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Eleven year age it wn Imimssi-ble- . or at leant very difficult, for a man of modernte ineurin to own hi own home. He had to aave up By AL JKDMCKA end enough fur at leant SO per cent of iti WALTKR Kilt' A I) value and had to go on mortgaging RelMMd b) Wcatarn Nnwaptr Unloe. and remortgaging for three-yea- r pea huge postwar riods. at high Interest rates. In some instances he paid as high as I and per cent. in the offing, sen FHA said to prosieetive home timent in the nations cupital owners and to private lending Instifavors both government and tutions alike, own can you folks own homes by paying only 10 industry working hand in your per cent down on new homes cosh hand to combat the dangers log less Ilian $0,000, and Uncle Sam of an inflationary spiral rewill guarantee the bank against from the tremendous loss. You can make your payments sulting demand for housing. In equal monthly Installments for a pent-u- p Already empowered to regulate period up to 25 year at interest of costs of materials and services, the not more than 46 per cent Office of Price Administration has Loans for Farm Homos ought Die additional authority to After financing many thousands control the sales price of finished of home purchases, Raymond Fo- homes and used buildings. Unless ie1 FllA riierli;r, says, granted such permission, the agency of the sound financial prindplen un- argues, its check over the Industry would be iniierfect. and untram-melli'- d derlying the FHA program, its benefits are proceeding speculation would undo tlie benefits obtained by the other reguwithout cost to the government." Of great Importance to rural Tril- lations. lion I and those living In rural Bitterly resisting OPA recommencommunities, the FHA has Just re- dations, private builders asserted cently announced that It la ex- that further controls over the industending Its guaranteed loun provi- try would result in a dummitinn of sions to the construction of country-home- prosieelive construction, while the and also the provisions nf problem is one uf stimulating more. Its Title I for the repair a'ud mod- Rather, the industry argued, OPA ernization of existing homes and and oUier government agencies should concentrate upon the' infarm buildings. It seems to your reporter thnt In crease of supplies and manpower to constructhe face of the acute housing short- provide a basil for age, the tendency to throw away tion. In the midst of the controgovernment restraints, the rapidly Increasing prices on speculative versy, Reconversion Director Snyhousing and other fuctora. that the der stepped in to announce that the ufest procedure a prospective administration favored a program home owner could take would be to embracing present government reggo to his bank or building and ulation of materials and services, loan association and say he wanted with no suiiervislim over prices of to buy thnt home on an FHA In- finished homes and used buildings unless proven needed. sured mortgage. Burden ef Martgages. lie would be prelected fl) agalual In arguing for authority over prlc- -' any Indited appraisal of (he propbig of final sales, OPA pointed o erly; it) against any shoddy (1) against rosily second World War I records, which not only and third martgages; 14) against showed a decrease In construction as costly mortgage renewals; (5) costs rose, but also emphasized the against lapsing at taxes and Insur- serious mortgage problems later ance. growing from the original of homes. And hla monthly payments would be la reasonable prs portion to hi According to OPA figures, buildrrgnlar Income, obviating Insofar aa ing material prices sliowed a 218 per possible, the rhaaee of defaults la rent increase from 1914 to 1920, with payments and rsasequrnt forrcloo-urr- s more than half of the rise occur-- j ring after the armistice. At the same resulting from Vetrrani not only have the advan- time, total construction costs mounttage of this FllA loan, they also cao ed 189 per cent from 1913 to 1920, of the boost comborrow np to !,M under the Cl., with bill hr new homr purchase, which ing after the end of hostilities, A a result of the intl.itionary la also guaranteed by the govern' ment through the Veterans' admin- spiral, OPA said, actual home con-- : ilruction toppled from the peak flg- istration. 