Milford chronicle., 1946-09-27


to this country from battlefields. Their
return was cause for Joyous celebrations and happy
reunions. Next Spring will commence the return
of approximately 100000 additional ServiCemen.
But there will be no bands to greet them, warm
embraces from loved ones-for they are the gallant
men who made the supreme sacrifice
After World War the bodies of 46,5 10 of the
II, ,90 American battle dead returned
the United States for final interment. In many
proper military honors not bestowed upon
these heroes when they returned their native land
1t gratifying TO know that the dead of World War
ii will be accorded the full honors that are due
them This has been assured by plan from the
Ouartermaster Generals office for the return of
the overseas dead from their temporary graves
final resting place in this country if requested by
the next of kim
The Government however is concerned only
with the delivery of the deceased the community
designated by the of kin. In order TO complete
the plan, the Quartermaster General has appealed
patriotic, religious and fraternal organizations
provide for the proper local services If the next
of kin desire military funeral.
The organization capable of carrying out
this plan in every city, town and village in the
Nation has already answered this appeal That org
aniZation is the American Legion 3,530,000 strong,
with its 1914 posts in near every community in
the country. Through its Graves Registration and
Memorial Plan every Legion post stands ready to
provide honor guard meet the body upon arrival
in the community; TO provide buger, firing squad,
color bearers and chaplain for the burial service;
and 10 sponsor memorial service for the honored
dead.
Ii appropriate that organization of veterans
such as the American Legion should to it THAI
the returned overseas dead have fitting service This
affords them the opportunity pay final tribute TO
their comrades who have answered The Last Call
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WRITING IN THE NEW YORK Times, Henry
Hazlitt said: I'VE today operating under price
control law that badly drawn and full of inconsis-
tencies Supply and demand come into balance
only at price. That price is the established in
free market. To hold any commodity below its free
market price is almost necessarily make the supply
of it smaller than the demand.
"The way TO decontrol is TO decontrol. We must
begin sometime and somewhere. If the Price DecOn-
troll Board allows meats milk and grains to go back
under controls it will be taking backward step
Since that written the PDB has taken that
backward step far meat concerned. 1t has
reinstated subsidies-that economically vicious prac-
tice whereby all the taxpayers pay part of the of
what you, al individual buy Ii obvious dur
ing the debate extension of the OPA that Con
gress clearly intended that all commodities be decOn-
trolled as rapidly possible It's equally obvious
that that intent is being carried out. High OPA
officials attempting TO exercise full war powers
that no longer exist.
Prices must eventually find their own level in a
free market The normal processes of competition are
in the long run, the protector of the consumer. No
manut taCturer has monopoly of anything-other>
are trying price and increase their sales
And in the vital retail field, competition has given
extraordinarily high levels of efficiency and
omy.
The present OPA law says categorcaly that
THE general control of prices and the of subsidy
powers shall be terminated as rapidly as possible.
1t the duty of the decontrol board carry that
plain mandate
WHY" LETTERS SEEM to fill the editor
mail box these days. The wars been over for more
than year and now Neghbor Jones know
why he can't get that automobile; his wife ask
why the refrigerator she ordered last Fall hasn't beer
delivered Across the Mrs. Brown has famil,
of six TO feed Buffers high, although available-sh
writes in why she can't purchase vtaminzed mar
garne. 'I have four children plan for. Why can
get this nutritious spread that | can afford:'
We asked we'll known manufacturer who live
up to and maintains the best position in their Servic
the public. And this is what they tell us: Its OF
rationng. Margarine consumption has greatly in
creased during the past four or five years, but pro
Vegetable oils for margarine are still alocated, St
naturally there isn't enough to go around.
800.
EUROPE HAS MILLIONS of prospective immi
grants the United States, including practically al
nationalities The existing u. S. immigration law
make it impossible for early increase in mmigr1
ton. Some of organizations and Mem
bers of Congress have already begun to advocate re
ducing the quotas, much onehalf. The genera
attitude in Washington favors exclusion of Nazis.
Committee of Congress looks with favor upo
proposals select all immigrants entirely on the
personal qualities The objections such propos
that there would be more brass hats doing the exam
ing than there would be applicants for admission. tt
probabilities are that there will be small inscrea
!, of immigrants within the next year or two
N%o-&S
THERE ARE TOO MANY men and wome
r throughout the country who waiting for some
s thing up" and who wonder what is going