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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD CLASSIFIED Price Rule Planned to Prevent Inflation Control of Wages, Costs, Prices Will Close Gap Between Bigger Income and Much Less Goods Changes Scheduled for Manpower Commission English System Seen as Successful Mode McNutt Unable to Obtain Efficient and TAXES AND BONDS TO ABSORB PART OF IDLE PURCHASING POWER Experienced Force of Experts. costs and reduce spending by every person. 2. Price ceilings for food, goods and rents. 3. Stabilization of wages and sal aries. Step right over this way, ladies and gentlemen, barks the Farm A'cii'i Analyst and Commentator. and well sell 25 Sale Auctioneer, head of the best cattle in Brown YVNIJ Service, 622 Union Trust Blilg. plan was announced whereby Over to the feed lot moves was to be transferred to the county. Washington, D. C. the milling crowd of people who Two days before the Office of War head of the Federal Security admin4. Stabilization of agricultural intehave come to the farm auction. The Information announced the now fa- istration; McNutt would go to offered I am What starts: prices. Ickes of and Interior rior bidding Secretary order I wrote: mous "work-or-fig5. Increased savings through buyg for this Guernsey cow? would head the labor department. Strange sound' are coming through ing of war bonds. $25? Do I hear thirty? Thirty-five- ? the keyhole tf the wide door of the Ickes Refusal 6. Who'll make it I have thirty-fivRationing of scarce goods to office of the federal security adminfifty-fiv- e That scheme fell through because fyty-five- ? fair distribution. it insure make Now wholl istrator, Paul McNutt They have Ickes didnt want to make the shift. 7. Discouragement of the use of And so it goes. Maybe . . . federal to do with security nothing The result is that McNutt has been the cow sells for $55 and maybe she credit or installment buying and the but they have a lot to do with that left to with a problem for sells for $100. It all depends on how encouragement of the payment of other function of the administrator, which strugglehis of some most sympathetic much money the bidders have, how debt on whose broad should .rs rests critics say he is not fitted. He has many cows there "are for sale, and Why Control Is Needed. of the heavily the chairmanship been unable to obtain an efficient how badly anyone wants a cow. lets see why control of First, manpower commission. and staff some posts If you have ever attended a farm wages is necessary. The noises I refer to are tiie pre- are experienced still vacant others are said to auction sale, you can understand If history teaches us anything, it liminaries to a bigger noise. lack the technical knowledge necesof today is is that wages never can keep up with need the why greatest is "The manpower compression sary to McNutt or anyone in his po- for economic stabilization. For the just about to blow up," said a cer- sition. Such expert assistance would principles which govern a farm auctain official to me, one who has folbe available in the labor department tion sale are not much different from but lowed its operations very closely for even those who speak least re- those that govern the buying and because of some strange premoniof Madame Secretary selling of all commodities. tion refused to get entangled with spectfully admit that she has built up an exSuppose that John Brown, who has them. He is entirely sympathetic cellent force of experts in her de- a small farm at the edge of town, with the effort but like others has recently got a job in a defense whose duties are affected by the partment. As one veteran of the labor front factory. His wages, added to his ramifications of the manpower situ- said to me: If the war lasts long ordinary farm income, give him confused ation, he Is chagrined and enough, we may establish a work- more money than he has had for by what is happening and still more able and efficient system like the many years. With that money Brown what hasnt happened. by British. Look for at least one more intends to get himself more good When the manpower situation was makeshift experiment. Meanwhile, livestock and he goes to the farm first turned over to McNutt, who is lets hope we can muddle through. auction to buy some cows. He can known as a good administrator, there more for cows these days than was That bid the of state up things was a long and patient wait for until February 2, 1943. Then came formerly and he raises the bid bedid. to Nothing something happen. the announcement of the list of yond the true value of the animal. said neutral observ"No wonder, Other farmers will either have to The may jobs. cynical ers, he has no authority. still look upon it as a make-shif- t exceed his price or go without cows. Then he got the authority by presiBuying Urge Stimulated. by April 1 well know experiment dential ukase. Earlier, it is true, whether McNutt has cracked the Now, suppose that thousands of he had made it plain that he felt that hardest nut In g John Browns get jobs Washington or wheththere