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Show i lii ' ji Iktimm BHrai Ujl04H& J SSB Finds Vir, a j A 1 Crnmmn WNU Wgtf Wj.fi.i.ti'.ii J4i& I y I'lIA Heady to Ilrlp Home Builders rpi-- i;e !: r"'1, i'l (' i, oi t i.t . r: i wfs- . 1 lui J i 2 (! :l- r Ims cl WNI) Service, ISIS Eye Street N. W., i''V-.'- it Wafchlngtua, U. C. g Two men who have been friends wiU have occanon to remember the month of August, 1945, for a long time to come. Sgt. Peter Pugh, waiting for Invasion on an aircraft carrier off the coast of Japan, heard that the war wai over. Hank Haines, welder in a medium bomber plant, drew with hia pay envelope a noUee that hia job had come to an end because medium bombers were no longer needed. Of course the sergeant was not discharged immediately. Neither was Hank not immediately. He had two weeks. Then he went downtown tu tile hia unemployment cumper.sa-- ; tion claim and put ia an appllca-- j tion with the United Statea Era-- I pluyment Service for a new job. Within sis weeks be was back at the aircraft factory, but Instead of welding parts for medium bombers ' he was working on the engine of giant passenger plane. Then Peter came home. Before he off to p,ciflc h had in getting into hill production same worked the at plant, did the mediately. At the same time. Frank W. Curt- - veT7 same type of work Haines was Petr needed a Job and right, executive vice president of the association, set out the organiza- - iinc he was a veteran, Hainea once tion'i program for speed- - mor had to give up hi position and another claim with the ing construction and counteracting pluyment compensation office. tendencies: F'irtion? T1 namea are. But the 1. Continue present price controls on building materials for only ae atoriea contain facta that have been long aa to necessary. Ai rapMly as happening thousand uf tunes in all aa item to found to be In ample Part of the country since the war supply, it should be removed from ended. Facts like these arc telling some important things to an agency price control. 2. Inaugurate aa active program tn Washington that was set up at by the Civilian Production agency, the bottom of the depression to try r to the War Production to help people meet the economic board, to control the Inventory of critic that eomea to almost every-sho- rt Items In order to eliminate on some time. This agency is the Social Security board, and 1 am the possibility of hoarding. 3. Start an active thinking particularly of that division campaign by government agraclea of It which administers the state unto Increase the eupply of scarce employment compensation laws, building materials, and, If neers- - The sudden end uf the war brought ary, grant price and wage in-- manifold problem to this agency, creases te break bottleneck. Like many others. It had expect- 4. Builders, realtors sad financ- - ed reconversion and demobilization Ing liuilltutiuns will conduct n co- - to be gradual processes and program ta maintain non-- ployment aid was ready to meet that But the atomic bomb situation. Inflationary prices of homes. . AH segments f the home con- - changed the picture and suddenly traction industry will formulate a milllons"tjf men and women were program to rapidly in- - thrown onto the labor market There rrease the eupply of bomrs In aU was a sudden rise ill claims for .employment insurance as the cuun- 5. The Veterans administration,' try grappled with the problem of the United (totes Employment sere- - creating jobs for the workers who lee and slher governmental ages--' were no longer needed when war rice should make Immediate were terminated and for Ion for the channeling of vet and the boys who were doffing uniforms experienced workers Into the con-- for mufti. str action field. In the matter of pricing ol uaed Bc homes, close supervision by FHA Jobleae Pay and private financial institutions will In this first experience of Its kind be relied upon to keep costs within since the SSB came into being some reasonable bounds in the absence of Important facts arc being uncov-ceilin-g regulations. cred snswers to such questions ae: Few Old Ralldings gold. What to the truth about peace- Realty activity has been lively Induced unemployment in this coun-sinc- e 1939 in the face at the housing try? hortage. but inability of property, When