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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION After Peace Comes, What? Committee for Economic Development Seeks Ways to Maintain Employment r rrJrPI?l rT7"T'0 4iilttrr0 oil ifJ R Ji& 1-- 1 ;? ? Survey of Community's Postwar Business Prospects Is Urged By ELLIOTT PINE Released by Western Newspaper Union, Within a year, and perhaps much sooner, the war in Eu-rope will end, according to most experts, both political and military. Immediately the problems of reconverting wartime America to peace-time production will begin. Factories that have been run-ning day and night will slow down and perhaps close. Many thousands of men will be released from the armed forces. Labor shortages will disappear, and before long, the specter of unemployment will be back. It was to try to devise ways for the orderly return to peacetime produc-tion, and to try to avoid the mass unemployment that usually follows war, that the Committee for Eco-nomic Development was organized, a little more than a year ago. This committee is a group of the na-tion's foremost business executives, bankers, economists, and other tech-nical experts. Chairman is Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebak-e- r corporation. The vice chairman is the vice president of the Univer-sity of Chicago. Presidents of sev-eral nationally known corporations serve on the committee. The committee is not connected with the federal government in any way, although its office is in Wash-ington, D. C. Its activities are split into two major branches: Research division, and Field Development di-vision. The research division has the HAPPY STEEL WORKERS, lined up before the pay windows of a huge Pittsburgh plant now operating at capacity, are representative of the millions of factory people now earning good wages. But how many will be working when the war orders end? after the war boom. The figures settled upon were: Employed In 1943 5,455 Unemployed in 1943 200 Wartime labor force 5,655 The next step was more difficult. It was to try to estimate how many persons would want work after the war, when the servicemen had re-- was being conducted among a se-lected cross-sectio- n of the city's pop-ulation to find out their buying in-tentions, after normal conditions re-turned. A similar survey was made by mail among the farmers of Free-born county, asking them what goods they expected to buy for their farms as well as for their homes and fami-lies. Some of the things that people hoped to buy were: New automobiles: City residents ...1,156 cars at $1,053 average cost $1,217,268 Farmers 1,140 cars at 970 " " 1,105,800 New housing: City houses 442 at 4,068 " ' 1,798,056 Farm houses 150 at 3,150 " " 472,500 Repairs to housing: City houses 714 at 514 " " 366,996 Farm house 540 at 900 " " 486,000 Farm barns 360 at 1,473 " " 530,280 Farm silos 360 at 539 " " 194,040 Other farm purchases. Tractors 780 at 926 " " 722,280 small buildings.... 810 at 566 ' " 458,460 Electrical installations 810 at tii " " 263,250 Other city purchases: Refrigerators 646 at 163 " 105,298 Furniture 578 at 199 " " 115,022 Vacation travel 986 at 176 " " 173,536 task of investigating all policies of business, labor and government that retard expanding employment and production. After finding out what and where the trouble is, the re-search division presents recommen-dations for suitable changes. The field development division "has the responsibility of stimulat-ing and helping individual enter-prises to plan now for high levels of productive employment and prof-itable distribution in the postwar period." There are 12 regional chairmen, 1 for each Federal Reserve district, who supervise the field development division's work in their sections. Un-der the regional chairmen are state chairmen, who in turn appoint chairmen of county committees. Fi-nally, the county committees super-vise the survey work of the com-munity committees. How Albert Lea, Minn., Does It. A typical survey by a community committee is one conducted in Al-bert Lea, a city of 12,200 in Free-born county, Minnesota. Freeborn county is on the southern edge of the state, adjoining Iowa, so the trading radius of Albert Lea includes part of three northern Iowa coun-ties. Nearly 50,000 people in the agricultural region about the munic-ipality trade at Albert Lea's stores. There are 11 major industries in Albert Lea, and 442 businesses classed as secondary employers. There is a stove factory, a gas ma-chine factory, a creamery, a meat packing plant, a food products mak-er, and several specialty products manufacturers in the city. The elec-tric power company is located there. Being a county seat, there is con-siderable legal and clerical activity. Keeping all these matters in mind, the local economic development committee began its survey of postwar business and employment possibilities. Its first step was to set up two questions, the answers to which were to be the solution of its problem. Beginning with the premise that "Somehow there would be a job paying a living wage for every worker who wanted one aft-er the war." First thing, said the committee, is to find out how many workers would want jobs, and how many jobs busi-ness thought it could provide after the war. It took the number employed in 1940 as a base, this being the last full year before the country entered the war. Then it added the number unemployed and seeking work in that year. These figures were: Employed In 1940 4,266 Unemployed In, 1940 721 Total prewar labor force 4,987 Then the committee obtained the employment figures for 1943, recog-nizing that they were abnormally high, with many women and high-scho-students working who ordi-narily would not be in industry. Some people had moved into town too, who were not expected to stay turned, and other changes had come about. A survey among employ-ers gave these figures: Returning from armed forces. .1,012 Returning .from farms 125 Returning from other regions . . 