The New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 28, 1946 Page: 6 of 8
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Quaint Salt Box,
Rack for Spoon*
GAY and useful kitchen equip-
ment delights every home-
maker and this quaint salt box with
matching spoon rack are especial-
ly appealing They are cut out by
hand with a coping saw or with a
jig saw The box is put together
with brads and glue and both*
pieces are decorated by stenciling
with bright wflx crayons such as
children use. They are then var-
nished to fix the colors and make
them water-proof.
It 11 ill so easy to do. with so little
mess or fuss that you will want to make
a number of these pieces for gifts or to
sell at Christmas time.
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guides tor the rack and all parts of the
box. also stencil designs, color guide and
directions for each step. To get this pat-
tern send IS cents with name and address
direct to-
MBS. RUTH WYETH SPKAU
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THE NEW ULM ENTERPRISE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1946
Politics Analyzed
Worker's Role in
News
He joined the
• decade
Baukhage
to other citizens.
NEWS REVIEW
cents a pound to
vulnerability to
Marianne Forgives Fritz
en-
PRODUCTION AT PEAK
More Work Urged To Fill Needs
General Motors and
boosted the price of
reasons
were that
turn of the cen-
narrow channel
who don't going to the
utterly disregarding the
a group which had tried
itself to the labor union
that it would be better
new canal with fewer
wider turns. However,
necessary to clear the
traf-
that
sonal adjustments, the national in-
come hit a new record level of $169,-
500,000,000. This was three per cent
above the wartime peak hit in Feb-
ruary, 1945. ,
Part of the increase was attribut-
ed to the fact that some workers
already are working longer hours.
Average work week in all manufac-
turing industries in August was 40.3
hours.
Coupled with an average wage of
$1.11 an hour, this brought the typ-
ical manufacturing paycheck to
$44.61 a week, six per cent lower
than the wartime peak of $47.50 in
January, 1945, but nine per cent
higher than the $40.87 in Septem-
ber. 1945.
NEW TRACTOR . . . Unable to
buy sufficient farm tractors in the
United States to supply the de-
mand, Progreso Industrial de Mex-
ico had this tractor designed and
built for sale south of the border.
It will run on gasoline, kerosene or
cleaning solvent.
her "traditional enemy” to her
bosom.
The story was broadcast and that
was the end, until, some 10 months
later, it was confirmed in a matter-
of-fact statement of the French min-
ister of population, then touring
America.
A copy of the original dispatch
which I exhumed from the files re-
flects my feeling in its incredibility
as I stood amidst the ruins of a
German city with the memories of
a twice-devastated France clear in
my mind The idea now apparently
is accepted without comment.
How well the plan will succeed,
I do not know. But to me it is
a comforting thought that it has
been proposed because it shows so
clearly how war hates are artificial
things, and bear no part in the re-
lationships between individuals.
'Twas the day after Christmas in
Frankfurt, Germany, 1945, when all
through the ether there was static
enough to make a trans-Atlantic
broadcast impossible. I had an ex-
clusive story, so I sent it as a dis-
patch to David Wills, my substitute,
in Washington.
The story (I said in my dispatch)
would probably be denied, and I ad-
mitted it seemed incredible, for it
revealed a plan of the French gov-
ernment to help re-populate France
by admitting German war prisoners
to citizenship. It seemed impossi-
ble, that, with the ancient Franco-
German hatred so recently fanned
to new fury, Marianne would take
"Further substantial increases in
industrial production will have to be
attained to a larger extent by long-
er hours of work and by more out-
put per worker."
The report said the September in-
dex of industrial production stood
at 177 per cent of the prewar base
1035-39 and five per cent higher than
September, 1945.
"Despite large increases in the
production of almost all types of
consumer and producer goods, acute
shortages persisted in various key
lines," it added.
Incomes Still Soar.
Individual income payments,
meanwhile, are soaring to new
j highs. In August, allowing for sea-
WISDOM OF AGE, CHARM OF YOUTH . . . Ulis study of the blend-
ing of youth and age in friendship shows silver-haired Tom Davis,
legal counsel for Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, intoning a bed-
time prayer for a young friend, Frank Adler Jr., aged two, at Miami.
For his words of wisdom, Davis is rewarded by the winsome charm
of his young friend.
This shows exactly what is wrong
behind the present business situa-
tion, when you lay all politics aside.
