Milford chronicle., 1945-11-02

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time economy, with everyone continuing to
get war wages or better. and no one feeling
the penalty that is inevitably cXaCtod as the
price of war.
An example of the phoncy reasoning that
IS used in an endeavOr to keep wartime prof
its for some while others bear the wartime
losses, is found in orders issued by govern
ment agencies to force certain retail stores
to insert guaranteed full employment clause
in union contract Another example is to
be found in the latest ruling by the OPA that
retail stores must absorb increased cost ot
manufacturing-itS "cOSt absorption theory
1t is a safe bet that no store can long
guarantee employment to given number
unless it has the necessary business. Nor
can it long absorb higher manufacturing cost
in its retail price. if by so dong 1t operates
at a loss or no profit. Even our army 0t bu-
reaucrats will be out Of their wartime Jobs
and profits if they can't think up something
to help keep the wheels of industry turning.
instead of blocking them with theoretical
monkey WrcnChCS which destroy rather than
encourage honest. peacetlme employment.
Only the tremendous vitality of our young
country enables it to survive the OnSIaughtS
to which it is subjected from political sources
that seek to make the public believe fake
wartime prosperity can be continued. and
that by soaking industry in some form or
ing necessary to meet the cost of War Guar
anteed full employment and cOst-abSorption
are merely tricks to fool the people a little
longer and stave off the real day of reckoning.
THE 1919 WELD throughout the Corn
Belt in the mid-WeStcrn states will not be up
to the record crop of 1914. in either quan-
tity or quality. But it will be well above the
1934-13 average in quantity. Considering
the weather and manpoWcr handlcaps over
come by Midwest farmers. the record IS note
worthy.
Revised estimates released by the De
partment of Agriculture tell only the StatiS-
tica part of the story. The Government fig
ures place the 1915 crop at ,07S126,000
bushels for the nation, or $50 million bushels
below last years crop. Production, however,
will run approximately 643 million bushels
above the average for the 1884, period.
The cnOrmity of this farm achievement
is matter of pride throughout the Belt.
where heavy spring rains either washed out
many first paintings or delayed seeding un-
til dangerously late date. Tractors equip
ped with bright headlights pulled plowS all
night long on many thousands of farm acres
in late May and June as under-manned farm
staffs worked feverishly to catch up.
The hazards of nature, coupled with the
should have been retired to clover alfalfa and
other legumeS, will make for a SpOtty pic
turc as far as 1915 quality is concerned.
There will be plenty of good corn, but there
will also be considerable quantity Of poor
quality and soft corn.
The grain production situation for the
Nation as whole is not SO bad-nOt nearly
so bad as the calamity howlers would have
us believe.
So@
MORE BEEF THAN AMERICANS have
seen for many months has been available in
stores the past few weeks as the result of
action by the Republican Congressional Food
Study Committee.
Here's the chronology of the blow that
broke the OPA's grip on small Slaughtorers
as reported by Representative Thomas A.
Jenkins Of Ohio, committee chairman.
September 1. the Committee charged
OPA and the Department of Agriculture
with defying Congress in continuing reStric-
tive quotas on livestock slaughtered by small
packers.
September ), the Agriculture Department
was asked to explain the charge by the Re
publican congressman that the amendment
to the Price Control Act prohibiting quotas
on sanitary slaughtoring plants had not beer
carried out On September g. representa-
tiveS of OPA and Agriculture went into
huddle on the restrictions.
September s, OPA announced the Cndin!
of all quotas and slaughter controls on mea
packers
Results were almost instantaneous. Bee
which had been scarce even under high pOin
values almost Immediately became so plen
tlful that point values have been lowered AM
OPA is being told by meat dealers everywher
that meat ratiOning no longer is necessary
This is just another example of clea
t thinking properly applied at the right plac
1 and at the right time. Bureaucrats can b
driven to act when they are driven out i
the open.
DURING THE WAR YEARS, proponont
of socialism in the United States have had
field day They have promoted public owr
erShlp OF electric power, deliberately ii
/ tempting to miSlead the public into the be
: lief that the war effort would have collar
u Scd without the electric energy supplied b
q unsupported government power plant
II They have also attempted to misead the puI