The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
From Capitol Hill
BY EARL X. LEWIS, Nj. G.
18th Ohio District
The Presidents Wage And Price Order

lHe lITeS!ueilt wage ana ffice OrIef
The Presidents executive order
freezing wages and prices, and also to
Il degree freezing workers in necessary
war jobs, is being widely discussed in
Congressional circles. The discussions.
centering around the relationship of
farm prices, living costs and wages, is
doubtless ech DING and re-echoinS
throughout the country and is ac-
quainting people with facts concern
| ing the close relationship of wages and
prices who in most instances never
realize their relationship before. The
order means that price ceilings will be
placed on all commodities entering into
the cost of living and at the same time
| there will be no increase in wages
above the previously announced Little
Steel formula.
The drop in the stock exchanges of
the nation the day following the order
seemed to result directly therefrom
and indicated the order will tend to
! hold in check excess purchasing and
inHatiOnary activities. The Presidents $
order simply carries out the recon-
mendation made by one of his adj
visers, Mr.. Bernard NJ. Baruch, nearly
Il year ago 1t is believed that the rise
| in living costs during the past few
months would have been prevented had
the President seen fit to issue the order
sooner
International Food Conference
To Convene
The shortage Of food has induced
an about face of the administrations
policy of discouraging the production
of crops and paying bonuses to farmers
! for reduced planting. We are now con-
frontcd with talk of So-called incen-
| tive payments to farmers to produce
more food. The recently announced
plan to call Il conference of the United
Nations to discuss the production and
distribution of food has created some
controversy here. Much of the plan
ming for this conference was conducted
very quietly but it has now been
! brought out in the open and is stated
that it will convene at Hot Springs,
Virginia, in May. Some forty different
nations have been invited to partici-
pate.
Postwar And Peace Plans
Many proposals are being made and
there is much discussion concerning the
plans for peace and after-theWar or
ganization. While it has been per
;inently observed by many that some
of the proposals are somewhat pre-
mature, vet we cannot postpone to the
wars end the actual organization of
plans for writing the peace and its
terms. If it is possible TO 50 organize
the world as To prevent another Wal
about the time Il new generation OF
boys reach manhood, we must give the
best and most constructive thought AZ
our command before the necessity for
writing the peace is actually upon us.
it is significant that this week former
President Herbert Hoover and former
Ambassador Hugh Il. Gibson have
brought to the attention of many mem
berS of Congress the plan outlined i'll
their recent book entitled 'PrOblcmS
Of Lasting Peace" This book written
by men who. have had practical eX-
perience in world affairs, recognizes
first the enormous difficulties of organ
izing The World for lasting peace and
then offers practical suggestions OF
meeting ana overcoming those diff
CultieS. In later columns | shall discuss
Il few of the suggestions that seem to
me To be the most nearly feasible OF
any plan that has Yet been advanced