should be passed by congress, er we still have to muddle through. with wages higher than they have a national service act which would JAMES F. BYRNES ever drawn before. They dont all Price Czar lay upon all civilians the similar of them live on live farms. Many obligations placed upon the young Nazi Communiques In the hands of James F. Byrnes, in towns, small cities, big cities. And Indicate New Status men of military age. So many peothey want to buy many things be- former Supreme court 'justice, has When Hitler failed to appear or sides livestock. ple, who thoroughly disliked the idea They want to buy been entrusted the job of stabilizing of a draft of labor of any kind nev- even to speak to his unseen audience foods of aU kinds, clothing, furniture, the nations economy so as to preertheless declared such a step was on the tenth anniversary of his acluxuries of all kinds. With vent a runaway in wages and prices jewelry, Inevitable that I was positive that it cession to power, it was only natural their newly acquired wealth they which would lead to the disaster was coming and so reported. Now that many people felt that this was will fancy prices for anything of inflation. pay it seems far away. part of the peace offensive which they want, even though they may not The substitute was supposed to be it was known the Reich was prepariprices. As a worker finds he has to need it at the time. the setup under McNutt which would ng. The unconditional surrender And then, just remember that pay more money for food, clothing, work through the United States Em- conference at Casablanca was supwhile all these people are wanting shelter and the other necessities of ployment service. Selective service posed to have pretty well quashed to buy things, the factories of the life, he insists on getting more was even made a part of McNutt's the Nazi peace drive but apparently United States are forced to devote money for his work. His employer the Reich still has hopes. organization and General Hershey, most of their facilities to making has to raise his wages, because othwho had seen that institution through When I learned that Goering and guns, and tanks, and bombs, and er employers are needing men and from its inception, with better grace not Hitler was delivering the oration planes. Other things must wait. they, too, are paying more. Farmthan many would have shown, ac- of the day, two pictures flashed Clothing, furniture, household goods, ers lose workers to factories and to cepted the subordination of his func- vividly into my mind one I wit- become scarcer and scarcer. Prices the armed services, and they also attions like the good soldier that he is. nessed personally in September, skyrocket. Wages cant keep up. offer high wages. Some farmers, 1939, from the Press Gallery of And right there you have inflation. tracted by the high wages in facMore Authority tories, leave their farms. Thus it Inflation Dizzy Spiral. Reichstag and the other was deBut many a week has passed since scribed to me. The latter is said Inflation is a dizzy spiral that goes goes higher prices, higher wages to that step was taken, various direc- to have taken place in the famous ever pay those prices, then still higher higher and higher unless sometives have been sent to the draft hunting lodge of Goering, outside of to done slow is down. prices, still higher wages, and so on it The thing boards, enlarging the scope of defer- Berlin. A millionaire in a never-endin- g of inflation is economic American inflationary hurriopposite ment for essential farm and indus- manufacturer sat with him. It was stabilization which means cane. Thats why wages must be that your trial occupations. But still the sys- not long before Pearl Harbor. The dollar will buy about as much of controlled. tem doesnt click. It is now report- American had a The present law says that wages peace drive of his any commodity tomorrow as it does ed that McNutt feels that he needs own. He outlined It to Goering. It today, as much next week as it does cannot be raised without authority still more presidential authority conwas this: Get rid of Hitler, set up tomorrow. Everybody acknowledges to do so. That doesnt mean that a ferred upon him. a more liberal government, agree to the value of economic stabilization. man who does more work tomorrow reIt was thought when the last get out of France if England will To get it, the government is doing than he did today wont get paid for organization of the manpower agen- make peace. its best to apply the brakes to this it. He will. If he is capable of cy was made that the United States The man to do the job, Goering. devastating inflation spiral. doing a more highly skilled job towould work Employment service The fee, one million dollars. seven seven morrow he will also get more are These brakes side by side with the Selective servwages than he did today. If, under According to my informant Goer- controls on Income and expenses. ice, the one recruiting labor, the L Heavy taxation to pay war a merit system, he earns a raise. was willing but the scheme was ing the