on the average will the to find new quarters has employment compensation periods served to decrease the supply of old m, out and the ertol become acute 84 Even so. of cent m there are not enough jobs? buildings. per the localities reporting to the Na- - What kind c f people are asking tlonal Association of Real Estate (,w jobless pay? Is tt true that they boards revealed price increases. ara taking this money and not 124 per cent ering to look fbr work? Let u. see whet .newer, the Em- nrmZnll,i,h.a.V friCM Bureau of the Social !n,mily ployment have approximated Board is finding to these quee- cunty the monthly rental of purchaser!. In tlone as experts here In Washington July of this year, however, statistics end In the field eift through a great showed that in Denver, Cola, casts of data. First I might say of buildings were 95 per cent over mas compensation this ratio; in Cleveland, Ohio, 65 per that unemployment at this writing arc a good cent ier; in San Francisco, Calif., claims Z ni,i-- -r i life-lon- own iiicoinp I. I..i .rame i f S,:.T.,i.,,hi m Uui- 'Til. .'.I Mil ii kb-'ii- t S 2 li'Mij mi rcr S mi n ; ran t.li,!Ki,-(!.'- ) Mul iiis lii'ii k s. Vi.iir lliiii t T,-mltiiiMiir t.i;i TrP:i : 1 I r 1.1 i 'll II J .IT'S lii'.i U.'.c:l li.it r HA (!( H i! (Ill1 ll' M i f linlli.' I: u.m iill.ic-'.- i il I ir rn't-i- l lie .T'c1: (f t c n n i'l priwili I mre (1 ic as a "iM.'i-i:- ! 'll1- - fiii'l liiii.-lirai-'!' of In:i' liinii'd lliei.i J): i ' il'H M rl "x-.ci t t.i titter failure.-now It acl. lilies, however, are ii i i'l In by lending iii.it, bitmiis i Hunks and other lenders are now making home Itoiim-uiloans some i.f them ori moil- - generous terms than even the KHA will OPfl Struggles to Hold that Line As Building Costs Threaten to Zoom make. Eleven year ago It was iirqiossi- -' ble, or at least very difficult, fur n man of moderate means to own hi, own home. He had to save up By AL JEM.ICKA and enough for at least 50 per cent of ,li WALTER (HEAD value and had to go on mmlgiiging Belaaard be Wkn NcwuMgcr Union. end remortgaging fur three-yea- r perlTII a huge postwar riods. at high interrat rates, some Instances he paid ai high aa building and per cent. boom in the oiling, sen- fha said to prospective home timent in the nations capital owners end to private lending insli- , folk, can own favors both government and tu tiling alike, your own homea by paying only in industry working hand in per cent down on new homea cost-- hand to combat the dangers ing less Uian $8,000, and Uncle Sam of on re- i homes and used buildings. OPA drew the picture id a huge back-louf cunstrucliiui and a protracted period of short supplies in the face of tremendous demand. In all, the nation has a need for over eight million new homes. OPA figures, as a result of the Increase in families since 1940, servicemen marriages, undoubling in crowded quarters, the number of housing units now rated as inflationary spiral Despite Uie need and Uie compara1 from the Itilic loss. You can tive prosperity of the people, howp demand for housing. ever, a recent survey by the archiIn equal monthly installments for a pent-uAlready empowered to regulate tectural forum indicated that 37 per period up to 23 years at interest of costa of material! and services, the cent of the ' not more than 44 per cent. persons interviewed Office of Price Administration has would if prices of postpone building Loana for Farm Homea ought the additional authority to finished homes should soar above After financing many thousnnds control the sales price of finished (1,0(10 over present prices. Another of home purchases, Raymond Fo-- , homes and used buildings. Unless 12 per cent had not decided what lev KllA 'i'crtnr, say. "TV'cnune granted such permission, the agency course they would take. of the sound financial principles un- - argues, 1U check over Uie industry Of the total of 51 per cent that g derlying the FHA program, its far- - would be Imperfect, and determined to build regardless of a bcni-fllare proceeding mclled speculaUun would undo the (1,000 increase in costs, most rebenefits obtained by the other regu-O- f vealed witliout cost to Uie government." would raise more that they great importance to rural res-- 1 liitiuns. money, but a sizable percentage dei. idents and those living