The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10

JI1lS UcyOLlO 1S SUBMISSIVE dLlu means Manchuria, Mongolia and Moscow, you're wrong. It means the great beyond - beyond V-J day.
 The authors, who were probably half dozen other guys besides Judge Vinson, tried in other ways to make this report easy-going so that Congressmen could hold it on their paunches without undue fatigue, stay awake while reading it, and understand it.
 To make it still more understand able, there are IT charts which look like kindergarten art projects of hills and valleys before they get the tree, the COW and the barn put in. One of the charts has an impress sionistic title on it, Elbow Room for Reconversion." Isn't that cute? INTO THE GREAT
 BEYOND
 In spite of all this effort to make "The Road to Tokyo and Beyond" god hot-weather reading, it's pretty much on the heavy side, and seri- ous. As duty, however, this report rates a once-over to see where Joe Doakes gets off in this great be- yond after Tokyo. The picture looks something like this.
 If Joe Doakes - and this goes for Jane DoakeS, too - has been work ing in war plant and gets laid of, the chances are good he'll be able to get a job in another war plant. or in laundry or restaurant, or working on the railroad.
 Come Christmas, there will be 10 big war production centers where there may be considerable unem- ployment, But there will still be 29 areas, instead of the 63 areas as of today, where there will be more work than workers.
 Wage rates for changed jobs in plants converted from war prcduc- ton to civilian goods production will have to be determined by col- lective bargaining, subject to War Labor Board approval, to make sure the policy of economic stabilization or wage freezing is not upset. Any changes made by VILE will not be made retroactive
 PRICE LEVELS OF AZ
 WILL HOLD
 Unemployment compensation - job insurance rates are not consid- cred high enough or long enough, but Congress will have to change the law before anything is done about that.
 If they can get the camel through the bottleneck or something within the next six weeks, the first autos, washing machines and refrigerators will again appear in the stores, but not enough to last long.
 OPA will fix prices on whatever there is to sch and determine who gets to buy it. In general, prices will be close to 1942 levels.
 OPA will remove price ceilings only when there are surplus of supply over demand on the market. Rationing will be continued on the same basis.
 No more gasoline in sight. There will be 20 per cent less coal than last winter The railroads will be in a tough fix for at least another year.
 Textiles = cloth and clothing to the DoakeS will continue short, and so will shoes.
 Ditto for meats, sugar, fats and oils. Everybody ate too much in 1944, and will suffer for it in 1945, be- cause food production will be down for the first time since the start of the var. There should be more milk, fish and some vegetables. Wheat is about the same.
 No relief on the housing shortage in sight. No tax reductions till after Japan is defeated, if then.
 The pressures to up prices and up wages are terrific, but the controls will be kept on even after V-J day so as to try to smooth the shift from war to peace without deflation, which comes when there isn't enough spending, or imitation, which comes when there is too much.