250 Growth and maturity of popula-tion (1943-46- ) 428 Total 1,815 This total was then added to the wartime labor force: Wartime labor force (1943) 5,655 Number returning after war 1,815 Total 7,470 Subtracted from this, however, was a sizable group who would not be in the labor market after the war. These were: Returning to farms ......125 Returning to other regions 50 Not seeking postwar jobs 734 Total . 909 Taking this number from the 7,470 previous total left 6,561, which the committee called the net postwar labor force. In other words, between six and seven thousand people would be expecting to find steady work in Albert Lea after the war. Obvious-ly, the next move was to find out how many jobs the city's employers could provide. When returns came in from every employer, from small-est shop to largest factory, the re-sults were: Postwar labor force (as before)6,561 Number that can be employed after war, as estimated 5,968 Albert Lea's unemployed in, say, 1946, on this basis 593 So, about 600 people would be out of work, or nearly 10 per cent. Local Business Prospects. The committee then turned to find-ing out whether business activity could not be, stimulated a bit. Ev-ery business man answered a con-fidential questionnaire.. Tabulated responses gave this salient informa-tion: The 11 big industries gave this reply, as summarized: Volume of business done in 1933 (gross sales) $ 9,040,000 Volume of business done in 1940 22,795,000 Volume of business done In 1943 51,443,000 Volume of business you ex-pect to do in the first postwar year 49,660,000 Then the 442 secondary businesses were told that these 11 major indus-tries expected to employ about 60 per cent more workers in the post-war period than in 1940, and 1 per cent more than in 1943, the peak year to date. With this in mind, the secondary business men guessed that their volume of sales would run about 15 per cent higher, in the years immediately following the war, than in 1943. While the survey among business men was being made, a second one How to Pay for It. Another question put was, "How do you intend to pay for these pur-- chases?" City people with incomes between $1,770 and $3,000 replied that they would pay in this man-ner: From current income 38.2 Borrowings 41.2 War bonds 8.9 No report 11.7 Farm families with incomes rang-ing from $1,500 to $2,000 a year ex-pected to pay for things thus: Current income 64 Borrowings 4 War bonds 32 In general, people with large in-comes proposed to buy with cash rather than to borrow, as people of smaller means planned to do. How Much Farm Income? The Albert Lea committee real-ized fully how dependent the city was on the prosperity of the sur-rounding farmers. A was working on farm income prospects while the other investiga-tions were going on. Total income for Freeborn county was set down as follows: Farm income, 1339 $ 7,316,000 ' Farm income, 1943 20,164,000 Farm income, first postwar year 19,416,000 The postwar figure was estab-lished after analyzing the possibili-ties of changes in crops and live-stock. Aside from maintaining hemp raising, and an increase in soy-beans and some vegetable crops, the committee did not anticipate any important changes. The members did recommend establishing a soy-bean processing plant and a can-nery. To find out how much the city and county construction projects could be depended upon to provide employment, a survey, of public works programs was made. When this reported, it was shown that some $15,000 worth of work had to be deferred because of war, representing about 14,000 man-hour- s. New projects might amount to $390,000 of expenditures. The com-mittee did not consider the possibil-ity of state and federal projects. It was the committee's conclusion that little reliance could be placed on public works as a means of reliev-ing unemployment. After weighing all the informa-tion gleaned by the the general committee of Albert Lea had a sound starting point for its postwar employment plans. Albert Lea is only one city, but it is representative of thousands of communities in the United States. Its problems are the nation's prob- lems. It is the Committee for Eco-nomic Development's intention to help solve these problems by accu-rate information. Here's a tip for the teTTTT who likes sweater neck gltl sleeves to retain a snug fit n4 not in use keep a rubber i7n around them to prevent th 6 k from becoming stretched Wash off the mud on your shoes with warm water Th oil or grease into the leather)? wet. Stuff the shoes with Ll per to hold them in shape amw absorb moisture from the i ? Let dry where iUs not too Shelled hard cooked eeei c times darken if they stand for length of time. This discolor r can be prevented by storm, ? eggs in their shells in erator the rety until you are ready 10 7 them. s' Did you burn something m favorite pan? Here's an easy edy which does wonders. Sir"' boil apple peelings in ithf wash thoroughly in hot soapsuds MR Released by