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Show Average Citizen Has Answer to National Welfare There Is considerable difference of opinion with regard to the attitude atti-tude civilians will take during the ; next few months. Their attitudes will largely determine whether we have a recession of several months' duration and the extent of the recovery re-covery from such a recession. One group thinks that in spite of lower incomes, based on a shorter work i week, civilians will have more leisure and spend more. This group would expect a brisk trade based on free spending. Important Im-portant segments of the federal government gov-ernment would seem to favor policies pol-icies that would lead to free spending spend-ing accompanied by what might be j termed controlled lnflntlon. The other group expects people to be cautious and unwilling to spend their accumulated savings. What will happen probably will be determined by the extent and promptness with which civilian industry absorbs the millions of men being discharged from war Industries, those temporarily tempora-rily Idle, and the discharged men from the armed services. The committee for economic de- j velopment has Issued a report which ! gives business men's estimates of postwar markets for manufactured goods. These estimates are optimistic. opti-mistic. The committee points out that the postwar years can roughly he divided Into three periods: first, j short period of reconversion, which may last through 1!)40 ; second, from 1946 or early 1947, for a year of deferred orders, and the last, period of self-sustaining. Although Secretary Anderson Indicated In-dicated that meat rationing was on the way out, possibly matter of months, storage stocks are relatively low, and lt is expected that the j strong demands for meats will be maintained long enough to absorb the rather heavy movement of cattle ad hogs that Is anticipated during ' the fall and early winter months. Itange conditions hawe been excellent, excel-lent, and cuttle men report that the ranchers are in a mood to carry larger than normal supplies of range . uttle over winter rather than to sell them at substantial discounts now. I |