People are beginning to buy more
wisely and discriminatingly than
they did. They must. Conditions
force them to it. The great average
of middle class incomes in this coun-
try has not risen like prices. These
homes, which comprise the bulk of
the economic life of the nation, al-
ready have recognized they cannot
meet the pinch of inflationary prices
by buying everything for any price.
But the situation has been covered
up in national statistics by the un-
wise, yet really poorer person, who
will step forward and pay any price
for anything, although he is the one
whose money will run out first and
then he will call for relief, social-
ism, revolution or what not.
PRICES TOO HIGH
Production is the life blood of the
nation—but at prices at which the
production can be consumed. The
economic theory upon which the na-
tion has been going is that if it can
only get production, prices will re-
adjust themselves. That is a sound
theory. But we have not been get-
ting that kind of production. In hard-
ly any line have we managed to get
enough production to influence
prices downward—yet, as we see, a
great many people cannot or will
not buy at current prices and qual-
ity. The nation has gotten into a
production-price stalemate.
Strikes have proved the greatest
impediment to the working of our
sound basie economic theory. De-
structive strikes have taken place
lately, bitter, foolish strikes in which
the strikers eaa never hope to make
dEHI.
the/N
By Paul Mallon
By BAUKHAGE
News Antl-rU and Commentator.
lantic City last spring, were all re-
elected with one exception (and that
was Representative Slaughter, beat-
en by the President's own special
efforts in the primaries); when
things like that happen, you know
that plenty of perfectly good union
members in perfectly good standing
were voting against the preach-
ments of the PAC. Perhaps if it
had not been for two other circum-
stances PAC's views might not have
been so vehemently opposed up and
down the line. Both have to do with
good old American customs which
spring from frontier days when
emergency situations had to be met
with emergency measures for the
sake of simple self-preservation.
One of those customs which has
precedent .implied all through the
constitution is that too much power
isn’t good for anybody, and in a
republic you don't elect people for
life, or put one party in power in-
definitely.
That is one thing that accounted
for most of the votes against the
“ins" regardless of the candidates'
persuasions. Another factor which
added to the landslide quality of the
vote is the old law of action and re-
action. Americans have a habit of
going to extremes. They have cer-
tain tastes inherited from pioneers
that make them like their music
loud, their horses fast, their stakes
high, their goals worth winning.
They are not as fast to start either
a fight or a frolic as some nations,
but when they do get “het up"—oh,
my I Failure to recognize that fact
has caused what was the greatest
military nation of its time to be
licked twice in a generation. _
It was this charaeteristie, 1
feel sure, which caused Amer-
icans of all sorts to swing much
farther toward the conservative
side than they normally would
have done. Their patience had
been exhausted by the efforts of
a screaming minority to implant
Communism on our soil and thus
attempt to bring to this country
the very thing from which
America was supposed to be the
escape, tyranny of the minor-
ity-
Of late it has become the style to
sneer at the jpajority. The "vulgar
herd” and the "mob" were the con-
temptucffls epithets of kings. The
modern majority-scorner is more
careful of his language. He phrases
it so that it will appeal to the "peas-
ant and,worker” or to the readers
of persuasive and expensive page ad-
vertisements in metropolitan papers.
The language differs when it comes
from the extreme right and the ex-
treme left, but its purpose is the
same: minority rule. Totalitarian-
ism as produced by a Hitler or a
Stalin is not too different from that
more subtly suggested by the power-
ful pressure group in a capitalistic
country.
The 80th congress has a tougher
job than the 79th. We hope it will
be able to handle it. It was not
elected to smash labor. It was elect-
ed to carry out a mandate (among
others) to help keep labor from
smashing itself.
PANAMA CANAL:
Study Alteration
Working under a special con-
gressional grant, top meteorologists
and hydrodynamic, dredge and ex-
cavation engineers are busily en-
gaged in studying the alteration of
the existing Panama canal or con-
struction of a new waterway to ac-
commodate heavier modern traf-
fic and decrease
atomic warfare.
Erected at the
tury, the canal's
and locks are too small 'for the
latest warships and merchant ves-
sels. Water storage capacity of
Gatun lake reservoir will be in-
sufficient to handle prospective traf-
fic by 1960 or a diversion of
fic from Suez canal in event
vital artery is closed by war.