Western Newspaper Union. FREE SPEECH HOLDS US TOGETHER THROUGHOUT our more than 150 years as a nation we Americans have constituted an g family. Not always a happy family but always with a family spirit that would brook no outside interference in our inner family quarrels. We fight among ourselves, get into each other's hair, kick each other on the shins, until a third party at-tempts to step into the picture on the side of either contending fac-tion, when, as a family, we forget our petty disagreements and united-ly turn on the intruder. The keystone in our structure of government is our right of free speech. With that right we lam-bas- t, to our heart's content, the acts of those we have selected to govern us. We divide into family factions of those who approve and those who disapprove. We exercise our family right of criticism and our differences are represented by parties between which we divide. Our arguments and fights are a family privilege. They began when the nation began. They will continue so long as our Bill of Eights continues. So long as these internal argu-ments and lambasting criticisms represent what each faction believes to be for the best interest of the family as a whole, the family will continue to live and prosper. When either major faction forgets the in-terests of the whole and centers on the advancement of a minority in the family, when the interests of the farmer, or the worker, or the repre-sentatives of wealth, or any other minor faction of the family, is pro-moted at the expense of the family as a whole, the family will disinte-grate and die. It was such disintegration caused by the promotion of the interests of minority factions at the expense of the vihole that so weakened France and caused the French fam-ily to fall an easy prey to the Ger-mans. The French family has not yet united against the common en-emy. In the face of peril to the whole it insists on continuing its family quarrels. Each faction of the family persists in putting its petty interests above the interests of the whole. Should that continue it will mean the end of the French family. Should the same thing happen in America, should any one, or more, of the minority factions of the fam-ily persist in securing advantages that would prove detrimental to the family as a whole, the American family will disintegrate and die. We can continue to fight among our-selves over ways and means of pro-moting the common good but, if we are to live, we cannot promote the selfish interests of minorities in the American family at the expense of the whole. STOP SPENPING LEAKS RIGHT AWAY ALONG IN 1917 and '18 we wailed at the terrific cost of war and won-dered how we could pay the war bills. We sent up quite a howl about waste and after the fighting was over congress investigated. That in-vestigation demonstrated that, to some extent, our howls had been justified. There had been waste, in-excusable waste. .". World War I, from the time we entered it until June 30, 1921, 2Vi years after the fighting ceased, cost us the now seemingly insignificant sum of $25,729,000,000. That, in real-ity, was but a bit of loose change. In the present conflict we are spending real folding money. ' We have been engaged in it for about two years, and have actually spent, as reported by the treasury depart-ment, up to August 1 of 1943, the enormous sum of $110,853,000,000, with an additional 9 billion paid out by the Reconstruction Finance corporation, which we also pay. To all of that congress has added ap-propriations of well over 200 bil-lion more that is now in the hands of the spending agencies.- In the expenditure of such vast sums, there is bound to be some waste. It would be well to find the leaks now, and stop them, rather than wait until it is all over, as in World War I. Waiting until it is all over, a 10 per cent leak would mean a loss of a sum equal to the in-creased taxes the treasury asked. It would take less effort to find and stop the leaks than to induce John Q. Public to dig down into his pockets for another 10 or more billions of taxes. It would also be more appreciated by the voters at the elections of 1944. That was an inducement to congress. BUYING WAR BONDS demon-strates our faith in the future of America. i WAR CONDITIONS have stopped much of the winter migrations of the Pas and Mas of the northern states farms to favorite vacation spots in ' the South and West. The armed services or war industries have tak-en the Johns and Wills of the farms, and the Pas, regardless of the hard labor of the summer and fall, must keep the farm fires burning and the livestock fed through the winter months. Willingly they lay their va-cations on the nation's altar of sac-rifice that the Hun and the Jap may be defeated. YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE to know the meaning of all of the more than 1,700 armed service insignia designating rank, branches, armies, corps, and other divisions. Most of us boast a bit if able to distinguish between soldiers, sailors and ma-rines, or to tell a buck private from a ..g.eneral. THOSE WHO KNOW OF THINGS that should be done, but make no ef-fort at doing them, are headed for failure. --Buy War Bonds ON THE HOME Sfer AFRONTS UrvU RUTH WYETH SPEARS "TPHIS horse head is a copy of an Early American hobbyhorse. It is full of dash and spirit yet it is so simple that the original crafts-man probably cut it out with an ordinary handsaw and a pocket knife. A toddle bike is more te