in rural Bitterly resisting OPA clared their intention to purchase a the FI1A has Just re- - dations, private builders asserted cheaper structure. Must sales would g that further controls announced Is over the it egthat crntly be under (7,000. its guaranteed loan provi- - try would result In a dimunition of In analyzing the results of the surUie to ions construction of country prosiective construction, while the vey, OPA asserted that the indicated humrs and also Uie provisions of problem is one of stimulating more. Its Title I fur the repair and mod- - Rather, Uie industry argued, OPA KERENS WHAT WENT WWONerniziiiton of existing homes and und other government agencies COSTS WENT WENT DOWN should concentrate farm buildings. upon the in- hmh'c w toawsudinM tons It seems to your reporter that in crease of supplies and manpower tu nwoimi uwn 10 construc-agthe face of ttie acute housing short-- ; provide a basia fur the tendency to throw away j tion. In tha. midst of Uie government restraints, Uie rapidly prices on siieculutlve vrrsy, Reconversion Director and other factors, that the ' der stepped in to announce that the safest procedure a prospective administration favored a program home owner rould take would be to embracing present government of mstcrials and services, go to his bank or building and loan association and say he wanted with no supervision over prices of to buy that home on an FHA In- finished homes and used buildings unless proven needed. sured mortgage. deferment of building plans in the Burden rf Mortgages. He woald be prelected (1) against In arguing for authority over pric- event of a (l.OUO increase in costs any Infilled appraisal of Um propwould result in a loss of employment ing of final aides. OPA pointed o to more than 800.000 erty; (I) against any shoddy workers, thereI World War which not (SI ngalnal really second records, only by reducing demand for goods whicn showed In and third mortgages; decrease construction (4) against they themselves could be counted (SI coats rose, but also emphasized Uie really mortgage renewals; upon to purchase. against lapsing af taxes and lasur-enc- serious mortgage problems later Now that private industry will growing from the original play an important part in the fight of homes. And hia monthly payments wanld to hold sales of finished and be In reasonable proportion to hia According to OPA figures, build-- used homes prices to reasonable levels, 21S per OPA will concentrate on the enregular lucerne, obviating Insofar as Ing material prices showed a possible, the chance af drfaalta In fMlt increase from 1914 to 1920, with forcement of dollars and cents ceilpayments and consequent farrrtoa-arr- more than half of the rise occur- ings for materials and services going ring after the armistice. At the same into structures. The flat resulting from prices will Veterans net only have the advan- time, total construction costs mountcover brick and millwork, lumber, tage of this FHA loaa, they also raa ed 189 per cent from IBIS to 1920, tile, plywood, screens and windows, 111 of the boost com-bi- ll harrow ap to (2,SSS under Uie CL. rooting, siding, insulation, heating for new home parchase, which Ing after Uie end of hostilities. soli pipe1, hardware, As a result of the inlhitionary equipment, Is also guaranteed by the govern-plumbing supplies, etc. meat through the Veterans' admin-- : spiral. OPA said, actual home In addition, servuvs controlled true lion toppled from the peak fig- - will include painting and paper hangtn ur 317.000 n' For the first time since Uie war. ing, renewing later. While prices auto. stallation and of roofs, plumbing inFHA applications for guaranteed uther work adapted to ,cU w,Ul ,he n,P home loans are now running at the supervision. klllt.IlM remained activity, they of rate 1,000 approximately per "Increased (apply Needed. another reces- week. The trend in new house con- In attacking the OPA proposal to in around 1928. 