Show I I I I I I I I I I R by Western Union MOUNTING AUK AItI m OF 01 fIVE CUMULATIVE GUM WAGI WAGE ROOSTS ARE AHE WORTH only ani what they will buy Ever cheap ening dollars do not make for a 0 high cr yr standard of ot living Labor and ond management arc are playing at al cross crosa purposes and ond the American lare are paying the penalty Enforcement of or ceiling prices s 's was Wit practical only so long Ion as IL ceilings covered ered cost of or production lion tion which means wages wagN a awell U as well stell as ILi covering con ring prices of or what that was produced It was not a question as u to how the lh wages were secured whether as ns an n In Increase crease per hour or by shorten shorten- shortening shortenIng ing the hours and Increasing the hIgi overtime Wages are a major part of ot pro cost When they are pushed upward without a II proportionate proportion ale In crease in volume of ot production prices of ot commodities must go up or industry stops Capital and man management management refuse to operate at a loss Capital will continue to meet th the wage and hour demands of at labor s so long as those Increasing ever d de dc mands may be by high rr er prices for tor commodities That I means inflation spelled in capital i F letters That Is 18 what we have today We Wr are lire facing an ever increasing I amount of such inflation for tor which we the American people are arc pay paying i Ing and which will break us ui as liS asI a I nation and ns as individuals C II UY J ItS ItS' ONLY WAY V. Y There Is I. ono onn way by whIch we Wt the lie American people could slop slog that deadly process We Ve could quit buying Wo so faced much the same Sante situation following the close do of World War I. I I In III 1921 the people Ilea lIlt went on a buyers' buyers strike priced High merchandise could not be he hold sold leople would riot buy Imy When sales Hales stopped in industry In In- stopped producing Work Work- Workers Workers ers lost their priced high Jobs A It short hort lived depression lon tel fol lOWell lowed That was bitter medicine but i St 11 effected a cure It brought us back to a somewhere near normal con With less wages paid in dollars that would buy more mort indus industry try could produce at ot a price the people could pay and the standard of living was not affected The 1 ho wild and senseless race between wages wa s sand and prices had been stopped For the farmer who tho hud hod in priced high-priced land on en the basis i of at the Ule soaring prices of tarn farm prod products I it meant disaster The lower prices would not pay olT otT the mort mortgage gage on tile the priced high acres he had purchased During World War II It the farmer did not speculate in land landAS AS ns he did in World War Var I. I I A buy buyers buyers' buyers ers ers' strike will ill him by reducIng Ing ng his take from his farm products Hit but bu t he does not have hae the Ule mortgage to worry about In the end he will profit as will all America from low lower er prices on the things he buys Ill Lu the meantime the Uie farm will vill pro provide vide the necessities of ot living Rather Hather than have hl the race ol ci sages and prices pricE's continue to a point of i inflation we wo had better choose as ns the lesser of two evils n II temporary depression We can pro duce duel that by a n buyers buyers' bU strike S C 0 1 YS AND NU AN PAYS YS MORE ManE THAN TIE A YEAR AGO I or or- ordered ordered dered a II new lIew automobile It has not been een delivered and 1 I do d not know when it will ill be lx If It were delivered dell today oday the price I l would pay is just more than the price at the date of my m order That difference Is in increased creased wages It Jt not only Is the increase in wages to the men on the assembly lines in automobile plants plant but ant also includes thousands who have only an indirect part in the building of that car Among these are the themen U themen e emen men who mine the iron ore ort those who ho transport it by rail and boat to the mills and those who trans traits transform form torm the ore into the iron ingot and steel plate platt Then those ht th thI I mine and transport the coal and limestone needed in 11 i the manufacture I ture of ot steel Indirectly help hell to raise I the pi puce ice of ot automobiles Out of that t I 00 is s paid an increased wage to toI I those who transport the steel and other materials to the car building i plants to those who vho transport the completed cars from the plant plan to the agency with which I placed my m order and to the employees of that agency All An of these and more take a bite or nibble out of ot the that hat hatI I the consumer must pay pa Little or orI I none of it remains with the con con- concerns conI I cerns cems that directly or indirectly pro produced the car ear What is true of auto automobiles mobiles is also true of other things things' Wages go up and prices go up It II Itis is you ou and I 1 and the other fellow the consumer who pay pa the wages 0 S C Till TilE O DAYS 8 each minute they the mid lid dd to 10 the day da- daylight daUght light hours adds to our vitality and hopes hopt's The Die brightness of or orI I spring is coming and the glori glorious lorI lorI- ous da das s of ot summer are arc not far tar away Such is the th meaning to those who vho I ho have ht e passed JI all aU allotted birthdays S C C THERE art are radios in the Ib homes o a o. o more than of fan f. f ilits cod and each family Imil Ine INt to 10 out out- Jones Jo s the bt Joneses in it the b matter mailer m e oj ojos noise os |