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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHX UTAH . ... r"" A I? ml VI mi a With (W ft. -- r a in WASHINGTON KilttMd by WcMera Knrapapc Onto. WORTH OP DOLLAR MEASURED BT WHAT IT WILL BUT WITH NO OTHER preterit day sundard the value of the dollar it measured by what it will buy of staple commodities. The price of guch commodities U determined by the cost of their production. Technology, and the applied sciences, ai they affect industrial production, have increased the value of the dollar, in that they have produced commodities at less cost so they could be sold at lower prices. The benefits derived from technoU ogy and applied science would be more than offset by labor if the demands for wage Increases, and decreased hours are met. They would mean a greater increase in cost than could be offset by improved methods of production, and production can not long continue when increased costs are not met by Increased prices. Over the years both labor and the buying public have profited from technological advances in that wages have gradually increased while prices have gradually de creased. The benefits derived from an ever advancing technology, thanks to our competitive system. have been rhared by both labor and the purchasing public. That advance has maintained the purchas ing value of the dollar. It was but a few years age when Henry Ford set a new .precedent by fixing $5 a day at a wage minimum In bis plants. Ills Improvement In manufacturing methods, the introduction of masa prcS action, made that possible. Competition made It necessary for other manufacturers to pay labor an equal wage, and to sell their product at an equal price, value considered, If they were to stay In business. That was evolution in the matter of wages and prices. The postwar demands for increases in wages are not evolutionary, they are revolu tionary. Union leaders have not At tempted to 'ascertain what wage industry can pay at present dollar values, but have demanded what they want without regards to the maintenance of dollar values Meeting those demands means one ot three things to be determined by the future. Either technology can so improve production methods as to absorb the increased cost of the demanded wages and decreased working hours, or prices must be increased to meet the demands, or the quality ot the product must be decreased, and the dollar value go down because it buys less. It must be one of these three or a stop in production. Unreasonable demands on the part of labor, demands that cannot be offset by technological advances, can break the value of our dollars, and throw us headlong into an inflation tli at will be more disastrous than any depression. EDITORS SOT Ei Tku newtpaper, uuh tha U ethington Bureau of Wetttrn Kewo V paper Union at Hit Eye Street, N.read-ert Uashtngton, ). C, u able to bring tkU weekly column om problems of the veteran and tervicemen and hi family. Queuiont may ba addreued to th above Bureau and they u iL be answered in a wubtequent column. No replie con be mode direct by mail, but only in the column uhkh will appear tn ihu new paper regularly. tltrougK tpecud arrangement ' iUUM mr By Walter Shead Wfi'J WKU Weshimitea Sareea, St SU W. , lilt By EDWARD wire EMERINE " CANADA vVWft rutun. Truman Gained Stature During His First Year all the newspapers JUST about Oregon country, including risgazines in the country most northwesterly portion have had their say at appraising of aH, the present state of WashPresident Harry S. Truman after ington, was the unwanted and bis first year in office. land of a little more New Vet Hospitals Your Home Town Reporter has than a century ago. OLWiT been able during this past year to that tha felt East Back they President Truman has approved watch the President his policies H BEATTU mountains were the natural .