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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. JVHEN INFLATION . IS HATCHED THE CO million workers employed In the mines, factories, forests and transportation systems of America received last year more than three-fifths three-fifths of the national income of HO oillion dollars. The other less than two-fifths went to the farmers; the merchants; city, county, state and federal government officials, including includ-ing police and teachers; lawyers, doctors, preachers and other professional profes-sional classes; business management, manage-ment, including sales, and as interest inter-est compensation to those who provided pro-vided the money for the plants and tools that 60 million workers might nave jobs. Labor keeps up a continuous demand de-mand for a larger cut of the national melon, and a smaller part in the tax payment. Not alone is the. average hourly wage of labor greater than ever before be-fore known in this or any other country, coun-try, but hour and wage scales have been so arranged as to make the weekly pay check out of proportion to the hourly wage. The President prescribed the "Little "Lit-tle Steel formula" as a wage measure meas-ure based on a 40-hour week. To meet the demands of labor, and hoodwink the public, eight more working hours were provided for, not at the established hourly wage, but at VA times' that wage. It meant that the worker, working 10 hours each week at an hourly wage of $1.25, "received $50 for his regular 40 hours, on top of which his pay check for the week included $11.80 for the extra eight hours, a total of $61.80 for the same number of hours he had been working until the government decreed the 40-hour week. There are less than 30 million families fam-ilies in the United States, and the 60 million workers could represent, at the most, not more than 20 million mil-lion families. That means an average aver-age of three workers per family, with an average weekly earning per family of better than $180 per week. Such figures are approximately correct cor-rect in plants working on govern ment contracts and in the mines. It is such conditions that have produced the wild orgy of spending, out of which has been hatched the threat of inflation. If sympathy is due it should go to the farmers, the white collar workers work-ers and especially to those who saved and invested their savings in the plants and tools of American industry and transportation that those savings might provide for their declining years. They are more entitled en-titled to consideration than the class demanding an ever-increased income in-come with which to .meet the price demands of that inflation their spending has created. HE ARE A NATION OF 'FUNDAMENTALISTS' IF I WERE SEEKING a name for a new political party, a name that would express the desires of a large majority of American voters, I would use the word "fundamentalist" "fundamental-ist" as that name. We are not radicals rad-icals or conservatives, liberals or standpatters. We do not want to make America over. We do want the America we had, the America our fathers and grandfathers had. We want the methods, the form and kind of government, under which we I grew from practically nothing to the Btrongest, most prosperous nation in the world, with the highest living standards any people have ever en-Joyed. en-Joyed. We have sacrificed progress prog-ress in a trial and error effort at finding ways to more progress. We, as a people, are not interested in any of the modern day isms. We want to get back to those fundaments, funda-ments, as expressed in our Constitution Consti-tution and our bill of rights, laid down for us by the founding fathers. The party that expresses just that as its platform and purpose will appeal ap-peal to the great majority of the American voters. Yes, most of us are fundamentalists. HAVE YOU A FAVORITE SHIPPING BOY AN ACQUAINTANCE of many years was rated as, and was, a successful suc-cessful executive. His friends marveled mar-veled at the even tempered disposition dispo-sition that enabled him to operate an extensive plant with no evidence of friction in any department. The secret se-cret was a "whipping boy." He "blew off'? when necessary, at the expense of one employee who was kept largely for that purpose. That employee knew his Job depended on his accepting abuse when anything in any department went wrong. To him it was all a part of the day'a work. If we but analyze ourselves we will find that each c us has a whipping boy. SHOULD THE COW BARN leak and you repair the roof to proteel the calf, you can deduct the cost from your taxable income. Should the roof of the br.by's bedroom leak and you repair Jt to protect the child, that expanse cannot be deducted. Sr says the ,easury department.- ANOTHER HUNDRED BILLION ' added to what we have spent sums up to more than we will want to i pay. Just the same war bonds are I the best and safest investment you can .find for your dollars. I J |