0B ,elMn tnictlon Is to get out of Uie cities and into Uie country, and this pres- - . Against Uiis record of World War slap controls over the prices of new OPA cited the accomplishments structures, the National Association er.t housing emergency finds more unn8 prosent conflict, when of Home Builders, spearheading prithan a million and a half families vernm'l control of material costs vate Industry, declared that the living doubled up. according to Uie to 31 P heId Price lncrM cent only way to prevent a serious inflaNational Housing agency. from August, 1939. Of this total, a tion was by increasing the supply to Bach to LatuT Movement meet the tremendous demand. per cent rise occurred after who are watching the acute sunnes of the famous Although swumped with applications for new houses, Joseph E. housing shortage see a deflnftc order of May, 1943 Merriom, president of the assoback to the land" movement which Meanwhile, the increase In mean the construction of thou- - structlon costs totalled only 34 per ciation said, the home builders cansince August. 1939. with only a not complete the large new developsands of new small homes in rural areas and In the smaller towns of limited amount of building done to ments which are needed to ease the housing shortage until they have e comniodnte necessary needs, the nation. and assurance from the government that lluK Dem,n,i- - Short Supplies. plots are the dream of thousands In contemplating the need for con- manufacturers of badly needed maIn the massed population centers In trol over sales prices of finished terials and equipment will be aided Uie cities Estimates of housing shortage reach the 12.000,000 mark and o' WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME this number approximately live mil In the 1913 to 1978 Inflattonary lion are In the small towns and ru labor casts did Del rise as period, ral areas throughout the nation. The much as building material prices, war brought about mass migration r "fraction, how- of workeis from the South and East T1" lm'rr,rd ub"tanU,,p d,,r,n into the West and Midwest and these next several peacetime years will end after the war. The rite between 1913 and 191g accounted fur 40 per te anuther mass migration of cent of the total Inflatine. In the workers from the slum and crowded sections of our great cities into Iwe year between the end of the of ISIS and the breathing space of the rural sec- war In Navrmhcr tions. So pressure of these events December, I9?0, prices went up rap to come will make hunting one of Idly, accounting for 68 per cent at the Inflation. the critical issues in the future. realty 1'SLSS treraend. ' untram-reachin- s ' recummen-comrnunillc- indus-tendin- O- ; all-o- e, contro-tncrensi- , ! n Tn-atrartla- three-quarte- rs 1 Tr (S re,v,'T '1 (-- "hold-the-line- " con-wi- ll c" One-acr- half-acr- J I- .- id25fltoai By BALKIIAGE mi Anal) it and Commentator. it- - ii :: i' i. ( Jobs Ever Ask for Unemployment Insurance, and Even They Soon Leave Rolls. or in iii l.iori, Fascinator Due to an unusuallv l.,. .e current cunditions, slir...y required in filling orrti n r..i most popular pattern nui: (end vour order to; Only One in Six Who Lose ' -- Ii g Face-Framin- Workers Want :: I Hi.i. I..J B lllil:!tra- li.a j. it tMiiuuJ.i'i J f i.t it I'm r :i' :l I n is a l.i b.. 't t ' 1 e. vi-ii s, p "t rl I' Smart i .ir.u W N 1 . KEEDLE1TORK Jobs, Not Pay to Be Idle in WASHINGTON Waller Shead '. ..A SEIWX CIRCLE e - six-poi- ry aart-esMo- unem-opcMti- previa-'contract- s both-averagi- l 59 per In Chicaio. a. 22ZT2 7 Milt; In AlUnta. O... ,M Nc. virl City, 38 per cent, and In Dallas, Texes, 34 per cent With property owners now able to move more freely, and demand for housing exceeding new con- .traction at the start the turnover of used home, may become greater in the immediate future. To check an inflationary spiral then, finance institutions will have to be careful in appraising the real value of prop- erty to prevent burdensome mort- gage payments or serious tosses in future years. Having indicated its preference for private regulation or ihe real estate market, the administration will provide ample opportunity f.,r a real examination of Its practicable processes in a period of real national emergency, The experiment will be Interesting to follow. Later thie would not by the war. Period of heavy ' unemptoyment peo- can wl or wor four month or. .more would .not .. op .. v0 tics. ta " no yet tn, pictur Aa these 01 "Pto3'men WateM u,dup roH 'yny thi lines are written, the (It, NATION'S FAVORITE To Save Money, Mix Your Ccugh Relief 1 Hone Even If you're not in! err l saving good money, you