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The Gate City Journal
THE NYSSA GATE ClfY JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1942
create resentment here and there.
STOCKMAN HITS
SHOOTI
Votes could be lest and the re
WORKS
SOLONS’ EFFORT
sults of an election jeopardized.
And so inflation goes on— until
IN WAR PROGRAM after
the election. Then we may
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TO HELP “WIN THE PEACE”
There is under consideration in Washing
ton this week an important piece of legislation,
designed to keep 20 million American auto
mobiles rolling for the duration of the war,
to which, we believe, entirely too little attention
has been paid by the public.
This bill—it is called the Ellender-vPatman
tire conservation bill—offers definite, sensible
solutions to the problem of how to keep the
nation’s vital motor transport moving in the
face of a rubber shortage. This would be ac
complished by retreading 30 million tires every
year with all-reclaim-rubber capping stock; and
to those who point to the shortage of rubber
and say it cannot be done, the Rubber Manu
facturers’ Association has said that it can be
done. The bill would stabilize tire prices and
release for immediate sale those odd-sized and
lower-level tires which are obviously of no
value to the war effort.
There is a further provision in this bill,
which, it seems to us, is even more important
than its other sections, from the standpoint
of “winning the peace” which must follow the
winning of the war. Designed to contribute
to the maintenance of free enterprise, this mea
sure provides that, for the duration of the war,
all tire sales and service be turned over to inde
pendent tire and gasoline dealers, so that these
“little businesses”, by getting all the business
that is left, may be sustained until Victory
brings a lifting of tire sales restrictions.
This would qiean that the rubber company-
owned factory outlets and the big oil-company-
owned super service stations would turn retail
tire business over to these “little fellows”, dur
ing the war, retaining for themselves only the
wholesaling function.
But it is important to point out that this
measure would hurt nobody. In the first place,
these big companies are prospering through
war contract work, and don’t need the com
paratively small amount of business represent
ed by tire sales.
But beyond that, it is a fact that both the
oil companies and the rubber companies do most
of their business through independent dealers
—so it would mean, for them, simply concen
trating on wholesaling, so their own indepen
dent dealers could exist. Doesn’t that seem
fair?
I not stop with farm price legisla
tion but will include wage stabil
ization. Congress had previously
tried to pass wage control bills,
the
president opposed, yet the brunt
Washington, D. C., Sept. 17—The I of the
responsibility for the threa-
gauge of battle has been thrown tened inflationary
condition is put
down by the president In respect 1 | up
to congress by the president.
to his anti-inflation movement. He Administration statisticians de
challenged congress to act before clare that the gross income of
nation during this fiscal year
October 1. He demanded that the the
be about $115,000,000,000. It
farm price Issue be revised so Is will stated
by these same authorities
that the farmer would get no more that $67,000,000,000
this total
than parity, or the present price will be used in the of purchase
of
for his products, whichever Is the goods and services which are es
higher, and put tills before at sential. Simple subtraction leaves
tacking the wage increase pro $46,000,000 000 which the people will
blem.
have over and above so-called
What effect this will have on necessities. In what manner can
congress remains to be seen. There this huge sum be assimilated?
are Indications that o«ngress will England, Canada. Australia and
At The National
Capital
other countries have found nc tues and barges In west coast
serious difficulty in controlling an yards is not considérée likely by
through parozysms in a simllai Admiral Land cf the maritime
effort is net understoed. Critic.- e mmission. He regards it as pos-
of the administration insist i: ihle that some wooden ships will
Is all due to the president’s program be built for lend-lease, but with
of not opposing the demands of the increasing difficulty in obtain
labor, and as 63 percent of the ing lumber expressed doubt of a
cost is held by opponents of the renewal of the wooden ship build
president to be the mest impor ing program unless conditions
tant factor in the threatened in change. Douglas fir is being used
however, on the flight decks of
flation.
The president did not ask for seme of the new aircraft carriers.
a ceiling on wages but talked a- Not all education is confined to
bout stabilization. Under the Judge schools these days. The education
Rosenman plan, so far gs worked bureau of the services of supply
out by the labor board, ‘“stabiliza of the war department is consider
tion" has meant an almost constant ing completing a motion picture
increase in wage levels. As a rule, which was started by Bonneville
the highest pay cf an area has administration showing the value
been taken as a target to shoot of the Columbia river dams to
at and one after another of the the war effort.
craftsmen in that area have de OPA has announced that price
manded the right to come up to regulations are forthcoming which
the higher level.
