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Show EGLEIt j es st j j Released by WNU Features. IX IS a dismal commentary oi I the intelligence of the grcates self-governing people on earth tha Ly can be divided into partisan V.en hateful, groups by the riva claims and excuses of politician! concerning the causes of the infla S, THIS IS NOT A PHILO SOPHICAL MATTER. IT Ii MATHEMATICAL. We do profit, however, by tht points raised in the running de bate because these Fi&fcf fellows have a cul-i-'- . tivated cunnini !;( ? anc diligent politi cal secretaries t do the digging ir WtSr'H. the files. ilAjr Most of the co- lossal debt of th r;V(ff United States wai incurred in cheap ; "xw money. So the proposition that PEGLER, the game people wbo borrowed 50-cent dollars "froir themselves" now should increase the purchasing power of the dollai to 75 cents means that they shoulc increase the debt proportionately THEY WOULD HAVE TO WORK THAT MUCH LONGER TO PA? ITOFF. The profitable way would be to devalue or Inflate the dollar still more, increase taxes, obate our foreign and domestic extravagance and reduce the debt. BUT IN TIIAT CASE WAGES WOULD IIAVE TO DROP, SO IT WILL NOT BE DONE. Mr. Truman and others who alsc know better have tried to separate the housing shortage from inflation. Actually this is impossible because ! they are elements in the same problem, and most of the people who affect the most tragic countenance coun-tenance over their homelessnesi or squalor are more or less guilty of their own distress. We got cheap Consumer lumber wher Foots lumberjacks coulc rt D'if be hired for S45 z I tie uiil ... u. month, wher wages went to a dollar an hour the price of food naturally went up WHO ELSE BUT THE ULTIMATE CONSUMER WAS TO PAY THE INCREASE IN WAGES? Who else 1 will pay the inflationary wages oi carpenters, electricians and masons .and of the laborers who produce the nails, brick, wire and othei materials all the way back to the mines? The "government?" President Truman boasts that his party created inflationary prosper ity for organized labor, a parasite feeding on the unorganized majority major-ity of the people and upon its owr tribal kinsmen in the unions. BUI . ANALYSIS OF THAT BOAST. ANE A TRUTHFUL BOAST IT IS, TOO, r SHOWS THAT THE STEELWORK-ER STEELWORK-ER AND THE CARPENTER PREY ON ONE ANOTHER. They are glad to get wages on pay day which, in figures, arc delightful, like dope. But they pay It back to one another in artificial overtime and por-tal-to-portal tricks all based on extravagant hourly scales. It always has been the custorr of American workmen to put them selves at the job on time in the rooming and to travel home or their own time at the end of th shift. The miners were not the in ventors of portal-to-portal pay noi the first to abuse the principle. The Plumbers, a cynical lot long allied "Kith the master-plumbers in z Predatory conspiracy against the rest of the people, had refined portal-to-porlal to a larcenous ar) many years ago. r If it takes exposing miner half an hou) The or more to get t Fallacy his iob a"er n has reported on th I Perty hs claim for portaMo Jrl Pay Is reasonable provided ha8 not already been met in th mc hourly scale. In most cases Was. B"t a carpenter, whether a genu Jje artisan or the predominant I wiess and Incompetent spoile) "pensive material, has no righ ID bonus for oin6 to a jot Pin??.,? mUes from his home JJJLIC TRANSPORTATION Ii S! AND FAST AND IF HI CAN t!vA CAR 0F HIS WN HE toICH0FTHE BLAME ft! ON HIS COLLEAGUE! l mSh mD AUT0M0 ' hfr?lAXnIne1, who undertakes t by h0Ie built for his famil; iicT or ln regulai Z tZ Way' wiU see build lfiteSCSmfn report a half-hoa- w haU'hour early' 01 day. aT7 m average. oowa I ays of out $3 an hour. BBlSu, Pay hl8 feU0W- Ana that Is an Impor- . rn Why h0U8ln costs ' 'A. JfWf the dol,ar bus s |