( the construction of three new vet- Rocky and the operation of his adminisof tha United western erans hospitals and the transfer of States andboundary from a more or less detration refused to vote one cent tacoma eTJV. . the site of another to immediately Luckily when I tached viewpoint so a of region for the development n Irv expand the VA medical service, ac- far away. There had been two wars attend the President's press confercording to an announcement by Gen. with the British; why chance a c V ences it is not necessary for me to OLYMPIA Omar N. Bradley, veterans' adminrush to a phone or to my typewriter The British have it third? Let the istrator. and hurriedly dash off a story ol land all it had the States United The site for a tumor clinic of 600 needed. my impressions, for in covering for beds at Hines. El., has been transthe weekly newspapers I have sufof But those thousands pioneers ferred to a site adjacent to North- who ficient time to deliberate over what had urged their oxen along the western university at Chicago, so as has happened. over the crawled and trail to be in proximity to the medical Oregon President Truman entered the mountains thought differently. They school. House as an average AmerWhite in rich a found land, had good d New hospitals authorized are a too impressive a rec without ican the where and vitality, beauty general medical and surgical mountains and forests came down ord behind him at anything. He minerals In rich is 7139 ' Washington hospital in Indianapolis for eventual to meet the Pacific ocean. The Brit- --,7. Hwmui.i hi mmrKmr'!!Wm-'--'mhis stint at farming, at coal, gold, silver, lead, mercury and had done constructo 1,000 beds; expansion running a haberdashery store and THREE-QUARTER- S ish wanted the country merely for zinc. It has clays, granite, sandtion of a 1,000-be- d general and sur- trade with the Indians. The ceat politics, and in the latter he Was A plus a remnant for bj and tec limestone pioneers marble, stone, gical hospital in Boston and a new wanted it for their homes, their As chairman ol fsral ment. Also found in the state are more successful. s maKe t&s and d medical surgigeneral and the senate war investigating com sunsuit! aW their ranches, their dream antimony, arsenic, tungsten Stitchery and cal hospital in Omaha, near tha farms, he made a real contribu simple. to ba a wanted mittee, And cities. it they Nebraska medical school. in-to the successful culmination ol part of the United States. Standing umber in Washington ! tion the war. white and Summer's comin'l b.h of hundreds traveled eludes fir, had ' yellow ' Douglas . They . ' Since Pearl Harbor, more than But when he was catapulted into transfer Datlern nf AM UV Indians along larch, cedar and oth-- i miles, spruce, fighting pine, weary for sizes 1, s. i M pieces have veterans II World War 325,000 loved ones in uners. Normally, Washington leads all the presidency by the death of his been admitted to veterans' hospitals, the way, burying And now a was untried as he Due to an unusually states in lumber output shipping predecessor, marked graves. ls they had more than a third of these treated slights all over the world. It statesman, unknown as to his abili- current conditions, built , cleared their bouses, ' its land, products in omen a lor disabilities. incurred imuu:u uiiuig for service 'and knew they had has wood pulp and paper mills as ties and he faced the heaviest re most popular patters Duabeil Seven per cent are disabled from planted crops, ever had man Send order to: weU as other industries built on sponsibilities any found an area with resources so vast tuberculosis, 23 per cent from neuro- and varied that even been called npon to face. He didn't were be wood products. they 70 and per 8ewlns Circle Neetittnl t psychiatry conditions the prospects. SomeOn Washington's coast are in- want the job and confessed, his Box 3217 Saa cent from general medical and surgi- wildered by how tha East and Washington, harbors on which Seattle, shortcomings, his average Amerinumerable Enclose 20 cents for fte cal disablements. canism. VanW made about told D. C must be it, Tacoma, Everett, Olympia, No V The average American back in cities to believe. other Answers couver and and important Questions Name- like towns of the the home country commercial and the ' This finally located. are heard, Washington great Q. I would greatly appreciate If U Addres- sarea Is the nearest American gate- and are proud of our democracy becry of "Fifty-fou- r Forty or Fight" you would aid me In getting Inforas average citiway to the ports of Asia and cause it gives them, mation about my husband, who went up. The settlers cleaned their handles most of the shipping to and zens, the chance to improve and adwas reported mls&Ing tn action oil rifles and waited. If tha British But were wanted war, Alaska as well as world trade vance socially, economicafly and inthey until ready. from 1944, WALLGREN 9, November C. from MON Leyte Costly CperiUM . . . it gives them a of was