The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-07-03
CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
By ]. E. Jones

Washington, D. C. July las this
item is written in the Office of your
Washington correspondent the flag
of King Peter ii, the 10 year old
monarch-in-exile of Yugoslavia is
floating on the flag staff of the Blair
House, guest house for our foreign
visitors opposite the Department of
State, directly in view of our win
dows Last week the flag of the King
rof Greece was there, and. just be-
fore that time the flag of Molotov,
! Commissar of Russia, was at the
masthead. Members of the Royal
Family of Norway have been living
in Washington, and famous Queen
| Wilhelmina of Holland will likely
arrive before this item gets in
print Winston Churchill has been
here for week, planning with Pres
ident Roosevelt. The Duke and
Duchess of Windsor are regulars
but they have come and gone. Sol
diers and sailors and marines,
wearing uniforms of many nations
are on our streets every day. 1t is
fact that the governments of the
World are looking to Washington
to settle their troubles.
President Quezon, of the Philip
pines is here looking after the in
terests of his country. Besides, the
member nations of the British EN-
pire have habit of appealing di-
rectly to us over the heads of Lon
don.
/ Thus, Washington is literally the
Capital of the World today. OF
course Russia may not agree to this
statement, but no one in Washing
ton is going to quarrel with any
claims made by the Stain govern
ment Washington treats Russia like
an ancient friend.
What Is Imitation?
Donald M. Nelson recently de-
scribed Imitation" as: "a contin-
uing chain of runaway prices" and
he added, "the dangerous part
about it is that what goes up must
come down. 1t comes down faster
and harder than it goes up. If our
prices spiral up in the midst of
this war economy, they will sooner
or later coined own with terrible
crash. Some day this war will be
over. If we have crash when it
ends, it's going to be awully hard
ito pick up the pieces. In that event,
as our boys come out of the Army
and Navy we'd have no jobs for
them. I honestly believe we would
have an economic crack-up that our
nation simply could not stand.
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Power OF Public Opinion
The new War Manpower Com
mission predicts that if the war
continues through next year that 20
million men will be engaged in di-
rect war production and transporta-
ton. That is why the Manpower
Commission has been created to
study and produce "the most effec-
tive mobilization and maximum
utilization of the nations manpower
to fight this war;. Some of the Ad-
ministration agencies have lost their
enthusiasm for backing-up the de-
mands of Tabor leaders" for wage
boosts.
There is strong evidence that
workers, themselves, are in step
with public opinion, and are salts
| fed with the rates of wages paid
unto labor employees. If the Govern
ment should order wage ceilings the
probabilities are that loyal work.
ers everywhere would offer no OBJ
jections. Orders fixing war ceilings
by the Administration would not
precipitate strikes.
The above is conservative and
| responsible reporting. Numerous
polls Of opinion clearly show that
Americas workers are opposed to
all forms of industrial upsets that
would interfere with war produc-
ftion.
Public opinion is supporting every
motion on the part of~the Admins
tration in it's efforts to breakdown
on strike leaders
The power of public opinion can
not De ignored.
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Business On The Up And Up
The annual rate of the national
income for 1898 was ga billion dol
lars and the upward climb continued
till the peak is now reported by the
United States Department of Com
merce as having reached more than
1OS billion dollars year.
On the face of the Official state
ment business is on the up and up
but it is not necessary to tell you
that national income is due to a
very expensive war. Corporate saw
ings have apparently increased.
But the balance sheets are begged
down BY the constant increase In