405.000 units In 1919 to 247,000 For the first time fines tho war, ure of FHA applications hr guaranteed a year later. While prices autohome loans are now running at the matically fell with the drop in rate of approximately 1,000 per building activity, they remained week. The trend In new house con- relatively high, with another recesstruction Is to get out of the cities sion setting in around 1928. Against this record of World War and into the country, and this present housing emergency finds more I, OPA cited the accomplishments than million end a half families during the present conflict, when control of material costs living doubled up, according to the government held price increases to 31 per cent National Housing agency. from August, 1939. Of this total, a $.7 per cent rise occurred after isBack to Land? Mocrmrnf " Tunc who are watching the acute suance of the famous housing shortage see a definite order of May, 1943 Meanwhile, the increase In con"buck hi the land" movement which will mean the construction of thou- struction costs totalled uiily 34 pci sands of new small homes In rur.il cent since August. 1939. with only a areas and in the smaller towns of limited amount of building done to accommodate necessary needs the ration. One-acr-e and Huge Demand, Short Supplies. pli.ts are the dream of thousands In contemplating the nerd for conin the massed population centers in trol over sales prices of finished the cities Estimates of housing shortages reach the 12.00(1,000 mark and c! WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME this number approximately five mil 1 the 1913 to 1929 Inflationary lion are In the small towns and ru period, labor casta did not rise ral areas throughout the nation. The mwh ee building material prirca. war brought about mass migration The total cast ef construction, of workers from the South and Eau Increased substantially during Into the West and Midwest and these and war. The rise brtween next several peacetime years will 1913 after the and 1911 avrountrd for 49 per see another man migration of cent of the total inflation. In the worker rrum the slum and crowdIwo years between the end of the ed irrtiona of our great cities into wor In November of I9tg and the breathing space of the rursl sec1929, prices went up rap tions So pressure of these events December, to come will make bousing one at Idly, accounting for M per cent ol the Inflation. the critical Issues In the future. Straggles to Hold that Line As Building Costs Threaten to Zoom In-r- OPA WITH realty e s homes and used OPA Cort-rlgh- six-poi- y n G- C0ST5 WENT Homssiusin WENT DOWN ismi m twiMns iioh coil) j j over-valuati- g. ; three-quart- er i ''hold-lhe-lme- e how-rvr- Vwrf- -- MSN8- - .. ; In getting Into full production im-- . mediately. At tiie same time, Frank W. pet, riod of short supli-- i in the face of executive vice president of the tremendous demand. association, set out the organizaIn all, the nation has a need for tions program for speedover eight million new homes, OPA ing construction and counteracting figures, as a result of the increase inflationary tendencies: 1. Continue in families since 1940, servicemen present price controls marriages, undnubling in crowded on building mstrriil fur only so le neeesmry. A rapidly as quarters, the number of housing long units now rated as sn item Is faund te be in ample Despite the need and tin compara- supply, it should be removed from tive prosperity of the people, howprice control. 3. Inaugurate an active program ever, a recent survey by the architectural forum Indicated that 37 per by the Civilian Production agency, cent of the persona interviewed auccMMir to the War Production would postpone building if prices of board, to control the Inventory of finished homes should soar above short Items In order to eliminate fil.ODO over present prices. Another the possibility ef hoarding. 3. Start an active 12 per cent had not decided what course they would take. campaign by gavernmenl agencies Of the total of 51 per cent that to increase the supply ef scarce determined to build regardless of a building materials, and, If nrces-$1,000 Increase In costs, most regrant price and wage vealed that they would raise more to break bottlcnccki. 4. Builders, realtors and financmoney, but a sizable percentage declared their intention to purchase a ing Institutions will coodurt a to cheaper structure. Most sales would aperitive program to maintain non-lbe under $7,000. flationary prices ef homea. In analyzing the results of the surI. All argmeata af the home convey, OPA asserted that the indicated struction industry will formulate a program to rapidly Increase the supply or homrs In all HERF5 WHAT WENT WROW- buildings, drew the picture of a huge back-luof construction and a protracted all-o- half-acr- : t: It. SEWING C r f 70S Mission SI., Kan -- lunj,11 No Ever Ask for Name Analyit and Cummrntator. bemuse war Industries had to cats vert to peacetime eperation. In the first wave about six millior workers found themselves out ol, WNU Service, 1818 Eye Street N. W., Wskblngtvn, D. C. g Two men who have been friends will have occasion 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 was river. Hank Haines, welder In a medium bomber plant, drew with his pay