than a hobbyhorse because we know now that it is better for tiny tots to learn to use their legs than authentic Cl r EABLY 111 MAKE Pi AMERICAN "4J ??l?ST'CttK HOBBY HORSE jjr ACTUAL SIZE TU KSC, jfl- - ts PATTERN TO CUT Itff0-- AND STENCIL WJzAA TW5" ALSO AS A A pyyi Xfc- - guide for m a Yi ASSEMBLING IF" to get a sense of motion by rock-ing. The bike is easy to make of scraps of lumber; or when you have cut out the head and sten-ciled it you may decide to mount it on a broomstick as shown at the upper left. NOTE Mrs. Spears has prepared an actual size pattern (No. 257) for this au-thentic Early American hobbyhorse head and also all the parts of the toddle bike. The pattern Includes stencil designs for painting, a color guide, and complete di-- 1 rections. Pattern is 15 cents postpaid. Ad dress: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. j 257. 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Also a fine stomachic tonic. Fo-llow label directions. LYDIfl E. PINKHAM'S COM uwy NOSE MUST DRAIN m To fio,.v Head Cod Minritt JT'f When head colds strike, help nose Kjf drain.clearthewayforfreerbreathing comfort with lONDON'S NASAL JEiiY. M ftP I wmm I BECAUSE IT'S RICH IN VITAL ELEMENTS Good-tasti- Scott's Emulsion helps build strong bones, sound teeth, and stamina; helps build resistance to colds. It's rich in natural A & D Vitamins that may be lacking in the diet. And it's 4 times easier to digest than plain cod liver oill So give it daily. Buy at all druggists! Ajk Recommended bj Many Doctors WNU--W jb For You To Feel VU U houn mry day, 1 UZ week, never itopplne, the klduw" vast, matter from th. blood. .l- - It more people wer. .wire or no kidneys must constantly """ plus fluid, eioess acids and other "J" matter th.t cannot etsy In the "J without Injury to health, thsrs b. better understandiof .""' hj whole system Is upset when ladnW to function properly. Burning, scanty or too N"'"1'?; tlon sometimes warns that o"',J Is wrong. You may suffer nsjEJM ', ache, headaches, dissiness, rt'u' pains, getting up at nights. 7evX Why not try Boon's P'M JJ be using a medicine recommena country over. Coon's stimulate tn tion of the kidneys and help "Jf ,M flush out poisonous waste blood. They contain nothing Get Bonn's today. Use with conMW At all drug stores. - NewsIx Behinl theNews,: By RmjlMallon.J" Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHAT SERVICEMEN ARE THINKING WASHINGTON. Only people free-ly speaking their minds these days on the issues of the day are the men at the front, or just back. Although they are millions strong, and will be the prevailing influx ence in the country after the warK their views are seldom publicly re-ported. You can find out what they think only by talking with those at home on leave or reading their let-ters to their families. Their common line of thought (as far as I have been able to judge in conversations) is fairly accurately presented in a letter from an army captain, received by his father, a newspaper editor. His views seem an average of men who have rubbed elbows with allies and matched fists with enemies to achieve a better, realistic understanding of both, as follows: "Things look different out here (Southwest Pacific) and there Is plenty of time to reflect on past life because life out here is so primitive, so basic, stripped of all luxuries and niceties that as American kids we took for granted as part of our coun-try. But now that we are giving, we have gained a much finer per-ceptive a finer appreciation. "And I for one do not desire to quit until we've wiped out not just beat down to an unconditional su-rrenderbut wiped out the youth of Japan and Germany and Italy. For if we do not, we shall have children who will, in 25 years, have to fight the children growing up in those countries now with warped minds. "But will America' get soft? I believe she is yet, and will go easy on them. I suppose the American people still refuse to face imperi-alism. But they damn sight better learn quick. "English mandates are being handed back on a silver platter out here to the English governor as he moves in again islands practically bathed in marines' blood. There is one I can think of at present, and back to dear old England it goes. "This all may sound bloodthirsty to the average civilian very comfort-able and safe in an easy chair in a carpeted home. Changed? No, I haven't changed at all. I always thought thus. I just got acquainted with primitive instincts that I fig-ured I would never have to know. But I must rely on them now to pre-serve the civilization I learned at Amherst. "It seems strange in a way to get acquainted with the ways our old pioneer ancestors did things. We, like they, hew our homes out of the forests, live simply and plainly. "Strange how habits stick to a fellow good and bad. The desire to keep clean, for instance, under the most difficult of conditions. They tell me marines would bathe and wash clothes in rivers and streams almost under fire so strong was the habit from earlier training to keep clean. "Even now, washing clothes is pretty primitive. 1 usually do mine on the hood of a jeep with the front end half way into the stream. Makes a good wash board, and a fast run-ning river furnishes plenty of water. "Don't think just because we are in the service, we don't have opin-ions." ... Yes, and they will be bringing them back a strengthened respect for the American way of life, a first-hand knowledge of the inferiority and competition of other systems, a hatred of political deceptions, or small talk propaganda, in short, a new realistic knowledge of the" ' world. 