Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, March 4, 1948
Seers Silent on Commodity Trend
Smiles
TS
Myth of Current Price Dip:
'Truman Planned That Way'
By BAUKHAGE
A’eui Analyst and Commentator.
1
WASHINGTON.—It is still open season for economists,
financial experts and m arket wizards. It took about a week
after the first drop on the commodity m arket to send them
into their holes. Up to that time, you could get a prognostica
tion anywhere from the Chicago stockvards to Broad and Wall
streets or Pennsylvania avenue and 15th street.
Good Rule
Alice—Do you allow a inun to
kiss you while out driving with
him?
Beatrice — Never. If a ninn
| drives safely while kissing me,
he’s not giving the kiss the atten
tion it deserves.
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here all day to he ttr r e d f
Itulcher— Yesterday you complained
of the short weight, now of the tong
wait. Aren't you ever satisfied.*
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QUICK REI IFF
But along about the sixth day of the dip, anybody who would tell you
informed
than
a
bachelor.
What
V FOR ACIO
whether we were facing a permanent nose-dive or just weathering the
he doesn't know Ids wife tells Idin,
riN O IO S T U M
flutter of a few yards of ticker tape was as rare as a vote against tax
reduction (that issue, itself, had changed after the sixth dip).
The reason no expert would ta lk ^ —-------------- ----------------'
F O R D IS T IN C T IS II E D S E R V I C E . . . M rs. F r a n k lin I». R o o s e v e lt
was that all of them had been mak
d u c e d to g i v e a to u c h o f v e r is i
p r e s e n t s th e n a t io n a l a c h i e v e m e n t a w a r d , o n e o f A m e r ic a 's h ig h e s t
ing wrong predic
m ilit u d e to a n o t h e r w is e n o t-to o -
h o n o r s , to th e D o w a g e r M a r c h io n e s s o f R e a d in g , E n g la n d , for h e r
’ tions ever since
c o n v in c in g n a r r a t iv e . T h e so o th
" d is t in g u is h e d s e r v i c e s to h e r c o u n tr y w h ic h h a v e b e e n a n in s p ir a
foots a job for "Command iff/nty"
i C oolidge's per
s a y e r s s a y th a t s e v e r a l m e th o d s
tio n to th e w o m e n o f o th e r c o u n t r i e s .”
' manent plateau
w e r e p u r s u e d , s o m e o f th e m
the MENTHOLATUM TWINS
of prosperity of
s u c c e s s f u ll y . F o r e x a m p le , th e
p re - depression
P r e s id e n t s la m - b a n g e d a t w h a t
Me
days or Hoover’s
. m ake'
h e c a lle d th e “ g a m b l e r s ” in
c o rn e r a ro u n d
soothe
c o m m o d it ie s w h o w e r e d r iv in g
you
j which prosperity
up food p r ic e s b y s p e c u la t in g in
\sm
a
ttin
g
i
s
m
i/e
I was always duck
g r a in an d o th e r fu tu r e s .
pa
in.
ing.
a g a in /j
The most silent
That did open a Pandora’s box,
man in Washing and some of the plagues released
ton was S e c re alighted on the very rooftree of the
tary of the Treas- White House. But it also threw a
Although it was obvious that his S’—
1 ury Snyder. He scare into the marketeers and the heart wasn’t in it. President Tru- ’
le n t. gently help aootlia tender lip
Qtr/ci. MENTHOLATUM skin,
quickly revive dried out "th irs ty ”
man presented congress with a re IRELAND:
knew th a t too markets.
B aukhage
many people re
• W hen biting raw winds ru t lipa, skill culls, help them retain needed
Then came the day of a White quest for 570 million dollars to be /Veit) Premier
leave them d ry and cracked and so moisture. Boon smarting pain leaves,
membered what he and others had House press and radio conference sent to China as a prop for the
your Iqw fool softer, sinuotiier you
painful it «ven hurts to .m ile - quick)
Even to members of the Eire a
said two years ago last fall. Snyder, when the President made a remark foundering economy of Chiang Kai-
call for M en tiio la tu u i, containing com sinilo again, (le t M e n tlio la tu m today.
sembly
who
had
helped
defeat
hl:
at that time reconversion director, —credited at the time by some of shek's Nationalist government.
fortin g Cam phor and m in ty M en tho l,
ALSO RFIKVES HEAD COLO STUFFINESS.
a beau famous M e n tlio la tu m invnxl-
had predicted that by the spring of his friends as an unhappy slip —
CHEST COLD TIGHTNESS NASAl IRRilAIION
White House and state depart it was strange to see Eamon I
the next year (1946) eight million when he said that if the cost of liv ment sources admitted that the re Valera, premier of Ireland for 16
people would be unemployed. In ing was not controlled, there would quest was something less than a years, sitting quietly on the opposite
fact, so many others believed that be a crash. That got headlines, half-measure and claimed that the side of the house as leader of the
that Henry Wallace, already dream frightened a lot of little fellows who President had acted under pressure opposition.
