •Strings” would
there does not mean e ither lim ita tio n on the
appear to be any­ amounts by which ta riffs can be
where near the
lowered through reciprocal trade
strength of senti-
Baukhage
agreements, or rem oval of author­
m ent in favor of
ity to make reductions w ithout the
building up the ta riff w all that there
approval of congress of the particu ­
was when the Smoot-Hawley act
la r item Involved. That would sta rt
raised it to an all-tim e high (47 per
log ro llin g again, put an end to our
cent) in 1930
foreign trade and have us back ta k­
From the tim e of the C iv il war the ing in each other's washing for a
ta riff wall had grown almost every , Living
tim e congress acted.
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Then came Woodrow Wilson who ^ o r / d s P ro s p e rity
demanded that the country be set
free from conditions he thought
“ made monopoly not only possible,
but easy and n a tu ra l.” The Under­
wood law which brought the im p ort
duties down from 37 per cent to 27
per cent, was his answer. Under
H arding they went up about 35 per
cent, reaching an a ll-tim e high un­
der Hoover.
I t has been an exciting con­
test. Although Cordell H ull as
secretary of .state managed,
w ith Roosevelt prestige, to pull
them down again, they were s till
1 per cent higher than the Ford-
ney-Mc-Cumber act raised them
under H arding. Under the agree­
ments negotiated by Secretary
Hull, our exports increased, but
foreign competition for various
reasons did not take advantage
of the situation to any great ex­
tent. There was no avalanche of
"cheap foreign goods” to con­
tend with.
H a n g s in B a la n c e
What happens to the as-yet-un­
b uilt section of the w all of the draw ­
ing w ill affect the entire set-up of
w orld trade. It can make all the
work of the international conference
on world trade and employm ent go
fo r nothing and destroy any benefits
derived from a successful European
re lie f plan.
The 62 nations now gathered
at the trade conference in Cuba
represent countries doing about
95 per cent of the w orld's trade,
and the interesting thing is that
although Russia and most of her
satellites refused to attend, two
of the countries under the influ­
ence of Moscow—Finland and
Czechoslovakia—did tu rn up.
Thereby hangs a tale. It is be­
lieved by some keen observers that
despite a ll efforts to k ill the Euro­
pean recovery plan, the Soviet Un­
ion knows very well that, if it works,
The Democrats in the pre-Wilson it may be to her selfish interests to
era always were banging away on get on the bandwagon, at least to
this issue and there were many the extent of liftin g the iron curta in
colorful debates. The low ta riff ad­ high enough to get some of the
vocates had to resort to all sorts of much-needed goods from Western
means to get a hearing because they Europe under it. And the way that
were backed by no special interests. could be managed would be to have
Their “ client” was the vague and some of the Soviet’s "frie n d ly coun­
anonymous Am erican consumer.
trie s ” in on any advantageous trade
The h ig h-ta riff pleaders were able deals that m ig ht be made Western
to present th eir cases armed w ith Europeans say that this would be
the best legal talent available, whole the most effective way to break
lib ra rie s of statistics and a thorough down the Com m unist g rip on these
knowledge of the p a rticu la r indus­ countries.
tries they represented. And they had
M eanwhile it is realized in
another great advantage in the
Washington that this country
number and geographically diverse
cannot c a rry out its far-flung
industries fighting fo r protection for
foreign policy unless that policy
th e ir p articula r product.
is sold harder than Com m unist
Enough special interests needed
propaganda is selling its brand
of bortsch.
enough help from other special in­
terests so that log ro llin g was easy—
Good salesmanship begins at
there was usually a m a jo rity for
home. And a lot of salesmanship is
everybody’s gismo. That is why the
needed rig h t here. I rode down on
only p ractical way trade agree­
the trolley w ith a very intelligent
ments can be reached at aU is to
secretary to a congressman who
have them negotiated like any other
said to me: " I wish I knew what the
international agreement, through
M arshall plan was a ll about.”
the state department, which has no
regional strings to tie it down.
