Milford chronicle., 1946-01-18


obStinacy of the coal operators dctcrmina-
tion to fight portal to portal and the gov
crnment'S heSitancy to take the necessary ac-
tlOn that would continue the mines i'm OppT-
alton.
'Thc nation Was then at war and every
pound of coal that could be mined was need
cd. The action of the mine workers in \oIuu-
taulY restoring the mines in operation by
returning to work constituted patriotic scr
vice that the nation will probably never fully
appreciate"
This shrinking little commentary ncgIcctS
90 mention that before the strikes were call
cd off the union demands were met i'm full and
that the strikes caused millions Of tons OF
lost coal production; also, that so far as the
labor bosses were concerned. they wore ap-
parcntly willing to see the country go smash
1t thcIF demands had not been met
DoG
IT * a COMMON OCCURRENCE 10
hear persons rccoil with a muttered curse at
the outrageous prices they are asked to
pay for scores of necessities and luXurirS
GcneraIIN their minds run bclligCrcntIy back
to the lucklcSS producer The most gr0tC>ullr
spectacle of all is the way various groups will
charge each other with being highbindcl$
while the housewife thinks they are all rob.
bfiS. The farmer CtlSSCS the merchant the
merchant cuSacS the farmer; and the con-
sumner cUSSPS them bOth--WhCn he is plaviup
the ro" of consumer If he also plavS the
ro'c OF family brCadWinnCr. he, too is 4 rob-
Der ct some sort during office or work hours,
Tins apparently IS the normal behavior of
4 people IN Land being visited by inhation
NO one ever curses our annual f'cdCraI
d'hclt Of tens of billions when he looks at the,
high price of 4 desired article but it is al the
heart Of our price problcmS Nor. SO far ms
IS aSccItalnablc, does anyone ever rise M
and damn the Federal government for it%
"pehdthrltt ways when he is; hit between the
eyes with rising prices
As long as the government continues, to
junction on borrowed money, lust So lOnp
VIII we continue to have alleged ''pricc po,lp-
r1S IN every walk of life Borrowed money
ma" meant "ch@3p money and high prices
&DoC2
SOLDIER LANDING in the United
States from th" South Pacific, after pcttinr
ms discharge. found thousands of men wai'-
ing at the d"mobiIization center to get ON
Trans. It was hard for men who had been
away from home. two, three and four years.
or longer, 10 understand why railroad cars
Wcr" not immediately aNalahlc Most Of
them dld not know that during the whole
war period, railroads were prohibited from
DuNInE any new equipment. They did not
KNOW mat tn" staggering war load which
surpassed any transportation lob in history
was moved rluCh faster and with fewer ears
and engines than was the Transportation load
during and after the first World War
'oW of tn" men knew that when the rail
roads Wcr" permitted to place orders for
'FoCr-carINlng cars after this war ended
S'f1hCS h"Id Ep deliveries. Neither did fine
men know that for such tro0p-rarrvinp ears
as the railroads have been able to get, Strikes
delayed the supplying of beds and equipment.
II IS only taIr 10 state that many of the
causes which delay the movement of re-
turning Veterans are entirely bcvond thc
control Of tn" railroads.
I'm November. troop movements ,rruyc
our country totalcd 800 00O, with the n1lm-
Der expected 10 increase. The railroads had
10 PROVIDE ~ per cent Of all TRANSFORMATION
Iof military personnel travelling under or,Icr,
lhClr biggest Job now is getting our soldiers
ana sailors back home. They hope that when
congestion occurs, those who are inconvcn
i'hccd VIII understand some of the reasons
responsible for delays. And last but not least
''lc American people, including the families
OF our armed forces, are demanding travel
ing space as never before, which often adds
to the problem of handling returning vctrr-
ans promptly
PEOPLE PERSIST in comparinu thc
present era with that following the first
World War. Actually there is very little tou
compare and the sooner this is realized, the
sooner the country can approach problems
as they exist today, particularly i'm the field of
taxation and government debt I'm the latter.
inc comment of the president of Il large life
insurance company IS significant:
al the end of the first war, the Federal
ocht mad IT Is true, risen to what then seem
ed staggering iigireS-from roughly one bill
non IN 1916 TO % billions in 1919. Large 2s
thIH Total was, it still was not Of ovcrrowcr-
ing Sl&htcAncc as compared with other
I"fmS OF debt, for if represented less than
"ne-hfth OF the total Of AL forms Of public !
ana private debt Of the country
hy contrast, at the end of the Victory
Drive IN 1915 the Federal debt will be- ;p- ,
2S0 billions. Accustomed as we
are to huge figures, it is almost impossible
10 understand the full implications of this
enormous Federal debt We are in the forest
: ana cannot see over the trccS-but we do q
hhoW that government debt is now over t