other recruiting fighters and never put through. question would be settled between them under a single head. Then, Names Goering , Hess The other scene wis the occasion according to one of the members of the commission, without informing of Hitler's announcement that be anyone In advance, he did what had Invaded Polar.! It a as then many fel was a direct violation of that he declared tvat be a at going the key policy turned over the ques- to the front a'i that a nyti.j-tion of deferment to the department happened to be Lad dec.ded of agriculture. that his succesr.ebe bis This is the step which those who who nt at the Reichstag opposed it feel is going to force a presidents dub. in one change in the setup once more. Ad- of his rr . ' i t efy ur .forms. ministration of manpower recruit- And, sa.d V.e t. if anything ment was supposed to be centered happened to Co- - r Hess would be In tke commission. the second Tve solemn and Naturally members of the depart- lanky Kets. Cessed in the brown in I ment of labor who felt that' recruit- uniform tf tne firty, rose and ment of workers should be handled saluted as Ls d the g- Coering. by that agency, consider that no sucHess, when t ?$ d.dnt go acI 1 i cessful solution will be reached until cording to li s painted his !.?. the entire manpower question is put toenails, ar d took r gs fyr England. R V V under a single person of cabinet There has teo c"' ment in Washrank and administered by that head ington lately over the different tone 4 A right down to the local setups. They In the official c mn uniques issued point to what has been done In Eng-lai- by the German high command. Ex, where the system seems to be perts say they seem to indicate that ' working successfully under the Brit- the generals have taken over. ish labor minister. A system has Recently It was rumored that HitFarmers Tool Resources to Maintain Production been worked out there where the lo- ler had fired his "intuition which The tremendous increase in industrial activity in the big cities has cal administration has wide author- he said directed his military strategy caused a in rise and a large portion of the attracted corresponding wages a and he was letting the professionals ity under firm general policy. farmers working force. To hold on to his help and to meet the record deThe reason why a similar plan run the army. It Is just possible mands of the government for food, the farmer has been to raise was not followed here is possibly that Hitler will some day meet the wages. Rise in wages usually is followed by higher compelled prices and demands because of the feeling against Secame fate of the intuition which he for still larger wages. Unless the trend Is checked, a disastrous inflationretary of Labor Perkins. Too many so unkindly purged. Even the most ary spiral sets in. Price stabilization is Intended to control both wages people would object if the work were thickheaded Nazi could hardly beturned over to her and it was be- lieve that the Allies would ever and prices and prevent the two from getting out of hand. Because of the of labor from the farm to the factory and the demands of the armed lieved that the President was about make peace with a government with shift services, many agricultural communities will be compelled to pool their to cut the Gordian knot when the Hitler at the head. working forces to keep up, let alone Increase, their production. By DAUKIIAGE prize-winnin- e. - well-payin- g tr, - jr;Vj.t n M 'v. NKtvfckVV d BRIEFS Nation Will Have Textiles for Its Needs by Daukhage For every eg? laid last year we need 13 eggs tins year to feed ourselves and our allies. There is talk again of an overall agency having the last word on all the problems affecting the civilian Many Americans in the Pacific coast states were as disappointed as the Chinese in the failure to announce an offensive In the Far East in 1913 They say they feel ns if Waffiingiun was a lot further from Francisco than Australia, James Byrnes, stabilization istrator, would head it. population under war conditions. admin- The war has shrunk the comics. Syndicates me studying means of compressing their humor and drama into four instead of five columns. Enough textile to take care of the needs will be available this year although a 10 per cent drop in production may occur, the Textile, Clothing and Leather division of the nations YVFB has reported. Conservation measures already in force should suppiy the increased military and foreign requirements, the division said. Last year, these sent ces took almost of the record production of 13,500,000,000 one-thir- d linear yards I The supply available for civilian use after other requirements last year fell about 11 per cent under 3939. The additional drop of 30 per cent this year Is expected to reduce supplies to the level of necessity. However, the supply and quality textile should continue to furnish Americans with both durable and becoming apparel. Both trends and fashions undoubtedly wiU lead tu neat and economical styles. of he will get it If he works for an ememployer with fewer