1,1 1 .... Let’s Face the Facts About Home Building! t a w, In the confusion created about the shortage of homes in America one point stands out clearly: YOU CAN’T BUILD HOMES WITHOUT MATERIALS! Lumber and building material dealers and contractors obviously have a vital interest in obtaining materials for home building. They report, nevertheless, that such mater ials are not flowing through thevs r^s; that they have not been able to get them. 1 here fore, the Government’s HH priorities offered to enable veterans and others to obtain homes, are simply home hunting licenses—for mater ials in quantity are not available. As long as OPA continues its wartime con trol policy rather than a policy of adjustment to aid reconversion, it will neither be able^to prevent an inflation or a deflation; it will only be able to prevent reconversion by discourag ing production of needed home building items. Here, for example, is an instance of OPA action that has resulted in increased product ion. After 6 months’ delay, OPA granted a 4% to 10% price adjustment that allowed 125 of 400 closed brick and tile plants to reopen. This price adjustment allowed these plants and 400 others that had been operating, to hire needed labor. As a result, in the next quarter production rose 35%. But in hardwood flooring, siding, plywood, millwork, and construction lumber, OPA clings to its wartime formulas. Instead r' OPA follows the unrealistic policy of allowing premium prices to* mills for producing lumber for such things as export to foreign countries, and for items that were needed in wartime industry. Today’s question is not essentially one of price control—if there were plenty of homes, no price controls would be necessary. The important question is one of production and man power. IJ; § _ So far, OPA and Go vernment officialdom in general have conten t e n t ed themselves themselves with contr ols, allocations and pri ority systems which at best can do nothing but juggle an insufficient supply of building materials—and at wor st, delay and retard production and the em ployment of man power Homes will not be b uilt in the United States unless the Buildsig Industry builds them. Whether they are labeled “Public Housing of “Private H omes,” the- same ma terials, the same labor, the samebuilding in dustry will build them. * .* • Production can be u nblocked by the re moval or adjustment o f OPA’s wartilme pol icies. But such a rea listic approach cannot be attained as long as Government action is based on a philosophy of lack rather than a philosiphy of abundan t supply for peacetime prosperity. The lumber dealers, builders and contrac tors stand ready to buid or1 rebuild America. But it is up to the peo pie to demand that the way* be cleared for the production of mater ials for homes. Any government program that does not FIRST remove the obstacles blocking pro duction of materials will simply add addition al difficulties to the problem facing the building industry. MOORE-NOBLE LUMBER & COAL CO. SPELTS-RAY LUMBER COMPANY NATIONAL RETAIL LUMBER DEALERS' ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. LIFE WITH £fchtnid&^ CUT CLUB JACOB SCHMIDT BREWING CO, ST R«UL MINN THIS IS OMLV TILL WE GET THE ICEBOX FIXEC^ WALDO 01-4 A- Warvarp PROFESSOR CALLS OVER-EXPOSURE -TO 5UMLWSHT A CAUSE OF BAL.PHESS AERF ARE MORE THAA 600 SPECIES OF VJOOP IM _ VEMF2UELAS •• FDRFSTS LIVESTOCK HEALTH ODDITIES ■a— HORSES AND HUMANS HAVE ONE DISEASE IN COMMON SLEEPING SICKNESS, BELIEVED NSPREAD BY MOSQUITOES. OVER 1 ‘ '* 1,000 U.S. HORSES HAVE STRICKEN. A Disease like human MALARIA KILLS THOUSANDS OP U.S. CATTLE ANAPLASMOSIS-CAUSED BY A MALIGNANCY OF BLOOD CELLS CATTLE CHEW PENCES, BUNKERS,ETC., WHEN STARVED 1 lforphosphorous in THEIR DIET. _ , - 'Today's deadly cattle disease ANTHRAX, WA6 KNOWN AS “MURRAIN” IN BIBLICAL TIMES ( Exodus 9-3). VETERINARIANS NOW CONTROL IT BY PREVENTIVE VACCINATION, m HORSE'S FEET OR INK WATER THROWiH M SPECIAL GLANDS, TO if MAINTAIN FOOD HEALTH HORNS ON CATTLE ARE A TOTALLY USELESS ORNAMENT 1 AN 0 CAUSE UNTOLD THOUSANDS DOLLARS ;N INJURIES 3L mch year CHAMBERS ITEMS 'Vntinued from page Four) if \vs in Cupbo