The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-03
'Robbing Peter to Pay Paul"


and possibilities of of the price fixing administration
attempting operate present capalstc
suggested then and the suggestion becom
ing recognized fact going work The "dyna
mite in the proposal is already being openly recognized
reports Washington convey information that
administrator Leon Henderson that price ceilings
cannot be imposed unless businesses and industries
that if this DONE many of them
will be bankrupted
er nadequate that does not and probably cannot far
enough Finally demonstrates the simple fact that com
pee price fixing not workable under the capital
list system which is based the necessity for constant expan
sion
that the buy materials and commodities at high
and sell them to manufacturers and at low
enable them meet increasing costs of mate
ral transportation etc. Where is the price fixing
when affects "raw materials, transportation etc.?
To be little of the blame for increased costs of
transportation and materials be laid directly at Hen
dersons door He bames justly to degree the
Statesmen in who engineered prohibitions against
price fixing certain essentials in economy.
Like cheap propaganda for the special interests he
bames much of the difficulty the fixing of farm price cell
ngs at ITO per cent OF parity Has he looked into the grain
market prices lately? Has there been advance in prices
farmers Can they sell their wheat for than
the amounts borrowed from the IS cent
of parity basis? he that the farmers getting
excessive prices for their products and making it hard the
professors he'll himself wizard And will certainly
be startling to the farmers.
Another factor blamed by Henderson is the increased
products Maybe But why increased costs? Who
gouging extra profits out of these things?
There certainly great and unusual number of
ufacurer professors obbes and retailers going the hill
poorhouse during March and succeeding months
present. because of the level of prices maintained by
petition. The where is "the rub" now?
The question itself Neither Henderson any
construct chain with number of missing links
make whole out of it. The price fixing has
Fall OUT all of the way, becomes useless he
finds it. If it does that then eliminate free enter
prise the right to fellow for profits
sentng tangible value 1t will work only under ordered
economy
Henderson fatuous proposal that the sub
sdize the professors manufacturers the industries and bust
nessesthe exploiting services the assembly line" of
the commodities moving from the producers of materials o
to the tune of hree four hundred million
dollars year.. To the most limited intelligence this means
nothing else than that the consuming public would pay the
regular fixed price in cash for the good purchased but
obligated debt to be paid in the future for the
goods being bought And the public would have to dig
still deeper in their pockets each in the future not only
pay the principal of the debt but the interest load Is that
any kind of protection to the consumer?
might we'll be realized first last that profiteerng
going to be ended long operate under
system of dog dog and he devil take the hndmos
long leave part of distrbuve structure
defended from and seshnes will have rob Peter
to pay Paul.
AS long Peter will stand for it, this will continue
Meanwhile it makes of agencies such the price admnstra
but it costs lot of to show the weakness of the
optimistic plans which fail to realistically consider all phases
of the issue.