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Show EDITORIALS OF THE WEEK SALT LAKE CITY TIMES (Utah. Dem.) says: NATHAN'S DREAM It is safe to conclude tkat the propaganda attendant to the tattle of profit vs. wages, has the public well confused. The present struggle was touched off with the publication of the analysis prepared for the Congress of Industrial Organization Or-ganization (CIO) by Robert R. Nathan. It is on this analysis analy-sis that CIO unions will base their claims for increased wages. Presentation of the report was carefully staged by Mr. Nathan, who has had long experience as an economist with a number of war agencies. Nathan's conclusions are that a 23 percent increase in wages is necessary to bring ' real weekly earnings back to the January, 1945, level. The report assumes that the money which goes into profits passes out of main stream of buying and spending. If we are to accept his theory you have to believe that only through wages are purchasing power and jobs created. It is our belief, however, that the flaw in this theory is the base upon which it is built. Nathan says that a 23 percent increase in-crease in wages is possible without a rise in prices. Theoretically Theoret-ically this may be possible. But it is not in accordance with first name. All members are on a single level, irrespective of position or fortune, and their purpose is to promote fellowship, fel-lowship, to help one another and their fellow citizens. It is to be hoped that this Russian scribe will return to America some day when he has more time. He should visit some other luncheon clubs, any of those meeting in Summit, for example. They might continue to give him a laugh but he would finally discover, no doubt, that mature Americans, who can forget their inhibitions and romp like a bunch of adolescents, are really much saner than they appear-saner and more selfless. BISBEE (Arizona) BREWERY GULCH GAZETTE (Republican) says: IT IS TO LAUGH It is a good thing the Republicans are gifted with a strong sense of humor for it enables them to enjoy the advice ad-vice the defeated New Dealers are handing out. For the sake of the country you mustn't make the mistake of punishing pun-ishing labor because of John L. Lewis," and "You'll bring on a depression if you get too far away from the liberalism of our late great leader," etc. The Republicans are smart enough to Icnow that the union leaders can t be punished, even though their claws might be clipped a trifle, and they have no desire to "punish" "pun-ish" the American working man for what his selfish leaders lead-ers have done and are doing. My own idea that the party will be making a big mistake if the leaders pay any atten- tion to the New Dealers and other left wingers who recently recent-ly took such a licking. The New Deal is dead and about to be buried, and the last of its crackpot leaders will turn up their political toes, end their political life, shortly after the 1948 election. It has become very apparent that a majority of the people of the country are good and tired of the New Deal idea of regimentation which was borrowed from the former partners Hitler and Stalin; they don't like the Roosevelt idea of "spending ourselves rich," and lifting ourselves out of depression by our bootstraps. We are paying interest on a debt that is greater than the assessed valuation of every ev-ery bit of tang ible property in the country, and the New Deal is responsible for it. We are not going to repudiate that debt, but we have certainly repudiated the idea of ''security from the cradle to the grave," the alleged social gains of the "more aboundant life," and "labor's Magna Charta," one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the American people. what is happening and has happened in the past. A record which brings into sharp relief the contrast between virtuous theory and greedy practice. Nathan as a government economist was one of those who persuaded President Truman many months ago that industry could give an 18 percent pay raise without seriously serious-ly affecting price levels. His theory was that profits had mounted so much higher and faster than wages that industry indus-try could well afford to cut off a good slice of the profits pie and share it with the wage earner at no cost to the consumer. But in practice after the 18 percent wage boost, the opposite actually happened. Prices began to soar. Nathan's present figures show that while the cost of living went up only 8.6 percent from January 1945 to May 1946, the increase by the end of last year will be more than 20 percent. Even before price controls were removed, there was a big bulge in the price level. Rightly or wrongly, it was evident evi-dent that business was passing along to the consumer the cost of the wage increases. When this occurred there was some semblance of price controls left. Today we have no price curbs. Just why Nathan Na-than and his CIO clients think prices will be held down after af-ter a second round of wage increases is hard to see. It has been definitely proven that self restraint is not enough. According to Nathan's theory we need a lot more government gov-ernment planning to keep the proper ratio between profits and wages. The verdict of last Nov 5 was for much less planning. Controls are going fast before the Republican congress comes in. Within the last two weeks President Truman threw out about the last of them. It seems to be the attitude of the administration to move quickly and beat the Republicans Republi-cans to it. So after taking everything into consideration it is our belief that if lab or is wise it will look at this problem in a practical manner and forget the hairbrained theorists. SUMMIT (New Jersey) HERALD (Independent) says: OUR LUNCHEON CLUBS A visiting dignitary, a journalist, made the comment he finds the typical meeting of an American luncheon club both amazing and amusing. His impressions are set down in an article which has appeared widely in American newspapers. news-papers. The man, Ehrenburg, declares that he saw respectable businessmen wearing big celluloid identification tags, making mak-ing funny noises, singing songs and otherwise acting like a bunch of uninhibited schoolboys. There are even a few Americans who have certainly had time enough to get used to luncheon clubs and their various form of exhibitionism that are still a little surprised at the way staid and stern leading citizens of the community commun-ity can toss overboard selfrestraint, even without liquid stimulation, stim-ulation, when attending the weekly luncheon meeting of a club. The comradeship, the hearty song fests and the good-natured good-natured horseplay are a bit foreign to the ordinary mien of most members. But in his hurried visit, Journalist Ehrenburg didn't have a chance to see everything or learn anything about the club he visited. As a reporter, he did a sloppy job. If he had been particularly observant and a fact-hunter he would have discovered that his host club, which used a vaudeville routine as it ate, was also generously contributing much time and money to ease the lot of the blind and other unfortunates. unfortu-nates. Like olher luncheon clubs and many so-called fun groups in this country, these organizations foster unselfishness unselfish-ness more than fun-making. 1 here is to a large degree a let-down of restraint and dignity among these groups. Moreover, they are democratic demo-cratic organizations in which everyone is addressed by his |