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Show PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE Tlie altitude of a great many people tovard the problem prob-lem of inflation is not helpful. They dodge the facts involved. in-volved. Most people cannot build homes. Their ability to buy many of the belter foods is diminishing. Basic manufacturing manu-facturing industries are confronted with costs which every businessman hnows threaten to shove prices to the point of crippling mass production. The cjistribution industry, also dependent upon high volume movement of goods, is up against a similar situation. Intelligent farmers are aware that disaster is the inevitable consequence of endlessly rising ris-ing prices. Union, leaders with a grain of sense under their hats will admit, privately if not publicly, that a race between be-tween wages and prices, if continued long enough, will make paupers of American workmen. 1 Tragic is the attitude of many, of our public officials who, while waging a political sham battle against inflation, infla-tion, are fully aware that the solvency of the Federal government gov-ernment and the integrity of the dollar itself are at stake. All of us from the President down are observing the result of inflation and depreciated money, in country after country, coun-try, from China to England. Desperate people in such countries have submitted to ruthless dictatorships which are destroying their liberties. They are losing spiritual and moral values in a futile scramble for a false security, the like of which the world has never seen. It is almost unbelievable that in the face of this situation, situa-tion, leading citizens, in and out of public life in the United States, can for a moment play politics with inflation, or utter a single word which they do not believe to be based upon sound reasoningsyet it is being done daily. |