envelope a notice that his Job had come to an end because medium bombers were no lunger needed. Uf course the sergeant was not Neither discharged Immediately. was Hank not immediately. He had two weeks. Then he went downtown lo file his unemployment compensation claim and put in an application with the United States Employment Service for a new Job. Within six weeks be was back at the aircraft factory, but Instead of welding part for medium bombers be was working on tha engine of a giant passenger plane. Then Peter came home. Before he went oS to the Pacific he had worked at the same plant, did the very same type of work Heine was now doing. Peter needed Job and since he wn a veteran, Hainea once more had to give up his position and file another claim with the unemployment compensation office. Fiction? The namee are. But the stories contain facta that have been happening thousand of times in all parts of the country since the war ended. Facta like theee are telling some important things to an agency in Washington that was set up at the bottom of the depression to try to help people meet the econumic crisis that comes to almost everyone some time. This agency Is the Social Security board, and I am thinking particularly of that division of it which administers the slate unemployment compensation laws. The sudden end of the war brought manifold problems to this agency. Lika many others, it had expected reconversion and demobilization to be gradual processes and unemployment aid was ready to meet that But the atomic bomb ituation. changed the picture and suddenly millions of men and women were thrown onto the labor market. There was a sudden rise in claims for unemployment Insurance as the country grappled with the problem of creating Jobs for the workers whq were no longer needed when war contracts were terminated and for the boys who were dolling uniforms for mufti. life-lon- S'.! i,N. concitiori, By BAUKIIAC.E . ' Iti activities, M'i T7. 'id i ioiii.t nil r I'.ills n j'li rr..ltiK '' - w- iioii tnua.i-curren- required in 1:1, mg or . . . most popular pa.e: i.Jlr Pend vriur order Unemployment Insurance, and Even They Soon Leave Roils. g . li.K Only One in Six Who Lose Jobs I! fiii uiron-p- Due to an Enclose Id cuiis timlMU N. W. II iiis.ru rpn:--: T ll'ti t;,S Ji:l il'il 'Illl.l ( tl l...t It .'.Imn dull ir i h,,. fi I:,.! ilro:1-'I:: uill.tinn. fir l!i- I' t.k l,,il.:i:.v :; ut livi jcrs. i!mk u, ..ry 1 t":vri :n rii ri'i'i i, IA ' CpniMM WNU 2v eta Fas: :siat0r g Jobs, Not Pay to Be Idle WASHINGTON -- Face-Framin- SSB Finds Workers Want Repute .x. t'" Smart auw. 'it' Pmi'f v:irr:c chicle eedlejtork sSt k f . deferment of building plans In the event of a $1,000 increase In cull would result in a loss of employment to more than 600.000 workers, thereby reducing demand for goods widen they themselves could be counted upon to purchase. Now that private industry will play an important part in the light to hold sulei prices of finished and used homes to reasonable levels, OPA will concentrate on the enforcement of dollars and cents ceilings for materials and services going into structures. The fiat prices will cover miliwork, lumber, brick and tile, plywood, screens and windows, rooting, siding, insulation, heating soil pipe, hardware, equipment, plumbing supplies, etc, in addition, icrviccs controlled will Include painting end paper hanging. renewing of roofs, plumbing installation and other work adapted to supervision. Increased Supply Needed." In attacking the OPA proposal to slap controls over the prices of new structures, the National Association of Home Builders, spearheading private industry, declared that the only way to prevent a serioua Inflation waa by increasing the supply to meet the tremendous demand. Although swamped with applications for new houses," Joseph E. Mernoni. president of the association said, the hume builders cannot complete the large ne developments which are needed to ease llic housing shortage until they have assurance from the government that nianufurturers of badly needed materials and equipment will be aided classes. 