P resid en t U rg es
R igh t now the consumer is being Savings Bonds
heard from in no uncertain terms,
Speaking of salesmanship, the
and any argum ent fo r lower prices
President is believed to have given
wins a hearing.
the green lig h t on an intensified sale
That is evidenced by the speed
of one of the im portant anti-inflation
w ith which congress tackled the
measures recommended
in his
anti-inflation suggestions presented speech when he said:
both by the President in his mes­
“ Another
effective
weapon
sage of November 17 calling for a
'against inflation is increased
10-point program and those offered
savings by the public. Every
by Senator Flanders of Vermont and
dollar that is saved instead of
other Republicans.
spent Is a d ollar fighting against
Despite considerable influential
inflation. In order to encourage
opposition, the Dem ocrats took for
additional savings, the govern­
granted that at least fo ur out of the
ment should intensify its vigor­
P resident’s ten points had a good
ous efforts to sell savings
chance to be adopted. In fact one,
bonds.”
a uth ority to ration certa in foods, al­
ready had been suggested— by a Re­
p u b lica n -S e n a to r Flanders.
None of these points involves
ta riff cuts, however, and those
cuts already made under the
Geneva agreement are s till
large ly academic because most
foreign countries aren’t in a
position now to produce fo r ex­
port to any great extent.
O A P N A K L is fam ous
t>l>e of pain
p ain tin g s?
what
I ItV IN G
B E R LIN wrote what fa-
* mous C hristm as carol?
B A R R IN G TH E WAY . . . The observation low er of the E m p ire State
building w ill not be used henceforth as a point of departure for the
hereafter by people who want to leave thia vale of tears. Workmen
are shown installing a $10,000 stainless steel parapet fence about the
80th floor tower.
A
Laborites Keep Power;
Ask Oil, Coal Ration
In G reat B rita in the Labor party
had been w orried over the outcome
of the by-election in the southern
town of Gravesend.
R ichard Acland, a rich baronet,
was c a rry in g the Labor p a rty's
banner against F rank T aylo r, an ex­
furnace stoker, the Conservative
candidate. A seat in p arlia m e nt was
not the only thing at stake. The
election was of m ajor im portance
as a test of strength between the
two parties.
It was a hard fought battle, and
Acland, the Laborite, was elected
to P a rlia m e n t by a m a jo rity of
1,675 votes—a clear cut defeat for
the Conservatives.
The
B ritis h
people, the Labor party announced,
retained th e ir confidence in th e ir
government.
Nevertheless, the 1,675-vote m a r­
gin of v ic to ry was considerably
sm aller than the 7,056-vote Labor
p arty m a rg in that had been piled
up in the same d is tric t in 1945.
Labor was s till in the d riv e r's seat,
but c le a rly had lost something of
its o rigin al strength. However, the
party had kept its slate clean; it
had not lost a single by-election
since it firs t was swept into power.
Perhaps one reason fo r the Labor
p a rty's continued popularity was
that, despite a ll else, it was doing
a good job of d istrib u tin g equally
what food and other goods were
available in B rita in . The food ra ­
tions of the poorer people were ap­
pro xim a tely the same as those of
the rich, and that tact continued
to c a rry a lot of weight w ith the
mass of voters.
OIL RATION:
Anti-Inflation
When President Trum an, tn his
celebrated ” 10 points against infla ­
tio n ” address to congress, asked for
lim ite d a uth ority to impose ration
and price controls on basic com­
m odities, it was taken fo r granted
that they were food comm odities
alone.
F irs t indication that this m ig ht
not be a correct interpretatio n of
M r. T ru m a n ’s proposal came when
the departm ent of in te rio r asked
congress fo r power to fix price con­
trols and rationing on coal and oil
as p a rt of the anti-inflation pro­
gram .
Oscar L. Chapman, undersecre­
ta ry of the in te rio r, told the house
banking and currency com m ittee
that grave shortages and price ad­
vances were threatened in the two
basic fuels.