Cars, trucks and tractors W hen your car, truck or tractor engin e
In his place as premier was John
ing of a home with white pillars on pulled out their chips, and, combin from the Republican congress
at arts to sm oke and burn o il, it'a a aure
Pennsylvania avenue, decided to ing with other evil Jinns released which has insisted that the U. S. A. Costello, former attorney gen
aign o f w asted pow er. Seuled P ow er
shouldn’t
smoke,
either
make “Sixty Million Jobs” a come- from the economists’ Jinn bottles, must support Chiang against the eral, whom the assembly had voted
P isto n R in gs w ill en d th a t w a ste, sa v e
hither plank in his platform. He did the trick.
od , sa v e gas, restore pow er. T h ere is a
Communist revolution in connection into office after a new six-party co
alition had taken control of the leg
z v
wrote a book with that title and it
Sealed P ow er R ing Set sp ecifically e n g i
There are many others of these with the European recovery plan.
islative group as a result of the
became a best seller. His book set a
neered t o d o th e best possible jo b in
At
best
the
570
million
dollars
is
a
goal of 56,500,000 to 57,500,000 civil tales which will grow, such as the token gesture—just a chip in rela previous elections.
your en gin e, w h a tev er th e m ake, m odel
creating
of
sun-spots
by
the
admin
Costello, in a dignified speech to
ians employed by 1950.
or cylin d er w rur con d itio n . S ee your
istration’s atomic-energy experts. tion to the vast amount of timber the assembly, explained his sudden
Sealed P ow er F ran ch ise D ealer I
But one is enough for the moment. that would be needed to restore the emergence as premier of Ireland:
But somebody must have
rotting
derelict
of
Chiang’s
govern
stolen the idea or else they
Anyhow "it was planned that ment.
"I consented to this nomination at
Send s postal for tttus-
tra trtl, informative new
way!”
wanted to play a mean trick on
the request of a number of parties
booklet on 7 waywtoMive
Theory
behind
this
latest
exten
Wallace—and on Snyder—any
who felt that the interest of the
o il. It 's free and may
T a f t - H a r t le y Issue
sion of aid, w’hich will be used to country required that there should
m v c you Iota of money
,
how there were 57,149,000 per
8ealc<l P ow er C o rp
>
finance Chinese imports of cereals, be an inter-party government and
Losing Its P o te n c y
sons employed in this country as
D ept. W J, Muskegon. f
petroleum, coal, fertilizer and so
M ich.
of January, 1948 — two years
There has been a lot of noise over forth, is that the money will enable that the premier of that govern
early, and 10 months before
the Taft-Hartley act lately, and on Chiang’s government to free other ment should occupy a position in
O IV I YOU» ENOINC THAT “ NIW -CAR F i l l ”1
presidential campaign time.
the surface it looks as if the law resources for purchase of arms and political life detached from the con
IIA lfO P O # !»
A™
might
an issue in the presi ammunition to continue the fight troversial bitterness of the past.”
SEALED
Likewise, in October of 1946, sev dential become
POWE
R
PISTO N RING S
— f, '■
campaign. If that should against the Communist guerrillas.
The “inter-party government”
eral astute Washington inside-stuff
B IS T IN NEW E N G IN E S !
happen,
it
certainly
would
help
the
whose
choice
Costello
was
is
com
BEST IN OLO E N G IN S S I
letter writers were saying privately
But that is more of an idle hope
to their thousands of clients, and the prestige of Senator Taft. But the than a valid theory, because the pounded of six political parties of
apparently divergent ideals: Re
AFL monthly survey was saying in old-timers say it can’t happen.
government forces, despite their
As you know, last autumn, right American arms and equipment, are publican, United Ireland, Labor, Na
public print, that by early 1947
L abor, Independent and
prices would come down. One could after the act went into effect, a lot being bested consistently by the tional
Farmers.
say on January of 1947, with con of people felt its provisions would ' Communists.