5. The Veterans administration, the I'nitrd Stales Employment ice and ether governmental servagra-clr- a should make Immediate prevision for the channeling of rets and eaperirnced workers Into the construction field. In the matter of pricing of used homes, close supervision by FHA and private financial Institutions will be relied upon to keep costs within reasonable bounds in the absence of ceiling regulations. Few Old Balldlngs Sold. Realty activity hai been lively since 1939 In the face of the houiing shortage, but inability of property owners to find new quarters has served to decrease the supply of old buildings. Even so. 84 per cent of the localities reporting to the National Association of Real Estate boards revealed price increases, averaging 124 per cent. Economists have calculated that normally prices of homes have approximated 100 lime the monthly rental of purchasers In July of this year, however.'statistics showed that in Denver. Colo., costs of buildings were 95 per cent over this ratio; in Cleveland. Ohio, 85 per cent over; in San Francisco. Calif., 59 per cent: in Chicago, III., 47 per rent; in Atlanta, Ga., and New York City, 38 per cent, and in Dallas, Texas, 34 per cent With properly owners now able to move more freely, and demand for housing exceeding new construction at the start, the turnover of used homes may become greater in the immediate future. To check an inflationary spiral then, finance institutioni will have to be careful in appraising the real value of property to prevent burdensome mortgage payments or serious losses in future years. Having Indicated its preference for private regulation of the real estate market, the administration will provide ample opportunuy for a real examination of it practicable processes in a period of real national emergency. The experiment will be interesting to follow. single-famil- face-framin- nt see boil-we- ed try? : hard-to-get- semi-skill- '? re FAVORITE To Save M?neji Mix Your Ccus ReSief at Eloir, So Easy! No Cooking. 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RUBBER A synthetic rubber developed entirely fma petroleum gawi le now being used in tin manufacture of truck-tir- e hr ear tabes. Called Butyl, fin new synthetic provides as extra muffin ef safety gainst puncture, balds air much longer. Since Peari Harbor, the Unittd States has produced as much ry fiietic lubber as lb entire worMY supply of natural rubber for the II years from 1900 through 1918, The rubber Industry's uf 95JM0JXM yuur has been into mura than llir 000,000 civilian tires aa-- elly. -a ed REGoodrich ' T j V-- two-third- d When we hear all thla talk about bow the school and colleges arent educating their students 1 cant help thinking of two of the best educated men I know, Louis Brownlow, former commissioner of the District of Columbia and authority on civie administration, and Watson Miller, recently made head of tha Federal Neither Security administration. finished grade school. - As nearly as can be Judged, Social Security official see a crisis by 1947 if there are not enough Jobs. That is. they expect that unemploy- ment compensation payments will carry people over Jobless periods until about 1947, by which time pay- ments will have been used up. Since the amount of compensation and the Apply little colorless nail pol-r- e length of time for which it is paid based on previous length of em- - fsh in the area where a buttonhole i to be worked. As the polish ployment and wages, it is plain that period of s;iotty employment will dries, it stiffens the cloth and working the holes is thus made worker's future benefits. affect 9ier. A different type of person is ap-- 1 for Jobless compensation plying Inasmuch as nuts absorb mois-wa- s these days than when the system set up in the day a when apples ture, they should be placed in be-abeing sold on street comers' ing water for a few minutes major fore adding them to cake or bread unemployment was dough. Otherwise they will make threat to family security. the baked Product dry. in the early thirties workere collected their benefits for the If fi load of gravel or chat la entire period of their eligibility the well curb and and still were without Jobs. As ' placed around down well, the soil will not packed colare moment of this they wash away from the curb, allow-in- g lecting for an avernge of lour rabbits and rata to get under weeki and then getting Jobs. Tothe curb and into the water. are women more applying day o for unemployment roniprnsatinn old whiskbroom an trimming Try make workers Skilled men. than into for cleaning sharp ap more than SO per cent of the t corners and crevrank claimants; ices in furniture and floors. next In number. a As unemployment comes into the A paste made of baking soda national picture again and effort! re made to get more complete job-- ! and water will remove coffee less legislation out of Congress, sr-- staina from enameled kitchen ware. guments ere heard that people who are able to get unemployment com- fori Spare that brassiere by washing pensation do not bother to look So- jt after each day or two of wear, Thii Is answered by the Jobe. cial Security Board on the basil of Twill last longer, fit better, what they have been finding out from the postwar claims. They point out first that little bettor than one in six of the persons who lost their Jobs as a result of unemIs receiving reconversion ployment compensation payments. This shows, they say, that a worker prefers a job any day to being paid tor