There was no way of telling, he
said, whether such controls actually
would have to be imposed, but he
insisted th a t the government should
have a uth ority to do so, ju s t in case.
I t is not probable that congress
w ill give the government power to
control o il and coal, but the inci­
dent serves to reflect the current
point of view of the adm in istratio n
th a t a retu rn to w artim e rationing
and price controls is the quickest
and most effective way to buck in­
flation.
President Trum an disclosed the
policy firs t in his speech at the open­
ing of the special session of con­
gress. The in te rio r departm ent’s re­
quest fo r control of coal and oil
probably was a planned follow-up.
'T 'W E L F T H Day, or T w elfth tide.
* in some countries Is cclebruled
ns whut special day?
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news R E V IE W
LABOR TEST:
Clean Slate
VC R O O G E was the v illa in and hero
in what C hristm as story?
**
DESTE E ID E I.E S has un Eng-
lish name, what is it?
M iv ra lilr with i-ouglis from
golds or smoking .. . stuffy
Hose? Here’s relief— /t u f . . ,
up and down! Famous medi­
cation goes down to ease tickle, soothe ir­
ritated nienilirunes. Menthol vapors go
up to tiring cool comfort. Smith iirollirrs
are richer in menthol — p/us n rln iim
indication. Ixwik for” TVa<le" and ’’Mark”
>n orange l>"v
s u i t O NLY
SMITH BROTHERS
C A IN T NICHOLAS is the patron
saint of « hat country?
© MENTHOL
ANSWERS:
? Current Events ?
7 b i toUoumg fin quations u r n
rtjtc lid by 52 radio quiz shows ba­
canti tbty didn't b a n enough n -
frigiratori to go around. If you can
ansutr thim. laki ib i cornet an­
n e in , plus $ J 50, to your mans!
ihctrical applianci dialer and rou
will r id is i a brand-mw n frigira-
tor.
1. It was clearly a case of
“ They went th ataw ay” when the
above pictured horse opera hero
and his leading lady announced
tliat they would be m arried New
Year’s eve. Who are they?
2. W ithin the space of one week
crisis-ridden France had three
different prem iers. T heir names?
3. What three titles did King
George of England confer upon
14. P h ilip M oiintbatten before his
m arriage to Princess Elizabeth?
4. Gen. O m ar Bradley w ill re­
place Gen. D w ight Eisenhower
as a rm y chief of staff. Who w ill
replace General Bradley as head
of Veterans* adm inistration?
5. At a recent meeting in New
York the subject of oncology was
discussed. Would you say oncol­
ogy is the study of (a) shells, (b)
tum ors, (c) fossils, (d) snails?
IASS OF CHRIST is the lite ra l
• meaning of what word?
Get FAST
I I P OOWM Relief
COUGH DROPS
(C)—Com et was one of Santa',
reindeer.
( ID —Herod ordered a ll chim ren
under two years of age killed.
( ID —R upacl’s paintings of Madon­
nas are outstanding.
(1)—White Christmas.
(S) — In Charles Dickens’ "A
Christm as C arol.”
(T) —T w elfth Day in some coun­
tries and by some churches is ob­
served ns Christm as.
<M>—I t is the lite ra l meaning of
■‘C hristm as.’ ’
( A t—The English title for Adeste
Fideles is “Oh Come A ll Ye F a ith ­
ful.”
(S)—St. Nicholas, or San Nicho­
la s , is the patron saint of Russia.
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’Real Santa Claus
Answers hinal Call
Thousands of children w ill miss
their "re a l Santa Claus” tills year.
D uring the past 12 years he has
handled four and a h a lf m illio n of
their letters and packages. He can­
not be w ith them this year He has
answered his M aster’ s call.