8 s . LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM DEFIES ANALYSIS In and out of congress, the re-action to 'Mr. Roosevelt's many-sided new legislative program sound-ed partisanly squeaky or devastat-ingl- y quiet. This was almost necessarily so. The ideas themselves defied straight comment or analytical sifting. For instance, the President pro-poses to get the power to draft peo-ple into industry in order to pre- vent strikes. But there already is a law supposed to prevent strikes directly, the Smith-Connall- y act providing a cooling-of- f period, gov- ernment seizure and penalties. (Un- ion leaders shouted a few months back this was fascistic robbery of their right to strike.) Mr. Roosevelt does not propose to amend that or make it stronger. This new law which he now wants is not one to draft strikers into the army or make them work, but to al low him to draft everyone, women (18 to 50) as well as men (18 M) into any work he chooses by prod lamation Thus the proposition is to punish all for the sins of the labor unions. Then again, this bUl was proposed . few years ago strictly as a manpower shortage measure. But the President did not mention a manpower shortage as a justification for attempting to re viv it. But even more perplexing, he tied his appeal for this measure 0 a n that congress do all of other things or else forget his recommendation, and some of these conditions they will never fulfill The senate practically rejected ha. mediately his first condition- -a tex biUfivetimes as big as the o vanced therefore falls, . The kn't t must fau when he chose to tramboutrations-whatto- Human Parts on Hand For use in mending injured hu-man bodies, physicians of tomor-row may carry a stock of "re-placeable parts" on hand, includ-ing bones, tendons, and nerves of varying sizes. Dr. Paul Weiss, of the University of Chicago, devel-oped an animal nerve "bank" and has, by a special technique, suc-cessfully grafted "cold storage" nerves into rats, cats, and mon-keys. Nerves are prepared for storage in much the same way as blood is prepared for blood ' "banks" by freezing and drying in a vacuum. Parts for human nerve banks would be taken from cadavers or from arms and legs which are amputated j Indian Monument Turns i A statue of an American i Indian in the court house at St. Paul, Minn., is rigged with mo-tors and clock work so that it re-volves once a day. Bald African Women It's the style among women of certain tribes in Africa to pull all of their hair from their heads and wear huge festoons of wire as ea-rrings. Streamlined Planes America's 8 righting plane is so streamlined that nearly two-thir-of its air resistance is in the retractable landing gear. Five-Foote- d Dog A dog with a double leg, giving it five feet, is owned by John Smith, of St. Louis, Mo. It runs and plays with ease. Local Investigation May Reveal Opportunities for Sales and Jobs Findings of the 1 ijAX community eco-- 0 nomic develop- - . fi 1 1 1 I ment survey may lfj 1 1 'J very possibly YJJSf stimulate war business and Xgfefr employment, Emblem ot the merely by for Eco-- i n g merchants nomic Development, and contractors how large a market is waiting for their products. Bill Bopp, a contractor, may have underestimated the buying power of the people and not realized that 592 families' in the city and rural areas expect to have new homes in the first two years after the war. He may decide he can use four more men after the war to handle this construction. Thus each employer will be "chip-ping away" at the total of potential unemployed. A new job may be found for one man here, another there, three more there, and 15 more there. Whether the total is whittled down to zero will depend entirely upon the cooperation of each individual employer and of all other groups m society, both local and national In short, the survey figures, based in part on fact and part on esti- mate, only indicate possible post- war conditions. Subsequent devel opments and further investigations may alter the results. Heavy Demand for Farm Products Will Continue After War What's agriculture going to be like after the war? The farmer would like to know and so would the rest of the millions who are dependent on him for food, clothing and other essentials. The War Food administration be-lieves that the 1944 farm production program will present, in its over-all implications, a good picture of agriculture as it will be for the duration of the war, and perhaps a year or two afterward. Two fundamentals stated by WFA are: (1) The demand for food will con-tinue to rise and the total require-ments for food at home and abroad may be higher when the war ends than they are today. (2) For the remainder of the war period, a determined effort will be made to expand total food produc-tion and to direct national farm re-sources into producing commodities with the largest amount of needed food nutrients per unit 0f resources The postwar picture, especially the European aspect, will be one in which the American farmer will be helping to feed countless thousands of liberated peoples, while at the same time they are getting back t0 Prductin for themselves. In North Africa the results of this sys tern are already apparent. Much land that had been out of production is back at work, and less help is now needed from the U. S. A. |