war the averted finaltreaty by was be of Governor through the Panama canal. During tellectually More merchant seames Washington February 5, 1945, when American and Born in Des Moines, Iowa. World War II the shipbuilding and chance to grow and better their lives during the invasion off ly reported killed in action. I have 1848, in which Joint industry standards of living. received no details from the govern- British occupancy was ended. A Home town, Everett, Wash. Forairplane manufacturing in the Philippines than dM 49th of the boundary compromise to and reached ment as what actually happened, mer state representative gigantic proportions and is President Has Grown or sailors who particlpater and I have not received any of bis parallel was established, and the United States senator. expected to continue. action. i This reporter believes that in the d Coupled with its personal effects so far. Also pack-aye- s Oregon country became a part of the White House, Pres. Benjamin natural resources is Washington's year the President has been in the mailed to him after his death the United States. DDT Deposit! The Columbia river, however, re Harrison, issued a proclamation on mighty output of hydro. - electric White House, he has grown . . . Lave not been returned. I thought DDT deposits on wall, I 11 was that Washington November if you would Insert this question In mained a natural dividing line runpower for industry. The Grand grown as any other average Amer- mattresses, rugs, etcnwiB4 state. ican man would have grown in Coulee dam is part of a reclamayour Veterans' Service Bureau col ning through Oregon territory. The admitted as a Insects as flies, mosquitoes i When the Indian wars ended, the tion project that win ultimately Irri- his proficiency to cope with the umn I might possibly be able to settlers "north of the river" wantover a period of lew? bugs get some details from a veteran who ed a territory of their own. As early eastern jart of the territory was gate 1,200,000 acres of land and pro- most powerful office In the world . months. or duce electrical power far in excess grown in his ability to Judge men happened to have gone through the grown of present needs. The Bonneville and their capabilities action on Leyte and would know my husband. He was Pvt. Ross I. Sens!- dam and others also contribute to under the pressure of enormous events better to make decisions . the generation of power. baugh, Company C, 21st Infantry. grown in his contacts with other Mrs. Mocma Sensibaugh, 2715 remains Washington, however, Patee street, St. Joseph 38, Mo. chiefly agricultural. It leads all world leaders. But in this growth of the Presi A. I would suggest that you write states by far In the production of dent he has built up no halos . , a letter addressed to the command othof in and is output high apples MISCELLANE0Kno myths no er fruits such as pears, peaches, no traditions ing officer of his company and also WE BUi AND SEU a letter to Casualty branch, Ad J a cherries, grapes, apricots, prunes superman, he remains an average Office Furniture, Filei, Typeis who is American to his Safes, Cash Bte tant General' i office, War depart up Machines, tug growing and berries. Other crops are wheat SALT LAKC ui"Jment, Washington 25, D. C, And I SS West Broadway, Sail IitrrU barley, oats, corn, alfalfa and job. . During our Incumbency down i clover hay, sugar beets, peas and hope that soma veteran will read your question and write to you. hops. Huge herds of cattle and here in Washington, we have se?n v 4 ' POULTRY, CHICKS "ft ai e aDDROWD it Q. As we are parents of a son sheep graze throughout the state, successful business men with fabu ,k,VL-'Ii hrttdl. and who served In World War I, and as horses, hogs, chickens and tur- lous reputations as leaders in their we are Gold Star parents would like keys are grown profitably on most fields, tycoons of industry, come to Washington to take part in governColorad HXcMT PEOPLE WHO LOWER OUR farms and ranches. to be Informed bow to go about re mm wmm Mmm and make miserable fail STANDARDS ABE UNWANTED In the eastern part of the state, ment ceiving a pension? Mrs. R. A. W., with irri- ures. Tannersvllle, N. Y. WE AMERICANS are not prejWashington is semi-ariYour Home Town Reporter does A. to Veterans' ad Write or used go gation udiced against people because of extensively. Its grain and cattle industries thrive there. not believe the President has made their color, or