miiti)effective relief orcou;rl.s duet, colds. Eotrymixingityour. kitchen, and be ready for a t :i i,ri. It's to easy to m!x,a clr.: could t, It Make a syrup by stirring 2 cuk na-- a granulated sugar and 1 cu; few momenta until disxiuvi d. & cooking la needed. Or use tornsyiw or liquid honey. Instead of su.TurKyna. Put 24 ounces of Pinex luMalsti from any druggist) into a pii.t batik, Then fill up with your ayrup. The makes a pint about four limes much for your money. It taxusgaoj children really like it. It iuui family a long time, and never guilt But what you'll like most is then; it takes right hold of a court. ; loosens the phlegm, soothes irritation and helps clear the air passarre.-- . Eu, soreness, and let's you sleep. Yon say youve never seen Its superior, Pinex la a special compuund proven ingredients, in conc.ntrtai form, well known for its quick actio on throat and bronchial irritation Try it and if you're not really tt lighted, your money will be refund Adv. - 1 a face-frami- k. t nt Then tack other pieces on the tom of each ladder leg. These vent the ladder's slipping. at So Easy IXo Cooking. Quick KcHg ll Criaie Looma By 1947 As nearly as can be judged, ItSk SNAPPY FACTS botpre- So- RUBBER If you are able to obtain a yam cial Security officiate see crisis by 1947 if there arc not enough Jobs. (southern sweet potato) prop it up That is. they expect that unemploy in a jar of water covering about the yam, and watch it sprout ment compensation payments will a vine from one to two yards into over periods joblese carry people until about 1947. by which time pay. in length. It life will be limited to couple of months, menti will have been used up. Since the amount of compensation and the Apply a little colorless nail pol-r- e length of time for which it is paid or where a buttonhole based on previous length of em-- ; worked. As the polish pluyment and wages. It ts plain that the cloth and a period of spotty employment will dries, it stiffens working the holes is thus made affect a worker's future benefits. A different type of person is ap. easier, plying for jobless compensation' these days than when the syatem1 Inasmuch as nuts absorb mois-wa- s set up in the days when apples ture, they should be placed in boil-wed being sold on street corners tag water for a few minutes tore adding them to cake or bread unemployment was a major dough. Otherwise they will make threat to family security. baked product dry. In the early thirties worker collected their benefits for the If a load of gravel or chat is entire period of their eligibility around the well curb end placed A without were still end jobs. down well, the soil will not packed are moment of thla they wash away from the curb, allowfor au average ef foer and rats to get under week and then getting jobs. To- ing rabbits the curb and into the water. are women more applying day for unemployment compensation Try trimming an old whiskbroom than men. (killed workers make into a sharp for cleaning ap more than Si per cent af the corners and crevd rank claimants; ices in furniture and floors. next In number. As unemployment come into the A paste made of baking soda national picture again and efforts nd water will remove coffee Jobmore complete are made to get from enameled kitchen toes legislation out of Congress, ar- stains ware. guments are heard that people who re able to get unemployment comSpare that brassiere by washing pensation do not bother to took for Jobs. This is answered by the So-- H after each day or two of wear, cial Security Board on the basis of Twill last longer, fit better. what they have been finding out from the postwar claims. They point out Brat that little better than one tn six of the persona who lost their job as a result of unemto receiving reconversion ployment compensation payments. This shows, they say. that a worker prefer a Job any day to being paid Moreover, they for not working. point to the fact that over 750,000 person, or about 35 per cent of the workers who filed claims initially since J Day, have already left the rolls and token jobs. Then there ts ths testimony that in two representative cities where special studies were made It was found that of the workers who left the claim rolls took jobs before they drew any benefits at all. They say that other case