To meet modern needs
gineers are considering increasing
size of reservoirs, lengthening locks
from 1,000 to 1,500 feet and widen-
ing them from 110 to 200 feet.
Against these plans, some techni-
cians argue
to build a
curves and
it would be
bordering jungle, install sanitary
facilities, and erect dock and ad-
ministrative installations. The U. S.
also would have to dicker with Pan-
ama for land rights.
Previously,
Crosley had
passenger cars by $100 and indus-
try spokesmen predicted increases
in some steel items, building mate-
rials, clothing, batteries and lum-
ber.
Long held within rigid ceilings de-
spite mounting janitorial and main-
tenance expenses, landlords peti-
tioned for a 15 per cent boost in
rentals. An estimated 16 million
housing units have been under rent-
al control in addition to hotels, room-
ing houses and tourist camps.
HIGH JUMP:
Important Operation
Amid rumors that other nations
were preparing expeditions to
search for reported uranium depos-
its around the south pole, the U. S.
announced that Rear Adm. Richard
E. Byrd would lead a navy contin-
gent to Antarctica in December on
a scientific study.
While Byrd's force will make ex-
haustive geological surveys in the
polar wasteland to uncover any
uranium, the famed explorer de-
clared that his band also would
undertake intensive studies of geo-
graphical, meteorological and elec-
tro-magnetic conditions. Weather
developing in Antarctica affects all
parts of the world.
Four thousand men, 12 ships and
at least a score of aircraft will com-
pose Byrd’s operation High Jump,
as the expedition will be known. No
part of the task force will be kept in
the region during the Antarctic win-
ter but Byrd will establish a small
base capable of supporting a small
party for 18 months in the event of
national need.
Partita Split
On Hot /ssues
It may be that after the next elec-
tion we can get down to the old par-
ty lines again, but it can’t be done
yet. There is still a pretty bad
scrambling of Democrats and Re-
publicans on many issues which will
split parties as it has before.
It will be a relief if we do get back
to honest labels again.
The British are still having
their troubles on this score. The
Conservatives, who are the
“outs,” have discussed changing
their name. They have done it
before. They have been known
as the "Tory,” the "Unionist”
and the “National" as well as
the “Conservative.” Sir Hartley
Shawcross, brilliant British
prosecutor, taunted them about
this recently and even went as
far as calling them “neo-Nazis.”
This sounded strange from those
dignified tips which hurled one of the
most restrained and yet most dev-
astating charges against the Nuern-
berg war criminals that I have ever
heard in a courtroom.
Releaeed by Western NewapapeY Union.
WE WILL HAVE DEPRESSION
ONLY IF WE ARE FOOLISH
WASHINGTON —Treasury Secre-
tory Snyder announced it was bad
psychology to talk about a depres-
sion—but it is less so now than be-
fore the election.
civilian production administrator in
bemoaning that we are talking our-
selves into a depression^ Yet it
would be foolish to think ourselves
in clover when the grass is getting
thinner and the problem is to find
more clover.
National business always gets
down to the example of a typ-
ical individual business. In a
butcher shop the other day, a
well dressed woman picked out
a piece of meat, and after some
consideration decided to take
it—until she found the price was
$2.75. She simply said without
any protest or grievance: "Thai
is more than 1 ean pay." Im-
mediately a poorly dressed per-
son who obviously did not have
as much as the woman stepped
forward and said: "I will take
that piece of meat”—and he
. WASHINGTON. — To meet its
mushrooming industrial needs, the
nation will have to work harder or
return to longer working hours, the
government warned.
Although the nation's economy is
running at top peacetime speed, de-
mand for most products stil) is un-
satisfied. an agriculture department
report maintained. Harder work or
longer hours, the report added, ap-
pear as the only means of boosting
industrial production. -
Shortages Persist.
"Production of many basic ma-
terials is. now near capacity, de-
mobilization is virtually completed
and unemployment is now at a level
generally considered to be close to
a practical minimum." it said.
WNU Service. 1<1< Eye Street. N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON. - “There never
will be a Labor party in the U. S."
In the aftermath of the election, I
couldn't help cogitating these words,
spoken to me
several years ago
by an official who
helped write
some of the most
important New
Deal labor legis-
lation
ago.
The
given
workers in Amer-
ica were individ-
uals first and
members of la-
bor unions after-
ward—they were
primarily citi-
zens with group
interests common
They didn't look at themselves as
a political unit.
