The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-04-22

saeis' JoooerS ana retailers OF Sho,
could make and sell shoes only of
specined quality at fixed price, e
fective July. 1919. No one who di
not have card of the War Industrit
Board in his window could sell shoe
and only the standardized shoes coul
be sold. No jobber or manufacture
would sell shoes to anybody who di
not nave this card. The shoes wer
to be stamped Glass A, B or c and ha
TO De of the quality prescribed an
SOLD at the price fixed The countr
was so organized in every district tha
there could be Immediately reporte,
to Washington the name of any sho,
retailer who did not carry out the reg
ulations of the War Industries Boars
as to price and quality Through re
strietions on his labor, money, raw
/ materials and transportation no man
ufaeturer would have been permitted
to sell to any dealer violating the reg,
ulations. The Armistice stopped the
execution of this plan.
Another plan of this nature. The
manufacturers of mems and women's
wearing apparel had in 1918 been call.
ed to Washington, together with the
retailers of various goods. and notified
that regulations would have to be
made in regarS to retail prices and
Standardization of clothing.
The rulings by the board were made
known through the issuance of official
bulletins at irregular intervals and
were widely distributed by the press.
which eo-operated in this most neces.
sary work with whole-hearted pur.
pose that gave to the orders of the
war Industries Board the instant and
broad circulation they required.
Mr.. Hoover already was doing much
to perfect his control of food products
and prices, There was also talk of
hiking rents, and in some cities this
was done.
II we were to start, in the event of
ahother war, at the place where. we
were lndustrially when the World War
ehuea, the President, acting through
an agency similar to the War Indus.
.fies Board, would have the right to
Tx prices of all things as of a date
previous to the declaration of war
@heh there was fair peace time reIa- I
,lonship among the various activities
of the nation. 1t would be illegal to
ouy' sen, serve or rent at any other
lhan these prices. Brakes would he
fppled TO every agency of imitation
oefore the hurtful process started An
Intelligent control of the flow of men
money and materials would be i'm
posed, instead of having the blind nan.
c heretofore ensuing on the first an
of the frantic demands of
var The Draft Board would have he.
ore 1t the rulings of the priority com.
nlttee, together with the estimated
eeds OF every business and profess
ION IN Its relationship to the conduct
the war, and men would be select.
accordingly. The Draft Board
ould more intelligently decide. with
ne ADVICE Of the priority committee
lahy OF the problems with which II
'ould be faced. There would be no /,
ehdlng OF men to the trenches who
ere needed for expert industrial war
ork and then bringing them back )
gam. businesses not necessary TO
y winning of the war would be cur !,
lied. The Draft Board would have I,
lat information before 1t. !,
Inc prices of all things being fixed, q
e price fixing committee would make i
~ necessary adjustments, as was Z
me during the war Under the sys- 4
m used in 1918 these prices were a
ade public and adjusted every three o
onths, so that any consumer or pro- n
lcer mad his day in court when he d
nsidered prices unfair. Those who Il
implanted that during the war prices Il
ere too high had this ready recourse t
hand. =
In the meantime all the industries of q
country would have been mobilized 9
the formation OF committees repre-. n
NATIVE OF each industry as wa. u
ne in the World War. Over them n
'uid be placed government direc- tt
or commodity chief. The yar,ou, x
vernment departments would an G.
INT committees representing their e
80 that on one commit. u
the resources Of the nation vou,d RI
represented and on the other the u
mands OF the government. The gov. ST
nment director would stand between o.
decide, in conjunction with thu nr;.
lty committee, to what department in
pplies should 20. D,
Money would be controlled and d,. al
tied like any other resource. TAX. pe
the profit out OF war" Ia NOT Ia
1onymous with "conscription of IN
alth," as 1t is sometimes regarded We We
latter is theoretical project. pro- -
lted by our Constitution, contrary 10
the spirit of our social and political pr
tltutlons, and impossible in prac. ~ ~
}. Taking the profit out of war is III
orderly and scientific development oil
the economies and conduct of mod. hi'
war, necessary to the effective nv
Dlllzat1on of national resources and iii'
lspensable to equalizing the bur- w
IS OF war among the armed and 81
man population. Born of expe
Ice and nrovod h., or,a4, :, 81