than eight ployees, he can get an earned raise. But by and large, raises in pay for doing the same job with the same skills and the same output will not be allowed. Salaries Limited. Salaries, too, are limited. No man may draw more than $25,000 a year, after deducting federal taxes, a measure designed to prevent anybody from profiteering on the war. You see, even the boss cannot raise his own salary when he wants to. So much for wages. They had to be stabilized to stabilize prices. Then consider the necessity for price stabilization. It would be unfair to workers to fix their wages if prices were not also regulated. Accordingly, the government began taking price stabilization measures as far back as May, 1940. At present around 90 per cent of the things people have to buy are under some form of price control. Obviously, there may have been some temporary injustices done to producers, manufacturers, and distributors of goods by the price control regulations. For that reason, there will undoubtedly have to be adjustments in some prices from time to time. But in the long run prices will be maintained at a reasonable level where every man, woman and child in the country will be able to get all that is needed. Why aU the other curbs on inflation? More Money, Less Goods. This year the total earnings of all the people engaged in war and civilian production will be about 130 billion. That much money will be available to pay taxes, to spend, and to save. But we cannot possibly produce at present price levels 130 billion dollars worth of food, clothing, furniture, household utensils. As a result the rest of the money will not be able to buy any consumer goods. Federal and state taxes will take another 15 billion. The people will save possibly as much as 30 billion, including war bond purchases. But that still leaves about 85 billion dollars to bid for the purchase of not more than 77 billion dollars worth of things, at current prices that consumers want If price controls fail to hold, people will resort to bidding against each other for the available goods on the market If that happens, there will be black markets, places where unscrupulous persons sell goods at exorbitant prices regardless of the laws. Equal Distribution. Rationing provides assurance that everybody will get his fair share of the goods that are earned by such programs. . Otherwise, the person with the most money would tend to bid up the price and to secure an unfair share of the available supply. No one would deny that this must not be aUowed to happen. The success of this movement rests jointly on the the law - enforcing government, bodies, and in the greatest measure, upon the general public. Unless the people in general realize that these brakes on inflation are their only guarantee of stabilizing the cost of living, it will be impossible to en- force them. Through 1943, and as long as the war lasts, every man, woman, and child in America must try his level best to prevent the cost of living from rising. We can do it if we try. We can refrain from trying to beat the ration on scarce goods. We can get along with reasonable stocks of all goods. We can aid in salvaging ev- erything that will contribute toward the winning of the war rubber, metals, grease, paper, and other materials as they are needed. We can also save every penny and every dollar that we do not need for decent living ard put it into war bonds immediately. And last, but not least, we can do without many things if we have to. Last Report DEPART?,! Elt BARBERS 'WAN'iE BARBERS WANTED Fop Arm. near Marysville, Calif. Pjentv . hair cut. Make $60.00 a t 7054 comm. Dormitory accom work tor single men, $5 oo a wmL G. R. WOOD Beats 1 Marysville, Cahl. Vt'-ti- Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Magic Lanterns: Alfred HitchShadow of a Doubt, is one of the most exciting . . . Nobody on the stage or screen is a better actress than little Margaret OBrien. Most arent as good. She tears the heart out of your throat in Journey for Margaret, and in a patriotic short, starring J. Cagney, Margaret deliv- it t r, I cocks latest, melodra-masterpiec- es ers The Gettysburg Address better, perhaps, than Lincoln himself . . . The March of Times "We Are the Marines is the first release from that group that seemed dull . . . Real marines in action at the front, too, but the actors in Commandos Strike at Dawn took your breath away In that with their phony war didnt film Lillian Gishs I kept thinking: hold me, at aU Here she is appearing in a propaganda picture, although she attacked war a year ago, by accusing Hollywood of forcing her into a film in . . . 