I will permit apple processors to
W. C. Mendenhall, director of increase their maximum prices for
the geological survey, is not at canned apples, applesauce, apple
all optimistic over the possibility juice and sweet cider, and dried
of commercial production of oil apples to compensate or increased
in either Harney county or the ccsts of production. A price dif
Coos Bay region. In essence, he ferential is to be allowed in the
says in responce to a request for east to encourage the drying of
further investigation of the oil apples for military demands.
possibilities of these regions, that Two zinc mines l^ave had to
he considered further field work close down in the northwest be
in those areas inadvisable, since cause miners have left for better
reconnaissance surveys in other re paying jobs, most of them going
gions were more promising. The to the naval training camp at Lake
geological survey, in cooperation Pen d’Orielle. which will be as
with the Oregon bureau of mines, large as the Great Lakes training
made a survey in Harney county station. Operators of these mines
in 1919, and in the Bandon and have protested to Paul McNutt,
Coos Bay quadrangle in 1901, which head of the manpower commission,
was followed by an Oregon bureau but for the present there appears
survey in 1919. Mendenhall stated to be no way of holding miners
that the Bandon region showed on their job while government
some possibility of yielding o.l sanctions higher pay in its own
but he doubted that it existed in | activities.
commercial quantities.
inflationary movement. Why the
Increased production of wooden United States should be going
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Also about 5 rooms of furniture, including
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We Handle farm sales.
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L well Stockman, republican no expect action; until then we will
talk.
minee for congress from the scond hear
"While this continues and even
congressional district, opened his without
it. the national deficit
campaign at a meeting of the Hood has been increasing alarmingly,
River County Republican club in both actually and potentially.
“And once again—the warning
Hood River Friday night.
has
that it will be nec
After giving a brief picture cf essary gone to forth
lower
the draft age in
his background. Stockman launch
to meet war's demand for
ed into a discussion of the war order
man power in the armed forces.
effort.
years is to be the mini
“No, we cannot be unmindful of Eighteen
mum.
But
has been no en
this war and we are not unmindful actment of there
this
amendment
the
of it", Stockman said. “We are draft law. Nor will there be to any
ready to go all-out to win it. We
amendment enacted until—af
will concentrate on this. We will such
the election.
save and scrimp and deny our ter “Parents
have votes might
selves that this may be. We will not like it. who
favor must be
forsake the pleasures and pursuits retained for Their
a while. And so the
of peace. And we have a right unpleasant news
must wait. It is
to ask that in government also it
make no mistake as to that,
should be an all-out war, that the coming,
politics of peace be forsaken and but not until—after the election”.
that the squanderings of peace
be stopped in order that the fin SAVING ARTICLES
ancing of war may be accelerated,
in order that the winning of the FOR WEAR URGED
war may be hastened.
new pattern of wartime
“As your congressman I would “Our means
conservation of all
strive constantly, by word and living
articles
of
wearing
and
vote, to make this ideal come household equipment, apparel
and refusal
true—in the national capital as to buy any article containing
ma
well as in the nation.
terials
need
in
the
war
effort,
“I have been shocked, as I know
such purchases are im
you must also have been shocked, unless
perative",
Miss Addreen Nic
by the spectacle of an administra hols, newly says appointed
director of
tion and of lawmakers perilously consumers interest division
of the
postponing decisions and announce Malheur county defense council.
ments of the utmost importance "The responsibility of explaining
to the war effort in order that the the regulations of the price ceiling
political effort may go on.
act and rationing rests with this
“I have seen effective control division”.
of inflation delayed—until after “To launch a county-wide educa
the election. It is certainly true tional program, the county library
that continuation of inflation in in Ontario is showing a display
creases our war cost by billions of books and pamphlets of interest
of dollars, that it threatens, indeed, to the consumer. These may be
our financial and economic ability borrowed for individual or study-
to carry on as a belligerent. For club use. The display will later
many months it has been apparent be moved to other libraries in the
tc all that inflation must be halted county.
through a complete, inclusive pro “As part of this program, indivi
gram. But, to the political mind, dual leaders will be trained to
it has also been apparent that en carry on this educational work in
forcement of such a program would their respective communities. They
will arrange exhibits, appear as
speakers, and train other. Through
this organization it is hoped that
everyone in the county will be
reached”.
Anyone interested in helping with
this program is urged to contact
Miss Nichols at the farm security
administration office In Ontario.
Workers are particularly needed
with training in consumer educa
tion, typing, or poster painting.
Woman Is Injured—
Mrs Raymond Sager, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Foster, fell
from a trailer hitch recently. Two
bolts were driven into her leg, re
quiring two stitches. Mrs. Sager is
recovering satisfactorily at the
home of her parents.
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