not working. Moreover, they point to the fact that over 750.000 persona, or about 35 per cent of tho workera who filed claimi initially since J Day, have already left the rolls and taken Jobs. Then there is the testimony thst in two representative cities where special studies s 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 thst other cases can be eited 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 Jobs that are needed. j BARBS r. tom of each ladder leg. These prevent the ladder's slipping. a If you are able to obtain a yam (southern sweet potato) prop it up covering about J ihe of water yam, and watch it sprout to a vine from one to two yards ln length. Its life will be limited to couple of months, i In this first experience ot its kind since the SSB came Into bring some Important facte are being uncovered-answers to surh questions as: What la the truth about unemployment in this coun- When on the average will the unemployment compensation periods run out and the crisis become acute if there are not enough Jobs? What kind of people are asking for jobless pay? Is it true that they re taking this money and not bothering to look for work? Let ua see what answers the Employment Bureau of the Social Security Board ii finding to these questions as experts here In Washington and in the field lift through great mass of data. First, I might say that unemployment compensation claims at this writing are a good barometer of the unemployment throughout the country brought on by the war. Later this would not be the ease. When there is long period of heavy unemployment, people who have been out of work for four month or more would not appear on the claims lists and therefore would not figure In the statistics. But the situation Is different today. Tha rise In unemployment Is fresh and the periods of payment have not yet been used up by many claimants. So the rolls reflect a true picture of the situation. Aa these linn are written, the eeo-enwav af unemployment to hit the country since the war ended la mounting ai the firs! wave recedes. At the present time workers are being discharged beranse they are bring displsred by srrviremre who are being demobilised. The first wave was made ep sf these persons who found Ibemsrlvn out of Jobs k. j Crisis Looms By 1947 Facts on Jobless Pay peace-induc- NATICNS work as a result of the ending ol war contracts. Of these, three million shifted to peacetime Jobs right away without any interruption, twc. million registered in unemployment compensation offices and about on million are unaccounted for they may have found other jobs without registering in the unemployment office, or they might have gone on vacation or retired. About 1,100. UOC former war workers of this number1 found It necessary to draw unemployment compensation. Right now 1C ASCINATORS are beginning to pop out all sizes, shapes and the claimi for Jobless pay are drop ping each week and Social Security colors, but for sheer charm and g effect the triangular officials say that means the full im- pact of the first wave of unemploy- - fascinator crocheted in soft open-methe reconversion wave has work stitch still takes the cake, been felt. The bulk of the war work- - You need just two ounces of yarn ers have been laid oIt. The bulk ol try one in fuchsia, turquoise, those who are going to file for bene- - Chinese jade green, soft beaver fit have already done so. brown, yellow or rose-pinWhats ahead, then, is the second wave the unemployment whicb will To obtain complete crocheting Instruc-com- e " Fascinator" (Pattern No as an aftermath of demobili- - 54MII ,or send 18 cents in coin, your name, ration. address and the pattern number. It I estimated that from aix to nine million oervtcemen are destined to return to Industry la the next 9 to 13 month. In about two million addition, workers who have been la government service during the war will be looking for new Jobs. That meant that about eight Cut au old rubber stair tread or million person will be Ihrewn an Hie labor market la thin doormat into strips and tack these to the steps of your step ladder. second wave which will come These treads prevent slipping, aa a result ef the end of the war. Then tack other pieces on the bot- Baukhage by There Is talk of running General Spsstx. former commander of the U fi. airforces in Europe, for governor of Pennsylvania In 1946. Well, so far nobody ha defeated him. About 18.900.000 women were working on J Day. And now they say if they and the and tha would go home it would settle the employment problem. V-- teen-age- over-age- j rs rs j mm 8ea -Gau QUICK 9 Get soothing, blessed relief from tormenting neuralgia Ben-Gag Your doctor knows the pains with famous agents methyl salicylate and menBen-Gay thol. 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