1917 to arouse hatred, etc. "China Girl is only entertainment when audiences kid it. OFFICE The The big Coast-to-Coaste- Why did your query in Brazil: country stop letting us hear Lowell Thomas now and then? . . . Please send that item to Mr. Nelson Rocken fellers Committee, Washington, and help cement relations with South America . . . Joe Bessers interruptions on Jack Bennys show are the most amusing gags in a long time . . . The endless interruptions on Infopleez ("The best tunes of all go to Carnegie Hall!) must have robbed that attraction of Most irritating. many listeners. And se you remedy matters by simply dialing to another program . . . George Dennys Town Hall Meeting of the Air remains a radio must . . . The claims here and there that certain radio news commentators have the largest audience in the U. S. were debunked by the radio page in the current issue of Time, which lists the "first ten programs, and names only one reporter. (S. or Cc USED INSTRUMENT! bu wc CASH NOW for used band bistro., eordions and pianos Write todnr i mate. SUMMERHAYS MUSICon 17 West First South, Sait Lake Citj I a WANTED BARBERS ARE IN DEMAND while you learn barberinjr in a MOLER-SAL- ... ... tbt EQUIPMENT NEW AND USED desks end typewriter, addins inchs, safe, l 8. L. Dt:S EX. ii W. Broh.,,J T i LAKE BARBER CQ? 170 Regent St.. Salt Lake i car Crr for to sav sta 1 FOR SALE TRACTOR I Completely Rebuilt Tractors for f Sai Cultivating and General Farming, f, sta ful. practical machines rebuilt k makers ef the Powcrhora Tracton Bonham Bros. Mfg. 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Reporter Robert Caseys Torpedo Junction (we just caught up with corker. it) is a Bobbs-Merri). ll The Magazines: The cunning and moxie of the Hitler haters inside the Reich are reported in Spy at Work in The Atlantic. Jon B. Jansen and Stefan Weyl thrill you The with the adroit hoodwinkings. stunt becomes all the more admirable when you know they operated with hardly any money . . . This Week introduces the guy who did most to make a monkey out of Goeb-be(excepting Nature, who made him look like one). He is, according to Curt Reiss, the Soviet propagandists Lozovsky. His hooting on the Berlin newscastings choked lies in Nazi gullets, and his pamphleteering has caused Hitler to double his carpet devourings . . . Theatre Arts Monthly cites Katharine Cornell's tribute to Thornton Wilder. His translation of Lucrece, in which she flopped, is described by Miss C. as "my favorite failure . , . Rollin Kirbys cartoon page in Look should be pasted In every shop window in the U. S. to remind gripers to jump from the tallest skyseraper. Kirbys is the best yet Lu vorit -- Tw( Relief At Las Tii maki listln For Your Si (M Creomulsion relieves prompt'50!10' cause it goes right to the seat c walk trouble to help loosen and f$ceD, , . germ laden phlegm, and aid to soothe and heal raw, tender flamed bronchial mucous mrlK0 branes. Tell your druggist to sell way a bottle of Creomulsion with tits he s derstanding you must like to i:,' w n quickly allays the cough or you nen to have your money back. CREOMULSIO for Coughs, Chest Colds, B Doi roract J1X ls The Front Pages: Alexander Fulfillment of his duties as price Woollcotts typewriter used to bite administrator was claimed by Leon people, but it never showed as many Henderson In a report to congress fangs as the one that delivered the The which marked his retirement from obit on him for the the office. piece lifted eyebrows an over town, so unsparing was it Probably would 1 was directed to stabilize prices. That directive was obeyed," the re- have got plaudits from the victim who hated drooling pollyanna fakery port said. "I was directed to establish prices . . . The day after Benitos empire alike to buyer and seller. That di- died in Tripoli, the Italian rags started giving him sass. One Milan garective was obeyed. "1 was directed to stabilize rents. zette spat in his eye. Thats how it Rents have been reduced and sta- goes with losers. Old Baldy couldnt bilized. get a worse punishment than hoots "I was directed to distribute from the crowds who once vived scarce goods on a basis of fairness his balcony hamming . . , Mostly to all. That directive, too, was yeu agree with Walter Duranty, but not when, in a mag piece, he calls obeyed. Hendersons review of these direc-tlve- s himself a second rate reporter. They and their execution no doubt dont come any flrster . . . Walter was aimed at criticism of his activi- Kerr filed some paragraphs to the ties as the OPA bead. It was his Reid familys paper as a Moscow task to impose regulation hereto- gossip column." If he wants a title for it, how about "Sovietcetra"? fore foreign to America. Mr. Henderson warned that the Quotation Rupert "honeymoon period of business expansion which has lifted profits far Hughes: Her face was her chape-ton-e . . . Faith Baldwin: She was above normal peacetime levels has come to an end and that ahead lie torn between love and booty . . . Increasing difficulties. Costs are in- Anon: When you talk, you only say creasing month by month with press- something you know. When you listen, you learn what someone else ure on price ceilings. While the extremely favorable knows . . . F. O. Repploer: She sat profit position has provided Industry up like an exclamation point , . . with an ample cushion to absorb W. L. McElvancy: The whispered these pressures within the frame- goodby of one to never see again work of stable prices, according to . . . 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