Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-18
Mechanical
Curbs TO Be
Fell Most
We Have Plenty ofGas
Food Ciearets NWooI
BY PAUL MALL0N

days, motorleSS Sundays, one
lump OF sugar weaker coffee
are not in prospect now.
x shortage OF ships may cause
some eventual Deficiencies in
sugar and coffee. but not soon.
Meats, vegetables, cigaretS, will
be plentiful. although higher In
price. Canned goods will be
available tdefense regime has al
ready allotted sufficient precious
TN for that purposeD. Tea. pep
per, tapioca and possibly soap
Will be scarce.
In general YOU can count on
getting sufficient food, clothing
and services. Shortages in do
nestle wool goods will be made
up by British importations and
by cotton textiles. Synthetic
silk goods do not yet seem ready
10 do the same Job as silk at the
same price, but they will be
available.
= THIS * a mechanical war
"A the main privationS of the
people will be centered in me-
chanical lines. Highest gas
viii be denied to motorists. and
saved for planes. Plenty of
straight gas will be available.
New autos will not be manufac-
tured. Used cars will soar in
price. Perhaps one auto con-
Germ will be allowed 10 turn out
5000 cars or so year,
We had about a 10 months
supply of tin when the war
started, and have arranged for
more from Bolivia. But the use
OF tin containers for oil. beer
and such consumer goods will be
stopped. Wooden. plastic and
glass containers will be favored
Cdespite the opposition of big oil
CompanieSD.
Rubber tires will not be avail
able. Synthetic rubber Will
eventually be furnished as a sub
Stltute. 1t wears better. but costs
much more. Out OF our lives
VIII 90 new radios. typeWriterS,
vacuum cleaners, washing ma
chimes. housing facilities. Limited
VIII be the supplies of furniture,
furnaces. Prices will continue to
rise. Rents Will be put under
control.
In short the consumer will
suffer in every line winch de-
mandS metals or raw materials
from the Far East.
THlS country Just hit its real
defense production gait as
the Japs struck at us. BY New
Years Day we will have spent
about $20000,000,000 on defense
ornaments (half the national
debt we were worried about.
Three-fourthS of this represents
defense ornaments actually pro-
duced (the rest being admins
tratlVe expenses. etc.
But our stride will widen in
creaSingly from now on. Our old
program calls for $50 600. 900 900
next year. S40,000,000.0O0 the
year following For the three
years this represents roughly a
S90000,000,000 effort.
The billion dollar figure has
been used so loosely in the last
lew years II has lost its i'm
presSiveneSS, but you can get a
bare suggestion of what il means
by recalling that this figure
equals what every man, woman
and child earned in the United
States this year.
RUT this old program is TO be
~ extended The figure of
500 900 100000 is being freely
used as goal That represents
a hope still on The astronomical
side, but the defense economists
can sec where Sl30O0e. 600 900
could be spent by the end Of
1915. They are measuring avail
able labor plant expansions full
possible utilization OF resources.
Such an expenditure would
lii our national income from
SO 600 100000 this year TO
about S125.OOOoOO.0OO for 1913.
This is nearly $1,000 average
Tor cXery man. woman and child
m the country
No one here is being deferred
by any thought Of difficulty in
IA lSinE these unprecedented
sums OF money or of paying
The interest on tho increased
debt later
We are moving into an over
rising now plane of income. debt.
expenditures. The swelling ma
tlunal income represents an OK
banding reservoir from which
The treasury may Siphon greatly
increased sums IN taxes and
bond issues 10 pay for It's bigger
expenditures
As FOR Servicing the post
"A war debt burden. the econ
omiStS foreSee a much higher
peacctimc~plane Of business for
The future which will produce
more revenue for government.
Opening OF foreign markets,
after victory. coupled with tho
deferred demand for the autos
and vacuum cleaners you can
not buy nov. should be enough
10 prescINc balance.
The c9rrcut price inflationary
trend & bound 10 continue. I No
ONO krptNc how far IL uil no