Just how long a government
siderable accuracy, that there was decide the votes in the bye-elections, j
made up of so many diverse com
a general agreement on recession But those elections came and went, B U D G E T C U T :
ponents would last was the subject
beginning soon and followed by and it was hard to adduce any sta- !
of
much speculation in Ireland. In
Indifferent
tistics
to
prove
that
T-H
had
figured
more a little later.
With little discussion and a good their present cooperative mood the
Other writers predicted it a little very much, if at all.
Later on, animosity against the deal of outright indifference, the parties of the coalition may carry
later, and some, by summer, were
on for a year or two, but few were
insisting that deflation already was law died down. But now both the senate adopted a resolution to cut prepared to give the government a
President
Truman’s
fiscal
1949
CIO and AFL have announced their
here.
Pipe fans and “ ma kin’* " smokers alike hail crimp cut
much longer span of life.
preliminary plans for campaigning budget by 2.5 billion dollars.
But what happened? In the
Prince Albert-the National Joy Smoke
against the men who voted for ft;
How much significance the sen C A T F E E T :
very year of that doleful proph
Taft has used it in his campaign ate resolution would have in the
ecy, prices started on the up-
speeches in Midwest centers where final analysis was questionable, in First a Dream.
shoot that took them into their
labor is strong; Philip Murray was view of prevailing uncertainties
Like the fog that “comes on little
all-time high.
indicted under its provisions, and which might affect both sides of the cat feet,” Carl Sandburg, honored
FOR REAL
ledger.
and honorable free-verse poet and
Many other similar bad guesses both Murray, representing the CIO,
The
2.5-billion-dollar
reduction
and
the
International
Typographers’
voluminous biographer of Lincoln,
might be mentioned, all of which
PIPE COMFORT, I
contributed toward making the union have charged it is unconstitu would leave an estimated 10 billion was creeping into the senatorial
tional.
But
the
issue
still
fails
to
dollars
for
tax
cuts
and
debt
reduc
race in Illinois.
prophets reticent, and so when the
ALWAYS SMOKE RICH-
1
A hitherto almost imperceptible
slide came in February of this year, command any real dramatic in tion. Republicans, therefore, were
feeling increasingly confident that drive supporting Sandburg as a pos
TASTING, EASY-ON-
nobody would even whisper "fox” terest.
an income tax slash of up to 5 bil
sible
candidate
for
for fear that not even a kit would
THE-TONGUE
This is another proof of how a
lion dollars could be enacted.
I
appear. They knew that nobody
senator picked up
controversial issue that calls
Brevity
of
the
senate
discussion
PRINCE
ALBERT
would believe them after all the
considerable
impe
forth bitter debate and stirs up
and its lack of apoplectic oratory
tus with the release
without-the-wolf-wolflng that had
nationwide interest at the mo
V
was in direct contrast to last year’s
been going on.
of
a public opinion
ment, can fade into the back
strident contest over the budget
pAl indicating that
In any case, this dip, drop, de
ground as time passes, and by
committee's recommendation of a
he might become a
pression or delusion, whichever it
election day have little or no
6-billion-dollar cut in the 1948
popular choice over
turns out to be by the time these
effect on votes.
budget.
th e
Democratic
lines reach print, or later, will have
Democrats made no effort to j
candidate, Paul H.
It is much like a fire that makes
its garland of myths and legends
block
the
proposed
spending
slash
I
Douglas, and the
entwined about it.
Page 1 because it breaks out just as
Republican candi
an edition of an afternoon paper is which had been recommended by
The best myth, of course, is
SANDBURG date, Sen. C. Way-
going to press. It may get a banner the house-senate budget committee.
that Mr. Truman “planned it
land Brooks.
on Page 1 if the news is light, but by It still requires house adoption.
Biggest bug in the senate’s budget
that way.”