the language they ministration unit office at Pough-keepsior office at Albany. West of the Cascades the rainfaU a miserable failure. He is not a speak. What we object to is the nor is he Is extremely heavy, ranging as high brilliant statesman lower standards of living they inQ. I would like to know why some as 80 inches annually, with a re a great orator . . nor a great troduce in our communities. Re- young men In the service can get socialite. His voice on the radio GRAND COULEE . . . Largest concrete structure that man ever made. sultant profusion of vegetation. gardless of race, color or language out on 4 months service and some lacks the human appeal which was for accounted of the this aluminum from Power dam The people of Washington have a we object to having as neighbors any on 8 months, while others are In 3 major portion so apparent in that of his Kor the Army Air Forces during our of construction for rich of 4 airplanes predeces who own and still of Miss thrift their and and heritage family, courage by neglect serving. years World War II. ana they retain the pioneer spirit sor, but his speeches in cold tvne, premises depreciates the property E. H., (iayville, S. D. that led them through the perils of matched speech for speech with A. Some get out in less than two values of our neighborhood. We obfir as 1843 they bad carved the area opened to settlement and brought Here's One Of The to whose low standthose moral settlement They have the vision. the public utterances of the late of as months matter a ject fact, mostly into two enormous counties, Lewis immediate President prosperity throughout not do Roosevelt, suffer for too, ards demands no privacy, and who due to disability tor physical ail greater strides tomorrow. and Clark. More settlers were cross- the Northwest The arrival of the by comparison. flaunt those standards at our front ment. divia "Mercer for orover widows sentiment He has failed in his efforts to woo and and Girls," ing door. On the West coast the Jap is Q. My son has been In the army sion was evident A group met at phans of the Civil war, provided ine of his old col not condemned because he is a Jap, since September 11. 1944, and over to memoralize con- wives for the territory's excess male in congress. Our observa leagues 311 but because he makes no effort to seas for over a year with the Cowlitz Prairie tion has been, however, since the Railroads raced to measure up to American standards. 77th division and now with the gress. They were not heard. They population.1852 at Monticello and reach the great empire, with new met If vou lack BL01S3C in nrst rew days of the "honeymoon' again He works tor a cheap price because 74 tb government la Japan. sent another petition to Washington. towns and settlements following the won- -"' military were Too over, girls endanemia congress has been more he lives on a cheap scale. He is We need him on our farm because from tWF; simple of ribbons territorial steel. There was a severe concerned with showing the Presi Joseph Lane, Oregon objected to as a neighbor, not be- our weak, "dragged out son can't carry the delegate, offered his aid and introdent when who new the however, was of boss lack to than in cause of bis color, or his loyalty, increased giving spring work alone and my Plnkham's him or considering the but because of what is felt to .be husband and I can't do any more duced a bill to organize the terri- state was hard hit by depression and home ways to build wcP to 1893. was be in welfare of the American people. And panic tory of Columbia, for that his uncouth, unAmerlcan way of get more etrengtb--areU) than we are doing. Is there any pos- its name. The bill was passed, but Tablets that state of affairs has come about haml recovery was rapid, living. blood-Iro- n tonlct roo OB f sible way to get our soldier son's not before it was amended to forWashington's its largely were to virile through people and deterreaction the release for his much needed help change the name to Washington ter- mined. The Alaska years when congress either went gold rush of 1897 IT MAT NOT BE CALLED a Mrs. R. E. H., Isa-at hornet ritory. On March 2, 1853, just two made Seattle the metropolis of the along willingly with President black market In tobacco prodquah, Wash. before he left the White Northwest, and a few Roosevelt or grudgingly when he days years later, ucts, but the established brands A. There are a good many thouHouse, Pres. Millard