Last A p ril, death claim ed Oscar
L. P hillips, postmaster of Santa
laus, Ind. He was very real to the
children of Am erica. Ho answered
their letters and saw that th e ir re-
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for go-called
KIDNEY SUFFERERS
Harkarhea. leg paiua, broken Bleep, painful paa-
•agca uiually go no much quicker if v«»u switch
to Foley (the new kidney bUthier) Villa They
atufiulateahjgjtiahkidneya. then ALI.A Y III A ll-
D E U I It It i f A LION. That** the ratie* of t&uei
aina, gchea, urge« once thought m itrely <iu« la
ulneyt Ho for qunker, longer - J aaUng relief,
a>e'Ar ritdAergg well aaatim ulio- , nines action.
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Villa- they also have direct aedativa like action
on bladder At your druggist I nlma you find
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ANSW ERS
1. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
2. Paul Ram adier. Leon Blum, Rob­
e rt Schuman.
3. Duke of Edinburgh. E a rl of M erio­
neth, Baron Greenwich.
4. C arl R. G ra y , vice president of
IheChlcago and Northwestern railw ay
5. (b) Tum ors
POSTMASTER:
Hannegan Out
quests were complied with. He had
the local A m erican Legion as his
helpers.
But the children of Am erica w ill
not be neglected this year. W alter
Van W inkle, a frie n d ly man who
worked w ith Santa Phillips, has
taken over as “ acting chief Santa
“ laus of Santa Claus, Ind.” Santa
^ an W inkle and his many helpers
Parted work in October, w orking 20
hours a day, day a fte r day, in order
^ a t good little boys and g irls would
^0 haPpy, even though th e ir Santa
fo rm e r years has been promoted
10 a more im p o rta n t duty.
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R obert E. Hannegan has eased
h im self out of the public p o litica l
eye.
L ittle more than a m onth after he
change to
had q u it his job as D em ocratic na­
tional chairm an — because of ill
for the to+tic
health—he turned in his resignation
as postm aster general.
on your smile
To replace Hannegan as head o l
ie
n t O i/o x irtirAg ftro ivrtyat
the nation's post office. President
T rum an named 62-year-old Jesse M.
1
f t move film ... bring out
all the natural lustre of your
......
Donaldson, firs t as-
smile.
.sistant postm aster
2 A special ingredient in Calox
general, who has
«ncouragci
massage...
had 42 years In the
* f ° nic effect on gums
• ..help s makes them firm and
postal service. It
rosy.Tone up your smile...with
was the firs t tim e
CaloxI
a president ever
M aJe in Jamout McKritotr laboratoriai,
had dipped into the
I D yaart aj p barm an u ticai know b i »
ranks
of
postal
’.rr.Tr.v’ aK i
!
j
"ca re e r m en”
to ' More than a hundred years ago,
fill the top job in Father Josef Mohr, pastor of the
the departm ent.
little Church of A rnsdorf in Austria,
Donaldson
’ romptly relieves coughs of
Donaldson Is one was returning home late the night
of the men who came up the hard before C hristm as Eve. He loitered .
way. His career w ith the service be- for a Ynoment on a h ill overlooking ,
gan w ith his appointm ent as a c ity his home village.
le tte r c a rrie r in Shelbyville, Hl., in
It was a beautiful s ta rlit night,
1908.
jand he was impressed w ith the ex-
Hannegan, m eanwhile, had no in- qulsite stillness that covered the
tentions of going into retirem ent. He scene below him. His peaceful re-
RUB ON
has purchased a substantial interest flections brought to m ind the silent
in the St. Louis Cardinals.
.holy night when C hrist was born in
¡Bethlehem. Inspired, he wrote "S i­
lent N ight—Holy N ig h t.” Impressed W N U -1 3
80—47
w ith the beauty of the poem, his
friend, Franz Gruber, put it to
music and on Christm as Eve, while
Franz played, F ather M ohr sang
“ Silent N ig h t” to h*a congregation.
