The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-11-27

African cocoa and Argentine
hides are also under the heavy
hand of the state, which Is
reaching for every penny it can
get, and using the powerful re
sources of a neople to obtain
the final farthing. Sooner or
later, of course, such efforts
defeat themselves, and artificial
prices crash. Twice such cartel
ization and price schemes were
tried on rubber, and twice they
worked for a while, only to go
to pieces under the impact OF
the law of supply and demand.
"Oh liberty, what crimes are
committed in your name" once
cried the philosopher. Today,
such economic crimes as cartel
ization are committed in the
name of the welfare of the
masses.
POLICY AY-OFF-New tires
would be costing you $31 today
instead of $14.40 if it were not
for the American-made rubber
created to help win the war.
That is what James J. New
man, vice president of B. F.
Goodrich, says would be the
case, on the very conservative"
assumption that Far East rub
Der would by now be at least
81 a pound Gnstead of the 10
to Is cents it has been since
VI day.. On the same basis
we would have paid $1,165,000,-
900 more for the Far East rub
Der we have actually used since
then, than we have. That ex-
cess, Newman noted, is one
and-a-half times the $500, 000,-
900 it cost to build the plants
as a war-emergency measure,
so the facilities already have
more than paid for themselves.
He favors continuing mandatory
use of a minimum quantity of
this rubber in tires and recap
stock as a simpler and more
workable method of assuring
rubber for national security
than by any methods based on
subsidiZation, protective tariffs
or cartelization".
THINGS TO COME-You will
soon be getting razor blades in
a new package that does away
with the paper wrappings.
Maybe this should be entitled
things not to come" those
polaroid headlights and wind
shields will not be installed on
new cars for a long time, the
auto industry has decided. Too
costly, for one thing. A field
machine shop for farmers.
Powered by any tractor, the
new device sharpens tools or
makes on-the-spot repairs.
A new tabletop barbecue broil-
err will turn out a meal for six
in three or four minutes. Can
be heated indoors over the gas
or outdoors with bottled gas. .
One of the oldest coughdrop
manufacturers is about to ent-
er the chewing gum field. ..
General Foods announces min
ute tapioca will soon be avail
able again. Company is able to
get tapioca from Brazil instead
of Java or Singapore, which
were isolated by the war.
Now comes stainless steel paint
soon to be available in powder
ed form. =. Christmas tree or
naments will last longer: soon
to be introduced is an all-met-
al, bright-colored ball that is
shatterproof.
PRESS BOOM-Plagued by
Spiraling costs which threaten
to offset hard-won circulation
and advertising gains, neWspap-
er publishers are now bidding
for new printing equipment al
a rate almost double that Oh
1929, when the last great per.
iod of newspaper expansion anc
modernization ended. More thar
$780, 900 900 alone is being spenI
this year on new printing
equipment, according to SKI
Industries, Inc, who says thai
printing presses now rival air.
craft and intricate precision
machine COOIS dS prime users o.
anti-friction bearings. The pro.
gram, he says, is spanked bJ
the fact that the U. S. public
is buying daily newspapers at {
rate of 2,114,000 copies every
hour around the clock while
advertising revenues for thi!
year are expected to top $1,100,
OO0, 900.
Some 100000 presses-a 10 PEI
cent increase over 1930-ari
now going full blast to NEE
demands of increased reader
ship caused by a greater int
crest in news and a decline IL
national illiteracy, the SKI
president points out.
BITS O. BUSINESS-Is tn,
housing shortage beginning t.