can be cited to prove the point. Meantime, as the second wave of Jobless workers hits the labor market, the unemployment compensation agencies prepare to handle growing claims for Jobless pay unless and until peacetime industry gets its wheels turning to provide the Jobe that are needed. I S see- - "d w,,( ml onempleymeet to hit the reentry since the war ended to mounting as the first ware recedes, At the present time workers ore being discharged because they ere bring displaced by servicemen whs ar being demobilized. The first wave was made ap af those persons who found themselves eat of Jobe BARBS Sines Pcait Harbor, the United Stales has produced at much iyn Ihetic lubber as lha entire worldi supply ef natural lubber for the 18 yean from 1900 tirough 1918. The rubber tadastry! prewar capacity ef 85,004,000 re be-an- tires year has been creased te mere than In- 00 dviliaa anally. ' j hard-to-get- at eemt-akille- .... WJS.wBlef I two-thir- MBN by B auk h age Sen - Gay There to talk of running General' Spaats. former commander of the: U S. airforces In Europe, for guv-j emor of Pennsylvania In 1948. Well, ao far nobody baa defeated him. ' About 18.000.000 women were workJ Day. And now they aay if they and the and the e would go home It would settle the employment problem. ing on V-- teen-age- over-ager- rs QUICK Get soothing, blessed relief from tormenting neuralgia g Ben Gay! Your doctor knows the pains with famous agents methyl salicylate and men-tho- L contains rpto2Vi times more of both Well, Ben-Ga- y these wonderfully soothing ingredients then five other Get enuine,quick-ect- i on Ben-Gawidely offered rub-infast-actin- When we hear all this talk about how the achoola end college, aren't educating their students I can't help thinking of two of the brat educated men 1 know, Leula Brownlow, former commissioner of the District of Columbia and authority on civic administration, and Watson Miller, recently mad head of the Federal Neither Security administration. finished grade school. , A synthetic rubber developad aatirnly (real potretoam pawt Is new being noed in the manufacture ef truck --tirs i Br tubes. Called Butyl, the new cyatbotic provides aa extra margin af safety against puncture, held air ; V-- But the situation ts different freh ,nd the h,,v i ... " f because war Industries had ta cow vert to peacetime apcratlnn. In tha flrst wave about six mlllior. worker found themselves out of! work as result of the ending ol! war contracts. Of these, three mil-- ! lion shifted to peacetime Jobs righl away without any interruption, twe million registered In unemployment compensation offices and about one million are unaccounted for they may have found other jobs without registering in the unemployment of-lice, or they might have gone on' vacation or retired. About 1, 100,008. former war workers of this number, found it necessary to draw iinem-- i Right now C ASCINATORS are beginning to pluyment compensation. pop out-asizes, shapes and the claims for jobless pay are drop- bdt for sheer charm and Social colors, and week each Security ping effect the triangular officials say that means the lull Im- pact of the flrst wave of unemploy- - fascinator crocheted in soft open ment the reconversion wave has work stitch still takes the cake, been felt. The bulk of the war work- - You need just two ounces of yarn ei have been laid off. The bulk ol. try one in fuchsia, turquoise, those who are going to file for bene- - Chinese jade green, soft beaver fits have already done so. .brown, yellow or rose-pinWhat's ahead, then, to the second wave the unemployment which will Tb obtain complete crocheting Ins true- pttern No come as an aftermath of demoblli- 5491) send 18 cents In coin, your name, ration. address and tbs pattern number. It la estimated that from six to nine million servicemen ere destined to return to industry to II months. Is In Ihe next about twe milliae additfon, workers who have been tn service during the war win be looking for new Jobe. That mrana that about eight Cut an old rubber stair tread or million persons will be threwu doormat into strips and tack these on the labor market tn this to the steps of your step ladder. second wave whleb will come These treads prevent slipping. as a resell of the end of the war. -- pain-relievi- s. y! |