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Show The JJones' AfewseiT Too Many Too-Costly Houses Home mortgage loans outstanding out-standing total more than $33,-000,000, $33,-000,000, and most of that lopload on purchasers of new houses has taken pace in a little more than two years. The real estate gentry had a bully time unloading $15,-000 $15,-000 houses to young and old buyers. According to reports received re-ceived in Washington the present pres-ent day popular houses are sold for $10,000 or less, and the bankers bank-ers are lending the money. In California the loans have been whittled down to first payments pay-ments of $500, which keeps the building and buying game going 10 times as fast as it was when down-payments were $2,000, That seems to be the new pattern. pat-tern. It is perfectly clear that thousands thous-ands of young (and old) couples have been going over-head in debt buying new houses at prices pri-ces beyond reasonable cxDecta-tions cxDecta-tions that they would be able : to make their payments. The tragedy is beginning to show up: j The big boom is over! Maybe The Packers Don't Compete The Department of Justice in Washington accuses the four largest meat packing firms in Chicago with being a monoply and having conspired to manipulate manipu-late the interstate trade in purchasing pur-chasing and slaughtering cattle Attorney General Tom C. Clark asks the Federal Court to break up the four largest meat companies com-panies into fourteen "separate and competing companies." The suit brought a prompt denial this week from the packers, and I me nead of Swift used the shopworn shop-worn cry that the suit was filed for political purposes. Of course! If the packers prove they arc innocent of "political purposes" and "pulls" the whole country will .be glad to hear the good news. Because, meat prices have been robber prices, and if Tom Clark can bust the "monopoly," whether it is in the Administration Administra-tion in Washington, or in the markets in Chicago, he will perform per-form a master stroke. High Spy The un-American Activities Committee of Congress recently made a report in which it accused ac-cused the White House of refusing re-fusing to help "protect the National Na-tional security." Congress insists that its inquiry has been "hampered" "ham-pered" at every turn by White House objections, and refusal to supply information. Attorney General Clark is charged with having failed to act against spies as vigorously as he should. Meanwhile Mean-while the growth and power of Communists has . increased in i America. Congress doesn't mince words in blaming the Administration Adminis-tration for this dangerous situa-' tion. Were Spread 0uJTft There are widen if,0 opinions about troS Ployment, manufibl ia i? i struction, tranSg, ' utilities knTothcPUKA ;: tivitics. Wagest tinue to rise. The Pnpr,c c ' merchantable Eoori0n!u v than they were iv d m: There are loo y gaged in industrial nceniiH that are slacken! Cn ' |