Fillmore used the big stick to bludgeon them in 1903. there was a mining boom ot smoking tobacco, cigars and sands in your position, but there are signed it at Spokane which tripled that city's inio giving the people his progres disan-pearehave still many thousand men in the servfigarettes largely extended sive program. Ports Washington and territory population shipping grew Many new brand.1!, ice much mora eligible for release from the continental divide to the on the coast Fishing berapidly lever before heard of, have if son. he can 'Innate than your However, Democracy' Pacific ocean, what is now came an important Industry. Agriappeared on the counters ot make out a hardship case, he should the northern including Much or of culture flourished and livestock inhas been made of Presipanhandle, part In cigars the new dealers. apply to bis commanding officer tor Idaho. But the settlers were not yet creased all over the aeni irumfin's state. Lum-nia brands represent a five-ce-nt a release on those grounds. for help from the people, from in- satisfied. Agitation for statehood be- ber business and mining brought quality selling at from 13 to ti In entered the I Q. army April, gan and continued for nearly 13 prosperity to thousands, ausiry, rrom labor, from Barini WNU W cents. Much the same thing Is 1942. My father died and I was ture. He has said The Evergreen state (or Chinook years. In 1889 they were successful again and again roe of smoking tobacco and maw ne cannot do hia 1rh aim,discharged August W. I remained la and Pres. Grover Cleveland signed state) holds more than the If you want to majestic cigarettes. four and a half months. Can I get the bill a month before he left the This has been Interpreted formountains, canyons, some smoke you pay your money and gorges, by A Worried Wnlte House. At a convention in tha Bill of Rights? a vreasness. But in this column's ests, lakes and highways shown in take what Is offered. Farmer, Bowman, Ga. opin on it is merely an Olympia on July 4, that year, a con a tourist folder. It is mora than expression A. II you received an honorable stitution was drawn up, au at an of his Innate democracy, scenery. It is a land of vast natural since deIT IS THE EXCEPTION thai CASCADES Of the and had at least SO days election on October I It was adopt- - resources, discharge mocracy after all, is only a huge W.mof D'; many of them as yet un- proves the rule, not that the rule is of activt service you are entitled to cu rlvitr, national Olymplo oew man id i aevetopea or not fully utilized. uim ciuzcus. Aet; a governed oj Kidney by wrong. majorpark. benefits of the G.I. bill ity opinion. Q. My son died la Germany Jmv President Truman has made misA PROPOSAL being considS, 1948. We want his body ary take! . . . mistakes of the lion throw. hr ered by the senate would, If heart brought back to the USA and to of the kidney rather than the head in nam.Md and adopted, provide for govera-mcnhave Uil i done, who should we get t ing some advisors and in otber Impo- 1control and operation of td leaning in contact with? Will we have to blood. urt" upon their advice . . . h has all outgoing or Incoming cable of the too and do bear any zmr!L.vi expense you his mistakes . . . he has faced r wireless communication of have any Idea when our boys' bod-le- a defeats . . . seen his administration oth test and pictures. Its win be brought borne? Mrs. program emasculated and beaten pamage would It iht firnt nail "t E. C R., Sanger, Texas. f tlmea eonilat. even ignored by congresn. la the coffin of freedom of the rination. A. Legislation Is now bt.'ore conToday Deem he is less press. Try naive, less humble, grayVtU.& gress, providing tor an approprier, more dignified, more ation and method of bringing the assertiva " . . than when he DO NOT EXPECT a new cat bodies of American soldiers, sailors went to the White . .d by House In April a little mor very soon. The old bus. or old Dob-- and marines interred in military than a v,.. bin, must still serve for a while yet. cemeteries rear ago. His smile is stiU abroad, to this Rolling Wheat Frflds af Eastern Washlngtsa If wt are not to walk. iimmmmHinMmimHk and disarmlngly human. THE A .Aft t 2 )f0 500-be- Vt j pui-nei- 500-be- Si t j I ! Fra i almost-unlimite- ... ... CLASSIFl! DEPARTME mmm rail ... ... 1 & if . ... d, ... f set-bac- k, bloxl-lK"t- ff d. ... a.. Dose-walll- JWf ... Ul ,' con-tesse- d .... ,.. .irSaid r5" spon-Umeo- |