1. "Crimp cut Prince Albert in my pipe means more smoking
As far as the question of how a
the next edition, it may have shrunk
recommendation was the fact that poet can turn into a politician is
to
a
single
head
on
an
inside
page.
pleasure,
says Gordon B. Guernsey. "P.A. gives me a rich-
The blueprint is simple enough if
it probably embodied a number of
tasting smoke that is mild -easy on my tongue.”
you are good at reading a blueprint Recency expands the importance of inaccurate estimates. Republican concerned, those favoring him say
between the lines. Prices were get all events. You may recount excit sponsors of the measure admitted he is a “good man,” he understands B. 1. lUrooMe Tobacco Co., Wlnetoo-flalem, If. O.
common people and is educated
ting too high. At worst, they might edly at dinner how you almost got that accurate estimates of budget the
and well-informed about the coun
hit
by
a
truck
on
the
way
to
work.
bring on a real depression before
needs were impossible at the time. try’s needs. The opposition claims
yessir
election; at best, they would bring a But by tomorrow night, you’ll be
Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N. H.), he is politically inexperienced and,
telling
with
much
more
gusto
about
•series of strikes and work stoppages
chairman of the budget committee, since he is a writer, is an impracti
CRIMP CUT
which might seriously hamper the a fish you caught last summer.
compared the estimates with "a cal dreamer and an idealist.
•
•
•
Marshall plan on the one hand, and
PRINCE ALBERT ROLLS
pre-game guess at the final score.”
But Sandburg, the poet, once
The City of Washington always But Sen. Alben Barkley (Dem., Ky.)
add to the discontent of the voters
wrote:
UP EASY— SHAPES
on the other. It would be like any quails before a real snowstorm like called the procedure “a step in the
"The republic it a dream.
operation, not dangerous from the a pup with the hose turned on i t
dark.”
UP FAST INTO TASTY
Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
surgeon’s point of view. Just a little
amputation of credit, at least so
makin s
said doctors who work on the body
SM O KES
economic, which would let enough
blood out of some businesses to
cause a little unemployment. Enough
to scare off strikes and make busi
nessmen a little more cautious about
expansion.
Relax, ladies. Don’t feel guilty Broadcasting system, based their dom of the wife. This primary
There was some evidence that
f
this may really have been intended about listening to the great and report on a detailed analysis of the theme always triumphs over the
because the President did ask in his grievous trials of “John’s Other serialized drama, “Big Sister.”
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second theme which runs counter to
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Women being the chief listeners, It—that family ties can be broken
November 17 message to congress Schmoe” every day at 11:15 a. m.,
HB m R h BI
for credit controls and increased brought to you through the courtesy It Is they who derive the greatest and a woman's security threatened
bank reserves. However, when con of Philbottom’s Ossified Sheep Dip. benefits from these daytime dirges chiefly by the loss of the husband to
2. Cigarettes roll up fast with crimp cut
The news is now out that soap by having their egos bolstered and other women, and, quite seconda
gress said “humph” to that along
Prince Albert, says Frank Matthews, Jr.
with the President’s other recom operas, as presented interminably their spirits strengthened by hear rily and obliquely, by death.”
P.A. holds in the paper for neat cigarettes
mendations, he turned around and on the radio, actually might do you ing stories of fictional women going
Moreover, the social scientists
that
are mild and rich tasting.”
some
downright
good.
through
problems
and
experiences
demoted the man who is said to
said, the program, among other
An anthropologist, Prof. W. Lloyd that parallel their own, the scien things, provides its women listeners
have written the deflation prescrip
tion from the chairmanship of the Warner, and a psychologist, Dr. tists pointed out.
with “moral beliefs, values and
M o r e
m e n .
"The basic and primary theme Is techniques for solving emotional
federal reserve board (Marriner William E. Henry, tuned in on a
daytime
radio
serial
over
a
long
that
good
and
noble
women
who
are
Eccles), and put in a man supposed
and interpersonal problems — and
to have more sympathy with an op period and arrived at the ponderous wives and mothers are Invincible makes them feel they are learning
solution that soap operas are "of within their own arena of life, the while they listen.”
posite course.
considerable value to our society.” American family," said the report.
In brief, the report added up to a
The two scholars, consultants for
However we mustn’t spoil a
"Men, who are superordinate clear-cut spiritual and moral vie-
a research organization which di elsewhere, are subordinate and de tory of the soap opera over Its hard
good story by facts. There are
rected the study for Columbia pendent (In the story) on the wis- ened and blase critics.
other noints which can be Intro-
fcae la Frtnea AMart’i "Grand Ola Oorv" Saturday NlgM t an H.B.C.
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Senate OKs Budget Cut
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