In analyzing the new congress,
some people have made the mistake
of pointing to the defeat of candi-
dates conspicuously endorsed by the
CIO-PAC and the victory of those
marked for purge. Then, because
the PAC is an institution which has
behind it one of the two big interna-
tional union organizations, these
people imply that because of the de-
feat of the PAC, labor itself was
defeated. As a matter of fact, la-
bor was not beaten by any oppos-
ing group. It was not a question
of labor, politically organized, meet-
ing organized political opposition. It
was a case of a lot of men who hap-
pen to belong to unions plus a lot
of others
polls and
wishes of
to attach
and thus proving (as my friend said)
that American labor is an Ameri-
can citizen first and a lot of other
things next and when he sits in his
union meeting he is a member of
that local and not a member of a
political party.
I haven’t the slightest doubt
that many an American citizen,
who otherwise might not have
voted, did so because of the en-
ergetic efforts of persons in-
spired by the CIO-PAC booklets
and contacts, the chief aim of
which was to get voters to the
polls. I am equally certain that
of these voters who exercised
their franchise chiefly because
of CIO-PAC nudging, many vot-
ed quite the opposite to what
the CIO-PAC wished.
GOP Win Stoma
From Many Causes
But this election was something
more than a revolt against the frank
effort of CIO to reward those who
had espoused specific measures or
to punish those who didn’t. When
Guffy, Mead and Murdock were
mowed dewn in the senate, men who
certainly spoke the speech as labor
considered it should be spoken,
when 20 congressmen, marked for
the purge at the PAC meeting in At-
their strikes—and the nation will
have a hard time building back that
lost portion of its lifeblood to pre-
vent itself from becoming increas-
ingly anemic economically. In
Knoxville, for instance, the Journal
figured out that the Fulton-Sylpbon
strike (with which I am not acquaint-
ed) resulted in an economic settle-
ment whereby the worker will be 9
years and 32 weeks making up the
loss-he incurred when be was out
of work for 101 days.
The amount of money lost in the
Washington hotel strike will never
be made up. I have asked for fig-
ures and cannot get them, but they
will show that the worker really
struck against himself. Not only
will he be a long time getting back
what he lost in pay, but also his fel-
low workers will never get their lost
money back. And when you calcu-
late the amount of money lost to
business by guests of the hotels—
business from a contract which
was not signed or business not done
—you will see what these strikes are
doing in a hopeful recovery period
without even considering the amount
of money lost by the management,
which would be comparatively in-
finitesimal.
NOT ENOUGH NEW CARS
Or consider motors. We simply (
are not getting anywhere near the
planned number of new cars be-
cause strikes in factories producing
minor parts far down the production
line are holding back the whole line.
The impact loss of these strikes does
not fall most heavily upon the man-
agement, 4>ut upon other workers in
the automobile industry who cannot
afford to lose the wages, and the
public which cannot spend its money
for a new car while it still has the
money. ,
This is our condition. It is only
politically unwise for the party in
power to have it talked around be-
fore an election. For our economic
salvation it is of the utmost neces-
sity that it be talked about, and solu-
tions be found.
True enough this nation has every
basic factor present for a successful
high economy for years to come—a
natural ability to produce fully, a
plentiful availability of land upon
which to grow and factories in which
to produce, an adequate supply of
labor and machines, a market
yearning for every type of product
Price rises all along the line ac->
companied decontrol of the nation's
economy, with producers hiking
items for full coverage of higher
wages and material costs and prom-
ising lower prices when output
reached volume proportions.
Biggest manufacturer in the
industry. International Harves-
ter boosted prices of farm im-
plements and tractors 9 per
cent to offset wage increases
amounting to 60 per cent since
1941 and higher material costs.
Declaring its intention of keep-
ing prices at a minimum, the
company stated that it based
its increases on present costs
and did not anticipate future
higher operating expenses.
Zenith Radio corporation an-
nounced an increase of from 2
to 20 per cent on radios and
radio - phonograph combina-
tions.
Leading shoe manufacturers
expected a 10 per cent rise in all
standard lines as a result of the
increase in the cost of hides
from 15tt
30 cents.
Decontrol Boosts Prices;
Polar Expedition Planned
Labor’s Interests Fused
With Average Citizen’s
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