F ro m that night on, the beautiful
Help T hem Clranao th e Blood
m onthly by June and 10,000 by Sep­ White House d irective to obtain a strains of "S ile nt N igh t” have filled
o f Harm ful Body Waste
tem ber.
rate of 15,000 cars m onthly by July, the a ir throughout the world at
Your kidneys a rt eonatantly (Uterine
The quota was not m et; and, al­ 1948, alm ost double the present out­ C hristm astide.
.
Blatter from the blood stream. Bn)
though the steel Industry says that put. He said he had com m itm ents
• onU t*,n«’ ■»« in their work— da
not
act
as Nature Intended— fall to re-
It has supplied the necessary steel, from the Iron and Steel Institute fo r
no<lL, j7 l,pUrldr ' th* ‘ - ,f «talned, may
car builders contend that the short­ a 22 per cent increase in steel a llo t­
Cody V.cWn^y’ " *nd “ P,e‘ th’ whol‘
age s till has not been com pletely ments for new car production.
cured.
Mt ? n.
6l«inaaa:
The car shortage has slowed down
Ynttinf up nighte. swelling, pufflneee
There was one sign, however, that the co u n try’s economy. A t the peak
« ? |e.te ‘ h.n a ? * - • . fM lln« •< narvou"
m ig h t Indicate a turning of the tide. of loadings in October the average
M n th ie iiS
pep * n*1 strength.
In some southern comm unities
oeH ee . L *
kldn',y
bladder dls-
In September the railroads reported d a ily shortage was 39,430 cars. Cur­
?r“
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,
r
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omrtlme<
burning, scanty or
firecrackers and other fireworks
too frequent urination.
o'
7,182 new installations, which was rently it Is about 33,600.
are used at Christm as tim e. F ire ­
t r * . h<iUld V* no *!oubt th»t promp»
668 more cars than were retired
treatment Is wiser then neglect Dee
Despite these shortages, the ra il­ crackers had th eir origin In the Ori
d u rin g th a t m onth. Sm all as it was,
ne'w'frlend'*» D<’° n'* h,u * h*“0 wl“ ning
ent, probably in China. D uring the
roads
are
handling
more
carloads
o
f
Tbnv
,Or " 'T * th ,n ,orty y,!»re.
it was the firs t net gain in 25
h * • . “ »tjon-wlde reputation.
revenue fre ig h t than they have since 14th century they were introduced
months.
Are recommended by grateful people the
country over. Aak your naighiort
Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director August, 1930, when the num ber of into Ita ly and used on Saints’ days,
at
Christm
as
and
other
religious
fes
of the office o f defense transporta­ available cars was 500,000 greater
tlvals. The custom spread to Spain,
tion, said he is proceeding under a than now.
France and other L a t’n countries.
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W O REIN’ ON TH E RAILRO AD
Watch Your
Kidneys/
Car Shortage Passes Peak
About the only good thing that can
be said concerning the railro ad
fre ig h t car shortage is that the
Next session we can expect them worst Is probably over, but the pres­
to be debated.
ent inadequacy w ill hang on fo r a
So fa r there have been alm ost as long time.
m any com plaints from supporters
Despite investigations, program s
of the reciprocal trade agreements and promises fo r several years,
act as from its opponents. Its most there are actually about 41,000 fewer
enthusiastic backers charged that it fre ig h t cars now than there were at
had not been pushed hard enough, the end of the war.
th a t the state departm ent had not
Attem pts to place the blame for
used aU of the power which it had the situation seem to be futile.
fo r fear of arousing the anim osity Am erican railroads have had 100,000
which would cause its repeal.
cars on order for some tim e. Car
A t present, those fa vo rin g a free r builders have declared that steel was
flow of trade are in a better position not available. A program form u­
to urge th e ir cause because it Is e vi­ lated In F e brua ry of this year called
dent that we cannot continue to give fo r an output of 7,000 new cars
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proved ihootandt -jpoA
Ihovtondt o f timet I
Firecrackers Used
A t Christmas Time
D oans P ills