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THURS., FEB. 28, 1946
The Forum
THEATER PRICES
To the Editor: The editorial,
“Kid Pickets at Vernonia,” in
The Oregonian January 31, and
the news item on the affair, just
now brought to our attention,
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THE EAGLE,
Vernonia, Oregon
raises some interesting points on
the labor - management problem.
I presume the dispute has been
straightened out locally since
then, as we have received no
further information on it.
The admission price at this
theater may or may not be “too
high”; we have no way of know
ing, of course. Admission prices
have a way of adjusting them
selves, however, on the basis of
what the public in that locality
is willing to pay for the show
offered. Whenever ^mpty seats
reveal to the local theater own
er that according to public opin
ion the prices are too high, he
must promptly adjust prices
or operate at a loss. The total
cost of each day’s operation of
the theater—rent, payroll, heat
lights, film rental, etc., is pret
ty well fixed, but the number of
admissions that day is subject to
virtually
unlimited
variations
It may be that your editorial
overstates and oversimplifies
the situation by asserting that
the “motion picture combine,
which has a stranglehold on
every theater in the country,
dictating prices . . .” The Joy
theater has ten or twelve mo
tion picture companies compet
ing with each other to sell it
pictures for exhibition, prob
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Pleasure BSidoft
ably can actually show little
more than half of the pictures
offered to it.
The admission prices filled in
on the exhibition contract are
invariably the prices established
by the theater owner. The dis
tributor does not fix such admis
sion prices, except on the rare
road show picture. But the dis
tributor does want to be protect
ed against sudden and drastic
cut-rate admissions that may ruin
the value of the picture at other
theaters that have yet to show it
I think you will find that thea-
ater owners can charge pretty
much what they please as far as
the distributor is concerned.
Whatever objection is made
against cut-rate admissions comes
from competing theaters, not
from the producer or distributor
of the picture. I believe you will
want to know this.
FRANCIS S. HORMON,
Vice-president, motion picture as
sociation, 28 W. 44th N. Y. N.Y.
Submitted to The Eagle by
C. G. WALRATH
974 3rd Ave. Vernonia, Ore.
(Note: this article appeared first
in The Oregonian of a recent
issue.)
^WASHINGTONS
^'SWAPSMO^g
Fre. hman in Congress are sup
posed to keep their eye3 peeled
and their mouths shut. Accord ng
to tradition they leave the talk
ing to the old boys who have
learned what it is all about.
More often than in the past,
an occasional new man speaks
out whether he has finished his
noviciate or not. Conside Neva
da’s Sen. Edward P. Carvi.le who,
although new to Congress, is in
clined to have something to say
about economy.
Ed Carville clings to the old-
fashioned belief that Government
should operate on a pay-as-you-
go basis—in other words, keep
out of debt. He feels that the na.
tion should balance its budget.
These beliefs, he says, stem from
h;s early training.
He ¡3 proud of the fact that
during his two terms as Gover
nor cf Nevada his record stood
for economy. He set up economic
conference groups in every com
munity to enable the people to
work out their destinies on an in
dividual and local level. He hand
ed down decisions as district
judge in cattle water rights and
grazing cases, which are used as
a precendent in simliar issues
there today.
Smooth, soft-spoken, well-man
nered, Carville landed in the Sen
ate by appointment in 1945. A
native of Mound Valley, he prac
ticed law in Elko, where he at
tended high school. He studied
law at the University of Notre
Dame. After serving as U. S.
Attorney for Nevada it was onlv
a matter cf time before he -was
elected Governor.
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A democrat, he is married to
the former Irma Callahan of
South Bend, Ind., has three sons.
In an era of prodigal bureauc
racy, with millions of jobholders
thriving on the cushy contents
of the federal trough, a middle
western dirt farmer turned poli
tician has the spotlight on Capi
tol Hill.
He’s dead set against Congress
men voting themselves a raise.
“As long as soldiers enter the
service for a starting wage of
$600 a year, no (Congressmen
with a conscience should even
think of a boost,” centends Rep.
Reid F. Murray of Wisconsin’s
dairy farm country.
Broad of face and white-haired
at 58, a cow dealer and farmer
near Ogdensburg, Wis., before he
was elected to the House in 1940
Murray raised his voice against
excessive government spending
on every occasion possible.
Murray didn’t complain that
Congressmen were overpaid at
$10,000—a protest frequently
raised by taxpayers—but he indi
cated that the cost of govern
ment, already excessive, doesn’t
warrant an increase. The nation’s
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billions is'today the greatest in
all history, and it is going to
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