The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-16

Now that the election is over and
more attention will go to the overall
question of what will people buy
when there are things to buy and how
fast will factories begin making these
things.
There shouldn't be lot of pressure
to get out of making war tools. The
public should not clamor for civilian
commodities as long as there is the
slightest need for the making of inn
plements of war.
But people do not do always as
they should do; nor can one very
we'll set himself up in Judgment over
another.
People do want new things and
they will buy them as soon as things
are there to buy. They will, more
over, urge that things to buy be made
as soon as possible.
Manufacturers, too, urge hasty re-
conversion so that they may get back
into the field of private business
quickly and start before competitors
grab too much.
1t must be obvious that some recon-
version has taken place. More is in
process.
But it is surely to be hoped that we
do not too quickly cease making the
tools of war, because no war is over
until the enemy stops fighting.
Today the average family has more
money than ever to spend = and
great stored-up appetite for buying.
Almost anything will sell today.
Families will go first for refriger-
ators, ranges, electric irons-and cars
as soon as they are to be had.
The pent-up wish for homes is
enormous and there, too, the money
will flow as soon as materials and
nen are available.
But there are some things about
which buyers ought to go slow, If
hey can. Refrigerators built year
ater will be better. Ditto with ranges.
And homes designed year later will
'e better and different. About such
hlngS walt, IL you can.
In these months that have passed
We have heard much about jobs-the
ifs" about jobs.
There will be jobs. But there may
e a lot of relocation of workers.
Iany war industries will demobilize,
II or in part, of their work forces.
len and women will move. But they
,ill move to jobs.
Never has there been such back
)g of money in the pockets of the
verage American.
This is money! that will go head
ong into the market to buy and that
an tide over and pay fare to the old
ONE town, or some other town.
More ready money is stacked up in
ne loans that will be available to dis
narged service men--loans for farms
nd for homes and for businesses.
Taken all together, there is an
normous amount of money to pour
ack into circulation.
oOHle Oh LnlS money VIII De DlOWH
/ to little purpose. Most of it will
0 for useful and usable things-and
,r travel, which surely does spread
oney around
When Germany is finished, the big
ying-over to civilian things will get
nder way. But it may be year from
ow before lot of things get to the
,tailer for you.
The danger period will come, not
ith the end of the war, but perhaps
We years after that, when the back
G is gone.
The time to create more nearly
,rfect economy, to prevent a down
wing, is when the up-swing is on, in
e flush and lush period after the
ar with Germany ends.
We shall still have tough Pacific
AZ to fight and win, but we will do
ell to put some attention on the
ilding of an economy that will not
n down at the heel when there is
artificial stimulant, like war, to
ep it going. That's something to
ink about, beginning now.-CMW.